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#55 – Move With Things
Posted on August 22, 2018 August 22, 2018 by jeremygilbertson
Driving home the other day, I was listening to Alan Watts explain one of the most basic aspects of our existence. As a self-proclaimed philosopher-entertainer, Watts brought a kind levity and matter-of-fact cadence to the most complicated topics. I often think how interesting it would have been to spend time with him on his boat in Sausalito. Gently floating on the waters of the San Fransisco Bay, Watts and many others contemplated the questions explored by philosophers since the beginning of time.
With these questions, are there actually answers at all or just interpretations locked in moments of time? One of the biggest questions can be finding our place and purpose in the world. Some refer to it as carving out a niche for yourself. Carving sounds a little aggressive. It usually means removing something to form or make room for something else, which seems protective or isolating. Our world is truly about interaction with people, ideas, nature, philosophies, perspectives, particles and fields. Can you carve out a section of the ocean for your own? Sure, many countries have protected and seemingly controlled their surrounding waters, but if you move to the molecular level, it is impossible to wrap your arms around a section of the ocean. A more comical reference comes from a screenwriter friend of mine as trying to nail jello to a tree … the ultimate exercise in futility.
Our world is a collection of undulations, crests, troughs and relatively wiggly (as Watts puts it) things. From a scientific perspective, Faraday’s lines vibrate producing light. In fact, the color yellow is the visual representation of vibrations at roughly 470 nanometers. Within our own biology, electrical signals in our brains and hearts are responsible for the involuntary actions that support life. Most of what we hear are vibrations landing in the 20Hz – 20,000Hz spectrum of sound in the form of wave crests and troughs. Why do we resist the wiggles in favor of the illusion of formal structure? In our youth, we are flexible, pliable, mobile and resilient, but as we age we are tense, immobile and stuck in our ways. Rather than learning to swim, we resist, fight and struggle until we drown. Does this transformation occur because we resist embracing these wiggly lines?
Nineteen Hundred & Seventy
In one of his lectures, Watts brings up a soccer club that dazzled the planet with the fluidity of its movements, how they danced with the ball, and their almost telepathic teamwork. The Brazilian national soccer team trained, prepared and worked hard, but they also danced. They moved with the game rather than resisting and battling against it.
If you happened to witness, in 1970, the World Cup championship of soccer, you would have seen that the winning team from Brazil played soccer in the most extraordinary way. They played it like basketball. They played it dancing. The way we learned soccer when I was at school as a boy was very, very formal and ordinary and we didn’t really enjoy it. But these fellows were bouncing balls off their shoulders, off every muscle, and they had astonishing team play, while at the same time were dancing the game.
– Alan Watts
Over the last few months, I’ve embraced the idea of moving with things and resisting the urge to control them, which doesn’t mean that I am a helpless being at the mercy of the events thrust upon me. It is actually quite the opposite. This mindset is liberating. It is a sense of freedom from the shackles of what if, it is not worrying about what others think and it is resisting the urge to time travel from the present to past events and future predictions. By moving with things, we can apply our precious energy to more productive endeavors. You can resist the powerful force of a rip current as it eventually drags your exhausted body out to sea, or you can flow with it and, when the time is right, move laterally out of its influence.
Philosophers have referenced water representing something that is a mystery or something that cannot be controlled. Water is also a character in dreams where things can be what they are meant to be. What is so soothing about a body of water? Is it the sound of waves hitting the sand? Is it being immersed in something more dense than air but less defined than rock? Is it falling into a collection of things that are individually smaller but collectively larger than you? Could it be the gentle swaying of the paddle board or kayak on the surface of a lake? Is it the pleasant uncertainty of its existence? Unless you are deeply into wave functions and probabilities, it’s beautiful state of being can’t necessarily be predicted. Storms can be tracked and modeled as they develop across a vast ocean, but the present state of the waves that exist within the storm never reveal their exact form until the very moment of rise, fall and retreat. There is rhythm but not a defined form or structure. Waves are factors of probability and demonstrations of potential. It is Levon Helm’s backbeat groove rather than a rigid and unforgiving metronome. Even just looking at a body of water takes me to a very different place as it seems to be the most easily accessible and most relatable character of nature.
Water is beautiful, but it can also be devastating as it unleashes its fury. In its most destructive form, there is very little we can do to stop its actions. The force of a tsunami cannot take direction or be trained. We understand and acknowledge its power, but we don’t stand in its way attempting to reason with it or redirect it. My metaphor may seem like a stretch, but we find ourselves in similar, but less immediately catastrophic conditions every day. The catastrophe that I am referring to is even more dangerous. It is slow and sneaky, and before we know it we’ve been taken over by its unrelenting power. We fight against what should be acknowledged and embraced. This is not to say that change is futile, and that we should blindly accept our present state as the final act. One of my favorite things in the world is to identify potential, connect dots and create new things from existing things. This is the most basic form of change. Embracing change is to move with things as they transform into something new. Sometimes change is something gradual, and patience is a valuable character in the performance. Other times, change is thrust upon you with the force of a hurricane in a jarring, unpredictable and often frightening manner. In either form, great opportunity comes from change, and its forms are presented in the nature that surrounds us. Leaves and branches fall to the ground making room for new blooms, burning trees bring a fresh start for the ecosystem of the forest floor, and the sun emerges from below the parallel of the morning horizon to reveal the potential of the day.
Two Thousand & Eighteen
My wife, Traci, was diagnosed with breast cancer in early February 2018, and the news was as physically disorienting as you can imagine. I was working from my home office, and her mom came down the stairs to tell me that the doctor confirmed that the lump she identified in her left breast was cancer. I immediately felt my body trigger involuntary responses in my stomach, heart and lungs in a fight-or-flight-like response. My brain started to run away with the information reducing me to a passive audience member watching a fast-forwarded version of a documentary film predicting every twist and turn of the path that Traci and I would be taking in the coming months. All of this happened within seconds of getting the news. That moment was my opportunity to either push against something that was out of my control, or to embrace it and move with it. While not an easy task, I made an intentional effort to overcome my own biological predisposition and strive for the latter.
This was the unknown path, the mountain that hasn’t been summited and the loosely defined but presently ominous obstacle that is the way. Together, we approached the challenge with an almost innate drive and focus that had never been tapped before. We are driven people, but this felt different. We were on a plane with both pilots passed out, and we were putting the headsets on and grabbing the controls. In the vast and swirling funnel cloud of chaos that was emerging, we huddled together as the small circle of order. After the first meeting with the surgeon, who embodied the epic combination of kind friend, attentive listener, patient counselor, clinical superstar and motivating coach, we were driving home trying to digest everything. A chorus circled in my head of something that we’ve always known and really tried to embrace. Living each day as it was your last, but this time it held a deeper meaning. Our ensuing conversation took a stoic turn as I witnessed one of the bravest statements that I’ve ever heard in my life. From a place of pure gratitude, Traci said if this thing ends up getting crazy, we’ve had a great run, and that she didn’t regret a second of it. She wasn’t giving up. She was offering the most sincere thank you for our experiences in this world. It was not rooted in desperation, fear or even the negative self-talk or the why me narrative. It was a powerful thank you from a place of why not me. Most days, I find myself in awe of her strength, but this moment proved to be an exponential leap from even that high standard.
Sure, we were scared, but the first waypoint on the journey was rooted in gratitude. As we went through additional tests, doctors visits, and the all too common waiting periods that accompany this journey, her strength, focus and drive never wavered. By staying present, we were able to live somewhat comfortably in this world of uncertainty. We both leaned on our families, friends and wonderful network of people who found ways to lift us up, educate us and bring amazing logistical support to our world. While the new normal is quite different, I am so grateful that our journey down this dark, scary path was lighted by lanterns of kindness and populated with knowledgable guides willing to help us navigate the unknown.
Roughly six months later, Traci’s surgeon was blown away by her recovery that stemmed from her drive and commitment to supporting her body and mind on the path to repair itself. By electing a less common surgical approach, Traci was able to avoid radiation treatment, which can produce side effects that include more cancer. The oncologist confirmed that our decision to forgo chemotherapy was rooted in a responsible, sound position that was aligned with the mounds of medical data from various studies. We are grateful for this outcome and even more thankful that we didn’t let our initial physiological response rule over our commitment to move with things that are out of our control. If we pushed against those things, perhaps the last six months would have been a very different experience.
Twists and turns can come from many directions. A few weeks ago, I found myself thrust into another agent of change. After eight years working for a healthcare IT consulting company, I was let go. Again, my body and brain pushed me into the common biological response to such a stimulus. Initially, feelings of failure crept into my consciousness reminding me that I had lost the means of providing stability, ability and opportunity for my family. As a husband and father, this is my number one task, and at that moment, I found myself unable to fulfill that obligation. The negative thoughts and self-doubt really didn’t last that long, as this was merely another opportunity to move with something. After a late evening conversation sitting in the blue Adirondack chairs on our patio, Traci’s tremendous support and confidence left me feeling that I could do anything.
For years, I had considered a more full-time entrepreneurial approach for work, but I was scared to go all in. Conditioned by my experience, I was afraid to step out onto the tightrope without the safety net, even though the safety net dulled my senses and limited my opportunity. Sometimes you need a push to get through the next door that you otherwise wouldn’t have opened for yourself. This failure was my catalyst to launch full-time into my 10-year old audio experience company, Tunewelders, while supplementing my income with flexible, independent consulting projects in the data center and technology space. Indecision and complacency are true enemies of opportunity. External elements of change can be just what the doctor ordered. By moving with something completely out of my control, I was fully able to embrace this experience as the springboard into my next adventure.
Watts points out patterns of organization all around us that are visual examples of our effort to control something that is uncontrollable. Even phrases like let’s straighten that out or let’s square that away perpetuate the illusion that we are able to take something of one shape and transition it to another shape of our choosing that is a manifestation of our control. Do we err on the side of controlling things, when simply being there would suffice? If you take a moment to look around as your drive through a city, you see squares, straight lines and structured patterns aimed to insert a new system on the most natural of systems. I am thankful for architects, structural engineers, mechanical engineers and electrical engineers because without them, our buildings would fall, our electrical grids would fail and cold air wouldn’t flow freely from the vents in our houses on a summer day. There is a place for structure and defining the environment, and there is a time for moving with the environment. Our world is a fascinating collection of interactions that respects what exists, finds comfort in uncertain situations and resists the urge to fight when dancing is more powerful.
Challenges will remain no matter your reaction to them. Fighting and resisting is an unproductive use of precious energy that still leaves the challenge remaining. Like a sturdy ship on the ocean, we are all built for moments to move with things greater than ourselves.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Tara Brach – Great meditation on moving with things
How my son taught me how to dance
Get to know Alan Watts
Tags: alanwatts, dancing, Learning, Mindfulness, movewiththings, Presence, present moment, wisdomofinsecurity, writerCategories: Uncategorized
3 thoughts on “#55 – Move With Things”
Unicorn Hammersmithe says:
jeremygilbertson says:
Thanks dude. Much of this came from my deep dive into your Alan Watts gift years ago.
Dick Morgan says:
Powerful stuff, Jeremy – & very emotional from our family view.
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Man Convicted in Willowbrook Street-Racing Crash That Left Woman Dead, Her Brother Injured
Posted 6:23 PM, November 14, 2019, by Erika Martin
Officers assess two mangled vehicles that had collided in Willowbrook on May 11, 2019. (Credit: ANG News)
A man was convicted of killing a woman and gravely injuring her brother in a hit-and-run collision caused by street-racing in Willowbrook earlier this year, prosecutors said Thursday.
Tyree Coleman, 20, pleaded no contest Wednesday to vehicular manslaughter and hit-and-run driving in the crash that left 23-year-old Compton resident Bethany Holguin dead, according to a news release from the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
The defendant was immediately sentenced to seven years in state prison, officials said.
The night of May 11, Coleman allegedly blew through a stop sign while racing another vehicle down 131st Street.
Bethany Holguin, left, and her brother Emilio Holguin appear in images provided by their family on May 13, 2019.
His vehicle slammed into the car carrying Holguin and her 20-year-old brother, Emilio Holguin, in the intersection at Towne Avenue. The violent impact was captured on surveillance.
Emilio Holguin was taken to the hospital in critical condition, while his older sister died at the scene.
Bethany Holguin had a 6-year-old daughter she was raising alone while working toward a nursing degree, her family said.
Coleman’s vehicle was badly damaged and disabled, but he was able to flee the scene in the car he had been racing, prosecutors said.
It’s unclear whether the second car’s driver was ever caught. Authorities had never announced Coleman’s arrest, and the first news of him being charged came after he pleaded no contest this week.
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Jimison, Leslie H., A. Salleo, M.L. Chabinyc, David P. Bernstein, and M.F. Toney. "Correlating the microstructure of thin films of poly[5,5-bis(3-dodecyl-2-thienyl)-2,2-bithiophene] with charge transport: Effect of dielectric surface energy and thermal annealing." PHYSICAL REVIEW B 78 (2008): 125319.
R.J. Kline, D.M. DeLongchamp, D.A. Fischer, E.K. Lin, L.J. Richter, M.L. Chabinyc, M.F. Toney, M.J. Heeney, and I. McCulloch. "Critical role of side-chain attachment density on the order and device performance of polythiophenes." MACROMOLECULES 40 (2007): 7960-7965.
M.L. Chabinyc, R.A. Lujan, F. Endicott, M.F. Toney, I. McCulloch, and M.J. Heeney. "Effects of the surface roughness of plastic-compatible inorganic dielectrics on polymeric thin film transistors." APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 90 (2007): 233508.
A. Gujral, J. Gomez, J. Jiang, C. Huang, K.A. O'Hara, M.F. Toney, M.L. Chabinyc, L. Yu, and M.D. Ediger. "Highly Organized Smectic-like Packing in Vapor-Deposited Glasses of a Liquid Crystal." CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS 29 (2017): 849-858.
N.D. Treat, C.G. Shuttle, M.F. Toney, C.J. Hawker, and M.L. Chabinyc. "In situ measurement of power conversion efficiency and molecular ordering during thermal annealing in P3HT:PCBM bulk heterojunction solar cells." JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY 21 (2011): 15224-15231.
N.D. Treat, M.A. Brady, Gordon Smith, M.F. Toney, E.J. Kramer, C.J. Hawker, and M.L. Chabinyc. "Interdiffusion of PCBM and P3HT Reveals Miscibility in a Photovoltaically Active Blend (vol 1, pg 82, 2010)." ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS 1 (2011): 145.
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A. Salleo, Leslie H. Jimison, Matthew M. Donovan, M.L. Chabinyc, and M.F. Toney. "Micro-structural effects on the performance of poly(thiophene) field-effect transistors." In Organic Field-Effect Transistors V, edited by Z Bao and D.J. Gundlach, U46-U53. Vol. 6336. PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS (SPIE) 6336. 1000 20TH ST, PO BOX 10, BELLINGHAM, WA 98227-0010 USA: SPIE, 2006.
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M.A. Brady, S.Y. Ku, L.A. Perez, J.E. Cochran, K. Schmidt, T.M. Weiss, M.F. Toney, H. Ade, A. Hexemer, C. Wang et al. "Role of Solution Structure in Self-Assembly of Conjugated Block Copolymer Thin Films." MACROMOLECULES 49 (2016): 8187-8197.
Perez, Louis A., James T. Rogers, M.A. Brady, Yanming Sun, Gregory C. Welch, Kristin Schmidt, M.F. Toney, Hiroshi Jinnai, A.J. Heeger, M.L. Chabinyc et al. "The Role of Solvent Additive Processing in High Performance Small Molecule Solar Cells." CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS 26 (2014): 6531-6541.
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Montreal Canadiens Defence Targets
Colton Osmond
After enduring their worst season since 2000-2001 the Montreal Canadiens are in line for some big changes. Those changes started by adding Dominic Ducharme and Joel Bouchard to the organization recently. The next task will be to address the obvious holes in the lineup. The centre position is always one that is talked about for the Habs but there is another need that’s just as big. The Canadiens defence, specifically the left side.
Canadiens Defence Targets for Next Season
On the right side, the Canadiens defence is set for years to come. Led by superstar defenceman Shea Weber, the Canadiens right side is rounded out by Jeff Petry and Noah Juulsen. Most of their top defence prospects including Brett Lernout, Josh Brook and Cale Fleury are also right-shot defenceman. The left side, however, needs some work. Victor Mete is the only left shot the Canadiens have who could potentially turn into a top pairing defenceman. Others including Karl Alzner, Jordie Benn, Mike Reilly and David Schlemko are better suited for the bottom pair. Prospects Jarrett Tyszka and Scott Walford have potential but are merely prospects at this point in time. If the Canadiens want to be competitive, they will have to find a top pairing defenceman to solidify the defence group.
The Carolina Hurricanes stated recently that everyone not named Aho was available. The team hasn’t made the playoffs since the 08-09 season and with a new GM Don Waddell in town, he will surely be looking to make some big moves to shake things up. This would be a great time for Marc Bergevin to call about the availability of rear guard Noah Hanifin.
Hanifin is definitely a player that fits the bill in terms of what the Habs are needing on the left side. The 6’3”, 206 lbs 21-year-old from Boston, Massachusets is an elusive skater and moves the puck effectively and efficiently. He has the ability to quarterback the powerplay and would be the perfect compliment to Shea Weber for years to come.
Jacob Larsson
Although drafted in the same year as Hanifin, Jacob Larsson doesn’t have much NHL experience. He does, however, have all the makings for a top-four defenceman. Larsson is a very strong skater with excellent vision and makes a good first pass to move out of the zone. Defensively he’s very hard to beat on the rush as he is very agile and has great edgework. He plays a physical game and is very hard to knock off the puck.
With the depth the Anaheim Ducks have on the left side and Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry not getting any younger, Anaheim’s window is soon going to close. They may look at moving the youngster for some scoring help up front to make a run at Lord Stanley’s Cup.
Oscar Klefbom
Rumours were swirling Klefbom leading up to the NHL trade deadline. With how the Edmonton Oilers season finished this year, we expect them to pick up where they left off at the draft. Klefbom struggled this season after a career year last year. He battled injuries and scored just 21 points in 66 games.
Klefbom has great size standing at 6’3” and weighing 220lbs. Even though he is bigger he still has excellent mobility. Klembom holds outstanding shutdown abilities as is capable of logging a ton of minutes. Though known for his defensive play, Klefbom holds a very strong two-way game and can be a factor on both special teams. A pairing of Klefbom and Weber would be a nightmare for the opposition.
Jonas Brodin
Jonas Brodin is a player who has been linked to Montreal in rumours multiple times. Brodin’s biggest asset is his puck moving ability. Which happens to be exactly what the Habs are in the market for at the moment. While not the biggest guy, he is an exceptional skater and can log heavy minutes in any situation.
Earlier this month the Minnesota Wild signed Swedish defender Eric Martinssen to a one year deal. This is significant as he is another left shot defenceman so its possible they’re gearing up for something bigger. After firing GM Chuck Fletcher and announcing Paul Fenton as the new GM earlier today, more changes are certainly coming.
Johnson has fallen out of favour in Columbus and with his recent struggles in his personal life, a fresh start might be exactly what the veteran rearguard needs. Johnson has shown the ability to be able to produce points over his career and has always been known as an incredible skater. He moves the puck well while playing a very physical game.
Johnson has a couple of 30-40 point seasons under his belt but most recently scored just 11 points in 77 games. He would surely come at a discounted price, which would leave most of the cap space to address the centre position. Being a UFA at season end means the Habs wouldn’t have to give up anything to acquire his services as well, making it a little more of an attractive option.
Trades Coming on Draft Night?
The Habs haven’t wasted any time making changes this off-season. With the draft just a month away, they’ll be looking to make a big splash. The Habs are gearing up to make a significant play for John Tavares on July 1st. Having the other pieces of their roster solidified will certainly make Montreal more appealing to the superstar centre. If the Canadiens do in fact address their needs at centre and defence, they will be back in contention as early as next season.
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GARY TREWIN May 22, 2018 at 9:45 pm
LOOK AT LAS VEGAS .YOU DO NOT NEED THE BEST PLAYERS JUST PLAYERS THAT CAN PLAY TOGETHER AS A TEAM
habbernack May 24, 2018 at 9:59 am
And a good coach who MTL could have had but he doesn’t speak french
Michael Bury May 25, 2018 at 8:11 am
We do not have the players to give in return
Adding Noah Hanifin would be awesome…
I’d offer Chucky and a 2nd rounder just to see what they counter with, maybe throw in Hudon….
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Appalachian State Explodes Offensively, Earn Second Straight Title
Greg Larnerd
Photo By: Cody Junot
For the second straight year, the Appalachian State Mountaineers hosted the Sun Belt Championship Game welcoming in the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns. The score was different this time around but the result was the same as the Mountaineers defeated the Cajuns 45-38 to capture their second Sun Belt Conference Title in as many years.
The difference in this game was the first half where App State punted just once and Louisiana turned the football over on their first drive, missed a field, and punted once as well.
The Mountaineers were surgical on their first five drives scoring touchdowns and against a team like this you HAVE to hold them to at least some field goals and UL simply couldn't do that.
The defense was on the field far too much and they got worn down in that first half.
Appalachian State running back Darrrynton Evans was held in check during the first meeting between these teams but was unleashed in this matchup. In the first half, he was responsible for three scores two through the air and one on the ground.
Louisiana kicker Stevie Artigue hit a monster 53-yard field goal right before the half to bring the Cajuns to within 35-17 as they would receive the second-half kickoff.
Unfortunately, in the second half, the offense sputtered while the defense made adjustments to limit App State.
With the offense, it was two critical turnovers by quarterback Levi Lewis that really hurt UL in this one.
On the first one, it was on their second possession of the second half as Louisiana was driving into Mountaineer territory and Lewis took off to run but tried to make one too many moves and when he got hit he lost the football, App recovered.
The Mountaineers couldn't capitalize and score but on the very next offensive drive for Louisiana, Lewis threw a pick-six right to Josh Thomas. That one felt like a danger against the Cajuns as they trailed 44-17 at that point.
Despite the two crucial turnovers Levi Lewis had a career day from a statistical standpoint as he threw for 354 yards, four touchdowns, and one interception. He also became the program touchdown passing leader for a single season with 24 passing scores.
Check out the full box score here.
With the loss, the Cajuns fall to 10-3 on the season and 7-2 in the Sun Belt. Louisiana will find out where they'll be bowling on Sunday.
Source: Appalachian State Explodes Offensively, Earn Second Straight Title
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JOAN MIRÓ From the Collection of The Kreeger Museum
Image: Joan Mir. Selections from The Mallorca Suite (Srie Mallorca), 1973. 36 etched engravings and aquatint, 17 x 25 inches. Collection of The Kreeger Museum
The Kreeger Museum presents an intimate special exhibition, JOAN MIRÓ From The Collection of The Kreeger Museum, January 21 - February 25, 2017. The Kreeger’s complete collection of works by Joan Miró will be on view, including The Mallorca Suite, Makimono, and El Vol de l’Alosa (The Flight of the Lark).
Joan Miró was the consummate professional artist, a perfectionist, who insisted he was a “self-taught amateur” in order to secure for himself permission to transgress traditional techniques – to experiment and improvise – especially in pursuit of printmaking as a medium for his breathtaking expressions of devotion for Catalan culture. His beloved Mallorca, the sunlit island where he lived and worked after 1940, was the subject of such inventiveness.
Purchased in 1973 by David and Carmen Kreeger when they attended Miró’s 80th birthday celebration in Palma de Mallorca, The Mallorca Suite is an unconventional masterpiece by one of Spain’s greatest artists, and The Kreeger Museum is believed to be the only place in the United States where a complete set of the suite may be seen. Added to the set are color states of each etching, black states and technical (or reverse) prints. Inclusion of these decompositions offers viewers the exceptional opportunity to see the work evolve, as the artist himself did in 1973. Miró saw on the pages the familiar faces of people who lived and worked, as did he, on this Mediterranean island. We are not meant to recognize them; we are only to experience delight in scrutinizing the emergence of visages we shall never know but will never forget. The etched title page and a full color gouache painting puts the exclamation point on the entire display that is The Mallorca Suite of 36 images by Joan Miró.
Thirty-six feet long and 16 inches wide of specially woven raw Lyon silk, printed with lithographed and etched designs from Miró’s original wood and metal blocks, impressed with lustrous colored inks – this is the basic description of Miró’s tour de force, Makimono, the execution of which took five years from conception to completion in 1956. David Kreeger purchased Makimono along with its incised and lacquered oak box in 1965. Inspired by scrolls of Asian art, Miró fused that Eastern spirit with a dynamic nod to primitive images of the West to create his exquisite modern Makimono. Meant to be read from left to right as it unfolds, it is told calligraphically in bright, joyous notes of symbols and colors which pronounce traditions of Catalan: crimson, black and yellow of the flag; green of the carob tree and the evergreen – metaphor for the Catalan nation; the star/asterisk – a symbol of Catalan separatism.The biomorphic characters are engaged in a dramatic narrative that the viewer cannot truly decipher. It is up to us to catch this joy ride with Miró’s inventive imagination.
“I make no distinction between painting and poetry. It therefore happens that I illustrate my canvases with poetic phrases and vice versa.” Inevitably his creative wanderlust led Miró to produce books, especially to illustrate the work of the many poets who had become his friends. In 1973, as a contribution to the festivities that were being prepared for his birthday commemoration, he completed a notable edition of El Vol de l’Alosa to celebrate the works of nineteen Mallorcan poets.
Specially commissioned for this project was the Guarro paper and also specially conceived for it was Miró’s own signatures figured into the watermarks on each sheet of the book. For each poem he executed a unique graphic sign and to hold the unbound sheets, a cloth box – in black on red (symbolizing Spain) and black on blue (symbolizing the sea around Mallorca).
Even the type characters were specially made in Bodoni 12 and melted down after this one use. Miró decided that the poets deserved an even greater tribute, so he cut a new lithograph as a memento – original black printing with colors added by his own hand. It is this complete assemblage that the Kreegers purchased, in addition to The Mallorca Suite, when they visited Palma de Mallorca. JOAN MIRÓ From the Collection of The Kreeger Museum will be on view January 21 through February 25, 2017.
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Impact fall apart after a quick start against Minnesota United
Lose 3-2 in front of 16,796 fans at Saputo Stadium after opening the scoring only 27 seconds into game.
Stu Cowan, Montreal Gazette
What started out as a perfect summer night for the Impact at Saputo Stadium ended up being a disaster.
Impact forward Anthony Jackson-Hamel opened the scoring only 27 seconds into the game when he raced past two defenders to chase down a long ball from Zakaria Diallo, drove into the box and then cut to his left before beating goalkeeper Vito Mannone with a sliding left-foot shot for his third goal of the season.
The lead didn’t last long, however.
Mason Toye scored for Minnesota in the ninth minute before Rudy Camacho put the Impact ahead 2-1 off a corner kick in the 13th minute during a wild start to the game. It was Camacho’s first goal of the season.
But the Impact would see their two-game home winning streak at Saputo Stadium come to an end when Ethan Finlay scored on a penalty kick during stoppage time in the first half and then Toye scored what proved to be the winner in the 47th minute as Minnesota pulled off a 3-2 victory in front of 16,796 fans.
“We struggled defensively,” Impact head coach Rémi Garde told reporters after the game. “We were not good on the three goals they put in. The rest of the time, they did not put us in so much danger, but it’s hard to win when you allow three home goals. On the (refereeing) side, there were some very interesting decisions tonight.”
The Impact had six shots on target, while Minnesota United had five. The Impact had 60.7 per cent possession.
The Impact’s record fell to 9-9-3 and they remained in third place in the Eastern Conference standings after the game, while Minnesota United improved to 9-7-3. The Impact will be back in action Wednesday night when they hit the road to play York 9 FC in the first leg of the third round of the Canadian Championship, before returning home to play Toronto FC in MLS action Saturday at Saputo Stadium (7:30 p.m., TSN, TVA Sports, TSN 690 Radio).
The Impact have a 5-3-1 record at home and are 4-6-2 on the road in MLS play.
“We gave them the chance to come back in the game,” Jackson-Hamel said after Saturday night’s loss. “We took twice the advance and they came back twice. In the end, we should not let them have those chances. When you score two goals at home, you are supposed to win this game, but you have left too many opportunities.”
Minnesota United’s penalty-kick goal came after Finlay broke in alone on Impact goalkeeper Evan Bush, who dove and took him down inside the box. The play was reviewed by the video assistant referee and the call on the field stood. Bush was given a yellow card for unsporting behaviour.
“The referee did not help us, but we did not help (ourselves), either,” Camacho said. “We could have avoided certain situations. It should have been more rigorous. You cannot (allow) three goals at home.”
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Event Archive - Music of Basie and Ellington. An Incredile Nonet!!! ft: Roy Styffe (alto sax), Mike Allen (tenor sax), Larry Miller (baritone sax), Maureen Washington (voice), Rod Murray (trombone), Chris Davis (trumpet), Ken Lister (bass), James McRae (drums), Miles Black (piano)
Sat. August 24th 2013 @ Hermann's Jazz Club (All Ages)
8pm - 11pm doors at 6pm
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Music of Basie and Ellington
This is a show not to miss!!! For ticket reservations, email [email protected] This show is sure to be a sell out!
Roy Styffe - alto sax
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Maureen Washington - voice
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Ken Lister - bass
James McRae - drums
Miles Black - piano
Maureen Washington
With a vocal style that encompasses the soul of Etta James, and Carmen McRae, the modernity of Holly Cole and the playfulness of Jann Arden; Maureen Washington evokes comparison to some of the great female Jazz singers of our time yet remains one of a kind. Maureen Washington songstress for a variety of different ensembles, began her music career ... more info
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Ingersoll is a London-based brand that boasts almost seven decades of experience in producing high-quality locks. When we speak of Ingersoll, we usually do so in the context of its time-honored Ingersoll SC71 lock, a product that’s become synonymous with the company and everything it represents. Ingersoll Classic SC71 has been around since ‘69, spurring thousands of faithful copycats.
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Ingersoll’s signature product is a 10-lever lock with automatic deadlocking action and a domed shaped cylinder. In 1969, when it has been introduced to the market, SC71 was a revolutionary locking system. Withstanding the test of time, Ingersoll’s famous lock still guarantees the same level of security. It’s been said that SC71 is not so much a tried locking system as it is a personal statement.
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Some kids share parents' suicidal tendencies
Some children of parents with a history of psychiatric illness may be at higher risk for attempting suicide and/or engaging in violent behaviour, a new Danish study suggests.
Harmful behaviours
Danes born to parents who had themselves attempted suicide, or who had struggled with antisocial personality disorder or marijuana abuse, were found to face the biggest risk for attempted suicide or violence – up to four times as high, the study contended.
But, study lead author Pearl Mok stressed that, despite any potential elevated risk, people born to parents with a psychiatric illness or a violent history aren't necessarily fated to experience similar difficulties.
In fact, most such children won't experience any related problems.
"Of the over 1.7 million people included in our study population, 2.6 percent first attempted suicide and 3.2 percent were convicted of a first violent offence during the study period," Mok said.
Read: Attempted suicide: risk life-long
"Therefore, the vast majority of individuals, irrespective of whether their parent or parents have had a history of psychiatric illnesses, did not engage in these two harmful behaviours," added Mok, a research associate at the University of Manchester in England.
Psychiatric illnesses
Also, the study only showed an association, not a cause-and-effect link.
To explore the issue, investigators sifted through psychiatric and crime registries in Denmark.
The focus was all Danes born between 1967 and 1997. All of the children were living in Denmark when they turned 15 years old.
The researchers first compiled a history of parental psychiatric illnesses. These included mental and mood disorders, schizophrenia, anxiety, Alzheimer's-related dementia, personality disorders, substance abuse and attempted suicide.
Read: Suicidal teens make first try before high school
Parental histories were then compared with attempted suicides and/or violent behaviour among their children. The researchers looked for behaviour that resulted in an adult criminal conviction through December 2012. These convictions included murder, assault, robbery, violent threats, rioting, kidnapping and sexual offences.
Mok said the children of parents with a history of any psychiatric illness were about 2.3 times more likely to be convicted of a violent offence. They were also 2.5 times more likely to attempt suicide than those whose parents had no such diagnosis.
Nature plus nurture
The study was published in JAMA Psychiatry.
The researchers said they also uncovered a gender gap in regards to elevated violence risk. The risk was greater among female children of parents with psychiatric illness than male children. But, male children in general – regardless of parental mental health status – exhibited more violent behaviour overall, the researchers said.
"Thus, women exposed to parental mental illness deviated far more than their unexposed female peers in their incidence of violent offending than was the case with exposed men compared to their unexposed male counterparts," said Mok.
But, exactly why remains unclear.
Mok said the rise in risk among the children is "most likely [due] to a combination of nature plus nurture".
Majority unaffected
However, such children "may also be at heightened risk of being additionally exposed to other adversities such as maladaptive parenting practice, abuse, neglect and financial hardship," she noted.
Read: Child abuse sufferers abuse alcohol as adults
"Shared genetic vulnerability" may play a role, Mok added.
Dr David Brent is an endowed chair in suicide studies and a professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. He was the lead author of an editorial that accompanied the study.
He echoed Mok's point that such children aren't doomed to struggle.
The new study, he said, offers a "clue about which youth to be vigilant about in terms of development of suicidal behaviour or violence."
"[But] genetics or environment is not destiny," Brent added.
"The risk is increased, but the majority of youth even in the high-risk group will be unaffected," he said.
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Meth bust - more than 200kg seized
1:00pm Friday 09 Aug, 2019
Some of the drugs seized in the operation.
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Police have seized more than 200 kilograms of methamphetamine and arrested two people as part of a major drug operation run by the National Organised Crime Group.
A search warrant was carried out at an apartment complex in Auckland central last week as part of Operation Essex.
Operation Essex has targeted members of an overseas criminal organisation working in New Zealand.
On entering the apartment, Police discovered a wardrobe full of cardboard packing boxes. In those were plastic storage containers filled with the drug.
The more than 200kg of methamphetamine located and seized has an estimated street value of approximately $144 million.
A 60-year-old British national was located at the scene and was charged with possession of methamphetamine for supply.
He has been remanded in custody without plea and is due to next appear in the Auckland District Court on September 4.
Subsequent inquiries have lead National Organised Crime Group investigators to a second UK national, a 49-year-old man, who Police allege was supporting and aiding the other man.
He has also been charged with possession of methamphetamine for supply and remanded in custody without plea.
He is expected to appear in the Manukau District Court on August 27.
Detective Inspector Paul Newman says this a significant seizure which will come as a blow to the meth market in this country.
“Wastewater analysis indicates New Zealanders are using about 16kg of methamphetamine a week. The quantity seized then is equivalent to four months of national methamphetamine consumption,” he says.
“New Zealand is being targeted by overseas criminal networks looking to exploit our families and communities for their own gain. This quantity of methamphetamine would have caused an extraordinary amount of harm and we would have all suffered as a result.”
Detective Inspector Paul Newman says this seizure goes a long way to preventing meth-related harm in our communities.
Police urge anyone with information about drug offending to contact Police or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
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Posted on 10-08-2019 17:15 | By morepork
200 KG of gold at the moment is worth $NZ 14,881,321.56. So, this stuff is 10 TIMES more valuable than GOLD! It’s no wonder people are choosing to make and market it, despite the trail of carnage and misery it leaves in our society. How can we devalue it? Get every person on it, off it, and make sure no-one ever starts...No market for it, no problem. I know, unrealistic and unlikely... User resistance? But they MUST have it, so they can’t haggle. The best we can do is as seen here... deprive the market of it. (Ironically, this will actually increase the price...) But the real solution is removing the need or desire for it. We need to get to the kids before the drug lords do...
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Dubbo's median housing price soars
Orlander Ruming - Daily Liberal - 15 August 2016
The median house price at Dubbo has reached a record high, according to Australian Property Monitors.
For the year ending May 31, the median house price in Dubbo reached $340,000, which is a yearly growth of 6.3 per cent.
The median unit price was recorded at $260,000, a two per cent growth.
Across the past decade it’s an annual housing price growth of 4.4 per cent . Units have had a greater increase with a rise of 5.2 per cent in the past ten years.
For renters, the median for a house was $330 per week, while it was $240 for a unit. A yield of 5.4 per cent for houses and 5.7 per cent for units.
Demand for housing has created high development approvals over the last couple of years and those approvals create jobs. - Bob Berry
Real Estate Institute NSW Orana division acting chair Bob Berry said it was a significant amount of growth, and a good sign of Dubbo’s economy.
“Dubbo is still very affordable when you look at the general level of housing prices, and effectively with a one year return of 11.7 per cent, Dubbo remains a very attractive investment location,” Mr Berry said.
Even with the return figure halved it would still be very appealing, he said.
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PHOTOS ALEX TREBUS
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Born into a family of perfumers and artists in 1962, the French father of four founded Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle in 2000. The company encourages and helps its perfumers to create very special fragrances. The name of a perfume’s creator always appears on the bottle like that of an author. Malle’s company has been a part of Estée Lauder Companies since 2015.
Frédéric Malle is something of a legend: He commissions the finest noses in the world tocreate distinctive scents.
A conversation about sensuality, individuality and what makes a perfume the right gift
The twin smells of fresh paint and new furniture meet us as we walk into Frédéric Malle’s freshly refurbished office in Paris. The perfumer and entrepreneur, who actually lives in New York, begins by complaining of jet lag, but before long, his enthusiasm for perfume overcomes his weariness. It’s been almost 20 years since the now 57-year-old founded Editions de Parfum Frédéric Malle in a bid to (re)focus attention on the perfumer’s art. Malle cannot abide the random “faces” of advertising, but he does know how to sell perfume: with sensual allusions and subtle associations that leave room for the imagination – just like a good scent.
Monsieur Malle, your grandfather and your mother were both famous perfumers who worked at Christian Dior. What did your family discuss over meals when you were a child?
The conversation usually turned on the arts or politics, but my mother often talked to us about her work on the way home from school in the car, often grumbling about the people in the marketing department. She was always determined to avoid compromise – both in quality and creation.
Is it possible to hold a constructive debate on scent?
I’ve been working with perfumers for 30 years and we’re always very frank in our discussions of perfume. Is it interesting or not, original, a clean, straightforward composition? We care about the architecture of a perfume. Professional noses converse in their own secret language, and I’m very lucky to be able to speak it.
Is there such a thing as an objectively good or bad perfume?
A good perfume doesn’t aim to say ten things at once. It’s a precise scent, comparable with the cut of an elegant dress. It’s one that surprises and looks ahead. But most importantly, a good perfume becomes a part of an individual’s personality so when you smell it, you always associate it with that person and not a brand. A good perfume combines with the wearer’s skin. That’s the magic perfumers must be able to conjure up.
Perfumer Frédéric Malle has both expert knowledge and a very fine nose
A good perfume doesn’t aim to say ten things at once
But we are generally given to believe that we need a different perfume for every occasion and hair color. Are you a defender of the “perfume for life”?
In a way, yes. That would be the ideal. On the other hand, while having breakfast at the Café de Flore in Paris recently, I looked around at the people there: Most of them were wearing jeans and T-shirts, but with the added touch of a stylish jacket or purse. A perfume can also make a good accessory, like a color that you can change now and again.
Aside from a distinctive scent, packaging and the good name of its creator, what else does it take for a good perfume to be successful?
A name and a story that tells people what the perfume is about. Take Angéliques sous la Pluie, for instance: Smell it, and you will find that it’s not a colorful fragrance – and if it does have a color, then it’s a delicate lilac. It’s a subtle scent that reminds me of a Scottish landscape, a bouquet of angelica lying out in the rain. Portrait of a Lady is one of the loveliest perfumes we have ever made, but it was so incredibly chic, I wasn’t sure whether it would catch on. I wondered whether it would even be suitable for everyday wear. In a case like that, I have to picture the person who would wear the perfume.
Names like Portrait of a Lady and Monsieur give clear hints.
If I smell something that reminds me of a gentleman, I call it “Monsieur.” But a woman can still claim the perfume for herself, just as she can wear an oversized blazer. It’s more difficult for a man to wear Portrait of a Lady, but some do. I don’t always get it right, of course. From the very beginning, I considered our perfume Musc Ravageur to be a classic and a very sexy scent – for a woman. But then I realized that men were buying it, too. It’s a genderless perfume. Everyone thought it was scandalous because it bucked every trend, but everyone likes its sexy undertone. The term “unisex,” on the other hand, describes something quite different. Unisex perfumes are very clean fragrances that are neutral rather than sexy. Our perfumes are certainly not unisex, they are profoundly sexy.
How often do new aromatic substances come out?
Good perfumers are always on the lookout for new, natural ingredients. Jean-Claude Ellena, for example, once came across timut pepper, which tastes of grapefruit. He found it so interesting that he had two kilos of it distilled in a lab. Chemical discoveries are much more rare. Obtaining a license for them is complicated, so they are expensive. That’s why the big chemical companies that bring out new fragrances also plan how to market them from the very beginning – and why these new molecules all have a similar smell.
The lab look is misleading:
Most scents originate in
Dry, woody, with a hint of amber. Each has some little facet that’s different, but the bottom line is that they are all boring. The great discoveries that led to the use of chemical compounds in perfume compositions were made in the late 20th century, and included the molecule calone, which smells of the sea and oysters, musk molecules, and the isolated scent of cotton candy.
Do you commission research?
No, my perfumers are like the Formula 1 racing drivers; they have access to the best materials. The producers send them all the new aromas because they want them to be used.
How do young perfumers get a foot in the door?
It’s very difficult to get ahead in this business. The path is long and there’s no system to it. The best newcomers have to overcome many obstacles to train with the best perfumers. And then it takes them another 15 years to develop their own style. Only candidates with a real personality can become top perfumers. Otherwise, they are just excellent technicians.
Why are there so few great female perfumers?
The profession originated in southern France, where family knowledge was passed down from fathers to sons, who would then attend the academy in Grasse. But this started to change more than 30 years ago when I began my training. Not only women, but also students from outside the area began attending the school. Today there are just as many women perfumers as men, but they are still quite young.
Do perfumes have to be expensive?
Sometimes a high price is justified, sometimes it is not. Just as with sports cars and couture dresses, the relatively high price of a good perfume can be justified by its ingredients and how it is made. It takes 400 roses to produce a single bottle of Portrait of a Lady, for example. I make sure we follow the restaurant principle and don’t charge the same for scrambled eggs as for caviar. But as a buyer, you have to be careful, because if you are unlucky, you may only be paying for the marketing – hot air, in other words.
Many people like to give perfume as a gift. What’s important to remember?
I’d say the same applies to perfume as to any other gift: Don’t make it one for yourself. Also, you have to go one step further with perfume. You have to consider who the person really is, what they love, how they dress, what interests them. Describe them to someone who can advise you. The greatest faux pas possible is to present someone with a perfume that says: I want you to be someone else. People usually choose their own perfumes instinctively: A boring person will usually wear a boring perfume.
But the ads tell us that by wearing the right perfume, anyone can become a sex god.
That kind of marketing is boring and only appeals to boring people who buy boring perfumes.
Rose & Cuir,
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Swallowed by the jungle
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PHOTOS KIRSTEN MILHAHN
Mountain rainforests and giant flowers, carpets of moss and magical groves – a hike through the Rwenzori Mountains of Uganda is like a fantasy film expedition.
The Rwenzori Mountains, as the legendary “Mountains of the Moon” are officially called, extend far into western Uganda, into the area bordering the Congo. Some days earlier: We begin our hike at the foot of the mountains. The Rwenzori Mountaineering Service, a local association of mountain guides, has its base camp in the village of Ibanda. In the blazing heat, we distribute our baggage among a team of bearers, most of them Bakonjos, who are native to the region. They pack food and cooking utensils, roll mattresses into sacks, and stow the ropes, ice axes, crampons and harnesses we will need on the glacier.
Our group of six is planning to devote a whole week to hiking the Rwenzori National Park, where we will spend the nights in huts or tents, and finally climb Mount Stanley and its summit – the 5109-meter-high Margherita Peak – which is the third-highest elevation on the contintent after Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and Mount Kenya. Unlike the two highest peaks, however, Rwenzori is not volcanic in origin; it’s a mountain range, and Africa’s highest. Among mountaineers, our project is considered difficult and relatively challenging given the fairly inaccessible paths that will take us over rocks, roots, and marshland, and the steady rain and cold that test the limits of even experienced mountain climbers. But awaiting those who conquer the glacial peaks of the Mountains of the Moon are not only one of the most wondrous forests, but also dream gorges and fairy-tale highland panoramas. Legend has it that even the source of the White Nile is somewhere up there.
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Lost Civilization
No, we’re not talking about Machu Picchu here! The Teyuna Trail in Columbia is older and not as overrun. It takes you over huge jungle-covered mountains as far as the ciudad perdida, the lost city of Teyuna.
Icy Splendor
The Arctic Circle Trail extends 170 kilometers along the west coast of Greenland, from Sisimiut as far as Kangerlussuaq. It takes experienced hikers between nine and eleven days to cover the distance, but they are rewarded by ice, endless skies and wind.
One mountain range, three countries
“The Peaks of the Balkans” is the name of the new concept trail through the Prokletije Mountains, which passes through Albania, Montenegro and Kosovo: incredible panoramas, dotted with deserted bunkers and watchtowers.
WORLD NATURAL HERITAGE SITE WITH OBSTACLES
The Tongariro Circuit Trail in New Zealand is hard going, but it’s even harder to gain permission to go there in the first place. Access is restricted in the interests of protecting the volcanic landscape.
Wondrous world: a senecio stands meters tall thanks to the rainfall and the intense UV rays of the sun, and beyond it, a glacial lake
Jockim Muhindo (left) and Henry Bwambale, both born and raised here, accompany the troupe through the mountains
The trail first passes through banana groves and coffee plantations. A few women dressed in traditional, colorful robes and scarves on their head, giggle and wave from the roadside. Children yell “wazungu, wazungu” after us, “white strangers.” Men buzz by on mopeds loud as circular saws. Then suddenly, behind the gates at the entrance to the national park, the jungle opens its maw and we are swallowed up. The human hubbub falls silent. All we hear is the sound of a mountain river plunging full throttle into the valley. A sweetish-warm fragrance fills our nostrils. The vegetation forms a canopy above our heads so that now the path resembles a green, ever-ascending tunnel. After eight hours and roughly seven kilometers of hard walking through the mountain rainforest, we reach the first waypoint on our hike, Nybitaba Hut, 2650 meters up. Any secret hopes we may have had of spending the night in an idyllic lodge overlooking the slopes are disappointed here: It’s just a ramshackle cabin in the middle of the forest with small, dark rooms, homemade bunk beds up against bare timber walls, and an entrance hall dominated by a long table of coarse wood and two bare benches. Headlamps supply all the light there is. This is as cozy as it gets.
Mountain guide Patrick Marahi poses for the camera 4215 meters up
The Margherita Glacier, the final and most perilous stage of our climb
A welcome breather beside a giant lobelia cactus
Encounter with a chameleon
Day two brings rain. Our first rain shower arrives at breakfast time. We sit it out in the hut, then stoically march out into the lush, dripping greenery. Streaks of mist billow above dark-green mountain slopes. On the trees, pale outcrops of old man’s beard flutter like pennants in the wind that drives heaps of clouds our way at regular intervals. Then the heavens open and it buckets down. The mountains certainly do justice to their name, Rwenzori, which means “rainmaker” in one Ugandan language. There are more than 300 days of rainfall a year here, and most of the time, the mountaintops are obscured by towering cloud. That’s why even into the late 19th century, no European was aware of the existence of the Rwenzori Mountains. Although the scholars of Ancient Greece suspected that the Nile was fed by a giant snowy massif in the south, all proof remained hidden – and the theory was forgotten until the year 1889, when Sir Henry Morton Stanley, the British-American Africa explorer, happened to pass by on one of those rare days when the massif is not swathed in cloud.
The Mountains of the Moon are inscrutable and do not surrender their secrets lightly, our Ugandan mountain guides tell us. The higher we climb, the better we understand what these local Bakonjo men mean. The rain and the constantly high humidity here create ideal conditions for some wondrous vegetation: intertwined tree heather with balls of moss resembling cotton batting running riot on their stems, lobelia cactuses, and senecios, in Germany well known as dainty flowering succulents, but here growing several meters tall.
The John Matte Hut at around 3500 meters above sea level
We reach the heights at which first signs of altitude sickness can appear. The bearers hurry on ahead of us, slender figures balancing as much as 20 kilograms on their brow bands as they traverse marshy ground and mountaintops with admirable grace. From day three onward, it is so wet that we can only continue our trek in gumboots. Miss the planking in the bog and we end up calf-deep in mud. On this particular afternoon, the clouds have once again brewed up a murky soup over Lake Bujuku, the largest of the area’s four glacial lakes. I am glad to say that our guide, Patrick Marah, has not strayed from my side since base camp. I ask him where the waters of the Nile come from. He points first to the Bujuku and then to the cloud front up ahead before giving a dismissive wave of the hand and muttering something about a storm on the way and also something like, “You’ll see.” Then he hurries on. Not two minutes later, the first hailstones come pelting down. We have reached the alpine zone.
The days grow even wetter; the paths, steeper; the nights, colder. All we have in the mountain huts is hot tea and our sleeping bags. Some people cough themselves to sleep. The air up here is so rare that our exertions sap our energy and fray our nerves. It’s a real effort to peel yourself out of your sleeping bag in temperatures below zero, and it’s particularly tough at the Elena Hut, our temporary camp just below the summit. Slowly I count to five, take a deep breath, open my sleeping bag and slip into my clammy clothes. It’s three in the morning and pitch-black outside. Before us likes the final stage of our climb, the ascent to Margherita Peak. An icy wind lashes our faces, each breath is painful. We trudge off, step after step up icy ledges in the beam of our headlamps. I listen to my rasping breath interrupted only by the crunch of the snow beneath my feet. Our bodies have long since been concentrating on the essentials: walking, breathing, walking. Roped together and with crampons beneath our soles, we stomp across the Stanley Glacier, which resembles an elephant’s gigantic back. My lungs burn. We take enforced rests.
We made it: Heading back down into the valley from the Guy Yeomann Hut
A night between rock and ice at the summit camp
The first rays of the sun are just appearing as we reach the edge of the Margherita Glacier, a meter-thick carapace of aquamarine ice and snow. Once we have put that behind us, we have reached our destination. Exhausted, I flop down onto a ledge and stare up at the glacier’s icy tongue, shimmering before my eyes. I spot Patrick, who waves me over. He points his ax toward a rivulet welling up from beneath the ice. “Nile water,” he says with a grin. And then I suddenly notice the dripping, burbling sounds of water all around – glacial ice more than 10 000 years old melting faster than ever before due to climate change. It trickles down the rocks, collects in glacial lakes and plunges down through rugged gorges to the plains below; it pours into the large lakes of the Ugandan savannah and from there makes its way to the Nile. It is a fantastic sight.
We climb the final 200 meters to the summit. The climb is truly intoxicating! Three of us make it to the top of Margherita Peak and pause for a few moments, proud and enraptured. Then we head right back down again, rushing valleyward, breathing in the air as it finally becomes less and less rare and richer in oxygen. We leave behind the blue-green Kitandara glacial lakes and Freshfield Pass with its vegetation resembling a garden of oversized cactuses. We attempt to keep pace with our bearers – and naturally have no chance of catching up with them. We pass through the vegetation zones of the Rwenzori: the lobelia cactus jungle, the meters-high tree heather and bamboo groves, the mountain rainforest, moss, ferns, streaks of mist and white waters everywhere. And then the gates of the national park spit us back out into civilization again.
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Quotes & Excerpts
Meister Eckhart, Marguerite Porete and the soul who wants nothing February 13, 2017
Being at Home in Two Worlds: Meister Eckhart on Mary and Martha and the Integration of the Active and Contemplative Life May 21, 2016
Joseph Campbell on religious symbols August 1, 2015
A Matter Of Practice June 14, 2015
Presence and absence May 21, 2015
The invitation May 10, 2015
Meister Eckhart on seeing God in everything April 25, 2015
The breakthrough moment April 11, 2015
Glimpses of now along the way to New Norcia April 6, 2015
Meister Eckhart’s Poverty Sermon April 6, 2015
The Mystic Realisation February 9, 2015
Blessed Silence February 8, 2015
The more fertile question February 7, 2015
The soul’s Copernican revolution December 9, 2014
The narrow line of our lives November 24, 2014
The Only Gift October 31, 2014
Why I practice meditation in the Christian tradition October 28, 2014
Do more… October 27, 2014
Me and my shadow September 30, 2014
The Dalai Lama on life and death August 29, 2014
Author: Christopher Malcolm Knauf
Christopher is a teacher of Philosophy and Religious Studies, a leader of spiritual retreats and teacher of meditation in the Christian tradition. He holds a Master of Theology from the University of Divinity (Melbourne College of Divinity). Christopher is currently writing his PhD thesis on the medieval mystical theology of Meister Eckhart.
Meister Eckhart, Marguerite Porete and the soul who wants nothing
In this essay I compare two mystical texts that share such an affinity of thought and language that many commentators have found it difficult to imagine they could have emerged independently of one another. The texts both belong to the early decades of the 14th century and are classics of the Christian mystical tradition. The first is The Mirror of Simple Souls, whose author was not until the 1960s conclusively identified as Marguerite Porete, the French beguine condemned as a heretic and burned at the stake in 1310. The second text is Beati pauperes spiritu, German Sermon (Predigt) 52, a work regarded by many as the literary and theological high point in the career of the German Dominican Meister Eckhart.
Beginning with Herbert Grundmann’s groundbreaking work in the 1960s, considerable research has been invested in establishing a direct line of influence from Marguerite’s Mirror to Eckhart’s so-called ‘Poverty Sermon.’ Portrayals, by Kurt Ruh, Alois Haas and others, of Eckhart as a sympathetic interpreter seeking to give philosophical and theological legitimacy to Marguerite’s thought and to Beguine mysticism in general, would have benefited immensely from direct historical or forensic proof of textual lineage. But, to date, the evidence, such as that detailed in an influential 1984 essay by Edmund Colledge and Jack Marler, has been almost entirely circumstantial. The fact remains, however, that while there is a paucity of external evidence linking these works, internal indicators of their semantic affinity abound. And the numerous influential studies to have presumed Eckhart’s access to the Mirror primarily on the strength of this perceived affinity attest to this. Whether this presumption of direct lineage is warranted by the conceptual resonances alone is a question that requires much more investigation. And this raises a range of methodological questions. According to which criteria, for example, could one determine whether the intertextual similarities are so compelling as to necessitate the reception of the Mirror by Eckhart, or whether the perhaps more economical hypothesis, that the two writers simply shared a common metaphysical framework and Dionysian vocabulary, is sufficient to explain the affinity? In the absence of compelling historical evidence, (and perhaps even, in spite of it), it seems that the weighing of such explanatory hypotheses requires an in-depth analysis of all significant instances of verbal and semantic convergence.
The interplay between texts is described in poststructuralist literary theory as ‘intertextuality.’ Intertextuality occurs when meanings in one text are constructed in relation to another text. It may be the intended device of the author, such as a reference or allusion to another text, or even the ‘re-contextualization’ of meanings from one text to another. Intertextuality may also occur purely from the subjective perspective of the reader, whereby, regardless of authorial intent, a text is interpreted in the light of the reader’s own knowledge of another text or texts. There is a range of ways in which texts may stand in relation to one another and intertextuality furnishes a framework for analyzing and describing such relationships. In the following analysis, I examine a single example of intertextuality, where Beati pauperes spiritu reflects almost word-for-word an expression coined by Marguerite in the Mirror of Simple Souls. Giving attention to differences as much as to similarities, I compare the deep meanings in each text in the hope of gauging where this instance of Eckhart’s ‘mirroring of the Mirror,’ as Maria Lichtman called it, might fall on a continuum between the intentional device of the author (obligatory intertextuality) and the perception of the reader (accidental intertextuality).
A recurrent theme in Meister Eckhart’s teaching is the realization, in the human person, of indistinct union with God. In the vernacular works this breaking-through to union, famously represented through the metaphor of the ‘birth of God in the soul,’ is accompanied by a disposition of self-relinquishment that Eckhart describes in a variety of terms including abegescheidenheit (detachment) and gelassenheit (resignation or letting-go). Beati pauperes spiritu, Predigt 52, sees Eckhart adopt a new vocabulary to convey this teaching: the soul in whom union is realized is portrayed as a ‘poor man’ who ‘wants nothing, knows nothing, and has nothing.’ This identification of mystical union with the impoverishment of the soul is present also in Marguerite Porete’s earlier spiritual allegory, the full title of which is The Mirror of simple annihilated souls and those who only remain in will and desire of love. Despite its convoluted construction the title flags well the book’s central concern, the ‘annihilation’ or ‘bringing to nothing’ of the soul. The realization of union with God converges with the realization of the absolute nothingness of the created self. In Chapter 42 Marguerite describes the relationship of the annihilated soul to its natural “powers” of will and intellect. The chapter title announces that the Holy Spirit is to reveal, “what such a Soul knows, and what she wishes for, and what she has.” (Mirror: Babinsky, 121) It is this statement and its ensuing elucidation that, perhaps more explicitly than anything else in the Mirror, resonates with Eckhart’s Poverty Sermon.
Beati pauperes spiritu is a homily on the gospel for the Feast of All Saints (1 November), which was then as it is to this day Matthew 5:1–12, the Matthean beatitudes. The focus is the first beatitude: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” The entire sermon is an interpretive gloss on the three words, “poor in spirit.” Against a background of bitter controversy over the place of ascetic poverty in monastic and ecclesiastical life Eckhart here embarks on a radical re-imagining of spiritual poverty. He begins provocatively by challenging the wisdom of one of the great religious authorities of the era, the Dominican luminary, Albert the Great.
Bishop Albert says a poor man is one who finds no satisfaction in all things that God ever created, and this is well said. But we shall speak better, taking poverty in a higher sense: a poor man is one who wants nothing, knows nothing, and has nothing. (Pr. 52: Walshe, 420)
For Albert poverty was determined by one’s relationship to “things.” Eckhart’s “higher sense” understands poverty in terms of one’s relationship to oneself. In framing his ideal of the “poor man” thus Eckhart comes very close to Marguerite’s description in Chapter 42 of what the annihilated soul “knows, and what she wishes for, and what she has.”
