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mbc1955 in Books'n'stuff October 2, 2012 November 11, 2012 859 Words
Recognising Robert Neill: Introduction
Though his first and most famous novel, Mist over Pendle, remains in print to this day, Robert Neill is very much a forgotten writer in the Twenty-First Century. A Google search reveals nothing more than a brief Wikipedia entry on his career that mentions neither his birth or death, yet for three decades he was one of Britain’s favourite authors of historical fiction, and his books are still examples of thoughtful, entertaining, thrilling, lively fiction, and, above all, unobtrusively accurate in their portrayal of times and places of centuries earlier.
Neill was born in Manchester and studied science at Cambridge, which did not suit him. He was a research worker for the Scottish Marine Biological Association, a schoolmaster and an Electrical Lieutenant in the RNVR during World War II. After leaving he Services, he was a professor of biology and zoology at Saint Paul’s College. He lived in Cheltenham and, for several years, was part of the Literary Festival Management Committee, but resigned to move back to the Northwest, settling in Cumberland. At one point, he described himself as too much of a northerner to be content south of the Mersey.
Neill had a lifelong interest in historical fiction, which he had always read critically, aware of its errors and believing that he could bring a fresh perspective to developing stories. This was put into practice with Mist over Pendle, published in 1951 and an immediate success, both in Britain and America where, Pendle being meaningless, the book was re-titled The Elegant Witch.
He would go on to write a total of sixteen novels over the next three decades, his final novel, The Devil’s Door, appearing in 1979.
Neill’s work is based on detailed research in original sources as to the periods in which he set his stories – frequently in periods of upheaval, or the aftermath of upheaval – when people are trying to build their lives under the shadow of events that threaten peace, in one manner or another. Being a Lancastrian, Neill sets most of his books in or around central Lancashire, and whilst he varies his time-periods, most of his work is set in the Seventeenth Century – the Stuart Century – which was far from a time of peace.
The fruits of that research are never thrust at the reader as evidence of the cleverness or thoroughness of the author. Neill is always willing to explain unfamiliar things to his readers, in the words his characters would use, but there is never the sense that research is being regurgitated because the author has spent all that time finding things out and doesn’t want to feel it would have been wasted if it isn’t shoe-horned in, nor is there ever any “As-you-know” moments, where characters tell each other what they already know for the benefit of the reader.
Instead, the knowledge is there in the descriptions of places, the things they do, and in the author’s quiet and never too detailed settings. The books are solidly grounded in what actually happened – if Neill describes a certain day as being full of rain and wind, you may be sure that he was read the parish records for that day and set his story in the weather of the time.
The books, however, always centre on the personal story of people, usually relatively young, and there is always a relationship to be forged, in one manner or another.
I first discovered Mist over Pendle in my mid-teens, in abridged form in one of those Readers Digest Book Club anthologies, in which four often wildly different novels would be compressed (or was it crushed?). I recognised the title, though from where I’ve no idea, and enjoyed the adaptation enough to want a copy of the full novel for myself, though I’m not particularly a lover of historical fiction.
In those days, indeed for most of the Seventies, Pendle and its first three sequels, together with Neill’s more recent book, Witch Bane, were commonly available as Arrow paperbacks. The intervening six novels were nothing more than intriguing titles. I bought all those available, and have my original copies still, reading his succeeding books from the library. I even managed to read the earlier, Cumberland-set, The Devil’s Weather, but it was not until the 2000s, and the advent of e Bay, that I was able to collect the now rare mid-career novels.
Given Neill’s commercial success, as much as the high standards of his work, it’s disappointing to see him slipping into obscurity. I’ve recently dug out my collection of his works and I’m proposing to read them all in publication order, for the first time, and to review each book in order. I’ve already finished Pendle, for what must be the dozenth time: it’s a fine, deep yet smooth read, and I’ll be composing my thoughts on it and posting my comments shortly.
Though those mid-period books are rare, and can be expensive to collect, there are still many of the paperbacks that can be had for very reasonable prices on Amazon or e Bay, and if you’ve any liking at all for historical fiction, you should try a couple of them.
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68 thoughts on “Recognising Robert Neill: Introduction”
Ron Catterall says:
Just found this page. I have always been a fan of Robert Neill, and have almost all of his books, many in first edition, one signed.
It is a pity he is now almost forgotten. We need a “Robert neill’ web site!
Re, Wikipedia on Robert Neill. I noted one mistake, Golden Days was first published in 1972, not 1974 (according to my first edition). One addition Song of Sunrise became Mills of Colne in the USA.
mbc1955 says:
Hello Ron, it’s great to find another fan of Robert Neill, especially one who knows more of the man than I do. I entirely agree about the web-site.
That the reason for the two names for ‘Song of Sunrise’ should be American publication comes as no surprise, and is entirely logical. After all, both ‘Mist over Pendle’ and ‘Moon in Scorpio’ were renamed for Brother Jonathan’s sensibilities, but that in itself creates a couple of issues. First, that my own copy of ‘The Mills of Colne’ is a British paperback, second, that the American titles of Pendle and Scorpio never supplanted the original titles, and most unusual, that it seems very odd that Sunrise would be given a title referring to a place not one in a million Americans would ever have heard of.
After all, this was long before the days when names and even printing were standardised for cost-effectivity world-wide, leading to the gruesome reference in one of Primo Levi’s books to ‘scalpers’.
Coincince: I’ve just been re-reading Robert Neill.
I can put up a web site, no problem. What name do you suggest, robertneill seems the obvious one, but the Mist is probably the best known book. Could we put your essays there? any copyright problems – or personal wishes. ( It would have to be something like xxx.catterall.net, xxx.oaxmex.net, or xxx.oaxweb.net )
I grew up with the understanding that Neill had been at Colne Grammar before Manchester, but I have absolutely no evidence, just local knowledge. I originate from Nelson, but left there a long time ago (1961 I think). I know he ended up living in the Lake District for many years. Local excitement when he was in Colne to write Song of Sunrise. Currently I am living in Oaxaca, Mexico for the last 18 years, so I’m rather out of touch with NE Lancashire although we do spend vacations in Ribblesdale. Some details of my life below, sorry it’s in XML, but still readable.
My literary work negligible, see http://papers.oaxmex.net
Ron Catterall gained a PhD in Chemical Physics in 1964 and a DSc in 1976. He held faculty positions in the UK and the USA and worked at the Centre Européan pour les Recherches Nucléaires (CERN,Geneva), the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL, Grenoble), the Tri-Universities Meson Facility (TRIUMF, Vancouver) and spent sabbaticals at the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) Daresbury Laboratory and the Atomic Energy of Canada at Chalk River, Ontario. In 1985 he changed to computing and after building and heading the Computer Centre at Sultan Qaboos University, became Head of Computer Services at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) in London for whom he built a nation-wide internet in 1988 and linked it to the Internet. In 1990 he was a founder member and President of the UK Internet Consortium, and was a member of the Executive and the Technical team building the European backbone for the Internet (EBONE) in 1991. In 1991 he founded IPNetworking Ltd in London offering Internet consultancy services to many major UK enterprises and organising the IPNetworking conferences which hosted the first Internet link to the Soviet block in 1991. he was the European member of the database design team for the Human Genome Database. In September 1993, the Joint Academic Network (JANET) in the UK finally committed to providing Internet services as their main function, and in September 1994 Ron moved to California as Director of World-Wide networking, remaining in that position until the final commercialisation of the Internet towards the end of 1995. He then retired to Oaxaca in Mexico, and built the first email and Internet provider there (Antequera Red). As a consultant he designed the networking infrastructure for the new research institutes at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and the University Hospital at CASE Western University. in 1909 Angewande Chemie published an issue commemorating his work in chemical physics on the occasion of his 72nd. birthday. Finally retiring permanently in 2001, he concentrated at last on Middle English poetry, and was President of the Oaxaca Lending Library in 2002-4. From then on he has been a member of the archaeological seminar group investigating the pre-Mayan, Zapotec origins in the Valley of Oaxaca. His wife Luz was a long time member of the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York where they still have an apartment. Children: Simon, Janet, Tim, Nikki, Katrina, and Kristina.
You have some serious advantages on me there: I wasn’t even born when Mist over Pendle was published (depending on the month of publication, Black William may have been the first to be around at the same time as me, though reading was a long way off at that moment). I’m Mancunian, through and through.
I’d love to assist you on a Robert Neill website, and I would be very happy to have the essay series form part of that. I am the copyright holder, and the cover photos that accompany each book are, with the exception of Song of Sunrise, which I don’t own in that format, the covers of the editions I own. And my error in writing, then forgetting to post Witch Bane in its proper order can be corrected!
You can contact me direct via my official e-mail address, arduous.publications@gmail.com.
Derek Haslam says:
I look forward to seeing a Robert Neill website. Like many others I first read ‘Mist over Pendle’ as a teenager and was totally absorbed by it. Over the years I’ve managed to collect most of his other novels in either hardback or paperback. One I’d very much like to read again is his only Regency novel, ‘The shocking Miss Anstey’. I had it from the library decades ago but it now seems to be a very expensive rarity.
Watch this space. A Robert Neill website is a distinct possibility.
A temporary web-site is up now, try this:
http://robertneill.info (points to this page. More content still to come)
I have a very battered paperback of Anstey which I hope to be retiring soon in favour of a decent copy. I’ll be happy to donate it in due course.
Strange book: better when you get deeper into it.
Margaret Parkinson says:
I was reading Mist a few days ago and said to my husband ‘ Why do I know the name Sabden?’
‘Its where I grew up ‘ was his reply. We dropped everything and drove there. We spent the day exploring the area which was very satisfying and enjoyable. We’d been to Lancaster Castle a few weeks before where the witches trial had been talked about. My son in law who lives in Aberdeen, as did I till 3 years ago when I married my husband, found Mist in a charity shop and gave it to me. I now live in Yorkshire and am getting to know about the area so Robert Neill is a treasure. His writing is so skillful. I have loved it and shall scour the second hand and charity shops for more of him. Its been great to find like minded people.
Welcome Maggie, it’s great to add another devotee of the late Mr Neill. As you can see, I have and have reviewd the whole of Neill’s work (no-one else seemed to have done so, so why not?), and if you look at Ron Catterall’s comment above, you’ll see that the first website dedicated to Robert Neill has been established. He and I are hoping to expand upon my essays as attribute to such a compelling writer. As for further novels, many are available through eBay for very reasonable prices in paperback, but there are a half dozen mid-period novels that are likely to prove more expensive to collect. I envy you your future reading!
Thanks Martin. Having been an avid bookworm all my life I cant believe I’ve never come across Robert Neill before now. Its such a joy to discover a really good writer and I shall look forward to reading your blogg and using the new website.
You’re always welcome. I home the other reviews inspire you, and if you disagree with any of my assessments, I’ll be eager for your opinions.
Linda Neill says:
Good to see Robert Neill books still being enjoyed today.
Hello Linda
We are still here, we readers. Keep an eye on this blog: a website is being prepared, though information is hard to track down.
Ive been looking threw family photos to many go threw all i found was of Robert Neill mayor of manchester that was Robert’s great great grandfather.
Are you actually linked to Robert Neill’s family? If so, I would love to hear anything you know about him biographically. I believe I’ve identified his year of birth to a three month period, but otherwise information is almost non-existant. If you’d like to contact me direct, please e-mail arduous.publications@gmail.co.uk.
Just sent email not sure if sent ok. Robert related to my husband.
Nothing immediately, but let’s give it chance. If you don’t have an acknowledgement from me by 9.00am Friday, can you try again? I’ll embed a link in the About section – should have done that ages ago.
Keswick last place of resident. My late father in law prof read all the scripts.
Great to have some real contact with the Neill family.
I have been away from the project for some days.
I just found this link to finding first editions of Robert neill’s books – there seem to be plenty, but some come rather expensive. UK site:
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/books/first-printing-collectible-modern-books/first-editions.shtml?cm_mmc=nl-_-nl-_-UPftb03-h00-HVfrstAH-124424GN-_-01cta&abersp=1
We got a lot of the books i dont know how many 1st edition and signed they have been split between my hubby and his brother and sister we are still sorting out my in laws house so my house upside down and where everything is at moment i went threw 1 box photos theres another 3 some where i know my late father in law got Robert’s pocket watch and thats know been given to brother in law it be while before can sort any info out.
Keeps coming up failer to send to your email address sorry martin.
I’m sorry to hear that, Linda. I can’t work out what the problem is and I’m trying to locate another address you could use. Thank you for confirming Mr Neill’s middle name, and also that he used to live in Keswick, which I know very well.
I just tried to different ways let me know if you get either of the emails ive got gmail account as well.
Simon Neill says:
Having just found details of our family tree we have found that we are related to Robert Neill, Mayor of manchester, originally from Musselburgh in the early 19th century, and i think that Robert Neill the author is also a descendant. we are trying to find out further information about our family tree, could you confirm that we are correct. Also i understand he died in Keswick, is he also buried there.
Hello Simon, good to hear from you. Yes, Robert Neill the author was a great-grandson of the former Manchester Lord Mayor, and you’re correct in thinking that he died in Keswick. However, I’ve no information on where he was buried. It would be logical to assume that, having made his home there, he is probably buried there. If you’d like to contact me privately at arduous.publications47(at)gmail.com, I can provide some additional details from birth and death certificates.
Hi Simon what else do you need to know about family tree of the Neill’s and how far back have you gone.
Full name Robert Geoffrey Neill.
My first Neill was Black William, left behind by an uncle who’d been staying with us on leave from his job in Nigeria. I went on to read them all in my mid-teens. I must go back and try them again.
Very pleased to hear from you. As you’ll see, if you want to explore the site further, I’ve discussed all sixteen novels, and I’ve joined with a fellow Neill fan in a project to produce a web-site dedicated to Neill and his work. I hope there’ll be things in there to interest you further.
Ive sent you email.
Sharon Harrison says:
Hi all Neill fans.
Wonderful to hear there will be a web page dedicated to him – I read Mist as a schoolgirl and went on to read many more of his fabulous books. Unfortunately my local library stopped stocking him then closed.
When I first tried to get them online there were very few outlets for used copies of Mist. Recently though I’ve found more on Amazon including a few more titles. Hopefully it indicates a bit of a revival!
Good luck with the website x
Hi Sharon, and welcome. It’s great to meet another enthusiast.
At the moment, things are going very slowly due to personal commitments on both our parts, but more will be added to the website as materials evolve. You’ll have seen there are reviews of all the novels on this site, which I hope helps you towards filling your collection. And if you have any thoughts or opinions you’d like to express, there’s room for all Neill fans to contribute.
Ian Kellett says:
Thank you for your detailed introduction which I was pleased to discover tonight. I too am at a loss to understand the lack of popularity of this excellent author. There is a time of year, when the clocks go back and winter begins to tighten it’s grip, that I find Robert Neill\’s books deep and richly satisfying. I can read his books again and again, and still smile at the dry humour which twinkles every now and then – the lovely Penny, or Cadbury the Astrologer in Moon In Scorpio and the no-nonsense Jane in Black William. The description, in Black William, of the preparation of a dinner for twelve and the gruesome tasks involved in killing, preparing and cooking the animals is graphic but matter of fact in the way that it would have been then.
In Mist over Pendle, his attitude to witches seems to me quite straightforward but in Watchband and Witchfire at Lammas, his description of them appears to be more sympathetic, especially in view of the dreadful treatment meted out to them.
Thank you again for providing this information, Like you I do hope that he will eventually be accorded the appreciation he deserves.
Hello Ian, always nice to talk to another appreciator of Mr Neill.
You raise an interesting question about the difference of attitude between Pendle on the one hand and Witchbane/Lammas on the other. One explanation could just be time: Witchbane was the best part of two decades, and Lammas almost three after Pendle – which was Neill’s first book. The intervening years could have caused a change of heart. On the other hand, Pendle was based upon existing and true history, and Neill is firm in that book about witches having no power save malice. Even in the fast-driven ending, the charges laid against the witches ae knowingly false, a ‘means to an end’ approach to bringing down Alice Nutter.
Witchbane comes from the point of view of a proper, respectable woman forced to undergo witch-finding activities (notably,, the novel appeared between the book and film versions of the controversial ‘Witchfinder General’. It’s not based on anything in truth, and Neill himself is at pains to point out the absence of the research he preferred. Lammas is just a poor book, at the end of an otherwise wholly respectable career. I suspect, without evidence of any kind, that Neill was under pressure, commercially, to use Witches in an attempt to recapture a cruder version of Pendle’s success, but that in the absence of a true story with some strong narrative elements, he found the witch theme unconducive and unconvincing.
Thank you so much for your reply, especially as my spellchecker decided that Robert Neill wrote a novel entitled “Watchband”. If you ever come across it, let me know how it compares to “Witchbane”……
I was surprised to read your description of “Lammas” as a poor book. For some reason I did not form an opinion about it other than I don’t re-read it, and realise that my subconscious had formed the same opinion as yours. Others, including Pendle, Moon in Scorpio, Rebel Heiress et al continue to entertain repeatedly. Even “Wonder Winter” has a slightly bizarre charm, seeming to be far more quaint because of it’s setting in living memory. Well mine anyway.
I note that you also reviewed “His Lordship” by Leslie Thomas, another largely forgotten author whose later novels I greatly enjoy re-reading, with of their compassion for the frailty of human nature.
“Chloe’s Song” and “Kensington Heights” have a sweet sadness about them which is missing from his earlier works. “His Lordship” reflects just how far our attitude towards and tolerance of sexual activity has changed, but even 40 years ago I remember finding the novel somewhat distasteful. I will see if I still have a copy, and if so, discard it. You can’t be too careful these days….
Thank you again. You may be interested to know that I live in Cumbria and like many Cumbrians, leave the Lake District to the visitors, only venturing there when we have guests staying with us. Our favourite haunts to walk and cycle are on the eastern side of the M6.
Hi again, Ian
Much as I love Neill’s work overall, it’s hard to find much that’s positively good in Lammas, especially when re-reading the ouevre in order. I won’t repeat my thoughts from the essay as they haven’t changed, but that and The Devil’s Door have the feel of ‘old men’s books, written by a practiced writer who no longer has the strength of imagination to live up to his standards.
The only Leslie Thomas books that would interest me now would be the ‘Dangerous Davies’ quartet, assuming that the three sequels are comparable to the first novel. I cannot recall if I did read the second: I certainly didn’t the later pair. However, until I can move into somewhere with vastly more library space, they’re very far down the wish list.
Cumbrian, eh? You lucky dog. I am a quarter Cumbrian on my Dad’s side, the Crookall family descending from the Robert Crookall (my Great Grandad) who was Stationmaster at Ravenglass. I’d love to live there and get at the fells whenever I chose (visitor at heart, I suppose), though I’d need somewhere with a decent Broadband connection…
I gave away Mist Over Pendle a few years ago to a young friend and, inevitably, never got it back. Following your kind responses to my messages I bought a copy. I had forgotten how well written it was, and how his sry observations kept the somewhat sinister story flowing along. So thank you for giving me the necessary shove to reacqainting myself with the best of his work.
Lucky dog living in Cumbria? Me? Well, I suppose. Here’s a few pictures I took the other day while on my cycling among the fells near Ruckroft. Nowt much to look at at all……
Ian Kellett >
Hi Ian
Glad to hear that I’m being a good influence, I’m sure my late mother would be surprised…
Given the choice of places to be on a rainy day with nothing to see, Cumbria would still count very much higher than Manchester: I’ve had some good days in the fells when it’s been wet, as a recent post recalls.
Happy reading.
moondancer says:
So glad you have written this. Thank you. I too consider him one of my favourite authors. I first read Mist over Pendle when I was unceremoniously transplanted from Kent to Colne by divorcing parents who couldnt be in the same location without wishing to do serious bodily harm to each other. I spent a few years falling in love with and hating it at the same time,often on the same day. Neil describes Pendle weather perfectly, and the hill, dark brooding, satanic… oh boy he wasnt wrong, and yet, you get clear beautiful days where the sun shines and suddenly its a different world. I found Mist to be very believable as an impressionable teenager, and wrote to the bbc (points of view as it was then) to lobby them strongly several times to adapt Mist for TV. I suppose they decided to ignore my pleas as we had already recently been given Juliet Bravo instead. They missed a golden opportunity imo. I used to cycle out around the area visiting the villages and places mentioned, I climbed the hill with a cousin of mine and witnessed the astonishing vista change from sun to low cloud and rain before we reached the bottom again, and I scoured the libraries in Colne and Burnley for history, eventually finding ancestry I was unaware of, and that my own history (despite the inadvertant transplant) was woven into the area as much as any local born and bred. Although I eventually moved away, I remember the area with the fondness that time and looking back bring, and realize that deep inside me is a yearning to go back, take my own family and show them the area and hope they get it as much as I did on the first day I stood breathless from the cycling and stared straight at Alice Nutters front door and think wow… the history in the book, its here and find the same connection to the area as I did all those years ago. Truth or fiction, it all gets stranger the more and more you read of it. Neills work captured my imagination and fostered a love of those wild untamed hills and the Pendle people, lived up to the title of Salt of the Earth and still do. Its an amazing history, an amazing place and well worth visiting. I read Moon in Scorpio after that and went on to read others, sadly lost in the mists of my time, but as I jsut finished rereading Mist over Pendle two days ago, I can say in all honesty, Pendle will stay with me forever.
Thank you. It’s comments like this that make the day worth while.
Martin sorry i haven’t got back to you with any more info due to my mother in law getting worse so my husband hasn’t had time to go through things with me to confirm which letters are from Robert the Author.
I’m sorry to hear about your mother in law and I hope things improve for her and your husband. Please feel free to help when you can: the Robert Neill site has had to go on the back-burner for a while and whenever you can assist will be fine.
Hazel Hutton says:
As a child, I delivered Mr & Mrs Neills milk, we had a dairy farm a few houses away and I still live on the farm now. They were both always very kind and during one milk delivery Robert gave me a signed copy of ‘The fire of London’ as he knew I loved to read. 🙂
After they both passed away another author bought the house. Mr Bob Langley (Pebble Mill TV)
Hello Hazel, and thank you for commenting. Details like this are always fascinating, more so for being about Keswick, which I know well. I had already started reading Mr Neill’s work before he passed away and it’s strange to think that I had been in Keswick for many years whilst he was there: I may have passed him in the street for all I’ll ever know. I’m not familiar with ‘The Fire of London’ – is this a book by Mr Neill? If it is, could you tell me more about it? Is it non-fiction?.
The book Mr Neill gave to me was written by him, it was a childs book, non-fiction and heavily illustrated with a couple of sentences below each picture. The book was maybe 30 pages, hardback, and everything on the cover was red. I can picture the book now although I no longer have it as we had a fire of our own at the farm which started in my bedroom and burned all my books. Also lost in the fire was a signed copy of a book written by Lorna Hill who lived on the opposite side of our farm to Mr & Mrs Neill.
If you have ever walked up Springs Road in Keswick you will have passed Mr Neill’s house.
Hazel, that is fascinating information. I have never come across reference to any books by Mr Neill, other than the sixteen novels. I now have a new ambition, to find a copy of this book (I don’t suppose you know if that was a one-off, or whether it was part of a series, do you?) How awful for you to lose all your books like that.
I have indeed walked up Springs Road, on a day’s walking to Bleaberry Fell and Walla Crag, though this was long after Mr Neill passed away.
Mary C. says:
Just discovered this site! I read Mist (under its American title) in my teens, mentally cast it with actors from that era, reread it at least once, and this evening began wondering whether it ever HAD been filmed. I also liked Black William (similar situation, as I recall) but was disappointed by one of his later ones, which presented a more positive view of witchcraft. (That wasn’t the reason I was disappointed; it just seemed to me not to live up to his earlier work.)
I also learned some years after reading Mist/Elegant Witch that most of its characters were historical people. Barbara Michaels’ Prince of Darkness (set in a fictitious version of Middleburg, Maryland, about an hour from where I live) refers to the Pendle witches and the Demdyke family, and I was sorry to learn even later that Jennet Device grew up to follow in the family footsteps and was hanged.
Hello Mary, nice to hear from another fan of the Master. I think that whilst the good now, and it’s certainly too subtle. The later book that’s more positive about witchery must be Witchfire at Lammas, and it certainly does fall short of Neill’s standards. There are reviews of that and Black William on the blog which go into more detail. Have fun reading them.
lauren neill says:
i am a relative of robert neill
Hello Lauren
It’s very kind of you to comment. I know very little of Mr Neill’s family and would be interested to know more from you. If you don’t wish to say more publicly, you are very welcome to contact me via the e-mail address in the About section of this blog.
I’ve come across letter Robert sent my late father in law in signed book he sent of song of sunrise from 7th November 1958.
Hello Linda. it would be wonderful to see that letter, unless it’s too personal in content. Is there any way i could get a copy of it from you?
Ewan Macindoe says:
Recently found MIst Over Pendle in a 2nd hand bookshop in Prague, Arrow edition 1969. I,ve just reached the Mill at Wheathead. Enjoying it, fine descriptions, good characters.
Glad you like it! Look out for the rest, you’ll enjoy many of those too.
Peter Riding says:
I remember reading Mist Over Pendle and Song of Sunrise when I was 16 in 1963. I started as an apprentice in a small engineering firm that had a unit in one of the mills mentioned in Song of Sunrise. I was totally absorbed in both books. Brilliant
Nice to hear from you, Peter. I envy you your direct connection to one of the books’ locations. Neill was always superb at instilling a sense of place.
Alastair Wilson says:
Here’s another fan – I was just broodling (combinatiton of browsing and doodling) because I wanted to check on the titles of all Neill’s books – I’ve recently started to re-read them and I wanted to supplemeny the half dozen or so that I have on my own shelves (well, mostly in boxes, because I haven’t enough shelf space). So I m delighted to find this site. In fact, my son-in-law is a Neill and is related to the late Robert – second cousin once removed, or something like that
A pleasure to hear from you, and yet another with a connection to the great man himself. My closest link is that i once walked past his house en route to a day’s walking near Keswick, but only after he’d left us.
The Robert Neill site is rather frozen and circumstances mean it is unlikely to be further updated, but the reviews will remain here, and at least I got the Wikipedia entry expanded a little.
Geoff Britland says:
Geoff Britland. Hi. I’m a Manchester lad and I was introduced to Robert Neill c 1970 when I came across “Witchbane” in the library at St John’s College. I enjoyed Witchbane immensely and the coincidentally found that my parents were reading “Mist over Pendle”. I read the latter in turn and later took my parents to visit the places mentioned in the book. Imagine my joy when I first came across the signpost to The Rough Lee! About that time I also read “The Lancashire Witches” by the Victorian author William Harrison Ainsworth (another Mancunian born at 21 King Street in 1805). The latter novel offered a fascinating contrast between it and “Mist over Pendle” but, for me, the Robert Neill book scores best.
My favourite Robert Neill novels are Mist, Moon in Scorpio and Hangman’s Cliff. I also enjoy Rebel Heiress in which there is great interplay between the characters, but I am hesitant to accept the commercial viability of an inn that apparently seeks to avoid custom! Black William is also on my shelves.
I am currently seeking a copy of “The Devil’s Weather” and will then consider my Neill collection to be complete. Although I enjoyed Anstey –once — I don’t feel any need to re read it whereas all of the abovementioned books have been read and re read and are old friends. For reasons I cannot explain, I never got on with Lillibolero or Crown and Mitre.
May I congratulate you on this site. So nice to “meet” other Robert Neill enthusiasts!
Geoff.
You’re welcome, Geoff, and good to hear from someone who’s visited the Pendle sites.
Interesting how we view certain books. I agree that ‘Anstey’ doesn’t repay repeated readings, though for me the only real disappointments are ‘Wonder Winter’, which chases itself down entirely the wrong story, and the final two books, which represent a drastic tailing off of quality.
Based on your preferences, I’m sure you’d enjoy ‘The Devil’s Weather’, and may I commend you to my review of it, if you haven’t already read it. It’s the only Cumbrian setting in his works, which prejudices me in its favour, but it’s very good nonetheless.
Just browsing the web for Robert Neill novels. Very interested to read the comments on here. Recently took my grandchildren to Lancaster Castle and they were fascinated with the Pendle Witches story. Prompted me to read Mist Over Pendle again some forty years after the first time. I have also still got Song of Sunrise and So Fair A House which I found fascinating at the time. They will be my next reads. Forgot how much I enjoyed his books until now.
Hello Chris, and nice to hear from you. If I’ve in any way inspired you to re-read Robert Neill, I’ll be happy. I’ve blogged all the books, but I’d rather you read your other two before hearing my opinions. If you’ve any thoughts to share, I’d love to hear them: the ‘middle six’ or so seem to have really slipped into obscurity.
I’ve just managed to buy a copy of Mist over Pendle on Kindle!! – let’s hope that this finally heralds a resurgence and the rest will also be available in the future 🙂
That’s excellent news! Kindle is an ideal, low-cost way of making available books with a small audience cheaply, and of developing that audience into something larger. Fingers crossed!
Keith Shackleton says:
One of my favourite Robert Neill books is Song of Sunrise. The author acknowledges his debt to local historian and Colne Librarian, Wilfred Spencer, but I had not realised until last year how many of the characters in the book are based on fact. Nicholas England, Robert Shaw and Anna England were real people in Colne and feature in the parish registers of St Bartholemew.
What really surprised me as I reasearched the Robert Shaw – Anna England marriage was that Robert Neill is descended from them on his maternal grandmother’s side. Robert Shaw’s daughter Eleanor was the mother of Anna Maria Cottrill who in turn was Robert Neill’s mother.
Another surprise was to find that Robert Neill’s great-grandfather, also a Robert Neill, was a very successful building contractor in Manchester, twice Lord Mayor, built Manchester Town Hall and when he died in 1899 left a serious amount of money – over £254,000. That is nearly £31 million today.
Hi, Keith and thanks for commenting. I was aware of the link to great-grandfather Robert, and his two mayoral stints, but not that the Song of Sunrise characters really existed. It doesn’t surprise me though: the book is more a social realist history than the usual historical fiction associated with Neill, and its rooted aversion to anything remotely melodramatic is very much in keeping with maintaining respect for actual people. As you’ll see from my two reviews of this book, I don’t rate it so highly as you, but it is far from the tired disasters of Neill’s last two books.
Possibly I am biased by the fact that my maternal grandfather was born in Colne.
As you should be!
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After I was divorced in the early 1990s, I ended up living in a small apartment in Hollywood, near La Brea and Franklin, three blocks from the Chinese Theater. I scrambled to make a living, to be creative, to make movies.
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Since Middle School, I have been a writer, and was the editor of my school paper in Ninth Grade.
I began in television in high school and became producer and writer for the New Year’s Eve variety program “CELEBRATION” which aired on network affiliate TV stations in Minneapolis for several years. I then helped build and put on the air a new broadcast TV station, Channel 29, and became its Operations Manager as well as Writer, Producer, and Director for in-house programs and clients’ productions. I went on to work for several production companies, including TV production trucks, and went out on my own as an independent Writer, Producer, and Director. My productions included live and taped talk shows, variety programs, holiday specials, sports broadcasts, interstitial segments, concerts, conventions, commercials, and industrials. Minneapolis is a major market area, which Nielson ranks as 15th largest.
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For many years, I have been chasing a motion picture project that has completely consumed me. It’s called Everybody Says Goodbye: The Story of a Father and Son, and I first began writing the screenplay in 1998. Having come so close to making the movie a few times, I keep referring to this project as “a fish-hook in the eye” because it’s impossible for me to ignore and walk away from.
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I spent a lot of time on the mean streets of Hollywood. I lived there, worked there, had friends there, I walked them a lot. My screenplay for the feature film EVERYBODY SAYS GOODBYE—The Story of a Father and Son is set there, in 1998.
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When looking back on many years of trying to get A FATHER AND SON into production (at one point the title was EVERYBODY SAYS GOODBYE–The Story of a Father and Son), I realize there were many experiences that I call “a fishhook in the eye.”
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The Foreign Legion of the revolution: German anarcho-syndicalist and volunteers in anarchist militias during the Spanish civil war - Dieter Nelles
Interesting article focusing on the activity of exiled German anarcho-syndicalists in Spain, both in the lead up to and during the Civil War and Revolution of 1936.
Only after Ken Loach’s film “Land and Freedom“ the wide public heard about what had been deliberately ignored or forgotten for decades : The Spanish Civil War was not only a clash between democracy and fascism ; also did it start a social revolution unprecedented for this century. With the Spanish Revolution also the foreign volunteers were forgotten that had not fought in the International Brigades but on the side of the anarchosyndicalist CNT-FAI and the POUM. These volunteers were losers of the Spanish Civil War in two respects. Not only did they lose the war but they were also inferior in the battle against the anti-revolutionary forces in the republican camp.
In my essay I examine the history of the about 250 Germans that were engaged on the side of the CNT-FAI as propagandists, journalists or as armed fighters in the militias. Only a minority of these 250 volunteers had joined anarchosyndicalist organizations in Germany. In the lee of the CNT-FAI the German anarchosyndicalists too enjoyed a “short summer of anarchy.“ For a short time the DAS [Gruppe Deutsche Anarcho-Syndikalisten im Ausland (Group of German anarchosyndicalists in exile)], that was founded in 1934 and had played a minor role till the Civil War, was the politically most influential German exile organization in Barcelona. Because of the repression of the stalinist communists the activities of the DAS came to an abrupt end in June 1937.
The defeat during the War and the experience of the stalinist repression eclipsed the fundamental political differences that had existed between the CNT-FAI and the international anarchosyndicalist movement. In memoirs and memories of the German anarchosyndicalists this conflict was either ignored or idealized. That is why I outline in the first chapter first of all the relations between the CNT-FAI and the international anarchosyndicalist movement. In the second chapter the activities of the German anarchosyndicalists in Spain before and after the Civil War are described and in the third chapter the engagement of German volunteers in the militias of the CNT-FAI.
I. The CNT-FAI and the international anarchosyndicalist movement
When the Spanish Civil War broke out, the CNT-FAI had only marginal contacts with the international labour movement. The CNT had been affiliated with the anarchosyndicalist IAA (International Workmens’ Association) since 1923. In the thirties the IAA had long since passed its political peak. Except for the CNT and the Swedish SAC, that had about thirty thousand members, the other sections of the IAA in Europe were nothing but small propaganda organizations and exile groups. The IAA appeared hardly any more in public and basically the SAC bore its very limited financial resources.[2]
The office of the IAA - with the Dutchman Arthur Lehning as full-time secretary - moved in 1933 from Berlin to Madrid and in 1934 to Barcelona. Lehning’s letters from Spain vary from enthusiasm for the revolutionary spirit of the Spanish movement to bitter criticism of its organizational and theoretical shortcomings. He particularly criticized the insurgent tendency of the Spanish movement, that the militant cadres of the FAI embodied and their absolute disinterest in international issues. The CNT was a “movement without brains and intelligence,“ which showed an “absolutely hostile attitude,“ and that did not fulfill its “financial commitments.“ The CNT had considered each statement of the IAA as an interference in Spanish affairs.[3] The German anarchosyndicalist and later to become secretary of the IAA, Helmut Rüdiger, who had been living in Barcelona since 1932, commented similarly. He characterized the CNT as a “national socialist movement“ that had in common with the international anarchosyndicalism only the “terminology of the common program.“[4]
The CNT was hardly comparable to the other sections of the IAA. The dues were very modest, there were no strike funds and only very few paid union officials. Organizational structures at national level were only little developed. International issues were practically of no importance.[5] At the Congress of the IAA in Paris in 1935 the delegate of the CNT reduced the international self-image to the concise formula : “We make the Revolution at home, copy it ; that is our Internationalism.“[6]
Therefore the CNT-FAI not even basically had an international propaganda apparatus at the beginning of the Civil War. A few days after the revolt in Barcelona, the German anarchosyndicalist Augustin Souchy was appointed leader of the International Department from the Regional Committee of the CNT. Souchy, who was secretary of the IAA in Berlin from 1923 to 1933, was acquainted with the Spanish conditions due to several trips and he personally knew the leading CNT-FAI union officials.[7] The American Martin Gudell and since January 1937 the exile Hungarian Paul Partos were amongst his closest colleagues. The International Department looked after the numerous journalists, politicians and writers that came to Barcelona. In addition, Souchy made a lot of trips to the European foreign countries as a kind of ‘Foreign Minister’ of the CNT-FAI, where he tried to enlist solidarity with Spain. The International Department periodically published an information bulletin, that appeared at times in nine languages. The bulletins informed about the events in Spain from the point of view of the CNT-FAI. They were predominantly official statements and translations of the libertarian press. Apart from that, the bulletins contained articles that were orientated to the specific conditions of the respective countries. In France, the magazine L’Espagne Antifasciste (CNT-FAI-AIT) was published additionally. The radio program of the CNT-FAI broadcast three hours each night in foreign language. The editors of the bulletins were mainly members of anarchist and anarchosyndicalist organizations of the respective countries, that had come to Barcelona or that had already been living there in exile.[8]
The foreign propaganda of the CNT-FAI was restricted by three deciding factors. First, the prejudices against the CNT-FAI were widely held in the international labour movement and in liberal circles. Second, it was inferior to its rivals of the republic camp in the international propaganda. Particularly the Communists, but the Socialists and republicans too, censored all the information about the social revolution in Spain.[9] Third, the CNT-FAI did not have a clear international strategy and its allies were too feeble outside Spain to form an effective counterbalance to the communist and the social-democratic labour movement.
The CNT-FAI’s entry to the Regional and Central Government symbolized ist far-reaching break with the anarchist tradition. A large number of foreign anarchosyndicalists harshly criticized this policy of the CNT-FAI. This was one of the reasons why the CNT, despite initial acceptance, was no longer willing to put ist foreign propaganda in the hands of the IAA. But it was more important that the CNT-FAI was looking for political alliance partners beyond the small organizations of the IAA. Souchy was one of the architects of this policy.[10] In November 1937 the CNT-FAI founded its own relief organization, independent of the IAA : the SIA (International Antifascist Solidarity), that collected money for the Spanish battle in the foreign countries, stressing antifascism and not anarchosyndicalism.[11]
A large number of the foreign anarchosyndicalists personalized this conflict by holding Souchy responsible for the tension between the IAA and the CNT. There was not a complete break between the CNT and the IAA, like Rüdiger had feared in August 1937, but this did not change the fundamental political dilemma. The sections of the IAA were politically too weak to generate an effective solidarity work for the CNT-FAI, whereas the CNT-FAI was obliged to withdraw to a antifascist position. The extent to which the CNT-FAI was willing to conform out of tactical considerations is shown by the fact that at the end of 1937 the CNT even considered an alliance with the Communists against the republicans and Socialists.[12]
In practice, this led to incompatible conflict of interests. When after the May days a large number of foreign anarchosyndicalists were arrested in Spain, the CNT distanced itself in public from the “Relief Action Committee for the Victims of the Spanish Counter-Revolution“ founded in Paris. Its work was judged to be an “insulting and irresponsible propaganda“ because the CNT-FAI could protect the comrades arresred in Spain “single-handedly and by own means.“[13] The CNT-FAI did support its foreign comrades, but not very vigorously. The “entire propaganda about the Communist’s power in Spain and the persecution of revolutionaries,“ said the secretary of the National Committee of the CNT, Mariano Vázquez, on the Congress of the IAA in October 1938, damaged “only the solidarity movement for the antifascist Spain in the foreign countries.“[14]
II. German anarchosyndicalists in the Spanish Civil War
1. German anarchosyndicalists in the Spanish exile from 1933 to 1936
Spain was the preferred place of exile for the German anarchosyndicalists after 1933.[15] Out of a total of sixty-six anarchosyndicalist emigrants, twenty-two had been living in Barcelona before the Civil War. For two reasons the German anarchosyndicalists felt drawn towards Spain. Firstly, because of the liberal asylum rights : It was relatively easy to obtain a residence permit, and there existed no general employment restricitions for emigrants. Secondly, because of the powerful anarchosyndicalist movement : The Spanish movement symbolized the revolutionary hope of the handful of German anarchosyndicalists. In 1932 the FAUD (Free Workers Union of Germany) had only 4307 members left, and could not have a deciding influence on the political development in Germany. In the press of the FAUD the Spanish movement took first place. When the CNT could operate legally again in 1931, a regular ‘revolutionary tourism’ to Spain began. For the writer Etta Federn-Kohlhaas and her two children, as well as for three anarchosyndicalists from Upper Silesia, Spain had already become a country of exile in 1932.[16]
Because of the high unemployment it was difficult for the emigrants to settle down economically. Helmut Rüdiger wrote about that to a comrade in 1935. This situation was not new to most of the emigrants. In Germany too, they had lived in poverty and suffered many privations during the world economic crisis. The linguistic and mental adaption to the host country and the relations with the CNT were also difficult. One felt “often like an `undesirable alien’,“ wrote Rüdiger about the relations with the Spanish comrades. “It’s tragic that even as a refugee you don’t get the least aid or support in obtaining jobs from the Spanish movement.“[17]
With that Rüdiger indirectly looked back on the solidarity of the FAUD with its persecuted Spanish comrades during the dictatorship of Primo de Riveras. Therefore the emigrants assessed the Spanish movement in various ways. Some remained isolated and without contact to their Spanish comrades. Those who succeeded in adapting linguistically and mentally were enthusiastic. “They saw the comrade in me, not the German, the alien. In a word-I was one of them,“ remembered Karl Brauner, who had been living in Barcelona since 1934.[18] Due to “the example of the Spanish comrades,“ wrote the Berlin anarchosyndicalist Rudolf Michaelis, the “feeling of the defeat suffered in Germany“ was increasingly becoming less important for him.[19] The political activities of the emigrants were largely limited to discussions in private circles. Only the victory of the Popular Front Parties at the elections in February 1936 led to a certain revival of the group activities, because now they could appear in public. In April 1936, the DAS became a member of the FAI in Barcelona. But only the outbreak of the Civil War should mean a big change for the German emigrants.
2. The DAS during the Civil War
Side by side with the Spanish comrades, the German anarchosyndicalists were involved in the armed insurrection against the rebelling military, in the course of which they were confronted with Nazis, that had intervened in the battles on the side of the military. Together with Spanish comrades a group of the DAS stormed the German Club in the Calle Caspe-Lauria. Not only did they take a machine gun and other arms, but also the membership list and numerous documents of the Nazis in Spain. On 19 July 1936 the German anarchosyndicalists not only paralyzed “a powerful foreign organization of the Nazis in Spain“[20], as Michaelis wrote in retrospect, but also the “model organization“ of the foreign Nazi party organizations.[21] On 24 July the German Consul General told the Foreign Office that under the “direction of German Jews and Communists, German institutions, German firms and houses“ had been “searched, destroyed and raided completely at random.“[22] In reality the DAS had systematically collated documents about the activities of the Nazis in Barcelona during the searches. The Nazi party had covered all Spain with a web of party cells and subsidiary organizations, observed systematically the Germans living in Spain, in closest cooperation with the Spanish right circles and methodically exerted influence on the policy and the economy of the country.
The Central Committee of the Antifascist militia, of which the political key positions were filled by the CNT-FAI, entrusted the DAS with the control of all the german-speaking foreigners in Barcelona. This included the control of frontier, post, harbour and railway. The DAS systematically made searches in houses of Germans who were suspected of sympathizing with the National Socialists.[23] The German Consul General reckoned that the DAS had confiscated 60-70 flats and premises up to the beginning of November 1937.[24] The confiscated objects were handed over to the revolutionary committees and militias. After the eviction of the German Consulate General in November 1937, the DAS took over its rooms. All the Germans that had not left Barcelona needed a control certificate of the DAS. At that time an estimated 400-500 Germans still lived in Barcelona.
Under the decisive political influence of the DAS the International Committee of Antifascist Emigrants (ICAE) Antifascist Emigrants (CIDEA) was founded in August 1936. The CIDEA took over the money and the house of the Jewish Relief Action Committee for Emigrants, that had already existed before the Revolution. To the Committee belonged besides three representatives of the DAS two representatives of the KPD and German members of the POUM. Isidor Aufseher, a member of the DAS, was appointed secretary. A saddler and tailor collective for unemployed emigrants was set up, where 30 persons worked. There were produced pieces of equipment for the militia. In addition the DAS managed a restaurant and a bookshop, of which the former proprietors had been National Socialists, as collective enterprises.
A further task of the DAS was the charge and the political control of the German-speaking volunteers in the International Group of the Durruti Column. Since November 1937 Michaelis was Political Delegate of the International Group and at the same time negotiator of the Front Group of the DAS. The Front Delegates of the DAS managed two soldier homes in Barcelona, that were set up in villas of former National Socialists. For those militiamen that for different reasons no longer could or wanted to serve at the front, the DAS got jobs in the Emigrant’s Collectives or in industry.
In the International Department of the CNT-FAI, Rüdiger was appointed leader of the German language propaganda. He edited the weekly published Information Service of the CNT-FAI, and wrote the articles for the short-wave transmitter of the CNT-FAI, that broadcast three times per week in German. Together with a German Communist Rüdiger edited also the German language information service of the Catalan Government. In the propaganda department of the National Committee of the CNT in Valencia and the Regional Committee in Madrid worked as well members of the DAS. Besides the propaganda for the CNT-FAI the DAS also came to the fore journalistically. In Barcelona the ASY publishers, that had already been run by the FAUD under this name in Berlin, was refounded. From January to June the ASY publishers put our the paper Soziale Revolution and two brochures written by Rüdiger, which were translated into several languages. The “Black-Red-Book, Documents of the Hitler Fascism“ has to be considered undoubtely as a journalistic of achievement published in June 1937. In it the documents were published the documents that had been taken from the Nazis in Barcelona.[25]
Altogether 45 people were members of the DAS. The vast number of the anarchosyndicalists emigrants had come to Catalonia after the outbreak of the Revolution. In Spain the DAS took on 14 new members. Only those could become members which had already been organized in anarchosyndicalist groups. That is why most of the new members were emigrants that belonged prior to the CNT. In January 1937 a sympathizer organization was founded for the approx. 50 to 80 German emigrants that had affiliated with the CNT due to their sympathies for the the revolution : the ASYK (Anarchosyndicalist Action Group)
The DAS had advanced from a small, isolated group to the politically most influential German exile group in Barcelona. But the political influence on Barcelona remained restricted. Publications of the DAS got only little response in the German exile. The DAS was lacking both the financial resources and the members needed to promote its ideas in the most important centres of the exile. But the sudden and unexpected upturn of the DAS had its dark side. After the first euphoric months of the Revolution it was obviously difficult for some DAS members to accept that their political scope of action was more and more restricted. On the one hand because the political influence of the CNT-FAI in the republican camp declined. On the other hand because the DAS only had a very limited influence on the political decisions of the CNT-FAI, even if it came to German issues.
That was clearly recognizable when in January 1937 Ferdinand Götze left the DAS and founded a competitive organization together with three other emigrants : the SRDF. The SRDF wanted to concentrate all non-Communist German volunteers into a separate military unit, by consulting former Russian officers and opposition National Socialists.[26] Th plans of this in actual facts absolutely unimportant group obviously met with a certain sympathy with some union officials of the CNT-FAI. For despite protests of the DAS, Eugen Scheyer, a member of the SRDF, was at times military adviser of an anarchist unit at the Aragon Front and of the anarchist youth in Barcelona. Not without good reason the DAS characterized Scheyer as “political adventurer.“[27]
But the SRDF was relevant to the DAS also because Elli Götze, Ferdinand Götze’s wife, was chairwoman of the DAS. Although she did not sympathize with the SRDF, this line-up had to lead to great tension in the DAS. That is why Elli Götze as chairwoman of the DAS was voted out in April 1937. Michaelis was designated her successor. But he attached to his election the condition that the DAS had to “enter the CNT’s service“ and bow to its policy.[28]
Shortly afterwards the reorganization of the DAS came to an abrupt and dramatic end. Especially the DAS was affected by the communist repression, that began immediately after the May Events and was aimed above all at the “Trotskyist-Fascist“ POUM.[29]
Except for some, all members of the DAS and emigrants that were politically close to the DAS were arrested. The DAS members were partly put in state prisons, partly in communist private prisons. They were accused of “espionage“ and the participation in the May Events. The interrogations were led by German and Russian communists. The prisoners were questioned about their activities in Spain, but also intensively about their illegal work in Germany. They had not been directly tortured, but they were at the mercy of humiliating and long questionings as well as extremely lousy prison conditions. Out of about thirty arrested members of the DAS and the ASYK, four still were in the Carcel Modelo in Barcelona and eight prisoners in a prison in Segorbe at the beginning of January 1937. Out of the latters, five were freed in April 1938 - inter alia Michaelis- the others stayed in prison till the end of 1938.[30]
The representatives of the German communist party (KPD) in Barcelona were of a central importance at the arrests of the DAS. Since October 1936 the KPD had built up a secret intelligence service in Barcelona, that was in contact with sections of the Catalan authorities controlled by the PSCU, and the Russian secret service NKWD.[31] Since the beginning of the Civil War there had always been arguments between the DAS and the KPD. In August 1936 a group of German communists around Hans Beimler, that were accommodated in the Bakunin barracks, had incurred the Spaniards’ displeasure because of their military exercises - “the drill according to old Prussian pattern.“[32] At the instigation of Abad de Santillan, the responsible CNT-FAI union official for the militias, the DAS members Michaelis and Willi Winkelmann tried to persuade the Communist volunteers to join the anarchist militias. They succeeded in winning over six of the approx. 80 volunteers, with which they formed the machine gun unit Erich Mühsam, that affiliated with the Los Aguiluchos Column.[33]
In October 1936 further twenty German volunterrs left the Communist Centuria Thälmann and affiliated with the International Group of the Durruti Column. Hans Beimler, the KPD representative in Barcelona, had dismissed the negotiator Kurt Lehmann, who had been elected by the volunteers and dictatorially appointed a political delegate of his choice. Lehmann had come from Antwerpen to Barcelona with a group of seven seamen of the ITF (Internationl Transportworkers Federation) and had joined the KPD till the beginning of 1936.[34] “With an armed group“ of the anarchists, remembered Lehmann, “we got back our passports out of the Hotel Colon that the communists were not willing to hand over to us voluntarily. It worked without difficulty ; the communists were in the minority at that time and could not afford any clashes.“[35]
For the KPD these activities of the DAS were an outrageous provocation. Because the DAS occupied in Catalonia a political territory that the KPD claimed as their own as if it were the most natural thing in the world.[36] But till the May Events the position of the communists had been too weak to risk an open confrontation with the DAS. But in August 1937 the KPD paper La Llibertad announced triumphantly in Barcelona that the “counter-revolutionary activity of Trotskyist and other pirates“ in the emigrant’s work had “thoroughly been finished.“[37] The DAS was no longer existent in Barcelona and the buildings and collectives which they had managed were now in control of the KPD.
III. German volunteers in the militias of the CNT-FAI
1. Foreign volunteers in the militias of the CNT-FAI
There are no exact numbers concerning the international volunteers in the militias of the CNT-FAI. Souchy estimated their number to be not more than three thousand.[38] According to the existing source material there were not more than two thousand volunteers. In the Historic Archive in Salamanca can be found index cards from about 1200 foreign volunteers out of which 335 were exiled Spaniards. The others comprised out on the following nations : 513 Italians, 169 Frenchmen, 32 Germans, 29 Bulgarians, 20 Belgians, 17 Swiss, 15 exile Russians and 13 Dutchmen. The rest consisted out of twenty further nations.[39] The list is incomplete, but represents an approximate tendency except for the German volunteers.[40] Out of the German members of the militia 192 are (188 men and 6 women) known by name. Their total number did probably not exceed 230, for all the relevant archives had been analysed. '
Italians, Frenchmen and Germans provided by far the largest contingent of the foreign militiamen and formed own sections in the militias. The first foreign volunteers in the militias were recruited from emigrants and several participants in the Worker Olympics in Barcelona. Already on 28 July two trains with 600 foreign volunteers- exiled Spaniards, Italians and Frenchmen - arrived in Barcelona. They were welcomed enthousiastically and admitted to the militias of the CNT-FAI.[41] Approximately 1000-1500 volunteers came to Catalonia in the first weeks of the Civil War.
On Carlos Rosselli’s initiative, the founder of the movement Guistizia e Libertá, the first organized foreign unit was founded in a militia of the CNT-FAI. In August 1936 Rosselli came to Barcelona with 130 Italian volunteers. The group formed an Italian section in the Ascaso Column, to which belonged 250 members at the beginning of October.[42]
In the Durruti Column the foreign volunteers were united in an International Group. The Frenchman Louis Berthoumieu was elected General Delegate ; a former artillery captain, that had aleady lived in Spain for several years. In October 1936 about 200 foreign volunteers belonged to the International Group. There was a French and a German section, which formed each a centuria.[43]
Till the end of 1936 there still was a larger International Group of the 150 foreign volunteers, 120 of whom were Frenchmen, in the Ortiz Column. Exact details concerning the size of each group are difficult to fix. Only in spring 1937 the CNT-FAI started a central registration of the foreign volunteers. Without the Italian section in the Ascaso Column there still were at that time about 300-400 volunteers at the Aragon Front.[44]
For the CNT-FAI the foreign volunteers were not of great importance. In September 1936 the CNT-FAI declared in the libertarian press in the foreign countries that arms were needed, but no further volunteers. Durruti asked the French comrades in one of his last letters to restrict their “visites de touriste.“ The solidarity work in France was more important than to fight at the Front.[45] Nevertheless foreign volunteers were admitted in the militias of the CNT-FAI without problems till the beginning of 1937.
2. German volunteers in the militias of the CNT-FAI
The first German militia unit was the Erich Mühsam Group, that went to the Aragon Front with the Los Aguiluchos Column on 27 August 1936. The Group had its position at the cemetery of Huesca.[46] In November 1937 the Group was disbanded and partly given a place in the International Group of the Durruti Column. Michaelis and Winkelmann accounted for this change by reason of the many communist volunteers in the International Group that in their opinion meant a potential danger to the libertarian essence“ of the Spanish Revolution. This danger could be confronted by „special propaganda“ of the German anarchosyndicalists. Most of the volunteers did not act out of evil intention, but did simply not understand that there could be a „revolutionary policy“ other than the Communist one.[47]
The overwhelming majority of the German volunteers fought in the Durruti Column. From August 1936 to April 1937 altogether 150 German volunteers belonged to the International Group. But there were never more than 100 German volunteers at the Front at the same time. The International Group had the character of a storm troop and had a part in battles involving heavy losses till the end of 1936. During the battles for Perdiguera in October 1936, 37 international volunteers, that had been blocked off from the rest of the Column, were killed. During this event, the murder of four nurses, amongst them the only 19-year-old German Auguste Marx, caused a stir.[48]
After the militarization of the militias, the International Group was renamed International Company of the 26th Division (Durruti). From January to April 1937 the International Company was not involved in any clashes. For this period of time between 120 and 140 volunteers belonged to the Company,out of which about half were Germans. On 13 April 1937 the International Company was deployed in the battles on the strategically important Ermita de Santa Quiteria next to Tardienta. There it suffered military disaster, like before the Communist Centuria Thälmann in October 1936. The International Company counted 16 dead, 23 injured and four missing persons.[49]
In the Sacco and Vanzetti Battery a group of German militiamen fought, out of which ten are known by name. The anarchosyndicalist Paul Chacon, who had been living in Barcelona since 1932, and who called himself in Spain Maximo Mas, was commander of this artillery unit. As military adviser Ernst Günther, a former Communist and officer of the First World War, stood by his side. The Sacco and Vanzetti Battery was part of the Tierra y Libertad Column, to which belonged especially chosen members of the Catalan FAI. In September 1936 the Column fought in Madrid and in the spring of 1937 in Cuenca at the Terual Front. After the militarization the Column formed the 153th Brigade of the People’s Army.[50]
In the Italian section of the Ascaso Column there was also a group of German volunteers. The Social Democrat Otto Albrecht wrote about 28 Germans that had gone with him to the Front. About the military activities of this group several letters of the Social Democrat Otto Albrecht are preserved, as well as an article of the former Communist Willi Lai. In the course of the reorganization of the militias, some members of this group went over to the International Company of the Durruti Column in March 1937.[51]
In the International Group of the Ortiz Column fought twelve Germans, about which no-one knows more than that.[52] In addition here and there were Germans in other militias of the CNT-FAI : A small group of Germans and Swiss in the Hilario Zamora Column, that affiliated with the International Brigade in November 1936.[53] Two volunteers in the Iron Column, that defended itself most strongly against the militarization[54] ; Two volunteers in the del Rosal Column in Madrid, out of which the socialdemocrat Carl Oster made it to commander of a batallion.[55]
There were other volunteers with military experience like Oster who had military functions in the militias and later in the People’s Army. José Maria Oster was commander of a brigade in the 28th Division (Ascaso), the writer Carl Einstein was technical director of a front sector nine kilometres long in the Durruti Column, and Johann Vinzenz Eberle advanced to the instructor of the cavalry in a sector of the Aragon Front and later had the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.[56]
3. The militarization of the militias and the International Group of the Durruti Column
„Militiamen yes ! Soldiers never !“ With this slogan the CNT-FAI at the beginning of the Civil War opposed the militarization of the militias that claimed the Government, i. e. their submission to uniform military headquarters and military discipline. In November 1937 the leadership of the CNT-FAI accepted the change of the militias into divisions of the People’s Army. After that, the militarization of the militias went on relatively quickly, but was only completely finished in the summer of 1937. The militias of the CNT-FAI kept a certain independence. Their units changed into Brigades and Divisions of the People’s Army. And they were not placed in mixed brigades, like the Communists had demanded. It was not only the political pressure of the government that led to this radical change of direction of the CNT-FAI, but also the obvious lacks of the militia system. “In view of the suffered defeat that could have been avoidable,“ wrote Cipriano Mera, the commander of a CNT Division in Madrid in a manifest in March 1937, “all our fighters must call united : militarization !!!“ Mera claimed for a “relentless didcipline,“ that had to be imposed “by all means“.[57]
In the militias of the CNT-FAI at the Aragon Front, the resistance against the militarization was much more visible than at the Central Front in Madrid. At the beginning of January it came to a split in the Durruti Column during a meeting of the delegates in Gelsa. While the biggest part of the Column decided in favour of the miltarization, a minority insisted on ist rejecting its point of view. The leadership of the CNT-FAI did not accept its proposals for a reorganization of the militias, and so about 1000 militiamen left the Front at the beginning of March 1937.[58]
The International Group also splitted because of the militarization of the militias. Most of the French volunteers rejected the militarization and left the Front. But the Germans widely accepted it. The approx. 75 Germans, wrote the volunteer Ernst Galanty, were in favour of a “complete reorganization and formation of the militias.“ The catastrophic “leadership and organization“ of the military actions had provoked a “major disenchantment among the milicianos.“ Galanty criticized the “absolute incompetence and irresponsibility of the headquarters, the missing of officers that are capable to lead the company, the lack of arms and the inadequate instruction of the people“.[59] In a resolution of the German volunteers in the International Group, written by Galanty, the militarization imposed from above was criticized, but was accepted temporarily until the creation of a new military law. The German volunteers claimed the abolition of the obligation to salute, equal pay for officers and soldiers, the freedom of the press and of discussion and the creation of soldiers’ councils.[60]
The claim for soldiers’ councils and their competences led in the International Company to heavy debates between the Political Delegate Michaelis and a group of Marxist volunteers, to the spokesmen of which belonged Galanty and the Swiss Paul Thalmann. In contrast to the Spanish units the International Company was divided into four sections, that elected a delegate (soldiers’ council) each. Together with the Political Delegate, that had been elected by the militias and had to be a member of the CNT, the section Delegates managed the administrative and political affairs of the Company. In the event of a tied vote or in the case of objection of the Political Delegate the General Meeting of the Company decided.
