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Lynn Welker
Lynn Welker is a mixed media painter who invents abstracted landscapes combining elements from the past and present. Through the spontaneous use of texture and color she leads the viewer on a seductive path of discovery.
As a former resource specialist with N-MUSD designing educational materials, Welker continues to be driven by the need to innovate. Without a preconceived notion of how a painting will look, she allows her imagery to gradually emerge. She paints intuitively, looking beyond the surface, reaching deeper, exploring the effects of erosion, sedimentation, weather and the passing of time
Growing up in Ohio, Lynn fondly remembers the freedom to explore nature in nearby woods and farmlands. After earning her BFA, BS and MA, this connection to the natural world has remained a primary inspiration. Moving to California expanded her artistic expression to include western landscapes. From desert vistas, to seaside villages, Welker emphasizes the structural geometry of and within an invented backdrop.
Blending the familiar with the unexpected, Welker shifts importance, if only briefly, from a world of technology to one that reconnects people to the richness of the land and its communities.
Canyon Symphony
30 x 24 in (76.20 x 60.96 cm)
48 x 36 in (121.92 x 91.44 cm)
Horse Canyon 2
Journey Through Time
22.50 x 16 in (57.15 x 40.64 cm)
Places in Time
Mixed Media-Paper-Framed Under Glass
7 x 11 x 1.50 in (17.78 x 27.94 x 3.81 cm)
Quiet Bluff 25x21 Acrylic on Paper
Ribbons of Reflection
River Runs Through
Sedona Meadow
Sunset Canyon
Village Sanctuary
Oil on Canvass
Where Rivers Used to Run
https://galleryofmodernmasters.com/art/canyon-symphony-by-lynn-welker
https://galleryofmodernmasters.com/art/ghost-ride-by-lynn-welker
https://galleryofmodernmasters.com/art/horse-canyon-2-by-lynn-welker
https://galleryofmodernmasters.com/art/journey-through-time-30x24-pap-by-lynn-welker
https://galleryofmodernmasters.com/art/places-in-time-by-lynn-welker
https://galleryofmodernmasters.com/art/quiet-bluff-25x21-acrylic-on-p-by-lynn-welker
https://galleryofmodernmasters.com/art/ribbons-of-reflection-by-lynn-welker
https://galleryofmodernmasters.com/art/river-runs-through-by-lynn-welker
https://galleryofmodernmasters.com/art/sedona-meadow-27x33-paper-fram-by-lynn-welker
https://galleryofmodernmasters.com/art/silent-passage-by-lynn-welker
https://galleryofmodernmasters.com/art/village-sanctuary-by-lynn-welker
https://galleryofmodernmasters.com/art/where-rivers-used-to-run-by-lynn-welker
Lynn Welker is a mixed media painter who invents abstracted landscapes combining elements from the past and present. Through the spontaneous use of texture and color she leads the viewer on a seductive path of discovery. As a former resource specialist with N-MUSD designing educational materials, Welker continues to be driven by the need to innovate. Without a preconceived notion of how a painting will look, she allows her imagery to gradually emerge. She paints intuitively, looking beyond the surface, reaching deeper, exploring the effects of erosion, sedimentation, weather and the passing of time Growing up in Ohio, Lynn fondly remembers the freedom to explore nature in nearby woods and farmlands. After earning her BFA, BS and MA, this connection to the natural world has remained a primary inspiration. Moving to California expanded her artistic expression to include western landscapes. From desert vistas, to seaside villages, Welker emphasizes the structural geometry of and within an invented backdrop. Blending the familiar with the unexpected, Welker shifts importance, if only briefly, from a world of technology to one that reconnects people to the richness of the land and its communities.
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Govt against fugitive Indians being allowed to defend themselves by local lawyers
Urges SC to end this practice until they surrender themselves to the jurisdiction of the local courts
Samanwaya Rautray
The central government on Monday objected to “fugitive” Indians being allowed to defend themselves in Indian courts through local lawyers, and urged the Supreme Court to end this practice till they surrendered themselves to the jurisdiction of the local courts.
The rule (in Indian courts) is first surrender yourself to the jurisdiction of the local courts and then your case will be heard, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta argued before a bench led by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi. He urged the top court to order Aditya Talwar, son of corporate lobbyist Deepak Talwar and wanted in connection with a money laundering case, to return to the country.
Appearing for the Enforcement Directorate, Mehta claimed that Talwar was an Indian passport holder who shifted to Antigua. This is a Rs 300-crore scam where money has been siphoned off to other countries, the government’s second senior-most lawyer told the court. The Talwars are accused of several illegalities in aviation deals during the UPA era. Deepak Talwar has been in ED’s custody since January.
The Delhi High Court had allowed Talwar junior to appear in the case before a special court through a counsel. The government has challenged this before the top court. Talwar’s lawyers Kapil Sibal and Mukul Rohatgi denied the government’s charges. Sibal claimed that Talwar wasn’t an Indian passport holder in the first place, and alleged that the government has slapped money laundering charges on him without even filing a chargesheet against him in a Central Bureau of Investigation case on the matter in 2017.
“How can there be illegal proceeds (of crime) without a chargesheet?” Sibal argued. He claimed that no summons were issued to Talwar in the case by CBI, and no witnesses were ever examined. The three-judge bench led by the CJI eventually stayed the proceedings before the special court. “Why should any indulgence be given to a fugitive is your argument?” the CJI observed before passing a short order. The bench issued notices to Talwar and set the next date of hearing on July 23.
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Facts About Dame Grease - American Hip Hop Record Producer
Published Thu Oct 31 2019 By aisha
Damon Blackman professionally known as Dame Grease is an American record artist and a record producer best known for his mixtapes, single "Love and Hate", "Feel The Rush", "Hologram Panda" and many more.
Dame was born on August 9, 1974, in The Bronx and was raised in Harlem which is the northern section of New York. Here are some facts about him;
What's his Net Worth?
Dame Black has an estimated net worth of $2 million from his multiple careers as a producer, rapper, record executive, creative director, and fashion designer. He earned this huge fortune by giving 23 years to his passion.
Aiming at Guinness World record
In 2016, Grease set a new plan to set a new Guinness World Record in the world of Hip Hop by producing and releasing the most Hip Hop songs in a single year.
Physical Measurements
Dame stands 5 feet 8 inches (176 cm) tall. His eye color is Violet and hair color is brown. Dame shoe size if 8 (US) and dress size are 4 (US).
11 most iconic beats produced by Dame
Dame Black's 11 most iconic beats have been produced by the 'The Produce Section' is the hub where beats, rhymes, and life connect which puts the spotlight on men and women who produce beats that are loved by the audience.
Never Doubts his work
Dame Grease Best instrumental volume 1: Respect the Producer
Grease never doubt his work as he doesn't do anything which he is not confident about. He is happy doing things he likes and now he is a successful rap producer. So, he is one of the
Spends Countless Hours Artists
Dame Black says that you need chemistry between producer and artists to create a rapport that will make his records new and unique. So, he spends countless hours with the artist by sitting down and learning with the artist to find new things in his every produced song
Took Break From Music
After giving his first hit in ’96/’97, he retired at his mid-2000s to create a new moment in the industry, to put together a new sound which is what Dame is all about. The main reason behind his break was to reinvent himself and take mixtapes back to the street.
Has his Own Blog
Dame has his own blog where he is trying to put all the things he is doing to music. He says everyone has the same content of representing blog but he is trying to do the blogging differently about technology, Hip Hop, and Girls.
Dame Black has been active on many social sites like Twitter and Instagram. He has 23.9k followers on Instagram with over 8,172 posts and 29.8k followers on twitter with 48k tweet over 6,399 likes.
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Ivy League Recognizes 2015 Fall All-Academic Honorees
PRINCETON, N.J. - The Ivy League has announced the names of 80 student-athletes – including 10 from Harvard – who have been named to the fall 2015 Academic All-Ivy League team.
The honorees are starters or key reserves on officially recognized varsity teams who have cumulative grade-point averages of at least 3.0. Each of the eight Ivy League schools nominates five men and five women from its eligible student-athletes.
Below are the student-athletes representing Harvard.
Scott Hosch
Senior, Economics
Asa S. Bushnell Cup winner as Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year ... All-Ivy League first team … Ranks eighth in school history with 4,255 passing yards ... Tied for sixth in program history with 30 TD passes ... His 2,827 passing yards ranked most for a season in school history and his 22 passing TDs was second most for a single year in program history ... His 3,033 total yards rank second most in school history for a single-season ... Finished fourth in Harvard history in completion percentage (.619) and ninth in career total offense (4,567 yards) ... His 198 completions was second-most and his 320 attempts was the third-most for a season in program history ... Led the Ivy League in total offense (303.3 yards per game) and passing yards (282.7 per game) ... Ranked sixth in the nation in passing yards per game, seventh in total offense, ninth in yards per pass attempt (8.86) and ninth in passing yards per completion (14.32).
Evan Mendez
Senior, Government
All-Ivy League second team … Paced the conference in minutes played and saves … Tallied five shutouts … Named the Ivy League Player of the Week Sept. 21 … Posted a 1.10 goals-against average on the season.
Thomas Purnell
Team captain … Individual champion at Harvard-Princeton-Yale meet … Top Harvard finisher at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships and Wisconsin Adidas Invite.
Cole Toner
AP All-America first team ... Unanimous selection to All-Ivy League first team on the offensive line … Honored as semifinalist for William V. Campbell Trophy ... Selected to CoSIDA Academic All-District first team … Accepted invitation to Reese's Senior Bowl ... Started nine games.
Ben Zepfel
Senior co-captain finished 2015 season with 60 goals, 13 assists and 22 steals … CWPA Northern Division first team, first player in Harvard history to earn first team honors all four years … CWPA All-Tournament first team … Oct. 22 CWPA Northern Player of the Week … Scored in all but eight games this season and was second on the team in goals … Helped Harvard to a 21-10 record and a third-place finish at the CWPA Championship.
Corinne Bain
Junior, Psychology
Unanimous first team All-Ivy League selection, third-straight year she has been a unanimous choice … 2014 AVCA All-East Region honorable mention and Academic All-Ivy League selection … Ranks second in the NCAA with eight triple-doubles, finished either one kill or one dig shy of a triple-double on eight occasions … Turned in 19 double-doubles in 25 matches played … Named Ivy League Player of the Week four times and to the Honor Roll six times during the 10-week regular season … Ranks among the Ivy League leaders in nearly all statistical categories; kills per set (13th, 2.40), assists per set (9th, 5.64), digs per set (8th, 3.42), blocks per set (14th, 0.78), aces per set (T-6th, 0.25), points per set (13th, 3.1) … Set career-highs in digs per set (3.42) and blocks per set (0.78).
Kyla Cordrey
Junior, Neurobiology
Longstreth/NFHCA Division I All-Northeast Region second team selection ... All-Ivy League second team selection … Started all 17 games this season … She led a Harvard back line that held opponents to 110 shots on goal, 31 less than the Crimson had this season, and just 34 goals against, a 2.0 goals per game average.
Bailey Gary
All-Ivy League first team defender … Tallied one goal and four assists … Anchored a defense that tallied seven shutouts … Ranked third on the squad with six points, posted a team-best four assists … Scored first-career goal against Yale Oct. 3.
Sophomore, Chemistry
First team All-Ivy League … NCAA Championships qualifier … USTFCCCA All-Northeast Region … Top Harvard finisher in every race … Took third overall at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships … Placed fifth at the Coast to Coast Battle of Beantown … Second-place finisher at Harvard-Princeton-Yale meet to help Harvard win title ... Fifth runner across the line at the NCAA Northeast Regional championships.
Senior, Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology
Unanimous first team All-Ivy League selection, second time she has been named first team All-Ivy … 2013 Academic All-Ivy League selection … Named Ivy League Player of the Week once and to the Honor Roll four times during the 10-week regular season … Turned in seven double-doubles, with six coming in Ivy League play … Ranked among the Ivy League leaders in kills per set (5th, 3.26), hitting percentage (20th, .219), digs per set (18th, 2.48) and points per set (3.7) … Contributed double-digit kills in 13 of 20 matches played … Set career-highs in kills per set (3.26), digs per set (2.48) and blocks per set (0.65).
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A. A. Lugovskoy, A. I. Degterev, A. F. Fahmy, P. Zhou, J. D. Gross, J. Yuan, G. Wagner: A novel approach for characterizing protein ligand complexes: molecular basis for specificity of small-molecule Bcl-2 inhibitors, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 124, 1234-1240 (2002). Full Text
T. Ito, G. Wagner: Effective methods for obtaining mammalian protein samples for NMR studies: Codon optimization, chaperone co-expression, and rational mutagenesis, J.Biomol. NMR, 28, 357-367 (2004). Full Text
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M. Reibarkh, T. Malia, B. Hopkins, G. Wagner: Identification of individual protein-ligand NOEs in the limit of intermediate exchange, J. Biomol. NMR, 36, 1-11 (2006b). Full Text
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A Little Haunt and a Little Peace: How to Hold by Christina Mrozik
The work of Portland, OR-based artist Christina Mrozik is no stranger to Haute Macabre. We’re all enamored with her ouevre. A new print or book release is always cause for excitement around here, to say nothing of the tides of emotion conjured and stoked by her creations. And so, it’s with a deliciously melancholy ache in my chest that I’m pleased to share the news that Mrozik is about to release a new limited edition print, entitled How to Hold:
From Mrozik’s Gentle Hearts Club newsletter:
I made this piece a year and a half ago and it’s just been sitting here with me, quietly aiding some invisible part of myself that needed a kind of undoing and comfort. I think it’s important to sometimes make work just for myself and then to keep it for just myself until the time is right to bring others into it. Art can be vulnerable stuff, it’s made from the very core of a person’s mind out of thin air. Magic.
At the time this was made I was struggling with my ability to hold; to hold it together, to hold tightly enough, to hold lightly or to simply let go. It felt like there was a system in place with a proper way to move, to heal, to exist that I couldn’t quite grasp and I struggled to recognize myself. Was I the sparrow navigating cities of glass, or the iris piercing the seasonal soil, or maybe the predator’s grip which could pierce or hold so gently. I felt this lack of rightness and excess of being. I think I kept the piece with me all this time because it was a signal that the healing was still happening, but now with enough passing of time, I can look back on myself with this incredible grace and growth for my own limitation and the widening that was occurring underneath, invisible to even myself.
This piece carries a little haunt and a little peace, and most importantly a good reminder of the reshaping of the dark. It’s special, and now I get to share it with you and hope that reminder can enter your homes and lives as well.
How to Hold will be available via Christina Mrozik’s shop on Sunday, July 21st at 10am PST. Each limited edition print is signed and numbered by the artist, measures 13 x 27 in. (33.2 x 68.6 cm), printed with archival inks on heavy weight photo-rag paper, similar to the paper the original drawing was made on.
But wait, there’s more! Along with How to Hold, Mrozik is also releasing a new pin, the design of which delights me no end. This exquisite little orb weaver spider has a delicate blossom for an abdomen. She’s a tender dream spooder.
These hard enamel pins in shiny gold, measuring 2.25 in., will be available in white and black, limited to 100 of each colorway.
For more poignant and thought-proviking beauty, be sure to follow Christina Mrozik on Instagram.
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DCF – Kingscroft Farm development proposal
January 8, 2020 January 9, 2020 ~ HCS Editor
Last night’s Development Consultation (DCF) Forum at the Plaza was a well attended event.
The DCF is a platform for a developer to share their proposal with the council and interested community groups along with the public before moving onto the planning application stage. This is a useful initiative by Havant Borough Council which enables local residents to get early sight of potential future developments. Residents are invited to question the developer and the developer is encouraged to take note of this feedback before submitting a formal planning application.
The land in question is to the west of the town, alongside the Hermitage Stream which runs down parallel to the railway to the south east of Bedhampton Gates. The developer, Foreman Homes of Park Gate, are seeking to extend their existing development of homes in Abrams Place, Doyle Close and Longcroft Way, streets which remain unadopted by the council.
Introducing the development team, Steve Weaver, the HBC Case Officer commented that the proposed site for development is ‘unusual’ in that it is not included as an allocation in either the adopted Local Plan or the pre-submission Local Plan 2036. The original allocation for commercial development applicable to part of the site in the currently adopted Local Plan has not been carried forward to the emerging pre-submission Local Plan 2036 because of the current Environment Agency flood risk assessment.
The meeting was well attended by residents of the adjoining streets, West Street and further afield. Foreman Homes were represented by their Planning Manager, Kate Little, and Steve Carrington, Planning Director. There were a couple of other silent members of their team present to make up the numbers but by far the most vocal member of the developer’s team was Tim Wall of iTransport. Tim joined iTransport five years ago after almost ten years as team leader for Strategic Transport for Hampshire County Council. We conclude that (a) he knows his onions and (b) that he has sufficient contacts and inside knowledge from HCC to be worth his fee to Foreman.
Foreman’s Planning Manager outlined their proposal, which shows 164 dwellings on a 4.1 hectare site, representing a density of 40 to the hectare – 16 to the acre in ‘old money’. The proposal for access to the site would either be via Abrams Way or Meyrick Road, the former an unadopted street and the latter unsuitable without upgrading. When questioned from the floor regarding the more obvious access route through Marples Way, Mr. Wall responded that access was unavailable due to the existence of a ransom strip between that road and the site.
After the developer’s presentation, the Councillors present were invited to pass comment, with Councillor Lloyd the first into the fray, raising concerns about the availability of parking and appropriate dropped kerbs for access. She asked whether the developer had considered designing houses without garages but with more open off-road space for parking. That was an interesting question though the predictable response was that the developer could make more money by selling garages that buyers will probably never use! Councillor’s Crellan and Keast weighed in on the evident lack of consultation with the Highways Agency and the providers of medical services, both observing that the developer’s action in bringing this to the DCF seemed ‘premature’.
Councillor Satchwell, seen by some of her Tory peers as ‘the opposition’, gave her usual refreshingly clearcut, no bull, response, observing that it was the first time she’d seen a developer bring forward a development proposal for which access was required over an unadopted road. She stressed the need for engagement with the owners of the road and the residents of the streets concerned.
Those residents, it seems, are already disgruntled about having been sold houses by the very same developer for which the associated annual management fees appear to have been hidden until purchase completion. Indeed, one resident asked directly whether Foreman would employ the same trick with this new proposed development.
These questions met with silence from Kate Little and muttering from her Planning Director to the effect that if the level of opposition continued, their development option would become smaller and smaller, adversely impacting their profit and probably resulting in the proposal being dropped.
In the discussion which followed it became clear that despite the fact that Foreman had built the original development through which access would be needed, they had clearly not considered, nor did they know, whether they already had access rights.
We took a well trodden path and pointed out that with anticipated applications by Portsmouth Water for development of their new HQ offices behind the Bosmere Medical Centre and the development of housing on their existing West Street site, current traffic chaos in the area can only get worse. While we have confidence that in any forthcoming planning application, Tim Wall will cover the traffic questions to the level of detail which would tick all of his former employer’s boxes, he would be considering the application in isolation. Just who in Havant Borough Council , we asked, is taking a holistic view of the overall traffic impact of the consolidated set of development proposals. We didn’t really get a clear answer…
Steve Weaver, the case officer for Havant Borough Council, wrapped up the meeting by saying that the presentations and output from the meeting would be ‘available on the website within a few days’. (Whether it gets there before the documentation from the previous DCF , number 49 from October last year remains to be seen;)
While the DCF process is to be commended for giving us an early ‘heads up’ on forthcoming plans for the town, it does concern us that sometimes the development proposals are at odds with both the adopted and Pre-submisssion Local Plans. With development proceeding elsewhere in the borough, on allocations in the new plan which have yet to come before the inspector, it rather calls into question the value of the Local Plan process on which many hours of effort have been expended by both council and public alike.
#rethinkhavant
Havant from the air, 1928
November 20, 2019 December 17, 2019 ~ HCS Editor
Having recently discovered Britain from Above as a resource, we’d encourage you to take the link and take a look.
To whet your appetite, here’s a photograph of Havant, taken from the air in 1928, which shows the town as it was a little over ninety years ago.
© Historic England – Britain from Above
The main road running from south to north through the photograph is, of course, South Street, running into North Street which carries on north over a long gone level crossing into what is now Leigh Road. At the right hand top corner, New Lane is simply that, a narrow lane heading past the New Lane cemetery which was then on teh outskirts of the town.
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2019 AGM and Public Meeting – Nov 6th
November 3, 2019 November 3, 2019 ~ HCS Editor
The HCS AGM and Public Meeting will be held at the Havant URC Meeting Room on Elm Lane, see map below, on Wednesday November 6th. We’ll be there from 7:00pm and the meeting will start at 7:30pm sharp. We’ll try and keep the AGM matters as brief as possible to allow more time to talk to you about the many items of current interest around the town. A detailed agenda will be posted on the website before the meeting and the highlights can be seen immediately below this map.
We already have a full agenda, kicking off with an update from the Havant Borough Council Regeneration leadership, Councillor Tim Pike and Andrew Biltcliffe. In addition to showing the long awaited Havant Regeneration programme video, a futuristic vision for the town, Tim and Andrew will give us a progress update on the regeneration plan. Applications closed last Friday for the appointment of the development partner for the first phase, the Civic Plaza car park housing site, so we expect also to be able to share some detail on that. Tim has indicated that he’d welcome discussion so we’ll be making the session as interactive as possible.
We will also bring you an update on various activities which HCS has been undertaking under the general heading of ‘Havant’s Green Spaces’. These activities bring HCS together with other local environmental groups including the Havant Borough Tree Wardens who be on hand to give us a brief update on their activity.
Lastly, we’ll be including a round-up of planning and development activity affecting the town centre, including an update on Portsmouth Water’s plans for their site, the first of which has now been aired.
Everyone is welcome and new members will be welcomed.
To give us an idea of numbers, please could you take the time to enter your name and email address below, we’d be grateful. Simply press the green ‘Submit’ button when you’ve finished.
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Scoop! HCS members to get an exclusive preview of the long-awaited ‘Havant Regeneration’ video!
Do you remember this image from a year ago? Well until now, it’s been the only still image made public from the video made over a year ago to sell Havant as an opportunity for outside investors.
The video launch was originally planned for a public meeting at the Meridian Centre back in the summer but the residents who went along were disappointed to find that it was inexplicably dropped at the last minute.
We’re pleased to be able to announce that the first public showing of the video will finally be at at our AGM and Public Meeting!
Cllr. Tim Pike and HBC Head of Regeneration, Andy Biltcliffe, will be coming along to our AGM next Wednesday, November 6th, and will be showing the full video to the meeting, giving us an update on the Regeneration Programme and inviting discussion.
So if you want to see what the fuss is about, make sure you come along on Wednesday evening and join us! Take this link for details.
5 – 7 East Street, Havant.
October 24, 2019 ~ HCS planning
An update on this location where previously granted planning applications have yet to result in any construction. HBC have now received a request to vary Condition 2 of Planning Permission APP/17/01187 as follows: “Following the demolition of the facades (No’s 5 and 7 East Street) facing onto East Street, a stretch of of hoarding shall be secured in their place with immediate effect”.
This may well have resulted from recent complaints about the lack of security of the site and rubbish being left in the doorways. Whether it’s an indication that construction work is about to begin is anybody’s guess.
APP/17/01187 was in itself a variation of Condition 2 of APP/17/00061. Links below provide the details.
APP/17/01187
Portsmouth Water HQ access – spoiled for choice?
October 23, 2019 October 25, 2019 ~ HCS Editor
Last night, we attended the Development Consultation Forum for the new Portsmouth Water HQ proposed development.
The development proposal – a contextual view
The HBC team had not invited the Bosmere Medical Practice or their Patient Participation Group (PPG) to the forum and as a result, yesterday’s meeting may have been the first time that the architect and Chancerygate, PW’s shed builder of choice, had been able to grasp the scale of the medical practice they are proposing to trash. With over 19,000 affected local residents on their patient list and as one of the largest GP practices in Hampshire, it seems all the more astonishing that this directly impacted GP practice had not been previously been identified as a ‘key stakeholder’ in the proposal.
The chart above demonstrates how the Bosmere Medical Practice patient list has grown steadily year on year, from 14,700 in 2007, to the current total of 19,370. Given the catchment area of the practice and the growth in population planned in the Havant Borough Local Plan 2036, we can safely predict that this rate of growth will continue.
The proposal:
In what sadly is often the case with Havant, the development proposals for the Portsmouth Water site are being handled piecemeal, with no clear thought to the overall transport infrastructure within which new developments should be defined. The first proposal to come forward, the subject of last night’s Development Consultation Forum, has been drawn up in isolation from the one which will eventually be submitted for the delivery of 135 houses on the ‘old’ Portsmouth Water HQ building in West Street.
Last night was the first time that it had become clear to us that Portsmouth Water intend to keep their site yard in Brockhampton Road. The next (?) phase of the site proposal will be for the 135 houses which will be crammed onto the land occupied by the current HQ building and the land behind it.
Because the architect of last night’s proposal has not been given an overall context in which to plan her design, she has accepted that the Bosmere Medical Centre site access on Solent Road is the only one available to her. In reality, as our questioning brought out, the logical site access for the new development is from Brockhampton Road, through one of the company’s existing ‘yard’ entrances.
Portsmouth Water stated last night that one of the prime reasons for keeping the new HQ building in Havant will be its proximity to this existing yard, an option which their alternative office site (Lakeside, North Harbour) couldn’t offer. When called on by the chairman to respond to points made in our deputation, they expressed reservations as to whether they’d be able to get any access from Brockhampton Road ‘without causing distress to the residents of Manor Court’.
We have good news for them! They already have four possible entrances to choose from:
Forcing new site traffic through what is effectively the dedicated Solent Road access to the Bosmere Medical Centre will cause further traffic chaos on Solent Road and will severely impact the operation of one of Hampshire’s largest GP practices. With over 19,000 residents on their books, it is perhaps unwise of Portsmouth Water not to bring the Practice and their Patient Participation Group with them on this journey.
Havant Civic Society fully support the concept of the Regeneration of Havant, in fact, we’re looking forward to the update which will be given by the Regeneration team at our next public meeting on November 6th. However, we do need to see coherent plans for redevelopment of existing sites within the town. The piecemeal redevelopment of the Portsmouth Water site and the lack of a coherent road infrastructure is not what we think of as ‘Regeneration’.
Please get it right – #rethinkhavant
Norwich – Showing Havant the way?
October 11, 2019 ~ Bob C
As Ray Cobbett from Havant FOE has already commented in an email to us, this week’s Stirling prize winner has set a standard for social housing which Havant should be taking a serious look at.
With so much potential housing coming through with the 2035 Local Plan, dare we wish for something as good as this for the town? If HBC are serious in trying to attract national interest, then Norwich have surely shown the way.
The “Railway Cottages”, Langstone Road.
September 19, 2019 ~ HCS planning
Following the disastrous fire last December, a planning application has recently been submitted for their rebuilding.
The site is more formally known as 59 & 61 Langstone Road. The term “Railway Cottages” is something of a misnomer, as the cottages were late 18th century and thus predated the Hayling Billy line by 70+ years. It was just happenstance that they eventually lay close to the line and were, at some point, lived in by railway staff.
The application proposes rebuilding as a single 3 bedroom house. It was apparently the applicant’s original intention, prior to the fire, to seek to convert the cottages into one dwelling.
There are some concerns locally about the height of the new building, the redesign of the porch on the south elevation and the loss of some of the chimney pots. There are also worries that the outside privy, which was badly damaged in the fire might be lost.
We would suggest that, in addition to looking at the various plans, photos and other documents, you take time to read the Design, Access & Heritage Report and consequently have provided a separate link for that, in addition to one for the application as a whole.
Design, Access & Heritage Report.
APP/19/00837 | Replacement cottage | 59 & 61 Langstone Road, Havant, PO9 1RB
Six Bells public house, North Street.
September 17, 2019 September 17, 2019 ~ HCS planning
A recent planning application for this site, proposes converting the ground floor into a one bedroom flat and a two bedroom flat.
We have objected to this, as we consider that this should remain a commercial unit in some form or other. North Street at ground floor level is still, predominantly, a mix of retail, food and other service industry businesses and we could see no justification for moving away from that.
We understand that Councillor Tim Pike has a similar view and will seek to have the application referred to the planning committee, should the planning department decide to approve it.
The application details can be found at: APP/19/00807
Havant Green Spaces Report
September 14, 2019 September 18, 2019 ~ HCS Editor
Market Parade and the Boys Brigade Gardens.
Back in May Councillor Tim Pike approached HCS to consider taking on the voluntary management of some additional green spaces in the town centre. The Market Parade planting area (and two planting areas in front of the station) and the Boys Brigade Gardens had become neglected after a previous voluntary arrangement had come to an end. There had even been a formal complaint about the Market Parade flowerbed which is one of the first sights that visitors see when they get off the train. If HCS didn’t take action the beds would be assigned to Norse for minimal maintenance – they could have been subjected to a dispiriting begonia attack, or nothing at all for many months.
We got straight on to our small sister organisation, Grove Conservation Group, who do such a good job of managing the fauna and flora habitats on the Hayling Billy Line at the junction of Grove Road and Lower Grove Road. Walkers on the Hayling Billy will have noticed the little meadow there that has attracted so many insects and butterfly species this summer. After discussions on the best way forward a small group of 5 volunteers planted up the Market Parade flowerbeds with a temporary planting of colourful annuals for the summer season. It looks better already. We have asked Norse to undertake watering, and we plan to develop the planting with a perennial planting programme in November. That will include plants that are attractive to both visitors and pollinators.
The Boys Brigade Gardens on the corner of West St and Park Rd South is a lovely oasis full of, and surrounded by, mature trees including some fruit trees. The gardens attract birds and insects because the stream runs through them. We haven’t started working on the Boys Brigade Gardens yet but suggested changes include some unmown areas for insect habitat, bird nesting boxes, and managing a balance between food flora that encourages birds and insects (that could include small areas of nettles for butterflies, and thistles for pollinators) and the shrubs and trees that make the gardens a cool town-centre haven.
To achieve all this we need extra hands on volunteers who can spare a couple of hours now and then to work with the existing volunteer group in upgrading these two sites. Sign up at the forthcoming public meeting.
A Green Spaces map.
Havant is full of small areas that have been noticed by local residents and are being improved for the benefit of humans and wildlife – we are soon going to establish a map that identifies areas that are already being sympathetically managed and others that need attention. Let us know if you are already taking care of some small area and we will add you to the map.
44-54 West St.
West Street’s Primary Shop Frontage – Seriously!
One of the town centre sites that has been an eyesore for a long time is the area of West St precinct opposite the Nat West bank that is covered with hoardings (nos 44-54). These hoardings have now been in place for over 12 years! Having failed to sell at auction the site has now sunk back down the Borough Council’s list of priorities. HCS thinks that, because of continuing neglect by the owners, the area should be converted from an eyesore into a small community garden with a footpath through to the bus station (an alternative to the gloomy brick corridor that is Trafalgar Walk). Would local residents be in favour of this idea? We would need public support to get HBC to make it happen, and some volunteers to help do the work, but it could be so much nicer than what’s there now! Havant town residents deserve a nicer environment – it’s long overdue.
Havant Tree Trail.
Finally a quick word about the proposed Havant Tree Trail. We were impressed with the glossy Emsworth Tree Trail Book produced by the Havant Borough Tree Wardens and would eventually like to replicate their efforts in the town. This goal is moving slowly forward with meetings between Bob Comlay, current HCS Chair, the Havant Borough Tree Wardens local Tree Wardens and representatives of the Friends of Havant Cemeteries.
Go on… try it!
The first step is to conduct a survey of the trees within the wider town area. And HBTW are close to completing the first survey of the fine collectionm of trees in the New Lane / Eastern Road cemeteries. The Havant Tree Warden, Rob Foord, is now leading the survey effort in Havant Park, with the active involvement of HCS members. Our plan is to have a Tree Trail designed and developed for Havant Park, both as a printed leaflet and as an interactive digital version. This is very much a work in progress at an early stage, but at some point you can expect to see some of the more significant trees in the park labelled with QR codes to scan on your mobile device.
At some stage there’ll be a survey of town centre trees and we’ll want people to alert us to favourite or unusual trees that they know of. Sign up for the survey at the forthcoming public meeting. The Tree Trail project has its own link on the HCS website so you can keep up to date with progress.
Anna Glanville-Hearson
West Street, Havant
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More journalism groups join effort to restore access to National Practitioner Data Bank
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See how reporters have used NPDB’s public use file to expose gaps in oversight of doctors
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Sept. 15, 2011: AHCJ, other journalism organizations protest removal of data from public website
Get the NPDB public use file
Investigative Reporters and Editors, working with the Association of Health Care Journalists and the Society of Professional Journalists, has posted the data for download, free to the public.
The data are posted for the entire U.S. in the original text format with documentation. IRE has also made available state-by-state Excel spreadsheet files.
Three additional journalism organizations have joined the campaign calling for the Obama administration to restore access to a public version of the National Practitioner Data Bank. And letters are going out to key members of Congress asking for their assistance.
The National Association of Science Writers, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and National Freedom of Information Coalition have signed the letter, along with the Association of Health Care Journalists, Investigative Reporters & Editors, and the Society of Professional Journalists. The groups have more than 15,000 members.
The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration removed the Public Use File (PUF) from the data bank website earlier this month because officials believe it was used to identify physicians inappropriately.
The National Practitioner Data Bank is a confidential system that compiles malpractice payouts, hospital discipline and regulatory sanctions against doctors and other health professionals. For years, HRSA has made a public version of it available without identifying information about the health providers.
“The Public Use File, while it didn’t identify doctors by name or address, provided invaluable information about the functioning of state medical boards and hospital disciplinary systems,” said the letter from the groups to members of Congress. “Reporters for years have used the data to identify holes in their states’ regulatory systems that have led to patient harm. As a result of these stories, states have enacted new legislation and medical boards have taken steps to investigate problem doctors.”
The groups also provided the representatives and senators with details of major stories written with the assistance of the Public Use File and descriptions of the changes that resulted.
Finally, the letter once again expressed concern that HRSA sent a threatening letter on Aug. 26 to Alan Bavley, a health reporter at the Kansas City Star. The letter, signed by Division of Professional Data Banks director Cynthia Grubbs, said that Bavley could be subject to a civil monetary penalty of up to $11,000 if he identified a physician based upon confidential information in the data bank. The threat came even though other reporters have done the same thing for years without penalty.
In news reports, HRSA acknowledged that the letter–and the agency’s subsequent decision to remove the Public Use File–was prompted by a single complaint: from the lawyer of a doctor who was the subject of Bavley’s story.
Although HRSA said in some news reports that it will not pursue sanctions against Bavley, he has not received an apology.
“Without stories written by our members, it’s fair to say that some unsafe doctors would continue to be practicing with clean licenses and patient protection legislation in several states likely would not have been enacted,” the letter said.
This entry was posted in Government, Health journalism, Health policy, Public records, Right to know, Studies and tagged disciplined doctors, doctors, national practitioner data bank, Right to know on September 21, 2011 by Pia Christensen.
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2 thoughts on “More journalism groups join effort to restore access to National Practitioner Data Bank”
Carol Eblen September 24, 2011 at 4:18 pm
What is the purpose of the Data Bank if not to enhance patient safety? This threat against free speech and against an individual investigative reporter should be looked at by the Congress of the United States and especially by The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Physicians have access to libel and slander laws if information is incorrectly reported about their practices and it is shocking that a federal agency would threaten a reporter on behalf of a physician at the request of the physician’s attorney. .
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Ellali's brother is a talented student and an excellent athlete. He is kind-hearted and loyal, but somewhat naïve and short-tempered. When he first joins the Greenhouse, his presence threatens the status of Daniel, the captain of the Eagles.
Alfie is a young man, with swift black hair, blue eyes and peach skin. Alfie usually tends to wear an yellow,Eagles-branded sports t-shirt, with a purple sweater tied around his neck, with some cream-colored shorts. However he has been seen to wear many different outfits throughout the show's duration.
Alfie is shown to be both trustworthy and loyal throughout the duration of the Greenhouse. Alfie commonly expresses that he detested any sort of lying and that he had no intentions to try and hurt anybody. Alfie often displays his ability to cheer people up with his optimistic outlook on life and his optimistic actions.
Despite the fact that Alfie's a member of the Eagles, he's typically shown to not like cheating or stealing anything to gain victory in any sort of situation.
Alfie is one two kids of Naomi and Guri Reshef, along with his sister Ellali. At the start of the series Alfie and his sister Ellali are sent to an elite boarding school for future leaders; known as the Greenhouse, after the death of their astronaut mother; Naomi Reshef, who supposedly dies in a space-shuttle incident.
Initially Alfie is the only one of the two siblings to sign-up for the Greenhouse, being placed within the Eagles. Initially Alfie is pushed around by the rest of the Eagles, with his sister Ellali having to stand up for him, however after he passes an initiation challenge(vandalising the Ravens dormitory), he's accepted into the Eagles and is shown to have an on/off friendship with a number of it's students.
Throughout the season, Alfie builds relationships with both Sophie and Natalie, the former only being a temporary relationship. After discovering thing's aren't quite as they seem at the Greenhouse, he helps his sister and the rest of the main heroes, to stop Ze'ev and his colleagues. Eventually Alfie, becomes one of the many students to be held hostage in the one of the Greenhouse's closets, along with Sophie, Daniel and Natalie. Eventually he and his family go back home, after the crisis is averted and after discovering his mother's alive.
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He also has served as a project engineer.
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OHL Announces Implementation of Expanded Video Review Measures
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Toronto, Ont. – The Ontario Hockey League today announced that newly expanded video review measures will go into effect league-wide beginning with regular season games scheduled for tonight – Friday, November 15, 2019.
Technology enhancements introduced in all 20 OHL member team facilities include overhead cameras placed above each blue line in addition to the installation of new video tablets accessible to on-ice officials at the penalty box area.
The following expanded video review measures, which were adopted at the League’s Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors in August, will go into effect for tonight’s regular season games:
Expanded Video Review of Major/Match Penalties, High-Sticking Double-Minors and Offside Scenarios
The addition of video tablets at the penalty box as well as the installation of new overhead cameras at each blue line will enhance accessibility to video review league-wide.
Video tablets will provide on-ice officials with an additional resource. Based on their discretion, referees and linesmen will have access to video review to ensure that the correct call on the ice was made as it relates to the assessment of major/match penalties, high-sticking double-minors as well as offside situations when a goal has been scored.
In the case of an assessed major or match penalty, referees shall automatically review such infraction on the tablet in the penalty box to substantiate the call (including whether such penalty was assessed to the correct player) or to reduce it to a double minor penalty (in the case of checking from behind), a two-minute penalty or no penalty at all.
In the case of an assessed double-minor for high-sticking, the referee will have the ability to conduct an on-ice review to confirm whether or not the stick causing the apparent injury was actually the stick of the player being penalized. The referee’s review will be discretionary and not mandatory and will be conducted without consultation of the video goal judge.
The use of enhanced video replay shall not be utilized to assess penalties that were not called in the first instance nor shall it be utilized to increase the severity of the major penalty called.
Coach’s Challenge for Goaltender Interference
Each OHL member team shall have the ability to initiate a “coach’s challenge” in situations where goaltender interference is involved in a “goal” or “no goal” call.
Accessing video tablets in the penalty box, referees will be enabled to issue a ruling in the event of a coach’s challenge.
A team may only request a coach’s challenge for interference on the goaltender if they have their timeout available and the coach’s challenge must be effectively initiated prior to the resumption of play.
If the coach’s challenge does not result in the original call on the ice being overturned, the team exercising such a challenge will forfeit its timeout.
If the coach’s challenge does result in the call on the ice being overturned, the team successfully exercising such challenge will retain their ability to challenge an additional call for goaltender interference and will retain its timeout.
Only one coach’s challenge per team, per stoppage will be permitted.
The Ontario Hockey League regular season schedule continues tonight with seven games on the schedule as part of a total of 19 games over the course of the weekend.
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Jennifer Aniston Dumped By Justin Theroux Right Before Mexican Wedding
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Poor Jennifer Aniston is like the unofficial poster child for women who never quite pin down the perfect family life. We watched her marriage to Brad Pitt crumble and since then Jen has burned through one version of Mr. Wrong after another. It looks like Justin Theroux is now joining the list of guys before him that dated and eventually dumped Jen. The couple got engaged nearly two years ago and I think most of us had believed the rumors that they had broken up until they were spotted on a red carpet together several weeks ago. It was the first time that they were together for an event in about 9 months and shortly thereafter there was a rumor that the couple would be getting hitched in Mexico.According to the Aug. 11th print edition of Life & Style Magazine that wedding was indeed scheduled to happen within the last few days but a huge blowout between Jen and Justin caused not only the wedding to be shelved, but the relationship to be over. Supposedly Justin has kept a zinger of a secret from Jen and luckily for her, she found out before walking down the aisle. After a huge fight Justin actually dumped Jen once and for all. These two have been off and on for so long it’s hard to tell what will really happen but as of now, the engagement is certainly off.
ABC just clued viewers in to the fact that Andi Dorfman accepted Josh Dorfman’s marriage proposal this week but already there are reportedly problems between the couple. Apparently Andi’s jealousy is causing serious fights and both of them are starting to wonder if they rushed into an engagement. Speaking of rushing into things, Selena Gomez seems to be hopping from one bad boy to another. Since her relationship with Justin Bieber has hit the skids, Selena has moved on to another shady character and Life & Style has all of the details.
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Interview with An American Demon Hunter, J. Thorn
Posted on October 1, 2016 in Interviews // 1 Comment
On October 1st, 2016, best-selling horror author J. Thorn released a monster of a project that includes the first five books in his answer to X-files meets Hell: AMERICAN DEMON HUNTERS. His original American Demon Hunters novel is accompanied by four novellas written by different genre authors handpicked by Thorn himself (Bettina Melher, John L. Monk, Zach Bohannon, and Chad Lutzke), each creating their own demonic scenarios utilizing a consistent group of hunters bent on ridding the world of demons.
The series has no set order in which to read the books; just pick one up and dive in. This also includes saving Thorn’s own novel for last if you so desire (think of it as a prequel). Before the launch of the book series, Horror Novel Reviews asked the author and Horror Writer’s Podcast host some questions regarding the series and what readers can expect.
Horror Novel Reviews: For those who haven’t read any of them yet, describe the American Demon Hunters books.
James Thorn: They’re definitely written for fans of horror and dark fantasy, although I believe they have a much wider appeal, especially given the recent interest around Stranger Things. The idea that “portals” or “gateways” exist between worlds has long been a favorite genre convention of both science fiction and horror writers, and I’m no exception. I wanted to create a believable world with complex characters with a plot that was fairly simple to grasp.
HNR: Tell us about the genesis of your original AMERICAN DEMON HUNTERS novel.
Thorn: I’ve used demons and portals before (THE PORTAL ARCANE SERIES and THE HIDDEN EVIL SERIES), and so the American Demon Hunters series combines the best of both.
HNR: Your original AMERICAN DEMON HUNTERS novel presents an eerie and unique setting: A real abandoned observatory in Cleveland, Ohio. Any dark and disturbing local lore concerning the observatory you can share?
Thorn: Nothing that I can confirm. But the dilapidated and abandoned observatory is just a few miles from one of Cleveland’s oldest and largest cemeteries (Lakeview Cemetery). It didn’t take much for my vivid imagination to put those together in a suspenseful and thrilling way. Kealan Patrick Burke designed the cover and he used one of the original photographs we took on site. That abandoned observatory is not a stock photo.
HNR: Tell the readers a little about the authors you chose to write novellas in the American Demon Hunters world and why you chose them.
Thorn: I hand-picked four wonderful writers to help me launch this world. My intention was to create something like Kindle Worlds, but I wanted to be part of the creative process because I love it. Kindle Worlds stories are written and published without any collaboration between the writer and the owner of the world. Also, I wanted to make sure there were certain consistencies in the storytelling and therefore I’m the one that makes sure that happens. You can read the novel or any of the novellas in any order and not have anything spoiled. That was deliberate but not easy to orchestrate. Future writers in the American Demon Hunters world will have an easier time, as they’ll be able to read everything first. Bettina, John, Zach and Chad did not have that luxury. They all did an incredible job without a clear plan, which is not easy when writing fiction. They’re not only great writers but my friends and I’m thrilled they’re part of all of this.
HNR: What sets each book apart from the next in the ADH series?
Thorn: The novel gives the reader the back story of Hank, Corey and Sonya but that information is not critical for reading the novellas. The novellas are like “X-Files” episodes in that the three main characters from the novel face a new challenge in a new American city.
HNR: You tackle a lot of collaborating projects, many of which seem quite the load to carry; have you ever started one that you immediately regret based on either the working relationship with the involved party/parties or because of the extensive amount of work involved?
Thorn: I don’t live with regrets. Every decision I’ve made, positive and negative, has made me who I am. That being said, some collaborations resonate with readers and sell thousands of copies and others don’t. There’s really no way of ever knowing why that happens. I learn something about craft or marketing in every collaboration so I never regret doing them. I’m thoughtful and deliberate when I work with another author. Collaborations are not something I enter into lightly but they are always worth it.
HNR: Is this it for the ADH series or do you ever see yourself expanding it in the future?
Thorn: My hope is that the four novellas launching with the novel are just the beginning. I anticipate adding more to this world as time progresses. However, I work closely with each author from the planning process through the revisions. In fact, I do all revisions on the manuscripts so I have to be careful not to take on more than I can handle. I’m still just one guy.
HNR: If you had to compare an existing TV series, book, and film that comes close to the ADH series what would they be?
Thorn: AMERICAN DEMON HUNTERS definitely has an “X-Files” vibe to me. I’ve heard others liken it to THE DRESDEN FILES and Stephen King’s PET SEMATARY.
HNR: What kind of audience do you think will enjoy the books.
Thorn: It’s not always easy to anticipate which readers will enjoy a particular story but I would bet that any fan of horror, dark fantasy, mystery or paranormal suspense will really enjoy it. And fans of demon stories will love it.
You can find out more regarding each book in the American Demon Hunters series here.
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About Chad Lutzke (12 Articles)
Chad lives in Battle Creek, MI. with his wife, children. For over two decades, he has been a contributor to several different outlets in the independent music and film scene, offering articles, reviews, and artwork. He has written for Famous Monsters of Filmland, Rue Morgue, Cemetery Dance, and Scream magazine. His fiction can be found in a few dozen magazines and anthologies including his own 18-story collection NIGHT AS A CATALYST. Lutzke is known for his heartfelt dark fiction and deep character portrayals. In the summer of 2016 he released his dark coming-of-age novella OF FOSTER HOMES AND FLIES which has been praised by authors Jack Ketchum, James Newman, John Boden, and many others. Later in 2016 Lutzke released his contribution to bestselling author J. Thorn's AMERICAN DEMON HUNTERS series, and 2017 saw the release of his novella WALLFLOWER. His latest, STIRRING THE SHEETS, was published by Bloodshot Books in spring 2018.
1 Comment on Interview with An American Demon Hunter, J. Thorn
vitinamolgaard // October 1, 2016 at 2:21 pm // Reply
Nothing like a good look into the mind of someone you are not yet familiar with. Thank you Chad Lutzke for the interview with Mr. Thorn.
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by Shane McGlaun — Friday, September 06, 2019, 11:00 AM EDT
Microsoft Finally Fixes Windows 10 19H2 Bugs And Details Key New Features
Microsoft is rolling out the latest build of the Windows 10 19H2 preview to everyone in the Slow ring. This is 19H2 Build 18362.10019, and the software maker says that all Windows Insiders in the Slow ring will now be on the same build. Previously, some Slow ring Windows Insiders received Build 18362.10014 with 19H2 features turned off by default. That update was pushed out to some on August 19th.
On that same date, some Insiders received Build 18362.10015 with 19H2 features turned on by default. All Insiders, no matter the version they are on now, will receive Build 18362.10019 and all new features will be turned on. Windows users who are just now joining the Slow ring will get the latest 18362.10019 build. Rolling the update out to all Slow ring insiders is a big deal as only 10% of Insiders got to test the new features last time.
A few of the update features that will be turned on for all users are listed below:
Microsoft now allows third-party digital assistants to voice activate above the Lock screen.
Users can now create an event straight from the Calendar flyout on the Taskbar. Microsoft says users can click on the date and time at the lower right corner of the Taskbar to open the Calendar flyout. Users can then pick the desired date and start typing in the text box. Inline options to set a time and location are now part of the calendar.
The navigation pane on the Start menu now expands when you hover over it with your mouse to better inform where clicking goes.
Microsoft has enabled the ability for enterprises to supplement the Windows 10 in S Mode policy to allow traditional Win32 (desktop) apps from Microsoft Intune.
Microsoft says that the update also includes general improvements for all of the features. The full list of new features in the update can be seen here. The first Windows 10 19H2 Insider Preview build was released on July 2nd.
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Abandon Ship (1957) aka Seven Waves Away – Tyrone Power Commands This Lifeboat
November 15, 2011 By Cliff Aliperti 12 Comments
If you were to quickly scroll through the Abandon Ship screen captures illustrating this article the one thing you'd find in common from image to image is a look of absolute desperation. A lot of fear. I didn't have to work very hard to locate these shots. Abandon Ship is all fear and desperation.
Abandon Ship (1957), also known as Seven Waves Away, is one of only a few productions from Tyrone Power's own Copa Production company. Abandon Ship was filmed in Britain in between stage runs for Power starring in a revival of George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple. Just 43 at the time Abandon Ship was made, Power would only appear in two additional movies before suffering a fatal heart attack during the making of Solomon and Sheba in 1959.
Beyond Power and Lloyd Nolan the cast of Abandon Ship is almost entirely European. Stephen Boyd is second in command a couple of years before Ben-Hur (1959) fame. Mai Zetterling, romantically involved with Power at the time off-screen (Guiles 272), plays Power's love interest, a nurse. And Upstairs, Downstairs fans will be delighted to find both Gordon Jackson and David Langton in smaller, yet prominent roles in Abandon Ship.
Abandon Ship opens with the focus on a derelict mine drifting aimlessly in the open sea. Moments later there's an explosion and shouts of "Abandon Ship!" in the distance. A voiceover declares that the super liner Crescent Star exploded one September 27 and sank in 7 minutes. Of the 1,156 souls on board, 37 survived.
This isn't going to be pretty.
A few survivors call from a piece of flotsam as Tyrone Power swims towards them. Power's Alec Holmes pulls himself up. There's a woman half-mad because she's become separated from her 7-year-old child. One of the four people floating adrift is already dead. His body is soon rolled over the side. Another man is even more panicked than the woman was, fearing the loss of his wife.
The small group spots a lifeboat in the distance. Alec notes that it's the Captain's shore boat. At only 18 feet long it obviously already has too many people in it. They're better off where they are. Someone is spotted swimming towards them. Alec dives in to rescue them and it turns out to be Julie (Zetterling), the ship's nurse and Alec's girlfriend. Ecstatic over finding each other the reunion is cut short by a shark circling them. Alec and Julie have drifted closer to the heavily populated Captain's boat where Mac (Boyd) calls to them and fires a gun at the shark.
We never again hear from the three people Alec left to rescue Julie.
Abandon Ship is not for the faint-hearted.
It's a brutal, vicious tale about a hopeless situation. Alec and Julie make 27 people, and one dog, on board and around the Captain's shore boat. The boat is built to handle 9 people, not 27.
The Captain (Laurence Naismith) gives his ring to Alec (Power). Cookie (James Hayter) witnesses.
Alec and Julie arrive just in time for the injured Captain to pass command off to Alec before he dies. Moments after the Captain's body is rolled over the side of the boat into the sea the others are demanding answers from Alec.
He has none. Moments of hope that Alec originally conveyed are dashed when Sparks (John Stratton) is snapped out of his panic and tells Alec that no S.O.S. was ever sent. The disaster happened too fast for him to get word out to anyone. Thoughts of a rescue just six hours or so off are dashed by the revelation. They are stranded in the middle of the sea in a tiny boat filled three times to capacity. Africa is the closest destination at 1,500 miles away.
Julie (Mai Zetterling) gazes upon Alec after a tough decision
And there are injuries. Merritt (Jackson), a member of the crew, has two broken wrists; Ruth Spencer (Clare Austin) has a gashed arm that's becoming gangrenous; Mr. Kilgore (Ralph Michael) has swallowed a lot of oil from the ship; Mrs. Kilgore (Jill Melford) gasps for breath because of her broken ribs. Worst of the lot however is Alec's buddy Kelly (Nolan) who was in the air conditioner room when it exploded and filled his body with various screws, nuts and bolts. He can barely move.
Kelly (Lloyd Nolan) offers advice to Alec
But he can speak. And it's Kelly who first puts the terrible idea into Alec's head. "You've got problems, buddy. More than you know," he warns Alec early on.
With the skies threatening Kelly elaborates for all: "He can't save all your lives. There are too many people in this boat!" More specifically, "He's got to put at least twelve over the side." And a final plea to his friend: "Alec, don't give food to the dead. They'll just drag you down to the grave with them. Save it for the living. It's your duty as master."
When the wind picks up even more Alec turns to Cookie (James Hayter) and asks if he thinks the ship can stand the coming storm. Cookie tells him the ship could make it no matter what, "if you lightened her."
All eyes on Alec
"It's time," Alec declares before taking the only decision that makes any sense. The most monstrous decision of all.
"There'll be no hanging on the ropes ..."
"There will be no lots [chosen]."
"There will be no volunteers."
"It will not be women and children first. The weaklings must go."
Twenty minutes of terror thus begins.
Abandon Ship is quite naturally most often compared to Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944). The setting is the same.
But there are differences. There are many fewer people on Hitchcock's lifeboat and one of them is a Nazi. A pretty natural villain. Lifeboat features debate over both humanity of and towards Walter Slezak's Nazi captain. We get to know each of its handful of characters very well as they bicker among one another. Love matches are even born of the situation.
Abandon Ship features no Nazi. You can only get so angry at an exploded mine. But anger is natural for the situation and so it is heaped upon one of their own. Who better than the man in command, Tyrone Power's Alec.
Moira Lister with David Langton at extreme right
While we do get to know a little something about most of the people under Alec's command, and if you pay attention you'll notice there are so many that a few go entirely overlooked, it's only the barest bits of fact. More traits than facts actually. We only learn as much about any of them as Alec does. And as Nolan's Kelly tells him, "Alec, don't get to know them too well."
Other than a relatively small handful of poorly delivered lines (ie: "The boy is the future.") Tyrone Power is strong in carrying Abandon Ship, which he must be to make it work. We know he's not a bad man, but a man of circumstance.
Mai Zetterling as Julie
Zetterling wore on me a bit, but in between tending to the injured she has her own emotional journey closely tied to Alec's actions. I preferred the other blonde on board, the very sure of herself Edith Middleton (Moira Lister), who's impressed by "Brave Captain" from the time he gives his first orders cutting Major General Barrington (Clive Morton) down to size. Morton is wonderful as the man who was always in command until finding himself in this life threatening situation. The formerly all-powerful doesn't take orders well.
Clive Morton as Barrington with Edith Middleton (Lister again)
Stephen Boyd's part isn't very big, but as second in command he tries to steer Alec towards the moral right. It's a part you can imagine Alec playing himself had he climbed on board and the Captain had lived. Lloyd Nolan doesn't get a lot of time but he's got some of Abandon Ship's plummest lines that he makes the most of.
Others standouts include Marie Lohr shining as the elderly former opera singer, Mrs. Knudson and Eddie Byrne as the very shady Mr. Faroni--he's one character I would have loved some backstory on!
Marie Lohr as Mrs. Knudson
Written and directed by Richard Sale, Abandon Ship opened in London March 12, 1957 and premiered in New York a little over a month later.
A.H. Weiler in his April 18, 1957 review for The New York Times wrapped up his piece as follows: "Mr. Power, Mr. Sale and their associates may not have created a masterpiece but they have come up with a thoughtful and often gripping drama that mirrors man at his best and worst."
Watch it paired with Lifeboat if you can. I've come to prefer Abandon Ship over the more famous Hitchcock movie after having watched it several times in recent years. I find the stakes are higher and the situations overall tenser in Abandon Ship, though I still love Lifeboat as well.
Guiles, Fred Lawrence. Tyrone Power: The Last Idol . Berkley edition. Berkley Publishing Corporation: New York, 1980.
Weiler, A.H. Review of Abandon Ship. The New York Times. 18 April 1957.
Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1957, at sea, Columbia, copa productions, David Langton, disasters, eddie byrne, gordon jackson, Lloyd Nolan, mai zetterling, maire lohr, moira lister, richard sale, stephen boyd, Tyrone Power
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I really appreciated your review of this as I wondered if I should record it, since Tyrone Power is my fave. Sounds like this is one I will probably need to pass on — that is tough subject matter, having to toss people overboard. Wow. Don’t think I’m up for that no matter how much I love Power. 🙂
Cliff Aliperti says
Thanks, Laura. Yes, it’s a bit of a shocker and I hope I didn’t spoil it too much but I know I gave away less than the 1957 Times Review and the IMDb page so hopefully what I provided is just right!
Ha ha, I hate telling anyone to stay away from Abandon Ship, because when I ran into this movie it was one of my best personal finds in awhile–I’ve watched it repeatedly now and really love it! But yep, if you’re squeamish about that sort of thing Abandon Ship won’t be for you. So powerful though!
That’s really interesting that it was such a good find for you despite the subject matter, Cliff. Sounds like it must be very well done. Plus it has Lloyd Nolan, always a plus. Maybe one day I’ll feel braver about it — after all, I worked my way up to watching WAR OF THE WORLDS and CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON this year, LOL! I figure in the meantime I still have a number of significant Power films to see for the first time (incl. both NIGHTMARE ALLEY and THE RAZOR’S EDGE) — I’ll save ABANDON SHIP for last. 🙂
Ooh, Laura, The Razor’s Edge is an all-time favorite (and another one I recently wrote up here!) Nightmare Alley is awesome as well–and totally different. Both get top recommendations here, enjoy them!
Just ask says
I actually just commented about seeing this film late last night on Laura’s blog! Ha Ha I found myself watching it and really enjoying it then I discovered at the end that it was based on an actual tragedy. Tyrone was GREAT, just great and the film had a lasting effect on me, more so than that horror film Henry I watched recently.
Wonderful photos and it’s fun that you just wrote about the film. Happy coincidences! Have a wonderful weekend.
Hey Page, so glad you caught this one! Oh, no coincidence, it’s one I’ve wanted to write about for a long time now and I saw it was actually airing on TCM this month so it seemed like a good time to go for it.
Actual tragedy may be a bit strong. From the TCM Notes:
“Although the Variety review notes that the story was based on a “true incident,” an April 1957 New York Times news item casts doubt on that supposition, stating that the story was “reportedly based on a sea saga.” The film’s production files at the AMPAS Library make no mention of a true incident.”
I’d swear I saw something somewhere about it being loosely based upon something that happened in the first half of the 19th century, but off hand I can’t recall the source of that info.
Bra30doc says
GREAT review. Saw this movie for the first time recently and LOVED it!!!!!!!
Thanks for the kind words! So glad you read it, but even happier that you saw this one!
Muriel says
I haven’t seen this since I was a teenager, and watched again recently on youtube. it’s just as good as I remember. I wouldn’t bother comparing it to “Lifeboat”. Both excellent movies. The movies are similar because the action takes place in a lifeboat, but one is a war time product, the other is pure drama.
Too bad Power didn’t get a chance to do more complex characters in movies. He was so handsome, he was stuck in moneymaking glamor roles. If he hadn’t died so young, just think what a marvelous character actor he would have been, and enjoyed the challenges too.
He did die way too young, definitely would have been interesting to see what he showed up in over the next decade or two!
I think they can be compared beyond the boat because they’re both really stories of a collection of very different people trapped alongside each other. They’re not going anywhere (well, until they do!) so we get to know them each a bit more intimately than we would in a more open setting. They also share that same desperation stuck in the middle of the sea which sets every character on edge and highlights their strengths and flaws. I’m really not able to think of one without thinking of the other.
marquisdesadek says
I s this the film with a black seaman in the boat who gets called ‘Number 4’, and ends up being eaten by sharks?
Sorry, no. I haven’t seen it, but it looks like you want Sea Wife, made the same year. Here’s the IMDb page.
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Guest Reviewer: Jerleen
*5-Heartbreaking Stars*
Broken Juliet by Leisa Rayven is the sequel to Bad Romeo, Cassie and Ethan’s emotional strengths are reversed; Cassie is the brooding one, and Ethan is the fearless one. After Ethan declares his undying love with 1,162 “I LOVE YOU”s, Cassie decides to give him another chance. Ethan already broke her heart twice, so she was very reluctant to give him another try. He claims that he’s a changed man, and says all the things that she has been longing to hear him say, but she keeps pushing him away, even though deep down she wants to be with him. Cassie wants him but desperately tries to protect herself, and Ethan throws himself at her with an open heart.
It is finally revealed how Ethan broke her heart in this book, and how Cassie turned into the shell of the woman she was before. Even though this book is told from Cassie’s point of view, you still get to see so much of Ethan and how he transitioned from a scared emo 21-year-old into the man Cassie deserves.
The book is written in the same format as the last book, alternating from past to present. One of the strong points of this book is that Rayven transitions from past to present smoothly. If the previous chapter ended with a certain mood, then that mood is continued.
After reading Bad Romeo, I could not wait for the sequel. There was never a dull moment in this book. The tension between Cassie and Ethan is so aggravating (in a good way) that you have to know what happens next. This book is definitely a page turner!
Guest Reviewer: Molly
Bad Romeo. Easily my top read of 2014. Broken Juliet. My most anticipated read of 2015, and now a top favorite.
Every once in a while, a book comes along that grabs hold and doesn't let go. Whether it's an anticipated book, or a surprise diamond in the ruff, these books tend to be gems among a gamut of reused and recycled material. Broken Juliet is one of those rare and precious gems that have solidified Rayven as a master storyteller. Her approach is captivating, and I couldn't put it down.
This book picks up where Bad Romeo ended. Rayven flips seamlessly between timeframes. We're given bits and pieces in two separate points in time. One where she rips our heart wide open, the other where it's slowly stitched back together. Repeatedly. And it's flawless.
I'm usually a bit leary of reading my "most anticipated" books because I get nervous that they won't live up to my expectations. This one did not disappoint. In any way.
It's easy, in the whole romance genre, to always be on the lookout for the next book boyfriend. But with this series, I easily found my new favorite book couple. Ethan and Cassie both knew rock bottom. Separately, and together. I loved how all of their pieces stitched together make them so perfectly flawed.
By far my top read of the year. 6 stars for Broken Juliet. 6 stars for the series. This is a series not to be missed.
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At the 2013 Georgetown Hospitality Law Conference, I suggested that the hotel management space consisted of the "majors" (generally speaking, Marriott, Hilton, Starwood, Hyatt, Wyndham, Fairmont Raffles, Four Seasons and a few of the luxury brands) and everyone else, including the third-party management companies. I posited the idea that all the litigation about which so many of us "hotel management geeks" (as my friend, colleague and new favorite author, Nelson Migdal, has called us) have written has been conducted to a near-universal result by the majors, who could afford the fight and needed to establish a precedent. Of course, the precedent now established has, for the most part, gone against them. I went on to suggest that the third-party managers would not have incurred the expense nor taken on the challenge of the issue of termination/agency/independent contractor raised (and mostly settled) by the Woolley case and its progeny. I raise this here because of the juxtaposition of two unrelated events.
As this is being written in early November 2014, word has come that Morgans Hotel Group has filed a lawsuit in New York to be allowed to remain in management of the Mondrian Soho based on the harm to its system that termination might bring, perhaps attempting to elevate itself into the "major" category (See “Morgans Hotel Group battles to hold on to Mondrian Soho”). It seems to this commentator that the Morgans lawsuit should be virtually DOA. Morgans' argument that its system provides a basis for its remaining in management (under a theory of agency coupled with an interest) was more than adequately addressed a long time ago in the GGF v. Hyatt case in the USVI. The Eden Roc decision -- explicating the very same New York law in question in Morgans' suit -- would likely rule out any other argument that, somehow, Morgans has the right to stay. I am perplexed that this lawsuit was even filed.
At the same time, three different client assignments have required me to review pro forma management agreements from eight different third-party managers for both independent and chain-branded hotels. There is a noteworthy difference in complexity between a brand's management agreement and the myriad provisions protecting its contractual rights to tenures that border on unlimited, at least in the life of a hotel, and the rational term lengths and termination provisions contained in the vast majority of these form agreements. That the combined length of the eight different agreements I have recently reviewed averages about 28 single-spaced pages versus a two-times-or-more average length of an agreement from any of the majors should give pause to any rational participant in these markets.
I acknowledge that, at stops during my career, I was a contributor to some of the provisions that resulted from particular events in one hotel leading to a wholesale means of legislating that such event did or did not occur again, depending on whose ox was being gored. Reviewing 28, rather than 60, page agreements makes me regret my contribution to this aspect of the hotel management "literature."
Four Corners Notes
The onset of the NCAA basketball season will bring a welcome respite to Tar Heel fans, following the football team's less-than-stellar performance this Fall and the recently-released (and near-disastrous) Wainstein Report. Chancellor Folt is committed to restoring the University's good name, and, one can hope, Coach Williams' team will make only good headlines as we approach winter.
The principal of FCA, Michael Shindler, has over 40 years of sophisticated legal and transactional experience in commercial real estate, of which the last 30 years have been spent in the hospitality field.
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A temporary distal arteriovenous fistula improves venous hemodynamics in a model of venous occlusion
Alan Sawchuk, Michael Dalsing, Scott C. Emerick, Bruce F. Waller, M. Kathleen Reilly, Thomas A. Broadie
The formation of a temporary distal arteriovenous fistula (dAVF) has been used clinically to palliate patients with symptomatic venous hypertension. This study tested the efficacy of a temporary dAVF for the treatment of venous hypertension in an experimental model. Twenty-four New Zealand white rabbits were divided into two experimental groups. Group I rabbits (n = 12) underwent standardized ligation of the iliac and femoral venous systems. Group II rabbits (n = 12) underwent standardized ligation of the iliac and femoral venous systems with the formation of a temporary dAVF. Venous obstruction was documented with venography, and venous hypertension was documented with femoral venous pressure measurements. Venous pressure, resistance, blood flow, vein circumference, vein cross-sectional area, vein wall thickness, and venography were compared between four rabbits from each group at 2, 4, and 8 weeks. The effect of differences in baseline venous pressures was eliminated by subtracting the venous pressure in the unobstructed rabbit limb from the pressure in the obstructed rabbit leg. Group II rabbits had a lower standardized venous pressure (4.4 ± 2.2 versus 9.5 ± 4.2 mm Hg, p < 0.01) and venous outflow resistance (0.16 ± 0.08 versus 0.36 ± 0.18, p < 0.05) than did group I rabbits. Group II rabbits also had a larger superficial femoral vein circumference (3.46 ± 0.67 versus 2.57 ± 0.08 mm, p < 0.05) and cross-sectional area (0.66 ± 0.31 versus 0.31 ± 0.09 mm2, p < 0.01) than did group I rabbits. The improvement persisted throughout the 6-week study, which suggested an improved venous outflow.
Venous Pressure
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Sawchuk, A., Dalsing, M., Emerick, S. C., Waller, B. F., Reilly, M. K., & Broadie, T. A. (1987). A temporary distal arteriovenous fistula improves venous hemodynamics in a model of venous occlusion. Surgery, 102(2), 256-262.
A temporary distal arteriovenous fistula improves venous hemodynamics in a model of venous occlusion. / Sawchuk, Alan; Dalsing, Michael; Emerick, Scott C.; Waller, Bruce F.; Reilly, M. Kathleen; Broadie, Thomas A.
In: Surgery, Vol. 102, No. 2, 1987, p. 256-262.
Sawchuk, A, Dalsing, M, Emerick, SC, Waller, BF, Reilly, MK & Broadie, TA 1987, 'A temporary distal arteriovenous fistula improves venous hemodynamics in a model of venous occlusion', Surgery, vol. 102, no. 2, pp. 256-262.
Sawchuk A, Dalsing M, Emerick SC, Waller BF, Reilly MK, Broadie TA. A temporary distal arteriovenous fistula improves venous hemodynamics in a model of venous occlusion. Surgery. 1987;102(2):256-262.
Sawchuk, Alan ; Dalsing, Michael ; Emerick, Scott C. ; Waller, Bruce F. ; Reilly, M. Kathleen ; Broadie, Thomas A. / A temporary distal arteriovenous fistula improves venous hemodynamics in a model of venous occlusion. In: Surgery. 1987 ; Vol. 102, No. 2. pp. 256-262.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Calls Head Of IAEA A US ‘Puppet’ (Video – Guardian, Nov. 8 2011) … And He Is Correct … Nuclear Wikileaks: Cables Show Cosy US Relationship With IAEA Chief (Guardian, Nov. 30, 2010)
November 9, 2011 November 9, 2011 by Infinite
– Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls head of nuclear watchdog a US ‘puppet’ – video (Guardian, Nov. 8 2011)
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejects the International Atomic Energy Agency’s ‘serious concerns’ about research and development work by Iran, which the agency described as ‘specific to nuclear weapons’. In its report on Iran’s nuclear programme, the IAEA said it had accumulated more than 1,000 pages of documentation that led it to believe suspected nuclear weapons work was carried out under a ‘structured programme’ until 2003, and ‘some may still be ongoing’
When Yukiya Amano took over as the head of the UN nuclear watchdog last year, American diplomats described him as “director general of all states, but in agreement with us”
The director general of the IAEA, Yukiya Amano, Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty Images
– Nuclear Wikileaks: Cables show cosy US relationship with IAEA chief (Guardian, Nov. 30, 2010):
This article was amended on 21 December 2010 to remove a defamatory reference to a named IAEA official.
As Mohamed ElBaradei’s term as director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headed towards a close last year, Washington looked forward to the new era under Yukiya Amano with relish. In a cable in July, the American chargé, Geoffrey Pyatt, wrote:
The IAEA transition that will come as DG [director general]
ElBaradei’s term ends November 30 provides a once-a-decade opportunity to overcome bureaucratic inertia, modernize Agency operations, and position the new director general for strong leadership from the DG’s office.
In a later cable in October, the US mission in Vienna goes as far as describing Amano as “DG of all states, but in agreement with us”.
Amano reminded [the] ambassador on several occasions that he would need to make concessions to the G-77 [the developing countries group], which correctly required him to be fair-minded and independent, but that he was solidly in the U.S. court on every key strategic decision, from high-level personnel appointments to the handling of Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program.
More candidly, Amano noted the importance of maintaining a certain “constructive ambiguity” about his plans, at least until he took over for DG ElBaradei in December. With a bow to the G-77, Amano felt obliged to emphasize the importance of “balance” regarding the Agency’s work in peaceful uses of nuclear technology. For staff morale reasons, Amano planned to work on improving the quality of management while publicly praising the current standards and commending staff members for their dedication.
Most importantly, the US mission in Vienna believed that Amano would not see himself as a political player over Iran, a role the US and its allies frequently accused ElBaradei of coveting. In a July cable, Pyatt noted:
He distinguished his approach on Iran from that of
ElBaradei; Amano sees the DG/IAEA as a neutral and impartial party to Iran’s safeguards agreement rather than as “an intermediary” and saw his primary role as implementing safeguards and UNSC[United Nations Security Council]/Board resolutions. He stressed that the IAEA could not replace the P5 [+] 1 political framework for dialogue with Iran, nor vice versa.
There was satisfaction among the Americans then, after their initial post-election meeting with Amano, but no complacency in the view of an agency bureaucracy Washington viewed with some suspicion.
This meeting, Amano’s first bilateral review since his election, illustrates the very high degree of convergence between his priorities and our own agenda at the IAEA. The coming transition period provides a further window for us to shape Amano’s thinking before his agenda collides with the
IAEA Secretariat bureaucracy.
The main US concern as Amano prepared to take the helm, was that some of the agency officials that Washington found troublesome, particularly in the EXPO (external relations and policy) department, were renewing their contracts and might be hard to dislodge.
Despite whatever intentions Amano may harbor upon
taking office, a renewal in some key positions will take time, as several senior IAEA officials recently received promotions or extensions of their contracts, or both. This “burrowing in” will ensure continuity of some experienced leaders but may also confront the next DG with fixed networks of collaboration that resist supervision.
Head of the list of US worries was the Hungarian Vilmos Cserveny, the head of EXPO, who was promoted to the rank of assistant director general before the handover. But Pyatt was reassuring:
While Cserveny is viewed as a partisan of ElBaradei, we know him to be a consummate bureaucratic survivor who is likely to tack strongly towards Amano in the new structure.
There was some initial concern that Amano would bring in a complete Japanese team of assistants with him, but Amano assures the Americans that he is aware “that would send the wrong message.”
The other pressing question for the US mission during the transition was the fate of the deputy director generals, particularly Olli Heinonen, the head of the safeguards division – a widely-respected Finn who ran the inspections of Iran, Syria, North Korea and other nuclear rogue suspects, and who was consequently the second most (or perhaps the most) important person in the IAEA’s Vienna headquarters, from Washington’s point of view. He was due to retire in Summer 2010, causing some anxiety in the US delegation.
The DDG/Safeguards position will remain essential under Amano’s leadership, however, as we expect the new DG to apply less of a political filter to the conduct of safeguards investigations. Thus, the decisions of the DG/Safeguards on Iran, Syria, and other sensitive cases may be the de facto final word for the Agency’s safeguards approach in the states about which the US cares the most.
Heinonen told the American he might be persuaded to stay until 2012, depending on what other personnel changes were made. However, he ended up leaving this summer. His eventual successor, Herman Nackaerts, was clearly not a foregone conclusion, according to this cable recounting a July 2009 meeting with Amano.
While Operations C Director Nackaerts “was not bad,” Amano also had a couple of good outsiders in mind (he intimated they were Northern European or Nordic but did not name individuals.)
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Will the Fitbit Acquisition Help Boost Google Stock Much Further?
Google stock has been up since last Friday’s announcement
By Brad Moon, InvestorPlace Contributor Nov 5, 2019, 11:36 am EST November 5, 2019
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has proven that smartwatches can be big business, and the Apple Watch has dominated the category since its release in 2015. Alphabet’s (NASDAQ:GOOG, NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google, on the other hand, has failed to have a meaningful impact in the market, despite the release of Android-based Wear OS. However, the company made a huge move to kick off November, with the announcement that it is spending $2.1 billion to acquire smartwatch and fitness tracker maker Fitbit (NASDAQ:FIT). Market reaction so far has been positive, with Google stock up 2.4% since the news first hit early on Friday.
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The big question is, can the company parlay this acquisition into meaningful smartwatch marketshare — and revenue that could actually move the needle for GOOGL stock?
Google to Acquire Fitbit
On Nov. 1, Google announced it would be acquiring Fitbit for $2.1 billion, with the deal expected to close in 2020. In a post announcing the acquisition, Google noted:
“By working closely with Fitbit’s team of experts, and bringing together the best AI, software and hardware, we can help spur innovation in wearables and build products to benefit even more people around the world.”
Google stock has been trending up since that announcement was made.
The irony here is that three years ago, Fitbit was in the same position as Google is now.
Unable to field a smartwatch that could compete with the Apple Watch, Fitbit bought its way into contention by acquiring smartwatch pioneer Pebble. That acquisition was a bargain $40 million — a far cry from the $2.1 billion Google is paying, but it paid off for Fitbit.
The company leveraged Pebble’s IP to develop smartwatches like the Versa that have been far more successful than its original Blaze attempt was. Over the past several years the company has been trading second- and third-place positions in the smartwatch market with Samsung.
That hasn’t been good enough to keep Fitbit viable, though, making it a ripe acquisition target for Google. Since Fitbit’s 2015 IPO, its stock has lost 78% of its value. In comparison, GOOGL stock is up 131%.
What’s Google Getting With Fitbit?
With its purchase of Fitbit, Google goes from a smartwatch “Other” with Wear OS, to leaping into second or third place in the industry. Suddenly, it’s an actual contender in a global smartwatch market that’s projected to be worth $31 billion by 2025. Apple is going to be feeling the heat with the resources of Google now combined with Fitbit’s smartwatch IP and marketshare.
Perhaps even more important than the Fitbit IP is its users, and their data. And that is something Google will have to handle very carefully.
While Google stock got a pop on the news of the acquisition — showing investors and the market like the move — not everyone was happy. Writing in Forbes, Bruce Y. Lee, (Professor of Health Policy and Management at the City University of New York and Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School) brought up privacy concerns over the vast amount of personal health data Google will be gaining access to for the 28 million Fitbit users.
“Fitbit could grow its customer base in part through consumer trust that its data was not being used and sold for advertising and other purposes.”
There is concern that Google may not be so hands-off with that data. The company could use it for purposes like targeted advertising — not a stretch given that Alphabet’s bottom line remains dominated by ad revenue.
Bottom Line for Google Stock
One way or another — through the potential for meaningful smartwatch sales, and/or the potential for monetization of user data — Google stands to come out a winner on the Fitbit deal. How much could this acquisition move the needle on Google stock?
The devil is going to be in the details.
Will Google run Fitbit independently, or try to fold its IP into Wear OS? Will Google finally stop relying on third-party vendors and release its own Pixel smartwatch based on Fitbit technology? Will Google leverage Fitbit’s relationship with insurers and healthcare providers? Will Google target ads based on Fitbit wearers’ health and fitness data?
What Google is planning around Fitbit should become more clear next year, but, in the meantime, it is safe to say the acquisition was a good bet with a high likelihood of a payoff for GOOG stock.
Article printed from InvestorPlace Media, https://investorplace.com/2019/11/fitbit-acquisition-help-boost-google-stock/.
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’Tis the season to give and get back: Exchange shoppers can support military relief programs Dec. 6-10
by Satsuki Iwasawa
Army & Air Force Exchange Service Public Affairs
MISAWA AFB – While shopping for holiday gifts for loved ones, Misawa Exchange customers can give a different kind of present: support for service members in need.
From Dec. 6 through 10, during the third and final Give and Get Back donation period of the year, Misawa Exchange shoppers can donate to Army Emergency Relief (AER) or the Air Force Assistance Fund (AFAF) and receive a coupon for Exchange savings. For every $5 donated, shoppers receive an Exchange coupon for $5 off a $25 purchase.
“Army Emergency Relief and the Air Force Assistance Fund do extraordinary work for Soldiers, Airmen and their families,” said Army & Air Force Exchange Service Director/CEO Tom Shull. “The Exchange is deeply honored to join with them to help the military community grow stronger.”
AER and AFAF provide emergency assistance, sponsor educational initiatives and offer community programs that make life better for service members and their families.
“We all know it’s better to give than to receive; that’s the true spirit of the holiday season,” said Lt. Gen. (Ret.) John D. Hopper Jr., CEO of the Air Force Aid Society, one of four charities that benefit from the AFAF. “Please think of service members who may be faced with a financial difficulty or deployed away from their families. Supporting the Give and Get Back campaign at your Exchange is a great way to thank our military families for their sacrifices.”
This is the third year that the Exchange has partnered with AER and AFAF to host Give and Get Back campaigns. Since the inception of the campaigns, Exchange shoppers have donated more than $755,000 to the relief funds.
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NL Wild Card Game Prediction
September 30, 2019 / italksportsandthatsit / Leave a comment
Brandon Woodruff (Milwaukee Brewers) vs Max Scherzer (Washington Nationals)
Offense: Advantage Nationals
The Nationals will enter this game with their MVP candidate Anthony Rendon while the Brewers will still be without Christian Yelich. Depth is the difference in these lineups. The Nationals bring power and speed in nearly every part of their lineup.
Trea Turner, Juan Soto, Adam Eaton and the aforementioned Anthony Rendon all have the ability to make an impact on the game early. The Nationals speed is going to be the key to jumping the on top early. Yasmani Grandal’s defense came into question last season during the Dodgers playoff run, his ability to help manage the run game. Grandal’s offense has overshadowed his defensive struggles this season, throwing out 27% of would be base stealers is solid, but his -.04 defensive WAR is a cause for concern.
The Brewers miss Yelich, but they have found solid replacements for a short period of time. Trent Grisham, Ben Gamel and a hot Ryan Braun has helped the offense. Braun’s questionable status for Tuesday’s contest could be a crushing blow to an already limping offense.
Bullpen: Advantage Brewers
The Nationals bullpen troubles have been well documented during the last few seasons. Finding some stability towards the latter end of the season, Sean Doolittle moving into a set-up role as Daniel Hudson cemented himself in the back end. The Nationals may have found their answer at the end they still are playing from behind in the bullpen.
The Brewers have shown that they are deep with bullpen depth. The emergence of Drew Pomeranz as a weapon against either side of the plate gives them a pitcher that can cover multiple innings. I would look to see Josh Hader enter the game in as early as possible if the Brewers are able to grab a lead. Milwaukee has played this game before and will not hesitate to make a move when necessary.
Starter: Advantage Nationals
Keeping this simple. Max Scherzer, when healthy, is the best pitcher in baseball. Brandon Woodruff All-Star first half but was hampered by injuries in the second half. Both pitchers have great strikeout stuff, it’s Scherzer who will be looked on to take control of the game. The leash for Woodruff will be very small, if the Nationals jump out to an early lead the rug will be pulled out from under Woodruff.
The debate between whether Scherzer or Strasburg should start the game could be pointless, reports are saying that Stephen Strasburg will be one of the first to make an appearance out of the bullpen. Scherzer hasn’t been perfect this season but he will give them hard innings, lasting until the 7thwhere Washington will utilize their new bullpen pieces and strategy.
My Prediction
The NL Wild Card game has ultimately favored the road team since its inception. Only two home teams have found their way into the next round. While history favors the road team the Nationals have been terrific at home in 2019 with a 50-31 record. The Nationals also come in hot winning eight straight games at home to end the season.
Brewers Manager Craig Counsell has become the poster boy for utilizing every advantage his bullpen brings. While Woodruff is the starter, it would not be surprising to see Milwaukee make an early change to play the matchups against the dynamic Washington offense.
The Brewers went on an unbelievable run just to get to where they are, but they face a team that is simply better. Max Scherzer will dominate an offense that is missing way too many key pieces. Anthony Rendon will cement himself as the league MVP. The Brewers had a nice run and they are a nice story, I’m not betting against Mad Max in this situation. Give me the Nationals 6-2.
NCAA Picks ATS Week 5
Northwestern Wildcats at Wisconsin Badgers -24.5, Total 46.5
Northwestern blows. The chalk bet of last weekend was Northwestern +7 against Michigan State. That bet didn’t work out for most and never made sense in the first place. The Wildcats have one of the worst offenses in college football, they are now going to be greeted with a dominant Wisconsin defense.
Northwestern has had no success on any part of their offensive end. They especially have had issues with their passing game only connecting on 48% of their passes with just one touchdown to go along with six interceptions. Wisconsin has the #1 pas efficiency defense in the nation. That means that the Wildcats are going to have to try and run the ball. That game plan will not be very effective as the Badgers have given up a total of 20 yards per game this season.
Wisconsin is at home versus a team that can’t score. This should be a cake walk.
Pick: Wisconsin -24.5
Rutgers Scarlett Knights at Michigan Wolverines -28
Michigan is coming off of one of their most embarrassing losses in the Jim Harbaugh era. Getting embarrassed at the hands of Wisconsin last week has left a bad taste in the mouth of all Michigan players. Rutgers will now have the aggression of that loss taken out of them on Saturday.
I understand that Dylan McCaffery is most likely out and Shea Patterson is very beat up, leaving the quarterback play as a question mark. They seemed to figure it out at the end of the game after it was all but wrapped up. The Wolverines are at home, they are not facing the offensive and defensive lines of Wisconsin. This is Rutgers.
Again, this is Rutgers. Michigan has to dominate this game to work their way back into relevance. Look for pain.
Pick: Michigan Wolverines -28
Virginia Cavaliers at Notre Dame Fighting Irish -11
Notre Dame is coming off of a valiant effort against Georgia. They now get a quietly interesting showdown with the Virginia Cavaliers. The Cavaliers have a dominant defensive front. They lead the ACC in tackles for a loss and lead the nation in sacks. They have yet to give up 100 rushing yards in any of their four games this season.
Virginia has been a tough out ATS against top teams. The Cavaliers have gone 13-3 ATS over their last sixteen games versus teams with winning records. The Irish have to feel a let done after the loss to Georgia and will come out sluggish. The Virginia front will be a tough challenge for Norte Dame, while their offense lead by Bryce Perkins has enough to keep them in the game. Notre Dame wins, but it won’t be easy.
Pick: Virginia +11
Other Picks:
Texas Tech +27.5
USC/Washington over 61
NFL Week 4 Picks ATS Podcast
Bets that should have won week 3
Giants beat the Buccaneers with a rookie QB. Took Tampa Bay
The matchup between Tampa Bay and New York was the definition of gambling gone wrong. A rookie Quarterback on the road versus a well-rested Buccaneers team coming off of a huge upset victory over the Panthers.
Jamies Winston came out firing, finding his number one target Mike Evans for 135 yards and three touchdowns in the first half! Tampa Bay took a 28- 10 lead into half time. This game was not only over but the -6 cover was a given. No way a rookie Quarterback is going to lead a comeback victory on the road when their best player Saquon Barkley is no longer a part of the game plan.
The Buccaneers then decided that it was time to be the Buccaneers. Despite their dominance through the air Byron Leftwich decided it was time to lean on a non-existent run game. Instead of relying on what was working they decided to go in the opposite direction. Not many would agree with leaning your game plan on Jameis Winston, but it was working!
Daniel Jones went on to torch the Buccaneers along with our dreams of covering. Jones became the first ever rookie quarterback to throw for 300 yards, touch owns and run for two touchdowns. The media will play up Jones as a savior of New York Giants football. While he killed me this weekend, I will be fading him next week.
Panthers win without Cam. Took Arizona +2.5
Kyler Murray and the Cardinals were at home, the Panthers were without their Quarterback. Arizona was coming off of two large late game comebacks versus the Ravens and Lions. The momentum of Arizona rightfully put them as the favorite. The Cardinals were going to face Kyle Allen, an undrafted free agent out of Houston.
The Cardinals fast paced offense was supposed to lead to big points, the pace worked against Arizona as Allen was able to pick them apart utilizing CMC and the ageless wonder Greg Olsen. Arizona has a strong future ahead of them but they let us down in week 3 and continue tough matchups in week 4.
Seahawks lose at home to a backup QB. Took Seattle -4
I had two locks this week. The first of those being the Seahawks at home -4 versus the New Orleans Saints without Drew Brees. This was a game that I though Vegas had lost its mind. The Seahawks were coming off of two victories in a row where they dominated on the offensive end. Seattle was playing at home against a Quarterback that hadn’t played a full game in like two years.
Seattle decided to pick this weekend to lay an egg. Literally seems like Chris Carson believes the ball is an egg and it can only stay safe on the turf. New Orleans showed up on defense and special teams allowing Teddy Bridgewater to play the role of game manager. New Orleans got a boost from their ancillary pieces, something they cannot rely on in the weeks to come.
Seattle’s defense is not what I thought they would be when they picked up Jadaveon Clowney, continually giving up big plays. Their offense makes for a great matchup for week 4 when they face the Cardinals.
NFL Week 3 Picks Podcast
MLB DFS Breakdown: Sept 17
Pitcher Spotlight- Marco Gonzalez, Seattle Mariners
Marco Gonzalez will be a popular play at his low cost of $6.3K. There are multiple factors for that. His low cost will allow you to pay up for secondary pitching options or collect the top bats on the slate.
Gonzalez’s matchup is a juicy one in Pittsburgh versus a Pirates lineup that will not have two of its key hitters in Starling Marte and Josh Bell. Without the key cogs in the middle of the order completely changes the look of the Pittsburgh lineup. Placing Erik Gonzalez and Melky Cabrera in their places. Marco is a cost play versus a watered-down lineup, but his upside is ideal in this situation.
Top Stacks- Arizona Diamondbacks, Minnesota Twins, Toronto Blue Jays, Cleveland Indians
Focus: Arizona Diamondbacks
The Diamondbacks will be an under owned potential stack. The matchup with Caleb Smith is a solid one for the righties. Smith has given up a .250 ISO versus righties on the season as well as over a +1.30 road ERA. The focus of the lineup build should be the affordable pieces Christian Walker and Adam Jones at just $3.6K. Add on the perspective power/speed of Ketel Marte at $5.2K and you have a solid mini stack.
Focus: Cleveland Indians
Cleveland will matchup with Spencer Turnbull but seems to be priced as if they are matching up with a stronger starter. Mathew Boyd was the original starter for Detroit, DraftKings did not seem to price the change correctly. Getting Franmil Reyes and Roberto Perez for a combined $7.K are bargains if that allow you to complete the three-man stack along with the high-priced Francisco Lindor.
Sneaky Stack: Toronto Blue Jays
The Blue Jays have a chance to break the slate against Chandler Shepherd, former Red Sox farm hand that spent his 2019 getting blistered in AAA. Shepherd has an 8.55xFIP before being cast to Baltimore. The Toronto hitters are all affordable outside of Bo Bichette and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. Combining the power potential of Vlad Jr. and Randall Grichuck seems like the most ideal point per dollar plays.
P: Marco Gonzalez, Seattle Mariners, $6,300
P: Yu Darvish, Chicago Cubs, $11,200
C: Roberto Perez, Cleveland Indians, $3,600
1B: Christian Walker, Arizona Diamondbacks, $3,600
2B: Ketel Marte, Arizona Diamondbacks, $5,200
3B: Vlad Guerrero Jr., Toronto Blue Jays, $3,900
SS: Francisco Lindor, Cleveland Indians, $4,800
OF: Franmil Reyes, Cleveland Indians, $3,500
OF: Adam Jones, Arizona Diamondbacks, $3,600
OF: Randall Grichuck, Toronto Blue Jays, $4,300
Put up or Shut up. Previewing the Nationals/Cardinals Series
The Cardinals had a chance to bury their division rivals, the Christian Yelich-less Milwaukee Brewers. They found themselves in a position to establish themselves as the true frontrunner for the National League Central race. The Cardinals hopes for dominance were crushed by Ryan Braun’s ninth inning grand slam off of rookie Junior Fernandez.
St. Louis was bit by the hand that had been feeding them all of 2019. Their young bullpen arms were not able to handle the late inning situations as they had previously the entire season. The Cardinals still sit two games up on the second place Chicago Cubs and three games up on the aforementioned Milwaukee Brewers. The redbirds have a very interesting clash in front of them against the uber talented and desperate Washington Nationals.
Oh, they also get to face the murderer’s row of starting pitching Stephen Strasburg, Patrick Corbin and Max Scherzer.
St. Louis will counter Dakota Hudson, Miles Mikolas and Adam Wainwright. Comparing the overall starting pitching is an obvious advantage to the Nationals. Washington comes into this series with a 6-8 record in September including getting smashed by the Atlanta Braves which has all but ended their chances at the eastern division crown. Both teams are in a must win situation the rest of the season. The Cubs and Brewers are both hot on their heels ready to take over their positions at the top.