This soul knows nothing but one thing, and that is that she knows nothing; and she wishes for nothing but one thing, and that is to wish for nothing. And this knowing nothing and wishing for nothing give her everything, says the Holy Spirit, and they enable her to find the secret and hidden treasure, which is eternally enclosed in the Trinity. (Mirror, Ch. 42: Colledge, 61. See also Babinsky, 121)
Marguerite’s construction lacks the economy and elegance of Eckhart’s threefold formula but in linking knowing, wanting (or wishing), and having the two are clearly in alignment. The point of greatest convergence is in the negating of will and intellect through wanting nothing and knowing nothing. The realization of the nothingness of the individual created self and, indeed, of all created ‘things’ is the fulcrum in the teaching of both texts on union with the divine. The most significant point of difference here is in the treatment of the third aspect, “having.” For Marguerite, knowing nothing and wishing for nothing are the means whereby the soul comes to have “everything.” The annihilation of will and intellect furnishes the soul with the “secret and hidden treasure, which is eternally enclosed in the Trinity.”
Eckhart treats “having” entirely differently, giving it the same ‘semantic shape’ as he does wanting and knowing. As the third element in his three-fold definition of poverty “having,” like wanting and knowing, is an egoic capacity that is negated in the realization of nothingness. Thus, in contrast to Marguerite’s annihilated soul, Eckhart’s poor man has absolutely nothing. Furthermore, as the third point in a three-point sermon, “having nothing” is, by homiletic design, the sermon’s climactic high point. If Eckhart’s re-imagining of wanting and knowing nothing shatters conventional understandings, this final twist takes poverty to another level again. For “having nothing” means that one cannot “have” even a place within oneself for God to work. And this, Eckhart observes, is the “strictest poverty,” (Pr. 52: Walshe, 423)
Let us now locate these two approaches to wanting, knowing and having within the broader context of each text respectively. We begin with the Mirror, where Marguerite maps seven stages or steps in the realization of union. The ultimate stage is the eternal enjoyment of beatific union that comes at death. The sixth stage is a momentary flash or “spark” of the eternal bliss of the seventh. Marguerite describes this “spark” as the opening or “aperture of the sweet movement of glory,” which then closes over again. The crucial fifth stage is a lasting state of inner freedom in which the soul, in her “knowing-nothing” and “willing nothing,” is “unencumbered from all things.” In the first four stages the soul is still in servitude to creaturely desires. Various ascetic practices help one to advance through these early stages but the fifth stage is entirely dependent on the working of God in the soul. The soul is passive. The “work” or “movement” of God, the “spark,” arises and disappears so quickly that it is imperceptible, yet it leaves a lasting and irreversible affect. This encounter, which Marguerite describes in the ecstatic language of courtly love as the “ravishing” or “overflowing” of “the Farnearness” within the soul, leaves the soul wanting and knowing nothing other than what God wants and knows. After this transformative encounter “the Soul keeps herself freely at the fifth stage” and there can be no return to the fourth. (Mirror: Babinsky, 135) At the fifth stage the Annihilated Soul, bereft of will and knowledge, also has no life of her own, for she is now living “the divine life.” If her life is now the Divine life, where does this leave the soul herself? The truth is that there is no more any ‘self,’ no ‘I’ at the centre of this soul’s subjectivity and agency, or more accurately perhaps, no ‘self’ or ‘I’ for her now, except God. In union with her Beloved the soul is, thus, without her ‘self.’
This Soul, says Love, who lives the divine life, is always without herself.
And when, for God’s sake, says Reason, is she without herself?
When she belongs to herself, says Love.
Reason responds, and when does she belong to herself?When she is no part of herself, says Love, neither in God nor in herself, nor in her neighbours: but in the annihilation by which this Spark opens her by the approach of His work. (Mirror, Ch. 59: Babinsky, 136)
This theme is taken up again later in the poetic “song of the Soul.”
I have said that I will love Him.I lie, for I am not. It is He alone who loves me: He is, and I am not; And nothing more is necessary to me than what He wills, And that He is worthy. (Mirror, Ch. 122: Babinsky, 201)
Even from this brief summary it is clear that Marguerite teaches that what the soul ‘has,’ is not of herself, for there is no longer a self but only God. The soul ‘has’ nothing. Yet in ‘living the divine life’ she has everything that is in God.
We turn now to Sermon 52 and the ideal of the “poor person” as a soul who wants nothing, and knows nothing, and has nothing. Meister Eckhart opposes his understanding of “wanting nothing” to that of well-intentioned people who believe that to be spiritually poor one “should so live that he never does his own will in anything, but should strive to do the dearest will of God,” (Pr. 52: Walshe, 421). Eckhart counters that, “as long as a man is so disposed that it is his will with which he would do the most beloved will of God, that man has not the poverty we are speaking about: for that man has a will to serve God’s will – and that is not true poverty!”
To unlock the truth about wanting nothing Eckhart invites his hearers to use their ‘metaphysical imagination’ and conceptualize their own non-existence. “For a man to possess true poverty, he must be as free of his created will as he was when he was not.” The prior non-existence of “when he was not” is not, for Eckhart, an absolute cessation of being, but non-existence as a creature. It is existence prior to existence as a creature wherein the creature is “free of his created will” and therefore “wants nothing.” This distinction, which is fundamental to Eckhart’s teaching on poverty, has its foundation in his quasi-Platonic metaphysics. In Eckhart’s metaphysics existence as a particular creature, the esse formale, is distinguished from existence itself, the esse virtuale. ‘Being in this particular form’ (esse formale) is secondary to and contingent upon ‘being in itself’ (esse virtuale). Creatures have no real existence in themselves. They are in that sense nothing. For, existence – that I am – does not arise from what I am: it is not a property of my created self. Rather, that I am is the necessary pre-condition of what I am (as creature). Eckhart refers to this transcendental ‘pre-existence’ as “when I stood in my first cause.” The first cause, a category borrowed from the Liber de causis, is the primary creating cause of all existence and is necessarily also the cause of itself. Aquinas identified this uncaused first cause with God. Eckhart claims this standing for himself: “When I stood in my first cause, I then had no ‘God,’ and then I was my own cause,” (Pr. 52: Colledge, 200). He makes clear, though, that this “lofty status” (rîcheit) is enjoyed equally by God, the highest angel, the soul and the fly. “The least of these beings possesses in God as much as he possesses.” (Pr. 52: Colledge, 200). When, prior to “receiving created being,” Eckhart stood in his first cause, he was uncaused “bare being” (ledic sîn). In that pure and formless state nothing needed to be added to what he was in order for him to be complete. Not even God. “Then I wanted myself and wanted no other thing: what I wanted I was and what I was I wanted, and thus I was free of God and all things.” (Pr. 52: Walshe, 421).
Eckhart’s use of the first person ‘I’ here and throughout the sermon is significant. If ever there was the sound of heresy on his lips it is here, where he explicitly identifies himself with the uncaused cause and seems even to place himself above God. But this is not Eckhart’s intention at all. The subject of the ‘I’ in these statements is not the particular creature, Meister Eckhart, but uncaused ‘bare being’ itself. Eckhart is not making heretical claims for his created self, but expressing in intentionally confronting language the radical shift of identity that attends poverty of spirit. The poor person is one who ‘dis-identifies’ with the created self (which has a God), and identifies instead with uncreated being, (which, as cause of itself, has no ‘God’).
In his ‘return’ or “breaking-through” (durchbrechen) to this pre-created state the ‘poor man’ is complete and wants nothing other than what he is. In the same way his ‘return’ to the existential unity in which he stood prior to taking on existence as a particular creature liberates his knowing from the tyranny of distinction. Thus, the soul “is deprived of the knowledge that God is working in it: rather it just is itself, enjoying itself God-fashion.” (Pr. 52: Walshe, 422) Having nothing follows this trajectory to its ultimate conclusion. Not only is the uncreated soul unaware that God is working in it; but, freed from all distinctions, it has no ‘within and without.’ There is no-thing wherein God may work, and no ‘God’ to do the work, and no work to be done.
In my breaking-through, where I stand free of my own will, of God’s will, of all his works, and of God himself, then I am above all creatures and am neither God nor creature, but I am that which I was and shall remain for evermore. (Pr. 52: Walshe, 424)
This “breaking-through” reveals that in the “strictest poverty” of having no place in him for God to work the poor man “wins for himself what he has eternally been and shall eternally remain.” (Pr. 52: Walshe, 425) In this, Eckhart’s ‘poor man’ and Marguerite’s ‘annihilated soul’ are remarkably close. For, in “having nothing” the poor man breaks through to the same “secret and hidden treasure” that the annihilated soul has gained. Like the soul, he “has everything in God.” Conversely, the annihilated soul who, in the fifth stage, is “living the divine life,” experiences the poor man’s poverty of having nothing in that she is “always without herself (and) no part of herself, neither in God nor in herself.” (Mirror, Ch. 59: Babinsky, 136) As an aside, it should be noted there are even hints in the Mirror of the metaphysical notion of the pre-created state that is the theoretical foundation of Eckhart’s re-imagining of spiritual poverty. In Chapter 138 Marguerite speaks of the annihilated soul being “in the stage of her prior being,” and the unity that occurs “when the soul is melted in the simple Deity, who is one simple Being of overflowing fruition.” (Mirror, Ch. 138: Babinsky, 219 – 220)
In summary. We have sought to show that Eckhart’s threefold formula, “The poor man is one who wants nothing, and knows nothing, and has nothing,” mirrors in part Marguerite’s notion of the annihilated soul as “knowing nothing and wishing for nothing,” and that the negation of will and intellect is understood in both texts to mean fundamentally the same thing. We noted that Eckhart departs from Marguerite’s understanding of what this Soul ‘has.’ For Marguerite, the soul has everything. For Eckhart, the poor man, has nothing. Yet, on further analysis we saw that the two texts are not as dissonant on this matter as it might appear. For, in his ‘breaking-through’ the poor man ‘has’ in union with God what the annihilated soul has, which is everything that God has, and this he has through the poverty of having nothing in himself (as creature).
To conclude then, it is evident from this analysis that there exists between the two texts a remarkable and deep semantic affinity concerning what the realized soul wants, knows and has. Upon examination, even the one significant moment of dissonance between the two is resolved. Yet to conclude that this amounts to an intentional reference by Eckhart to Chapter 42 of Marguerite’s text, i.e., ‘obligatory intertextuality,’ is problematic. For, the question remains that if, at a deep level, he meant fundamentally the same thing as Marguerite, why did Eckhart depart from Marguerite’s verbal construction by changing ‘having everything’ to ‘having nothing?’ I suggest that the answer to this question lies somewhere in the difference between Marguerite as poetic allegorist in the tradition of the medieval courtly romance, and Eckhart as philosopher-theologian, and consummate homilist of the Order of Preachers, master of the three-point sermon.
Copyright, Christopher Malcolm Knauf. 2017.
A version of this paper was presented at the annual conference of the Mystical Theology Network, University of Glasgow, December 2016
References cited in this essay are from the following translations of Porete and Eckhart.
Marguerite Porete. The Mirror of Simple Souls. Translated with an introductory interpretive essay by Edmund Colledge, J.C. Marler, and Judith Grant. Notre Dame Texts in Medieval Culture 6. 1999, Reprint, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010. [Mirror]
Also the translation of the Mirror by Ellen L. Babinsky. The Classics of Western Spirituality, New York: Paulist Press, 1993. [Babinsky]
Meister Eckhart. The Complete Mystical Works of Meister Eckhart. Translated by Maurice O’C. Walshe. New York: Crossroad Herder, 2009. [Walshe]
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Being at Home in Two Worlds: Meister Eckhart on Mary and Martha and the Integration of the Active and Contemplative Life
What did the 14th Century Dominican, Meister Eckhart teach about spiritual and contemplative practices? Not a lot. Better known, perhaps, for the challenging abstractions of his so-called mystical theology than for any substantive advice on practice it is hardly surprising that Eckhart’s methodology has often been called a ‘way without a way’. His typical response to requests for a contemplative method, such as those prescribed by other spiritual writers, was that the ‘way’ one uses is not particularly important, and can even be a hindrance. By identifying too strongly with a particular methodology one might end up ‘getting the way’ but miss God!
Eckhart’s teaching was more concerned with cultivating a fundamental outlook or orientation to life than with promoting a particular ‘way’ or practice. A person who is rightly oriented will realize her or his ‘union’ with the divine not through some special spiritual practice but within the whole of life. German scholar, Dietmar Mieth, has called this approach a ‘mysticism of everyday life,’ which I think is a better characterization of Eckhart’s teaching than the ‘way without a way.’ For Eckhart a life of contemplation is not only entirely compatible with the hustle and bustle of ordinary daily life; in fact, the two – the vita contemplativa and the vita activa – mutually nourish one another. The highest contemplation is expressed in active engagement with daily life and work, not in spite of it. In Eckhart, the inner and the outer are integrated.
Two texts within Eckhart’s quite extensive body of work that illustrate this aspect of his teaching are sermons on the same Biblical text, the story of Mary and Martha in Luke 10:38–42. A favourite among contemplative writers from the time of Origen in the third century this story of the two sisters of Bethany is given a fresh twist in Eckhart’s German Sermons 2 and 86, where his creative way of reading scripture is given a particularly good workout. While the traditional interpretation, and that adopted by most spiritual writers, would see the story as favouring the contemplative Mary over the active Martha, Eckhart turns it around completely. For him it is Martha whom Jesus holds up as exemplar of the truly grounded soul.
To appreciate how and why Eckhart reaches this conclusion we need first to fill in a little background. We shall first take a moment to reacquaint ourselves with Luke 10 itself. Then we shall briefly survey the treatment given this same story by other writers in the contemplative tradition. This will give Eckhart’s approach some context. Finally, before examining Eckhart’s treatment of Luke 10 in some detail, we will give a few minutes to reacquainting ourselves with some key features of his mystical theology.
The story of Mary and Martha in Luke 10:38–42.
The Text
Let’s first look at the text, in the Latin from which Eckhart preached and then in a good recent English translation, the NRSV.
Latin Vulgate
(38) factum est autem dum irent et ipse intravit in quoddam castellum et mulier quaedam Martha nomine excepit illum in domum suam (39) et huic erat soror nomine Maria quae etiam sedens secus pedes Domini audiebat verbum illius (40) Martha autem satagebat circa frequens ministerium quae stetit et ait Domine non est tibi curae quod soror mea reliquit me solam ministrare dic ergo illi ut me adiuvet (41) et respondens dixit illi Dominus Martha Martha sollicita es et turbaris erga plurima (42) porro unum est necessarium Maria optimam partem elegit quae non auferetur ab ea
(38) Now as they went on their way, he entered a certain village, where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. (39) She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he was saying. (40) But Martha was distracted by her many tasks; so she came to him and asked, ‘Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to do all the work by myself? Tell her then to help me.’ (41) But the Lord answered her, ‘Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things; (42) there is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her.’
The Context: The placement of the story within Luke’s narrative
If you have a Bible, look at the text in its context. You will notice that Luke has the Martha and Mary story grouped with the parable of the Good Samaritan, which precedes it (Lk 10:25–37), and the Lord’s Prayer, which immediately follows (Lk 11:1–4). Between Jesus’ story of loving service and his instruction on prayer is a story of two sisters, one distracted by housework and hospitality and the other in rapt attention at the feet of Jesus. I think this is quite significant.
The Narrative: An implied ‘example parable’
This is a simple story. Two sisters are presented as opposites. Jesus indicates a preference for the approach of one over the other. The reader is left to conclude that she or he should follow the example of the sister that Jesus favoured. The story actually has the shape and structure of an example parable, except that its message is implied rather than explained.
Like many of Luke’s characters the Bethany sisters function as archetypes or exemplars of different ways of responding to Jesus and his teaching about the reign of God. Martha, the elder, exemplifies the disciple who sees action as the most important thing, an orientation often referred to as the vita activa or active life. Mary exemplifies the more reflective or prayerful approach, the vita contemplativa. Luke’s author has Jesus indicate for the reader which of the two is to be preferred. Mary is praised for having chosen ‘the better part,’ the ‘one thing’ that is needed. Martha is gently chided for being distracted by ‘many things.’
Down through the millennia this story, interpreted in this way, has been a favourite among writers in the contemplative tradition.
Survey of the treatment of Mary and Martha within the tradition
Origen of Alexandria
Origen (184/5 – 253/4) was the first to see in Luke’s Bethany narrative an allegory of the classic Aristotelian dichotomy between the ‘practical’ and the ‘theoretical’. Martha epitomized the practical or active life, and Mary the theoretical or contemplative. For Origen the two lifestyles are not mutually exclusive but rather stages on the journey to Christian perfection. Spiritual maturity involves transcending the inclination toward temporal things and aligning oneself increasingly with the eternal reality that is our ultimate destination. Mary, exemplar of the contemplative life, is thus farther along on the path to perfection than her sister.
John Chrysostom (ca. 349 – 407) rejected Origen’s allegorical interpretation altogether. For him the critical point of the story is not the preference of the contemplative over the active but how attuned one is to what is most important in any given moment. Martha was reproved not for being practical but for being caught up with other things when Jesus was in the house declaring the good news of the arrival of the Kingdom. Mary got it right, not because she chose the contemplative option, but because she dropped everything and gave attention to Jesus’ teaching at the time (kairos).
Augustine’s (354 – 430) thinking bears the imprint of Greek philosophy, and in particular Neoplatonism. Accordingly, in his treatment of Mary and Martha we could expect action to be subordinated to contemplation. However, Augustine’s sermons reveal a rather more balanced view in which both sisters served the Lord admirably, although in different ways.
The sisters were ‘siblings in the flesh but also in religious observance; both cling to the Lord; both served the Lord present in the flesh harmoniously,’ (Sermon 103). Martha’s waiting on the Lord in hospitable service complemented Mary’s waiting on the Lord in contemplative silence. Martha’s contribution was necessary and enabled Mary’s enjoyment of the Lord’s teaching. ‘Martha has to set sail in order that Mary can remain quietly in port,’ (Sermon 104).
Unlike monastic theologians such as Origen, Augustine, the priest and busy administrator who would become bishop of Hippo, held a more ‘incarnational’, practical and ‘this-worldly’ view of Christian sanctification. He spoke of the Christian life as being ‘otherworldly in the world,’ an approach, as I have said, that we will see continued in Meister Eckhart’s ‘mysticism of everyday life.’
Bernard of Clairvaux and the Cistercians
Although this is no longer the case, throughout much of the medieval period Luke 10:38–42 was the Gospel reading for the Feast of the Assumption (August 15). The linking of Martha and Mary with Mary the Mother of our Lord proved to be fertile ground for preachers seeking to bring out the spiritual sense of the text. When the renowned Cistercian, Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 – 1153), preached on this feast day he developed a rich and complex allegory to convey his notion of the ideal of the ‘mixed life’, wherein action and contemplation are united in Mary, the virgin mother.
In Bernard’s allegory the home of Mary and Martha is likened to Mary’s womb. Each sister has a part to play: Martha, the pragmatic and active elder sister has the privilege of receiving the earthly Jesus, while the younger, Mary, prepares herself to receive the heavenly Christ. The busyness of Martha and the ‘not idle leisure’ of Mary are both united in Mary. While in the story Jesus credits the younger sister with have the ‘better part’, Bernard makes the point that the ‘best part’ belongs to the Virgin Mary, in whom the unity of the active and contemplative is perfected. The Virgin Mary’s ‘best’ includes both Martha’s and Mary’s parts.
Bernard’s fellow Cistercian, Aelred of Rievaulx (1110 – 1167), was convinced that the ‘mixed life’, represented by Martha and Mary sharing the same house, should be united in the one soul. ‘As surely as Christ is poor and walks by foot on the earth, and gets hungry and thirsty, it is necessary that both these women are in the same house and both these actions are in the same soul.’ Another Cistercian, Caesarius of Heisterbach (ca. 1180 – ca. 1240), wrote about St. Elizabeth of Thuringia, in whom he saw a perfect example of the ‘mixed life’. Elizabeth conceived her vocation as reflecting both sisters. ‘Like Martha, she busied herself in caring for the sick and poor (and) … like Mary she surrendered herself deeply in contemplation.’
Francis of Assisi and the Franciscans
Francis (1182 – 1226) took the story of Martha and Mary as a model when devising his ‘Rule for Hermitages’. Each hermitage would be limited to three or four brothers, half of whom should serve as ‘mothers’ and follow Martha’s example, while the two ‘sons’ should adopt the contemplative way of Mary. From time to time these complimentary and interdependent roles should be exchanged.
Thomas Aquinas and the Dominicans
In the Summa Theologiae Thomas Aquinas (1225 – 1274) interprets Luke’s Bethany narrative as extolling the superiority of the contemplative life: ‘Mary has chosen the better part.’ (Luke 10:42) The active life is the servant of the contemplative. However, for Thomas and the Order of Preachers, the ‘very best part’ is not contemplation alone, but the sharing of the fruits of the contemplative life through teaching and preaching.
‘It is a greater thing to give light than simply to have light, and in the same way it is a greater thing to pass on to others what you have contemplated than just to contemplate.’ (ST 2.2 q. 188, a. 6)
The Beguines
Perhaps most important, given their geographical, chronological and religious proximity to Eckhart’s own context, are the women known by their late medieval contemporaries as mulieres sanctae, or beguines. These semi-religious women, prevalent in France and the low-countries of Northern Europe throughout the 13th and 14th centuries, lived alone or in community houses and devoted themselves to a life of prayer, service and mutual exhortation. The relationship between action and contemplation is an important theme for the beguines with the biblical sisters Martha and Mary and Leah and Rachel providing useful archetypes.
Amy Hollywood has noted the contrast between the official hagiographies of these holy women and the writings of the beguine mystics themselves. The Beguine communities were quite diverse in practice and theology and in the degree to which they enjoyed the blessing of the Church. The mostly male-written hagiographies present a view of the beguine life that is reflective of the official preference for these women to favour the contemplative life of the cloisters, which was seen as more appropriate for women than mendicancy or manual labour. Needless to say, Mary of Bethany is mostly presented as the ideal. Beguine mystical writers themselves, however, such as Mechthild of Magdeburg and Marguerite Porete, tend to emphasize the Cistercian ideal of the ‘mixed life’ in which action and contemplation coalesce in the same soul.
It needs to be noted that there are actually striking resonances between the Beguine mystics and Meister Eckhart, particularly in the central mystical motif of the possibility of the individual realizing ‘indistinct union’ with God within a special ‘uncreated’ part of the soul. A direct textual relationship between Eckhart’s work and Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls has been established, and there is evidence that Eckhart also knew Mechthild’s Flowing Light of the Godhead.
Overview of Meister Eckhart’s mystical teaching
Eckhart’s thought comes to us primarily in two forms: treatises and biblical commentaries written in Latin for an audience of professional theologians and clergy, and sermons in the vernacular Middle High German (MHG), taken down verbatim by Eckhart’s hearers, many of them nuns and lay women.
The overarching emphasis of Eckhart’s work, especially his vernacular sermons, is what the contemplative tradition refers to as unio mystica or mystical union. This is a work of pure grace in which the individual human soul realizes union with the Divine. Eckhart portrays union via several rich metaphors, the best known, perhaps, being the birth of the Word or Son of God in the soul. The aim of Eckhart’s vernacular preaching, more so perhaps than his professional academic writing, was to help his hearers toward realizing this ‘birth’ or union.
I speak of the realization rather than the experience of union intentionally. Eckhart counsels his hearers to not seek an experience of God, but to seek God alone. Seekers in Eckhart’s day no less than today often expected union to be accompanied by something palpable. “I will know what it is to be in intimate union with God when I experience it – be it an inner warmth or sweetness, an ecstasy or even a vision!” But Eckhart suggests that, while some such experience might ensue, it is neither necessary nor ideal. In fact it can be a subtle trap. One can become sidetracked with experiencing the experience, mistakenly take it to be God, and in so doing miss God entirely. (PR. [German Sermon] 16b) This is why the idea of ‘realizing’ union with God better conveys the sense of Eckhart’s teaching than ‘experiencing’ union does, although he never used either term per se. The verb ‘to realize’ has two senses. To realize is both to become fully aware of something as a fact and to bring something into reality. And this is what union involves for Eckhart. Union with God is realized (brought into reality) when the individual realizes (becomes fully aware of) his or her oneness with God (as a fact).
Unio mystica is, thus, a kind of knowing. If it is an experience at all it is an intellectual experience. Importantly for Eckhart, as for many other mystical writers, however, this knowing is more correctly an unknowing. It is a cultivated ‘not-knowing’ or a learned ignorance, a forgetting of what we thought we knew so that what we cannot know (in the usual sense) might be realized in us. Eckhart employs a number of metaphors to convey this ‘not-knowing’ or forgetting. Most of them involve the idea of taking something away or cutting something off. Abegescheidenheit (MHG) is one such metaphor. It is an abstract noun from a verb meaning to depart from, to separate from, and is even used to denote divorce. The most common English translation is ‘detachment’. A related metaphor is Gelazenheit, which denotes a ‘letting-go’. Often translated as ‘releasement’, Gelazenheit is a liberating relinquishment.
So what does Eckhart want his hearers to relinquish? His teaching on this is summarized succinctly in the opening paragraph of Sermon 53. Here Eckhart identifies four fundamental emphases in his teaching. The first two deal with what we could call the praxis of Detachment, the second with its theoretical or onto-theological basis.
“When I preach I am accustomed to speak about detachment, and that a man should be free of himself and of all things; second, that a man should be formed again into that simple good which is God; third, that he should reflect on the great nobility with which God has endowed his soul, so that in this way he may come to wonder at God; fourth, about the purity of the divine nature, for the brightness of the divine nature is beyond words. God is a word, a word unspoken.” (Pr. 53)
Detachment is being ‘free of oneself and of all things’ so that one may be ‘formed again’ into that simple good which is God. How does one detach from oneself? ‘Self’ for Eckhart, is not a ‘creature’ or existing thing in the sense that, for example, the soul is. It is rather a creation of the mind, a mental image, or what we might today call a construct. It is the self I imagine myself to be. Most importantly, it is my idea of myself as fundamentally distinct from everyone and everything else. The realization of ‘union’ with God requires a ‘dis-identification’ with this mental image of oneself as distinct. In fact, it means letting go the idea of anything as distinct. To be free of ‘all things’ is not simply to live the simple life and abandon materialism; it is to let go of ‘things’ as things, i.e., as distinct entities. Eckhart speaks elsewhere of ridding oneself of ‘this’ and ‘that’, by which he means the belief that ‘this’ has a distinct and separate existence from ‘that.’
Detachment is a radically new way of seeing the world and ones relationship to it. It is seeing everything as one. There is no ‘other’ from which I am or anything else is distinct. What we take to be ‘other’ is in reality not. What we take to be another ‘thing’ is really ‘no-thing.’ This applies to the ‘self,’ and to ‘all things,’ and crucially to God who, says Eckhart, is also ‘neither this nor that’ but is rather ‘pure nothing’. ‘If you think of anything he might be, He is not that.’ (Pr. 23)
This is what Eckhart refers to in the summary of his teaching we quoted a moment ago as ‘the purity of the divine nature’. God is pure nothing. To imagine God as anything is to have an ‘imagined’ God, and not God as he is in himself. To realize union is to realize the no-thingness of God as fact and to have God ‘naked and bare’, as he is in himself.
The other thing Eckhart tells us he is ‘accustomed to speaking about’ when he preaches is the ‘great nobility with which God has endowed the soul.’ And we will touch on this briefly before turning to our discussion of Mary and Martha. Eckhart’s understanding of the soul, like that of Thomas Aquinas, is based on Aristotle for whom the soul of any living thing is a unified system of abilities or ‘powers’ that enable the organism, be it plant, animal or human, to express its essence or nature. The essence of human being is intellect. The ‘powers’ of the human soul are thus a system of intellectual and cognitive capacities such as sense perception, rational thinking, memory, imagination, etc. These powers connect the human via the body to the external world or ‘creatures’.
For Eckhart the soul has another ‘power’. He calls it different things in different contexts – the spark, the summit, the apex, the citadel, and the ‘ground’. But these terms always denote the same thing, the inner sanctum or hidden depth of the soul. The soul’s ‘ground’ is that deep, silent and formless abyss where no sense perception, ‘image’ or thought form has ever penetrated. It is pure, untouched and virginal intellect or what we could call ‘pure formless awareness’. Through the process of ‘unknowing’ or ‘detachment’ one breaks through to this inner ‘ground.’ The truly detached person is one who has come to live habitually from this ‘ground’.
We often read in Eckhart the arresting phrase, ‘God’s ground is my ground and my ground is God’s ground’. This phrase intentionally, if provocatively, blurs the line between the human and divine. Eckhart, like Marguerite Porete before him, speaks of this part of the human soul as if it were itself divine when he suggests it is ‘uncreated’. (Incidentally, this is one of the ideas that saw Porete burned at the stake in 1310 and Eckhart tried for heresy almost three decades later). This uncreated divine-human ‘ground’ is the ‘inner world’ into which God eternally sends his Son so that the Son might be continually born in humanity in time. Here all distinction falls away and the soul realizes her union with God and is enabled to live, as does God, from the ground and ‘without Why’.
“As surely as the Father in His simple nature bears the Son naturally, just as surely He bears Him in the inmost recesses of the spirit, and this is the inner world. Here God’s ground is my ground and my ground is God’s ground. Here I live from my own as God lives from His own. For the man who has once for an instant looked into this ground, a thousand marks of red minted gold are the same as a brass farthing. Out of this inmost ground, all your works should be wrought without Why.” (Pr. 5b)
To live ‘without Why’ is to be as free of wanting or desiring anything as I was before I existed. I do what I do, not for any reason or objective, but simply because it is what I do. For when I live from the ground whatever I do is really God doing what God does. This is why I don’t need to do anything special to realize union. For the detached person everything is God. God is as much in my preparing a meal or scrubbing the pots as he is in my contemplative practice. The very highest contemplation is when I do what I do, whatever it may be, without Why. Then contemplation and action are unified.
“I say truly, as long as you do your works for the sake of heaven or God or eternal bliss, from without, you are at fault. It may pass muster, but it is not the best. Indeed, if a man thinks he will get more of God by meditation, by devotion, by ecstasies, or by special infusion of grace than by the fireside or in the stable – that is nothing but taking God, wrapping a cloak round His head and shoving him under a bench. For whoever seeks God in a special way gets the way and misses God, who lies hidden in it.” (Pr. 5b)
And this is why, for Eckhart, Martha rather than Mary is the exemplar of a person living ‘from the ground’, living ‘from her own’ and ‘without Why’.
Eckhart’s treatment of Luke 10:38–42 in two German Sermons
The great majority of Eckhart’s vernacular sermons take a scripture text as their starting point. Most often the text is drawn from the lectionary of the day, as with any Eucharistic homily. Sermons 2 and 86 both take Luke 10:38 as their text. On the surface these sermons, no doubt preached at different times, treat the text quite differently. In Sermon 86 we get Eckhart’s allegorical reading of Martha and Mary. Although his interpretation is creative it does at least deal with the narrative. Sermon 2 appears to not be about the story of Martha and Mary at all. The sisters are never mentioned. Nevertheless the two sermons share much theologically and inform each other significantly, as we shall see.
Sermon 2: The virgin who is a wife
‘I have first quoted this saying in Latin; it is written in the Gospel, and in German it means, “Our Lord Jesus Christ went up into a citadel and was received by a virgin who was a wife.”’ Thus begins German Sermon 2. As it turns out the ‘virgin who is a wife’ is the primary interest of the sermon. The ‘citadel’ also comes up again, but does not return until near the end of the sermon. And while ‘citadel’ is probably an allowable translation of the Latin castellum – the semantic relationship is evident even to those not skilled in Latin – there is no ‘virgin’ in the Latin (or Greek) text at all. But that technicality does not hinder Eckhart. He immediately warns his hearers to ‘mark this word carefully’ – for it is going to be the starting point of the homily – and begins with a clarifying definition.
A ‘virgin’, by which Eckhart means ‘the person by whom Jesus is received,’ is ‘a person who is void of alien images, as empty as he was when he did not exist.’ Let us briefly unpack this idea. We spoke earlier of Eckhart’s notion of mystical union resulting in the ‘birth’ of the Word or Son of God in the soul. For this birth to occur one must first ‘receive Jesus’ – the Son, the eternal Word – in the soul. Being virginal or ‘void of alien images’ and ‘as empty as he was when he did not exist’ describes the person who has happily relinquished ‘self and all things’ – all mental images and the distinctions they entail – and is united with God in the ‘ground’ of the soul. ‘Virgin’ describes the intellectual purity or emptiness required for the Son of God to be received in the soul. Virginity is pure receptivity. In simple terms, this is the mental stillness and silence that Eckhart elsewhere calls ‘inwardness’ and which we would call ‘contemplation’.
Having identified the importance of being virginal, however, Eckhart informs us that it is only half the picture. ‘Now attend and follow me closely,’ he says, indicating both the gravity and difficulty of what he is to say next, for he is about to engage in one of his favourite devices – paradox:
“If a man were to be ever virginal, he would bear no fruit. If he is to be fruitful, he must be a wife. ‘Wife’ is the noblest title one can bestow on the soul – far nobler than ‘virgin’. For a man to receive God within him is good, and in receiving he is a virgin. But for God to be fruitful in him is better, for only the fruitfulness of the gift is the thanks rendered for that gift, and herein the spirit is a wife, whose gratitude is fecundity, bearing Jesus again in God’s paternal heart.” (Pr. 2)
To the ‘virginity’ of pure contemplation, which is ‘good’, one must add the ‘perfect fruitfulness of a wife’, which is ‘better’. Without this one’s virginity is ‘useless’: the gift of the Father perishes and ‘all comes to naught’. The ‘fruitfulness of a wife’ is a metaphor for giving birth, wherein that which is ‘received’ from the Father as pure gift is given back to the Father in gratitude. By ‘wife’, then, Eckhart really means ‘mother’. And herein lies the mind-melting paradox: the impossible both-and of the virgin who both gives birth and remains a virgin.
Although the allusion is obvious, and intentional, this is not a literal reference to the historic Mary, Jesus’ virgin mother, any more than Eckhart’s notion of the birth of the Son of God in the soul is a literal reference to the birth of the historical Jesus. Mary, the virgin-mother, is now an archetype for the realized human being in whom two apparent opposites – virginal receptivity and motherly fruitfulness – are unified.
This is a conceptual structure we often see in Eckhart’s mysticism, which modern commentators like to describe as ‘dialectical’. Dialectic is the dynamic interplay between logical opposites. The 18th century German Idealist G. W. F. Hegel constructed a whole theory of progress in history around the notion of the dialectic in which there is a threefold movement beginning with an established fact or Thesis that in time is challenged by its Antithesis. Finally this standoff or diastasis is resolved in a Synthesis, which then becomes the new Thesis.
If we speak of the interplay of opposites in Eckhart’s thought as dialectical we need to be clear that it is altogether different from the Hegelian model. Eckhart’s dialectic does not serve purposive progress at all. In the purposive linear logic of history and biology virginity and motherhood are mutually exclusive. Motherhood supersedes maidenhood on the timeline. But Eckhart’s dialectic is non-linear. The interplay between virginal receptivity and motherly fruitfulness is circular, continuous and repetitive rather than linear and sequential. The opposites are engaged in a both-and rather than an either-or movement.
By way of illustration Eckhart expands on the ‘virgin who is a wife’ metaphor by comparing the perpetually fruitful virgin-wife to ‘married folk’, those who, by virtue of the limitations of gestation are able only to ‘bring forth little more than one fruit in a year’. ‘Married folk’ who take a ‘year’ to bear fruit represent people whose addiction to a purposive linear-sequential logic means that in order to attain that (spiritual goal) they feel they must first do this (ascetic practice). By being wedded or ‘bound with attachment’ to particular disciplines or practices as means to ends they are restricted to bringing forth ‘little fruit, and paltry at that’. In such people there is always an ‘until’ separating conception from birth: ‘Your soul will bear no fruit until it has done this work to which you are possessively attached.’
The ‘virgin who is a wife’, on the other hand, is a soul ‘free and unfettered by attachment’ and knows none of the limits of the gestational ‘year’. Her work requires no ‘in order that’ and has no ‘until’. She enjoys the ‘freedom to wait on God in the here and now.’
“She is always as near to God as to herself. She brings forth many and big fruits, for they are neither more nor less than God himself. This fruit and this birth that virgin bears who is a wife, bring forth daily a hundred and a thousandfold! Numberless indeed are her labours begotten of the most noble ground or, to speak more truly, of the very ground where the Father ever begets His eternal Word: – it is thence she becomes fruitful and shares in the procreation.” (Pr. 2)
The person who lives thus from ‘the most noble ground’ is free from the purposive linear logic that sequentializes, divides and compartmentalizes, that distinguishes ‘this’ from ‘that’ and ‘now’ from ‘then’. Such a person ‘dwells in one light with God, having no suffering and no sequence of time, but one equal eternity… he dwells in the Now, ever new and without intermission.’ Wherever, with whom ever, and whatever they find themselves doing they are waiting on God ‘in the here and now’.
Sermon 86: Martha and Mary
As I suggested earlier, Sermons 2 and 86 not only share the same biblical text in Luke 10:38, they focus on the same theology. What is portrayed abstractly in Sermon 2 becomes the subtext for the reworking of a familiar narrative in Sermon 86 wherein ‘the virgin who is a wife’ and waits on God in the eternal Now is personified in the character of Martha. Although, as I showed in the survey of the story’s treatment in the tradition, Eckhart’s elevation of Martha over Mary as the ideal of spiritual maturity is perhaps not as original as some commentators have suggested it is nonetheless given its most subversive rendering in this sermon.
Sermon 86 is not an easy read, mainly because Eckhart seems to go off on tangents from time to time, and this can be a little distracting. The sermon begins with a précis of the narrative. The Lord visits a little town and is received by a woman named Martha who moves about and waits on him while her sister, Mary, sits at his feet and listens to his words.
Eckhart then proceeds to list three qualities in each sister that motivate their quite different responses. (1) Mary’s soul was possessed by the goodness of God, (2) she was gripped by ‘unspeakable longing’ for something she did not yet understand, and (3) she found ‘sweet solace and joy’ in Christ’s presence. Martha’s actions were due largely to her mature age and that she had learned from life, which ‘gives the finest understanding’. (1) ‘The ground of her being was so fully trained that she thought none could do the work as well as she’, (2) she had the wisdom to know how to perform outward works ‘perfectly as love ordains’, and (3) she recognized the ‘great dignity’ of her guest.
Eckhart’s first ‘digression’ contrasts two ways in which God satisfies human beings: sense satisfaction and intellectual satisfaction. Clearly, both are divinely given but they are not of equal value. Overindulgence in sensual pleasures such as ‘comfort, joy and contentment’ is not found among God’s ‘true friends’. They have the capacity to ‘rise resolutely above’ emotional responses to the ups and downs of life.
So what does this have to do with the story, to which Eckhart returns in the next paragraph? Eckhart intends his hearers to connect each type of satisfaction with one of the sisters. He has already told us of Mary’s inexpressible longing and the ‘sweet solace and joy’ she found at Jesus’ feet. Is Mary tending toward the overindulgence of which the third paragraph speaks? Martha seems to be bothered by the same question. When she says, ‘Lord, tell her to help me,’ it is not out of spite but out of concern that Mary might have continued to sit there ‘a little more for her own happiness than for spiritual profit.’ (Pr. 86) Martha was worried that ‘by dallying in this joy’ her sister ‘might progress no further.’ Jesus reassures Martha that, despite appearances, Mary’s heart is in the right place: she has ‘chosen the best part’ and will eventually grow into the fully grounded maturity that Martha desires for her. She has only just ‘entered school’ and begun ‘to learn how to live’. (Pr. 86)
So what of Martha? According to Eckhart, the fact that Christ names Martha twice in his response to her is significant. ‘Martha, Martha’ expresses the elder sister’s spiritual completeness. The first ‘Martha’ reflects her ‘perfection in temporal works’ by which Eckhart means embodied activity in time. The second ‘Martha’ refers to her relationship to eternity, which, as we saw in Sermon 2, is about the ‘equal eternal Now’ rather than everlasting sequential time. Martha lives comfortably in two worlds. Happy to do whatever the moment calls for in time she is equally at home on what Eckhart calls ‘the circle of eternity’.
The ‘circle of eternity’ comes up six times in this sermon and to my knowledge nowhere else in Eckhart’s oeuvre. After inviting his hearers to ‘mark what the circle of eternity means’ Eckhart proceeds to describe the soul’s ‘three ways into God.’
The first way is ‘to seek God in all creatures with manifold activity and ardent longing.’ The second way is ‘a wayless way, free and yet bound, raised, rapt away well nigh past self and all things, without will and without images, even though not yet in essential being.’ The third way ‘is called a way, but is really being at home, that is: seeing God without means in His own being.’ These three ways have the feeling of ‘good’, ‘better’ and ‘best’ about them. They are all ways into God exemplified by worthy biblical characters – David, Peter and Paul, and Christ himself, respectively – but it is clearly the third way that Eckhart is putting forward as the ultimate and, presumably, as Martha’s way.
There are two important things to note about the third way. Firstly, this way is characterized by an absence of ‘means’. ‘Creatures’, which are all ‘means’, circle ‘outside of this way’. If there are no ‘means’ here then everything must be equally an end in itself without any ‘in order that’, purpose, or meaning outside itself. Actions, works, activities are also ‘without Why’. Secondly, although Eckhart has called it a ‘way’, this is not entirely accurate, for a ‘way’ presupposes a destination, that there is some place to get. That is why he corrects himself by saying ‘really it is being at home.’ There is an already-arrived-ness about this ‘way’ which is why it involves no means.
Friends of God like Martha have nowhere to get and need no means of getting there because they are already there. Although living in time, embodied and active they are also standing on the circle of eternity and ‘seeing God without means in His own being’. Where, then, is this circle of eternity and where is the God they see in his own being?
“Now listen to a marvel! How marvelous, to be without and within, to embrace and be embraced, to see and be the seen, to hold and to be held – that is the goal, where the spirit is ever at rest, united in joyous eternity!” (Pr. 86)
Seeing God without means is ‘To see and be the seen’. The answer to the where question, of course, is here now. The Unio mystica, the soul’s union with God, is a fact to be realized and not a destination to be reached. The circle of eternity is right here in the ‘ground’ or ‘summit’ of the soul ‘up yonder where it is at one with God’s sweet will.’ There, says Eckhart, ‘temporal work is as noble as any communing with God, for it joins us to him as closely as the highest that can happen to us except the vision of God in his naked nature.’
All Eckhart quotes are from Maurice O’C Walshe’s translation in The Complete Mystical Works of Meister Eckhart (New York: Crossroad Herder, 2009).
I have followed the accepted convention of referring to Eckhart’s German Sermons by the numbering used in the critical German edition of his works. This consists of the abbreviation Pr. (From the German word for ‘sermon’, Predigt), and the sermon number.
Copyright, Christopher Malcolm Knauf. 2016
By Christopher Malcolm Knaufin Christopher writes, Meister Eckhart, Meister Eckhart May 21, 2016 May 22, 2016 6,478 Words2 Comments
Joseph Campbell on religious symbols
“The symbology of religion is, in many of its most essential elements, common to the whole of the human race; so that, no matter to what religion you may turn, you will––if you look long enough––find a precise and often illuminating counterpart to whatever motif of your own tradition you may wish to have explained. Consequently, the reference of these symbols must be to something that is antecedent to any historical events to which they may have become locally applied. Mythological symbols come from the psyche and speak to the psyche; they do not spring from or refer to historical events. They are not to be read as newspaper reports of things that, once upon a time, actually happened.”
Joseph Campbell, “The Interpretation of Symbolic Forms,” The Mythic Dimension, p. 198
Image: William Blake, Elohim creating Adam.
By Christopher Malcolm Knaufin Aphorisms August 1, 2015 August 1, 2015 138 Words2 Comments
A Matter Of Practice
The mere heartbeat in which I realised that connecting with the sacred mystery is ultimately a matter, not of belief but of practice, was a singularly transformative moment for me.
It was one balmy summer evening more than a decade after I’d given up on believing in God that ‘God’ turned up right outside my back door, uninvited, unexpected, but unquestionably there. This fleeting accidental liaison with the ‘presence’ of a non-existent being who somehow managed to brush up against my soul before vanishing again into the twilight like a cat over the garden fence, left me deeply touched by the ‘peace that passes understanding’, and, if I may indulge in a little paradox, somewhat disturbed. Continue reading “A Matter Of Practice” →
By Christopher Malcolm Knaufin Christian Meditation, Christopher writes June 14, 2015 March 25, 2016 997 WordsLeave a comment
By Christopher Malcolm Knaufin Aphorisms, GalleryImage May 21, 2015 Leave a comment
To one side of the altar in my parish church is a quiet little chapel where my meditation group meets for an hour every Saturday morning. On the chapel wall is a magnificent bronze figure of the crucified Christ suspended, as it were, in space, for there is no cross. To the right of the cross-less crucifix is a small carved icon of a very young Madonna and Child. There is something profound about the juxtaposition of these figures that, while possibly never intended by the devout person who installed them, opens the door to a magnificent truth. Continue reading “The invitation” →
By Christopher Malcolm Knaufin Christopher writes May 10, 2015 May 12, 2015 525 WordsLeave a comment
Meister Eckhart on seeing God in everything
“He who has God thus essentially, takes him divinely, and for him God shines forth in all things, for all things taste divinely to him, and God’s image appears to him from out of all things. God flashes forth in him always, in him there is detachment and turning away, and he bears the imprint of his beloved, present God.”
Thus says Meister Eckhart in Chapter Six of his Talks of Instruction delivered to Dominican novices early in his career when Prior of Erfurt. For Eckhart, even at this early stage, God is not to be found in special places or practices but in the divine splendour of the everyday. One does not need to retreat to the desert or even to the church to find God, one needs rather to discover the ‘inner desert’ and see the divine in whatever the present moment brings. I present the text here in full and without commentary. Enjoy. Continue reading “Meister Eckhart on seeing God in everything” →
By Christopher Malcolm Knaufin Aphorisms, Meister Eckhart April 25, 2015 March 25, 2016 1,448 Words1 Comment
The breakthrough moment
I wonder if, in the cold dark of the night before,
these Coprinellus disseminatus
had any idea of what life would look like
after their breakthrough moment.
I’m guessing not.
Life’s like that.
Does the caterpillar aspire to flight,
or the tadpole envisage legs?
Words: Christopher Malcolm Knauf. 2015.
Photo: Peter Bradley July 2014
By Christopher Malcolm Knaufin Christopher writes, Poetry April 11, 2015 April 11, 2015 52 WordsLeave a comment
Glimpses of now along the way to New Norcia
The Camino Salvado is an Australian version of the famous Camino Santiago de Compostella across France and Spain. Much shorter than the iconic European pilgrimage the Camino Salvado is a seven day pilgrimage from Perth to New Norcia, West Australia, the only monastery town in Australia. Continue reading “Glimpses of now along the way to New Norcia” →
By Christopher Malcolm Knaufin VideosVideo April 6, 2015 April 8, 2015 Leave a comment
Meister Eckhart’s Poverty Sermon
‘Let us pray to God that he might rid us of God,’ said Meister Eckhart famously in his sermon on poverty of spirit. In the following article I discuss the main theological and mystical ideas in this sermon, usually referred to as Sermon 52, and also comment on aspects of Eckhart’s hermeneutical method. I quote extensively from Walshe’s translation from the original Middle High German and have included references for those who are interested.
The ‘sermon on poverty’ epitomizes Meister Eckhart’s thought at its theological and literary zenith. Among the most studied of Eckhart’s vernacular homilies its claims, both ethical and doctrinal, are as radical as anything he wrote, yet, surprisingly, never rated a mention in In Agro Dominico, the papal bull of 1329 that denounced many of his teachings. The conclusion some scholars have drawn is that the text of this sermon had not reached its final formulation until as late as 1326/27 and was presumably not available to Eckhart’s accusers at the time of the trials. The evidence for this, however, is not conclusive, with recent research suggesting a much wider early reception of the text.[1] Either way, the absence of any statement from Sermon 52 among the twenty-eight articles of the bull of condemnation is intriguing, especially given the sermon’s provocative thesis, which is the focus of this present discussion. Continue reading “Meister Eckhart’s Poverty Sermon” →
By Christopher Malcolm Knaufin Christopher writes, Meister Eckhart April 6, 2015 March 25, 2016 2,962 Words5 Comments
The Mystic Realisation
Muriwai by Peter Bradley
Commenting on Joyce’s Ulysses, Joseph Campbell identifies what he calls ‘the mystic realisation’. It is the mystery of non-duality that runs so counter to our everyday perception but rings so true in the depths of the silent heart. Continue reading “The Mystic Realisation” →
By Christopher Malcolm Knaufin Aphorisms, Christopher writes February 9, 2015 April 12, 2015 220 WordsLeave a comment
Blessed Silence
I saw this icon recently at an exhibition at the Ballarat Art Gallery and was utterly transfixed. This particular piece is probably 15th to 17th century and is held in a private collection in Sydney. Known in Russia as Spas Blagoe Molchanie or ‘The Saviour of the Blessed Silence’ or alternatively ‘The Angel of Great Counsel’, it is an example of a complex iconographic type that is also represented in Greek iconography and associated with Hesychia, the personification of silence. Continue reading “Blessed Silence” →
By Christopher Malcolm Knaufin Christopher writes, Gallery February 8, 2015 April 8, 2015 443 WordsLeave a comment
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eCos version 2 now licensed under GPL [SDTimes]
SD Times editor Alan Zeichick examines the current state of Red Hat's eCos operating system now that Red Hat has backed away from promoting it, and discusses the implications of eCos version 2 now being licensed under a modified version of the GPL. Zeichick writes . . . (more…)
Carrier Grade Linux: What you need to know [EETimes]
In this online EE Times article, John Mehaffey (of MontaVista Software) details the use of Linux in telecom equipment designs. Mehaffey examines Open Source Development Lab's (OSDL) efforts to set standards to bring Linux into compliance for 'Carrier Grade' applications . . . (more…)
Article: Linux, the GPL, and a new model for software innovation
Increasingly, software is going 'open source,' with increasingly good results. Linux, the most visible of open-source software, is rapidly gaining ground in both embedded and server software markets, and even begins to make inroads on the desktop. (more…)
College students: Help improve Linux, win a ThinkPad [NewsForge]
NewsForge editor Robin “Roblimo” Miller reports that the second IBM Linux Scholar Challenge is accepting registrations through October 31. Complete contest rules are available here (pdf file) . (more…)
Getting Started with Java on Linux [Linux Journal]
Writing at Linux Journal, Daniel Solin provides an informative tutorial focused on installing and testing JDK and Resin to set up a Java application server. Solin writes . . . (more…)
New MIPS32 processor supports multi-threaded Embedded Linux
San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — Lexra announces today the industry's highest performance processor based on the MIPS32 architecture for use in its SOCs for High-Touch packet processing applications. (more…)
IBM showcases IPv6, other advanced functions on Linux watch
An update from IBM on its Linux wrist watch . . .
At the recent LinuxWorld Expo & Conference in San Francisco, IBM demonstrated IP layer mobility using IP version 6 and Intelligent notification on the next generation of its Linux wrist watch prototype. IBM is the first to demonstrate Mobile IP version 6 on such small platforms as a wrist watch. (more…)
MontaVista forms custom engineering services partnership
Sunnyvale, CA and Rochester, NY — (press release excerpt)– MontaVista Software Inc. today announced an agreement with Vanteon Corporation to provide customized technical services for subscribers of MontaVista Linux. Vanteon is the first company to join the MontaVista Professional Services Partnering Program, a select group of geographically distributed companies that provide custom engineering services… (more…)
Suggested Revision of the GNU General Public License
Matthew R. Harris, CEO of Embedix, Inc. (Lineo), has written a suggested revision of the GNU General Public License. Note that it is not an official version of the GNU General Public License, and is published at this time for informational purposes only. Harris, a stong proponent of the GPL, believes that in its current form it is difficult to understand and contains a number of ambiguities. (more…)
Royal Philips unveils Linux-powered ‘gateway-on-a-chip’
San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — Royal Philips Electronics today announced the first Linux-based Gateway-on-a-Chip system solution, which includes processors, software, and boards for manufacturers of small office/home office (SOHO) broadband routers. Philips' Linux Software Release 3.0, in combination with its new, highly integrated processors, provides a cost-effective solution for secure… (more…)
New software lets your eyes do the typing [CNN]
Daniel Sieberg of CNN reports on a new technology that uses optical movement to provide hands-free typing. The 'Dasher' project is scheduled to be hosted on Sourceforge and made available under the GPL later this month. A Linux version will be available in September according to Dasher Project's website . (more…)
Exposed: The Linux developer lifestyle [CNET]
Writing at CNET, Matthew Broersma reports on a study released by the International Institute of Infonomics that 'exposes' open source developers — the motives, habits and personal data. The study also looks at the role of open source software in government and business. Broersma writes . . . (more…)
Contributors wanted to help develop and test standards for auto industry devices
Bloomfield Hills, MI — (press release excerpt) — The Automotive Multimedia Interface Collaboration (AMI-C) is seeking contributors to its Phase 3 development and testing of mobile information and entertainment system specifications for the global automotive industry. (more…)
Interview with theKompany’s Shawn Gordon [OSNews]
OSNews editor Eugenia Loli-Queru interviews Shawn Gordon, president of theKompany. Shawn talks about version 1.0 of Aethera and Kapital coming out in September, the embedded Linux market, and the future of Linux on the desktop . . . (more…)
JFS merged into Linux kernel 2.4
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NICA Team of the Month: Park City Miners
By McCoy on February 22, 2019
Utah’s Park City High School Mountain Bike Team
Perhaps the most inspirational story to come out of the world of USA mountain biking has been the explosive growth of high school mountain bike racing. While it began in Northern California and rapidly expanded down into Southern California, the dream of a few dedicated individuals has now grown to include over half of the United States and boasts over 777 teams. It is a perfect opportunity for both the beginner learning to ride and the dedicated mountain biker to experience the joy of mountain biking, self-improvement and competition. But, it is much more than that; it’s about being part of a team, being mentored by coaches and spending time with family. It’s a hard sport to beat for both seasoned athletes and kids who might never make it off the bench of their high school basketball team. What’s better, it even gets them off of their phones.
Racing and racers have always been close to MBA’s heart. Over the years, MBA has helped coach both teams and individual riders. We’ve used NICA racers as test riders in our photo shoots and covered their collegiate success later. MBA saw the potential in this partnership from the beginning. But now, Mountain Bike Action and NICA (National Interscholastic Cycling Association) have taken the partnership out of just our backyard and are pleased to announce a strategic media partnership to help continue to grow the sport of mountain biking at the scholastic level. MBA will be highlighting one team a month that is upholding key pillars of character that we hope to foster, including determination, sportsmanship and respect for the environment. This month we reached out to head coach Chris Best to learn about Utah’s Park City High School Mountain Bike Team.
What is the name of the team and where did the name come from?
Officially, we are the Park City High School Mountain Bike Team. We also go by the Miners, the local high school mascot. Before Park City became famous as a world-class ski destination, it was part of the 19th-century silver-mining boom, which is still a big part of its legacy, thus the Miners. There are still a lot of old mine names used on ski runs and other locations around town.
Which league do you race in?
Park City races in the North region of the Utah High School Cycling League. Because of the tremendous growth Utah has seen in NICA, the league has had to split into three regions to manage the large number of student athletes racing. Also, we are a Division 1 (D1) school, which means we compete against the larger schools in the region.
When was the team started?
The team was formed in 2012 in the first year NICA came to Utah. We had 22 riders.
How many riders do you have on the team now?
We currently have 58 riders registered for 2018. Thirteen race Jr. Devo (7th and 8th grade), and the rest are high school students. There are 41 boys and 17 girls. Of those 58 riders, about 45 actively race.
What is your favorite course?
The sheer number and variety of trails available in Utah make that a tough question to answer! With nearly 70 riders, the race on any given day will be someone’s favorite for sure. That said, I do think our riders favor more technical courses. We are very fortunate to have the renowned Park City trail system in our backyard. With that comes exposure to a variety of terrain on any given day. That said, for me personally, I really enjoy the desert courses in Moab and St. George.
Any team or school fun facts?
Park City is a melting pot of elite winter athletes, as well as a summer training destination for summer athletes. That said, probably our most notable alumna is a mountain biker. Haley Batten of the Clif Pro team raced with us our first year. Katie Clouse of road, MTB and ’cross fame also attended Park City High School but sadly never raced for us. Several aspiring Nordic skiers are on the team whom we may someday see at the Olympics.
Chris Best, the team’s head coach, was a masters national champion in the 40+ Kilo on the track a number of years back. Plus, he blew away the 500M record—but never officially. Strava did not exist then.
The following Olympic medalists all went to Park City High: Sarah Hendrickson (ski jumper), Joe Pack (freestyle skier), Ted Ligety (alpine skier), and Lindsey Van, who got women’s ski jumping into the Olympics.
The school was featured in season eight of “The Amazing Race” and the 2014 movie Cloud 9.
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The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
First published in: The Strand Magazine, October 1921, and Hearst’s International Magazine, November 1921. Note: This story was first written as a stage play by A. C. Doyle, and called “The Crown Diamond”. The story is told in the third person, not by Watson.
Time frame of story (known/surmised): In the summer. No clue as to the year. Maybe 1903, maybe 1894, maybe not.
H&W living arrangements: “It was pleasant to Dr. Watson to find himself once more in the untidy room of the first floor in Baker Street which had been the starting-point of so many remarkable adventures.” Sounds like he was visiting, not residing there. Billy the page is on the job.
Opening scene: Being a play, the entire story takes place in the rooms at 221B. About 1/3 of the way into the story, Watson is sent off on an errand and does not return.
Client: The Prime Minister and the Home Secretary. Also Lord Cantlemere, who was skeptical of Holmes’ abilities, but came around at the end.
Crime or concern: A £100,000 burglary, of the great yellow Mazarin stone, the missing Crown jewel. (There is no mention in this story of the circumstances regarding the actual crime, only that it had occurred.)
Villain: Count Negretto Sylvius, a big, swarthy fellow, with a formidable dark moustache shading a cruel, thin-lipped mouth, surmounted by a long, curved nose like the beak of an eagle. He had a brilliant necktie, shining pin, and glittering rings which were flamboyant in their effect. Not only that, but he had dark, hairy hands.
Motive: £££ ($$$ to Americans)
Logic used to solve: Sylvius demands to know why Holmes’s agents have been following him. Holmes explains first that it was him in disguise, and then likens his crimefighting activities to the Count’s own lion-hunting activities in Algeria – the danger is exhilarating, and it rids the country of a pest.