After a debate with Michaelis Galanty stepped down from his position as Section Delegate at the beginning of February. The group criticized from a revolutionary point of view the policy of the CNT-FAI. Its joining of the government and ist excessive willingness to compromise in their relationships to the communists undermined the revolutionary forces. In contrast, Michaelis defended the official point of view of the CNT-FAI. The conflict escalated at the beginning of March, when Michaelis prevented to vote on a request of the Marxist Group to advertise also in writing for their position. As a result nine volunteers left the International Company.[61]
Michaelis reproached his adversaries of not having understood “the spirit and the forms of the revolutionary movement in Spain“.[62] On the one hand this criticism was quite justified. On the other side Michaelis particularly knew that “the identity between the military leader and the negotiator of the soldiers“ that he noticed in the militias of the CNT-FAI already was a thing of the past. Internally, he admitted frankly that the decisions in the Division had only been made by a small “inner circle,“ which “knows about the real course of events and determine the same“.[63] He himself considered the creation of a “revolutionary army“ at that point of time no longer to be possible : “It would have been better if the creative powers, that we do not have, had created an own type of the People’s Army, that had on the one hand embodied the liberal spirit of our movement and on the other hand a military effectiveness.“[64]
The acceptance of a stronger military discipline and hierarchization by Michaelis and parts of the International Company were not only determined by general poltical points, but also by their concrete experience at the Front. Many comrades had still not realized that the “Revolution Romanticism“ had come to an end, wrote the seaman Hans Krause. The war could only be won if it would be „waged under exclusively military considerations“.[65] The everyday life of the volunteers consisted only of military exercices from January to April. That was why some volunteers left the Front for different reasons. At the beginning of April Michaelis wrote to the military leader Manzana that it was a mistake that in the Durruti Division no obligations for foreigners existed at all. Everyone had come as volunteer, but a minority claimed for things that “corresponded neither to the self-discipline nor to the needed discipline“ that were asked of the CNT soldiers. No day went by without incident that did not demonstrate the wrong interpretation of the “voluntary of the foreigners.“ The Durruti Division should get separated from the small minority that did not have the necessary fighting spirit and was the source of the demoralization. All the others should have the same rights and duties as the Spaniards.[66]
A few days later the International Company got almost completely wiped out at battles for the Ermita Santa Quiteria. In Barcelona the rest of the International Company got reorganized in the “Batallion IAA,“ that included two foreign Companies and two Companies of members of the Anarchist Youth of Catalonia. The French regular soldier Alexis Cardeur, who had also been military leader of the International Company since March 1937, was appointed commander.[67] The Battalion IAA went to the Aragon Front again on 7 June, where it got mixed up in heavy encounters a few days later. The Batallion IAA was not accepted by the command of the People’s Army, because the Spanish Government had given an edict to transfer all the foreign volunteers in the International Brigade. And Ricardo Sanz, the commander of the 26th Division, no longer wanted any foreigners in his Division. Finally, the Batallion IAA got disbanded on 22 July 1937 after having refused to attack with absolutely insufficient weapons.[68]
One part of the foreign volunteers left Spain, another part changed to the International Brigades and few changed individually to Anarchist military units. The about 20 volunteers that changed to the International Brigades were in a strictly controlled by the comunistically dominated SIM. Everyone was suspected of having participiate in the May Events. As long as they did not openly express their political opinion, this did not have direct consequences. One volunteer was put straight before a firing squad due to refusal to obey orders and others were temporarily taken into custody or moved to punishment units, but this was in rare cases directly connected with their past as militiamen.[69]
4. The social and political background of the German volunteers
The German volunteers in the militias as well as in the International Brigades mostly were German emigrants. Here and there were also former Foreign Legionnaires, deserter of the German army and members of National Socialist organization among them. 75% of the volunteers were workers and tradesmen. Six German women, that worked as nurses, belonged to the militias. After the militarization of the militias women were no longer admitted to the International Brigades. Compared to the International Brigades there was a major position of emigrants among the German volunteers of the militias that had already lived in Spain before the War. They had an approx. 15% share. The Communist volunteers in the Interbrigades had only a 1% share. In comparison only a few volunteers had come directly from Germany to Spain ; 6% of the militiamen, 14% of the Communists.[70]
The number of anarchosyndicalists in the militias was very large. Nevertheless those were just a minority amongst the German volunteers. Only 22 had joined the FAUD before 1933. More than half the volunteers had joined Communist organizations in Germany. Though a lot of them had already detached themselves from the party in exile or were in opposition of their political line. For just six volunteers changed to the International Brigades till the summer of 1937, whereas about 40 volunteers from Communist militias or the International Brigades came to the militias. More than 50 volunteers that had belonged to socialist or communist organizations in Germany, became a member of the CNT in Spain. But this did not mean that this motivated them to become anarchosyndicalists therefore. What fascinated the volunteers was the social revolution, which was in clear contrast with their experiences in Germany. Many of them, like the communist Robert Schreiber, had waited in vain in 1933 for a „sign, an order“ for the armed insurrection against Fascism.[71] The passive defeat of the German labour movement, the imprisonment in concentration camps and the years in exile had provoked a feeling of political disillusionnement, helplessness and lack of dignitiy at many activists. That is why the battle in Spain worked as catharsis for the volunteers. Now they could finally offensively fight against Fascism and at the same time combine this with a social-revolutionary perspective.
When he saw the „anarchist mass movement,“ wrote the Austrian Socialist Karl Peutl, he had regained „belief in the masses as a revolutionary element.“[72] Peutl shared this experience with many German volunteers in the anarchist militias. The German journalist Hans-Erich Kaminski wrote about the motivation of a group of foreign volunteers : „Basically, everyone wants nothing but to participate in the Revolution and set an example for the proletarians of the whole world.“[73] It was the experience of the revolution by which the volunteers of the militias differed from those of the International Brigades. The volunteers of the International Brigades were often not even aware of the Revolution. First, many of them had come to Spain only at the beginning of 1937, and second, they lived too isolated and under restricted conditions to understand Spanish society and politics.
For the German anarchosyndicalists Spain had not only been a safe country of exile but also a place for a short time where they took an active part in the realization of their revolutionary ideals. The defeat in Spain to them had even more dramatic consequences as in Germany 1933. Under tightened conditions they were confronted for a second time with the misery of exile as passive victims and without own scopes of action. After their experiences in Spain they did no longer have hope that the European Labour movement could overcome Fascism by one’s own efforts. With the defeat of the Spanish Republic and the outbreak of the Second World War also the conflicts between the CNT-FAI and the international anarchosyndicalist movement lost importance. It was no longer a “matter of ‘Social Revolution’“, as Rüdiger wrote in 1940, but of “continued existance of the Labour movement in Europe“.[74] And especially for the anarchosyndicalists it was also a matter of bare survival.
After the occupation of Western Europe 21 of the emigrants fell into the hands of the German occupying forces and were taken into custody in concentration camps and prisons. 29 emigrants survived the end of the War in exile. The survived German anarchosyndicalists came to very different political consequences of their experiences in Spain. Whereas a majority became convinced anticommunists, a minority decided to live in the GDR. Despite many reservations, wrote Michaelis in the seventies, he took the GDR “for a decisive step forward in German History.“[75]
But beyond these political options of the post-war time, by which broke long-standing friendships, ‘Spain’ remained for many the obsession of their life, as nightmarish experience as well as experience of public happiness.
[1] That was the title of an chapter about the foreign volunteers of militias from the CNT-FAI in the book from the German journalist Hanns-Erich Kaminski, Barcelona. Ein Tag und seine Folgen. Mit einem Vorwort von Walter L. Benecker und einer biographischen Skizze Hanns-Erich Kaminskis von Sabine Bétoulaud, Berlin 1986, pp. 58-65. (French : Ceux de Barcelone, Paris 1937).
[2] On the IAA see Wayne Thorpe : “The Workers Themselves”. Revolutionary Syndicalism and International Labour, 1919-1923, Dordrecht 1989 ; ders. : Syndicalist International before World War II, in : Marcel van der Linden and Wayne Thorpe : Revolutionary Syndicalism. An International Perspective, Aldershot 1990, pp. 237-260
[3] Lehning to Rudolf Rocker, Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Amsterdam (IISG), Rocker Archive, Nr. 144. To the relations between CNT and IAA see also Alexander Schapiro, Bericht über die Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) und den Aufstand in Spanien 1933, in : Claudio Pozzoli (ed.), Jahrbuch Arbeiterbewegung, Bd. 4, pp. 159-194.
[4] Rüdiger to Rocker, 11. 7. 1936, IISG, Rocker Archive, Nr. 188.
[5] For an overwiew see Antonia Bar, The CNT. The Glory and Tragedy of Spanish Anarchosyndicalism, in : Thorpe / van der Linden, Revolutionary Syndicalism, pp. 119-138.
[6] Cited in Fritz Benner : Stellung zu dem Artikel „Überflüssige und notwendige Kritik des Kam. H. R., IISG, Rocker Archive, Nr. 82.
[7] See Augustin Souchy, „Vorsicht : Anarchist !“. Ein Leben für die Freiheit. Politische Erinnerungen, Darmstadt 1977.
[8] Concerning the bulletins and the editors see Gudell to National Committee of the CNT, 7. 5., 3. 12. 1937, IISG, FAI-Archive, Popaganda-Exterior (PE) film 74.
[9] See George Esenwein / Adrian Shubert, The Spanish Civil War in Context, 1931 - 1939, Harlow, Essex 1995, pp. 243-250.
[10] See Partos to Karl Korsch, 13. 4. 1937, IISG ; Paul Partos papers. To the relationships of the International Department to foreign labour organizations see Gudell to National Committee of the CNT, 1. 6, 2. 6. 1937, IISH, FAI Archive, PE film 74.
[11] In France this strategy had a relative big success and the SIA claimed 45.000 members there. (XXX = letzte Passage verändert) See Dave Berry : Solidarité Internacional Antifasciste : Les Anarchist francais et la Guerre Civil d’Espagne, in : Jean Sagnes und Sylvie Cancanas (ed.), Les Francais et la Guerre d’Espagne. Actes du colloque de Perpignan, Université de Perpignan, 1992, pp. 78-88. In England Emma Goldmann organized the SIA. See Alice Wexler, Emma Goldmann in Exile. From the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War, pp. 224-225.
[12] For this conflict see Thorpe, Syndicalist Internationalism before World War II, pp.252-257 ; Wexler, Emma Goldmann in Exile 218 - 222 ; Pierre Besnard, Rapport Moral, presenté au Congrès de l’AIT de decembre 1937, IISH, IWMA Archive, Nr. 21, S. 64-66 ; Circulaire du groupe DAS, in : IISG, Rocker Archive, Nr. 536 ; Helmut Rüdiger, Rapport du Secrétariat de Barcelone pour le Congrés de l’AIT, à Paris, le 7 Décembre 1937, in : IISH, Archive IWMA, Nr. 22 ; Rüdiger to Rocker, 23. 11. 1937, in : IISG, Archiv Rocker, Nr. 188A. Souchy, Declaration, IISG, FAI Archive, PE film 23 ;
[13] Manifest des Auslandssekretariats der CNT-FAI, in : Informationsdienst der CNT-FAI, Nr. 67, December 1937.
[14] Helmut Rüdiger, Kurzer Bericht über den Kongreß der IAA 1938, IISG, Emma Goldmann Archive, XXXVI Annex, pp. 25124 -25135.
[15] On the resistance and exile of the German anarchosyndicalists see Rudolf Berner, Die unsichtbare Front. Bericht über die illegale Arbeit in Deutschland (1937). Herausgegeben, annotiert und ergänzt durch eine Studie zu Widerstand und Exil deutscher Anarchisten und Anarchosyndikalisten von Andreas G. Graf und Dieter Nelles, Berlin 1997, pp. 71-129.
[16] For Etta Federn-Kolhhaas and her relations to the anarchist Free Woman in Spain see Marianne Kröger (Hg.), Etta Federn, Revolutionär auf ihre Art, Gießen 1997.
[17] Rüdiger to Steimer, 3. 5. 1935, in : IISG, Senja Fléchine/ Mollie Steimer Archive.
[18] Dieter Nelles, „Außen abgekühlt, doch voller Glut im Inneren“. Karl Brauner (1914-1994), in : Schwarzer Faden, Nr. 51 (1994), pp. 64-63.
[19] Michaelis to Rocker, 30. 6. 1936, in : IISG Rocker Archive, Nr. 161.
[20] Rudolf Michaelis, Es geschah 1936 in Barcelona, Berliner Zeitung, 17.7. 1966, p.3.
[21] See Donald M. McKale : The Swastika outside Germany, Kentside University Press 1977, p. 81.
[22] German Consulate General to Foreign Office, 24.7. 1936, Politisches Archiv des Auswärtigen Amtes, Bonn (PAAA), Pol..III. (32), Bd.2.
[23] See Gustav Doster, Gruppe DAS, in : Arbetarrörelsens Arkiv och Bibliotek, Stockholm (ARAB), Rüdiger Archive, vol. 12 ; Protokoll über die Tätigkeit der DAS-Gruppe im Monat Juli-August, IISG, Rocker Archive, Nr.550g ; Historial del Grupo DAS de Barcelona, in : IISG, FAI Archiv, PE film 3.
[24] German Consule General to Foreign Office, 6. 11. 1937, in : PAAA, Pol. III (51), Bd. 21.
[25] The Black-Red book was published 1937 in Spanish. The planned English and French version was not realized. See Gudell to Mark Mratschny, 27. 8. 1937, in : IISG, Rocker Archive, Nr. 542.
[26] See Aufruf zum Volkssozialismus, Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv Zürich, Sammlung Sozialrevolutionäre Deutsche Freiheitsbewegung (335/71b/16) ; Gudell an Nk, 12. 3. 1938.
[27] DAS to Regional Committee of the CNT, 12. 1. 1937, IISG, FAI Archive, PE film 3 ; Willy Brandt, who knew Scheyer form Norway charactrized him as an „extremely unsolidary and partly insane person“. Brandt to SAC, 7. 7. 1937, ARAB, SAC Archive, F I, Vol. 1.
[28] Michaelis to DAS, 9. 4. 1937, in : Centro de Documentación Historico-social, Barcelona.
[29] On the May Events see Burnett Bolloten, The Spanish Civil War. Revolution and Counterrevolution , University of North Carolina Press 1991, pp. 429-461.
[30] On the imprisonment of DAS members are numerous sources to be found in the archives of Rocker, Rüdiger and the FAI Archives. (XXX das Wort arrestations gibt es im englischen m. W. überhaupt nicht, habe den satz verändert, vgl dein Original)
[31] See Peter Huber, Stalins Schatten in der Schweiz. Schweizer Kommunisten in Moskau : Verteidiger und Gefangene der Komintern, Zürich 1994, S. 321-340 ; Patrik von zur Mühlen : Spanien war ihre Hoffnung. Die deutsche Linke im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg 1936 bis 1939, Bonn 1983, pp. 168-177.
[32] See Rüdiger to Rocker, Barcelona 25.9. 1936, in : IISG, Archiv Rocker, Nr. 188.
[33] Dieter Nelles, Willi Winkelmann : "Der Rote Konsul von Barcelona". Ein Name und dessen Konsequenzen, in : Tatort Duisburg 1933-1945. Band II, Widerstand und Verfolgung im Nationalsozialismus. hg. von Rudolf Tappe und Manfred Tietz für die Geschichtskommission der VVN / Bund der Antifaschisten, Essen 1993 ; pp 512-520.
[34] Vgl. Dieter Nelles, ITF resistance against nazism and fascism in Germany and Spain, in : Bob Reinalda (ed.), The International Transportworkers Federation 1914-1945. The Edo Fimmen Era, Amsterdam 1997, pp. 174-198.
[35] Interview Kurt Lehmann with Jan Foitzik, 10. 2. 1979. Copy in possession of the author.
[36] See the memoires of the representative of the KPD in Barcelona Karl Mewis, Im Auftrag der Partei. Erlebnisse im Kampf gegen die faschistische Diktatur, Berlin 1971, p. 151.
[37] Die Betreuung der Emigranten, La Llibertad, Nr. 3, August 1937. (Llibertad ? xxx)
[38] See Augustin Souchy, Nacht über Spanien. Anarcho-Syndikalisten in Revolution und Bürgerkrieg 1936-1939. Ein Tatsachenbericht, Grafenau 1986, p. 181.
[39] See Patrik von zur Mühlen : Spanien war ihre Hoffnung. Die deutsche Linke im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg 1936 bis 1939, Bonn 1983, p. 103.
[40] A list that was from drawn up in 1938 contains 162 names of french volunteers. See Sección Francesa de Propaganda. Lista De Franceses Llegados A España Despues Del 19 De Julio 1936. Entragada el 18 de octubre de 1938, IISG, FAI, PE film 106.
[41] See Informationsdienst der syndikalistischen CNT und der anarchistischen FAI, Nr. 2, 28. 7. 1936, p. 13.
[42] See Stanislao Giambattista Pugliese, Carlos Rosselli : Socialist heretic and antifascist exile, Ph.D. dissertation, City University of New York, 1995, pp. 301-325 ; Margaret Jane Slaughter : Italian Antifascism : The Italian Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Mexico, 1973, pp. 52 -59.
[43] See Abel Paz, Durruti. Leben und Tode des spanischen Anarchisten, Hamburg 1994,p. 472 ; Dave Berry : French Anarchists in Spain, in : French History, Vol. 3 (1989), Nr. 4, pp. 427-465 ; Liste de Milicien, IISG, FAI Archive, -PE film 23 ; 12. Bericht aus Spanien von Ende Dezember 1936 (Ernst Galanty), : Arbeyderrölsens Arkiv Kopenhagen, Bestand Willy Korbmacher, Kasten 4.
[44] See Bericht von der Frontreise (Paul Partos) 20.-23.2,in : Archivo Histórico Nacional/Sección Guerra Civil, Salamanca (AHN), Sección P.S. Barcelona, Nr. 1040.
[45] See Berry, French Anarchists in Spain, p. 430.
[46] See Hans Bronnen [Rudolf Michaelis], Mit der ‘Centuria Erich Mühsam’ vor Huesca. Erinnerungen eines Spanienkämpfers, anläßlich des 100. Geburtstages von Erich Mühsam, Berlin 1996.
[47] Nelles, Dieter : Willi Winkelmann : "Der Rote Konsul von Barcelona“, p. 516.
[48] See Willi Borostowki : Als Internationaler an der Katalonienfront, in : Brigada Internacional ist unser Ehrenname ... Erlebnisse ehemaliger deutscher Spanienkämpfer. Ausgewählt und eingeleitet von Hans Maaßen, Berlin (DDR) 1974, Bd. 2, pp. 16-17 ; Oskar Heinz : Bei der Kolonne “Durruti”, ibid., Bd. 1, pp. 51-54 ; Paz, Durruti, p. 539-541 ; Robert Schreiber : Wir setzen über den Ebro, in : Werkkreis Literatur der Arbeitswelt (ed.) : Der rote Großvater erzählt, Frankfurt/Main 1974, pp 193-201 ; Erinnerungsbericht Alfred Berger, Stiftung Archiv der Parteien und Massenorganisationen der DDR im Bundesarchiv (SPMO), Bestand Erinnerungen (EA), Nr. 1706 ; Informationsdienst der CNT-FAI, Nr. 24, 16. 11. 1937.
[49] See Bronnen, Mit der ‘Centuria Erich Mühsam’ bei Huesca ; Heiner Spiess (ed.) : “ ... (xxx merkwürdige Zeichen, tauchen irgendwo noch mal auf) dass Friede und Glück Europas vom Sieg der spanischen Republik abhängt.“ Schweizer im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg, Zürich 1986, pp. 79-80 ; Karl Peutl an Otto Bauer, 5. 7. 1937, in : Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstands (ed.), Für Spaniens Freiheit. Österreicher an der Seite der Spanischen Republik 1936-1939, pp. 274-276 ;
[50] See Paz, Durruti, S. 522 ; José Peirats, Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution, p. 315 ; Informationsdienst der CNT-FAI, Nr. 11, 31. 8. 1936, Günter to Souchy, 14. 10. 36, in : IISG, FAI Archiv, PE film 80. On Szakon (stimmt der Name so ? xxx) see also Dieter Nelles, Die Unabhängige Antifaschistische Gruppe 9. Kompanie im Lager Gurs. Zur gruppenspezifischen Aktion nach dem Spanischen Bürgerkrieg, in : Helga Grebing / Christl Wickert (eds.), Das „andere Deutschland“ im Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus, Essen 1994, pp. 56-85.
[51] See Otto Albrecht an H., 4. 2., 14. 4 1937 und an M., 11. 3. 1937, in : IISG, Nachlaß Hertz, Leitzordner 1a ; Albrecht-Hansen an Vorstand der SPD, 6. 6. 1939, Archiv der sozialen Demokratie, Bonn, Bestand Sopade, Mappe 50 ; Ein deutscher Miliciano (Willi Lai), Kampf in Aragon, Soziale Revolution, Nr. 10, 1937.
[52] Bericht von der Frontreise (Paul Partos).
[53] See Adolf Frank, Von der „Columna Hilario Zamora“ zum Thälmann-Bataillon, in : Max Schäfer (ed.), Spanien 1936 bis 1939. Erinnerungen von Interbrigadisten aus der BRD, Frankfurt am Main 1976, p. 98.
[54] See the Gestapo file on Erich Robst, Bundesarchiv, Zwischenarchiv Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten, Z/C 12886.
[55] See Oster to SAC (1939), in : ARAB, Bestand SAC, F I, Vol.2.
[56] See Nelles, Die Unabhängige Antifaschistische Gruppe 9. Kompanie im Lager Gurs, p. 64 ; Marianne Kröger : Carl Einstein und die “Grupo Internacional” der Kolonne Durrutti. Ein Beitrag zur Auseinandersetzung Carl Einsteins mit der Realität des Spanischen Bürgerkriegs, in : Klaus Kiefer (ed.), Carl Einstein-Kolloquium 1986, hg. von Klaus Kiefer, Frankfurt am Main 1988, pp. 261-271.
[57] Anarchisten für das Volksheer, in : Informationsdienst der syndikalistischen CNT und der anarchistischen FAI ; Nr. 37, 1. 3. 1937.
[58] See Hans Schafranek/Werner Wögerbauer, „Nosotros, Agenten, Provocadores“. Anmerkungen zur Geschichte der „Amigos de Durruti“, in : Bochumer Archiv für die Geschichte des Widerstands und der Arbeit, Nr. 8 (1987), pp. 33-51.
[59] 12. Bericht aus Spanien von Ende Dezember 1936 (Ernst Galanty).
[60] Resolution der deutschen Genossen der Gruppe International, Columna Durruti, Soziale Revolution, Nr. 2, 11.1. 1937.
[61] On the conflict see Clara and Paul Thalmann, Revolution für die Freiheit. Stationen eines politischen Kampfes. Moskau/Madrid/Paris, Freiburg 1974, pp. 179-181 ; 4. und 5. Flugschrift der „Grupo International“, Wochenbericht vom 28. 2. - 7.3. 1937 der Frontgruppe DAS, in : Hans Jürgen Degen / Helmut Ahrens (ed.), “Wir sind es leid die Ketten zu tragen...“. Antifaschisten im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg, Berlin 1979.
[62] 4. Flugschrift der „Grupo International“, ibid.
[63] Michaelis to Rüdiger, 28 .3. 1937, IISG, CNT Archive, Film 166.
[64] Michealisto Rüdiger, 9.3. 1937, ibid.
[65] Krause to Hans Jahn, 14.2. 37, Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick Library, ITF-papers, 159/3/C/a/97.
[66] Michaelis to Manzana, 6. 4. 1937, Centro de Documentación Historico-social, Barcelona.
[67] Rüdiger to Besnard und Galve, 12. 5. 1937, IISG, FAI Archive, PE film 27.
[68] Spiess, : “... dass Friede und Glück Europas vom Sieg der spanischen Republik abhängt, pp. 84-98.
[69] See Politische Einschätzungen über deutsche Teilnehmer des nationalrevolutionären Krieges des spanischen Volkes, SAPMO, I 2/3/86-91.
[70] See Kommission der ausländischen Kader beim ZK der KP Spaniens. Deutsche Freiwillige im Republikanischen Spanien, in : SAPMO, I 2/3/85, pp. 8-18.
[71] Robert Schreiber, Für die Einheitsfront (1929-1931), in : Wolfgang Emmerlich, Proletarische Lebensläufe, Reinbeck pp. 293-298.
[72] Peutl to Bauer, 8. 7. 1937, in : Für Spaniens Freiheit, p. 276.
[73] Kaminski, Barcelona, p. 62.
[74] Helmut Rüdiger, Antinazismus - die Lebensfrage der Arbeiterbewegung 1940, in : IISG, Rüdiger Archive.
[75] Michaelis to Margarete Sachs, 10. 6. 1974. Copie in possession of the author.
ERRATA concernant l’article de Dieter Nelles „The Foreign Legion of the Revolution“.
« The German Consul General reckoned that the DAS had confiscated 60-70 flats and premises up to the beginning of November 1937 » : Au début du mois de novembre 1937, le consul d’Allemagne estime que le DAS a confisqué 60 à 70 appartements et locaux depuis le début de l’été 1936. »
« Since November 1937 Michaelis was Political Delegate of the International Group and at the same time negotiator of the Front Group of the DAS » : « Depuis novembre 1936, Michaelis est en même temps commissaire politique politique du GI... »
« In November 1937 the Group was disbanded and partly given a place in the International Group of the Durruti Column » : « En novembre 1936, Le groupe [Erich-Mühsam] est dissous... »
« In November 1937 the leadership of the CNT-FAI accepted the change of the militias into divisions of the People’s Army ». : « En novembre 1936, les leaders de la CNT-FAI acceptent la transformation des milices en Divisions de l’Armée du Peuple ».
Dans les quatre cas, il s’agit donc de 1936 et non pas de 1937.
« During this event, the murder of four nurses, amongst them the only 19-year-old German Auguste Marx, caused a stir ».
Selon le récit d’Antoine Gimenez il s’agirait plutôt d’Augusta Marx, infirmière dans le GI et qui va effectivement mourir le 16 octobre 36 à Perdiguera. Voici quelques notes extraites des Fils de la nuit, la concernant, rédigées à partir de documents trouvés à l’IISG d’Amsterdam :
« Le groupe DAS contrôlé par le Comité Régional garantit que la compañera Augusta Marx est une antifasciste et peut être incorporée dans la colonne internationale. Elle est une infirmière confirmée. » « Augusta Marx, aussi appellée Trude, était une militante du Parti socialiste ouvrier allemand engagée dans les colonnes anarchistes. » En annexe, on trouve « Augusta Marx » au sein d’une liste des tués à Perdiguera.
Published in German as Deutsche Anarchosyndikalisten und Freiwillige in anarchistischen Milizen im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg.
Translation taken from Souvenirs de la Guerre d'Espagne
Photograph from Widerstand und Exil deutscher Anarchisten und Anarchosyndikalisten (1933-1945)
David in Atlanta
Dieter Nelles
Photo from left to right: Karl Brauner (1914-1994), Helmut Klose (1904-1987), Georg Gernsheimer, Egon Illfeld (born 1914).
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WS415: Thinking Small to Achieve Big with Angad Guglani
by Whitney Sewell | Dec 10, 2019 | Podcast | 0 comments
Today, we welcome Angad Guglani to the show who shares with us the success of his company, Cooper Square Acquisition. Angad’s meteoric rise is unique for a few reasons. Not only is he only 24, with a rapidly expanding portfolio, but his distinct approach to scaling is different from most of the guests we have on the show. He uses a ‘think small to think big’ philosophy which means that he prefers doing multiple small deals rather than chasing one big one.
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There are several advantages to this model, all of which he shares with us. While it may depart from conventional syndication, Angad still uses many management techniques and systems that would be in place in a multifamily syndication. He further shares with us how he scaled his team, his goals for Cooper Square going into the future and the importance of surrounding yourself with people to combat entrepreneurial fatigue. Angad is a rising real estate star and we look forward to seeing what the future has in store for him. To hear from this inspiring young man, join us today!
How Angad got started in the real estate business at 19.
The number of units Angad currently owns and how he scaled his portfolio.
The skill and art of hustle – why the real estate bug bit Angad.
Discover Angad’s approach to raising capital and scaling and the advantages of it.
The types of single-family homes that Angad invests in allow him to scale like multifamily.
Where Cooper Square’s deals come from.
The power of subjugation – how Angad scaled his team alongside the growing business.
What the future has in store for Cooper Square.
Pushing past entrepreneurial fatigue is easier when there is a team around you.
Reaching out to people and trying and failing – the two contributors to Angad’s success.
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Cooper Square Acquisitions
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About Angad Guglani
Angad started investing in real estate 3 years ago and currently has a portfolio of 70 single-family houses, 2 multi-family buildings totaling 12 residential units, and a self-storage facility. The wholly owned $6MM+ portfolio generates cash flow of approximately $25k per month with no outside equity capital. He uses his own capital earned through a RE brokerage business he started as a college student in NYC, where he was generating over $150k per summer when he was just 19 years old. Today, at the age of 24, Angad is thankful to have found a niche using the BRRR strategy in a historically C-class area.
[INTRODUCTION]
[00:00:00] ANNOUNCER: Welcome to The Real Estate Syndication Show. Whether you are a seasoned investor or building a new real estate business, this is the show for you. Whitney Sewell talks to top experts in the business. Our goal is to help you master real estate syndication.
And now your host, Whitney Sewell.
[0:00:24.1] WS: This is your daily Real Estate Syndication show. I’m your host Whitney Sewell. Today, our guest is Angad Guglani. Angad started in the real estate brokerage business as a 19-year-old college student at New York University, launching off-campus apartments. Currently has a portfolio of 70 single family houses, two multifamily buildings, 12 residential units and a self-storage facility. Today, they wholly own six million dollars plus a portfolio that generates cash flow of approximately 25,000 per month with no outside equity capital.
Angad has a technique that’s different than most we talk about on the show. I’m looking forward to this conversation, looking forward to learning more about this technique. Give the listeners a little more about what you’re doing Angad and how you got started in the real estate business?
[0:01:15.3] AG: Thanks so much, Whitney. As far as how I got started, I was in college at the Stern Business School at NYU. and kind of chanced upon an opportunity to start a brokerage firm to rent apartments to students, a really a brokerage team because it wasn’t a firm. Anyhow, it was a great opportunity at the time and I hired a bunch of my friend to run around and rent apartments to our other friends and other college kids and we did pretty well. As the owner, I was making about six figures a summer at like 19 20, 21. I was saving all of that money which kind of gave me a head start coming to school.
With that money saved up, I was looking for investment opportunities because I really always wanted to be a real estate investor, real estate developer. Unfortunately, not too many opportunities to capitalize cities if I would say in the country if not the world. Real estate here trades like three and a half cap rates.
Not a lot of opportunity for someone starting out. I chanced upon Camden, New Jersey and a friend from Philadelphia and he said, “Camden’s up and coming, there’s two and a half billion dollars, three million dollars of government money going there in the next five to 10 years.” At the time, it seemed a little crazy. Camden had a pretty tough reputation. Crime rate was pretty high, thankfully, didn’t deter me from getting started.
I partnered with two of my friends and we got our first single family rental in 2016. From there, I ended up buying my friends out so it was just me. And 2017, I bought five houses, 2018 bought 35 and this year, we’re going to try to do 65 residential units and next year we’re targeting about 200 purchases.
[0:02:50.2] WS: Now, give me those numbers again, the first year you bought how many?
[0:02:53.7] AG: The one, right? You got to start somewhere.
[0:02:56.1] WS: But the next year you bought what? Three?
[0:02:59.0] AG: One single family house. And then in 2018, 35 houses. Well, I say houses but units, right? We bought our multifamily building last year so it was five units and 30 single family rentals. This year we’re on track to hit 65 units purchased.
[0:03:14.8] WS: I loved just how you’re scaling, how you’re thinking about scaling and even the goals of you know, really, you’re doubling or more. But even going back to being the 19-year-old that was hustling, making six figures in the summer, that’s impressive. Most are not going to be doing that during their summer, you know? But that has set you up. I mean, I was just thinking about like what that did for you and just having the mindset to save that capital, to really hustle but then to save that money because that’s not what 19 or 20-year old are looking to do.
I mean, what gave you the passion or even the thought process and the skill to want to pursue something like that as an 18, 19-year-old?
[0:03:55.3] AG: Sure. I’ve always had kind of an entrepreneurial bug. And again, it’s a big blessing being in New York City being at NYU, there’s a lot of opportunity here, right? That is a blessing, the curse is it’s very difficult to invest here but there is a blessing. It might be easier to make money here than it is in other cities. But I always had an entrepreneurial bug and my senior year of high school, I was buying and selling Rolex watches. Another crazy little business but I always had that hustle and kind of found my niche in real estate.
I guess, what really put me in real estate was my dad said, you’re making a lot of money buying and selling Rolexes, why don’t you buy and sell bigger things? Buildings, for example and that’s kind of what inspired me to get into real estate. No one in my family does real estate but I just always knew that it was an industry where you have a skill of kind of the hustle, the energy, it could be successful.
[0:04:39.5] WS: Congratulations to you even now, it’s going to be great to see what you achieve just in the next few years. Hats off to you for making those decisions at 19, 20, even before then. Look what it’s done for you already and just to have that mindset to hustle and too save that capital and now to invest it. Now going forward, okay, you know, you and I talked a little bit about the show and about how most of the listeners are looking to scale this business, they’re looking to raise capital and syndicate deals. But you have a little different philosophy to that, right?
Would you explain that a little bit to the listeners?
[0:05:14.8] AG: I’d like to say sometimes. Think small to think big. Meaning, I like to do a lot of small deals at scale and that ends up equaling more or greater than what you would as the investor make on a big deal. Why? Because these smaller deals – first of all, you can use your own capital because you’re playing with a lot less money, you’re doing a small – like I single family rental deal or a five-unit building, right?
You can use a lot of leverage. There’s a lot of hard million lenders out there, there are a lot of line in credit companies that will give you 85% loan to cost leverage on a purchase, right? You can take a little bit of equity and really push it and if you do enough of these and you can fully cash out refi, you can get all your equity back and just keep the burn model as we refer to.
[0:06:00.0] WS: Okay, you know, I know the listeners are thinking, “Wait a minute, in the apartment business, we always think okay, we want larger buildings because we can scale faster. It’s easier to manage all these units under one roof or at least in one property.” How do you manage all these properties and how do you – what does that look like?
[0:06:18.4] AG: We have a third-party management company. We’re their largest client, it’s pretty nice, it’s almost like having a W2 employee but you’re not, it’s an independent contractor, they’re an independent entity to you. But being that being that you’re their largest customer, you do have some leverage there and take care of your account first.
Why we focus on single family houses and how you do this at scale. Well, single family houses, much harder to manage an apartment building, totally agree. But we have concentration and keep in mind, most of these houses were built in tracks. They’re kind of similar, right? You buy enough of the same types of houses in the same area. You can almost scale up that way, right? Just treat it like multifamily.
Again, multi family, there’s a much more efficiency as in more scaled that you can get to. Single families trade at – there’s more of a spread, meaning, if you’re buying it on foreclosure, if you’re buying at a short scale or a distressed situation, you’ll get a much better deal on a single family than you would on a multi-family. My guess for that is because there’s a lot of funds, a lot of syndicators, very experienced and smart people, targeting multifamily. When single family’s more mom and pop.
[0:07:25.8] WS: A lot of that makes sense, you know, I’ve heard this argument and so, what about – how do you plan to scale or how do you plan to keep scaling? Are you buying many properties at one time or is it like you’ve just created systems to really increase the leads?
[0:07:38.9] AG: We definitely have created systems. Systems being like just a unified way to look at the data, right? Between the property addresses, you know how much work it needs, where the seller is coming from. We basically have eight or nine different sources of deals. And we look at it on a monthly basis, we try to buy five to 10 doors a month. It kind of naturally scales in a way that you have a crew that’s going to go out and look at each house and then figure out how much work it needs. You’ll have a construction crew that’s going to fade these houses out.
Again, you’re going to be buying things in bulk and working in bulk. And when you’re renting them, I mean, also, the leasing guy is going to be able to show five of your houses, 10 of your houses to potential tenants. It almost like backs into like a multifamily style of operation.
[0:08:21.7] WS: Buying eight or nine doors per month and you mentioned, eight or nine different sources for leads as well. Could you give us a few of those leads that are sources for leads that have paid of the most for you.
[0:08:32.2] AG: Sure. Pretty much the same thing as anyone else, right? There’s the county, the court house step foreclosure. There’s the online auction websites like auction.com, hubzu or whatnot. There’s realtors obviously that’s – realtors that bring you off market deals, that’s like the best. And we kind of have a reputation as one of the most active, if not the most active buyers in our zip codes.
We’ll get deals like an estate sale for example. We got the best deal we did this year at an estate sale. The realtor came to us because they know we can close. They needed something they could close. And then, you know, we buy from local asset managers, local REO brokers. So, we’ll try to work with a bank and just buy their entire inventory in the zip code. You get preferential pricing for that.
We have the direct to consumer. People call it wholesale but I call it direct to consumer where we send mailers and do cold calls and whatnot. You know, that’s fruitful. I’m probably forgetting a few but those are the main ones.
[0:09:22.7] WS: Tell me about how you have scaled your team, you know, while your business has grown really fast, tell me about what’s happened to your team?
[0:09:30.4] AG: We’re somewhat subjugated which is kind of nice. So, there’s asset management, right? Which is property management construction, leasing that day to day, right? That’s like on one end. Being in New York, the team here can’t really do any of that. It’s actually somewhat nice because you’re able to think totally differently than your on the ground team and it’s definitely difficult but it allows you to focus just on the three drivers of the business which is acquisition, right? Asset management which is making sure your property manager’s doing what they’re supposed to be doing. And refi or dispositions, right?
So, on the ground here in New York, you know I basically make most of the decisions and I have an assistant and I hire interns from Stern where I went to school. It is cheap, right? You don’t have to pay 100,000 bucks a year and that is the New York starting salary for someone who does this type of work. You can hire interns or for 15, 20 bucks now, you’ll get what six figure earner would be making or that level of work.
[0:10:27.6] WS: Tell me a little bit more about how you are finding the interns and how you choose them for your specific position that you are looking for? I’ve heard other people who want to do that but are trying to figure out how to do that.
[0:10:39.0] AG: Sure, so I guess I am a little bit lucky and in that I have graduated from school only two years ago. So somewhat no people there and I also just got invited to speak at the real estate club. So, I am pretty involved still in the community in that way, you know we just posted a job on the career net and get applications or post a job at the club start a real estate group like they are networking and get people to apply. It is not rocket science, right?
I mean as far as the work goes, there is underwriting deals, on single family that is a very simple process you just look at the rents, your net operating income and three comps and that’s pretty much know if it is a good deal or a bad deal, right? Anyone could do it. You are doing loan applications, which is also pretty standardized and then we have everything that is on Google Drive so you can figure out how our loan looked the last time it did and you just basically reformat the documents.
And you have presentations, right? So, we are trying to work with the cities that we buy properties indirectly. Interns can make presentations. They could look at the stuff that you have done in the past and kind of change it around. So yeah, they’re not actually interfacing with the deal source.
[0:11:40.3] WS: Are you using virtual assistants as well or is it mostly interns and actual local teammates?
[0:11:45.4] AG: So, I do have a virtual assistant that does scraping of data. So, she scrapes a lot of the opportunities that get sent our way and puts them on a standardized data format so we can generate and offer really quickly. So, we do use a virtual assistant, we got her from onlinejobs.ph and then I do have another BSBA you could say that does cold calling from the direct to consumer business.
And really, once you get to scale, scale to me is about a hundred doors. And hopefully we are there this year, I want to bring on a fulltime acquisition’s manager and then the next hire would be a fulltime asset manager so that would get me kind of out of the day to day
[0:12:22.8] WS: And so, you’re doing both of those positions now?
[0:12:25.6] AG: Unfortunately, yes and they are very different right? I mean if you are on acquisitions, you are more of sales and you are trying to sell yourself to the deal. If you’re asset management, you’re I guess a bad cop, you are looking at the numbers and thinking what went wrong of if everything is going right? I can see how much work.
[0:12:42.3] WS: So, where do you see this business say five years from now?
[0:12:45.4] AG: Yeah, the goal next year is to buy 200 doors between multifamily and single family and then the year after that I actually want to expand into other markets and find markets that are the same than mine makes meeting a lot of distressed property, good local income so you have tenants that could pay their rents. And find markets that have been neglected so you become the biggest buyer pretty quickly and then go around the country.
And just try to roll it up and buy three or 400 doors in each market. And eventually, hopefully there is some sort of institutionalized exit because as you know the single-family rental business, I mean a lot of REITs are doing it right now so maybe exit to one of those or roll it up into a writ myself.
[0:13:19.3] WS: So really build systems, build processes, scale it and hopefully you can exit that is awesome and so tell me, what has been the hardest part of this for you so far? I know you are selling Rolex’s when you moved into real estate and then you have scaled. You know one property and then five and then now, you’re open to do 200. So, what has been the hardest part of this real estate business for you so far?
[0:13:40.6] AG: I guess the hardest part there is a few things, right? Number one is it is all new. Every day I am learning new things, every day making mistakes so that is definitely difficult. Number two, I guess is just entrepreneurial fatigue. For the first couple of years of just me that was pretty depressing. But you know it helped, right? Because now I own all the equity, right? Otherwise I’d have less of a [inaudible 0:13:59] you could say.
And then I guess that is really it. Just lack of personal experience and not having anyone to really rely on and tell you what the right answer is and just the difficulties in starting any small business.
[0:14:12.2] WS: How do you get past the entrepreneurial fatigue like you are talking about? How do you push through that?
[0:14:16.7] AG: Having friends that are also going through the same thing that helps. It is also a very social business. So I mean it is lonely because it is only you but it also you are on the phone all day with your realtor and the property manager and the other people so it is not like you’re hold up but yeah, I think that was able to do it but now having done it I definitely feel like the only way forward is really building a big team. Because we know a great business is never as a one man shop for too long.
[0:14:40.4] WS: So how are you prepared for this potential downturn that everybody is talking about?
[0:14:44.8] AG: Yes. We have a 10-year run, I guess. How are you preparing is just stock piling a cash reserve like our goal is to get to one year of debt service and all tax just stack away as cash. That means if there is ever a downside, you know we could still pay the fixed expenses and keep going. Aside from that, I mean, we’re a bit insulated, right? Because we have the cheapest housing product in the area. People always need a place to live so if our tenants aren’t living in one of our houses, where are they going to go? I don’t know.
[0:15:11.5] WS: What’s a way that you’ve improved your business recently though that we can apply to ours?
[0:15:15.5] AG: I would say, getting a standardized data format We have a ton of different data floating on any real estate business, especially single family, you have your potential leads, your stuff that you were trying to refi, stuff that you’re maybe going to sell, stuff that you’re managing actively. Having one standard data to take format, across all of your different aspects of your business so you can easily drag and drop a property in that saved us a tremendous amount of time.
[0:15:38.3] WS: Is there a system you use for that or software or something like that?
[0:15:41.3] AG: Pretty low tech actually, just Google Drive, everything in our business is on Google Drive. Our property manager uses the AppFolio which has been incredible, always been on that, I think everyone should use some sort of property management software. As the person that does manage acquisitions. To me, it’s just Google drive, keeping all your contracts in one place all in one place.
[0:16:00.2] WS: What would you say is the number one thing that’s contributed to your success?
[0:16:03.2] AG: I don’t know. I guess just trying stuff, right? What’s the worst that can happen? Everything you always start from square one. If you can just keep trying, keep pushing and I guess one thing I started doing this year is reaching out to more people. So I got lucky enough to get connected with some people in the market we invest in Camden – know a lot more ideal and they help me out, the asset mentioned it and kind of planning for growth.
Just reaching out to people, number one and number two, just keep trying and failing.
[0:16:30.9] WS: No, that’s great advice. Everybody gets started somewhere, right? Tell us though how you like to give back?
[0:16:36.3] AG: Our goal is to donate 10% of net operating income back to the cities that we invested. Right now, we’re only in Camden. Let’s say we move to another city next year, we want to give back 10% of that operating income. Right now, we’re not doing it. Why? 30 construction projects and cash is tight. But once the portfolio gets stabilized, it’s going to be definitely a goal and not a goal, it’s a mandatory to give back 10% of NOI.
[0:17:00.3] WS: I appreciate you sharing that. I love that goal. And so, tell the listeners of how they can get in touch with you?
[0:17:05.4] AG: Sure, if you have anything to reach out about, please do. My email is ag@cooperacq.com and the website again is cooperacq.com. Feel free to drop a note there and hope to hear.
[0:17:20.0] WS: Awesome, thank you very much.
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STRATI 2013 pp 303-309 | Cite as
Geological and Cultural Routes of the Arrábida Breccia: A Contribution to the Nomination of Arrábida for UNESCO’s Mixed World Heritage List
José Carlos Kullberg
Cristina Coelho
António Prego
First Online: 24 April 2014
Part of the Springer Geology book series (SPRINGERGEOL)
The upper Oxfordian Arrábida Breccia is a unique lithological type in Portugal and probably in the world because it was formed through several particular geological influences acting simultaneously. The rock is a conglomerate composed of carbonate pebbles of different colours, cemented by a red, ferruginous, clayey carbonate. It is the expression of a fossilized a karst that marks one of the major unconformities of the Lusitanian Basin, which was associated with the early stages of the opening of the North Atlantic. One of the strengths of the candidature of Arrábida for UNESCO’s Mixed World Heritage List is the intimate connection between the natural environment, particularly the landscape (Criterion VII) and the geology and geomorphology (Criterion VIII), and the history and culture of the region and country. The natural occurrences of the Arrábida Breccia (Brecha da Arrábida), the exploration of which ended in 1975 with the creation of the Arrábida Natural Park, are rare and sporadic. The dispersed geographical distribution of outcrops will necessitate the creation of scientific and cultural routes to facilitate visits by the millions of tourists who travel to the Arrábida region each year. The creation of routes in the region is, therefore, one of the objectives of this candidature. In addition, the Brecha da Arrábida conglomerate has been used for ornamental purposes since the late fifteenth century, and was used for the first sculptural and decorative expressions of the so-called Portuguese Late Gothic and Manueline styles, and later during the Baroque because of its colourful varieties. This artistic use of the Brecha da Arrábida, as well as other uses of the material, extends far beyond the actual geographical area of Arrábida. This wider significance provides part of the justification for building a website where users can add information regarding the uses of the Arrábida Breccia in both Portugal and other countries, thereby updating the existing inventory of the material, and constituting a vital component for disseminating knowledge about geology to the public.
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The future’s looking bleak for modern classics
November 17, 2019 Mark McArthur-ChristieClassic Car, classic car market, driving in london, modern classics, tax, ulez, youngtimer 2 Comments
There’s an old saying ‘take an interest in politics before it takes an interest in you’. And, slowly but with the familiar, grinding, dead-handed certainty, politicians are taking an interest in classic cars. If you own a modern classic car built between 1979 and 2005, they’re very interested indeed in you.
That’s £12.50, mate.
In the UK and across the rest of Europe, politicians are falling over themselves to impose low emission zones, urban car bans, permits and access stickers faster than speed bumps. And they see absolutely no difference between a modern classic like a well-maintained Mercedes 500E and a smoke-belching Peugeot 405 diesel estate that saw its last service in 1992.
More taxes and bans – coming to a town near you
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has led the charge with his new Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) covering the same area as the congestion charge. Drive into it in your modern classic built between 1979 and 2005 and the Mayor will relieve you of £12.50 a day, every day. That’s because there’s a gap of 26 years – a sort of automotive no-man’s land – for modern classics too young to fit the historic tax class but too old to comply with Euro 4 legislation. Continue reading →
“Simple, neat and wrong.”
March 27, 2019 Mark McArthur-Christie85th percentile, crashes, road safety, speed camera, speed limits 20 Comments
After years of falls, road deaths have stopped falling. In fact, in previous years they’ve rising fast enough for the Department for Transport to pre-releasing figures and ministers to start getting their defence in early.
UK transport minister Robert Goodwill warned a parliamentary road safety conference last week to prepare for “bad news” ahead of Thursday’s announcement, telling attendees to expect a “rise” in road fatalities.
Now, in 2019, the Transport Select Committee is…
…concerned that progress increasing levels of road safety has levelled off and is launching an inquiry to scrutinise the Government’s approach to road safety, last set out in its 2015 road safety statement. The inquiry will investigate which changes would be most effective at reducing the number and severity of road traffic accidents.
And the EU are talking about the compulsory fitting of satellite-controlled speed limiters (Intelligent Speed Adaptation – ISA – even though it’s anything but intelligent) to cars from 2020. The UK says it will comply and do likewise.
H.L. Mencken said: “For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.” He could have been describing the UK’s road safety policy. This isn’t about Continue reading →
Driving, Musings
Charging ahead or still on the grid?
August 12, 2017 Mark McArthur-ChristieBampton, electric cars, Oxfordshire electric cars. 2 Comments
Electric cars need to be plugged in every now and then. But what do you do if you haven’t got a driveway?
As the countryside around Bampton fills with huge new housing estates and commuters, even the lanes that lead to major routes are rammed in rush hour. Traffic on the A40 is moving so slowly that the County Council are rumoured to be considering parking meters. We could do with the railway back again (we even used to have a station – fancy!), but there’s little chance of resurrection.
The A40 from Witney-Oxford. Image from The Oxford Mail
And car pollution is back on the agenda. Specifically diesel pollution from private cars. Politicians seem to think this is different diesel than the stuff used in domestic heating, lorries, trains, buses (peace be upon them) and taxis. Continue reading →
September 22, 2016 Mark McArthur-ChristieBarnato, Bentley, Brooklands, Classic car auction, Motorsport, Napier, Selwyn Francis Edge 3 Comments
There weren’t many better places to enjoy clear, blue sky and things with engines than Brooklands last Saturday. It must have been a study for the English country idyll in 1906 when Hugh Locke King (the chap who owned most of Weybridge) decided to build the world’s first motor racing track on his fields and woods.
All the best ideas need a bottle or two.
Like most good ideas, it was hatched over several bottles, a good supper and some good pals. And, despite a conspicuous lack of key performance indicators, service level agreements and “official” suppliers of branded anything, it became the crucible that produced British motorsport and British aviation.
A proper Rolls Royce. One I was sorely tempted to bring home.
The Brooklands banking in sunshine.
Take Selwyn Francis Edge, a businessman, car importer and noted motoring enthusiast. Even before the track was open, he decided that he would set a record for driving at 60mph over 24 hours. That was an impressive ambition in the days when cars broke more than they ran and injured their drivers about as often.
Mr Edge and the Napier.
Mr Edge planned to use his seven-and-a-quarter litre Napier with a heady 60bhp, on tyres barely wider than a motorcycle’s, and establish the record over the night of 28 – 29 June. He would start at 6 o’clock in the evening, so he’d still be alert when darkness fell.
The feat meant hustling a car that only its good friends would have described as ‘overpowered’ and ‘skittish’ around a banked concrete oval of 2.75 miles for 24 hours. With acetylene headlights needing – shall we say – a little help, it meant lighting the edge of the nighttime track with lanterns and flares. And it meant sitting on a seat that was really a green buttoned-leather club chair. With brakes that looked better than they stopped – and they weren’t pretty. Oh, and it rained all night. One leading doctor told Edge he’d either die of exhaustion or be driven mad through boredom.
To give a little context, just thirteen years earlier the first motor race had been run from Paris to Rouen. The winner’s average speed? 10.7mph. Although that would now get you a speeding ticket in parts of Islington, back in 1894 it was hailed as a huge achievement.
Mr Edge’s record?
Edge smashed the Paris-Rouen speed and covered 1,581 miles and 1,310 yards of Brooklands track at an average speed of 66mph, near as dammit. That’s an average 66mph. If you think that doesn’t sound very fast, check the average speed display on your modern car – bet it doesn’t say much more than 48mph.
To get a sense of what it must have been like, try steering a wheelchair down the Stelvio pass – blindfolded – while people drench you with fire hoses.
That’s the sort of place Brooklands is. It reeks of history. Still. They made Wellington bombers here (2,500 of them), Sopwiths and Hurricanes too. The Royal Flying Corps’ 1, 8, 9 and 10 Squadrons had their homes on the in-field. Hugh Dowding (he of “Dowding Spread” machine gun harmonisation fame) learned to fly at Brooklands. You can still smell the 100 octane and cordite.
Historics’ Auction
The banking in the sunshine. 148mph, anyone?
I’d gone to see some of the cars in Historics’ June auction. There were some real beauties. And a couple I rather fancied. An Amazon 121 combi (that’s the shooting brake version of mine), a little Alfa 1300 Junior, a proper Rover P4 and a T1 Bentley (really a Shadow that reeks just a little less of cheap cigars and sheepskin). Also, to demonstrate what a taste-setter I am, a Rolls Carmargue – they’re soon going to be seriously hot property, mark my words. And a couple of BMW 635CSis.
No, that’s fine. Rest your catalogue on this E Type’s roof.
They wouldn’t have let the likes of me in back then.
Some Mercedes are Grosser than others. Here’s a 600 on the finishing straight
The auction was fascinating. There were serious dealers with every other catalogue page clogged with Post-Its. There were dilettantes like me, with more hope than expectation. And there were chaps in scruffy jeans with 18ct gold Submariners who, I suspect, owned some of the more exotic kit on offer.
The auctioneers had a perfect line in cynical, slightly combative patter. To a buyer offering a £100 increase “Ah, a squeak. I see we now have a mouse-bidder” and, to another reluctantly plodding bidder, “I asked you for £50,000 twenty minutes ago and now you’ve just bid £50,000. You could have saved me the time, couldn’t you?” All splendidly good natured.
Auction prices.
The first lot of the day – bits of a Bentley 3 1/2 that the uninitiated would use to make a garden shed – was expertly auctioneered up to just over £1,100. A white Bentley Continental R with under 50k on the clock sold for under £25k. Even if it was lard-white, that’s still insanely cheap for a soft top Bentley. A Noble Ferrari 330 P4 replica with a £30k reserve hit just over the target – which may have been bargain of the day. And a Delorean DMC-12 with barely delivery mileage and the factory papers still in the window clocked up a busting £57,120.
As a Z3M headed north of £17,000 I decided I’d stick with the Amazon. But my Carmargue didn’t sell, so there’s always August’s sale…
The Brooklands the council wanted rid of.
So I left the chaps with wads of fifties that could choke a racehorse and went to look at the other Brooklands – the banking and the airfield. There’s not much of it left now after decades of development and incursion from the surrounding area. But the finishing straight is still there, with the WWII air-raid shelter off to the right. And the Members’ Bridge and banking. A very special place.
On a summer Saturday I was expecting it to be packed. Instead, I had it to myself.
I walked in the sun up past the old Bofors gun towers and a soon-to-be restored AC Aceca and, simply by strolling through a gap between a couple of barriers, I was there on the pitted, concrete track. I soaked up more sunshine as I walked what’s left of its length. Without doubt, this is the most important and significant piece of motor racing heritage in the world.
This was where motorsport records started.
Men and women with more ability than sense hurled unstable, overpowered and underbraked machinery round with little regard to their own mortality. Courage like that seeps into the stone.
An AC waiting to be restored.
A couple of other solitary pilgrims were walking by now. One father was telling his increasingly wide-eyed son about Birkin and Barnato’s Bentley Blower No1. I walked on, thinking that it must have been a wonderful, if closed, world for those fortunate enough to be part of it.
What would they have thought?
I sat down on what would have passed for a crash barrier and thought about how important this few square metres of racetrack are to British motorsport and aviation. And then about the chain-shop retail park that now sits at its south western corner, thanks to the local council’s decision to trade motor racing history for cash in the 1980s. And the risk-assessed, compliance and procurement-controlled corporate offices within its ambit.
And I wondered what Edge, Barnato, Dame Ethel Locke King, 84mph Joan Richmond and 143.44mph John Cobb in his 24 Litre Napier-Railton would make of it.
Not very much, I suspect. But then they’d probably have taken the same view of an ex-comprehensive school lad from a rather different sort of estate hanging around their track.
Progress ain’t always a bad thing.
Driving, Riding
Splat the rat
October 18, 2015 Mark McArthur-Christiechicaines, Hans Monderman, road safety, shared space, speed bumps, traffic calming 5 Comments
Safer roads in Oxfordshire.
Most councils use conflict-based ‘traffic calming’ schemes as speed reduction measures and to discourage drivers from using certain roads. They call roads like these – the roads people use to get to work, to go shopping and home to their families – ‘rat runs’.
In my own village in West Oxfordshire we have had ‘calming’ imposed on each of the four ‘rat runs’ into the village. The reason? Pressure from some residents that traffic was too fast. Accident history certainly didn’t give a reason for engineering measures – 12 injury accidents in 5 years, not one speed-related – but ‘fear of speeding traffic’ was significant enough to justify pinch-points and chicanes.
Not so calm
It seems Bampton’s calming caused more crashes in its first six months than the entire village had seen in six years. It certainly caused many column-inches and minutes of airtime discussion in the local press. Even years later there’s still plenty of evidence of conflict – broken glass, bits of bodywork and scraped posts in the traffic calming. And residents still say speeding traffic is a problem.
The road safety results? Well, we don’t know. No surveys were carried out before the calming was imposed, so it’s hard to measure.
Calming-caused crashes?
Crawley, another rural West Oxfordshire village, has no history of speed-related crashes, but ‘fear of traffic’ was a concern for some residents. The County Council installed the scheme of urbanised concrete, posts, lights, signs and humps you can see in the pictures. They also imposed more bumps, a chicane and narrowing on the tight hills leaving the village.
Approaching, it’s impossible to see if it’s safe to start driving through the chicanes. That’s because they’re designed to force drivers onto the blind side of the road into the face of unseen oncoming traffic. And, just to make sure they don’t make it through the new hazards quickly, the bumps slow them down and keep them exposed to danger for the maximum length of time.
The new Crawley scheme was quick in claiming its first victim – just a few days after it was imposed. You can see the results in the pictures.
Conflict-based calming in action.
These schemes rely on bringing road users into conflict. They could almost have been designed deliberately to cause maximum aggression; clearly telling one set of drivers that they have right of way, then forcing other drivers into their path. It doesn’t slow traffic down, it just promotes tension, aggression and conflict – completely unnecessarily and with absolutely no benefit.
That’s because conflict narrows and concentrates drivers’ perception and observation to dealing with the conflict – not driving safely. For one group it becomes all about getting their vehicles over the hump, through the chicane and past the road furniture without having an accident. For the other group, it means forcibly insisting on their right of way by speeding up, driving aggressively straight at opposing vehicles, hooting and gesturing. Perfect for ensuring that both sets of road users are agitated, aggressive and distracted as they drive through villages.
Politics over safety
One wonders whether the politicisation of road safety might be largely to blame. After all, a councillor faced with a committee of residents railing about ‘fear of speeding traffic’ wants to do the right thing and help. This means he must do something and, more importantly, be seen to be doing something. Ideally, “something” for many residents means a scheme that is perceived to punish those horrid drivers who speed through our village – whilst leaving us free to speed through theirs.
In fact, shared space schemes would be far more effective in reducing speeds and enhancing the environment. That’s because they don’t promote aggression and conflict – they promote ambiguity in which road users have to negotiate their way safely as equals. Shared space does away with the forests of shouty signs, urban concrete and jarring humps – the visual cues road users rely on to know what they should do – and makes the environment more natural and ambiguous. Ambiguity has the opposite effect to conflict; drivers slow down and observe more widely as they search for visual cues. Each group is equally discomfited by it, so no-one can aggressively insist on their ‘rights’.
As Hans Monderman, architect of the shared space concept in Holland, argued:
“Who has the right of way? I don’t care. People here have to find their own way, negotiate for themselves, use their own brains.”
Perhaps it’s time to stop promoting conflict and one-size-fits-all urban ugliness. Instead, we could look at schemes that not only enhance villages but make them safer and more pleasant too.
Time to be practical, not ideological, about transport
October 7, 2015 Mark McArthur-Christiebus gate fines, bus lane, oxfordshire transport, transport debate, transport ideology 8 Comments
There’s been a lot of fuss in Oxford lately about Oxfordshire County Council taking £4m in bus gate fines. Even the RAC has waded in to suggest that the system of fining drivers is ‘broken’. The fines are an issue, but the bigger issue is the ideology that drives so much transport policy. “After all,” the argument goes, “bus gates are there to help keep the traffic moving…” But if that’s the case, why are congestion-busting motorcycles not allowed through? The answer is ideology. Buses and taxis are collective. Cars and motorcycles are personal transport. Public ownership (or regulation) good, private ownership bad?
But we need to ditch the ideology and get practical. ‘The Transport Debate’ is still a little like the trench battles of World War One. Both sides have dug in behind the wire and are busy shelling each other – even after years of it doing no good. Progress is being measured in inches, and no-one’s really winning the battle. It’s time to come out to kick a few arguments around in no-man’s land.
Time to update transport policy
Is it all about cars?
It’s axiomatic that the car brings a huge degree of personal freedom – but it brings it at a cost. The cost is decreasing massively as cars and the fuels on which they run become cleaner, but it still needs to be addressed. The question is ‘how’? Is the best way forward to restrict, tax and impose or is it to improve, educate and empower? What’s the best way to give people viable, real-world transport choices?
