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Weather for 195 locations in Mexico
2 hours ago, the minimum air temperature ( -2 oC +28 oF ) was observed in Chihuahua in Temosachic.
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Review of Firearms Act 1996
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The government hasn’t outlawed sugar simply because it looks like cocaine, and if they were to do such a thing, most of us would agree that it is absolutely absurd. But, for the last sixteen years, guns which so much as LOOK like other guns have been banned, for no other reason than their appearance.
The Firearms Act 1996
The Firearms Act 1996 (Prohibited Firearms) strictly prohibits machine guns, sub-machine guns or any other weapon which is capable of propelling projectiles in rapid succession from just one pull of the trigger, along with self-loading shotguns and rifles. But, the Act goes on to also prohibit any firearm which ‘substantially duplicates in appearance’ any firearms listed as prohibited by the Act.
Representing thousands of firearm owners and enthusiasts across Australia, the Shooters Union is calling for a review of Item 6 of the Act, which prohibits firearms by appearance alone. Shooters Union believes that this does not, in fact, make the regulation of firearms any simpler – it adds a large degree of unnecessary subjectivity.
Unreasonable and Subjective
How much like a prohibited firearm does your gun need to look before it is prohibited? Are children’s toy guns also prohibited under this act? In order to meet the intentions of the agreement set out by the Firearms Act 1996, firearms are categorised according to their type, calibre and purpose of operation – not by their appearance.
Shooters Union is campaigning for a review of Item 6 as it is completely unreasonable to prohibit any item based on its appearance alone, without taking into account the purpose of the item. Banning a firearm on the sole grounds that it is similar in appearance to a prohibited firearm puts those who are complying with the Firearms Act 1996 at a disadvantage. Viewing owning a firearm which simply looks like another, regardless of how it is operated, as an offence, is absurd – especially when no criminal misuse has taken place.
Registered, Licensed Users Are Not a Danger
What is hoped to be achieved by the banning of firearms which resemble those that are prohibited? Will banning firearms that look like prohibited types actually contribute towards reducing violence in society? Have there been any problems with the misuse of firearms which look similar in appearance to those prohibited? These are all questions which the Shooters Union is asking in our quest to have this unreasonable legislation changed.
We believe that there is no danger in allowing an individual who has been thoroughly vetted and passed all of the necessary firearms checks to own and use a registered firearm of whatever category they have been approved to own, regardless of the appearance of the firearm itself. Once an individual has been permitted to hold a licence for a particular category of firearm, they should be expected to be able to use such firearms both safely and legally, regardless of whether the firearm in question looks similar to a prohibited gun.
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In Review: Star Wars #44
Issues can be taken with every contribution to this book.
by Patrick Hayes March 22, 2018
The covers: A diverse threesome of frontpieces to pick up if the Force is with you. The Regular cover is by David Marquez & Matthew Wilson. Looking like a propaganda poster, Princess Leia in her white togs with her hands on her hips as she looks upwards to her left. She’s flanked by four other characters, two on each side, looking in the same direction. Above them several ships, including X-wings, Y-wings, and A-wings streak up in the direction the characters are looking. The coloring is dominated by yellow for the sky and the characters around the princess in oranges. Leia is colored normally, making her stand out. A decent cover, but if I’m going to get a propaganda poster it’ll be for the Empire. The Galactic Icons Variant cover by Rod Reis focuses on Captain Phasma. It’s good image of the stormtrooper who doesn’t really do much in the films. This is okay, but would have been a little neater if her helmet had been broken, showing her eye as it does at the end of The Last Jedi. John Tyler Christopher continues to impress on his Action Figure Variant covers with this image of the (Twin Pod) Cloud Car Pilot. This quickly scene character from The Empire Strikes Back was an actual action figure back in the day, but it didn’t look as cool as this carded figure. The figure is in the same pose as the toy produced, but is it me or does that figure have a five o’clock shadow? The “photo” of the character is gorgeous, with the details around the character’s mouth and eyes outstanding. I need this cover. Overall grades: Regular A-, Galactic Icons Variant B, and Action Figure Variant A+
The story: Leia, Han, Luke, Ackbar, Artoo, and Threepio are on Mon Cala for a quiet meeting. Han’s explanation of why he’s been to the world before is tempered by a comment from Ackbar that gets the Corellian’s hackles up. His reason for using a specific word for the man is funny and provides the last moment of intentional levity in Kieron Gillen’s story for several pages. This is because Grand Admiral Urtya has arrived. He’s come to hear a grand plan from Leia. She begins to tell him the Death Star has changed everything, but before she can go much further an Imperial patrol ship stumbles upon them. Han volunteers to speak to its crew, but the ship makes its intents to those on the beach quite clear. He does eventually deal with the stormtroopers on board and things go about as well as they ever go for the smuggler. Soon the characters are on the run in the jungles with the Imperials in pursuit. All the while Leia tries to win Urtya over to the Rebel cause. This was too much. Han would do this, but not Leia. It came off as comical, undercutting the tension from the troopers’ chase. The grand admiral finally states why he can’t help the Rebels, but this leads Leia to seek the help of a new secret ally. This was a really roundabout way to get Mon Cala into the series, but it does so using silly dialogue and situations. A disappointing read. Overall grade: C
The art: Salvador Larroca’s art is not working for me in this issue because there appears to be several panels of photo insertion for the settings. This begins on the first page with the distant rocks. It continues with more rocky structures on Page 2, and goes on through Page 7. Every time I saw one of these rock formations all I could think was “photograph.” This insertion gets worse when the characters run through the jungles, with these leafy fortifications looking horrible with illustrated work on top of them. Larroca can draw, he’s shown it before on other Star Wars books, but this book screams out that it was late for a deadline and photos were used to complete it. Even worse is the effect used for a holographic transmission at the end of the book. Justification is given for it looking muddled, but a computer has obviously been used to distort it. I would have preferred to see Larroca draw an untouched illustration of the transmission than look at these wastes of panels. Much better are the character likenesses with the humans, droids, and Mon Calamari looking incredibly strong. There’s an explosion early in the book that uses a computer blur to make the action more realistic, but it, sadly, comes off looking like a printer error. I cannot see why any company would resort to such effects when artists, such as Larroca, are more than capable in creating motion well in their visuals. On the same page there’s a funny image of Threepio that foreshadows an early scene in Return of the Jedi. These visuals are heartbreaking. Overall grade: C-
The colors: The rock formations that are in the opening pages are colored very lightly to give them some distance from the characters, or, as I assume, it’s an easier way to disguise their being photographs. I learned from an artist that computer blurs are often done by colorists, so I’m asking if Guru-eFX is responsible for the large one in this issue. If so, it was completely unwarranted. Urtya and Ackbar’s flesh is colored extremely well however, as is the skin of the human characters. The best coloring of the book is done in the bottom panel on 15 with a reflection looking superb. There’s much to like about Guru-eFX’s work on this book, and much to question. Overall grade: C+
The letters: The same willowy, weak font is used for dialogue in this book as it is in all Star Wars books, and the same blocky scene settings exist. There are a few yells in the book that have odd spiky balloons around them that attempt to pump up the bellows. The best text in the book are Artoo’s utterances. VC’s Clayton Cowles is the letterer of this issue. Overall grade: C+
The final line: Moments in the story strain credulity and the photo insertion ruins a majority of the book. Issues can be taken with every contribution to this book. Marvel, it’s time for some changes on this title. This book is beginning to dip as below average. Overall grade: C+
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Community Server Trading Integration
Note: this is a "call-to-arms" post; we're sharing an idea we have that we'd like to implement, but we need your feedback and thoughts on how best to move forward, if at all. If you own or operate a community server, we'd especially like your thoughts on how you'd use this system!
Over the past 7 years, we've built a powerful Steam trading infrastructure that enables us to provide a lot of really cool services. There's no doubt that ScrapTF's level of user activity is directly related to our TF2 trading network. We'd like to provide access to this same trading infrastructure for community TF2 servers, to enable them to provide their own unique and interesting services.
Essentially, we'd like to provide community servers the ability to send and receive TF2 items to and from players on their server. Hosting even a single trading bot is difficult business, and building something like ScrapTF is on another level entirely. Our proposed system would allow community server owners to do all of this without ever needing to worry about hosting a bot, delivering items to users, or tracking items users send them.
Here's how it'd go down:
Server Owners would register a special API key through ScrapTF, granting them access to our trade network.
Server Owners would then install a SourceMod library that provides access to our underlying API, allowing them to grant items to players, and receive them, however they please.
Plugins would be written on top of this library, allowing for unique and custom functionality.
Server Owners would be given a page where users could trade in items to their server.
The server(s) would receive real-time updates when a user has traded in an item, allowing them to create unique features that handle items however they please.
For example, a "giftuchet" plugin could listen for an item being traded in, and then give that item to a random player on the server, with appropriate fanfare.
Of course, this could also be used to allow players to donate to servers, and show in-game announcements whenever someone donates.
There would be no fee or commission for server owners or players. This would be a 100% free service.
The only area that might incur fees in the future would relate to bot storage space usage. Servers that use large amounts of bot inventory space may be asked to pay a small amount for this space. This is something we hope to not have to implement.
We recognize that the ScrapTF Network -- scrap.tf, backpack.tf, and marketplace.tf -- are, collectively and individually, the largest and most popular TF2 websites in the world. We also recognize that community servers have not had an easy time of it in recent years. Although there have been rumors in recent years that Valve may make efforts to revitalize interest in community servers, there's nothing to suggest that's actually going to happen. We believe that we're the best positioned to make a serious impact on the TF2 Community Server scene, and revitalize it in ways that haven't previously been attempted.
Profit is not the primary goal. This applies to both ScrapTF and the servers that would make us of this system. While there are acceptable uses of our network that would enable server owners to gain items from their servers, we think this system is best used to create genuinely engaging and fun experiences that haven't been possible on community servers before. To this end, the following restrictions would apply:
No gambling, wagering, etc.
No game benefits as a result of trading in items. This means no stat buffs, no godmode, nothing that would give any player a game advantage over another.
A server should still be fun to play in for those who don't use its trading features.
Custom gamemodes (especially PvE) may be a different case, but the community would need to be strongly in support of such a thing before we would allow it.
No paywalls to access a server.
The only valid exception we could envision might be some form of custom MvM tours, but it would need to be an extremely high-quality experience for us to allow our network to be used in this way.
Reserved Slots might be acceptable as well, given that this is already provided in most servers that accept donations.
Nothing that circumvents Valve's trading policies
Helping scammers/trade-banned users trade, bypassing trade delays, etc.
It's important to lay out what you can't do, but it's more fun to suggest some cool implementations of our network that the community might create. Here's some ideas we have for how servers might use this service:
A "giftapult" plugin that allows users to gift their items to another random player on the server.
What about a mega-giftapult where everyone in the server can contribute items until it reaches a limit, and a random player is given all of the items? (Of course, the chance to win would be entirely random, with no contribution necessary to win).
Donations, of course.
What if every donation caused something cool to happen on the server? (Non-gameplay affecting)
A "loyalty shop" plugin that allows users to cash in loyalty points (gained through gameplay on the server) for a random craft hat, a key, or entry into a giveaway.
A "random drop" plugin that randomly distributes items to users who are active in the server.
This would need to be combined with strong anti-idler policies / plugins.
A "mass spycrab" plugin for trade servers: anyone who trades in at least X keys' worth of items (configurable) can start a mass-spycrab, where the winner gets it all!
Servers could not charge entry fees or require any other form of consideration to enter.
A custom MvM tour that awarded players with items upon completion.
These items could be drawn from the items that are donated to the server.
Whatever else you can think of!
These are all ideas for things that we expect the community to create using our service. We would provide the base infrastructure to create such features, but would not provide the individual features listed above; the community would be responsible for developing their ideas on top of our service.
Server Spotlight
We'd also like to spotlight community servers running this system on the frontpage of ScrapTF and/or Backpack.tf. Because every server we spotlight is guaranteed to have unique trading functionality, we believe that this will drive traffic to these servers in a way that previous community spotlights haven't.
What we need from you
We need you to tell us what you think!
If you're a server owner, we'd love to hear your thoughts on how you'd use this for your own server(s), or if you're just not interested in general.
If you don't own any servers, we'd still like to hear what you think! What kinds of things would you like to see made with this framework? Let us know!
Your feedback will inform how we proceed in developing this system (if at all). This entire thing is designed to benefit you, the community, so we can't do it without your input.
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PhD Candidate José Aragüez Publishes "The Building"
José Aragüez recently published The Building, a book resulting from an international discursive project he led. Contributors include Princeton University School of Architecture Dean Mónica Ponce de León, faculty Stan Allen, Michael Meredith, and Alejandro Zaera-Polo, as well as alumni Mark Campbell, Mary McLeod, Stephen Philips, Amanda Reeser Lawrence, Rafi Segal, Sarah Whiting, and Michael Young.
About The Building, Lars Müller Publishers explains, "For nearly fifty years 'the building' has primarily been viewed as a means rather than an end within architectural history and theory. This volume presents an alternative to that trend by reconceiving it as a central discursive category in its own right. Contributors—including architects and academics from world-renowned institutions—offer insightful discussions of key architectural structures conceived in Europe, Asia, and the U.S.A. over the last three decades. In doing so they propel architectural thinking’s importance as a domain of knowledge. Further, in exploring those structures through a number of questions both intra- and meta-disciplinary, this book suggests ways in which buildings can trigger conceptual frameworks whose influence extends well beyond architecture. A balanced text-to-image ratio caters to readers in both practice and academia."
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Radio Occultation: Unraveling Saturn's Rings
Specially designed Cassini orbits place Earth and Cassini on opposite sides of Saturn's rings, a geometry known as occultation. Cassini conducted the first radio occultation observation of Saturn's rings on May 3, 2005.
Three simultaneous radio signals of 0.94, 3.6, and 13 centimeter wavelength (Ka-, X-, and S-bands) were sent from Cassini through the rings to Earth. The observed change of each signal as Cassini moved behind the rings provided a profile of the distribution of ring material as a function of distance from Saturn, or an optical depth profile.
This simulated image was constructed from the measured optical depth profiles. It depicts the observed ring structure at about 10 kilometers (6 miles) in resolution. Color is used to represent information about ring particle sizes in different regions based on the measured effects of the three radio signals.
Purple color indicates regions where there is a lack of particles of size less than 5 centimeters (about 2 inches). Green and blue shades indicate regions where there are particles smaller than 5 centimeters (2 inches) and 1 centimeter (less than one third of one inch). The saturated broad white band near the middle of ring B is the densest region of ring B, over which two of the three radio signals were blocked at 10-kilometer (6-mile) resolution, preventing accurate color representation over this band. From other evidence in the radio observations, all ring regions appear to be populated by a broad range particle size distribution that extends to boulder sizes (several to many meters across).
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The radio science team is based at JPL.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov . For more information on the radio science team visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/instruments-cassini-rss.cfm .
Credit: NASA/JPL
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Xanadu's Channels
+ Unannotated version Five images of Saturn's rings, taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft between 2009 and 2012, show clouds of material ejected from impacts of small objects into the rings. Clockwi...
Meteors Meet Saturn's Rings
Cassini in the environmental test chamber, 25' Space Simulator in building 150 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Cassini in the Space Simulator
This image of Eutropia AV-L-10, from the atlas of the giant asteroid Vesta, was created from images taken as NASA's Dawn mission flew around the object, also known as a protoplanet.
Eutropia AV-L-10
This mosaic of images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft depicts fan-like structures in Saturn's tenuous F ring. Bright features are also visible near the core of the ring. Such features suggest the ex...
'Fan' in the F Ring
A plane flies in front of a Blue Moon in July 2015.
Blue Moon and Jet Over Virginia
This image shows the bright light of a solar flare on the left side of the Sun and an eruption of solar material shooting through the Sun's atmosphere.
Sun Emits a Solstice Flare and CME
Saturn's C ring emerges from behind the planet's hazy limb. This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 15 degrees below the ringplane. The image was taken in visible light wit...
Beyond the Limb
Images taken of Jupiter¿s day and night sides by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Jan. 1, 2001 show that storms visible on the day side are the sources of visible lightning when viewed on the night sid...
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Complex Crater Assemblage on Ceres
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Dawn HAMO Image 35
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Full Jupiter Map
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Cassini "Lucky" Peanuts
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Unusual Craters on Vesta IV
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Little Bright Spot
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of asteroid Vesta with its framing camera on Aug. 26, 2011 at a distance of 1,700 miles (2,740 kilometers). The image has a resolution of about 260 meters...
Mountains Rising Over Vesta's Equatorial Region
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Ancient Near East: Cradle of civilization
Cuneiform, an introduction
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Sumer, an introduction
White Temple and ziggurat, Uruk
Archaeological reconstructions
Warka Vase
Standing Male Worshipper (Tell Asmar)
Relief of Ur-Nanshe
Standard of Ur
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Akkad, an introduction
Victory Stele of Naram-Sin
Cylinder seal with a modern impression
Neo-Sumerian/Ur III
Seated Gudea holding temple plan
Ziggurat of Ur
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Law Code Stele of King Hammurabi
The Ishtar Gate and Neo-Babylonian art
Towers of Babel
Kassite art: Unfinished Kudurru
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Assyria vs Elam: The battle of Til Tuba
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Persepolis: The Audience Hall of Darius and Xerxes
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Nike Adjusting Her Sandal, Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis, Athens
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Medea Sarcophagus
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Arch of Constantine, Rome
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Palmyra: the modern destruction of an ancient city
Temple of Bel
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Temple of Baalshamin
by Katarzyna Minollari
Temple of Athena Nike, 421-05 B.C.E., marble, Acropolis, Athens
The temple of Athena Nike (Athena as a goddess of victory) is the smallest temple at the Acropolis in Athens, placed at its southwest corner, at the edge of a high cliff (see images above). Its construction was completed in the year 420 B.C.E., during the so called High Classical Period, according to the design of Kallikrates (the same architect who was responsible for the construction of the Parthenon). The temple by Kallikrates replaced an earlier small temple, which got completely destroyed during the Persian wars.
Reconstruction diagram of the Athenian Acropolis
The spot, highly vulnerable to attack but also well placed for defense, was very appropriate for the worship of the goddess of victory. There is some archaeological evidence, that the location was used for religious rituals already in Mycenaean age (Mycenaean was a period of early Greek history, roughly from 1600 to 1100 B.C.E.). Mycenaeans also raised the first defensive bastion on the spot; its fragments are preserved in the temple’s basement.
An Ionic gem
The temple of Athena Nike, built in Ionic order of beautiful white Pentelic marble, has columns at the front and back but not on the sides of the cella; this kind of floor plan is called an amphiprostyle. Because of the small size of the structure, there are only four columns on each side. The columns are monolithic, which means that each one of them was made of a single block of stone (instead of horizontal drums, as it is in the case of the Parthenon).
This small and elegant structure is sometimes called the pearl of the Acropolis, since it was designed and decorated with great care. For example, interestingly, its side columns have volutes both in the front and at the side, in order to create a pleasant view from any viewpoint. The Greeks considered their temples as a kind of monumental sculpture, which was supposed to be viewed from all sides and experienced in connection to its surroundings. The Romans later had a different concept—for them, the frontal view was most important (for example, the Roman Temple of Portunus).
Amphiprostyle plan of the Temple of Athena Nike
Another interesting detail is that the columns of the temple of Athena Nike are not as slender as those of many other Ionic buildings. Usually the proportions between the width and the height of an Ionic column was 1:9 or even 1:11. Here the proportion is 1:7—and the reason for that choice might have been the intention to create a harmonious whole with other buildings nearby. The temple of Athena Nike stands just next to the Propylaea (below), a heavy, monumental gateway to the Acropolis, built in the Doric order. To visually counteract this massive structure, the architect may have decided to widen the columns, otherwise the building might feel out of place, and too delicate in contrast to the neighboring architectural mass of the Propylaea. We know that the ancient Greeks were very aware of mathematical ratios while constructing architecture or creating statues, feeling that the key to beauty lies in correct proportion.
Mnesikles, The Propylaea, 437-32 B.C.E., marble, Acropolis, Athens
The temple of Athena Nike, as with all Greek temples, was considered a home of the deity, represented in its statue, and was not a place where regular people would enter. The believers would simply perform rituals in front of the temple, where a small altar was placed, and could take a glimpse of the sculpted figure of the goddess through the space between the columns. The privilege of entering the temple was reserved for the priestesses, who held a respected position in Greek society. As the name suggests, the temple housed the statue of Athena Nike, a symbol of victory. It probably had a connection to the victory of the Greeks against the Persians around half a century earlier. Nike usually had wings, but in this case we know that the statue had no wings, hence it was called Athena Apteros (without wings). The ancient Greek writer Pausanias later explained that the statue of Athena had no wings, so that she could never leave Athens.
The history of this architectural monument has been quite tumultuous. In the 5th century C.E. the temple was converted into a Christian church, then in the 17th century it was completely dismantled by the Ottoman Turks who needed its material to build fortifications. The temple was later reconstructed after Greece regained independence in 1832. In the 1930s the building was restored again. Very recently, new concerns about the structure’s integrity prompted a new conservation project. First, a team of specialists completely dismantled the temple. Each of its parts was examined and mended, and eventually the entire building was reassembled using the original pieces, with some fill wherever it was needed. These additions can be easily recognized since they are of a lighter color than the original marble.
Nike Adjusting Her Sandal (detail), south side of the parapet of the Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis, Athens, Greece, c. 410 B.C.E., marble, 3′ 6″ high (Acropolis Museum, Athens)
The temple of Athena Nike featured beautiful sculptural decoration, including a typical continuous Ionic frieze, which on the eastern side represented a gathering of gods. On the southern wall, the sculptor decided to show a battle between Greeks and Persians, and on the remaining sides, battles between Greeks and other warriors. Sculptures on the pediments, almost entirely lost, most probably depicted the Gigantomachy and Amazonomachy. Best known are reliefs from the outside of the stone parapet that surrounded the temple at the cliff’s edge. These represented Nike in different poses and could be admired by people climbing the stairs to the Acropolis. Most famous of these is the Nike Adjusting Her Sandal (above) which presents the goddess in a simple, everyday gesture, perhaps adjusting her sandal (or maybe taking it off) as she prepares to enter the sacred precinct. Whatever she is doing, the relief is still charming in its elegance and simplicity. Both Nike Adjusting Her Sandal and parts of the frieze can be admired today at the Acropolis Museum.
Greek Gods and Religious Practices on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Acropolis Restoration Service website
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Cite this page as: Katarzyna Minollari, "Temple of Athena Nike on the Athenian Acropolis," in Smarthistory, September 11, 2016, accessed January 18, 2020, https://smarthistory.org/temple-nike/.
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Kyrie Irving introduces us to Uncle Drew’s new teammates, ‘Lights’ and ‘Betty Lou’ (Video)
Dan Devine
Ball Don't Lie October 28, 2013, 7:40 PM UTC
This might make me sound like an advertising-susceptible nincompoop, but I was actually pretty excited to find out who the third member of Uncle Drew's team was after the second commercial in the ongoing Pepsi Max saga introduced us to Wes and the very fun vision of the Kyrie Irving-Kevin Love pick-and-roll. That was nearly one year ago, though, which (checks conversion tool) is roughly 93 million light years in Internet time, so I wasn't exactly waiting with bated breath for the third installment, despite recent social-media messaging suggesting we should all get super-amped. Well, here it is — the latest 6 1/2-minute soda spot written and directed by the Cleveland Cavaliers' burgeoning auteur:
Credit where it's due — I did not recognize the two participants in the clip for, like, a long time, and some fun basketball things do happen, and the Betty Lou twist was a very neat touch. Plus, I guess I want a soda a little more now than I did seven minutes ago, so that's probably a win. (Unfortunately for the ad wizards, though, all I've got in the house is Diet Coke. Bummer.)
So, yes: Uncle Drew now has a new teammate, and he is a jazzbo. Unless Betty Lou comes on the road, and Drew has two new teammates. Actually, wait, come to think of it, Wes didn't come on the trip to see his old teammate Lights, did he? So I guess Lights and Betty Lou wouldn't be heading to the next spot to scoop Teammate No. 4, either, which kind of makes me think we're not going to see the full Eastern starting five in plastic paunches and sweats any time soon. I guess we'll just have to wait another year to find out — by then, it could be Andrew Wiggins. (I hope Pepsi's got enough makeup for that.)
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Ngidi and Zondo earn South Africa ODI call
Lungi Ngidi and Khaya Zondo are in line to make their one-day international bows for South Africa against India next month.
25 January, 2018 21:01 IST
South Africa seamer Lungi Ngidi - Getty Images
Uncapped duo Lungi Ngidi and Khaya Zondo have been named in South Africa's one-day international squad for the six-match series against India next month.
Seamer Ngidi made his Test bow against India this month, returning figures of 6-39 in the second innings in Pretoria to take seven wickets in the match.
Injury denied Ngidi the chance to make his ODI debut in the previous series against Bangladesh, but he will now have an opportunity to shine in 50-over cricket.
"This is a continuation of vision 2019 as we develop our squad for the 2019 ICC World Cup in England," Cricket South Africa National Selection Panel Convener Linda Zondi said.
"Lungi has achieved a remarkable double in being named Man of the Match on both his T20 and Test match debuts and he now gets the chance to show what he can do in the 50-overs format."
Batsman Zondo was called up for the Proteas' squad for the 2015 tour of India, but did not earn a cap.
"Khaya has been on the fringes of selection for some time now which included leading the South Africa A side on their recent 50-overs campaign against the England Lions," Zondi added.
"He forms part of our vision to give opportunities to fringe players and we will continue this policy throughout the build-up to the World Cup."
South Africa are also boosted by the returns of Morne Morkel and Chris Morris, who were unavailable against Bangladesh due to a side strain and a back injury respectively.
South Africa squad: Faf du Plessis (c), Hashim Amla, Quinton de Kock, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, Imran Tahir, Aiden Markram, David Miller, Morne Morkel, Chris Morris, Lungisani Ngidi, Andile Phehlukwayo, Kagiso Rabada, Tabraiz Shamsi, Khayelihle Zondo.