Holmes then proceeds to make his own purpose plain and tells the count that he wants to know where the Mazarin Stone is. Holmes even boasts that the count will tell him. At first, the count denies that he even knows, but Holmes tricks him into revealing that he does. He also outlines all the evidence that he has against the count for this theft, and other crimes.
Policemen: Youghal of the C. I. D., to whom Holmes instructed Watson to deliver a few lines scribbled in a notebook.
Holmes’ fees: No mention, but given the illustrious clients, probably pretty decent.
Transport: None. This was a stationary adventure.
Food and drink: no mention
Vices: Holmes says he hopes that Watson has not learned to despise his pipe and lamentable tobacco.
Other cases mentioned: Old Baron Dowson, who said of Holmes, “What the law has gained, the stage has lost.”
Old Mrs. Harold. She left Count Sylvius the Blymar estate. The count quickly gambled it away.
Miss Minnie Warrender, who was done in by the count.
Notable Quotables: “The faculties become refined when you starve them. Why, surely, as a doctor, my dear Watson, you must admit that what your digestion gains in the way of blood supply is so much lost to the brain. I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix. Therefore, it is the brain I must consider.” – SH
Other interestings: The etymology of “Negretto Sylvius”. We understand that the Latin word or name “Silva” or “Silvi” means forest, or woods, and we believe that “ius” is a suffix meaning pertaining to, or something similar. “Negro” in various languages and forms means black, and the Italian word for “black” is “nero” which is close but not right on. “Etto” is an Italian suffix that represents small, or feminine, and Count Negretto Sylvius was half Italian, for what that’s worth.
The name Blackwood does not appear in the Canon, but it was the name of a British magazine that was a competitor to The Strand Magazine, publisher of many of the Holmes stories. The new movie about Sherlock Holmes, interestingly titled “Sherlock Holmes” was released in December 2009, and has a villain named “Blackwood”.
A wax bust and an air gun, and a technological miracle, the gramophone. all make their appearance.
When all was said and done: Once he recovered the diamond, Holmes slipped it into the pocket of Lord Cantlemere, then told him, “Your pleasure in telling of this successful result in the exalted circle to which you return will be some small atonement for my practical joke. Billy, you will show his Lordship out, and tell Mrs. Hudson that I should be glad if she would send up dinner for two as soon as possible.”
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Film Review “Pacific Rim”
July 12, 2013 by Phillip Smith Leave a Comment
Warner Brothers Pictures and Legendary Pictures Pacific Rim
Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day and Ron Perlman
Directed by. Guillermo del Toro
Run time: 2 hours 11 minutes
Rated: PG-13
Our Score: 4 out of 5 stars
Beginning in the present day and running through the year 2025, “Pacific Rim” delivers a futuristic lesson about coming together; not as a nation or as a race, but as humans joining together to keep Earth safe from destruction.
2013 brings the first attack. It comes from the bottoms of the sea as opposed to space, where we look for our aliens to come from. A monstrous being called Kaiju rises from the depths and wreaks havoc before it can be brought down with tanks and air support. Soon another one rises and again, with some effort, it is destroyed. The world realizes that protection will be needed and humanity develops a brand of robots called Jaegers that will be able to take on the 3,000 ton monsters. Each Jaeger is operated by 2 humans in a process called “drifting.” With two brains responsible for one wave length, every movement is perfected and synched in able to control something so big. Brothers, cousins, fathers and sons; all are used to drift as they will operate better together rather than two strangers. Over time the Kaiju develop and adapt, becoming stronger, larger and quicker. In time there are only four Jaeger teams left: retired pilot Raleigh Becket (Hunnam) and rookie up an coming pilot Mako Mori (Kikuchi), are among those called upon to rescue the world and block the intruders from the Kaiju’s world.
This is a film where the acting is secondary but, then again, this is an action movie with some underlying themes and not a movie looking to earn nominations for best actor or actress. I don’t think that is what director del Toro was trying to accomplish anyway. The story is great and it flows well. There were some predictable parts I had worked out before they happened, but the battle scenes and special effects ore than made up for that.
“Pacific Rim” is action packed and visually brilliant. I had the luxury of seeing this in IMAX and 3D and it is truly the only film that I have ever seen in 3D where I felt some scenes put me a little to close to the action for comfort. Director del Toro has a great reputation when making movies for American audiences and this one is no different. This easily could have been a film thrown together with loud noises, poor 3D and horrible special effects but del Toro delivers another success. If you plan to see this film I urge you to see it on the big screen
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Hot off the UAkron Press
February 18, 2016 / marybid
Pictures at an Exhibition: A Petersburg Album by Philip Metres is here! It’s the winner of the 2014 Akron Poetry Prize, as selected by Maxine Chernoff, and it is downright amazing. Get your own copy, and enjoy.
Wrestling with the questions of travel, memory, and perception, Pictures at an Exhibition: A Petersburg Album is, at its core, an unrequited love song to St. Petersburg. The fever dream of Peter the Great, Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Gogol, and Akhmatova, St. Petersburg is the occasion for a broader meditation on all we come to love and lose. Pictures began as a journal notebook in 2002, as the poet tried to capture this spectacle-rich and memory-laden city that he had visited ten years before. Scored to the movements of Modest Mussorgsky’s legendary suite—a work of art elegizing a lost friend, the artist Hartmann—Pictures marks, and sometimes sings, the incommensurability of word and world.
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Three More 3DS Titles Are Joining The Nintendo Selects Range- Two New 2DS XL Bundles Coming Too
May 23, 2018 7:59 pm Published by Mike Scorpio 1 Comment
Nintendo have announced three more 3DS Titles are joining the Nintendo Selects range in Europe. Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Welcome amiibo, Donkey Kong Country 3D and Super Mario Maker 3DS will be added to the Nintendo Selects range on June 29th.
That’s not all though, Two new 2DS XL bundles have been announced as well. Both come with a pre-installed game. The lime green and black 2DS XL is bundled with Mario Kart 7 and the Lavender and White 2DS XL comes with Tamodachi Life. These bundles will also be releasing on June 29th.
Nintendo have also uploaded a new trailer to their YouTube Channel featuring the three new additions to the Nintendo Selects Range. You can view the video below.
To finish off, we also have the official European Press Release which, you can check out below.
MORE MUST-HAVE NINTENDO 3DS GAMES TO JOIN NINTENDO SELECTS RANGE ON 29TH JUNE, ALONGSIDE TWO NEW NINTENDO 2DS XL BUNDLES
23rd May 2018 – For those who wish to discover a game they may have missed the first time around, or simply wish to rediscover it, the Nintendo Selects range and its wide variety of gaming experiences is the ideal place to start. There are already plenty of titles available to enjoy as part of the range, including SUPER MARIO 3D LAND, Kirby: Triple Deluxe, and Luigi’s Mansion 2 for Nintendo 3DS family systems.
On 29th June, the Nintendo Selects range will be bolstered with three new additions for Nintendo 3DS family systems, representing some of the handheld’s most popular titles, having sold a combined total of over 4.34 million units across Europe to date*.
The line-up is set to include:
Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Welcome amiibo– Moving to a new town and making new friends is a big step… but it’s even bigger when you’re the mayor! Get ready to enjoy a whole new life in a town shaped entirely by you. You can use Animal Crossing amiibo cards and figures to invite animals to your village, help you out in minigames or get new items.
Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D – Go on an adventure with the swingin’ king of the jungle! Donkey Kong and his simian sidekick Diddy Kong are back for more action-packed platforming antics in Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D, an enhanced version of Wii adventure Donkey Kong Country Returns, only on Nintendo 3DS family systems.
Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS – Create your own courses and play with many different ideas in Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS. 100 original courses designed by Nintendo await you in Super Mario Challenge, each one containing additional challenges to defeat and medals to earn.
Today, Nintendo also announces two new members of the New Nintendo 2DS XL family launching on 29th June. New Nintendo 2DS XL plays all Nintendo 3DS games in 2D, on a large 4.88 inch screen.
The New Nintendo 2DS XL Black + Lime Green bundle includes Mario Kart 7 pre-installed:
Mario Kart 7 – Soar through the sky and dive underwater as the world of racing gets bigger and better. Not only can you now customise your kart to your heart’s content, you are also able to put yourself in the driving seat and steer by using motion controls.
The New Nintendo 2DS XL White + Lavender bundle includes Tomodachi Life pre-installed:
Tomodachi Life – Put your Mii centre stage in a world full of possibilities with Tomodachi Life, a quirky game starring you and everyone you know, only on Nintendo 3DS family systems. Populate your very own island paradise with the Mii characters of your choice and watch the drama unfold.
Nintendo 3DS owners can look forward to another way to experience some classic exclusive games when three titles – Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Welcome amiibo, Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D, and Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS – join the Nintendo Selects range across Europe on 29th June. These titles will also be made available for €19,99 / £15.99 (incl. VAT) on Nintendo eShop on the same day**. Launching the same day, look out for two new bundles: New Nintendo 2DS XL Black + Lime Green with Mario Kart 7, and New Nintendo 2DS XL White + Lavender with Tomodachi Life.
Tags: 2DS, 2DS XL., 3DS, Animal Crossing: New Leaf - Welcome Amiibo, Gaming, Miketendo64, Nintendo, Nintendo Selects, Super Mario Maker 3DS, Tamodachi Life, videogames
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This post was written by Mike Scorpio
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Montana producers, politicians cheer ban on Brazilian beef imports
By Missoula Current and ReutersJune 23, 2017
A man cools cattle on a beached boat in the Amazon river, in the city of Manaus, Brazil. (REUTERS/Bruno Kelly)
Montana producers and politicians applauded Thursday’s announced suspension of all imports of Brazilian beef.
“Montanans raise the best beef in the world, and the government shouldn’t be undercutting them by importing unsafe, even rotten products from foreign countries,” said Sen. Jon Tester, D-Montana.
Since March, the USDA has rejected 11 percent of Brazilian fresh beef products, compared to the rejection rate of 1 percent for shipments from the rest of the world, the agency said. The shipments, totaling about 1.9 million pounds, raised concerns about public health, animal health and sanitation, according to the USDA.
The agency said none of the rejected lots made it into the U.S. market.
The move to block Brazilian meat is a turnaround for Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, who warned in March that Brazil might retaliate if the United States halted beef imports.
On Thursday, he said in a statement that “although international trade is an important part of what we do at USDA, and Brazil has long been one of our partners, my first priority is to protect American consumers.”
The U.S. suspension will remain in place until Brazil’s Agriculture Ministry “takes corrective action which the USDA finds satisfactory,” according to the agency.
Tester has repeatedly called on USDA to halt the importation of beef from Brazil, and earlier this year introduced legislation to ban Brazilian beef for 120 days until safety concerns could be addressed.
On Wednesday, Tester called on Purdue to halt imports after five Brazilian meat-packing plants were removed from the exporter list because of tainted beef.
“Food on our tables must be safe to eat,” Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., said following Thursday’s suspension. “Montana families have to know that their food won’t make them sick. I’m glad to see my efforts to secure our food supply be prioritized by Secretary Perdue.”
Daines and a number of Montana ranchers questioned Perdue about the unsafe shipments earlier this month during the Montana Ag Summit in Great Falls.
Both Daines and Tester pressed the new agriculture secretary about the issue during his Senate confirmation hearings.
At Perdue’s confirmation hearing, Daines called for thorough inspections of Brazilian beef by the Food Safety and Inspection Service, and that the policy of maintaining 100 percent re-inspection and testing of all meat imports from Brazil will be retained “indefinitely”.
In addition, he raised this issue in a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on March 22 that demanded USDA “utilize all appropriate and legal means necessary to ensure that U.S. consumers are not at risk to any imported meat from Brazil or other countries.
A slew of global buyers, including China, Egypt and Chile, curtailed imports of Brazilian meat after Brazilian federal police unveiled an investigation into alleged corruption in the sector on March 17.
Brazilian authorities said at the time that meat companies made payments to government health officials to forego inspections and cover up health violations.
China is not expected to follow the U.S. move as it only permits imports of frozen Brazilian beef, which has different requirements to fresh meat, said analysts.
Brazil is also China’s top beef supplier, and would be difficult to replace in the short-term, said Pan Chenjun, senior animal protein analyst at Rabobank.
The United States began allowing shipments of fresh beef from Brazil last year after banning them due to concerns about foot and mouth disease in cattle.
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Category: Macro Topics
A collection of clips that could be used in a macro course
The Monroe Doctrine
Luke is about to drop his history class because he has a major paper due that he hadn’t started yet. It turns out that the topic of this paper is the same topic his mother wrote when she was in college, but she was less than thrilled with her grade on the paper. She asks Luke to turn it in for her to see if she was cheated out of a grade.
In order to get the paper onto a flash drive, Claire had to go through some lengthy measures to convert the file from its original form decades earlier to a flash drive. We see the amount of technological change Claire has experienced in just her lifetime with the multiple computers linked together.
http://videos.criticalcommons.org/transcoded/http/www.criticalcommons.org/Members/JJWooten/clips/modern-family-monroe-doctrine/video_file/mp4-high/s10-e6-monroe-doctrine-mp4.mp4
See more: creative destruction, Joseph Schumpeter, technological change, technology
creative distruction, Joseph Schumpeter, technological change, technology
It’s the 4th of July, and Joe isn’t as excited as his parents are about the holiday. Gloria mentions that Joe should be excited to live in America because she grew up in a banana republic. The zinger is that Banana Republic is the only store available that she could have shopped at, but a banana republic is a political economy term used to describe a country with an economy that is dependent on a single export. Gloria, originally from Columbia, could also have come from a banana republic.
http://videos.criticalcommons.org/transcoded/http/www.criticalcommons.org/Members/JJWooten/clips/modern-family-banana-republic/video_file/mp4-high/s10-e1-banana-republic-mp4.mp4
See more: absolute advantage, Banana Republic, comparative advantage, development, exports, inequality, international trade, political economy, trade
absolute advantage, Banana republic, comparative advantage, development, exports, Inequality, international trade, political economy, Trade
Claire Wants to Contribute
Claire feels like she is not contributing to the family because she doesn’t have a job. She has applied to 5 jobs recently, but despite her college degree, she is rejected from all of them. Because she has been out of the labor force for so many years, her human capital has depreciated. The second important component of this scene is to consider the non-pecuniary benefits of work. Not all workers are income maximizers as some have other motivations for working in paid employment.
http://videos.criticalcommons.org/transcoded/http/www.criticalcommons.org/Members/JJWooten/clips/modern-family-claire-wants-to-contribute/video_file/mp4-high/s4-e10-contribution-claire-mp4.mp4
See more: college, education, human capital, human capital investments, human capital depreciation, job search, labor force, labor force participation, labor market, nonpecuniary benefits, skills, unemployment
college, education, human capital, human capital depreciation, human capital investments, job search, Labor, labor force, labor force participation, labor market, nonpecuniary benefits, skills, Unemployment
Farewell to VHS
Video cassettes have been replaced by DVDs and streaming services and are slowly becoming an outdated technology. Before getting rid of their VCR, Claire and Phil are going through their VHS collection and watching the movies one last time. Joseph Schumpeter conceived the idea of creative destruction in which new technologies are created at the cost of destroying old industries. From a labor economics perspective, growth in some sectors come at the cost of losing jobs in the industry that is replaced.
http://videos.criticalcommons.org/transcoded/http/www.criticalcommons.org/Members/JJWooten/clips/modern-family-farewell-vhs/video_file/mp4-high/s5-e14-farewell-vhs-mp4.mp4
See more: creative destruction, Joseph Schumpeter, opportunity cost, tastes and preferences, technological change, technology, tradeoffs
creative distruction, Joseph Schumpeter, opportunity cost, tastes and preferences, technological change, technology, tradeoffs
Fiberoptic vs Natural Trees
Manny puts up a fiberoptic Christmas tree because it is better for the environment, but Jay thinks it is ugly and does not want it in his house. This clip highlights both positive externalities of fiberoptic trees (environmental benefits) and negative externalities of the tree (Jay’s psychic costs). Jay decides instead that he and Manny should go out and cut down a tree for reasons of tradition.
Jay and Manny tried cutting down their own Christmas tree for hours, but it is not budging and keeps ruining their tools. Jay has finally had enough and says Pritchetts know when to give up. All their previous effort represent a sunk cost, and it would take too much effort relative to the reward of a half burned tree to keep going.
http://videos.criticalcommons.org/transcoded/http/www.criticalcommons.org/Members/JJWooten/clips/modern-family-fiberoptic-christmas/video_file/mp4-high/s5-e10-fiberoptic-christmas-mp4.mp4
See more: behavioral, negative externalities, positive externalities, private benefits, private costs, social benefits, sunk cost, technological change
behavioral, negative externalities, positive externalities, private benefits, private costs, social benefits, sunk cost, technological change
A 20-year Vacation
It is the first day back to school for the kids, but it’s also Claire’s first day at her new job working for her father, Jay. Phil tries to be supportive, but refers to the last 20 years that Claire has spent as a stay at home mom as a vacation. The Income Leisure Tradeoff model assumes that participants can decide between working at paid employment or spending their time in leisure, but household production is often encapsulated in leisure. The household production model recognizes that time spent at home in productive activities is different than time spent in leisure.
http://videos.criticalcommons.org/transcoded/http/www.criticalcommons.org/Members/JJWooten/clips/modern-family-20-year-vacation/video_file/mp4-high/s5-e2-20-year-vacation-mp4.mp4
See more: employment, income leisure tradeoff, household labor supply, household production, labor force participation, specialization, tradeoffs, unemployment
employment, household labor supply, household production, income leisure tradeoff, labor force participation, specialization, tradeoffs, Unemployment
It is career day at Luke’s school, and the teacher asks Claire to speak about her job as a stay at home mom. She points out that she actually has a lot of different jobs as a stay-at-home-mom. The household production model assumes that agents decide between working at paid work or working at home and producing things that they could have bought with income. Both yield some level of utility, but some partners will specialize in household production depending on the relative wages of the other partner.
One of the downsides of specializing in household labor is that people lose specific and general human capital associated with market work. While Claire would like to go back to work, it is hard to find a job after you have been out of the labor force for 15 years, mainly because everyone who didn’t drop out would have continued learning new skills. In labor economics, this is known as The Mommy Track.
http://videos.criticalcommons.org/transcoded/http/www.criticalcommons.org/Members/JJWooten/clips/modern-family-stay-at-home-mom/video_file/mp4-high/s4-e21-stay-at-home-mom-mp4.mp4
See more: household labor supply, household production, human capital depreciation, job search, labor force, labor force participation, labor market, skills, tradeoffs, unemployment
household labor supply, household production, human capital depreciation, job search, labor force, labor force participation, labor market, skills, tradeoffs, Unemployment
Welcome to the Year 2025
Phil gets the house to himself for a few days and he’s opted to upgrade the technology in the home. He programs everything in the house to be controlled by his iPad, essentially freeing himself to do other tasks that require his attention. He can now turn on lights, the TV, and the fireplace from his device. Long term growth in economies is often fueled by capital investments, which allows populations to be more productive. The same is true at the household level, such that investments in capital improve the productivity of inhabitants.
http://videos.criticalcommons.org/transcoded/http/www.criticalcommons.org/Members/JJWooten/clips/modern-family-welcome-to-the-year-2025/video_file/mp4-high/s4-e8-year-2025-mp4.mp4
See more: economic growth, marginal product of labor, productivity, standard of living, technological change, technology
economic growth, marginal product of labor, productivity, standard of living, technological change, technology
Framing a Yard Sale
Luke and Manny’s class is having a yard sale to benefit UNICEF. When Mitchel doesn’t want to donate Cam’s pants, Luke tries to re-frame the charity attempt to guilt his uncle into donating more money. Framing is one tactic to get people to do something they may not have done under the original design.
http://videos.criticalcommons.org/transcoded/http/www.criticalcommons.org/Members/JJWooten/clips/modern-family-framing-a-yard-sale/video_file/mp4-high/s4-e6-framing-a-yard-sale-mp4.mp4
See more: altruism, behavioral, charity, framing, incentives, inequality, poverty
altruism, behavioral, charity, framing, incentives, Inequality, poverty
Money Delgado
The family is headed to Disneyland, but Manny is caught up in a simulated stock market game for school. It’s near the deadline and he wants to make sure he wins the competition, but volatility in the stock market has caused his portfolio to finish below expectations. Even though they’re playing with fake money, Manny dreams of the things he could afford if only he was rich, implying there’s a level of inequality among the haves and the have nots.
http://videos.criticalcommons.org/transcoded/http/www.criticalcommons.org/Members/JJWooten/clips/modern-family-money-delgado/video_file/mp4-high/s3-e22-moneydelgado-mp4.mp4
See more: income, income inequality, inequality, money, personal finance, stock market, volatility, wealth
income, income inequality, Inequality, Money, personal finance, stock market, volatility, wealth
Cam Gets a Job
With Lilly in school and Cam & Mitchell unsure about adopting another baby, Mitchell thinks it’s a good time for Cam to get a job. Mitchell works with his friend Longeness to secure Cam a job at a local boutique under the guise that the shop needs someone to work and Cam just happens to be available. Cam initially accepts because it seems like a great match for his tastes and skill set, but Jeoux lets the cat out of the bag that it wasn’t a sincere offer, and Cam is offended that Mitch thinks he is too lazy to get a job.
In the Household Production model, decision makers must decide whether to supply their labor for paid employment or supply their labor at home in household production. Cam lists many of the household production items that he produces with his labor, including paying bills, grocery shopping, and maintaining the house. Each of these items produce utility for the household, which could be purchased with Cam’s income. A secondary consideration of work, beyond the household production model is nonpecuiniary benefits of work like social interaction and purpose.
http://videos.criticalcommons.org/transcoded/http/www.criticalcommons.org/Members/JJWooten/clips/modern-family-cam-gets-a-job/video_file/mp4-high/s4-e3-cam-gets-a-job-mp4.mp4
See more: household production, human capital, labor force, labor-leisure tradeoff, labor supply, marginally attached, nonpecuniary benefits, search, tastes and preferences, tradeoffs, unemployment
household production, human capital, labor force, labor supply, labor-leisure tradeoff, marginally attached, nonpecuniary benefits, search, tastes and preferences, tradeoffs, Unemployment
Walking to Canada
When a classmate’s house burns down, the Pritchett family bands together to find things to donate to their cause. Manny and Luke are put in charge of a remote controlled helicopter that Manny has been coveting. Luke convinces Manny to fly it and they promptly lose the helicopter. Manny is scared of what Gloria will do when she finds out and threatens to walk to Canada if they do not find it. Luke replies that he hopes Manny likes taxes. Canada does tend to have higher tax rates than the United States, but there are also differences in the services provided by the two governments.
http://videos.criticalcommons.org/transcoded/http/www.criticalcommons.org/Members/JJWooten/clips/modern-family-walking-to-canada/video_file/mp4-high/s3-e8-walking-to-canada-mp4.mp4
See more: budget balance, comparative systems, inequality, macro, role of government, taxation
budget balance, comparative systems, Inequality, macro, role of government, taxation
The iPad
It is Phil’s birthday and also the day the iPad is being released. Phil is willing to spend his birthday waiting in line to be sure he gets the new iPad, but Claire offers to do it for him. Instead of getting there early, she ends up falling asleep on the couch. When she finally gets to the store, they are all out, and Phil ends up wishing he had handled it himself.
http://videos.criticalcommons.org/transcoded/http/www.criticalcommons.org/Members/JJWooten/clips/modern-family-the-ipad/video_file/mp4-high/s1-e19-the-ipad-mp4.mp4
See more: costs, demand, early adopters, gift giving, innovation, nonpecuniary benefits, preferences, tastes and preferences, technological change, technology
costs, demand, early adopters, gift giving, innovation, nonpecuniary benefits, preferences, tastes and preferences, technological change, technology
One Nice Thing
Cam convinced Mitchell that he needs to be kinder so Mitch invites a messy colleague who is going through a breakup to spend the night at their place. Unfortunately, she takes him up on it. Determined to keep their beautiful, brand new, designer white sofa (their one nice thing) in mint condition, they give up their bed for her and sleep on the floor. In this clip, they wake up and discover that she has moved onto the couch. This couch is more expensive than one from Rooms to Go and so it counts more towards GDP. Owning an expensive couch is an indication of Mitch and Cam’s high standard of living. Yet, does a high standard of living mean a higher quality of life? Robert Kennedy didn’t think so:
[GDP] counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities. It counts Whitman’s rifle and Speck’s knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children. Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.
–RFK, Speech at University of Kansas, March 18, 1968.
Another perspective on this clip: resources are scarce. At its heart, economics is about how we choose to use those resources. Purchasing this couch moved Mitch and Cam on to a higher indifference curve than before they purchased it so their utility is higher than it used to be. But could they have been on an even higher one if they chose to buy a cheap couch and spend their money on something else? Traditional economics says that Mitch and Cam are rational and made the best decision. Is it possible that they could have made a mistake? What if they incorrectly estimated the cost of maintaining the couch. Could this also demonstrate time inconsistency?
http://videos.criticalcommons.org/transcoded/http/www.criticalcommons.org/Members/JJWooten/clips/modern-family-one-nice-thing/video_file/mp4-high/s6-e9-one-nice-thing-mp4.mp4
See more: altruism, GDP, gross domestic product, luxury goods, opportunity cost, positional good, quality of life, risk, risk aversion, standard of living, tradeoffs
altruism, GDP, gross domestic product, luxury goods, opportunity cost, positional good, quality of life, risk, risk aversion, standard of living, tradeoffs
Who Still Uses Fax Machines?
After receiving a nomination to a major closet expo, Jay receives a phone call who expects to be full of congratulatory remarks. He instead finds the dial tone from a fax machine that has misdialed the number the intended. Jay, who isn’t the most technologically savvy member of the family, wonders why anyone might still be using a fax machine.
http://videos.criticalcommons.org/transcoded/http/www.criticalcommons.org/Members/JJWooten/clips/modern-family-who-uses-a-fax-machine/video_file/mp4-high/s9-e10-fax-machines-mp4.mp4
See more: demand, growth, innovation, technological change
demand, Growth, innovation, technological change
L’expo de Internationale
There’s a lot going on in this clip. The main focus is on Claire and Jay. Pritchett Closets (which Jay founded and Claire runs) has been selected to participate in the Expo Internationale du Closet! Both Claire and Jay are over the moon excited. But why? Participating in this event exposes them to an international market. They can expect a big increase in demand for their product. The second focus is on Manny. Manny has moved out but found that there are certain things about living at home that he really misses. This is something that a lot of people discover when they move out. These early lessons in personal finance can be tough!
http://videos.criticalcommons.org/transcoded/http/www.criticalcommons.org/Members/JJWooten/clips/modern-family-expo-internationale/video_file/mp4-high/s9-e10-expo-internationale-mp4.mp4
See more: demand, expectations, international trade, personal finance, trade
demand, expectations, international trade, personal finance, Trade
It’s All About Dignity
Mitch is working on a big case about the rights of vulnerable workers. In it, he argues that a company is preying on the lack of options available to people who are homeless and hiring them for extremely low wages. He believes that this is a violation of labor laws and tries to get the notice of the press. At the same time, Cam is stealing the spotlight as a successful high school football coach who is openly gay.
Traditional economics holds that trades which are voluntary (such as employment) are mutually beneficial. As such, some might argue that the company isn’t taking advantage of its workers since the workers benefit from the employment opportunity. Political economics suggests that you cannot ignore the power inequality between the company and the workers. When a large power imbalance is present, exploitation is possible.
A second use of this clip comes from the role of spouses in the household production model. The happiness of each individual party is important, but the other partner’s utility enters the utility function of each individual. This interdependency is important because it explains why some partners may opt for a decision that doesn’t maximize their own utility, but instead do so because it maximizes their partner’s utility.
http://videos.criticalcommons.org/transcoded/http/www.criticalcommons.org/Members/JJWooten/clips/modern-family-dignity-reclipped/video_file/mp4-high/dignity-modern-family-mp4.mp4
See more: altruism, externalities, income inequality, interdependent utility functions, labor law, living wage, negative externalities, political economics, private benefits, social costs, specialization, structural unemployment
altruism, externalities, income inequality, interdependent utility functions, labor law, living wage, negative externalities, political economics, private benefits, social costs, specialization, structural unemployment
Andy Never Gives Up
Andy currently works as Jay and Gloria’s “manny” (a male nanny), but he’s interested in changing jobs. He’s been spending a lot of time with Haley, which initially makes Phil and Claire suspicious of a budding romance. In this scene, Andy approaches Phil because he wants to become a real estate agent. He knows that he’s going to need to acquire more human capital before he’s able to do that so he asks to work as Phil’s new assistant.
In this scene, we watch Andy interview for this job. It turns out that Haley and Andy have been spending time together practicing their interview skills. Interviewing is like other productive activities and requires a special set of skills that we can get by practice. The better someone is at interviewing, the shorter the amount of time is that they will be among the frictionally unemployed (unemployment that results because it takes time to match the right worker to the right job). Phil makes Andy prove his dedication to becoming an assistant and highlights one of the crucial elements of job markets: the matching process. Firms don’t hire just any workers, but instead want to identify workers that will make a good “match” with their firm.
http://videos.criticalcommons.org/transcoded/http/www.criticalcommons.org/Members/JJWooten/clips/modern-family-never-give-up/video_file/mp4-high/s6-e7-never-give-up-mp4.mp4
See more: frictional unemployment, interviewing, human capital, labor market, job search, matching, unemployment
frictional unemployment, human capital, interviewing, job search, labor market, matching, Unemployment
Columbia Clothing Coincidence
Jay got new glasses that make him look like an old man but they work really well. So well that he realizes that Gloria’s family members in Columbia are wearing his old clothes. Notice that Gloria says that they sometimes send the clothes back. In the US, people frequently donate clothing to people in less developed countries. Many economists argue that this is counterproductive and leads to a surplus of clothing in these countries. That surplus can hurt markets and cost jobs.
http://videos.criticalcommons.org/transcoded/http/www.criticalcommons.org/Members/JJWooten/clips/modern-family-columbian-clothing-coincidence/video_file/mp4-high/s6-e1-columbian-clothing-coincidence-mp4.mp4
See more: charity, donations, efficiency, emerging markets, gift giving, growth, interdependent utility functions, preferences, utility
charity, donations, efficiency, emerging markets, gift giving, Growth, interdependent utility functions, preferences, utility
Role Reversal
After Mitchell quit his job, Cameron went to work to support them. Both Mitchell and Cameron think their partner is happy with this role reversal, but both are miserable and want to return to their original arrangement. Neither wants to say anything to other, because they are focused on maximizing their combined utility rather than their own, but they aren’t share their disutility.
http://videos.criticalcommons.org/transcoded/http/www.criticalcommons.org/Members/JJWooten/clips/modern-family-role-reversal/video_file/mp4-high/s1-e20-role-reversal-mp4.mp4
See more: added worker effect, division of labor, household labor supply, household production, interdependent utility functions, labor supply, preferences, specialization, unemployment
added worker effect, division of labor, household labor supply, household production, interdependent utility functions, labor supply, preferences, specialization, Unemployment
Claire is going to meet an old friend from work, but her kids are surprised to find out that she once had a job. She describes why she chose to leave the workforce. The household production model allows for workers to determine if they would prefer to produce items for household consumption or work in the paid labor force to purchase those same item. Claire must have steep indifference curves given she quit the labor force to produce household items.
http://videos.criticalcommons.org/transcoded/http/www.criticalcommons.org/Members/JJWooten/clips/modern-family-working-girl/video_file/mp4-high/s1-e14-working-girl-mp4.mp4
See more: comparative advantage, division of labor, household labor supply, household production labor force, labor force participation, labor supply, preferences, specialization, tradeoffs
comparative advantage, division of labor, household labor supply, household production, labor force, labor force participation, labor supply, preferences, specialization, tradeoffs
Just Text Me
Claire is trying to get the kids downstairs for breakfast and is shouting across the house. Hailey doesn’t understand why Claire won’t just text them, but Claire refuses. Improvements in technology should make everyday life more efficient, but Claire wants to stick with tradition.
http://videos.criticalcommons.org/transcoded/http/www.criticalcommons.org/Members/JJWooten/clips/modern-family-just-text-me/video_file/mp4-high/s1-e1-just-text-me-mp4.mp4
See more: efficiency, technological change
efficiency, technological change
Gentrification & Cupcakes
Manny lost Luke in a “sketchy” neighborhood. He and Phil enlist Gloria’s help to track him down. When they arrive in the neighborhood, they find that it has changed quite a bit since Gloria lived there. When searching for a girl, they have the option of visiting one of the four area cupcake stores, each specializing in a different area.
http://videos.criticalcommons.org/transcoded/http/www.criticalcommons.org/Members/JJWooten/clips/modern-family-gentrification/video_file/mp4-high/s9-e13-gentrification-mp4.mp4
See more: gentrification, growth, imperfect competition, incentives, income inequality, market structures, monopolistic competition, preferences, product differentiation
gentrification, Growth, imperfect competition, incentives, income inequality, market structures, monopolistic competition, preferences, product differentiation
Claire Petitions the HOA
Homes and yards that are improperly maintained decrease the property value of neighbors. This is a negative externality. To prevent this from happening, many modern neighborhoods have an HOA. The HOA decides what changes homeowners are allowed to make to their property and act as a non-market solution to externalities. They only allow changes that either do not impact the property value of other homes (no externalities) or that increase the property value of other homes (a positive externality). In this clip, Claire attends her HOA’s meeting. She submitted a proposal to build a “she shed” in her backyard that was denied. She believes this was not appropriate because the shed won’t be visible from the street and will not impact neighbor property values. What she doesn’t know is that her son, Luke, intercepted the request and responded with a fake denial so the HOA doesn’t understand why she is so belligerent. Phil shows up to warn her but is a little late…
http://videos.criticalcommons.org/transcoded/http/www.criticalcommons.org/Members/JJWooten/clips/modern-family-hoa/video_file/mp4-high/s9-e11-home-owners-association-mp4.mp4
See more: Coase theorem, collective action, government regulation, negative externalities, non-market solutions, permits, regulation, role of government
Coase theorem, collective action, government regulation, negative externalities, non-market solutions, permits, regulation, role of government
Winning at all costs
Cam is desperate to win the football game and be a winner. He overhears the opposing team’s coach plans for the next play. Does he act on this insider information? Yes. Using insider information in buying and selling financial securities is illegal because it gives someone an unfair advantage. Similarly, many would consider Cam’s actions cheating. In fact, Cam feels really guilty about it but Mitch encourages him to keep up the facade because winning is also important to him. The decision making process involves weighing the costs (his morals) versus the benefits (winning).
http://videos.criticalcommons.org/transcoded/http/www.criticalcommons.org/Members/JJWooten/clips/modern-family-win-at-all-costs/video_file/mp4-high/s9-e7-win-at-all-cost-mp4.mp4
See more: cost benefit analysis, ethics, insider trading, morals, self interest
cost benefit analysis, ethics, insider trading, morals, self interest
Haley is in a bind and needs some money real fast. She goes to Luke, but he isn’t really in a position to give her any money because he’s decided to freeze his cash. He even remarks to Haley that he isn’t very liquid right now, but we’re not convinced he actually knows about liquidity.
http://videos.criticalcommons.org/transcoded/http/www.criticalcommons.org/Members/JJWooten/clips/mfe-frozen-assets/video_file/mp4-high/modern-family-lukes-frozen-assets-mp4.mp4
See more: assets, frozen assets, liquidity, medium of exchange, money, store of value
assets, frozen assets, liquidity, medium of exchange, Money, store of value
Manny Helps Jay Double Tap
One of the tougher topics to get across to students is why older Americans start to leave the labor force. One explanation for the leave is that they see a decrease in their human capital and that some of their previous training is no longer relevant. This clip does a good job bringing humor to a topic that often sounds derogatory.
http://videos.criticalcommons.org/transcoded/http/www.criticalcommons.org/Members/JJWooten/clips/life-cycle-considerations-in-modern-family/video_file/mp4-high/modern-family-technology-barrier-mp4.mp4
See more: human capital depreciation, innovation, labor, life cycle considerations, technological change, technological knowledge
human capital depreciation, innovation, Labor, life cycle considerations, technological change, technological knowledge
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Ruolo degli alimenti nella sindrome orticaria-angioedema
Translated title of the contribution
: Role of foodstuffs in angioedema urticaria syndrome
P. D. Pigatto, P. Persichini, L. Arancio
IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi
When asked about the possible causes of urticaria, most patients indicate dietary allergens, whereas the results of population studies have demonstrated a much lower prevalence. The pathogenetic mechanisms underlying the majority of reactions to food are still only partially understood. Milk, eggs, fish and soya are the most frequent culprits in children, whereas peanuts, walnuts, hazel nuts, cereals, fish, crustaceans, eggs and fresh fruit are the most common causes. Other foods act by means of an extra-immunological mechanism and, for example, may have direct lytic effects on mast cells. The clinical pictures of the dietary form are no different from those observed in other forms of urticaria. The most frequent (and often the only) symptom is urticaria/angioedema, whereas edema of the glottis seems to be the most frequent severe adverse reaction to foods. Anaphylaxis is the most feared consequence of dietary allergy and, in some cases, may be triggered by even minimal amounts of food. Diagnosis is based on anamnesis, skin tests (including those using fresh foods), specific serum IgE measurements, elimination diets, and tests of oral food exposure under various conditions. In addition to preventive measures, treatment includes symptomatic therapies ranging from anti-histamines and steroids for general purposes, to adrenaline for emergency cases. The most likely therapeutic hypotheses for the near future range from the infusion of anti-IgE monoclonal antibody to the use of vaccines in which the allergen is conjugated to specific segments of DNA that could stably modify Th2 responses to the allergen itself. Finally, genetic studies are currently under way with the aim of creating genetically modified foods devoid of allergenic proteins.
Giornale Italiano di Dermatologia e Venereologia
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Immunoglobulin E
Pigatto, P. D., Persichini, P., & Arancio, L. (2004). Ruolo degli alimenti nella sindrome orticaria-angioedema. Giornale Italiano di Dermatologia e Venereologia, 139(5), 455-463.
Ruolo degli alimenti nella sindrome orticaria-angioedema. / Pigatto, P. D.; Persichini, P.; Arancio, L.
In: Giornale Italiano di Dermatologia e Venereologia, Vol. 139, No. 5, 2004, p. 455-463.
Pigatto, PD, Persichini, P & Arancio, L 2004, 'Ruolo degli alimenti nella sindrome orticaria-angioedema', Giornale Italiano di Dermatologia e Venereologia, vol. 139, no. 5, pp. 455-463.
Pigatto PD, Persichini P, Arancio L. Ruolo degli alimenti nella sindrome orticaria-angioedema. Giornale Italiano di Dermatologia e Venereologia. 2004;139(5):455-463.
Pigatto, P. D. ; Persichini, P. ; Arancio, L. / Ruolo degli alimenti nella sindrome orticaria-angioedema. In: Giornale Italiano di Dermatologia e Venereologia. 2004 ; Vol. 139, No. 5. pp. 455-463.
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Casino capitalism on trial
By Colin Barr, senior writerApril 27, 2010: 2:23 PM ET
(Fortune) -- Goldman Sachs executives can dodge and weave all they want. Casino capitalism, the institution that made Wall Street rich at the expense of everyone else, is finally getting the grilling it deserves.
Seven current and former Goldman (GS, Fortune 500) execs, including CEO Lloyd Blankfein, testified Tuesday at a Senate hearing on the role of investment banks in the financial meltdown of 2008.
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But if questioning Goldman execs often failed to produce enlightening answers, it showed the Senate is starting to put two and two together on a more important question: whether Wall Street in its current form is anything but a glorified, taxpayer-supported bookie.
It's a crucial question at a time when unemployment is near a three-decade high and members of Congress are butting heads on how to make financial regulation work.
"My sense is people feel like you're betting with other people's money and their future," said Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark. "You guys have less oversight than a pit boss in Las Vegas," added Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.
The hearing comes as Goldman fights a Securities and Exchange Commission civil fraud suit alleging it misled investors who quickly lost $1 billion buying subprime-related securities from the firm.
In that case, the SEC alleges, Goldman failed to tell investors that a hedge fund manager who was betting against the deal helped to pick the securities. That manager, John Paulson, walked off with $1 billion in less than a year.
Goldman execs insisted Tuesday that the firm didn't make out like a bandit by betting against its customers in the housing bust. They tried to portray the firm as a servant of its clients and society.
Blankfein, who earlier this week was dubbed "the prince of casino capitalism" by the Independent newspaper in the U.K., testified that Goldman's capital-raising, investment-advice and trading businesses are "important to economic growth and job creation."
But subcommittee chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., pointed out that the investments at the center of the SEC case -- so-called synthetic collateralized debt obligations, or debt instruments whose performance is tied to a portfolio of derivatives such as credit default swaps -- created no value except for the Wall Street firms that grew rich ginning them up.
"Synthetics became the chips in a giant casino, one that created no economic growth even when it thrived, and then helped throttle the economy when the casino collapsed," Levin said Tuesday in his opening statement.
Wall Street issued more than $200 billion of these instruments between 2004 and 2007, according to Thomson Financial and synthetic CDO issuance rose to $89 billion in 2006 from $37 billion in 2004, according to the Securities Industry Financial Markets Association trade group.
As the debt trading machine was gearing up, so did Wall Street profits and bonuses. New York City securities industry employees raked in $217 billion between 2000 and 2009, the New York comptroller's office said this year -- with nearly a third of that coming in the bubble years of 2006 and 2007.
Over roughly the same period, the composition of Goldman, Wall Street's most successful firm, changed markedly.
In 1998, Goldman got more than two-thirds of its revenue from investment banking and asset management -- activities that help the economy by bringing capital and investors together. But by the first quarter of this year, revenue from trading and principal investment accounted for 80% of Goldman's total sales.
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So the Wall Street churn machine has done its damage. The question now is whether senators will stand up to the industry's financial muscle and pass reforms -- such as restrictions on bank holdings of derivatives -- that will serve to close the casino once and for all.
"There's no doubt their behavior was unethical," Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said of Goldman. "The American people will render a judgment as well as the courts."
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Watch Robert Downey Jr. audition talking animals for 'Dolittle'
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What happened to Ultron in the climax of Age of Ultron?
In Avengers: Age of Ultron, did Vision kill him or absorb him?
If he absorbed him, is Vision partly evil?
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According to this wikia he did destroy Ultron
Vision: You're afraid.
Ultron: Of you?
Vision: Of death. You're the last one.
Ultron: You were supposed to be the last. Stark asked for a savior, and settled for a slave.
Vision: I suppose we're both disappointments. [Ultron chuckles]
Ultron: I suppose we are.
Vision: Humans are odd. They think order and chaos are somehow opposites, and try to control what won't be. But there is grace in their failings. I think you missed that.
Ultron: They're doomed.
Vision: Yes. But a thing isn't beautiful because it lasts. It's a privilege to be among them.
Ultron: You're unbearably naive.
Vision: Well, I was born yesterday. [as Ultron goes to attack him Vision uses the infinity stone in his head to destroy him]
before this, when Vision first awoke and Banner asks if the monster Ultron created him to be, Vision indicates that Ultron must be destroyed
What will you do? I don't want to kill Ultron. He's unique, and he's in pain. But that pain will roll over the earth, so he must be destroyed. Every form he's built, every trace of his presence on the net, we have to act now. And not one of us can do it without the others. Maybe I am a monster. I don't think I'd know if I were one. I'm not what you are, and not what you intended. So there may be no way to make you trust me. But we need to go.
This is also confirmed on the Marvel Cinematic Universe Wikia
Vision agreed, but claimed that something is not beautiful because it lasts, and that it was a privilege to be among them. Ultron sneered and described him as naive. After Vision wittily answered that he was born yesterday, an angered Ultron furiously lunged at him, only to be destroyed, thus permanently ending the threat he posed to the world.
Source: Ultron > History > Replicating a Meteor > Final Demise (last paragraph)
Of course even if Vision did absorb Ultron, we don't know if he is or could become evil. At the very least we know one thing,
Tony Stark: Right, so, if I lift [Mjölnir], I...I then rule Asgard?
Thor: Yes, of course.
He gets to rule Asgard.
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Memor-XMemor-X
As to your Mjölnir quote, Thor's response could've been based on the premise that Tony will never lift Mjölnir. Essentially: "When pigs can fly, then I rule Asgard? - Sure, why not.". Thor has made similarly witty (in his own way) comments. – Flater Nov 30 '17 at 11:04
@Xen2050 the Marvel Cinematic Universe is already changing some canon that was in the comics as the Infinity Stones, to my understanding, were always stones in the comics. in the MCU they currently aren't (look at The Ether which is the Reality Stone). i have not seen the Mind Stone open portals, only the Tesseract (Space Stone). – Memor-X Nov 30 '17 at 11:48
(cont.) as for having the script i am not privy to any website that hosts photos of the actual movie scripts from the movie set, anything else is just as editable whether it's a single web author or a community. but given that i also confirm it on the marvelcinematicuniverse wikia and that cites an art book for a behind the scenes reference to a Studio Ghibli film which can easily be proven or disproven by anyone who buys said artbook i would think the fan base who maintains that wikia try their best to provide accurate information. – Memor-X Nov 30 '17 at 11:48
(cont.) but you are welcome to comment with a website which contradicts my answer which itself has better citations – Memor-X Nov 30 '17 at 11:48
@Flater yeh i know that. i threw that in as a bit on humor given how effortlessly Vision wields Mjölnir, especially in the scene i quoted when he says that he doesn't know if he is a monster. maybe it might have been better served as a comment – Memor-X Nov 30 '17 at 11:54
Vision first burnt him out of the Internet, then destroyed the last Ultron legionnaire using the Mindstone after he (with the assistance of the other Avengers) had taken care of all of the rest. It was necessary - Vision is not evil.
RIP Ultron x
Stephen FrancisStephen Francis
So Vision in the original story, not the movie is an evolution of Ultron which was by the way created by Hank Pym and not Tony Stark. So to answer your question whether he was evil. Well, Vision never attempted to destroy the world, but he did fall in love with Janet Van Dyne and had an affair with her to where she left Hank for Vision.
Of course that aspect of the story did not make it to the modern day movie versions of Marvel.
Hank has always been an insecure man which is why he went from Ant-Man to where he would be ridiculed by the other Avengers, then to Giant Man, because he thought this would help him deal with his insecurities to Yellowjacket, then creating Ultron and then Vision.
Just to add on the answers given above, this is in context to the movies and not the comic books, in Avengers: Infinity War (wiki here)
According to Tony Stark and Bruce Banner, Vision's personality is an amalgam of their own, Ultron's (excluding the megalomaniacal aspects) J.A.R.V.I.S.' and an unknown amount of variables derived from the Mind Stone. Vision is a polite, calm, and thoughtful being, in a similar manner to J.A.R.V.I.S., shown when he apologizes to the Avengers and the twins after just being brought to life. Unlike Ultron, he values all forms of life.
In Infinity War Shuri tries to remove the component of vision associated with the mind stone, as it is more than just the stone , or just Ultron or any other single personality for that matter. So even though Vision absorbed Ultron in order to destroy him , the amalgam of personalities made him a unique android and in no way evil.
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Monster Man
A monster stitched together in the mismatched form of a person… A monster man, should we say?
It must have a way to perceive vibrations in the earth like a bat or sense sources of heat like a snake, because without eyes to see or ears to hear, that monstrosity suddenly turned and closed the distance on Shirley using its innumerable human-like limbs to scuttle along the ground.
With a flurry of kicks, punches, palm strikes and chops coming from those flailing limbs, the speed and fury of its attack exceeded most monsters, let alone a human being. She thought it was strange before the battle had begun, but now Shirley realizes that this monster is completely different to the information she had been given.
(This attack speed is much more troublesome than the reports suggested.)
According to the three D-Rank adventurers who had managed to drive the monster into a corner before, it had long arms that it could only swing at a human-like speed.
But the monster in front of her is attacking so quickly, hand over foot, that it would be difficult for even a C-Rank adventurer to keep up with the assault, so Shirley was had to admit that this was a surprise.
(Is it evolving…? Or was it holding back…? It doesn’t just look strange, it acts strangely as well.)
It’s hard to imagine that a monster could so vastly change its biology in such a short time, likewise, it’s unthinkable that a monster would seek to hide its strength against opponents it should so easily beat.
In the wilderness, it is kill or be killed. Outside of the very highest ranking monsters, creatures will fight with all their might in battle as if their life depended on it because it so often did.
(But it isn’t strong enough to be an apex monster and it doesn’t seem to be intelligent either… Just what on earth are you?)
Then, as Shirley was leisurely thinking that, a new flurry of attacks came at her.
Lowering your guard like that was fatal in battle. That monster man felt an instinctual sense of victory as it plunged towards the woman who let her thoughts wander in the heat of combat.
“….Hmph.”
However, after that quiet yet dismissive sound, all ten limbs that had flashed towards Shirley were cut in two with lightning speed, using curved swords that had suddenly appeared in those hands that had been empty a split second before.
The monster couldn’t even follow the shadow of the swing, let alone the swords themselves, and it wasn’t until those limbs lay in the grass that it felt the agonizing pain of the severance, whilst also realizing that the Demonic White Sword hadn’t let her guard down at all.
“aAaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!”
Flying forward with a single hard step into the earth. This time, it was Shirley who charged forward, attempting to slice through the monster’s veins at high speed, but the monster recovered quickly and opened its countless mouths, each of them with their own sets of perfectly white teeth, screeching at a cacophonous pitch.
The scream became supersonic waves that smashed into the trees and cut up the earth around Shirley, but to her, it was still just sound.
It may have burst the eardrums of a normal person, or at the very least the noise would have stopped them in their tracks, but the semi-immortal Shirley can rely on that supernatural regenerative ability instead of some physical or magical defense.
Even if the membranes in her ear are damaged, it takes less than a second to restore them to their original state, so it’s like they weren’t damaged at all. Without worrying about the sonic attack, she raised her curved sword with the intent to end the battle, but――――
“Tch!?”
“GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!?”
Despite her having enough time to completely turn the monster into a thousand pieces of nondescript mincemeat, instead, she leapt backwards, throwing those curved blades into two of those innumerable mouths, piercing them straight through.
“….Hmm.”
As she watched the monster scream and flail in pain, Shirley was quite surprised by what she saw as she held her hands over her ears.
Using her supernatural power, she had seen that there was a magical power to the explosive effect of the monster’s screams. She thought that maybe it was just a sonic ability from raising its voice to the maximum level, but it seems that’s not the case.
This was something far more dangerous. It’s a deathly wail that could damage the brain simply by hearing it. The high volume is merely to ensure that its victim hears it.
And so, this beast was a true threat to a semi-immortal being like Shirley. A semi-immortal comes about when a being’s body and soul is changed by an abnormal mental state… The influence of Shirley’s mind when controlling her body is far greater than a normal human being’s.
(I see… So this is a natural enemy against semi-immortals?)
Since it’s like this, she can’t attack thoughtlessly. As if she read Shirley’s intentions, the moment she summoned a new blade using her imagination alchemy, that ghastly collection of mouths all inhaled as one.
It seemed like that monster man was about to unleash its most deadly barrage of sound yet. Using up all of its magical energy, it will completely destroy the brain of its semi-immortal opponent… But, the moment it tried to let loose its final attack――――
“Well, you’re still much too slow.”
She moved many times faster than she had counter-attacked before.
This time, she didn’t even leave a shadow on the ground. Even if it had eyes with which to see, that monster would have had no chance of following Shirley’s speed, as every single gaping orifice on its body was perfectly stabbed by a rapier one after another in the blink of an eye.
“G…. Goooaahhh….!”
Very few creatures in this world would be able to live on after such a blow and this strange magical beast was no exception to the rule, as blood streamed from that myriad of mouths, it fell to the ground with a death rattle.
“Fuu… Request complete.”
So long as all of its mouths were plugged up, she guessed rightly that it wouldn’t be able to use that heinous ability. Summoning rope and wood, she tied the monster to a duckboard and began hauling it, enhancing her strength with the magic 《High Rise》.
“Yes…. Hmph. As expected, it really is heavy.”
Since Shirley’s body is still quite delicate, there are limits to her strength even when she uses physical reinforcement magic. Although she regretted that she didn’t bring along someone like Asterios this time around, Shirley nonetheless managed to drag the creature outside of the forest then, after protecting the corpse with a monster repelling magical barrier, ran to the nearest village in order to borrow a cart.
After making contact with the guild using the village’s installed magical communication tool, Shirley asked for the dispatch of a dragon-drawn wagon to bring back the monster and hitched a ride to get back to the frontier town without delay.
She delivered the corpse to the guild and made her detailed report about her observations both before and during the battle, but when she saw that the sun had set and was preparing to go home ――――
“Ah, please just wait one moment, Shirley-san.”
“…Haa?”
“Hiii!”
Just what is it this time? If she didn’t leave straight away, she wouldn’t be able to cook a meal for her daughters, so right now her precious family time is being cut short.
Receiving such a harsh glare filled with those emotions, Yumina who had called out for her drew back a step, but this was a receptionist who had been hardened by years of dealing with the most brutish and unwashed of adventurers on a daily basis. Standing up to the pressure, she got straight to the point.
“T-There’s just one thing? A certain intermediary gave me a letter that is apparently for you, Shirley-san, and they were hoping for a quick reply.”
Shirley couldn’t hold back a frown. Although she’s being vague about the sender, from the way Yumina was talking about them it seems like someone important, who also didn’t want to be named.
“Where’s the letter?”
It looked like a plain and unassuming envelope at first glance. There’s no wax seal and no sender noted on the front… Instead, only a single sentence was written.
To the lady who loved a cup of lemon tea in the summer months.
(Someone who knows me from when I was a noble…?)
Although she hardly gets the opportunity to have such a luxurious drink now that she’s a commoner, and such a dainty thing would never be served in the rough and tumble guild, during her days as a noblewoman she always enjoyed a refreshing drink of lemon tea on a hot day.
She highly doubted that Albert would remember something like that and she had never been in any sort of relationship with her family where they would know or care about what she liked. Then, by process of elimination, the girl that Shirley doted on in those old times was the only answer.
(Princess Philia…?)
When she opened up the envelope and began to read the letter inside, she still recognized the handwriting of that girl who was once to be her sister-in-law, but in reality had been something of a little sister already back then.
Perhaps the King had once again been the intermediary this time around. Although she expected that the letter would be full of highly confidential content, the majority of the letter were lines apologizing for so suddenly contacting Shirley and asking after her health, with the true subject only briefly being stated at the very foot of the letter.
Sister… Shirley-sama, do you happen to know anything about the magical sword of the Wolff family? If you do, I would deeply appreciate you telling me.
I’m not going to be angry if you call me ‘sister’… Shirley sighed when she saw the crossed out word, then thought about that particular sword.
The story of the two swords being handed down the lineages of the two foremost knightly families in the Empire is well known. There is Clarent, the elemental sword handed down through the House of Regnard, and also the treasured blade of the Wolff family. She doesn’t know the circumstances exactly, but not much is known about the latter sword.
Whilst the story about Clarent and its power was known even in this remote branch of the Adventurer’s Guild, the treasured blade of the Wolff family was shrouded in mystery even when she was in the Imperial court. She never even heard its true name.
According to some rumours, it’s a sword possessed by a demon. A blade that can make its wielder strong just by grasping it. Apart from swords that have the ability to cure the wounds of their wielders, Shirley had never heard of any magic swords that had abilities not reliant on the user’s own power… But, as she was going to use that thinking to dismiss the rumours of the sword granting a wielder power, she remembered something.
―――― Clarent is a prestigious and well-known blade. However, the sword held by the House of Wolff is only truly known to them, as well as the reigning Emperor and Empress. On the day that Albert and yourself accede the throne, I shall tell the both of you the truth.
The words of the previous emperor, Legrand, came to mind. But, just why did Philia send her such a letter…? There was only one answer she could think of.
(Gran Wolff is on a rampage?)
She remembered the face of a man she had not thought about in a long time. A man who lost his sense of chivalry, always trying to pin his faults to the actions of others. She remembered catching a glimpse of him during the Duel Ordained by the Goddess, his eyes had been clouded with a palpable sense of envy.
Was Gran committing some kind of evil with the sword? Perhaps this letter is actually a warning, telling her to be careful about Sophie and Tio?
(That said, all the rumours about the sword’s disturbing powers could just be speculation… Wait, now that I think about it…)
There was only one person she knew of that would know the truth about that blade and could tell Philia themselves.
After writing that person a letter and entrusting it to Yumina, Shirley quickly returned to the Deficit House.
It’s a little late to be cooking herself, so she had dinner in the Deficit House’s dining room, but at least she got to eat with Sophie and Tio. Thinking that it really was worth it to clear up the request as quickly as she did, Shirley blissfully spent quality time with her daughters, but her happy face became rigid the moment she entered their room.
“Mum, something amazing happened.”
“Since when could Beryl and Rubeus fly!?”
The two birds, which had only been chicks when she left this morning, now flew in circles over the heads of her daughters.
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Fasolasido says:
CJ Terlac says:
What’s the point of disguising yourselves as chicks if you’re just gonna grow back to regular size in a week or two?
ichibaka1 says:
To aclimate themselves to their new owners’ magical energy pattern
More like they had to revert to chick form, since they were heavily injured. If I remember correctly, they fought a dragon (don’t know the rank or type) and got either mortally wounded, or nearly that, so they had to take “economic” forms.
Well, it’s a fantasy story, don’t expect anything logical, we are not here for too much logic.
Amarrez says:
To clear this up (from my understanding), they took on smaller forms so that they wouldn’t cause a shock to the still underdeveloped magical systems of the two girls, since they hadn’t ever had familiars before. If they start as chicks and then grow into full birds, it gives their bodies more time to become acclimatized.
kirindas says:
Thanks for the new chapter!
Orek says:
Thx for the chap.
daisynkysloth says:
Well now, I hope we get some more info about that monstrosity soon, it was very intriguing. I wonder if it’s some kind of side effect of the weird blade/sword that the idiot (Gram Wolf?) was messing with. The “pulsating/wriggling” vein is a pretty hard clue. The fact that it’s victims are absorbed might mean it just takes their life/magic energy, but seems there’s more.
Thanks for the chapter! God bless you (unless this bothers you, then pls ignore:D )!
Jambu Jambon says:
I want to see Tio and Shopie to fight soon 😚
MikeLima52 says:
ggfbank says:
Sorry monster guy, you’re not fast enough.
boings says:
I don’t know if this is the intention, but the more the writer describes these “Ohhh I /totally/ didn’t mean to call you sister *tee-hee*” moments the more I loathe the imperial princess.