So far, most of the solutions to pollution and congestion have focussed on making cars harder to use – either financially or physically. Most current transport policy appears to be negative and sometimes seems motivated more from an a priori ideological dislike of cars than a desire to change things for the better.
There is much talk of ‘restriction’, ‘management’ and ‘compulsion’. Looking at some of the concrete wastelands that have grown up to cater for the car, it’s easy to see why. But we need to examine the problem from a different angle.
Rather than emphasising what a bad thing cars are and punishing drivers, let’s push the positives of other modes and try to develop some affordable, efficient car alternatives. At the same time, let’s remove the restrictions and controls that have led to more congestion, more pollution and more pain for drivers as local authorities compete to make life harder for them.
The best tool for the job
There are some journeys where the car is the best tool for the job – generally multi-destination trips, or where public transport lacks flexibility, distances are impractical to cover on a cycle or there’s too much to carry. There are plenty of others where other modes are better and there are some journeys that don’t need to be made at all.
We’ve forgotten the human beings somewhere in all this legalese.
Do we need to commute?
One in every six journeys in the UK are to work, yet many employees do not have to be in the workplace every day, and could easily work from home. Assume they spend thirty minutes each way commuting and you’ve saved half a working day’s travel by sitting in the spare room with a laptop as well as slashing peaktime congestion.
When people don’t have to struggle through the daily commute they’re more efficient too. The Telework Association believes that productivity rises by 10-16% if people work at home. Unfortunately, many employers seem reluctant to give their staff the trust and flexibility teleworking needs and the Government offers them few tax incentives for doing so.
What is an ‘unnecessary’ journey?
Cars are an efficient method of getting around with large amounts of luggage to more than one place. For getting to the office two miles away, picking up a bottle of wine at the off-licence or a host of other in-town journeys they are usually more trouble than they’re worth. This is why – quite reasonably – there is a lot of talk about ‘reducing unnecessary car journeys’.
The problem is – who decides what’s unnecessary? There is no way I would take the car a the three mile round trip to the library, but I’d probably use it to collect a washing machine, yet the two journeys are treated as identical by local authorities and penalised equally. The alternatives – a small council-run fleet of Long John cargo bikes, more short term parking spaces or just plainly less onerous parking restrictions – never seem to occur to anyone. No-one seems to think of promoting motorcycles as a core commuter mode.
Instead, local authorities make it as difficult as possible for me to use my car, but only promote the alternatives half-heartedly.
Promoting the alternatives
We’re told to get out of the driver’s seat, but sadly, the alternatives are seldom promoted positively. There’s a distinct hairshirted whiff of ‘worthiness’ as we’re encouraged to cycle not because it’s fast, fun and efficient, but because we’re ‘doing our bit’
How much congestion is council-caused?
Then there’s public transport – slammed by the Audit Commission when John ‘Two Jags’ was in charge – as ‘expensive, unreliable…and that doesn’t go where people want.’ At the same time, it’s more expensive than in almost any other country in Europe. The Government spends less than £12bn a year on transport – yet somehow seems surprised when trains crash, roads crumble or there is tube chaos and people use their cars.
Rather than making the car as unpleasant and expensive to use as public transport we need to give people viable transport choices and allow them to choose the mode that suits their journey best. This means empowerment, education and investment not more restrictions, taxes and compulsion.
July 4, 2015 Mark McArthur-Christiepinch point, thumps, traffic calming, village gateway 4 Comments
Councils and the public sector are very careful about how they use language. This is no bad thing. It demonstrates an understanding that language is massively, foundationally important. The National Council of Teachers of English rightly says “language plays a central role in the way human beings behave and think.”
But language can be used to obscure as well as illuminate. For example, earlier this year on Radio 4’s Today programme, a Head of Social Services was discussing the problem of dementia patients in care homes forming ‘inappropriate’ relationships with other residents. In other words, of lonely, scared elderly people daring to fall in love. She talked with earnest concern of how one elderly lady was ‘supported to leave the room’ when their new partner walked in during a family visit. Translated, this meant she was bodily manhandled and frogmarched out against her will. Dolores Umbridge would be proud.
All this care with words makes the language local authorities use about the private car all the more remarkable. Or perhaps it simply shows what they really think of drivers and motorcyclists.
Let’s start with ‘traffic calming’.
The term implies that traffic is so aggressive and beastlike that it requires constant ‘calming’. Councils spend millions on humps, bumps, chicanes, gateways and pinchpoints. Any motorcyclist who’s tried to negotiate the mess of overbanding mastic, poorly-maintained bumps and displaced gravel on a dark and wet February evening will not be calm. Drivers and riders are pushed, hooted and faced-off with oncoming traffic, made aggressive by artificial constraints. But in Councilland, this deliberately provoked and facilitated, full-on road user conflict is called ‘calming’.
Strangely, most traffic is a lot calmer without it.
No conflict here. Move along now.
Thumps
In some parts of the country, drivers and riders are faced with slippery, hard-edged, jarring thermoplastic humps. If you have a back condition, these can be agony to traverse at any speed. If you’re a motorcyclist riding in the rain at night, they’re as slippery as a slug and lethal.
To your local council, they’re ‘thumps‘. Yes, that council that does soooo much to avoid even the faintest trace of conflict and demonises ‘hostile’ language calls these ‘thumps’. But, maybe, they just think those evil, private car and motorcycle users deserve being hit up a bit.
Pinch points are designed to let just one vehicle through at a time. It’s clearly fine to ‘pinch’ drivers, rather as a spiteful schoolchild might pinch another when teacher isn’t looking. By forcing only one car through a gap at a time, councils promote conflict, anger and immense frustration at peak times. Giving those nasty drivers a quick nip when no-one’s looking is absolutely fine.
Village gateways
In ‘traffic management’ (there we go again – the implication that drivers can’t be left to use their own intelligence) terms, a ‘gateway’ is designed to protect a village and keep those nasty drivers out. The very antithesis of of the faux-equality and ‘inclusion’ espoused by council thinking. Gateways narrow the road so that vehicles are forced to cross into the opposite carriageway into direct conflict. Drivers and riders are forced into the path of oncoming traffic with the intention of reducing speeds.
Gateways also illustrate – beautifully – a complete lack of understanding of human nature. Of course everyone should play nicely, giving way, not rushing, not pushing and not being aggressive. But gateways encourage and promote the opposite behaviour as drivers insist on their rights of way by driving uncompromisingly straight and hard at oncoming traffic. Others try to sneak in the wake of a lead car in an attempt to get through.
The sign says ‘Danger! Road safety measure ahead’.
Pedestrian refuges
See those poor, terrified pedestrians. See them cower in the face of the evil drivers. See them huddle, clutching each other on the isles of the pedestrian refuge. The language is absolutely clear – the car is evil and a threat from which defenceless pedestrians need protection.
Clearly, cars are not driven by normal people with children, families and hearts. They are driven by the sort of people from who society needs to seek refuge.
Severed roads
“Severed” is a pretty strong word. An unusual one too. The dictionary has it as “divide by cutting or slicing, especially suddenly and forcibly.” Powerful language from organisations that would describe the frogmarching of a pensioner from a room as ‘enabling her to leave’. Someone must have gone out of their way to choose such a deliberately aggressive term.
They’re described thus; “Severed roads… provide the ultimate deterrent to rat running.” And imagine a councillor or council employee describing any other group in society as ‘rats’. They’d be taken away for reprogramming faster than a final council tax demand.
Those damn ‘rat-runners’ trying to get to work to support their families.
Dragon’s Teeth
Another wonderfully hostile term describes white, spiked markings at the entrance to towns and villages. Dragon’s Teeth. Cornwall County Council’s website describes them thus: “Dragon’s teeth provide a visual change and narrowing of the road. They are suitable for village entry points. Cost £4,250 – 5,500.”
Designed to give those nasty, selfish drivers a visual nip, the language used is, again, clearly and openly hostile.
What does it all mean?
In the real world, this forensic persnicketiness about words doesn’t matter. Despite what the language police think, normal, everyday people use unintentionally loaded, prejudicial and caricaturing terms all the time and don’t mean a thing by it. But councils understand the power of words. They treat language very carefully and thoughtfully indeed with the white-gloved care one usually gives nitroglycerin.
To hear council employees talking about using ‘thumps’ and ‘pinchpoints’ against any other group in society would be unthinkable. Yet it’s not only acceptable but encouraged when directed against private motorised road users. When councils talk about ‘severed roads’, and ‘refuges’ they’re making their position and view clear.
Their language caricatures drivers and riders as an aggressive, unpleasant, animalistic subgroup. Certainly, in a minority of cases that’s a fair description. But the mass of normal drivers and riders are far more considerate; just decent and perfectly normal people going about their everyday business. But private cars and motorcycles has been so successfully demonised that it’s absolutely acceptable to ‘manage’, ‘restrict’ and ‘control’ their use.
There is no other group about which officials would use language like this. So perhaps its time to stop using it about drivers and motorcyclists. Either that, County Hall, or fess up and admit you simply don’t like us.
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This is disgraceful, it’s like they don’t care - Meteors players cry over poor treatment
Players of the Black Meteors have complained over the poor treatment they received after their game against Algeria in Accra.
The team had to return to their hotel in an old Black Stars bus, with officials needing to pick Taxis back to their camping base.
Ahead of the game, news broke that the foreign based players were made to pay their own air tickets for the game in Ghana.
“They’re treating the Algerians better than us, as if when we go there these guys will treat us any better,” one player told Citi Sports.
“This is disgraceful, it’s like they don’t care about this game. The pitch wasn’t even watered. Just putting water on the pitch too, they didn’t do it,” another cried out.
The Black Meteors played out a 1-1 draw against the Young Fenecs in Accra with the return return of their CAF U-23 cup of nations qualifiers scheduled for Tuesday in Algeirs.
The winner of the two legged game qualifies for the competition in Egypt next year, where the final three teams earn their places at Olympics in Tokyo 2020.
Source: GHANAsoccernet.com
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TT U15s lose 5-4 to Panama at Youth Invitational
TT's Molik Khan,left, avoids a challenge from Panama's Reymundo Arauz, during the TTFA Youth Invitational Tournament Boys U15 match, at the Ato Boldon Stadium, Couva, on Wednesday. Panama won 5-4.
YANNICK QUINTAL
The TT Football Association Youth Invitational tournament kicked-off yesterday, at the Home of Football, Ato Boldon Stadium in Balmain, Couva.
In this tournament, the Under-15 Boys’ teams of Panama, Mexico, Venezuela and hosts TT, along with the Under-16 Girls’ teams of Curaçao and TT, look to showcase the future of football in the Americas.
TT's U15 boys faced their first test of the tourney against Panama.
The goal scoring started in the 16th minute when Panama defender Felix Ariza scored off a TT corner. Unfortunately, that goal was in the back of his own net, giving TT the lead early.
That didn’t discourage Panama,however, as they kept pushing forward and applying pressure to TT’s back 4. Eventually, Reymundo Arauz managed to negotiate his way through two defenders to beat TT goalkeeper Kanye Lazarus for Panama to draw level.
In the 39th minute, Panama gained momentum and capitalised with a penalty by Abraham Mejia after he was brought down in the box by TT's #8, Molik Khan. The hosts were not down for long and two minutes later, Khan repaid his debt by connecting off an Abdul-Quddoos Hypolite (#7) corner to send TT into the half on equal terms.
The second half began with both teams on the attack and looking to take control of the game. In the 68th minute, TT captain Jaheim Marshall (#6) collected the ball from on top of the box and delivered a sensational goal to put TT in front once more.
But the lead would be short-lived and in the 69th, Panama got the equaliser thanks to Rafael Diaz. There was an uproar from the crowd as they believed the linesman on the near side missed an offside call – the goal stood.
Four minutes later, Arauz scored on a counter-attack to put Panama in the lead on 4-3. Again, another counter-break allowed Emanuel Iglesias to give the Panamanians a 5-3 lead in the 74th.
TT didn’t let up though and after a couple of close chances, they finally pulled within one thanks to a solo effort by #10 Nathaniel James. Towards the end of a four-minute stoppage time, James almost brought TT back level, but Panama came up with a clutch defensive effort to send the ball out for a corner. TT couldn’t convert the corner and the referee called the match over, with the hosts coming up short in a thriller, 5-4.
Earlier in the day, Mexico’s U-15 team took on Venezuela. After a scoreless first half, the game would have to wait till the 72nd minute for Jésus Moreno to score on the counter-attack for Mexico giving them a 1-0 lead.
Venezuela failed to capitalise on their chances and Mexico put any doubt away thanks to Gael Bernal scoring in the 83rd minute. Mexico would go on to win by a score of 2-0.
Tomorrow, the Youth Invitational Tournament moves north-west to the Haseley Crawford Stadium where TT’s Under-16 Girls’ team would open the day’s festivities against Panama at 4pm. Game 2 will see the winners from yesterday, Panama and Mexico square off at 6.15 pm. To cap off Day 2, TT’s Under-15s will take on Venezuela at 8.15 pm, with both teams looking for their first win of the tournament.
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Foxconn has begun replacing its 1.2 million human workers with industrial robots
Foxconn has begun rolling out its robotic workforce, although reaching its stated goal of one million robot workers by 2014 may have been overly optimistic. Since 2011, the company has only built and deployed approximately 10,000 robots in one of its factories, and will only deliver 1/10th of the 300,000 robots it had planned by the end of 2012. The company employs 1.2 million workers, 400,000 of which manufacture Apple products.
The appropriately named Foxbots come in a variety of forms including industrial arms, lifts, and pick and place robots that cost between US$20,000 to $25,000 dollars. This is relatively expensive when compared with the average worker salary of $6,400 a year, a figure that doubled from 2010 to 2011. Chinese news reports suggest the robots are only intended for simple and repetitious tasks, but are capable of precise movements. A new factory in Jincheng, Shanxi Province, China will be dedicated to manufacturing them.
Foxconn has repeatedly come under fire for its unfair labor practices, which have resulted in worker unrest and multiple suicides. Recent reports paint a dim picture of the company, from an underage workers scandal to key executives leaving the company. These and other factors have contributed to Foxconn's decision to use more robot labor.
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They may be struggling with ROI. The case for a manufacturing robotics in a $6K/year labor environment is tough at the robot price points mentioned ($20-25K). Several new companies are making low-cost manufacturing robots. Some, such as Robai, make manufacturing robots as cheap as $5K. The case is much clearer at $5K.
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In most countries there are local regulations which governs and protects the labour. It is not easy to terminate a worker without proper reason & strong record/documentations. It is the last thing they want to have is to see their plant managers get sued in court, or at worst being jailed for terminating a worker. Besides, look at the corporate social responsibility side, paying a labour feeds on average 2 adults & 2 children. Buying a robot will make thousands go hungry.
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A review of Roberto Arévalo's documentary 'Understanding Violence' featured this month at the Roxbury Film Festival.
Roberto Arévalo’s 30-minute documentary "Understanding Violence" is about the problem of violence in Boston — why it happens and how it is dealt with. But, perhaps more importantly, it’s about the prevention of violence. Without preventing violence, the film’s youth and law enforcement officials agree, the cycle of crime and punishment continues, leaving crippled, incarcerated and dead kids in its wake.
Arévalo’s film and his organization The Mirror Project promote social and self-awareness through filmmaking. In particular, this project creates a dialogue between those impacted by violence in Boston, whether as perpetrators, victims, their families, police, lawyers or correctional officers. The film is introduced by one of its producers, local prosecutor and Chief of the Anti-Gang Unit, Raffi Yessayan. Having realized that he could spend a lifetime prosecuting people, watching them go to jail, seeing their families suffer as much as the victim’s and not really get anywhere, Yessayan became interested in violence prevention. This realization, and that of the film’s other representatives of law enforcement, seems a step in the right direction towards this goal.
Another voice in the film, Chief Justice Charles Johnson, of the Boston Municipal Court, recognizes that life in a rough neighborhood is hard. The problem of violence, he believes, is complicated, but often the choice for young people is unfortunately simple: a life of crime and incarceration, or something else. He sees society as having a responsibility– that it can not "expect good results" from this portion of the population who has been so disenfranchised by it — but that everything can not be blamed on it. Until it is more just, Johnson still advocates for personal accountability.
What is the alternative? Why do any of these kids chose a life in which violence has such a major and devastating role?
Roberto Riviera used to be in a gang. He said that he was surrounded by people who had a lot of money, cool stuff they’d gotten for very little. Without working eight hours a day, just hanging out in the neighborhood, Rivera discovered that one could get quite a bit. However he was locked up — hooked up to a breathing machine for one year in a hospital — before he got started. Just 16, Rivera was shot in the neck a few years ago; he is now wheel-chair bound and dependant on his mother who helps him get around. Thirty-four year old Ricardo Laidlaw’s beginnings were similar to Riviera’s, but his freedoms were restricted via incarceration. Being jailed a couple of times in his youth was not enough to scare him straight, he said. Instead, he used that down time to plan his future crimes, and he is now a federal inmate serving a 10-year sentence.
Arévalo’s film however does tell the stories of others who grew up in this environment, people who made the alternative choice. These voices remind of the struggle that involved — that doing the right thing wasn’t much easier — and that growing up in a rough neighborhood can also inspire a person to dedicate his or her life to public service. Police officers like Detective Ernesto "Tito" Whittington, and Vincent DiFazzio didn’t think in a million years this is how they would spend their lives. As a police officer today, Whittington brings to it his perspective — that without feelings of community responsibility — law enforcement is just opposite violence itself in a perpetually revolving door. Migdalia Iris Bruno grew up similarly — disadvantaged, poor without thinking to much or too highly of education. Today she is a student at Boston’s prestigious BC Law School, and like Whittington, she is proud of the unique perspective she brings to a community in which her experience is so different from most.
Another success story is Arévalo’s own: he grew up in Colombia, got himself to New York where he worked himself through the media program at Hunter College, learning his way around a video camera along the way. The Mirror Project, which he founded, is about changing behavior on a personal and public level through expression. His film’s subjects each make this conclusion — that without community, or policy, or education — it is harder to be aware and easier, as Laidlaw put it, to "get off at the wrong exit" in life.
"Understanding Violence" will be screened as part of Film Program 12: Local Documentaries in the Tower Auditorium at Mass Art on Huntington Ave., Sunday August 22, at 11 A.M.
For more information on Arévalo: http://myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=r_arevalo. For more information on Arévalo or the Mirror Project: http://www.mirrorproject.org/index.htm and more details on ‘Understanding Violence are at http://www.mirrorproject.org/work_social_uv.htm. For more information on the Roxbury Film Festival: http://www.roxburyfilmfestival.org/rff2004schedule.htm
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Green Lantern Corps Leads Revealed? It’s the Best of Both Worlds
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By Ken Fergione
8:59 am December 11, 2015
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Debate has suffused the DC fandom as to whether Hal or John should be the DCEU’s go to Green Lantern, but the answer is much more simple than that: they both will be!
The DC Extended Universe is just now gearing up to really make a mark next year with Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad, but already fans are looking forward five years to the release of Green Lantern Corps. Particularly after the train wreck that was 2009’s Green Lantern. With the announcement that Green Lantern Corps would star two prominent (and fan favorite) Green Lanterns, it seems like Warner Bros is doubling down to make sure fans who felt burned by that movie will still show up come 2020.
Who are Hal and John?
In the comics, Hal Jordan was the first Earthling to join the Lantern Corps. As a character, Hal Jordan is depicted as self-involved and an independent sort of hero. As a part of the Corps, he is often shown going against orders and breaking protocols in order to save the universe.
Hal, being the first (corps related) Green Lantern, has been the go-to favorite for many generations or comic fans. Plus, the recent Green Lantern: The Animated Series has brought Hal back to a younger audience as well. It’s hard to fault Warner Brothers and DC Entertainment for wanting to keep such a popular version of the hero in the DCEU.
Pretty much the opposite of everything that is Hal, John Stewart is a former Marine. Unlike the self-involved Hal Jordan, Stewart is regularly a team player (literally) in the Lantern Corps. John has had several team ups in the comics (some with Jordan) and currently headlines a comic title as a team leader. Compared to his future film partner, John Stewart takes his role as a Corps member very seriously.
While Hal Jordan has been ever present in the DC canon, John Stewart has a substantial fan base, particularly since the early 2000s. As the Green Lantern in the animated Justice League series, John Stewart has remained the millennial generation’s go to favorite. Having Hal and John team up together in Green Lantern Corps will work to appease almost every Green Lantern fan out there (sorry Kyle Rainer fans).
It’s also worth mentioning that John Stewart was DC Comics’ first black superhero. Much of the fan petition to have John Stewart as the DCEU Green Lantern has been in the hope that DC will include heroes of color. With the positive response to Jason Mamoa taking the Aquaman role and a standalone Cyborg film, it would have been a huge mistake not to include John in the Green Lantern film.
This is a universal story
The Green Lantern Corps is the defender of the entire universe, and each lantern is assigned a sector to protect. This means that the heroes of the Corps have a broader reach than even the Justice League. While the League might be stopping an intergalactic despot from taking over Earth, the Lantern Corps might be keeping another being from destroying the fabric of the universe itself. Green Lantern Corps could have a scope that no other DCEU film can, so it only makes sense that there would be room for two lead heroes.
It’s also possible that Hal and John will come across the rest of the lantern color spectrum in the DCEU. While the central Green Lantern represents the power of will, other “corps” have harnessed different colors to wield the power of Hope (Blue), Fear (Yellow), Rage (Red), Love (Violet), Greed (Orange), and Compassion (Indigo). While the entire spectrum of lantern light might be too great an endeavor for one film, we already know Carol “Carrie” Ferris (featured in Man of Steel) will appear in several more films in the DCEU. For those that don’t know, Carol Ferris is Earth’s foremost Violet Lantern. The Violet Lanterns have a complicated relationship with the Green and could be either friend or foe for the heroes of the Green Lantern Corps film.
While it’s likely a pipe dream to even mention it, one of the largest events in Green Lantern comics was Blackest Night, when a Black Lantern (the absence of light) spread death upon the entire DC superhero lineup. I admit this sounds a little overblown for just the Green Lantern Corps film, but it’s worth mentioning that the current DC auteur Zack Snyder would be a perfect director to bring zombie versions of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman (etc.) to life on the big screen.
Teamwork is the key
No matter what the film turns out to be one thing is certain: it must focus on the teamwork between the two lead heroes. Hal Jordan is a cowboy stereotype: goes it alone, quick on the ring-based trigger, and averse to following orders from superiors. John Stewart is a military stereotype: a true team player, always following orders, and ever concerned with the well being of his brothers and sisters in arms. The film can then focus on the differences the two heroes have and how they must over come them (and learn from each other) in order to save existence.
What I’m hinting at here is one thing: Lethal Weapon in space. Between the two heroes’ signature dispositions there is the opportunity to craft the perfect buddy cop movie within the DCEU. Hal Jordan is cast as the loose canon, hot shot and John Stewart is the ever-serious soldier. Not only will their dynamic allow for an action packed space adventure, we can also expect a great deal of humor infused in the film. Seems like DC has a pretty good answer to Guardians of the Galaxy. Now if it’d just hurry up and get here.
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by Peter December 10, 2019 January 1, 2020 019
After independently amassing 10 million plus streams and attracting a burgeoning fan base, 19-year-old singer, songwriter, and New Jersey phenomenon D. Muñoz shares his major label debut track and music video “Typa Luv” today.
Get it HERE via Triangle Offense/Epic Records.
Backed by a sinewy guitar lead and a sultry beat, the track properly introduces his anthemic amalgam of R&B, soul, and pop. Dipping between genres, bouncy verses give way to a hypnotic hook, “This that typa luv, typa luv, I can never get enough of you,” before a powerhouse vocal run. Meanwhile, the music video sees D. Muñoz and his lady entangled in a series of intimate vignettes from cruising in a vintage car to sharing a vista of Los Angeles from a chic home in the Hollywood Hills.
Watch it HERE.
The song paves the way for the release of his 2020 debut EP, Moments, with production by Jorgen Odegard [P!nk, Imagine Dragons].
Fall in this “typa luv” with him now…
D. Munoz quietly emerged from Bayonne, NJ to national prominence in 2017. Raised by a single mom, the Colombian and Dominican singer posted an original rap on Instagram that set off initial buzz in 2016. He stormed on to the iTunes R&B/Soul Chart with his independent EP, Until Next Time, taking the #7 spot. “Love Me” put up over 1 million Spotify streams and 4.6 million YouTube views as “Ten Toes Down” exploded to the tune of 7.1 million Spotify streams. A deal from Triangle Offense and Epic Records followed as he prepares to share Moments in the new year.
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Borghese Gallery’s Masterpieces Threatened by Shoddy Maintenance
Artnet News, May 12, 2014
Borghese Gallery Photo: Alessio Damato via Wikimedia Commons
Borghese Gallery
Photo: Alessio Damato via Wikimedia Commons
The well-being of masterworks housed in Rome’s Borghese Gallery is in peril after the museum was forced to open its windows in hopes of lowering the humidity in its galleries, the Guardian reports. The job would typically be that of an air conditioning system. However, the near-broke museum, which is home to one of the world’s most prized collection of Renaissance art, can’t afford to get their system fixed.
Due to an unseasonably warm spring, those masterworks are now being bombarded with air pollution and fluctuating humidity levels. Both could have seriously deleterious effects on the works’ condition. A portion of the museum, which holds pieces by Caravaggio, Titian, Raphael and Rubens among others, has been without air conditioning for two months. Speaking to the La Repubblica newspaper, Borghese Gallery director Anna Coliva said that they system simply wore out after years of lacking maintenance.
Coliva said that her requests for increased attention to the museums’s air conditioning system have been largely disregarded over the past three years. However, speaking to the Guardian, Rome’s head of museums, Daniela Porro said that maintenance work would begin on Monday to address the problem. She said that an expert who assessed the situation suggested it was not as grave as previous reports had implied.
Italy has been under fire in recent months due to negligence in the protection of its historical sites. Principle among those is Pompeii. Soon after taking office, Italy’s new prime minister Matteo Renzi called on the private sector to assist in funding the archaeological site. Italy released €2 million in emergency funding for the site, following the collapse of a tomb wall and an archway in the Temple of Venus caused by heavy rain. Subsequently a fresco of the goddess Artemis was chiseled off one of the site’s walls by what officials believe were petty criminals.
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Volume 31 Chapter 9
Volume 31 Chapter 10
The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor Volume 31 Chapter 10
Chapter 10) Talk of Heroes
“Radiant Sword!”
Weed faced the waves and used the skill. The eagles shot out and separated the waves before disappearing.
-The proficiency of Radiant Sword has increased.
The daily training in a windy sea has increased the regeneration of all items that add mana and any priests that accompanied you. The place had rough rainfall and sharp winds blowing throughout the day. To the north of Varna Harbour was a beach where hardly any navigators sailed.
“This place is suitable to raise my skill proficiency.”
Weed’s greatest asset was his concentration. He didn’t go fishing but wielded his sword while standing on the rocks. The waves were so dangerous that it would cover the rocks if he glanced away.
He had to cut it precisely every time the waves swept towards him and he had to push back his instinctive fear when there was a huge storm.
It was a dark place without a separate day or night but marine creatures would appear in the evening.
“They are snacks.”
Weed used Radiant Sword against the sea and hunted monsters. It wasn’t as high as a dungeon but his experience steadily climbed. The sea creatures tried to attack in groups but Seo-yoon, Bahamorg and Eltin.
“It is a bit risky but this is a quest I have to overcome.”
Weed didn’t take a short break even when his mana or vitality ran out.
“Even if the monsters are too strong or I can’t find the required quest items, I can’t fail this quest!”
Grinding was about pride! Dozens of days passed and his skill proficiency increased so much that 5 eagles were flying out from Weed’s sword towards the crashing storm waves.
The mana consumption rose but the destructive power and range also increased. Radiant Sword was now Intermediate level 1.
“The power of the sword technique has risen so I can go to a more dangerous place.”
Weed took a raft out to sea.
Sailing on a sailboat in a severe storm was impossible, let alone riding the turbulent sea on a raft of woven logs. However, he had a certain amount of sailing skill so he was determined.
The storm became increasingly severe and the wind was raging. Weed balanced on the raft and swung his sword. When he was about to fall into the sea, Weed would use his past sculpture Light Wings to leave his seat quickly.
He desperately fought against the turbulent waves and rain that made his previous dungeon hunts seemed easy.
Seo-yoon came over to his house while Lee Hyun was in the capsule. She had been visiting day and night since moving in next door.
Bark bark bark!
Dogmeat acted even friendlier then he did towards Lee Hyun as he barked and wagged his tail.
“Have you been waiting? Eat a lot.”
Seo-yoon generously poured food into Dogmeat’s bowl and generously gave him snacks. Dogmeat ate all the snacks and bone broth while Seo-yoon brushed off the fur on her.
Cackle!
The chickens welcomed Seo-yoon when they saw her. Even the yellow chicks waddled around her. The rabbits lay in a pile of grass and stared at her with large, shining eyes. The ducks came along like they belonged with her.
“Ducks should be raised in a puddle….”
The ducks and chickens locked up looked pitiful. Seo-yoon made a large pond when building her house for the ducks.
“I’ll take the ducks.”
“Don’t they smell and make a lot of noise?”
“I’m going to train them at my house. I’ll also give them rice.”
The ducks were plopped down in a pond that was large enough for a person to swim in. Seo-yoon already controlled the hearts of all the animals in this house.
Weed risked his life!
The outcome was that his Radiant Sword skill proficiency kept on rising. Weed’s mood was high when a lightning bolt suddenly struck the sea. Luckily he had items with lightning resistance and managed to avoid the lightning storm or he wouldn’t have survived.
Weed was a hot topic once his training was shown on the broadcast.
“I really should rethink becoming a sculptor. He already had several large battles as part of his quests and now he has to endure that?”
“It is said that the Sculptor’s Master Quest is one of the most difficult among all Class Master Quests. It is unknown what stage he is even up to anymore.”
People saw Weed’s behaviour and mistakenly thought of it as part of his Master Quest. If they knew it was for a secret sculpting technique then everyone would be astonished but that could never be disclosed. He wouldn’t tell them even after acquiring the skill.
However, many beginner sculptors changed to other professions like a Painter. If the Master Quest was too hard then it would be better to give up early and change to another profession.
Geomchi5 decided to proceed on the Martial Artist Master Quest first.
“I heard that you cleaned up the monsters. Recently there is a group of bandits that have become a threat…..”
“Should I kill them?”
“The martial arts they are using isn’t ordinary. Only someone who knows martial arts can get rid of those people.”
Geomchi-5 beat the quest using his sword fighting skills. The quests for a martial artist fit Geomchi-5’s inclination perfectly. He could fight against his enemies to get stronger skills.
Wielding a sword was good but Geomchi-5 was completely immersed in the effects of the skills. The skills were useful in special situations and the person using it looked quite flashy. Looking cool in a fight was very important.
“These days the soldiers are too weak. At this rate I don’t know if peace can be defended. Please teach the soldiers some martial arts…..”
“I will teach them until they feel like dying.”
Geomchi-5 smoothly proceeded through his quests. There weren’t any difficult quests. But then he bumped into an obstacle on one of the quests!
“I heard that you help people in trouble. Please rescue our daughter.”
A farmer said while clinging to him.
“They dragged my daughter to the Rui Thieves’ Lair. Who knows what they will do to my poor child….. Rob those bad guys until they have nothing left.”
Geomchi-5 nodded his head.
“Well, I have to accept your request after hearing that.”
Some martial artist quests didn’t give compensation but fame and intimacy with the residents rose instead.
“This is a picture of my daughter that a painter drew.”
Ddiring!
-You have obtained a picture of the farmer’s wife and daughter.
“Looking at this will be helpful.”
Geomchi-5 unfolded the picture without any expectations.
“Heeok.”
A beautiful girl with long, straight hair and a bright smile!
“Father-in-law, did you say the Rui Thieves’ Lair? I will go help immediately.”
He entered the Rui Thieves’ Lair as soon as he accepted the quest. He managed to rescue her but it was too late and she was already dying.
It was his Class Master Quest so even if he failed, another chance came again a few days later. This time a merchant asked him to rescue his daughter.
-You have obtained a picture of a young lady on the streets of Rase.
“Father-in-law!”
This time he went to rescue her but failed to bring the daughter out safely. His skill in Weapons Mastery and judgement in battle was superior but he was limited on a fundamental level.
“I am too weak.”
A martial artist frequently had combat quests so his level was essential! Geomchi-5 felt powerless so he desperately hunted before making another attempt and succeeded.
“Thank you for bringing back my daughter safely.”
“It’s nothing, Sir. A man should be able to do this much.”
“It is shabby but this is an old map. I don’t know what you can find….”
“No. I didn’t do this because I was hoping for anything in return.”
“I’m so grateful! My daughter is back so now she can have a wedding ceremony with her fiance.”
“Kuheuhuk.”
-Sailing skill has increased to Intermediate level 1.
Acceleration of the ship will increase by 2% and the probability of the ship being overturned by rough conditions has decreased by 6%.
Damage to the hull when there is a storm will be reduced. When cannons are used, the shaking of the ship will reduce.
The effect of all skills related to the skill related to the sea has increased.
-Perseverance stat has increased by 15.
-Health has increased by 500.
-Skilful navigation has increased all stats by 3.
His Sailing skill increased while on the raft. This wasn’t a relaxing sail on a boat without any wind. Weed rode the raft and fought against a storm every day. Dark clouds filled the sky and it was constantly raining.
Kurururung!
Fearful lightning struck the sea! He desperately struggled to stop the raft from being overturned by waves.
-You have been struck by rain for a long time so Vitality has been reduced by 21%.
“Today is a crisis.”
To be honest, Weed was having fun. His desire to challenge tough things burned inside him as he fought against the heavy waves. He needed to concentrate or he would die if he fell into the water.
He found a wild side while cutting apart the waves. He could live as a free man without worrying about morals or discipline. That’s why many people lived on the sea.
If Weed ran out of vitality then he would come to land and carve the rocks.
A swordsman against the sea!
He sailed on the raft and carved sculptures while fighting against powerful sharks.
“I’m somewhat lonely.”
He made a sculpture of a Blue Marin while observing the features of any sea monsters he discovered.
The sea storms also forced out huge and strong marine creatures. But they didn’t come anywhere without a fast flowing water current. While Weed was training on the raft, they were waiting with open mouths under the water.
Amid the wind and rain, the water turned a little darker due to the marine creatures.
“It has been a little over1 month since I started this quest.”
Thanks to the dangerous training, Radiant Sword reached Intermediate level 4.
“This is enough to achieve the quest.”
It was the 37th day. A more severe storm than usual blew in. The ropes tying Weed’s raft together couldn’t resist the power of the waves and broke apart.
Weed was concentrating on Radiant Sword and his reaction was a second too late. In the end he fell into the sea.
‘The prey has come.’
‘It was worth waiting.’
The marine creatures shook their fins and approached. There was even a kraken whose body exceeded dozens of metres. The marine monsters gathered in order to eat Weed.
‘A rare nutritious food.’
‘A strong human.’
Monsters liked strong enemies. If they won the fight then they could grow and learn skills. There were many battles between races on the Versailles Continent and it was common for the winning forces to become stronger.
A human that fell into the water was normally weaker than the sea creatures. They usually couldn’t exert their combat power. Moreover, their ability to resist a severe storm would fall.
“Kkururuk!”
Weed struggled but drifted away due to the rapid sea currents. Waves 8~9 metres washed over him. Suddenly there was an immense wave of water 40~50 metres big.
-You are having trouble breathing.
Water has entered your mouth.
The abilities of your body has fallen.
Wakjak!
The kraken’s tentacles struck the place where Weed was. The logs remaining from the raft were shattered. Other marine creatures tried to swallow him but they just drank water in vain. The sea currents didn’t flow in one direction but surged in complicated patterns.
Weed spiritlessly floated around on the waves.
-Fatigue has reached 85%.
Maximum vitality has decrease and it can cause major problems when using skills.
Although his fatigue was high, the increase in Concentration stat meant that his skill proficiency could grow quickly. However, the bad situation meant he was worried about dying immediately.
In the middle of his desperate crisis, Weed pulled a rope that was tied to his ankle. It was a rope connected to an empty barrel. He grabbed the floating wooden barrel and managed to catch his breath.
He couldn’t support his body because of the waves so he had no choice but to swallow seawater. If he drank the water without breathing then he would lose consciousness.
That’s why grabbing the wooden barrel was a great help.
“It really seems like I’m going to die. I have a lot of savings….”
They weren’t visible but the sea creatures were coming from underwater to eat him. When he was on the raft, he would use his Light Wings so they had been aiming for a chance when he couldn’t escape. They crowded all over the place once he fell into the sea. It was the horror of being eaten by sea monsters!
“Light Wings!”
Radiant wings unrolled behind Weed’s back and he flew into the air.
Peseseok!
At that moment, the wooden barrel was crushed by the big mouth of a monster.
The broken pieces of the raft or any piece of land couldn’t be seen. It was difficult to determine a direction due to the high waves, rain and dark clouds.
“I have to get out of here quickly. But which way should I go?”
The severe storms and winds made abnormal sea currents and waves. His vitality and mana fell from the rough wind and thick rain. If he fell into the water then he wouldn’t be able to swim due to the weight of his armour. Moreover, the water was filled with sea creatures waiting with open mouths.
“There are a few other ways but…..”
Causing a disaster here would be a double sided edge. A disaster falling in this stormy place would just kill him.
“There may be a way to survive the sea.”
Before using such an extreme way, he could also use Sculpture Transformation to turn into a sea creature. Rebirth as a large fish or a squid monster! Training without any precautions in a storm was reckless.
“Well let’s go somewhere else first.”
Weed opened his Light Wings and flew up high. The wind was intense and lightning also struck high in the sky.
“It doesn’t seem to be in this direction. There is no visible signs of land. Let’s go to the right.”
The storm became increasingly intense.
“Not here either. Then once again to the right…..”
He quickly swerved the thick intense and intense, frightful waves.
“Not this side either. This seems to be the centre of the storm.”
Weed took threats to his life seriously. Although the storm was intense, he couldn’t afford to enter the sea.
Then a pure white shell rose up in the sea!
“That is…..”
He had given life to many sculptures in the Jigolaths. The nature of several species that lived in the sea meant they escaped from Weed’s grasp.
Among them was the Malleins Eunoto Turtle! A huge turtle that lived in the depths of the ocean, Surka had often played with it.
“Turtle. Turtle.”
It was Turtle crying out to Weed.
Weed had a great understanding of life.
“Living a good life will give blessings. Reading the contents of a child’s storybook wasn’t a waste.”
“Let’s go Turtle!”
Weed landed on Turtle’s back. The Malleins Eunoto Turtle was originally an extinct species but was given life using Sculpture Life Bestowal. It had unusual markings on the flat shell and many oysters stuck to it.
“I can do the rest of the training on this shell.”
He was going to use Turtle until the end of his quest.
Time passed as Weed concentrated on training in the stormy sea. A period of more than 100 days wasn’t a short amount of time.
“Hahahaha, I finally found the treasure!”
The Adventurer Chase found a royal treasure while completing his Class Quest!
“Have you heard about the adventurer called Chase? He just became tremendously rich.”
“He became an Earl in the Brent Kingdom and bought a plot of land. He is now building a house that could be called a palace.”
The story about Chase spread through Royal Road. The dungeon scene where he unearthed the treasure was so popular it continued being played as reruns during the late night hours.
Warrior Python swung his sword in the Averian Forest, one of the continent’s 10 forbidden zones. His Class Master Quest required him to hunt a boss monster here. It was possible to hire soldiers and receive the help of others but he chose to fight alone. Python had the wild charm of a wolf so many users cheered him on.
Farmer Miretas developed new crows and greeted a year with abundant harvests. The great crop yields rapidly increased the birth rate of the city. It was a large topic that Miretas had settled down in the Arpen Kingdom for his Master Quest.
“There is good climate, an abundance of blessings from the Freya Church, a wide fertile land and irrigation from rivers and lakes so the Arpen Kingdom is really good for farming.”
Miretas was a farmer who loved peace. He had lands in the Dale Kingdom but he had to offer half of his grain crops as tax. The Arpen Kingdom had low taxes and the warehouse storage fees were cheap. This was a lot of benefit to farmers so he couldn’t help admiring that point. Weed was a king with consideration and support for each profession so they could feel at ease.
“There is only one set of these clothes on the continent.”
Drago advanced to his eighth quest. He went to a village on the edge of the Arpen Kingdom and made clothes for the children. He cut the fabric, sewed buttons and watched children running around in clothes he made. They were NPCs but it felt like he was a parent giving clothes to his children. This was something that only someone who made clothes could feel.
“The form is good with fine lines and it fits well….. The feeling also matches the clothes.”
The residents who put on the clothes became happy. If the residents wore clothes made for specific tasks then their results would be much better. The users on the Chef Class Master Quest went to places on the continent suffering from war, plagues or disasters.
“The ingredients found here… I have to cook everything that can satisfy hunger.”
Food was prepared for the weak and starving. Residents would gather once they heard a chef had arrived and the chef’s fame spread.
Heroes were born from the Class Master Quests.
Of course, there were also quests for bad classes from warlocks, thieves and assassins. The Master Quest could make a hero or a villain.
A person who first chose an assassin for quick hunting decided to do the Master Quest.
-Choice in the Shadows
You are someone who lives in the darkness. It is possible for you to snatch someone’s precious life.
If you want to enjoy prosperity then assassinate 10 rich merchants in the city.
And if you want to maintain your honour and pride then assassinate 30 people committing wicked acts on the continent.
The wicked person has to be at a higher level than you.
Level of Difficulty: Assassin Master Quest
Quest Restrictions: Assassination skill Advanced level 7.
You can’t allow yourself to be detected while doing the quest.
“Assassinating wicked people….”
The continent’s top assassin. The unknown man was drinking beer at a tavern alone. He had many achievements on the Versailles Continent and hunting secretly.
An assassin was a profession that didn’t need to hunt in a party. Even so, their damage was the absolute best about combat professions. Traps could confuse strong monsters or surprise attacks meant an assassin could gain experience and skill proficiency quite quickly.
Of course, they also needed to be prepared for more danger.
“The difficult one will be more fun.”
The assassin left the tavern and his cloak fluttered as he disappeared into the crowd.
Since that day, vicious lords and high ranking members of the Embinyu Church suddenly lost their lives. The residents of the Versailles Continent cheered but it wasn’t clear that it was the actions of an assassin. His every movement was so covert that no one knew his name.
The continent was no different from the Warring States period. The boundaries of the kingdoms built in the early days of Royal Road changed as the conquest war continued.
The Kallamore and Lasalle Kingdoms had disappeared and rumours about heroes spread quickly. The peace of the kingdoms deteriorated so the residents became dependent on heroes.
“There will be a magnificent coronation five days from now.”
The Black Sword Mercenaries won the civil war and inherited the king’s seat for Gradian Kingdom. It was to win the hearts of the public through the ceremony. The Gradian Kingdom would now start a war of conquest under the control of the Black Sword Mercenaries.
“The status of the knights?”
“Then the next area to capture…..”
They invaded the villages at the border of the kingdoms controlled by the Roam Guild. The United Supremacy Guild had broken so they couldn’t miss this opportunity.
“We have to grab many villages from the weak guys.”
“We have the precedent of the Hermes Guild so it is okay.”
Anyway, they didn’t believe in anything like an eternal alliance. In the end they needed to accumulate a large power if they wanted to conquer the continent. Only the Cloud Guild and Hermes Guild were completely silent but their circumstances were completely different.
The Cloud Guild have been deprived of territory and their grip on the Britten Alliance Kingdom was weakening. It was like a sun who had shone for a while and was now gradually darkening.
They had experienced a large defeat to the Hermes Guild and was slowly collapsing. That’s because users left the losing guild. If they stayed together then they could continue fighting against the Hermes Guild.
Even with the disadvantageous situation, the economic power and population of the Britten Alliance Kingdom meant they could have a dramatic come behind victory. However, many users left the Cloud Guild after suffering a crushing defeat and feeling intimidated by the Hermes Guild. The Cloud Guild belatedly took steps but they we unable to change the situation.
Meanwhile the Hermes Guild was rapidly expanding their military power while taking care of domestic administration. Now the Cloud Guild didn’t have the ability to declare war. The Hermes Guild wasn’t taking action now but everyone knew they would be advancing at a terrifying speed when they did.
Haven Empire!
It had the economic and military power of an empire so the other guilds paid attention to them.
The Central Continent was also suffering from the Embinyu Church. Many high level users died and became weakened in the wars, residents lost their lives and people closed their stores. There were many thriving cities that turned to ashes.
Despite the overwhelming military and economic power of the Versailles Continent, the users were gradually losing the assets they accumulated.
The situation in the east, west and south continents was a little different. Even if a kingdom was small, peace was high so the Embinyu Church couldn’t take root easily.
In the east, Brent Kingdom and the Rosenheim Kingdom decided to settle their rivalry to fight against the Embinyu Church together.
The tribal kingdoms and barbarians aggressively resisted the Embinyu Church.
And the north was changing rapidly.
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A combination mechanism for a safe comprises thirty-two tumblers numbered from one to thirty-two in such a way that the numbers in each wheel total 132... Could you open the safe?
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The number 10112359550561797752808988764044943820224719 is called a 'slippy number' because, when the last digit 9 is moved to the front, the new number produced is the slippy number multiplied by 9.
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NUAIR NEWS NUAIR NEWS
NUAIR Validates Drone Parachute for Package Delivery Company Flytrex
By NUAIR|2019-07-02T14:33:15-04:00July 2, 2019|Categories: Press Release|Tags: Drone Corridor, New York UAS Test Site, NUSTAR, UAS Standards, UAS Testing|
Second drone parachute validation by NUAIR and New York UAS Test Site, advancing drone package delivery industry and routine flights over people
(SYRACUSE, NY) – Following strenuous testing completed by Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research (NUAIR) at the New York UAS Test Site in Rome, New York, Israel-based drone company Flytrex, has the parachute on its package delivery drones validated as compliant with industry standards. Through these rigorous tests, NUAIR is providing the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) industry with the data and standards testing needed to unlock commercial operations. This announcement builds on a $30 million investment announced by New York State Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to develop the 50-mile UAS traffic management corridor between Syracuse and Griffiss International Airport, in Rome, New York to advance the growing UAS industry as part of the CNY Rising initiative.
This is the second parachute standard validation performed by NUAIR, advancing the potential for commercial drone package delivery and routine flights over people. Currently, the FAA prohibits most drones from being flown directly over people. Professional drone operators can apply for a waiver from that restriction if they can demonstrate they have robust safety mitigations in place including having a validated parachute.
“NUAIR’s testing at the New York UAS Test Site to validate the parachute on Flytrex’s package delivery drones is helping move this company and others toward commercial UAS activity that will build the drone industry and other industries in Central New York and the Mohawk Valley,” said Empire State Development President, CEO and Commissioner Howard Zemsky.
A pioneer in the space, Flytrex has already made impactful strides in safe drone integration as a part of the FAA’s Integration Pilot Program and with the successful validation of its parachute, makes even more advanced flights possible — ushering in a new era of on-demand delivery that breaks down industry limits and sets higher safety standards. Flytrex’s testing of the DRS-M600 parachute under NUAIR supports the recent announcement by New York State Governor Andrew M. Cuomo of a New York-Israel partnership, and the creation of a UAS Center of Excellence in the Mohawk Valley to be led by NUAIR.
“When it comes to commercial drone operations, safety has to be a main priority,” said Yariv Bash, CEO and co-founder of Flytrex. “We chose to work with Drone Rescue Systems [DRS] not only because they are the experts when it comes to keeping drones safely above our heads, but also because we share the same vision of making commercial drones a viable option by upholding the highest safety standards. Our confidence in these tests is bolstered by NUAIR’s strong track record, having managed the testing of the world’s first certified parachute recovery system. NUAIR is at the forefront of safety regulation, and we’re pleased to be testing with an experienced and capable partner.”
“We are looking forward to working with Flytrex because we both share the same vision of safe commercial drone usage and the belief that high quality products are needed,” said Andreas Ploier, CEO of Drone Rescue Systems. “The testing by NUAIR with their strong record is an important milestone for our companies and the industry in general, making DRS the first company that passed the ASTM certification for the DJI Matrice 600 drone.”
Drone Rescue Systems’ M600 parachute is designed to reduce the risk of harming people on the ground, by bringing down equipment safely, in the event of a drone malfunction. Its patented mechanism deploys a parachute within milliseconds and only takes a few minutes to re-pack the system and relaunch the drone. The DRS-M600 is equipped with a traceable “black box” which stores flight data, much like those on manned aircraft, so in the event of a malfunction, the data can be recovered and analyzed to determine why the parachute was deployed.
NUAIR, which manages the FAA-designated New York UAS Test Site at Griffiss International Airport in Rome, put Flytrex’s DRS-M600 equipped DJI Matrice 600 Pro through 45 functionality tests across five different failure scenarios. The tests were successful, proving that the DRS-M600 complies with the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) International Standard specification for small UAS parachutes, opening the door for Flytrex to get a waiver to operate its drone over people. The ASTM consensus standard was developed by the FAA and other industry stakeholders in late 2018 after more than a year of work.
“NUAIR is proud to provide companies with this level of standards testing at the New York UAS Test Site,” said Tony Basile, chief operations officer at NUAIR. “Such tests and partnerships support our mission to safely integrate unmanned aircraft into the national airspace. We look forward to continuing to validate industry leading technology, supporting the ever-growing commercial UAS industry.”
NUAIR is an organizational partner of CenterState CEO. The organizations are strategically aligned in their efforts to build public and private partnerships to advance leading edge UAS and UAS traffic management technologies, and create a hub for the industry that will attract investments and business development.
“New York is committed to generating growth, jobs and innovation,” said Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. “The completion of another successful safety test at the New York UAS Test Site in Rome shows how New York is playing a key role in accelerating the drone industry and making sure that commercial drone operations remain safe.”
About NUAIR
NUAIR (Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research) is a New York based nonprofit coalition of private and public entities and academic institutions that provide unsurpassed expertise in aeronautical research, unmanned aircraft system (UAS) operations, and safety management. Headquartered in Syracuse, NY, NUAIR manages operations of the New York UAS Test Site at Griffiss International Airport in Rome, NY, one of just seven FAA-designated UAS test sites in the United States, which is responsible to the Federal Aviation Administration and National Aeronautics and Space Administration to conduct operations for UAS testing. NUAIR is a recognized leader in technology and applications development in building the case for safe UAS operations in the Nation’s airspace. Visit www.nuair.org to learn more.
About Flytrex
Flytrex provides comprehensive autonomous drone delivery systems that enable any business, from SMBs to e-commerce giants, to integrate on-demand autonomous drone delivery into their offering. From facilitating the regulatory process to providing the drones, a cloud-based drone management system, insurance and maintenance, Flytrex is an end-to-end drone logistics service spearheading the drone revolution. Headquartered in Tel Aviv, the Flytrex team has 50+ years aerospace and defense experience.
About Drone Rescue Systems
An awarded company by the European Space Agency, is one of the leading and most innovative companies that develops autonomous parachute safety solutions. The products are autonomously working because of their own safe electronics, are fast reusable and especially light weighted because of using elastic bands instead of pyrotechnics. That allows us to provide our customers with a solution for the DJI M600 with a total weight of 430g (0.947 lbs). Further patented products in the DRS-portfolio are protecting drones between 3 and 16kg (6-36 lbs). Drone Rescue Systems has years of experience in the field and provides their customers with high quality products to enable safe commercial drone usages BVLOS. Drone Rescue Systems believe in the advantages commercial drone usages are providing various industries with and therefore wants to be an important enabler of this bright future. Visit www.dronerescue.com to learn more.
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Silent Hill Discussion
By Night10194, December 21, 2003 in Community
Stan Tuna
Chocobo (+20)
...but that still doesnt really explain why its flying upside down, hurling vortexs of bats everywhere...its just crazy)
Not bats,butterflies.
The same as in the apartment building.
Moths.
Since they gather around lights.
Butterflies, cause they correspond with her tatoo (and the name of the song. ) And I'm pretty sure that they are butterflies in the apartment. Besides, why would someone collect moths in cages?
Firedrake
What's this? A Silent Hill comic? As form of advertising the new game? Why yes it is. Well, at least 5 pages from it, that is...
I guess you never took time to use the chainsaw or jackhammer. For using the 'saw, you don't swing it but rather use should hold R2 and charge the enemy, and step back when they attempt an attack. As for the jackhammer, it's used to keep foes at an arm's length to attack or else you're fucked. Also, it knocked the enemy back alittle so use don't have to keep running back!
The chainsaw is too slow and has a range that means you have to be practically INSIDE the enemy for the 'saw to have any effect.
The rock hammer is the same weapon. Only less powerful and you cant move when youre holding it.
Sorry, but give me the hammer or the rifle any day.
Or the chainsaw in SH2...
Its got a long range, its powerful and...
You can swing it about, screaming like a maniac
NSR::Neko
Isn't it COMPLETELY obvious why Laura's in Silent Hill? She's annoyed people to the point that they are willing to commit suicide to get away from her. Nuff. Said. XD (yes, that was a joke. ha. ha. ha. *beat with a 2x4 with nails in it*)
I adore Silent Hill, and have played all three in the series... SH2 would be my fave thus far. I haven't gotten too far in SH3 yet, though... so it may dominate soon... I really adore SH2 for its weirdness factor, especially towards the end, in the labyrinth and abyss.. you know. The place thing. With no map. XD
The hotel was also really neat... after it flooded. Best. Silent Hill. Music. EVER.
Silent Hill 2's plot would also have to be the best, as Israfel earlier stated... wicked religious symbolism, too. Well... all of the games had wicked religious symbolism... but SH2's just stood out the most metaphorically, which was cool. SH1 was just so damn blunt about it. XD
Eccles wrote:
Johnny Carwash wrote:
Spoilers! I mean it! Don't read unless you want the three games ruined!
They're moths. Why? Because they are the insect that represents Samael, the fallen angel who controls Silent Hill and who is the power locked inside of Alessa/Cheryl.
Moths are everywhere in the three games, in the first game you fight a moth larva and an adult moth. In SH2, that one room is filled with moths and Maria's tattoo is of a moth. The final boss is also surrounded by moths and uses them as a weapon to hold you in place so she can strangle you with her tail/tentacle. In SH3, in Alessa's room at the end of the game there is a display case filled with different species of moths.
Throughout all the games, Samael is watching you.
Hope that helps all you guys
M@
I always took them to mean that, as SH is like James' purgatory, they were butterflies, reflective of change and rebirth from his 'cocoon' of guilt. Then again, I never really thought about them too much.
Mecha Angel
Jill sandwich, thats still a classic...
Anyway, Silent Hill is weird in its own way, yet I, like many, have never completed the first game due to how freaky it was...
It feels like the last two games have dumbed down in terms of horror...
Actually, in the one room in the first apartment building, those aren't moths. If you examine the one on the bed, the text reads "There is a body of a dead butterfly on the bed.". BUTTERFLY. It makes more sense that way too. I mean, the final boss song IS titled "Butterflies", and I've seen butterflies being attracted to light as well. Butterflies, in my opinion, also have a more symbolic meaning in Silent Hill.
Yeah, I'm done now.
y'know, Im beginning to think that my silent hill OSTs aren't from the series at all.
I mean...the UFO themes to SH1 and 2 arent on the CDs...the SH1 CD is missing the out-take reel song and I dont remember seeing a track called BUTTERFLIES anywhere on the damn SH2 CD
You have some screeeeewwwwwwwy soundtracks, man.
Where'd you pick 'em up? Because Butterflies is the final battle track from SH2. Do you recall "Terror in the Depths of the Fog" or "The Darkness in Our Minds" being on those CDs?
Because I don't recall "Terror in the Depths of the Fog" (most pornographic industrial Silent Hill track EVER) being in SH2... EVER. WHERE is it? Anybody know?... anybody?
Doulifée
Competitions Moderator
SH2 OST Tracks:
1 theme of laura
2 White noiz
4 world of madness
5 Ordinary vanity
6 Promise
7 Ashes and ghost
8 Null moon
9 Heaven's night
10 Alone in the town
11 The darkness that lurk in our mind
12 Angel thanatos
13 The day of the night
14 Block mind
15 Magdalene
16 Fermata in mystic air
17 Prisonic fairytales
18 Love psalm
19 Silent heaven
20 Noone love you
21 The reverse will
22 Laura plays the piano
23 Terrors in the depths of the fog
25 Betrayal
26 Black fairy
27 Theme of laura (reprise)
28 Overdose desillusion
29 Pianissimo
30 Promise
No butterflies anywhere!!
Kawaiininjakat Haruspex
Eccles and Doulifee are both right, there's no track called Butterflies on the soundtrack, and their cds are not screwy. That's the official release track list.
my silent hill 2 ost is labelled Konami but not the silent hill 1 ost.. mmh look like there is different cd release.
I thought they only released the one CD...
Though it would make sense.
"Red Pyramids" isnt on my OST either.
SPOLER!
Could someone please explain something to me? In SH1 and 3, Alessa is the reason the town is so fucked up. From her nightmares, and being the mother of God, she has powers, and people called her a witch. But... In SH2... Where the hell does everything come from? I mean... James is no witch. Is he? He has no powers. Still... Most things revolve around him there. Does he have some connection to Alessa? Or was Mary and Alessa in the SH hospital at the same time? In those deep underground, wierd hospital rooms? I haven't seen every ending in SH2 yet, so if it is explained in one of them, just let me know. Otherwise... Could someomne explain? =/
it's probably the remaining power of samael itself who kept the reverside of sh alive. and james is going an endless travel for is sin. it's doesn't end because he want to be punished for is sin.
Silent hill is what you bring to it.
Consider Angela...
Now consider the bedmonsters and the pyramid heads.
See what I'm getting at here?
Yeah, SH2 could have something to do with Samael still kinda lingering there, but the game really just serves to show that the town is still messed up between the years of SH1 and SH3. I think that James is so screwed in the head that he sees all the scary stuff. Like Eccles said, look at Angela.
Speaking of which, apart from symbolising pain and maybe being higher up, is there any particular reason for Pyramid Heads having pyramids for heads?
danro4
I always thought PH had his head like that cause he was wearing a hood of some type when he was a normal person, and it kinda became permanent in monster world.... form.....
The fact that Angela would do all she could not to see the face of...you know who...made it so that pyramid head doesnt have a face.
(Also, this is why the people in bedmonster are positioned the way they are)
Erm... bedmonster? I always heard them being called "doormen", though you're probably right, it would make more sense.
dude...its a bed
In fact...
From the SH DVD
It's easier to see what they're trying to convey there, isnt it...
I have no idea why people would suggest it's a door...but Ive heard crazier theories about silent hill (HARRY R PIRAMID HEAD LOLOLOL) so I'm not too surprised...
Yeah, that's just crazy. Harry's flying around with the aliens. =) 'Tis a shame James wasn't in the SH3 UFO ending... But I can't complain too much... The UFO ending in SH3 rocked. Love that song!!
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What Is an Angel Investor For Your Company?
by OverHeadWatch Team | Apr 19, 2017 | Budget Planning, Library
If you are a business person or just want to delve deep inside this broad ocean, you will find terms such as angel investor that may be really hard to crack. So what is an angel investor? These are individuals investing as a form of equity financing for medium and small enterprises. Such an investor is an individual or body of individuals. The group is also known as a syndicate who chooses to invest in another business by financing their needs in exchange for a share of the business.
The shares which the angel investor takes comprise the equity stake. The investor gets an equity stake out of his contribution. Meanwhile, the entrepreneur gets financing for their business, to develop a new product or fund a marketing strategy.This article seeks to breakdown the relationship between the angel investor and the company.
What Is an Angel Investor?
Angel investment differs from venture capital finance. Venture capital financing operates by investing in businesses using managed funds, from public or private money. The fund finds the venture capitalist manager who invests on its behalf, aiming to earn profit returns for the fund investors. Venture Capital avoids startups and seed stage businesses. This is because they involve a high risk and high administrative costs.
Business angels make independent decisions on which business to invest in. They don’t need to make consultations with a third party. They engage in meetings directly with prospective entrepreneurs and see them pitch their businesses. Angels are involved in the whole investment process and become signatories to the legal documentation involved. The angel investor, as an individual or as syndicate may take an active role on the board. It may also contribute passively as a syndicate where an appointed person takes the role on behalf of the others, thus telling what is an angel investor.