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Turkish Jets Hit Menagh Airbase Used by US to Supply Arms to Kurds - Reports
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Turkey Starts Operation 'Olive Branch' in Syria (60)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201801201060923848-syria-turkey-minning-airport-kurds-us-weapons/
More than 70 Turkish military aircraft have been engaged in Ankara's Olive Branch operation in northern Syria against the Kurdish troop, according to Turkey' General Staff.
The Turkish Air Force attacked the Menagh Military Airbase in northwestern Syria, which the US used for supplying weapons to Kurdish armed forces, the Hurriyet newspaper reported citing military sources.
The newspaper noted that the airfield was among the 113 targets scheduled for the attack during Operation Olive Branch in Syrian Africa.
Commenting on the Olive Branch operation, launched earlier in the day, Turkey' General Staff announced that more than 70 Turkish military aircraft have been engaged in the offensive.
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"The airstrikes were conducted against terrorist targets in seven districts of Afrin, where 108 targets were hit. Seventy two aircraft of the Turkish Air Force engaged in the operation have successfully returned to their bases," the statement said.
As the Rojahat Roj, the Press Secretary of the Kurdish Self-Defense Forces YPG in Afrin, told Sputnik, the Turkish military advance resulted in bombing of about 100 positions in the Afrin area, with no casualties among the YPG forces, but at least sevean civilians wounded. As he specified, the Turkish military and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) wanted to enter Afrin from the territory of the Bilbile district, but YPG forces managed to prevent the move. According to the spokesperson, clashes are ongoing.
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The press service of the authorities of the Afrin canton told Sputnik that at least 10 people were injured in airstrikes.
"According to the recent figures, 10 people were injured, including three people who suffered severe wounds. The list of injured people includes two children," the press service said, adding that local authorities had called on the residents of Afrin to donate blood for the victims of the Turkish airstrikes.
Despite the Ankara's assurances that they have notified Damascus about the operation progress, the latter has refuted these statements, vigorously condemning the move and calling it the infringement on the country's sovereignty.
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Where to Stay in Long Beach - Hotels for Every Taste and Budget
Long Beach, a city by the sea, has accommodation to suit everyone. From budget-friendly motels to 4-star hotels that are practically destinations in themselves, it's all here. If you're a beachgoer, head to the shore. Into indie shops and restaurants? Check out the East Village. If vintage is your thing, try 4th Street.
Where to Shop in Long Beach - From Local Merchants to Malls
At this busy beachfront city, you're never far from a little retail therapy. Long Beach's diverse neighbourhoods are home to equally diverse retailers ranging from funky local spots to big shopping malls packed with big-name retailers. Whether you're in the market for the latest beach fashions or retro-cool vintage clothing, you'll find it here.
What to See and Do in Long Beach - The Shore and More
Long Beach is the perfect blend of old-school California beach town and eclectic, buzzing metropolis. Thanks to its harbor-side location, cultural diversity, and generally sunny weather, Long Beach and its surrounding area provide a wide variety of things to see and explore all year round. Sure, there's the beach, but there's so much more.
City Guide to Long Beach - The Warm Beach Town Getaway with a Cool Urban Edge
A short ride from Los Angeles’s LAX airport, Long Beach wraps a vibrant, cutting-edge city and a quaint coastal town into a bountiful beachside experience. Where else can you find whale-watching tours, buzzing nightlife, a world-class aquarium, museums of Latin American and Pacific Island art, sandy shores, and a famous retired ocean liner? And that’s just the start.
Long Beach Nightlife - Wine, Beer, and Endless Entertainment
Long Beach has plenty of fun to offer by day, but that's just the beginning. When the sun goes down, the bar scene revs up. Or try something a little different: Join the lively crowd at a dueling piano show or experience some Spanish culture, then cap off your evening with a moonlit stroll by the waterfront.
Finding Family Fun in Long Beach, California
If you're travelling with kids to Long Beach, the beaches are probably the main attraction. But Long Beach is much more than sand and sun. The city offers plenty of activities that encourage kids to explore and learn, all while getting out that extra energy. From museums to harbor tours, family attractions in Long Beach are fun for everyone.
Long Beach, California - Arts and Culture in a Seaside City
While the Queen Mary, the aquarium, and the beaches might be on top of your must-do list, Long Beach also offers a wealth of cultural attractions worth exploring. So, why not step away from the beach for a bit and dip your toes into the city’s lively arts scene?
Seafood and Beyond - What and Where to Eat in Long Beach
Long Beach has a diverse culture with Latin, Asian, and Caribbean populations, and they all influence its dining scene. Beyond all-American favorites like burgers and fries, you'll find inspired California cuisine, classic Cambodian dishes, and even Peruvian fare. Venture into the city's eclectic neighbourhoods and experience a culinary adventure all your own.
Long Beach Travel Tips - What to Know Before You Go
Long Beach sits on 5.5 miles of Pacific Ocean beachfront. Located 23 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, it's within relatively easy reach of the big city, but it still has the feel of a coastal California town. While the beach might be the main draw, it's just the beginning of what the city has to offer.
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Stanley’s Mouth is an unscripted, adolescent character study that peers into the modern religious mind of the film’s lead ‘Stanley’.
The themes of faith and sexuality are combined to form a visceral portrait of youth as Stanley cruises through life like a passenger, rolling past throw-away sexual experiences and catharsis like a dice. Click here to watch an interview of lead actor Stanley.
Made in collaboration with Adelaide churches yet banned from Christian stores, Stanley’s Mouth stands as an original piece of religious art.
Produced by Allison Chhorn and directed by Mike Retter, the entire film has been shot in the 9:16 vertical format. A crudely cut-up sound design backs the film’s DIY visual style.
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Street Culture: Tech Startups Amping Up Opportunities for Women
March 3, 2017 March 2, 2017 by April Nowicki
Leadership is often a driver of company culture, even though some startup company CEOs and managers say that culture is driven by the employees. Every company is different, and in this industry the quality of communications helps welcome and nurture people. For many companies, transparent sharing and openness at all levels is inviting a new workplace generation led by women.
“Something we look for in interviews is people who will be honest and transparent with you,” says Emilie Fournelle, director of product at local search optimizing software company SweetIQ. “It’s a quality that you find in almost every woman. In general, women have that more than men.”
That is true in several ways – for example, female leaders outperform male leaders in the top three most effective leadership traits: leading by example, communicating in an open and transparent way, and admitting mistakes. That’s according to the 2016 Ketchum Leadership Communication Monitor (PDF), an annual global study addressing effective leadership and communication.
Fournelle admits that yes, maybe some women are not especially transparent, but it is still an attribute that she believes she personally possesses and uses, including at work. Fournelle was recently promoted twice in one year after she saw opportunities for improvement within the company, and then took initiative to bring strategy development proposals to the management.
“Basically, I did an analysis of how the company was working,” Fournelle says. “I identified the biggest weaknesses and the biggest problem. My strategy proposed how to resolve the problem that we had. That’s also one reason I was able to convince them – I wasn’t sugarcoating the situation. It was not really about being promoted to director; it was more about the opportunities of what we should do; what I think the product team should aim for to be successful and help the company.”
Many leaders rely on active company-wide transparency, where management is open and accessible, and some leaders go to lengths to give employees an extra inside look at finances and incentive to care. Others focus on mentoring, or actual person-to-person connections, fun events, and down time.
One popular company offshoot speaks to the value in employee diversity: internal programs that educate and inspire personal wellness.
At the app Nextdoor, a female engineer created an employees’ group called “WAND,” which stands for Women At Nextdoor. The group began as an informal social welcoming meetup, but turned into an effort to attract more women to work at the company. WAND now assists with some of the company’s hiring efforts.
At localized digital marketing company G/O Digital, CEO Tim Fagan says women’s leadership has helped move the company forward significantly. G/O is a part of the Gannett digital media breakout TEGNA, where the president and CEO is a woman, the CFO is a woman, and more than half of the board of directors are women.
“Diversity is good for business,” Fagan says. “There are countless data points that show how when your company has women in leadership positions and minorities in leadership positions, those companies have better stocks, better revenue. I firmly believe it, personally and for our leadership here.”
That’s also true – years of data show that women in leadership positions often mean companies perform better financially.
The company has a “G/O Girl” women’s network, which aims to empower female employees with networking, education, and mentorship activities – a program that excels in local community volunteering efforts and encourages employees to pursue personal growth.
At mobile shopping app company ibotta, a recent weekly themed “standup” — a meeting so short that no one sits down — was a quick presentation about how to encourage women to become more involved in technology career paths or prepare for leadership positions. ibotta also presents a “women in leadership” series.
“Once a month someone will come in and talk about how she got to where she is, she gives her story,” says Alison Meadows, vice president of human relations at ibotta. “Last month it was a lawyer, before that an executive in Denver business development. My point is it creates opportunities for employees to come into one room, listen to a topic together, engage in conversation, it fosters dialogue between employees, and from all that stems new connections.”
At SweetIQ, Fournelle says it’s not like the company is trying to fill a quota for a certain number of women, though the company is comprised of nearly half female employees. Two of the 10 members of the executive team are female, and Fournelle says about three-quarters of her team is female.
“But whether you’re a woman or a man here, there’s no difference,” she says. “If you have a great idea and you’re ambitious, you can just move with it. We appreciate that women are at the table. We bring something different. But at the end, the executive team will give you the buy-in if your idea is well put-together and there’s value in it.”
April Nowicki is a contributor at Street Fight.
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African-American Museum, Bernie Sanders, Cats, Debate, Dogs, Drake, Lil Wayne, Pluto, Rikers, Self-discipline, Style, Suits
This week: The history of the new African American Museum / Dirty debate secrets / Lil Wayne in Rikers / Pluto’s deep ocean / Ease off on self-discipline
Most of these great items come from my social media networks. Follow me on Twitter, Tumblr, LinkedIn, and Facebook for more fascinating videos, photos, articles, essays, and criticism.
1. How to Win a Debate with Mind Games and Dirty Tricks
By Zack Stanton | Politico Magazine | Sept. 24
“Presidential debates have a long and often comical history of psych-outs, with candidates trying to intimidate each other and even threatening insulting props.”
2. John Lewis spent 15 years fighting for the museum — now the dream is realized
By John Lewis | Washington Post Magazine | Sept. 15
“I have loved history ever since I was a boy. It started when I was so young. To celebrate Carter G. Woodson’s innovation — then called Negro History Week and now called Black History Month — my teachers would ask us to cut out pictures in magazines and newspapers of famous African Americans, such as Rosa Parks and George Washington Carver.”
3. The artifacts and stories that brought the African American museum to life
By Marcia Davis | Washington Post Magazine | Sept. 15
“Inside the museum are markers of a nation’s racial history and bloodied path to democracy: from the remnants of a slave ship to a slave cabin to a segregation-era train car and shards of glass from the 16th Street Baptist Church of Birmingham, Ala., where four little girls were killed on a September Sunday morning not so long ago.”
4. Larry Sanders, Bernie’s Brother, Is Running for David Cameron’s Seat in Parliament
By Sewell Chan | The New York Times | Sept. 23
“Sanders grew up in New York City. … In 1969, after graduating from Harvard Law School, he moved to Oxford, England, where he has devoted his career to social work and the law and been an advocate in areas like mental health and education.”
5. Lil Wayne describes what life is really like inside Rikers Island
By Tashara Jones | Page Six :: The New York Post | Sept. 23
“Wayne got visits from P. Diddy and Kanye West, all of whom underwent the body searches, but he admitted a low point was when Drake admitted to sleeping with his girlfriend. …”
6. 10 Things Every Man Should Know About Wearing a Suit
By Teo van Den Broeke | Esquire | Sept. 23
“Always ensure that the skirt of your jacket fully covers your backside. Short jackets are not flattering on anyone, even skinny guys. A full length jacket with a nip at the waist will look flattering on pretty much all frames.”
7. Are cats better than dogs?
The New Yorker Festival | November 2014
“A panel of authors, scientists, and New Yorker writers debate which are better: cats or dogs.”
8. Pluto’s Liquid Water Ocean Might be Insanely Deep
By Maddie Stone | Gizmodo | Sept. 23
“[I]t’s thought that the enormous asteroid responsible for creating Sputnik Planum struck somewhere near the north pole, but that over time, Pluto’s heart became heavy and caused the entire planet to tip over.”
9. Self-discipline is overrated, so go easy on yourself
By Oliver Burkeman | The Guardian | Sept. 23
“Too little self-control makes you impulsive and prone to taking dangerous risks, but too much isn’t great either”
10. A Swimmer and Surfer Who Straddled Two Cultures
By Michael Beschloss | HistorySource :: The New York Times | August 2014
“Duke Kahanamoku, who won a total of five swimming medals in Olympics from 1912 to 1924, probably did more than anyone else to bring the sport of surfing from his native Hawaiian islands to the United States mainland. Almost in reverse, he also played a substantial part in the Americanization of old Hawaii.”
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The Faculty Fellows and College Fellows of St. John’s College are UBC faculty, administration, and staff members who have accepted an invitation to be actively involved in the life of the College. Through service on standing committees, by organizing talks, conferences and colloquia, in mingling with College residents at dinners and social events, our Faculty Fellows play an integral role in the creation of our rich, diverse, international community.
Dr. Joan Anderson, Professor Emerita, School of Nursing
Dr. Gage Averill, Dean, Faculty of Arts, Professor of Music
Dr. Stefania Burk, Associate Dean, Academic in the Faculty of Arts, and Senior Instructor in the Department of Asian Studies
Dr. Helen Burt, Associate Vice President Research & International and Professor, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Dr. Timothy Cheek, Professor, Institute of Asian Research
Dr. Paul Evans, Director and Professor, Institute of Asian Research
Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva, Director, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
Dr. Candace Galla, Assistant Professor, Language and Literacy Education
Dr. Sathish Gopalakrishnan, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering
Elder Larry Grant, Elder-in-Residence, First Nations House of Learning; Adjunct Professor, First Nations and Endangered Languages Program
Professor Gu Xiong,Professor, Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory
Dr. Mark Harris, Visiting Associate Professor, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
Professor Nancy Hermiston, School of Music, Coordinator of the Voice and Opera Divisions and University Marshal, External, Legal and Community Relations
Dr. Vinay Kamat, Associate Professor, Anthropology
Dr. Anna Kindler, Senior Advisor to the Provost, and Professor, Curriculum and Pedagogy
Dr. Pawel Kindler, Sr. Instructor, Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences
Dr. David Ley, Professor and Head, Department of Geography
Dr. Minelle Mahtani, Associate Professor, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
Dr. Dianne Newell, Professor Emerita, Department of History
Dr. Skip (Arthur) Ray, Professor Emeritus, Department of History
Dr. Christopher Rea, Associate Professor, Asian Studies Department
Dr. Susan Rowley, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Dr. Patricia A. Shaw, Founding Chair, First Nations Language Program and Professor, Department of Anthropology
Dr. Olav Slaymaker, Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography
Dr. Tsur Somerville, Associate Professor, Strategy and Business Economics, Sauder School of Business and Director, Centre for Transportation Studies (CTS)
Dr. Mark Turin, Chair, First Nations Languages Program and Associate Professor, Anthropology
Dr. Yves Tiberghien, Director of the Institute of Asian Research and Associate Professor, Political Science
Dr. Ilan Vertinsky, Director, FEPA Research Unit and Professor, Strategy and Business Economics/Operations and Logistics
Dr. Patricia Vertinsky, Professor, School of Kinesiology
Dr. Handel K. Wright, Canada Research Chair and Director of Centre for Culture, Identity, & Education
Professor Stephen J. Toope, Past President and Vice-Chancellor, University of British Columbia, 2006-14
Dr. Hugh Brock, Associate-Provost Academic Innovation
Dr. Ainsley Carry, Vice-President, Students
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Ms. Janine Root, Manager, Campus Initiatives, Development & Alumni Engagement
Ms. Grace Wong, Senior Advisor International, Office of the Provost and VP Academic
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Start A Career At Stonewater Roofing
January 3, 2019 /in News /by Phil Stauskas
Unhappy With Your Job? You Don’t Have To Be
More than 70 percent of Americans are searching for a new employer, according to a 2017 study conducted by nonprofit groups Mental Health America and the Faas Foundation. That’s a staggering number — but it doesn’t have to be this way.
Stonewater Roofing is the perfect landing spot for self-disciplined, motivated individuals who are seeking a new career path.
The family owned and operated roofing company was founded in 2010 — in the spare bedroom of a humble Tyler home — and has since grown exponentially. Stonewater Roofing was the first East Texas company to receive the GAF MasterElite Triple Excellence Award.
But your job search shouldn’t be based on market growth or awards.
What Does Stonewater Mean To You?
We asked our employees that question, and the responses were powerful.
“Stonewater means everything to me,” said assistant sales manager Jordan Cagle. “It’s helped me grow and know more about people, our community, questions and concerns.”
“But the most important thing, to me, that Stonewater represents is our culture, our diversity within our culture, and how that everyone comes from different backgrounds,” Cagle continued. “We come, unite for a common goal — which is genuine caring for each and every client we have.”
That caring attitude, Cagle explained, extends down from the rooftops and into the community. “Whether it’s giving back to the schools, backing the blue,” he said. “Just making our footprint in our community known, that’s so much more than construction.”
Assistant sales manager Anayo Onyi added, “Stonewater means, to me, that you can start out in a not-so-favorable position, with not all the opportunity and not all the optimism, and you can work hard, transition, overcome and help build something great — be a part of something great.”
“We want you to grow with us,” said CEO and founder Roland Browne.
Stonewater Roofing is now hiring in Tyler, Longview and the DFW area. Employees are offered healthcare and retirement benefits — and this applies to all positions from sales and project management to invoicing and marketing.
Click here to apply now!
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Learn to manage yourself effectively, and you'll be positioned to help people on your team and throughout your organization manage themselves better--for the benefit of all. This 25-article collection, curated by our editors, includes the best recent research on managing yourself published by Harvard Business Review. Written on topics ranging from establishing a better sense of self-awareness and applying best practices for stress management, to creating a healthy work-life balance for a more rewarding career, each article includes discussion questions to help you facilitate the conversations that will bring change to you, your team, and your organization.
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Revolting Cocks, (Let's Get) Physical: We need your help!
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Revolting Cocks, also known as RevCo, was an American–Belgian industrial rock band and sometime supergroup from Chicago, Illinois, United States that began as a musical side-project in 1985 for Richard 23 of Front 242, Luc Van Acker, and Al Jourgensen of Ministry.
The group was founded by Richard 23 and Luc Van Acker with Al Jourgensen as their producer. According to Jourgensen, the band got their name after a fight in a Chicago bar in 1983. Jourgensen, Richard 23 and Luc Van Acker celebrated the formation of the new band with a few drinks. Read Full BioRevolting Cocks, also known as RevCo, was an American–Belgian industrial rock band and sometime supergroup from Chicago, Illinois, United States that began as a musical side-project in 1985 for Richard 23 of Front 242, Luc Van Acker, and Al Jourgensen of Ministry.
The group was founded by Richard 23 and Luc Van Acker with Al Jourgensen as their producer. According to Jourgensen, the band got their name after a fight in a Chicago bar in 1983. Jourgensen, Richard 23 and Luc Van Acker celebrated the formation of the new band with a few drinks. The evening then ended up in a brawl, with bar stools being thrown through the establishment's windows. As he was throwing the trio out, the owner, a man Jourgensen recalls was named Dess, shouted, "I'm calling the police! You guys are a bunch of revolting cocks!" The trio subsequently decided to use the name for their band.
Their first release was No Devotion on Wax Trax! Records in 1985. The single was quickly followed by an album, Big Sexy Land (1986), featuring a mix of industrial, hard rock, and EBM with dominating sampling and strong synthesized beats.
Losing Richard 23 due to creative differences, the group's remaining two members were augmented by a rapidly changing set of musicians centered on Chris Connelly (Cocksure, Bells Into Machines, Murder Inc., and Damage Manual), Paul Barker (Ministry, Lead Into Gold, Flowering Blight, and Bells Into Machines), and Bill Rieflin (Ministry, Pigface, R.E.M., and King Crimson), with around twenty others as irregular contributors or guest artists.
The following live album, You Goddamned Son of a Bitch (1988), featured a return to Ministry-like industrial rock - the Big Sexy Land tracks embedded in shouting and noise. This trend continued on Beers, Steers, and Queers (1990), layering sample over sample and pushing ever further into distortion. Linger Ficken' Good (1993) was released by Sire Records and was a tamer affair, most tracks returning to the less layered material. Included was a cover of Rod Stewart's "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?," also released as a single. A tour was planned but cancelled, and the band quietly came to an end in 1994.
In 2004, Jourgensen and Phildo Owens (Skatenigs, Snow Black) revived the group. They released an album entitled Cocked and Loaded (2006). Caliente (Dark Entries), a cover of sorts of Dark Entries by Bauhaus, with vocalist Gibby Haynes (Butthole Surfers), was featured on the soundtrack to Saw II in 2005.
After assembling a touring line up to open for Ministry on the MasterBaTour of 2006, Jourgensen chose vocalist Josh Bradford (Stayte, Simple Shelter, V.H.S.), keyboardist Clayton Worbeck (Stayte, Simple Shelter), and guitarist Sin Quirin (Society 1, Ministry and ReVamp) as the new full-time members for the Revolting Cocks, now simply being called RevCo. The group recorded Sex-O Olympic-O and officially released the album on March 3, 2009. It was followed up by the last RevCo album Got Cock?, released on April 13, 2010.
In celebration of Wax Trax! Records, the "Wax Trax! Records Retrospectacle: 33 1/3 Year Anniversary" was held from April 15-17, 2011 at the Metro in Chicago, Illinois, United States. As a part of the lineup, Chris Connelly, Paul Barker and Luc Van Acker performed Revolting Cocks songs with various guests. For their performance on the 17th, Richard 23 joined them on stage to sing lead vocals on No Devotion.
In 2014, Chris Connelly and Jason Novak (Acumen Nation, DJ? Acucrack, Iron Lung Corp) formed Cocksure, a project that bridges the gap between Wax Trax! era industrial dance music and the future sounds of mass corruption. The project is very influenced by the early RevCo sound, and has been described as "where the Revolting Cocks left off in 1994."
Previous Members:
Al Jourgensen - production, programming, and various instruments (1985–1993, 2004–2010)
Luc Van Acker - vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards (1985–1991, 2006)
Richard 23 - vocals, programming (1985–1986)
Bill Rieflin - drums, keyboards, programming (1986–1993)
Paul Barker - bass, keyboards, programming (1987–1993)
Chris Connelly - vocals, programming (1987–1993)
Phildo Owen - vocals, programming (1989–1991, 2004–2006)
Duane Buford - keyboards (1993)
Josh Bradford - vocals (2006–2010)
Sin Quirin - guitars, bass, keyboards (2006–2010)
Clayton Worbeck - keyboards, bass (2006–2010)
Live Lineups:
--------- 1987 ---------
Al Jourgensen - keyboards, vocals, guitar
Paul Barker - bass, keyboards
Luc Van Acker - guitar, bass, vocals, keyboards
Chris Connelly - vocals, keyboards
Bill Rieflin - drums
Nivek Ogre - vocals
Al Jourgensen - guitar, backing vocals
Paul Barker - bass
Chris Connelly - vocals
Phildo Owen - vocals
Jeff Ward - drums
Mark Durante - guitar, backing vocals
Michael Balch - keyboards
Kevin "Doc" Sullivan - keyboards, backing vocals
Trent Reznor - vocals
Luc Van Acker - vocals
--------- 2006 (Ministry's MasterBaTour) ---------
Josh Bradford - vocals
Sin Quirin - guitar
Clayton Worbeck - keyboards
Anna K - bass
Seven Antonopoulos - drums
--------- 2009 (Ministry's LubricaTour) ---------
Clayton Worbeck - keyboards, guitar
Murv Douglas - bass
Aaron Rossi - drums
Mike Scaccia - guitar (selected dates)
--------- 2011 (Wax Trax! Retrospectacle - April 15-17) ---------
Duane Buford - keyboards
Jamie Duffy - guitar
Dan Brill - drums
Richard 23 - vocals
1985 - No Devotion (single)
1986 - Big Sexy Land (LP)
1986 - You Often Forget (single)
1988 - You Goddamned Son of a Bitch (live)
1989 - Stainless Steel Providers (single)
1989 - (Let’s Get) Physical (single)
1990 - Beers, Steers, and Queers (LP)
1991 - Beers, Steers, and Queers (The Remixes) (single)
1993 - Linger Ficken' Good (LP)
1993 - Do Ya Think I’m Sexy? (single)
1994 - Crackin’ Up (single)
2006 - Cocked and Loaded (LP)
2007 - Cocktail Mixxx (remix)
2009 - Sex-O Olympic-O (LP)
2009 - Sex-O Mixxx-O (remix)
2010 - Got Cock? (LP)
2011 - Got Mixxx (remix)
01Beers, Steers & Queers5:44
02(Let's Get) Physical4:21
03In the Neck5:32
04Get Down13:40
05Stainless Steel Providers6:02
06Can't Sit Still5:31
07Something Wonderful4:32
08Razor's Edge4:45
09(Let's Talk) Physical10:14
by Revolting Cocks
I'm sayin' all the things that I know you'll like
Making good conversation I gotta handle you just right, you know what I mean
I took you to an intimate restaurant, then to a suggestive movie
There's nothing left to talk about 'less it's horizontally
Let's get physical, physical, I wanna get physical, let's get into physical
Let me hear your body talk, your body talk, let me hear your body talk
I've been patient, I've been good, try'n to keep my hands on the table
It's gettin' hard this holdin' back, you know what I mean
I'm sure you'll understand my point of view, we know each other mentally
You've gotta know that you're bringin' out the animal in me
Oh let's get physical, physical, I wanna get physical, let's get into physical
Let's get animal, animal, I wanna get animal, let's get into animal
Let me hear your body talk, let me hear your body talk
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Written by: STEPHEN KIPNER, STEPHEN ALAN KIPNER, TERRY SHADDICK
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Revolting Cocks (London 1991) [03]. Let's get Physical
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The (Revolting)Cocks- Let's Get Physical.