The Cardinals will have the advantage in the bullpen which in a playoff like atmosphere Mike Schildt will have to be ready to make the move before it is too late. The Nationals have a powerful offense that can turn a one run lead into a four-run lead before you know it. Schildt will have his first real playoff like atmosphere at Busch, Cardinals fans will find out if he is the one that will take them to the next step.
The Nationals have the superior depth in their lineup with bench players like Howie Kendrick, Gerardo Parra and Matt Adams. They can put out multiple lineups that will be tough to matchup against over a three games series. The key for St. Louis will be to get ahead early and force the Nationals to utilize their subpar bullpen. If the Cardinals can get a lead it will also allow Dakota Hudson, Miles Mikolas and Adam Wainwright to attack the zone. They are pitch to contact pitchers, it can be an advantage for them to have the freedom to throw in the zone and not worry about one long ball putting them behind.
Who has the advantage?
Starters- Advantage Nationals
Bullpen- Advantage Cardinals
Offense- Advantage Nationals
My series prediction.
In game one St. Louis will need to a strong performance in game one from Dakota Hudson, if he can give them a solid six innings and keep the ball in the ballpark it can set them up for the rest of the series. Strasburg is a vaunting task for any offense but is hittable when off, it is going to be hot for game one so the ball should be taking off and the usual pitcher friendly Busch Stadium. Cardinals take game one 4-3.
Game two is a much more even matchup with Mile Mikolas taking on Patrick Corbin. Corbin’s one start versus St. Louis he was erratic in the strike zone, walking four over his six innings. Corbin has the stuff to shut down the Cardinals but with St. Louis’s heavy right-handed lineup they should have the advantage. Mikolas on the other hand found himself at home against the Nationals, giving up seven hits over six innings but only one run. This game will come down to who is the first to fold. Cardinals take game two by getting to Corbin early, Cardinals win 7-3.
Game three is simple. Scherzer in St. Louis will dominate. Cardinals will scratch across a run early, but it won’t be enough. Soto and Rendon will punish Wainwright in the first and the third. Nationals win the game but lose the series. Nationals 8-2.
NCAAF Picks ATS Week 3
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Ohio State Buckeyes -17.5 at Indiana Hoosiers Total 60
The Buckeyes trampled the Cincinnati Bearcats last week 42-0. Justin Fields and company rolled through a Bearcat’s squad that was able to out muscle the UCLA offense the week before. Ohio State’s offense will always make the headlines while their defense got little recognition for pitching a shutout.
In come the Indiana Hoosiers who had a scare versus Ball State (34-24) in week one and followed it up with a dismantling of Eastern Illinois (52-0). It has been a complete team effort with two quarterbacks combining for five touchdowns and to five different receivers. Their rushing attack is led by Stevie Scott’s 109 yards over the first two games.
Ohio State has a 24-0-1 record against Indiana over their last 25 meetings. They have also went 5-1 in their last six road games in September. 17.5 seems like a large number of the road against a Big Ten team but I see Indiana having trouble moving the ball against the stout Ohio State defense.
Pick: Ohio State -17.5, Under 60
USC Trojans -4.5 at BYU Cougars, Total 55.5
USC is entering this game fresh off a beatdown of Stanford, (45-20) putting them in the top 25. Freshman Kedon Slovis came out of nowhere to lead an offensive explosion. USC has a clear advantage in talent all over the field including a very young and talented defense, the Trojans top eight tacklers are all underclassman. While the inexperience hurt them last year, it is paying off early in 2019.
While USC has the talent, BYU is coming off of an inspiring victory of their own against Tennessee. The Cougars faced two power five schools in their first two games, holding both Tennesee and Utah to just 30% conversions on third down. BYU has the ability to deflate the freshman QB who will be facing his first road test. This smells like a trap for USC.
Pick: BYU +4.5
Stanford Cardinal at UCF Knights -9.5
Stanford just blew a 17-3 lead versus a freshman quarterback in a division game. They now get to face a UCF team that seems to have a never-ending chip on their shoulder. Stanford is limping on the offensive end and they will need every bit of it against UCF. Stanford QB Davis Mills has only thrown for 318 total yards over their first two games, if they fall down early, they don’t have the offense to overcome.
The Cardinal are giving up 351 yards per game over their first two as well as 7 touchdowns. Those two teams don’t bring the same fire power as the Knights. UCF should win this by two touchdowns.
Pick: UCF -9.5
Oklahoma Sooners -23.5 at UCLA Bruins
UCLA can’t score, even in a Chip Kelly system. Oklahoma scores like they are playing intramural flag football with no refs. Jalen Hurts and Lincoln Riley seem to have a great repartee in this offense which could lead to bigger things for Hurts in the long run. UCLA has name recognition and that’s about it right now. This game is to easy, not much more analyses needed.
Sooners roll by four touchdowns
Pick: Oklahoma -23.5
Florida/Kentucky Under 47.5
Colorado State +10
Maryland -7
Forget the Waiver Wire- Play your Bench
Injuries week one are going to open the door for multiple “handcuffs” and waiver wire pickups to make an impact in week two. Injuries to Darrius Guice, Nick Foles, Tevin Coleman and Joe Mixon should leave other players with a chance to make impacts. I am looking more toward the players that showed up bigger than expected the first week of the season. Here are three players that are will continue to overplay their preseason fantasy value in week two. They are most likely owned in your league, put them in the lineup!
Marquise “Hollywood” Brown, Baltimore Ravens (32% ESPN) (30% Yahoo)
Speed plays in the NFL. Look at the breakouts of Alvin Kamara and Tyreke Hill over the past few seasons. Marquise Brown showed off that speed in his first career NFL game. Catching his first pass for a 47-yard slant straight to the endzone. Brown continued to dominate the field going for 147 total yards and adding another 40-yard touchdown reception.
Marquise will get another favorable matchup in week 2 when the Ravens take on the Arizona Cardinals who just gave up 385 passing yards to the Detroit Lions in week one. Danny Amendola put up huge numbers last week hauling in seven catches for 101 yards and a touchdown. While Brown will have his ups and downs during his first season in the league he will have flashes of brilliance like he did Week 1. Week 2 should be just as explosive.
Jamison Crowder, New York Jets, (70% ESPN) (46% Yahoo)
Drafting Jamison Crowder always comes with its risk. As a multi time Crowder drafter I have been bite quit a few times. Like an addict though I just couldn’t get enough of the potential high that Crowder can bring. Taking Crowder looks like it may pay off heading into week one. Crowder found himself as the favorite target for Sam Darnold. catching 14 of 17 passes for 99 yards. While Crowder didn’t find the endzone he still brought tons of value especially in PPR leagues.
The best part about Crowder is that he is still available in over 50% of leagues. Crowder’s health during a full season is always up in the air. In week two the Jets will matchup with the Browns coming off of an embarrassing defeat against the Tennessee Titans 43-13. Marcus Mariota was able to torch the Browns secondary, the Jets should have a similar chance to do that on Monday.
Devin Singletary, Buffalo Bills, (70% ESPN) (71% Yahoo)
Singletary was listed at the top of the depth chart in Buffalo to begin the season. Playing 70% of the snaps for the Bills in week one showed who was considered to be the #1 RB for Buffalo but his actual carries were limited to just four actual carries. Singletary was able to gain 70 yards as well as bring in five catches. Singletary showed the bust-out potential he has, which will make him a featured back going into week 2.
A matchup with the Giants defense is just what the doctor ordered for a potential impactful game. New York gave up 151 rushing yards to the Dallas Cowboys last week, they should not bring an impactful push against the run heavy Buffalo Bills. Singletary will be the featured back and should have a very solid game ahead of him. I’m looking for 100+ rushing yards and 50+ receiving yards.
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An Elegant Defense
audio title
The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
Matt Richtel, Fred Sanders
A magnificently reported and soulfully crafted exploration of the human immune system–the key to health and wellness, life and death. An epic, first-of-its-kind book, entwining leading-edge scientific discovery with the intimate stories of four individual lives, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times journalist.
“An Elegant Defense by Matt Richtel is one of those rare nonfiction books that transcends the genre. On one level it is a fascinating and engrossing account of the latest, and quite astonishing, discoveries involving the human immune system and how it works. But it is also a story about people facing mortality, about the passion of scientists searching for truth, and a meditation on death and how all of us struggle with the ultimate mystery. Heartfelt and moving, full of compassion, love, and the human drama, this is the work of a writer of high ethical character who is grappling with big issues and deep humanistic problems. What an inspiring and wonderful read. I highly recommend this extraordinary book.” —DOUGLAS PRESTON, #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God
Matt Richtel:
Matt Richtel is a Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times reporter and bestselling nonfiction and mystery author. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, Meredith, a neurologist, and their two children. In his spare time, he plays tennis and piano and writes (not very good) songs. Visit him online at www.mattrichtel.wordpress.com.
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Publication Date Mar 12, 2019
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Health, Diet & Fitness » Family & health » Coping with personal problems » Coping with illness & specific conditions
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Eclectic Reader: Read like a writer
Review of A Breeze You Whisper in In A Fragile Moment: A Landscape of Canadian Poetry
Whispers and Flames in Kathryn MacDonald. A review of some poems by Kathryn MacDonald in A Breeze You Whisper (Poetry) (2011) Hidden Brook Press. Canada – p. 131-134
Surprises are wonderful, especially when they involve a review of your book in a collection with poets such as Milton Acorn, Margaret Atwood, and Al Purdy among others. I’ve received the publication notice by email and the book is on its way. More about the collection to come. In the meantime, here is a bit of blatant self-promotion of my collection, A Breeze You Whisper.
First, from the press release:
In a Fragile Moment: A Landscape of Canadian Poetry is an insightful collection of essays and reviews, written from the poetic heart of Professor Olivé. The authors covered in this astute critical study are treated with heart felt respect:
Milton Acorn, Merle Amodeo, Margaret Atwood, Katharine Beeman, Allan Briesmaster, Patrick Connors, James Deahl, Antony Di Nardo, J. Graham Ducker, Kate Marshall Flaherty, Katherine L. Gordon, Kimberley Grove, Richard M. Grove, Don Gutteridge, Lala Heine-Koehn, Keith Inman, Bruce Kauffman, Donna Langevin, John B. Lee, Norma West Linder, Kathryn MacDonald, Lisa Makarchuk, Bruce Meyer, Colin Morton, Marvin Orbach, Deborah Panko, Al Purdy, Sarah Richardson, Linda Rogers, Glen Sorestad, Anna Yin.
“Whispers and Flames”
My nights are good ones. Besides friends, family, sharing and joy, poetry books flood my bed and my mind before I go to sleep. It is a wealth found nowhere else. Last night it was not The Voice of the Land, or the People´s Poet. Last night it was a whisper in my ears, a dance of words and flames before my eyes: Kathryn MacDonald.
If I had to choose one word for her poetry, I´d say “sensuality.” It overflows the book´s margins shipping fruit and fire that crackles in its pages as I hold my breath caught in the delicacy of her phrases or gaspingly sigh marveled at their attractiveness.
I went through some of her poems. “A Breeze You Whisper” entwines, with simplicity and smoothness, two major themes at the core of poetry: nature and love. Neither the book´s title nor the poem´s has a comma, but its single stanza includes it in the first two lines (“A breeze, you whisper. A bird, you soar and hover”). These pauses are dictated, and intended, by the poet as a mindful pointer of serene procession towards something – provoking, soul-diving, engaging – prompted by the nature-sent, photo-like proposal.
The “You” mentioned in the poem is sensitively attached to nature; but in a quiet association – as if paving the lovers´ way to intimacy – that is set free, no punctuation in lines three and four, to yield the lover to her: “… into the nest hidden within my tossing limbs.” It is a pas de deux from contextual meanings (lines one and two) to figurative meanings (end of line two through three and four). “The nest” strikes a euphemistic chord, which empowers the sentence with sky´s-the-limit interpretations by the reader.
“Blueberry Picking” is play with meanings in cross-contextual insinuations only to be perceived by the mind. Fruit – flavor, colour and look – is the main star in a poem that creates allegories of berry-blue sensuality. The reader climbs – rung by rung – down the poem from “Lake of the Woods, round and placid like the heavy rocks from which the prickly bushes seemed to grow” to “… the sweet berries with my tongue.” Mind-blowing juggling with “I fondled the sweet berries with my tongue” as a prelude to a suggestive “mood.” Situations and characters´ status dribble sensually. The coda modifies the tempo of the poem, its atmosphere.
Kathryn can´t and won´t give up her incursions to nature in “One Woman” for describing/comparing: “Your laughter… geyser filling me with love” or “Exuberant you… deep in life´s river…” She uses metaphors to depict setbacks too: … “welcoming flotsam tossed up in turmoil…,” and optimism again: “glowing like sunrise.” The three lines before the last one (“a surprise hug manifesting joy and rampant passion”) lead to the poem´s essence: “all wrapped up in one woman.” Uncomplicated words, deftly chosen, concise: expressive love and admiration.
“Avatar” is a proverbial narration of the creative act, its tumultuous process preceding the ultimate phase of artistic conception until the time “to brush across canvas.” It starts explaining somehow the artist-poet strings and the urges/feelings rifling through them, binding them, nurturing them: “her soul tremoring through fingertips / her tears creating rainbows of release.” The image “rainbows of release” confers both painting-related chromatic breadth and cathartic burst to the stanza and the poem.
Stanza two is the vertex pulling in the cosmos and maelstrom of art (“She turns through her nights / courting images / and exaggerations / that revolve / like the moon / through her / seasons and / from the pinnacle of her / rotation / she spirals / like / the dream shattering”), which culminates in “the dream shattering.” This shattering is laden with meanings beyond the notion of shatter that we have, a shattering that creates. Stanza three is the ultimate stage, the artist´s “big bang.” It lays down “across canvas” all of the furnace´s burning embers of the artistic produce.
Read these lines from the poem “Pleasure”: “Your fingers touch the buttons pushing them through each hole creating a V in my white nightgown.” Notably, the poem is homage to the person who has given the poet transcendent moments of pleasure, her companion, her lover: “You pleasure me and more.” The repetition of “and more” as a stylistic device is a key for readers to open divergent doors into their comprehension of the poem: a sensuality bordering eroticism, which is competently molded by the poet. We also feel the defining balance found in the rare gift of companionship, understood as closeness of two beings: the unfailing, necessary presence (“Have done so for half my life and more”).
Finally, “Winter Storm” poses a question to the reader: Why this title? I can only guess. This poem is an erotically wrought piece sublimely elaborated on by the poet. She kneads structure and the way stanzas are set on the page, which contributes to the poem´s mood and atmosphere. It tells of a lover´s subterfuge to win back a woman´s favors (“while he tugs at her memory”). A mind-poking, “blackmailish” foreplay that screens graphic memories: “when motion was joy when their bodies easily skimmed white powder”). The woman “marks distance with care measuring her path” while “he tugs” and she gives “slowly” in.
There is no doubt she has been re-conquered. Now I could explain the title gathering from here and there words, details, under and overtones, and tessitura. One clue is “now she inches slowly downward feeling sleet on her forehead…” Sleet says it all, watery snow, and the fact that it is on her forehead is a sign, for me, of mental “weakening.” A storm is approaching her winter, a storm that spells anticipation, desire, straightforward, concrete come-ons: “She sees his blue eyes his hand reach feels it cup her small breast.” She seems to be awakening from her wintery slumber, defrosted by “his blue eyes.” While the first poem commented here in my review was a breeze and a whisper; this is a latently raging storm of words and love-making. I melted.
Six poems and lots of sparkles in whispers and flames is what I surmised from this tender, sensual author. I am glad her book came to me. Thank you, Kathryn.
Miguel Ángel Olivé Iglesias is an Associate Professor at the University of Holguín, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Education, Major in English, and a Master’s Degree in Pedagogical Sciences. He is also Head of the English Language Discipline and a member of the Canadian Studies Department of the Holguín University in Cuba. Miguel Olivé is also a member of the Mexican Association of Language and Literature Professors, VP of the William Shakespeare Studies Center. Professor Olivé is Editor-in-chief of the Canada Cuba Literary Alliance (CCLA) magazine The Ambassador, also Assistant Editor of The Envoy newsletter, and CCLA President in Cuba.
Professor Olivé has been teaching for over thirty years and writing reviews, poems and stories in Spanish and in English. He has written and published numerous academic papers in Cuba, Mexico, Spain and Canada.
Hidden Brook Press is about to publish his first solo full-length book of poems, in English and Spanish, Forge of Words (2019). SandCrab books will also publish These Voices Beating in our Hearts: Poems from the Valley (Spanish-English) in ebook format, of which he is Editor, but also features poems of his together with other eleven Holguín poets. His themes are about women, people, life, family, love, nature, and human values.
Available from your local bookseller or online: In A Fragile Moment: A Landscape of Canadian Poetry
For more about A Breeze You Whisper, please go to this blog: Three poems: excerpts from A Breeze You Whisper, to purchase visit your local bookseller or online: A Breeze You Whisper (in Canada: A Breeze You Whisper).
Author Kathryn (Kate) MacDonaldPosted on January 6, 2020 January 5, 2020 Categories Uncategorized, WritingTags A Breeze You Whisper, Book Review, In A Fragile Moment: A Landscape of Canadian Poetry, Kathryn MacDonald, Miguel Ángel Olivé Iglesias, PoetryLeave a comment on Review of A Breeze You Whisper in In A Fragile Moment: A Landscape of Canadian Poetry
Calla & Édourd by Kathryn MacDonald, an excerpt
This novella, set in Eastern Ontario, bubbles with the details of everyday life. The cycle of the season is reflected in the lives of the central characters. It is a hymn/lament for that which is passing and that which is past. (Alistair MacLeod, author of two collections of short stories: The Lost Salt Gift of Blood and Island; and the award-winning novel: No Great Mischief, cover copy)
Hidden Brook Press (HBP); ISBN 978-1-897475-39-3; 2009
It is a sad day when a book goes out of print. After ten years, this is the fate of my novella, all 23,000+ words, 129 pages.
From readers, Calla & Édourd garnered comments such as, “I was hooked after having read only the preface (as well as the entire book that same evening) [L.S.]. “I could see everything like a movie running through my head” [P.C.]. “I loved the explanation of perfection for Édourd on page 96 and the stories ‘…steeped in the tea of superstition and Catholicism’” [G.M.].
Chapter 1 begins:
Calla moves like a wave, from tree to tree, down the steep incline toward the water’s edge. Her left arm wrapping itself around rough-barked trunks. Her feet, beneath deep snow, searching for secure footing. Downward. Down to a spot where the water bubbles every day of the year from a silent, hidden spring.
Overhead, the sound of squabbling breaks the quiet. Lifting her face to the sky, Calla’s eyes find two black-capped chickadees. They slip from the sky to a tree branch where they hop over each other, reminding Calla of childhood games of leapfrog. The birds move along the branch away from the trunk before flying westward, their voices becoming lost in the distance. The momentary stillness soon fills with the rapid rat-tat-tatting of a downy woodpecker. It circles a birch tree; its head bobbing rhythmically; its black and white feathers blending into the birch. Without the movement, it would seem invisible.
Calla continues carefully downward, testing with her feet for buried rocks and broken branches beneath the snow. Slowly, she moves toward the white-crusted marsh. The red-winged blackbirds, that months ago perched on cattails, had now flown south, leaving the brown expanse of stalks and tails deserted.
The story begins when Calla is in the early throws of dementia. Then the backstory unfolds with innocence and love, the birth of children and their growing up and leaving home. But the unraveling of Calla’s mind cannot be avoided and takes a toll.
If you’re curious about the reference made by G.M. to the “perfection” passage:
Ah, but expectations of perfection was not something that plagued Édourd. He had grown in the shadow of Papa, a man shaped by the realities of the seasons and he knew that perfection came only masked as miracles. Perfection came with dark-bottomed cumulus clouds carrying rain in spring and with a clear dawn during haying season. It presented itself in the shifting colours as goldfinch feathers changed from drab olive to sunshine yellow, also in spring. Similar magic arrived with the return of the mallards, and shortly afterward, the arrival of ducklings in the marsh. Whether a miracle appeared to satisfy survival or to cause his spirit to leap, Édourd welcomed them like he had welcomed Papa’s stories.
In addition to Alistair MacLeod, Evelyn Bowering wrote cover copy: “Drawing their sustenance from past generations, Calla and Édourd’s love endures when traumatic loss gives way to fragmentation of memory, and past, present and future merge into one. MacDonald creates word paintings of nature and domestic life that linger after the last word is read. This is a beautiful story.”
I blush at the praise and thank everyone who bought books and a special thank you to those who sent their thoughts to me.
I am grateful to my publisher, Richard (Tai) Grove, Hidden Brook Press for taking the risk of publishing my first fiction. At that time, Tai was a new publisher and I was largely untried. We’ve both learned a lot in the intervening ten years.
Thank you for indulging my journey down memory lane.
Please share your experiences of publishing your first fiction and your thoughts if your book, like mine, has slipped out of print.
Author Kathryn (Kate) MacDonaldPosted on December 2, 2019 December 4, 2019 Categories Uncategorized, WritingTags Calla & Édourd, Fiction, Kathryn MacDonald, Novel, NovellaLeave a comment on Calla & Édourd by Kathryn MacDonald, an excerpt
River of Hidden Dreams by Connie May Fowler: Book Review
This island is far more full of life than I had thought. Animals I cannot name are beginning to make themselves known. I hear twigs snap, and cries filter now and again from woods to sky. I wrap up tighter and try to concentrate on Mama and Mima. I think of that day Mr. Sammy decided he had turned old. His sudden despair and Miss Raison’s drowning weren’t the only life-changing events in the forest hideaway that stormy afternoon. Mima conceived my mother in the middle of all that lightning and rain (186-7).
I often buy used books from volunteers staffing “Friends of the Library” shop at the entrance to Belleville’s library. This is where I found River of Hidden Dreams by Connie May Fowler. (Purchases support our public library and often great finds can be made.)
I picked the book up because of the cover – a photograph that I might have been smitten to take – an egret in long, marshy grasses. The narrative, which identifies as fiction, is dedicated to two women who seem very much like two characters in the story. However, the blurb on the dust jacket almost put me off – romance (the romantic, not the historic variety). Nevertheless, I was drawn in.
Fowler’s book reminds me a little of Everything Under by Daisy Johnson, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize (2018). What the two books share is a boat on a river, water that hides mysteries and danger, and consciousness more surreal than real. Johnson’s story is far more complex and more beautifully executed…and much more surreal and daring. But Fowler’s story was published 24 years earlier. Johnson’s story centres on the intricate relations of a mother and daughter; Fowler’s focuses on a woman’s memories of her mother, grandmother and grandfather who tell their own stories. To my mind, the intervention of Carlos and a mummified baby spoil what might have been a much more interesting tale.
River of Hidden Dreams fought with me (or I with it). I threatened to toss it aside. Then I turned the page again. The orneriness of the grandmother and granddaughter parallel became a bit too much…but then I continued reading. The handsome, perfect, prince-charming Carlos is polar-opposite of his miserable, mean Mamacita/Saidie. Perhaps someone told the author, “you’d better include a love object and sex.” Still, the pages kept turning.
What works: Mr. Sammy, the trawler, the river, the Everglades, and the ancestors speaking their own stories for the eerie, jarring, sensuous impact. Fowler’s descriptions held me enchanted. I slipped into her river-world where time became untethered. The story may have happened last century or last year; it doesn’t matter. I felt its immediacy, its reality in a surreal kind of way.
River of Hidden Dreams by Connie May Fowler has earned my toughest review. Now that it’s written, I’ve checked what others have said…and everyone loved everything about it. Now you might want to read the novel and make up your own mind. Do let me know…please.
Available through your local bookstore or online: River of Hidden Dreams
(The hardcover is listed for Cdn $248.72 – you may want to visit your library to borrow a copy.)
Author Kathryn (Kate) MacDonaldPosted on November 18, 2019 November 3, 2019 Categories Book Reviews, Eclectic Reader, UncategorizedTags Book Review, Connie May Fowler, Fiction, Florida, River of Hidden DreamsLeave a comment on River of Hidden Dreams by Connie May Fowler: Book Review
Three poems: excerpts from A Breeze You Whisper
I read the whole thing all at once…each poem made me want to read the next one, and then, it was over, leaving me wanting more. [] I was totally entranced. MacDonald’s work is sensual, moving. She plays with words….The poet takes us off the page and into her mind and heart, into our own minds and hearts and beyond. (Amazon review)
ISBN 978-1-897475-66-9; Hidden Brook Press (HBP); 2011
The majority of the poems in the collection are in print for the first time, but some were previously published, including these three. The cover was created by the publisher from one of my photographs of a luna moth; the ink-brush drawings are also my creations. The book is divided into six sections: East; South; West; North; Above & Below.
“Earth,” was originally published in Ascent Aspirations Magazine (2007):
Worms wiggle through soil
and at the end of the robin’s beak.
Ants build labyrinthine passageways
and a room fit for a queen’s eggs.
Below the raspberries
a brown field mouse curls in her nest.
Away from the garden path
under the evergreen rabbits burrow.
My fingers reach for weedy roots
find mysteries buried deep.
Gravity hold more than loam
to its stony heart.
“City Hunter” was originally published in Descant (1981; a prestigious literary journal that published from 1970-2015):
I watched the jazz man
reach through his horn
felt his mellow
breath caress my ears.
His dancing fingers
pushed the air
around the
rippling waves
of smoke
broke against
my flesh
pulling toward his
centre.
He soared and
catching his prey
of his rhythm.
The third poem that I’m sharing with you from the collection A Breeze You Whisper is titled “Migration.” It was first published in Northward Journal (under a pen name: Deneau; 1981; Penumbra Press).
He watched fear
enter her eyes
as she bellied
through the prairie grasses.
He imagined
the pressure
her fleshy triangle as
the grasses pushed
between her legs.
Snaking forward, she,
initiation offering,
would clamp him
in her hairy, circular
and devour
his hunger until the
fear leaped into
Slowly he watched the
seeds sown in her belly
His ear upon her naval
to drums and gurgling
to thundering hoof beats and
rustling grasses.
From the fissure sprung
the red waters
as the migrating herds
I thought perhaps after reading my reviews, you might be curious what kind of poetry I write. I would love to learn what you think of these poems, and if you’ve read the book, what you think of it.
Available online: A Breeze You Whisper.
(The caption is a quote from the book review on Amazon.)
Author Kathryn (Kate) MacDonaldPosted on November 4, 2019 November 6, 2019 Categories Uncategorized, WritingTags A Breeze You Whisper, City Hunter, Earth, Hidden Brook Press (HBP), Ink-Brush Drawings, Kathryn MacDonald, Migration, Poems, Poetry1 Comment on Three poems: excerpts from A Breeze You Whisper
The Wrecking Light by Robin Robertson: Book Review
I find a kind of hope here, in this / homelessness, in this place / where no one knows me – / where I’ll be gone, like some / over-wintering bird, / before they even notice. (Beginning to Green)
The poet searches: for his shadow-self, for grief and guilt, and for life and meaning. In The Wrecking Light, Robin Robertson moves into the past, sheds light onto the present, and shape-shifts between reality and the surreal.
In the first section, Silvered Water, the first poem, “Album,” sets a tone that echoes throughout the collection. It begins:
I am almost never there, in these
old photographs: a hand
or shoulder, out of focus; a figure
in the background,
stepping from the frame.
A ghost is there; the ghost gets up to go.
The Wrecking Light is full of memories that include memories of others: the girl / with the hare lip / down by Clachan Bridge (“By Clachan Bridge”). And the collection ends with the personal memory of “Hammersmith Winter” when through the drawn curtain / shines the snowlight I remember as a boy, / sitting up at the window watching it fall. Mixed with memories is a sense of grieving, as in “Fall From Grace:”
My life a mix of dull disgraces
and watery acclaim, my daughters know
I cannot look into their clear faces;
what shines back at me is shame.
The theme continues. In “Tinsel,” in the woods: If you’re very quiet, you might pick up loss: or rather / the thin noise that losing makes – perdition. / If you’re absolutely silent. And with loss comes leaving. The very next poem, “Leaving St. Kilda,” takes us on a sea journey brimming with geographic details and clear images cut clean by departure. In this geographical catalogue: sea rhythm; progression.
But don’t get the wrong idea, these poems are neither nostalgic nor maudlin. In the skillful hands of this visionary, we are taken on a raucous ride with unexpected twists and turns.
In the second section called Broken Water, the first poem’s horror and the brutal honesty of rough island life and penance is laid bare. In “Law of the Island” Robertson paints a vivid description of island punishment and the casualness of its deployment. In this section, he gives us a back-and-forth of short poems with punch and longer, exploratory ones where he writes after Ovid, Neruda, Baudelaire, and myth to understand humanity’s weaknesses. Here, “Grave Goods,” is beyond surreal; it enters magic.
In the third section, Unspoken Water, the woods and forests of childhood again dominate. In “The Wood of Lost Things,” the vision is clearer and in its clarity, more haunting. Robertson writes: I have found the place I wasn’t meant to find (…)
Hung on a silver birch, my school cap
and satchel; next to them, the docken suit,
and next to that, pinned to a branch,
my lost comforter –
a piece of blanket worn to the size of my hand.
You can see how he leads us. Like Narcissus he sees a face I seem to know. But unlike Narcissus, he isn’t struck by his beauty. Of course not. But he does give us a resolution (of sorts).
In The Wrecking Light, there is much of the sea, of woods, of love and loss, of searching. I return to the final poem, “Hammersmith Winter,” and the poet’s final plea: Look at the snow, / I said, to whoever might be near, I’m cold, / would you hold me. Hold me. Let me go.
Robin Robertson has written an intense, lyrical collection with movement as through dreams bordering on nightmare (I dare not use the word haunting again, although that is the effect his writing creates). This is Robertson’s forth book of poetry; I recommend you enter his world.
Available through your local bookstore or online: The Wrecking Light
Author Kathryn (Kate) MacDonaldPosted on October 21, 2019 September 12, 2019 Categories Book Reviews, Eclectic Reader, UncategorizedTags Book Review, Poems, Robin Robertson, The Wrecking LightLeave a comment on The Wrecking Light by Robin Robertson: Book Review
Choreography: a poem
Frigate birds soar skyward / become specks of dust in the blue / before slow spirals…
On September 24, 2019, Amethyst Review published “Choreography.”
by Kathryn MacDonald
Frigate birds soar skyward
become specks of dust in the blue
before slow spirals toward sea
their wingspan increasing
split tails like swallows gliding
aerial grace becoming
kites on currents
floating on aqua ripples.
Sunshine warms bare legs
spread for balance on the foredeck
eyes shielded against glare
while becoming other
shedding feathers and scales
until reaching the centre
and all drops away.
Sailboats and frigate birds (Isla Mujeres, Yucatan, Mexico)
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Author Kathryn (Kate) MacDonaldPosted on October 7, 2019 November 5, 2019 Categories Uncategorized, WritingTags Amethyst Review, Choreography, Frigate Birds, Isla Mujeres Mexico, Kathryn MacDonald, Poetry, Transformation, TravelLeave a comment on Choreography: a poem
Bone Antler Stone by Tim Miller: Book Review
In every real way, the ring was placed here / the ring of now pock-marked, planetary stone (…) but the landscape was first, the stones only our / attempt at echo and veneration. (The Ring of Brodgar)
Tim Miller collapses 30,000 years of archaeology into a poetry collection that feels the thrill of immediate experience. He stirs a bit of magic, weaving it into the facts of what we know from long-past history.
In “Chauvet, Lascaux, Altamira” (France and Spain, 35,000 – 12,000 BC), Miller writes: Now we come to paint with light and fire. In this seven-part poem, we go beyond the images and enter the process of painting them:
A bison made with his hands, white hands dipped in red
And palms slapped on cold rock again and again,
Smacked hands turned or righted or angles
And his exhausted step back to see
The animal made only of red palms and rock,
Red like bison’s blood, stone vitality,
His awe at a heartbeat behind the wall,
And his hands red as a midwife’s.
The poet does not stand back, merely to look in wonder and awe, although the mystery inherent in that is present. He manages intimacy and time dissolves.
Lines jump off the page, lines like The sun sets into the sea and is doused / and rises with the sound of reborn flame / rolling into another red morning. The title, “The Sun Sets into the Sea” is incantatory, hypnotic. Doing the work of a chant, it carries us to the sea and the sun, which so many peoples worshipped.
The landscape, too, is revealed as it reveals burials of the long dead. In “Long Barrows,” graves become humps…in the landscape, / small rises like murmurs. The collapsing of then and now runs throughout the collection as it does in:
Horses and Cows on Orkney
Horses curled in the flaming spiral of sleep,
The huge immensity of their bodies
Belied by the blankets they wear, or the
Tight scroll they twist themselves into on the ground,
An enormity suddenly made small
Or at least passive, compact, the coiled braid
Of body closer to tree or landscape,
The tilted, chiseled head nearer to stone
Or to steel or something pulled from the fire,
Some monument to just how this place works,
That you do not escape the wind, but dream in it.
And this would not be a “prehistory” collection if the goddesses were not brought forth. “Female Figurines” begins with the urgency of poetic catalogue, an incantation:
Hum the words with me and you might understand:
Mammoth ivory, hematite, limestone,
Black jet, soapstone, antler and fired clay –
All of these become our bodies because
Our bodies are the place of becoming.
Tim Miller stirs the imagination. His narrative poems in Bone Antler Stone breathe life into the archeological past of Europe. Now my heart yearns for poetic translation of “New World” prehistory.
Available through your local bookstore or online: Bone Antler Stone
A personal note:
Reading “Female Figurines” (Bone Antler Stone), I walked over to a display table in my sitting area and picked up a cast replica of the Goddess of Willendorf, a gift of my professor of Art and Archeology. In that course, Professor Leonard Kroon insisted we experience art. I did two things: first, I visited the petroglyph site at Rice Lake, lay on the shamanic rock and listened to the earth gurgling through a slanted crack (out of that experience came a poem, “Migration,” which is included in A Breeze You Whisper) and I carved a hawk from a block of soapstone. Although I didn’t know it at the time, the red-tailed hawk would become a motif in later poems. That aside, I cradled the Willendorf figure – both tiny as my palm and monumental – and felt magic through the rotund Lilliputian goddess before returning to Miller’s poems.
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Home » Blog » Is It Time For New Vocabulary? The Iowa Sex Abuse Trial
Is It Time For New Vocabulary? The Iowa Sex Abuse Trial
April 15, 2015Rabbi Richard AddressBlog0
The N.Y.Times of Tuesday April 14 carried a front page article entitled “Sex, Dementia and a Husband on Trial at Age 78”. The article detailed the story of Henry Rayhons who is being charged with third degree felony sexual abuse “accused of having sex with his wife in a nursing home”. Henry’s wife, Donna, had severe Alzheimer’s and was in a nursing home. The story discusses the background of some internal family issues, which may have come into play here. Donna passed away last August and soon after her husband was arrested. In a telling paragraph the writer, Pam Bullock wrote: “The case pivots on longstanding medical and ethical concerns that will become only more pressing as the population ages and rates of dementia rise. How can anyone determine whether a person with dementia can say yes to sex? Who has the right to decide?”
We know that many facilities do have statements that protect the rights of residents to have sexual relationships. But this case (and the details of it are too lengthy for this space) raise the issue of people with dementia or Alzheimer’s whose cognitive abilities are, obviously, impaired. If a spouse, in a moment of tenderness and love, engages in such physical relationships, who can say that this is abuse? Indeed, according to the article, follow up exams indicated no indication of abuse.
The article cites many authorities on aging and nursing home administration. One remarkable quite, from the chief executive of the Hebrew Home in Riverdale, N.Y., reminded the author of the article of the importance of presence and touch, especially in a facility where loss is so present. “So much of aging and so much of being in a long-term care facility is about loss, loss of independence, loss of friends, loss of ability to use your body. Why would we want to diminish that?”
What this raised to me is a concern that seems to be slowly emerging as our longevity revolution continues. Given the new realities of aging, do we need to create new vocabulary to deal with new stages of life? Do we need to have, as part of the intake interview for such cases as the Rayhorn’s (cases which will grow in number) questions that raise the scenario of permitting sexual relationships? And what about the growing rush of medical technology that makes such terms as terminally ill now subject to review and re-interpretation?
The aging revolution is creating an assortment of new challenges. We here at Jewish Sacred Aging would be very interested in your response to this.
Rabbi Richard F Address, D.Min
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Following a month of online voting and input by expert industry judges, the 2019 JLT Restaurant Awards concluded with a glitzy ceremony held at the Pullman Hotel in JLT. A capacity crowd witnessed the big reveal of the winners and runners-up of the 21 categories in Dubai’s only neighbourhood F&B awards.
On Monday, 25th November 2019, the Pullman Dubai Jumeirah Lakes Towers played host to the gala ceremony marking the end of the third JLT Restaurant Awards. The event, which this year focused on “sustainability”, saw the winners and runners-up of the Awards’ 21 categories announced by the MC and food industry insider, Farida Ahmed (Frying Pan Food Adventures), and was attended by 120 local restaurateurs, F&B professionals, and foodies.
The third edition of Dubai’s only neighbourhood F&B awards attracted 70 nominations across 21 categories and recorded 16,831 online votes for the 18 publicly voted categories, which ranged from “Best Indian” to “Best Café”, “Best Middle Eastern”, “Best Brunch”, and “Best Burger”. Three additional categories, “Best Sustainability Initiative”, “Best Newcomer”, and “Best Overall”, were judged by an expert panel of industry insiders consisting of Peggy Li, Managing Partner, Strategic Partnership Solutions; Annamaria Lambri, Associate Professor for Interior Design and renowned hospitality architect, American University Dubai; Giacomo Puntel, award-winning Director of F&B, Anantara The Palm Resort Dubai; and Scott Gregory, JLT resident & hospitality technology professional.
Just like the 2018 Awards, the 2019 JLT Dining Awards also featured a “Hidden Gem in JLT” category, with an online voting shortlist based on suggestions submitted by JLT residents, office dwellers, visitors, and Dubai foodies during August and September 2019.
Notable winners were: Bait Maryam for Best Overall and Best Middle Eastern, Pickl for Best Newcomer, Beirut Bites for Best Hidden Gem, Pullman Dubai Jumeirah Lakes Towers for Best Sustainability Initiative, and Streetery for Best Streetfood, Best South-East Asian, and Best Chinese.
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Best South Asian: Little Lahore
Best Pizza: Cibo Italiano
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Best European (Licensed): Mythos Kouzina & Grill
The list of all winners and runners-up is available here.
“Congratulation to all winners and runners-up and a big thank you to everyone who participated and helped us to make the third JLT Restaurant Awards even better than the first two editions”, says JLT Dining’s Chief Munch Officer Ina Kubler, and continues “Although, there could only be one winner and one runner-up for each of the 21 categories, everyone who took part in the awards is a winner! Together, we put JLT’s burgeoning food scene on the map, created awareness, and – most importantly – forged connections and friendships between local restaurateurs, hospitality professionals, and foodies.”
The awards will take place again in 2020 and the details and provisional timeline are available here.
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What exactly are the conditions of al-Bukhari and Muslim?
I've noticed that this question has never been asked before even if we have posts such as:
What are the requirements of a "Sahih" hadith?
Which criteria the Rawis(Arabic: 'narrators') of Sahih-Hadith had to fulfil?
I've tried to address this topic before in my answer on What are the terms of that which has reached Tawatur?, however I didn't mention what exactly these conditions are, even if I have a hint of an answer about it, at least for one of the related partial questions which I want to have answers.
And here I quote the partial question which I'd like to have answered:
So what exactly is the condition of al-Bukhari (is it solely related -as-sanad- to the narrator chain or also to the content al-matn- of a hadith)?
and what is the condition of Muslim?
What is the difference between both conditions?
hadith uloom-al-hadith sahih-bukhari sahih-muslim ilm-ar-rijal
Medi1Saif
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When you say condition, do you mean the condition required for a hadith to be quoted in Bukhari and Muslim? – Armaan Jan 5 '18 at 20:26
@Armaan The condition al-Bukhari defined to compile a hadith in his book or his conditions for a sahih hadith. – Medi1Saif♦ Jan 5 '18 at 20:50
Yeah ok, that's what I meant in the first place. I probably should have worded better – Armaan Jan 5 '18 at 20:52
@Armaan I hope the edit (reference) makes it clearer. – Medi1Saif♦ Jan 5 '18 at 20:57
The conditions are those relating to the credibility level of the people in the narration chain.
First, a clarification: the conditions of Al-Bukhāri (Arabic: شرط البخاري) relate solely to his book Al-Jāmi' Al-Musnad As-Sahīh Al-Mukhtasar (Arabic: الجامع المسند الصحيح المختصر من أمور رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وسننه وأيامه), commonly known as Sahīh al-Bukhāri. The same applies to the conditions of Muslim (Arabic: شرط مسلم), which relate solely to his book Al-Musnad As-Sahīh Al-Mukhtasar (Arabic: المسند الصحيح المختصر بنقل العدل عن العدل إلى رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم), commonly known as Sahīh Muslim (Arabic: صحيح مسلم).
Second, neither Al-Bukhāri nor Muslim at any time declared specific conditions other than what is already commonly accepted for authentication as defined by Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani: continuous chain of narration by people who are trustworthy, able to memorize and preserve, and free of irregularities and detrimental flaws. Obviously, neither Al-Bukhāri nor Muslim would consider a severed or doubtful chain of narration for their sahīhs, so the conditions —as deciphered by scholars of hadith— always referred to the credibility of the people of the narration chain. You may refer to Fat'h al-Mughīth where As-Sakhāwī quoted An-Nawawi as saying neither declared their conditions (Arabic: لم يصرح أحد من الشيخين بشرطه في كتابه ولا في غيره). Several other scholars concur, but this is not a 100% agreed-upon conclusion as Al-Ghassāni, Qadi 'Iyād, and Al-Hākim had different views but I have not come across their proof.
Third, not all that is authentic is compiled in these two books. Therefore, the conditions of Al-Bukhāri and Muslim do not automatically translate into the authentication by Al-Bukhari or Muslim, i.e., neither authors nor any other scholar of hadith claim that all authentic hadiths are in their sahīh books. There are narrators that Al-Bukhāri considered authentic, but did not include them in his book for the purpose of brevity as he himself said: "I only compiled in my book Al-Jāmi' what is authenticated, and I left out from what is authentic so that I avoid a long [book]" (Arabic: ما أدخلت في كتابي الجامع إلا ما صح، وتركت من الصحاح لحال الطوال). Likewise, Muslim said: "Not every authentic [hadith] to me I compiled therein, but I compiled only what has been agreed upon [its authenticity]" (Arabic: ليس كل شيء عندي صحيح وضعته هاهنا إنما وضعت ما أجمعوا عليه).
Fourth, some hadiths had the entire chain of narration of credible persons, but were left out as the chain of narration may have been doubtful (either due to continuity of time or place. i.e., ارسال المكان أو ارسال الزمان). Both authors left out such hadiths, but others included them with the terms "trusted men" (Arabic: رجاله ثقات) or "men of sahīhs" (Arabic: رجاله رجال الصحيح). These hadiths are not automatically considered authentic.
Finally, to get a list of the narrators of Al-Bukhāri, the introduction of Hady as-Sārī Muqaddemat Fat'h al-Bārī, Ch. 6-10 (pp. 221-518), Ibn Hajar details all the narrators Al-Bukhāri used, partially used, or left out. This is a valuable read in Al-Jarh wa at-Ta'dīl, but way too long to include in an answer. As for Muslim, he used "agreed upon" to mean the agreement of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Yahya ibn Ma'īn, 'Uthmān ibn Abi Shaiba, and Sa'īd ibn Mansūr al-Khorasāni. I do not know of a comprehensive list similar to that of Al-Bukhāri's, though.
Worth mentioning is that Al-Bukhāri was tougher in his selection of narrators for his Sahīh as he added a condition of a meeting of narrators, not just concurrently existing (Arabic: إشتراط اللقيا و ليس فقط المعاصره); whereas, Muslim was tougher than Al-Bukhāri in the preservation of wording (matn, Arabic: المتن). Therefore, it is quite typical to find that scholars consider Sahīh Al-Bukhāri to be more authentic than Sahīh Muslim, but when a hadith exists in both books, they tend to quote the wording of Sahīh Muslim.
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Joe Arpaio and Kelli Ward
Philip Athey and Shelby Lindsay, Cronkite News
Originally Published: January 12, 2018 5:53 a.m.
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WASHINGTON – Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, convicted of criminal contempt of court before being pardoned last year by President Donald Trump, is back for a third act, announcing Tuesday that he will run for Senate.
Arpaio announced on Twitter that he is running “for one unwavering reason: to support the agenda and policies of President Donald Trump.”
Even though he had talked about the possibility of running for office again just days after his pardon in August, Tuesday’s announcement appeared to catch political analysts by surprise.
It also muddies what could be a crowded GOP primary for the seat being vacated by Republican Sen. Jeff Flake, a vocal Trump critic who said he will not seek re-election this fall.
Arpaio, a prodigious fundraiser who boasted Tuesday that he has never lost a Republican primary, said he expects to win if given “a fair shake” by what he called the biased news media.
Political analysts were not so certain.
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“I’m not really sure what’s motivating him other than personal gratification,” said David Wells, an Arizona State University political-science professor.
Arpaio’s only Republican competition so far is former state legislator Kelli Ward, and Wells said he thinks the former sheriff has a real chance of winning the primary if no one else gets in the race. But he expects other candidates to come forth.
“I don’t think that Arpaio is going to scare anyone off,” Wells said, pointing to the 85-year-old’s age and his political views. “I mean, he’s still a birther.”
Ward said she would run for Flake’s seat shortly after losing a 2016 challenge to Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain. But U.S. Rep. Martha McSally, who represents the Tucson area, has reportedly told colleagues that she will run for Flake’s seat.
Campaign staff for Ward, who also has been praised by Trump, released a statement Tuesday welcoming Arpaio to the race, a development the campaign said reflects conservatives’ distrust of official Washington.
Political consultant Mike Noble with MBQF Consulting said he expects Arpaio to continue “wrapping both arms around” the controversial immigration policies that garnered his fame and self-styled claim to be “America’s toughest sheriff.” Failure to keep his deputies from racially profiling Hispanics is what led to Arpaio’s conviction in federal district court in 2017.
Democratic political consultant Rodd McLeod thinks Arpaio might be able to win the primary because “there is a market for that” among Arizona Republicans. McLeod added Arpaio’s ability to raise money could be a factor in the primary – Arpaio had $463,140.01 in his campaign account as of April, according to his latest report with the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office.
Although Noble said the announcement will make for an interesting primary, McLeod called it “bad news when a repeat offender who has broken the law and held in contempt of court is back again.”
Arpaio said he plans to tout his close ties to Trump and what he called unfair treatment from former President Barack Obama’s Justice Department.
But longtime Arpaio critic Petra Falcon, the leader of Promise Arizona, said it is highly doubtful the former sheriff will even survive the primary, saying that “just because he was pardoned doesn’t mean the voters pardoned him.” Falcon said she hopes Latinos in the state will work hard to support a better candidate for the general election.
U.S. Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat who represents central Phoenix, and immigration lawyer and advocate Deedra Abboud are both seeking the Democratic nomination for Flake’s seat. After Sinema’s entry into the race, several national analysts rated the normally solid Republican seat a “toss up” in 2018.
Flake laughed off the announcement, telling CNN that Arpaio has a history of saying he will run for statewide office and then backing out. When asked if he would support Arpaio, Flake said, “No, no, no, no, not at all … that’s not our best foot forward as Republicans.”
Republican political consultant Jason Rose said Arpaio has “an exceptional chance to capture the nomination” but agreed that “any Republican in 2018 is going to have a very, very hard time” in the general election. But the race itself should be interesting, he said Tuesday.
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Birthdate: Oct. 5, 1992
Birthplace: Roskilde, Denmark
Born into a racing family in 1992, Kevin Magnussen was welcomed into another racing family in 2017 as the native of Roskilde, Denmark, and the son of former Formula One driver and current sportscar racer Jan Magnussen became a member of Haas F1 Team.
Magnussen joined the American outfit for his third full season competing in the FIA Formula One World Championship. He promptly delivered, scoring five top-10 finishes with a best of seventh in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Having previously driven for established marques McLaren and Renault Sport, Magnussen is now a Haas F1 Team regular alongside teammate Romain Grosjean.
Magnussen cemented his place in the team with a stellar 2018 campaign, finishing a career-best ninth in the championship with 56 points from 11 top-10 finishes. Two fifth-place finishes, at the Bahrain Grand Prix and Austrian Grand Prix, were the personal highlights of the season for Magnussen. Together with Grosjean, his points haul propelled Haas F1 Team to fifth overall in the constructors’ standings in only its third season in Formula One, the duo scoring a team best five double-points finishes in 2018.
Magnussen made his Formula One debut with McLaren in 2014, earning an impressive second-place finish in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix. He became the first Formula One rookie to deliver a podium finish in his debut race since Lewis Hamilton achieved the feat, also with McLaren, at the 2007 Australian Grand Prix. Eleven more point-paying finishes followed, allowing Magnussen to finish a respectable 11th in the championship standings.
Despite the strong first-year showing and being a member of the McLaren Young Driver Program since 2010, Magnussen had to settle for a reserve driver role at McLaren in 2015 when the team signed two-time Formula One champion Fernando Alonso to pair with 2009 champion Jenson Button. Nonetheless, Magnussen made the most of the opportunity, helping to develop the team’s MP4-30 racecar and keeping his name top-of-mind for a full-time drive in 2016.
That drive materialized with Renault Sport, but the 2016 season proved to be a challenging one with the team finishing ninth in the constructor standings, 21 points behind Haas F1 Team. Magnussen, however, scored seven of the team’s eight total points, highlighted by a seventh-place finish at the Russian Grand Prix.
The scrappy performance showcased Magnussen’s tenacity behind the wheel, something the Dane has displayed throughout his career.
Like many Formula One drivers, Magnussen’s motorsports journey began in karting before transitioning to larger and more powerful open-wheel machines. Plaudits were quickly earned, with Magnussen moving outside of Denmark to race across Europe in the traditional proving grounds of Formula One.
Magnussen’s first season in open-wheel was stout. He scored 11 wins for Fukamuni Racing en route to the 2008 Danish Formula Ford championship. That success led to a dual campaign in 2009 where Magnussen competed in the Formula Renault 2.0 NEC Series and the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup Series, both with Motopark Academy. Magnussen’s accomplishments included earning rookie-of-the-year status in the NEC Series while scoring a win and 12 podiums before finishing second in the championship.
Remaining with Motopark Academy, Magnussen graduated to the German Formula 3 Series in 2010 where he again captured rookie-of-the-year honors while scoring three victories, eight podiums and a third-place finish in the championship. His progress and success led to an invitation to join the respected McLaren Young Driver Program.
A second season in Formula 3 followed, this time in the prestigious British series with stalwart outfit, Carlin. Magnussen delivered once again as he amassed seven wins from eight podiums and finished second in the 2011 championship. Carlin subsequently retained Magnussen for its 2012 Formula Renault 3.5 Series campaign. In his first European-based championship season, Magnussen delivered a win and three podiums to earn his first Formula One test drive with McLaren.
The 2013 Formula Renault 3.5 Series saw Magnussen switch to the leading DAMS team. His previous season’s experience was translated into a dominant title-winning campaign. Magnussen won the championship with five wins and 13 podium finishes. His banner year included a second opportunity to test with McLaren, which ultimately led to the team offering him his first Formula One seat in 2014.
FIA Formula One World Championship with Haas F1 Team
Finished career-best ninth in championship with 56 points
Best race finish: fifth (twice) in Round 2 at Bahrain Grand Prix on April 8 and in Round 9 at Austrian Grand Prix July 1
Finished 14th in championship with 19 points
Best race finish: 7th in Round 8 at Azerbaijan Grand Prix on June 25
FIA Formula One World Championship with Renault Sport
Finished 16th in championship
Best race finish: 7th in Round 4 at Russian Grand Prix on May 1
FIA Formula One World Championship with McLaren Honda
Served as team’s reserve driver, helping to develop racecar for drivers Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button
FIA Formula One World Championship with McLaren Mercedes
Best race finish: 2nd in Round 1 at Australian Grand Prix on March 16
Formula Renault 3.5 Series with DAMS
Won championship with five wins and 13 podiums
F1 test drive with McLaren Mercedes at Silverstone Circuit in England
Formula Renault 3.5 Series with Carlin
Finished seventh in championship with one win and three podiums
F1 test drive with McLaren Mercedes at Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi
British Formula 3 Series with Carlin
Finished second in championship with seven wins and eight podiums
German Formula 3 Series with Motopark Academy
Finished third in championship with three wins and eight podiums and earned rookie of the year honors
Invited to join McLaren Mercedes Young Driver Program
Formula Renault 2.0 NEC Series with Motopark Academy
Finished second in championship with one win and 12 podiums and earned rookie of the year honors
Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup Series with Motopark Academy
Finished seventh in championship with one podium
Danish Formula Ford with Fukamuni Racing
Won championship with 11 victories and 12 podiums
ADAC Formel Masters with Van Amersfoort Racing
Finished 12th in championship with six starts and two podiums
Competed in KF3 karting series (formerly Junior Intercontinental)
Competed in Junior Intercontinental karting series
Won Peugeot Super Kart championship
Won NEZ championship
Finished third in Viking Trophy
Finished fourth in Danish championship
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Professor Jennifer Lerner invites applications for a recently funded postdoctoral position in her lab, beginning summer of 2020. We seek applicants interested in emotion and decision making , broadly, and in the effects of induced emotional experience on impatience for addictive substances, specifically. Project description: This NIH-funded project aims to advance theories of emotion and decision making while simultaneously addressing important problems in public health. Specifically, the research will examine the causal effect of induced emotional response on: discount rate for smoking, valuation of cigarettes, and urge to smoke in a nationally-representative sample of smokers. This interdisciplinary project will involve collaborators at the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Position description: This is a one-year appointment with the possibility of extension to multiple years. The selected individual would be considered a Research Fellow and, as a postdoc, would be eligible for health benefits through Harvard University. The position includes opportunities to develop and lead new research within the broader aims of the lab. Fellows benefit from a highly creative and welcoming research environment that emphasizes scientific rigor, collaboration, and the pursuit of excellence in science. Fellows also benefit from the opportunity to participate in seminars across the Harvard University campus. Desired characteristics: The ideal candidate will have excellent quantitative and verbal skills; strong programming skills; experience in cognitive, social, affective, or computational psychology; interest in research project management; and an interest in emotion and decision-making. Minimum requirements include: (a) a PhD in psychology, economics, public health, or a related field by spring of 2020; (b) experience using advanced statistical and modeling approaches; and (c) demonstrated ability to complete projects as evidenced by first-author publication(s). Timeline: We will begin to evaluate applications immediately, and will continue to review applications on a rolling basis until the position is filled. The intended start date for the position is summer 2020. Contact information: Please send a detailed cover letter (5-pages max), CV, and a writing sample to Ms. Chelsea Zabel (Chelsea_Zabel@hks.harvard.edu) with the subject line “Lerner NIH postdoc.” In your cover letter, please include an overview of your relevant experience, a statement about your potential fit for the position, and contact information for up to three references. We will contact references for shortlisted candidates.
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Join JSC for the Annual George Washington Banquet Celebration 6 FEB 2020
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Patriot Honors
JSC Awards
Welcome to the John Sevier Chapter (JSC) Honoring America's Patriots
Educational HONORs
2018-2019 Eagle Scout Award
William Engel was selected as the John Sevier chapter's Eagle Scout Award winner and was our representative at the TNSSAR level competition.
2018-2019 Knight Essay Award
Tyler Hilliard won the John Sevier Chapter essay contest and represented the chapter in the TNSSAR level competition.
2018-2019 JROTC Enhanced Competition Winner
Cadet Heather Hicks won the JROTC Award for the John Sevier Chapter advancing to compete at the TNSSAR level.
2018-2019 Joseph S. Rumbaugh Youth Oration
Zeena Whayeb’s (Chattanooga Central High School) won the TNSSAR competition and earned her position to compete and represent The John
Sevier Chapter at the National level!
Youth Educational Programs
Children of the American Revolution (CAR)
The National Society of the Children of the American Revolution (C.A.R.) is the nation's oldest, largest, patriotic youth organization and offers membership to anyone under the age of twenty two, lineally descended from someone who rendered material aid to the cause of American Independence as a soldier, sailor, civil officer, or recognized patriot in one of the several Colonies or States, or of the United States. C.A.R. activities focus on patriotism, service, and education about our
American heritage.
CAR National Page
CAR Patriot Ancestors Essay Contest
Application and Rules for the Annual Fount T. Smothers Ancestors Essay Contest can be found at the link to the TN Society of the SAR's home page. (Look for the CAR logo like the one to the left on our page).
Application and Rules
Elementary School Poster Contest
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Middle School Brochure Contest
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High School Historical Oration Contest
The (SAR) invites all high school students (9th through 12th grades) interested in the American Revolution to participate in the Joseph S. Rumbaugh Historical Oration Contest.
Rumbaugh Orations Contest
10, 11, 12 Grade History Essay Contest
The George S, & Stella M. Knight Essay Contest is designed to give high school students an opportunity to explore events that shaped American History.
Educational Programs continued
ROTC/JROTC/Sea Cadets/CAP Cadets and Young Marine Recognition Program
The SAR awards the ROTC Medal to foster the principle of the "citizen-soldier" exemplified by the Minutemen of Revolutionary War days. This award is presented by a Chapter, as a State SAR, or the National SAR to ROTC or JROTC cadets who are selected for having a degree of merit with respect to leadership qualities, military bearing, and general exellence.
Cadet recognition Program
Arthur M. & Berdena King Eagle Scout Scholarship
Open to all Eagle Scouts who are currently registered in an active unit and have not reached their 19th birthday during the year of application. The year that Eagle was awarded is not restricted. Three cash scholarship awards are given: As the National first place winner - $8,000.00; Runner-up $4,000.00; 2nd Runner-up $2000.00.
American History Teacher Award
Dr. Tom & Betty Lawrence American History Teacher Award
The National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) invites all
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The award is open to all teachers at the middle or high school levels at a recognized public, private, or parochial institution. While the preliminary rounds of the award program begin at the local level, teachers may eventually advance to the state or national levels, eventually held in June during the annual SAR Congress.
The American History Teacher Award recognizes educators who distinguish themselves
in the addressing the history of the American Revolution. The award winner will receive a professional educational opportunity at a national seminar and bring back to their classroom and students a heightened level of creativity and enthusiasm for the American Revolutionary era.
Teacher candidates interested in entering the local SAR Chapter contest must complete the required application and submit a written essay of not less than 500 words discussing the importance of teaching the American Revolutionary era. The essay may also describe any extraordinary teaching techniques or innovative projects utilized by the teacher to teach the American Revolution. The contest is aimed at identifying a teacher who is still actively teaching and who is in the early stages of his or her career, therefore having many years of productive classroom teaching remaining. It is recognized that school districts may have different job titles for teachers of American history, such as Social Studies teachers. The actual job title of the teacher is not important as long as the teacher has as their primary duty the teaching of American History. Teachers who teach music, JROTC, or other subjects as their primary subject are not eligible. The essay should also discuss
why the teacher wants to attend the educational seminar and how the teacher would use what is learned at the seminar in the future.
Two signed letters of recommendation, one from the Supervisor and one from the Principal whose signature endorsing the applicant appears on the application, should also be among the application materials. These letters need to state why the applicant is an outstanding teacher of American history. In addition to the application and written essay, SAR requests the applicant submit a one-page biography highlighting their
educational background and achievements. All application materials must be typed or printed on 8½" x 11" standard paper and submitted through the mail. No handwritten or copied material will be accepted.
All original materials will remain the property of SAR. The award is specifically for graduate programs in the American Revolution and not redeemable for its monetary value. If the award winner is unable to attend an educational seminar during the year the award is presented then the winner may attend in a subsequent year. The winner must attend a seminar within thirty six months after the award is announced or the award will be forfeited.
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day in life, momentum, success
Momentum is a fun thing. Since the Aurora Win, I’ve seemed to have drawn a lot more attention. The following has been kind of how my schedule has gone the last couple of weeks. I’ve not said everything in here mind you, but enough to give you a sense of how surreal things can get.
Monday Oct. 22nd
New podcast posted.
Wake up and Interview Spider Robinson. Awesome interview and time. Spider is a sweet man enjoying his life, and I can’t wait to share this interview when it’s out.
Got approached from a friend in high school I hadn’t heard from in a long time. Cool to catch up.
Tuesday Oct. 23rd
Woke up to busiest podcast activity ever. Got feedback from a friend for my next book (more on that next blog). Came awake to request to be interviewed. Got memed. Still have nightmares about the one with my face on a banana.
Wednesday Oct. 24th
Asked to do a quote for a book signing and talk to an author dealing with some of their own personal struggles. Never been approached like that before.
Thursday Oct. 25th
Released new column and new podcast. Asked a few people to be column three and got a taker. Woot. Beyond that, got requested to do an interview for next week. Scheduled another interview and did some revising on next book.
Column: https://www.firstcomicsnews.com/just-joshing-the-empty/
https://www.podomatic.com/embed/html5/episode/8931008?style=normal&autoplay=false
Friday Oct. 26th
Had a day off. Woot. Podcast broke 400 plays/downloads in a week. Crazy how things grow.
Saturday Oct. 27th
Interviewed probably one of the most respected publishers as a person. He was beyond class and we sat down and chatted a bit about his life story. Awesome dude.
Attended friend’s concert performance and wanted my opinion. Was a lot of fun to see him in action again and we talked some stuff over. Scored a potential podcast interview in the future.
Sunday Oct. 28th
Did another interview with a good friend of mine. His episode will air sooner than later. Another interview request. Also, finally got back to write club and catch up. Wanted to thank some of them personally for my success.
There was a lot more that happened, but I thought that this would be a neat look at what’s been going on with me the last few weeks. This isn’t a brag so much as a change. Momentum really starts rolling for you. It never stops. I’ve been trying to work a little earlier for the day job. I honestly couldn’t do it. Things were taking my attention more and more with the podcast and the writing stuff that I was happy.
It’s one thing to work and work and work at things. It’s another to see things moving and fires burning. I’m really stoked that this is the way things are going.
I’m going back to When Words Collide here. Saturday night I had a chance to talk to Jonas Saul. For all Jonas has done, he told me that he still felt like he hadn’t accomplished anything. There is something to that thinking. You have to always approach things as if you’re starting from the very beginning. Even though this has been an amazing year for me, I feel like there is still a lot to do.
I’m always a work in progress.
Still, it’s neat to see momentum and things moving. I hope if you’re reading this, you’ve experienced something like this too.
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KU/FAU Postgame Quotes
Recap | Final Stats | Notes | Photo Gallery
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Kansas Postgame Quotes
HEAD COACH Mark Mangino
Opening statement:
“I saw a lot of positive things tonight that I really like. I think we are getting close to hitting on all cylinders on offense. I’m really pleased with our offensive line play. We played some new guys at some new positions. Clark (Green) had a strong performance. Jon Cornish made some plays. So that was all very positive.”
On conditioning:
“One of the key factors of this game was conditioning. Our team is very well conditioned and we didn’t have any cramping and things of that sort. Our kids really played hard all the way through. I thought our defense played pretty well except for a couple of big plays. I’m really pleased with the way things went.”
On FAU QB Danny Embick:
“I was really impressed with Danny Embick. I think he’s a really good player. He did get away from the rush a lot and threw the ball well on the run. He’s a very competitive and scrappy guy.”
On FAU:
“I’m impressed with this Florida Atlantic team. They have some young guys playing, but they have some good looking kids out there. They are going to win their share of games. They have some really good looking athletes down there from south Florida. We knew it was going to be a tough game.”
On Kansas Sophomore WR Jeff Foster:
“He is a kid that came in and walked on to our program. He had an impressive fall. He earned his right to be out there, and I’m glad he got some work. He is in the rotation and we will count on him as we go. He made some good plays, and we are excited that he is a guy who is going to help us tremendously.”
On Kansas’ quarterback play:
“I thought that Adam (Barmann) came in and did some good things, but he was not in rhythm. We had planned to use two quarterbacks for sure, and Brian (Luke) came in, and it took a little while, but he got in a rhythm. He recognized the blitzes. He made a couple of throws that we would probably like to have back.”
On KU’s defense:
“They (FAU) made a few big plays, but outside of that, I thought our defense was solid. We need to continue to improve our tackling, and we cannot allow big plays. Charles (Gordon) got burned when he didn’t make a good read and let the guy get behind him, which is unusual.”
SENIOR QUARTERBACK Brian Luke
On his playing opportunity:
“I was hoping to get more chances. The more chances the better. Coach said to be ready for your opportunity. As for more playing time, I’m just going to come into practice on Monday and keep working hard. The decision is up to Mangino.”
On Florida Atlantic:
“We realized that FAU was a lot better than we thought and we anticipated that.”
SOPHOMORE WIDE RECEIVER Jeff Foster
On himself:
“The short story is I’m just a guy that works real hard and is trying to make the team. I worked real hard in camp and the coaches gave me a shot.”
On his playing time:
“I was a little surprised. I think that I was playing well but a lot of other guys were too. We have a lot of talent on our team. The coaches gave me a shot and I took full advantage. I was really happy with the way our team played tonight.”
SENIOR RUNNINGBACK Clark Green
On the offensive line:
“They did a good job producing the running game and the passing game. Their (FAU) defensive line did a lot of twists. We did a good job of picking up on that.”
On the goals for next week:
JUNIOR CORNERBACK Charles Gordon
On FAU’s first touchdown:
“I took a peek and thought the ball was short, but then he actually stepped up into the pocket and double-pumped. By then the guy was already by me, but there is no excuse.”
On the win:
“Like coach said, based on math, there are a lot of college games today. Fifty percent lost, fifty percent won. And we are part of the 50 that won. It’s important to get off on that good note and carry that momentum into next week.”
Florida Atlantic Postgame Quotes
HEAD COACH HOWARD SCHNELLENBERGER
On the game:
“The first three quarters of the game we were competitive and we played very solid football. We did it with big plays rather than drives. It was a valiant effort by our guys. We came in and played a traditional division one team on the road, and looked pretty good doing it. It was unfortunate that the penalties went against us late in the game and not making plays on offense took some of the varnish off the performance of our football team.”
On taking the lead:
“I felt good and I’m sure our players felt good. We thought we were going to be in a dog fight until the end. We didn’t make that happen, but that’s football. The different between winning this game and losing this game is not very much.”
On the lights going out:
“We had a great play right after that. I don’t think in affected anything. I couldn’t tell the difference between when they were off and when they were on.”
On Kansas’ quarterbacks:
“I think they’re both fine young men, but they have a lot of work to do. They certainly were good enough against us.”
SENIOR QUARTERBACK DANNY EMBICK
On the Big 12 Non-Conference Schedule:
“I don’t feel it as a physical mismatch, but at some point our young offensive and defensive line becomes tired. About a week ago, however, I realized that our team was going to come together on offense. Our defense was always real sound but we started moving the ball on them during practice and that gave us confidence.”
On preparing to defeat Kansas:
“I believed that we could, it was just football. As long as you just throw the ball to them and catch it, it doesn’t matter who you’re playing.
On the loss:
“We really just couldn’t run the football tonight. Without being able to pound the ball on offense, it makes it tough on everyone. I believe that’s why the defense gave up 28 points out of the 30 and started cramping up.”
SOPHOMORE RUNNING BACK DILVERY EDGECOMB
On his touchdown:
“It felt great to get my first TD against such a big school.”
On his mindset:
“We thought we had a chance. We just came out flat.”
On being so open for the touchdown:
“We practiced the play many times. I knew it would work. I expected to be open.”
On Embick being in control of the game:
“Danny was in control. The coaches told us all week that the young guys should look up to the seniors in the huddle.”
“They weren’t that physical. They didn’t live up to my expectations with their senior linebackers.”
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RCW: Inside Men's Basketball 3.14
Get a quick look inside your favorite Kansas Jayhawk programs each week with Rock Chalk Weekly’s Inside Sports pages. Notable statistics, quick hits and the top social media posts get every Jayhawk fan up-to-speed and ready for another week of thrilling competition.
Number BY THE NUMBERS
Kansas head coach Bill Self is two wins shy of his 600th career victory. Self is 598-189 in his 24th season overall, which includes a 391-84 record in his 14th season at Kansas.
UPCOMING HOME GAMES
Tickets Stanford (Dec. 3)
Tickets UMKC (Dec. 6)
Twitter @KUHoops
Facebook /KansasBasketball
Instagram @kuhoops
Notes QUICK HITS
After scoring his career-high 23 points on 9-for-9 shooting against Long Beach State (11/29), sophomore guard Lagerald Vick is now averaging 19.0 points in his last two games and is 15-for-16 from the field in that span. Included are seven 3-pointers.
Senior guard Frank Mason III’s eight assists against Long Beach State (11/29) were one off his career high. Mason ranks 13th on the KU career assists list at 427 and 32nd on the KU career scoring list with 1,269 points. He is one of seven players in school history to rank that high in both career assists and career points.
Freshman guard Josh Jackson has been named the Big 12 Newcomer of the Week each of the last two weeks. In earning his most recent honor, Jackson was named the Most Valuable Player at the CBE Hall of Fame Classic, Nov. 21-22.
Freshman center Udoka Azubuike has led KU in rebounds three times this season, including seven against Long Beach State (11/29).
Kansas’ Dec. 3 game against Stanford will mark the return of KU great Jerod Haase, who coaches the Cardinal. Haase was a guard at KU from 1995-97 and led KU in 3-point field goal percentage in 1995 and 1996.
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Kinabalu Times
Woods, ahead of busy two weeks, declines Saudi offer
December 4, 2019 by admin 0 Comments
As he gears up for two of the busiest weeks he has had on a golf course likely in years, Tiger Woods on Tuesday talked about what he’s done since equaling Sam Snead’s PGA Tour record of 82 victories and his approach heading into his high-profile December.
FILE PHOTO: Tiger Woods shoots on the 9th hole during the second round of the Zozo Championship, a PGA Tour event, at Narashino Country Club in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, Japan October 26, 2019, in this photo released by Kyodo. Mandatory credit Kyodo/via REUTERS
He also addressed the controversies surrounding professional golfers accepting big paydays to play in Saudi Arabia, as ESPN reported Woods himself declined a big-money offer to play in the Saudi International from Jan. 30-Feb. 2.
Woods is in the Bahamas, where he will face 17 of the world’s top golfers this weekend in the Hero World Challenge — an event his TGR Foundation hosts. After the tournament, Woods will head to Australia to both captain and play for the United States in the Presidents Cup beginning Dec. 12.
“I took some time off, did some things around the house, and that’s about it,” Woods said on a story posted to his website, speaking about life since winning the Zozo Championship in October to tie Snead. “Then I’ve been organizing these two weeks — working with my staff here (at the Hero World Challenge), and then working with the Tour, and communicating with the guys for next week, making sure everything is in line.
“It’s long days. Long nights. I’m still playing, too, so I gotta practice, I gotta train, lifting. It’s burning the candle on both ends for two weeks in a row. It’s gonna be tough.”
Woods also said the knee surgery he opted for in August, as his game got away from him down the stretch of the season, has paid dividends on the course in recent weeks.
“I’m able to make moves that I haven’t for quite some time,” he told his site.
Woods also spoke out about the controversy that has erupted since Phil Mickelson announced Monday he is the latest golfer to accept an invitation to the Saudi International, a tournament in Saudi Arabia that typically pays the world’s top golfers seven-figure appearance fees.
The European Tour and golfers who travel to the event have come under increasing scrutiny in the last year over playing in Saudi Arabia in light of the country’s human rights record. That scrutiny intensified after journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside the Saudi consulate inside Istanbul, Turkey, in October 2018.
Woods declined an offer of around $3 million to play the upcoming Saudi event, according to ESPN.com. He told the website of the decision, “I just don’t want to go over there. It’s a long way.”
While Mickelson is not the only big-name golfer to agree to play the Saudi International — 2019 winner Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed, Brooks Koepka, Sergio Garcia and Tony Finau are among those who are also scheduled to compete — Mickelson’s decision is the one that led to questions for Woods.
“I understand the politics behind it,” Woods said at a news conference. “But also the game of golf can help heal a lot of that, too. It can help grow it. And also a lot of top players are going to be playing there that particular week.
“It’s traditionally not a golf hotbed, the Middle East. But it has grown quite a bit. I remember going to Dubai for my very first time and seeing maybe two or three buildings in the skyline. Now there is a New York City skyline. Again, golf has grown. There were only a few courses when I went to Dubai and now they’re everywhere. Same with Abu Dhabi, and maybe eventually in Saudi Arabia.”
Woods played in 12 events last season, looking better than he has in years and putting together one of the biggest stories in sports when he won the Masters in April.
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July 21,2015 - Van Emmerik Custom Homes completes construction of the largest residence in Talis Park
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Van Emmerik Custom Homes, Inc. is pleased to announce it has completed construction of the largest residence in the prestigious luxury living community of Talis Park in Naples, featuring an extreme level of customization, exquisite materials and artisanal craftsmanship to bring the grateful homeowners’ vision to life. In partnership with architect Weber Design Group and Interiors by Design West, the nearly 24,000-square-foot project came together in 21 months from groundbreaking to issuance of the certificate of occupancy, with Van Emmerik Custom Homes owner Chris van Emmerik on site to coordinate subcontractors and the army of workers on any given day.
Aside from being a showpiece, this palatial estate home serves as a comfortable and functional residence for the homeowners’ large family, with plenty of room for the children to explore on the nearly one-acre footprint. With about 17,400 square feet of living space, this elegant home features accents, materials and design elements inspired by the homeowners’ extensive world travels, including many water features throughout and surrounding the home.
The moat floors in the two master bath showers, for example, recall a stay at the Kempinski Ambience Hotel in New Delhi. A floor-to-ceiling glass wall takes up one side of the master bath, looking out onto a wading area with a waterfall continuously cascading over a privacy wall. An infinity-edge waterfall spa is the centerpiece of that serene space. An impressive fountain surrounds two sides of the home office, with sliding doors that open 90 degrees to bring the outdoors inside. The swimming pool, designed by Outdoor Productions, Inc., features a spa and stepping stone walk and tiled beach entry. In keeping with the large scale of the home, the pool measures 40 by 60 feet.
The home offers six bedrooms, seven full baths, two half baths, formal living and dining rooms, a wine room, craft room, formal salon and study. A covered walkway connects to a guesthouse that features three bedrooms, two baths and a two-car garage. The opposite side of the estate has a walkway connecting to a two-story home office with a large conference room and a “man cave” upstairs.
Among the Talis Park home’s impressive features is the extensive use of Galala stone, named after the mountain in Egypt from which it was carved out specifically for use in the trim work, window arches, the 76 stone columns throughout the exterior and interior of the home, finely detailed scrollwork around the three garages, and even the driveways. For interior flooring, more than 5,000 square feet of 48-by 48-inch limestone slabs were installed, requiring three men to carry and set each slab into place. A massive amount of concrete work went into the home as well. The exterior is concrete and concrete block with a hollow precast floor system with a concrete topping.
Energy efficient LED lighting is built into the home, and having personally traveled to the headquarters of Savant, Crestron and AMX, the discerning homeowner had an AMX Home Automation System installed. The family enjoys touch-button control for the home’s lighting and sound system right from the front door. An iPhone control can even turn on the spa. A Ruckus Wi-Fi network provides unparalleled Internet coverage and speed throughout the home.
Chris van Emmerik said, “Every home we build is unique and precisely tailored to the desires of the homeowner. This project was monumental in scope, but it was a dream to bring together with our team, including Weber Design Group and Interiors by Design West. As with all of Van Emmerik Custom Homes’ projects, the homeowners were the most important team players, and we just couldn’t be happier with the realization of their dream and the seamless process it took to get there.”
Interior Designer Alexis Limb with Interiors by Design West said, “The weekly site meetings were integral in the coordination of all of the interior architectural enhancements designed for the house as well as keeping up with the pace and timeline of the building process. Van Emmerik Custom Homes was amazing to work with on this project and making sure the end vision was brought to reality.”
Bill Weber, President of architectural firm Weber Design Group, Inc., said, “It truly takes a unique and highly qualified builder to coordinate and execute all the requirements necessary to bring this caliber of a project to life and the team at Van Emmerik Custom Homes has done just that. They exceeded our expectations greatly—from time frame coordination to communication with all parties involved. It’s such a pleasure working with great professionals like Van Emmerik Custom Homes. It’s part of what make this industry so awesome.”
Chris van Emmerik got his start in the construction industry as a carpenter in the custom home industry in 1982, and worked with some of the finest craftsmen in the field for 10 years. In 1992 he formed Van Emmerik Construction, and later began to specialize in custom homebuilding. The company quickly built a reputation for value, craftsmanship and its dedication to communication with clients. It rebranded as Van Emmerik Custom Homes, Inc. in 2012 to more clearly reflect its focus on high-end luxury homebuilding. Chris personally oversees every aspect of every project and every client enjoys cell phone access to him for questions and ideas that occur outside of a 9-to-5 workday. A complete custom home builder and Certified Building Contractor, Van Emmerik Custom Homes, Inc. is located at 5621 Strand Blvd., Suite 114 in Naples and can be reached at 239- 825-5643. Visitvanemmerikcustomhomes.com for more information.
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Kjellander Sjöberg 20 years
Our anniversary catalogue exhibits reflections on the first 20 years of our office and our view on architecture, believing that all cities have a soul. It presents that, rather than prestige, we value content and presence. It shows our will to make sustainable projects where we can tell their story, talk about places, life and people. It has been two incredible decades during which we have gradually gained recognition and acknowledgement within architecture and urban design for our work with the urban environment.
Read the catalogue here!
“So, time to summarize our journey so far.
It has been an incredible adventure spanning two decades; with a fantastic, creative, engaged, competent, nerdy and fun team; with diverse and exciting projects, close and dynamic collaborations with clients, planning offices and other actors involved in built environment processes.
Winning a competition in Malmö in 1998 led to unexpected events, meetings, challenges and achievements.
It took us to new places and settings we have been able to study, interpret and contribute to in our way. Cities we truly appreciate and enjoy hanging out in, such as Stockholm, Malmö and London, where we operate from today.
What is the meaning of architecture? What drives us?
We generally say that all cities have a soul. Or rather have a logic based on their individual parts and characters. We call this urban fabric; a clear organisation or structure. The built form that is usually a response to local conditions and historic evolution; to climate, culture, economy and agreements; a response to rules. Our role as architects (still a word full of promise) is to try to understand, repair and improve. To expand on.
Style or prestige have never been important to us. It is content and presence, making sustainable projects where we can tell a story of a place, life and people. We have come a long way, but still have an exciting journey ahead. Our aim is to improve living conditions and environments – the important small details which can be touched, experienced and get inspired by. Local districts and neighbourhoods where we meet, forming a community. The city as such is the foundation of all our projects. A place where there is always something to do.
We are the happiest when we walk down a street and feel all has turned out quite well. The buildings and places we helped to shape land in a setting, are inhabited, in use and a part of the ongoing urban life in real time; offering spaces for daily life, flexibility, diverse experiences and raising expectations. A city where a street, the common public space, is the key.
We will always be attracted to materials that work, are durable, which are joined together in a skilled, crafted manner with intent, conceptual vigour and timelessness. Physical qualities that enhance our sensory experiences and accentuate meanings.
This catalogue is a collection of impressions, a series of places we have visited which inspired us, processes we had the privilege to participate in. Of reflections and strategies for emergent situations with inherent eternal questions. It could be viewed as a personal reflection on a city with diverse buildings, spaces, alleys and passages. Imprints of a reality and its qualities perceived.
Architecture, to us, means presenting possibilities; to allow. To create places that can be and are to be used. Spaces that people want to inhabit. But also, an opportunity to dream, create alternatives and complementary stories, propose new lifestyles, suggest communities, other societies and social settings.
About what kind of life could take place.
Sometimes these dreams become reality but almost always in a different way than we originally anticipated and imagined on the drawing board. Proportions, intensity… The result becomes larger, richer, clearer and more palpable. Just like the physical world is.
Thank you all who made the first chapter possible!”
Stockholm, November 2018
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James Scarborough reviews Christine Frerichs’ Serenade in art ltd. 5.12.15
Christine Frerichs: “Serenade” at Klowden Mann
With “Serenade,” her second solo show at Klowden Mann, Christine Frerichs offers deeply felt analyses of landscapes. She works in oil, acrylic, and wax. Although their surfaces are gritty, as if they’ve been blasted with stucco, there’s serenity to each piece. This serenity comes from the works’ narrow color range and the hypnotic, semicircular lines that characterize each composition. In the context of landscapes, these lines suggest atmospheric millibars, tectonic fault lines, or topographic contour lines. Here is the work of patience and stillness. She might render the atmospheres with an impressionistic brushstroke, however Frerichs’ time frame is far from fleeting. She begins with a memory of each place and then keeps looking and waiting, to define its underlying structure.
The light between us (Lake Tahoe) (all works cited 2015, except where noted) features a low horizon line that allows room for an immense sky. The cloudy sky is blue and pink, bruised. Vertical rows of some landscape feature an orderly recession into the background, leading to the snow-capped Sierras. Seen together, the ground and sky roil with ephemeral, mortal fury. The top of the picture, though, is blue, the color of eternity. Factor in the curving textured lines that amplify the composition’s structure and you’ve got a visual document that attests to knowledge acquired over and perhaps in spite of time. Her lines are less dramatic, less emotive than those in van Gough’s Starry Night (1889). Hers stabilize the composition while those of the Dutchman seem to want to shatter it. Both represent vastly different states of mind. Other work uses a diptych format to great symbolic effect. On Love (for Agnes Martin) and Warm Winter Kiss (for Constantin Brancusi) reference the human figure. The space where the two canvases join is suffused with warm, convivial color, suggesting her affection for the two artists. Similarly, in Serenade (2014) and Aubade (2), the co-joining of the two parts of the diptych suggest the co-mingling of two people in the evening and at dawn.
There are 17 pieces in the show. Some are as large as six-by-seven feet while others are as small as a piece of typing paper. The large ones engulf, even overwhelm, the viewer. The smaller ones she calls letters. That’s a nice metaphor for the show. Letters, some epic, some brief, all presenting immediate impressions of something, of someone, ling after the letter is written.
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Alabama Car Accident Laws & Resources
Whether you are in Mobile, Birmingham or Huntsville, there are thousands of roads to explore in Alabama. The longest state highway in Alabama is I-22 at 367 miles, while the shortest is I359 that is 2.3 miles long. There also are 3,800 of other roads that cross Alabama, with 3.7 million drivers who travel an average of 13,516 miles per year. If you plan to drive in the Heart of Dixie, it is important to know the rules of the road, so you know what to do if you are in an accident.
Statistics and Notable Car Accident Lawsuits
In Alabama as in all states, it is important to obey the law, buckle up, and drive safely. But deaths from traffic accidents were on the rise in the state by nearly 25% from 2015, according to recent data. Critical reasons for these accidents were higher speeds, not using seatbelts and more distracted drivers.
Specifically, in 2016, state data showed there were more accidents with speeds above 50 MPH. And for all crashes that were more than 50 MPH, impact speeds were higher than the year before. The biggest percentage of increase was for accidents involving vehicles going faster than 91 MPH. The data also showed that the number of reported accidents due to distracted driving was up around 20% from 2014.
Below are some key statistics for auto accidents in the state in 2015:
A traffic accident was reported every 3.5 minutes.
There were 849 people killed in 789 crashes.
Speeding was the top cause of fatal accidents.
Most Alabama crashes happen in urban areas, but most fatal crashes happen in rural areas.
Of all fatal car accidents in Alabama, 10% were caused by drivers who were 19 or younger.
For every death, there were 51 injuries.
Of all the fatal accidents in the state, 49% of them happened at night.
There were 96 pedestrians killed that year.
Nine bicyclists were killed.
More statistics from the state of Alabama:
A traffic accident was reported every 202 seconds in the state in 2016.
60% of fatal accidents in Alabama in 2016 had unrestrained drivers or passengers.
50% of all fatal accidents happened at night in 2016.
A person in Alabama was hurt in a car accident every 11 minutes in 2016.
A major lawsuit settlement in recent months occurred in Jefferson County, Alabama, when a jury awarded $12 million to passengers who were hurt in a 2015 MAX bus crash in Fairfield. Of that amount $6 million was for compensatory damages and $6 million for punitive damages.
In the accident, the driver apparently had a medical emergency and passed out. Emergency crews took 10 minutes to get to the crash scene. It was revealed during the trial that the bus driver had had 14 previous accidents driving a MAX bus in the state for the Birmingham-Jefferson County Transit Authority (BJCTA). He also had a known medical condition that caused him to pass out. BJCTA knew about the issue but did not have any plans to remove the driver from service. It also was revealed that supervisors for the bus service do not know the medical history of their drivers and have no way to be sure their illnesses are being treated.
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Auto Insurance Requirements in Alabama
Alabama requires all drivers to carry the following minimum insurance:
$25,000 for bodily injury for each accident
$50,000 for bodily injury for all persons in each accident
$25,000 in property damage liability
Alabama law also requires that you buy underinsured and uninsured motorist coverage of $25,000 and $50,000, unless you specifically tell your insurance company you do not want it.
Alabama Accident Settlement Taxes
It is a common question: Is my personal injury settlement in Alabama taxable as income? Generally, at the state and federal levels, your settlement is not taxable as income, as long as it is connected to a physical injury or illness. This is laid out in detail in the IRS code.
But note that if you receive compensation for medical bills and pain and suffering that is only for emotional trauma, then this is taxable as income in all cases.
If you have compensation for property damages, this is usually not taxable either as it is intended to fix or replace your damaged property.
However, if you get compensation for punitive damages, this will always be taxed as income. Punitive damages are intended to punish the defendant for reckless behavior and to discourage it from occurring in the future.
If you receive lost wages for your physical injuries, this will generally be taxable as income, as it is money for income that would have been taxed. However, this is a complex part of the law and it is recommended to run it by a tax advisor in Alabama. Another good thing is your attorney can often structure your settlement to have as little lost wage compensation as possible.
It is always a smart idea to talk to a tax professional after you receive a personal injury settlement in Alabama – better safe than sorry.
Negligence Laws in Alabama
Alabama follows a doctrine of contributory negligence. This means if you are partially at fault for a car accident, you cannot recover damages. Most states feature a modified form of contributory negligence, but Alabama does not. In many states, if you are partially at fault, your damages are reduced by your percentage of responsibility for the accident.
There are some exceptions under state law to this rule; for instance, children below the age of 14 cannot be contributorily negligent under the law.
It is very important to understand that if you are partially at fault for an accident, you probably cannot collect damages for your injuries in Alabama.
Car Accident Statute of Limitations in Alabama
In Alabama, there is a two-year statute of limitations for lawsuits for personal injury. This means you have two years from the date of the accident to file a lawsuit. It is also two years for property damages.
Other Alabama Car Accident Laws
There are several pertinent laws to be aware of if you drive in this state:
Alabama has a ban on cell phone use for all beginner drivers. There also is a ban on texting for all drivers.
Your driver’s license in this state may be revoked if you are convicted of homicide or manslaughter while driving. You also can lose your license if you are convicted two or more time for drunk driving.
Your driver’s license in Alabama can be canceled if you fail to give proper information on your application.
Punitive damages in the state are limited to three times the actual damages, or $1.5 million, whichever is greater. But getting punitive damages requires you to prove deliberate or conscious malice, which is very challenging to do.
A person riding as a passenger without payment cannot bring a lawsuit against the driver unless the driver is found to have acted recklessly; this is called the Guest Statute.
Alabama Car Accident Resources
If you have been in a car accident in Alabama, you may need to access resources to know what to do. Below are some helpful links that can assist you as you are working through the aftermath of the accident.
State of Alabama website
Alabama State Government
You are required to report an accident if there is more than $250 in damages, or another person is killed or hurt. Use the Form SR-13 to the Alabama Department of Public Safety.
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A pharmacologist is a type of medical scientist who specializes in testing medicine. Pharmacologists may research new medications in laboratories, consult with physicians and specialists, or evaluate pharmacological studies. Much of their research is done to develop medications that can treat rare diseases or discover cures. Once pharmacologists have completed these studies, pharmacists can then distribute medicine to the public. Find out more about pharmacologists below.
Education Ph.D. in pharmacology, MD, or PharmD
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Pharmacologists often work in laboratories researching medications. Usually, the primary goal of their research is to see how these medications work and interact with humans, from a molecular level to how a body responds in total. They can also perform research for animal medications.
These medical scientists can work for pharmaceutical companies to test new drugs the companies are developing. With lab work, they can test medications by studying tissue and cell samples. Then, they can advance to clinical trials, where they conduct research on voluntary patients. All of this research combined is used to determine appropriate dosages, side effects, benefits, and safety measures. Pharmacologists in the toxicology field research and advise drug companies on how to safely label and handle substances.
Some pharmacologists can work in non-laboratory settings, depending on their employer. For example, a pharmacologist working for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may evaluate data for new drug applications or review results for preclinical studies. Other positions can involve developing projects and overseeing corporate functions.
Pharmacologist Education
Becoming a pharmacologist starts with seeking an undergraduate degree in life sciences or a related field. Life sciences involves biology, chemistry, microbiology, physiology, and genetics, among others. A bachelor's degree in pharmaceutical sciences is also a common option. Courses in chemistry, math, biology, and physics are the usual foundational courses, but students are encouraged to take communication and writing classes as well, in order to learn how to write grants and publish their research.
Requirements may vary by employer, but pharmacologists generally need either a Ph.D. in pharmacology, a Doctor of Medicine, or a Doctor of Pharmacy in order to qualify. These degrees give students the research and clinical experience needed for future laboratory positions. MD and PharmD programs give students experience with patient care as well, and some universities offer dual MD/Ph.D. degrees to train aspiring medical scientists. While these individual degrees usually take about 4 or 5 years, a dual program can take 7-8 years.
Postdoctoral pharmacology training or fellowships are available to gain additional knowledge and experience. Depending on the program, applications may only be open to Ph.D., PharmD, or MD students, or a combination of these. The programs can last from 1-4 years. MD and PharmD students may have to complete a residency first, which will add some time.
Pharmacologist Requirements
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, pharmacologists who perform tests on humans must have a medical license, which requires the completion of medical school and a residency program.
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Provide proof of contribution to the field of clinical pharmacology
Complete a postdoctoral clinical pharmacology fellowship
Have experience as a student and as a teacher in clinical pharmacology continuing education
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Surgical skills: exploration of scrotum for testicular torsion
This module helps you understand the anatomical basis of testicular torsion and how to perform exploration of the scrotum. Additionally listed are the differential diagnoses for a painful scrotum.