Which Businesses Apply for Angel Investing
Pre-revenue businesses: What is an angel investor in this case? Here, an investor requires that the entrepreneur should prove their concept, in form of customer interest. This is proof of that the product can actually work as a convincing demonstration of the business itself. Angel investing at this stage of the business is a highly risky venture. Therefore, the entrepreneur has the tough task of proving their concept and its financial viability or have the intellectual property protected. A patent or copyright comes in handy, as technological and scientific ventures are most likely to fall under this category.
Profit generating businesses: Companies already generating profit are most likely to secure an angel investor for themselves as there exists a higher likelihood of return on investment.
Idea stage businesses: This stage is not ideal for angel investments. Entrepreneurs seek accelerators instead, by turning to family and friends or grants if possible.
What to Look for in an Angel Investor
An angel investor ought to have high net worth, as determined by the relevant regulatory body. The Securities Exchange Commission for instance requires that an accredited investor should meet the threshold net worth of $1 million and an annual income of 200000 USD or 300000 USD jointly with their spouse.
So what is an angel investor for your business on the long run? A company enjoys numerous benefits upon getting an angel investor. These include:
A source of finance for its operations;
Mentoring and expertise advice;
An opportunity to grow and expand;
An opportunity to enjoy economies of scale
In some cases, this investment ends up disadvantageous to the company.
For a domineering angel, the owner runs the risk of being fired from the company they created;
Angel investors may opt to sell the company in form of public offer;
The business can be acquired by another company, so that investors can get their earnings back;
The owner ceases to be the sole owner by giving away between 10-50 percent of the shares.
3 Tips to Prepare Your Company for a Future Angel Investor
1. Opening to Ideas
Angel investing not only seeks to finance startups and early stage businesses but also provide expertise knowledge and experience for these companies. The investors want to invest in business that would have return on the amount of investment put into to it after a long period of time. This ranges from three to eight years, depending on industry and the angel investor’s preferences.
The investor, therefore, has the task of ensuring that the prospective business meets their expectations in terms of expected returns. This means that they will go through the business plan. So before considering this type of idea, make sure that you are open to learning what is an angel investor.
2. Take a Close Look at Management
It is the most critical part an angel investor looks at before making their decisions – the experience of the team. This means the below.
How long they have worked in the same or similar field;
How well they have performed while at it;
The skills they have each acquired;
Their drive and how they present themselves.
3. Pay Attention to Details
An angel investor expects that the prospective business meets a majority, if not all of these expectations.
Problem solving: The business should carry a solution to a societal need. This can be through a product or services.
Protection: An entrepreneur should be able to confirm ownership of the business. The product or technology may have patents, copyrights, branding or other intangibles.
Competition: The ability of a business to defend its position in the market is important. This translates into how its competitors are performing. The uniqueness of its selling point is also important.
Revenue: The expected gross and net margins form the major part of consideration. How the business makes money and its revenues streams also count.
Proof of the model: Does the market validate the product? Results from market tests and surveys may be necessary.
Willingness: The willingness of the owners to give up shares in the business in exchange for investment also matters. In some cases, the investor may have to be on board.
The decision to find an angel investor should be made after proper consultation with both legal and financial advisers. This will bring you clarity and certainty.
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All You Need To Know About Kerala Blasters Football Club
By Riya A
Football is not just a sport, it’s an emotion; a ninety-minute escape from the real world to a world of excitement and passion. Malayalis’ obsession with football is quite old – the R B Ferguson Football Club, named after the Kochi Police Superintendent R B Ferguson, was established on February 20, 1899 in Thrissur. It is the oldest football club in South India and was popularly called the Young Men’s Football Club. The club played a huge role in popularising football in the 1900s. Today, one in three people I meet every day is a football fan. Everyone has their own football stories to share and memories to cherish.
This craze for football is reflected in our support of Kerala’s home team – Kerala Blasters – who made a huge comeback in the 6th season of Hero Indian Super League by defeating Atletico de Kolkata. The Manjapada lost their second match to Mumbai City FC but still, hopes are high. Kerala Blasters FC is one in ten clubs that have been playing since the inception of ISL and is also one of the teams with a high fan base and record league attendance every season.
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As the football season has officially begun, we thought we’d give a few insights into our favourite team.
Beginnings and Firsts
The team was founded on 27th of May 2013. The name Kerala Blasters was inspired from the nickname of the then co-owner Sachin Tendulkar – “The Master Blaster”. Their first match was played on 13th October 2014 against NorthEast United. The first goal was scored by Ian Hume against Chenniyan FC. Mehtab Hossain was the first draft picked by the team and hence, the first player in the history of KBFC. David James was the first head coach and first marquee player in the team. Former Newcastle United forward Michael Chopra was the first foreign player picked by the team.
They played at the finals two times, both against Atletico de Kolkata and couldn’t make it through either time. The most heartbreaking final was the 2016 game, where they took an early lead through Mohammad Rafi, but lost the match in a penalty shoot-out.
About the 6th Season
In the new season, the team has come up with some major changes including the introduction of a new coach Eelco Schattorie (former NorthEast United coach and a Dutch player). The new captain Bartholomew Ogbeche is a former NorthEast United player who has scored 12 goals and led the NorthEast United FC to the playoffs for the first time. Schattorie and Ogbeche is a deadly combination and we are hoping to see more magic from them. Along with Ogbeche, Mohammad Rafi and Raphael Messi Bouli are leading as the forward wingers. The defence squad includes Sandesh Jhingan, Mohammad Rakip, Pritam Singh, Laruatthara, Abdul Hakku, Jessel Carneiro, Gianni Zuiverloon, Jairo Rodrigues and Raju Gaikwad. Sergio Cidoncha, Darren Cladeira, Halicharan Narzary, Jeakson Thounaojam, Mario Arques, Moustapha Gning, Prasanth Karuthadathkudi, Rahul Kannoly, Sahal Abdul Samad, Samuel Lalmuanpuia and Seityasen Singh are the midfielders in the squad. Bilal Khan, Rehenesh Parambha, and Shibin Kunniyil are the goalkeepers.
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Two matches down, and we are in the 6th position ( as of 30-10-2019) with one gain and one loss. Compared to the first match, the second match was not up to the mark. The team is yet to get into form. The midfield was completely dead with the goalkeeper still lacking confidence. The defence was poor as well. The gap between the two matches was just three days, and maybe that’s what went against us. Overall, when analysing the first two matches the team still needs to improve in many areas. But when you look at the statistics of KBFC the team was always a late bloomer; it took them four matches in the first season to get their first win so we still have hope.
Considering the fan base of the club they really should be headstrong and show some real game in the coming matches. The last season was a disaster and yet the fans are still hanging onto the club. This shows how dedicated and loyal their fans are and they really deserve a victory.
Before we sign off, here’s a look at the most celebrated players in the KBFC.
Sandesh Jinghan
For the past 5 years, Jhingan has been with the team at its highs and lows. He is very loyal to the club, and his performance helped him in earning the “Emerging Player of the League” award.
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Ian Hume
Ian Hume aka Humettan has one of the most fan-following among foreign players. This Canadian player has scored over 10 goals for KBFC.
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Muhammad Rafi
This 37-year-old player has contributed 6 goals to the team and many more to go.
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C.K Vineeth
C.K Vineeth is the highest goal scorer in the history of Kerala Blasters with 11 goals. He too has a huge fan base.
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Sahal Abdul Samad
Nicknamed as the Indian Ozil, Sahal was the “Emerging Player of the League” of last season and most anticipated player this season.
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Antonio German
He is another foreign footballer who has scored 6 goals for KBFC and is widely praised for his performance.
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Josu Prieto Currais
Popularly called Josuttan, Josu marked his presence as the first goalscorer in the 3rd season of ISL.
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Chris Dagnall
This English footballer is one of the top goal scorers with 6 goals scored for KBFC.
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This is only a small fraction of a large list! Let us know who is your favourite player is in the comment section.
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G Mamatha
IN spite of the best of efforts, the pen is refusing to write in these excruciating times, about the excruciating times. It is very obdurate. Even now it took a lot of pleading, cajoling, convincing, threatening and at long last, only the act of hanging it up altogether, made it accede.
Of course it has its point of view, justified. It demanded only an answer to its one question. The question it put was very simple – what’s the use of all its efforts? Name and fame were never under consideration, thus not even considered as an answer to this simple question. Thinking about the possible answers complicated it, as it gave rise to further questions. The simple possible answer that was given was – CHANGE. The efforts of the pen were/are supposed to play a small role in the overall process of change. And this is what was told to it. It is then that the flood gates of the dam were opened. A flurry of questions started. Change? What is change? Where is change? When will it change? How will it change? Is it short term? Or long term? Who are the advocates? Who are the drivers? Who will lead? Who will follow? Will they lead? Will they follow? Are they ready? Ugh. And on and on and on, the questions went.
And pen, being pen, with all its pride of being mightier than the sword, it was/is not at all easy to convincingly answer. And unless it’s convinced, it is not ready to work. A huge asking!
Change. Written words contributing to change. It quoted details about many of its write-ups on inequalities. For years together this subject was written, discussed and acted. What is the change, was its first question. And of course, there was change, it had accepted after few rounds of exchanges. The number of billionaires in our country was 9 in 2000. The change is, in 2017 there were 101 of them and in 2018, there are 119 billionaires. Change indeed! Ah, a more significant change is, it would now take 941 years for a minimum wage worker in rural India to earn what the top paid executive at a leading Indian garment company earns in a year! Real change, indeed, it sneered.
Change. It mentioned the write-up on homelessness. How moving was the determination of the young child, who had vowed to build a home for her mother (PD dated July 8, 2007). Hmm! The change is, there are officially still 40 lakh homeless people in our country, an increase from their numbers in 2001. And by 2025, it might go up to 1.8 crores. A real big change! No sir, they are not just ‘do-nothingers’ who are homeless. 82.1 per cent of the homeless were day labourers, with construction workers accounting for the highest share of 23.6 per cent. So howsoever they are working, they are unable to build a roof over their head. So much for the change. And for equality, take this. 36 per cent of the Scheduled Castes, 23 per cent of the Scheduled Tribes and 21 per cent of Other Backward Classes are homeless. The walls of separation are strongly housed. Change, you are so sweet!
Nirbhaya. How horrific. Child rape. Monstrous. Appeal was to humanity. To change the attitude. To fight for changing the way things are for women. To struggle for changing the mindset and change this ‘no country for women’ into a country ‘for women and of women’. What happened? Of course there was a change. Forget about Disha. There is no dearth of names. In a premier city in the country, a homeless woman was raped in broad daylight, on a footpath of a road that is quite busy. The change is people walking on the road were taking videos of the ‘event’, instead of rushing to help the victim. The tsunami of humanity has arisen in people after Nirbhaya. Hail the change!
And of course the biggest change of all was the re-election of demonetisers, mob lynchers, dividers-in-chief, in spite of reams and reams of write-ups. Still believe in change? What change? And that too harbouring an illusion that someone, somewhere reading something will change! Ugh. Enough. With this it rested its case and refused to come out of its slumber.
Facts are facts. After all, all of us are not as talented as the prime minister to change facts and claim whatever comes out of our mouth are FACTS. So how to answer pen – the mighty, and push it back to what it does best?
Talk jargon? Change is inevitable. Change is the only thing that is constant. Quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes and all of this takes time.
Or read Shelley for it?
“Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number -
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many-they are few”.
Or Brecht?
“The critical attitude
Strikes many people as unfruitful
That is because they find the State
Impervious to their criticism
But what in this case is an unfruitful attitude
Is merely a feeble attitude. Give criticism arms
And States can be demolished by it”.
Or share some true facts? Historical truths.
Wielding pen, Chilean students mobilised in protests for more than two months. They have won the right to vote in a referendum on a constitution that does not permit the implementation of neoliberal reforms. They won the support of most of the country and forced the government that wanted to suppress them using force, to concede their demand. They are still on streets.
Wielding pen and wearing yellow vests, French forced the government to withdraw the fuel tax and discuss with them on various issues. With this confidence, after one whole year, they are still on streets. Now, opposing pension reforms.
Convinced by the pen, workers in General Motors, US struck work for more than 50 days and won a wage revision agreement, a first in nearly a decade. Teachers, they who wield the pen and mould the pen are fighting in state after state in the US and forcing back some of the reforms. And remember, the progressive, young, Alexander Ocasio Cortez? Forgot to mention. Without pen, how is that 51 per cent of the young adults in the US are thinking positively about socialism, while the number of those considerate towards capitalism is consistently falling, from 66 per cent at the start of the decade to 49 per cent now? Surely the pen is working! Change is brewing!
If not for the pen, why did the BJP, which governed over 71 per cent of the country’s landmass in 2017, fall down to only 35 per cent now? Ha, there is some slight movement. Change that is.
Supremely arrogant because of the enlarged majority that once again seated them in the corridors of power, RTI Act was amended. There were whispers. UAPA was amended. There were murmurs. Article 370 was abrogated. There were cries. CAA was introduced and NPR was announced. There are no more rumblings. What was heard is a roar. Shelley, have the lions woken up from their slumber?
What we are seeing is change. Cubs growing into young adults. Young adults, pushing out the adults into advisory councils and if needed, to rest. The claim is for Change. Not for a college, or university seat, or a job here or there. The claim is for INDIA. India, that WE had proclaimed as an ‘independent, democratic, secular, socialist, sovereign, republic’. The claimants for such a change cannot be identified by their clothes, food or makeup. They are distinguished by the language they speak – the language of change. It is heard the same in Assamese, Bengali, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odiya, Tamil, Telugu or whatsoever the spoken language may be. It is this synchrony of voices, what’s called, ‘mile sur mera tumhara’ that is now calling for change.
Acknowledging the changing reality, finally the pen ceded. But only after extracting a promise. ‘Don’t stop till you change enough’, that is the promise it wanted. It is ready to expend all its ink for the purpose. The question posed was – Are you ready to sweat enough? Is your blood red enough? Is your mind strong enough?
“Forward, without forgetting
Where our strength can be seen now to be!
When starving or when eating
Forward, not forgetting
Our solidarity!
Black or white or brown or yellow
Leave your old disputes behind.
Once start talking with your fellow
Men, you'll soon be of one mind.
If we want to make this certain
We'll need you and your support.
It's yourselves you'll be deserting
if you rat your own sort.
All the gang of those who rule us
Hope our quarrels never stop
Helping them to split and fool us
So they can remain on top.
Workers of the world, uniting
Thats the way to lose your chains.
Mighty regiments now are fighting
That no tyranny remains!
Till the concrete question is hurled
When starving or when eating:
Whose tomorrow is tomorrow?
And whose world is the world?
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THE NEW EAST Project Statement
Chapters from "THE NEW EAST"
The New East: Past Ruins, To Modernity
Global Amusements
Tender Tokens
A Last Resort — Tskaltubo, Georgia
Black Sea — A Portrait of Place (in Process)
Zonal Tableaux (Tales of Spectral Hands)
Art of the Mountain
Here, They Lay (Tales of the Black Death)
Landscapes of Work & Stewardship: Petra, Jordan
Land Strategies—Kyzylkum Desert, Uzbekistan
Land Strategies — Rope Road, Chiatura, Georgia
Land Strategies — Kazbegi, Georgia
Place Meditation — Beirut
Place Meditation — Gateways of Sno
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Spa Refuge (Tales of Displacement)
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Here, They Themselves to Die (Tales of the Black Death), Ardoti graveyard, Khevsureti province, Georgia, 2018.
Carrying the Black Death, men and women of the Khevsureti province of Georgia climbed into crypts situated high into the Caucasus Mountains, near what is now the Georgia-Chechnya border. This was the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when to venture into this wild part of the world was to risk your life already. The crypts were arranged into small villages lodged into mountain crags. This way, the infected could be kept separate from the living, the threat of contamination being so fearsome.
When they climbed inside the crypts, the ill pushed aside the already dead from ledges, laid down, and waited to die. These crypt ledges were made of the local mountain-side shale. So were the crypt roofs. Visually, it is all one seamless whole: the jagged land, the jagged roof, the jagged bed on which to die. The jagged mass of bones.
This has never been a land of ease. Even in the twenty-first century, the mountain fortresses and houses are accessible only in summer; the military border guards give up watching the Chechnya border come the cold. When the Soviets finally infiltrated the mountains post-Stalin, they forcible emptied the villages in an annihilation campaign of a Khevsureti cultural identity. It was time this millennium-old warrior culture was brought to heel. Fathers, in the quiet of their new city homes, still taught the traditional martial knife skills to their sons.
For many years, these vaults have been sites of local pilgrimage. Called heroes, the dead are brought coins and prayers; tiny candles are burned. Sometimes bones are emotively arranged, such as the skulls positioned carefully at the opening of one crypt. Up until the nineteen-seventies, textile fragments and jewelry of precious metal clung to the remains, but plundering eventually came, as it will. Russians, it is believed, and with the Russian aggression or influence at the Ossetia and Chechnya borders not so far away, this particular spook is easy to conjure. After this heresy, many crypt windows were installed with iron bars.
The gestures to give homage to the dead are delicate. It is possible to imagine the crypts as always-already this way, down to the coins and chalices and bibles. These, however, are not abandoned places. Small lories filled to capacity with tourists make pitstops on the way to the Soviet-emptied fortress towns. The crypts and the paths are kept scrupulously clean, aside from the cartilage of a bird, pristine itself, erupting from the earth around it like a flower bud. Why does this matter? Perhaps to help us understand them as more than evidence of past calamity, but as active memorialization of a warrior culture still present at the nation's edges, but guarded and secreted and largely unseen.
Here, They Themselves to Die (Tales of the Black Death), Vaults 1 & 2, Khevsureti province, Georgia, 2018.
Here, They Themselves to Die (Tales of the Black Death), Vault 3, No. 1; Khevsureti province, Georgia, 2018.
Here, They Themselves to Die (Tales of the Black Death), Vault 6; Khevsureti province, Georgia, 2018.
Here, They Themselves to Die (Tales of the Black Death); The Blue Mountains, Khevsureti province, Georgia, 2018.
Here, They Themselves to Die (Tales of the Black Death), Andakistskali River, Khevsureti province, Georgia, 2018.
Here, They Themselves to Die (Tales of the Black Death), Homestead in a four-home village along the Andakistskali River, Khevsureti province, Georgia, 2018.
Here, They Themselves to Die (Tales of the Black Death), On the way to the vaults, Khevsureti province, Georgia, 2018.
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My interview with actor Richard Fancy
October 5, 2015 natewatchescoolmovies Leave a comment
I am pleased to bring you my recent chat with actor Richard Fancy, an immensely gifted man you may recognize as Mr. Lippmann from Seinfeld. He’s also appeared in shows like Mad Men, Ray Donovan, Carnivale, General Hospital, The Mentalist, Crossing Jordan, 3rd Rock From The Sun, Friends, Star Trek: Voyager, Numb3rs, Gilmore Girls and more. His film credits include Being John Malkovich, The Girl Next Door, Species, Oliver Stone’s Nixon, Hollywoodland, Shopgirl, Rob Zombie’s horror films Halloween and The Lords Of Salem, and more. Take a look:)
Nate: I don’t see much of your background or training on imdb. Care to share how you got into acting, what about the craft that appeals to you, and where you trained?
Richard: I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was fifteen. Like falling in love with someone, it’s really impossible to say “Why.” I began studying at fifteen (I was living in LA then) and, when I was twenty two, I moved to New York where I studied for a year with Uta Hagen. I spent a year studying in England, came back to New York and studied with Peter Kass, Uta Hagen (some more), George Morrison, John Lehne, Kristin Linklater, Lee Strasberg, Sharron Shayne and I recently became a professional observer with full working privileges at the Actors Studio here in Los Angeles.
Nate: You have a very mischievous aura to your work, a gleeful vibe that is very memorable (the moment in Ray Donovan when you realize they’re pulling a fast one on you is a perfect example of this, and one of my favourite character beats of your work) ). Is this quality something you consciously developed in your work, or just organically happened out of your personality?
Richard: Thank you for the compliment about my gleeful vibe. I think what you are seeing is just my response to creating a particular character; that response will unavoidably reflect my own personality and whatever glee that gives off:-)
Nate: The Lords Of Salem: what was it like for you working on a Rob Zombie film, especially such an intense one? Fun experience?
Richard: I loved working for him. The films are intense; the set is the most relaxed, supportive atmosphere you can imagine. Rob (I’m sure you heard this before) is a great guy.
Nate: Carnivle: One of my favourite shows of all time. Your role, although brief, was very memorable for me. Did you have a sense of the story when filming that, were you given a lot to go on in terms of that psychiatrist and who he was dealing with? Have you seen the show and do you enjoy it?
Richard: I had a clear idea when I got to the set the way this psychiatrist would walk, talk; I wanted a moustache and spectacles. He should start out in too much control. I wanted there to be a contrast between the very obsessively organized person he is when we first see him and the nut he becomes. Scott Winant who was the director on the first episode I did was wonderfully supportive and collaborative. A splendid director.
Nate: You have a tremendous gift for comedy, as can been seen with your work on Seinfeld. Do you enjoy working in lighthearted, funny stuff like that? How was working laying Mr. Lippmann for you?
Richard: Everything depends on the script and the people you are doing it with. I loved doing Seinfeld; it was unique. But I enjoyed working with Scott Winant on creating the character I played in Carnivale every bit as much. And, I see something funny in almost everything. I guess it’s built into the way I perceive reality.
Nate: If you had to pick a few roles that you’ve played that have been your favourites, what would you say?
Richard: The roles that have been my favorites have been in intimate theater in Los Angeles. . Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, Mr. Prince in Rocket to the Moon, Moe Axelrod in Awake and Sing and–now I’m doing Awake and Sing again, playing Uncle Morty. The intimate theater movement in Los Angeles has been producing extraordinary productions for thirty years now; Spring Awakening, a brilliant Los Angeles intimate theater production, just opened on Broadway to a huge rave in The NY Times. Intimate theater has unfolded here because LA is a place where there are a lot of excellent actors who work in film and TV and, itch to work onstage. If you play your cards right, you can see five brilliant intimate theater productions in this town for the price of a Broadway ticket.
Nate: Any upcoming projects, film or otherwise, you are excited for and would like to mention?
Richard: Right now I’m doing a play in Los Angeles. It’s Awake and Sing at the Odyssey Theatre (odysseytheater.com) and it is really worth seeing. It’s a great American play by Clifford Odets in an extraordinary production. It just got a critics choice in the Los Angeles Times.
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My chat with veteran actor Pat Skipper
Greetings again! I just had the chance to interview veteran actor Pat Skipper, who has appeared in countless films including Erin Brockovich, Lethal Weapon 2, Demolition Man, Rob Zombie’s Halloween, Seabiscuit, Ed Gein, Independence Day, Predator 2 and more. He’s also shown up in many a TV Show, including Mad Men, ER, That 70’s Show, Charmed, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Bosch, The West Wing, Bones, Cold Case, Criminal Minds, Medium, Justified, The Mentalist and an intense character arc on The X Files as Bill Scully. He’s been a force to reckon with in the industry for a long while, and it was a pleasure to speak with him. Enjoy!
Nate: How did you find your way into acting, was it something you always knew you wanted do? What was your background before that?
Pat: I was a total TV head when I was a kid. I loved Lost in Space. I loved Billy Mumy (Will Robinson). Then, I saw him in a Twilight Zone re-run and he scared me to death. That’s the first notion that I had that someone was “acting.” I was amazed. But I got into doing it myself in the way that most kids from the sticks do. I got a part in the high school play. I probably had six lines. I was an Irish cop, I think. I realized that actors were “my people.” I kept doing it and never stopped.
Nate: Tell us a bit about your book, ‘The Working Actor’. How was the process of writing, and coming up with it? I will also include a link here in the blog post so that anyone reading who is interested can take a look.
Pat: I had been coaching a friend of mine, a young woman–a girl really–on auditions. I began to look back over my career. I saw my younger self reflected back at me while I was working with her. I thought, “I wish I had me for a teacher when I was 21.” So I started taking notes. Six drafts and 2.5 years later, I have my book, The Working Actor.
Nate: You have an impressive, intense character arc on The X Files. Did you enjoy creating the character of Bill Scully, and how was working on the series for you?
Pat: I loved X-Files. I was a big fan of the series. I thought then (and still think) that Gillian Anderson is one of the best actors alive. Playing opposite her was so engaging. She’s a tremendous athlete. She made me better.
Nate: I saw a comment from Michael Connelly on the website for your book. Did you know him prior to being cast in Bosch, or did you meet as a result of that. He’s a wicked author, and you are an incredible actor, I feel like he should write something just for you. Did you enjoy working on Bosch?
I was very excited to get cast in Bosch. I had been aquainted with the Producer Eric Overmyer 30 years before (when we were both starting out in New York). Something happened in that audiiton room. I just fell apart emotionally. I got the part. I was over the moon to meet Mike Connelly as I had read every single one of his novels. I couldn’t wait to meet him. When I did, he reminded me that I had worked with him before in a pilot for a TV show that he had written in the 90s! I didn’t remember him at all. I loved working with Titus Welliver. The guy is the quintessential Working Actor. He’s worked his way all the way to the top. Titus wrote the foreword to my book. That said, playing Sam Delacroix was brutal. Such an awful, selfish, morally corrupt and lost person. It cost me a bit of my soul to play him.
Nate: thank you for sharing that, and it’s super exiting about Bosch, I hope to start it soon. Any hobbies, interests besides acting and writing?
Pat: I had 12-year-old twins. They keep me busy. I play very mediocre golf. I read A LOT. I love football season.
Nate: Working with Rob Zombie on Halloween- Did he pursue you for that role? He tends to specifically request actors, and cast his films, even down to the minutest role, with old familiar faces and impeccably picked talent. Did you enjoy your experience on that film? Working with Scout, Dee Wallace and everyone?
Pat: Rob Zombie is a very sweet guy, surprisingly. And he’s remarkably inventive. He creates a very fertile work environment. Dee, Scout and I loved each other. He helped us create a very credible little family. Then he covered me with gallons of blood. I went to audition. That’s how I get all my jobs. No one has ever requested me for shit.
Nate: In your website bio it says you initially had trouble finding jobs just out of school. Care to elaborate? Specifically the esoteric nature of preparing for a performance or audition, versus the practical, professional way to go about searching for the work. The art vs. the know how etc.
Pat: Everybody has trouble starting out. Everybody. I had no idea how to audition for jobs. I totally sucked. I came to a revelation. If I was going to work in this business, I was going to have to create my own work. Cutting to the chase, I produced a hit play starring the then 21-year-old (and unknown) actress, Marisa Tomei. It opened doors–for both of us. I have come to the conclusion that Acting is not an art form. Acting is a sport. Acting is taught as if it were some fancy, magical, mystical thing. I advocate in my book (and with the people that I coach) that we should attack our careers–and our work–with the dedication and tenacity of professional athletes. Take the magic out. Work our asses off. Have a repeatable process. Learn through repetition. Work out to stay sharp. Never settle. Never stop getting better. Expect the best out of ourselves. Deliver every time.
Nate: Your career is primarily acting, and now the book. Have you ever considered getting into other aspects of filmmaking such as script writing, producing or directing your own projects?
Pat: I act. I coach actors. I wrote a book. That’s it.
Nate: What are some of your favourite roles you’ve gotten to play?
Pat: Bosch, X-Files, Bones, Boston Legal, Halloween. A lot of my best stuff has been in other projects that no one ever watched. So it goes.
Nate: Besides Bosch, any other projects coming up, cinematic or otherwise that you are excited for and would like to mention?
Pat: I’m a Working Actor. Right now, that means I’m looking for work. I auditioned for some TV show today. I’m running my studio. I’m coaching other people’s auditions. The book comes out in a month. I’m as busy as hell making that happen. It’s exhausting. It’s also kind of scary. Mostly, though, it’s pretty cool.
Nate: It’s the coolest profession anyone could hope to a part of indeed. Best of luck, I’ll see you soon in Bosch, and will most definitely be getting ahold of your book. Thanks so much!
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Episode 7: With Very Special Guest GARY YOUNG. Sidney Lumet’s THE OFFENCE, MAD MEN, HARRY BROWN and top five Sean Connery and Faye Dunaway
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Featured on Episode 7 is a very special guest, Gary Young writer of HARRY BROWN starring Michael Caine. We also discuss MAD MEN, Sidney Lumet’s THE OFFENCE and top five performances of Sean Connery and Faye Dunaway.
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After a year of leaks, money pours into security. But…
The year 2014 will long be remembered for a series of mega security breaches and attacks starting with the Target breach in late 2013 and ending with Sony Pictures Entertainment. In the case of Target breach, 40 million credit and debit cards were stolen and 70 million records stolen that included the name, address, email address and phone number of Target shoppers. Sony suffered a major online attack that resulted in employees’ personal data and corporate correspondence being leaked. The financial consequences and reputation damage of both breaches have been widely reported. Other well-publicized mega breaches in 2014 in order of magnitude were:
ebay (145 million people affected)
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (76 million households and 7 million small businesses affected)
Home Depot (56 million unique payment cards)
CHS community Health Systems (4.5 million people affected)
Michaels Stores (2.6 million people affected)
Nieman Marcus (1.1 million people affected)
Staples (point-of-sales systems at 115 of its more than 1,400 retail stores)
This year is predicted to be as bad or worse as more sensitive and confidential information and transactions are moved to the digital space and become vulnerable to attack. Will companies be prepared to deal with cyber threats? Are they taking steps to strengthen their cyber security posture? Ponemon Institute, with sponsorship from Identity Finder, conducted 2014: A Year of Mega Breaches to understand if and how organizations have changed their data protection practices as a result of these breaches.
Respondents believe security incidents such as Target and other mega breaches raised senior managements’ level of concern about how cyber crimes might impact their organizations. We surveyed 735 IT and IT security practitioners about the impact of the Target and other mega breaches on their IT budgets and compliance practices as well as data breaches their companies experienced. The participants in this study are knowledgeable about data or security breach incidents experienced by their companies. They are also very informed about the facts surrounding the Target and other mega breaches. Following are key steps companies have taken because of mega breaches:
More resources are allocated to preventing, detecting and resolving data breaches.
According to respondents, the Target breach did have a significant impact on the their organizations’ cyber defense. Sixty-one percent of respondents say the budget for security increased by an average of 34 percent. Most was used for SIEM, endpoint security and intrusion detection and prevention.
Senior management gets a wake up call and realizes the need for a stronger cyber defense posture.
More companies have the tools and personnel to do the following: prevent the breach (65 percent of respondents), detect the breach (69 percent of respondents), contain and minimize the breach (72 percent of respondents) and determine the root cause of the breach (55 percent of respondents). Sixty-seven percent of respondents say their organization made sure the IT function had the budget necessary to defend it from data breaches.
Operations and compliance processes are changing to prevent and detect breaches.
Sixty percent of respondents say they made changes to operations and compliance processes to establish incident response teams, conduct training and awareness programs and use data security effectiveness measures.
Many companies fail to prevent the breach with the technology they currently have.
With new investments, companies will hopefully prevent more data breaches. However, 65 percent of respondents say the attack evaded existing preventive security controls. Forty-six percent say the breach was discovered by accident.
Companies confident of understanding the root cause of the breach had incident response teams in place.
They also had the right security management tools and the expertise of a security consultant to help determine the root cause. After knowing the root cause, these companies stepped up their security training and enhanced their security monitoring practices.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on February 19, 2015 by Bob Sullivan.
Lessons from Anthem hack: Welcome to the post-Sony world; it's going to get ugly
Another day, another massive computer hack that sets millions of people in a tizzy about something they can’t control. The Anthem health data leak isn’t the Big One — that’s still coming, believe me — but it’s pretty big. Perhaps 80 million people now have to worry that a criminal gang has their name, birthday, email, Social Security number, and perhaps even their employment history and salary.
It’s easy to imagine all the bad things that can happen to you if that data gets in the hands of a professional criminal. Sure, consumers will get *another* offer of free credit monitoring — handy, because the Target free monitoring just expired. But really, that’s a bit like telling a man to boil water when a pregnant woman’s water breaks. Busy work.
What’s broken here is the system. What’s missing here is bold action. While Washington D.C. bickers over a new privacy law that enacts technological-era change at a glacial pace, hackers are running circles around our nation’s companies. Nobody I know who works in cybersecurity thinks things are going to get better. Last year’s Sony hack set the stage for this, and other stories you see this year. Computer criminals are about to abandon credit card database hacks. With the move to chip-enabled credit cards, stolen account numbers will soon have less value. So that migration has already begun. As I often say, fraud is like a water balloon. Squeeze one end, and the other end just gets bigger.
But there’s more going on here than chip card change. Sony taught hackers a valuable lesson: even data that might not seem valuable can be priceless if leveraged in the right way. The old thinking: Who cares about stealing a million emails? Most of them are boring drek. Get the payment card data. The new thinking: Grab everything, and we’ll figure out how to monetize it later. It only takes a few embarrassing emails to convince a CEO to stop a product launch, or cough up a few million dollars. Turning millions of credit card numbers into cash is hard work, involving an army of mules and real-world risk. Turning private data into an extortion payout is much easier.
So we see with the Anthem hack that, according to the company, criminals didn’t even seem interested in the payment card data. They wanted everything else. And now, like a hunter who uses every part of a dead pray, they will pick over the data and try monetize it in dozens of ways. New account fraud. Phishing. Extorting consumers. Perhaps, they’ve already tried to extort the company. Since victims do not have the option of canceling their birthdays or employment background, they will have to worry about this for a very long time.
Why? Anthem was warned. The FBI issued a warning last year that health care firms use archaic systems which are easy hacker targets. Why would Anthem leave such data in an unencrypted state, lying around for the taking? More important, why would Anthem have data on potentially millions of former customers, also sitting there for the taking?
The reason: Anthem didn’t see value in the data the way consumers do, and the way the hackers do. Notice that no medical information was stolen. That’s because it’s part of Anthem’s core business. Consumer information is not. Maintaining that is merely a cost. You see this pattern again and again. Why was Target’s credit card database stolen? Because Target isn’t a bank, it’s a department store. Why was Sony’s email stolen? Because it wasn’t a movie in production, it was just email.
Change must come. Data is everyone’s core business now. Firms need to actually take the protection of our data seriously, not merely say they do in letters revealing they’ve been hacked. Meanwhile, it’s time to work with the reality that millions of Americans have now permanently been exposed to identity theft through heist of their Social Security numbers. The right way to deal with that is simple: We need to devalue the stolen information. One modest proposal you will hear is to simply make all Social Security numbers public, thereby ending once and for all their use as a unique and “secret” identifier.
That kind of fresh thinking is the only way through this problem. And that kind of bold step could only be taken with leadership from the federal government. We’re still waiting.
See you in another week or two when the next big hack hits.
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This entry was posted in Uncategorized on February 19, 2015 by BobSulli.
Lessons from Anthem hack: Welcome to the post-Sony world; it’s going to get ugly
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Japanese Linguistics
A major offered by the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
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Areas of interest Asian Languages, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Asian Studies, Language Studies, Linguistics
Major code JPLN-MAJ
Academic career Undergraduate
Japanese Linguistics Major
Japanese Linguistics covers all aspects of linguistics as they pertain to the Japanese language—from issues in phonetics, phonology, and syntax to sociolinguistics, the history of the Japanese language and its teaching as a foreign language. A Japanese linguistics major provides students with a solid foundation upon which to develop interests in the Japanese language, its use and its structure. The Japanese linguistics major is designed to complement the Japanese language major. Knowledge of the Japanese language is required for some but not all courses in the Japanese linguistics major. Students are expected to have some familiarity with the Japanese language to be able to complete the major.
Upon completion of a Bachelor degree with a major in Japanese Linguistics, graduates will be able to:
Collect, organize and analyze linguistic data
Understand and analyze the link between language and various dimensions of culture.
Understand the social functions of language and the roles they play in culture.
Form hypotheses about Japanese language structure/language use and test those hypotheses against new data.
Demonstrate a deep understanding of processes of language change and variation, and the role of language in reflecting and constructing social identities.
Demonstrate a knowledge if issues in Japanese language policy and be able to take a role in the discussion of such issues
The course lists in the "Requirements" section below is a definitive list and includes all courses that can be counted towards the major, whether or not they are offered in the current year. For a list of courses that will be offered in the current year, please see the Summary of Courses page.
Bachelor of Asia-Pacific Studies (BAPST)
Bachelor of Asia-Pacific Studies (Year in Asia) (BAPYA)
Students may take courses outside of this list with advanced permission from the Undergraduate Convenor, provided the courses contribute to the major’s learning outcomes. The College of Asia & the Pacific encourages students to consider applying to take a Vice Chancellor’s undergraduate course (VCUG) as part of this major.
Please Note: To see the pre-2012 rules for this major, students can navigate to the 2011 version of Study@.
This major requires the completion of 48 units, which must include:
LING1001 Introduction to the Study of Language 6
JPNS2007 Japanese Linguistics 6
6 units from completion of the following course(s):
LING1002 Language and Society 6
LING2003 Introduction to Syntax 6
LING2010 Phonetics: Sounds of the World's Languages - Later Year 6
A minimum of 18 units must come from completion of courses from the following list:
ASIA2001 Language in Asia 6
ASIA3012 Readings in Asian Societies and Histories 6
ASIA 3013: Read Asian Soc & Hist_B
JPNS2009 Japanese Lexicon 6
JPNS2019 Japanese Phonetics and Phonology 6
JPNS2024 Japanese Grammar 6
JPNS3011 Language Variation and Change in the Japanese Archipelago 6
JPNS3012 Teaching Japanese: Content 6
JPNS3013 Japanese - English Translation 6
JPNS3014 Teaching Japanese: Method 6
A maximum of 12 units may come from completion of courses from the following list:
Linguistic (LING) or Language Studies (LANG) courses
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Calcium Isotopes in Fossilized Teeth Suggest Early Homo Nursed Longer Than Other Hominin Infants
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Science Advances, AAAS—Using calcium isotopes present in the enamel of fossilized teeth as a proxy for breast milk intake, scientists report* that early Homo infants nursed longer and their mothers experienced greater intervals between births compared to other South African hominins. The authors say their method offers a potential way to further explore the weaning behaviors during the evolution of hominid and mammals more broadly. Hominin nursing behavior has proven difficult to study, with researchers relying on deductions about body size and dental development from fossil records. However, observations that low calcium isotopes in modern human breastmilk are mirrored in infant enamel composition suggest scientists can turn to high resolution analysis of isotopes in ancient teeth for answers. Here, Théo Tacail et al. measured calcium isotope in teeth from 12 Australopithecus africanus, 18 Paranthropus robustus and seven early Homo specimens. They also analyzed teeth of mammals that coexisted with the hominins, including seven browsers, seven carnivores and 10 grazers, as well as four modern gorilla teeth for comparison. Tacail and colleagues found no clear relationship between calcium isotope value and dental age in A. africanus and only a slight correlation in P. robustus. In contrast, they found that calcium isotope levels in early Homo infants increased substantially with dental age, suggesting early Homo infants relied on milk from their mothers while infants from the other two hominin species consumed solid adult food and some breast milk. The researchers caution that it is difficult to draw conclusions about A. africanus and P. robustus, because the calcium isotope values in their breast milk are unknown.
Tooth morphology is obviously distinctive between early Homo (right) and Paranthropus robustus (left) but differences also exist in the calcium stable isotope compositions that reveal specific nursing behaviors. Vincent Balter, CNRS
Article Source: Science Advances – A publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
*“Calcium isotopic patterns in enamel reflect different nursing behaviors among South African early hominins ,” by T. Tacail; J.E. Martin; F. Arnaud-Godet; V. Balter at CNRS in Lyon, France; T. Tacail; J.E. Martin; F. Arnaud-Godet; V. Balter at LGLTPE in Lyon, France; T. Tacail; J.E. Martin; F. Arnaud-Godet; V. Balter at Univ. Lyon in Lyon, France; T. Tacail at University of Bristol in Bristol, UK; J.F. Thackeray; J. Braga at University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa; T.E. Cerling at University of Utah in Salt Lake, UT; J. Braga at CNRS in Toulouse, France; J. Braga at Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France.
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Mario, Soviet style.
kyootfox pointed out a particular piece by the inimitable bob_basset: Gloomy Rabbit. Dour, but still so adorable. ^_^
If you've got a dead first generation iPod mini, here's an excellent article on how to replace the hard drive with a Compact Flash card, supposedly offering improved battery life into the bargain.
Collaborative game design, of a sort, in MIT's The Restaurant Game. They're seeking at least a thousand people to have a go (OS X and Windows), with everyone's names winding up in the credits, ranked according to the 'quality of their performance'. The finished title will be entered into the 2008 Independent Games Festival. "This project attempts to address two frustrations I experienced as a professional game developer. 1) Convincing human social behavior is difficult to model with existing hand crafted AI systems. 2) Play testing by people outside of the development team typically comes too late to have a major impact on the final product. This experiment aims to generate AI behaviors that conform to the way players actually choose to interact with other characters and the environment; behaviors that are convincingly human because they capture the nuances of real human behavior and language."
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Music: Shilum Bamba - Skeleton Kiss
In which we see the fun of dancing in ze fur
Two FC2007 videos just came out! bigbluefox's in two parts, ein und zwei (MPEG-4/AVI, about 450MB each part, three hours in total), and timduru's, over here (640x480 MPEG-2, 430MB, ten minutes), or for the bandwidth constrained, over here (512x384 H.264, 50MB).
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runs from 19-26th October, at various venues in the city, with events including Festival of the Spoken Nerd (inc. Piff the Magic Dragon), The Magic of Reality: An Evening with Richard Dawkins, The Big Bang Machine: Engineering the LHC, and Sciscreen: Inception, with a presentation and Q&A session with Double Negative, the SFX house responsible.
This visualisation of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony plays a piano roll style display, showing the activity of the various sections of the orchestra simultaneously. Rather geekily fascinating! (Via moth_wingthane)
schneelocke might be interested to learn of a new Brandt Brauer Frick release on Oct 25, "Mr. Machine"; aurgasm recently highlighted "Pretend" from there, alongside R W John, from their debut "You Make Me Real". A good feed to have in one's LJ roster - the guy's very good at covering quite a lot of musical ground, offering up one or two sample tracks each time. (Are there other similar sites/feeds I should be following? last.fm and the like are good for stumbling on interesting discoveries, but a more curated approach like this also clearly has merit)
Check out this story spottacus reposted from the SJ Mercury, on MRI reconstruction of images people had seen. True, the reconstructions are fuzzy, but for this early stage of the technique, the results are quite astonishing - and they imagine being able to extend the process in the future to moving images, such as your dreams.
Elisabeth Sladen's daughter, Sadie Miller, gives a little personal insight into the person behind Sarah Jane Smith.
If you try to access a webpage blocked in Qatar, the error page you receive instead is rather less dry than one might expect. ^_^
Can't touch me.
A photography competition some peeps may want to enter, open to EU & Swiss residents, with category winners receiving appropriate lenses, and a top prize of a Kenya safari, plus a Canon 7D & 15-85mm lens. No entry fees involved. (As it's a Canon-sponsored competition, all the equipment on offer is theirs)
There's a 20 min fan-made film of Welcome to Hoxford, a werewolf prison romance.
And, a stop-motion animated short: Out of a Forest that's well worth seeing. Bittersweet, to be sure, but powerfully atmospheric in its six minutes, and thoroughly furry.", "url": "https://porsupah.livejournal.com/209861.html", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6017/6209189116_df758a139d_z.jpg" }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "The Mystery of the Supranational Rabbit", "image": "https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/69935939/1402110" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Journal porsupah", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://porsupah.livejournal.com", "contentUrl": "https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/111009377/1402110" } } }
Mood: chipper
Aerial buns
The London Science Festival 2011 runs from 19-26th October, at various venues in the city, with events including Festival of the Spoken Nerd (inc. Piff the Magic Dragon), The Magic of Reality: An Evening with Richard Dawkins, The Big Bang Machine: Engineering the LHC, and Sciscreen: Inception, with a presentation and Q&A session with Double Negative, the SFX house responsible.
And, a stop-motion animated short: Out of a Forest that's well worth seeing. Bittersweet, to be sure, but powerfully atmospheric in its six minutes, and thoroughly furry.
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Date of Issue May 4, 1998
Quantity 7,000,000
Perforation or Dimension 12.5
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Quantity Produced - 350,000
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They were dark caverns, pits in which men toiled for hours, digging, burrowing, excavating to uncover valuable resources. They were the sites around which Canadian villages were erected, communities formed, railways were constructed and shipping ports were built: Canada's mines.
Recalling an industry that helped to shape our nation, Canada Post is pleased to release a single, domestic-rate commemorative stamp on May 4 on the occasion of the centenary of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum.
Morien, Cape Breton was the site of one of the first Canadian mining projects in 1720. By the 1900s, the industry had spread across western Canada and into the northern Quebec and Ontario. Today, Canada is the world's largest producer of potash and uranium, and is a leading producer of natural gas, nickel, elemental sulphur, asbestos, cadmium, aluminium, platinum group metals, titanium concentrate, copper, gypsum, cobalt, gold, molybdenum, lead, and crude oil. The mining industry contributes significantly to the Canadian economy, operating approximately 300 mines - metal, non-metal, and coal - which employ about 300,000 Canadians.
Concurrent with Canada's early strides in mining were its first discoveries of petroleum. Though the country's initial triumphs took place in southwestern Ontario, today Alberta is the top Canadian producer of natural gas and crude oil. The Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum was created one hundred years ago as a national association of mineral, metal, material and energy professionals in Canada. The Institute conducts studies, publishes technical papers, arranges conferences and courses, and maintains close ties with government departments. It has more than 12,000 national members who work in industry, government and academia, as well as 10,000 other individual members and 200 corporate members.
The stamp is a handsome collage that blends background images of mineral and petroleum excavation with the bold silhouette of a miner's pick in the foreground.
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Dodge resurrected the Power Wagon moniker back in 2005 to denote its top-spec 4×4 2500 HD and it has rolled on since, through the Daimler-Chrysler divorce, through the lash-up with Fiat, and through the Ram brand’s split from Dodge.
Don’t let the familiar exterior fool you – the latest Power Wagon has received big changes underneath the sheet metal that make it one of the most appealing heavy duty pickups on the market.
Ram comprehensively redesigned the Power Wagon’s ladder frame with high-strength 50 KSI steel, including eight separate cross-members, hydroformed main rails and fully boxed rear rails. The changes add up to a stronger, more mass-efficient foundation for towing and hauling.
A six-speed automatic is the only transmission offered, and the standard two-speed transfer case includes a 2.64:1 low range and an old-school manual shift lever on the tunnel.
This is no desert-running Ford SVT Raptor. With a two-inch lift over normal Ram 2500 4x4s, an electronically detachable front anti-roll bar, and solid axles front and rear, the Power Wagon is a traditional, multipurpose 4×4.
Based on the 2500 4×4 Crew Cab, all trim levels ride on 33-inch Goodyears mounted on 17-inch wheels, and have 14.5 inches of ground clearance (up 2.5 from a standard Ram 2500). Approach angles have been increased to 34 degrees, departure is now at 23.5 degrees, and the breakover angle has been nudged to 25.5 degrees. Ram claims the new trucks can ford 30 inches of water, which is just 10 shy of fording a Ford GT-40. Fore-aft bars link the transfer case and fuel-tank skid plates, affording a measure of underbody protection for when the ground clearance isn’t quite enough.
This brute, though, is nearly as refined on pavement as a regular Ram 2500, except for the light hum generated by its off-road tires. At 7324 pounds, the Power Wagon is about 300 pounds heavier than a comparable Ram 2500 HD. The dash to 60 mph takes an additional half-second at 8.4 seconds, and the off-road meats stretched the 70-to-0-mph braking distance to 211 feet.
The 33-inch-tall Goodyears afford excellent traction on loose, rocky trails. Locking front and rear differentials provide additional low-range mobility over boulders and up sharp climbs.
Three Power Wagon trim levels offer a wide range of entry points: The mid-level SLT ($50,340) has a flashy grille and stickers, but the simpler Tradesman ($45,690) and range-topping Laramie ($56,215) are more reserved, even if the latter has additional chrome bits and interior amenities, such as leather seats. If you’re worried that a fancy trim level has somehow wussified the Power Wagon, don’t—even the Laramie is worthy of the venerable badge.
The new Power Wagons also feature a significantly upgraded electrical system with twin alternators. One is rated at 220 amps, while the other is rated at 160, offering a combined 380 amps of stump-pulling current. No, really. You can pull stumps. There’s a 12,000-lb Warn winch hidden in the bumper. If the battery starts to run low, computers will selectively shut off systems to preserve it.
That Thing Got a Hemi?
Indeed, the Power Wagon is available only with 6.4 liters of rumbling Hemi V8 glory. The powerplant teams with a six-speed automatic and produces 410 horsepower and 429 lb-ft of torque. A Multiple-Displacement System (MDS) shuts off four cylinders under light load conditions to conserve fuel.
The 6.7-liter Cummins inline-six turbodiesel available in the standard 2500 – which produces up to 850 lb-ft of torque – isn’t offered in the Power Wagon.
As one would expect, four-wheel-drive comes standard. Maximum towing capacity is rated at 11,200 pounds, and the truck boasts a 1,903-pound payload.
Improved Interior
The Power Wagon is just one year removed from a significant cabin overhaul. The same basic cabin design remains but some materials were upgraded, while new color themes are present throughout. More soft touch materials are spread throughout the truck’s interior, and the HVAC and multimedia controls were redesigned.
A Uconnect infotainment system with a 5.0-inch touchscreen (not to be confused with the more sophisticated optional Uconnect access system) provides voice command control for cell phone users via Bluetooth – including voice text reply – in addition to streaming audio and USB charging.
Ram’s gauge cluster features a 3.5 or 7-inch (depending on trim level) information screen, and a Sprint-powered wireless system is available for buyers who need to remain connected.Those who need extra stowage space can spec Ram Box storage bins capable of being locked and unlocked remotely.
The Power Wagon is available with Chrysler’s Uconnect Access infotainment system (for a complete description of Uconnect Access, check out Leftlane’s Spotlight On: Uconnect in-depth article). Generally regarded as one of the more user-friendly infotainment setups on the market, Uconnect Access integrates most of the truck’s audio, navigation and climate control functions into one unit. An 8.4-inch touchscreen mounted on the dashboard is the central component of the system, but redundant buttons and knobs for climate and audio volume and tuning are also included.
Uconnect Access features a voice command system that allows the driver to place phone calls, use the sound system, input navigation destinations and more without taking his or her hands off the wheel. Other notable aspects of the system include the ability to function as a Wi-Fi hotspot over a 3G network – for an additional monthly fee – and downloadable applications such as Bing search.
Trim Level Breakdown
The Power Wagon is offered only as Crew Cab (four-door) model with a bed measuring 6’4″. Three trim levels are available: Power Wagon Tradesman, Power Wagon and the luxed-up Power Wagon Laramie.
The Power Wagon Tradesman comes standard with A/C, a six-speaker AM/FM with AUX and USB inputs, power heated mirrors, 17-inch aluminum wheels, a front winch, tow hooks, a black radiator grille, black door handles and fog lights.
The Power Wagon adds Bluetooth connectivity and audio streaming, cruise control, full power accessories, a power-sliding rear window, an auto-dimming rear-view mirror and a trim-specific radiator grille.
The Power Wagon Laramie adds leather seats, a premium audio system, Uconnect Access dual-zone A/C and woodgrain dash and door panels. On the outside, the extra features include body-colored fender flares, chrome-plated mirrors, bumpers and grille as well as unique badging.
The Power Wagon is build for low-speed crawling; where the ground is wet and sticky and there are a lot of rocks that want to keep your oil pan as a souvenir of your visit. The Ram’s also a three quarter-ton truck that’s made to tow and haul.
Ford and GM have both offered off-road trim packages for their pickups. Like, with “off-road” actually in the name. Ford’s FX4 Off-Road featured modestly more robust shocks, skid plates, and some dress-up items. Chevy and GMC’s Z71 Off-Road trucks featured (and continues to feature) modestly more robust shocks, skid plates, and some dress-up items.
Rough, tough and ready to rumble off-road, the Power Wagon is a special variant of the heavy-duty Ram 2500 that’s optimized for climbing over boulders and muscling through deep ruts. Like the rest of the Ram’s HD pickup lineup, it’s received several updates over the past few years that added significantly more output, capability and technology to the big truck.
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Fangio has found the right mix on Denver's defense
By ARNIE STAPLETON - Oct. 14, 2019 05:48 PM EDT
Denver Broncos running back Phillip Lindsay, center, runs with the ball during the first half of an NFL football game against the Tennessee Titans, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019, in Denver. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Vic Fangio has settled on the right mix to restore Denver's defensive dominance even without pass rusher Bradley Chubb and cornerback Bryce Callahan.
The Broncos (2-4) collected seven sacks and three takeaways for the first time since 1984 in their 16-0 win over Tennessee on Sunday, putting them in prime position to get back into the AFC West race Thursday night when they host the Kansas City Chiefs (4-2) and their ailing quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
That seemed far-fetched two weeks ago when the Chiefs were rolling and the Broncos were reeling. The franchises' fortunes have flipped with KC losing twice at home and Denver ending four-game skids at home and on the road.
Plugging in players at all three levels is what helped Fangio get his first wins.
Up front, he put Mike Purcell at nose tackle and moved Shelby Harris to defensive end. He inserted inside linebacker Alexander Johnson into the lineup and he's collected 19 tackles, 1½ sacks, two QB hits and a forced fumble in his first two NFL starts.
The Broncos' biggest bugaboo has been their secondary because Callahan, who signed a three-year, $21 million deal in free agency to follow Fangio to Denver, reinjured his surgically repaired foot in July and hasn't played since.
"It's been frustrating for everybody, including him," general manager John Elway said, adding he was unsure "if he'll be able to get back this year or not."
Fortunately for Fangio, tone-setter Kareem Jackson is back from a sore hamstring and giving CB Davontae Harris his first NFL start Sunday was a spectacular success. Along with Chris Harris Jr. and Justin Simmons, Jackson played all 70 snaps.
The Broncos claimed him off waivers from Cincinnati on Sept. 1.
"What's that saying? One man's trash is another man's treasure. You know, he didn't make Cincinnati's squad, so we're glad to have him," Fangio said.
It was the secondary's sound play that Fangio credited with allowing Von Miller, DeMarcus Walker, Derek Wolfe, Shelby Harris and Johnson to get in on the sack party Sunday.
Accordingly, it was the pass pressure that helped produce the trio of takeaways .
"We're very excited in where we're at," Walker said. "We fought adversity in the beginning of the year and it's not like our first few losses were blowouts. We had a chance in every single loss. We knew that we were capable and we just had to keep working."
WHAT'S WORKING
Walker had his first career multiple-sack game Sunday with a pair of takedowns on inside rushes, giving him a team-leading three sacks overall. "I was picked two for a reason," said Walker, who had one sack in each of his first two seasons and is finally showing everyone why Elway selected the former Florida State star and rare inside pass rusher in the second round of the 2017 NFL draft.
WHAT NEEDS HELP
The offense. Since scoring TDs on their first two possessions at Los Angeles, the Broncos have reached the end zone just once in their last 22 drives, subtracting kneel-downs. Teams are doubling WR Courtland Sutton in the red zone and nobody's picked up the slack.
The RB tandem of Phillip Lindsay and Royce Freeman. Lindsay ran for 70 yards and the game's only TD and Freeman led the team with five catches for 42 yards to go with 34 yards rushing. Lindsay (544) and Freeman (429) are the only pair of running back teammates with at least 400 yards in 2019.
STOCK DOWN
RG Ronald Leary has surpassed grabby LT Garett Bolles for the team lead in penalties. Leary has two false starts to go with six holding calls — and that doesn't count his holding back of LG Dalton Risner, already the best O-lineman on the roster, from doing too many interviews lest the rookie get too much pub.
Unknown is the status of WR Emmanuel Sanders (knee) and RT Ja'Wuan James (knee).
KEY NUMBER
0 points. "Shutouts are hard to come by in this league," Fangio said. "We need somebody to do an analytics study about how often they do come." OK, there's about seven in a season of 256 games, or 2.7% of the time. Intriguingly, Fangio worked 32 seasons as an NFL assistant and his teams posted 14 shutouts in 512 games, exactly the league average.
The Broncos need to keep their ground game rolling Thursday night, not only to keep Mahomes & Co. off the field but to capitalize on KC's biggest weakness . Over their last four games, the Chiefs have allowed an average of 190 yards a game and 4.97 yards a carry. They've also allowed eight rushing TDs in those games.
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The disclosure of climate data from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia - Science and Technology Committee Contents
Memorandum submitted by Lalu Hanuman (CRU 07)
1. As a former postgraduate student of the University of East Anglia [UEA], and a British Citizen, I would like to comment on your committee's planned review of the disclosure of climate data from the Climatic Research Unit [CRU] at the UEA. In particular the issue of : "Are the terms of reference and scope of the Independent Review announced on 3 December 2009 by UEA, adequate".
2. The current furore that the UEA has created by it's falsifying of climate change information, has undermined global climate change action at the recent Copenhagen talks, with some countries relying on these UEA revelations to question the validity of climate change. The resultant catastrophic effect of the UEA's actions on future generations, cannot be exaggerated, as it has helped delay united action against looming climate change. A robust and thorough transparent inquiry is called for. Sir Muir Russell's review is inadequate at least as far as point 3 of his remit goes ie "Review CRU's compliance or otherwise with the University's policies and practices regarding requests under the Freedom of Information Act and the Environmental Information Regulations for the release of data".
3. From my experience as a former postgraduate student of the UEA, I have documentary evidence that the UEA as an institution and it's agents have often indulged in falsifications, distortions, and misrepresentations. Hence the CRU in distorting information was manifestly in compliance with the University's policies and practices. There is an urgent need for a wider remit, namely to look into the institutional failings of the UEA itself.
4. Declaration of interests: None.
5. DPA: I give permission for my name, and contact details, to be released.
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The Times – Register, 24th November 2012
(Text transcript follows scanned image)
Stephen Anderton
Stone and concrete are longstanding bedfellows. In a garden centre you can see all manner of concrete paving slabs alongside natural water-worn pebbles, boulders, and hand-finished granite ‘Japanese’ lanterns made in China. At Chelsea Flower Show, travertine and fine Indian sandstone sit beside imaginative and innovative poured concrete, with only a few stone snobs objecting. We accept that concrete and natural stone can sit happily enough together, so long as they are well used.
The conjunction of real and artificial stone (sand and cement, concrete) has been commonplace in English gardens ever since the development of Portland cement in the 19th century, and its greatest practitioner, building naturalistic craggy landscapes, was the Hertfordshire firm of Pulham and Sons which closed in 1939 after almost 140 years. Their proudest invention was Pulhamite, a blend of suitably coloured sand and Portland cement applied to a core of rock and brick rubble, and tooled and fingered to look like natural, stratified rock. As Coade Stone was to fine statuary, so Pulhamite was to craggy rockwork.
Dewstow Lion Grotto
A recent book, Rock Landscapes: The Pulham Legacy, by Claude Hitching, is the result of many years’ patient research, pulling together fascinating information on the Pulhams’ work, which extended from grand gardens, such as Sandringham and Waddesdon, to modest suburban villas. It included rock gardens, grottoes, ferneries, follies, fountains, garden ornaments, bridges, and even ornate ceilings. And, as in our modern gardens, the Pulhams were perfectly happy to mix, in the same eyeful, smooth balustrades and ornate fountains with craggy, naturalistic, fern-clad rocks – natural or artificial or both – and all slashed by a pumped ‘waterfall’.
It has been said that the Pulhams’ work was a link between the craggy landscapes of the 18th-century Picturesque style of gardens, through the Victorian love of rockwork to the late 20th-century rock gardens which did their best to imitate accurately the rock strata and terrain found in nature. Certainly James Pulham, in his Picturesque Ferneries and Rock Garden Scenery, or the Pulhamite System of Forming Rocks, was delighted to quote Wordsworth: ·
There is a spot, as you may know,
If ever you to Langdale go:
Into a asm a mighty block
Hath fallen and made a bridge of rock.
The gulf is deep below,
Worn by the force of water so,
And in a basin, black and small,
Descends a lofty waterfall.’
Whether the Pulhams were building in Pulhamite, or in real stone because it was locally plentiful, their intention was clear: ‘By this naturalistic system of forming rocks, we try to avoid doing anything contrary to nature or to what is consistent with geology, to appear as natural as possible. . .’ Much of the Pulhams’ work has been lost, as Hitching admits. Their 1914 roof garden at Selfridges on Oxford Street is long gone, although it preceded by 22 years the 1½-acre Kensington roof garden, built above the former department store Derry and Toms (1936-1938), which can still be visited today.
