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by Cami Buckman, Senior Staff Writer
Nestled behind the Hardy Tower and the Professional Studies and Fine Arts building lie the art buildings. In these buildings there is a door camouflaged by a fierce and fiery mural of eyes. Through this door resides the office of the excitingly original and imaginative professor, Carlos Castro Arias.
Originally from Colombia, Arias has dared to provoke shock, awe, curiosity and discussion with his art.
He describes himself as a painter, a sculptor, a videographer and an artist who enjoys trying all mediums.
“A common thing in my work is to use elements that have a history, meaning or some other interpretations,” Arias said.
However, these elements are not for the faint-hearted. For example, after a recent visit to Mexico City, Arias was inspired by the architecture and humanistic qualities. In an attempt to capture the human and personified aspects of the city, he used human fat as a varnish for the painting.
Another notable piece is his creation of musical sculptures crafted with confiscated knives from the city of Bogota, Colombia. Arias even has a piece showcased in his office of a sculpture resembling a bag of popcorn, the kernels made entirely of human teeth.
“There is a lot of meaning in objects that are thrown away, so that inspires me to create new possibilities,” Arias said.
Arias has toured around the world to exhibit his art and continues to showcase his work while being a professor. He has exhibited his art in various places throughout Europe, New Zealand and South America. Even with Arias’ busy schedule, he has an upcoming exhibition planned in Miami this September.
Because of his explorations around the globe, Arias has been able to observe how art differs in various regions. In his pieces, he symbolically re-contextualizes found objects and images of his environment, some of them highly socially and politically charged, to create new narratives.
“Many art pieces in Colombia are related to political conflicts and social commentary,” Arias said. “Here in San Diego, you tend to see things that are a little more relaxed and a little more ‘San Diego.’”
Arias teaches the basic course levels of Painting I and Painting II but provides his students with an advanced set of skills and advice.
“As a professor, Carlos is a passionate teacher with a penchant for seeing each student’s different, hidden potential,” mechanical engineering senior Alex Lee said.
Arias’ students describe his teaching as direct and straightforward, and his criticism is always constructive and detailed. Arias said that he encourages his students to explore and try different things with their art.
“He is someone who doesn’t hold back what he wants his students to learn,” Lee said. “He has us do multiple painting styles such as still life, abstract, landscape and surrealism while encouraging each of us to have our own personal touch.”
Last semester, Arias’ students took part in creating a mural which can now be seen in the library, and this semester his students are making interactive sculptures around campus.
Arias admits that living as an artist can be very challenging, but he encourages his students to have passion for the work they create.
“You need to be your own boss, create your own schedules and have passion to create what you do,” Arias said. “But at the same time, it’s such a huge reward when you get to show your work.”
To succeed in the field of art, it is imperative to be taught by individuals who excel and have redefined the field. Arias is a testament to this ferocity.
“Because of him, I’m no longer nervous about painting,” Lee said.
Carlos Castro
SDSU School of Art and Design
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The Death House is the Area 51 of Evil...a subterranean government facility that holds humanity’s worst on nine levels. Hell...Dante’s ninth level, holds the Five Evils...the “dark stars” of Death House. These individuals are so heinous they can never walk among society again.
They may also be supernatural.
Agents Toria Boon and Jae Novak have their own dark pasts, arriving at Death House to tour its levels and observe its denizens first hand as well as the medical and mental experiments of Drs. Eileen Fletcher and Karen Redmane. Their depraved experiments date back to the Nazi doctors of WW II.
Prison cells are virtual reality holo decks that recreate prisoner environments before they were incarcerated. A special hallucinogenic gas keeps inmates under control. The victims are homeless bused into Death House to play literal victims while killing habits are studied. The results are sick, but only a hint of what goes on here.
Hell literally breaks loose inside the facility when an EMP device detonates, killing all power and communication and...releasing every prisoner. Boon, Novak and Fletcher are caught in a race against advancing prisoner hoards led by occultist Neo-Nazi Sieg. The monsters are freed and they’re going down.
Boon and Novak’s fight through Death House turns into a house of horrors gauntlet with the only hope of escape is descending into Hell and the help of The Five Evils. Events culminate in a violent face to face standoff with absolute evil…only to find that they have traveled down a rabbit hole and through a looking glass. Black is white and white is black and the definitions of good and evil no longer apply…
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Camp Twilight
After discovering they are at risk of failing to graduate, 6 students agree to a weekend camping trip for extra credit. Lead by their teachers, Ms. Bloom and Mr. Warner, the students arrive at Camp Twilight and discover it's past
The park has a dangerous and notorious history, and the students soon discover these stories are more than just urban legends. After a series of “accidents”, the remaining group discovers they are being hunted and must stick together to survive Camp Twilight.
Killer Rose
On the Padgett County Line, there is a sundown strip club called the Golden Monkey, run by Becky who is sexy and as tough as nails. This was normally a spot for greasy truckers and traveling salesman. Three nights ago a stripper, Misty, who worked at the Golden Monkey was murdered in the back alley, but strangely enough, nobody heard the gunshot. We come to find out that Misty was the sister of notorious hit-woman, Rose. They had no leads, but Rose had all the information she needed. She had successfully hunted down contract kills on less information. Rose showed up to the strip club with a trunk full of guns and knives to find the people responsible for her sister's death. So Becky buys Rose a drink as they come up with a plan to avenge Misty's death.
They jump into Rose's black muscle car and head out. They begin their journey in the next small town, looking for the next suspect. They manage to get the name of the killer, Hank, a shady businessman who had been a regular at the Golden Monkey. They know they have to act fast because Hank is also in the business of killing and will have some of his best hit-men hired to stop the two.
Those hit-men get sent to stop Rose and Becky, but Hank finds out that it's too late and they're coming for him. At this point, the cops are also trying to find out which two women match the police sketches from the witness testimony. Rose and Becky leave behind bodies and travel to different towns on the search for revenge and neither the hit-men nor the cops can keep up.
Garlic and Gunpowder
Synopsis: Sonny and Archie are two Mafia wise guys and "contractors" for a 300 pound, cigar chompin', obnoxious Mob Boss, 'Ma.' They shake down local business for "protection" and do the occasional contract killings or rival take-outs. A comet has the world in a panic; doomsday media pundits claim it's the end of the world but NASA says it's not gonna happen- it's just media hype. Neither of them trust their boss and know Ma could rub them out once they are of no use to her anymore...maybe it's time to cash themselves out before Ma does.
The world's top 1% aren't taking any chances. Big City's wealthy fat cats plan to stash their money, gold and valuables in mines in the rural mountains outside the city. A convoy will take the treasure there and Ma wants to hijack it. Barry Ling, rival Chinese Mafia leader, wants that convoy too. Sonny and Archie see an opportunity to hit this convoy, be rid of Ma and take their dream early retirement. Federal Agents Bean and his boss, Agent Tracey see the same opportunity and more.
While they line their own pockets they are the heroes in an FBI sting operation known as "Garlic and Gunpowder." Everyone has their plan for the heist...which one wins out? Do Sonny and Archie marry some "nice girls" and head to the Italian countryside or does the comet close it all down?
Synopsis: This hilarious musical comedy focuses on the life of a down-on-his-luck, alcoholic theater owner named Jack. He is in danger of losing the one thing he cares about most because he is in debt to the mob. However, Jack has one last chance to save his legendary musical theater, and it all hinges on his new musical production called “How Sweet It Is,” which must have a strong opening night.
This might not be a problem, except that the mob boss fancies himself a casting director and insists his crony friends and misfits play the parts. Jack doesn’t have a choice but to go along with the plan.
Bite Of Our Lives
Synopsis: Stan Mann is a new money multi-millionaire, whose life consists of ladies, gambling and booze, lives at a 5-star hotel where the staff tends to his every need. Known as "Stan the Man" for his extreme generosity, he gets mixed up in a casino gambling scheme with Russian Mobsters and in one fateful bet, Stan loses everything.
Planning to drown his sorrows in a bottle, Stan is critically wounded in a liquor store robbery, where he takes the bullet intended for the store clerk, Kristi. During a near-death experience in the ER, a slightly resentful Angel gives Stan 30 days to change his ways and redeem himself, and find his one true love.
The film opens with two teenagers flying from New York to Los Angeles on New Years Eve. Their nightmare begins when their plane hits extreme turbulence mid-flight. The relentless weather attack causes panic and terror amongst the passengers until the plane ultimately crashes in a remote government-testing area. The handful of survivors from the crash, bloody and disoriented, are then insistently pursued in the darkness by unknown predators that, unbeknownst to them, are part of the government's top-secret Mesa Experiment.
THE BUS DRIVER
A high school bus on its way to a retreat blows a tire and stops at the nearest ranch for help. The driver, five troubled students, and their ridiculous gym- teacher chaperone find, instead, criminals who will stop at nothing to make sure their drug operations aren't discovered. The students and teacher are easy prey for these animals, but standing in the way of certain death is a force more determined and more skilled than any of them ever expected: The Bus Driver.
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Synopsis: Paulie Polizzi (Paul Sorvino) is a mob boss whose love of opera and grammar is rivaled only by his love of power and money. However, after Paulie is faced with his own mortality, he is given a choice by a fellow made man (Michael Madsen) to either "retire" and stay gone, or die right then and there. Paulie, refusing to..."die on a Saturday with his ass hanging out of a hospital gown", decides to start his new life. On the way, he takes a quick detour to say goodbye to his estranged daughter June (Janeane Garofalo) who wants nothing to do with the likes of him. The secret June is hiding, however, changes Paulie's life and points him down another road he never saw coming... being a grandfather to a teenage comic book nerd named Gary ("Parenthood"'s Max Burkholder).
Paulie is a quirky, half hour mob dramedy that brings the mob to the 'burbs. From Executive Producers Steven Chase and Rick Finkelstein ("How Sweet It Is", "Death House"), "Paulie" is Written and Produced by Jay Black & Brian Herzlinger ( "College Sucks", "Three For The Road"), and Directed by Brian Herzlinger ("My Date With Drew", "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno").
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Synopsis: "I see you friends..." So says an eerie voice in the woods that seems to haunt identical twin brothers, Cory and Connor Sherman and their three friends after they discover a strange stone marker in the woods.
And when a mental patient escapes and a young boy disappears, the group embarks on a quest that uncovers information related to the disappearances of seven children more than thirty years earlier. But what starts out as an adventure soon turns terrifying as one of the boys goes missing and the remaining boys are confronted by a horrifying truth that threatens their very lives.
Synopsis: Wedding days and wedding day plans are always stressful at best. At worst... they can be downright deadly. Two young couples plan to make THEIR wedding day the most MEMORABLE ever. However within BOTH couples a deadly plot grows. And on that very same day, in the very same venue, both weddings in adjoining ballrooms explode in tragedy.
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The Royal Wedding 2018: Breaking the Tradition
When we were little, we always dreamed of marrying our own true prince. The idea of a perfect wedding with the white wedding dress, the beautiful flowers and a handsome groom. What we didn’t know was how difficult it is to marry royalty. With their traditions and rules conducted by their family and the government, it wasn’t the best cup of tea. With luck, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have slowly broken the royalty rules with marriage. Soon, our world will stop its past traditions and open a new set of futuristic rules for everyone. But before that, let us look at how the royal couple change tradition little by little.
1. Walking Down The Aisle
From chick flick and romance movies, we always knew that the bride will be guided through the altar by her father. This year, however, Meghan Markle has broken the tradition. She struts her way at the altar with such elegance. The first half, she walked by herself showing a feminine approach to the female generation and is accompanied by father in law, Prince Charles, for the other half. Slowly breaking tradition, one by one, I see.
2. The Kiss
It was a royal tradition to kiss at the balcony of the Buckingham Palace. Remember Kate Middleton and Prince William’s perfect balcony kiss on their wedding? Although the newly royal couple was married at a different location, they still shared the public kiss at St. George’s Chapel chapel right after the wedding. It might not be a castle, but at least we saw a little smooch for the newly weds.
3. The Cake
Who doesn’t love a good piece of cake at a wedding? Well, traditionally, the cake served in the reception should be made by a local brit as well. However, since Meghan is American and is currently slowly breaking the royal tradition, why not give a cake made by an American as well? The lemon and elderflower cake with buttercream frosting was served and was created by Claire Ptak of Violet bakery. The cake sounds so delicious, why not break a couple of rules for a delicious piece?
4. The Maid of Honor
It’s tradition for all weddings to have a maid of honor for the bride. A best friend who will comfort you through your cold feet or sharing a shot of alcohol to calm your nerves. However, Meghan didn’t have a maid of honor to share those moments simply because she cannot choose between her friends. It’s such a simple gesture, but quite humble for a bride to not pick a maid of honor. Let’s all pat Meghan’s back for being a responsible bride.
5. The Presiding Clergyman
It is a royal protocol that British priests, typically senior members of the Church of England should present and wed the royal couple. But because this year, breaking tradition is the new trend, the ceremony was presided by Bishop Michael Curry. A black Episcopal priest from Chicago. He delivered a beautiful homily about the power of love, but also gave a warming-tradition breaking look for the other people looking for the power of love. If you’re gonna break tradition, might as well have a lesson for everyone to learn about.
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Las Vegas Film Fest Features Outstanding films
Written and photographs by Nikki Artale
The Las Vegas Film Fest will be show casing 60 films in downtown Las Vegas and the Brenden Theaters on April 28-May 5, 2019 that will feature documentaries, short films, music videos, parties and Q&A sessions. Work from local, national filmmakers, from Sundance and UNLV film students will be shown in this 12th Annual FF that is sponsored by Zappo, under the direction of Executive Director Milo Kostelecky. www.lasvegasfilmfest.com
The festival opened with the feature film “Untitled the Amazing Jonathan”, a documentary of the Amazing Jonathan who was diagnosed with a heart disease and given one year to live. Three years later he was on tour filming his last hurray of magic and comedy. Director Ben Berman was trying to separate the truth from illusion, shock and deception as he filmed his epic comeback tour. https://www.theamazingjohnathan.com/
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In an interview with his wife Anastasia Synn after the Q&A, I asked what has kept him alive and she said it was all the loving good care she has given him. This is a must see film and after being shown at Sundance, Hulu has picked up the rights for $2 million worldwide distribution.
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Action on Film Megafest Celebrates 14 years Honoring Filmmakers and Writers
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Action on Film (AOF) brought together filmmakers, producers, writers and actors from all over the world to have their work honored. The International film festival was once again held in Las Vegas NV for the second time in a row on August 16-25, 2018 at the Palms Hotel. AOF is in the top 2% of all film festivals. I personally think it is the best film festival in Las Vegas. www.actiononfilmfest.com
Where do I begin in saying that AOL is more than just an award show, it is a show of heart and love that is displayed by Del Weston, founder, writer, producer and director as he shows each and every one that attends the festival his love. He cares about every person and welcomes them with open arms and hugs. There were more than 600 films shown and many informative seminars given by the best talented filmmakers, writers and actors. Del’s wife Theresa and Zin worked hand in hand with Del and put together a fabulous nine day event.
For a second consecutive year Annabelle Munro was named AOF Queen and this year she led a seminar with the First Lady of Film Kathrina Miccio and Elizabeth Blake Thomas in discussing Women in Film. Annabelle is an award winning actress, writer, producer and director from Los Angeles. Her talks highlight and inspire female filmmakers to support each other and own their own space and power.
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Kathrina Miccio a 12 time award winning actress was part of the panel and won Best Woman Filmmaker LAIFFA 2018 for her film St. Joseph Do Your Thing. She wrote directed and starred in the film. Kathrina spoke about her life in films and to go live your dreams.
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Elizabeth Blake-Thomas has written and directed 6 feature films in two years and rounded off the panel, sharing her knowledge of raising funds to shooting and getting distribution. She says that creativity happens in all formats.
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Other seminars during Megafest were held by Harold L Brown, Matt DeGennaro and Antonio Fargas, actor and screenwriters. Del Weston creator of AOF and Hollywood Dreamz Film Festival held two informative seminars on “Make your Movie Now” and Write the Script Now sharing how he made it all happen and how to make it a reality.
I could not see every film but the outstanding films I did see were St. Joseph, Little Milo, Miracle in a Spiny Bur, Friday the 13th, all winners in their categories. I loved St Joseph which was written, produced and directed by Kathrina Miccio who starred in the film.
In a Spiny Bur, Friday the 13th, all winners in their categories. I loved St Joseph, a story that tells an Italian tale that is 500 years old that if the statue of St Joseph is buried head down with the face facing a house it will sell quickly. Great story, great acting and it is funny. I believe it.
Another favorite of mine was Little Milo starring Ian Slade, produced by Daniel Drescher, directed by Drago Lazetich and Marianne Kaulima producer and manager. All did a splendid job in bringing the message of free speech, positivity and hope. Ian Slade was outstanding and I knew it was a winner. The film won for best LGBTQ award.
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A heartwarming story, filmed in Japan is Miracle in a Spiny Bur, starring Mau Nishio, Producer Hayato Mitsuishi, Yuko Nishio, Executive Producer. Also staring in the film were two members of the boy band in Japan “Boys and Men”, Yahi and Takami Tsuchiya. They are wonderful young men that any mother would be proud of. Miracle in a Spiny Bur tells the story of a young boy that is raised by his grandparents, the Chestnut Family of Kasama and it will bring you to tears. I loved meeting the entire cast. They were all wonderful loving people who warmed my heart.
Sean Richards, Producer, writer, actor bought Friday the 13th back to the screen and it was scary and brought back many memories of the past
The Megafest ended with a black tie dinner where more awards were given out. The Young Story Tellers awards were special as the young writers were recognized and honored for their talent.
The Icon candidate is a person who has excelled in his/her craft and also gives back to his/her community. Randy Couture a six time world UFC fighting champion was one of the honorees. https://youtu.be/iyArGNE3RGI
Hosting the evening along with Del was AOF’s own royalty, the Queen of AOF, Annabelle Munro and the First Lady of AOF, Kathrina Miccio. https://youtu.be/0GK3XUwGePI
It was an exciting 10 days and we look forward to seeing everyone next year.
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Reseña del editor In late 1944 and 1945 the Panther tank played an important role in Germany's desperate efforts to stem the Allied advance on the Western Front. The Panther, perhaps the best armoured vehicle produced by Germany during the Second World War, was a key element in the Wehrmacht's defensive tactics, in rearguard actions and counter-attacks, and it took a prominent part in the last German offensive of the war, in the Ardennes during the Battle of the Bulge. So it is an ideal subject for Dennis Oliver's latest volume in the TankCraft series. He uses archive photos and extensively researched colour illustrations to examine the Panther tanks and units of the German army and Waffen-SS panzer battalions that struggled to resist the Allied onslaught. A key section of his book displays available model kits and aftermarket products, complemented by a gallery of beautifully constructed and painted models in various scales. Technical details as well as modifications introduced during production and in the field are also examined providing everything the modeller needs to recreate an accurate representation of these historic tanks. Biografía del autor Dennis Oliver is the author of over twenty books on Second World War armoured vehicles. He has contributed many books to the TankCraft series including Tiger I and II Tanks of the German Army and Waffen-SS: Eastern Front 1944; Panther Tanks: German Army and Waffen-SS, Normandy Campaign 1944; and Jagdpanther Tank Destroyer: German Army, Western Europe 1944-1945. | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355733 |
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With D-Day rescheduled to June and the weather clearing, the 8th Air Force resumed its deep air raids into Germany. The 2nd Air Division was ordered to hit the Waggum airdrome and its attached aircraft assembly plant at Brunswick. The Allied weathermen had forecast heavy cloud cover over all of Germany, so the day's missions were led by Pathfinders.
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After all of the planes of the 8th Air force were assmebled in the air, there were 45 minutes worth of delays before sending the armada across the channel. The reasons for the delays are not known, but their affect on the day invited disaster. See the Bigger Picture.
The 8th Air Force sent out 700 fighters, plus another 264 borrowed from the 9th Air Force, to protect their 888 bombers. In terms of numbers, the protection was excellent.
The Group didn't get their normal welcoming flak when they crossed the Dutch coast. Perhaps they had found a weak spot of anti-aircraft guns. Heavy flak wouldn't be encountered until they got to Germany.
One hundred miles into enemy territory the Frantz Crew 803 had troubles aboard their ship when a fire broke out from a leak in their oxygen system. The fire was quickly put out, but the damages were serious enough to send them home. As crazy as it may seem, a German fighter picked up on them and escorted them to the coast.
The Luftwaffe was up in full force as the 8th Air Force's path to target crossed dangerously close to many German Air Bases. As the Group made its way towards Brunswick many of the airmen witnessed dogfights off in the distance. Every once in a while a lone enemy fighter would make a teasing run at the Group. The Germans were using decoys to lure the Allied protection away from the bomber groups. This was easily accomplished because the fighter pilots had their orders to leave the bombers and destroy the Luftwaffe at all cost.
Accounts of the day are varied and details of the air battles are rather foggy. The Luftwaffe did catch the 492nd twice without fighter protection. The first time was when the Group had reached its IP (Initial Point), the point where the bombers make their turn toward the target and begin their bombing run. The scenario was set for a massacre as the Luftwaffe hit the 492nd with about 40 fighters firing cannons and machine guns. Although the battle was short, the Group was able to hold their own by knocking down several of the enemy planes. By the day's end, the Group had lost 8 ships while getting credit for destroying 10 enemy fighters.
The target area had become an arena of confusion. Because of the Luftwaffe attacks, half of the 2nd Air Division were approaching Brunswick from a direction different from the briefed route. The primary target wasn't accessible from that angle, so the 20th and 14th Wings passed over the flak filled skies without dropping their bombs (the 492nd is in the 14th Wing). They circled around for another shot at it only to find themselves on a collision course with the 96th Wing who were coming in on schedule. And the 96th would be followed by the 2nd Wing. The 20th circled around for a third attempt. The 14th decided it had enough of the comedy so they flew to the southwest corner of the city and took out a railroad marshalling yard instead.
Over Brunswick the 2nd Air Division had become divided into three separate forces with only one fighter group of P-47s to defend them. The fighters stayed with the scheduled 96th Wing. The other two Wings would have to fend for themselves until another group of P-38s made it over to help out.
Despite all of the confusion, the 2nd Air Division achieved "fair" results.
We don't know the order each plane was hit. The Lewis Crew 813 was leading the High Right section so we'll start with them. They were hit by cannon fire after the other two planes in their element were hit. Witnesses say they saw it go straight down, dropping like a rock. Several chutes were seen coming out of it. Some accounts say the ship exploded in the air while others recall it going to the ground.
Both the Herbert Crew 802 and the Fisher Crew 805 were damaged and were seen dropping out of the formation and heading for home. These two were flying on Lewis' wings, thus the lead element was completely eliminated.
The last of the 4 ships lost in the 858th Squadron was the Pratt Crew 818. They took a 20 mm shell in the nose, which instantly killed the nose gunner. Even though their ship had caught fire, the pilot told the crew, "We are going to bomb their target come hell or high water." But before they could reach their target Pratt ordered the men to abandon ship. Only 3 men made it out before the plane exploded.
The only loss suffered by the 859th that day was the Brantley Crew 905. They were also the only plane lost flying in the first section. Their left wing had caught on fire, either as a result of enemy fighter fire or from flak. The order to bail out was quick, but still only 4 men were able to get out before the ship exploded into a fireball. One died before he reached the ground.
The entire right element of the second section was also knocked out. The element leader, the Arnett Crew 717, had two engines quit and another damaged. They were seen going down in a slow spiral.
Brague Crew 718 on Arnett's right was hit in the frontal assult, killing the pilot and 2 gunners. A couple of the men were able to bail before the ship exploded. The other survivors were blown out. Only 4 of the 10 men survived.
The Bridges Crew 702 on Arnett's left suffered heavy damage and had 3 men wounded, but still moved up to take the lead of the second section. Then an Me-109 clipped their tail with his wing. The wing of the German fighter came off and down he went. Bridges' ship was barely flying, forcing them, too, to drop out and attempt to limp their way back home.
The final loss for the 857th was the Murray Crew 709. We're not sure if they were hit before, during or after the target. Accounts say that the attacks killed 2 men and wounded another. The crew got their wounded man out before jumping themselves. Only 3 more men made it out before the ship exploded.
The return trip for what was left of the bruised Group was long, but without further trouble. For four of the crippled ships, however, it was a different story. During battle each one had to drop out of the formation and attempt to make it back to England on their own.
Fisher Crew 805 got back as far as Holland before their plane gave out. They were forced to bail out. 1 KIA, 8 POW, MACR 5243.
Arnett Crew 717 made it to the channel on two engines before losing a third. They had to swing back around and crashland in Holland. 1 KIA, 8 POW, MACR 5242.
Herbert Crew 802 wouldn't be seen again until 58 years later when their remains were discovered in Germany. 10 KIA, MACR 5240.
Bridges Crew 702 had the good fortune to limp all the way back to North Pick despite that their tail had been clipped by the wing of a German fighter. Three of the men received Purple Hearts for their wounds in battle and Lt Bridges was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
The Group was battle tested. They proved themselves as they rose to the challenges they faced. They proved that they could dish it out as well as take it. But the loss of 8 ships and crews was a grim reality that they were in a war.
Each man reflected the events of the day wondering what could they have done different. The question would gnaw at them for the rest of their lives. The answer is that there was nothing they could do. Not individually, nor as a crew, an element, a squadron, nor as a group. They did the best they could with the cards they were dealt. The circumstances they encountered were simply of the "hard luck" kind.
City: Brunswick, Germany
Target: Aircraft Assembly Plant
Type: IB
Result: Fair
Flak: Light
GAF: 40
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1. Boeing AH-64 Apache
This is an attack helicopter with twin engine and cockpit for two-man crew. It is a quick-reacting, airborne system that provides close-air support for the battlefield. This combat proven helicopter was developed by Boeing for the United States Army. It’s also known for „Peten“ and „Saraph“. The AH-64 Apache is world’s premiere attack helicopter was initially designed and produced by American Manufacturer Huges Helicopters.
2. CH53 Super Stallion
The Super Stallion is the largest and heaviest helicopter in the United States military. It is a modified heavy –lifter helicopter that was designed for 73,3500 Ib. with external loads. This helicopter is primarily used for the transportation of equipment, supplies and personnel.
3. Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk
The Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk is medium-lift utility helicopter featuring tail rotors. This helicopter has been the standard assault transport since 1979. Although The Black Hawk can perform a wide array of missions, is is mainly used as the Army’s tactical helicopter.
4. MQ-8 Fire Scout
This unmanned autonomous helicopter is a combat proven helicopter developed by Northrop Grumman that provides real-time intelligence, situational awareness and aerial fire support and targeting support for ground, air and sea.
5. Boeing CH-47 Chinook
The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is an American twin-engine, rotor heavy-lift helicopter. It’s primarily roles are troop movement, artillery placement and ammunition. This helicopter has provided support for the U.S. Army defense forces for decades.
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Quotes on piracy
Written by Herra Vuorensola on Saturday, February 14th, 2009
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Almost every day we can read or hear some of the old-guard media assholes slowly turning their heads and understanding that piracy in it’s current, most common form – the digital download – is not a crime. But there’s still a long road to travel. Luckily, there are people in the influential positions not scared shitless to say how they really think things are.
Just few weeks ago Jason Holtman from Valve, one of the biggest game production companies in the world, was talking at Game Business Law Summit, explaining the ways to really solve one of the huge reasons why people do digital downloads instead of paying for the stuff. Now this is games, but the same thing goes with film.
“We take all of our games day-and-date to Russia,” Holtman says of Valve. “The reason people pirated things in Russia,” he explains, “is because Russians are reading magazines and watching television — they say ‘Man, I want to play that game so bad,’ but the publishers respond ‘you can play that game in six months…maybe.’ ”
“We found that our piracy rates dropped off significantly,” Holtman says, explaining that Valve makes sure their games are on the shelves in Moscow and St. Petersberg, in Russian, when they release it to North America and Western Europe.
The final sacred cow that Holtman took a stab at was the issue of piracy. “There’s a big business feeling that there’s piracy,” he says. But the truth is: “Pirates are underserved customers.”
I think the last line is really one of the best ways to put the problem, and the companies – in game, film and music – who understand this will evolve their products and distribution to meet the needs of the people out there and will survive the next 5-10 years.
A British distribution company Revolver tried this also few months ago, and released their horror film Mum & Dad simultaneously in cinemas, on DVD, as a download, and as VOD. One would think that since this has never been done before that the industry would be following with a great interest on how the new radical approach – which really tries to deliver a film day-and-date to all media distribution platforms – would work. But instead, the cinema association wrote an open letter and asked the cinemas across UK to boycott the film, since it’s taking them out of business.
So yes, there’s still a long road ahead, a lot of concrete-headed wankers scared as hell and ready to put their full arsenal and throw it against the new technology.
But the ex-boss of EMI Norway, Per Eirik Johansen, puts it very clearly:
“No one has ever won a battle when fighting against new technology,”
Mr. Johansen used to be a valiant fighter against pirates while still working on EMI, but now that he’s working on his own label, he has come out of the closet and is talking his mind freely.
He now believes the music industry’s fight against piracy has been useless and says he disagrees with the assertion that illicit file-sharing is the same as theft. Referring to an earlier EMI anti-piracy initiative, Johansen noted, “The message of that campaign is that there is a reason why we have copyright, and I agree.”
“But the main thing is that a whole generation already violates copyright, and the only thing we can do now is find better solutions,” he says pragmatically.
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Despite SM Entertainment’s occasional ambivalence when it comes to promotions, EXO comebacks still feel like events. Even with the group down to six members thanks to military enlistments, the arrival of their new album Obsession marks a much-anticipated bookend to 2019’s K-pop slate. We’ve had solos and sub-units all year long, but the full group hasn’t released Korean music since last December. With this in mind, Obsession is an odd choice for title track. It’s a solid r&b groove, but lacks the kind of impact I’d expect from an event release.
I love the idea of sampling in music. My favorite pop artist of all time, Janet Jackson, pretty much built her whole discography out of expertly-chosen (and woven) scraps of past hits. But, the pitched-up vocal sample that opens Obsession is more grating than galvanizing. The idea of using a repeated vocal hook as percussion is promising. Stray Kids struck gold with a similar approach on their spring hit Miroh. However, Obsession’s sample is dull and irritating, hanging around for way too much of the track. And though it forms a nice contrast with the instrumental’s heavy bass and dark, sinister vocal filters, there’s just not enough meat on the bones to satisfy.
The same could be said about Obsession as a whole. It feels like a solid b-side – the kind of vocal-rich, sensuous r&b that often fills EXO albums. The arrangement is gorgeous, and carries many of the hallmarks expected of co-producer Yoo Young-Jin. He works with a veritable army of composers on the track, which is surprising given how simple Obsession’s melody actually is. The verses pulse with the kind of half-sung, half-rapped structure that has characterized many NCT singles. The chorus is more robustly arranged, but its actual refrain is short, simple and oddly forgettable. Taken apart from the captivating visuals of the music video, Obsession is missing that extra magic that makes EXO title tracks so dynamic.
IATFB says: People always get mad when you don’t like songs like this, apparently believing that the less something sounds like a traditional pop track the more worthy of veneration it is in and of itself. And sure, if it all comes together then they deserve the plaudits for stepping outside the box, but the reason taking a risk is, well, a risk is because if it doesn’t work then you’re left with an ambitious but ultimately unappealing effort and that’s where EXO’s “Obsession” left me. The music video is fucking outstanding, though.
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At the unveiling ceremony, Eric Mar, a former board member who initiated the process, choked back tears when he said that he has a 17-year-old daughter and that Lee's courage to stand up against sexual violence and historical crimes is an inspiration for people fighting for justice[Photo/Xinhua]SAN FRANCISCO - "I hate the crime, not the people," an emotional Yong-Soo Lee, a Korean woman who survived the sexual slavery by the Imperial Army of Japan during World War II, told a packed audience at a corner of a public square
In a statement released on the occasion, the CWJC said that "through our memorial, we remember all our grandmothers who are alive, and all those who have passed on but are still with us in both spirit and memory"The unveiling of the "comfort women" memorial, the first in a major city in the United States, which also includes a sculpture of three girls -- Korean, Chinese and Filipino -- took place on the second anniversary of a resolution passed by San Francisco city and the county's legislative Board of Supervisors
Besides calling for putting up the memorial, the resolution aimed at raising public awareness against sex trafficking and all forms of sexual violenceComfort Women Justice Coalition, a local grassroots advocacy group devoted to bring justice for the victims of Japanese military sexual slavery during the World War II, unveiled a monument dedicated to the "comfort women" in San Francisco on Friday" However, in the instance of "comfort women," the criminals "went away and got free, there was no justice for the comfort womenTang told Xinhua that during 26 years as a judge, she had to "make sure in each case that if somebody committed a crime, the person would be held accountable
"Asked what the memorial means for her, Sing pointed at herself and at reporters at a press briefing, saying that it reflects the soul of everybody with a conscience"A sound wave, which is usually generated in the event of an artificial earthquake, was not detected
The China Earthquake Administration, of which the CENC is a part, and related departments conducted studies on the infrasonic records of the earthquake and previous quakes including those provoked by nuclear tests on the Korean PeninsulaEarlier, South Korea's weather agency said the quake is presumed to have been a natural one, the country's Yonhap news agency reported
棋牌手机app游戏地推发名片效果怎么样They concluded that Saturday's quake is a natural one, the seismic service said4 on the Richter scale that occurred Saturday in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is not the result of a nuclear test, the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC) said
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Sheetz today will announce that it has signed as Richmond Raceway’s official convenience store and will activate at the track's NASCAR weekend next week.
Sheetz will entitle and activate in one of the "neighborhood" areas of the track's infield, and the Pennsylvania-based company also will be the presenting sponsor of Richmond's Scout program that provides special camping and discount ticket prices to Boy Scouts. It is unclear how Sheetz will activate in its infield area near Turn 4.
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Natasha Khardina 2 September 2010 30 April 2014 Expeditions - Past 2 Comments
China, Guangxi Province, 2-4 September 2010
The invitation for Heiko Bleher to do research in Guangxi came as a surprise shortly after his and Natasha’s daughter Amanda Flora had been born July 15th, 2010. Prof. Chen Zaizhong from the Shanghai Ocean University, Tommy Wong from Hong Kong and the Guangxi Province Fishery Deputy Director Li Jianming had invited him and he wanted to research also the cave fishes as he knew that there are some of the most amazing and unusual blind cypriniform fishes which were only discovered in recent years. In particular one with a biology which should be studied as there is nothing similar known anywhere – except maybe the northern Australian Nurseryfish Kurtus gulliveri. But the latter is not a blind cavefish. Below now some photos of the research and collecting trip…
The point of departure from, where the field trip started for the research in Guangxi caves was the city of Nanning, capital of Guangxi. The city with its amazing skyline and over 3 million people is also known as the Green city and in Zhuang language it is called Namzningz, meaning ‘South Tranquility’. In the Oriental Hotel Prof. Chen and his student Pan looking over the map and the Deputy Director Li Jianming waiting prepared in a luxurious black Limousine with driver…
Not only the city of Nanning can claim to be a Green city, but also the entire Guangxi province is Green and the highways in perfect conditions and planted along very nicely. Our trip into the north-western region was flanked by unique scenery, the autonomous province is very beautiful. The current name “Guang” itself means “expanse”, and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in 226 AD. In the valleys are giant rice fields.
The first cave was the limestone cave near Xia’ao town, ca. 24°15’N, 107°05’E, in the Du’an County (also written Du An). Here in 1993 the very first blind fish was found in the Province. It was a loach Protocobitis typhlops. Today the cave lies next to the highway and water is constantly pumped out for the rice and corn fields. The only fish we found was a dead one sucked into the pump… Possibly the blind loach is already history. The fish photo is from Fishbase.org.
The second cave I wanted to research was in one of the pinnacles as I called these amazing green covered mountains sticking everywhere out of the ground. We had to walk over land, into a valley, across cornfields and a chicken farm. But the cave was filled up with garbage and waste. It had a terrible smell the water was foul and hardly any fish could survive here. The chicken farmer said the valley gets flooded some times and everything flows into the cave. When I asked why no one takes the garbage away, I received no answer… The Barbinae fish from here Sinocyclocheilus jiuxuensis from this Jiuxu cave, near Jiuxi town, 24°32’N, 107°45’E, at an elevation of 220 m was only described in 2003…
This is the species Sinocyclocheilus jiuxuensis, which lived here and some specimens may still be alive with Mr. Lan, a retired fisheries officer. It is no longer blind, as parts of the cave has become exposed to sunlight some thousands, or millions of years ago and over many hundreds of generations the reverse process started and eyes develop again – came back.
Our journey up north-west continued to the third cave, but first we stopped on the edge of the large Hongshui River to have dinner – as always with a very large variety of food, delicious but to much, and to much to drink… We stayed over night in Dong Lan, a remote city embedded between high mountains. Early next morning every Chinese was up and doing exercise for half an hour, while the schoolchildren were having a lunch before class, as they come from far. Across Dong Lan flows a river which was full of algae and garbage, but a woman and a man were cleaning it up…
We finally reached the mountain area of the 3rd cave called Dxia Dong (Dong = cave), near the Police station Sanhsiz Baicuzsoj. We had to walk nearly one hour across rice fields into the mountain region and than the cave opened up in front of us. Also here they had a pump station installed to water the rice fields. This was the deepest cave I researched, we had to climb down on slippery rocks and into mud – it was nearly 100 metre deep and completely dark. Two fisherman came with us, brothers, who had collected here before with the root. They tried their luck while I went deep down and fished with my net., while the top was covered with vampires...
Sinocyclocheilus altishoulderus from this Dxia Cave near Taiping Town, about 24°22’N, 107°22’E, Donglan County, had also reversed eyes, coming from a blind to eye dwelling species which started also to get pigments. Locals say because it has had a connection in the last millenniums with another partly open cave, the 4th we visited (see below)…
…the questions remains: why is there still a complete blind cave fish, which has no pigments and an extraordinary head shape (see also notes on Sinocyclocheilus donglanensis at the end).
We walked back to the road again across the rice fields during harvest – here rice is just cut and grows back twice a year, while frogs are hopping around. We drove 680 m high into another mountain range from where we had to climb down into a valley more than 300 m depth. All the way down we found amazing bamboo growing near giant rocks and below was the entrance to this valley-cave called Long Dong. This cave had sunlight coming in from a hole in the top and the water level was way down, impossible to reach, therefore the only way to get the fish was with a fishing rod. The water we had to get slowly into our bag by droppings from caves top…
The Barbine living here is also not blind, but Sinocyclocheilus donglanensis from the Long Dong Cave, in the Hongshuihe River system near Gongping Village, 24°20’30″N, 107°24’39″E, Taiping Town, Donglan County, has very interesting blood red barbels. This is the cave which they say is connected to the former. But the most amazing of all complete blind cave cyprinids in Guangxi Province, or as the matter of a fact in the entire world, is:
…Sinocyclocheilus furcodorsalis Chen, Yang & Lan. It was described in 1997 from the Ba Me cave, a underground river at Tian’e County, ca. 25°58’N, 107°02’E, Guangxi Province, and has – in the male – a very unique feature. The only thing some what similar known in fishes is from the Australian Kurtus gulliveri, where the male has also a forward standing bone on its head, to carry the eggs on a string immediately away from the female before they are eaten. But the Kurtus is not a blind fish, and does not live in deep caves. Unfortunately the only live Sinocyclocheilus furcodorsalis specimen died at Mr. Lan’s place, but below some more details of it, male and female…
…and one can see: only the male of Sinocyclocheilus furcodorsalis has this amazing head- formation (upper photo and centre left), the female (centre right and above) does not have it. That is why I believe is that possibly the biology of this species could be similar to Kurtus in northern Australia, which was studied extensively by Tim Berra. But Sinocyclocheilus furcodorsalis living in the complete darkness for millions of years had to adapt to this possibly unique survival method as well…
…I definitely want to study the biology of this (and other) and other unique species in the near future with the support of the Guangxi Fisheries. Thank you Li, thank you Chen, thank you Pan and Wong and all the other great people from Guangxi Fisheries.
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UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/15 Report of the Open-ended Working Group of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal on the work of its eleventh meeting
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I. Opening of the meeting
1. The eleventh meeting of the Open-ended Working Group of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal was opened at 10.20 a.m. on Monday, 3 September 2018 by Mr. Mohammed Khashashneh (Jordan), Co-Chair of the Working Group. He and the other Co-Chair, Ms. Justina Grigaraviciene (Lithuania), welcomed the participants to the meeting.
Items: 15 Files: 30
OEWG-11/1 Strategic framework for the implementation of the Basel Convention for 2012-2021
OEWG-11/2 Developing guidelines for environmentally sound management
OEWG-11/3 Technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with persistent organic pollutants
OEWG-11/4 Technical guidelines on transboundary movements of electrical and electronic waste and used electrical and electronic equipment, in particular regarding the distinction between waste and non-waste under the Basel Convention
OEWG-11/5 Technical guidelines on incineration on land (D10) and on specially engineered landfill (D5)
OEWG-11/6 National reporting
OEWG-11/7 Amendment to Annex IX to the Basel Convention
OEWG-11/8 Marine plastic litter and microplastics
OEWG-11/9 Electronic approaches to the notification and movement documents
OEWG-11/10 Waste containing nanomaterials
OEWG-11/11 Consultation with the Committee Administering the Mechanism for Promoting Implementation and Compliance of the Basel Convention
OEWG-11/12 Providing further legal clarity
OEWG-11/13 Basel Convention Partnership Programme
OEWG-11/14 Cooperation with the World Customs Organization on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System
OEWG-11/15 Work programme of the Open-ended Working Group for 2020-2021
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/1/Rev.1 Provisional agenda
Provisional agenda
1. Opening of the meeting.
2. Organizational matters:
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/1/Rev.1/Add.1 Annotations to the provisional agenda
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/2 Strategic framework
Note by the Secretariat
1. In its decision BC-13/1, on the strategic framework for the implementation of the Basel Convention for 2012–2021, the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal acknowledged that the midterm evaluation report could not be prepared owing in part to the low level of responses to the request for information in support of the indicators listed in section V of the strategic framework for the implementation of the Basel Convention for 2012–2021.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/3 Development of guidelines for environmentally sound management
1. In paragraphs 9 and 10 of its decision BC-13/2, on the follow-up to the Indonesian-Swiss country-led initiative to improve the effectiveness of the Basel Convention, the Conference of the Parties extended the mandate of the expert working group on environmentally sound management, adopted the work programme of the group set out in annex I to that decision and requested it to develop activities, subject to the availability of resources, to implement its work programme.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/4 Technical guidelines
1. At its thirteenth meeting, the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal adopted three decisions on the matter of the development of technical guidelines under the Convention: decision BC-13/4 on technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with persistent organic pollutants; decision BC-13/5 on technical guidelines on transboundary movements of electrical and electronic waste and used electrical and electronic equipment, in particular regarding the distinction between waste and non-waste under the Basel Convention; and decision BC-13/6 on technical guidelines on incineration on land (D10) and on specially engineered landfill (D5). Information related to the development of these sets of technical guidelines is presented in the relevant sections of the present document, along with proposed action for consideration by the Open-ended Working Group at its eleventh meeting.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/5 National reporting: types of wastes for additional practical guidance on the development of inventories
1. In its decision BC-13/8, on national reporting, the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal took note of the practical guidance on the development of inventories of used lead-acid batteries, of electrical and electronic waste and of waste oils. In paragraph 5 of the same decision, the Conference of the Parties invited Parties to inform the Secretariat, by 28 February 2018, of the types of wastes for which additional practical guidance on the development of inventories would be useful.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/6 Electronic approaches to the notification and movement documents
I. Introduction
1. In paragraph 2 of its decision BC-13/17, the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal requested the Secretariat to prepare, subject to the availability of funding and for the consideration of the Open-ended Working Group at its eleventh meeting, a document containing options on how to move forward on electronic approaches to the notification and movement documents, taking into account the note by the Secretariat on the Committee Administering the Mechanism for Promoting Implementation and Compliance (UNEP/CHW.13/9), the note by the Secretariat entitled “Control system: electronic approaches to the notification and movement documents” (UNEP/CHW/CC.12/11/Add.2) and the results of a further survey on the issue, in particular through the gathering of more recent information from Parties and others on existing electronic approaches.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/7 Marine plastic litter and microplastics
1. At its thirteenth meeting, the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal included activities related to marine plastic litter and microplastics in the work programme of the Open-ended Working Group for the biennium 2018–2019 set out in the annex to decision BC-13/17. The activities, subject to the availability of resources, were as follows:
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/8 Waste containing nanomaterials
1. In paragraph 5 of decision BC-13/17, the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal requested the Secretariat to prepare for consideration by the Open-ended Working Group at its eleventh meeting and subject to the availability of resources, a document compiling information on existing activities that address waste containing nanomaterials and identifying issues related to waste containing nanomaterials that may be relevant to work under the Convention and on options for further work that may be carried out under the Basel Convention related to waste containing nanomaterials within the scope of the Convention, avoiding duplication with activities relating to the matter in other forums.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/9 Consultation with the Committee Administering the Mechanism for Promoting Implementation and Compliance of the Basel Convention
1. In its decision BC-13/9, the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal approved the work programme of the Committee Administering the Mechanism for Promoting Implementation and Compliance of the Basel Convention for the biennium 2018–2019 set out in the annex to that decision.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/10 Providing further legal clarity
A. Review of Annexes I, III, IV and related aspects of Annex IX to the Basel Convention
1. By its decision BC-13/2, on the follow-up to the Indonesian-Swiss country led initiative to improve the effectiveness of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, the Conference of Parties, among other things, established an expert working group on the review of the Annexes with a mandate and terms of reference as set out in annex II to that decision.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/11 Basel Convention Partnership Programme
1. In paragraph 6 of its decision BC-13/12, on the Partnership for Action on Computing Equipment, the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal disbanded the Working Group of the Partnership for Action on Computing Equipment. In paragraph 8 of the same decision, the Conference of the Parties invited interested Basel Convention regional and coordinating centres to take the lead in the implementation of activities listed in the work programme set out in the concept note on a follow-up partnership to the Partnership for Action on Computing Equipment (UNEP/CHW.13/INF/31/Rev.1, annex II) and, based on the work undertaken, to propose further development of the concept at the regional or international level, as the need arises. Furthermore, the Conference of the Parties invited interested centres to report, through the Secretariat, on the implementation of paragraph 8 of the same decision to the Open-ended Working Group at its eleventh meeting.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/12 Cooperation with the World Customs Organization on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System
1. In paragraph 2 of its decision BC-13/7, the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal requested the Secretariat to continue, under the guidance of the Open-ended Working Group, its cooperation with the Harmonized System Committee and relevant subcommittees of the World Customs Organization in order to facilitate the inclusion of wastes covered by the Basel Convention in the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (Harmonized System) and to report on progress in that regard to the Open-ended Working Group at its eleventh meeting and the Conference of the Parties at its fourteenth meeting.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/13 Work programme of the Open-ended Working Group for 2020–2021
1. At its fourteenth meeting, the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal is expected to adopt the work programme of the Open-ended Working Group for the biennium 2020–2021. In preparation for that process, and in accordance with its usual practice, the Secretariat has prepared a draft work programme for consideration by the Working Group at its eleventh meeting (see annex).
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/14 Application for the removal of wastes from Annex IX to the Basel Convention
1. In its decision VIII/15 on revisions to the procedure for the review or adjustment of the lists of wastes contained in Annexes VIII and IX and the status of decision VII/21, the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal adopted the procedure for the review or adjustment of lists of wastes contained in Annexes VIII and IX, as set out in the annex to that decision.
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UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/1 Scenario note for the eleventh meeting of the Open-ended Working Group of the Basel Convention
1. The present scenario note is intended to assist representatives in preparing for the eleventh meeting of the Open-ended Working Group of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal by communicating information regarding initial planning activity and expectations for the meeting.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/2 Tentative schedule for the meeting
A tentative schedule for the eleventh meeting of the Open-ended Working Group of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal is set out in the annex to the present note. The schedule will be adjusted as work progresses. The present note, including its annex, has not been formally edited.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/3 Draft compilation of information related to the indicators to be used for the preparation of the final evaluation of the strategic framework
As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on the strategic framework (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/2), the annex to the present note contains the draft compilation of information related to the indicators to be used for the preparation of the final evaluation of the strategic framework, prepared by the Secretariat in consultation with the small intersessional working group on the strategic framework. The present note, including its annex, has not been formally edited.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/4 Draft practical manual for stakeholders to ensure that notifications of transboundary movements meet environmentally sound management requirements
As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on development of guidelines for environmentally sound management (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/3), the annex to the present note sets out a draft practical manual for stakeholders to ensure that notifications of transboundary movements meet environmentally sound management requirements, as prepared by the expert working group on environmentally sound management. The present note, including its annex, has not been formally edited.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/4/Rev.1 Draft practical manual for stakeholders to ensure that notifications of transboundary movements meet environmentally sound management requirements
1. At its eleventh meeting, by decision OEWG-11/2, the Open-ended Working Group welcomed the work undertaken by the expert working group on environmentally sound management and also welcomed the draft practical manual for stakeholders to ensure that notifications of transboundary movements meet environmentally sound management requirements.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/5 Draft guidance to assist Parties in developing efficient strategies for achieving recycling and recovery of hazardous and other wastes
As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on development of guidelines for environmentally sound management (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/3), the annex to the present note sets out draft guidance to assist Parties in developing efficient strategies for achieving recycling and recovery of hazardous and other wastes prepared by the expert working group on environmentally sound management. The present note, including its annex, has not been formally edited.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/5/Rev.1 Draft guidance to assist Parties in developing efficient strategies for achieving recycling and recovery of hazardous and other wastes
1. At its eleventh meeting, by decision OEWG-11/2, the Open-ended Working Group welcomed the work undertaken by the expert working group on environmentally sound management and also welcomed the draft guidance to assist Parties in developing efficient strategies for the recycling and recovery of hazardous and other wastes.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/6 Draft guidance on how to address environmentally sound management in the informal sector
As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on development of guidelines for environmentally sound management (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/3), the annex to the present note sets out draft guidance on how to address environmentally sound management (ESM) in the informal sector prepared by the expert working group on environmentally sound management. The present note, including its annex, has not been formally edited.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/6/Rev.1 Draft guidance on how to address environmentally sound management in the informal sector
1. At its eleventh meeting, by decision OEWG-11/2, the Open-ended Working Group welcomed the work undertaken by the expert working group on environmentally sound management and also welcomed draft guidance on how to address environmentally sound management in the informal sector.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/7 Draft practical manuals on Extended Producer Responsibility and on financing systems for environmentally sound management
As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on development of guidelines for environmentally sound management (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/3), the annexes to the present note sets out draft practical manuals on Extended Producer Responsibility and on financing systems for environmentally sound management prepared by the expert working group on environmentally sound management. The present note, including its annexes, has not been formally edited.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/7/Rev.1 Draft practical manuals on Extended Producer Responsibility and on financing systems for environmentally sound management
At its eleventh meeting, by decision OEWG-11/2, the Open-ended Working Group welcomed the work undertaken by the expert working group on environmentally sound management. By the same decision, the Working Group requested the expert working group to complete its work on the revised draft practical manuals on extended producer responsibility and financing systems for environmentally sound management, taking into account the comments received during the eleventh meeting of the Open-ended Working Group, which are set out in the annex to the present note. The present note, including its annex, has not been formally edited.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/8 Report of the activities undertaken by the expert working group on environmentally sound management
As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on development of guidelines for environmentally sound management (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/3), the annex to the present note sets out a report of the activities undertaken by the expert working group on environmentally sound management. The present note, including its annex, has not been formally edited.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/9 Draft updated general technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with persistent organic pollutants
1. As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on technical guidelines (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/4), the small intersessional working group on persistent organic pollutant wastes updated the general technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes containing or contaminated with persistent organic pollutants adopted by decision BC-13/4, as set out in the annex to the present note.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/10 Draft technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with short-chain chlorinated paraffins
As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on technical guidelines (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/4), the small intersessional working group on persistent organic pollutant wastes prepared the draft technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with short-chain chlorinated paraffins. The present note, including its annex, has not been formally edited.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/11 Draft updated technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with hexabromodiphenyl ether and heptabromodiphenyl ether, or tetrabromodiphenyl ether and pentabromodiphenyl ether or decabromodiphenyl ether
1. As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on technical guidelines (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/4), the small intersessional working group on persistent organic pollutant wastes updated the technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with hexabromodiphenyl ether and heptabromodiphenyl ether, or tetrabromodiphenyl ether and pentabromodiphenyl ether, adopted by decision BC-12/3, to include decabromodiphenyl ether, as set out in the annex to the present note.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/12 Draft updated technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes containing or contaminated with unintentionally produced polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, polychlorinated dibenzofurans, hexachlorobenzene, polychlorinated biphenyls, pentachlorobenzene, polychlorinated naphthalenes or hexachlorobutadiene
1. As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on technical guidelines (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/4), the small intersessional working group on persistent organic pollutant wastes updated the technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes containing or contaminated with unintentionally produced polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, polychlorinated dibenzofurans, hexachlorobenzene, polychlorinated biphenyls, pentachlorobenzene, or polychlorinated naphthalenes adopted by decision BC-13/4 , to include hexachlorobutadiene, as set out in the annex to the present note.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/13 Draft updated technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with hexachlorobutadiene
1. As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on technical guidelines UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/4, the small intersessional working group on persistent organic pollutant wastes updated the technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with hexachlorobutadiene adopted by decision BC-13/4, as set out in the annex to the present note.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/14 Compilation of comments received from Parties and others on (i) provisional low persistent organic pollutant values included in the technical guidelines and (ii) low persistent organic pollutant content values applied at the national level
As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on technical guidelines (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/4), the annex to the present note sets out the compilation of comments received from Parties and others on low persistent organic pollutant content values. Comments submitted pursuant to paragraph 10 of decision BC-13/4 by the European Union and its Member States, the Russian Federation, the European Electronics Recyclers’ Association (EERA), the European HBCD Industry Group and EU MEPS, the European Recycling Industries’ Confederation (EuRIC), the International Bromine Council (BSEF) and the International POPs Elimination Network (IPEN) are compiled in the annex to the present note. The present note, including its annex, has not been formally edited.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/15 Draft updated technical guidelines on transboundary movements of electrical and electronic waste and used electrical and electronic equipment, in particular regarding the distinction between waste and non-waste under the Basel Convention
1. As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on technical guidelines (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/4), the expert working group on the e-waste technical guidelines worked on suggestions for amendments to the technical guidelines adopted on an interim basis by decision BC-12/5, as set out in the annex to the present note.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/16 Compilation of responses to the revised questionnaire on the experiences of Parties and others in the implementation of the technical guidelines on transboundary movements of electrical and electronic waste and used electrical and electronic equipment, in particular regarding the distinction between waste and non-waste under the Basel Convention
1. As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on technical guidelines (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/4), by paragraph 11 of its decision BC-13/5, the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention at its thirteenth meeting requested the Secretariat to develop, as appropriate, and in consultation with the lead country on the technical guidelines on transboundary movements of electrical and electronic waste and used electrical and electronic equipment, in particular regarding the distinction between waste and non-waste, a revised questionnaire based upon paragraph 3 of decision OEWG-10/5.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/17 Compilation of comments received from Parties and others on issues mentioned in paragraph 5 of decision BC-12/5 and on appendix V of the interim technical guidelines on transboundary movements of electrical and electronic waste and used electrical and electronic equipment, in particular regarding the distinction between waste and non-waste under the Basel Convention
1. As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on technical guidelines (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/4), as per paragraph 3 of decision BC-13/5, Parties and others were invited to provide comments, including suggestions for text, on the issues mentioned in paragraph 5 of decision BC-12/5 and/or alternative text to Appendix V of the technical guidelines on transboundary movements of electrical and electronic waste and used electrical and electronic equipment, in particular regarding the distinction between waste and non-waste under the Basel Convention, to the Secretariat, by 30 October 2017.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/18 Draft updated technical guidelines on incineration on land (D10)
1. As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on technical guidelines (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/4), a small intersessional working group led the update of the technical guidelines on incineration on land (D10), as set out in the annex to the present note.
2. The changes made to the technical guidelines adopted by decisions II/13 and III/13 have not been indicated using the track-change function as the new document has been structured in a different way to the original one. Therefore, a track-change version is difficult to generate in a readable manner. .
3. The present note, including its annex, has not been formally edited.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/19 Draft updated technical guidelines on specially engineered landfill (D5)
1. As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on technical guidelines (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/4), a small intersessional working group updated the technical guidelines on specially engineered landfill (D5), as set out in the annex to the present note.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/20 Compilation of information from Parties on the types of waste for which practical guidance on the development of inventories would be useful
As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on national reporting (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/5), the annex to the present note contains a compilation of information submitted by Parties on the types of wastes for which practical guidance on the development of inventories would be useful. The present note, including its annex, has not been formally edited.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/21 Summary of the responses to the questionnaire on electronic approaches to the notification and movement documents
As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on electronic approaches to the notification and movement documents (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/6), a summary of the responses to the questionnaire on electronic approaches to the notification and movement documents, received from Parties and stakeholders, is set out in annexes I and II to the present note, respectively. The present note, including its annexes, has not been formally edited.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/22 Report on possible options available under the Basel Convention to further address marine plastic litter and microplastics
As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on marine plastic litter and microplastics (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/7), the annex to the present note sets out a report on possible options available under the Basel Convention to further address marine plastic litter and microplastics. The present note, including its annex, has not been formally edited.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/22/Add.1 Report on possible options available under the Basel Convention to further address marine plastic litter and microplastics: Activities related to marine plastic litter and microplastics undertaken by the Basel Convention regional and coordinating centres and the Stockholm Convention regional and subregional centres
As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on marine plastic litter and microplastics (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/7), the annex to the present note sets out information on activities related to marine plastic litter and microplastics undertaken by the Basel Convention regional and coordinating centres and the Stockholm Convention regional and subregional centres. The present note, including its annex, has not been formally edited.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/23 Outcome of the first meeting of the open-ended ad hoc expert group on marine litter and microplastics
As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on marine plastic litter and microplastics (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/7), the information on the outcome of the first meeting of the open-ended ad hoc expert group on marine litter and microplastics is available via the following link: https://papersmart.unon.org/resolution/adhoc-oeeg. The present note has not been formally edited.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/24 Report on issues related to waste containing nanomaterials and options for further work under the Basel Convention
As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on waste containing nanomaterials (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/8), a report on issues related to waste containing nanomaterials that may be relevant to work under the Basel Convention and options for further work that may be carried out under the Convention related to such waste is set out in the annex to the present note. The present note, including its annex, has not been formally edited.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/25 Guidance to improve the implementation of paragraph 11 of Article 6 of the Basel Convention on insurance, bond and guarantee
As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on consultation with the Committee Administering the Mechanism for Promoting Implementation and Compliance with the Basel Convention (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/9), the annex to the present note contains revised draft guidance developed by the Committee Administering the Mechanism for Promoting Implementation and Compliance with the Basel Convention to improve the implementation of paragraph 11 of Article 6 of the Basel Convention on insurance, bond and guarantee. The present note, including its annex, has not been formally edited.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/26 Guidance on improving national reporting by Parties to the Basel Convention
As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on consultation with the Committee Administering the Mechanism for Promoting Implementation and Compliance with the Basel Convention (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/9), the annex to the present note contains revised draft guidance on improving national reporting by Parties to the Basel Convention, as developed by the Committee. The present note, including its annex, has not been formally edited.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/27 Guide for the development of national legal frameworks to implement the Basel Convention
As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on consultation with the Committee Administering the Mechanism for Promoting Implementation and Compliance with the Basel Convention (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/9), the annex to the present note contains a revised draft guide for the development of national legal frameworks to implement the Basel Convention, as developed by the Committee. The present note, including its annex, has not been formally edited.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/28 Guidance on the implementation of paragraph 4 of Article 6 of the Basel Convention on transit transboundary movements
As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on consultation with the Committee Administering the Mechanism for Promoting Implementation and Compliance with the Basel Convention (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/9), the annex to the present note contains draft guidance on the implementation of paragraph 4 of Article 6 of the Basel Convention on transit transboundary movements, as developed the Committee. The present note, including its annex, has not been formally edited.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/29 Work programme of the Committee for Administering the Mechanism for Promoting Implementation and Compliance for the biennium 2020–2021
As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on consultation with the Committee Administering the Mechanism for Promoting Implementation and Compliance with the Basel Convention (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/9), the annex to the present note contains a draft work programme of the Committee for Administering the Mechanism for Promoting Implementation and Compliance for the biennium 2020–2021, as developed the Committee and based on its work programme for the biennium 2018-2019. The proposed updates to the work programme have been tracked so that the revisions can be easily identified. The present note, including its annex, has not been formally edited.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/30 Note by the co-chairs of the expert working group on the review of the annexes to the Basel Convention: status of the work and recommendations on the way forward
As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on providing further legal clarity (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/10), the annex to the present note sets out a note by the Co-Chairs of the expert working group on the review of the annexes to the Convention on the way forward for the review of Annexes I, III and IV and related aspects of Annex IX to the Basel Convention, for the consideration of the Open-ended Working Group. The present note, including its annex, has not been formally edited.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/31 Compilation of comments received on whether to consider the review of Annexes II, VIII and IX to the Basel Convention
As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on providing further legal clarity (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/10), the annex to the present note sets out the compilation of comments received on whether to consider the review of Annexes II, VIII and IX to the Basel Convention submitted by Argentina, Central African Republic, Iraq, Madagascar, Mexico and the Philippines. These comments are also available on the website of the Convention. The present note, including its annex, has not been formally edited.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/32 Follow-up partnership to the Partnership for Action on Computing Equipment
1. In paragraph 6 of its decision BC-13/12, on the Partnership for Action on Computing Equipment (PACE), the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal disbanded the Working Group of the Partnership for Action on Computing Equipment. In paragraph 8 of the same decision, the Conference of the Parties invited interested Basel Convention regional and coordinating centres to take the lead in the implementation of activities listed in the work programme set out in the concept note on a follow-up partnership to the Partnership for Action on Computing Equipment and, based on the work undertaken, to propose further development of the concept at the regional or international level, as the need arose. Furthermore, the Conference of the Parties invited interested centres to report, through the Secretariat, on the implementation of paragraph 8 of the same decision to the Open-ended Working Group at its eleventh meeting.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/33 Draft guidance on the environmentally sound management of household waste
As referred to in Section II.B. of the note by the Secretariat on the Household waste partnership (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/11), the annexes to the present note set out draft modules of the guidance on the environmentally sound management of household waste, as developed thus far by the Household waste partnership working group. Annex I sets out the draft outline of the overall guidance document on the environmentally sound management of household waste as agreed at the first meeting of the Household Waste Partnership working group. Annex II contains the overall introduction to the draft guidance. Annex III sets out the module on assessment and decision-making and Annex IV the module on separation, collection and transport of household waste. Further information on the timetable for the development of the modules of the draft guidance is available in the report of the first meeting of the Household waste partnership working group. The present note, including its annexes, has not been formally edited.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/34 Report on the progress in the work of the World Customs Organization on the Harmonized System related to the Basel Convention
As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on Cooperation with the World Customs Organization on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/12), a report on the progress in the work of the Harmonized System Committee and the Harmonized System Review Subcommittee regarding the classification of electrical and electronic waste, is set out in the annex to the present note. The present note, including its annex, has not been formally edited.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/35 Report on financial matters from January 2016 to April 2018
1. In paragraph 23 of its decision BC-13/24, the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal requested the Executive Secretary to report to the Open-ended Working Group at its eleventh meeting on the status of implementation of that decision.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/36 Application by Norway to amend Annex IX to the Basel Convention and addendum
As referred to in the note by the Secretariat on application for the removal of wastes from Annex IX to the Basel Convention (UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/14), the application by the Government of Norway for the removal of entry “B3010: solid plastic wastes” from Annex IX to the Basel Convention is set out in annex I to the present note. An addendum to the application prepared by the Government of Norway is set out in annex II to the present note. The present note, including its annexes, has not been formally edited.
UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/37 List of pre-session documents by agenda item
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UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/39 Draft terms of reference for the Basel Convention Partnership on Plastic Wastes as a basis for further consultation
The annex to the present note contains draft terms of reference for the Basel Convention Partnership on Plastic Wastes developed by the Open-ended Working Group at its eleventh meeting. In paragraph 8 of decision OEWG-11/8, the Working Group invited Parties and others to provide comments on the draft terms of reference and suggestions on elements of the work programme of the Partnership for the biennium 2020–2021 by 17 December 2018. The present note, including its annex, has not been formally edited.
Call for information and follow-up to OEWG.11
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__label__wiki | 0.571688 | 0.571688 | Introduction Advancement of a sarcomatous element within a germ cell tumor
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Introduction Advancement of a sarcomatous element within a germ cell tumor can be an uncommon sensation. be treated with a mixed chemotherapy regimen (for germ cell tumor and rhabdomyosarcoma). Furthermore, advancement of a mass during or after therapy with regular serum markers should improve the possibility of developing teratoma syndrome that needs to be treated surgically. Launch Advancement of a sarcomatous element (SC) within a germ cell tumor (GCT) is certainly a rare sensation. Many histologic types of SC are defined which may be present in the principal tumor or in the metastatic sites. The current presence of sarcomas within GCTs is mainly came across in testicular and mediastinal GCT while their existence within an ovarian GCT provides seldom been reported. Careful histological examination is vital to look for the type and percentage of SC within a GCT as this impacts prognosis. Developing teratoma Kv2.1 (phospho-Ser805) antibody symptoms (GTS) can be a seldom reported sensation. It was initial defined in 1982 [1] and takes place in around 2% to 7% of non-seminomatous germ cell tumors SB-715992 (NSGCT) [2,3]. It needs three requirements for description: first of all, normalization from the previously raised serum tumor markers (alpha fetoprotein (AFP) and beta individual chorionic gonadotropins (B-HCG)); secondly, a rise in tumor size after and during chemotherapy provided for NSGCT; and finally, the lack of any NSGCT element apart from mature teratoma (MT) when the tumor is normally resected. Another quality finding from the GTS may be the appearance of cysts inside the developing masses which show up as a rise in mass size. The patient’s principal tumor histopathology, her response to chemotherapy, and advancement of uncommon GTS get this to patient’s case worthy of reporting. Case display A 12-calendar year- previous Asian gal offered decrease stomach distension and SB-715992 discomfort of 8 weeks duration. A non-tender stomach mass was discovered by palpation. Former health background was unremarkable. She hadn’t acquired her menarche however. Computerized tomography (CT) scan demonstrated a huge, improving pelviabdominal mass with multiple cystic and necrotic areas heterogeneously, originating from the proper ovary (Amount ?(Figure1A).1A). The outcomes of alpha fetoprotein (AFP) and beta individual chorionic gonadotropin (B-HCG) lab lab tests had been both elevated (2793 ng/ml (normal < 10) and 27361 mIU/ml (normal < 2), respectively). She underwent laparotomy with removal of the mass, right salpingoopherectomy, partial omentectomy, iliac lymph nodes sampling, and ascetic fluid sampling. No intraoperative spillage was observed. Histopathology exposed non-germinomatous combined germ cell composed of a mixture of yolk sac tumor (20%), adult teratoma (30%) (Number ?(Figure2A),2A), embryonal carcinoma (40%), and choriocarcinoma (5%). In addition, an embryonal rhabdomyosarcomatous component (5%) (Number ?(Number2B)2B) was recognized in the form of spindle and globoid rhabdomyoblasts staining positively with desmin and focally for myogenin. Iliac lymph nodes, omentum, and peritoneal excisional biopsies were free of tumor. Ascetic fluid cytology was also free of malignancy. Number 1 Computerized Tomography findings before and during the course of treatment. (A1) showing huge heterogeneous mass filling the top pelviabdominal cavity (arrows), (A2) showing unremarkable pelvis after chemotherapy, (B) showing the appearance of a new ... Number 2 Histological features of the primary ovarian mass and the recurrent fresh mass. (A) low power magnification of the mature teratoma component, in which mature glands and stroma are seen (H&E X4), (B): higher power magnification of rhabdomyoblasts ... She SB-715992 was treated with eight programs of chemotherapy (Table ?(Table1).1). She was followed by serial AFP and B-HCG checks which both normalized after the third cycle of chemotherapy. Table 1 Programs of chemotherapy used by the patient Six months after presentation and while she was on chemotherapy a right hypochondrial mass was recognized by physical exam. Imaging studies exposed a new complex multiloculated mass in the right suprarenal area (Number ?(Figure1B).1B). Serum markers were normal. Computerized tomography-guided biopsy exposed a mature teratoma. Later there was a 30% increase in the size of the mass. She then underwent laparotomy with total resection of the mass. Histopathology confirmed the presence of adult cystic teratoma (Number ?(Figure2C2C). She is still in total remission 32 weeks.
Background The goal of this study is to evaluate the importance
Background The goal of this study is to evaluate the importance of tenascin-C ( TNC), N-terminal pro brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) and C-reactive protein (CRP) on LV remodelling after myocardial infarction (MI). measured at admission and a month after treatment. Results There was significant increase in LV end-diastolic volume (LVEDV) and LV end-systolic volume (LVESV) baseline to follow-up in total-PCI group. Baseline to follow-up; a borderline significant increase was observed in LVEDV in the total-medical group. No significant difference was seen in LV quantities and EF in the subtotal-PCI group. NT-proBNP, TNC and CRP levels were decreased in all organizations. The decrease in NT-proBNP and CRP ideals were significant in the total-medical and subtotal-PCI group but in the total-PCI group they were not significant. The decrease of TNC was significant in all organizations but the least expensive decrease was seen in the total-PCI group. Summary TNC, CRP and NT-proBNP reflect LV remodelling relative to echocardiography after MI. Keywords Tenascin-C; NT-pro BNP; CRP; Remodelling; Myocardial infarction Intro Fibrinolytic therapy or major percutaneous coronary treatment (PCI) can be early reperfusion ways of treat ST section elevation myocardial infarction (MI). Nevertheless these strategies can’t be performed in about 1 / 3 of individuals because of past due presentation [1]. Therefore, the management of patients experiencing late phase MI is an important clinical issue. Previous studies showed that PCI had no clinical benefit for patients with total occlusion of the infarct-related coronary artery [2-4]. Based on these studies we aimed to confirm the unfavorable effect of PCI on total occlusion after MI with cardiac biomarkers such as tenascin-C (TNC), N-terminal pro brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) and C-reactive protein (CRP). TNC is an extracellular matrix glycoprotein that is expressed in various cardiac pathological conditions, including; MI [5,6], myocarditis [7], hibernating myocardium and LV (LV) remodeling [8]. Brain natriuretic peptide GDC-0941 (BNP) is a cardiac neurohormone that’s secreted through the ventricular myocardium. It really is secreted as a reply to improved LV wall tension and is related to LV systolic dysfunction [9] and intensifying redesigning after MI [10]. Continual high plasma BNP amounts following MI indicate LV progressive and remodeling center failing. C- reactive proteins (CRP) can be a marker popular to show severe inflammatory response. It’s been used to show ventricular remodeling after acute MI [11] also. In this scholarly study, we targeted to show the usefullness of TNC, CRP and NT-proBNP on LV remodeling following MI. Strategies Research human population Fifty-seven individuals with subacute anterior wall structure MI were enrolled in the study. Exclusion criteria included the following: patients who had received fibrinolytic therapy or who had PCI performed in the early stages of MI, any findings suggesting ongoing myocardial ischemia, angina at rest, NYHA class III or IV heart failure, shock, a serum creatinine concentration higher than 2.5 mg per deciliter, angiographically significant left main or three-vessel coronary artery disease, any significant stenosis in the right or circumflex coronary artery together with an LAD artery lesion, history of coronary artery disease, cardiac muscle disease, bundle branch block or atrial fibrillation, hemodynamic and electrical instability. Unsuccessful PCI was also an exclusion criterion in the groups to which PCI was applied. Regular coronary angiography was performed with Philips Integris 5000 tools (Philips Medical Systems, Greatest, HOLLAND) in individuals within 1 to 3 times after entrance. After obtaining pictures by standard techniques, each angiogram was interpreted by two 3rd party cardiologists. The coronary lesions had been categorized as total occlusions or subtotal occlusive lesions. The criterion for total occlusion from the LAD artery was absent antegrade movement, thought as a Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) movement quality of 0. Individuals were split into 3 organizations according with their angiographic treatment and features choices. The total-PCI group contains 18 individuals with total occlusion in the LAD artery in whom PCI was performed as well as medical therapy. The total-medical group consisted 19 individuals with total occlusion in LAD and received just medical therapy. The subtotal-PCI group consisted 20 individuals who got subtotal occlusion in the LAD artery in whom PCI was performed as well as medical therapy. The individuals in the total-PCI and subtotal-PCI organizations were designated to PCI with stent GDC-0941 positioning. Optimal medical therapy included aspirin, angiotensin switching enzyme inhibitors, beta-blockers, lipid decreasing therapy, and clopidogrel. In the total-PCI and subtotal-PCI organizations, PCI was performed at 2 – 28 times after MI. Effective PCI was defined as an open artery with residual stenosis of less than 30% and a TIMI flow grade of 3. The study was approved by the local ethics committee. All the patients were informed about the study, and their written consent forms were obtained. Echocardiography The Echocardiographies were Cspg2 performed by two cardiology specialist with Vivid 7 instruments (GE GDC-0941 Medical Systems, Milwaukee, WI, USA), with a 2.5 MHz transducer and harmonic imaging in the cardiology departments echocardiography laboratory. LV end diastolic (LVEDV) and end systolic volumes.
Understanding the pathway and kinetic mechanisms of transcription initiation is vital
Understanding the pathway and kinetic mechanisms of transcription initiation is vital for quantitative knowledge of gene regulation, but initiation is normally a multistep practice, the top features of which may be obscured in mass analysis. compete for environmental assets (Situations et al., 2003). A quantitative knowledge of the systems of transcription legislation must (1) understand the powerful response of gene transcription to environmental stimuli, (2) reliably define the systems behavior of regulatory systems, or (3) rationally style synthetic systems. This necessitates determining reaction intermediates, determining the rates of individual reaction Rabbit polyclonal to CD3 zeta steps, and determining which steps are modulated by regulators. It is particularly important to address these questions for initiation, the most heavily regulated phase of transcription (Browning and Busby, 2004). Furthermore, transcription initiation is the target of antibacterial drugs in widespread clinical use (Darst, 2004; Ho et al., 2009). Clear understanding of the initiation pathway is therefore essential to understanding development of drug resistance and to rational design of combination therapies (Villain-Guillot et al., 2007). Transcription promoter recognition in bacteria is mediated by initiation subunits. In complex with core RNAP, recognizes and directly binds to promoter-specific DNA sequences. After binding, the polymerase-DNA complex proceeds through a series of conformational intermediates before forming a mature transcription elongation complex capable of processive RNA synthesis. For several bacterial promoters dependent on the major 70 subunit, key steps in initiation have been identified using kinetic and intermediate trapping experiments (Saecker et al., 2011). Furthermore, footprinting and crystallographic analysis have revealed identities and structures of some intermediates in the initiation pathway (Davis et al., 2007; Murakami and Darst, 2003; Sclavi et al., 2005). After initiation, elongation complexes have been reported to release or retain 70 to varying degrees (Bar-Nahum and Nudler, 2001; Deighan et al., 2011; Kapanidis et al., 2005). Some bacterial promoters are dependent on the less studied 54 subunit (Buck et al., 2000; Joly et al., 2012), the major alternative factor in many bacterial species. 54 is nonhomologous with 70 (Merrick, 1993), and 54 RNAP has functional properties distinct from RNAPs containing other factors. Gene expression by 54RNAP requires activator ATPases, which bind to promoter-distal enhancer DNA sequences (Buck et al., 2000; Popham et al., 1989; Wigneshweraraj et al., 2008). Environmental cues turn on specific activators that, in turn, enhance transcription initiation at one or more 54-dependent promoters (Reitzer and Schneider, 2001). Here, we studied the prototypical 54 promoter of the operon, at which initiation is activated by the NtrC activator protein in response to low environmental nitrogen (Magasanik, 1996). 54RNAP binds at this promoter to form transcriptionally silent (Ninfa et al., 1987; Sasse-Dwight and Gralla, 1988) closed complexes in which DNA remains base-paired (Popham et al., 1989). When ATP and NtrC (either the phosphorylated wild-type protein or a constitutively active mutant; Klose et al., 1993) are added, 54RNAP melts a short DNA segment, forming long-lived open promoter complexes (Popham et al., 1989; Wedel and Kustu, 1995). Subsequent addition of nucleoside triphosphates (NTPs) enables the polymerase to begin transcript synthesis and depart the promoter. The NtrC/54 system is of particular interest because though biochemically more simple, it nonetheless recapitulates key functional properties of large classes of eukaryotic RNAP II promoters that are activated through transcriptional enhancers and enhancer binding proteins (Lin et al., 2005; Sasse-Dwight and 3-Methyladenine Gralla, 1990). These properties include the formation of transcriptionally quiet unactivated RNAP-promoter complexes, the 3-Methyladenine requirement for an ATPase to open the transcription bubble, 3-Methyladenine conversion of inactive to active transcription factors by posttranslational modification, and.
Background: Rare duplicate number variations (CNVs) were mixed up in etiology
Background: Rare duplicate number variations (CNVs) were mixed up in etiology of neuropsychiatric disorders, plus some of them were shared risk elements for a number of different diseases. duplications, and inversions in your community. Two well known syndromes, Prader-Willi symptoms (PWS) and Angelman symptoms (AS), may actually talk about the same distal breakpoint (BP3) at 15q13.3 among all complete instances, whereas the proximal breakpoints differ (BP1 and BP2 at 15q11.2).20C22 Another research22 figured AS children using the deletion including 15q11.2 were much more likely to meet requirements for autism, had lower cognitive ratings and lower expressive vocabulary ratings. BMS-345541 HCl The deletions, which affected genes criteria; (2) the age of all cases was from 18 to 65 y; and (3) all cases had at least 2-season psychiatry background. The topics had been excluded if (1) that they had additional diseases, such as for example hypertension and diabetes; or (2) these were biologically linked to another research participant; or (3) if indeed they got IQ < 70. Regular controls had been chosen from arbitrary inhabitants. Volunteers who replied to a created invitation finished the evaluation of health background, supplemented by queries about psychosis and additional major complex illnesses. The questionnaires had been screened for possibly appropriate volunteers to exclude topics with main mental disease in themselves or their first-degree family members and those acquiring neuroleptic medication. Furthermore, topics had been excluded if indeed they had been diagnosed for additional illnesses obviously, such as cancers, diabetes, and hypertension etc. Settings with IQ BMS-345541 HCl < 70 had been excluded. DNA was extracted from peripheral bloodstream samples from the topics using industrial kits (QuickGene-610L, Fujifilm). Collection, storage space, and extraction of samples had been identical between settings and instances. CNV Testing Strategies Affymetrix SNP6 and 500K.0 Chip. Section of our schizophrenia instances and controls had been genotyped by GeneChip Mapping 500K Assay (Affymetrix) with an increase of than 500?000 Genome-Wide and SNPs Human SNP Array 6.0 (Affymetrix) with an increase of than 906?600 SNP probes and a lot more than 946?000 copy number probes. Most of chip data had been generated in-house, and tests were executed relative to producers process BMS-345541 HCl strictly. Additionally, we discarded those examples with SNP contact rate significantly less than 95%. We also examined for possible contaminants and cryptic relatedness by PLINK and eliminated susceptible examples. Finally, 155 instances and 187 settings genotyped by Affymetrix 500K potato chips with the average achievement price 98.64% of genotyping were contained in the following CNV calling by software program Partek and double checked by Software Genotyping Console (GTC2.1, Affymetrix).28 Five hundred and forty-two cases and 2961 controls were genotyped by Affymetrix SNP6.0 chips, and CNVs were called by PennCNV. Five hundred and one cases and 2830 controls remained in the following analysis after excluding samples that had LRR (the log R Ratio) SD > 0.35, BAF (the B Allele Frequency) median > 0.6 or < 0.4, and BAF drift > 0.01. We excluded any CNV calls overlapping with chr15: 13.6C18.9 Mb by more than 50% of its length. We also ignored CNV calls less than 100 BMS-345541 HCl kb in length and with less than 10 probes. Real-Time PCR (SYBR Green-Based RT-PCR). A primer list can be found in supplementary table S1. gene was chosen as endogenous control in this study. A standard curve for each primer was determined by a set of diluted standard DNA in order to make sure the efficiency of primers (Supplementary figure S1). polymerase chain reaction (PCR) reactions using Ctsl SYBR Green Dye were run according to standard protocol. For each primer, 4 independent replication experiments of 1 1 sample were carried out to ensure BMS-345541 HCl the results. One thousand four hundred and sixty-two cases and 262 controls were screened, and 1402 cases and 258 controls were successfully genotyped. CNVs from RT-PCR Ct data were detected as follow: the relative quantity is denoted by Ct of a certain pair of primers subtracting that of the gene of the.