This module forms part of the following courses:
After completing this module you should be able to:
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These Cities Have the Most Billionaires—and the Highest Luxury Home Prices
New York City tops the list with 85 billionaires and has seen ultra-prime property prices increase 15% in five years, report says
BY BECKIE STRUM : ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON JULY 9, 2019 | MANSION GLOBAL
Waldorf Astoria to Sell Condos, as Chinese Owners Shrug Off Glut
Anbang moves ahead with marketing of 375 luxury units despite oversupply and political strains.BY KEIKO MORRIS | ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON JUNE 11, 2019 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
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Chinese developer City Century closes on land for $1B DTLA megaproject $121M deal paves way for development that could have 1,300+ units on Olympic Boulevard along the 110
A rendering of City Century’s Olympia in DTLA (Credit: Visualhouse / City Century)
Chinese developer City Century has finally closed on a sought-after development site in downtown to build a $1 billion housing and retail complex adjacent to the L.A. Live entertainment venue.The project, called the Olympia, is to be built on a site that the developer has now closed on for $121 million. The site is located on Olympic Boulevard along the 110 Freeway, according to the Los Angeles Times.
City Century announced three years ago that it wanted to build three high-rise residential towers sandwiched between L.A. Live and the Metropolis residential and hotel complex. The project could include over 1,300 residential units as well as shops and restaurants.
The City Century acquisition comes at a time when other Chinese investors have pulled back in the United States. Government policies put in place in 2016 have restricted the flow of money out of the country, and the U.S.-China trade war has also dampened investment.
The Times noted that direct investment by Chinese companies in the U.S. has dropped from a six-month average of more than $20 billion in 2016 and the first half of 2017 to less than $5 billion on average in the last two years, according to data from Rhodium Group.
Oceanside Plaza, another major Chinese development downtown, has stalled since January. The condominium, hotel and retail project, valued at more than $1 billion, was being built by Oceanwide Holdings, a publicly traded international conglomerate.Greenland USA, a subsidiary of major Chinese developer Greenland Group, is wrapping up the $1.3 billion Metropolis, a 3.3-million-square-foot development three blocks south of the Staples Center that has reshaped the DTLA skyline.LAT] - Pat Maio TRD LOS ANGELES December 10, 2019 Staff
Almost 700,000 Californians moved out last year, and many ended up in Texas
Almost 140,000 people moved to the D-FW area last year, many from California.(G.J. McCarthy / Staff Photographer)
Nearly 1 in 7 made the California-to-Texas trek
The tidal wave of Californians headed to Texas shows no sign of slowing, with almost 700,000 leaving the Golden State last year.
More than 86,000 of those California expats came to Texas, according to a new report by Yardi Systems.“Texas takes second place on the podium among the most popular states for moving to in 2018, with almost 564,000 newcomers,” the report said. About 15% of the people who moved to Texas last year hailed from California. Florida had the largest number of interstate moves in 2018, with most of the transplants coming from New York. Florida continues to be a haven for retiring baby boomers.
Most of Texas’ newcomers are moving for jobs. Texas’ employment base has grown by almost 300,000 jobs in the last year.
Dallas-Fort Worth is the top job growth market in the country, accounting for a third of Texas’ employment gains. Almost 140,000 people moved to D-FW last year, with the most relocations to Dallas and Tarrant counties.
On average, it costs Californians between $3,700 and $4,100 to relocate to Texas, the analysts found.“1,545 people per day settled in Texas last year, with Harris County seeing the greatest influx from out of state than any other region,” according to Yardi Systems.
Despite all the moves to Texas, fewer Americans are packing up for greener pastures. The U.S. mobility rate is now at the lowest level since the U.S. Census Bureau started keeping the numbers in 1947.
“And in 2018, it dropped under 10% for the first time in history,” Yardi analysts said. “However, around 31 million Americans still moved last year, and 4.6 million of them moved interstate. The interstate migration routes that attracted the most people in 2018 were California to Texas, California to Arizona and New York to New Jersey.”
Patrick Soon-Shiong makes another landgrab in El Segundo Mogul paid $19M for 33K sf office building, his latest expansion in LAX-adjacent neighborhood TRD LOS ANGELES / December 10, 2019 02:30 PM By Matthew Blake Research by Jerome Dineen
Billionaire business mogul Patrick Soon-Shiong has expanded his El Segundo empire, purchasing a 33,000-square-foot office building in the neighborhood for $19 million.A limited liability company that lists the address of Soon-Shiong’s umbrella corporation NantWorks and features the signature of his longtime associate Charles Kenworthy, bought the property at 2200 E. Grand Ave. from BLT Enterprises, a Santa Monica-based real estate investment company. The deal hit county records on Dec. 2. BLT Enterprises bought the two-story office building, which has a bold, black inscription that reads on “Aerospace” on its front door, for $11.4 million in 2012, according to PropertyShark. A message left with a Soon-Shiong spokesperson was not immediately returned.
The deal represents Soon-Shiong’s latest effort to refashion El Segundo from aerospace hub to site for the entrepreneur’s many biotechnology, media, and entertainment properties.The neighborhood, which is adjacent to Los Angeles International Airport, is transitioning from the reduction in L.A. work available at military and aviation companies including Boeing, Raytheon, and formerly L.A. headquartered Northrop Grumman Corp.
The 2200 East Grand Avenue property sits one mile away from the Los Angeles Times headquarters, a publication Soon-Shiong acquired from Tribune Publishing Co. last year. Soon-Shiong moved the Times from its century-old headquarters in downtown L.A. to 2300 Imperial Highway, a 157,000-square-foot property Soon-Shiong bought in 2017 for $52 million.
Soon-Shiong subsequently bought a $50 million warehouse adjacent to the new Times’ headquarters, and he purchased other properties in El Segundo last year. TRD LOS ANGELES / December 10, 2019 02:30 PM By Matthew Blake Research by Jerome Dineen VIDEO
Barack And Michelle Obama Close The Deal On Their Martha’s Vineyard Estate
Barack and Michelle Obama, the former U.S. president and first lady, bought a seven-bedroom home on Martha’s Vineyard the week before Thanksgiving at a 21% discount off the listing price, according to the deed filed at the county’s registry office on Dec. 4.
The Obamas paid $11.75 million for the property listed with a $14.85 million price tag. The same day the deed was recorded, a mortgage for $7.05 million also was put on the record. The lender was JP Morgan Chase, and the loan had a standard second-home rider.
The prior owner, Boston Celtics co-owner Wyc Grousbeck, had been trying to sell the home, set on 29 waterfront acres, since August 2015 when he initially listed it at $22.5 million, according to Zillow. Over the ensuing four years, the property was on and off the market with three price reductions. The 6,892-square-foot house has private beaches along the shore of Edgartown’s Great Pond, a mix of fresh and salty water that opens to the ocean. It’s clad in weathered shingles, the traditional style on Martha’s Vineyard. The U-shaped house has a living room with a vaulted ceiling and fieldstone fireplace, a circular dining room lined with windows, and a master bedroom suite with a fireplace and a private sundeck overlooking the water.There’s also a screened-in porch with a fireplace and a pool surrounded by a garden.
The Obamas are regular summer visitors to Martha’s Vineyard, about five miles off the coast of Massachusetts’ Cape Cod. The former president and his wife, the author of the best-selling memoir “Becoming,” spent seven of Obama’s eight presidential summers on the island.
The couple rented the home this summer, arriving on the former president’s birthday, Aug. 4, and decided to buy it.
A day after his arrival, Obama was spotted on one of his favorite links, the Farm Neck Golf Club in Oak Bluffs, about eight miles from his new home.
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Indorsement legal definition of indorsement
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Related to indorsement: Qualified indorsement, Restrictive Indorsement
A signature on a Commercial Paper or document.
An indorsement on a negotiable instrument, such as a check or a promissory note, has the effect of transferring all the rights represented by the instrument to another individual. The ordinary manner in which an individual endorses a check is by placing his or her signature on the back of it, but it is valid even if the signature is placed somewhere else, such as on a separate paper, known as an allonge, which provides a space for a signature.
The term indorsement is also spelled endorsement.
endorsement (indorsement)
n. 1) the act of the owner or payee signing his/her name to the back of a check, bill of exchange, or other negotiable instrument so as to make it payable to another or cashable by any person. An endorsement may be made after a specific direction ("pay to Dolly Madison" or "for deposit only"), called a qualified endorsement, or with no qualifying language, thereby making it payable to the holder, called a blank endorsement. There are also other forms of endorsement which may give credit or restrict the use of the check. 2) the act of pledging or committing support to a program, proposal, or candidate. (See: negotiable instrument)
1 the writing of the signature of the holder on a bill of exchange, this being an essential step in the process of negotiating or transferring it. The process of negotiation is completed by delivering the bill to the transferee. (For the requisites of a valid indorsement see Bills of Exchange Act 1882.) See CHEQUE.
2 a writing on the back of other documents. An indorsement of writ or claim is a writ of summons that must be indorsed with a statement of the claim made or relief or remedy sought.
INDORSEMENT, crim. law, practice. When a warrant for the arrest of a person charged with a crime has been issued by a justice of the peace of one county, which is to be executed in another county, it is necessary in some states, as in Pennsylvania, that it should be indorsed by a justice of the county where it is to be executed: this indorsement is called backing. (q.v.)
INDORSEMENT, contracts. In its most general acceptation, it is what is written on the back of an instrument of writing, and which has relation to it; as, for example, a receipt or acquittance on a bond; an assignment on a promissory note.
2. Writing one's name on the back of a bill of exchange, or a promissory note payable to order, is what is usually called, an indorsement. It will be convenient to consider, 1. The form of an indorsement; and, 2. Its effect.
3.-1. An indorsement is in full, or in blank. In full, when mention is made of the name of the indorsee; and in blank, when the name of the indorsee is not mentioned. Chitty on Bills, 170; 13 Serg. & Rawle, 315. A blank indorsement is made by writing the name of the indorser on the back; a writing or assignment on the face of the note or bill would, however, be considered to have the force and effect of an indorsement. 16 East, R. 12. when an indorsement has been made in blank any after attempt to restrain the negotiability of the bill will be unavailing. 1 E.N. P. C. 180; 1 Bl. Rep. 295; Ham. on Parties 104.
4. Indorsements may also be restrictive conditional, or qualified. A restrictive indorsement may restrain the negotiability of a bill, by using express words to that effect, as by indorsing it "payable to J. S. only," or by using other words clearly demonstrating his intention to do so. Dougl. 637. The indorser may also make his indorsement conditional, and if the condition be not performed, it will be invalid. 4 Taunt. Rep. 30. A qualified indorsement is one which passes the property in the bill to the indorsee, but is made without responsibility to the indorser; 7 Taunt. R. 160; the words commonly used are, sans recours, without recourse. Chit. on Bills, 179; 3 Mass. 225; 12 Mass. 14, 15.
5.-2. The effects of a regular indorsement may be considered, 1. As between the indorser and the indorsee. 2. Between the indorser and the acceptor. And, 3. Between the indorser and future parties to the bill.
6.-1. An indorsement is sometimes an original engagement;as, when a man draws a bill payable to his own order, and indorses it; mostly, however, it operates as an assignment, as when the bill is perfect, and the payee indorses it over to a third person. As an assignment, it carries with it all the rights which the indorsee had, with a guaranty of the solvency of the debtor. This guaranty is, nevertheless, upon condition that the holder will use due diligence in making a demand of payment from the acceptor, and give notice of non-acceptance or non-payment. 13 Serg. Rawle, 311.
7.-2. As between the indorsee and the acceptor, the indorsement has the effect of giving to the former all the rights which the indorser had against the acceptor, and all other parties liable on the bill, and it is unnecessary that the acceptor or other party should signify his consent or knowledge of the indorsement; and if made before the bill is paid, it conveys all these rights without any set-off, as between the antecedent parties. Being thus fully invested with all the rights in the bill, the indorsee may himself indorse it to another when he becomes responsible to all future patties as an indorser, as the others were to him.
8.-3. The indorser becomes responsible by that act to all persons who may afterwards become party to the bill.
Vide Chitty on Bills, ch. 4; 3 Kent, Com. 58; Vin. Abr. Indorsement; Com. Dig. Fait, E 2; 13 Serg. & Rawle, 311; Merl. Repert. mot Endorsement Pard. Droit Com. 344-357; 7 Verm. 356; 2 Dana, R. 90; 3 Dana, R. 407; 8 Wend. 600; 4 Verm. 11; 5 Harr. & John. 115; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.
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The easy fix to this is if New York were to adopt the revisions to Article 3, which clearly require indorsement and possession of the actual note.
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(255) Therefore, in their view, noncompliance with the indorsement and delivery requirements in PSAs does not defeat transfers but instead creates a possible breach of contract.
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* The Note is Indorsed to the Plaintiff or Indorsed in Blank--If the plaintiff is not the originating lender, as is typical, standing can be shown by tendering the original note with an indorsement to the plaintiff; tendering the original note indorsed in blank with an affidavit of the holder; or filing an affidavit or verified pleading that the plaintiff holds the note.
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His unhappiness with Alcoa arises from the fear that other courts, encouraged by such a prominent decision and by the professors' indorsement, (74) would not only enlarge the grounds for avoidance of contracts but also embrace Judge Teitelbaum's claim that courts can and should fashion new contract terms for the remaining periods in contracts that had not yet expired when suit was filed.
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This approach would require recordation of every mortgage transfer in a securitization, as well as cumbersome indorsement and delivery of thousands of notes, but these demonstrative formalities would be the price tag for clear property rights.
Similarly, an indorsement pursuant to Article 3 should satisfy that requirement.
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or any other writing which evidences a right to the payment of money and is not itself a security agreement or lease and is of a type which is in ordinary course of business transferred by delivery with any necessary indorsement or assignment.").
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© Licensed to London News Pictures. 04/10/2015. An estimated 80 thousand peopl take part in a National Demonstration march through the city. A week of pro-peace, anti-austerity, anti-war, anti-Tory, protests dubbed 'Take Back Manchester' has been organised by The People's Assembly and timed to coincide with the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester on 4th - 7th Oct 2015. Over 40 events are planned, including a speech by new Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn timed to compete with closing speech of Tory leader David Cameron. Photo credit: Graham M. Lawrence/LNP
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The Beach Boys 50th Anniversary Tour
© Licensed to London News Pictures. 27/09/2012. London, UK. Mike Love (Left) and Al Jardine (Centre) and Bruce Johnston (Right) of The Beach Boys performing live at The Royal Albert Hall, London, as part of their 50th Anniversary Tour. It is reported that this is the final tour that Love, Wilson and Jardine will play together as The Beach Boys - with Love planning on continuing the band with different band members. Photo credit : Richard Isaac/LNP
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Business inspiration struck Diane Campbell on an international flight in 2007. Struggling to get comfortable, she had an idea for a plush, high-end travel pillow. When she returned home, the homemaker and part-time lab assistant began researching the travel pillow industry, came up with a design and patented her product. But when it came to getting Kuhi Comfort to market, “I wasn’t sure where to begin,” she recalls. So Campbell contacted the Small Business Development Center hosted by Long Beach City College.
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Business planning doesn’t have to be scary. “I had been told I needed a business plan, and that was intimidating,” Campbell recalls. “Phil gave me homework—six questions to answer—and by answering those questions, I had the framework of a business plan.”
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Do the math. O’Connor and Daniels showed Campbell how to figure out her costs and price the product. “If you don’t have any business background, it’s good to have someone walk you through this,” says Campbell. Lara introduced her to QuickBooks to create financial projections and invoices.
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In March 2011, Campbell officially launched Kuhi Comfort at a major travel trade show; she received several orders and dozens of inquiries. Available in faux suede, satin, and adult and child sizes, the pillows are sold online and at retail stores in New York and California; they’ve also been featured as a hot new product by USA Travel.
Campbell’s next step: establishing a strong brand identity for Kuhi Comfort. She’s also exploring making a lower-cost version for mass retailers. Wherever the business takes her, Campbell says, “I will definitely keep going to the SBDC!”
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Graphic novel author gives classics a new look
Gareth Hinds Skypes in with Humanities classes
Lucas Barr, Sports Editor|December 11, 2017
Humanities classes look on as author Gareth Hinds Skypes in as part of a lesson analyzing Hinds' art and his interpretation of the classic novel Beowulf.
Sarah Wiseman
Romeo and Juliet, The Odyssey, Beowulf are just three of the classics given the graphic novel treatment by author Gareth Hinds, and Monday morning he Skyped in with the school’s Humanities classes as part of a virtual field trip.
Having the visual support and seeing it in this form, I hope, will excite people about this sort of stuff, ”
— author Gareth Hinds
“The idea initially came from Ms. Chetty two years ago,” Humanities teacher Sarah Wiseman said. “We had a great time two years ago when he Skyped, we felt he talks a lot about his writing process and creative process in a way that’s important for the students. We wanted students to have the same experience again this year.”
Hinds is well known for his graphic novel interpretations of classic stories that include the Odyssey and works by Shakespeare.
“I think they’re amazing stories and is the reason why they become classics,” Hinds said via Skype. “I’m aware for some students that it’s not a positive experience to be presented with the original text and all of its density. Having the visual support and seeing it in this form, I hope, will excite people about this sort of stuff.”
His works allow students to interpret the content of classic stories while simultaneously analyzing art.
“I think that just by giving you a vision of what’s going on, it not only helps you understand what’s happening it helps you understand the second level of emotional content, some of the themes, [and] the symbolism that is now in fact visual symbolism, so that’s more accessible,” Hinds said via Skype. “I’m just hoping that it allows you to get deeper into the content of the text and what’s cool about it.”
The Skype call precedes an essay that Humanities students will write on Wednesday in which they must analyze the art in his interpretation of Beowulf.
It helped us connect with the book that we are reading in more depth, ”
— sophomore Vivan Shah
“It [the call] helped us connect with the book that we are reading in more depth, and that allowed us to get a better look at the actual context of the book and to get a professional look at the classic story,” sophomore Vivan Shah said. “One interesting point was when he described his process of making the book and his other works and how it influences the current book we’re reading.”
Monday’s call was commonplace for Hinds who frequently speaks with students about his books and life as an illustrator.
“I do Skype visits and also in-person school visits, and that is both an opportunity for me to plug my books and talk about why classics are cool,” Hinds said via Skype. “I find that teachers want to bring me into these things because it gives you an interesting look into the process and as to not only what this career is like, but also what happens with different media and how one story told in a different medium has different implications.”
Lucas Barr, Editor-in-chief
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Polish Cinema in an Internaitonal Context
michael goddard <[log in to unmask]>
Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:35:03 +1300
Dear List Members
Please see the below cfp for an international conference on Polish Cinema:
(apologies for cross-posting)
Polish Cinema in an International Context
A 2-day International Conference, 4-5 December 2009, organised by Cornerhouse, Manchester, University of Central Lancashire, Preston and University of Salford
This conference will consider Polish cinema in an international context and feature contributions from both leading Polish, UK and international academics, as well as professionals involved with the production, distribution, archiving and promotion of Polish films. The conference will especially address the question of why, given Polish cinema under communism's wide dissemination and popularity, contemporary Polish cinema has much more difficulty in crossing international borders. The conference will be accompanied by a festival of Polish cinema, hosted by Cornerhouse and public discussions of Polish films. The conference is addressed to the academic community, as well as educators and promoters of Polish films and the public at large.
Prof. Ewa Mazierska, School of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Central Lancashire
Dr. Michael Goddard, School of Media, Music and Performance, University of Salford
Polish Cultural Institute in London
Adam Mickiewicz Institute
Please send abstracts of approximately 200 words to Ewa Mazierska by the 1st of September 2009 at: [log in to unmask]
Subjects of papers may include but are not limited to:
Polish émigré filmmakers
Polish international co-productions
International successes and failures of Polish films
Polish films at international festivals
Polish cinema in the context of Eastern Europe and East-Central Europe
Polish cinema and European avant-garde
Influence of Polish cinema on foreign films
The marketing of Polish films abroad
Adaptations of foreign works by Polish directors
Foreign characters and places in Polish films
Film and Polish migrations
The international reception of Polish films before and after 1989
Polish cinema and international film and critical theory
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Opinion: Setting the record straight on SGA
Students listen as the Student Government Association discuss their responses to President Sierra Ambrose’s list of vetos. The vetos become a major point of contention. Photo credit: Cristian Orellana
Fallon Chiassion, Troi McClure, Sophia Rataj, Rebecca Driever, and Joann Cassama
We are here to speak our truths. This past school year was not by any means easy. We joined an executive team with two leaders who had no prior experience in the Student Government Association. We were excited, a little scared but, most of all, ready. We knew that we were capable of being in these positions and welcomed the challenge with open minds and open hearts.
Over the summer, our cabinet attended the National Jesuit Student Leadership Conference at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York. It was an opportunity for our cabinet to bond, get to know each other and learn from other student leaders from Jesuit universities all over the nation. We learned about each other and from each other, and noticed where we might encounter an issue — that being the leadership style our President took at the conference. After the conference, we came back refreshed knowing that we — the appointed cabinet members and Joann — were going to work well with each other.
We came into the fall with a new structure of student involvement, new advisors and a new groove. The Department of Student Involvement became the Office of Student Life and Ministry. People we thought we were going to report to changed. We adjusted, and we got to work. We listened to the frustrations and desires of the student body and attempted to address them in ways most appropriate for our positions.
Rebecca balanced the budget, recruited people for the finance committee and even took the initiative to require the finance committee to have two financial-wellness initiatives per semester after hearing concerns voiced at a town hall.
Fallon recruited over 40 first-year students to join First Year Council so they would have the opportunity to learn about the ins and outs of student government. She also submitted an opinion piece to The Maroon in October citing the summer and fall accomplishments of the cabinet that was never published — so the lack of communication with the student body must also be attributed to a failure by the main source of student news to report on information provided directly by this administration.
Sophia and her executive team of the University Planning Board began planning for Wolf Pack Wednesdays, Third Fridays, the new #Being events in accordance with the administration’s goal of increasing diversity and inclusion and many of the other events hosted on campus.
Troi began making goals to have students get more engaged with our social media and rolled out marketing initiatives to get the Loyola community aware of and excited about our new university president. Culminating in the Instagram page reaching the 1000 plus followers milestone.
Rana appointed justices to the court of review and began making plans for social justice initiatives every month, started to address the food insecurity issue on campus by providing food care kits over holidays, all while helping launch Iggy’s Cupboard.
Joann held senate meetings every Wednesday night and saw them create legislation such as the execution of Homecoming, National Kindness Day, and Slice and Serve, while also chartering over 15 student organizations such as Lemon Pepper, SELF and Women in STEM, in addition to allocating money to provide campus resources like pet disposal stands, rain ponchos, blue books and scantrons, and so much more.
By the end of the fall semester it was clear how much our (cabinet) communication and collaboration has probably been better than ever before, as we all work together to help support each of our respective committees and duties. Some examples of this collaboration that the student body may not be aware of include but are not limited to: Senate allocating funds from their budget to help the court of review stock Iggy’s Cupboard and distribute food care kits; court of review and finance committee working together to fund diversity and inclusion events put on by student organizations using a combination of each committee’s financial resources; allocating a portion of the budget to sponsor SGA communications; senators working at social justice initiatives; a bill passed by Senate to ensure all colleges are represented on the finance committee; and much more.
We did our jobs and we served the student body the best we could in the circumstances we were in. It is not fair nor equitable to lump this administration into one opinion because of what one leader has said and done (or not said and not done). One person does not by any means represent the great work our cabinet has done. We urge the student body to remember SGA this year by the great work we have accomplished.
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Artificial reef program benefits fisherman, oil companies alike
Captain Maurice D'Aquin tags a small redfish on Nov. 2. D’Aquin spends most of his days on the water, fishing off of the artificial reefs. Photo credit: Madison Mcloughlin
Madison Mcloughlin
After waking up before the sun, Captain Maurice D’Aquin throws on his fishing gear and heads to Nick’s Marina where his boat is still sleeping. He loads up the dry storage with extra gear, fills the fish-hold with ice and shrimp bait and secures his fishing rods in their place. With everything secured and ready, D’Aquin revs up his motor and bounces on top of the water out to the Gulf of Mexico.
“I’ve been fishing Lafitte all my life,” he said. “My dad had a camp in Lafitte when I was a small kid, and probably when I was 9, 10 years old, I’ve been fishing this area. When I got old enough, I became a guide.”
D’Aquin spends his days taking customers out on his boat to fish, “showing people that don’t get to see this beautiful fishery we got in Louisiana, and it’s an easy job because Louisiana is such a great fishery.”
Louisiana, however, is not a great fishery naturally. Because of the Gulf of Mexico’s featureless, mostly eroding mud bottoms, almost all of the locations where D’Aquin fishes are artificial reefs, or retired oil rigs that had been left behind or moved to a new location to provide an ecosystem for sea life.
“With these man-made structures, it gives you an opportunity to fish from [natural] structures that have gone away. To be honest with you, just eroded away,” said D’Aquin.
The Artificial Reef Program is designed to convert old oil rigs into reefs to increase habitats for sea creatures. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries recently finalized a plan to convert favorite fishing rigs into reefs in an area where less progress has been made — from the coastline to 100 feet of water depth.
Oil companies can choose to file for a permit to leave the base and rock pile on a decommissioned rig or work with the department and a contractor to put in a new platform in place of a previously removed rig. The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is then in charge of maintaining the reef.
Mike McDonough, the Louisiana artificial reef coordinator at the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, explained the thought process behind the plan. The list of favorite fishing rig platforms closest to the coastline became the basis of the next phase.
“They’re the easiest to get to, so they’ve kind of created this spot where we’re losing a lot of habitat, a lot of fishing opportunities,” said McDonough. “It hasn’t been as easy for us to replace them.”
The new plan had been in the works for years, according to McDonough.
“It’s been kind of exciting that we were a little constricted previously, and now we’ve really expanded the ability to help the fish and serve our fishermen,” he said.
Along with the fishermen, the program also benefits the oil companies that own the rigs. Josh Etkind, the head of decommissioning in the Gulf of Mexico for Shell Oil Company, said the program is a great, eco-friendly idea.
“Especially for the Gulf of Mexico, it makes a lot of sense,” he said. “We think it’s the best option for these platforms, and it ends up benefitting everybody. It’s a win-win-win.”
When Shell decommissions its rigs, the company saves the money it would normally spend on bringing the entire structure to shore to salvage. The option to decommission is also safer and produces less emissions.
“It’s the best option— the best option for the ecosystems, best option for the environment, and also, it’s the safest option,” Etkind said.
The artificial reefs are also the best option for fishermen like D’Aquin, who fishes at the artificial reefs at least once every other trip out into the Gulf. The abundance in bait fish, crustaceans and the fish that feed off of them has become a reliable source for his fishing business.
“It’s definitely helped our business because these spots are fish producers, day in, day out, you can go there to fish,” D’Aquin said.
Madison Mcloughlin, News Editor
Madison McLoughlin is an English Literature sophomore. She is excited to be taking on the role of News Editor this year. Previously, she has worked as...
2 Responses to “Artificial reef program benefits fisherman, oil companies alike”
Donna Schrader on December 6th, 2019 8:59 pm
Awesome job Madison! Very interesting article looking forward to more to come you are amazing!
John Eby on December 20th, 2019 8:22 am
Sleeping boats, bouncing on top of the water. You have a poet’s deft touch with words.
I found this very interesting and look forward to experiencing more of your work.
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July 29, 2016 July 29, 2016 mattbishopwrites Book Progress, Writing
Over the past couple weeks I’ve been knuckling down to get through my revisions.
My first step, as was suggested in 2k to 10k (and detailed in my previous post), I made a scene map. Since I already had done a time line, and kept that organization in my manuscript, it was easy enough to identify some problems.
The major issues are still with Frigg. The latter chapters just didn’t include her enough. It’s been tough figuring out what to do with her b/c she’s the “left behind” character — she’s stuck dealing with the everyday while everyone else is out doing things. For example, Vidar’s fighting in Utgard, Hyrrokin’s on the opposite side watching him. Odin’s off summoning the dead. Vafthrudnir is plotting; Loki is doing what he does best.
So, after some struggles I stumbled into a solution that ties an earlier event (Frigg arbitrating a divorce) directly to an event that interrupts her everyday, boring preparation for the Midwinter festival — which is where the major plotline, and hers, ends. I think it works well, but then I would 🙂
In the process of all that, I added 8K words — bringing my grand total to a whopping 183K. A standard fiction novel is ~80K; a standard fantasy is ~120K. I’m not thrilled about the word count, honestly, b/c I’m worried it’s bloated.
So this morning, rather than write a Frigg scene that I’ve outlined, I ripped apart four Vidar scenes and tweaked two Odin scenes that occur in the first 25% of the book. I streamlined them — removing excess exposition, navel gazing, redundancies and purply prose. In the process, I also fixed a couple timeline issues. Those scenes are better now and, bonus xp, after I was done, the manuscript was a cool 1500 words shorter — dropping me down to the 183K mentioned above.
So, all that’s the reason for radio silence — not enough brain cells to spare =D
Something’s gotta change…
Chop, chop
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In which I wonder if I’m in the right cinema, or: stuff I have to wade through to see Ocean’s 8
I’ve basically got my arrival coordinated now so I don’t have to see any of these, but the only jarring note the first time I saw Ocean’s 8 was all of these trailers for films that left me feeling increasingly alienated as a cinema-goer. It did put me in mind of Into the Storm in that sense — because that was also a film where all the trailers they showed ahead of it were things I’d never see voluntarily in a million years. These aren’t quite that bad. Or. Hmmm.
[I apologize in advance if I’m dissing your favorite, long-anticipated film. There are films I look forward to seeing. They’re just not being advertised before Ocean’s 8.]
Mamma Mia 2
I’ve seen this trailer something like five times now and I still can’t figure out what the movie is about. Something to do with a hush-hush pregnancy and dancing. Abba songs, which I suppose are fine, but a whole movie? I guess you had to see the first one. Does Meryl Streep really have to be in every single film? Small plus point: Cher, of whom I don’t see enough.
Verdict: Skip unless I’m really desperate. Which, admittedly, I might be.
Mission Impossible: Fallout
Tom Cruise stars in a series of equipment crashes in picturesque European locations. He also jumps out a window. But he can’t actually move any part of his face so it’s difficult to experience any thrill about any of it. There also seems to be some kind of religious fanatic. Huh. Plus point: Angela Bassett, but it looks like a very small role.
Verdict: Not unless forced to at gunpoint, and even then you’d have to staple my eyelids open.
A Simple Favor
This is potentially the one I’m most likely to see, and it has interesting titles, I’ll admit. However, I don’t get why a story that plays in Connecticut is backgrounded with the French song. Could be suspenseful and interesting, but the exploding car is a bad omen.
Verdict: Maybe, if I have time to kill on cheap day.
A drug cartel kills Jennifer Garner’s family so she goes under cover and kills the drug cartel. Nothing at all about this appeals, starting with the gooey beginning, continuing with the weird executions on a Ferris Wheel, and ending with a weird cell phone conversation at a gravestone. This looks like violent kitsch from beginning to end, verging on xenophobia, and I’m trying to figure out if this is someone’s sad attempt at female empowerment, or it’s just guys who like to fantasize about a shoot’em up with Garner, whose guns both literal and figurative definitely impress.
Verdict: You could not pay me to see this film.
I really do not know what to say about this. A weird hotel, a topless man dancing in a wheat field, a guy in a mask, a woman singing “this old heart of mine” … none of it fits together. Huge negative: Jeff Bridges, who has done nothing that convinced me since 1989, i.e., for more or less my entire adult life.
Verdict: “Bad Time” seems to be an appropriate title. People will pay money for this? Really?
Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga playing some sort of weird codependency games at country music concerts. Am I really supposed to believe Gaga doesn’t think she’s attractive? Am I really supposed to believe that Cooper believes that she doesn’t think she’s attractive? Yeah, didn’t think so.
Verdict: Totally superfluous. The 1954 and 1976 versions of this film fully meet my needs (Judy Garland in the better film and Barbra Streisand as my preferred vocalist).
Are you planning to see any of these? Can you explain the appeal?
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60 Responses to “In which I wonder if I’m in the right cinema, or: stuff I have to wade through to see Ocean’s 8”
I’ve seen a few of these multiple times as well. If I never see the Mission Impossible trailer again, it’ll still be too soon.
As for the Mamma Mia 2 trailer, it took me a couple views to realize it’s two timelines. The daughter from the first movie is now pregnant and for some reason, her mom’s not around? or she’s scared to tell her about it? so she goes to the friends who tell her about her mom being her age. That’s why there are two blonde women in the trailer. And then somehow Cher is in it, but I still don’t know where Meryl Streep is…At least that’s what I’ve gathered from my multiple viewings of the trailer. It’s a bit confusing which for a musical sequel means it’s probably trying too hard. I didn’t care for the first one, so I don’t plan on seeing this one.
missfoodietwoshoes said this on July 8, 2018 at 5:47 am | Reply
That IS really confusing. Thanks for the clarification.
I might go see “Bad Times at the El Royale” if only to drool over Chris Hemsworth’s bod. He’s ripped!! And Elsa Pataky is a lucky woman!
Lady Grayse said this on July 8, 2018 at 6:20 am | Reply
He’s not really my taste but I can see the potential attraction.
Hemsworth is eye candy mostly, that’s all. 😀
Lady Grayse said this on July 8, 2018 at 2:26 pm | Reply
I would recommend Mamma Mia 2 above the
other choices. Mamma Mia I thought was sweet, funny and a good summertime escape
primarily for the ABBA songs and the supporting cast of Firth, Walters, Baranski, et al I thought they were funny and sweet. Meryl
is well Meryl and Amanda Siegfried was ok
I didn’t think she was a strong singer but she
is cute and blends in well w the cast. There’s another movie I plan to see called Siberia w Keanu Reeves supposed to come out next Friday July 13 sort of a love/suspense thriller set in yes Siberia. Hope you enjoy the peace and quiet whatever you end up viewing.
Michele Marsh said this on July 8, 2018 at 12:48 pm | Reply
Looks like that is not yet scheduled to be shown here.
I think I’m mourning that I missed two films I really wanted to see because they were here for one week, the week dad’s stroke occurred (First Reformed, and The Seagull).
I have a mental list of actors who I absolutely refuse to watch, due to their personal beliefs and\or actions. Tom cruise is at the top of that list, so no mission impossible for me
Cindy said this on July 8, 2018 at 12:58 pm | Reply
squirrel.0072 said this on July 8, 2018 at 1:12 pm | Reply
LOL, for sure. Although I will read extensive articles about his bizarreness in Vanity Fair. Apparently he’s estranged his kids from Nicole Kidman, which is the height of evil IMO.
Yeah I think he’s just not a great actor. His MI movies are all the same and his best role to date as an actor actor was Born on the 4th of July. Other than that it’s MI or now this Jack Reacher or Preacher or something like that. I found it interesting his The Mummy movie from last summer (at least in the States) bombed. First Reformed might be on Pay per View now (in the States).
Michele Marsh said this on July 8, 2018 at 3:33 pm | Reply
I’m sure I’ll see it eventually. I am one of those people who prefer the big screen unfortunately. But it’s probably very good on a small screen, too.
don’t even get me started on Mel Gibson
On duty, I have time to write. I am lucky not to be under a very hot weather, listening roars or smelling gazoline of old vintage races cars. I am taking time to read Angela Bourke book while coll air conditionning is working.
Thanks for your wide movies choice! Before a blockbuster like “Oceans’ 8” or an arthouse film, the advertising are definetly not of the same taste. Filmgoers are contrasted with extremely different personnalities.
“Mary Poppins Returns” directed by Rob Marshall with Emily Blunt, Meryl Streep, Colin Firth could be a good december movie…
https://www.senscritique.com/liste/Les_Blockbusters_de_2018/1823141
La chanteuse du film “A Simple Favor” s’appelle Béatrice Martin: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C5%93ur_de_pirate Elle est d’origine Québécoise, mais fait une belle carrière en France.
Voici la chanson du film: Cœur De Pirate – Crier Tout Bas (live session) – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfbtlsQVbx0
Mary Poppins Returns — yet again, a film with Meryl Streep (and Colin Firth). What movie is she not in? 🙂
Thanks for the info on the “A Simple Favor” song. I don’t object to chansons (on the contrary), just wondering why it’s relevant here.
I don’t know too.
I do love colin firth
I don’t go to the cinema much anymore. At the most about three times a year, often less. When we went to O8, my husband and I were rolling our eyes over the trailers. I don’t remember what they were, but they involved lots of things exploding and crashing and so forth. Who goes to these movies? No thanks.
As an aside, I have liked Béatrice Martin for a long time now, it’s interesting that her song is featured in that film. I like a lot of Québecois pop music, but didn’t think it was very popular outside the Francophone world.
Babette said this on July 8, 2018 at 7:05 pm | Reply
I will have to check Martin out.
I wonder about the state of the world, too, if this is what is getting made. I think in the end it doesn’t even require actors. It can all be done by stunt men.
i like Tom Cruise. I think his mission possible movies are good(action, comedy, but my favorite with him is the movie Legend and it has Tim Curry as the devil. I don’t like Bradley cooper. I don’t know what it is about him, but he just gets on my nerves. Servetus, I think a movie you might like is Winchester(Helen Mirren).
bloodangel said this on July 8, 2018 at 10:22 pm | Reply
Thanks for the tip! I hope that your theater gets rebuilt in time for you to see MI!
I think I’ll watch Mamma Mia 2 (liked the first one) and A Star is born (Bradley Cooper can sing?) on DVD someday but there sure is no rush
Herba said this on July 9, 2018 at 7:15 am | Reply
“there is no rush” is a good description.
Servetus said this on July 12, 2018 at 12:33 pm | Reply
I don’t get to the cinema all that often, maybe three or four times a year if that, it has to be something I really want to see. Of the ones you’ve listed, Mama Mia 2 is the only trailer I’ve seen, both at the cinema and on television, and it’s the only movie I have on my to-watch list at the moment. I enjoyed the first one and have seen the stage show as well. I can go into the cinema knowing I won’t see things that will give me nightmares. I’d much rather toe tapping music, romance, a simple sweet storyline, and a cast that includes Colin Firth and Pierce Brosnan (despite him murdering his songs in MM1!).
Mezz said this on July 10, 2018 at 2:51 am | Reply
The stage show was fantastic and I totally agree with you that Pierce definitely butchered his songs but he and Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgaard were delightful and the whole cast seemed to have such a great time.
Michele Marsh said this on July 10, 2018 at 11:39 am | Reply
Good point re: no nightmares and there seem to be fewer and fewer of those films.
I’ve only seen the Mamma Mia and the Tom Cruise trailer over here, the other ones you mention won’t get here until later, I think.
The Tom Cruise one I have zero interest in.
The Mamma Mia one I do want to see. The first one was fun (I do know many people who hated it, but I really enjoyed it). I don’t think this second one is necessary at all, and I’m not so fond of Lily James (who plays the young Meryl Streep character in this) BUT – I really loved the three men in the first one: Colin Firth of course, but also Pierce Brosnan (even though his singing was a little iffy) and Stellan Skarsgard. So, I’m going to see this for them but especially for Colin!
Esther said this on July 10, 2018 at 8:03 pm | Reply
When I saw Colin Firth on the screen, I thought — Esther will see that!
Esther said this on July 13, 2018 at 11:31 am | Reply
I will probably see Mamma Mia 2, only because the group of women from work may go. I saw the Mamma Mia play in 2000 when it first toured. It is a really happy feel-good musical, even if all ABBA. I didn’t see the first movie, though, so I should watch it first.
I’m actually looking forward to A Star Is Born. I loved the Streisand/Kristofferson movie, being a big fan of both singers. I have a soft spot for Bradley Cooper, mainly because of his excellent performance in Silver Linings Playbook. This will be Cooper’s directorial debut and he is also one of he producers. Apparently, Clint Eastwood had wanted to make the movie with Cooper at some point in the past and then moved on. I do believe that Lady Gaga’s character wouldn’t think she is attractive — she is unusual looking and I’ve never thought of her as particularly attractive. She is, however, a surprisingly good singer. Her rendition of The Hills Are Alive at the 2015 Oscars was really well done. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JxcFcKvjZCk
SueBC said this on July 12, 2018 at 4:34 am | Reply
Yes I think Lady Gaga could pull off thinking she is not attractive. She apparently battled bulimia when she was a teenager and has body imaging issues. She has come a long way since her “Just Dance” meat wearing garb days. Both her Born This Way and Joanne albums are fantastic and really show her vocal range. I’m happy for Cooper that he is branching out into directing. I think he has sort of peaked as an actor and I agree Silver Linings Playbook was very good. He seems to thrive in David O Russell works as does Jennifer Lawrence. Some of his other movies (ie Hangover 2 and 3) were just turkeys in my opinion. I think the music in Star is Born remake of Cooper’s is country tinged which is not my cup of tea so I may wait to see what others comment or review and then maybe..
She already failed this test for me in the trailer — she looks attractive and her statement that she is not was not convincing. I admit that that I despise the trope of how men telling women they are attractive is supposed to “fix” them (I don’t like that in the original movies, either). I agree she’s a great singer, and I’m sorry for her troubles, of course, but I don’t need to see this story again.
I’m not a huge fan of Gaga’s music, but she can sing. And I guess she can act too — she won a Golden Globe in 2016 for a TV role. As for Cooper, I did see the Hangover movies on the small screen, just coz he’s easy on the eyes, but they were pretty gross comedies. I saw American Sniper which got great reviews, but I wasn’t all that impressed. His roles seem to be all over the place.
SueBC said this on July 12, 2018 at 6:21 pm | Reply
Well I really liked Born This Way because the theme of the album was love yourself and be proud of who you are as an individual. Also, she had a wide scope of songs-1 German one on there and a couple Italian and a little French so it had a great appeal to a wide ranging audience in my opinion. Joanne was dedicated to her late Aunt who died in 2016 of cancer and I think really was personally moving (she discussed her break up w Taylor Kinney) and where she was at in her life approaching 30. So artistically I thought these albums like Madonna’s Ray of Light in 1998 (about turning 40 among other things) were more honest and evocative than that Art Pop fiasco or even Fame Monster of 2009. Her Emmy was for The American Horror series which I don’t watch.
Cooper-yeah I watched All About Steve last night (on HBO U.S.) which first go around I didn’t like too silly or something but on second viewing I thought it was quite sweet and he held his own in it, not playing a douche bag but a guy the object of Sandra Bullock’s character’s crush then obsession (sort of) but he says at the end of the movie “Mary, don’t ever change who you are” which I myself needed to hear that. I didn’t see American Sniper (another Eastwood directed movie) just not that into it I guess. I agree Cooper is all over the place which is why maybe if he moves into directing he will challenge himself more artistically or something like that..
Michele Marsh said this on July 12, 2018 at 6:42 pm | Reply
I only really know Lady Gaga’s radio hits, which are not really what I listen to. But you make those albums sound interesting. I’ll check them out on iTunes. Yeah I’ve never seen American Horror, but I read she won a Golden Globe.
I think Cooper has talent but it all depends on the vehicle.
I’m not trying to sound like her publicist here but those two albums in particular really resonated with me. One would think she had it all and on these albums she really discussed insecurity, body imaging issues (esp on Born This Way) and death. (“Joanne”). I cried the first time I played the Joanne CD in my car because it was so so honest. I don’t have Art Pop mainly bec the radio release “Applause” was boring and uninspiring. Artpop has a lot of rap music which I do not like. She said she really felt down in the dumps bec Art Pop commercially failed. Yes, bec it sounded like everything else out there in 2013! But Madonna’s whole Millennium career in music except 2000’s Music album has been dismal in my opinion. No originality and trying to look young and sound young when she’s not.
Thanks. I’ll check them out.
Sometimes music hits you that way.
Servetus said this on July 15, 2018 at 3:35 am | Reply
That’s my experience of her, too, but I think she’s a great singer.
he’s not the only actor we know with that problem.
Somehow, though, I’m more forgiving of it with RA. My crush on Cooper was more short-lived. I didn’t like what I saw of him as a person, as much. He didn’t seem like someone I would want to spend time with.
It’s so hard for me to compare, still. Like even with actors who consistently get better roles, I don’t crush on them. So who knows. But I agree that a “problematic” personal life is an obstacle. And honestly I’m happy we don’t read about Armitage all the time in the tabloids.
I think I might be up for seeing “Mammia Mia 2” on stage, live, with a bunch of actors I don’t know. I enjoy the energy of live musicals. I have serious Meryl Streep fatigue.
Clint Eastwood. Wow. Well, he’s on my “absolutely not for any reason ever” list, at the very latest since the “empty chair speech” at the 2012 RNC. I haven’t seen Silver Linings Playbook — seemed like it was not my type of film.
Clint Eastwood is a bit of a red herring, I guess, since he’s not involved anymore. From what I’ve read, it might be a bit of a passion project for Cooper. I wonder if he’ll bring anything really new to the story. As for Silver Linings Playbook, while there is a romance, I see it as a film more about mental illness and family dynamics. Having spent time around people with bipolar disorder, I thought Cooper did a great job with the role.
As for Streep, it does seem that she is everywhere. She is a good actress, but she is not my favourite to see on screen.
I like Streep because she is extremely gifted-she can chameleon into a character with great ease (much as Richard does in my opinion) and I really liked her in Iron Lady. She does what she wants when she wants to which to me is the mark of a confident successful person esp a professional performer. She is going to be in Season 2 of Big Little Lies (HBO U.S.) which I am excited about. Her ability to endure over 4 decades of working steadily and consisting to keep her performances even when the material sucked at A level is truly remarkable.
I really liked her in Hope Springs with Tommy Lee Jones. It’s about an older couple who have drifted far away from each other and she drags him to sex therapy to try to get the romance back. I enjoyed the movie, but it might appeal most to people who’ve been in long marriages. (Mine will be 30 years this fall.)
She was good in that and I like Tommy Lee Jones as an actor esp The Fugitive-that drawl is so delightful “We have a fugitive on the run..” I also liked her in August Osage County w/Julia Roberts-Streep just blew everyone away in my opinion. Talk about watching a Master Class in acting. Cumberbatch was in that movie too.
Oh yeah. August Osage County was really good. Julia Roberts was excellent too. I don’t remember Cumberbatch being in it, though I guess he was.
He played the son of the neighbor who ended up being related to Julianne Nicholson’s character. Yeah I agree Julia Roberts was
good also one of the few times I’ve liked
her in a movie although I like her as a person
very affable and down to earth 😀
Michele Marsh said this on July 13, 2018 at 2:06 am | Reply
I admire her career without necessarily admiring tons and tons of her work. I loved Kramer v. Kramer, for instance. But lately I think she has taken a lot of roles where she is essentially mimicking a known historical figure and I find that quite tiring to watch.
Yeah I agree with you on Eastwood. I’ve never been a fan of his. My dad loved his Forgiven” -that Western that Gene Hackman won an Oscar for but I dislike Westerns even more than gory movies. I would recommend Silver Linings Playbook-it is set in Philly, DeNiro is great in it. I don’t think Cooper is a terrific actor but he has a good meaty role in it and he and Jennifer Lawrence (pre Hungry Games I think) have great chemistry. The writing is great and I like the interaction of the dad (DeNiro) and son (Cooper). I think the relationship dynamics at play might interest you. Maybe?
Live musicals are great! You would probably love Mamma Mia live on stage.
Michele Marsh said this on July 12, 2018 at 12:48 pm | Reply
I just have learned over the years that there are films I am probably not going to like and SLP ticks the central “avoid at all costs” box of “romance.”
I don’t like Westerns either, although I feel like Eastwood’s work has kind of moved away from that. I think the last things of his I saw were Invictus and Gran Torino and I don’t have a real clear memory of either. I haven’t seen most of the things he’s famous for, admittedly.
Servetus said this on July 12, 2018 at 1:05 pm | Reply
Ahh, those are two more than I have seen. I saw Trouble with The Curve bec I like baseball and I like Amy Adams. He was ok in that movie and did not direct it. My sis saw the Paris train movie he directed from earlier this year and liked it , said it was “riveting.” Hmm maybe as a last resort, bored out of my mind night movie.
I have political issues with that kind of thing. Yes, celebrate heroism and character, by all means. I am a huge fan of those things and I tend to agree that we are not teaching our children well enough to be moral citizens in situations where it counts. But films like that push this whole idea we have in the U.S. that the individual is the solution to every problem. To me, what stops terrorists isn’t well-trained individuals who happen to be in the right place at the right time, but rather an international politics that disencentivizes this behavior, and which makes it attractive for people to live non-destructive lives. You’ll never get that from Eastwood; he’s a libertarian.
Those sound like a couple of good ideas for future posts. Anything political or involving films or both seem to generate a lot of wonderful responses in my opinion.
I dunno, I try not to let politics overwhelm this blog (believe me, I have a lot to say). But the main issue at present is just energy and time.
You have such engaging wide ranging geographical commenters that are so well read and intelligent that any political, socio-economic topics/posts would have intriguing replies
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Tabuik
2017-07-25T04:49:13Z (GMT) by Kartomi, Margaret J. Kartomi, Hidris
Audio 4.1: Audio Example 1 in Chapter 4 of book: Margaret Kartomi, ‘Musical Journeys in Sumatra’, Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. “Tabut” is a spectacular pageant-like festival that first emerged in the predominantly Shi’a Muslim communities of Persia and was transplanted to North India, and is still held in various forms in those locations. In Bengkulu and Pariaman, situated on the west coast of Sumatra, a few remaining believers have also continued with annual celebrations of “tabut” on the first ten days of Muharram (the first month in the Islamic calendar), attracting crowds of tourists. “Tabut”, spelt “tabuik” in Minangkabau, was probably transplanted from North India to Bengkulu by Indian Ghurka soldiers of the British when Thomas Stamford Raffles commanded the British settlement there in the early 19th century. Soon thereafter, the Ghurkas dispersed to Pariaman and other Sumatran towns, where they intermarried, bringing their “tabuik” skills with them. During the ten days of the “tabuik” festival, teams of drummers roam the streets practicing their repertoire. Each team contains a score or several scores of large drums (“dol”) and one to three small drums (“tasa”). The intense volume of sound produced by their sheer numbers, and the variety of exciting rhythms played, help to create the passionate religious atmosphere that typifies the festival for believers. Usually one “tasa”, a penetratingly-sounding kettle drum, leads a performance and the few score large barrel-shaped “dol” drums play a separate part. They perform en masse during the final procession when a “burok” is thrown into the sea. The “burok” is a mythical horse with a female human face believed to have transported the martyr Hosen (grandson of the prophet Muhammad) and his brother Hasan to heaven on their defeat at the 7th century Karbala war in Persia. “Dol” and “tasa” drumming became a local Pariaman musical form that was also detached from the festival and became popular in its hinterland, where competitions between groups of musicians are held. Drum rhythms retain their Persian names, eg the fast warring (“basosoh”) rhythm, which is one of the rhythms performed in our excerpt, recorded at a competition of “dol/tasa” music in the village of Tandikat in January 1972. Bp M. Djarang was the head drummer, playing “tasa”. Duration: 4 min. 02 sec. Copyright 1972. Margaret J. Kartomi.
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Tag Archives: Baseball
September 6, 2019 by Anne Marie Andrus
Bright Lights & Chilly Nights
Setting sun trickled through colored glass, illuminating mirrored letters behind the bar until LEGENDS sparkled like lost gold from an enchanted city. The bartender brazenly whistled off key and polished curved mahogany with a vintage rag. According to the calendar, autumn was still two weeks away but last night he felt “it” for the first time this year. That fleeting bite of a rogue breeze and rustle of dying leaves followed by a whiff of fragrant firewood. His favorite season was right around the corner—exciting and bittersweet—ruthless and glorious, all at the same time. Baseball was more than a game; it was a way of life that lasted from February all the way through October. Only one team would win their final contest and then silence would descend until next season.
Behind the bar, numbered beer mugs hung from pegs. The bartender glanced over his shoulder at a still empty parking lot and picked out the prized #7 and #42 mugs for two regulars who would arrive first. Always gleeful Yankees fans. Grumpy Boston #34 would be close behind followed by perpetually hopeful Mets #31. A lucky few would be in attendance at the big ballparks in October. The rest would be on bar stools watching their teams pack up lockers and lug golf clubs through private airports while arch rivals padded win-loss records and secured coveted home-field advantage.
The bartender eyeballed bottles of top shelf bourbon—the perfect elixir to calm nerves that would be frayed moments after the roar of the pre-game flyover faded. As players waxed poetic about fan appreciation and stadium acoustics, experts sounded alarm bells over statistics and injuries. Lifetime baseball addicts agonized over traveling ghosts and whether the powers of aura and mystique would be making a nightly appearance. Despite all the famous curses being broken, from The Bambino to The Billy Goat, dread of the jinx never really vanished, it merely slunk into the shadows ready for ambush on a supremely pivotal play. Innings would crawl by, pitch by agonizing pitch, unless the home team was losing of course…then it seemed to get late early. A wise quote from a true legend so many years ago.
Outside, music blared and tires screeched to a stop on loose gravel. The bartender waited for the door to slam open before he shouted. “Most important pitch of the game?”
“Strike One.” Mug #42 tossed her auburn hair back and slid into her usual seat. “Most exciting two words in sports?”
The bartender picked up the TV remote and grinned. “Game Seven.”
October 18, 2003…2 nights after the Game Seven, Aaron Boone home run…
Posted in Baseball, New Jersey, short story, Uncategorized, writing
Tagged Authors, Baseball, Ghosts, Legends, New York Yankees, October, paranormal, playoffs, short story, Short Story Friday, writing, Yankees
June 18, 2018 by Anne Marie Andrus
Ever since I was a kid in Upstate New York, the magic of going to a baseball game was something I’ll never forget. We had a AAA team in our town and they were the farm club of the New York Yankees. The post World War II stadium was small and quaint. It was also a bit rundown.
I remember opening days when snow had to be plowed from the tarp so the game could take place. I also remember humid summer nights where the mosquitoes were so dense, you had to brush them away from your face.
When I set out to write Extra Innings, I wanted to capture the feeling of that magic, but add another element to the story. What emerged is a story of a sad man, Joe McLean, who’s trying to capture some of his youthful memories as his beloved baseball stadium is being demolished to make way for a new one.
He buys a piece of memorabilia and receives more than he bargained for. He then sets off on a journey, using his newfound power, to change his life and undo some of the mistakes he made in his past.
The results are surprising.
Please enjoy Chapter 1 of my new book, Extra Innings. If you enjoy it, you can purchase a copy by clicking HERE.
Extra Innings – Chapter 1
Triple–A baseball is just one step below the majors. For Joe McLean and his family, being fans of the Langerton Chiefs was a legacy passed down through multiple generations.
Langerton is located in a no-man’s land part of Pennsylvania that forms a small barrier between Western New York and Eastern Ohio and butts up against Lake Erie.
Langerton’s sports scene consists of baseball during the all-too brief Spring, Summer, and Fall along with minor league hockey during the seemingly endless winter. Hockey was a great diversion in the winter, but it was baseball that added a special magic to the brief period of warm summer nights.
The Langerton Chiefs had a long history going back to the 1940s. The United States was hungry for normalcy after the horrors of World War II. The wholesomeness and pure sensibilities of the American spirit that baseball offered were just the cohesive forces the country needed to pull itself together.
The minor league system for baseball, with its A, AA, and AAA teams, gave fans an outlet for inexpensive entertainment that showcased talented players before their potential ascent to the Major League. Many of the stars of the AAA Chiefs went on to be well-known players. Also, players on the mend or those looking for a comeback, often made appearances in minor league parks to sharpen their skills with the farm team before, hopefully, heading back to their major league clubs.
The parent clubs of these teams tended to shift from time to time. Joe McLean remembered, with great fondness, the days when the Chiefs were a New York Yankees farm club. The Yanks would come to Langerton each year for an exhibition game. Joe and his brother, Mike, had stood in line for autographs from greats like Don Mattingly, Dave Winfield and other stars of the 80’s and 90’s. Joe’s dad had a baseball card for Thurman Munson that had the late, great catcher’s signature.
Now, as Joe passed into middle-age, the Langerton city council had voted to tear down the old Maxwell Stadium and replace it with one of those brand-new but old-fashioned venues that had become popular when the Baltimore Orioles built Oriole Park at Camden Yards in 1992. Joe was not happy with this development.
“I can’t believe they’re going to tear the old place down,” Joe said to his brother Mike as they downed a huge breakfast at the Little Star Diner.
“It’s just progress. Maxwell is a dump.”
“A dump? It’s the place where we saw some great players and some great games. How can you call it a dump?”
“Yeah. We did have some great times there back when the Yanks were our team instead of the Blue Jays. They’re not even an American team.”
“How many Americans make up a team these days, anyway?” Joe half-joked. “You’re right. Most American kids play soccer now. I don’t understand a game where, after three hours, there’s no score,” Mike said.
“Sounds a lot like baseball?”
It was different though, the brothers agreed. A scoreless baseball game was a nerve-wracking event where, with each pitch, a million different outcomes were possible and strategic decisions could turn the momentum in a game. Both McLean brothers believed this to be true.
“I’m going to miss those old metal and wood seats. Something about that place made me feel at home,” Joe said.
“The new place will be fine. It’s the game that counts,
not where it’s played.”
“I know, but still, the ambiance is going to be missed.”
“Ambiance? Look at you Mr. Fancy College Boy. If you miss it so much, why don’t you go grab some pieces of the stadium and put them in your apartment?”
Mike was the older brother by eight years. He was approaching fifty, but looked older. He had a husky build with a strong upper body balanced out by a substantial beer gut. His grey curly hair topped a roundish head with an Irishman’s ruddy complexion. He was taller and wider than his younger brother, but they had the same piercing blue eyes inherited from their mother. Mike went to work in the local auto plant right out high-school. Joe had gone to college and was now a CPA.
Joe was silent.
“I don’t like that look, little brother. I was joking, but your face says you didn’t get the joke.”
“Well, what are they going to do with the seats and the signs?”
“Trash them. After they salvage what they want, they’ll come in with dozers and backhoes and tear the place down, load it in dump trucks, and haul it away.”
“So what’s the harm in taking a seat or some signs if they’re going to just dump them?”
“There’s no harm if you don’t mind the breaking and entering or the theft charges that go along with your plan.”
“Listen to you. You always had a drawer full of candy bars and cigarettes in our room when we were kids. Did you pay for those? Besides, I was going to ask if I could take something, or even buy it.”
“Hey, we were kids back then and, even though Mom and Dad dragged us to church every Sunday, I didn’t know any better.”
Joe smiled at his brother’s comment. He remembered those Sundays when Father McDougal would give a homily filled with parables about the evils of money and material goods. This was always followed by the passing of the basket so that the church could collect some of that evil money.
“I’ll call the team office and see who I need to talk to. You never know, they might just let me take some stuff,” Joe said.
“Well good luck with that. I’ll be looking forward to those padded box seats in the new Price Choice Stadium.”
The stadium was to be named for a grocery store chain owned by Lackawanna Specialty Services, a holding company with rumored ties to the mob in Western New York. LSS owned the land that the stadium was on and
decided to name the stadium after its discount grocery store chain and obliterate Maxwell name that the stadium carried for nearly 70 years honoring a World War II hero from the area.
“I’ll be there too, but I sure will miss old Maxwell with its leaky roof and smoky field.”
The concession stands that sold burgers, hot dogs, and other grilled items were close to the field at the third base side. When the wind swirled off of Lake Erie, it often took the smoke from the old-fashioned grills and covered the field in a thick, wonderful smelling, carcinogenic haze.
The brothers finished their breakfast and went their separate ways. Mike, to one of the few remaining auto parts manufacturers in the northeast, and Joe, to the accounting firm of Romano, Provenza and Bianchi. The brothers got together for breakfast every Tuesday morning and had done so every week of their adult lives barring sickness, vacation and holidays. The Little Star, a 55 year-old greasy spoon was always their destination.
Joe pulled into his firm’s parking lot. The building that housed R, P, & B was a circa 1960 cinder block box with plate glass windows. Joe had worked here for 20 years. He was a hard worker and would have made partner in any other firm by now. Nepotism and the lack of an Italian last
name, however, kept that from happening in this firm. He was content. He lacked the drive and the nerve to strike out on his own. R, P,& B was the only accounting firm in town and virtually every business and many individuals in Langerton made up their client base. Joe walked past the offices along the wall to his half-walled cubicle.
“Hey Joe.”
It was Johnny Provenza III, one of the new junior partners that was just one year out of college and the son of one of the partners.
“Good morning, John.”
“How about those Steelers last night?”
“I missed it. The Yankees were playing the Red Sox in the ALCS last night.”
“Baseball. What a snooze fest. Does anybody watch that anymore?”
“I still do,” Joe said feeling his age more than ever.
“Oh yeah, of course. By the way Joe, do you have the Healthway numbers for me yet? Dad’s been asking for them.”
“I’m just checking some last minute figures and should have it to you by the end of today.”
John noticed others in the firm beginning to watch the exchange between him and Joe.
“See that you do, Joe. I won’t tolerate missing a deadline,” the young Provenza said in a voice that had doubled in volume.
Healthway was one of the accounts that Johnny had been handed when he joined the firm as a junior partner. It was a lucrative medium-sized account with minimal complexity, but was way above Johnny’s abilities. Joe had offered to help and found the account totally dumped on him. He was doing all the work and would receive none of the credit. He wondered if John Provenza II. knew the work was not being done by his son. Joe would never tell. He just did his job without passion day after day. He was content. His only passion these days was baseball.
Baseball was an obsession that led to Joe tracking every statistic of every player on the Langerton team as well as the Yankees. He went to every Chiefs home game and weekend away games when they were within a three hour drive. It the game was more than three hours away, he was at home glued to the radio with a baseball score book recording every pitch, swing, score and out. And now, they were tearing down old Maxwell Stadium. The place where so many of his memories were made. He needed to get a piece of those memories for himself before they hauled everything away, but how?
Joe put it out of his mind. He had the Healthway numbers to finish and he had to focus and set aside his childish notions. He didn’t think about it again until lunch time.
Posted in Baseball, Blog Tour, Book Launch, Books, Uncategorized
Tagged Baseball, beach read, Books, Boys of Summer, Don Massenzio, Extra Innings, national pastime, New Release, New York Yankees, Novel, NYY, Summer read, Yankees
September 25, 2015 by Anne Marie Andrus
Initially, my reaction to the passing of Yogi Berra was sinking sadness, but…what a glorious life of unbelievable accomplishments to be celebrated. 10 rings? That record may stand forever. Yankee Stadium had the vibe of completeness when Yogi was in the house. All the Yankee reminiscing got me thinking about baseball ghosts. Everyone knows I love to read, write and carry on about the paranormal, but the ghosts of Yankee Stadium…I know they exist. I saw them. It was a moment…I was alone, but doesn’t the most extraordinary stuff always happen when you’re alone?
July 31, 2007. Of course, Scott and I were in the Stadium when this logo was unveiled. We were there for every series from 2002-2010–sometimes twice a week. I don’t know how we pulled it off, but back then parking was $14 and tickets were $30-ish. We left NJ around 2:30pm and didn’t get home until midnight. I did it with no sleep. Scott somehow ran a business with those ridiculous hours. 161st St. and River Ave. was the center of our universe.
Once the All-Star Game was announced for the Final Season of Yankee Stadium, I was going…hell, high water or a massive credit card bill. This time the big $ on my Visa was worth it. All-Star Week was hot—typical July in New York. Insider, pre-game tip—hide in the back bar of The Dugout—their air-conditioning is cold enough to freeze your blood. Monday night was the Home Run Derby and Josh Hamilton put on a show for the ages. Our hearts were already rooting for him–crazy story for another day–but Aura and Mystique were in his corner too. The whole crowd was chanting his name, and the Yankee Stadium crowd rarely chants for anyone but a Yankee. They did that night. Josh rocketed home runs off the Utz Potato Chip sign, splintering old wood and leaving dents that would never be repaired…if anyone’s home runs deserved to land on River Ave… And he didn’t even win. But every Home Run Derby since, they show clips of that legendary performance.
Looking through pictures from that All-Star Week triggered a slew of memories, like Mariano playing catch with his sons. The dancing mascot parade. 3 Doors Down’s awesome performance and the band members running up to Mariano in the dugout afterward—to shake his hand—the best closer in the history of baseball. Mariano, Derek and Alex playing host to the entire baseball galaxy and an opening ceremony that only the Yankees could pull off. All-Stars and Hall of Famers from every position on the field together, and oh yes, the Stealth Bomber—no opening ceremony since has come close to that one. I’m pretty sure none ever will.
Okay…enough babbling, back to the ghosts. The 2008 All-Star Game went 15 innings. 4 hours and 50 minutes. I watched the full moon rise above the right field bleachers, creep over my head and set behind the grandstand. It was a long night and by 1:15 am, the third tier was almost deserted. The last train was gone, the lightweights and corporate types had disappeared and only the real baseball fans were still in the stands. I ran to the bathroom between innings—had to hurry—didn’t want to miss anything. Anyone who knows old Yankee Stadium, knows how crowded that upstairs tier was and how pitifully small those restrooms were.
I jogged out of the tunnel, stepped into the concourse and stopped cold. Nobody was there. No lines, no jostling It was empty—not another soul in sight. I was absolutely alone, but I sensed a crowd swelling around me. The air glimmered at the ceiling and pulsed along the floor. I’m sure it was only seconds, but time wobbled and paused when I stumbled into that fringe of the past. I could still hear the noise of the game behind me, but it sounded distant and grainy…like a snippet of history echoing in the limestone walls. The Cathedral of Baseball, a leading lady in the final run of her brilliant career, was holding court with the ghosts and the legends for one last summer…savoring every pitch and every minute she had left.
“It gets late early around here.”
RIP Yogi Berra
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The 83rd Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade – 2014
source Addison Riecke, Aloma Wright, Andre Rivera, Anthony De Longis, Arianne Zucker, Aubrey O’Day, Audrey Whitby, Augie Isaac, August Maturo, Becca Minas, Benjamin Flores Jr., Benjamin King, Betty Lasky, Bill Hayes, Billy Flynn, Breanna Yde, Brittany King, Brittany Lasky, Bryan Dattilo, Cade Sutton, Casey Moss, Christina Milian, Christopher Sean, Corey Fogelmanis, Cristela Alonzo, Cristina Ferrare, Curtis Harris, D’Janine King-Lasky, Dean Cain, Deidre Hall, Denise Austin, Devan Leos, Diego Velázquez, Dove Cameron, Drake Hogestyn, Earth Wind & Fire, Elizabeth Stanton, Ellington Ratliff, Eric Martsolf, Erik Estrada, Erika Christensen, Esteban Steven Escobar, Estelle, Fawn, Freddie Smith, G.W. Bailey, Galen Gering, George Thorogood, Greg Vaughan, Guy Sebastian, Guy Wilson, Hayley Orrantia, Heart, Jaaron Jennings, Jack Griffo, Jacob Bertrand, Jen Lilley, Jesse McCartney, Joey Bragg, John Aniston, John Hillman, John Palisano, Joseph Mascolo, Joshua Allen, Kali Rocha, Kate Linder, Kate Mansi, Kate Scott, Kira Kosarin, Kira Reed Lorsch, Kool & The Gang, Kristian Alfonso, Laura McKenzie, Lauren Froderman, Lauren Koslow, Marcus Scribner, Maria Canals-Barrera, Mark Ballas, Mark Boone Junior, Mark McGrath, Mark Steines, Marsai Martin, Mary Beth Evans, Mary de Longis, Mekai Curtis, Melissa Archer, Melissa Ordway, Meredith Scott Lynn, Mila Brener, Miles Brown, Molly Burnett, Montel Williams, Nancy Cartwright, Neal McDonough, Nigel Lythgoe, Olivia Stuck, Orianthi, Oscar De La Hoya, Paris Berelc, Peggy McCay, Peyton Meyer, Porscha Coleman, R5, Rena Sofer, Richie Sambora, Riker Lynch, Rita Wilson, Rob Pinkston, Rocky Lynch, Ross Lynch, Rowan Blanchard, Rydel Lynch, Sean Carrigan, Sean Kanan, Sharon Case, Shawn Christian, Stevie Wonder, Susan Seaforth Hayes, Suzanne Rogers, Taylor Dayne, Tenzing Norgay Trainor, Terri Hoyos, Tiffany Espensen, Tommy Flanagan, Tony Denison, Tristan Rogers, Troy Gentile, True O’Brien, Will Roberts, Yara Shahidi
Tagged Addison Riecke, Aloma Wright, Andre Rivera, Anthony De Longis, Arianne Zucker, Aubrey O'Day, Audrey Whitby, Augie Isaac, August Maturo, Becca Minas, Benjamin Flores Jr., Benjamin King, Betty Lasky, Bill Hayes, Billy Flynn, Breanna Yde, Brittany King, Brittany Lasky, Bryan Dattilo, Cade Sutton, Casey Moss, Christina Milian, Christopher Sean, Corey Fogelmanis, Cristela Alonzo, Cristina Ferrare, Curtis Harris, D'Janine King-Lasky, Dean Cain, Deidre Hall, Denise Austin, Devan Leos, Diego Velázquez, Dove Cameron, Drake Hogestyn, Earth Wind & Fire, Elizabeth Stanton, Ellington Ratliff, Eric Martsolf, Erik Estrada, Erika Christensen, Esteban Steven Escobar, Estelle, Fawn, Freddie Smith, G.W. Bailey, Galen Gering, George Thorogood, Greg Vaughan, Guy Sebastian, Guy Wilson, Hayley Orrantia, Heart, Jaaron Jennings, Jack Griffo, Jacob Bertrand, Jen Lilley, Jesse McCartney, Joey Bragg, John Aniston, John Hillman, John Palisano, Joseph Mascolo, Joshua Allen, Kali Rocha, Kate Linder, Kate Mansi, Kate Scott, Kira Kosarin, Kira Reed Lorsch, Kool & The Gang, Kristian Alfonso, Laura McKenzie, Lauren Froderman, Lauren Koslow, Marcus Scribner, Maria Canals-Barrera, Mark Ballas, Mark Boone Junior, Mark McGrath, Mark Steines, Marsai Martin, Mary Beth Evans, Mary de Longis, Mekai Curtis, Melissa Archer, Melissa Ordway, Meredith Scott Lynn, Mila Brener, Miles Brown, Molly Burnett, Montel Williams, Nancy Cartwright, Neal McDonough, Nigel Lythgoe, Olivia Stuck, Orianthi, Oscar De La Hoya, Paris Berelc, Peggy McCay, Peyton Meyer, Porscha Coleman, R5, Rena Sofer, Richie Sambora, Riker Lynch, Rita Wilson, Rob Pinkston, Rocky Lynch, Ross Lynch, Rowan Blanchard, Rydel Lynch, Sean Carrigan, Sean Kanan, Sharon Case, Shawn Christian, Stevie Wonder, Susan Seaforth Hayes, Suzanne Rogers, Taylor Dayne, Tenzing Norgay Trainor, Terri Hoyos, Tiffany Espensen, Tommy Flanagan, Tony Denison, Tristan Rogers, Troy Gentile, True O'Brien, Will Roberts, Yara Shahidi
82nd Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade – 2013
source Ace Young, Addison Riecke, Alexander Burke, Amber Frank, Amber Montana, Angell Conwell, Asha Puthli, Bailey Michelle Brown, Ben Vereen, Beth Maitland, Bianca Santos, Billy Ray Cyrus, Breanna Cirillo, Breanna Yde, Bruce Vilanch, Bryton James, Buzz Aldrin, Calum Worthy, Cameron Moulène, China Anne McClain, Coco Jones, Corbin Bleu, Cristina Ferrare, Curtis Harris, Damarr Calhoun, Daniel Goddard, Darcy LaPier, Daughtry, Dean Cain, Devan Leos, Diana DeGarmo, Dillon Lane, Don Diamont, Doug Davidson, Dylan Riley Snyder, Edmundo Alarcon, Erik Estrada, Fawn, Ginifer King, Goo Goo Dolls, Greg Louganis, Heather Tom, Hunter King, Ian Patrick, Isabella Cramp, Isabella Crovetti, Jack Griffo, Jake Short, Jen Lilley, Jenifer Lewis, Jennifer Veal, Jerry Mathers, Jessica Collins, Jillian Rose Reed, Joey Lawrence, John McCook, John Palisano, Joseph Lawrence, Judi Evans, Karina Smirnoff, Kate Linder, Katherine McNamara, Ken Osmond, Kenny Loggins, Kira Reed Lorsch, Kristoff St. John, Laura McKenzie, LeAnn Rimes, Lucas Cruikshank, Madison Dae Clarion, Madison Pettis, Marisol Nichols, Mark Steines, Melissa Joan Hart, Melissa Ordway, Michael Antonik, Molly Jackson, Montel Williams, Nia Peeples, Olivia Holt, Paris Berelc, Paris MaryJo Berelc, Phoenix Cirillo, Raini Rodriguez, Redaric Williams, Richie Sambora, Rob Pinkston, Ron Masak, Ryan Newman, Sean Carrigan, Sean Kanan, Shane Harper, Simon Templeman, Spencer Daniels, Stevie Wonder, Sydney Park, Taylor Gray, Taylor Spreitler, Tony Dow, Tristan Rogers, Valerie Harper, Wally Kurth, William deVry, William Shatner
Tagged Ace Young, Addison Riecke, Alexander Burke, Amber Frank, Amber Montana, Angell Conwell, Asha Puthli, Bailey Michelle Brown, Ben Vereen, Beth Maitland, Bianca Santos, Billy Ray Cyrus, Breanna Cirillo, Breanna Yde, Bruce Vilanch, Bryton James, Buzz Aldrin, Calum Worthy, Cameron Moulène, China Anne McClain, Coco Jones, Corbin Bleu, Cristina Ferrare, Curtis Harris, Damarr Calhoun, Daniel Goddard, Darcy LaPier, Daughtry, Dean Cain, Devan Leos, Diana DeGarmo, Dillon Lane, Don Diamont, Doug Davidson, Dylan Riley Snyder, Edmundo Alarcon, Erik Estrada, Fawn, Ginifer King, Goo Goo Dolls, Greg Louganis, Heather Tom, Hunter King, Ian Patrick, Isabella Cramp, Isabella Crovetti, Jack Griffo, Jake Short, Jen Lilley, Jenifer Lewis, Jennifer Veal, Jerry Mathers, Jessica Collins, Jillian Rose Reed, Joey Lawrence, John McCook, John Palisano, Joseph Lawrence, Judi Evans, Karina Smirnoff, Kate Linder, Katherine McNamara, Ken Osmond, Kenny Loggins, Kira Reed Lorsch, Kristoff St. John, Laura McKenzie, LeAnn Rimes, Lucas Cruikshank, Madison Dae Clarion, Madison Pettis, Marisol Nichols, Mark Steines, Melissa Joan Hart, Melissa Ordway, Michael Antonik, Molly Jackson, Montel Williams, Nia Peeples, Olivia Holt, Paris Berelc, Paris MaryJo Berelc, Phoenix Cirillo, Raini Rodriguez, Redaric Williams, Richie Sambora, Rob Pinkston, Ron Masak, Ryan Newman, Sean Carrigan, Sean Kanan, Shane Harper, Simon Templeman, Spencer Daniels, Stevie Wonder, Sydney Park, Taylor Gray, Taylor Spreitler, Tony Dow, Tristan Rogers, Valerie Harper, Wally Kurth, William deVry, William Shatner
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BTS Win TIME Readers Poll for Person of the Year
Big Hit Entertainment, YouTube
South Korean boy band BTS won Time's readers poll for Person of the Year.
The magazine confirmed the K-pop group beat out Planet Earth and the Thai cave divers in an online poll for its Person of the Year.
BTS won with 9 percent of the vote and a 0.12% margin over Planet Earth. The Thai cave divers garnered 6 percent of the vote, with Mohammed bin Salman and Moon Jae-in at 5 and 4 percent, respectively.
Time editors ultimately chose "The Guardians" — late journalist Jamal Khashoggi and other targeted writers — as its Person of the Year for 2018.
"This year we are recognizing four journalists and one news organization who have paid a terrible price to seize the challenge of this moment: Jamal Khashoggi, Maria Ressa, Wa Lone, and Kyaw Soe Oo and the Capital Gazette of Annapolis, Md.," Time editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal said.
BTS has appeared on several other end-of-year lists, including the Bloomberg 50. The group is the only Korean entry on the list and the first K-pop act to ever secure the honor.
By Annie Martin, UPI.com
Copyright © 2018 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Celebrity Fans of BTS
Source: BTS Win TIME Readers Poll for Person of the Year
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How to play chords like G/B
I heard that if there is a chord written like x/y then that means an x chord with y in the bass. This can be played by playing x normally, but then playing the y note on the 6th string, correct?
Then what about G/B? B on the 6th string is the same as the B on the 5th string 2nd fret. That note is already played in a G chord. So does that mean that all notes lower than that note are omitted?
Here is a list of ways to play G/B. The only one that makes sense to me is 7. 1 is very similar to 7, except instead of playing B on the second string D is played. Won't that sound different? How can these two be the same chord?
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Keep in mind that when playing with a bass player (who will likely be on the B), any voicing that doesn't emphasize the G in the root (which would clash with the bass) will work. Indeed, you can just take normal G voicings and omit the root. When playing solo, on the other hand, it's important to indicate the root of the chord. – Rein Henrichs May 31 '11 at 18:47
Related: music.stackexchange.com/questions/2445/… – Rein Henrichs May 31 '11 at 18:48
I think we can improve this question by making it general instead of only specific to Guitars. Or at least make it clear that you are only asking about Guitar in your title. – Sufendy May 30 '13 at 2:09
Possibly helpful, from Reddit: What kind of chords are Em/G, Am/C, etc? – neilfein May 22 '16 at 20:54
You've pretty much got it figured out.
If you read G/B as "G over B" it makes sense that your lowest note needs to be a B. There is nothing that says what string the B has to be played on, only that the G chord has to be above B. So, you can voice the chord up and down the neck, and keep the lowest note a B.
When this is really important is when there's a moving line in the harmony and is a B at that point.
When arranging for a group I'd often let a guitar ignore that voicing if I had other instruments that were moving the harmony line already. It just depends on how strong that note/harmony needs to be in the overall sound of the band.
And, for the theory of it, it's really a G chord in first inversion.
the Tin Manthe Tin Man
In the G/B chord you play a normal G with B as a bass. That means that the lowest note you have is a B. Since a G chord contains the notes G D and B you can play a G chord from any position as long as you play B as a bass.
As you can see in all the examples from your link the lowest note is always a B. That is also why you leave out the 6th string from your normal G chord. You will still have a higher G as well as a higher D in the same chord, but now the bass note is a B instead of a G.
Chords are made out of at least three different notes. A G major chord is G B D. The different chord positions will sound a bit different but the harmonies are the same, and since you are only playing G B and D it will still be a G chord.
Technically, chords are made out of at least two different notes. Pedantic Man, away! – Rein Henrichs May 31 '11 at 18:48
Technically, perhaps, but in practical use a major or minor chord is a triad meaning three notes. – user1044 Sep 11 '11 at 3:36
Everyone else above has talked about the theory related to this question, but here's an actual G/B chord voicing that may help you out.
-8- (4th finger)
-7- (3rd finger)
-5- (1st finger)
-7- (2nd finger)
...where the root is on the D string (where your first finger is).
JP DohertyJP Doherty
How about an open "G" chord but simply omit the sixth string? That would voice it as B-D-G-B-G, which I would think should be good. – supercat Aug 12 '14 at 2:21
This is, certainly, G/B. I was just trying to provide a different voicing. – JP Doherty Aug 13 '14 at 17:42
That's B-x-G-D-G-X; I could see advantages to using a higher hand position if one were putting a B on top (e.g. 7-x-9-7-8-7 or 7-10-9-7-8-7 (bar 7th fret), but I'm curious why you would suggest using a higher hand position but then not use the upper E string? – supercat Aug 13 '14 at 17:57
Like I said, just another voicing. If you want voicings with the high E string in use, happy to provide a bunch of them, but it's not relevant. The omission of one or more strings does not make it a less effective voicing. – JP Doherty Aug 15 '14 at 17:49
One of the purposes of a slash chord is to make the bass move stepwise. So it you don't have a bass player, you might want to look at the voicings of the surrounding chords as well to make the bass move as desired.
In this example, withholding the content of this chord and the progression, this makes the most sense as it usually highlights the IV chord motion. – user6164 May 30 '13 at 4:14
A good example of the G/B chord, which illustrates why it matters which note is in the bass, is the main progression/riff from "Blue on Black" by Kenny Wayne Shepherd.
The riff starts on a D chord with the bass note moving briefly down to C and then back to D. The next chord is introduced by a "walk" up the A string, playing the notes A, B, C to finally form a C9 chord. After this comes the G/B chord, so the bass lines moves down by only a semitone, rather than going all the way down to G, so it creates a more melodic transition before it changes to a regular G chord.
As a result, you can see that the x/y notation is a good concise way of describing what the bass line should sound like, or indicating passing notes between chords, or just creating different harmonic effects. You'll notice that G/B sounds a bit more tense and unresolved than a regular G chord, even though it's based around the same 3 notes G B D.
the Tin Man
Matthew BreithauptMatthew Breithaupt
The base inversion of the chord is considered at rest. Other inversions become more tense as you move away from the base. This becomes even more apparent when dealing with more complex chords such as 7ths, 9ths, etc. – the Tin Man Aug 26 '16 at 23:41
To play Mr. Bojangles on guitar in first position (open strings), you'd play the famous chord progression notated "C G/B Am" with bass notes C, B, A.
For 'best' voicing, you wouldn't play any of the notes available to you on the 6th string, although each chord triad has at least one reachable note.
If you are the rhythm guitarist playing in a band with a bass player, you could safely play 6 string versions of each chord, because the bass player will read the referenced chord progression as instructions to play the descending line C, B, A.
terry rayburnterry rayburn
What are G7/D and C/G chords?
Can E/G# be played like this?
Power chord: Can the lower fifth be used?
Guitar - How to play two-string mini-barre chords?
Why do harmonics played on guitar sound lower as you move to higher frets while fretted notes sound higher?
Is this a C chord or an Em chord?
Two equal E notes on guitar
Why do these chords not have these repeated notes?
Describe a chord shape?
How do i remember note positons on my guitar? (I learned all the notes already)
Finding diatonic chords on guitar?
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Posts Tagged ‘CLASSICS Act’
MTP Podcast: Why Artists Should Care About Data Center Lobbying
January 18, 2019 Chris Castle Comments off
Today’s podcast is about the impact on climate of the massive data centers operated in states outside of California and New York by Google, Facebook, Amazon and others. I focus on Oregon and Nebraska, but there are many other locations. These massive building projects enable Google to exercise its lobbying muscle in states you wouldn’t expect and on the federal senators and representatives of those states on issues familiar with our old adversary: Artist rights, profit from human trafficking, drugs and brand sponsored piracy.
Are Data Centers The New Cornhusker Kickback and the Facebook Fakeout?
The Mother’s Milk of Algorithms: Google Expands Its Data Center Lobbying Footprint in Minnesota–Home to Senator Amy Klobuchar
What’s Up With @SenSasse’s Vicious Little Amendment on pre-72?
Here Comes the Shiv: Sen. Sasse to Move to Strike the CLASSICS Act and Screw Pre-72 Artists
Carbon Clouds: Should Artists Ask Why Aren’t Google, Amazon and Facebook in the Green New Deal?
Greenpeace “Dirty Data” research. www.greenpeace.org/archive-interna…-greenpeace.pdf
Nature magazine sums it up (www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06610-y):
“Upload your latest holiday photos to Facebook, and there’s a chance they’ll end up stored in Prineville, Oregon, a small town where the firm has built three giant data centres and is planning two more. [Hello, Senator Wyden.] Inside these vast factories, bigger than aircraft carriers, tens of thousands of circuit boards are racked row upon row, stretching down windowless halls so long that staff ride through the corridors on scooters.
These huge buildings are the treasuries of the new industrial kings: the information traders. The five biggest global companies by market capitalization this year are currently Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft and Facebook, replacing titans such as Shell and ExxonMobil. Although information factories might not spew out black smoke or grind greasy cogs, they are not bereft of environmental impact. As demand for Internet and mobile-phone traffic skyrockets, the information industry could lead to an explosion in energy use.”
According to the National Resources Defense Council www.nrdc.org/resources/americas…ing-amounts-energy:
“Data centers are the backbone of the modern economy — from the server rooms that power small- to medium-sized organizations to the enterprise data centers that support American corporations and the server farms that run cloud computing services hosted by Amazon, Facebook, Google, and others. However, the explosion of digital content, big data, e-commerce, and Internet traffic is also making data centers one of the fastest-growing consumers of electricity in developed countries, and one of the key drivers in the construction of new power plants.
Google emits less than 8 grams of carbon dioxide equivalent per day to serve an active Google user—defined as someone who performs 25 searches and watches 60 minutes of YouTube a day, has a Gmail account, and uses our other key services.”
In Google-speak “less than 8” usually means 7.9999999999. So let’s call it 8. As of 2016 there were 1 billion active gmail users. So rough justice, Google acknowledges that it emits about 8 billion grams of carbon dioxide daily, or 9,000 tons. And based on the characteristically tricky way Google framed the measurement, that doesn’t count the users who don’t have a gmail account, don’t use “our other key services” and may watch more than an hour a day of YouTube.Upload today,
Tags: CLASSICS Act, Data Center Leverage
Ron Wyden’s Teachable Moment: Should one Senator be allowed to stop 415 Members of Congress on the Pre-72 Fix
June 27, 2018 Chris Castle Comments off
It’s rare that we get insight into just how sleazy the Congress can be–but Senator Ron Wyden is giving us all a guided tour when it comes to his singular dedication to screwing pre-72 artists. There is a process in the Senate called a “hold” (see this memo from the Congressional Research Service describing the rules for holds) which can seriously slow down passage of legislation. Any one senator can put a hold on any bill, and Senator Wyden appears to be threatening to put a hold on the Music Modernization Act if he doesn’t get significant changes to the pre-72 fix, probably before Thursday’s “markup.”
That would be the pre-72 fix in the CLASSICS Act that was just passed by 415 Members of the House of Representatives. That’s right–ONE senator can replace the judgement of FOUR HUNDRED FIFTEEN elected representatives of the American people. ONE senator can crush the hopes of thousands of pre-72 artists or their heirs, because some people have waited so long to get a fair shake from the Congress that they died.
Why would any senator do such a thing? You can kind of understand this anti-democratic shenanigans on a controversial bill, or a bill that barely passed the House. On this bill, however, I have to believe that Wyden’s threatened hold can only be explained by blatant cronyism and swamp fever. And Oregonians need to know the dark side to Ron Wyden.
MTP readers will remember the story of Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and his descent into the swamp. You might think, what’s a senator from Oregon doing up to his eyeballs in cronyism and the slime? Easy answer–cheap hydroelectric power from Oregon’s part of the Columbia River that powers many huge data centers owned by…you guessed it…Google, Facebook, Amazon, Rackspace. Cheap power that goes straight to their bottom line.
Columbia River water vapor burned by Google’s Data Center at The Dalles, Oregon
All get tax breaks of dubious value to Oregonians according to a state audit and cheap power, crowding out local businesses and residents. Each job created by these highly automated data centers costs the local communities up to $800,000–which might make it worth it to pay the companies to stay away.
Google, Facebook, Amazon and Rackspace all are members of the Internet Association, home to Mr. Shoegazer who gives “voting with your feet” a whole new meaning. Google and Amazon are also members of the Digital Media Association or “DiMA”. And DiMA’s grubby little paws are all over the Music Modernization Act, particularly the blanket mechanical license which reads like tech industry lobbyists wrote it.
And Google’s grubby little paws are all over Public Knowledge and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, both card carrying members of the Google Shill List and both leading the charge against the CLASSICS Act, now part of the omnibus Music Modernization Act in the Senate. Remember, the omnibus Music Modernization Act includes CLASSICS as the fix on the pre-72 loophole . CLASSICS allows artists who recorded prior to 1972 and their heirs to benefit from digital royalties when their recordings are played on SiriusXM, Pandora or any other noninteractive radio platform.
Wyden has proposed an insanely complicated and unworkable alternative to the version of CLASSICS that got the Music Modernization Act passed in the House. The only reason that anyone is taking him seriously is because of his threatened hold and he’s going to try to jam this philistine and nonsensical alternative right down the throats of all the artists who had their hopes lifted when the House passed the bill unanimously.
All that Wyden is doing is using the hold system to leverage his way into jacking with the copyright term and throwing a bone to Google, Lessig and the entire anti-copyright and anti-artist crew.
And here’s what he should get for it…
He should get nothing at all and should be sent packing. Let him place his hold and see what happens. He may be narcissistic enough to believe that he’s entitled to replace the vote of 415 of his colleagues with his own cronyism, but we don’t have to buy it.
Nothing. He gets nothing.
Tags: CLASSICS Act, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Music Modernization Act, pre-72 recordings, public knowledge, Senator Ron Wyden
@MusicFirst: Congress, end a longstanding injustice for legacy music creators #irespectmusic — Artist Rights Watch
May 18, 2018 Editor Charlie Comments off
Otis Redding sat on the dock of the bay in 1967. Roy Orbison sang for the lonely in 1960. Miles Davis was kind of blue in 1959. These artists’ iconic recordings live on today and are frequently played across streaming services, satellite radio, and FM radio. Tell Congress to make Big Tech pay its fair share.
via @MusicFirst: Congress, end a longstanding injustice for legacy music creators #irespectmusic — Artist Rights Watch
Tags: Chris Israel, CLASSICS Act, Music Modernization Act, musicfirst
@mikehuppe: “We are Making Major Progress on Music Licensing Reform – Together” #irespectmusic — Artist Rights Watch
May 6, 2018 Editor Charlie Comments off
While several pieces of music legislation have been introduced in the Senate, there is not a single comprehensive package yet. We are encouraging our Senate allies to bring these many issues together into a single, comprehensive Music Modernization Act, like the bill passed in the House.
via @mikehuppe: “We are Making Major Progress on Music Licensing Reform – Together” #irespectmusic — Artist Rights Watch
Tags: CLASSICS Act, Music Modernization Act, SoundExchange
Call to Action: Please Help Support Our Musical Legacy and Tell the Congress #irespectmusic on the CLASSICS Act
February 15, 2018 Chris Castle Comments off
I don’t often ask MTP readers to agree with me, much less sign a petition. But the exception proves the rule and I’m asking that you please sign the petition to support legislation in the U.S. Congress that would close the loophole that some digital music services have been leveraging for quite some time on so-called “pre-72” recordings.
If it sounds implausible that the date a record was released should make a difference in copyright protection or entitlement of the artists to the same royalties as everyone releasing records after that date–that’s because it is. It’s actually worse–it’s the kind of thing that someone would do if they truly viewed music as a commodity.
But that’s exactly what Pandora and Sirius started doing a few years ago when a truly meanspirited bunch of lawyers and bean counters decided they could save a few bucks by stiffing old guys and dead cats and their heirs. Between Pandora and Sirius, this bunch of rocket scientists have paid out $300 million in settlement to the major labels and will pay even more in that Turtles class action to the indie community.
And that’s right–these geniuses could have come out better if they had just paid the damn royalties in the first place.
So you know what this is about–it’s a piece of the #irespectmusic campaign for artist pay for radio play. Except this time it’s about reclaiming rights we already fought over back in 1995. It’s about claiming a little piece of righteousness for those who can’t do it themselves.