Selfridges Roof Garden (Photo provided by Selfridges Archive / History of Advertising) and Madeira Walk at Ramsgate
But there is plenty of other Pulham work to be seen. Dewstow, near Chepstow, is one of their most ambitious projects – a series of underground caverns and tunnels that hark back to that most Picturesque 18th century garden, Hawkstone, in Shropshire. So also does their tunnel-riddled artificial sea cliff at Bawdsey Manor, Suffolk. Dewstow, made circa 1895-1912, was forgotten and covered in soil until the first years of this century, when it was revived by the new owner, and its best remaining features excavated and opened to the public.
Dewstow has the usual Pulham mixture of styles: the fern-clad dripping grotto separated from its path by an immaculate, High Victorian cut stone balustrade, the tunnels made to look as if they were cut through living rock but bizarrely supported by the odd Classical column. It is as if all this would-be naturalism was a game, a delight, a piece of fun.
The Pulhams also worked in the public arena. At Ramsgate there still exists a Pulhamite cliff along Madeira Walk, built in effect as a retaining wall, an ornamental feature commissioned as one might commission a winter garden or a flower garden.
The contract specified that it should be “of brick burr or other suitable rough material and to have plenty of hollows and pockets for planting in. The whole surface to be covered with the Contractors’ special Pulhamite cement of different quiet tones of colour, so that, when done, the rocks will appear massive, bold and picturesque. . “ Surely Pulham wrote his own brief here. The cliff still stands today, curious as ever among the traffic.
At the RHS’s garden Wisley, given to the Society in 1903, the Pulhams built a two-acre rock garden which, although now much repaired, is still one of Britain’s best known rock gardens, along with those of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and Edinburgh.
In the years alter Pulhams closed in 1939, rock gardening was to take itself far more seriously. The countless rock gardens made at Chelsea, even up to the 1990s, set out to imitate far more accurately a real rock landscape, although, in the 1930s and beyond, suburban domestic rockeries flourished – distinctly un-naturalistic mounds of soil scattered with rocks in the plum pudding manner and despised by gardening’s taste police.
Large rock gardens at Chelsea are now rare, not least because of the public’s awareness of the need to preserve our natural landscapes of water-wom limestone from which so many rockery stones were stripped. At Harlow Carr garden in Yorkshire, a water-worn rockery was actually removed, rather than repaired, as a bad example to the public.
The rock garden today is most commonly the preserve of gardeners keen to grow high-alpine plants in our lowland conditions. They like to create the ultimate rocky planting conditions: stone (often slate) whose strata are arranged vertically, like a toast rack, producing long thin slots into which alpine plants can put down long roots for cool moisture, but still be mercifully dry at the neck during a muggy lowland winter. It is a far cry from anything the Pulhams made. Their kind of naturalism was big, and jolly.
Rock Landscapes: The Pulham Legacy by Claude Hitching (Garden Art Press) £35.
Posted on November 30, 2012 December 1, 2012 by Claude HitchingPosted in ReviewsTagged . . James Pulham and Son, madeira walk, Rock LandscapesL The Pulham Legacy, Selfridges, Stephen Anderton.
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St. Nick Raised The Dead, So Can We: Charlatan Protégé Of Bethel Church
By News Division / December 22, 2016
St. Nicholas of Tolentino Reviving a Child by Garofalo, circa 1530
Have you heard of the DRT? The Dead Raising Team? It’s an independent ministry operated by Tyler Johnson as part of his One Glance Ministries. As its name implies, the “ministry” focuses on raising the dead. Johnson is a graduate of Bethel Church’s “School of Supernatural Ministry.” Because … where else would you go for heresy, blasphemy, and Scriptural defiance but Bill Johnson and Kris Vallotton’s portal of demonic doctrines?
(For more on Johnson, go HERE. For more on Bethel, go HERE.)
Johnson just sent out a blanket email of a Christmas YouTube video he published last year entitled “Did Santa Raise The Dead?” The subtext of his email answers this with the affirming question “Did you know that St. Nic raised the dead?”
Chapel of The Holy Arms of St. Nicholas
According to the charismatic false teacher Johnson, “It’s said that he [St. Nick] raised 100 children from the dead.”
This isn’t a new tale. It’s been popular mythology in Roman Catholicism for hundred of years. The apostate Catholics, like the apostates coming out of Bethel, laud anything miraculous regardless of their Scriptural veracity or Biblical compliance. According to CatholicCulture.org, the Chapel of the Holy Arms in Tolentino, Italy even has the two severed limbs of St. Nicholas’ enshrined. The arms of the inspiring “saint” behind Santa Claus were rediscovered there in 1926.
Here’s the story that Johnson tells in this, “oh, by the way, buy our new book” video.
“St. Nick was in prayer in an area where there was a famine. He got a word of knowledge that there was a wicked innkeeper who, because he couldn’t give meat to the people staying in his inn, went out into the street and found three children, butchered them up – cut up their bodies – and then stuck their bodies in a brining barrel to cure the meat.”
It is, by the way, this “word of knowledge” that Johnson sources as the notion of Santa’s omniscience. “He knows if you’ve been bad or good,” according to the children’s Christmas tune, comes from this dead raising tale of the Catholic saint.
“St. Nick sees this whole thing in a vision, goes into the town, finds the inn that he was in the vision, confronts the wicked innkeeper. The wicked innkeeper takes him down to this barrel. St. Nick prays over the barrel and then tells the innkeeper to open the barrel. The innkeeper opened the barrel and three children crawled out alive and well. Raised from the dead.”
The purpose of Johnson’s retelling of this Catholic myth is to point to the many “creative miracles” that God is still doing. According to Johnson’s website, his own “ministry” claims “15 resurrections to date,” evidence that God is still creating miracles by re-creating and re-animating the dead.
Johnson gives the argument so often heard when a charismatic is challenged for a Biblical proof text that “signs and wonder” gifts are continuing today. Jesus was dead for three days, he says. Lazarus was dead four days, but God brought them back to life “because God is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” (We’d offer Andrew Rappaport’s response to this claim HERE)
“Sometimes we can feel like Santa threatens the real meaning of Christmas,” says this charlatan. “But in reality, if we understand where Santa Claus came from, St. Nick points to Christ. His whole life honors God.”
Umm. No. Just No.
It’s following this when Johnson encourages the viewer to buy his latest book. I, of course, do not encourage you to buy his book.
Instead, I encourage you to do as Christ exhorted, “abide in my word.” (John 8:31) Then you won’t be, like so many, likely to wander off the narrow path with the ear-tickling doctrines of demons (1 Timothy 4:1) that come from the likes of Bethel and its protégés.
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Goober's Contest #219
Friday, December 13, 05:30 pm on WTLW
Description: After a silly argument with Goober about the inflation of his tires, Floyd declares that he will never return to Wally's Filling Station. He adds that his new gas station runs a contest that he has already won $4. Wally has noticed the decline in business and attributes it to these contests his competitors are running. He puts Goober in charge of a cash-giveaway where a total of $200 will be awarded. There will be twenty $2 winners, twenty $3 winners, fourteen $5 winners and three $5 winners. However, when Goober goes to the printers', he inadvertently writes down the various amounts as well as the total $200. The printers assume that the grand prize is $200 and deliver the game cards. The contest works as Wally hoped and business is booming. Andy eventually convinces Floyd into coming back to Wally's where he promptly receives the $200 winning game card. He asks Andy to tell Goober that he will return later to pick up his prize. When Goober realizes his mistake, he is horrified. Following Andy's advice, Goober confesses his blunder to Floyd, explaining that Wally cannot afford to award the money. Floyd is outraged and accuses Goober of defrauding him. He threatens to take the matter to court. Andy tries to resolve the situation by arresting Goober and locking him in jail. As Andy predicted, when Floyd sees his friend behind bars, he has a change of heart, realizing Goober made an honest mistake.
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2019-12-13 17:30:00 UTC 2019-12-13T18:00:00+00:00 2019-12-13 17:30:00 UTC 2019-12-13 18:00:00 UTC Andy Griffith: Goober's Contest (WTLW) After a silly argument with Goober about the inflation of his tires, Floyd declares that he will never return to Wally's Filling Station. He adds that his new gas station runs a contest that he has already won $4. Wally has noticed the decline in business and attributes it to these contests his competitors are running. He puts Goober in charge of a cash-giveaway where a total of $200 will be awarded. There will be twenty $2 winners, twenty $3 winners, fourteen $5 winners and three $5 winners. However, when Goober goes to the printers', he inadvertently writes down the various amounts as well as the total $200. The printers assume that the grand prize is $200 and deliver the game cards. The contest works as Wally hoped and business is booming. Andy eventually convinces Floyd into coming back to Wally's where he promptly receives the $200 winning game card. He asks Andy to tell Goober that he will return later to pick up his prize. When Goober realizes his mistake, he is horrified. Following Andy's advice, Goober confesses his blunder to Floyd, explaining that Wally cannot afford to award the money. Floyd is outraged and accuses Goober of defrauding him. He threatens to take the matter to court. Andy tries to resolve the situation by arresting Goober and locking him in jail. As Andy predicted, when Floyd sees his friend behind bars, he has a change of heart, realizing Goober made an honest mistake. /wtlw/airlist/525/detail.ics
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Greens will show solidarity with unemployed workers every step of the way
The Greens said today ahead of the debate on their bill to increase Newstart and Youth Allowance by $75 a week on Monday, that this is part of their on-going campaign to increase Newstart.
“We are campaigning for an increase to Newstart, as is the community sector and many in the business sector.
“Votes in Parliament send a message and every single vote is a show of solidarity and adds to the pressure to increase Newstart. Politicians can’t forget that.
“Every single parliamentary vote is part of the campaign to increase Newstart.
“The Greens have and will continue to work alongside unemployed workers and the community every step of the way.
“Those in Parliament who support an increase to Newstart should vote for their professed values.
“Private Members Bills can be powerful. The Marriage Equality Bill was a Private Members Bill. In 2012 I introduced and the Parliament passed a bill that helped address petrol sniffing.
"When the people in Parliament work for their community, we can do powerful things, together.
“The Greens went to the election with a fully costed policy platform including an increase to Newstart.”
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New York Charged Grafton Thomas With Attempted Murder for Assaulting Jews With a Machete. Why Are the Feds Prosecuting Him for the Same Attack?
A crime in Monsey leads to a redundant prosecution that hinges on the defendant's anti-Semitism.
Jacob Sullum | 12.31.2019 3:30 PM
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Grafton Thomas, the suspect in Saturday's horrifying machete attack on Hasidic Jews in Monsey, New York, was arrested over the weekend and charged with five counts of attempted murder, a Class A-1 felony punishable by 15 years to life in prison, and one count of first-degree burglary, a Class B felony punishable by five to 25 years in prison. Yesterday he was charged with five federal hate crimes, each of which could result in a life sentence or the death penalty. A good question, rarely asked in cases like this, is why the federal charges, which are based on the same conduct as the state charges, are appropriate or necessary.
Thomas is accused of violating 18 USC 247, which makes it a federal crime to intentionally and forcibly obstruct "any person in the enjoyment of that person's free exercise of religious beliefs" when "the offense is in or affects interstate or foreign commerce." That crime is punishable by "imprisonment for any term of years or for life" or by execution if it involves "an attempt to kill."
The criminal complaint filed by FBI Special Agent Julie Brown notes that Thomas attacked people who were attending a Chanukah party, which included "lighting candles and reciting prayers" (the blessings said while lighting the candles), at a rabbi's home, which was next door to a synagogue and was itself considered a "place of worship." Thomas' violent invasion thus interfered with "the free exercise of religious beliefs."
Did he do so intentionally? Brown notes that the victims were "members of the Hasidic community and were, thus, easily identifiable as adherents to the Jewish faith." She also cites evidence discovered during a search of Thomas' home that seems relevant to his motive.
A handwritten journal included the statement that "the 'Hebrew Israelites' took from the 'powerful ppl (ebinoid Israelites),'" apparently a reference to the belief, promoted by the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, that African Americans are the true descendants of the ancient Israelites, while Jews falsely claim that lineage. Thomas wondered in his journal "why ppl mourned for anti-Semitism when there is Semitic genocide." Brown says he "referr[ed] to 'Adolf Hitler' and 'Nazi Culture' on the same page as drawings of a Star of David and a Swastika."
The complaint also notes internet searches recovered from Thomas' smartphone. He searched for "Why did Hitler hate the Jews" on four occasions in November and December. He looked for "German Jewish Temples near me" on November 18, "Zionist Temples in Elizabeth NJ" and "Zionist Temples of Staten Island" on December 18, and "prominent companies founded by Jews in America" on December 27. The next day, Thomas viewed an article headlined "New York City Increases Police Presence in Jewish Neighborhoods After Possible Anti-Semitic Attacks. Here's What To Know."
The distinctive attire of Hasidim, Thomas' private musings about Jews, and his internet history all reinforce the idea that he targeted Jews qua Jews, as opposed to attacking people at random. Brown therefore argues that there is probable cause to believe he intentionally obstructed their religious freedom.
What about the requirement that "the offense is in or affects interstate or foreign commerce"? Brown notes that the 18-inch Ozark Trail machete used in the attack was made in China. The Justice Department believes that sort of tenuous connection to interstate or foreign commerce is enough to invoke federal jurisdiction in cases like this.
In short, Brown's complaint seems to include all the necessary elements to prosecute Thomas in federal court. Furthermore, those elements are different from the elements of attempted murder and first-degree burglary under New York law. That means the seemingly redundant cases probably would not be deemed to violate the constitutional ban on double jeopardy even if the Supreme Court had decided to abandon the "dual sovereignty" doctrine, which allows state and federal prosecutions for the same conduct even when the two levels of government define the offense in the same way. The Court has held that the same conduct—in that case, the illegal sale of morphine—can be charged as two crimes when the offenses include different elements.
But the fact remains that Thomas faces two prosecutions for the same actions: one in state court, where he faces up to life in prison, and one in federal court, where he also faces up to life in prison and could be sentenced to death. The New York Times reports that "the federal case is expected to take place before any state case." If Thomas is acquitted in the federal case—say, because the jury has reasonable doubt about his motive—he can still be tried in state court. Even if he is convicted in federal court, he can be tried again in state court and potentially face additional punishment, assuming his federal sentence falls short of life.
Thomas is accused of serious crimes, and there might be a rationale for federal involvement if there were any reason to believe that New York would not take them seriously, especially if the state's criminal justice system was rife with anti-Semitism. When Southern states let white racists get away with murder, federal prosecution was the only way to render justice and protect the civil rights of black people. But nothing like that is happening in modern cases where the Justice Department decides to prosecute violent criminals for hate crimes when they already have been charged under state law. It's not as if Dylann Roof, Robert Bowers, John Earnest, or James Fields would have escaped justice without federal intervention.
The Justice Department is making a statement when it gets involved in cases like these: not just that it is wrong to assault or murder innocent people but that it is especially wrong when such violence is motivated by bigotry. In making that statement, it goes beyond punishing people for their actions and begins to punish them for their beliefs.
While racist or anti-Semitic statements are protected by the First Amendment, they are indisputably relevant in hate crime prosecutions. Hence Grafton Thomas' anti-Semitic journals are an important part of the federal case against him, just as Dylann Roof's racist manifesto and Robert Bowers' anti-Jewish social media posts were important parts of the federal cases against them. The views expressed by such defendants could not be prosecuted as crimes in themselves, but in practice they lead to unequal treatment under the law, justifying additional prosecutions and enhanced penalties. Just as bigots should not escape punishment because the government shares their ideology, they should not receive extra punishment because the government abhors their ideology.
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I’m opposed to the multiple jurisdiction double-jeopardy prosecutions but maybe the feds charged him because NY has the (Reason-endorsed) release-on-recognisance no-cash bail?
zhadum
Except attempted murder is not on the list of offences for those release-on-recognizance no-cash bails – his bail was set at $5 million.
It’s a gross imposition on State police powers that really should not be happening.
But Reason is too coy/cute for it’s own good. To say “federal prosecution was the only way to render justice and protect the civil rights of black people” yet somehow think that the Feds are going to leave it at that, and not further flex their antidiscrimination muscles is not simply shortsighted, it is denialism of the worst sort – coming as it does from an ostensibly libertarian publication.
Foreseeable consequences, and all that.
“the offense is in or affects interstate or foreign commerce”? Brown notes that the 18-inch Ozark Trail machete used in the attack was made in China.
This is neither in nor affecting commerce. Government’s gonna government.
Buy American!
Yeah, my thought too. Any judge who’s more interested in actually upholding the law then in furthering his career would throw this out based on that.
StoptheBS
Maybe the often-inept feds got involved because often-inept NY would likely set him free before trial?
wreckinball
Hate crime laws are unconstitutional.
That being said it’s ironic that a clear case of a black on white draws a Reason article .
Typically these laws are used as a weapon to prosecute the rather rare but highly publicized white on black crime.
And law enforcement twists itself into a pretzel to declare clear black on white crimes not hate.
Too much political pressure here.
…why the federal charges, which are based on the same conduct as the state charges, are appropriate or necessary.
So suddenly we’re all against federal prosecutors wetting their beaks?
Well suddenly the “hater” is black
It’s so much easier if it’s a white guy
“…there might be a rationale for federal involvement if there were any reason to believe that New York would not take them seriously…”
Which has exactly fuckall to do with what the Federal statute actually says. But I’m sure the people charged with enforcing them will give Sullum’s opinion it’s due consideration.
Just say it – these Federal laws are, were, and always will be a bad idea. But Sullum isn’t about to go there.
Sarah Palin's Buttplug
They shouldn’t be. What, you were hoping for some hypocrisy?
Nope! We were ALL desperately hoping and praying that some mindless troll-bot (like Tulpa-Satan) would come here and troll us all with totally brainless bullshit threadshitting!!!
So you did.
(isn’t it awesome seeing Mary shit everywhere because it lost to me and its ego can’t fucking stand it lololol)
I’m not returded, like Tulpa-Satan, Tulpa-Satan. YOU are, Tulpa-Satan! Get thee behind me, Tulpa-Satan!
Cry more drama llama ahahahahahahahah
It is NOT “ahahahahahahahah”, you moron! Every first grader KNOWS that it is “ahahaeeeehahaoooohahaaaahah, eee aaaah ooo, peee peee pah, ooo aaa aaa, wallah-wallah-bing-bong, as sung by a ding-a-dong”!!! Study UP on your baby talk, baby talker fucker upper!
Ahahahahah drama llama can’t stop crying ahahahah Fressen die scheisse drama llama it’s right because you’re a drama llama Ahahahaha but you were wrong ahahahahaha
I win again ahajaajjaajajaj
Baby babbling contest WON by Tulpa-Satan! The attainment of a lifetime!
Last of the Shitlords
Squirrelly, do you not understand that everyone here regards you as a complete idiot? So your jabs at the intellect of others is laughable at best.
Your command of persuasive facts and logic is ASTOUNDING!!!
Please send your resume, and another sample of your writings, along with your salary or fee demands, to ReasonNeedsBrilliantlyPersuasiveWriters@Reason.com .
Have you written that email yet?!?! You are sitting on a GOLD MINE of writing talent! Get moving NOW! Don’t WASTE your precious talents, I BEG of you!
You just proved my point.
Meaning you STILL aren’t writing that email yet?!? What a WASTE of persuasive intellectual firepower!
It’s a shame you haven’t killed yourself.
Hey Shitsy,
I see you’re pimping for the Evil One yet AGAIN! So… HOW MANY people, so far, have you persuaded to commit suicide? Have ANY of these suicides brought you ANY long-lasting happiness, yet? If not, then WHY don’t you give UP your evil ways?
I really don’t care one way or the other, if you or anyone else believes that the Evil One is “real”, or metaphorical. “Machs nix” to me. What I WOULD like for you, and others, to understand, is that by obeying the “spirit of the Evil One” (whether “real”, or not), you make the Evil One real… Just like obeying (or praying to) the Spirit of Peace and Love, makes it real! Whether it is “real”, or not! Because it is VERY difficult (actually impossible) for me to go off and stab my neighbor in the back, needlessly, immediately after having SINCERELY prayed for peace!
On the flip side… By lusting for others (who think “wrong” thoughts, in Your Exalted View) to commit suicide, your spread hatred, destruction, and self-destruction. You’re PROUD of that?
Next time you’re “channeling” the Evil One in Your Self-Esteemed Mind, and dreaming up new-and-improved ways to encourage people to kill themselves, I would like for you to ask the Evil One the same simple question that I just asked you: Have ANY of the suicides that you have solicited and enabled, brought you ANY long-lasting happiness? We already KNOW that the answer is NO! An excellent working definition of evil is “the unquenchable thirst”! So why not give UP on your FAR-worse-than-useless, EVIL quests?
Evil Shitsy! Is THAT how you want to be remember, after the worms start crawling through your rotting flesh? Or your cremated ashes are thrown in the dump?
“Why Are the Feds Prosecuting Him for the Same Attack?”
The more Government Almighty agencies that can pass many various assorted different laws against the exact same thing (murder is outlawed by city, county, parish, tribe, church, mosque, Boy Scout Troop, PTA club, Lion’s Club, state, nation, continent, planet, solar system, galaxy, galactic cluster, and transdimensional alternate universe… THE MORE LAWYERS THAT GET TO PLAY IN THE SANDBOX, AND SUCK DOWN OUR TAX DOLLARS!!!
“but in practice they lead to unequal treatment under the law”
Retarded.
Returded, thread turder! Try hurder, turder!
Do you recall the awesome enchanter named “Tim”, in “Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail”? The one who could “summon fire without flint or tinder”? Well, you remind me of Tim… You are an enchanter who can summon persuasion without facts or logic!
I recall you making a fool out of yourself playing spelling sheriff and fucking up “llama” lololol
I won. Forever.
You won the asshole-supreme, threadshitter extraordinaire contest, for now and forever! The one who can’t read and acknowledge web sites that prove Tulpa-Satan to be WRONG! (About German). Revel in your wrongness, egomaniac!
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Commenter_XY
The truly cynical side of me says the Feds are hedging their bets, just in case a NY jury decides not to put this asshole in a cage for a long time. But from what I have read in the media (yeah I know, don’t laugh), this guy is more than a couple cans short of a six-pack.
Hate crimes should never be charged. Period. Even in heinous situations like this.
If somebody attempted murder due to racial animus or for any other reason is utterly pointless.
But it’s not a hate crime. It’s a ‘civil rights violation.’
The reason for committing a violent crime certainly is relevant to sentencing. Part of the reason we prosecute criminals is to make the community safer. If two people commit the same crime, but for different reasons, then they may deserve different sentences in order to reach the same level of community safety. For example, someone who kills his spouse upon finding her in bed with another man is not the same as a paranoid schizophrenic who kills a stranger while off his meds, or a self-proclaimed white-supremacist who kills a minority person for fun.
But all of this can be handled by the judge/jury during sentencing. You don’t need to stack on hate crimes.
A black man who doesn’t like the Jews? Someone get Spike Lee on the phone.
Jesse Jackson will take your call.
Help me out here: where do Black and Jew rank on the current intersectional victim scale? And Black-Jew?
Jews aren’t on the scale at all, they’re on the oppressor list and black males – unless they’re Muslim – are practically white. Oddly enough, it’s white males at the top of the victim list – as long as they claim they’re women.
“Oddly enough, it’s white males at the top of the victim list – as long as they claim they’re women.”
Unless they’re de-transitioning.
Ratwrangler
Per this article, “Thomas is accused of violating 18 USC 247, which makes it a federal crime to intentionally and forcibly obstruct “any person in the enjoyment of that person’s free exercise of religious beliefs”… Too bad this could not have been applied to certain law enforcement agencies by the Rastafarians in the 1970s. They kept getting busted for marijuana, which was a sacrament to them.
JeremyR
Ozark Trail? That’s Walmart’s brand. I wonder if they are going to stop carrying machetes and knives now?
Yesterday he was charged with five federal hate crimes, each of which could result in a life sentence or the death penalty.
All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.
Hence, hate crimes.
Spiritus Mundi
Sullum also argued against hate crime charges against Robert Bowers. However, there was hardly any protest againts the 30 federal hate crimes leveled against the Charlottesville rammer. Seems Reason only has a problem with hate crime laws used when the victim is Jewish. Which isnt surprising given their increasingly progressive bent.
Yeah, championing bad laws when “bad guys” are hit by them is a terrible, terrible idea. Because bad guys, frequently, won’t be the target of them.
It’s inconsistent to support these in SOME cases. Either they’re all bad or none are.
NOYB2
I am opposed to prosecuting people for essentially the same crime at the state and federal level. Much of the federal criminal code should be abolished.
However, as long as that is both law and practice, such prosecutions should at least be applied uniformly, regardless of race, religion, or other characteristics of the people involved.
Why does the media never mention the perp’s race when it is a non-white person attacking Jews, as it was here and in Jersey City-does it ruin their narrative that only white supremacists are anti-semites?
This is very unfair Check Out full Story CLICK HERE
Vesicant
I look forward to reason’s amicus brief for Paul Manafort.
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ahmedfathy
Arabs want to clean the house of Israel?
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My life with acid reflux
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Twin Creek wind farm and Australia’s biggest battery edge closer to approval
RES Australia plans for 183MW wind farm and a big battery in South Australia edge closer to reality, despite ongoing local opposition and concern about “extra frosts”.
Sophie Vorrath Posted on 24 May 2019 0 Comments
RES Australia’s plans to build a 183MW wind farm with a 50MW/215MWh big battery near South Australia’s Barossa Valley are edging closer to reality, despite ongoing local opposition to the ambitious project.
South Australia’s State Commission Assessment Panel, which visited the Barossa Valley on Tuesday to meet with locals, has resolved to grant development plan consent to the Twin Creek Wind Farm, subject to planning conditions, reserved matters and advisory notes.
The battery would rank as the biggest in Australia, at least in storage terms. It has less capacity than the Tesla big battery – at 100MW/129MWh – but more storage.
In a report dated May 21, the SCAP said these conditions would be reserved for further assessment, prior to any granting of Development Approval, which was expected to be decided upon within a couple of months.
The project, which would host 51 turbines across various parcels of crop and sheep grazing land, north-east of the township of Kapunda, or around 90km north of Adelaide, has not had an easy time winning over locals.
According to the SCAP report, out of 41 public representations received across the wind farm’s three Council areas, the majority opposed the development and expressed concerns ranging from visual impact, to impact on flora and fauna – and even on human health.
This opposition culminated in a locally sponsored legal bid to have the wind farm reclassified as a Category 3 development, which would have cleared the way to appeal its planning approval.
That case was rejected by the state’s Environment Resources and Development Court, however, as we reported here in March.
Still, opposition to Twin Creek has not subsided, according to the Adelaide Advertiser, which this week reported ongoing concerns among locals about the turbines creating “extra frost,” driving down house values, and disturbing people’s sleep.
Concerns also continue to be raised about the impact the project might have on local populations of pygmy blue tongued lizards and southern hairy-nosed wombats, the paper said.
For its part, RES Australia has already modified the wind farm’s design in line with local concerns, including cutting 40 turbines from its original proposal.
The company has also promised to build its planned infrastructure around habitat for animals such as the lizards and wombats, and set up a protected habitat to offset the development’s impacts.
And then there are the benefits – according to RES, construction of the wind and battery storage facility would create 160 jobs, with eight full-time jobs remaining on completion.
The completed wind farm is expected generate enough energy to power 118,000 homes. And RES has also pledged to create a $50,000 annual annual fund for 25 years for local community investment.
“In addition to the broader ‘clean’ energy advantages, a renewable power development has the potential to deliver economic benefits to regional communities (which often rely on two main industries – agriculture and mining), by helping to broaden its economic base and assist in reversing the ongoing trend of employment and population decline,” the SCAP report says.
“Benefits would result from landowners having increased income from land rental for turbines and the use of local contractors and suppliers of goods and services. Flow on effects would arise from servicing the construction work force and, to a lesser extent, the operational workers.
“The proposal aligns with the strategic electricity network priorities of South Australia, especially improving the reliability and security of the electricity grid and putting downward pressure on electricity prices through increased, locally based generation capacity,” the report continues.
“A key policy focus has been the support for proposals that provide both generation and storage capacity and technologies for effective integration with the national electricity grid (and to ensure reliability of supply).”
Sophie Vorrath
Sophie is editor of One Step Off The Grid and deputy editor of its sister site, Renew Economy. Sophie has been writing about clean energy for more than a decade.
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Do You Want to Lucid Dream? Might You Want to Try Meditating on It? How Lucid Dreaming Relates to MAAS, and Hours of Practice in Long-Term Meditators
Day, Brandon (The University of Arizona., 2015)
Dreams have fascinated humanity since the time of the Greeks. With the development of EEG, we now know that they tend to occur during REM sleep and lucid dreams are characterized by a meta-awareness during the sleeping state (Laberge, 1990). Historically, meditation has cultivated this state (Holzinger, 2009) and meditators have unique dream experiences, which suggests that they are suitable to test dreaming hypotheses (Albert et al., 1974). Additionally, lucid dreaming and mindfulness share neural correlates (Dresler et al., 2012; Ivanovski and Malhi, 2007). Based on pilot data indicating self-reported lucid dreams distinguishes more mindful from less mindful meditators (Day, unpublished), a second study of meditators correlated a log of their total meditation hours and the MAAS, with their lucid dream experience. The fact that the two mindfulness measures did not correlate, suggests they measure different constructs. Meditation hours, however, positively correlated to lucid dreaming, supporting the theory that meta-awareness in wake relates to meta-awareness in sleep. It appears that the MAAS is not a good measure of mindfulness, and future research should work to improve the measures.
The Role of Working Memory in Bistable Figure-Ground Perception
Turner, Maureen Cassidy (The University of Arizona., 2010-05)
There is a question of what cognitive resources underlie bistable figure-ground alternation. Figure-ground alternation is accomplished via inhibition. Research highlighting the role of inhibition in working memory processes point to the possible involvement of working memory in figure-ground alternation. We examined this issue by asking participants to simultaneously maintain a working memory load and indicate their perceptual reversals of figure-ground stimuli. Two separate types of working memory tasks were used, a verbal (multi-modal) task and a visual task. Concurrent visual working memory load caused perceptual alteration to speed, while verbal working memory load had no significant effect. This implies that working memory space is needed to maintain the current percept, while inhibition keeps the alternate interpretation from coming to dominance.
THE INFLUENCE OF THE BEN’S BELLS KIND CAMPUS PROGRAM ON SCHOOL CLIMATE IN A SCHOOL DISTRICT IN TUCSON, ARIZONA
PETTMAN, ANDRÉ (The University of Arizona., 2016)
Preliminary qualitative research has suggested that participants find the Ben’s Bells Kind Campus Program to be effective in promoting kindness and reducing negative school climate, but this has not been examined quantitatively. The purpose of the present study is to examine the influence of the Kind Campus Program on school climate in a school district in Tucson, Arizona. It is predicted that there will be an association between the Kind Campus Program and school climate. Data for this study were collected from surveys distributed to teachers and students in the school district. Variables encapsulating positive and negative school climate and dosage were created from statements from these surveys. Analyses were conducted on the relationships between these variables to determine the level of influence of Kind Campus on school climate. Results demonstrate a positive correlation between Kind Campus and positive school climate, and a negative correlation with negative school climate. Implications of the current study include a greater understanding of how Kind Campus is associated with school climate and what aspects of the program have the greatest possible relationship with school climate. Future research possibilities include administering surveys throughout the school year to acquire longitudinal data and including observational data in the analysis.
How Emotions Affect Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia
Fischer, Lindsey Ann (The University of Arizona., 2015)
Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) is a measure of heart rate variability in relation to respiration. The current study investigated how the different induced emotional states (i.e., amusement, anger, disgust, happiness, fear, and sadness) affect RSA. This was done by comparing resting RSA to that occurring while watching short film clips intended to induce emotional states. It was hypothesized that RSA would be lower when negative emotions are induced and higher when positive emotions are induced. A difference between the resting RSA and RSA measured during emotion induction was also anticipated. Results indicated a marginally significant difference in RSA between film clip 1 and resting with eyes open and between film clip 1 and film clip 2. There was also a trend in RSA between male and female participants.
INTERACTIVE EFFECTS OF MODERATE ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION, GENDER, AND APOE ?4 STATUS ON COGNITIVE PERFROMANCE IN HEALTHY OLDER
Becerra, Marisa Nicole (The University of Arizona., 2018)
This study sought to evaluate the interactive effects of gender, alcohol consumption, and APOE ?4 on cognitive performance (in 207 healthy, older (50-89) adults). The participants completed a battery of neuropsychological tests that included measures of global cognitive function, memory, processing speed, executive function, and language. After controlling for age, education, years smoking, hypertension status, and GDS, main effects for gender were found in all tested cognitive domains, except language, with females performing better than males. Moderate alcohol consumption showed a significant beneficial association with measures of memory. There was a trend observed for APOE ?4 non-carriers performing better than carriers in global cognitive function. Results also showed significant interactions between APOE genotype and alcohol consumption, as well as gender and alcohol consumption. Particularly, carriers perform better on measures of language when they consume less alcohol, whereas noncarriers perform better with moderate alcohol consumption. Females performed better in measures of processing speed and language with very low alcohol consumption and males performed better with moderate alcohol consumption. Overall, these findings provide preliminary support for the importance of moderate alcohol consumption, gender, and APOE ?4 as factors that may influence observed differences in cognitive aging.
The Impact of Sex on Heart Rate Variability during Bereavement
Jovel, Krystal Shannon (The University of Arizona., 2015)
Women have been identified as possessing higher heart rate variability (HRV) which in turn creates a cardio-protective barrier from Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) related deaths (Abhishekh et al 2013, Furholz et al 2013). It is then menopausal status and not biological age that causes high HRV in women and would explain why CVD is the number one killer for women world-wide (WHO 2013). As women age and experience menopause the cardio-protective ability of estrogen is decreased. Furthermore, by studying estrogen levels of bereaved persons the relationship between HRV and bereavement can be seen as moderated by certain sex hormones. Menopausal status did show to have a strong effect on HRV (p=0.023), but there was no significant difference between men's HRV and those of either pre- or post-menopausal women. However the results for post-menopausal women do trend towards the expected and with more participants may become significant.
Alcohol and Perception of Coercion in Sexual Encounters
Kline, Julia Laurin (The University of Arizona., 2015)
Many factors affect third party rater's blame attribution in sexually coercive scenarios. This study specifically examines different factors that affect college student's perceptions of sexual coercion. Victim and perpetrator's current intoxication and past with alcohol abuse were manipulated. Participants' own drinking behavior, gender and their past with sexual assault, through victimization and perpetration, was also examined. Results found significant gender differences with males being more likely to rate the victim as responsible and less likely to rate the scenario as coercive or a crime. Past victimization was significantly correlated with being more likely to rate the situation as coercive and less likely to rate the victim as responsible. These findings are consistent with previous literature. The alcohol manipulations were not significant, an inconsistency with past literature. This may be due to a normalized binge drinking culture at the university, leading participants to not perceive their high alcohol consumption as problematic. There were additionally 43% of participants who reported unwanted sexual contact, with 22.8% reporting rape victimization. These numbers are consistent with the proportions found in larger samples. To lower victimization, universities should incorporate sexual assault education into freshman orientation as well as the Greek life community, clubs and sports teams.
READING EXPOSURE AND ITS EFFECT ON COGNITIVE ABILITY IN CHILDREN WITH DOWN SYNDROME
Wertenberger, Brittany Leigh (The University of Arizona., 2009-05)
IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER: AMERICAN INDIAN IDENTITY AND PERCEPTIONS OF BODY IMAGE
Tecle, Alem (The University of Arizona., 2009-05)
Family Perceptions: Measuring Beliefs About Whether Gender Roles Are Transmitted From Parents To Children
Coles, Mathew Ryan (The University of Arizona., 2019)
Prior research has examined perceptions of adults who violate gender stereotypes and shown on numerous occasions that these adults are at risk for receiving social and economic repercussions in the form of perceptual evaluations. However, research has yet to address whether the negative judgements of and backlash against gender nonconforming adults will be transferred onto perceptions of their children. The current study investigates how adults perceive children belonging to non-traditional (i.e., gender non-stereotypical parental roles) and traditional households by showing adults illustrations of these ostensible children within the family context. Results show that parents belonging to non-traditional families were generally perceived in accordance with backlash theory. The non-traditional mother received higher rating of perceived success, but lower rating of perceived morality in comparison to their non-violating other. While the non-traditional father was perceived as more likable but less successful then the non-traditional mother and received lower rating of success in comparison to their non-violating other. These findings did not extend to children in the way that was originally hypothesized, and instead non-traditional children received ratings similarly to children with traditional parents but received a boost in perceived success and likelihood to pursue counter stereotypical occupations.
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Title: Patchy 'coherence': using normalization process theory to evaluate a multi-faceted shared decision making implementation program (MAGIC)
Author(s): Lloyd, A.; Joseph-Williams, N.; Edwards, A.; Rix, A.; Elwyn, G.
Source: Implementation Science, vol. 8, iss. 1, (2013), pp. 102
Subject: NCEBP 3: Implementation Science
NCEBP 3: Implementation Science
Organization: IQ Healthcare
Volume: vol. 8
BACKGROUND: Implementing shared decision making into routine practice is proving difficult, despite considerable interest from policy-makers, and is far more complex than merely making decision support interventions available to patients. Few have reported successful implementation beyond research studies. MAking Good Decisions In Collaboration (MAGIC) is a multi-faceted implementation program, commissioned by The Health Foundation (UK), to examine how best to put shared decision making into routine practice. In this paper, we investigate healthcare professionals' perspectives on implementing shared decision making during the MAGIC program, to examine the work required to implement shared decision making and to inform future efforts. METHODS: The MAGIC program approached implementation of shared decision making by initiating a range of interventions including: providing workshops; facilitating development of brief decision support tools (Option Grids); initiating a patient activation campaign ('Ask 3 Questions'); gathering feedback using Decision Quality Measures; providing clinical leads meetings, learning events, and feedback sessions; and obtaining executive board level support. At 9 and 15 months (May and November 2011), two rounds of semi-structured interviews were conducted with healthcare professionals in three secondary care teams to explore views on the impact of these interventions. Interview data were coded by two reviewers using a framework derived from the Normalization Process Theory. RESULTS: A total of 54 interviews were completed with 31 healthcare professionals. Partial implementation of shared decision making could be explained using the four components of the Normalization Process Theory: 'coherence,' 'cognitive participation,' 'collective action,' and 'reflexive monitoring.' Shared decision making was integrated into routine practice when clinical teams shared coherent views of role and purpose ('coherence'). Shared decision making was facilitated when teams engaged in developing and delivering interventions ('cognitive participation'), and when those interventions fit with existing skill sets and organizational priorities ('collective action') resulting in demonstrable improvements to practice ('reflexive monitoring'). The implementation process uncovered diverse and conflicting attitudes toward shared decision making; 'coherence' was often missing. CONCLUSIONS: The study showed that implementation of shared decision making is more complex than the delivery of patient decision support interventions to patients, a portrayal that often goes unquestioned. Normalizing shared decision making requires intensive work to ensure teams have a shared understanding of the purpose of involving patients in decisions, and undergo the attitudinal shifts that many health professionals feel are required when comprehension goes beyond initial interpretations. Divergent views on the value of engaging patients in decisions remain a significant barrier to implementation.
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Barnes Foundation
US Debut of Major Mohamed Bourouissa Exhibition Presenting Works Inspired by Local Community
Mohamed Bourouissa’s first major solo exhibition in Philadelphia will be presented at the Barnes Foundation June 30–October 2. The exhibition brings together approximately 60 works inspired by the French-Algerian artist’s first project in the US, which focused on a North Philadelphia community’s efforts at neighborhood revitalization and youth empowerment. Mohamed Bourouissa: Urban Riders will present this project for the first time in the US, providing a forum to reflect on issues of civic engagement.
Major support for Mohamed Bourouissa: Urban Riders is provided by Étant Donnés Contemporary Art, a program of the FACE Foundation.
Born in Algeria in 1978, Mohamed Bourouissa is internationally acclaimed for works that address contemporary issues around culture, race, and class. His pieces grapple with the racial and socioeconomic tensions of Paris’s banlieues—suburbs synonymous with low-income housing—where he grew up, and of other cities he has worked in, including Marseille, Brooklyn, and Toronto. Engaging a diverse range of media and drawing inspiration from political theory and postcolonial studies, Bourouissa often works within and in collaboration with communities to create works in which documentary and fiction coalesce.
In 2014, Bourouissa turned his attention to North Philadelphia’s Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club, located in the heart of a community facing socioeconomic pressures similar to those of his former neighborhood. The club serves as a safe haven in which inner-city youth can learn to ride and care for horses. After immersing himself in this community, Bourouissa collaborated with the club’s riders to stage an equestrian event he titled Horse Day, which involved outfitting the horses and riders with extravagant costumes before they participated in a riding competition.Bourouissa’s documentation of the event—through films, photographs, drawings, and more—depicts the young riders and their decorated mounts as fantastic figures, transcending their economic circumstances and subverting the stereotype of the classic cowboy of the American West.
Since then, Bourouissa has been creating sculptural pieces made from car parts with photographs of the Fletcher Street riders printed on them. These monumental assemblage works—which form a series called The Hood—conjure the connections between the car and the horse and speak to the history of modern and contemporary sculpture. One new work from this series is included in the exhibition.
“Collaboration and community engagement are central to Mohamed’s practice; his initial artistic vision when embarking on a project evolves according to the input and actions of his collaborators and subjects, culminating in powerful works of art,” says exhibition curator Sylvie Patry, the Barnes Foundation’s deputy director for collections & exhibitions and Gund Family Chief Curator. “Urban Riders conveys a humanistic approach to contemporary challenges and societal tensions. The ideas of social justice and transformation present in Mohamed’s work resonate here at the Barnes: Dr. Barnes supported the Harlem Renaissance and took a democratic approach to the display and appreciation of art, highlighting the connections between cultures and artistic traditions.My hope is that this exhibition furthers new dialogue and establishes a link between the shared experiences of marginalized communities, especially young people of color.”
"I have always had a desire to work with a group of people or community rather than just do a project about them,” says Bourouissa. “I provide an impetus to begin something, then I film and document what happens. I think the most interesting part of a project is not the video or resulting material, but the energy that the event creates—between the participants, but also with the people of the neighborhood. I'm interested in building bridges, interactions, and exchanges."
Included in Mohamed Bourouissa: Urban Riders is Horse Day (2014), a 13-minute film showing footage of the Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club equestrian event, accompanied by preparatory sketches, photographs, and video footage from the day-to-day preparation. The show also features costumes, sculptures, posters, wallpaper, and flyers inspired by this project—many of which are new or have never before been exhibited in the US. The installation on view in the Roberts Gallery will be designed by the artist and will involve the participation of riders from the Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club.
Exhibition highlights include:
Horse Day, 2014: A 13-minute, two-channel film of Bourouissa’s riding event in collaboration with the Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club.
The Hood, 2017: Sculptures made of discarded parts from French-made cars. The works in Bourouissa’s The Hood series are printed with portraits of the riders and images from his film Horse Day, and are mixed with harnesses, bits, and other pieces of horseback riding gear. A new work from this series is included in the exhibition.
Mohamed Bourouissa: Urban Riders will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, published by the Barnes Foundation and kamel mennour, Paris/London, including texts by Michael Nairn, Marc Donnadieu, Amanda Hunt, and Anna Dezeuze, as well as an interview with the artist by Okwui Enwezor.
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Mohamed Bourouissa: Urban Riders is curated by Sylvie Patry, deputy director for collections & exhibitions and Gund Family Chief Curator at the Barnes Foundation.
Mohamed Bourouissa Horse Day, 2015 Stills. Vidéo diptyque 13 minutes 28 © ADAGP Mohamed Bourouissa Courtesy the artist and kamel mennour, Paris/London.
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Unicorn-Themed Drinks Spawn Trademark Dispute Between Coffee Retailers
Erick Schroeder
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Authored by: Bryan Cave, Erick Schroeder, Steven Alagna and Nick Williamson
While the mythical unicorn is a rare creature, it has recently become a marketing phenomenon, with the unicorn’s rainbow-laden powers being harnessed to sell unicorn-themed products that can cover you from literally head to toe, i.e., from makeup (such as “Unicorn Snot®”, a glitter gel) to slippers and even a toilet spray made with “unicorn farts” (Squatty Potty’s “Unicorn Gold®”). Perhaps inevitably, brand owners have begun to battle over who can lay claim to a unicorn trademark. And this includes drinks that sound like coffee (but largely are not).
In April, caffeine aficionados found it was nearly impossible to avoid Starbucks’ limited-time promotion of its Unicorn Frappuccino. Purple and turquoise, and made of créme frappuccino syrup, milk, ice, mango syrup and “whipped cream-sprinkled pink and blue fairy powders,” the reportedly coffee-less drink was heavily promoted. One Brooklyn-based coffee and juice bar, however, was not enchanted by Starbucks’ frappe.
The End and its owner, Montauk Juice Factory, Inc., filed a trademark-infringement suit against Starbucks on May 3, 2017. According to the complaint, The End started selling a “Unicorn Latte™” in December 2016, before Starbucks launched its Unicorn Frappuccino. According to its complaint, The End’s “Unicorn Latte™” spawned its own social media following due to its colorful appearance and “magical” qualities of its super-food ingredients. Montauk Juice’s federal trademark application pre-dated Starbucks’ Unicorn Frappuccino launch by several months.
The complaint further alleges that once Starbucks launched its Unicorn Frappuccino in April, confused customers both (1) began calling it a “Unicorn Latte,” and (2) remarked that the “Unicorn Latte™” must have been inspired by Starbucks’ Unicorn Frappuccino.
The singular issue in this case stands out like a jutting horn: were consumers likely to be confused by these dueling unicorn brands? But this one dilemma subsumes several questions, such as the scope of The End’s common law trademark rights. While a federal trademark registration would have conferred presumptive national trademark rights, common law rights may be more limited to where the product was sold and/or marketed. (As of this publication, Montauk Juice’s federal trademark application remains pending at U.S. App. Ser. No. 87/308,906.) And, while the complaint alleges that the Unicorn Latte™ became nationally famous due to its social media presence, social media’s impact on the trademark rights landscape is an emerging question.
A related issue is the strength, if any, of The End’s “Unicorn Latte™” mark. Generally, a trademark’s strength is determined by placing it on spectrum of relative “distinctiveness.” “Fanciful” marks (neologisms having no meaning before use as a trademark, such as “Kodak®”) are the strongest types of marks, while “generic” terms (common names for products or services, such as “cereal”) are afforded no protection. Within the spectrum also lie “descriptive” marks (those that describe the product or service, such as “multigrain” bagels), and relatively stronger “suggestive” marks (which indirectly suggest a quality of the product or service; such as “Greyhound” for buses, suggesting their speed and/or color). Courts often describe “suggestive” marks as those that require consumers to use some “imagination” to associate the mark with the product or service.
Does using an imaginary creature as a trademark necessitate a finding that the mark is, at least, “suggestive”? Or, given the plethora of unicorn-themed products to hit the market in recent years, many of which invoke the colors (if not power) of the rainbow, is the term “unicorn” descriptive, in that it describes a rainbow-colored product? If this case continues towards trial, that question may be answered on its facts. This issue will likely retain contemporary importance given the recent “unicorn” and “rainbow” trend in the food-and-beverage industry cited in the complaint and further evidenced by products such as the rainbow bagel (also based in Brooklyn).
If you would like to discuss how these issues may affect your business, please contact a member of Bryan Cave’s Intellectual Property Client Service Group or Retail Group.
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Robert Matzen
Author of popular books about Hollywood history
Reinventing the Hollywood Biography
Gary the Roots of Heaven
Grandest of All
“Man is destroying the forests, poisoning the oceans, poisoning the very air we breathe. The oceans, the forests, the races of animals, [and] mankind are the roots of heaven. Poison heaven at its roots, and the tree will wither and die. The stars will go out, and heaven will be destroyed.
These words weren’t written yesterday or a year ago. They were uttered in 1958 by a character in a film based on the novel The Roots of Heaven written in 1956 by French author Romain Gary about a character named Morel who Robin Hood-like goes on a crusade with a band of not-so-merry men to stop the killing of elephants in Africa.
Moviemakers John Huston and Darryl Zanuck both fell in love with the novel and Huston bought the film rights only to be trumped by Zanuck, who at the time held Huston’s contract and so they became a production team to bring the story to the big screen.
I’m not going to sit here and tell you very much about the movie The Roots of Heaven except to say it’s a Cinemascope gem that’s turned up in 2012 on Blu-ray, according to Greenbriar’s John McElwee, although my viewing was on the Fox Movie Channel. The picture was critically panned on release, lost a fortune, and was looked upon with disdain by Huston, who directed it. “Even as I made the picture I knew it wasn’t going to be any good,” said Huston. “You kid yourself, try to buoy yourself up, but eventually you just have to face it.”
The band of elephant protectors on location in Africa, including, L to R, Peer Qvist (Friedrich von Ledebur), Morel (Leslie Howard), the Baron (Olivier Hussenot), Forsythe (Errol Flynn), and Minna (Juliette Greco).
The book and film are both populated with people scarred by World War II: Morel, the former German prison camp inmate who goes mad and sees visions of elephants; Minna, the French girl forced into prostitution in a German “doll house” and then “liberated” (her term for repeatedly raped) by Russians, Brits, Americans, and Frenchmen; Forsythe, the British officer-turned-traitor for the Nazis to save his own hide; Waitari, the African nationalist out to exploit Morel; Abe Fields, the ingenuous American photojournalist who had stormed the beaches of Anzio and Normandy and now braves gun battles to follow Morel’s exploits; Peer Qvist, the aged naturalist who utters the statement heading this column (beautifully done by Austrian actor Friedrich von Ledebur); and many others.
Trevor Howard as Morel is an odd choice but the casting against type works and he’s very good. It was to be William Holden’s role, but Paramount wouldn’t let him do it. Errol Flynn agreed to let John Huston direct him and when Flynn arrived on the set, according to Huston, “It was the first meeting since that bloody night long ago at Selznick’s house.” [For more on this 1945 encounter, see my three-part series of earlier columns.]
Juliette Greco. Be still, my heart.
Flynn is his late-career drunken self in The Roots of Heaven but looks at some points sharp as a tack as an actor (for him) and dies a heroic death in a running gun battle with elephant hunters. Eddie Albert plays the hell out of the photojournalist, and Herbert Lom is a standard stereotypical bad guy. Paul Lukas is Saint-Denis, who is a major character in the book and much less so in the movie, but Lukas is always so smooth and world weary that he wins you over. Orson Welles shows up to play Orson Welles playing an American TV journalist with a nasal Amurrican accent. French nightclub singer Juliette Greco does in The Roots of Heaven what she always does to me—she makes me think impure boy-thoughts. She made Zanuck think them too; he insisted on having an affair with her, and since he had the power to give her top billing in this and other big Fox pictures, she didn’t say no. Huston said in his memoirs that Juliette treated DZ badly, though, and made fun of him behind his back.
The five-month African location shoot has become the stuff of legend. Cast and crew called off a record 960 days with heatstroke, malaria, dehydration, animal bites, and everything else you can imagine. Huston made it through and so did Flynn, who kept up his strict hydration regimen of a bottle of vodka a day, but they were the only two to remain upright despite days that reached 130 degrees and nights that settled in at a mere 100.
I don’t mean to bury the lead here; the headline for me is elephants. As Trevor Howard’s Morel says with such sweet sadness at one point of the hunters rampant in Africa killing his elephants, “They aim at the soft spot between the eye and the ear, just because they’re big, free, and beautiful.” Morel fought for the elephants back then, and I weep for the elephants now because they are so grand, so intelligent, and the jeopardy they faced in 1956 when Gary wrote his novel was nothing compared to their near-extinction today. Huston’s The Roots of Heaven features great thundering Cinemascope herds of majestic elephants in their native habitat, crushing everything in their path. Huston called Gary’s The Roots of Heaven “a prophetic book, anticipating the concerns of today’s environmentalists.” Which is what brought me to my recent viewing–the Greenpeace nature of Morel’s mission and the correctness of a cause that rings true today louder and clearer than ever. Full disclosure: I have never cared for hunters and hunting. It was never “sport” and only could be “sport” if the prey were armed and proficient in weaponry to make it a fair fight.
Greco as Minna emerges from the river after a bath. Flynn as Forsythe touches her ankle, as in, “Let’s do it.” She doesn’t even consider the idea, which is richly ironic since Errol Flynn was probably the most prolific lover of the 20th century (if combining on- and off-screen exploits). He was now, officially, a character actor.
Hearing Morel’s impassioned speeches for the elephants made me look up the African Wildlife Foundation, with its mission to save our grandest creatures. I have just today set up a monthly donation to help with their work—the AWF is accredited by the Better Business Bureau and states that 88 percent of donation amounts go to programs and only 3 percent to administration. Romain Gary through a 61-year-old novel and Trevor Howard through an authentic and heartfelt performance inspired me to help the noble elephant; now maybe I can inspire you to take the same small step in helping these innocent creatures that yet manage to inhabit our planet gone mad.
Well worth saving.
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How veggie burgers became the NBA’s new Gatorade
Chris Ballard at Sports Illustrated writes »
Among those fortunate few was a cohort of NBA players; in addition to Redick, Irving and Paul, investors included Victor Oladipo, Harrison Barnes and DeAndre Jordan, none of whom, it’s safe to say, needed a windfall. Most weren’t in it for the cash; rather, they are both converts and proselytizers. Some, like Paul and Redick, eat both plant and animal protein. Others, like Jordan—who was recently in New York hyping the Beyond Sausage Breakfast Sandwich at Dunkin’ Donuts—have gone, as Redick says, “full vegan on us.”
The NBA connection makes sense, at least in one respect. Today’s players are constantly seeking micro advantages. The Lakers traveled with a bone broth chef at Kobe Bryant’s behest; LeBron James uses cryotherapy. If a plant-based diet really can extend a playing career—as Brown contends and many believe—then reducing meat intake is worth the trade-off.
From another perspective, however, the idea that NBA players are now the face of veggie burgers represents a seismic shift—both in business strategy and in people’s views on food, sports and masculinity.
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Not to feel exasperated, or defeated, or despondent because your days aren’t packed with wise and moral actions. But to get back up when you fail, to celebrate behaving like a human–however imperfectly–and fully embrace the pursuit that you’ve embarked on.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Intragastric pH monitoring
D. M. Driscoll, W. G. Cioffi, N. C. Molter, W. F. McManus, A. D. Mason, Basil A Pruitt
Buffering of intragastric pH is an accepted treatment modality for prophylaxis against the development of gastric stress ulcers. This method of prophylaxis is commonly based on the pH value acquired by measurement of gastric aspirate. Recent literature suggests pH measurement techniques that involve gastric aspirate specimens have many flaws. The purpose of this study was to compare gastric pH measurements with the use of a nasogastric sensor, meter system, and pH-sensitive test paper. Fifteen hundred paired serial measurements of intragastric pH were obtained on 19 thermally injured patients (16 men and three women, ages 23 to 79 years, total body surface area burn 25% to 80%). A double-lumen tube containing an antimony/graphite pH sensor incorporated into the tip of the tube was inserted with the use of a standard technique. Each tube was in place an average of 5.7 days (range 1 to 15 days). Patients were randomized into two groups. The first group (six patients) received non-acid-buffering prophylaxis therapy. The second group (13 patients) received standard antacid or antacid/H2 histamine-blocking agent combination prophylaxis therapy. Analysis of the 539 paired measurements for the non-acid-buffering revealed a correlation coefficient of r = 0.532. The 961 measurements from the group receiving gastric acid buffering revealed a correlation coefficient of r = 0.569. Paired t test values for the sample showed a significant difference (18.52, p < 0.0000) between measurement techniques.
Journal of Burn Care and Rehabilitation
https://doi.org/10.1097/00004630-199309000-00005
Histamine Agents
Gastric Acid
Stomach Ulcer
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Driscoll, D. M., Cioffi, W. G., Molter, N. C., McManus, W. F., Mason, A. D., & Pruitt, B. A. (1993). Intragastric pH monitoring. Journal of Burn Care and Rehabilitation, 14(5), 517-524. https://doi.org/10.1097/00004630-199309000-00005
Intragastric pH monitoring. / Driscoll, D. M.; Cioffi, W. G.; Molter, N. C.; McManus, W. F.; Mason, A. D.; Pruitt, Basil A.
In: Journal of Burn Care and Rehabilitation, Vol. 14, No. 5, 1993, p. 517-524.
Driscoll, DM, Cioffi, WG, Molter, NC, McManus, WF, Mason, AD & Pruitt, BA 1993, 'Intragastric pH monitoring', Journal of Burn Care and Rehabilitation, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 517-524. https://doi.org/10.1097/00004630-199309000-00005
Driscoll DM, Cioffi WG, Molter NC, McManus WF, Mason AD, Pruitt BA. Intragastric pH monitoring. Journal of Burn Care and Rehabilitation. 1993;14(5):517-524. https://doi.org/10.1097/00004630-199309000-00005
Driscoll, D. M. ; Cioffi, W. G. ; Molter, N. C. ; McManus, W. F. ; Mason, A. D. ; Pruitt, Basil A. / Intragastric pH monitoring. In: Journal of Burn Care and Rehabilitation. 1993 ; Vol. 14, No. 5. pp. 517-524.
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Podcast Hosts Team Up Against Heart Disease
Stacey's Pop Culture Parlour and Geek Syndicate join forces to host a live 24 hour podcast to help beat heart disease.
by Ian Cullen April 26, 2018
On Saturday 28th April, Stacey Taylor (host of Stacey’s Pop Culture Parlour) will be leading the fight against heart disease with a 24-hour charity podcast. The third SPCP Live Event will be co-hosted by Barry Nugent (of the Geek Syndicate podcast).
“Back in 2014, I was looking for something to do for charity that wouldn’t involve something as terrifying as throwing myself out of a plane or clambering down the side of a tall building, but would be enough of a challenge that people would part with some cash to support it. A friend suggested that I turn my monthly podcast into a live endurance event: 24 hours of non-stop Stacey chatting, with guests, interviews and competitions! Thus, Stacey’s Pop Culture Parlour Live (#SPCPLive) was born”, explains Stacey.
The duo will be chatting all things telly, comics, books, music, video games and more, as well as being joined by guests from the world of pop culture to keep them company. The event will be broadcast live from Stacey’s home in Great Barr to raise money for the British Heart Foundation (BHF).
“Both my mum and my brother were my heroes, so when Stacey asked me which charity we could support for this event it was a no-brainer for me” explains Barry, who suggested the British Heart Foundation as the beneficiary as he sadly lost his mum and eldest brother to heart disease. “It’s especially important when you see some of the scary stats around heart disease.”
Stacey said “I knew that the BHF was the perfect choice, as in addition to Barry’s reasons, I suffer from a rare form of heart condition called Wolff-Parkinson-White-Syndrome which causes palpitations involving episodes of my heart pounding from between a few seconds to several hours. The resources from the BHF following my diagnosis were an invaluable source of information and anxiety-reducing comfort to me.”
“We hope to be entertaining, to highlight the work the charity does and raise money for a great cause.”
You can tune in from 9 am on Saturday 28th April via mixlr.com/spcp-live and can donate before, after or during the show to help us do our bit to combat heart disease at www.justgiving.com/spcplive3
The British Heart Foundation funds vital life-saving research preventing, diagnosing and treating heart and circulatory disease including connected conditions such a stroke, vascular dementia and risk factors such as Diabetes. Help us to help the BHF by either spreading the word about the event or donating whatever you can to it.
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Walsh: The Left’s ‘Toxic Masculinity,’ ‘MeToo’ Agenda Is Crushing Boys
At a Young America’s Foundation-sponsored event on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Tuesday evening, Daily Wire podcast host and columnist Matt Walsh addressed the growing war on masculinity, particularly as conducted through rhetoric about “toxic masculinity” and the excesses of the “MeToo” movement. We are “ruining ours sons,” he said, by giving into the “worst kind of selfishness” and “narrow-mindedness” in our approach to boyhood and masculinity.