Poor Philia, people sure do hate her for some reason
opus says:
Yeah, she’s not coming off clingy or creepy, she just unconsciously let’s it slip.
Thank for the update
adhete says:
AsVr says:
I really like this novel mainly because of Shirley’s personality who attaches importance to her two daughters and her as a single parent … But lately the writer seems to have brought her closer to Kyel. Will she be dating with Kyel later?
If that happens, maybe I will stop reading this novel. I hope it’s just a side story just so the story is more lively.
Translator-sama please guide me.
Canary has a better chance at School than kyle. 😛
Yes, but lately he has appeared too much in the story, make my reading taste down. 😞
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Aretha Franklin And Her Iconic Moments With Presidents Of The United States
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The Queen of Soul’s iconic career has covered decades. During that time, she has met with several presidents. See some of her iconic moments with presidents below.
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1. Aretha Sharing A Fist Bump With President Obama In 2015
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2. Aretha Franklin Sings “My Country Tis of Thee” At The Inauguration of President Barack Obama on January 20, 2009
3. Aretha Franklin Bringing President Obama To Tears At the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors
4. Aretha Franklin Singing For President Jimmy Carter In 1977
5. Aretha Franklin Singing ‘I Dreamed a Dream’ For President Bill Clinton
6. Aretha Franklin At The Obama White House 2015
7. Aretha Franklin Receiving the Medal of Freedom From President George W. Bush in 2005
Happy Birthday "Queen of Soul" Aretha Franklin! '05 - President George W. Bush presented her the Medal of Freedom: https://t.co/J4jE7G2Dxx pic.twitter.com/LIUl2TciIt
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8. Aretha With The Obamas AT tHE Martin Luther King Memorial Dedication In 2011
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9. Aretha At The Kennedy Center Honors Reception With First Lady Hillary Clinton and President Bill Clinton In 1994
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11. Aretha With Clinton At The Elton John AIDS Foundation Gala In 1997
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The pound has fallen to its lowest level in almost a year amid continuing concerns that the UK will leave the European Union without a deal.
Sterling slid 0.4% to $1.2894 at around midday - its lowest level since 31 August 2017. The currency also hit a new low for the year against the euro, trading at €1.1135.
The pound went on to end the day even lower at $1.2878, and €1.1107 respectively.
Viraj Patel, a currency strategist at ING, tweeted: "Sterling unraveling now against both the dollar and euro. Independent weakness is evidence of no-deal Brexit risks being priced in."
Sterling unravelling now against both the $USD and $EUR. Independent weakness is evidence of no-deal #Brexit risks being priced in. We think peak no-deal risks takes $GBPUSD to 1.27-1.28 in 3Q18... hard to fight that given signs of a bearish trend channel. Next stop 1.2850/60 pic.twitter.com/NbF0YchymI
— Viraj Patel (@VPatelFX) August 8, 2018
Liam Fox, the international trade secretary and prominent Brexiteer, kicked off the currency's slide earlier this week after he put the odds of the UK leaving the EU without a deal at "60-40".
Dr Fox's comments come after the governor of the Bank of England warned the risk of the UK leaving the EU without a deal was "uncomfortably high".
Liam Fox: EU pushing Britain towards no-deal Brexit
International Trade Secretary Liam Fox has said "intransigence" from the European Union is pushing Britain towards a no-deal Brexit.
With less than eight months to go before the UK exits the bloc, sterling is under pressure as traders hedge against the prospect of a no deal.
"A lot of companies can't wait for the [Brexit] negotiations outcome in October so a lot, of course, are trying to hedge against drop in the pound," said Christophe Barraud, an economist at Market Securities brokerage in Paris.
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Feb 27, 2019 Lee Wang Jong
Cinnamon: Update Your Dream
A dream isn’t something that is final, it’s something that should constantly be updated and thoroughly thought about with the aim to achieve it.
Miku Hirano is the founder and CEO of Cinnamon, a company that is dedicated to “remove all unnecessary work from the world by using AI.” At a glance, Miku seems to be another business woman from Japan; petit in stature, quiet in speech. Nevertheless, listening to her story of how she started and how her “persistence to overcome trial and errors” with near bankruptcy and no concrete business plan, her presence on stage became evermore palpable.
Early in her career, she pitched an idea to a friend about how they should “use technology for actual, practical uses.” This pitched turned into her company Naked Tech. Their aim was to sell AI technologies to improve mobile phones, however; interest in AI was low.
Her problem: “UI was horrible.”
Her solution: “AI.”
It sounded good, it sounded like a great idea, but Miku believes that perhaps timing was off and regrets that Naked Tech wasn’t able to go global. It was eventually acquired by Mixi in 2011.
Miku was 28 years old when her company was acquired. Notwithstanding, she decided to further pursue her goal: to get something that was practical in use out into the global market. It was the smart phone era, social media (she noticed) was having a bigger and bigger impact. How did she do it? She relocated, straight-up moved to another part of the world that was completely unknown to her. She moved to Vietnam. Even in the face of language barrier, unknown social idiosyncrasies, she started Cinnamon. A company dedicated to “removing unnecessary work from the world.” Products included: document reader, chat bot, recommendation engine, and speech-to-text applications.
Of course, even in Vietnam, trial and errors persisted, but she did as well. Restructuring her failing business down to 160 members, raising 16 million USD, with 40+ national clients in 2 years.
She answered the questions in our heads: where was this persistence coming from? “My simple answer: My dream, my plans… I had two babies during that time. I remember reading on the news about a Japanese lady who died from overworking (karoshi). Did I want my kids to grow up in the similar environment?” Her solution to these questions is the foundation of Cinnamon.
“It’s all about the dream.” It’s such a ubiquitous platitude that most certainly the startup scene hears all too often. “But it’s how you make changes, and adjustments to your dream” Miku reiterates. “Dream as big as possible, and dream even bigger next year. Discuss it to your closest friends and family,” as talking about it can make dreams into more concrete plans.
Is it all too repetitive? Is it all too familiar?
That’s why it works. Update your dream.
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Tuesday 20 August 2019 by Chris Ballard
Avoiding a hard border between the EU and a country which voted to remain in the EU is anti-democratic, insists Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson has told the EU that the Irish border backstop plan is undemocratic, merrily ignoring the fact that 56% of Northern Ireland voted to remain in the EU.
The British Prime Minister is risking a hard Irish border on the basis that the backstop is ‘anti-democratic.’ This conveniently overlooks the fact that the majority of voters in Northern Ireland wish to remain in the EU and a hard border would be the ultimate rejection of the ‘will of the people’ who live either side of it.
Political Analyst Simon Williams explores the issues.
“Most people in Ireland want to avoid a hard border,” he said. “But the problems caused by Boris Johnson’s terrifyingly uninformed border policy certainly don’t end there.
“Boris says the backstop would weaken the Good Friday Agreement. I’m not sure what he thinks that is – probably something to do with promising not to open the chocolate eggs until Easter Day.
“A vital pillar of the British-Irish Agreement was absolute neutrality on the part of Westminster towards both nationalist and unionist perspectives – views which currently co-exist peacefully in Northern Ireland.
“By talking about ‘British sovereignty’ and presenting himself as the Prime Minister who will ‘save the Union’ Boris is – to be charitable – clumsily and ignorantly undermining decades of goodwill.
“A more cynical interpretation is that Johnson is wilfully and irresponsibly aiming for a hard border because his slender majority depends on the DUP – a party who want to be as close to the UK and as far from Ireland as possible.”
In a statement Boris said, “Look, the bloody border will be fine – we’ll just put up some CCTV or something.
“That will be more than enough to sustain the delicate truce that was achieved after a hundred years of political and religious conflict.
“Or whatever it is.”
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NCPC collaborates with Knight of St. Mulumba to promote pilgrimage to Uganda
August 29, 2018 franknews
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Executive Secretary, Nigeria Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Rev. Uja Tor Uja (l) welcoming the Supreme Knight of the Order of the Knight of St. Mulumba (KSM), Nigeria, Bro. Diamond Ovotu Ovueraye during his visit to the Exe. Sec. NCPC in Abuja
The Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Christian Pilgrim Commission, Rev, Uja Tor Uja has promised to join forces with the Knight of St. Mulumba to promote Pilgrimage to Uganda.
He stated this recently in Abuja while playing host to the national Executive members of the order of the Knights of St. Mulumba, Nigeria.
In the words of the NCPC boss, “I believe that this Pilgrimage to Uganda is a blessing to Africa,” affirming that a team from the Commission would be sent to Uganda from this year and next May on a fact finding mission; for contact building and information documentation of the holy site. He assured that the Commission would partner with KSM to make Uganda Pilgrimage the center of Africa Pilgrimage.
The NCPC helmsman also stressed the need to have a conference of St. Mulumba together in order to discuss the issue of Pilgrimage to Uganda holistically.
He also hinted that the Commission’s policy on Pilgrimage must include Israel which is the cradle of our Christian religion.
He therefore charged his guests to ensure that Israel must be part of the Pilgrimage arrangement for Uganda.
He explained that going to Israel should be a perpetual reminder of our Christian faith.
He commended the Catholic Church for the way and manner they have been involved in missionary works across the globe.
According to him, “the Catholic Church has got the correct global perspective of missionary work.”
He urged the Catholic Church to partner with other churches in the promotion of Pilgrimage to Uganda.
He asserted that the Commission would want Pilgrimage to be holistically developmental and would want all the churches to come together for every Pilgrimage, because the Commission would ensure that Pilgrimage would be interdenominational.
He further informed that every church must register and be certified with the Commission before they would be allowed to travel on Pilgrimage to reduce and check the menace of absconders.
Earlier, the leader of the delegation, the Supreme knight, Bro. Diamond Ovueraye thanked the Executive Secretary for granting them audience.
He informed the NCPC boss that the order of the knights of St. Mulumba, Nigeria was established in 1953 by the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN).
He defined “Pilgrimage as a journey of faith, to a place of faith for an increase of faith.” He explained that in 2003, the order commenced the yearly pilgrimage to Uganda, to allow members and Christian faithful (Clergy, Religious and Laity) visit the home of Uganda Martyrs and participate in the annual Martyr Day June celebrations held every 3rd of June.
According to the Supreme Knight, the objectives of the Knights of St. Mulumba Pilgrimage to Uganda are to make that country the home of Uganda Martyrs the center piece of Africa Pilgrimage.
He sought the assistance of the NCPC boss to officially recognise KSM yearly Pilgrimage to Uganda as one of the Christian Pilgrimages.
He stated that the period of the Pilgrimage is usually between 28 or 29 of May to 4th or 5th of June.
He solicited Rev. Uja’s support in the effective promotion of Pilgrimage to Uganda through the organs of NCPC.
In another development, the Executive Secretary of NCPC also received in audience executive members of the Association of Virtuous Women in Pilgrimage and Tourism in Nigeria, led by the founder/CEO, Lady Chy Schwimmer.
Rev Uja averred that “Pilgrimage is something noble and as such every willing Christian should have the opportunity to participate at-least once in a life time”.
He intimated the AVWOPAT women that the Commission’s Maiden Women Pilgrimage to Israel recorded a huge success, stating that it was the best ever organized pilgrimage of the Commission as the women were exposed to a lot of empowerment drive in Israel.
According to the NCPC boss “We are hoping that the NCPC Women Pilgrimage will be an annual exercise”.
Earlier, Mrs. Schwimmer told the Executive Secretary that they were in NCPC to see how they could partner with the Commission and Government.
Her words: “we felt there is need to carry the women along in the programme of government.”
She further expatiated that part of the reasons for their visit was to go to Israel to pray and explore Nigeria Tourism.
Executive Secretary, Nigeria Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Rev. Uja Tor Uja with the Founder/CEO, Association of Virtuous Women in Pilgrimage and Tourism of Nigeria (AVWOPAT), Lady Chy Schwimmer during the Association’s visit to NCPC Corporate Headquarters in Abuja
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Commando memorial at Spean Bridge, Scotland.
“In Memory of the Officers and men of the Commandos who died in the Second World War 1939 – 1945. This Country was their Training Ground.”
There is a bigger plaque on the back of the statue which reads:
THE COMMANDOS 1940-45
A T1 Patrol Chevrolet of the Long Range Desert Group during the withdrawel from Operation Caravan; attack on Barce, September 1942.
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Author British/Commonwealth military
Long Range Desert Group Chevrolet being “unditched” from soft sand in the desert, circa 1942. The truck is mounted with a Lewis gun.
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Long Range Desert Group Jeep
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Long Range Desert Group 30 cwt Chevrolet WB
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A Guards Patrol (G Patrol) Jeep of the
Long Range Desert Group.
20mm Breda mounted on 30 cwt Chevrolet 1533×2.
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37 mm Bofors mounted on a 30 cwt Chevrolet WB.
Trucks of the en:Long Range Desert Group. Heavily laden 30 cwt 1533×2 Chevrolets of R1 Patrol setting out from en:Jalo oasis in Libya, circa 1942. In the foreground is “R4” Rotowaro W.D.no. L4618912.
Тренировка спецназовцев в Великобритании. Лето 1940 года.
Лофонтенский рейд, март 1941 г. Британское десантное судно с норвежскими добровольцами на борту.
The American Willy`s Jeep, such as the one being driven in this photos, provided the first SAS units with a much preferred method of entry into the desert during the North African campaign of WW II.
Greek partisans working with SAS during WW II.
Belgian SAS on parade at the end of WW II.
Many of the men on Operation “Bullbasket” were captured and executed by the Germans.
The Dakota, many of which are still in service, dropped SAS parachutists into Europe in 1943.
Members of the Free French SAS who served from 1941 to the end of the WW II.
Standing is Capt. J.E. Tonkin, sitting on the right is Lt H.Morris. The other four men were captured and executed by the Germans on 7 July 1944 under the dictate of Hitler`s Commando Order. Le Foret de Verrieres, France.
Two legendary SAS figures in conversation: David Stiring (left) and “Jock” Lewes (right).
The Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) often carried the SAS raiding units to their targets.
When working with partisans such as the Maquis in France or, as here in Italy, the SAS displayed the British flag to notify Allied aircraft of their presence.
Lieutenant-Colonel “Paddy” Mayne – one of Stirling`s first recruits into SAS. Mayne joined L Detachment SAS Brigade on its formation in July 1941 and played a major role in operations during the North African campaign.
David Stirling
Captain Phillip Pinkney joined the SBS when 62 Commando was disbanded and was posted to 2 SAS in 1943. He was one of a raiding force dropped into the Brenner Pass in Italy in order to destroy a vital rail tunnel. Shortly after they had completed their mission, Pinckney was captured and subsequently executed by the Gestapo.
The Greek Sacred Squadron (SAS) fought with great bravery in WW II.
David Sillito
Colonel David Stirling, founder of the SAS.
Members of the SOE training for operations behind enemy lines in 1940.
The “La Palma” in Rodi Harbour befor setting sail for the island of Vis in the Adriatic. The tarpaulin covers a jeep, the SAS trademark during WW II.
The Willy`s jeep
The Vickers K machine gun, designed for use in aircraft, was adapted to great effect for use on the Willy`s jeep.
A detachment of SAS who took part in the capture of the Italian Adriatic port of Termopili. Roy Farran, who featured in Operation “Tombola”, is on the right at the front.
The SAS war crimes unit racked down and arrested many Germans responsible for the murder of captured SAS men in WW II.
St Martin`s Church, Hereford. The final resting place for many outstanding SAS men.
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The Endgame
You thought this was going to start with a joke about Infinity War, didn’t you? Be honest. If you are, then I will be and admit that the first couple drafts of this did indeed start that way. As it turns out trying to link Doctor Strange’s line into a conversation about the controversy surrounding Anthem’s launch state is harder than it seems.
See how I did that? Nice, right?
Anywho, let’s talk about the latest whirlwind of, I won’t even call it a conversation, as it is really just a bunch of people screaming into the void about the newest death knell for Anthem.
Endgame content.
We’re not going to start out talking about it immediately, it’ll take a minute but trust me, we’ll get there.
First off we may as well take a moment to explain exactly what that is for the curious but unfamiliar and to do that let’s go over some general info. Video games are broken down into some broad categories which over time have been parted out even more into various sub-categories. The number of these is easily into the dozens so you’ll forgive me for not listing them all here, we’ll stick with just the relevant ones. Anthem is most often referred to as a Looter Shooter which combines elements of Action/RPG/First or Third-Person Shooter games into one package. We can credit the existence of this genre to games like Hellgate: London and the short-lived Tabula Rasa. Two years after those games released Gearbox’s entry Borderlands would finally cement the Looter Shooter as a staple in the gaming industry. Titles like Warframe, Destiny and The Division were not far behind, as well as numerous indie projects. All of these games, while also being looter shooters, share similar monetization schemes ranging from subscriptions (Hellgate: London), DLC, and microtransactions.
I’m going to take just a small detour here to explain the distinction between games as a service versus DLC. It may not seem important but for our purposes, the distinction does matter. DLC or Downloadable Content for games, for the most part, exist as distinct content additions to a retail product. Usually, they are additional chunks that build on the core experience of a base game either tangentially to the story or directly related to it. Most of the time these pieces of content can be completed in the <10-hour range and costs anywhere between $5 and $20.
A Games as a Service/Live Service style product will generally package a set of microtransactions along with annual or bi-annual DLC content and seasonal events. All of these are designed to keep players engaged over multiple years of content and microtransaction releases. In effect, these games don’t want to give you the opportunity to stop playing and go elsewhere between DLC.
This is where the design of endgame content starts to matter. When the big bad is vanquished and you stand triumphant while the credits roll, what do you do after? Traditionally in linear story-oriented games, this is when you take a break and then move on to some other title. In the world of monetization that we now live developers instead want to keep you right where you are, playing their game and investing your hard earned money in keeping that experience going. By all accounts, it’s not a bad business strategy as it directly addresses the worst part of finishing a great piece of entertainment, you want more. This is where the RPG in the Looter Shooter game design really shines as one of the core aspects to many roleplaying games is the equipment. With the addition of milestone challenges, rare gear to collect, and even bits of hidden lore to uncover these are the building blocks of the all-important endgame.
Disclaimer – I was going to make a “Bump N’ Grind” joke here until I realized much to my dismay that R Kelly sings that song and because fuck that guy, you get the gif instead, enjoy.
If you’ve ever wondered what work feels like in your leisure time I encourage you to immerse yourself in the grind of any game mentioned in this post or your choice of MMO. The more Korean the better. Ideally, it won’t feel like work because as a fan of the game you’ll enjoy what you have to do regardless of its repetitive nature.
Skill-Up on YouTube had one of my favorite descriptions of it when it came to the most recent updates for The Division.
If you watched a couple minutes of that you might end up agreeing with Skill-Up that it doesn’t seem like that was very repetitive at all and you would be right. What you have to remember though is that it took almost two years for the game to reach that point. Think about that, the endgame of a major IP didn’t come together fully until nearly two years after it’s initial release. To be honest, I was almost positive that it would never really get there after playing at launch but to their credit, they stuck with it and built a game they could be proud of. One that ended up being so good I came back to it with a friend and we poured a ton of hours into it, a lot of which was a second run for me.
So how does all this tie in with Anthem? The current picadillo that Bioware seems to be in is that no one believes their endgame is up to snuff. I’ve heard everything from it’s “light” to “non-existent” and everything in between.
Today Bioware posted part 2 of their This is Anthem video series about the endgame, it’s worth a watch.
Everything said in the video pretty much lines up with what we’ve come to expect from other live services with a healthy spread between daily, weekly, and monthly challenges. In addition to world events like the shaper storms and cataclysms, the developers have also said that things like weather and time of day will also affect available activities. You also have other codex challenges like using different equipment to unlock more advanced crafting recipes for a given gear type.
The questions I asked myself while reading through all the criticism, some of which is in the comments of that video, was how much endgame is really needed at launch? Does the min-max grind count once you’re there? Anyone with any experience in the various gaming communities, or any rabid fandom really, will tell you how little time it takes people to blow through content. As recently as a day ago a world first race for new World of Warcraft content concluded. Gamers have built careers on how quickly they can knock down incredibly complex content upon its release. People plan their days off so they can binge new titles, we’ve built conventions around speed running and are still finding decades-old secrets in games most of us barely remember anymore. Whether it’s out of sheer passion or the drive to be first fans will find a way to consume content or do things faster than was ever intended. Its become a bit of an amusing arms race between developers and their communities as they try to stay one step ahead and provide new, more challenging gameplay.
Anyone remember the No Man’s Sky launch? Even Destiny 2’s community has had heated discussions since its launch about whether or not the developers should be catering more towards hardcore or casual fans. Do you do it via a majority vote? Player statistics? Squeakiest wheel? Dartboard? Guess there is always this but it just seems cruel and wasteful.
So what do they do? Bioware has been working on Anthem since at least 2012 so that is already six years worth of work just to bring the game to this point, two weeks and change out from release. From everything I have seen the game is sporting a respectable amount of activities for a new, ambitious IP at its launch and what appears to be a rather extensive future roadmap. Striking the balance between “having enough” and “ever launching your game at all” is no easy task but at some point you have to end development and go live. What’s funny is that they haven’t even really ended development on Anthem as they have already had teams working on post-release content for months to get it ready. It’s always possible that Anthem will end up like other live service games that take months, if not years, to reach their full potential. The silver lining to that possibility is that three of the most prominent titles in this genre all suffered from this at launch and since then have all gone on to rather amazing success. Bungie actually managed it twice now with Destiny 2 following a similar fate as their first game. In spite of what you might have heard Destiny 2 outsold the first and was Activision Blizzard’s largest PC launch. Far from a failure in spite of Activision being disappointed in its performance.
It’s entirely possible that this is just par for the course for this genre of games and that no amount of endgame content at launch will ever be enough. I don’t think that I’m quite ready to declare that the set in stone reality but the evidence does seem to be pointing in that direction. As I said in my last post I feel like Bioware has proven that Anthem has all the ingredients to be amazing which leaves only a couple questions up to the community.
Do you want to be there from the potentially rocky, buggy launch?
Are you okay with feeling like you’ve caught up and have nothing new to do but grind and explore until new content drops?
If you answered yes then barring any cataclysmic problems I’ll be there with you to ride the launch-day rollercoaster. It’ll be frustrating but fun I’m sure.
If you answered no then that is fine. If the game is still here and kicking out content in six months to a years time you can pick it up on sale and join in. If not then you were right all along and it was a good thing you waited.
The question of whether or not there is enough endgame content at launch is, I think, a bit of a false dilemma. The questions we should be asking is whether or not the game is done. If the story is interesting or engaging. Is the aesthetic interesting? Are the graphics good? Does it feel like the Bioware we’ve fallen in love with in the past?
I honestly don’t think I care if there is enough of an endgame grind out of the gate to keep me busy right up until new content is released.
I just care that what is there is worth playing in the first place. I can always look forward to more if it is.
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Anthem, Part 2 – New World
If you read part one of my Anthem ramblings from yesterday then–welcome back! If you didn’t and would like to, go do that and I’ll keep this page warm until you get back.
All done? Excellent. Seemed kind of dour, didn’t it? I agree. Except for some general “I have hope” sentiments I don’t think I really gave anyone reasons to be excited. So let’s change that and I think there is no better place to start than the setting.
Unless you’re building a game that functions solely on its mechanics like Dead Cells, Tetris or QWOP then a story is an important fundamental aspect to your title. One that I think Anthem has in spades.
The Anthem of Creation
Whether we acknowledge it or not originality is one of the key hooks in any creative endeavor. Even if the skeleton of it is the same as it’s been for decades the veneer, a lot of the time, is what really counts. As more and more information about Anthem has been released the comparisons to recent and games long past have been steady.
The loot and RPG systems of Diablo.
The shooter mechanics of Destiny, and the loot.
I’m sure there are more than a few passing references to Borderlands.
The movement, combat and, loot of Warframe.
The cosmetic microtransactions of… any number of games.
The Sci-Fi setting of… any number of games, books and, movies.
I mentioned yesterday that as more details about the game have come out I was surprised by how many people were down on it’s aesthetic and story. I won’t deny that in many broad ways Anthem feels familiar, just like a lot of games to their spiritual predecessors. I’ve remarked on numerous occasions that to me Destiny at times feels to me like Bungie is still a bit lovesick for their Halo IP. The Cabal and the Covenant, Master Chief and the Guardians, humanity on the brink. In a lot of broad themes, these games to me have a lot in common beyond just their aesthetics.
But how similar are they? The truthful answer is not at all really, especially once you start getting into the details of the settings where they are significantly different. Each one with a lovingly crafted lore built out into a living, breathing universe that is constantly growing and changing. It’s not an easy undertaking to build something like that from scratch and only bear a passing resemblance to IPs that have come before. Bungie and Bioware both deserve a round of applause for managing to do this multiple times over their history as game developers.
Anthem for all its familiarity feels to me like a fresh universe to explore and that in and of itself means it has cleared one of the biggest hurdles a new IP has. So, let us take a look at what know so far before heading into the Open Demo Weekend.
The World of Anthem
Humanity struggles for survival on the ever-changing world of Anthem
The as-of-yet unnamed planet players will be exploring in Anthem is a world described by Mark Darrah as, “… a world stuck in the middle of its genesis.” As far as I can tell it’s not entirely clear whether or not the planet was being created from scratch or being terraformed from a previously uninhabitable form. The Shapers or Shaper Gods have long since left the world with their work unfinished and the inhabitants of the planet struggling to survive the aftermath. The technology used by the Shapers to harness the Anthem of Creation, energy unique to this universe, were also left behind and still active. Occasionally bursts of energy from these relics will radically alter the landscape and go so far as to mutate the indigenous life. These changes affect everything from their physical appearance to potentially making them more aggressive. We hear several references in trailers to something called The Heart of Rage which may or may not be related to the Anthem itself. This results in a dangerous and ever-changing planet where humanity fights back the chaos from heavily defended enclaves called Forts.
One of these Forts, Tarsis, is where the player begins their journey as a new Freelancer pilot responsible for flying one of the worlds rare Javelin mechs. Javelins are handcrafted suits of armor used by talented pilots to ensure the safety of the remaining human settlements. The story of the Freelancers and their inception actually goes back quite a long way according to the Legion of Dawn trailer. The voiceover talks about a time when humans were slaves to the chaos of the world. That is until one figure, in what we assume was the first Javelin, lead the fight to establish bastions of humanity that still stand today. The technology of the Javelin and this unnamed figures victories lead to the establishment of the Legion of Dawn. Precursors to the modern day Freelancers who still risk their lives to protect and someday reclaim the planet from the constant upheaval threatening to destroy it.
On top of the Shaper Relics and indigenous dangers of the planet, there looms another threat in the form of the Dominion. A faction of humans from the northern reaches lead by a man known only as The Monitor. The goals of the Dominion are simple: survival through strength. They seek to consolidate all of humanity under their banner and claim the Anthem of Creation for themselves. With that done they will be able to make and remake the world at a whim in any fashion they desire. As such the Dominion and The Monitor will be one of the main antagonists through much of the game as the Freelancers stand between them and their search for ultimate power.
On the periphery of this growing conflict, there is also an alien faction which comes from off-world called the Scars. This enigmatic force appears to also seek the technology left behind by the Shapers for their own nefarious ends.
This is only the tip of the iceberg with regards to enemy and allied factions out in the world and even within your home of Fort Tarsis. In classic Bioware fashion, our actions and interactions with each them will shape our version of the story and the world as we play and develop those relationships.
I think that is about as good as I can do for the “in a nutshell” version but suffice it to say for me this was enough to get the wheels spinning. Anthem’s developers have said that while we’ll learn more about the world during the campaign we won’t learn every detail about it nor solve all of its mysteries. Whether or not we’ll eventually learn the truth about the Shapers or their original intentions for this world is a toss up but in my estimation, a well-teased story is as good or better than a fully explained one. After all, there is something to be said about keeping the mystery alive and in this case, my place in the grand scheme of Anthem doesn’t have to sit front and center as long as I can keep flying my javelin.
A Good Mechanic Goes a Long Way
A great story and setting is all well and good but what about the mechanics of the game? This is the part where I really wish I had done some capture during the demo but with the limited amount of time I had to play it was a secondary concern. Fortunately, there are plenty of great content creators out there on YouTube who have more than enough captured footage for you to enjoy if you weren’t able to play last weekend. Even better is that if you want to try it yourself there is an Open Demo starting tomorrow that you can take part in on the PS4, Xbox and PC.
In the interim what I will tell you is that the game feels amazing. I’ve read, listened and watched a lot of reviews in the last few days and much like the aesthetic complaints I’m just not seeing a lot of the criticism being levied at Anthem. That is until you get to the swimming part and I will 100% agree that feels abysmal with a mouse and keyboard. The flying took a little bit of tweaking on M+K to get just right but once I had it dialed in I didn’t want to do anything else. There is absolutely no substitute for the freedom and verticality offered by Anthem in its traversal which is made only better by the sheer mobility in combat.
The mission structure of the game is one aspect that I will say is not my favorite as it sort of breaks up the immersion. As funny as that is to say about a third person shooter. Queueing up in a lobby before loading into a mission or Free-Play is fine but it sort of bypasses the potential magic of suiting up, walking out to the launch platform and jumping. I won’t quibble too much about a load screen being in between a player and their adventure but you can’t argue with the beauty of a seamless transition from one area or activity to the next. In this age of gaming, it would have been nice if Bioware had found a way to ditch the dreaded static load screen for something more immersive. That being said once you are loaded in the world is your oyster with loads being limited to entering into caverns, buildings or other dungeon-like areas. Many places, even underwater, are free to be explored without hesitation.
As the name looter shooter implies guns play a rather large role in Anthem although perhaps not as large a role as we initially assumed. Bioware has stated that the main reason for the lack of a PVP mechanic in the game is they didn’t want the power of characters limited by necessary balance concerns. As such the Javelin’s myriad abilities recharge very quickly ensuring that you are never relying on only your weapons for very long. The ensuing cacophony of explosive elemental effects comboing off one another is truly a sight to behold. The rattle of guns is still a constant soundtrack in combat however and they handle okay. There is a jittery aspect to the machine guns that I don’t care for although I suspect its a conflict between aim assist and M+K control scheme. Shotguns feel and sound incredible, there is a weight to them that is unmistakable and satisfying. Sniper rifles, especially my favorite the Devastator variant, bring long range damage with an explosive kick to the battlefield. Marksman rifles for me felt the best to me during my playthrough although as a Storm main it was always destined to be. Pistols I could take or leave although I didn’t spend as much time with them as I should have.
Gangs all here.
Before this gets too much longer the last thing I want to talk about, in broad terms, are the javelins themselves. The stars of the show. From top to bottom they feel different, look different and play very different. While there are only four base javelin types the weapons, mods, and components you pick up can radically alter how you approach a battle. None of them are relegated to any one role except in the most general sense.
A Storm will never tank a battle or spend much time on the ground, in the thick of things.
A Colossus will not sit back and pick off targets from afar or hover above the battlefield.
An Interceptor will not deal extensive area damage or spend much time in one place, ever.
A Ranger will not… uh, well. Ranger is kind of all-around good at everything so if you don’t like being pigeonholed this is the javelin for you.
Short of these clear divisions of labor, you can outfit your javelins to fit a wide variety of playstyles even if they may seem to run contrary to the javelins stated role. With only PvE content to consider it opens up the way for more experimentation with potentially sub-optimal builds. At the end of the day, the way you enjoy playing will trump the statistically optimal choice. With a group of three other javelins, their combined firepower and some skillful play I think we’ll find most if not all styles of play are viable in Anthem.
Anthem in its current state is far from a perfect game but as I said before it has enormous potential and that is what excites me the most about it.
Attentive readers will notice that I didn’t talk about the microtransaction scheme that will be in the game which is a fair criticism. The main reason I don’t want to is that the community already got what it wanted from Bioware and EA in regards to real money purchases. Cosmetic only. The supposed pricing debacle is something we can discuss after launch when it is set in stone but for now, the game is releasing with exactly what we said we wanted. They listened, we won to get out the ticker tape and let’s throw that parade.
With the fixes to come in the released game and the technical difficulties (hopefully) ironed out for the Open Demo starting today I think Anthem is finally a game that we can be honestly excited for. It’s here, it’s real and thus far it isn’t all of our worst fears from EA‘s corporate meddling to Bioware’s rocky reputation combined. We chided them for a long time that this game was shaping up, and indeed intended, to be their apology and redemption tour and it seems we were right.
Eventual success or failure aside I think we can confidently say that Anthem is the game Bioware set out to make. They offered transparency to the fans and listened to their feedback over the last couple years to improve on their vision. In a few weeks, the world will get a chance to vote with their wallets on the final product.
I don’t know about you but I can’t really ask for more than that.
P.S. Bioware also announced that all story-based DLC for this game will be free going forward because they don’t want to split up the player base.
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Anthem, Part 1 – Rocks and Shoals
Everyone has had a lot to say about this game since that very first E3 tease all the way back in 2014 and before we really get started let’s take a second to revisit that.
Bioware teases brand new IP at E3 2014.
It may sound a little mean but, I always find it funny when we get these produced pieces set to hopeful music about the grand future waiting for us just around the corner. That being said regardless of how many times I see them from developers I love they never cease to get me excited for what’s coming. Bioware has had something of a rough few years what with Mass Effect: Andromeda being an unmitigated disaster and Star Wars: The Old Republic being… a long story. EA, the publisher for Bioware’s games, has not been free of controversy either over the last handful of years. Their most notable, but far from only, debacle being Star Wars: Battlefront 2 and the famous “…sense of pride and accomplishment…” quote. You really have to marvel at a PR statement that is so bad to be that soundly rebuffed by an entire demographic let alone the specific community it was targeting.
Three years, a lot of bumps and roadblocks later brings us to E3 2017 and the official trailer and gameplay reveal of Bioware’s new IP, Anthem.
E3 2017 reveal.
Mmph, that dialogue. Never ceases to remind me of the face creasing power of a mouthful of Warheads but without the reward of actually having candy. That aside it was hard to not instantly be pulled in by the impressive visuals, gameplay, and hints at a fully realized sci-fi world from Bioware. There is little point in lying about the fact that I was hooked immediately in spite of the deluge of cautionary, “Yeah, but it’s EA.” cries from every corner. EA and Bioware’s latest string of foibles was still fresh on everyone’s mind and there was no getting around that. Things were relatively quiet through 2017 with little details trickling out here or there but 2018 was an entirely different story. Bioware went on the offensive with a steady run of live-streamed content for transparency with a rightly skeptical community.
As I watched the live-streams and read the myriad coverage of the game’s progression towards release I was constantly surprised by the number of comments calling it bland, boring or generic looking. I could see some arguments being made in reference to the lack of story information since without it all you have is the game mechanics themselves to hold your interest. People need to know their reason for suiting up and flying around your world blowing up bizarre creatures. The Matrix wasn’t sold to people on its revolutionary slow-motion technique alone but rather the story which was bolstered by the cinematography.
Even granted that we had heard some intriguing tidbits that had me engrossed.
The anthem of creation?
Shaper storms?
Fort Tarsis being one of the last bastions of humanity?
What made the world this way? What world are we even on?
New IPs while often a very dangerous proposition for even established studios have the benefit of being wholly unknown, a new frontier to explore and learn about. For me, Anthem had painted the perfect picture to draw me in with just enough information to get me asking questions but not enough to answer them.
On the mechanical side, the game is very familiar having been compared to everything from the very top-of-mind Destiny, who dropped all pretense on the matter, all the way to Diablo. Even if you’re playing these games for the story ultimately you’re still playing them for the loot because it is an inescapable part of their gameplay and progression.
All this being said, why am I here today talking about Anthem? This past weekend I was able to play in the VIP Demo/Beta and I’d like to chat about that experience. Especially given that there is an open demo weekend coming up where everyone, including folks without pre-orders, will be able to try out the game.
We may as well get the obvious stuff out of the way; the technical problems. The demo was a bit of a mess as Friday started out with the servers being largely unavailable to players because of a somewhat humorous design error. In an effort to make sure people could get in without manually having to retry over and over the game was accidentally designed to DDoS itself. Understandably most folks didn’t find this very funny as they had paid by way of pre-orders to have access to the game over the weekend. Eventually, they got it figured out but this was only the first in a series of issues the game would encounter. To make a long list short we’ll do it like this –
Stuttering/Lagging/Rubberbanding during play.
Infinite Load – Loading progress would stop at 95% and never progress. Seemed to be linked to folks using WiFi.
Second Javelin unlocks at level 12 – Many players once achieving level 12 were unable to unlock their second Javelin. The game also seemed to have trouble accurately tracking XP gains and levels in general.
Item stat errors both visually and mechanically.
Graphical errors along with enemies spawning and despawning randomly even while engaged in combat.
Immobile NPCs where their AIs seemed to be bugged.
“Connection Error” dialogue box would pop up frequently during play and could only be dismissed by clicking. This would interrupt your control inputs so you would simply stop moving and acting. The error didn’t actually disconnect you from the game.
Console players, by and large, being unable to log in and even play for huge chunks of time over the weekend. Partially caused by issues trying to link their Origin and console accounts for access to the demo.
I’m sure there are more I’m forgetting but those were the ones that either happened to me, people I was playing with or were simply the most prominent over the weekend. In the wake of this, I have seen lots of conjecture about the readiness of the game and how much can Bioware really fix in the weeks leading up to release. Not entirely an unreasonable point but it is important to remember that this was a six-week-old build of the game. I’m not offering this as a way to excuse the problems during the demo but simply to point out how much work has undoubtedly been done in those six weeks. Not to mention will be done in the four until release. All things being equal I would have preferred a demo with no problems or just fewer but we’ve all collectively done enough of these that this shouldn’t be too shocking.
A summary of the demo weekend from Bioware’s Head of Live Service, Chad Robertson.
Going from controlled closed alphas to even a pseudo-public demo will cause a lot of unexpected issues to crop up which is just an unfortunate reality. This statement certainly won’t quell the “I canceled my pre-order!” crowd nor should it, that is their recourse for a rocky demo. It isn’t money lost for the consumer because they got the experience they paid for, one that told them their money would be best spent elsewhere. It saddens me to see a product like Anthem, with so much potential, take it in the teeth like that on a demo but that is the risk they take.
For me, personally, the demo rocky as it was had the complete opposite effect on me. Call me a sucker or a shill but I’ve tried to never judge games too harshly based on demos, betas or alphas. Developers take huge risks in letting us see games early and in potentially broken states. They count on players keeping an open mind and sometimes seeing the potential in what they are trying to do rather than the current reality.
Even four weeks out, one troubled demo weekend down and one more rapidly approaching I still can’t help but see the potential in Anthem.
Thanks for reading part one and I’ll be back with part two tomorrow. Until then have a great day and happy gaming.
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Pompeo Presents Dire Assessment of Iran Situation
June 14, 2019 Topic: Iran Region: Middle East Tags: IRGCStrait Of HormuzOilWarU.S. Navy
The Secretary of State categorically blamed Iran for a Gulf of Oman oil tanker attack; others remain circumspect.
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WASHINGTON— After weeks of pullback from an otherwise hawkish pose toward the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Trump administration seemingly reverted Thursday, instigated by two oil tanker attacks in the Gulf of Oman likely carried out by Iranian forces.
Recent Iranian maneuvers represent a “clear threat to international security, a blatant assault on the freedom of navigation, and an unacceptable campaign of escalating tension by Iran,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters at State headquarters in Foggy Bottom. The British government, which has straddled a difficult line on Iran during the Trump era, agreed with the American assessment Friday, giving Washington cover.
Details remained murky, however. Skeptics, led by the Associated Press, poked holes. “It is a fact that only the [Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.] Navy has the ability to place mines like these,” Sen. Marco Rubio said. The AP reports that the owner of the struck vessel, the Kokuka Courageous, saw “flying objects” before the attack, undermining the mine thesis.
United States Central Command, while claiming video proves Iranian responsibility, issued a statement condemning any talk of war: “We have no interest in engaging in a new conflict in the Middle East. We will defend our interests, but a war with Iran is not in our strategic interest.”
CENTCOM’s statement was flagged: its commander, Frank McKenzie, controversially gave an address to the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a major hawkish power player, last month. McKenzie had previously maintained that recent troop buildups in the region prompted Iran to “step back” and moderate its ambitions.
Meanwhile, at State, on offer: a full-scale condemnation of recent Iranian actions.
“On April 22nd, Iran promised the world that it would interrupt the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz,” Pompeo said. In early May, the Revolutionary Guard Corps, now designated a terrorist organization by Pompeo, “attempted the covert deployment of modified dhows capable of launching missiles,” the secretary said.
Pompeo then tore in: “On May 12th, Iran attacked four commercial ships near the Strait of Hormuz. On May 14th, Iran-backed surrogates attacked by armed drones — struck two strategically important oil pipelines into Saudi Arabia. On May 19th, a rocket landed near the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. On May 31st, a car bomb in Afghanistan wounded four U.S. service members, killed four Afghan civilians, and wounded bystanders.”
And critics, again, tore into the details. On the Afghanistan score, “This was the attack carried out likely by the Taliban. This is plain dishonesty calling Taliban a proxy of Iran,” Delhi-based journalist Aveek Sen told me. “There are just two main groups in Afghanistan—Taliban & ISIS. The Shia Hazara from Afghanistan who joined the Fatemiyoun have never carried out any attacks inside Afghanistan.”
On the Gulf of Oman attack, said Justin Logan at the Center for the Study of Statesmanship: “I'm absolutely open to the idea this was Iran. But to watch people assert it without even a second of scrutiny is really something.”
“There's much speculation about whether Iran was behind the attack against two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman Thursday. Iran is definitely a plausible suspect,” Trita Parsi, president emeritus of the National Iranian American Council, told me. “But mindful of the Trump team's past history, there are also good reasons to be skeptical of any hasty conclusions.”
Politically, there is a growing concern among some of the president’s supporters that the American confrontation with the Islamic Republic could spiral into a deadly sideshow. A former senior administration official and a prominent former White House aide said Thursday night that saber-rattling gone wrong threatens the president’s reelection.
Curt Mills is the foreign-affairs reporter at the National Interest, where he covers the State Department, National Security Council and the Trump Presidency.
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To Kill a Mockingbird — Media Theatre
Respect can be too influential.
Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” is one of the established classics of 20th century literature. It is included in many, and probably most, curricula. Its theme and lessons resonate. It chronicles a time when bigotry could trump justice, and when divides, racial and social, were fixed and defining in way that made certain attitudes and outcomes predictable.
Jesse Cline is one of the most canny directors at finding the genuine substance of a character or situation and bringing it to the stage. Cline generally works to convey simple truths and to let honesty speak volumes.
In directing Christopher Sergel’s dramatic adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Cline uncharacteristically seems too reverential towards the material. Though Megan Rucidlo, as alleged rape victim Mayella Ewell, delivers a breakthrough performance and shows new dimension to her acting, and Bob Stineman fulfills his ambition his turn as Atticus Finch will raise his stock as a lead actor on local stages, Cline’s production seems stilted, deliberate, slow, and exaggerated in a way that, except for Rucidlo’s work, and some exchanges between Stineman and Paul Dake as Atticus’s opposing attorney, evaporates any power in Lee or Sergel’s text and renders “To Kill a Mockingbird,” a pedantic, transparent bore.
We don’t see a classic, a work of literature that breathes and radiates through time. We see a museum piece, “To Kill a Mockingbird” carved in stone and presented as if was too precious a work to be brought to a human level and animated with the fervor Atticus expresses in his summation to the jury rendering a verdict in a rape case or by the energy and active curiosity of three precocious, inquisitive kids.
Cline takes pains to make every word and thought in “To Kill a Mockingbird” clear, but he does so in a way that saps its strength and negates its importance. It comes across as a moral lesson rather than a man’s attempt, with the help of a wise judge and one enlightened neighbor, to teach his children — from the generation that will fight World War II, spawn Baby Boomers, and address civil rights squarely — how to approach and live in an imperfect world. Often, passages in which tenets of unbiased, considerate behavior are imparted to the children come across more like a Jim Anderson lecture from “Father Knows Best” than the frank, mature, eye-opening perceptions of life spoken by Atticus Finch. Cline’s production lack the urgency, outrage, and fervor that would give it the necessary dramatic intensity it lacks.
This isn’t the Cline that made an audience anxiously apprehensive about the fate of Anne Frank even though we know the ending, or the Cline that drew us so close to the struggle between Annie Sullivan and Helen Keller, or the Cline who understood the essence of a failed Broadway musical so well, he made a flop, “Ghost,” into a memorable hit.
I don’t know whether it’s the director’s Southern routes, or some special regard for Lee that made him so heavy-handed on this occasion, but getting through the Media’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” was a tough slog. Lee’s story is the same as the one that has become so beloved, Sergel’s script is not the most inspired but it is serviceable, and Stineman, Dake, Rucidlo, and others such as Hillary Parker, John Baxter, Tim Woodward, Jr., and Tamara Woods, provide telling anchors to their characters. The only possible verdict is “too much respect” leading to too little liveliness, a “To Kill a Mockingbird” more etched in commemorative alabaster than vibrantly, or poignantly, unfolding on stage.
Glacial slowness is apparent from the beginning. You understand that a group of singers from a local Baptist church, non-actors who are already assembled as a choir when they perform most Sundays, might not be schooled in the movement or pace it takes to gather a crowd on stage. You forgive that trespass in the name of being charitable to the amateur and enjoy the hymn the choir, representing their Alabama counterparts, sings in an effort to solicit donations for an incarcerated man’s wife and family, struggling even more than most during the Depression while he languishes, perhaps falsely accused, in jail.
But then the speaking starts, and all sounds like an English lesson rather than a play. Every syllable characters utter seems slow and pointedly articulated, as if each phoneme contained a pearl of wisdom that could not be lost or unheard. Hillary Parker, as the Finch’s neighbor, Miss Maudie, and Virginia Barrie, as the snoopier, more opinionated Miss Stephanie, pick up the pace a tad, but even their conversation seems less natural than preserved for posterity. Everyone in the Maycomb, Alabama in 1935 behaves as if he or she is a spokesperson presenting a point of view to an audience, as if he or she is an expositional figure in a play, rather than a warm-blooded human being having conversations and sharing information. Only Tamara Woods, as the Finches’ housekeeper and governess, Calpurnia, seems to move and speak like a living person with a purpose in the early going that established the production’s pace. The others, adult or child (except for Woodward), enunciate and emphasize phrases as if a marksman was in the balcony waiting to pick them off if they dared to sound like someone actually talking. It be…came num…bing to lissss-tenn to the ooo-ver-read ca-dennnn-ces of evv-e-ry-day speech. It was like the production hung perpetually in space and never came down to Earth.
It wasn’t only that the dialogue did not flow, for all Parker and Barrie tried to help it along, but that all seemed artificial, as if the actors practiced their exchanges line by line and chose particular words to stress. All becomes too self-conscious and orchestrated for effect rather than communication. This trait was especially noticeable in the children, Lexi Gwynn as the observant, petulant Scout, and Brayden Orpello-McCoy as Jem. It’s like they were indulging in some vocal version of overgesticulation, to underscore individual words instead of jabbering freely, as children would.
The pace and the tone of the production allows you to see the seams in Lee’s story. It did not flow like a dynamic, seminal, time-honored tale but plodded along like a dragged-out lecture. This is “To Kill a Mockingbird” as medicine, as opposed to entertainment. It takes itself too seriously for its own good and becomes preachy and leaden.
Matthew Miller’s set did not help Cline much. Instead of a handsome, if aging, Southern town, Miller supplied horizontal rows of rough-hewn wooden boards, with some gaps, as if he was building a solid wall from lumber, a wall could look slapdash and be unattractive because it wouldn’t be seen by anyone passing. Besides being repulsively ugly, the wall made Maycomb look like a collection of poor shacks. You never get the idea that you’re looking at a person’s home, let alone one they keep well or could be proud of. A rocking chair and flowers, obviously fake, stage left, and two lawn chairs on each side of a table, with some unconvincing greenery, stage right, did not serve well for Mrs. Dubose’s garden-surrounded porch, or Atticus’s patio. Cline, as usual, used slides to depict the Finch, Dubose, and Radley houses, as well as a courthouse, jail, and municipal building, but the images, in black-and-white, to keep, I guess, with 1935, do not convey real places that had any sense of permanence or the comforts of a residence. The wooden slats Miller nailed up on both sides of the stage make the Finch and Dubose homes seem coarse and unhospitable. You can’t imagine the Finches living in their purported home, too far stage right to serve the play’s needs, and Susan Wefel’s ancient fussbudget of an aware-she’s-dying Mrs. Dubose wouldn’t stand for unadorned, wooden slats with no discernible windows for five seconds, let alone for nearly 100 years.
Worst of all is Miller’s center stage construction. It is composed of the same broken-down slats but has a large portion of board missing so you can see the projections on Cline’s screen.
The problem is the slats obscure some images and interrupt entire scenes which Miller’s set forces to be acted too far upstage anyhow. A crucial scene in which Atticus takes armed guard at the jail, so he can protect his black client from a lynch mob, loses luster and poignance, in spite of good work by Stineman and Tim Haney, because it takes place so distantly removed from the audience, is necessarily cramped into the narrow space Miller’s set allows, and gets partially blocked by some of the set’s construction. The dramatic and well-played is obscured and removed from any intense immediacy. Stineman, Haney, and Lexi Gwynn create a vibrant moment, and their labor goes for naught because the action occurs too uncomfortably far from where one can appreciate it. A scene that should cause anxiety was relegated to the matter-of-fact.
Which is too often the sad case of Cline’s production. It doesn’t move or impress. Except for scenes between Stineman and Dake, or involving Rucidlo, in the courtroom, this “To Kill a Mockingbird” registers as inert and devoid of importance. Just the opposite of the effect Cline usually achieves.
Sure, you glean the intelligence of all Lee imparts and perceive the themes and morals of the piece, but the experience is academic and sterile. It’s more like going to a class and hearing a patient teacher explain the right way humans should treat each other than like absorbing ideas, as should happen in the theater.
Rucidlo, by pure emotional power, and a full depiction of a character that goes beyond stereotype and elicits empathy for a woman committing a villainous act, saves the day and provides the real goods “Mockingbird” is made of in Act Two. In the same set of sequences, Stineman and Dake take off the gloves and forget the mechanical nature of Cline’s production. Their courtroom confrontations have bite and spunk. A real completion is going on, and both attorneys are up for it, Dake’s Horace Gilmer being quick and frequent with his objections, Stineman’s Finch patiently and potently sifting out the truth and drawing shrewd conclusions. Surprisingly and delightfully, John Baxter’s tenderness, bravery, and childlike awkwardness as the feared, maligned, and taunted Boo Radley provide the truest, most authentic, most unmitigated, and most moving section of Cline’s staging.
Too bad that Baxter’s sequences come at the end of the show . The genuine human emotion it elicits is welcome but arrives too late to support a lost production.
No one in Media’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” gives a bad or substandard performance, and Stineman, Rucidlo, Dake, Baxter, and Parker are beyond admirable in their contributions, but the lumbering, methodical, overdone elements in the production defeat all but some courtroom fireworks and Baxter’s sweet, elegant turn as Boo.
One actor that has not so far received the accolade he deserves is Travis Keith Battle, who gives quiet dignity and ingenuous sincerity to Tom Robinson, the young black farmworker who is on trial for raping Rucidlo’s Mayella.
Robinson rings so thoroughly of goodness, you, like Scout, cannot fathom how a jury can convict him of violence, let alone battery and unwilling sexual invasion. Part of the excellence of Rucidlo’s performance is how she reacts, when eyes would not normally be on Mayella, to Tom’s testimony and villainization. She reveals her character’s shame at accusing an innocent she loves more than she loves her family but can’t admit to loving because Tom is of a different, disparaged race. Battle, meanwhile, is the picture of decency, an earnest man who is believed but won’t go free because the jury, all white, is trained by community convention to convict a black defendant who is accused of crime by a white “victim.”
The children in the production suffer from the meticulous care taken to keep it from being raucous. Gwynn, Orpello-McCoy, and Woodward run and jump around and get under foot, but they stop on a dime and look rehearsed and on some kind of time clock, rather than behaving like your garden variety active children. Only the mischievous Woodward escapes making the kids’ outburst seem clockwork. You can see the devil in him, and he runs and plays less self-consciously than his juvenile castmates.
Tim Woodward, Sr. is a feisty Bob Ewell. P. Brendan Mulvey expresses exasperation well as the judge. Kelly Briggs, as the sheriff, manages to bring the production into closer focus in two scenes, particularly the one in which he is explaining to Atticus how he ascertained someone died by falling on his knife.
Alas, this “To Kill a Mockingbird” is strongest in its final moments. I keep thinking Cline may have been working too hard to give each story in the play its due. A son of the South, he may have seen firsthand the prejudice Lee so clearly depicts. Certainly, the threads about Tom Robinson and Boo Radley. judged as they are by traits other impute rather than by their actual character or personality, Tom for a trait he cannot control, speak to that. As does one stunning projection, the only one that made me gasp, of a Confederate flag, in full color, that appears at a pivotal moment. (Even the regular use of the n-word was not as startling or potent.) Courtroom scenes played better than others because real confrontation was afoot rather than a depiction of stock incidents that allow Atticus, Miss Maudie, or Brigg’s sheriff to spout a moral. Stineman and Dake are determined sparring partners who go toe to toe and respond to each other with terse alacrity while Mulvey is a sharp referee and Baxter, in a nameless role, shouts a timely positive word about Tom Robinson’s decency from the spectators’ section. I don’t know that continued play will pick up the production’s pace and make it stronger and less tedious with time. Human nature and dramatic intensity seem too absent from the staging to be recovered.
For the sake of familiarization, Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” is about a thoughtful widowed attorney, Atticus Finch, who is raising his two children, Scout and Jem, is Maycomb County, Alabama. Scout and Jem have been taunted by classmates and other children because Atticus has been assigned to defend a young black man he knows to be innocent and upstanding in a rape case involving a young woman whose morals may not be questionable but whose father’s are. The crux of the court case isn’t so much the man, Tom Robinson’s, guilt or innocence but whether a black man accused of manhandling a white woman can get a fair trial of any kind in Maycomb. Atticus was appointed as Tom’s defense counsel because his probity, stature, logic, and legal skills might convince a most likely pre-determined jury to do the right thing and acquit Tom. In the background is Scout’s fear, based on rumors, of a neighbor, Boo Radley, who injured his father in a stabbing incident and never leaves his house. Gossips living near the Finches add to the buzz about the Robinson and Radley cases. One neighbor, Miss Maudie, is more reasonable and is of help to Atticus by understanding him and keeping an extra eye on Scout and Jem. A live-in cook and housekeeper, Calpurnia, also minds the Finch children and is their principal guardian after Atticus. Lee shows a town in uproar over an incendiary trial. She also concentrates on how Atticus, with the help of Calpurnia and Miss Maudie, tries to train Scout and Jem to avoid the prejudices, superstitions, and ancient fears perpetuated by their neighbors. The relationship between this father and his children is as important as race relations in Lee’s story. It can be more focused in the Media production.
Katie Yamaguchi did an excellent job in designing or choosing costumes. The white and light gray suits in which she dresses Stineman and Dake are especially good. Troy Martin O’Shea’s lighting artistically enhanced some scenes and gave a sense, at one critical juncture, of time passing. Old-time country music, the kind you might hear at the Grand Ole Opry in the ’30s, set an interesting tone before Cline’s production commenced. It made me think and gave me hope for texture that, unfortunately, did not emerge.
“To Kill a Mockingbird” runs through Sunday, February 21, at the Media Theatre, 104 E. State Street, in Media, Pa. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 2 p.m. Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday. Please check the Media website for schedule variations and 10 a.m. performances. Tickets are $45, with discounts and premium seats available. They can be obtained by calling 610-891-0100 or by visiting http://www.mediatheatre.org.
This entry was posted on January 30, 2016 by nzoren in Theater Reviews and tagged Bob Stineman, Brayden Orpello-McCoy, Christopher Sergel, Classic, drama, Harper Lee, Hillary Parker, Jesse Cline, John Baxter, Kelly Briggs, Lexi Gwynn, Media Pa., Media Theatre, Megan Rucidlo, P. Brendan Mulvey, Paul Dake, Second Baptist Church of Media, Susan Wefel, Tamara Woods, Tim Haney, Tim Woodward Jr., Tim Woodward Sr., To Kill a Mockingbird, Travis Keith Battle, Virginia Barrie.
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''"Walking around out there, seeing with my own two eyes things that can't possibly exist... I kept thinking, it's all a dream. I'll wake up at any moment now and everything will return to normal. But then I realized, I'm still here. It's real. I can touch it, and I can smell it..."'' - April
ImageNorthlands.jpg Arcadia is the magical half of the twin worlds. From what we've seen of it, Arcadia is a fragmented and changeable place, with a multitude of magical and non-magical races, possibly due to the greater risk of Chaos inherent in magic.
== The Longest Journey ==
=== Geography ===
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ImageFirst draft map of Arcadia.jpeg. (Ragnar Tørnquist)
Arcadia has four continents, separated by the Great Ocean the Northlands, the Southlands, and the Far West. Whether the fourth is an eastern continent or refers to the lands Brian Westhouse describes south of the Southlands is unknown.
April's journey in Arcadia begins in the Northlands' capital, Marcuria. She later travels beyond its boundaries into the rural Northlands, into Riverwood and the burrows of the Banda, to the eerie castle of alchemist Roper Klacks and back to Marcuria. Her travels later take her on a sea journey to the island of Alais and to the depths of the ocean beyond.
=== Culture ===
Unlike structured Stark, Arcadia (as far as TLJ shows us) has no great differences in social strata. There is a common language in Arcadia - Na'ven - which helps to unify the people.
In Arcadia, iron is highly prized and more valuable than gold (April unsuccessfully tries to pay for a game of cups with her gold ring). Also, technology does not function well there due to Arcadia's occasionally chaotic nature. Consequently, Arcadia is low-tech and fairly feudal/medieval. Several of its inhabitants complain that Arcadia is backward. There is some law and structure, enough for cities to have established and elected officials, but many areas of Arcadia are dangerous and some figures, like powerful Alchemists and monsters such as the Gribbler, can act with impunity.
Magic is an integral part of society. Seers, Alchemists and magic talismans aren't given a second glance. Indeed, many of the races of Arcadia need magic to exist.