We describe an individual with severe center failing after pacemaker implantation
We describe an individual with severe center failing after pacemaker implantation shortly. was verified by recovery of ventricular function within weeks. A debate and overview of the books on Takotsubo cardiomyopathy pursuing pacemaker implantation is normally presented. Case statement A 61-year-old female was referred to our division for issues of dizziness and near-syncope. She had went to the neurological outpatient medical center earlier, where hyperventilation syndrome was diagnosed. An ECG had not been performed until she was referred to our division. She was not on any medicines, physical exam was unremarkable, her ECG showed third-degree AV block (Fig.?1a), WAY-100635 laboratory investigations were normal and echocardiography showed normal left and ideal ventricular function without valvular disease (Fig.?2a). She was admitted and 5?days later on she underwent an uncomplicated DDDR-pacemaker implantation (Medtronic Advisa MRI SureScan). Fig. 1 Electrocardiograms. a ECG at demonstration showed a sinus tachycardia of 120?bpm having a third-degree AV block and an escape rhythm of 40?bpm. b ECG during Takotsubo cardiomyopathy after pacemaker implantation showed sinus rhythm of 75?bpm … Fig. 2 Echocardiograms. Apical four-chamber views. a End-systolic echocardiogram before pacemaker implantation. b End-systolic echocardiogram during Takotsubo cardiomyopathy shortly after pacemaker implantation; notice the hyperdynamic basis and dyskinetic apical … However, the following morning she developed chest pain and orthopnoea with a raised central venous pressure and basal crepitations. Her ECG showed sinus rhythm with ventricular pacing (Fig.?1b). Chest radiography excluded pneumothorax and showed normal lead position; however, some pulmonary oedema was noticed. Pacemaker interrogation was unremarkable but echocardiography exposed a severely stressed out remaining ventricular function with apical ballooning and hyperdynamic basal segments (Fig.?2b). Creatine kinase-MB (10?g/l, WAY-100635 upper limit of normal (ULN) <7) and troponin T (0.31?g/l, ULN?<?0.01) were also raised but direct coronary angiography documented normal coronary flow <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=gene&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=full_report&list_uids=22631">Ywhaz and no coronary sclerosis. By exclusion of other diagnoses, pacemaker implantation-induced Takotsubo cardiomyopathy was considered to be the cause of this acute onset of heart failure. Accordingly, she was treated with a beta blocker, ACE inhibitor and diuretics. The left ventricular function improved over several days, and she could be discharged. After 3?weeks, her left ventricular function had returned to normal (Fig.?2c), the heart failure medication was discontinued, and she remained well during follow-up after 3 and 9?months. Discussion and review of the literature In 1980 the human equivalent of stress cardiomyopathy, which was earlier described in animal experiments, was recognised [3]. In the 1990s a similar entity was identified in Japan and related to temporal myocardial stunning due to coronary spasm [4, 5]. Interestingly, the typically seen apical ballooning mirrored the appearance of a Japanese pot with a round body and a small neck used to trap octopus, also known as a Takotsubo (Tako is octopus, tsubo is trap). Hence, this clinical picture became WAY-100635 known as Takotsubo cardiomyopathy in addition to the often-used apical ballooning syndrome. This intriguing entity is now more frequently recognised [6, 7] and appears to relate to an inappropriate cardiac response to excess catecholamines, almost exclusively in (post-menopausal) women. The presentation of patients with Takotsubo often mirrors an acute coronary syndrome with chest pain, dyspnoea, Q waves, ST deviations, T wave abnormalities and raised cardiac biomarkers. In addition, transient wall motion abnormalities (not related to a single coronary lesion) and, typically, apical ballooning with a hyperdynamic basis are present. The concomitant absence of atherosclerosis at coronary angiography makes the diagnosis of Takotsubo much more likely. Feature is its short-term nature [5]. To determine the current encounter with pacemaker-induced Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, a PubMed overview of the books was performed. The search was utilized by us term; (takotsubo cardiomyopathy[MeSH Conditions] OR apical ballooning[Text message Term] OR Takotsubo[Name]) AND (Pacemaker[Text message Term] OR pacemaker, artificial[MeSH Conditions]) AND British[Vocabulary]. Requirements for inclusion had been (we).
Background The goal of this study was to look for the
Background The goal of this study was to look for the prevalence and risk factors for cervical squamous intraepithelial lesions (SIL) among women infected with individual immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) receiving care on the Federal INFIRMARY Makurdi, Nigeria. discovered among HIV-1-contaminated women in Makurdi, Nigeria. Increased immune suppression and HIV-1 viremia are significantly associated with cervical SIL. value on univariate analysis was 0.25 or less. < 0.05 was considered to be statistically significant. BRL 52537 HCl Results The mean age of the 253 participants was 34.2 6.4 (range 20C60) years. The median number of lifetime sexual partners was five (range 0C60), and 107 (42.3%) women had a prior history of sexually transmitted contamination (Table 1). A total of 104 (41.1%) participants in the study were on HAART, with a mean duration of use CACNB2 of 16 2 (range 1C36) months. The predominant HAART regimen was lamivudine, stavudine, and nevirapine (67.3%), while zidovudine, lamivudine, and nevirapine was the regimen used by 26% of the patients. Other regimens were being taken by 6.7% of the patients. The median CD4 count was 174 (range 12C1468) cell/mm3. HIV-1 RNA levels were detectable in 205 (81.0%) women, with a median detectable level of 64,786 (range 426C1,854,296) copies/mL. There were 146 (57.7%) women with abnormal cervical cytology. Of these, 101 (39.9%) women had BRL 52537 HCl atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance. SIL was present in 45 (17.8%) women. Among the women with SIL, low-grade SIL and high-grade SIL was present in 16 (6.3%) and 29 (11.5%) of cases, respectively. No case of invasive cervical cancer was identified. Table 1 Key sociodemographic characteristics and risk elements for squamous intraepithelial lesions in 253 ladies in Makurdi, Nigeria, contaminated with HIV-1a The mean age group of individuals with SIL was 36 7 years weighed against 33 5 BRL 52537 HCl years for females without SIL (= 0.009; Desk 2). Nevertheless, the parity of individuals was equivalent in both groups. Females with SIL didn’t have a lot more life time sexual companions and had prices of background of sexually sent infections similar compared to that of the ladies without SIL. Also, cigarette smoking and mean length on HAART had been similar in females with and without SIL (Desk 2). Females with SIL got a median Compact disc4 cell count BRL 52537 HCl number of 132 BRL 52537 HCl cells/mm3 weighed against 184 cells/mm3 for all those without SIL (= 0.03). The HIV-1 RNA viral fill was also considerably higher in females with SIL weighed against that in females without SIL (102,705 versus 64,391 copies/mL, respectively; = 0.002, Desk 2). Desk 2 Demographic features and chosen risk elements for HIV-1 contaminated females with and without squamous intraepithelial lesions in Makurdi, Nigeriaa (n = 253) The outcomes from the multivariate analyses are shown in Desk 3. Having altered for various other determinants, the chance of most types of SIL was considerably connected with a Compact disc4 count number < 200 cells/mm3 and HIV-1 RNA viral fill >10,000 copies/mL. Low Compact disc4 count number <200 cells/mm3 and HIV-1 RNA viral fill >10,000 copies/mL continued to be significantly connected with SIL when the factors were examined for threat of either low-grade SIL by itself or high-grade SIL by itself. Desk 3 Multivariate evaluation of risk elements for cervical SIL among HIV-1 contaminated ladies in Makurdi, Nigeria Dialogue During the start from the HIV epidemic, HIV-infected females who got cervical individual papillomavirus infections and SIL often died of Helps prior to developing intrusive cervical cancer. Nevertheless,.
Epigenetics is a system that regulates gene manifestation from the underlying
Epigenetics is a system that regulates gene manifestation from the underlying DNA series independently, counting on the chemical substance modification of DNA and histone proteins instead. offspring. These lately discovered areas of epigenetics give a new idea of medical genetics. History Until lately, in medical genetics, epigenetics was a field, which two uncommon hereditary phenomena (genomic imprinting and X-chromosome inactivation (XCI)) had been the main elements under investigation. Predicated on the results linked to these phenomena, epigenetic disorders had been regarded as very rare. Nevertheless, as epigenetics is becoming popular, it is rolling out into a large study field that stretches Tofacitinib citrate beyond genetics, encompassing not merely medication and biology, but nutrition also, education, health insurance and cultural sciences. It right now shows up that epigenetics bridges both major disease-causing elements (environmental and hereditary) in medication. Therefore, it’s time to review epigenetics in the light of latest results. With this review, we explain the epigenetic mechanisms that cause congenital disorders, show examples of environmental factors that can alter the epigenetic status, and discuss recent topics in epigenetics, such as the possibility of its inheritance and the use of epigenetic strategies for the treatment of diseases. Epigenetics: a field that bridges genetic and environmental factors It has long been thought that environmental Tofacitinib citrate and genetic factors are involved in Tofacitinib citrate the pathogenesis of common diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and psychiatric disorders [1-5]. For instance, environmental factors, such as drugs, viral infection, toxins and vaccines were proposed to be associated with the recent increase in the frequency of autism [6-9]. In the meantime, a number of genes related to autism have been identified, which are mutated in a subset of autistic children. Most of these genes encode synaptic proteins, including synaptic scaffolding proteins, receptors, transporters, and cell-adhesion molecules [10,11]. A recent comprehensive study confirmed that there were differences between autistic and control brains in the expression levels of genes encoding synaptic proteins and proteins related to inflammation [12]. Based on these findings, autism is now considered as a ‘synaptogenesis disorder’ [13,14],, and designated ‘synaptic autism’ [15] (Figure ?(Figure1,1, left). Figure 1 Genetic and epigenetic understanding of autism. Either de novo mutations in synaptic genes, congenital abnormalities of epigenetic control (for example, Rett syndrome), or acquired alterations of epigenetic control induced by various environmental factors … It was lately reported that short-term mental tension due to maternal separation through the neonatal period alters the epigenetic position from the glucocorticoid receptor (Gr) promoter in the rat hippocampus, that leads to adjustments in gene manifestation. This modified epigenetic position and irregular gene manifestation persisted throughout existence, and led to irregular behavior [16]. This locating led us to posit a fresh paradigm where epigenetics links genetics to environmental technology [16]. Since that time, similar observations have already been reported [17,18], and epigenetics is currently regarded as an intrinsic system that bridges the distance between environmental and hereditary elements (Shape ?(Shape1,1, correct). The Rabbit polyclonal to Sp2. 1st epigenetic phenomena to become connected with disorders Genomic imprinting and XCI had been the 1st two epigenetic phenomena found out in mammals. Genomic imprinting can be a unique hereditary phenomenon where only 1 of two parental alleles can be expressed, as the additional allele can be suppressed. These genes are known as ‘imprinted genes’; the word ‘imprinting’ identifies a parent-of-origin particular epigenetic tag for suppression. Imprinting is known as to be always a reversible system, as the suppressed allele ought to be reactivated during gametogenesis when it’s transmitted to following generation. For example, the gene for Tofacitinib citrate little nuclear ribonucleoprotein polypeptide N (SNRPN) is expressed from the paternal allele [19,20], Tofacitinib citrate however the maternally suppressed allele ought to be energetic during spermatogenesis when the allele can be transmitted to another era via the man gamete. This trend could not become interpreted by the most common genetic mechanisms, like a modification in the DNA series (that’s, mutation), but could be described by reversible epigenetic systems based on chemical substance modifications, such as for example DNA methylation. Actually, differential DNA methylation.
Checkpoint controls, the surveillance pathways that impose an order of execution
Checkpoint controls, the surveillance pathways that impose an order of execution on the major cell cycle events, are critical to the maintenance of genome stability. for vertebrate cells. gene must be actively transcribed during the arrest to maintain a Rabbit polyclonal to Smad7. constant level of Cdc20 protein,20 so that during recovery, cells can rapidly degrade securin, clearing the way for dissolution of sister-chromatid cohesion and progression to anaphase. transcription is under the control of a transcription repressor Yox121,22 which keeps Cdc20 levels very low during S phase. However, upon mitotic onset, Yox1 abundance declines and gene is actively transcribed. This study shows that Cdk1 negatively regulates transcription, thus keeping the intracellular levels of Yox1 low and, in turn, promoting the transcription of transcription. In the absence of Cdk1 activity, it would be virtually difficult for cells to recuperate through the SAC-induced arrest and continue cell cycle development. Shape?1. Cdk1 in the recovery from spindle set up checkpoint-mediated arrest. Cdk1 takes on two important jobs through the cells recovery from SAC-induced arrest in candida. It (1) prevents untimely expansion from the mitotic spindle to permit … A restored perspective Posttranslational rules is generally regarded as the simplest way of eliciting a rapid response to changing cellular landscape during mitosis. It is, therefore, interesting that Cdk1 ensures efficient recovery from SAC-induced arrest by mediating the Narlaprevir maintenance of Cdc20 via a transcriptional cascade. This transcription regulation is effected through the Cdk1-mediated suppression of the transcription of YOX1, itself a transcriptional suppressor of CDC20.21,22 Yox1, like Cdc20, is also an unstable protein such that suppression of its transcription results in rapid loss of Yox1 protein, which in turn leads to sustained Cdc20 expression. Hence it is a combination of proteolytic destruction and transcription relay-regulation that sustains the level of Cdc20 during the mitotic arrest for an efficient recovery at a later time. The yeast study also brings to light a negative correlation between spindle length and bi-orientation efficiency, which had been Narlaprevir hinted at by an earlier report.23 The shorter spindles are more efficient in establishing bi-orientation than longer spindles and the physical distance between the SPBs and the kinetochores appear to be the determining factor. The yeast study also reveals that the short spindle (~2 M in length) assembled during the initial phase in recovery has a propensity to elongate and must be actively suppressed by Cdk1 if cells were to efficiently establish bi-orientation. However, Cdk1s role in restraining spindle elongation in the initial phase to facilitate bi-orientation is surprising in view of the well-established notion that Cdk1 promotes spindle elongation during anaphase.24 How can the elongation suppressive activity of Cdk1 be reconciled with its elongation-conducive role during anaphase B? It has been shown that Ase1 is dephosphorylated by Cdc14 in early anaphase;17 as a result, Cin8 is continually recruited to the spindle midzone where it catalyzes spindle elongation. During this time, Cdc14-mediated dephosphorylation steadily models in movement the activation of Cdh1 also,25 an activator of APC which goals Cin8 for proteolytic devastation.26 Cdk1 is a potent inhibitor of Cdh1 and, in conjunction Narlaprevir with polo-like kinase Cdc5, may mediate Cin8 accumulation.27 Therefore, Cdk1s role in spindle Narlaprevir elongation during anaphase B might lie in its capability to inhibit Cdh1 and stabilize Cin8. Thus, what is apparently a change from Cdk1s elongation-suppressive to elongation-conducive function is not actually a change but is a big change in the physiological manifestation of its activity due to the rising inter-locking.
Infections are serious risks to human being and animal health. escaped
Infections are serious risks to human being and animal health. escaped RNAi after 3 to 20 consecutive passages. The genetic modifications involved CHEK2 consisted of solitary or multiple point nucleotide mutations and a deletion of a extend GSK256066 of six nucleotides, illustrating that this disease has an unusual genomic malleability. Intro Since the finding of antibiotics by Fleming in 1929 (20) and their generalized use against bacterial infections, viruses have become the major risks to human being and animal health. A very limited quantity of antiviral treatments are available to control viral infections. In the past 20 years, several major pandemics of growing or reemerging diseases occurred, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in humans (4, 51), H5N1 influenza in humans and poultry (6), and foot-and-mouth disease (35) and bluetongue (16) in ruminants. Though vaccines can prevent viral diseases, only antiviral medicines offer a restorative solution when the infection is already present. Today, one of the main difficulties for virologists is definitely to develop effective treatments. Current medicines are restricted by many factors, such as toxicity, complexity, cost, and the capacity of viruses to obtain level of resistance (10). Among brand-new antiviral therapies explored before a decade, RNA disturbance (RNAi) continues to be the concentrate of intensive analysis because it is normally a natural natural procedure in eukaryotic cells that may be diverted towards the control of trojan replication (19). Little interfering RNAs (siRNAs) action by knocking down the appearance of the gene soon after its transcription. This downregulation of posttranslational gene appearance outcomes from an enzymatic degradation of mRNA that occurs in the cell cytoplasm near to the nuclear skin pores (19, 43). The capability of artificial siRNAs to inhibit viral creation was first set up by presenting siRNAs in to the cytoplasm of cultured cells (15). Subsequently, achievement with siRNAs against several viruses on the lab level resulted in the hope these substances could revolutionize antiviral therapy in human beings and pets (18, 33, 38, 40, 45). Nevertheless, the introduction of effective RNAi-based therapeutics encounters substantial issues. Two of the very most important problems are (i) the introduction of efficacious delivery systems (11, 52, 58) and (ii) the chance of introduction of resistant infections (9, 57). Level of resistance can be had by genetic deviation in infections (mutation, deletion, recombination, and reassortment) as the activity of siRNAs is normally tightly GSK256066 sequence reliant. Thus, an individual nucleotide mutation can abrogate the antiviral impact. RNA viruses have got a higher propensity to change their genomes and find level of resistance to siRNAs due to the high mistake prices of viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (42). To conquer this nagging issue, current approaches derive from the usage of an assortment of artificial siRNAs against different conserved genome focuses on (7, 50). Morbilliviruses consist of many pathogens of human beings (measles disease [MV]) and terrestrial and sea mammals (canine distemper disease [CDV], rinderpest disease [RPV], peste des petits ruminants disease [PPRV], phocid distemper disease [PDV], and dolphin and porpoise morbilliviruses) (2). Vaccines are for sale to many of these illnesses, but they aren’t generalized, and every full yr a large number of humans and little ruminants die. The genomes of morbilliviruses possess good RNA series conservation and so are even more steady than those of additional RNA infections; they have around mutation price of 6.2 10?4 substitutions/site/yr. As a result, the morbillivirus clades diverged from one another probably in the 11th to 12th generations for the divergence between RPV and MV and in the 1st hundred years for the GSK256066 divergence between PPRV and RPV/MV (21, 46). Among the six genes of the viruses, probably the most translated may be the N gene, encoding the nucleoprotein, which takes on a pivotal part in viral nucleic proteins and acidity synthesis, disease replication, and genome encapsidation (1). Taking into consideration the comparative stability from the morbillivirus genome and the actual fact that three energetic siRNAs had been previously determined in probably GSK256066 the most conserved parts of the N genes of morbilliviruses (36, 49), we hypothesized that GSK256066 the capability from the virus to escape siRNA would.
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Screen capture of the BBC web site, via Pink News (click to enlarge)
It’s hard to imagine any reputable news outlet posing such a question, but that’s what the BBC asked in an online “Have Your Say” forum late yesterday. And to make matters worse, BBC’s editors have defended the decision.
But in response to the furor the the question sparked on Twitter, the internet, and among the forums own respondents, BBC’s editors have since changed the question. It now reads “Should Uganda debate gay execution?” The forum is now closed for comments, but from the outrage expressed by many respondents, it appears that virtually all of them were responding to the original question, “Should homosexuals face execution?”
Most of the comments appear to be a resounding “no!” But there are a few along the lines of this one, from “NF” of Alberta, Canada:
Can I move to Uganda? At least one country in the world is taking moral values seriously (as well as the health of their citizens). It may sound extreme, but that shock value will allow more people to think about their actions beforehand.
And another one from Freetown (no country given):
Bravo to the Ugandians for this wise decision, a bright step in eliminating this menace from your society. We hope other African nations will also follow your bold step.
Next question: Should Kosovars be rounded up an shot?
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Freetown is the capital of Sierra Leone, West Africa. i am not suprised by that comment although ironically the guy’s hometown was founded by freed american slaves.
How about this for a topic:
Following President Ahmadinejad’s comments we ask “Should Isreal be Wiped Off the Map?”
Of course, this would never happen as to even ask such a question would be to legitimise it.
And if you read the comments thread, it’s clear that some of the worst comments got through the moderator and were only removed after the sh!t hit the fan.
As an aside, I also note that no Ugandan MP is proposing a law to introduce the death penalty for corruption.
1930s BBC:
“Should Jews be rounded up and sent to concentration camps? Yes, we accept it is a stark and disturbing question. But this is the reality behind the current rise of the Hitler’s Germany, where Jews will face death by gas chambers.
Has Germany gone too far? Should there be any level of legislation against Judaism? Should Jews be protected by legislation as they are in the United States? What would be the consequences of this bill to you? How will Jews be monitored? Send us your views.”
Thank you so much, Jim, for all the work you are doing to expose this stuff.
Take a look at this Exodus Global Alliance newsletter (available online at
http://www.exodusglobalalliance.org/files/2008Issue2_284.pdf) and you’ll see the ex-gay movement “educating” medical students in places like Uganda and Rwanda (as well as Sundan, which currently allows the death penalty for homosexuality).
Donnchadh
Some of the brighter anti-gay activists may be aware that talking about gay marriage, even campaigning against it, means bringing the concept to the wider public. Once that happens, people will inevitably come to see it a possibility, and may even start considering it in rational terms. Uganda’s bill has brought the reverse of this. Most people in the West will dismiss it at a sign of an immature democracy, but in other countries it might yet gain traction. And even telling them why it is wrong is telling them that someone has done it, and making it into a more serious option. It’s a double bind.
Hm. I guess I’m in the minority, but I think the question “Should Homosexuals Face Execution?†is fascinating, and I really wish I could see what the results of the BBC poll turned out to be.
I’m a gay man, and I feel that we’re sometimes too delicate in our rhetoric when it comes to debating and discussing gay issues. I’m tired of hearing people who oppose something perfectly fair and reasonable, such as same-sex marriage–or even civil unions–claim that they are not bigots. I think it would be useful to get our opponents to acknowledge that bigots _exist_, and that every time they make an argument opposing gay rights, it behooves them to explain what the difference is between their position and a bigot’s position. Eventually, it will become clear that for many issues, there isn’t a difference.
Proposition 8 passed in California with a 52.3% majority. Most of the people who voted for Prop 8 probably don’t support the execution of homosexuals. But some of the millions of voters surely do. How many? If, for example, 2.301% of the electorate happen to believe that, then it’s worth pointing out that the only reason same-sex marriage is illegal is because of the support of people who want to kill gays.
Maggie Gallagher and Rick Warren, for example, probably really honestly believe that they are not bigots. They should know that their initiatives would never have passed without the support of repugnant bigots, and they should feel pressured to distance themselves from these bigots _every_ _time_ they talk.
This is not to say that the BBC poll was well-constructed. Polls that involve self-selection are statistically irrelevant. But the idea that it’s somehow inappropriate to examine the _extreme_ hate that’s out there allows too many people to hold the comfortable belief that extremist hatred doesn’t exist.
Very good, Phil. As i wrote in another context, in reasponse to this comment:
“The most egregious of this is the issue of hating gays. Nothing could be further from the truth.”
Of course you don’t hate us and this isn’t about bigotry. you love us. It’s the christian thing to do. You don’t hate anyone. Honestly, you don’t. The Biblical message is all about compassion, about loving your neighbor and all that. You love homosexuals. You really do. You just hate our same-sex-lusting,public-fornicating, child molesting, disease spreading, marriage ruining, family wrecking, military compromising, religious freedom hating, god detesting, Christian disparaging, faith villifying, society-endangering ways. And really now, where’s the hate in that? Of course, you want to call it love instead of hate because hate is, well, so hateful.
JimInMa
Should bigots face execution?
Should blacks face execution?
Should asians face execution?
Should people face execution?
Somehow that last statement had gotten munged on the way to being published.
The last statement originally read:
“Should religion-other-than-your-own people face execution”
Richard Rush
It’s fascinating to hear this often-used phrase: “As Christians we are called upon to love the homosexual.”
It’s obvious that their “love” is just a performance. They have memorized a script. And that’s part of why they can easily support draconian policies with a clear conscience and a smile. They can view themselves as good people doing what is necessary for the benefit of homosexuals and society. And, of course, it emboldens them to know their policies are stamped “DEITY APPROVED.”
I do believe there are people out there capable of promoting extermination with a loving smile.
Phil said:
“I think the question “Should Homosexuals Face Execution?†is fascinating”
I’m sure that any homosexual hanging from a tree will be gratified in their final moments by the thought that you find the morality of their death a such stimulating topic.
Ivan-
What are you saying? I think you’re misunderstanding my statement. Otherwise, I interpret your post to mean that homosexuals hanging from trees would rather their deaths go unmentioned.
That said, I didn’t mean to suggest that I find the executions of people merely to be stimulating. However, all communication is symbolic; an interrogative sentence about death is not the same as a death. The fact that people often confuse words with what they represent does not make it so.
The BBC actually asked the question, “Should homosexuals face execution?”–really? How bizarre! And how completely in line with something I am genuinely curious about: How many people believe that gay people should face execution?
Timothy (TRiG)
The Guardian wasn’t impressed.
Honestly I rather liked that they didn’t beat around the bush. Let people see the naked disgusting truth of the measure being debated in Uganda, so that it can be rejected so clearly the way it ought to be, instead of dancing around and trying to pretend that it’s simply not the “best” way of dealing with the “issue.”
Désirée
On its face, the question was completely out of line. I would like to think however (not that I give the BBC credit to have the cleverness or intelligence to come up with this) that the question was posed in such a way as to point out the disgusting nature of what Uganda is doing, to present it in as harsh a light as possible, to in fact highlight the idea that debating the legal execution of a group of people is simply unconscionable. By framing the question in its purist form, eliminating any Uganda reference, they forced the bigots out and showed them to be in line with those who would support gassing Jews or lynching blacks. Or, at least, were they actually that sneaky and clever, they would have, instead of just bungling the whole thing and making themselves look like idiots and bigots themselves. | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355780 |
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How to Extend a Property
With Stamp Duty at 3% for properties worth more than £250,000, estate agent fees usually between 1% and 2% of a sale price, and removals and decorating costs as long as the proverbial piece of string, it is easy to see why many home owners are turning to extensions as a way of increasing space and value to their property.
Extensions & Planning
For further reading it would be wortha visit here: www.planningportal.gov.uk/permission/commonprojects/extensions
To summarise...
1 No more than half the area of land around the "original house" can be covered by additions or other buildings.
2 No extension can be forward of the principal elevation or side elevation fronting a highway.
3 No extension can be higher than the highest part of the roof.
4 A single-storey rear extension must not extend beyond the rear wall of the original house by more than three metres, if an attached house, or by four metres, if a detached house.
5 The maximum height of a single-storey rear extension is four metres.
6 Extensions of more than one storey must not extend beyond the rear wall of the original house by more than three metres.
7 The maximum eaves height of an extension within two metres of the boundary is three metres.
8 The maximum eaves and ridge height of an extension is to be no higher than the existing house.
9 Side extensions are to be single storey with a maximum height of four metres and a width of no more than half that of the original house.
10 Two-storey extensions can be no closer than seven metres to the rear boundary.
11 The roof pitch of extensions higher than one storey have to match the existing house.
12 Materials are to be similar in appearance to those used on the existing house.
13 No verandas, balconies or raised platforms are allowed.
14 On the upper-floor, side-facing windows have to be obscure-glazed and any opening needs to be 1.7m above the floor.
15 On designated land - no permitted development for rear extensions of more than one storey.
16 On designated land - no cladding of the exterior.
17 On designated land - no side extensions.
Next - Single & Multiple Storey Extensions
Use Planning Guidance
All of the advice you will need is included at the link on the left. The Planning Portal also has a useful downloadable pdf that details the requirements.
extensions.pdf
Restrictions?
An extension isn't just extra space. Neither is it necessarily an identity lacking addition to a building.
Depending on local plans and regulations, planning departments can be open to imaginative ideas. The examples above include a full height glass extension and an 18th century top floor addition to a farmhouse. | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355791 |
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Bulldog stories
The true believers
'There's always next year': goodbye to 2011
Days like these: the preliminary final, 1997
Calling all Bulldog stories
A win on foreign soil
I couldn't shake a sense of nervous apprehension before the game. A tension, a foreboding. And soon enough my worst fears and suspicions were confirmed.
Yes, the Commentary Non-Dream Team - Messrs Ricciuto, Dunstall and Russell - had assembled for our match against Port.
Pumped, primed. ready, willing and depressingly able, to provide zero insight, and shamelessly one-sided 'analysis'. Their inane drivel would be, alas, my only lifeline to a match being played hundreds of kilometres away.
I could maybe cope with the partiality that the unashamedly parochial local men, Ricciuto and Russell, brought to the table. It was harder to deal with the fact that there was barely one insight, perceptive comment or well-placed statistic that could make you see the match in a different light; no thoughtful reflection on how things were unfolding. You would scarcely credit that two of these men had been greats of the game. (The third was, of course, Dwayne Russell).
I was labouring under extra disadvantage in my dependence on the Non-Dream Team. Staying up the coast on the long weekend I could only access the game through the Foxtel app on my ipad. It was difficult enough to make sense of the small shadowy figures flitting around the small screen and try to grasp the ebb and flow of the match; the tedious and often ludicrous Foxtel commentary offered no help at all in those endeavours.
Surely in these days of technological innovation, there should be some alternative to these mugs. An instant 'google translate'-type feature; or even better a 'red white and blue' (aka RWB Channel) option in Foxtel settings, where Bulldogs' supporters could instead tune into much more insightful commentary by Brad Johnson, Barry Hall, and - why not? - the Bulldog Tragician. (I think it's time for me to extend my influence and become a multi-media personality).
Barry Hall and Brad Johnson show elation as they learn of the new commentary channel 'RWB' and their esteemed new colleague.
Just think about it. You could switch off Dwayne (what sort of name is that anyway?), Ricciuto (who sounds like Dermott Brereton. This is not a compliment) and Dunstall (probably the best of a very poor bunch). Instead of fuming when ten minutes are taken up in an endless analysis of whether a free to Port had been missed, Channel RWB subscribers would be savouring a loving frame-by-frame replay of The Bont tapping the ball to his advantage to create a magnificent goal. (Maybe even an interview with his grandmother at quarter time).
You wouldn't have to withstand hysterical commentary about the (alleged) excitement machine in the Port forward line. So often did they use the phrase that I began to believe there was a Port player whose name was actually Charlie Dixon-Lurking. Port kicked it constantly in the direction of Charlie Dixon-Lurking, who reasonably frequently got his hand somewhere near the ball (WITHOUT ACTUALLY MARKING IT - sorry, Non-Dream Team, I thought that was the point of forwards).
But instead of hearing the commentary team's shouts of pre-emptive ecstasy at the prospect of Charlie Dixon-Lurking actually clunking one at last, you would instead hear the calm, measured tones of RWB Channel.
'That's a clever mark to Matthew Boyd, reading the play well, while Charlie Dixon, who's been a largely disappointing recruit for Port, flapped around uselessly some metres behind the ball. What did you think, Tragician?'
You'd be insulated from Dwayne's shrieks of infatuation as the ball launched into what he alone, despite all evidence to the contrary, labelled 'Dixon territory', but to the appreciative listeners of RWB channel, was more accurately described as unattended space in which three Bulldogs defenders could gather to move the ball briskly away and launch a scoring opportunity.
In fairness Dwayne's raptures around Charlie Dixon-Lurking even made him oblivious to any good work by The Hyphenated One's team-mates. You might have thought at one point a mark by Ollie Wines was the result of his own smart play and hard work. Dwayne alone saw it differently - it was in actuality some superb decoy work by C-D-L in dragging his opponent out of the square. Or as RWB listeners in their parallel universe might have heard:
'Well, Barry, Charlie Dixon led to the wrong spot and was overlooked for the footy.'
I shouldn't save all my venom for Dwayne alone, however (though it's fun). He was more than amply supported by Ricciuto, who was keen to point out that three of Port's defenders were injured (Jason Dunstall eventually did chip in to advise Ricciuto that the Dogs' men's department was somewhat depleted of late). I guess you can't expect Ricciuto to have done any research or preparation and exhibit any awareness of automatic inclusions such as our captain Murphy, vice-captain Wood, ball-winning magnet Johannisen and Marcus Adams.
Ricciuto made a Nostradamus-style prediction at half time that it would be tough for the Dogs to get back into it. Perhaps a tad harsh given that WE WERE ACTUALLY IN FRONT.
Early in the third quarter, with Power ten points ahead in what had been a fierce, absorbing contest, Ricciuto pronounced that the Dogs were 'on the ropes' and 'just don't look like scoring.' (We kicked the next three).
One of these goals, a superb snap by Libber, was greeted with funereal silence by the Foxtel crew. I've rarely heard such clear deflation, bordering on depression as their preferred narrative hit a speed-hump. As the replay was shown, Ricciuto finally mustered the ungracious view that it had been 'opportunistic'.
Not long after, Jake Stringer sustained a knock to the head when sandwiched in a tackle. Only our man Ricciuto could see it differently, even when several replays showed Jake, standing upright in the tackle, clashing heads with a Port player. 'That's what happens when you duck your head,' opined Ricciuto, who, it appears, has had one too many knocks to the head himself. He repeated the assertion again until even his fellow commentators became embarrassed and corrected him given the clear vision showing otherwise.
At three quarter time, with more sparkling perceptions from Ricciuto about Port's wonderful record in closing out matches, my app had begun to crash (even though I'd so far resisted the strong determination to throw the ipad at a wall). I closed it down to steady my thoughts and ponder the progress of the game so far.
I was in awe of how the Dogs had played, even though to my mind, each quarter had a different complexion. In the first, I thought we'd made a concerted effort to start well and blanket the crowd noise, and we'd succeeded, with some brilliant clearance work, sharp hands and attack on the footy. The Power hadn't wilted, however, and we seemed initially unnerved in the second quarter as they launched a ferocious counter-attack. The intensity of this quarter seemed even fiercer because I'd been at the Socceroos friendly against Greece a few days earlier. I was reminded all over again of the contrast between soccer and the sheer brutality of our game, how players get up again and again after jarring bone-jerking tackles, how relentlessly bodies are used as battering rams, how frightening and yet enthralling it can be to watch four, five, six players colliding in packs, placing head over the footy in horrifyingly dangerous places time and again.
The RWB commentary team would have been able to point out that the most significant thing about the sustained assault in the second quarter was that we'd somehow weathered it. It would have actually been fascinating to hear someone with genuine insight explain to me how, exactly, our undermanned defence - featuring 18 year-old-Bailey Williams and three other players who've appeared in less than 30 games (Biggs, Hamling and Roberts) - withstood the tide (and even contained the threat of brilliance from Charlie Dixon-Lurking). This ability to soak up an opposition period of dominance and then land a telling counter-punch is the area where we've most improved from last year. In periods of non-dominance we are no longer as fragile; remarkably given our injuries and where they've hit we are the number one defensive team.
In the third quarter, far from being 'on the ropes' as our mate Ricciuto would have it, connoisseurs of RWB Channel would have been appreciating that the Dogs were able to up the ante yet again, lifting the contested possession rate, and more importantly, and not always an area of strength for us, kick straight when we needed to.
At three quarter time, my biggest concern is that the Dogs might become overwhelmed by the rabidly intense atmosphere generated by 40,000 Port fans willing their team home. I have often thought there may be a connection with the Bulldogs' less than stellar finals record, and the fact that we get comparatively little exposure to big crowds and the intimidating atmosphere of a belligerent crowd.
I can't imagine what it's like to hear 40,000 people booing every shot at goal, screaming for free kicks; how on earth players are able to create their own mental space and only tune into their team-mates' voices and encouragement, and focus on what needs to be done.
I'm not really sure whether my Dogs, with 11 players who have played less than 50 games and with our energiser bunny Luke Dahlaus unable to take any further part, can muster the will and composure to bring this one home. But I'm relishing the chance of finding out.
Jake Stringer decides that he and he alone needed to provide our answer. As he bullocks around, a one person Man of Mayhem, he is unstoppable as he, to modify a certain phrase, tears the game apart.
While along with every other Bulldogs fan I can wish for The Lair to add consistency and four-quarter effort to his stable of tricks, there is, I have to admit, a part of me that relishes the unpredictability and dazzling nature of his intersections with the game. Like a fireworks display that briefly lights up the sky, it's about magic and an unexpected burst of colours; adjectives that you know are never going to be placed besides Jake's name are dour, workmanlike, or pedestrian. Have the Dogs ever had a player as mercurial, a one-of-a-kind matchwinner who can turn a game like quicksilver in a matter of seconds? Do we really want him to be any another way?
While these thoughts go through my mind, a different problem presents itself: the temperamental app finally splutters and dies. The Dogs are nine points up. There's far too much time to run. I've been texting my son back in Melbourne and when he hears my plight he Facetimes me and places the phone up against his TV so I can keep in touch. When Jack Redpath goals and we are still nine points up, I decide that the agony of watching it this way is too much. I hang up and opt to follow it on the AFL site. By the time it loads our lead has been cut to three points and I've no idea what's going on - no vision of the game, no sound, just a static scoreboard showing us at 94, and Port at 91. Suddenly the Bulldogs' score on the screen ticks over and we are at 100. It feels like the marauders' map in Harry Potter; a silent testament that great events have been going on while I'm stuck, adrift, apart, helpless, hoping.
Later I will see how that goal - that wonderful, match-winning goal - is constructed. The mighty tap from Roughead. Not just one, but two ferocious tackles by Libber the Second. Quick hands combining to link Wallis and then 'Celeb' Daniel. The Bont leading out, making up ground as the kick seems to veer out of his reach, grasping the mark with sheer will as he falls forward. And just as he did against Adelaide, the touch of a champion as he kicks the goal, the goal that had to be kicked.
When I return to Melbourne, I'll finally watch the game properly, with the luxurious knowledge of how it all ends and how this game, on foreign soil, was won. I'll be able to enjoy the powerful leading and marking of Jack 'First Quarter Specialist' Redpath. To notice all those little things that Jackson Macrae, heavily tagged, was able to do, celebrate his ten tackles, the bravery that he is now noted for, his unobtrusive contributions and run. To bask in another best on ground from The Bont who even by his stratospheric standards was superb in that nerve-wracking last quarter. To watch the ever-growing confidence and neat kicking of Shane 'Porn Star' Biggs, the gallantry and steely will of those backline veterans Boyd and Morris, Liam Picken's fanatical attack on ball and man, the way this team can withstand adversity and there is always someone to bob up, someone that can't be repressed any longer. To relish the will, the talent, the evenness of our contributors, the resilience of our game-plan and the ever growing self-belief of our young team.
And as the RWB commentators would like to point out (somewhat hoarsely):
'That is an enormous, gutsy, fantastic win, and another step forward in our premiership quest.
'And did you realise, listeners, that Charlie Dixon managed just three marks for the game?'
'I'm glad you mentioned that, Brad, because Tory Dickson took four.
'In fact Charlie Dixon took only one more than our 19 year old, 168 cm champ 'Celeb' Daniel. But not as many as Lachie Hunter with six, or Honeychurch and Bailey Williams who each managed five.'
'Well, that's a wrap; we're off to join the team and sing the song. We'll see you next week.'
That was hilarious!
Sign me up for RWB channel immediately.
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You are here: Wildlife Details The Lion - by Gulamabbas Mohamedali Part 1
Posted by Simba Friday, 29 December 2006 11:57
Below you will find a selection of articles written by Gulamabbas Mohamedali, a correspondent and columnist of the Tanzanian Sunday News. Please note that the articles include the opinion of the author which might not always reflect the opinion of Bushdrums.com.
Bushdrums.com would like to thank our member "Pippa" for researching and providing us with all this information.
Lions: Friendly but dangerous
The Greeting Among Lions
Efficient Killers; Lazy Hunters
Lions Maths
Lions Playtime
Animals' Sleeping habbits vary
Lions yawn when they are lying down
With his spectacular mane, majestic appearance, huge amber eyes and terrible roar, the lion is the symbol of animal power and nobility. King of the savannah, a lion can be tremendously ferocious and surprisingly gentle.
Threatened by poachers, it is the most fascinating of the great cats. For lions in Africa there are many dangers threatening their existence. Unfortunately the greatest of these dangers is man himself. The biggest threat to lions comes from poachers who hunt the lions for various monetary gains. Further more, during periods of droughts the survival of cubs is limited due to the shortage of food, which means the weakest lose out i.e. the cubs.
In good seasons, in the wild, lion cubs stand a 30-40 per cent chance of survival. In captivity this survival rate is raised from 70-100 per cent. Our main goal is to preserve the lion for future generations of Africa.
A lion at the height of his glory, rising in the high grasses with his nose to the wind, is a magnificent sight. Its power comes from its average weight of 420 pounds with a height of four feet at the shoulder and a length of 10 feet from the tip of its nose to the tip of its tail.
But lions vary in size from region to region. South African lions are larger than their East African cousins and females are 20-50 per cent lighter and sleeker than males. Sexual dimorphism is therefore more pronounced than in other felines.
The mane is strictly a male attribute and gives lion their majestic aura. It varies greatly in color from light yellow to dark brown, bordering on black. In five- or six-year-old lions, a mane can be nine inches long.
It acts almost like a fencing mask, absorbing paw swipes aimed at the head and neck during fights between rivals. While fur coloring is genetically determined in most mammals, a lion’s mane can get darker or paler with age, or lose sections after a wound. Not all males are equal.
Only some males develop a long, thick mane. In certain regions such as the Ngorongoro Crater and Kalahari Desert, black-maned males are not uncommon.
Studies on the impact of the size and colour of mane on the social studies and reproductive success of lions are currently under way. Mock lions with light or dark, and more or less dense manes are presented to animals in the wild.
The males tested are more diffident towards the ‘toys’ with long manes while females seemed to be more sexually attracted to dark manes. Researchers are also trying to determine the impact of inherited genes and diet on manes.
Since most of the young males studied leave the survey area before reaching adulthood, it is particularly difficult to compare the manes of fathers and their offspring. Furthermore, paternity can only be determined with certainty through DNA testing. For all these reasons, most of this research is carried out mainly on animals in captivity.
A lion’s head is very large, almost rectangular ending in a large, rounded muzzle equipped with powerful jaws. The teeth reflect the animal’s adaptation to the life of a predator. The lions’ powerful canines (2.5 inches long in average in males) are slightly curved and very pointed, equally useful for gripping prey and fighting.
The molars are used to grind chunks of meat. Its teeth can determine a lion’s age. The sharp creamy - white canines of young lions gradually become blunt and break with age. As the animals grow older, the canines take on a yellowish colour and later become caramel brown.
The iris of the eyes varies in colour from golden yellow to brown.
Paws are massive and powerful, with retractable claws designed to grip prey, and in the case of females and lighter cubs, to climb trees.
The tail ends in a tuft of dense black fur that hides a spur shaped horny growth, up to a half inch in length. By swishing its tail, the lion tries to drive away flies, its worst enemies. Tail movements also express anger and grumpiness.
At around seven to eight years old, the male is at his maximum strength. He can expect to live another few years at the head of a pride if all goes well. By now, Sandile is three years and five months old and had decided to go back to his den (after three months of interval) I just had to confirm with the senior game warden about my visit and if it was fine for him. Upon arrival at the range having met Gerhald we didn’t want to waste time because of winter, it used to get dark earlier, as at the same time we respected their territory which they patrolled once its stats getting darker and they would be roaring.
What actually happens is that in that ranch there are six lion holding pans of different age groups in them. So, when the lion of one pan roars, meaning that ‘I am here in my territory!’ The lions from the other pans too would answer the call by roaring meaning: ‘I too am here in my territory.’
And the roaring goes on for quite some time. I too have learnt to mimic the roar and do get the reply (the difference being my roar doesn’t go that far, unlike the original roar, which could be heard till a distance of 5km). This time, we entered together into the den. Sandile wasn’t far away from the entrance. He didn’t look happy at all. I approached him to where he was and squatted next to him my whole body touching his.
I kept my left hand on his nap and what he did was, with his front right limb he put around my left foot which was next to him on his right side. With that move, I was surprised but nothing crossed my head at that time. The only thing, which I noticed was that whenever I held him, he was snarling (making certain sounds).
I took a couple of shots with him, and then Gerhald told me we should get out immediately as it was quite risky being with Sandile at that moment.
As I moved away from him, and asked Gerhald how come Sandile is behaving weird today? And that’s when he told me that in the range there was one male lion around eight years old and adjacent to it was his son of four years and were separated, by just a line of fence which was electrified but no alarm connected.
All this time these two would try to demonstrate that one was stronger than the other. One night came when the father decided to climb the fence and jump into his son’s pan. The fence was 2.4-metre high and bedded in a concrete layer at the base.
The father lion cut off the electric strand, which ran across the fence which is used for keeping the lions off the fence area by an impulse of shock, and jumped into the sons pan, and the son too was waiting for the father.
The son bit in the head and killed the father. The skull is kept for display. Because of this, there was some kind of commotion in the whole of the range. Lions are unpredictable. They can turn unto you any moment!
THE greeting among the lions unlike the lionesses is such that when a lion passes next to a lion sitting, the former will lower his head and the later one will either move or project its head forward approving the greeting.
Lions rarely take an initiation of greeting a lioness. When a male returns to the pride after a long absence, he is often greeted by the head rubbing which is quite rough.
The identity card within the prides is recognised by the order given off by a secretion from the skin above the lion's eyes that is exchanged when the lions rub their head together. The bond between all pride members is through their greeting.
After greeting they usually start grooming each other. This is usually performed with the help of licking, using the tongue. The tongue of a lion is covered in horned papillae helps in gripping food, remove dust, lick blood and kill parasites. Unlike lionesses, lions like the faces and not other parts of the body. Lionesses thoroughly clean their cubs. Females clean more frequently each other.
When food becomes scarce, the relationship among the pride gets aggressive. The lionesses of the pride pass a lot of time together as they are all cousin hence there is no dominance between females of the pride.
Lions adapt anywhere as long as they can find water where as females of the pride pass a lot of time together, since they are all related.
I was already missing Sandile to greater extent and was feeling very bad inside me. Since the Gab lion park was close to where I was (25km), I used to visit frequently and would watch the lions through the fence. Since Jimmy new about my craziness about lions as I had already been in the territory of his lions much before, he directed me to a place that was hundred and eighty four km from his place toward North West province of South Africa, one Km from the village Otospot on the left to a place called Inkaya Nkalamo.
This place was a lion breeding place somehow similar to Sundown Ranch. Jimmy the owner of Gab Lion Park use to get his lion cubs from this place. Me and my family decided to visit this place.We left early and by noon we were there. Upon entering the area, having paid the gate fees, we parked the car and walked to the office.
While walking to the office we saw more than 12 cubs of age 18 to 16 weeks on the ground. Some were lazing around while some were playing with each other.The lion cubs chasing and trying to catch each other as they would hunt their prey. Along with this there were carcals, lynx, monkeys , tortoises in holiday pans. Since it was my first visit to this place, and hopping that I would see lions similar to Sundown ranch where I met Sandile. I went with my album which had Sandiles' pictures, and the pictures with jimmy's lions, and the pictures of the cheetahs at the Mokolodi Game Reserve too.
The purpose was to introduce myself using these pictures and tried to get friendly with the game ranger of the place visited with the hope of winning their confidence so at later stages i might get my way in with the lions of their territory.
While at the office I was introduced to the game ranger Cronje and Robert. They browsed through the pages of the album and were impressed. While they were busy, I started looking at the portraits on the wall. While I was looking at one of the portraits I was told "this lion was hand raised and was one year and eight months old". I was told he has gone to the bush but shall be back by 4pm. He was named Leo.
He (Leo) accompanied by two other lions leave for the bush by 7am and return by 4pm.All these 12cubs with 3 lionswere freely moving. In the meantime we were taken around to see the breeding lions.They had almost 14 lion holding pans and in each pan there were three to five grown up lions.We were even told that by 4pm when leo and his mates were back, they all with the cubs walk to a back water collection and swim in there.We were all exited to hear and told ourselves that we shall wait for that moment before we return back home.
At around 3:30pm Leo and the team were back from the bush.As i was walking towards the office to meet Noelin, I saw Leo seating on the lawn. He looked big and beautiful.But noelin was not in the office instead she was on the other side of the loan were Leo was seated.I had my intentions of getting a picture with Leo. As I walked towards Noelin I forgot that I was walking past Leo.
While passing leo,he grabbed both of my feet with his front paws and I fell flat on my chest. He immideatly held my right knee with his mouth holding it with his cannines. I could feel the grip of his mouth and immideatly noelin came to my rescue.As i was freed, istarted petting him and grooming his mane with my fingers and he settled down to accept me.I took a couple of pictures with him.
By almost 4:15pm, Robert started calling the cubs, Leo and his mates since it was time for a swim.They all walked in rows of two behind each other till they were in the water.After a while as they were coming out of the water,my son Essa(4yr) was standing in their path.
The first two cubs passed by him, but the third one who looked almost 12 weeks old did not waste time as he just jumped on to him and was all over him. I had to rush to rescue him at that moment. He was in shock and his mother took him on to her arm and didn't want to get down. These cubs were going for a small meal after there demonstration. We all followed them to a place were the carcass of a buffalo was lying.
My family was standing at quite a distance but they could see all of them eating. The cub who had jumped on Essa was hidding in the tall grass behind his back. Essa got convinced that there was no danger for him and got down his mother arms. While i was watching the pride eating, I was also keeping an eye on my family to see that they were safe.
What I saw after a short while was the female cub who was hidden in the tall grass was stalking very quietly towards Essa. I immideatly ran towards the family and carried Essa with my hands under his arm pits above my head level and the cub just missed him by few inches. Now, both mother and son were panicked and insisted that we should leave while my daughter Maryam (8 years) was insisting we should still wait. I promised her that we shall be back after some weeks and shall spend a night there!
Lionesses not only assume the responsibility of hunting for the group but also care for the offspring. Lions are not particularly efficient hunters, successfully capturing prey consisting of medium sized ungulates including zebras, wildebeests and antelope in only 20-30 per cent of their attempts.
They are referred to as opportunistic, eating whatever they can catch for themselves or steal from other predators. They are not well adapted for leaping or reaching particularly high speeds, nor are they capable of running long distances.
In general, if lions are not successful within a few hundred metres, they give up the chase and the prey escapes. Lions do not hunt by scent, although their sense of smell is excellent, they often approach prey from an upwind location thereby alerting the prey and ending the hunt.
Secondly, the lion’s charge is generally launched directly at its quarry and it rarely alters the path of the attack, as do other felids. Generally speaking, if a lion misses its quarry on the initial charge, it does not give pursuit, but quits and looks for new quarry.
Scavenging is also an important source of food for lions, with food stolen from other predators often making up to 10-15 per cent of their total food intake. Lions spend a great deal of time looking for circling vultures and listening to the calls of hyenas, enabling them to locate downed prey.
When prey and other predators are plentiful, lions may get close to half of their food by scavenging.
Stalking by day, on the open plain, becomes extremely difficult because of the sharp sight of antelope, wildebeest and zebras. When several lions are taking part during early morning stalking, other animals of the grasslands including the intended victims know that the lions are hunting.
The prey will be glancing around nervously when a lion is in sight as all the eyes will be fixed on it. Since they do not know where all the lions are located nor do they know how or where they will strike the early flight would not always be the best method of escape for the quarry.
Lions hunt during all times of the day, nocturnal hunts are generally more successful. Lions in many areas of their range, prefer to hunt under the cover of darkness where the light gathering adaptations of the field eyes casts a distinct advantage to the predators.
As darkness approaches, the lionesses silently move out in lines to locate prey, circling around and behind a herd they pick out a startled victim and dispatch it with a bite to the neck or throat.
At a kill interactions and pecking order among pride members is highly developed and lions rarely eat in peace. Confrontation becomes a risky business because of the uncertainty temper and tremendous strength of the males feeding at kills.
Therefore, when the full pride is present the mature males eat first and rarely tolerate females in the initial feeding. They retire in the immediate vicinity to relax, when they have satisfied themselves, and the females with constant bickering come forward fighting among themselves.
Scars representing most of the facial wounds on the lion’s head, are received during squabbles at kills. Last to feed are the juveniles and cubs and are frequently left out altogether. That is the fact of lion life and is the leading cause of cub deaths due to starvation.
In the interest of the pride during periods of food shortage, cubs are apparently readily expendable, and are later easily replaced when food supply is increased.
Limiting serious injury during potentially violent confrontations, lions use instinctual and ingenious methods. Cubs being the weaker members of the pride, adopt fawning or cringing position and by crouching or lying submissively on their backs, deliberately exposing itself in such a fashion as to make killing as easy as possible for the superior lions.
Lions once having found the shadow of an acacia tree, they devote an inordinate amount of time sleeping especially at midday on the plains. Resting for the next 24 hours digesting their meal, after consuming a full meal, they lie about completely intertwined with heads and legs lying over and around adjacent individuals. When one shifts position, the chain reaction affects many of its resting partners.
When lions become man-eaters they are bolder and more aggressive in their pursuit of humans. A man-eating lion often hunts at night and prowls the perimeter of villages looking for victims.
While at Orion safari, the three lionesses were seating in a shade and an open plain. A heard of zebra appeared from a distance. They kept coming close till almost a kilometre away from these lionesses, when one of the lionesses started to stare at them.
Meanwhile, the zebras came closer, and walked right into the trap. With its terrifying power and determination, the lioness chased after her chosen victim, an adult male zebra. Catching up with him, she leaped on to his back but was kicked off for a moment.
She was suddenly there again, gaining on him as he ran and leaping once more onto his back with such a force that he stumbled, cart wheeling in a cloud of dust as she fastened her jaws on a death grip around his throat.
I took a chance by waiting at their table while they were having their meal.
LIONS are able to understand terms at high subtraction level, for example, numbers. It’s not sure how and when did lions get this fascinating skill. However, many fossils proved lions were able to count a long time before first humans developed brain bigger than an orange which is the lowest mass allowing abstract thinking. This means, humans are no longer the first intelligent species on earth.
Compared to the way humans count, The Lion Numeric System (LNS) is very sophisticated. The decimal numeric system human use is based on the number of fingers -10, which almost every human being possesses. Humans tend to use fingers to help them count.
On the other hand, a lion fore paw has five claws; back paws have four claws each. The problem lions are facing is, that one of their fore paw claws –a dew claw, is placed higher on the paw, which makes it rather hard to use. However, this fact didn’t force the lions to develop just octal numeric system (digits from 0-7), which will be less practical than decimal. This simple solution didn’t satisfy lions enough.
The LNS is much better than silly octal numbers and allows lions to count easily up to very big numbers. A lion can count up to incredible 65535 just on his four paws-that’s something humans can only dream about. The way they do it, is simple. Lions use all combinations of extended/retracted claws on each paw. With four claws, this makes 2×^4 combinations-which are equal from 0-15. Yes, for a lion number 10, 11,12,13,14, and 15 are each considered a single digit!
The conversation of LNS to human understandable format is easy. From the point of view of the counting lion, the claw on the right (LSC-Less significant Claw) has value of 2×^0=1, the second from the right has value of 2×^1 =2, the second from the left has value of 2×^2 =4 and the left claw (MSC-Most Significant Claw) has value of 2×^3 =8. This applies to right fore paw. The left fore paw is used the same way, just the numbers on this paw are four claws shifted to the left-that means, multiplied by 16.
Just on fore paw a lion can count up to 15*16+15=255. Rear paws are used the same way, also shifted. Two lions standing next to each other can count to much higher numbers; while pride can have maximal number higher than our computers can count with. A pride of lions can also use parallelisms to count faster.
Because of problems with extending just some claws, many lions use their whole fingers like humans do. The lions can also write digits by making paw prints in mud, which can keep the calculations for a long time after drying. After rains, lions can be seen walking slowly and thoughtfully back and forth in mud. This doesn’t help them get rid of parasites living on their paws; they are just doing complex calculations-usually estimating numbers of prey.
By now I’d been issued a permit from the Director of Wildlife and National Parks to rear two orphan cheetahs. The holding pan was already built and it was 25km from were I was staying. Another small pan was built were I was staying at home keeping in mind that once they are older than four months I would take them back to a bigger enclosure.
When the cub was brought to me (14days old), it was quite exited, nervous & uncertain of itself, subjected to fear & stress because they suddenly find themselves in a new and unfamiliar environment. In this situation, it wouldn’t eat immediately. It needed a period of adjustment that lasted for several days to enable it to calm down. This gave time to accept its captivity before it touched any food.
Caring for and keeping orphaned animals alive requires considerable attention and devotion, especially during the first few weeks. An animal that has never suckled and did not get any colostrums is handicapped from the start because it lacks essential ingredients e.g. antibodies against diseases and nutrients such as protein, carbohydrate, vitamins & minerals. Animals that grow up without having had it suffer from all kinds of problem and disorders, and never progress.
The natural behaviour, suckling habits and milk composition vary from one species of animal to the next. It is therefore impossible to raise all wild animals in the same way by using the same milk formula. When I was handed over the cheetah cub, I was instructed that “This animal should be cared for as nearly as its own mother would have done”.
Since I was undertaking care of the cub, in the beginning of its life, I would be accepted as its surrogate mother or feeding mother. The manner in which I hold the milk bottle, my clothing, my scent and voice, and the manner I express love and patience are imprinted at an early age on the cub. The milk fed was at body temperature of 38C. For the first few days, the cub was kept in a quiet, safe and warm place by covering the floor with a thick layer of straw. I kept wooden crate in a corner to provide a hiding place where the cub would feel safe and warm.
After a few days, the cub was taken out of its shelter and placed in a small pen during the day. Shady place was provided so that the cub could move out of the sun when it became too hot. In the late afternoon, I would take the cub to its warm shelter where it would stay for the night. Fresh, clean drinking water was available at all times. The bedding litter was changed regularly and replaced with dry, fresh litter. Saw and saw dust was used as litter. When diarrhea occurred, the litter was changed more often. Warm water, soap and mild disinfectant were used to wash the faeces off the tail and other soiled parts of the hind quarters.
Initially it was difficult to persuade or force a frightened, nervous young cub to drink milk from a bottle. I had to force feed else it would die of dehydration within two or three days. Force feeding was done by inserting a finger between its lips on one side of its mouth and pushed the teat in after it. I then massaged the gums lightly and carefully with the finger. The milk got squeezed drop by drop out of the bottle. When it was feeding, I would speak to the cub continuously and softly while I stroked its back and tail.
After 14 days, once the cub was used to drinking, I taught it to drink from a bucket. It drank equivalent to about 10-15% of its body weight per day. I had to devote considerable attention and time to help the cub to urinate and defecate by stimulating its anal and genital areas by using a warm, damp towel to massage the under its tail to stimulate the licking of its mother. This stimulation was being done during or just after feeding.
Once it had attained three months it was weaned. It was relatively traumatic and heart rending experience. To facilitate weaning, I left few meat pieces in the holding pen so that the cub would learn to eat solid foods. As the cub was close to being weaned and also was eating solid food, the milk quantity was decreased gradually over a period of 2-3 weeks. As he was totally on solid food, I had to take him to its den!
MERELY following their mothers from a distance at four months of age around everywhere, but will not take directly part in hunting. They learn the tricks and techniques of hunting, as they observe their mothers at work.
Females will sometimes beat prey to the ground without killing it, allowing the adolescents to complete the kill, for the sake of teaching them. The herbivore, that is generally immobilized as though paralyzed, shall be suffocated at first, clumsily. Allowing the herbivore to get away off their grip, because of their lack of experience. This learning requires several trials. Cubs are generally capable of killing prey, by the age of one year. At two years of age, they could hunt on their own. Having detected the presence of zebra or gnu, only the adolescents or very large cubs can attempt to bring them down. Cubs will not be able to experiment with all types of game, during their training.
Differences between females and sub-adult males are already quite marked, by the age of two years reflecting the signs of role sharing between males and females. Exuding a liveliness and self-assurance that is lacking in their brothers and cousins who are larger but more apathetic, young lionesses are much more vigilant. It is often the young females that set the pace, when the pride is on the move, especially when adults seem to lose, all eagerness to get ahead.
Young males indulge in more aggressive games and assert their physical superiority around carcasses, on the other hand. Adolescents remain on the pride's territory even though they move around independently of other pride members with increasing frequency, during the period in which they are trained to hunt. But not for long, meetings with resident males are still friendly.
At last the time comes for males to leave the territory of their native pride. The resident males will have become very aggressive and even some of the females may encourage the hesitant young adult to leave the pride, when at last the time comes for males to leave the territory.
When they are young, the cubs manage to climb vertical tree trunks with their sharp little claws. A cub very much appreciates his mother's grooming. Lioness is welcomed warmly by her young upon returning from the hunt.
In the midst of the pride, cubs feel safe enough to play. They try their courage against each other and prepare for hunting through harmless games. To involve the adults in their games, they climb on the bodies of resting adults. When they are not in the best of health during the rare lean periods, they totally stop all games. Playing is part and parcel of their lives, otherwise.
Lions are particularly playful, like an elephant, monkeys, although their games are quite different from those of young baboons whose idea of fun includes hanging from another's tail while playing among the branches. Lion cubs love playing with the tail of a brother or an adult and rolling in elephant dung. Tortoise is also a great toy. They approach it fearlessly and beat on it a few times with their paws, naturally causing the tortoise to withdraw completely into its shell. They stand back and wait for further reactions. They try to pick it up in their mouths when nothing happens and this is no easy task. Races between cubs are fun to watch. It is not always a good idea, when they decide to play with a porcupine.
When lions, cheetahs, elephants, baboons, and other animal cubs play, take great risks, since they can sometimes stray away from their mothers without realizing it and predators are never too far away waiting for such an occasion. The benefits and advantages of playing are obvious, despite the risks.
A cub develops strength, by developing the body. Therefore, playing prepares cubs for what they will have to face throughout their lives. The young cubs learn cunningness and improve their skill and creativity on the playfield that is a schoolroom. When they will have to conquer a pride or hunt all these qualities will be of great help to them in their adult lives. Discoveries such as piece of wood or bone are generally shared by the young lions and if there are any quarrels they also learn to pit their strength against a companion.
Smaller cubs are not normally hurt by older cubs. Fights between young male cubs are generally more serious, as the sex of the cubs also influences play.
Play allows for violent instincts to be channelled. The stronger animals are placed at the same level of the weaker. Young elephants will be allowed to climb over adolescent elephants by the latter one kneeling. Likewise the older cubs within a pride will never use all their strength against a weaker companion and that is how they learn to play together. The individual with the upper hand also prolongs the pleasure of the play, by reducing his own chances of winning.
After an interval of almost three months I once more decided to visit Inkaya Nkalamo (Otospot). Upon my arrival, I saw Leo was seated in sphinx position on the lawn and many other cubs were playing with each other. Some of them racing with each other, some playing with each other's tail, while some were tumbling over each other.
I decided to go and seat next to Leo. Three other cubs were seated next to him. As I bent over Leo to kiss him, one of the cubs jumped onto my back, while the other cub from a different direction was holding to my sleeve. After a moment, the cub that was on my back, decided to reach for my head gripping himself with its claws, which were already sunk into my skin. The cub that was holding onto my sleeve managed to get a good grip and jumped onto my back. I did not want to disturb their play and let them win me.
All of a sudden, Leo decided to stand, and I was forced to tilt myself as to give him room to walk away. With this tilting myself, the cub who had reached for my head gripping himself with his claws to my forehead lost balance and scratched me deeply onto my head, and the other cub tumbled onto its back. I realized with this play how they train themselves for the later days to come.
It was really fun!
IT should surprise no one to learn that sleep is somewhat different in different animals as sleep varies phylogenetically. Indeed it would be truly amazing if all animals slept the same because animals differ so drastically in their anatomy, physiology, environment, and modes of adaptation to their environment.
Variations in the ways that animals sleep are intrinsically interesting from a naturalistic point of view. Giraffes' total daily sleep time in hours is 1.9, roe deer 3.09, pilot whale 5.3, man 8.0, Baboon 9.4, domestic cat 12.5, laboratory rat raff 13.0, Lion 13.5, Eastern chipmunk 15.8, Little brown bat 19.9.
Sleep habit, sleep places, and sleep postures vary greatly. Some mammals (moles and rabbits) sleep in burrows whereas others (zebra) sleep in the open. Some mammals (cattle) can sleep with their eyes open. Others (seals and hippopotami) spend part of their sleep under water. Some mammals (gorillas) settle into nests to sleep, whereas others (dolphins and porpoises) sleep while swimming. Furthermore, dolphins and porpoises can sleep with one half of their brain at a time while the other half is awake so as to permit these air breathing mammals to come to the surface to breathe periodically.
The fox sleeps curled up; the leopard straddles a tree limb; the bat sleeps hanging upside down. Some mammals sleep primarily at night (humans), while others sleep mostly during the day(rat).Horses spend the major portion of every 24-hours period standing, part of the time in NREM, by utilising passive locking mechanisms in their limbs. In spite of all these variations, is evidence that sleep is indispensable?
How much an animal's sleep is largely determined by its status as prey or predator-that prey animals sleep less because sleep makes them vulnerable? This theory is difficult to evaluate because predator-prey status is not generally as obvious as in the case of the lion and zebra, or the wolf and caribou. Some species are both predator and prey, and judgments of their vulnerability are often subjective. Also, it is far from clear that sleep significantly increases vulnerability to predation.
A major function of sleep is to protect animals from predation to keep them out of harmís way when they have satisfied their need for food, procreation. The reasons for the relationship between sleep and size are not entirely clear, but it is thought to have something to do with energy conservation, which is a much greater problem for smaller mammals then for larger mammals.
A lion's life is filled with sleeping, napping and resting. Over the course of 24 hours, lions have short bursts of intense activity, followed by long bouts of lying around that total up to 21 hours! Lions are good climbers and often rest in trees, perhaps to catch a cool breeze or to get away from flies. Lions lying around in crazy poses, on their backs with their feet in the air or legs spread wide open!
Lions and all cats, actually spend very much time at sleeping, simply because they can. Their special anatomy and physiology shows their organism is used to acting in abrupt impulses. A hunter doesnít need endurance and self-control, but intensive work in short period of time and distance. According to this, cats get great satisfaction during rest and respites.
Generosity among female lions is largely a matter of indifference. Females that have the least to lose, sleep best, owing either to the small size of their own litter or to the company of close relatives. Females spotted Hyenas have resolved the conflict by keeping their cubs in a well protected den. Mothers return to their cubs for short periods, feed their brood and then sleep somewhere else in peace.
Lions are known for their ability to sleep the day away. As the largest predator in their habitat, lions can afford to snooze for long periods of time without risking their lives. Sleeping may also make their meals last longer, a real benefit when you only eat an average of every other day. Lions also tend to be more alert at night, so catching them awake during the day is more of a challenge. Even with night time activity, they may still sleep up to 20 hours a day.
My visits to Sandile by now were more frequent and from the photographs it showed that we both were relaxed while being with each other. When I would enter his territory he would come to me greeting with his head pushing into me towards my abdomen and after grabbing his head and kissing him, he would just try to snooze on my arm and I would be patting him.
Yawning is an act of deep inspiration, followed by a lengthy, forceful expiration with simultaneous strong contraction of many skeletal muscle groups, and occasionally accompanied by lacrimation.
Fatigue, hunger and satiety have all been suggested as stimuli for yawning. Oxygen insufficiency causes yawning. Frequent or excessive yawning may accompany certain diseases of the central nervous system. A seriously sick mammal does not yawn, and when it does yawn again the danger is past.
They lower the head while opening the mouth to fullest extent, then raised the head again in normal horizontal position. The reaction occurs with the animal in the sitting, normal standing or low crouched postures.
Herbivores have seldom been observed yawning, but warm, well-fed, drowsy members of the Felidae often yawn, and domestic candies may yawn in certain social play situations.
Yawning is universal in mammals and birds, amphibians and certain reptiles also yawn. Although it is clear that members of these classes may open their mouth widely on occasion, it is not at all clear that they are yawning when they do so.
Yawning defined as a slow opening of the mouth, maintenance of the open position for more than 3s, followed by a more rapid closure of the mouth.
Lions yawn most often when they are lying down. Yawning is more frequent when the temperature is between 70 and 74 degrees F and decline when the temperature fell below or rose above this range. Yawning by lions occur most often just before feeding, when they presumably are hungry, and when the temperature is warm, but not hot.
Lions almost yawn at a rate of 1.2 yawns/hr. During morning hours there were relatively few yawns (0.8/hr) but there was a progressive increase before feeding time to 1.8 yawn/hr.
During and after feeding there was a sharp decline in the frequency of yawns (0.35 yawns/hr). Yawning, it stands to reason that sleepy lions would yawn a lot, but lions are most likely to yawn in situations where they are nervous and uncomfortable and often yawn just as they are about to get up rather than the opposite. They have a huge, pink tongue.
It is covered with hard, sharp papillae, rough enough to scrap meat from bones or make your skin bleed.
Lions are known to sit still for hours waiting and stalking prey. As these lions wait patiently and quietly for their next meal they constantly yawn. It is believed that this act is meant to increase the oxygen in their body and in turn increase their attentiveness and reflexes.
Two different type of yawns occurred in males. In one type the animal raised its head and opened its mouth so widely that its teeth was exposed, particularly the large canines that are characteristic of males. This response last 4-5s and is never seen in females.
In the second type of yawn, the head was raised only slightly, and the mouth did not open widely enough to expose the teeth, which remained covered by the lips. This response lasted only 1-2s and was shown by both sexes.
Only these shorter duration responses were scored as yawns. It appears likely that these were true yawns, whereas the larger duration response was really a 'bared-teeth display' shown exclusively by males.
Yawning is never observed just before sleep episodes. 8% of the yawns occur while the animal is lying down. The remaining 92% occur while animals were in sitting posture, but yawning is never observed while an animal is standing. As with the fish, the anticipation of major stimulus events may be associated with an increase in yawning by lions. Lions yawn in anticipation of metabolically expenses events such as feeding or fighting. Increased oxygen consumption and metabolic rate characterize such behaviours, but increasing respiration rate might accomplish the same adaptive outcome.
Some primates yawn in order to intimidate rivals by revealing their large teeth, but this doesn't appear to be the case with lions. Given how much time lions spend asleep, we might ask if they yawn just as a result of fatigue.
Another visit to Sandile, already 4yr 1mth by then. It was quite a sunny day, and was introduced to a new game ranger Harry. Gerald requested Harry to come along as you could not predict any thing with these feline members. As usual upon entering his territory was greeted by his head rubbing manner which I acknowledged by kissing him. He sat in his usual sphinx posture and had a series of photographs.
It was a sheer luck to get this picture with Sandile yawning, as the yawns lasts 1-2s. Whenever I look at this picture I thank the creator.
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Title: The Complete Novels
Author: Flann O'Brien
The Complete Novels The Complete Novels Flann O Brien along with Joyce and Beckett is part of the holy trinity of modern Irish literature His five novels collected here in one volume are a monument to his inspired lunacy and gleefully dem, Flann O Brien, along with Joyce and Beckett, is part of the holy trinity of modern Irish literature His five novels collected here in one volume are a monument to his inspired lunacy and gleefully demented genius O Brien s masterpiece, At Swim Two Birds, is an exuberant literary send up and one of the funniest novels of the twentieth century The novel s narrator is writFlann O Brien, along with Joyce and Beckett, is part of the holy trinity of modern Irish literature His five novels collected here in one volume are a monument to his inspired lunacy and gleefully demented genius O Brien s masterpiece, At Swim Two Birds, is an exuberant literary send up and one of the funniest novels of the twentieth century The novel s narrator is writing a novel about another man writing a novel, in a Celtic knot of interlocking stories The riotous cast of characters includes figures stolen from Gaelic legends, along with assorted students, fairies, ordinary Dubliners, and cowboys, some of whom try to break free of their author s control and destroy him The narrator of The Third Policeman, who has forgotten his name, is a student of philosophy who has committed murder and wanders into a surreal hell where he encounters such oddities as the ghost of his victim, three policeman who experiment with space and time, and his own soul who is named Joe.The Poor Mouth, a bleakly hilarious portrait of peasants in a village dominated by pigs, potatoes, and endless rain, is a giddy parody aimed at those who would romanticize Gaelic culture A na ve young orphan narrates the deadpan farce The Hard Life, and The Dalkey Archive is an outrageous satiric fantasy featuring a mad scientist who uses relativity to age his whiskey, a policeman who believes men can turn into bicycles, and an elderly, bar tending James Joyce With a new Introduction by Keith Donohue
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Flann O Brien, along with Joyce and Beckett, is part of the holy trinity of modern Irish literature His five novels collected here in one volume are a monument to his inspired lunacy and gleefully demented genius O Brien s masterpiece, At Swim Two Birds, is an exuberant literary send up and one of the funniest novels of the twentieth century The novel s narrator is writFlann O Brien, along with Joyce and Beckett, is part of the holy trinity of modern Irish literature His five novels collected here in one volume are a monument to his inspired lunacy and gleefully demented genius O Brien s masterpiece, At Swim Two Birds, is an exuberant literary send up and one of the funniest novels of the twentieth century The novel s narrator is writing a novel about another man writing a novel, in a Celtic knot of interlocking stories The riotous cast of characters includes figures stolen from Gaelic legends, along with assorted students, fairies, ordinary Dubliners, and cowboys, some of whom try to break free of their author s control and destroy him The narrator of The Third Policeman, who has forgotten his name, is a student of philosophy who has committed murder and wanders into a surreal hell where he encounters such oddities as the ghost of his victim, three policeman who experiment with space and time, and his own soul who is named Joe.The Poor Mouth, a bleakly hilarious portrait of peasants in a village dominated by pigs, potatoes, and endless rain, is a giddy parody aimed at those who would romanticize Gaelic culture A na ve young orphan narrates the deadpan farce The Hard Life, and The Dalkey Archive is an outrageous satiric fantasy featuring a mad scientist who uses relativity to age his whiskey, a policeman who believes men can turn into bicycles, and an elderly, bar tending James Joyce With a new Introduction by Keith Donohue
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Flann O'Brien writes some of the most bizarre fiction I have ever read. Considering the period in which it was written, it is far ahead of its time. There are plot twists, stories within stories, demons and fairies and curses (oh my!), vindictive saints, haunted houses, conspiracy theories, mad scientists, odd clerics, eccentric policemen, domineering uncles, bewildered orphans, bicycles with minds of their own, freely flowing liquor, and bartenders with secrets.O'Brien has a way of starting a s [...]
By Richard | On Creative Replay
At Swim Two-birds is probably the funniest book in the English language--especially Finn MacCool's description of what it takes to be accepted into his "tribe." The Third Policeman I haven't reread yet but loved originally. The other 3 novels are of much lower stature but fairly interesting, with occasionally wicked darts of off-the-wall humor. At his best, there was no one like O'Brien
By Derek Davis | On Creative Replay
Okay. Fulfilling a promise I made to myself at the beginning of the year. Which was to read my lovely Everyman's library edition of the Complete Novels of Flann O'Brien from cover to cover. Year's almost out. So here we go!
By Geoff | On Creative Replay
O'Brien is wonderful. Very funny--the more one knows about Ireland and the Irish the more hilarious his work becomes but it is hardly necessary to have even heard of Ireland to enjoy his writing. "At Swim-To-Birds" may be the first post-modern novel (unless one counts "Tristam Shandy").I was reminded of "Molloy" by Samuel Beckett while reading "At Swim" although probably because I expected or even wanted O'Brien to be linked to one of the certified recent geniuses of Irish letters--O'Brien doesn [...]
By Ed | On Creative Replay
Starting with At-Swim-Two-Birds.-- This book took me quite awhile to get into. Having read The Third Policeman, I was expecting to be blown away from page one. However, O'Brien did nothing but set the stage for confusion and puzzlement!I was no expert at Irish Literature and Folklore, but it became apparent to me quite early on in this novel that if I was going to read At Swim and understand it at all, I needed to do my homework. Thank you Wiki!! Imagine doing 'homework' in order to grasp where [...]
By Lori | On Creative Replay
Great collection for fans of Irish literature, and a real find if you've never read O'Brien. Only caveat is that the writing is very Irish, and it helps to have some background. For instance, "The Poor Mouth" (tr. from Gaelic), though funny in its own right, is a wicked sendup of traditional Gaelic-language works such as Tomas O'Crohan's "The Islandman" (the other four novels were written in English). The weird and wonderful "At Swim-Two-Birds" is worth the price of admission. Maybe O'Brien's wr [...]
By Tom | On Creative Replay
Saving the hardest "cake" at the end (of all other works) for me to "bite", At Swim-Two-Birds, turned out to be "the most delicious" for the mind. What novel, art, music, and the expression of science & math can be, his works achieved the ultimate bliss, on the verge of lunacy.
By June | On Creative Replay
This anthology is a telling story in its own right, which is just the sort of meta-fictional trick which O'Brien seemed to enjoy. The staggering comic genius of At Swim-Two-Birds and the Third Policeman, gives way to the more traditional satire of Poor Mouth and the Hard Life, to a sort of anti-climactic dilution in the Dalkey archive.The reason for this was the failure of the Third Policeman to be published, which caused the author to abandon 'Flann O'Brien', one of his many pennames, and conce [...]
By Steve | On Creative Replay
кто бы мне все ж объяснил, почему русский перевод романа Брайана О'Нолана "At Swim-Two-Birds" называется "О водоплавающих"? я понимаю, почему другой его перевод называется "Злой дух Пука, Добрая Фея, царь Свиини, я и мой дядя" - это нам перечислили половину персонажей (не надо было оста� [...]
By Max Nemtsov | On Creative Replay
Read the STOP SMILING review of The Complete Novels of Flann O'Brien.Flann O’Brien, the pen name of Brian O’Nolan, was 11 in 1922, the year Ulysses was published. O’Brien distinguishes himself from the lot who comprise the Sons O’Joyce as one of the first, and one of the best; no time-traveling ninja need disturb his infant cradle. He grew to become a faithful Joycean who had little patience for his fellow adherents. (“If I ever hear that name Joyce one more time,” he once declared, [...]
By Stop | On Creative Replay
Sept 2015: At Swim-Two-Birds: (first read: 3-star)I don't know how to adequately review this book. It's beyond strange.There are so many twists and turns. Yet it's told in such a way that it's truly hard to follow. I recognized good writing, some humorous sections, an interesting storyline. This story would improve, I think, upon rereadingd possibly a third rereading. I will reread it one day.There are supposedly Irish myths and stories throughout this book. Perhaps knowing those would have made [...]