Among the ways that our increasingly “progressive” society is crushing boys, he explained in the speech, are the education system, which is effectively punishing standard male behavior, and the general denigration of masculinity, particularly in the form of the “toxic masculinity” rhetoric espoused by left-wing thought leaders. Along with the proliferation of pornography and the promotion of gender confusion, specifically directed at boys, Walsh maintained, we are seeing an unprecedented war on boyhood that is destined to result in disaster.
“Obviously, we need to teach our boys to be obedient and respectful, and they really do need to calm down sometimes and be quiet,” he said (video below). “But boys also need to be boys.”
“I’m afraid they’re not always given that opportunity these days because they’re always being told, no, stop, calm down, be quiet, sit still,” Walsh continued. “Maybe in school we carve out 45 minutes for them to let out their energy — and I’m told now that even that, gym class, they’re getting rid of.”
Let them fail. Girls these days are smarter more athletic and more competitive and wind up with better jobs than the boys and have better sense than getting involved with and knocked up by losers.
No, it’s not.
Sissies are much less likely to revolt
Get your kids into Christian school or homeschool them.
Boys will be boys. What the hell is that supposed to mean. I have mjy doubts about the "me too" movement but I can not tolerate Boys will be Boys justifying bad behavior. I grew up in a family with 3 brothers and they never disrespected women.
Boys will be boys. In my house that meant boys will be smart and get top grades, boys will be active and participate in sports, outdoor activities, scouting, biking, skiing, school government, anything. Boys will volunteer and help others when they need it. Boys will have responsibilities at home, but not so much that they interfere with priority one, homework and good grades and participating in activities that allow them to use their energy. Boys will be provided opportunities to follow their passions, whether their passion is sports as it was in my house or some other activities. Boys will be taught that as the physically stronger gender (in most cases) they have a duty and responsibility to treat everyone with courtesy and respect, even if they disagree with someone. Boys will be taught to defend the weak, bullied or mistreated and only when provoked use their strength over their intelligence to solve a problem. It worked in my house but I have too often seen ‘boys will be boys’ mentality in the schools and it’s usually to justify or excuse bad behavior. So if we want to preserve masculinity, as I believe we should, it’s not by letting boys behave rudely or inappropriately or letting them act out an over abundance of energy, it’s by giving them an education in being a man and holding them accountable for their actions. If they are taught well, they can be proud of their masculinity and the true meaning of ‘boys will be boys.’
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Hopeless Helpless: Impeaching the President
Posted byCityFella December 11, 2019 Posted inImpeachment Hearings, LGTB, NATIONAL, Presidental Race, TrendingTags:Congress, Nancy Pelosi, President Trump, Richard Nixon, Watergate
At one point in my life. Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, ,George H Bush, Bill Clinton and George W Bush and Barrack Obama were my all Presidents.
I remember listening to the Watergate hearings in school. I remember when Manson member, Squeaky Fromme tried to take out President Ford at the State Capitol in Sacramento with an unloaded gun and Sara Jane Moore shot at him on the Post Street side of the St Francis Hotel in San Francisco. Gas lines when Jimmy Carter was President. Ronald Reagan saying “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” George H Bush didn’t know what a Gallon of Milk Cost the average american. Bill Clinton saying “I did not have sexual relations with that woman”. George W saying “He” Saddam Hussein ” “Tried to kill my Daddy!” finally I remember Obama crying as he was talking about the children being killed at Sandy Hook Elementary.
I don’t remember any of these Presidents choosing the word of a Russian or a leader of another country over US intelligence or abandoning an ally. Calling members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Scum.. Mistreating Immigrants.
Richard Millhouse Nixon and Donald John Trump
People connected to the Nixon Campaign broke into the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate Office Complex in Washington D.C. Donald Trump intercepted money allocated by Congress to the Ukraine to ask for Dirt on the Bidens to help give him a leg up on the 2020 Presidential Election.
President Nixon asked the CIA to disrupt the FBI investigation on the break in. Nixon refused to release tapes to an independent council subpoena. He released them after being ordered by the Supreme Court. Donald Trump has ignored every subpoena sent by Congress.
The fight over the tapes grew intense by the hour. Nixon ordered his attorney general, Eliot Richardson, to fire Cox. Richardson refused, resigning instead. The new acting attorney general, William Ruckelshaus, refused as well, and resigned. The third in command at the Justice Department, Solicitor General Robert Bork , finally carried out the order to fire Cox. The office of special prosecutor was abolished, and the investigation was sent back to the Justice Department proper. This was considered a major abuse of power.
The House Judiciary Committee approved three articles on impeachment against President Nixon.
The first article approved by the House committee charged him with “engaging personally and through his close subordinates and agents, in a course of conduct or plan designed to delay, impede, and obstruct the investigation of the Watergate break in to cover up, conceal and protect those responsible; and to conceal the existence and scope of other unlawful covert activities.”
The second article charged him with a variety of abuses, including attempting to use the IRS to investigate political enemies, using the FBI to do illegal surveillance, overseeing the break-in to Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office, and allowing the plumbers to work in the White House in general.
concerned his failure to comply with subpoenas from Cox, Jaworski, and the Senate Watergate Committee.
Richard Nixon Resigned before the House voted to impeach him.
After the GREAT shock of 2016 there was a sigh and resolution. Donald J Trump is my President. I told myself to take a step back. It was an election and during a typical election, the goal is to convince us that the other guy is hopeless and horrible and that they (the opponent is the clear choice.
The woman’s march was exhilarating. It gave me hope America was wide awake. Like an avalanche our President was rapidly dismantling America by Executive Order. He was signing orders and laws he didn’t understand the ramifications or seem to care.
He is hopeless and horrible! and it seemed he was unstoppable. Where, was Congress? Where were the leveled headed Republicans? Many of the orders ,were cruel.
2018, brought hope. I didn’t want President Trump Impeached. I wanted balance. I was disappointed with some of the freshmen members of Congress who’s goal was to impeach the President, I was hoping some order would be restored. The President separated immigrants, opened parks for mining. American is up for sale.
He is a master of the media. I realize he has limited audience in Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama and a few areas in the Nation but its disheartening. It seems people were buying the tonic despite the evidence that its just water.
I know its a little premature, and I trust Nancy Pelosi, I want the President impeached. This may slow his belief that he is King. I realize it is unlikely he will be removed. ( unless his approval rating within his party drop 30 points) . It may be sad, even petty, but I want a win, I want the checks and balances restored and perhaps, he might for the first time, realize their are consequences for ignoring the constitution.
The House Judiciary Committee approved two articles on the impeachment against President Trump
Article II, Section 1
The first article alleges an of abuse of power stems from Trump’s decision to withhold roughly $400 million of congressionally approved military aid from Ukraine until the country announced an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden, a political rival..
In a July 25 phone call, Trump urged Zelensky to investigate Biden, and his son, Hunter, who worked for the Ukraine energy company Burisma Holdings. The “favor,” as Trump described it, was made despite a lack of evidence that Biden or his son had engaged in corrupt activities, according to the House Intelligence report.
The second article alleges obstruction are based on Trump’s lack of cooperation with the House inquiry, including defying subpoenas for documents and testimony.
White House counsel Pat Cipollone wrote in an Oct. 8 letter to Pelosi and other House leaders that the inquiry is being conducted in a manner that “violates fundamental fairness and constitutionally mandated due process.”
The White House prevented a number of mid-level and top staffers from testifying, in part because the process wouldn’t allow the president to call or cross-examine witnesses. Trump tweeted last month he wanted people to testify but was “fighting for future presidents and the Office of the President” by not letting them appear before Congress.
In the history of the Republic, no President has ever ordered the complete defiance of an impeachment inquiry or sought to obstruct and impede so comprehensively the ability of the House of Representatives to investigate “high Crimes and Misdemeanors”
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Big city fella, Born and Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Lived in New York (a part time New Yorker) for three years . I have lived in the Sacramento area since 1993. When I first moved here, I hated it. Initially found the city too conservative for my tastes. A great place to raise children however too few options for adults . The city has grown up, there is much to do here. The city suffers from low self esteem in my opinion, locals have few positive words to say about their hometown. visitors and transplants are amazed at what they find here. From, the grand old homes in Alkali Flats, and the huge trees in midtown, there are many surprises in Sacramento. Theater is alive is this area . And finally ,there is a nightlife... In.downtown midtown, for the young and not so young. My Criticism is with local government. There is a shortage of visionaries in city hall. Sacramento has long relied on the state, feds and real estate for revenue. Like many cities in America,Downtown Sacramento was the hub of activity in the area. as the population moved to the suburbs and retail followed. The city has spent millions to revive downtown. Today less than ten thousand people live downtown. No one at city hall could connect the dots. Population-Retail. Business says Sacramento is challenging and many corporations have chosen to set up operations outside the cities limits. There is vision in the burbs. Sacramento has bones, there are many good pieces here, leaders seem unable or unwilling to put those pieces together into. Rant aside, I love it here. From the trees to the rivers. But its the people here that move me. Sacramento is one of the most integrated cities in America. I find I'm welcome everywhere. The spices work in this city of nearly 500,000 and for the most part these spices blend well together. From Ukrainians to Hispanics and a sizable gay community, all the spices seem to work well here. I frequently travel and occasionally I will venture into a city with huge racial borders, where its unsafe to visit after certain hours. I haven't found it here. I cant imagine living in a community where there is one hue or one spice. I love the big trees, Temple Coffee House, the Alhambra Safeway, Zelda's Pizza, Bicyclist in Midtown, The Mother Lode Saloon, Crest Theater, and the Rivers. I could go on and I might. Sacramento is home. View more posts
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2 thoughts on “Hopeless Helpless: Impeaching the President”
Rico Dilello says:
God help us if Trump gets re-elected which is still possible.
R Wearing says:
I agree Sir. I have never had such feelings for any President. Even Nixon had qualities although I can’t think of any at this time. Trump is worse than vermin.
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All You Need To Know About the iPhone XS, XR & Apple Watch Series 4
September 13, 2018 by eStormAus Leave a Comment
iPhone XS / XS Max / XR
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5 Mac tricks you’ll actually use everyday!
August 17, 2018 by eStormAus Leave a Comment
The Service Centre is a series that highlights the best Apple tips and tricks that you can start using right now! We want to help you get the most out of your Mac by showcasing some of the best features you might not know about.
In this episode of The Service Centre, we showcase 5 super simple and easy to use tricks that you can use every day that will boost productivity.
Let me know if you have any Mac tips and tricks you use (I’m always looking for easier and better ways to do things on the Mac) and let me know if you’re finding these videos useful!
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Apple TV’s Original Content Line Up To Rival Netflix
August 1, 2018 by eStormAus Leave a Comment
Move over Netflix and Stan – there’s some competition in town!
Over the course of 2018, Apple is said to be spending as much as $1 billion on original TV programming…that’s a lot of television! While it doesn’t quite compare to the $8 billion Netflix is spending in 2018 – it’s still a big step in the direction of Apple carving out a slice of our on-demand entertainment.
But what exactly does $1 billion get you? According to Mac World – 200 episodes at $5 million a piece is a reasonable per-episode price for high-end TV. However, it is unlikely that we’ll receive 10-20 shows with 10-20 episodes each, as the $1 billion has to cover more costs than per-episode production.
The majority of Apple TV’s content is likely to be in production during 2018 with suspected 2019 release dates. Currently Apple TV shows are accessed through Apple Music, which is not the typical user-friendly experience we’ve come to know and love from Apple. It is unclear at this stage whether or not Apple intend to release content through iTunes, the TV app, or via a new channel – but access is likely to be tied to Apple Music subscriptions (at least for the short-term).
Previously Aired (2017)
Think Shark Tank but for app developers. A panel of celebrity judges (Jessica Alba, Will.i.am, Gary Vaynerchuck and Gwyneth Paltrow) are pitched by app developers who then advance to the next stage where they try to earn venture capital backing. The show has been largely criticised as being boring and made for Apple instead of for the viewer at home. (No second season has been announced).
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
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Exclusive Apple TV Content Under Development
The time-traveling adventure comedy Time Bandits may be coming to small screens in the form of a TV series. Deadline reported that Apple is buying the right to make a TV show of the cult classic film with sources saying it will be co-produced by Paramount TV, Media Rights Capital and Anonymous Content.
Time Bandits is about a a young boy who gets caught up with a troupe of thieves as they hop across history to steal treasure while being pursued by the Supreme Being from whom they’ve stolen their time map.
Release date not yet announced.
Written by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders, Dirty Pretty Things) and directed by Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Mocking Jay Parts 1 & 2), See is a futuristic drama and world-building series that is set in a different reality than our own.
Variety reports that Jason Momoa has been cast in the lead role as Baba Voss, a fearless warrior, leader and guardian.
Deadline reports that a full series order has been made by Apple, however the size of the series order is still unknown – but will most likely consist of 8 episodes.
An English-language remake of a French television series. Calls’ 10 episode arc for the first seasons consists of 10 ten-minute episodes. Each episode consists of a playback of an audio recording—an airplane black box, a voicemail, a 911 call—that depict some sort of tragedy. They all tie to together to tell the story of some sort of impending apocalypse.Release date not yet announced.
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Variety reports that Apple has struck a deal with Sesame Workshop, the non-profit organisation behind Sesame Street, to produce children’s TV shows for the streaming service.
Apple announced on June 15th that they have agreed to a multi-year content deal with Oprah Winfrey. Scarce details released by Apple in their press release, with no details on the types of shows that will be produced. The release does say that, “Together, Winfrey and Apple will create original programs that embrace her incomparable ability to connect with audiences around the world.”
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10 episode straight-to-series run for a mystery drama inspired by the life of pre-teen journalist Hilde Lysiak.
The series will be about a young girl who moves from Brooklyn to a lakeside town, where she gets involved in uncovering a cold case that the community has concealed. Lysiak runs Orange Street News, which features her writing and local reporting in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. At the age of 9, Lysiak made headlines beyond her neighborhood when she broke news on a murder in her town.Release date not yet announced.
Based on the hit novel, Shantaraman is about an escaped convict from a maximum security Australian prison. On the run and cut off from friends and family, he disappears into the Bombay underground in India.According to Variety, the book was first to be developed as a film, with Johnny Depp having acquired the book rights and Warner Bros. producing with Joel Edgerton in the starring role. The plans were later scrapped and the rights auctioned off, with Anonymous Content and Paramount Television winning the rights to Shantaram and its sequel novel The Mountain Shadow.Apple has now won the rights to develop the series.Release date not yet announced.
10 episode season of a half-hour comedy/drama series with executive producers J.J. Abrams and Sara Barellies onboard.
Little Voices is a love letter to the diverse musicality of New York, which explores the universal journey of finding your authentic voice in your early 20s.
A new comedy series about the early life of Emily Dickinson. A 19th century coming-of-age story – a comedic look into Dickinson’s world, exploring the constraints of society, gender and family from the perspective of a budding writer who doesn’t fit in to her own time through her imaginative point of view.
Based on the original science fiction book trilogy by Isaac Asimov, Foundation sees a mathematician spend his life developing a branch of mathematics known as psychohistory. Using the laws of mass action, it can predict the future, but only on a large scale. Seldon foresees the imminent fall of the Galactic Empire, which encompasses the entire Milky Way, and a dark age lasting 30,000 years before a second great empire arises. Seldon’s calculations also show there is a way to limit this interregnum to just one thousand years. To ensure the more favourable outcome and reduce human misery during the intervening period, Seldon creates the Foundation – a group of talented artisans and engineers positioned at the twinned extreme ends of the galaxy – to preserve and expand on humanity’s collective knowledge, and thus become the foundation for the accelerated resurgence of this new galactic empire.
A 2 season, 26 episode animated music comedy series called Central Park. A family of caretakers, who live and work in Central Park, end up saving the sake and basically the world.
M. Night Shyamalan Thriller Series
Apple has ordered a straight-to-series run of a psychological thriller produced by M. Night Shyamalan with 10 half-hour episodes.
Swagger – based on Kevin Durant
A drama series based on the early life and career of NBA superstar Kevin Durant. The series will explore the wold of amateur athletic union basketball and the lives of the players, their families and coaches.
A revival of Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories. The original series ran for 2 seasons in the ’80s and was nominated for a dozen Emmy Awards.
The series is rumoured to have a $5million per half hour episode.
Reese Witherspoon’s production company Hello Sunshine has been tapped to adapt the true crime best-selling book Are You Sleeping by Kathleen Barber.
The story is about a hit podcast that reopens a long-closed murder case in the public eye and unravels the life of our protagonist, Josie, who had finally put her troubled old life behind her.
Are You Sleeping will see a 10 episode season.
Husband and wife team Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani will co-write and executive produce a half hour anthology series about immigrants called Little American.
The series will be based on true stories printed in Epic Magazine’s Little America series. The show will go beyond headline to look at the funny, romantic, heartfelt, inspiring and unexpected lives of immigrants in America.
Reese Witherspoon & Jennifer Aniston Morning Show
This drama series is about making a morning TV news show, which draws heavily from the book Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV by Brian Stelter.
No release date or title have been announced.
Ronald D. Moore Science Fiction Series
Best known for Battlestar Galactica, Ronald D. Moore is partnering with Apple to produce a TV series that explores what would happen if the global space race had never ended.
Billed as a documentary series, Home is rumoured to offer viewers a never before seen look inside the world’s most extraordinary homes and delves into the minds of the people who built them.
No release date has been announced.
Damien Chazelle Drama Series
Apple ordered a whole series without even shooting a pilot! Damien Chazelle is the acclaimed writer and director of La La Land and Whiplash.
No details are presently available about the series other than Chazelle will write and direct every episode.
Produced by Dr. Dre, it is said to be a 6 episode miniseries where each episode focuses on a specific emotion while also being a semi-autobiographical tale of Dr. Dre’s life.
The series was originally conceived as a way to help promote Apple Music and boost subscriptions.
Source: https://www.macworld.com/article/3245534/streaming-services/list-of-apple-tv-shows-and-series-news-actors-release-dates.html
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Don’t Watch These iPad Videos If You Want To Keep Your Money
April 6, 2018 by eStormAus Leave a Comment
Apple released some quick new videos today showing off some of the fancy new things you can do with the iPad and iPad Pro.
The videos are aimed at showing iPad users how to get the maximum use out of their device, as well as potentially convincing those people who might be in the market for an iPad (to which I can definitely say that these worked on me – I must have an iPad Pro now!)
The features that impressed me the most include side-by-side multitasking and the drag and drop to anywhere from anywhere using the new dock feature.
However, the single greatest feature, in my opinion, is the ability to scan, sign and send documents!
I cannot tell you how much this feature would come in handy! I recently moved apartments – the number of times I had to scan a document with my phone, email it back to myself, then drive to Office Works to print it out to sign it and hand it back in, as well as scanning it again to keep a record for myself – absolutely insane. So for me personally, the scan > sign > send feature is life altering! Yes – LIFE ALTERING…that might be a little dramatic, but it would very handy.
There are a tonne of other videos that you can watch on Apple’s YouTube channel that show features like being able to turn your handwriting into text, drawing on and marking up screenshots and images and effortlessly sharing them, multitasking email… basically a whole heap of content that made me want an iPad Pro even more.
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Exciting New Announcements from Apple in the World of Education
March 28, 2018 by eStormAus Leave a Comment
Lots of exciting new announcements from Apple, particularly in the world of education! Here’s the highlight reel:
Apple launched a new 9.7″ iPad now compatible with Apple Pencil and designed for powerful AR applications to bring out the creative genius of every kid + a whopping 200,000 apps made for education!
The new 9.7″ iPad comes loaded with:
A10 fusion processor chip to enhance multitasking
64bit desktop class architecture
40% faster CPU
50% faster graphics performance (both when compared with the previous gen 9.7″ iPad)
A number of new apps are being released including:
Boulevard AR App: working on bringing together every art piece from around the world
Free Rivers App: detailed landscapes which allows users to insert dams into the landscapes to witness the outcome
Frogpedia Science App: allows you to dissect a virtual frog with the Apple Pencil
Everyone Can Code – Swift: AR kit module introduced that includes teacher guides and rubrics.
Apple also announced they are working on a new version of the iWork productivity suite for iOS
Pages and keynote will feature integrated apple pencil support to enable users to add drawings and smart annotation features. Smart annotation will also work by anchoring to the word – not just writing over the top like other devices.
Teachers will be able to use the iPad and Apple Pencil to mark up students pages reports as a result of the suites new markup functions. When a user annotates a document the markup anchors to the word or image.
Classroom, currently available on iOS, is coming to Mac (beta in June).
Classroom is a teaching assistant that helps teachers manage their students iPads, as well being able to guide the children through lessons, keep them focused and share their work.
Through Classroom, teachers are able to launch apps, books and web pages all on students’ devices simultaneously, as well send and receive documents.
Classroom allows teachers to view their students screens to ensure they stay focused.
Schoolwork, a cloud-based app, allows teachers to assign hands out, homework, reminders and track student progress, as well as develop their own handouts to include links, pdfs and other documents.
Schoolwork allows teachers to bring apps into the classroom, assign activity within the apps, observe student progress and creations whilst protecting privacy.
Schoolwork can also be integrated into 3rd party apps using Apple’s ClassKit API.
Apple Teacher Learning Centre
Share your classroom activities or learn from others. Earn badges and grow your learning.
iCloud Storage: 5GB to now 200GB through Apple School Manager
A few things that weren’t mentioned in the keynote, but went live on the Apple site right after, include new iPhone and iPad cases, new apple Watch bands, as well as a Space Gray Magic Keyboard, Trackpad and Mouse, which were previously exclusive to the iMac Pro.
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It’s Official – The Best Wireless Earphones Have Been Discovered!
I’m sure it comes as no surprise to anyone at this point… but it’s the Apple AirPods!
Now before you go closing out of this window – surely you want to know why they’re so great, right? And why has The Verge’s resident headphone obsessed Audiophile dubbed them the best truly wireless earbuds he’s ever heard?
Vlad kicks things off by saying he’s struggled with taking the AirPods seriously as he spends his days using headphones like the Audeze MX4 ($4,000 headphones).
“When I first cast eyes on the AirPods, all glossy, frail, and vanishingly small, I had no faith that they’d sound good enough to justify their [$229 AUD] price. Hearing they were just like the EarPods didn’t fill me with confidence either,” he said.
“SO MUCH MORE THAN
JUST WIRELESS EARPODS.”
However, he goes on to say that the AirPods are not simply a wireless Apple EarPods experience. The long stem helps the AirPod to stay seated in the ear, as well as obviating the accidental cable tug that normally sends the wired EarPods flying. Vlad claims that running, lifting weights and vigorous movement haven’t even brought the AirPods close to flying out, whereas other market contenders like Google’s Pixel Buds can’t have the same said about them.
As the long steam acts like an anchor, Vlad says the AirPods provide more comfort and stability, which helps the AirPods to convey a more dynamic and emotive sound than anything he’s ever heard form the EarPods.
“There’s enough of everything – bass and treble extension, soundstage, clarity, and detail – in Apple’s tuning to render a convincing reproduction of most genre of music,” he continued.
“In the category of truly wireless earbuds, the AirPods are the best I’ve yet heard.”
“Apple’s AirPods design, which I initially ridiculed, is actually the best and most functional one available for truly wireless buds today.
The Apple AirPods work brilliantly with Android devices, as well as providing better than average range when moving away from the sounds source.
“The design of the AirPods case is a total masterpiece. It’s tiny but holds multiple extra charges for the earphones, and the rounded sides make them irresistible fidget toys. The tensions of the case lid is perfect, delivering a satisfying snap when it opens and closes.”
“I CAN’T SEE A BETTER COMBINATION OF PRICE,
FEATURES, AND PERFORMANCE”
“When I look at the limits of what’s possible today- in terms of miniaturisation of audio and wireless components – I can’t see a better combination of price, features, and performance than what’s offered by the AirPods.”
Now, I’ll admit, this blog post began rather selfishly as I’ve been wondering whether or not to get Apple Airpods myself. I can now however say that I am absolutely on board and will be purchasing a pair – but it’s not for the sleek design, the satisfyingly clicky case or because I’m an “Apple Fanboy” …no, it’s much more embarrassing than that.
I should preface this by saying that I’m relatively new here at eStorm so I’m still in the interim space of getting to know everyone. But yesterday, five o’clock rolls around as I begin to gather my things to leave the office for the day. I’ve got my wired Apple headphones in, my phone in my pocket, as I’m quickly and quietly saying goodbye to the remaining people who are either busy or on phone calls. I enthusiastically raise my hand to waive goodbye, my arm comes up, gets caught on the Apple headphones cable, rips my phone out of my pocket, phone goes flying, panicked look on my face as I silently scramble to catch it in mid air, only to result in the beginning of the single iPhone juggle for what felt like an eternity. I finally get a hold of the phone and very casually exit the office having embarrassed myself in front of everyone.
So yeah…. I’m getting Apple AirPods.
#CutTheCable
source: https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/19/17138258/apple-airpods-audiophile-review-wireless-headphones
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Who Owns Smart Speakers & Why Would I Need One?
March 9, 2018 by eStormAus Leave a Comment
A recent survey by voicebot.ai regarding ownership or interest in smart speakers produced some interesting results.
Although the January 2018 survey preceded Apple’s foray into the smart speaker market with the HomePod in February 2018, it does include a few points of data regarding iPhone and iOS user interest in smart speakers.
The Smart Speaker Consumer Adoption Report states that iPhone owners are 22% more likely to own a smart speaker compared to non-Apple smartphone owners. Of the smart speakers on the market other than HomePod, iPhone users are 30% less likely to own a Google Home and reportedly favour the Amazon Echo.
Now the report goes on to suggest that Apple and Amazon are companions in the household, as the HomePod is purchased as a luxury item to be used for music listening, while the Amazon Echo is used for more utilitarian tasks.
“Apple and Amazon may be the focus of multi-manufacturer households where HomePod is a luxury item for music listening in living spaces while Echo products get placed in the kitchen and bedrooms for utilitarian tasks.”
I’m sorry, but what kind of cashed up lifestyle do these tech companies think we’re living? If you have a HomePod in your lounge room and an Amazon Echo in your kitchen and bedroom then I would like to be adopted into the family and join you on your vacation in the Cayman Islands on your private yacht. Meanwhile, I have a Google Home in my lounge room that keeps talking to my TV thinking it’s me!
Many consumers own on average 1.8 smart speakers (okay, I probably should have read ahead before I went on that rant) where most place them in their living room (45.9%) or kitchen (41.4%), and Amazon remains the dominant player in the market with a 3.5 times larger install base than Google.
The report says that the most popular uses for smart speakers are questions, music and weather commands, which I can absolutely confirm as I spend a large portion of my time sitting on the couch at home asking Google to tell me facts, jokes and other extremely pointless things… so needless to say it was a very solid $130 purchase.
Researchers said that this data provides the best indication that smart speakers are being incorporated into everyday lives of consumers with 63% using them daily and 77% at least weekly.
However those who don’t own a smart speaker stated disinterest as their reason (37.9%), they get enough similar features from their smartphone (21.2%), privacy concerns (16%), plan to purchase one soon (11.8%), too expensive (8.8%), and other reasons (4.2%).
source: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/03/07/smart-speaker-survey-results-iphone-owners/
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SEVERIN FILMS TO RELEASE JOE D’AMATO’S BEYOND THE DARKNESS
By Severin Films on 06/20/2017
FINALLY! THE FULLY UNCENSORED VERSION OF
BEYOND THE DARKNESS – THE ULTIMATE EXTREME SHOCKER –
HITS BLU RAY FROM SEVERIN FILMS
FIRST 2500 WITH BONUS REMASTERED GOBLIN SOUNDTRACK
Corpses need love too. This is one of the unassailable truths of modern living. Leave it to model citizen and passionate cineaste Joe D’Amato to lend the delicate subject of necrophilia the dignified touch it deserves with BEYOND THE DARKNESS. On July 25th, Severin Films is honored to bring this classic back into the light of day, newly restored and fully uncut.
It has been denounced as “revolting” (SplatterDay.com), “stomach-churning” (Classic-Horror.com) and “shower-prompting” (Fandor), while simultaneously acclaimed as “bone-chilling” (Chas Balun), “truly classic” (The Spinning Image) and “a must-see” (Horror.com). Now experience “D’Amato’s masterpiece” (BloodyDisgusting.com) like you’ve never seen or heard it before: CinzIa Monreale (THE BEYOND) and Franca Stoppi (THE OTHER HELL) star in this psycho-sexual sickie featuring torture, cannibalism, necrophilia, unrequited love and other perversions, totally uncensored and set to a pounding score by Goblin. Severin is proud to present the “ultra-graphic sleaze-fest” (Fright.com) also known as BURIED ALIVE and BUIO OMEGA – for which director Joe D’Amato (ANTHROPOPHAGUS) was infamously accused of using real corpses – intact, restored and packed with exclusive new Special Features.
Available in a standard edition, as well as a limited collector’s edition blu-ray that comes packaged with the Original Soundtrack By Goblin, which has been Newly Remastered In Rome By Italian Soundtrack Restoraton Maestro Claudio Fuiano using original vault materials. Customers who pre-order from the Severin webstore can also pick up the Necro Bundle, containing the new edition of the movie along with the soundtrack, an air freshener to cover up that unfortunate corpse smell, a reproduction of the original US one sheet poster (full-size 27×39) under the alternate title BURIED ALIVE, a new enamel pin designed by Pseudo Ludo, AND a new t-shirt from Pallbearer Press. Fans of the film will love this bundle to death and are encouraged to act now while supplies last!
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One reply to “SEVERIN FILMS TO RELEASE JOE D’AMATO’S BEYOND THE DARKNESS”
Duspan 07/21/2017 at 12:36 AM
I got this movie title confused with another movie I’ve been looking for a long time named “The Darkness Beyond.” Beyond the Darkness was also great and had me looking for other Joe D’amato horror titles thinking he was a horror filmmaker. I was half wrong on that too. When I finally found The Darkness Beyond, it turned out it was only released in Italy under another title L’altrove, which I thought referred to “The Alcove” another D’amato film. The film I was looking for turned out to be written and directed by Ivan Zuccon and was released the same year as “Beyond the Darkness” creating even more confusion. So to clarify both, “Beyond the Darkness” is an exploitation horror movie by Joe D’Amato about a guy who kills women for pleasure, and “The Darkness Beyond” is a pure horror movie by Ivan Zuccon that is very loosely based on H.P. Lovecraft’s short story “The Shadow out of Time.”
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Use The Force Luke (2014)
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A rare signed limited edition framed giclee canvas on board edition 5 of 9 by the hugely-popular contemporary artist, Craig Davison entitled Use The Force Luke.
This is a rare limited edition that was donated by Craig Davison to raise funds for local youth charity The Brathay Trust. Please note that all proceeds from the sale of this piece will be donated directly to the Brathay Trust.
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Craig Davison Art Craig Davison began his artistic career at a computer games company as an animator and games designer, where he began sculpting reference figures for 3D animation. In 2007 he entered a contest held by Washington Green. Craig finished in the last three. That was it, the life of an artist beckoned! Craig cites his childhood as the biggest source of inspiration for his work. ...
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SubTopic Security laws and ethics
Proposed data breach legislation could put executives in jail
Democratic senators have proposed data breach legislation that could lead to jail time for some executives who conceal breaches and fail to disclose them to consumers.
Rob Wright, News Director
Democratic senators have re-introduced the Data Security and Breach Notification Act that proposes severe consequences...
for enterprise executives, including jail time, for failing to notify consumers of a breach.
The proposed data breach legislation would make the willful concealment of a breach a crime that is punishable by up to five years in prison. The bill also states that a "covered entity" must provide notification to users or customers within 30 days of the discovery of the breach unless a U.S. federal law enforcement or intelligence agency exempts the entity from informing the public. The data breach legislation also provides some wiggle room for the notification deadline in order for enterprises "to accurately identify affected consumers; to prevent further breach or unauthorized disclosures; or to reasonably restore the integrity of the data system," according to the bill.
"We need a strong federal law in place to hold companies truly accountable for failing to safeguard data or inform consumers when that information has been stolen by hackers," said Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL), who sponsored the bill, in a statement. "Congress can either take action now to pass this long overdue bill or continue to kowtow to special interests who stand in the way of this commonsense proposal. When it comes to doing what's best for consumers, the choice is clear."
Nelson's statement cited the 2016 Uber data breach, which was concealed by company officials and only recently made public. The breach exposed the names, email addresses and phone numbers for 57 million worldwide customers as well as the names and driver's license numbers of 600,000 U.S. drivers.
Nelson first introduced the Data Security and Breach Notification Act in 2015 and introduced another version of the bill last year as well. The current version is co-sponsored by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI).
The proposed data breach legislation includes a provision that requires the Federal Trade Commission to develop new information security standards for businesses to adhere to in order to prevent breaches.
A federal data breach law could potentially replace individual state laws such California's SB-46 data breach notification statute. Enterprises, however, would still have to contend with the data breach notification laws in other countries, which in some cases are much stricter. For example, the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation will require companies to notify authorities of a data breach within 72 hours when the law goes into effect in May.
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By: Caron Carlson
Rob Wright asks:
Are the penalties under the proposed Data Security and Breach Notification Act too harsh? Why or why not?
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Rob Wright - 1 Dec 2017 4:38 PM
FusionComply - 6 Dec 2017 9:33 AM
As long as any fines are proportionate to size and type of misconduct that will be acceptable, 4% does get executive attention! Only money-pain will change executive attitudes and behaviours towards data privacy.
Fines that become back door finance for the supervising authorities are much less acceptable.
GDPR is critical to protecting personal data, elsewise we are back to paper and post as identity theft renders online systems wide open to crime.
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Engineering AI To Be Ethical By Design
A call for an industry-wide effort to take responsibility for a new set of ethical design system principles.
December 12th, 2019 - By: Carolyn Herzog
I joined Arm because of its amazing people and world-class technology. But while I’m constantly excited by the possibilities of what we can achieve, as Arm’s General Counsel I must also consider the potential harm our designs might cause if they don’t perform in the way we expect, or were put to a use we did not intend.
That dilemma comes to the forefront when I think about artificial intelligence (AI) and it’s why two years ago, I formed a working group on AI Ethics at Arm. It’s also why we have now produced a guiding Arm AI Trust Manifesto to shape our thinking and practices around AI design for the foreseeable future. And, why we chose to launch it at Web Summit 2019 to build industry-wide support for the principles of the Arm AI Trust Manifesto as a first step in defining and standardizing practical ways to operationalize ethics standards.
Our role in ethical AI
Before getting into the details of the Arm AI Trust Manifesto, let me first talk about why Arm cares about ethics and the role we can play in bringing about a world built on trusted AI devices.
“We’re calling for a vigorous industry-wide effort to take responsibility for a new set of ethical design system principles.”
Arm technology is already enabling AI processing in billions of advanced products, including the latest mobile devices. But while this engineering is fundamental to the AI revolution, we do not exert direct control over all critical elements of AI systems. So, as trust in AI must be global, we need to join with others to achieve a strong and sustainable framework.
We recognize that time is limited so we’re now calling for a vigorous industry-wide effort to take responsibility for a new set of ethical design system principles. These principles must be debated, agreed and adhered to as a foundational building block on which all AI systems can be built.
Technology will always move faster than regulation. Therefore, industry must work closely with regulators, universities and society to define the right baseline standards that are comprehensive enough to meet our agreed ethical objectives, yet not so onerous that good AI entering the market is held up unnecessarily by fear. This will require creating a universal ethical framework to avoid the regulation fragmentation that might impede the global adoption of trustworthy AI.
First, to understand this engineering basis for ethical decision making, we need to describe the root of an ethical AI device.
The building blocks for ethical AI devices
People—philosophers, politicians, religious leaders, members of society—have argued over ethics for thousands of years. We’ve sought to engineer ethics into human society through debate and, once agreement is reached, we have codified the ‘rules’ in written or verbalized ways. This is both similar and entirely dissimilar to what we are attempting to do with machines.
By comparison, our vision of an ethical AI machine is a device programmed to always make decisions perceived as fair by most right-minded people, with those decisions concluded objectively from data that is clear from detectable bias.
However, the human vs machine ethics comparison is dissimilar in more ways: First, because machine rules must be universal while human ethical agreements tend to be local or regional. Second, society will naturally tolerate some errors in human decision making, even against defined rules, but will not accept errors from a machine built to be ‘ethical.’ So, questions of absolute accountability (in legal terms, liability) must always be answered.
The higher performance level we expect from machines was backed up when we worked with analyst firm Forrester to survey 50 global autonomous driving experts in 2018. They told us that carmakers expect they’ll have to prove that future self-driving vehicles are at least 10x better than humans in performance and AI decision-making to be acceptable as mainstream devices by the public.
So, the challenge ahead is clear. We have to get to a position of near-zero casualties when it comes to machine-made decision making. It means we have to build the most robust technology framework every conceived of; covering all aspects of AI design and delivery, including how engineers are taught to think as well as code and build. Starting the debate on exactly what that has to look like is the precise objective of the Arm AI Trust Manifesto.
Our guiding objective: AI must be ethical by design
Arm would like to see the technology sector come together to create an ethical framework to ensure that AI is developed in a fair and responsible way. Without such a framework, there is a risk that regulation will become onerous and fragmented and will not allow AI to succeed.
We believe that ethics should be incorporated into the key design principles for AI products, services and components. However, at present there is no defining set of ethics to follow and so we call for the formation of an industry-wide working group to define and standardize a set of ethics that can be adopted by anyone deploying AI technologies.
Since ethics are so critical to AI, it is essential that anyone working in the field has a solid foundation in the issues. We call on all universities and colleges that teach AI to include mandatory courses on issues relevant to ethics in AI at undergraduate and graduate level. Further, we believe that all businesses developing AI technologies ensure that their staff complete mandatory professional training in the field of AI ethics.
Ethical principles of trust in AI systems
There are many issues that must be addressed in the development of an ethical framework for AI that enhances trust. As a starting point, Arm proposes the following principles in the Arm AI Trust Manifesto:
We believe all AI systems should employ state of the art security.
Every effort should be made to eliminate discriminatory bias in designing and developing AI decision systems.
We believe AI should be capable of explaining itself as much as possible: we urge further effort to develop technological approaches to help AI systems record and explain their results.
Users of AI systems have a right to know who is responsible for the consequences of AI decision making.
Human safety must be the primary consideration in the design of any AI system.
We will support efforts to retrain people from all backgrounds to develop the skills needed for an AI world.
The above is an abridged overview of the Arm AI Trust Manifesto’s guiding principles. Read the full Manifesto here.
We will now seek to bring technology partners together to build a coalition of parties who can influence AI ethics thinking and the engineering to support the creation of more ethically robust devices. We already partner, or have relationships with, the broadest cross section of influencers we need to reach – inside industry and public bodies.
Great work is already being done to advance AI ethics thinking but we think the task now is to bring influencers together in practical ways. For example, I personally would like to see us build prototype devices we think are ethical, explain why we think they pass the test, and then try to break them. In effect, come up with a new form of ethics hacking to test the security, design ethos, data sets and interrogability limits of an AI device. This won’t happen immediately but this sort of leap can’t wait too long.
This is similar to the Digital Security by Design project work we’re involved in on security where we’re currently designing a new test board to run a prototype architecture which has been designed to be inherently more robust to cyber attacks. It’s a partnership project with the UK Government, several UK-based universities and major industry partners including Microsoft and Google.
This level of cooperation is exactly what we need now to start laying a solid foundation for AI machines that are born ethical.
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Carolyn Herzog
Carolyn Herzog is the EVP General Counsel and Chair of the AI Ethics Working Group at Arm.
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Eagle (disambiguation)
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PeopleEdit
Eddie Belfour, Eddie the Eagle Belfour, a professional hockey player
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Eddie 'the Eagle' Edwards, a British ski jumper
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American Gold Eagle, a bullion coin
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American Platinum Eagle, a bullion coin
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Eagle Web platform, a CICS-to-Web development environment
Fujitsu Eagle, a model of disk drive popular in the 1980s
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Eagle (heraldry), an eagle which appears in a coat of arms
Roman battle standards
The Eagle (comic), a UK comic
In the sport of golf, an eagle means two strokes under par
"War Eagle!", the battle cry of athletes and fans of Auburn University of the Southeastern Conference. The school's official nickname is the Auburn Tigers, however
96.4 The Eagle, a radio station that broadcasts from Guildford in England
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Once again, it has been sometime since I’ve updated on here. Yes, I’m still looking for funding to shoot Leap 3. No, I haven’t given up hope.
About six months ago, I started writing a movie script based on my experiences skydiving and how that has helped me deal with the aftermath of the fire three years ago. I have a clear direction and goal in mind for that movie, but I need at least 200 jumps before I can start flying with a camera, so that slows things down a little. Two months ago, my friend and producing partner, Chris Trechter, suggested I write a movie about my time being homeless. I’m now almost thirty pages in and things are coming together nice. The funny thing is that I had actually written a short film two years ago about this very subject. Trying to make it into a feature has been a bit of a challenge, but I think I’ve found a tone and style that works for the film.
Trex is wanting to film all the behind the scenes of the making of the film to make a cool documentary, which is an interest of his. The nice thing about this subject matter is that it doesn’t require anywhere near as much money as Leap 3 does.
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Two weeks ago I was able to get a GPU for my new computer (HP ZR800) (Nvidia 1060), it’s been amazing, allowing me to edit and grade 4K RAW footage with no lag whatsoever. So that’s cool.
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Kitchens: A priority to fix Browns' penalties this week
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The Browns have committed more penalties for more yards than any team in the league. First-year coach Freddie Kitchens called it the result of poor focus and concentration.
He then explained Monday why one infraction during Sunday’s 27-13 loss to the Patriots was intentional.
The Browns, trailing by 17 points in the fourth quarter, were facing fourth-and-11 at their own 24, when their punt team took the field. The only problem was, Kitchens wanted to go for it. He also didn’t want to burn his final timeout. His solution: have the punt team intentionally false start and have his offense try to convert fourth-and-16.
Baker Mayfield was sacked on the next play.
"Sometimes in the course of action with punt teams, sometimes they’re used to, when you’re at your own 25 or whatever we were, just fourth-and-11, they’re running on the field," Kitchens said. "The buck stops with me. I should not have let that happened. But once the punt team was out there, there were two choices: Use your last timeout or take a penalty. And I decided to take a penalty."
The Browns took 13 of them for 85 yards at New England. They’ve taken 70 for 591 yards this season, an average of 10 for 84.4 yards per game. Kitchens believes the chronic penalties have been the difference between winning and losing for the 2-5 Browns, who have lost three games by at least 14 points but two by a possession.
"Expect to clean up a bunch of that this week," he said. "Been focused and trying to clean those up and it hasn’t gotten done yet. So we’ve got to continue to harp on it. Each individual has to make a commitment to doing that on an every-day basis. That’s where it’s going to start because you have no chance to win the game if you do those things which is very evident. …
"It’s a commitment that they have to have to each other and accountability to each other because it’s very evident that it’s costing us football games. So when they decide that it will change. We’re going to do things to speed up that process, which we have been doing. Everybody understands the problems, we’re going to work to fix the problems."
There sure are many of them, especially for a team billed as a contender before the season. September to Cleveland must feel like so long, and so many penalties, ago.
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Russian Central Bank Sees 'Risks' in Use of Cryptocurrencies
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Amid the surge of global interest in cryptocurrencies, the Russian Central Bank head has commented on the phenomenon she believes has signs of a pyramid scheme.
SOCHI (Sputnik) — The Central Bank of Russia sees risks in the use of cryptocurrencies and is against equalizing them with foreign currencies, the bank's head Elvira Nabiullina said Thursday.
"We are categorically opposed to introducing cryptocurrencies in regulation as a monetary asset, an asset used to pay for goods and services, are against equating it with foreign currencies, because […] there is foreign currency, there are states that produce it, there are economies and central banks that are behind it. The phenomenon [of cryptocurrency] is less understandable here," Nabiullina said at a forum.
"We see the risks in introducing cryptocurrency into the legal circulation, because this can additionally support interest to use cryptocurrencies," she said.
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Nabiullina added that the current mechanism for using cryptocurrencies had signs of a pyramid scheme.
The Russian Central Bank's head statement comes as Bitcoin's price has skyrocketed by more than 5 million times since its first appearance eight years ago. Bitcoin is currently seen as a good investment by many speculators, as it possesses advantages, including decentralization, non-duplication, and low processing fees. However, many countries and investors voice concerns over Bitcoin. According to JPMorgan chief executive Jamie Dimon, the most popular cryptocurrency is a "fraud" and "a currency made of thin air."
The Russian government is set to start the consideration of a bill aimed at regulation of cryptocurrencies in the country soon. Moreover, several high-ranking officials have proposed to create Russia's own cryptocurrency in order to replace Bitcoin, however, the initiatives haven't been welcomed by the Central Bank yet.
Digital currencies, also known as cryptocurrencies, have no material form and global currency regulation does not currently apply to them. An unlimited number of anonymous sources can issue and use such currencies. Central banks worldwide have treated the phenomenon with caution, although some have started exploring the possibilities it offers and even developing their own cryptocurrency.
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What should I do if I have a last minute emergency and can't attend a court date?
1. Contact duty counsel
2. Contact a friend or family member
3. Know the court rules that apply to your offence
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Some examples of a personal emergency that could prevent you from attending your court date are:
a car accident
a serious health issue
a death of an immediate family member
If there is no way you can go to court on the date scheduled:
tell duty counsel or your lawyer, or
get a friend or family member to go to court for you.
Your friend or family member can try to appear as your agent. They can explain your absence and ask for a discretionary bench warrant .
Rules about who can appear as your agent
The rules about who can appear in court for you, and how they must do that, depend on the type of offence. If you're unable to go to court on your court date, it's important that you find out what type of offence you've been charged with. See Step 3.
Missing your date
If you miss a court date and a lawyer does not attend for you, the judge or justice of the peace will likely order a bench warrant for your arrest. If this happens, you will be arrested and held for a bail hearing. You can also be charged with the criminal offence of failure to appear.
Sometimes when you miss a court date, the court orders a special kind of warrant called a discretionary bench warrant. With this type of warrant, the court adjourns your case to another date without ordering a bench warrant for your arrest. But if you miss your next court date, a bench warrant for your arrest will be ordered.
The court will be more likely to issue a discretionary bench warrant if your absence has been explained. If a discretionary bench warrant is ordered, the police will not arrest you. If you have to miss court, do everything you can to get a discretionary bench warrant instead of a bench warrant.
NEXT STEP - 1. Contact duty counsel SEE NEXT STEPS
If you have a personal emergency at the last minute and can’t attend court, contact the duty counsel office at your courthouse. They will tell the court about your situation and ask for a discretionary bench warrant for you.
The justice of the peace or the judge will decide whether to:
order a discretionary bench warrant and adjourn your matter, or
order a bench warrant for your arrest.
Every case is different. It's up to the court to decide if they will give you a discretionary warrant. The court will be more likely to issue a discretionary bench warrant if your absence has been explained.
List of duty counsel offices
If you don't have a lawyer and have a personal emergency at the last minute, you can send a friend or family member to court for you. Your friend or family member may be able to appear as your agent.
The person acting as your agent appears in the court as if they are you. The court treats the situation as if you attended court.
Even if they are not able to appear as your agent, they can explain your absence to duty counsel. Duty counsel will explain your absence to the court and ask for a discretionary bench warrant.
The court will be more likely to issue a discretionary bench warrant if your absence has been explained. But it is still up to the court to decide whether to issue a discretionary bench warrant or a warrant for your arrest.
The rules about who can appear in court for you, and how they must do that, depend on the type of offence. If you're unable to go to court on your court date, it's important that you find out what type of offence you've been charged with.
Summary offence
Summary offences are the least serious criminal offences. They have a maximum sentence of 6 months in jail, a $5,000 fine, or both. Some examples of summary offences are:
causing a disturbance in a public place
trespassing at night
You can only send an agent to court to act for you if you've been charged with a summary offence .
An agent can be a family member, paralegal, or friend. The person acting as your agent appears in the court as if they are you. The court treats the situation as if you attended court.
You can't send an agent to appear for you if you were charged with an indictable offence. Only a lawyer can appear in court for you if you were charged with an indictable offence. In Canada, the most serious crimes are called indictable offences.
Some examples of indictable offences are:
theft over $5,000
Designation of counsel
If you're charged with an indictable offence, you can hire a lawyer to appear in court for you. If your lawyer agrees, you can sign a designation of counsel. This designation is filed with the court.
The designation allows your lawyer to appear in court without you and speak on your behalf as if you were there. If your lawyer "appears by designation", there is no need to ask for a discretionary bench warrant and you are not arrested. This is because they have the authority to handle your case as if you were there.
Your lawyer will decide whether to allow you to sign a designation of counsel. Some lawyers dislike designations because they want their clients to make every effort to go to court themselves.
Discretionary bench warrant
If your lawyer does not have a designation filed with the court, they can still appear in court and ask for a discretionary bench warrant.
Duty counsel, a family member, or a friend can also go to court if you have a personal emergency and can't make your appearance at the last minute.
You should send someone to court to explain your absence. Tell them to explain your absence and ask for a discretionary bench warrant.
The court will be more likely to issue a discretionary bench warrant if your absence has been explained.
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It was just another day for Meera at work. She had loads of work and had just received a last minute invite to attend a mandatory training on Computer Database Management. Meera was a junior Software Analyst at Terasoft, an emerging software giant which had its head office at New York and branches all over the country. The company had recently set up its base at Miami and it was here that Meera worked.
Meera considered herself lucky to have bagged the job. She loved writing software codes. A complex piece of code was like a brain teaser, a puzzle which she loved cracking. She eagerly enrolled to all the training sessions provided by Terasoft Academy team. But today she didn't have the usual enthusiasm. She had quite a few pending items on her plate. She saved her unfinished work and left her workstation.
The invite did not say who the trainer was. Just as she entered the training room, she bumped into someone. She smiled lightly but the "someone" did not. He fixed his gaze on Meera. It was almost uncomfortable. She had never seen him before.
"Sorry", Meera whispered shyly, but he still did not smile. And yet, he did not look like an idiot.
Meera moved towards one of the empty seats and found that the "someone" was actually the trainer. He moved towards the podium and took a brief introduction of everyone in the room. Next, he introduced himself. He was Neil, a senior software developer at the New York Headquarters and was here at Miami to guide the staff and train them in software nuances, if required.
And then he smiled.
Oh my God! What a smile, It was childlike. So sweet and innocent. said Meera in her head.
Neil started his session and Meera could not concentrate on anything else other than him. His gaze was intent as he addressed the audience. He smiled briefly whenever he paused. Meera noticed a few perspiration drops on his forehead.
It was not that hot inside. Was he nervous ? she wondered.
Neil displayed a few slides and explained about Computer Databases, answering a few queries every now and then.
But Meera could still not concentrate on anything he or the others were saying. He was damn too cute. He seemed more handsome to her each passing minute. Meera realised that she had a huge crush on him. She had had crushes before but they took her nowhere. Nothing good ever come out of them.
Meera could not help take her eyes off Neil and suddenly she heard her mind chatter.
"This guy is way too handsome and my senior. I am a junior, am short, have messy hair, and am bespectacled. I stand no chance. He might be married or engaged, or would at least have girl friend. Guys this handsome did not deserve to be single. No, he could not be single. But what does that matter to me. Of course I am thinking nonsense."
Meera tried to break her trail of thoughts. She was not like that. She had always been the sincere and studious girl who always had serious relationships if any. In fact her last relationship broke because she wanted to move to the next level and get married but her ex did not. She had always been the level headed and practical girl.
Meera had never considered herself so shallow. But what this, that she was experiencing right now. It was pure and unadulterated desire. Desire for a man who she hardly knew. "This is not me." Her head screamed. "I don't do flings".
But as she gazed him, the more she was drawn towards him.
"I need some air." Meera thought. "I need to get up, take a walk and clear my head."
As soon as she decided to excuse herself from the training, Neil called out to her. It was as if he had read her mind.
"Maam, are you paying attention?"
"Uh..I am." said Meera, almost stuttering.
"Okay, so tell me what you think about the Query command I just put up on the slide."
"The query?”
"Yes please."
Meera looked blankly at the slide. This has never happened to her. She had always paid during all her classes. Such things had happened to others but never to her. Never.She was embarrassed.
"See. I told you. You were not paying attention to what I saying. Found something more interesting to think about? “said Neil.
Meera almost hated him that instant. He may be hot and sexy but he was no way a decent man. He had deliberately singled her out and was actually humiliating her. Why, she could even see him smile mischievously.
"Maam, I hope I can have your attention for the rest of the session." quipped Neil.
Meera sat down, opened her notes copy and jotted down what Neil was saying without looking at him. She did not want to look at anybody for that matter. She wanted to become invisible.
After the training session, everyone was asked to fill the feedback form for the session and the trainer. Meera did not want to fill it but had to. She was anyways little short of mentioning what a jerk the trainer was. She handed over the form to Neil and he smiled at her. The very same, childlike smile.
This time Meera decided not to smile back. Meera considered the rest of her day a mess just like her hair were. Her fellow colleague cum friend Sheena came by and asked "Meera, Did you have your session? How was the trainer? I have heard that he is some hot shot."
He was indeed hot. Meera smiled but then she also remembered her humiliation.
"Hot my foot! He is a jerk." said Meera.
"I would like to date him. He has his way with women. My friend working for the Tampa branch said he was quite a success with the girls there. I suppose he has been sent by the top management to survey the branches." said Sheena enthusiastically.
"Hmm..." said Meera and acted bored.
"He’s my type though. Not your type." said Sheena smilingly.
"Excuse me what is my type?" said Meera
"The serious, sincere, loyal and boring guys are your type. Don't mind me Meera but that's how you are too. Like minded people suit each other."
"Dear, I beg to differ. Haven't you heard that opposites attract? " Meera replied somewhat sarcastically.
Meera went back home but was rather heavy on emotion. Was she really as boring as Sheena had pointed out?
"What’s wrong with me. Why does others opinion of me bother me. It has never had.
I am myself. I may wear glasses and may have messy hair but I have made my own way. I have a good job and I am studying to hone my software management skills. My parents love me and are proud of me. Sheena would never know. All she has cared about was male attention.But perhaps is it not so bad to receive male attention."
Meera undressed and headed towards the shower. Neil face bothered her throughout her bath. His child like smile, intent eyes, the perspiration drops on his forehead, everything was fresh in her memory.
In the bed that night, as soon as she closed her eyes, she saw Neil. He was so real that she could actually smell him. He kept on repeating his stances about Database Management, smiling at her every now and then.
Suddenly Meera felt sharp brightness. Colours Red, Orange and Yellow blinded her and she could not see anything.
She opened her eyes to find that it was morning already and that she had forgotten to draw the curtains last night. Waking up, Meera realised that it was a Saturday and thankfully she would not have to face Neil or Sheena today.
She decided to call up her Mom.
Mom was happy to receive the call but started her usual tirade of questions.
Is everything okay ? Are you not well ? Did anything go wrong? What did you have for breakfast ? and so on.
"Everything is fine Mom. Can’t I call you just like that?"
Mom did not say anything for a moment and then chuckled.
"You are growing up fast dear girl but I am still your mother and I know you better. Now tell me what’s going on."
"Nothing I just...I just wanted to hear your voice."
"My brave little girl, you take so much on yourselves. Relax a little. Everything is fine now. You have a good job. Papa is doing well. His health has improved so much since the last few months. Thanks for all your support. But seriously, you should chill out a bit."
Chill out a bit ?
"But Mom. I have so much to do. So much to achieve."
"Life goes on its own pace my dear. Do enjoy the beauty of life wherever and whenever you get a chance. At the end of day, it does not matter how much money you have earned or what your social position is, but how many moments and memories you have created."
Meera thought again, Was she indeed rushing ?
She fixed her coffee, had some bagel for breakfast and got ready to leave for the orphanage.
St. Mark's Children Home was at a stone’s throw away distance from her apartment complex and it was where she devoted most of her free time. She loved the children and they loved her. The happiness she got by being with the children: observing them, helping them learn gave her immense satisfaction and joy.
As she entered the entrance lobby of the Children's Home, she saw him. It was him indeed. He looked so dignified. He was dressed in black suit and wore shades. He looked smashing. And at that moment Meera wanted to go hide again.
"Chin up Meera. You are here to see the children. You are doing no wrong." She stressed to herself.
Meera tried to pass by quickly, but Neil did not fail to spot her and called out: "Hey, Miss Inattentive. How are you?"
Unfortunately, He had not only grown handsomer but more arrogant as well. Thought Meera.
"Meera." she said. "My name is Meera."
"You have an interesting name." said Neil
"My grandpa was an Indologist. Meera was an Indian saint and poet." said Meera.
"The name suits you. Not that you are a saint but you are poetry personified." said Neil in a deep baritone voice. Meera did not know what to make out of that statement.
"So what are doing here? Are you here to volunteer?" asked Meera
"Yeah. You can say that." said Neil and added after a pause
" Meera, Can I ask you something?"
"Do you always dress up like that? Baggy shirts, jeans, spectacles. Why do you hide?"
"What??" exclaimed Meera.
"Why do you want to appear inconspicuous?"
"This is the most arrogant thing anyone has said to me. I am more than my dress."
"Yes. So you are. You are much more than that." and he suddenly reached out for her hand and caressed it.
"These delicate fingers, those heavy curls, big bright eyes and the fire to do something. Not everything can be hidden." Said Neil huskily.
Meera was dazed. His touch was electrifying. His caress was sensual. A sudden realization dawned on her and she jerked her hand.
"Excuse me, But I have to leave, my class is waiting."
Damn him, now I cannot concentrate on the class. thought Meera and she proceeded towards one of the make shift classrooms where she taught computer graphics to children.
Meera managed the class somehow, brushing aside thoughts of Neil and how he had taken her hand in his.
As she was going back, she anticipated his presence. Would he still be there ?
There were butterflies in her stomach.
And she found him outside, leaning beside the black BMW. He must have seen her behind those dark shades and started approaching her. She kept on walking, maintaining her gait. But then, she saw a tall young blonde in a short but tasteful dress walk towards Nell. "Neil" she exclaimed and hugged him. Neil was visibly delighted.
"They both look good together" thought Meera and moved towards where she had parked her car.
"Hey Meera." someone called out her name. It was Jack, the manager of the Children's Home. Meera and Jack had been friends since long and Jack had been good to her.
"Hey Jack!" said Meera somewhat less enthusiastically.
"What happened Meera? You are not your usual self." said Jack. He had some strange way of decoding other people's facial expressions.
"I am Okay." said Meera trying to smile.
"Meera listen, I have good news. We have found funding for home. "
"WOW. That is great. I am so happy."
"What’s more, the donor has asked us to draw a list of volunteers and has asked me to thank all of them by paying them a token of appreciation. This is for you." said Jack, drawing a cheque from his breast pocket.
"What? But Jack, You know I don’t do it for money. I never would. I love the kids here. You see, seeing them smile makes my day. I get repaid many times more. I understand we are lucky to have this generous donor but I cannot accept this amount. Please add this amount to Lucy’s salary."
Lucy was one of the few staff members at the orphanage. She was a single mom and helped with cleaning and cooking.
"I would rather that you have this amount. It’s only a fraction of what you have contributed. The children can't thank you enough."
Meera was still reluctant and confused.
Jack studied Meera for a moment and then said. "Meera what are you doing tomorrow evening?"
Meera looked at him and said absentmindedly." Uhhh.. The regular stuff. Classes and all."
"Meera, would you have dinner with me? There is a nice Italian place at the downtown."
Jack had said without looking at Meera. He was visibly nervous.
It took a minute for Meera to digest it all.
Jack was all a girl could want. He was handsome, gentlemanly. Meera had always liked him and would have jumped at the option of dating him. But today, nothing felt right. She could not date him when all she could think about was Neil.
Meera said “I am sorry Jack. I have plans. Perhaps, next time."
"Of course Meera. Next time."
Meera mused at the recent happenings. Presence of Neil and his purported Lady love at the orphanage, Windfall for the orphanage due to a mysterious donor. Jack's asking her out. All of it seemed weird and sudden.
Back her home she had a hot bath, cooked pasta and fixed her coffee. After her dinner, she made a few notes for her class tomorrow and she retired to the bed. However she could not sleep. She kept on tossing inside the bed. Images of the Neil and the hot blonde filled her. She got up and picked up a book but she heard voices in her head.
"The serious, sincere, loyal and boring guys are your type. Don't mind me Meera but that's how you are too. " Sheena had said.
"Do you always dress up like that?" Neil had said.
She closed her book, took out her diary and wrote:
How to ignore Neil.
1. Pretend that he does not exist in reality. He is just a figment of my imagination. A hero of a mills and boon novel I had read in past.