There are traces of Stark in Arcadia Brian Westhouse, a man from 1930s Stark has a house on the fringe of Marcuria, and the Cups Handler owns a calculator for some reason. Also, several characters are aware of Stark; the reverse of which cannot be said of as many characters in Stark, though as the Balance starts to fail, dreams and visions from Arcadia begin slipping through.
=== Races ===
There are a multitude of different races in Arcadia. Marcuria was founded by humans, so they are in the majority there; but the city is also home to many Dolmari, as well as the Venar ambassador Abnaxus. April also encounters Banda outside the city walls, the Maerum and Alatien around the island of Alais, the Orlowol and the Stickmen in the island jungle, and the mysterious seafaring Dark People. A neighbouring nation of aggressors, the Tyren, are also poised to invade Marcuria.
By and large the races co-exist peacefully, though some humans - like Karek the map seller - are disdainful of the Dolmari, and the Banda are sometimes unkindly referred to as 'molemen'.
=== Fauna ===
Many species in Arcadia mirror their counterparts in Stark. For example, there are elephants (known as Kan'dar and exaggerated by Karek into the 'horror of the Southlands') and sharks, though they apparently evolved into the larger and more dangerous creatures known as the Snapjaw. But there are also species unique to Arcadia, like the Elgwan and Sikhatis, and the mudhoppers that Vestrum Tobias Grensret prizes so highly. There are also talking animals like Crow.
=== Religion ===
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People in Arcadia are aware of the history of the Balance and the role of the Guardian, even celebrating the Festival of the Balance in thanksgiving. The Sentinel are a known and respected presence in Marcuria, having their magnificent Temple there, but the teachings of the Vanguard are beginning to find more and more adherents. However, there are some splinter religions, like the worship of the Mo'Jaal in Ge'en, but these seem to be more about making money than an individual's faith.
The races also have their distinct beliefs. The Banda engage in a form of ancestor worship; the Alatien also believe that their deceased Tellers watch over them. Both the Maerum and the Dark People venerate the Ancient Blue - the Maerum worship him as a god while the Dark People serve as his messengers. The other Draic Kin, if not actually worshipped, are held in high esteem though they are rarely seen.
Though there has been stability in the Northlands for many years, the approaching invasion of the Tyren, the whispers from the Vanguard and the weakening of the Balance have taken their toll; as April leaves Arcadia, people there are facing great upheaval.
== Dreamfall ==
''"Wait, April told you that she'd seen another dimension?"'' - Zoë
''"Not seen. Been to. A place called 'Arcadia'... And I believe she's still there."'' - Emma
Zoe Castillo's travels in Arcadia also begin in Marcuria - or, rather, under it. When she emerges from the Underground Caverns, we get a sense of how Arcadia has changed in ten years.
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We are now aware that to the very far west is the Azadi Empire, which has at least two major cities (Sadir and Tahran). From Brian Westhouse, we learn that further south of Altaban and Monterba are the Southern Capes and the South Sea, and beyond them an icy land which is frozen all year round. Somewhere in the ocean is the Dark People's City with their famous library within, and the Rebels have a secret hideout between Marcuria and Corasan. There is also more insight into the country of Irhad, as Na'ane is a native.
Marcuria is the only location in Arcadia that we visit in great depth, and it has changed greatly after the Tyren were driven out by the Azadi, these 'trueborn' gradually became a fixture in the city, imposing their views and beliefs on the populace. They have even gone so far as to 'approve' various books as suitable, and ban others. Their fanaticism, uneven generosity and attention to detail has meant greater profit and freedom for those deemed respectable by the Azadi... and problems for those who are not, namely any 'Magicals'.
This has resulted in a distinct economic downturn in Marcuria for some, and the social pyramid is now clearly defined with Azadi and other humans at the top, and the magical races at the bottom. (Also, although Captain Horatio Nebevay scorned women in the original TLJ, it is unlikely he would get away with it now, as the Azadi culture holds women in high esteem.)
Gold also now seems to be a valid currency, and iron appears to be in the same role it has in Stark. The Azadi have also introduced their steam-based technology, which many Marcurians have embraced eagerly. This includes Cloudships, which have increased travel across Arcadia. Practising magic, on the other hand, has become an arrestable offence, though the Azadi do reluctantly use thaumaturgists from time to time.
We encounter several new races in Dreamfall, including the feline Zhid and the Samare. Many of them, along with the familiar Banda and Dolmari, are now essentially trapped in Oldtown, the 'Magic Ghetto', their homes subject to raids at the whim of the Azadi.
The Sentinel have been ostracised and driven out by the Azadi; there is no mention of the Vanguard. Though some die-hards still swear by the Balance or the Mo'Jaal, they will watch what they say in public and most now declare their devotion to the Azadi empresses, the Six, or to the Goddess whom the Azadi ardently worship. The Temple of the Balance has also been levelled, and presumably the Enclave as well, replaced by an enormous white Azadi Tower. The Dark People also make no mention of their service to the Old God.
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Ragnar has claimed - not entirely seriously, it should be noted - that Arcadians reproduce asexually.https//twitter.com/RagnarTornquist/status/407616007319351297 Ragnar's Twitter - Arcadian reproduction This should not be taken to mean, however, that they do not indulge in sexual acts. Apparently there is something called "fissing", which we will comment no further on.https//twitter.com/RagnarTornquist/status/407622290013429760 Ragnar's Twitter -
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A Dialogue about how to Eradicate Illiteracy
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SSC English First Paper Final Model Test 2016
By Mahbub Murad in Academic, S.S.C., SSC Model Test, Suggestion for S.S.C.
Final Model Test SSC 2016
English First Paper
Time: 3 hours Total Marks: 100
Part A: Reading Test (50 Marks)
Read the text and answer the following questions.
Newspaper is the store house of knowledge. It is not only the people’s parliament but also an integral part of modern civilization. It is just like the mirror of the world and it plays a vital role to from public opinion. We must have the habit of reading the newspaper daily. It helps us in acquiring general knowledge which is essential for our education. Nobody can keep contact with the outside world without reading the newspaper. Mere bookish knowledge is not sufficient in the struggle of life. A man who does not read the newspaper regularly is like a frog in a narrow well. Being ignorant of current topics, he cannot take part in the talks and discussions in an enlightened society and it seems like a fish out of water in it. The newspaper is a dainty in a dish of varieties, such as the news of current affairs, trade and commerce, films, games and sports etc. Moreover, the views of scholars on different subjects are discussed. All these have some educative values as it is a blessing of modern civilization.
But one should bear in mind that sometimes newspapers bear comments of diverse nature and interests by the reporters and critics from various angels. We should not be blindly influenced by these comments but should keep on open mind to the facts and problems.
Choose the correct answer from the alternatives. 1×7=7
a) Which of the following has the closest meaning of the word ‘Vital’ used in the passage?
i) unimportant ii) large iii) big iv) important
b) The phrase “fish out of water” indicates ———-.
i) comfortable ii) uncomfortable iii) out of order iv) unsustainable
c) Divers is related to ———.
i) all the same ii) similar iii) different iv) multiple
d) Newspaper helps us to acquire ———— knowledge.
i) bookish ii) religious iii) general iv) scientific
e) The word ‘views’ is related to ———.
i) experiences ii) ideas iii) opinions iv) all the above
f) What is the motto of the author of the passage?
i) To show the role of parliament ii) To show the blessing of science
iii) To show the importance of reading newspaper
iv) To show the demerits of reading newspaper.
g) In the passage the author says “A man who does not read the
newspaper daily, is like a frog in a narrow well.” What does he
mean by this?
i) A man who does not read newspaper is a frog in a small well.
ii) A man who does not read newspaper is nothing but frog of a well.
iii) A man who reads newspaper daily is unaware of the happening of
the whole world.
iv) A man who does not read newspaper daily is ignorant and
unaware of the happening around the whole world.
2. Answer the following questions. 2×5=10
a) What is the main purpose of the author of the passage?
b) Why is newspaper called the mirror of the world?
c) What does newspaper often contain?
d) How can newspaper influence us in a wrong way?
e) Why is newspaper called ‘the people’s parliament’?
3. Write a summary of the passage in no more than 90 to 100 words. 10
4. Read the text and complete the table below with information from the passage. 1×5=05
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the USA. He is famous for his Gettysburg Address. It was delivered by him during the American Civil War, on November 19, 1863. Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in Kentucky, the USA. His parents were from Virginia. In 1819, his mother died. Then his father moved to Indiana state. He grew up there. He was a captain in the Black Hawk War. He got the nomination for president in 1860. Then he became the President of the USA. In 1861. Lincoln declared a ban on slavery in America on January 1, 1863. He was reelected President in 1864. On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, he was assassinated at Ford’s theatre in Washington.
Name of Events Place Year/Time Contribution
Born i) ———
ii) ———- November 19, 1863
Became the President iii) ——–
in 1863 iv) ———-
Died v) ——
From your reading of the above passage fill in the blanks with
suitable words. Use one word only in each blank: 1×5=5
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the USA was (a) ——— President twice. He was (b) ——— for his speech (c) ——— was delivered on November 19, 1863. The great man (d) ——— slavery in America. That time America was very chaotic. So, he tried to (e) ——— peace in country.
Match the parts of the sentences given in column ‘A’ and column ‘B’ to write five complete sentences. There are more parts of sentences in column ‘B’ than required. 1×5=5
Column A Column B
a) The world we live in
b) There are many things and
c) Life exits under different
d) All these things, objects, forces
e) We can change sense of these
things i) together make our environment.
ii) by means of scientific power.
iii) is full of different things.
iv) and force around us.
v) in different places.
vi) while most of them cannot be
vii) in this cute world.
Put the following parts of the story in correct order to rewrite the
whole story. 1×8=8
a) He fell asleep there but a great noise woke him up.
b) It was crying for pain in his leg.
c) Androcles was very much afraid and he felt sure that the beast the beast would kill him.
d) A lion had entered the cave roaring loudly.
e) He went to the lion.
f) Then he moved a thorn from the lion’s paws.
g) Soon he realized that the lion was not angry.
h) Once Androcles fled away from his master’s house and hid himself in
a forest.
Part- B: Writing Test (50 Marks)
8. Write a Paragraph on “A School Magazine” by answering the following questions. 10
a) What is a school magazine? b) Why is it important? c) What does it contain? d) How are the topics for the magazine selected? e) How can a school magazine help the students?
9. Read the beginning of a story and write ten new sentences to complete the story. 10
All of you have heard the name of Sheikh Saadi. He was a great poet. Once he was invited to the court of the Sultan. He started for the court. On the way it became dark and he took shelter in a rich man’s house. As he was in simple dress ——————–.
10. Suppose you are Fahim/Fahima. You have paid a visit to your friend Nabil/Nabila who showed a grand hospitality to you. Now write a letter to your friend thanking for hospitality. 10
11. Write a dialogue between you and your friend on how to eradicate the illiteracy problem from Bangladesh. 10
12. The graph below shows the Elderly people’s changing attitude to pastimes in a community. Describe the chart in 150 words. You should highlight and summaries the information given in the chart. 10
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Mr. Brassner was one of two sons born to an art dealer and lighting manufacturer named Jules Brassner, who introduced him to Warhol. Todd Brassner fit right into the Warhol orbit, and often went shopping with the artist, said Stuart Pivar, a collector who was very close to Warhol.
“They were like two 14-year-olds, seeing the world,” Mr. Pivar said. “And he was very knowledgeable about pop art.”
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But in recent years, Mr. Brassner started leaving the apartment less and less frequently, and he resisted offers from friends to visit or bring food. Blake Gopnik, who wanted to interview Mr. Brassner for a biography of Warhol, said he set up a number of meetings. “But he always made some complicated excuse,” Mr. Gopnik said.
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He filed for bankruptcy in 2015, but soon after he inherited money from his father. “He showed up at my house the next day in a brand-new red Lamborghini,” Mr. Pivar said. “That was Todd.”
Ms. Stuart said she thought Mr. Brassner did not want his friends to see him in declining health.
“We tried very hard to meet with him or have lunch or dinner with him,” she said. “He wanted us to know the Todd that was before. Not the Todd who was impaired. He suffered a lot.”
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High quality of care and competitive pricing is transforming Egypt into an increasingly attractive medical tourism destination
In this Global Platform video, Shady Ali Hussein, chairman of the Reversing Medical Tourism Flow Organisation, talks about the advances being made in Egyptian dentistry technology, its contribution to higher levels of medical tourism and its role in the retention of skilled dental professionals. As Egypt has 15,000 dentists graduating each year, attractive positions and high salaries are keeping them in the country. Furthermore, competitive pricing in the international market is attractive to medical tourists, and rising numbers of visitors are being welcomed from Saudi Arabia, Europe and other Western countries.
People from the developing countries start to travel to developed countries to have their education and learn their skills in these developed countries. The taxes in these countries are very expensive for the doctors. The doctor’s fees are very expensive. The human resources are very expensive. And you can get more and more quality of treatment with the skilled operators and high technology and high infection control units with developing countries. With the development of digital infrastructure and the internet, a lot of people can compare prices and can see stories of patients, and can see examples of the treatment, the outcome of the treatment and that is amazing. Oh, wow, this can be done in developing countries?
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It starts with Thailand and Singapore, also Cuba, Costa Rica and Mexico, are also developing a lot in medical tourism. Also in Lebanon, where we can find plastic surgery and dental care. We can find also heart transplantation in Turkey. Actually, these countries start to be aware that it's a very economic, profitable source of business. And this source of business actually, it's developing. We found that Turkey is ahead of us in this industry. They are making the concept of packaging [of the travel]. If we are taking Egypt as an example, we now have 32 dental schools, 14 government schools and the rest of them are private dental schools. We are having about 15,000 new dentists a year. Actually, these people have one of two choices. The first choice: they immigrate to other countries and this what happened in the last 10 years. But, we start to change the mentality, they can produce good money. They have to have attractive spots that can make the skilled surgeons and skilled dentists come stay in their countries. So pricing, you can find the single implant with the crown, all inclusive. In America for example, $2500. In countries like Thailand, $1500.
In Egypt, you can find it for $900; with the same implants, the same scientific degrees of the doctors, in less time and with the same technology. When we are talking about the currency coming from the medical tourism point of view, we could produce with a very competitive price to the international market. So, we can attract people for the industry of medical tourism and tourism in general. Developing the skills of people for medical tourism, requires two main aspects: the medical and the paramedical. Most of the people are thinking of only making a good treatment. If you don't have a paramedical infrastructure that can support this medical structure, it will impair the quality. We are graduating about 15,000 dentists per year. So, we make dentists diagnose on the phone, to be a coordinator and dental consultant, to send intraoral photos, and to have a cone beam CT or 3D CT that can make a good primary diagnosis.
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Conduct organizational and training workshops for management and executives in health care industry
Consult, develop, and conduct mental health services in skilled nursing, assisted living and rehabilitation facilities, and outpatient and inpatient services; geropsychology emphasis.
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Hire, train, and supervise undergraduate, graduate students and professionals in the delivery of mental health services for children, adolescents, adults and geriatric patients/residents.
4/96 to 4/97 Clinical Psychologist (#PY4988), Consultant & Director of Psychological Services, Greenbrier Hospital, 7007 Grove Rd., Brooksville, FL 34609; tel (352) 596-4306
Conduct and supervise daily group therapy sessions for acute and chronic inpatients, dual-diagnosis and adult and geriatric patients, and partial hospitalization clients.
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Clinical practice, organizational consulting, and interaction with allied health professionals (i.e., RN, LPN, CNA, LMHC, OT, PT, and Speech Rehab professionals) in outpatient and institutionalized settings for an adult and geriatric population. Experience includes assessment, therapy, staff training and education, interdisciplinary team participation in nursing homes, ACLFs, independent living facilities, hospitals, psychiatric facilities, geriatric day treatment and partial programs, and outpatient settings.
Develop, Conduct, Supervise Linkage, Masters and Continuity In-House programs and Family Support Groups to manage mental health of demented and non-demented elderly. These programs help to meet OBRA guidelines concerning psychosocial interventions, and to maintain superior rating status of a skilled nursing facility.
Developed twelve hour CEU program for interdisciplinary health team members to coordinate mental health with functional concerns (e.g., rehab attendance and progress, environmental and behavioral management) of geriatric clients. In the process of developing 15 hour curriculum for allied health professionals to understand and appreciate the psychosocial concerns of the elderly as they transition from independence to dependence.
Developed a “Social Village” model to incorporate not only medical but allied health concerns of the elderly. Developed cross-cultural contacts with Dr. Lazzari, Chair of Gerontology and Allied Health (Psychology, and Medical Allied Professions) of the University of Rome, Rome, Italy, in exploring similarities and differences of the elderly between our cultures.
Outpatient therapy for PTSD, behavioral and drug problems, neuropsychology testing
Developed, and taught as an adjunct professor M.S. graduate students in LMHC program in the areas of ethics, abnormal psychology and personality. Supervision of undergraduate and graduate students in geriatric settings.
Supervision of mental health professionals for clinical, vocational, educational and forensic assessment of child and adolescent clients in psychiatric, outpatient and forensic settings.
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Diagnostic interviews, psychological/neuropsychological testing, individual and group therapy, for geriatric residents in nursing homes and ACLFs.
In-service training and program development with an interdisciplinary team emphasis for staff in nursing homes and ACLFs.
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Clinical Interviews, psychological/neuropsychological testing, individual and group therapy, staff training, marital therapy and relaxation techniques
Worked with child, adolescent, adult and geriatric clients as inpatients, outpatients, and in nursing homes.
Behavioral therapy for PTSD, dual diagnosis and geropsychology emphases
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VA Medical Center, Gainesville, FL 32608
Clinical rotations in psychological/neuropsychological testing, geriatric therapy and assessments; clinical interviews, individual, group and marital therapy. Settings included outpatient clinic, psychiatric inpatient ward and chemical dependency units; hospital consults and nursing home.
Geropsychology PTSD, chemical dependency, neuropsychology specialties
Internship involved in-service/staff training, rounds with geriatric psychiatrist, supervision by four licensed psychologists, served as member of interdisciplinary team with nurses, Speech, OT and PT rehab professionals, attendance at seminars and conferences.
4/91 to 8/91 Clinical Psychology Practicum, University Behavioral Center
2500 Discovery Dr., Orlando, FL 32826
Psychological/neuropsychological testing and therapy with child, adolescent, adult and elderly inpatients in psychiatric and partial-program settings.
9/90 to 4/91 Postdoctoral Student, APA-approved Postdoctoral Certification Program in Clinical Psychology, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, N9B 3P4
Adjunct instructor for general psychology courses for undergraduates.
Graduate courses in ethics, assessment, psychotherapy. Formal, supervised training in
psychoanalytic psychotherapy for the adult and geriatric client.
1/83 to 8/90 Psychology Professor, Seminole Community College, Sanford, FL 32771
Develop and teach abnormal, general, industrial/organizational, developmental, and educational psychology courses to undergraduates. Served on Staff Development committee.
Designed, managed and supervised computer-based biofeedback and simulations lab for teaching stress management/relaxation techniques and experimental research skills.
Developed and teach psychology course in distance learning program for the college.
Worked with cross-disciplines in theatre arts to apply psychological principles in drama.
6/80 to 1/83 Industrial/Organizational Psychologist, Training Analysis & Evaluation Group, Naval Training Center, Orlando, FL 32813
Develop and conduct workshops to upper and mid-level managers for organizational effectiveness and training.
Designed, supervised, and conducted multivariate study on student ability, method of instruction, content of learning, educational achievement, and job performance appraisal.
Evaluated cost-effectiveness of training systems, conducted organizational climate surveys, and developed career development standards for managers.
12/79 to 6/80 Industrial/Organizational Psychologist, Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 5001 Eisenhower Ave., Alexandria, VA 22333
Developed a systems model and research proposals for allocating human resources in technical systems, matching ability levels with training tasks, and projecting manpower requirements and availability.
10/79 to 12/79 Staff Psychologist, Northern Virginia Training Center for the Mentally Retarded, 9901 Braddock Rd., Fairfax, VA
Supervised clinical practicum of 500 hours that included assessment, behavior therapy, counseling and staff training programs for managing 120 adolescent, adult and elderly residents with MR and psychiatric diagnoses. Employed an educational/training model for teaching adaptive skills.
9/78 to 10/79 Industrial/Organizational Psychologist, Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 5001 Eisenhower Ave., Alexandria, VA 22333
Developed a systems model and conducted research on transfer of technology from research and development community to the field user. Also developed a systems model for maintaining psychological fidelity of an occupational context within a training simulator context.
9/76 to 8/78 NIMH Predoctoral Research Fellow, State University of New York-Binghamton, Binghamton, NY 13901
Designed and conducted research on auditory perception and short-term memory, anxiolytic properties of pentobarbital on lithium-induced taste aversions, circadian influences as state-dependent memories, and context effects on short-term memories.
1/74 to 8/76 Graduate Research Assistant, Old Dominion University
Conducted research on the effects of amnestic suggestions given during hypnosis, sleep and dreaming; on the reliability of learned helplessness model, context effects on learning taste aversions, and on the relationship between androgyny and sex-role stereotyping.
9/71 to 1/74 Naval Officer, United States Navy, Norfolk, VA
Served as the Electronics Materiel Officer aboard USS El Paso (LKA-117) and managed electronics technicians. Certified as Officer of the Deck for Inland and International Waters.
Received Honorable Discharge from Naval Reserve as LT in 1980; reserve commitment no longer required.
Professional License: Licensed Psychologist, Florida, PY4988.
University of Windsor, Ontario, Ph.D. 10/92, Clinical Psychology
State University of New York, Binghamton, NY, Ph.D. 8/78 ,I/O and Experimental Psychology
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, M.S. 8/76, Experimental Psychology
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, B.A. 6/71, Psychology
ACADEMIC & RESEARCH ARTICLES by Jon Freda
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15327906mbr1402_6
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/BF03214429
https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED217190
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/003193847990341X
https://apps.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA125376
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0091305780902038
https://asa.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1121/1.384413
https://apps.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADP001327
https://www.worldcat.org/title/learning-factors-in-the-development-of-environmental-aversions/oclc/2704729
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Posts Tagged ‘Postmodernism’
All We Need Is Truth
People are simple. And love to be simple. That’s why, for most of them, aside from their profession, all they know is “sports”, and it’s a new religion. Being complicated is expensive.
One commenter on my site, Benign, apparently obfuscated by my broadside against the delirious sexism of past and present Catholicism, called me “deluded to think that “rationality” even exists. Evolution does not “progress.” The Soviets “rationally” outlawed marriage from ~1918 to the 1940s, before realizing that this “rational” decision didn’t work.”
The USSR outlawed marriage???????? Same source which saw them drinking blood of “capitalists”? Logic is easy, truth is hard.
Modernist, Postmodernist, Metamodernist Jargon Is Jargon, and jargon ain’t truth! “Meta”, though, is a serious operation we all practice. See “Mind From Meta“.
Marriage is a fact of human ethology, the natural behavior of humans. To outlaw it would not have been irrational, because reason can always be found, but futile, as going against marriage goes against human nature. This is exactly why the Soviets didn’t outlaw marriage: they were not that dumb.
By the late 1920s, Soviet adults had been made more responsible for the care of their children, and common-law marriage had been given equal legal status with civil marriage. Is that what Benign alludes to? By 1944, the Soviets went back, and recognized only legal civil marriage, to encourage more steady families.
Rationality exists, but as I have emphasized in the past, as a constant rolling of the drums, a logic can be anything. That evolution “progresses” is a battle from 1800 CE, when Lamarck asserted this thesis. It’s correct: clearly some of today’s lifeforms are the most complex ever. Some day all biologists will proudly view Lamarck as right, and their predecessors of the 1960s, who were fanatically anti-Lamarck, as deluded bigots.
How do I know Lamarck was right? Tons of knowledge that those who scream Lamarck was a maniac (following the slave master Napoleon) never heard of these tons, they are children.
To see evolution’s progress, don’t look at sharks, or oysters, and other animals in evolutionary stasis. Instead, look at Blue Rorquals, most massive animals ever, & look at us, most clever. The most advanced animals are the most complex, and they are complex in ways beyond what we understand of genetics.
Beatles sang: “All You Need Is Love!”. Silly stuff: we all got love, otherwise we won’t exist. We have all the logics, at our disposal, and all the love we got as children.
To order and discipline our logic, and even our loves, most of what we need is truth
“Postmodernism” was the realization that many ideologies were the fruit of tribalism, not truth (as they malevolently claimed). This is not really new. See “vérité en deçà des Pyrénées, erreur au-delà“ de Pascal (a thought unpublished in his lifetime: truth before the Pyrénées, error beyond them)..
“Deconstruction” consisted in finding out where things came from. It’s not conceptually different from analysis (a unloosening), a concept found in Aristotle, and obvious centuries before him.
All this is to say that those who have pretended to introduce new ways of thinking about thinking have eschewed the truth: there is no truth, but truth, and, in the human species, it’s as old as dinner . There is no truth, but truth! In the human species, truth is as old as dinner. No truth, no dinner for the human, but one for the lion. The truth was in the dinner. In how to get dinner!
Right, truth is dangerous, because some claim to have it, and they don’t. But they always have, and always will. The Wise can’t go around, claiming they don’t have the truth, as Socrates did, or, worse, as Socrates claimed again and again, and the self-declared “post-modernists” parroted, that there is no truth… Because if they do that, they do exactly what German Jews (among others) did with Hitler and his Nazis: leave a wide open field for infamy to proclaim its own version of truth. And everybody, or, at least, most Germans, believed them. And others, like most Americans, pretended that it was OK with them.
The scientific method does NOT opposes the notion of truth, as those who have only a shallow knowledge of pop science are all too often led to believe. It’s exactly the opposite. Euclid’s theorem or the classical laws of optics are still true… They are actually more true than ever. In their domain of application. They are more true than ever, precisely because now we know where their domain of application came from. In other words, we control their meta-logic. We know where their truth come from, and where it’s located. And how to control it.
There is no logic without a metalogic, establishing therein, a notion of truth. Thinking is, and always was, an experimental process.
All we need is truth. But it’s the hardest thing. Truth never was, nor will ever be, a safe place. But it’s the safest place.
Tags:Metamodernism, Postmodernism, Truth
Posted in Systems Of Mind, Systems Of Moods, Systems Of Thought, Truth | 24 Comments »
Evolution Scientifically Established Before Darwin’s Birth
English speaking authorities found a master thinker, Darwin, He created evolution. Charles Darwin is the messiah of evolution. Any critique of this miracle, this shattering of ill preconceptions, is labelled “postmodernist”, and no doubt arises noxiously from a gross lack of non-appurtenance to the church of righteous thinking (prestigious, well-paid American academia). Or then is to be attributed to the hysterical nationalism of the French.
This roughly summarize some of the critiques American professors have made of my “Lamarck Discovered Evolution” essay. It is typical.
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Scientifically Established Evolution By 1800
Paradoxically, this scornful attitude comforts religious creationism.
Why? Making Darwin into what he was not, a snow capped giant towering above a sea of error, is all too close to the terror of the religious mindset. Making Darwin into God, neglects the evolution of ideas, the giant collaborative reasoning that is science. It reintroduce the concept of the prophet: everybody got it all wrong, before, then comes miracle man, Darwin. Miraculously speaking English.
So why not Jesus for miracle man?
Or why not Muhammad? Hey, Muhammad spoke Arabic, which is obviously the language of God.
The scientists who claim Darwin did it all, are lying. Lying because they have not integrated the scientific method, and do not know how truth is established historiographically is the worst possible case.
Most of the ideas demonstrating that there had been “biological evolution” were evolved before Darwin.
The truth is that Darwin was astounded by the audacity of several of his professors who praised ‘Mr. Lamarck” for having shown how life had “evolved” from “simple worms”.
Darwin’s publications came in a full century after evolution started to be established scientifically.
Buffon introduced the idea that migration caused speciation. He illustrated this with pachyderms.
Augier introduced the “Tree of Life”, then much improved by Lamarck. Lamarck’s Tree was much more specific than the general idea that all species came from fishes (Pre-Socratic philosophers).
Lamarck had spent decades looking at life and fossils through a microscope, and he demonstrated that life had evolved over millions of years, by documenting in extreme, microscopic details the evolution of mollusks.
The great geologist Lyell got a copy of one of Lamarck’s books from a friend in 1827. He wrote back:
“I devoured Lamark… his theories delighted me… I am glad that he has been courageous enough and logical enough to admit that his argument, if pushed as far as it must go, if worth anything, would prove that men may have come from the Ourang-Outang. But after all, what changes species may really undergo!… That the Earth is quite as old as he supposes, has long been my creed…”
However, Lyell, a close friend of Darwin and Huxley, rejected evolution when he was a professor at the prestigious King’s College, London.
Lyell explained in a letter to Whewell in 1837:
“If I had stated… the possibility of the introduction or origination of fresh species being a natural, in contradistinction to a miraculous process, I should have raised a host of prejudices against me, which are unfortunately opposed at every step to any philosopher who attempts to address the public on these mysterious subjects”
When finally Lyell endorsed evolution, he endorsed Lamarck. Darwin’s daughter Henrietta (Etty) wrote to her father: “Is it fair that Lyell always calls your theory a modification of Lamarck’s?”
No wonder. Darwin revisited Lamarck’s example of the giraffe, with more details:
“The giraffe, by its lofty stature, much elongated neck, fore-legs, head and tongue, has its whole frame beautifully adapted for browsing on the higher branches of trees. It can thus obtain food beyond the reach of the other Ungulata or hoofed animals inhabiting the same country; and this must be a great advantage to it during dearths…. Those individuals which had some one part or several parts of their bodies rather more elongated than usual, would generally have survived. These will have intercrossed and left offspring, either inheriting the same bodily peculiarities, or with a tendency to vary again in the same manner; whilst the individuals, less favoured in the same respects will have been the most liable to perish…. By this process long-continued, which exactly corresponds with what I have called unconscious selection by man, combined no doubt in a most important manner with the inherited effects of the increased use of parts, it seems to me almost certain that an ordinary hoofed quadruped might be converted into a giraffe.” (Darwin 1872. Sixth edition of his seminal book, Origin of Species.)
In other words, Darwin subscribed to Lamarck’s book of 1801, on inheritability of acquired characteristics. (The whole problem now being what these “acquired characteristics”, now called “genes”, “epigenetics, transposons, prions, soma, whatever…) are and how they arise…)
Darwin had produced a toy model of evolution. Anatomist Gould told him that some varieties of birds he found in the Galapagos were different species. Yet they all belonged to the finch group. Darwin then brandished that as an example of evolution.
Darwin’s dubious birdies no doubt beat the millions of years Lamarck had uncovered. That’s the strength of the Anglo-American empire!
Darwin’s “B” notebook showed that he speculated a species could turn into another by summer 1837. He discarded Lamarck’s independent lineages progressing to higher forms, drawing a tree of life with a single trunk branching out (there too Lamarck proved right: decades behind the microscope, remember?).
On the continent, evolution was solidly established.
Cuvier discovered the “Ptero-Dactyle” (name Latinized later), and Mesosaurus (sea going giant). Cuvier also invented stratigraphy, and demonstrated species came and went.
Cuvier was a Christian fundamentalist, but a very clever one, with an open, and changing mind. He invented most of the “Creationist” Biblical arguments. Yet he explained why he could be proven wrong in the fullness of time, thanks to, say, more discoveries.
Lamarck’s reputation was soiled because Cuvier smeared it all over with “pangenesis”. The original texts make it clear that Lamarck believed in natural selection. In the case of giraffes, to put it in modern terms, he believed that giraffe ethology, and the vegetation being what it was, due to climate, put a selective pressure favoring giraffe’s anatomy, the way it was. (Cuvier later said it was all about “desire”; that’s not in Lamarck).
Darwin tried hard to prove pangenesis. A battle was engaged, still ongoing. Many of the arrogant certainties of the 1960s have been washed away. Elements of heredity are known now to travel among species, and interact with ethology.
To combat religious fanatics, we need the weight of evidence, not inappropriate celebritism. Misrepresenting those who discovered evolution only helps creationists.
Darwin is an important biologist, but evolution had been scientifically established more than a generation before he published anything.
Everything else is pathetic tribalism, and, or, making fun of the scientific process. No way to help the advancement of civilization.
Tags:Darwin, Evolution, Giraffes, Lamarck, Lyell, Postmodernism, Tribalism
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Solidification processing of functionally graded materials by sedimentation
J. W. Gao, Susan W. Stewart, Chao-yang Wang
Materials Research Institute (MRI)
A combined experimental and numerical investigation of the solidification process during gravity casting of functionally graded materials (FGMs) is conducted. Focus is placed on the interplay between the freezing front propagation and particle sedimentation. Experiments were performed in a rectangular ingot using pure substances as the matrix and glass beads as the particle phase. The time evolutions of local particle volume fractions were measured by bifurcated fiber optical probes working in the reflection mode. The effects of various processing parameters were explored. It is found that there exists a particle-free zone in the top portion of the solidified ingot, followed by a graded particle distribution region towards the bottom. Higher superheat results in slower solidification and hence a thicker particle-free zone and a higher particle concentration near the bottom. The higher initial particle volume fraction leads to a thinner particle-free region. Lower cooling temperatures suppress particle settling. A one-dimensional solidification model was also developed, and the model equations were solved numerically using a fixed-grid, finite-volume method. The model was then validated against the experimental results, and the validated computer code was used as a tool for efficient computational prototyping of an Al/SiC FGM.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Heat Transfer Division, (Publication) HTD
Published - Dec 1 1999
Heat Transfer Division - 1999 ((The ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition) - Nashville, TN, USA
Duration: Nov 14 1999 → Nov 19 1999
Heat Transfer Division - 1999 ((The ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition)
Functionally graded materials
Volume fraction
Finite volume method
Gao, J. W., Stewart, S. W., & Wang, C. (1999). Solidification processing of functionally graded materials by sedimentation. In American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Heat Transfer Division, (Publication) HTD (pp. 289-301). (American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Heat Transfer Division, (Publication) HTD; Vol. 364-2). ASME.
Gao, J. W. ; Stewart, Susan W. ; Wang, Chao-yang. / Solidification processing of functionally graded materials by sedimentation. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Heat Transfer Division, (Publication) HTD. ASME, 1999. pp. 289-301 (American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Heat Transfer Division, (Publication) HTD).
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2020 Jeep Gladiator: Design, Towing, Specs, Price
Jeep has finally brought the Wrangler-based pickup truck to the reality and the growing mid-size segment has now another contender with the recently returned Ford Ranger. The 2020 Jeep Gladiator is Jeep’s first truck since the 1980s and the Scrambler model while FCA has now the new mid-size truck after the discontinuation of the Ram Dakota in 2011.
The new Jeep Gladiator isn’t a surprise regarding the style and equipment while we expected also the serious performer and Jeep delivers it now in the pickup truck form. Jeep promises the class-leading loading and towing capability and this truck will also be cable of beating the paths unbeaten by other trucks thanks to brand’s proven-and-tested, off-road gear.
The model will also offer some modern and luxury features but Jeep wasn’t very generous and the new, mid-size will lack some high-comfort and tech features. There won’t also be many configuration options as we get from the other versions in the market and the turbocharged engine isn’t also in the equipment list. The truck comes in the single cab configuration with the short bed and in four trim levels. The journey starts also with the single engine option with the arrival of the diesel-powered version in 2020.
2020 Jeep Gladiator: Design
Jeep converted the Wrangler Unlimited to the pickup truck body form and there were plenty of cutting, lengthening and welding in the process. In order to accommodate the 5-foot cargo bed, the engineers stretched the wheelbase of the four-door Wrangler for 19 inches while from bumper to bumper the Gladiator measures 218 inches, 31 inches more than the SUV equivalent. Jeep strengthened also the chassis of the Gladiator to provide greater towing and working capability.
From the visual perspective the Gladiator in the Wrangler Unlimited with the attached cargo bed. There are, however, more, less notable distinctions like the wider grille openings and more inclined nose. Other signature elements such as the distinctive fender flares, exposed door hinges, circular headlights and more are the part of both model’s identity.
Interior, Equipment, Options:
Inside the only available, four-door cabin, the new Gladiator applies the same design language as the closely related SUV. The same shaped dashboard has circular air vents and simple contours. The center screen available in several sizes divides the dash to two sections and below the screen, many physical buttons and control take the place.
The Gladiator comes in a limited number of options and available trims are Sport, Sport S, Overland, and hardcore Rubicon. In the equipment list, buyers will find a UConnect system with the 8.4-inch center screen and Android Auto and Apple Car Play functionalities. The lower-grade infotainment system will come with the 7-inch center display or with the 5-inch unit in the base configuration. The Gladiator will also offer heated seats, leather surfaces, Alpine sound system, etc. The three-piece, the removable top will also be available.
The new mid-size truck will also integrate some advanced safety systems. The Wrangler-based truck will come with the blind spot monitors, adaptive cruise control, and forward collision warning while the automatic emergency braking is missing from the manual.
2020 Jeep Gladiator: Performance, Towing
While Jeep limited the availability of some high tech and luxury features, the 2020 Jeep Gladiator has plenty of equipment and capability to go behind the paved roads and to tow like the champ.
The new tuck in the mid-size class claims the class-best towing and loading capability. In the cargo bed, it can carry up to 1, 600 pounds while can pull up to 7, 650 pounds.
For the off-road adventures, the Rubicon gets some hardcore equipment. All versions employ solid axles with coil springs and Dana 44 differentials. The Rubicon boosts the performance with the wider axles, unique crawl ratios, upgraded transfer case, front and rear lockers, electronically operated sway bars, massive all-terrain tires, etc. The Gladiator has also an impressive approach angle of 46,3 degrees and departure angle of 26 degrees. The model can go through the 30-inches deep water and has 11 inches of the ground clearance.
Jeep introduced the Gladiator with the 3.6-liter V-6 engine only while should deliver the turbodiesel in 2020. No promise of the turbocharged unit. The base V-6 makes 285 hp and torque of 260 pound-feet. The 6-speed manual and 8-speed automatic transmissions are available.
2020 Jeep Gladiator: Release, Price
The unique 2020 Jeep Gladiator will go on the mid-size truck front in spring 2019. The price is yet to be revealed. Expect about 4, 000 or more expensive Gladiators than the Wrangler’s equivalent.
2018 Jeep Wrangler Pickup Truck is coming soon
2019 Jeep Wrangler Pickup Truck: News and Rumors
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How to Pursue a Traditional Book Deal, featuring Meredith May
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Most authors dream of getting traditionally published, but in today’s publishing climate it’s becoming increasingly difficult for authors to get those deals. In today’s episode Brooke and Grant discuss traditional publishing, The Dream, and rejection. Meredith May, a journalist and sixth-generation beekeeper who has a brand-new memoir out, shares her long journey toward traditional publication—including the many drafts, writing the book proposal, and her eventual meeting of hearts and minds with her publisher. And don’t miss this episode for what you’ll learn from Meredith about bees.
ABOUT MEREDITH MAY
Meredith May is an award-winning journalist, author, and a fifth-generation beekeeper. Her memoir, The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage, and a Girl Saved By Bees, reveals the life lessons she learned in her grandfather’s Big Sur bee yard that rescued her from a difficult childhood. She’s a former San Francisco Chronicle reporter and taught digital journalism and podcasting at Mills College in Oakland for 10 years. Meredith lives in San Francisco, where she cares for six beehives in a community garden.
Writing Action: Set Your Parameters
This exercise is a commitment to yourself. Even if you’re a long ways from publishing your work, consider how badly you want to be traditionally published. If the answer is really badly, then please consider the following.
You have to have an author platform that cannot start the day you start shopping your book. Begin early, and consider hiring someone to help you.
Set a specific number of months aside to shop to agents. Maybe it’s four or five or six months. Or maybe it’s a number—50 or 100. If you don’t get the answer you’re hoping for, turn to Plan B.
Don’t forget about small presses. The Big Five is not the only game out there, and while you need an agent to shop to the Big Five, you can shop directly to small presses. But never shop simultaneously—meaning you cannot shop your book to agents and editors at the same time. You might try agents first, and then shop directly to editors after that. But set similar parameters for shopping to editors. Aim high, and don’t allow your value and self-worth to get tied up in someone else’s yes.
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‘The Voice': Who Will Be the Season 5 Winner? – Readers Poll
Stephanie Gilman
With only eight contestants left in the competition, we are getting that much closer to crowning the next winner of 'The Voice.' We want to know: Who from Season 5 do you think is going to take home the ultimate prize?
Jacquie Lee, the youngest member on 'The Voice,' has had a pretty easy ride so far, with the audience enjoying her spunky, young personality. But is that enough to get her all the way to the end? Whatever her fate, coach Christina has promised to remain email buddies for life.
James Wolpert stands out among the pack, with his geeked-out attire and his rock 'n' roll attitude. James dropped out of college and worked at the Genius Bar in the Apple Store before pursuing his dreams of becoming a musician. Winning 'The Voice' would indeed be a nice ending to his story.
Ray Boudreaux, the 22 year-old father from Louisiana, has won over the hearts of many a screaming girl, with his Southern charm and handsome looks. Ray possesses some serious singing chops, and if you pair his talent with the adoration of his female fans, it is clear Ray is a definite threat. The rest of the 'Voice' contestants might want to keep an eye on this guy.
Will Champlin has been positioned as the underdog, after getting tossed around between multiple coaches. But this guy is no newbie to the game, coming from a strong musical background (his father is a member of the iconic band Chicago) and performing gigs all around Los Angeles. His adorable toddler, who frequently appears in taped pieces on the show, also doesn't hurt his chances.
Matthew Schuler is well on his way toward being "the guy to beat" after a string of stellar vocal performances and top hits on the iTunes charts. The apple of Christina Aguilera's eye, Matthew is on a roll and is definitely making the other competitors shake in their boots.
Tessanne Chin has garnered a lot of attention for her powerhouse vocals, with high praise from the coaches week after week. With all of Jamaica behind her (including her newest fan, fastest man in the world Usain Bolt), Tessanne has the determination and drive to push through all those standing in her way on the road to stardom.
Cole Vosbury has probably been the most consistent of the bunch, giving smooth, flawless performances week after week. Will his unique look and voice appeal to the masses? So far, it seems he's doing just fine.
Caroline Pennell was an early favorite, with her sweet, soft voice providing a welcome contrast to the louder vocalists in the competition. Caroline would definitely be a more unconventional choice to win 'The Voice,' and people might be looking for a change from the typical types of pop and country singers who dominate these competitions. But with her recent stint in the bottom three, it seems this quirky young lady is going to have to step up her game.
Who do you think will win Season 5 of 'The Voice'?? Vote for your pick in the poll below. If you need a little help making a decision, scroll down to see performance clips from the Top 8.
Next: See the Best Blake Shelton Lyrics
Watch Jacquie Lee Performing 'Clarity'
Watch James Wolpert Performing 'Without You'
Watch Ray Boudreaux Performing 'You Are The Best Thing'
Watch Will Champlin Performing 'Love Me Again'
Watch Matthew Schuler Performing 'Beneath Your Beautiful'
Watch Tessanne Chin Performing 'If I Were Your Woman'
Watch Cole Vosbury Performing 'To Be With You'
Watch Caroline Pennell Performing 'Leaving on a Jet Plane'
Filed Under: Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, Cee Lo Green, Christina Aguilera
Categories: Polls, The Voice, TV News
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Ryan Niemiec Receives Award
written by Editor K.H.B. August 12, 2011
We are happy to air the news we received from Dr. Pauline Wallin, President of Media Psychology for the American Psychological Association that Ryan Niemiec has just received the award described below. In addition to other publications, Ryan writes for Positive Psychology News Daily, especially the Positive Psychology Oscar Nominations for 2009 (Honorable Mention), 2009 (Top Winners), and 2010 (Top Winners). We look forward to his nominations for 2011.
Here’s the citation as we received it from Dr. Wallin:
Last Friday (August 5), Ryan Niemiec received an award from APA Division of Media Psychology. The award was for Distinguished Early Career/Applied Research Contribution, based on his research and writing on the portrayal of positive psychology in film.
Ryan Niemiec
Dr. Ryan M. Niemiec is a licensed psychologist and international workshop leader.
He is Education Director of VIA Institute on Character, an internationally recognized, nonprofit organization in Cincinnati that bridges the science and practice of character strengths and positive psychology.
Ryan is co-author with Daniel Wedding of Positive psychology at the movies: Using films to build virtues and character strengths (2008) and Movies And Mental Illness: Using Films To Understand Psychopathology
(also with Mary Ann Boyd), as well as a number of book chapters and articles.
He is Associate Editor of the APA journal PsycCRITIQUES, which publishes scholarly reviews of contemporary psychology books and films.
Within Division 46 (Media Psychology) Ryan has served as Program Chair for the D46 APA Convention programming, and is currently Chair of the Media Watch Committee.
Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Niemiec for his accomplishments!
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Jeremy McCarthy August 14, 2011 - 10:24 pm
Congratulations to Ryan. He deserves the accolades for finding new ways to help people connect to their strengths.
Dr. ZIna Suissa August 16, 2011 - 9:21 pm
You are so deserving of the award from the APA.
Your course recently given through the VIA was truly inspirational.
Keep up your research. It will prove of great benefit.
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Oakland Residents Call for Investigation After Racist Incident at Lake Merritt BBQ
A recent racist incident at Lake Merritt, where a white woman called police on African Americans who were barbecuing at Lake Merritt, sparked a protest to “Grill Your Government” at this week’s City Council meeting. The City Hall protesters demanded the city investigate the white woman who on April 29 called the police on a mixed-race family that was barbecuing with a charcoal grill in a non-charcoal-designated area.
The incident became a national issue after a video of the event was posted online, unleashing a storm of comments on social media and a Lake Merritt dance party to defend the right to “BBQ while Black.”
Mayoral candidate Cat Brooks said, “This is a consequence of something City Hall put in motion over a year ago (at the lake) because white folks said that Black people and Brown people being loud is a scary and dangerous thing, and they don’t want it in their Oakland anymore.”
Michelle Snider, who shot the viral video, also believes the woman’s actions were racially motivated. Snider, a white journalism student at Laney College and a mother of two, is married to one the two Black men barbecuing in the video.
“It’s almost like weaponizing the police,” she said.
Hip-hop journalist and community activist Davey D speaks about the Lake Merritt incident Tuesday at City Council. Also speaking were Carroll Fife (right) and Cat Brooks. Photo by Ken Epstein.
The protesters want people to stop calling the police for minor incidents, particularly on people of color.
“We don’t know if she called 911. We don’t know if she called non-emergency services, and that’s what we’re asking City Council to investigate,” said Carroll Fife, founder of Black Women and Elected Leadership. “If she abused resources, then she needs to be held accountable for that.”
According to a statement released by the protesters, “The recent emergency phone call from (a woman) … highlights how anti-Black racism is used as a way to control space as well as Black bodies… Residents of Oakland are incensed by the growing inequities impacting African Americans across the country and refuse to ignore the racialized abuses happening right here in our city.”
“Oakland’s African-American community demands accountability, transparent actions aligned to firm deadlines and the elimination of excuses for inaction,” the statement said, “We see the recent incident at Lake Merritt as a racialized abuse of city services that endangers lives and we want action from elected city leaders and policymakers.
Among the demands raised by the protesters:
“Formal investigation into the background (of the woman) regarding possible contract work with local, state and federal government agencies, as well as possible affiliation with hate groups;”
A resolution from City Council to impose fines on people who make baseless calls to 9-1-1 and waste city resources in the process.
Councilmember Desley Brooks said she has requested a formal investigation.
“Supposedly we have so much crime in Oakland that our officers are running from here to there, and yet they were able to come to the lake to respond to a ridiculous phone call,” she said.
Councilmember Kaplan requested a follow-up meeting to discuss the Lake Merritt and park rules that are in place, to determine whether those rules need to be amended.
Other similar incidents have been in the news lately across the country, including the arrest of two Black men sitting in a Philadelphia Starbucks on April 12. The men had yet to order because they were waiting for a client, when police responded to a call from the manager.
At Yale University, a white student called the police on a Black student who had fallen asleep in their dorm common room on May 8.
Ken Epstein also contributed to this article.
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Abuse Study: 1 in 8 Teen Girls Pressured to Get Pregnant
A new study looks at relationship abuse in the form of reproductive coercion in which a young woman is pressured to become pregnant against her wishes.
Michigan State University researchers found nearly one in eight females between ages 14 and 19 experienced reproductive coercion within the last three months. Forms of such abuse included tampering with condoms and a partner threatening to leave.
The study, which will appear in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology, is the largest adolescent study on the issue. It uses data from a previously conducted randomized trial at eight school-based health centers in California during the 2012-13 school year and assessed 550 sexually active female teens.
Dr. Heather McCauley, assistant professor in the School of Social Work, and co-researchers explain that most prior studies focused on young adult women. But because adolescent relationships differ so much from adult relationships, clinicians need to know how to spot reproductive coercion in their younger patients and tailor clinical assessment and intervention for this population, McCauley said.
“We looked at whether adolescents who experience reproductive coercion displayed the ‘red flags’ we typically teach clinicians to look for, like coming into the clinic multiple times for emergency contraception or pregnancy testing,” McCauley shares.
“We found no difference in care-seeking behaviors between girls who experienced reproductive coercion and girls who didn’t, so those red flags may not be present. Therefore, clinicians should have conversations with all their adolescent patients about how relationships can impact their health.”
Previous research has also identified disparities in reproductive coercion by race/ethnicity, with black women more likely than white women to experience such abuse, she said. But, again, that wasn’t the case in this study, highlighting the need for researchers and clinicians to understand how to talk about relationship abuse with female teens.
Other takeaways from the study:
• 17 percent of teens reported physical or sexual abuse;
• females who experienced reproductive coercion had four times the odds of also experiencing other forms of relationship abuse;
• females exposed to both relationship abuse and reproductive coercion were more likely to have a sexual partner who is five or more years older.
“These findings highlight how common reproductive coercion and other forms of abuse are in adolescent relationships, yet the signs of a teen’s unhealthy relationship may be tricky for clinicians, parents and other adults to spot,” McCauley said.
“So, parents could open the door for their teen to disclose abuse by having a conversation with them about healthy and unhealthy relationship behaviors, including those that interfere with their decision making about their own reproductive health.”
Source: Michigan State University
Nauert PhD, R. (2019). Abuse Study: 1 in 8 Teen Girls Pressured to Get Pregnant. Psych Central. Retrieved on January 19, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/news/2019/08/10/abuse-study-1-in-8-teen-girls-pressured-to-get-pregnant/149305.html
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Виктор Тимофеевич Рязанов
Department of Economic Theory
Re-Examining the History of the Russian Economy
A New Analytic Tool from Field Theory
Jeffrey Hass
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
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Рязанов, В. Т. (2018). State, Markets, and Fields in Russian History: A new analytic tool from field theory . In J. Hass (Ed.), Re-Examining the History of the Russian Economy : A New Analytic Tool from Field Theory (pp. 217-241). Palgrave Macmillan Ltd..
Рязанов, Виктор Тимофеевич. / State, Markets, and Fields in Russian History : A new analytic tool from field theory . Re-Examining the History of the Russian Economy : A New Analytic Tool from Field Theory. editor / Jeffrey Hass. Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2018. pp. 217-241
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1.0 Play is another basic components otherwise called (literary genres). These genres are basically three (the primary literary organs), with their attendants ancillary organs. Drama or play is another problematic area in literature. This is not unconnected with the erroneous behalf many scholar hitherto had about it. To some, drama or play has no story to tell, while to some others, ability to cram written materials is sine quanon to the mastery of plays.
In the actual sense, drama is an all-inclusive academic discipline which uses all branches of learning that bear open dramatic impulse to vivify different situation in life. Eclectically, it makes use of each and every single discipline into one unified body of knowledge for man to understand this life better.
According to professor Barin Wey,
drama is to practice living. in his view drama or
play is a story presented on the stage by actors and
actresses, before an audience, through language or mine
with the end of light scenery and costume.
Aristotle on his part sees drama as imitated human action to him, through their actions and conversations, the audience understand the story, the them and the plot. Another school of thought sees drama as
Enlightenment through entertainment using
characters (actors) actresses), story, prop and
costume.
A critical synthesis of the above definitions points to one significant point about the concept of drama as a literary genre. That play or drama, in addition to helping to points inculcate in scholars the skills of concentrated and courteous attention to other speakers, helps the scholars to actuating clear enunciation and full and flexible use of the mechanism of speech. The watch word of every piece of drama is called a playwright. Simply put, there fore, is the enactment of life on stage principally meant to inform, educate and entertain the reading or watching audience. The two playwrights which, the researcher is studying, focus their information to educate the society on the social advocacy found in their two play’s namely Obidiya and Udo ka mma. In Obidiya, Akoma express his views and actions in a tragic mood. The chief protagonist Oriaku bobbles with use in the course of the play or story but suddenly changed in his wheel of fortune, death results as his ultimate end Oraku portrays in the society as the contemporary chief who uses their power to subdue their kings man and usurp their land by force.
They even went to court with them and still uses assassains to eliminate them. But in it, the fortune of the protagonists hero end in serious misfortunes characterized by pitiful, fearful, sorrowful episodes as in the case of Oriaku. There is always the influence of supernatural elements or forces such as ghost, witeches or otherwise, like which often cause the misfortune of tragic hero eithier by his error of judgments or otherwise as in Obidiya.
However, in Udo ka mma, it is class of play or drama originated from the Elizabethan and Jucobean eras of literally Udo ka mma, as the name depicts show the principles of both tragedy and comedy in characteristics, it mingles charater of high and low family background in the play the, episode, the action of the characters seem to be leading to a tragic end until an unexpected reversal of misfortune to fortune which brings about a happy end to the play. For example in Merchant of Venice by W. Shakespare. Ego as an eagle women change the harsh society of Umuobia through her love to Dike.
1.1 These two plays Obidiya and Udo ka mma were written by two authors namely, Enyinna Akoma (1977) and Analechi Barnabas (Chukuezi M. 1974) advocating for tolerance in a tragic mood to bring about peace, to preach against greed, which have been the problem of the Igbo in particular and the world generally. Akoma expresses his views through the power of advocacy, the engine of strategy `using tragic ending in his play Obidiya( 1977). The essence is to bring about a change in the society.
Chukuezi’s Udo ka mma (1974), uses dialogue to advocate for justice in the society. In the play, the playwright is advocating for peace as a vital tool for social change and restructuring. The focus of this thesis is to discover the use to which playwrights put their plays to inculcate justice and fair play in solving social problems among members of society.
According to Gwin Robert P (1978), advocacy means;
To plead, pleading for a support, to plead the cause
of any one in a court of justice, by a counsel to
argue in favour of
Odenigbo Bartholomew (2008) state that.
A social advocate is one who purports to assist
the public at large in most cause in a particular
Again according to Garner (1999), advocacy
depicts, the work or profession of an advocate.
Furthermore, a social advocate, is an advocate who purport to represent the public at large in matters of public concern, such as utility votes, or environmental
According to Mendosn Mjulumba Mpofu (1998:20), social advocacy is the
representation done by anyone committed to the
concerns of any particular group in society. Such
concerns may be rights based or needs based.
In Encyclopedia Americana,
a social advocate is one who to represent the
public at large such as matter of public issues,
utility rates or environmental quality in the cases
of social” which plays a significant role in modern
politics.
However, Igbo drama of social advocacy mean the drama that is use to advocate for social virtue in the society which could be corrected. But for a problem to be identified as a social advocacy, the problem must concerns the whole society it must concern the cause of murder, moral decadence, theft, and immoral action.
According to Horton and Lesile (1974) a social problem is
A condition affecting a significant number of
people in a way considered undesirable , about
which it is felt that something can be done through
collective social action”.
This implies that for a problem to be defined and addressed as a social problem in a society. It must be an undesirable condition that affects a large number. Finally, advocacy means to educate, to create awareness to all the social advocacies. Likewise, plays of social advocacy is “a, play that is used to portray societal virtues by pointing out first, social vices and their corresponding consequences. The result of evil in plays instructs men with soul to act rightly.
However According to Mendson Mulumba, a social worker, social advocacy
is the representation done by anyone committed
to the concerns of any particular such group in
the society. Such concerns may be right based.
There also different types of advocacies namely.
Citizen advocacy. A one to one partnership between two people. The citizen advocate is a volunteer who usually forms a long term relationship with their partner and takes a personal interest in that their partners invest are effectively represented. The relationship is based on trust commitment and loyalty. Independent (issue based) advocacy it can also be called crisis or case advocacy. A one to one partnership between two people, often provided by paid advocates. They also shares the same principles as citizen advocacy, but is usually a short term one-off involvement, delay with a specific issue in a person life. The relationship is normally time limited, but may last for several months.
Self Advocacy: It is seen by many in the advocacy movement to be the most ideal form of advocacy and one which all other types of advocacy should be aiming to work towards people speaking out for themselves to express their own interests.
Group Advocacy: It is where people came together to represent shared interests or goals and works by offering mutual support skills development and common call for change with the intention of developing or changing services.
Peer Advocacy: It gives support from advocates who themselves have experience of using particular services such as mental health or learning disabilities services can involves people speaking up for those who cannot do so them serves and may link with group advocacy.
Legal Advocacy: It is representation by legally qualified advocate, usually barristers or solicitors.
Professional Advocacy: It is representation by members of services involved in a person’s life for eg social workers or health workers. Whist this is an important form of advocacy, most independent advocacy agencies would stress the limitations of this type of advocacy and recognize the potential conflict of interest that may arise out of professionals advocating on their service users behalf.
Statutory Advocacy: This is where there is a statutory duty to provide advocacy following government legislation such as independent mental health advocacy (IMHA) & independent mental capacity advocacy ( IMCA).
Advocacy represents the series of actions taken and issues highlighted to change the “what is” into a “what should be”, considering that this “what should be” is a more decent and a more just society full citation needed. Those actions, which vary with the political, economic and social environment in which they are conducted, have several points in common. It is a political process by an individual or group which aims to influence public policy and resource allocation decision within political, economic, and social system and institution. Advocacy can include many activities that a person or organization undertakes including media campaigns, public speaking commissioning and publishing research or conducting exit poll or the file of an amicus brief.
Lobbying o (Lobby group) is a form of advocacy where a direct approach is made to legislators on an issue which plays a significant role in modern politics research has started unfolding how advocacy groups in U.S and Canada are using social media to facilitate civic engagement and collective action. There are several forms of advocacy, each representing a different approach in away to initiate changes in the society. The most popular forms is a social justice advocacy.