By Petra | On Creative Replay
not quite sure i'd put o'brien with joyce and beckett, at least not yet. but he's damn close. read the first two novels. "at swim-two-birds" is a wild multi-narrative that weaves ancient, modern, literary and other voices wonderfully. "the third policeman" is a tighter, ultimately more compelling vision of hell that partnered well with my recent re-reading of dante's "inferno." i'll probably try at least one more of the 5 novels here, "the dalkey archive" i think, since joyce (sent up) is a char [...]
By Eric | On Creative Replay
"The Third Policeman": so droll! Admittedly, I read it after hearing it tied to "Lost" but come on, Desmond. It's better seen as a goofy literary partner to Dylan Thomas and "Pale Fire": a foggy tale about mood and humor, not about mind-benders. As a bonus, O'Brian's grasp of particle physics isn't entirely outlandish. At this moment, you're just a few electrons away from merging with your chair.
By Iris | On Creative Replay
"It was a queer country we were in. There was a number of blue mountains around us at what you might call a respectful distance with a glint of white water coming down the shoulders of one or two of them and they kept hemming us in and meddling oppressively with our minds."a terrifying and fascinating book. unforgettable, poetry burned upon the brain with levers of flames. a book that will burn the cerebral flesh and spit the wounds into the starry evening of eternity.
By Phillip | On Creative Replay
I've read The Third Policeman, but nothing else in this collection of five novels. Hopefully, over the next few years, I'll read the rest, but I'm not in a big rush.As for The Third Policeman, I really enjoyed it, although is it a bit obstuse and absurd--the key to it is remembering that it is meant to be funny. A very excellent book, though.
By Chad Nevett | On Creative Replay
I only read the first two novels, At Swim two birds, and The Third Policemen. I attempted to start a couple of the other ones but they were far different stylistically and I did not want to be disappointed. At Swim, was an extremely hilarious book, and the third policemen certainly did not disappoint. This was a random find that left me wondering why I hadn't heard of Flann O'Brien previously.
By Matthew | On Creative Replay
I only read At Swim Two Birds and The Third Policeman, so I rated based on those. They are so creative and funny. I especially enjoyed the underlying morality tale in The Third Policeman. A must read!
By Carol | On Creative Replay
Great. Really surreal story telling. Like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for adults :) If you like weird and wonderful and artistic, The Third Policeman is for you.
By James Fleming | On Creative Replay
Early example of meta fiction and post modernism. Very funny and some great pathos as themes. And O'Brien's strong Irish roots give to some great writing and sentence crafting.
By Majikwah | On Creative Replay
Genius, obviously, except for the slightly disappointing Dalkey Archive. Still a great plot, though.Like I said, genius. Obviously.
By Melissa Powers | On Creative Replay
O'Brien is a personal fave and I'm reading "The Third Policeman" from this collection really enjoyed his "At Swim-Two-Birds" last year.
As the French have with literary sex, the Irish have with the down and out.
By Rich | On Creative Replay
What can you say - The Third Policeman and At Swim Two Birds are modern masterpieces which everyone should read
By Kevin Tole | On Creative Replay
Never again MUCK!!!!
By Alang | On Creative Replay
At Swim-Two-Birds: *****The Third Policeman:*****The Poor Mouth:*****The Hard Life:****The Dalkey Archive:*****
By Machado Drummond Amado Rosa Coelho | On Creative Replay
Mind-boggling Irish humor and breathtaking cynicism. The purest antidote to all the Celtic Twilight and Saints and Scholars shite and onions!
By Justin Fawsitt | On Creative Replay
06/04/08: Just finished At-Swim-Two-Birds Was considering skipping The Third Policeman, since I read it last year, but I guess I'm partying hard with this book. WOOOOOO.
By Lucy | On Creative Replay
Excellent novels!!! Very wry and extremely entertaining!!! Anyone who wants a true insight into the Irish mentality, I strongly recommend reading these books Enjoy!!!
By Mark | On Creative Replay
A fascinating author with a strange sense of humor. Particularly enjoyed At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman for the way O'Brien transcends some of the norms of "conventional" storytelling.
By Shanti Hofshi | On Creative Replay
Have to give this one back to the libary. Finished the 1st chapter of "The Third Policeman," which is the story I got the book for. Very weird story so far. Will get it again later.
By Angela | On Creative Replay
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Dopamine HCl preparation, single dose vial for intravenous administration
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Episode Six: THE DARK ZONE ****
Upon returning from investigating a mysterious light source, Dan is called to agent Anne Yuri's quarters after a strange shadow like figure appears there. Claiming to be injured, Dan and Anne sit and talk to the shadow shaped figure, although the alien is equally shadowy about answering questions. Meanwhile, central control receives an alien signal from the planet Pegassa asking that Earth adjust its orbit to avoid a collision that would destroy both the Earth and the Pegassan metropolis. In an effort to avert total annihilation, Commander Manabe orders the city of Pegassa destroyed. But the aliens have plans of their own as well.
Episode six poses another riveting idea; this time regarding interplanetary race relations. This is the best of the early episodes up to this point. It's not high on monster action till the end, and even then, neither Pegassa nor Ultraseven go Giant. This is more of a suspense programmer. The Pegassans are highly intelligent, if reticent. It's easy to figure them for antagonists considering how they avoid answering questions especially once they realize Earthlings aren't as technologically advanced as they thought.
It also paints a picture that, despite having faced many galactic foes up to this point, the Terrestrial Defense Force is openly naive, almost gullible in their trust of the mysterious alien shadow. This is diametrically opposed to the pretentiousness of the Pegassans who are pleaded with to evacuate their city as the Ultra Garrison has launched nuclear missiles to destroy them to prevent the collision.
The Pegassans, believing themselves to be superior, do not accept that an inferior race such as human kind would be capable of destroying them. One could say the Pegassans represent the Japanese military in WW2 and the Terrestrial Defense Force the Allied Forces.
The episodes finale is also enthralling once the sole remaining Pegassan finally reveals his intentions were to destroy the Earth all along should the Pegassan scientists not divert their vast city's orbit. Both sides had the same goal of destruction, it just amounted to which one would get there first. Showing his true form, the Pegassa Seijin tells Anne to take Dan and leave as quickly as possible as he plans to send a bomb straight to the Earth's core that will destroy the planet.
Upon confronting Ultraseven, Pegassa realizes his people are all dead. The creature escapes, Ultraseven removes the bomb and the Earth is safe once more. An unusually poignant episode, although fans looking for lots of effects and monster action may wish to skip this episode entirely.
It's worth noting the plot point of a devastating collision between the Earth and an enormous alien city recalls the plot of Ishiro Honda's obscure (in America) GORATH from 1962 about Earth's scientists coming together to devise a means to change the Earth's orbit to avoid colliding with a runaway planetoid dubbed Gorath.
MONSTERS: Pegassa alien
WEAPONS: Ultra Hawk 1
To be continued with Episode Seven: SPACE CAPTIVE 303!!!
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Planned or in progress
Thomas Way. "Revealing Social Networks in Novels." Machine learning and parsing approach to automatic and guided social network extraction from text. Initial study, large section on future directions of project. Outlet: IKE '18 (or similar), March 2018.
Thomas Way, Seth Whidden, Francois Massonnat. "The Conjoined Model for Interdisciplinary Computer Science Education." Description of model, comparison with other approaches, latest related work, results of experience, recommendations for use, incorporate contributions from panel session at SIGCSE. Outlet: CCSCE or relevant journal, April 2018.
Thomas Way. "Sentiment Tracking." Tracking sentiment over time, using parsing techniques for sentiment analysis, its use as reflective and predictive measure, Twitter, other sources.
Thomas Way. "Text Messaging for Interactive Research." Survey journal article on approaches, experiences and lessons learned.
To appear
Thomas Way. "A Framework for Unsupervised Extraction of Social Networks from Textual Materials." The 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(ICAI 2018), Las Vegas, Nevada, July 30 - Aug. 2, 2018.
Thomas Way. "Evaluation of the Conjoined Approach to Interdisciplinary Computer Science Education." The 14th International Conference on Frontiers in Education:
Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FEC 2018), Las Vegas, Nevada, July 30 - Aug. 2, 2018.
Lillian Cassel, Don Goelman, Paula Matuszek, Mary Angela Papalaskari, Michael Posner, Thomas Way, Darina Dicheva, and Christo Dichev. "Lessons Learned: Developing Advanced Topics For Broad Use." Poster presentation. 23rd Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2018), Larnaca, Cyprus, July 1-4, 2018.
Keith J. O’Hara, Sven Anderson, David Musicant, Amber Stubbs, Thomas Way. "Team-Teaching with Colleagues in the Arts and Humanities." 49th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2018), Baltimore Maryland, Feb. 2018. (abstract)
Nikola Zaharakis, Michael Mason, Jeremy Mennis, John Light, Julie Rusby, Erika Westling, Stephanie Crewe, Brian Flay, Thomas Way. "School, Friends, and Substance Use: Gender Differences on the Influence of Attitudes Toward School and Close Friend Networks on Cannabis Involvement." Prevention Science, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 138-146. Feb. 2018.
Jeremy Mennis, Michael Mason, Andreea Ambrus, Thomas Way, Kevin Henry. "The spatial accuracy of geographic ecological momentary assessment (GEMA): Error and bias due to subject and environmental characteristics." Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Vol. 178, pp. 188-193. Sept. 1, 2017.
Michael J. Mason, John M. Light, Jeremy Mennis, Julie C. Rusby, Erika Westling, Stephanie Crewe, Nikola Zaharakis, Thomas Way, Brian R. Flay, "Neighborhood disorder, peer network health, and substance use among young urban adolescents." Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Volume 178, September 1, 2017, pp. 208-214, ISSN 0376-8716, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2017.05.005.
Thomas Way, Mary-Angela Papalaskari, Lillian Cassel, Paula Matuszek, Carol Weiss and Yamini Praveena Tella. "Machine Learning Modules for All Disciplines." Courseware presentation. 22nd Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2017), Bologna, Italy, July 3-5, 2017. (abstract)
Thomas Way, Paula Matuszek, Lillian Cassel, Mary-Angela Papalaskari and Carol Weiss. "Machine Learning for Everyone: Introduction to Classification and Clustering." Educational module content and presentation. Seventh AAAI Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI-17), San Francisco, Feb. 5-6, 2017.
Michael J. Mason, Jeremy Mennis, Thomas Way, Leah Floyd Campbell, Eric Benotsch, Lori Keyser-Marcus, Laura King, Nikola Zaharakis. "Text Message Delivered Peer Network Counseling for Adolescent Smokers: A Randomized Controlled Trial." Journal of Primary Prevention. Vol. 37, No. 5, pages 403-420, October 2016.
Thomas Way, Lillian Cassel, Paula Matuszek, Mary-Angela Papalaskari, Divya Bonagiri and Aravinda Gaddam. "Broader and Earlier Access to Machine Learning." Poster presentation. 21st Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2016), Araquipa, Peru, July 11-13, 2016. (abstract) (poster)
Thomas Way, Seth Whidden. "A Parallel, Conjoined Approach to Interdisciplinary Computer Science Education." Poster presentation. 21st Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2016), Arequipa, Peru, July 11-13, 2016. (abstract) (poster)
Thomas Way. "An Improved Approach for Interactive Ebooks." Courseware presentation. 21st Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2016), Araquipa, Peru, July 11-13, 2016. (abstract)
Jeremy Mennis, Michael Mason, Thomas Way, Nikola Zaharakis. "The Role of Tobacco Outlet Density in a Smoking Cessation Intervention for Urban Youth." Health & Place. Jan. 2016. (abstract)
Michael Mason, John Light, Julie Rusby, Erika Westling, Thomas Way, Brian Flay, Nikola Zaharakis. "Parents, Peers, and Places: Young Urban Adolescents' Microsystems and Substance use Involvement." Journal of Child and Family Studies. Dec. 2015. (abstract)
Michael Mason, Jeremy Mennis, Nikola Zaharakis and Thomas Way. "The Dynamic Role of Urban Neighborhood Effects in a Text-Messaging Adolescent Smoking Intervention." Nicotine & Tobacco Research. Dec. 2015. (abstract)
Michael Mason, Jeremy Mennis, Thomas Way, Stephanie Lanza, Michael Russell and Nikola Zaharakis. "Time-Varying Effects of a Text-based Smoking Cessation Intervention for Urban Adolescents." Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Dec. 2015. (pdf)
Michael Mason, John Light, Leah Floyd Campbell, Lori Keyser-Marcus, Stephanie Crewe, Thomas Way, Heather Saunders, Laura King, and Nikola Zaharakis. "Peer Network Counseling: A Randomized Controlled Trial with At-Risk Urban Adolescents." Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. July 2015. (abstract)
Michael Mason, Jeremy Mennis, Thomas Way and Leah Campbell. "Real-Time Readiness to Quit and Peer Smoking within a Text Message Intervention for Adolescent Smokers: Modeling Mechanisms of Change." Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. July 2015, Vol. 59, pages 67–73. (abstract)
Thomas Way, Adam Bemiller, Raghavender Mysari and Corinne Reimers. "Using Google Glass and Machine Learning to Assist People with Memory Deficiencies." The 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI 15), Las Vegas, Nevada, July 27-30, 2015. (pdf)
Michael Mason, Jeremy Mennis, Thomas Way, John Light, Julie Rusby, Erika Westling, Stephanie Crew, Brian Flay, Leah Campbell, Nikola Zaharakis, Chantal McHenry. "Young Adolescents' Perceived Activity Space Risk, Peer Networks, and Substance Use." Health & Place, July 2015, Vol. 34, pages 143-149.
Michael Mason , Leah Campbell, Thomas Way, Lori Keyser-Marcus, Eric G. Benotsch, Jeremy Mennis, Jing Zhang, Laura King, J. May, & D. Stembridge. Development and Outcomes of a Text Messaging Tobacco Cessation Intervention with Urban Adolescents. Substance Abuse. Dec. 2014. Epub 2014 Dec 31. (press)
Thomas Way and Seth Whidden. "A Loosely-Coupled Approach to Interdisciplinary Computer Science Education." The 2014 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FEC 2014), Las Vegas, Nevada, July 21-24, 2014. (pdf)
Michael Mason, Leah Campbell, Jing Zhang, Laura King, Thomas Way, Jeremy Mennis, Lori Keyser-Marcus and Eric Benotsch. "Reducing Teen Tobacco Use Via Text Messaging: Motivational Interviewing (MI) Integrated With Social Network Counseling." Society for Prevention Research, 22nd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, May 27-30, 2014. (abstract) (news article)
Thomas Way, Corinne Reimers, Adam Bemiller and Bill Wagner. "Memory Enhancement using Machine Learning: The GLASSessibility Project." Poster presentation, Google Glass Accessibility Workshop, Mountain View, California, May 15-16, 2014. (pdf)
Jeremy Mennis, Michael J. Mason, John Light, Julie Rusby, Erika Westling, Thomas Way, and Nikola Zaharakis. "Integrating Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) with GPS Data to Study Geographic Characteristics of Adolescent Substance Use: Preliminary Results." Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, April 8-12, 2014. (abstract)
Michael Mason, Eric G. Benotsch, Thomas Way, Hannah Kim, and Daniel Snipes. "Text Messaging to Increase Readiness to Change Alcohol Use in College Students." The Journal of Primary Prevention, Springer US, Oct. 2013, Vol. 31, No. 1, pages 47-52. (pdf) (Wall Street Journal)
Thomas Way, Michael Mason, Eric Benotsch, Hannah Kim and Daniel Snipes. "Design of an Interactive Text Messaging Platform for Problem Alcohol Use Intervention in College Students." The 2013 International Conference on Internet Computing and Big Data (ICOMP 2013), Las Vegas, Nevada, July 22-25, 2013. (pdf)
Thomas Way. "Design of an Interactive Text Messaging Platform for Adolescent Intervention." Presentation in project symposium: Michael Mason, Jeremy Mennis, John Light, Julie Rusby, Erika Westling and Thomas Way. "A Social fMRI: Integrating Mobile Technology, Social Network Analysis, and Ecological Momentary Assessment to Understand the Daily Lives of Adolescents." Society for Prevention Research, 21st Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, May 28-31, 2013. (pdf)
Michael J. Mason, Eric Benotsch, Tom Way, Hannah Kim, and Daniel Snipes. "Increasing Readiness to Change Alcohol Use in Young Adults: A Text-Messaging Intervention." Poster presentation, Society for Prevention Research, 21st Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, May 28-31, 2013. (pdf)
Thomas Carpenter and Thomas Way. "Tracking Sentiment Analysis through Twitter." The 2012 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE 2012), Las Vegas, Nevada, July 16-19, 2012. (pdf)
Vijay Gehlot, Thomas Way and Frank Klassner. "Coexistence of Functional and Object-oriented Paradigms." Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 27, Issue 3, pages 122-129, January, 2012. (pdf)
Vijay Gehlot, Thomas Way and Frank Klassner. "Coexistence of Functional and Object-oriented Paradigms." The 27th Annual Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges - Eastern Conference (CCSCE 2011), Marymount University, Arlington, Virginia, October 14 and 15, 2011. (pdf)
Thomas Carpenter, Gregory Doerfler, Thomas Way and Frank Klassner. "An Approach to Maintaining Viewer Perspective in Interactive Virtual Tours." The 2011 International Conference on Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality (CVGR 2011), Las Vegas, Nevada, July 18-21, 2011. (pdf)
Anthony Dovelle, John Truitt and Thomas Way. "Initial Design of a Software-Based, Tremor-Reduction, Presentation Pointer." The 2011 International Conference on Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality (CVGR 2011), Las Vegas, Nevada, July 18-21, 2011. (pdf)
Ursula Wolz, Lillian Cassel, Thomas Way, Kim Pearson. "Cooperative Expertise for Multidisciplinary Computing." 42nd SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2011), March 2011. (pdf)
Thomas Way, Lillian Cassel, Kim Pearson, Ursula Wolz, Deborah Tatar, Steve Harrison. "A Distributed Expertise Model for Teaching Computing Across Disciplines and Institutions." The 2010 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS 2010), Las Vegas, Nevada, July 12-15, 2010. (pdf)
Thomas Way, Tao Tao and Bryan Wagner. "Compiling Mechanical Nanocomputer Components." Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Volume 10, Issue 2, pages 36-42, April, 2010. (pdf)
Thomas Way. "Procedure Restructuring for Ambitious Optimization." Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany, ISBN 978-3-8383-4506-2, 2010. (Amazon)
Thomas Way and Vijay Gehlot. "Making Service Oriented Architecture Relevant using a Multidisciplinary Approach." Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 25, Issue 3, pages 110-116, January, 2010. (pdf)
Thomas Way and Vijay Gehlot. "Making Service Oriented Architecture Relevant using a Multidisciplinary Approach." The Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges 25th Annual Eastern Conference (CCSCE 2009), Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, October 30 and 31, 2009. (pdf)
Thomas Way and Vijay Gehlot. "Design and Assessment of a Multidisciplinary Course in Service Oriented Architecture." The 2009 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS 2009), Las Vegas, Nevada, July 13-16, 2009. (pdf)
Thomas Way, Sandhya Chandrasekhar and Arun Murthy. "The Agile Research Penultimatum." The 2009 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP 2009), Las Vegas, Nevada, July 13-16, 2009. (pdf)
Lillian Cassel, Thomas Way and Sridhara Potluri. "CPATH: Distributed Expertise - Collaborating with Other Disciplines." Poster presentation.14th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2009), Paris, France, July 6-9, 2009.
Lillian Cassel, Thomas Way and Sridhara Potluri. "CPATH: Distributed Expertise - Collaborating with Other Disciplines." Poster presentation, Sigma Xi Student Research Conference, April 25, 2009. (poster pdf)
Mujtaba Talebi and Thomas Way. "Methods and Metrics for a Green Computer Science Program." SIGCSE Technical Symposium (SIGCSE 2009), March 2009. (pdf) (MS thesis pdf)
Shashank Kaushik and Thomas Way. "Design of an Automatic Password Protection Mechanism for Digital Documents." The International Conference on Security and Management (SAM 2008), Las Vegas, Nevada, July 14-17, 2008. (pdf)
Thomas Way, Rushikesh Katikar, and Purushotham Ch. "Nanocompilation for the Cell Matrix Architecture." The International Conference on Computer Design (CDES 2008), Las Vegas, Nevada, July 14-17, 2008. (pdf)
Michael Mason, Amber Pomponio, Thomas Way, Michael Cuningham, Patricia Zelenak, and Suet Lim. "A Retrospective Chart Review of Adolescent Mental Health in Urban Primary Care." The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Section on Public Health, poster session on public health issues, May 6, 2008. (poster non-final draft pdf)
Thomas Way, Richard Kheir and Louis Bevilacqua. "Achieving Acceptable Accuracy in a Low-Cost, Assistive Note-Taking, Speech Transcription System." The IASTED International Conference on Telehealth and Assistive Technologies (Telehealth/AT 2008), Baltimore, Maryland, April 16-18, 2008. (pdf)
Elliot Sloane, Vijay Gehlot, Tom Way and Robert Beck. "System of Systems Issues for the 2008 US National Healthcare Information Network Remote Patient Monitoring Requirements." The 2nd Annual IEEE Systems Conference (IEEE SysCon 2008), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, April 7-10, 2008. (pdf)
Melissa Corning, Thomas Way, Mary-Angela Papalaskari and Najib Nadi. "Computer Science Workshops from the Villanova Magic School Science Camp." Poster presentation, SIGCSE Technical Symposium (SIGCSE 2008), March 2008. (proposal pdf)
Tom Way. "Using Magic to Teach Computer Science." Workshop tutorial, SIGCSE Technical Symposium (SIGCSE 2008), March 2008.
Karen L. Hess, Mary-Angela Papalaskari, Randy Weinstein, Robert Styer, Thomas Way and Anthony Lagalante. "Special Session: Creation of the Milwaukee School of Magic." 37th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 10-13, 2007. (pdf)
Mary-Angela Papalaskari, Karen L. Hess, Anthony Lagalante, Najib Nadi, Robert Styer, Thomas Way and Randy Weinstein. "Work in Progress: Engineering the Magic School - Creativity and Innovation in Context." 37th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 10-13, 2007. (pdf)
Thomas P Way and Tao Tao. "Compiling a Mechanical Nanocomputer Adder." International Conference on Computer Design (CDES 2007), Las Vegas, Nevada, pages 1-7, electronic proceedings, June 26-28, 2007. (pdf)
Richard Kheir and Thomas Way. "Inclusion of Deaf Students in Computer Science Classes using Real-time Speech Transcription." 12th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2007), Dundee, Scotland, pages 261-265, June 25-27, 2007. (pdf)
Joseph Distasio and Thomas P. Way. "Inclusive Computer Science Education Using a Ready-made Computer Game Framework." 12th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2007), Dundee, Scotland, pages 116-120, June 25-27, 2007. (pdf)
Elliot Sloane, Thomas Way, Vijay Gehlot, Anany Levitin and Robert Beck. "SoSE Modeling and Simulation Approaches to Evaluate Security and Performance Limitations of a Next Generation National Healthcare Information Network (NHIN-2)." IEEE System of Systems Conference, San Antonio, Texas, pages 1-6, electronic proceedings, April 16-18, 2007. (pdf)
Elliot Sloane, Thomas Way, Vijay Gehlot, and Robert Beck. "Using Hybrid SoSE Approaches for Modeling and Validating Large Scale Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) System of Systems as Next-Generation Global Military Informatics Platforms with Colored Petri Nets (CPN) and Extend/MESA" IEEE System of Systems Conference, San Antonio, Texas, pages 1-6, electronic proceedings, April 16-18, 2007. (pdf)
Elliot Sloane, Vijay Gehlot, Robert Beck and Thomas Way. "Conceptual SoS Model and Simulation Systems for a Next Generation National Healthcare Information Network (NHIN-2): Creating a Net-Centric, Extensible, Context Aware, Dynamic Discovery Framework for Robust, Secure, Flexible, Safe, and Reliable Healthcare." 2007 1st Annual IEEE Systems Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, pages 129-134, April 9-12, 2007. (pdf)
Elliot Sloane, Thomas Way, Vijay Gehlot, Robert Beck, James Solderitsch and Elzbieta Dziembowski. "A Hybrid Approach to Modeling and Validating a Large Scale SOA Systems of Systems Using CPN and MESA/Extend." 2007 1st Annual IEEE Systems Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, pages 326-332, April 9-12, 2007. (pdf)
Tom Way. Book chapter on critical thinking, technology literacy and psychic debunking, in "South Park and Philosophy," Edited by Richard Hanley, Open Court Publishing Company, Popular Culture and Philosophy Series, Vol. 26, March 2007.
Thomas Way, Kallie Nordengren, Mary-Angela Papalaskari, Sue Metzger, Najib Nadi, Robert Styer, Melissa Corning and Adam Stepe. "A Novel Multidisciplinary Service Learning Program with a Computer Science Foundation." Poster presentation, SIGCSE Technical Symposium (SIGCSE 2007), March 2007. (proposal pdf) (poster pdf) (photos: one, two)
Thomas Way. "Using Magic to Teach Computer Science." Workshop tutorial, SIGCSE Technical Symposium (SIGCSE 2007), March 2007. (pdf)
Vijay Gehlot, Thomas Way, Robert Beck and Peter DePasquale. "Model Driven Development of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Using Colored Petri Nets." First Workshop on Quality in Modeling, ACM/IEEE 9th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, MoDELS 2006, Genova, Italy, pages 63-77, October 1-6, 2006. (pdf)
Joseph Distasio and Thomas P. Way. "Exploring Computer Science Concepts with a Ready-made Computer Game Framework." Technical Report, http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.LG/0609070, 2006.
M.A. Papalaskari, Karen Hess, Debra Kossman, Sue Metzger, Alain Phares, Robert Styer, Connie Titone, Thomas Way, Randy Weinstein, Francis Wunderlich. "PIVOTS: Service Learning at the Science, Theatre & Magic Boundary." 36th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, San Diego, pages 18-23, October 28-31, 2006. (pdf)
Thomas P. Way and Lori L. Pollock. "Demand-driven Inlining in a Region-based Optimizer for ILP Architectures." Technical Report, http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.DC/0604043, 2006.
Thomas P. Way. "Compilation for Future Nanocomputer Architectues." 2006 International Conference on Computing in Nanotechnology (CNAN'06), Las Vegas, Nevada, pages 251-257, June 2006. (pdf)
Bryan W. Wagner and Thomas P. Way. "MolML: An Abstract Scripting Language for Assembly of Mechanical Nanocomputer Architectures." 2006 International Conference on Computing in Nanotechnology (CNAN'06), Las Vegas, Nevada, pages 258-264, June 2006. (pdf)
Richard Kheir and Thomas Way. "Improving Speech Recognition to Assist Real-time Classroom Note Taking." Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA 2006) Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, pages 1-4, electronic proceedings, June 2006. (pdf)
Timothy M. White and Thomas P. Way. "jFAST: A Java Finite Automata Simulator." SIGCSE Technical Symposium (SIGCSE 2006), pages 384-388, March 2006. (pdf)
Sebastian Niezgoda and Thomas P. Way. "SNITCH: a Software Tool for Detecting Cut and Paste Plagiarism." SIGCSE Technical Symposium (SIGCSE 2006), pages 51-55, March 2006. (pdf) (poster pdf)
Thomas P. Way. "A Virtual Laboratory Model for Encouraging Undergraduate Research." SIGCSE Technical Symposium (SIGCSE 2006), pages 203-207, March 2006. (pdf)
Nicholas DPasquale, Vijay Gehlot and Thomas Way. "Comparative Survey of Approaches to Automatic Parallelization." Mid-Atlantic Student Workshop on Programming Languages and Systems (MASPLAS), 6 pages, Newark, Delaware, 2005. (pdf)
Thomas Way. "A Company-Based Framework for a Software Engineering Course." SIGCSE Technical Symposium (SIGCSE 2005), St. Louis, Missouri, pages 132-136, February 2005. (pdf)
Tom Way and Lori Pollock. "Evaluation of a Region-based Partial Inlining Algorithm for an ILP Optimizing Compiler." IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2002), pages 705-710, Cambridge, Mass., November 2002. (pdf)
Thomas Way, Ben Breech, Wei Du, and Lori Pollock. "A Region-based Partial Inlining Algorithm for an ILP Optimizing Compiler." International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, (PDPTA'02), pages 552-556, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2002. (pdf)
Thomas Way. "Procedure Restructuring for Ambitious Optimization." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Delaware, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, 201 pages, May 2002. (pdf)
Thomas Way, Ben Breech, Wei Du, and Lori Pollock. "Demand-driven Inlining Heuristics in a Region-based Optimizing Compiler for ILP Architectures." IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and systems (PDCS), pages 90-95, Anaheim, CA, August 2001. (pdf)
Thomas Way, Ben Breech, Wei Du, Ves Stoyanov and Lori Pollock. "Using Path-spectra-based Cloning in Region-based Optimization for Instruction-Level Parallelism." ISCA 14th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, (ISCA PDCS), pages 83-90, Richardson, Texas, August 2001. (pdf)
Thomas Way, Ben Breech and Lori Pollock. "Region Formation Analysis with Demand-driven Inlining for Region-based Optimization." International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), pages 24-33, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2000. (pdf)
Tom Way, Ben Breech, Wei Du, Matt Bridges, Ves Stoyanov and Lori Pollock. "The DIRECT Project The Delaware Interprocedural REgion-based Compiler Toolset Project." Poster. Mid-Atlantic Student Workshop on Programming Languages and Systems (MASPLAS), Newark, Delaware, 2000. (pdf)
Matt Bridges, Tom Way and Lori Pollock. "The VIPeR Tool for Visualizing InterProcedural Regions in Compiler Research." Poster. Mid-Atlantic Student Workshop on Programming Languages and Systems (MASPLAS), Newark, Delaware, 2000.
Thomas Way and Lori Pollock. "Using Path Spectra to Direct Function Cloning." In Workshop on Profile and Feedback Directed Compilation at International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques, pages 40-47, Paris, France, 1998. (pdf)
Thomas Way, Cheer-Sun Yang and Lori Pollock. "Potential Performance Enhancements of MIL-STD 188-220A Through Parallelism." 2nd Annual FedLab Symposium, ARL/ATIRP Consortium, pages 301-305, College Park, Maryland, 1998. (pdf)
Thomas Way and Lori Pollock. "Towards Identifying and Monitoring Optimization Impacts." Mid-Atlantic Student Workshop on Programming Languages and Systems (MASPLAS), 11 pages, New Paltz, New York, 1997. (pdf)
Thomas Way and Kenneth Barner. "TACTICS: a Tactile Image Creation System." Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pages 1-3, electronic proceedings, 1997. (pdf)
Kenneth Barner, Richard Foulds, Thomas Way, and Jason Fritz. "Tactile and haptic visualization projects." Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, pages 271-272, Vol. 34, May 1997.
Thomas Way and Kenneth Barner. "Automatic Visual to Tactile Translation, Part I: Human Factors, Access Methods and Image Manipulation." IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering, pages 81-94, March 1997. (pdf)
Thomas Way and Kenneth Barner. "Automatic Visual to Tactile Translation, Part II: Evaluation of the TACTile Image Creation System." IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering, pages 95-105, March 1997. (pdf)
Thomas Way. "Automatic Generation of Tactile Graphics." Master’s Thesis, University of Delaware, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, 133 pages, January, 1997. (pdf)
Thomas Way and Kenneth Barner. "Towards Automatic Generation of Tactile Graphics." Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA), pages 161-163, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1996. (pdf)
Kenneth Barner, Richard Foulds, Thomas Way, and Jason Fritz. "Tactile and haptic interface project." Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, pages 258, Vol. 33, May 1996. (pdf)
Jason Fritz, Thomas Way and Kenneth Barner. "Haptic Representation of Scientific Data for Visually Impaired or Blind Persons." 11th Annual CSUN Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference, pages 1-5, electronic proceedings, Northridge, California, 1996. (pdf)
Co-Investigator with Principal Investigator Dr. Michael Mason. Mason, M.J., Principal Investigator.Mennis, J., Russell, M., Lieberthal, R.D., Khatri, P., Wills, T., Way, T., & Tercyak, K., Co-investigators. National Institutes of Health, NIH Commons: Improving Tobacco Use Cessation in Rural and Urban Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Adolescent Populations via Text-Messaging. Submitted Sept., 2018. Pending review Feb., 2019.
Principal Investigator, "A Google Glass Memory Enhancement Application Using Machine Learning." Google Glass Accessibility Research Awards Program. Submitted February, 2014. Funded March, 2014, $13,500, 4 Google Glass devices ($6,249.68). Funded total: $19,749.68.
Co-Investigator with Principal Investigator Dr. Michael Mason. Mason, M.J., Principal Investigator. Crewe, S., Mennis, J., Light, J., Rusby, J., Westling, E. & Way, T., Co-investigators. National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse. RO1DA031724-01A1: Social-spatial risk and protective mechanisms in urban adolescent substance use. 4/1/12-3/31/17. Funded. $2,901,050.
Co-Investigator with Lillian Cassel (PI) and Paula Matuszek (Co-PI). "Earlier and Broader Access to Machine Learning." National Science Foundation, 2012-2015. Funded. $199,874.
Co-Investigator with Principal Investigator Dr. Michael Mason, and others. "Reducing Teen Tobacco Use Via Text Messaging: Motivational Interviewing Integrated with Social Network Counseling." Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth, RFP #852P014, 7/1/12-6/30/15. Funded August 2012. $449,867.
Co-Investigator with Seth Whidden. "Developing a Cross-Disciplinary Approach: People and Computers, Writing and Translating." Villanova Institute for Teaching and Learning (VITAL), Minigrant program. Submitted March, 2012. Funded May, 2012, $9,700.
Co-Investigator with Vijay Gehlot. "Network Data Mining." Comcast research contract, 2010-2011. Funded. $20,000.
Co-Invesigator with Vijay Gehlot (PI) and Co-PIs Robert Beck and Frank Klassner. "Stake-Holder Asset-based Planning Environment (SHAPE)." Sponsored by Colorado Engineering, Inc. sub-contract from the Department of Defense, 2009-2011. Funded. $112,500.
Co-Investigator with Principal Investigator Dr. Michael Mason. Mason, M.J., Principal Investigator. Mennis, J., Light, J., Rusby, J., Westling, E. & Way, T., Co-investigators. National Institutes of Health, RFA-RM-10-002, Ro1: A longitudinal study of the social-spatial mechanisms in substance use for urban youth. Submitted April 2010. $2,372,508. Not funded.
Co-Investigator with Principal Investigator Dr. Michael Mason. Mason, M.J., Principal Investigator. McKay, J., Drapkin, M., Way, T. Co-investigators. National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, PA-09-146, R34: Motivational Interviewing Integrated with Social Network Intervention for Teens. Funded July 2012. $600,000.
Principal Investigator, "Development of an Interdisciplinary Course on Computing & the Environment." Villanova Institute for Teaching and Learning (VITAL), Minigrant program. Submitted March, 2010, $6,600. Funded May, 2010, $5,500.
Faculty Advisor, "Support Grant for Villanova ACM Student Chapter." Lockheed Martin Corporation, University Relations program. Funded December, 2009, $500.
Co-Principal Investigator, with Dr. Vijay Gehlot, "SOAing Seeds of STEM." National Science Foundation, DUE Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program grant proposal. Submitted May, 2009, $200,000 over two years. Not funded September, 2009.
Technical Expert, with Drs. Frank Klassner, Vijay Gehlot and Mirela Damian, "Peer-to-peer Wi-Fi Networking on Cell Phones." Pennsylvania Technology Collaborative grant proposal in collaboration with Rajant Corporation through Villanova CEET. Submitted September, 2008, $33,000. Not funded.
Technical Consultant, with Drs. Vijay Gehlot and Frank Klassner, "Next Generation Combat System Development Approach." Navy SBIR proposal with SimIS, Inc., through CEET. Submitted June, 2008, CEET portion was $70,000. Not funded.
Technical Consultant, with Dr. Vijay Gehlot, "Automation of Technical Reachback for PMESII Best Practices and Lessons Learned in Stabilization and Reconstruction Environments." Army Phase II STTR proposal, through CEET and in collaboration with Colorado Engineering, Inc., a Villanova-graduate-owned company. Submitted April, 2008, $225,000 over two years. Funded $150,000.
Principal Investigator, "Development of a Nanocompiler Research Framework." National Science Foundation Emerging Models & Technologies program, Nanotechnology for Computing and Communication research area (EMT/NANO) grant proposal. Submitted March, 2008, $444,661. Not funded.
Co-Principal Investigator, with Dr. Lillian Cassel (et al.), "Distributed Expertise in Enhancing Computing Education with Connection to the Arts." National Science Foundation, CISE Pathways to Revitalized Undergraduate Computing Education (CPATH) program grant proposal. Submitted March, 2008, $359,296. Funded $299,000.
Principal Investigator, "Plagiarism Detection and Research Writing Validation." Grant proposal, SIGCSE Special Projects grant program. Awarded August, 2007, $4,000.
Principal Investigator, with Dr. Vijay Gehlot, "A Course on Service-Oriented Architecture Design and Analysis." Villanova Institute for Teaching and Learning (VITAL), Minigrant program. Awarded May, 2007, $8,000.
Principal Investigator, "Applied Research in Computing Enterprise Services (ARCES) Project," for the Center for Excellence in Enterprise Technology (CEET), in cooperation with Gestalt, LLC, U.S. Airforce GCCS-AF, PE 33150F. Awarded 2004, received 2005, $6.3 million three-year contract, $4.3 funded to date.
Equipment. Received grant of Viper-Lite embedded programming development kit from Joseph Gmitter (Villanova MS 2007), May, 2007, value $845.
Equipment. Received grants of Field Programmable Gate Array equipment and software licenses, from Altera Corporation and Xilinx Inc. June, 2005, total value $7,279.
Faculty Award for Innovative Teaching, Villanova University, May 16, 2014.
Media Interviews & Appearances
Live Interview about the "tyranny of the password," Doug McIntyre, TalkRadio KABC 790, Los Angeles, "McIntyre in the Morning" show, July 17, 2014. [link][mp3]
Interview, Ian Bush, "Villanova Univ. Project Turns Google Glass Into ‘Backup Brain’" CBS Philadelphia and KYW Newsradio 1060, July 14, 2014. [link]
Quoted source, Martha Irvine, "T1RED OF P@SSWORDS? Y0U @RE N*T @LONE!" Associated Press, June 26, 2014. [link]
Quoted source, Gloria Goodale, "Google and Amazon expand same-day delivery. Will it work?" Christian Science Monitor, May 5, 2014. [link]
Quoted source, Geoff Williams, "A Guide to Tipping Apps." U.S. News & World Report, April 29, 2014. [link]
Quoted source, Geoff Williams, "5 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Identity Theft." U.S. News & World Report, Dec. 18, 2013. [link]
Quoted source, Geoff Williams, "Should You Invest in Bitcoin?" U.S. News & World Report, May 1, 2013. [link]
Quoted source, Gloria Goodale, "For Facebook IPO, some suitors wary of the big dance." Christian Science Monitor, May 17, 2012. [link]
Quoted source, Associated Press, "3 trillion pigs down, 'Angry Birds' keeps thriving." Associated Press, picked up by over 26 outlets, Dec. 9, 2010. [link][pdf]
Quoted source, Christianna McCausland, "Fix the economy? There's a mobile app for that." Christian Science Monitor, June 28, 2010. [link] | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355817 |
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May 18, 2018 By Phillip Retuta
The Eighth Avenue Aches: WTF MTA?
Since January, I’ve collected data on my commute from my apartment in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn to my work in Columbus Circle, Manhattan: I log the time I leave my home, and I log the time when I enter the door to my office.
When I first moved to my new place in August 2017, I was amazed that it took 30 to 35 minutes to get to work; back at my old apartment in Crown Heights, it took almost an hour to get to Columbus Circle via the 2/3 express trains and transferring to the 1. Riding the A or C train from Bed-Stuy without transferring (and with the subway stations less than a 5-minute walk away), I was finally happy to see that my commute would now be much simpler.
Sometime during the winter, though, I noticed a combination of delayed arrivals and packed trains. If the A train arrived on time, all the subway cars would be so packed, passengers would have to wait for the next train (and in frequent cases, the train after that or even a fourth train). The C train — which runs locally — has a bad habit of arriving 10 minutes apart even during the morning rush hour (I find it acceptable to wait a maximum of 6 minutes for a train on a weekday morning, during the peak hours of 7:30 to 9:30).
It was during one January morning that it took me 2 hours (and transferring between 4 trains) to get to work that I decided to start documenting my commute times. As of writing this post, the express A train (in conjunction with delayed times and packed trains) has been running every 14 minutes during rush hour every morning. If I’m lucky to catch an arriving train, it still takes me almost an hour to get to work as opposed to 35 minutes. On the other hand, if I miss a train, I’m now waiting anywhere from 6 minutes to even 17 minutes for the next train to arrive. Just imagine that, as people who miss a train or simply can’t fit into a subway car, will have to wait for the next train for a long-ass time — only to have more people enter the station and clog up the waiting areas. The congestion that builds up in each of the stations has been unforgivable, and I can tell that my fellow passengers in Brooklyn are getting testy.
Here’s the data I’ve collected so far, bolded times were the typical commute for me back in the summer of 2017:
2018.01.10: 1 Hour, 53 Minutes — A to C to 2 to 1
2018.01.11: 55 Minutes — A
2018.01.16: 55 Minutes — C
2018.01.18: 53 Minutes — C to A
2018.01.22: 52 Minutes — A to F to B
2018.01.23: 1 Hour, 17 Minutes — A
2018.02.26: 1 Hour, 2 Minutes — A
2018.03.05: 1 Hour — A
2018.04.26: 55 Minutes — A to C
I find that these delayed times and packed trains are a combination of a lot of things. First of all, the MTA (and the New York Governor who controls MTA funding) has reduced the number of trains. Top that with the increased number of people moving to the outer boroughs (I’ll save the rant of new high rises, urban displacement, and gentrification for later), there are simply not enough trains and money to accommodate suitable transportation in Brooklyn. God knows I don’t enjoy the yearly subway fare hikes, but that money seems misused if they decide to reduce the number of trains running throughout New York.
I’ve also noticed that the MTA relies on a century-old transit system. The express A train merges with the local C train after three stations and continues to be on one track for about 40% of my commute (I don’t get how the A train from Nostrand Avenue to 59th Street-Columbus Circle is “express” if it’s only 5 less stops than the C train). Once I get past 42 Street in Manhattan, the A then merges with the same track as the D train. Usually, I’ve noticed, it takes me 15 minutes to get from 42nd Street to Columbus Circle; the A train just stops between the 17 blocks between 42nd and 59th, and I see two to three local trains whiz by on the adjacent track. The way I see it: the A train shares the same track as the C train (and the C train later shares the same track as the E train and B train). The D train shares the same set of tracks as the F, B, and M trains. If there’s one problem (say a signal malfunction, stalled train, or sick passenger) on any of these trains, my commute is affected. It’s train traffic at its worst.
Lastly, and I think this is the bane of every New Yorker’s existence: signal problems. All of the MTA’s train traffic runs on a signal system implemented in the 90’s, as a result of this train crash. Although it’s meant to protect the safety of commuters, the signal system has been plagued with numerous problems lately. It’s a system almost 3o years old now, and if there’s a minor problem with a signal (which nowadays is prone to malfunctions), then all train traffic along the affected line stands to a halt.
I’m not too certain if there’s an immediate solution to these problems, but if the New York State is going to annually increase my subway fare and extend my commute to double its time, I’d like the MTA to be less vague about subway delays and more transparent with what they’re doing with our money. Otherwise, I’ll just be continue to be habitually stressed out and rant about it.
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Now that we've all had our fun with the story of the woman who was stomped on by a kangaroo, let's check out this latest episode of When Animals Attack :
Pregnant woman killed by dogs while walking in French forest during hunt
A pregnant woman was killed by dogs in a forest in France as a hunt took place nearby, investigators have said. The 29-year-old woman was walking her own dogs at the time of the attack.
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Feral hogs in Texas attacked and killed a woman outside a home
A Texas woman was found dead after pre-dawn attack by a group of feral hogs outside a home, the Chambers County sheriff said.
Glamor pets.....
Two Carnival cruise ships just collided in Cozumel, Mexico
The Carnival Glory and Carnival Legend collided Friday morning while at port in Cozumel, Mexico, leaving one passenger injured.
And the captains aren't supposed to get any free drinks?
Those are barbaric working conditions.
I'm guessing this "poor unfortunate soul" is the first and only person to be killed by a redwood tree.
A hiker was killed in Muir Woods National Monument after a redwood tree collapsed
A hiker from Minnesota died after a redwood tree collapsed and struck him at Muir Woods National Monument in Northern California, officials said.
I wonder if anyone was there to hear him scream.
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The 1934 Sons Of The Pioneers hit Tumbling Tumbleweeds gave the impression that tumbleweeds are harmless. Obviously that isn't always true.
Tumbleweeds blocked a Washington state highway, trapping people in their cars
This is probably not the way motorists in Washington state wanted to spend their New Year's Eve.
Close call: Video shows massive wave sweeping Santa Cruz County beachgoer away
The beachgoer is OK after a scary run-in with monster waves.
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60 people are injured after a plane dumped jet fuel, hitting six schools around Los Angeles
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by The Crank • February 28, 2013
Today I rant on a subject many know to be true, but few will utter. Most remain fearful of the associated politically correct backlash. Even The Daily Discord initially reviewed this submission and said, “Ahh, Cranko, I danno about dis one.” Who am I kidding? These schmucks will post anything.
As I am following football for a relatively short period of time and have terminal ADHD, I have not yet mastered the jargon, nor am I the armchair/Monday morning quarterback. I am an observer, and I have observed something that no one else talks much about.
You can be the world’s best quarterback, tall and handsome, with a bullet-perfect arm. You can be the most agile wide receiver, able to leap into the air for the game winning catch. You can be the special teams guy that returns the punt for a 99-yard touchdown. And yet you will garner more publicity, accolades and money than in your wildest dreams. The pundits on ESPN, the NFL channel, and sports reports everywhere will talk of you. You will be interviewed many times, and all the fans will be enamored with your smile. Today’s NFL is a testament to the leader, the overachiever, the ‘winner’. There is one glaring problem with this. It’s all bullshit.
The little dirty secret all the quarterbacks and wide receivers keep from the public is this:
they would all be nothing without the ‘beasts’ and the men with tits. Let me explain.
As any QB will tell you, when they get the ball snapped to them and they stand up, what they see is a line of ‘beasts’ all trying to kill them. What stands between them and imminent death? A line of human busses, condos with feet, fleshy brick walls. This is also why in Middle-Earth the orcs followed behind the trolls.
These unsung heroes all share one thing. There is a reason they are not often interviewed. No one will ever accuse any of them of being Mensa material. They are not verbal, and they don’t care. They don’t care what you think. They don’t care how they look on TV. They are all thankful for the opportunity to earn the kind of money most men they grew up with will never see in their lifetime. They take what they do very seriously.
The defensive line: people like The Cardinals’ Darnell Docket; people like the Ravens’ almost retired Ray Lewis; like Green Bay’s Clay Mathews; like The Texans’ JJ Watt—all human/animal hybrids who’s only calling in life is to cause the opposing quarterback monumental grief. Men with arms like our legs, and legs so big they can’t wear Corduroys without generating enough excessive static electricity to power a small city.
They also have to be agile enough to get past the offensive line. Not easy when you are big enough to be mistaken for a city bus.
The ones who get the least fanfare of any in the game are the front of the offensive line. I am talking 6′ 4″ or more, and upwards of 340 pounds. Walking barbeque vacuums. These are men for whom the term “big-ass” is a monumental understatement. These are men whose ass starts just above the back of the knee, and goes on to midway up the spine. These are men whom the quarterback has to watch consume copious amounts of wonderfully gaseous foods, and then has to stand behind while they are bent over. That cannot be a positive experience. These are men whose belly apron regularly hangs down outside their jerseys for all to see, and whose pads will never hide the hairy 44 DD’s hanging from their chests. These are men, however, that the QB entrusts with his life.
These offensive linemen will never catch the game winning touchdown pass. They will never throw the game winning pass. They will never get the big sack that turns the tide of the game. They are there for one reason and one reason only. Stop the beasts/protect the quarterback. They know what their job is and are proud to do it. They don’t look for the accolades for they know none are coming. The only time they know they will make any headlines is if they are so bad at what they do, the term ‘turnstile’ is used to describe them (see AZ Cardinals). These are the true unsung heroes of the NFL. Without them, the QB would have milliseconds to get the ball away. Again, see Arizona Cardinals. Kevin Kolb is not injured, he’s shell shocked at getting his bell rung so many fucking times he now has a permanent twitch.
Once in a great while magic will happen. Once in a while, one of those fat bastards will be in the right place at the right time. In a playoff game I watched recently, the ball got tipped by a beast as it was thrown by the QB. All of a sudden, there was a fat man standing there with the fucking football in his hand. The rest was shown many times in slow-motion.
Screaming with a look of sheer terror on his face, eyes wide open, mouth wide open, there he was, running (well, kind of running) towards the goal line. In slow-mo, you could see his ass having movements one has only seen during the tidal surge of a hurricane. You could see his tits heaving up and down below his pads, like a bizzaro-world Bay Watch slow-mo. You could see his gut alternating slapping himself in the face and hitting his knees on its wild ride into the end zone. You could see him thinking to himself, “oh please God don’t let me drop da ball, oh please God don’t let me drop da ball” as he ran to the goal line. Then, breathing like a freight train and near total exhaustion from his nearly six yard run, he held the ball out in front of him in case he dropped dead before his ass got to the line. In one glorious moment he was there. The only time this fat man will probably ever score a touchdown. He turns to the camera, and with tears in his eyes you see him mouth the words, “Mama, I jus score a touchdown!”
For one brief moment in time, he was THE man. For one brief moment in what will hopefully be a long and successful career as a brick wall, he was the agile wide receiver, scoring the game winning touchdown to a wildly cheering crowd of fans. It was a moment I’m sure he will relive in his mind every time he dons his pads and walks out onto the field and takes his place as just another silent human barrier.
Walk-a-proud fat man, walk-a-proud.
The_Crank@dailyDiscord.com
Go Coyotes! No, Really…You Can Move to Seattle
Wow, nearly three of your fans got to watch you beat the Chicago Blackhawks this year—your first ever playoff series win since moving from Winni-friggin-peg. Wanna know why? The following is the comedy, the tragedy, and the horror that befell one Coyote fan, namely me, during the 2012 playoffs. Damn Mayans. The Hockey Gods frown on you Arizona! They will now probably relocate to Seattle or Hackensack…and who needs a team out in Hackensack? This post has been sent to NHL Commissioner, Gary Bettman and to Captain Coyote, Shane Doan. They will respect my authoritay!
I love Arizona, if it weren’t for all these damn Arizonians. Yes, I am an East coaster and at times like this my condition flares up like a geographic hemorrhoid. For game two I drove down from Flagstaff to Phoenix for this epic event. It was snowing on the Saturday in question. We already had about a foot on the ground. Oh, and I have applied to become a meteorologist in the Flagstaff area as the job obviously comes complete with a medical marijuana card and a lifetime supply of the goods (aka, the weathermen here must be stoned out of their gourds 24/7). I think Punxsutawney Phil could prognosticate better after a lost weekend with Keith Richards on a bucket of shrooms.
Anyway, despite assurances that things would wind down by 11AM, at 1PM it was still snowing heavily. I said screw it and braved Route-17 anyway. I’m a hockey fan, after all, so I can skate. By Munds Park the snow had stopped, but at Camp Verde the passenger side windshield wiper decided to swing all the way over and break the only wiper I actually needed…the one in front of my face. Sears had just replaced the mechanism for the one that just went rogue and had rabidly attacked its driver side counterpart. It was a vicious maneuver not seen since the 2nd game of the Flyer/Penguin series. Of course, Bettman would probably approve a 25 trip suspension for the infraction, wouldn’t ya? Free Raffi!!! Meanwhile, Sears later only replaced one of the wipers. Not having been there themselves, maybe they figured the other wiper had it coming. I am also applying for all the mechanic jobs in my area for that lifetime prescription thing as well.
So, as I climb over the Prescott Mountains, it started raining and sleeting again. I stopped at the Sunset Point rest area to survey the area. My situation was dire. It looked like there was a wall of water on either side of the highway, but there was a narrow opening due south. So I shot the gap and made it safely to New River Road. I cut over to Surprise, jumped in my sister’s truck and made it to the game, unscathed. I enjoyed a beer at McFadden’s, talked hockey with two Canadians–who knew a lot about old time hockey, eh—and two hours later I wanted to shoot my face off, because the Coyotes allowed the tying goal with 5.5 seconds left in the game and then promptly lost in overtime.
Forward to game six…where things get stupid. Admittedly, it’s not entirely the Coyotes’ fault, but I’m a blamer and it’s certainly mostly their fault. Game six is why I wrote this article, so Mr. Bettman and Mr. Doan, pay particular attention to this part.
1PM game day:
I’m stuck at work and can’t check the game’s start time. My work blocks all sports stuff on the internet. Oh, they also block The Daily Discord. The filter, dutifully installed by my fascist IT department, labeled the site either porn or mature content… which is bullshit, because it’s clearly both.
So I must rely on my wife to let me know when the game starts. She said 4PM. It’s Chicago time so this isn’t too unusual. So I dutifully leave work early and head to Maloney’s Pub for the game. Kidding! I always leave work early and head to Maloney’s Pub. Upon arriving, I parked it at a booth and ordered a Guinness. The woman poured the thing straight, not the traditional three quarter pour, and then she promptly forgot to bring it over to me. Well, that’ neither here nor there…actually it’s right over there and I can’t drink it. Then I soon realized the Ottawa/Ranger game is on. I Google NHL.com and find out the Coyote game starts in three hours. Good, maybe she’ll bring me my flipping beer by then! In her defense, there are at least two other patrons in the establishment.
I finished my beer and decided to watch the game at home. My wife swore it said Coyotes/Blackhawks at 4PM but now it appears the game is on CNBC at 6PM, at least according to the guide. So 6PM rolled around and I’m still enjoying American Greed: Scams, Schemes, and Broken Dreams (this would later prove apropos). Who needs hockey playoffs when you have the Bernie Madoff story, right? I’m not complaining; I enjoy a good white collar crime as much as the next guy.
I’m still not worried because I know the game really starts at seven. It’s Arizona, I’m used to this by now. Then, at 6:45PM, CNBC announces on the marquee that the game is blacked out in my area. Shit. Well, the game is on FSA+ at 9PM. All I have to do is text my sister, who has the hockey package, and tell her not to call me if they win. I will also need to avoid certain channels for a while, most of the internet, and I probably shouldn’t leave the house or answer the phone or even talk to anyone. No problem.
Oh wait, Facebook will tell me the scores period for period, which makes me crazy as I DVR some of the games, so I steered clear of that as well. Yahoo Mail would be a bad move too with all the typical razzing.
Shit. I’m the Administrator on Call for my agency this week. I have to answer the phone. Hmmm. This is playoff hockey…what’s the worst that could happen at a psych unit? I shut the bitch off. So all I need to do now is hide for two hours amidst some kind of information-less bubble, a place totally devoid of reality. So, I did what anyone in a similar situation would, I turned on Fox News.
This is like an old joke the Crank told me once…but that’s not what really pissed me off.
At 6:55PM, I switch over to FSA+ and it says Coyote Pre Game Show on the guide. Cool.
COYOTE PRE-GAME SHOW…
Ummm, it was the post game show and they were congratulating goalie Mike Smith on his shutout.
DAMN YOU ARIZONA!!! DAMN YOU COYOTES!!!! DIE, DIE, DIE!!!!!
Sorry, I just had to vent. DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am willing to forgive the NHL, the city of Phoenix, Sudden Link Cable, and Captain Shane Doan if they send me two regular season tickets for next year, provided the team isn’t relocated to Seattle (in which case include some flights from Sky Harbor to Sea-Tac). The seats don’t have to be on the ice or anything fancy, but not nosebleed either. Oh, and I’m only attending if you resign the contract with the Guinness kiosk, which closed recently. I moved my family west, as Horace Greely demanded, for roughly ten reasons. Number three was Jobing.com and the Phoenix Coyotes! and number seven was the coveted Guinness kiosk at Jobing.com. If over four million people in the Valley of the Sun would rather pay $8 a pint for a Budweiser product over $8 for a Guinness—yes, they were the same price (a salary tap?)—then you don’t deserve a professional hockey team! I was just as sad when the Dublin Draughts relocated to Scotland.
P.S. I won’t say no to a party box, in which case I’ll even cover the game for The Daily Discord. You might want to check out some of our posts before you agree to that part. Now don’t get me started on Doan’s first hat trick. Earlier in the season, I missed Doan’s second goal searching for the illusive Guinness kiosk, which closed. Bastards! And when Doan sealed the deal with his third, everyone in my section had just decided to stand up and go back to McFadden’s, presumably due to the lack of Guinness. So as the buzzer sounded and the puck entered the net (Doan scored with zero seconds on the clock), I was tying my shoe. You can’t make this shit up…well, I could but I didn’t.
N.F.L./R.I.P.
by The Crank • March 28, 2011
So here we go. The newest video game is titled “Rich Assholes Battle Rich Assholes II.” Only it ain’t a game and WE, the sports minded public, are the ultimate losers. The economy is so far down ‘le crappeurre that even the Roto-Rooter guy has given up. We have a Pres that picks his experts like Bristol Palin picks boyfriends. We are now in THREE fucking wars, doing well enough in each to make Nam look like a swell idea. We are all doing more with less, which is why I now have a word count limit—or at least that’s what Winslow is telling me.
So what do the team owners and the players do? They hold a juvenile pissing match. And we, the public, are the recipients of said golden hosing. Are they THAT stupid that they think either side can garner public support? No, they aren’t, they just don’t give a shit. They all think that “it” will go on forever, like the Europeans thought about their way of life. And, like the Europeans, they have just run out of “other people’s money.”
Teams have become a thing of the past. Each new team member used to go in wanting to help the team win the championship. Now, they go in wanting to know how long they will have to wait to start their own reality show. How do you justify a ten year contract on a player that will, at best, earn the money for three or four years? Stu-fucking-pidity, that’s how. And, as for stupidity, the Discord staff is the authority in that area, I can assure you.
No one can really afford a ticket anymore. Yeah, let’s go to a game we have to borrow $ to see, buy crap food we will pay exorbitant prices for, and wash it down with lousy beer. Yeah, that’s the ticket. How about renaming it the 7th inning retch? The Yankees found out the hard way with the opening of the ‘New’ Yankee Stadium that you can put any price you want on a seat, but unless you want someone’s smelly food eatin/beer drinkin/fart layin ass in it, you had better make it affordable.
I will put it to them as clearly as possible, if there is or if there is not a football game on opening day, regardless, if the seat prices and TV rights have gone up like crazy, the game will never recover, period. This is a lose/lose sichiashun, here fellas. We The People have all had it up to our collective olfactory with the whole lot of you overpaid Prim donna Neanderthals.
Here’s my own NFL Special Comment:
A notice to all team owners & players, hear ye, hear ye: you are all past triple overtime in your 15 minutes of fame. If the NFL fat lady isn’t singing, she’s pushing her way to the podium. Christine Aguilera was channeling something when she announced before the last Super Bowl, “the twilight’s last reaming.” Nicely put, girlfriend. Don’t go away mad, just tuck yo tails ‘tween yo cheeks and settle this shit, or, well, GTFO…
Super Game XXVIIV
Las Vegas, NV–What’s better on Valentine’s Day than some old football coverage?! Somehow I am back in Vegas for the third time already in 2011, which is three more reasons Bald Tony is considering relocating. I am back at the Riviera covering this Super Game, knowing little about football and even less about roman numerals.
Why am I here, you ask? Well, Tony keeps getting free shit and when he gets free shit, he knows that’s my price. If you read Tony’s article on pizza last week, he mentioned I took this meditation detox challenge thingie…uhh, then he gets three more nights at the Riviera, free booze and food at a Super Game party, and, lo and behold, I fumble the detox challenge. Come to think of it, I don’t believe the detox gods were ever on my side, now Dionysius and Bacchus, those cats have my back (now if only they had my liver).
When Winslow heard we would be at the Super Game party at the Riviera, he insisted one of us cover the event. The bastard. I actually feel other sports are for people who don’t play hockey, but Mr. Winslow can be persuasive…in a Sith Lord kind of way.
2:10 PST – Prior to the big game, Bill O’Reilly interviewed Barak Obama. I had no idea football fans were so informed. I couldn’t hear one word over the rabble at the Queen Victoria Pub, but I’m sure it was fair and balanced.
2:16 PST – It’s time to finish our pints and head to the event. Tony decided to mess with me almost immediately. He vowed not to help me understand the game in any way. The bastard. He won’t even tell me who’s playing. The cheese-headed people wandering about lead to me believe there is a Wisconsin team involved and I thought the other team was the Dallas Cowboys …maybe because the game is being held in Dallas?! But I’m beginning to question this conclusion with all the Steelers fans milling about (have I mentioned I hate football?).
2:22 PST – My pint of liquid coverage is down. It is time to drop off the laptop in the hotel room, grab the old fashioned paper and pen, and report to the Grande Ballroom for the first pitch.
God would want us to cover this important game
2:26 PST – Neither Tony or I have any paper or any writing implements of any kind. So Bald Tony opts to take some pages out of the hotel Bible.
2:34 PST – Pens were obtained even more heretically and then back downstairs and over to the event. The line to enter the Grande Ballroom is long. I’m losing my buzz. Somewhere Jim Morrison is singing your ballroom days are over, baby.
3:23 PST – Did she sing “twilight’s last reaming?” Hmmm. In retrospect it would have been better to live tweet this bitch.
3:31 PST – Announcer states, Packers v Steelers, as if you needed another reminder. OK, so it’s the Packers v the Steelers. Now we’re getting somewhere.
3:35 PST – Thank god the game started, the buffet line is finally clearing.
4:25 PST – At critical point in the action I called fellow Discordian, and avid Steeler fan, Dave Atsals, and told him, “Stop everything you’re doing! I need a picture of Michele Bachman with a penis on her head for an article that posts tomorrow!” Heh, heh.
4:26 PST – People in the immediate vicinity seem perplexed why I shouted “penis on Michele Bachman’s head” into my cell phone.
4:47 PST – Beware of free invitations. Here’s my view during the 7th inning stretch.
4:55 PST – Something just happened. No more guacamole at the bean dip bar!
5:00 PST – Discovered something important and switched from Bud Light from the server to rum and cokes over at the bar.
5:15 PST – Something is happening in the game, but I just tried to use the stirrer as a straw. No liquid has emerged despite my best efforts.
????? – In the end the team with the yellow pants won.
????? – Some minor damages back in the hotel room. Don’t tell Tony…
The next day it was tough to figure out this picture. Not sure, exactly. It was either part of the half time show, or there was something in the bean dip that shouldn’t have been.
Crank on the Super Bowl
The guys in the white hats finally won out over the guys with the black hats. Good has triumphed over evil, yet again. No, I ain’t talking about the final score, per se. I am talking about three particular players that had a lot to do with the score. And, believe it or not, one of these players wasn’t even in the game.
My hat is off to Aaron Rodgers, for many reasons—not the least of which was sitting around in Green Bay, Wisconsin for many years (which I’m sure has its redeeming qualities, like cold, and snow, and wet, and, boring, and, well, being so chock full of northiness). He was probably told years ago by the powers that be that he should be content to hang around for a “little bit.” You see, he was the heir to Brett Faaaaahv-re (beans and a dry Chianti).
“How long can he last?” they said.
“One more season and he’s finished,” they said.
“Any day now” they said.
Yeah, well, that picture of Brett in his basement was getting older by the second.
So he sat around with his thumb up his ass, clip board in the other hand, waiting for Brett to die, for he knew he wasn’t leaving under normal circumstances. Finally the day came. The clouds parted, a light shown upon Aaron as the angelic choir sang. He was now in charge. Little did he know that Mr. Sexting should have quit then. Aaron was sure to be LMAO and LOL and even a little OMG. We all found out that Mr. Look-up-to-me-for-I-am-holier-than-thou was just another rich boy with more money than IQ points—complete with a last name that few can pronounce. Oh, and less respect for women than he has for his Wrangler Jeans. He was now an official member of the Should-have-quit-while-I-was-ahead Idiots Club.
After working his ass off, who does Aaron end up against in the Super Bowl? Why, Mr. Perp hisself, Big Ben Where’s-da-white-women-at’ Roethlisberger. With even mo money and less IQ than Brett, poor Aaron must have been asking “Why God?” Even ex-Steelers quarterbacks and chrome dome Terry Bradshaw have no use for him, and even said so. When Born Again ex-Cardinal’s quarterback Kurt Warner said that Ben was not Hall of Fame material, we all knew his reasoning.
He was the one chosen to beat this juggernaut called the Steelers. And he was the one to show Mr. Sexting that he spent one too fucking many seasons as a quarterback. And “the perp” had his ass handed to him on a silver platter. For those things, I am glad.
Oh, but perhaps more importantly, the commercials all sucked. $3M for 30 seconds? That’s more than Jolie charges (or so I’m told). The Discord only sends me a case of Coke once a year for endless entertainment? By the way…where’s my Coke this year, Winslow?
These companies should have rolled the money into cigars and smoked them for all the business these commercials will bring in. Madison Avenue at its finest. They are all more interested in the Clio Awards than what happens as a result of their follies.
Which brings me to my biggest pet peeve—no it’s not Zano this time. No cheerleaders? Really? What Mensa member made that decision? This is home to the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders and I gotta watch the dance of the drunken John Goodman’s?
“Let’s just show all the fat drunk guys with their naked frozen bellies painted…yeah, that should do the trick.” Hurp Durp.
Most watched TV show of all time?! Good. More people need to see good triumph over evil. Kinda’ like the opposite of Washington DC. I think from now on, in order to get a multimillion dollar contract, the players should have an IQ test. And we need to enforce the current clauses in these contracts with more than just a slap on the ass.
All Hail Tiger Woods
by Dave Atsals • January 18, 2010
Tiger (the name says it all) Woods has been beat up, beat off, ridiculed, and fairly accused of doing what most men can only dream of. To that end I say, All Hail the Tiger! I know many are saying that these are despicable acts he committed that have caused much damage, but, in reality, everyone will be just fine (trust fund me on this).
I know Mindy Laywton is still screaming his name. She’s lucky, for it seems he took her on pro-bono. (Remember Sesame Street? Which one of these is not the other?). After all, a drunken Tiger is not a bad catch for a waitress at a pancake house. Better than I ever got…where’s my pancakes you toothless whore! (hat tip: Shappy). Elin Nordegren, his soon ex-to-be, will end up loaded (and not in the drunk pancake house boinking kind of way). His children Charlie and Sam may be impacted by this in the future, but, hey, at least they have normal names unlike most superstar kids. Most of the child star phenomenon can be linked to poor name choices. I’m talking to you Moon Unit. Besides, neither of them has been hung over balconies, pricked by needles to establish paternity, and both will have a college fund on a NASA budget level.
Tiger seems to be mirroring the life of his idol, Michael Jordan…perhaps taking the phrase I want to be like Mike just a little too seriously. Jordan was also the king in his sport when he ran into gambling and infidelity problems. Like Mike, Tiger is now taking an indefinite leave from his sport. Some of Tiger’s sponsors may be hurt, claiming cost damages of 5-12 billion dollars. Personally any company that has 5-12 billion to spend on Tiger commercials can handle the hit. Besides, past sponsors like Nike, Gillette, and Gatorade will easily be replaced with new ones such as Trojan, Cialis, and Maaco. Rumor has it, Elin is already working out a deal with Spalding to market a new driver called, The Smasher, with the campaign, so many car windows, so little time.
Take a look at some of the reported mistresses: our four waitresses, two from the adult film industry, two models and one cougar. This tells me Tiger is not stuck on himself and does not discriminate based upon age, wealth, weight, or even looks. In fact, it seems as though he is just basically horny and wanted.
These escapades are not surprising to me. The life of a superstar, much like a Daily Discord contributor, is not like the life of your average American nobody (AAN). But let’s face it, everyone can’t handle temptation like a Catholic priest (maybe not the best example, but you get my drift). Many pro athletes have a girlfriend in every city they visit. Wilt Chamberlain, the first sport star to hit a million (and we are not talking dollars), had hundreds of women in every city. These women are not victims. This is what they wanted. Just ask Ben Rothlisberger.
But one question still haunts me: how did a guy with the name Wilt successfully bed so many women?
This does lead back to the steroid question in golf. The PGA has no drug testing policy in place, often sighting the fact that most competitors are fat and out of shape (obviously not steroid users). Besides, if they tested for narcotics, pot, and alcohol, John Daily would be permanently barred from the tour. Even Happy Gilmore may be forced out of the major tournaments. They also believe theirs is a gentleman’s sport where they call their own fouls and trust their member’s integrity. Tiger, after all, is a member of the firmest standing, thanks in part to the untested purple pill. These escapades make me wonder, could he be using steroids? After all, his gentleman image is now down the tubes and his new body-builder-like physic was not gotten at pancake houses while boozing.
To all of this I say, All hail the Tiger. I imagine the new Cialis, “I Want to be like Tiger” campaign is already in the works. It’s simple chemistry: 1 Tiger + one Cougar + two purple pills = one member in very firm standing. And girls…do you have a little Tiger in you?
I need to shave, put on a skirt, and head out to obtain a minimum wage job at the local all night flap jack joint and wait for the call of the wild.
Can you pay $28.00 dollars for a knee brace sold on-line for $545.00 and feel ripped off? I do, thanks to my last escapade with my son’s Orthopedic Doctors Office, and my insurance company. Bring on government run health care, it can’t be any worse than this, I hope.
Please read this disclaimer before reading on:
[If you continue to read more of this article you may feel discomfort on the level of having a large non-vibrating instrument stuck up your ass. You may also come to realize why your insurance rates are so high and why your Doctor, his accountant, every, and any, medical insurance agent, and of course the lawyers are all driving Hummers, and how we pay for them.]
I received a bill yesterday from my sons Doctor’s billing company for the amount of $28.00. This was for a knee brace he needed due to some knee surgery. One might ask, “So why does Mr. Atsals feel discomfort on the level of having a large non-vibrating instrument stuck up his ass?”
It is because of the first line which reads:
Charges Pay/Adj Bal. Due
$1142.00 $1114.00 $28.00
This is not a joke. The orthopedic office claimed $1142.00 from the insurance company for the knee brace which is on sale at www.braceshop.com for $545.00. The insurance company then forwarded $1114.00 to the Dr.’s office and billed me the difference of $28.00.
On second thought it might just have been worth the $28.00 for the convenience of waiting a week for the doctor’s office to get the knee brace in and then being able to pick it up, instead of having it delivered, for free, right to my door. After all if I paid for the brace myself and did not have the $598.28 taken out of my check for my insurance this month I would have pocketed $53.28 this month. Hell for $81.28 I could buy Mick Zano a Hummer from his favorite Thai hooker. (Note to Mick: 53.28 + 28.00 = 81.28).
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In Cold Blood (Modern Library Nonfiction #96)
Truman Capote’s well-known book is certainly lurid and gripping, but why do we overlook its flimsy factual foundation and give into its carnival-like approach?
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(This is the fifth entry in The Modern Library Nonfiction Challenge, an ambitious project to read and write about the Modern Library Nonfiction books from #100 to #1. There is also The Modern Library Reading Challenge, a fiction-based counterpart to this list. Previous entry: The Journalist and the Murderer.)
Truman Capote was a feverish liar and a frenzied opportunist from the first moment his high voice pierced the walls of a literary elite eager to filth up its antimacassars with gossip. He used his looks to present himself as a child prodigy, famously photographed in languorous repose by Harold Halma to incite intrigue and controversy. He claimed to win national awards for his high school writing that no scholar has ever been able to turn up. He escorted the nearly blind James Thurber to his dalliances with secretaries and deliberately put on Thurber’s socks inside out so that his wife would notice, later boasting that one secretary was “the ugliest thing you’ve ever seen.” Biographer Gerald Clarke chronicled how Capote befriended New Yorker office manager Daise Terry, who was feared and disliked by many at the magazine, because he knew she could help him. (Capote’s tactics paid off. Terry gave him the easiest job on staff: copyboy on the art department.) If Capote wanted to know you, he wanted to use you. But the beginnings of a man willing to do just about anything to get ahead can be found in his early childhood.
Capote’s cousin Jennings Faulk Carter once described young Truman coming up with the idea of charging admission for a circus. Capote had heard a story in the local paper about a two-headed chicken. Lacking the creative talent to build a chicken himself, he enlisted Carter and Harper Lee for this faux poultry con. The two accomplices never saw any of the money. Decades later, Capote would escalate this tactic on a grander scale, earning millions of dollars and great renown for hoisting a literary big top over a small Kansas town after reading a 300 word item about a family murder in The New York Times. Harper Lee would be dragged into this carnival as well.
The tale of how two frightening men murdered four members of the Clutter family for a pittance and created a climate of fear in the surrounding rural area (and later the nation) is very familiar to nearly anyone who reads, buttressed by the gritty 1967 film (featuring a pre-The Walking Dead Scott Wilson as Dick Hickock and a pre-Bonnie Lee Bakley murder Robert Blake as Perry Smith) and a deservedly acclaimed 2005 film featuring the late great Philip Seymour Hoffman as Capote. But what is not so discussed is the rather flimsy foundation on which this “masterpiece” has been built.
Years before “based on a true story” became a risible cliche, Capote and his publicists framed In Cold Blood‘s authenticity around Capote’s purported accuracy. Yet the book itself contains many gaping holes in which we have only Smith and Hickock’s words, twisted further by Capote. What are we to make of Bill and Johnny — a boy and his grandfather who Smith and Hickock pick up for a roadside soda bottle-collecting adventure to make a few bucks? In our modern age, we would demand the competent journalist to track these two side characters down, to compare their accounts with those of Smith and Hickock. Capote claims that these two had once lived with the boy’s aunt on a farm near Shreveport, Louisiana, yet no independent party appears to have corroborated their identities. Did Capote (or Hickock and Smith) make them up? Does the episode really contribute to our understanding of the killers’ pathology? One doesn’t need to be aware of a recent DNA test that disproved Hickock and Smith’s involvement with the quadruple murder of the Walker family in Sarasota County, Florida, taking place one month after the Clutter murders, to see that Capote is more interested in holding up the funhouse mirror to impart specious complicity:
Hickock consented to take the [polygraph] test and so did Smith, who told Kansas authorities, “I remarked at the time, I said to Dick, I’ll bet whoever did this must be somebody that read about what happened out here in Kansas. A nut.” The results of the test, to the dismay of Osprey’s sheriff as well as Alvin Dewey, who does not believe in exceptional circumstances, were decisively negative.
Never mind that polygraph tests are inaccurate. It isn’t so much Hickock and Smith’s motivations that Capote was interested in. He was more concerned with stretching out a sense of amorphous terror on a wide canvas. As Hickock and Smith await to be hanged, they encounter Lowell Lee Andrews in the adjacent cell. He is a fiercely intelligent, corpulent eighteen-year-old boy who fulfilled his dormant dreams of murdering his family, but Capote’s portrait leaves little room for subtlety:
For the secret Lowell Lee, the one concealed inside the shy church going biology student, fancied himself an ice-hearted master criminal: he wanted to wear gangsterish silk shirts and drive scarlet sports cars; he wanted to be recognized as no mere bespectacled, bookish, overweight, virginal schoolboy; and while he did not dislike any member of his family, at least not consciously, murdering them seemed the swiftest, most sensible way of implementing the fantasies that possessed him.
We have modifiers (“shy,” “ice-hearted,” “gangsterish,” “silk,” “scarlet,” “bespectacled,” “bookish,” “virginal,” “swiftest,” and “sensible”) that conjure up a fantasy atop the fantasy, that suggest relativism to the two main heavies, but there is little room for subtlety or for any doubt in the reader’s mind. Capote does bring up the fact that Andrews suffered from schizophrenia, but diminishes this mental illness by calling it “simple” before dredging up the M’Naghten Rule, which was devised in 1843 (still on the books well before psychiatry existed and predicated upon a 19th century standard) to exclude any insanity defense whereby the accused recognizes right from wrong. But he has already tarnished Andrews with testimony from Dr. Joseph Satten: “He considered himself the only important, only significant person in the world. And in his own seclusive world it seemed to him just as right to kill his mother as to kill an animal or a fly.” I certainly don’t want to defend Andrews’s crime (much less the Clutter family murders), but this conveniently pat assessment does ignore more difficult and far more interesting questions that Capote lacks the coherence, the empathy, or the candor to confess his own contradictions to pursue. Many pages before, in relation to Hickock, Capote calls M’Naghten “a formula quite color-blind to any gradations between black and white.” In other words, Capote is the worst kind of journalist: a cherry-picking sensationalist who applies standards as he sees fit, heavily steering the reader’s opinion even as he feigns objectivity. The ethical reader reads In Cold Blood in the 21st century, wanting Katherine Boo to emerge from the future through a wormhole, if only to open up a can of whoopass on Capote for these egregious and often thoughtless indiscretions.
Capote’s decision to remove himself from the crisp, lurid story was commended by many during In Cold Blood‘s immediate reception as a feat of unparalleled objectivity, with the “nonfiction novel” label sticking to the book like a trendy hashtag that hipsters refuse to surrender, but I think Cynthia Ozick described the thorny predicament best in her infamous driveby on Capote (collected in Art & Ardor): “Essence without existence; to achieve the alp of truth without the risk of the footing.” If we accept any novel — whether “nonfiction” or fully imaginative — as some sinister or benign cousin to the essay, as a reasonably honest attempt to reckon with the human experience through invention, then In Cold Blood is a failure: the work of a man who sat idly in his tony Manhattan spread with cadged notebooks and totaled recall of aggressively acquired conversations even as his murderous subjects begged their “friend” to help them escape the hangman’s noose.
In 2013, Slate‘s Ben Yagoda described numerous factual indiscretions, revealing that editor William Shawn had penciled in “How know?” on the New Yorker galley proofs of Capote’s four part opus (In Cold Blood first appeared in magazine form). That same year, the Wall Street Journal uncovered new evidence from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, which revealed that the KBI did not, upon receiving intelligence from informant Floyd Wells, swiftly dispatch agent Harold Nye to the farmhouse where Richard Hickock had lodged. (“It was as though some visitor were expected,” writes Capote. Expected by Hickock’s father or an author conveniently tampering his narrative like a subway commuter feverishly filling in a sudoku puzzle?) As Jack de Bellis has observed, Capote’s revisions from New Yorker articles to book form revealed Capote’s feeble command of time, directions, and even specific places. But de Bellis’s examination revealed more descriptive imprudence, such as Capote shifting a line on how Perry “couldn’t stand” another prisoner to “could have boiled him in oil” (“How know?” we can ask today), along with many efforts to coarsen the language and tweak punctuation for a sensationalist audience.
And then there is the propped up hero Alvin Dewey, presented by Capote as a tireless investigator who consumes almost nothing but coffee and who loses twenty pounds: a police procedural stereotype if ever there was one. Dewey disputes closing his eyes during the execution and the closing scene of Dewey meeting Nancy Clutter’s best friend, Susan Kidwell, in a cemetery is not only invented, but heavily mimics the belabored ending of Capote’s 1951 novel, The Grass Harp. But then “Foxy” Dewey and Capote were tighter than a pair of frisky lovers holed up for a week in a seedy motel.