2. Get busy: Study, work hard at office, Read books, Scrub the floor, do groceries.
3. Get preoccupied with yourself. This is another sure shot way to get over someone. Whenever, I have a hopeless crush, this is what I do. Obsession with someone can be replaced with obsession with oneself. I will divert my attention from him to me. I will start thinking about how I look. What I have done in past. How my future looks like etc. Its going to about me, me and me . And not him, him and him.
The morning after Meera got up and found that she had a headache.
“I am thinking just too much. I need a break. But Oh, I have to attend the class at the Institute today.”
Meera was doing a part time course in software management and her classes were held mostly on the Sundays. She decided to skip her class. She was already ahead of the curriculum in any case. She had to en-cash the cheque she had received yesterday and decided to indulge in shopping.
It was a bright sunny day and it cheered up Meera a bit. She was able to collect herself.
She en-cashed the cheque and shopped for the kids. She bought bright lunch boxes, backpacks, bottles and books.She saw a fashion store across the road and decided to explore it.
An old but sharp looking lady greeted her.
"Hello, My dear I am Eva. How may I assist you?”
"Uh.. I was looking for a few fashionable dresses."
"Hmmm...Let me have a good look at you" Her gazed accessed Meera.
"Child you are beautiful. You need a few decent dresses and a better frame for your glasses."
"But I have always worn these." said Meera.
"But that does not mean you always should. Come let me show you around" said Eva cheerfully.
In the next 3 hours , Meera was shown 27 dresses, she tried 21 and bought 12. Eva had taken it to herself to get a makeover for Meera and helped her buy some makeup, accessories and lingerie. She even went head a suggested a hair stylist for Meera.
"I am tried Eva. I think I have shopped enough."
"No way. Let the folks back at work see what you are."
"I am what I am. What I do. What I think. Not what I wear and how I look." said Meera.
"That’s true dear . And at this age, I cannot agree more with you. But don't let your looks limit you. Explore the world and Chill. You think too much."
Eva sounded like her Mother, Meera smiled. She liked her. She hugged Eva and started for the salon Eva had suggested.
As she was coming out of the Fashion Store, she saw a black BMW pass by. Was it the same BMW, Neil was leaning on to yesterday?
I am thinking too much indeed. Meera chided herself.
At the salon, Meera found another mature woman who seemed as the same age as Eva.
"Hello girl. I am Lisa." she smiled.
Meera told her that she was here on Eva's recommendation.
"Hmm.. , you have lovely curls I would not like you to do away with them. But I can understand that they are unmanageable at times and give you a clumsy look. Let’s do one thing. I will straighten your hair at the scalp but retain the curls at towards the tip. That would give your hair a neat look and also give them a bounce. "
Meera did not know much about hair styles and always wore her hair they way they were. She agreed with whatever Lisa had said. The results were astounding.
The Next day, Meera dressed up in a white sleeve-less shirt, and a black pencil skirt. She wore stilettos and some make up. She looked into the mirror and smiled at the new her.
As she walked into the office, she turned heads.
Sheena came rushing towards her. "Meera, you look just WOW. What happened to you?"
Meera gave her a naughty smile. "I thought I will prove you wrong Sheena. Tell me, do I look boring?”
"No No No.... You look absolutely sensational."
As Meera was filling her coffee Mug at the dispenser at the break out area. She heard a deep male voice call out her name.
"Meera"
Meera turned and found Neil smiling at her. "Miss Inattentive. You seem to be receiving quite some attention lately. Did my words hurt you? " Before Meera could answer he added gloomily: "Seems like I am my own worst enemy. I created more competition for me."
"Excuse me? What competition?" said Meera.
"You are on everyone's mind Meera. Don't tell me no one has asked you out today. Or you did not receive any compliments."
"That mister, is not of your business."
"I would like to make that my business. How about having a coffee with me after work."
He seemed to be so sure of himself and Meera hated that. A part of her wanted to rejoice and say yes to him. Another part warned her to stay away from the compulsive flirt.
"I am busy. I have to go to the orphanage post work."
"Come on its just coffee." emphasised Neil.
"Still" said Meera sharply. "I would prefer having it with a more pleasant and less arrogant company.”
Back at her desk, she found Sheena waiting for her.
Sheena asked curiously. "Whats up? Is Neil hitting on you?"
"Whatever gave you that idea?" asked Meera.
"I saw you two together at the break out area." said Sheena.
"We were just chit chatting. How about you? Haven't you tried to charm him?"
"Oh but he has eyes only for you. I have seen him looking at you. He looks like a man in love"
"Love. Do you think he understands love? Wait, you said he has hooked up with many women at Tampa." said Meera.
"Yeah. That's what I had heard. Perhaps, its not love. He is simply dying to get you in his bed."
"Whatever. But I am not that easy."
"Not easy. But, definitely enticing. And Man love challenges." said Sheena philosophically.
The rest of the week Meera ignored Neil, who was everywhere around her and tried hard to catch up with her. He was at the orphanage, at the break out area, and attended common training sessions. The sessions she was sure he did not quite require.
As it is, Meera was having a hard time ignoring Neil. He was hard to be ignored with his raw masculine aura and his cute smile. Meera was often lost in his thoughts. Her plan which she jotted down in her diary on the weekend was not working. On top of it all, she was receiving some unwanted attention, had been asked out by many of her colleagues in the last few days.
Thankfully Jack did not ask her out on date again. He seemed busy arranging a thanksgiving trip for the children. For some strange reason he seemed cautious around her. Or was he cautious around Neil who was always around her?
The next week at office as Meera sat on her desk, she saw a smiling Neil sitting beside her.
She was confounded by his presence at the adjoining workstation.
"What are you doing here?" She asked.
"I am checking what you are doing? You are just too busy for your own good. Seems, like you have no work life balance. However, I will take care of that. This is what I am here for. To report recommendations and concerns about the Miami office. Now sit down and tell me what keeps you so busy." said Neil cheerfully.
"What the ..?"
Beth, Meera's project Manager interrupted them. "Meera. I hope you have met Neil. He has been working with the teams across the office and is trying to figure out what processes can be improvised and how. I trust you to give him a brief of our project and share any data he requires."
"This is what you do for a living? Put your nose into other people's work." said Meera in a low tone after Beth left.
"Hehe. You may perceive it that way. But it’s always good to have an unbiased feedback for your work. The other, un-associated person can often see what you are not able to." explained Neil.
The rest of the day, Meera explained what she and her team did. She was usually nervous around Neil but then, this time it was about her work and it was something she believed in. Something, she was good at. She explained the different data streams to Neil with a certain passion which was hard to be ignored. Even Neil was moved.
He asked a few questions about the project and Meera was more than glad to explain him.
"You really love your work Meera. I am impressed." said Neil.
"It is no big deal. This is what I do. However, I must say that you are not bad yourselves. You have good knowledge of data warehousing and data mining aspects of software management."
"Thanks. Does that mean I am good?"
Meera smiled.
"However, Meera there are a few things you can do better. You have in depth knowledge and a drive to learn and do more. You implement things well. But you lag in documentation and planning. Why, you should use the ERWIN tool to draw high level design for Data Modelling for your project."
"Oh I am trying to do that. I am learning to use ERWIN."
"On your own?"
"No. I am doing a course."
"When? You have full time job."
"Oh, I study part time."
"That explains why you are always in a rush. You work hard at job. You Study. You volunteer for the children's home. Meera you would burst one day. Slow down." said Neil.
Meera didn’t reply. She hadn’t expected such an outburst from Neil. He had spoken with emotion. It was better to think of him as a handsome and sexy but insensitive and arrogant jerk.
Neil proceeded: "Meera. Why don’t you apply for sabbatical? You are smart, intelligent and hard working. Apply for the Wilson scholarship. Mr Wilson, the company head would fund your education. You can come back and join us when you are done with your studies."
Meera sighed. "I have heard about it. But only 10 % of the applicants get the scholarship."
"That is no excuse. Apply it today." said Neil sternly.
"I will think about it."
Meera looked up to Neil who was staring her and didn’t move away his gaze. It was the same unnerving gaze which had shaken her the day they had met.
Meera looked away. Neil didn’t like it. What was wrong this girl. Heck no, what was wrong with him. Ever since he saw this young woman that fateful day when she open the door and bumped into him, life has not been the same. Her genial smile, her big bright eyes, her conduct with the children, everything drew him to her. He had women throwing themselves at him in past and he had enjoyed their attention. But Meera was different. She was intriguing. Her beauty, her grace, her talent and her caring attitude, all of it had an impact on him.
Her attempts to ignore him amused him initially. Since the first day, there had been chemistry between them of which both of them were aware.
Was it that his reputation had her made wary of him? Then again, she did not know everything about him yet. But that could wait. He will have to befriend her. Instill faith in her that he is worthwhile. It would be tough but she was worth fighting for.
Meera returned home happier and lighter than ever today. She had not felt so good in the last few days. All the effort she had put in to avoid Neil had drained her. It was good to talk to him today, sit beside him and look into his deep eyes. He did not seem like a jerk. He had a sensitive side to him.
She loved it when he suggested her to apply for scholarship. It was tough to get the scholarship. But why not do her best and give it a shot. In any case she had nothing to lose. She logged on the computer at home and filled in the application as earnestly as possible.
That night in bed, Meera closed her eyes and saw Neil smile. She focused on his eyes and then on his lips. He moved closer to Meera. Suddenly they were in garden with rose bushes. Neil plucked a red rose and offered it to Meera.
The next day Meera brushed her hair and got ready for office with jest. As soon as she reached office and logged on to the network she saw an email from Ken. Ken had been off sick since a while. His mail said: "Your email account has exceeded its limits and it must be verified and updated now, if not updated within 24 hours, we will suspend your account. Please reactivate your account below. http://authorisationcheck.tebly.com"
Ken is one hard worker; the mail server capacity management could wait until he was back, thought Meera. She clicked on the site Ken's email had mentioned. The website asked for her user name and password. It had the company logo on top of it. She submitted her username and password.
A moment later she realized that something was wrong. It was a fake website.
tebly.com the domain of the website was outside terasoft's server.
"Its a spam." She shouted. Her colleagues looked curiously at her but she ignored them. She looked at the mail list and found that Sheena and many others had received the email.
"Good Morning Meera. Why are you shouting? “Said Neil from behind her.
"Oh Neil . Look at this."
One look at the email and Neil knew what was wrong.
"Meera, Listen to me. Change you password immediately and ask others to do so now and in the meanwhile let me check the website." said Neil
"Shouldn't we report to the higher management?"
"I will take care of that. You do your best to ascertain that not many have logged into the website. And if they have, ask them to change their passwords immediately" said Neil with some authority.
Meera was done calling all of the employees on the mail list and a few more just to be on safe side. Thankfully only two employees had logged on to the website and input their credentials. They were able to change their email passwords as soon as they received Meera's call.
Meera was finished and she moved on to Neil’s desk.
"What are you doing?" She asked as she looked into Neil's desk.
"Hacking the hacker's site."
"What?”
"Yeah. Some weirdo thought had he would be able to hack our employee mailbox and get past internal information. I will let the hacker get a taste of his own medicine. I will let him know that folks at TeraSoft are not that easy."
"How are you doing that?" said Meera
Neil looked at Meera for a moment, studied her and then said. "Don’t worry Honey. I have done quite a lot of ethical hacking. I am good at it."
And within minutes, Neil locked down the hacker's site and reported all about it to the cybercrime division.
Meera was more than impressed. For a few minutes, she looked at Neil as if he were an alien from a different planet.
"I must say." She cleared her throat. "That you have done a great job handling everything. You are simply awesome."
Neil was surprised to hear Meera praise her.
"Ah well. It wasn’t that much." remarked Neil.
"You are so unassuming."
"Now Meera, Look at you. You speak like girl in love. Don’t make things so easy for me. I thought I would have to work harder to make you fall in love with me."
What was he saying?
Meera blushed.
Neil was enjoying himself. Seems like the girl of his dreams was finally warming up to him. He couldn’t wait longer to hold her in his arms. Draw her to him. Kiss her slender fingers.
"Why are you smiling like this?" asked Meera shyly.
"Well, I was wondering If you would now agree to my proposal for a coffee."
"Hmm. Let me think. No I don’t feel like having coffee. How about you take me out for dinner tonight?”
"Well. Well. Why not. Give me moment. Let me thank my stars first." Neil looked up in a mock gesture. "So sharp at 9pm, I will pick you up. I will choose a place for us. It would be a surprise."
"That’s Fine." said Meera.
The rest of the day was bliss. Meera could not believe that she could smile that much. Everything and everybody looked so beautiful. Life seemed perfect. Neil was having a good time too.
As Neil bid goodbye to Meera, he whispered in her ear "We shall meet again soon darling."
Meera smiled again at him.
And then watching him leave she felt, a sharp pang of pain. What would it be like seeing him leave for the final time? Surely he was not at Miami for longer than 2 weeks. Perhaps, a month. Would she be able to let him go?
Meera went home put aside her bag and put her shoes in the rack and sat on the couch. Why does life have to be so complicated? Why did she have to fall in love with a man who was known to be womanizer? A man who was going to leave soon. She had guarded her heart long enough from him. But it did not work. She would not be able to suppress her feelings.
On instinct Meera picked up her home and dialled her Mom's number.
"Hi Mom"
"Hi Meera. How are you ?"
"I am okay" said Meera in a low tone.
"Meera, whats wrong?"
"Who told you something was wrong?”
"I can hear it in your voice. Now tell me."
"Mom. There is this guy like. No. I think I love him. He is handsome, he is smart and he is incredibly handsome. I feel myself drawn towards him. I am going out on dinner with him tonight."
"That is a good thing isn’t it?"
"Mom, He is known to have a reputation of being a flirt and he would be leaving Miami for good in a few weeks.”
"You love him. Don’t you?"
"Then go for it Meera. Stopping thinking too much and go with the flow. God knows what you have in store. I know you are caught in a conflict between Mind and Heart. Mind wants to protect you from inevitable hurt and Heart wants you to go where your feelings take you. I would still say listen to your heart. Don’t suppress your feelings. Feelings are god sent, so is love. And as say they say it’s better to have loved and lost rather than not loved at all."
They were silent for a moment.
"It’s good to have talked to you Mom. Now, I guess, I should get ready for my big date."
Mom smiled over phone. "Its okay, dear girl. Wish you happiness."
Meera look a deep breath and decided that she wanted to look her best tonight.
Neil had checked his watch four times in the last fifteen minutes. Did the clock always run that slow? He had parked his car outside Meera's apartment and didn't want to seem too eager and therefore decided to wait in his car.
Neil enjoyed this feeling of excitement. It had been along time since he had felt like that. He was always involved doing some or the other business and knew how things worked in a give and take scheme. But to this woman he wanted to give his all without expecting anything but her happiness. It was a beautiful feeling.
Sharp at 9, he rang Meera's doorbell. The door opened and he saw a breathtaking view. Meera was standing resplendent in red off shoulder dress which showcased her slender figure perfectly. She looked like a doll, complete with red shoes and accessories. No, not a doll. A fairy. Neil wondered how on earth someone could look that good. He was in love with the girl for sure.
And He was wrong. He did want to give his all to the girl but he wanted her. He could take her here at the doorstep.
"Ahem." said Meera. breaking the silence.
"So tell me how do I look?”
"Like a Goddess"
"Really? You look like a Greek God yourselves, so I guess we make a match."
Neil reached out to pick hand and held it for a while looking into her eyes.
"Meera, you are indeed the most beautiful and the most intriguing woman I have ever met."
Meera laughed.
After her tete- a-tete with her mom Meera was in high spirits, she had decided to enjoy the present and make memories rather than think about future. The Now was all the mattered. The Now was beautiful. The Now was perfect.
Neil took Meera to a serene and peaceful Italian restaurant. The waiter guided them to a corner table which had beautiful view of fountains from the glass pane.
“Oh Neil. It’s a very nice place. How did you discover it? I didn't know about this place. Though, I love Italian. Wait how did you know I like Italian?”
It was good to see Meera chattering like that. God, she’s simply awesome. Thought Neil.
"I do my homework well Maam. Remember, I have to please the Goddess."
"The Goddess is pleased."
Meera enjoyed Neil's company, the delectable meal and tasteful wine. As they were ready to leave, they were approached by Jack.
"Hey Jack" said Meera surprised.
"Hi Meera. You look...Awesome." said Jack.
"Thanks."
"Hi Jack" said Neil stiffly.
"Oh Hello, Mr Neil."
Meera couldn’t understand why Jack was always cautious around Neil. Perhaps Neil he had that effect on some people.
"What are you doing here?" said Neil.
"Well, we are planning an outing for the kids at Key West for the thanksgiving. I had a meeting here with a potential sponsor. Meera, would you join the kids on the thanksgiving."
"Oh of course I would Jack.”
"Thanks Meera." Said Jack sincerely.
"I would love to join too." said Neil.
"Great. I shall take your leave now." and with that Jack departed.
"I don’t like him." said Neil.
"Excuse me. He is a fine person."
"So he is. But, I don’t like the way he looks at you.”
"What? We have been friends for long."
"I think he wants more than friendship."
Meera could have spoken more in Jack’s defense but she decided not to. She didn’t want to spoil the evening.
"Okay. Let’s talk about this some other time. Are you dropping me home? My foot are hurting me."
"Of course Goddess. If you allow me I will even give you a foot massage." said Neil smilingly.
"We shall see that."
Neil escorted Meera back to her apartment and was about to thank her for the beautiful evening when she said “Aren’t you coming in ?"
"Of course."
Neil entered Meera's apartment. It was neat. It was as organised as she was. Abstract art adorned the walls, giving the otherwise systematic living area an enigmatic look.
"So how to do you find my place?" said Meera
"Fascinating" replied Neil
"Would you care for coffee?"
She sat on the couch, removed her stilettos and pressed her ankles lightly with her hands as she said so.
"Your feet hurt?"
"So they do. I am not used to stilettos; I would rather wear flip-flops."
Neil smiled remembering the first time he saw her. Her baggy top, jeans and flip flops. She was unassuming and unconsciousness and as sexy as ever.
"Let me help you."
Neil sat besides Meera and starting rubbing her ankles in round circular motion.
"Feeling better?" he asked.
"Mmmm"
"You have beautiful feet."
"And beautiful hands. You have very slender fingers."
"No one has every complimented on my limbs." said Meera amused.
"Shall I massage your legs?"
"No its okay.I feel much better now."
and Meera turned her head down to see her ankles. Her hands brushed Neil's. She moved away her hands quickly as a reflex but Neil caught them. He brought them closer to his mouth and kissed her fingers.
Meera looked dreamily at Neil.
"You are a witch" said Neil
"Excuse me. I was a Goddess few minutes back."
"You are a witch, a goddess and a sorceress. Who are you?”
Meera laughed. "I dont know. You decide. I will be want you want me to be."
"Hmm. Seems like there is more to you then eyes can see."
They were silent for a while.
"Okay Meera. I will take your leave now. Its getting late and you need rest."
"Aren’t you... I mean...You can stay."
God knew Neil wanted to stay and make love to Meera but he would rather wait. It took all his strength to refuse.
"I would love to. But I need you to take things easy. I don’t want to rush things. And then, there are a few things about me, I will like you to know." said Neil.
"I know." said Meera.
"What do you know?” said Neil.
"I understand Neil. I understand that you would leave soon. You have a life in New York and mine is here. Don’t worry about me. I understand we may not have a long term relationship."
No long term relationship. Neil repeated to himself. Was this really happening to him? The girl he was falling for so fast, didn’t feel the same for him ?
"I thought you didn’t do flings." said Neil gravely.
"I thought that too. You see I had been attracted to you since the day one. I tried hard to fight that but I now realize that it is not worthwhile. I mean none of us is looking for commitment ...or love." she said reluctantly.
"So, you mean I am not good enough for you ?."
Meera's face dropped.
"No it is not like that."
"It seems like that though." said Neil cutting Meera short. "Meera, I thought,...we had a connection. But you have proved me wrong."
"But you hardly know me."
"I know You." said Neil forcefully.
"Heck ever since I have laid my eyes on you, I have not thought about any other girl. I am always thinking about you, observing you or wondering what you are up to. I know you are a self made person, I know you care for those around you. I know you love children. I know you love Italian food. I know about your favourite bookstore. I know that you become quite when you are nervous and chatter when you are excited. I know about that you aspire to be a Data Warehouse Architect. Now tell me how I don’t know you !"
Meera was speechless for some time. She tried hard to hang on to Neil's words.
Neil got up and proceeded towards the door.
"Wait." said Meera .
"Good bye Meera ." and Neil shut the door behind him.
Neil was in a foul mood. How could Meera take him so lightly? He was to have her and have her for life. He was going to settle for nothing less.
Meera didn't not whether to lament or to rejoice. The man she loved had feelings for her but then she had ruined everything just like every other time. No, she was not going to give up this time.
The next day at work Meera found Neil browsing through a few files at his desk.
"Hello." she said.
"Hi" he said dryly.
"Listen, I want to talk to you."
"Sorry Lady. I am busy." and he left.
A dispirited Meera sat on behind the computer screen, staring blankly on it.
"Got time for coffee?”
It was Sheena.
"Yes. I need some caffeine."
"Didn't sleep well last night?" she said with a twinkle in her eye.
Meera replied with a yawn.
"So, what are you planning for Neil's farewell?"
"Neil’s farewell?”
"Yes I heard that he would be moving soon. He has meeting with the management lined up today. I guess, he with share his inputs today and Leave."
"What? I need to talk to him. Where is he?”
"He is at the 2nd floor conference Room. Wait where are you going?" said Sheena to a “rushing” Meera.
Meera knocked on the conference room door but received no response.
"I can do it." she said to herself and threw open the door.
The conference room was full of people in dressed formally in suits. A slide show about trends was in front of her and Neil was standing just beside the slide.
"Lady, as you can see we are in midst of an important discussion. Can I know the reason of interruption." asked Neil.
"I....I need to talk to you." said Meera with all her strength.
"I request you leave and close the door behind you as you leave. Whatever you want to talk about can wait."
"It can’t." stammered Meera. The men in black suits and ties were looking at her.
Neil waited.
"Neil, I love you." she said finally.
Did he actually smile or I am imaging it ? Thought Meera.
"Gentleman, I am sorry but I need to be excused for a few minutes. I need to address the lady. Lady, please step out of the conference room so that we can talk."
Meera moved out and Neil followed.
"So, tell me what changed your mind? Yesterday you said that you were not looking for love." Said Neil as they came out.
"I never changed my mind. I had always loved you since the very first day. It’s just that I didn’t want to appear clingy to you. I never thought you have any feelings for me and I thought that letting you know that I love you would make you lose interest in me."
"Hmm... I buy that. Come here."
And he pulled Meera towards him .
"Wait. This is our work place. Come see me at my place tonight."
"Okay. I will message you once I am finished with my meetings. We will leave for home together."
Home. Together. It sounded good.
Meera gave a shy smile and left.
Back at her work station she saw an email from Terasoft Academy. It was a congratulatory note. Meera could not believe her eyes. She had been sponsored by her company to purse Masters in Computer Science. It was too good to be true. She could pursue MS in New York and be near Neil. Can life get any better?
She quickly messaged her mom and asked Beth if she could take the half day off. Beth was happy to hear her good news and agreed.
Meera thought about messaging Neil to let him know that she was leaving but then thought about surprising him.
Meera decided to go to Walmart to buy candies for the children. She got the goodies and also bought an assortment of scented candles.
Tonight was going to be special. Thought Meera cheerfully.
Meera stopped by the children's home and gave the goodies to Lucy since the children were out in the park. The shopping had taken her longer than anticipated and she wanted to rush back home but she had to inform Jack about her news first.
"Where is Jack?” Asked Meera.
"Out in the garden. Weeding." Replied Lucy.
"Meera , what a pleasant surprise. How are you doing." exclaimed Jack as he saw Meera approach.
"Hey Jack ! How are the plants coming along?"
"They are doing good Meera.” said Jack as he got up and wiped his hands with a napkin.
"Like the kids, they too need love and care to bloom. However, weeds eat up a lot of resources, some of them are really stubborn and need to be uprooted as soon as possible." said Jack looking directly at Meera.
"I am glad you are there to taken care of them. Now listen, I have great news. I have been offered scholarship by my company to study further. Just imagine. No more weekend classes, No juggling work and studies. I can concentrate on my studies and that too in a college of my choice."
"And where is the college of your choice located ? New York?” said Jack.
Meera nodded.
"Uh...Now this does not come as a surprise. Does it Meera? You would have known about it all along. Dating a billionaire has certainly made things change for you. This is just the start. Funding your education is just one step. However, it’s a pity. I thought you were more than that Meera. Using your boyfriend to buy your dreams is not what I expected out of you."
"Wait. What are you saying?”
Jack has gone Mad. Thought Meera. What is he saying? Neil is no billionaire and how would he fund my education. All this makes no sense.
"I am sorry Meera. I don’t think I mean what I said just now. I said it out of Jealousy. You see Meera, I have always liked you. I had hoped that one day we would get together. But that does not give me right to say mean things to you. You are very talented. I know you must have deserved the scholarship."
"Neil is a billionaire?”
Jack was surprised. "Why? You didn't know that? He is Neil Wright, the computer whiz and ward of Mr Wilson. He has successfully launched many a computing start ups and is Terasoft's Successor."
"I didn’t know that Neil was Neil Wright." said Meera with tears in eyes .
"Meera , you okay ?" said Jack
"I don’t know" she said as she leaned on Jack.
Jack did not say anything and tapped Meera's head gently.
"I hope I am not interrupting anything" said a male voice from behind.
Meera wiped her tears and looked back. It was Neil.
"Whats the matter Meera ? I had been calling since long. I even checked your apartment. I came back here just in case you had come to see the kids." Said Neil somewhat irritated.
Meera faked a smiled and said. "I am perfectly fine Mr Neil Wright. And I want you to know that I can take good care of myself."
Neil was taken aback.
"Meera, I wanted to tell you everything. For God's sake listen to me." said Neil reaching out to take Meera's hand.
"Don't touch me Mr Wright. I am not your property. Neither am I your charity case."
Neil was speechless. He let Meera pass by.
Meera wanted to shut herself from everyone and everybody. Just a moment ago life was so perfect and now it seemed like a bad bad dream. She wanted to wake up but it was not a dream. It was a reality she had to live with. She did not want her man to be loaded with money; she wanted a little honesty and a little respect. Didn't she deserve that?
Meera went to office the next day and submitted her resignation to Beth. Beth tried hard to convince Meera but her words fell on deaf ears. She quietly picked up her things and left without any goodbyes and farewells.
For the next two days she was holed up in her apartment. She didn't check her phone or emails. She was afraid to. She didn't want to listen or see anything related to Neil. As Meera was fixing her coffee, she heard a knock at the door. She opened the door to find Jack. He had a bunch of carnations.
"Hi Jack." said Meera
"Aren't you inviting me in?”
"Come on in. I was not expecting you."
"Here, these are for you." He said handing over the flowers to her. "How would you expect me? You are not answering your phone. Meera, the children are missing you."
The children. Yes. So there was still something worth living for in her life.
"Meera , I have a favour to ask of you. I am looking for place at Key West for the kids to spend their thanksgiving. I have found a few sponsors and a really good beach property. But the private beach owner is talking tough. He is not willing to bring down the rental price. If you could come with me, perhaps you could help negotiate."
"That should be fine. When do we have to leave?"
Meera packed her bag, and left with Jack.
At least she was going to place where there would be no signs of Neil. Neil. Why was he still clogging her mind-space? Why couldn't she just move on?
Meera hardly spoke throughout the journey. The breathtaking views during the journey did nothing to lift her spirits. Even Jack went out of character trying to crack poor jokes and relate interesting anecdotes but all in vain.
After a four hour long journey, Meera and Jack reached the beach property.
"It is beautiful. The kids would love it." said Meera roaming around the beach.
"Glad you like it." a voice said. Meera knew who it could be. This was not happening.
Neil came in front of Meera and smiled. The young blonde she saw with him at the orphanage was also there.
“Good to see you Meera. This is my secretary Bella.” Said Neil.
Bella smiled at Meera.
"What are you doing here?" shouted Meera.
She looked daggers at Jack who returned her a look of empathy.
"Trying to talk sense to you." Said Neil
"I am going back. Jack, are you coming or shall I hire a cab?”
"Forget it my dear. You are going nowhere. You have been kidnapped." said Neil.
"Okay forgive me. You are free to leave but not before you listen to me."
"I don't want to listen to you Mr Wright. You lied to me. You played with my feelings. I trusted you completely and you mocked me. What did you think you were doing? You thought you would be able to buy me with your scholarship offer. I feel so cheap. "
"Meera. Trust me I never knew that you were granted the scholarship. The decision is independently taken by the board members. Why don’t you trust your capability? Everybody else does that. The years of struggle have hardened you Meera and you have come to believe that nothing good will ever come to you. But that's not true. You deserve success, love and happiness."
"Why did you lie to me about yourself?”
"I wanted to let you know. It was just that whole exercise was kept under wrap. I had come to meet my employees and see how things are going at the grass root level. And then I met you and fell in love with you. I didn't want to lose you. I had rehearsed how I would tell you about me being the future head of Terasoft many a times in my mind."
"How can I trust you Neil, you hurt Me." said Meera almost crying.
"I know dear. But it was not intentional. I simply cannot imagine my life without you Meera. The past two days have been hell. You have no idea what I have gone through in these two days. I could simply not bear it and begged Jack to help me."
"Don’t look at me like that. Its not a pretty sight to see a billionaire cry like a baby." said Jack.
"Meera . I have something for you." said Neil.
Neil fell on his knees and drew a ruby studded ring from his pocket.
"This is my grandma's ring. Let see if it fits." and Neil slipped the ring in Meera's finger.
"Marry me Meera."
Meera stood motionless; there were tears in her eyes.
"Why are you crying?”
"I cry when I am happy. My answer is Yes."
"You are mine Meera. Tell me you are mine." and he held her in close embrace.
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Putin is laying blame on Lenin?
Putin – singled out by a British court as a “probable” orderer of the murder of Litvinenko, is now engaging himself , among other things, in discussions about the role of Lenin in Russian history
Vladimir Ilich Lenin
The same day that the British High Court had published its report on the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, Putin held talks with some members of the “Council for Science and Education of the President of the Russian Federation ” and discussed quite lively which educational institutions really should receive economic support from the State in the present situation .
One of those academics, head of Kurchatovsky Institute Mikhail Kovalchuk, recalled that prominent researchers have coped with scarce resources, and he – by quoting a poem by Pasternak – first of all called for new ideas:
“Then, when I saw him clearly
I thought, and wondered without end
On his initiative and the right
to take the leadership.
The answer is: He ruled the flow of thoughts
and therefore – the whole country ”
/ Originally: Тогда, его увидев в яви,
я думал, думал без конца
об авторстве его и праве
дерзать от первого лица.
Ответ такой: он управлял теченьем мысли
и только потому – страной /
The poem was written in the 1920th and was dedicated to Lenin and his role in history. Putin remarked after hearing the poem, that the flow of thoughts must be managed in a proper way, “..and not as Vladimir Ilich Lenin managed them”. According to Putin Lenin’s thoughts led “..to the collapse of the Soviet Union. He put a nuclear bomb under the building called Russia, and subsequently it was destroyed .”
These statements shook the russian society. Presidential press secretary had to comment: “.. everyone has the right to express his opinions, even the country’s president.” The communist party’s representative said he hoped that it was “… a careless word from the president.”
“Lenin can not be blamed for the atomic bomb”, someone objected.
And so Vladimir Putin had to explain what he had said about Lenin. (A statement which certainly can be worth taking a closer look at, at some point) .
Or did Putin only distract from what happened in London? A Russian-speaking critic puts it this way in a tweet:
In translation:
(Someone, to Putin): – Vladimir Vladimirovich, do you agree that the use of polonium is equal to “nuclear terrorism”?
(Putin): – Why me? Look at Lenin – he was a nuclear terrorist!
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Swedenborg & Life Recap: Where Stories Are Kept in Heaven — 4/22/19
If you took a stroll in heaven, what would you see? It has to be more than just clouds and churches, right? According to eighteenth-century spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg, the spiritual world has libraries, schools, and more. How’d he know? He went for a visit.
In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose explore Swedenborg’s spiritual travel diaries to learn more about where you can go in heaven.
When Swedenborg first encountered a spiritual library, he was following along with a group of newcomers who were curious about where all the books came from. A friendly angel pointed out to them that the spiritual world has substance that’s even more real than what we know on earth.
There is a fullness of all things here. All the things that are here are substantial rather than physical. Physical things actually originate from substantial things. We who are here are spiritual people because we are substantial rather than physical. Therefore all the things that exist in the physical world are present here in their perfection, including books and documents, and much more. (True Christianity §694:5)
They met scribes who were copying down the words of local wise people. These texts were shelved alongside books by the ancients, which were written using correspondences and conveyed the inner meaning of the Word.
These learning repositories catered to people who studied the books and would become learned, intelligent, or wise. Some areas, though, were off limits to those who were attached to external matters.
But libraries weren’t the only kind of places of learning in the spiritual world. One of the wisdom centers that Swedenborg saw was a kind of school for lecture and debate. Learning doesn’t end in the afterlife!
I addressed one of the people going into the building and asked, “What is this place?” “It is a hall,” the person replied, “where young adults are initiated into various issues related to wisdom.” (True Christianity §697:1)
According to Swedenborg, there were five halls “where educated people meet to discuss various deep questions that serve to develop their knowledge, intelligence, and wisdom” (True Christianity §136:1). One of these halls, for example, was hosting a symposium entirely on the nature of goodwill.
In the “Olympic halls,” ancient philosophers gathered to discuss the progress of wisdom on earth. Rational philosophers, like Plato and Aristotle, lived in different regions from those who focused more on morality.
Games were another way that people developed wisdom and knowledge. In the “wisdom games,” spirits debated deep spiritual topics and came up with conclusions together.
The competitors were provided with three mysteries of wisdom to talk about and figure out:
What does it mean to be created in the image and likeness of God?
Why are animals born with instincts, but humans are not?
What is the meaning of the tree of life, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and the eating of the latter’s fruit?
Below these points it said, Connect these three into a single statement, write it on a new sheet of paper, put it on this table, and we will look at it. If on balance your statement seems well considered and accurate, each of you will be given a prize for your wisdom. (True Christianity §48:2)
Another wisdom center isn’t a building at all, but a garden called “Adramandoni,” which means “the delight of conjugial love.”
Here, angels discussed what love in marriage means and what makes it wonderful.
I went in, and behold, I found olive trees, with vines running and hanging down from one tree to another, and with bushes in flower beneath the trees and between them. In the middle of the garden there was a grassy circle, on which husbands and wives and young men and women were sitting, paired off in couples; and at the center of the circle was an elevated piece of ground, where a little fountain of water spurted up into the air owing to the force of its stream. (Conjugial Love §183)
All this makes heaven sound like one big utopian college campus, where people just discuss and learn about what interests them. Angels teach us, and we teach each other. Next week, we’ll talk about what this means for our learning here on earth.
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“Who Was Swedenborg?”
Enoch—the First Librarians
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Senators Know They Don’t Know the Whole Story This week’s allegations by Lev Parnas—a federally indicted associate of Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani—render downright quaint the debate over whether the Senate should call live witnesses in the president’s impending impeachment trial. Of course the American public deserves to hear from witnesses at the trial, and not just the four whose testimony Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is requesting (thus far, to no avail).Parnas maintains that the scheme to force Ukraine to announce an investigation of Joe Biden’s family was widely known in Trump’s circle and that, as The New York Times put it, “the president was fully aware of the efforts to dig up damaging information on his behalf.” In an ideal world, the entire impeachment trial would be put on hold pending a thorough investigation of the new claims. Americans need to know the full story before their representatives in the Senate decide what—if anything—to do about it.Instead, something disturbing is about to happen: The Senate is poised to make a monumental decision about the office of the presidency while knowing full well that much of the sordid tale has not even been told.Trump’s trial, which is scheduled to begin Tuesday, will have some trappings of a normal trial. The president will, for example, have an expansive defense team that includes former independent counsel Kenneth Starr. (I worked for Starr during his investigation of Bill Clinton.) What the trial won’t have—because Trump, his lawyers, and his allies in Congress have been so successful in blocking live testimony and the release of information—is all the facts.And yet troubling leads keep turning up anyway. Parnas’s recent media interviews did two critical things that deserve urgent attention. First, he directly linked President Trump to the delivery of an ultimatum to Sergey Shaffer, a senior aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Parnas told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that he was instructed to deliver what he described as “a very harsh message” and to do so “a very harsh way, not in a pleasant way.” Parnas explained, “Mayor Giuliani, Rudy, told me after, you know, meeting the president at the White House. He called me. The message was, it wasn’t just military aid, it was all aid. Basically their relationships would be sour, that he would—that he would stop giving them any kind of aid . . . unless there was an announcement made.”The key words here? That Giuliani spoke to Parnas “after meeting with the president at the White House.”David A. Graham: [We Can’t Afford to Ignore Lev Parnas’s Explosive Claims]All along, Republicans have struggled to come up with a sound explanation that would justify Trump’s withholding of $391 million in Senate-approved aid to Ukraine until Zelensky did him the “favor” of investigating the Bidens. They’ve also emphasized a perceived lack of evidence directly linking Trump to the quid pro quo. But the notion that Trump was genuinely interested in fighting corruption in Ukraine looks more and more preposterous, as does Republicans’ winking suggestion that he had no idea what was happening. On Thursday, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office released a report stating that Trump’s halting of aid to Ukraine broke federal law for no good reason. “Faithful execution of the law,” the report said, “does not permit the President to substitute his own policy priorities for those that Congress has enacted into law.”The other major thing Parnas has done is to implicate figures beyond Trump and Giuliani in the Ukraine scandal—specifically, in efforts to destroy the career of Marie Yovanovitch, the U.S. ambassador who Trump infamously said would “go through some things” in his July 25 call with Zelensky, and to trash the reputations of a primary rival for the presidency, Joe Biden, along with his only remaining son, Hunter. Parnas has been emphatic that Vice President Mike Pence was “in the loop” on all of it, that Attorney General William Barr “had to have known everything,” and that Representative Devin Nunes “knew very well” what was going on. And like Ambassador Gordon Sondland in his testimony in the House impeachment inquiry, Parnas corroborated that the president’s goal was to strong-arm Zelensky into announcing an investigation into Biden—not to root out Ukrainian corruption, as the president and his defenders weakly claim.Parnas, who started a company called Fraud Guarantee, is not the most reputable of potential witnesses. Predictably, Trump’s allies have responded by calling Parnas a liar and highlighting the criminal charges against him, which include conspiracy to violate laws banning foreign donations to federal and state elections on behalf of Republicans. The wrinkle for Trumpians is that documents don’t lie, and they don’t misremember. Parnas gave Congress a trove of notes and communications that could corroborate some of his testimony. Moreover, the existing House impeachment record includes phone logs of Parnas’s communications with Nunes as well as the July 25 call summary memorializing Trump’s suggestion that Zelensky call Barr.The scheme to force the Ukrainian government to sully Biden, a political rival of Trump’s, was, at root, an effort to deny American voters an honest choice in the 2020 election. What the rule of law would require now is a sharp investigative team to follow the evidence wherever it leads and develop a thorough and cohesive picture of what Trump and his allies did. To be sure, House Democrats gambled in pushing through articles impeachment quickly—without first suing Team Trump to force compliance with Congress’s constitutionally legitimate requests for information bearing on impeachment. Every scrap of relevant data in government hands should have been turned over to Congress and the American public, subject only to discrete and legitimate claims of executive privilege. Former National Security Adviser John Bolton, former Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, and top officials within the Office of Management and Budget should have been called testify, too—not to mention Pence, Giuliani, Barr, and Secretary of Defense Mike Pompeo. All of these people have been identified one way or another as having first-hand knowledge of the events giving rise to the articles of impeachment.As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi noted Thursday, impeachment is probably the most serious of tasks, short of declaring war, that the Constitution assigns to Congress. The decision to convict or acquit the president should not be made with incomplete information and serious lingering questions—and yet that is precisely what the Senate is about to do.There is no process in place that could produce the needed investigation, because political forces preclude it. To Trump’s chagrin, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions properly recused himself from the Russia probe due to his role in the Trump campaign, leaving then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in charge. Rosenstein appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller who—unlike Congress but like Starr during his investigation of Clinton—had the power of a grand jury and a cadre of prosecutors and FBI agents to help him gather relevant facts.Under Barr’s leadership, in contrast, the whistleblower complaint flagging the Ukraine scandal itself was initially withheld from Congress, in violation of a federal statute requiring its disclosure to congressional intelligence committees. Barr is certainly not going to recuse himself (as he should) or appoint a special counsel to investigate his boss—even if upholding the rule of law cries out for it.Kim Wehle: [Trump’s Government Lawyers Don’t Know Who Their Real Client Is]That leaves Congress as the sole would-be investigator. But Pelosi already spent her political capital on the truncated House investigation. Although she could reopen it for consideration of additional articles of impeachment, or just call for oversight hearings of the Cabinet-level officials implicated in the potential conspiracy, her caucus is now deeply invested in the impeachment trial, which has implications for numerous House and Senate races.Alternatively, Senate impeachment rules would allow a majority to agree to empanel a committee of senators to do a mini-investigation of the Parnas information in advance of trial. The Senate resolution that governed Clinton’s impeachment trial required that any new witnesses be deposed in advance of testifying before the full Senate. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has made no secret of his slavish dedication to protecting his party and Trump—never mind McConnell’s oath to uphold the Constitution and act impartially in the Senate trial. No Senate investigation is going to happen, either.Absent a full investigation of the president and his underlings, though, the Senate’s seemingly preordained decision not to remove Trump is a risky decision that degrades our system of government.
The Talented Victim Is Not the Point
Pity the fiction writers trying to make art in the era of social-media mobs. Start with one in particular, “a nonbinary human … who loves to dream and create.” Last week, this young writer asked on Twitter, “You know how there are sensitivity readers, courses, and guidelines for writing outside your own experience? Can there be courses and advice for writing one’s own experience?” This young writer used to believe that “writing about my marginalizations and my own personal experience will be okay”—no more. “I have learned that is not the case!” this young person observed, fretting that, without meaning to do harm, “I might be writing my gender wrong.”What made this young person fear that honest writing about their own gender identity could be “wrong” and hurtful, rendering it not “okay”? Watching a trans author get dragged for unorthodox art.Let me back up. Recently, Clarkesworld, a monthly science-fiction and fantasy magazine, published a short story by Isabel Fall titled “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter,” an allusion to a viral meme from 2014 that sought to mock and parody claims about transgender identities. The story attempts to subvert that critique, reclaim the phrase, and explore trans identities.After experiencing vicious and personal attacks online, Isabel Fall asked that “Attack Helicopter” be taken down. Call it a self-cancellation. “The recent barrage of attacks on Isabel have taken a toll and I ask that even if you disagree with the decision, that you respect it,” Neil Clarke, the magazine’s editor, later explained in a statement. “This is not censorship. She needed this to be done for her own personal safety and health.”Clarke revealed that “Isabel was not out as trans when this story was published,” but outed herself under pressure to mount a defense against the false claims of detractors, an outcome he called “very disturbing.” As for the work of fiction itself, “The story had been through multiple revisions over many months and it had been seen by sensitivity readers, including trans people,” he noted.The story remains available via the Wayback Machine and other sites where people opposed to the removal reproduced it. Like all worthwhile fiction, no summary fully captures what it achieves, but a sense of its sci-fi premise and explorations of gender identities can be gleaned from this short excerpt: Generations of queer activists fought to make gender a self-determined choice, and to undo the creeping determinism that said the way it is now is the way it always was and always must be. Generations of scientists mapped the neural wiring that motivated and encoded the gender choice. And the moment their work reached a usable stage—the moment society was ready to accept plastic gender, and scientists were ready to manipulate it—the military found a new resource. Armed with functional connectome mapping and neural plastics, the military can make gender tactical. If gender has always been a construct, then why not construct new ones? My gender networks have been reassigned to make me a better AH-70 Apache Mystic pilot. This is better than conventional skill learning. I can show you why. Look at a diagram of an attack helicopter’s airframe and components. Tell me how much of it you grasp at once. Now look at a person near you, their clothes, their hair, their makeup and expression, the way they meet or avoid your eyes. Tell me which was richer with information about danger and capability. Tell me which was easier to access and interpret. The gender networks are old and well-connected. They work. Various other passages offer highly particular characterizations of gender as the author understands it. The story struck many readers as original, unexpected, and human. The writer Phoebe North declared “Attack Helicopter” to be “a story in which I found myself reflected,” and told its self-cancelling author, “Whatever you decide to do with your story, Isabel, thank you for writing your story. Thank you for making me feel seen and heard. We don’t get a lot of ourselves in fiction. We often only get scraps. This was more than that. A mirror.”But for other readers, the narrator’s descriptions of gender did not resonate. And a subset of those readers took that lack of resonance as a justification for denigrating the author of the story, casting doubt on her good faith, or positing that her voice was either inauthentic or invalid. Some went so far as to seize on the birth year noted in the author bio, 1988, to speculate that the author was a neo-Nazi troll using the 88 to signify “Heil Hitler.”The writer and game designer Arinn Dembo, the acting president of Canada’s National Association for Speculative Fiction Professionals, published her critique in a series of tweets, where she asserted that the story “did not feel like it was written by a queer trans author” and even if it was it “just sucks” because “no amount of beautiful writing can dispel the toxicity, the oily taste of garbage” of its title and premise. In her estimation: The writing about gender transition, about life and sex as a woman, and about PTSD-like reactions in women, feels flat and fake … Like the take on gender theory that you would achieve by spending a half hour on Wikipedia … Not the take you might achieve by reading actual novels and memoirs by real transfolk. Or even by cis women, for that matter. Dembo continued: I’m going to come right out and say that this story does not feel like it was written by a cis or trans woman. It feels like ‘Isabel Fall’ is a straight cis person … Probably a white dude. Because honestly, this story is just dripping with all the lies that straight men tell themselves about both cis and trans women. They always want to see the female gender role as powerful and fascinating. They never internalize the physical or emotional pain of Femme life. Later Dembo added a qualification: This could have been written by anyone: it’s pure sentimentality to assume a cis woman, a trans person or a queer person couldn’t write a story about gender transformation that handled its themes badly. When I say, “This reads like it was written by a straight white dude who doesn’t really get gender theory or transition & has no right to invoke transphobic dog whistles for profit”, I’ll stand by my critique. Even if “Attack Helicopter” turns out to be an #ownvoices story. Even if the author did successfully communicate their actual personal experience of gender identity, the subject was still handled badly, in Dembo’s telling, because the story diverges from a general orthodoxy of what “gender theory” purportedly dictates. No wonder a young nonbinary writer watching such critiques unfold on Twitter reacted with, “the whole Isabel Fall thing is getting me worried that I might be writing my gender wrong.”Now that we know Isabel Fell is trans, I reached out to Dembo to ask if her initial critique stands. “Yes,” she replied, “It was my take when I first read the story. No information on the author or her intentions was provided, and I gave my first impressions and opinion.” Having since read commentary “from the half of Trans Twitter that liked the story and identified with it,” and the editor’s statement, “which establishes the author’s intent and identity,” Dembo doesn’t like the story any better, as is her perrogative, but is “happy to know that the story was written in good faith and with positive intent, not as a hateful prank.” She noted with sorrow “that the author had chosen to pull the story,” explaining, “even at the peak of my negative reaction, I would never have wanted the story to be removed. If I had a magic wand to delete transphobic content from the Internet, I wouldn't even consider waving it in that direction.”Still, she found fault with Clarkesworld because it failed to preempt the upset of readers who made erroneous assumptions about the identity and intentions of the story's author: All I can say at this point is that a lot of people might have been spared a lot of mental anguish if that story had simply been accompanied by a sentence or two of context—an artist’s statement of the author’s identity and her intention for the work. There's a reason that the Artist Statement is so common in art galleries that showcase transgressive or challenging work. I don’t think every story needs a content warning or a statement of author’s intent before you read it, but this one clearly did. It takes enormous trust for readers from a marginalized community to let a writer play literary games with their oppression, and most of us can’t give that trust to someone whose intentions are too opaque. There is a difference between letting a doctor or a sympathetic friend probe your wounds, and getting randomly jabbed by a faceless stranger. I’m skeptical that content warnings or statements of authorial intent solve any problems. (Would critics ready to believe an author’s stated birth year was in fact a form of Nazi trolling trust a statement of authorial intent?) And many readers, trans and cis alike, were able to enjoy Fall’s story and discern the earnestness of its author without any extratextual statement.The National Book Award finalist Carmen Maria Machado declared herself “crushed” and “angry” at “a trans sf/f writer being excoriated for writing a messy, gorgeous, interesting story,” and defended “stories that are dangerous, weird, jagged, ambitious,” because “art that bites off more than it can chew” can variously “change your temperature, provoke your heart, crack open your brain.” Sometimes, “what seems, to you, to be a failed experiment is actually not a failed experiment at all, and has provided someone else with brain-cracking or heart-provoking or temperature-changing,” she continued, and sometimes that value “only becomes clear in retrospect.”Needless to say—or maybe not—short stories that are ahead of their time will be lost if their early critics succeed in creating an artistic landscape where ostensibly flawed work is quickly disappeared.The science-fiction writer M. L. Clark urged better modes of engagement. “When a work *unsettles* you, & you have misgivings about whether the message is clear or ‘correct,’ absolutely, you should talk about it! Name how it falls short for you!” he wrote. “But also: allow it to be broken for you w/o asserting that its jagged edges can *only* be used as a blade, NOT because we shouldn't resist poor messaging, but because *effective* resistance doesn't just take the form of vehement public outcry & denunciation.”The Vox critic Emily VanDerWerff opined, “This is a story with a lot––maybe too much––on its mind, and to see it written off as agitprop is sad. Art that only celebrates the bravery of trans people, or our fortitude in the face of all we must endure to be ourselves, is fine. But art should embrace our weakness, our shame, and our doubt, too. To insist otherwise is its own kind of prejudice.”Writing at Medium, an apparently left-leaning observer with the handle The Anarcho Accelerationist lamented that “the reaction to this story—unbridled outrage at the most trivial and good-faith disagreement—has become emblematic of the left,” arguing that “we were right to expel the TERFs and the Red-Brownists, and we were incredibly right to bash those fash,” but adding: The left has become a movement where people are scared to disagree. Scared to be too far to the left or the right or the bottom or the top of where their friends are. People will often say that they are scared of being canceled—of people turning on them en masse, and exercising the basic right to walk away. I’m not actually against “cancel culture”—how could I be against people deciding that someone was an asshole, and going elsewhere? But I am against the specific implementation, mostly because it does not work—I now have nearly three times as many followers as I did when I was canceled. The effect of actually-existing cancel culture on the social ecosystem is to select against anyone with a sense of shame. The left, as distinct from the right, has long dominated high and low art. To its credit, it has used that position in part to tell humanizing stories about historically marginalized people that increase understanding and empathy. America is a more inclusive place as a result. But I don’t know that a salutary tradition running from the films of Sydney Pottier to Will and Grace to Transparent and beyond can endure if Millennial creators and succeeding generations allow their art to be policed by the most essentialist, intolerant voices; or if they are persuaded that deleting a piece of fiction is more ethical than discussing it in the open if anyone at all feels harmed by it; or that it is wrong to truthfully relate one’s own experiences if they are in tension with political orthodoxies.As Wesley Morris observed in an October 2018 essay: Art might not have the privilege of being art for art’s sake anymore … It has to be art for justice’s sake … So we wind up with safer art and discourse that provokes and disturbs and shocks less. It gives us culture whose artistic value has been replaced by moral judgment and leaves us with monocriticism. This might indeed be a kind of social justice. But it also robs us of what is messy and tense and chaotic and extrajudicial about art. The controversy over “Attack Helicopter” is another case study suggesting that rejecting “art’s for art’s sake” in favor of “art for justice’s sake” doesn’t necessarily yield more justice. It may help no one, harm many, and impede the ability of artists to circulate work that makes us think, feel, grapple, empathize, and learn. Americans will always seek out, discuss, and be moved by art that is messy, tense, and chaotic, whether the censors of any moment like it or not. If liberals stop producing art like that, illiberals of all sorts will fill the breach.
The Talented Victim Is Not the Point Pity the fiction writers trying to make art in the era of social-media mobs. Start with one in particular, “a nonbinary human … who loves to dream and create.” Last week, this young writer asked on Twitter, “You know how there are sensitivity readers, courses, and guidelines for writing outside your own experience? Can there be courses and advice for writing one’s own experience?” This young writer used to believe that “writing about my marginalizations and my own personal experience will be okay”—no more. “I have learned that is not the case!” this young person observed, fretting that, without meaning to do harm, “I might be writing my gender wrong.”What made this young person fear that honest writing about their own gender identity could be “wrong” and hurtful, rendering it not “okay”? Watching a trans author get dragged for unorthodox art.Let me back up. Recently, Clarkesworld, a monthly science-fiction and fantasy magazine, published a short story by Isabel Fall titled “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter,” an allusion to a viral meme from 2014 that sought to mock and parody claims about transgender identities. The story attempts to subvert that critique, reclaim the phrase, and explore trans identities.After experiencing vicious and personal attacks online, Isabel Fall asked that “Attack Helicopter” be taken down. Call it a self-cancellation. “The recent barrage of attacks on Isabel have taken a toll and I ask that even if you disagree with the decision, that you respect it,” Neil Clarke, the magazine’s editor, later explained in a statement. “This is not censorship. She needed this to be done for her own personal safety and health.”Clarke revealed that “Isabel was not out as trans when this story was published,” but outed herself under pressure to mount a defense against the false claims of detractors, an outcome he called “very disturbing.” As for the work of fiction itself, “The story had been through multiple revisions over many months and it had been seen by sensitivity readers, including trans people,” he noted.The story remains available via the Wayback Machine and other sites where people opposed to the removal reproduced it. Like all worthwhile fiction, no summary fully captures what it achieves, but a sense of its sci-fi premise and explorations of gender identities can be gleaned from this short excerpt: Generations of queer activists fought to make gender a self-determined choice, and to undo the creeping determinism that said the way it is now is the way it always was and always must be. Generations of scientists mapped the neural wiring that motivated and encoded the gender choice. And the moment their work reached a usable stage—the moment society was ready to accept plastic gender, and scientists were ready to manipulate it—the military found a new resource. Armed with functional connectome mapping and neural plastics, the military can make gender tactical. If gender has always been a construct, then why not construct new ones? My gender networks have been reassigned to make me a better AH-70 Apache Mystic pilot. This is better than conventional skill learning. I can show you why. Look at a diagram of an attack helicopter’s airframe and components. Tell me how much of it you grasp at once. Now look at a person near you, their clothes, their hair, their makeup and expression, the way they meet or avoid your eyes. Tell me which was richer with information about danger and capability. Tell me which was easier to access and interpret. The gender networks are old and well-connected. They work. Various other passages offer highly particular characterizations of gender as the author understands it. The story struck many readers as original, unexpected, and human. The writer Phoebe North declared “Attack Helicopter” to be “a story in which I found myself reflected,” and told its self-cancelling author, “Whatever you decide to do with your story, Isabel, thank you for writing your story. Thank you for making me feel seen and heard. We don’t get a lot of ourselves in fiction. We often only get scraps. This was more than that. A mirror.”But for other readers, the narrator’s descriptions of gender did not resonate. And a subset of those readers took that lack of resonance as a justification for denigrating the author of the story, casting doubt on her good faith, or positing that her voice was either inauthentic or invalid. Some went so far as to seize on the birth year noted in the author bio, 1988, to speculate that the author was a neo-Nazi troll using the 88 to signify “Heil Hitler.”The writer and game designer Arinn Dembo, the acting president of Canada’s National Association for Speculative Fiction Professionals, published her critique in a series of tweets, where she asserted that the story “did not feel like it was written by a queer trans author” and even if it was it “just sucks” because “no amount of beautiful writing can dispel the toxicity, the oily taste of garbage” of its title and premise. In her estimation: The writing about gender transition, about life and sex as a woman, and about PTSD-like reactions in women, feels flat and fake … Like the take on gender theory that you would achieve by spending a half hour on Wikipedia … Not the take you might achieve by reading actual novels and memoirs by real transfolk. Or even by cis women, for that matter. Dembo continued: I’m going to come right out and say that this story does not feel like it was written by a cis or trans woman. It feels like ‘Isabel Fall’ is a straight cis person … Probably a white dude. Because honestly, this story is just dripping with all the lies that straight men tell themselves about both cis and trans women. They always want to see the female gender role as powerful and fascinating. They never internalize the physical or emotional pain of Femme life. Later Dembo added a qualification: This could have been written by anyone: it’s pure sentimentality to assume a cis woman, a trans person or a queer person couldn’t write a story about gender transformation that handled its themes badly. When I say, “This reads like it was written by a straight white dude who doesn’t really get gender theory or transition & has no right to invoke transphobic dog whistles for profit”, I’ll stand by my critique. Even if “Attack Helicopter” turns out to be an #ownvoices story. Even if the author did successfully communicate their actual personal experience of gender identity, the subject was still handled badly, in Dembo’s telling, because the story diverges from a general orthodoxy of what “gender theory” purportedly dictates. No wonder a young nonbinary writer watching such critiques unfold on Twitter reacted with, “the whole Isabel Fall thing is getting me worried that I might be writing my gender wrong.”Now that we know Isabel Fell is trans, I reached out to Dembo to ask if her initial critique stands. “Yes,” she replied, “It was my take when I first read the story. No information on the author or her intentions was provided, and I gave my first impressions and opinion.” Having since read commentary “from the half of Trans Twitter that liked the story and identified with it,” and the editor’s statement, “which establishes the author’s intent and identity,” Dembo doesn’t like the story any better, as is her perrogative, but is “happy to know that the story was written in good faith and with positive intent, not as a hateful prank.” She noted with sorrow “that the author had chosen to pull the story,” explaining, “even at the peak of my negative reaction, I would never have wanted the story to be removed. If I had a magic wand to delete transphobic content from the Internet, I wouldn't even consider waving it in that direction.”Still, she found fault with Clarkesworld because it failed to preempt the upset of readers who made erroneous assumptions about the identity and intentions of the story's author: All I can say at this point is that a lot of people might have been spared a lot of mental anguish if that story had simply been accompanied by a sentence or two of context—an artist’s statement of the author’s identity and her intention for the work. There's a reason that the Artist Statement is so common in art galleries that showcase transgressive or challenging work. I don’t think every story needs a content warning or a statement of author’s intent before you read it, but this one clearly did. It takes enormous trust for readers from a marginalized community to let a writer play literary games with their oppression, and most of us can’t give that trust to someone whose intentions are too opaque. There is a difference between letting a doctor or a sympathetic friend probe your wounds, and getting randomly jabbed by a faceless stranger. I’m skeptical that content warnings or statements of authorial intent solve any problems. (Would critics ready to believe an author’s stated birth year was in fact a form of Nazi trolling trust a statement of authorial intent?) And many readers, trans and cis alike, were able to enjoy Fall’s story and discern the earnestness of its author without any extratextual statement.The National Book Award finalist Carmen Maria Machado declared herself “crushed” and “angry” at “a trans sf/f writer being excoriated for writing a messy, gorgeous, interesting story,” and defended “stories that are dangerous, weird, jagged, ambitious,” because “art that bites off more than it can chew” can variously “change your temperature, provoke your heart, crack open your brain.” Sometimes, “what seems, to you, to be a failed experiment is actually not a failed experiment at all, and has provided someone else with brain-cracking or heart-provoking or temperature-changing,” she continued, and sometimes that value “only becomes clear in retrospect.”Needless to say—or maybe not—short stories that are ahead of their time will be lost if their early critics succeed in creating an artistic landscape where ostensibly flawed work is quickly disappeared.The science-fiction writer M. L. Clark urged better modes of engagement. “When a work *unsettles* you, & you have misgivings about whether the message is clear or ‘correct,’ absolutely, you should talk about it! Name how it falls short for you!” he wrote. “But also: allow it to be broken for you w/o asserting that its jagged edges can *only* be used as a blade, NOT because we shouldn't resist poor messaging, but because *effective* resistance doesn't just take the form of vehement public outcry & denunciation.”The Vox critic Emily VanDerWerff opined, “This is a story with a lot––maybe too much––on its mind, and to see it written off as agitprop is sad. Art that only celebrates the bravery of trans people, or our fortitude in the face of all we must endure to be ourselves, is fine. But art should embrace our weakness, our shame, and our doubt, too. To insist otherwise is its own kind of prejudice.”Writing at Medium, an apparently left-leaning observer with the handle The Anarcho Accelerationist lamented that “the reaction to this story—unbridled outrage at the most trivial and good-faith disagreement—has become emblematic of the left,” arguing that “we were right to expel the TERFs and the Red-Brownists, and we were incredibly right to bash those fash,” but adding: The left has become a movement where people are scared to disagree. Scared to be too far to the left or the right or the bottom or the top of where their friends are. People will often say that they are scared of being canceled—of people turning on them en masse, and exercising the basic right to walk away. I’m not actually against “cancel culture”—how could I be against people deciding that someone was an asshole, and going elsewhere? But I am against the specific implementation, mostly because it does not work—I now have nearly three times as many followers as I did when I was canceled. The effect of actually-existing cancel culture on the social ecosystem is to select against anyone with a sense of shame. The left, as distinct from the right, has long dominated high and low art. To its credit, it has used that position in part to tell humanizing stories about historically marginalized people that increase understanding and empathy. America is a more inclusive place as a result. But I don’t know that a salutary tradition running from the films of Sydney Pottier to Will and Grace to Transparent and beyond can endure if Millennial creators and succeeding generations allow their art to be policed by the most essentialist, intolerant voices; or if they are persuaded that deleting a piece of fiction is more ethical than discussing it in the open if anyone at all feels harmed by it; or that it is wrong to truthfully relate one’s own experiences if they are in tension with political orthodoxies.As Wesley Morris observed in an October 2018 essay: Art might not have the privilege of being art for art’s sake anymore … It has to be art for justice’s sake … So we wind up with safer art and discourse that provokes and disturbs and shocks less. It gives us culture whose artistic value has been replaced by moral judgment and leaves us with monocriticism. This might indeed be a kind of social justice. But it also robs us of what is messy and tense and chaotic and extrajudicial about art. The controversy over “Attack Helicopter” is another case study suggesting that rejecting “art’s for art’s sake” in favor of “art for justice’s sake” doesn’t necessarily yield more justice. It may help no one, harm many, and impede the ability of artists to circulate work that makes us think, feel, grapple, empathize, and learn. Americans will always seek out, discuss, and be moved by art that is messy, tense, and chaotic, whether the censors of any moment like it or not. If liberals stop producing art like that, illiberals of all sorts will fill the breach.