Revolting Cocks - Animal Nation (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED) - Industrial Accident Soundtrack
Revolting Cocks: Physical live
Revolting Cocks: (Let’s Get) Physical
Revolting Cocks - Physical (live 11/18/17)
The Revolting Cocks 09 (Let's Get) Physical (O2 Islington Academy London 26/08/2017)
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Revolting Cocks – (Let's Get) Physical
Beers, Steers & Queers (Drop Your Britches Mix)
The Cocks - (Let's Get) Physical (Revolting Cocks)
Revolting Cocks - (Let's Get) Physical (Live in Retie, 03/06/2017)
The (Revolting) Cocks - Physical (Cold Waves V - Sept. 24/2016)
The Cocks ( Revolting Cocks ) - (Let's Get) Physical 09/17/16
Revolting Cocks - Do Ya think I'm Sexy?
Revolting Cocks - Gila Copter (Version 2)
Revolting Cocks - Trojan Horse
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The Cocks - Ex Revolting Cocks Members - Physical - ColdWaves - Chicago
Revolting Cocks (London 1991) [01]. Beers, Steers & Queers (Drop Your Britches version)
Revco "(Let's get) Physical"
Revolting Cocks (live) -Tampa, FL (2016)- Physical (partial)
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This one goes straight to the Gracious Plenty Hall of Fame
By sookieverseblog 57 Comments
Categories: Dead in the Family - Book 10, Sex in Sookieverse and Southern Vampire Mysteries
Tags: Charlaine Harris, DITF, Sookie & Eric
Way back when, we had Sookie’s “quivering puppies waiting to be petted”.
Then, we had Eric as “deep inside as he could get without an operation”.
And now…NOW…we have this. Sookie’s latest hilarious attempt at worshipping the GP, which I hereby induct into Sookieverse canon as the most cringeworthy line in Book 10.
Are you ready? Here it comes.
“That looks painful. Do you want me to NURSE IT?”
FUCKING WHAT?
Sookie, my love. The Gracious Plenty is not a fucking disease. You don’t nurse it. You GET ON THAT pronto. Stop asking stupid questions.
Three years of hot vampire sex, and you still sound like a virgin on prom night.
Oh, Charlaine.
Ten books down, and your sex scenes are still like bad 70’s porn – I hear the music, I know what’s coming….and I still can’t tear myself away.
But I still love you. Both of you.
And now I go back to trying to cut my review of DITF down to a length you guys can read without taking a day off work.
Sorry, I needed a distraction.
I Could Never Read The Shower Scene Aloud
Categories: Dead to the World - Book 4, Random, Sex in Sookieverse, Shameless Fangirling, Sookie & Eric and video
Tags: Charlaine Harris, Sookie & Eric, Southern Vampire Mysteries, video
No, Charlaine. Just NO.
You all know how much I love these books. You know that I do.
Love them as I may, sometimes Charlaine writes sentences that still make me cringe and giggle even though I have read them so many times I’ve lost count. If you’ve ever freaked out (and I know you have) at Charlaine likening Sookie’s breasts to quivering puppies, at the repeated offence of using the word “topography” in a sex scene, or at her disturbing fondness for bestowing pet names on Eric’s dick – then you might get a laugh out of this.
Bradeatspeeps is a big fan of the books, and True Blood. When True Blood is airing she posts weekly episode recaps on her LiveJournal. I read these at work with my office door closed, so that my howling can’t be heard in the hallway. I’ve been known to totally stalk her LJ – I just love her sense of humour and her take on the series and characters. It doesn’t hurt either that she shares my love for a certain tall, blonde swede.
You can read her recap of Timebomb – the second most awesome episode of True Blood ever – here.
Anyway, she has some “issues” with both Charlaine’s writing style and saying sexy words, so a friend dared her to read aloud this most revered piece of Sookie/Eric canon…filled with dirty words, cringe inducing sexual metaphors, and primal lust. This video is the result.
This is so hilarious to me because I just know that if I ever attempted to do this, I’d be squirming as badly as she is. I think I have a sick sense of humour.
Loved by a Vampire – The Afterglow
Categories: Character & Plot Analysis, Sex in Sookieverse and Southern Vampire Mysteries
Tags: Southern Vampire Mysteries
For the last week or so we’ve been getting slightly hot and bothered around here as we explore Bill and Eric’s sexual behaviour and what it reveals about their character, their relationship with Sookie, and their role in the story generally.
In two previous posts we looked at how each vampire initiates lovemaking with Sookie, and also how they behave during the act itself.
Today it’s time to stifle those hormones, calm down a bit and snuggle up close. It’s time to bask in the afterglow.
THE AFTERGLOW – BILL
In putting together some Bill and Sookie afterglow material to explore, I was immediately struck by something I hadn’t even noticed as I read the books – there isn’t very much of it.
In comparison to the Eric love scenes which contain pages of action and dialogue, the Bill scenes are short, and they often miss bits. For example, Charlaine Harris will show us the initiation and the act, but leave out what happens after. Or she will just start the scene after the sex is over, with Bill and Sookie talking. Charlaine says she doesn’t include anything superfluous to the story – everything that is in the books is there because it’s relevant; and if it’s not there, it’s not important to the plot or Sookie’s story.
I find this little tidbit noteworthy, and you should bear it in mind as you read through this piece.
Surely, I thought, there must be lots of warm and glowy talk after Bill and Sookie’s first love scene, right? It was Sookie’s very first time after all. Even though I couldn’t immediately recall a monumental conversation, I was fairly confident that I must have just forgotten it.
After finding the scene in my copy of DUD, it turns out that Sookie’s first pillow talk is marked by a comparatively brief exchange during which Sookie confirms to Bill that he is her first, and Bill reassures her about her lack of experience, and confides that she is the first virgin he has been with since his wife.
DEAD UNTIL DARK
Finally Bill moved to lie beside me, propped on one elbow, and he put his hand over my stomach.
“I am the first.”
“Oh Sookie,” He bent to kiss me, his lips tracing the line of my throat.
“You could tell I don’t know much,” I said shyly. “But was that alright for you? I mean, about on a par with other women at least? I’ll get better.”
“You can get more skilled Sookie, but you can’t get any better.” He kissed me on the cheek. “You’re wonderful.”
Sookie then suggests that Bill use some of his blood to heal her lady bits and Bill is pretty well up for that. It’s kind of hot, if you like that sort of thing. And brief – less than half a page. Bill is well behaved, which you would expect if he ever wants to get sex again. It’s all relatively normal. Well, as far as losing your virginity to a vampire can be considered “normal”.
There is no real afterwards conversation to speak of, but otherwise it was kind of sweet, right?
Let it never be said that I fail to give credit where it’s due.
Moving on, the next time Sookie and Bill make love we are at Bill’s house. We get the initiation – and nothing else. Oh c’mon Charlaine, that is just mean! Let’s try again.
Night three after Sookie gives it up. We miss the initiation, and we miss the act as well. We pick up the action with Bill and Sookie lying in bed afterwards, talking. The subject? Nasty Uncle Bartlett. Bill opens the conversation by asking Sookie if she has ever played “show me yours” with Jason, and shares an incident from his childhood when his brother and sister were caught doing this by their mother.
So far so good. Bill is sharing! The topic is…well, odd. But he is sharing.
Bill then begins to sense Sookie’s discomfort at the turn of the conversation, and manages to extract from her the story of her molestation as a five year old by Bartlett. Listening to Sookie tell the tale, it’s clear that he’s pissed as hell. But I can let that slide, since most any boyfriend would react from the gut in the same circumstances.
So the scene concludes, and I’m thinking “Hey! That was good for Sookie! She confided something deep and private and got things off her chest, and Bill listened attentively and acted like a nice caring boyfriend. These two might just have a shot.” Of course, this was early days – and I didn’t really know Bill.
Tell me, did it even occur to any of you that Bill would get on the phone and arrange a hit on the old fella as soon as Sookie fell asleep? Old Uncle B is drained dry by the time the sun comes up and I am picking my jaw up off the floor. The reality of what Sookie has invited into her life hit me full in the face.
Bill!?! What the FUCK?! In her newly sexed up hormonal fog, she trusted you with something huge. And you just ruined it all! RUINED IT. You really have no idea, do you?
Maybe things will improve in the next book?
Sookie tells Bill her deepest, darkest secret. Bill broods. Bill does something stupid. The End.
LIVING DEAD IN DALLAS
The frequency of Sookie and Bill’s sex really hits the downhill slide in LDID – perhaps because there is so much going on around them, or perhaps CH is deliberately setting up for Bill’s emotional withdrawal at the beginning of Club Dead. I suspect it’s a bit of both.
The first sex scene in LDID is interrupted by Eric before it really gets started (though Bill, true to form manages to get in some panty ripping to kick things off. This allows Eric to later find Sookie’s undies in pieces on the floor, and Alpha all over him. As he does.) By the time they get rid of Eric and get busy again, Charlaine is bored and we are cut off as Bill “bends his head to other things”. No afterglow here. No sex on page either for that matter.
“Things” are heading decidedly pear shaped between Bill and Sookie by the time we get our first post coital scene, well over three quarters of the way into LDID.
When he collapsed on top of me, I was exhausted…
…”Are you okay?” he mumbled.
“Except for having run into a brick wall a few times,” I said, indistinctly.
We both drifted off to sleep for a little, though Bill woke first as he always did at night.
“Sookie,” he said quietly. “Darling wake up.”
“Oo”, I said, slowly coming to consciousness. For the first time in weeks, I woke with the hazy conviction that all was right with the world. With slow dismay, I realised things were far from right…
“We have to talk”, he said…
“So talk.” I was awake now. What I was regretting was not the sex, but having to discuss the issues between us.
What they talk about, at length, is Bill’s self control issues (oh yes, this again) and specifically his inability to restrain himself from eating the FOTS people after the shoot out. Of course he has a good reason for this, and we all know what’s coming. He is VAMPIRE. Just in case we forgot.
The discussion then briefly turns to Bill’s parading around Bon Temps with Portia Bellefleur to make Sookie jealous. Finally, Eric gets a look in as Bill furthers his “Make Sookie Think Eric Is The Devil” agenda in a post-bullet sucking scare campaign.
I guess Sookie and Bill are having some problems, because this isn’t very warm and fuzzy. It is also the last time Bill and Sookie have consensual sex on the page. Charlaine has had enough of this mess, and so have we.
In the immortal words of Everclear – “So much for the afterglow”.
THE AFTERGLOW – ERIC
Comparing Bill and Eric’s behaviour after sex? Night, meet day. The differences are stark, and I know I’m harping on this but I just cannot fathom how Charlaine could be writing Eric’s sex scenes with such detail and completeness and glossing over everyone else’s, unless she has a purpose in mind. Namely, to hook the reader on Eric. As usual we have lots of talking, playful banter, touching and holding, and eye contact. Is that getting boring yet?
From Eric and Sookie’s first love scene it was clear that in Eric, we were not getting a roll over and fall asleep kind of guy. DTTW Eric is not his complete self – however he is operating from his core, instinctive being. Since sexual behaviours are instinctive, I’ve always felt that Eric’s sexual behaviour in DTTW was probably not far off the mark for how “real” Eric would behave. It took five more books before we got any real Eric sex to judge whether that assessment was correct, and I think it was. Eric’s sexual behaviour in DAG really isn’t much different to that of DTTW. As it has remained throughout the previous two stages, his afterwards MO is consistent over both books…and of course it involves every hot move known to man, and some that most men have no clue about.
“Tell me about us. How long have I known you?”..
…“I’m cold,” I said gently, and he let me lie beside him, pulling the covers up over us. I propped myself up on one elbow and he lay on his side, so we were facing each other. “Let me think. I met you last year at Fangtasia, the vampire bar you own in Shreveport. And by the way, the bar got attacked today. Last night. I’m sorry, I should have told you that first, but I’ve been so worried about my brother.”
“I want to hear about today, but give me our background first. I find myself mightily interested.”
He was holding me, and my head was on his shoulder. I murmured into his neck, “You are so beautiful.”….
…“What part do you like best?” he asked, his voice teasing.
“Oh, your butt,” I said instantly.
“My… bottom?”
“I would have thought of another part.”
“Well, that’s certainly… adequate,” I told him, burying my face in his chest. I knew immediately
I’d picked the wrong word.
“Adequate?” He took my hand, placed it on the part in question. It immediately began to stir. He moved my hand on it, and I obligingly circled it with my fingers. “This is adequate?”
“Maybe I should have said it’s a gracious plenty?”
“A gracious plenty. I like that,” he said.
I love this passage, it demonstrates perfectly the playful flirtation that has always characterised Eric and Sookie’s relationship. From the very beginning they’ve played off each other, openly teased and flirted, and shared a sense of humour no one else around them seems to understand. Even Bill admits they’re compatible and very alike in DAAD. They bring that playfulness into their lovemaking, and there are numerous examples of their sexual banter through out the books, not all of it occurring in the bedroom:
Lest we part on too lovey-dovey a note, I said, “Eric, when I’m back to being myself, I’m going to nail your ass for putting me in this position of being pledged to you.”
“Darling, you can nail my ass anytime,” he said charmingly, and turned to go back to his table.
Jeez! They're at it again! All lovey dovey, and touchy, and gazing into eachother's eyes. Laughing, talking...acting like a goddamn married couple. Get a room!
This time Sookie is the one to get the conversational ball rolling, before dodging out when Eric completely blindsides her with an unexpected offer:
“Can I tell you what happened today?” I asked after we’d drowsed for a few minutes.
“Of course, my lover.” His eyes were half open. He was lying on his back beside me, and the
room smelled of sex and vampire. “I’m all ears—for the moment, at least.” He laughed.
…Eric was a good listener, at least in his postcoital relaxed state.
So off I babbled like a brook in the spring, telling him about my rendezvous with Claude and
Claudine and all they’d told me about Breandan and Dermot.
This conversation is very long and covers alot of emotional ground. While it began blandly enough with Sookie relating her encounters with some nasty fairies, things soon moved into heady emotional territory. Pretending to be acting out of concern for her safety (while we are all thinking what a big fat liar he is), Eric asks Sookie to leave Bon Temps and stay with him in Shreveport. Sookie immediately panics that she’ll end up fessing up her feelings before she’s sure that they’re reciprocated, and starts putting up her brick wall at lightening speed. Eric keeps trying, coming closer than he’s ever been to telling her exactly how he feels about her. Sookie – who obviously has no idea when to shut up – tells him not to even go there. They then discuss her feelings for Quinn, Andre’s final death, the blood bond and Eric turning her…even the L word is raised, in a roundabout fashion. This was a landmark conversation for a couple whose ability to dodge emotional issues is the stuff of Sookieverse legend.
The reversal of “traditional” roles in this scene is striking. It is Eric who ends up laying himself emotionally bare in this scene, albeit unwittingly. He displays the kind of emotional vulnerability traditionally associated with the woman in a relationship that is still finding its feet. Sookie behaves more like a man; rambling about her orgasms, closing down his attempts to discuss their feelings and leaving him completely confused as he tries to work out what she needs from him – [“What are you after?”]
Along with their talk at Fangtasia earlier in the book during which Eric shared the details of his human life, his turning and his maker, this pillow talk certainly stands as a milestone in their relationship. Eric put more out there emotionally in Dead and Gone than he has in all eight previous books combined. The vampire quite obviously has it bad.
Finally, with dawn approaching Eric leaves for Shreveport:
He bent to kiss me, and I put my arms around his neck. For a second, I knew he was thinking of crawling back in the bed with me; I hoped it was his body language and his murmur of pleasure that cued me to his thoughts….
“I want you again,” he said, sounding a little surprised. “But I have to go.”
“I’ll see you soon, I guess?” I was awake enough to feel uncertain.
“Yes,” he said. His eyes were bright and his skin glowed. The mark on his wrist was gone. I touched where it had been. He leaned over to kiss the place on my neck where he’d bitten me, and I shivered all over. “Soon.”
This exchange is so incredibly…human. I love that she knew what he was thinking as he was saying goodbye – was she reading his mind as she has done briefly in the past? Was it the effects of the blood bond? Or was it nothing more complicated or magical than a “knowing” we all experience at some time – the knowing that comes with feeling a deep emotional connection with the person we love.
VERBS AND ADJECTIVES
Bill Scenes: kiss, tracing, shyly, skilled, wonderful, indistinctly, drifted, hazy, dismay, regretting, sex, discuss.
Eric Scenes: tell, gently, interested, holding, beautiful, teasing, burying, stir, drowsed, lover, laughed, relaxed, babbled, kiss, murmur, pleasure, want, uncertain, touched, shivered.
Loved by a Vampire – The Act
Tags: Bill, Eric, Sookie, SVM Conspiracies
In the first of three posts looking at Bill and Eric’s sexual behaviour and what it may reveal about their character and their vampiric nature, we took apart the MO used by each vampire to initiate sex and noted several stark differences in their approaches.
Today in the second post I’m getting down and dirty. It’s time to get these vampires between the sheets to see what they can do.
I would like to state for the record that writing these posts has given me the best excuse ever to pore all over the steamy bits of my books again…as if I really needed an excuse. I did, however, need to explain to my husband why my whole SVM series is sprawled around my desk with all the sex scenes dog eared and notes scrawled through them. Being a dirty perv in the name of research certainly sounds better than being…well, just a dirty perv.
And on that note, we shall begin. With an apology for the epic length.
THE ACT – BILL
Bill and Sookie have a number of sexual encounters during which the tone of Sookie’s narration is generally…well, harrowing.
Dead Until Dark (graveyard scene)
..I could feel the turmoil in him, I could taste his rage.
Directing that energy in another way might save me. I leaned that inch, put my mouth on his chest…
The next moment his teeth grazed my shoulder, and his body, hard and rigid and ready, shoved me so forcefully I was suddenly on my back in the mud. He slid directly into me as if he were trying to reach through me to the soil…
I had thought he might kill me without meaning to.
His hands were under my sweater and my bra was in two pieces. He was relentless. I almost collapsed after the first time I came. “No” he growled when I was flagging, and he kept pounding. Then he increased the pace until I was almost sobbing, my sweater tore and his teeth found my shoulder. He made a deep, awful sound, and then, after long seconds, it was over.”
The first passage above from DUD is borderline rape. Sookie initiates sex with Bill sensing that he has completely lost control and that she is in immediate and serious danger. This scene is actually an interesting precursor to the trunk rape. In the trunk rape scenario, the defence centres around the fact that Bill had been tortured and starved and that he never would have done it in his right mind. I call bullshit. In this scene we see a well fed, untortured Bill in his right mind on the verge of raping Sookie or worse, because he cannot control his urges. Naturally a tortured and starved Bill can control them even less, however this scene demonstrates that the issue exists long before Sookie ends up locked in a trunk with him. Bill has self control issues and Harris deliberately points it out, over and over again.
In the second passage, Sookie almost sounds like she is relaying her grocery list rather than describing an intimate interaction with her boyfriend. Her voice is detached and I think that is meant to clue us into where she is mentally. What is noteworthy is not just the fact that this is rough sex – since there are other times that Sookie enjoys Bill’s “intensity” and what goes on between consenting adults is their business. But what I notice about some of these scenes is how at first Sookie is generally consenting and comfortable with what’s happening, as she is in this scene until she orgasms. Then Bill crosses a line, and Sookie often doesn’t speak up. I wonder whether this is a combination of her sexual inexperience in these earlier books, and her history of sexual abuse. Regardless, Bill crosses her line…and then he just keeps right on going.
A common coping mechanism adopted by victims of sexual abuse is to “leave their bodies” during the experience. As a victim of childhood sexual abuse, it’s reasonable to assume that as an adult, Sookie’s response to aggressive sexual behaviour is to just “mentally check out” – and this perhaps goes some way to explain her tone in these scenes, and also why she doesn’t put up more of a fight when Bill loses control. Her fear, or discomfort about what is happening is easily detected by the reader through her narration, even when she isn’t verbalising it to Bill.
The lack of dialogue noted between Sookie and Bill in the initiation stage continues through the act itself. Unless they’re communicating immediate physical needs, they use only their bodies to communicate during sex. The act is often brief, intense…and mostly silent. Kind of like Bill. Bill/Sookie sex involves very little eye contact, however Bill’s penchant for taking her from behind, bent over something or in darkened cars, porches and graveyards would seem to make eye contact a challenge.
Look behind you Sookie! He's BEHIND YOU! And what's with the arm grabbing? We CU Beel...
Now I do realise that Sookie and Bill have a couple of sex scenes during which Bill manages to behave himself – they aren’t all as dark as the examples above. But even in their “lighter” scenes, I still feel a vibe from Bill that I just find unsettling. Witness his vengeful fit killing of Uncle Bartlett after Sookie shared something private with him in her post coital glow. Sookie is not very impressed with this and she dumps him. No sooner are the words out of her mouth and he’s trying to have sex with her. Again. Really, Bill?
It was at about this point I realised I was utterly and completely over Bill Compton.
Interestingly, there aren’t any dark sex scenes with Eric. Could it be that Harris doesn’t really want us to think he’s the bad guy, after all?
THE ACT – ERIC
Ladies, hold onto your panties. Gentlemen, you may wish to take notes.
I was so on fire for him I was surprised that flames didn’t flicker out of my fingertips. I curled my fingers around him and stroked.
Suddenly Eric was on top of me, about to enter. I was exhilarated and very ready. I reached between us to put him at just the right spot, rubbing the tip of him over my nub as I did so.
“My lover,” he said hoarsely, and pushed.
Though I’d been sure I was prepared, and I ached with wanting him, I cried out with the shock of it.
After a moment, he said, “Don’t close your eyes. Look at me, lover.”
The way he said “lover” was like a caress, like he was calling me by a name no other man had ever used before or ever would after.
His fangs were completely extended and I stretched up to run my tongue over them.
Fangs....so pretty....sigh...what was I saying? Oh yes - I hold some hope for True Blood watching the two dream sequences. They captured the spirit of E/S perfectly.
His jeans were off, and his shirt, too, and my panties vanished. His long cool body pressed full length against my warm one. He kissed me over and over in a kind of frenzy. He made a hungry noise, and I echoed it. His fingers probed me, fluttering against the hard nub in a way that made me squirm.
“Eric,” I said, trying to position myself underneath him. “Now.”
He said, “Oh, yes.” He slid inside as if he’d never been gone, as if we’d made love every night for the past year.
“This is best,” he whispered, and his voice had that accent I caught occasionally, that hint of a time and place that were so far distant I could not imagine them.
“This is best ,” he said again. “This is right .”
I rose and fell faster and faster, and then I took his wrist, and I bit with all my strength, sucked on the wound. He yelled, an incoherent sound of release and relief. That was enough to finish me, and I collapsed on top of him. I licked his wrist lazily, though I didn’t have the coagulant in my saliva that he possessed.
“Perfect,” he said. “Perfect.”
Let us take a moment to collect ourselves before continuing.
Because I am very fucking distracted.
The first thing I notice about Eric and Sookie’s sex scenes is the complete change of tone in Sookie’s narration. She is very much present, physically and emotionally in every scene and there is not a hint of the mental detachment so often evident with Bill. The Eric scenes are quite long – the DTTW scene runs for 8 pages, and the scene in DAG for 15 pages. In contrast to the Bill/Sookie scenes, none of which are anywhere near as lengthy, Sookie describes the actual events, what is said, what she’s thinking, how Eric is reacting, and her feelings in great detail. You certainly don’t feel as though she’s rattling off her grocery list when she’s relating sex with Eric. Sookie (*ahem* Charlaine) makes sure we get every…single…juicy…detail. I wonder why she thinks we’d need to know all of that about Eric, but not about Bill? Or Quinn for that matter.
Just as we saw in the initiation post, as they move onto the act itself E/S remain physically on level with each other, they are always face to face, always in eye contact, and they are talking to each other throughout. No one partner is ever dominant – in both scenes, they make love twice. The first time is more intense and Eric takes the lead. The second time is always slower, with Eric noticeably stepping back and encouraging Sookie to take things where she wants to. Sookie tends to play a wait and see game a little in bed with Eric. She takes her cues from him – then she responds fully when she’s confident she’s not misreading him. I think this springs from her still not understanding what he might see in her beyond her telepathy and fae blood, and her intimidation by the extent of his experience over hers – something she comments on often. He seems to be aware of these feelings, and appears to be trying to encourage her.
In Dead to the World, Sookie reflects on her first time with Eric: “It wasn’t just the dynamic sex that had given me so much pleasure (though that had contained moments I’d remember till the day I died); it was the companionship. Actually, the intimacy”. In contrast to Bill, Eric actually initiates a lot of the more intimate aspects of their encounters – asking her to look him at him rather than close her eyes, asking her to bite him just because it feels good, asking her to tell him about their history when he lost his memory. These behaviours indicate to me that Eric understands women. Not only does he understand them, but he genuinely likes women. He chose to turn a woman as his companion in Pam, after all. While I’m under no illusions that he doesn’t rate himself in the sack, I think it’s clear from these scenes that sex for him is as much about making Sookie happy as it is about his own satisfaction. I don’t feel this is necessarily the norm for him anymore – vampire that he is – which makes it even more fascinating to see this side of him reawakened through her.
Far beyond two people having sex, Eric and Sookie are most certainly making love.
Eric scenes: fire, stroked, exhilarated, ready, lover, pushed, ached, wanting, shock, caress, stretched, kissed, frenzy, hungry, probed, fluttering, squirm, made love, best, right, whispered, release, relief, bit, kissed, licked, lazily, perfect.
Bill scenes: relentless, collapsed, growled, came, no, flagging, pounded, sobbing, tore, awful, turmoil, rage, grazed, hard, rigid, shoved, forcefully, slid, kill.
So are we seeing a pattern here yet?
NEXT POST: Loved by a Vampire – The Afterglow
Loved by a Vampire – The Initiation
For nine books now, most of us have probably argued the suitor pros and cons back and forth on forums, made lists, traded insults and experienced dark moments of doubt in the great “Suitor Debate”.
Personality flaws and attributes have been endlessly dissected in an effort to determine the best partner for Sookie. Sexual behaviour is a reflection of personality, and we can tell a great deal about a person – and a relationship – from what goes down in the bedroom.
With that in mind, I thought it could be interesting to compare Bill and Eric’s sexual behaviour and the way they relate to Sookie in bed. One way to do this is to break the sex scenes down into phases – the initiation, the act, and the afterglow.
INITIATION – BILL
As the younger vampire, Bill has more issues with self control [both in and out of bed] than Eric does, but I don’t think this is solely due to his age. His personality is generally dark, secretive and more introverted than Eric’s and I think this is expressed most clearly in the way he relates to Sookie sexually.