Capote was not only granted unprecedented access to internal documents, but Capote’s papers reveal that Dewey provided Capote with stage directions in the police interview transcripts. (One such annotation reads “Perry turns white. Looked at the ceiling. Swallows.”) There is also the highly suspect payola of Columbia Pictures offering Dewey’s wife a job as a consultant on the 1965 film for a fairly substantial fee. Harold Nye, another investigator whose contributions have been smudged out of the history told Charles J. Shields in a December 30, 2002 interview (quoted in Mockingbird), “I really got upset when I know that Al [Dewey] gave them a full set of the reports. That was like committing the largest sin there was, because the bureau absolutely would not stand for that at all. If it would have been found out, he would have been discharged immediately from the bureau.”
In fact, Harold Nye and other KBI agents did much of the footwork that Capote attributes to Dewey. Nye was so incensed by Capote’s prevarications that he read 115 pages of In Cold Blood before hurling the book across the living room. And in the last few years, the Nye family has been fighting to reveal the details inside two tattered notebooks that contain revelations about the Clutter killings that may drastically challenge Capote’s narrative.
Yet even before this, Capote’s magnum opus was up for debate. In June 1966, Esquire published an article by Phillip K. Tompkins challenging Capote’s alleged objectivity. He journeyed to Kansas and discovered that Nancy Clutter’s boyfriend was hardly the ace athlete (“And now, after helping clear the dining table of all its holiday dishes, that was what he decided to do that — put on a sweatshirt and go for a run.”) that Capote presented him as, that Nancy’s horse was sold for a higher sum to the father of the local postmaster rather than “a Mennonite farmer who said he might use her for plowing,” and that the undersheriff’s wife disputed Capote’s account:
During our telephone conversation, Mrs. Meier repeatedly told me that she never heard Perry cry; that on the day in question she was in her bedroom, not the kitchen; that she did not turn on the radio to drown out the sound of crying; that she did not hold Perry’s hand; that she did not hear Perry say, ‘I’m embraced by shame.’ And finally – that she had never told such things to Capote. Ms. Meier told me repeatedly and firmly, in her gentle way, that these things were not true.
(For more on Capote’s libertine liberties, see Chapter 4 of Ralph F. Voss’s Truman Capote and the Legacy of In Cold Blood.)
Confronted by these many disgraceful distortions, we are left to ignore the “journalist” and assess the execution. On a strictly showboating criteria, In Cold Blood succeeds and captures our imagination, even if one feels compelled to take a cold shower knowing that Capote’s factual indiscretions were committed with a blatant disregard for the truth, not unlike two psychopaths murdering a family because they believed the Clutters possessed a safe bountiful with riches. One admires the way that Capote describes newsmen “[slapping] frozen ears with ungloved, freezing hands,” even as one winces at the way Capote plays into patriarchal shorthand when Nye “visits” Barbara Johnson (Perry Smith’s only surviving sister: the other two committed suicide), describing her father as a “real man” who had once “survived a winter alone in the Alaskan wilderness.” The strained metaphor of two gray tomcats — “thin, dirty strays with strange and clever habits” – wandering around Garden City during the Smith-Hickcock trial allows Capote to pad out his narrative after he has exhausted his supply of “flat,” “dull,” “dusty,” “austere,” and “stark” to describe Kansas in the manner of some sheltered socialite referencing the “flyover states.” Yet for all these cliches, In Cold Blood contains an inexplicably hypnotic allure, a hold upon our attention even as the book remains aggressively committed to the facile conclusion that the world is populated by people capable of murdering a family over an amount somewhere “between forty and fifty dollars.” As Jimmy Breslin put it (quoted in M. Thomas Inge’s Conversations with Truman Capote), “This Capote steps in with flat, objective, terrible realism. And suddenly there is nothing else you want to read.”
That the book endures — and is even being adapted into a forthcoming “miniseries event’ by playwright Kevin Hood — speaks to an incurable gossipy strain in Western culture, one reinforced by the recent success of the podcast Serial and the television series The Jinx. It isn’t so much the facts that concern our preoccupation with true crime, but the sense that we are vicariously aligned with the fallible journalist pursuing the story, who we can entrust to dig up scandalous dirt as we crack open our peanuts waiting for the next act. If the investigator is honest about her inadequacies, as Serial‘s Sarah Koenig most certainly was, the results can provide breathtaking insight into the manner in which we incriminate other people with our emotional assumptions and our fallible memories and superficially examined evidence. But if the “journalist” removes himself from culpability, presenting himself as some demigod beyond question or reproach (Capote’s varying percentages of total recall memory certainly feel like some newly wrangled whiz kid bragging about his chops before the knowledge bowl), then the author is not so much a sensitive artist seeking new ways inside the darkest realm of humanity, but a crude huckster occupying an outsize stage, waiting to grab his lucrative check and attentive accolades while the real victims of devastation weep over concerns that are far more human and far more deserving of our attention. We can remove the elephants from the lineup, but the circus train still rolls on.
Next Up: The Promise of American Life by Herbert Croly!
February 4, 2015 by Edward Champion
The Harper Lee Question
Harper Lee will be publishing a second novel, set twenty years after TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. But is this the right time to publish it? And will this have any deleterious effect on Lee’s legacy?
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On February 3, 2015, a bold wave of joy and jubilation jolted the dry fields of the publishing industry. Harper Lee had written a second novel, Go Set a Watchman. It was set to be published in July. It was a 304-page sequel to her celebrated masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird, and was set twenty years later, following Scout’s further adventures as she revisits her principled father, Atticus Finch, in the 1950s.
It didn’t take long for the skeptics to pop out of the funhouse. One cri de coeur came from Jezebel‘s Madeleine Davies, who cited Lee’s problematic relationship with her attorney Tonja Carter and pointed to how Alice Lee claimed that her sister did not always understand the contracts she signed (a charge that can equally apply to many writers, who traditionally aren’t in the habit of minding the store). There was also Lee’s copyright lawsuit against her agent Samuel Pinkus, which was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum. Pinkus had transferred the Mockingbird copyright to his company Veritas Media Inc. as Lee’s health declined. It was a classic case of a venal opportunist exploiting an undisputedly brilliant artist and moving in for the kill. With the settlement terms behind closed doors, we still don’t know how much of the copyright or the Mockingbird commissions Lee has actually received. (Lee and Pinkus’s attorneys did not respond to requests for comment from Business Insider‘s Erin Fuchs.)
So there are underlying concerns about Go Set a Watchman. Was the publication of this second novel motivated by financial need? Had Lee been pressured to dust off a manuscript that had been sitting around for decades? Why did Lee’s attorney, who discovered the manuscript, push to have Watchman published? This was, after all, the manuscript that Lee had set aside before writing Mockingbird. It may be an embryo rather than a bouncing baby.
Watchman will undoubtedly be of great interest to the waning population that still reads. But doesn’t an author have the right to keep her early manuscripts unpublished? Lee obviously made the choice, but if she was squeezed into this last hurrah, there’s something unsavory about an author so beloved and renowned, one who has steadfastly avoided publicity, being coerced into showing off her apprentice work, especially if this manuscript has not been significantly edited or revised in the years since.
Indeed, when a genius’s undercooked work gets published, it can often backfire. In 2012, David Foster Wallace’s remaining nonfiction scraps were published as Both Flesh and Not and the mixed results, accompanied by a condescending list of vocabulary words used by Wallace, diminished his clear talent. And because of efforts like this (and the rushed D.T. Max biography), a DFW backlash developed.
It’s possible that Watchman will be a great book. As someone who was deeply moved by Mockingbird the three times I read it, I certainly hope it will be. Of course, one should certainly not venture an opinion about it until reading the damn thing in full. But if Watchman is a dog and there are any honest literary critics left in this gutless age of “No haters!” and trigger warnings, then Lee will be alive to witness the excoriations. The public may likewise measure Watchman by Mockingbird‘s yardstick.
Harper Lee is a national treasure. Given Mockingbird‘s great reach into the American cultural landscape, she has more than earned her right to be heralded, celebrated, and otherwise declared the bee’s knees. But Watchman is not Lee’s most recent work. To Kill a Mockingbird is. Watchman is a historical document, a book that should be published after Lee’s death when people are in a better position to judge her totality. It is a crassly commercial decision, not a scholarly one, that motivates this publication.
May 13, 2011 June 24, 2012 by Edward Champion
Review: Hey, Boo (2010)
A new hagiographical documentary on Harper Lee offers the finest cinematic aesthetic that 1986 has to offer. But that’s the least of its problems.
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Hey, Boo, a largely hagiographical overview of the great Harper Lee, has the finest cinematic aesthetic that 1986 has to offer. Or maybe with all of the talking heads, it’s the finest television aesthetic. I wasn’t surprised to learn that the film’s director, Mary McDonagh Murphy, worked at CBS News for twenty years. Unfortunately, this experience has translated into a indolent, superficial, and largely unhelpful film in which we get to see Oprah Winfrey tell us how she “devooooooooooooooured” To Kill a Mockingbird when she first read it. We must endure the unctuous Scott Turow, who has resembled an empty oil barrel both in look and intelligence since his divorce, commending Lee’s “bravery” in writing about race in 1964. But given the novel’s quiet and diligent origins (Lee given a check by her friends Joy & Michael Brown to write anything she wanted for a year, nervous first editorial meeting at Lippincott, two years of vigorous editing), wasn’t Lee’s purpose less about shaking up the social landscape and more about writing the best novel she could? Hasn’t Turow been around the block enough times to comprehend that writers, even those who pen masterpieces like Mockingbird, often become blockbuster successes by fluke?
You’d think that Murphy would question her subjects. After all, there’s no point in including big names unless they have something to say. (Even Wally Lamb, while offering quasi-generalizations about Scout being “an extension of a Huck Finn character,” comes across as fairly thoughtful.) But Murphy isn’t especially interested in nuance. Her narrative is damaged by her editor’s tendency to kill the mood, lopping off crackling moments just as they’re catching fire. When Murphy’s camera briefly escapes the studio and enters the field, I was genuinely stunned that the filmmakers had managed to get off their sedentary asses. Talking with kids about what Mockingbird means to them is a foolproof method of investigating Harper Lee’s durability. But just as these future readers are getting jazzed up, the editor then cuts back to the literary luminaries (which include Tom Brokaw, for some inexplicable reason) sitting in chairs, doing their best to sustain excitement as their collective wisdom is reduced to audience-friendly platitudes. Richard Russo begins telling an interesting story about his father, only for the tale to be killed at press of a button. (You don’t give Richard Russo the cane. You let the man talk. Especially when your “feature” documentary is only 82 minutes. If this is Murphy’s idea of inclusiveness, why did she bother to include it?)
Murphy is also fond of simplifying her story, perhaps because she is terrified by the prospect of challenging an audience. When Lee’s childhood friend Truman Capote is brought up, he is, of course, portrayed as an inveterate wastrel. But even accounting for Capote’s jealousy (which involved spinning prevarications that he had secretly written Mockingbird and that Lee’s mother was mentally unbalanced, even attempting to kill the young Lee twice), one cannot easily ignore that Capote was Lee’s best friend during a significant period of her life and that, contrary to the film’s insinuations, Capote and Lee reportedly stayed in contact up to the former’s death in 1984.
Lee, by contrast, is an angel who can do no wrong. It never occurs to Murphy (or her subjects, at least as they appear on camera) that Lee had her faults: her failure to complete books (including an In Cold Blood-like project she abandoned in the 1990s, never mentioned in the film), a refusal to suffer fools, and a sensitivity to anybody bringing up To Kill a Mockingbird in person. Efforts to reveal some of these complexities, an admittedly difficult proposition, can be found in Charles Shields’s Mockingbird. There are faults with Shields and his book, but the man has pounded the pavement. You’d think that Murphy would enlist him to be part of this project, but, rather tellingly, Murphy hasn’t interviewed him.
While we aren’t privy to Murphy’s questions, one senses that she has fired little more than softballs at her subjects. For fascinating figures such as Lee’s lively 99-year-old sister, Alice Finch Lee, this isn’t a problem. Alice speaks her mind, irrespective of the interlocutor’s deficiencies. But it does become a thorny issue when Murphy elicits answers from one especially sheltered Caucasian writer (“to be crying for a black man was so taboo!”) and when James Patterson, with typical hubris, compares his own hackwork to Lee’s (“Lee kept building and building and building. Obviously, I try to do this with my work.”). Such crass remarks demand that an interviewer call bullshit. But Murphy is a head nodder rather than a listener. When the distinguished Andrew Young says “not a lot of black people read” Mockingbird back in 1960, one wishes that Murphy had the capacity to pursue the bigger picture instead of waiting around for the power quotes. | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355851 |
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Tajikistan continues to prosecute and jail religious believers for their ideas, not their actions, Forum 18 News Service has found. 92 followers of the banned Jamaat Tabligh Muslim religious movement have been punished with lengthy prison sentences and huge fines. 32 of these Muslims were yesterday (18 May) given prison terms of between three and six years, with fines of up to 25,000 Somonis (34,320 Norwegian Kroner, 4,330 Euros or 5,340 US Dollars) being imposed on the remaining four followers, a Tajik lawyer who wished to remain anonymous told Forum 18. One of the 36 Muslims complained to Forum 18 that he "does not understand why we should be prosecuted for peacefully praying in mosques and propagating Islam." Asked what exactly the 36 Muslims had done to be punished, Judge Azizova said that it was established that they belonged to the banned Jamaat Tabligh movement. Seven followers of the banned Salafi Muslim school of thought have also been given jail sentences. Meanwhile, the NSC secret police has re-opened criminal cases against 17 members of the banned Jehovah's Witnesses.
Tajikistan continues to prosecute and jail religious believers for their ideas, not their actions, Forum 18 News Service has found. 92 followers of the banned Jamaat Tabligh Muslim religious movement have been punished with lengthy prison sentences and huge fines, 36 of them yesterday (18 May), and seven followers of the banned Salafi Muslim school of thought have been given jail sentences. Meanwhile, the National Security Committee (NSC) secret police has re-opened criminal cases against 17 members of the banned Jehovah's Witnesses religious community.
Both court and other officials in all these cases have refused to explain what Jamaat Tabligh, Salafi followers or Jehovah's Witnesses have done, to merit either prosecution or severe punishment.
Saidbeg Mahmadulloyev, a senior official of the state Religious Affairs Committee refused to comment on the arrests and criminal investigations on 18 May. He told Forum 18 that the renamed Religious Affairs Committee – formerly the Head Department for Religious Affairs (HDRA) - has a new Chair and Deputy Chair, to whom he is subordinated. He was formerly Deputy Head of the HDRA, and the new Committee like the HDRA reports to President Emomali Rahmon. "The Chair and Deputy Chair will not give comments at the moment, since they are involved in organisational issues," Mahmadulloyev stated.
Tajikistan's Presidential Administration told Forum 18 on 19 May that Abdurahim Kholiqov and Mavlon Mukhtarov were on 11 May appointed by President Rahmon as the new Chair and Deputy Chair of the Committee. This retains the HDRA's responsibilities for giving legal status to and re-registering religious communities.
HDRA officials insisted that unregistered activity is "illegal" (see F18News 15 April 2010 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1431).
Hikmatullo Saifullozoda of the Islamic Revival Party (IRP) said that both Jamaat Tabligh and the Salafi movements have been peaceful in Tajikistan. Local human rights defenders, who wish to remain anonymous, have also stated this to Forum 18. Saifullozoda told Forum 18 on 18 May that he believes the reason for the ban of these movements was that they did not "exactly follow the Islam prescribed by the Council of Ulems, which is submitted to the President." The state-favoured Council of Ulems (Islamic scholars) replaced the former Muftiate or Spiritual Board of Muslims. It has long been seen as an instrument of state control (see F18News 8 June 2006 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=796).
Jamaat Tabligh convictions
Around 93 Jamaat Tabligh followers were arrested in April 2009, although the authorities claimed that the figure "much smaller than 93" (see F18News 15 May 2009 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1297).
All 92 of the Jamaat Tabligh followers were convicted under Criminal Code Article 307-3 ("Organising the activity of political parties, social or religious organisations, or other organisations, liquidated or banned by a court for extremist activity"). Part 1 specifies prison terms of between five and seven years for leaders of such organisations. Part 2 of the same Article specifies fines of between 1,000 and 2,000 times the 'minimum calculation index' - 25 Somonis before 1 July 2009 and from this date 35 Somonis - or prison terms of between three and five years for those participating in such organisations.
The 18 May convictions
36 Jamaat Tabligh followers were convicted yesterday (18 May) in the Khatlon Regional Court in the south-western city of Kurganteppa [Qurghonteppa]. Judge Ikrom Abdukhafizov handed down prison terms of between three and six years to 32 followers, and fines of up to 25,000 Somonis (34,320 Norwegian Kroner, 4,330 Euros or 5,340 US Dollars) to four followers, a Tajik lawyer who wished to remain anonymous told Forum on 18 May.
The lawyer stated that the Court "did not find anything unlawful" in the actions of their defendants, except that they belonged to the banned Jamaat Tabligh movement. "The defendants totally denied that they had done anything unlawful," he said. "Some of the defendants said to the court that they were ready to pay fines, but that they should not be punished so harshly," he added. "However the court did not listen to their pleading, punishing most of them with prison terms."
Phones at the Regional Court went unanswered on 18 May. The trial of the 36 which began in December 2009 and continued until 3 May, On 14 May, Judge Muhabbat Azizova, Chair of the Khatlon Court, told Forum 18 that it is "not unusual for the panel to take a lengthy period of time in delivering the decision in such cases."
Why were the 36 Muslims arrested and prosecuted?
One of the 36 Muslims complained to Forum 18 on 14 May that he "does not understand why we should be prosecuted for peacefully praying in mosques and propagating Islam."
Asked what exactly the 36 Muslims had done to be punished, Judge Azizova said that it was established that they belonged to the banned Jamaat Tabligh movement.
For the details of the case Judge Azizova referred Forum 18 to Judge Abdukhafizov. However, Judge Abdukhafizov could not be reached between 12 and 18 May.
The 36 were accused under Criminal Code Article 307 ("Organising the activity of political parties, social or religious organisations, or other organisations, liquidated or banned by a court for extremist activity") by the Khatlon regional NSC secret police, in an indictment which Forum 18 has seen. It was signed on 14 October 2009 by N. Ahmedov, the Chief of the NSC Investigation Department, and endorsed on 4 November 2009 by A. Rahimov, Khatlon Regional Prosecutor.
17 people were accused under Article 307 Part 1, and they were named as: Igbolsho, Amirali and Murodali Davlatovs (brothers), Nosir Rakhimov, Doniyor Khashimov, Saynurdin Kalugshoyev, Churabek Saidzoda, Jamshed Boyakov, Mahkamjon Azizov, Umarjon Azizov, Nasrullo Khisomov, Talabsho Abdusamadov, Abdumanon Sattorov, Khudaydod Alnazarov, Churakhon Mirzoyev, Toirjon Samadov and Abduvali Murodov.
19 were accused under Part 2: Raufjon Sherov, Jaloliddin Nasrullayev, Abdukahor Sattorov, Rahmonazi Talibov, Ismoil Mahmudov, Mahmadjon Bakiyev, Faridun Boboyev, Suhrob Temirov, Nemat Sanginov, Habibullo Sharipov, Azizhudja Salimov, Ahmad Valiyev, Erkin Abduhalilov, Rustam Boymuhamedov, Bashir Saidov, Saidkomil Khalov, Muhibullo Rahmonov, Abdujabbor Izzatullayev and Mahmadali Kurbonov.
Was the ban on Jamaat Tabligh ever published?
The indictment claims that Tajikistan's Supreme Court banned Jamaat Tabligh on 30 March 2006. Tajik authorities have made this claim in the past, but other Tajik sources have told Forum 18 that – if the movement was banned in 2006 - the ban was not made public (see F18News 15 May 2009 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1297).
The accused Jamaat Tabligh follower told Forum 18 that he and his co-believers were not aware of any ban of Jamaat Tabligh movement before the criminal case was opened against them in 2009. "Neither official newspapers nor television channels have published such information until now," he complained. "Why didn't they stop us before, and why open a criminal case three years after the alleged ban," he asked. "We freely attended mosques for prayers all that time."
The phones of the Regional Prosecution officials went unanswered between 12 and 14 May.
Judge Azizova could not tell Forum 18 where and when exactly the Supreme Court's decision to ban Jamaat Tabligh was published. "The movement was banned in 2006," she responded. "You need to look for it in the Supreme Court archives." Asked why followers of the movement were allowed to freely attend prayers and carry on their activity until April 2009, when they were arrested, Judge Azizova said: "Well the Judge leading the case would know those details. I guess it was later identified that these were the Jamaat Tabligh followers."
March 2010 convictions
The Supreme Court in early March convicted 56 Jamaat Tabligh followers, in a case which began in December 2009, under the Criminal Code's Article 307-3 ("Organising the activity of political parties, social or religious organisations, or other organisations, liquidated or banned by a court for extremist activity"). The case was conducted as a closed trial, and relatives were not allowed access. A Court Chancellery official, who would not give his name, confirmed details of the charges to Forum 18 on 9 April. However he refused to discuss the case furthers, and referred Forum 18 to the Supreme Court's administration. Administration officials refused to talk to Forum 18.
A local lawyer, who wished to remain anonymous, told Forum 18 on 19 May that 23 defendants were given prison terms of between three and six years, and the other 33 defendants were fined between 25,000 Somonis (34,320 Norwegian Kroner, 4,330 Euros or 5,340 US Dollars) and 50,000 Somonis (68,640 Norwegian Kroner, 8,660 Euros or 10,680 US Dollars).
Salafi convictions
The Sino District Criminal Court in the capital Dushanbe on 25 January convicted Imam Sirojiddin Abdurahmonov (known as Mullo Sirojiddin), a leader of the Salafi Muslim religious movement, and six other Salafi followers under Criminal Code Article 189 Part 2 ("Inciting national, racial, local or religious hatred or dissension, humiliation of national dignity, as well as propaganda of the superiority of citizens based on their religion, national, racial, or local origin, if committed in public or using the mass media").
A Supreme Court official and Mahmadulloyev of the Committee for Religious Affairs on 9 April confirmed that the Salafi followers were convicted, but would not give details of the sentences. Saifullozoda of the IRP stated on 18 May that Sirojiddin was punished with a 7 year prison term, and his six co-defendants with prison terms of up to 6 years.
Even though a Tajik official admitted to Forum 18 that adherents of the Salafi school of Islamic thought have committed no crimes, the movement was controversially banned in February 2009 (see F18News 23 January 2009 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1243).
Relatives of Mullo Sirojiddin denied that he was guilty of any crime. "The court concluded that his way of praying was different from the one usually accepted in Tajikistan," one relative told Forum 18 on 18 May. "The Court claimed that this was dangerous and divisive among the population of Tajikistan." He complained that nowhere in Tajikistan's laws this is praying in different way is prohibited.
"It was not written on their foreheads that they were Salafi"
Sino District Court officials refused to talk to Forum 18 on 18 May. "Please talk to the Chair [Fayzullo Rajabov]," Judge Rajabov's secretary (who would not give her name) responded when asked about the case. She asked Forum 18 to stay on the line while she would convey the question. "The Chair is busy now, call back later," she then said. Called back later the same day the phones went unanswered.
Mullo Sirojiddin together with the other six were arrested on the evening of 23 June 2009, while giving a sermon in a mosque in Zarafshon micro-District of Dushanbe.
Mahmadulloyev of the state Religious Affairs Committee objected when Forum 18 asked why the group was allowed to freely worship, and later arrested by saying that the authorities did not know that these were the Salafi followers. "It was not written on their foreheads that they were Salafi," Mahmaduloyev exclaimed. "We only found out about it after the Salafi literature was found on them."
Criminal proceedings against Jehovah's Witnesses re-opened
Jehovah's Witnesses continue to face threats from the NSC secret police. The northern Sughd regional department of the NSC has sent letters – which Forum 18 has seen – to 17 local Jehovah's Witnesses, warning them that criminal cases against them have been re-opened for additional investigation. The letter, signed on 7 May by NSC Senior Lieutenant F. Kurbonov, does not give any reasons for the investigation.
The Jehovah's Witness community was banned in October 2007 but - like the Salafis and Jamaat Tabligh - no crimes have been proved against members of their community (see F18News 18 October 2007 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1036).
In September 2009, prosecutors in Khujand in Sughd Region opened criminal cases against the 17 Jehovah's Witnesses, allegedly for inciting religious hatred (see F18News 28 September 2009 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1354). The criminal cases were later put on hold, Jehovah's Witnesses told Forum 18 on 19 May, as they complained to the Prosecutor General of Tajikistan. Jehovah's Witnesses said that none of the 17 has been summoned for questioning yet.
Investigator Kurbonov (he did not give his first name) of the NSC secret police's Khujand Department confirmed that criminal proceedings were opened against the Jehovah's Witnesses members. But he refused to comment on the case. "I have no rights to disclose any information to you," he responded. "They have two clever lawyers - ask them." (END)
For more background see Forum 18's Tajikistan religious freedom survey at http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=190.
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Historical Essay
by Gayle S. Rubin
Slaves await auctioning at Folsom Street Fair, c. 1995
Photo: Rick Gerharter
By 1978 the Folsom's days as a gay and leather Mecca were already numbered. Redevelopment of South of Market, which had been stalled for years by court cases and political maneuvering, was accelerating. After the assassination of George Moscone in 1978, Mayor Feinstein made rapid development a major goal of her administration. The Moscone Convention Center was quickly built. It was soon surrounded by the expensive skyscrapers, office buildings, housing complexes, and glitzy shopping centers that have increasingly encroached on the old low rent commercial neighborhood. The massive redevelopment began to drive up rents and land prices. Low rent leather bars could not compete easily with higher rent yuppitoria.
As development began to transform the area, city officials, the police department, and the Alcoholic Beverage Commission (ABC) threatened the leather bars more directly. In 1978, the police and the ABC came down on the leather bars with a series of raids and visits that drove several out of business. New parking regulations made it difficult to park cars and bikes at night without getting ticketed. By the time the impact of AIDS began to hit in 1982 and 1983, the economy and stability of the leather bars had already been undermined. When leather bars began in waves from 1983 to 1986 to close and be replaced by straight oriented businesses, it appeared as though AIDS were responsible. But the impact of AIDS on the leather community South of Market only deepened a crisis already underway.
Whatever their causes, the changes are indeed breathtaking in scope. The block of Folsom between 7th and 8th epitomizes this drama of urban succession. This block has a lot of leather history. Moving east down Folsom from 8th St., there used to be at the end of Rogers St. a large space used for both gay and straight SM gatherings. It is gone, and Cafe Milano sits on the corner. Across the street, the Border Cantina occupies the former site of a lesbian bar, The Bay Brick Inn, which in turn replaced a leather bar called Headquarters. Across from the Border Cantina is the corner of Hallam Alley. Dozens of leathermen used to live on Hallam Alley and Brush Place. They were among those who lost their homes in the Folsom St. Fire in 1981. New buildings are only now being built on several lots that have been empty since the fire.
At the corner of Folsom and Hallam, the Watering Hole is located on the site of the old Red Star Saloon and the Barracks. The Watering Hole is the only gay bar remaining gay bar on the block. Next door is Eddie Jacks. The Stables and Templar Hall (former clubhouse of a now defunct gay leather organization) used to be located between Hallam and Langton. These have been succeeded by Rings, Buster's News, and Julie's Supper Club. Along this block, the "Miracle Mile" has become "Restaurant Row."
The intersection of Folsom and 11th St. is another vivid indicator of profound change. Ten years ago, leathermen traveled a circuit between the various bars, baths, and eating places. When they prowled the streets on weekend nights, 11th and Folsom was a major passage. It was bounded by Febe's, the Drummer Club, and Chaps. Men would pass this corner as they walked between the Eagle and Ambush at the southwest of their territory to the Brig and Ramrod further east and north.
Now there are far fewer leathermen on the streets. And the intersection of 11th and Folsom, once the heart of the Miracle Mile, has become a formidable barrier. The Oasis has replaced the Drummer Club. Febe's has become the Paradise Lounge. Chaps is now the DNA. On weekend nights there are hordes of straight teens hanging around the rock clubs and affluent adults going to the restaurants nearby. To get from the Eagle to the Powerhouse or My Place, a leatherman has to navigate through crowds that are often hostile and sometimes violent, or avoid the corner altogether.
While gay leather no longer dominates the nightlife of the Folsom, it is not true that "leather is dead" or that it is not still a substantial presence in the neighborhood. There is still a large and viable gay male leather community, and much of it is still located South of Market. A few of the bars have hung on. There are new businesses catering to the community, including an art gallery, a publishing company, and a number of private social spaces. The leather community has become more privatized, and its ability to occupy public space in the Folsom has become more limited and occasional.
However, the Folsom is still a magnet, a piece of sacred ground, and a powerful symbol. Leathermen are no longer the major population on the streets at night, but they are always present. They come out in great numbers for special events such as the Dore Alley Fair, held every August, and the Folsom Street Fair, held each September.
--Gayle Rubin, excerpted from "Requiem for the Valley of the Leather Kings," originally published in The Sentinel, 1989
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Posted on 06/25/2013 8:36:31 PM PDT by Syncro
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1 posted on 06/25/2013 8:36:31 PM PDT by Syncro
To: Syncro
They all could kick Bambi’s ass sideways as easy as drinking a cup of coffee??
2 posted on 06/25/2013 8:43:45 PM PDT by FlJoePa ("Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good")
To: FlJoePa
Heck, I could do that and I’m old, fat and otherwise infirmed.
3 posted on 06/25/2013 8:48:55 PM PDT by doc1019 (There is absolutely no difference between pro-choice and pro-abortion.)
Stag Arms? They make lefty uppers.
Too bad I live in NYC. Wish I could donate, but work around here is scarce.
4 posted on 06/25/2013 8:56:10 PM PDT by wastedyears (I'm a gamer not because I choose to have no life, but because I choose to have many.)
Well that is for sure.
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5 posted on 06/25/2013 9:17:48 PM PDT by Syncro ("So?" - -Andrew Breitbart --The King of All Media RIP Feb 1, 1969 Â Mar 1, 2012)
To: doc1019
Yup, he’s quite the girly boy
To: wastedyears
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7 posted on 06/25/2013 10:04:28 PM PDT by Syncro ("So?" - -Andrew Breitbart --The King of All Media RIP Feb 1, 1969 Â Mar 1, 2012)
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8 posted on 06/26/2013 7:56:44 AM PDT by Syncro ("So?" - -Andrew Breitbart --The King of All Media RIP Feb 1, 1969 Â Mar 1, 2012)
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10 posted on 06/26/2013 8:00:48 AM PDT by Syncro ("So?" - -Andrew Breitbart --The King of All Media RIP Feb 1, 1969 Â Mar 1, 2012)
To: Syncro; Jim Robinson
I’m looking forward to an action report from th’ man! :) I know they have to be having such a great time!
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A Man on the Beach – 1956
A Hammer production released by Exclusive Films
Copyright MCMLV by Exclusive Films
RCA Sound Recording
Produced at Bray Studios
Eastmancolour by Humphries Laboratories 27 minutes featurette
Unspecified Panamorphic, wide-screen process
With the help of his driver, a criminal pulls off a daring robbery at a casino in the South of France, then double-crosses and kills him. In the struggle, he is shot and wounded. Stumbling along the shore in agony, he takes refuge in a lonely beach house, where, he finds to his cost, that the owner has a trick or two up his sleeve.
Adapted from the story “Chance at the Wheel” by
Mickey Delamar
Henry Richardson
W.H. May
Phil Leakey
Monica Hustler
Wilkie Cooper
John Hotchkis
Victor Canning
Alex de Gallier
Edward Forsyth
Director Joseph Losey worked for Hammer again on “The Damned” (1961), but his more famous films were made elsewhere and include “The Servant” (1963), “Modesty Blaise” (1966), “Accident” (1967) and “The Go-Between” (1971). He died in 1984.
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Jennifer's Body DVD Review - www.impulsegamer.com -
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Distributor: Fox
Minutes: 102 minutes
Reviewer: Simon O'Donnell
Megan Fox is definitely a name associated with sex appeal and it�s obvious why she was chosen to be the star billing behind this dark comedy horror, even though her acting sometimes leaves a lot left to be desired. But hey, it�s Megan Fox, you know the drop dead gorgeous beauty, so acting can take a back seat for now.
Jennifer�s Body is written by Diablo Cody (Juno) and directed by Karyn Kusama which revolves around two best friends at school, Jennifer, the hottest girl in town and her nerdy friend Anita (Amanda Seyfried) Lesnicki or �Needy�.
These friends are total opposites, Jennifer is all dolled up and Needy seems like plain Jane, clich�d and stereotypical. Eventually Jennifer convinces Needy to out to their local club with her to see the band �Low Shoulder� but when a fire breaks out at the club, things begin to go from bad to worse.
Against the wishes of Needy, Jennifer decides to go with the band, more specifically Nikolai (Adam Brody) and when they get involved in a Satanic ritual (thanks Google), she dies and becomes an even more attractive succubus.
With a taste for teenage boys, Jennifer begins on her killing spree and it�s obvious to see where the film is headed. Needy figures out that it's indeed Jennifer who is killing the high school boys and now she must find a way to put an end to her nightmare.
There are a few standout moments in the film such as a bloody and violent Megan Fox as Jennifer, even though the plot is sometimes a wrangled mess of questions and inconsistencies. The star of the movie is definitely Amanda Seyfriend, do I detect some of Diablo Cody in her character and to an extent Megan Fox who is definitely thrown into the movie for visual eye candy and yes it works.
The video quality on DVD is quite acceptable, although some of the scenes, more specifically the night scenes seem a little grainy at times. The audio compliments the movie as does the pumping soundtrack.
In conclusion, although I�m part of Generation Y and it seems that this film was made for us from the script, cinematography and music, I do expect a little, well, much more from my films, even with Megan Fox in it. But ironically, the stupidity of the movie actually works at times and I did find myself in hysterics in certain times. Maybe a rent before a buy!
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The chattering class has spent the past 72 hours dissecting the intent, content and portent in Special Counsel's Robert Mueller's Report now that he's finished. We will not add to that here, except to remind ourselves that, at some point, Trump will exit the political stage, leaving the moral bankruptcy and material corruption he’s brought to politics for us to clean up.
That begs more thinking... Who among us is having those conversations of consequence? Who’s popping up to run for office with the vision/language to confront all the fears Trump has amplified in public life? Who has the breadth of background or is pragmatic enough to get us righted in conflicted issues like voting rights, health care, immigration, mass incarceration, or campaign finance?
These are the conversation topics that we’ll need to engage politicians on, challenging them to strengthen our stressed democracy. David Remnick in the New Yorker on Sunday asked, “Who has the political acumen to argue for policies adequate to resolve our crises and, at the same time, to win back the millions of voters who cast a ballot for Barack Obama and then shifted to Trump?“
We will be called on again this week to engage our elected officials in Washington, Jeff City and Topeka as they push legislation, some with potential for great harm and others promising to ameliorate our lives. Let's be honest! We too fell into the lure of expecting Mueller to paint a clear path for the country. It’s time to remind ourselves: it is we whom we have been awaiting and it is now that we must act.
Kansas -- There is no doubt that this week is the most consequential of the session. Last week's House vote for Medicaid set up great expectations about health care access and expansion in Kansas. We need to pressure our Senators starting today to do the same.
As we have explained before, Kansas is part of the last 14 states not to have expanded Medicaid. We've struggled with privatization of service under KanCare. Approximately 150,000 Kansans fall in a gap where they make too much to get health insurance coverage on Medicaid but cannot afford premiums and deductibles on their salaries. 40,000 children also go without access to medical support in Kansas. You have no doubt heard about our rural hospitals closing or facing closure, due in large part to their delivery of uncompensated care to indigent patients. Still, you probably want to know what it means for you? Know that expanding Medicaid helps keep exchange premiums lower for everyone, as lower-income enrollees tend to more complicated, untreated (expensive) medical problems. Covering them in KanCare spreads the risk pool across the rest of the ACA market.
Statehouse "leadership" also made a lot of bad decisions about steering the legislative session -- that are coming to a head this week. By not holding hearings on issues of major consequence - which voters clearly expressed desire to see worked - committee work did not happen. Action, if any at all, must occur on the floor of each chamber. In this way, these four or five people hoped to control every move in each chamber and limit the effectiveness of Governor Kelly's new administration.
This statement from JoElla Hoye, with Kansas Mom’s Demand Action on HB2326 explains how ultra-conservatives are trying to pass a new, lower-age, concealed carry reciprocity bill. This bill would allow people with concealed carry permits from other states, who may have even weaker gun laws than Kansas, to legally carry in our state. Because we allow guns on our college campuses, this means 18-year-old freshmen could legally conceal carry to class and possess guns in dorms.
Not all gun legislation raised last week would be harmful to our safety. Another bill to help protect families roiled by domestic abuse, HB2406, did get introduced in committee and bears watching this week.
Governor Laura Kelly and Representative Sharice Davids both fulfilled campaign promises to be in more direct conversation with their constituents and held Town Halls in Johnson County this week. Read more about that here and here.
And in Missouri -
Local elections are Tuesday, April 2nd! The turnout is expected to be low, so your vote will be especially powerful!
In KCMO, we'll be narrowing down the candidates for Mayor to the top two in the mayoral primary. The candidate field is large and there are several good candidates, so this is a tough one. Check out The Pitch's "One true guide to the 2019 Kansas City mayoral primary" for a detailed and amusing assessment of the candidates.
There are a couple of bad eggs in the mix, so read carefully and choose your vote well. You can also check out Facebook live chats with the candidates focusing on issues affecting Black Women (and by extension, all of us) courtesy of Shirley's Kitchen Cabinet.
Kansas Citians will also be voting on city council. You can learn about some of the candidates in these articles by Northeast News and KCPT's Flatland.
April 2nd will be a big election for education issues all over the metro. Many school districts are electing new members to their boards, and there school funding questions in the Raytown, Center, and Grain Valley school districts. Kansas Citians will vote on a Pre-K measure supported by the mayor but opposed by school districts. (We hope, whatever the outcome of this election, that our next Mayor puts significant effort toward working with public schools to expand equitable access to quality Pre-K).
For your complete ballot and to double check your registration and polling place, visit the Missouri Secretary of State website (use this if you are in Platte or Clay County), or your local election board website:
Kansas City Election Board
Jackson County Election Board (outside KC border)
Cass County Election Board
The past week brought some interesting debate outside anticipation of the Mueller Report. The Washington Post offered two perspectives on a major demand in the public sphere for removing the Electoral College from our elections process. Liberals have been ramping up their criticism of the electoral college, and most Republicans have been ramping up their defense. Marc Thiessen says the Democrats are “pursuing a tyranny of the majority.” But conservative columnist Henry Olsen says conservatives should abandon this antidemocratic system before it’s too late.
Boeing was “go, go, go” to beat a competitor, Airbus, with its 737 Max 8 jet. To seal the deal with American Airlines, Boeing needed to update its 737 workhorse within six years; the pace of the work on the 737 Max was frenetic, according to NYTimes reporting over the weekend.
The Islamic State’s last territory in Syria fell to U.S.-backed forces and the loss of Baghuz, the last remnant of the biggest territory the Islamic State controlled, was definitely a blow. But the terrorist group remains a serious, violent threat, commanding thousands of followers from Afghanistan to the Philippines. Don't lose sight of this story or our ongoing war in Yemen.
In Mozambique and nearby countries, a cyclone devastated the territory, with already minimal infrastructure. More than 1.5 million people are affected, with close to 1,000 killed and the death toll is rising. The International Rescue Committee has medical staff and supplies at a mobile clinic in Chimanimani, Zimbabwe, and is waiting to gain access to other areas. They are providing food, too. Longer term, IRC’s focus is on water, sanitation and health, as well as economic recovery.
Which brings us back home to the Mighty Mo... major flooding may impact 13 million people this spring right here in the MidWest. Nebraska, NW Missouri and NE Kansas are already dealing with record-breaking floods, with the potential for an "unprecedented” increase this spring (quote from Edward Clark, director of NOAA’s National Water Center).
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Listing portal is now 'Where home happens'
Realtor.com has rebranded with a new logo, slogan and website design that the listing portal’s operator, Move Inc., hopes will "bring sentiment and warmth to our best-in-class data" and help consumers "connect emotionally" to the site, which has lost ground to competitors Zillow and Trulia.
Move operates Realtor.com under the terms of a 1996 agreement with the National Association of Realtors. The new Realtor.com logo and website design downplay the site’s ties to NAR.
For years, until last year’s relaunch, the Realtor.com logo featured NAR’s "block R" Realtor, and a prominent declaration next to the logo informed users that the listing portal was the "Official Site of the National Association of Realtors."
The new Realtor.com logo makes no reference to NAR (although the term "Realtor" itself is a NAR trademark), and features a new slogan, "Where home happens."
Fine print at the bottom of the page — displayed in a light font that blends in with the background — notifies visitors that Realtor.com is "the official site of the National Association of Realtors and is operated by Move Inc."
Before the relaunch, Realtor.com devoted a significant portion of its home page to a "National Association of Realtors" section that included more than a dozen links taking visitors to several NAR websites, including HouseLogic.com, Realtor.org and Realtoru.com.
Screen shot of Realtor.com home page as it appeared on July 17, 2012, when crawled by the Internet Archive’s "Wayback Machine." Source: Archive.org.
The new site also includes a NAR section, but offers only a half dozen links and takes up a much smaller portion of the home page below the fold — it’s not visible unless users scroll down to it.
The new spherical logo featuring a simple outlined house image, tilted up and to the right as if it’s blasting off, and slogan "Where home happens," are both registered trademarks of NAR.
NAR Senior Vice President Bob Goldberg said in an email that the association was involved in the rebranding process, and that he’s "very happy with the result."
Andrew Strickman, Move’s vice president of creative and brand, said in a statement that the goal of the rebranding was "to draw a much stronger connection between realtor.com and the people that fuel its service — both consumers and Realtors."
"Most online real estate brands feel clinical, data- and machine-driven, and do not have a human feel, even though they are all about creating connections with real human beings," Strickman said in a statement posted by the consulting firm WAV Group.
"All I can say is watch out, we have the best mobile apps, the accurate content and we are going (to) shout about it," tweeted Move CEO Steve Berkowitz today.
The industry’s first take on the rebranding has been largely positive.
"’Whoa!’ was my first reaction. Lowercase typeface, new color scheme, simply clean look and feel," wrote Greg Robertson on his popular industry blog Vendor Alley. He closed the post with, "So overall I have to say I love it. Looks like a promise of some great things to come."
"Pretty slick! Slider is off center. More white space & variation in text. Some areas feel too tight," said graphic designer Ryan Wheaton in a Twitter post. "But … I really like the look and feel overall," he wrote.
The new logo itself has also been knocked.
"EEhhh … not really crazy about it. And what’s up with the lowercase spelling of REALTOR??" wrote Texas-based Re/Max agent Ryan Bokros in a comment on a Facebook post about the new design.
"Housing has been set on its ear? That’s what it says to me," wrote Rani Covington, a Re/Max agent in Fairfax, Va., in another comment to the same Facebook post. "Without any explanation, I wouldn’t have a clue this is related to REALTORs,"
Others pointed out what they characterized as the logo’s dull colors, and one commented that it looked like a "home-spaceship."
Some, like Mike Goodwin, an agent with EXIT Realty in Naperville, Ill., said they liked the modern look.
Barbara O’Connor, executive vice president of marketing at Move, said reaching consumers is about emotion, which explains the first-ever use of a tagline and the logo’s teal color, which she said represents credibility, authority, money and prestige.
O’Connor said connecting the Realtor.com brand with consumers was part of her mandate when she was hired in July.
Move is both blessed and challenged by its relationship with NAR. Thanks to the site’s ties to NAR, Realtor.com receives listings directly from nearly all of the nation’s multiple listing services, giving the portal the right to claim the Internet’s most complete, up-to-date inventory of homes for sale.
But the Realtor.com operating agreement gives NAR veto power over many of the changes that Move might want to make to the site.
When Move renegotiated the Realtor.com operating agreement with NAR in 2010, it was granted more leeway to make changes to the features, design and layout of the site and its user interface without obtaining prior approval from NAR.
Despite having won more freedom to innovate, last year Move saw rival listing portals Zillow and Trulia overtake Realtor.com to become most visited listings portals on the Internet, according to statistics maintained by Web metrics firm Experian Hitwise.
Realtor.com has lost Web traffic market share to Zillow and Trulia, though it still holds the No. 3 spot in mobile and desktop real estate Web traffic.
"NAR needs to realize that MOVE is in the fight of their lives," wrote Greg Robertson in a another post at Vendor Alley, about the restrictions in the Realtor.com operating agreement.
In renegotiating the Realtor.com operating agreement, Move also got the go-ahead to run lead forms for buyer’s agents alongside of listings, which, like the ads for agents that appear on Zillow and Trulia, some brokers object to. | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355903 |
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FB announced they were deleting "fake accounts" this week. Zuckerberg himself has announced that he will hire an additional 3,000 employees to shut down 'fake news' pages of this platform. Their definition of '...
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When Will Russia Understand: Facts & Evidence Don’t Matter To Western Countries Anymore
By Paul Craig Roberts Russians are having a difficult time comprehending their Western enemy or even understanding that Russia has an enemy that seeks the destruction of Russia. Has it occured to Russia tha...
Former CIA Agent: America’s Jews Are Driving U.S. Wars
Shouldn't they recuse themselves when dealing with the Middle East? By Philip Giraldi UPDATE: September 25, 2017 - On the morning of September 21st Phil Giraldi was fired over the phone by The American Co...
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Trump’s UN Speech Confirms US Government under Full Control of CIA and the Military/Security Complex
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US is the Problem not North Korea, China or Russia
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North Korea Fighting Against The Jew World Order
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North Korea False Flag: Guam Could Become Second Pearl Harbor
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US Military Fights For Israel In The Middle East – Iran Is Not The Threat!
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The British And U.S. Governments Installed Khomeini Into Power In 1979
By Ian Greenhalgh The British And U.S. Governments Installed Khomeini Into Power In 1979 “It is easier to mislead many men than one.” – Herodotus. (As quoted in F.E. Adcock’s 1963 book, ‘Thucydides And Hi... | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355904 |
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Bug Opens Microsoft IE to HTML .exe Attachments
By Clint Boulton | March 30, 2001
In the latest in the long line of security dilemmas, Microsoft Corp. said Friday a hole had been detected in its Internet Explorer browser in which a hacker could allow a malicious page or e-mail to perform any action on a computer.
The vulnerability affects IE 5, IE 5.5 over all Windows platforms. The hole, brought to the software giant's attention by Juan Carlos G. Cuartango of Spain, was detailed in a security bulletin. Basically, a false Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) header can cause IE to execute an e-mail attachment to wreak havoc on a PC. Because HTML e-mails are Web pages, IE can render them and open binary attachments in a way that is appropriate to their MIME types.
But a flaw exists in the type of processing that is specified for certain unusual MIME types. For example, if a attacker created an HTML e-mail containing an executable attachment, and modified the MIME header information to specify that the attachment was one of the unusual MIME types that IE handles incorrectly, IE would launch the attachment automatically when it rendered the e-mail.
Basically, a user with the knowledge to exploit the vulnerability could drop a hostile HTML e-mail on a Web site and coax a user to visit it. Code page could open the mail and initiate the executable. Or, if the hacker is so inclined, he or she may send the HTML mail directly to the user. The latter of the two possibilities is potentially less serious, as attachment would be limited by a user's permission.
Worst case scenario: a malicious user can run any program on someone else's computer. He or she would have the power to add, delete, or modify data and reformat the hard drive. But, according the security bulletin, this isn't a sure thing. The perpetrator would have to tab someone naive enough to browse a Web site she controlled or open an HTML e-mail that she had sent. Essentially, problems may be avoided by following rules suggested by umpteenth security firms and specialists: don't open attachments or engage in Web browsing from strangers.
Microsoft said as much in the bulletin: "As a general rule, it is probably worth questioning the trustworthiness of any e-mail that automatically starts a file download. The best action is to simply click the Cancel button in the dialogue."
But Microsoft said have no fear because a patch is here. The patch eliminates the vulnerability by correcting the table of MIME types and their associated actions in IE. This blocks e-mails from automatically launching executable attachments.
Still, the dilemma underscores the concerns and questions raised in regard to Microsoft's software products. It was just February when a flaw was found in Microsoft Corp.'s Outlook and Outlook Express (OE) e-mail clients. As the widely-acknowledged king software maker in the country, it is a burden the company has had to bear.
One security expert said that Microsoft's bearing the brunt of a little nagging public relations snafu in announcing the holes as they are presented is minor compared to the headache the company could face if it ignored them altogether.
Dan McCall, executive vice president and co-founder of security consulting firm Guardent Inc., told InternetNews.com Friday that Microsoft's proactive approach in isolating, testing and expounding on the vulnerabilities is refreshing in a day and age when other software vendors (of course, he would not say which)choose to ignore flaws and hope they'll go away.
"The interesting thing about this from our perspective," said McCall, who has worked with the software company often, "is that Microsoft is no more susceptible errors to coding errors than any other software vendor. Their products have millions of lines of code and sometimes the coding process is improper. In fact, in some ways they are less susceptible because what they choose to do is make it public as soon as possible and come up with a patch to nip it in the bud."
Al Wilson, director of security technologies at Guardent agreed, and added that the MIME bug detected this week is more serious than most e-mail holes because it is the browser itself that delivers potentially charged payloads via e-mail.
McCall said he has known Microsoft to design patches for holes within a couple of hours of detecting a fissure. He also said no software maker is immune from such cracks.
"From the coding standpoint, you will always find problems," McCall said. "There are just too many coding lines in software applications. I mean, you can take secure product A and combine it worth secure product B and the combination of the two software packages creates their own set of problems."
McCall also suggested that comprehensive media coverage about Microsoft's so-called security foibles works to the company's advantage as it shows that the company is willing to meet the issues head on.
Still, ever curious hackers have poked and prodded the giant's products to no end, just as good Samaritans such as Cuartango tipped Microsoft off to the vulnerabilities when he unearths them.
A search on Google's engine revealed that Cuartango is responsible for detecting myriad phantoms in Microsoft's software, particularly with respect to IE.
Cuartango has also placed a demo of how the IE 5 MIME vulnerability works on Spanish security site Kriptopolis. | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355906 |
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Ecommerce Scam Bill Heads to President's Desk
By Kenneth Corbin | December 16, 2010
Sen. John Rockefeller is celebrating a legislative victory that promises to put an end to a shady ploy that resulted in a handful of Web firms grabbing more than $1 billion from consumers, who were found often not to know what they were being billed for.
The House has passed Rockefeller's Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act, legislation that would set new restrictions on so-called "post-transaction" marketers and their ecommerce partners, sending the measure to the president's desk for signing. The bill would require companies to provide consumers with accessible descriptions of the services they offer and obtain express and informed consent before enrolling people in fee-based programs. ECommerce Guide has the story.
The House of Representatives has approved legislation that aims to stamp out an ecommerce scam that a handful of marketing firms allegedly used to bilk consumers out of more than a billion dollars, sending the measure to President Obama's desk for signing.
The Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act, introduced by Sen. John Rockefeller (D-W.V.) in May and passed by the Senate in November, easily cleared the House by a voice vote on Wednesday.
Read the full story at ECommerce Guide:
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Global Peace Volunteers Camp Empowers Youth and Educators in the Philippines
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On April 10-12, the Philippines’ Department of Education Region IX and Global Peace Foundation (GPF) co-organized a 2-day Regional Youth Leadership Training at Pinan Zamboanga peninsula. The camp empowered the youth as peacebuilding leaders by nurturing their character and virtues. They were also exposed to the importance of advancing “Moral and Innovative Leadership” for the benefit of the larger society, nation, and the world.
“We are fortunate to be part of this training, as we relentlessly provide avenues to educators and as well as to the youth,” said Genedin Padilla, Zamboanga City Division, Department of Education. “Opportunities wherein we can learn and develop skills, talents, and potential.”
Teachers, mentors, and youth worked side by side to tackle community issues and formulate sustainable solutions. Jinsoo Kim, Regional President of GPF Asia Pacific, pointed out the incredible opportunity and impact of the camp to foster moral and innovative leadership through engagement. Volunteers build leadership skills while being exposed to real-world scenarios, inspiring them to bring a positive impact to their local community.
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Posted by Highland Hussy | Apr 19, 2016 | Book review | 2 |
Rebel Cowboy by Nicole Helm
Series: Big Sky Cowboys #1
Published by Sourcebooks Casablanca on January 5, 2015
Genres: cowboy romance
Source: Advance Reader Copy
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First in a new series about a struggling Montana ranch, a woman determined to save her family, and the NHL-star-turned-cowboy who makes it all possible.
Mel Shaw is determined to keep her family ranch from going under, so she takes on a job helping some city slicker get his old ranch up and running. And if that means being in tight quarters with the hot NHL-star-turned-cowboy? Well, she did say she'd do anything for family.
After leaving his NHL career behind, Dan never expected to find a home on his rundown Montana ranch, but with Mel guiding the way, he finds that and so much more…
I wanted to like this book so much. But by 30% in I still didn’t like either the hero or the heroine. I think that at 30% is right where we see a change in their relationship, but I didn’t like them enough to want to continue.
The hero is a hockey player who screwed up big time. He choked in the playoffs. Twice. Once is crappy, but fine whatever, bad luck. Twice looks suspicious. Rumors abound that he’s thrown the games. He’s gone out west to his grandparents’ farm to find himself and wait on his agent to tell him when he can go back to hockey.
The heroine is driven and determined. She wants to bring her ranch back to where it used to be before her father was in a devastating car accident, and her brother hadn’t tarnished their name.
She’s hired to help the hero learn how to ranch. It’s a big chunk of money to teach a spoiled big shot how to do manual labor, she’s not happy but she needs the cash.
This is where I started to hate the hero. He is constantly showing how willfully ignorant he is. The son of a famous hockey player, he lived and breathed hockey. He used hockey as his escape. But he ignored all other aspects of life, so now that he has to actually deal with his own failings, his own problems, and his own emotions, he realizes how bad it really is. He can’t throw money at it to fix the problems. His own agent isn’t really on his side. He never thinks that he may never play professional hockey again.
I don’t know if he ever went back, or if his name was cleared or not. I didn’t like him.
Now, some readers really love an emotionally stunted hero who has to learn how to deal. Normally I would too! But he was much more spoiled brat, than hero. I didn’t see much change in him by 35% in, so I’m over it.
The heroine was mean to him from the get-go. Like boom. Snap judgement, before she met him. Another trope I normally like is enemies to lovers, but there has to be a real reason to hate him. He wasn’t bad to her. He had his moments where he was an ass, but he didn’t deserve so much of her anger. She hated him for reasons that really didn’t have much to do with him as a person, just the fact that he had an easy life and was taking her away from what she wanted to be doing.
I liked this author’s style of writing, I just think this hero/heroine combo didn’t work for me.
***ARC courtesy of Sourcebooks Casablanca
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Sharlene Wegner on April 20, 2016 at 11:04 am
Oh, too bad! I picked this one up based on the cover & I had read another book by the author & had liked it. I have a feeling I am going to agree with you on your assessment. 🙁
Highland Hussy on April 20, 2016 at 3:25 pm
Hey Sharlene! I hope this was a case of “it’s not you, it’s me.” Let me know what you think though:) | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355910 |
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Historic, Sociological, And Mental Research Into The Pressure Males Undergo Within Our Modernizing Communities.
Before the age of civilization, the communities have frequently had o put pressure on its people to be able to necessitate the functioning from it. The demands varied greatly in one society to a different (Kendall, 2007). The roles a person is brought to vary with respect to the gender from the child from an earlier age after birth. In connection with this, the gender roles are thought as the attitudes and actions the society needs the males and women of this society to portray. The society has socialized people into accepting and practicing roles it thinks are satisfactory. Through this socialization, the people are urged or frustrated from practicing some types of actions. The roles from the males and also the women vary from one culture to a different. In the same culture, different roles are enforced upon the various genders especially individuals who reside in the society.
The various roles connected to the different cultures frequently affect how a male and also the women interact, carry themselves and also the picture they’re likely to portray whilst in the society (Heidi, 2009). Probably the most affected child within the society may be the male and thru the anticipation from the society, he’s frequently put under more pressure than normal because he attempts to live based on these anticipation. Through socialization, a mans child is advised to stand out in many things as in comparison tot right girl child. For example, the society needs a mans being the leader, the men’re expected through the society to develop up and become very effective individuals the society who don’t show any weakness, the men’re valued and preferred, they receive more support and encouragement in going after better rewarding careers (Nosotro, 2005).
The society needs a mans child to become tough, aggressive, and independent. These are merely however a couple of of this the society needs from the guy. From all of these anticipation it’s clearly that being a guy, you’ve got to be led by a few concepts. A guy shouldn’t whine or cry just like a lady, should feel important, ought to be tough and incredibly strong. To become blatant, many of these anticipation labored perfectly greater than 10,000 years back when guy was residing in the cave and that he needed to venture out hunting, players whose responsibility was to recover food for your loved ones and be sure its safety from attacks using their company towns and wildlife (Caroll, 2009). Presently regardless of the civilization which has occurred, the society still needs guy some thing exactly the same way his forefathers socialized and uphold these traits.
As noted within the introduction, humans have needed to be exposed into numerous demands with respect to the society in order to boost the normal functioning from the society. The demands varied greatly from physical to mental (Kendall, 2007). A few of the physical demands that people were caused to incorporated excessive physical labor as well as an atmosphere that’s polluted. In just about all communities, the physical variations between your males and also the women happen to be employed is really a justification to creating them choose social roles that aren’t the same as another genders. Immediately this kind of obligation continues to be presented to them, the roles selected are utilized in shaping and modifying the both genders&rsquos attitude and behavior. This can be a obvious implication that there is or there’s no society that’s happy with natural variances that arises in gender because the society will consider adding an additional role that clearly differentiates the genders (Shaffer, 2008).
The details which were coldly physical are with the roles approved towards the genders connected with numerous mental values and characteristics. The society never was satisfied with a guy only as being a guy, they expected a guy to become masculine and incredibly effective and also the female on the other hand was likely to be feminine aside from just being female. With these roles which are designated to various sexes, they’re likely to portray given specific figures and behavior using their earlier age range. The gender role designated towards the male children placed them in a greater social position, a location which was considered dominant. It&rsquos through it that boys from an early on age were assisted being masculine that was an indication of them presuming a effective position and looking after and protecting that position jealously. The males who recognized this type of position and also the methods for existence the culture introduced were considered normal while individuals who displayed weakness were considered failures, outcasts and those that could never flourish in their endeavors and existence generally. The culture was created in ways the masculine males were granted along with the women who described feminism.
However, the mental demands varied from powerful human behavior that can result in molding the society as needed, induction to numerous noise and crowds. Based on history, human actions have frequently been constant and when it varied, it ranged between your recognized bounds (Caroll, 2009). The communities are the type accountable for pushing the folks to particular levels they considered were right so far as the undertaking of responsibilities and duties were concerned. The males are the type whom the society had a lot expectation from, they needed these to behave as males and steer clear of all and exactly what looked flirty. However, the most crucial factor to notice is when humans have limits as well as their endurance shall simply be survived for any given period of time in order to confirmed limit then things might have to go wrong (Kendall, 2007). Some of what can be achieved to exhibit that the limit continues to be surpassed change from rebellion functions, corruption, crimes or evasion form duties. The males were expected through the tradition to maintain their own families. Regardless of the provision towards the family, he’s expected to get along with the household and be sure he gives directions that can result in the development of the well disciplined home. Presently we’ve experienced situations which have renedered guy being withdrawn totally in the family thus offering less or virtually no time to get along with the household. The social economic standards and also the anticipation from the society have drive guy into becoming captive. A situation whereby they lack both financial and family freedom to ensure that can unwind.
Within the profound historic, social and economic changes which have faced the planet, we view numerous things which have transformed the lives from the male child and also the males generally especially from the beginning from the late 1700s (Heidi, 2009). The various developments and changes were essentially from the former trends that may be monitored to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and possibly sooner than this. Within the ancient time the alterations and practices that happened were in support of the males, however the recent changes which were experienced affected the male who was simply considered the most powerful and untouchable species of times. They were the periods in which the only factor that mattered to males was their prospects. Despite women being born towards the upper castes, they weren’t because of the chance to manage any persons existence leave alone their very own. The social norms and traditions held they back and therefore they couldn’t practice something that the traditions and cultures called dishonest. Out of this illustration, it’s clearly from the social position which was approved towards the males. The traditional male sex role gave advantages and forces towards the males and it was likely to live based on these standards without failure.
The altering social structures will also be leading to a rise in the quantity of pressure that males within the society are becoming. As already recognized within the historic session of the paper it’s apparent the structures from the society were situated in a way the ego from the males in communities were always maintained in comparison towards the women. However, the structures are altering, the job pace is no more a preserve from the males as women has additionally treated the significant places. This has been seen a menace to that which was aiding the males to keep a greater established order within the society.
The society has transformed its look at a mans specious because of growing triggers which have forced the ladies towards the offices thus displacing the males to some degree. Males are in possession of to compete for that available job openings using the women because the women should be within exactly the same job openings. Essentially speaking this isn’t a causal step to cause an excessive amount of pressure on males because they may easily endure exactly what the altering structures. However, analyzing the situations sociologically it’s possible to realise why males have progressively been under growing pressure in the society because of the altering norms within the society.
Sociological Research into the Pressure That Males Enter the Modern Society
The advocates of structuralism reason that the society is created by specific structures that determine the roles and also the positions that individuals do take inside the society. Prior to the on sent of modernity, the society structures were so that males were viewed as the heads from the family models, because they were assigned with down to supplying and therefore their position within the society was elevated to some degree.
Adams and Sydie, (2001), explain the amount of pressure that males receive within the modern society by utilisation of the role theory. The function theory claims that personality is formed through the role s the society assigns to someone. The roles [supply the mask for an identity and therefore an individual can simply be based on the roles they perform within the society. The roles are acquired traits through socialization. An individual discovers the roles credited to her or him through the social factors within the play throughout development. This therefore guarantees the individual is socialized to some specific type of behavior.
Roles also determine the character and the standard of existence that individuals enter the society. Once the society assigns one the duty to become a &ldquobread champion&rdquo and also the &ldquohead&rdquo from the family, it directly scribes some statuses towards the person. The life-style of these one is therefore formed through the roles that she or he will get from that role designated through the society. The society also institutes norms that shape the character of responses a thief might have perfectly into a certain role. For example in lots of communities, males were expected to stick to the function designated for them and strictly make sure that they don’t enter the area that will otherwise make sure they are look like female like (Henslin, 2002).
To socially construct people to stick to the set roles, the society evolves social constructs that defines who is a great guy, who is a great lady and the like type of constructs. The constructs happen to be used to make sure that individuals who deviate from their store are noticed as nonwinners and therefore people shall always try their level bets to not deviate in the social constructs the society has placed. The social constructs therefore helps make the social self, the person who the society identifies.
The society has since since the beginning designated males with exclusive roles which have gained them respect inside the society. Such statuses of prestige happen to be vital in making certain the ego from the males has continued to be high through existence. The social self of the guy therefore continues to be strengthened through social constructs to become of greater position within the society, using the finest supply of prestige being the truth that the function of feeding the household and therefore essentially calling the shorts in the household setting finding yourself in the prerogative from the guy.
However, modernity has seriously threatened this trend. The encroachment of ladies in to the roles which were a preserve of males has eroded the exclusive positions from the males within the society. The males therefore lack an aggressive advantage when in comparison for their position prior to the start of modernity and also the rise of ladies in the offices. Andersen and Taylor, (2007), observe that pressure the males are getting today is extremely led because males cannot longer measure towards the expectation from the social constructs of the guy in the household setting. Today, the truth that a few might be dealing with ale the lady generating greater than the guy signifies the social constructs inside the family setting can no more hold water. The lady can also be the company from the family and therefore the way of measuring the guy based on the construct is below exactly what a &ldquogood guy&rdquo ought to be.
Mental Research into the Pressure That Males Enter the Modern Society
Mental pressure hails from the truth that once the males don’t easily fit in the set social structures, they gain pressure because they consider themselves failures. Based on Andersen and Taylor, (2005), most males claims they wouldn’t should you prefer a couple who makes greater than them which they’d sense danger once the partners generating greater than they are doing earn. They’d try to have their own methods for enhancing the earnings and therefore providing them with mental stress acquired with the efforts from the males being the males the society has socially built. Pressure therefore to slot in the construct eventually ends up harming males cognitively hence growing the amount of mental torment.
Mental pressure in males has been led through the roles the modern society is giving towards the males nowadays. Today a guy is anticipated some thing inside a particular manner, he isn’t likely to cry for example because this is a &ldquolady like behavior&rdquo and therefore a guy eventually ends up absorbing an excessive amount of pressure without a means of reducing them within the society. Once the pressure for into gelling the over ambitious scales of calculating a great guy combines using the social norms, the dos and also the don&rsquots of the guy, pressure causes mental distress hence disturbing the standard of existence of individuals especially males (Voracek and Schmitt, 2008).
The mental pressure in males today has additionally been amplified through the rise of ladies activism demanding for equal treatment between males and ladies. Psychologically, the guy thus remains threatened through the altering character of competition for equal social status. The lady are encroaching that which was the origin of status and pride for males departing males without a penny to exhibit regarding their positions as males. Psychologically, males feel threatened and also the need to safeguard what provides them pride and standing within the society. The truth that the encroachment of the items was considered a guy&rsquos territory by women has ongoing unabated is sufficient cause to place pressure in males thus which makes them to surfer in the mental pressure. The growing mental pressure in males today has therefore been greatly triggered through the fear that former male causes of status have the same entry of ladies.
Caroll (2009) and Heidi (2009) assert the cultural practices change from one society to a different. A society&rsquos normal life-style may look very unique to a different society. This is actually the same towards the roles which are approved towards the different genders owned by different communities. We’ve installments of cultures where it’s absolutely normal for guys to possess relations using their male alternatives. Around this might seem absurd to other people, it’s their culture and individuals practicing it think it is very normal. Males in certain western cultures were needed to suppress the emotions they’d for his or her buddies. Though these aspects happen to be altering and they’ve been suffering from some time and the places. For example, throughout the pre industrial Europe the concept of medicine was considered men profession but based on the Russians the practice was entirely intended for women.
Pressure felt by males could be described sociologically from viewing altering social structures, which assigns roles to males and ladies. As women encroach the formerly males centered roles, the the other way around is incomprehensive. Males are thus attempting to battle to maintain things as they are against altering structures. The finish result would be that the males finish up being compelled to win the fight for his or her recognition within the ideal type guy that’s been produced through the constant social construct in regards to a guy.
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Henslin J. M. (2002). Necessities of sociology: a lower-to-earth approach: Nj, Allyn and Sausage, 2002
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__label__cc | 0.724066 | 0.275934 | Well, I'm done. There will be a full recap tomorrow, as per the rules, but here are the totals:
Hours spent reading/blogging: 26.5
# of books read: 9 full, 2 partial
# of pages read: 2,213
My last full book was...
All I Want Is Everything (Gossip Girl, 3) Cecily von Ziegesar (215 pages)
I really like the Gossip Girl series. I didn't think I would, so I didn't read it for a long time until it showed up on the ALA list of most-banned books in 2006. I LOVE it. I wrote a post about it for Geek Buffet awhile back.
This is guilty, trashy reading at it's finest. You get hooked on the characters-- who cares that they're not good role models? Most of them are horrible people-- you're fascinated with them but you'd never want to be them. Kinda like Paris Hilton and Lindsey Lohan.
They're always drunk. Or stoned. When they're not air kissing each other, they're talking trash behind their best friends backs and sleeping with their boyfriends. I love it.
Blair, a bitch with perfect taste and dark hair who is majorly uptight, a bit neurotic, and slightly bulemic...
Serena, tall, blond, gorgeous and a free spirit who doesn't let a lot get to her...
Jenny, young, sweet, naive with a massic rack
Kati and Isabel are lower hangers-on in the circuit
Vanessa dark with a shaved head, hates the rich kids
Dan, Jenny's brother and a tightly wond, wounded artist tortued soul type who chain smokes and drinks way too much coffee
Nate, hott and always stoned, clueless
Chuck, slimey hornball
Anthony, Charlie, and Jeremy lower hangers-on
The frame of the stories is Gossip Girl.net, a page 6 type online gossip column where Gossip Girl spills the dirt and answers emails from loyal readers with their tips. Gossip Girl is also the narrator of the series and you have to love her wonderfully snarky tone:
He had yellow hair. Not blond yellow, but yellow like a person's snot when they're seriously sick.
I feel I should review the first two though, even though I read them yonks ago. Well, as far as quality the first 3 books are all the same and I loved them, so really, plot summaries:
Gossip Girl Cecily von Ziegesar
Serena has just gotten kicked out of boarding school and is looking forward to hanging out with her friends again, especially Blair, and returning to her snooty school, Constance Billiard. But Blair has kinda enjoyed the spotlight ever since her taller, thinner, blonder, prettier best friend has been away and doesn't want to give it up. The rumors, and the fur, fly.
You Know You Love Me Cecily von Ziegesar
Ugh. So, Blair's mother is marrying her tacky, overweight boyfriend Cyrus. On Blair's 17th birthday, which everyone seems to have forgotten it is. Jenny's hanging out with Nate in the park. Dan's obsessing over Serena who's starting to get a little weirded out. And everyone's off interviewing for colleges. The college interviews are hilarious. All of them. Hysterical.
Gossip Girl #3: All I Want is Everything
It's Christmas! Jenny and Nate are still going strong. Maybe. Serena has a hott rock star obsessing over her. Vanessa wants sex. Dan wants it to be special. Aaron has the hots for his stepsister, Blair has attracted the unwanted attention of his best friend. And oh, do Blair's mom and Cyrus have a bombshell for the "happpy" family...
Then, I had a few more minutes, so I read the first 18 pages of
Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent: How Daring Slaves and Free Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War Thomas R. Allen More about that when I finish it.
But for now, it's dinner time, and I need to call my mom, because I totally blew her off this afternoon.
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by Rebecca Rosenblum
Once there was a man who was only black-and-white. His skin was the white of skim milk, with grey shadows where his veins beat. His hair and eyes were as black as the space between stars. He had no freckles and he never blushed. He was not a very happy man, and though his job sometimes forced him to give long explanations of complicated poems to roomfuls of drowsy, beautiful nineteen-year-olds, otherwise he was often as quiet as a silent film. Black-and-white suited him most of the time, and when he felt like seeing Technicolor, well, there was the rest of the world. Sometimes he didn’t care to see the rest of the world, but other times colour could be good. Flowers were good, alive and bright and temporary — less hectic than the clothing of undergraduates, less boring than television. Flowers filled his pupil-less black eyes with something like love. He even liked municipal beds of pastel pansies on traffic islands. Even heartsick roses in the windows of hospital florists. Even the vegetable-dyed blue and purple carnations in buckets outside the grocery store, even the orange rubber daisies his roommate had pasted to the bottom of the bathtub. He looked at flowers, any flowers, and his bloodless lips would turn up at the right corner, as much as they ever did. The black-and-white man had a sepia-toned girlfriend. She had eyes the colour of dusty chocolate and milky-tea skin. Where her cheekbones jutted out, the shadows underneath were coffee-stain dark. Her hair was the palest wood, and she wore it in tangled curls down her back. His girlfriend shared his somber tones, if not his exact shading, but her unhappiness was more acute. He worried for her. Sometimes, his silent shadowy presence could warm her, make her at least look out the window, but sometimes she disappeared into her apartment, into a gloom as thick and dark as his hair, and he didn’t see her for weeks. He had never bought his girlfriend flowers from the heartsick florists nor the corner grocery — he was that broke, and he worried she might not want these flashy bits of sun and air. Unlike him, she almost never looked at colourful things — they rarely made her smile, even with half her mouth. She said she found colours exhausting. She said his limited palette, his blank-paper face, comforted her sometimes. Other times, it was too hard for her to look at anything at all and she kept her eyes closed. The black-and-white man knew how she felt. He used to feel that way, and every now and again he still did. When the clear-blue world seemed as dark as the sky before an electrical storm, it was hard for him, too, to look at much. Flowers were okay, flowers and her face, though she couldn’t always be around and it was often hard to find blooms. In certain seasons a few things blossomed right in his yard, which helped. Winter, of course, was a desert, and in March there were only snowdrops, pale as ice in the mud by the front stairs, but then suddenly every April the forsythia bush burst out with endless goldfinch-yellow blossomy brambles and shot the year full of light. In May, strange small tulips sprouted, closemouthed and purple as bruises, mixed in with Easter-green grass all over the yard. The snowdrops turned brown and crisp in a week and the landlord usually mowed all the tulips, but the forsythia lasted a month or more, shining and spiky, canary-yellow, margarine-yellow, sulphur-streetlamp-yellow. Forsythia was his favourite. When he couldn’t look at anything else, he would sometimes crawl under the bush for a while. After teaching an endless droning tutorial and slouching home alone to try to eat reconstituted pasta, he would lie in the dirt and look at the gloss green of the leaves from underneath for a while. He knew this must seem weird, but his full-colour roommate couldn’t say anything since once he’d gotten drunk and eaten a tulip. Lately the black-and-white man had been feeling okay, but he knew his girlfriend wasn’t too great. She had stopped calling him, or answering her phone. When he looked around outside her classes, she was never there, and at the restaurant with the ugly tablecloths someone said she’d been fired for not showing up, though that was a lot like quitting. He worried about her, what she was looking at. And he missed her. Her name was Sarah, but since she was almost the only person he ever talked to, he felt that she didn’t really need a name. She was just herself. His name was Alan, but when he went too long without talking to Sarah, his own name started to feel irrelevant too. Who would call him that if she didn’t? One day he was writing 14/60 on a midterm exam and he realized hadn’t seen her since March and it was nearly May. He pictured her muddy-lovely profile leaning into the light of the refrigerator, her coffee dark lips forming the words, I’ll be fine. He pictured her twilight gaze shooting right through him in her dark kitchen. It was April, and the midterm marking was overdue and Sarah hadn’t been fine in a long time. He wrote something vaguely kind in black ink on the white exam page and then he went outside and cut some of the first forsythia branches to blossom. He put the scissors in his pocket and the branches in his arms. He walked to her apartment. He walked past orange newspaper boxes and racing-green cars and blue jays and red flags, but all he thought of was her uncoloured face. He didn’t know why she was sad, but then neither did she, so he didn’t wonder, just walked. When he got to her building the sun slipped out from behind a thunder-black cloud and shone hot-white on his face. He tried to look up at her window, in the middle of the third floor, but the light was blinding and he couldn’t see in. He pressed her buzzer. He was pretty sure she was home because if she was too sad to call him, she’d be too sad to go out. After a while, the black-and-white man with the tangle of brambles in front of his chest got the attention of a little girl playing in the foyer. She wore an orange midriff top and a grape visor over her eyes. She let him in with a pink-and-white smile that he felt embarrassed to return in grey-scale. He took the blossoms up three flights and knocked on Sarah’s door and knocked and knocked and waited and waited. After more time than he should’ve knocked and waited, he stopped. He had to leave, but first he braced the cut ends of the branches between doorknob and doorframe. The yellow blossoms reached up as far as the peephole. He thought maybe if she looked out, now or later, she would see the yellow and like it or hate it or at least see something. He pressed his face into the flowers. Forsythia have no smell, but he liked to breathe them in just the same. Then he went home and didn’t talk to his roommate or eat dinner or look at anything in the blue flicker of the TV. He slept out under the yellow bush that night, after his roommate proposed they order a pizza and talk about his problems together. He thought about his problems alone instead, shivering and soaked with dew-frost. He thought about Sarah, how sometimes when she was sad he could help her. He knew this; she had told him so. She said she liked the way he was easy to look at when he was there and easy to imagine when he wasn’t; just presence and absence, nothing that demanded. She liked the way he liked her, she didn’t mind his gaze on her. He did like to look at her, her cutting cheekbones, the shells of her ears so thin he could see the shadow of his fingers through them. She said she sometimes felt so small and light that she might blow away. When she felt like that, what she liked best was to have him lying on top of her, his weight pressing her down into her mattress. Then she knew for sure that she wouldn’t blow away. He would lie with her, cheek to cheek, belly to belly, breathing together, for hours. She was small and fragile, but so was he, so he knew he wouldn’t crush her. * He waited for her to phone but she didn’t. While he waited he marked 74 essays and wrote three paragraphs. He talked to his roommate for nine minutes, three each night, until the microwave binged and dinner was ready, although he left the hot frozen dinners to congeal untouched. He went to and from campus, he smoked four and a half packs of cigarettes, he listened to a gooey song at the grocery store and bought only bleach and licorice. This all took three days. On the third evening, he was walking home late from the library where they had none of the books he needed. He walked past the grocery, where an old woman was hosing down the sidewalk and an old man was hauling buckets of flowers inside. In the dark everyone is black-and-white. Even the flowers looked dusty at this hour. As he walked past, the old man pulled his bucket into the pool of light under a streetlamp. “Hey, kid.” He was surprised that the man could see him, a shadow in shadows. He was surprised at being called kid, too. “Hey, kid, you want some of these?” In the bucket were tall big-headed carnations, red ones, striped pink-and-purple ones, and yellow. “They’re almost gone by. You might as well take ’em, if you got a girl to give ’em to. They’ll be blown by tomorrow.” “Thank you.” Alan’s voice sounded as creaky as an old projector. The petals felt silky against his fingers as he grabbed the stems, clutched them with against his chest. “Thank you.” He lifted the edges of his mouth until it felt a bit like a smile. The man stared like he had just seen a ghost. Alan took the carnations to Sarah’s building. It was nearly midnight, the windows all dark so he couldn’t find hers. It took a long time for someone to come let him in, and then it was a woman alone who looked at him suspiciously. If it hadn’t been for the friendly flowers against his dark chest, he knew she would never have opened the door. When he came out of the stairwell, the flash of yellow still in her doorway made his throat harden like ice and his shoulders slouch forward and his arms clutch the carnation stems until they bled green on his shirt. He went over to the door and looked at the forsythia, which was still strong and vibrant and buttery-gold. He brushed at the blossoms that should’ve gone to gold powder after three days in the dry hallway, but they were stiff and firm, tense with life. Then he tried to pull the branches from where he’d jammed them by the doorknob but it wouldn’t budge. He knelt in the flickering hallway light, eyes at doorknob level, and realized that the cut sticks had sprung new roots and these had pushed themselves through the door crack, around the bolt, even into the keyhole. He wondered if she could see the curls of root on her side. Still kneeling, he spread the carnations at the foot on the doorsill, pressing their broken stems against the ugly green of the carpet and under the door as far as they would go. Then he rested his forehead on the door, just beneath the forsythia branch. “Sarah,” he said. “Sarah, I’m here.” He stayed for a long time, until the old lady from 211 walked past, once, twice, three times. When he heard her door close for the third time, he whispered, “I’ll be back tomorrow,” and left. * The next day the sky was air-show blue and traffic was snarled with glinting red sports cars and exhaust was black in his lungs. His students were angry about their grades and he didn’t get done with office hours until evening and he didn’t go to her house. He rested his spinning head on his briefcase under the forsythia bush and dreamed of a picture that included them both, in a photo treatment that made their colourless colours the same. Clear watery sunlight woke him early without curtains or roof. He slithered out onto the grass, dragging his briefcase, and stood in the yard brushing grass and pollen from his clothes. His roommate was sitting on the steps, eating sunflower seeds and spitting the shells into the dead bed where the snowdrops had bloomed the month before. “Hey, Alan,” he called. Alan nodded. His roommate pointed to a corner of the yard, by the garbage cans. “Look, first tulip’s early this year.” Alan’s blank mouth twitched a little. He went over and looked at the strange little tulip, short and thick-stemmed, its purple bud only half-open. Then he left it unplucked and went back over to the stairs. His roommate held out the bag of seeds. “Hey man, eat something. You really should.” He took the bag, the red printing too shiny to read in the early morning light, the orange picture of the sunflower too ridiculous to believe. “Thank you,” he said. “Thank you.” His roommate nodded and went into the house. Alan thought for a moment and then went down the path, onto the sidewalk, and back towards Sarah’s place. When he looked up at her window from the street, the sunrise behind him made all the windows orange and pink. He went inside with the papergirl, and up the stairs. Her door was a riot. Her door was an explosion. The whole hall had the sweet clove aroma of carnations and the wet breath of petals. The stems he’d pressed into the grass-coloured carpet had rooted there, hooking under the door and growing up in front of it. The forsythia had grown into a dense cloak of yellow, shooting up to the fluorescent ceiling lights. He reached to knock, but there was no longer a bare place on the door where he could rap his knuckles. The whole door was covered with green and bramble and blossom. His face hovered above the stems as he called into the door, “Sarah? Sarah. I brought you flowers.” He pulled back. There was no response. He didn’t think the door could open now, anyway, even if she wanted it to. He pictured her sitting in her living room, cross-legged on her beige carpet, surrounded by a rainbow swirl of flowers and leaves and choking vines. He remembered looking down at her shadow eyes, her angled nose, the tip of her pointed chin. He remembered the cool of her shut-tight eyelids as he pressed his lips to them. He pictured her eyes opening, becoming gleam and not shadow. He took the package of sunflower seeds from his pocket and dumped them onto the carpet, spreading them around with the toe of his loafer. The seeds sprouted as they struck the dull green, bursting with dark glossy coils, stems knocking hard into his legs. The stalks shot up towards the ceiling and the leaves furled out and the buds strained and burst into dozens of yellow suns until Alan was backed against the wall opposite her door, until his constricted chest heaved for air. Then he left, and he didn’t go there anymore. But as he was leaving her building, he looked up at her window and the sun went behind a cloud and he saw that the blossoms had gotten into her apartment, just as he’d imagined. They were growing, red carnations and gold forsythia pressing on the pane, vines tendrilling around the edges. In the rush and riot of all that colour, there was a shadow, and it moved. Moved once, and then was still. He put the last sunflower seed in his mouth, and he tasted salt before he swallowed it whole. Then he turned his body to the sun and let it warm him as he walked towards home, towards his place beneath the bright forsythia, and the soft dark dirt.