What these jerks at Pandora and Sirius (and the Digital Media Association) were really about was bootstrapping an issue into a bargaining chip by withholding payment on pre-72 recordings like bullies do. And here’s why: Remember Blake Morgan told us that the U.S. is one of the only countries in the world that doesn’t recognize a performance right for sound recordings? Well, before 1972 the U.S. didn’t recognize a federal copyright in sound recordings at all.
The Congress amended that astonishing oversight in 1972 to recognize a federal sound recording copyright and then in 1995 and 1998 adopted a limited performance right in sound recordings performed in a digital medium. You know–back when it didn’t seem like this funny digital thing didn’t matter much. Under certain circumstances, there is also a royalty paid for digital performances for webcasting, simulcasting, satellite radio and a few other radio services. That’s basically your “SoundExchange money.”
Sounds good, right? Do you think that there was one member of Congress in 1995 who voted for the limited performance right but secretly said king’s x–a royalty for everyone except James Brown, Duke Ellington, Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Jimi Hendrix, Willie Nelson, Buddy Holly and ZZ Top? No, but that’s what the Digital Media Association, the NAB and their knuckleheads would have you believe. Remember–not even Pandora believes this bunk anymore. Amazing what new lawyers will do for the soul.
So the Congress has been forced to introduce legislation to fix the pre-72 loophole once and for all–and that’s what I’d really appreciate your support for. The bill is called the CLASSICS Act and it’s supported in the House by Ranking Member Jerry Nadler (D-#irespectmusic) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and in the Senate by Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) and Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA).
We have a lot of people to thank for advancing the ball to this point, especially all the folks carrying the legislation, but especially Ranking Member Jerry Nadler who thankfully believes in this so much he’s always up for another fight for artist rights. We also have to thank The Turtles and their team, SoundExchange CEO Mike Huppe and his team, and Chris Israel and his team at MusicFirst.
You told them how you feel about #irespectmusic and I would ask you to please do it once again because we can’t stop fighting until the fight is done. But don’t do it for me, do it for Ella, Aretha, the Duke, the Count, Maceo, Jimi with an i and Hendrix with an x. Do it for all of those who came before, both living and back home and those they left behind.
We never ask you to sign anything you don’t understand, so if you’re still unclear, please let me know.
The MusicFirst Coalition has a petition here. I’d really appreciate your signing up.
Tags: #irespectmusic, CLASSICS Act
The Bipartisan Classics Act Is Ready For Prime Time: Time to fix Pre 1972 Loophole — The Trichordist
February 15, 2018 Editor Charlie Comments off
Issa (R-CA) and Nadler (D-NY) sponsored the Classics Act in the house. Artists that had the misfortune to record before 1972 do not get royalties for the public performance of their recordings on satellite and non-interactive streaming services. This so-called loophole is simply a creation of federal courts (Ninth & Second) and apparent collusion by […]
via The Bipartisan Classics Act Is Ready For Prime Time: Time to fix Pre 1972 Loophole — The Trichordist
Tags: CLASSICS Act, Rep. Issa, Rep. Jerry Nadler
Help @RepJerryNadler Beat the Cartels because #irespectmusic
September 26, 2017 Chris Castle Comments off
Emmanuel Legrand posted a very informative piece in his newsletter about a speech by Rep. Jerry Nadler at the so-called “Music Biz Association” Music Biz Entertainment & Technology Law Conference Series in New York.
(Some of you may remember the “Music Biz Association” as NARM which is what it was called before it was taken over by representatives from the leading royalty deadbeats of our day: Facebook, Amazon, Spotify, YouTube and Pandora. In fact, the chair of the “Music Biz Association” is from Facebook, the industry leader in screwing artists out of royalties and their name and likeness rights, not to mention fake news. YouTube parent Google and Pandora are both members of the MIC Coalition cartel that is an effort by Corporate America dedicated to screwing the world’s songwriters and artists through massive lobbying power. Also known as The Anti-Music Biz Association. Amazon and Spotify are also represented through their trade association the Digital Media Association which has opposed everything anyone has tried to do to better the lives of creators.)
Mr. Legrand tells us that Rep. Nadler noted the long list of critical creative industries legislation languishing in the Congress: These include the Register of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act (HR 1695) which is currently languishing in the Senate after having passed the House with a rip-roaring 378-48 after being opposed by proxies of Music Biz board members. Nadler’s own Fair Play Fair Pay Act of 2017 (HR 1836) would close the terrestrial performance right loophole for sound recordings; [the CLASSICS Act (HR 3301) to get artists paid statutory performance royalties for pre-1972 recordings that The Turtles have had to sue over at great expense;] “…the Songwriters’ Equity Act, that would simplify the way music is licensed by performance rights organisations; [the Allocation for Producers (AMP Act HR 881); and] the PROMOTE Act of 2017 (HR 1914), which would allow performing artists to opt out of having their music played on the radio if the performing artist is not being paid an agreed-upon performance royalty.”
Let’s be clear about one thing–the real tragedy that would make us all look very stupid would be if after getting the Register of Copyrights bill passed overwhelmingly in the House–after dirty dealing by Representative from Google–the bill simply dies in the Senate because no one will bring it up for a vote or because Senator Wyden (D-Google Data Center) has a hold on it. The one bill that actually got a vote and was passed by the Judiciary Committee and by the House–fails in the Senate?
That result would no doubt be thrilling to the Music Biz Association board members from YouTube, Facebook, Amazon and Spotify if for no other reason that the snarky Librarian of Congress is very likely itching to appoint her own Register and give the gesture to the Congress and their little dog, too. (This would be the Libraian of Congress who is permitting (and I think encouraging) mass NOIs to screw songwriters for the benefit of Amazon, Pandora, Spotify and Google.)
If that Register appointment bill doesn’t get a vote pretty soon, she just might do it, particularly if she got top cover from the MIC Coalition and the Internet Association (assuming the IA can take time away from their important work of protecting Backpage.com and saving the Internet).
And this is not to mention the latest atrocity from the MIC Coalition, the radioactive “Transparency in Music Licensing and Ownership Act” (HR 3350). That bill destroys statutory damages and attorneys fees awards in copyright infringement cases against special classes of members of the MIC Coalition cartel that appears to be attempting to fix songwriter and artist royalties–at zero by the look of it. (And those Music Biz Association meetings should recite the antitrust prayer with special fervor given all of the interlocking boards involved and the dominant posistions of Facebook, Google, Spotify, Pandora and of course Amazon. Someone might come looking.) For a good summary of what’s wrong with HR 3350 (or as we call it, The Shiv Act) read this open letter by the Content Creators Coalition signed by artist members Melvin Gibbs, John McCrea, Tommy Manzi, Rosanne Cash, Tift Merritt and Matthew Montfort.
Since we’re not mentioning HR 3350, let’s also not mention Music Biz Association board members Amazon, Spotify, Pandora and Google’s millions upon millions of “address unknown” NOIs served on the Copyright Office pursuant to impenetrable filings that screw songwriters to the wall in no uncertain terms. But wait…Spotify says there’s no such thing as a mechanical royalty….I’m so confused.
Mr. Legrand reports that Rep. Nadler is disheartened by the lack of effort behind these bills:
Nadler said that so far none of these bills have gathered any traction, aside from the Register of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act, which was voted 27-1 by the Committee before the summer, to be then sent to the Senate where it is stalling.
Nadler added that Goodlatte will stay in his position for less than two more years so something has to happen this year, if anything.
“Time is the enemy,” said Nadler. “Someone has to be pushing and a lot of this stuff is not going through the Judiciary.” However, Nadler wondered whether Goodlatte would go for a comprehensive Copyright Bill that would become his legacy or opt for a selective number of individual bills.
Nadler, as one of the co-sponsors of the bill, would like to see [Fair Play Fair Pay] go through because, as he said, the USA is the only country alongside Iran and North Korea not to grant performance rights on sound recordings for music played on terrestrial radio. To explain he situation owners of sound recordings are facing at the moment, Nadler used the following image: “In a car you can hit three buttons. If you hit FM, music performers do not get royalties. If you then hit satellite radio, performers get a royalty, and if you then hit streaming, performers get a different royalty. It does not make sense.”
Rep. Nadler probably thought he was speaking to an organization that supported his efforts, and indeed in fairness many of the Music Biz Association members do.
However, at least four of the members of both the organization and its board of directors work for companies that have been actively trying to crush songwriters and artists for many, many years. Pandora, for example, lead the charge against the retirees and the deceased on opposing paying Pandora’s fair share on pre-1972 royalties for sound recordings. $300 million or so later, it is up to the Congress to fix this loophole.
It’s imporant to note that it takes two to tango–one reason this long list of bills hasn’t moved is because of efforts to stop each of them by companies on the Music Biz Association’s board or the lobbying groups these companies fund to avoid any breadcrumbs leading back to their house. The MIC Coalition, for example, includes the National Association of Broadcasters who have used their lobbying power to crush artists for decades.
And it’s not that these companies just oppose legislation to treat creators fairly, it’s that they have in large part formed the MIC Coalition cartel for that exact purpose. These companies spend millions of dollars lobbying against our interests. So while we cherish Rep. Nadler’s unflagging support for songwriters and artists (as evidenced by the #IRespectMusic campaign and Blake Morgan’s extraordinary advocacy, for example), it must be said that the Music Biz Association is probably the wrong place to open the kimono because you never know which royalty deadbeat is taking notes in the audience and yukking it up under their breath.
Want to do something about it? Call your Member of Congress at (202) 224-3121 (or find them on this list for a direct line in the House) AND call both your Senators at (202) 224-3121 (or find them on this list for a direct line in the Senate). You can also write to your Member by looking them up on the House of Representatives website or to your Senators by looking them up on the Senate website. (Remember–you have one Member of Congress and two Senators.)
Let’s help our friends like Rep. Nadler defeat the cartels. Make those phone calls.
Tags: CLASSICS Act, Fair Play Fair Pay, PROMOTE Act, Register of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act, Rep. Jerry Nadler, Songwriter Equity Act, Transparency in Music Licensing and Ownership Act
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ING House
Perched on metal stilts as if walking towards the future, our flamboyant roadside building for ING Group was a breakthrough for our office – and for sustainable architecture.
Innovative, low-energy and totally unprecedented, our leggy head office for ING Group was the project that put us on the map in 2002, in our earlier incarnation as Meyer and Van Schooten Architects. Fourteen years later, we’re still going strong, and so is our iconic ‘dustbuster’ or ‘skate’, as our building is affectionately known. Just like us, these days it has a new identity: as Infinity, it now houses several companies, instead of one.
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From the motorway, the building appears as a striking, sci-fi object
Transparent truths
Sleek and futuristic, our glass and aluminium ING House occupies a kind of no man’s land. Flanking a busy road (the A10), with the high-rise Zuidas business area on one side and the green belt of the Nieuwe Meer on the other, the location is a border zone. In this ambiguous territory, we set out to create a building that would not only fulfil our client’s complex needs, but also bring joy to every occupant – from board member to receptionists. Raising our glass-skinned structure on stilts enables every work and meeting space to look out towards an energising city view, rather than the road and embankment.
Although it does not dominate their view, the occupants of the building still need protection from the noise and air pollution of the road. Our solution was a double-skin façade incorporating two layers of glass, wide enough in some places for a person to walk between. Clean air is then piped in from the non-roadside half of the structure. This natural ventilation reduces the need for air conditioning and helps to control the temperature inside, lowering energy consumption. Water is cooled and heated for a climate ceiling using an underground thermal energy storage system. To further promote the workers’ health and happiness, we designed a series of six themed interior gardens, reflecting the mixed nationalities of ING’s employees.
The stilt solution
Like a futuristic interpretation of the traditional stilt house, the ING building perches atop metal stilts that are between 9 and 12 m tall. Raising the building in this way allowed us to access the expansive city views beyond the busy road. It also meant we could add a generous entrance lobby on the ground floor, surrounded by greenery. This large glass entrance space makes an effective eye-catcher from the street. Underneath the building’s shiny aluminium belly there’s a through route for taxis, coaches and (formerly) the chauffeur-driven cars of the board of directors, plus a parking garage and bicycle storage.
Large cut-outs in the building enhance spatial quality and encourage communication
The thinking façade
One of the building’s most innovative features is the intelligent façade that responds to the conditions of the environment. The positioning of the building with its long south-facing façade results in many hours of hot sun, while the north façade must combat noise and air pollution from the A10. To ensure comfortable working conditions, we opted for the double-skin façade. An awning on the south side reduces solar heat. On the north side facing the road, the façade is closed, and fresh air is instead supplied from the less polluted south side. We added a metal climate ceiling for further climate control. The cold and hot water this uses is derived from an underground heat and cold storage facility. The entire system allows workers to open windows, without suffering from traffic noise or draughts.
Open and closed spaces
We developed the interior of the ING building together with OTH architecture office. Throughout the eight office floors are a variety of open and enclosed spaces, and the construction of the building is almost always visible – an industrial touch that adds to the feeling of transparency. Scattered throughout it on different floors are central meeting places, archways, courtyards and terraces – making a varied and stimulating environment with many different sightlines. The large cut-outs in the building enhance spatial quality and encourage communication. We framed panoramic city views in the larger, more public spaces, such as the restaurant, the large meeting room and the auditorium.
In a green shade
Highly unusual for the time, the interior of the ING building is characterised by a variety of interior gardens. These feature different planting schemes and so add a variety of landscapes to the building. Together with the various atria, loggias and patios, the gardens have a strong presence, due to the transparency of the building. Michael van Gessel designed the gardens and they provide visual enjoyment as well as helping people to find their way.
Bamboo, figs, palms, pines
An unusual variety of plants brings the building to life. A ground level, visitors immediately see a bamboo garden, connecting directly with the entrance lobby. On the third floor is a garden with ferns and fig trees, while the fourth floor features a subtropical, jungle style garden with large tree ferns. Palms benefit from the sunny conditions on the south side of the building, while the roof has a patio with pine trees.
With even a part of its floor executed in glass, the executive boardroom is all about the views. Located on the west side of the top floor, between the double-skin façade of the north and south sides, the boardroom is glazed on rather more than three of its sides and therefore seems almost to hovers in mid air. For climate control, warm air is extracted from the inner skin to the intermediate zone, while mechanically operated louvres in the cavity modulate daylight. Within this high-tech glass structure, interior elements of natural wood and stone add a pleasantly warm contrast.
Prizes and prestige
ING House was our office’s ‘coming of age’ project. We won several awards with it, including the Aluminium Award (architecture category), the Dutch National Steel Prize 2002, the Glass Award 2002 and the European Award for Steel Structures. And of course, based on the success of this project, major commissions began to flow in. We haven’t looked back.
The Infinity reinvention
In 2015, ING Group moved its head office to a new location, and developer CBRE Global Investors took over the building. Under the new name Infinity, it is now business complex housing several different companies. As the architects, we were asked to support the redevelopment to ensure that the building’s distinct look and feel and functionality are preserved.
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Nexus 4 vs. Galaxy S3
By Will Shanklin
How does the Nexus 4 compare to the reigning Android monarch, the Samsung Galaxy S III?
Does Android have a new King? This title is usually passed by default to the latest Nexus phone, but the Nexus 4 is a unique bird. Though it's a top-of-the-line handset, Google and LG made a few trade-offs. How does the Nexus 4 compare to the reigning Android monarch, the Samsung Galaxy S III? Let's take a look …
Both phones sport slick designs. The Galaxy S III has a slightly larger surface area, but is also thinner. The Nexus 4 has a glass front and back, sandwiched together with a plastic band.
The Nexus 4's back is even bedazzled, and – under the right light – will emit a subtle glitter. Fear not, though, masculine geeks: we're talking more Nexus One live wallpaper, and less My Little Pony.
The thicker Nexus 4 also tips the scales a bit more than the S3. Though there are lighter phones on the market, neither device has a lot of heft.
Both displays should look great. The Nexus 4 has slightly higher resolution, and – with its smaller screen – a bit higher pixel density as well. Some customers are turned off by the Super AMOLED PenTile screen in the Galaxy S III, but most agree that it's one of the leading smartphone displays on the market.
It's hard to say which phone has the edge here, particularly with the different Galaxy S III models sold in North America and everywhere else. Perhaps the simplest answer is that you'll be hard-pressed to find many apps that tax either phone.
The US version of the Galaxy S III matches the Nexus 4 with 2GB of RAM, while its international counterpart has 1GB.
This is a potential drawback for Nexus 4 customers. To keep its off-contract price down, Google and LG limited the base model to 8GB of internal storage. The Galaxy S3, meanwhile, starts at 16GB, and can be expanded further with a microSD card.
This is the other big tradeoff for the Nexus 4: it lacks LTE. The "3G" label above is a bit deceiving; the Nexus 4 utilizes HSPA+, which can reach theoretical speeds of 42Mbps. This is often marketed as "4G," and - if you live in the right area - you can potentially get LTE-like download speeds.
Both phones have equal wattage, but remember that other factors affect actual battery life. We'll have to wait until the Nexus 4 releases on November 13 for actual uptimes.
On paper, the cameras look similar. The Galaxy S3's front camera has a slightly higher megapixel rating.
Nexus devices are beloved for many reasons, but one of the biggest is that they run stock Android. The Nexus 4 – along with its big brothers, the Nexus 10 and Nexus 7 – heralds the arrival of Android 4.2. The new version of Jellybean brings several new features, like a Swype-like trace keyboard, wireless display mirroring, and a 360 degree panorama photography tool called Photo Sphere.
Perhaps even more importantly, the Nexus 4 should receive future Android updates long before the Galaxy S III. Though the handset will also be sold directly by some carriers (like T-Mobile in the US), it will primarily be sold in Google Play, where there is no update approval process. Even the models sold by carriers will still be running stock Android, so there shouldn't be many concerns.
The Nexus 4 is also one of the first big handsets to ship with wireless charging capabilities. Buy any Qi-compatible wireless charging accessory, and the Nexus 4 will be good to go.
It's worth reiterating the Galaxy S III's advantage with LTE. If you live in an area that supports the blazing-fast network, this could be a deal-breaker. Even in areas where HSPA+ can rival LTE's download speeds, LTE tends to have superior upstream speeds and lower latency.
You can easily call the Nexus 4 the new cream of the Android crop, but you could still make the same argument for the Galaxy S III. The devices' specifications have a lot in common. The Nexus 4's pure Android experience could tip some customers its way, while the S3's LTE could tip many more in its direction. Our advice? Don't worry about titles: just find which phone works best for you, and enjoy.
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Will Shanklin is New Atlas' VR and Mobile Editor, and has been part of the team since 2012. He covers a broad range of consumer tech, including virtual reality hardware and software, smartphones, tablets, laptops and smartwatches.
Rodd Clarkson October 31, 2012 12:03 AM
You missed a big item. Cost!
Jamie October 31, 2012 01:14 AM
Indeed! Price is the reason ill be picking up a pair of the Nexus 4 devices for the wife and myself. The Galaxy S III is just a bit too pricey. LTE or not.
Josh Goodwin October 31, 2012 12:23 PM
You also missed that the Nexus devices get the bleeding edge updates. While the GS3 will have to wait till Samsung makes there changes to the OS before they push it to the device. But for me, the absent micro SD option on the Nexus 4 kills it.
John987q October 31, 2012 02:50 PM
My Samsung "Flagship" phones received only one update over the lifetime of the phone here in Canada. And those updates were a year late. I will never own another non-Nexus android device. Manufacturer's and Carriers have proven themselves too greedy to be bothered to release new OS updates on time. On the plus side, buying a super cheap Nexus phone outright affords me a HUGE amount of negotiating room with Rogers, who insist that their over the top prices are due to their cheap phone on 3 year plans. You're move now, big red.
Marco Corona October 31, 2012 05:01 PM
from Forbes.com: An unlocked version of Nexus 4 is priced at $299, a remarkably low price for a phone of this quality. An unlocked 16 GB Nexus 4 is priced at $349 compared to a similar iPhone 5 which is priced at $649.99 unlocked without a contract. Also, Nexus is going to run Vanilla Android versus the Galaxy Touchwizz Android.
Graham R November 1, 2012 01:18 AM
The max of 16GB storage is woefully inadequate for a lot of people. Give us the microSD slot back!!!! And lose those stupid nano and micro SIMs!!! Apple is not always right and those are a couple of things they have got wrong in the iPhone.
Daishi November 1, 2012 05:27 AM
I have never used stock Android but after using CM10 for a while I think I actually prefer TouchWiz to it.
Dawar Saify November 1, 2012 10:05 AM
How does adding a micro sd card slot raise the price. And no, consumers wanting it right are willing to pay more. But indeed, the price is good for a phone of this quality.
Marc Longstreet November 5, 2012 09:44 PM
People saying a lack of a SD card slot is a deal breaker... remember android supports USB host mode meaning you can use any thumb drive hell use a huge 500gb external hard drive if ya need
Otrepony December 9, 2012 03:55 PM
My probem is I cant find a good My Little Pony wallpaper for my Nexus 4:)
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Earth's eighth persistent lava lake found on remote sub-Antarctic island
Many of us will know what bubbling lakes of lava within volcanoes look like. After all, we've seen them our entire lives in movies and on TV. But that doesn't mean they're common. In fact, only seven lava lakes have been found so far, until now.
ESA prepares air-quality-monitoring Sentinel-5P satellite for launch
The ESA’s Sentinel-5P satellite has arrived in northern Russia ahead of its scheduled launch in October. Once in orbit, the satellite will monitor air pollution over the entire planet every day, gathering environmental data and helping authorities make more accurate air-quality forecasts.
Space particle smacks into Sentinel-1A satellite, leaves sizable dent
ESA's Sentinel-1A satellite has been struck by a fast moving space particle, creating a 40-cm-wide impact crater in one of the probe's twin solar arrays.
Sentinel-2A catches a wave ... from space
The European Space Agency's Sentinel-2A has captured an image of waves hitting Dorre Island, Western Australia. The picture provides more information on how waves interact with the coastline, proving the potential benefits of satellite imaging in forecasting waves.
Thousands of satellite snaps create cloud-free view of Africa
A stunning new composite image, made up of nearly 7,000 individual snaps taken by ESA's Sentinel-2A, shows a completely cloud-free view of the African continent. It took the satellite some four months to gather the photos, with most of the shots taken between December 2015 and April 2016.
ESA's Sentinel-2A satellite arrives in French Guiana ahead of launch
ESA's Sentinel-2A satellite has arrived safely in French Guiana, ahead of its June 12 launch atop a Vega rocket. It was carried in the belly of an enormous Russian-made Antonov cargo plane, and protected within a specially-constructed air conditioned habitat.
CryoSat and Sentinel-1A detect rapid ice loss in remote Arctic ice cap
Both the ESA’s Sentinel-1A and CryoSat satellites have detected a significant degree of ice loss in the Austfonna ice cap, located on Norway’s Nordaustlandet island in the Svalbard archipelago. Parts of the ice cap have thinned by as much as 50 m since 2012 – around a sixth of its total thickness.
Sentinel-1A Earth-monitoring satellite begins operational life
Sentinel-1A, the first of a planned fleet of ESA satellites central to the European Commission's Copernicus environmental monitoring program, has begun its operational life after being handed over to the team responsible for its operation.
Sentinel-1A satellite aids flood relief in the Balkans
Despite being in orbit for less than two months, the ESA's Sentinel-1A satellite LINK is already showing its worth in the humanitarian sphere by aiding with relief efforts in the Balkans, where flood waters are estimated to have killed dozens, leaving thousands more displaced.
Earth observation competition searching for outstanding application ideas
On April 15, just days after Copernicus' Sentinal-1 sent its first images back to earth, the Copernicus Masters opened its application process for its 4th annual competition that recognizes outstanding ideas, applications, and business concepts based on Earth observation data.
Sentinel-1A satellite returns first shots of Earth
ESA's Sentinel-1A satellite has returned its first images of Earth from space in its second week of achieving orbit. The satellite, having been launched on Apr. 3, has only recently undergone a complicated maneuver to extend its 10 m (32 ft) solar wings and 12 m (39 ft) radar imaging array.
ESA video captures Sentinel 1A's dramatic ride atop Soyuz rocket
ESA has released compelling video footage displaying the ascent of its Sentinel 1A satellite as viewed from external cameras mounted on the Soyuz Fregat upper stage launch vehicle.
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The Chelsea House's vibrant location is not the only thing that separates this luxury apartment building. With first rate amenities and a chic location, The Chelsea House has already made a name for itself.
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Halcyon Halcyon
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Halcyon at 305 East 51st Street is a stunning 32-story luxury condominium building that is offering 123 spacious residences for sale. Besides their stunning homes, residents here will also enjoy a good assortment of amenities, which include a library, a sky lounge, a heated swimming pool and an indoor sun deck.
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Sterling Mason Sterling Mason
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The Sterling Mason, located at 71 Laight Street in Tribeca, is a stunning new condominium development that is actually two buildings meshed as one—there’s a prewar masonry loft building on one end, and adjoining that is its mirror image, clad in aluminum.
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Toren Toren
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Located nearby Toren is Fort Green park, lots of shopping options, and a number of transit lines that allow easy access into Manhattan. Also within a close distance are multiple universities and a conveniently-located hospital. For those in search of a modern oasis outside of Manhattan, Toren is the ideal living space.
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Home News Elizabeth Warren: The Only People Onstage At Debate Who Haven’t Lost An...
Elizabeth Warren: The Only People Onstage At Debate Who Haven’t Lost An Election Are Women
At the Dem. debate, Elizabeth Warren slammed the idea that a woman can’t beat Trump, pointing out that she and Amy Klobuchar are the only candidates who have run for office undefeated.
It was only a matter of time at the Democratic debate before one of the moderators would bring up the controversy between Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. When asked about Sanders’ alleged past remarks that he believed a woman couldn’t win the presidential election (he has vehemently denied this), Warren said she disagreed, pointing out that the proof was in the two women at the January 14 debate. “So, can a woman beat Donald Trump? Look at the men on this stage. Collectively, they have lost 10 elections. The only people on this stage who have won every single election that they’ve been in are two women: Amy [Klobuchar] and me.”
It was a line that got raucous applause, and Warren followed it up with a call for unity. Well, and an argument about why she should win, of course. “The real danger we face as Democrats is picking a candidate who can’t pull our party together, or someone who takes for granted big parts of the Democratic constituency,” Warren said. “We need a candidate who can excite all parts of the Democratic party, bring everyone in, and give everyone a Democrat to believe in. That’s my plan and that’s why I’m going to win.”
Warren accused Sanders of telling her in a private meeting that he didn’t think a woman could beat President Donald Trump in 2020. Sanders denied this multiple times after the allegation dropped, and again when directly asked about it during the debate. After Warren’s applause-worthy quips, Sanders stressed that he agreed with her. “Does anyone in their right mind think a woman can’t be elected president?” the Vermont senator asked. “But the real question is: how do we beat Trump?”
Sanders also pointed out that Warren was mistaken when she said that she was the only person onstage to defeat an incumbent Republican in the last 30 years; he beat incumbent Peter Smith in 1990 in the US House of Representatives election in Vermont. Speaking of elections: the 2020 presidential primaries are approaching. If you haven’t registered to vote yet, you can do so directly below. Vote and make a difference!
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Art Industry News: Long-Lost Francis Bacon ‘Pope’ to Lead Christie’s London Sale + More Must-Read Stories
Plus, Roberta Smith weighs in on the Met’s big year ahead and the Victoria & Albert Museum acquires Jeremy Corbyn T-shirt.
Artnet News, September 5, 2017
Francis Bacon, Head With Raised Arm, (1955). Estimate: £7–10 million. Courtesy of Christie’s London.
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know this Tuesday, September 5.
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A Look at the IMA’s Controversial Director – Is Charles Venable, director of the Indianapolis Museum of Art since 2012, a visionary? Someone who has been able to expand the reach of the museum and tackle its fiscal woes? Or is he turning the museum into an elite-friendly, hedonistic affair? The jury is still out. (IBJ)
Roberta Smith on the Met’s Big Year Ahead – In an article tellingly titled “The Fall’s Most Fascinating Art Show? The Met Trying to Fix Itself,” the art critic wonders whether the prominent New York museum will be able to overcome its current crisis, triggered by “staff unrest, financial mismanagement, and overreach.” (NYT)
Frank Gehry to Design Thomas Krens’s Latest Museum Project – The architect behind the Guggenheim Bilbao will design a new museum a few blocks away from the Mass MoCA. But do not expect any art in the traditional sense: the new institution will feature models of trains running around famous buildings from the last 150 years. It is called… the Extreme Model Railroad and Contemporary Architecture Museum. (NYT)
New UNESCO World Heritage Sites Chosen – The Japanese sacred island of Okinoshima; Dauria, a wild landscape shared by Mongolia and Russia; and Asmara, the capital of Eritrea in East Africa, are some of the new inclusions. More controversially, the ancient city of Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, has been included as a Palestinian World Heritage Site. (New York Times)
Lost Bacon Painting to Lead Christie’s Sale – A rediscovered Francis Bacon painting will be auctioned during Frieze Week at Christie’s London’s Post-War & Contemporary Art auction on October 6 for a modest estimate of £10 million. It is the first time that the rare 1955 painting of Pope Pius XII, titled Head With Raised Arm, will be shown in public in 50 years. (Telegraph)
Einstein Letter Warning About the Rise of Hitler Sells at Auction – A 1938 letter that Albert Einstein wrote to a friend in which he warned of the rise of Hitler and criticized Neville Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement fetched almost £25,000 ($32,400) at auction. Featuring the prophetic line “I have no hope left for Europe,” the signed letter was sold by LA-based Nate D Sanders Auctions for an anonymous private collector. (Daily Mail)
Value of Vintage Cars Is Down, While Photo Market Is Up – Last year was not a good one for classic cars and works of fine art, although the photography and rare musical instrument markets thrived, according to the leading private bank Coutts. Value of classic cars fell by 10.4 percent last year and fine-art prices were down 6.2 percent, but photography seems to be emerging as a hot-ticket item for collectors. (The Guardian)
Rediscovered Works by Bill Traylor Headed to Auction – Two works by Bill Traylor acquired by a New York Daily News photographer in the 1970s are being sold by CRN Auctions at their annual September sale in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The works had been forgotten about, and the owner had been unaware of the rising value of Traylor’s work until recently. (Art Fix Daily)
DC’s National Gallery of Art Makes New Appointments – Christine Zapotoczky Kelleher, Emiko Usui, and Kathleen Williams will join the National Gallery of Art as chief of investments, editor-in-chief, and chief archivist. Roger Lawson will lead the Library Division, curators Harry Cooper and Molly Donovan have both been promoted, and James Meyer is welcomed back from Dia, where he had been chief curator and deputy director. (Art Fix Daily)
Wolfgang Hahn Prize Awarded – For the first time, the 2018 Prize will go to an Asian artist, Haegue Yang, at an award ceremony on April 17, 2018, during Art Cologne. The prize includes the acquisition of a work by the artist for the collection of the Museum Ludwig, an exhibition, and an accompanying publication. (Press release)
Anren Biennale Announces Participating Artists – From October 1 to January 10, more than 120 artists—including Joan Jonas, William Kentridge, Li Zhanyang, Chen Xi, and Xu Bing —will participate in the inaugural edition of the ancient Chinese city’s new biennial. Titled “Today’s Yesterday” and curated by art historian Lu Peng, the biennial will be divided into four thematic exhibitions that investigate how art is historicized. (Artforum)
Berlin Galleries Shuffle Around Districts – PSM gallery, which works with artists like Christian Falsnaes and Anca Munteanu Rimnic, is opening its next show in its new digs on Schöneberger Ufer, occupying the floor above Isabella Bortolozzi gallery. Meanwhile, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, which represents artists like GCC, Slavs & Tatars, and Avery Singer, is moving to Kreuzberg, setting up shop in the same building as Galerie Barbara Weiss. (Press Release)
V&A Acquires Jeremy Corbyn T-Shirt – A Bristol Street Wear T-shirt bearing the Labour Party leader’s name accompanied by a version of the Nike swoosh has joined the museum’s collection for an exhibition mapping political influence on design trends. (The Guardian)
Women Spread Culture Around Europe 4,000 Years Ago – Ancient bone records show that women were responsible for the spread of new technologies and culture across Europe during the Stone Age. During a period of about 800 years, female remains are found to have made long journeys from their place of birth, men however typically died in the same area they were born. (Daily Mail)
Mexican Beach Photo Wins Saatchi’s Selfie Competition – A photo of a boy selling cotton candy on a beach in Tijuana, Mexico, has won the Saatchi Gallery’s #SelfExpression competition, gaining a solo exhibition at the London gallery. See Paola Ismene’s winning photo and a sampling of the 9,000 entries to the smartphone photography competition below. (BBC News)
Paola Ismene, Daydream in blue. Photo ©Paola Ismene 2017.
Hélène Vallas Vincent, Flying Blue Corsica. Photo ©Hélène Vallas Vincent 2017.
Casey Hennessy, Green Waterfall. Photo ©Casey Hennessy 2017.
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Hey Teach!
Gay is the Old Black
The Red, White & Blues
The Biz of Show
notes from a chair
by notesfromachair
Ten dead in the latest high school shooting by a deranged White teenager.
Fifty plus Palestinians killed in Israel protesting the moving of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem.
Trump ordering ICE agents to separate kids from parents crossing the border illegally and hold them in internment camps, calling them all animals and defiantly reiterating he always will.
And then – a Royal Wedding.
But not just any royal wedding because, honestly, who gives a rat’s ass?
This wasn’t me.. I swear… really!!
What was interesting Saturday morning (Note: Yeah, I stayed up, more on that later) was watching a member of one of the Whitest families in the world marry a biracial American actress where the most controversial thing about it was…well…nothing.
Except that —
In less than an hour they managed to school the world (an estimated 1.9 billion watching) on race relations, dignity and true international co-existence better than any combination of leaders – elected or self-anointed – simply by…example.
It’s not really very complicated.
It also doesn’t hurt to leave your wedding lunch doing a full James Bond #thiscouple
Not to get all 1960s on you – but then again, why not – it once again comes down to this little ditty written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and first sung to the top of the Billboard charts by Jackie DeShannon:
What the world needs now is love sweet love,
It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of,
No, not just for some but for everyone….
Don’t stop reading. Only I’m that cynical and I’m the one who brought it up.
Tell em Sally!
The truth is, when was the last time you heard a Black Reverend in the Church of England (Note: I could just stop there) sermonizing with the words of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Note: Or there) in a tribute to a Prince and his half Black/half White bride (Note: Or even there) in front of a crowd of lily white royals, lay people of various races, and celebrities (this includes movie stars, billionaires, singer/songwriters, icon talk show hosts and sports heroes, et al) from a pulpit:
We must discover the power of love, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that, we will be able to make of this old world a new world…
Cause, see, it’s rumored Meghan and Harry are gonna have kids. Lots of kids. And what kind of world do you think they will be so inclined to help build?
He took us to CHURCH
Oh sure, I know this is a little like all of these things politicians proclaim a day or two after a dozen or two or three or more high school students or gay disco attendees are gunned down in cold blood and we’re all nodding our heads and agreeing that change will come from our better angels and that something must be done and if we put our collective minds to it as only we know we can we will all do it.
But when you get to a certain point in life (older) where you realize NOTHING is working you begin to suspect that change doesn’t and actually can’t happen from any one thing. It’s a cumulative effect built on a collective effort – a lot of spitting into the wind on a particularly windy day and having it all come back flying into your face.
Until finally it all doesn’t because nowhere in the world, not even London, has shitty weather every day. Certainly not London on that Saturday.
And we’re not just talking about this drop of sunshine #AmericanRoyalty
A lot of people talked about the sun coming out once again just as Meghan Markle arrived at the church in a car with her Mom – an L.A. social worker and part time Yoga teacher – yeah, put that in your marijuana pipe and smoke it.
For me, it was enough that a divorced, African American, single Mom had a private tea earlier that week with the Queen because her also divorced daughter was marrying the Queen’s grandson, who also happens to be three years younger than the California girl the single Mom had managed to raise on a single income all alone without a husband….a gal we will all now officially refer to as:
The Duchess of Sussex.
The real American Royalty #moviestarangles
Who could make this up? On the other hand, who would dare to make any of this up??? #2016 #2017 #2018
I never got the whole Charles & Diana thing. Or even the Kate & William thing. And I was never intrigued, not one little bit, with the whole Royal Family of it all. Your majesty, bows and curtsies? Really?
Which doesn’t mean I don’t like The Crown or, well, Downton Abbey. But only as some escapist soap opera relic from an alternate universe I can happily say has no relation to 21st century life or to me.
The Royals, however, ARE real. And intriguing to…billions. I’ve never been exactly sure why. But any wedding that includes a Black Choir singing Ben E. King’s Stand By Me and then serenades a church full of multi-ethnic, multi-racial, multi-aged straight, gay, bisexual and no doubt questioning guests to the strains of This Little Light of Mine and the Negro spiritual Amen as they all begin to file out is just fine in my book.
Princess Charlotte waving away my cynicism #byegurl
Because it offers a much better strategy to effectively navigate through the minefields of today’s world, including everyday life, better than anything now being advanced on Fox, MSNBC, the BBC or Al-Jazeera combined.
Not to mention, it is a lot more reflective of how the #RealWorldMajority is now – finally – beginning to think.
“Stand By Me” – Performed by Karen Gibson and the Kingdom Choir
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Good Greek Fare, Lackluster Service at Olive & Ivy Mediterranean Kitchen
In Eatontown, a lively Greek-inspired menu is overshadowed by inattentive hospitality.
By Shelby Vittek | | May 20, 2019
Octopus appetizer at Olive & Ivy. Photo by Shelby Vittek
Our meal at Olive & Ivy Mediterranean Kitchen, a Greek-inspired BYO in Eatontown that opened earlier this year, got off to a rough start.
I was meeting my good friend Julia, a native Jersey girl who grew up in Monmouth County but now calls Los Angeles home, while she was back in town visiting family. It was a Tuesday evening and the large, modern restaurant wasn’t even half-full. Yet we were seated off in a corner, away from the rest of the tables—and as such, out of the single server’s sight.
It took several minutes for him to greet us, and even longer before he poured us water. When I put our BYO bottle of wine on the table and asked for two wine classes, he demanded to see our IDs. I thought he was joking, as male servers sometimes do when you’re a table of two younger women. But he didn’t back down, not even after I told him I’d just purchased the bottle of wine down the road at Circus Wines in Red Bank.
Five minutes after being carded, which felt more like a way for him to learn our names or where we lived, he finally remembered to bring us wine glasses, disappearing before we could put in an order for appetizers. The exchange irked me, making me feel like an unwelcome guest. But I didn’t want to ruin the few hours I had to catch up with my friend, and so we delved into the food.
Olive & Ivy boasts a Mediterranean menu of mezze, mousaka, kebabs and seafood. There’s also more American items, like burgers, pork chops and steaks. We started with the saganaki ($12), flaming Greek kefalograviera cheese that’s lit tableside and drizzled with lemon olive oil; and the grilled octopus ($18). The cheese hadn’t fully softened before the flame went out, but it was still cheese, and so we devoured it. The octopus was slightly overcooked, chewy and tough instead of tender and soft.
Scallops and Shrimp Santorini at Olive & Ivy. Photo by Shelby Vittek
Our mains quickly followed. Julia ordered the scallops ($30), which came with five pan-roasted scallops over small rounds of polenta and basil. She remarked about how happy she was to be eating good East Coast scallops again, which you don’t find easily on the West Coast. But the entrée didn’t seem substantial enough, plated more like an appetizer than a main event. I opted for the Shrimp Santorini ($30). Served in a cast-iron dish, it consisted of prawns in a garlicky tomato sauce over rice, with crumbled feta on top.
Almost two hours had passed since we’d walked through the doors, and while the food was fresh and enjoyable, our hospitality experience hadn’t improved. We passed on dessert, and asked for our check, which was over $100. If that’s what it costs for an average dinner for two, with no alcohol included, a restaurant should really pay more attention to their guests, and treat them as such.
After settling up, we decided to continue catching up over a beer at an Irish pub in Red Bank, where we were greeted with a warm, friendly atmosphere and more.
Olive & Ivy, 78 Route 35, Eatontown; 732-389-0000. Open Tues-Sun for lunch and dinner.
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Shapaval, V. 2013. High-throughput characterization of food related yeast and moulds by Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy. PhD thesis 2013:53, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Ottestad, S. 2012. Quality monitoring in fresh and frozen salmon by use of visible and near infrared spectroscopy. PhD Thesis 2012:09, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Perisic, N. 2012. Vibrational spectroscopy analysis of interactions between proteins, salts, and water. PhD Thesis 2012:65, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Böcker, U. 2008. Fourier-transform infrared microspectroscopy of muscle food – process-related changes in secondary structure of myofibrillar proteins and their relationships to meat functional properties. PhD thesis 2007:34, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Afseth, N.K. 2007. Vibrational spectroscopy and chemometrics for rapid and reliable characterisation of foods – A few aspects concerning Raman spectroscopy. Ph.D. thesis 2007:14, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Måge, I. 2006. Modelling and optimisation of industrial processes with raw material variation. Dr. scient. thesis 2006:9, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Veberg, A. 2006. Fluorescence spectroscopy for food lipid oxidation. Dr. Scientiarum Thesis 2006:12, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Oust, A. 2005. FT-IR spectroscopy for characterisation of food-related bacteria. Dr. Scientiarum Thesis 2005:12, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Wold, J.P. 2000. Rapid quality assessment of meat and fish by using near-infrared spectroscopy autofluorescence spectroscopy and image analysis. Dr. scient. thesis 2000:3, Agricultural University of Norway
Here is a list of our publications within the field dating back to 2000 sorted by year. By clicking on the link more information on the paper is provided.
Afseth, Nils Kristian; Bloomfield, Matthew; Wold, Jens Petter; Matousek, Pavel.
A novel approach for subsurface through-skin analysis of salmon using spatially offset raman spectroscopy (sors). Applied Spectroscopy 2014; Volume 68.(2) p. 255-262.
Airado-Rodriguez, Diego; Høy, Martin; Skaret, Josefine; Wold, Jens Petter.
From multispectral imaging of autofluorescence to chemical and sensory images of lipid oxidation in cod caviar paste. Talanta: The International Journal of Pure and Applied Analytical Chemistry 2014; Volume 122. p. 70-79.
Liland, Kristian Hovde; Kohler, Achim; Shapaval, Volha.
Hot PLS-a framework for hierarchically ordered taxonomic classification by partial least squares. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 2014; Volume 138. p. 41-47.
Sellberg, Jonas A.; Kaya, Sarp; Segtnan, Vegard; Chen, Chen; Tyliszczak, Tolek; Ogasawara, Hirohito; Nordlund, Dennis; Pettersson, Lars G.M.; Nilsson, Anders.
Comparison of x-ray absorption spectra between water and ice: New ice data with low pre-edge absorption cross-section. Journal of Chemical Physics 2014; Volume 141.(3).
Shapaval, Volha; Afseth, Nils Kristian; Vogt, Kjell Gjermund; Kohler, Achim.
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy for the prediction of fatty acid profiles in Mucor fungi grown in media with different carbon sources. Microbial Cell Factories 2014; Volume 13. p. 86-
Skov, T.; Honoré, Anders H.; Jensen, Henrik Max; Næs, Tormod; Engelsen, Søren B..
Chemometrics in foodomics: Handling data structures from multiple analytical platforms. TrAC. Trends in analytical chemistry 2014; Volume 60. p. 71-79.
Urban, Jan; Afseth, Nils Kristian; Štys, Dalibor.
Fundamental definitions and confusions in mass spectrometry about mass assignment, centroiding and resolution. TrAC. Trends in analytical chemistry 2014; Volume 53. p. 126-136.
Dagnachew, Binyam Sime; Kohler, Achim; Ådnøy, Tormod.
Genetic and environmental information in goat milk Fourier transform infrared spectra. Journal of Dairy Science 2013; Volume 96.(6) p. 3973-3985.
Gobena, Selamawit Tekle; Bjørnstad, Åsmund; Skinnes, Helge; Dong, Yanhong; Segtnan, Vegard.
Estimating Deoxynivalenol Content of Ground Oats Using VIS-NIR Spectroscopy. Cereal Chemistry 2013; Volume 90.(3) p. 181-185.
Gou, P; Santos-Garces, E; Høy, Martin; Wold, Jens petter; Liland, Kristian Hovde; Fulladosa, E.
Feasibility of NIR interactance hyperspectral imaging for on-line measurement of crude composition in vacuum packed dry-cured ham slices. Meat Science 2013; Volume 95.(2) p. 250-255.
Hassani, S., Hanafi, M., Qannari, E.M., Kohler, A. 2013. Deflation strategies for multi-block principal component analysis revisited. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Vol 120, pp 154-168.
Heir, E., Holck, A.L., Omer, M.K., Alvseike, O., Måge, I., Høy, M., Rode, T.M., Sidhu, M.S., Axelsson, L. 2013. Effects of post-processing treatments on sensory quality and Shiga toxigenic Escherichia coli reductions in dry-fermented sausages. Meat Science, Vol 94, 1, pp 47-54.
Lee, M.R.F., Scott, M.B., Veberg-Dahl, A., Evans, P.R., Theobald, V.J., Lundby, F., Scollan, N.D., Wold, J.P. 2013. The potential of chlorophyll rich feed ingredients to improve detection of fecal contamination in the abattoir. Journal of Food Protection, Vol 76, No 3, pp 516-522.
Liland, Kristian Hovde; Høy, Martin; Martens, Harald; Sæbø, Solve.
Distribution based truncation for variable selection in subspace methods for multivariate regression. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 2013; Volume 122. p. 103-111.
Monavar, H. Mohamadi; Afseth, Nils Kristian; Lozano, J; Alimardani, R.; Omid, M.; Wold, Jens petter.
Determining quality of caviar from Caspian Sea based on Raman spectroscopy and using artificial neural networks. Talanta: The International Journal of Pure and Applied Analytical Chemistry 2013; Volume 111. s. 98-104.
Måge, I., Wold, J.P., Bjerke, F., Segtnan, V.H. 2013. On-line sorting of meat trimmings into targeted fat categories. Journal of Food Engineering, Vol 115, Issue 3, pp 306-313.
Najbjerg, H., Young, J.F., Bertram, H.C., Afseth, N.K., Høst, V., Kohler, A. 2013. High-throughput FTIR spectroscopy of intact HepG2 cells reveals additive and non-additive effects of individual fatty acids when given as mixtures. Journal of Biophotonics, Vol 6, Issue 5, pp 446-456.
Næs, T., Tomic, O., Afseth, N.K., Segtnan, V.H., Måge, I. 2013. Multi-block regression based on combinations of orthogonalisation, PLS-regression and canonical correlation analysis. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Vol 124, pp 32-42.
Pedersen, M.E., Ytteborg, E., Kohler, A., Bæverfjord, G., Enersen, G., Ruyter, B., Takle, H., Hannesson, K.O. (2013) Small leucine-rich proteoglycans in the vertebrae of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 106: 57-68.
Perisic, N., Afseth, N.K., Ofstad, R., Hassani, S., Kohler, A. 2013. Characterising protein, salt and water interactions with combined vibrational spectroscopic techniques. Food Chemistry, Vol 138, pp 679-686.
Perisic, Nebojsa; Afseth, Nils Kristian; Ofstad, Ragni; Narum, Bjørg; Kohler, Achim.
Characterizing salt substitution in beef meat processing by vibrational spectroscopy and sensory analysis. Meat Science 2013; Volume 95.(3) p. 576-585.
Perisic, Nebojsa; Afseth, Nils Kristian; Ofstad, Ragni; Scheel, Jan; Kohler, Achim.
FTIR Imaging for Structural Analysis of Frankfurter Sausages Subjected to Salt Reduction and Salt Substitution. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 2013; Volume 61.(13) p. 3219-3228.
Phung, V.T., Khatri, M., Liland, K.H., Slinde, E., Sørheim, O., Almøy, T., Saarem, K., Egelandsdal, B. 2013. Mitochondrial oxygen consumption in permeabilized fibers and its link to colour changes in bovine M. semimembranosus muscle. Meat Science, Vol 93, pp 128-137.
Saga, L., Kristinova, V., Kirkhus, B., Jacobsen, C., Skaret, J., Wold, J.P., Liland, K. 2013. Characterization of oxidative stability of fish oil and plant oil enriched skimmed milk. Journal of the American Oil Chemists’ Society, Vol 90, 1, pp 113–122.
Shapaval, Volha; Schmitt, J.; Møretrø, Trond; Suso, HP; Skaar, Ida; Åsli, Anette Wold; Lillehaug, Dag; Kohler, Achim.
Characterization of food spoilage fungi by FTIR spectroscopy. Journal of Applied Microbiology 2013; Volume 114.(3) p. 788-796.
Shapaval, Volha; Walczak, Beata; Gognies, Sabine; Møretrø, Trond; Suso, Henri-Pierre; Åsli, Anette Wold; Belarbi, Abdelkader; Kohler, Achim.
FTIR spectroscopic characterization of differently cultivated food related yeasts. The Analyst 2013; Volume 138.(14) p. 4129-4138.
Zimmermann, Boris; Kohler, Achim.
Optimizing Savitzky-Golay Parameters for Improving Spectral Resolution and Quantification in Infrared Spectroscopy. Applied Spectroscopy 2013; Volume 67.(8) p. 892-902.
Afseth, N.K., Kohler, A. 2012. Extended multiplicative signal correction in vibrational spectroscopy, a tutorial. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Vol 117, pp 92-99.
Bassan, P., Sachdevaa, A., Kohler, A., Hughes, C., Henderson, A., Boyle, J., Shanks, J.H., Brown, M., Clarke, N.W., Gardner, P. 2012. FTIR microscopy of biological cells and tissue: data analysis using resonant Mie scattering (RMieS) EMSC algorithm. Analyst, Vol 137, pp 1370-1377.
Hassani, S., Martens, H., Qannari, E.M., Hanafi, M., Kohler, A. 2012. Model validation and error estimation in multi-block partial least squares regression. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Vol 117, pp 42.53.
Hassani, S., Martens, H., Qannari, E.M., Kohler, A. 2012. Degrees of freedom estimation in Principal Component Analysis and Consensus Principal Component Analysis. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Vol 118, pp 246-259.
Helgerud, T., Segtnan, V.H., Wold, J.P., Ballance, S., Knutsen, S.H., Rukke, E.O., Afseth, N.K. 2012. Near-Infrared spectroscopy for rapid estimation of dry matter content in whole unpeeled potato tubers. Journal of Food Research, Vol 1, No. 4, pp 55-65.
Isaeva, J., Martens, M., Sæbø, S., Wyller, J.A., Martens, H. 2012. The modelome of line curvature: Many nonlinear models approximated by a single bi-linear metamodel with verbal profiling. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, Vol 241, Issue 9, pp 877-889.
Isaeva, J., Sæbø, S., Wyller, J.A., Nhek, S., Martens, H. 2012. Fast and comprehensive fitting of complex mathematical models to massive amounts of empirical data. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Vol 117, pp 13-21.
Måge, I., Menichelli, E., Næs, T. 2012. Preference mapping by PO-PLS: Separating common and unique information in several data blocks. Food Quality and Preference, Vol 24, 1, pp 8-16.
Nhek, S., Færgestad, E.M., Høy, M., Griessl, M., Tessema, B., Indahl, U., Martens, H. 2012. Nonlinear visualisation and pixel-based alignment of 2D electrophoresis images. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Vol 118, pp 97-108.
Ottestad, I., Hassani, S., Borge, G.I., Kohler, A., Vogt, G., Hyötyläinen, T., Orešic, M., Brønner, K.W., Holven, K.B., Ulven, S.M., Myhrstad, M.C.W. 2012. Fish Oil Supplementation Alters the Plasma Lipidomic Profile and Increases Long-Chain PUFAs of Phospholipids and Triglycerides in Healthy Subjects. PLoS ONE, Vol 7, 8, e42550.
Ottestad, S., Isaksson, T., Wold, J.P. 2012. Effect of varying optical properties on the modeling of astaxanthin concentration in salmon by visible spectroscopy. Aquaculture, Vol 330-333, pp 116-120.
Shapaval, V., Schmitt, J., Møretrø, t., Suso, H.P., Skaar, I., Wold Åsli, a., Lillehaug, D., Kohler, A. 2012. Characterization of food spoilage fungi by FTIR spectroscopy. Journal of Applied Microbiology, Vol pp
Skrede, G., Martinsen, B.K., Wold, A.-B., Birkeland, S.-E., Aaby, K. 2012. Variation in quality parameters between and within 14 Nordic tree fruit and berry species. Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica. Section B, Vol 62, 3, pp 193-208.
Trosvik, P., Rudi, K., Næs, T., Kohler, A., Chan, K.S., Jakobsen, K.S., Stenseth, N.C. 2008. Characterizing mixed microbial population dynamics using time-series analysis. The ISME Journal, Vol 2, pp 707-715.
Tøndel, K., Indahl, U.G., Gjuvland, a.B., Omholt, S.W., Martens, H. 2012. Multi-way metamodelling facilitates insight into the complex input-output maps of nonlinear dynamic models. BMC Systems Biology, Vol 6:88, pp
Airado-Rodriguez, D., Durán-Merás, I., Galeano-Díaz, T., Wold, J.P. 2011. Front-face fluorescence spectroscopy: A new tool for control in the wine industry. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, Vol 24, Issue 2, pp 257-264.
Airado-Rodriguez, D., Intawiwat, N., Skaret, J., Wold, J.P. 2011. Effect of Naturally Occurring Tetrapyrroles on Photooxidation in Cow’s Milk. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Vol 59, pp 3905-3914.
Castro Del Rio, V., Grisdale-Helland, B., Helland, S.J., Kristensen, T., Jørgensen, S.M., Helgerud, J., Claireaux, G., Farrell, A.P., Krasnov, A., Takle, H. (2011) Aerobic training stimulates growth and promotes disease resistance in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A, 160, 278-290.
Færgestad, E.M., Øyås, J., Kohler, A., Berg, T., Næs, T. 2011. The use of spectroscopic measurements from full scale industrial production to achieve stable end product quality. Journal of Food Science and Technology, Vol 44, pp2266-2272 .
Hanafi, M., Kohler, A., Qannari, M. 2011. Connections between multiple co-inertia analysis and consensus principal component analysis. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Vol 106, pp 37-40.
Holck, A.L., Axelsson, L., Rode, T.M., Høy, M., Måge, I., Alvseike, O., L’Abée-Lund, T.M., Omer, M.K., Granum, P.E., Heir, E. 2011. Reduction of verotoxigenic Escherichia coli in production of fermented sausages. Meat Science, Vol 89, pp 286-295 .
Intawiwat, N., Dahl, A.V., Pettersen, M.K., Skaret, J., Rukke, E.O., Wold, J.P. 2011. Effect of different wavelength of light on the formation of photo-oxidation in Gouda-like cheese International Dairy Journal, Vol 21, 8, pp 531-539.
Martens, H. 2011. The Informative Converse paradox: Windows into the unknown. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Vol 107, pp 124-138.
Najbjerg, H., Afseth, N.K., Young, J.F., Bertram, H.C., Pedersen, M.E., Grimmer, S., Vogt, G., Kohler, A. 2011. Monitoring cellular responses upon fatty acid exposure by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy. Analyst, Vol 136, pp 1649-1658.
Næs, T., Måge, I., Segtnan, V.H. 2011. Incorporating interactions in multi-block sequential and orthogonalised partial least squares regression. Journal of Chemometrics, Vol 25, Number 11, pp 601-609.
Næs, T., Tomic, O., Mevik, B.-H., Martens, H. 2011. Path modelling by sequential PLS regression. Journal of Chemometrics, Vol 25, pp 28-40.
O’Farrell, M., Bakke, K.A.H., Tshudi, J., Wold, J.P. 2011. Near-Infrared (NIR) Interactance System for Non-Contact Monitoring of the Temperature Profile of Baked Liver Pâté. Applied Spectroscopy, Vol 65, Issue 12, pp 1372-1379.
Ottestad, S., Enersen, G., Wold, J.P. 2011. Effect of Freezing Temperature on the Color of Frozen Salmon. Journal of Food Science, Vol 76, Issue 7, pp S423-427.
Ottestad, S., Sørheim, O., Heia, K., Skaret, J., Wold, J.P. 2011. Effects of Storage Atmosphere and Heme State on the Color and Visible Reflectance Spectra of Salmon (Salmo salar) Fillets Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Vol 59, 14, pp 7825-7831.
Wold, J.P., O’Farrel, M., Høy, M., Tschudi, J. 2011. On-line determination and control of fat content in batches of beef trimmings by NIR imaging spectroscopy. Meat Science, Vol 89, pp 317-324.
Adt, I., Kohler, A., Gognies, S., Budin, J., Sandt, C., Belarbi, A., Manfait, M., Sockalingum, G.D. 2010. FTIR spectroscopic discrimination of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces bayanus strains. Canadian Journal of Microbiology, Vol 56, pp 793-801.
Afseth, N.K., Martens, H., Randby, Å., Gidskehaug, L., Narum, B., Jørgensen, K., Lien, S., Kohler, A. 2010. Predicting the Fatty Acid Composition of Milk: A Comparison of Two Fourier Transform Infrared Sampling Techniques. Applied Spectroscopy, Vol 64, Issue 7, pp 700-707.
Bassan, P., Kohler, A., Martens, H., Lee, J., Jackson, E., Lockyer, N., Dumas, P., Brown, M., Clarke, N., Gardner, P. 2010. RMieS-EMSC correction for infrared spectra of biological cells: Extension using full Mie theory and (GPU) computing. Journal of Biophotonics, Vol 3, Issue 8-9, pp 609-620.
Berget, I., Martens, H., Kohler, A., Sjurseth, S.K., Afseth, N.K., Narum, B., Ådnøy, T., Lien, S. 2010. Caprine csn1s1 haplotype effect on gene expression and milk composition measured by FTIR spectroscopy Journal of Dairy Science, Vol 93, Issue 9, pp 4340-4350.
Calvez, S., Kohler, A., Prévost, H., Møretrø, T., Drider, D. 2010. Physiological and Structural Differences Between Enterococcus faecalis JH2-2 and Mutant Strains Resistant to (P)-Divercin RV41. Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins, Vol 2, pp 226-232.
Hanafi, M., Kohler, A., Qannari, E.M. 2010. Shedding new light on Hierarchical Principal Component Analysis. Journal of Chemometrics, Vol 24, pp 703-709.
Hassani, S., Martens, H., Qannari, M., Hanafi, M., Borge, G.I., Kohler, A. 2010. Analysis of –omics data: Graphical interpretation- and validation tools in multi–block methods. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Vol 104, Issue 1, pp 140-153.
Heir, E., Holck, A.L., Omer, M.K., Alvseike, O., Høy, M., Måge, I., Axelsson, L. 2010. Reduction of verotoxigenic Escherichia coli by process and recipe optimisation in dry-fermented sausages. International Journal of Food Microbiology, Vol 141, Issue 3, pp 195-202.
Intawiwat, N., Pettersen, M.K., Rukke, E.O., Meier, M.A., Vogt, G., Dahl, A.V., Skaret, J., Keller, D., Wold, J.P. 2010. Effect of different colored filters on photooxidation in pasteurized milk. Journal of Dairy Science, Vol 93, Issue 4, pp 1372-1382.
Isaeva, J., Sæbø, S., Wyller, J.A., Liland, K.H., Færgestad, E.M., Bro, R., Martens, H. 2010. Using GEMANOVA to explore the pattern generating properties of the Delta-Notch model. Journal of Chemometrics, Vol 24, Number 10, pp 626-634.
Lee, M.R.F., Theobald, V.J., Ougham, H.J., Dahl, A.V., Lundby, F., Scollan, N.D., Wold, J.P. 2010. Natural faecal fluorophores and the potential of chlorophyll based markers to optimise fluorescence as a real-time solution for the detection of faecal contamination on carcasses. Meat Science, Vol 86, pp 966-975.
Martens, H., Kohler, A. 2010. Mathematics and measurements for high-throughput quantitative biology, Biological Theory. Biological Theory, Special issue on Quantifying Biology, Vol 4 , Issue 1, pp 29-43.
Martens, H., Måge, I., Tøndel, K., Isaeva, J., Høy, M., Sæbø, S. 2010. Multi-level binary replacement (MBR) design for computer experiments in high-dimensional nonlinear systems. Journal of Chemometrics, Vol 24, pp 748-756.
Martens, M., Veflingstad, S.R., Plahte, E., Bertrand, D., Martens, H. 2010. A sensory scientific approach to visual pattern recognition of complex biological systems. Food Quality and Preference, Vol 21, pp 977-986.
Moorby, J.M., Fraser, M.D., Parveen, I., Lee, M.R.F., Wold, J.P. 2010. Comparison of 2 high-throughput spectral techniques to predict differences in diet composition of grazing sheep and cattle. Journal of Animal Science, Vol 88, pp 1905-1913.
O´Farrell, M., Wold, J.P., Høy, M., Tschudi, J., Schulerud, H. 2010. On-line fat content classification of inhomogeneous pork trimmings using multispectral near infrared interactance imaging. Journal of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, Vol 18, pp 135-146.
Ottestad, S., Isaksson, T., Saeys, W., Wold, J.P. 2010. Scattering correction by use of a priori information. Applied Spectroscopy, Vol 64, Issue 7, pp 795-804.
Pedreschi, F., Segtnan, V.H., Knutsen, S.H. 2010. On-line monitoring of fat, dry matter and acrylamide contents in potato chips using near infrared interactance and visual reflectance imaging. Food Chemistry, Vol 121, pp 616-620.
Pérez-Juan, M., Afseth, N.K., González, J., Gispert, M., Font, M., Díaz, I., Oliver, M.A., Realini, C.E. 2010. Prediction of fatty acid composition using a NIRS fibre optics probe at two different locations of ham subcutaneous fat. Food Research International, Vol 43, pp 1416-1422.
Pijanka, J., Sockalingum, G.D., Kohler, A., Yang, Y., Draux, F., Parkes, G., Lam, K.-P., Collins, D., Dumas, P., Sandt, C., van Pittius, D.G., Douce, G., Manfait, M., Untereiner, V., Sulé-Suso, J. 2010. Synchrotron-based FTIR spectra of stained single cells. Towards a clinical application in pathology. Laboratory investigation, Vol 90, pp 797-807.
Pijanka, J.K., Stone, N., Cinque, G., Yang, Y., Kohler, A., Wehbe, K., Frogley, M., Parkes, G., Parkes, J., Dumas, P., Sandt, C., van Pittius, D.G., Douce, G., Sockalingum, G.D., Sulé-Suso, J. 2010. FTIR microspectroscopy of stained cells and tissues. Application in cancer diagnosis. Spectroscopy in Biomedical Applications, Vol 24, pp 73-78.
Shi, Z, Cogdill, R.P., Martens, H., Anderson, C.A. 2010. Optical coefficient-based multivariate calibration on Near-Infrared spectroscopy. Journal of Chemometrics, Vol 24, Issue 5, pp 288-299.
Tøndel, K., Gjuvsland, A.B., Måge, I., Martens, H. 2010. Screening design for computer experiments: metamodelling of a deterministic mathematical model of the mammalian circadian clock. Journal of Chemometrics, Vol 24, pp 738-747.
Wold, J.P., Kermit, M., Woll, A. 2010. Rapid Nondestructive Determination of Edible Meat Content in Crabs (Cancer Pagurus) by Near-Infrared Imaging Spectroscopy. Applied Spectroscopy, Vol 64, Issue 7, pp 691-699.
Airado-Rodriguez, D., Galeano-Díaz, T., Durán-Merás, I., Wold, J.P. 2009. Usefullness of fluorescence excitation emission matrices in combination with parafac, as fingerprints of red wines. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Vol 57 , Issue 5, pp 1711-1720.
Aursand, I.G., Veliyulin, E., Böcker, U., Ofstad, R., Rustad, T., Erikson, U. 2009. Water and salt distribution in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) studied by low-field 1H NMR, 1H and 23Na MRI and light microscopy: Effects of raw material quality and brine salting. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Vol 57, pp 46-54.
Carton, I., Böcker, U., Ofstad, R., Sørheim, O., Kohler, A. 2009. Monitoring Secondary Structural Changes in Salted and Smoked Salmon Muscle Myofiber Proteins by FT-IR Microspectroscopy. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Vol 57, pp 3563-3570.
Daszykowski, M., Færgestad, E.M., Grove, H., Martens, H., Walczak, B. 2009. Matching 2D gel electrophoresis images with Matlab ‘Image Processing Toolbox’. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Vol 96, pp 188-195.
Grove, H., Færgestad, E.M., Hollung, K., Martens, H. 2009. Improved dynamic range of protein quantification in silver-stained gels by modelling gel images over time. Electrophoresis, Vol 30, pp 1856-1862.
Hildrum, K.I., Rødbotten, R., Høy, M., Berg, J., Narum, B., Wold, J.P. 2009. Classification of different bovine muscles according to sensory characteristics and Warner Bratzler shear force. Meat Science, Vol 83, pp 302-307.
Indahl, U.G., Liland, K.H., Næs, T. 2009. Canonical partial least squares—a unified PLS approach to classification and regression problems. Journal of Chemometrics, Vol 23, Issue 9, pp 495-504.
Knutsen, S.H., Dimitrijevic, S., Molteberg, E.L., Segtnan, V.H., Kaaber, L., Wicklund, T. 2009. The influence of variety, agronomical factors and storage on the potential for acrylamide formation in potatoes grown in Norway. LWT – Food Science and Technology, Vol 42, 2, pp 550-556.
Kohler, A., Böcker, U., Warringer, J., Blomberg, A., Omholt, S.W., Stark, E., Martens, H. 2009. Reducing Inter-replicate Variation in Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy by Extended Multiplicative Signal Correction. Applied Spectroscopy, Vol 63, Number 3, pp 296-305.
Kraggerud, H., Wold, J.P., Høy, M., Abrahamsen, R.K. 2009. X-ray images for the control of eye formation in cheese. International Journal of Dairy Technology, Vol 62, No 2, pp 147-153.
Liland, K.H., Færgestad, E.M. 2009. Testing effects of experimental design factors using multi-way analysis. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Vol 96, pp 172-181.
Lind, V., Berg, J., Eik, L.O., Eilertsen, S.M., Molmann, J., Hersleth, M., Afseth, N.K., Haugland, E. 2009. Effects of concentrate or ryegrass-based diets (Lolium multiflorum) on the meat quality of lambs grazing on semi-natural pastures. Acta Agriculturae Scand Section A, Vol 59, pp 230-238.
Martens, H., Veflingstad, S.R., Plahte, E., Martens, M., Bertrand, D., Omholt, S.W. 2009. The genotype-phenotype relationship in multicellular pattern-generating models – the neglected role of pattern descriptors. BMC SystemBiology, Vol 3:87, pp doi:10.1186/1752-0509-3-87.
Moen, B., Janbu, A.O., Langsrud, S., Langsrud, Ø., Hobman, J.L., Constantinidou, C.., Kohler, A., Rudi, K. 2009. Global responses of Escherichia coli to adverse conditions determined by microarrays and FT-IR spectroscopy. Canadian Journal of Microbiology, Vol 55, Issue 6, pp 714-728.
Ottestad, S., Høy, M., Stevik, A., Wold, J.P. 2009. Prediction of ice fraction and fat content in super-chilled salmon by non-contact interactance near infrared imaging. Journal of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, Vol 17, Issue 2, pp 77-87.
Pijanka, J., Kohler, A., Sockalingum, G.D., Yang, Y., Dumas, P., Nicholson, J., Chio-Srichan, S.M., Manfait, M., Sockalingum, G.D., Sulé-Suso, J. 2009. Spectroscopic signatures of single, isolated cancer cell nuclei using synchrotron infrared microscopy. Analyst, Vol 134, pp 1176-1181.
Segtnan, V.H., Høy, M., Lundby, F., Narum, B., Wold, J.P. 2009. Fat distributional analysis in salmon fillets using non-contact near infrared interactance imaging: A sampling and calibration strategy. Journal of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, Vol 17, pp 247-253.
Segtnan, V.H., Høy, M., Sørheim, O., Kohler, A., Lundby, F., Wold, J.P., Ofstad, R. 2009. Noncontact Salt and Fat Distributional Analysis in Salted and Smoked Salmon Fillets Using X-ray Computed Tomography and NIR Interactance Imaging.Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Vol 57, pp 1705-1010.
Tessema, G.T., Møretrø, T., Kohler, A., Axelsson, L., Naterstad, K. 2009. Complex Phenotypic and Genotypic Responses of Listeria monocytogenes Strains Exposed to the Class IIa Bacteriocin Sakacin P. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Vol 75, 22, pp 6973-6980 .
Wold, J.P., Veberg, A., Lundby, F., Nilsen, A.N., Juzeniene, A., Moan, J. 2009. Effect of oxygen concentration on photo-oxidation and photosensitizer bleaching in butter. Photochemistry and Photobiology, Vol 85, pp 669-676.
Wold, S., Høy, M., Martens, H., Trygg, J., Westad, F., MacGregor, J., Wise, B.M. 2009. The PLS model space revisited. Journal of Chemometrics, Vol 23, pp 67-68.
Böcker, U., Kohler, A., Aursand, I.G., Ofstad, R. 2008. Effects of brine salting with regard to raw material variation of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) muscle investigated by Fourier Transform Infrared microspectroscopy. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Vol 56, 13, pp 5129-5137.
Dahl, T., Tomic, O., Wold, J.P., Næs, T. 2008. Some new tools for visualising multi-way sensory data. Food Quality and Preference, Vol 19, 1, pp 103-113.
ElMasry, G., Wold, J.P. 2008. High-speed assessment of fat and water content distribution in fish fillets using on-line imaging spectroscopy. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Vol 56, Issue 17, pp 7672-7677.
Folkestad, A., Kolstad, K., Wold, J.P., Rørvik, K.A., Tschudi, J., Haugholt, K.H. 2008. Rapid and non-invasive measurements of fat and pigment concentrations in live and slaughtered Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.). Aquaculture, Vol 280, pp 129-135.
Høy, M., Mozuraityte, R., Segtnan, V.H., Storrø, I., Mevik, B.-H., Rustad, T., Næs, T. 2008. The use of experimental design methodology for investigating a lipid oxidation rate assay. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Vol 91, pp 164-172.
Håseth, T.T., Høy, M., Kongsro, J., Kohler, A., Sørheim, O., Egelandsdal, B. 2008. Determination of sodium chloride in pork meat by computed tomography at different voltages. Journal of Food Science, Vol 73, Issue 7, pp E333-E339.
Janbu, A.O., Møretrø, T., Bertrand, D., Kohler, A. 2008. FT-IR microspectroscopy: a promising method for the rapid identification of Listeria species. FEMS Microbiology Letters, Vol 278, pp 164-170.
Kohler, A., Sulé-Suso, J., Sockalingum, G.D., Tobin, M., Bahrami, F., Yang, Y., Pijanka, J., Dumas, P., Cotte, M., van Pittius, D.G., Parkes, G., Martens, H. 2008. Estimating and correcting Mie scattering in synchrotron-based microscopic FTIR spectra by extended multiplicative signal correction (EMSC). Applied Spectroscopy, Vol 62, Issue 3, pp 259-266.
Martens, M., Martens, H. 2008. The senses linking mind and matter. Mind and Matter, Vol 6, 1, pp 51-86.
Måge, I., Mevik, B.-H., Næs, T. 2008. Regression models with process variables and parallel blocks of raw material measurements. Journal of Chemometrics, Vol 22, pp 443-456.
Rye, M., Færgestad, E.M., Martens, H., Wold, J.P., Alsberg, B.K. 2008. An improved pixel-based approach for analysing images in two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Electrophoresis, Vol 29, Issue 6, pp 1382-1393.
Sæbø, S., Almøy, T., Flatberg, A., Aastveit, A.H., Martens, H. 2008. LPLS-regression: a method for prediction and classification under the influence of background information on predictor variables. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Vol 91, Issue 2, pp 121-132.
Afseth, N.K., Segtnan, V.H., Wold, J.P., Marquardt, B.J. 2007. A chromatographic approach for fluorescence reduction in liquid Raman analysis. Applied Spectroscopy, Vol 61, Issue 12, pp 1283-1289.
Bitnes, J., Martens, H., Ueland, Ø., Martens, M. 2007. Longitudinal study of taste performance of sensory panellists: Effect of ageing, experience and exposure. Food Quality and Preference, Vol 18, pp 230-241.
Eie, T., Larsen, H., Sørheim, O., Pettersen, M.K., Hansen, A.Å., Wold, J.P., Naterstad, K., Mielnik, M. 2007. New technologies for extending shelf life. Italian Journal of Food Science – Special issue SLIM 2006, Vol 19, 2, pp 128-152.
Frandsen, L.W., Dijksterhuis, G.B., Martens, H., Martens, M. 2007. Consumer evaluation of milk authenticity explained both by consumer background characteristics and by product sensory descriptors. Journal of Sensory Studies, Vol 22, pp 623-638.
Færgestad, E.M., Rye, M., Walczak, B., Gidskehaug, L.H., Grove, H., Jia, X., Hollung, K., Indahl, U.G., Westad, F., van den Berg, F., Wold, J.P., Martens, H. 2007. PNM-hased analysis of multiple images for the identification changes: A novel approach applied to unravel proteome patters of 2-D electrophoresis gel images. Proteomics, Vol 7, pp 3450-3461.
Haug, A., Eich-Greatorex, S., Bernhoft, A., Wold, J.P., Hetland, H., Christophersen, O.A., Sogn, T. 2007. Effect of dietary selenium and omega-3 fatty acids on muscle composition and quality in broilers. Lipids in Health and Disease, Vol 6, article no. 29.
Heia, K., Sivertsen, A.H., Stormo, S.K., Elvevoll, E., Wold, J.P., Nilsen, H. 2007. Detection of nematodes in cod (Gadus morhua) fillets by imaging spectroscopy. Journal of Food Science, Vol 72, Issue 1, pp E11-E15.
Indahl, U.G., Martens, H., Næs, T. 2007. From dummy regression to prior probabilities in PLS-DA. Journal of Chemometrics, Vol 21, 12, pp 529-536.
Kohler, A., Bertrand, D., Martens, H., Hannesson, K.O., Kirschner, C., Ofstad, R. 2007. Multivariate image analysis of a set of FTIR micro-spectroscopy images of aged bovine muscle tissue combining image and design information. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, Vol 389, pp 1143-1153.
Martens, H., Kohler, A., Afseth, N.K., Wold, J.P., Hersleth, M., Berget, I., Ådnøy, T., Skaugen, M., Isaksson, T., Vegarud, G., Criscione, A., Mevik, B.-H., Frøst, M.B., Randby, Å.T., Prestløkken, E., Berg, P., Kent, M., Lien, S., Omholt, S.W. 2007. High-throughput measurements for functional genomics of milk. Journal of Animal and Feed Sciences, Vol 16, Suppl. 1, pp 172-189.
Mørkved, E.H., Afseth, N.K., Zimcik, P. 2007. Azaphtalocyanines with extended conjugation through heteroaryl and aryl substituents. Photochemical and photophysical properties. Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, Vol 11, Issue 2, pp 130-138.
Måge, I., Næs, T. 2007. Optimising production cost and end-product quality when raw material quality is varying. Journal of Chemometrics, Vol 21, Issue 10-11, pp 440-450.
Sivertsen, E., Bjerke, F., Almøy, T., Segtnan, V.H., Næs, T. 2007. Multivariate optimization by visual inspection. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Vol 85, pp 110-118.
Veberg, A., Olsen, E., Nilsen, A.N., Wold, J.P. 2007. Front face fluorescence measurement of photosensitizers and lipid oxidation products during photooxidation of butter. Journal of Dairy Science, Vol 90, pp 2189-2199.
Westad, F., Afseth, N.K., Bro, R. 2007. Finding relevant spectral regions between spectroscopic techniques by use of cross model validation and partial least squares regression. Analytica Chimica Acta, Vol 595, pp 323-327.
Wold, J.P., Lundby, F. 2007. Approximate non-destructive quantification of porphyrins in butter by front face fluorescence spectroscopy. Journal of Animal and Feed Sciences, Vol 16, Suppl. 1, pp 190-194.
Wu, Z., Bertram, H.C., Böcker, U., Ofstad, R., Kohler, A. 2007. Myowater dynamics and protein secondary structural changes as affected by heating rate in three pork qualities: A combined FT-IR microspectroscopic and 1H NMR relaxometry study. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Vol 10, pp 3990-3997.
Wu, Z., Bertram, H.C., Kohler, A., Böcker, U., Ofstad, R., Andersen, H.J. 2007. Influence of aging and salting on protein secondary structures and water distribution in uncooked and cooked pork. A combined FT-IR microspectroscopy and 1H NMR relaxometry study. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Vol 54, No 22, pp 8589-8597.
Afseth, N.K., Segtnan, V.H., Wold, J.P. 2006. Raman spectra of biological samples: A study of preprocessing methods. Applied Spectroscopy, Vol 60, Issue 12, pp 1358-1367.
Afseth, N.K., Wold, J.P., Segtnan, V.H. 2006. The potential of raman spectroscopy for characterization of the fatty acid unsaturation of salmon. Analytica Chimica Acta, Vol 572, Issue 1,, pp 85-92.
Andersen, C.M., Wold, J.P., Mortensen, G. 2006. Light-induced changes in semi-hard cheese determined by fluorescence spectroscopy and chemometrics. International Dairy Journal, Vol 16, No 12, pp 1483-1489.
Anderssen, E., Westad, F., Martens, H., Dyrstad, K. 2006. Reducing over-optimism in variable selection by cross model validation. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Vol 84, Issue 1-2,, pp 69-74.
Bruun, S.W., Kohler, A., Adt, I., Sockalingum, G.D., Manfait, M., Martens, H. 2006. Correcting attenuated total reflection–Fourier transform infrared spectra for water vapor and carbon dioxide. Applied Spectroscopy, Vol 60, No. 9, pp 1029-1039.
Böcker, U., Ofstad, R., Bertram, H.C., Egelandsdal, B., Kohler, A. 2006. Salt-induced changes in pork myofibrillar tissue investigated by FT-IR microspectroscopy and light microscopy. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Vol 54, Issue 18,, pp 6733-6740.
Chevallier, S., Bertrand, D., Kohler, A., Courcoux, P. 2006. Application of PLS-DA in multivariate image analysis. Journal of Chemometrics, Vol 20, pp 221-229.
Chou, I.C. , Martens, H., Voit, E.O. 2006. Parameter estimation in biochemical systems models with alternating regression. Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling, Vol 3, Issue 1,, pp 1-11.
Christiansen, K.F., Krekling, T., Kohler, A., Vegarud, G., Langsrud, T., Egelandsdal, B. 2006. Microstructure and sensory properties of high pressure processed dressings stabilized by different whey proteins. Food Hydrocolloids, Vol 20, pp 650-662.
Christiansen, K.F., Vegarud, G., Langsrud, T., Krekling, T., Kohler, A., Egelandsdal, B. 2006. Sensory properties of high pressure processed dressings stabilized by different whey proteins and their relationship to the dressings’ microstructure. Food Hydrocolloids, Vol 20, pp 650-662.
Grove, H., Hollung, K., Uhlen, A.K., Martens, H., Færgestad, E.M. 2006. Challenges related to analysis of protein spot volumes from two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE) as revealed by replicate gels. Journal of Proteome Research, Vol 5, pp 3999-4010.
Haugen, J.-E., Lundby, F., Wold, J.P., Veberg, A. 2006. Detection of rancidity in freeze stored turkey meat using a commercial gas-sensor array system. Sensors and Actuators B, Chemical, Vol 116, pp 78-84.
Martens, H., Bruun, S.W., Adt, I., Sockalingum, G.D., Kohler, A. 2006. Pre-processing in biochemometrics: Correction for path-length and temperature effects of water in FTIR bio-spectroscopy by EMSC. Journal of Chemometrics, Vol 20, pp 402-417.
Oust, A., Moen, B., Martens, H., Rudi, K., Næs, T., Kirschner, C., Kohler, A. 2006. Analysis of covariance patterns in gene expression data and FT-IR spectra. Journal of Microbiological Methods, Vol 65, Issue 3, pp 573-584.
Oust, A., Møretrø, T., Naterstad, K., Sockalingum, G.D., Adt, I., Manfait, M., Kohler, A. 2006. Fourier transform infrared and Raman spectroscopy for characterization of Listeria monocytogenes strains. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Vol 72, No. 1,, pp 228-232.
Sandt, C., Madoulet, C., Kohler, A., Allouch, P., De Champs, C., Manfait, M., Sockalingum, G.D. 2006. FT-IR microspectroscopy for early identification of some clinically relevant pathogens. Journal of Applied Microbiology, Vol 101, No 4, pp 785-797.
Segtnan, V.H., Kita, A., Mielnik, M., Jørgensen, K., Knutsen, S.H. 2006. Screening of acrylamide contents in potato crisps using process variable settings and near infrared spectroscopy. Molecular Nutrition & Food Research, Vol 50, No 9, pp 811-817.
Sivertsen, A.H., Lauritzsen, K., Veberg, A., Wold, J.P. (2006) Rapid assessment of lipid oxidation in cliff-fish from saithe by fluorescence spectroscopy. In: J.B. Luten, C. Jacobsen, K. Bekaert, A. Sæbø, J. Oehlenschläger, (eds.) “Seafood from fish to dish, Quality, safety and processing of wild and farmed fish“. ISBN-10: 90-8686-005-2 ISBN-13: 978-90-8686-005-0. Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2006, pp. 119-126.
Thennadil, S.N., Martens, H., Kohler, A. 2006. Physics-based multiplicative scatter correction approaches for improving the performance of calibration models. Applied Spectroscopy, Vol 60, Issue 3, pp 315-321.
Veberg, A., Olsen, E., Vogt, G., Mielnik, M., Nilsen, A.N., Wold, J.P. 2006. Front face fluorescence spectroscopy, a rapid method to detect early lipid oxidation in freeze stored minced turkey meat. Journal of Food Science, Vol 71, Issue 4, pp S364-S370.
Veberg, A., Sørheim, O., Moan, J., Iani, V., Juzenas, P., Nilsen, A.N., Wold, J.P. 2006. Measurement of lipid oxidation and porphyrins in high oxygen modified atmosphere and vacuum packed minced turkey and pork meat by fluorescence spectra and images. Meat Science, Vol 73, Issue 3,, pp 511-520.
Veberg, A., Vogt, G., Wold, J.P. 2006. Fluorescence in aldehyde model systems related to lipid oxidation. LWT – Food Science and Technology, Vol 39, 5, pp 562-570.
Wold, A.-B., Hansen, M., Rosenfeld, H.J., Lea, P., Jeksrud, W., Baugerød, H., Haffner, K. 2006. Antioxidant activity in broccoli cultivars (Brassica oleracea var. italica) as affected by storage conditions. Acta Horticulturae, Vol 706, pp 211-217.
Wold, A.-B., Rosenfeld, H.J., Lea, P., Baugerød, H. 2006. The effect of CA and conventional storage on antioxidant activity and chemical composition in red and white cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata L.) and Savoy (Brassica oleracea var. sabauda L.). European Journal of Horticultural Science, Vol 71, 5, pp 212-216.
Wold, J.P., Bro, R., Veberg, A., Lundby, F., Nilsen, A.N., Moan, J. 2006. Active photosensitizers in butter detected by fluorescence spectroscopy and multivariate curve resolution. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Vol 54, pp 10197-10204.
Wold, J.P., Johansen, I.-R., Haugholt, K.H., Tschudi, J., Thielemann, J., Segtnan, V.H., Narum, B., Wold, E. 2006. Non-contact transflectance NIR imaging for representative on-line sampling of dried salted coalfish (bacalao). Journal of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, Vol 14, pp 59-66.
Wold, J.P., Veberg, A., Lundby, F., Nilsen, A.N. 2006. Influence of storage time and color of light on photooxidation in cheese. A study based on sensory analysis and fluorescence spectroscopy. International Dairy Journal, Vol 16, Issue 10, pp 1218-1226.
Abajo, M.J.S., Mevik, B.-H., Segtnan, V.H., Næs, T. 2005. Ensemble methods and data augmentation by noise addition applied to the analysis of spectroscopic data. Analytica Chimica Acta, Vol 533, Issue 2, pp 147-159.
Afseth, N.K., Segtnan, V.H., Marquardt, B., Wold, J.P. 2005. Raman and near-infrared spectroscopy for quantification of fat composition in a complex food model system. Applied Spectroscopy, Vol 59, Issue 11,, pp 1324-1332.
Decker, M. , Nielsen, P.V., Martens, H. 2005. Near-infrared spectra of Penicillium camemberti strains separated by Extended Multiplicative Signal Correction improved prediction of physical and chemical variations. Applied Spectroscopy, Vol 59, 1, pp 56-68.
Dijksterhuis, G., Martens, M., Martens, H. 2005. Combined Procrustes analysis and PLSR for internal and external mapping of data from multiple sources. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Vol 48, pp 47-62.
Flåtten, A., Bryhni, E.A., Kohler, A., Egelandsdal, B., Isaksson, T. 2005. Determination of C22:5 and C22:6 marine fatty acids in pork fat with fourier transform mid-infrared spectroscopy. Meat Science, Vol 69, Issue 3, pp 433-440.
Henriksen, H.C., Næs, T., Segtnan, V.H., Aastveit, A.H. 2005. Using NIR spectroscopy for predicting previous process conditions. A case study from pulp production. Journal of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, Vol 13, pp 265-276.
Hollung, K., Øverland, M., Hrustic, M., Sekulic, P., Miladinovic, J., Martens, H., Narum, B., Sahlstrøm, S., Sørensen, M., Storebakken, T., Skrede, A. 2005. Evaluation of non-starch polysaccharides and oligosaccharide content of different soybean variaties (Glycine max) by near-infrared spectroscopy and proteomics. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Vol 53, No 23, pp 9112-9121.
Kohler, A., Kirschner, C., Oust, A., Martens, H. 2005. Extended multiplicative signal correction as a tool for separation and characterization of physical and chemical information in fourier transform infrared microscopy images of cryo-sections of beef loin. Applied Spectroscopy, Vol 59, No 6, pp 707-716.
Martens, H., Anderssen, E., Flatberg, A., Gidskehaug, L.H., Høy, M., Westad, F., Thybo, A., Martens, M. 2005. Regression of a data matrix on descriptors of both its rows and of its columns via latent variables: L-PLS. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Vol 48, pp 103-125.
Martens, H., Nielsen, J.P., Engelsen, S.B. 2003. Light scattering and light absorbance separated by extended multiplicative signal correction. Application to near-infrared transmission analysis of powder mixtures. Analytical Chemistry, Vol 75, pp 394-404.
Martens, M., Frøst, M.B., Martens, H. 2005. Consumer attitudes to health and pleasure – survey data studied by PLSR. Proc. PLS’05 Intl Symposium “PLS and related methods”. (Eds. Aluja, T., Casanovas, J., Vinzi, V.E., Morineau, A., Tenenhaus, M.) SPAD Groupe Test&Go), Vol pp 431-437.
Moen, B., Oust, A., Langsrud, Ø., Dorrell, N., Mardsen, G.L., Hinds, J., Kohler, A., Wren, B.W., Rudi, K. 2005. Explorative multifactor approach for investigating global survival mechanisms of Campylobacter jejuni under environmental conditions.Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Vol 71, 4, pp 2086-2094.
Måge, I., Næs, T. 2005. Split-plot design for mixture experiments with process variables: A comparison of design strategies. Chemolab, Vol 78, pp 81-95.
Måge, I., Næs, T. 2005. Split-plot regression models with both design and spectroscopic variables. Journal of Chemometrics, Vol 19, No 9, pp 521-531.
Segtnan, V.H., Mevik, B.-H., Isaksson, T., Næs, T. 2005. Low-cost approaches to robust temperature compensation in near infrared calibration and prediction situations. Applied Spectroscopy, Vol 59, No 6, pp 816-825.
Sulé-Suso, J., Skingsley, D., Sockalingum, G.D., Kohler, A., Kegelaer, G., Manfait, M., El Haj, A.J. 2005. FT-IR microspectroscopy as a tool to assess tumour response to chemotherapy. Vibrational Spectroscopy, Vol 38, (1-2),, pp 179-184.
Wold, J.P., Veberg, A., Nilsen, A.N., Iani, V., Juzenas, P., Moan, J. 2005. The role of naturally occurring chlorophyll and porphyrins in light-induced oxidation of dairy products. A study based on fluorescence spectroscopy and sensory analysis.International Dairy Journal, Vol 15, pp 343-353.
Bjørnstad, Å., Grønnerød, S., Mac Key, J., Tekauz, A., Crossa, J., Martens, H. 2004. Resistance to barley scald (Rhynchosporium secalis) in the Ethiopian donor lines ‘Steudelli’ and ‘Jet’, analyzed by Partial Least Squares Regression and interval mapping. Hereditas, Vol 141, pp 166-179.
Bjørnstad, Å., Westad, F., Martens, H. 2004. Analysis of genetic marker – phenotype relationships by jack-knifed partial least squares regression (PLSR). Hereditas, Vol 141, pp 149-165.
Færgestad, E.M., Flæte, N.E.S., Uhlen, A.K., Magnus, E.M., Hollung, K., Martens, H. 2004. Relationship between storage protein composition, protein content, growing season and protein quality of bread wheat flours. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, Vol 84, pp 877-886.
Gidskehaug, L.H., Stødkilde-Jørgensen, H., Martens, M., Martens, H. 2004. Bridge-PLS Regression: Two-block bilinear regression without deflation. Journal of Chemometrics, Vol 18, pp 208-215.
Hildrum, K.I., Narum, B., Westad, F., Wahlgren, N.M. 2004. In-line analysis of ground beef using a diode array NIR instrument on a conveyer belt. Journal of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, Vol 12, pp 367-376.
Jørgensen, K., Segtnan, V.H., Thyholt, K., Næs, T. 2004. A comparison of methods for analysing regression models with both spectral and designed variables. Journal of Chemometrics, Vol 18, No 10, pp 451-464.
Kihlberg, I., Johansson, L., Kohler, A., Risvik, E. 2004. Sensory qualities of whole wheat pan bread – influence of farming system, milling and baking technique. Journal of Cereal Science, Vol 39, 1, pp 67-84.
Kirschner, C., Ofstad, R., Skarpeid, H.-J., Høst, V., Kohler, A. 2004. Monitoring of denaturation processes in aged beef loin by FT-IR microspectroscopy. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Vol 52, 12,, pp 3920-3929.
Marquardt, B.J., Wold, J.P. 2004. Raman analysis of fish: A potential method for rapid quality screening. Journal of Food Science and Technology, Vol 37, pp 1-8.
Mevik, B.-H., Segtnan, V.H., Næs, T. 2004. Ensemble methods and partial least squares regression. Journal of Chemometrics, Vol 18, No 11,, pp 498-507.