This is refered to where the community of Umuabia needs a new approach to their style of the local chief who uses power to urusp the land of the poor in their community. That was why although it is true, the initial definition does not encourages the notions of power relations, people’s participation and vision of a just society as promoted by social justice advocates. For them advocacy represents the series of actions taken and issues highlighted to change the what is into a “what should be”, considering.
BACKGROUND OF STUDY
Igbo play of social advocacy is an important integral part of our daily lives. It attracted the attention of Igbo literary artist whose work it is to show to case, of all aspects of any given society, past, present, and future, through creative writing. This is why Moody (1968 :121) explains literature
as a mirror through which the writer represent
the society in its ideas and its through, its visions
and its ways of life. Just as different individuals,
house different stories both good and bad ideas
to talk about social advocacy based on their
various experiences.
Igbo literary artiss have reflected in the two plays Obidiya at Udokamma based on the matters in different shapes and seize in their literary works.
The focus of the present study will be on two plays. They intention is to find out various ways the two Igbo playwrights Akoma and Chwkuezi) used the plays to show social advocacy as practices and impact in the individual involved and the society in general. There have been majority of cases of wrong handling of justices and fair play in solving social problems among members of the society. Some Igbo literary artists have captured these injustices and their problems in their works.
Therefore, an assessment of how some Igbo literary artists have portrayed various social advocacy in our society is deemed necessary. The aim is to show what a genuine correction means to the society. The study is also in tended to bring to focus what should be seen or regarded as a change and to built a new nation as propagated by Dukwe in (2009) who came up with a reformation to impact a new change for the betterment of the poor masses. It is hoped that if this is achieved it will contribute in no small measure in making our society a better place, hence this research work on Igbo drama of social advocacy
In recent times, that people have been looking at Igbo plays from the perspectives of styles, and other approaches without looking at the Marxist approach in the plays. But disregard the advocacy approaches, however, many work had been done on the advocacy on Igbo plays and have been expressed as a social advocacy for social restricting.
Hence, because the thesis is using Marxist approach where we talk about the bourgeois and proletariats, or the upper class and the lower class. The two plays Obidiya and Udoka mma which has a tragic mood, and where people died and a lot of abominations took place needed a social change. While Akoma was only able to write Obidiya (1997) before he died Chuekuezi (1974) channeled his play to social advocacy of justice and four plays which lither to elude the poor because of the ordinate ambition of the rich.
OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY.
The major aim of thesis is to examine Obidiya and Udokamma as a social advocacy, and also different forms of social advocacies, practiced in the dramatic genres as exemplified in the plays under study.
To demonstrate, the position of most of the characters in the identified with social justice
To critically analyze the consequences of social advocacies, the individual characters or the entire society in the play of study.
To open up social advocacy as a discipline for public argumentation in drama or auxiliary disciplines
To see advocacy strategy as a goal to attain success to the society.
LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
Though researcher will make use of guide to a reasonable number of literary works from the earlier mentioned two plays, Obidiya (1977) and Udokamma (1974) of Igbo literature that deal with Igbo plays of social advocacies.
They does not know all the books but concentrated on the two genres that have something to do on the topic of study, it is not all the Igbo literature texts known to the researcher, which are relevant to this work or are the disposal of the present writer. Limited knowledge of the relevant texts and their non availability was the major problem of this study.
SCOPE OF THE STUDY.
This research works is designed to focus on the strategic areas that will help to study on Igbo plays for social advocacies the study of Udokamma and Obidiya in the Igbo contemporary society. The playwrights are Akomas (1977) and Chukuezi’s (1974) drama namely, Obidiya and Udokamm
SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY.
This thesis makes a through examination of the selected Igbo plays and brings to focus, the social, economic, moral, and political advocacy. In so doing, it would establish the reactions for the emergence of the social problems, their consequences and also the attitude of the people in the community to wards ending the problems.
The result of this research work will be significant to various people firstly; the work will educate readers of what constitute social problems as well as the perpetrators and the entire society.
Secondly, it will show the forms and bring benefit to every person in the any community where social problem occur, and the need to collectively strive to solve social ills irrespective of their direct or indirect effect on them
Finally, the result of the work will benefit other scholars who might wish to undertake further work on this topic or others.
There are a number of methodologies but the writer has chosen to use the Marxist approach since there is class struggle. There has been a study on Marxist approach and also advocacy approaches in different forms as well as in other Igbo plays. Here, we shall talk about the bourgeoisie and the lower class in the two playwrights. The play in view expressed how the bourgeoisie and lower classes in the two pays struggle for power in both political, social, and economic affairs.
MMEMXBARA N’IGBO
MALE SPEECH PATTERN IN THE PLAYS OF G.I. NWAOZUZU.
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Kicker/punter prospect Vedvik among Vikings cuts
By DAVE CAMPBELL - Aug. 31, 2019 07:23 PM EDT
FILE - In this Aug. 9, 2019, file photo, Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Laquon Treadwell (11) walks on the field in the second half of an NFL preseason football game against the New Orleans Saints in New Orleans. Treadwell is likely closing in on the end of his lackluster tenure with the Vikings, three years after they drafted the wide receiver in the first round. (AP Photo/Butch Dill, File)
The Minnesota Vikings have waived kicker/punter prospect Kaare Vedvik, just three weeks after they acquired him in a trade for a fifth-round draft pick.
Vedvik was among the 32 players cut on Saturday by the Vikings to reach the 53-man limit for the regular season, meaning incumbents Dan Bailey and Matt Wile will stay as kicker and punter.
Wide receiver Laquon Treadwell, their first-round draft pick in 2016, was also, unsurprisingly, on the list. Quarterbacks Kyle Sloter and Jake Browning were let go, too, leaving Sean Mannion as the lone backup to Kirk Cousins.
Vedvik missed three of four field goals in exhibition game action and punted five times for an average of 45.2 yards, landing one inside the 20-yard line and watching another get returned for a touchdown. The 25-year-old native of Norway, who arrived in a deal with Baltimore after spending his rookie season on the injured list after kicking and punting in college for Marshall, will be a prime candidate to bring back on the practice squad if he's not claimed by another team.
The cost, however, of failing to stabilize their specialist roles has continued to rise for the Vikings under general manager Rick Spielman.
They spent a fifth-round draft pick last year on kicker Daniel Carlson, who was dropped after two games and replaced by Bailey. New long snapper Austin Cutting was a seventh-round selection this year. In 2013, punter Jeff Locke was a sixth-round choice who lasted four seasons.
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The Vikings placed three players on reserve lists to meet the 53-player limit, including tight end David Morgan to the physically unable to perform list. They kept four other tight ends for the new offense directed by coordinator Kevin Stefanski and designed by adviser Gary Kubiak, including undrafted rookie Brandon Dillon behind Kyle Rudolph, Irv Smith Jr. and Tyler Conklin.
Rookie Mark Field was acquired for depth at cornerback in a trade with Kansas City for a seventh-round draft pick in 2021, and guard Danny Isidora was dealt to Miami for a seventh-round draft choice in 2020.
The Vikings let two of their 12 picks from their 2019 draft class go, linebacker Cameron Smith (fifth round) and wide receiver Dillon Mitchell (seventh round), two more top options for the practice squad.
Another notable name on the cut list was wide receiver Brandon Zylstra, whose departure along with Treadwell left the Vikings with only four receivers for the time being with stars Adam Thielen and Stefon Diggs complemented by Chad Beebe and rookie Olabisi Johnson. Treadwell produced only 56 receptions, 517 yards and one touchdown over three seasons since the Vikings took him 23rd overall out of Mississippi.
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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Cardinals have placed defensive lineman Rodney Gunter on injured reserve because of a toe injury he suffered in the team's loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The 6-foot-5, 305-pound Gunter has played in all 13 games for the Cardinals this season, making 31 tackles and three sacks. Arizona announced the move Tuesday.
The Cardinals also announced they re-signed defensive lineman Caraun Reid. The 6-foot-2, 292-pound Reid was released Saturday after originally signing with the team on Dec. 4. He's in his sixth NFL season and has played in 44 career games.
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The Seattle Seahawks, led by CB Richard Sherman, have the NFL's top-rated defense.
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Jan 13, 2020; New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; Clemson Tigers linebacker Isaiah Simmons (11) reacts as he leaves the field after losing the College Football Playoff national championship game against the LSU Tigers at Mercedes-Benz Superdome. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports (Mark J. Rebilas)
Clemson linebacker Isaiah Simmons announced on Saturday that he will forego his senior season and has declared for the 2020 NFL Draft.
"And now, it's time for me to take the next step in my journey," Simmons said in a statement he posted to his social media accounts. "Today, it is with great humility and gratitude that I announce that I will be declaring for the 2020 NFL Draft. While I am incredibly excited about the opportunities and challenged that await me, please know that a part of my heart will always remain here in Clemson, South Carolina."
Simmons, a 6-foot-4, 230-pound linebacker has seen his draft stock soar, particularly after a very strong performance in the National Championship game against LSU, a game in which he may have played himself into consideration for the Giants with the fourth overall pick.
Jason Garrett on joining Giants as offensive coordinator: 'It just felt right to me'
Former Cowboys coach discussed Joe Judge, Daniel Jones, and more
Jan 27, 2019; Orlando, FL, USA; NFC head coach Jason Garrett smiles prior to the game in the NFL Pro Bowl football game at Camping World Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports (Kim Klement)
On Friday, the Giants officially announced the hiring of Jason Garrett as the team's offensive coordinator under head coach Joe Judge.
Garrett joined the Giants Huddle podcast to discuss returning to the team he once played for, his initial conversations with Judge, and his opinion on Daniel Jones.
During his playing career, Garrett was a backup quarterback for the Giants from 2000-03, and now that he's back with Big Blue, he's excited to get to work with such a storied franchise.
Arrest warrant for former Giants WR Odell Beckham Jr. to be withdrawn
Officer involved in spanking incident is declining to pursue charges
By Corey Hersch | Jan 18 | 1:12PM
(Mark J. Rebilas)
It appears Odell Beckham Jr.'s wild night following LSU's national championship victory won't land him in any trouble with the New Orleans Police Department after all.
On Thursday, the NOPD issued an arrest warrant for the former Giants wide receiver, accusing the wide receiver of simple battery on a police officer after he was caught spanking a member of the department in the LSU locker room following the game.
But ESPN reports that the officer has signed an affidavit saying that he does not want to pursue charges. The arrest warrant could be withdrawn as early as this weekend.
Tags: Odell Beckham Jr.
Ryan Fitzpatrick has all the praise in the world for new Giants QB coach Jerry Schuplinski
Schuplinski was Dolphins assistant QB coach in 2019
By Corey Hersch | Jan 18 | 12:31PM
Dec 29, 2019; Foxborough, Massachusetts, USA; Miami Dolphins quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick (14) throws against the New England Patriots during the second half at Gillette Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Winslow Townson-USA TODAY Sports (Winslow Townson)
Giants head coach Joe Judge certainly knew what he was getting when he brought in Jerry Schuplinski as his quarterbacks coach. The two coached together with the Patriots for six years from 2013-2018.
Schuplinski joined the Dolphins in 2019 as their assistant quarterbacks coach, where former Jet quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick was one of his charges. The 14-year NFL veteran was more than impressed with what he saw from him.
"I got to see it from two different sides," Fitzpatrick told The Post. "He had to talk to me, treat me and coach me a different way than maybe he had to treat young guys like Josh Rosen and Jake Rudock in our room. His ability to know who he was teaching and the way that guy learned - and adapt based on who he was talking with - is one of his huge strengths."
Tags: Ryan Fitzpatrick
Giants hire Burton Burns as running backs coach
Burns was Alabama's RB coach from 2007 until 2018
By Colin Martin | Jan 17 | 10:00PM
Nov 24, 2019; Chicago, IL, USA; A detailed view of the New York Giants helmet during the second half against the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field. Mandatory Credit: Mike DiNovo-USA TODAY Sports (Mike Dinovo)
The Giants have hired Burton Burns as their new running backs coach, according to Alex Marvez of Sirius XM NFL Radio.
Burns, 67, was the associate head coach and running backs coach at Alabama from 2007 until 2018.
His ties to Giants head coach Joe Judge go back to Alabama, where Judge was a special teams assistant from 2009 to 2011.
7 things to know about Giants' new offensive coordinator Jason Garrett
Garrett played for the Giants from 2000-03
Dec 15, 2019; Arlington, TX, USA; Dallas Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett on the sidelines during the fourth quarter against the Los Angeles Rams at AT&T Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Matthew Emmons-USA TODAY Sports
The Giants added an experienced former head coach to Joe Judge's staff on Friday, hiring Jason Garrett as the team's offensive coordinator.
Giants fans likely know all about Garrett's tenure as Cowboys head coach, as he went 85-67 over 10 seasons with Dallas.
But here are some things you may not know about the Giants' new OC ...
- Garrett, 53, was born in Abington, PA. He spent time growing up in Ohio and New Jersey, before playing quarterback at Princeton University, where he majored in history. In 1988, Garrett was named the Ivy League Player of the Year.
Why Jason Garrett is an inspired choice to join Joe Judge's staff with Giants
Garrett is a perfect fit as Giants' OC
By Ralph Vacchiano | Jan 17 | 8:16PM
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The Giants bosses thought enough of Jason Garrett that they planned to interview him for their head coaching job last week. They always knew he'd be tough to sell to their fan base, though.
Selling him as their new offensive coordinator is going to be a lot easier. And it makes much more sense.
Former Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett has agreed to become Giants' offensive coordinator
Garrett was 85-67 over 10 seasons with the Cowboys
Nov 17, 2019; Detroit, MI, USA; Dallas Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett smiles before the game against the Detroit Lions at Ford Field. Mandatory Credit: Raj Mehta-USA TODAY Sports (Raj Mehta)
Former Dallas Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett has agreed to become the Giants offensive coordinator, SNY's Ralph Vacchiano has confirmed.
The news was first reported by ESPN's Ed Werder, and later made official by the team. The Giants also offically announced Patrick Graham as assistant head coach/defensive coordinator and Thomas McGaughey as special teams coordinator.
Garrett was let go by the Cowboys on Jan. 5 after going 85-67 over 10 seasons as the team's head coach, and his contract officially expired on January 14.
Sportsbook places odds on whether Odell Beckham Jr. will be sentenced to jail in 2020
Beckham was issued an arrest warrant for simple battery on a police officer
By Colin Martin | Jan 17 | 5:05PM
Jan 13, 2020; New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; LSU Tigers former player Odell Beckham, Jr. in attendance before the College Football Playoff national championship game against the Clemson Tigers at Mercedes-Benz Superdome. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports (Mark J. Rebilas)
On Thursday morning, the New Orleans Police Department confirmed to ESPN that an arrest warrant was issued to former Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr., accusing him of simple battery of a police officer.
Beckham was in New Orleans on Monday night to attend the College Football Playoff National Championship, and was seen handing out money to LSU players while celebrating with the team after the game.
While celebrating with the team in the locker room, Beckham was also seen slapping a male police officer on the butt. And now some sportsbooks have released odds on Beckham being fined for battery or even being sentenced to jail time in 2020.
Former Giants head coach Ben McAdoo interviews with Panthers, Jaguars
McAdoo was Giants OC from 2014-2015 and head coach from 2016-2017
By Coby Green | Jan 17 | 10:22AM
Nov 19, 2017; East Rutherford, NJ, USA; New York Giants head coach Ben McAdoo adjusts his headset during the second quarter against the Kansas City Chiefs at MetLife Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports (Brad Penner)
Former Giants head coach Ben McAdoo has interviewed for with the Panthers and Jaguars this week as he looks to return to an NFL sideline for the first time since 2017.
The Athletic's Joe Person reported Thursday that new Panthers head coach Matt Rhule brought in McAdoo to interview for an unspecified role. Former LSU passing game coordinator Joe Brady has already been brought on as the new Carolina offensive coordinator.
However, according to NFL Network's Ian Rapoport, McAdoo met with the Jaguars this week specifically about their offensive coordinator position. Jacksonville fired fromer OC John DeFilippo after one year with the team.
Latest on Giants' offensive coordinator search: Scott Linehan is in the mix
Joe Judge has wasted no time in assembling his staff
Sep 16, 2018; Arlington, TX, USA; Dallas Cowboys offensive coordinator Scott Linehan on the field before the game against the New York Giants at AT&T Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Tim Heitman-USA TODAY Sports (Tim Heitman)
The Giants' search for assistants to fill out Joe Judge's staff is ongoing. Here's the latest on the offensive coordinator job...
Jan. 17, 8:45 AM:
Former Cowboys offensive coordinator Scott Linehan will be interviewing with the Giants this weekend, reports Chris Mortensen.
Darius Slayton reacts to Giants' hiring of Joe Judge
The rookie WR had 48 receptions for 740 yards and eight touchdowns in 2019
Dec 9, 2019; Philadelphia, PA, USA; New York Giants wide receiver Darius Slayton (86) runs for a touchdown past Philadelphia Eagles free safety Rodney McLeod (23) during the second quarter at Lincoln Financial Field. Mandatory Credit: Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports (Bill Streicher)
Darius Slayton had exactly the same reaction as almost everyone else when he heard the Giants new head coach was going to be Joe Judge.
"Yeah, I had not heard of him prior to the Giants hiring him," Slayton told SNY in an interview on Thursday. "But you know he's coming from a really good organization. Everybody I've heard speak about him has glowing things to say about him, so I'm sure he'll be a good guy for the job."
Tags: Daniel Jones, Darius Slayton, Evan Engram, Golden Tate, Saquon Barkley, Sterling Shepard, Ralph Vacchiano
New Orleans police issue arrest warrant for former Giants WR Odell Beckham Jr.
Beckham is being accused of simple battery of police officer
Odell Beckham Jr. (Mark J. Rebilas)
Odell Beckham Jr. is already in trouble with LSU and the NCAA for handing out wads of cash to players after the NCAA football championship on Monday night.
Now he's in trouble with police, too.
An arrest warrant was issued for the former Giants receiver on Thursday morning, the New Orleans Police Department confirmed to ESPN, accusing Beckham of simple battery of a police officer. The charge is based on a video that showed him slapping a male officer on the butt in LSU's post-game locker room.
Tags: Odell Beckham Jr., Ralph Vacchiano
Sources: Bills denied Giants permission to interview offensive coordinator Brian Daboll
Daboll has worked well with Bills QB Josh Allen
By Ralph Vacchiano | Jan 15 | 10:03PM
Oct 29, 2018; Orchard Park, NY, USA; Buffalo Bills offensive coordinator Brian Daboll before a game against the New England Patriots at New Era Field. Mandatory Credit: Timothy T. Ludwig-USA TODAY Sports (Timothy T. Ludwig)
Joe Judge seems likely to hire an experienced offensive coordinator, and it might turn out to be Jason Garrett. But the new Giants coach had hoped to talk to Buffalo Bills offensive coordinator Brian Daboll about the job first.
The 44-year-old Daboll, who was on the New England Patriots staff with Judge from 2013-16, was high atop Judge's wish list when he was hired by the Giants, multiple sources told SNY. The Giants requested permission for Judge to interview Daboll, the sources said, but that permission was denied by the Bills.
That wasn't surprising, considering it would've been a lateral move for Daboll, who was a big part of why the Bills finished 10-6 this past season and made the playoffs for just the second time in the last 20 years. He's also earned rave reviews for his work with second-year quarterback Josh Allen. Daboll was so highly regarded that he interviewed for the Cleveland Browns head coaching job last week, and was reportedly a "sleeper" candidate before they hired Vikings offensive coordinator Kevin Stefanski instead.
LSU's Joe Burrow admits former Giants WR Odell Beckham Jr. was giving out real money to players
OBJ gave money to two Tiger juniors that haven't declared for 2020 NFL Draft
Former Giants WR Odell Beckham Jr. wants the media to leave him alone, yet he found himself in the spotlight yet again following the National Championship where his alma mater LSU Tigers came away victorious.
Beckham, who was joined by LSU and Browns teammate Jarvis Landry among other former Tigers players, was able to celebrate with the team on the field and in the locker room after the game. And during that celebration, Beckham was seen handing out cash to players as he shook their hands for winning the contest over Clemson.
LSU was quick to say the money was fake, but their Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Joe Burrow killed that claim during the latest episode of Barstool Sports' Pardon My Take.
Giants part ways with more Pat Shurmur staffers, including OLB coach Mike Dawson
DB coach Everett Withers, Off. assistant Ryan Roeder won't be retained either
A general view of a New York Giants helmet on the turf before the game against the Denver Broncos at Sports Authority Field at Mile High. (Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports)
The main news coming from the Giants facility Wednesday is that former Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett is in the building to interview for the offensive coordinator job, but that wasn't the only information coming out of East Rutherford.
The Giants let go of outside linebackers coach Mike Dawson, defensive backs coach Evertt Withers and offensive assistant Ryan Roeder, according to The Athletic's Dan Duggan. These coaches join the likes of tight ends coach Lunda Wells, inside linebackers coach Bill McGovern, and others as those who have left as new head coach Joe Judge builds his own staff.
The remaining coaches from Pat Shurmur's staff include running backs coach Craig Johnson, offensive line coach Hal Hunter, assistant offensive line coach Ben Wilkerson, defensive assistant Bobby Blick and special teams assistants Tom Quinn and Anthony Blevins.
George Young, who resurrected Giants franchise, elected to Pro Football Hall of Fame
As GM, Young brought the Giants Phil Simms, Lawrence Taylor, Carl Banks, and Bill Parcells
By Ralph Vacchiano | Jan 15 | 9:52AM
A general view of an NFL game between the New York Giants and Jacksonville Jaguars during the first half at MetLife Stadium. (Danny Wild)
The man who helped resurrect the Giants franchise and built their first two Super Bowl champions will finally take his long-overdue place in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
The late George Young, the general manager of the Giants in the 1980s and '90s, was selected to the Hall's special "Centennial Class" of 2020 on Wednesday morning. He was chosen by a "blue ribbon" panel as one of three "contributors" in what will be a monster, 20-person class when he's officially inducted later this year.
"George Young's career is the very definition of a Hall of Famer," said former Giants GM Ernie Accorsi, who was Young's assistant and later his successor. "There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of George or something I learned from him. The only bittersweet part is that he's not here."
Wells' status was up in the air with Joe Judge still assembling his staff
By Danny Abriano | Jan 15 | 9:04AM
Oct 15, 2017; Denver, CO, USA; A general view of a New York Giants helmet on the turf before the game against the Denver Broncos at Sports Authority Field at Mile High. Mandatory Credit: Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports (Isaiah J. Downing)
Giants tight ends coach Lunda Wells, whose status with the team was up in the air with new head coach Joe Judge still assembling his staff, is leaving to become the tight ends coach for the Cowboys, SNY's Ralph Vacchiano reported Wednesday.
The 36-year-old Wells had been with the Giants since 2012.
His first role with the Giants was as an offensive assistant in 2012. He then served as their assistant offensive line coach from 2013-2017 before becoming tight ends coach prior to the 2018 season.
Sources weigh in on who Joe Judge is considering for Giants' OC job
Could Jason Garrett have a Big Blue reunion? What does Mike Shula have to prove?
Jason Garrett/Mike Shula
The Giants have given new head coach Joe Judge the freedom to choose his own assistants, though his bosses have certainly made their preference for an experienced staff clear. John Mara even said publicly that "having experienced people on both sides of the ball is going to be critical," and that an assistant with head coaching experience "would be great," too.
Judge didn't meet that criteria when he hired Patrick Graham as his defensive coordinator. That's why his next big hire -- offensive coordinator -- will be so interesting to watch.
There are many experienced candidates available for the 38-year-old Judge, including a few that sources say he is considering. It's unknown whom he plans to hire, or if he feels any pressure to bring in someone with head coaching experience. But it's expected that his choice will become clear by the end of the week.
Sources: New Giants DC Patrick Graham will also be their assistant head coach
One former Giants player called Graham a 'commanding leader' and a 'big presence'
Patrick Graham (Mark Hoffman)
Patrick Graham isn't just going to be the Giants' defensive coordinator. He's going to be their assistant head coach, too.
The 40-year-old has been given both those titles by new Giants head coach Joe Judge, according to multiple sources. That's not only a sign of the respect Judge has for his new top assistant, but it also explains why he wasn't blocked from leaving his job as defensive coordinator of the Miami Dolphins. They couldn't block Graham from leaving for a job that is technically a promotion.
Graham also will likely get a raise over the normal salary for a defensive coordinator, though the terms of his deal with the Giants were not available. It's also unclear what other duties Judge will give his "assistant head coach."
The 17th overall pick proved to be a solid interior force this season
Sep 22, 2019; Tampa, FL, USA; New York Giants defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence (97) celebrates after sacking Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston (not pictured) during the second half at Raymond James Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports (Kim Klement)
The Pro Football Writers of America have released their All-Rookie Team for the 2019-20 season, and one Giant has made the list.
DL Dexter Lawrence, the 17th overall pick by New York in the 2019 NFL Draft, has made the cut after a solid rookie season.
Lawrence was actually Pro Football Focus' top-graded rookie after the first six weeks. He had totaled two sacks, a forced fumble and two tackles for loss in those contests.
Tags: Dexter Lawrence
Did Clemson's Isaiah Simmons play his way into Giants' 2020 NFL Draft plans Monday night?
The versatile Tigers linebacker boosted his draft stock in the National Championship
By Scott Thompson | Jan 14 | 11:46AM
Jan 13, 2020; New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; Clemson Tigers linebacker Isaiah Simmons (11) in the College Football Playoff national championship game at Mercedes-Benz Superdome. Mandatory Credit: John David Mercer-USA TODAY Sports (John David Mercer)
The LSU Tigers may have been crowned national champions down in New Orleans Monday night, but Clemson LB Isaiah Simmons was also a winner in terms of draft stock.
And that stock might have boosted all the way up to the Giants at No. 4.
Simmons was electric for Clemson's defense, setting the tone early by getting to LSU's Heisman Trophy-winning QB Joe Burrow. Overall, he had seven tackles -- two for loss -- a sack, and two passes defended.
Tags: Alec Ogletree, Scott Thompson
Giants won't bring back LB coach Bill McGovern, DL coach Gary Emanuel
Freddie Roach steps in for Emanuel, but who will McGovern's replacement be?
Oct 15, 2017; Denver, CO, USA; New York Giants linebackers coach Bill McGovern before the game against the Denver Broncos at Sports Authority Field at Mile High. Mandatory Credit: Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports (Isaiah J. Downing)
The Giants will not be bringing back linebackers coach Bill McGovern or defensive line coach Gary Emanuel next season, per The Post's Ryan Dunleavy.
Moving on from Emanuel was a given after new head coach Joe Judge brought on Ole Miss defensive line coach Freddie Roach on Monday. This will be his first NFL coaching job after spending time with Alabama along with Ole Miss, which is how the two coaches have a connection.
As for McGovern, it does make sense to get a breath of fresh air at linebackers coach. This unit has been sub-par for a few years now, and Judge recognized that. New defensive coordinator Patrick Graham also has a history as a linebackers coach.
Blueprint for how the Giants should handle their important 2020 offseason
Dave Gettleman and Joe Judge have a 'daunting task' ahead of them as they prepare for an organizational rebuild
Now that the Giants have finally conceded they really are rebuilding, new head coach Joe Judge faces what John Mara called "a daunting task." And that's not just because he's a 38-year-old, first-time head coach, either.
It's because the Giants went 9-23 over the last two years and could look very different by the time they hit the field for the start of next season. They do have a few good, young pieces to build around, but the reality is they still have plenty of holes.
To fill them, both Judge and GM Dave Gettleman swear it'll be a "collaborative" effort -- that they'll work together, and that their philosophy on how to build an "old school" team is already perfectly aligned. That remains to be seen, of course. But in case they need any help in getting started, here's a blueprint for them to quickly make the Giants a contender again:
Tags: Alec Ogletree, B.J. Hill, Dalvin Tomlinson, Dexter Lawrence, Kevin Zeitler, Leonard Williams, Markus Golden, Nate Solder, Ryan Connelly, Will Hernandez, Ralph Vacchiano
Giants expected to hire QB coach Jerry Schuplinski, who helped mold Jimmy Garoppolo
Schuplinski was on the same Patriots staff as Giants head coach Joe Judge from 2013-18
By Danny Abriano | Jan 13 | 3:25PM
Nov 12, 2017; Denver, CO, USA; New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (12) talks with assistant quarterbacks coach Jerry Schuplinski before the game against the Denver Broncos at Sports Authority Field at Mile High. Mandatory Credit: Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports (Isaiah J. Downing)
Jerry Schuplinski is expected to be hired as the Giants' new quarterbacks coach, reports Mike Garafolo of the NFL Network.
Schuplinski coached with the Patriots during the same time as new Giants head coach Joe Judge. From 2013-18, he first served as an offensive assistant and then as their assistant quarterbacks coach.
He spent the 2019 season with the Dolphins as their assistant quarterbacks coach.
Roach coached on the same staff as Joe Judge at Alabama
The Giants are hiring Freddie Roach to be their defensive line coach, SNY's Ralph Vacchiano confirmed.
This will be Roach's first NFL coaching job. He served as the defensive line coach at Ole Miss for the last three seasons.
Roach has also coached at Alabama, with his time there overlapping new Giants head coach Joe Judge's tenure there as a special teams assistant from 2009-2011.
How Joe Judge almost missed his Giants head coach interview
Judge was introduced last Thursday as New York's new leader
By Garrett Stepien | Jan 13 | 1:33PM
Jan 9, 2020; East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA; Introductory press conference of New York Giants new head coach Joe Judge at MetLife Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Danielle Parhizkaran-USA TODAY Sports (Danielle Parhizkaran)
Before he was ultimately hired by the Giants as head coach, Joe Judge nearly missed his interview for the job.
Judge opened up on his hectic process, interviewing with Mississippi State before he did the same for the Giants, in Peter King's Football Morning in America column.
Upon interviewing with the Giants last Monday morning, Judge got off at the wrong train station.
Jaguars fire John DeFilippo, adding potential candidate to Giants' offensive coordinator search
DeFilippo began his NFL coaching career with the Giants
By Danny Abriano | Jan 13 | 11:25AM
John DeFilippo (Kirby Lee)
As the Giants continue their search for a new offensive coordinator, the Jaguars have fired OC John DeFilippo, adding another potential candidate to the pool Big Blue was already considering.
The firing of DeFilippo was first reported by Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero of NFL Network.
According to Rapoport, the firing came as a surprise.
Graham's coaching journey started in New York
By Garrett Stepien | Jan 12 | 11:03PM
Patrick Graham, right, who coached linebackers the past two years, is the new Giants defensive line coach. Graham is pictured with Pats defensive coordiantor Matt Patricia. (Jim Dedmon-USA TODAY Sports) (Jim Dedmon)
New Giants head coach Joe Judge wasted no time in getting a key hire added to his coaching staff Sunday, when he reportedly brought Miami Dolphins defensive coordinator Patrick Graham aboard for the same position with New York.
Graham, who turns 41 on Jan. 24, joins Judge just three days after the Giants introduced the former New England Patriots assistant.
The two coached together under longtime Patriots head coach Bill Belichick from 2012-15, but perhaps Graham's Giants ties make for the more intriguing aspect of Judge's move to bring him on to run the defense.
Graham's Dolphins defense was ranked 30th in the NFL last season
The most important hire Joe Judge will make for his new Giants coaching staff will be his offensive coordinator, who will be entrusted with the development of franchise quarterback Daniel Jones. Perhaps nobody will end up being more important to the long-term success of the franchise.
His new defensive coordinator, though, could come close.
Patrick Graham, who spent last year as the Miami Dolphins defensive coordinator, will get that job with the Giants, a source confirmed, and will be entrusted with the growth of a very young and incredibly underachieving defense. That unit has been the real Achilles heel of the Giants the last three years, including two ugly seasons under outgoing defensive coordinator James Bettcher.
Former Giants HC Pat Shurmur expected to be next Broncos offensive coordinator
Broncos move quick to get Drew Lock a new play caller
By Coby Green | Jan 12 | 6:03PM
Dec 15, 2019; East Rutherford, NJ, USA; New York Giants head coach Pat Shurmur coaches against the Miami Dolphins during the third quarter at MetLife Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports
Former Giants head coach Pat Shurmur is expected to be the next offensive coordinator of the Denver Broncos, NFL Network's Mike Garafolo reported and SNY's Ralph Vacchiano confirmed.
SNY sources say Shurmur had several options, but the Broncos made a big push because they really wanted an experienced play-caller.
The Vikings, Browns and Bears had reported interest in Shurmur, but it look like he'll be heading to Denver.
The latest on the Giants defensive coordinator search: New York hires Patrick Graham
Who will lead the Giants defense under Joe Judge?
The Giants are searching for their next defensive coordinator under Joe Judge. Here is the latest on potential candidates for the job...
Jan 12, 5:36 PM:
The Giants are hiring former Miami Dolphins DC Patrick Graham for their defensive coordinator role, according to NFL Network's Tom Pelissero.
Graham becomes Joe Judge's first big hire as head coach. The Dolphins are reportedly expected to promote cornerbacks coach Josh Boyer to DC.
Source: Former Giants head coach Pat Shurmur expected to be Vikings OC candidate
Shurmur may see a look from the Browns as well
By Scott Thompson | Jan 12 | 2:39PM
Dec 15, 2019; East Rutherford, NJ, USA; New York Giants head coach Pat Shurmur coaches against the Miami Dolphins during the second quarter at MetLife Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports
With Vikings OC Kevin Stefanski accepting the Browns' head coach position on Sunday, former Giants head coach Pat Shurmur could be finding his way back to Minnesota next season.
SNY's Ralph Vacchiano is hearing from a source that Shurmur is expected to be a candidate to fill Stefanski's role as the team's offensive coordinator. It's the same role that he held with the Vikings in 2017 before he became the Giants' head coach.
If Shurmur were to return to an offensive coordinator job after serving as a head coach, it would be the second time he's done so. He joined the Browns in 2011 as their new head coach, but would only last two seasons. He, then, went to Philadelphia to become the Eagles' offensive coordinator for three seasons.
Joe Judge to keep Tyke Tolbert as Giants WR coach
Tolbert joined Giants under Pat Shurmur
Giants head coach Joe Judge is getting his roster of coaches together on his staff, but at least one will be an in-house hire.
According to NFL Network's Ian Rapoport, the Giants will retain wide receivers coach Tyke Tolbert under Judge.
Former Giants coach Pat Shurmur brought Tolbert to the Giants in 2018 when he was first hired by the team.
Giants' RB Saquon Barkley is changing his offsesaon approach this year
"I took off last year. I'm not taking off this year," Barkley said
By Corey Hersch | Jan 11 | 10:09AM
Nov 24, 2019; Chicago, IL, USA; New York Giants running back Saquon Barkley (26) runs in the second against Chicago Bears cornerback Kyle Fuller (23) at Soldier Field. Mandatory Credit: Quinn Harris-USA TODAY Sports (Quinn Harris)
After a combined nine wins in his first two NFL seasons, there's no doubt Saquon Barkley wants to help lead the Giants out of the rut in which they're currently stuck.
After a rookie season which saw him lead the league with 2028 yards from scrimmage, the Penn State product finished the season with 1003 rushing yards, despite missing three games with an ankle injury.
That injury was initially expected to keep him out for longer, but Barkley wowed the Giants medical team to return much faster than anticipated.
Tags: Saquon Barkley
Giants co-owner John Mara discusses Eli manning's potential future within the organization
Manning has been with the Giants for his entire 16 year career
The 2019 season was widely expected to be the final one in Eli Manning's career, but the 16-year veteran quarterback has yet to make a decision on his future and has left the door open to possibly coming back.
Giants co-owner John Mara spoke to WFAN early Friday morning and said that although Manning's role as starting quarterback is over (with the ascension of Daniel Jones), there are still other options available for him to stick around.
"I haven't closed any doors on that," Mara said about Manning finding another role within the organization during an appearance on WFAN's Moose and Maggie Show. "Eli came to see me a few days ago, and we had a nice, long talk, but I don't think he's fully decided yet what he wants to do. And I've told him just take his time, think about it some more and then come back and see me again."
Tags: Daniel Jones, Eli Manning
Giants gave head coach Joe Judge a five-year deal: Report
Judge was introduced on Thursday at MetLife Stadium
New head coach Joe Judge's contract with the Giants is for five years, reports Adam Schefter of ESPN.
The financial details of the contract have not yet been reported.
Judge, 38, was introduced on Thursday at MetLife Stadium, with John Mara saying Judge's interview was perhaps the best he's ever been a part of and Judge following that introduction with an intense and at times riveting press conference.
Joe Judge and Dave Gettleman are in philosophical alignment about building Giants' roster
"It's collaborative. We'll work through every situation."
By Ralph Vacchiano | Jan 9 | 4:57PM
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - From the moment Dave Gettleman learned he wasn't fired, he vowed to do whatever his bosses wanted in the best interests of the team. If that meant giving up some of his power or even final say over personnel decisions, he said he'd do it.
In the end, he didn't have to. And it turns out, no one asked.
WATCH: Former Jets GM Mike Tannenbaum gives his thoughts on Giants' Joe Judge
Tannenbaum spoke with SNY's Jonas Schwartz
On Thursday, former Jets GM Mike Tannenbaum talked to SNY's Jonas Schwartz about the Giants new head coach Joe Judge, going over the challenges that Judge could face.
"Well I think that's really a big part of the interview process," Tannenbaum said. "I want to know what's your first 90 days like or what is it going to be like if Saquon Barkley doesn't show up on the first day of the voluntary offseason program? What's your message to him? Whats's your message to the team? What's your message to the media?"
10 of the best quotes Giants' Joe Judge gave during introductory press conference
'We'll play every play like it's a history in a life of its own with a relentless, competitive attitude'
By Danny Abriano and Scott Thompson | Jan 9 | 3:40PM
Giants head coach Joe Judge
There are many words you can use to describe how Joe Judge sounded during his introductory press conference as Giants head coach: intense, passionate, to-the-point, and inspiring are among them.
In fact, Judge looks like he's going to be a walking quote card during his tenure with the Giants, as he had some brilliant lines while making his opening remarks and answering questions from the media in attendance.
While there are a plethora to choose from, here are 10 of the best quotes from Judge that shed light on what type of man and coach the Giants have hired…
Winning games is the main goal -- and Judge knows it
Jan 9, 2020; East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA; New York Giants new head coach Joe Judge poses for photos after his press conference at MetLife Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Danielle Parhizkaran-USA TODAY Sports (Danielle Parhizkaran)
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Tom Coughlin had people wanting to run through a wall for him five minutes into his introductory press conference back in 2004. Three years later, he was nearly run out of town, one year before winning a Super Bowl.
Ben McAdoo was mocked for his goofy haircut and ill-fitting suit in 2016, then went 11-5 as a rookie head coach before the walls caved in one year later.
And two years ago, Pat Shurmur looked every bit the "adult" the Giants needed -- a mature, calm, football lifer. Two years later, he was out with a record of 9-23.
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Joe Judge on what his Giants will look like: 'That is blue collar, it's hard work, it's in your face'
'We will play aggressive. We'll punch you in the nose for 60 minutes'
By Danny Abriano | Jan 9 | 2:39PM
After being introduced by John Mara on Thursday as the new head coach of the Giants, Joe Judge hit the ground running, outlining exactly who he is and exactly how he'll coach the team during an incredibly intense, focused half hour press conference.
And Judge understood that one of the big questions coming into it was who he was. He asked that question and answered it during his opening remarks.
"What I'm about is an old school, physical mentality," Judge explained. "We're gonna put a product on the field that the people of this city and region are proud of. This team will represent this area. We will play fast. We will play downhill. We will play aggressive. We'll punch you in the nose for 60 minutes. We'll play every play like it's a history in a life of its own with a relentless, competitive attitude. We will play fundamentally sound, we will not beat ourselves."
Giants GM Dave Gettleman says Joe Judge will have say in personnel: 'It's going to be collaborative'
Gettleman also explained why he and Judge will mesh well
By Scott Thompson | Jan 9 | 3:12PM
One of the biggest questions surrounding the hiring of Joe Judge as the Giants' next head coach is whether or not he'll have any say in the players he has on his 53-man roster.
And the reason behind that question is because of how old school GM Dave Gettleman is. But Gettleman doesn't understand where that comes from.
"It's going to be collaborative," Gettleman told reporters after Judge was officially introduced as the 19th head coach in franchise history on Thursday. "I don't understand where that notion comes from. It's got to be coming from people who have never worked with me."
John Mara explains why Giants chose Joe Judge, what happened with Matt Rhule
Mara: Judge is 'somebody who commands and demands respect'
Giants co-owner John Mara was sold on Joe Judge the second his interview to become head coach finished Monday afternoon. That's exactly what he said in his opening remarks to introduce Judge as the 19th head coach in franchise history.
After speaking with co-owner Steve Tisch on Tuesday morning, Mara said Tisch felt the exact same way. Tisch said "the more homework we did, the more Joe Judge's character stood out."
Reports surfaced that explained how Judge provided that wow factor in his interview, and Mara took it a step further with this remark:
Giants expected to speak with Freddie Kitchens about joining Joe Judge's staff
Kitchens, who was recently fired by Browns as HC, knows Judge from Miss St.
While breaking down who Joe Judge could add to his Giants coaching staff this season, SNY's Ralph Vacchiano pointed out the possibility that recently-fired Browns HC Freddie Kitchens could be a good match on the offensive side.
Vacchiano heard Kitchens coming up in some circles from his sources, and ESPN's Jordan Raanan followed that up this morning saying the Giants do expect to speak with Kitchens about a spot on their staff next season.
Kitchens lasted just one year as the Browns head coach after Cleveland failed to reach the high expectations placed on them. They ended up with a 6-10 mark for the season, and their offense -- full of weapons like Bradley Chubb, Odell Beckham Jr. and Jarvis Landry -- sputtered as the 22nd-ranked group in the NFL.
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SNY went around and asked random people on the street who Joe Judge is, and some of the answers were pretty out there.
5 questions new Giants head coach Joe Judge should answer at introductory press conference
Why is he the right man for the job? Any thoughts on OC/DC?
By Scott Thompson | Jan 9 | 11:11AM
Joe Judge and Bill Belichick (Mark J. Rebilas)
The Giants will be officially making Patriots special teams coordinator and wide receivers coach Joe Judge their 19th head coach in franchise history on Thursday, as he'll take the podium to introduce himself to the media at MetLife Stadium.
Giants co-owners John Mara and Steve Tisch as well as GM Dave Gettleman were quick to pivot to Judge after Baylor head coach Matt Rhule signed with the Panthers to fill their head coach vacancy. This came after Judge wowed the Giants in his interview on Monday, which convinced Giants brass that he was the guy for them.
However, Judge is still foreign to many Giants fans, who are still trying to figure out exactly who the 38-year-old is and what he brings to the table. And there's no better platform to fill in the blanks than this press conference.
Giants had plane waiting for Matt Rhule, who was leaning toward New York before Panthers' offer
The Panthers went to a seventh year to get the deal done
Jan 8, 2020; Charlotte, North Carolina, USA; Carolina Panthers new head coach Matt Ruhle holds up a jersey at Atrium Health Dome. Mandatory Credit: Jim Dedmon-USA TODAY Sports (Jim Dedmon)
It's no secret that Matt Rhule was the Giants' top candidate to fill their head coach vacancy. And the Panthers knew that when owner David Tepper, GM Marty Hurney and communications/external affairs director Steven Drummond traveled to Waco, TX to meet with Rhule on Monday.
The Athletic's Joseph Person chronicled the Panthers' journey that led to Rhule standing on a podium Wednesday to be introduced as the team's new head coach.
Instead of going to his home like the Panthers, Giants brass had a plane waiting for Rhule in Waco that was set to bring him to New York. Because of that, Tepper added on an extra year to his initial six-year offer, bringing it to seven years and a whopping $62 million.
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Westwood’s Linda McKnight, storyteller Jan Andrews receive Order of Canada
By Sue Carter
Westwood Creative Artists director and vice-president Linda McKnight was named a Member of the Order of Canada at a ceremony held at Rideau Hall on Oct. 17. McKnight is commended in the official government citation for ... Read More »
November 17, 2017 | Filed under: Awards
Awards: Sci-fi author Robert J. Sawyer and cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon among new Order of Canada inductees
By Becky Robertson
A number of writers and members of the publishing community were among 113 new Order of Canada recipients announced on June 30 by Governor General David Johnston. The recognition is awarded twice annually for a lifetime ... Read More »
June 30, 2016 | Filed under: Awards
Lawrence Hill among writers honoured with Order of Canada
Author Lawrence Hill has been appointed to the Order of Canada for his writing representing black history in Canada and for his charitable efforts to help girls and women in Africa through the Aminata Fund, ... Read More »
July 2, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Awards
Guy Gavriel Kay, Chris Hadfield given Order of Canada honours
By Dory Cerny
Lauded author Guy Gavriel Kay was one of several members of the Canadian literary community appointed to the Order of Canada on Monday. Recognized "for his contributions to the field of speculative fiction as an ... Read More »
July 2, 2014 | Filed under: Awards
Barbara Reid appointed to the Order of Canada
Children's book author and illustrator Barbara Reid has been appointed a member of the Order of Canada, which "recognizes a lifetime of distinguished service in or to a particular community, group or field of activity." ... Read More »
July 3, 2013 | Filed under: Awards, Children's publishing
Tim Wynne-Jones, Tom Dawe among writers appointed to Order of Canada
By Natalie Samson
Last week, Governor General David Johnston announced that he will appoint prolific children's writer Tim Wynne-Jones an Officer of the Order of Canada. Wynne-Jones has written more than 25 books, twice received the Governor General's ... Read More »
January 5, 2012 | Filed under: Awards, Book news
Lorna Crozier, Nino Ricci appointed to Order of Canada
Author Nino Ricci and poet Lorna Crozier are among the 50 new nominees appointed to the Order of Canada. Crozier was appointed an officer of the Order of Canada for "her poetry and for her ... Read More »
Hélène Dorion named Officer to the Order of Canada
In a ceremony Friday morning, Governor General David Johnston bestowed the honour of Officer of the Order of Canada on francophone poet, novelist, and essayist Hélène Dorion. In a press release issued by the Governor ... Read More »
May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Canadian poet P.K. Page dies
By Steven W. Beattie
The Victoria Times-Colonist is reporting that iconic Canadian poet P.K. Page has died at the age of 93. From the story: The grand dame of Canadian letters “ who was born in England but moved ... Read More »
January 14, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
Stan Bevington, David Helwig, and Jack Hodgins named to the Order of Canada
As part of yesterday's Canada Day festivities, Governor General Michaëlle Jean has announced 60 new appointments to the Order of Canada. Among this year's new members are BC-based novelist and short story writer Jack Hodgins ... Read More »
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Excerpt: "The right-wing bullies are emboldened. They will hold the nation hostage again and again. ... All the while, he and the Democratic leadership in Congress refuse to refute the Republicans’ big lie - that spending cuts will lead to more jobs. In fact, spending cuts now will lead to fewer jobs. They'll slow down an already-anemic recovery. That will cause immense and unnecessary suffering for millions of Americans."
Portrait, Robert Reich, 08/16/09. (photo: Perian Flaherty)
Right-Wing Bullies Hold Nation Hostage
By Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Why the Right-Wing Bullies Will Hold the Nation Hostage Again and Again
hen I was a small boy I was bullied more than most, mainly because I was a foot shorter than than everyone else. They demanded the cupcake my mother had packed in my lunchbox, or, they said, they'd beat me up. After a close call in the boy's room, I paid up. Weeks later, they demanded half my sandwich as well. I gave in to that one, too. But I could see what was coming next. They'd demand everything else. Somewhere along the line I decided I'd have to take a stand. The fight wasn't pleasant. But the bullies stopped their bullying.
I hope the President decides he has to take a stand, and the sooner the better. Last December he caved in to Republican demands that the Bush tax cut be extended to wealthier Americans for two more years, at a cost of more than $60 billion. That was only the beginning - the equivalent of my cupcake.
Last night he gave away more than half the sandwich - $39 billion less than was budgeted for 2010, $79 billion less than he originally requested. Non-defense discretionary spending - basically, everything from roads and bridges to schools and innumerable programs for the poor - has been slashed.
The right-wing bullies are emboldened. They will hold the nation hostage again and again.
In a few weeks the debt ceiling has to be raised. After that, next year's budget has to be decided on. House Budget Chair Paul Ryan has already put forward proposals to turn Medicare into vouchers that funnel money to private insurance companies, turn Medicaid and Food Stamps into block grants that give states discretion to shift them to the non-poor, and give even more big tax cuts to the rich.
There will also be Republican votes to de-fund the new health care law.
"Americans of different beliefs came together," he announced late last night. It was the "largest spending cut in our history." He sounded triumphant. In fact, he's encouraging the bullies onward.
All the while, he and the Democratic leadership in Congress refuse to refute the Republicans' big lie - that spending cuts will lead to more jobs. In fact, spending cuts now will lead to fewer jobs. They'll slow down an already-anemic recovery. That will cause immense and unnecessary suffering for millions of Americans.
The President continues to legitimize the Republican claim that too much government spending caused the economy to tank, and that by cutting back spending we'll get the economy going again.
Even before the bullies began hammering him his deficit commission already recommended $3 of spending cuts for every dollar of tax increase. Then the President froze non-defense domestic spending and froze federal pay. And he continues to draw the false analogy between a family's budget and the national budget.
He is losing the war of ideas because he won't tell the American public the truth: That we need more government spending now - not less - in order to get out of the gravitational pull of the Great Recession.
That we got into the Great Recession because Wall Street went bonkers and government failed to do its job at regulating financial markets. And that much of the current deficit comes from the necessary response to that financial crisis.
That the only ways to deal with the long-term budget problem is to demand that the rich pay their fair share of taxes, and to slow down soaring health-care costs.
And that, at a deeper level, the increasingly lopsided distribution of income and wealth has robbed the vast working middle class of the purchasing power they need to keep the economy going at full capacity.
"We preserved the investments we need to win the future," he said last night. That's not true. The budget he just approved will cut Pell grants to poor kids, while states continue massive cutbacks in school spending - firing tens of thousands of teachers and raising fees at public universities. The budget he approved is cruel to the nation's working class and poor.
It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far.
Robert Reich is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. He has written thirteen books, including "The Work of Nations," "Locked in the Cabinet," "Supercapitalism" and his latest book, "AFTERSHOCK: The Next Economy and America's Future." His 'Marketplace' commentaries can be found on publicradio.com and iTunes.
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Intel Issues Security Advisory on L1 Speculative Execution Attack Method
Intel, Microsoft and Red Hat issued security advisories on Tuesday for yet another speculative execution side-channel attack method, this time going by the "L1 Terminal Fault" (L1TF) name.
L1TF is also known as "Foreshadow" by the researchers who discovered it. The researchers notified Intel of the problem on Jan. 3, 2018, which coincidentally was when Intel and other industry players had first disclosed the speculative execution side-channel attack methods known as "Meltdown" and "Spectre." Speculative execution is normally used to improve processor speeds in processors by guessing the next steps to take, but researchers found it also could be exploited in information disclosure-types of attacks.
Only Intel Processors Affected
The L1TF attack methods potentially can affect Intel Core and Intel Xeon processors only. However, attackers need to have access to a system or they need to be able to run code on a machine for the attacks to be carried out. Fixing the vulnerability requires applying both firmware and operating system updates, which are expected to have few performance degradations for most users. The big exception, though, is that some enterprises that run virtualization security solutions could face significant system slowdowns.
AMD claimed its processors weren't affected by the L1TF attack methods, according to a statement sent by a spokesperson:
As in the case with Meltdown, we believe our processors are not susceptible to the new speculative execution attack variants called Foreshadow or Foreshadow-NG due to our hardware paging architecture protections. We are advising customers running AMD EPYC™ processors in their data centers, including in virtualized environments, to not implement Foreshadow-related software mitigations for their AMD platforms.
Specifically, the attack methods can be used to defeat Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX) protections in Intel processors. Here's how the Foreshadow researchers described the issue:
While it was previously believed that SGX is resilient to speculative execution attacks (such as Meltdown and Spectre), Foreshadow demonstrates how speculative execution can be exploited for reading the contents of SGX-protected memory as well as extracting the machine's private attestation key. Making things worse, due to SGX's privacy features, an attestation report cannot be linked to the identity of its signer. Thus, it only takes a single compromised SGX machine to erode trust in the entire SGX ecosystem.
In other words, organizations would be unlikely to detect that an L1TF attack had taken place.
Intel researchers subsequently found a so-called "next-generation" attack scenario that exposes information in the processor's L1 memory cache. This next-generation attack can tap "information belonging to the System Management Mode (SMM), the operating system's kernel, or hypervisor," the Foreshadow researchers explained. It's this latter scenario that potentially exposes virtual machines in multitenant "cloud computing" scenarios to information disclosure threats, they added.
There are no active exploits known as yet for the L1TF attack methods. The vulnerabilities have already been assigned common vulnerability and exposures (CVE) identification numbers, namely:
CVE-2018-3615 "for attacking SGX"
CVE-2018-3620 "for attacking the OS Kernel and SMM mode"
CVE-2018-3646 "for attacking virtual machines"
Apply Firmware and OS Updates
Intel, in its overview document, suggested that its previously released firmware updates, in combination with updates released by OS makers, add protections against L1TF attacks for most users:
The microcode updates released earlier this year when coupled with operating system and hypervisor software available from our industry partners, ensure consumers, IT professionals and cloud service providers have access to the protections they need. Intel recommends people keep their systems up to date to protect against the evolving threat landscape.
Intel found that these updates will have "no meaningful performance" effects for most PC users. However, there can be rather large performance hits for datacenters using virtualized guest operating systems after applying the fixes, according to Intel's overview document.
Microsoft concurred with Intel's conclusions and suggested in its security advisory that organizations using Hyper-V and virtualization-based security with older Windows Server systems may have to disable Intel's Hyper-Threading capability, which will degrade system performance:
For most consumer devices, we have not observed a noticeable performance impact after applying the updates. Customers that use Virtualization Based Security (VBS) or versions of Hyper-V prior to Windows Server 2016 may need to disable Hyper-Threading to fully address the risk from L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF), resulting in performance degradation. Performance impact will vary by hardware and the workloads running on the system.
HyperClear
Microsoft is claiming that its "HyperClear" technology in Hyper-V, as used in Microsoft Azure, Windows Server 2016 and later Windows Server products, is a "comprehensive mitigation to this attack." The use of HyperClear also has a "relatively negligible performance impact," Microsoft indicated, in a virtualization team post.
These protections against L1TF attack methods were added with Microsoft's August security updates, released on Aug. 14, for both Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016, according to another Microsoft blog post.
In addition to Microsoft, Linux OS vendor Red Hat offered its analysis of L1TF and the steps to take. Red Hat offered an "it depends" opinion on what enterprises using virtualization should do, adding that Red Hat and other industry players aren't disabling Intel's Hyper-Threading technology by default:
The precise impact of L1TF to Hyper-Threading depends upon the specific use case and the virtualization environment being used. In some cases, it may be possible for public cloud vendors (who have often built special purpose hardware to assist in isolation) to take steps to render Hyper-Threading safe. In other cases, such as in a traditional enterprise environment featuring untrusted guest virtual machines, it may be necessary to disable Intel Hyper-Threading. Since this varies from one use case to another, and from one environment to another, Red Hat and our peers are not disabling Intel Hyper-Threading by default. Customers should instead consult our Knowledge Base article and make the appropriate determination for their own situation.
Red Hat indicated it is shipping OS updates "that include a new interface through which customers can disable Hyper-Threading at boot time."
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A Note on the Shapley Value for Characteristic Functions on Bipartitions
Sander Muns
We consider a cooperative game with a bipartition that indicates which players are participating. This paper provides an analytical solution for the Shapley value when the worth of a coalition only depends on the number of participating coalition players. The computational complexity grows linearly in the number of players, which contrasts with the usual exponential increase. Our result remains true when we introduce (i) randomization of the bipartition, and (ii) randomly draw a characteristic function.
CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis
https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1921323
CPB Discussion Paper
Computational complexity
Muns, S. (2011). A Note on the Shapley Value for Characteristic Functions on Bipartitions. (CPB Discussion Paper ; Vol. 189). Den Haag: CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1921323
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Dr Francis David Bulbeck
BA, BCom/BIT, MA, PhD
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
E: david.bulbeck@anu.edu.au
Biological (Physical) Anthropology 160102
Historical Archaeology (Incl. Industrial Archaeology) 210108
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Archaeology Of Asia, Africa And The Americas 210103
Archaeology 2101
Samper Carro, S, Gilbert, F, Bulbeck, F et al 2019, 'Somewhere beyond the sea: Human cranial remains from the Lesser Sunda Islands (Alor Island, Indonesia) provide insights on Late Pleistocene peopling of Island Southeast Asia', Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 134, pp. 1-16.
Piper, P, Matsumara, H & Bulbeck, F, eds, 2017, New Perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific Prehistory, ANU Press, Acton, Australia.
Bulbeck, F 2017, 'Traditions of Jars as Mortuary Containers in the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago', in Phillip Piper, Hirofumi Matsumura and David Bulbeck (ed.), New Perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific Prehistory, ANU Press, Acton, Australia, pp. 141-164pp.
Bulbeck, F 2017, 'The Neolithic gap in the Southern Thai-Malay Peninsula and its implications for Orang Asli prehistory', in Kirk Endicott (ed.), Malaysia's Original People: Past, Present and Future of the Orang Asli, NUS Press - National University of Singapore, Singapore, pp. 123-152.
Bulbeck, F 2016, 'The inside view on Makassar's 16th to 17th century history: Changing marital alliances and persistent settlement patterns', International Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 143-167.
Oktaviana, A, Bulbeck, F, O'Connor, S et al 2016, 'Hand stencils with and without narrowed fingers at two rock art sites in Sulawesi, Indonesia', Rock Art Research, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 32-48.
Bulbeck, F, Aziz, F, O'Connor, S et al 2016, 'Mortuary caves and the dammar trade in the Towuti-Routa region, Sulawesi, in an Island southeast Asian context [TO BE DELETED]', Asian Perspectives, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 148-183.
Bulbeck, F, Arifin Aziz, F, O'Connor, S et al 2016, 'Mortuary caves and the dammar trade in the Towuti-Routa region, Sulawesi, in an Island southeast Asian context', Asian Perspectives, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 148-183pp.
Aplin, K, O'Connor, S, Bulbeck, F et al 2016, 'The Walandawe Tradition from Southeast Sulawesi and Osseous Artifact Traditions in Island Southeast Asia', in Michelle C. Langley (ed.), Osseous Projectile Weaponry: Towards an Understanding of Pleistocene Cultural Variability, Springer Nature, Dordrecht, Netherlands, pp. 189-208pp.