From the outset it is clear that Bill has alot of trouble reigning himself in when it comes to sex. His approach to initiating it is often intense and very physical:
Dead Until Dark:
He scooted across the seat towards me, his arms scooping me up before I could say anything else. Then his mouth was on mine and after a second his tongue began licking the blood from my face.
I was really scared. I was also really angry. I grabbed his ears and pulled his head away from mine using every ounce of strength I possessed…
His eyes were like caves with ghosts dwelling in their depths.
“Bill!” I shrieked. I shook him. “Snap out of it!”
Living Dead in Dallas:
“As I unlocked the front door, Bill came out of the darkness. Without a word he grabbed my arm and turned me to him…we stumbled into the house and he turned me to face the couch. I gripped it with my hands and, just as I’d imagined, he pulled down my pants and then he was in me.”
The Mood tends to take Bill quite suddenly, it overwhelms him often, and he really does have trouble controlling his urges. This would seem to be partly because he doesn’t really understand why he should have to. There is usually very little dialogue between him and Sookie – Bill is an Action Man – and sex is not usually preceeded by conversation or intimacy. A notable exception is the very first time when Bill shows up the evening of Gran’s funeral and proceeds to brush her hair like his dolly and talk with her a little about his human life. The time he chose to make his move, and the fact that Sookie gave it up to him that night makes the motivation for his sharing [which incidentally, never happens again] dubious. Although this scene appeared intimate on the surface I think it’s reasonable to question it, given that it doesn’t gel with his sexual behaviour thereafter.
Foreplay for Bill often includes a bit of underwear ripping and “manhandling”. I can think of at least three instances where Sookie’s underwear/clothing is ripped by Bill, and many more where he has physically handled her person. This happens both in and out of the bedroom.
And notice that I haven’t even mentioned the OTHER incident. Interestingly, it’s not even necessary to refer to that in order to flesh out Bill’s self control issues. They clearly still exist, even outside the gray area of the trunk.
Bill puts on his moves. On the porch, in the dark...as is his habit. Nice t-shirt Sook - that colour suits you very well...
INITIATION – ERIC
Eric approaches sex in a very different way to Bill, and his approach is consistent. Vampire he may be, but he demonstrates patience and self control that Bill either cannot muster, or has no desire to.
Club Dead
[Sookie wakes after the staking with Eric already in the bed beside her]
“Thank you Eric” I didn’t care for how shaky I sounded but an obligation was an obligation.
“For what?” His hand stroked my stomach.
“For standing by me in the club. For coming here with me. For not leaving me alone with all these people”.
“How grateful are you?” he whispered, his mouth hovering over mine. His eyes were very alert now, and his gaze was boring into mine….
“That kind of ruins it, when you say something like that,” I said, trying to keep my voice gentle. “You shouldn’t want me to have sex with you just because I owe you,”
“I don’t really care why you have sex with me, as long as you do it,” he said, equally gently.
…His mouth was on mine then…
Dead to the World:
“I’ll do that for you,” Eric said, pulling back the curtain to step into the shower with me…
…While I stood stock-still, paralyzed by conflicting waves of emotion, Eric took the soap out of my hands and lathered up his own…
“Have we ever made love?” he asked.
I shook my head, still unable to speak.
“Then I was a fool,” he said, moving one hand in a circular motion over my stomach. “Turn around, lover.”
Dead and Gone:
Then he got under the blanket with me and propped himself up on an elbow. He was looking down at me…
[Conversation about Quinn and Nevada]
“Then I am high handed.” Eric said with no shame whatsoever. “I’m also very . . .” He dipped his head and kissed me slowly, leisurely.
“Horny,” I said.
“Exactly,” he said, and kissed me again. …”It’s time I claimed what is mine.”
Reading these passages together, a pattern emerges. Eric has always initiated with Sookie in the same way. First, he makes his physical presence equal to hers [lying down in bed with her, lying down on the floor, getting into the shower with her]. This might be to make himself less physically threatening, or perhaps just a reflection of his desire for them to be on an even footing. It’s an interesting contrast to Bill – rather than using his body to put her at ease as Eric does, Bill uses his physical strength to dominate her and maneuver her body for his satisfaction. I always get the sense that Bill’s determination to satisfy Sookie is rooted in the desire to satisfy himself.
Eric’s next move is to emotionally engage through conversation. The talking leads into the sex and even though Eric initiates, Sookie is always in control of how far it goes. When she says stop, he does – without hesitation or sulking [recall CD when they are interrupted by Bubba, and LDID – “Yield to me, Sookie” and she says no.] He always initiates in a slow, non threatening way. He always makes sure that she knows she is in control. He always makes sure that she can see him coming.
He behaves as though he knows about Sookie’s childhood sexual abuse. But he doesn’t know. We also have no evidence that he knows about the rape – they have never discussed it on the page and while he would have seen that she’d been drained after getting her out of the trunk, it would not have been obvious that she had been raped. So we can only assume that Eric’s behaviour speaks of the man, rather than the circumstances.
From the small taste we’ve had of Dead in the Family, Sookie is physically battered and psychologically traumatised. Eric is continuing to show an awareness that Sookie needs to be the one to set the parameters of their sexual relationship. Sookie tells Amelia he had asked her several times if she was sure she wanted to engage in sex.
Compare Eric’s self restraint to this Bill/Sookie exchange in LDID:
He was ready again, and he was rough with it, as if he were trying to prove something.
“Be sweet,” I said, the first time I had spoken.
“I can’t. It’s been too long, next time I’ll be sweet, I swear”.
This is one of a number of examples of Sookie telling Bill no, slow down, stop, or be gentle and he is unable or unwilling to comply. He is VAMPIRE. He relishes his nature because it gives him an excuse to behave like an oaf. He constantly uses it to defend himself when his self control is lacking.
Eric makes a move. And look! They're holding hands and smiling! There's connection, there's intimacy...there's talking! OK it's a dream, but we all know that this was major foreshadowing. This is how Real Eric rolls.
It’s also interesting to compare the verbs and adjectives used in the selection of passages above, which are taken from different scenes and books.
Bill scenes: scooted, scooping, licking, scared, angry, grabbed, pulled, shrieked, shook, snap, stumble, gripped.
Eric scenes: stroked, whispered, hovering, gaze, gently, emotion, made love, lover, kissed, slowly, leisurely, mine.
CH’s choice of words sets the tone of the scenes, and sheds light on the nature of the relationships. Bill’s words convey the physicality and urgency of the sex and are a reflection of the essentially physical nature of he and Sookie’s relationship, and Bill’s lack of self control. Eric’s words are “relationship” words. They are words you find in love scenes, as opposed to sex scenes – and this is the case even as far back as Club Dead, before love was ever part of the equation for either of them.
Next: Loved by a Vampire – The Act
Book 10 – Eric/Sookie Nookie?
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Categories: Dead in the Family - Book 10, Sex in Sookieverse, Sookie & Eric and Southern Vampire Mysteries
Tags: DITF, SVM Spoilers
This post on EricNorthman.net caught my attention today. locketlove has some interesting spoilers for Dead in the Family (due out next May):
New info about DITF from CH (from Q&A at a ball in New Orleans on 10/30)
Claude will be in the book.
E/S are in a relationship, and there is an E/S sex scene.
Juicy!
If Claude is in Book 10, then he has remained behind after Niall closed the fae portal. The leaked synopsis for Book 10 states that Sookie will “come face to face with one of her more distant relatives” in the next book. Some have speculated this may be Dermott, her distant fae kin. Claude remaining in the human world certainly seems to indicate that the fae storyline is not dead after all.
And of course it’s nice to see CH confirm again that Sookie and Eric are in relationship as opposed to just having hot monkey sex. Of course we all know this domestic harmony won’t last long, but after nine books, I think we are owed at least a little quiet time with these two!
Update: The Eric/Sookie sex scene in DITF now confirmed by Charlaine during an interview with BlogTalkRadio.
Host: One of your fans wants to know if you’re willing to give a little tidbit about Eric in Book 10?
CH: [laughs loudly] That fan is not the only person who’s asked that!…
…What she really wants to know is “Will Eric and Sookie have sex in the next book” and yes, they will.
Host: Eric and Sookie will be doin’ it in Book 10…you heard it here first!
CH: Yes, they will.
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Do you design sound for video games as well as film and television?
How much of an overlap is there between the two industries? Some games companies promote the fact that their sound designers worked in the film industry. If you work in both industries what are the main similarities and differences? Obviously there is no re-recording stage, as everything is mixed on the fly, and there is no production sound, but foley and sound design appear, to an outsider, to be similar.
video-games sound-design foley film television
user80user80
My experiences in game sound design have often been more challenging than film, primarily due to the absence of a visual reference when creating individual sound events. In film you are almost always creating sounds to a fixed picture, be it a car chase, gun battle, etc, with cuts that don't vary in length . With games those situations are often dealt with in isolation from the picture. This happens in film as well, usually with CGI-heavy movies where the final graphics don't come in until much later, but generally the film picture is locked down.
This "in isolation" approach seems to exercise a different part of the creative brain process. It forces you to think in film terms (meaning "big", full-fidelity sounds associated with movie soundtracks) but create in the near-abstract. It's quite a different thing to create sound design from a list of 140 or so "sound emitters" than to a full-motion film reel.
Jay Jennings♦Jay Jennings
There is a huge part of game sound that is totally absent from traditional Audio Post: Implementation. It is huge and can take up more of the game sound designers time than the actual "asset creation" as it is called in games.
Example: Generic Gun
When the sound designer creates a gun sound, he doesn't know in advance at the time of firing, whether there are any bullets in the gun or how far the gun is from the 'listener' (usually but not always the camera), or if the player is in a cave or outside in a forest or if the player has added a silencer...
The game sends data to the Sound Engine (part of the game program responsible for playing back the sounds in-game) that affect the playback of the gun. That data includes, how far the gun is from the listener (fade up distant gun assets and fade down big boom and foley sounds), who is firing the gun (the Player's weapon is often beefier than enemy weapons to give the player a sense of power), is there any objects between the listener and the gun (obstruction and occlusion effects can be added), is the environment relevant (reverbs and echoes may be needed).
The sound designer creates Sound Cues (also called Sound Events and other things as well depending on the tools being used) that takes into consideration all possible combinations of situations and plays back something that (hopefully) fits the moment. Even simple Sound Cues can have a dozen or so WAV files associated. Complex Cues can have more than 50 WAVs.
That, for me is the biggest difference between game audio and traditional audio post.
Dave Rovin
David RovinDavid Rovin
That's not conceptually different from how sounds are created for any context. The tools may be different, and actually they are. – Internet Human Mar 19 '13 at 22:18
My understanding is that the two fields share some of the same techniques, but the motives for why those techniques are applied are completely different.
When you consider film, story and point of view is created by the writer & director and reinforced by every aspect of the film making process, in the aid of helping the audience emotionally engage & empathise with the characters....
In games there is only one point of view, the players... and (of course I am generalising but) games tend to be action based....
As a film sound designer I personally think I have more in common with film picture editors and directors, than I do with game sound designers
Check out this blog entry by Designing Sound: Games Meet Films: What the Two Industries Can Learn From Each Other
Andrew SpitzAndrew Spitz
One difference from what I have read from interviews or somewhere is the game sound designers who work on the big titles do programming. I'll work on finding a link, but I remember reading somewhere the guy was responsible for the implementation of the sounds in the game. Dsp was actually added after the fact according to the current surroundings in the game. He was also responsible for creating source sound files and fx for the game. With all of the layers of dsp added he commented that there could sometimes be over 100 iterations of an effect. In this way they were able to prevent the sounds from becoming stale while maintaining a small data footprint.
bpertbpert
Today the title needs to employ very advanced sound technology for that to be the case. And of course you would have to employ code-literate designers. Most simply use off-the-shelf tools and designers aren't expected to take on software development, because it's generally not their job. For a glimpse to the breadth of audio-related programming (when it's really taken "seriously"), see this: gameaudio101.com/Game-Audio-Programming.php – Internet Human Mar 19 '13 at 22:13
My partner and I have sound designed on a couple of XBOXLive/PSN titles, so I'm still fairly new to game sound design.
The largest difference in game sound as compared to film/TV that I've discovered is the limitations of dynamic range. The audio engine in our developer's game engine was extremely simple and fairly limited - generally one asset in, one sound out. In large titles I'm sure that audio engines are a lot more flexible in controlling the dynamic range and mixing of assets, but in my experience the developers wanted almost everything extremely loud and "in your face", which translated to compressing the audio to a point where there was almost no dynamic range at all.
Paul FonarevPaul Fonarev
At this point I've definitely had plenty of experience of game audio work. I work in house at a game developer as the audio designer. Iv also worked on about 4 films in my carrear tho I really prefer games. Just like mentioned before, games are interesting in the application of sound, and the non linear aspect as well. When creating a sound world, you have to expect sounds to come together many different ways. In game audio, you also have to consider making sounds rewarding for your players, Some sounds are heard often and cant be annoying, some sounds are heard seldom. Some sounds you might want the player to feel excited or joyous, and in others you want them to rip their hair out ;) (jk im not that evil)
The hardest part about game sounds, in my opinion is creating sounds that are tied to an action but dont really exist in the real world. whats the sound of a feather floating? or picking up an eraser and setting it down on a pillow? Those for me are the challenging aspects. especially if there is an emotions associated with those sounds. for example, the player is supposed to feel really excited when he places down the eraser.
Also there is the world the game is based in, the manifested sounds of previous examples change dramatically if the is game is based in a steam punk world, or an cartoon world, or in a 3d realistic world.
AmarAmar
Just like in animation or any fictional media/art piece. What you describe is not particular to games, just saying. – Internet Human Mar 19 '13 at 22:04
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Facebook removes ‘inauthentic behaviour’ targeting Donald Trump
Facebook has taken action against 'inauthentic behaviour' targeting UK and US officials
Facebook said it has taken action on "coordinated inauthentic behaviour" originating from Iran, which included accounts posting about the royal family and US President Donald Trump.
Some 51 Facebook accounts, 36 pages, seven groups and three Instagram accounts were removed, targeting public figures and politics in the UK and US, as well as Arab minorities in Iran and the influence of Saudi Arabia in the Middle East, the social network said.
A video of Mr Trump joining a ceremonial sword dance in Saudi Arabia was also distributed with suspected malicious intent.
Meanwhile, a photo of Princess Eugenie marrying Jack Brooksbank with homeless people edited into the image was used by one page, claiming that the princess "expects the taxpayer to subsidise her dream wedding, while food banks are over run", in an apparent attempt to stir up tensions among the British public.
One of the posts targeting Princess Eugenie
The people behind the activity misled people about who they are and their intentions, Facebook explained in a blog post, sometimes representing themselves as journalists.
"We're constantly working to detect and stop this type of activity because we don't want our services to be used to manipulate people," said Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook's head of cybersecurity.
"Policy, as is always the case with these takedowns, is we're removing these pages, groups and accounts based on their behaviour, not the content they posted."
Around 21,000 accounts followed one or more of the pages involved, while approximately 1,900 accounts joined one or more groups and about 2,600 followed at least one of the Instagram accounts.
"Based on a tip shared by FireEye, a US cybersecurity firm, we conducted an internal investigation into suspected Iran-linked coordinated inauthentic behaviour and identified this activity," Mr Gleicher continued.
"We've shared our analysis with law enforcement, policymakers and industry partners."
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Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
Dinosaurs on a Spaceship was the second episode of the seventh series of Doctor Who produced by BBC Wales. Uniquely, this adventure played host to a gang of TARDIS travelers rather than just the Ponds, with Queen Nefertiti and John Riddell from off-screen adventures of the Eleventh Doctor joining. Brian Williams was introduced as Rory’s father.
The Doctor has saved Egypt from giant alien locusts and is trying to return to his TARDIS. However, Queen Nefertiti, attracted to the Doctor, stops him and tries to get his attention. The Doctor receives a message on his psychic paper. Telling her that it is unimportant, he learns that the Indian Space Agency needs his help; he’s forced to take “Neffy” with him. Arriving in the 24th century, the Doctor is informed of a spaceship coming closer to Earth that has failed to respond to any of ISA’s attempts to communicate; if it gets within ten thousand kilometers of Earth, they will send up missiles to destroy it. The Doctor decides to get a “gang” together to help explore the vessel. Arriving in Africa in the early 20th century, the Doctor meets his old friend John Riddell, a game hunter he left behind after saying he was leaving to get some sweets. Despite Riddell still being sore about their last parting, he agrees to join in the mystery adventure.
In 21st century London, Rory has his father, Brian Williams, over to help fix a light bulb. After saying the fixture may be the problem, Brian reminds Rory he is lucky to have Amy; Amy finds this amusing. As Brian continues working on the light, the sound of the TARDIS materialization is heard. Amy and Rory quietly say that the Doctor picks the worst times to show up and she wants to “kill him”; Brian thinks perhaps they left the door open. The TARDIS materializes around them, shocking Brian in place while the Doctor (not looking at them) greets Amy and Rory. They all travel in the TARDIS to the mystery spacecraft. The Doctor tells everyone to grab a torch as they head outside.
As they head out, Amy questions the Doctor about what he’s up to this time; he decided he needed a group, so he picked them up. Brian exits the TARDIS and the Doctor, finally noticing him, questions him with hostility. Rory explains that Brian is his father, whom the Doctor inadvertently brought on board when he materialized the TARDIS around them. This calms the Doctor, whom Brian seems not to have met. The Doctor greets him and walks off with Amy, Nefertiti and Riddell. Rory explains to his confused father that he and Amy honeymooned throughout time and space aboard the TARDIS, not in Thailand as they had previously told him. Amy and the Doctor catch up in the meantime, with her wondering if Nefertiti and Riddell have replaced her and Rory as his companions; the Doctor explains that it’s not the case. Rory and Brian catch up as the doors in front of them begin opening. Seeing what’s coming out of the other side, the Doctor tells everyone to run. However, he has to be pulled away by Amy because he is gleefully surprised to find “Dinosaurs, on a spaceship!”
Hiding as the dinosaurs go past, the Doctor keeps Riddell from trying to harm them as they need to be preserved; Riddell sourly jokes in return “who’s gonna preserve us?”. They run into a Triceratops that sniffs Brian, forcing him to toss away one of the golf balls he keeps in his pocket to make it leave. The Doctor then examines the ship, discovering an interactive monitor. The Doctor asks to be shown where the engines are on the map, saying they need to get to them; he, Brian and Rory vanish in flash of light. Amy is left annoyed; they always get separated at some point during an adventure. The Doctor, Rory and Brian arrive on the shore of a rocky beach. Immediately, the Doctor orders them to dig while he “examines rocks”; Brian complies, producing a digging tool from his pocket. Elsewhere, someone sees them on a monitor. He becomes interested when he hears one of them referred to as “the Doctor”… He orders that they be brought to him.
Brian hits metal while digging, becoming shocked; they’re actually still in the ship. The Doctor, having found another monitor in a rock face, explains the ship’s engines are powered by the waves; an endless supply of power. He said they needed to go to the engine room and the ship complied with its short-ranged teleporter. However, several Pteranodon make the Doctor cut his explanation short, telling his companions to run; the teleporter in this room is fried, making it impossible to use now. They hide from the dinosaurs in a cave, where two bumbling robots (using another entrance in the cave) enter after them, demanding they come with them.
Elsewhere, Amy, Nefertiti and Riddell explore the ship, with Nefertiti questioning Amy about the Doctor, saying she found her husband boring (a “human sleeping potion”); Amy subtly hints the Doctor is married, but Neffy doesn’t seem to catch on. Finding the archive room (while Neffy and Riddell begin flirting, much to Amy’s annoyance), Amy inserts one of the recordings and tries to get a picture on the monitor. Succeeding, she discovers the spaceship belongs to the Silurians. They launched it when the Moon was coming into alignment with Earth, fearing a cataclysm might result. In the meantime, the Doctor, Rory and Brian are brought to a smaller spaceship docked with this one; however, only the Doctor is allowed inside. He finds a man missing the lower half of his legs, who introduces himself as Solomon and explains “raptors” chewed on his legs. He’s been waiting for a doctor to help him. Understanding Solomon’s mistake, the Doctor asks him why he should help. In response, Brian is given a painful laser burn as a warning. The Doctor proceeds to work on getting Solomon mobile again while Rory tends to his father’s burn.
Back in the archive room, Amy asks the monitor to display life-signs of Silurians (“homo reptilia”), but gets nothing. Amy then compares this image with one of the day the ship launched, discovering there were numerous Silurians on board. She wonders what happened to them. She then asks the computer to zoom in at the core of the ship, discovering that it’s been boarded before (by Solomon). Riddell picks up a nearby gun, explaining before taking off that it’s full of tranquilizer (something the Doctor would approve of using in self defense against the dinosaurs). Neffy, now infatuated with Riddell, is told by Amy, “Human sleeping potion or walking innuendo; take your pick.”
In Solomon’s ship, the Doctor finishes fixing prosthetic limbs to Solomon’s knees just as Amy calls Rory’s mobile. Rory gives it to the Doctor. Amy informs him the Silurians built the ship, but there are no life signs of them. The Doctor questions Solomon on what happened to them. Solomon explains he woke them from hibernation and tossed them into space. However, the Doctor quickly deduces that Solomon cannot control this so-called ark of the Silurians and his attempt to do so made its auto-pilot head for Earth, its launching point. The Doctor explains that the ISA will soon be launching missiles. The greedy Solomon believes the Doctor is lying and wants the dinosaurs for himself. Exiting Solomon’s cockpit, the Doctor tells the two dim-witted robots that their boss wants to see them. The Doctor tells Rory and Brian to run as the two robots ask Solomon why he wanted to see them. Realizing that the Doctor has tricked them, Solomon orders his lackeys to go after them.
They soon encounter the same Triceratops from earlier — which the Doctor names “Tricey” — and board its back. The Doctor tries getting Tricey to go by using verbal commands used for horses, but fails. Brian quickly deduces the same method they used to get rid of Tricey before can be used again, tossing his remaining golf ball away to make it run. The robots follow after them, unable to go faster than a walking pace, shooting lasers at them until Tricey turns a corner and loses them. The Doctor then wonders how they are going to stop as Tricey is closing in on a wall; they fall off and have a hard landing. The Doctor then receives a message from the ISA, saying that the missiles will be launched, despite his protests that the ship can be piloted away with a most precious cargo.
The Doctor, Rory and Brian try finding the TARDIS so they can collect Amy, Riddell and Nefertiti before coming up with a new plan. However, Solomon easily finds them with the security cameras and teleports to their location with his clumsy robots. Solomon explains that his ship has detected the missiles, saying the Doctor wasn’t lying. He then demands that Nefertiti be handed over to him, as she is the most valuable thing on the ship that can be taken with him. When the Doctor refuses, Solomon has Tricey shot and killed to prove he’s serious. Amy, Riddel, and Nefertiti (who were watching this on another monitor) arrive via the teleporter. Neffy willingly goes with Solomon to ensure the safety of everyone else. Solomon then has them teleported back to his ship, preparing to leave.
The Doctor quickly leads everyone to the control room, explaining that Solomon couldn’t control the ship because the Silurians designed it to require two pilots who share similar DNA. Brian offers to pilot the ship with Rory — since they are father and son, they share similar DNA. The Doctor has them sit down in the control chairs and tells them how to work the controls; he then opens part of the console and begins fiddling with the wiring. Amy, questioning the Doctor, expresses her fear that his visits are becoming farther and farther apart; one day, he might never show up. However, the Doctor quickly comforts Amy by explaining that he’ll always come to see them. He also learns Amy quit her job (again) after their last meeting, in part because she never knows when he’ll show up again.
The Doctor takes a glowing green orb from inside where he’s been fiddling with the controls, telling Amy he’s going to teleport to Solomon’s ship to conduct Phase 1, saying Phase 2 has been completed. Amy corrects him, explaining 2 comes after 1, but gets laughter in return. The Doctor says that while humans are always linear about planning, he’s not. The Doctor teleports away as Riddell guards the room from hostile dinosaurs to ensure Rory and Brian can pilot the ship away without distractions. Amy joins him as a group of raptors close in. They shoot the electric tranquilliser into the dinosaurs several times, knocking them out. Riddell expresses interest in taking a dinosaur tooth back with him as a souvenir from the adventure as they continue knocking out the dinosaurs.
In the meantime, Solomon has realized the Doctor magnetized the Silurian ark to prevent his ship from leaving, just as the Doctor appears behind him and short-circuits the robots to prevent them from assisting. Solomon tells the Doctor that he will not let go of such a valuable item, offending Nefertiti, who knocks him down. As Neffy pins Solomon to the ground with his crutch, the Doctor jokes not to mess with Egyptian queens. Preparing to take Neffy back to the ark, the Doctor informs Solomon that he’ll receive a consolation prize: the missiles meant for the ark. He places the orb, which emits the signal the missiles are locked onto, in Solomon’s ship and teleports away with Neffy. The ship is de-magnetised. Solomon screams in terror as his ship takes off and is hit by the missiles, exploding. At the same time, Rory and Brian pilot the ship away from Earth and into the emptiness of space.
With the ship safely piloted into an empty area of space, the Doctor has the chance to take it and the dinosaurs to somewhere else in the universe where they can live on a new planet in peace. Preparing to take everyone back, the Doctor is told by Amy and Rory that they wish to return home; he accepts this. However, Brian asks the Doctor for a favor before he takes him back home. The Doctor complies. Brian is next seen enjoying lunch, sitting on the edge of the TARDIS doors, looking down on the Earth. Amy and Rory look at him with smiles as the Doctor comes from behind and hugs them. Elsewhen, Riddell has been taken back to the time and place the Doctor took him from, only one thing is different: Nefertiti has decided to stay with him.
Back in London, Rory is checking the light-bulb Brian previously tried to fix, agreeing that his father was right — it might be the fixture. Amy enters, saying they got another bunch of postcards from Brian. She puts them on the fridge, showing that Brian (who was previously afraid to travel) has now taken to seeing the world. Amy and Rory stare at the last postcard before putting it on the fridge; it’s of Siluria, the new home of the dinosaurs, which Brian and the Doctor have just visited.