Oust, A., Møretrø, T., Kirschner, C., Narvhus, J.A., Kohler, A. 2004. Evaluation of the robustness of FT-IR spectra of lactobacilli towards changes in the bacterial growth conditions. FEMS Microbiology Letters, Vol 239, pp 111-116.
Oust, A., Møretrø, T., Kirschner, C., Narvhus, J.A., Kohler, A. 2004. FT-IR spectroscopy for identification of closely related lactobacilli. Journal of Microbiological Methods, Vol 59, pp 149-162.
Pettersen, M.K., Nilsson, A., Espedal, A., Kohler, A. 2004. Prediction of Oxygen Transmission Rate for thermoformed trays. Packaging Technology and Science, Vol 17, pp 321-332.
Savytskyy, N., Kohler, A., Bauch, Sz., Blümel, R., Sirko, L. 2001. Parametric correlations of the energy levels of ray-splitting billiards. Physical Review E, Vol 64, 036211, pp 1-5.
Westad, F., Narum, B., Wahlgren, N.M., Hildrum, K.I. 2004. Removal of conveyor belt near infrared signals in in-line monitoring of proximal ground beef composition. Journal of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, Vol 12, pp 377-379.
Wold, A.-B., Holte, K., Baugerød, H., Haffner, K., Blomhoff, R., Rosenfeld, H.J. 2004. Colour of post-harvest ripened and vine ripened tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) as related to total antioxidant capacity and chemical composition. International Journal of Food Science & Technology, Vol 39, pp 295-302.
Wold, J.P., Marquardt, B.J., Dable, B.K., Robb, D., Hatlen, B. (2004) Rapid quantification of carotenoids and fat in Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar L.) by raman spectroscopy and chemometrics. Applied Spectroscopy, Vol 58, No 4, pp 395-403.
Andersen, C.M., Wold, J.P. 2003. On the fluorescence of muscle and connective tissue from cod and salmon. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Vol 51, pp 470-476.
Kohler, A., Enersen, G., Høst, V., Ofstad, R. 2003. Identification of fat, protein matrix and water/starch on microscopy images of sausages by a PCA based segmentation scheme. Scanning, Vol 25, pp 109-115.
Martens, H., Høy, M., Wise, B.M., Bro, R., Brockhoff, P.B. 2003. Pre-whitening of data by covariance-weighted pre-processing. Journal of Chemometrics, Vol 17, 3, pp 153-165.
Segtnan, V.H., Isaksson, T. 2003. Temperature, sample and time dependent structural characteristics of gelatine gels studied by near infrared spectroscopy. Food Hydrocolloids, Vol 18, pp 1-11.
Segtnan, V.H., Kvaal, K., Rukke, E.O., Schüller, R.B., Isaksson, T. 2003. Rapid assessment of physico-chemical properties of gelatine using near infrared spectroscopy. Food Hydrocolloids, Vol 17, 5, pp 585-592.
Skjervold, P.O., Wold, J.P., Taylor, R.G., Berge, P., Abouelkaram, S., Culioli, J., Dufour, E. 2003. Development of intrinsic fluorescence multispectral imagery specific for fat, connective tissue and myofibers in meat. Journal of Food Science, Vol 68, 4, pp 1161-1168.
Westad, F., Hersleth, M., Lea, P., Martens, H. 2003. Variable selection in PCA in sensory descriptive and consumer data. Food Quality and Preference, Vol 14, 5-6, pp 463-472.
Egelandsdal, B., Wold, J.P., Sponnich, A., Neegård, S., Hildrum, K.I. 2002. On attempts to measure the tenderness of Longissimus dorsi muscles using fluorescence emission spectra. Meat Science. Vol 60, pp 187-202.
Høy, M., Westad, F., Martens, H. 2002. Combining bilinear modeling and ridge regression. Journal of Chemometrics, Vol 16, 6, pp 313-318.
Kohler, A., Skaga, A., Hjelme, G., Skarpeid, H.-J. 2002. Sorting salted cod fillets by computer vision: a pilot study. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, Vol 36, pp 3-16.
Larsen, H., Kohler, A., Magnus, E.M. 2002. Predicting changes in oxygen concentration in the headspace of nitrogen flushed packages by the ambient oxygen ingress rate method. Packaging Technology and Science, Vol 15, 3, pp 139-147.
Wold, J.P., Jørgensen, K., Lundby, F. 2002. Non-destructive measurement of light-induced oxidation in dairy products by fluorescence spectroscopy and imaging. Journal of Dairy Science, 85, pp 1693-1704.
Wold, J.P., Mielnik, M., Pettersen, M.K., Aaby, K., Baardseth, P. 2002. Rapid assessment of rancidity in complex meat products by front face fluorescence spectroscopy. Journal of Food Science, Vol 67, 6, pp 2397-2404.
Kohler, A., Høst, V., Ofstad, R. 2001. Image analysis of particle dispersions in microscopy images of Cryo-sectioned sausages. Scanning, Vol 23, pp 165-174.
Martens, H., Høy, M., Westad, F., Folkenberg, D., Martens, M. 2001. Analysis of designed experiments by stabilised PLS Regression and jack-knifing. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory systems. Special issue: PLS methodology. Vol 58, pp 151-170.
Wold, J.P., Westad, F., Heia, K. (2001) Detection of parasites in cod fillets by using SIMCA classification in multispectral images in the visible and NIR region. Applied Spectroscopy. 55, 8, pp 1025-1033.
Larsen, H., Kohler, A., Magnus, E.M. 2000. Ambient oxygen ingress rate method – an alternative method to Ox-Tran for measuring oxygen transmission rate of whole packages. Packaging Technology and Science, Vol 13, pp 233-241.
Westad, F., Martens, H. 2000. Variable selection in NIR based on significance testing in Partial Least Squares Regression (PLSR). Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy, Vol 8, pp 117-124.
Wold, J.P., Kvaal, K. 2000. Mapping lipid oxidation in chicken meat by multispectral imaging of autofluorescence. Applied Spectroscopy, Vol 54, 6, pp 900-909.
A list of books and book chapters authored by researchers of our group.
Multivariate Calibration. Harald Martens, Tormod Næs.
Afseth, N.K., Böcker, U. 2010. Raman and Infrared imaging of foods. In: Raman, Infrared, and Near-Infrared Chemical Imaging, Slobodan Sasic and Yukihiro Ozaki John Wiley & Sons, Inc. pp 229-241 ISBN 978-0-470-38204-2
Kohler, A., Afseth, N.K., Jørgensen, K., Randby, Å., Martens, H. 2010. Quality analysis of milk by vibrational spectroscopy. In: Applications of Vibrational Spectroscopy in Food Science, Volume II, Chalmers, J.; Li-Chan, E.; Griffiths, P.R. John Wiley & Sons Ltd , Chichester, UK, pp 483 – 499 ISBN 978-0-470-74299-0
Kohler, A., Afseth, N.K., Martens, H. 2010. Chemometrics in biospectroscopy. In: Applications of Vibrational Spectroscopy in Food Science, Volume I, Chalmers, J.; Li-Chan, E.; Griffiths, P.R. John Wiley & Sons Ltd Chichester, UK pp 89 – 106 ISBN 978-0-470-74299-0
Sæbø, S., Martens, M., Martens, H. 2010. Three-block data modeling by endo- and exo-LPLS regression. In: Handbook of Partial Least Squares: Concepts, Methods and Applications., (Eds. V.E. Vinzi, W. Chin, J. Henseler, H. Wang), Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany. Germany ISBN 978-3-540-32825-4
Andersen, C.M., Wold, J.P., Engelsen, S.B. 2009. Chapter 15: Autofluorescence Spectroscopy in Food Analysis. In: Handbook of Food Analysis Instruments, Ed by S. Ötles, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group Boca Raton, Florida pp 347-364 ISBN 978-1-4200-4566-6 CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group
Færgestad, E.M., Langsrud, Ø., Høy, M., Hollung, K., Sæbø, S., Liland, K.H., Kohler, A., Giskehaug, L., Almergren, J., Anderssen, E., Martens, H. 2009. Analysis of megavariate data in functional genomics. In: Comprehensive Chemometrics: Chemical and Biochemical Data Analysis Four – Volum set, (eds Brown, S. Tauler, R., Walczak, B.) Elsevier, Volume 4, pp 221-278
Kohler, A., Zimonja, M.S., Segtnan, V.H., Martens, H. 2009. Standard Normal Variate, Multiplicative Signal Correction and Extended Multiplicative Signal Correction Preprocessing in Biospectroscopy In: Comprehensive Chemometrics – Chemical and biochemical data analysis, (Eds Walczak, B., Ferré, R.T., Brown, S.), Elsevier. Vol 2, pp 139-162 ISBN 978-0444527028
Segtnan, V.H., Hildrum, K.I., Wold, J.P. 2009. New methods for analysis of factors affecting meat eating quality (Chapter 21). In: Improving the sensory and nutritional quality of fresh meat, (Dds Kerry, J., Ledward, D.) Woodhead Publishing Ltd., Cambridge, UK, pp 519-537 ISBN 978-1-84569-343-5
Kohler, A., Hanafi, M., Bertrand, D., Janbu, A.O., Møretrø, T., Naterstad, K., Qannari, E.M., Martens, H. 2008. Interpreting several types of measurements in bioscience. In: Modern concepts in biomedical vibrational spectroscopy, Lasch, P. ISUP, Inc. dba Blackwell Publishing England pp 333-356 ISBN 978 0 470 22945 3
Martens, M., Tenenhaus, M., Vinzi, V.E., Martens, H. 2007. The use of partial least squares methods in new food product development. In: Consumer-Led Food Product Development, Ed. Hal MacFie Woodhead Publ. UK chapter 21; pp 492-523 ISBN 978-1-84569-072-4
Skrede, G., Wold, J.P. 2007. Color quality of salmon. In: Color Quality of Fresh and Processed Foods, (Eds R.E. Wrolstad, C. Culver) ACS Books, Washington pp 242-253 ISBN 978-0-8412-7419-8 American Chemical Society.
Isaksson, T., Segtnan, V.H. 2006. Meat and fish products. In: Near Infrared Spectroscopy in Food Science and Technology, (Eds. Y. Ozaki, A.A. Christy, W.F. McClure), John Wiley & Sons. pp 247-277. ISBN 0-471-67201-7.
Sivertsen, A., Lauritzsen, K., Veberg, A., Wold, J.P. 2006. Rapid assessment of storage quality of cliff-fish from saithe by fluorescence spectroscopy. In: Seafood research from fish to dish. Quality, safety and processing of wild and farmed fish, J.B. Luten, C. Jacobsen, K. Bekaert, A. Sæbø, J. Oehlenschläger, Wageningen Academic Publishers, pp 119-126 ISBN 10:90-8686-005-2 / 13:978-90-8686-005-0
Hildrum, K.I., Wold, J.P., Renou, J.-P., Segtnan, V.H., Dufour, E. 2005. New spectroscopic techniques for on-line monitoring of meat quality. In: Advanced Technologies for Meat Processing, (Eds: Nollet, L., Toldra, F.) Marcel Dekker, pp 87-123. ISBN 1-57444-587-1
Martens, H., Næs, T. 2001. Multivariate calibration by data compression. In: Near-Infrared Technology in the Agricultural and Food Industries (second edition), (Eds. Phil Williams and Karl Norris) American Association of Cereal Chemists, Minnesota, USA, pp 59-100. ISBN 1-891127-24-1.
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Click here to login From treating dogs to transporting tigers: A military veterinarian's duty
Pamela Martineau
Civilians who watch the nightly news might expect military veterinarians serving in Iraq and Afghanistan to spend the bulk of their time treating working dogs catastrophically injured by roadside bombs or shootings.
Not so, says U.S. Army Col. Kelly Mann, DVM, director of the Department of Defense Military Working Dog Veterinary Service. The majority of veterinary care given to dogs working in Iraq and Afghanistan is mundane, Mann says.
“We see far less catastrophic injuries of working dogs than you would imagine," Mann says. “The vast majority of the things we (handle) downrange are bruises, lacerations and deep ear cleaning.”
Military dogs in Iraq or Afghanistan support checkpoint operations, accompany infantry soldiers in sweeps for mines or improvised explosive devices and go out on patrol with soldiers. It’s not that the dogs never suffer severe injuries, Mann says; it just doesn’t happen as frequently as civilians might imagine.
“They are basically exposed to the same things soldiers are exposed to,” he says.
Roughly 3,000 military canines work around the globe — as explosives-detection dogs, patrol dogs, guard dogs and drug-sniffing dogs — in all branches of the services. Their medical care is in the hands of the U.S. Army active duty and reserve Veterinary Corps, composed of roughly 780 veterinarians, veterinary warrant officers and animal-care specialists — workers similar to veterinary technicians.
Not well-known to civilians, the Veterinary Corps has a broad purview that includes:
Training dog handlers in first-response care.
Providing medical attention for military contractors’ working dogs, which serve the same mission as their government-owned counterparts.
Monitoring soldiers’ food-supply safety abroad. Members of the corps check shipments of food and inspect food-processing plants, slaughterhouses and farms from which the military procures provisions to help guard against food-borne disease.
Treating animals in disaster zones such as the World Trade Center after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.
Looking after horses used in military ceremonies.
Providing health care to pets of military personnel and retirees.
“We’re really very diverse,” says Lt. Col Madonna Higgins, DVM, assistant to the chief, U.S. Army Veterinary Corps. “There is such a variety to my job that there is little chance for burnout.”
U.S. Army Maj. Nicole Chevalier, DVM, served in Iraq in 2008 and 2009 as deputy commander of the 64th Medical Detachment. The veterinarians, warrant officers and technicians in her unit were spread out in 17 locations throughout the country.
Chevalier’s unit provided veterinary support to the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coalition forces. Like other units in the Veterinary Corps, the veterinarians vaccinated working dogs and cared for them when they were ill or injured.
Monitoring the health of military dogs provides clues to authorities about conditions that might impact troops’ health, as well. “Say an animal were in an area and it picked up an infectious disease,” says Higgins. “That would alert us there may be a problem.”
For example, military veterinarians were able to track the spread of leishmaniasis — a parasitic disease transmitted by the bite of the sand fly — by testing military dogs for the condition. When they saw dogs infected by the parasite, they notified military physicians to watch for human cases.
Another disease they’re on alert for is rabies. “Rabies is a real problem in Iraq,” says Chevalier, noting that during the first 10 months of her deployment, her unit logged 66 animal-bite cases.
Chevalier said she and her staff launched a public-awareness campaign for Iraqi civilians about the risk of contracting rabies from stray animals. They were careful to word the pamphlets so as not to make people fearful of dogs and other animals, yet persuade them to exercise caution.
“They’ve never dealt with dogs much before,” Chevalier says. “People don’t grow up with dogs as pets in Iraq.”
Sometimes military veterinarians provide care to local animals in countries where they are deployed. In Iraq, military veterinarians helped to rebuild the Baghdad Zoo in a mission dubbed “Operation Flying Tiger.” Stabilizing the zoo and re-opening it was viewed as a way to help normalize life for civilians. Part of the job for the veterinarians involved escorting two Bengal tiger cubs, valued at $200,000, to Baghdad from the North Carolina Conservation Center, which donated the rare animals.
Chevalier and her team also consulted for the Baghdad Police College’s Canine Directorate, helping the police improve care of their explosives-detection dogs. The American veterinarians worked with Iraqi veterinarians, who Chevalier says have skills equivalent to those of veterinary technicians in the United States.
“They wanted to learn, but they didn’t have the expertise or resources to train themselves,” she says.
One case Chevalier remembers vividly from her time in Iraq is that of a military working dog that came down with a Babesia infection. The dog became increasingly ill and was started on IVs at a clinic for soldiers.
“He just continued to go downhill so we called in a helicopter and medevaced him to a well-equipped veterinary hospital in Balad,” Chevalier recalls.
A CT scan on the dog revealed a mass on his spleen. The dog developed multiple organ dysfunction syndrome and ultimately had to be euthanized.
Although the case ended badly, Chevalier was touched by the high level of care her team was able to give the animal despite the austere conditions. “We were able to give him the appropriate level of care and alleviate his pain and suffering,” she says.
Serving in far-flung locations can pose unique challenges for accessing medical information. U.S. Army Capt. Jeff LaHuis, DVM, who recently returned from a tour of duty in Kuwait serving in the 719th Medical Detachment/Veterinary Services, credits the Veterinary Information Network (VIN), an online community for the profession, with providing easy access to valuable information.
“Books are large and heavy, so it was difficult to carry them,” LaHuis says. “However, an Internet connection was almost always available… This access to VIN greatly enhanced the quality of medicine that we could do downrange. The ability to perform research and stay current with new medical advances was what I appreciated the most.”
(A membership organization supported by subscriptions, VIN provides free access to veterinarians and veterinary technicians in combat zones. Those serving domestically or in non-combat zones abroad are granted access for a reduced rate.)
When a working dog is injured in the line of duty in Iraq or Afghanistan, military veterinarians follow the same medical protocol as for injured soldiers: the dog is treated on-site by a specially trained first responder, usually the dog’s handler; then the dog is transported to an in-field veterinary clinic. If the injuries can’t be adequately treated at the clinic, the dog is medevaced to a larger veterinary hospital, usually out of country.
The hub for the treatment of military working dogs is the Holland Military Working Dog Hospital at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. The hospital is named after Lt. Col. Dan Holland, a military veterinarian who was killed by an improvised explosive device in Iraq in 2006.
Col. Mann, a close friend of Holland, serves as director of the hospital. He described it as a fully-staffed, fully-equipped facility designed to treat any illness or injury a dog might suffer serving in or out of the United States. Its veterinarians are board-certified internists, surgeons, radiologists, epidemiologist and other specialists.
“Anywhere in the world that definitive care of a military working dog outstrips the care of a local facility — we can refer them back here,” Mann says. “It’s all dogs all day.”
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Put Aside Those Toys: Your Kids Want the Real Deal
Jane Kelly, jak4g@virginia.edu
Think back to when you were a young child. It is deep summer and you’re playing outside on a hot afternoon.
Your parents offer you two options: You and your friend can make a pretend lemonade stand and sell the pretend lemony drink for pretend money. The other option is the real deal: real, tangy lemonade and real money. Which would you choose?
The answer is pretty clear, right? You’d want to do the real thing.
Pretend play is a quintessential activity of early childhood and parents fit out toy rooms in the belief they will unleash their child’s creativity and development. But University of Virginia researchers have found youngsters overwhelmingly prefer real activities to pretend ones. What’s more, they have found little data to support the widely held notion that pretend play is a crucial element of childhood.
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“Pretend play is absolutely fascinating. I adore it as an activity,” UVA psychology professor Angeline Lillard said. “But over the years it seemed like the research wasn’t as strong as people were giving it credit for, in terms of showing how pretending might help development, so we did a big review and really ended up quite discouraged about the state of the evidence there.”
Lillard, graduate student Jessica Taggart, and lab coordinator Megan Heise decided to dig deeper to see what young children would do, given the choice between pretending and doing real activities.
The trio of researchers presented 100 middle-class children, aged 3 through 6, with nine different scenarios. Would they rather pretend to bake cookies or really bake cookies? Would they rather pretend to go fishing or really go fishing? Would they like to pretend to feed a baby doll or really feed a baby?
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“What we found was that children overwhelmingly chose the real option,” Taggart said. “They picked pretend for only one of nine activities.”
The preference for real activities increased from age 3 to age 4, then remained steady through age 6.
Why is this distinction important? “I’m really interested in how children choose to spend their time when they are the ones getting to choose how that time is spent,” Heise said.
“I think one of the big questions is, if we have this attitude toward pretend play in the United States ─ that it is important, and children should be actively engaged in it ─ is it something they are actually motivated to do on their own? Or is it something we are showing them to do? [We’re] really getting down to what children want to spend their time doing rather than just presenting them with the activities that we think are appropriate.”
Lillard said real activities also give children a sense of accomplishment.
“There is this issue of self-efficacy – What is helping a child to feel like they have a role in the world, that they can do something in the world?” she asked. “If we always relegate them to the pretend kitchen and the pretend things, we aren’t giving them the opportunity to experience doing things for real, and that might really do a lot for a child.
“In fact, the children told us that the reason they wanted to do things for real was because they wanted to accomplish things. And when they said they wanted to pretend, it was usually because they were afraid of doing the real thing – they felt they weren’t able to do the real.”
Lillard said one father to whom the study was described balked at the notion and said “Kids just don’t know what’s good for them.”
“I think it’s important for parents to get the message children are sending here. Think about it: If you have this choice, if you have the time and the ability to help your children do it for real, the real experience might really be meaningful for them.”
And it’s not all just fun and games. In the group’s paper on the research, just published in the journal Developmental Science, they write that in 2016, more than $20 billion was spent on children’s toys.
“The toy industry is less than 100 years old and arose in tandem with the notion that play is ‘essential for development,’ an idea endorsed by middle-class American parents and the American Academy of Pediatrics,” reads the introduction of the paper.
When given a choice, preschool-age children overwhelmingly preferred real activities to their pretend equivalents.
Children’s preference for real activities appeared between 3 and 4 years of age, then was constant through age 6.
Children said they preferred real activities because they are functional, useful and provide novel experiences.
When children preferred pretend activities, the most-cited reasons were being afraid of the real thing, lack of ability, and lack of permission.
Lillard said all this pretend play crowds out doing real activities. “Montessori [education] is an exception to that that – it’s all real stuff and there’s not pretend stuff” in the classrooms, she said.
But when you walk into people’s homes and playrooms, they are usually set up with lots of toys and things to play with. “But how often are children invited to come in and help prepare [food in the] kitchen? How often are the children being taught how to clean their own room and how to clean the bathroom and things that they are able to do and they would get some sort of self-efficacy from doing?”
Still, the notion of pretend play is deeply entrenched in American society. “We are excessive in our toys,” Lillard said. “In other countries, they don’t have whole play rooms and all these things. We go overboard.”
University News Associate Office of University Communications
jak4g@virginia.edu (434) 243-9935
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A71 Entertainment Inc. is pleased to announce the US Premiere of Trouble in the Garden. Written and directed by Roz Owen with the key collaboration of Raven Sinclair, it stars acclaimed Canadian actress Cara Gee alongside Jon Cor, Fiona Reid, Frank Moore, Kelly Van der Burg, and Wesley French. From its world premiere at Cinefest Sudbury this past fall and official selection at the Whistler Film Festival in December, Trouble in the Garden began its Canadian theatrical rollout February 15th in Toronto and has screened in 18 cities across Canada. The film’s U.S. premiere screening at the 20th Annual Newport Beach Film Festival is 6:00 p.m., May 2nd, at Edwards Big Newport 6.
Raven, (Gee) a radical eco-activist, is jailed for protesting development on disputed Indigenous land. Long estranged from her adoptive family, she never imagined her brother Colin would be the one to bail her out. Compelled to stay at his suburban home, she discovers he's in real estate; pre-selling houses on the very land she's been trying to save. Adopted, disowned, and now under house arrest, this is a story of betrayal and reckoning - with love, land, and blood.
“Her direction is bold, the performances are brave and the result is a film no one is likely to forget.”
Thom Ernst, Original Cin (February 14, 2019)
“A tightly written family drama that features an electrifying performance by Cara Gee. Give Trouble in the Garden 4 kernels of popcorn out of 5.”
Todd James, Minute at the Movies on Global News, (March 1, 2019)
“An emotional new drama about one of Canada’s darkest times with its Indigenous population”
Anne Brodie, What She Said (February 14, 2019)
Raven Sinclair, a national expert on the 60's Scoop, leading activist for Scoop survivors and Indigenous child welfare and a scoop survivor, was a key collaborator in this project. Sinclair is Nehiyaw (Cree) from Treaty 4. A professor of social work, her work on issues of Indigenous child welfare, adoption, historical trauma, and recovery was kindled by her experiences. In addition to her public advocacy, public speaking and published academic writings, she has also produced the documentary film A Truth to be Told about the removal of children from Splatsin First Nation (British Columbia) during the 1960s and is writing a play about Indigenous child welfare and intergenerational trauma. Raven is a mother to a teenage daughter who is the center of her universe.
Writer/director Roz Owen is an award-winning filmmaker born in the UK and now living in Toronto. Roz earned her BFA at NSCAD University in Halifax. Later, as a Director Resident at the Canadian Film Centre, she made her Genie-nominated short drama, You Love Me I Hate You. In 2006 WIFT (Women in Film & Television Toronto) awarded Roz the Kodak New Vision Fellowship for her writing. In 2008 her arts documentary short, Community Matters, received the Best Film award from the OAAG (Ontario Association of Art Galleries). This led to her 2011 feature documentary, Portrait of Resistance: The Art & Activism of Carole Conde & Karl Beveridge, which has gained critical acclaim across Canada and internationally. Trouble in the Garden is her first narrative feature.
"Cara Gee gives a powerful performance in this timely and affecting film that explores universal themes of anger, identity, betrayal, and forgiveness in the context of one of the most critical issues impacting Canada today," says A71 Entertainment President Chad Maker. "We are proud to share this film, which offers a window onto history that must be remembered, with Canadian audiences."
Trouble in the Garden is produced by Jennifer Mesich and executive produced by Jim Miller, Raven Sinclair, and Bill Marks.
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#OER16 Day 1 – Wikipedia, Shakespeare, Libraries & Gardens…
Edited by sthomas
It’s a gorgeous day in Glasgow when I board the train for two days at #OER16. It’s an equally gorgeous day in Edinburgh when I arrive, and there’s a bit of an odd feeling that goes with spending two days inside a conference centre when it’s so sunny. Thankfully, Arthur’s Seat is within viewing distance, and with a conference programme that’s more packed than a packed thing, I’m not grudging it at all..
Kicking us off, @catherinecronin‘s plenary strikes me with the discussion of the role of social justice in, and the effect of privilege on, open. It’s a prescient reminder that open (however we define that) isn’t a panacea, and isn’t exempt from the effects of IRL inequality – certainly, working with Wikipedia has taught me that.
On the subject of Wikipedia…
I’m the Wikimedian in Residence at Museums Galleries Scotland, I have been since January 2015, will be until the end of May this year, and I’m presenting on the first day of #OER16. I’m going to be generally enthusiastic about the first 12 months of the project, reflecting on what we achieved, didn’t achieve, and the data gathered as part of the project evaluation. You can read the report in full on my Wiki project page here. I’m here with three other Residents, which frankly is more than a little exciting… I don’t think we’re ever been in a room all together before. (In case you were wondering, the appropriate collective noun is “chaos”…)
I came to the world of open as a Wikimedian, via fundraising and event management. My project is/was supposed to focus on GLAMs and the cultural sector, but increasingly I’ve had contact with Universities. So it’s interesting to see then that @lcromptonreid, our CEO, says during her presentation on Tuesday morning that one of the focus areas for Wiki UKs new strategy will be education. (One of my teacher friends responds to the tweet with cheers.) And as @jimgroom says next morning, Wikipedia is the greatest single open education tool the world has ever seen.
At lunchtime my colleague @emcandre (resident at the University of Edinburgh) runs a wiki training session, and then I nip off to hear @gillhamilton from the National Library of Scotland (which hosted Ally Crockford, Scotland’s first ever Wikimedian in Residence) discuss their Gaelic Digital Assistant project. @scallyjj, also of NLS, is the closing plenary this afternoon, talking about the Library’s open policies. NLS is an example I often use when talking to GLAMs about digital and open policy – they really are doing great work.
The afternoon sessions also include @emhaston talking about the Royal Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh’s herbarium collection – this is a truly wonderful collection, and a great example of how digitisation and preservation go hand in hand. There’s rich potential in the interface between heritage and education – open practice without content is only half a story. The involvement of organisations like NLS and RBGE are absolutely crucial if we’re to effect real culture change in the culture and heritage sectors. It’s a sector that I’ve found to be hugely enthusiastic about the possibilities of open, but which often lacks the skills or confidence to take it forward. We absolutely need these kinds of organisations to lead the way.
And it’s on that note that we come to @OldFortunatus’ closing discussion, which touches on the recent discovery of a Shakespeare First Folio on Bute. The Bodleian Library, it turns out, sold off their first editions way back in the day, when a third edition became available…
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Better adherence with once-daily antiretroviral regimens: A meta-analysis
Jean Jacques Parienti, David Bangsberg, Renaud Verdon, Edward M. Gardner
Once-daily regimens of antiretroviral therapy are simpler than other regimens, but whether such regimens are associated with better adherence to treatment is controversial. We performed a meta-analysis of 11 randomized, controlled trials (total number of subjects, 3029), which revealed that the adherence rate was better with once-daily regimens (+2.9%; 95% confidence interval, 1.0%-4.8%; P < .003) than with twice-daily regimens. This modest effect was more pronounced at the time of treatment initiation and for regimens for which all medications were taken once per day.
Parienti, J. J., Bangsberg, D., Verdon, R., & Gardner, E. M. (2009). Better adherence with once-daily antiretroviral regimens: A meta-analysis. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 48(4), 484-488. https://doi.org/10.1086/596482
Better adherence with once-daily antiretroviral regimens : A meta-analysis. / Parienti, Jean Jacques; Bangsberg, David; Verdon, Renaud; Gardner, Edward M.
Parienti, JJ, Bangsberg, D, Verdon, R & Gardner, EM 2009, 'Better adherence with once-daily antiretroviral regimens: A meta-analysis', Clinical Infectious Diseases, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 484-488. https://doi.org/10.1086/596482
Parienti JJ, Bangsberg D, Verdon R, Gardner EM. Better adherence with once-daily antiretroviral regimens: A meta-analysis. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2009 Feb 15;48(4):484-488. https://doi.org/10.1086/596482
Parienti, Jean Jacques ; Bangsberg, David ; Verdon, Renaud ; Gardner, Edward M. / Better adherence with once-daily antiretroviral regimens : A meta-analysis. In: Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2009 ; Vol. 48, No. 4. pp. 484-488.
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Is It Time For Your GL to Call It Quits? A Historical View.
Posted on May 9, 2019 September 10, 2019 by theconductor1819
The number we keep seeing is 200. We see this number from research conducted by Dedicated Members for Change (God bless ye!), and also mentioned by others on various Facebook posts and direct messages some of us receive.
What’s the number 200? The consensus seems to be, that if your jurisdiction has fewer than 200 members, you’ve pretty well lost the battle to continue Odd Fellowship in your state–and IOOF in your state is not likely to recover. According to some, it means your Grand Lodge has deteriorated to a point where it’s only a shell, and the few lodges you have left are in worse shape than that. You are probably not going to save the Order and so now it’s time to prepare for an orderly surrender of your charter.
So, things being what they are, what’s next? What do you do with all your Grand Lodge records? Well, you’re SUPPOSED to surrender them to SGL…
BUT, as a person who works in the history profession, I keep hearing this horror story: “Most of our district records are kept in Kenny’s garage. He’s 88 now, but his garage is in great shape.” Well, I hate to break it to you, and I’m not knocking Kenny. But, Kenny is gonna pass on to the great lodge in the sky soon, and his kids are going to THROW EVERY LODGE AND GRAND LODGE RECORD BOOK IN THE TRASH when they clean out Kenny’s belongings.
I need you to think about that for a moment.
Is this where Odd Fellowship is headed in your jurisdiction?
With less than 200 members, there’s an excellent chance you’ve already lost Odd Fellowship in your state. And now, there’s the possibility of losing a record of the contributions of thousands of Odd Fellows when Kenny’s kids throw dozens of lodge books on a garbage heap.
These are records of brothers who sat up nights with yellow fever and tuberculosis victims at great peril to their own lives; records of brothers who buried deceased widows and orphans during the 1917 flu outbreak. The records of Odd Fellows and Rebekahs who crossed the lines during the American Civil War to meet with other others to help end the conflict, help the wounded, or bury the dead. Records of all those foster kids we’ve helped– no one will know who they were. Records of community floods, tornadoes, fires, and earthquakes where our brothers stepped up and did what was right: they helped.
They helped.
I’ve looked through dozens and dozens of record books of defunct lodges, and it’s stunning that each book contains not only a historical outline of that lodge, but a history of entire communities. One may go through these books and discover many important events that occurred in a community. Life in small communities which no longer exist, life in communities torn by natural disasters, disease, and violence. Life in communities where powerful leaders were raised or lived, people like General and President Ulysses Grant, President Franklin Roosevelt, President William McKinley, and Frederick Douglas. Descriptions of parades and community celebrations. These bits of information combined with authentic historical research can teach us much about life in the United States. It’s all there, in our record books.
Historians call records like ours primary source material. “In the study of history as an academic discipline, a primary source is an artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time under study” (wiki). Historians use primary sources to develop a narrative of a historical period under study. That’s a main difference between a real historian and someone who is a consumer of history. The consumer reads a history book or watches history in a documentary. The historian compiles, then tries to make sense of 700 primary sources that all somehow describe a 30 minute time span during the disastrous “Triangle Factory Fire,” which killed 146 garment workers in 1911.
(BTW: If your Grand Lodge isn’t surrendering its charter, you may be able to donate IOOF items to archives, museums, etc., and get free publicity for it)
In most instances, lodge records must be transferred to the Grand Lodge when a lodge folds. When a Grand Lodge surrenders its charter most of the records must go to SGL too. But, a Grand Lodge that is surrendering a charter should also consider donating as many records as practical to local and state historical societies, state archives, museums, and even universities. You must get the approval of SGL.
A donation must be worked out BEFORE your jurisdiction actually folds, not after. One cannot simply walk up out of the blue to a historical society, museum, or state archive and say “Hey, we want to dump 150 years of records on you.” Each of these groups has a specific set of requirements they have to fulfill before they can accept items. Each group
may only be able to accept records of certain years or from certain communities, for example. They’ll most likely want to go through them and if they want them, they’ll have to work out storage and transportation issues, so it can take a while.
They may not want them. And, if your Grand Lodge never tried to promote itself and be a leading voice for the distressed in your state, there’s a hellava good chance HISTORIANS won’t even know about the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, so you may have to explain it to them. I’d also like to point out that a lot of the historians I work with had never heard of Odd Fellows, which says a lot about how badly the Order conducted itself throughout the years: an organization that once had members who were president of the country had never been noticed by historians.
So please, don’t further disfavor our ancient brethren. Letting the Order sink into insignificance in your jurisdiction is calamitous. Allowing our brother’s heroic efforts to languish in obscurity by not donating what you can to local historians, is unconscionable.
“Lest we forget.”– Rudyard Kipling
Scott Moye is an award-winning history educator and collector of Arkansas folklore. He grew up on a cotton farm and is currently a museum worker. Hobbies include: old house restoration, writing, amateur radio, Irish traditional music, archery, craft beer, old spooky movies, and street performance. He is a member of Marshall Lodge #1, in Marshall, Arkansas, and a founder of Heart In Hand Blog. He currently resides in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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wireless headphones:
- buzzing interference when someone is using a cell phone inside the apartment; and
- getting someone else's telephone conversation while trying to fine-tune the signal to get a roughly equal amount of noise to counteract the aforementioned buzzing interference.
If the phone conversation I tuned in was more interesting than a couple of guys talking about football and sitting on the patio, it might have been entertaining.
My trusty old Koss TD-61 headphones delivered consistently better sound. Unfortunately, Laurel pulled a wire out of them earlier this year. I might be able to get them repaired under the limited lifetime warranty, but I'm not getting my hopes up prematurely.
I'd really like to replace my wired headphones but I don't have enough money. If someone would like to trade, I'd like a pair of <$30 wired headphones with an 8-10' cord and closed ear cushions. In return, you'll get a factory-refurbished set of RCA WHP150 wireless headphones and base. (They didn't come with a pair of Ni-Cad batteries so you'll have to provide your own.) Make me an offer.", "url": "https://oddharmonic.livejournal.com/252176.html", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/sign.png" }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Melissa, starry-eyed soy-lovin' Expatriated Zulu", "image": "https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/3140026/554743" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Journal oddharmonic", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://oddharmonic.livejournal.com", "contentUrl": "https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/123778330/554743" } } }
Mood: blah
Music: Conjure One - Extraordinary Way (Antillas Mix - C1 Radio Edit)
Want to trade for a pair of wireless headphones? Make me an offer.
Two things that really annoy me about RCA WHP150 wireless headphones:
I'd really like to replace my wired headphones but I don't have enough money. If someone would like to trade, I'd like a pair of <$30 wired headphones with an 8-10' cord and closed ear cushions. In return, you'll get a factory-refurbished set of RCA WHP150 wireless headphones and base. (They didn't come with a pair of Ni-Cad batteries so you'll have to provide your own.) Make me an offer.
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Posted in Uncategorized by Flavor on February 9, 2018
I’ve been hearing murmurs about it so I finally googled “where and when are the Winter Olympics this year”. To my surprise, they start today. TODAY! That should be very exciting for some people. I am continuing to stick to my boycott of the Olympics, first prompted by San Dawg at least one, but possibly two, Olympics ago. The reason? No real reason. I guess I just don’t relate to any of the sports. Especially the winter nonsense. I still believe the Olympics are televised mostly for housewives who dig the 20 minute human interest story that precedes each 2 minute event.
My prediction is that North Korea does some crazy shit to disrupt something during this 3 week event. I’ll be in Reno for my 50th during the final week. Maybe I’ll find a way to bet on that….
Fanfest is this weekend! No, I’m not going. Neither is Kruk. He was on the radio yesterday with Murph and Mac who were trying to hype fanfest. Kruk buzz killed that by saying he wasn’t going. Said he had a cold and didn’t want to get anyone sick. lol. He had all winter to come up with a better excuse than that.
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zumiee said, on February 9, 2018 at 6:37 am
“Housewives”? What is this, 1958?
Flavor said, on February 9, 2018 at 6:56 am
i’ll take it my dig on human interest stories touched a nerve.
Those are indeed annoying, and the network has gotten the message, and trimmed them down a lot in recent Olympics.
Btw- one of the unhappiest women in the U.S.:
unca_chuck said, on February 9, 2018 at 2:42 pm
That is running backwards
Bumgarner will be at Fanfest for the first time in a few years.
alleykat69 said, on February 9, 2018 at 6:56 am
It’s all about the curling competition baby! The intensity in the competitors eyes 👀 and the sweeping of the brooms lol to line up a winner in the circle ⭕️ just epic! Hell even Vernon Davis did it once though he didn’t get to the medal rounds lol 😂
Melania’s dream….
willedav said, on February 9, 2018 at 7:21 am
I think co-op of Koreas is best thing to happen in long time and hopefully bodes well for peace there.
It’s too bad NHL backed off allowing players to play. I mean best from all over the world, esp Canada, aren’t allowed to take part? A Shark, defenseman M-E Vlasic, wanted to go but his lawyers talked him out it, telling him league might have kicked him out.
sandog said, on February 9, 2018 at 7:55 am
I have been looking forward to totally ignoring the Olympics once again.
that was the sign I needed. Thank you. With you.
reading blogger comments on MLBTR re: Davish/JD, one guy says, “I don’t even care where these guys sign, I just want baseball to start.” Yeah!
OK, but what’s really more annoying…..the Olympics, or people that brag about how much they ignore the Olympics?
i think the Olympics is far more prevalent, thus, more annoying.
snarkk said, on February 9, 2018 at 9:14 am
I’m OK with Olympics in a “meh” kind of way. I still think one of the most exciting sports moments in the fairly recent past was Franz Klammer’s gold medal downhill run in the ’76 Innsbruck olympics. The dude was on the edge the entire run. Definition of balls out sports. Looked like he was about to wipe out half a dozen times, but brought it home in his home country where skiing is basically the national sport, other than right wing politics…
Yeah that was cool, though I was always more of an Ingemar Stenmark guy when I was a kid.
alleykat69 said, on February 9, 2018 at 10:41 am
I was for the underdog “Eddie the flying Eagle 🦅 “
Hell he even got a movie out of it which wasn’t bad..
Flavor said, on February 9, 2018 at 11:37 am
Huge archive find! Photos from the first @Warriors game in S.F. in 1962.
Fans in suits and ties, Joe Rosenthal behind the lens and Wilt tossing dudes aside like he's playing against children. See them all => https://t.co/o4FjOpuq9r pic.twitter.com/bcIAA4VSEY
— Peter Hartlaub (@peterhartlaub) February 9, 2018
alleykat69 said, on February 9, 2018 at 12:07 pm
Rocking the Chuck Taylor’s Nice!!
Macdog said, on February 9, 2018 at 12:21 pm
Giants sign Derek Holland to a minor-league deal. He was not very good last season.
Might as well bring back Al Holland Who was pretty good back in the days..
Hey don’t forget the Mahre brothers Phil and Steve. Those guys were cool. As was Bill Johnson. He skied much like Klammer. On the razor’s edge most of the time. Saw him ski when the world cup came to Aspen in my ski bumming days living in a van down by the river. He was ahead by a full second when he crashed near the finish. Sad story around his attempted comeback and horrific injury. He died a coupe years ago./
Winter Olympics to me are head and shoulders better than the summer games. Too much corporate bullshit, care of the LA olympics, and care of Peter Ueberroth.
zumiee said, on February 9, 2018 at 3:31 pm
Romo gets a 2018 gig.
“Veteran reliever Sergio Romo and the Rays have agreed to a one-year Major League contract, a source confirmed to MLB.com’s Jesse Sanchez. The club has not yet confirmed the deal, which is pending a physical.
Romo began 2017 slowly by recording a 6.12 ERA in 25 innings for the Dodgers before being traded to the Rays on July 22. The 34-year-old dominated with Tampa Bay, going 2-0 with a 1.47 ERA in 30 2/3 frames.
An All-Star with the Giants in 2013, Romo is 35-27 with a 2.69 ERA over 495 1/3 career innings. He is a three-time World Series champion, with all three titles coming during his nine seasons with San Francisco.
Romo is likely to serve as the bridge to Tampa Bay closer Alex Colome.”
alleykat69 said, on February 9, 2018 at 4:43 pm
Just hope the bridge doesn’t collapse..
But I’m pulling for him,Romo will always be a good Giant…
Huh. Didn’t know he bounced back with the Rays.
Flavor said, on February 9, 2018 at 5:05 pm
SF left-hander Madison Bumgarner looked extremely skinny Friday as numerous Giants gathered at AT&T Park for Saturday's FanFest."I always worked hard but if there's anything I would say I did differently was maybe (I) worked a little harder this year," said Bumgarner.
— Chris Haft/SF Giants (@sfgiantsbeat) February 10, 2018
djloo27 said, on February 9, 2018 at 6:04 pm
Maybe he was trying to inspire the wife…
lol! Solid gold AGAIN! (Twinner woulda hated this one)
Woulda crucified me. He was Cammie Blackstone’s only friend in the pre-Amy G days…
gianthead said, on February 9, 2018 at 6:19 pm
Have not checked in most of week and even with the free agents (has Dyson signed anywhere? At this rate he could sign for the minimum, but I think if his price is dropping and willing to take something like $3 mill, I would be up to giving him a 3 year deal thay gave him something $6 -$7 mill the following 2 years) and we may not agree on the word collusion.
5 years for JD Martinez at $125 million would make me say where the hell is the bottom line. But how often have we seen in the past, such as when the DBacks came out of nowhere to sign Greinke, another team jump on a player like Martinez to swoop in on a contentious situation like what is unfolding with Martinez and the Red Sox and if not try to up the offer at least go for something like 3 years and $90.
I call that situation if not collusion at least highly suspicious…and who cares if I think it is collusion or not but the baseball players certainly smell what the ownership is trying to do….
pawliekokonuts said, on February 9, 2018 at 6:38 pm
I can’t recall watching one second of the last 4 or 5 summer or winter Olympics.
then you should join the boycott. If San Dawg or I see even one second of the Winter Olympics, even by accident, we have to text the other and apologize. That’s the text pact we made today.
I think they’re every 2 years now. Was much more of a novelty when they were every 4 years and coincided with Presidential election years…
snarkk said, on February 9, 2018 at 6:52 pm
Still every 4. Winter and summer trade off every 2 years on the rota. The Olympic committee members can’t go more than a year without some bribes and paid for junkets and floozies…
In brew pub watching 4 dudes on MLB tv standing on a stage together just shooting shit on the Oejtani kid signed by angels. Looks totally dumb. Does this happen all the time on MLB TV?…
There are a lot of good things on the MLB Network on a daily basis. Not everything they do is a winner, though. And I’m not thrilled to see Girardi added as a pundit. Just never dug his act for some reason.
Does SF, if playing well, get some run on MLB TV or dissed in favor of east coast teams and LA?..
I think the Giants have always gotten a fair shake from the MLB Network. I don’t see much bias in their shows.
In their recent special show The Top 10 Starting Pitchers Right Now, they had Bum at #6 which I thought was very cool.
Name of the day, from pebble beach tourney, a pro golfer:
Tyrone van Aswegen…
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willedav said, on February 9, 2018 at 8:37 pm
Thx for that link to Wilt as a Warrior. I barely remember those days tho I do recall Nate Thurmond as young guy on team before they traded wilt to Philly. I still think it is amazing wilt played the entire game, all 48 minutes running end to end as a post player, with no TV timeouts either. One season he did it for the entire 80 game schedule, every single minute/every single game.
Wilt is under-appreciated because he’s no longer around, and he was always under the shadow of Russell and the Celtics. If Wilt had a top supporting cast for a dozen years like Russel had, Wilt would have won a handful or more titles, too. In the twilight of his career in ’71-72 he was a critical piece of that legendary Lakers squad that won 33 straight and the title. He played in EVERY game of the 82 reg season games that year, averaged 15 PPG, nearly 19 boards, and 4.5 assists. And, played an average of 42 minutes a game, more than any other of the starters, none of whom averaged into the 40 min range. In his prime versus any modern day centers, he would have dominated most of them. Wilt at 28 v. Shaq at 28? No contest, Wilt with his strength and agility would have dealt on Shaq and frustrated him defensively.
Depending on what I read and the mood I’m in, my top 5 NBA players list is changeable. But, Wilt is always in there somewhere. So, tonight:
Wilt
Can’t even argue with that…
You can probably argue with my second 5. But, it changes, too. Sometimes I put Kobe in here, he was a stud on defense. His ball hogging just turns me off on him, though. I’m not figuring in his off court issues, nor for anybody else, either. I’m trying to imagine a 7 game series between both of these top 5 squads. I didn’t pick the top 5 as a team or by position, just players. So, Wilt would have to play power forward, Kareem at center. A young Wilt could easily play a power forward. Series would be awesome, but I think Team 1 wins in 6 …
Olajuwon
Wilt caught grief for winning “only” two NBA championships. It was pretty ridiculous.
sandog said, on February 10, 2018 at 7:22 am
I saw an interview wiith Wilt where they asked him his all time team. He said he went along with the prevailing view and picked Oscar and West at guards, but he strayed from some of the traditional forwards and went with Elvin Hayes and Rick Barry. As for center, he flashed a big smile and said “you’re looking at him!”
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OPP officer violated passenger’s rights at RIDE checkpoint
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is a bill of rights entrenched in the Constitution of Canada. The Charter guarantees certain political rights to Canadian citizens and civil rights of everyone in Canada from the policies and actions of all areas and levels of government. It is designed to unify Canadians around a set of principles that embody those rights.
by Thomas » Mon Aug 26, 2013 4:35 am
OPP officer violated passenger’s rights at RIDE checkpoint, appeal court rules
BY ANDREW SEYMOUR, OTTAWA CITIZEN AUGUST 25, 2013
OTTAWA — An OPP officer’s decision to ask for identification from a back-seat passenger during a RIDE checkpoint was a violation of the passenger’s Charter rights, an appeal court has confirmed.
A Superior Court judge upheld Ontario Court Justice Robert Selkirk’s ruling that the officer had committed “very serious” breaches when he arbitrarily detained Patrick Dale and violated his privacy rights during the roadside check near Pembroke on April 1, 2012.
Court heard OPP Const. Darryl Graveline took a copy of Dale’s birth certificate, had another officer run it through a police database and determined Dale was under conditions not to possess or drink alcohol. Graveline then returned to the car, asked Dale to step out, smelled alcohol on his breath and charged him with the breach of probation.
Before running Dale’s name, the officer said he inquired about Dale’s backpack, which was full of unopened cans and bottles of beer, after spotting a beer cap between the driver’s legs and smelling alcohol from inside the car.
Graveline also testified that the OPP routinely ask for identification from everyone in the cars they stop, while another officer agreed it was “common” to run passengers’ names through a police database to see if they are breaching conditions.
Seizing passenger identifications at RIDE checkstops has been specifically denounced by the highest court in Canada and Ontario, Selkirk said.
“The OPP must obey the law. They cannot ignore it. They are sworn to uphold it. But they do not,” said Selkirk, who acquitted Dale even though he freely admitted he was in violation of his probation.
Selkirk found the OPP acted in “bad faith” because the privacy rights violations committed by the force were “either deliberate or through their ignorance,” and made more significant by the fact they do it routinely.
“RIDE programs were never intended or permitted to become a vehicle for warrantless searches of every person, including passengers, who go through one,” said Selkirk. “RIDE programs are to catch and deter drinking drivers. There is no justification for warrantless and groundless searches of passengers.”
Dale, who has a criminal record and previous run-ins with police, testified he didn’t think he had any choice but to comply with the request for identification because he feared a confrontation and more charges.
But as a passenger, Dale was under no obligation to give his name and was free to walk away — something the officer knew but never told Dale when he asked for his identification, Selkirk said.
The Crown appealed Dale’s acquittal, arguing that Selkirk’s findings in fact were flawed.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Timothy Ray dismissed the Crown appeal in June.
Ray found that “great deference” needed to be given to Selkirk’s “expressed concern about the seriousness of the police conduct” before concluding that Selkirk made no errors in law.
Const. Graveline declined comment on the matter.
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Re: OPP officer violated passenger’s rights at RIDE checkpoi
by Gkuke » Mon Aug 26, 2013 3:20 pm
This is typical of the OPP. It is nice to hear that the Judge reprimanded the cops for this typical abuse of power. Not only do the cops need to learn a thing or two about the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, they need to be put into their place.
Bias Judges in Peterborough could take some tips from these two Judges, and in particular Justice L.C. the female Ontario Court of Justice Judge from Lindsay Ontario who wouldn't know the Charter of Rights if it slapped her in the face, with all due respect your Honor.
Gkuke
by Thomas » Sat Aug 31, 2013 6:55 am
Police power has limits
BY OTTAWA CITIZEN EDITORIAL, OTTAWA CITIZEN
Police officers deserve respect for what they do to keep us safe every day. But if the rule of law is to mean anything, police officers must be held accountable when they step out of line.
The Ontario Superior Court was right to uphold a lower court’s acquittal of a man who was charged with a breach of probation during a RIDE operation — because the Ontario Provincial Police breached his charter rights when they detained him during the operation.
The man, who has a criminal record, was in the back seat of a car when it was stopped during a road check for drunken drivers. A police officer noticed his backpack, which was full of unopened beer cans and bottles, as well as a beer cap between the driver’s legs. He also smelled alcohol from inside the car.
The officer took the man’s identification, and with the help of a colleague, ran his name through a police database, discovering that he was under an order not to possess or drink alcohol. He was clearly in breach of his probation, and was subsequently charged. But he was acquitted by a lower court because he had been illegally detained. The Crown appealed and lost.
The two police officers testified that it is a routine practice to run the names of people in vehicles that are stopped during RIDE operations to discover any potential wrongdoing. The courts strongly disapproved, asserting the right to individual privacy.
“The seizure of identification from passengers at a RIDE program has been specifically denounced as a violation by the highest court in this country and in this province. The OPP must obey the law. They cannot ignore it. They are sworn to uphold it. But they do not. This is bad faith because the violation is either deliberate or through their ignorance ...” a judge ruled.
“When the police are acting in bad faith and continue to engage in conduct specifically denounced by the Court, then the violation is very serious.”
The arresting police officer argued that if the man in the back seat had refused to answer his questions, and not provided the identification as he has a right not to, that would have ended the matter. But that’s rather disingenuous. It is a rather brave or foolish person who refuses to answer a police officer’s questions, because most people’s experience is that quite often, that can lead to even more trouble. It is the duty of the police to respect the rights of their fellow citizens, whether those citizens stand up to them or not. Catching drunk drivers saves lives, but the practice should not be used for fishing expeditions.
“RIDE programs are to catch and deter drinking drivers. RIDE programs were never intended or permitted to become a vehicle for warrantless searches of every person including passengers who go through one,” a judge concluded.
Personal rights are fundamental to democracy. It’s good to see the courts affirm that so strongly.
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How much do celebrities and influencers get paid for social posts?
Celebrities can earn a fortune endorsing products - but does it matter what network they post on? The answer is a resounding yes.
Brands have been paying celebrities to endorse their products on social media for years. But it turns out the amount of money an individual can earn varies significantly depending on the platform they post on.
According to figures published by The Economist, YouTube is the golden egg for celebs and influencers lucky enough to have large enough followings.
YouTube stars with more than 7 million followers can expect to earn an eye-watering $300,000 per post. Even those with a comparatively paltry 100,000 followers can still command $12,500.
Facebook is the next lucrative platform. Individuals with more than 7 million followers can rake in $187,500 for commercial endorsements, while Snapchat and Instagram are level-pegging at $150,000 each.
Twitter, meanwhile, lags behind somewhat. Celebs in the 7m-follower bracket can ‘only’ command $60,000. Still not bad for what probably amounts to around 10 seconds’ work.
The impact of such significant pay-outs certainly makes it money well spent if a campaign hits the bullseye.
Calvin Klein courted pop star Justin Bieber to get behind its #MyCalvins campaign, which ran across 2014 and 2015. Mr Bieber duly obliged and the campaign went on to reach a global audience of more than 469 million people. CK’s social audiences grew by a combined 5 million.
Do you think celebrity endorsements are money well spent or lazy last resorts for brands out of ideas? Let us know in the comments.
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Fashion Top 10 Fashion E-Commerce Firms in India
Top 10 Fashion E-Commerce Firms in India
Amazon, based totally within the United States and one in all the biggest online retailers inside the international, gives, other than various other categories including books, electronics, domestic décor, baggage and luggage, jewelry, and so on., apparel and accessories to its clients. Products within this class were segmented in keeping with gender, along with guys’s and ladies’s clothing and footwear; consistent with brands, inclusive of Arrow, Chemistry, Manyavar, or United Colours of Benetton; consistent with type, inclusive of t-shirts and tops, ethnic wear, pants and trousers, or lingerie and innerwear; or maybe in line with shops, which include of that belonging to a selected clothier, and so on. The web page gives a 30-day return on its all its products inside this class with ‘no questions asked’.
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2. Flipkart
Founded in 2007 by Sachin and Binny Bansal, Flipkart is a web Megastore based in Bangalore, Karnataka. Other than the fundamental categories together with electronics, home and fixtures, books and media, and so on., the portal offers separate categories particularly ‘men’, ‘girls’, and ‘baby and youngsters’, which include all sorts of style merchandise together with shoes, apparel, watches, accessories, luggage and wallets, sun shades, fragrances, and options in grooming and health merchandise. Flipkart also hosts a weblog of the call ‘Flipkart Fashion Files’ where diverse authors make a contribution articles on international style information, traits, day by day recommendations, and so on.
Three. Snapdeal
Based in New Delhi and based in 2010, Snapdeal is an online retailer that offers merchandise in diverse classes ranging from Mobiles and drugs, electronics, to each day needs, sports and outdoors, or even actual property and financing. Within the fashion category, their products are segmented into men’s, ladies, and kid’s fashion, which are similarly divided in keeping with kind of clothing or type of style product. Snapdeal gives an expansion of alternatives inside each style segment for each woman and men, consisting of Ethnic put on, which consists of sarees& extra, Anarkali, get dressed fabric, stitched and semi stitched salwar kurtas, salwar and churidars, and so forth.
Four. PayTM
Launched in 2010, Paytm is one of the most recent on line systems to be competing with global giants consisting of Amazon and eBay, and it has already been touted as a capability e-commerce large, inviting huge investments from most important financiers. The company commenced with presenting services along with mobile recharging, bill charge, travel bookings, and later accelerated to provide products inside numerous classes along with home and kitchen, items and goodies, automotive, electronics, and so forth. In the style category, the company gives men’s, girls and children’s merchandise, and contains distinctive segments like kinds of apparel like ethnic wear, styles of accessories like watches or shoes, or kinds of products consisting of eyewear or baggage, etc.
Five. EBay
eBay is an e-commerce massive based totally within the United States, which allows sales among both ‘purchasers and groups’, and ‘two agencies’. Founded in 1995 and one of the very few on line shops to live on the ‘dot-com’ bubble of the overdue 90’s and early twenty first century, eBay offers splendid offers in all styles of classes along with mobiles and accessories, laptops and pills, cameras, and so forth. Within the style segment, it offers merchandise in ladies’s and guys’s apparel, footwear, jewelry, baby and mom’s, t-shirts, and luggage and bags.
6. Jabong
Based in Gurgaon and based in 2012, Jabong is an e-commerce platform that basically gives fashion products in a number categories like garb, fashion accessories, splendor merchandise, fragrances, home décor, and so forth. Since it’s far basically a style portal, it gives a splendid kind of alternatives for women, men, children, in add-ons, brands, sports, and so forth, while additionally offering a separate phase for sales, trending clothing, or even a fashion blog called ‘The Juice’. It affords its customers with options that range from neighborhood brands and architects like RohitBal to high road style manufacturers inclusive of Dorothy Perkins, Wendell Rodricks, and so forth. Jabong has partnered with unique companies to facilitate its function as a main style portal, inclusive of the NBA in 2014 to launch the first on line NBA store in India, or the Lakme Fashion week for the approaching 4 seasons, and even launched a web style week in the 12 months 2014, that featured celebrity mentors like YamiGautam.
7. Myntra
Based in Bangalore, Karnataka, Myntra became founded in 2007 with an preliminary concept of presenting personalized gift items that later shifted to supplying branded fashion products. Officially merging with Flipkart in 2014 to compete with other e-commerce giants, Myntra moved to an app handiest commercial enterprise model to provide its clients a extra focussed and carrier-centric enjoy. On the app itself, it offers all types of fashion alternatives for guys, girls, and youngsters, and capabilities a domestic web page that announces income, arrival of latest items, or this kind of information.
8. Fashion and You
Founded in 2010, Fashion and You is an e-store that deals in general with premium style brands and lifestyle products, and offers unique, mega discounts on maximum of its products. It claims to be related to greater than 1500 Indian manufacturers and in excess of 200 brands, globally, and pursuits to be the topmost style destination for all fashion enthusiasts. It gives high road style and lifestyle brands throughout garb, accessories, cosmetics, jewellery, fragrances, shoes, and so forth.
Nine. Yebhi
Launched in 2009, Yebhi is an Indian, on-line purchasing and services portal for a way of life and fashion products. It offers classes like shoes, clothing, mobiles and capsules, eye wear, furnishing, and many others.
10. Koovs
Headquartered in Gurgaon and based in 2010, Koovs is a web fashion store that gives menswear, womenswear, jewellery, cosmetics, and so on. It offers its clients with a separate phase that deals solely with new discounts, trending life, and additionally features collaborations among style giants and architects.
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Researchers develop method to predict source of network diffusion
by Bob Yirka , Phys.org
A technique for finding the source of an epidemic with limited information was tested with data from a 2000 South African cholera epidemic, where the disease spread from village to village along a river network. Image credit: Physics 5, 89 (2012). DOI: 10.1103/Physics.5.89
(Phys.org) -- In building network models, researchers have shown it’s possible to show how information moves from a source node to many and sometime all of the nodes in a network using available data and probability calculations. Not so easy is doing the reverse, i.e. finding the source after data has already diffused throughout a network. Building a model that could do so would have innumerable applications, ranging from tracing rumors on Twitter back to the original poster to discovering where an epidemic got its start. Now new research by a team at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland has shown that using techniques similar to triangulation methods that can locate an individual phone from cell towers, it’s possible to predict the source in a network using limited data sets. The team, led by Pedro Pinto, has published its findings in the journal Physical Review Letters.
To find the physical location of a single cell phone to within a few city blocks, engineers look at data from just three cell towers within which the phone is located. By noting the time stamp on the incoming data, it’s possible to deduce, or triangulate, the likely position of the phone. Pinto el al used a similar technique to narrow down the source of data in a diffused network.
The idea they say is to look at the arrival times of data to a node, be it a cell tower, a village in Africa experiencing a cholera epidemic or finding the leader of a terrorist network. Nodes in any network can be associated by drawing lines between them. The way to trace back in time then, involves following the lines that are most likely to lead to the source. Of course while that sounds easy, figuring out which lines to follow back most certainly is not, especially when there is limited or missing information, or when a network is so large looking at every node becomes impossible. That’s where the techniques the team developed come in handy. They used arrival times and probabilistic equations to derive maximum likelihood estimations to help them guess which path to take at each node.
It seems to work. They applied their modeling technique to a cholera outbreak that occurred in Africa back in 2000 and achieved an error rate of less than four hops using data from just twenty percent of the communities involved, which is of course quite impressive. Unfortunately their techniques can only be applied under certain pure conditions, i.e. when there’s a single source, when there’s only one choice at each node, etc. but that doesn’t take away from what they’ve accomplished, likely the instigation of a whole new area of network research.
Math algorithm tracks crime, rumours, epidemics to source
More information: Locating the Source of Diffusion in Large-Scale Networks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 068702 (2012). DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.068702 (ArXiv preprint)
How can we localize the source of diffusion in a complex network? Because of the tremendous size of many real networks—such as the internet or the human social graph—it is usually unfeasible to observe the state of all nodes in a network. We show that it is fundamentally possible to estimate the location of the source from measurements collected by sparsely placed observers. We present a strategy that is optimal for arbitrary trees, achieving maximum probability of correct localization. We describe efficient implementations with complexity O(Nα), where α=1 for arbitrary trees and α=3 for arbitrary graphs. In the context of several case studies, we determine how localization accuracy is affected by various system parameters, including the structure of the network, the density of observers, and the number of observed cascades.
Journal information: Physical Review Letters
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Ceramic membranes separate tiny organic molecules with a molar mass of 200 Dalton
by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Ceramic membranes by the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS. Credit: Fraunhofer IKTS
Water is vital – therefore, waste water has to be cleaned as efficiently as possible. Ceramic membranes make this possible. Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS in Hermsdorf, Germany were able to significantly reduce the separation limits of these membranes and to reliably filter off dissolved organic molecules with a molar mass of only 200 Dalton. Even industrial sewage water can thus be cleaned efficiently.
Anyone who has dragged himself along a sunny coastal path at the height of summer with too little water in his bag knows all too well: without water, we cannot make it too long. Water is one of the foundations of life. In industry, water is a must, as well: in many production processes, it serves as a solvent, detergent, to cool or to transfer heat. As more and more water is consumed, waste water has to be treated and reused. Ceramic membranes offer a good way to do this: since they are separated mechanically – similar to a coffee filter – they are particularly energy-efficient. However, this method previously came to an end when a molecular size of 450 Daltons was reached: smaller molecules could not be separated with ceramic membranes. According to experts, it was even considered impossible to go below this limit.
Molecules as small as 200 Daltons can be separated
Dr. Ingolf Voigt, Dr.-Ing. Hannes Richter and Dipl.-Chem. Petra Puhlfuerss from the Fraunhofer IKTS have achieved the impossible. "With our ceramic membranes, we have achieved, for the first time, a molecular separation limit of 200 Daltons – and, thereby, a whole new quality," says Voigt, Deputy Institute Director of the IKTS and Site Manager in Hermsdorf.
Credit: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
But how did the researchers manage to do this? On the way to making the impossible possible, it was first necessary to overcome various obstacles. The first was in the production of the membrane itself: if such small molecules were to be separated reliably, a membrane was needed that had pores smaller than the molecules which were to be separated. In addition, all of the pores had to be as similar in size as possible, since a single larger opening is sufficient to allow molecules to slip through. The challenge was therefore to produce pores which were as small as possible, with all of them having more or less the same size. "We achieved these results by refining sol-gel technology," says Richter, Head of Department at the IKTS. The second hurdle was to make such membrane layers defect-free over larger surfaces. The Fraunhofer researchers have succeeded in doing this, as well. "Whereas only a few square centimeters of surface are usually coated, we equipped a pilot system with a membrane area of 234 square meters, which means that our membrane is several magnitudes larger," explains Puhlfuerss, scientist at the IKTS.
Transfer from the laboratory into practice
Commissioned by Shell, the pilot system was built by the company Andreas Junghans – Anlagenbau und Edelstahlbearbeitung GmbH & Co. KG in Frankenberg, Germany and is located in Alberta, Canada. There the system has been successfully purifying waste water since 2016, which is used for the extraction of oil from oil sand. The researchers are currently planning an initial production facility with a membrane area of more than 5,000 square meters.
The innovative ceramic membranes also offer advantages in industrial production processes: they can be used to purify partial currents directly in the process as well as to guide the cleaned water in the cycle, which saves water and energy.
For the development of the ceramic nanofiltration membrane, Dr. Ingolf Voigt, Dr.-Ing. Hannes Richter and Dipl.-Chem. Petra Puhlfuerss received this year's Joseph von Fraunhofer Prize. The jury justifies the award by mentioning, among other things, "the first-ever realization for filtration applications within this material class."
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The Characteristic X-Ray Spectrum
ALL ABOUT ATOMS / By Physics Assignment
We now turn our attention to the two peaks ofFig. 41-14, labeled K” and K/3′ These (and other peaks that appear at wavelengths beyond the wavelength range displayed inform the characteristic x-ray spectrum of the target material. The peaks arise in a two-part process. (I) An energetic electron strikes an atom in the target and, while it is being scattered, the incident electron knocks out one of the atom’s deep-lying (low n value) electrons. If the deep-lying electron is in the shell defined by n = 1 (called, for historical reasons, the K shell), there remains a vacancy, or hole.. in this shell. (2) An electron in one of the shells with a higher eergy jumps to the K shell, filling the hole in this shell. During this jump, the atom emits a characteristic x-ray photon. If the electron that fills the K-shell vacancy jumps from the shell with n = 2 (called the L shell), the emitted radiation is the K” line ofFig. 41-14; if it jumps from the shell with n = 3 (called the M shell), it produces the Kp line, and so on. The hole left in either the L or M shell will be filled by an electron from still farther out in the atom. In studyingx rays, it is more convenient to keep track of the hole created deep in the atom’s “electron cloud” than to record the changes in the quantum state of the electrons that jump to fill that hole. does exactly that; it is an energy level diagram for molybdenum, the element to which Fig. 41-14 refers. The baseline (E :: 0) represents. the neutral atom in its ground state. ‘Die level marked K <at E = 20 keY) represents the energy of the molybdenum atom with a hole in its K shell. Similarly, the level marked L (at E = 2.7 keY) represents the atom with a hole in its L shell, and so on. The transitions marked K” and K/3 in Fig. 41-16 are the ones that produce the two x-ray peaksin . The K” spectral line, for example, originates when .an electron from the L shell fills a hole in the K shell.In , this jump corresponds to a downward transition of the hole, from the K level to the L level.
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electrons) give rise to some of the
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Colony 15.9
Posted on November 13, 2012 by wildbow
I had two different heroes to deal with, one of whom I couldn’t identify yet. That posed something of a problem: each likely possibility for the heroine’s identity made for a very different scenario in how this fight could play out.
Process of elimination had told me that Rory would be one of the local heroes, because there weren’t any prominent male villains who I couldn’t identify with their masks off; Coil had outed Empire Eighty-Eight, which had split into the Chosen and the Pure and everyone else had been eliminated or driven out of the city. I’d identified him as Triumph from his build. Assault and Cache weren’t as muscular, the Wards were younger and smaller, and the remainder of local heroes were women. That had been easy enough once I’d pegged him as a cape.
His ‘girlfriend’ was harder to pin down, both as a cape and in terms of her costumed identity. I’d read her confidence and judged that she wasn’t terrified enough to be ignorant about Rory’s secret. She probably wasn’t a civilian in the know, either, because she hadn’t been cowering behind Rory.
Going by her appearance, I didn’t think she could be Miss Militia or Battery. Her blonde hair didn’t fit, for one thing, and she was too tall, too muscular. She had to be one of the two female capes who came to Brockton Bay with Legend. It was critical that I figure out which of the two she was before getting into a fight with her. Prism was a duplicator who could consolidate into one body to get a temporary boost in strength, speed and durability. Maybe other areas too. Fighting her would mean staying out of close-quarters combat at any cost.
Ursa Aurora, by contrast, summoned ghostly ‘bears’ onto the battlefield. On a level, she’d want to fight like I preferred to, relying on her minions while staying out of the thick of things.
Two possibilities, each requiring very different tactics to handle.
I set my bugs on her and her alone in the hopes of forcing her hand. Atlas had returned to my side, and I made sure to collect Triumph’s phone before climbing on.
Triumph had picked up Trickster’s limp body and was mounting a fighting retreat in the direction the heroine and his family had gone. He shouted again and again, controlling the magnitude, force and breadth of each strike to hit the maximum number of bugs with just enough force that he was killing or crippling them without destroying the house.
Walls of bugs pressed against the exits of the house. If they escaped before I got there, I wasn’t sure I’d catch up. Triumph would be able to run faster than I could, Ursa Aurora could presumably ride her bears like Bitch rode her dogs, and Prism had the ability to move faster after consolidating her clones into one person again; if she didn’t run faster than me, the little boost she got there would keep her far enough ahead.
There was the family holding them back, yes, but there was also the possibility that there was a vehicle they could all climb into. I could maybe keep up while riding Atlas, but I wouldn’t be able to mount a serious attack while doing so.
I suspected the makeshift bug-barriers wouldn’t hold up. They wouldn’t stand up to Triumph’s shouts, and Ursa Aurora could summon her ‘bears’. That was if they didn’t choose to just charge through.
I needed more redundancies. More fallback plans. I began drawing out lines of silk at the lower half of the doorframes, while gathering the bulk of my bugs in the upper halves.
The question was, would they go through the doors or would they settle for the windows? Would human habit triumph over slightly more abstract thinking?
The heroine led the way, already under attack from hundreds of bugs. She grabbed a coat from the nearby rack and draped it over herself for cover against the swarm as she threw herself headlong into it.
Her legs caught on the tripwire and she tumbled down the stairs. I rebuilt the barrier of bugs behind her, condensing it to the point that they couldn’t see through.
I directed fly-borne spiders to extend threads around the heroine’s arms and legs, as well as her fingers. After a moment’s consideration, I started packing them in her pockets, sending bugs crawling beneath her clothes.
Right. A gun at her ankle. I set spiders to the task of binding that up too.
Maybe she’s a PRT officer? Gun, no apparent powers?
None of the rest of the family seemed willing to try exiting by the same door after she’d disappeared into the cloud of bugs and promptly shrieked. Okay. That meant I’d separated the family from the woman. Triumph would catch up to them in a moment, so I had to make the most of this advantage if I was going to slow them down further.
I began moving the bugs from the door towards the family, simultaneously bringing more bugs in behind them.
They quickly realized they were cornered and backed into the nearby closet, closing it behind them. I could sense them throwing coats and boots down at the gap between the bottom end of the closet door and the ground, trying to block my bugs from getting in.
Not quite good enough to stop the bugs, but I could leave them where they were.
As I was arriving on the property, the heroine was partially disabled and Triumph was en route. Genesis would be pulling herself back together in another body, I supposed, but that wasn’t so reassuring – the heroine had made a call to the PRT and there would be reinforcements on the way.
Okay. How was I supposed to do this? I had to deal with Triumph, but he was shutting down my swarm. I’d probably lose in a straight up fight as well. Whatever damage my bugs were doing with bites and stings, it wasn’t enough to bring him down. He’d kicked a long oak table that had to weigh six hundred pounds at a bare minimum, sent it skidding across the room. There was no doubt he had some superhuman physique. That same advantage might be giving him the ability to hold out against what my bugs were doing.
I was forced to scale up, to start injecting more than the trace amounts of venom, and I was all too aware of how easy it was to go too far or go over the top.
Life would be so much easier if I didn’t give a damn about other people’s well-being.
But I wouldn’t be able to step up my attack without getting more bugs on him, and I wouldn’t be able to do that without a different tactic. I began pulling my bugs out of the house and gathering them. By the time Triumph found his way to the hallway where his family was hiding in the closet, the bugs were almost entirely gone.
There were too few bugs there for me to catch it, but someone in the closet must have made a noise, because Triumph made a beeline right for them. He stopped when he saw the heroine outside the door, lying on the ground under a carpet of bugs.
He said something to his family that was probably along the lines of ‘stay there’ and headed for the door. He could see the human shaped figures I’d molded out of bugs and positioned around the lawn and proceeded to gun them down one by one. His shouts were short, on target and devastatingly effective.
The heroine was starting to get free. Two additional versions of herself had appeared next to her, quickly searching out and cutting the silk cords that bound her. At least I knew who I was up against, now.
Damn it. Unlike Oni Lee, Prism didn’t materialize her duplicates along with whatever additional baggage her original self had. None of the restraints and none of the bugs hampered her copies. Not to mention that her guns were probably free as well. I quickly directed Atlas to the roof and took cover in case she spotted me and decided to open fire.
“Sam!” Triumph shouted.
One of the duplicates turned to look at him, her eyes widening. She shouted, “Careful! Tripwire!”
He jumped at the last second, hopping over the tripwire.
He landed on the stairs and stumbled. The entirety of his focus was on the tripwire, on the stairs beneath his feet and on his attempt to keep from falling down the stairs with his unconscious burden. During the Slaughterhouse Nine fiasco, it had come up that our species was pretty bad at looking up.
I’d pulled bugs out of the hallway and from around the backyard and gathered them above the door, with airborne bugs helping by ferrying the slower moving ones up to a higher vantage point. I gave the command at the same time that Prism shouted her warning, and the bugs dropped down onto Triumph’s head.
Bugs tended to be very durable when it came to falling from high places. It had something to do with the amount of air resistance when compared to their surface area or mass. Something like that. Either way, it barely did any damage to my swarm when they fell to the ground.
For Triumph, on the other hand, he was dealing with the sudden appearance of enough bugs that I could have formed three or four densely-packed swarm clones from their number, on top of the fact that he was carrying Trickster, who had to weigh one hundred and thirty or one hundred and forty pounds. It probably didn’t help that he was standing on a staircase and was already somewhat off-balance.
The timing proved to be lucky for me. As strong as Triumph was, a strike at the right moment could still knock him off-balance. I’d seen Alexandria do something like that to Leviathan, knocking something as big and horribly strong as the Endbringer to the ground.
Blind and struck at an opportune moment, Triumph fell. I swept the bugs over him. There was no room for holding back or playing nice. I sent bugs into his nose and mouth, into his ear canals and biting at folds and crevices below the belt.
I could have been squeamish about that, but that would require thinking in too much depth about what I was doing.
I attacked his more sensitive areas, including the insides of his mouth, the sensitive edges of his nostrils and the insides of his ears. Others stung and bit at his eyelids. Some of my capsaicin-laced bugs flew from my cover at the roof’s edge to Triumph and Prism. I directed them to the vulnerable mucus membranes of the eye, the nose, the mouth – and again, beneath the belt – the urinary tract and anus.
The most important thing was to keep him from getting his bearings and dealing with the bugs. I wasn’t sure I’d be able to catch him by surprise a second time.
There was a secondary goal, too. We’d come here for a reason. If it came down to it, the mayor might change his tune once he’d seen his superhero son brought low. This was leverage.
Prism was back on her feet, alongside her two copies. I was forced to split my bugs among them. What rules did she follow in terms of consolidating? How did she pull back together, and what happened to injuries? I knew she could survive if one copy was taken out of action. If she had a knife wound on one body of the three she had active, did it stay? Or did the damage get divided to only a third of what it should be?
Whatever abuse my swarm was inflicting on her, she wasn’t activating or deactivating her power like I might if I had her abilities at my disposal. In her shoes I’d be splitting, spreading out, then consolidating into the body furthest from the bulk of the swarm. My secondary goals would be getting to a vantage point where I could shoot down my assailant. If I assumed she’d use the same basic tactic against me…
I began gathering bugs around myself for additional cover and for a potential counterattack.
I swept some bugs over the surrounding landscape while I waited for her to either decide on a plan of attack or succumb to the bugs. No threat of imminent attack by Coil.
It was spooky, having that hanging over my head. I almost wished he’d attack already and get it over with.
I couldn’t be sure how she spotted me, but Prism turned my way. Maybe it was the size of the cloud of bugs I had around me. It was almost a good thing that I had her attention. I had to take her out of action as soon as superhumanly possible if I wanted to get Trickster out of here before the reinforcements arrived.
She backed up, spreading out across the lawn. One copy swatted at the bugs that crawled on her, another was gagging and coughing from the capsaicin, but they seemed to be holding out remarkably well.
One by one, they started towards me, running across the lawn. I did what I could to obstruct and hamper them, but the rightmost copy slipped past the line of my bugs and bent down, the other copies snapping back into her body. She flashed with light as she leaped with incredible strength. She arced through the air until she was higher than the rooftop, set to land in front of me.
I sent the swarm forward to meet her, lines of silk stretched between them. If I could disrupt her landing or even push her back enough that she missed the roof-
She split into three copies in mid-air. The swarm caught the central one and tangled it. It landed hard on the roof and rolled, falling a solid twenty feet to the ground, while the other two landed and skidded for a grip on the shallow slope of the building. An instant later, she split off a replacement third, surrounding me.
Okay. This wasn’t as bad as it looked. I had Atlas. Yes, she could shoot him -and me- out of the air, but I had an escape route and this terrain suited me fairly well. The shingled roof had a shallow slope leading to gargoyles and gutters at the edges, but I stood at the roof’s peak, giving me the steadiest footing.
She was pacing, each of her copies slowly moving clockwise around me as they searched for a glimpse of me or some weakness. I was doing much the same, trying to think of an approach that would work here.
What did I know about her? Prism was one of Legend’s people, which meant it was very likely she was being groomed to manage her own team somewhere. Or she was considered effective enough to warrant fighting at Legend’s side. She would be good, if nothing else. In a way, that was useful to me. Any points where I’d had the advantage would be pretty indicative of her limits and weaknesses, since I wouldn’t necessarily have to account for mistakes, accidents and idiocy on her part.
She hadn’t immediately opened with her duplicates. Why? Did she have a reserve of power she drew on? Some restriction on when or where she could duplicate herself?
I’d seen her fight alongside Battery when they’d been tackling Mannequin. They’d paced the fight so each of them took turns. It made me think that maybe she needed to charge before she made her duplicates. It would explain why she hadn’t made them the second I’d outed them as superheroes. That, or she’d had another reason and she needed time to recharge after using her power.
One of her copies rubbed at her eye, then disappeared. She replaced it with a version of herself that wasn’t suffering. That’s one question answered, sort of.
It was all too easy to see how she’d gotten this far. I couldn’t keep all three versions of her in sight at the same time and taking her out of action necessitated taking all three versions of her down before her power recharged. Couple that with how hard and fast she could hit? She could be a nightmare.
Could be a nightmare. Emphasis on the could. I countered her powers, in large part. If my suspicions were right, I had some kind of enhanced multitasking as a side-benefit of my powers. I wasn’t limited to seeing with just my eyes, so her circling me wasn’t such a drawback, either. And I could easily attack all three at once.
The trick would be doing it without giving her an avenue for attack. She seemed reluctant to charge blindly into the swarm, but I was equally reluctant to use those same bugs to attack when I needed them for cover. If I waited, her reinforcements would arrive, which put the pressure on me to end this.
I let out one deep breath, then carried out my plan of attack. I unwound the silk cords I’d gathered and climbed off Atlas, sending him out with one, taking hold of another. Crouching to make myself a smaller target, I sent my bugs out to carry the string.
She moved to try to find a point where the swarm was thinner, while avoiding the clusters of bugs. It wasn’t quite fast enough.
I’d used my silk to grab Triumph’s cell phone and yank it from his hand. I did much the same thing here. One silk cord wound around the throat of Prism A, masked by the presence of bugs. Another wound around the leg of Prism B.
In the same moment I pulled on the cord leading to Prism B’s leg, Atlas pulled back on the cord leading to Prism A’s throat and my swarm bull-rushed Prism C, aiming to drive her off the roof through sheer force of numbers, surprise and the pull of silk cords.
A and B fell from the roof, then promptly disappeared, consolidating into C. She flashed with a light I could see through the dense cloud of my swarm and charged forward. In a heartbeat, she was out of my swarm and capable of seeing me.
Prism reached down to her ankle and grabbed for her gun. It didn’t come free of the holster.
She could come with baggage she wasn’t aware of? She had some control. Maybe she had to go out of her way to exclude certain matter or material from her duplicates?
She formed two new duplicates, and I caught a glimpse of them pulling their guns free before I was back in the cover of my swarm.
At my bidding, Atlas flew low, close to the building where he was out of sight of the rooftop. He circled around until he was behind me.
I formed a crude swarm-clone and then stepped back onto Atlas. I didn’t sit, but relied instead on control of his flight and the angles he moved to help match my own balance. We swiftly descended to the ground as the part of my swarm that wasn’t dedicated to forming my double moved forward to attack once more. I could hear and feel Prism firing blind into the center mass of the swarm. She was mad now. I’d nearly taken her out.
Had to think ahead. She would use the same tactic as before, consolidating to barrel through, she’d see my decoy and attack it, then come looking for me.
I reused the cord that I’d had around her foot, winding it around one gargoyle. The trick was figuring out which copy I’d target. This wouldn’t work if she unmade the copy to supercharge one of the other ones.
I’d have to bait her.
My bugs tied the silk around one of her wrists, letting the rest sit slack against the rooftop.
As I’d expected, the three of her appeared at the edge of the roof, looking down to the ground to find me. I was already heading for Triumph, putting myself roughly between them and him. It would serve two purposes, the primary purpose being that it would give them reason to think twice before shooting.
They leaped, then consolidated with a flash of light before they hit ground, to absorb the impact with superior strength and durability.
Only the silk thread connected the gargoyle to the Prism-duplicate closest to me. She didn’t make it all the way to the ground. In the blink of an eye, she was whipped sideways, one arm hyperextended. She dangled for a second or two before the silk gave way and she fell to the ground.
The power boost was temporary enough that she wasn’t invincible as she made her awkward landing.
I hurried to where Triumph and Trickster were.
Triumph had managed to move a short distance away before collapsing again, and remained buried beneath a pile of my bugs. He wasn’t doing well. It was very much what I’d been concerned about at the outset, going a little too far. On their own, the choking bugs, the inflammation from the capsaicin and the stings weren’t too bad, but together?
I eased up on him just a bit.
A quick survey of the area told me that there weren’t any imminent threats in the vicinity. Prism wasn’t standing back up. There was a kernel of something where Genesis was rebuilding a body. The policeman Trickster had swapped with was making his way back here, and other cops were en route as well. I still had a minute or two. The mayor, I noted, had left the closet, heading for a room lined with bookcases and cabinets.
My swarm sense allowed me to feel him opening one cabinet, unlocking and opening a drawer beneath. He retrieved a shotgun from the cabinet above and a box of ammunition from the drawer.
I could have taken him out right there, hit him hard with my bugs. I didn’t. I’d have to leave after that, and I could almost believe that he’d be angry, that he’d argue for the city to be condemned with even more fervor than he might have otherwise. This could backfire if we simply left him wounded.
Instead, I focused on building up several swarm-decoys before he could make his way to the back door. I lifted Trickster up and draped him across Atlas’ back, binding him in place with silk thread.
The mayor had loaded the gun by the time he was in the doorframe. He must have overheard Prism shouting about the tripwire, because he moved fairly gingerly through the threshold. His eyes roved over my massed decoys, his gun drifting from side to side as if he was getting ready to shoot at any instant.
“Mayor,” I spoke to him through one decoy, buzzing and droning the words.
He turned and fired, blowing a hole through its chest.
“Your son is-” another spoke, while the first reformed.
He fired again, blasting the head off the second decoy.
“-Dying” the first finished.
He was in the midst of reloading the shotgun when he stopped. “What?”
“Suffocating,” I spoke through a third decoy.
“No. He-”
“Stings aren’t helping,” I began rotating through the decoys, each speaking a different sentence. “The allergic reaction’s causing his throat to close up. He can’t swallow. There are bugs in his mouth, nose and throat. They’re making a dangerous situation worse. He can barely even cough to clear his airways to breathe.”
“If I shoot you-” he tightened his grip on his gun.
“My power rewrites the basic behavior patterns of my insects from moment to moment. If you shoot me, they’ll continue attacking, and there’ll be no chance of getting them to stop. You’ll be sealing Triumph’s fate. Rory’s fate.”
“He’s stronger than that,” the mayor said. He didn’t sound sure.
“We all need to breathe,” I replied. I could have said more, but I judged it more effective to let the thought sit with the mayor.
I cleared the bugs away from Triumph, giving the mayor a visual of his superhero son lying on the ground, struggling. To make his struggles a little more pronounced, I briefly increased the pressure, shifting the bugs to limit the available oxygen. I wasn’t sure exactly how much danger he was in, but he wasn’t doing well. As much as I wanted to pressure the mayor, I was ready to apply the epipen the second Triumph’s breathing slowed enough.
For long seconds, the only sounds were the small noises that Triumph could manage, gagging, feeble coughing and wheezing.
“You’re going to kill him?”
“He’s my boy,” the mayor said, his voice suddenly choked with emotion.
“Yeah.” I blinked hard, to clear my own eyes of moisture. I couldn’t meet his eyes. I focused my attention on Triumph instead.
“I only ever wanted what was best for him. I didn’t want this. Please.”
I couldn’t muster a response.
This time, I thought maybe I could have said something to him. I deliberately chose to remain silent.
“Hey!” he roared. He raised his gun, cocking it, “Don’t ignore me!”
Triumph coughed, then his chest heaved. I forced a bug down his throat to check and found it almost entirely closed up. I moved the bug away so it wouldn’t block the already limited airway.
“He’s almost stopped breathing,” I said, almost in shock at what this had come to. I’d been so preoccupied with Prism, I’d pushed things just a bit too far, I’d allowed my bugs to sting him because he was tough enough to take it, but I’d forgotten to account for the other variables, the pepper spray and the reduced air volume thanks to the bugs in his nose and mouth…
I looked at the mayor and found his gun pointing at me. I spoke with my own voice.
With a calmness that caught me off guard, I said, “It’s not too late.”
The voice of the sixty-ish man who could address whole crowds with conviction and charisma sounded painfully feeble as he spoke, “CPR?”
“Yes. But primarily this.” I drew an EpiPen from my utility compartment and held it up. “Do you know how to use it?”
“I do,” I told the mayor.
Even as I was painfully aware of Triumph’s slowing struggles, his body swiftly growing weak in the absence of air, I waited.
“Use it!”
Again, I didn’t move, I didn’t respond. I saw Triumph’s hand close into a fist and then stop.
A person can hold their breath for roughly two minutes… he’s still almost breathing, but how much breath is actually getting in and out of his lungs?
“Use it!” the mayor threatened me with a motion of the gun.
“We both know you can’t use that. I’m the only one who can save Rory.”
He sounded more like he was trying to convince himself than me, “There’ll be instructions. There’ll-”
“And if I break the needle in my death throes? Or if I drop it and you can’t find it in time to read the instructions and deliver it? Or if a stray shell fragment hits the needle?”
The mayor’s voice was a roar. It was as if he could will me to act by sheer emotion and volume. “He’s not moving! He’s dying!”
Seconds passed.
How long can I wait until I break?
The gun clattered to the grass, the mayor dropping to his knees. His voice was hollow. “I’ll give you what you want. Anything.”
I didn’t waste a second in stepping to Triumph’s side. I tilted his head to establish the airway, swept my fingers and bugs through to clear away the worst of the blockages and mucus and then pulled his pants down. I stabbed him in the thigh with the pen.
I couldn’t afford to stay. I couldn’t be the one to administer the ongoing care Triumph needed. Coil was still after me, the reinforcements were coming, and I wasn’t sure I could bring myself to leave if I stayed much longer.
“Do you know how to give CPR?” I asked.
“No. But my wife-”
“Bring her here. Hurry.”
He practically crawled on all fours in his hurry to get up the stairs and up to where his wife waited in the closet.
“Sorry,” I murmured to Triumph. “I didn’t want this to go this far.”
He wheezed, a strangled squeal.
“Yeah,” I told him. “I know.”
The older woman bent over her son and began administering CPR. I watched a few seconds to ensure she was doing everything right. I threw a second EpiPen to the mayor. “In fifteen minutes, if the paramedics aren’t here yet, use that.”
His hands were shaking so violently I was momentarily worried he’d break it.
“Washington,” I told him. “The city survives.”
He nodded. There were tears in his eyes, this stubborn man who’d talked so casually with the supervillains who had invaded his home and threatened his family, who’d tried to take me on with a shotgun.
I turned to walk away, my swarm-decoys moving in the same direction. Before he could think to go back for the shotgun and shoot me in the back, I had a swarm gathered around me, hiding me from view.
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288 thoughts on “Colony 15.9”
endochrom on November 13, 2012 at 00:09 said:
Skitter is an A-class bad-ass. But I’m pretty sure there goes any chance of her becoming a hero. Nearly killing the Mayor’s son does tend to put a bit of a damper on PR
wildbow on November 13, 2012 at 00:21 said:
I’m more shocked by the fact that you managed to read those 5k words in 9 minutes. Don’t usually start seeing first comments until the 15-30 minute mark.
8 minutes. I came back after another minute to comment. What can I say? I really enjoy your writing.
Kevon on January 6, 2014 at 17:56 said:
+1 internets
Kittyion on March 22, 2017 at 19:59 said:
I’m late to the party, but that was a great meme.
Slamu on November 13, 2012 at 00:47 said:
I keep having this mental image of “Taylor gets caught, forced into the Wards, heroes find out more about her.” Hilarity ensues if she’s the most moral (and ruthless) person on the team, calling out everyone on their behavior.
“You almost killed the mayor’s son.”
“You threatened a class of children with a gun. Sophia Hess not only made my life a living hell *because she could*, then ran around trying to kill people because they were *inconvenient.* When the Nine came to town, the villains drove them off, the so-called ‘good guys’ bombed the city. Armsmaster broke the Endbringer Truce for his personal glory. The villains might not be good people, but at least we don’t pretend to be anything but people.”
But yeah. Good thing those epi pens came in handy! That could have been *really* awkward.
mc2rpg on November 13, 2012 at 01:00 said:
See people keep saying things about her possibly being the most moral of the characters, but I think this chapter definitively puts that idea to rest. She was willing to let Triumph die to help support a massive criminal empire. She blew past the ratio of ends justifying the means at this point.
TheAnt on November 13, 2012 at 01:22 said:
Said criminal empire might be the only thing to help save the city and help everyone in it. The government and the heroes aren’t helping anyone. Plus she intends to take down Coil because he crossed a line. Not to mention that it was the height of stupidity for the mayor and the heroes to act like they did. Just say okay to whatever the villains tell you to do, and let them go away. You can still argue whatever you want in Washington afterward as they aren’t going to be standing next to you. Why risk your family? It is like begin mugged, and risking your life by fighting over a wallet. Just give him the wallet. In addition she hated what Trickster did, but she had to save him or the rest of her plan might not work. Her plan doesn’t work, then Dinah doesn’t get saved, and quite a few people don’t get any help. If she tried to go through proper channels, again she fails to help as many people. She also had to use extreme force, otherwise she could have been killed by Triumph. All that being said, YES she crossed a line herself here. She was slowly killing a son in front of his terrified parents to get what she wants. For a greater and selfless goal in the future, but still a morally terrible thing to do by anyone’s standards. Such moral complexity is one of the reason I love Worm. There is no such thing as “hero” and “villain”. It’s complicated. But I do wonder if Triumph got his power from Cauldron, or his dad got it for him.