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Exploring science fiction metaphysics through gameplay in The Swapper
in Video Gaming | Game Reviews by MegaBearsFan
Gameplay: 100
Simple, but challenging, puzzle-platforming that quickly escalates into quite an intellectual challenge, while simultaneously making the philosophical context of the game more accessible and tangible.
Visuals: 95
Vivid colors and stark contrasts make the game very pretty, while a slight graininess creates an ominous atmosphere. The player character(s) feel stiff and lifeless, especially when falling like a plank.
I had trouble telling the voices of the different characters apart, which almost made an otherwise understandable story seem confusing. Music and voice-acting are otherwise exceptional.
The game's conclusion comes before the varied puzzles wear out their welcome, providing several hours of gaming bliss.
The mind-body problem*: 100
Expertly utilizes its mechanics to explore its complicated metaphysical themes.
Overall Score: 97 / 100
* denotes wild-card score category
Facepalm Games (PC version)
Curve Digital (console versions)
Release date: 30 May, 2013
PC (via Steam),
Mac OSX, Linux,
PS3, PS4, PS Vita,
XBox One, Wii U
ESRB rating: N / A
puzzle, platformer
Players: single-player
Official site:
facepalmgames.com/the-swapper/
Since I have some extra time off for this holiday season, I'm trying to go through some of my backlog of shorter indie Steam games in between bouts of Cities: Skylines and Beyond Earth: Rising Tide. One such game is Facepalm Games' 2013's sci-fi indie hit, The Swapper, which I picked up in a Steam sale like a year ago. The game has also been ported to many consoles, including the PS3, PS4, Vita, XBox One, and Wii U, and the ports were developed by Curve Digital.
Making my clones do the deadly work
The Swapper seems to owe a lot to Valve's mega-hit Portal. Both games' central mechanics revolve around the player character using a futuristic non-weaponized gun (with 2 settings) to solve platforming puzzles and explore an environment. Portal is in full 3-D, whereas The Swapper is a more traditional 2-D side-scroller. The bigger difference however, is that the gun of The Swapper doesn't fire portable wormholes; instead, it allows the player character to instantly create clones of herself, and to swap her consciousness into one of the clones. Once created, these copies move in tandem with the copy that is currently being controlled by the player. The key to the puzzles is to maneuver yourself so that your clones can reach otherwise inaccessible areas or activate switches.
All your clones move in synchronization, making relative spacing very important for solving puzzles.
The space station is laid out in an unbelievable, but serviceable, series of puzzle rooms joined together by modest platforming sections. At first, the platforming between puzzles is interesting because it kept me thinking along the lines of solving puzzles rather than just moving from place to place. But there's a lot of exploration and backtracking, and having to navigate the corridors between puzzle rooms quickly became tedious once using the swapper gun became second nature and automatic. Fortunately, the game provides handy teleporters to allow you to quickly move to key sections of the station, so the backtracking never became as problematic as it could have been.
The puzzles themselves start off fairly simple, requiring that the player simply point the gun and clone herself in order to reach a platform or cross a gap and collect alien orbs that you use to unlock new areas of the space station. The challenge quickly escalates. Soon, obstacles start getting thrown at you, such as colored lights that prevent certain operations of the swapper gun, forcing you to have to find more elaborate ways around the lights in order to reach your destination. You have to start using careful positioning, choreographed movement, gravity, momentum, and inertia in order to successfully solve the puzzles. And all this escalation seems to happen naturally based on the increasing complexity of the levels, rather than through the introduction of new mechanics or controls.
About an hour into the game, I ran into a puzzle that took almost an hour of trial-and-error for me to solve.
About an hour into the game, the difficulty suddenly spiked, and I ran into one puzzle in particular that took me quite a while to figure out. I even had to leave it and come back to it later with a fresh perspective. I thought maybe I was missing some kind of upgrade or needed to learn some technique that the game hadn't tutorialized yet, but that wasn't the case. Eventually, I figured it out, and the solution seemed head-smacking obvious, but I probably spent a good hour on that one puzzle (approximately half of my time with the game, up to that point).
There are also some other sci-fi mechanics such as the occasional zero-g spacewalk, gravity inversion (allowing you to "fall" up and walk on the ceilings), and so on. These all flow fairly seamlessly into the game; although, I did feel that the gravity inversion felt a little unnecessary when it was introduced. After all, the game teaches you fairly early how to use the swapper gun to effectively fly by repeatedly swapping to clones created above you. This "flying", is, however, limited by the number of clones that you can create, and it's still subject to being blocked by colored lights. So gravity inversion felt superficial when introduced as a means of navigating the station. Once the gravity inversion was introduced into the puzzles, though, I recognized its value.
You'll also perform the occasional zero-G spacewalk or invert gravity.
Any problems that I had in solving a puzzle were purely intellectual. Every control and mechanic is intuitive and comfortable, movement is responsive, and I almost never struggled with making the character do what I wanted her to do. All in all, the game plays near-perfectly. The puzzles are appropriately challenging; although, the exploratory nature of the game means that difficulty can wobble back and forth a bit depending on which puzzle rooms you reach first.
Exploring the theme of identity through game mechanics
So the core mechanic and puzzles are simple, comfortable, and varied enough to make the game a joy to play. But where The Swapper really excels is in its narrative and themes. The written narrative is fairly simple and straightforward, with mostly predictable plot turns. But this narrative explores very complicated and metaphysical themes of consciousness, identity, and self, and those themes are actually conveyed through the game's actual mechanics!
This is what differentiates The Swapper from less compelling games like Lifeless Planet. Where Lifeless Planet is reliant on cutscenes, narration, and log entries to convey its themes and make its allegorical point, The Swapper doesn't even need dialogue, narration, or cutscenes in order to explore its predominant theme or make its point. It does have cutscenes, dialogue, narration, and text logs, but they are supplementary to the way that the game's mechanics themselves more than adequately explore the concepts.
It didn't take long for me to start to lose track of which clone was the "original" me, and the moment that I realized that the clones (including the "original") are all disposable, my head was spinning with the tough metaphysics of the scenario being laid out before me. Through the game's mechanics, The Swapper forces the player to ask yourself questions like "Who am I?", "Which me is me?", "Am I the same me that I was a minute ago?", "What is consciousness?", and so on. The game even goes so far as to ask "Do we have a soul?"
You'll soon be throwing copies of yourself into certain death in order to achieve your goals.
The written narrative, dialogue, and text logs, all further elaborate on this same theme by providing a debate on the metaphysics in question. The characters ask the same questions that the player is asking, and they also wonder at the ethical and moral implications of their discovery. Sadly, the gameplay never plays deeply into these more complicated ethical considerations (at least not till the very end), but the swapping mechanic should make it easier for a player to follow along with the questions that the characters ask and the implications that they bring up.
So when I complain about the stories of games like The Witcher 3 or The Last of Us being disconnected from their gameplay, this is the kind of thing that I'm talking about! Those games don't do what The Swapper does exceptionally well, which is to make its narrative and gameplay be about the same thing so that the two work together in harmony.
The story of The Last of Us can stand up on its cutscenes alone without needing to show more than a tiny fraction of the gameplay. But the story of The Swapper doesn't work without the actual game part because the act of playing the game is contributing to that story. When I ask "What is The Last of Us about?", you kind of have to give two answers: its about the growing bond between Joel and Ellie and the lengths we'll go to protect family; but the parts that you play are about surviving a zombie apocalypse by shooting things and collecting salvage. Two different things. When I ask "What is The Swapper about?", you can provide a single, concise answer: it is about the nature of consciousness and identity and the mind-body problem. One answer. Narrative and gameplay unity.
And the true brilliance is that the the simple act of playing the game goes so far to help explain the problem and make it tangible that I can't imagine anybody having trouble understanding the very heavy metaphysical concepts being discussed. It makes this complex philosophical conundrum accessible to its audience in ways that simply telling the story can't. It's a perfect application of the video game medium.
The story is just as mind teasing as the puzzles, and the two compliment each other brilliantly.
Even the visuals seem to add to the theme. Despite the visuals being composed of vivid colors starkly contrasted against dark backgrounds, there is an ominous grain effect overlaid on everything. This creates a sort of "fuzziness" in the aesthetic that may symbolizes the blurring of the sense of identity being experienced by the character. I'm not sure whether this was deliberate or not, but it worked well for me.
One of the best mechanical explorations of a concept
The Swapper is - put simply - one of the best examples of a video game that uses its mechanics to explore its concept and themes. Its story teases the mind just as thoroughly as the puzzles, and it was an immensely engaging and intriguing experience.
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Tags:The Swapper, Steam, indie gaming, puzzle, platformer, science fiction, cloning, consciousness, identity, self, brain, mind, mind-body problem, space, sentient, alien, Portal
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Post by Kimberly » Mon Feb 20, 2006 10:51 am
It's not just Seattle...
I'm going to the Sacto one, if you click on view all locations... it even has screenings in Canada...
And yer welcome! I can't wait to see this...
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Post by I am 138 » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:27 pm
It's a cool flick. Hopefully you'll get the suped up subs that Latte was denied.
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Saw in in SF last week and fucking hated it. Way over rated. Gay.
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I saw it without hype and enjoyed it. I wouldn't say it will revolutionize the horror film, it's just very stylish (but part of that was the subs). Kinda like a Russian Volcano High, though not quite as visually extreme.
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Post by Latte Thunder » Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:04 pm
shawn wrote: Saw in in SF last week and fucking hated it. Way over rated. Gay.
I can certainly see where anyone would be disappointed with it. I was definitely guilty of perpetuating the hype when I first posted my gushing thread about it here. The plot is very unclear and it's all flash over substance, but I still like the scope of the imagination that was put into it.
I haven't seen the American release. What's the deal with the subs? They're getting a lot of chatter since it was released. Can subtitles really be that impressive?
Also, I made mention in my original post about rumors of a longer cut that was supposed to clear up a lot of the loose ends left by the initial DVD release. Well consider that rumor confirmed. A friend of mine has a DVD of it that is without subtitles but substantially longer than my 114 minute cut. I can't say if it clears anything up, but there IS a longer version of the movie available.
I also managed to bag a Russian boot of the sequel Day Watch. I haven't had a chance to sit down with it, but I'm not sure it would do me any good anyway since there aren't any subs for it and none floating around the internet yet. So more on that when I know more.
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Post by shawn » Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:49 pm
Latte Thunder wrote: I can certainly see where anyone would be disappointed with it. I was definitely guilty of perpetuating the hype when I first posted my gushing thread about it here. The plot is very unclear and it's all flash over substance, but I still like the scope of the imagination that was put into it.
Longer??? Man, it was too long to begin with, it needed to be an hour shorter. See The Descent instead.
Post by I am 138 » Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:05 pm
shawn wrote: Longer??? Man, it was too long to begin with, it needed to be an hour shorter. See The Descent instead.
Weren't you the guy that loved Brotherhood of the Wolf? I understand they're different stylistically, but both films have a lot of the same flaws. Why did you prefer one of the other so much?
Post by Kimberly » Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:14 pm
I really liked it. It was like Lord of the Rings meets Star Wars but with Vampires and other supernatural kinda folks. The subtitles reminded me of when I read the book House of Leaves...
I asked afterwards (as we were asked to fill out comment cards) which cut of the film we watched... the original version or the tightened up version. It was the tightened up version... Honestly, I didn't think it was long at all and would like to see the longer version. I felt like this movie was more of a build up... if anything... to Day Watch.
Post by shawn » Wed Mar 01, 2006 11:26 am
I am 138 wrote: Weren't you the guy that loved Brotherhood of the Wolf? I understand they're different stylistically, but both films have a lot of the same flaws. Why did you prefer one of the other so much?
Sacrilege! How dare you compare the Masterpiece of Brotherhood Of The Wolf to this Russian mess. No comparison. For one, I actually gave a shat what happened to the characters in Brotherhood. Yes both films are a mix of different genres but Brotherhood works better. Gans is a better director. I could go on, but have shit to do. I'll leave it with I'm right and you are clueless. -shawn
Post by I am 138 » Wed Mar 01, 2006 3:52 pm
shawn wrote: I'll leave it with I'm right and you are clueless.
Post by Latte Thunder » Wed Mar 01, 2006 4:57 pm
See, I really liked it, but I would have liked the story to be clearer anyway. But there's actually a correction to make. The longer cut I mentioned above actually turned out to be an unsubbed version of Day Watch. So there's still no longer cut.
Anyway, also saw The Descent a couple of weeks ago. Thought it was pretty good but there's been a lot of gushing about it and I think I need to give it a second look because I really thought it qualified as a pretty good monster movie but didn't do much else for me.
Post by Kimberly » Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:24 pm
Latte Thunder wrote: Anyway, also saw The Descent a couple of weeks ago. Thought it was pretty good but there's been a lot of gushing about it and I think I need to give it a second look because I really thought it qualified as a pretty good monster movie but didn't do much else for me.
The Descent is a totally different movie... it's like apples and oranges
Post by shawn » Thu Mar 02, 2006 12:25 pm
Kimberly wrote: The Descent is a totally different movie... it's like apples and oranges
I wasn't comparing them or anything. Just stating that The Descent was a thousand times more entertaining than the irritating and tedious Nightwatch... The Descent was just good fun.
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I also liked THE DESCENT, for the record.
Caught up with NIGHT WATCH now that it's finally playing in my area. Not bad--reasonably enjoyable, wouldn't complain about watching the follow-up. But I've been promised "the final battle between good and evil" HOW many times over the past forty years? I'll still give this the nod over something like UNDERWORLD or a MATRIX sequel--sure, there's CGI, but it's not black leather and hovering bullets ad nauseum and there are some nicely effective moments (one great jump, too).
I'm still not sure what to make of the subtitles, though. Okay, unless you speak the language, they're a necessary evil, but when you put yourself in their hands, you're trusting their translation to begin with. We know a dubbed film isn't "the same" as the real thing, and subtitles are superior to dubbing in most cases, but even a subtitled film isn't "the same," and when the subs get stylized to such a degree (moving, changing colors, etc.), how hard would it be to get it confused with the technique of the film--to credit it to the director--to let it affect your overall review? This is a new area to explore, to be sure... what say you?
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Remo, I actually first read that the director DID the subs for the theatrical release to English speaking countries. Don't know if it's true or not. In which case, you make a very vaild point.
I enjoyed MOST of the subs, because I felt the often conveyed the tone of what was being said in a way the standard text doesn't.
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Posted by Mike Matejka on July 4, 2017 in Uncategorized
Bloomington, Illinois had its wildest labor night a century ago, July 5, 1917, with famed labor organizer Mary “Mother Jones” (1837-1930) stoking striking transit workers. A night of mayhem brought 1,400 National Guard troops to town, but also won a contract for Amalgamated Transit Union Local 752. Local 752 will celebrate its centennial in July.
Before the automotive age, people walked to work or rode electric trolleys or streetcars. The Bloomington & Normal Street Railway (B&N), which began as a horse-drawn railway in 1867, carried passengers on 26 route miles through Bloomington & Normal. Transit workers had formed a union in 1902, lost it after a six-month strike in 1904, and came back in 1917 to organize again.
In 1917, the B&N was owned by U.S. Congressman William McKinley (1856-1926). McKinley controlled the streetcar systems in Champaign, Peoria, Galesburg and Danville, along with the Illinois Traction System, an electric interurban railroad that connected St. Louis with Peoria, Danville, Springfield, Champaign, Decatur and Bloomington. Thanks to its electric generating capacity, this eventually became the Illinois Power Company, today’s Ameren.
Although the streetcar system meant a modern city a century ago, it was tough on workers. David Law (1852-1916) began work on the horse cars, standing on an open platform, exposed to the weather, for a fifteen-and-a-half-hour day. He said, “I have stood on this platform with the thermometer twenty-four to thirty degrees below zero, and I have made my way through mountainous snow drifts, and when the rails were a glare of ice, as well as through beating rains and burning suns. No, we haven’t a soft job and we literally earn our bread by the sweat of our brow.” The transit workers labored seven days a week for $50 per month. To get a day off, they pooled their funds so they could buy a replacement for one day off per month. Law noted that on that one day month off, his children asked, “who is that strange man in the house.”
By 1917, the trolley workers made $2.25 a day, for a nine-and-a-half-hour workday. On May 17, 1917, 50 workers met in a midnight mass meeting, with the assistance of Jerry Burnette from Peoria Local 416 of the Amalgamated Association of Street & Electric Railway Men (today’s ATU – Amalgamated Transit Union). At first the company refused a pay increase, but eventually offered 20 cents per day. The workers wanted more – union recognition. The company refused. On May 28, the strike began. Half the workers, satisfied with the pay raise, stayed with the company. The workers made clear their goal – union recognition.
“The strike of the Bloomington street car employees has been called for the reason that the company denies us the right which millions of workingmen all over the United States are exercising, and have been exercising for years – the right to organize.
“We believe our cause is just and we ask for the support of the public in asserting our rights as citizens of a free country.”
The strikers, and the Bloomington Trades & Labor Assembly, both asked Mayor E.E. Jones to mediate. The company refused the mayor’s offer. The workers asked the public to boycott the cars and support the strike.
On June 9, at the company’s request, Judge Sain Welty issued a sweeping court injunction, which basically forbade almost all strike activities and public outreach. The court injunction forbade the union and its members from congregating on street corners, distributing hand bills, sending out any communication or asking people to boycott.
On June 11, a strike rally was held, with speeches by Illinois Federation of President John Walker, a coal miner, and Bloomington & Normal Trades & Labor Assembly President John Lennon. The strikers were encouraged to refrain from violence and to win the public’s approval. That night, the streetcar company’s powerhouse workers walked out in a sympathy strike.
After a month on strike, with the streetcars running and a repressive court injunction limiting strike activity, the situation was becoming desperate. To rally their cause, they turned to a famous worker advocate, Mary “Mother” Jones.
Jones was an Irish immigrant, a child refugee from the potato famine. She lost her husband and children to a yellow fever epidemic in 1867. She came to Chicago, working as a dressmaker for wealthy families. As she neared her sixties, she became a living symbol of labor outrage. Labeled “the most dangerous woman in America,” by the early 1900s she was tramping across the United States, organizing coal miners, fighting against child labor, and finding herself thrown in and out of jail cells.
On July 5, 1917, she addressed a packed audience at the Eagle’s Hall. What survived from her speech was her final admonition, to “go out get ‘em.” Leaving the Eagle’s Hall, the excited crowd attacked an approaching streetcar, beating the strikebreakers. They then marched on the Courthouse Square, where a strike breaker, Thomas Huett, fired a pistol into the crowd, grazing railroad worker Emmett Maloney. Huett was spirited away by police. A streetcar approaching from Miller Park was attacked and the strikebreakers taken away, for their own safety, but the police.
Headline credited Mother Jones for the strife. Decatur_Herald, July 6, 1917.
Hoping to shut down the system’s electric power, the crowd surged down Main and Madison Streets to the B&N’s electric powerhouse. The Mayor, police chief and police were guarding the doors. Stones and bricks were thrown through windows. The Pantagraph reported, “Several women reported to be wives of the street car men sought to incite the men to action. With waving of arms and handkerchiefs and their shrill voices, they created much sympathy.” The streetcar workers’ President, John Nitzel, told the mayor the crowd would stop if the power was shut off. After Nitzel and the Mayor inspected the plant, it was shut down. The crowd returned to the courthouse square, confronted by police, with warning shots fired. Finally, Mayor Jones agreed to try and mediate again.
The next morning, July 6, the Mayor convened a mediation. Looking at the striking workers, Daniel W. Snyder, the B&N’s superintendent, said, “I cannot recognize the car men’s union.” He then walked out the door. As this took place, Illinois National Guard troops arrived, encamping at the B&N’s power plant and the Courthouse, where they pitched camp and set up machine gun emplacements.
Illinois National Guard troops surround Bloomington’s courthouse square, July 6-8, 1917, after a speech by famed labor orgnaizer Mary “Mother” Jones Credit: McLean Co. Museum of History
Second Illinois artillery machine gun emplacements, McLean County Courthouse. Credit: McLean Co. Museum of History
Bloomington’s largest employer in 1917 was the Chicago & Alton Railroad, with its extensive repair shops on the west side. During lunch, almost 1,200 Shops’ workers laid down their tools, marching on city hall. The Mayor reached out to B&N Superintendent Snyder’s boss, the Illinois Traction System’s H.E. Chubback, and also the company’s owner, Congressman McKinley. The two agreed to talk. Congressman McKinley telegraphed back, “I recognize the right of men to organize.”
On Monday, July 9, the mediation conference began. After four-and-a-half hours of negotiation, the union was recognized, the strikers reinstated to their jobs. The workers won a 35-cents a day increase and their work day was decreased from 9 and-a-half hours to mine.
Thus, Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Men Local 752, today’s Amalgamated Transit Union Local 752, won their first contract, after a bitter strike, facing court injunctions and company refusal. Thanks to a fiery 80-year-old woman and union solidarity, a small band of transit workers built a union, which survives and thrives a century later.
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7 hours ago, Nastradamus said:
Its kinda like lending your kid or best friend a thousand bucks and breaking their legs or taking them to collections because they only paid you back 995 dollars. You can argue you had the right to, but, uh... #pettyaf ?
Seems more like lending your kid or best friend a thousand bucks then having the audacity to ask them to pay you back.
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After the friend earned your business $10,000+ with his unique skill.
For the record, I don't give a **** either way.
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Calvin Johnson wasn't lent any money. He was paid to do a job he did not complete. It would be like hiring a roofer and the roofer only did 90% of the roof but expected to be paid for the entire job. Here's the thing, the Lions were probably going to be forced to cut him. He would have expected his full signing bonus if the Lions cut him but yet he feels like he isn't required to hold up his end of the contract.
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9 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:
or that you paid the roofer a bonus up front to complete all the work. when he doesnt complete it, you want that money back.
i dont care either way, honestly, but it gets annoying to hear calvin ***** about it all the time.
oh somewhere in this favored land, the sun is burning bright,
the band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
and somewhere men are laughing, and children well-behaved,
but there is no joy in Tater-ville, might Connor Cook has been waived.
Must not have been throwing Tabor as many catchable balls as Stafford.
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Connor. We hardly knew ya
Lions trading Michael Roberts to the Patriots.
Never mind. The trade was rescinded and the Lions waived him instead.
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On 6/7/2019 at 5:59 PM, sagnam said:
Then you really misunderstand what happened and the precedence. Its more like the scenario I posted
22 minutes ago, Nastradamus said:
No it's not. Calvin Johnson didn't borrow any money. He was contracted to perform a job. He decided to quit. You don't get severance for quitting and breaching a contract. I don't understand why the expectation is that the Lions would be expected to pay his signing bonus in full if they would have cut him, but they cannot recoup the money the player owes them when the player quits on the team. Here's the best part. Calvin Johnson owed the Lions $3.2 million. He only had to pay back $320,000. He's made over $100 million in his career. I'm thinking babytron is the petty one here.
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Mike O'Hara: Matt Stafford Played With a Broken Back
O’Hara: “He is durable, but he does play with injuries. Turns out he had a broken back last year. Broken bones in his back.”
Brown interrupts: “Were you supposed to say that?”
O’Hara after a pause: “It’s been reported.”
Brown, laughing: “It’s been reported? I didn’t see that – Did you put that report out?”
O’Hara: “Just now. No, I read that. Word gets out in the National Football League.”
I haven't seen a single report about Stafford having had a broken back and having played through it. I am not sure what O'Hara is referencing here.
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1 hour ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:
Late in the season he was listed on the injured list with a back.
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Ian Rapoport confirmed the broken back injury.
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Glad it’s been confirmed. I’ve seen people on other platforms denying it.
O’Hara’s only been a Lions beat writer since 1977. Wonder when he’ll get off of probation and we can accept his stories at face value.
Anyway, hats off to Stafford. He has had a **** of a year. I’d like to buy that man a beer.
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5 hours ago, RandyMarsh said:
Did the Lions know this? If they knew this and they let their $27 million man play in meaningless games, then that's inexcusable.
What am I saying meaningless for - with Matt Cassell we would have lost at least one more game and gotten a better draft pick.
This team can't even fail right.
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Stafford broken bones in his back: 2018
Stafford playoff wins 2009-2017: 0
Lions' losing seasons 2009-2017: 5
Anyone else get the feeling that Kliff Kingsbury will throw a bunch of stuff at the Lions and Kyler Murray will have a great first game and they will blow out the Lions and then about 3-4 weeks later be shown as frauds?
I hadn't thought about it, one way or the other, TBH.
Reggie Bush calling the Lions cheap. I'm guessing the Lions don't pay as much as USC.
14 hours ago, six-hopper said:
They've at least had the good sense to fire everyone a few times. ?
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On 6/16/2019 at 9:52 AM, Motown Bombers said:
He needs all that money to grease palms to get his marijuana business licensed.
7 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:
Given that we don't know what this team is and will be, that's a possibility. This is one of the most unknown teams, with the largest variables, in the NFL. Looking at this from the perspective of they could be a really solid team if things click or they could be another 6-10 train wreck. So I could see them blow the Cardinals out or another repeat performance of what Sam Darnold and the Jets did to us.
I am not sure Kingsbury will be good overall, but at the beginning he make throw a few curves, but by the 4th or 5th week the league will have him figured out. Too bad the Lions won't have any real tape on Arizona. You know they'll be very vanilla in the preseason.
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Where were you when you first learned about Batfleck?
Superman remembers, and many other comic book lovers could recall their whereabouts without blinking an eye. And here's someone else who knows exactly where they were, and what they did, when Ben Affleck was announced as the new Batman…
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Not anymore, buddy. And he needed a minute to come to that realization; he says that he "just stopped and stared into nothing for half an hour" after hearing about Batfleck.
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"I'm 40," he says. "The fact that I'm jealous of someone else playing Batman… I think I should have gotten over it by now."
Good attitude, Christian. Gotta move on. The Batwing has sailed.
The "Fighter" Oscar winner says he reached out to Affleck over e-mail with advice, but "I haven't spoken with Ben." So that's awkward. Maybe Affleck's inbox was full?
Aw, chin up, Ex-Batman. Everybody falls. And why do we fall, Master Bale?
Ex-actly.
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KING HAMMURABI of Mesopotamia regulated the use of derivatives almost 4,000 years ago. The Japanese have been trading rice futures since around 1650. That contracts based on the price of some commodity or asset have been around for about as long as mankind has been trading indicates that they are pretty useful.
Derivatives enable individuals and companies to insure themselves against risk. Just as they fear the destruction of their belongings by fire or theft, businesses may also be concerned that exchange- or interest-rate movements may turn a good idea into a lossmaker. Derivatives allow them to lessen that risk. But someone needs to take the other side of the bargain, and that usually requires a speculator. Some of those speculators will go bust. Those who insure against fire and theft can set premiums on the basis of decades of experience; financial markets are inherently less predictable.
In the latest crisis, the problem was that investors erroneously believed property prices were quite predictable and built a whole edifice of derivatives on the back of the American housing market. To make matters worse, regulators wrongly believed that the use of derivatives, and the bundling of property loans into securities, had spread risk evenly throughout the system. They accordingly allowed banks to gear up their balance-sheets to a greater extent than before. In fact, much of the risk of a property crash still resided in the banks, and the complex nature of derivatives made their exposure very hard to calculate, leading to a loss of confidence in almost all of them.
Derivatives’ tendency to magnify problems has led to calls for regulators to ban some types. Their economic usefulness, it is argued, is far outweighed by their capacity to create systemic risk. Similar arguments were advanced two decades ago, when equity futures may have contributed to the Black Monday crash of 1987 and British local councils lost money in the obscure world of interest-rate swaps.
But after a few modest reforms, equity and interest-rate futures traded without incident, even through the latest crisis. And the same could be true of the more complex stuff. Even the much-maligned credit default swaps have their uses; by allowing investors to separate default risk from the other risks involved in buying bonds, they potentially reduce the cost of capital for business. Nor is a ban likely to achieve its aims. Congress banned onion futures in the 1950s on the ground that speculators were driving the price of the vegetable. The initiative ended in tears: onion prices since have been no less volatile than they were before.
Clearing and present danger
More modest reform, however, is needed (see article). Proposed legislation to encourage the trading of more derivatives on exchanges or through central counterparties deserves support, for it would make it easier to monitor what market participants were doing. Capital requirements need to be increased, so derivatives cannot be used as an easy way for banks to get around restrictions on gearing.
The trickiest issue concerns exemptions for end-users, such as manufacturers. Allowing companies to hedge their risks is the whole point of the instrument. But if the rules favour them over financial companies, trading will tend to migrate towards them, and away from banks. AIG, once the world’s biggest insurer, thought it was making “easy money” by using its strong credit rating to sell protection against credit defaults; in fact, it was digging its own grave.
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Part 4 - Wildflower Safari - Highway 178 & Around Kernville
(Continued from Part 3 - Death Valley.)
It was a peaceful morning in Panamint Springs, cool, sunny and open. We had cereal for breakfast (that I had packed for the road trip). We went down to the General Store/Gas Station to check out and get coffee. The young woman there recommended we take Panamint Valley road to go back west, instead of Highway190, so that is what we did.
Pulling out of the resort, we went right and continued downhill on 190 into Panamint Valley. The Panamint Mountains loomed ahead of us, this place was somehow nicer in the morning.
Down by the thin strip of sand we turned right onto Panamint Valley road and drove through the valley. We saw some fighter jets fly overhead, which was very cool, they seemed like they were practicing. The road turned into Trona Wildrose Road and started to climb uphill, out of the valley. It felt like we were leaving the desert behind us. Still, I was amazed at how green it was this time of year.
The green desert valley
At some point we got on Highway 178 and we continued down and toward the town of Trona, which looked like it was beat and had given up. There is a chemical lake there and I guess the local industry surrounds the manufacturing of chemicals in this lake. Yards were messy and full of junk and it almost looked like it had been abandoned, except for obvious signs that people currently lived there. Our drive continued on to the much, much larger town of Ridgecrest, which seemed huge after being in Panamint Springs. Eventually, we joined Highway 14 for a few miles and then left it, continuing on Highway 178 through cactus fields. This was the part of 178 that we had traveled in the dark on Saturday, so we got to see it for the first time.
Cactus Fields
We started our ascent into the dry, rocky mountains. This landscape was very different then I knew the mountains to be on the west side, where it was more lush and green.
The Eastern, dry side of the mountains
We continued to climb and the road took us on the mountainside and a deep canyon was created below us. Along it, ran a river and we saw many signs for boat drop off places, seemingly for white-water rafting. The dry rocks began to be covered by grasses and the cacti were replaced by trees. Eventually, the road leveled out as we neared Lake Isabella. The mountainsides here were splashed with color from the blooming wildflowers.
Mountainside Poppies
We made a right off of 178 onto Sierra Way, which would take us to the northern Lake Isabella town of Kernnville. We crossed fields and pastures, which brought us closer to the base of the mountainsides. Large patches of various wildflowers bloomed all over.
Purple and light blue patches of wildflowers
The road was windy at places and sometimes had long swinging stretches over the rolling foothills.
Sierra Way
We rounded a corner and the amazing Lake Isabella was before us along with multiple patches of different wildflowers.
Purple Patch around the Sierra Way corner
The amazing mountainside was also colored in yellow, purple and orange. We decided to stop and admire the view more slowly.
Mountainside of flowers
We continued on Sierra Way into the town of Kernville. I liked Kernville. It seemed like a nice outdoorsy town. There were lots of campgrounds, cabins and inns. It was obvious that white water rafting was big here, from all the signs. It also seemed that hiking, kayaking, mountain biking were also popular activities. We saw a bit of downtown Kernville, which seemed rugged but full of amenities. We continued on Sierra Way out of Kernville and deeper into the mountains. The patches of wildflowers just got thicker.
Field of purple and white
Field of yellow
Field of orange and white
After several stops along Sierra Way, we found the forebay road, which is a dirt road the heads directly up these mountainsides with the thick carpets of wildflowers on either side. It was rocky and rutted and probably not suitable for a low clearance vehicle like ours, but we took it anyway. On the forebay road, Paul stopped the car and I got out to examine the fields of flowers. Luckily it wasn't too hard to maneuver through the tall grasses and it was easy to find a spot at the edge of the wildflower patch to sit down (or lie down) in the grass and take some photographs.
Field of flowers along the forebay road
A glance into a field of poppies
A view of the forebay road and our car
The hills along the forebay road
After a while, I knew we needed to get going, so we made our way carefully down the forebay road and back out on Sierra Way. We went back into Kernville and had some lunch at a Mexican restaurant (this is what happens when Paul picks the eateries, it is always Mexican). Our lunch was good, although way too much food and we continued through Kernville and back into some of the neighborhoods, just to check them out. At the time, I was convinced I wanted to move here and wanted to see what real estate was going for. After a bit we went back to the main road, Burlando Road, and met up with Highway 155 which took us back around Lake Isabella and joined up with Highway 178.
On Highway 178 we continued west. The mountains opened up a bit and the river seemed even deeper in the canyon below. This is an amazing highway, even though we have seen it going east, it seems completely different and beautiful going west.
The mountain trees thinned and more grass on the hillsides emerged. There were patches of wildflowers here too, and they seemed even more wild then in Kernville, I guess because they seemed so unreachable by humans. We can only gaze on them and admire them, but we can not go there.
The unreachable wildflowers
The highway continued downhill and the Kern River became our neighbor, flowing alongside the road. We drove through the canyon, amongst the tall, lush mountain walls, which opened up from time to time allowing more sunlight in.
Along the Kern River
Then, the mountains got abruptly shorter and we were spilled out onto the grassy, rolling hills west of Bakersfield. We continued into Bakersfield, hitting traffic congestion, and eventually made our way out, back through the orchards and farmland onto I-5. From there it was a straight shot north for many, many miles through California's Central Valley. When we were east of the San Francisco Bay Area we left I-5 and continued west and eventually home, back in San Francisco.
The Wildflower Safari was over. It was so amazing that Paul said we needed to do it every year. I agreed. I couldn't believe the variety of beauty that we saw and it amazes me how many people don't get out and see these things, I don't understand. Maybe they just don't know what they are missing. I know I didn't discover that California could offer this until the year before. I hope to get down south one more time during wildflower season, but right now it is still just a hope.
Photographs:
To see more photographs of the Kernville area and Highway 178 visit:
Kernville & Highway 178
The Route:
From Panamint Springs resort.
1. Make a right onto highway 190, for more than 2.5 miles.
2. Make a left onto Panamint Valley Road and continue for 14 miles.
3. The road turns into (make a right) Trona Wildrose Rd, follow for 29 miles.
4. The road turns into Trona Rd, continue for 17 miles.
5. Continue onto Highway 178 W for 24 miles (follow signs).
6. At the dead end, make a right onto Highway 14 South for less then 3 miles.
7. Make a right onto Highway 178 W and follow up into the mountains for 32 miles.
8. Before the town of Weldon make a right onto Sierra Way and continue to the town of Kernville and beyond for about 14.4 miles.
9. Watch carefully for a small dirt road that climbs up the side of the steep hill with a small green street sign that says "Forebay" road.
10. Make a right on the forebay road and carefully enjoy the wildflowers. When finished, carefully turn back around and descend the forebay road.
11. Make a left onto Sierra Way and follow for about 1.5 miles.
12. Make a right onto Burlando Rd and follow through Kernville for about 5 miles.
13. Make a right/continue onto Highway 155/Wofford Blvd., for about 6.5 miles.
14. Take the exit for Highway 178 West and continue for 42 miles.
15. In Bakersfield, follow Highway 58 West for about 8.5 miles.
16. Follow signs for I-5 north, for 188 miles.
17. Follow signs for I-580 W for 62 miles.
18. Follow signs for I-80 W toward San Francisco, for 8 miles and into the city of San Francisco.
(from Panamint Springs, CA)
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National Shrines Should Belong to Nation and Not to One Denomination
Patriarch Sviatoslav: National Shrines Should Belong to Nation and Not to One Denomination
Patriarch Sviatoslav of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church sent an address to Parliament Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn and Ukrainian deputies with a request to withdraw from consideration Bill 9690 on Making Alterations to Certain Laws of Ukraine (regarding transfer of objects of cultural heritage to religious organizations)....
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Re: National Shrines Should Belong to Nation and Not to One Denomination
If the shrines belonged to the UGCC, they would be as quiet as a church mouse no doubt...
« Last Edit: March 15, 2012, 12:06:32 AM by Ortho_cat »
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Quote from: Peter J on March 14, 2012, 11:03:45 PM
Patriarch Sviatoslav of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church sent an address to Parliament Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn and Ukrainian deputies with a request to withdraw from consideration Bill 9690 on Making Alterations to Certain Laws of Ukraine (regarding transfer of objects of cultural heritage to religious organizations).
The head of the UGCC considers unacceptable the transfer of national shrines, which belonged to the unified Kyivan Church, to only one denomination, namely, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate.
“This way of response to the European recommendations regarding the restitution of church property is a distortion of the essence of restitution which envisages complex settlement of property problems for the sake of repairing the material harm done by the Godless regime,” reads the address, the Information Department of the UGCC reports.
Patriarch Sviatoslav warned in his letter that the transfer of the spiritual shrines of the Ukrainian nation “only to one denomination is a clear threat to the interdenominational peace and agreement which have been established in our state in the recent years.”
“Do the authors of the bill understand that by their initiative they are again pushing our Motherland into the whirlpool of the interdenominational (and, in this case, also interethnic) confrontation with unpredictable consequences?” asked the patriarch.
“In our opinion, the issue of the restitution of church property should be considered fully, transparently, from all the viewpoints and without prejudice by the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations representing 18 denominational trends and over 95% of Ukraine’s believers,” stressed the hierarch.
UOC-MP isn't a denomination. It is the continuation of that united Church of Kiev and All Rus'. It owned all the properties before the Bolsheviks confiscated them. It is the one to whom they should be returned.
This is very rich coming from a primate who ecclesial community just celebrated with great pomp the confiscation of the Churches of the Orthodox, that united Church of Kiev and All Rus'/Little Rus' and Galicia, and celebrated on the ground where they raised the Orthodox Cathedral to erect theirs (returned to Orthodox once the Habsburgs and Polish Republic no longer had Lviv in their grip; seized by this hierarch's correligionists before Kiev's authority could be established in the region with the fall of communism). They can have this back:
He can consider it unacceptable all he wants-like he considers it unacceptable to use the title of major-archbishop given him by his canons, and instead ignores all those canons of his and calls himself "Patriarch." His supreme pontiff hasn't rubberstamped his title inflation, his government is under no obligation to bow to his opinions.
The UOC-MP should consider pulling out of the "All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations" if Bill 9690 is withdrawn.
The UGCC has questionable claims to shrines in Galicia. It has absolutely NO claims, valid or otherwise, in Kiev and elsewhere, which the UGCC is coveting and squatting.
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Quote from: Ortho_cat on March 15, 2012, 12:05:53 AM
yes, the mouse that roared.
Quote from: ialmisry on March 15, 2012, 01:09:26 AM
It owned all the properties before the Bolsheviks confiscated them.
So the Bolsheviks didn't confiscate any properties from the UGCC? Yeah right.
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Quote from: Peter J on March 15, 2012, 09:19:36 AM
Right. Officially there had been no Eastern Catholics in Russia.
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The reality of the situation on the ground is more complex than either the zealots of the Greek Catholic or the Orthodox 'sides' in this debate would have it.
History has a way of making 'right' the 'wrongs' which another generation perpetrated on the 'losing' side - be it religious or secular. For goodness sake, it is tough for an American to make these arguments about 'seizing' property in the 16th or 20th centuries in the face of American history and all of the broken treaties between the Federal Government and the Native Indian Tribes during the 19th century.
Things become what they now are and those of us living today have to come to grips with those realities. As I have said before, the Muslims view the loss of Cordoba in the same way we view the loss of Constantinople. Neither side is going to give the other city 'back.'
That being said, this Ukrainian debate is probably more about nationalism and less about religion than it may appear on the surface.
Quote from: Michał Kalina on March 15, 2012, 09:35:05 AM
Oh right. :wink:
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"Officially" according to whom? The Soviets?
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What about Ukraine?
And there was an official Eastern Catholic Exarchate in Russia during the early Soviet Union, headed by Blessed Leonid Federov, who had his church's building and sacred vessels confiscated and who died in exile.
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Why does the MP want to privatise Pochayiv? i dont see how the current state ownership would prevent them of using the premises.
Quote from: Schultz on March 15, 2012, 11:10:31 AM
Maybe he means a different "Russia", as in Russia, Ohio 45363 .
« Last Edit: March 15, 2012, 11:24:52 AM by J Michael »
UOC-MP isn't a denomination. It is the continuation of that united Church of Kiev and All Rus'.
It is a continuation, albeit controlled by Moscow, just as the UGCC is such a continuation, but controlled by Rome. Just because the MP is a canonical Orthodox Church, that doesn't mean their lack of Respect for Ukraine is acceptable.
Not correct. Pochayiv actually was owned by the Orthodox Church of Poland. And there already was an UAOC in the USSR etc.
There was not a subject of the international law called Ukraine back then.
Quote from: J Michael on March 15, 2012, 10:04:27 AM
Eastern Rites of the Catholic Church ceased to exist in Russia in 1839 (with an exception of the Chełm Diocese which returned to Orthodoxy in 1875).
Ceased to exist as in presto-chango, all of sudden no more Eastern Rite Catholics whatsoever at all...., or were made illegal? There is a difference. Although on a nit-picky level if they were made illegal then "officially" they ceased to exist. Weren't there also a few of those nasty, pesky, heretical, schismatic *Roman* Catholics here and there in "Russia" over the years? I hear Ohio's full of them .
Your lack of historical knowledge is directly proportional to your willingness to discuss it.
In the 1839 all of the Russian Eastern Catholic Churches, Hierarchs and Priests returned to the Orthodox Church (with an exception of the Chełm diocese that did the same 30 year later. Believers could choose whether to became Orthodox or Roman Catholic. Eastern Catholicism became illegal. There might have survived some Eastern Catholic believers but without clergy and immovables.
Quote from: Michał Kalina on March 15, 2012, 12:19:53 PM
I think that's one of the defining characteristics of "internet discussion forum".
« Last Edit: March 15, 2012, 12:56:54 PM by Peter J »
So I take it that Bl. Leonid Federov, his congregation and physical church building, as well as his official title within the Roman Catholic Church as Exarch of the Russian Catholic Church did not exist?
It doesn't matter if the state decided that Eastern Catholicism was legal or illegal. They existed during the Soviet era and that, my friend, is a matter of history.
As for Ukraine, since you want to split hairs, what about the UGCC that the Soviets confiscated in the Ukraine SSR?
Thank you for informing me--I do appreciate it, but do I detect a very slight note of intellectual snobbery ?
My lack of historical knowledge, in fact my lack of knowledge in general, is very well-known (see below my name to the left), profound, broadly based and indiscriminate. The U.S.A. is still a free country (well, sort of, anyway) so, yes, I'm free and welcome to make as big a fool of myself as I like by showing my ignorance--and I frequently succeed, too !! Unlike everyone else here . At my age I really don't care *too* much about that any longer.
Did I mention that discussing things with and asking questions of one's intellectual superiors is one way of increasing one's knowledge base? Besides, if one had to be tested on and reach a certain level of knowledge about any given area of discussion on this or any other board, I'm fairly certain the numbers here would dwindle considerably. But....what do I know?
I know I can be grating and smart-alecky at times (I'm one of those "works-in-progress"), but quite often when I ask a question, it truly is out of ignorance and a desire to learn.
Yup--it takes *all* kinds !
So the Bolsheviks didn't confiscate any properties from the UGCC?
Not the ones he is coveting.
Like I said, they can and should have this back
Quote from: podkarpatska on March 15, 2012, 09:58:03 AM
Things become what they now are and those of us living today have to come to grips with those realities. As I have said before, the Muslims view the loss of Cordoba in the same way we view the loss of Constantinople.
Only problem is that the Muslims didn't create Cordoba either. It had been capital under the Romans of Hispania Ulterior Baetica, and the Muslims had to tear down the Cathedral to build their Grand Mosque. It had declined, btw, under the Muslims, somewhat like what the Crusaders did to Constantinople.
Neither side is going to give the other city 'back.'
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Quote from: Gorazd on March 15, 2012, 11:21:52 AM
Won't prevent others from using it either. Ever see how sharing works at the Church of the Resurrection/Holy Sepulcher? Not pretty.
For the Kievan caves, that would be bad enough, but UOC-MP has exclusive claims to Pochayiv. Even the persecutions of Poland's Revindication Campaigns didn't manage to reverse that. It spent just a century in the grip of the Vatican's Basilians, and the Czar waited for nearly four decades until he granted the wishes of those returning to Orthodoxy, and returned it to the Orthodox bishop of Volhynia, its true custodian.
Quote from: ialmisry on March 15, 2012, 03:09:46 PM
Wowzer.....You and I actually agree on something !
Across the shifting borders of east Europe from the time of the unions to the end of the cold war many Eastern Christian faith communities were caught in the web of ever transient secular authority and ever changing borders ( as well as intellectual fashion -such as panslavism.) It is unfair to look at the jurisdictional status of believers in centuries, or even decades past, from the comfort of our current points of view. Today things are what they are - if we want to 'undo' what occurred from a historical context, there would be a heck of a lot of ethnic cleansing, mass, forced deportations of peoples and return of lands to one group or another displaced as a result of the vain glories of long dead secular and religious leadership.
And the idea that people could "freely 'choose' " to be Orthodox or Greek Catholic anywhere prior to the late twentieth century in any place other than the New World is, to say the least, quite debatable. That goes for Austro-Hungary, Russia, Poland etc....
Quote from: J Michael on March 15, 2012, 03:41:13 PM
That's unfair! We agree on more than you would let on! ]
Quote from: podkarpatska on March 15, 2012, 04:29:06 PM
Dearest podkarpatska--you and I agree on many things, and I consider you a brother-in-Christ. Isa and I, however....have hardly ever agreed on ***anything***--so when he posted that, with his ubiquitous signature pictures and maps, I was overjoyed to see we hold a view in common. God truly does work in mysterious ways!
After the legalising Eastern Catholicism in tsarist Russia people were allowed to choose between Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism. That's the fact.
Interesting. When are we talking, approximately?
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Deacon Lance
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That is the truth, half of it anyways. Belarusians who wished to be Catholic had to adopt the Latin Rite as they were not allowed to use the Byzantine Rite and all the Byzantine churches had been given to the MP. When Russia lost western Belarus to Poland after WWI Belarusian Greek Catholic Parishes again formed. Russia annexed western Belarus at the beginning of WWII and the Servant of God, Metropolitan Andrei Sheptyptsky appointed the Servant of God, Fr Antoni Niemancewicz exarch of Belarus but he was martyred in 1943 and Greek Catholics were again outlawed. When the Iron Curtain fell Greek Catholics emerged from the catacombs and there are now about a dozen parishes.
Likewise in Russia, Greek Catholics emerged in Moscow and St.Petersburg.
« Last Edit: March 15, 2012, 06:16:43 PM by Deacon Lance »
It is a continuation, albeit controlled by Moscow, just as the UGCC is such a continuation, but controlled by Rome.
Not according to the Vatican: the UGCC's supreme pontiff Alexander VI told the Metropolitan of Kiev and All Rus' that the UGCC claims, Met. Joseph Bolharynovich, that he was not Metropolitan of of Kiev and All Rus'/Little Rus'/Galicia as he was not consecrated by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, by which he meant the Latin Cardinal Giovanni Michele, not the real EP St. Nephon II and Joachim I.
Galicians themselves translated the Metropolitanate of Kiev and All Rus' to Moscow. The UGCC continues nothing started by Ss. GP Vladimir/Volodymyr and Met. Michael at Kiev. At best it can only claim to be an offshoot.
Just because the MP is a canonical Orthodox Church, that doesn't mean their lack of Respect for Ukraine is acceptable.
Irrelevant to the status of the UGCC, or lack thereof.
both of dubious canonicity. By the time the canonical status of the OCP was regularized, Pochayiv was back home with the UOC-MP, its proper owner.
Ceased to exist as in presto-chango, all of sudden no more Eastern Rite Catholics whatsoever at all...., or were made illegal?
Like the presto-changeo of Brest, which the UGCC celebrated with great fanfare a few years back.
There is a difference.
Evidently not. Otherwise the UGCC would not have any anniversary to celebrate.
Although on a nit-picky level if they were made illegal then "officially" they ceased to exist. Weren't there also a few of those nasty, pesky, heretical, schismatic *Roman* Catholics here and there in "Russia" over the years? I hear Ohio's full of them .
I've been to Ohio. Never been to Russia. Unless OH is in Russia now.
Quote from: Schultz on March 15, 2012, 01:39:22 PM
I am sure that the UGCC would be surprised that it is part of the "Russian Catholic Church."
It doesn't matter if the state decided that Eastern Catholicism was legal or illegal.
As of 1905 it was legal. Relatively few took the Czar up on the offer to go back to the Vatican.
It matters when it comes to properties, for instance.
They existed during the Soviet era and that, my friend, is a matter of history.
and legal interpretation now. It has long been one of canonical interpretation.
It depends on whether the Polish King and Hapsburg Emperor confiscated it from the Orthodox for the UGCC.
The UGCC did have property stolen from the Communists, because that propert was Polish an Romanian until 1945. The Communist also stole property from the Greek Catholic eparchy of Munkachevo, in Czechoslovakia until 1945.
It also stole property from the Orthodox jurisdictions in the area of the 3 countries mentioned, when the respective areas were annexed to the USSR. Such was the case of Pochayiv, which belonged to the Orthodox Church of Poland. So, the MP has no business in the issue. It is true that before WWI, Pochayiv belonged to the Russian Orthodox Church (but not the MP, because the patriarchate was abolished). But even earlier, it was Greek Catholic for some time, and before that, it was Orthodox under Constantinople.
So I would strongly suggest maintaining state ownership...
Thank you for a calming post on this subject. The emotions that EXIST in the hearts and the faith which resides in the souls of the faithful who live in the areas in question are the real issues of relevance here - not the arguable historical narrative - particularly the politically motivated actions of Tsars, Emperors, Popes and Bishops long reposed. From a pragmatic point of view, there are no easy answers as to how to deal with these thorny issues and resorts to 'legal' or even 'logical' arguments are not going to provide a complete answer - or one which will be accepted by the populace of the countries involved. No matter what occurs all will not be pleased.
...because possession is nine tenths of the law (that's an Americanism).
As I mentioned before, the canonical basis of the Orthodox Church of Poland's autocephaly was questionable, something not cured until 1948. In the meantime between 1945 and 1948, Pochayiv was very much the MP's business: that the EP stuck his nose in that business doesn't change that.
It has been Orthodox under the Patriarchate of Moscow's Metropolitanate of Kiev and All Ukraine for the last two decades, although the UOC-MP does not own/posses it.
It refused to go into schism with the UOC-KP. Hence it has never been Orthodox under the UOC-KP.
For the 44 years before that, it was undisputedly Orthodox under the Patriarchate of Moscow's Exarchate of Kiev and All Ukraine.
For the 25 years before that, it is disputed that it was Orthodox under the same Patriarchate of Moscow's Exarchate of Kiev and All Ukraine.
The UAOC tried to seize it with Bolshevik, then Nazi, help, but the Lavra resisted. Hence it never was Orthodox under the UAOC.
It was Orthodox for disputedly 25 years under the Orthodox Church of Poland.
Before that, it was Orthodox under the Russian Holy Governing Synod (in loco patriarchi) for undisputedly 91 years (and the 25 disputed years thereafter).
The Vatican occupied it before that for 110 years. It has stood for at least 485 years, perhaps 700. So the Vatican had it in its gripped for but a short time. Prior to that, it had been the publishing center of the opposition to the scheme of Brest:the press was taken, during the persecusions of the Polish Republic, to Jordanville for the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, and now, as before, publishes for the Patriarchate of Moscow.
Before that, it was Orthodox under the Patriarchate of Moscow, for 34 years.
Before that, it was Orthodox under Constantinople's suffragan the Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and All Rus'/Little Rus' for 54 years.
Before that, it was Orthodox illegally (the UGCC alone have legal possession of all Orthodox properties in the PL Commonwealth) under Metropolitans of Kiev, Galicia and All Rus'/Little Rus' consecrated by the Patriarch of Jerusalem for Constantinople, who sought reunion with Moscow, for 12 years.
Before that, it was Orthodox illegally but under no on after the Metropolitan of Kiev's apostasy and submission to the Vatican and the bishops of Volhynia and Lutsk (the local bishops for Pochajiv) personally going to the Vatican to grovel and kiss their supreme pontiff's slipper, for 25 years.
Before that, it was Orthodox briefly under the Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and All Rus' consecrated in Vilnius by the EP after the elevation of the Metropolitinate of All Rus' into the Patriarchate of Moscow and the translation back of Kiev from Moscow to Constantinople, for six years, the Metropolitan of Kiev so consecrated promptly apostacizing and submitting to the Vatican.
Before that, it was Orthodox under the Metropolitan of Moscow and All Rus', all 64 years of its recorded history to that point. For the 77 years of its prehistory it was Orthodox under the same autocephalous Metropolitan (even the Vatican's minions the King of Poland/Grand Duke of Lithuania managed to recognize and accept that), and the 149 years before that Orthodox under his autonomous predecessors in Vladimir/Moscow suffragans to Constantinople, and the legendary half century or so before that under his autonomous predecessors the Metropolitan of Kiev and All Rus' sponsored by Galicia but based in Vladimir and other Russian (in the modern sense of the word) and cities/sees and under Constantinople.
Sooooo, that means it has never been Orthodox under the UAOC nor UOC-KP, the Orthodox Church of Poland claimed it for 25 years, it was in the grip of the UGCC for 110 and claimed by it for an additional 37 years, it was Orthodox under Constantinople 60 years in addition to 12 years illegally but canonically under Constantinople, and it has been Orthodox under Moscow for 263 years-including the last 181 with only 25 years disputed (but no longer)-of its recorded history and 149-199 of its legendary history Orthodox under Vladimir/Moscow when its primate was autonomous under Constantinople-moot, as Moscow isn't going to lose its autocephaly.
Not a hard call.
Of course, what it should be, and soon, is Orthodox under Kiev, an UOC-MP become autocephalous.
As the resident Existentialist, I have to respectfully disagree. Not to choose, is to choose.
The state has no business running monasteries, but of course Tsars, Emperors, Kings, Grand Dukes, Nobles, Popes and Bishops build up monasteries, in material and immaterial ways, so they become involved.
This is not hard. In fact, it is quite easy.
The monastery refused to go into schism with the deposed metropolitan Filaret, whose UOC-KP is out of the running. Only if the UOC-KP became the canonical Church of All the Ukraine could an argument be made for it, as the Lavra has specifically rejected its "patriarch" and his following.
The monastery defied both Bolsheviks and Nazis-groups not known for taking defiance well-in resisting take over by the UAOC and hence those claiming its "succession" are out of the running. Only if the UAOC was recognized as the canonical Church of All the Ukraine could an argument be make for it, as the Lavra has specifically rejected this movement.
Pochajiv fought the scheme of Brest, although its two local bishops were the ones who personally went to Vatican to kiss its slipper in submission, and its most notable saint, St. Job of Pochajiv, made it into a center of Orthodox resistance to the imposition of the presurser of the UGCC, which, therefore, is out of the running. Even when it had succumbed after over a century of the war of attrition that the Vatican had waged against the Orthodox, and it was submitted the Vatican, its decline was reversed only by the private efforts of Count Potocki, who tried to get St. Job canonized by the Vatican. The Vatican rejected St. Job, and St. Job in Pochajiv continues to reject the Vatican. The Czar allowed the Vatican to continue its grip on Pochajiv for decades, with its Latinization and Polonization, as the surrounding people began the return to Orthodoxy, and the successor of the apostate bishop of Volodymyr asked for nearly a decade for the return of the monastery before the Czar allowed it, and the monks returned to Orthodoxy and made it a center for those fleeing the Vatican for the Orthodox Faith of their Fathers not only in the Russian Empire, but those in the domains of the Habsburgs as well. Their heirs, the Second Polish Republic who took up the cause of Latinization, Polonization, and submission to the Vatican, and the Lavra resisted them as before. Only if the Orthodox accept Pastor Aeternus and submit to the Vatican, or Ukraine undo what the Soviet Union did and give Galicia back to Poland, could an argument be made for the UGCC, as the Lavra's history, what makes it a national shrine, is precisely its rejection of the Vatican to which the UGCC roams about all Ukraine and Russia as the lure.
That leaves the canonical Orthodox Metropolitinate of Kiev, the canonical Orthodox Church of All Ukraine, the Faith of the majority of Ukrainians now and throughout all their history since their baptism, with whom the monastery now communes, and has for nearly the last two centuries, and its first recorded two centuries and all its nearly four centuries of prehistory, with only a century of the discreted UGCC inbetween.
Like I said, not a hard case to make.
And if the Lavra wanted to leave the UOC-MP, it would not have been hard. According to the stats the 121 parishes of the UOC (MP) are surrounded by 210 of the UOC KP, 290 of UAOC and 777 of the UGCC and 86 others of the Vatican. Outnumbered nearly 8 to 1 by the Vatican, over 4 to 1 by the non-canonical Orthodox, the Lavra remains in the UOC-MP because it wants to be there. The state has to make the argument why it should not be allowed it rights to remain and be so recognized.
Indeed:
BASILIAN FATHER: UKRAINIAN GREEK CATHOLICS HAVE MORE GROUNDS TO PRIVATIZE POCHATIV MONASTERY THAN UOC-MOSCOW PATRIARCHATE
Greek Catholic monks of the Order of St Basil the Great expressed dissatisfaction with the possibility of privatization of the Pochayiv Monastery by the Moscow Patriarchate. They call Bill 9690, which envisages the transfer of the Kyiv Cave and Pochayiv Monasteries to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate, provocative. The Basilian monks state that they have more grounds to claim the Pochayiv Monastery than the monks of the Moscow Patriarchate....
According to the priest, his association of monks made an unsuccessful attempt to regain the Pochayiv Monastery after the UGCC had emerged from the underground....
http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/catholics/ugcc/47121/
The former head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Lubomyr (Husar) told journalists that is against the transfer of the Pochayiv and Kyiv Cave Monasteries to a particular denomination, a correspondent of the Tyznia reports.
“Places like the Kyiv or Pochayiv Monastery should be open to all Christians… One cannot assign them to anyone, transfer to anyone or privatize them. Or to say that it belongs to a particular denomination. It belongs to the Ukrainian nation, Ukrainian Church, even though, unfortunately, we are divided. Perhaps, we would get united again there as we stand next to each other,” said the archbishop...
http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/land_and_property_problems/47103/
Did His Beatitude think so when he seized St. George Cathedral in Lviv?
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Messiah’s Prayer Against Judas & Judas-like Men
a brief study of Psalm 109, adapted from PCC Prayer Meeting Exhortation on 6 August 2010
Psalm 109 is not a psalm which we sing regularly. It is an imprecatory psalm. But this is an important psalm for it is applied by the apostle Peter to Judas Iscariot in Acts 1:16-20. Peter, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit declares plainly that the man spoken against in this psalm is Judas Iscariot; and therefore by implication, the man who prays the words of this psalm is not David, but the Lord Jesus Christ who was betrayed by Judas.
Well, David might have written these words as an imprecation against Ahithophel, his friend who became his arch-enemy when his son Absalom rebelled against him. But David wrote in the Spirit of Christ so that the words of this Psalm are the words of Christ. The sentiments of this psalm are the sentiments of Christ.
This has always been the way that the early Fathers understood this psalm. It was seen as a prayer of the Lord in the Valley of Humiliation, just as Psalm 110 is seen as the response of the Father in the Peak of Exaltation.
It may be entitled: “Messiah’s Prayer Against Judas and Judas-like men.”
It has 3 main sections. From verses 1-5, the Lord Pours out His Heart For His Suffering due to the Enemies. From verses 6-20, the Lord Prays Against the Enemies. From verses 21-29, the Lord Pleads the Father’s Help.
Let’s look at these three sections briefly.
1. The Lord Pours out His Heart (v. 1-5)
The Gospel accounts do not record the thoughts of our Lord. But the psalms give us an indication of what was in His heart. Psalm 109 gives us a glimpse of what was in our Lord’s heart perhaps as He hung on the Cross. Though He spoke little audibly, His heart was no doubt filled with prayer and meditation.
Immediately as we enter into this Psalm, we see that our Lord was grieved, but not bitter…
1 Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise; 2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
Our Lord would not only praise the Father when things were well with Him. He was the God of his praise even when His heart was hurting.
As He is truly man, our Lord could be hurt by lies spoken against Him. And though He is the God-Man, He was representing man, and as such, He could not take vengeance against those who hurt Him deeply. “Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord [God]” (Heb 10:30; Ps 94:1).
He might only pray, and so He does. He pours his heart unto His Father about the deceit and lies and words of hatred spoken against Him by the Chief Priests and Pharisees, and even by those whom He had shown love toward. “They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love” he lament (v. 5).
What would the Lord want the Father to do for Him?
2. The Lord Prays Against the Enemies (v. 6-20)
Our Lord had many enemies. But one man stood out as so often is the case when we have many who oppose us. The man who stood out as our Lord’s enemy was Judas Iscariot. He was not the leader of the enemy band, but he stood out because what he did in betraying the Lord and returning evil for good to Him was by comparison far more sordid and damnable than the open hatred of all the unbelieving Jews and leaders combined.
Our Lord therefore singled him out for imprecation:
6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. 7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin. 8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
Verse 8 is the verse referred to by the apostle Peter. Our Lord minces no words in His imprecation against Judas. He did not pretend that Judas had only sinned lightly. No, no; Judas sinned against the Son of Man.
“The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had never been born” says our Lord (Mk 14:21).
We will not elaborate on the imprecation. Suffice to say that our Lord felt that Judas deserved both temporal and eternal suffering for what he did. He deserved loss and shame upon the earth. He deserved the wrath of God and the torment of Satan for eternity.
Why? Because he was a heartless man whose depravity showed itself shamelessly in his refusal to show mercy and his willingness to persecute the poor and needy (v. 16). Our Lord was already suffering because of persecution. Judas would have known that. The Lord spoke of His impending death often. And His movement was also restricted because of those who sought to kill Him. But Judas did not care. He would rather enrich himself than that the Master who taught him and provided for him should be protected.
Our Lord who is perfectly righteous and sinless could not overlook such a great sin. Indeed, He would have the Father deal with all who would be ungrateful, cruel and wicked like Judas in the same way that He wants Judas to be dealt with (v. 20).
Let all who are tempted to allow the depravity of the heart to do the unthinkable take heed. No professing believer can betray the Lord and His church and servants without grave consequences.
But those who face persecution like the Lord, let them cry unto the Father like our Lord did. For consider thirdly, how…
3. The Lord Pleads the Father’s Help
21 But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me. 22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. 23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth.
Our Lord was suffering. He was wounded in His heart and He was dying. His days were declining like a shadow as the sun goes down the horizon. He was bleeding and weakened by lack of food and water. The people around Him did not care. They wagged their heads when they saw Him (v. 25). “And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads.… He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God” they jeered (Mt 27:39).
But when there was no one to help. Yet the Father never fails.…
26 Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy: 27 That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.
The Father would indeed hear His prayer. As the Son was bearing the sin of His people; He would experience the Father’s wrath. Our Lord must have cringed at this thought. He would suffer intensely. But He knew that His Father would hear His prayer and vindicate Him. “Let thy servant rejoice” He says (v. 28).
Indeed, this thought of vindication and restoration evoked a beautiful conclusion to this psalm of intense sadness and imprecation.
30 I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.
Our Lord Jesus anticipated the Father’s vindication and restoration. He also looked forward to praising the LORD His Father in union with His people. Our Lord’s hope has been fulfilled. He was raised again from the dead on the third day. He ascended to the right hand of the throne of God to take the highest office that man can ever be given. From there He sent the Holy Spirit upon His people.
Multitudes have been converted. Multitudes have praised the Father who raised the Lord for their justification. The Son will through the church, His body, praise the Father for His everlasting love and salvation for all eternity.
This is Psalm 109. This is a Psalm with strong feelings. We live in a day when strong feelings and expressions are considered politically incorrect and rude. But we must not forget that the sentiments of Psalm 109 are not the sentiments of a mere man, but the Son of God.
We may not use the same imprecations against our personal enemies because we often make enemies due to our sin. But we may surely use the words of this psalm against the public enemies of the Lord—both of false religions and the church of the antichrist.
But more than that, let us assimilate the Lord’s indignation towards sin against Christ and His church and not lightly overlook such sins. May the Lord grant that our heart will beat with His heart beat—that we may hate what He hates and love what He loves! May we learn to weep where He weeps and hope according to His Hope as a people united to Him on account of His blood shed for us. Amen. Ω | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355985 |
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Jim Wiles
Central Illinois, 9 mi. South of Decatur
Theis, Greg, and Ebb;
Thanks to all of you for the help and ideas onthe wood suppliers and the bronze! Bloomington is close to me so I'll run up and have a look. I'll write or call Kettle Morain and the Caledonia Co. and Pekin.
Ebb, you're input is valued, I appreciate your thoughts and I will take heed! I only want to do this rudder once and as correct as possible. I will be wary since I know they will sell you anything just to make the sale. Such are the times in which we live! I have a good sailor friend that is a metallurgist so I'll get the assay and run it by him.
McHenry, IL, but sail out of Racine WI
Jim:
Kettle Morrain Hardwoods is in Caledonia, WI. There is no Caledonia company that I am aware of. Good Luck!
Thanks Capt Jim,
Pearson didn't get it too wrong in the beginning. The class here went through this and discovered that manganese bronze was used for nearly all the cast fittings and the shaft. The stuff is expensive, but that is relative. The dynamic shaft/shoe combo lasted nigh onto 40 years until we came along to refurbish.
Have to amend this. So I looked it up:
manganese b....... Naval brass ......... Everdur
58.5 copper.........60 copper.......... 98.25 copper
39.25 zinc...........39.25 zinc..............0
1 tin..................75 tin...................0
.25 manganese.... 0..........................25
1 iron..................0.........................0
0.........................0....................... ..1.50 silicon
Tensile strength psi of rod.: Hard and soft:
m.b. 45,000 - 30,000. n.b. 63,000 - 56.000. Ev 70.000 - 40.000.
Looks like manganese and naval are just about the same. Well, alloying is still a mystery to me. I went with Everdur. Awhile ago I had an animated discussion with Roger at Bristol Bronze. He stongly supported his highly alloyed manganese, which. he said, Bristol had originally supplied Pearson for the A/Cs, including the shaft.
Last edited by ebb; 12-19-2003 at 09:24 AM.
Ebb, Thanks for the comparative assay on manganese and naval; boy they really are close; are you saying that Bristol Bronze has manganese rod in the sizes that we need: One Inch and 5/16's?
Theis, Thanks so much for the corrected address on Kettle Morain.
tcoolidge
Olalla, WA
This should be filed somewhere readily available by anyone contemplating rebuilding the ruddershoe or shaft. It will be useful before you are done. I'm making it an appendix to the manual and giving a copy to my mold maker. Thanks for the info and effort.
A while ago I did some searches for manganese bronze and naval bronze and turned up a couple sites that seemed to have rod in every size and alloy known to man so anyone looking for rod could consider that route. I'm waiting until I know the exact alloy of the new shoe and then matching that
for the ruddershaft and drift pins.
That is great information. Thanks. But you choosed Everdur, Roger prefers Manganese Bronze, and I assume the reason for the name Naval Brass is because it is for the Navy (as contrasted with an area of the body).
Your information raises the questions Why did you choose Ererdur, Why does the Navy prefer Naval Brass, and why does Roger prefer Manganese Bronze? I understand hardness is one reason.
What about the corrosion element/electrolysis of the compounds? Is it that one is a new and improved version of an earlier type? Can they all be machined by the average machinist? What about cost? As a point of reference, last year we discussed electrolysis and the need to have multiple anodes. Is there a linkage between electrolysis/anodes and manganese bronze - whereas corrosion is less of a problem with the other two compounds?
As for the mystery of compounds and mixtures, it is truly wondrous how a little of this or a little of that can change the properties of something - like adding a teaspoon of cayenne peppers to a bowl of otherwise edible spaghetti.
Last edited by Theis; 12-21-2003 at 07:15 AM.
Manganese bronze rod is available in all sizes. If you are going to make a traditional rudder, I would match the internal rods. too. The problem is getting the alloy only in the length you need, because it is sold in 6 and 12 foot lenghs. or however the supplier deals it from the foundry. [I have a couple of two foot pieces of 1" Everdur left over from my ruddershaft adventure that cost the price of gold, are two precious to get rid of, are too short to do anything with.]
I went with Everdur because I had already cast 338s new shoe in silicon.
I had reasoned with self that silicon is commonly available and that it was likely that any bronze in the water would be silicone.
I then found that B.B. would do castings to patterns I made.. Very cool. Roger is, IMCO, committed to manganese for static load fittings. My discussion with him, which was 95% listening, about my underwater choice in bronze, was when he came up with that manganese would last 100 years but silicon only 50. Bristol has made all the highend jewelry for all the great highend yachts forever. And that Bristol will suffer a fool like me makes Roger close to god. But m.b. over time disintergrates in modern salt water. I think we two ended with a stalemate.
I'm a 'doubting thomas.' There is no doubt that in water fittings on the A/Cs have a problem (in salt water and in marinas..) My reasoning is simple: there isn't enough other ingredients in silicon bronze to leach out and crumble the fitting. Which has happened with our boats, right? Manganese is the best bronze alloy for fittings under load above the waterline.
B.B. might be a source for m. rod. I think his prices are highend but fair. I would check local suppliers.
Bristol Bronze is very committed to resupplying his firms original fittings that Pearson used. But the original molds got lost and a pattern maker has not appeared to make authentic copys. If 338's shoe mold is succesful I'll donate it to the ACA or give it to Roger. [by the way for the nth time - Bristol also has a beefed up version of the 338's stem fitting (in m.b.) that I know he has sold to one Triton owner who was happy with it. I don't know how much. He cosiders the molds you send him as 'public domain.'
Last edited by ebb; 03-05-2017 at 01:17 PM.
I think the crucial observation is that no matter which alloy is chosen it will in all likelihood outlast the chooser. I've wondered if Pearson was as concerned as we have become. My guess is they called for naval bronze because that is what was most readily available at the time and it had been proven to work for centuries. But I've also found that naval bronze means different things to different people and wouldn't be surprised if Pearson left the mixture to the foundry. In the early 1960's the simplest solution would probably have been the most likely and using special alloys that weren't absolutely neccessary would have been unlikely.
Good information. Thanks. You know, after everthing is taken into account, fresh water sailing is so easy - all we have to do is worry about ice, sleet, snow, shallow water and howlers. None of this corrosion stuff (Unless your boat is wintered next to a chemical factory on the south side of Chicago) and hurricane intimidation.
Brendan Watson
I rebuilt my Commander rudder useing the original shafts. A blow
by blow account can be found in the archives in Jim Wiles-
"Let's talk rudders" thread. I built this trouble free(6 years and counting)
rudder for about three hundred dollars and a lot of head scratching,
without having to raise the boat. Check it out.
Cheers,B.
Commander#215
sailshak
Madisonville, LA
On Hustler (Ariel #223), we replaced the rudder 2 times. The first time, we duplicated the original. We lost that rudder in medium air with the chute up. The second replacement was made from aluminum (may have been stainless-my brother-in-law handled getting it done) with the shaft and rudder welded together. This was done in 1994-1995 and is still holding together nicely. Designed the rudder to be narrower, not as tall, but a good 3 inches longer. Made the boat handle much better and took a lot of weight out of the back of the boat.
Scott Shackelford
Ex-Hustler hull #223
Now-Sundancer
C&C 24 #232
Has anyone found a supplier for a exact replacement rudder head fitting?
I think that I have wear in the keyway that I would like to eliminate this season with the old rudder and defintely next season with the new rudder.
Orinda, California
That's one of those parts for which Rostand has the pattern. Still waiting for the patterns to be donated . . .
Keyway can be shimmed with paper thin brass sheet.
Bill, My appologies, I should have remembered the posting speaking to the subject of Rostand.
The thin brass sheeting is a good idea to shim with. I'll keep that in mind. Also, a good source for that kind of thing ( thin brass, stainless, etc.) is model railroad scratchbuilding shops!
Another thing that I'm going to do is to mic both sides of my keyway; one side or the other could have worn out of tolerance and what I'm thinking of having done is to have some key stock specially machined to the measurements.
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Of course, I cannot find the part laying around anywhere right now (and I did look a bit recently)...but I found a replacement head fitting for another guy's Triton in one of the area seajunk stores not too long ago...the part was cosmetically a bit different, but it worked fine on his boat. These parts were a pretty common size for the type of rudder setup, which was pretty common once upon a time. Might look around that way, too--I think it was less than 50 bucks for a real nice rudder head and the tiller fork to go with it.
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The Cannons (Failed Stories)
Obviously, The Cannons was intended for a local audience, but I don't think it's too much of a stretch for anybody who doesn't attempt to speak only in swears and vowels. Writing in regional dialect is an exercise in futility, Trainspotting debatable, and I've even written out the word as 'm o t h e r,' with a fancy (townie) 'th' and everything.
Sure sign of a class act, that. Bet he cleans behind his ears and everything.
I'll just get on, now. You have at 'er.
Dicky tipped the beer bottle to his mouth, a short swig, and asked, “How much you think I could get for the metal in one of them cannons?”
His nephew, Bryce, next to him on the curb, pushed a smirk at him. “What cannons?”
“God, you know what cannons. How many places got cannons?"
The first intrusions of dawn were folding a lighter blue into the black backdrop of the night sky. The men peered across the width of the harbour into the darkness. The lights around Signal Hill, the elderly sentinel of the Atlantic ocean, high above St. John's harbour, were little more than fireflies to them, but they knew where on the hill the cannons were and mapped them against the gloom.
Bryce shoved his sneakers out in front of him and tugged at his ball cap. “Oh, those cannons. I don’t know. Five bucks. Ten?”
Dicky’s thinning hair was incredulous. He swivelled to face his nephew, fifteen years younger, home from university that day. “Ten dollars? Holy Moses, Jimmy Hoskin’s got a hundred for that roll of copper he stole from the power lines, and there’s more to a cannon than there is a roll of copper.”
Nephew Bryce, with a big grin on his face, hummed, “Hmm. So a cannon?”
“Yes, a cannon. Those things up there on the hill what shoots big bowling balls.”
“Twenty dollars?”
“Twenty? Twenty?” Dicky pulled at the bib of his own cap and pushed it around backwards, readying for battle. “Bryce, me buddy, I don’t know what to do with you.”
Bryce chuckled and accepted the bottle when his uncle Dicky — Richard, but Dicky all his life — passed it his way. His sip was too small, as were all their sips. Their shared bottle was the last survivor from a case of twelve and neither of them wanted to finish it too quickly. It was their tether to the evening, their only excuse to sit and keep talking on the curb, so they sipped slowly, and drew no attention to their dainty tips.
Bryce lowered the bottle. “I don’t know, Dicky, those cannons are way out there, you know, not by the road. They’re down and over the hill.”
Dicky nodded. “Yeah, I know where they are. We’ll drive the truck right over, hoist ‘em in the back ... no problem. Couple cannons.”
“Yeah. Couple cannons.”
“But that wasn’t the question, Bryce me buddy. The question was how much do you think we could get for the metal in one of them. If you’re so smart, then answer me that.”
Bryce was not won over so easily. “No problem? Sure you got a problem. What truck you talking about? You don’t got a truck.”
“I got a truck,” said Dicky assuredly.
Bryce leaned in drunkenly, halfway to the dirt. “Since when do you have a truck? You got that old wheelbarrow maybe, that one that’s out in the shed. Full of empties.”
“Wheelbarrow,” scoffed Dicky. “Watch me moving a cannon with a wheelbarrow now.”
“At least you got a wheelbarrow. I knows you don’t have a truck.”
“Yes, you’re right. But I never said I had a truck….”
“Yes you did. Just then.”
“My good pal, Lundy, got a truck. We get his truck. We’re set.” Dicky clapped his hands decisively. “Just like that, see. No problem.”
Unconvinced, Bryce shook his head. “Lundy? Don’t he only got a Ranger? A cannon’s probably the full weight of that old Ranger of his.”
Dicky chewed on his lip and took the bottle when Bryce nudged his arm with it. Half full, warm, Dicky pressed it to his lips cautiously. Neither of them wanted to be the one to finish it.
“Them cannons are clamped down,” added Bryce. Less than a day home from school, he could already hear his old accent returning. The beer helped bring it out too.
“You mean at night?”
Bryce laughed. Real laughter this time, not forced mockery. “No, you goof, not just at night. You think someone’s gonna steal a cannon when nobody’s looking? They’re cemented down in concrete blocks all the time.”
Dicky was impervious to his nephew’s scorn. “Well, smart guy, if no one is gonna steal a cannon, why are the cannons cemented down?”
Bryce shrugged. “I don’t know. That’s what all cannons are like. Bolted down. Maybe because of the wind.”
Dicky lowered him a disbelieving look. “The wind?”
“I don’t know. Yeah. The wind.”
“You think the wind can knock down one of those cannons?”
“The wind can but I can’t?”
“I know you can’t.”
Pushing back his sleeves, Dicky cocked his bicep and struck a pose. “You might know a bit about those guns up on the hill, but you don’t know nothing about these guns that I got right here. Check out these cannons.”