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Creative and Intellectual Life
Opera and musical theatre
Story: Opera and musical theatre
Early years of opera
Light opera and musical theatre
New Zealand opera companies
The survival of opera
Page 5. Composers
Māori-influenced opera
'Come canoeing down the Wanganui'
A unicorn for Christmas
Staging Hōhepa
Throughout most of New Zealand’s musical history there have been attempts at composing for opera as well as for the less elaborate or serious genres of musical theatre.
Luscombe Searelle
Luscombe Searelle was the first New Zealand composer to make a real mark, in the 1880s. Raised in Christchurch he lived his life overseas, making his way ‘by a mixture of talent and audacity’.1 Several of his operas were seen in New Zealand: The wreck of the Pinafore, Bobadil, Estrella and Isidora.
Alfred Hill
Other attempts by largely untrained New Zealand composers were made in the following years, some with short-lived success. Alfred Hill’s achievement was of a higher order. Born in Melbourne in 1870, he lived his early years in Wellington. After studying at the Leipzig Conservatory in Germany he returned to New Zealand. He composed an unperformed comic opera, but it was his cantata Hinemoa in 1896 that made a mark.
His opera Tapu (1902) met with success in Wellington in 1903, and A Moorish maid (1905) was a triumph at its premiere that year in Auckland. However, its hoped-for successes in Australia and Britain did not materialise.
The Māori Opera Company
Clergyman and first bishop of Aotearoa, Frederick Augustus Bennett was also an accomplished musician, and formed the Māori Opera Company at Rotorua in the early 20th century. It toured the North Island in 1915 with a production of the musical play Hinemoa by Percy Flynn, and in 1920 staged Marama: the mere and the Maori maid (words by H. S. B. Ribbands, music by Archie Don) to great acclaim.
George de Clive-Lowe
George de Clive-Lowe, an Auckland medical practitioner, had great success in 1909 with The belle of Cuba (alternatively called Manuella). Nothing of the libretto or score has survived. His greatest triumph was in 1937 with Runnymede, a grand historical pageant.
Musical plays
There was a succession of locally composed light operas and musical plays through the 1920s and 1930s. As well as Marama, which was staged in Hastings in 1920 (and was notably revived there in 1996), local creations included Tutankhamen in 1923, A desert romance, The quest of the cassowary, The forgotten kingdom, The little gold porringer, Moonflower and Robin Hood.
Unicorny
The premiere of David Farquhar’s A unicorn for Christmas in 1962 was a major event for the New Zealand Opera Company. But critic Owen Jensen was bemused at the subject of Farquhar’s otherwise fine opera: ‘The story was naïve, the libretto corny, it had little to do with Christmas’.2
After the Second World War
University revues and extravaganzas may have been the only new, local musical theatre creations after the Second World War.
A remarkable number of musical theatre compositions were produced from the 1950s to the 1980s. The high point was the commissioning by the New Zealand Opera Company of David Farquhar’s A unicorn for Christmas in 1962. From the 1960s there were more frequent attempts by New Zealand composers including Dorothy Buchanan, Edwin Carr, Lyell Cresswell, William Dart, Gary Daverne, John Drummond, David Griffiths, Ross Harris, Douglas Mews, Philip Norman and John Rimmer.
Music and arts festivals offered fertile ground for composers such as Christopher Blake, Jack Body, Jenny McLeod, Gillian Whitehead, Michael Williams and Michael Vinten. Anniversaries also prompted some: for example John Drummond, Anthony Ritchie and Gillian Whitehead all marked Otago’s sesquicentennial with operatic pieces.
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Quoted in Adrienne Simpson, Opera’s farthest frontier. Auckland: Reed, 1996, p. 93. Back
Quoted in Opera’s farthest frontier, p. 209. Back
Lindis Taylor, 'Opera and musical theatre - Composers', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/opera-and-musical-theatre/page-5 (accessed 20 January 2020)
Story by Lindis Taylor, published 22 Oct 2014
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Waiata hōu – contemporary Māori songs
Waiata tawhito - traditional Māori songs
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Mozilla's Thunderbird 3 To Take Flight With Faster Search, Tabbed Email And More
Leena Rao @LeenaRao / 10 years
Tomorrow, the makers of Firefox will be launching the third version of Thunderbird, its open source and free email application that is produced out of Mozilla Messaging, which is a subsidiary of Mozilla devoted to producing innovation around communication and the internet. Thunderbird 3, which is available in 50 languages and is compatible with Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, has made more than 2,000 improvements and fixes to the new email client. Thunderbird 3 will be available to the public mid-day tomorrow here.
One of the main improvements to Thunderbird 3, says Mozilla Messaging CEO David Ascher, is the client’s search capacity. The new search interface contains filtering and timeline tools to try to help users pin-point emails by words, correspondents or attachment types. Thunderbird 3 also includes tabbed email, which lets users view emails and folders in tabs within the client, similar to the way that you manage tabs in Firefox. Tabs are remembered in the client, so you don’t have to keep re-saving tabs.
Thunderbird has also added a new archive feature that moves email from your inbox into separate archive folder, a sleeker address book, a new setup wizards, and the ability to combine individual mailboxes to manage multiple email accounts in one spot. The email client has been tweaked to integrate more seamlessly with Gmail and Windows and Mac OS X.
Ascher tells me that Thunderbird currently has 10 to 15 million users. While this doesn’t reach the user base of Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and others, Thunderbird has seen steady growth in a field with formidable competitors. And this version is the most powerful iteration of the email client yet, so I expect Thunderbird to gain a few more fans with this release.
We expect for Thunderbird to collaborate with Mozilla’s recently launched, open-source, experimental email and communication platform, Raindrop. Ascher tells me that Raindrop is still constantly evolving but it will be interesting to see what two-way interactions the platform will feature and what content it eventually will bring in.
Full disclosure: My husband works for the Mozilla Corp.
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Hosain Rahman on UP, Jawbone's First Non-Audio Product
Sarah Lacy @sarahcuda / 9 years
Jawbone CEO Hosain Rahman just got off stage at TED Global where he announced the company’s first non-audio device, the UP. It’s a lot like the fitbit, measuring your sleep patterns, eating habits and activity to help people become healthier, but it’s designed to be more wearable, hip, waterproof and integrate more seamlessly into mobile devices and your overall social experience.
All that remains to be seen. But it’s safe to say the UP will have the clear benefits from Jawbone’s high-volume sophisticated supply chain and manufacturing processes, and its newly deepened pockets. I don’t even know where you buy a fitbit, other than on the company’s site, which requires some pretty detailed advance knowledge of the device.
It’s a bold departure from Jawbone’s traditional products, even the Jambox, which wasn’t a headset but still had to do with audio. Given the warchest of funding, it’s a safe bet that more dramatic new product lines are in store.
We grabbed Rahman just as he got off stage to talk a bit about the device. (We couldn’t get him to divulge anything when we talked to him earlier this week, lest he anger the gods of TED. I told him that was my forte, but he still wouldn’t budge. Oh well.)
TC: Tell us about the UP.
HR: I was looking at picture of myself from my first TED badge, and I look like a totally different person. I was healthy back then and now I’ve gained 60 pounds, because I travel so much and I get zero sleep. So this started out very personal, but then you look at the overall stats and they are crazy. 68% of Americans are overweight or obese and rest of the world is catching up. Diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and certain cancers killing more people than infectious diseases. Diabetes and heart disease along cost us $4.4 trillion, and it’s all preventable. We’d save 90% of that if we just ate well, slept longer and exercised.
TC: How is this different than other devices like the fitbit?
HR: We are good at making things, making them small and making them cool and we have the distribution and all of that. A lot of these guys have right approach and are trying to solve the right problem, but it’s hard. Scale and distribution is what’s so hard, not just building a great product which is already insanely hard. It also can’t be all about data, you have to connect to what people do with that data and make it social and make it fun.
TC: Is this more of people Tweeting out what they weigh? Because that’s annoying.
HR: To me that’s layer one. It’s a big question whether people even want to share this information on Twitter. Some people don’t want to share with the world but only four people. I may not want to see how all 34-year-olds function but 34-year-olds who also don’t sleep much and have to travel as much as I do, because they’re trying to solve the same problem.
TC: What does it say about where the company is going?
HR: It seems like a big departure, but once we start talking about the things it takes to make this whole category work, we get into things like making it tiny, having a long battery life, making it fashionable, making it waterproof, working with smart phones, having a rich, visual experience on your smart phone and making it social. This is all stuff we do anyway. It comes back around to the mission of your mobile lifestyle.
TC: One of your investors, Roelof Botha of Sequoia Capital, has said before that you can’t design consumer apps for the way people wish they could be, but the way they are. I think that’s why a lot of health-related sites fail. How is this different?
HR: I’m not going to answer that one. You try it and tell me.
TC: So I’ll actually get one? I never got a fitbit even though I asked a few times.
HR: I’ll hand deliver it.
TC: How soon will everyday people, not just pushy reporters, get one?
HR: Soon.
TC: You didn’t answer the question. I said *how* soon?
HR: This year. Soon.
TC: How much will it cost and where can they buy it?
HR: We’ll announce that soon too. (Insert TC groan.)
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REPORTS, RELEASE DATE AND RUMOURS REGARDING THE IPHONE 8
June 2, 2017 Mobiles Venu
According to the reports, Apple will release its smartphone iPhone 8 later this year. A sleek new redesign with an edge-to-edge display. There had been a few reports which claimed that the device might be significant delays. Some of the optimistic reports had been said that the iPhone 8 might not see the light of day before October. Although there are several reasons behind Apple’s delay in manufacturing, they have faced many poor yields at the time of manufacturing the new advanced OLED display for iPhone 8.
Report said, few of Apple’s partners responsible who are for supplying iPhone 8’s components, has shown some delay in providing the raw material which is required to full fledge the production. In recent weeks, Apple and its partners managed to get a firm grasp on production problems. Apart from having supply problem we are quite sure that Apple fans won’t need to wait till November 2017 and it will release on its pre-scheduled time.
IImportantly Morgan Stanley relays that they have got no evidence of ongoing production problems or any kind of delays in Apple’s supply chain. Recently Morgan Stanley’s note corroborates noted leaker OnLeaks’ has already predicted that mass production of iPhone 8 will begin in earnest this Summer ahead of a pre-planned September launch. Consumers can pretty much expect to see the iPhone 8 be supply-constrained in September.
Apple iPhone 8 Rumours
According to the rumours Apple will have the OLED technology. It will launched with aluminium body and three glass model. The smartphone devices will be designed favourably with good material that will be fancy in looks. Moreover, iPhone 8 will be a framework with stainless steel, aluminium, and some glass. It expected to come with a bezel-less display which will be something unique. Apple is planning for its new iPhones in a flat way which might be 4.7 inches to maximum 5.8 inches. An OLED display eliminates the need for the backlighting that’s used in traditional LCDs in these smartphone devices. These will almost certainly require the removal of the Home button from the front of phone, to slim down the handset’s bezel.
The another rumors suggest It has the 16 MP f/1.7 Primary Camera and 8 MP front facing camera including 3D sensing capabilities that use technology by PrimeSense to finding location and depth of objects in front of it, perhaps enabling facial and iris recognition. iPhone 8 allows to shoot full HD Recording. This smartphone devices support 4k recordings as well. It will use vertical dual camera arrangement instead of a horizontal dual camera system. It will have the Type-C delivery technology where power can be refilled without the need to plug the device into a socket. There is also a possibility that the fingerprint scanner will be housed at the back.
There is also an another rumors that the non-removable Li-Ion 2900 mAh and 3000 mAh battery is coming in 2-cell pack. It is water proof smartphone. Rumors suggested, Current iPhone 8 can be unlocked using the fingerprint, because of its Touch ID sensor. It also has the iris-recognition and face detection technology. Will have a 3D lasscanner for face recognition with replacing Touch ID. Apple will use the facial recognition method for locking and unlocking process of iPhone. If we talk about the storage capacity of iPhone 8, it is available till 256 GB size option too. The minimum size option of iPhone is 64 GB which is almost the double of last version of iPhone. This iPhone are said that it will run on iOS 11 which is the refreshed version. This smartphones will create the revolution.
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Interview: The Team Behind Internet Explorer’s Inori Aizawa
Back in 2013, Microsoft did something totally unexpected by personifying Internet Explorer 10 into an anime character called Inori Aizawa. They kicked it off with a short 2 minute video clip which garnered millions of views (to date, there are about 3.1 million views).
We had the pleasure of sitting down with the project’s Team Lead, KC Ng from Collateral Damage Studios (CDS), who shared insights from this very successful campaign.
TCG: So how did it all start?
CDS: It started when we saw this fan art that was posted online and it featured the personification of browsers like Chrome, FireFox and Opera. We got inspired and decided to do something similar for Internet Explorer. Following that, we developed the character sheet for Inori Aizawa and placed the contents on a blog post; we then got some of our influential friends in the Anime community to share the blog post.
TCG: So at this stage, Microsoft was not involved yet?
CDS: There were anime fans in Microsoft who took notice of it and the local Marketing Lead for Internet Explorer approached us during a convention to take this concept further. The rest, as they say, is history. 🙂
TCG: What was the approach going into the project?
CDS: I guess the good thing was that we had already done most of the groundwork before meeting Microsoft so it was just a matter of taking the concept and developing it into a kick-ass video. As Anime Festival Asia was just around the corner, we decided that it was the perfect launch pad for this campaign.
TCG: Was it going to be a video all along?
CDS: Yes, we figured that the best way to launch it with a bang was with a YouTube video and it helped that the animation designer who did up this character also worked for an animation production house.
TCG: What are some key factors that contributed to the success of this video?
CDS: I feel that one of the main success factors was that it went against what people expected of a brand like Microsoft. There were elements of fun and the video certainly, has lots of entertainment value. We also placed a tonne of Easter eggs in the video so that people would watch it again and again.
As this was never meant to be a commercial project but more of an inspired fan art, there’s certainly a feel-good factor seeing it go from a blog post to a YouTube video with millions of views.
TCG: Were you surprised by the success of this video and was there a KPI before the campaign?
CDS: It was totally unexpected, but I can say we did our best to put in the parameters for a good campaign, and the efforts paid off.
Our KPIs were 2 million views in half a year but we achieved it in 2 days, and that’s excluding the views from other 3rd party sites other than YouTube, plus all the other PR mentions we received for this campaign.
TCG: Are you sad now that IE10 has been discontinued?
CDS: It is a pity, but looking forward, we hope to do something similar for Microsoft Edge, *keeping my fingers crossed*.
TCG: So what sort of projects is CDS focusing on these days?
CDS: We are now more focused on illustrations, and video animations are something we do once in awhile; we work mostly with Indie video game developers as well as board game designers.
For a portfolio of CDS’s work, visit http://www.collateralds.com/
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That Feminist Guy
Because why the f*** wouldn't you be?
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ABOUT THAT GUY
Haridos / January 14, 2019
Representation matters, or: stop hiring straight, white, able-bodied actors to play all the roles
For much of its history, the film industry – regardless of plot or genre – has told stories focused squarely on white, male protagonists. There of course were some additions; the rise of the token Black character became a thing through the 90s, a not-at-all pioneering way of presenting audiences with just a tad more color to the wall of white.
Recent years have seen a push for not just diverse casts and crews, but in the stories being told; Black, queer, women, and those with disabilities. While these stories proved to be bankable for Hollywood again and again, we are rarely given an honest picture.
There is now a wider variety of people appearing on our screens, with the industry focus no longer centering solely on white-on-white-on-white narratives. Women are seen leading their projects, queer stories are on the regular, black characters’ have more than the singular purpose of bringing the “ghetto” punchlines to their scenes, and inspiring tales of disabled people making it in the ableist world are heart-warming.
Except that this is bullshit.
Women are still objectified, continuing to be presented for straight men to ogle, and too much attention spent on her relationships with her male characters. Black portrayals are restricted to lighter skinned actors, being more relatable to white audiences, while many other ethnicities are still played by white actors (Scarlet Johansson, stand up). And let’s not forget how white saviorism continues to play a lead in many non-white narratives in need of a big-budget release. And when it comes to queer and disabled storylines, roles are nearly always headlined by straight, cisgender, and able-bodied actors (sadly including even the ones I like).
Now this is usually where someone steps in with, “But they’re actors! It’s their job to play different people!” and, “Once again the political correctness police are looking to shut something else down.” And to you, I say:
As a disabled man on Twitter said, when was the last time you saw an able-bodied character played by a disabled actor? If acting is all about playing different people, then why did fanboys lose their shit when Doctor Who‘s latest interpretation was a woman? Blaming PC culture is the straight, cis, white man’s excuse for everything they don’t want to change. Actors, they forget are limited. They can only fill stories with realism and emotional depth from their own experiences, and sadly these white actors haven’t lived their lives as diversely as they may like to believe.
Able-y playing disabled
The Upside sees Bryan Cranston star as a wheelchair-bound writer who hires Kevin Hart as his caretaker. Through the tropes of prejudice breakdown between black/white and abled/disabled people, it’s easy to forget Cranston is able-bodied. But people are now asking why an actor who is disabled couldn’t have taken this role.
If the goal is to tell an inspirational story then someone who knows what life in a wheelchair is like would have offered more than just the fact there is a chair. There is little comprehension of both challenges and joys from life from this perspective. The Upside is one in a long list of standardized portrayals which leaves the inherently able-bodied audience to fill in the blank space with their own uninformed views.
Our understanding of what it’s like to be disabled is limited and doesn’t reflect the experience of those who live this life every day. There are microaggressions we don’t see, and mental health strains not spoken. Similar to how every Black movie was a tale of civil rights or slavery, it’s fair to assume not every movie with a wheelchair-bound lead needs to focus on a person’s life in that chair; there is more to tell than this.
Black stories, white saviors
The last few years has seen a broader range of Black movies hitting the screens. From the familiar slavery and pre-Civil Rights era stories in 12 Years a Slave and Detroit, we now have a Black Panther and Girls’ Trip redefining 21st Century representations of Blackness. Yet, the nonsensical importance of white characters in Black movies persists.
White saviorism in film is only really there to appease white people, informing us of non-white-owned stories we hadn’t yet heard. Instead of seeing dialogue between two people of color, we find a forced chat between white and non-white people, rarely adding anything of substance to the scene. Not only does it simplify the discussion of race relations between Black and white people, like in The Upside, it, detrimentally, takes away the ownership of a story, like in Green Book, and walks past race and the Black experience, like in Crash and Three Billboards. The focus is always on white people solving a problem within a two-hour period because of the systemic racist understanding that white-is-might. Believe it or not, it isn’t that easy to wash over generations of discrimination while having a sit-down over a quick meal. Regardless of how good or bad they are, these films white-wash an experience no white person can or will ever understand.
The many faces of women
With women it’s a little trickier. Since moving pictures became a commodity, [white] women have always had a part to play, one usually occupying a love interest and/or sexual fantasy. As time progressed, women took more leads in the romantic comedy genre, telling fun tales of how they got their guy! Even when female leads in action, thriller, and other more serious stories were accepted, the insistence of the love story, even if it moved to a sub-plot, remained.
Take Wonder Woman. Finally, a big, box-office movie about a strong, tough, brave, and intelligent female superhero taking on everyone she comes up against. Except she does it in an armored swimsuit with the help of men, one of which ends up being the great love of her life (spoiler: millennia surrounded by women, and the first man she meets is the one… if only I could get that lucky). I love Wonder Woman, but resent the fact a man had to help her save the world. Thor, Captain America, Batman, Iron Man… these dudes had a lady, sure, but they watched or looked after the men who did most everything else. And at the end the women were treated with either a knowing look of love, or got a first kiss at the end; Wonder Woman slept with the first man she ever met in the middle of the film, made all the more interesting by World War I being the backdrop. It seems there will never be a reason to not sexualize women in these “progressive” times.
Unlike movies about Black people, women, or those who are disabled, I actually have some personal experience when it comes to being gay. And the one thing that really pisses me off is the number focused on coming out stories or love interests. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an action movie with a gay character whose objective is to solve whatever problem he’s facing, and not on their sexual exploits.
When it comes to straight actors playing gay characters, this is where it gets a little more complex. First, generally speaking, this shouldn’t happen – there is a ton of LGBTQ+ men and women out there who can play believable queer characters, whether homosexual, transgender or non-binary.
For gay men, there is a whole fetishization of straight guys who we want to be gay (look at the aggressive demand for Shawn Mendes to come out). Watching hot, straight men kiss adds a whole level of taboo to the imagination. But it’s also problematic, building up the fantasy of the straight man or woman who we might be able to turn. It isn’t healthy for the many young lesbian and gay adult pinning hopes on an impossible fantasy.
For those who are gender non-conforming, being represented correctly is crucial to sharing experiences and ideas. The political battle transgender men and women face on a daily basis is painful. Stories of transgender people isn’t enough; we need to actually see trans actors play these characters. Using cisgender, heteronormative actors in these roles creates a fictitious bubble around movies, allowing audiences to suspend their belief, taking no real consideration of the complexities. Trans and non-binary actors leave an impression, forcing the audience to confront their own prejudice, either to eradicate it or build it up.
[Straight white actors] can’t handle the truth
Telling stories that neither depict real life experiences, nor share their truth with the actors who tell them, is frankly dangerous. All we do is build in the status quo of “we’re just doing enough”. Enough is rarely enough. It’s all good for Bryan Cranston to say we do need to have disabled people telling the stories of disabled characters, but then he went and starred in the movie anyway.
Representation matters because it casts a real light onto a platform which is largely presented as fantasy. These superheroes aren’t real, nor is the talking car, the devils from the earth… and neither are the women who seem to be more than sexual pleasure for men; the Black community able to define their narrative in a white world and not through white people; the disabled who share their whole experience and not just the obvious physicality making them different from able-bodied culture; and neither is the LGBTQ+ experience something more than the binary options presented to us by the heteronormative world.
A diversity of characters and stories were the first and second steps. It’s now time to accept a diversity of actors to do the one thing art is supposed to: tell the truth.
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Summary of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008
The Bill contains a number of provisions which the Government states are designed to enhance counter-terrorism powers. The main elements of the Bill are:
a provision to allow the pre-charge detention of terrorist suspects to be extended from 28 days to 42 days in certain circumstances
changes to enable the post-charge questioning of terrorist suspects and the drawing of adverse inferences from silence
imposing requirements on people convicted of terrorist offences to let authorities know where they are living and any changes to their circumstances
enhanced sentencing of offenders who commit offences with a terrorist connection
provision for inquests and inquiries to be heard without a jury.
The Bill would also confer further powers to gather and share information for counter-terrorism and other purposes, and amend the law relating to asset-freezing procedures.
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Town Hall Seattle and Fred Wildlife Refuge present
Dapper AF
Queers in Conversation about Style and Identity
Friday, February 23, 2018, 7:30PM
Fred Wildlife Refuge (Capitol Hill)
If this event sells out, there will be a standby line at the door and the event will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel.
Tickets are still available for the HER Seattle after party. Read more about the event here.
If the future is fluid, do lesbians still need to get coming out haircuts? Does the color of your bandana even mean anything anymore? Address these questions and more with this fierce panel of queer style innovators. Join us for an exploration of what it means to be unapologetically dapper in this city of flannel and fleece while learning about the intersection of fashion, history, and identity in the ever-evolving LGBTQ+ community.
Our panel discussion will be followed by a TomboyX fashion show showcasing cute queer models in their underpants. After the fashion show, Town Hall Seattle ticket buyers who joined us for our Dapper AF conversation will be invited to stay for a night of dancing with HER, an inclusive club night for all LGBTQ+ folks and allies, at no additional cover charge.
This event is 21+, ID required.
This event will feature a full bar and coat check but no food (only light snacks).
SassyBlack is a space aged singer, songwriter & producer. This Goddess of “electronic psychedelic soul” & “hologram funk” explores the concepts of sound through deep compositions. With roots in classical & jazz, her voice is often compared to Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Erykah Badu & Georgia Anne Muldrow. She has gained attention from Okayplayer, Afropunk, The Fader, Pitchfork, and more.”
Jolene Manibusan is the Seattle City Manager for HER Social App, the largest community app for lesbian, bi, and queer individuals to connect around the globe. Timothy Bardlavens is a Creative Director whose work is focused on product innovation. Fran Dunaway is the co-founder of TomboyX, the Seattle brand that creates underwear that anyone can feel comfortable in, regardless of where they fall on the size or gender spectrum.
Erik Molano is Town Hall Seattle’s 2018 Inside/Out Resident representing Capitol Hill and the Central District. Erik is a graphic designer, prolific event organizer, and co-founder of the Photon Factory (a hybrid organization that is half design studio and half community space). In addition to being a dapper AF Creative Director, Erik has been an active ally to the LGBTQ community here in Seattle. Last spring he joined forces with the House of Luna to bring to life a queer vogue ball at the Photon Factory for over 200 stylish attendees.
DonnaTella Howe works the freelance drag circuit all across Seattle, performing wherever she is needed to support the community. Her style has evolved over the years, but she still keeps it simple and just enjoys what catches her eye. She believes that everyone has their own look and feel with clothing that expresses the uniqueness of the self, and that every wardrobe has that special item that ups the ante—so long as you’re looking forward to wearing it out!
The event will be moderated by Myani Guetta. Guetta is the Community Leadership Director at Puget Sound Sage. She leads the Community Leadership Institute and supports the SouthCORE coalition, which guides Sage’s equitable development program and centers on a vision of community-controlled development in South Seattle and South King County. She is an electronic musician and collaborator in a sound and performance based project called Haptic Delay with Alex Mari, which highlights and praises the queer + womxn of color body/experience by examining queer ecologies.
Presented by Town Hall Seattle as part of the Civics series.
Community partners: HER, TomboyX, Gay City, The Seattle Lesbian, The Cloud Room Seattle
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A Tabernacle and a Catholic church in the shape of a Hindu symbol
Spanish Jesuit Fr. Peter Julia, above, became a priest in 1960. In 1966 he was assigned to missionary work in Nasik, India. There, Peter, who changed his name to Shilananda and adopted Hindu customs, said he found "the ideal place for blending Christian faith with Indian culture" ("Mixing Religions: Cross on Shiv Ling," The Week magazine, Oct. 20, 1996).