That said, yes she crossed a line herself today.
“Said criminal empire might be the only thing to help save the city and help everyone in it.” Are you kidding me? Said criminal empire can’t stand without Coil’s continued backing, and there is not a chance in hell that Coil ruling the city will be good for it. The only thing with a real chance at saving the city and getting it back into a state with a chance at a good long term future is the government and local hero groups. At least they won’t be ultimately using the city as a giant nest of criminal activity.
The reason that Triumph and Prism didn’t just nod their heads and let them go is that it would be wrong. You don’t just let a bunch of thugs that are trying to conquer your city through force and intimidation go when you have the chance to stop them. If a member of the FBI’s most wanted list walked into a police station and threatened the police chief, should they just nod and let him go?
You are clearly trying to use the idea of the ends justifying the means to make what Taylor did here ultimately ok. The problem is that in this case the ends most certainly don’t justify the means. If Taylor saves Dinah and in return causes the city to fall completely into Coil’s grasp then she would not even be remotely close to balancing the scales.
She wasn’t just threatening to murder a son in front of his father. She was also threatening to murder a law enforcement agent and trying to overthrow the legitimate local government. Heroes and villains very much exist in this setting, and Taylor has knowingly crossed over to the villain side, and her actions push her farther and farther into that camp every single day.
It doesn’t matter if Triumph bought his powers, something we haven’t confirmed. What matters is what he chooses to do with them. Triumph chose to help people, Taylor chose to overthrow the government.
Oz on January 19, 2014 at 02:39 said:
You make it sound like overthrowing the government is a bad thing? It’s quite clear the government and the governing hero bodies are anything but good. And it’s reinforced for the reader’s sake in the interludes with cauldron and co.
The city wasn’t in a good place before the story even started and it might well be that as slimy as Coil is if everyone unites under his rule he can help the city recover in the fastest way possible. He’d be doing for his own ends but Skitter and co. plan to overthrow him anyway.
Taylor wasn’t going to let the boy die, she doesn’t have it in her. She’d have waited as long as she deemed possible and then helped him if the dad didn’t cave. The kid still survived and now Coil will get what he wants.
The point where you can measure someone on a sliding scale of good or evil has long been passed in this universe.
Only wish that more of the heroes were privvy to this trope
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight
on May 20, 2015 at 20:11 said:
its not even remotely clear that the heroes are bad. you’re wanting this story to be something it isn’t. its like when people hated armaster (the very first time he appeared i mean)or guessed the secret boss was newwave looking to privatize the heroing business. the villains aren’t the good guys fighting against a corrupt/evil prt, this isn’t taking place in wildbow’s south america.
it IS still really dumb to tell the terrorist/cartel no to their face when the politician can just smile and nod til they go away…and when in washington? well saving the city will just be the last in a list of broken campaign promises when he stabs them in the back using that exact incident in his argument to condemn it(provided he’d feel reasonably safe afterwards, if not i’m sure he could buy the favor of arguing on the record to preserve it and still have it condemned behind closed doors “over his objections”)
what his hero son should(possibly would have if he didn’t see skitter out him)have done is just let the father bluff, stand by in case trickster tried to take a hostage(for collateral) or pose an immediate danger…and once they’d gone tail them to a fight that didn’t burn his family.
There some implication of bought powers ‘I only wanted what was best for him’ either referring to him joining the protectorate, or him having purchased powers. Given that he is a grown man, I think the purchased powers is more likely.
Just for clarification, endochrom, not necessarily relevant to anything you guys are saying or your interpretation there, but Triumph was a member of the Wards until relatively recently (See Agitation arc, where they’re discussing who they’re going to be up against – Triumph is brought up & dismissed as he’d recently graduated to the Protectorate).
I actually agree with you that Taylor has crossed the line into a true villain. she did technically just save the city, but through horrible methods. Is it morally right to go outside a corrupt system and use violence to promote a positive change? Depends on the system, the person in question, and who specifically they are using violence against. Triumph and the police would be justified in shooting her. I would like to think that Taylor would eventually have tried to take down Coil, even if he had never taken Dinah. I agree completely that Coil running the city is a bad idea in the long run. But his resources are helping people in the short term. It is like the tag someone wanted to use for the story. Making the wrong choices, for the right reasons. That is definitely Taylor in a nutshell.
Yog on November 13, 2012 at 05:36 said:
Skitter herself could fund the restoration of the town with her powers, actually. At least I’m pretty sure she could.
And she would make a good ruler.
I can actually see her winning any election that may take place as a write-in candidate.
Omti on September 18, 2013 at 06:28 said:
Maybe she could fund it with her powers, but she wouldn’t make a good ruler. Skitter is incapable to plan for more than two days ahead. She’s a tactician, but incapable of strategy and that’ll continue to fuck her up more and more. I really hope Dragon takes her under her wing or this is only going to get worse and worse.
I mean look at her friends:
Lisa: Ruthless manipulator
Bitch: Totally psychotic, more dog than man.
Brian: Halfway normal, but if he had any smarts he’d already broken with that group.
Aysha: More issues than brains.
Regent: Psychopath
Seriously, Lisa should be the leader of the group, but she’s as incapable of planning as the rest of them. Brian could if he wasn’t so fixed on his sister that he forgets considering the consequences of their action.
They’re villains because they’re stupid. They’ve all backed themselves into a corner. And Taylor has just put another nail into the coffin. Isn’t there an innoculation against patheticness?
Asmora on November 13, 2012 at 19:12 said:
mc2rpg, I can’t believe you can read this far in this story and still say things like “law enforcement agent” and “legitimate government.” We have nothing to indicate that Triumph is any more of a “law enforcement agent” than Armsmaster, the Big Three, or Shadow Stalker. He may be a good person, but we have no way of knowing one way or the other. Joining the Protectorate certainly doesn’t give him a pass.
The “legitimate government” supported the bullies in Taylor’s school, completely failed to stop Bakuda and the ABB, bombed the city with technology it didn’t remotely understand, imprisoned Panacea, utterly failed to provide disaster relief, and was planning on totally abandoning the city and its inhabitants until a “villain” stepped up and forced them to do the right thing.
In Worm, even more than in the real world, there are no absolute or objective moral truths. The only good lies in doing as Taylor has done: striving at all times to do the best she can with the options available to her, regardless of anyone else’s opinion.
Also, keep in mind that it was a bluff. She had the epipen and didn’t want to let Triumph die. She pushed the bluff dangerously far and had no way of knowing when it would be too late, but at no point did she intend to kill him. She intended to scare the mayor into doing the right thing, and it worked.
Asmora, whether you like it or not Armsmaster and the big three are legitimate law enforcement agents. They go out and stop people like Lung from burning their way through cities. They are appointed and working with a legitimate government elected by the people.
The legitimate government DID stop Bakuda and the ABB. They had alot of help from the villains, but they pretty clearly didn’t need it to handle the situation. It helped keep the body count down and shorten the crisis, but the villains only banded together to help because the outsider heroes and the national guard moving in would have interfered with their business while they put the ABB down. With regards to Panacea, she volunteered to go to the birdcage, and had committed the acts necessary to earn her place there.
Also, they ARE providing disaster relief. First they evacuated everyone willing to leave. Then they started bringing in supplies, as seen in Shadow Stalker’s chapter. They are also running cleanup crews and rebuilding efforts. This has been mentioned many times, and we have seen one such crew being run by Taylor’s father. These are all things that happened before Taylor stepped up to run her own relief efforts.
Finally, the idea that she intended to scare the mayor into doing the right thing isn’t true. Saving the city is in no way necessarily the right thing. The area has been devestated and a huge portion of the population has evacuated and probably won’t come back. Saving it just to turn it and the population over to Coil is even worse.
Obviously there is no objective moral truth in Worm, that doesn’t somehow make what Taylor is doing here the right thing. Taylor is the main character, but that doesn’t mean her actions are always right.
They are official law enforcers, but corrupt, not legitimate.
I think the best way to look at the PRT as they stand in Brockton Bay is not as “legitimate government” that needs to be upheld or “corrupt government” that needs to be opposed, but rather as simply another faction, another territory. Just like Skitter and the other warlords, they provide relief, they keep order, they help the people… but only in a fraction of the city. The government’s fraction is just more spread out, less constant.
One way to look at it is that a government’s right to authority is based on supporting its citizens. With the city in this state, they are about as legitimate as the (benevolent) warlords, and it’s totally legitimate for the ‘villains’ to pressure them to ensure the interests of their people.
Another way (one I find closer to the truth) is that our protagonists are villains. Yes, this action was morally wrong… but it was also the best way (available to capes perceived as villains) to both accomplish their goals and save the city, helping everyone in it. An evil, but a necessary one.
Sorry if this isn’t very coherent, I’m once again reading and commenting while procrastinating my writing assignment into the early hours of the morning.
Anzer'ke on November 13, 2012 at 20:05 said:
mc2rpg, did you miss the Alexandria interlude? The one which made clear that the PRT is corrupt to the core? That it’s a manipulative system that undermines even the questionable principles you are arguing for?
They are working for the government, in fact the lack of independence in the superheroes is probably the most important difference between the PRT and the Justice League style groups that they are likely meant to make us think of. Given what governments do, there’s nothing intrinsically moral about any of them. Of the top three Legend is the only one who can even begin to make a claim at morality, others have often fallen short in similar numbers.
Basically they’re legitimate but to claim that this alone makes them okay is to claim that law is the measure of good, above morality. Authoritarianism basically.
That’s a little selective isn’t it? Why do you give the heroes the benefit of the doubt at all points but the opposite for anyone under the label of villain? Claiming that Panacea deserved the birdcage is just ridiculous though. Canary had a better case than Panacea did, and less reason to keep her out in the clear.
Yes, they also suck at doing that relief, and frankly they seem to be being disgustingly selective about where they go. The Docks had a lot of people in it, yet there was barely anything going on there.
Also we don’t know anything about the group Danny was leading, given his job he could very well have just brought people together of his own volition, a la Occupy Sandy right now.
“Finally, the idea that she intended to scare the mayor into doing the right thing isn’t true.” That’s incredibly misleading. It’s true that we’re not absolutely certain what the right thing is but that doesn’t change that she was attampeting to do what she thought was the right thing. Though I would point out that thousands of people are still here and by this point those left are probably not going to leave no matter what. They’d have done so already. But hey, it’s cool. Leave them to die. That’s better then having a villain running the place…which totally isn’t what was already happening with the guy who is okay with class segregation enforced by extreme violence and brutality.
Alexandria,for all her flaws,could make a case for being moral
A case for being official,or legal on the other hand…
Kailen on October 24, 2015 at 04:22 said:
Given what governments do, there’s nothing intrinsically moral about any of them.
If you want your arguments to be taken seriously, you’ll have to do better than ridiculous Libertarian insinuations about governments being inherently evil.
The sentence quoted is not an invalid argument tho. I’d have added and “or immoral” in it, but its not wrong like that either. “Given what governments do”=they govern, and they are made of fallible people, “there is nothing intristically moral about them”=all morality must be judged about their actions, laws, and level of enforcing their laws (including enforcing them on the higher in power classes, whichever they may be, so high corruption or privileges are bad). A government is not good or bad just because its a government, and one can do “moral” things on one area and “immoral” on others.I do not see any fallacy or generalization in that statement,nor any liberal bias, only some slight rhetoric manipulation, which is appropriate for the current discussion.
Oh, and “governments being intristically evil” (which the man you replied to never said or implied) is a position of anarchists, not libertarians.
I saw the Alexandra interlude, and the fact that Alexandra and Eidolan think they are saving the world comes across pretty clearly. They are quite possibly wrong, but that is Cauldron’s fault. Someone has to try to integrate the powered into society, and that is even more important with the endbringers having a legitimate chance to destroy the world.
I give the heroes the benefit of the doubt because they are actually going out and saving lives. We don’t get to see it that often, because the main character is a criminal, but look at some of the things that happen during the interludes. They stop people like the Marquis.
You can’t say they are being selective with the relief efforts with any sort of certainty. The villains have conquered the docks, and are willing to fight people that come into them. With Taylor as our primary viewpoint character we just can’t see the relief efforts. Assuming that Danny somehow got together a bunch of city employees for relief efforts independently, when we have been told quite a few times that there are city relief crews is a huge stretch.
If they condemn the city do you really think they are just going to walk off and leave whoever stayed behind? The world just doesn’t work that way. No politician would make such a horrible mistake, and if they did they would be replaced and someone else would have them evacuated.
Also, the big difference between Wormverse and DCU is that worm doesn’t have a few people sitting in a satellite that can stop any crime any time it happens whenever they want. The worm heroes are much less obscenely overpowered, but still have to deal with world ending threats. With the endbringers around they can’t afford to devote the resources to rebuilding every city that gets utterly rocked by an endbringer attack. There are at least three attacks per year, and a decent percentage of them are going to cause massive permanant damage to a city and the surrounding terrain. Saving every city just isn’t feasible, unless you are rebuilding them as bait for the endbringers.
Psycho Gecko on November 13, 2012 at 01:27 said:
Nah, she is still a moral character. You may have noticed how much she hates herself for it and the fact that if she wasn’t moral, she wouldn’t be trying to 1. save her home town even though it treated her like crap 2. save a girl she inadvertently helped kidnap, and 3. take down that massive criminal empire.
I doubt she was really going to let him die either.
I’d say it’s more like she’s unprincipled. She’s sacrificing her ideals for what she thinks is the best course of action. She still holds the morals, though.
Think of it as morality being the foundation, and principles being the pillars. You can lose a lot of pillars without causing damage to your foundation, but if you don’t have that foundation, you can’t keep those pillars up. It may be flawed, but it still holds up those pillars.
Armsmaster’s version of morality involved a huge helping of “I want to be the guy who took down an Endbringer, look at me” which doesn’t actually serve a greater purpose when he could have given a lot of heroes that ability. He just doesn’t know what went wrong.
Battery was also moral, and she also sacrificed her principles to pursue the morality. She died regretful of her actions, expressing a moral position.
Panacea sacrificed her morality for her principles, and lost both. Those pillars were not a good substitute and they led her astray.
Now I have to wonder how much of this I’m pulling out of the waxed poetic part of my anus.
She doesn’t have to intend to let him die. If the fight with prism had gone on a few minutes longer Taylor would be a murderer no matter her intentions. Actions and results matter more than intent. A dead hero is no less dead just because Taylor was distracted by a fight while she was killing him.
That is called manslaughter. Even the law takes intent into account. It takes two to tango, remember? If Prism had knocked out or killed Skitter, would you still charge Skitter with that crime when she had no opportunity to stop the bugs from merely causing a great deal of injury to Triumph?
Oh wait, that’s right, Prism had a gun. A gun she drew on Taylor. Not easy to pay attention when you’re facing potential death, you know. And if Prism had gone down a lot easier, we’d have seen Triumph in less danger.
I think it’s clear, then, by since Prism also didn’t intend for Triumph to die, but her actions could have inadvertently caused it, that Prism is also clearly a would-be murderer (possibly more than would be since she’s packing heat).
Sure Prism wouldn’t have intended any harm to Triumph, but to quote you “Actions and results matter more than intent. A dead hero is no less dead just because Taylor was distracted by a fight while she was killing him.” So I guess the person doing the distracting better be brought up on charges and held just as morally acountable.
If Prism had knocked out or killed Taylor then Triumph’s death would still be Taylor’s fault and, assuming she was alive, she would definitely be charged with murdering Triumph. Taylor is the one that attacked and poisoned him. She committed the actions that would have led straight to his death.
Considering she carries epipens and has taken pains to avoid killing she clearly knew that Triumph could have died from what she was doing to him, so it isn’t even really manslaughter unless she gets a good lawyer.
Dis on November 13, 2012 at 04:46 said:
(note: some or all of this may have been addressed farther down in the comments. I haven’t had a chance to read them all yet)
If Wormverse law enforcement are anything like real world law enforcement they’ve killed quite a few innocent people in situations much less dire than this one. Hell, they’ve even cuffed a few people on their front lawns and shot them in the backs of their heads. And if Wormverse mayors are anything like real world mayors, they’re in on it. (see Bloomberg and stop and frisk, and let’s not forget that the mayor encourages by inaction everything the boardwalk enforcers do.)
These are rational adults with a huge support network behind them* and plenty of options. Meanwhile we’re condemning a traumatized and alienated teenager doing the best she could under terrible circumstances.
If everything’s going your way and your idea of a fun afternoon is to go torture someone in front of their parents and then threaten to kill them you’re probably pure evil. In Taylor’s case however a lengthy series of unfortunate events led her to this point, and she had little choice in the matter. (and let’s not forget she’s involved with Coil in the first place because of Armsmaster’s soaring glory boner)
She could either leave Trickster (bit of an ass, admittedly) to spend most to the rest of his life in prison and abandon a little girl to a crime lord and the over a hundred people depending on her to their fates, or she could threaten the life of someone already attacking her (perfectly justified mind you) with antidote in hand.
If someone broke into your home like this would the use of lethal force be justified? Yes.
That doesn’t make that person evil though.
*Low level law enforcement officers don’t have much support in terms of being mandated to do unethical things – it’s do it or lose your job – that doesn’t make them any less culpable when they murder people though.
Also sorry for poor form in my writing. It’s late and I can’t be arsed to do any editing.
Mitleser on December 29, 2012 at 07:13 said:
“which doesn’t actually serve a greater purpose when he could have given a lot of heroes that ability.”
What ability?
There was no time to mass-produce his cutting edge nano cloud blade.
Pinkhair on November 13, 2012 at 02:09 said:
While I agree that she was wrong, she was NOT willing to let Triumph die:
“As much as I wanted to pressure the mayor, I was ready to apply the epipen the second Triumph’s breathing slowed enough.”
She left him under a giant swarm of bugs that were injecting him with more than trace amounts of venom, while they were also blocking his airway and crawling into all his orifices. Then she went off and fought Prism for a period of time. She carries epipens and has worried about allergic reactions before, so trying to claim that she wasn’t willing to let him die seems kind of silly. She may have preferred him alive, but that didn’t stop her from leaving him in life threatening circumstances until she dealt with Prism.
So it’s Taylor’s fault for wanting to defend herself from a gun-toting superhero when the only reason she put herself in danger at all was to save someone else who was meant to be having a nonviolent conversation with the Mayor before he proved stubborn?
I mean, the Mayor did choose to stand up while his superhero son was calling reinforcements in on that position. He could have just said, “Actually, I was going to keep the city around anyway. Please leave now. This is my home and my little girls are here.”
Are you kidding me? The mayor proved stubborn? A pack of villains broke into his home and threatened them if he didn’t do as he was told. If he had lied maybe they would come back when the heroes weren’t there and killed the mayor and his family. Their conversation was in no way nonviolent either. Trickster grabbed one of the twins and pointed a gun to her head. I suppose trying to save his family is a good reason for Triumph to die?
Not that it even matters, but Prism didn’t even pull her gun until Triumph was covered in a swarm of bugs that could very easily have caused her death. Killing a terrorist in an attempt to save Triumph is completely different than killing Triumph to try to force the government to bow to your whims.
Your attempts at moral equivalency in this case are ridiculous.
This bit is more than a bit victim blamey. While his actions weren’t very smart he can hardly be blamed for having three supervillains waltz into his home. That would be their fault for not using a more sensible gait for breaking and entering.
And they were hardly there to have a peaceful conversation. The goal was intimidation from the very beginning. Unfortunately intimidation doesn’t work so well when the people you’re trying to intimidate have two arguably more powerful supers with them.
JessieLaurent on November 13, 2012 at 05:33 said:
Quite a dilemna, although I think everything’s getting a bit confused. First, it was a discussion of morality, principles, and the difference between ends-justifies-the-means and more Rule Based ethical systems. Then, well, the sides shift and, whether they are right or not, the Skitter-is-near-murderess-and-evil group make a logic mistake or two.
If they are concerned with the outcome, and all that talk about manslaughter and results seem to say it is, then they’ve switched to an ethics of ends. All well and good, but that does mean that they are now vulnerable to arguments about ‘the good of the city in the long run’ in a way a Rule-based ethics isn’t.
Personally, I agree that she’s crossed a few lines, but to my mind the comments about the epi pen show she’s realized it, and I think I have it in my heart to forgive her HORRIBLE morality in not being able to not be killed by a foe and simultaniously making sure Triumph is alive.
And, from a practical point of view, this is the direct result of Skitter’s powers. She doesn’t like going this far, but her powers are not strong enough (yes, they are cool, but nothing like what the strongest heroes and villains have) that she can always afford to hold back.
Other notes: Skitter, even as she makes morally questionable decisions, is more than a littl bit of a badass.
And, well, the fact that such a long conversation on the morality of a character who is ENTIRELY FICTIONAL shows just how invested most people, myself included, are in her character.
The mayor bluffed with his family there. Wrong time to risk provocation. Not his fault alone, but his imprudence disn’t help matters. Police standoffs at least try to minimize civilians in danger while acting a little accomodating until they are in a good position, or until the civilians are in immediate danger.
He had more balls than diplomatic sense.
Although since he was standing off against one of the most terrifying supervillains in the city, who was on a team with most of the rest of the most terrifying supervillains, which is allied with the team including some of the most powerful supervillains in town…that took a significant quantity of balls.
She quite clearly was moments from saving him anyway, she just had a much clearer perspective on whether or not he was still alive.
Guile on November 15, 2012 at 09:19 said:
To be fair, the mayor’s son and the girlfriend are both A-list heroes. Prism is one of the two heroes freaking LEGEND brought to Brockton to battle an ENDBRINGER. Obviously he felt safe with that at his back, compared to a few local villains.
She wasn’t willing to let him die. Remember when she was hoping the mayor would just break because “How long can I wait until I break?” She knew if he didn’t break, she would break and stab him with the Epipen.
She is still one of the most moral people in the story. Pretty much all of the heroes are, to use the technical term, dicks.
Worth noting that she wasn’t willing to let Triumph die, and explicitly thought that if he stopped breathing or otherwise got too close to death she’d save him even if the mayor hadn’t caved yet. She did however withhold medical care and use the life of a son to extort the father, so still definitely crossing a line, just not the line of murder.
Mr. Walaa on November 13, 2012 at 00:23 said:
If there is a most wanted list set up by the protectorate then skitter probably placed herself in the top five for Brockton Bay.
Well she still hasn’t killed anyone yet. Robbery, disruption of the peace, resisting arrest, breaking and entering, conspiracy to commit felony, assault.
But those are all par for the course. She has shown herself to be an effective terrorist, but I doubt she is on a list that would get her booted direct to the Birdcage.
You do realize that three of those crimes as well as attempted murder was perpetrated on one of the most influential and powerful men and his family in the city. Those are the type of actions that generate a lot of man power and resources in bringing you down.
wanderinggeek on November 13, 2012 at 10:48 said:
Agreed. The government isn’t exactly fair to people with powers to begin with, as we saw in Canary’s case. Skitter is headed to the birdcage, if ever caught and contained.
Canary’s case was about setting a precedent. Skitter never mind controlled people (though Regent did). I honestly think the three strikes rule would apply to Skitter.
I honestly don’t think she’d be anywhere near the top five most wanted for Brockton Bay. Don’t forget most of The Pure and Fenrir’s Chosen are still kicking it. Then there is Coil and the Travellers. Then on the Undersiders you have Regent and Bitch.
None of them personally attacked the Mayor of the city. In addition she basically stripped this man of his dignity and resolve when faced with his dying child. Those are not things a person forgets lightly.
This is a situation of “Be careful the enemy you choose!” Threaten average joe and he/she might run to the cops or cower. Threaten the powerful and influential and you might get the entire police, army reserve and a bunch of 4 letter alphabet agency after your ass.
Lets also not discount that she single handedly outclass Prism, who was a Legend protege as well thoroughly defeat Triumph. It might be ok to mix it up with the Wards but the Protectorate’s might want some serious payback.
So, that mayor is more important, Than the average joe? Freaking elitism, that is the thing that destroing this planet. And the wormverse too…
Goategg on November 13, 2012 at 02:39 said:
I would be inclined to agree if we were just able to go by indirect evidence, but during the interludes it always seems to avoid discussing Skitter so much as they talk about Tattletale and Regent.
I don’t know if somehow she’s still flying under the radar or if that’s a specific technique being used in the writing, but it makes me think that she still isn’t really getting blamed for all the stuff she’s been doing.
Of course, let me just put a disclaimer here and say i could be totally, totally wrong.
In terms of how much of a threat she is perhaps, but by this point it is abundantly clear that Skitter won’t kill someone no matter what. She could have slaughtered everyone in that house far more easily then she brought them down without killing them, it’s not really a secret anymore.
Meaning that as scary as Skitter is, the heroes are going to know that they can rely on her leaving them alive, which is a serious problem for her if they really wanted her gone.
In other words she’s powerful but not a real threat. What’s more she’s easily negotiated with. Indeed if anything I would expect this to be the point at which they finally wise up and just talk to the stupidly powerful villain for a minute or two and avoid entire fights.
Of course this also makes her easily trapped.
Gnarker on November 13, 2012 at 07:45 said:
You sure about that?
People have this nasty habit of misinterpreting things. And while she is a genuinely good person and wouldn’t have let Triumph die no matter what, the mayor and the heroes don’t know that.
From their perspective, and what they know about Villains, she would have killed Triumph, just to prove a point.
Also, it’s not the first time that she took a hero hostage (The fact that she ultimately didn’t even go through the first time may or may not be regarded). Throw in a vengeful mayor using all of his considerable political clout on making her pay…
So, it depends on how the heroes look at this. Either they come to your conclusion, or they come to see her as bastard without regard for the lives of people, that is to be sent to the birdcage first chance they get. Remember, it doesn’t even take all that much to be sent there, a simple unintentional slip-up
with your power is apparently enough, and she did everything on purpose.
I don’t see it. Skitter’s hesitation isn’t really an advantage and I certainly don’t see her avoiding the birdcage from about the bank robbery onwards.
Her actions combined with her statements (trying to ally against the nine, originally trying to be a hero) make it clear that her goals are consistent and well intentioned though the heroes will consider her to be warped and slightly deranged to my guess.
My meaning is more that at this point the heroes have a fair chance of seeing through her facade, which makes her vulnerable. As bad as it makes relations, them thinking she’ll kill if pushed is a vital part of her having any ability to leverage hostages and the like. Someone has got to be smart enough to see through her by now.
So you mean, she definitely is seen as someone who must be stopped, but she can’t count on her bluffing with hostages will protect her anymore? If so, I misunderstood you, my bad.
About the “someone smart enough”; We haven’t heard of Dragon for quite a while now, have we?
Whelp, if that doesn’t go to show that Skitter really is a villain than nothing ever will.
Kagedviper on November 13, 2012 at 00:42 said:
She obviously had to do it for the greater good. America does not negotiate with terrorists and will not abandon a city whose a victim of a terrorist attack, Skitter has merely done her part in insuring American Freedom. She’s A HERO DAMNIT!
I think she really shocked herself at what she can casually do to people now. She spoke with her real voice when she realized how close she came to killing him. But this chapter really gives evidence to the swarm intelligence theory. When the adrenaline kicks, she is amazing at coming up with a plan. Notice how she spends several paragraphs creating/perfecting strategies and tactics. She had to have thought all of that out in less than a minute. I would even rate her as a Thinker 1 or 2 at least. Regardless, her rep and threat level is going to go up from this. Heck, Coil should be scared.
I really want to disagree based on “Oh no, she didn’t mean to, and she’s really doing it for a good cause” and all that stuff. I want to. But I don’t think I can.
I mean, she lost some control in the midst of a life and death struggle. By the way, that’s one reason heros shouldn’t carry guns. Most heroes and villains don’t get into a fight expecting something lethal. You pull a gun and you up the ante from possible arrest to possible death. Things tend to get messy from there, and it’s one reason why law enforcement is generally supposed to fire as a last resort. If your cops and heroes are known for being trigger happy, expect the criminals they chase to reciprocate since they know that being caught may mean death instead of jail.
So she lost control, that’s not so bad. What is bad is that she used the life of the mayor’s son, even if he’s a hero, as a bargaining chip. That is pretty firmly in villain territory there.
No worse than anything america has done with its military. Taylor would be a great military commander; powers aside, she has the moral ambiguity to “do what needs to be done”, is goal-orriented, and has the moral strength to feel bad about what shes done.
I disagree that she lost control, the Prism fight would have taken place in a minute or so at the very most. It’s been shown before that she has constant awareness of her bugs no matter where her focus is so she would have had Triumph on the mental backburner throughout.
It is important to note that he was not actually in danger at the point where she finished Prism and got back to him. As for allergic reactions and so on, if that had gotten seriously bad she would have broken off immediately.
eduardo on November 13, 2012 at 08:24 said:
Please try to find news on what is happening in São Paulo right now. 20, 30 deaths per night.
Why? A powerfull criminal organization called PCC lost one of their managers in a situation where they (the PCC) thought he could have been simply arrested.
They put a reward on the head of every police officer in the city.
90 officers killed since the beggining of the year. More than 1000 people arrested and I really do not know how many criminals killed as retaliation.
It became a war. I keep waiting to see in the news that police lost all its restraint and really, really started to kill.
A woman police officer was shot in the back by an assault weapon and in front of her 11 years old son.
Imagine what will happen if this son becomes an officer fifteen years from now?
Yes, Skitter has very, very good reasons to avoid killing.
Reozul on November 13, 2012 at 05:46 said:
Yeah, I can only imagine Piggot slowly but sure starting to become very annoyed at Skitters existance.
After all, She is “only” classified Master 5 with a severe viable target handicap. Yet by now there are probably rumors of:
– Has fought Mannequin to a standstill (or even “won” the fight)
– Survived direct contact with Leviathan
– Defeated Lung twice (severely and “maliciously” injuring him each time)
Then theres the sadly unknown one of having faced Bonesaw and Jack Slash at the same time and lived.
And now this.
Remember Interlude 13? Piggot completely glossing over Grue and Skittter.
Yeah…don’t think we’ll be seeing much more of that now that Grue has one of the nastiest powers in the setting and Skitter is taking out multiple top-class heroes by herself.
Khaim on December 4, 2013 at 17:26 said:
If Skitter is still listed as a Master 5 during this chapter, it’s only because the paperwork got lost somewhere on Piggy’s desk.
I really enjoyed this fight, and the vertical element in particular was quite entertaining. It strikes me that, with time to prepare, Skitter could do even more in an environment like this, like removing a staircase and hiding that fact with silk.
Prism’s mechanics are quite interesting, and I am glad that Triumph was unable to shout in Taylor’s face there at the end.
“mouth and again, beneath” should there be another dash between ‘mouth’ and ‘and’?
“anothers was gagging” Either ‘another’ or ‘others’ I guess.
“Only the silk thread connected the gargoyle to the leg of the one closest to me.” I understood what was happening but it reads a bit awkwardly to me.
Yeah Prism would be an interesting character to work out the stats for. I already mostly statted Leviathan (minus regeneration, and probably needs some serious balancing) in HERO 6E; maybe Prism will be my next attempt.
Individuo on November 13, 2012 at 00:39 said:
Skitter is getting to the point where she is gona get targeted by everyone.
This chapter is incredible and make point in how much skitter has advanced in her villain career.
Also, quick question to the autor, are the bullies gona make a future appareance? I want to now what happened to shadowstalker.
Stay tuned! Worm jumps the shark in 2 arcs, with the revelation that the bullies are really… the endbringers!
No. In all seriousness, I’m adverse enough to spoilers that I won’t say anything one way or another.
John on January 12, 2014 at 23:48 said:
Leviathan is Sophia, since (s)he’s extremely fast.
Simurgh is Emma, for mind games and psychological warfare.
Behemoth is Madison (or whatchamacallit), ultimately a nasty bitch, that bites because her(his) owner says to.
(Non serious) Maybe they made a Pact?
DeNarr on November 13, 2012 at 00:40 said:
“I could have taken down out right there”
Possibly replace “down” with “him”?
Undead-Spaceman on November 13, 2012 at 00:50 said:
You know, the way things typically go, I was totally expecting Taylor get shot in the back by another ‘good’ guy.
I was pleasantly surprised that it didn’t occur.
Are you saying theyre not good or that good is an subjective moral stance, is neither better or worse than ‘bad’ or “evil”, and it is ultimately the victorious and powerful who write history, declaring who is ‘good’ and ‘evil’
Starry Sky on November 13, 2012 at 04:06 said:
Personally, I take issue with the claim that it’s always the victors or the leaders who write history, and that they unilaterally declare who the morality of a historical event. First, when you consider modern historians, they often go to great lengths in order to recount events with as much accuracy and with as little personal bias as possible.
Second, it’s just not a very accurate statement. For instance, the Chinese historian Sima Qian wrote his famous historical records in secret after suffering castration at the hands of the ruling dynasty. Similarly, Cicero was declared an enemy of the state and killed at the behest of Mark Antony. That didn’t prevent his work from becoming one of the most vital first hand accounts of Roman history in the waning days of the republic.
It may be a bit redundant, but in my opinion it’s far more accurate to simply say history is written by those who write it.
Absolutely true. In addition, if you want it on a grander scale, though not for that long in the course of events, look at Southern History. Through novels, yes, but also serious, or at least researched, history, certain Southern Historians tried to glorify the war and the struggle, as well as obscure the reasons of the war, and the brutal acts on their side (while of course emphasizing the North’s brutality, such as Sheman’s march) among other things.
Eventually it got better, of course.
So not only can a losing person write the histories, entire losing sides can, if they are alive at the end of their loss, try to write the histories in a way that justifies their actions.
So yeah, that statement always did strike me, the whole ‘written by the victors’ as both cynical and innocent of the way in which humans work (which is an odd combination, indeed.)
On the other hand, consider the massive impact of Birth of a Nation. One film single-handedly rewrote history and encouraged decades of oppression, persecution, and mass murder. Yes, we’re sometimes able to correct abuses of history long after the fact, but that doesn’t change the fact that they’re able to do tremendous damage first.
How can you put good in apostrophes after this chapter? If any of the cops in the area or Prism managed to shoot Taylor in the back it would be entirely justified. If that fight had gone on two or three minutes longer Triumph would be dead. Even if he is an asshole, which we don’t know, he still goes out and fights criminals and monsters like the endbringers.
I am baffled that people keep trying to give Taylor the moral high ground in this story. Being the main character doesn’t automatically excuse all your awful actions, even if you fret over them later. It doesn’t make Taylor any less of a great character if you acknowledge that she is actively doing the wrong thing.
You can be a villain and still be good.
You can be good at doing evil.
Thinking back on it, I’m not entirely sure why I put good in apostrophes, maybe the number of hero’s turning out to be jerks in this story is starting to get to me. That and I wrote that about a half-hour after waking up and was still a little groggy.
But anyway, what I meant is that I just expecting the mayor to turn around and shoot her in the back after helping his son because that sorta almost seems par of course in this story. I’m aware that she’s the reason he needed help in the first place but she didn’t have to personally help them with it and everything. She could have just tossed him the epipen and left while he fumbled with it.
If the fight had gone on a few minutes longer she would have stopped attacking him. We know that she is constantly aware of her bugs and what they are doing, Triumph wasn’t being ignored, otherwise the timing becomes ridiculously convenient.
Even if she stopped attacking him he was still in life threatening danger. She injected him with more than a bit of venom. She wouldn’t intentionally kill him, but now that she is fighting more viciously it is only a matter of time.
Don’t really want to get drawn into the moral debate, but Triumph is one of those ‘super strong’ heroes in addition to his voice. Judging the correct amount of force to use on capes is HARD.
I am actually kinda impressed by the mayor here. Taking on villains with a shotgun? Say what you will, but any mundie willing to take on superpowered folk while at a disadvantage has chops. I might not agree with his politics, but he’s got chops.
Although now Taylor could conceivably say “I saved the city”, though I doubt she’s be proud of it.
Ah, yes, a very important weakness of humans, even superpowered ones. The need to breath. A well-placed choke hold can do wonders against them, provided you can keep it on long enough. I don’t believe it actually takes as long as wrestlers tend to sell, though. Also, you have to know what you’re doing or you might just kill them in the process.
I guess this really brought it home to the Mayor that he is very touchable. He was all confident in having hero protection, knowing reinforcements could be on the way, but then he found out the bugs could get his son.
On the plus side, looks like Taylor finally got a guy’s pants down. Go go Keeper! (Dungeon Keeper Ami reference)
Also, the reforming of Prism kind of reminded me of this Evasion or Dodge move from Legend of Mana that I’ve been using in something I’m writing (and am terribly behind on. This month goes too quick). Your character splits into three, each of the ones spreading out a short distance in a random direction on the screen. Neither you nor the enemy know which one is real until a second later when they two fake ones fade.
I guess the setting has itself a response to the rich buying powers: Poor people who get traumatized get them right back. Hey Mayor, don’t want your son to almost die next time? Maybe have the cops pay some real attention to school bullying and how the heroes act in their civilian lives.
So I guess the lesson here kiddoes is be good to your fellow man lest you treat them so bad they gain the ability to fire cans of baked beans from their fingertips. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle. Yooooooooo Joe!
I think the rich buying powers is a pretty good response to traumatized people going around raping and murdering with their powers. Is it somehow Triumph’s fault that Taylor was bullied? No. Just because Taylor was bullied doesn’t mean she is morally right when she almost murders a law enforcement agent. The lesson here is that the local villains will break into your home and try to murder your children if you don’t do what they want.
That makes Cauldron seem so good for the world, but I’m not getting a good vibe from human test subjects, brainwashing, and almost certain deaths. Is the world better off with Cauldron? How much would villains outnumber the heroes without them?
Until we know Cauldron’s ultimate plans we can’t be sure if the world is better off with Cauldron. What we do know is a hell of alot of the best heroes have been made by cauldron, and if they weren’t around the endbringers would probably have a much higher death toll. Until we know the source of the endbringers though noone can definitively state whether cauldron has had an overall positive impact on the world.
Ok, so the rich ignore social programs, ignore fixing social ills. Poor people get bullied, wind up in worse conditions, have their basic human dignity trampled on because someone decided they didn’t care about the problems of the poor.
Then some of the poor get powers as a result. It would be quite natural for them to then seek some justice. Something to balance the scales out a little bit.
Being bullied doesn’t give them the right. But being bullied by a superhero, someone supposed to be the moral watchdog of society, who then uses friend’s dad’s position of higher financial and social power to escape any sort of justice whatsoever, and then the society is such that the school does hardly anything to truly correct the situation which is now probably one of many that’s being played out?
If you help to maintain a society in which someone’s rights and dignity and personhood are trampled upon, don’t be surprised when someone’s version of standing up and saying that they matter involves taking it out on the society that put them down in the first place.
Around where I live, especially after the election, there were people pissed off and worried. My own brother expressed some idiotic idea that now black people were going to take revenge on white people for all the bad shit whitey has done to them for so long.
If you don’t put them down and treat them like second class citizens, they won’t have anything to feel like getting revenge over, now will they? All they’ll have are the standard gripes of anybody else, which provides no moral justification at all if they then go on to do bad things.
You keep trying to say it is the rich people’s fault that all these people are villains. People have a choice, and it isn’t based on your wealth. Do you think it is ok to rob banks and murder people? Do you think it is acceptable to use your newfound powers to intimidate others, to rape or kill them? Being poor doesn’t give people nobility of purpose, and neither does being rich. What does give a person the moral highground is going out every day and preventing murders and robberies. The source of power matters far less than what you actually do with it.
If I have money is it my fault that something bad happened to someone that doesn’t? Am I expected to go out and try to help every single person I can find, or else it is ok when the villains break into my home and do whatever they want?
Also, you honestly don’t seem to need to be that rich to buy powers from Cauldron either. A cop with a decent inheritance was able to buy powers and become Battery after all. Is she somehow worse than say Lung because she bought her powers and Lung had something bad happen to him?
Certain societal ills disproportionately effect those who are poor. This is not an indictment of poor people. It is an indictment of the society that can be fixed by those who are better off and in better position to fix it but do not and sometimes abuse their greater power tot he detriment of others.
As for robbing banks, as long as no one is hurt, it’s hard to see the immorality in it. I do take the FDIC for granted, though, which will pay back anyone with $250,000 in their accounts. The only ones who might lose some money would be those who have more than that.
Murder is defined as a wrongful killing, so I won’t use that. But some people do deserve to die. Some people do things horrible enough that it is a good option for them to be hunted down and killed, perhaps by some sort of team of secret Navy team flying into Pakistan.
Did all the German soldiers of WW2 deserve death? No. They were casualties in a battle where the alternative was allowing the regime of a horrible despot to have his way. It is regrettable, but it was the best and most moral course of action available. It was only available because society, both German and national, had failed to do anything but exacerbate the conditions that lead to a desperate Germany seeking someone to make them feel strong and worthwhile again.
Dropping the nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were actions that many people can debate the morality of. But it is worth noting in that debate that every single war since WW2 has not used up the surplus of Purple Hearts created in anticipation of an invasion of Japan.
And, of course, anyone at all is given the moral authority to kill someone who is attempting to kill them.
Look how much it took to actually intimidate someone who was just in a position of elected power. You want to know why? Because that part of the city still had police protection, hero protection, and because he was privileged enough to not worry about people around him wanting to do him harm.
But when you let someone wallow in the portion of society where it is ok to rob, murder, and rape, where power is only obtained by being the strongest, then problems will happen. That area doesn’t have to exist. There are always going to be a few bad cases out there, but they won’t have very many places to hide if nowhere in society accepts that kind of thing.
I’m not talking justice on the individual level. That would be more like beating a dog and training it to fight other dogs, and then it getting loose one day and killing you. That’s more like what happened between the Undersiders and Shadowstalker. This kind of justice is more concerning groups of people.
Like one large group of people left with no power or running water, little in the way of food, no police protection or emergency services. Left to fend for themselves but holding out the hope that the authorities and the ones with power will get their act together enough to save them while supervillains take over their homes. And then the much smaller portion that’s doing ok is considering pulling out of the city and letting it stay that way, forcing people to either stay at their home where they seem to have a good reason to stay already, or pack up and leave. Let me reiterate that point. A few people. That one man. He has the decision in his hands to have the government say “Wow, you were looking for help? Well, you can just help your ass on down the road because the place you’ve been starving for is getting bulldozed and there’s nothing you can do about it.”
The problem is that money is so often power these days.
Necro comment.
A little clarifiication. The japanese did not capitulate because if The bombs. They did, because The soviets attacked the kvantung army which numbered over a million, and defeated it in a week. That was the real shock to the military leaders. The only question That remained, is WHO will occupy Japan. The japanese opted for the americans, and delayed the soviets despite the capitulation, and hurried along the americans, practically carrying the american troops, to take territory befora the soviets arrive.
Battery could only buy powers due to also going on their ‘payment plan’ also I think the point is more that it’s difficult to argue that it is immoral to attack a system when that system is attacking you first.
Skitter is anti-authoritarian because authority has made her life hell at every turn. That’s a reasonable response to take. Furthermore if we’re looking at the wider stance here then we have Skitter (saving everyone she can) versus rich people having a nice meal in their mansion while discussing condemning a city of people to death or close to it.
The mayor has hardly been shown to be a paragon of decency, remember that he ran a city which routinely had poor people beaten and raped (and even killed in some cases) if they went into the wrong area of town. A city which made no effort at all to fix it’s vast income inequalities (see Danny despairing over trying to help people with that one) and instead focused on making the rich people comfortable.
This showed some brutal actions on Skitter’s part. But unless you hold that it’s different when you do it with your own hands, the Mayor has actually done worse. Much worse. And not for good reasons.
In response to Anzer’ke:
First, I don’t think that condemning the city in any way means killing everyone in the city. My impression is that if the city were condemned, all current inhabitants would be evacuated and become refugees while the infrastructure would be leveled.
Second, it’s my impression that the guards on the Boardwalk were private contractors not working under the auspices of the government, and even if they were, the mayor himself can’t be held personally responsible for every social problem in the city. We have no idea how long he’s been in office nor a clear understanding of what his personal politics are nor any idea how exactly the local government works. For all we know, the mayor has been pushing for progressive social reform programs for months but has been prevented from doing so by a recalcitrant city council.
If I recall correctly, the only thing we know he opposed was the reopening of the city ferry, which he may have opposed for very valid reasons. Several reasons I can think of just off the top of my head, the operating costs would be large and ticket fares would be unlikely to cover the cost, especially if the tickets were priced economically enough for the disadvantaged members of society to be able to afford them.
There was also likely strong opposition to the reopening of the ferry system from the members of society in the downtown district. You have to remember that the rich citizens and businesses in the downtown are likely the ones paying the highest property taxes and local government officials are, rightly or wrongly, going to have to bend to their will in at least some situations. This isn’t a necessarily evil thing either, the property taxes from downtown could potentially be redistributed to the Docks region in the form of social programs and infrastructure improvements, though that’s clearly not in any way guaranteed.
In short, Skitter has clearly done far more directly unethical things than could conceivably be attributed to the mayor given what we know right now. Maybe in the future it will turn out that he’s a total prick, but for now, I’m not comfortable making that judgement.
Evacuation already took place, everyone still in the city has some reason why they didn’t want to evacuate. Considering how bad things have gotten it seems doubtful that those are minor reasons. Also the statement is abandon, this would imply cutting off the city from infrastructure.
Uh, yes he can. It is his job to be held accountable. That’s like saying that a Mayor lacks responsibility for the police. Fact is that they are an openly employed, violence authorised force; who is paying them is irrelevent, they are being endorse by the government by the act of allowing them. Allowing them gives them the same legitimacy as the police (they certainly acted like police in their assumed authority), the government is granting them that and the result of that is that it is the government who are responsible for them.
We’re not talking minor stuff here, they were really bad and in plain sight. There is no excuse at all for allowing them to continue.
As for the ferry that was explictly done to cut off a chunk of the city, and saying that he was beholden to the rich is hard to swallow given he lives in a mansion. He’s rich too. He also claimed to have been elected more than once (I recall this being stated elsewhere as well, re-election campaigns were brought up) so he hardly lacked for time.
Saying that it’s okay to screw over the poor because the money from the rich could ‘in theory’ be used to help them doesn’t make sense. Even if the money were actually being used (which it isn’t) that would be government money, which is generally intended specifically for the less fortunate. It’s not a gift from the rich, it’s fair payment for continued participation in a social system. The rich usually owe the poor, not the other way around.
In any case, bad stuff was done, he was in charge. No attempt was made to stop that stuff, I have no sympathy for him.
And again, Triumph was a combatant, he was defeated. You can’t then complain that your opponent fought back. Especially when you escalated to lethal and near lethal force right from the beginning while they did not.
You can’t then complain that your opponent fought back. Especially when you escalated to lethal and near lethal force right from the beginning while they did not.
In fairness, it was a villain who pulled a gun on a (presumably non-powered) child. That counts as “escalation to lethal force” even if he didn’t actually pull the trigger.
I always claim most situations when the person in the right cannot be found and both parties seem grey are the fault of a third party.In this case, this whole mess is trickster’s fault.
Everyone in the city is being allowed to stay because the city is still a city. Once they condemn the place they are sure to compel evacuation rather than risk the political blowback of leaving a bunch of people in a city that is no longer recieving any support.
Also, there is such a thing as private security companies. Ranging from bouncers to mall cops to mercenaries. The people on the boardwalk sound like jumped up bouncers. They have no official standing and if the cops saw them beating a homeless person they would be obligated to act.
You are making a lot of definitive statements about what the mayor has done and why with very little evidence.
Also, Triumph escalated to lethal force after his sister was grabbed and had a gun aimed right at her head. How the hell can you claim lethal force wasn’t being offered?
Damali on November 13, 2012 at 12:18 said:
To your brother…well, if we didn’t do it the first time, why do it now? our victory has been secured 🙂
My brother just thinks that there always has to be antagonism between people of skin colors because that’s the way it’s always been as far as he knows. I’ve noticed a tendency for people to just keep hold of some beliefs they were raised with purely because that’s what they were told as they were raised. I think Mr. Deity was great on TheThinkingAtheist when he said you needed to examine your beliefs and figure out what you think about things, otherwise you’re just living what someone else told you to.
Case in point: If everyone was jumping off a bridge, would you?
1. Everyone may have a really good reason to jump off the bridge, like a portal to happy boob cupcake hot wing land.
2. Even if I’m wrong, there’s guaranteed to be a pile of bodies from all the other people capable of softening my fall enough to survive.
Those last two paragraphs have a very O’Reilly flair to them.
With great restraint, I ask you to please never say that to me or about me again.
It specifically reminded me of that time he said the moon didnt cause the tides. And then defended it for two weeks.
That really does not help that statement about me. And he was addressing an atheist, trying to assert that science doesn’t know everything by going “Tide comes in, tide goes out, you can’t explain that.”
Well, let’s just hope Taylor doesn’t develop quite the same reputation as poor Ami. A jailbait evil overlord with ‘deviant tendencies’ is one thing, but one that also controls and covers herself with insects? Things could get creepy and awkward fast. You can almost hear the Earthworm rumors…
Hey there, want to play with my earthworm jim?
Get your mind out of the gutter, I meant the videogame.
If Triumph bought his power, this experience may be enough to cause a trigger event (or would he still need it to be the intensity of the secondary trigger?).
Also, it’s interesting how Taylor was able to use a single bug to see:
“forced a bug down his throat to check and found it almost entirely closed up.”
This means that she’s still coming into her powers.
Also, I have a suspicion that Taylor and Trickster weren’t actually meant to succeed. We’ll see from Coil’s reaction.
Can a Cauldron bought power, get a second trigger event? She is definitely still coming into her power. She is starting to practice with multitasking, has yet to replicate the incident with the moth listening to music from the ABB bombings, and the proposed swarm intelligence thing. Which I am certain she now has after this chapter. I talk about it above, but look at how fast she comes up with great strategies/tactics. She contemplates and organizes so much in what seems like less than minute. I think that she can only make use of it in extreme situations though. I actually think she should qualify as a Thinker 1 at least. But that makes me wonder what separates a Thinker 1 from a regular old genius.
I’m pretty sure that if her power involves shifting part of her “self” into the swarm, she qualifies to be something like thinker 10 if not 12. Because it scales up. The more bugs she has, the smarter (more inhuman) she becomes.
And yes, I fully agree that swarm intelligence seems like a logical conclusion.
I wouldn’t be surprised if, somewhere down the road, she will lose her body.
If skitter ever gains transformative powers then she’d be incredibly powerful. Bullets would be functionally useless for one thing. For another if it included a range increase…actually it’s probably a good thing that Panacea went to the bird cage. Her and Skitter together would have been utterly OP.
Skitter could pretty much have controlled the entire city by herself.
If skitter ever gains transformative powers then she’d be incredibly powerful. Bullets would be functionally useless for one thing.
That would actually be kind of scary… for her. Bullets sill kill bugs, they just only kill a tiny number of bugs. But more than you might think, because it’s not just the bullet that hits a swarm, it’s the shockwave in the bullet’s wake.
Now with a swarm, that’s one thing. They’re expendable. If she loses 1% of her bugs, that’s nothing. But if those bugs are transformed Skitter, well… how would you like to lose a random 1% of your body? Especially if you don’t know what 1% it is?
The average adult human weighs somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 pounds. How would you like to lose 1.5 pounds, not of “weight loss” but of random body mass that could be from anywhere?
Ant your recollection of the ABB bombings just gave me a horrible yet inventive use for Skitters abilities. Kamikaze bugs!!!
I think the fallout from this fight is that Skitter will have a even bigger target painted her back and will have to find more creative ways to use her bugs. Nitroglycerin in its liquid state is highly volatile to physical shock. So if the bugs in jested the liquid or carried small traces of the solid compound and once they land and start bitting and the person swats them…booom.
Physical force generated from the blow excites the unstable molecules breaking down the bonds and you have several thousand pounds of kinetic pressure generated per seconds. I don’t think there will be anyone in the Protectorate who would want to willingly face her with thousands of flying or walking bombs at her disposal. Just a thought 🙂
Devious, but that might be breaking the unwritten rules that all capes follow. It involves no explosives, or high powered guns. They broke them against the 9, but no one cared. Using tiny bombs against the people might be too much for Taylor. Besides it is not like she really needs it, this chapter proves her worth at long range combat. What she really needs are options for when they get too close. She would have lost if Triumph had gotten close enough to shout or take a punch. The fight with Mannequin was so nail biting because she had to fight him up close and personal. She only has some pepper spray, and a metal baton. I wonder how much tinker tech is to buy on the black market. If she had something like Armsmaster’s Halberd, she would be covered in case another cape manages to get close.
Don’t necessarily rule out the kamikaze bugs. Understandable even a small insect carrying minute quantities can still cause serious damage. But you have some supers who are damage resistance or armoured in some fashion where poison or capacin laced bugs wont affect them.
Also bear in mind that bombs are not always used on people. The military use explosives to clear debris and obstructions. I can see Skitter using a few to open a difficult door or use them as shock and awe like flash bombs. Just discharge them at a sufficient distance to temporarily disable a room full of opponents or knock out electronics and security or disable a moving vehicle.
In regards to her close range combat skills that can only grow with time but Skitter is a manipulator. Her main strengths lies in fighting from a distance. There is only so much someone like Skitter can do against Triumph who is far more physically strong or durable than she would ever be. As for Mannequin he was encased in a suite of armour which like Triumph put him physically outside the realms of normal human capabilities. I think if she had a few flying bombs at her disposal against mannequin the fight would not have lasted so long and she would not have sustained so much injuries from the encounter.
You make excellent points, but I’m worried that it is too easy to kill someone with a small explosive. It is like the danger of escalation she points out when Fletchette said she would try to scare off Ballistic. What happens if she bombs someone who is not quite as tough as she thought? It seems possible to use though, and I wonder why no one has thought of it in universe. While Nitroglycerine may be too volatile to use effectively, I’m sure there are compound/chemicals she could simply have the bugs carry. Or simply make a small bomb, that a swarm can easily carry. It depends on how much weight a swarm of bugs can carry. While I think explosives are too dangerous, she can always have the bugs carry a smoke bomb, some tear gas, or a flashbang. What I mean for close combat is for an emergency situation when she is ambushed or surprised into a close fight. She should never fight up close, but she needs something more when she has no choice in the matter. Something so that if Triumph actually did get close, it wouldn’t be an instant game over.
I don’t think it is very easy to buy tinker tech off the black market. Cauldron uses tinker gear sales as a way to find buyers after all. Taylor also wouldn’t be able to trust the tinker tech of anyone that isn’t recruited into her team. Most tinker tech has trackers and such according to Grue during the bank robbery.
Well, her Swarm Sense makes her largely immune to being blinded, so how about flares/smokebombs? If she can rig her helmet accordingly, or if she should have an as of yet undiscovered poison immunity, maybe even tear gas. If she can engage her enemy while he can’t see her, that’s one major advantage.
Also, with her ability to track her opponents movements and multitask she, as shown above, is not quite as vulnerable against attacks from behind and from multiple opponents, and has an easier time tracking and defending against attacks than someone relying only on sight.
Ultimately, most of the time she should still avoid close combat, if she can, which, given Atlas and Swarm Sense, should be a lot of the time.
Her biggest weakness as of right now, as i see it, is that she lacks attacks with raw power, against the likes of Glory Girl or other Brutes. Here, kamikaze bugs could indeed be very handy. Depending on how many bugs she uses, she could even fine control the explosive force.
Another major weakness is how to get her swarm close enough to bug exterminators like Triumph. Here, apart from the usual swarm/multiple fronts tactics, i see burrowing insects (if the ground permits), and possibly hollow protective capsules/bug grenades, maybe even airdropped/slingshotted by the swarm or rolling like hamster threadmills.
Kamikaze bugs adds new menace to that song.
“The ants go marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah.”
Boom, Boom, Boom. Go forth my noble brethren! But I completely forgot about the lack of security of Tinker Tech. Maybe they can go mug Leet.
My flamitory comments asside,
I’ve greatly enjoy your story here these past dozen months, and will continue so. Good job sir.
Thank you! I hope to see you around in the comments.
Nope, this is my yearly compliment offering. Since I’ve started it none of my favorite authors or artists have died before finishing a story.
Well, now you’ve jinxed it.
..Damn.
Fake Spoiler; Soylent Green is Wildbow!
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ereshkigala on November 13, 2012 at 06:33 said:
There’s no such thing as abstract morality, only personal morality, and even then it is an offshot of our old instinctual survival mechanism. The human mind can learn to feel good about behaviors it subconsciously believes help its survival and bad about behaviors it subconsciously believes hinder its survival. In the prehistoric human social groups, the survival of the group was the survival of the individual the vast majority of the time so social relationships and enlightened self-interest created the rules of those societies to help the survival of the group. After longtime exposure, people subconsciously linked those social rules with their survival mechanisms of “feel good / feel bad” and created what we call “conscience” or “moral compass” for the first time.
Throughout the centuries and with the advent of philosophy and religion, other types of “survival” tied to the same mechanism, specifically our perceived “spiritual” survival, “racial” survival, “national” survival, thus further enriching and shaping morality. The idea of “good” and “evil” was created on the basis of that social construct as the collective “moral compass” of what most people believe to be good or evil.
In short, morality and the ideas of good and evil are constructs of social engineering. “Good” is what the majority of individuals in a system *believe* to promote the survival of themselves and the system that supports them. “Evil” is what the majority of individuals in a system *believe* to harm the survival of themselves and the system that supports them.
That’s what causes all those very interesting moral problems, people. Good and Evil are neither abstract nor absolute. Is the survival of a city or nation good if it demands someone sacrifice their father, brother, children or friends? Is the survival of your child good it it requires the sacrifice of another life? How about which life should be chosen to continue when the water in a lifeboat with three passengers is only enough for one of them and sharing will simply get all of the three killed?
People are not perfect. Thus Good and Evil are not perfect *when created and applied by fallible individuals*. Especially unintelligent individuals which, frankly, the majority of the population is when trying to function as a majority.
Let’s not even start about situations where the moral compass of the majority is guided by a smart but self-centered (or insane) minority. That’s how we got the Crusades and Usenet Rule #4.
Yes, there are many “constructs of social engineering.” I don’t believe that that implies that every idea of “good” and “evil” is inherently about supporting society and self, and I don’t think that all conceptions of good and evil are “constructs of social engineering.”
Suppose that I am a Kantian. I took a few philosophy classes in college, read about the big five(communitarian, virtue, utility, Kant, Theist) and picked Kant. Was Kant a social engineer? Was his writing a deliberately constructed plot to promote his own survival and the survival of the system that supports him?
It is possible to have a morality that is entirely distinct from the survival of the self. Indeed, I would call that the entire point of morality. Morality is what motivates us to not act in self centered ways. An individual acts on a moral basis, especially if you listen to Kant, only to the extent that one is not motivated by personal benefit.
I don’t want to claim that Good and Evil are perfect, because I think that there are many competing conceptions of Good and Evil. However, that doesn’t mean that they are ultimately self centered conceptions.
Don on November 13, 2012 at 06:45 said:
Entering the morality controversy here with a resounding “It doesn’t matter.”
Did she cross the line? It doesn’t matter. She looks a whole lot like she crossed a line to people in power, and that’s enough. She’s marked, this stink will never wash out on its own. So now what?
As much as people don’t like to hear this, morality is a function of power and vulnerability, and instinct. Hermit crabs don’t have morals; they’ll eat you if they need your shell and they’re better fighters than you. Or if they’re hungry. Or if they’re just irritated at life.
What makes us different? Social connectedness. We work together because it works better than the alternatives. We all have, to greater or lesser degrees, a need to look after each other… but still also a need to compete with each other on a hermit crab level. As time goes on, the behaviors that reinforce a strong group tend to win out, along with the corresponding instincts. Which is cool; I like those instincts. Feeling good when I help someone in need? That’s awesome. Feeling angry at dangerous, destructive individuals? Also good. I’d love to medicate all of them, put them in therapy (I’m more a fan of the ‘help people’ aspect of justice than the vindictive ‘kill the heretic!’ aspect).
But sometimes you can’t win against the bad guy. Or the price is too high.
Stalin, by some reports, killed about 60 million people, several hundred thousand from a personal list. He still has statues. We cooperated with him a lot – he had the power to back his behavior. If he’d lost it before he died in bed, then it’s assured a world full of people would have added him to their own lists; but he never did.
Added to that was the assurance that he played by certain rules – he was *just* tame enough to stand next to for a photo op, and everybody had bigger problems.
That’s how it works with some villains. The Slaughterhouse 9 could never gain that kind of peace, because they couldn’t be relied on for photo ops.
Skitter has been giving people in positions of authority the feeling that she’s a bit more diplomatic. Which is good for her.
Because if she lives, she’ll need to take the Stalin strategy: she will have to be untouchable long enough for people to get used to her being around. She will have to seem invincible or at least highly inconvenient, while at the same time a good partner for a photo op every now and then.
There’s no other path for her at this point.
What I find weird is how much angrier people seem to be at Skitter fighting back (which she has done several times before) then at Trickster putting a gun to a child’s head.
I doubt either of them would go through with it, but the latter is quite clearly much worse. Heck, Triumph is probably not going to be scarred by these events, the kid on the other hand…
I’m not mad at what Skitter did in this chapter. In fact I think it is very interesting and I am glad it happened. I just think that all the people that were saying “oh she isn’t really doing anything bad, the heroes are worse anyways, why are they being so mean to the main character!” have to reexamine Taylor and her actions.
Also, depending on the medical care Triumph probably could be scarred by these events. She was doing some nasty shit to that guy.
No one has questions about Trickster being a villain. We know he is a villain through and through. His sense of morality is weak at best. With Taylor there is a sense of violation and incongruity.
Galiana on November 13, 2012 at 15:39 said:
I agree. I think that because readers have spent so much time in Taylor’s head, we’re used to thinking of her as a sympathetic, likable character who wants to do the right thing. That makes it even more shocking and incongruous when she does things like this. We haven’t gotten to know Trickster so well, and haven’t formed an emotional connection to him as a character. Personally, I was torn between thinking “OMG, Skitter, what a badass you’ve become!” and “OMG, Skitter, how did you sink to this point?”
These comments are gonna start making me question myself at this rate, I really can’t see much wrong with what Taylor did. While MrMoray is right that this is clearly villainous behaviour I just don’t see the horror here.
She did something very close in her fight at the bank. With far less margin for safety and against a more vulnerable opponent.
She didn’t threaten a non-combatant, indeed she avoided the obvious method of just taking them hostage and forcing a stand down via black widow. She has actually threatened and attacked non-combatants before, both at the bank and the gala. Both times she had far less riding on her actions and thus far less reasons.
Indeed the Gala was more or less just her playing a prank, if a risky as hell one.
She fought seriously against Triumph and Prism (I was a little concerned by mention of an awkward landing at those speeds, hope Prism is okayish) but they both were fighting very seriously against her, for all that they were intruding it was not Skitter who hit first. Triumph was blasting the hell out of any bug clone he saw (enjoy broken everything, Trickster is gonna be hurting) and Prism was shooting. Trickster started it, but the heroes escalated to a ridiculous extent, they’re meant to be better than that.
In the end Skitter was dumped in it, had to succeed to save the city full of people, had to handle everyone else deciding to through rationality out the window and still managed not to hurt anyone too badly. I don’t see what makes this all that different from other actions in the past.
Especially given that the target, the mayor, is undoubtedly a terrible person, from Interlude 8: “People having their fingers broken for shoplifting, being beaten insensate, and there were even tales of the rare girl or boy getting raped by the really twisted fucks. When the enforcer was done making sure the offender in question wouldn’t come back to the Boardwalk, they left the bloodied person in the back of an alley, worked with another to stick them in a dumpster, or if it was late enough that nobody would see, they would toss them off the side of the boardwalk. A fifteen to twenty foot drop, depending on the tides and the location of the drop, onto sand or into water that was freezing cold for half the year.”
Does that really give anyone the impression that the guy in charge is a good sort? Or the heroes who support that system? I don’t see much reason to put Triumph on a pedestal. A lot of mention is made of him being a hero and going around saving people, which is great PR and all but heroes very clearly aren’t saints in this setting and have no real oversight (Shadow Stalker’s actions towards Taylor anyone?) day to day.
The city is smoldering and starving and he’s having a nice meal without a single sign of being tired or overworked. He gets all miffed over his phone rather then trying to talk seriously. He responds with massive violence when pausing would have let him defuse the situation with the two people who were clearly not interested in a fight. Honestly my impression is of a spoiled rich boy who joined the police (more or less) as expected of him.
Those aren’t employees of the mayor. They were enforcers hired by the local market to protect them.
Also, The heroes escalated at an entirely justified rate. Once you threaten to shoot a little girl in the face you shouldn’t expect the local heroes to slowly creep up their power use until everything is balanced out. Just because Skitter herself wasn’t pointing a gun at a child she was still part of the group that was, and helped the man that did.
I don’t think anyone is arguing that Skitter is evil. I certainly am not. What I am arguing is that all the people that keep saying that Taylor isn’t really that bad, and everyone else is a jerk anyway really ought to reexamine their opinions.
Also, we clearly have signs that alot of the heroes are desperately over worked. That was a big part of the Wards arc. Do you really think the protectorate members are just kicking back while their younger colleagues are working themselves ragged.
The constant cries of how being a jerk negates heroic acts and Taylor being nice on the inside balancing out all the nasty shit she does just boggles the mind. Just because she is the protagonist doesn’t mean we have to assume everything she does is the right thing.
I’m not sure I understand this.
So Skitter has responsibility for the actions of Trickster, the person in charge of the operation that she was assigned to. However the Mayor has no responsibility for what was allowed and accepted within the city he ran. And saying that the Boardwalk employed them is a dodge, he was in charge and he either knew or ignored it intentionally; they did horrible things (protect them my *ss, they were explictly there to keep people who spoiled the look out of the area for tourists and the rich) and he enabled it, putting him right there with Coil.
Meanwhile he also does nothing to fix the cities issues before, doing stuff like the Gala instead. And presently has done b*gger all to help any part of the city we know of and is apparently more focused on himself.
Actually that’s exactly what you’d expect. Triumph hit Trickster with a kinetic blast…which could very easily have set the gun off. Which would strongly hint that he knew Trickster wouldn’t actually pull the trigger or he’s just really stupid. Slow escalation is exactly what would have been practical. What’s more with two of the three villains trying to calm things down there was no good reason to not go with it.
I disagree, mainly because this isn’t anything new. The bank remains far worse than this.
Yet no mention here of Rory looking anything but okay. He’s in the middle of lunch with his girlfriend and family, given what his girlfriend does we’re either looking at a massive coincidence (possibly Coil set it up but that makes little sense as his ability should have ensured a worse outcome) or them doing this reasonably often.
It kind of does, especially when we examine the heroes actions close up and find they are often not doing particularly nice things and just going by PR. Makes me wonder how much PR goes into som careers. Shadow Stalker alone had major bullying, assaults and near-murder being concealed.
As to Skitter. What nasty shit? She’s ruthless in her methods but I struggle to think of anything she’s done for genuinely bad reasons. Same for stuff sh did that was even all that terrible functionally. Her being nice on the inside is important as it tells us that she’s constantly bluffing, she was no more going to let him die then she would kill his little sisters.
I am not saying Taylor is responsible for Trickster’s actions. However I am saying Trickster’s actions justify the use of deadly force by Triumph and Prism. You can’t threaten to kill someone’s family in front of them and expect a nonlethal response. It doesn’t matter if two of the three villains are trying to calm things down when the one villain that is escalating the situation is still pointing a gun at your family’s head. Also, the local heroes have been briefed on what might happen if you lose to a member of the Undersiders. You might get your body jacked by Regent and be forced to fight your friends. Being nice and not going all out in this fight would have been a horrible mistake.
Complaining about the Gala seems kind of silly to me. It was clearly a fund raising event intended to raise money and encourage people after a horrible series of terrorist attacks. Trying to get people feeling safe and comfortable again was essential after what Bacuda did.
Also, Shadow Stalker is a clear outlier. The girl was on probation and was clearly not a trusted member of the Wards. Just because she was a thug and dangerous doesn’t mean that the rest of the Wards are bad people and not heroes. That is like saying because Taylor is trying to help people that Regent is a good guy more focused on saving lives than personal gain.
Taylor being nice on the inside is important. It shows that she doesn’t want to do bad things to people. Being good on the inside isn’t stopping her from doing nasty shit to people though, it just means she regrets it later. And by nasty shit the obvious example provided by this chapter is threatening to murder a local law enforcement officer in front of his father in order to change the way the local government operates. That is terrorism, plain and simple.
Basically, Skitter isn’t responsible for Trickster’s moral breach, but Triumph, Prism, and the Mayor have no way of knowing that and are thus perfectly justified in believing all three villains are a unified front that’s okay with putting a gun to a child’s head.
Aww, and i had so hoped for an epic “The Reason You Suck Speech” for the Mayor and the heroes.
Nonetheless, taking out two rather powerful heroes with a lot more experience than her – Taylor has come a long way, and if she wasn’t in the “major threat” register before, now she certainly is.
Also, I second (third? four…d?…) the hivemind and thinker classification, and perhaps even her losing her body. If that indeed happens, not only do I think her threat level will skyrocket (among others: can’t be captured/killed with some bugs to retreat to, vastly improved control and sensory capabilities, perhaps second trigger event with improved range among others, ability to infiltrate everything not sealed airthight, etc.; If she really cut loose, she could easily be endbringer-level then!), it also should cause interesting bits of internal conflict and character development in the vein of “what have i become!?”. Also can’t wait for the figurative look on the face of the one who downed her, only to be buried in an enraged tidal wave of insects.
Great chapter, already can’t wait for the next one. Your updates are among the highlights of my week.
It seems i forgot something: Even though almost nobody in-story knows it, she not only took down two major heroes on her own, she took down two mayor heroes with her arm in a sling and having undergone surgery only hours before!
She doesn’t even need to be in top form or use her arm to kick their ass!
The AWESOME has been DOUBLED!!!
Lost Demiurge on November 13, 2012 at 08:17 said:
Hm, there’s a moral event horizon crossed! Still not the BIG one, though.
Once Triumph recovers, I doubt he’ll forgive her. Threatening his family, nearly killing him, LITERALLY putting a bug(s) up his butt… He mad? Oh yeah, he MAD.
He might surprise me, but I’m not betting on it.
Indigo on November 13, 2012 at 10:22 said:
The grayness of her moraltiy just got a bit darker.
Um the Muse on November 13, 2012 at 11:52 said:
I just re-read the last chapter in light of what we see here. A couple of things: the mayor, Triumph, and Prism obviously had the ethical high ground. B&E in order to intimidate is very illegal, of course. And one is perfectly within one’s right to protect one’s home and family. But, the interesting thing here is that only Triumph was acting to protect others. Prism never acted to disarm or defuse the situation: she never shouted warning or tried to negotiate. She also shot to kill, apparently.
Similarly, the mayor wasn’t defending himself; he grabbed the shotgun to show the villains that he would not be cowed. Maybe he doesn’t realize that Skitter could’ve taken him out without being distracted? Even if he didn’t, he could still tell that she was leaving him, his wife, and his two daughters alone. He went out there because he saw that his son couldn’t handle it. It was a very brave thing to do, but also very foolish. That foolishness is a symptom of his arrogance and inexperience.
TL; DR: The moral motivations of the defenders were mixed.
Another thing that popped out at me is that nobody in the family was ever scared of the villains (though they were scared of the bugs). It’s obvious that they trained in various hostage scenarios, but it’s still a gutsy family. An example is when the girl who was taken hostage leaps away from Trickster at the same time as Triumph launches the dinner table at Trickster. Holy cow, that would take incredible timing. Don’t forget that the girl has a gun pressed to her head at the time.
Typo from last chapter: “Do Thugs” –> thugs should be lower-cased.
My guess is that this was an ambush. Possibly choreographed by Coil or with Coil’s and Mayor’s agreement (they get Skitter and Trickster, the town stands).
If Coil and the Mayor collaborated to set this up as a pawn sacrifice, that puts an ENTIRELY different color on things.
What a f’d up hairball that would be…
And then Coil is the Mayor. And also Skitter’s Dad. And Grue’s dad. Just to make everything even more complicated.
Reveen on November 13, 2012 at 14:01 said:
Not sure I can comment too much on the morality side of things, the situation is far too muddled to be within my scatterbrained ken. But I do think that Skitter breaking with Coil has just become a now or never situation. Skitter is hurtling quickly towards public enemy number one territory and once she crosses that line she’s going to NEED Coil for protection. That is if Coil hasn’t changed his mind about wanting her dead.
The biggest problem I see at this point is that Coil presumably knows Skitter’s identity. He’s the only one with that information aside from the Undersiders and Dragon (who might be alignment shifting to chaotic, who nows). If Skitter said screw it and bailed between Leviathan and the S9 she might’ve been in the clear, but now the first thing Coil’s gonna do when it comes down to a confrontation is forward that info to the media, like he did with the Empire Eighty Eight.
She wouldn’t like it, but the only way I see Skitter being able to disentangle herself from Coil and remain incognito from the powers that be is Coil himself kicking the bucket.
Fiona on November 13, 2012 at 14:55 said:
Hooray – Worm has a banner and is #1 on topwebfiction dot com
Long overdue. That’s really a placeholder until I get something better, which may admittedly be some time away.
Nearly misread that as top spot being a placeholder until…
MrMoray on November 13, 2012 at 15:42 said:
I find myself wondering how this whole encounter would have played out if Trickster wasn’t there. I imagine a more peaceful encounter with an insect-covered wall used to convey a PowerPoint-style presentation on why the city should be preserved despite the.presence of villains.
That said, I feel this is the first time Taylor has crossed the line between criminal and villain. The bank robbery was purely a criminal act, not villainous. The attack on the gala was criminal and akin to a prank. Same with the assault on the PRT (except for Regent’s role). But this was classic villainy, because of how Trickster escalated the situation and Skitter resolved it.
One more thing: Skitter’s act of villainy is a subtle thing and is only apparent from an outsider’s perspective. That is her false threat of “Do as I say or your son dies.” I call it a false threat because she intended to save Triumph no matter what.
The world should be grateful she’s not at all evil. She could easily be a Slaughterhouse Nine level threat at any time with any kind of insect or arachnid, even ladybugs. Just watch “Marabunta” and think “Chew, my pretties, chew!” Insert maniacal laugh.
I agree with you that this is the first time she has crossed that line. Although I do think the assault on the gala was a bit more than just a prank. It was a show of control to weaken the public’s confidence in their own safety, and an attempt to destabalize the city so that Coil could more easily conquer it. Admittedly we didn’t know this at the time.
If Trickster hadn’t been there I do think the whole operation would have gone more smoothly. We were told he steps up and makes bad calls, but now we have actually seen it happen.
frozenchicken on November 13, 2012 at 20:17 said:
Honestly, I just want to see Skitter write Triumph an apology letter. (Perhaps a pseudo-anyonymous one?)
Dear Rory,
Sorry about what happened at our last party. I had hoped it would turn out to be a lot more enjoyable than it was, but I think it turned a bit sour towards the end, and my attempts to adjust the entertainment level just made it worse. You know how it is-you go out with the intent to do some joyful partying, then some idiot spikes the punch and before you know it, everybody’s hungover and asleep on the ground.
Speaking of which, I’d especially like to apologise for my friend’s idiotic behaviour. His attempts to hit on your sister were creepy, utterly ruined the party atmosphere, and I can assure you that I never would have brung him along if I’d known he was going to behave so badly.
Given our respective attitudes on responsible drinking, I won’t wish you a speedy recovery from your hangover, but I will wish you a _complete_ recovery.
-Your favourite party animal, Skittles.
Plus one, frozenchicken. It’s good to see that the fear doesn’t paralyze your sense of humor (assuming that you’re frozen in terror).
frozen chicken on November 14, 2012 at 04:08 said:
Yay! Finally, someone who gets what the ‘chicken’ was supposed to refer to on the first try. I never realised when I came up with it that most people’s assumption would be ‘something you find in the frozen meat aisle’.
To quote Prism, “I knew that bastard was cheating on me! Where is that asshole and who the fuck is this Skittles tramp? When did he go to this party? And he brought his little sister when there was drinking! I’m gonna shred the crotch of all his pants and tights. Invite me to Thanksgiving and cheat on me, I’ll knock you upside the head with some yams and a frozen bird.”
Who’s going to turn down Prism? Foursome every time.
…Though having three of the same player at the table might make for too predictable a game of bridge.
Is she fixed at three copies?
Hydrargentium on November 14, 2012 at 17:11 said:
Speaking of “fixed”, if Prism got pregnant, and then split into three, and stayed apart until after labour, we’d have geniune clones for the first time ever.
liminal2016 on July 3, 2017 at 21:31 said:
And you wonder why people ask you about penises and rear ends.
Nice. Now I’m picturing the Undersiders drunk. I picture Rachel as a laughing drunk for some reason. I can picture her laughing hysterically at everything. But Taylor drunk would blow their cover. I can see cops receiving 911 calls of a giant swarm of bugs spelling out the lyrics of a good drunk singalong song and random drunken texts in the sky.
Drunken parahumans must be a pretty big issue in Wormverse. If Skitter’s control of her bugs is instinctive (and stuff like her laughing through them suggests it is) then there’s no shortage of things which could rsult in the insect population of Brockton Bay getting…weird.
What were they doing while she was snuggled up to Brian for instance?
AVR on November 14, 2012 at 02:47 said:
Dunno if I’d appreciate that letter from someone who’d raped me in public. YMMV.
Yeah, I said that I wanted to see an apology letter from Skitter, but the pseudonymy was just me being silly. Though I don’t think the word ‘rape’ is accurate. Violated is closer.
Splitting hairs, FC.
Not at all. There’s a big difference between rape and physical violation of the type we see here. Rape is a ‘civilian crime’-it can be done by anyone at anytime, because the motivation for it is everpresent. Skitter’s actions here were military, in a sense. She used them to win a fight. Maybe that doesn’t sound like much of a difference to you, but the psychological impact on the victim is vastly differing. It’s the difference between taking a bullet on the battlefield and taking a bullet at the shopping centre. If the psychological strain of taking a bullet on the battlefield is too much for you, the easiest way to break is to quit fighting. Not an option in the other case.
Granted, this example happens to be a somewhat poor case, as it’s somewhere in between, but Triumph was already well into the battle and would have viewed Skitter’s actions as a ‘battlefield’ assault.
Oh god this should totally become canon!
I just had a kind of ridiculous thought on how Coil ends up saving the world. At some point he will have a second trigger event, and gains the ability to move things between the two universes. So he will manage to dump the endbringers onto the world he doesn’t like and leave them to die with six endbringers. Thus saving his primary timeline.
So many comments. Is this the most comments any chapter has ever had? If this keeps up, the site could use a forum.
Maybe, but the pageviews are nice.
Highest # of daily views I’ve had prior to today is 2331. Today we’ve had 2893. Wondering if we’ll break 3k before midnight.
This is the most commented chapter to date, as well.
I’ve seen this kind of boom before when Worm gets mentioned on some site or another (often a forum), but today all the referrals are coming from search engines. It’s like someone’s mentioned Worm, but not linked to it, so everyone’s running to google/google mobile (and one person from bing. For shaaaaaame) to check the story out. This is corroborated by the # of people rereading the story from the beginning (going by today’s views of early chapters).
But I don’t know where they came from.
Well the new banner and the number 1 status might have something to do with it. And people have been great at linking tropes on other pages to link to worm. That’s how I found about it originally, from the heart is an awesome power. Or maybe the word is spreading about the greatness of the story and the quality of the writing. This is my new favorite superhero setting.
It’s not topwebfiction. Only ~10 people have clicked on that link today, and I suspect the people who use topwebfiction are already readers. Probably.
It’s primarily referrals via. search engine with people going on to read. Ergo my earlier thoughts about there having been some mention of Worm somewhere.
And broke 3k views. Woohoo.
Pretty simple explanation – they’re people already familiar with the story who want to see what happens. Return visitors.
Google is the modern day bookmark.
zoetewey on November 14, 2012 at 01:33 said:
I’ve noticed that when Legion of Nothing gets attention (advertising or whatever), there are often a lot more searches than usual. That said, as the story’s grown in readership, it’s also gotten more searches than before.
My theory is that it’s people who thought Legion looked interesting, but somehow the URL just didn’t register in their minds, and they didn’t bother to bookmark it.
What’s stranger to me are the very, very specific searches in which people search for characters from a specific story arc and then click through to the newest entry.
To my mind, that seems like more work than I’d go to. I’d probably just bookmark it or grab the RSS feed, and let the technology find the newest entry for me.
Kat on November 24, 2013 at 17:21 said:
Re: specific searches and then newest entry
Something along the lines of off visiting grandma, who doesn’t have wireless, but will let you access her computer. You don’t want to access your bookmarks in the cloud, because … well, we don’t want to accidentally reveal THOSE bookmarks, do we?
Dues on November 17, 2012 at 01:46 said:
My money is on the huge # of comments. This is a controversial chapter and people are checking in to talk about it, reply to replies, and stuff like that.
FWIW, I came back like 4 times today. I wanted to see comments and reactions, and I re-read the chapter.
I’m guessing I’m not the only one. Though you can of course distinguish uniques and return visitors, so my question is how many *new* readers did you get?
As you may have noticed by now, especially if you’re burnt out on my blabbering, I pop in a bunch. I enjoy the robust comments section for more than just my own ego. In fact, I’ve advertised it as a feature the times I’ve brought it up. Good community, interesting discussions, lots of wild mass guessing (Do we have any evidence of David Bowie making public appearances whenever Coil is accounted for? I didn’t think so…) and some fun and funny stuff on occasion. Sections like this post’s also help to keep people returning and involved with the story in between updates.
Now the pressure is on me to actually be funny…
Ok, I got one. Why did Skitter cross the road?
Answer: The road and its friends bullied her in school. Skitter felt really guilty about crossing it though.
*gets yanked out of the comments section by a hook*
Psycho, everyone knows David Bowie can’t be Coil, he is too busy being the Sovereign.
Alternative answer: Why not? She’s crossed everybody else :p
I do think that, the comments at least, a little to do with the moral controversy (or what many see as it) in this chapter. All of your Chapters are interesting, but it seems that the end of arcs, and any Chapter that has to do with the moral decisions/personal actions of Skitter seem to be popular
I have it bookmarked and I get the RSS feed, but sometimes I am in a different computer and want to see the comments, then I use google.
All I can say to that whilst I’m heading through is ‘*snicker*.
I meant Wildbow’s Most commented comment’s section with the above.
anonymus on November 14, 2012 at 05:40 said:
Just wondering that this is never mentioned
to me it is relativly clear that coil would kill taylors father if she stopped cooperating
and would harm her team/friends/minions
that doesn’t excuse her actions but it makes them understandable enough
anyway i am surprised that she didn’t do anything serious
(i get it it was serious, but i mean more serious,
so please dont start another talk about moral^^,
lets agree that we all disagree on that)
I halfway expected her to plant deadly bugs and spiders on a quater of the city population
(which would be possible with the extended range she has thanks to amy)
and force a couple of thousand hostages to walk to the mayors home
to both intimidate him and demonstrate power.
RABBLE RABBLE MORALS RABBLE!!!
I think Taylor isn’t considering the fact that Coil could kill her father for a reason. She doesn’t want to think of her father at all. Once she starts thinking of her father she might want to go see him, and then that kind of brings her entire situation crashing down. It makes everything even more real. Taylor’s father is the only character that matters to her with an outsider perspective on Taylor’s behavior, and I think it would be pretty devastating to her if he rejected her because of her actions. I honestly don’t think he would, but it is a distinct and horrifying possibility.
Also, the little bugs for extending Taylor’s range all must have died by now. The only reason Atlas is alive is because of Grue’s emergency intestine creation. The little bugs didn’t have that.
only atlas had no digesting system
(as i get it) amy didn’t belive that the rally bugs were so dangerous, and didn’t bother with that.
I think all of the bugs panacea made had a time limit. If Taylor still had the range increasing bugs they almost certainly would have been mentioned by now. Also, Panacea wasn’t very innovative but I am pretty sure she was smart enough to realize the range bugs were crazy dangerous in Skitter’s control.
yep your right, all gonna die (14.6)
“They’ll starve to death before the week’s over”
still if most of the town is devided into 9 territorys (4 travelers, 5 undersiders)
and her range covers her hole territory
she could still go somewhere (not her territory) and get enough hostages
(easy over 1.000, how high is the population after the endbringer-attack and the slaughter house 9?, 5-10% of those should be possible, or do it in washington should get 250.000-1.000.000 hostages there)
Taking a thousand people hostage wouldn’t just get her sent to the birdcage, it would probably get her shot in the face.
i mean she has 1.000+ hostages
it is known that the bugs still follow her orders,
if she gets out of range / unconscious,
killing her could mean sealing the fate of the hostages
now that i think about it, she could go to an insect rich area
and gether a couple of billions of insect,
since the keep following her orders if she is absent,
she could just have them
1) breed stronger (change the selection characteristics for reproduction)
and get “super”-insects
2) order them to to to someplace and destroy buildings [that many could do that]
or 3) send them to kill everione in a town (she could be a usefull addition to the endbringers [Endbringer nr.4])
without even beeing present
if she just drops hints that those things would be possible, that would be intimidating enough^^
Implying she could and would do those things would bring the heat down on her like nothing she has dealt with before. If she took 1000 hostages she would never be able to safely sleep, because then the hostages will escape and the heroes will come in loaded for bear. Also, if she has the hostages and gets assassinated, the hostages would be fine. The bugs would have had orders to stay on the hostages, not to attack them.
or to kil them in 2 hours, and she changes that regulary, getting rid of insects on 1000+ people takes a long time especially if some of those insects are parasites, that live inside the human body, not a risk the heroes can take
She has never shown the ability to time delay an order. Whenever she changes what the bugs are doing it is something she actively does.
what about getting the moneybags during the fight with lim it defenetly wasn’t time delay but it could be used as such, “circle the victim 300 times than kill it”
In that case she told her bugs “Gather up the bits of paper into a bag!” She didn’t tell them sit on these people and wait 47 minutes and if I haven’t countermanded the order then attack them.
Woops, just reread your comment and realized I didn’t address the 300 spin idea. Depending on the intelligence of the bugs I suppose it is possible that could be a method of time delaying a hostage crisis. The obvious problem with all of this is that then Taylor would have murdered 1000 people. She has not yet fallen so far that that is an actual option, or even one that she would be willing to risk in case she had her head blown off.
threatened to murder,
just enough to keep the heroes away
like i sad expected a bit darker chapter
meant said not sad
Skitter…take a 1000 hostages?
Maybe she’ll go join the nine while she’s at it.
Just because her powers would be ridiculously effective for this kind of thing (take off her costume, she is now undetectable and can hide amidst the crowds) doesn;t change that she would sooner die then do it.
If someone’s plan for killing Coil is this;
1) Decide to kill Coil.
2) Wait at least 48 hours after your decision before doing anything
3) Prepare for the murder for a time exactly equal to the time you waited by tracking Coil
3) Kill at specified time with long-range sniper fire or bomb. (i.e. NOT in person)
Wouldn’t that work, bypassing his defenses? First, by waiting at least 48 hours between making the decision to kill him and starting preparation to kill him, you ensure there’s at least one timeline recombination between making the decision and starting preparation. Thus even if Coil splits timelines later, your planning will originate from the same decision in both timelines and will progress at the same pace in both timelines (assuming you stick to your schedule, which you should).
Secondly, by pre-setting a time for your preparation that will be at least 48 hours, you get at least one timeline recombination during your preparation time as well, meaning that even if Coil splits timelines again, your schedule will carry over in both of them.
Third, a preset time for killing him with in an impersonal way from a schedule that has carried over several timeline recombinations means that even if the timelines are split, you’ll kill him at the same time in both; no advance warning and no him saving himself by jumping in another timeline.
What if in one of his timelines he is sitting in his fortress, surrounded by his loyal soldiers and a few super villains that think he is going to fix one of their teammates? In the other timeline he might be going out and meeting with someone while escorted by his troops. The two situations require completely different methods of assassination, so I would say it isn’t so easy to kill him. You just have to hope that the other you is successful, and that you both kill him at the same time, or he will just keep splitting off an altverse.
1) Truck
2) 35 tons of fertilizer
3) 5 tons of gas
4) 10 tons of scrap iron
Not hard, just costly. The above bomb costs maybe 300.000 $ and is the equivalent of 5 cruise missile warheads if you do it right.
Now, if you had some bugs excavate underneath his fortress, some other bugs building you a crude but large chemistry lab (also underground) and have them handle the equipment to produce and store large amounts of nitroglycerin, you could even do it without payment if you got the time.
Where is she going to discretely get any of that stuff? Coil is her supplier, he won’t just casually hand off the materials to make such a huge bomb for no discernable reason. Also, that kind of digging would take time and probably be noticeable. You can’t just dig a tunnel and laboratory that large under Coil’s base without causing some serious structural damage.
The other issue is lets say you have that bomb under his base. How can you be sure that he is in the base in both universes? Killing Coil is an utter nightmare, and a solution as simple as a bomb probably won’t go over well.
Wageslave94 on November 14, 2012 at 08:45 said:
Also, who is to say that there isn’t *already* a bomb under the base? I mean, it’d make perfect sense to have a ‘self-destruct’ mechanism in the event things got too far out of hand… but also bearing in mind the unseen yet completely undeniable aspect that Noelle is in the base?
wait longer and you dont need to have the same plan in both timelines,
just the same time for starting the attack,
if he isn’t killed at the same point in time it doesn’t matter
even if he splits again,
he splitts one timeline where he will be killed, in to where he will be killed
doesn’t change anything
and she could just use a bug army to kill him easy enough,
get some deadly bugs into his bunker and maybe one onto him, have some follow him
order them to kill him at a specific time
It isn’t that easy to kill a guy when he is sitting in his armored bunker/base surrounded by solders with laser rifles. If Coil hasn’t come up with some sort of defense against the bugs by now then I am dissapointed in his abilities as a criminal mastermind.
Here is the problem with saying you get a bug on him and just wait. How do you know he didn’t break off a timeline before that? What if you kill him in that timeline but in the other you are still waiting for your chance to bug him?
Also, lets say you do kill him in one timeline and make the attempt to kill him in the other timeline two minutes later. Well Coil now has time to split off another timeline where he runs and tries to escape, and in the original he gathers his soldiers and tries to kill you back. Killing Coil is hard and he shouldn’t be underestimated.
I think the main reasons for him to try to get rid of her are
that he has no good counter against the bugs
that she killed him in another timeline
If I was worried about Skitter trying to kill me I would carry a canister or two of some sort of airborne toxin and a gas mask that could go over my helmet or integrate with it. Also, he wears a full body suit which is one of the big defenses against Skitter’s swarms.