Dicky hadn’t done an honest day’s work in months. His arms were pasty tube socks.
Bryce laughed out the side of his mouth, “Don’t know, Dicky. They look more like peashooters to me.”
“We’ll see who’s got peashooters when we bust up that concrete.”
Bryce scoffed again. “Bust it up? With those arms? It’d take years.”
Uncle Dicky shrugged. “Well I don’t know about that. From what Rose tells me, you’ve been lifting ten thousand bucks worth of books all year long. A cannon shouldn’t no problem for the likes of you.” He followed his shrug with another delicate sip and passed the bottle back.
Bryce shifted on the cold cement curb. “I’ll smash those blocks like the Hulk. Carry a cannon down the hill on my shoulders. Two of ‘em. One on each.”
The blue of the sky had raised high enough to silhouette the fort watching over St. John’s harbour against the dawn. It would be a rare fogless morning, clear and sunny.
“Yep,” muttered Dicky with a nod, “good ‘ol Lundy with his truck. He turned to his nephew. “We should head over his way now. Get a start.”
Bryce shifted his ball cap. “Now, hold on now. You don’t think things through, Dicky. You never does. Lundy’s arms are like two skipping ropes. We’ll need more than just us three to move a whole cannon. The two of us plus ... maybe fourteen more of Lundy.”
Dicky tapped at his teeth pensively. “Hmm. Yeah. Might need to cut another guy in too. Still, plenty of metal on a cannon to go around.” Dicky pushed himself to his feet. “We should head on over to Lundy’s now.”
“Probably need a couple guys,” said Bryce with a grin. “You aren’t that young anymore.”
Dicky laughed. Finding the nearest scraggly rose bush, Dicky unzipped his fly and bowed himself, talking over his shoulder. “Any day you wants to pit yourself against a real man, little buddy, you know where to find me.”
“I knows where to finds you — in bed.”
“Damn right. No need to get outta bed to drop a skin-bag a bones like you. You’d think they didn’t feed you at all up there in that school.”
“Then I’d let on that you were trying to rope me into something illegal.”
Dicky feigned shock. “Sweet Jesus, you’d set the law on me, your own dear uncle?”
“Worse. I’d tell mom on you.”
Dicky straightened. “Yes, lord, that’d be worse. Rose’d kill me. Don’t you be talking to your mother about none of this. She don’t like your drinking, especially not with me.”
Bryce laughed and picked up the bottle where Dicky had laid it on the curb. The beer was low now, the foam resting against the brown bottom.
“Illegal,” muttered Dicky, zipping up his pants. “Hardly illegal, taking one of those cannons. Not like anybody’s using them.”
“What if pirates attacked the harbour? Then what would we do?”
Dicky sputtered, “Pirates? Pirates? There hasn’t been pirates around here for what … fifty years.”
Bryce wasn’t even trying to keep a straight face anymore. “You steal those cannons and we won’t have any cannons to defend ourselves if they come back.”
“I don’t want all the guns, just the one.”
“That’s not the point,” said Bryce animatedly, leaning back to talk to his uncle who was stretching his legs. “Besides, what would you do with it?”
“Money me buddy. Money.”
“Yes, money.”
“What money? You bring a cannon to the recycling place and they’d knock you over the head and call the cops.”
“As long as they don’t call your mother.”
Bryce laughed. “I missed your foolishness when I was away, Dicky.”
“No foolishness about it,” said Dicky. “I’d take care of it.”
“You’d melt down a whole cannon?”
“I might. I can’t say.”
“You can’t say?”
“I know a guy. He’d take care of it.”
“A guy? What guy? Some guy with a wood stove?”
Dicky tapped the side of his nose and looked down at the bottle in Bryce’s hand. “Finish that off now. I don’t want no more of that backwash.”
“Give ‘er.”
Bryce tipped the bottle up, made a face as he swallowed the last of the tepid foam, and placed the bottle down gently on the curb with a hollow click. “Must be one hell of a wood stove,” he said after a burp, “fit a whole cannon.”
Dicky pushed a smirk out to one side of his face. “Must be nice being young, having all those brains. But you’re not half so smart as you thinks you is.”
Bryce smirked back at his uncle. “Smart enough to know you’d be better off melting down the stove and using the cannon to have fires instead.”
By now, the outline of Signal Hill was pushing inland. Closer to the shore, they could see that a military ship had docked in the night. A smaller boat with a searchlight was doing aimless loops in the harbour, keeping guard.
“Smart enough for that to be sure,” said Dicky, arching his back; “a woodstove’s no thicker than the tinfoil inside a pack of smokes, but not smart enough to know that Lundy hides a case of beer in his garage in case of emergencies.”
“Emergencies, huh?”
“Yes sir, for all kinds of emergencies. Floods. Earthquakes, or two good fellas with grand plans who don’t got no beers to bring it all together. All Lundy needs is a good emergency for waking him up. Even a bad emergency that sounds good at the time would be good enough for Lundy. He’s not particu-lar. But, I don’t know ... I can’t think of none right now. No emergencies at all. Certainly not no emergencies to do with cannons.”
Birds were yawning noisily in the trees around them.
Dicky peered out over the harbour. “No sir, I thought there for a minute that I had a dilly of a yarn about stealing some cannons to make a few dollars off of them, but now I knows the error of my ways. You’ve convinced me, Bryce ol’ buddy. Stealing cannons, it simply ain’t possible. I ain't keen enough to know what they’re teaching you up there in that school, but I guess it’s working, because you got me convinced — and I’m hard to teach, I am. That’s what the ol’ nuns used to tell me mother.”
“Yes sir. You’re one smart lad. We would need a dozen stout men to move a cannon, probably a backhoe with a driver, a crane with an operator, and the man from the Department of Works who oversees all the stealing done in the city, just to take a one of them. After a crew that size got their cuts there wouldn’t be much left of our little cannon for us, and hardly enough beer to wet our lips for that matter. Lundy don’t keep no more than twelve around at any one time ... a good measure, that. So no buddy, we can’t be at no cannons. Not this night anyway.”
Reconsidering in the light of new information, Bryce shuffled. “We could —”
“Nope, nope,” said Dickie, “I’m already sold, smart feller. I think it’s time we should be moseying inside now before Rose sees you’re out and strings me up.”
“We could call Lundy. I got my cell.”
“Well I hope you knows Lundy’s number, and can figure out where he stashes his case, because I’m going to bed. Goodnight, me boy.”
With that, Dicky took a circuitous route across the street and disappeared up the concrete front steps of the house. The door slammed – it had been sticky, opening with suction, for years – and Bryce heard Dicky thump over the coffee table in the living room.
His mother’s light flicked to life in her bedroom window, first a dull yellow, then brighter.
Bryce looked out over the water one last time. A little blue fishing boat was making towards the narrow mouth of the harbour and the choppier cradles of the ocean. Bryce could see the colour of the morning now, the dark green bushes of Signal Hill, the white froth candles of the far waves. The little boat squeezed between the rocks of the harbour mouth, raising higher with each passing second against the lightening sky. Down at the docks, the thrum of huge motors was building.
Bryce picked up the bottle they’d perched on the sidewalk. He threw it into the bushes and sighed. No way to sneak in unseen now, not with Dicky stumbling about the living room like a frightened bird. Bryce waited a few moments for the light in his mother’s window to darken, but it never did.
A happy summer afternoon in ol' St. John's
Failed stories. Every writer has them.
Born of good ideas which just didn't quite pan out, they sit in the literary junk drawer for months and years. Every so often, in moments of boredom or with pulses of meandering creativity, they're taken out and turned over again, and they're never quite BAD, failed stories, they just don't quite deliver on what they originally advertised.
Inevitably, looking at the story again, it's thought, Well, this isn't so bad. A few words get added here and there to strengthen images, dialogue gets a bit of a tweak. I'll just make this chap a bit sassier. Generally, any alterations are chalked up as being telltale for personal improvements in the craft since you last looked.
Yet ... something about the story still doesn't quite work, and again it goes back into the dusty drawer with old bits of overheard conversations and correspondence which you once thought was clever.
For me, The Cannons is my failed story. I have bigger failures, but The Cannons is the most successful failure. The other failures don't even have the luxury of a literary junk drawer. They're bricked up behind a wall down in my dank literary basement, never to see the light of day.
I don't dislike The Cannons, but something about it never quite works for me either. I wrote it for the Cuffer Anthology Contest in St. John's a few years back. The contest basically wants a pretty written advertisement for the island, geographic masturbation if you will, but when I think about Newfoundland I think of the widening separation between the generations, the grizzled old beards with hands like baseball mitts down on George Street passing the pink Republic of Newfoundland headscarves holding the ipods. I wanted to reflect upon that in some small way, but the constraints of the original context -- 1200 words -- might have squeezed it a little too much.
The baby-face of literary excellence.
Pardon the hat in the picture. It's my visual placebo. I shaved off my beard for Movember and I'm still in shock at how small my head looks to me right now.
Also, I took the photo on the one day of the year where I wasn't wearing my tuxedo and sipping martinis. Isn't that always the way?
(In truth, it being November the first and only three kids having come to our door last night, I'm shocked I'm not currently wallowing in some sort of debilitating sugar coma. By all medical logic, syrupy brown glucose should be oozing from my pores.)
For those of you who might not know, Movember is where men -- obviously -- grow mustaches for the month of November, usually competitively, either singly or with a team, to raise awareness of, and money for, prostate cancer research.
Once again, I've thrown my philtrum into the fray. The last time I did so, I grew such a disgusting flavour saver that people stared at me in the grocery store, my friend's dogs whimpered whenever I entered the room, and my own mother blocked me on Facebook.
Oh, what glee I take from using correct words that the spellchecker flags.
This year will be no different. I pledge to flaunt the hairiest, filthiest soup strainer that I can possibly coax from the middle of my face, like an old pushbroom that's been used to stamp out fires -- such a grubby lip-caterpillar that even Tom Selleck would shirk away in disgust in public. If people aren't approaching me on the street and asking, "Why are you doing that to yourself?" then I'm just not doing it right.
Ladies, if your men are doing the same this month, please be patient. It's for a good cause.
Plus, as an extra, he will gain all the old-timey superpowers of mustache: the ability to talk to, and reason with, bears and other wild creatures; mastery over words like 'indubitably,' and phrases like, 'I say, what a disgraceful moppet she has become;' and, best of all, the ability to set petticoats ablaze with his smouldering gaze.
Myself, I'm lucky to have such a wonderful and understanding lady who supports the must-stache.
On the flip side, in the past, because there's so many fuzzy lips around for a good cause in November, I've encountered quite a few cheeky fellows who have grown hair snakes themselves simply because it suddenly became socially acceptable. These gentlemen -- though I use the word laughingly -- being gutless and vain, won't stray outside the shorn facial norm at any other time of the year, needing a group within which to hide and blend.
Now, normally, dear readership, I wouldn't call for the social shaming of any creed or group, but I do advocate admonishing glances for anybody you suspect might be a hairy-lipped Movember cuckoo. I implore you to dust off your pitchforks and torches and put their business ends to good use. Drive the pretenders from your beds, shun them from your pubs. To the barbershop with them!
To be fair, I've given thought to the counter-argument that simply having a face sweater in November raises awareness of prostate cancer research. And that, to a point, may be true. However, when people approach me on the street and ask, "Why are you doing that to your face?" I tell them that I'm my own personal Chia-Pet for Movember and prostate cancer research. Also, "I'm taking donations through the Movember website. Would you like to donate?"
Approach one of these other fellows and they'll reply, "Because it's No Shave November, dude."
If not the rusted point of your pitchfork, make them give you ten dollars towards cancer research. It's only fair. And a good trade-off, I would think.
A member of No Shave November.
Forgive me if I sound sanctimonious, but I believe the good intent of Movember should not be a smokescreen for the face-cowards of No Shave November.
Last year, around the world, over 854,000 people participated in Movember, raising $125.7 million CAD.
For more information, please visit http://ca.movember.com/?home
If you would like updates on the progress of my dirty, filthy, nose bush, or would like to donate, please visit my profile at: http://mobro.co/4232721
Any contribution would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for reading.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I know a bear who has a very interesting story to tell.
Indubitably.
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Lee Burton doesn't have cats or kids, but he does have a lot of books, a couple of mugs he thinks are really fantastic, and a good pair of shoes which haven't fallen apart yet despite his best efforts to murder them with kilometers.
Burton has written almost six books. Almost six as some are still scantily clad in their respective drawers. Each of them had their own goals and were written differently, and he is very fond of them all -- except perhaps for his first attempt at a novel, which remains a travesty. That one he keeps locked in a dark basement and feeds it fish heads.
In 2011, Burton won the Percy Janes Award for Best Unpublished First Novel in the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Competition for his novel Raw Flesh in the Rising.
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John Lees vs Les Holroyd
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Points: 4411 Topic: John Lees vs Les Holroyd
Posted: November 16 2005 at 08:11
What do you think about their disagreements and their solo careers?
Do you think it'll be possible to see them riunited to form, within Wooly Wolstenholme, the great original Barclay James Harvest (the sad recent death of Mel Pritchard apart)?
BJH Through the Eyes of John Lees (within Woolly)
BJH Featuring Les Holroyd (within Mel)
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There seems to be no way on this earth that BJH will ever have Lees and Holroyd together. Both apparently burned a few bridges when they acrimoniously split up in 1998. Which is a shame, never got to see them live with the Wooley one.
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Points: 10616 Posted: November 17 2005 at 04:28
I read in a Dutch progmagazine that the reason for the split was that Holroyd wanted to do new stuff, and he thought that Lees was clinging too much to the past.
I think it must be possible to see them reunited. Would be great. I once saw BJH in concert (without Wolstenholme) and it was fantastic!
Unique band that gets bashed too much. They have a lot of memorable melodies, and they have their own distinct sound.
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Never say never! With Wooly back with Lees, the temptation must surely be there for Holroyd to rejoin as well. I would have thought a reunion tour in Germany would be very lucrative for them.
I don't think either has particularly shone since they split. That said, the band were clearly running out of ideas anyway. Even when they were both in the same band, they didn't tend to work together much, most songs were by one or the other. It was the contrast between their songs which made them appealing, hence their post split albums are rather one dimensional.
Points: 4411 Posted: November 17 2005 at 13:53
John and Les have ever worked together. It's a sad thing they don't now! They were always more than the sum of their parts.
Mel's death means that the band can never be re-formed as it was, but perhaps it might make some people realise that there are more important things in life than musical differences and banal disagreements.
Chemical Alice
Points: 8 Posted: November 17 2005 at 17:20
Stranger things have happened before, I do think they will be back together eventually. They way they are doing it now is a disaster for the name Barclay James Harvest. Album/Material wise the new stuff isn't good enough, at least not for a whole album, and concert wise we do not get the songs we wanna hear, unless we don't both versions! No, this rubbish gotta end now, bring us the real BJH that we (I) love so much
Don't crawl to me with sentiment, my laughter drowns your cries
You're a memory trapped on Polaroid, a puppet drawn on celluloid
Points: 967 Posted: November 17 2005 at 17:46
Last I heard (and it was on the fan site), Woolly was in a mental hospital just down the road from me in York, recovering from illness. I hope he's recovered enough to get out and play.
I'd love to see BJH live again. They were excellent when I saw them in 1976. Probably the most ignored band on the site (except Horslips!).
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Easy Livin wrote:
Hard to top that statement from Easy Livin'. I have pretty much everything they did from their debut up til 'Ring Of Changes', and I really enjoy all of those albums, but I heard some of their more recent output and they were doing what no band should ever do unless there is some genuine purpose (ie- unplugged) imo- re-recording their old songs like 'Berlin' and 'Life Is For Living'. This pretty much added flames to the fire of people who believe the band can't hack it as two separate entities. They need to sort out their differences and make the album they must be able to (Wooly's more recent solo stuff from what I've heard shows the talent is still there intact!).
However, BJH aren't the only band to have this bizarre rift. Saxon, the legendary NWOBHM band, have two bands- the regular Saxon with Biff Byford as singer, plus Oliver Dawson-Saxon that feature two members of the original line-up.
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Americans have been accepted throughout the world as saviors and as villains. Our past includes episodes of greatness and questionable actions. History is the means to look backwards permitting evaluation of our decisions and actions.
In large measure, America has been the guardian of democracy, freedom and goodness. We have made errors, yet our balance sheet is greater good than not. We have fought for the freedoms of others, to combat tyranny and oppression.
The American Cemetery in Normandy has over 9,000 of our servicemen and women. Foreign lands have over 130,000 of our combat losses, who paid the ultimate sacrifice serving this nation.
If asked, many Americans would believe the U.S. has had armed conflict with Russia. Yet no war has had Americans fighting Russians. Our national leaders have secured peace between our countries even at a time that both have the power of annihilating the other.
President Donald Trump stated to Vladimir Putin that our current bad relationship with Russia is due to, “many years of U.S. foolishness and stupidity and now the Russian witch hunt.”
Presidents from Truman, Eisenhower to Obama, Reagan and George H. Bush stood up to and ended the Soviet enslavement of Eastern Europe and said no to the Russian invasion of Crimea. Trump has disdained American greatness.
Trump has granted Putin America’s blessings to invade his neighbors and destroy the structures of the Atlantic Allegiance that has awarded the world with peace since the end of the Second World War.
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The Goal is to get 40 bands (and 10 bonus) that keep getting snubbed into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The petition is for Rock Fans to pull together and get not only these bands recognized but to get awareness to the Rock Hall that they need to be inducting MORE every year.
Please sign the petition, pass this on, post to social and music sites, and put on comments to and videos or the band sites themselves. United we stand as Rock Fans to get our bands in. Most of these bands are way over due!
Daniel J Martel
The next 10 Acts that should be inducted: Carole King, Doobie Brothers, Eurythmics, J. Geils Band, Guess Who, Carly Simon, Duran Duran, Steppenwolf, Zombies and Judas Priest
Rebecca Finkel
Emerson Lake and Palmer are way overdue to the in the RRHOF!! This band were to Godfathers of Progressive Rock and sold out stadiums all over the world. They headlined the California Jam in 1974. They have been a huge influence on a number of bands including but not limited to, The Red Hot Chili Peppers. They are still loved and adored by millions of fans all over the world. Sadly we lost Keith Emerson and Greg Lake in 2016, the only original member who is left is Carl Palmer. ELP needs to be inducted while Carl is still alive and before we lose him too!!
I dont see a band thats gone through more tragey in the early years (loss of allens arm and death of steve clark) and still managed to keep it all together, still kick ass by playing more live gigs than any other bands in their 40s n 50s. WTF! This band is opedimy of not to give up!
Def Leppard dudes n betches reckonize a rock legand!!
Barry Scholles
Rock snubs goes a lot deeper than ELO or Violent Femmes. Connie Francis is so long overdue for induction I’m just hoping she lives long enough to see it happen.
Connie Francis had a string of top ten hits in the late fifties and early sixties and is LONG overdue for induction.
Erik N
I cannot believe ELO and Violent Femmes are not in Hall. Both made much great and innovative music.
Totally forgot about Violent Femmes – great call.
Bubba the Road-Dog
Maybe the the Violent Femmes being so unmemorable is why they are not in?
ELO is in.
I’m sure Marc Bolan and T-Rex are worthy contenders for enshrinement into the Rock Hall, but there is someone who deserves it far more than they do. That someone is Connie Francis. Connie is responsible for a string of hits in the late fifties and early sixties and has been denied entry into the Rock Hall for over fifty years! PLEASE, allow this great vocal artist entry before it has to be done posthumously!
LONG overdue for induction is Connie Francis! What is wrong with the HOF committee? Are they going to posthumously elect her? She is responsible for a string of hits in the late fifties/early sixties including “Stupid Cupid, Lipstick on Your Collar, Who’s Sorry Now, and My Mind Has a Heart of Its Own.” Wake up before it’s too late!
BILL WEAVER
DOOBIE BROTHERS………….A YES WHY OVER DUE.
Floyd Lewis
does anybody listen to house of hair on wmms 100.7, if you do check out a website called daily headbanger.com
I just bought paul Stanley’s spacial edition starchild boots
How about Connie Francis. She is WAY past due. She has had some great hits and a difficult life. She deserves to be in the Rock Hall.
mike shea
Why not Babe Ruth and Joe Namath and Calvin Coolidge too…they aren’t rock stars either. Seriously tho’..no Joe Cocker? No Warren Zevon? No Little Feat? No Yes or Emerson Lake and Palmer? Madonna, Run DMC, Donna Summer really needed to be let in before all of them ? (and so many others?)
Terrence Hardy
I’d have to agree about Janet Jackson. They can’t really continue to snub her for much longer.
Also pushing for The Cure and Depeche Mode.
Can’t say I agree that Janet is “rock & roll” but that comes back to my argument against acts like her brother, Linda Ronstadt and a slew of others that I don’t consider “rock”.
As long as the Rock Hall is putting in “music” acts, then yea, Janet definitely deserves to be in there.
peter aust
Donna Summer , maddona , Janet jackson? Set up a r&b or pop hall of fame. I think all inductees should be offered a bat to eat before they are inducted and if they refuse they should be kicked out. Slade and the Jam forever
flatulence boy
Moody Blues, Tommy James & Shondells, Petula Clark, Paul Revere & Raiders, The Turtles, Chicago, and The Monkees all need serious consideration. NO MORE RAP ACTS!
Blues Moody
Good God, give me rap rap rap. The Monkees? Lol
therealwrestlinggenius
Weird Al Yankovitch
put him in
you Canadian idiots
I’m pushing for a Janet Jackson nomination. She’s definitely induction-worthy and has been snubbed, too.
Bill Grainger
if Donna Summer and Madonna are in, Janet Jackson is definitely worth a look. Janet was the top Pop/R&B female in the 80’s and 90’s. She deserves a nomination from Rhythm Nation 1814 alone probably.
Agreed! I signed a petition! What did Terry Knight do?
Grand Funk RailRoad….Desereves and belongs in the Hall and the Hall Knknows it. Don’t Penalize the members for what Terry Knight did by keeping the Boys from the Media!!!!!!!Knight has Passed onNbut GFR lives on. Do the right thing. GFR has more than paid there due’s and was one of the first American Heay Metal bands that broke through when all the media wanted was the British bands!!! The Hall knows what is right so do it!!!!! Mike form Rochester NY.
I hear this many times, but Procol Harum DESERVES the nod for this year, they formed a Baroque-Rock Band that spanned other bands…If it wasn’t for Procol Harum, Queen, Styx, nor ELO would be around!
Also, Chicago deserves the nod…they formed Jazz-Rock even before Steely Dan or EWF.
And for The Ahmet Etgurn Award…Frank Sinatra and Ed Sullivan! Sinatra formed Reprise Records which gave artists more creativity and Ed Sullivan gave Rock Music to the Masses!
Definite on all 4!!!!!
I agree about Procol Harum, 47 years and still going strong!
http://www.ProcolHarum.com
Marco Scutaro
And if there was no Procol Harum, there would be no ‘Bridge of Sighs’
SLADE MUST BE IN THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 LETS GET THEM IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes! Is there a petition? Just tell me where to sign!
Dave – the Petition can be found here: http://rocksnubs.com/petition/ Thanks!
Connie Francis is so long overdue I’m not even sure if she’s still alive!
The tragic suicide of Bob Welch, member of Fleetwood Mac might light a fire under the panel that snubs potential inductees right and left.
Maybe people should stop going to the Rock Hall because the acts they believe should be there are not.
A picket line in front of the hall wouldn’t hurt. Then maybe the hall director and the induction panel might get it. I’m not holding my breath though.
Connie’s still alive!!! She finds it hard to be in public after all of the trauma she was subjected to, but still performs & records whenever possible! She’s way overdue!
Kirk Harrington
Well, we think that Duran Duran deserves their spot in the hall, along with the other amazing bands mentioned here on this site. If you think so to, please visit us and sign our petition as well at http://www.ddttrh.info. We have a commmunity on Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, and Youtube.
The other great thing about our effort? We started in Cleveland, home of the Rock Hall!
Thanks! Kirk Harrington
Judas Priest before Iron Maiden, Deep Purple should obviously be in there too, and yes The Moody Blues!
Gigface
Peter Frampton, Joe Walsh, Steppenwolf, King Crimson – the list goes on and on.
How can u induct people who openly say that “insert band here” is a major influence and not induct that band when the names constantly come up. Deep Purple – come on!!!
Here is my list based on impact to the rock community… I’m sick of the Hall of Shames devotion to anything that Rolling Stone tries to tell us is cool.
in no particular order and agreeing with a lot of the above posters.
Don’t forget BAD COMPANY, FOGHAT, BOSTON, THE CARS, BLUE OYSTER CULT, SUPERTRAMP,The DOOBIE BROS.
GRAND FUNK RAILROAD are one of the pioneers of Heavy Metal and the only American Band to Break through when all that was excepted was British hard rock! Wake Hall and open your Doors for the true American Heavy hitter Grand Funk Railroad!
Wow! Agreed on every 1! I think Rush FINALLY gets in this year!
rush,kiss,def leppard,iron maiden judas priest all hard rock pioneers
Where is PETER FRAMPTON? Not only did he have the ‘phenomenal’ Frampton Comes Alive in 1975, he has since won a grammy for Fingerprints, an instrumental album showcasing his guitar versatility to cross into other guitar styles which has earned him the respect amongst his peers. At age 60 the man has shown he has not slowed down, nor given in to his own nostalgia by continually progressing his art, to follow it up in 2010 with Thank You Mr Churchill. In 2011 he commenced his Frampton Comes Alive 35 World Tour, which is continuing into 2012 and coincides with the 40th Anniversary of Humble Pie’s Rockin’ the Fillmore. Let’s also not forget his charity work, the Framptone, and his contribution to the music industry in general. The man ‘IS’ a Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame. He’s played beside some of the best artists out there since the 60s. He’s earned his dues and I don’t know why he isn’t in the R’n’R Hall of Fame already, and why he isn’t on your list either. Stick Peter on the list! He has nearly 600,000 fans from all over the world on Facebook that agree with me.
I totally agree also. Frampton Comes Alive correct me if i’m wrong is still the biggest selling live album of all time. He’s an awesome guitarist, and deserves to be in.
Steppenwolf long overdue !! Tommy James/Shondells, Paul Revere/Raiders and the Monkees among others.
Damn, you must be as old as I am and watched ‘Where The Action Is’, too. I never saw the Monkees but the others and Steppenwolf (easily the most politically influential band of it’s day) I saw about a dozen times. Why ABBA and none of these or Tull, Little Feat it could go on & on!
Many, many more could be added to this list. The New York Dolls, for instance, laid the groundwork for the development of Hall of Fame inductees The Ramones and The Talking Heads. King Crimson is another that comes to mind, having provided major inspiration to major prog rock forces such as Genesis (inducted) and Yes (not inducted) as well as future Hall-of-Famers like Nirvana. I hope to see more diversity in the nominees in years to come and nods to artists who have truly inspired entire genres.
Robin duncan
All I have to say is the moody blues!! They’re very unique!!
Fully agree with you. And Yes, Steppenwolf, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Little Feat but not Def Leppard. Pop metal is ….well….it sucks! If a metal band is overdue, I suggest Budgie or Wishbone Ash who no fan of Leppard ever heard of.
jeff brandon
but where is rory Gallagher?
where is the alex Harvey band?
my 4 favorite musicians off all time aren’t even in the rock hall and they damn well deserve to be in it. Stevie Ray Vaghaun, Rory Gallagher, Grand Funk Railroad, and Jimmy Buffett are legends
Kiss,Maiden,Leppard ALL deserve to be in there. They all pioneered, in one way or another, their genre of music.Maiden-musicianship in my opinion, Def Leppard and their use of video’s(one of the first videos ever on MTV), KISS-makeup & stage shows.
Liz krinsky
Mott the Hoople, and while we are on that Ian Hunter (one of the best songwriters out there) and Mick Ronson for the sideman category….he played and arranged for so many people and has yet to be recognized.
Defininitely Ian Hunter & Mott! & Mick Ronson also had a solo career! He played with David Bowie, Ian Hunter & Bob Dylan just off of the top of my head! He is criminally underrated, & I miss him to death!
Totally agree with you on your choices. Some of my best memories are listening to them, so talented. Especially Mick with Bowie.
Holly O'Dell
Def Leppard is an awesome band and they have been Snubbed for way too long and should have been in the Hall of Fame years ago. It is time to stop ignoring them and finally put them where they so deserve to be…in the Hall of Fame.
Gary Weathers
Don’t forget Mountain as well as Rick Derringer and W.A.S.P.!
Yes, on all 3! I’m glad to see people agree with me on some of these bands!
J.P. Altman
WOW!!! WASP???? I love WASP but not HOFers
I AGREE; MY FAVORITE BAND DEF LEPPARD HAS BEEN SNUBBED FOR YEARS & THEY DESERVE TO BE IN THE HALL OF FAME AS WELL! THE PEOPLE WHO NOMINATE THE BANDS OBVIOUSLY ARE IGNORING ALOT OF GREAT ROCK BANDS OUT THERE ON PURPOSE!!!! AND IT IS NOT FAIR!!!
Agreed!!
def leppard sucked after their first three albums. They made a huge mistake getting rid of Pete Williams. Especially their first two records. Awesome riffs on there. Unlike their watered down, shitty pop sound.
Whose Pete Williams??? Def Leppard kicks ass!! End of story!!!
I would like to finally see Marc Bolan and T Rex inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It’s an injustice that he’s not in there already. I’m sure if you asked any of the current rock legends and other artists who they think should be inducted they would say without any doubt Marc Bolan and T Rex.
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Visibility of Maxillary and Mandibular Anatomical Landmarks in Digital Panoramic Radiographs: A Retrospective Study
Srisha Basappa, Smitha JD, Nishath Khanum*, Santosh Kanwar, Mahesh MS and Archana Patil
Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Farooqia Dental College and Hospital, Mysore, India
Nishath Khanum
Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology
Farooqia Dental College and Hospital
E-mail: nishkhan7@yahoo.co.in
Received Date: 23/08/2017; Accepted Date: 29/08/2017; Published Date: 06/09/2017
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Aims: To determine frequency, visibility and gender variation of pterygomaxillary fissure, incisive foramen, mental foramen, mandibular canal, anterior loop of mental nerveand elongated styloid process in different age groups. Materials and methods: The study was conducted in 200 ortopantomographs (OPG) which was taken using digital Sirona machine. The maxillary and mandibular anatomical land marks were analysed and scores were recorded. Results: A total of 200 OPGs were analysed. Pterygomaxillary fissure was visible in 58%. Incisive foramen showed good visibility in 25%. Mental foramen showed good visibility in 77%, mandibular canal was visible in 74% on OPG. Anterior looping was perceptible in 20% of cases. Elongated styloid process was visible in 25% of cases. Gender does not exert effect on the appearance of the anatomical structures and the study also revealed significant statistical difference between visibilities of anterior looping, which was better in males as compared to females. Conclusion: Orthopantomographs provided sufficient information of mental foramen and mandibular canal and are reliable to visualise pterygomaxillary fissure. But for better visualization, detection of structures like incisive foramen anterior looping and elongated styloid process for performing surgery, for implant placement in this region it may require to be replaced with three-dimensional imaging like cone-beam computed tomography.
Mandibular, Radiograph, Tomography
Panoramic imaging is also called pan tomography. It is a technique for producing a single image of facial structures that includes both maxillary and mandibular dental arches and their supporting structures [1]. certain peculiarities of the panoramic system result in unique projection of many anatomic structures in the image [2]. This produces numerous anatomic relationships in the image that are not found in any other kind of radiographic projection. The word panoramic radiography which means an unimpeded view of an area in every required direction [3]. Placement of mandibular endosseous implants can be problematic especially in the area of neurovascular bundles. The complications, such as altered sensation, numbness and pain, often occurred if these vital structures, such as inferior alveolar nerve (IAN) and mental foramen (Figure 1), incisive foramen (Figure 1) if they are not properly identified. Hence, it is critical to determine the location and configuration of the mandibular canal (MC) and related anatomical structures so these types of damages can be minimized [4]. The mental canal (Figure 2) which rises from the mandibular canal and runs outward, upward and backward to open at the mental foramen has an anatomical variation called anterior loop (Figure 3). Prevalence of the anterior loop is quite variable in literature, occurring in between the range of 28% and 71% [5].
Figure 1: OPG showing incisive foramen and mental foramen.
Figure 2: OPG showing mandibular canal and pterygomaxillary fissure.
Figure 3: OPG showing styloid process and anterior looping.
While examining the posterior wall of the sinus, we also look at the zygomatic process of the maxilla and pterygomaxillary fissure (Figure 2). These are thin radiopaque lines produced by these structures which run roughly parallel to the posterior wall of the maxillary sinus, and may be confused with it. Destructive disease affecting the maxillary sinus mayerode the posterior wall, which can be easily missed if all three lines are not identified [6].
1. To assess the visibility of maxillary and mandibular anatomical structures on digital radiographs.
2. To determine how frequently these structures are seen on digital orthopantomograms (OPG).
This study consisted of 200 randomized digital OPG which was stored as soft copies in the extra oral radiographic machine in the Department of Oral Medicine and Maxillofacial Radiology Farooqia dental college, Mysore. The radiographs were selected based on the following criteria.
• Images of good quality with respect to contrast.
• Devoid of any jaw lesions and traumatic injuries in the mandible.
• Images without radiographic exposure or processing artefacts.
• Poor quality radiographs.
• Presence of processing artefacts.
• Presence of jaw fracture in maxilla or mandible.
• Presence of any pathology in maxilla or mandible.
The radiographs were randomly selected between the age of 10 and 80 years. All radiographs were taken with a digital machine, SIRONA Orthophos XG 5 Ceph with the following parameters:
• Kilovoltage of 62-73 kVp
• Tube current 8-15 mA
• Time for 14.9 s
The maxillary and mandibular anatomical structures such as pterygomaxillary fissure, incisive foramen mandibular canal, anterior loop of mental nerve and mental foramen were analysed.
A four-point grading scale was used to note the visibility of these landmarks.
• Good (Above average)
• Moderate (Average)
• Poor (Below average)
• No visibility (not seen)
Observed data were recorded and analysed using statistical software. The observations were blinded by single and double observers and calculated using statistics which showed good agreement with both the observers.
Out of 200 cases, pterygomaxillary fissure had good visibility in 58% and no visibility in 20% of cases. In 67% of the cases inscive foramen had no visibility and 25% showed good visibility. Mental foramen showed good visibility in about 77% of cases and no visibility in about 17% cases. Mandibular canal showed good visibility in about 74% of cases and no visibility in about 7% of cases. Anterior loop of the mental nerve was not seen in 75% cases and good visibility in about 20% cases 1% with moderate visibility. Elongated styloid process had good visibility in about 25%, moderate visibility in about 2% and no visibility in about 73% of cases (Table 1). Based on sample size and using Chi-square test, gender does not exert effect on the appearance of the anatomical structures and also revealed, significant statistical difference existed between visibility of anterior looping, which was better in males as compared to females (Graphs 1 and 2).
Anatomical Structures
No Visibility
Poor Visibility
Moderate Visibility
Good Visibility (D)
Total Visibility
(E=B+C+D)
Pterygomaxillary Fissure 40(20%) 38(19%) 6(3%) 116(58%) 160
Incisive Foramen 134(67%) 12(6%) 4(2%) 50(25%) 66
Mental Foramen 34 (17%) 6(3%) 6(3%) 154(77%) 168
Mandibular Canal 14(7%) 32(16%) 6(3%) 148(74%) 186
Anterior Looping 150(75%) 8(4%) 2(1%) 40(20%) 50
Elongated Styloid Process 146(73%) 2(1%) 2(1%) 50(25%) 54
Table 1. Males and females sample size (200).
Graph 1: Percent visibility in males and females.
Graph 2: Percent Visibility and no visibility in males and females.
Panoramic radiography has become a commonly used imaging modality in dental practice and can be a valuable diagnostic tool in the dentist’s armamentarium. However, the panoramic image is a complex projection of the jaws with multiple superimpositions and distortions which may be exacerbated by technical errors in image acquisition. Furthermore, the panoramic radiograph depicts numerous anatomic structures outside of the jaws which may create additional interpretation challenges. Successful interpretation of panoramic radiographs begins with an understanding of the normal anatomy of the head and neck [6].
Examining the cortical outline of maxilla is a very good way to center the examination of mid face. The posterior border of maxilla extends from superior portion of pterygomaxillary fissure down to tuberosity region around the other side. Pterygomaxillary fissure itself has an inverted teardrop appearance. It is very important to identify this area on both sides of the image because maxillary sinus mucoceles and carcinomas characteristically destroy the posterior maxillary border, which is manifested as loss of pterygomaxillary fissure. Lefort fracture often is initially diagnosed by disturbances of integrity of pterygomaxillary fissure on OPG [1].
The mental foramen is more commonly located at the summit of the second mandibular bicuspid or in between the tips of the bicuspids. Race-related variation is also noted. For instance, it is frequently found at the tip of bicuspids like the second premolar in Chinese subjects. Whereas in Caucasian subjects, it is found between the premolars and by the canine anteriorly or by the first mandibular molar posteriorly [7]. The mental foramen and incisive foramen is a significant landmark during osteotomy procedures. The inferior dental nerve may be seen on medial aspect of the mental foramen and passes far away from it as an anterior loop within the bone that should be considered to prevent injury to mental nerve before performing implant surgery [8]. In the present study visibility of mental foramen accounts for about 77% visibility which is similar to that of study conducted by Tejavathi Nagaraj et al. in which total visibility was 99% [8]. Visibility of incisive foramen was 25%.
One of the most common complications that may occur following the extraction of mandibular third molars is injury to the inferior alveolar nerve canal (IANC). However, the OPG has been recommended as the primary radiographic investigation of choice in the pre-operative assessment of the mandibular third molar teeth and their surrounding structures [9]. OPGs were checked for the appearance of anatomical structures in the mandibular region for implant planning also.
Multiple studies have measured the length of the anterior loop of the inferior alveolar nerve, using anatomical, radiographically and combined methods. These studies show that the panoramic radiographs do not accurately identify the incidence or the extent of the anterior loop. Wei Cheong Ngeow et al. reported that the anterior loop was present in 40.2% [10] for all subjects, whereas Arzourman et al. [11] and Kuzmanovic et al. [12] reported a lower incidence at 12% and 27% respectively. In the present study it showed good visibility in 20% of cases which is similar to previous studies.
The elongated styloid process is an anatomical structure, whose clinical importance is not well understood. Proper clinical and radiographic evaluation can detect an elongated styloid process and calcification of the stylohyoid ligament. It has been reported that 2–28% of the general population show radiographic evidence of mineralization of a portion of the stylohyoid chain. The elongated styloid process may be symptomatic in many cases. Panoramic radiography is the best imaging modality to view the styloid process bilaterally [13]. Elongated styloid were present in 19.4% of the panoramic radiographs. Langlais type I elongated styloid and a partial calcification pattern were more common than others. Panoramic radiography is useful for detection of an elongated styloid process and/or ossification of stylohyoid ligaments in patients with or without symptoms and can thus help avoid misinterpretation of the symptoms as tonsillar pain or pain of dental, pharyngeal, or muscular origin [13]. In the present study visibility of elongated styloid process was about 25% which is similar to other studies.
Orthopantomographs provided sufficient information of mental foramen and mandibular canal and reliable to visualise pterygomaxillary fissure. But for better visualization, detection of structures like incisive foramen, anterior looping and styloid process for performing surgery, for implant placement in this region or for detecting elongated styloid process in symptomatic patients it may require to be replaced with three-dimensional imaging like cone-beam computed tomography.
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Defendant in Crimea sabotage plot case gets 6.5 years in prison
Second defendant in Crimea sabotage plot case goes on trial
© RIA Novosti, Andrei Stenin
Tags: Terrorism, Crimea, Russian Federation
MOSCOW, July 9 (RAPSI) – A prosecutor has demanded a 10.5-year prison sentence for Yevgeny Panov, one of the defendants in a case over sabotage plot in Crimea, attorney Sergey Legostov has told RAPSI.
The prosecutor also asked a court to find Panov guilty of all charges brought against him.
In February, another defendant Andrey Zakhtey was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison and fined 220,000 rubles (about $4,000).
In August 2016, Russia’s Federal Security Service reported prevention of terror attacks in Crimea prepared by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s General Directorate of Intelligence against critical infrastructure components of the peninsula.
According to a republic’s law enforcement source, seven suspects were arrested. Panov, an officer of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Intelligence Directorate, is believed to be one of the organizers of the crime. Zakhtey reportedly was arrested on suspicion of providing activities of the raiding force.
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Demonic hero Hellboy faces off against a host of wonderfully weird and deadly magical creatures when a centuries old witch called the Blood Queen, returns seeking vengeance by destroying all mankind.
Hellboy remains an absurdly fun character so the mere existence of this film should at least remind younger comic book fans to check out Mike Mignola’s iconic artwork. Despite having achieved critical fame and modest fan devotion, Guillermo del Toro’s film versions largely failed to succeed at the box office and it had long looked unlikely the character would get another big screen outing. While many may have preferred to see a concluding chapter to Del Toro’s trilogy, at least this film provides new life for the character.
Director Neil Marshall has his own fanbase amongst horror fans and those audiences will likely welcome the more blood drenched and violent version of Hellboy he provides. Particularly those that considered Del Toro’s Hellboy franchise to be a bit too comical and bloodless may welcome a more authentically dark take on the character. While Del Toro had Hellboy drunkenly crooning along to Barry Manilow, by contrast Marshall has him brutally severing Giant limbs with a 15 foot sword.
This film also definitely offers up a host of monstrous fantasy creatures, doing its best to match the impressive effects and world building that made Del Toro’s Hellboy series such an eye watering treat. More devoted fans of the original comics will definitely welcome seeing some of the characters and lore that as left unexplored by Del Toro finally brought to life on screen.
Stranger Things star David Harbour has an awkward gravel voiced charisma that should make him a suitable fit for playing Hellboy. Unfortunately a potentially decent performance is largely lost under layers of makeup that sadly fails to capture most of the character’s distinctive visual charms. It’s simply impossible to avoid obvious comparisons with the far superior character design and makeup that perfectly transformed Ron Perlman in Guillermo Del Toro’s past film adaptations. Harbour’s Hellboy is far more sincerely ugly and lacks the pleasant cartoonish simplicity of Mike Mignola’s original artwork. It’s a shame that one of the most crucially important elements of the production feels so badly out of place. In all honesty Harbour looks more like a comic con fan in cosplay than ever coming close to embodying the real character.
Beyond Harbour’s serviceable portrayal of the gruff voiced monster hunter, sadly the rest of the cast offers relatively little. Sasha Lane playing Hellboy’s psychic sidekick Alice gives a performance worthy of a school play. Meanwhile Deadwood star Ian McShane is oddly cast as a suspiciously youthful Professor Broom, Hellboy’s supposedly octogenarian father figure. Milla Jovovich playing the film’s main villainess, the ominously titled Blood Queen, sadly does little to distinguish her performance from any of her other typically stilted displays. While she remains agelessly beautiful, she lacks the necessary menace and gravitas to make her a memorable movie monster. In truth the film never seems to fully unleash her despite obvious potential.
While it’s unfair to constantly compare this version of Hellboy to Del Toro’s past versions, sadly it’s also unavoidably. While the previous Hellboy films were a masterclass in practical effects wizardry, sadly this new version is more heavily reliant on CGI and excessive blood splatter. At times it feels and looks more like an expensively produced video game than an authentically real world. Ultimately it makes it harder not to wonder whether the material would have been better served by a full on animated treatment rather than this live action hybrid. Though there has been several straight to DVD Hellboy animated efforts, it’s a shame that the studio couldn’t have explored the option for a more lavishly realised animated feature that could have finally captured the unique style of Mignola’s striking artwork. Sadly this live action film misses the mark, leaving audiences with generic Resident Evil style CGI action and a regrettably ugly looking Hellboy.
Sadly this ill-favoured reboot doesn’t do nearly enough to step out from the daunting shadow of Mike Mignola’s iconic comic books and Guillermo Del Toro’s past big screen adaptations. Excessive CGI gore can’t hide a generic plot and some weak acting performances in a film that largely squanders excellent source material in ways that feel disappointingly… low budget.
Review by Russell Nelson
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BAFTA has announced the winners of the British Academy Games Awards, which celebrated the very best in games of the past year. The ceremony was hosted by Dara O’Briain at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.
God of War, the mythology-based action-adventure game, won Audio Achievement, Best Game, Music, Narrative, and Performer for Jeremy Davies for his role as The Stranger.
Return of the Obra Dinn, the puzzle game developed by Lucas Pope, won Artistic Achievement and Game Design.
Nintendo Labo, the creative cardboard-based game that brings toys to life with the Nintendo Switch, won Family and Game Innovation.
Fortnite, the hugely popular online multiplayer game, won Evolving Game.
Another six games won BAFTAs on the night. The turn-based strategy gameInto the Breach won Original Property. Florence, the interactive love story, won Mobile Game. Yoku’s Island Express, the platforming pinball adventure game, won the BAFTA for Debut Game. A Way Out, the co–op adventure game, wonMultiplayer. The open-world racing game Forza Horizon 4 won British Game. My Child Lebensborn, the story-driven nurture game about the child of an enemy solider, won the BAFTA for Game Beyond Entertainment.
Old School Runescape collected the EE Mobile Game of the Year, the only award voted for by the public.
Full list of nominations below with winners in bold:
Artistic Achievement
Audio Achievement
Astro Bot: Rescue Mission
British Game
Debut Game
Evolving Game
Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu / Eevee
Game Beyond Entertainment
11: Memories Retold
Game Innovation
Original Property
Christopher Judge as Kratos in God of War
Danielle Bisutti as Freya in God of War
Jeremy Davies as The Stranger in God of War
Melissanthi Mahut as Kassandra in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
Roger Clark as Arthur Morgan in Read Dead Redemption 2
Sunny Suljic as Atreus in God of War
Mobile Game Of The Year (Public Award)
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Dora And The Lost City Of Gold Official Poster
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Check out the first official poster for Paramount’s live action Dora The Explorer movie, starring Isabela Moner as the iconic children’s character. Full official synopsis bellow.
Having spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, nothing could prepare Dora (Isabela Moner) for her most dangerous adventure ever – high school. Always the explorer, Dora quickly finds herself leading Boots (her best friend, a monkey), Diego (Jeffrey Wahlberg), a mysterious jungle inhabitant (Eugenio Derbez), and a rag tag group of teens on a live-action adventure to save her parents (Eva Longoria, Michael Peña) and solve the impossible mystery behind a lost city of gold.
Category NEWS · Tags: 2019, dora and the lost city of gold, isabela moner, movie, paraount
TIFF Announces New Appointments In Key Roles
Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director and Co-Head, and Joana Vicente, Executive Director and Co-Head, today announced several appointments to the Senior Management team at TIFF.
Diana Sanchez has been appointed to the newly created role of Senior Director, Film, effective April 15, 2019. Sanchez will oversee the programming strategy for the Toronto International Film Festival; TIFF Cinematheque; Film Circuit, the organization’s nationwide film network; and Theatrical release programming at TIFF Bell Lightbox. Sanchez has a long-standing relationship with TIFF that began in the Festival’s Guest Office in 1998. A lover of Spanish-language cinema, she has been responsible for selecting the Festival’s films from Latin America, Spain, and Portugal since 2002. In that time, Sanchez has developed strong relationships with a wide range of filmmakers, including Pedro Almodóvar, Lucrecia Martel, Guillermo del Toro, and Sebastián Lelio. In addition to her work at TIFF, Sanchez has worked as the Artistic Director of the Panama Film Festival since its inception in 2011, and programmed for the Rotterdam Film Festival, the Miami Film Festival, and the Los Angeles Latino Film Festival, where she served as Programming Director.
“The Senior Director of Film position was created to bring our curatorial strategies for the Festival and year-round film programming closer together,” said Cameron Bailey. “Diana and I will work with film programming teams to amplify the cumulative impact of TIFF’s singular resources: a prominent film festival, a globally respected cinematheque, one of the best art-house cinemas in the world, and a national network of Film Circuit groups that reaches film lovers and knowledge seekers across Canada. I look forward to beginning work with Diana as she makes her transition to the new position, and am excited for her to be part of the future of TIFF.”
On the operational and revenue-generating side of TIFF, Laura Ryan, who has been with the organization for four years, takes on the role of Vice President, Visitor Experience. Ryan’s responsibility encompasses all teams that curate customer experience at every touchpoint at TIFF, which include the Event, Technical Production, Ticketing Operations, Retail, and Customer Service teams. Prior to TIFF, Ryan worked in Finance and IT, leading groups responsible for Sales and Customer Service globally.
Jennifer Frees takes on the role of Vice President, Partnerships, which oversees over 100 partner accounts. Frees, who has been at TIFF for eight years, will continue to provide senior sales, negotiation, and property-development direction for the organization’s corporate, festival, event and hospitality partnerships. Under her direction, TIFF Partnerships has become one of the most successful partner programmes in the film festival world.
“We are very excited that both Laura and Jennifer have taken on these newly created leadership roles with TIFF,” said Joana Vicente. “Both of these individuals possess an incredible business acumen and overall leadership vision that will benefit the organization for years to come. Their hard work is a large part of the current day success of TIFF, and we are privileged to have their voices on the Senior Management team.”
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Walker Stalker Con Returns To London
Zombie enthusiasts and fans of the number-one show on television, The Walking Dead, will have the opportunity to meet their favorite stars at the upcoming Walker Stalker Con at ExCeL London on March 30-31. In addition, attendees can greet cast members from the worldwide phenomenon, Game of Thrones, as it prepares to enter its pivotal final season.
Walker Stalker Con has become an incredibly popular convention, offering something for everyone – from the diehard fan, to families, to those with a growing interest in the genre. More than 30 of the most popular actors from shows such as The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Fear the Walking Dead, American Horror Story, and more will speak to the audience, meet fans, pose for photos and sign autographs.
Attendees can also participate in a range of engaging and unique activities, including:
● Free panel sessions led by stars from some of television’s most popular shows.
● Zombies and cosplayers roam the convention floor, making for interactive experiences attendees will never forget.
● Vendors who deal in the comic, zombie, and entertainment worlds – among many other genres and industries.
There are even a number of opportunities to volunteer as an ambassador of the event, which can be found on the Walker Stalker Con website. One of the most popular elements of the convention is the chance to meet and hear from stars of your favorite shows.
In London, attendees will be treated to sessions with:
● THE WALKING DEAD: Jeffrey Dean Morgan (“Negan”), Lauren Cohan (“Maggie”), Steven Yeun (“Glenn”), Jon Bernthal (“Shane”), Chandler Riggs (“Carl”), Tom Payne (“Jesus”), Christian Serratos (“Rosita”), Khary Payton (“King Ezekiel”), Michael Cudlitz (“Abraham”), Seth Gilliam (“Father Gabriel”), Alanna Masterson (“Tara”), Michael Rooker (“Merle”), Ross Marquand (“Aaron”), Cailey Fleming (“Judith”), Josh McDermitt (“Eugene”), Cooper Andrews (“Jerry”), Cassady McClincy (“Lydia”), Katelyn Nacon (“Enid”) and more!
● GAME OF THRONES: Isaac Hempstead Wright (“Bran Stark”), Kristian Nairn (“Hodor”), John Bradley (“Samwell Tarly”), Hannah Murray (“Gilly”), Jerome Flynn (“Bronn”), and Richard Brake (“The Night King”)
● AMERICAN HORROR STORY: Alexandra Breckenridge (“Moira O’Hara”), Dylan McDermott (“Ben Harmon”), and Denis O’Hare (“Liz Taylor”) ● Kim Dickens (Madison, Fear the Walking Dead)
And MORE! The full list of guests is on the Walker Stalker Con London website.
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PROJECT WIDE NEWS
Important RSA Deadlines for 2012
Below are important RSA deadlines for obligating and liquidating funds, as well as approval to extend financial and data reporting submission dates:
September 30, 2012: Deadline for obligation of FY11 funds
September 30, 2013: Deadline for obligation of FY12 grant award
December 31, 2012: Deadline for liquidation of FY11 funds (depending on how the end of the year falls)
December 31, 2013: Deadline for liquidation of FY12 funds
December 15, 2012 or sooner: Deadline for programs to send requests to RSA for approval to extend submission dates for FY 2011 SF-425 financial reporting form and FY 2012 RSA-572 annual data collection for SGAT. This also applies to RSA-662 and Telework ICs.
RSA-664 due date sometime in February
Please contact Rob Groenendaal, Robert.Groenendaal@ed.gov or Brian Bard, Brian.Bard@ed.gov from RSA if you have specific concerns or questions.
ATIA and RESNA Catalyst Partnership Coupon Code
The RESNA Catalyst Project announced last month the continuation of its partnership with the Assistive Technology Industries Association (ATIA), to offer live and archived webinars to all AT Act Entities. It’s easy to register online with for Live Broadcasts or Archives using coupon code CATPR13. There are 45+ recordings available in the Archives portfolio. A new 2013 schedule will be posted in December. Additionally, individual states may purchase a subscription for additional seats directly from ATIA. For more details on the program, including the new Catalyst Webinar Subscription option for sister agencies not covered under the AT Act Entities access criteria, go to: www.atia.org/catalystwebprogram, or contact Joey Wallace, joeywallace@resna.org.
2013 AT & Employment Summit Planning Meeting- Monday November 5, 2012, 3:00p.m. Eastern Time
This next planning meeting will include discussion on the latest draft agenda for the upcoming AT & Employment Summit. Summit Planning Meeting Members can call 800-211-4163 and Pass code: 0521244#. If you are interested in participating in the planning of this Summit, please contact Paul Galonsky, pgalonsky@resna.org.
Webinar: Assistive Technology and the Interactive Process of Employee Accommodations-Save the Date: January 23, 2013 2p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Eastern
The RESNA Catalyst Project, Southwest ADA Center, and ADA National Network will present a webinar on how AT demonstrations, equipment loans, and support and technical assistance from the ADA National Network may enhance an interactive employee accommodation process. If your program would like to share information on how you are assisting employers with learning about AT and pursuing accommodations, we would like to include you in our webinar planning. Contact Paul Galonsky, pgalonsky@resna.org for more information.
RESNA Catalyst Project’s Director Represents Catalyst and AT Act Entities at Two Conferences
RESNA Catalyst Project’s Director Joey Wallace attended the United States Business Leadership Network (USBLN) National Conference in October. Joey staffed a RESNA Catalyst Project exhibit booth at USBLN along with Raj Pagadala, RESNA Member and Rehabilitation Engineer. Joey demonstrated the developing Employment and Business Web Portal while Raj showed AT workplace accommodations to attendees.
Joey also attended the National Assistive Technology Advocacy Project’s Bridges to Better Advocacy Conference in Austin, meeting with representatives from the Protection and Advocacy Centers around the country.
STATEWIDE AT PROGRAMS
Statewide AT Steering Committee Conference Call-Friday November 2, 2012, 1:00p.m Eastern Time
This call will focus on finalizing the 2013 Statewide AT Program RESNA Catalyst Project Technical Assistance Plan, as well begin to plan for the Statewide AT Project Directors Meeting, which is scheduled May 6-9, 2013, in Bethesda, Maryland.
Webinar on AT Transition Policy POSTPONED due to Hurricane Sandy
The third webinar in this series, “AT Transition Policy” scheduled for October 31st, has been postponed due to Hurricane Sandy. A new date and registration option will be available shortly. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Employment Work Group Call-Thursday, November 15, 2012, 3:00p.m. Eastern Time
This Work Group call will focus on AT Employment Summit, as well as AT for Employer Web Portal updates. All are welcome to join the call. To join the call, dial 800/351-6810, pass code 46172076#.
Archived AT and Transition Webinar Series- Part One on State Transition Teams and Part Two on Youth Leadership
Visit http://www.resnaprojects.org/statewide/webedarchive.html, to view archived AT and Transition webinars.
Statewide AT Program New Directors Call-Thursday, October 11, 2012
The New Directors call takes place every other month. This call allowed new Directors to share and discuss project highlights as well as project issues and challenges. A MP3 recording of the call is available on the RESNA Catalyst Project Website at: http://www.resnaprojects.org/statewide/newdirectors/index.html.
PAAT PROGRAMS
New PAATs Website
The National Assistive Technology Advocacy Project for Assistive Technology will soon have a new and updated website.Jim Sheldon, Project Director with the Project, expects the website to roll out in November. More details to follow in the next few weeks.
“AT Advocate” to resume as Electronic-Only Newsletter
This newsletter has been published periodically since 1996 with hard copies made available to P&A; programs and AT projects among others. Our most recent issue was published and distributed in late 2010/early 2011. A new version of “Medicaid, AT and the Courts” will be published on our website during October. This and future newsletters will be published in an electronic format only.
ALTERNATIVE FINANCING AND TELEWORK LOAN PROGRAMS
Congratulations to our Newest Loan Program Grantees!
RSA and RESNA send huge congratulations to the new grantees funded under the latest round of loan program grant awards! In a VERY competitive process, Montana and Idaho were awarded funds to expand their current programs, and California was awarded funds to start a new program! Welcome aboard, and we look forward to working with you!
Data Collection Work Group
The Data Collection for AFP Work Group continues to meet to plan the best manner to collect the information that tells the loan program stories. This group would like to hear from you! Please contact Jason at jluciano@resna.org if you want to participate in this group.
Data Submission Conference Call - Tuesday, November 13th 1:00pm Eastern
The RESNA Catalyst Project will host a conference call concerning data collection and submission for FY12. Diane Golden from ATAP and Ken Schellenberg from RSA will be on the call to answer any questions on data collection and submission. To access this call, dial 1-800-351-6810, pass code 461 72 076#. This call will be recorded and posted to the RESNA Catalyst website. For more information please contact Jason at jluciano@resna.org
*Please note this call replaces the regularly-scheduled Telework New Director’s call*
Teleconference Series - New Directors of Telework Loan Programs - October 9th 2012 1:00pm Eastern time.
The latest installment of the Telework New Directors conference call series was held Tuesday, October 9th at 1:00pm. This call served as an “open forum” and a chance for all participants to engage in peer-to-peer assistance.
AT Program News-AT and Employment Newsletter
The October/November Edition of AT Program News focuses on diverse strategies for promoting AT in the workplace. Read the Newsletter online.
General Self-Help Resource Guide, Tools for Financial Independence
The New Horizon Loan Program Director, Ms. Melanie Quinton, along with FAAST, Inc., through support from the Florida Department of Education, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, just completed a comprehensive 52-page general self-help resource guide designed to provide basic tools to find sound financial resource information nationwide. To access this guide visit: http://www.faast.org/sites/default/files/FinancialGuide.pdf.
TopSchools.com
www.topschools.com is a new comprehensive college directory with many resources useful to prospective students and parents interested in advancing their education. This website enables individuals to search for an institution by a number of criteria including location, subject, size, admissions, and graduation rates.
Free Consumer Reports Guide "Health Reform: Seven Things You Need To Know Now"
An online PDF or free bulk copies of Consumer Reports easy-to-understand guide to the Affordable Care Act are now available at https://secure.consumersunion.org/site/SPageServerpagename=crh_order_guide.
New AT Radio & Podcasts in Indiana
INDATA has launched an internet radio station. AssistiveTechnologyRadio.com broadcasts 24/7 and includes a wide variety of AT programs. Programs include INDATA’s two podcasts as well as various AT training sessions. To view and listen to the growing list of episodes, visit: http://www.eastersealstech.com/content.aspxpId=492.
INDATA will include audio content from other AT projects. To submit radio content or to learn more about INDATA's AT radio and podcasts contact Wade Wingler at wwingler@eastersealscrossroads.org.
The RESNA Catalyst Project provides technical assistance to Statewide Assistive Technology Programs, Alternative Financing Programs & Access to Telework Programs, and Protection and Advocacy for Assistive Technology Programs. RESNA, the Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology Society of North America, is the premier professional organization dedicated to promoting the health and well-being of people with disabilities through increasing access to technology solutions.
This newsletter is produced by the RESNA Catalyst Project under a grant funded by the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA), U.S. Department of Education (RSA/ED) through the Assistive Technology Act of 1998, as amended. The information contained herein does not necessarily reflect the position or policy of RSA/ED or RESNA and no official endorsement of the materials should be inferred.
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The Salish Sea
Ecological Treasure of Global Significance with 1,000’s of natural animal species, many found nowhere else on Earth!
Internationally located in southwest British Columbia and northwest Washington State, the Salish Sea includes aquatic areas historically and more commonly known as Puget Sound (to the South), the Strait of Georgia (to the North) and Juan de Fuca Strait (to the West).
World-class communities along her shores include Vancouver and Victoria in British Columbia (Canada), as well as Seattle, Olympia and Bellingham in Washington State (USA).
Marine Sanctuaries
are specially designated bodies of water where elevated standards of conduct help restore natural animal populations, their habitats and quality of life for All Life.
Pollution to waterways is reduced, while truly sustainable and regenerative economic activities are multiplied.
With ecological, economic and cultural benefits far exceeding related costs, the Salish Sea Bioregional Marine Sanctuary & Coastal Trail is a profoundly positive, achievable, millennial vision and plan which maximizes the long-term happiness and well-being of Ourselves and All Our Relations through Time.
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in order to form a healthier, happier and more enlightened bioregional community, are coming together in unprecedented unity and action to restore the Salish Sea Bioregional Marine Sanctuary’s Web of Life, Water Quality, and Quality of Life for All Life.
The boundaries of our Bioregional Marine Sanctuary Community correspond to our bioregional watershed boundaries, the outermost ridgelines of surrounding mountain ranges which ‘shed water’ in the direction of the Salish Sea via tributary rivers, creeks, estuaries and aquifers.
All Water and All Living Beings (mostly water) throughout our bioregional watershed community are included in our definition of Sanctuary Waters to be protected and restored.
All 8 million citizens of Coast Salish Nations, British Columbia and Washington State are invited, individually and cooperatively, to do everything in their power to protect and restore biodiversity, well-being, abundance of wholesome foods and pure Sanctuary Waters throughout our bioregional watershed community ~ as Soon as Possible!
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Samsung has successfully collaborated with Google to develop a series of highly coveted and impressive smartphones. Now, Samsung is planning to release another device which would be most probably in the line of Nexus series. According to the claims made by Samsung, this new device would considerably affect the market and would take the position of Samsung to much higher levels. It is expected that this new mysterious device would showcase some amazing Android features which have previously not been used in any other device. According to some tech experts, this device might be Google phone, most probably Google Nexus Prime, ...
Galaxy M Pro
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Among the scores of new phones recently being released by Samsung, a noteworthy product happens to be Galaxy M Pro. This device showcases some pretty impressive hardware specifications and software features. Let’s take a look at the technical specifications that this phone has to offer. Galaxy M Pro basically supports 2G networks such as GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 and 3G networks such as HSDPA. The dimensions of this device are 113.5 x 66 x 10 mm with a very reasonable weight of 108.4g. The phone showcases TFT Touchscreen with screen resolutions of 480 x 320 pixels and ...
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Samsung Galaxy W I8150 happens to be among the latest smartphones announced to be released soon by Samsung. Like several other smartphones, this device also contains impressive specifications both from the hardware as well as software side. Although full technical specifications of this device have not been revealed yet, from the information that is made available, the device seems pretty impressive. To start with, Samsung Galaxy W would have support for GSM networks at 850, 900, 1800, 1900 and UMTS networks at 900, 2100. From the data side, this phone would be supporting UMTS as well as HSPA at the rate ...
Samsung’s New Phones Leaked
According to the leaked yet reliable news, Samsung is up for releasing several smartphones running Google Android, Windows Phone and Bada OS. It seems that Samsung is planning to integrate some amazing and innovative features into these devices. Some of these features include a Super AMOLED screen of 4.65 inch for an Ice Cream Sandwich OS device, a 4.5 inch HD resolution screen for a device running Gingerbread, and a 4.5 inch WVGA screen for another device. As far as the Windows Phone by Samsung is concerned, it would be running Microsoft’s Mango OS. Bada devices does not seem to be as impressive as ...
Samsung R380 Freeform III
Samsung recently upgraded its previously Samsung Freeform II with newly released Samsung R380 Freeform III. There haven’t been any major changes from the previous version but still, the newly released product showcases some noteworthy features. Let’s take a look at some of those features. This device was released last month and is available for sale. Samsung R380 Freeform III basically has complete support for 2G networks such as CDMA 800 / 1900 and AWS 1700 / 2100. 112 x 61 x 11 mm dimensions and a weight of 92g of the device make it very smart and attractive product. The device ...
Samsung Trender
Samsung is certainly a giant when it comes to mobile devices and handsets. In the recent few months, Samsung has released several phones with cutting edge features and capabilities. Samsung Trender is one such handset, also known as Samsung SPH-M380. This device, like other sets from Samsung, has support for 2G networks such as CDMA 800 and 3G networks such as CDMA 2000 1xEV-DO. The device has been released since June this year and is available for sale in the market. But since this is not a GMS device, it can’t be used in any GSM network. The physical dimensions ...
Samsung Conquer 4G
Among the recently released mobile devices from Samsung, Samsung Conquer 4G is receiving quite positive reviews from the users. Samsung Conquer 4G is not a GSM device so users won’t be able to use it with any GSM network. The device has a complete support for 2G networks such as CDMA 800 / 1900 /850 and 3G networks such as CDMA2000 1xEV-DO. When we talk about the size of the device, it has dimensions of 116.1 x 60.5 x 11.7 mm which is quite reasonable. TFT touchscreen display of the device along with 320 x 480 pixels of display gives ...
Samsung R640 Character – one gadget with plenty of character
Among the recently released mobile phones from Samsung, Samsung R640 Character is another noteworthy addition. First and foremost thing to be noted about the device is that it is not a GSM device, which means that it won’t be working for any GSM network throughout the world. The device has a support for 2G networks such as CDMA 800/1900 and 3G networks such as CDMA 2001x. The device was released in late July and is available for sale in the market at present. Talking about the shape and technical specifications of the device, the body of the device is pretty smart ...
Galaxy W – new Samsung Wonder Phone
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After successfully releasing some of the most remarkable smartphones, Samsung is about to release another attractive and high tech phone with the name of Samsung Galaxy W. W in the name stands for Wonder and form the initial reviews and specs, it seems that this phone would actually prove to be a wonder. The technical specifications of the phone are pretty impressive. The screen size of this set is 3.7 inches with an impressive screen resolution of 480x800 pixels. The device would be running on a 1.4 GHz processor and the operating system used for this device is Android 2.3 Gingerbread. ...
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The process of winemaking is fairly easy to describe. However, it is not an equally easy task for the winemaker. Winemaking requires knowledge and skills regarding ploughing a field, pruning vines, harvesting, vinification, analysing grape juices, bottling and storaging; above all, winemaking requires a certain quality known in Greek as meráki, which means putting your soul, creativity, and passion into what you are doing.
Ploughing in Santorini at the beginning of the 20th century.
Vinedressers would plough three times a year to oxygenate the soil and make it fluffy, so that the vines can produce more fruit.
The Santorinian plough was manufactured in such a way that would not go more than 12cm deep. This prevented the vine roots near the surface of the ground from breaking, and helped keep the roots moist which was vital to the lifecycle of the vines, since the island was arid.
Images of Ploughing
The pruning season for vines in Santorini takes place between November and February.
We always leave three or four of the strongest branches intact and three bud-eyes on each branch, which are the points from which the grapes will develop. The branches with bud-eyes are woven into circles to form a basket (Greek kouloúra) where all the bud-eyes can gather together for the grapes to grow and be protected from strong winds.
Harvesting in Santorini usually takes place in mid-August. Due to high temperatures and lack of water, grapes tend to grow faster here than in other areas.
In Santorini, harvesting is a big event celebrated in the fields by numerous harvesters.
In the vineyards, it is common practice to whitewash stones so as to create paths and check that all vineyards have been harvested.
Santorini presents a rather low yield of 400kg in relation to other areas which present yields of 3000 to 5000kg.
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A word so easy to say, but so hard to carry out for any winemaker.
Winemaking requires knowledge, but also love and meráki. Winemakers must use their knowledge, raw materials, and modern technology effectively in order to achieve great results worthy of their efforts.
Winemakers must love what they do. They are required to give their best by making effective use of their knowledge, raw materials, and modern technology in order to achieve great results worthy of their efforts. They need to prove to themselves that a year of hard work was not in vain, but that it produced a successful outcome.
Vinification is a process responsible for the aroma, taste, body, colour and duration of a wine. It is the transition phase from grape to wine. It is a ritual. And the wine is a living being; it is born, it grows and it matures. It reveals its personality at every stage, giving you the opportunity to enjoy every single moment. Wine is also like a woman; in the beginning she is petite, restless, fresh, undeveloped yet. Then, adolescence marks her first step towards maturity. As she grows, she becomes sensible; and as she matures, she becomes wiser.
It is not until a winemaker feels the velvety taste, the aroma and the texture of the wine he created that he feels complete.
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In our laboratory, we analyse the properties of grape juice and the wine we produce. Our facilities and equipment enable us to run tests and learn more about the hidden secrets of grapes and wine. The laboratory is an important part of any winery.
Bottling Facilities
Here we can standardise our products with the use of the latest technologies in bottling equipment. We put forth our best effort to provide great appearance, excellent condition and aesthetic quality in marketing our products.
Images of Bottling Facilities
Located beneath the winery, the cellar is insulated and equipped with a cooling unit that maintains a constant temperature level of 14º C. It also has a ventilation system to provide fresh air.
High-quality white and dry red wines, as well as the most distinctive wine of Santorini, Vinsanto, are aged here. The aging process takes place in 250lt and 500lt oak barrels made in Greece, France and the USA.
Images of the Cellar
Archaeological excavations at Akrotiri provide evidence that the cultivation of vineyards in Santorini dates back 3.500 years.
What makes the vineyards in Santorini unique is their particular soil. The soil of volcanic origin has a minimum amount of organic matter and is poor in nutrients.
Pumice traps humidity during night time and early morning hours. It functions as a water tank, firstly by storing water and then by distributing the necessary amount of water to the vineyards.
The particular hot and dry climate of the island in combination with the volcanic soil prevents the development of diseases. For instance, phylloxera, an insect that plagues all vineyards on the planet, failed to survive in the climate of Santorini.
It is rich in ash, sulphur, porcelain and iron.
The most popular grape variety is called Assyrtiko. It is largely cultivated in Santorini and can be distinguished from Assyrtiko grown in other parts of Greece, due to its high levels of acidity and alcohol, metallic and earthy aftertaste. Assyrtiko produces wines that are sharp, aggressive and extremely dry.
It is one of the few indigenous European vineyards. The vineyards owned by our winery are located at the areas of Vothonas, Megalochori and Fira.
We continue the tradition of cultivating the vines by using the kouloúra method, namely weaving the branches into baskets.
An ancient technique is used for pruning:
Strong winds in the area tend to scatter pumice all around the island. In order to protect the new buds from the fierce sand blasts, the vine-grower prunes and weaves the branches into a basket in which the grapes will grow.
The vineyards are all arid. In general, yield per stremma (1 stremma=1/10th of a hectare) may amount to 5.000 kg of high quality grapes.
Our winery maintains approximately 100 stremmata (10 hectares) of traditional vineyards. The vineyards are gradually being renewed each year, so that old and weak vines are replaced by young, strong and productive ones.
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I was asked at a recent talk if I had any favorites amongst the early modern women I research and write about, and Brilliana Conway, later Lady Harley (c 1600-1643) sprang to mind. We included a selection from her commonplace book written in 1622 and from her personal letters in our anthology Flesh and Spirit (MUP, 2014), but I first began working on her letters for my PhD.
I wrote the biographical entry for her in the recently published volume, A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen: Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, 1500-1650 (Routledge, 2016)
It seems that Brilliana suffered from menstrual disorders and received a lot of medical attention for this over the years. She was particularly ill after a miscarriage she experienced and described her experience in a letter to her son (once she was sure she was on the mend, so as not to worry him). Her unusual name stems from the town of her birth Brill in the Netherlands, where her father was stationed. Her letters give an amazing insight into her life and times and what is especially touching is her correspondence with her eldest son Ned (1624-1700, later Sir Edward Harley, a politician). Ned had left home to study at Oxford as a fourteen-year-old, as was customary for young men of his rank, and his mother fretted over whether he was eating enough and whether he was keeping his head down and applying himself to his studies in ways which parents will be all to familiar with today. I wrote about this in one of the early posts over on the Early Modern Medicine blog, which you can read here.
During the English Civil Wars, Brilliana defended her husband’s castle, Brampton Bryan, in Herefordshire, while he and her father worked for Parliament in London. You can read more about Hereford and the Civil Wars by following this link. The castle was destroyed in the siege of 1643. The castle is still in the hands of the family and while a grade 1 listed building, it is on private lands and only open to the public on one day a year, usually in August. A few years ago, in August 2012, my husband and I traveled up to see the place since Brilliana is so important to me and my work. It was absolutely pouring down all day but we got some great photos.
Inside Brampton Bryan Castle, August 2012
It is thought that the upper window that you can see in the middle photo belongs to Brilliana’s study. Next to the castle ruins is a church which was built by Brilliana’s husband in the 1650s. He considered building the church to be a greater priority than restoring his castle.
St Barnabas, Brampton Bryan August 2012
The image on the right is the inside view of St Barnabas, at Brampton Bryan.
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Walton overcame a disappointing Game 2 defeat the previous night, by rallying for a 5-4 victory over visiting Kennesaw Mountain in Wednesday’s decisive Game 3 and advancing to the Class 6A state championship where they will host Parkview. In Game 2, Walton led 3-0 entering the bottom half of the final inning and saw Kennesaw Mountain rally for a 4-3 victory that ended on a wild pitch. In Game 3, however, it was the Raiders turn to pull off a dramatic comeback. Kennesaw Mountain led 4-3 entering the bottom of the 6th inning before Walton’s Jason Rooks drove home the winning run with a 2-run homer. Chris Hummel pitched a complete game for Walton, earning the victory.
Jefferson 5, Westminster 2: This was Jefferson’s fourth final four appearance but it was not until Wednesday’s Game 3 against Westminster and seven clutch innings pitched with just one earned run by senior Jake Franklin, that the Dragons have finally advanced to the state championship for the first time in program history. At the plate, Franklin hit an RBI single in the bottom of the second inning to help build a 3-0 lead. Westminster cut it to 3-1 in the top of the 4th inning, but Franklin and Hunter Thomas reached the bases in the bottom of the 5th inning and Ethan Garner popped to shallow right where Westminster’s right fielder and second baseman collided and allowed the two to score on the error to make it 5-1. Jefferson will host defending champion Blessed Trinity in the finals on Saturday.
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The Five Craziest Things That Rich People Have Said About de Blasio
Bill de Blasio, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, is currently up 40% in the polls, having excited the New York lefties tired of the rampant economic inequality and racial profiling that marked the Bloomberg years. But that doesn’t mean everyone is happy. De Blasio’s “Tale of Two Cities” rhetoric has angered many of the city’s hyper-wealthy, who aren’t looking forward to paying higher taxes for dumb stuff like “affordable housing” and “education.” Where are we, Stalinist Russia? Can someone who is not a billionaire effectively manage a city? Can you fathom having a mayor whose life does not revolve around going to philanthropy galas? These are the questions the wealthy are asking behind closed doors. Out in the open, they say things like:
1. “I fear for New York City if Mr. de Blasio gets elected.”
“I fear for New York City if Mr. de Blasio gets elected,” said Muffie Potter Aston. “He just wants to tax everyone to smithereens.”
That’s right folks, de Blasio’s plan for a modest, less than 1% tax increase on those making more than $500,000 to pay for universal pre-K has ignited a new bout of class warfare! Have you seen the new Batman movie? That’s where we are headed if rich heiresses are forced to fork over 0.1%-0.5% of their income to give poor kids a chance at making it to the middle class.
2. “I’ve never understood why New Yorkers vote against their own interests.”
Jacqueline Weld Drake says: “I’ve never understood why New Yorkers vote against their own interests. New York is a city of financial entrepreneurs, of genius stock traders and bankers. It would be a smart idea to keep it that way. It’s not a city that’s going to benefit from high taxes because people who have substantial incomes have a choice. They have a choice of venues. New Jersey beckons. Florida beckons. All kinds of other states who do better at job creation. We are really biting the hand that feeds us. No question about it.”
Again, dear readers, we are talking about a less than 1% tax hike that may not happen, and even it if does, many rich people will most certainly circumvent it. Also, for the millions of parents of children who would benefit from the universal pre-K program, it’s definitely in their interests to vote for de Blasio. And Drake’s bluff is to move to Florida? Whatever. Rich people should take a look at what’s in store for them down there.
3. Bill de Blasio’s plan is “the most absurd thing I’ve ever heard.”
E.E. “Buzzy” Geduld called de Blasio’s plan “the most absurd thing I’ve ever heard” and “not a smart thing to do.”
It appears E.E. “Buzzy” Geduld clearly has not heard his own name said aloud, because that is actually the most absurd thing I’ve ever heard (“Buzzy?!”) But the irony of this quote is that Geduld is a trustee of Manhattan’s Dalton School, where tuition is $40,000 a year (nearly the median household income of the U.S.) What’s worse is that research shows early childhood education is a great investment, and moderates like Ben Bernanke are happy to get behind it.
4. “Attract more poor people, and inequality will grow.”
Harvard Professor Edward Glaeser writes, “Make New York City’s public sector far more generous to those at the bottom, and it will attract more poor people. Attract more poor people, and inequality will grow.”
That’s right folks, as Mayor Bloomberg has explained, “We have made our shelter system so much better that, unfortunately, when people are in it — or fortunately, depending on what your objective is — it is a much more pleasurable experience than they ever had before,” he said. In fact, the homeless shelters are so great, Bloomberg plans to take his next vacation in a homeless shelter, instead of his normal trip to Bermuda. After all, homeless shelters offer Barbara, a women interviewed by the New York Times, the following perks:
Sometimes she takes a tote bag filled with dirty clothes to work to take to the laundromat afterward, she said, because the machines at the shelter are always either broken or being used. … There is no escaping the noise and fitful sleep of a dormitory shared with eight other women.
In the Wall Street Journal, Nicole Lee describes the other fancy accoutrements of the “luxury” shelters:
Oh my God, you got rats, holes in the wall, critters, water bugs, roaches. Some places are too hot, some are too cold. They don’t let you have an AC so it gets real hot.
It’s more likely, as de Blasio has argued, that many people, even those working two jobs, simply have no other option because of the demise of affordable housing.
5. Bill de Blasio’s campaign is “racist.”
The city’s single richest man, who has been known to go by the alias El Bloombito, first claimed that the de Blasio campaign was “racist” and then argued, “The way to help those who are less fortunate is, number one, to attract more very fortunate people. They are the ones that pay the bills … He’s a very populist, very left-wing guy, but this city is not two groups, and if to some extent it is, it’s one group paying for services for the other.” And, to top it off, he said, “By most of the world’s standards, you ain’t poor.”
So, to summarize, de Blasio is racist for marrying a black woman, rich bankers are the “makers” while subway workers are “takers,” and all you homeless people, well, “You ain’t poor.”
Good riddance.
This entry was posted in Politics and tagged de Blasio, New York City on November 5, 2013 by seanadrianmc@gmail.com.
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__label__wiki | 0.599498 | 0.599498 | Title: Protein Synthesis
Protein biosynthesis is the process by which biological cells generate new proteins; it is balanced by the loss of cellular proteins via degradation or export. Translation, the assembly of proteins by ribosomes, is an essential part of the biosynthetic pathway, along with generation of messenger RNA (mRNA), aminoacylation of transfer RNA (tRNA), co-translational transport, and post-translational modification. Protein biosynthesis is strictly regulated at multiple steps, and error-checking mechanisms are in place.