In Nasik he also built a church in a shape inspired by the most common symbol of the Hindu deity Shiva, the Shiva Linga, below. The Tabernacle where he keeps the Holy Sacrament has this same form, above.
Now then, the Shiva Linga or Shivling is an unequivocal symbol of Shiva. Its origin has many interpretations [Wikipedia], including the one of the Tantras which considers it to be the symbol of Shiva's male organ - check here.
If you need more confirmation of this interpretation you may check this link, but be aware that there are obscene figures.
It is quite impressive that, to our knowledge, neither the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship nor the Society of Jesus has forbidden such blasphemous experiments.
The Week, October 20, 1996
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West Dean Gardens, a wonderful day out in West Sussex
by Kathryn Burrington | 3 Jul 2018 | Chichester, Destinations, Gardens, See and Do, West Sussex | 2 comments
As I wandered around the gardens at every turn it seemed another lovely view called to me, begging me to explore further. I couldn’t believe that I hadn’t visited this magical garden before. When I was invited to visit the Arts and Crafts Festival at West Dean near Chichester, I had no idea just what a treat it would be to explore the gardens and the house, as well as the festival itself.
One of the greatest restored gardens in England, West Dean Gardens, dates back to 1622 when the original manor house was built by James Lewkenor. In the 19th century, when the current house was built, the gardens were enlarged and altered and many of the now mature trees including limes, beeches, horse chestnuts and cedars were planted.
The hurricane in 1987, which ripped through the south of England toppling thousands of trees, destroying homes and lives, had a huge impact on the gardens (with 60 trees uprooted in the 170-metre wooded strip that lined the main road alone).
Today, the 90 acres of gardens have been beautifully restored and retain many early features, including the lovely 100 metre Edwardian Pergola, the walled kitchen garden, the Victorian glass houses and St Roche’s Arboretum.
West Dean House & Edward James
This striking flint-faced manor house and estate was inherited by Edward James in 1912, when aged just four years old. He went on to become an influential patron of the arts, most notably, the Surrealist artists Salvador Dalí and René Magritte during the early stages of their careers. A walk through the house doesn’t just allow you to see the magnificent wood panelled rooms and beautiful stained-glass windows but also a gives you a glimpse of items from the Surrealist movement including a rare example of Salvador Dalí‘s Mae West Lips sofa commissioned by James.
Below: a reproduction of the helmet Dalí wore while speaking at the first International Exhibition of Surrealism in 1936. Unfortunately, he began to suffocate and tried to remove the helmet which was bolted down. Thinking this was all part of the show the audience applauded. Luckily, Edward James realised what was happening and managed to remove the helmet with the help of a billiard cue!
West Dean Arts & Crafts Festival, June 2018
This is the only time of year when the house is open to the public and it is well worth a peak inside. My sister and I had a fabulous time looking around the house, the extensive gardens and chatting with the exhibitors. We were really impressed by the quality and range of exhibits, as well as the friendliness of all the artists. There were also numerous workshops although we didn’t get a chance to join in. Here are just a few of my favourite artists from the festival.
Hester Cox
Hester lives in the Yorkshire Dales National Park where she finds her inspiration. She uses multiple plates, painted textures and intricate cutting in her collagraphs with the aim to draw attention to everyday occurrences that go unnoticed or are soon forgotten. Hester’s work has inspired me to try screen printing and collagraphy for myself.
HesterCox.com
Assenden Glass
Since finishing a degree in glass some 20 years ago, Anne has explored the affinity of glass with water and ice to stunning effect.
AssendenGlass.co.uk
Sarah Grove
Sarah uses a range of fabrics and techniques to cast textiles in plaster and create a range of unusual household items.
SarahGrove.co.uk
Penny Carter
Contemporary handmade glass beads by Penny Carter.
Chilliglass.com
Diane Rogers
Art and designer textiles using hand printed silk with quilting and hand embroidery, inspired by nature and the natural environment.
Dianerogers.co.uk
Candice Coetser
Porcelain and stoneware in light, tranquil colours inspired by local landscapes.
BurntEarthStudio.com
West Dean Chilli Fiesta, August 2018
From Friday 10th through to Sunday 12th August, this award-winning festival sees everything chilli fill the grounds of West Dean. Live Latin music, dance workshops and demonstration, gardening and cooking theatres, hundreds of food, gift and plant stalls, a vintage fair and fireworks are just some of the attractions that make this family-friendly event one the hottest festivals in Sussex each year! Find out more by visiting West Dean Gardens’ website or read our review of the 2018 Chilli Fiesta.
Concerned that many traditional craft techniques would be lost, James founded the West Dean College of Arts and Conservation in the 1960s. The college is now internationally recognised as a centre of excellence.
The many courses held here include degrees, diplomas and short courses in traditional arts and crafts, instrument making and playing, as well as conservation.
I couldn’t imagine a more tranquil and inspirational location to study. What a fabulous legacy Edward James has left behind.
Find about more on their website, West Dean College.
West Dean Gardens is 6 miles north of Chichester on the A286 towards Midhurst.
The gardens are open to the public from 1st February to 24th December each year.
Entry costs £5.75 in February, November and December and £9 the rest of the year with no charge for children under12. However, during the annual Arts and Crafts Festival held in early June and the Chilli Festival in August, tickets to the events must be purchased.
Up to date opening times and prices can be found here, West Dean Gardens.
Regular events and evening concerts are held throughout much of the year. Full details of forthcoming events can be found here, Events at West Dean Gardens.
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Suzanne Jones on July 4, 2018 at 7:48 pm
What a fabulous day out, the gardens look gorgeous for a wander around and good to take a peek inside the house. I like the artist stands too especially the Burnt Earth stoneware and ceramics.
Kathryn Burrington on July 4, 2018 at 8:07 pm
Aren’t they beautiful (the gardens, house and crafts)! And yes, Candice’s ceramics were wonderful and so calming. I’ve never noticed looking at a display and thinking that before but that’s exactly how they affected me. They calmed my soul.
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Comment: Bruce has taken the nuclear option. Only time will tell if it will elicit a positive response or blow up in his face
By Chris Waugh Oct 3, 2019 48
There is no turning back now. Whether calculated or not, and just seven Premier League games into his reign as Newcastle United head coach, Steve Bruce has resorted to what could best be described as the ‘nuclear option’.
Last Sunday’s 5-0 capitulation away to Leicester City was embarrassing and unacceptable. Bruce himself admitted so.
A host of Newcastle players faced the media and accepted collective culpability for the hammering, too. Captain Jamaal Lascelles was among those who apologised to supporters, while Andy Carroll labelled the performance as a “disgrace”. The usually mild-mannered Sean Longstaff was so exasperated he branded the defeat as “fucking embarrassing.”
There was no attempt at pretence. Every player recognised that excuses were inadmissible.
However, despite the humiliation, Bruce’s post-match comments were still extraordinary.
Having told the BBC that the players...
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HPV Vaccination Information for Health Professionals
The HPV vaccine helps protect against 6 types of cancer. It prevents infection by high-risk types of human papillomavirus, or HPV, that cause the majority of cervical, vaginal, vulvar, anal, penile, and oropharyngeal cancers (cancers of the throat and tongue) and genital warts. The American Cancer Society is on a mission to help prevent HPV cancers by working in partnership with health professionals and organizations in the United States and around the world.
Each year, more than 33,000 men and women are diagnosed with HPV-related cancers – cancers that can largely be prevented through vaccination. While more than half of boys and girls in the U.S. get the first dose of the HPV vaccine, too many fail to get the full vaccination series. This means they are not getting the protection against cancer that the vaccine provides.
We work at the national, state, and community level to increase HPV vaccination uptake through education, awareness, and partnerships. Our initiatives seek to advance best practices, support clinic-based interventions, and increase collaboration and leadership among key partners to push the prioritization of the vaccine.
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CLOSER TO CANCER-FREE,
Delta Day of Hope
Hope Ball
Delta Jet Drag
Wings of Hope
Delta Relay For Life
Delta’s support of the American Cancer Society started with local Relay For Life events and has grown into a company-wide, international fundraising campaign. But the program remains an employee-led initiative. From fundraisers at 112 airports in 13 countries on Delta Day of Hope to the Jet Drag event, which pits teams of 20 against a 757 aircraft in an epic tug-of-war battle, Delta people organize and fundraise all year long. There’s even a group of maintenance technicians at Delta’s Technical Operations Center that serves grits every Wednesday for $3 a bowl, with all proceeds supporting the American Cancer Society.
10 years ago, a group of Delta people in the Minneapolis airport who had participated in their community Relay For Life decided to host a Relay in their airport. As they said, "the airport family IS our community." That airport Relay was so successful and inspiring, the effort has spread around the world. Now with over 100 airports hosting Relay For Life fundraising and awareness events on the same day, the Delta Day of Hope is a vital part of Delta's overall campaign to raise $2.25 million this year to support the Society.
The 2018 Hope Ball, presented by Delta and held at Flourish by Legendary Events, was Chaired by Mike Moore, Senior Vice President – Maintenance Operations and Co-Chaired by Tom Marano, CEO of SecurAmerica, and raised just over $687,000.
The annual Jet Drag is one of the most unique fundraisers. A total of 107 teams of 20 people each competed for the fastest time to pull a 127-ton Boeing 757 aircraft 20 feet. About 3,000 participants made for a festive day at Atlanta TechOps. Last year, the LAX Men's Division team, Rain Is Not, walked away with the victory with a winning pull time of 7.410 seconds. Not far behind, the SLC Women's Team finished with a time of 9.463 seconds, Team Bangahz topped the Mixed Division with a time of 8.533 and in the Corporate Division, the IMMEC team finished at 8.879. The top fundraisers were Gretchen's Gazelles, pulling in $131,000 as a team and Mike Weigel, who raised $17,000 individually.
Wings of Hope Golf Tournament
In 2018, the 6th annual Delta Wings of Hope golf tournaments took place in New York on July 16th at the Muttontown Club and in Atlanta on September 10th at the Druid Hills Golf Club. The golf tournaments also include brunch or dinner and a post-golf reception. The Delta Wings of Hope tournament in New York raised just over $296,500 with an additional $256,800 raised from the Atlanta tournament. The Delta Wings of Hope tournaments together broke $550,000 including $256,800 from the Atlanta tournament. On the main page, it states "Delta has partnered with the American Cancer Society for 17 years beginning with local Relay For Life events and growing into a company-wide, international fundraising campaign. "
Delta has partnered with the American Cancer Society for 17 years beginning with local Relay For Life events and growing into a company-wide, international fundraising campaign.
Cancer is something that affects all of us.
Heidi G. - Customer Care
In 2018, Delta's campaign included Relay For Life events (called Delta Day of Hope) in 112 airports in 13 countries, a corporate Relay For Life at our headquarters in Atlanta, golf tournaments in Atlanta and New York, and the Hope Ball in Atlanta, GA. “It’s still very much a grassroots effort, with frontline Delta people making it possible,” said Kelley Moore, Director – Airport Customer Service Communication and Employee Engagement. More than 50,000 employees and customers around the world supported the efforts to raise $2.2 million to support the Society’s lifesaving mission last year. “Whether you’ve experienced cancer firsthand or have a friend or family member that has battled this terrible disease, the reality remains that cancer touches everyone’s life," explained Bill Lentsch, Senior Vice President Airport Customer Service and Airline Operations. “That’s why our people champion this cause every year, to change that reality and play an active role in finishing the fight.” Through fundraising efforts, the airline has contributed more than $13 million in the fight against cancer and has set a goal of raising $2.25 million for the Society in 2019.
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Enjolras
Alexandre-Marie Enjolras
Canon Les Misérables
Abilities French things.
Known Allies Venus, Marius, Courfeyrac, Joly, Éponine, Cosette, Cinderella, Aunemee, Lady (deceased), Gavroche (deceased)
Player Yami
"Bonjour!"
---Enjolras
Enjolras was a District 5 Tribute who was crowned the Victor of Arena 08.
I heard he's not actually from France. I heard he's from Montreal.
No but really.
Enjolras was born in 1806. The only son of a wealthy family from France's Aquitaine region, he moved to Paris in 1822 to study at Lycée Louis-le-Grand. As a young man, he became involved with the Montagnard Republican movement of the day, and allied himself with the Societé des droits de l'homme and the Societé des amies du peuple. To combat the anti-assembly laws of the July Monarchy, republican organizations met in groups of twenty men or less, and Enjolras fell into a section known as the Societé des les Amis de l'ABC or the Society of the Friends of the ABC. (The ABC bit is a pun as it's pronounced "a-bay-say" in French, which sounds similar to abaisse, the French word for "abassed" or "oppressed". They considered themselves a "society" as their aim was the education and elevation of the people.)
Les Amis was comprised mostly of younger men, all between the ages of 24 and 32. With his friends Courfeyrac and Combeferre, Enjolras formed the leadership of the section. They met several times a week at one of two cafés in Paris and discussed politics and plans for popular revolt against the monarchy. Eventually, their plans came to fruition and, with other small republican groups, Les Amis hijacked the funeral of a popular general and republican icon, and formed a barricade.
It um, didn't go so well.
In the Games (under construction) Edit
"Are you suggesting a, how to you say, Ménage à trois?"
(It's a fucking French word, you stupid idiot!)
Enjolras was brought to Panem slightly prior to Arena 06. His notable alliances in the Capitol were Daniel Jackson, a Tribute who arrived at around the same time, and Little Rock, another Tribute from District 5. Within that Arena, he and Little Rock accidentally killed Lady with a bayonet. He also met Javert, an inspector he knew from Paris, who had been turned into a zombie (which was um, something), and formed alliances with Thane Krios, Chibi-Usa Tsukino, and Bucky Barnes. He was rescued from a close call by Punchy, and was decapitated in week 5.
During the break, he began seeing Valeria Rushlit, a stylist from District 3, socially. This was an attempt to learn more information about the Games from someone both involved in the Games and native to the Capitol. He also met Oscar François de Jarjeyes, Venus Dee Milo, Cinderella, and Maximus Decimus Meridius. He rescued Aunamee from an attack shortly before Arena 07. Oh, and Venus told him off for being a pearl clutching idiot over her tank top and shorts.
Also Marius Pontmercy finally showed up.
When Ariadne was executed, he was given a cuff with the District 5 insignia, marking him as a troublemaker and traitor to the Capitol.
The Capitol arranged for a very doctored video of the Tributes to be distributed. Enjolras was appalled over the manipulation of his words and image, but in his righteous indignation he met Neffa a Rayeth. Who he... Did not get along with one bit.
Within Arena 07 , he assisted Damian Wayne and was killed by Venus Dee Milo. They didn't really get along and she snapped his neck from behind which kind of soured things between them. Who saw that one coming.
The Capitol held a date auction, at which Venus flipped him off. This fixed everything. He also made plans with Cinderella to start distrubuting seditious pamphlets, and met Azula, a mentor for District 5. Enjolras doesn't like her, not one bit, nope.
He hid for most of Arena 08 , avoiding most of the other Tributes. He encountered Venus Dee Milo and the two talked philosophy in the murderdome. He also met Guy Crood , who gave him an umbrella. At the climax of the Arena, Enjolras observed Garrus Vakarian attacking Ellie and intervened. It was too late for Ellie, but Enjolras dealt a fatal blow to Garrus and thus, won Arena 08. This may or may not have followed a very non-French Catholic, very spontaneous suicide attempt. Winning is still ideological losing and we can't have that.
Back at the Capitol, he hid again, avoiding everyone this time out of shame instead of pragamatism. The Capitol erected (pun intended) a giant statue in his honor, styled after the David. Timaeus Nadir , a sponsor with whom he had some past dealings arranged for a party. Enjolras was forced to attend. On the upside, he met Cosette and decided she wasn't so bad even if Marius is still a moron around her, and re-met Aunamee while he actually wasn't bleeding out. On the downside, he also had a giant temper tantrum in Timaeus' general direction which is a great way to begin a career as a mentor.
His crowning was a giant, collective dream, orchestrated by the Capitol scientists, using biological samples from Aunamee (who is a telepath wtf). At the crowning, Marius told Enjolras about his plans to marry Cosette, ask him to be his best man. It was awkward. Venus kissed him, and that was more awkward. It was just awkward. He also suffered negative side effects from the injections given to him by the Capitol, and fell into a collective nightmare with a few other attendees. There, he met Justin Law and the two talked about the Terror while a giant guillotine loomed over them. It was scenic.
Enjolras and Cinderella resumed their paper again, with a new partner.
Further to the rebellious end of things... The mysterious network hacker struck again and Enjolras stupidly engaged, not just with the anonymous hacker, but with other anonymouses. He worked himself into a tizzy, and asked Venus to get him drunk enough to forget that the network exists at all. This ended with things more of a mess between them.
Like a jerk, he asked Venus to be his escort to Marius' wedding (via note no less). There was a giant crab monster there, it was scary. Plus why would Marius get married in Panem? Is he dumb or high or both?
Thankfully Courfeyrac showed up! Courfeyrac makes everything better! And Courfeyrac is in Cinderella's District! Providence be praised!
On the District Tours he met Hans , a new Tribute for District 5.
He and Azula are presently avoiding each other or talking smack behind each other's backs, the Initiate still freaks him out, Kankri is also a troll but less scary, Hans is a prince and thinks it matters, and Shepard is just a problem all around. Oh, and he's still awkwardly holding hands with Venus and pointedly not talking about it.
THIS WILL BE A LIST
OF ALL THE GREAT THINGS
ENJY CAN DO!
His name was revealed to Venus as Alexandre-Marie, which is short for Alexandre-Marie Isidore Marat Enjolras.
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By David Hoos
17 min read / Last Updated: December 21, 2018
It’s not always wise to copy others, but you can develop good test ideas through comparison. Here’s how to get started with effective comparative reviews.
Recently, one of our clients asked us, “What makes a great SaaS (software as a service) website?”
That’s a question we hear in one form or another on a regular basis. While conversion optimization is a method that’s most widely applied in ecommerce, we also use comparative reviews to help lead generation and SaaS brands optimize their websites.
So What Is a Comparative Review?
Comparative reviews entail critiquing the design techniques other successful companies use in order to help you generate ideas of your own. Comparative reviews are inexpensive, often enlightening aids to the conversion optimization process.
During a review, our team walks you through the critique process to help you (and new team members) learn to develop a critical eye for site design
Now, because it’s not strictly data-driven, you won’t know whether you’re basing your views on what’s working or not. That’s why we recommend using this method strictly to help you develop better test ideas and design opinions, and to avoid making sweeping changes based on the results of your comparative reviews.
The Comparative Review Process
The case study approach we use in this article shows you the kinds of things our team looks for when we perform comparative reviews for clients. We’ll use multiple examples from industry-leading SaaS sites to keep the process simple, but this method can be applied just as easily to an ecommerce website.
If you want to learn more about how to perform your own comparative reviews, you’ll find plenty of inspiration and direction here.
First, we’ll list some of the primary factors our teams at The Good look for when reviewing a website. Then, we’ll use them to briefly analyze a selection of SaaS sites.
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Setting the foundation for the critique
Like ecommerce websites, there are two things SaaS websites should do well:
Help prospects research solutions to their problem.
Help prospects convert into a subscriber, lead, or customer.
Elements on the page should support those two goals. Within a few seconds of viewing your landing page, prospects should be interested enough to stay and either learn more or take an action.
The primary guidelines we’re going to use to evaluate these sites include the following:
Focus each page around one CTA. Keep it simple by giving each page one purpose.
Position a clear and powerful value proposition above the fold to let your prospects know why you’re the best choice.
Include clear pictures of the product. Let your prospects see what they’re getting.
Include a video. Help them understand the benefits of your tool with a quick two-minute walk through.
Include a demo. Help your prospects imagine themselves using it.
Include a free trial. Let your prospects test drive your products to really engage them.
Include the tech essentials. Tell prospects about the security, speed, IT, service, and team details for your product.
Make it easy for prospects to contact you. Provide easy-to-find contact information.
Show your competence with pages that load quickly (three seconds or less), immediately identify your company and its products or services, and offer easy-to-follow navigation.
In addition, our own experience has also shown us some practices that hurt conversions. Here’s a short list of those:
Industry jargon can impress your competitors but lose your customers.
Pop-ups and forceful selling techniques can send visitors packing.
A focus on you instead of them will make them quickly lose interest.
We’ll illustrate both the good and the bad in the following comparative review examples.
Comparative Review Case Studies
Site: Xero
What they’re doing well: Clean header navigation
What needs to be fixed: Lack of a value proposition
Discussion: Visitors to your website should never feel overwhelmed by content. They should immediately know where they are and what the site offers. Xero keeps it clean and simple. Color coordination helps with navigation, though providing multiple CTAs (calls to action) is potentially distracting.
On the downside, while Xero is clear about what they do (online accounting software for small businesses), they don’t tell visitors why they’re a better choice than any of the numerous other SaaS sites in their niche.
The tagline at the top left reads “Beautiful business.” In most cases, the last thing someone seeking an online accounting solution cares about is whether or not the product is “beautiful.” In most cases, an easy to use and well-supported website is much more valuable than one that looks good but doesn’t perform.
Site: Active Network
What they’re doing well: One CTA stands out on the page
What needs to be fixed: Jargon for a value proposition
Discussion: We love landing pages that present one clear and unmistakable call to action. Active Network does that with one short “Contact Us” suggestion inside a button that stands out plainly from the rest of the page.
Unfortunately, visitors aren’t provided a clear picture of exactly what Active Network does. The abundance of jargon fails to focus on the prospect. Which activities get powered? Are they a data processing company? The track shoes and “Active” give us a strong clue this company focuses on sports or fitness, but that’s still a big category. Do they work with ecommerce websites that sell athletic shoes? Do they work with college athletic departments?
If visitors are unsure about whether the site is right for them at first glance, many will leave to find a provider that knows the customer and the customer’s needs.
Beyond that, the homepage photo and message are on a slider. It moves approximately every eight seconds, but all the slides are as unclear as the first.
On the positive side, Active does a good job of providing social proof icons that highlight their customers, a link to “read success stories,” and social media connection icons (see the screenshot above).
BambooHR
Site: BambooHR
What they’re doing well: The copy focuses on the prospect, not on the company. Clear benefit statement.
What needs to be fixed: Split CTA could cause confusion
Discussion: This site provides an excellent example of how to let prospects self-identify. If you’re in human resources and you’re tired of focusing on processes instead of people, BambooHR has a solution for you. Instead of saying “Our software focuses on people …” the copywriting here gets personal and “lets you focus on people, not processes.”
The illustration suits the topic, and the page is clear and uncluttered. Our only suggestion is to present visitors with just one CTA. Offer them a free quote or provide a free trial; both are fine, but don’t shoot for two. Give visitors one choice. In this case, it may be better to provide a CTA to “Find out more”—then offer a quote or a free trial after the prospect knows more about the product.
Scroll down to see the BambooHR Overview (see the screenshot above). It’s an attractive series of videos about the company, its products, and its career opportunities. Farther down, you’ll find a list of “Bamboo Awards.”
NOTE: Choose how you’re going to present your company name and stick to it. This company uses “bambooHR” on navigation tabs, but “BambooHR” elsewhere. That can only serve to confuse visitors and make the company appear inconsistent.
Site: Dropbox Business
What they’re doing well: Simple and clear
What needs to be fixed: Double CTAs
Discussion: We’re not completely sold on the primary benefit statement, “Work better, safer, together,” because all three terms are generic and non-specific. However, we like the explanation that Dropbox “simplifies your work, with a central place to access and share files.” The lack of clutter and to-the-point copy makes this site stand out.
Here again, the two CTAs present a problem. Each page should lead the prospect naturally from one step to the next along the path to purchase. Each time you make them stop and think, you’re giving them a reason to come back when they have more time to consider the idea—and that could be a long way down the road.
Scrolling down on the Dropbox Business homepage, you get pricing and a list of features. Dropbox uses the classic sales technique of providing three choices and highlighting the one providing the “best value.” Great idea.
After a few seconds, a chat box will pop up (see the screenshot above).
Keep scrolling to find customer testimonials and icons of teams using Dropbox Business. At the bottom of the page is a list of FAQs.
At the bottom of the homepage, Dropbox claims to be “The best sharing and storage solution for your business.” That’s a fairly broad and unsubstantiated claim. It’s best to stay believable and factual with your sales copy. If you can’t prove it, don’t say it.
Flow Project Management
Site: Flow Project Management
What they’re doing well: One CTA
What needs to be fixed: Potential for confusion about product
Discussion: Flow provides one clear and concise “Get Started Now” CTA button at page center. However, this button links to the same page as the “Start Free Trial” button in the header. Best practice would be to get rid of the header button or use the same CTA copy on both.
Another potential confusion point is the illustration, which is an animation of the Flow dashboard. However, starting out with the “Mobile App 2.0” image could cause visitors to assume Flow is a mobile app only.
Ecommerce page design best practice is to avoid confusion completely. Scour your site for places that could create doubt in your prospect’s mind and address the issues immediately.
Scrolling down on the Flow homepage, you’ll see social proof icons (see the screenshot above). Because there is no copy to provide context for these icons, It’s not clear whether those companies actually use Flow or not. If they do use Flow, why not brag about it?
The assertion that Flow is “The easiest way to manage any project …” fails the believability test. There are plenty of other good project management options. It would be tough to prove that Flow is the easiest.
However, the copy below that offers a much better selling point: “From simple checklists to kanban boards, we’ve got you covered.” Simple checklists and kanban boards are real-life examples of tools many project management prospects are seeking.
We’ll give the same advice to Flow that we gave to Dropbox Business: Dispense with the hype. Use copy that visitors will perceive as realistic and desirable.
Site: Mailchimp
What they’re doing well: Short, succinct, targeted copy
What needs to be fixed: The “What You Can Do” drop-down menu is confusing
Discussion: We love the Mailchimp homepage. The bird moves and changes to catch the eye. the copy is short and engaging, and there’s just one call to action.
The only negative here is that the “What You Can Do” drop-down menu in the header (shown above) opens up a slew of choices that counteracts the simplicity of the page and could confuse the visitor.
Scrolling takes you to a condensed version of “What You Can Do,” and then to a testimonial, some informative links, social proof (above), and another CTA.
We’d probably back off on the length of the scroll and stay focused on getting sign-ups. All told, though, Mailchimp provides an excellent example of simple, to-the-point digital marketing.