Honestly if Skitter had killed him in another timeline I genuinely think he would just shoot her in the head with a laser rifle.
not if he wants to keep the rest of the undersiders and traveles cooperating,
and some of his army would leave,
if he gets mad and kills his one minions “without reason”
(they dont know his abillety and they know that in this timeline she didn’t kil him)
airborne toxin would be very unpracticle (to much risk),
especially with an army around (everyone has to wear a mask at all time),
he could never leave his bunker with it.
Killing Taylor would probably lose him all of the Undersiders. However I doubt it would lose him the Travelers or any of his soldiers. The soldiers would stay for sure, they are being paid extremely well and having any of their darker predilictions satisfied.
Even if he can’t carry a gas or figure out a way to kill swarms of bugs, something which would surprise me, the bugs would still have to get through his full bodyarmor suit. The one thing that has consistently caused her bugs problems.
he could not justify killing taylor to his man,
they could think they would be the next,
it could loose him part of his army
i think that he is planing to justify getting rid of her by her failiure here, but she didn’t succeeded
To everyone who isn’t Coil, his abilities function as a combination of precognition and ridiculous luck. I don’t see any of these methods working, however wherever he is is where he is, only he sees the split and thus if he is standing in a room in front of you then that is where he fixed on.
Which makes him no less impossible to kill. The only thing I can see working would be a juggernaut approach, and even that would fail if he has Dinah and some kind of method to avoid it.
Which makes me wonder about him and Dinah. She’s an incredibly potent resource for him (and now we’ve seen the mayor I am very curious indeed about her dad) which makes his mistreatment hard to understand. Brainwashing would have been a much better long term bet. If I was him I’d take this opportunity to release her to Skitter’s command, giving her an “underling” and simultaneously avoiding dealing with her issues and creating a route to make Dinah remain his resource.
As things stand he has to know that he’ll lose Dinah eventually, less evil methods would be more effective in the long run.
Actually, I don’t think that Coil’s power would make him hard to kill as soon as you know where he is, for exactly the reason that you point out (it’s like a less robust but more flexible version of Gallant or whoever that hero with backup organs was called). Skitter is adept at finding people and things, so finding him shouldn’t be that big of a concern.
Ignoring his troops and other outside defenses, Skitter could easily nullify his power. All you have to do is keep following up any attack. Eventually, you’ll get to the point where neither timeline is significantly different from one another and he’ll be in your grasp.
As for Dinah, keep in mind that the drugs are also boosting her precog ability. Coil is apparently willing to sacrifice her in a couple of years in order to get better results from her now. Maybe he knows of a way to replicate her powers through his connections with Cauldron?
That would work vs Coil
That is likely to work vs Coil and his soldiers
That is hard to pull vs Coil and the Travellers
That is very hard to pul vs Coil ,his soldiers and the Travellers.
A time-delayed poison is the only easy way I can envision to deal with Coil. Something that won’t take effect until a day or two after it has been ingested/administered.
The fatal flaw with all these plans is Dinah. Coil asks her every day his odds of dying that day; if he has any brains at all he also periodically asks her his odds of dying this week/month/year. Even without that, we know he asks about the odds of his plan succeeding, and dying would naturally reduce those odds as well. The second you decide to assassinate him (and it’s likely to succeed) Dinah’s answer will reflect that, and Coil will begin taking steps to ensure his survival and eliminate the threat. A few more questions along the lines of “Is this person going to kill me/plant bombs” and he can simply assassinate you.
That said, if Dinah is out of the picture this is a quite solid plan. Even if the timing is slightly off, and the surviving Coil can split the timelines again, he won’t be able to get far enough to avoid the second assassination attempt, especially if it’s the mass explosive plan. In fact, you may want to specifically delay any explosive plans by a few seconds to increase the likelihood that Coil flees into a timeline with them (gets shot at but survives, collapses the timeline, then his world explodes).
DrIntrovert on November 14, 2012 at 11:22 said:
Hi wildbow, I’ve been enjoying your work since February, found it through TvTropes. I’ve seen more examples there, do you think that’s where the new readers are coming from?
Unrelatedly, has anyone considered whether (assuming the “swarm intellect” theory is true) Taylor’s swarm has an infulence on her psychology? Considering other characters have similar issues it would make a lot of sense.
Well, here’s a sample of the referrals I was getting as of early yesterday afternoon:
What I was expressing curiosity about was the outlier – the huge (to the point that it doesn’t match up with the patterns I’ve seen in the past few weeks) number of people using search engines to find the site. Like I said, it leads me to believe I was mentioned somewhere and people then used google to find Worm.
I think that the multi-tasking ability makes her think very differently, not to mention the sensory secondary powers that Brian commented on in the last Interlude.
Certainly her mind must have been effected by it, though I kind of think that some of her ruthless methodology stems from having a hive queen mindset hardwired into her now.
She is pretty much an all purpose queen bug in her powers and it shows: she’s territorial (almost as much so as Bitch); highly protective of her ‘people’ and while she’s generally a calm, builder type once she is stirred to action the result is exactly like a similar shift in insect hives from construction and keeping to themselves, to all out near suicidal onslaught.
Even her gathering of allies resembles the idea of a hive queen, gathering subordinate females around herself (scoping out a possible emergency replacement in Parian) and accumulating workers to achieve her ends (her territory currently functions in exactly such a manner). Just look how effective her logistics are. I still prefer the idea of Coil staying in charge and just not being so idiotic with stuff like Dinah, Skitter certainly works brilliantly as a territory head.
Walker on January 20, 2015 at 16:16 said:
She tries to interact with people the same way she interacts with her bugs: it has to be her way or the highway, every time. She sucks at negotiation and compromise.
Not entirely surprising given her impression that she can’t ever rely on anyone else for help, but one wonders if her powers aren’t also nudging her approach in that direction.
I think that may be her biggest personal failing, (even over the flexible morals and self-delusion over the same) and it has bit her in the ass more than once. Most unfortunately other people have suffered for it, too.
Perhaps it helps to explain her continuing lack of confidence in herself. You know, feels guilty and like she lost after beating Mannequin, that sort of thing.
She talked about how small they are in the grand scheme of things with Grue in that interlude, so maybe one reason she’s so hard on herself is she isn’t inclined to think much of herself in the larger picture. Bees or ants willing to die for the good of the hive (though it’s not so much willing in their case). So when others of her people are hurt instead, she feels bad for not doing her duty.
It just occured to me, it has been suggested that Skitter’s secondary powers include some kind of disease/poison resistance or even outright immunity. Since she has to be able to survive her bugs…but it just occured to me that this makes even more sense given that the contents of that locker had to be taken away in biohazard bags.
Blood and so on, festering in the heat for months, it would have been infested with far more than just bugs and yet Skitter was in the hospital for only a week with no mention of catching anything. Since powers are mentioned to include a stage of granting all the needed protections to stay alive, it fits that Skitter would have gained such a constitution as well.
When was that suggested Anzer’ke? She has complete control over whether or not the bugs injects venom or not, she has no reason to fear their venom if they literally can’t inject her with them.
To be clearer I was referring to it being raised in the comments quite often.
You know I have been thinking about the fact that Skitter may be the catalyst of the end of the world by stopping Coil. After this chapter, I can totally see her killing/stoping him now. So I wondered what type of Apocalypse Wildbow would use. I know zombies are a cliche at this point, but there is a great fanfic of the marvel universe being invaded by zombies that I love, so I could see zombie apocalypse invading Wormverse. Not classic zombies though. People are too genre savvy now, and I could never picture them destroying the world. So if I had to pick a favorite zombie, I would pick the infectees from I am a Hero. Those things are freaky, and I could totally see them destroying the world. I am a big fan of horror, so maybe one of the twin entities dies and we have a monster invasion like Stephen King’s the mist, with Taylor becoming the worlds only hope as she finds she can control many of them. Or lets go back to the classic of a big BOOM. With Skitter ruling over the city, with the rest of the world in ruins, and Armsmaster in a hockey mask saying, “” Just walk away, and we will spare your lives”. So random survey time. If the end of the world does happen, what type of Apocalypse, would you like to see hit the Wormverse, and why?
Speaking of zombies reminds me of what I consider the ultimate version of zombies: the Cauldron-Born from the Book of Three. These guys never got tired, were capable of using weapons and armor and working as a unit, and (here’s the clincher) every time one of their brethren was killed, they got stronger (more durable, faster, and stronger if I remember right). Oh yeah, they worked completely off of magic so they didn’t need to eat or drink and could never turn on their master. Of course, you would need a lot of them to take down the world, even if they were totally invincible, due to the sheer distances involved and if you could hit them all at the same time they wouldn’t have a chance to power up. Still a pretty wicked way to overrun cities.
Love that series.
For anyone interested in zombie stories, Underneath a Graveyard Sky is essentially an examination of how a zombie apocalypse could start and work in real life. Strong points include action scenes and consistent intelligence. It does get a little heavy in logistics, but mostly later in the series.
Making the wrong choice for the right reasons? Hmmmm, I’m not sure. Almost every different apocalypse would present very hard Moral questions/choices to the survivors. I can totally picture a situation where Taylor has to choose about letting an innocent die, to save dozens more. Or how to justify spending dwindling resources on helping someone who can’t work or pull their own weight, and who is probably going to die no matter what you do.
Huh, wildbow’s comment disappeared.
I really hope that wasn’t as spoilery as it felt.
No, he just asked a more specific question. What apocalypse felt more in line with the morals of the story.
Not even the morals, the general themes. But then I expanded the question with a hint, decided it was too much, and scrapped it.
Well let’s see:
The endbringers stepping up the tempo, culminating in them attacking in pairs and finally threes, the morally sound heroes dying in the fight, the morally not so sound heroes concentrating on their hidden agendas, monsters like the S9 taking advantage of the chaos, pretty much the entire world turning into a copy of Brockton Bay, and Taylor and friends searching desperately for a way to solve this mess, while skipping repeatedly over the moral event horizon but all the time staying true to their fundamental moral beliefs.
Taylor swallowed as she looked at the carnage below. The Batlte of Axis Mundi had gone against humanity long before she could arrive. Axis Mundi, the city created for people of all nations in the wake the Endbringer attacks, was destroyed. The First, who used to be Noelle, had fought selflessly for the good of everyone in spite of what happened to her family. She was never going to forgive the President for taking them hostage to coerce her into battle. She’d likely kill Alexandria for executing them when she was thought to have escaped. Even after she was recovered from the rubble of New York and found to be comatose, Alexandria defended her actions. Now she had paid the ultimate price.
And she had failed. Behemoth still stood, a hum and orange light diffusing its surroundings as it moved its arms, rhythmically manipulating energy to finish tearing into the universe’s foundations. In orbit around earth, the massive geometry continued to whirl and grow, a 2 dimensional sign of the world’s instability in the cosmos.
Now it was up to Taylor. The Hivequeen. She sat uncomfortably in her chopper, due in part to her outfit. Skintight Darwin’s Bark silk covered her, save for the padding and lines of chitinous armor, all topped with a chitin crown resembling her late Atlas’ horn. She rested in her seat and looked back to Grue, on a similar cycle that better matched the black steel and leather armor he wore. Imp danced on air nearby with the footstrapped hover disks she stole from Victory after they broke up. He never could get over his time fighting against her brother and sister-in-law as Kid Win. She settled on taking the hover disks because of all the problems she had riding with Grue in a side car with her power. Not knowing she or the sidecar were there lead to some dangerous risks that almost got her killed 4 and a half times.
They were all that was left. Rachel’s suicidal charge against PETA for all the dogs they put down. Regent took up a career doing a stageshow in Vegas with Shatterbird as his assistant, at least until he had to giver her maternity leave for Regent Jr. Tattletale was lost against Coil, which seemed like it happened a lot longer ago now. A whole other world ago, in fact.
“Are you ready?” asked Grue, expectantly. There wasn’t really any question. In reply, Taylor gunned the engine and sped down toward Behemoth. Jack Slash charged at them from the side, once again protecting his monstrous charge from attempts to avert the apocalypse. Grue peeled off to charge him. Slash swung his axe, his power taking the front wheel of Grue’s motorcycle off. Due to the size of the axe, he telegraphed it enough for Grue to anticipate and leap over the handlebars. Taylor didn’t know what he thought he was doing, until Imp appeared out of nowhere to catch him, smirking back at Jack Slash, who suddenly understood where the C4 belt he was wearing came from.
Taylor had to turn away to concentrate on driving over the cracked road, but the explosion followed by Aisha’s cackling laughter made her smile. Behemoth didn’t even bother to turn towards her, assured that nothing left in the world could hurt him. Drawing from the bugs she’d had gathering in the area and the ones she’d brought in the cart behind her chopper. She concentrated, forming them into the most dangerous bug clone she’d ever done.
When Behemoth deigned to face the threat against him, he found a wriggly mirror image. Before he could raise a hand, the Behemoth clone went for his throat. Fingers of army ants and hands of scorpions swarmed around its head and down its body. Japanese Giant Hornets dropped off bullet ants and bot fly larva before attacking. The soldier ants were smart, determined natural weapons. They wouldn’t give up until they’d consumed the world. Behemoth erupted in flames in response, which worked up until the ground collapsed underneath him. The sewers of Axis Mundi collapsed in around him, Taylor’s ants having underminded what was left of the ruins. The flames were smothered by dirt and cement entombing the monster.
Still the attack continued as millions of insects attempted to expand on the natural cleavage of its body and tunnel through it. Behemoth manipulated the heat around its body to fry what it could, but it began to lose concentration. It had taken months to sneak enough parasites into Behemoth in prior attacks. A horde of insects tunneled from the outside, and an amazing amount of worms tried to meet them halfway.
Finally, it was all ending. The last of the Endbringers at the mercy of the Hivequeen.
Then the geometric abomination in orbit froze and formed into a shape. From this shape emerged a tentacled appendage covered with lesser creatures like barnacles the size of cities. The skies went dark as the otherdimensional abomination wrapped around it and drew it through the portal it emerged from.
One universe over, [ ]!)oop’XChtz withdrew its left third tentacle from the wormhole and expressed happiness over finding an adequate replacement. Then it moved the appendage towards its fecal evacuation hole
Ten minutes later it pulled its overalls up and left the outhouse with a whistle, wondering when them newfangled telegraph wire thingamajigs were gonna make their way into the Appazvuvtzian Mountains.
Some Smartass on November 15, 2012 at 11:31 said:
Earlier in my archive binge, I saw a comment about a possible mass jailbreak from the Birdcage, with the assistance of Panacea. I suspect that the jailbreak is the prophesied end of the world, and the accelerating factor if Jack Slash escapes was Panacea being placed there.
That, or whatever those Cthuluoid creatures that grant powers finish their unknown agenda.
That…makes a scarily large amount of sense.
It was also mentioned to have a high chance of occuring eventually no matter what, and fits with all the time scales and such…however Wildbow said that ending the Panacea plotline that way was spur of the moment.
Indeed. I said that there were two major ways that interlude could have ended. Brandish’s response after seeing Victoria played a big part in how that unfolded.
Thanks to Michael for the donation.
leinadrengaw on November 14, 2012 at 23:10 said:
Damn, the comments page exploded- its 5x the length of the story now. Don’t think that has ever happened before.
Wow, I just realized that Wildbow had referred to this as a decompression arc earlier near the end of arc 14. If this was my way of decompressing I would have had a complete breakdown a long time ago.
Did I say that? Can’t remember if I said it was a decompression for Taylor/the story or for me as an author.
Have to admit, the story’s got a life of its own, and I expected this arc to be more easygoing. Funny how that works out.
But it most definitely is a decompression after the slaughterhouse nine scenario. That was though to write through.
johnwedd on November 15, 2012 at 01:27 said:
I could go on about how awesome this chapter is. (because it is.)
I could rant about the moral boundaries which where crossed. (There is a lot)
Or i could have a long diatribe on the socio-political forces in play that brought this situation around to begin with. (We all see a metric-tonne of that.)
But in thinking on that and then browsing the comments, i realized that the story, its world and its actors have encouraged this.
Nothing but the story itself has evoked thought, ire, and hope in its readers and leading to large amounts of discourse.
Wildbow, your creation has not only become a living thing, but has garnered a set of people emotionally attached to it as whole. Artists that are much more successful than you would kill for that. That is truely awe inspiring. Good work.
I don’t really know how to respond, beyond saying that. I can definitely say that I wasn’t expecting responses like this when I started writing this serial a year and a half ago.
Nobody expects the Gecko Inquisition!
if you start to wind up this primary a maybe, you should let a writer friend(s) do some pieces in the wormverse. with your approval of cannon stories. because, i am personally scared of seeing this world go.
By the time Wildbow is done, there may not be a Wormverse to write about.
Thanks to Axel for the donation.
And thanks to Patrick as well. Bonus interlude achieved.
And thanks to Nate for his donation, too. You’re a pal, Nate.
I wonder if there actually is an assassination planned. I mean, the best lies play into the target’s expectations, and telling Taylor that someone in authority has betrayed her isn’t exactly a hard sell. Not sure why Tattletale would say it if it wasn’t true, but she keeps a lot of secrets.
Pahan on November 16, 2012 at 14:52 said:
Sorry, I haven’t had much time to comment lately. And, I don’t have time to read through the other comments, which is unfortunate. (Did we just break another Most Comments on a Chapter record again?) You are taking the story in an interesting direction, and it looks like the chances of the epilogue (which is due in a month or two, right?) that involves Taylor in the distinctly insect-free Birdcage have just increased significantly. It’s hard to have a happy ending if you are a villain. Or a hero. Or anybody in Wormverse, really.
I wonder how that will mesh with Dragon’s plan to find and approach Taylor/Skitter with the goal of redeeming her. (IIRC Dragon had deduced her identity.)
On a completely unrelated note, today’s XKCD seems to have a similar idea to Skitter, but without the superpowers.
I did think that would be something she might do if she couldn’t spare the time to do it herself.
I was going to post that as well, but though it might get lost in the comment superstorm this chapter engendered. I was going to wait to post it near the top of the comments on the next chapter. Oh well, you beat me to it, and now almost no future readers will see it — just us early(ish)-adopting die-hards. 🙂
Shhhhh don’t remind Wildbow that he plans to stop writing Worm. With any luck he will forget and keep going forever!
Taylor slides further into villainy.
Was trying to figure out when it was I lost sympathy for Taylor and stopped cheering her on.
I think it was this chapter where she essentially raped Triumph in front of his dad to get the latter to argue for a different policy.
Let’s remove the bugs and imagine someone else doing this:
You’re eating dinner with your family and someone barges in and threatens you and your family.
When you try and defend your family you are rendered helpless and spiny things covered in liquid fire are shoved into your mouth, vagina and anus. Small pins are stuck in your skin in every part of your body, your eyelids and nose have small spines put in them. You are being choked to death. Your father is then threatened with your death. Your rapist is not caught and can rape you again from anywhere.
The trauma of that is IMMENSE! Worse than all but the most violent rapes (and every bug you see will be a trigger).
They say rape can never be justified, but Taylor seems to have managed pretty well.
Uuummm…its not rape,as elaborated by another commenter above,simply because her enemy is a combatant.
Plus,she mostly did it because she had no other choice-Trickster blew up any other plans badly,ny being an aggressive idiot,and leaving him would be a game over,in so many ways,for so many people.In the end,severely abusing him,NOT raping him,was,considering Trickster’s foolishness,ironically the most moral option
Or do you have a better suggestion?
From memory this topic became kind of controversial and Daniel is *very* fixed in his opinion.
Personally, my opinion is: being an enemy combatant does not automatically make something not rape. Forcibly penetrating someone’s orifices? Sexual assault, period. No it doesn’t matter that her intent was not sexual.
Re: ‘having no other choice’ we need to take a step back and look at the situation here. She has broken into someone’s home to extort them through threats of violence. The authorities have shown up and challenged her.
“Oh, but the cops tried to stop me when I was committing a crime” is *not* actually a morally justifiable defence for committing violence upon them.
Sticking her arms in the air and shouting “I surrender” is a valid option, arguably the moral one, and one she doesn’t seem to have even *considered* at any point.
The fact that it would lead to negative consequences *that she brought upon herself* doesn’t make it a non-option.
“Unlike Oni Lee, Prism didn’t materialize her duplicates along with whatever additional baggage her original self had”
“She had some control. Maybe she had to go out of her way to exclude certain matter or material from her duplicates?”
So I kind of think Skitter should have realised this from the fact that she wasn’t naked nor without any equipment the first time she duplicates. However I am curious if she can replicate food or important stuff simply by including it when she duplicates then taking it off on of her duplicates before merging into one that still has stuff. Unlike Oni it doesn’t explode in dust so she could get rich quick using that.
Does it make sense for the gun to duplicate but the silk not to duplicate?
Prism can exercise *conscious* control over what duplicates and what doesn’t. At first she duplicated the silk inadvertently because she didn’t know it was there. But once she became aware of it, she was able to consciously exclude it next time she duplicated…
Curious George on December 3, 2013 at 00:20 said:
Damn. Taylor has definitely crossed a line here, and it’s going to haunt her. Excellently written chapter, Wildbow. I could say a lot more, but it looks like the legion of comments on this chapter covered most of it.
This was such an emotional chapter, almost made me cry. Kudos!
Wow — comment Superstorm, indeed. Absolute WALL of text about villians/heroes, justifications, motives, good/evil, morals, principles, yada, yada, yada. Not including PG and others doing mini-fanfic ‘here’s where we can go with this’ essays. Most within 48 hours of the initial posting.
I find it interesting that in all the speculation and debate, no one ever really looked at this:
1) Before the intimidation visit, what WAS the Mayor’s position about ‘abandon Brockton Bay’? (Coil could have been misleading for his own unknown motives!)
2) Under threat, the Mayor accedes to Skitter and Co. What will make sure it sticks in DC, if he doesn’t really want to fight to save the city?
Well — I’ll read on, obviously; just wondered why no one else questioned this in the comments.
After a year+, did you ever get a clue what “interweb mention” triggered the surge in searches/ new readers when this first went up?
(Nit) ” … aware of how easy it was to go too far or go over the top.” Too far IS over the top (or vice versa). Just one is enough. You use ‘too far’ several times as things escalate; maybe alternate them a bit?
Shiki on March 5, 2014 at 15:43 said:
Rereading party.
Epipen has an inconsistent spelling throughout the chapter. In two instances you wrote it “EpiPen” and in one “epipen”, all lowercase. Might want to consolidate that.
Wow so she just managed to take out a prime part of Legend’s team and a powerful local hero in probably less than five minutes. Um…what makes Coil think getting on her bad side is a good idea? Honestly this girl has become scarier than Lung in a lot of ways.
She has taken a massive step here towards “ends justify means” though. Like a running leap. I understand what she did and in the same situation I might have done the same but it still makes me uncomfortable and I’ve lost a little bit of sympathy for Taylor here. She also probably just lost any brownie points she had acquired from the Nine episode.
Unlike many other people,I ask this ,instead of arguing endlessly on how moral her action was:Considering Trickster is a dumbass idiot,what other moral choice did she have?negotiate semi peacefully?Trickster has blown that bridge.Abandoning her team/objective?imagine how negatively this would affect the people in her area and Dinah and the Undersiders.Negotiate aggresively,but giving the epipen right away?the mayor would never cave in,and Triumpth would likely arrest her,she would get not only a gunshot,at the least,for her troubles,but the points on her abandoning teammate/objective would remain
In short:its moral because its the less immoral choice she had,not doing this would require copious amounts of hypocrisy.
See my other reply and note that “the least immoral choice now that I’ve dug myself into a hole through my own actions” is not the same thing as the moral choice.
“Try to negotiate” would be a more moral choice at this point than brutally attacking people who were just defending their home, even if it had a lower chance of “success”.
Lower?yes,if it was lower,I’d agree,but it was clearly nil,considering how the mayor acted…even if we do not know it would turn out that way,we cannot blame Taylor for making the conclusion it surely would,based on previous interactions.
Dug herself in a hole?as much as the others dug it for her,tell me,what other choice did shadowstalker and Armsmaster leave her?Even after they left,the only alternative would be giving the only people who were friends to them,after that point,I doubt you can fault them for not changing sides
(refering to your other reply)Surrender?with Coil at her back,this wouldn’t turn out well…even if she had total disregard for her well being (which she does)it still would turn out badly
Its still rape?not when it was,originally,used in the heat of battle….this is a grey area here,because no non superhero could use rape as self defence,or attack,but the bigger reason rape is a special kind of evil is not the trauma,but because there is no way to justify it as “necessary”,unlike violence,or ever torture,which can create the same traumas.But that reason falls short on this scenario.
Would,and should,a hypothetical jury find her guilty?yes,it is a pet peeve of mine that justice should rehabilate all,but thats my thoughts about the justice system,I would still think she shouldn’t get preferential treatment.Is she morally reprehensible for it,however,when judged by beings who read her story?no,she does the right think,even if she pushes the grey boundary a lot.Not the grey thing,not the understandable but evil thing,the right thing considering the options she was given…though I do not disagree that,sometimes,a cascade of choosing lesser evils can lead to worse results than a single time of choosing a greater one.In the end its the fault of society,not for deserving her outlash but for creating continuous conditions when she had to choose the lesser evil
Finally,I’d like to say this,not necessarily to you,but to all commenters:its easy to sit on a computer and say she did the wrong thing,its hard to make a choice of trying to do something to make the world better knowing it might be wrong…yet you must try,even if you dig your grave by other people who’ll judge you but never try,because the alternative is tyranny and stagnation.
Clownie on February 2, 2015 at 05:48 said:
> His eyes roved over my massed decoys, his gun drifting from side to side as if he was getting ready to shoot at any instant.
>“-Dying” the first finished.
Missing punctuation in the quote.
>EpiPen
That’s inconsistent with literally every other reference to epipens in the entire story up to this point.
>Life would be so much easier if I didn’t give a damn about other people’s well-being.
Maybe you should, y’know, not give a damn about other people’s well-being…?
I like the fight scenes where Taylor gets to use her cleverness rather than brute force. That said, it does make it seem like the top-tier heroes are really damn incompetent.
rhinokick on April 9, 2015 at 04:19 said:
my god, I’ve been reading this for about 15 hours and I am only on part 16, normally i would have finished four or five books in that time. I am delighted to find something that has entertained me this much.
Damn, that ending was way too close for comfort.
cw on June 21, 2015 at 00:46 said:
“Blind and struck at an opportune moment, Triumph fell.” -beginning of paragraph 42 (counting spaced out single-sentences as paragraphs).
Al (@twinklecakings) on December 21, 2015 at 00:49 said:
>has powers to switch any two people
>doesn’t switch places with Triumph’s girlfriend
>doesn’t smooch him Bugs Bunny style
… Chekov’s epi pen!
“None sing hymns to breath …
bu oh! to be without it!”
And a note for that (first!) long comment nesting above:
Government is Law. It opposes and is opposed by Chaos (which can be read as Anarchy, personal codes, rampant possibility, or a number of other things).
Morality is Good. It opposes and is opposd by Evil.
There’s a _reason D&D, and most of its later editions, pointed out that these were separate axes and allowed combinations of them. If you fall into the trap of “if government/authority does it, it must be right/good” then you’re conflating the separate axes. Which also happens if you fall into the trap, so visible at present in the right and alt-right in the USA, of “government/authority is inherently Eeeevil and must be obstructed, dismantled, and diminished, to pass away in the West”.
So just keep track of that when you’re arguing!
–Dave, is there a trope category for Awesome Level Grows Upon Rereading, like Malazan?
Jess on October 4, 2017 at 04:46 said:
Very late to the party, but the main thing I’ve gotten over the entire story thus far is that the heroes aren’t so heroic and villains aren’t so villainous. There seems to be so much more assault, killings, escalations of violence, and general “I don’t care” from the heroes except where it benefits them or where they might be expected to act, as with fighting the Endnringer.
Even when cooperating, it was a hero that set out to kill as many villains as possible while taking the glory for himself. Villains have overall shown more restraint, compassion, and humanity than many of the heroes.
That isn’t to say there aren’t outliers on both sides, but I’m finding it way too easy to find examples of heroes doing bad things and them getting covered up or excused while villains are held to task only because of a simple label.
I love that she gets serious.
btw, where is Genesis?
In the last chapter it was never written that she was “killed”.
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Sting 26.4
Posted on July 27, 2013 by wildbow
Ellisburg loomed before me. A small town, surrounded by a massive wall. Ellisburg had been situated by a river, and the wall included a section of the waterway. The building that managed the flow of water was bigger than any structure within the walls, a filtration and guard system that ensured that nothing was making its way up or downstream from the small town.
It was a risk to even have the measure, no doubt, and it would cost money to operate and maintain. There had to be a reason they had included the river rather than section the river off altogether. A compromise? Something to keep the goblin king happy?
I’d only been a toddler when the walls had first gone up. Outside of that bit of news, the Ellisburg situation wasn’t one that came up a lot, yet it had somehow found traction in the public consciousness. It was something we all thought about from time to time, something that loomed as a possibility in everyone’s mind.
Would today be the day the wrong person got too much power?
Would today be the day our hometown was effectively removed from the map, surrounded by sixty-foot concrete walls?
The dashboard indicated the Dragonfly was now approaching the designated landing point. The A.I. had suddenly decided to ground itself, landing in a nearby field, costing me precious minutes, while Dragon had been silent on the comms. I’d left a message, trusting her A.I. to pass it on, and hadn’t received a response yet.
My attempts to patch into the feeds and get a view on what was going on with Jack hit a brick wall. The corner of the monitor still showed the cube folding through itself in the corner, Dragon’s loading message, as if the process had hung.
I’d manually piloted the craft back out of the field, and the A.I. had kicked in to handle the flight codes and necessary messages to air traffic control and nearby aircraft. When I’d input my destination for the second time, the craft mobilized.
But the silence, the strange blip in the A.I.’s direction, it left me uneasy.
Now, as we took a circuitous route around Ellisburg, to a field beside the large filtration and security building, I could see the Azazels, parked at the edges of the same location.
That was the point I felt alarmed.
I hit the button on the console/dashboard. “Dragon? Requesting confirmation on the situation. You intended to intercept Jack before I got here, but the Azazels are dormant.”
“Dragonfly,” I said. “Display non-system processes and tasks last carried out.”
It displayed a list. In a matter of seconds, the scroll bar was barely a line, with thousands of individual instructions noted in collapsed menus. A prompt reminded me I could load more with a request.
“In the last minute.”
The list wasn’t much shorter.
“Communications-related.”
There. Besides the orders I’d just given, I could see the message I’d sent to Dragon.
“Status of message? Has she heard or read it?”
The loading symbol appeared in the corner. It should have been nigh-instantaneous.
“Cancel that. Give me manual access.”
A keyboard appeared on the dashboard. I couldn’t use it right away, though. I was forced to pay attention as the Dragonfly reached the field and hovered. I lowered the ship down. The small craft shuddered as it touched ground.
Using the keyboard and the manual access, I began digging through the data. I navigated the menu the A.I. had provided, then opened the submenu to view the details on the message I’d left Dragon.
My message was in the priority queue, but it sat at the 89th position on the list of messages Dragon would be getting to.
I dug a little, and found the list was growing. Ninety-four, ninety-five…
Where the hell was Jack? I contacted Defiant.
“Defiant here.”
“Weaver. What happened? Is the Slaughterhouse Nine situation resolved?”
“No. He entered Ellisburg.”
I closed my eyes for a second. It took a moment to compose myself and get my thoughts and priorities in order. “And the suits?”
“Ignore the Azazels. Listen. I’ve got a lot to handle and coordinate right now,” Defiant said. Was there a tremor of emotion in his voice there? “Golem’s on his way. Wait for backup. I’m sending Dragon’s Teeth your way. Teams from across America are joining the fight now that the full situation is leaking. I’m putting some on containment and quarantine detail, make sure the Slaughterhouse Nine situation doesn’t get beyond the areas the attacks are directed at. I’m going to send a few your way. Ten minutes.”
“Jack’s already in the city, and you want me to wait ten minutes? That long, and Jack could get what he wants. I’ve got the Azazels nearby if there’s trouble-”
“The Azazels aren’t… reliable. Consider them compromised, but a non-threat at the same time. Listen, there are things I need to take-”
“This is the highest priority,” I said. “Isn’t it? Jack? The end of the world?”
A pause. “Yes. Of course. But I can’t help you while I’m on the phone.”
A note of deceit in that. He was covering for something.
Something happened.
I thought of what had happened at the school, the way Dragon had stopped abruptly. I’d read the records, knew the gist of the story. Dragon had been in Newfoundland when Leviathan sank it, had escaped, only to shut herself away from the world, never venturing outside the expansive building complex she’d had constructed in Vancouver.
She hadn’t left Newfoundland unscathed, I was almost certain. Brain problems, body problems… I couldn’t be sure. Probably both. She had no doubt integrated herself with technology to cope, enhance and expand her capabilities.
Except that her technology was failing. The way she’d collapsed at the school, the speech problems she’d suffered, the slow recovery, now this… It was the only theory that made sense.
She’d pushed herself too far, something had gone wrong, and now Defiant faced losing the one person on this planet who could tolerate him for more than ten minutes at a time. No small wonder he was out of sorts.
I considered how I’d feel if it was one of the Undersiders.
“Defiant,” I said. “I’m going in alone. Send Golem in after me if he wants to come, reinforcements can hang back or come with, depending on your judgement. I’ll handle things on this end. You focus on what you need to. Focus on Dragon, focus on damage control.”
A pause. “There’s nothing I can do for Dragon right this moment. The best I can do is maintain the momentum and keep things coordinated, and hope that Dragon’s substitution can maintain the back-end.”
I didn’t respond to that. I was already getting ready to go.
“Thank you, Weaver.”
It was uncharacteristic of him to thank me. A pleasantry. How upset was he?
I couldn’t spare another thought on the subject. I was out of the Dragonfly at the first opportunity, making my way towards the quarantine control and filtration building. It was squat, concrete, hardly pretty. As I got closer, I could hear an alarm.
The front doors had been torn apart. It might not have been so impressive, but these were the same vault doors we saw with the shelters that studded every likely target around the world.
The gouges were narrow, a finger’s width, as though someone had dragged their hands through the steel like I could drag my fingers through half-melted butter. Siberian.
Jack had brought protection.
My bugs flooded into the facility, past the second dismantled vault door. The alarm was louder as I ascended the concrete stairs and made my way into the building.
The emergency lighting was on, casting the area in a red glow. My bugs searched and scanned the area, in case any members of the Nine were lurking in wait. So many ugly ways this could go. So many threats that Jack could have on hand. Cherish? Screamer? Nyx? Ways to fool my senses, ways to shut me down or defeat me. My only recourse was to get them before they got me.
Hey, passenger, I thought. Do me a favor. If I get taken out of action and you step up to fight, work on taking out Jack, alright?
My bugs stirred, moving further down the hall. It was so far from a conscious direction that I wondered for a second if the passenger had listened.
No. I’d tried hypnosis, I’d tried other things. Some in Mrs. Yamada’s office, other times in the PRT’s labs, after dark, off the record. Nothing brought the monster to the fore.
Just my subconscious.
Just. Like that wasn’t something I couldn’t help but wonder about.
But I’d made peace with it. I couldn’t barter with something that wouldn’t talk back, but I could accept it, test and acknowledge my limits as far as they pertained to the entity that was apparently granting me my abilities.
I wouldn’t turn away from it, wouldn’t tell it to go away or hold back in my abilities.
My bugs marked the area, giving me the information I needed to navigate the facility. It proved easier than I might have expected. Rather than follow the winding corridors and make my way to the security checkpoints, I followed the path of casual destruction Siberian had left in her wake. She’d knocked down walls to create the shortest possible route from the front doors to Ellisburg.
No casualties that I could detect. No nonhuman life.
Had Dragon ordered this place evacuated before she was incapacitated, or had Nilbog gotten here first?
My bugs started to scan the area beyond the facility, inside Ellisburg. They made it about ten feet before something like a frog’s tongue began snatching them out of the air.
I withdrew the swarm back to myself, hiding my bugs beneath my cape and skirt, and I made my way through the opening into Ellisburg.
A goblin wonderland. It was clear he’d altered it from its original layout, likely over the course of years. The remodel had been more aesthetic than functional. Floorboards had clearly been dug up and moved to the exteriors of the buildings, creating roofs and building additions that spiraled or twisted, with more boards propped up flat against the building faces on one side, painted or modeled in the same way the towns had been put together in old western movies.
The walls that surrounded Ellisburg had been painted as well. To look from a distance, Nilbog’s kingdom extended to every horizon, with crooked, impossible landscapes at the periphery of it, like an ocean frozen in time, grown over with grass and trees. Oddly enough, they had painted the sky as an overcast one, where it was visible above the lush, unpredictable fields and forests.
Within the city, the trees had been immaculately cut and trimmed, and the shapes were just as strange; trees that were perfectly round, cubes, cones. Where new trees were growing on lawns, as dense and close together as trees in an orchard might be, I could see heavy wires wound around them, guiding their growth into twists and curves. The art of bonsai taken to a bigger scale, cultivating each tree in form. Already, some of the largest ones were properly set up, meshing together with counterparts on the opposite sides of the street, forming lush, living wooden arches.
The grass had been cut, and I could see the attention to detail there, even. There were innumerable flowers growing across lawns, but the grass was neatly cut beneath and around them, as if someone had taken shears or scissors to the blades that grew between the flowers. I couldn’t make out any rhyme or rhythm in how the flowers or plants were laid out and how they grew. It was an injection of color in the same way a random splash of paint from a palette might be applied to a canvas.
And then, as if to remind me that this wasn’t friendly territory, there was a scarecrow in one garden. The clothes were brightly colored, the pose one of a dancing figure, but that wasn’t the eerie thing about it. The head was a skeletal one, a dog’s head stripped of all flesh, turned skyward with its mouth opened in joy. The hands that clutched the rake and watering can were held together by wire. A very small human hand.
For all the signs of careful tending, the entire place was still. A town that could have been taken from a storybook, desolate. There wasn’t any sign of chaos, nor the destruction that would follow from an attack by the Slaughterhouse Nine.
But more than anything, what threw me was the absence of insect life. No spiders spun webs. Even the ground had little in the way of ants or earthworms.
A trap? I looked behind me to see if they were planning on walling me in, and came face to face with one of Nilbog’s creations.
It hissed, its breath hot and reeking of bile. Fangs like a viper’s parted, the distance between them great enough that it probably could have sunk some into the top of my head and the underside of my chin as it closed its mouth. I stepped back out of reach, then forced myself to stay still and wait.
The mouth closed, and I could see how the creature’s head was smaller than mine. It wasn’t more than four feet tall, covered in pale brown scales. The reptilian face could have been in a children’s movie, if it wasn’t for the eyes. They were dark, black, and cold.
It clung to the wall, its feet placed higher up than its hands, opposable toes gripping the frame that had been around the vault door. I noticed it was wearing white shorts, with one suspender strap over a shoulder. A taloned claw held a softball-sized chunk of the wall.
Was it fixing the wall?
“I’m not a threat,” I told the lizard-child.
I felt hands touch my belt and jumped, seizing the wrist of the offending hand in an instinctive motion before I’d even looked to see who it was.
A girl, five or so feet tall, her face mottled with purple veins that spiraled across her perfectly round, puffy, hairless head. Her eyes were tiny and piggish, her fingers blunt, barely a half-inch long, her mouth too small for her face. She wore a sack that looked like it had been sewn to work around her oversized head. Her hand was on my knife.
The lizard boy had extended frills at his arms, neck, and the edges of his face, colorful, brilliant, and held out by a framework of needle-fine spines. His mouth hung open, viper’s teeth revealed.
I looked beyond this pair, and I could see signs of others. Eyes reflected light in the shadows beneath steps, from windows. There were large, bulky silhouettes in the windows, some holding smaller figures on their heads and shoulders. I couldn’t make out much, but I wasn’t sure I wanted to.
That was twice now that they’d snuck up on me. Quiet motherfuckers.
“I’m sorry for grabbing you,” I said. “You wanted my knife?”
She took it, her tiny black eyes glaring at me from the midst of her oversized head. The lizard-boy eased his frills down somewhat, but his mouth remained open.
“I’d like to see Nilbog,” I said.
She ignored me, her pudgy, blunt-fingered hands fumbling through the pouches at my belt. With painful, clumsy slowness, she divested me of my taser, the pepper spray, and the spools of silk, both conventional and Darwin’s spider silk.
I winced as one spool fell to the ground and unwound partially, dirt getting caught up between the strands. That would be a pain to fix.
I could see more of the things making appearances now, getting close enough for me to see as they took interest in what was happening. Eyes appeared in the windows, reflecting the light in curious ways. Eyes from within the trees, between the slats of stairs… some faces. They ranged from artistic and beautiful to horrific.
Every single one of them was a weapon. Going into this situation was a repeat of the information gathering and problem solving issues one faced when going up against an unknown cape. If it came down to a fight, I’d have to figure out how they operated, and the full extent of their capabilities.
Trouble being that there were a hell of a lot of these things. Hundreds, even thousands.
I waited patiently. No use complaining, even if every second counted, and Jack was no doubt having words with Nilbog.
“Nilbog is in danger,” I said, trying a different tack. “The man with him, he has dark hair, a beard? He’s with a striped woman. Bad people. I think they’re going to try to hurt Nilbog, hurt the man who made you, so you get upset and leave this place.”
Her hands fumbled with my flight pack. I felt her touch the arm at the side of the pack, with its narrow arm. She took hold of it and pulled.
“I can take that off,” I said.
She grunted, and I started to move to oblige, only to get a protest. The frills on the lizard boy extended, and her own head swelled, the skin getting thin enough in the process that I could see a fluid filling the lower half of her head. I moved my arms away from the straps, and I watched them both relax over long seconds.
When she was sure I wasn’t trying something, she grunted again, louder, a frustrated, constipated sound. A communication, but not one meant for me.
Her friend emerged from a garage, lifting the door to lumber forth. He was big, fat, and moved on four limbs that each had opposable digits. His massive belly swung right and left as he loped, so distended and so close to the ground as it swung that I worried it would hit something and split open. His genitals were almost bigger than I was, and they were, along with his sensory organs, the only way I could really tell his front from his back.
The sensory organs consisted of slits running top to bottom from a ridge at one end of his body. There was no room for a brain, no eyes present.
This organ granted him enough awareness to approach, probably by way of scent, but it didn’t give him the fine tuning he needed to find us, specifically. The round-headed creature approached him, took hold of a fistful of chest hair and led him my way.
I backed up a little as they approached, and received a hissed rebuke from lizard-boy.
I remained still. The safest course.
The girl-thing moved the brute’s hand towards me, and I stayed still as she gripped the arm and placed it in the hand.
He closed his fist around it.
“Wait,” I said.
He hauled on it, clearly intent on tearing it free. I was thrown, sent rolling until I landed in one patch of grass, dazed, startled, just a little hurt.
The brute approached, the round-headed girl hurrying after.
Before I could rise, he’d already fumbled for me, and seized hold of the mechanical arm. This time, he managed to pull it free. I used the antigravity panels to control my flight as I was thrown, controlled my landing, and hurried to get my hands to the straps.
There was a wail behind me, a warning sound. I saw the others react, but kept working through the straps. Two at the shoulders, one across the chest, beneath my armor-
The pack fell free. I chanced a look over my shoulder, and I saw a number of Nilbog’s creations gathered, close enough that they could have lunged for me. One was a very tall, long-limbed man with skin that looked like a Siamese cat’s, covered in a very fine fur. His face was split by a wide, toothless mouth, his eye sockets little more than indents filled with fur. He held a makeshift spear with a flag on the end, which had been painted brilliant colors, and wore a matching loin cloth. Probably the most dangerous one in my immediate vicinity, just in terms of how fast he could probably close the gap and murder me.
“Safe,” I said. “No danger. I’m safe, the pack’s off.”
I waited, tensed, as they studied me. Enemies on all sides.
Jack was invincible, I wasn’t. But if I was going to achieve anything here, it couldn’t involve destruction. I’d read the files on Nilbog, I had a sense of him, in the most general terms. I was banking everything on his megalomania overriding his desire to collect just a little more in the way of resources.
I kept my voice level and calm, “I’d like to see Nilbog now.”
Were they hungry? If this became a fight, I’d have to defend myself with the bugs in my costume and the bugs in the quarantine and filtration facility. I could use the swarm to equip myself with the stuff that had been dumped on the ground, but that required that I survive long enough to do so. Were there ranged attacks here? Assassins?
Desperate situations called for risks. This was my gamble.
“I have a gift for him,” I said.
Something seemed to ease in them. I watched as some turned away, finding their way to resting spots. The tall man with the loincloth worked his overlong body under a porch, where he could rest in the shade.
I didn’t receive an escort, but the ones along one road moved aside, sitting or standing on the sidewalks.
I walked with my head high, and sent a handful of bugs forward. More than a few of Nilbog’s creatures took the opportunity to snap them up.
A soft rumble sounded above. Lightning. Rain began to patter down, light.
My surviving bugs gave me ears on the scene before I arrived.
“Lipsy? Tell the cook to serve us something. I fancy a salad, and something robust. I think it should taste sweet.”
The alterations to the surroundings only grew more focused and extreme as I found my way to the center of Ellisburg. Building faces were covered in wild plant growth, and there wasn’t a single building without more extreme modifications made to it. Glances indoors showed little more than barren exteriors with the floorboards pried up, or clusters of Nilbog’s creatures lurking in the unlit gloom within.
“I’ll look forward to this, god-king.”
“You should, you should.”
“Your hospitality astounds me. I’m unworthy.”
So Jack was situating himself as someone subservient, even servile, so as not to challenge Nilbog’s alpha status. He was playing nice, even.
If I tried the same, I’d only be working to catch up, to earn Nilbog’s trust.
I approached the town center, and found myself in the midst of a crowd of Nilbog’s creatures. Goblins and ghouls, muppets and horned moppets. Big, small, thin and fat. Each was exaggerated, twisted, as if Nilbog had gone out of his way to insert traits and qualities that separated them from humanity.
The creatures stepped out of the way as I made my way closer. Nilbog sat at the center of a long table, and two more tables extended from the ends to form a loose ‘c’ shape. Checked tablecloths in eye-gouging color contrasts covered each table. Jack sat at the end furthest me, and a man with white and black stripes sat beside him.
Bonesaw was only a short distance away, sitting on the shoulders of what looked like a flayed bear. The thing had claws two or three times the usual size, it’s mouth yawning open like it had been broken.
Nilbog was immensely fat, easily four hundred pounds, and sat on a throne that had apparently been cobbled together from dismantled furniture. His face was covered with a paper mask. Other creatures sat on chairs to his left and right.
The arrangement of the tables created an open space that could host their entertainment. I looked, then wished I hadn’t. A bloated, coarse-looking creature lay on the ground, almost like a potato made of hair and flesh. Smaller things were busy carving gouges and holes into it.
The resulting wounds regenerated, but not before the smaller creatures inserted body parts into the openings, allowing the regenerated flesh to close tight but not close completely.
I averted my eyes from the scene, content with not letting my brain register which parts were being inserted and what they were doing after the fact.
“Another guest!” Nilbog cried out. He spoke like he had a bad accent, but it wasn’t. He’d affected strange and overdramatic tones for so long that his voice had warped, and he’d had no ordinary people to hear or talk to and measure his voice against. “A friend of yours, sir Jack?”
I could see Jack’s eyebrows raise in interest. “Not at all. Skitter, was it? Except you’re going by another name, now.”
I ignored Jack. “Nilbog. It’s good to meet.”
Nilbog didn’t look impressed. “Sir Jack was more obsequious when he introduced himself.”
“That’s because he’s a two-bit thug, Nilbog.”
Jack chuckled at that.
“A two-bit thug? You’d insult my guests?”
“If those guests include Jack,” I said.
Nilbog narrowed his eyes. “I will not have fighting in my glorious kingdom. Jack has agreed to a ceasefire while we dine. You will do the same.”
“I already gave my weapons to your underlings. You should know that the black and white striped man is a living weapon, much like your creations.”
Nilbog glanced at the male Siberian. “I’m not concerned.”
“I imagine you aren’t,” I said. Where’s the real him?
I had to be careful in how I used my bugs. Sending them into buildings would only reduce the size of my swarm, but there was relatively little chance that Manton would simply be hanging out in one of the hollowed-out buildings.
“So,” Jack said. “Are you going to have a seat, or are you going to continue to be rude?”
“I’m waiting for our host to invite me to sit. Forgive me, Nilbog,” I said. I glanced at the fat man. The grease on his skin made it look like he’d oiled himself.
“Sit. But I’d like to hear who you think you are, whelp, if you won’t bow down to me.”
I approached the row of chairs opposite Jack and the Siberian, and one of the critters hopped down, scurrying under to join the festivities in the center of the tables. I took the vacated chair and sat. I might have removed my mask, but I was all too aware of the silverware in front of Jack.
“I’m your equal, Nilbog.”
Jack laughed again. Nilbog seemed to react, almost looking flustered, before turning to me. “You insult me.”
“Not at all. Ignore the thug that’s sitting over there. I’m a queen, a goddess of my own realm. Or I was.”
Jack was smiling, clearly amused. Then again, he was safe. He was untouchable with Siberian beside him, and he was only feigning weakness to get past Nilbog’s defenses.
“A queen?”
“A queen. With that in mind, provided you give your permission, I’d like to offer you a gift. A… peace offering, to make up for the fact that I entered your territory uninvited.”
“Of course, of course!” He was almost childlike, so easily moved by this promise of a gift, his mood changing so quickly. Guileless. He’d been surrounded by yes-men for more than a decade, with barely any human contact, his defenses were gone. “I forgave Jack the lack of an invitation, I’ll extend you the same courtesy. This gift?”
I called on the swarm I’d kept within the quarantine facility. “Resources are slim. An isolated kingdom like yours, providing for your subjects is hard. You do an admirable job despite this.”
“Of course, of course.”
He was eager, impatient.
“I’d feed your subjects,” I said. “Protein. You need it to make more. To keep the ones you currently have in good health.”
“Yes, yes” Nilbog said. My bugs were just now arriving in the area. “This will do.”
The full swarm arrived, the vast majority of the ones I’d kept in the Dragonfly, and the ones from the area beyond the Ellisburg walls. I gathered them on plates in piles. His minions devoured them, licking at the plates, picking with talons, or simply lifting the plates and tipping the insects into open mouths.
I wasn’t surprised when Nilbog turned his attention to his own plate. My eyes fell on Jack. He still had a slight smile on his face.
He held the cards up his sleeve. I’d played mine for a minor advantage, but he had Bonesaw. One virus or parasite in the midst of these creatures, and they could go berserk, roaming the countryside until they were put down. He had Siberian, which meant he was safe, meant he could kill me or Nilbog whenever he wanted.
But he wasn’t going to. This continued as long as the game was still on. He thrived on this interplay.
As more bugs continued to arrive, I used them to search the area. Nothing.
Below ground?
Earthworms, ants and pillbugs dug through the soil beneath the park, searching. Some of Nilbog’s creatures were beneath the earth, ready to spring up and attack. Others were beneath, eating whatever they could find.
In the midst of my search, I found something. Not Siberian’s creator, but nearly as good.
Nilbog himself.
He sat directly beneath his ‘throne’, and was connected to the fat man by what seemed to be an umbilical cord. This cord gave him control of the body, fed him sustenance, let him stay safe while the decoy sat up here.
One card for me to play.
“I think the bug queen here should explain how she came to nobility,” Jack said.
Setting me up to say something incriminating, I thought. “As you did, Nilbog, I claimed a realm for myself.”
“And you left it, apparently. If you’re truly a queen, you’re a foolish one.”
“I did leave it,” I said, “Because I had to, to save it. I had to protect my subjects, to fight my people’s enemies. I have not been as fortunate as you.”
“No,” he said, uncaring. “Apparently not.”
“If it came down to it, would you step up to protect your creations? To protect this town you made?”
“You’re sounding a great deal like sir Jack,” Nilbog commented. He frowned.
“He’s trying to convince you to go to war,” I said.
“To take pre-emptive action,” Jack clarified.
“I’ll do neither. Not war, not pre-emptive action. I have what I need. I’m a content god, a happy king.”
You’re starved for real human contact, I thought. Or you wouldn’t have let us join you at the table.
My bugs continued to search, though the bastard creatures were coming out of the woodwork to catch and devour them.
Where in the hell was Manton?
Jack spoke, “It’s a question of whether you act now and preserve what you have for the future, or wait and let them come and kill you. They’ve been systematically seeking people like you, eliminating them. I could show you proof, given a chance.”
“I’ll make it simpler,” I said. “You don’t need to leave your kingdom, your garden. You don’t need to go to war with an outside party you don’t know or care about. You want to know what happened to my kingdom? That man, right over there, sir Jack, destroyed it.”
“Nonsense,” Jack said. “I’ve been sleeping these past few years. Naps are such an underrated pleasure.”
“They are,” Nilbog said. “All of my subjects nap every day.”
“Let me explain,” I said. “I had a kingdom that I ruled. I had a king that ruled with me, who kept me company. I had wealth, people I cared about, people who cared about me. Power. I was a god in my domain, and those who stood against me were driven off.”
Nilbog shook his head. “You need a heavier hand to rule. More loyal subjects, so you don’t have to bother with those who would stand in your way.”
“I was more powerful than you,” I told him.
He snapped his head around to stare at me. To glare at me.
I’d pricked his pride, apparently.
“I was more powerful than you, but Jack over there made a promise to people. He didn’t say it aloud, but it was still a big promise.”
“Now you’re making stuff up,” Bonesaw commented. She slid down off the flayed bear’s back and joined a group of creatures her size. She hugged one, abruptly.
But Nilbog wasn’t telling me to fuck off. His attention was on me.
He’d built a storybook kingdom, an impossible place, and populated it with monsters, both beautiful and ugly. He’d had some fixation on this stuff, some Freudian obsession. Not sexual, but still rooted in some primal part of his childhood that had been taken from him.
I’d play this by telling him a fairy tale.
“No,” I said. “And I think Nilbog is clever enough to understand what I mean. Jack promised that he’d come back when his nap was done, and he’d destroy my kingdom. He said he’d destroy your kingdom, Nilbog, and every other kingdom. He said he’d kill all of my people, and he’d kill all of your creations.”
“All of this, from the man you describe as a mere thug?”
“Yes,” I said. “A woman with great powers told him he could do it, and now he’s going to try. It’s why he’s here.”
“To destroy my kingdom?”
“No. He wants you to go to war against your neighbors. To break down the walls that keep you safe and fight people who are leaving you alone. He’ll use you as a distraction, and then when everything is done, he’ll come back and destroy your kingdom. And he’ll do it in the cruelest, saddest ways you can imagine.”
Nilbog nodded slowly.
Jack was still waiting patiently. Too quiet. I felt a moment’s trepidation. I hadn’t found Siberian’s controller. I needed to defeat him before Jack was cornered. The second he decided he couldn’t salvage this situation, he’d order the attack.
Nilbog raised his hands. “Angel on one shoulder that tells me one story…”
A placenta-like blob swelled in his hand.
“A devil on the other, telling me another.”
Another blob appeared in the other hand.
Both burst, showering Nilbog in greasy slime. Two creatures gripped his forearms, looking more like flying monkeys than an angel and devil. They were roughly the size of babies, their faces feral, mouths filled with pirahna-like teeth. One had red hair, a red beard and gazelle-like horns, and the other had white hair and beard and a strange horn that formed an off-white halo above its head.
“I’ll take the angel, if you please,” Jack said.
Nilbog shrugged. Were the creatures more a demonstration than anything else? He lowered his hands, and nudged the white-haired thing in Jack’s direction. The other thing made its way to me. I reached out and took it into my hands, holding it close.
“Do you have a response to the Queen’s allegations, Jack?” Nilbog asked. He reached up to adjust his floppy cloth crown. Creatures were arriving to deposit the meal on the plates. It looked like purple vomit.
“I do,” Jack said, smiling. “But can we eat first? It’s rude to argue over a meal.”
Nilbog nodded, as if Jack had said something very sage. “I agree. We’ll eat.”
Bonesaw made her way to the table. “How did you make this?”
“The chef stores every ingredient we can find inside her, then regurgitates it in the form required. I asked for it to be hearty, and here we have it, chunky.”
I looked down at the plate. Droplets of rain made nearly-clear spots appear in the midst of the purple slop.
So it is vomit.
“It tastes like cupcakes,” Bonesaw said, around a mouthful.
I started to move my mask to eat and be polite, then noted how Jack was holding his knife. The blade swayed back and forth in the air, as he chewed, his eyes rolled back and looking up at the overcast sky above.
The blade was making criss-crosses in the direction of my throat.
He glanced down, meeting my eyes, and smiled.
“Our apparent rivalry aside, have you been well, bug queen?”
“Well enough.”
“Then you should be hungry. It’s been a busy few days, and it’ll only get more interesting. I notice your friends are sitting this one out. Did you break it off completely, or are you still in touch?”
“Still in touch,” I responded. I glanced at Siberian. The knife is a purely psychological thing. If he wanted to kill me, he could use Siberian to do it.
Besides, it was a butter knife.
I moved my mask, without breaking eye contact with Jack, and helped myself to a bite.
It did taste like cupcakes. I suspected it would have been less nauseating if it tasted like real vomit.
It was a tense few minutes of silence as we ate. I found out the devil-thing in my arms wanted to eat, so I let him help himself. An excuse not to eat, anyways.
The creatures in the center of the area finished their ‘show’, and Nilbog clapped enthusiastically. I joined him and the five or six creatures around the table who really had hands to clap with.
The second show began. A gladiatorial fight, apparently. One of the creatures had wings instead of arms, while the other had wicked barbs extending out from the elbows and knees. When even the tips made contact, they ripped out grapefruit-sized chunks of flesh.
I braced against the table to keep it from flipping as the pair crashed into it. Nilbog laughed, and the sound was more than a little unhinged.
“Is everyone done?” Jack asked.
“Yes,” Nilbog decided.
“Then let me explain. Weaver’s entirely right. Except for the part where you die at the end of it all.”
“Oh?” Nilbog asked. He leaned forward, placing fat elbows on the table’s surface. It dipped as his upper body weight rested on the wood.
“Living like this, you obviously dislike the system. You know how screwed up things are out there. People are vile, self-centered, and so caught up in their own routines and expectations that they’re barely people anymore. Your creations have more personality.”
Nilbog nodded, taking it all in. “They do. They’re wonderful, aren’t they?”
“Wonderful,” Bonesaw agreed, with the utmost enthusiasm.
He just believes whatever we tell him. He’s a sponge. How do you convince someone who’s so incapable of critical thought?
Worse, Jack was touching on all of Nilbog’s pet issues. The man had been a loner before, a loser. He’d rejected the trappings of society long before he’d become this monster. He’d spent years simply going through the motions until the last parts of the system he’d clung to fell apart.
“I want to wipe the slate clean. Things have been going through the same motions for so long that there’s a rut in the ground. You erased everything that wasn’t worth keeping here, and replaced it with something better. With your garden.”
“With that in mind, I’m reaching out to a like-minded soul. Someone who rejects the malignant, stagnant society and wants to grow something else in its place.”
“Jack has no interest in growth,” I said. “Only destruction.”
“Did I interrupt you when you were speaking?” Jack asked.
“Do it again and I’ll order your execution,” Nilbog said.
I pursed my lips behind my mask.
Where the fuck was Siberian’s creator? I’d scanned every area where he could be lurking. There were only monsters. I was nearly out of bugs. I had only a select few secreted away in my armor, and they weren’t ones I was willing to sacrifice.
I didn’t have much in the way of cards up my sleeve, but these bugs would have to serve in that department. Problem was, they wouldn’t fix anything now. Bonesaw could counter them too readily.
Where could Manton be hiding? My eyes passed over the crowd of creatures that had gathered around the edges of the area, enjoying their master’s presence.
Hiding in plain sight.
Plastic surgery, or even an outer suit, like the one Nilbog wore. He had to be dressed up in the skin of one of the monsters.
Shit. How was I even supposed to assassinate him if he was going that route? I touched him with a bug, only to find his flesh harder than steel. Unmovable, just from the way his foot touched the Siberian’s.
Jack licked his plate, then set it down on the table. “Where was I?”
“Replacing society,” Bonesaw volunteered.
“Replacing society,” Jack affirmed. “Imagine if your garden really did extend as far as the eye could reach. If you could walk in the direction of the sunset, only to find that your creations have already settled in each new place you travel to, decorated it, transformed it.”
“A romantic goal, one I might pursue if I were a younger man,” Nilbog said. “But even gods get older.”
“They do,” Jack agreed. “Well, we could give you that youth. Bonesaw could grant you immortality.”
“She could also enslave you to her will,” I commented.
“I’d never,” Bonesaw said. She shook her head, her curls flying, “No, I couldn’t! I love these beautiful things he makes! To control him would mean I’d take that creativity away.”
Nilbog nodded at that. “That’s a good argument. Besides, to enslave a god? Madness.”
Except they’re mad, I thought. All of you are lunatics, and I made the mistake of trying to talk sense.
“It’s a good argument,” Jack said. “Because we’re right. Would you like to live forever, as a god should? Would you like to see your garden grow to what it should be? What it deserves to be? Something fitting of a god?”
“It’s a tempting thought,” Nilbog said.
I reached for a rebuttal, telling myself I had to be just as grandiose, just as mad, but I couldn’t do that at the same time I was trying to convince him to go dormant again.
“If I may?”
It was another human voice, but it didn’t belong to any of us.
Golem.
He approached, taking off his helmet. He offered Nilbog a slight bow.
“One of yours, Jack?” Nilbog asked.
“No. Not in the sense you mean.”
“Yours, then?” Nilbog asked me.
Yes, I thought.
I saw Jack raise his eyebrows at that.
“Shenanigans!” Bonesaw cried out. “I call shenanigans!”
But Golem took my cue. “I’m a third party. I stand for myself.”
“Hardly worth a place at the table,” Jack commented.
“Then let me stand for the others. The innocents.”
“Innocents?” Jack asked. He snorted. “No such thing.”
“There’s always innocents.”
Jack smirked.
“I’ll allow it,” Nilbog said. “Excellent! Sit! We were just having a discussion.”
Golem approached and sat at the same table I was at, but he took the far end. “I’ve overheard some, so we can cut straight to the chase.”
“The dilemma,” Nilbog said. “The devil on one shoulder, the angel on the other.”
“The sin of sloth versus the realm of possibility,” Jack added, gesturing to my demon as he said sloth, then to his own angel.
“Well said, well said!” Nilbog said. He nodded so hard his double and triple chins wobbled.
“Or is the angel making false promises?” I asked. “There’s no security. No comfort. You claim to care about your creations, but you’d go to war?”
“Many have gone to war and made sacrifices in the present, for the sake of a brighter future,” Jack commented.
“I thought you were trying to break out of the rut?” I asked.
Jack laughed at that.
He’s enjoying this.
I felt almost dirty, knowing I was only helping Jack in his self-indulgence, helping him revel in conflict.
“Well, stranger?” Nilbog asked.
“Golem,” Golem said.
Jack snorted at that. He’d caught the meaning behind the name right off, the white supremacist’s son naming himself after a creature from a Jewish parable.
“Golem, then.”
“I’m not an eloquent speaker.”
“That’s a good thing,” I said. “Too many and it just becomes people talking circles around one another.”
“Then I guess I have to get to the heart of it all. Direct.”
“Yes,” Nilbog said. He leaned forward, and I feared the table would break.
“Were you happy, before any of us came here?”
“Yes. I can eat the most delicious foods, yet get every nutrient I need. I can fuck the most beautiful and exotic women you’d ever imagine, whenever I wish. Every need is provided for a hundred times over, and I’m surrounded by those who love me.”
“Then why change? Why do anything? Let us leave, then return to your utopia.”
Nilbog nodded. He rubbed at his chin, but the act was like pushing one’s hand into jello. It shifted the mass more than it rubbed.
“You wanted a tie breaker?” Golem asked. “This is it. Do what Weaver is saying. Do what the Queen is suggesting. Stay quiet, enjoy what you’ve built here. Attack, and the entire world will take it away. Then, even if you’re strong enough to survive that, which you may be, then Jack will still betray you.”
“Or,” Jack said, “You can stop lying to yourself.”
Nilbog snapped his head around. He growled, “Impertinent.”
“Your people are slowly starving. You make them eat each other to live, and desperately attempt to shoot any birds out of the sky so you can try to recoup what you lose. Bonesaw said they don’t live long. How long?”
“Four years. Sometimes five.” All at once, the light was gone from Nilbog’s face, the sudden fury quenched.
“Who’s your favorite?” Jack asked.
“Polka,” Nilbog said. He reached out, and a female creature, no taller than three feet, hopped up onto the lap of the creature beside her king. She had a narrow face with a reptilian structure, with only four fangs at the very front, but smooth, humanlike skin. Her hair was white, her skin blue. She wore a toddler’s clothes, a long, narrow tail lashing behind her. Nilbog stroked her hair.
“Not the first Polka,” Jack said.
“No. The third.”
“She was your first, and you love her for that, because she drew you from the hell that was your life before godhood, gave you this.”
I can’t interrupt this. Not with the subject being something so close to Nilbog’s heart. I might win the argument, but I’d lose Nilbog’s ear.
But I knew I was losing anyways. Jack had found Nilbog’s weak point.
“My first friend,” Nilbog said.
“And she dies. Because your creations don’t last. You make another, and slowly fall in love with her all over again, and yet you know she’ll die in turn.”
“Yes,” Nilbog said.
“Bonesaw can fix that. I can grant you immortality. I can grant your creation that same gift,” Jack said.
“A hard offer to refuse.”
“It would be wise to refuse,” Golem said.
“A king can’t be selfish,” I said. “A god definitely can’t be selfish. Your responsibility is to your creations.”
“Exactly what I’m saying,” Jack said. “Step out of your comfort zone, to better your people.”
“Enough!” Nilbog screamed the word. As if responding to his anger, every single creature in the area responded. Weapons raised, spines extended.
And Jack was still invincible.
“Nilbog,” I said.
“Speak again, and I’ll end you, queen or no.”
His eyes were angry, hard.
He’d lived for so long in his comfort zone, and now he was being called on to make a hard choice.
“Then please listen carefully,” I said. “Because I suppose I’m paying for this with my life.”
“So be it,” he said.
“If you want proof that Jack intends to betray you, look no farther than your own creations.”
“He’s secreted an assassin into your midst. A killer who pretends to be one of your creations.”
A gamble, a last ditch effort. Was my gut right? Had Jack instructed Bonesaw to create a costume or a creature to hide the Siberian’s creator?
I called my flight pack to me, parked it on a rooftop nearby. If it came down to it, I’d have to run. I could see Golem tensing. He’d read the situation right.
“Just look,” I told Nilbog. “Because somewhere nearby, there’s a creature you didn’t create.”
His eyes roved over the crowd.
“Might not be in this crowd, but it’ll be close.”
“I see it,” Nilbog said. “I see it. Bossy, Patch, hold him!”
The crowd of creatures parted as two creatures took another in their hands.
“Not an assassin,” Jack said. “Merely one of Bonesaw’s… I suppose you can call it a homage.”
“It is,” Bonesaw said.
The Siberian was moving. Readying to pounce?
I couldn’t move fast enough if he did.
“Wait,” Jack said. He stood from his chair.
No, I thought. “Don’t listen.”
“I’ll do as I please,” Nilbog said. “Last words, sir Jack?”
“Last words, yes.” Jack approached the captive. The Siberian followed.
“You let him do this, and he kills you,” I said. “Your creations will go mad with grief, and they’ll die in a war for vengeance, just like Jack wants.”
“Not at all,” Jack said. “Because…”
An instant before the Siberian made contact with the monster, Golem jammed his hand into his side, using his power, throwing the creator into the air with one thrusting hand. Siberian lunged, punching through the hand of soil to grab the creator’s foot.
Nilbog half-rose from his seat, though he was massive enough that standing was hardly possible. His eyes moved from Golem to the hand, anger etching his expression, if one could etch into a face as soft as his.
“You dare disturb the peace!?” Nilbog screamed the question. “Kill the queen! Kill the Golem-man!”
In that instant, Golem created two hands, throwing us back.
I caught the flight pack in the air, hugging it. It provided lift. Not enough to stop my momentum as I headed back towards the ground, but enough that I could shift my direction to land on a rooftop. Golem wasn’t so lucky, as he fell into the midst of a sea of the creatures.
“Azazels, now!” I screamed, one finger pressed to my earbud. I pulled on the flight pack and then took off again.
Golem used his power to create a platform, slowly raising himself above the street. Creatures tumbled off of the surface of it. Some flew at him, and he struck at them. Not enemies he was capable against. I sent my bugs to them, the reserve I still had on hand, commanding the bugs to bite and sting.
Others leaped onto rooftops, then onto the rising platform. Golem grabbed one claw as it slashed for his face. He couldn’t do anything about the other, as it gouged his armor, scoring it. He created a fist that jutted out of his chestplate, striking the creature off of the rising hand-platform.
Spines rained down on him. One caught him in the shoulder, and he collapsed.
“Where are the Azazels!” I shouted. The flying creatures were turning my way.
But Defiant had said they were unreliable. Dragon was out of commission.
My bugs burrowed towards the buried Nilbog. Jack had orchestrated a war. Killing the creature’s creator wouldn’t stop that, wouldn’t keep them from rampaging and seeking out revenge beyond the walls.
But it would slow things down.
They inched ever closer. Jack was untouchable, but…
Yes. Worms, centipedes and other subterranean bugs made their way to the buried goblin king, and forced their way into the sac that enveloped him, past the threads of material that wound down his throat and nostrils, and into his airways.
“Creatures of Ellisburg!” I screamed.
Heads turned.
“You’ve been betray-”
And before I could say more, Jack’s knife slash caught me across the chest, the cut severing the straps of my flight pack. I dropped from the sky, landing on one of those ramshackle, spiraling rooftops. Planks that had been poorly nailed in collapsed around me as I hit solid ground.
My hope of turning the monsters against the Nine had been foiled. The fall had knocked the wind out of me. I couldn’t get my footing, and the creatures were advancing. Every possible combination of features, it seemed like, an infinite army, unpredictable.
Your king is dying, I thought, my mouth moving and failing to form the sounds. There was only the barest whisper. I killed him, but if you could believe that Jack did it…
I would have used my bugs instead, but I had so few, here.
I sent those few to Golem, removing them from the flying creatures.
“Nilbog dies,” I spoke through the bugs, but the range of sounds was too limited, and with scarcely thirty bugs in total, they were quiet.
“Nilbog’s dying,” Golem said, his voice coming through the comm system.
One creature, eyeless, like a crocodile with a serpentine body, advanced on me, looming over me. Its jaws opened.
The lizard boy was here too. A drop of venom appeared on one distended fang. I was surprised by the fury on his expression.
“Blame Jack,” I said, through the swarm.
“Jack Slash has used us as a distraction to kill your king!”
Golem hollered the words at the top of his lungs. I felt a tension leave me. I might be fucked, but we’d limited the damage. They’d turn it inward.
The attack stopped. The creature looming over me turned and slid away in a flash. The lizard-boy remained. Still recovering from the fall, I couldn’t muster enough strength to fight back if he bit.
I commanded the flight pack instead, flying it into him with both wings extended. He was brained, and the pack ricocheted off his skull, one wing shattering.
Golem had risen almost to safety, though he was still too far from the wall that had been erected around the city.
I looked at the wall.
Looked past it, at the capes who were swiftly approaching.
Rescue.
I brought the flight pack to me, the broken wing partially retracted, the other still extended, and pulled it on with slow, agonized movements.
Lost without their master, half of the creatures seemed to turn on the Nine, the other half seemed to remain intent on Golem and me.
Capes settled around me, forming a defensive line against the ones who approached. Revel was among them, using her energy blasts to pick off the largest ones.
Someone picked me up, then took flight.
“Jack,” I wheezed out the word.
The Siberian took hold of the umbilical cord and heaved, Jack maintaining contact with a hand on the Siberian’s shoulder. Nilbog, still slowly dying of oxygen loss, was brought to the surface with a surprising ease. Bonesaw wrapped her arms around the man. Frailer than his self on the surface, smaller.
I felt a moment’s despair.
Foil? Someone who could stop Siberian?
Somebody?
The heroes advanced, but the Nine created a portal, and were gone in a flash, Nilbog carried between them.
Leaving the monsters of Ellisburg to riot.
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301 thoughts on “Sting 26.4”
soulpelt on July 27, 2013 at 00:21 said:
Well then….Fuck.
Awesome and surreal chapter Wildbow. Damn…just damn.
You create such sympathetic monsters.
Pity that Minecraft probably doesn’t exist in Wormverse — Nilbog probably would have enjoyed that game.
underwhelmingforce on July 27, 2013 at 00:28 said:
Yeah. It’s weird to see Nilbog, who’s first appearance was terrifying, being so human.
AMR on July 27, 2013 at 02:38 said:
I think the right word is pathetic, in a sad way. Despite all the power he got, in the end he was still the loner detached from reality he was before triggering.
Naeddyr on July 27, 2013 at 03:02 said:
Number three hundred and fifty seven in sentences that really could be taglines for Worm.
“It is weird to see [ ], whose first appearance was terrifying, being so human.”
Psycho Gecko on July 27, 2013 at 03:25 said:
“And so the bug queen supervillain sat down with the pedophile monster maker goblin king to talk sense into him so he wouldn’t join up with the Johnny Depp lookalike with knife powers and an army of psychopaths.”
Pedophile? You dare besmirch the name of the god-king with false accusations?
And later.
Oh,right. Forgot about that.
But, hey, they’re having sex with their god. That’s not so bad, right? Right?
shanipribadi on July 27, 2013 at 05:57 said:
Only if you consider his creations as human children can you label him a pedophile.
What do you call people who’s into fucking monstrous creatures? PsychoGecko comes to mind.
I have nothing against fucking monstrous creatures, though I suspect other people here might question why you use that term to describe their mothers, but at least make sure the giant red roach monster with 75 mouths is of its species’ legal age before you raid that booty.
Someguy on July 27, 2013 at 17:46 said:
They do have the intelligence level of children, maybe more instantaneous or not, human or not and given their lifespan, it’s even worse, like sexually abusing someone from infancy to senility.
Reveen on July 27, 2013 at 19:00 said:
I didn’t get the idea that Nilbog was having sex with Polka. I was thinking a more Best Friend Forever kinda thing.
But otherwise, the issues of consent here make him real fucking creepy.
I suppose he could have been having sex with the one that had balls bigger than Weaver’s head instead.
Jack Slash looks like Johnny Depp?
demoscat on August 8, 2013 at 20:34 said:
Johnny Depp did play Edward Scissorhands, so I could see him playing Jack Slash. 😀
Bluecho on December 23, 2013 at 02:45 said:
Headcanon accepted!
Squiddney D on August 26, 2017 at 06:15 said:
I read him in Mark Hamill’s voice. Kind of like the Joker, but more in the gruff old crazy Mark voice, so I see him more like a mix between Mark Hamill and someone else. And now that I think of it… that someone else is probably Johnny Depp. Thanks for helping me figure that out!
Undead-Spaceman on July 27, 2013 at 00:27 said:
Typo Thread!
“Would today be the day the wrong person got too much power?Would today be the day our hometown was effectively removed from the map, surrounded by sixty-foot concrete walls?”
Missing space.
“A note of deceit in that. Covering for something.Something happened.”
An extra space between ‘that’ and ‘covering’ and missing one right after.
“…then Jack will still betray you, and he’ll betray you.”
Kinda redundant there.
Authy_Silverfur on July 27, 2013 at 03:32 said:
“so distended and so close to the ground as it swung that I worried it wound hit something and split open.”
Would hit.
Missing capitalisation.
Pinkhair on July 27, 2013 at 05:23 said:
“A very small human hand.” Plural hands?
“subjects, to and fight” Extra ‘and’.
“Nilbog said. he leaned” Missing caps.
“I’m playing for this” Paying.
demoscat on July 27, 2013 at 11:18 said:
“the other half seemed to remain intent on Golem and I.” Preposition. Should be “Golem and me.”
“Looked past it, at the capes that were swiftly approaching.” “That” refers to people. Suggest “who” instead.
xdrngy on July 27, 2013 at 11:43 said:
“Through scent or some other perception this organ granted him the ability to approach, it ”
Though scent or some other perception?
” I had to protect my subjects, to and fight my people’s enemies.”
to and
Both “Jack” and “Jack Slash” are tagged.
“Jack sat at the end furthest me” From me?
Typos:
pirahna – piranha
How was I even supposed to assassinate him if he was going that route? – Lost context in editing. In the last paragraph “him” was Manton, here it’s Jack.
Killing the creature’s creator wouldn’t stop that, wouldn’t keep them from – “creature’s” should be “creatures'”
Others were beneath, eating whatever they could find. –> beneath what?
pirahna –> piranha
“There’s always innocents.” –> there are always innocents
Great chapter as always. Taylor has ovaries of buckytube.
Yog on July 27, 2013 at 00:27 said:
Actually, it would be very interesting, and somewhat unexpected, if, in the absence of Nilbog, his creatures didn’t riot.
They are clearly sentient, perhaps human-level sapient, and possess the ability to reason. They are extremely loyal to Nilbog, and are capable of maintaining “society” to his liking.
So, it would be hilarious if the next thing to happen is Taylor getting “elected” as an intermediate ruler of Nilbog’s creations (she boasted of having being a queen and a goddess, after all, was acknowledged as such by Nilbog himself, and fed the population) for the purpose of leading them to recover their creator.
Because from what we have seen in this chapter, Nilbog’s creations aren’t just rampaging monsters with no conciousness.
notes on July 27, 2013 at 00:31 said:
If they concluded he’d been kidnapped? Yes, that would be funny. Awkward, in all kinds of ways, and vulnerable to Nilbog showing up and saying ‘kill for me, my children’… but funny.
theant87 on July 27, 2013 at 00:35 said:
They’re sentient, but there intellect seems limited. Maybe on the range of a small children. Small, mutant, cannibal, superpowered, children.
Well, Taylor is good at figuring people out.
Small, mutant, cannibal, superpowered children. That Nilbog has sex with.
Truthseeker on July 27, 2013 at 17:05 said:
Childish mutant super children,
Childish mutant su-per child-ren!
Villains with a short life!
NILBOG POWER!
(…kiiiiilllllllll meeeeeee…..)
Wow. You work 64 hours a week for seven or eight months and suddenly you don’t even realize that you’ve actually written “Childish children” until hitting the post button.
Tiny mutant super children…. etc.
Nilbog, having narrowly escaped death by bugs… seems likely to throw in with the S9. So that didn’t go at all well.
Saint’s team seems incapable of handling the Azazels in combat. That, or he’s busy working on cracking the Birdcage. Either way, that’s twice so far the absence of Dragon has probably been decisive.
Defiant saying ‘thanks’ truly is one of the signs of the apocalypse. Then again, Weaver told him that it was fine if her great obsession with Jack and world survival came second in his priorities, and he probably thought the world would end before she’d say that. Literally.
The portal looks like that stolen Tinker technology from before, Dodge’s. My understanding was that there were problems tracing it… unless you had the exact location where it was opened. Which they do. And as soon as the riot calms down, they may even have a chance at tracing it. Or if Jack’s group has already come back onto Bet somewhere… well, the same network that found them before could find them again. Assuming Saint is capable of operating some of Dragon’s programs competently, and that he’d consider that worth his time.
Of course, if the S9 do vanish for a bit to let Nilbog get up to speed… well, nothing to do but sit around and be ready. Defiant almost certainly has some outings planned to reduce his stress, and who knows? He might even invite a friend or two along.
I doubt he will have a choice as to whether he joins, any more than Murder Rat did.
(Or Hookwolf, Rey, Oni Lee, Bonesaw…)
Or Damsel of Distress, judging by what Bonesaw did to her.
Remeber Jack is an artist. He may find it more amusing if he could convince Nilbog to join through mindfuckery. Of course if that fails, he’ll probably leave Nilbog to Bonesaw’s cares.
negadarkwing on July 27, 2013 at 08:09 said:
Well Taylor did try to kill Nilbog. That is all Jack needs right there. Hey Cauldron, you guys saw this in your whole victory planning thing right?
Staircase thoughts:
Who’s doing the maintenance for the Dragonslayers? It’s been made repeatedly clear that Tinker-tech, without a Tinker to maintain it, breaks down fast. And it’s never quite the same unless the creating Tinker is maintaining it either. The Dragon’s Teeth have their maintenance handled by Masamune, so even the mass-production versions of Dragon’s tech require tinker maintenance.
I think the answer to this explains why Saint would bother to help Teacher – Teacher got to Saint somehow. Before incarceration, through the communication channel… not sure. Teacher claimed to Lung that he could offer Thinker/Tinker powers without absorbing people completely into his groupthink… but Lung suspected (and I agree) that Teacher would still have a leash and collar on such, albeit a lighter one than Cody’s presently wearing. Saint got enough Thinker/Tinker powers to handle the maintenance on his stolen tech (perhaps thinking it was just him working hard on his obsession); Teacher… well, Teacher got his breakout eventually.
Side note: Bonesaw did to Panacea almost exactly what Jack did to Bonesaw.
Patrick Reitz (@dreamfarer) on July 27, 2013 at 00:29 said:
I wasn’t expecting Taylor and Jack to go face to face so soon. That was tense as hell.
Fascinating to see Taylor outplayed too. It leaves me hopeful that there’ll be a rematch at some point since there very few people who can beat Taylor at her own game like that. Beating Jack in cleverness would be almost the ultimate win for her.
throwaawy on July 27, 2013 at 00:31 said:
was anybody else picturing The Hobbit’s goblin king?
also… DANG, i was sooo looking forward to a “Nilbog: meh, I could take her” moment. but nooo siberian had to save him
The goblin king is exactly what I was picturing, yes. Complete with goblins.
Guile on July 29, 2013 at 23:14 said:
Me, I heard ‘goblin king’ and thought ‘Jareth’. The zany architecture helped with that.
Nilbog kind of disappoints, when one is expecting David Bowie.
ShawnNorgan on July 27, 2013 at 00:57 said:
Nilbog: “Meh I could tak- Jack, Siberian, why are we running?”
Sympathetic? More like unbelievably gross and fucked up. Though that is a good quality for a monster. So much creepy imagery like the fact that they eat each other, are slowly starving, are as smart as small children, the baby clothes, that he fucks what he considers beautiful etc.
Things we learned.
1. Nilbog is a vegetarian.
2. The nine have a teleporter of some kind.
3. Golem and Taylor have balls of steel. She declares herself a god, ha!
4. There is now a self replicating army of starving, enraged, monsters that are going to riot. This is one occasion where I think the army would be better off stepping in. Bring on the steel rain, and and more dakka.
3) And is acknowledged as such by others.
4) Well, we can’t be sure that they are going to riot. Taylor may be able to talk them down.
Arkanian on July 27, 2013 at 01:06 said:
…Are we reading the same series? 😛
Well Wildbow is anything if unpredictable. If she can keep Bitch from freaking out she has some experience. I don’t think it will work but the image having a bunch of cannibal mutants fighting side by side with heroes to avert the apocalypse fills me a strange joy.
A bunch of strange creatures, hated and feared for what they are, cut off from their lives. Wouldn’t be out of place in this series.
2. It’s not a teleporter it’s the technology they stole from Dodge in the Toybox. The one they used to get into the bubble pocket dimension.
Ronin on July 27, 2013 at 00:46 said:
The tension keeps building. I love the way you portray the entire situation as constantly hanging on the edge of a knife. Also absolutely awesome to read Taylor taking on Jack at his own game on his terms (and losing).
Why do I get the feeling that an Endbringer is going to show up in the middle of all this chaos and make things even more chaotic than they already are?
Can’t wait for the next update!
Of course she lost. it hung on a knife edge and well,,, Jack’s good with those
Oh and I am going to make my wild prediction for the record. Scion’s interlude will take place during an Endbringer attack on London (or whatever city it was the most powerful woman in the world lives in).
razorsmile on July 27, 2013 at 00:46 said:
I was just about to say, the scenery did remind me of Minecraft.
Well goddamn. The good guys completely lost that round. A valiant effort but thwarted.
– Poor Nilbog, he never stood a chance, did he? Not really.
– Jack just has all the goddamn cards. He has Siberians plural, has Bonesaw … and now he has Bonesaw and Nilbog.
– Saint, you utter prick. See what you’ve done?
– liked the fairytale-meets-mental-illness vibe; very Alice in Wonderland which I imagine was the goal anyway
– interesting that Rinke violates conservation of mass to make his creatures but they, not being perpetual motion monsters, must subsequently be fed the hard way.
– Weaver is building a bit of a death wish. Charging in alone wasn’t the best idea
– liked her best guess as to Dragon’s situation; if things go as I suspect/expect, she’s coming back as meat (thus retroactively making Weaver’s theory true) and Defiant is going to go full upload
Tom_D on July 27, 2013 at 00:49 said:
After a careful reading, and then thinking on it for a moment, I have but one comment.
FUCK!!!
Holy shit, Weaver and Jack sparring in the court of the Goblin King. That was fucking cool, probably the coolest thing I’ve seen in a while.
I really do hope Nilbog’s creations live through this shit. I don’t really care for Nilbog, but his creatures don’t seem like bad sorts, just a whole lot different.
Oh, and good job Saint. Great fucking going. I’m so glad you charged in dickfirst to stop the completely hypothetical horde of crazy robots. Because the horde of crazy fairy monsters is sooo much better.
Good. No I’m good. No, no I’m glad he did that. NO I’M GLAD. IMEAN IT’S NOT LIKE-
Weaver: Leave Nilbog alone.
Jack: Weaver, beware. I have been generous, up until now. But I can be cruel.
Weaver: Generous? What have you done that’s generous?
Jack: EVERTHING! Everything that you wanted, I have done. You wanted to survive Brockton Bay, I left. You cowered before me, I was frightening. I have reordered time. I have turned the world upside down and I have done it all for you! I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.
Weaver: Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the goblin city…for my will is as strong as yours, and my king-
Jack: Stop! Wait, look, Weaver, look at what I’m offering. Your dreams!
Weaver: And my kingdom as great.
Jack: I ask for so little. Just let me rule you and you can have everything that you want.
Weaver: Kingdom as great…damn… I can never remember that line.
Jack: Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave!
Weaver: My kingdom as great…my kingdrom as great…You have no power over me.
So Nilbog is David Bowie?
Laberinth, king of the goblins, giant crotch, it fits. The dance numbers his goblins would perform would be freaky as hell.
Jack: Oh dear, poor Gollum
Golem: Golem
Jack: I’ve just noticed your lovely family are missing.
Golem: Uh, oh yes! So they are. My lovely family. Missing. I’d better find them, but first, I’m off to lead the young lady in the wrong direction, just like we planned!
Jack: Wait, I’ve got a much better plan, Golem.
Golem: It ain’t gonna hurt the little lady, is it?
Jack: Oh, why the concern?
Golem: I won’t do nothin’ to harm her.
Jack: Oh come, come, Golgotha! I’m surprised at you, losing your head over a girl.
Golem: I ain’t lost my head!
Jack: You don’t think a young girl could like a repulsive little scab like you, do you?
Golem: Well, she did say we was…
Jack: What? Bosom companions? Friends?
Golem: It don’t matter.
Jack: You’ll do what I say, or I’ll dip you straight into the Bog of Eternal Stench before you can blink. And Golem! If she ever kisses you, I’ll turn you into a prince.
Golem: Y-you will?
Jack: Prince of the Land of Stench!
Azazel 1: Don’t go on!
Azazel 2: Go back while you still can.
Azazel 3: This is not the way.
Azazel 4: Take heed, and go no further.
Azazel 5: Beware. Beware!
Azazel 6: Soon it will be too late.
Defiant: Don’t pay any attention to them. They’re unreliable. They can’t be counted on, but you’re on the right track.
Azazel 7: Oh no you’re not!
Defiant: Oh shut up.
Azazel 7: Sorry, just doing my job.
Defiant: Well you don’t have to do it for us!
Azazel 8: Beware, for the-
Defiant: Just forget it!
Azazel 8: Oh please, I haven’t said it for such a long time.
Defiant: Oh all right, but don’t expect a big reaction.
Azazel 8: No, no, no, of course not. Ahem. For the path you will take will lead to certain destruction! Thank you very much.
You’re on a roll, I see…
Oh, for god’s sake. Don’t make me hunt down all this shit on youtube for context.
You have no power over me. youtube.com/watch?v=FmgmXgoBZFo
Prince of the land of stench! youtube.com/watch?v=kFYb46Ux8JI
Don’t pay any attention to them. …can’t seem to find that one on youtube. Crap. It used to be there, I know that.
Veloren on July 29, 2013 at 01:24 said:
Just go watch Labyrinth. DO IT FOR DAVID BOWIE’S CROTCH. *ahem*
…Pants, magic pants…
…What were we talking about?
youtube.com/watch?v=kiUt5HuW3xc
Oh dang, I was actually interested in that movie for a sec there.
Gnarker on July 27, 2013 at 12:07 said:
Your King is in another dimension.
This is gonna fuck up my youtube recommended videos so bad…
endgame on July 27, 2013 at 22:46 said:
Okay, I want a turn.
Jack: Come on, Weaver, we don’t need to fight here. After all…
We are two of a kind
Violent, unsound of mind
You’re the yin to my yang, can’t you see?
And if I were to leave
You would grumble and grieve
Face it, Weaves…
You’d be lost without me!
You’d be lost (You’d be lost)
(Original song here)
Okay well, the detail’s and context’ll be off but I’ve wanted to do this for a while.
Been two long years since Jack laid his ass at Skitter’s feet
And it burned inside his mind the way he suffered that defeat
In the darkest pits of Hell Jack Slash hatched an evil plan
To tempt Theo Anders
For he’s just a mortal man
The sin of pride Jack cried is what will do you in
I thought we had this settled, I’m the best that’s ever been
Taylor did you ever know that time keeps marching on?
The coldest hour is the one comes just before the dawn
Jack Slash’s back in Brockton, will you stand up to the test?
Or will you let the Jack be the best?
“Truth is I haven’t killed much since I turned my cape
But give me half a minute and I’ll get my swarm shipshape”
Jack grabbed the knife out of Weaver’s hand and said
Girl I’m the killer underground and I walk upon the land
Ya’ll better just be turning back if you want this girl to win
‘Cuz fightin’ is the only cure for the predicament she’s in
“Now Jack it would be a sin for you to kill the earth
So you go on back to Hell, and I’ll show Golem’s worth”
Weaver are you fighting or will you eat the mud?
Jack walks the land and hungers for blood
Can you hear your dad a cryin’?
Will he ever know Jack wants his daughter’s very soul?
“Before we play I wanna thank you for letting Dinah’s own word ring true
She said you can’t be trusted”
Yeah so what you gonna do?
“Well you get the world Jack, if you think that you can win
I beat you once you old dog and I’ll whip your butt again”
Taylor Hebert’s white the Devil is black
My little passenger loves to attack
Jack Slash dreams that he can win
But Weaver is the best that’s ever been
Original Song, complete with Johnny Cash:
This is why I’m not a songwriter.