Soares, P, Trejaut, J, Rito, T et al 2016, 'Resolving the ancestry of Austronesian-speaking populations', Human Genetics, vol. 135, no. 3, pp. 309-326pp.
Brandão, A, Cavadas, B, Eng, K et al 2016, 'Quantifying the legacy of the Chinese Neolithic on the maternal genetic heritage of Taiwan and Island Southeast Asia', Human Genetics, vol. 135, no. 4, pp. 363-376.
Suryatman, O'Connor, S, Bulbeck, F et al 2016, 'Teknologi Litik di Situs Talimbue, Sulawesi Tenggara: Teknologi Berlanjut Dari Masa Pleistosen Akhir Hingga Holosen (The Lithic Technology at Talimbue Site, Southeast Sulawesi: Continuing Technology from Late Pleistocene up to Holocene Periods)', Amerta, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 81-152 pp..
Bulbeck, F 2015, 'Changes in human tooth-size and shape with the Neolithic transition in Indo-Malaysia', in Alison M. Behie and Marc F. Oxenham (ed.), Taxonomic Tapestries: The Threads of Evolutionary, Behavioural and Conservation Research, ANU Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 183-214.
Bulbeck, F 2014, 'The appearance and reality of academic freedom in Southeast Asian archaeology', Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 37-54 pp..
Tacon, P, Tan, N, O'Connor, S et al 2014, 'The global implications of the early surviving rock art of greater Southeast Asia', Antiquity, vol. 88, no. 342, pp. 1050-1064.
Bulbeck, F 2014, 'The Chronometric Holocene Archaeological Record of the Southern Thai-Malay Peninsula', International Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 111-162.
Bulbeck, F 2014, 'Island Southeast Asia: Neolithic', in C. Smith (ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, pp. 4090-4096pp.
O'Connor, S & Bulbeck, F 2014, 'Homo sapiens Societies in Indonesia and South-Eastern Asia', in Vicki Cummings, Peter Jordan and Marek Zvelebil (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 346-367.
Fenner, J & Bulbeck, F 2013, 'Two Clocks: A Comparison of Ceramic and Radiocarbon Dates at Macapainara, East Timor', Asian Perspectives, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 143-156.
Bulbeck, F 2013, 'The transition from foraging to farming in prehistory and 'ethnography'', World Archaeology, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 557-573.
Bulbeck, F 2013, 'Craniodental Affinities of Southeast Asia's "Negritos" and the Concordance with their Genetic Affinities', Human Biology, vol. 85, no. 1-3, pp. 95-133.
Bulbeck, F 2013, 'Sacred places in Ussu and Cerekang, South Sulawesi, Indonesia: Their history, ecology and pre-Islamic relation with the Bugis kingdom of Luwuq', in Sally Brockwell, Sue O’Connor & Denis Byrne (ed.), Transcending the Culture-Nature Divide in Cultural Heritage: Views from the Asia-Pacific Region, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia, pp. 171-190.
Raghavan, P, Bulbeck, F, Pathmanathan, G et al 2013, 'Indian Craniometric Variability and Affinities', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 2013, pp. 836738-836738.
O'Connor, S & Bulbeck, F 2013, 'Homo Sapiens Societies in Indonesia and South-Eastern Asia', in (ed.), Oxford Handbooks Online: Scholarly Research Reviews, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 1-12.
McWilliam, A, Bulbeck, F, Brockwell, S et al 2012, 'The Cultural Legacy of Makassar Stone in East Timor', Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, The, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 262-279.
Bulbeck, F 2011, 'Biological and cultural evolution in the population and culture history of Homo sapiens in Malaya', in Enfield, N. J. (ed.), Dynamics of human diversity : the case of mainland Southeast Asia, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra Australia, pp. 207-255.
Bulbeck, F & O'Connor, S 2011, 'The Watinglo mandible: A second terminal Pleistocene Homo sapiens fossil from tropical Sahul with a test on existing models for the human settlement of the region', Homo: Journal of Comparative Human Biology, vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 1-29.
Perera, N, Kourampas, N, Simpson, I et al 2011, 'People of the ancient rainforest: Late Pleistocene foragers at the Batadomba-lena rockshelter, Sri Lanka', Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 254-269.
Bulbeck, F 2011, 'Principles Underlying the Determination of Population Affinity with Craniometric Data', Mankind Quarterly, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 35-89.
Bulbeck, F 2010, 'Uneven Development in Southwest Sulawesi, Indonesia during the early metal phase', in Berenice Bellina, Elisabeth A Bacus, Thomas Oliver Pryce, Jan Wisseman Christie (ed.), 50 Years of Archaeology in Southeast Asia: Essays in Honour of Ian Glover, River Books, Bangkok, pp. 152-169.
Bulbeck, F 2010, 'Ian Glover's Contribution to the Development of Archaeology in island South East Asia', in Berenice Bellina, Elisabeth A Bacus, Thomas Oliver Pryce, Jan Wisseman Christie (ed.), 50 Years of Archaeology in Southeast Asia: Essays in Honour of Ian Glover, River Books, Bangkok, pp. 26-39.
Bulbeck, F 2008, 'An Archaeological Perspective on the Diversification of the Languages of the South Sulawesi Stock', in Truman Simanjuntak (ed.), Austronesian In Sulawesi, Galang Press, Yogyakarta, pp. 185-212.
Soares, P, Trejaut, J, Loo, J et al 2008, 'Climate Change and Postglacial Human Dispersals in Southeast Asia', Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 1209-1218.
Bulbeck, F 2008, 'A Century of Archaeology in Sulawesi', in Truman Simanjuntak (ed.), Austronesian In Sulawesi, Galang Press, Yogyakarta, pp. 3-7.
Bulbeck, F 2008, 'An integrated perspective on the Austronesian Diaspora: the switch from cereal agriculture to maritime foraging in the colonisation of Island Southeast Asia', Australian Archaeology, vol. 67, no. December, pp. 31-51.
Bulbeck, F & Caldwell, I 2008, 'ORYZA SATIVA and the origins of Kingdoms in South Sulawesi, Indonesia: Evidence from Rice Husk Phytoliths', Indonesia and the Malay World, vol. 38, no. 104, pp. 1-20.
Bulbeck, F, Bowdery, D, Field, J et al 2007, 'The Palace Centre of Sago City: Utti Batue site, Luwu, Sulewesi, Indonesia', in Malcolm Lillie and Stephen Ellis (ed.), Wetland Archaeology and Environments: Regional Issues, Global Perspectives, Oxbow Books, Oxford, Britain, pp. 119-141.
Hill, C, Soares, P, Mormina, M et al 2007, 'A Mitochondrial Statigraphy for Island Southeast Asia', American Journal of Human Genetics, vol. 80, pp. 29-43.
Bulbeck, F 2007, 'Where River Meets Sea: A Parsimonious Model for Homo sapiens Colonization of the Indian Ocean Rim and Sahul', Current Anthropology, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 315-321.
Bulbeck, F, Oxenham, M, Nguyen, L et al 2007, 'Implications of the Terminal Pleistocene Skull from Hang Muoi, Northern Vietnam', Vietnam Archaeology (Khao Co Hoc), vol. 2, pp. 42-52.
Gilligan, I & Bulbeck, F 2007, 'Environment and Morphology in Australian Aborigines: A re-analysis of the Birdsell Database', American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 134, pp. 75-91.
Bulbeck, F 2006, 'Book review: The human story: A new history of mankind's evolution', Anthropological Forum, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 173-174.
Bulbeck, F, Raghavan, P & Rayner, D 2006, 'Races of Homo sapiens: if not in the southwest Pacific, then nowhere', World Archaeology, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 109-132.
Bulbeck, F 2006, 'Economic and technological change during the middle and late Holocene in the Lamoncong highlands, South Sulawesi, Indonesia', in Elizabeth A Bacus, Ian Glover (ed.), Uncovering Southeast Asia's Past: Selected Papers from the 10th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, NIAS Press, Singapore, pp. 393-410.
Bulbeck, F & Lauer, A 2006, 'Human Variation and Evolution in Holocene Peninsular Malaysia', in M Oxenham and N Tayles (ed.), Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 132-171.
Bulbeck, F, Prasetyo, B, Miksic, J et al 2006, 'Analysis of Glass from Luwu, South Sulawesi, Indonesia', in Truman Simanjuntak, M. Hisyam, Bagyo Prasetyo, Titi Surti Nastiti (ed.), Archaeology: Indonesian Perspective. R. P. Soejono's Festschrift, LIPI Press, Jakarta, pp. 268-281.
Bulbeck, F 2006, 'Book review: And the Sun Pursued the Moon: Symbolic Knowledge and Traditional Authority among the Makassar', Australian Journal of Anthropology, The, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 361-2.
Bulbeck, F 2006, 'A test of Ambika Flavel's Results with an enlarged Sa Huynh-Kalanay Data set', in Wilhelm G. Solheim II (ed.), Archaeology and Culture in Southeast Asia: Unraveling the Nusantao, University of the Philippines Press, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines, pp. 238-270.
Hill, C, Soares, P, Macaulay, V et al 2006, 'Phylogeography and Ethnogenesis of Aboriginal Southeast Asians', Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 23, no. 12, pp. 2480-2491.
Bulbeck, F, Kadir, R, Lauer, A et al 2005, 'Tooth sizes in the Malay Peninsula past and present: insights into the time depth of the indigenous inhabitants adaptations', International Journal of Indigenous Research, vol. 1, pp. 41-50.
Bulbeck, F & Hakim, B 2005, 'The human fossil cranium from Leang Batu Tunpa, Selayar, Sulawesi Selatan.', in Danang Wahju Utomo, Hasanuddin, Budianto Hakim and A. Fatmatwati Umar (ed.), Menguak Tabir Kehidupan Masa Lalu dan Kini, Hasanuddin University Press, Makassar, pp. 71-84.
Bulbeck, F 2005, 'The Gua Cha burials', in Zuraina Majid (ed.), The Perak Man and Other Prehistoric Skeletons of Malaysia, Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, pp. 253-309.
Bulbeck, F 2005, 'The Guar Kepah human remains', in Zuraina Majid (ed.), The Perak Man and Other Prehistoric Skeletons of Malaysia, Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, pp. 383-423.
Bulbeck, F, Henneberg, M & Hanihara, T 2005, 'Holocene adaptations in south-eastern Australia to climatic amelioration: the evidence from Roonka', Homo: Journal of comparative human biology, vol. 56, pp. 267-68.
Bulbeck, F 2005, 'The Aru Haradrim: contemporaries of the Flores hobbits', Homo: Journal of comparative human biology, vol. 56, p. 267.
Druce, S, Bulbeck, F & Mahmud, I 2005, 'A transitional Bugis cremation in Bulanbangi, South Sulawesi: its historical and archaeological context', Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 1-22.
Bulbeck, F 2005, 'The Minori Cave Expedient Lithic Technology', Asian Perspectives, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 390-392.
Bulbeck, F & Taha, A 2005, 'A description and analysis of the Gua Peraling human remains', in Zuraina Majid (ed.), The Perak Man and Other Prehistoric Skeletons of Malaysia, Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, pp. 311-343.
Bulbeck, F 2005, 'The Last Glacial Maximum Human Burial from Liang Lemdubu in Northern Sahulland', in S. O'Connor, M. Spriggs, P. Veth (ed.), The Archeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia, Pandanus Books, Canberra, pp. 255-294.
Bulbeck, F 2005, 'Human Remains from Liang Nabulei Lisa, Aru Islands', in S. O'Connor, M. Spriggs, P. Veth (ed.), The Archeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia, Pandanus Books, Canberra, pp. 163-170.
Macaulay, V, Hill, C, Achilli, A et al 2005, 'Single, rapid coastal settlement of Asia revealed by analysis of complete mitochondrial genomes', Science, vol. 308, no. 5724, pp. 1034-1036.
Macaulay, V, Hill, C, Achilli, A et al 2005, 'Response', Science, vol. 309, pp. 1995-1996.
Bulbeck, F 2004, 'A Regional Biological Approach to the Spread of Farming in Europe: Anatolia, the Levant, South-Eastern Europe, and the Mediterranean', Current Anthropology, vol. 45, no. S4, pp. 22-3.
Bulbeck, F 2004, 'Maluka (The Moluccas)', in Ooi Keat Gin (ed.), Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia, from Angkor Wat to East Timor, ABC-Clio Inc, Santa Barbara, pp. 848-850pp.
Bulbeck, F 2004, 'Making Blood White: Historical Transformations in Early Modern Makassar', Australian Journal of Anthropology, The, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 349-351.
Bulbeck, F 2004, 'Ban Kao Culture', in Ooi Keat Gin (ed.), Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia, from Angkor Wat to East Timor, ABC-Clio Inc, Santa Barbara, pp. 208-211.
Bulbeck, F 2004, 'Metal Age Cultures in Southeast Asia', in Ooi Keat Gin (ed.), Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia, from Angkor Wat to East Timor, ABC-Clio Inc, Santa Barbara, pp. 874-879pp.
Bulbeck, F 2004, 'Spices and the Spice Trade', in Ooi Keat Gin (ed.), Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia, from Angkor Wat to East Timor, ABC-Clio Inc, Santa Barbara, pp. 1239-1240pp.
Bulbeck, F 2004, 'Indigenous traditions and exogenous influences in the early history of Peninsular Malaysia', in Ian Glover and Peter Bellwood (ed.), Southeast Asia: From Prehistory to History, Routledge Curzon, London, pp. 314-336.
Bulbeck, F 2004, 'An Integrated Perspective on Orang Asli Ethnogenesis', in Victor Paz (ed.), Southeast Asian Archaeology, University of the Philippines Press, The Philippines, pp. 366-399.
Simons, A & Bulbeck, F 2004, 'Late Quaternary faunal successions in South Sulawesi, Indonesia', in Susan G. Keates & Juliette M. Pasveer (ed.), Modern Quaternary Research in Indonesia 18, A A Balkema, The Netherlands, pp. 167-190.
Bulbeck, F, Sumantri, I & Hiscock, P 2004, 'Leang Sakapao 1, a second dated Pleistocene site from South Sulawesi, Indonesia', in Susan G. Keates & Juliette M. Pasveer (ed.), Modern Quaternary Research in Indonesia 18, A A Balkema, The Netherlands, pp. 111-128.
Bulbeck, F 2004, 'South Sulawesi in the corridor of island populations along East Asias Pacific rim', in Susan G. Keates & Juliette M. Pasveer (ed.), Modern Quaternary Research in Indonesia 18, A A Balkema, The Netherlands, pp. 221-258.
Bulbeck, F 2004, 'Divided in space, united in time: The Holocene prehistory of South Sulawesi', in Susan G. Keates & Juliette M. Pasveer (ed.), Modern Quaternary Research in Indonesia 18, A A Balkema, The Netherlands, pp. 129-166.
Mahirta, M, Aplin, K, Bulbeck, F et al 2004, 'Pia Hudale Rockshelter: A terminal Pleistocene occupation site on Roti Island, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia', in Susan G. Keates & Juliette M. Pasveer (ed.), Modern Quaternary Research in Indonesia 18, A A Balkema, The Netherlands, pp. 361-394.
Bulbeck, F 2004, 'Neolithic Period of Southeast Asia', in Ooi Keat Gin (ed.), Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia, from Angkor Wat to East Timor, ABC-Clio Inc, Santa Barbara, pp. 951-955pp.
Bulbeck, F 2004, 'Dong-Son', in Ooi Keat Gin (ed.), Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia, from Angkor Wat to East Timor, ABC-Clio Inc, Santa Barbara, pp. 429-341pp.
Bulbeck, F 2004, 'Archaeological sites in Southeast Asia', in Ooi Keat Gin (ed.), Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia, from Angkor Wat to East Timor, ABC-Clio Inc, Santa Barbara, pp. 173-178pp.
Bulbeck, F 2004, 'Pepper', in Ooi Keat Gin (ed.), Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia, from Angkor Wat to East Timor, ABC-Clio Inc, Santa Barbara, pp. 1055-1056pp.
Bulbeck, F 2004, 'Ban Chiang', in Ooi Keat Gin (ed.), Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia, from Angkor Wat to East Timor, ABC-Clio Inc, Santa Barbara, pp. 205-208pp.
Bulbeck, F 2004, 'Ceramics', in Ooi Keat Gin (ed.), Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia, from Angkor Wat to East Timor, ABC-Clio Inc, Santa Barbara, pp. 318-321pp.
Bulbeck, F 2004, 'Australia's contribution to current understandings of the archaeology of Southeast Asia', in Tim Murray (ed.), Archaeology from Australia, Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 253-271.
Bulbeck, F & Li, T 2004, 'Giap Ngo nien binh Nam do (Maps of the Pacified South)', Ngien Cuu Lich Su (Historical Studies), vol. 11, pp. 70-76. (in Vietnamese)
Bulbeck, F 2003, 'Hunter-Gatherer Occupation of the Malay Peninsula from the Ice Age to the Iron Age', in Julio Mercader (ed.), Under the canopy: The archaeology of tropical rain forests, Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, NJ, pp. 119-160.
Bulbeck, F, Rayner, D, Groves, C et al 2003, 'The Contribution of South Asia to the Peopling of Australasia and the relevance of Basels Naturhistorisch Museum anthropological collection to the project aims', Bulletin der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft fur Anthropologie / Bulletin de la Societe Suisse de Anthropologie, vol. 2, pp. 49-70.
Bulbeck, F 2003, 'The Archeology of The Major Sites in Ussu / Cerekang', in Nurhayati Rahman, Anil Hukma, Idwar Anwar (ed.), La Galigo, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia, pp. 467-484.
Bulbeck, F & Clune, G 2003, 'Macassar Historical Decorated Earthenwares: Preliminary Chronolgoy and Bajau Connections', in John N. Miksic (ed.), Earthenware in Southeast Asia : Proceedings of the Singapore Symposium on Premodern Southeast Asian Earthenwares, Singapore University Press, Singapore, pp. 80-102.
Bulbeck, F & Nasruddin, X 2002, 'Recent insights on the chronology and ceramics of the Kalumpung site complex, South Sulawesi, Indonesia', Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, vol. 22, pp. 83-90.
Bulbeck, F 2001, 'Robust and gracile Australian crania: the tale of the Willandra Lakes', in T. Simanjuntak, B. Prasetyo and R. Handini (ed.), Sangiran: Man Culture and Environment in Pleistocene Times, Yayasan Obor Indonesia, Jakarta, pp. 60-106.
Bulbeck, F 2001, 'Island Southeast Asia Late Prehistoric: Indo-Malaysian Archipelago Early Metal Phase, Sa Huynh-Kalanay', in Peter N. Peregrine and Melvin Ember (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Prehistory, Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York, pp. 82-116pp.
Bulbeck, F, Pasqua, M & Di Lello, A 2001, 'Culture history of the Toalean of South Sulawesi, Indonesia', Asian Perspectives, vol. 39, pp. 71-108.
Rayner, D & Bulbeck, F 2001, 'Dental Morphology of the Orang Asli Aborigines of the Malay Peninsula', Australasian Society for Human Biology, ed. M. Henneberg, Australasian Society for Human Biology, Adelaide, pp. 19-41.
Bulbeck, F & Rowley, B 2001, 'Macassans and their pots in northern Australia', in C. Frederickson I. Wolters (ed.), Altered States: Material Culture and Shifting Contexts in the Arafura Region, Northern Territory University Press, Darwin, pp. 55-74.
Bulbeck, F 2000, 'Dental Morphology at Gua Cha, West Malaysia, and the implications for Sundadonty', Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, vol. 19, pp. 17-41.
Bulbeck, F 2000, 'Economy, military and ideology in Pre-Islamic Luwu, South Sulawesi, Indonesia', Australasian Historical Archaeology, vol. 18, pp. 3-16.
Bulbeck, F 2000, 'A historical perspective on the Australian contribution to the practice of archaeology in Southeast Asia', Australian Archaeology, vol. 50, pp. 45-53.
Bulbeck, F 2000, 'Human remains from Tam Nang An Laos', Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, vol. 19, pp. 108-110.
Bulbeck, F & Prasetyo, B 2000, 'Two millenia of socio-cultural development in Luwu, South Sulawesi, Indonesia', World Archaeology, vol. 32, pp. 121-137.
Bulbeck, F & Caldwell, I 2000, The Land of Iron: The Historical Archaeology of Luwu and the Cenrana Valley. Results of the Origin of Complex Society in South Sulawesi Project (OXIS), University of Hull, Hull.
Bulbeck, F 2000, 'Post-anthropological archaeology', Anthropological Forum, vol. 10, pp. 43-71.
Bulbeck, F & Prasetyo, B 2000, 'Perkembangan masyarakat di Sulawesi Selatan: Hasil penelitian sementara di Luwu', in Moh, A. (ed.), Kedatuan Luwu, Lembaga Penerbitan Universitas Hasanuddin, Makassar, Indonesia, pp. 29-46.
Bulbeck, F 1999, 'Introduction', in Bulbeck, F.; Barnard, N. (ed.), Ancient Chinese and Southeast Asian Bronze Age Cultures: The Proceedings of a Conference held at the Edith and Joy London Foundation property, Kioloa NSW, SMC Publishing Inc, Taipei, pp. xcv-cxiv.
Bulbeck, F 1999, 'The Bronze-Iron Age of South Sulawesi, Indonesia: Mortuary Traditions, Metallurgy and Trade', in Bulbeck, F.; Barnard, N. (ed.), Ancient Chinese and Southeast Asian Bronze Age Cultures: The Proceedings of a Conference held at the Edith and Joy London Foundation property, Kioloa NSW, SMC Publishing Inc, Taipei, pp. 1007-1076.
Bulbeck, F & Prasetyo, B 1999, 'Preliminary results from the 1998-99 field seasons in Luwu by the OXIS Project (Origins of Complex Society in South Sulawesi)', Pertemuan Ilmiah Arkeologi VIII dan Kongres, Buku Panduan, Yogyakarta, pp. 6-11.
Bulbeck, F 1999, 'Current biological anthropological research on Southeast Asias Negritos', SPAFA Journal, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 14-22.
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The challenge of evaluating students' scientific literacy in a writing-to-learn context
Tomas, Louisa, and Ritchie, Stephen M. (2015) The challenge of evaluating students' scientific literacy in a writing-to-learn context. Research in Science Education, 45 (1). pp. 41-58.
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This paper reports on the challenge of evaluating students' scientific literacy in a writing-to-learn context, as illustrated by our experience with an online sciencewriting project. In this mixed-methods study, Year 9 students in a case study class (13-14 year olds, n = 26) authored a series of two 'hybridised' short stories that merged scientific and narratives genres about the socioscientific issue of biosecurity. In seeking to measure the efficacy of the intervention, we sought evidence of students' conceptual understanding communicated through their stories. Finding a suitable instrument presented our first challenge. This led to the development of scoring matrices to evaluate students' derived sense of scientific literacy. Student interviews were also conducted to explore their understanding of concepts related to the biosecurity context. While the results of these analyses showed significant improvements in students' understanding arising from their participation in the writing tasks, the interviews highlighted a second challenge in evaluating students' scientific literacy; a disparity between their written and vocalised understandings. The majority of students expressed a deeper level of conceptual understanding at interview than they did in their stories. The interviews also revealed alternative conceptions and instances of superficial understanding that weren't expressed in their writing. Aside from the methodological challenge of analysing stories quantitatively, these findings suggest that in a writing-to-learn context, evaluating students' scientific literacy can be difficult. An examination of these artefacts in combination with interviews about students' written work provided a more comprehensive evaluation of their developing scientific literacy. The implications of this study for our understanding of the derived sense of scientific literacy, as well as implications for classroom practice, are also discussed.
scientific literacy, assessment, writing-to-learn, narrative, learning science, socioscientific issues
The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11165-014-9412-3.
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* Connecting Airports Ålesund, Norway (AES) Aachen, Germany (AAH) Aachen, Germany (XHJ) Aarhus, Denmark (AAR) Aasiaat, Greenland (JEG) Abakan, Russian Federation (ABA) Abbotsford, Canada (YXX) Abecher, Chad (AEH) Aberdeen, United Kingdom (ABZ) Aberdeen, United Kingdom (ZXA) Abha, Saudi Arabia (AHB) Abidjan, Cote D Ivoire Ivory Coast (ABJ) Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (AUH) Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (AZI) Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (ZVJ) Abu Ruedis, Egypt (AUE) Abu Simbel, Egypt (ABS) Abuja, Nigeria (ABV) Acapulco, Mexico (ACA) Accra, Ghana (ACC) Adana, Turkey (ADA) Addis Abeba, Ethiopia (ADD) Adelaide, Australia (ADL) Aden, Yemen (ADE) Adler/sochi, Russian Federation (AER) Agadez, Niger (AJY) Agadir, Morocco (AGA) Agartala, India (IXA) Agen, France (AGF) Aggeneys, South Africa (AGZ) Agra, India (AGR) Aguadilla, Puerto Rico (BQN) Aguascalientes, Mexico (AGU) Ahmedabad, India (AMD) Airlie Beach, Australia (WSY) Aitutaki, Cook Islands (AIT) Ajaccio, France (AJA) Akaba, Jordan (AQJ) Akita, Japan (AXT) Akita, Japan (ONJ) Aksu, Kina (AKU) Aktau, Kazakhstan (SCO) Aktobe, Kazakhstan (AKX) Akulivik, Canada (AKV) Akureyri, Iceland (AEY) Al Ain, United Arab Emirates (AAN) Al Ain, United Arab Emirates (ZVH) Al Ghayḑah, Yemen (AAY) Al Hoceima, Morocco (AHU) Al Hofuf, Saudi Arabia (HOF) Al-Baha, Saudi Arabia (ABT) Albacete, Spain (ABC) Albany, Australia (ALH) Albenga, Italy (ALL) Albi, France (LBI) Albury, Australia (ABX) Aldan, Russian Federation (ADH) Alderney, United Kingdom (ACI) Aleppo, Syria (ALP) Alexander Bay, South Africa (ALJ) Alexandria, Egypt (ALY) Alexandroupolis, Greece (AXD) Alger, Algeria (ALG) Alghero, Italy (AHO) Alicante, Spain (ALC) Alice Springs, Australia (ASP) Alldays, South Africa (ADY) Alma, Canada (YTF) Almaty, Kazakhstan (ALA) Almeria, Spain (LEI) Alor Setar, Malaysia (AOR) Alotau, Papua New Guinea (GUR) Alta Floresta, Brazil (AFL) Alta kommun, Norway (ALF) Altamira, Brazil (ATM) Altenburg, Germany (AOC) Altenrhein, Switzerland (ACH) Amagi, Japan (TKN) Amami O Shima, Japan (ASJ) Ambatondrazaka, Madagascar (WAM) Ambon, Indonesia (AMQ) Amman, Jordan (ADJ) Amman, Jordan (AMM) Amritsar, India (ATQ) Amsterdam, Netherlands (AMS) Amsterdam, Netherlands (ZYA) Anaa, French Polynesia (AAA) Anadyr, Russian Federation (DYR) Analalava, Madagascar (HVA) Anapa, Russian Federation (AAQ) Ancona, Italy (AOI) Andenes, Norway (ANX) Andijan, Uzbekistan (AZN) Andorra la Vella, Andorra (ALV) Andros Island, Bahamas (ASD) Angeles, Philippines (CRK) Angers, France (ANE) Angers, France (QXG) Angoulême, France (ANG) Anguilla, Anguilla (AXA) Anjouan, Comoros (AJN) Ankara, Turkey (ANK) Ankara, Turkey (ESB) Ankavandra, Madagascar (JVA) Annaba, Algeria (AAE) Annecy, France (NCY) Anqing, Kina (AQG) Antalaha, Madagascar (ANM) Antalya, Turkey (AYT) Antananarivo, Madagascar (TNR) Antibes, France (XAT) Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda (ANU) Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda (BBQ) Antisiradava, Madagascar (DIE) Antofagasta, Chile (ANF) Antsalova, Madagascar (WAQ) Antsohihy, Madagascar (WAI) Antwerpen, Belgium (ANR) Antwerpen, Belgium (ZWE) Aomori, Japan (AOJ) Aosta, Italy (AOT) Apartado, Colombia (APO) Apia, Samoa (APW) Apia, Samoa (FGI) Aracaju, Brazil (AJU) Aracatuba, Brazil (ARU) Arad, Romania (ARW) Araguaiana, Brazil (AUX) Araraquara, Brazil (AQA) Arauca, Colombia (AUC) Araxa, Brazil (AAX) Ardabil, Iran (ADU) Arecibo, Puerto Rico (ARE) Arequipa, Peru (AQP) Argyle, Australia (GYL) Arica, Chile (ARI) Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation (ARH) Arlit, Niger (RLT) Armenia, Colombia (AXM) Armidale, Australia (ARM) Arrabury, Australia (AAB) Aruba, Aruba (AUA) Arusha, Tanzania (ARK) Arvidsjaur, Sweden (AJR) Asahikawa, Japan (AKJ) Asau, Samoa (AAU) Ashford Ke, United Kingdom (QDH) Asjchabad, Turkmenistan (ASB) Asmara, Eritrea (ASM) Assuan, Egypt (ASW) Assuit, Egypt (ATZ) Astana, Kazakhstan (TSE) Astrakhan, Russian Federation (ASF) Asturias, Spain (OVD) Astypalaia, Greece (JTY) Asunción, Paraguay (ASU) Aten, Greece (ATH) Attawapiskat, Canada (YAT) Atuona, French Polynesia (AUQ) Atyraw, Kazakhstan (GUW) Auckland, New Zealand (AKL) Auki, Solomon Islands (AKS) Aupaluk, Canada (YPJ) Aurangabad, India (IXU) Aurillac, France (AUR) Avalon, Australia (AVV) Avignon, France (AVN) Avignon, France (XZN) Avu Avu, Solomon Islands (AVU) Axum, Ethiopia (AXU) Ayacucho, Peru (AYP) Ayers Rock, Australia (AYQ) Ayr, Australia (AYR) Babo, Indonesia (BXB) Bacolod, Philippines (BCD) Badajoz, Spain (BJZ) Bagdad, Iraq (BGW) Bagdad, Iraq (SDA) Baguio, Philippines (BAG) Bahar Dar, Ethiopia (BJR) Bahawalpur, Pakistan (BHV) Bahia Blanca, Argentina (BHI) Baie Comeau, Canada (YBC) Bairnsdale, Australia (BSJ) Baker Lake, Canada (YBK) Baku, Azerbaijan (GYD) Baku, Azerbaijan (ZXT) Balakovo, Russian Federation (BWO) Balemartine, United Kingdom (TRE) Balikpapan, Indonesia (BPN) Balimo, Papua New Guinea (OPU) Ballina, Australia (BNK) Balmaceda, Chile (BBA) Bamaga, Australia (ABM) Bamako, Mali (BKO) Bambari, Central African Republic (BBY) Banda Aceh, Indonesia (BTJ) Bandar Lampung, Indonesia (TKG) Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam (BWN) Bandung, Indonesia (BDO) Banff, Canada (YBA) Bangalore, India (BLR) Bangassou, Central African Republic (BGU) Bangkok, Thailand (BKK) Bangkok, Thailand (DMK) Bangui, Central African Republic (BGF) Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BNX) Banjarmasin, Indonesia (BDJ) Banjul, Gambia (BJL) Bannu, Pakistan (BNP) Baoshan, Kina (BSD) Baotou, Kina (BAV) Barbados, Barbados (BGI) Barcaldine, Australia (BCI) Barcelona, Spain (BCN) Barcelona, Spain (YJD) Barcelona, Venezuela (BLA) Barcelos, Brazil (BAZ) Bardufoss, Norway (BDU) Bari, Italy (BRI) Barisal, Bangladesh (BZL) Barnaul, Russian Federation (BAX) Barquisimeto, Venezuela (BRM) Barrancabermeja, Colombia (EJA) Barranquilla, Colombia (BAQ) Barreiras, Brazil (BRA) Basel Mulhouse Freiburg, France (MLH) Basel, Switzerland (BSL) Basel, Switzerland (ZBA) Basel, Switzerland (ZDH) Basra, Iraq (BSR) Bastia, France (BIA) Batam Island, Indonesia (BTH) Bathurst, Australia (BHS) Bathurst, Canada (ZBF) Batman, Turkey (BAL) Batna, Algeria (BLJ) Batumi, Georgia (BUS) Bauru, Brazil (BAU) Bauru, Brazil (JTC) Bayamo, Cuba (BYM) Bayreuth, Germany (BYU) Bedourie, Australia (BEU) Beigan, Kina (MFK) Beihai, Kina (BHY) Beira, Mozambique (BEW) Beirut, Lebanon (BEY) Belaga, Malaysia (BLG) Belem, Brazil (BEL) Belfast, United Kingdom (BFS) Belfast, United Kingdom (BHD) Belgaum, India (IXG) Belgorod, Russian Federation (EGO) Belgrad, Serbia (BEG) Belize City, Belize (BZE) Belize City, Belize (TZA) Bella Coola, Canada (QBC) Belmonte, Brazil (BVM) Belo Horizonte, Brazil (CNF) Belo Horizonte, Brazil (PLU) Belo, Madagascar (BMD) Bendigo, Australia (BXG) Benghazi, Libya (BEN) Benguela, Angola (BUG) Benin City, Nigeria (BNI) Berberati, Central African Republic (BBT) Bergamo, Italy (BGY) Bergen, Norway (BGO) Bergen, Norway (QFV) Bergerac, France (EGC) Berlevag, Norway (BVG) Berlin, Germany (BER) Berlin, Germany (QPP) Berlin, Germany (SXF) Berlin, Germany (TXL) Bermuda, Bermuda (BDA) Berne, Switzerland (BRN) Berne, Switzerland (ZDJ) Besalampy, Madagascar (BPY) Bharatpur, Nepal (BHR) Bhopal, India (BHO) Bhubaneswar, India (BBI) Bhuj, India (BHJ) Biak, Indonesia (BIK) Biarritz, France (BIQ) Bilbao, Spain (BIO) Billund, Denmark (BLL) Biloela, Australia (ZBL) Bimini, Bahamas (BIM) Bintulu, Malaysia (BTU) Birao, Central African Republic (IRO) Birdsville, Australia (BVI) Birmingham, United Kingdom (BHX) Birmingham, United Kingdom (QQN) Bisjkek, Kyrgyzstan (FRU) Biskra, Algeria (BSK) Bissau, Guinea Bissau (OXB) Bitam, Gabon (BMM) Björneborg, Finland (POR) Blackall, Australia (BKQ) Blackpool, United Kingdom (BLK) Blackwater, Australia (BLT) Blagoveschensk, Russian Federation (BQS) Blanc Sablon, Canada (YBX) Blantyre, Malawi (BLZ) Blenheim, New Zealand (BHE) Bloemfontein, South Africa (BFN) Boa Vista, Brazil (BVB) Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso (BOY) Bocas del Toro, Panama (BOC) Bodrum, Turkey (BJV) Bodrum, Turkey (BXN) Bodø, Norway (BOO) Bogota, Colombia (BOG) Boigu, Australia (GIC) Bol, Croatia (BWK) Bologna, Italy (BLQ) Bolzano, Italy (BZO) Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles (BON) Bonaventure, Canada (YVB) Bonito, Brazil (BYO) Bonnyville, Canada (YBY) Bonriki Village, Kiribati (TRW) Bora Bora, French Polynesia (BOB) Boracay Island, Philippines (KLO) Boracay Island, Philippines (MPH) Bordeaux, France (BOD) Bordeaux, France (ZFQ) Borg El Arab, Egypt (HBE) Borkum, Germany (BMK) Borlänge, Sweden (BLE) Borlänge, Sweden (XYB) Bornholm, Denmark (RNN) Bouake, Cote D Ivoire Ivory Coast (BYK) Boulia, Australia (BQL) Bourgas, Bulgaria (BOJ) Bourke, Australia (BRK) Bournemouth, United Kingdom (BOH) Bowen, Australia (ZBO) Braganca, Portugal (BGC) Brampton Island, Australia (BMP) Brandon, Canada (YBR) Brasília, Brazil (BSB) Bratislava, Slovak Republic (BTS) Bratsk, Russian Federation (BTK) Brazzaville, Congo Republic of (BZV) Bredasdorp, South Africa (OVG) Bremen, Germany (BRE) Brescia, Italy (VBS) Brest, France (BES) Breves, Brazil (BVS) Bria, Central African Republic (BIV) Brighton, United Kingdom (BSH) Brindisi, Italy (BDS) Brisbane, Australia (BNE) Bristol, United Kingdom (BRS) Brive-la-Gaillarde, France (BVE) Brno, Czech Republic (BRQ) Brno, Czech Republic (ZDN) Broken Hill, Australia (BHQ) Bronnoysund Bronnoy, Norway (BNN) Broome, Australia (BME) Bryssel, Belgium (BRU) Bryssel, Belgium (ZYR) Bucaramanga, Colombia (BGA) Bucharest, Romania (BBU) Bucharest, Romania (OTP) Budapest, Hungary (BUD) Buenos Aires, Argentina (AEP) Buenos Aires, Argentina (EZE) Buffalo Range, Zimbabwe (BFO) Bujumbura, Burundi (BJM) Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (BUQ) Bumi Hills, Zimbabwe (BZH) Bundaberg, Australia (BDB) Buraydah, Saudi Arabia (ELQ) Buri Ram, Thailand (BFV) Burketown, Australia (BUC) Burnie, Australia (BWT) Busan, South Korea (PUS) Busselton, Australia (BQB) Busuanga, Philippines (USU) Butuan, Philippines (BXU) Bydgoszcz, Poland (BZG) Cabinda, Angola (CAB) Cabo Frio, Brazil (CFB) Cacoal, Brazil (OAL) Caen, France (CFR) Cagayan de Oro, Philippines (CGY) Cagliari, Italy (CAG) Cagnes Sur Mer, France (XCG) Cairns, Australia (CNS) Cajamarca, Peru (CJA) Calais, France (XFF) Calama, Chile (CJC) Calbayog, Philippines (CYP) Caldas Novas, Brazil (CLV) Calgary, Canada (YYC) Calheta, Portugal (SJZ) Cali, Colombia (CLO) Calvi, France (CLY) Cam Ranh, Vietnam (CXR) Camaguey, Cuba (CMW) Cambridge Bay, Canada (YCB) Cambridge, United Kingdom (CBG) Campbell River, Canada (YBL) Campbeltown, United Kingdom (CAL) Campeche, Mexico (CPE) Campina Grande, Brazil (CPV) Campinas, Brazil (CPQ) Campinas, Brazil (VCP) Campo Grande, Brazil (CGR) Campo Mourão, Brazil (CBW) Campos dos Goytacazes, Brazil (CAW) Canaima, Venezuela (CAJ) Canberra, Australia (CBR) Cancún, Mexico (CUN) Cannes, France (CEQ) Canouan Island, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (CIW) Cap-Haïtien, Haiti (CAP) Cape Dorset, Canada (YTE) Caracas, Venezuela (CCS) Carajás, Brazil (CKS) Carcassonne, France (CCF) Cardiff, United Kingdom (CWL) Carnarvon, Australia (CVQ) Carnot, Central African Republic (CRF) Carriacou, Grenada (CRU) Carrillo, Costa Rica (RIK) Cartagena, Colombia (CTG) Cartwright, Canada (YRF) Casablanca, Morocco (CAS) Casablanca, Morocco (CMN) Cascavel, Brazil (CAC) Casino, Australia (CSI) Cassilândia, Brazil (CSS) Castlegar, Canada (YCG) Castres, France (DCM) Castro, Chile (MHC) Castro, Chile (WCA) Cat Island, Bahamas (ATC) Catamarca, Argentina (CTC) Catania, Italy (CTA) Catarman, Philippines (CRM) Catumbela, Angola (CBT) Cauayan, Philippines (CYZ) Caucasia, Colombia (CAQ) Caxias do Sul, Brazil (CXJ) Caye Caulker, Belize (CUK) Cayenne, French Guiana (CAY) Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands (CYB) Cayo Coco, Cuba (CCC) Cayo Largo, Cuba (CYO) Cebu City, Philippines (CEB) Ceduna, Australia (CED) Cessnock, Australia (CES) Chabarovsk, Russian Federation (KHV) Chalons En Champagne, France (XCR) Chambéry, France (CMF) Chandigarh, India (IXC) Changchun, Kina (CGQ) Changde, Kina (CGD) Changsha, Kina (CSX) Changshu, Kina (WUX) Changuinola, Panama (CHX) Changzhou, Kina (CZX) Chania, Greece (CHQ) Chapecó, Brazil (XAP) Charkiv, Ukraine (HRK) Charleroi, Belgium (CRL) Charleville, Australia (CTL) Charlottetown, Canada (YHG) Charlottetown, Canada (YYG) Charters Towers, Australia (CXT) Cheboksary, Russian Federation (CSY) Chengdu, Kina (CTU) Chennai, India (MAA) Chepstow, United Kingdom (FZO) Cherbourg, France (CER) Cherepovets, Russian Federation (CEE) Chester, United Kingdom (CEG) Chetumal, Mexico (CTM) Chevery, Canada (YHR) Chiang Mai, Thailand (CNX) Chiang Rai, Thailand (CEI) Chiayi, Taiwan, Kina (CYI) Chibougamau, Canada (YMT) Chichen Itza, Mexico (CZA) Chiclayo, Peru (CIX) Chicoutimi, Canada (YBG) Chigorodo, Colombia (IGO) Chihuahua, Mexico (CUU) Chios, Greece (JKH) Chipata, Zambia (CIP) Chisasibi, Canada (YKU) Chisinau, Moldova (KIV) Chita, Russian Federation (HTA) Chitral, Pakistan (CJL) Chittagong, Bangladesh (CGP) Chiusa, Italy (ZAK) Chkalovsk, Russian Federation (LBD) Chongqing, Kina (CKG) Chongqing, Kina (WXN) Christchurch, New Zealand (CHC) Christmas Island, Kiribati (CXI) Christmas Island, Kiribati (XCH) Chub Cay, Bahamas (CCZ) Churchill Falls, Canada (ZUM) Ciego de Ávila, Cuba (AVI) Cienfuegos, Cuba (CFG) Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela (CBL) Ciudad Juárez, Mexico (CJS) Ciudad Obregón, Mexico (CEN) Ciudad Victoria, Mexico (CVM) Ciudad del Carmen, Mexico (CME) Ciudad del Este, Paraguay (AGT) Clermont Ferrand, France (CFE) Clermont, Australia (CMQ) Cleve, Australia (CVC) Cloncurry, Australia (CNJ) Cluj-Napoca, Romania (CLJ) Clyde River, Canada (YCY) Coari, Brazil (CIZ) Cobar, Australia (CAZ) Cobourg, Canada (XGJ) Cochabamba, Bolivia (CBB) Coffs Harbour, Australia (CFS) Coimbatore, India (CJB) Colac, Australia (XCO) Colima, Mexico (CLQ) Collinsville, Australia (KCE) Colombo, Sri Lanka (CMB) Colonia, Micronesia (YAP) Comiso, Italy (CIY) Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina (CRD) Comox, Canada (YQQ) Con Dao, Vietnam (VCS) Conakry, Guinea (CKY) Concepción, Chile (CCP) Constanta Kogelniceanu, Romania (CND) Constantine, Algeria (CZL) Coober Pedy, Australia (CPD) Cooktown, Australia (CTN) Cooma, Australia (OOM) Coonamble, Australia (CNB) Cootamundra, Australia (CMD) Copiapó, Chile (CPO) Coral Harbour, Canada (YZS) Cork, Ireland (ORK) Coro, Venezuela (CZE) Coromandel, New Zealand (CMV) Corrientes, Argentina (CNQ) Corumbá, Brazil (CMG) Cotabato, Philippines (CBO) Cotonou, Benin (COO) Cottbus, Germany (CBU) Courchevel, France (CVF) Coventry, United Kingdom (CVT) Cozumel, Mexico (CZM) Craiova, Romania (CRA) Cranbrook, Canada (YXC) Crisciuma, Brazil (CCM) Crotone, Italy (CRV) Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil (CZS) Cuenca, Ecuador (CUE) Cuernavaca, Mexico (CVJ) Cuiaba, Brazil (CGB) Culebra, Puerto Rico (CPX) Culiacan, Mexico (CUL) Cumana, Venezuela (CUM) Cuneo, Italy (CUF) Cunnamulla, Australia (CMA) Curacao, Curacao (CUR) Curitiba, Brazil (CWB) Cuzco, Peru (CUZ) Córdoba, Argentina (COR) Córdoba, Spain (ODB) Córdoba, Spain (XOJ) Cúcuta, Colombia (CUC) Da Nang, Vietnam (DAD) Dacca, Bangladesh (DAC) Daegu, South Korea (TAE) Daejeon, South Korea (CJJ) Dakar, Senegal (DKR) Dakhla, Western Sahara (VIL) Dalaman, Turkey (DLM) Dalat, Vietnam (DLI) Dalby, Australia (DBY) Dali, Kina (DLU) Dalian, Kina (DLC) Daloa, Cote D Ivoire Ivory Coast (DJO) Damaskus, Syria (DAM) Dammam, Saudi Arabia (DMM) Dammam, Saudi Arabia (DMS) Dandong, Kina (DDG) Dangriga, Belize (DGA) Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania (DAR) Darjeeling, India (IXB) Darlington, United Kingdom (MME) Daru, Papua New Guinea (DAU) Darwin, Australia (DRW) Daska, Pakistan (SKT) Datong, Kina (DAT) Davao, Philippines (DVO) David, Panama (DAV) Dawson City, Canada (YDA) Dawson Creek, Canada (YDQ) Daydream Island, Australia (DDI) Dayong, Kina (DYG) Deadmans Cay, Bahamas (LGI) Deauville, France (DOL) Debrecen, Hungary (DEB) Deer Lake , Canada (YDF) Deer Lake , Canada (YVZ) Dehradun, India (DED) Del Carmen, Philippines (IAO) Deniliquin, Australia (DNQ) Denizli, Turkey (DNZ) Denpasar, Indonesia (DPS) Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan (DEA) Dera Ismael Khan, Pakistan (DSK) Derby, Australia (DRB) Devonport, Australia (DPO) Dhahran, Saudi Arabia (DHA) Diamantina, Brazil (DTI) Dibrugarh, India (DIB) Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam (DIN) Dijon, France (DIJ) Dili, Timor Leste (DIL) Dinard, France (DNR) Dipolog, Philippines (DPL) Diu, India (DIU) Divinópolis, Brazil (DIQ) Diyarbakır, Turkey (DIY) Djerba, Tunisia (DJE) Djibouti, Djibouti (JIB) Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine (DNK) Doha, Qatar (DOH) Dominica, Dominica (DCF) Dominica, Dominica (DOM) Doncaster, United Kingdom (DSA) Donegal, Ireland (CFN) Donetsk, Ukraine (DOK) Dongolai, Sudan (DOG) Dortmund, Germany (DTM) Dorval, Canada (XAX) Douala, Cameroon (DLA) Dourados, Brazil (DOU) Dresden, Germany (DRS) Dryden, Canada (YHD) Dubai, United Arab Emirates (DWC) Dubai, United Arab Emirates (DXB) Dubai, United Arab Emirates (XMB) Dubai, United Arab Emirates (XNB) Dubbo, Australia (DBO) Dublin, Ireland (DUB) Dubrovnik, Croatia (DBV) Dumaguete, Philippines (DGT) Dundee, United Kingdom (DND) Dundee, United Kingdom (ZDU) Dunedin, New Zealand (DUD) Dunhuang, Kina (DNH) Dunk Island, Australia (DKI) Duong Dong, Vietnam (PQC) Durango, Mexico (DGO) Durban, South Africa (DUR) Dushanbe, Tajikistan (DYU) Dysart, Australia (DYA) Dzaoudzi, Comoros (DZA) Düsseldorf, Germany (DUS) Düsseldorf, Germany (MGL) Düsseldorf, Germany (NRN) Düsseldorf, Germany (QDU) East London, South Africa (ELS) Easter Island, Chile (IPC) Ebbsfleet, United Kingdom (XQE) Eday, United Kingdom (EOI) Edinburgh, United Kingdom (EDI) Edinburgh, United Kingdom (ZXE) Edmonton, Canada (YEG) Edremit, Turkey (EDO) Edward River, Australia (EDR) Egilsstadir, Iceland (EGS) Eilat, Israel (ETH) Eilat, Israel (ETM) Eindhoven, Netherlands (EIN) Eirunepé, Brazil (ERN) Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation (SVX) El Calafate, Argentina (FTE) El Minya, Egypt (EMY) El Oued, Algeria (ELU) El Salvador, Chile (ESR) El Vigia, Venezuela (VIG) El Yopal, Colombia (EYP) Elazıg, Turkey (EZS) Eldoret, Kenya (EDL) Elista, Russian Federation (ESL) Ellisras, South Africa (ELL) Emerald, Australia (EMD) Enontekis, 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Take it outside: Berlin’s summer scene
Jesse Simon
Editor and writer
School’s out for summer, which means Berlin’s cool crowd is heading outdoors too – join them at the city’s best places and pastimes for a summer of al fresco fun
Berlin has world-class museums, great music venues, dozens of cinemas and legendary clubs. But when the sun is out, the sky is clear and the air is warm, who wants to spend the day inside? Not to worry, Berlin likes being outside just as much as you do. Those northern European winters inspire an unshakeable reverence for beautiful days, and the city is geared toward making the most of them.
Berlin’s outdoor music scene caters to all ears, with its wild mix of festivals, summer program and one-off events. On the annual day-long Fête de la Musique, stages pop up in every corner of the city. For the biggest-name concert acts, the Waldbühne – a 22,000 seat amphitheatre in a forest on the edge of town – is one of the most beautiful outdoor venues in Europe; and the Citadel in Spandau also hosts a summer-long open-air program, where indie and rock royalty perform in the courtyard of a 16th-century military fortress. The ubiquitous Lollapalooza Berlin Festival, featuring some of the world’s biggest bands, now has an outpost in Berlin’s Treptower Park, while July’s annual Melt! Festival (pictured above) draws thousands of festival fans every year to Ferropolis – a fantastical complex of iron structures and industrial machinery less than an hour south of Berlin – for an eclectic electronic and indie line up.
Berlin is a city of cafés, and at the slightest sniff of decent weather, every pavement will suddenly overflow with tables and chairs. But in recent years, the burgeoning food truck scene has provided a popular alternative to al fresco dining. Bite Club (pictured above) organises monthly events by the river in Kreuzberg’s Arena complex, where music and cocktails complement a wide array of street food favourites. Some of the city’s best-loved trucks also roll up to the Sunday street food market at Prenzlauer Berg’s Kulturbrauerei, an old brewery-turned-cultural-centre. And if it’s the taste of the Far East you’re after, the vendors who gather in Wilmersdorf’s Preußen Park (dubbed ‘Thai Park’ by locals) are about as authentic as it gets.
Germany is famous for its beer gardens, and there can be no doubt that Berlin’s Café am Neuen See, located next to a small lake in the Tiergarten, is one the nicest places in the city to let afternoon slide into evening. But high above the noisy streets, a different kind of experience awaits: hidden on the top deck of a multi-storey car park in the Neukölln neighbourhood, Klunkerkranich (pictured above, and lead image) serves up cold pints of Pilsener and Hefeweizen with extraordinary views over the city. Deck 5 (in Prenzlauer Berg) and Strandlitz (in Steglitz), offer a similar up-on-the-roof experience, adding sand and palm trees for a holiday-happy vibe.
Collectors of used records, antique furniture and Communist-era mementos have long known the delights of Berlin’s flea markets. Mauerpark (pictured above), on the site of the former Berlin wall, and Boxhagener Platz attract dedicated weekend crowds, although Fehrbelliner Platz and Rathaus Schöneberg (where JFK delivered his famous “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech) also offer a broad assortment of second-hand curiosities. The bi-weekly Nowkoelln market, next to the canal on Maybachufer, and its sister market Kreuzboerg, focus on crafts made by local artisans, while art fans should visit the biannual Open Air Gallery, which sees Oberbaum bridge become a mile-long open-air gallery where collectors can buy pieces from the artists themselves.
With over 15 open-air cinemas in and around the city, catching a movie indoors should be considered a last resort for rainy days. The programme at Freiluftkino Kreuzberg offers a mix of new and recent releases – from blockbusters to indie hits to documentaries – along with a few classics, all screened in the courtyard of a beautiful 19th-century hospital turned art space. For a more bucolic big screen setting, the Freiluftkino Friedrichshain and Freiluftkino Hasenheide (pictured above) are located in the heart of two of Berlin’s most idyllic city parks. Unlike many indoor cinemas, most of the the open-air cinemas screen films in their original language (rather than German-dubbed), making them an ideal night out for locals and visitors alike.
Berlin is famed for its hedonistic round-the-clock club scene, but getting in the groove doesn’t have to mean going indoors or underground. At Else (pictured above), a riverside space run by the gang Zur Wilde Renate club, revellers dance in the shadow of a train bridge spanning the Spree. Further up the river, Club der Visionäre host events in their own canalside complex as well as on the floating MS Hoppetosse; and even further up the river, on the opposite bank, Kater Blau offers modern techno in a setting vaguely reminiscent of the Ewok village. For those who want to dance but aren’t moved by the 4/4 thump of most clubs, the Kulturbrauerei in Prenzlauer Berg has an outdoor dancefloor where swing and salsa are the order of the evening.
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Today I’m pleased to have fellow Wild Rose Press author Diana Rubino on the blog with her sensational new release, A Bloody Good Cruise! Diana, it’s a pleasure to have you here. Enjoy Diana’s book, everyone!
Coming soon on audio with the sexy-voiced narrator Anthony Lee, A BLOODY GOOD CRUISE is a fun-filled blend of the vampire world and luxury cruises, starring romance author Mona Rossi and Fausto Silvius, a full-blooded vampire. The popularity of cruises and vampires make it a unique blend, but a very fun setting.
Coffeetime Romance says in its review, “A Bloody Good Cruise is a high seas adventure with twists and turns around every corner. The lively cast spins non-stop excitement with thrills and enough snags to keep the pages turning.”
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I wanted to combine Italian vampires, comedy and cruising in one package, so I hopped on my imaginary ship The Romanza to get my characters in all kinds of trouble. I envisioned the hero, Fausto, as actor Vincent Irizarry (Dr. Hayward on All My Children). That made my job so much easier. He is THE perfect vampire. Italian vampires and hunters (the Vampire Ball Busters) leave the field wide open for comic relief, and I had plenty of chances in this story. Since I’m hooked on cruising and I’m Italian, I didn’t need to do that much research.
My husband and I are hooked on cruising, and my very first cruise was on the Eastern Mediterranean, beginning in Rome and ending in Istanbul. The ports of call included Rhodes, Cyprus, Santorini, and Egypt. Because I love Italy and cruising, I wanted to combine those passions with a humorous story about vampires and how they face prejudice in the human world.
Mona forced a dose of cheer through her jangly nerves. Vampire hunters wouldn’t have the balls to attack Fausto and his friends on this ship. Security was tight. “Well, you’re here, so does that mean you’ve been going out, and aren’t confined to your house any more?”
Fausto shrugged. “Almost. I couldn’t wallow in self-pity forever. And I knew seeing you would make it worthwhile.”
She smiled and gave him a genuine Italian cheek pinch. “I’ll cheer you up, faccia bella, you can count on that. You must feel safe.” She gestured at the tacky duds. “I mean, relatively speaking.”
“Don’t let this scare you, but –” He glanced around over the rims of his shades. Uh-oh. Whenever he said “don’t let this scare you,” it scared her. “I got an ominous message at the doctor’s office earlier.”
“What—” She swallowed a lump. “What kind of ominous message?”
He looked away, shaking his head. “Nothing to get alarmed about. The hunters just want me to know they’re here. After the initial jolt wore off, I said, ‘okay, I’m being stalked again.’ But I’m used to it. It doesn’t make me constantly look over my shoulder like in the old days. My family’s murder gave me a reality check. If they want me, they’ll get me. I can’t let it interfere with my work, or what little leisure time I have here. And you shouldn’t either.” He gazed at her adoringly and cupped her cheek. His hand was surprisingly warm. “But you’re still scared. All the blood’s drained out of your face, and not in a good way.”
An Interview with Mona Rossi, heroine of A Bloody Good Cruise
You, the Heroine . . .
Readers love to know about their favorite heroines, and this is your chance to make them feel close to you.
If you have 2 hours free time tonight, what would you rather do? Why?
Soak in my hot tub overlooking the Tuscany Hills with a chilled glass of Gianni Brunelli Brunello di Montalcino Riserva from right there in Tuscany. Fausto bought me a
case of this for our one-year anniversary. It’s a deep ruby red with intense
aromas of notes of leather and cherry. Upon sipping, you get an astringent taste.
At $389 a bottle, I splurge when I sell a book—then I buy another bottle when the book sales hit the 1,000 copy mark.
But when I can’t be so decadent I drink Beaujolais
Nouveau, produced in the Beaujolais region of France. (sorry, Fausto, it’s not
Italian.) It comes out once a year, and goes on sale the third Thursday of
November. If you don’t get to a store in time, you can miss out. It sells out fast.
Distributors deliver it to stores at 12:01 a.m. local time. I’ve seen people in line
waiting for it. I’d do that for a Springsteen concert, but not for a bottle of wine!
Yes, I’m a Springsteen fan, and that’s something else I’d do with two free hours—go to one of his shows or blast his CDs and dance like crazy.
But along with the wine, I’d have Sinatra or Dean Martin playing in the background, with a vanilla candle. And if I’m feeling indulgent, I’ll bring three white chocolate truffles, and eat them fast so they don’t melt.
What kind of books do you love to read? Why?
The same kind of romances I write—suspense, where the heroine gets into one mess after another. I read out loud, it improves my diction for when I speak at writers’ conferences. I also like to browse cookbooks. I take a snapshot of the recipe in my head, then go and improvise.
My favorite author is Linda Howard. She writes such pulse-pounding suspense. And I know this sounds hokey, but when I met Fausto, I began reading Anne Rice. Fausto and his family aren’t the same kinds of vampires she writes about, but it gave me some perspective. To me, the original book Dracula, by Bram Stoker, was scary as hell. But I do consider it one of my favorite books because it was so innovative. I never believed in vampires before that book, and look where I am now!
I like to go to Goodreads to seek out new titles. I don’t read the reader reviews, though. Too many of them have misled me. I just read the book summary and make up my own mind.