Site: InVision
What they’re doing well: Offers a separate entry point for Enterprise visitors in navigation
What needs to be fixed: Long page scroll
Discussion: InVision offers one CTA, but complicates the appearance by providing an email address entry box next to the button. We would want to test this approach against collecting the email address after the button click.
The delineation between free users and enterprise customers is helpful. However, the descriptive copy may be too long and too extravagant; “world’s best” and “world’s most powerful” are subjective at best and may be received as over-the-top hype. We’d test those for user experience effect.
Scrolling down, InVision does an excellent job with citing social proof (see the screenshot above). It’s initially unclear if they are clients, but if you keep scrolling, you see testimonials from individuals.
In the footer, you’ll find detailed content options that speak to engaged visitors. Just above that is a final CTA to get started.
Site: Slack
What they’re doing well: Simple messaging speaks directly to prospects
What needs to be fixed: The illustration tends to move eyes the wrong way
Discussion: It’s tough to fault Slack. If you’re looking for a pattern to learn from, this site is among our top ten recommendations. We do note, though, that the full-page view has the man in the green jacket pulling eyes away from the CTA. Best practice is to make every part of the page direct focus to the call-to-action button.
Scroll down to learn more about Slack and how it can work for each department, from Sales to HR. Following that, you’ll see an excellent testimonial/social proof section (see the screenshot above) with links to case studies.
One call to action on the homepage, an easy option for current members to sign in to their workspaces, and a clear header menu with nothing but the essentials—Slack is darn near the poster child for website design.
Site: Optimizely
What they’re doing well: Social proof on the homepage.
What needs to be fixed: Demo video on the homepage.
Discussion: Here’s why the demo video on the homepage may not be a good idea: it leads the visitor away from the CTA. Yes, it presents another CTA on the linked page (see the screenshot below), but watching a 10-minute video may not seem appealing to the prospect. It could result in the loss of a lead.
We’re calling them the way we see them, but please understand this: we’re not always correct in our assumptions. That’s why we test ideas before making changes. Sometimes what we think will happen does happen, and sometimes it doesn’t. Either way, learning takes place.
How can Optimizely determine the truth? Test to learn.
Given that this platform is all about testing, we’ll have to assume the Optimizely team is on top of this—so here’s another HUGE lesson: What works well for another company’s site might not convert well on yours. Test, test, test—that’s the only way to find out for sure.
We’re not so wild about the “world’s leading experimentation platform” claim (in the headline copy), but we’ll assume Optimizely has the facts to back it up. If that’s the case, that data should be readily available to the visitor. Truth is a trust-builder. Blowing smoke isn’t.
After a scroll through info about the company, the bottom row shows social proof and case studies. We love that Optimizely uses social proof on the homepage. Here’s one more thing we like: Optimizely copy talks directly to YOU. Personalization is strong on this site.
Site: Uber
What they’re doing well: Allows the visitor to self-sort
What needs to be fixed: The illustration may not be the best choice
Discussion: Uber cuts to the chase to let visitors identify themselves as either a prospective driver or a prospective rider. Copy is brief and to the point. The Drive button is highlighted in blue, but we’d test putting some color onto the Ride side to make it more apparent.
Our biggest question is about the photograph. We get that it’s projecting a carefree, hand-waving-in-the-wind feeling. Maybe that works. From the rider’s point of view, though, the main concern is typically to get from one point to another quickly, safely, and without busting the bank.
Scrolling down, we see the info we really want to know about: how much will it cost for the ride? We’d test linking that option from the main menu, or maybe even making it the primary CTA.
Scroll down to view information on other Uber services, an assurance that safety is a priority, and news about the company and its Visa card.
One issue we encountered is that once we clicked the Uber eats link to find out which restaurants near us are delivering, there was no clear direction back to either getting a ride or getting a job.
Another concern is that the illustrations (see the screenshot above) for other “Beyond ridesharing” services aren’t clickable.
Google Business Solutions
Site: Google Business Solutions
What they’re doing well: Clear, compelling copy
What needs to be fixed: CTA is deceiving
Discussion: We know—it’s Google. How could Googlers do anything wrong? We would call them out for the two CTAs, but here’s the rub: both link to the same page.
Does that sound a little deceptive and under-the-table to you? No doubt, it’s effective. For most companies, though, the potential backlash probably wouldn’t be worth the risk.
We love Google copywriting, though. The messaging is clear and compelling: “Get your business on Google.”
Scroll down (see the screenshot above) and the first thing you’ll encounter is Google Ads—this is no accident. Most of Google’s substantial income flows in via ads, and the company isn’t shy about helping visitors get on board as advertisers.
Keep scrolling to find other ways you can get started with the free versions of Google tools; test your site’s load speed; learn how to earn money with AdSense and AdMob; and then access links to everything Google does for business.
All told, this site is simple and effective.
Kudos to Google.
Site: Microsoft
What they’re doing well: Minimalistic design
What needs to be fixed: Multiple CTAs
Discussion: What’s the purpose of the Microsoft homepage? Is it to encourage visitors to try Microsoft Edge? Is it to sell the Surface Book 2? No, hold it, that photo is on a slider that moves about every six seconds, and also pitches the Surface Pro 6 and Surface Laptop 2.
And if that’s not enough confusion for you, check the icons below the illustration. Yes, Microsoft has mastered the art of minimal copy (perhaps), but they’ve done it by naming every worm in the can.
Scroll down and it gets even more complicated (see the screenshot above). However, one could argue that Microsoft is wisely enabling visitors to self-select the product they’re looking for, and that this is the most effective way for the tech giant to arrange their ecommerce website. How could that be determined? You know the answer: test variations.
Keep scrolling to find trending products, info on Microsoft for work, and even an offer to join the “Empower Possibility” contest. At the bottom is a pitch for why you should shop at the Microsoft Store.
Keep Going with Your Own Comparative Review
Here’s something to keep in mind:
Comparative reviews can be a rich source of ideas, but they’re not a data-driven way to make decisions. They can point the way, but they can’t tell you what works and what doesn’t work.
Remember: what boosts conversions for one company may fall flat on another company’s site.
Use comparative reviews to develop concepts to test, not concepts to implement. The quickest way to success is by developing a rigorous testing program that will move ideas from the “Looks good” category to “Sells like hotcakes” category.
Test, test, test … then test again. That’s the path to steady improvement. Tests not only show you what works best now; monitoring the results of ongoing tests alerts you quickly to what’s not working any longer.
One final note: Once you’ve completed your comparative review, you’ll need to develop experiments to test your hypotheses.
If you need help ramping up your A/B testing and conversion rate optimization efforts to turn your comparative reviews into paying customers, contact The Good.
About the author: David Hoos is the Director of Marketing at The Good, conversion rate experts who deliver more revenues, customers, and leads. David and the team at The Good have made a practice of advising brands on how to see online revenue double through their conversion rate optimization services.
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Margee Shelly stands amidst winter clothing and apparel at St. Paul's Anglican Church in Minden.
More time to share the warmth as campaign extended
Lisa Gervais
Margee Shelly stands in St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Minden, surrounded by winter clothing. There are coats, boots, toques and mitts. There are also lined pants, snow pants and warm wooly sweaters.
She’d just as soon see the room empty, though.
The SIRCH program co-ordinator is in the middle of not just clothes, but the annual Share the Warmth campaign. An initiative of SIRCH Community Services, it helps families and seniors stay warm all winter by distributing free coats and winter outerwear.
Organizers announced last week that the collection period has been extended to Nov. 11. They’ve already had two giveaway days, last Thursday in Minden and this past Saturday in Haliburton.
“It’s been on and off,” Shelly told The Highlander on Oct. 24. “Quite a bit is going out the door, actually. There’s families picking up things for other families, for friends, or sisters or other kids so this is fabulous.”
She said that up to now, they haven’t received as many children’s coats and accessories as they’d like, but she’s also aware that local families often swap clothing.
However, she is putting out a call for more donated children’s clothing and boots. She added they’ll take anything, always looking for various sizes. They also want snow pants. But, “We will take anything that’s meant for winter.”
A woman strolls up with a bag full of items.“I’ve got two coats, nine socks and two mitts,” the woman says. “Thank you.” As Shelly writes the items in a ledger, she tells the woman to “take a coffee or hot chocolate if you want.”
Shelly says the reaction to the giveaway has been very positive.
She said two couples showed up at 9 a.m. with big families with children and grandchildren.
“The one particular couple, the gentleman who came in, he was over the moon, ‘oh my goodness, thank you so much’.”
Another woman strolls up and says, “I think a lot of people have a hard time coming,” due to stigma. She knew of a family in need so came to shop for them.
If you would like to contribute, bring clean, gently used coats and outerwear to Haliburton Foodland, Todd’s Independent, Algonquin Outfitters, or SIRCH (49 Maple Ave., second floor).
You can also drop off your items in Minden at Dollo’s Foodland, Easton’s ValuMart and St. Paul’s Anglican Church.
Items are being accepted until Nov. 11.
In addition, two more giveaway days will take place in November (dates and locations to be announced). For more information call SIRCH at 705-457-1742.
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Consumer bureau releases short-term lending rule meant to curb debt traps
By Sylvan Lane - 10/05/17 12:37 PM EDT
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a long-anticipated rule Thursday that's meant to protect short-term, high-interest loan customers from being trapped with debt.
The CFPB’s action targets lenders that offer small loans with short payback timeframes and interest rates, often called “payday” loans. Such loans, which sometimes use car titles as collateral, are often used by low-income customers in need of extra money to cover basic expenses.
The CFPB’s rule is the final step of a years-long effort to hold payday and car title lenders to stricter standards that could hamper much of the industry. CFPB Director Richard Cordray called the rule “a stop to the payday debt traps that have plagued communities across the country.”
“Too often, borrowers who need quick cash end up trapped in loans they can’t afford.” Cordray said. “The rule’s common sense ability-to-repay protections prevent lenders from succeeding by setting up borrowers to fail.”
The rule creates new restrictions and standards for small-dollar lenders before they offer loans. Lenders will have to confirm that customers could afford to pay off any lump sum loan, plus all fees, within two weeks. Customers would have to be able to afford highest monthly payments for longer-term loans.
Customers seeking short-term loans of less than $500 would be given longer timelines to pay off their debt. Borrowers would be given a month to pay off such loans, and lenders can give up to two extensions to customers in need of more time. Only customers who’ve paid off one-third of the loan’s principal would be eligible for extensions. The longer timeframe does not apply to car title loans.
“Loans like these are heavily marketed toward financially vulnerable consumers,” Cordray said during a call with reporters. “They will probably face the same cash shortfall when they get their next paycheck, only now they have the added cost of loan fees.”
These provisions are meant to protect customers from landing in cyclical debt, Cordray said. CFPB studies have found that four of every five short-term loan customers re-borrow the loan with added fees and interest and that the average short-term loan is re-borrowed nine times.
Lenders are also banned from offering three such loans “in quick succession” and cannot make loans under the longer repayment option if the customer already took out more than six short-term loans or owed money on short-term loans for more than 90 days over a rolling 12-month period.
“Our research has shown the business model for payday and auto title lenders is built on miring people in debt," Cordray said. "Lenders actually prefer customers who will reborrow repeatedly.”
The rule also places limits on how far lenders can go to collect money owed for short-term loans. Lenders would only be allowed to unsuccessfully charge debtors accounts’ twice before requiring further permission from the customer. That provision is meant to prevent bank overdraft fees from adding to the debt burdens of people struggling to pay back short-term lenders.
Cordray said the rule isn't meant to limit safer loan options from community banks and credit union. The rule exempts lenders who make fewer than 2,500 qualifying short-term loans each year and derives less than 10 percent of its income from short-term loans. It also doesn’t apply to loans authorized as safe payday alternatives by the National Credit Union Administration, the chief federal credit union regulator.
Cordray said the rule was based on five years of research, several field hearings and more than 1 million comments. He said the final version included specific requests from community banks, credit unions and other financial firms meant to safeguard safer short-term lending options.
Progressive nonprofits and consumer-rights groups praised the CFPB soon after its release.
“The CFPB rule limits payday lenders’ ability to put families into a vicious cycle of debt by adopting the common sense requirement that lenders consider a borrower’s ability to repay and by restricting the number of unaffordable back-to-back loans,” said Lauren Saunders, associate director of the National Consumer Law Center. “These protections are an important step forward and should mean fewer families will face financial devastation."
Sen. Sherrod Brown Sherrod Campbell BrownSunday shows preview: Lawmakers gear up for Senate impeachment trial Hillicon Valley: Biden calls for revoking tech legal shield | DHS chief 'fully expects' Russia to try to interfere in 2020 | Smaller companies testify against Big Tech 'monopoly power' Lawmakers call for FTC probe into top financial data aggregator MORE (Ohio), ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, also lauded the rule.
“The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s rule will crack down on shady payday lenders that saddle borrowers with triple-digit interest rates and cost Ohioans over $500 million year in fees alone,” Brown said. “Payday lenders have exploited loophole after loophole to trap working people in debt, and this rule will help put an end to their abusive practices."
Much of the financial services industry panned the rule soon after its release, arguing it would limit lending options for vulnerable consumers with few resources.
“The CFPB whiffed at an opportunity to provide assistance to the millions of Americans experiencing financial hardship,” said Richard Hunt, president of the Consumer Bankers Association. He argued the rule "would drive Americans to pawnshops, offshore lenders, high-cost installment lenders and fly-by-night entities."
Hunt said the CFPB should have worked with banks and regulators to bolster cheaper, safer short-term lending options such as deposit advances instead of cracking down on a wide swath of lenders.
The payday rule will likely be challenged in court, and Republican lawmakers are expected to attempt to repeal the rule though the Congressional Review Act. That law gives Congress the power to repeal administration regulations within 60 days of their finalization.
The rule is likely one of the last major CFPB regulations released under Cordray, whose term ends in July. Cordray, the former Democratic attorney general of Ohio, has been rumored to be considering a run for governor. Several financial services lobbyists have said they expect Cordray to resign from the CFPB to run for governor soon after the release of the payday rule.
Cordray has said he doesn't plan to leave the CFPB early, and his limited by federal law from discussing or starting a campaign until he leaves the bureau.
Updated at 3:31 p.m.
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Promoting children's learning outcomes in conflict-affected countries: evidence for action in Niger
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Photo: Children walking to school in Niger’s Diffa region. Photo credit: UNHCR/flickr under license CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Children in conflict-affected countries (CACs) experience profound constraints on their academic learning and socioemotional well-being. Children exposed to violence and poverty come to "school" (formal or non-formal education settings) with poor executive function skills (e.g. working memory, inhibition, attention), emotional/behavioral regulation skills and social-information-processing skills. And the formal and non-formal "schools" they attend rarely use effective strategies to advance their academic and socioemotional skills.
What can be done? This project aims to develop both scientific and practical knowledge about how to lift these constraints on children in CACs like Niger. First, we propose to adapt and test novel, low-cost, targeted interventions (LCTs) like Mindfulness (MI) and Brain Games (BG) designed to improve children's executive function, emotional/behavioral regulation and social information-processing skills and, subsequently, their literacy and numeracy skills and socioemotional well-being.
Second, even when interventions like MI and BG work, they often work better for some children, in some classrooms and schools, and under some conditions than for others. So this study will examine whether variability in the quality of implementation (e.g. dosage, fidelity) of MI and BG results in the variability in their impacts on children's learning and development in Niger.
Third and finally, these types of complex interactions among students, teachers, "schools" and program interventions (like remedial support programs) are embedded in larger systems and broader contexts that may constrain or enable quality implementation of program strategies (such as MI and BG). But there is very little high-quality, rigorous research, grounded in social and systems theories, available in CACs to understand how these higher-level systems influence the dynamic interactions of schools, programs, classrooms, teachers and students. So we will conduct a theory-building qualitative study embedded in the school cluster-randomized field test of MI and BG and their implementation. Through this project, we hope to (a) achieve a dynamic, multi-level understanding of efforts to improve learning processes and outcomes for refugee, IDP, and local children in Niger and other CACs; (b) contribute to the synthesis of the developmental, educational, prevention and social sciences in theory and method; and (c) have a catalytic effect on the education in emergencies sector by identifying effective, scalable strategies that improve children's learning and development.
John Lawrence Aber
Jeannie Annan
Through the activities described in the "Pathways to Impact" attachment, we will proactively build links and relationships throughout all stages in the development and implementation of this proposal. We will continue to engage a broad range of direct and potentially indirect beneficiaries.
PRINCIPAL DIRECT BENEFICIARIES:
The International Rescue Committee in Niger, as well as the other 12+ conflict-affected countries in which they are providing education in emergencies. IRC benefits from this research by: (1) advancing their commitment to becoming an evidence-using and evidence-generating humanitarian and development aid organization, from country-level staff deeply involved in local program delivery and national policy advocacy to regional and global technical advisory units in Education (programming) and Research, Evaluation and Learning (knowledge generation, management use); (2) facilitating their development of and rigorous evaluations of theories of change; and (3) developing a knowledge base that enables IRC to invest in education strategies that work and discard strategies that do not.
Other international, national and local NGOs working in CACs committed to developing and using evidence-based strategies to educate children both in Niger and in other CACs. These other beneficiaries will potentially benefit from: (1) witnessing the existence proof that NGOs can generate and use research-based strategies to improve children's learning and development; and (2) drawing on the evidence generated outside their organizations to adopt strategies that work inside their organizations.
National and local governments in Niger and other CACs, who are struggling to develop an information infrastructure in their countries and to attract and intelligently spend national and foreign resources to effectively educate their children in the midst of emergencies.
Other policymakers and opinion leaders (e.g. the UN, World Bank) and global initiatives (e.g. Global Partnership for Education).
PRINCIPAL INDIRECT BENEFICIARIES:
If the LCT interventions (Mindfulness, Brain Games) improve the learning and development of children in Niger, then those children, their teachers, parents, and communities will also benefit. (We do not describe children, teachers, parents, and communities as direct beneficiaries because we cannot know a priori that they will benefit from LCTs, which is precisely why we will conduct this study.)
Similarly, if we succeed at the methodological advances and transdisciplinary theory-building to which we aspire, the larger research community, not only in CACs but in other low- and middle-income countries as well, will benefit from these methods and theories. They will also benefit from the existence proof that very high-quality research in the social, behavioral, developmental, and educational sciences can be achieved even under the most difficult socio-political circumstances.
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Three Saint John schools to merge to become incredible 'super school'
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Saint John — Premier Brian Gallant announced Tuesday that the Liberal Party will be investing over $20 million toward building a new school in the Port City. This comes shortly after the announcement that Havelock and Seawood Elementary Schools will not be reopening this September, joining St. Patrick’s Elementary, which was closed last year due to structural problems.
Education minister Serge Rousselle is spearheading the project, which he says is already well into development. “I’ve been planning how I would make my own school ever since I was a young boy,” said an excited Rousselle, “so I’ve given it quite a bit of thought.”
Among Rousselle’s proposed changes are elevators that go upside down, holographic textbooks, and chalkboards that would allow for classroom-to-classroom teleportation.
He opened the tentative building plan on a blueprint that he had crudely drawn in blue crayon. “Over here, we will have a thermonuclear reactor, and in this room we’ll have our cryogenic rest pods, and over there will be our 2-room teachers’ lounge,” he said, before stopping himself. “Oh, but I’ve already said too much!”
Rousselle assured Manatee reporters that he is not only concerned with educational advancements, but that he is also investing in better safety regulations and equipment because, as he says, “safety must always come first.”
“We’ll have foam pencils, bulletproof windows and, uh, a self-destruct button in every classroom! Also, we’ll ensure that the entire building is flame-retardant …” he said. “Uh, wait, sorry … I mean to say ‘flame-challenged.’”
The project as received a great deal of blow-back from the public, with many believing that closing the 3 schools will have a profoundly negative effect on their children’s education, and that Rousselle’s so-called “innovations” are totally unfeasible.
“Some are saying that all this money and power has made me go mad …HA! I say,” he said, extending his index finger over his head. “Why the hell would I be mad about being given $22 million dollars? I think it’s great!”
Although no location or start date for the construction of the school has been officially confirmed, Rousselle says he hopes to start construction in the year 1773, and have the school suspended 30 feet above Scotland.
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Australian kids set new record for vaccinations
News National Australian kids set new record for vaccinations
12:14pm, Jul 7, 2019 Updated: 11:52pm, Jul 7
Despite the anti-vaxxers' campaign, more kids than ever are getting their vital inoculations. Photo: Getty
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The number of fully immunised Australian children has hit a record level, with close to 95 per cent vaccinated against deadly diseases.
New data for the March quarter reveals immunisation rates for all five-year-olds is 94.78 per cent, up from 94.67 per cent in the December quarter.
Australia has world-leading vaccination rates for children with the latest figures well above global vaccination coverage of 85 per cent.
Health Minister Greg Hunt said immunisation saved and protected lives, making it important to keep promoting the benefits of vaccines.
“The latest figures show that the vast majority of parents are hearing the message about the benefits of vaccinations and I am delighted that our public health campaigns and our immunisation programs are protecting all Australians,” he said in a statement.
Immunisation rates also continue to increase for one, two and five year olds, with Victoria and Tasmania both performing above the national rate.
Coverage rates for five-year-old indigenous children are at 96.66 per cent, outstripping the national figure.
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Miley Cyrus gets to banging y’all
Posted on October 2, 2013 by Steven Kaufman in Albums, Music, Pop Project Reviews and tagged Bangerz, Disney, Hannah Montana, ITunes, Mike WiLL Made It, Miley, Miley Cyrus, Pop project, The Pop Project: With Steven Kaufman, WRMU, WRMU 91.1 FM.
Guess what got released early via a iTunes stream guys!?! It’s the new MILEY CYRUS CD!! That’s right, Monday was a glorious day for all the smilers out there. With the stream release, it’s now time for our review of the album that the world….okay, the universe…has been waiting for.
Like many people , I was scared for my life because the new Miley is pretty much one scary and slightly disturbing with a mix of sex appeal that she hasn’t had before. The album title,”Bangerz”, itself just sounds like a bad porno title that was rejected because there was no story or flow with that movie and no one would watch. Well, the bad porno movie I just described to you is pretty much this album in a nut shell. But the no story or musical flow is what makes this album pretty much awesome. The album gives you the feel of what’s it like to be in Miley Cyrus’ head- A jumbled up southern mess of awesomeness.
Produced by her new “beau” Mike WiLL Made It, the bulk of the album is good ole dirty southern hip hop, which works surprisingly well with Miley. At certain points, I felt like I was too white to be listening to Miley Cyrus (which is pretty much the weirdest statement I have stated in my life). The album has it parts of Miley’s pop roots that shows off her vocals. Most of the pop songs are pretty much about her break up with Liam Hemsworth. Miley even gave sampled some past songs like “Push it” and “Stand by me”
This album is pretty much her début album-it’s the new Meet Miley Cyrus. The album gives you a good look into the mindset of Miss Cyrus and the most personal album that she has put out.
What didn’t work?: Nothing actually, this album is a gem!
Rating: 4.5 tongues out of 5
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Former restaurant site in Boca Raton sells for $9.35 million
Hillstone Restaurant Group acquired the 2.5-acre property next to its Houston's restaurant in Boca
Dec.December 23, 2017 01:30 PM
2004 Northwest Executive Center Circle in Boca Raton (Credit: Sun-Sentinel)
Hillstone Restaurant Group bought a former Macaroni Grill location in Boca Raton next door to the company’s Houston’s restaurant.
Hillstone paid $9.35 million for the 2.5-acre property at 2004 Northwest Executive Center Circle, according to the seller, Rosemurgy Properties.
In 2010, Rosemurgy paid $3.39 million for the 6,560-square-foot building that formerly housed a Macaroni Grill restaurant.
Hillstone plans to demolish the old Macaroni Grill building but hasn’t decided what to do with the property, located near a site where the Tri-Rail commuter train system may build a new station.
Glen Viers, vice president of Hillstone, told the Sun-Sentinel that the company has no plans to redevelop its Houston’s restaurant at 1900 Northwest Executive Center Circle in Boca Raton, which opened about 30 years ago. [Sun-Sentinel] – Mike Seemuth
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UCD Moore Centre for Business will transform the future of business learning
UCD College of Business has announced the next evolution of leadership in business education with the UCD Moore Centre for Business. Advancing the vision of the UCD College of Business which is to continuously redefine how business leaders are developed, the revolutionary project is focused on student success and preparing to work in a rapidly changing, global landscape. The new building will open in September 2019.
The project, a key initiative of College’s overall strategic plan to be among the world’s top 50 business schools by 2020, is an exciting co-creation between private philanthropy, corporate support and UCD College of Business to trailblaze the future of business education.
The €20 million investment will fuse the UCD Lochlann Quinn School of Business facilities at the UCD Belfield campus with a bespoke space designed to expand collaboration and interconnectivity between students, faculty and corporate partners around the globe.
Features include the latest advances in interactive learning environments, extensive co-working zones, and transformative learning experiences to integrate data analysis with real-world problem solving. A showcase 320 seat lecture theatre, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Hub, Media Suite, Skills Quarter Support Area, and THINK Lab complete the forward-thinking initiative.
In an increasingly competitive international business environment, the world-class facilities at the UCD Moore Centre for Business champion the global classroom and development of Irish and international business talent to compete effectively in global markets. The mix of invigorating spaces, curriculum and overall student experience will energise a new generation to entwine social and academic life as they develop their passions as tomorrow’s business leaders.
An extraordinary foundational gift donated by Angela Moore in memory of her late husband George, a passionate advocate for excellence in business education, initiated the ambitious concept. Corporate leaders have joined this visionary project and will be announced in due course.
Professor Anthony Brabazon, Dean, UCD College of Business said:
“As Ireland’s leading business school we constantly challenge our offering to ensure we have world-class facilities that present our students every opportunity to excel and differentiate themselves as they enter the world of business. The UCD Moore Centre for Business will allow current and future students to learn in an environment that celebrates innovation, creativity and adaptability—characteristics we know to be valued in the workforce and society as we face bold and audacious global challenges.”
Dr Maeve Houlihan, Associate Dean of the UCD College of Business and Director of UCD Lochlann Quinn School of Business added:
“Our students have told us that when we change spaces, it changes how we teach and what is learned. Through this extraordinary initiative, faculty and staff can now meet our students where, and how, they learn best as we transform the traditional classroom. This is about students, about business, about society and about changing the way we live and work. This is the future of business education.