The cistron DNA is transcribed into a variety of RNA intermediates. The last version is used as a template in synthesis of a polypeptide chain. Protein will often be synthesized directly from genes by translating mRNA. When a protein must be available on short notice or in large quantities, a protein precursor is produced. A proprotein is an inactive protein containing one or more inhibitory peptides that can be activated when the inhibitory sequence is removed by proteolysis during posttranslational modification. A preprotein is a form that contains a signal sequence (an N-terminal signal peptide) that specifies its insertion into or through membranes, i.e., targets them for secretion.[1] The signal peptide is cleaved off in the endoplasmic reticulum.[1] Preproproteins have both sequences (inhibitory and signal) still present.
In protein synthesis, a succession of tRNA molecules charged with appropriate amino acids are brought together with an mRNA molecule and matched up by base-pairing through the anti-codons of the tRNA with successive codons of the mRNA. The amino acids are then linked together to extend the growing protein chain, and the tRNAs, no longer carrying amino acids, are released. This whole complex of processes is carried out by the ribosome, formed of two main chains of RNA, called ribosomal RNA (rRNA), and more than 50 different proteins. The ribosome latches onto the end of an mRNA molecule and moves along it, capturing loaded tRNA molecules and joining together their amino acids to form a new protein chain.[2]
Protein biosynthesis, although very similar, is different for prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
1 Transcription
3 Events following protein translation
Main article: Transcription (genetics)
In transcription an mRNA chain is generated, with one strand of the DNA double helix in the genome as a template. This strand is called the template strand. Transcription can be divided into 3 stages: initiation, elongation, and termination, each regulated by a large number of proteins such as transcription factors and coactivators that ensure that the correct gene is transcribed.
Transcription occurs in the cell nucleus, where the DNA is held. The DNA structure of the cell is made up of two helixes made up of sugar and phosphate held together by hydrogen bonds between the bases of opposite strands. The sugar and the phosphate in each strand are joined together by stronger phosphodiester covalent bonds. The DNA is "unzipped" (disruption of hydrogen bonds between different single strands) by the enzyme helicase, leaving the single nucleotide chain open to be copied. RNA polymerase reads the DNA strand from 3-prime (3') end to the 5-prime (5') end, while it synthesizes a single strand of messenger RNA in the 5'-to-3' direction. The general RNA structure is very similar to the DNA structure, but in RNA the nucleotide uracil takes the place that thymine occupies in DNA. The single strand of mRNA leaves the nucleus through nuclear pores, and migrates into the cytoplasm.
The first product of transcription differs in prokaryotic cells from that of eukaryotic cells, as in prokaryotic cells the product is mRNA, which needs no post-transcriptional modification, whereas, in eukaryotic cells, the first product is called primary transcript, that needs post-transcriptional modification (capping with 7-methyl-guanosine, tailing with a poly A tail) to give hnRNA (heterophil nuclear RNA). hnRNA then undergoes splicing of introns (noncoding parts of the gene) via spliceosomes to produce the final mRNA.
Main article: Translation (biology)
The synthesis of proteins is known as translation. Translation occurs in the cytoplasm, where the ribosomes are located. Ribosomes are made of a small and large subunit that surround the mRNA. In translation, messenger RNA (mRNA) is decoded to produce a specific polypeptide according to the rules specified by the trinucleotide genetic code. This uses an mRNA sequence as a template to guide the synthesis of a chain of amino acids that form a protein. Translation proceeds in four phases: activation, initiation, elongation, and termination (all describing the growth of the amino acid chain, or polypeptide that is the product of translation).
In activation, the correct amino acid (AA) is joined to the correct transfer RNA (tRNA). While this is not, in the technical sense, a step in translation, it is required for translation to proceed. The AA is joined by its carboxyl group to the 3' OH of the tRNA by an ester bond. When the tRNA has an amino acid linked to it, it is termed "charged". Initiation involves the small subunit of the ribosome binding to 5' end of mRNA with the help of initiation factors (IF), other proteins that assist the process. Elongation occurs when the next aminoacyl-tRNA (charged tRNA) in line binds to the ribosome along with GTP and an elongation factor. Termination of the polypeptide happens when the A site of the ribosome faces a stop codon (UAA, UAG, or UGA). When this happens, no tRNA can recognize it, but releasing factor can recognize nonsense codons and causes the release of the polypeptide chain. The capacity of disabling or inhibiting translation in protein biosynthesis is used by some antibiotics such as anisomycin, cycloheximide, chloramphenicol, tetracycline, streptomycin, erythromycin, puromycin, etc.
Events following protein translation
Main articles: Posttranslational modification and Protein folding
The events following biosynthesis include post-translational modification and protein folding. During and after synthesis, polypeptide chains often fold to assume, so called, native secondary and tertiary structures. This is known as protein folding.
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Title: Fairey Fawn
Subject: Napier Lion, Fairey Aviation Company, Fairey, 1924 in aviation, List of bomber aircraft, No. 11 Squadron RAF, Fairey Fox, No. 12 Squadron RAF, RAF Andover, No. 100 Squadron RAF
Fairey Aviation
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The Fairey Fawn was a British single-engine light bomber of the 1920s. It was designed as a replacement for the Airco DH.9A and served with the Royal Air Force between 1924 and 1929.
2 Operational history
5 Specifications (Fawn Mk III)
The Fairey Fawn was designed by F Duncanson of Fairey Aviation as a replacement for the Airco DH.9A in the light day bomber role, to meet the requirements of Specification 5/21 for an aircraft for reconnaissance and army co-operation duties. It was a development of the Fairey Pintail floatplane, powered by a Napier Lion engine.
The first of three prototypes flew on 8 March 1923.[1] The second and third prototypes were fitted with lengthened fuselages to improve stability, and this was adapted for the production version.[2] The Fawn was fitted with fuel tanks above the top wing in order to meet Air Ministry safety requirements. These tanks posed a hazard to the pilots if the aircraft overturned on landing.
A revised specification 20/23 was issued which added the bomber role, two prototypes and 48 production Fawn Mk II aircraft were ordered against the new specification in August 1923 to re-equip the home based DH.9A squadrons of the RAF, although the first two production aircraft were completed as short fuselage Fawn Mk Is and the remainder of this order being full production long fuselage Fawn Mk IIs.[2] The Fawn Mk III was fitted with a more powerful 468 hp (350 kW) Lion V engines, while the Fawn Mk IV was fitted with a supercharged Lion VI engine.
Operational history
The Fawn entered service with 12 Squadron in March 1924, equipping two further regular squadrons, 11 Squadron and 100 Squadron.[3] Despite the fact that the Fawn was originally intended to replace all the home-based DH.9A squadrons, four more squadrons continued to be equipped with the DH.9A for several more years before being replaced by other types.
The Fawn was not a popular aircraft in RAF service, having little better performance than the aircraft it replaced, and having a poor view for the pilot owing to the bulky Lion engine.[4]
The Fawn was replaced in these three regular squadrons in 1926, being replaced by the Hawker Horsley and the Fairey Fox. The aircraft freed up were used two equip two Special Reserve and Auxiliary Air Force squadrons, these remaining in service until 1929.[5]
Fawn Mk I
Short fuselage - 450 hp (340 kW) Lion II engine. Two built
Fawn Mk II
Long Fuselage - 450 hp (340 kW) Lion II engine. Main production type - 48 built.
Fawn Mk III
468 hp (349 kW) Lion V engine. 15 built.
Fawn Mk IV
520 hp (390 kW) supercharged Lion VI engine. 12 built.
Royal Air Force[6]
No. 11 Squadron RAF – April 1924–May 1927
No. 12 Squadron RAF – May 1924–December 1926
No. 100 Squadron RAF – May 1924–December 1926
No 503 (County of Lincoln) Squadron RAF Special Reserve – October 1926–June 1929
No 602 (City of Glasgow) Squadron RAF Auxiliary Air Force – September 1927–October 1929
Specifications (Fawn Mk III)
Data from The British Bomber since 1914 [7]
Crew: Two
Length: 32 ft 1 in (9.78 m)
Wingspan: 49 ft 11 in (15.22 m)
Height: 11 ft 11 in (3.63 m)
Wing area: 550 ft² (51.1 m²)
Empty weight: 3,481 lb (1,582 kg)
Loaded weight: 5,834 lb (2,652 kg)
Powerplant: 1 × Napier Lion V 12 cylinder, water cooled broad arrow engines, 468 hp (349 kW)
Maximum speed: 114 mph (99 kn, 184 km/h)
Range: 650 mi (565 nmi, 1,047 km)
Service ceiling: 13,850 ft (4,220 m)
Wing loading: 10.6 lb/ft² (51.9 kg/m²)
Power/mass: 0.08 hp/lb (0.132 kW/kg)
Climb to 5,000 ft (1,520 m): 6 min 30 sec
1 × fixed, forward-firing .303 in (7.7 mm) Vickers machine gun
1 or 2 × .303 in (7.7 mm) Lewis Gun on Scarff ring in rear cockpit
Up to 460 lb (209 kg) bombs underwing.
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__label__wiki | 0.578259 | 0.578259 | Palmyra palm
Title: Palmyra palm
Subject: Arecaceae, Palm wine, Palm sugar, List of Indian state trees
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Borassus flabellifer in Angkor Wat, Cambodia
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Order: Arecales
Subfamily: Coryphoideae
Tribe: Borasseae
Subtribe: Lataniinae
Genus: Borassus
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Borassus (Palmyra Palm) is a genus of six species of fan palms, native to tropical regions of Africa, Asia and New Guinea. They are tall palms, capable of growing up to 30 m high (98 ft). The leaves are long, fan-shaped, 2 to 3 m in length. The flowers are small, in densely clustered spikes, followed by large, brown, roundish fruits.
2 Cultivation and uses
2.1 In Tamil culture
Borassus aethiopum - African Palmyra Palm (and other names) (tropical Africa)
Borassus akeassii - Ake Assi's Palmyra Palm (West Africa)
Borassus flabellifer - Asian Palmyra palm/Lontar palm/Doub palm/Sea Coconut (southern Asia and southeast Asia)
Borassus heineanus - New Guinea Palmyra Palm (New Guinea)
Borassus madagascariensis - Madagascar Palmyra Palm (Madagascar)
Borassus sambiranensis - Sambirano Palmyra Palm (Madagascar)
Cultivation and uses
Palmyra palms are economically useful, and widely cultivated in tropical regions. The palmyra palm has long been one of the most important trees of Cambodia and India, where it has over 800 uses. The leaves are used for thatching, mats, baskets, fans, hats, umbrellas, and as writing material.
In Cambodia, the tree is a national flora symbol/emblem that is seen growing around Angkor Wat. The sugar palm can live over 100 years.
In ancient Indonesia and ancient India, the leaves were used as paper to write on, as a kind of papyrus. In India, leaves of suitable size, shape and texture, and sufficient maturity are chosen. They are then preserved by boiling in salt water with turmeric powder. The leaves are then dried; when they are dry enough, the faces of the leaves are polished with pumice stone. Then they are cut in the proper size. A hole is cut out in one corner. Each leaf will have four pages. The writing is done with a stylus. The writing is of a very cursive and interconnected style. The leaves are then tied up as sheaves.
The stalks are used to make fences and to make a strong, wiry fiber suitable for cordage and brushes. The black timber is hard, heavy, and durable and is highly valued for construction, such as for wharf pilings.
The tree also yields many types of food. The young plants are cooked as a vegetable or roasted and pounded to make meal. The fruits are eaten roasted or raw, and the young, jellylike seeds are also eaten. A sugary sap, called toddy, can be obtained from the young inflorescence, either male or female ones. toddy is (called "kallu (కల్లు)" in Telugu. The toddy is fermented to make a beverage called arrack, or it is concentrated to a crude sugar called jaggery/palm sugar. It is called Gula Jawa (Javanese sugar) in Indonesia and is widely used in the Javanese cuisine. The roots can be dried to form Odiyal, a hard chewable snack. In addition, the tree sap is taken as a laxative, and medicinal values have been ascribed to other parts of the plant.
In Tamil culture
The Palmyra tree is the official tree of Tamil Nadu. In Tamil culture it is called karpaha,"Nungu" "celestial tree", and is highly respected because all its parts can be used. The recently germinated seeds form fleshy sprouts below the surface which can be boiled and eaten as a fibrous, nutritious food. The germinated seed's hard shell is also cut open to take out the crunchy kernel which tastes like a water chestnut but is sweeter. The ripe fibrous outer layer of the fruits is edible after boiling or roasting. When the fruit is tender, the kernel inside the hard shell is an edible jelly that is refreshing and rich in minerals. When the crown of the tree from which the leaves sprout is cut we get an edible cake. In ancient times, dried palm leaves were used to write manuscripts.
Commons has media related to Borassus.
http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Borassus.html -excellent Australian site of multilingual fruit names
http://www.pacsoa.org.au/palms/Borassus/index.html
http://www.borassus-project.net
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most revent film first
Tuesday 16 July 7.30pm 'Jazz on a Summer's Day'
In association with SEALL ~ It's Jazz week with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland visiting Skye for a week long summer school.
'Jazz on a Summer's Day' (1960) is a documentary film set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island, filmed and directed by commercial and fashion photographer Bert Stern and director Aram Avakian, who also edited the movie. The film mixes images of water and the city with the performers and audience at the festival. It also features scenes of the 1958 America's Cup yacht races. The film is largely without dialog or narration but a great sound track.
The evening then turns into a great msuic session led by Rick Taylor, leading trombonist now living in Sleat, with a host of names from the Scottish jazz scene.
Saturday 4 May 7.30pm 'Latcho Drom'
103 mins 1993 musical documentary. This French work Latcho Dromis a film masterpiece, not pure documentary, no fiction by any means, but a work of great beauty, strong colors and wonderful singing and dancing. It takes the viewer on a journey west, from India to Spain, with stops along the way, to dramatize Romany's nomadic culture. This journey takes place over a year's time, from summer through fall and winter to spring. Gatlif holds his camera on the elemental essentials of this life: water, the wheel, fire, beasts of burden and of sustenance, colorful clothes, jewelry, musical instruments, song, and dance. Throughout, via song and dance, young and old celebrate, embody, and teach the cultural values of family, journey, love, separateness, and persecution. www.clubfilm.co.uk
NOW on Wednesday 9 May and Sunday 13 May at 7.30pm
‘The Artist’ (U)
FOUR OSCARS and THREE other nominations might be good!
2011 USA 100 mins Dir Michel Hazanavicius
Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break. An astonishing contemporary black-and-white silent move, with musical soundtrack. Best Actor at Cannes and other Awards.
Saturday 05 May at 7.30pm
‘Tinker, Tailor Soldier Spy’ (15)
2011 UK 127 mins Dir Tomas Alfredson
Award-winning update of John Le Carre’s story of the bleak days of the Cold War, when espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6’s echelons.
NOW ON Wednesday 28 March at 7.30pm
‘The Source’ ~ ‘La Source Des Femmes’
2011 France 135 mins Radu Mihaileanu
A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favors if their men refuse to fetch water from a remote well.
Friday 23 March at 7.30pm
‘Melancholia’ (15)
2011 136 mins Dir Lars Von Trier
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide into the Earth. Sci-fi withith Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Kiefer Sutherland.
10pm ‘Breaking the Waves’ (18)
Emily Watson, the Isle of Skye and some local faces in the crowds, are the stars of this early Von Tier Film. Set in a repressed, deeply religious community in the north of Scotland, a naive young woman, Bess McNeil, falls in love with Danish oil-rig worker Jan. When Jan is paralyzed in an accident, he urges Bess to take up relations with another.
(However, it was collectively decided at the end of Melancholia that enough was enough, so Breaking the Weaves was given a miss!)
Change of Programme
Saturday 10 March at 6pm
Note the earlier start for family viewing
Club Film ~ Change of Programme
Now Showing 'Hugo' (PG)
2011 126 minutes original 35 mm projection.
Martin Scorsese's latest brilliant family film. Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.
"my ten year old sat transfixed. Every single image is arresting, the story is engaging and thrilling and heartbreaking and uplifting and I never wanted it to end"
With Ben Kingsley and Shacha Baron Cohen
"Hugo" was the early winner of the recent Oscars, taking home several of the technical awards including trophies for cinematography and visual effects.
Sunday 26 February 7.30pm
‘Elena’
2011 Russia 109 mins
The opening establishes the glacial pace and committed realism of the film which makes the film special for audiences looking for something bold. Elena and Vladimir are an older couple, they come from different backgrounds. Vladimir is wealthy and cold, Elena is from a modest milieu and a docile wife. They meet late in life, each with children from previous marriages. Ther relationship changes . . .
NB NOW on Sunday 12 February at 7.30pm
not Saturday 11 February as previously stated
‘Gold Diggers of ‘33’ and Laurel and Hardy
1933 USA 97 minutes Dir Mervyn LeRoy
A wonderful comedy, tuneful and easy on the intellect with the magic of Busby Berkeley’s musical numbers, featuring “We’re in the Money” sung by Ginger Rogers.
PLUS some iconic Laurel and Hardy.
Saturday 4 February at 7.30pm (postponed from December 2011)
‘A Separation’ ~ ‘Jodaeiye Nader az Simin'
2011 Iran 123 mins PG-113 Subtitiled
An awe-inspiring drama from internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi ~ a stand-out film of the 2011 Berlin Film Festival and winner of the Golden Bear, A Separation is a suspenseful and intelligent story detailing the fractures and tensions at the heart of Iranian society.
Saturday 28 January at 7.30pm
‘The Skin I Live In’ (15) ~ ‘La Piel que Habito’
2011 Spain 117 Min Dir Pedro Almodovar
A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
An Olympic 3.5 hours of Film!
‘Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations’
‘Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker’
1938 Germany 121 min Dir Leni Riefenstahl
Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty
1938 Germany 96 min Dir Leni Riefenstahl
2012, the Olympic Year – to get us in the mood let’s see how Germany did it! The document of the 1936 Olympics at Berlin, orchestrated as Nazi propaganda.
Riefenstahl’s documentary of the 1936 Olympics at Berlin celebrates the human body by combining the poetry of bodies in motion with close-ups of athletes in the heat of competition. it ends with the triumphant conclusion of the games.
Saturday 17 December at 7.30pm
‘Troll Hunter’ ~ ‘Trolljegeren’
2010 Norway 103 mins PG-13
Scandinavian horror with lots of wonderful digital effects. A group of students investigate a series of mysterious bear killings, but learns that there are much more dangerous things going on. They start to follow a mysterious hunter, learning that he is actually a troll hunter.
Saturday 1 October at 7.30pm
‘Bridemaids’
Comedy 2011 USA 132 minutes 15
Picked as her best friend's maid of honor, lovelorn and broke Annie looks to bluff her way through the expensive and bizarre rituals with an oddball group of bridesmaids.
“Bridesmaids is a terrifically funny, smart and tender ensemble comedy starring its co-writer Kristen Wiig, and it pulls off the remarkable trick of being brutal and gentle at the same time.”
Discovery Film Festival
Friday 28 October at 11am
'The Lost Thing' & Other Shorts
Animation. Ages 8+ Approx 50 mins of films. Free screening
In ‘Lost Thing’ (a 15 minute animation), a boy finds a strange creature on a beach, and decides to find a home for it in a world where everyone believes there are far more important things to pay attention to.
Friday 28 October at 2pm
'Shorts for Wee Ones'
Animation. Ages 3+ Approx 50 min. Free screeningAll films are non-dialogue or in English so, even though these stories come from as far afield as India and Brazil, they are perfect for even our youngest visitors. Fun and creative shorts include a dragon made from spinach; a mouse with big ears looking for his perfect owner; a little girl who's sending her wishes to the stars; a storyteller who’s forgotten the story and Fluffy McCloud, the rain cloud who just wants to be liked. This collection of colourful stories is a treat for children age 3+ and a fantastic introduction to the cinema experience as well as film literacy.
Saturday 29th October at 3pm
Family Film : 'Light of the River'
Animation Japan 2010 75 mins Ages 6+
for children ages 6+ and parents. Animation ~ A loveable family of river rats are forced out of their idyllic home by a building development in this award-winning Japanese animation.
Daddy rat and young Tarta and Chichi embark on an adventurous - sometimes dangerous - quest for a new home as they long to be reunited with nature. This film touches on the importance of protecting our natural environment but also on what it’s like to be a refugee from a land you love but isn’t safe. Not everyone is welcoming to our family of rats along the way but kindness saves the day in the end. As well as picking up First Prize from the children and adult juries at the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, this film won the Children’s Earth Vision award at the Tokyo Global Environmental Film Festival.
'Louder Than a Bomb'
Documentary. USA 2010 99 mins
for adults and young people ages 12+
Prepare to be blown away by emotional force, storytelling and the raw power of the spoken word. This documentary follows three teenagers, from very different backgrounds, as they prepare for the annual ‘Louder Than a Bomb’ poetry slam contest in Chicago. 18-year-old Nate Marshall grew up in a poverty stricken area and learned to use words as his weapon. Nova Venerable takes care of her disabled brother and uses her words to vent anger at her absentee father. Private school pupil Adam Gottlieb doesn’t take his privilege for granted. All of them have an exceptional talent that they’ve worked hard to hone. Poems are shouted out as if they were rap, to enthusiastic young audiences who yell their approval right back. A film that shows how inspiring, moving and relevant poetry can be.
Sunday 13 November at 7.30pm
‘Kes’
1969 UK 110 mins PG-13
A re-issue of Ken Loach’s great film about a young, English working-class boy from a broken home who spends his free time caring for and training his pet falcon.
and at 9.30pm+ ‘Le Gamin au Vélo’ ~ ‘The Kid with the Bike’
2011 France 87 minutes subtitled
The Dardenne brothers (L'Enfant, Lorna's Silence) once again demonstrate their mastery for crafting character studies around broken souls trying to get by in France, with their newest film, The Kid With A Bike. Abandoned by his father, a young boy comes into the care of Samantha (the always great Cecile De France), a hairdresser in the town nearby who runs into him by chance, and this is where the film really starts to succeed.
Tuesday 6 September at 8pm
Film Night with SEALL events
'Roll Out cowboy' (75 mins)
Film makers Matt Hulse and Elizabeth Lawrence are taking their films on the road, from Orkney to Dumfries.
'Roll Out Cowboy' - Chris “Sandman” Sand is a rappin’ cowboy from Dunn Center, North Dakota (population: 120 and shrinking). He drives a semi, plays the guitar and raps. Sandman looks like Woody Guthrie but sings like LL Cool J. Roll Out, Cowboy follows the 39-year-old country/hip-hop musician as he tours the American West, performing for rural towns who might not have heard live hip-hop before.
Sandman’s story is the struggle of an artist trying to make a buck. In a tough economy, can the American dream still carry a tune?
Introductions and Q and A from the film-makers.
More HERE "(A) sweet, side-winding little documentary..." Chicago Tribune
With possible musical support from a Klezmer Band - watch this space!
+ a 5-minute teaser for 'Dummy Jim'
In 1951 a profoundly deaf young man called James Duthie set out alone on his bicycle from a small fisher community in North East Scotland with the single-minded goal of reaching Morocco in North Africa. On returning, he wrote a book called 'I Cycled Into The Arctic Circle'. So what on earth happened along the way?
Tickets at the door £5
CLUB FILM SPECIAL with YOUNG FILMS
Saturday 27 August at 7.30pm
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, main hall
'The Inbetweeners' (15) SOLD OUT
with the cast and crew + plus a ceilidh ~ see Trailer HERE
repeated on
Sunday 28 August at 8pm
The Film plus Q and A with the Film makers
Booking Essentail - all tickets £7.50 Book Here or 01471 844207
Tuesday 23 August at 8 pm ~ Dimairt 23 Lùnastal
'Skye Shorts' with SEALL events
Short Gaelic, English Films made on Skye, by people from Skye, about Skye including a selection from School in the area. An astonishing array of talent. Including:
Selection form An Sgailean Ùr - school films
Siubhlachan - Uisdean Murray, winner FilmG Year 1 (5 mins)
Sporran Makers - Jane McAllister, Bridging the Gap 'Future' (10 minutes)
Labour - writer Kenny MacLeod, Digital Shorts (13 minutes)
Fading Trades - Lesley Anne Morrison, (12 minutes)
Broken Road - Producer Lynsey Urquhart, (13 minutes)
Obair La - Jenny Forbes, winner FilmG Year 3 (5 mins)
Foighidinn ~ The Crimson Snowdrop 2004 Simon Miller (15 minutes)
Adults £5, students £5, Young People £2, under 10s free
Book HERE or telephone 01471 844207 or at the door
Summer Films in conjunction with the SEALL Summer series
A Fèis an Eilein / Club Film Summer Film
Tuesday 19 July at 8 pm ~ Dimàirt 19 An t-Iuchar
Film Night 'The Space Between' (15) 85mins
with a discussion by Director Tim Barrow
An Edinburgh love story and redemption tale. Shot over 17 days, on a tiny budget, the film follows two strangers brought together and given the chance to turn their lives around. Filmed in glorious late summer sunshine, the city is a catalyst for the action. The eclectic soundtrack comes from Scottish musicians - classical piano/fiddle and blues, electronic and guitar-based tracks.
ALSO some Short Films, made by children from Skye and the West Coast.
Adults £10, students £7, Young People £3, under 10s free
Scotland's International Film Festival for young Audiences
Friday 21 January 2011 special school screening
10 am 'Varmints' & short films
(UK 45 mins, P4 – P6)
'Varmints' - a beautiful 24 min animation for young people. In the face of overwhelming urbanization, indifference and recklessness, a small creature struggles to preserve a remnant of the peace he once knew. His selfless acts of love plant the seeds of change that will ultimately prove the salvation of his world. This BAFTA-nominated short is based on the children’s book by Helen Ward.
Watch a trailer here
1.30 pm 'Shorts for Wee Ones'
(60 min, Nursery – P3 or all Primary)
With it’s inventive, funny and fantastically colourful animations from
around the world, Short for Wee Ones is a festival favourite. Sail across
the sea with a moustached apple; fly through space on board a very
unusual ship and untangle mysteries with strange but loveable
characters. A great introduction to international film and the cinema
1.30pm Workshop
making Grufallo masks before the screening.
2.30pm 'The Gruffalo' & short films
(approx 50 min, Ages 3+)
“Doesn’t he know, there’s no such thing as a Gruffalo!” Or is there? Join brave little mouse and his big imagination on a search for tasty nuts in the forest. If you loved the enchanting book by Julia Donaldson, you won’t be disappointed with this faithful and captivating adaptation.
Dirs: Jacob Schuh, Max Lang, Marc Craste. UK 2009
7pm 'Soul Boy' and short films
(approx 90 min, For all the family ages 10+)
'Soul Boy' - Abila dad is ill and delirious, claiming that someone has stolen his soul. Desperate to save him, Abila visits a witch who sets him seven challenging tasks which will free his father’s captured soul. He finds himself drawn deeper into the heart of Kenya’s largest slum where this film was made.
Dir: Hawa Essuman and Tom Tykwer. Kenya / Germany 2010 / 1h / Digital / Swahili with English subtitles
Saturday 5 February at 7.30pm
'Tous les Matins du Monde'
(France 1991 115 mins subtitled)
One of the best French Films Nominated for the 1992 Golden Globe and many other awards.
It's late 17th century. The viola da gamba player Monsieur de Sainte Colombe comes home to find that his wife died while he was away. In his grief he builds a small house in his garden into wich he moves to dedicate his life to music and his two young daughters Madeleine and Toinette, avoiding the outside world. Rumor about him and his music is widespread, and even reaches to the court of Louis XIV, who wants him at his court in Lully's orchestra, but Monsieur de Sainte Colombe refuses. One day a young man, Marin Marais, (Gerard Depardieu) comes to see him with a request, he wants to be taught how to play the viol.
This film will be introduced by Club Member Lee Hooker.
Sunday 27 February at 7.30pm
'Winter's Bone' (15)
(UK 2010 100 mins)
An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.
British Independent Film Award for best foreign Film, and other awards.
Saturday 19 March at 7.30pm
‘Black Cat, White Cat' ~ 'Crna macka, beli macor'
(Germany 1998 - subtitled)
A wacky Balkan comedy. Matko is a small time hustler, living by the Danube with his 17 year old son Zare. After a failed business deal he owes money to the much more successful gangster Dadan. Dadan has a sister, Afrodita, that he desperately wants to see get married so they strike a deal: Zare is to marry her. But none of the two care much for an arranged marriage: Zare is in love with Ida, Afrodita is waiting for the man of her dreams.
Watch trailer here
Sunday 3 April at 7.30pm
'The Illusionist' (U)
France 2009 90 mins
Animation from Belleville Rendevous stable. A French illusionist finds himself out of work and travels to Scotland, where he meets a young a Gaelic speaking girl with whom he sets off to explore Edinburgh
A totally delightful film for all.
Saturday 16 April at 7.30pm
'Double Indemnity'
(1944 USA 107 mins)
Black and White Film noir nominated for 7 Oscars “the #29 Greatest Movie of All Time”
An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.
Saturday 9 January
2 pm NEW FAMILY PROGRAMME
'Belle & Sebastian' (30 mins)
Belle and Sebastien first appeared on on British Television in late 1967. This wonderful black and white dubbed French adventure soon became an essential ingredient of school holiday television. The adventure concerned a small boy named Sebastien who befriends Belle a huge white dog who roams the mountains near to where Sebastien and his family live. The small village is set in the French Alps in the mountain village of Saint-Martin, near the Italian border.
We are showing the very first episode.
'Brendan And The Secret Of Kells'
Dir: Tomm Moore. Ireland-France-Belgium. 2008. 78mins.
Visually ravishing and doused in Celtic magic, Irish animated feature Brendan And The Secret Of Kells takes as its plot source and stylistic inspiration the eighth century Book of Kells. Brendan is certain to draw fans in the 5-11 core audience
Entry is free! All children must be accompanied by an adult
and at 7.30pm
Körkarlen ~ The Phantom Carriage
(Sweden 1921 Dir Victor Sjöstrom 93 mins)
The Film of all Films
Thus spoke Ingmar Bergman. This classic 1921 Swedish film, revolutionary for its time, give us a Christmas Carol Swedish style, ghosts and all.
Canned films
Choice of latest films from the Cannes Film Festival. Some of these have not yet hit the cinemas. Programme to be announced.
Pranzo di Ferragosto ~ The Mid-August Lunch (U)
(Italy 2008 Dir Gianni di Gregorio 75 mins)
Escape from Gomorrah
After the bleakness of ‘Gomorrah’, first-time director di Gregorio was desperate to make a family comedy, but couldn’t afford a professional cast, so used his family instead. And created an Italian box-office sensation.
NEW in the Club Film Programme:
'Take One Action' Film Festival|
Take One Action is Scotland’s global action cinema project, based in Edinburgh. We celebrate the people and movies that are changing the world, linking audiences, filmmakers and campaigners to inspire shared solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.
Friday 19 January at 7.30pm
'Home'
(Yann Arthus-Bertrand | France 2009 | 95m | U)
Shot from the air in more than fifty countries, this beautiful film bears witness to the fine balance created by four billion years of evolution, now at risk from just a few centuries of human industrial development. But as the narrator argues, it’s too late to be a pessimist . . .
"Quite simply, awesome viewing" The Ecologist
This was not available - instead we showed 'The Yes Men'
'Robots'
(Chris Wedge | USA 2005 | 90m | U)
Rodney Copperbottom has a dream: to bring the homespun inventions that have made his father’s life easier to robots everywhere. But when he travels to Robot City, he learns that valuable old robots get scrapped in favour of a merciless conveyor belt of new.
products. “Brisk, cute and hilariously funny” Time Out
Saturday 27 February at 7.30pm
Bakwji ~ Thirst (18)
(South Korea 2008 Dir Chan-Wook Park 133 mins)
The Blood is the Life
Revenge trilogy director brings a modern take to the vampire genre, where a tragic priest is turned into vampire following a failed medical experiment. Hugely popular in Korea, and a prize winner in Cannes 2009.
(UK 2008 Dir Steve MacQueen 96 mins)
No Great Escape
Astonishing and powerful drama based on the last 6 weeks of Bobby Sands’ life. A critically acclaimed and multi-award winning film, the only British film in International Critics Best of 2008 Top Ten Poll.
Das Weisse Band ~ The White Ribbon
(Germany 2008 Dir Michael Haneke 144 mins)
Winner of the 2009 Palme d’Or at Cannes, this disturbing story set in rural Germany shows a community in turmoil just before the outbreak of the First World War. Obviously influenced by Bergman, this film seals Haneke’s reputation as a master.
Sunday 18 April at 7.30pm
'Up'
Saturday 1 May at 7.30pm
Vals im Bashir ~ Waltz with Bashir (18)
(Israel 2008 Dir Ari Folman 90 mins)
Lebanon in 3:4 Time
The Israeli director examines memories he would rather forget – as an Israeli soldier in the Sabra and Shatila massacres in 1982 Lebanon. A film that could only have been made in animation. A chilling and extraordinary exploration of hatred and its consequences.
(Denmark 2008 Dir Lars Von Trier 109 mins)
Dogme auteur at his most provocative. This highly controversial film, with some scenes of a very disturbing nature, has divided the critics with its portrayal of a couple’s disintegration following the loss of a child. Does it deserve its notoriety? Come and decide for yourself.
Saturday 30 October at 7.30pm
'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'
2008 UK Mark Herman
Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.
'Africa in Motion' Festival
Friday 19 November at 7.30pm
African storytelling by Mara Menzies, with fantastic tales and incredible characters in an engaging storytelling session.
‘Madame Brouette’
Senagal (15) 104 mins
Proud, independent and divorced, Mati survives by pushing her cart through the pathways of a Senegalese shantytown.
Music by famous West African musicians - an extraordinary soundtrack and a Best Film Music Award in Berlin.
Saturday 20 November 7.30pm
‘The Abyss Boys’
South Africa 2009 · 26m · Afrikaans with English subtitles
Set in the slums of a small fishing community on the Southern coast of South Africa, the drowning depths of illegal abalone poaching has become a dangerous life.
‘Gugu and Andile’
South Africa 2009 · 1h36m · Zulu and Xhosa with English subtitles · 15
1993 and South Africa’s townships are burning. Gugu, a sixteen-year-old from a Zulu family falls in love with Andile, an eighteen year-old Xhosa youth. Their love is frowned upon by both communities. Based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Gugu and Andile is a film about love, death and reconciliation.
Sunday 5 December 7.30pm
'Avatar' (12A)
(UK 162 mins)
When his brother is killed in a robbery, paraplegic Marine Jake Sully decides to take his place in a mission on the distant world of Pandora. There he learns of greedy corporate figurehead Parker Selfridge's intentions of driving off the native humanoid "Na'vi" in order to mine for the precious material scattered throughout their rich woodland. In exchange for the spinal surgery that will fix his legs, Jake gathers intel for the cooperating military unit spearheaded by gung-ho Colonel Quaritch, while simultaneously attempting to infiltrate the Na'vi people with the use of an "avatar" identity. While Jake begins to bond with the native tribe and quickly falls in love with the beautiful alien Neytiri, the restless Colonel moves forward with his ruthless extermination tactics, forcing the soldier to take a stand - and fight back in an epic battle for the fate of Pandora.
Saturday 18 December 7.30pm
'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' (18)
(Sweden 152 mins Swedish subtitled)
The first of the mega-selling Millennium Trilogy of gruesome crime novels by the late Swedish author Stieg Larsson. Michael Nyqvist plays Michael Blomkvist, a reporter facing an unjust prison sentence for criminal libel. Before his jail term starts, he is hired by a wealthy industrialist to solve the mystery of a niece who disappeared 40 years before, and who, poignantly, once babysat Blomkvist as a boy. He uncovers a string of hate crimes, and teams up with a super-sexy badass computer hacker with emotional issues called Lisbeth (Noomi Rapace), the eponymous tattooed girl.
Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 January 2009 7.30 pm
Inland Empire (15) (cancelled)
(2006,Dir David Lynch ,France /Poland/USA 180 min)
A Bizarre and beautiful film where David Lynch explores the thin boundaries between fantasy and reality when an actress finds her role extending out into the rest of her life. Possibly.
Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 January at 7.30 pm
Gomorrah (15)
( 2008, Dir Matteo Garrone, Italy,137min)
More realistic by far then The Godfather , this is an unconventional masterpiece depicting the Neapolitan underworld and the Camorra operating as the hellish lords of the same. Controversial in Italy, this truly needs to be seen.
Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 February at 7.30 pm
Sansho the Bailiff ~ Sanshô dayû
(1954 Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan, 142 min)
A film of unparalleled beauty by the great Japanese Master Kenji Mizoguchi.
Saturday 28 February and Sunday 1 March at 7.30pm
Riefenstahl Night
Triumph des Willens ~ Triumph of the Will (cancelled)
(1936, Dir Leni Riefenstahl, Germany, 114 mins)
A legendary propaganda/documentary of the Third Reichs 1934 Nuremberg Party Rally. Featuring a cast of thousands as well as, of course, Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, Hess, Goering and other top party officials.
Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 March at 7.30 pm
El Baño del Papa ~ The Popes Toilet (15)
(2007, Dir.s César Charlone & Enrique Fernández,Uruguay, 90 min)
Set in a small Uruguayan Border town, the hero hopes to clean up when the Pope is due to visit, but official corruption means things dont go as smoothly as hoped. Initially a light comedy, but things grow darker.
Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 April 12 at 7.30pm
Persepolis (12A)
(2007, Dir.s Vincent Paronnaud &Marjane Satrapi, France, 96 min)
Animated in the same style as the award winning graphic novels on which the film is based, this is the story of a girl growing up though the changes from police state to theocracy in Iran during and after the revolution. Empowering and amusing, for all sexes and ages.
Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 April at 7.30pm
Toki o kakeru shôjo ~ The Girl who leapt through time
(2006, Dir. Mamoru Hosoda, Japan, 98 min)
What would you do if you could suddenly go back in time and correct your mistakes? While the animation in this film is not quite up to the level of Steamboy, the storyline becomes increasingly convoluted as things start to go wrong for the heroine. This is better seen on the big screen than on a television, so don t miss out.
Sunday 21 June at 7.30pm
Meet the creative team behind C4s new hit comedy
Sunday 20 September at 7.30pm
Slumdog Millionaire (15)
(UK, India 2008 Dir Danny Boyle 120 mins)
Danny Boyle tops a list of the top 25 British Films makers in the last 25 years and made a personal appearance at Club Film with ‘Millions’.
He received a well-deserved Oscar for Best Director for ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. An upbeat story of love and money, focussed on a teenager in Mumbai who is a contestant in the Indian version of ‘Who wants to be a Millionaire?’ Hugely enjoyable and bursting with energy, this is a brilliantly written and beautifully acted drama that packs a powerful emotional punch.
Sunrise (U)
(USA, 1927 Dir FW Murnau B/W 95 mins)
The Old Old Story (Love, Betrayal, Loss and Redemption)
One of the greatest films of the silent era of 1927. A triple Oscar winner about a love triangle.
Sunday 8 November at 7.30pm
Tilaï ~ The Law (PG)
(Burkina Faso 1990 Dir Idrissa Ouedraogo 80 mins)
Africa in Motion – Rural Scotland Tour
From a highly acclaimed pioneer of African Cinema. A love affair between a man and his former lover, and now married to his father, threatens the stability of a traditional West African village. Lizzie Bischoff gives a presentation on African Cinema after the screening.
Also showing "The Positive Ladies Football Club" a 35 minutes documentary following the lives of women in Zimbabwe who vow to overcome predudice with their efforts in the women's football league.
Monday 9 November at 10am
African Children’s Animation
1pm in Portree High School
A Hunter’s Story, documentary
Saturday 14 November at 7.30pm
(Kazakhstan 2008 Dir Sergei Dvortsevoy 100 mins)
Steppes We Gaily
A * * * * film, screened just one day after opening in national cinemas.
Multi-award winning heartwarming view into Kazakh rural life today. Has been favourably compared to ‘Nanook of the North’ and ‘Atanarjuat: the Fast Runner’ past Club Film favourites.
Sunday 29 November at 7.30pm (nb change from original programme)
La Gra ine et Le Mulet ~ Couscous (15)
(France 2007 Dir Abdel Kechiche 151 mins)
Against The Grain – à la mode française
Set amongst the North African community in the Mediterranean French
port of Sète "Couscous" is a critically acclaimed warm and engrossing
family drama that features some of the most mouth-watering scenes of
food and feasting ever committed to celluloid
When sixty-something shipyard worker Slimane is laid off, he
determines to realise his long-held dream of opening a couscous
restaurant. With the odds stacked against him, his only chance of
success is to rally the support of his unruly extended family
including he ex-wife, children, mistress and her beautiful hot-headed
daughter. But simmering feuds and rivalries have to be overcome
before the arrival of the restaurant's make-or-break opening night on
which they must risk everything
Also screening 10am Monday 30 November for Plockton High School Students.
Saturday 19 December 2009 at 7.30pm
Sound of Music (U)
(USA, 1965 Dir Robert Wise Colour 172 mins)
An Idle Vice, One Of My Favourite Things
Come and Sing-along to Rogers & Hammerstein’s heart-warming story, with life-enhancing songs, received the Oscar for Best Picture in 1965 and is a cinematic treasure. Maria (Julie Andrews) gives the seven Von Trapp children in her care the taste of a more joyous life through music.
Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 January 2008 at 7.30pm
Ne le dis à personne ~ Tell No-one (15)
2007 Fr., Dir Guillaume Canet 125 min
If Hitchcock had gone to Paris instead of Hollywood, this might have been the result.
Very well directed action scenes with a stylishly complex mystery at its heart.
Tell everyone!“Gripping… actor-turned-director Guillaume Canet deftly negotiates the narrative swerves between social satire, melodrama and murder mystery” Mark Kermode
Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 February at 7.30pm
Seachd – the Inaccessible Pinnacle (U)
2007 Alba. Dir. Simon Miller 90min
The Mountain shall come to Slèite.
By local demand, another chance (the last?) to see this on the big Screen on the island where it was shot.
The first feature film in Gàidhlig, for the final time.
I really wouldnt eat that, Aonghas Pàdraig . . .
Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 March at 7.30pm
Das Leben der Anderen ~ The Lives of Others (15)
2006 Ger. Dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 137 Min.
East Germany, state sponsored voyeurism, and a third of the population informing on everybody else – and abusing them. A poignant and masterful exploration of the depths of human nature, and a warning for the surveillance culture which has grown around us .
Friday 28 and Sunday 30 March at 7.30pm (nb not Saturday)
Azur et Asmar ~ The Princes Quest (U)
2006. Fr. Dir Michel Ocelot, 99min
Arabian Knights
Award Winning French animation, about two little boys who grow up to become kings. Gorgeously painted frames around fantastic Arabic tales.
An International childrens hit.
Se, jie ~ Lust, Caution (18)
2007 USA/China Dir. Ang Lee
Occupation sex, and death. (sic)
Chinese resistance (and apparent lack of it) in Shanghai during the Japanese occupation. As it builds to a deadly climax Ang Lees cruelly erotic film continues his reflection on the far reaches of human sexuality and attraction.
Dare you miss this?
Winner of The Golden Lion Award, Venice 2007
“Director Ang Lees potently erotic and suspenseful Lust, Caution casts a spell you wont want to break!” Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 May at 7.30pm
Juno (12a)
2007 USA. Dir. Jason Reitman 96 min.
Who wants a baby?
Juno wants to give away the baby when it comes, her parents are relieved, her classmates are horrified, and the father is another matter altogether . . .
Surprisingly, this film about a pregnant 16 year old is a hilarious and life affirming comedy.
See it.
Friday 26 September 2008 at 7.30 pm
Beckoning Silence
(2007, Dir Louise Osmond, UK,75 min)
Joe Simpson--whose amazing battle for survival was documented in “Touching the Void”--travels to the Eiger to tell the story of an earlier mountaineering tragedy that resonated with his own. Filmed and presented by world-leading mountaineering cameraman Keith Partridge, and followed by Q&A.
Saturday 1 November at 7 pm
The Fox and the Child (U) ~ Le Renard et lenfant
( 2007, Dir. Luc Jaquet, France, 92 Min)
A young girl makes friends with a fox, and has adventures. A touching family movie with great animal scenes from the director of the hugely popular “March of the Penguins”
Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 November at 7.30 pm
El Orfanato ~ The Orphanage (15)
(2007, Juan Antonio Bayona, Mexico/Spain, 105 min)
A slowly developing eerie film which has much in common with the Ghost stories of MR James than the gross out gore fests which so many horror films are these days. Thematically similar to the Devils Backbone and Pans Labyrinth, which were directed by the producer of this film: a woman and her son move into a disused orphanage, and his imaginary friends may not be quite so imaginary.
The Smallest Game in Town
(2007, Dir. Aileen Ritchie, UK, 30 min)
A 30 minute comedy starring Andy Gray, Gary Lewis, Clare Grogan and Sleats very own Annie MacLeod (Seachd). A group of friends gather together for their weekly mutual support and poker game – nobody else would have them.
Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 November at 7.30 pm
Izgnanie ~ The Banishment (12a)
(2007, Dir Andrei Zvyagintsev, Russia, 157 min)
From the director of “ The Return” we have another film focusing on the bonds within families, and their slow disintegration. This is a beautifully shot award winning film, full of religious hints and allusions, where the truth is hidden but for subtle clues throughout the film, building to a wrenching climax.
Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 December at 7.30 pm
Romanian Expectations
4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile ~ 4 Months, 3 weeks & 2 days (15)
(2008, Dir Cristian Mungin, Romania, 113 min)
The best film so far from new Romania. Visceral and affecting, this film was shot on an incredibly low budget and shows what life can be like in a state where abortion is illegal.
Winner Cannes Palme dOr 2007
Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 December at 7.30 pm
Mama Mia ! (PG)
(2008, Dir . Phylidda Lloyd 108 min)
An Abbatastic pop fest that everyone wants to see again. Everyone gets their man in the end, and theres lots of singalong moments on the way. How can you resist?
Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 January 8pm
Good Night and Good Luck (PG)
(2005 George Clooney – USA) 93 minutes
Set during the early days of broadcast journalism, this second feature from director and star George Clooney was garnered with praise and revolves around news man Edward Murrow and his, and his colleagues, continued investigation into the communist “witch hunts” of the McCarthy era amidst great political and corporate pressures.
Faire Chaluim MhicLeòid ~ Calums Wake
Exclusive UK premier of a new Gaelic short from Cape Breton.
Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 February 7.30pm
An Inconvenient Truth (U)
(2006 Davis Guggenheim – USA) 100 minutes
If a number of the worlds top scientist are right, then we have only a short period of time in which to avert a potentially major natural catastrophe. But what can be done? Former American vice-president Al Gore explore this and more in this surprising, informative and entertaining film that just might be one of the most important youll ever see.
Debate to follow presentation on the Saturday ~ “Come to the Film by bike or walk”
Saturday 24 February 6.30 pm INVITATION ONLY
Seachd – The Inaccessible Pinnacle
(2007 Simon Miller - UK) 95 minutes
Yet another exclusive for Club Film as this epic Gaelic tale of the power of a story makes its debut. Shot on Skye over the summer with local stars - take the chance to see it before the Rest of the World
Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 March 8pm
Huozhe ~ To Live (12)
(1994 Yimou Zhang – China) 125 minutes
From the director of Hero and House of Flying Daggers this is essentially the story of one family and their struggle to survive but told against the much larger backdrop of the ascent of Chairman Mao. Love, loss and laughter are all present as are two leads, more than up to the challenge of such a powerful script.
Festival Weekend ~ 4 films in one weekend
Friday 30 March 7.30pm
The Last King of Scotland
(2006 Kevin MacDonald – UK) 121 minutes
A real privilege for Club Film as Kevin MacDonald presents his first fiction film after Oscar and BAFTA wins for his previous two documentaries (One Day in September & Touching The Void). A fictional, young Scottish doctor, through a chance encounter, becomes Idi Amins physician and later number one advisor. Balancing comedy with the true horrors of Amins regime this is a vibrant and intelligent piece of filmmaking.
Saturday 31 March and Sunday 1 April 8pm
Capturing Idi Amin
(2006 Fran Robertson - UK) 29 mins
I Know Where Im Going (U)
(1945 Powell & Pressburger - UK) 88 mins
(1981 István Szabó - Hungary) 144 mins
Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 April 8pm
The Wind That Shakes The Barley (15)
(2006 Ken Loach – UK/IRL) 127 minutes
Winner of the Palme dOr in 2006, this controversial film from director Ken Loach tells the story of a small group of IRA activists, and in particular two brothers, during the Irish War of Independence.
Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 May 8pm
Tsotsi (15)
(2005 Gavin Hood – UK/S. Africa) 94 minutes
Set in Soweto, this Oscar winning film tells the tale of Tsotsi, a local gangleader who after a carjacking finds he got more than he bargained for in the form of a baby in the backseat. A visually stunning and very refreshing movie experience.
Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 June 8pm
A Few Kilos of Dates For a Funeral
(2006 Saman Salour – Iran) 85 minutes Black and White
A remarkable dark comedy - a vision of male friendship (and, though it remains largely unspoken throughout, the yearning for female companionship) so shrewd, so gimlet-eyed and knowing, its a wonder it made it past the Iranian censors.
Sunday 22 July 3pm and 8pm
Millions Fèis an Eilein
Festival Fèis an Eilein
Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 January at 8pm
Life is disappointing, especially after Christmas
Tokyo Story ~ Tokyo Monogatari
(1953 Japan - Yasujiro Ozu)
It’s official! ~ 2005 critics’ poll voted this the Best Film Ever Made.
More than 28 days later
Millions (12a)
(UK 2005 - Danny Boyle) 98 min
the director has been invited to present this film for all the family
14 February at 7.30pm
The Growth of the Soil
A special Film and Orchestra night presented by the Northern Periphery Programme and the Lochaber Music Partnership.
Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 March at 8pm
Moolade (15)
(Burkina Faso 2004 Ousmane Sembene) 120 min
Two young African girls flee their village because of fear of female circumcision. They seek refuge with Mooladé, a woman who has protected her children from the ordeal, and who is exiled in consquence.
An African Masterpiece from the veteran director.
Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 April at 8pm
Turtles can fly (15) ~ Lakposhtha hâm parvaz mikonand
(Iran/Iraq 2004 - Bahman Ghobadi) 98 min
The first film to emerge from post-Saddam Iraq, and cast mainly with children, Turtles Can Fly is set on the Kurdish border on the eve of the 2003 invasion, where refugees – camped out in ragged tents and disused tanks – make ends meet by collecting mines. Their leader, Satellite, organises the workforce while tryingto install a TV receiver to find out when the war will start. Bahaman Ghobadi’s film is crammed with unforgettable images, from the armless children unscrewing mines with their teeth to the blind child standing innocently in a minefiled. Turtles Can Fly isn’t always easy to watch but remains a bold and compelling film.
Berlin International Film Festival 2005 – Peace Film Award
Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 May at 8pm
Cache (15)
(France 2005 Michael Haneke) 117 min
Starring Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche the film is a taut and tense personal thriller, which examines important subjects such as guilt and responsibility in the context of western comfort.
Cannes Film Festival 2005 – best Director
Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 June at 8pm
If you can't change the world ......
Head On (18) ~ Gegen die Wand
Cahit and Sibel, both Turkish Germans, have a marriage of convenience to help Sibel get away from the confines of her strictly conservative family.
Winner of a raft of awards at festivals worldwide.
(Turkey/Germany 2004 - Fatih Akin) 121 min
Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 June at 8pm
The Battle of Algiers (15)
(Italy 1965 - Gillo Pontecorvo) 117 min
Celebrating Algerian Independence day on July 3rd , a bloody and horrifying war film.
3 Oscar nominations.
Sunday 30 July at 7.3pm
The Rocket Post – Feis an Eilein
Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 October 8pm
Walk The Line (12A)
(2005 James Mangold – USA) 136 minutes
A fascinating insight into the early years of Johnny Cash (Joaquin Phoenix) as he struggles with drugs and falls for the already married June Carter (an Oscar winning Reese Witherspoon). Key of course is the wonderful music with the likes of Ring of Fire, Folsom Prison Blues and Jackson all making an appearance.
March of the Penguins (U)
(2005 Luc Jacquet – France) 85 minutes
Depicting the Emperor penguins yearly, treacherous journey to their breeding grounds, this oscar winning documentary is a genuine treat for the whole family.
Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 November 8pm
Idi i smotri ~ Come and See (15)
(1985 Elen Klimov – Russia) 142 minutes
Seen through the eyes of a teenage boy, this film takes place during the Second World War in Russia but in reality its themes and messages about the horror of war could be applied to any war anywhere.
“an un-missable masterpiece”
Little Miss Sunshine (15)
(2006 Dayton/Faris – USA) 101 minutes
Proving that critically acclaimed and comedy do not have to be mutually exclusive terms – this film is the story of the dysfunctional Hoover family whose road trip across America to reach a pre pubescent beauty pageant results in death, transformation and the discovery of the surprising results of being losers in a winning-crazed culture.
Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 January at 8pm
Oldboy (18)
(2003/4 Chan-wook Park – Korea) 120 minutes
A man is kidnapped and kept prisoner for 15 years. On his release he stops at nothing to find out why, and to take his revenge. Anyone for sushi, Korean style?
Etre et Avoir (U)
(2002 Nicolas Philibert – France) 104 minutes
Enchanting documentary set in a rural French primary school - well worth bringing les enfants.
Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 February at 8pm
My Summer of Love (15)
(2004 Paul Pavlikovsky - UK) 86 minutes
Home-grown gentle coming of age love story set in North of England just in time to celebrate Valentines Day.
Infernal Affairs (15) ~ Wu jian dao
(2002 Wai Keung Lau – Cantonese) 101 minutes
A thriller from Korea, home of a new explosion of directing talent, especially thrillers.
9.30 pm The Big Sleep (PG)
(1946 Howard Hawles – USA, b and w) 114 minutes
Bogart and Bacall: before the world woke up to Fiml Noir there was the Big Sleep. A new print.
The Five Obstructions ~ De Fem benspænd
(2003 Lars Von Trier and Jørgen Leth - Danish / English / French / Spanish) 90 minutes
Lars Von Trier sets Jurgen a series of increasingly impossible re-makes of Jurgens surreal film The Perfect Human with astonishing and sometimes hilarious results.
Belleville Rendez-Vous (12)
(2003 Sylvain Chomet - French / Portuguese)
Another award winning cartoon. A grand-mother goes in search of her missing son, a Tour de France cyclist extraordinaire. We hope to discuss the film with the writer/director.
Saturday 30 April and Sunday 1 May at 8pm
La Strada (15)
(1955 Federico Fellini – b & w – Italian) 115 mins
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Fellinis great tragedy, about two circus artistes on the road, locked in an intense love/hate relationship. A new print.
Winged Migration (U)
(2001 - English / French) 92 minutes
Compelling wildlife documentary about migrating birds, which has taken the world by storm.
Uzak (15)
(2002 Nuri Bilge Ceylan - Turkish) 110 minutes
Haunting Turkish family drama which swept the board at last years Cannes film festival.
Sunday 17 July 8pm
Himalaya - L'Enfance d'un Chef (pg) – Fèis an Eilein film
An epic French (subtitled) film evoking the culture of remote comunities in another mountainous part of the world. With the Tibetan way of life totally under threat from Chinese colonial rule, Eric Valli's film may be the last to record the traditional trek across the mountains. From the village of Dolpo, 5000 ft. up, a caravan of yaks sets forth once a year, ladened with sacks of salt to be exchanged in the far off Nepalese valley for enough grain to last them through the winter. The story of this race across the Himalayas, symbolising a clash between the old ways and the new, is exhilarating enough. What lifts the film to a high level is the wonder of the cinematography, the music and the spirit of a unique people.
Saturday 20 Aug 20 at 7pm
(UK 2005 - Annie Griffin) 106 min
Annie Griffin has been invited to talk about this new film.
Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 September at 8pm
Father Russia's road movie
The Return ~ Vozvrashcheniye
(Russia 2003 - Andrei Zvyaginsted) 105 min
Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 October at 8pm
Fame, success and all that stuff ~ black comedy Francaise.
(France 2004 - Agnes Jaoui) 110 min
Bad Education (15)
(Spain 2204 - Pedro Almodóvar) 106 mins
Snuff doesn't just make you sneeze
And after a meal, paella, and tapas in the interval:
(Spain 1996 - Alejandro Amenabar) 125 min - his first film
Sunday 6 November at 8pm
For the 11th hour of the 11th day
(US 1930 - Lewis Milestone) 131 min
Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 November at 8pm
Better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick
Zaitoichi
(Japan 2003 - Takeshi Kitano) 116 min
Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 December at 8pm
A short feel-good comedy
The Station Agent
(2003 USA - Thomas MacCarthy) 88min
Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 December at 6.30pm
Family night ~ it is possible to love your pets too much
The Cat Returns
(Japan 2002 - Hiroyuki Morita) 75 min
anime by the director of the award winning “Spirited Away”
Saturday January 17 at 8pm
The Brothers (U)
(1947 David Macdonald – UK) 1 hour 38 mins
Loch Coruisk, Broadford and Sleat as the backdrop for an intensely powerful melodrama, shot on location in Skye featuring local talent as well as usual supects Finlay Currie and co.
Archival film
A short selection of video film from Skye in the 1930s – 1950s.
Saturday 31 January at 8pm
Travelling Players ~ O Thiasos
(1972 Theo Angelopoulos - Greece) 3 hour 50 minutes
As part of the Theo Angelopoulos Restrospective, Club Film for the first time becomes part of a National Film Theatre Touring Programme. With a break for some Greek food.
Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 February at 8pm
Kimonosu jo ~ Throne of Blood (15)
(1957 Akira Kurosawa - Japan)
Kurosawa does Macbeth. Truly great cinema, set in feudal Japan. Not yet available on DVD and probably your only chance to see it on the big screen.
Lilja-4-Ever (18)
(2002 Lucas Moodysson - Russia)
Lilja tries to escape her life in Russia but falls into the hands of the sex trade. Either a tragedy or a very bleak comedy depending on the reviews (and the mental health of the reviewer). Either way: unanimously a classic.
Friday 12 March at 7pm
Ladri di Biciclette ~ Bicycle Thieves (U)
(1947 Vittorio de Sica - Italy) 1 hour 33 min
Magical neo-realism. Man has bike. Man loses bike. Man looks for bike all over Rome. Will he get it back? Watch the film and find out.
Sunday 14 March at 8pm
presented by Andrew Macdonald, the films Producer
28 Days Later (18)
(2002 Danny Boyle - USA) 1 hour 53 mins
A virus swipes out most of the human race by making them very angry and the survivors try to escape. Very popular in the USA.
Friday 26 and Sunday 28 March at 8pm
Russkij kovcheg ~ Russian Ark (U)
(2002 Aleksandr Sokurov ~ Russia)
1 hour 36mins
Shot on a single take while travelling with the camera through the rooms of the Hermitage in Petrograd, involving a cast of thousands and the history of Russia. More than a cinematic curiosity - and very few prints exist - this is a must see.
Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 April at 7.30pm/9pm
A Night at the Opera (PG)
(1935 Sam Wood - USA) 1 hour 36 mins
“The night is yet young and you are enormous”. One of the Marx brothers greats, a genuinely funny film that should please everybody.
The Third Man (PG)
(1949 Carol Reed - UK) 1 hour 33 mins
Tum ta tum ta tum ta tum …boasts one of the finest entrances in cinematic history - a cat, a brogue, a shadow and the finest smirk in Vienna! A post-war Graham Greene gewm. Mr Orson Welles gets all the best bits.
Saturday 15 May at 8pm
Sunday 16 May at 8pm
25th Hour (15)
(2002 Spike Lee - USA) 2 hours 15 mins
Spike Lee back on form. Ed Norton plays a drug dealer forced to re-evaluate himself and his life in the 24 hours before going to prison, in a New York traumatised by the Twin Towers tragedy.
Goodbye Lenin (15)
(2002 Wolfgang Becker - Germany) 2 hours 1 mins
Communist Mum goes into coma before the wall comes down. When she wakes up, her son sustains the illusion that nothing has changed with progressively hilarious and dramatic results. International hit from Germany.
Saturday 12 June at 8pm
presented by Kevin Macdonald, the films director
Touching the Void
(2003 Kevin Macdonald - UK)
Film adaptation of Jo Simpsons mountaineering classic. The astounding drama/documentary true-life story of two climbers in the Andes and their incredible story of survival.
Friday 25 June at 7.30pm
Whisky Galore (U)
(1949 Alexander Mackendrick - UK) 1 hour 22 mins
Compton Mackenzies famous book filmed on location in the isles. What happens when a boat load of whisky appears on the shore. Well, wouldnt you?
Dom Za Vesanje ~ The Time of the Gypsies (15)
(1989 Emir Kusturica – Bosnia) 1 hour 16 mins
To save his sick sister, Perhan leaves his homeland and grand-mothers love to work for a thief and child trafficker in Milan. Things go horribly wrong and he seeks revenge. Exceptional contemporary film from major young Bosnian talent.
Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 Nov at 7.30pm
Son of the Bride (PG) ~ El Hijo de la novia
(2002 Juan Josè Campanella – Argentina) 123 minutes
Oscar-winning comedy about a family break-up, dementia, bankruptcy and love, set in Argentina.
Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 December at 7pm
Spirited Away (PG)
(2001 Hayao Miyazaki – Japan) 125 Minutes
(Dubbed in English/Live Gaelic Translation)
Outstanding award-winning animation from Japan. A truly great family film. Eat your heart out, Mickey Mouse.
Foighidinn ~ The Crimson Snowdrop
(2004 Simon Miller - Scotland) 15 minutes
World premiere screening of the new Gaelic film, shot in Sleat and featuring our own local stars - both varieties!
Meet the Stars, Director and Producer and see the film twice!
Monday 27 December at 2.30pm
(1927 Murnau - USA black and white ) 90 minutes
The first cinema showing in Scotland since its release over 75 years ago, of this silent masterpiece, a tragic love story made in Hollywood by the great German emigre Director F.W. Murnaw. A new print with a musical soundtrack.
Saturday January 25 at 7.30pm
Italian for Beginners (15)
(Lone Scherfig 2001) 112min
Another Dogme hit. A comedy about a bunch of love hungry Danes who think that learning Italian will help them score.
8 ½ (15)
(Frederico Fellini 1963) 145 min
On good authority, this is the ultimate film about film making. A Director loses the plot while in the middle of shooting a film thats being rewritten as he goes along, as his life falls apart around him. Ottimo!
Saturday February 22 at 7.30pm
A Time for Drunken Horses (PG)
(Bahman Ghobadi, 2000) 80min
Set in Kurdistan, in a place so harsh even the horses need a drink to keep them going. A powerful and devastating drama.
Kandahar (PG)
(Mohsen Makhmalbaf 2001) 85 min
A lone woman searches for her sister through the hazards of Afghanistan. A mix of documentary and fiction which has been acclaimed around the world.
Saturday March 29 at 7.30pm
Man of Aran (PG)
(Robert J Flaherty 1934) 76 mins
The first Sound film from the man who gave us last years smash hit Nanook of the North. A dramatised documentary about the struggle to survive on the barren island of Aran off the Irish coast, and the fishermen hunting the basking sharks for oil. One to savour.
Fra Diavolo (PG)
(Hal Roach & Charley Rogers 1933) 90 mins
A Laurel and Hardy classic, based on the light operetta of the same name by Auber. Set in 18th century Italy, our heroes pretend to be notorious bandits and fall foul of the law. Contains the favourite “handsy earsy nosey” skit.
Saturday April 26 at 8pm
The Sons Room (15)
(Nanni Moretti 2001) 99min
Held back from last years programme, this is a masterpiece from a current European master.
Saturday May 31 at 7.30pm
Y Tu Mama Tambien (18)
(Alfonso Cuaron 2001) 105 min
Two teenage boys and a very attractive older woman who teaches them a thing or two about life as they travel across Mexico. ¡La vida tiene sus maneras de inspirarnos!
Saturday June 7 and and Sunday June 8 at 7pm
Casablanca (U)
(1942 Michael Curtiz) 102 min
"You played it for her. Play it Sam." It took a great deal of effort and extra cost to get this film - as it has been withdrawn from from distribution. So pease support Club Film and the hard work it took to get it here by coming along on either night. Its a mus see film anyway!
Monday 23 June at 8pm tbc
Archival Skye Film
Join Sleat History Society and SEALL in an evening of archival video film as part of the 200th anniversary of the Skye migrant to Prince Edward island, Canada.
Saturday June 28 at 8pm
Morvern Callar (15)
and a personal appearance by its Producer: Robyn Slovo
(Lynne Ramsay, 2002)
Based on Alan Warners book and partly shot in Oban, it was billed as the best British film of the year at Cannes, where it won several prizes.
Another must see film and a rare chance to question the producer.
Saturday July 5 at 8pm
Chicago (12a)
(USA 2002 Rob Marshall) 113 mins
So many Oscars I lost count.
Rob Marshalls screen adaption of the celebrated musical explodes on to the silver screen, following the xploiuts of two murderous jazz babes - Renee Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones, and their defence lawyer Richard Gere. Great songs, this is an all-singing, all-dancing affair. Fast, sassy and gives it that old Razzle-Dazzle.
Friday 11 July at 7.30pm
Rabbit Proof Fence – Fèis an Eilein
Thursday 4 September at 8pm
8 Mile (15)
(2002 Curtis Hanson - USA) 1 hour 50 mins
Eminem (Michael Mather) as a young trailer-trash kid finding his routes to freedom through rap music. Hard hitting and a view of the third world USA you dont often see.
Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 October at 7.30 pm
Whale Rider (PG)
(2002 Niki Caro - New Zealand) 1hour 41 minutes
Stunning new hit film from New Zealand for all the family. Young Maori girl strikes out against tradition in her quest for her own destiny. There might the odd whale . . .
Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 November at 8pm
Cidade de Deus ~ City of God (18)
(2002 Katia Lund, Fernando Meirelles – Brazil) 2 hours 10 mins
Set in Rio de Janeiro, 2 boys grow up in an area where life is not so much cheap as disposable. Extraordinary film with original cinematography and rave reviews. Brutal.
Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 November at 7.30pm
Il Gattopardo ~ The Leopard (PG)
(1963 Luchino Visconti - Italy)
Restored Directors Cut. Set in 19th Century Sicily, Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale star in Viscontis masterpiece. One to savour.
Fanny och Alexander ~ Fanny and Alexander (15)
(1982 Ingmar Bergman – Sweden, France, Germany) 3 hours 8 mins
A rich tapestry of one year in the life of a large and well-to-do theatrical family in a provincial Swedish town at the turn of the century. Bergman at his best and most accessible. The culmination of a lifetimes work of one of cinemas greatest artists.
26 January 8:00 pm
Nanook of the North & The South
23 February 3:00 pm
The Dancer in the Dark
09 March 8:00 pm
Tales of the Taira Japan
14 April 7:30 pm
In the Mood for Love (China)
12 May 7:30 pm
15 June 8:00 pm
The Fast Runner
05 September 8:00 pm
24 hour Party People (18)
Saturday 7 September at 8pm
Local Hero (PG)
(Bill Forsyth 1983) 117 min
A unique opportunity to hear David Puttnam talk about his life and work and see his Highland-based production Local Hero.
Thursday 19 September at 8pm
Babettes Feast (PG)
(Gabriel Axel, 1987 - Denmark) 103 mins
The Film that seriously praises food, an Oscar winning love-story from Denmark, with a free dram of Talisker Whisky.
Saturday September 28 at 8pm
Apocalypse Now Redux(15)
(Francis Ford Coppola 1979/2001) 153 mins
On the big screen again Francis Coppolas blockbuster, with added sequences both to confound and elaborate on the plot. The photography is beautiful and hypnotic and increasingly disturbing. If you love the smell of Napalm in the morning you cant miss this.
Saturday October 26 at 7.30pm
Seven Samurai (PG)
(Akira Kurosawa 1954) 160 min
Kurasawas original. A lament for the loss of honour for the samurai caste during World War 2, in a film influenced by early westerns and in turn remade in Hollywood as the Magnificent Seven. Action packed poetry in black and white, a magnificent tragedy.
(Takashi Miike 1999)115 min
She always gets a part. Directed by Japans most hardboiled director, a highly original and unsettling movie which had Glasgows horror fans walking out before the end. Can you take it?
Saturday Nov 30 at 5.30pm
(Sergei Bondarchuk 1968) 390 min
A new print of the definitive film. Over 6 hours long, an epic production of Tolstoys classic love story set in the time of the Napoleonic wars. Soviet film at its most extravagant. We will have a vodka and blini break half way.
Saturday December 21 at 7pm
Lord Of the Rings (PG)
(Fellowship of the Ring) (Peter Jackson 2001) 178 min
Follow four bare-footed agrarians on a journey where they make some friends and have a bit of a fight. Oh yes, and the best special effects ever seen. Refresh your memory before the Two Towers.
Oh Brother Where art thou?
Spirit of the Beehives (15)
Small Times Crooks (pg)
Watership Down (pg)
Buena Vista Social Club (pg) - SEALL World Music Festival
Run Lola Run & Psycho
13 October 8:00 pm
Le Gout des Autres
The Maggie
The Ratcatcher
10 November 3:00 pm
08 December 3:00 pm
La Vache et le President/ The Cow and the President
An Coeur du Mensonge/The Colour of Lies.
2000 - Club Film Trial Season
Venus Peter
American Beauy
Airs of Scotland - Screen Machine
The Screen Machine - Films
2000 - Club Film Opening Full Season
Dinosaur PG
Gregorys 2 Girls
1996 - Eden Court outreach
Bridges of Madison County
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__label__cc | 0.657075 | 0.342925 | Blog Tour ♥ Magic Matched Series by Lola White ♥ #giveaway $20 GC
MAGIC MATCHED series
Books 1-4
by Lola White
Genre: Paranormal Erotic Romantic Suspense
Magic Matched tells the story of Silviu Lovasz and Georgeanne Davenold, two witches with a power only told of in myth. In witching society, there is a strict hierarchy. Family covens are ruled by Mothers or Fathers who hold the bulk of their bloodline’s power and archaic rules are enforced, disregarding modern sentiments. Magic and politics are the only things that matter, and marriages are arranged for advantage rather than love.
Silviu and Georgeanne have been betrothed since the moment of Georgie’s birth. When Silviu’s father learned a baby was to be born under the Bane moon, he reached across the Schism dividing the covens into matriarchal and patriarchal houses to the Davenold Mother, with a bold scheme to place their children at the top of the witching hierarchy. With Silviu wielding the enhanced talents of a Reap witch, he is the perfect match to Georgie, an abomination without magic who should have been killed at birth because of her defects. The only way to protect themselves against those who fear them enough to kill them, is to take a position of leadership.
Silviu and Georgeanne must learn to open their hearts to each other in order to unlock their full magical potential. But with all that stands in their way—archaic traditions, murder plots, and a betrayal that threatens all they can be—they will need the group of allies they have built to help them navigate the dangerous world of witches, and the dark magic stalking them every step of the way.
“That’s right, Georgie. I was born in the Reap, the balance to your Bane, your Match in every fucking way. My father made sure of it and, later, so did Madeleine. I’ve had a much better education than my brother could ever dream, with the tutors she sent.”
“Good for you. She did it for herself, though, Silviu. For the Davenolds, not the Lovaszes.”
He shook his head, his voice lowering until it was a breath against the darkness. “She did it for you, because she believed, like my father, that the magic would pass on, making your line stronger.”
“Bullshit. She doesn’t believe any such thing. She wants magically powerful great-grandchildren and your father was willing to sell your sperm to the matriarchs.”
He didn’t try to hide his anger. “You’re right, and Madeleine will have my strong magic in her bloodline. Your children, our children, will be stronger than any witch in a hundred generations, your magic and mine combined into theirs.”
“You mean child.”
“We’ll have more than one, as only Matches can.”
“Don’t bank on it.”
He saw the stubborn disbelief in her eyes, the spark of frustration, and tamped down his own. He changed tactics and switched topics, not giving her a chance to argue further. “Do you ever think about the night I first put my hands on you?”
She froze, stopped breathing. She shook her head as her eyes flew wide. Silviu smiled and stepped closer, ever closer, until there was only enough room for their bodies’ heat to pass between them. He set his hand at her waist and sent it sliding up, following the line of her torso to her ribcage.
“You do,” he whispered wickedly. “You remember how it felt, when I ran my hands over your bare body, when I ran my thumb over your perfect little nipple.”
“Stop it. This is inappropriate at a Levy Family function.”
Her voice was too breathless to heed. He curled his fingers over her breast, craving shooting through him when he felt her nipple pebble under his touch. Her breath faltered, turning ragged, her pulse hammering in her slender throat.
“Do you remember when I put my mouth on you and kissed my way down, finally tasting your first flood of passion. How sweet you were, all innocent and fresh, lifting for me with a need you didn’t even bother to hide.”
“Silviu.”
He squeezed her nipple lightly as he licked across her lips, nearly giving in when her mouth opened for him. Instead, he ruthlessly held onto his lust and drew back, leaving her aching, needing. He hoped as needy as him.
Slowly, he moved away from her, gathering his control around him. “I think you’ll taste like that again, Georgie.”
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In witching society, magic and politics are the only things that matter, and marriages are arranged for advantage rather than love.
Tulah Ngozi doesn’t want to go home, but she’s being forced to attend the wedding of the man who killed her father years ago. The Ngozi men are determined to use her in their plots against each other, but she takes her future into her own hands when she learns that Adam Davenold will also be in attendance. Adam is a powerful man in a matriarchal Family, used to being seduced by women looking to gain power. He’s good at guarding his heart—until he meets Tulah.
Diplomacy demands that the Davenolds attend the wedding and, in the company of their Matriarch, Adam and Georgeanne travel to the Ngozi residence, where they become embroiled in a frightening power struggle. Georgeanne is grateful for the unexpected presence of her betrothed, Silviu, who arrives uninvited after he learns she will be there. When the groom proves disturbing and the Davenold Mother falls to a suspicious illness, Silviu’s magic is the only thing Georgie can depend on for support.
In witching society, magic and politics are the only things that matter, and marriages are arranged for advantage rather than love. But more than politics is at stake in a minefield of lies and betrayal. Death and dark magic stalk the Ngozi–Levy wedding, and only Silviu and Georgeanne’s Matched magic has a chance of getting everyone out alive.
Ileana reached for the door.
Red light oozed from the jamb, flying out from the metal but slowing dramatically on its collision course with Ileana’s arm. Silver spiked into existence, the power of Ileana’s personal magic all but eradicating the spell guarding the exits. The two tones surged against each other, but the silver won out and chased the red back into hiding.
Georgie turned wide eyes on her sister-in-law. “What did that feel like?”
“Awful, but I think I could make it through with a running start.” Ileana turned to Georgie and wiped a shaky hand over her sweaty brow. “I take it you have more in common with me and my brother than I first realized?”
Georgeanne saw magic because it couldn’t be used against her, but Silviu, and apparently Ileana, saw magic because they could influence it. Georgie’s secret couldn’t be held much longer, but that didn’t mean she had to go into explicit explanations. “Close enough. You’re a strong witch, Iley. It reacts with greater force to lesser magic.”
“Almost like an enhancement.” Ileana humphed and let the door close. “Your turn. In Poland, when that knife was magicked at your head, it hit some kind of force field and slid off without any harm.”
“My life is not a science-fiction movie.” Georgie rolled her eyes. “It’s not a force field.”
“What is it, then?”
“Adam calls it Bane imperviousness.”
“How did you lose your magic?” Tulah broke her silence and Georgie shifted to study her. The color in her cheeks had returned, she was steady on her feet and the faint indigo swirl surrounding her body had settled down.
“I’m not Bane-made.” Georgie watched Tulah’s reaction very closely. “I was born under a Bane moon.”
“You’ve never had magic?”
Georgie shrugged. “I can’t use magic and magic can’t be used against me.”
Tulah’s eyes flashed with pity a moment before she went still. She’d never make a good politician, unless that indigo magic she used gave her an advantage that Georgie couldn’t detect.
Georgie studied the woman for another few moments, wondering. Vague suspicions and soft doubts stole through her mind, but before she could organize them, indigo flickers began to whirl around Tulah’s body. Georgie turned toward the door, leaving her questions unvoiced. She didn’t know whose ears were listening.
In one swift move, Georgie pulled open the door and stepped outside. A sheen of red flashed, there and gone as she passed through. A humming pressure coasted along her shoulders, her vision wavered for a fraction of an instant, then it all stopped. Georgie stood on the front porch, surveying the door from a new angle.
“I think you’re prisoners,” she finally said.
Christiana Davenold doesn’t want to be Mother, but her husband is pushing for her to be named heir. Milo just wants to protect his wife, and he believes the position of leadership would keep her, and their unborn child, safe from the challenges of her cousins.
But Mother Madeleine refuses to name a successor.
As the Davenolds gather in the hopes that they can heal their Mother from the dark magic attack that has left her weak and near death, Silviu Lovasz and Georgeanne Davenold find themselves at a turning point neither could have expected. Troublesome Family members, secret alliances and the unexpected arrival of Father Daniel Levy cause an emotional upheaval that will test them both.
Only love can see them through the danger, but in witching society, magic and politics are all that matter. The connection they’ve managed to forge will be tested as suspicion grows and trust is broken by the ultimate betrayal.
“Georgeanne!” A deep voice immediately recognizable as her father came to them. “At least fifteen people saw you come in here with Silviu Lovasz. Open this door at once!”
The situation was regrettably similar to what had happened ten years ago. Georgie’s father had found them naked and entangled when they were teenagers, and had helped keep the betrothed pair apart for a decade. Gritting his teeth against the agony searing his mind and body, Silviu reluctantly stepped back, knowing the moment had passed and he’d lost his chance.
He fought to keep from sending his magic winging through the door to kill Georgie’s parents where they stood.
Georgie slid off the desk to stand on shaky legs and smoothed her hair. Silviu stuffed his stiff cock back into his pants with a grimace. Awkwardly, he forced his throbbing body to bend and snatch her panties from the floor.
“That was too close,” she hissed. “That can’t happen again.”
“It will,” he promised her. “I want you, I need you, and you are mine. The next time I get my hands on you, and that will be no later than the end of this day, I will fuck you breathless. To the point you won’t even be able to scream your pleasure.”
“Georgeanne!” her father yelled.
“One minute,” she called back. She spun on Silviu with a heated look that had nothing to do with lust. “I will say when, do you understand me? When I have permission, I will share my body completely, but until my grandmother approves, I won’t risk everything I’ve worked for just because you make me come.”
He didn’t have the heart to tell her how wrong she was. He didn’t have the words to explain how they’d both been used and betrayed by the people who’d sworn to love them and protect them at all costs. Silviu couldn’t bear to tell her that neither of them would find any help in achieving the goals their Families had given them. It was up to them to forge a new path through a dangerous minefield of intrigue and manipulation.
So he stepped close and shoved his hand under her skirt. With unerring accuracy, he found her entrance and pushed two fingers deep inside. Hot, scalding, a promise of heaven and everything Silviu had ever hoped to achieve in life. Ignoring the insistent pounding on the door, he filled her with his fingers as she went to her toes and clutched his shoulders.
“I will have you, Georgeanne. This is between us and no longer involves anyone else. They can’t keep me from you ever again. I won’t let them.”
He pulled his fingers from her body without regard for the way she staggered back on trembling legs. He didn’t dare hold on to her any longer. He licked the taste of her from his knuckles even as he opened the door and caught her father’s gaze.
“She’s mine,” Silviu snarled in the other man’s face. “This time, there’s nothing you can do to stop me from claiming her.”