What is your stress buster?
A Pilates class or watching my favorite shows while working out on the elliptical trainer—I watch comedy working out, certainly not the news—I want to bust stress, not increase it. I have DVDs of some classic sitcoms:
I Love Lucy, the Dick Van Dyke Show, All in the Family, Seinfeld—and some live standup: Joan Rivers, Phyllis Diller, Richard Pryor, the pioneers, the greats. No comedians working the clubs today come close to those legends. Moving for an hour to comedy—or music—is the best way to relieve stress and work it all off. When not on the elliptical, I’ll get out my iPod, close the door, pull the shades and torch some calories dancing to my cardio mix—a scientifically engineered mix of songs that burn 450 calories—one of my warm up songs is Scream by Usher, one sprint song is Pump It by Black Eyed Peas, a recover song is Goin’ In by J.Lo, and a cool down song is Halo by Beyoncé.
What is your favorite food? What food do you seek when you’re sad, sort of a comfort food?
Cheesecake made with cottage cheese—it’s healthy and low fat, and tastes every bit as good as ‘real’ cheesecake but much lighter. I also make honey balls, “Struffoli” which is a Christmas treat, but I make them year round. I added the recipe below. Every morning I make a healthy smoothie with almond milk, coconut milk, yogurt, either spinach or kale, cinnamon, and protein powder. If I use chocolate powder, I also add peanut butter. You can’t even taste the spinach or kale, but it does turn the smoothie green. I also do some creative things to oatmeal—top it with cinnamon or nutmeg. I make it with a green tea bag instead of plain water for a healthy boost.
Describe yourself in one word.
Determined.
What is the most adventurous thing you’ve ever done?
Being turned—but it was a matter of life and death. I trusted Fausto with my life, and here I am.
What makes you happy/sad/disappointed/frustrated/hopeful/angry? (Pick one)
What makes me angry is intolerance. After I went through with Fausto and his family, I saw first-hand what someone different must go through to gain acceptance. I’m trying to change that by giving talks about vampires, explaining who we really are, so someday prejudice against us—and anyone else the ‘majority’ deems ‘different’ will be an ugly thing of the past.
What are your wildest dreams/fantasies/kinks/quirks?
My wildest dream is to live a week in Ancient Rome, as a Senator’s mistress.
What do you most want out of life, and what’s its opposite?
I most want social acceptance and its opposite is to disappear in the crowd, to be an ordinary citizen.
What would you never say, do or think?
I’d never insult someone just to show I’m better or smarter.
I’d never let anyone boss me around.
I’d never think I’m inferior to anyone because of my new status as a vampire.
What are some of your faults?
I’m too assertive at times. I still worry about what people think of me. I overcompensate to get them to accept and like me. I make a mess after cooking and don’t clean it up right away. This drives Fausto nuts. He’s a neat freak. Another fault that also drives him nuts is that I put off going to the doctor. We’ve been granted eternal life, but we do have to get checkups along the way!
I’m a longtime a member of Romance Writers of America, the Richard III Society and the Aaron Burr Association.
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The Noble Woman
The Power of the Noble Woman
Excerpts from ‘Virtue of Virtues,’ a lecture by Yogi Bhajan, July 2, 1978, Khalsa Women’s Training Camp (KWTC)
To be very honest with you, a woman who is not a noble woman and who does not talk through her radiance, is not a woman. The greatest decoration a woman can have is nobility. She should not only look noble, she should live nobly. Nobility is a virtue and it is a living virtue. Some people think if they know manners, can talk mannerly, and act and pretend to be noble, they are noble. No, nobility is character in a woman. A noble woman will give birth to noble environments. A noble woman will give birth to nobility in all areas of life.
The sign of nobility is that it has a deep effect in relationship with any person one comes across. They say nobility is a virtue which affects every soul. It is a virtue which affects every soul just as innocence affects every heart. Woman has only one virtue: she is noble in the beginning and noble until her death. People do hanky-panky along the way, thus they pollute their virtue of nobility. If nobility is ever precious to a person, that person will never, ever put himself or herself down the tube for any reason, for any argument, concept, thought, or feeling whatsoever. Because nobility is like a mirror; once a crack is in it, the entire image is distorted. Noble habits, noble language, noble behavior, noble posture, and a noble way of communication are so powerfully impressive that even an enemy's heart can be melted.
The soul is always noble. When the mind relates to the soul, the mind becomes noble. When the body relates to such a mind, the body becomes noble. Nobility is the outcome of divinity in equilibrium.
Nobility is the foundation of every grace. Somebody once asked, "Define a noble person." The definition came and the answer was: "Noble is noble in the beginning, in the end, and remains noble through time and space, beyond and within. There is no area which is left. Nobility is a virtue; it is a fountain from which grace springs."
Nobility is cultivated only when one consciously relates to one's spirit and flow of the soul and one feels the total divinity within. It is a manifestation of divinity. Nobility takes one away from temptation, anger, lust, greed, unvirtuous and unrighteous living. It gives one a qualifying factor to impress everybody without impressing. That is the beauty of nobility. The way one talks, walks, sees, deals, serves, and gets served is a total sum of one's living behavior. There is a tremendous flow of spirit in a noble person. A noble person is a very powerful individual.
Everyone must remember that there are certain characteristics of a noble person, a noble woman. A noble person is noble through all time and space. A noble person is constant and consistent whatever the time and space. Some people behave differently with rich relatives as compared to poor relatives. That is not nobility. Nobility teaches one equality before God. So under any circumstances, one can find a noble person through their constant behavior which is absolute in equilibrium through all pressures and all shortcomings. That is one great sign. Constant continuity of equilibrium of any kind of behavior is the first sign of a noble person. A noble person is one who will not barter, who is not even tempted to barter, the values of character for benefit. Noble people are those who will not forget the presence of God within a person. And most importantly a noble person is a dedicated person, like the Infinity of God. God is Infinity. There is no shortcut, and people who try to shortcut will always end up adopting ignoble ways and means. It requires an infinite endurance to live within the range and the circumstances of one's nobility.
Student question: What can a woman do to protect her nobility during social and political changes?
Reply: In social and political changes, a woman must understand that whenever a woman becomes power hungry she becomes a monster. The Chinese dragon is a monster. It is a very beautiful view of such women who instead of flowing with the flow of noble tradition, become possessive monsters. I have seen in practical life, a noble mother becoming a possessive monster and ruining the future of her children because of her social, psychological, and personal handicaps. There is nothing more noble than the relationship of the mother, but in that same relationship, she becomes a destructive monster when she becomes possessive. A mother becomes possessive because of her social, economical, and personal handicaps.
Nobility has many, many facets and many, many virtues. It can be done in many, many ways. But nobility need not be ordained by the king touching a two-edged sword to your shoulder. All those rituals and things were ceremonial. Basically, nobility is the living character of dignity and divinity in a person. Nobility walks in one as dignity and divinity. We have to be noble because the time is going to test us. Times are going to be very negative. Therefore, it is my humble request and prayer that we must not let go of our devotional nobility of character, behavior, and personality and revert to our basic personality.
Student question: You said that nobility is like a mirror; when it is cracked it distorts the image. If one appears ignoble in front of a person, will one's nobility be distorted forever in the eyes of that person?
Reply: It may get healed but there shall be a scar. Nobility is like a trust; once it is broken, one has to rebuild it. It is like a credit report, therefore it is not very fair to discredit yourself.
Student question: What if our parents are not noble?
Reply: Forgive them.
Student question: Our forgiving is our way to be noble?
Reply: Yes. If one won't forgive the parents, one is not going to act nobly, because then one acts in vengeance.
Student question: What is an example of how to react in a noble way when people ridicule and slander you?
Reply: Have you not seen me acting? I am the most slandered person in the United States of America. The noble way to act towards a slanderer is to ignore him. It is the greatest punishment one can award to anybody.
Student question: If someone is walking down the street and someone yells out a name, does that mean one shouldn't react at all?
Reply: Do you know how bad you feel if someone doesn't even look at you? You should not lose your merits in contrast to someone's demerits.
Student question: How do we handle it when our personal friends resent it when we act nobly?
Reply: When a dog is on a chain, and the master walks with him in the street, all the stray dogs start barking. The only lesson we can learn from that is to keep going. Ignoble people will act very aggressively toward noble people, because they want to test whether they are really noble or are phony. The insecure person will always try to make a secure person insecure to test his security. That is the law.
Student question: Is there a difference between being noble and being true?
Reply: Truthfulness has three virtues: individual truth, circumstantial truth, and Infinite Truth. Nobility has only one virtue; it is true now, it is true ever, and ever it shall be true.
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19.08.16 Mikhaïlova-Makarius, Le présent de Marie
Ellen Thorington
The Medieval Review 19.08.16
Mikhaïlova-Makarius, Milena. Le Présent de Marie: Lecture des Lais de Marie de France. Courant critique. Geneva, Switzerland: Droz, 2018. pp. 168. ISBN: 978-2-600-05927-5 (paperback).
emthorington@bsu.edu
This second edition of Milena Mikhaïlova-Makarius's Le présent de Marie: Lecture des Laisde Marie de France (Droz: 2018) offers a rich reading of Marie's twelfth-century Lais. The author has reworked her introduction, added a bibliography and refined her argument throughout. Mikhaïlova-Makarius focuses on the Lais as a whole, playing on the notion of "present" in the sense of both time and gift. Basing her argument in a careful reading of the Prologue, Mikhaïlova-Makarius sees the act of writing and composition as Marie's way of participating in jointure (joining) and largesse as a way to overcome déchirure (fracture). She makes the case that Marie intended the Lais as a thematically unified collection that bring together past and present, and repair déchirure through jointure in order to forge a "granz biens."
Mikhaïlova-Makarius divides her discussion into five chapters, each of which analyzes a set of lais. The chapters can be read as separate essays; however, the work is unified and a cover-to-cover reading reveals the logical progression of Mikhaïlova-Makarius's argument. The first chapter explores dépiecement (cutting apart) and intégrité (wholeness) in the lais of Guigemar and Yonec demonstrating that each instance of rupture (e.g., Guigemar's wound) has its healing binary (e.g., his initiation in love). Geographic space itself is parallel, for in each case, the lady's prison is the lover's magical dreamlike otherworld, and her otherworld is his reality. Mikhaïlova-Makarius's discussion of Yonec introduces a main theme of her argument: composition and aural-textual transmission of a story (here of Yonec's birth) allows for continuity between past and present, and a way to keep truth from being forgotten. Mikhaïlova-Makarius links this to Marie's own role as gift-giver whose retelling of these stories brings them into her own present, keeps them from oblivion and makes them live again in her Lais.
The second chapter examines the lais of Deux Amanz, Fresne, and Milun through the lens of paternal sterility. In the first two lais, parental failures cut off a child from her rightful destiny. Only generosity and forgiveness surmount the rupture that ensues and enable both storytelling and memory (or memorializing). Naming and re-fertilization overcome the death of the lovers in Deux Amanz, giving new life to their story. This is a granz biens: just as the mountain flowers anew thanks to the magic potion, the lovers' story flowers in Marie's retelling. In Fresne, Fresne's gift of her coverlet to her lover and his bride is an act of supreme generosity and pardon. These overcome her mother's crime and the sterility of Fresne's name. By allowing memory to flourish, they restore her identity. These themes of fertility recall Marie's own project: writing is the act of creation (trover) and naming (the lai, the lost daughter); it finds what is hidden and composes and glosses the sens. Mikhaïlova-Makarius's discussion of Milun also explores the theme of generosity as the means by which father and son are reunited. The son's gifts to his father of life and subsequently of forgiveness, restore their relationship, permitting the ultimate jointure when the son gives his mother to his father in marriage. From rupture, forgiveness and generosity bring (re)union.
Mikhaïlova-Makarius's discussion of Equitan and Bisclavret (chapter 3) focuses on justice. She argues that Equitan is a lai "à l'envers" (91) where the lai genre and the love story are turned upside-down becoming instead a fabiliau-esque tale of justice. This inversion of genres is echoed within the lai, as the king and his seneschal switch places. The king forgets his duties; the seneschal, in contrast, is left to uphold the law. From the moral degradation and disorder caused by the lack of restraint on the part of the lovers and the resulting inversions, the husband's actions reassert order from confusion, rescuing lai from fabliau. The discussion of Bisclavret examines similar transpositions: the wife displays bestiality in human form while her werewolf husband demonstrates his humanity in bestial form. Although forgiveness seems impossible in this case, Mikhaïlova-Makarius likens the punishment, when Bislcavret bites off his wife's nose, to leprosy. Seen in this light, the punishment allows the wife to expiate her sins. It is a gift in its own way, and this largesse (her noselessness, and that of some of her female descendants) becomes the visual symbol that puts her sin and its expiation into memory.
Naming and dépiècement are at issue in chapter 4, which considers Chativel, Laüstic and Chievrefoil. In Chativel the lady's inability to differentiate between her four suitors leads to the death of three and the maiming of the fourth. While she tries to reunite them under one name, the Quatre doels, the maimed knight suggests the name Chativel, which memorializes his suffering and maintains his now unique identity. Both possibilities surmount tragedy through poetic creation; the ultimate naming of the lai reveals Marie's sens. This same technique is at work in Laüstic, where the nightingale's appearance in the story and then immediate execution is a dépiècement that can only be healed through acts of jointure: first, the lady's gift to her lover (message and object) of the dead nightingale and embroidered cloth; second, the lover's understanding and memorializing of that gift, and finally Marie's own retelling of their story. Marie's lai is a gift of eloquence and song which breaks silence to ensure both an oral and a written transmission, and triumphs over death to create memory. The discussion of Chievrefoil explores diversion and detour as a means to jointure. From the detour within the forest that will permit the lovers to see each other, to the cut branch which becomes the means of their joining, to the detour through memory that enables the queen to understand the message Tristan sends, to the narrative detour which separates the cut branch from its message within the text, each element in the story takes an alternate path on its way to jointure both within the lai, and within the intertwined symbol of the honeysuckle and the hazel tree. This joining, within Tristan's song and Marie's lai, assembles the pieces and the sens, and allows them to live anew.
The last chapter examines the notion of largesse in Eliduc, Lanval, and the Prologue itself. In Eliduc, the exchange of gifts is fundamental. Guildaluëc gifts Eliduc with the life of Guilliadon, and then, with both forgiveness and the freedom to marry his new love. The lovers return her gift in kind when they ultimately decide to offer their lives to God and to her by withdrawing from the world. Following on the importance of gift-giving, Mikhaïlova-Makarius discusses the Prologue to the Lais as a treatise on poetic generosity. She argues that Marie sees the gift of wisdom and eloquence as divine but as imbued with obligation: one must share a granz biens. Marie's gift to the king makes her both generous and generatrix (146). She provides him with a "present" of her Lais; this present is intended to take root in his heart and find new life (146). Keeping notions of courtly largesse in mind, Mikhaïlova-Makarius turns toLanval where King Arthur's lack of generosity leaves Lanval forgotten. Only the fairy's willingness to intervene and to forgive Lanval for his faults, saves him from oblivion, reestablishes truth, and rights the injustice within the feudal world. Mikhaïlova-Makarius sees Marie's act of writing as more than just a gift to the king: it is an act of courtly generosity akin to that of Lanval's fairy. Hidden within sources, the author is a creator figure in the image of God and of the fairy, whose generosity allows past, present and future to come together (153).
Mikhaïlova-Makarius concludes that this notion of generosity, of a granz biens, serves as the common thread that hold the Lais together as a collection. She argues that Marie sees largesse as the way to bring together the past and her own time with that of her reader. The weaving together of jointure and don with their accompanying themes become for Mikhaïlova-Makarius a melody, like the song of the troubadours, which Marie offers to us for our listening pleasure.
Mikhaïlova-Makarius's second edition brings this fine reading of Marie's Lais up to date through the addition of a bibliography and incorporation of recent scholarship. Roger Dragonetti's introduction has been dropped from this edition, making the work more fully the author's own. The welcome incorporation of recent scholarship covers the majority of works relevant to the author's argument. Nevertheless, it might have been useful to include a mention of Carla Rossi's important recent work on Marie's identity. Overall, Mikhaïlova-Makarius's argument is enlightening, and she makes an excellent case for the Lais as a work unified through the notion of generosity. Her argument is convincing and based in a well-researched thematic and semantic analysis. A fuller consideration of rhetorico-poetic devices might have enhanced this already rich discussion: chiasmus, rhyme and enjambment, which Marie uses in abundance, are all figures of poetic jointure. Nevertheless, these are minor considerations in such a valuable contribution to our understanding of the work of Marie de France and the granz biens that flows from Marie's Lais to our own time.
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What To Write for Your Blog Tour (9:58)
Giveaway Language (7:33)
Once You Get a YES from a Blogger (2:35)
Build the Blog Tour Web Page (5:50)
Marketing the Start of the Blog Tour (6:03)
During the Blog Tour, How To Keep The Momentum
Daily Checklist of Activities During Your Blog Tour (5:18)
Attitude is Everything, And So is Community (2:14)
Tracking During The Tour (2:50)
Using Photos and Video To Promote Your Blog Tour (Optional and Fun!) (2:27)
After Your Blog Tour: Follow Up Activities
Follow up with Your Bloggers (3:35)
Follow Up with Your Blog Stop Winners (2:23)
Follow Up with Your Grand Prize Winner (1:53)
Marketing Follow up (3:07)
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The Cyber Heists Banks Don't Want You To Know About
By Charles Benavidez - May 30, 2018, 5:00 PM CDT
Bank robberies aren’t as exciting as they used to be when they were the stuff of Ocean’s Eleven style, or the coarser Bonnie and Clyde. No more black balaclavas or dead president masks. No more guns, no more physical threats. This is the age of the cyber thief, and Mexico’s recent $110-million bank heist didn’t even require a criminal to touch the money at all. With a push of a button it was gone--almost.
Gone, too, is the excitement of getting caught up in a bank robbery as dramatized on television. But the lack of physical excitement also means that no one needs to know when a bank’s been robbed. It’s all cyber, so it can all be kept on the down low.
That’s what happened when cyber bank thieves attempted to steal $110 million from Mexico’s Bancomext in January, and managed to keep the public from knowing until four months later.
According to Bloomberg, the cyber thieves are suspected of being North Korean and they infiltrated accounts in dozens of branch offices and then created phantom orders that wired funds to bogus accounts they set up. The accounts they infiltrated were at the Standard Chartered Plc accounts Bancomext uses for international wires.
And the North Korea suspicions arise from the fact that the transfers were disguised as donations from the Mexican bank to a Korean church.
The money never made it to its final destination thanks to some mid-level technician monitoring messages on the SWIFT network, and his alert came at a fortunate time: Banks in Korea were closed at the moment and Bancomext had enough time to reverse the wire transfers before the money was gone forever.
Mexico’s Central Bank has been rather lacking in measures to prevent cyber theft. That’s probably why the country’s domestic inter-bank payments system (SPEI) has lost $15 million in irregular transactions.
According to Reuters, phantom transfers have cost Mexican banks dearly, but silence reigns as banks try to avoid being punished for their failure to implement legally mandated protocols to guard against cyberattacks.
Mexico isn’t the only country dealing with cyber theft from banks. Related: Bitcoin Fights Back After Hitting Monthly Low
Two years ago, cyber criminals made away with $100 million from the Bangladesh central bank, by way of the New York Federal Reserve.
Ecuador's Banco del Austro and Vietnam's Tien Phong Commercial Joint Stock Bank were also victimized by hackers.
We don’t hear about it because banks don’t like to share—much like the American intelligence agencies don’t. While banks are necessarily wondering when the next boot is going to drop as cybercrime takes on a level that is increasingly difficult to combat, they’re also slightly (tongue-in-cheek) relieved that bank robberies are no longer physically flashy and very public. Balaclavas and machine guns make for runs on banks by jittery customers. With cybercrime, what depositors don’t know, won’t hurt them—so the logic goes.
But hackers are basking in this banking logic, and they’re counting on banks not sharing the threat.
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German bishop calls for Islam to be taught in all state schools
The Independent is reporting that the head of the German Protestant Church has called for Islam to be taught in all state schools in order to prevent young Muslims from being drawn into radicalisation.
Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, who leads the Evangelical Lutheran Church, said teaching “extensive” Islam classes in German schools would give Muslim students the chance to adopt a critical approach to their own religion.
In an interview with the Heilbronner Stimme newspaper, the bishop said all faiths in Germany must be compatible with the country’s democratic constitution.
“Tolerance, religious freedom and freedom of conscience must apply to all religions,” he said.
Mr Bedford-Strohm’s proposed that Islamic associations in Germany should be responsible for the courses and said he hoped they would organise themselves to be a “clear partner” for the German state.
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SchoolsImprove Bishops should be promoting the teaching and understanding of Christianity to Muslims…as Cardinal Koch has said.
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SchoolsImprove I would have no problem with that – as long as they get the complete unvarnished truth about Islam. (Some hope.)
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Antarctica: A Greenhouse Gas Hotspot?
New study suggests that huge amounts of the greenhouse gas methane could be hiding underneath the ice of Antarctica.
By Tara Thean Aug. 29, 2012
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Snow-covered Antarctic mountains at sunset
With brutal blizzards, dry air, and some of the coldest temperatures on earth, the Antarctic is inhospitable to the best of us. But not, apparently, to the 21,000 billion metric tons of organic carbon that could be producing up to four billion metric tons of methane – a potent greenhouse gas – beneath the continent.
In a new study, scientists have discovered that sedimentary basins beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet contain huge quantities of organic carbon that work in concert with microbes to produce methane. The microbes metabolize the organic carbon to carbon dioxide and methane gas. Coupled with the lack of oxygen under ice sheets, these conditions are “the perfect ingredients for methanogenesis,” University of Bristol professor of glaciology Jemma Wadham said. Their findings were published in the August 30 issue of Nature.
“It is easy to forget that before 35 million years ago, when the current period of Antarctic glaciations started, this continent was teeming with life,” University of California-Santa Cruz earth and planetary sciences professor Slawek Tulaczyk said in a statement. Sedimentary basins in the Antarctic may have contained over ten times more organic carbon than parts of the Arctic, according to the study. “Our modeling shows that over millions of years, microbes may have turned this old organic carbon into methane.”
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The researchers used an established numerical model to simulate how much methane might accumulate below the sea floor. The model demonstrated that most of the organic carbon eventually turns into methane hydrate – an ice-like solid structure in which water molecules surround methane – because of the Antarctic’s low temperature, high pressure conditions. The rest becomes free methane gas. Because the methane hydrate inventories are likely to be located at shallow depths, ice-sheet melting could cause the gas to come out of hiding and enter the atmosphere, the scientists said. They noted, however, that this is still speculation – there’s a lot of uncertainty left about how much methane could be lurking down there. For the moment, the study simply raises questions about the possibility.
“It’s always difficult to talk about risk, especially risk that has to do with natural processes,” Tulaczyk said.
Wadham noted that their findings might even have a positive spin to them if the Antarctic methane hydrate could one day become another energy source. Natural gas is, after all, mostly made up of methane. But that’s far off until there is an economically viable way to get that methane out – the lack of an airport or harbor and any other infrastructure with which to do this undercuts the possibility for now, not to mention the Antarctic Treaty’s prohibition of mineral mining on the continent. For now, the spotlight is on how, for all its remoteness, Antarctica may be a far larger player in the climate game than we’ve appreciated in the past, and one we’d be smart not to ignore.
Tara Thean is a contributor at TIME. Find her on Twitter at @tarathean. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.
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Voyager, 11 Billion Miles Later: Photos from the Depths of Our Solar System
For 33 years, America's Voyager spacecraft have been flying toward the edges of our solar system. TIME surveys the most notable interstellar scenes captured by the Voyager's cameras along the way.
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A technician checks a test model of a Voyager spacecraft at the SAEF-1 facility at the Kennedy Space Centre, Cape Canaveral, Fla. Two Voyager spacecraft were launched in 1977 to explore the planets in the outer Solar System and both were successful, returning many high quality pictures as well as scientific data.
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Brain scans may predict future abilities of kids with fragile X syndrome
Author Erin DigitalePublished on September 21, 2017 December 20, 2017
One of the big challenges of raising a child with developmental disabilities is the struggle to predict the future: How much will the child be capable of learning? What kind of support will he need? What abilities will she have in the long term?
In new research published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a Stanford-led team has shown that early brain scans may help answer these future-oriented questions for children with fragile X syndrome, the most common genetic cause of developmental disabilities and autism. Ultimately, some children with fragile X have more severe impairments than others, but in early life it's hard to tell how any individual child will progress.
To help provide earlier guidance to families and caregivers, neurodevelopmental disorder experts Allan Reiss, MD, Jennifer Bruno, PhD, and their colleagues examined a group of boys with fragile X. (Because of how fragile X syndrome is inherited, girls are usually much less severely affected, so studies of the disease tend to focus on one sex.) In 2014, the team found that applying a new method of data analysis to anatomical data from MRI scans taken around age 3 could be used to divide fragile X boys into two groups with lower and higher levels of cognitive and behavioral functioning.
In the new study, the team followed up on the same boys, conducting repeat MRIs around age 5. They could still pick out the same two groups from the brain-scan data, and the higher-functioning children still had better adaptive functioning and cognition and less severe symptoms of autism at age 5.
The longitudinal study design increased the researchers' confidence in the predictive value of early brain scans. Importantly, membership in the two groups stayed stable: of 41 children scanned at ages 3 and 5, 16 were originally classified as higher-functioning, and all of them remained in this group. Of those in the lower-functioning group at age 3, four moved up to the higher-functioning group by age 5; the others remained lower-functioning.
"These results confirm the presence of two longitudinally defined, neuroanatomically distinct subgroups that are associated with clinically relevant phenotypes among young boys with fragile X syndrome," the scientists write in their paper's conclusion. "This information may be utilized to predict outcomes and guide design of targeted therapies for individuals with FXS."
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About Izak
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SRDDW - Single Repeat Dozen Double Win Roulette System
SRDDW
Single Repeat Dozen Double Win Roulette System
"has absolutely no abandoned runs"
by Izak Matatya
Here is my latest system - SRDDW - the Single Repeat Dozen Double Win Roulette system.
It feels like the name says it all. Yes, it's only a Roulette system, since it bets on Dozens and it bets on single dozens for repeating dozens and closes runs on double wins. However, there is a lot more to it than that. Yes, a traditional system could make some profits this way, but it would require the betting of hundreds of units for a lot of runs and the end profit would not exceed some 900 units for the entire 15,000 spins of the Zumma tester book.
SRDDW uses a very special technique, method and money management to avoid bets to reach high amounts and the end profit attains +2,398 units without a single abandoned run.
Yes, every run is completed with either 1 or 2 units profit. Bets normally do not reach high levels like the older traditional systems.
The method is totally out of the box, very different than the others you're acquainted with. Runs are not closed the traditional way. Counts are not reset the way you are used to when runs are closed. Runs may start with profits of 6-10 units, which are used to our advantage in order not to raise bets throughout the entire run.
The main disadvantage of the traditional systems in double win strategies were the numerous single wins, that required the raising of the bets in order to close runs on the second consecutive win. It's no longer the case with SRDDW, which terminates a large percentage of all runs within 1 unit flat bet mode even after a large number of single wins.
This is due to the ingenuity of this new method of betting.
After having designed 59 systems, I needed to come up with something with a totally different concept and SRDDW is the result of this recent extensive research.
The following chart shows the tremendous performance of this system unmatched to any other system's performance.
A linearly rising profit chart with no losing runs whatsoever on a double zero Roulette game with 5.26% house advantage. Truly amazing!
The system comes with a full MS-Excel simulation of the entire Zumma 15,000 spins verified for authenticity and integrity. You can study the details of each run and see how each one of them is closed fully.
The maximum bet limit is set to 223 units, which enables this performance. This high bet is placed only once throughout the entire system. The remaining time bets are controlled at a pretty low level.
A lifetime bankroll of 668 units are sufficient should you ever start your play with the worse case scenario. Otherwise, 213 units are the lowest you can ever go with this system, before you reach +2,398 units at the end of 15,000 spins.
This gives you an average profit of 1 unit every 6.25 spins or 0.16 units per spin. If a spin takes a minute, the system will profit you 10 units per hour. At $10 bets, this means about $100 per hour consistently.
The system is not complex and the new concept will be simple to understand when you study the fully detailed two examples. the system document is only 12 pages of easy reading. Blank templates are provided for you to print and take to the casino in order to use the system most efficiently.
SRDDW goes for $400 and is worth every penny. Early bird purchasers can have the system at 50% discount for $200 only, if you buy the system for the next 2 weeks until November 4, 2014.
As usual, your full satisfaction is guaranteed. If not, you can have your money back within 30 days of your purchase, no strings attached, no questions asked.
Izak Matatya
Frequently Asked Questions on SRDDW
First of all, some testimonials:
"I think this is the ideal system to meet my needs!"
"I will say this is the best roulette system I have seen that allows you to bet every outcome!"
And general review and comments from the forum:
"Is this the best system on the market for Roulette. This will depend like everything else what your expectations are for a system. Some people will question putting 297 units or 260 units on a single bet. What I would say to them is what do you expect from a system that bets every decision and is attempting to overcome a HE of over 5% bets are going to get large.
I think this is the ideal system to meet my needs and here is why: I play for comps and make my real money playing craps as posted here on LTW. Over the past 4 to 6 weeks I had the idea of playing video roulette betting red and black at the same time and only starting system play after some 0 or 00 only long enough to recover units lost and then go back and flat bet. This can be done for 25 cent bets and can earn your free rooms meals and such.
Well from what I can see the newest system will allow me to do the same thing and control at what point I would like to start system play.
Izak needs to produce a system that does not take breaks or stop play and I think he has done a great job with this system So much so I was going to go play it live today but work has called and I must go work a 16 hour shift
Things you may want to know:
1 Pen a paper needed
2 Each spin you write down 10 things to fill out the template
3 Some simple math skills are need or a calculator on a phone
Due to these 3 factors I was going to play live and win back only money lost on zeros until I had felt like I could write 10 things down between spins and do the simple math in a timely manner.
If you want to bet every out come but keep bets lower Try the Parlay system the last roulette only system before this one came out. Even if you are reading this and saying so what he back tested it and got it to work that was some kind of back testing. And my entry points for live play will allow us to identify just how many bets are needed to close every run in a worse case on a run from hell not found in Zumma
I will address this now 2,398 units without a single abandoned run. Comes out to 599.50 dollars for a 25 cent player for 15,000 spins.
Great job Izak!"
And now your questions answered:
Q: I would like to know what is the max bet placed so I will have an idea on table range needed. Also I would like to know if you bet every outcome.
A: Quoting from the system document:
"All the runs throughout the entire Zumma 15,000 spins are closed provided we have set a maximum bet limit of 223 units. To set this limit means that if the next bet exceeds this amount, which happens to be 334, we close the run after that, regardless of if we win the bet or not. We happen to win it.
A total of 986 runs were closed. The highest drawdown is -668, which is twice the placed bet of 334 units, which happens only once at spin 13,563. The remaining time the bets remain way under."
The 223 high bet limit is set in order not to have any abandoned runs at all for the entire 15,000 Zumma spins. Now, if we set this limit to bet 200, the highest bet becomes:
Max bet limit: 200
Actual max bet placed: 297
End Profit: 1732
Drawdown: -667
with only one abandoned run.
Two abandoned runs would be with the following parameters:
Q: Do you feel that there is a difference in Air ball, video, and live roulette?
A: Absolutely no difference between any type of roulette. Any table would generate a random number between 0 and 36 and that's all the system cares about.
Q: "3 1 2 3 2 1 3 3 1 2 2 2 3 0 3 1 3 3 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 3 2 1 3 3 3 2 3 3 3 1 1 2 2 1 2 3 3 1 1 3 1 3 1 2 1 3 0 2 3 3 2 3 3 2 3 2 2 2 1 3 3 3 1 2 2 3 2 2 1 3 3 2 3 2
From Zumma single zero tester page 1 does the system beat this?
A: Well, just by visualization, you can tell any three same dozens showing up (in bold below) shows a double win, thus the surely closure of a run with a profit.
3 1 2 3 2 1 3 3 1 2 2 2 3 0 3 1 3 3 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 3 2 1 3 3 3 2 3 3 3 1 1 2 2 1 2 3 3 1 1 3 1 3 1 2 1 3 0 2 3 3 2 3 3 2 3 2 2 2 1 3 3 3 1 2 2 3 2 2 1 3 3 2 3 2
What happens in between is handled very nicely by the system. It may even show profits, as each win gives you the double of what you have bet. Thus a sequence of 1 1 2 2 1 2 3 3 1 1 is a W L W L L L W L W after the third run above and which does not have any double wins, gives more profits than losses.
Q: What do we do about on-line casinos, which have only a range of 1-100, if the bets go above 100?
A: What you can do is to navigate tables. Some tables start $1-$100. Other tables $10 - $1000. They are both at the range of 1-100, but starting with the small limit and navigating to a larger limit is equivalent of using a 1-1000 type of table. As far as the system and the outcome is concerned this does not constitute a problem.
Q: Would your system work for Baccarat?
A: Yes, as a matter of fact, I just applied the new concept to the 1000 Baccarat shoes and the result was an end profit of +2,866.25 units taking commissions into account, all 1000 shoes played continuously with no interruption. Max bet limit was 212 units, similar to the roulette version.
Purchasers can request this Baccarat simulation and I will send it to them with no extra charge.
Q: Izak you mentioned this system will also work for Bac making 2800+ units for the 1000 Zuma shoes. How is this possible when you are making even money bets in Bac and 2 to 1 bets in roulette? Does this infer it can play other even money games such as craps?
A: I don't see why not. 2800 units profit for 1000 shoes makes an average profit of 2.8 units per shoe or per 70 decisions of a shoe, thus averaging 0.04 units per decision.
For 15,000 roulette spins, you're making 2400 units, thus averaging 0.16 units per spin, which is 4 times as much.
You can increase the average in either mode or game. For instance, in Baccarat you could bet a unit or two more while closing a run and this will amount to a profit of 3336.25 units for 1000 shoes.
In Roulette, you can double your profits, too, by applying the same strategy for columns simultaneously.
You need to consider the speed of the game, as well. A roulette spin may take a minute and more in crowded tables. A Baccarat decision is 3-4 times faster. So your average profit may reach similar proportions.
In Craps, a Pass-line or Don't Pass-line decision could be also slower, but the strategy is equally applicable.
I thank all of you for your feedback, review and reporting on the system.
SRDDW goes for $400 and is worth every penny. Early bird purchasers can have the system at 50% discount for $200 only, if you buy the system until November 4, 2014.
Izak
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Space Stars
1981 - 1981 • NBC • 49 hours
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Space Stars ran four cartoon segments each week: Space Ghost, The Herculoids, Teen Force, and Astro and the Space Mutts. The cartoons would occasionally cross-over into one another. Space Ghost and the Herculoids both had their own respective series in the mid-1960s. Teen Force and Astro and the Space ... More Mutts are both new segments, although the Astro character was originally the family dog from The Jetsons. Less
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We're smart enough to think for ourselves, Mr. President
"And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet … And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered … And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron … And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon." Revelations 12. Above, William Blake's "The Great Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun" (c. 1806-1809, watercolor, Brooklyn Museum).
"Lacking connections with the local political machine, he connected directly with Illinois voters," a cluelessly smitten "nudgey" Cass Sunstein wrote in a puffy paean to then Senator Barack Obama back in July of 2004, guest-blogging for Glenn Reynolds. When the "well-thought-of liberal academic" was appointed last spring as head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (AKA regulatory czar), libertarian Professor Reynolds supported President Obama's selection with a caveat:
While he and I disagree on plenty, I think he’s an honest, decent and very smart guy who wants to help the country. Since I’m not going to get someone who agrees with me about everything from the Obama Administration (heck, I didn’t get that from the Bush Administration) that ought to be enough, and I think that efforts to block his appointment are both unfair and not very smart.
Sunstein's appointment was confirmed in September, and now there's talk of a Supreme Court nomination. Reynolds is skeptical, wondering "if he doesn't have too much baggage," but that's not where we're going with this post. Instead, let's focus on the idiot savant factor. How can such a razor-sharp intellect be so doornail-dumb when it comes to human nature and the way of the world? From that 2004 blogpost, "The Democrats' New Star":
Obama is a genuinely independent thinker; you can't pigeonhole him. Like many Republican leaders, he's centrally concerned about economic growth. He knows the importance of free enterprise, and he has the courage to speak bluntly to union members about the benefits of free trade. Like the most sophisticated Democrats, he seeks ways of providing jobs and opportunities without busting the federal budget. Far from demonizing his political opponents, he compromises with them and is willing to learn from them. He's also someone of unquestioned integrity and good will.
Arggghhh! Every line cries out for a fisking, but let's focus on the one about not "demonizing his political opponents." This very day, even as dirt-digging and -manufacturing minions worked under the radar 24/7 to discredit the motives of the good people of this army of Davids, the President himself, after dropping a gratuitous reference to fringy "birthers" questioning his legitimacy as a US citizen, told NBC that "he recognizes the [Tea Party] movement involves 'folks who have legitimate concerns' about the national debt and whether the government is taking on too many difficult issues simultaneously." Too many difficult issues? It's not the number nor the difficulty of the issues that troubles us, Mr. President. It's your transparent lunge for the jugular of the nation, taking advantage of every "serious crisis," manufactured or real, to subsume our God-given liberties in a soul-deadening statist power grab.
One final note for context, from our July 2008 post "The facts are irrelevant":
Then there's "libertarian paternalism," a subliminal approach to political persuasion that has "caught the imagination of top politicians" including Barack Obama, according to a breathless London Times interview of behavioral scientist Richard Thaler, co-author with Cass Sunstein of Nudge:
So why the political interest? Because you can influence people's choices without being accused of "nannying" and it is cheap. Or, as the authors put it: "If incentives and nudges replace requirements and bans, government will be both smaller and more modest … In short, libertarian paternalism is neither left nor right, neither Democratic nor Republican. In many areas, the most thoughtful Democrats are going beyond their enthusiasm for choice-eliminating programs. In many areas, the most thoughtful Republicans are abandoning their knee-jerk opposition to constructive governmental initiatives."
Considering ourselves among "the most thoughtful Republicans," we are skeptical. So is David Gordon of the Ludwig von Mises Intitute, who notes that "Tocqueville long ago warned against the policies of which libertarian paternalismm is an example."
As we said in the punchline to that post, "We're smart enough, Barack Obama. Oh, and we're not a racist."
Posted by Sissy Willis on March 30, 2010 at 08:01 PM in Great works, Health Care Debate, Tea Parties | Permalink
Tags: cass sunstein, fisking, nudging, obama, obamacare
That is all the Kenyan wetback DOES - every opponent, anyone who ever says "no" to him, pierces that tissue-paper thin skin and causes him to react with hauteur and fury! And yes, Sissy, I agree with you. I am definitely smart enough to think for my own doggone self!
Happy Easter to you and Tuck and Goomp and your sister and the precious and beautiful Miss Tiny!
With love from Gayle, Rusty and Buddy.
Posted by: Gayle Miller | March 31, 2010 at 10:32 AM
Cass Sunstein on the Supreme Court?? Jesus.
Posted by: knox | March 31, 2010 at 08:53 PM
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JAWS 13 and Phonetic Symbols
On April 20, 2012 By Elizabeth Pyatt
A a linguist, I work with lots of exotic symbols, but only a small percentage of them are recognized by the standard U.S. of JAWS. If you work with phonetic symbols like /ə, ʃ,ʒ,ɰ/ you will need to tweak your pronunciation files. I wrote about this in an earlier post on JAWS 6, but [...]
Unicode 6.1 Additions
On February 10, 2012 By Elizabeth Pyatt
The Unicode standard was just updated to version 6.1, and that means new blocks and characters. New Blocks Blocks added included Miao (script developed for Hmong/Miao languages), Merotic Heiroglyphic & Merotic Cursive (adaptation of Egyptian heirogphys from ancient Meroë in what is now Northern Sudan) and multiple scripts from India (Sora Sompeng, Chakma, Sharada, [...]
i18n Enhancements Announced for Mac OSX 10.7 (Lion)
On June 7, 2011 By Elizabeth Pyatt
They’re kind of scattered, but it looks like the next version of Mac OSX will be bringing lots of good enhancements for those working outside of English. Asian Fonts and Text Input Support for many scripts from South Asia has been lagging behind Windows, so I am personally pleased to see fonts for Bengali, Kannada, [...]
New Rupee Symbol May Now Be U+20B9
On August 30, 2010 By Elizabeth Pyatt
As mentioned in this blog’s previous entry, the government of India has designated a new rupee symbol. One the the more interesting questions is how quickly it could be integrated into Unicode and other standards. According to Live Mint.com, the symbol has been voted into Unicode at code point U+20B9. That would be [...]
A New Rupee Symbol
In case you’ve ever wondered whether the Unicode standard will ever be “complete”, the answer is probably not. This was highlighted by the fact that India adopted a new rupee currency symbol just last month (July 2010). Winning design by Shri D Udaya Kumar. Image from Wikimedia Commons. Actually, the government of India [...]
Entry #100 – Still More about Middle Eastern Numbers
On March 5, 2009 By Elizabeth Pyatt
What better way to celebrate the 100th entry in this blog than with…a correction. It’s a humble reminder that just because you know a lot about Unicode doesn’t mean you can’t mess up a crucial detail. Way back in 2007, I posted an entry about generating Arabic (calligraphic) numbers in Microsoft Office (i.e. “١,٢,٣” [...]
SALRC – South Asia Language Resource Center
On February 9, 2009 By Elizabeth Pyatt
A great resource from my library is the South Asia Language Resource Center out of the University of Chicago. They include information about the major scripts of India and neighboring countries including font information (with samples). Address is http://salrc.uchicago.edu/.
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4 cups coconut milk
½ cup cornstarch
½ tsp. of salt
Cinnamon powder to decorate
The tembleque, as the name indicates, is a dessert that “trembles” due to its consistency. It is made with coconut milk and sprinkled with cinnamon to give it flavor or a special twist.
Many people consider it a pudding because of its creamy consistency; however, on the outside it is as firm as gelatin. The tembleque is made by Puerto Ricans, and although there is no specific time of the year to prepare it, it is mostly a dish for the Christmas season or for special events.
Begin by pouring cornstarch, salt and 1/2 cup of coconut milk in a deep bowl.
With a wire whisk, mix the ingredients until the mixture is smooth and mostly free of lumps.
The consistency should be smooth and even. Pour the remaining coconut milk and the sugar in a pot and mix well, without heating it.
Once mixed, heat at medium temperature until it boils. Once it has begun to boil, add the cornstarch mixture. Lower the fire to minimum heat and mix between 3 to 5 minutes, until mixture starts to thicken.
Once the tembleque mixture achieves a thick consistency, turn off heat and remove pot from burner.
Pour the mixture in deep plates or glasses (it depends on how you want to serve it), and sprinkle a little cinnamon on top. Let it cool at air temperature.
Once the tembleque has cooled, put it in the refrigerator and cover with plastic foil. This will prevent the formation of a crust at the top. Once it’s been in the refrigerator for a few hours, it will be ready to serve.
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Molina & Díaz: Immersió
Clarinetist Miquel Ramos joins the Seed family
01 Mar Clarinetist Miquel Ramos joins the Seed family
Posted at 22:39h in General by SEED
Seed Music’s line-up of artists has recently expanded with the incorporation of the young clarinettist, Miquel Ramos. With his excellent qualities as an interpreter, and brilliant debuts with ensembles both in Catalonia and across Europe, he is an outstanding member of his generation.
Ramos began studying the clarinet at the Escola Municipal de Música in Premià de Mar and continued at the Conservatori Professional de Música de Badalona, with Xavier Castillo, and at the ESMuC in Barcelona with Josep Fuster. He received coaching and advice from professionals such as Lorenzo Coppola and Vicent Alberola and completed his training at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck with international soloist, Sabine Meyer, graduating with honours, and being awarded study grants from JONDE/BBVA and the Possehl Stipendium. He played with the JONC orchestra and participated as a trainee in the Philharmonisches Orchester Lübeck. He is regularly invited to perform as clarinet soloist with orchestras such as the Festival Strings Luzern, Geneva Camerata, the Orquestra del Gran Teatre del Liceu, the OBC, the Philharmonisches Orchester Lübeck and the Orquesta de Radio Televisión Española, among others.
He is currently a member of the Spira Mirabilis project – which gives him the opportunity to play classical repertory on historical instruments – and of the renowned wind quintet Azahar Ensemble, who are constantly active. In 2016 he made his debut as soloist, performing the Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra, Op. 57, by Carl Nielsen with the Orquestra Camera Musicae at the Palau de la Música Catalana.
FORTHCOMING PROJECTS
Ramos will perform at the Palau de la Música Catalana on 20 June in the Cycle of Catalan Performers alongside other Seed Music artists. Together with Joel Bardolet, Carles Marigó and Pau Codina, the quartet will perform Quartet for the End of Time by Messiaen and two pieces by Philip Glass. Another project for the near future is the Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 by Brahms, a work that Ramos is preparing with the Lassus Quartett led by Joel Bardolet.
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Bellott v. Mountjoy: Witness Book listing those to be examined on Bellott's behalf in Trinity Term
Home Exhibition Family, legal & property recordsLegal and financial
REQ 1/199, ex parte Belott Trinity Term
Creator: Court of Requests
Call number and opening: REQ 1/199
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Item Creator
Court of Requests
REQ 1/199
Online Record
TAGS: UNESCO Memory of the World item, Manuscript, Legal and financial, 1610s, The National Archives (UK)
Shown here is the Witness Book, from Trinity term 1612, for the second round of depositions given in Bellott v. Mountjoy. The lawsuit, begun on January 28, 1612, was between Stephen Bellott and Christopher Mountjoy, head of a French Huguenot family living in Silver Street in Cripplegate Ward, just north of Cheapside and St. Paul’s Cathedral. Members of the household included Christopher and Marie Mountjoy, their only child Mary, and Stephen Bellott, an apprentice in the family business, the fabrication of elaborate and fashionable headpieces called “tires.” The lawsuit concerns negotiations which led to the marriage of Stephen and Mary on November 19, 1604. Bellott complains that his father-in-law subsequently reneged on an agreement to support the young couple financially. On May 11, 1612, William Shakespeare deposed as a witness. Depositions in the case reveal that Shakespeare, then a lodger in the Mountjoy household, had been engaged to persuade Bellott to enter the marriage.
The Court of Requests initiated three rounds of depositions in Bellott v. Mountjoy. In each round, Stephen Bellott is identified as the complainant, Christopher Mountjoy as the defendant. Here, for the second round, on behalf of the complainant, in Trinity term 1612, the witnesses are listed as Daniel Nicholas, William Eaton, George Wilkins, Humphrey Fludd, Christopher Weaver, and Noel Mountjoy. Although Shakespeare was called as a witness in the first round, he was not listed for this round, even though the fourth of the five interrogatories seems to have been addressed to him. The depositions for the second round were given on June 19, 1612.
Twenty-six documents survive from Bellott v. Mountjoy. Twelve of these refer to Shakespeare explicitly or implicitly (including one document with his signature), although the document shown here does not. The lawsuit is generally unremarkable and Shakespeare’s involvement is minor. However, the case does contribute to our understanding of Shakespeare's life: that in 1604 he was living in Silver Street with a family of French Huguenot tiremakers. In 1909 Charles William Wallace and his wife Hulda Berggren Wallace discovered Bellott v. Mountjoy in the Public Records Office, now The National Archives.
Semi-diplomatic transcription
[This transcription is pending final vetting. Transcriptions of Bellott. v. Mountjoy are based on Charles William Wallace, "Shakespeare and his London Associates, As Revealed in Recently Discovered Documents," University of Nebraska Studies, 10 no. 4 (1910), 260-360. This publication has a secondary pagination, followed here for individual entries: p. 24.]]
Stephen Bellott plaintiff
Xpofer Mountioy defendant
[List of deponents:]
Humfrey ffludd
Danyell Nicholas
George Wilkins
Xpofer Weaver
Nowell Mountioy
To learn more, read Alan H. Nelson's essay on lawsuits in Shakespeare's England.
Co-written by Folger Shakespeare Library staff and Alan H. Nelson
Charles William Wallace, "Shakespeare and his London Associates, as Revealed in Recently Discovered Documents" University of Nebraska Studies 10, no. 4 (1910): 24.
A full list of sources for Bellott v. Mountjoy is given under Bellott v. Mountjoy: First set of depositions.
Bellott v. Mountjoy: Bill of Complaint submitted for Stephen Bellott
Bellott v. Mountjoy: Answer submitted for Christopher Mountjoy
Bellott v. Mountjoy: The Replication of Stephen Bellott
Bellott v. Mountjoy: The Rejoinder of Christopher Mountjoy
Bellott v. Mountjoy: Compulsory Summons to Shakespeare and others for the first set of Interrogatories
Bellott v. Mountjoy: Witness Book listing Shakespeare and others to be examined on Bellott's behalf in Easter Term
Bellott v. Mountjoy: First set of depositions, on Bellott's behalf, including Shakespeare's signature
Bellott v. Mountjoy: Order to publish first set of depositions on Bellott's behalf and for the case hearing
Bellott v. Mountjoy: Order for postponing the publication and hearing, and to examine further witnesses
Bellott v. Mountjoy: Second set of depositions, on Bellott's behalf
Bellott v. Mountjoy: Witness Book listing those to be examined on Mountjoy's behalf in Trinity Term
Bellott v. Mountjoy: Third set of depositions, on Mountjoy's behalf
Bellott v. Mountjoy: Final Order referring the dispute to the French Church in London
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Netflix & BBC’s Gruesome Dracula Trailer Drops Just In Time For Halloween
The BBC and Netflix have teamed up to create the ultimate gruesome drama with a remake of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
With Halloween just days away I think it’s safe to say we’re at the height of the spooky season, with cobwebs decorating shop windows and horror films filling up the TV schedule.
So, what better time to be re-introduced to history’s most infamous vampire? No, not Edward Cullen, but Dracula himself.
Check out the trailer for the new show here:
The three-part series stars Danish actor Claes Bang, who won Best Actor in the European Film Awards for his 2017 film The Square.
Bang brings Count Dracula back to life in his natural habitat, Transylvania, in 1897, though the series follows the blood-drinking vampire as he draws his plans against Victorian London.
If the teaser trailer is anything to go by, Dracula doesn’t hold back when it comes to displaying that classic gothic gruesomeness through scenes which definitely aren’t for the faint of heart.
In just 46 seconds, we see a fly entering someone’s eyeball, a horrific shot of a loose fingernail, a disturbingly aggressive scene of someone hacking into some rare meat and, in true Dracula style, numerous bats.
We also get a first look at Bang in character, as he tells a terrified victim: ‘Try and stay calm, you’re doing very well.’
The stomach-churning scenes are accompanied by numerous screams which really highlight the series’ role as a horror, though unfortunately it’s not one we’ll be watching this Halloween.
While Dracula finished filming in August, the BBC and Netflix haven’t shared its official release date yet, instead opting for a vague ‘coming soon’.
The series is certainly one to look forward to, however, as it’s written by Sherlock’s Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat and directed by Jonny Campbell (Westworld), Damon Thomas (Killing Eve) and Paul McGuigan (Sherlock), suggesting the creators will work to make it follow in the footsteps of the great BBC dramas before it.
Speaking about the series, Moffat told the Radio Times:
There’s lots of things that are challenging about Dracula.
Having an evil lead character is actually really difficult. That’s been the main challenge I think. But how we’ve handled that you’ll have to wait and see.
Though there’s only three episodes in the series, they will each be feature-length, ensuring viewers get their fill of the iconic vampire.
Bang is joined in the series by The Crown’s John Heffernan, as well as Dolly Wells, Joanna Scanlan, Morfydd Clark, Sacha Dhawan, Jonathan Aris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Lyndsey Marshal, Chanel Cresswell, Matthew Beard and Lydia West.
Dracula will air on BBC One in the UK and on Netflix around the world.
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Tag: hillgrove baseball
GHSA Baseball 2019 Championship Previews
By: Brian Zwerner — SportalNews contributor
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May 17, 2019 (Atlanta, GA): The GHSA baseball championship games are heading to the Atlanta Braves and their minor league affiliate stadiums for the first time this year. It’s an exciting time for student-athletes as they get to compete where the big league players roam. Games will run from May 20-23, 2019 at SunTrust Park, Coolray Field, Historic Grayson Stadium, Luther Williams Field, and State Mutual Stadium. Schedule here.
7A Hillgrove vs Parkview: Parkview has dominated the top classification in the GHSA for many years, tallying seven titles total. They are the defending state champs and have been strong all season. They beat a strong North Gwinnett team in the semis and have put up solid defensive performances throughout the playoffs. Hillgrove has never climbed the GHSA baseball mountaintop, but they enter the title game with impressive wins over state powers Grayson and Mill Creek in the last two rounds. The Hawks were knocked out in the first round of the playoffs last year by Etowah, and they are looking to complete an incredible step forward this season.
6A Pope vs Heritage Conyers: the Pope Greyhounds have been the team to beat in 6A winning the last two state titles. They look to complete the Threepeat this season. They went to three games in their semifinal win over Harrison, recording two shutout victories. Lee County also took the Greyhounds to a third game in the quarterfinals, maybe opening the door for a new champion. Heritage Conyers might be the team to do it after scoring a three game series win over Effingham County in the semis. A win here would be the first title for Heritage Conyers and a big step up from their second round defeat last season.
5A Loganville vs Ola: much like Pope in the 6A classification, Loganville has been a runaway train in 5A. They have won the last two state titles and four overall. They cruised past Locust Grove and Thomas County in the last two rounds of the playoffs. Up this year in the finals is Ola. Ola had a tough road to the finals with a three game series against powerhouse Buford (a revenge game from last year’s quarterfinals) and then a tight battle with Decatur in the semis. Ola looks for their first GHSA state baseball title.
4A Denmark vs Northside Columbus: With defending champ Jefferson dropping down to 3A this season, the 4A Classification was guaranteed a new champion. The Denmark Danes are certainly making their presence felt in their first season at the new school. Denmark scored a three game win over a tough Blessed Trinity team in the semis and look to set the tone in 4A with a title in their first year. They will take on the Northside Patriots, who are also angling for their first GHSA baseball title. They knocked off a strong North Oconee team in three in the semis. After a surprising first round loss last year to a pesky Spalding team, Northside has already taken 4A by storm this season.
3A Pace Academy vs Pike County: The Pace Knights won three GHSA baseball titles in a row back in the 1990s but haven’t tasted greatness since. They snatched the region title this season from the defending champ Lovett Lions and have steamrolled the competition in the playoffs so far. They come into the final game hot, easily beating North Hall in the semis. Pike County has never won a baseball title, and they come into the champ game riding a great defensive streak. They have already had 3 shutouts in the playoffs and will need their best stuff to keep the Knights in check. Both these teams were knocked out of the playoffs last year by Morgan County.
2A Jeff Davis vs Rockmart: Jeff Davis won the 2A title back in 2017, their first GHSA baseball state championship. They look to add to the trophy case after a thrilling 13-12 third game win over Bleckley County. Jeff Davis made the semis last season before falling to runner up Berrian. Rockmart also needed three games to beat Callaway in the semis and Harlem in the quarters. Rockmart fell in the first round of the playoffs in 2018, and they are enjoying this season’s big run. Expect a tight series between these two as Rockmart goes for its first GHSA baseball title.
1A Public Schley County vs Gordon Lee: Schley County has captured the title twice in the last four years, the most recently in 2017. They needed three games to edge Irwin County and Commerce over the last two rounds. Gordon Lee is the defending 1A Public champ, with three total titles to their name. They have rolled through their opponents in their run to the finals, knocking off Bowdon in the semis. Bowdon got the better of Schley last year in the quarterfinals.
1A Private Tattnall Square vs Savannah Christian: Tattnall Square is the defending 1A Private state champ, and also took home the title in 2016. They look to make it three out of four after beating Hebron Christian and Strong Rock over the last two rounds, with both series going the distance. Savannah Christian got the title in 2017 to break up Tattnall’s run, and they are well positioned to do it again this season. They edged a strong Wesleyan team in three games in the semis to seal their spot in the title round. Last year Savannah Christian lost a tough three game series to Prince Ave, the runner-up last season.
Posted on May 17, 2019 Author sportalspaceCategories baseball, Top StoriesTags ghsa baseball, ghsa championships, high school baseball, hillgrove baseball, parkview baseball, pope baseballLeave a comment on GHSA Baseball 2019 Championship Previews
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Haftar Army Launches New Strikes on Tripoli International Airport - Reports
© REUTERS / Esam Omran Al-Fetori
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201904091073957786-haftar-libya-strike/
The forces of Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar have been closing in on the Libyan capital, which is controlled by the UN-backed government.
An aircraft of Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) is striking military positions at Tripoli's defunct international airport, south of the capital, Sky News Arabia reports.
A source from Haftar's entourage told Sputnik last Friday that his forces had assumed control over Tripoli International Airport. However, the Libya Ahrar TV channel reported on Monday that the Tripoli-based government had recaptured areas seized by forces loyal to Haftar, including at the airport.
On 4 April, the LNA commander ordered an offensive on Tripoli, controlled by the UN-supported interim Government of National Accord (GNA), to "liberate it from terrorists". His army earlier seized control over the cities of Surman and Garyan, located west and south of Tripoli, respectively.
The Tripoli government has mobilised additional forces and raised the emergency level to its maximum amid plans of the Libyan National Army to move further into GNA-controlled territories.
© AP Photo / Abdel Magid Al Fergany
EU Parl't Head Reminds France About Role in Gaddafi's Overthrow Amid Libya Chaos
A years-long civil conflict that broke out following the overthrowal and murder of the former head of state, Muammar Gaddafi, resulted in a split government, with the country's eastern and western parts being controlled by separate powers. The LNA-backed parliament, which was elected in 2014 and is based in the city of Tobruk, controls the east of Libya, while the internationally recognised government, established in 2015, governs Libya's western parts from Tripoli.
The United Nations announced that it would hold a conference in the central city of Ghadames on 14-16 April to discuss solutions to the conflict and set a date for organising country-wide elections.
Haftar and the GNA had already agreed in February to unite Libya's state institutions and hold general elections. In late March, the commander vowed to resolve the ongoing crisis "through the formation of the government of national unity" within the following two weeks.
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Libya Quagmire Could Continue for Years to Come - Researcher
Clinton Slams Trump's 'Cruelty' to Migrants, Reminded of Libya Crimes Online
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