With Bernie Sanders rising in the polls, it's time to look at his foreign policy. Some of it aligns with Trump's more than you might expect.
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20 of the UK's best restaurants – as chosen by Britain’s top chefs
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20 of the UK's best restaurants – as chosen by Britain’s top chefs Secret gems and neighbourhood hideaways where chefs love to eat: from a cafe lunch in Cornwall to a tasting menu on the Scottish coast Silk Road, London SE5Chosen by James Cochran, chef-owner, Restaurant 1251I’ve lived in south London for 15 years and the neighbourhood restaurant that stands out is Silk Road in Camberwell. I’m a massive fan of their Xinjiang style of Chinese cooking and they do many unusual things that you don’t normally see in Chinese restaurants in this country. I associate kebabs with Turkish or Greek food, but here they do lamb skewers which they cover in delicious Asian spices and chargrill really quickly. Their dumplings are on point as well. In fact, everything is packed full of flavour, but nicely balanced. The restaurant is very minimalistic, drinks are BYO and the food is very affordable – spend £20 and you’re full. Continue reading...
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Ron Atchison made his transition on Feb 13, 2014. He was a loving husband to his devoted wife Pam, a dedicated father to his children Patrick, Lila, and Sara and had a heart full of love for his faithful dog Henry. His music career in Sonoma County spans back to Rosie's Cantina in the early 70s where he and his partner Rick Concoff, were sure to create an atmosphere of unexpected humor and memorable music. He and Rickie recorded four albums of Israeli folk music and an album of original music with Jonathan Marmelzat. As Ron and Pam started attending the Center for Spiritual Living in Santa Rosa is the mid 90s, Ron's music began to mingle with his spiritual values. Pam and Ron shared a love of music and toured the county playing at other Centers. During this time, he also recorded two CDs of original songs that speak to the joy of life with his songwriting partner and friend Claire Victor. His passion for music is passed on to his talented children Lila and Patrick. His legacy also includes the many guitar students, both private and at Summer Waldorf School, whose lives were influenced forever. Being the people-person that he was, Ron also thoroughly enjoyed working with Pam running their family business, Hampton Court, a bath and body shop located in downtown Santa Rosa for 22 years. The shop eventually moved to the Internet and Ron became skilled working with product images in Photoshop. He will also be remembered and missed by his spiritual community, mother Betty, brother Michael and sister in law Kay, sister Dawn and brother-in-law Bill and his many long time friends. His gentle nature, sense of humor, and ability to draw the best out in people lives on in us all. He passed peacefully at home with Pam at his side. A musical tribute and celebration of Ron's life will be held on March 29, 2014, 2 p.m., at The Center for Spiritual Living. 2075 Occidental Rd. Santa Rosa CA 95403. Ron loved his garden and as a reminder of his spirit living on, please send donations for the Ron Atchison Memorial Garden to Pam Atchison at 1275 4th street, Box 173, Santa Rosa, Ca 94504 in lieu of cut flowers.
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More than 200 people joined TechConnectWV and the Intuit Financial Freedom Foundation for the 2018 West Virginia Coding & Cyber Summit, held November 15 in Charleston.
Participants learned of existing and projected workforce opportunities in cybersecurity, educational programs underway in the state including K-12, cyber awareness and best practices and more.
To see a short video about the conference, click here.
Karen S. Evans, who was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy in August 2018, addressed the Summit and noted that West Virginia is “forward leaning” in addressing this opportunity now. Evans, a West Virginia native, works with industry to ensure the most advanced and secure energy infrastructure.
Diane Miller, Corporate Director of Global Cyber Education and Workforce Development for Northrop Grumman Corporation, spoke about efforts to fill open cyber jobs across the nation and described the different types of jobs in the cyber profession. To view a clip of her remarks, click here.
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A Journey To Intelligent Design
Stephen Marshall 5 years
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“Did you win your sword fight?”
“Of course I won the fucking sword fight,” Hiro says. “I’m the greatest sword fighter in the world.”
“And you wrote the software.”
“Yeah. That, too,” Hiro says.
— Neal Stephenson , Snowcrash
If you’re looking for zeitgeist biblical metaphors for the tech sector, you can’t do much better than the Tower of Babel. Human civilization a hundred years after the flood, monolingual and gathered in a city called Babel. They become possessed with the mission of building a tower to the heavens. Which they begin…
Until their control-challenged sky God, understanding that humans are capable of anything with one unified language and a will for transcendence, curses them with dialects. (I’m not Christian but am a disciple of narrative.)
The Tower of Babel by Lucas Van Valckenborch
The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. (Genesis 11:6-8)
This is God as benevolent systems architect-turned-royalist-hacker, dumping toxic malware onto the human social matrix. And we’re still living in it.
Sure, wired humans have been united into a “global village” across shared social platforms in the new millennium. And while we have Twitter and Facebook to thank for the global reach of the Arab Spring, #EricGarner, and the Veronica Mars film project crowdfund, this is not a return to evolutionary Tower-building by an empowered world citizenry. Nor is this technology being developed to unchain us from the holy hack by vanishing linguistic barriers.
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Quite the opposite. These platforms exist primarily (post-IPO) to service enterprises, institutions and government agencies that place a premium on our written words.
In the modern paradigm, companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google are the primary beneficiaries of Babel. After all, it’s the machine-driven analytics of our words and their nuanced sentiments — which are used to compartmentalize, analyze and ultimately engineer user behaviors — that make us the product that they sell to advertisers and other paying customers.
In other words, they have a large incentive to maintain the Old Testament status quo because it bestows considerable insight. And power.
Engineering contagion
Last year, a minor outrage erupted when members of Facebook’s Core Data Science Team published the report of a secret study on their users. The study, which manipulated News Feed displays of 700,000 people in order to test the impact of emotions on friend networks, proved that “emotional states can be transferred to others via emotional contagion, leading people to experience the same emotions without their awareness.”
In total, over 3 million posts were analyzed, containing over 122 million words, 4 million of which were positive (3.6 percent) and 1.8 million negative (1.6 percent).
The network effect of this contagion was studied, naturally, “via text-based computer-mediated communication” and was limited to English-speaking users.
This is all made possible by sentiment analysis: the deployment of algorithms that mine text for meaningful signals about the writer. Now, as many people pointed out after the initial wave of (media-driven) indignation, sentiment analysis is still in its infancy. It’s neither accurate nor effective in helping artificial intelligence systems to learn and predict human behavior.
But it won’t be that way for long.
Facebook and Google are leading a new wave of R&D in the field of deep learning, an aspect of AI research, which MIT defines as:
“software [that] attempts to mimic the activity in layers of neurons in the neocortex, the wrinkly 80 percent of the brain where thinking occurs. The software learns, in a very real sense, to recognize patterns in digital representations of sounds, images, and other data.”
Over the past couple of years, Google has completed acquisitions of a few high-profile deep learning labs, including one run by Geoffrey Hinton who is widely considered, to quote WIRED, the “central figure in the deep learning movement.”
Meanwhile, Facebook has created its own AI research lab, led by Yann LeCun, one of Hinton’s former employees, and the guy who taught computers how to read written numbers (early AI tech that is now licensed to banks for ATM check-scanning).
Predictably, there’s been a backlash against the corporatization of these computer scientists. But there’s no point in blaming visionary geniuses like LeCun and Hinton. They’re being funded to code-replicate the human brain, which is a powerful enticement.
The motivation for Silicon Valley’s C-suiters is less… romantic. Whatever their future aspirations, the foundation of Babel’s corporate revenue structure is still built on an old business model: “delivering relevant, cost-effective online advertising,” to quote a recent Google annual report. And whatever technological advances are made in the AI field will be subsidiary to those which advance the cause of their shareholders: which is profit.
At least, if push came to shove.
Conditional kingdoms
As CEO of the world’s largest social platform, Mark Zuckerberg has one prime directive from his shareholders: Expand your market base.
So was it any surprise that the latest PR narrative developed by his Sun Tzu-wielding strategists was to showcase his command of Mandarin to Chinese millennials? In learning an entirely new language to court his company’s largest unpenetrated market, Zuck proved he‘s not only the ultimate citizen of Babel, he’s officially the mayor.
But his is a conditional kingdom. To keep the market happy, Zuck has to mine Facebook for every byte of value it has. Which, in the current social network paradigm of text-based programming, means developing the most aggressive artificial intelligence (deep artificial neural nets) and proxy agents to track and tag our behavioral patterns while accurately projecting, and guiding, future impulses.
Search and social network data scientists succeed by fragmenting and classifying us as individuals. They are the high priests of demographics and psychographics. But when their algorithms use our language to predict and direct our behavior before we, ourselves, have consciously made those choices, they cross the line into the zone of social engineering.
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With the accelerated development of computational technology that can process and analyze big data in unprecedented ways, this poses a heavy existential threat to human civilization. Because even if the current social networks have the best intentions for their communities, billions of dollars have been marked against the economies generated by mining and exploiting that data.
And any diversion from those objectives would be ruthlessly punished by the market. This isn’t conspiracy theory, it’s market theory 101.
The tragic end of this story could well be of a group of brilliant technologists forced into a Faustian deal that ultimately takes the global communication platform once envisioned as evolutionary tech for our species and hacking it for a myopic, profit-driven end-game.
In short, like Old Testament gods, their baser instincts could lead them to fuck with the natural order of things. Another civilizational hack.
Which brings me back to the Bible.
There’s a little-known corollary to the Tower of Babel story. It comes at the other end of the Bible… thousands of years later, in the New Testament. Taking the form of a prophecy:
Humankind is again gathered, “all in one place” when suddenly:
…there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance… Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. And they were all amazed… (Acts 2: 2-4; 6-7)
The Coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost by Charles Nicolas Cochin II
Sticking with the zeitgeist Biblical-tech metaphor theme, this is a profound narrative arc that suggests the re-congregation of the divided tribes of Babel on a single (technological) platform. One with the potential to return us to our original vision and mission, of building a Tower out of this place: our self-authored extinction algorithm.
And companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter may well represent that Tower-building potential. But we have to ask the question: does the DNA of a thing constrain its future iterations and utility?
Put less symbolically, if these platforms profit through observing and tracking and engineering our behavior, can they simultaneously initiate in us the kind of “evolutionary moment” which is in some ways oppositional to the interests that they serve? Because the market isn’t interested in kumbaya technologies that liberate us from false desire and competition. You don’t need to be Jerry Seinfeld to know that.
It thrives from, and exists for, those impulses.
I have no doubt that Facebook acquired Oculus for the potential it has for humans to assemble virtually, post-linguistically, across space-time. The only question is whether they’ll neutralize its potential by gating it with Facebook Connect and fortressing it into the confines of a system-controlled UX? Because evolution is anarchic. And that’s Orwellian.
I don’t have answers to the questions I am musing about here. I do have a lot of ideas about what a platform like Facebook could become if it moved beyond its linguistic limitations and toward a generative object-based system.
But I would like to suggest that the Tower of Babel is not a story of our past, but rather one of our future. The divine kibosh that the “creator” put on our transcendent project wasn’t about killing our desire to be gods. It was about seeding the ultimate narrative: a collective hero’s journey to reconnect as a human community despite the extreme trauma of our separation, and those who naturally find themselves in positions that exploit it.
That’s what I call intelligent design.
Editor’s note: Stephen Marshall is the co-founder and product lead for ORA, a Seattle/London-based start-up innovating in the realm of dimensional data visualization, and portfolio company of the DataElite accelerator.
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Compliance Management and Fraud Prevention in Sponsored Research
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Originally presented: August 09, 2012
Over the past decade, university-based False Claims Act (FCA) settlements that focus on the administration of federally sponsored research have steadily increased.
In May 2009, President Obama signed legislation broadening and strengthening the FCA by weakening or eliminating certain defenses to liability and obstacles to whistleblower claims. Since then, major research institutions have faced multi-million dollar settlements due to grant fraud, false certification findings and more. Most observers believe investigations of federally sponsored research will only continue to rise.
That’s why Technology Transfer Tactics has partnered with Baker Tilly, a full-service accounting and advisory firm, for a best practices distance learning program focused on how to protect against fraud claims, identify compliance risks, and deal with the fallout should you be called to defend against an audit.
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Raina Rose Tagle is a Partner with Baker Tilly, an accounting and advisory firm with more than 1,400 personnel nationwide. Raina leads Baker Tilly’s national Higher Education and Research Institutions practice. She provides services in the areas of internal audit, financial and operational risk management, construction audit, fraud investigation, technology risk consulting, and organizational governance. Raina started her career with Arthur Andersen, progressing to serve as a manager in the audit and technology risk consulting practices. Prior to joining Baker Tilly, she served as an interim executive director of several not-for-profit organizations, worked as chief financial officer of a technology consulting firm, and led her own consulting practice. Raina frequently presents at conferences of the Association of College and University Auditors, the National Council of University Research Administrators, and the Society of Research Administrators. She has also co-authored articles in the NCURA Magazine and Research Global magazine on topics such as investigating fraud, working successfully with internal audit, and using risk assessment in sponsored research.
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ASA bans ad claiming 5G causes infertility
Campaign group Electrosensitivity UK has been told its advert claiming 5G causes infertility and depression cannot be used in its current form as there is no evidence to support the statements.
In response to seven complaints made about the advert, which appeared during July and August, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has put an end to the group’s fearmongering campaign. The ASA simply stated the group lacks robust scientific evidence and is misleading the general public.
The advert featured a family of three holding hands as they walked their dog, along with four quotes from experts and their fears regarding the implementation of 5G. The advert also suggested 5G would cause male infertility, depression, disturbed sleep and headaches, as well as cancer.
In defence of its misleading claims, the organisation stated that no research had been done to prove 5G was safe, the radiation associated with the frequencies is unsafe, a World Health Organisation (WHO) factsheet on mobile connectivity was wrong and UK Government studies were inaccurate and dated.
The group also stated the question ‘How safe is 5G?’ was open-ended and unbiased, and allowed readers to accept, reject or ignore it.
In assessing the advert, the ASA has stated that due to the assertions of Electrosensitivity UK, the group would have to hold robust scientific evidence, including longitudinal studies with human participants. It does not have evidence of this nature.
On the claims the WHO factsheet, entitled ‘Electromagnetic fields and public health: mobile phones’, is in accurate, the ASA has rubbished this as a validation to mislead the general public. Claims the UK Government is also misinformed have also been rubbished.
However, evidence was presented by Electrosensitivity UK to validate its propaganda campaign. This evidence was found to be flimsy, with the ASA noting many of the articles presented were studies on animals rather than humans, or commentary from scientists, as opposed to robust and validated experiments to prove the claim.
In short, Electrosensitivity UK has no scientific justification to make such statements.
While this is a bold statement to make in-light of the drive towards the digital economy, this is not the first time Electrosensitivity UK has found itself on the wrong side of the ASA. In April 2018, another advert from the group was banned which claimed mobile phones caused numerous different health detriments including headaches, heart palpitations, skin disorders and cancer.
Again, the ASA banned this advert on the grounds that Electrosensitivity UK did not have the scientific evidence to support the claims that mobile technology was the cause of such afflictions. And once again, the evidence provided by Electrosensitivity UK to defend the advert was found to be flimsy.
What is worth noting is while there is little science to support the paranoia of Electrosensitivity UK, this is not the only group which is objecting to the rollout of 5G connectivity.
In Brighton during October, councillors and members of parliament were presented with evidence in an attempt to prevent the deployment of 5G equipment by the ‘Brighton and Hove 5G Alliance’. The group made similar health claims to Electrosensitivity UK, and the issue has been kicked down the road for review in the future. For the moment, it does appear paranoia has won out in Brighton.
Although 5G progress has been halted in Brighton, at least Electrosensitivity UK is being held to the proper standards. Unfortunately, the group seems to be a serial offender when it comes to the dissemination of misinformation. Perhaps it won’t be too long before the next attempt to mislead the general public with unvalidated health claims and mis-contextualised science.
Tags: 5G, Advert, advertising, Advertising Standards Authority, ASA, Banned, Health
5G Network & Service Strategies
2020 Vision Executive Summit
TechXLR8
BIG 5G Event
5G World
BT and Vodafone set to moan to PM about Huawei
Europe urges UK to call Trump’s bluff on Huawei
O2 joins the OpenRAN movement
A bunch of operators get together to push 5G and MEC interoperability
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Home Directory Professors Spence, Martine
Spence, Martine
D.E.S.C.A.F. (SKEMA (anciennement CERAM)), B.Ed. (U of Calgary), M.B.A. (Concordia), Ph.D. (Middlesex University)
Martine Spence is a full professor of marketing and entrepreneurship at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa. Her teaching areas are entrepreneurship, strategic marketing, international marketing and marketing research. She has also taught in Montreal, the United Kingdom and France. Dr. Spence has held a number of research fellowships from Canadian, British and supranational organizations for her research on international entrepreneurship and sustainable entrepreneurship in the context of Canada and of emerging and developing nations.
Professor Spence’s research has led to the publication in English and in French of two co-authored books, approximately seventy book chapters, papers of international conference proceedings and in articles in scientific journals such as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Small Business Economics, Management International Review, International Business Review, European Marketing Journal, Revue internationale PME and Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences.
Global Firms
Inclusive Entrepreneurship
International/Small High Growth and Traditional Firms
Entrepreneurship/Small Business
Courrent, J.M. and Spence, M. Orientation entrepreneuriale et engagement des PME dans des logiques de développement durable . In Guillouzo, R.. Entrepreneuriat, territoires et développement durable. Paris, France: Hachette, 2014.
Paradas, A., Revelli, C., Courrent, J.-M., Debray, C. and Spence, M. 2018. Pratiques responsables des dirigeants de PME : influence du profil du dirigeant. Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat, 16(3-4): 187-218.
Chreim, S., Spence, M., Crick, D. and Liao, X. 2018. Review of female immigrant entrepreneurship research: Past findings, gaps and ways forward. European Management Journal, 36(2): 210-222.
El Chababi, M., Chreim, S. and Spence, M. 2017. Are they really different: The entrepreneurial process from the perspective of first and second generation immigrant entrepreneurs. Journal of Enterprising Culture, 25(3): 263-295.
Labelle, F., Courrent, J.M. and Spence, M. 2017. Préférences des PME en matière de politiques publiques de responsabilité sociale des entreprises : une comparaison France-Québec. Management International, 21(3): 129-143.
Labelle, F., Spence, M. and Courrent, J.M. 2016. A Practice-Based Typology of Sustainable SMEs: Development of a Sustainability Compass . Revue de l'Organisation Responsable, 11(2): 5-23.
Courrent, J.M., Spence, M. and Gherib, J. 2016. Profil du dirigeant et adhésion à l'argument économique de la responsabilité sociale en petite entreprise. Revue internationale PME, 29(2): 31-64.
Laperrière, A. and Spence, M. 2015. Enacting international opportunities: The role of organizational learning in knowledge-intensive business services. Journal of International Entrepreneurship, 13(3): 212-241.
Persaud, A., Spence, M. and Rahman, M. 2012. Social Media Implementation in Small Service Firms. International Journal of E-Business Development, 2(2): 62-65.
Riding, A.L., Orser, B.J., Spence, M. and Belanger, B. 2012. Financing New Venture Exporters. Small Business Economics, 38(2): 147-163.
2016-2018 Telfer School of Management (Endowed) Observatoire de recherche en entrepreneuriat international-Research Observatory in International Entrepreneurship R I PI $ 60,000
2014-2018 SSHRC Insight Grant Financing and the Growth of SMEs R C Co-I $ 82,070
2014-2016 Telfer School of Management Research Fund (SMRF) Sustainable development at work: A comparative assessment of the determinants of SMEs' engagement between emerging and developed Countries R I PI $ 6,000
2013-2015 Telfer School of Management Research Fund (SMRF) Alternative growth of small firms: An alternative lens through the theory of effectuation R I PI $ 11,498
2012-2014 Telfer School of Management Research Fund (SMRF) PME et développement durable: Déterminants et mesures d'engagement R I PI $ 6,000
2011-2014 SSHRC The Performance of Immigrant-Owned SMEs (PI: Allan Riding, uOttawa) R G Co-I $ 46,975
2011-2012 Telfer School of Management Research Fund (SMRF) Internationalization of Professional Services SMEs: Growth vs Development R I PI $ 2,000
2011-2012 Centre for University Teaching, U of Ottawa Écriture de cas en français pour publication en ligne P I Co-PI $ 19,870
2011-2012 University of Ottawa Marketing cases writing P I Co-PI $ 12,000
2010-2013 Agence Nationale pour la recherche (ANR), France Capacité entrepreneuriale en développement durable : Une approche comparative (PI: J.-M. Courrent, Université de Perpignan) R C Co-PI $ 100,000
2008-2015 SSHRC The Internationalization of SMEs - Entrepreneurship Strategic Knowledge Cluster (PI: Rob McNaughton, University of Waterloo) R C Co-I $ 1,950,000
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Northgate graduate Skalski, Clemson fall short to LSU in national championship
East Coweta beats Newnan, both teams headed to state wrestling duals
Scott Ludwig
Moving the Chains: Personal Fouls
Wheeler holds off East Coweta's fourth-quarter rally
East Coweta girls roll past visiting Wheeler in Region 2 7A game
Northgate girls win, boys drop region contest to Creekside
Newnan boys rally past Campbell in Region 2 7A game
Newnan comeback falls short
Nov. 16, 2019 - 12:52 AM
MARIETTA—Newnan was unable to beat Walton for the second time this season, this time on the road Friday night, as the Raiders won the Class 7A playoff off opener 27-24 to put an end to the Cougars’ season.
Newnan trailed 13-7 at the half, and couldn’t find a way to pull off the comeback as the two teams traded second-half scores.
Newnan lost the game despite rolling off 398 yards of total offense.
Aubrey Carter did his best to keep the Cougars in the game, rushing for 126 yards and also scoring a fourth-quarter touchdown with 10:38 left in the game to cut the lead to 20-17.
After the two teams traded turnovers, Walton added its final TD of the game on Kenny Djaha’s run with just over three minutes left in the contest.
The Cougars still had a little bit of life left as quarterback Michael Maginnis connected with Reid Brass on a touchdown with 3:26 left in the game to cut the score to the final margin.
Nick Owens scored the first touchdown of the contest for Newnan and Sam Willems had a 28-yard field goal for the Cougars.
Newnan finished the season with a 6-5 record.
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Burns caps late rally, Sharks beat Predators 5-4
NASHVILLE (AP) — The San Jose Sharks cooled off the NHL's hottest team, ending the Nashville Predators' five-game winning streak.
Brent Burns' power-play goal with 2:52 remaining rallied San Jose from a two-goal deficit as the Sharks scored three straight goals during the last eight minutes to beat the Predators 5-4.
"They had a two-goal lead, but you've got to keep playing," said Pavelski, San Jose's first-line center. "We've been on the other end of that already this year, so there's always time. Especially (since) we're a depth team and we've been rolling four lines, and guys are fresh in the third (period)."
Burns' one-timer from the left faceoff circle beat Juuse Saros high to the glove side for the winning goal.
Joe Pavelski tied it at 4 when he scored with 7:44 remaining. Brenden Dillon's shorthanded goal narrowed Nashville's lead to 4-3 with 8:20 left as he made an end-to-end rush to ignite the rally.
"Dilly makes that play and sparks us and that's what you need on the road at times," Pavelski said. "That goal really kind of gave us a boost."
Tomas Hertl and Timo Meier also scored for the Sharks, who won their third straight.
Nashville's Viktor Arvidsson had two goals and one assist.
Arvidsson and Craig Smith scored twice in a nine-minute span late in the second period to give Nashville a 4-2 lead.
Filip Forsberg also scored for the reigning President's Trophy winners.
Nashville fell to 8-2-0 and San Jose improved to 5-3-1 in a matchup of Western Conference contenders.
"It was a big gut-check for us," Sharks coach Peter DeBoer said. "I think we talked between the second and third about coming out and being a little harder around both nets, and that commitment paid off. But I like the fact that we have the ability to quick strike and create offense like that."
San Jose's Martin Jones earned the win with 25 saves.
Nashville goalie Juuse Saros, making the first back-to-back start of his young career, fell to 4-1-0 after making 27 saves.
He's filling in for last year's Vezina Trophy winner, Pekka Rinne, out with an undisclosed injury.
"We've been in that situation an awful lot and been able to close out games," Predators coach Peter Laviolette said. "I think more than anything we shot ourselves in the foot. You knew that they had a good power play, you knew they were a group that is dangerous."
San Jose's first and last goals came on the power play.
Smith increased the Predators' lead to 4-2 when he ripped a wrist shot into the top left corner of the net with 15 seconds left in the second period. Arvidsson set him up on a 2-on-1 breakaway with a pass that found Smith alone at the bottom of the right faceoff circle.
Arvidsson's second goal put the Predators back on top 3-2 when his low snapshot went past Jones' outstretched glove at 10:45 of the second period. Forsberg found his linemate in the low slot from behind the goal line with a perfect pass.
"It was not good and it can't happen," Arvidsson said of the loss. "We had a 4-2 lead and lost 5-4 - and that's too bad."
Hertl's breakaway goal tied the score at 2 when he stuffed the puck past Saros stickside in front of the crease at 7:52 of the second period.
Nashville took a 2-1 lead when Forsberg swatted a rebound past Jones from the front of the crease 21 seconds into the second period. His sixth goal of the season came after he gobbled up a rebound of Ryan Ellis' shot from the right point.
Arvidsson tied it at 1 when he scored on a breakaway at 11:14 of the first period. He pounced on a loose puck at the Predators' blue line, skated the length of the ice, deked Jones and beat him with a backhander to the stickside.
San Jose got outshot in the early going, but still managed to strike first on Meier's power-play goal from the low slot at 6:58 of the first period. Nashville's Ryan Johansen was in the penalty box for tripping.
NOTES: Nashville called up G Troy Grosenick from Milwaukee (AHL) and sent G Miroslav Svboda back to the minors Monday. . San Jose called up C Dylan Gambrell from its AHL affiliate in San Jose Monday. . Sharks C Joe Thornton, 39, missed his seventh straight game with a right knee infection. ... Hertl led San Jose with five shots. ... Nashville had its 114th consecutive sellout (17,159) at Bridgestone Arena.
Sharks: Visit Carolina on Friday night in second game of three-game road trip.
Predators: Visit New Jersey on Thursday night before returning home Saturday.
More AP NHL: https://apnews.com/tag/NHL and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
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Maybe Rock Fiction Coveting: Silent Echo by Elisa Freilich
Posted: November 28, 2014 in Rock Fiction Coveting
Tags: Elisa Freilich, how about a review copy, is it Rock Fiction?, romance, wanna read
I don’t know about this one. Susan says you never know until you try, but I gotta admit, I’m a skeptic. Here’s why:
Haunted by silence, a mute teenage girl is mysteriously given back her voice … and it is divine.
“Silent Echo is a gripping, original read, with a heroine you won’t forget. Katniss Everdeen-watch out for Portia Griffin.” -Erica Wagner, Author of Seizure
Rendered mute at birth, Portia Griffin has been silent for 16 years. Music is her constant companion, along with Felix, her deaf best friend who couldn’t care less whether or not she can speak. If only he were as nonchalant about her newfound interest in the musically gifted Max Hunter.
But Portia’s silence is about to be broken with the abrupt discovery of her voice, unparalleled in its purity and the power it affords to control those around her. Able to persuade, seduce and destroy using only her voice, Portia embarks on a search for answers about who she really is, and what she is destined to do.
Inspired by Homer’s Odyssey, Silent Echo: A Siren’s Tale is an epic story filled with fantasy, romance and original music.
So we know that a book doesn’t have to be about a musician in order to be Rock Fiction. We’ve seen that with Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, and Susan also made note of it in Searching for Tina Turner.
Even the ending line of the description here makes it sound like this is Rock Fiction, so bring it on and let’s see. On the other hand, I never read The Odyssey, so maybe that is some warning sign I am missing. I don’t know. Those big fat Greek classics that the geeks love (Susan says thanks for that, by the way) … never been my thing.
But rock and roll? I am so there.
Possible Rock Fiction Coveting: Rock Star by Su Williams
Tags: how about a review copy, is it Rock Fiction?, Jett covets, series, Su Williams, wanna read
Susan sent this one over, saying she’s not so sure about it. I don’t see why.
Yeah, okay, it’s the second in a series. Maybe that’s her problem. And the series, about Dream Weavers, isn’t Rock Fiction-focused. If anything, the concept of the series, near as I can figure, reminds me of that TV show, Dollhouse. No, not the creepy part. The part where the clients were given people who could help them live out a dream.
So in this second book in a series, the character gets to live out her fantasy as a rock star.
Susan says she sees red flags. It’s fantasy. Means the details won’t be right.
I think she’s a cynic (that’s why I’m starting to take over this joint. Noticed?).
The bigger question is if this really is Rock Fiction. Here’s the description:
Emari Sweet’s story continues in this second book in the Dream Weaver Novels Series.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Have you ever dreamed of being a rock star? Emari Sweet has…and now she’s living the dream…the life of a rock star in an elaborate memory weave constructed by Dream Weaver, Sabre James. But her rock star world crashes around her and she returns to reality and the memories of Nick and his betrayal. Now, Nick seems to be hiding something dark and painful that torments his soul.
Thomas, the Nightmare Wraith, returns to haunt their minds and twist their dreams. Even Eddyson, Em’s trusty teddy-beagle pup can sense the Wraith’s presence. But Thomas is not alone. He’s brought a friend with him this time….Emari faces her own mortality at the hands of Sabre’s longtime nemesis bent on vengeance for the death of his beloved sister.
Immortality and magic unearth treasures and secrets that some would rather keep buried. And the biggest secret of all could destroy everything.
A lot can happen to a girl in a year. She can survive, and wonder why. She can lose her innocence, and find her way. She can fall in love, and be afraid. And on a cold, dark night, at the hands of friend—she can die.
So… yeah. Could be. Could not be. Only one way to find out.
Rock Fiction Coveting: Access All Areas by Alice Severin
Tags: Alice Severin, finding yourself, first in a series, how about a review copy, Jett covets, loads of potential, lust, romance, self-discovery, series, wanna read
Sometimes, I can’t remember where I come across stuff. The more you surf, the more you find. I swear it. Take this one:
Lily Taylor’s life has been transformed twice – once by the music she loves, and then by the chance to make a career following her passion – writing about the business. But when she gets the biggest break of her career so far, an interview with the infamous Tristan Hunter, a rock star with a talent for trouble, Lily isn’t sure what to expect. Even though she’s always admired him, Tristan has a reputation for being difficult…and demanding.
Yet Tristan turns out to be just as electrifying in person as he is on stage, and the powerful connection between them is undeniable. Now the fiercely independent Lily finds herself caught up in a whirlwind of sexual desire that forces her to question everything she believes – and she’ll have to decide just how far she is willing to go for the answers…
Yeah, okay, we have that undeniable rock star chemistry, but Susan and I both swear it’s part of what makes Rock Fiction what it is (and so good). You just gotta have that charisma.
But this one intrigues me for a couple other reasons. It’s all about Lily. What does it mean her life was transformed by the music she loves? Is she like me, who knows she needs to be around it and walked away from a bunch of other dreams and considerations of jobs and careers to take a crummy-paying job that lets her travel and be around music — even if it’s not rock and roll — and meet rich people?
So I gotta find that out. Right away, I feel a connection to this girl.
And then she finds a way to be what looks like a music journalist, although “writing about the business” could mean she sits at a desk all day and is the one who compiles lists of the most played songs on the radio and what tour is raking in the biggest money. Could be boring as anything.
I like, too, that this isn’t the usual. It’s insta-lust, but it’s not love. It’s about Lily’s learning about herself, near as I can figure. That’s fresh. It’s different.
Bring it. There aren’t a lot of books, let alone Rock Fiction, that I gotta read because I’m on board from the get-go. This is one of ’em.
(Btw, a bit of GoodReads research shows this is the first in a trilogy about these two, and the plot intrigues the hell out of me. Fresh as anything. I’m in heaven. Or would be if I could read the damn things.)
Rock Fiction Coveting: Three Nights with a Rock Star by Amber Lin and Shari Slade
Tags: Amber Lin and Shari Slade, bad boy rocker, how about a review copy, romance, sex everywhere, tight-laced heroine, wanna read
A few months ago, back closer to its release date, everyone was talking about this one. Even Susan’s friend Mary at Bookhounds has already read it.
But no one over here likes the Rock Fiction experts. Or else they just don’t know enough about us yet.
Yeah, that.
The book is Three Nights with a Rock Star, and here’s what it’s about
When Hailey crashes a Half-Life after party, she expects to find the bastard who knocked up her little sister. Instead she meets the sexy front-man who agrees to give her access to his crew if she gives him access to her body.
All Lock demands in return is three days of complete control over the Sunday School teacher. With a contract, because he’s been burned before. One misstep could send the band—and his tenuous sobriety—up in flames.
Hailey and Lock push each other’s limits… Against the penthouse window. Backstage. In the limo and on the elevator. But as the contract counts down, neither are ready for the party to end.
Glancing over the reviews from those lucky enough to get review copies, it seems they’re kinda mixed. Of course there’s some cliche going on here. The hot rock star, for starters. Makes me wonder what those people were expecting. And it’s a romance, so you know how it’s going to end.
What has me curious, beyond the sex, is who was dumb enough to knock up some chick. Why sister Chloe was on the road in the first place. Why someone so supposedly straight-laced as Hailey is willing to cut loose with someone like Lock, and why she thinks she’ll have time to play detective when she should be warming this dude’s bed. So to speak ’cause it doesn’t sound like they ever make use of a bed.
Yeah, gotta read this one all right.
Rock Fiction Coveting: Just Sing by Rene Gilley
Tags: familiar trope, how about a review copy, Rene Gilley, wanna read, young adult
Susan and I are having a debate about this one. She says it’s Young Adult. I say it’s New Adult. She says it sounds like it could be, but a sixteen-year-old protagonist means it’s Young Adult. I ended it by telling her it ultimately didn’t matter. Both YA and NA are tailor-made for Rock Fiction.
She didn’t argue.
Here’s what we’re arguing about:
Sixteen-year-old Lily O’Brien has one goal in life—to sing. Her dream is to get into a topnotch college vocal program, but the summer before her junior year, her high school cuts their awarding-winning vocal ensemble. She might as well kiss her dreams goodbye.
When the snobby new neighbors move into their mansion up the hill, Lily is positive summer can’t get any worse, and she’s determined to hate and ignore them—until she meets Aiden.
He’s broken and beautiful, and they become reluctant friends. Through her newfound friendship, she finds the strength to step outside the comfort of her plan and follow her dream.
But when Lily’s family is about to lose their home, she puts her wishes aside and finds the answer to save their generations-old ranch in the last place she expected.
I like that Lily wants to sing. She doesn’t want to be a star. She wants to sing, and she’s going to go to school and learn how to do it the right way. But what’s that cliche? Something about life happening when you’ve made plans?
A few more cliches — the teenager rescues the family. Look, it wasn’t that long ago that I was a teen, convinced I could save myself if I saved the world first (hello my first marriage). Crappy self-esteem that others magnify. I get it. I do. I was that kid, too.
I guess I’m looking for something that breaks out of the usual mold.
The early reviews on this one were pretty good, so I’m curious to take a look for myself. YA Rock Fiction is probably my favorite of all the genres the category (see? I’m using Susan’s terms the right way for once) covers, so I’m already halfway a fan. I just wish it wasn’t the same thing, book after book.
Rock Fiction Coveting: A Flawed Heart by April Emerson
Tags: April Emerson, dark secrets, how about a review copy, is it Rock Fiction?, Jett covets, wanna read
Claire Brighton has just finished college and is abandoning her warm, southern home in favor of gritty New York City. Her search for the perfect roommate leads her to Lydia Taylor. Lydia lives a life of privilege in her father’s penthouse, but like Claire, she’s ready to go out into the world on her own. Claire and Lydia rent a little apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, near Lydia’s older brother, Jason. Claire is intrigued by Lydia’s stories of Jason, who is the black sheep of the family—and a musician. The minute Claire hears him sing, she falls for him. Claire thrives in her new urban surroundings, treasuring her time with Jason and exploring her new found sexuality, but both Claire and Jason carry shadows with them. They’re each fighting wounds of their past. Will they defeat their demons? Will their feelings for each other last?
This had only been out about a week when Susan sent me the book description. She confessed she’d already caught a few typos, but told me to brace myself because she hadn’t fixed them all — in the book description alone. And then she ranted and raved about how long the staff list for editors and proofreaders was and why couldn’t they get this basic stuff down.
I think being an editor has warped Susan somehow.
Let’s talk about the book. When you talk New Adult, this is what I think of. Kids right out of college and starting life on their own. It’s not easy. I just did it a few years ago and so yeah, I know. What makes Claire think she’s going to find her perfect roommate’s beyond me, but that’s a small thing. Maybe Lydia’s only perfect because she connects Claire to Jason. Who knows? Gotta read the book.
And… I don’t know. It seems the whole hidden secrets thing is being overdone right now. Yeah, we all have secrets. Maybe they aren’t even secrets, so much as things you just don’t talk about, you know? Like my ex. I don’t talk about him much. Hell, I only think about him when I’m talking about things I don’t think about, so what does that tell you? That he’s not important and if we’d all quit talking about hidden secrets, I could quit talking about him and then I could really forget about him.
The biggest question here is about the Rock. Is this Rock Fiction, or is Jason’s singing voice the vehicle for Claire to want to spend time with the guy? Only one way to find out. Gotta read it.
And I’m not seeing the typos Susan was in the description, but I believe her that they’re there. That woman can spot a typo ten miles off, and so you gotta wonder why people want their books published by so-called professionals who can’t manage basic grammar. I don’t get it.
Review: Beautifully Wounded by Susan Griscom
Posted: November 11, 2014 in Reviews
Tags: abused spouse on the run, glad I got a review copy, romance, Susan Griscom, worth a read
Susan Griscom was nice enough to send a digital copy of her book, Beautifully Wounded, and let me start by saying it’s a good read. But it’s not Rock Fiction.
Why not? Well, because it takes more than a scene with a woman playing a guitar and talk about making music to be Rock Fiction. To cross the line into Rock Fiction, music has to permeate the book somehow. It’s got to be central, but in Beautifully Wounded, what’s central is the struggle of Lena to get away from her abusive husband, emotionally as well as physically.
That part of the book is well done, near as I can tell. I wonder if someone who’s escaped an abusive husband would agree ’cause maybe, Lena falls for Jackson too fast. But maybe Lena’s one of those women who needs to be in a relationship. And that’s the biggest problem I have with this book: Lena’s needy and in denial about it. Oh, and she’s not terribly screwed up by the abuse. You’d think she would be, right?
But there’s a sweetness to this book. It unfolds slowly, like the author’s taking care of us the same way Jackson takes care of Lena. Not slow like it’s draggy and hard to keep reading. It’s actually leisurely and pretty much just right. Oh, sure, there’s the cliché confrontation at the end, but c’mon. What other end can there be when you’re dealing with an abusive spouse? How else can there be closure?
Real life isn’t that neat, but that’s why fiction is good stuff. Sometimes, it’s good to know it can be, and it fits this book pretty well.
I’d say this one’s worth a read but not if you’re looking for Rock Fiction.
Rock Fiction Coveting: Rock Courtship by Nalini Singh
Posted: November 7, 2014 in Rock Fiction Coveting
Tags: employer-employee trope, how about a review copy, Nalini Singh, romance, wanna read
I’m stealing the site back from Jett for a few minutes here because Nalini Singh has long been on my I need to read this author and see what the fuss is about list. I hear things about her structure, her talent, her ability… she’s like a goddess in certain circles. One of the best writers of the moment.
But as anyone who hangs at West of Mars knows, I’m a pretty busy camper, running a small business and being a single mom and all. So reading… often falls by the wayside. And even then, a number of years ago, I dug myself a sinkhole of books that I try not to add to. So I’m reading stuff that’s been waiting for me for years.
Sadly, Nalini’s books aren’t in that pile. (I don’t think. At 500+ books, it can be hard to keep straight. But you’d think I’d have looked and you’d think if any had been there, I’d have read them.)
But now I’ve got a reason to pick one up. Or at least a reason to pass it on to Jett, who I can hear whooping in the background. Yep, Nalini has written some Rock Fiction.
Rock Courtship is the name of it, and here’s the description:
What happens when the Gentleman of Rock decides to play dirty?
A drummer for the hottest rock band on the planet, David has a single, powerful weakness: Thea, the band’s publicist and the woman who steals his breath away with her every move.
Only problem is, Thea doesn’t date clients—or musicians. Emotionally scarred by a cheating ex, she’s not about to risk her heart with a man who has groupies buzzing around him like flies. Even if his sexy smile ties her up in knots.
What she doesn’t know is that David is a one-woman man…and he’s madly in love with her. David’s determined to prove he’s worth the risk, and willing to court her, step by exquisite step. Thea’s about to discover just how long and hard this handsome drummer can play.
Oh, no! It’s the employee trope again! I gotta admit, I’m disappointed to see this from such a well-regarded author. And while I know there are only so many plots that exist in the world, the whole “I’m gonna sleep with my boss/employee” thing really irks me. Oh, I know it happens in the music biz. It happens on a daily basis. But in fiction, it bugs me; it’s too convenient and I continue to wonder, time and again, what sort of reputation these women — because it’s always the women who are the publicists and managers and whatnot — wind up with. Not among the public, but in the industry. “Oh, we just hired a new one. Figure she’ll be here for six months before she runs off with one of the clients. I’m already checking resumes for her replacement.”
THAT sort of reputation. Do you think band management ever says, “Hey, let’s hire firm so-and-so for our publicity/touring/insert-band-job-here because our guitarist needs to fall in love and settle down.”
And do you think we can EVER find a rocker who DOESN’T have groupies all over him? Again, I know: it’s part of the lifestyle, but on the other hand, in Rock Fiction, it’s almost like the two go hand in hand. The love interest always is dripping in girls. But look! He’s rarely the manwhore he lets the public think he is. He’s really a good guy and…
Well, I’m told if there’s anyone who can rise above, it’s Nalini, so bring it, girl. Set a new bar for Rock Fiction.
#Rocktober Wrap-Up
Posted: November 4, 2014 in Note to Readers
Tags: here we go, more to come, Rocktober wrap-up
Okay, so I’m late with this. Anyone surprised? I picked my name, Jett, hoping it’d help speed me up. No such luck. Not yet, anyway.
But it’s November now, and Rocktober’s over. I think it was a huge success, even if I didn’t have as many authors stopping in as I’d wanted. Susan says it’s Rocktober year-round over here, so tell your Rock Fiction friends and authors. Stop in. Spread the word. This is THE home of Rock Fiction, so take advantage.
And man oh man, is this a good time to be into Rock Fiction. I’ve got posts drafted and tabs open like you can’t believe. The sky’s the limit, says me, whose name Ostra means something even bigger.
Jump on, fasten your seatbelts, and all that other stuff. This ride’s just about to take off.
Rock Fiction Coveting: The Trouble Series by Emme Rollins
Tags: always loved the band member trope, how about a review copy, Jett covets, romance, series, wanna read
During the deluge that turned into Rocktober — I have never seen so much Rock Fiction in my life — I came across author Emme Rollins. Looks like she’s my type of girl ’cause she writes primarily Rock Fiction. Why isn’t she hanging out with us here? Especially since it looks like the fourth book in her Trouble series is coming out at the end of this month?
The series, like I said, is called The Trouble Series. Why? Well, because Trouble is the name of the band. Interesting name choice, given that in real life, there IS a band named Trouble. They’re doom metal, and they’re one of the founding fathers of the genre. I suspect, given this warning, there’s nothing doom about this fictional Trouble.
Warning: This full 45,000 word novel the ultimate fantasy come true when a female fan meets a sexy rock star guitar god with enough pluck to make the g-string on your Stratocaster quiver for days. (Note: This title was originally published as “Happy Accident”)
Sounds fairly typical, no? Although I gotta tell you, Susan’s wearing off on me. I can pick out some typos in the rest of the book description.
But there are some fresh ideas in here. For one, the hot sexy guitarist is married, so if you’re not into that sort of thing, steer clear. Apparently, in the second book, his divorce happens, but still.
It’s the third book I’m kinda iffy about. He wants his girlfriend/fiancee to join the band? Really? That’s the sort of lovebirdy thing that garage bands do, not major bands. Yeah, yeah, Patti’s in Bruce’s band, but that’s different. Know why? Patti was already Bruce’s backup singer. He didn’t promote her to co-lead singer. Heck, I still think with her voice, she’s under-used.
Like always, gotta read it to see how it’s handled. Oh, and the upcoming fourth book is about Bree’s best friend, and her play for the guitarist in Trouble.
But I don’t know. There’s something starting to feel tired about the fan meets the band member of her dreams and it’s insta-lust and she’s the one for him trope. Rollins has another series out, so maybe that one’s fresher.
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Minnesota National Guard Helicopter Crash Victims Identified
Photo: Fox 9 News
St Cloud, MN (KROC AM News) - The Minnesota National Guard has released the names of the three soldiers killed in Thursday’s helicopter crash near St. Cloud.
Killed were:
Chief Warrant Officer 2 James A. Rogers Jr., age 28
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Charles P. Nord, age 30
Sgt. Kort M. Plantenberg, age 28
They were assigned to Company C, 2-211th General Support Aviation Battalion, based in St. Cloud. The Guard says their unit returned from a nine-month deployment to the Middle East in May. The three and their unit conducted medical evacuations in support of Operation Spartan Shield and Operation Inherent Resolve.
The three were in a Black Hawk helicopter and were on a maintenance test flight when it crashed just minutes after taking off.
Gov. Tim Walz has ordered flags lowered to half-staff through 2:05 PM Monday in honor of the soldiers.
Source: Minnesota National Guard Helicopter Crash Victims Identified
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Mahy
Mahy is Frank Hollett’s right-hand man. He does a lot of work on Hollett’s sites, managing the staff, resources and overall smooth running of the jobs. He is described as being ‘thick-set’ and shorter than Frank Hollett himself.
He had been working for Hollett Construction for most of his life and has unlimited access to Hollett himself. He is also trusted to perform a lot of the company’s management tasks in Hollett’s absence.
Read more about Mahy
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Profile of Mahy
HEIGHT5ft 10in
OCCUPATIONSite agent
RELATIONSHIPUnknown
Site agent who manages a lot of the work undertaken by Hollett Construction on and around Guernsey
Mahy is an unaffiliated character.
Guernsey woman advised to leave for her safety
Frances Laszczak was accused of giving evidence to the German forces against John Ingrouille.
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Cool stuff in construction
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Embracing sea level rise with resilient design
With sea levels rising fastest on the East Coast, the Gulf of Mexico and in California, finding ways to stem the tide is increasingly difficult because shrinking glaciers continue to add water to the world’s oceans and increased global temperatures are expanding seawater. That’s why some of the brightest and most creative architects, designers and engineers from around the world are now innovating solutions that embrace water by integrating infrastructure that works with the ocean’s projected rise rather than just trying to stop it.
In fact, some notable examples of this emerging philosophy known as resilient design are currently on display at the Boston Society of Architects (BSA) gallery. The winning submissions from the Boston Living with Water competition are being shown through June.
A Google Earth image of the Fort Point Channel and Boston Seaport shows what the landscape looks like today. The artist’s rendering above shows the same landscape after the 100-acre neighborhood is raised about 12 feet to combat sea level rise. Both images courtesy of Architerra.
Similar to the Jacques Rougerie Foundation’s International Architecture Competition and San Francisco’s Rising Tides competition, Boston’s version challenged members of the international AEC industry to design ways to shield the city from sea level rise. These competitions are evidence that the seeds of innovation are being planted right now, to account for sea level rise and that cities such as Boston and San Francisco are giving this crisis the attention it deserves. After all, a report released last year said that Boston could see its harbor rise by as much as seven feet by the year 2100. Just last week, city officials announced that they might allow developments in coastal floodplains to build taller than is currently permitted so that electrical, mechanical and HVAC systems can be designed into the midsection of buildings rather than in the basements. This would not only protect mechanical systems against flooding, but it would mean owners don’t have to sacrifice valuable square footage.
The 50 teams in Boston’s competition completed at least one of three challenges focused on mitigating coastal flooding at three local sites: 1) The North End’s Prince Building, 2) the Fort Point Neighborhood and 3) Dorchester’s Morrissey Boulevard. One winner from each of the three challenges won $13,000 while honorable mentions took home $5,000, thanks to funding from the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management and the Barr Foundation. The competition was sponsored by the City of Boston, the BSA, the Boston Harbor Association and the Boston Redevelopment Authority.
With that, we say “Hail to the victors”:
SITE 1: North End’s Prince Building
WINNER: “Prince Building Piers” led by Stephanie Goldberg AIA & Mark Reed AIA, Boston.
Artist’s rendering of the Prince Building in the North End is courtesy of Stephanie Goldberg AIA & Mark Reed AIA.
This innovative approach (right) recognizes that staving off the water might be futile and therefore emphasizes ecological reclamation by inviting the water to be part of a new “urban seashore” that features boardwalks for recreation and cultural experiences.
SITE 2: Fort Point Channel
WINNER: “ReDeBOSTON” led by Architerra, Boston.
Artist’s rendering of Fort Point Channel courtesy of Architerra.
Also shown in the rendering at the top of this blog post, this mind-blowing submission (left) creates an urban playground on the water by raising an entire 100-acre area of the Fort Point neighborhood by approximately 12 feet. That would place the channel level with the elevation of the neighborhood’s main artery, Summer Street.
SITE 3: Morrissey Boulevard
WINNER: “Total Resilient Approach” Thetis S.p.A., Venice.
Naturally, one of the the winning teams hails from Venice, Italy. Thetis’ submission (below) also accounts for the rising sea by elevating land, in this case Morrissey Boulevard by about 18 feet, but it also uses a network of waterways to keep water away from significant pieces of infrastructure such as a transportation hub. Habitat restoration and sustainable urban landscaping are also critical to this plan.
Artist’s rendering of infrastructure along Morrissey Boulevard is courtesy of Thetis S.p.A.
For more information on the winning submissions check out this Boston Globe story.
Architerra, Barr Foundation, Boston, Boston Harbor Association, Boston Living with Water competition, Boston Redevelopment Authority, Boston Society of Architects, Dorchester, Fort Point Channel, Friends of Fort Point Channel, Jacques Rougerie Foundation, Jacques Rougerie Foundation's International Architecture Competition, Mark Reed AIA, Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management, Morrissey Boulevard, North End, Prince Building, ReDeBOSTON 2100, Resilient design, Resilient design institute, Rising sea levels, Rising Tide Competition, San Francisco Bay, Sea Level rise, Stephanie Goldberg AIA, Thetis S.p.A., Union of Concerned Scientists, Venice
June 22, 2015 by suffolkconstruction
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Overcoming Programming-Tomorrow Woman (ROBOT MONTH)
June 27, 2016 Dean Compton 1 Comment
Hello, Legions of the Unspoken!
Dean Compton back with you, and I am ending a delightful June as we here at The Unspoken Decade celebrate ROBOT MONTH! Robots pretty much permeate every single aspect of genre culture that we love, and it only seemed right that at some point we celebrated our bolted-up buddies with a tribute! You saw the Death’s Head entry, and we had planned for a Transformers Generation 2 podcast, but scheduling issues prevented it, so we’ll end the month right here with Tomorrow Woman from JLA #5!
That’s not Avengelyne there on the cover; it’s Artemis. She was Wonder Woman for a little while. The 90’s were complicated.
There isn’t much else that can be said in regard to the amazing Grant Morrison/Howard Porter/John Dell run on JLA. The books revitalized interest in the team, which had waned for a lot of reasons. Some of it was due to the big guns not being in the lineup. Some of it was due to spinoff books that folks were watering down the concept or betraying the concept of the Justice League in its entirety. (Extreme Justice is notoriously hated for that reason.) Some folks had been turned off by the humor from the Giffen/Maguire/DeMatteis days and never returned to the book(s). Whatever the reasons were, the Justice League’s presence among superhero fans had reached its nadir.
Enter Grant Morrison.
Morrison had spun a lot of great tales by this point, from his acclaimed Animal Man to The Invisibles to Skrull Kill Krew. His Doom Patrol featured characters such as Danny The Street and Flex Mentallo. His imagination was seemingly on another level than many of his peers in the comic book industry, let alone folks who didn’t create larger than life tales for a living. So when it was discovered that not only would he be at the helm of the JLA relaunch, but that he would also be using the so-called “Big 7” (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, Aquaman, Flash, & Green Lantern), it meant that one of the complaints that surfaced repeatedly in regard to much of the early 90’s Justice League stuff (the aforementioned lack of big guns) would be dealt with, and with Morrison’s known reverence for the history of these icons, the series would become known for all out action with a respect for all the magnificent history that makes up the DC Universe.
The standalone issue really shines as an example of all that this run would come to be known for. If you want someone to get the JLA, you could just hand them this issue and they’d understand the greatness instantly. Speaking of getting the JLA, that’s precisely why old super-genius JLA enemies Professor Ivo and Dr. T.O. Morrow have decided to join forces, and even as the comic opens, they seem to believe that they have already won.
I’ve always been a sucker for those “roll call” things in DC Comics.
Villains busting out champagne before a scheme even starts is always a sure sign that they have cooked up a doozy. You just know this one’s gonna work for these two, whom I have always enjoyed.
Now, to get back to the fact that some of the previous 90’s incarnations of the Justice League were just not up to par in the eyes of some, we see the funeral of one of them. Metamorpho, who actually dies in JLA #1, is a member of the previous league. While a few may not have enjoyed his presence in the Legaue in the early 90’s, I always thought he was a really cool character who played a good everyman. Alas, here he is dead, and only Superman seems to care.
But I mean, if only one guy is gonna come to your funeral, we all hope that guy is Superman, right?
Superman can’t tarry for too ling at Metamorpho’s funeral, though, because a mysterious electromagnetic creature known as “IF” is dealing out some mega punishment and the JLA is going to have a meeting about it. Superman uses Batman’s JLA teleporter, and we see some gruff Batman. You know the stuff by heart if you have watched the Justice League cartoon or read, I dunno, six Batman comics since 1986.
Superman teleports up to the JLA satelite just in time to create an awkward moment for Flash (Wally West) and Kyle Rayner (Green Lantern).
Martian Manhunter is a telepath; he already knows you’re goofing off, Flash.
For all the talk of Grant Morrison’s JLA about how he got the concept by placing DC’s high-powered pantheon into high-stakes cosmic superhero action adventure, I think where he really nailed the JLA was with his characterization of the League was in little moments like this, where the characters personalities come to the forefront. It can be hard to balance the Gods of the JLA, but Morrison deftly does so here and all throughout his run.
Howard Porter (pencils), John Dell (inks), and Pat Garrahy (colors) all deserve a lot of credit for making this work as well. The art is epic and powerful, and most importantly, it’s just the type of visuals a story like this needs. I have raved about Morrison’s work on the title, but this title doesn’t grow its legend without them too.
This incarnation of the JLA has decided to possibly expand from seven to twelve, despite these guys having only just gotten together. The nominees run the breadth of the DC Universe…
You’d think a guy as old as Max Mercury would know how to act like a veteran.
Of course, if you’re like anyone else, one member of that cadre of recruits stands out as not really belonging there, and I am not talking about Guy Gardner. Hitman’s book was brutal and decidedly anti-superhero at times. (Check out our own Darry Weight breaking it down for you at that link!) He belonged nowhere near one of the flagship superhero books DC put out, but Morrison not only makes it work, but he arguably makes it into one of the most memorable moments of the run.
Yeah, it was the money thing.
After that bit of humorous irreverence, we finally get a candidate that the JLA takes seriously and wants pretty badly. Her name is…Tomorrow Woman!
If the JLA doesn’t want her, Tomorrow Woman certainly has a future as one of those lady bodybuilders on ESPN2.
Tomorrow Woman quickly aces the initiation procedures for the JLA, and that’s a good thing because the League has been having severe issues with a thing called “IF.” This “IF” shows up randomly and seems to be a computer that is only programmed to destroy. The JLA has its hands full as it attempts to deal with the consequences.
Of course, this Tomorrow Woman is “just” an android that Professor Ivo and T.O. Morrow have constructed in another one of their seemingly never-ending attempts to destroy the JLA. They have been JLA foes since the 1960’s, and this is easily their best scheme yet. This android is so real that it isn’t just fooling the JLA; it’s fooling itself.
These guys certainly have problems, but what concerns me the most is how much they drink. Is there a special AA for super-villains? If so, can these two join?
Tomorrow Woman is about as cool with that as a mutant in the Marvel Universe is with Genosha, but these two are too busy arguing about which of them did the best work on this super-powered automaton. As far as where I come down on their argument, I like Red Tornado more than I like Amazo. Please argue vehemently about that in the comments the way Berner Sanders and Hillary Clinton supporters have been arguing on my Facebook page. On second though, don’t. Please fucking don’t.
Batman figures out the deal behind “IF” (which I read in Jerry Seinfeld’s voice) and relays the information to Flash, who takes it to the JLA. “IF” is wreaking havoc on our favorite pantheon of superheroes, and Flash gets there just in time to save Martian Manhunter from certain doom.
Batman is just bragging right there. What are you compensating for, Bruce?
The JLA finds themselves on the precipice of the moment that Ivo and Morrow have been preparing for. The only thing that will shut down “IF” is an EMP blast that Tomorrow Woman has been programmed to use to take out the JLA. But then…something happens.
The only other people this satisfied over a failure were the Hostess executives that got a six figure bonus for shutting the company down.
I can’t put into words just how inspiring this moment of JLA #5 is. Morrison manages to make you care more for an android that you only see in one issue of the series than some characters that you see for years and years. Tomorrow Woman was the robot who was programmed so well that she fooled herself into becoming human. That makes me hopeful for all of us. If a robot can overcome its programming then maybe, just maybe, we humans can overcome ours.
Next month we’ll have Chase, Martian Manhunter, and more! Stick around for the summer, Legions of the Unspoken!
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One thought on “Overcoming Programming-Tomorrow Woman (ROBOT MONTH)”
A most perfect single issue of Morrison’s JLA, and he balances the excesses of the 90s DCU perfectly within his classic mythos. I miss that era so!
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