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The Council of Covens has been called to session, and the fate of the witching world hangs in the balance. So does Bijoux Laurent’s future. The sheltered witch is scheming to make Costel Lovasz admit how much he loves her. He has denied his feelings for years, but now Costel’s being sent on a mission of seduction to gain her allegiance because his brother needs Bijoux’s telepathic talents.
Silviu and Georgeanne Lovasz-Davenold need every ally they can get when the dark magic witch they’ve been hunting makes a bold move. The odds are against them, especially with lies, betrayal and distrust keeping Silviu and Georgie’s Matched magic unstable. To have any hope of success, the couple must open their hearts to each other, but that level of forgiveness and compromise may not be possible between the two witches from opposing sides of the matriarchal-patriarchal divide.
In a society where magic and politics are all that matter, only love can unlock Silviu and Georgie’s full potential and win them sovereignty over all.
“Your father was wrong! Vasile read some fucking fairy tales and figured they were as good as real life.”
“He’s been right—”
“He’s been half-right,” she argued. Georgie took a step back and rubbed her temples. “We can’t depend on legends alone, Silviu. We have to face facts.”
“My father believed you would be an extremely powerful witch. He believed that all your magic is locked inside you, hidden by your Bane shield, but that my magic held the key.”
“It’s the other way around,” she whispered.
“No. Magic Matches take the heft of the stronger witch. You access my magic, but I can’t access yours. That means you’re more powerful than I am, and we just have to unlock what you have, stabilize it and learn to use it.”
“I have no magic for you to access.” She held up a hand to forestall his argument. “Whatever I am, Silviu, and whatever we can be together, it’s not what your father expected.”
He stared at her for a long minute, the silver hue of his eyes darkening, his lips pulling straight. Just when Georgie was about to simply leave him to his thoughts and find a quiet place to organize her own, he moved. Silviu was lightning quick when he wanted to be, and she didn’t have a chance to register his actions before he’d caught her in an unbreakable embrace.
“My love.” His breath feathered over her ear and made her knees melt. “We’ll figure out what we can do, but only when this wall of doubt between us comes down.”
Not giving her a chance to reply, Silviu captured Georgeanne’s mouth with his own. He dominated and conquered, letting the full force of his authority bear down on hers. Reacting without thought, she fought back with slick thrusts and wet parries, doing her best to combat his patriarchal arrogance with her own feminine pride.
But the kiss dragged her under his spell—a different kind of magic. The enchantments of want, need and desire fed into the alchemy of the schoolgirl’s crush and became the woman’s greatest pleasure. The magic of sensuality between two lovers who fit each other in every way had the room spinning, swirling with gold, controlled without effort.
Silviu broke their kiss, but his lips moved against hers as he said, “I’ll teach you to trust me again, Georgeanne, the same way I taught you before—with pleasure, patience and love.”
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An extensive traveler who loves to incorporate various legends from around the world into her tales, author Lola White likes to twist reality at its edges in her stories. She likes delving into the emotions of her characters, finding their strengths and weaknesses, and seeing (and showing) how they get themselves out of whatever trouble has found them—if they can.
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__label__wiki | 0.671143 | 0.671143 | IMPACT DRIVER FOR ROTARY TOOLS
Method and apparatus for improving the efficiency of the rotating cutter (25) of a tool (11) by converting at least part of the rotational torque applied to the cutter (25) to repeated rotational impact forces.
Peterson, Francis C. (1010 County Road East, Spooner, WI, 50801, US)
Nesson, Enterprises (842 William Street, River Forest, IL, 60305, US)
B23G1/46; (IPC1-7): B23B35/00; B23B51/00
Samples, Kenneth H. (Fitch, Even Tabin & Flannery, Suite 1600, 120 South LaSalle Stree, Chicago IL, 60603, US)
WHAT IS CLAIMED:
1. A driver for a tool having a rotating cutter, comprising, in combination: a hollow cylindrical cup and a cylindrical rotor received therein, said cup including a chuck for driving a cutter, said rotor including a rotatably driven shank, said rotor having a longitudinal slot formed therein extending diametrically therethrough, longitudinal rollers and spring means received in said slot so that said rollers are biased outwardly from the circumference of said rotor, said cup having a plurality of longitudinal recesses formed circumferentially around the inner surface thereof, said recesses being configured to receive said rollers in mating relationship, the biasing force of said spring thereby providing a limit on the torque transmissible from said rotor to said cup and imparting repeated rotational impact forces to the cutter when said limit is exceeded.
2. The driver of claim 1 in which the cutter comprises a rotating tap for cutting threads in a bore.
3. The driver of claim 1 in which the cutter comprises a selftapping screw.
4. A method for improving the efficiency of the rotating cutter of a tool by converting at least part of the rotational torque applied to the cutter to repeated rotational impact forces.
5. The method of claim 4 in which the cutter comprises a rotating tap for cutting threads in a bore.
6. The method of claim 4 in which the cutter comprises a selftapping screw.
IMPACT DRIVER FOR ROTARY TOOLS 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates generally to a driver for a rotary tool.
More particularly, it relates to a driver for a rotary tool which imparts repeated rotational impact forces to the tool.
2. Background of the Invention Various tools have rotating cutters which modify the shape of a work piece. An example of such a tool is a tapper which cuts the bore of a work piece to provide internal threads. Another example is a milling machine, in which a rotating cutter removes metal from the surface of a work piece to provide a desired shape.
In such tools, the cutter material is harder than the work piece in order to effect cutting of the latter. As a general rule, the harder the cutter material is, the more brittle is the cutter, and the cutter becomes prone to fracture. The problem can be alleviated by hardening only the outer surface of the cutter leaving a core which is softer but tougher. However, it is difficult to harden only the cutting surface in small diameter taps. Moreover, the cutter is prone to fracture if too much work piece material is sought to be removed in a single pass, no matter how hard or soft the work piece material is.
Taps employed to cut internal threads in a work piece are particularly vulnerable to breakage, for a variety of reasons. If, for example, the bore in the work piece is slightly undersized, torsional stress is increased, frequently resulting in a broken tap. The machine must be shut down, the broken tap removed, and a new one inserted before operations can resume. Oftentimes, multiple tapping heads are used at a single station in high speed production lines, increasing the frequency of tap breakage.
Self-tapping screws for insertion in metallic or non-metallic work pieces, such as concrete, have much the same properties as taps for cutting threads in metallic work pieces. They are hard and brittle, and easily broken.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is a principal object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for improving the efficiency of tools having a rotating cutter. It is a more particular object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for improving the efficiency of rotating cutting tools by imparting repeated rotational impact forces to the cutter. Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus for improving the efficiency of a taps and self-tapping screws by imparting repeated rotational impact forces to the tap or self-tapping screw.
In accordance with the present invention, these and other objects are achieved by the provision of a driver for a rotating cutter through which the torque applied to the cutter is converted from a constant torque to an intermittent torque, thereby imparting repeated rotational impact forces to the cutter. Although the teachings of the present invention may well find application in various rotary tools, they are particularly applicable to taps and self-tapping screws.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The above and other objects of the present invention will be apparent upon consideration of the ensuing detailed description, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawing, in which: FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of a driver constructed in accordance with the present invention in which the driver is disengaged ; FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the driver of FIG. 1 taken along lines 2-2; and FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the driver of FIG. 1 in which the driver is engaged.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS As shown in FIG. 1, there is provided a driver 11 comprising a driver rotor 13 and a driver cup 15. The driver rotor 13 includes a driver shank 17, adapted to be rotatably driven as by an electric, pneumatic or hydraulic motor (not illustrated).
The driver rotor 13 is rotatably supported within the driver cup 15 by an inboard bearing 19 and an outboard bearing 21.
Integral with the driver cup 15 is a chuck 23 in which a tap 25 is secured by one or more set screws 27.
As best shown in FIG. 2, a longitudinal slot 29 is formed in the driver rotor 13 extending diametrically therethrough, in which are disposed rollers 31 and 31', separated by a spring 33. The spring 33 biases the rollers 31, 31'against the inner wall 35 of the driver cup 15.
A plurality of arcuately curved recesses 37,37'and 37"are formed at regular intervals around the circumference of the inner wall 35 of the driver cup 15, formed so as to mate with the rollers 31, 31'.
In FIGS. 1 and 2, the driver rotor 13 is shown out of engagement with the driver cup 15, the rollers 31, 31'not being received in the recesses 37, 37'or 37".
In operation, when the driver 11 is rotated by the shank 17 against the resistance of the tap 25 within a bore to be threaded, the driver rotor 13 advances to an engaged position, as shown in FIG. 3, wherein the rollers 31, 31'are received in the recesses 37, 37'or 37", causing the tap to rotate and begin its advance into the bore.
At a preselected torque determined by the constant of the spring 33, the rollers 31, 31'climb out of the recesses in which they are initially received, and the driver rotor 13 slips within the driver cup 15 until the rollers 31, 31'drop into the succeeding recesses 37,37'or 37". It will be understood that the rollers 31, 31'rotate freely within the slot 29 and against the spring 33, hindered only by frictional resistance.
Once the preselected torque is reached and the driver rotor 13 slips circumferentially within the driver cup 15, the torque applied to the driver shank 17 is converted into an intermittent torque, exerting repeated rotational impact forces on the tap 25.
It has been found that the repeated rotational impact torque forces exerted on the tap 25 provide a surprisingly improved effectiveness in cutting, i. e., threading, the bore of the work piece. Moreover, in accordance with the present invention the life of the tap is substantially improved, inasmuch as the torsional stress exerted on the tap is limited by the torque which can be applied to the tap before the' rotor slips within the cup.
It is well known that an impact wrench enables a nut to be thightened to a greater extent than is possible with the application of constant torque and, similarly, that loosening a nut is accomplished much more effectively with an impact wrench than if a constant torque is applied. It is not believed, however, that the advantages of rotational impact have been utilized to a significant extent in tools of the type described herein.
An important feature of the present invention is the provision of impact forces which are exclusively rotational forces. Substantially no longitudinal impact forces are transmitted to the cutter.
The drawings and the foregoing descriptions are not intended to represent the only forms of the invention in regard to the details of its construction and manner of operation. Changes in form and in the proportion of parts, as well as the substitution of equivalents, are contemplated as circumstances may suggest or render expedient; and although specific terms have been employed, they are intended in a generic and descriptive sense only and not for the purposes of limitation, the scope of the invention being delineated by the following claims.
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__label__cc | 0.648097 | 0.351903 | Antibiotic resistance. The things we do to make it worse. And anything else I find interesting.
Prevention v. treatment (1st Global Health Blog Carnival!)
Constant readers, about a dozen of us who are interested in global health are co-blogging today in a Global Health Blog Carnival. If you are on Twitter, search the hashtag #ghnews. If you're not, we will try to get them all linked somewhere. This was organized (to the degree that blogger organize, which as you can guess is like herding small felines) by reporter and blogger Christine Gorman, formerly of TIME Magazine.
Our theme for today is prevention v. treatment. Fortuitously, the New England Journal of Medicine today is publishing an editorial (for which they have posted the free full text) that reminds us of the full burden and cost of MRSA. Drs. Cesar A. Arias and Barbara E. Murray say:
Faced with this gloomy picture, 21st-century clinicians must turn to compounds developed decades ago and previously abandoned because of toxicity — or test everything they can think of and use whatever looks active. ...
It is more difficult than ever to eradicate infections caused by antibiotic-resistant "superbugs," and the problem is exacerbated by a dry pipeline for new antimicrobials with bactericidal activity against gram-negative bacteria and enterococci. A concerted effort on the part of academic researchers and their institutions, industry, and government is crucial if humans are to maintain the upper hand in this battle against bacteria — a fight with global consequences. (NEJM 360(5):439-443)
As we've discussed time and time again, MRSA is increasingly common worldwide and increasingly costly to treat. Moreover, what has been presented by some as the first line of prevention for hospital-acquired MRSA — active surveillance and testing programs, also called "search and destroy" — is deeply controversial.
So what's the next step? Well, in the past, when medicine has wanted to nullify an infectious disease threat, it did not rely only on surveillance or asepsis; it developed a vaccine. And there have been a few efforts to develop a MRSA vaccine, which are recapped in a new article in Infectious Disease Clinics of North America (yes, that's a journal):
The most extensively tested vaccine against S aureus, which is a capsular polysaccharide-based vaccine known as StaphVAX, showed promise in an initial phase 3 trial, but was found to be ineffective in a confirmatory trial, leading to its development being halted. Likewise, a human IgG preparation known as INH-A21 (Veronate) with elevated levels of antibodies to the staphylococcal surface adhesins ClfA and SdrG made it into phase 3 testing, where it failed to show a clinical benefit. ... Given the multiple and sometimes redundant virulence factors of S aureus that enable it to be such a crafty pathogen, if a vaccine is to prove effective, it will have to be multicomponent, incorporating several surface proteins, toxoids, and surface polysaccharides. (23 (1): 153-171)
Several longtime MRSA researchers, including Dr. Robert S. Daum of the University of Chicago, who wrote the first paper calling attention to community-associated MRSA in 1998, have called for a vaccine to be made a research priority.
Any thoughts, constant readers? In the public mind, right now, vaccines are at a low point: People are turning away from them, manufacturing problems have led to shortages, and pharma no longer finds vaccine manufacturing a lucrative business sector. If a MRSA vaccine were developed, would you take it yourself before surgery, or give one to your children?
Posted by Maryn McKenna at 10:52 AM
Labels: #ghnews, antibiotics, global health, MRSA, vaccine
I think that this might be one of those cases where prevention is going to be tricky.
I suppose part of the question hinges on whether you think hospital staff should take greater precautions, or whether patients should inoculate themselves. Where one is a medical intervention, the other is a norm change.
I certainly think either is preferable to treatment, but I don't know if it'd be worthwhile to administer a vaccine to all children. After all, staph is extremely common; we may be defeating MRSA but breeding a different superbug
I'm speechless. Almost.
A vaccination? Just how many vaccinations are we up to now? If we build up an antibody to MRSA will we develop an autoimmune rejection of the normal Staphylococcus strains in and on our body? Not to mention allergies from vaccinations. Will washing of hands be ignored?
We won't have to look at WHERE this resistance comes from or how our practices might have caused it?
Will we then have a vaccination against Streptococcus, Pseudomonas, Acinetobacter... Just how many vaccines will we need?
daedalus2u said...
Prevention will work better than treatment because these things can get bad very fast. You have to treat before there is time for a culture. Treat with the wrong thing and you have made it worse.
Prevention with anti-microbials isn't going to work because they will all evolve resistance.
The point about other Staph is very well taken. A lot of what keeps MRSA in check is other benign Staph bacteria that suppress them (or suppress their quorum sensing which is the same thing but which they can't evolve resistance to). Suppress those benign Staph with a vaccine and you may be worse off.
I think we need to rethink the whole “kill and sterilize everything” paradigm. Killing methods that resistance can’t evolve for, heat above 120 C, UV, alcohol, strong oxidizing agents are all going to continue to work. The chemical methods, triclosan, pine oil, phenolics, antibiotics all increase resistance by selecting for upregulated resistance mechanisms.
I have just watched my significant other fight off an almost fatal case of MRSA pneumonia over the past 3 weeks. He was hospitalized for 17 days, in ICU for 11 days. This began as what seemed to be a routine sinus infection, but was really MRSA. His ENT was seen a couple of days after the head stuffiness started. He was put on Avelox and a blister pack of prednisone. Eight days later, he returned to the ENT who observed that the "sinus" infection was worse and prescribed Augmenton (sp?). Do I wish that he had had the opportunity to be vaccinated against MRSA? You're damn right I do and if such a vaccine existed, I'd be one of the first in line to get it too and my children would be standing right in front of me!
All of this balderdash about not giving your children routine vaccines is simply what comes out of a male cow's ass! I'm 52-years-old. When I was child, I was vaccinated for everything except chicken pox and it didn't hurt me one bit. I'm not autistic or any of the other developmental conditions that have been wrongly blamed on vaccinations.
Given the choice between myself or my children or my partner getting a vaccination and running the miniscule risk involved or having the potential to suffer such diseases as polio, diptheria, rubella, hepatitis, etc., I'd opt for the vaccine. Both of my sons were given all the "routine" vaccinations when they were babies and on through childhood and they suffered no developmental side effects from being vaccinated. To have even considered not getting my children vaccinated would have been a gross example of child abuse and neglect by a parent who is supposed to protect their children's health and best interest.
In the 1930's my father was stricken with polio as a teenager and thankfully lived. However, he did have to learn to walk again and had problems with his legs the remainder of his life. Do you think that if the polio vaccine had existed prior to his contracting polio that he would have wanted to take it? You bet! People back then who had watched loved ones die from polio, whooping cough, rubella, etc. were thrilled when a new vaccine against one of the deadly "plagues" was developed and made available to the public. And, plagues is an accurate description of what some of these diseases used to be before medical researchers developed vaccines to control them. Look some of these diseases up in your history books. An outbreak of one of these diseases would spread like wildfire through the population and thousands would die. Did parents in the 20's, 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, and 70's want vaccines against these diseases? More than they wanted air to breath! They wanted to spare their children from these deadly diseases that they had witnessed or that their parents had witnessed and were helpless against.
Polio was a disease that had been virtually eliminated in the United States due to the polio vaccine developed by Dr. Salk. I remember lining up at my elementary school to get the polio vaccine during the early 1960's. As more and more immigrants come to the United States from countries that do not the same access to vaccines that we do, the United States is once again dealing with diseases such as polio. The doctors in the US had quit giving polio vaccinations because of its near eradication in the US. That decision has left millions of younger American children and young adults unprotected against the polio that has been imported into our country again.
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mrsa is out of control - me and my 3 kids have been getting the infection over and over again despite cleaning everything in the house including ourselves w/bleach- give me the vaccine now!!!!!
My child has had MRSA 17 times in 13 months. I would do anything for a well researched vaccine. He was treated like Ryan White in school by staff members. There is little support or compassion in the community for MRSA victims. It is terrifying to face alone. What can we do to get funding allocated for more research & treatment?
What about keeping supplies of benign staph in storage and unexposed to antibiotics and inoculating patients who develop resistance with these organisms? I have watched my staph grow increasingly resistant and dangerous over the years, and only wish I had the staph I had started with to reinoculate myself and start over. Sure they would get resistant again, but it would take years, and you could theoretically keep repeating the process.
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14 Oct 2015 (ver. 1220.116)
Modeled on Michael Alram and Ryka Gyselen's highly successful Sylloge Nummorum Sasanidarum, the Sylloge Nummorum Parthicorum (SNP) will document the internationally important collections of Parthian coins in the cabinets of Berlin, London, New York, Paris, Tehran and Vienna in a nine-volume catalogue. Additionally, the sylloge will include coins from the private collection of noted author David Sellwood and coins from other sources where needed to complete a comprehensive reconstruction of the Parthian coinage. It will provide the documentary basis for the largest study of Parthian coinage ever attempted.
The project is being conducted jointly by the Numismatic Commission, Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum.
The Austrian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Ancient World Studies will publish a series of monographs edited by Michael Alram and Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, in collaboration with the following seven institutions:
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Also supporting the SNP Project are The British Institute of Persian Studies and the Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente.
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Uriach in the world
We are a health and wellness company which is active in more than 70 countries worldwide. Uriach retains its independent family structure committed to innovation and sustainability.
Over 180 years ago, the same spirit that now underpins our principles pushed us to create a business that would grow to become what Uriach is today. This makes us the oldest laboratory in Spain and the second oldest in Europe. It also makes us unique and genuine.
We can tackle the important challenges ahead with confidence and enthusiasm. Uriach's goals are collective and arise from the confluence of our heritage and our projects. We represent history and the past, but also innovation and the future, as a force capable of changing things and blazing new trails.
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To improve the health, quality of life and well-being of people all over the world with products and services that never fail to meet our traditional quality and ethical standards.
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Like so many family businesses established by the budding industrial bourgeoisie of the 19th century, Uriach finds its origins in a modest job in a shop.
Juan Uriach Feliu, barely a teenager, starts working in a drugstore owned by Rafael Vilaclara Euras at 6 Born Promenade in Barcelona. Uriach, the son of a miller, was born in Sant Andreu del Palomar (an 18th-century town located north of the city centre), but he was forced to move to Barcelona because the mill only provided enough work for his father and older brother.
Who would have thought that, 175 years and five generations later, the store would have grown to become a leading pharmaceutical company with a strong presence at home and abroad.
John Uriach Feliu takes the reins
Twenty-two years have gone by since Uriach started working as a go-boy in Vilaclara’s drugstore.
He has used this time to climb up the ladder, successively becoming an apprentice, a shop assistant and shop manager. Having more or less stable finances, lots of work under his belt and the necessary experience, he buys the shop and starts running the business.
He marries Josefina Uriach Vallés. Only four of the couple’s eleven children make it to adulthood: three men, Joaquín, Francisco and Trinidad; and a woman, Carmen.
The move to Montcada Street
Having outgrown the original drugstore in Born Square, the business moves to 20 Carrer Montcada.
The new building has ample storage room downstairs and an upper floor the family calls home. They do not choose just any building —Palau Dalmases is one of the magnificent palaces lining one of the most important streets of mediaeval Barcelona.
A visionary outlook
Juan Uriach Feliu joins forces with Joaquín Alomar Font, holder of a degree in Pharmacy, to create the drug retailer Alomar y Uriach.
Business blooms, showing Uriach the great benefits of working together with a specialist who can help develop the scientific aspect of the business. They quickly agree to create a company to sell preparations spanning almost the entire pharmaceutical spectrum of the time. They also export to colonies, mainly in Africa and America.
Fire in the Montcada Street warehouse
The evening edition of the Diario de Barcelona on October 11, 1889, comes with an account of the devastation caused by a fire that broke out the previous morning in Uriach’s warehouse: “The part overlooking Montcada Street still has the shelf and the scorched counter; the inside parts have been completely burnt, even the ceilings of the upper floors; the goods in the large warehouse overlooking Baños Viejos Street were saved, although damaged in some cases, as people worked this morning to remove those in best condition…”
J. Uriach y Cía is born with lots of promise
Joaquín Alomar Font dies shortly before the execution of the Alomar y Uriach contract. Uriach takes the necessary legal steps (buying the part of the business belonging to Alomar’s widow) to become sole proprietor and winds down the company. A new business takes its place: J. Uriach y Cía.
The new structure of the business and its strong growth lead Uriach to set different paths for his sons: Joaquín will follow in his footsteps, eschewing a higher education and working hard to climb up the ladder after starting as an apprentice, whereas Francisco and Trinidad are to become pharmacists. As a result, the company’s commercial and technical management becomes more effective.
The first laboratory
The company sets up its first laboratory at 28 Baluarte Street, in La Barceloneta.
The eldest son, Joaquín, makes the business decision to create the laboratory, chooses its initial capital and determines its location. However, La Barceloneta poses significant challenges, so they decide to move their laboratory to Sant Martí de Provençals, a town near the company founder’s birthplace, Sant Andreu del Palomar. They buy a plot approximately 5,000 square metres in size and build their premises in Degà Bahí Street.
The Sant Martí de Provençals laboratory
Faced with a rise in production and the need to store foreign products made exclusively by Uriach, the Italian Wassermann laboratories, one of the biggest companies in Europe, agrees to enter into a partnership with Uriach y Cía. as long as it gets its own warehouses.
Uriach reaches identical agreements with Charles Chanteaud, Pagliano, Bishop and Falieres. Sedlitz Chanteaud, Ureol, Stenol, Natural Fruit Saline Bishop’s, Fosfatina and Tabletas Pagliano are among the products sold at the time.
Transfer of the headquarters to Bruch Street
Booming business leads to a new move, leaving old Barcelona for the new and prosperous Eixample. The company again chooses prime real estate in a strategic location, with a single, fully owned building boasting the largest warehouse in the Eixample. Offices, the warehouse, retailing and bulk sales take up the ground floor, while the upper floors are single-family homes for rent that will soon become offices due to the constant growth of the company. The business already has 60 workers on its payroll.
Fosfatina
A new range of products sold by Uriach consolidate its reputation and, thanks to their popularity, make the brand famous.
The jewel in the crown is Fosfatina, a French-patented chocolate flour produced in the Sant Martí de Provençals laboratory under the supervision of two French technicians.
Uriach works to strengthen its contacts with the French A. Bailly company, earning a Spanish licence for products such as Pulmoserum and Opobyl. Uriach also starts manufacturing Uraseptine, a drug developed by the French Rogier brand that had to be imported until now.
Becoming a public limited company
The business becomes a public limited company in accordance with the custom of the time.
Its name changes to J. Uriach y Cía, S. A. for an indefinite period. The new company’s Board of Directors has the following composition: Joaquín Uriach y Uriach, chairman; Francisco Uriach Uriach, Trinidad Uriach Uriach and Juan Uriach Tey, members; and Clemente Gracia Rovira, secretary.
Popular products such as Magnesia Bishop’s and Sal de Frutas Bishop’s punctuate the 1930s. At the time, Uriach has a hundred laboratories at home and abroad and distributes over a thousand products.
The Decree for the Collectivisation and Worker Control of Industry and Trade drafted by Minister Josep Tarradellas and passed by the Generalitat wrestles control of the company from Uriach.
The business becomes Uriach Empresa Colectivizada (Uriach Collectivised Company). However, Juan Uriach Tey is appointed manager by the workers who take over ownership of the company in recognition of his technical and business know-how.
The company loses 50% of its workers, limiting its activity at a time when blackouts and disruptions in the supply of raw materials are taking their toll.
However, Uriach continues to develop its business activity, as reflected in the list of pharmaceutical deliveries issued by public authorities. As a curious aside, Uriach distributed 7,500 kg of cod liver oil in 1938.
After the end of the war, the Uriach family regains control of the company back and restarts its business activities right away.
Juan Uriach Tey takes the reins of the company again and is forced to start from scratch, reviving the business through the sale of food and groceries stored in the basement of the headquarters in Bruch Street.
Difficult times make for great decisions. Uriach Tey grasps that the future lies in the laboratories, focusing his long tenure on this objective and revamping the company to put in-house production at the heart of its business.
Juan Uriach Tey and his cousins, Josep Mª and Lluís Uriach Balarí, the third generation promotes research as the foundation of the soon-to-be pharmaceutical company.
A huge challenge
A new company, Instituto Farmacológico Experimental, S. A., is founded under the trading name Biohorm.
The new company, a swift and effective solution to the economic chaos of the time, unlocks a whole new range of promising business prospects for Uriach. A research centre is set up with cutting-edge methods.
Biohorm needs to develop its own products to create a blockbuster drug. Nicohepatocyn (a liver regulator and laxative) is launched in 1945, followed by the renowned Biodigest (a bowel transit regulator for children), Lipograsil (a natural treatment for obesity) and Biodramina (a treatment for motion sickness).
The fourth generation
24-year-old Juan Uriach Marsal joins the company after obtaining his degree in Pharmacy in 1953 with a special award.
This period sees the fourth generation enter the company and Juan Uriach Marsal become the first Doctor of Pharmacy to take the chair. His scientific training will have a great impact on his professional career. He places an even greater emphasis on research, leading to the synthesis of new compounds that will give rise to new, better drugs.
The concept of an autonomous, self-financed research line based on the work of a team of pharmacists, doctors, chemists, biochemists and veterinarians is born.
International expansion is also a priority for Juan Uriach Marsal, who opens the first delegation abroad in Lisbon and taps into new markets on other continents.
The Veterinary Division
Biohorm starts manufacturing veterinary products.
The first step is a range of pharmaceutical products starting with nitrofurans for veterinary applications, followed by antibiotics, vaccines, disinfectants and more, as the company puts together an extensive catalogue that gets new additions every year.
The construction of Degà Bahí
Construction of the new headquarters begins according to Juan Uriach Marsal’s plan.
Architect Manuel Ribas Piera’s project becomes a reality on the Sant Martí de Provençals grounds that had once been home to the original laboratory, creating one of the masterpieces of 1950s architecture in Barcelona. The main facade oversees Degà Bahí Street.
Construction of the new headquarters is completed and Uriach sets up its Research Department.
It originally focuses on oral diabetes drugs, but Uriach continues to invest in its Research Centre, providing it with more laboratories, equipment and, most importantly, researchers.
A new chemical plant
Ribas i Piera, the famous architect who built the Degà Bahí headquarters, leads the construction of the raw material plant in Sant Fost de Campsentelles, which opens in 1970.
The development of the pharmaceutical company hinges on the production of raw materials to guarantee the supply and quality of the compounds used in production processes. The Uriach Group’s Fine Chemicals Division, later renamed Urquima, S. A., is born to supply the global generics market. It gets almost 100% of its turnover from exports.
It develops, synthesises and produces active ingredients (APIs) for generics manufacturers on an industrial scale. Products, chosen mainly with a view to competing on the American and European markets, are manufactured following GMPs at the Sant Fost de Campsentelles plant, which is inspected and approved by the FDA.
Original patents are always taken into account when developing and marketing products. In some cases, non-infringing processes are developed, giving rise to proprietary patents.
A research award
J. Uriach y Cía. receives the Laude Prize, awarded to pharmaceutical laboratories responsible for outstanding research.
The Prize, whose winner is chosen in a vote involving the entire medical and pharmaceutical sector, is a public endorsement of Uriach’s research activity in the fields of synthetic diabetes drugs (glisentide, trade name Staticum) and topical corticosteroids (flupamesone, trade name Flutenal).
Other compounds developed in-house in the 1970s include Bronquimucil (respiratory infections) and Eupen (amoxicillin).
The definitive transfer to Degà Bahí
Uriach soars to new research and technological heights in the 1980s. One of the key moments is the launch of Disgrén (triflusal), which will go on to become a reference on the antiplatelet drug market. Other original compounds developed by Uriach’s Research Centre include flutrimazole (an antifungal) and Disdolén (a new analgesic compound).
The 150th anniversary and the Uriach 1838 Foundation
As the company celebrates 150 years of history, the management decides to create the Uriach 1838 Foundation as an essential tool for Uriach’s community-focused scientific and social work. The aim of the Foundation is, on the one hand, to preserve and raise awareness about the national cultural heritage through art collections (at the family level) and, on the other hand to promote, preserve and spread health sciences through the Foundation itself.
Pharmagenus
The Uriach Group sets up Pharmagenus as a beachhead in the generics market. In the end, the company will be sold to American multinational Amneal in 2014.
Moving the headquarters to Palau-solità i Plegamans
As the company kicks production, development, exports, etc. up a notch, the offices, laboratories, production and warehouse are transferred to a new headquarters, this time in Palau-Solità i Plegamans (except for the raw material plant, which stays on Urquima premises).
The turn of the millennium and the consolidation into a single site give rise to upgraded facilities, streamlined internal communications, etc.
Rupatadine hits the market
The result of years of research, Uriach launches a cutting-edge antihistamine in the domestic and international markets (more than 70 countries all over the world).
The purchase of Laboratorios Aquilea
The mantle passes to the fifth generation of the family, Juan, Marta, Javier, Enrique and Joaquín, with Enrique Uriach Torelló taking the chair.
Around the same time, Uriach buys out Laboratorios Diviser-Aquilea, doubling the turnover of its Consumer Health area to 17 million euros.
Palau Pharma is born
Palau Pharma focuses exclusively on discovering and developing compounds to treat autoimmune and inflammatory disorders. Its creation is the result of a spin-off of Uriach’s R&D unit, a first in the pharmaceutical sector. The Prince of Asturias inaugurates the facilities.
Vifor Uriach Pharma
Uriach and Galénica forge a strategic alliance to create the Vifor Uriach Pharma joint venture, a partnership that will give a boost to the marketing of existing products and help prepare future launches in the Spanish hospital market, focusing on iron replacement therapies.
The Swiss company Galénica will buy 100% of the capital of Vifor Uriach Pharma in 2012.
A new decade
After 170 years of management by the Uriach Family, a new administration model sees the light of day with the incorporation of a new Chief Executive Officer from outside the family. From now on, the Uriach family will take on a more strategic role, overseeing its businesses via the Family Council and the Board of Directors, with Joaquín Uriach Torelló, as Chairman.
Urquima signs a joint-venture agreement with the fine chemistry family business Sunlight Pharmaceutical, providing a platform on the Asian market that will help develop the Fine Chemistry business more effectively.
The 175th anniversary and the dawn of a new era
The fifth generation consolidates its position at the helm of Uriach in the midst of a strategic and organisational facelift. A new era dawns as the company celebrates the 175th anniversary of the foundation of the first Spanish laboratory.
At this point starts the new Strategic Plan 2013-2017 whose main business growth objectives and consolidating the transformation strategy of recent years.
Halibut and Innovage
Uriach buys the nutricosmetics brand Innovage from Laboratorios Phergal and purchases Halibut, a historic brand selling skin irritation treatments.
The operation kicks off a new stage in the development of Uriach, giving rise to new investments and big acquisitions that will fuel and consolidate its international expansion.
This year marks two important milestones in the coming decades in Uriach. On the one hand, the Italian pharmaceutical Laborest, a leader in the market for food supplements is acquired and the commercial activity in Portugal is also started with a small network of sales representatives. And, on the other hand, Uriach bought Fisiocrem brand, a natural cream for the muscles and ligaments, with strong growth potential.
With the new strategic plan in progress, and with good results, Uriach makes a firm commitment in order to become a leading company Consumer Health of reference in Europe, professionalized and keeping the family spirit itself.
Acquiring a foreing company is a big leap in the internationalization of Uriach and a cultural and organizational transformation that will evolve the business to follow, step by step, with firmness and decision for many years.
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What zodiac signs go well together in a relationship?
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Looking for love and the connections that make for a harmonious relationship are the number one reason people consult astrologers.
Throughout history, civilizations have been gazing skywards and wondering how the movements of planets affect our everyday lives and the unions we make together with the other people in our lives.
Astrologers have devised many differing charts based on the time and date of our birth and discovered similarities in characteristics of people born under a certain star sign. This helps to give one a fascinating insight into past, present and possible future events. However, when talking about the future, this is only an interpretation based on probabilities of the various energies that may or may not be influencing a situation, so it is also important not to take an astrologers word as the stone cold truth.
Astrology & Relationships
It is human nature to believe that love is destined that there is someone in the world for everyone. The truth however lies in horoscope compatibility and the answers are generated if approached in the right way to us finding our ideal partner in a long-term relationship. However, I am a firm believer that there is more than one “right” person for everyone and our love life is not ultimately at the mercy of fate. But rather, we each do also have our own free will, which we can exercise as we wish in these matters.
Having said that, if a match is strongly against the energetic alignments of the stars then the universe will certainly let you know and then point you in the direction of a more suitable partner. This may be for the reasons of merely a more harmonious connection. However, in many cases also, two people are brought together to either do some kind of work, complete a mission together or to learn valuable life-lessons from one another.
The zodiac and its influences
The zodiac is divided into twelve signs which in turn are segmented into four categories, known as the elements.
Fire is the controlling element of the star signs of Leo, Aries and Sagittarius. Earth the element of Capricorn, Virgo and Taurus. Air is the ruling element of Aquarius, Libra and Gemini. With the final element being water which covers Pisces, Cancer and Scorpio. Each element interacts with one another creating a unique link.
The astrological elements work within the zodiac in a scientific way of the main elements of our planet Earth. For instance if one was to pour water on fire, it would initially produce steam, but too much would extinguish the flames completely. Similarly adding water to the soil will make vegetation grow but too much would form a mud-bath. The same goes for the other two elements in as far as Air can blow the earth dry and turn it to dust but can also fan the flames of fire to make them burn brighter. This is just one aspect of many to consider when looking into compatibility at a Sun sign level.
When a person understands how the elements work in nature they can easily see how the signs of the zodiac control the relationship compatibility and how various signs interact or repel one another.
Success in finding love is all about knowing the characteristics of the various zodiac signs and using that knowledge to relate to the other person. There is no such thing as two signs being completely opposed to each other only an awareness of the differences that can erupt.
A cardinal fire sign is Aries and is known to always want to take the lead. So this sign may not be so good with another cardinal sign like Capricorn, Cancer or Libra. But looking at it from an element perspective Aries merges well with Air signs to set the sparks flying with the fire signs.
A good match for Aries would be Sagittarius, Gemini, Aquarius or Leo. The planets have a ruling influence and Mars is the ruler of Aries and could possibly be a great match with Venus ruled, Libra which is a recognised classic pairing of Mars and Venus.
If you would like to know more about the ruling planets for each sign, then here is a chart showing which planet governs which zodiac sign https://astrolibrary.org/rulers/.
Using Taurus as an example
The sign of Taurus is related to the element of earth. Therefore, one may say the best compatibility matches for a Taurus man would be Virgo, Pisces and Scorpio. But why these three signs in particular? For the Virgo woman, her element is also earth, so the two of them have a lot of similarities which can be complimentary and, therefore, they can have a lot in common and naturally be on a similar or the same wave-length.
When we look at a Pisces or Scorpio female in this situation, both of these ladies can water the earth sufficiently to make a flowering and flourishing relationship as they are both signs relating to the water element. However, both the Pisces and Scorpio woman need to be careful not to smother their Taurus man too much or they will drown the flames of passion completely as Taurus likes to be with an independent woman and one who will not stifle him. You can find out more information about a Taurus man at https://taurusmen.net.
If we were looking at a Taurus woman, however, then her best match is said to be Libra, Cancer or Pisces. So, why these three? Well, when it comes to a Cancer or Pisces man, it is similar to the Taurus male in that each of these water signs can water her soil to help bring forth a flourishing relationship. However, Libra is an air sign, there is said to be a karmic link that exists between these two as they have a lot in common with one another and can be mutually complimentary in a relationship. If you want to know more about the Taurus female so you can do your own research, you can find out more about her sign here https://zodiacthing.com/blogs/taurus/13-reasons-to-fall-in-love-with-a-taurus-woman.
Compatibility is understanding the influences that are projected from the elements which will initially form attractions but then moving forward with how these influences can manifest themselves within the relationship.
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The Terrace- Building in the Neighborhood You Live
By Katie Evans, Staff Reporter
If you’ve spent any time driving through Scotts Valley these past couple of months, you’ve probably noticed a few new developments around town. A notable housing development behind the Shell Station on the intersection of Mount Hermon Road and Scotts Valley Drive, the Terrace, plans on opening quickly after the new year. The Terrace has been under construction since last May and will ultimately be made up of 19 homes. Each will have 3 bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms, in blocks of five.
Chris Perri, of Apple Home Developments Inc., took me through a tour while answering questions about the new development. The model home I viewed is currently in escrow, the first of the batch to be sold. Throughout my walkabout I was struck by Terrace’s emphasis on sustainability, storage, and ambience, which is no surprise since Perri has been constructing homes near Scotts Valley for almost 30 years now.
Perri is quite proud of his efficient usage of space, allowing for lots of storage, parking availability, and spacious rooms on smaller lots. Perri is particularly proud of the layout of the houses. They aren’t crowded in on the plot of land, so you wouldn’t have neighbors in front our back. He’s planted fast-growing Monterey Cyprus in the back of the lot, to give an additional hedge of privacy to Terraces’ owners and the surrounding neighbors. “We worked with the neighbors for years and we wanted to make sure there was a nice separation. You have to [communicate with the neighbors] when you live in the town you build in.”
To create a more sustainable home, Perri included a charging station for electric cars in the garage, solar panels on each roof, recycled quartz countertops, large windows, skylights, and a modern ventilation system in each room, which can be controlled on a room-by-room basis. Called a “mini-split,” each room in the homes have a ventilation unit, responsible for both heating and air-conditioning. Perri proudly listed benefits of the modern system, “It’s ductless… individually controlled, and has high, high, HIGH efficiency in terms of electrical use.”
The developers used the natural resources already in place to help construct the homes. Perri mused that building on the hill was difficult, but ultimately created a better backyard for the homes. “If we had dumped the whole [hill] out, it would be a much bigger environmental impact on the land… The way we did it works very nice.” Perri acknowledged struggling with “a lot of granite, more than we thought” in the land, which at first slightly slowed down the work, but then it was used to create rock walls around the property, saving expenses and the emissions that would be needed to haul out the large slabs. “All of our rock is reused.”
Standing in the spacious kitchen, Perri muses on what sort of homeowner might live at the Terrace in the coming year, “Any and all. Someone who wants to move out of a single-family home with a big backyard… or someone who is over the hill and would like to be out of there.”
Over the roar of bulldozers, Perri finally adds, “I think this is one of the few modern looking developments, but it doesn’t feel cold. The combination of wooden and stucco helps. Initially I didn’t want to do something modern, but my architect talked me into it. I knew we didn’t want to do the same old ‘your Grandma’s townhome…’ It’s hipper. I think it’s a nice balance to add something like this to Scotts Valley’s housing mix. There’s room for all kinds of housing.” The Terrace still has a way to go before they’re ready for move in, but the finished project will be gorgeous, cozy, and green.
If you’d like more information on the new development, you can visit www.TerraceSV.com. If you’d like to schedule a visit of the model home, you can get in touch with Paul Burrowes at (831)295-5130.
Katie Evans just graduated from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. When she’s not writing articles, you can find her hiking in the redwoods, baking, or reading a book cuddled up to her favorite pug. Reach her at kevans@pressbanner.com.
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Edvard V. Rtveladze
Money circulation in ancient and early-medieval Kish was practically unknown until recent times. A first study on this topic was discussed by the present author in an article published in 19881. New materials allow me to revise some propositions advanced in that article and, in particular, to speak more rigorously about the initial stage of money circulation which took place during the Greco-Bactrian period.
In the region of Kishlak Bugazhil, in the north-west of Kitab2, silver imitations of Alexander the Great’s drachms were found. Probably, an imitation of the same type was discovered by A. Musakaeva during the Kish archaeological excavation of Kalandartepa3. The appearance of imitations of Alexander the Great’s coins is supposedly dated to the end of 4th-3rd century BC, although E. V. Zejmal proposed 3rd-2nd century BC. It is worth noting that the place where the coins of this kind were found is precisely known, while previous coin finds are of unknown provenance4. This observation allows one to ask about the place of production in the region of Kish-Nautaka and in the neighbouring region of Xenippa (later Nahshab), where the real tetradrachms of Alexander the Great and Seleucus I (who based his coinage on the Alexander model) were found5. On the border between the region of Kish and Central Sogdiana, in the area of Kishlak Haprin (4 km from Kishlak Jam), was found a silver tetradrachm of Antiochus I (281-261 BC) with a sitting Apollo6. It is worth noting that all these coins were found on the ancient road connecting the region of Nautaka-Kish with Sogdiana and Maracanda through the pass of Jam, which was intensively used during the Hellenistic period.
The arise of coin circulation in the eastern part of the Kashkadar’ja basin is dated to the Greco-Bactrian period (middle of 3rd-beginning of 2nd century BC). According to M. E. Masson, in 1906 a great hoard of Greco-Bactrian coins was found near Kitab. Among these coins were obols, drachms, tetradrachms of Eucratides and two coins of Antimachus7. B. N. Kastal’skij reports the recovery of four obols of Antimachus at Shahrisabz8. During the KATE excavations of Sangyrtepa a copper coin of Diodotus was found and recognized by M. E. Masson.
Findings of coins dated to the 1st century AD are scarce. A copper coin of Kanishka was found near the Tashkurgan pass, while a Sogdian obol of the Girkod group was found at Kalandartepa at Kitab9. S. K. Kabanov found a copper Sogdian coin with images of Heracles and Zeus10. On this evidence, E. V. Zejmal, who dated this coin group to 2nd-4th century AD, supposed that they could have been produced in Southern Sogdiana11. A similar coin (but in silver) was found during the excavtions at Turtkul’tepa12, situated in the region of Nautaka-Kish as well. A great hoard of these coins was found in the region of Talimarjan, on the ancient caravan road from Xenippa-Nahshab to the ford across the Amu Darja in the Karka region. I have personally studied sixty coins from this hoard. Thus, it is obvious that the group of silver coins similar to the obols because of their weight, with Heracles on the obverse and Zeus on the reverse, was circulating in southern Sogdiana, that is to say in the regions of Nautaka-Kish and Xenippa-Nahshab.
Two considerations arise in the study of these coins: their chronology and the deciphering of Sogdian inscriptions, as their proper understanding would give important information not only about money circulation, but also about the history of the region. Let us consider the inscriptions. Although even at the end of 19th century there were some attempts to read them, only in the 70’s of 20th century E. V. Zejmal first proposed an interpretation based on the analysis of fourteen coins stored in the Hermitage13. He determined quite correctly that the inscription on the obverse was formed by four letters which could be read MR’Y, an Aramean ideogram for the title xwβ (governor) widely used on coins from Sogdiana, Chach and Chorasmia. However, I cannot agree with Zejmal’s reading of the reverse of the coin, where the image of Zeus appears. According to Zejmal, the inscription is composed of seven letters rendered as ‘ywnwn14: this could be a personal name or the name of the region. However, the investigation of sixty coins of the Talimarjan hoard shows that the legend is composed of four letters. E. V. Zejmal interpreted as two distinct letters "w" and "n"15, but it would be preferable to recognize the same sign as a double "t". The interpretation wrongly given by Zejmal is due to the fact that, in the later coinage, the signs for "t" could seem to be two letters. As for the first letter it is obviously an "aleph", while the second, most likely, a "beta" and not a "iota" which occurs at the end of the word MR’Y. Thus, it is preferable to read the inscription on the reverse of this coin ‘4βtt and the whole legend as MR’Y ‘βtt (the governor Abtat). The second word is probably a personal name. It can neither be an ethnonim, nor the name of the region because ethnonims were never written on ancient and medieval coins struck in Central Asia while the name of the region first appeared in 3rd-4th century AD on the coins of Chach and Kish. As regarding the name, which I prefer to read "Abtat" ‘βtt -although other readings of the first two letters are possible- it is an eponim, that is to say, the name of the founder of the dynasty ruling in Southern Sogdiana during several centuries.
The practice of writing only the eponims without the names of the subsequent rulers first appeared on Parthian coins which diverged from Greek traditional coin legends where the name of the ruler and his epithet were always present. It was later imitated on the coins of the so-called Heraius (actually a Kushan ruler), on the coins of Girkod, Chach, Southern Sogd and other regions. This new tradition was introduced in Central Asian coinage by nomadic dynasties which attached great importance to the ancestor’s patronymic16.
On the basis of paleography, it is possible to speak of two groups distinct for the coins with images of Heracles and Zeus. In the first group are included the coins with an archaic "aleph" rendered as a cross which has a parallel in the Euthidemus coins dated 2nd-1st century BC. The "aleph" of the second group is completely different, closer to the one used in the Sogdian letters of the beginning of 4th century AD and to the coin legends of other Central Asian regions, especially 3rd-4th century Chach. Thus, the coinage production with Zeus and Heracles started in the 1st century BC and ended around 3rd-4th AD. In that period they circulated with the coins with combat scenes. Obviously, the level of mints in Southern Sogdiana in Antiquity was rather high. There, as in other regions of Sogdiana, it created a money economy connected with political conditions, the division of Sogdian regions and the formation of independent feuds.
At Aultepa was found a type of silver imitation of the coins of Bahram V (420-438). At Kizbizi, situated in this region as well, were found Sogdian coins with images of a ruler and an archer17. One silver coin of the same group, but of another type, was found with two copper coins from Southern Sogdiana in a vessel at Zindantepa. Unfortunately, these coins have a wide chronology: the coins with the archer are dated from the 1st-2nd to the beginning of 6th century AD18, and copper coins with combat scenes are dated from 3rd-4th to 6th century AD19. It is worth noting, however, that the coin with an image of the archer from Zindantepa corresponds to the productions of the third period. The presence of a clear brief Sogdian legend -which probably gives to us the name of the ruler, "twrk" Turak- is of great interest. In fact, it was found together with other Southern Sogdian coins with the images of the ruler and the combat scenes, testifying that both coinages were circulating in the territory of Kish.
Another important monetary typology is that of the copper coins with combat scenes. The history of their study, general analysis and the territory of circulation were thoroughly investigated by S. K. Kabanov and M. E. Masson, who diverged from each other both in the chronology and historical interpretation of the coins. M. E. Masson called these coins Partho-Sogdian, while S. K. Kabanov called them Nahshebian.
The reading and translation of the inscriptions on these coins as Bohumazdai and Vohumazdai (good Mazdean) was firstly proposed in 1899 by E. Druen and also Allot de la Fuis agreed. According to W. B. Henning, the legend should be read ’β’wh’z k’γ, Bukharan king. It is worth noting that a second interpretation is possible, but the topography of the findings contradicts it because most specimens were found in Kashkadarj’a20.
V. A. Livshits has noted that in one series of these coins the inscription in Sogdian cursive could be read kyšykwk’w (king of Kish), recognizing, however, some uncertainty in this rendering21. On the other hand, according to S. K. Kabanov, the absence of these coins in Kish does not allow one to accept such a reading of the inscription. However, such arguments can be abandoned now, after the findings of this kind of coins in the region of Kish (Kitab-Shahrisabz).
The last variant of the reading of this legend was proposed by O. I. Smirnova, who believed that the inscription contained eight letters. According to her, the first four signs could be read kwš (‘n) k (Kushan, belonging to the Kushan) with the omission of "‘n" due to the lack of space. At the same time she does not neglect the possibility of readings proposed by W. B. Henning and V. A. Livshits. According to O. I. Smirnova, the second word of the legend represented a title βrz (great)22.
On the basis of the the reading by O. I. Smirnova, S. K. Kabanov supposed a stable presence of late Kushans in Nahshab, although this is not supported by historical and numismatic data23. Then, I find that the translation by O. I. Smirnova is rather hypothetical. In particular, the absence of the syllabe "‘n" due to the lack of space is subjected to objections. The analysis of other coins persuades me that there was enough space in order to write this letter. The second letter of the first word is less probably a "w". In some specimens, after the initial "k" there is another line straight or semi-curved, not connected with other letters which vaguely resembles "w" or "n" or "z". However, this is most likely a flaw of the matrix causing the first letter not to have struck deeply enough resulting in a break which allows us to read two letters instead of a single one. In the coins where the inscription is struck properly, this letter is connected with another one which has the form characteristic of Sogdian "s" or "š". The third semi-curved letter of the inscription is probably a "n", while the fourth is indoubtedly a "k".
Taking this consideration into account, it is possible to read the first word of the inscription "ksnk" or "kšnk", that is to say "Keshian", an adjective formed by the suffix "k" from the word "Kšn/Ksn", "Kes/Kesh" or "Kis/Kish", probably coming from the ancient name of the Kashkadar’ja region, preserved also in Greek transliteration as Κσαηια (Ksenippa) which probably is a rendering of its local Sogdian name. The same name is preserved in the medieval town of Kasan at 20 kilometres in the north from Karshi.
There are then the coins of Ahurpat, the ruler of Kish. Untill the present time the findings of these coins were known only in Penjikent. O. I. Smirnova, who first published them, believed that the Sogdian legend on the obverse presented the name, title of the ruler and indications for the place of his feud. According to Smirnova, the name of the ruler was ">Axūrdat" (Given by Ahura), but then she changed her opinion and preferred the reading "Ahūrpat", now commonly accepted24.
The reading of the first word "xwβ" (governor) is undoubtedly correct. Regarding the third word, O. I. Smirnova believed that it signified "nisba"in the place of the ruling "ryb’n’k", "raγfānāk" (Rafganian, from Rafgan), which she compared with the name of the spring of Zerafshan: Fandar’ja. At the same time, D. Davudov mentioned in his thesis the opinion of O. I. Smirnova, thus connecting the coins of Ahurpat also with Kish. This is based on the similarity with the name of the ruler of Kish, Ahubido, who, in 727 AD, sent a mission to China.
However, V. A. Livshits has shown that the word "kšn’k" means "Keshian" and not "Rafganian" and thus the legend can be translated "Ahurpat, governor of Kish". As regarding the comparison of this name with the names of the rulers of Kish known from historical sources, it could correspond not only to "Ahubido", but also to the name of the ruler of the Shi-Ahe (Shir), Ahura, crowned in 656-660 AD25. Such an hypothesis was supported by the recovery at the same level of coins of Ahurpat and Shishpir, who governed between 642-656 AD. In the region of Kish, other Sogdian bronze coins of ikhshids from Shishpir to Turgar were recovered.
The fels of Ikhrid -the governor of Kish executed in the time of Abu-Muslim in 751 AD- are dated to the second quarter of 8th century AD. The obverse displays in Arabic Kufic letters the inscription: "Ikhrid, dehkan of Kesh" and, on the reverse: "This fels is coined in Kish". The fels is extremely interesting because it is the first specimen of a coin with an Arabic inscription from Central Asia26.
In conclusion, the numismatic data allow us to observe the early development and, probably, the continuity of money circulation in the Nautaka-Kish region. They point out that, the variety of the recovered coins from this region, at the beginning of the 1st century AD, was oriented towards Sogdiana and not towards Bactria. This is clear after iconography, dimensions and the same metal composition of the coins based on silver and copper have been analysed. Probably, even in the Early Medieval period the name of the region "Kish" appeared on the coins struck there, though a real independent coinage had developed since 1st century BC-1st century AD.
* Translated from Russian by Ivan A. Shelyh.
1 Rtveladze E. V., K voprosu o monetah Kesha, Istorija i kul’tura iuzhnyh rajonov Srednej Azii v drevnosti i srednevekov’e, Tashkent, 1988.
2 Omel’chenko A. V., Podrazhanie drahme s tipam Aleksandra Moakedonskogo iz Iuzhnogo Sogda, Numismatika Centralnoj Azii, V, Tashkent, 2001: 14-17.
3 According to A. Musakaeva.
4 Zejmal E. V., Drevnie monety Tajikistana, Dushanbe, 1983: 77-81.
5 Zejmal E. V., Nachal’nyj etap denezhnogo obrashchenija drevnej Transoksiany, Srednjaja Azija, Kavkaz i zarubezhnyj. Vostok i drevnosti, Moskva, 1983: 65.
6 Abdullaev K., Tetradrahma Antioha iz kishlaka Haprin, Numizmatika Central’noj Azii, V: 11-14.
7 Masson M. E., Monetnye nahodki v Srednej Azii, Izvestija Sredazkomstarisa, III, Tashkent, 1928: 284.
8 Kastal’skij B. N., Neizvestnaja greco-baktrijskaja tetradrahma-medal’ Antioha I, bitaja v chest’ Evtidema, Vestnik Drevnej Istorii, 3-4, 1940: 359.
9 Masson M. E., Raboty Keshkoj arheologo-topograficheskoj ekspedicii TashGU (KATE) po izucheniu vostochnoj poloviny Kashkadar’inskoj oblasti, Trudy TashGU. N. 233: Arheologija Srednej Azii, Tashkent, 1977: 26.
10 Kabanov S. K., Ruiny poselenija III-IV vv. v doline Kashkadar’i, Istorija material’noj kul’tury Uzbekistana, 6, Tashkent, 1965: 84-85.
11 Zejmal E. V., Rannesogdijskie monety s izobrazheniem Gerakla i Zevsa, Coobshchenija Gos. Ermitazha, XXXVIII, Leningrad, 1973: 68, 73.
12 Abdullaev K., Moneta s izobrazheniem Zevsa i Geracla iz Kashkadar’i, Numizmatika Central’noj Azii, 2, Tashkent, 1997: 9-16.
13 Zejmal E. V., Rannesogdijskie monety: 68-73. See in particular the history of the study of these coins.
14 Ibid.: 72.
16 Rtveladze E. V., K istorii stanovlenija kushanskogomgosudarstva v Baktrii i Gapdhare, Drevnjaja Indija i Srednjaja Azija, Tashkent, 2001: 145-148.
17 Kabanov S. K., Nahshab na rubezhdrevnosti i srednevekov’ja, Tashkent, 1977: 77, 90.
18 Zejmal E. V., Drevnie monety: 268.
19 Kabanov S. K., Nahshebskie monety V-VI vv., Vestnik Drevnej Istorii, 1, 1961: 137-141; ibid., Pozdnie kushany v Nahshebe, Vestnik Drevnej Istorii, 3, 1973: 159-171; ibid., Nahsheb: 96; Masson M. E., Parfjano-cogdijskie monety oblasti doliny Kashka-dar’i, Istorija i kul’tura antichnogo mira, Moskva, 1977: 136-137.
20 For the report of the recovery see: Kabanov S. K., Nahshebskie monety: 137-141; Masson M. E., Parfjano-sogdijskie monety: 136-137.
21 Livshits V. A., Lukonin V. G., Srednepersidskie i sogdijskie nadpisi na serebrjanyh sosudah, Vestnik Drevnej Istorii, 3, 1964: 470.
22 Smirnova O. I., Svodnyj katalog sogdijskih monet, Moskva, 1981.
23 Kabanov S. K., Pozdnie kushany: 159-171.
24 Smirnova O. I., Katalog monety s gorodishcha Penjikent, Moskva, 1963: 199; ibid., Svodnyj katalog: 306-308.
25 Smirnova O. I., Svodnyj katalog: 425.
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Ke$ha Does "Take It Off" Again (And Better)
Posted by David Salter
When Animal was first released I found “Take It Off” to be an instant favorite on the album, and not surprisingly a potential single. Lo and behold, it not only became the album's fourth single, it became the fourth single from Ke$ha's debut album to hit the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 8. Considering that when an artist actually gets to release four songs from one album as singles, the final one typically serves at most as a placeholder while the artist puts the finishing touches on his/her/its/their next project, keeping the artist fresh in the public's mind but with just enough down time to ride the novelty wave upon their imminent return. It's not uncommon for the music video accompanying a fourth single to be pointedly low-key (if there is one at all), the kind an artist can shoot in one morning and be back in the studio by afternoon (the typical music video shoot lasts two to three days): Britney Spears' "Radar," the fourth single off comeback album Circus released as the singer began what became a massively successful world tour, is a perfect example.
So, it initially seemed, it would be with "Take It Off." The track production uses voice modulation at its finest for a gritty, glitter-infested pop song with great electro beats. The original video for the single, which takes a suddenly glammed-up Ke$ha (and crew) into a dystopian run-down motel setting which seems to have some continuity from the psychedelic desert location in “Your Love Is My Drug,” the previous single. The climax of the video shows off Ke$ha’s image of primal instinct and neon colors with a hood-rat body-smashing explosion of glitter (what else?) inside an empty pool. If the video didn’t leave you aroused slightly with dilated eyes, then something could be wrong with your whatever type of TV or computer screen you’re viewing Ke$ha...or it could be that the clip was, all told, pretty lackluster. Obviously this didn't preclude the track from making its improbable climb to the single digits anyway, so there was no harm done; and after all, Ke$ha (being primarily an electro-pop singer and producer rather than a live performer or music video visionary) hasn't exactly made waves with her videos, which like with Taylor Swift or John Mayer seem almost to exist out of necessity rather than on their own whims.
However, with a little help from her friends, Ke$ha has unexpectedly outdone herself with an alternate video for "Take It Off." This one, which exceeds the official version in production values, features a glow in the dark alleyway party that more literally exemplifies "where they go hardcore, and there’s glitter on the floor." The video is “channeling some 80s hard,” according to the animal herself in the description on YouTube. Perhaps (most of her audience, us included, weren't around for much more of the '80s than she was, if at all), but of course, no party of any post-Stonewall decade would be complete without a good battle of the queens. A battle of queens at most dance clubs is usually easy to gloss over, but this FX-infused "battle" between Animal Queen (get it?) Ke$ha and "Queen Of The Internet" Jeffree Star is too fabulous. Star, a fuschia-haired gender-bending entertainer, eventually maneuvers a chainsaw to shoot a laser (we're not sure either), Ke$ha deflects with her bracelet, counterattacks with a double-fisted laser blast of her own, and the foe is vanquished (it seems). Ke$ha n’ friends then proceed to "go hardcore" while their faces endure increasingly thorough (and in some cases unsettling) animal transformations as they dance until the very end.
It wasn't until, at the conclusion, when Ke$ha imbibes (her first one! Anyway, she's "not the designated driver") the contents of what looks like a prop from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and with a flash morphs into the same cheetah that appears at the beginning of the clip that I figured out what had been going on with the animal thing; but if one has seen the original video one could hardly blame a guy for assuming it was all just more bizarre purposeless sensory stimulation. This new video is, surprisingly, a breath of a fresh air with Ke$ha's music videos, for the first time actually capturing and alluding to all the elements and themes of Ke$ha's album. Which is why methinks this ostensibly casual remake (see, it's brilliant, because her "me n my friends were bored and... we made this new video" is totally believable if one hasn't or doesn't actually check out the video, and fits in perfectly with the role she's played throughout Animal's release) may well turn out to have something to do with the upcoming but as yet unannounced re-release of Animal as an extended package with up to eight new tracks, a la Lady Gaga's The Fame Monster.
See? Even at the MTV Video Music Awards she was getting started with something!
The video shows her creativity as an artist who suddenly does seem to be somewhat in charge (rather than a deer in the headlights like her previous efforts, not unlike many breakout stars who become far more successful far more quickly than they could ever be prepared for), which also puts me at ease since she is still working with Animal exec producer and hit-recycler of late Dr. Luke, which is a great partnership as long as the artist is involved and aware enough to avoid a Kelly Clarkson-esque blindside. For now we wait, but if it does turn out that there's more to this than meets the eye ("me n my friends were bored..." Yeah, and Robyn and Kelis decided to go on tour one morning over Twitter.) you heard it here first. Remember, Ke$ha is very likely a genius, sez we (hence The Ke$ha Project). A genius who really needs to get rid of that dollar sign for the sake of the few and the proud who actually know/believe that and feel ourselves die just a bit more each time we have to type that awful moniker. Just a thought.
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You will, like me, have been delighted to have to see the Lions return to the scene of their greatest ever triumph over the last few days. Their wives were even there, something a few of them never got to do first time around. Members of the "Celtic Media Team" followed their every step with pictures and tweets galore. The trip was underwritten by a few choice folk who paid £1800 to join the Lions. It may surprise you to know that they weren't the only ones that they joined as the board and CEO were all along for the ride. Specific instructions were given not to photograph certain members of the Celtic party but a picture slipped out of Brian Wilson, who took time out from abusing anyone who disagrees with his politics, to sacrifice himself for the good of the club. (Which reminds me, I am taking time out of my busy schedule to go to the pub on Wednesday night, please, don't thank me)
Let's have some fun and assume the search for a new manager starts when the plane back from Lisbon touches down shall we?
Like many of you I've not been exactly enamoured with the candidates that have been mentioned thus far. The worst of these by miles is Owen Coyle. It's clear Coyle has been on a mission to raise his profile in Scotland ever since Dave Whelan turfed him out at Wigan. A pal of Dermot Desmond, Coyle was on standby to take over last summer if Neil Lennon had quit then, something that Celtic firmly believed he would do right up until pre-season started. Anyone I've spoke to in and around the game since Neil Lennon stepped down has been aghast that Coyle is even quoted given that he turned down the job in 2009. What concerns me more is that he has none of the qualities required to be Celtic manager. The measure of a man is often in not what they say but what they don't say. Take Paul Scholes as an example, a man who did pretty much everything in the club game but was known as the quiet man of football. So when he does speak, normally complete sense, you listen and you'd be right to. With Coyle, he says so much, so often, you kind of think he'd more suited to replacing Graham Norton not Neil Lennon.
Coyle embodies the kind of stinkin' thinkin' you get at these times, normally fuelled by bookies, which has anyone who knows football just scratching their heads. Put simply the one thing that seems to unite the fans on this subject is: We don't want Owen Coyle.
I know there have been moves in other directions. Davie Moyes was contacted indirectly on Saturday in a "if offered, would you take it?" type way whilst another candidate was asked indirectly whether he'd be happy working under a director of football?
The director of football thing interests, assuming it wasn't Peter Lawwell that was meant, this is a road I'd like to see Celtic go down. It has to be said that whilst success in the league and Europe was there, Neil Lennon's choices of backroom staff weren't exactly a huge hit. Alan Thompson's off the field problems and "friends" were his downfall whilst Mjallby was often at odds with the manager. Garry Parker potters about hoping to be under as little spotlight as possible.
The director of football role in Scotland has a stigma attached and as Celtic supporters we shudder at the Dalglish/Barnes fiasco. Of course it has been in operation, quite successfully, at Falkirk for a few years now. It's a road Hearts have gone down and the current Neilsen/Crawford partnership is due to be replaced from within in around 3-4 years. That's the theory of course, football has many variables and it might not work. That being said, Hearts, living within their means for the first time since the 1970's, have no intention of paying off a whole backroom staff one day and then hiring a new one the next ever again.
Celtic have many coaches who have worked away behind the scenes for years now. Guys like Chris McCart, Tommy MacIntyre, Stephen Frail and John Kennedy are in with the bricks now but does anyone see them as manager material? The last main candidate through the ranks that fans clamoured for was Willie McStay, who never had a hope in hell of getting the top job, and has struggled to get a proper foothold in football since, with it unknown where his latest adventure with Celtic Nation will take him.
I think we could steal a march on a lot of teams by laying down now a structure that is for the long term but from a position of strength. I've said it before but for clarity will do so again, for me the guy tailor-made for the role is Gordon Strachan. In a part time job just now, you give him a remit to set up a structure with emphasis on coaches and players rising to the top then that man will be in his element. He doesn't need to deal with the media, which he loathes, he is able to see out a huge passion he has for coaching and making players better and he can be there to lean on for all coaches at the club, including the top one. He can also deal with the Lawwell/Park dynamic which would take the pressure off a new head coach.
And who should be that head coach?
Many people have said to me "You must want Jackie then?" and I've avoided pleading his case for two reasons, the obvious bias and the fact that he doesn't need me to do that for him. What I will say is that Jackie has a lot of the qualities I'd want from our new man. When he took over at Partick Thistle, he did not think players were fit. After an internal study, he got back that what the problem was was the recovery between games wasn't helping. So he brought in people to deal with it, at his own expense, and, well, you see the difference. When he took over at Dundee Utd the players actually weren't fit. The diet was all wrong and lot of the players were not enjoying their football. He was also told their were no young players worth a game and the club would be saddled with debt for decades. The emergence of young players is obvious, but the increase in crowds due to the type of football played has wiped out the debt. Compare that to the £8m debt Hibs are carrying and the £16m Aberdeen are.
So what are the qualities he has? First off, a strong inner belief in what he is doing. There's no bullshit about Jackie and he doesn't get distracted from his goal. He has standards and I like that in a manager, players need to live up to them or find another club. He encourages youth and good football, thinking long term always. Derek McInnes has received plaudits and awards this season but how good has his team actually played? How many times have they hit four or more goals? How long term are his signings?
It is often said that it's "too early" for Jackie but he has far more experience now than Neil Lennon had in the summer of 2010. Hey, it's all about opinions and I just gave you mine.
Speaking of summer 2010, can we not go through the same charade we did back then when appointing a manager? It's obvious to everyone that Neil Lennon caught Celtic on the hop last week (you don't invite a guy you know is leaving on holiday with you) and perhaps it wasn't the best idea for Mr Lawwell to still go on his trip to Lisbon when we sit without a leader. The days of the long summers of 97 and 98 without a manager are long gone and I hope Celtic don't involve themselves in any kind of stage-managed bullshit and just get the job done.
Otherwise even Brian Wilson may go radge at them.
Posted by Paul Larkin at 1:12 AM
Neil Lennon: Diminishing love
Once all the instant reactions were ploughed through yesterday, the most telling piece of information came from Celtic, not in what they said, but in when they said it. Coming a good five hours after Neil Lennon had announced he was stepping down, this was not the statement-crazy regime we have all come to know. The issuing of a statement is about as low as it gets in terms of PR. Designed to conduct the debate, it often poses more questions than answers but of course is designed to ensure no questions can be asked.
Once Neil Lennon spoke yesterday you can be absolutely assured that all hell broke loose at Celtic Park. "Akin to Wall Street on a bad day" was how it was described to me. So much in the dark were employees that people contacting Celtic on other matters were being asked "Is it true the manager has gone?"
Of course the real question is: Why did the manager go? As far back November 2012, Neil Lennon's mind was drifting. Concerns over the quality of family life were being expressed by his partner, Irene, his son's conditions at school weren't the best and on a trip to Oxford with Garry Parker and his wife, Neil was given a taste of what life could be like outside the goldfish bowl of Glasgow. Whilst the adulation is always there, the abuse remained daily.
It can never be underestimated what Neil Lennon went through to be Celtic manager (although plenty try) and this should never be forgotten either. We live in an era where before it would be newspapers that were tomorrow's fish and chip wrappers, now it's our feelings that move on quicker than a Sevco Chairman.
The other factor is his place within Celtic as manager. Probably the least amount of power a manager has ever had at Celtic, Lennon became increasingly frustrated at decreasingly low budgets and a level of interference that, whilst happening at almost every football club in the world, eventually became the bane of his life. Forget the cosy statements issued or ridiculous notion that Neil Lennon will be involved in the picking of the new manager (I know one candidate who shuddered at that thought), this is a clean break and one that Neil Lennon made up his mind about in January saying that if he didn't get a proper budget to re-build, he was off.
There were clues of course.
Mjallby leaving, the season ticket literature had no mention of the manager in it, there were the increased appearances in England to build his profile higher and there was the arse covering from Celtic when Samaras let slip that Lennon had wanted to keep him but Peter Lawwell said no.
Ah, Peter Lawwell. A figure who divides more people than a Celtic Park steward. So entrenched are folk's opinions of him that it's impossible to have a proper debate about him in what has surely been his toughest week as 11 years as CEO. The BT/Sevco scandal is not going away and he spent most of yesterday privately seething at Lennon stealing a march on him in terms of releasing the information.
The question most have in terms of Lawwell's power, (the most powerful man by some distance in the day to day world of Scottish football and second only to Dermot Desmond in terms of power in Scottish football full stop) is would any manager worth their salt work with him? The answer is yes. Primarily because Celtic are a huge club, who win leagues, compete in Europe and offer a huge stage. There's also the fact that the days of Alex Ferguson types running everything are over (Ferguson himself was "advised" quite a lot by the Glazers before he left)
With that being said, it is not healthy for a man with no background in football at all to have such an influence on who plays for Celtic (nor is it healthy to have family members also with no background in football acting as scouts for Celtic)
Ultimately though, Neil Lennon had enough of the small budget, enough of players being foisted on him(Bangura, Balde and Gershon were the ones that really drove him mad) and enough of having to toe the party line no matter what he actually felt.
The Joe Ledley transfer summed it up, Joe asking to stay, Neil wanting him to stay and Peter telling both that Ledley was off to Palace.
Modern football or too much meddling? You can decide but Neil already has.
Of course Neil Lennon was not without flaws, his record in the cups was pretty dire and it could be argued that the football we wanted to see only really came towards the end of his time at Celtic.
Typical eh?
As for the new manager, make no mistake that he will be Dermot Desmond's choice. Only two managers have been selected by CEO's at Celtic since Fergus McCann left, John Barnes and Tony Mowbray, so Dermot's hand is firmly on the chicken switch for this one. Which is interesting because last season Dermot actually attended Celtic Park the least in his 20 year involvement with the club.
Meanwhile we supporters sit and wait, what is the new chapter going to bring us? If it was me? I'd be thinking long term about a management team that would be here for a decade. One that understood Celtic and the absolute importance of remaining on top for at least the next seven years.
They are out there.
Green Brigade Anti Discrimination Tournament-Seize the opportunity
As the dust settles on another season, and fans gasp in horror when they realise the World Cup is still a month away, you may be aware of the now annual anti-discrimination tournament organised by The Green Brigade, this year in Royston on June 14th.
I've been a bit out the loop in recent weeks spending most of my time in exam halls, study rooms and Doctor's surgeries as old age catches up with me and just getting to grips with the latest toing and froing about the banner that the GB had at the Inverness Caley game.
Let me say now, let's not get carried away with the sentiment of it (except positively) and for Christ sake can we remember two things, what Ultras do and that Leigh Griffiths is not David Duke.
What often happens any time the GB are mentioned is that folk dig in further and positions get entrenched to the point where the whole of McAlpine's would be needed to dig folk out.
Now, this tournament is a noble idea by the GB and should be supported by as many as possible in the main anyway but this is a huge opportunity for a lot of people to meet face to face, meet minds and start digging themselves out the trenches.
Firstly, I think this is exactly the sort of event that fans who want Leigh Griffiths educated on the origins of Celtic and evil of racism, that could be attended by Griffiths. I saw him last year attend a similar type of event, of his own accord, at Saughton Enclosure in Edinburgh so it's not like he's someone who couldn't care less about these type of events. The message coming out of an event like this is exactly the sort of message we supporters want imprinted in Griffiths mind.
Secondly, I do think this is a chance for Celtic to get people along and get mingling with people away from the stadium and in a more relaxed environment so common ground can be found. Whilst Social Media has many benefits, one of its flaws is it is not a medium for the type of discussion needed to get a proper resolution in a situation like this. Similarly, a number of issues always seem to arise out of behind closed doors meetings at Celtic Park and so a neutral venue would be helpful. Apart from anything else, it would do Celtic good to show support from a fans initiative that didn't come from something at their own behest.
Thirdly, there are clearly some people out there who are what I would describe as serial critics of The Green Brigade. I accept that some do this for their own selfish reasons and that even the promise of a limo to the ground, rub down whilst there and enough blog copy to feed them for a year won't change their minds but if you're someone who has been critical of the GB then surely this tournament offers a chance for you to give a first hand account of what the GB are actually like and help publicise a noble cause?
Which brings me onto the main problem I find with the GB. The message is being drowned out. Asking most people about the GB and most will point to Fir Park, broken seats and plenty other negative untruths that blanket all the great stuff done, the tremendous food bank drive at Christmas being one of them. Similarly, most Celtic fans dealings with the GB come with a visit to Celtic Park and assumptions are built upon this. I've no right to dictate anything to the GB but I know that the only resolution to this is a dedicated section that brings the atmosphere you created back to Celtic Park week in, week out. I also know that I will get criticism for this article from those who have no time for the GB and never have. My answer to that is to be part of a solution that works for all. Inform your opinion by going to the tournament and remembering that we are all Celtic supporters and far more unites us than divides us.
That goes for Leigh Griffiths, Peter Lawwell and all with the power of the pen as well.
Posted by Paul Larkin at 11:06 PM
When Wim's Tims changed the world
I guess you don’t feel as tense right now as you did on the morning of May 9th 1998. I was away early that day, so early that I missed a call from a Hibby mate wishing us all the best. The feeling from the Craig Falconbridge goal hadn’t left me, it felt like my heart had been ripped out my chest as thousands gleefully told us that this would be Rangers year (again) and that we were perennial losers.
Deep down that nagged at all of us.
I went through on the train to Glasgow that day and settled into a Gallowgate full of nervous anticipation. The players had gone to Dublin for a couple of days to get away from it all, us fans just has to grin and bear it all week. Every outcome was played out in our heads, every omen was studied and every escape route planned should we not do it. “It” being protecting our cherished nine in a row record.
As the hours ticked on, beer glasses were drained but the humour was akin to pre court in America when you’ve already had two strikes. As we moved along the Gallowgate, faces were studied nervously and, again, we talked about every possibility “Get an early goal” “Surely Dundee Utd will give them a game” “Christ, I keep thinking we have blown it”
Upon arriving in the stadium I got involved in a silly argument with a mate, it was a something and nothing type where the tension far outweighed the subject matter. It was that kind of day.
As the teams emerged, the noise was deafening. I sat in the back row of section 443 and all around me people clenched fists whilst looking at each other, steely determination exuding from all. If the players match the fans, we are going to be fine.
We barely had time to get nervous when Henrik sailed past two defenders and planted a ball in the St Johnstone net like Dennis Taylor on that last black ball in 1985. An eruption of blanketed Celtic Park and as folk held each other for grim life.
Everybody needed a hug.
We expected the barrage of goals to come but of course, this is Celtic, we don’t do anything the easy way and we settled into the ebb and flow of anxiety football.
Anxiety became The Exorcist type fear as George O’Boyle stalked our goal and missed a header that looked easier to score. We all looked at each other as if considering taking up Rugby as it would be far less stressful.
In the second half, news filtered through from Tannadice that Rangers were two goals up and any slip from us would be catastrophic. We made subs and Brattbakk appeared for a walk on part in the war.
A ball was flitted down the wing, suddenly it was in the middle and Harald found a burst of pace that resulted in the time needed for a cool finish and to put us 2-0 up.
The world just turned on its axis.
Simon Donnelly, just subbed, jumped on John Clark’s back. Tosh McKinlay and Darren Jackson danced in the tunnel. Henrik jumped on Harald and pointed at him profusely.
We were lost in a sea of relief, grown men cried and screamed in equal measure, the realisation dawning: we have done it.
The remaining minutes faded away like the last bath water down a plug hole and the explosion from Tom Boyd on full time matched the explosion from the stands that echoed round Scotland and sent the flag up right round the planet: Celtic are back.
As drained as the players, we left the stadium, our seats not allowing us to join the magical pitch invasion and we met with others, equally lifeless and just stood there in awe. As we moved along the Gallowgate once more, bars had shutters down and the first pub we could get in was The Braemar.
From there we got the train home to Edinburgh, a brief meeting with a clearly miffed ICF as well, and went to The International Bar where folk danced in the streets and long into the night.
The players went to a restaurant in Newton Mearns where Phil and Eileen O’Donnell danced on tables and summed up the mood.
From there the players went to play a game in Lisbon that most could not tell you the score of and the next day it was confirmed, Wim was off and Wim’s Tims were no more.
Thankfully our nine in a row record still remained.
Posted by Paul Larkin at 12:30 AM
Asterisk Years Film-Update
So folks, a little blast to bring you all up to speed with what is happening.
We have November as a target for a premiere. This will be in Glasgow. Now, we know the difficulties that this presents given that hatred one third of Glasgow will have for this but we will find a venue and the premiere will be there. We hope to make this a bit of a gala event with a party afterwards. After all, this is meant to be fun, right? (Anyone with a darkened room for rent, please get in touch)
But seriously.
A lot of filming, recording, animation and research has taken place thus far. The documentary aim is to be about the length that an hour long programme, with commercials, would be on TV. We want it to be something that tells a strand of the story in a simple and entertaining way that folk can watch and digest in one sitting.
We have deliberately not went down the road of celebrity appearances or publicity stunts because we feel that's the part of the thing we are fighting against. We were actually offered two semi-famous people, one by an agent and one directly and it was a bit bemusing. I think the agent was told by their client that "They will definitely be wanting me for this" and came in with "Ok, how much you going to pay then" attitude. Keep waiting by that phone. The other need clarification of Rangers liquidation so I don't think they would have fitted with the vibe somehow.
A lot of this is done on the hoof. In trying to stay one step ahead of the detractors, we haven't been able to reveal where we would be until we went to Celtic Park last Sunday. I originally had an idea to talk to people in the Kerrydale Bar and thought it would be polite to ask Celtic in advance but was met with a gruff "Whit's it fur?" and thought better of it. Funnily enough, after four hours of filming we went for food to the Kerrydale Bar and not only saw a lot of the folk we had spoken to that day but could easily have filmed in there with no one being any the wiser.
That all being said, the filming at Celtic Park was fantastic and it was great to see such enthusiasm for the project. It's a stressful thing to do. Forget the threats and the begrudgers, you're on a very tight budget, which folk have donated their hard earned cash to give you, and you are filming outside. You don't have the budget to cancel a shoot and start again another day. You need to allow for wind, rain, lorries, folk walking into the shot, folk standing staring and about a million other things.
So when folk show up and take part, on or off camera, it makes you feel good.
Right now, we have lots of stuff and it's time for the Editor to start putting it together so we then know what holes need filled and what needs trimmed.
An important lesson we have learnt in all this is focus on the prize. A lot of people have spent a lot of time trying to derail this and belittle it. We just keep moving forward as we best we can.
If you're reading this, you're the reason why.
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