I still refuse to release my attempt at a Skitter Disney princess song that Rika dared me to come up with.
So I finally get one up on the goddamn Gecko? Victory is sweet.
C’mon, lay it on us. If you got the guts.
wildbow on July 28, 2013 at 01:55 said:
Wish I could append a trophy or a title or a medal or something, just to make it absolutely clear that you had the courage (and PG didn’t). :p
I’m telling you, this thing is cheesy and horrible.
I’m saying that. I am declaring something too cheesy. Do you not understand the significance?
This could be the cheesocalypse.
Perhaps I’ll only post it at my site, forcing everyone who wants to see it to visit.
I haven’t, but I’m considering it… youtube.com/watch?v=5V6UfcP5Ib0
>I’m telling you, this thing is cheesy and horrible.
This could be the cheesocalypse.<
Look upon his works, ye mighty, and despair.
Jerden on July 28, 2013 at 15:36 said:
It’s cheesier than a cheesemakers’ convention! (Do cheesemakers have conventions? I dunno. I don’t make cheese, I just eat it.)
Anyway Reveen, I like it. It’s so bad it’s rather amusing.
Alright, so if Worm ever becomes some bright and colorful animated movie or series, you’ll know what the score is. Also, possibly unfinished. Might need more there before the “Meh, I can take her” part. Also, might put the repeated words on those lines in parentheses. Give it more of a call and respond feel instead of repeating itself.
When the world gets you down,
’cause the Endbringer’s in town,
and everything in life is bitter,
Put on your costume and stings,
slip on those fairy wings,
and don’t forget to… flitter!
Up in the sky so high, high,
look, it’s the queen butterfly, fly,
that pixie will poke out your eye, eye,
just ask Lung if you think that’s a lie, lie.
She’s the baddest girl in pink,
that fairy dust’ll make you think,
but don’t push her or ‘fore you blink,
she’ll hit you with the kitchen sink.
That’s why the last thing you want her to doooooo
Is put on her costume and stings,
and prepare to… glitter
She’s the sparkliest hero in town, town,
With her wand she takes S-threats down, down
They can’t touch her ladybug host, host,
Attack her and you’ll be toast, toast.
And if you say “Meh I can take heeeeerrr”
She’ll put on her costume and stings,
Slip on those fair wings,
Look out it’s… Skitter!
Well, I love it, particularly the artist licence you’ve taken with her character! Anyone else like this theme-tune?
An original song, not merely Wormifying an existing song.
Riddle me this now, and try to affirm
Does anyone really know the mind of the worm?
I live in the shadows, I work in the shade
A swarm and a mask a lonely Skitter’s crusade
Can you tell me I’m not insane?
Sometimes I get this feeling bout the law I’m dealing
Am I letting my reason wain?
Have I been forsaken on this path I’ve taken?
Check my head, I guess the joke’s on me
I’m not laughing at the irony, oh no.
Can you tell me has something changed?
The odds are zero cause I ain’t no hero
Do you know it when you go strange?
Is your taunting true, am I as crazy as you?
Wherever you’re going, whatever you do
I’m out in the snow keeping watch over you
So Slash up the Goblin with your Simurgh-made fears
We’re counting down as the apocalypse nears…
Original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncrhSikSFLU
And now Bonesaw Stitches Nilbog to Crawler and/or Syberian, allowing him to spawn self-replicating infinitely adapting / made out of forcefields monsters.
Just for the fun of it.
Xomniac on July 27, 2013 at 01:43 said:
That…is horribly, horribly possible.
I was thinking maybe she does to him the same thing she did to Blasto and turn him into a meat-puppet mook maker or mindwipe him like they did Hookwolf and have him manipulated.
Ionno, Jack might find that boring. On the other hand-
… Didn’t Jack tell Theo that to kill the thousand people in his name he was going to use different methods than usual? Pretty sure Nilbog is the new method. eeeep.
I don’t think it would work that way because Siberian is a projection. And if it *did* work, it wouldn’t achieve anything. Crawler has to be hurt in order to adapt and Siberian’ s unhurtable.
What you could end up with though is a horde of Siberians whose projector is *Crawler* leaving an enemy with almost no vulnerabilities.
Erratic on July 27, 2013 at 01:05 said:
Waitasec. Siberian just grabbed her creator. I thought she couldn’t touch or use her power on him?
Siberian can touch him, s/he can’t use her power on him.
Yes, there’s no reason Siberian can’t go around touching himself.
Kinky.
But doesn’t Siberian look like either himself or his daughter?
Yes. He mentally conjures up his naked daughter. She’s powerful, full-grown, doesn’t talk, and does everything he can think of.
It is rather creepy when you think of it like that, isn’t it?
Maybe the one’s that create copies of themselves are just the one’s who realised that.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the ones with copies of themselves realized the original was dead.
krustacean on July 27, 2013 at 01:06 said:
Nilbog’s little kingdom managed to be even more horrifying than I imagined it would be. I can’t tell if I would be thrilled to have slop that tasted like whatever I wanted, or horrified.
“His genitals were almost bigger than I was…”
Probably the only thing on earth with balls bigger than Taylor’s.
Look they have every flavor of vomit you could want! I’m actually surprised at how badly Nilbog uses his power. He could have at least given some of them herbivore stomachs. Considering they built that quarantine building without him attacking, he could ask for a cow or two to study their digestive tract. If Taylor had his power, she’d have built a self sustaining ecosystem, school, and living manufacturing within a month. She would probably be good at the civilization games.
But that’s just it, he’s not Taylor, nor Bonesaw, this guys problem is that he’s NOT a Tinker. He’s a man, a poor, sad, deluded man, living in his own fantasy world. He doesn’t care HOW it works, only that it does, and he’ll only ever concern himself with the how if it immediately affects the end product. Other than that, he’s a toddler with a toy, using it however he pleases for his own sick, twisted amusement.
Yeah, this is it. Nilbog could have been the greatest danger this side of the Endbringers, he’s arguably one of the most powerful parahuman in the world, and all he did was recreate his fantasy medieval town.
Worm: where creating a town populated by childlike monsters is regarded as as one of the best case scenarios.
Taylor with his power ends with Zerg taking over the world. In, like, a year.
And that’s a happy end.
Also, yes, it makes a very interesting “what if” scenario, to consider how the story would have gone if Taylor got such power (maybe her bug control + ability to modify bug biology / mutate bugs? Including things like producing relay bugs)
I wonder if it’s the protein problem. If you’re creating an animal, you’re going to need a bit of protein. You saw that by now they’ve eaten every bug available. The problem with vegetarian and vegan diets is that you have to find plants that actually provide protein.
But surely if he can make a devil/angel mutant by thought, he can make one just a herbivore? Though I know nothing about the digestive tracts of a livestock. If he has things that multiply with fire, how about light them on fire? They multiply, and now there is more food to eat. Problem solved besides that disease you get from eating brains. The stupid bastard could at least plant a vegetable garden.
I may remember wrong but I believe Nilbog can’t create from nothing. I recall wildbow saying he stored flesh in his hump the way camels store water. So, a lack of meat would definitely be a problem.
Not Nilbog. His creations that multiply if you burn them. So burn them and have all the biological matter you need.
Farmerbob on July 27, 2013 at 21:21 said:
I think he’s a mentally deficient life tinker. He creates whatever he can imagine with sufficient thought, but can’t maintain his imagination with enough focus on anything that isn’t “cool” long enough for it to become reality.
Just like a mechanical tinker, he just makes things – but unlike most tinkers, he can’t understand what he built well enough to learn from it.
Not every tinker-type cape is super-intelligent, it seems.
Speaking of every flavor of vomit…. Did that remind anyone else of “Berties Botts Every Flavor Jelly Beans” from Harry Potter? 🙂 The Every Flavor jelly beans included one that was vomit flavored. Yum!
Also liked how Taylor has acknowledged and made peace with the fact that her power essentially has a weird will of its own. We really need to name her Eldritch Abomination. Sample names:
1. Bug
2. Ananse after the African trickster spider god.
3. Chitin
4. The Host.
5. Worm
Shiva the Destroyer?
I don’t think of it as a destroyer. I mean it chose Taylor after all and she wins by being clever and out thinking her opponents. That said, her nightmare fuel entry could fit with the Destroyer.
Kytin on July 27, 2013 at 01:19 said:
Queen Administrator?
Drop the administrator. Calling it Queen could work. Hey Queen, a little help?
And another one bites the dust…
‘Cause we are the champions, my friend
Considered looking to the Moirai for names, but Clotho isn’t very good.
If Taylor is the Queen, then perhaps she rules over a Hive?
The Hive? Insect themed,could work. I was hoping for an actual name or nickname since this thing is closer to Taylor than anyone else in the world.
I like Anansi, myself. The connotations are interesting and it fits the theme. Worm is probably the most obvious, though.
Two votes for Anansi. Just did a read on the wikipedia page. I think it fits.
He was even a Trickster god! Come on! It’s perfect.
Dunno, I think Weaver works just fine. Whatever threads you give her, she generally finds a way to put them together into a solution. She gets outperformed/beaten often enough that it keeps it interesting.
Naming the inhuman entity the same as her hero codename is boring. Besides it fun to figure out what to call it.
Ooh I misunderstood that. I thought people were trying to rename Weaver.
A name for Weaver’s passenger. If you want a serious name, I’d suggest Synergy. If Taylor just wants to put a name on it for moments when she decides she wants to say something that she doesn’t expect to be answered, then “Not Me”. “Family Circus” is your hint if the reference doesn’t make sense.
In the business world, “synergy” has been overused, beaten into the ground and left for dead.
I still shutter when I hear the word thanks to mouth-breathing corporate yes-men types. The kind of guys who excitedly read the latest management self-help book because they know the boss read it.
“We need some synergy around here!” or, “Let’s synergize that!” were once common catchphrases.
Fortunately, abusing “synergy” has gone out of fashion now, but its abuse has left its mark on me.
I understand completely. Synergy was pretty overused for a while. Still is in some circle, but the word still means the same thing 🙂
I like “Not Me” better anyway 🙂
Squivler on July 27, 2013 at 02:20 said:
Why not Sarah?
An Eldritch Abomination named Sarah is ridiculous. Steve is much better or Larry.
Wasn’t her mom named Annette? Go with that maybe?
Creepy Freudian implications there.
I’m going with Spiderpuppy, or the aforementioned ‘Not Me’.
rhysdeanno on July 27, 2013 at 02:31 said:
Name it Skitter.
That makes me question alot now. I still think she thinks of the ruthless, dangerous part of her identity as Skitter internally. Though with Noelle and Riley’s passenger’s influence on their behavior I wonder how how much of Taylor’s mental processes are her own? How much influence has her passenger had on her? If her passenger starts murdering people left and right on its own after she goes under again, then Skitter might very well work.
I say Skitter too. An internal debate of Skitter arguing with Weaver, well…
When it comes to naming the passenger, how about Glaurung? That’s a character from Tolken also known as The Great Worm.
D’oh! Should be Tolkien.
Glaurung was the Father of Dragons who used his hypnotic powers to ensure two siblings married each other and then, just before dying, revealed it to them. The two siblings proceeded to commit suicide. All to torture their father whom Morgoth, his boss and essentially Satan, had cursed. Something tells me Weaver wouldn’t like that name.
Considering how much passengers screw up people’s lives both directly and indirectly, perhaps it’s appropriate. 😀
I know it won’t get picked, but how about Ultramantis Black?
youtube.com/watch?v=0uii49oozqA
Why does he remind me so much of you? If he exists in the wormverse you just know he’s a villain. Like the mask. I kind of want Taylor to have had Sierra and Co. wear differed colored versions back when she was Skitter.
You left out Skitter.
taliesinskye on July 27, 2013 at 15:28 said:
Other trickster gods, perhaps. Loki?
Nah, everyone equates Loki with the Avengers movie now. Anansi is a Spider, Trickster, God as well. So it fits the insect theme.
After reading a few of the replies, here are my top 5 in order.
1. Eldritch Nice and simple. Since it would be the first named passenger, it could take a simple name like Hero did.
2. Skitter I agree that she still equates the more ruthless side of her to Skitter.
3. Source
4. Bob
5. Hive or Nest
Anansi seems to be claimed by Marvel. http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/anansism.htm
Well I don’t think Marvel can claim ownership of a cultural deity that’s several hundred years old. Then again copyright law is bullshit here at times. Bob come on. Steve is much better. Behold puny earthlings. Bow before your new god, STEVE! Eldritch abomination named Eldritch? That just blew my mind. I’m still gonna vote for Anansi, but that’s a second vote with Packbat for The Hive.
Aunt Nancy (Southern American name for Anansi.)
Other names along the same line as Passenger: Freeloader, Goldbricker, Flunky, Parasite, Truckler, Leech.
Deities are public domain, though you can probably copyright a certain depiction. Same principle behind public domain superheroes like Black Terror. Certain public figures are also public domain by virtue of them being public figures.
That’s why both Marvel and DC have Thor and Aries. I haven’t checked on if they both have Hercules, but Marvel’s is worth checking out.
So far for naming her passenger:
1. Anansi: 3 votes.
2. The Hive 2 votes/ Skitter 2 votes.
1. Anansi 3 votes/ Skitter 3 votes.
2. The HIve 2 votes.
I’ll put up a name if at least one person also wants it.
emisformack on July 29, 2013 at 11:27 said:
queen. it’s already been used in story so its more fitting than naming her after a trickster god. second choice is skitter.
My Little Passenger.
(Friendship is Bugs)
Shelob? Aragog?
acediamonds on July 27, 2013 at 01:08 said:
So if Dragon was still alive she would have probably been able to ward off the Nine or take Nilbog out before Jack could teleport them away. Jack getting Nilbog ups the casualties but Saint finding Amy’s message is probably what tripled their chances of preventing the end of world.
Makes you wonder why Cauldron didn’t let Teacher spill the beans to the rest of the people at the meeting then if the discovery triples the chances of saving the world.
Considering Nilbog’s love of fairytales, Jacks could spin it as an actual pair of Dragons in league with the treacherous Queen Bug God. They actually look like Dragons right?
Because it probably screws them over in some way or another. Makes them irrelevant.
Alternatively, it could be that humanity is reaching critical mass. The only way to stop the end is to kill people….. LOTS of people.
So the Endbringers are on humanity’s side?
Nah, they’re the enemies of the Passengers. Humanity is the collateral damage.
wash17 on July 27, 2013 at 01:19 said:
So, it seemed a little unclear, did Taylor successfully kill Nilbog? I mean, bonesaw is just gonna rez him, but is this another s-class threat she hast technically put down.
Who was the first, Alexandria? Sundancer killed Echidna.
imsomeone on July 27, 2013 at 14:22 said:
Don’t think Alexandria counts as S-class. The Siberian only did in conjunction with all the other Slaughterhouse 9; and she had true invulnerability. She coudn’t fly, but still.
I think S-ranks are given out to those who can cause massive destruction, not those who are hard to kill. Nilbog was hard to kill, but he could produce an endless monster army. The Endbringers have there natural desaster equivalent. The S9 have Shatterbird and Burnscar for mass destruction.
Taylor helped kill Echidna and Behemoth and half the S9.
On a semirelated note, Blasto of all people could have been a S class threat if he had given his creations self-replication but he refrained from doing so because he didn’t want to have a “kill on sight” order on his head.
But then he went ahead and tried to clone an Endbringer. So his judgement don’t impress.
And it was the Simurgh.
Tell me that wouldn’t end badly.
Jager on December 2, 2013 at 18:58 said:
Taylor didn’t help kill Behemoth at all; that was entirely Scion/Norton.
She did sort of save India from being destroyed, though.
We didn’t see the body.
So yippy, now the Nine have their own Nilbog to strap in like Blasto and make their own army of minions, probably by harvesting flesh off Crawlers.
I would have to qualify this as a combat win for Taylor, with the possibility of a kill. If he IS dead it would be her first S class kill. (At least on screen. I would assume that something THAT cool would be shared with us fans.) She has done some good damage to several S class threats before, and coordinated some others.
Leviathan – She managed to stick Armsmasters halberd up Levi’s ass.
S9 – She fought Mannequin to a standstill on her own, and coordinated a damn good response to the rest of them. Her and the Undersiders efforts were pretty much instrumental in running the S9 off the first time.
Echidna – Cut the bitch in half using subterfuge and someone elses power.
Behemoth – Coordinated the well documented ‘Most Damage EVER’ to an Endbringer….. Twice!
Unknown – Confrontations through the time skip… Assuming no kills or major damage here. (Yeah yeah, I know… “Assume”….. Bad thing to do in the Wormverse.)
S9000 – As bad as the collective threat is, individually, none of them qualify as an S class threat. Each GROUP, however, I think does qualify as an S class. Taking that into account, Taylor could credited with the demise of two and possibly three class S threats. The possible is the group Golem went after. She wasn’t there, but she IS the General of this campaign.
As an aside, I think that overall, the S9000 collectively qualify as something more than an S class threat. Perhaps a new class Z?
Nilbog – If he’s dead, he would be the first S class she has killed singlehandedly. Since Jack got away with the ‘body’, I would have to say this encounter is a loss even so.
I don’t think the gangs of S9 they’ve taken out would count as S-Class. They only become so when Jack is around, because he’s the one who makes them what you are. Without him even Crawler and Siberian are just brutes that can be taken out. Certainly not Mannequin. Though the S200 would count as a whole.
The rest… yeah, did Weaver ever get a Congressional Medal of Valor or something? Or her teammates? I can understand not giving the Undersiders any even for their heroism, but as Weaver? Why the fuck not?!
Actually, if you want to make the cape coalition fighting Endbringers actually stick, and try to convert villains to the good side of the tracks, then some recognition and rewards might go a long way with some personality types. Weaver is most certainly not the only cape to ever dance the line between villain and hero cape. We see Flechette go the opposite way.
I would say Siberian on her own is an S-class threat. Alexandria survived dozens of fights with Endbringers completely unscathed and the only being to ever seriously injured her was Siberian. Taylor sent Siberian running.
Speaking of, Alexandria’s not considered an S-class threat because she’s theoretically on the side of the angels, but she’s in that league and I’d definitely include her on that list.
Off-topic: After a couple weeks of irregularity, Banter Latte (and both Lovelace 1/2 and Interviewing Trey) are back on schedule.
I still recommend them both. They’re going good places.
Speaking of recommendations, you quoted from Watership Down here some while back (comparing Tagg to Woundwort), and it was such a fine piece of writing that I sought out the book. Thank you muchly for that. I quite enjoyed it.
Well, okay, I didn’t have to “seek” very hard because, hey, bookstore, but y’know…
And I sought out interviewing Leather and am currently reading Interviewing Trey. Well worth it. OHh and if ‘Jack O’Knaves’ hopped realities and joined Jack slash…scary though there PB?
Honestly, I don’t think it would work hopping either way — Wormverse superpowers are generally stronger than Justice Wing superpowers, as far as I can tell (I think Jack O’Knaves doesn’t even have powers).
I know what you mean, though. They’re both elementally terrifying.
I’m glad you liked Watership Down — that Woundwort passage is one of my favorite in … well, anything.
Speaking of that and recommendations, let me once again name Shardik, also by Richard Adams, as a great work of prose fiction. And Helm by Steven Gould, and Islands in the Net by Bruce Sterling, just because those are two other books competing for status as my favorite novel of all time. And Moneyball by Michael Lewis, even though it’s not even a novel (it’s about baseball, baseball statistics, and how the Oakland Athletics in 2002 used the latter to compete with richer teams at the former), because I love that one too.
…I’ll stop.
I’m curious now. Why hasn’t Nilbog’s little realm been leveled? I don’t want to even go near the morality of whether or not it is or isn’t wrong to kill the little weirdos, but in a more tactical sense.
Seems to me that they really aren’t that threatening. I know no one wanted to nuke him because of the unpredictability of that, but I imagine a little battalion of capes with powers similar to Crucible or some Dragon-craft could probably take out the city in less than a day. Is it because Nilbog was content to sit around in his little castle and never really showed interest in taking over more land? What did the people in charge plan to do when he died and his beasties weren’t so controlled? What happened if he woke up one day and decided he felt like sending an army of flying gremlins out to destroy the world? Did they have a system we didn’t see in place to take out more adventurous tunnelers?
Inquiring minds like mine wanna know.
My guess is that nobody knew how badly the community was suffering, because nobody was doing more than watching the borders. My guess is that even Jack was not prepared for how weak and pathetic Nilbog actually was – he came with Siberian and Bonesaw as backup, two of his heaviest hitters. Bonesaw to release a killing plague at need, and Siberian to protect from physical harm. The three of them would have been innoculated against the plague. Remember what Bonesaw did to the merchants.
Nilbog as a Bonesaw toy though? That is a bit scary. I do not expect to see him again, except as a controlled hybrid. A Nilbog + breed hybrid would be pretty ugly.
I said the same thing during Piggot’s interlude. I still think they should have nuked the bastard. If it didn’t work, then send in the infantry, tanks, jets, shoot the hell out of them. Then nuke him again. Who cares if they replicate, the army outnumbers his creatures. What’s the point of having a military if you’re never going to use it when an enemy force is killing civilians? The 9 and the endbringers I can understand not using the military but Nilbog should have been surrounded, and invaded within a week. They set a bad precedent by letting him live. It makes them seem weak and ineffectual.
That probably works!
Until the creatures he made that replicate when exposed to a convenient source of energy start to outnumber the army and he goes on a genocidal rampage across the nation, of course.
Okay, send in the army and if it fail then nuke it. If it fails more bombs, more tanks, more dakka! Then more nukes. He isn’t Behemoth, If Brute force doesn’t work, you’re not using enough!
By the time the military was in position there were no civilians.
Attacking would be useless. The people of Ellisburg are dead, one small community gone in an actually really vast country where the distribution of industry means that one little town won’t account for much on a tactical level.
Not even getting into the fact that Nilgob can apparently engineer his lovelies to reproduce on contact with fire, or that he can get them to resist just about anything. Nukes wouldn’t be a good idea either, because the only real Ellisburgs I could find on google maps are in the North-Northeast. Don’t wanna be sending fallout to New York or Boston, and if Toronto even get’s a wiff of gamma we’ll have turned Michiagan, Ohio, and New York into boneyards within the week, mark my words.
I choose to believe that Wormverse Canada is a murderous police state with tons of secret supersoldier programs like it is in the Marvel Universe. Shit yeah.
They didn’t know how far his creations can go. He didn’t really create anything made for war, they didn’t want to give him incentive. Just think about it as fighting against over a thousand Genesises. They an do almost anything, given the brainpower, creativity and incentive.
Fun thought, Scion stumbles into their meeting.
Maybe Director Costa-Brown got a phone call from Doctor Mother saying to leave him alone.
Charles Borner on July 27, 2013 at 01:59 said:
“The head was a skeletal one, a dog’s head stripped of all bone, turned skyward with its mouth opened in joy.”
I think you mean “stripped of all flesh”?
If it were stripped of all bone, how could it be “skeletal”?
Indigo on July 27, 2013 at 02:15 said:
That was a great chapter.
No change in the kill count. I’ll post it anyway.
Cherishes chewed, chelated, and chipped: 8
Siberians reassigned to Antarctica: 0
Hatchet Faces that have to wait for the sequel: 0
Screamers gagged by Mistress Taylor: 1
Nyxes zilched: 1
Psychosomas treated by a Frontier Psychiatrist: 0
Night Hags coyote uglied when the guy woke up: 0
Nice Guys finished last: 1
Snowmenn snowballed: 0
Jacks knifed: 0
Saints dragged through mud, hit with carrots, had a rabid badger tossed in his pants, tarred, feathered, drawn, quartered, had his tongue ripped out, shot, and then had his tongue shot: 0
You forgot “and had his scraggly beard trimmed” for Saint.
Saint’s punishment increases per update.
Haha oh Gecko I love your kill count list!
Saint’s punishment should’ve started off bigger. Though I do agree it is appropriate for it to grow with each update.
Think we can safely guess Golem’s team ended the x3 Burnscar/whoever else group?
Wildbow, you always manage to surpass yourself. The first time Nilbog showed up it was straight from a zombie flick whereas this was more of a psychological horror, where you know something’s wrong but can’t really guess what. Or maybe, one of those old fairytales where humans are brought to Faerie and warned not to eat anything and then the Fae are all trying to convince you to eat and get angry when you don’t. I think that’s appropriate seeing how Nilbog believes he’s living inside Alice in Wonderland.
Nilbog sure was pathetic, but in an understandable way. I wonder if Jack knew he was going to be like that or he was surprised. Speaking of Jack, it’s so fun seeing run in circles around everyone else that it’s a pity he’s a psychopathic monster. I particularly enjoyed the part where Weaver is afraid of taking off her mask because Jack is waving his cutlery in the direction of her throat.
A king, a queen and a Jack.
And Golem’s the ace.
Heh, yes, that was a fun pattern to spot.
I was wondering, can we add Villain Decay to Nilbog’s tvtropes page?
I know that it’s usually considered a symptom of bad writing but I think that Nilbog is one of the few examples truly justifiable in-story .
Maybe something like:
“He was never sane to begin with but years trapped in a small town with only his monsters for company have turned him in a childlike grotesque who believes he’s living in a fairytale* and lack of resources have severely dampened his potential.”
*Wouldn’t it be fun if Glaistig and Nilbog met?
Not really what the trope’s about.
Unless I missed the point, Villain Decay is about a villain who starts strong but is progressively nerfed in his next appearances. Sure, Nilbog isn’t a recurring villain but I think going from scary boogeyman who makes capes flee in terror leaving their foot soldiers to be slaughtered to deranged Alice in Wonderland character whose monster army is slowly starving to death counts (albeit, as I said, pretty justified in- story).
Alternatively, is there a trope about some boogeyman or shrouded in myth character who doesn’t really live up to his reputation?
Badass On Paper?
Nilbog was never nerfed, though. We just found out more about him. Shrouded In Myth might work.
Bonesaw would fit right in with Cupcakes the fanfic.
Loki-L on July 27, 2013 at 07:09 said:
Poor Defiant.
The thing is that not only does he have to face the prospect of losing the only person capable of tolerating for more than ten minutes at a time, as Weaver correctly deduced, he also has to work with and cover for her murderer.
He can’t tell people that Dragon is down because Saint attacked her, he also has to allow Saint to act as her replacement.
He partly has to do this to safeguard Dragon’s problems in case she ever comes back and partly because he realizes that the good guys need a united front at this point…
I also really hope that Weaver has a backup flightpack in her dragonfly craft as the chances of getting one of her pet tinkers to repair it for her are pretty low at the moment. Maybe Masamune can help.
Quick WMG: Did we ever really meet Masamune? He hails from a land which conveniently has had all its records destroyed and his powers of being able to mass-produce and maintain Dragon-tech is sort of the sort of thing you would expect from an AI that recently had had its restrictions against creating further AIs removed. What if Masamune is actually a creation of Dragon made specifically to maintain and build the tech she invented?
And he’s a Hermit. Someone who avoids meeting people… But probably not. Saint would have used the killswitch sooner if Dragon were to reproduce.
He didn’t, and yet he “delegated tracking to the child A.I. Dragon made”.
He was aware of her reproducing and either didn’t care or didn’t realize the significance.
I think that the main restriction is on creating AIs of equivilent or greater intelligence.
I don’t think allowing Saint to continue is the best move. Sure, now is not the best time to start shit. But the moment theres an opening they probably should move to destroy the Dragonslayers and take control of Dragon’s system ASAP.
Saint’s already proven that he won’t be operating in syn with the mission and might be willing to screw everyone else over if he thinks something is more important. He’s a rogue element who is allied with people who don’t seem to care about stopping the Nine.
Defiant would probably be alot more capable of handling the data input anyway. They need to get control of the Azazels and such right quick so they aren’t at the mercy of someone else’s whims.
Fellwenner on July 28, 2013 at 21:43 said:
I agree, and I don’t think he’d necessarily have a problem with bringing Weaver into the heart of the problem to help resolve it.
brgibbons on July 28, 2013 at 05:03 said:
> He can’t tell people that Dragon is down because Saint attacked her, he also has to allow Saint to act as her replacement.
I don’t know why either of those are necessarily true.
“Saint launched an attack on Dragon, and he’s in control of her systems right now” seems to me to be a reasonable statement for Defiant to tell Weaver and Chevalier, and has the virtue of being both completely true and not even misleading.
I wonder how Nilbog and Glastig would get along.
Had the same thought. Glaistig would probably call him a usurper or something.
More like a pretender. Her delusions trump his delusions.
I got the feeling from the Cauldron meeting that Glaistig is capable of being diplomatic. So I’d probably turn things to Game of Thrones times a million.
“Do tell me Lord Nilbog, what domains do you rule in Faerie? Could we perchance have met once by the Twilit Glade of Tir na Nog?”
Seriously I want that meeting NOW.
Oh God! Cupcake flavored vomit. My wife baked a batch of cupcakes last night….
“What the hell is this?”
“Heat-deflecting paste. You’ll burn up in there without it.”
“Smells like puke.”
“I pre-digested it to increase its potency.”
“It’s PUKE?!”
I look ridiculous, don’t I?
*starts humming Ride of the Valkyries* duh duh duh duh duh, duh duh duh duh! *poses with the sword and shield*
“We are all going to die.”
I went to the birthday party for a friends daughter. Guess what they served? Cupcakes. Want to guess what popped into may head when I saw them?
… Lamps?
Penguins? No, I got this. CAN OPENERS, right?
Golem did well here. Bad situation, but he sucked it up and walked right in. Got some of his own shots in. I’ve been worried about him cracking under the psychological strain, and he might yet, but past this point… if he does falter, he has still risen above and beyond the call, in my books.
I have to agree. Theo is just amazing.
Of all the other viewpoints that a retelling of the story could be done from, his might be one of the most interesting.
A badass? Yep!
Interesting? Ehhhh… I dunno.
Really? This guy spent his childhood among such charming persons as Kaiser, Purity, Crusader, Night, Fog and the amazing size-changing twins, stood up to easily the most evil fucker of the Wormverse, somehow found his way to the Wards after being abandoned by the closest thing he had to a family, soon after he accepted to fight Behemoth, survived, and spent the remaining time getting training from hell, going from a overweight introvert kid to a ridiculous badass. How the heck isn’t that material for an interesting story?
I dunno, most of the interest I see for him is his interactions with and observations with the other wackos he interacts with, who in comparison to he doesn’t really stand out to me. We’ve kinda had a introvert to badass hero transition already, I guess.
Now, a Imp or Miss Militia perspective, that sounds cooler to me.
Chevalier. I’d love a story completely focused on Chevalier. From his vigilante- quest to find his brother’s abductors to entering the first iteration of the Wards to his relationship with Miss Militia and Armsmaster (old friend and all of that).
Or on a more villainous side, Number Man. A guy that was best pals with Jack, helped him kill King , walked out of the S9 just like that and helped found the most powerful organization in the world. All with the power of super-maths.
Something to think on: Bonesaw cloned all members of the S9. Including Harbinger. We havn’t seen any Harbingers yet, but they have to be out down at some point, right?
The Number men vs Harbinger, I want.
I believe I commented on this in a previous chapter. I bet they’d like stay still for a looooong time as their calculations continually shift and adjust in answer to each other .
I would really like to see more of Chevalier’s age group. Miss Militia, Mouse Protector, all those guys.
Hell, more Mouse Protector! A dozen weird powers, and likes to stick her foot in her mouth with lame jokes.
Theo’s story could shed some light on Taylor’s development during the time skip, as well as show his progress to date.
why do i now want a short about Miss Militia and Imp being on clandestine mission, just the to of them? Would need a reason I cant’ think up though…
sarah penguin on July 27, 2013 at 15:49 said:
They are so very hosed.
Stephen M (Ethesis) on July 27, 2013 at 16:07 said:
Despair.
Heh, yeah. Worm is just like Dark Souls.
Praise the Sun!
eduardo on July 27, 2013 at 19:34 said:
And things got worse.
But, very well written. Alice in wonderland with psychopaths.
… So, basically regular Alice in Wonderland, then?
Alice: But I don’t want to go among mad people.
The Cat: Oh, you can’t help that. We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.
Alice: How do you know I’m mad?
The Cat: You must be. Or you wouldn’t have come here.
liza on July 27, 2013 at 20:42 said:
This is an excellent chapter. The tension of the scene in Nilbog’s court is incredibly strong – it takes good writing to make that short scene of Jack and Weaver playing devil and angel even more suspenseful than all the (very good) action sequences. I also love the fairy-tale style of the Nilbog scenes – it’s an interesting break from the usual tone, while still fitting into the larger story. Well done!
SInce this is my first time commenting, I should also mention how much I’ve enjoyed this story in general. A friend recommended it to me a few months ago and I quickly became obsessed.
That said…Nilbog + “all the goddamn psychopaths” = bad news. VERY bad news. And I imagine this is not the worst things will get before this fight ends. I am worried about our heroes (and non-S9000 villains) right now. They’ll think of something…probably…maybe…I hope…
This chapter just goes to show how much of a cowardly dick Saint really is, the tripling of success versus end-of-world notwithstanding. I can sympathize with self preservation, but at the knowing cost of thousands of lives and the possibility of billions, I find it unconscionable. Now we have the results. And the thing of it is, I think that if he’d only just talked to Dragon things could be so much better. A different sort of partner than Defiant is.
I know we have a ways to go probably, but I’d like a good, solid win for Weaver. It would be an oasis in the desert of our journey to the end.
Saint is incomprehensibly fucking lucky that no one under Weaver’s command died. Though I’m worried about Theo. If that had happened she’d shove her fist of Geoff’s ass so hard his head would pop off like a Pez dispenser.
The day isn’t over, however, they’ve still got rioting mutants to deal with in the immediate.
Y’know, it’s entirely possible that the improved figures re: the end of the world are because, after this SNAFU, The S9 will kill a hundred times as many people – which increases the chances of them inadvertently killing whichever trigger individual will bring on the apocalypse.
Woo?
Thank you to Christopher, Tom and Oliver for the donations.
Got some money towards the Dragon donation fund, and surprisingly, money explicitly against the Dragon donation fund.
Thank you nonetheless.
Kessler on July 28, 2013 at 06:21 said:
I’m sort of worried on whether the money donated can actually influence what’s going to happen. Readers input on whether they like or dislike something can be important, but readers direction on how story should proceed isn’t something I’d like to happen.
Rest assured, all of this is tongue in cheek.
I’ll be happy if Dragon comes back, as long as she’s not the same Dragon. She was getting too powerful, even if she really was not in danger of going Skynet on everyone.
IMHO 🙂
I prefer chocolate brownie vomit, but that’s just personal taste.
I advise against orange juice vomit. It burns!
Fiona on July 28, 2013 at 13:01 said:
I may be dense, but I didn’t understand why Nilbog gave the order to kill Weaver and Golem. Wasn’t it Jack he was about to execute, because of the revealed “assassin”? The only thing that happened next was Golem made the creator go flying up in the air, but Nilbog wouldn’t have even known it was Golem who could do that, and why would he interpret that as an act of aggression toward him anyway?
Is it just Nilbog’s random craziness that makes him suddenly turn on Weaver and Golem? Or did something get missed out?
The way I read it, Nilbog sees the impostor but since he has no idea what Siberian can do, lets him/her go near the projector while being all “any last words?” to Jack. Weaver and Golem know that if Siberian grabs Manton it’s the end, act, with Golem sending Manton flying. Nilbog, who is even more mercurial than he is crazy, somehow sees this as an attack and turns on them.
Or, maybe, he somehow sensed the worms and the other creepers converging on his real body and decided that stopping Weaver from attacking him was more important than stopping jack. I go for the first reading, however.
But then, wouldn’t he think Manton was attacking, not Golem? He doesn’t even know Golem can do that, because that’s the first time Golem uses his power in Nilbog’s presence. Still doesn’t make sense to me. I bet a paragraph got missed out.
Golem’s power use is fairly obvious, he needs to put his hand into something to create his projections from it. So it’s easy for Nilbog to jump to that conclusion.
I agree it’s a little odd, though.
Yes, because it would look more like Golem was trying to protect Nilbog from the “assassin”, wouldn’t it?
As I said Nilbog is mercurial and batshit insane. He sees Golem do something, as erratic noted it’s pretty obvious when Golem uses his power, and even if it was for his benefit he may have thought something like “These stranger believe that I, the god-king, cannot defend my person or my subjects? Off with their hand!”
Remember, WE know that Siberian could annihilate everyone in that town even if Nilbog hadn’t been growing weaker and weaker as time went on and resources became less and less.. Nilbog instead lives in a fairytale where he is allpowerful.
*head not hand. It’s pretty bad when you can’t even quote Alice in Wonderland properly 😦
New paragraph has been added. All is clear now. Thanks Wildbow!
Thank you, Fiona/AMR, for bringing it to my attention.
Brian on July 28, 2013 at 14:36 said:
The way I’m reading it is that Golem screwed up bigtime, and then Weaver compounded it.
It doesn’t make any sense for Golem to make a preemptive strike on Nilbog right then, so I’m presuming that Golem didn’t know the one up top was a decoy, was attempting to intervene to protect Nilbog, failed to do so, and then didn’t take the opportunity to try to explain his actions.
Weaver then eliminated any possibility of salvaging the situation by immediately trying to kill the real Nilbog, but likely failed to do so (I’m presuming Bonesaw will keep him alive), and just managed to incapacitate him so that he couldn’t defend himself against Siberian snatch-and-run. It’s unclear, but it’s also possible/likely that the S9 didn’t even know they were dealing with a decoy until Golem yanked him up (presumably revealing the umbilical).
Basically, Golem/Weaver had three options: Attack the revealed Manton, do nothing or attack Nilbog, and attacking Nilbog led to one of the poorer potential outcomes.
To be honest, this situation felt a lot like the Alexandria fight–Weaver dives into a situation with no real plan, things fall apart, and she then jumps right to “suffocate someone with bugs”. I was hoping that she had learned something since that experience.
Theo attacked Siberian – once the Siberian made contact with the outer casing covering Manton, the Nine would have been 100% safe. Weaver/Theo wouldn’t have been able to attack, and with the Nine getting nowhere, they had no reason not to attack Golem/Weaver and/or Nilbog.
Which would have been a crushing loss in any event.
Theo sought to separate Siberian from her creator, to mitigate those losses.
What is bothering someone is why then Nilbog ordered an attack on Weaver and Golem. I think the fact that Nilbog is mad is enough of an explanation, or alternatively, he somehow knew that Weaver had found his real body. Is there some other factor we missed?
I clarified a little. Didn’t realize it was so unclear, but I made a tweak at the last minute (well, in the last 10 minutes before the chapter went live), removing a short conversation where Siberian -did- make contact, and flow/continuity might have suffered just a smidge.
Ok. Saw it. Thanks.
Pretty much what I thought.
pookywb on September 11, 2015 at 15:18 said:
Think it still might be a little unclear, largely because that line of thought (Siberian grabbing the outer shell, and thus protecting the Manton) is not included in the narrative. I was able to figure it out before looking at the comments, but had to stop and puzzle it out during the middle of reading the chapter.
Additionally, as Brian says below, it was hard to distinguish who you were referring to by “creator”, as my mind immediately went to Nilbog, as you do refer to both the Manton clone and Nilbog as “creator” within the chapter (plus Nilbog is referred to as a god).
I see where I went wrong. I read that as saying that Siberian was inching toward (and Golem attacked) the *goblin’s* creator, not Siberian’s creator. (In this version, I read it the same way again, and then got to the paragraph in which Nilbog stood up, and realized I had it wrong.)
To be fair, it worked last time. She killed Alexandria and got made a hero for it. Clearly, the lesson learned is that unleashing the bugs is a winning strategy. Just not this time.
three rights make a left. on July 28, 2013 at 20:27 said:
Awesome chapter I reread it today as i was tired the first time I read it, excellent writing am super excited for Monday at 9 P.M.
Scion interlude
yinyangorwuji on July 29, 2013 at 12:27 said:
I agree, an interlude from the perspective of a mindless automaton would be absolutely, positively, sarcastically fascinating. I don’t think Scion could have an interlude at all, for the same reason the endbringers can’t. That sort of power doesn’t come with intelligence, or social skills. I mean, the S-class threats. Slaughterhouse Nine, all serial killers, who can’t really blend in well. Except for Nice Guy, and that’s his power. Nilbog… well, we know about him. Endbringers are animals, and The Sleeper seems to be “dormant.” Scion is more powerful than any of these. So, with great power comes a terrible social IQ. One thing I love about this story is the rule on the interludes. So, rather than having Defiant realize Dragon just got shut down, we get backstory and personality on Saint and the Dragonslayers. We get minor characters like The Most Powerful Man in the World, and they advance the plot. It’s a great device.
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katrikah on July 29, 2013 at 13:45 said:
Finally found a song for Taylor for my soundtrack, which is totally still a thing. I’m planning on posting it in its entirety when Worm ends!
Bastille – Icarus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5JaxMaCIw4
I vote that the Slaughter House Nine gets ‘Cartoon Heroes’ by Aqua for a theme. Because reasons.
You are a bad, bad, puppy! 😀
Who’s the helium-voice chick supposed to be? Bonesaw?
Yes. YES. Creepy over-the-top cutesy voice?
…Tell me you can’t hear her saying “Hey! Don’t swear!”
YES! I can, which is why I nearly snorted what I was drinking out my nose when Helium Chick started singing.
…that works really well. consider it done.
Hydrargentium on July 29, 2013 at 14:55 said:
Fuck, that was intense.
Anzer'ke on August 2, 2013 at 08:14 said:
I’ve left this story alone since growing completely bored with it after the Noelle arc ended.
A mate who I got into it (he was as obsessed as I was for a time) had a similar experience, feeling that the Noelle arc really should have been the end of the story. I agree with that thought myself.
Anyhoo, came back to find my way to and then remove all the stuff sending me alerts constantly, got mildly curious and picked a random chapter…
Knife rape. That’s the level you’ve sunk to wildbow? Knife rape? I don’t know what the hell happened to this story but it’s just become yet another “dark and gritty” comic book gorefest. Meaningless bland grimderp, no reason for emotional investment, all sympathy or relatability purged and no point to it all in sight.
At this stage I can only draw comparison to Mark Millar at his most pointlessly grim. Which is a grave shame because I loved this work to the point of staying up all night to read the latest chapters. I doubt you’ll care for a few lost fans and I must congratulate your popularity, however in my opinion at least, this story should have ended a long while back.
I have no idea what you’re talking about. I fear your reading comprehension may not be up to par. I don’t know what you’d even suggest was knife rape here.
” A bloated, coarse-looking creature lay on the ground, almost like a potato made of hair and flesh. Smaller things were busy carving gouges and holes into it.
Seems pretty cut and dry to me.
Wildbow, frankly speaking if this is how you respond to criticism these days…well best of luck with whatever you write after Worm finally ends. I fear you may need it.
Also if anyone can tell me how to stop the alerts, because I wiped my subscription page and they’re all still coming.
Please understand where I was confused – there weren’t knives involved, and the event was consensual on all sides. Blue and Orange sexuality/amusement, if you will.
When your initial comment came up, there were quite a few (15+) people in the chatroom trying to decipher/figure out what you were talking about.
Generally speaking, I hold to the altruism studies mindset of relating to others. I give everyone the benefit of a doubt and try to be nice where possible. If someone’s nice to me, I respond in kind. If someone’s respectful, again, the same. If someone doesn’t extend those courtesies, I don’t devote energy to doing so either.
Your comments have been steadily less kind and respectful and steadily more entitled. I’ve done my utmost to address them as best as I could, as they’ve come up. I thought we reached a consensus some time ago when I suggested that, by all indicators, Worm doesn’t seem to be the story for you. You, in turn, said you’d stop.
That you keep coming back to restate the same things again and again, brimming with negativity (your writing is getting worse, the story’s too dark, you’re losing readers, you lost me as a reader, etc, etc) is kind of hard to deal with on my end. I… don’t know what you expect or want me to do – I can’t/won’t change the story to suit your particular tastes. I’ll keep writing the sort of story I’d want to read because that’s the story I’m best equipped to write, and by all indicators that’s working for me – the readership is still growing and there’s no sign people are leaving in droves.
My response to you, above, is an extension of my frustration. I had thought we’d reached an accord and then I get this comment that’s completely out of left field, again, brimming with that negativity and disrespect. I asked others if they could figure it out and the response across the board was that you were just looking to pick a fight.
Now I understand what you were referring to, please allow me to apologize for the jab at your reading comprehension. It was unfair of me, and I am sorry.
I’ve done some research about the email subscription thing and not had any luck in finding a direct solution (there’s a subscriber list but no option to remove people from it). I’m sorry – might I recommend marking it as spam or looking for filter settings? I know gmail has a means of filtering incoming emails from particular addresses and deleting them on sight.
hedelex on April 16, 2014 at 17:26 said:
Good answer Wildbow, I don’t think I’d have that much patience :-S
I heard someone said that you can’t please every reader and trying to answer to them was frustrating in the best scenario. It is very kind of you to do so and to try to reason with them.
I hope this person Anzer’ke stops torturing him/herself by coming and reading and stops torturing you by posting.
I think this Weaver-Golem operation went to the dogs XD they screwed it badly!! I am eager to read what comes next!
Ellisburg is like Wonderland in drugs, spooky place to visit!
I *completely* misinterpreted that scene. I thought they’d done something to Crawler and were constantly sticking things in him so he couldn’t regenerate.
Make of that what you will…
I understand where you’re coming from, but frankly, it’s not really what any of us want to hear. You’re not offering constructive criticism, you’re not speculating, you’re not commenting on the psychological impact of people seeing “knife rape.” You’re using the comments section, something typically used only by fans of the series (especially this far in) and saying the equivalent of “I don’t like the direction of the story, it’s too violent.” Great. Don’t read it. And, please, don’t bother us.
-Zeta
(I can say ‘us’ now, right? )
mremaknu on August 2, 2013 at 11:17 said:
Where in the figgety-fuck do you get knife rape from ANY part of this story?
Yeah, you wouldn’t mind refreshing our memories? Because I, at least, really must have forgotten about the knife rape.
Did a free bamboo rice steamer come with the Ginsu knife rape?
Cutting commentary I understand, but I have no idea what you mean by knife rape.
WELP. TOTALLY TOAST NOW. JUST SAYIN’. The way this chapter ended had me staring at the screen with my hands to my mouth, completely horrified. And that’s a good thing (:
Oh screw you Saint. You completely screwed over the Nine operation just now, didn’t you?
Defiant’s still enough of Armsmaster for Taylor to think it’s odd when he thanks her. Huh.
“The hands that clutched the rake and watering can were held together by wire. A very small human hand.”
Plural to singular. Typo?
Mustapha Garba on November 14, 2013 at 23:08 said:
I’ll be honest, I didn’t read more than halfway through the chapter before I scrolled down to post.
I’m dropping Worm at this point.
I’ve been archive binging for the past week or so, and what kept me glued wasn’t the top-class world-building or the crisp writing style. Nope, it was my instant connection to the fully realized characters of this ‘verse.
Maybe it’s the fast-shifting Godzilla threshold, maybe it’s too many characters. Perhaps I just need a break. Whatever the reason, I’ve lost that connection, that empathy for the actors on the stage. And I can’t continue without it.
Thanks for the ride up to this point anyway, wildbow.
twofoe on November 17, 2013 at 04:02 said:
I did the same in the middle of chapter 26.3; been gone for a week or two. Now I’m back and hoping to make it to the end without another burn-out. Just 4 arcs after this one, then the epilogue…
I can’t put my finger on why I’d grown so weary of the story. I agree it has something to do with the characters, though. The timeskips might have contributed to it… so many characters were added and subtracted from Weaver’s life. We never got a chance to get to know the new ones, or learn exactly how the old ones had changed over the past couple years.
This was a really awesome chapter. Grippingly tense, wonderfully creepy, wondering which side Nilbog would fall down on, even as I know that all these sad sweet little vicious monsters are narratively more likely to end up attacking our protagonist… Great one.
Nix on March 18, 2014 at 11:48 said:
Typo: “it’s mouth” -> “its mouth”. (Everyone gets that wrong. Damn Old English inflectional hangovers.)
Ha so Weaver is totally living up to her Queen Administrator role now. I love how she calmly sat down and proclaimed herself a Queen. Awesome way to go about it and awesome comeback to most of Jack’s responses. It’s like watching two Chessmasters playing Xanatos Speed Chess and both getting progressively more annoyed. Manton hiding in the creature was not my first guess. I was going with him being inside whatever Bonesaw was riding around on.
Boy they should’ve sent Weaver in to clean up Nilbog a while ago. Less than a half hour in his territory and she essentially succeeded in killing him…well minus outside intervention by the teleporting invincible assholes that is.
Bot that the army couldn’t kill him…it’d just cause more damage than good.
One virus or parasite in the midst of these creatures, and they could go berserk, roaming the countryside until they were put down.
Hahaha. Granted, if they were human, I wouldn’t argue… but I think expecting Bonesaw to have a virus or parasite prepared that would interact predictably with any of these things, when they’re all custom-made and the federal government has spent ten years making absolutely sure nothing like them escapes into the outside world, is probably overestimating her a bit. 😛
Rule number 1 of surviving in Worm:never underestimate anyone.
If the next arc is called Vector, I will take that as confirmation that we are in the *deep* shit.
It isn’t.
Now for the bad news….
Jay on June 17, 2015 at 16:45 said:
So… am I the only one who imagined every line of Nilbog’s dialogue in Hedonism Bot’s voice?
“I regret nothing!”
Really really dumb in the end….not skitterlike there. Too much panicking.
MisterTeatime on January 3, 2016 at 00:03 said:
“There’s nothing I can do for Dragon right this moment. The best I can do is maintain the momentum and keep things coordinated, and hope that Dragon’s substitution can maintain the back-end.”
(Background: “The back-end” is jargon in the programming world for “the part of an operation that the user never directly sees”- the physics engine in a video game, the transmission and storage of email, the physical location of files on a hard drive, etc.)
It’s a damn good thing Taylor isn’t paying attention, because that last couple of words would be a pretty significant giveaway to someone who was. Or maybe she just thinks that a (non-software) tinker referring to Dragon’s (non-software) duties in software terms means he’s referring to the parts of those duties that she handled via software?
At the very least, this whole fiasco reveals to the world just how much stuff Dragon was actively doing at once, by providing the evidence of how much stuff shuts down at once when she goes out of commission. And Defiant’s reference to someone else holding up “the back-end” while she’s gone gives a strong confirmation that there was a software component (possibly a networked one) to her handling of all those tasks. Add in the fact that Dragon is a tinker known for creating vehicles and structures, not software, and an interested observer would start to smell something very fishy…
I love that Taylor (and the audience) can tell things have really gone to shit because Defiant is being polite. Little things like that really lend credence to the age and strength of their relationship at this stage.
Delicious chapter. Much so.
jmdlugosz on May 8, 2017 at 08:44 said:
«it’s mouth yawning open like it had been broken.» should be “its”.
Kanigami on April 22, 2018 at 12:32 said:
Why did she not tell Golem to stop attacking? and why did he attack? it doesn’t make much sense taking into account the situation they were in
heystranger111 on October 18, 2018 at 08:43 said:
I love this chapter and the little dance skitter and to do to try and beat jack at his own game. And yes I am still used to calling her skitter. But omg that ending tho… the world is screwed.
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Haunted Cinemas
Location: Barnstaple (Devon) - Cinema
Further Comments: The spirit at work within this building could be that of a worker who fell from the roof during repair work in 1931 - he died a week after the accident.
Location: Beaconsfield (Buckinghamshire) - Chiltern Cinema (no longer operational)
Further Comments: The thin, grey haired wraith reported here was named as a former manager. The entity was said to be annoying rather than frightening, and was frequently seen on stage by staff after all members of the public had left.
Location: Bedford (Bedfordshire) - Cineworld
Further Comments: Both Screen 4 and the toilet area are reputed to be haunted by a hooded figure. Cold spots and strange sounds have also been reported. The cinema stands on the former site of Newnham priory.
Coach Driver
Location: Blackpool (Lancashire) - Royal Pavilion Cinema
Further Comments: This shade claimed to be a 1920s coach driver when contacted by a medium, which was called in after evening workers reported flickering lights and cold spots in the building.
Location: Brighton (Sussex) - Former ABC Cinema, King's Road
Further Comments: This cinema operated from the site of an old Turkish bathhouse. Cinema staff would report the sound of running water and clouds of steam which appeared from nowhere.
Location: Brighton (Sussex) - Odeon Cinema, West Street
Date / Time: 1970s onwards
Further Comments: Local legend says George was killed during the construction of the cinema and now makes his presence felt. He was once seen standing on the top of a flight of stairs by a manager, and has a habit of tapping customers on their shoulder.
Location: Bristol (Somerset) - Kings Cinema (currently the base for the City Council's Housing Department)
Further Comments: One of the rest rooms is said to be particularly cold - the area is haunted by the ghost of someone who took their life by leaping from the balcony.
Shadowy Figures
Location: Bristol (Somerset) - Odeon cinema, Broadmead
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: Several members of staff have reported seeing people milling about the auditorium, disappearing if approached. A seat in the third row of screen three is said to be home to a shadowy apparition.
Location: Carmarthen (Dyfed) - Lyric Theatre, King Street
Date / Time: 1940s onwards?
Further Comments: Several figures, both male and female, are reported to haunt this building. One former member of staff claimed that the phantoms have been making themselves known since the 1940s, while in 1996 a tall man in a suit was spotted in the projection room.
Location: Cheam (Surrey) - Century Cinema (no longer standing)
Further Comments: The phantom footfalls have been heard moving across the stage area, several previous managers mistaking the sounds for that of intruders.
Projectionist
Location: Colwyn Bay (Clwyd) - Princess Cinema (no longer operational)
Further Comments: This cinema was said to have been haunted by a projectionist who died in a flash fire in the booth.
Weighty Footsteps
Location: Devizes (Wiltshire) - Old Cinema
Further Comments: These eerie footsteps have been heard pacing in empty rooms on the first floor.
Mr Christopher
Location: East Grinstead (Sussex) - Old Cinema along King Street
Date / Time: February 1970
Further Comments: A former manager, this spirit has been seen in full evening dress in various parts of the building.
Location: Hemel Hempstead (Hertfordshire) - Jarman Park cinema
Date / Time: Twenty-first century
Further Comments: Objects have been reported flying through the air in one room in this cinema. Moaning is also heard from the same area.
Location: Ipswich (Suffolk) - Ipswich Film Theatre (Cinema), Town Hall
Further Comments: Several staff at this building reported a shadowy figure walking around the rear corridors near the protection booths.
Location: Keighley (Yorkshire) - Keighley Picture House cinema
Further Comments: After opening in 1913, an actress is said to have committed suicide in this theatre by throwing herself from a balcony. She may have been seen in the early 2000s by members of the public who complained that a woman had opened a fire door (one witness said she was wearing old fashioned clothing). When staff investigated, the door was secure. Staff report that screen one has a bad feeling, while the second projector room has a warm inviting feel.
Screen Six Shadows
Location: Luton (Bedfordshire) - Cineworld cinema
Further Comments: Strange sounds, darting shadows and icy cold patches of air have all been blamed on the presence that may haunt cinema screen 6.
Location: Luton (Bedfordshire) - The Alma cinema (no longer standing)
Date / Time: Pre 1960s
Further Comments: The Alma was thought to be cursed by locals who were forced to move from their homes so they could be demolished for the construction of the cinema. A construction worker fell to his death during the building work, and many felt that it was his ghostly presence that haunted The Alma.
Location: Motherwell (Lanarkshire) - Rex Cinema (was originally the New Century Theatre, but is no longer operational; currently a snooker club?)
Date / Time: Mid twentieth century
Further Comments: Though Oscar is no longer reported, during his stay here he had a reputation of scaring away usherettes who worked the late shifts.
Location: Newcastle Under Lyme (Staffordshire) - Rex and Rio Cinema (demolished 1970s)
Date / Time: Late 1960s
Further Comments: A member of staff locking up at night after everyone had left watched a woman walk past him towards the toilets. The man shouted after the lady to be quick; she appeared to ignore him and disappeared into the restroom. After several minutes of waiting he knocked on the door. There was no reply, so he entered the room to see if she was okay - it was empty.
Pale Man
Location: Nottingham (Nottinghamshire) - Lenton Abbey, Classic Cinema
Further Comments: Built on the site of a former priory, this cinema is haunted by a figure that could be a monk, though it appears to dress in 'normal' clothing.
Spooky Areas
Location: Oxford (Oxfordshire) - Gala Bingo (was Regal cinema), no longer operating
Further Comments: This site was said to be haunted, although details are fleeting.
Location: Plymouth (Devon) - Reel Cinema
Further Comments: It is not known why this phantom woman in white chose to haunt the cinema, in particular Screen Two.
Location: SE15 (Greater London) - Tower Cinema, Peckham (now demolished, a car park built on top)
Further Comments: Several staff and workers at the cinema encountered a ghostly figure which walked 3.3 metres off the ground. Research showed that a chapel had once stood on the site, its floor 3.3 metres higher than the cinema's. It is said that during the demolition process, several workmen fled the area after encountering figures passing through walls.
Man in Grey
Location: Sutton (Surrey) - Former cinema at Rosehill
Further Comments: This figure appeared several times to members of staff, slowly disappearing if approached or spoken to. During the 1950s local residents complained of loud organ music coming from the building in the early hours of the morning, even though the organ had been removed several years previously.
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Sunday 24 October 2004 – Getting home
Having said our ‘au revoirs’ to Alain in Frankfurt, Anne and I arrived eventually, 10 minutes early, at London-Heathrow. As always, plans for the next trip are already in place – north western Argentina in October 2005. Eventually I tumbled into bed at 9 pm BST – 33 hours after getting up at Pichidangui.
During our trip we had travelled 21,832 km (some 13,500 miles) to get from England via Frankfurt and Buenos Aires to Santiago and then drove as far north as Maria Elena and back again. In Chile we travelled 5,550 km (c. 3,400 miles) by road – some 2,000 km of which along the often excellent Pan Americana. We had only one puncture. I came back with 5.07 GBytes of extra data (mainly digital images) on my laptop in my Copiapoathon 2004 folder – now containing 3,670 files. In addition, Alain’s folder contains another 2.88 GBytes with 2,185 files. It was the first time that I relied entirely on digital cameras and without regrets. Each evening I downloaded that day’s images from Alain and my cameras to the laptop and, after some little time to flip the portrait format pictures over, we’d open a bottle of wine and enjoy the daily image show, all before dinner.
As always, the reports are my way of documenting and reliving some of our adventures before they fade from memory, or rather blend into one, and to fulfil a promise to Anne and Alain that I’d tell them in detail where we had been and what we had seen after the event, rather than in the field, where every one should concentrate on absorbing as many images and experiences as possible without having to know what, where and when.
For now, books on north west Argentina are piling up around me and planning for 2005 begins in earnest.
Views of London as we prepare to land at London: Along the Thames, left to right:
Houses of Parliament, Westminster Bridge, old Town Hall, Millennium Wheel, foreground: Waterloo Station.
Saturday 23 October 2004 – Pichidangui to Aeropuerto Internacional Arturo Merino Benitez at Pudahuel and the flight home
Alarm clocks had been set for 6 a.m, but I woke up at 5, ready to go. The trip was over, except for the journey home. We had done most of the packing the night before, and had agreed to have breakfast at a truck stop on the way to the airport. I can’t recall stopping, other than to take on fuel for the last time, close to the airport. We were now all rather subdued – the trip was over.
We arrived at the airport without incident and having dropped Anne, Alain and all the luggage off at the Departures drop off point, I took the car to the agreed spot in the car park. It is amazing how emotionally involved you can get with a lump of metal. Each time, I quietly say thank you to the car – it is amazing how much we put these cars through and how little trouble they usually present us with. This Toyota had been particularly well behaved – thank you.
I found the others in the departure area and, after checking in our luggage, we went to the souvenir shop to reduce the rather large amount of Chilean pesos we had left over. I know that better and cheaper souvenirs can be bought en route – as I had found in Toconao, but these then have to be dragged around for the remainder of the trip, when fragile cups and clocks can easily get broken. The rep from the car rental firm managed to find us – a sign that we must have stood out in the crowd – and the formalities of returning the car were soon completed without problem.
Unlike 2003, the flights took off on time. As usual, I could not resist the temptation of taking yet more pictures of the flight over the Andes.
Friday 22 October 2004 – Guanaqueros to Pichidangui
On previous trips, a feeling of depression crept in as soon as the km readings on Ruta 5 started to drop below 1000, north of Chañaral. The last week however had been so full of unexpected and new experiences that the feeling did not hit me until S318, yesterday.
We had made it to the Bahia cabañas at Guanaqueros, where we had also stayed on my birthday in 2001. We had breakfast at one of the many truck stops along Ruta 5. From here it was a relatively short drive to Fray Jorge, as I had promised Alain to show him some ‘big’ Eriosyce and in the hope of collecting some more seed. And so, at 9:15 a.m. we presented ourselves at the entrance gate (closed) to the Parque Nacional Fray Jorge (S319), where the sign proclaimed a 9:00 opening time. The warden arrived at 10:15, just as we set off to our next stop (S320), on the track back to Ruta 5, where on previous occasions, if we had brought a small vacuum cleaner, we could have collected kilos of E. aurata seed. This time I had brought my adopted seed sucker, with a larger bore tube, but like Ian’s last year, it too got blocked by the third seed, so that it was back to tweezers to top up supplies. Being foreigners, we felt we had a good excuse to ignore the ‘Private property – no admittance’ signs that had now appeared along the track. There were more fences going up, so in Bob Dylan’s words: ‘The Times, They Are A-Changing’.
There were two more stops to make before the trip was over – bar the journey home. S321 was last year’s stop in the Quillimari valley where this time Eriosyce curvispina was in full flower. Again, agricultural development was progressing at pace. Some of the neatly newly planted out vineyards on the hillside across the valley reminded me of the war graves of allied soldiers around Arnhem in the Netherlands and filled me with similar sadness in the knowledge that it would not be long before the cacti that we had pictured would be ploughed under.
S322 was a celebration – the coast at Pichidangui that had become an unplanned, almost accidental, last stop in 2001, only to provide the continuity for trips as it became the first and last stop of subsequent trips. In a way it offered the promise of being the first stop on the next Chile adventure, provisionally planned as ‘Angie’s Birthday Tour 2007’. We had the rest of the afternoon to feast our eyes and cameras on the numerous plants in flower before returning to our cabañas and doing the final packing. Where had all the extra luggage come from!?!?!?
(Same question each trip!).
S322: Eriosyce chilensis (albidiflora) can be ugly plants, with beautiful flowers.
Thursday 21 October 2004 – Huasco to Guanaqueros
The name Domeyko has intrigued me each time that I see it on maps during trip planning or reviews and as I see the signs to the village as we speed past in on our way north or south. This intrigue is probably caused by the name Copiapoa domeykoensis on a label of one of the Copiapoa coquimbana in my collection – not a very dynamic or attractive plant, but a Copiapoa none the less.
In 2001, at the start of our trip, we had actually stopped in the village to buy some bananas. We were still naive enough to believe that we’d find plants of C. domeykoensis near the name plate where the track entered the village. Since then I have learned how widespread the name Domeyko is. In addition to this village (population 936 according to recent statistics) there is also the Cordillera de Domeyko that could be described as the Chilean foothills to the Andes in Northern Chile.
A close look at the map near Domeyko also draws attention to another Chilean (or rather South American?) feature, that of the same geographical names cropping up time and time again, so confusing to those relying on type locality information to assist in determining the true identity of a plant.
When driving north past Domeyko, it is usually the lure of other, better known and arguably more dynamic Copiapoa locations laying in wait, that prevents a longer stay in the area. But on the return leg south, there is often a couple of hours spare time and this otherwise boring stretch of Ruta 5 sets the mind to thinking of ways to fill this time. In 2003, it was a photo stop to take pictures of peppers or tomatoes lying in the sun to dry, followed by a brief exploratory trip to the west, turning off Ruta 5 at Trapiche (S202), along the Quebrada do los Choros where we found some wonderful C. coquimbana (S203).
This time I had looked at the Ritter’s original description for C. domeykoensis, or rather his C. pseudocoquimbana var. domeykoensis and had learned that this grows 18 km south west of Domeyko. Ritter preferred his epithet pseudocoquimbana to the rather brief and much older description (1886) for Echinocactus coquimbana and so opened up another chapter of Copiapoa intrigue (a.k.a. ‘another can of worms’) that is worthy of a full chapter in a book on Copiapoa (Rudolf, please note!) rather than a few lines here. Ritter quotes FR 1091 as the type and Englera 16 – the bible for Ritter Freaks – indicates that the plant was collected from 4 locations, 18 km south west-, 16.5 km west-, 20 km west- and 18 km west of Domeyko respectively, all sold and presented as FR 1091!
And so we turned west at Domeyko, and followed Ritter’s trail, driving along the Quebrada Chañaral (giving rise to Ritter’s C. pseudocoquimbana var chaniarensis) and Quebrada Carrizalillo (depending on which map you use) to Carrizalillo, a village situated on the plain that lies at the mouth of this Quebrada) and stopped at km 16.5 (S314) and again at km 29.2 (S315) and took pictures of the Copiapoa growing alongside the track, the most likely ancestors of C. pseudocoquimbana var. domeykoensis or perhaps the very plants on which his description was based.
As the valley widens out into a broad plain, we took numerous pictures of the Desierto Florido and of the round-up of donkeys by local farmers on horseback – the nearest that I’ll get to witnessing the sort of North American wild west scenes that first attracted me to the plants that appeared as unpaid extras in the cast of ‘Cowboy films’.
We made two more cactus stops (S316 and S317) on the track from Carrizalillo to Caleta Chañaral, where we found the most attractive individual Eulychnia that I’d ever seen, as well as lots more C. pseudocoquimbana – probably accounting for all the Ritter varieties at his splitting peak. At S317 there were several large clumps displaying enough body and spine variability to account for all of them! Some even reminded me of C. echinoides, but that’s another story.
Time passes too quickly when you are enjoying yourself and I realised that the track from Carrizalillo to Trapiche was easier to find on the map than in real life, so that returning the way we had come would be a longer drive, but a better, safer option.
It had the added benefit of passing the ‘donkey derby’ again, know in full flow and a real bonus for future talks, as it will add some variety to the hundreds of pictures of Copiapoa 🙂
The last stop of the day was along Ruta 5, just past Los Hornos (S318) – the stop that I use to gauge seasonal / climatic trends, comparing scenery from the start and end of each trip. My conclusion was that flowering had peaked. No doubt Graham Charles, doing this trips a few weeks behind us, will tell me different. No doubt we’ll have to get together and compare pictures over a few bottles of wine. It’s a hard life!
We stayed the night in Guanaqueros.
S317: Variability in C. coquimbana
Wednesday 20 October 2004 – Around Huasco
Earlier this year, the British Cactus & Succulent Society’s Journal contained a review by Paul Hoxey of Copiapoa humilis and its many wide spread locations, where small differences with plants at the Paposo type locality had created a series of taxa, some of which Paul recognised as subspecies.(BCSJ 22(1):29-42). He had added a new one, Copiapoa humilis ssp australis – the most southern form, from a hill top south of Huasco. I was highly sceptical. Plants from the Humilis group are generally regarded as not coming down this far south and the Huasco river is regarded to be the northern border of the Coquimbana group, with C. fiedleriana the common form around Huasco.
Rudolf Schulz, Ingrid Schaub and Ricardo Keim had carried out some searches in the area earlier in 2004, without positive success, although, as a ‘negative success’, they had narrowed down the number of hill tops that still required exploration, to a manageable number.
We decided to start at our usual stop (2001/S024 and 2003/S118), this time S308. Here too, we were amazed at the amount of greenery and wild flowers, especially as previous visits had been to soot covered scenery and plants. It was easy to spot the first Eriosyce napina as they were pumped up and either in flower or with recent flower remains (but no ripe fruits yet). As we started to take their pictures it soon became clear that there were so many napina that it was difficult not to stand on a few while taking pictures of the others. Copiapoa fiedleriana was also looking a lot happier than on previous occasions when the plants had looked so dry that it had been difficult to identify the genus, let alone the species to which these plants belong. The patch that had been in contact with Euphorbia latex on previous days started to itch again – a sure sign that there were more of these plants to be found, confirmed by E. thinophila weeping with latex next to the napina that we had just photographed.
But the real reason that I had come back to Huasco was to look for Copiapoa humilis ssp australis, We decided that if this plant exists, it had to be reasonably near by and that we could discount hill tops already checked out by Rudolf, Ingrid and Ricardo during the summer. Looking at the maps on my laptop left one candidate, for which I took an approximate GPS reading. We drove up a track away from the coast and with the aid of Bart’s and my GPS readings identified the hill that for most of the morning had been shrouded in clouds. At this spot (S309) the ground was carpeted with a white to light purplish lily that has tentatively IDed as Zephyra elegans. A wonderful excuse for some marvellous pictures, while the cloud over the hill slowly lifted.
The clouds actually made sense – C. humilis likes to grow in high altitude fog zones. We found a suitable place to park (S310), so that our ascend would be as short as possible. Bart and I were the only cactophiles mad enough to have a go. I was amazed at the speed with which Bart disappeared up the hill. I remembered previous climbs and the need to pace oneself, plus my scepticism acted as a powerful break. If C. humilis did grow on this hill, there would be no need to go all the way to the top, but at Bart’s speed, there was little chance of his spotting any growing at lower levels, or of my keeping up with him. I followed at a more leisurely pace.
There seemed to be a smallish plateau at around 300 m. altitude. I decided to take some scenic pictures, to at least prove to Paul H. that we’d been on ‘his’ hill and to make a thorough search (hands & knees) of this area, but only found more typical C. fiedleriana. I felt sure that Paul H. and his companions (Clark Brunt, Jonas Luethy and Simon Mentha) could tell these from humilis. I carried on, up the hill, more sceptical than ever. Another ‘wrong hill’? Or was Paul’s diagnosis incorrect? I was shaken out of my thoughts, as a snake (only the second that I had encountered on the three trips) dashed past me. It seemed as shocked as I was. I was comforted by the belief (true or not) that there are no poisonous snakes native to the north of Chile, but there is nothing like a face to face confrontation to start questioning your believes. And poisonous or not, I’d rather avoid a bite. The last time I had encountered a very similar looking snake had been on level ground, near the entrance to Fray Jorge N.P. The one today had found me clambering up a fairly steep hillside with lots of lose rocks and the shock of our encounter had made me slip some metres back down the hillside, so I was actually ‘face to face’ with my reptile friend, although some distance apart. We looked at each other, as though to size each other up. I managed to take its picture, but Snakey had quickly moved out of sight by the time I had found a better, more stable position to take further pictures. The encounter had left me quite exhausted and, added to my scepticism, was enough to dissuade me from continuing to the top.
There was no need, as the sound of small rocks rolling down the hill announced Bart’s descend, long before I caught sight of him. Leo, Rudolf: I think you have another candidate to compete with for the official title of ‘Copiapoathon Mountain Goat’!
Bart amazed me by confirming that he had indeed found Copiapoa humilis growing at the top of the hill. He had taken several pictures, but we’ll have to wait for the slides to be developed and duplicated / scanned before knowing exactly what Bart found, but some heads that had become dislodged by his climbing activities had come down the hill as evidence and were duly digitalised so that Alain can include them in his daily images.
This population, by far the most southern of any previously known humilis locality, appears to indicate that once upon a time humilis was a widely distributed taxon, but that, as the climate became drier, is currently only to be found at a number of quite widely distributed remnant populations. So how many of these are there left to be discovered? Surely enough to warrant further visits to Chile. And the prospect of speculating when and where during dark winter evenings back in Europe with a few bottles of Pisco Sour and Cabernet Sauvignon is another thing to look forward to.
Satisfied to place another ‘tick’ on my initial wish list for the trip, we had lunch and drove to Freirina for some sightseeing and another 2003 stop (S117), at Maitencillo, where alongside C. coquimbana and / or C. fiedleriana (these plants still looked very dry) we found Eriosyce napina ssp lembckei (S311). The rate at which Maitencillo was expanding and the agricultural development that seems to accompany this are worthy of praise, while I fear for the future of the cacti at this locality. So how far did it extend? We drove some 5 km along the track, sign posted for Ojo de Agua and found many more plants in much healthier condition (S312), and confirmed these observations again some 5 km further on (S313), before returning to Huasco and our farewell meal with Bart & Marijke. Time for our return to Europe was approaching.
Tuesday 19 October 2004 – Copiapó to Huasco
It was becoming a familiar rather than surprising sight, waking up in Copiapó’s Hotel Miramonte, with the Ruta 5 bridge over the Rio Copiapó shrouded in fog, just as in 2003. However, by the time that we had finished breakfast, it had already started to lift and continued to lift as we drove up the Rio Copiapó valley to Paipote. My aim was to familiarise myself with another of the northern Chilean river valleys, having made similar inland sojourns up the Rio Limari / Rio Grande valley (2003), Rio Elqui (2001 and 2003) and Rio Huasco (2001). Like the other valleys, the water flow is now controlled by a dam (at Embalsa Lautaro) that stores water in a man-made lake.
We did not go that far, having planned to turn west at Puente Potrero Seco. Like the other valleys, the stored water is used to good effect in irrigating the valley and surrounding lower hill sides with extensive vineyards all around. Ironic that the activities that threatens the survival of cacti in the wild – change of land use; here agriculture – had clearly lead to increased prosperity of the local human population and had provided us with numerous pleasant evenings back in Europe as we enjoyed our bottles of Chilean wine at our Copiapoathon reunions. In addition, this valley has extensive mining activity, with mines determining the quality of the roads and where in the valley they lead. This tends to be in the green centre of the valley, rather than close to the hill sides with the opportunity to explore some of the tracks leading further up hill.
We followed a sign west to Ruta 5, believing that the confusing intersection we had reached was at Potrero Seco. It was not, and so we followed an excellent road that runs from Nantoco over the hills to Ruta 5. New vineyards were in the process of being established, in various stages of progress from freshly ploughed fields to newly planted areas and others where the first crop seemed to be harvested.
We stopped soon after we reached the top of the hills (S301) at 1,041 m. altitude according to my GPS. We found the omni-present Cumulopuntia sphaerica, Miqueliopuntia miqueli and statuesque, lichen covered, Eulychnia and looked to the west on the cloud cover that seemed to lie on top of the Pan Americana as it ran between Copiapó and Vallenar. It seems that the valley between these hills and the coastal hills further west is an excellent fog catcher, so that it is no coincidence that the area is most frequently featured in articles and photographs about el Desierto Florido – The Flowering Desert.
Soon we were on Ruta 5, but fortunately the fog was just a low cloud base over our heads that soon burned off as the sun 28 degrees South packs quite a punch in October. There was another surprise, as instead of having to play ‘spot-the-turn-off’ for the track to Carrizal Bajo, it was properly sign posted and the track had turned into an excellent tarmac road. Having read many of Ritter’s travelogues, it is hard to imagine that he’d get his car stuck in sand here on a regular basis. Again – road building does destroy habitats, but it also opens up so much more country to be explored. Let’s hope that this in turn does not lead to ultimate total habitat destruction. We stopped at km 48.5 from Ruta 5 (S302) and found Copiapoa echinata and Eulychnia, some with the buds bare, apart from small soft scales, characteristic of E. acida and some with almost white woolly buds, associated with E. breviflora / iquiquensis. Some of the Eulychnia were in flower.
S303 was last year’s S198 – irresistible as the first Copiapoa dealbata appeared alongside the track. These are among the most impressive Copiapoa, forming huge clumps of white-waxed heads. The variability in spination, stem shape and colour is amazing. We also found an interesting red lily, Leontochir ovallei (Garra de léon – the Lion’s claw) among the desert flowers that increased in number as we came closer to the coast. Apparently this is among the most sought after of Chilean lilies, referred to as ‘the holy grail’ on a US bulb hobby list.
We showed Alain Carrizal Bajo – again with signs of growth and development all around, with a sign indicating that an Airport (Aerodromo Gran Cañon) is planned for the outskirts of town, at this time, covered in wild flowers (S304).The bright yellow flowers of Cruckshanksia pumila, a small shrub, prompted another stop, too close to the last one to take a GPS reading – it was difficult to progress as every ten metres some new plants seemed to jump into the scenery.
S305, near Caleta Sarco del Norte, was another 2003 stop, but this time, with non-cactus flora dominating the scenery, it was difficult to spot the large clumps of C. dealbata that stood out so prominently last year.
S306 was prompted by a rocky outcrop with C. echinoides, on a sandy plain. Alain and my built-in Euphorbia-spotting allergy concurred – in the sand we found the cousin of Euphorbia copiapina – the straight leaved E. thinophila, again in great numbers and by no means a rarity – when it is visible.
How many times does an event need to be repeated to become ‘a tradition’? If three is enough, then we had reached the traditional spot for the Copiapoathon Group Photo – this time S307 (S200 in 2003 and S030 in 2001) – the sloping side of a water run-off covered in large mounds of C. dealbata, with small C. echinata also dotted around. Last year, we took a look on the other side of the slope and found many small Eriosyce (Thelocephala) sp., probably a form of E. napina. They were quite easy to find this time, as most had very recent flower remains (no ripe seed) and were plumped up from recent moisture. Some were still in flower. All good things come to an end (for now) and so it was time to move on to Huasco.
What a day! We had to pinch ourselves during that evening’s slide show in Hostal San Fernando, to check that we were not just dreaming of the huge range of plants and scenery that we had seen all in the space of 12 hours. How could we improve on this tomorrow?
S303: C. dealbata, inland from Carrizal Bajo
Monday 18 October 2004 – Copiapó – Totoral – Copiapó
At 8:30 a.m. we’d had breakfast, bought provisions for a lunch time snack and were topping up the cars with fuel at the Copec station, some 20 km west of Copiapó, on Ruta 5. We carried on driving towards Caldera, while I offered to drop Alain any where he wanted, to dig in the ‘sand dunes near Copiapó’, the only details we had for finding a plant on his wish list: Euphorbia copiapina. Alain reminded me of the Adidas poster we had seen near the petrol station: ‘Impossible is Nothing’.
Ricardo Keim had provided us with some suggestions for C. megarhiza and C. echinoides locations on a track off the Pan Americana, sign-posted for Barranquillas. This would take us through the flat and almost featureless ‘flood plain’ that is the mouth of the Rio Copiapó. The term ‘flood plain’ seems somewhat inappropriate for a river that usually contains no more than a trickle of water, but I guess that during it’s long history, things have not always been this dry. As we drove along this area on Ruta 5 the previous day, we had noticed another patch of ‘purple haze’, but nothing could have prepared us for the sight that unfolded before us. This is why Hendrix must have written ‘Purple Haze’ and must have inspired Prince to write ‘Purple Rain’ – mile after mile of (primarily) purple Calandrinia longiscapa. Each flower is no more than a couple of centimetres in diameter, they are relatively widely spaced on the desert floor and in addition to purple, they also come in yellow, white and red to name but a few colours. But it is the unbelievable number of these small plants that create the overwhelming spectacle (S294).
As I lay flat on the desert to get a good picture just over the top of the flowers, my hand started itching and stinging – a typical allergy reaction. The reason soon became obvious, as the plant I had rested my hand on was bleeding white latex. I know that I am very sensitive to Euphorbia latex, but never thought to turn it to my advantage as a detector for Euphorbia copiapina. I shouted to Alain and Bart to share my exciting discovery, but already found them in the traditional posture for looking at small plants in the desert: head down and rear end pointing at the sky. They too had found the plants. And so we had succeeded in one of the goals to find this rare and much sought after Euphorbia. It soon became clear that the only reason that it is regarded as rare, is that it is invisible unless the right conditions for the desert to spring into flower present themselves. When visible, they are as numerous as any weed, with plants at least every meter (c. 3 ft) apart. Plants were in flower and in (unfortunately still unripe) fruit.
Words really won’t do this spectacle justice, so Alain’s picture site will have to fill in. It was not easy to drive on, as each turn seemed to present a different angle on the flowers, bringing out new hues and colours, so the stop number actually refers to frequent stops along several km. of track. You also have to imagine Alain chasing some of the millions of attractive beetles through the desert with his digital camera, taking short bursts of video, and to hear the bird song that had replaced the usual deadly hush. Those who know me will recognise how unusual it is for me to spend so many words on non-cactus matters. So things could only get better when we approached the hills mentioned by Ricardo, also covered in flowers, but now joined by an Eriosyce sp. (help Ricardo, which one?) on one of the hills (S295) and C. megarhiza (var. borealis) on the neighbouring hill (S296) that Bart decided to explore instead.
All good things come to an end, and so the huge areas of the flowering desert became more like the usual scenery, although still with a lot more signs of recent rain and resulting flowering then I had seen before. S297 was a ‘leg stretch’ to see if there were any cacti at all – we only found some recently flowered Trichocereus – and S298 was prompted by the sight of some large clumps of Copiapoa echinoides that were full of fruit. This also revealed some much smaller and spinier C. echinata, but without signs of buds and flowering. Similarly, lots of C. echinoides further on at S299.
And so we approached the km 22 marker on the track from Totoral to Ruta 5 (S300). Another Dutch friend, Evert Smienk, had been here in 2002 and reported seeing plants that he thought were ‘different’ and perhaps worthy of describing. He had been very kind in giving me a number of seedlings raised from seed collected from these plants. I showed these seedlings to Benjy Oliver, for me the best person to put a reliable ID to young Copiapoa seedlings. He did not hesitate and declared ‘definitely echinoides‘. I promised Evert to try to see these particular plants in habitat but at first it seemed that I would have to file a disappointing report, as there was no sign of cacti at the km 22 marker, but plenty of tracks of diggers etc. However, a little further up the road, Anne had noticed some shrubs and a nice Eulychnia. As we walked over we found clumps of C. echinoides, including the very individual shaped plant of which Evert had sent me a picture and which had been the mother to his seedlings. I’d have to explain at this stage that I regard C. echinoides as a broad species that includes such names as C. dura and C. cuprea.
S296: C. megarhiza (var borealis) amidst the Purple Haze of Calandrinia
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Mess: One Man's Struggle to Clean Up His House and His Act
by Barry YourgrauBarry Yourgrau
Hilarious and poignant, a glimpse into the mind of someone who is both a sufferer from and an investigator of clutter.
Millions of Americans struggle with severe clutter and hoarding. New York writer and bohemian Barry Yourgrau is one of them. Behind the door of his Queens apartment, Yourgrau’s life is, quite literally, chaos. Confronted by his exasperated girlfriend, a globe-trotting food critic, he embarks on a heartfelt, wide-ranging, and too often uproarious project—part Larry David, part Janet Malcolm—to take control of his crammed, disorderly apartment and life, and to explore the wider world of collecting, clutter, and extreme hoarding.
Encounters with a professional declutterer, a Lacanian shrink, and Clutterers Anonymous—not to mention England’s most excessive hoarder—as well as explorations of the bewildering universe of new therapies and brain science, help Yourgrau navigate uncharted territory: clearing shelves, boxes, and bags; throwing out a nostalgic cracked pasta bowl; and sorting through a lifetime of messy relationships. Mess is the story of one man’s efforts to learn to let go, to clean up his space (physical and emotional), and to save his relationship.
Writer-performer Barry Yourgrau is the author of acclaimed books of brief fiction, including Wearing Dad's Head and The Sadness of Sex, in whose film version he starred. He’s appeared on MTV and NPR, and written for the New York Times, Huffington Post, Paris Review, and Vice, among others. Born in South Africa, he lives in New York and Istanbul.
Prologue with Grocery Bags 1
1 The Chinese Puzzle Box 17
2 What's Wrong with Me? 32
3 Some Kind of Flâneur 51
4 Let the Right One In 68
5 Brothers Grim 86
6 The Cut-Glass Hand Bell 104
7 Mastering Disaster 122
8 Dodge Days, or Letting Go of L.A. 142
9 Home Comforting 156
10 The Real Stuff 175
11 The Notorious Bungalow 196
12 Freud's "Dirty" Couch 214
13 The Red Fish 227
14 Gordon's Knot 251
Postscript 269
Acknowledgments 274
…Yourgrau sets out to understand the literal and emotional weight of the objects we save. He is both subject and flâneur in this intimate world—and a gorgeous writer…
The New York Times Book Review - Sarah Wildman
In this hilarious memoir, Yourgrau (Wearing Dad’s Head) regales readers with tales of his tendency to collect objects and keep them. He recalls a pivotal moment in his life when he refused to allow his girlfriend—her arms weighed down by grocery bags—into his apartment because of the piles of clutter covering every inch of his place. That evening she issued an ultimatum to him to clean up, and so began his faltering quest to sort through and throw out many of the items scattered around his apartment—including 45 cardboard boxes, 22 shopping bags, books and unopened boxes of books, 11 suitcases, and one baby grand piano. Throughout the narrative, Yourgrau examines the history of hoarding and famous hoarders, such as poet W.H. Auden; Homer and Langley Collyer, who were found dead in their Harlem home, one of them buried under “stuff”; and Aldon James, president of the National Arts Club. Along the way Yourgrau attends a Clutterers Anonymous meeting and visits various therapists, seeking assistance in his efforts to de-clutter his life and living space. Eventually, as he explains with wit and honesty, he begins to deal with the clutter, taking comfort that he’s not a hoarder but a collector, as he makes space for himself and that girlfriend he shut out five years earlier. (Aug.)
If Richard Pryor and Lydia Davis shared a hoarder’s body, this is the memoir of that wild gorgeous being. A great literary mind gathers the whole world into his apartment and then, like a Grimm’s witch, tries to make it disappear.
All of us who live—or have lived—in unmentionable and unspeakable abodes owe it to ourselves to have our anti-domestic pathologies turned into something as funny and charming as Mess.
Lawrence Osborne
Told in prose as engaging as it is elegant, this tale of one man’s struggle to come to terms with both his possessions and his past touches our deep places—it’s compulsively readable.
Jessie Sholl
Mess is a deeply enjoyable act of literary purification. Yourgrau, with courage and insight, transforms his most shameful secret into a gift for the reader. He’s that rarest of things—the generous hoarder.”
Sean Wilsey
Mess is Barry Yourgrau’s autobiography by way of neurosis, a twenty-first-century version of the Confessions of Zeno. Sometimes shocking and frequently self-mocking, it charts the tough negotiation between shame and fixation, between clinging to the past and moving forward, between being devoured by one’s demons and facing them down.
A funny, smart, and moving memoir about the accumulation of STUFF: what it means to us, why we keep it, and how we deal with our personal ‘collections.’ (Great book, btw.)
My favorite Bohemian unpacks his life, and his heart. I will never look at clutter the same way again. I love this book!
Barry Yourgrau is America’s Kafka, if Kafka were hysterically funny, weirdly relatable, and had just a little bit of a hoarding problem. Mess is a total Yourgrau feast—I wept with laughter (but then why couldn’t I throw away my Kleenex?).
Sandra Tsing Loh
With Mess, Barry Yourgrau performs a wonderful sort of double excavation—of his overstuffed apartment but also his past, his pain, his losses, his confusions, his loves. This book is funny, hopeful, and true. Buy it, put in on your shelf, and be sure to dust it regularly.
A beautifully written examination of the pain of holding on and the agony and relief of finally letting go.
An absorbing look at a mysterious compulsion.
In his droll, engaging memoir,…[Yourgrau] writes with self-mocking humor as he embarks on a project to get rid of his clutter once and for all.
Terrifically funny…What can we say: Hoarders seem to be hot.
A fascinating read by a hoarder about the psychology and culture of hoarding.
Yourgrau sets out to understand the literal and emotional weight of the objects we save…[A] gorgeous writer.
Battling his hoarding proclivities with aplomb, Yourgrau documents his winding journey to unpack his home and mind.
The Oprah Magazine O
A memoir about decluttering an apartment. This isn't a how-to book providing a step-by-step program to overcoming clutter, though Yourgrau (Wearing Dad's Head, 1999, etc.) does chronicle his visit to Clutterers Anonymous, which the author didn't find particularly helpful except to provide comparisons with those worse off than he is. Mainly, the book is the result of an intervention by the author's girlfriend, whose success as a food critic contrasts sharply with the author's self-deprecating lack of achievement. Her intervention inspired his writing project, which is to chronicle his clean-up project, though he discovers along the way that "doing my Project actually gets in the way of my decluttering!" Yourgrau shares histories of famous hoarders, psychological theories about clutter and its relationship with OCD and PTSD, and plenty of family memories, some of which seem to be distorted, about his ambiguous relationship with his late parents, memories that his penchant for clutter helps keep alive. "I hadn't yet learned how to grieve properly," he concludes after relating the death of his mother, one of the more moving sections of the book. Yet through much of the narrative, the author seems to be stalling, procrastinating, and distracting himself—all symptoms of the hoarder yet occasionally as frustrating to readers as they must have been to his girlfriend. Not until Page 80 does he announce, "Now for actual cleaning"—though, even then, not much gets cleaned too quickly. As the memoir progresses to the climactic dinner he will host and cook to share the livability of the apartment, where he was previously ashamed to admit visitors, he writes, "It had now been almost two years since my Project began." Yourgrau provides engaging company for most of that span, but the actual decluttering in the book might have taken less than a chapter.
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All posts tagged "Prescot Leisure Centre"
Blues Legend Graeme Sharp Opens Prescot Soccer Centre
Former footballer Graeme Sharp officially opened the new Prescot Soccer and Leisure Centre earlier this week. Although the Warrington Road facility opened to the public in October 2013, the one-time Everton striker unveiled a plaque at a...
Warrington Road, Prescot: Vintage Photos
Enjoy this selection of vintage photographs of Warrington Road in Prescot, courtesy of collector Alec Wallace. The first three appear to be from roughly the same era, showing Warrington Road looking away from Prescot, towards Rainhill. The...
Prescot Soccer & Leisure Centre Opens 14 October
The new Prescot Soccer and Leisure Centre opens on Monday 14 October, but you can sneak a peak at Saturday’s family open day. The facility, on Warrington Road, replaces Prescot Leisure Centre, which occupied the now-demolished BICC...
Game on at Prescot Soccer & Leisure Centre
(Press release: Knowsley Council) The pitches at Prescot’s new centre are set to open on 15 July and will offer a football experience that is unrivalled in the area. The centre offers state-of the art third generation (3G) pitches...
Prescot Leisure Facility Set for October Opening
Knowsley Council have confirmed the new leisure building on Warrington Road, Prescot, will open in October 2013. The suite, which replaces the former Prescot Leisure Centre, will contain a gym, changing rooms and a cafe-bar. According to...
Prescot Hockey Club Move to St Helens, Blame Council
Members of Prescot Hockey Club have voted unanimously to leave their home of over fifty years, moving to leisure facilities at Sutton Leisure Centre in St Helens. The team were formed in 1952 as part of the...
Great video by Rebecca Wilson of the old pool on Scotchbarn Lane, Prescot. Sadly, it was demolished in 2011 after almost four decades, to be replaced (along with Prescot Leisure Centre) by a new Knowsley-wide facility on...
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Edward Cross (I)
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