The UCD Moore Centre for Business allows our students to stretch and thrive both within and outside of the classroom, side by side with faculty and fellow students which is a better representation of how they will work after graduation. This learning environment gives them “a leg up” and experience in developing communication and problem-solving skills, teamwork know-how, and inter-cultural confidence.”
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... When You Look Away
The documentary examines the subject of consciousness in terms of quantum physics in close collaboration with scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute. The film’s narrative form gives the audience the opportunity to follow a process where the results are not presented beforehand, and it raises a series of basic scientific questions such as: What if basic causal relationships in the world do not work like we think they do? Should we understand the relationship between our consciousness and the physical world in a whole new way? What is happening at the science frontier, where accepted truths and wild theories collide? Could a new way of understanding our human consciousness come from an entirely unexpected place?
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Rast Racklyn
Smile. People like smiles.
A black rat in college who desperately wants to be famous and is secretly unhinged. After he's suspended from college, Rast decides to descend into a life of crime, feeling that he can only become famous by being infamous.
Ambiguous Disorder: It's heavily implied he has antisocial personality disorder. Rast seems to loathe being around people, right down to a point where he insults a random civilian just because he's wearing shoes. He constantly has to tell himself to smile and be nice, because he mentally can't do it on instinct.
Asshole Victim: He's murdered by one of Doug's hitmen in the final chapter. Given the sheer amount of innocents he murdered throughout the story, he absolutely deserved it.
Be Yourself: Deconstructed. After spending his whole life pretending to be a nice, selfless person, Rast decides to behave the way he wants to. The problem with this, is that deep down Rast is a violent, egotistical murderer who finds happiness in raping and killing innocent people.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Rast acts nice and friendly in public, but only because he has to force himself to do so. In reality, he's an egotistical Attention Whore, a Jerkass, and a sadist who will murder anyone if it'll help him achieve infamy.
Boom, Headshot!: Gets shot in the back of the head by Doug's hitman.
Break the Haughty: He's humiliated in chapter 2 after a sex tape is leaked online showing him fornicating with two humans—something considered taboo in Stercullo. Given that he's a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing, it's hard to feel sorry for him.
Bring My Brown Pants: After Doug comes very close to killing him in chapter 4, Rast pisses his pants with fright.
Doug: "Suppose I should be glad you didn't shit yourself."
Depraved Homosexual: Rast is gay, and after he rapes and kills Dante and Tomas, he becomes a full-on Serial Rapist.
Disproportionate Retribution: In chapter 16, a teenager calls Rast a "faggy ratty." Rast decides to follow the teenager's family to their home, and later that night, he rapes and murders the entire family.
Does Not Like Shoes: Has a severe aversion to shoes, and always walks around barefooted.
Evil Is Petty: Rast steals twenty dollars from a homeless person just because he could, and passively-aggressively insults a random human being just because he wears shoes.
Fame Through Infamy: His entire motivation. After realizing how hard and pointless it is to get famous, and after he notices that society only seems to care about criminals, Rast decides to become a brutal serial killer/serial rapist in hopes of being one of Stercullo's most infamous murderers.
Freudian Excuse: Deconstructed. His hatred of society and his desperation to become popular is understandable. But various characters (including Linkard Reid, who actually supports Rast) point out that nothing justifies raping and murdering innocent people, even though Rast claims it's the one thing that truly makes him happy.
Hate Sink: Rast is a deconstruction of a Villain Protagonist, and it shows. Nothing about his character is made to be remotely sympathetic.
Interspecies Romance: Rast has absolutely no problem when it comes to fornicating or raping human beings, despite it being taboo in Stercullo.
Narcissist: His Fatal Flaw. Rast thinks he's entitled to being famous, believing he deserves after spending his whole life being "nice." He also thinks he's one of the worst criminals the city has to offer, despite being incredibly incompetent and not reaching the same levels of infamy that Doug reached in the criminal underworld.
The Pig-Pen: Rast rarely showers, has atrocious oral hygiene, and lives in a trash-filled, roach-infested apartment. Even Rast's sister Carla is surprised when she has lunch with him and notices he doesn't stink.
Carla: "You actually smell kinda nice today. Since when do you shower?"
Serial Killer: In addition to filming himself raping innocent people, Rast also murders his victims so he can make multiple snuff films.
Serial Rapist: Turns into one after he realized how much joy he experienced from raping Dante and Tomas.
Smug Snake: Acts like he knows everything about the criminal underworld, but he's really inexperienced and unable to handle himself without Doug and Seamus' assistance.
Surprisingly Sudden Death: He's murdered with absolutely no buildup inside of a gas station.
Villain Protagonist: Deconstructed. Nothing about Rast makes him sympathetic, and you're supposed to be rooting for him to fail. He's a relentless rapist and murderer who willingly assists Douglas and Seamus in their criminal activities and makes snuff films all for the sole purpose of getting famous.
You Dirty Rat!: Rast Racklyn is a disgusting, smelly, anthro rat.
You Need a Breath Mint: Multiple characters openly tell Rast he has bad breath. Dante in particular tells him it smells like cheese and garlic.
Seamus Osgranov
"Sooner or later, all that shit's gonna come out yer ass, pup, and you gonna make a big ol' mess!"
The owner of the Porky's diner and a series of butcher shops. Seamus is also secretly part of an organ harvesting ring, and has had frequent run-ins with Douglas Kevro.
Ain't Too Proud to Beg: While Rast is busy torturing Seamus, he eventually begins to beg Rast to spare him, telling him he can't kill him because they're "friends" and Seamus "made him."
Asshole Victim: He's brutally tortured to death by Rast. Given how he kidnapped and murdered innocent humans for a harvesting ring, and shot up an amusement park, he had it coming.
Bad Boss: Exaggerated. Seamus single-handedly murders his entire crew in his organ harvesting ring, along with his remaining two allies during the Universal Gardens massacre, all so he could hog all of the money he would receive for himself.
Caught with Your Pants Down: Rast catches Seamus masturbating to his sex tape after he barges into his office at the Porky's diner.
Crippling Castration: His penis is cut off by Rast as he's being tortured.
Death by Irony: Seamus made most of his money chopping up and selling body parts. Fitting that Seamus himself is chopped up and sold to one of his butcher shops.
Disproportionate Retribution: In chapter 5, Wayne, one of Seamus' associates, thoroughly lectures him on how he's an incompetent, disgusting idiot. Seamus responds by bashing his skull in with a metal lamp.
Eye Scream: Has his left eyeball gouged out with a spoon and Rast's claws.
Fingore: Some of Seamus' fingers are cut off when Rast tortures him.
Gasshole: Seamus is very flatulent, and isn't shy about passing gas around other people.
Greed: His Fatal Flaw. Seamus will stoop to any levels in order to get rich, whether it's working alongside Douglas, kidnapping humans and selling their body parts, or even conducting a mass shooting inside of an amusement park.
Hate Sink: Seamus is an annoying, gross, idiotic Jerkass who will kill anyone if he can get rich in the process.
Idiot Ball: Seamus plays with this constantly. The two biggest cases are when he murders one of his own employees because he insulted him, and then covers up the murder by burning down his apartment building, and later participates in a mass shooting at an amusement park based solely on a message left by someone (who was in fact Douglas) on the dark web. This eventually gets him killed in chapter 13.
Jerkass: Annoying, rude, and constantly enjoys pissing off people for the sole purpose of being amused by their anger.
Karmic Death: Seamus is murdered by Rast, one of the few people who kept telling him to embrace his dark side.
Large Ham: Figuratively and literally. Seamus is a very noisy, obnoxious anthro who love letting everyone know whenever he's in the room. He also just so happens to be a plump pig.
Manly Gay: He's a masculine, obese anthro who isn't the slightest bit effeminate, and proudly admits that he's homosexual.
Pig Man: He's a corpulent, greedy, anthro pig.
The Pig-Pen: Seamus smells horrible, lives in a disheveled apartment, and shamelessly admits that he hates showering and brushing his teeth—none of which is helped by how he is prone to shitting himself. It's saying something if Rast, who is also listed as this, cannot stand his body odor.
Politically Incorrect Villain: Double subversion. Seamus isn't racist against black people; he just calls them "niggers" because he can, and because he knows it'll irritate the people around him. That being said, Seamus is racist against humans in general, black people included.
Potty Failure: He soils his trousers—or recalls events where he did so—multiple times in the story, mostly out of laziness or because he intentionally wants to gross out others.
Smug Snake: He acts like he's better than Rast and Douglas, but his greedy actions frequently get him in trouble, and he never owns up to any of it.
Stress Vomit: Throws up all over himself shortly after Rast gouges out his eye.
Toilet Humour: He adores farting and constantly grossing out his associates with bodily fluids and waste.
Troll: Seamus frequently tries to get a rise out of people, and seems to enjoy making people angry just for the sake of it.
You Need a Breath Mint: When Seamus get too close to Rast's face in chapter 2, Rast (unintentionally) tells him his breath reeks of onions and beer.
Douglas Sentiino Kevro
"I never got to where I am now without fucking people over."
A prominent mob-like figure who has many connections throughout the city and runs his own criminal empire. He's had frequent run-ins with Seamus Osgranov.
The Bad Guy Wins: He succeeds in finally killing Seamus, his long-time rival, along with Rast, who nearly got him arrested. The ending makes it clear that he's still committing crimes without scrutiny from the police.
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Doug doesn't care who he has to betray and/or kill if it'll result in him either staying out of trouble, or if it'll help him succeed in his schemes. Rast and Seamus find this out the hard way...
Does Not Like Shoes: He finds shoes uncomfortable and doesn't understand how humans can tolerate them. Even when he attends a formal ball, he's barefooted.
Hate Sink: Like the two villains preceding him, nothing about Douglas is redeeming. He's a conniving, overconfident, pragmatic criminal willing to kill anyone who even attempts to mess with his empire.
Karma Houdini: Gets away with everything he's responsible for throughout the story.
Pragmatic Villainy: Doug doesn't immediately resort to killing all the time. Instead, Douglas will spare people or pay them off, because he knows that killing them will only lead to more problems.
Shark Man: He's a giant, burly, anthro tiger shark.
Sharp Dressed Shark: He's almost always wearing dress shirts and slacks, even inside of his shoe store.
Smug Snake: Reconstructed, surprisingly. While he's smarter than both Rast and Seamus, he's also overconfident, and this leads to him underestimating how easily Seamus and Rast can kill him if they wanted to. It's because of this that Douglas inevitably has both of them killed in a way that makes it seem like he had nothing to do with either murder. And then he later arranges an immunity deal that prevents him from going to prison.
Toilet Humour: While he, Rast, and Seamus are all eating pizza in a restaurant, Douglas silently passes gas, just to prove to Seamus why subtlety is so important.
Seamus: "Fuck's sake. Are you trying to say you even fart better than I do now?!"
Doug: "Yes."
Xanatos Speed Chess: Doug is fully aware how easily a plan can go awry, and he's able to swiftly adjust his plans or come up with new ones so he'll end up achieving his goals.
You Need a Breath Mint: After Doug gets too close to Rast in chapter 4, he outright tells Doug to back away because his breath stinks.
Linkard Reid
"I rarely ever change my opinions on people. Just tell it like it is."
A ex-convict and a fan of Rast's snuff films.
Boom, Headshot!: Gets shot in the forehead by Rast.
Brutal Honesty: Reid is one of the few people who blatantly tells Rast that he has no right to even try to make up excuses for what he does.
Manly Gay: He's a chubby, muscular, hairy, cigar-smoking human being who is also homosexual.
Mauve Shirt: He has no connection to any of the main characters' primary plots and doesn't appear until the end of the story. He also serves no purpose in the story besides telling Rast that it's okay to be evil, and to be his scapegoat after Rast rapes and murders an innocent family.
The Scapegoat: Rast gets him to assist in the murders of an innocent family. And then he kills him and leaves his body at the scene, making it appear like he was the only culprit.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Dies after only appearing in two chapters.
"Bump it, bruh!"
One of Rast's gecko friends who attends the same college that he does.
Break the Cutie: He slowly becomes depressed once he realizes that Stercullo is a Wretched Hive as the story progresses—especially because he knows he cant do anything to fix the state of the city. After Rast is murdered, and the killer gets away, Lamson is so distraught that he contemplates leaving the city and letting Stercullo rot.
Nice Guy: Lamson is only recurring character in the story who isn't evil, isn't a Jerkass, and genuinely cares about others and behaves affably.
Plucky Comic Relief: Deconstructed. Lamson starts out as a silly character who's indifferent about the horrible things going on in the world, and mostly exists to lighten up the tone of the story. But as the plot progresses, it becomes clear that Lamson is troubled by the state of Stercullo, and he desperately wants to do something to help society. When Rast is killed in the final chapter, Lamson enters a state of depression, and seriously considers leaving Stercullo because he can't take how pessimistic his environment has become.
Straight Gay: Lamson is homosexual and openly admits it, but he isn't effeminate or camp, and he rarely ever talks about his gay tendencies with anyone—except with Rast, who is also gay.
Totally Radical: He constantly says "dude" and "bruh," along with a few other slang terms, bumps his fist as a form of greeting Rast, and dresses in jerseys while wearing a baseball cap backwards. This has not gone unnoticed.
Rast: "Still dressing like those humans did when it was the nineties on their planet."
Verbal Tic: Has a habit of saying "bruh" at the end of his sentences.
Dante Meadows & Tomas Richardson
Two students who go to the same college as Rast and humiliate him with a sex tape.
Ain't Too Proud to Beg: After Rast rapes both of them and threatens to torture them to death, they confess to making the sex tape and plead for Rast to spare them after he swears he'll release them. He doesn't.
Asshole Victim: Absolutely no one misses them after they're killed. No one even bothers looking for them because several students were so disgusted with what they did.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Both of them treat Rast with kindness and don't shame him when they discover he's a virgin and is about to have sex for the first time. But they're really just two horrible pranksters who only had sex with Rast so they could film it and humiliate him in public.
Crippling Castration: Tomas' penis is sliced in half with a box cutter off-screen.
Interspecies Romance: Both of them are human beings who willingly have sex with Rast, an anthro.
Mauve Shirt: They're introduced in chapter 2 as manipulative pranksters who convince Rast into having sex with them so they could humiliate him in public. Besides this, and being the cause of Rast's Start of Darkness, they have little characterization, and they're killed off in chapter 3.
Small Role, Big Impact: They're both killed at the beginning of chapter 3. However, if it hadn't been for them, Rast never would've started making snuff films and getting into a life of crime.
Straight Gay: They're homosexual and show no overly campy or stereotypical gay mannerisms.
Those Two Guys: The two of them are always seen together.
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Year in review 2017: June saw 'Old Lady Gang' tackling crime in Caswell Hill
Heather Persson, Saskatoon StarPhoenix
Shots fired, man dies in chase
The late-evening calm on a quiet cul-de-sac in Saskatoon’s River Heights neighbourhood turned into seconds of chaos involving a stolen black truck, a smashed police vehicle and what witnesses described as multiple shots being fired. Minutes later and dozens of blocks away, the driver of the suspect vehicle died in a high-speed collision.
The incident began when patrol officers spotted a stolen vehicle around Avenue D North and 33rd Street West. With the help of the air support unit, police attempted to conduct a high-risk traffic stop in the 300 block of Clearwater Place, a typically-quiet street not far from the Henk Ruys Soccer Centre, Lawson Civic Centre and Umea soccer fields.
The air support unit tracked the vehicle until it was involved in a collision at Airport Drive and Circle Drive. The driver, Austin Eaglechief, 22, died. His mother, Agatha Eaglechief, said her son was an intelligent man who liked to read, but suffered from depression and anxiety, and could not escape the relentless cycle of gangs, drugs and crime. She blamed his death on the decision by police to shoot at the truck, saying it likely triggered Austin’s anxiety and caused him to flee.
Chicoine sentencing hearing
Philip Michael Chicoine always chose the youngest when paying women in the Philippines and Romania to live stream the sexual abuse of their children, purely for his own enjoyment.
At a sentencing hearing, the Crown argued for a 17-year prison term, which would be the highest child porn sentence in Saskatchewan by nine years.
Chicoine, 27, rarely moved in the prisoner’s box, his eyes downcast as his graphic, violent conversations with overseas abusers were detailed during the hearing in Saskatoon provincial court. He pleaded guilty in April to 40 charges, including child luring, sharing child porn and arranging to commit sexual offences against children. The offences happened between 2011 and 2017.
In November, the judge delivered a decision sentencing Chicoine to 12 years in prison.
Philip Michael Chicoine, shown in this undated photo, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for creating child pornography of between 12 and 18 victims, some as young as 10 months old.
Gang fights with kindness
A Caswell Hill resident formed an “Old Lady Gang” to battle the problems caused by a criminal hangout in her neighbourhood.
Sherry Wiebe and her neighbours battled to keep control of their yards and homes in spite of gang members and drug users who frequented what Wiebe described as a “meth house” across the back alley.
Besides reporting the crimes to police, Wiebe also tackled the problems in her own way, hoping to bring some positivity back into the neighbourhood with a can of yellow spray paint and her own “old lady gang.”
“I started painting over their tags to try to make them see how ridiculous they look, and just do what they’re doing — kill them with kindness, like, ‘Hey guys, I got a gang too!’ … I should go paint their fence, but then I would go to jail,” she said.
Her own spray paint masterpieces, consisting of butterflies, smiley faces, flowers and hearts, seemed to have the desired effect. The problematic house was later boarded up.
Sherry Wiebe, who is being intimidated by members of a house behind hers, has come up with her own “Old Lady Gang” where she covers up graffiti with her own paintings in Saskatoon on June 19, 2017. Michelle Berg / Saskatoon StarPhoenix
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First-Ever Footage of Deep-Sea Anglerfish Mated Pair
March 23, 2018—A mated pair of deep-sea anglerfish has been filmed in the wild for the first time. The species is a fanfin sea devil—Caulophryne… more
March 23, 2018—A mated pair of deep-sea anglerfish has been filmed in the wild for the first time. The species is a fanfin sea devil—Caulophryne jordani. The larger anglerfish is the female. Its long, flowing spines help it sense the prey that it lures in. When a tiny male finds a mate, it bites on, and stays—a parasite. Their tissues fuse. The male gets nutrients from the female’s blood, and will be at the ready for spawning. No one had ever seen a living pair. Kirsten and Joachim Jakobsen made the discovery while surveying diverse sea life of the Azores, a volcanic island chain of Portugal in the mid-Atlantic.
READ: Deep-Sea Anglerfish Caught Mating in First-of-Its-Kind Video
Kirsten + Joachim Jakobsen / Rebikoff-Niggeler Foundation
Images were taken with the Rebikoff Foundation's LULA1000 manned submersible 800 meters deep in the Azores.
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~ King's last words to Eggsy before his death.
Chester King (also known by his codename Arthur) is a supporting antagonist in the 2015 action-spy-comedy film Kingsman: The Secret Service.
He was the leader of the Kingsman Agency until the events of the film, where it was revealed that he's in league with Richmond Valentine and aids him in his plot to wipe out most of the human race and establish a new world order.
He was portrayed by Michael Caine, who also portrayed Michael Jennings in On Deadly Ground and Arthur Tressler in Now You See Me and Now You See Me 2.
Enlisting Eggsy
Years following the death of fellow agent Lee Urwin, his former partner Harry Hart decides to enlist Lee's son Gary 'Eggsy' Urwin (the protagonist of the series) to the agency, due to Harry's gratitude towards Lee for saving his life during their last mission at the Middle East. During the training of Eggsy and the other candidates, King assigns Eggsy a test: he has to shoot his pet dog JB in order to pass and become the new 'Lancelot'. However, Eggsy refuses to kill his dog (being unaware that the gun only hold blanks), resulting him to fail and a girl named Roxanne to become the new 'Lancelot'.
Betraying His Agency
When the Kingsmen interrogate Professor James Arnold following his escape from several kidnappers (led by the assassin Gazelle) a microchip implanted on Arnold's neck is sent a signal and detonates, killing him. The Kingsmen trace the signal to a facility owned by Valentine, who has recently offered everyone in the world his invention: SIM cards that grant free lifetime calling and Internet connections. Meeting up with Valentine, Hart tracks down to a hate group's church, where Valentine triggers the SIM cards to make the attendants go violent, causing a massacre which nearly killed everyone while Hart ends up being shot in the eye by Valentine.
Determined to avenge his mentor, Eggsy returns to the Kingsmen headquarters to convince King to let him get revenge on Valentine. However, just as King offers a brandy to Eggsy, the latter soon notices that King has a scar on his neck in the same location that Arnold had. This made Eggsy realize that King is actually in league with Valentine and that he set off the microchip that killed Arnold in the first place. Eggsy also realized that King has tipped off Hart's location to Valentine and that he has put poison on his brandy glass in an attempt to kill him to cover his tracks.
Outraged by King's treachery against his very own agency, Eggsy slyly switches the drinks, causing King to poison himself by accident. Just as King succumbs to the poison, he reveals to Eggsy that Valentine plans to cull the human race by transmitting his "neurological wave" worldwide via satellite network in the next few hours, believing this will avert the extinction of the human race to bring in a new world order. King then calls Eggsy a 'dirty little fucking prick' before finally succumbing to his death by the poison. His position as Arthur would later be taken by Sir Giles following the deaths of Valentine and his forces.
It was later revealed in Kingsman: The Golden Circle that Hart actually survived being shot by Valentine (despite having lost his eye in the process) as he and Eggsy attempt to foil a plot (formulated by Poppy Adams) that involves taking down the Kingsman Agency and controlling the worldwide drug economy.
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Home Church Thousands Celebrate the World’s Largest Epiphany in Tarpon Springs (Video)
Thousands Celebrate the World’s Largest Epiphany in Tarpon Springs (Video)
Kerry Kolasa-Sikiaridi
Ilias Skandaliaris in Tarpon Springs, FL
On Sunday, 58 Greek teenage boys aged 16 to 18 participated in the Epiphany cross dive in Spring Bayou, Tarpon Springs, with the belief that the person who retrieves the cross will be blessed with good luck for the rest of the year.
The Greek Orthodox celebration of the Epiphany is celebrated each year in Tarpon Springs, Florida and it is the largest celebration in the world. 15-year-old St. Nicholas choir member, Stella Bilirakis, served as the dove bearer and released the bird before the dive, which is symbolic of the Holy Spirit flying over the waters below.
This year, 17-year-old Ilias Skandaliaris dove into the water and victoriously retrieved the cross. It is an emotional occasion, as Greeks believe that the one who retrieves the cross was chosen by God.
Skandaliaris then was blessed by His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios, Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.
The dive commemorates the baptism of Jesus Christ by John the Baptist in the Jordan River and is part of a two-day celebration filled with different religious and cultural events that the Greek Orthodox St. Nicholas Church in Tarpon Springs has organized for the past 113 years.
The day’s events began at St. Nicholas church with a four-hour Mass service and Divine Liturgy.
Following the Mass, thousands walked to the Bayou to witness and celebrate the cross dive.
This year’s crowd is expected to have surpassed last years 14,000 attendees, spokesperson Johanna Kossifidis said according to tampabay.com.
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Formerly known as the Triborough Bridge, the Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Bridge consists of a series of elevated highways and bridges that span over three boroughs: Queens, Manhattan and the Bronx. This major thruway carries eight lanes of Interstate 278 and six lanes of NY 900G over the Harlem River, the Bonx Kill, and a strait of the East River known as the “Hell Gate”. Since opening in 1936, this series of bridges and roads currently sees over 300,000 cars pass through daily amid the three spans and continues to be a large source of revenue for New York City.
In 1916 Edward Bryne, chief engineer of the New York City Department of Plant and Structures, made plans for the three boroughs to connect and received funding in 1925. With construction underway in 1929, there were many challenges faced due to cost saving initiatives and re-engineering resulting in frequent stops on the project. Six years later, the $60 million project and one of the largest public works was finally opened on July 11, 1936 and has been in use ever since.
Due to years of constant traffic, continuous hours of operation, as well as renovations and expansions the 14 mile structure was in need of repairs. One of the main parts in need of restoration was the Manhattan-to-Queens ramp sector of the RFK Bridge, originally constructed in 1967. With a 26 month timeline to reconstruct the 54,000 square foot ramp, there was no time to waste!
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The aforementioned Manhattan-to-Queens two lane ramp needed a full rehab that included: addition of shoulders, replacement of steel support stringers, drainage improvements and seismic upgrades, as well as removing the old concrete deck and constructing a brand new road surface. One of the main challenges to such an extensive project was preventing interruptions to daily traffic as much as possible while still remaining within the project schedule. One work around used in this instance was a temporary two lane bridge that was constructed in the open and unused space between the old ramp and the main roadway. The existing ramp could then be demolished so that new piers and steel supports could be constructed without interfering with traffic.
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During testing of the concrete, it came to light that seven of the eighteen existing pier caps were so far degraded that they had to be completely replaced. This was not in the original scope of work and a quick change order was negotiated to include the repair in the revised scope. The construction management company quickly went to work redesigning these pier caps and ordering the necessary formwork to facilitate brand new concrete placement. In addition to redesigning multiple caps, during demolition it was discovered that the footings on many columns were poured around a series of ducts. Without disrupting traffic, temporary supports were installed and new columns were designed and installed.
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The New Office I’m Looking Forward to—Maybe
My company is most likely moving offices again, this time from an undesirable area of Manhattan, New York City, to what looks like a desirable workplace in an area of an outer borough I used to consider undesirable—Long Island City, Queens.
As a Manhattan snob, my initial reflex was to turn my nose up at the idea. That was until the head of my department shared that our office space would be located in a seemingly forward-thinking, hip space: The Factory. I haven’t seen it in person yet, so maybe I’m being overly optimistic, but it reminds me, from its Website, of a luxury apartment building, or maybe Chelsea Market, a jazzy shopping and office complex in Manhattan. Like Chelsea Market, there’s a marketplace of upscale/organic-foodie restaurants designed to accommodate the grab-and-go lunch crowd, and even on-site exercise facilities (which I don’t plan to use). And even outdoor rooftop decks.
A former warehouse for Macy’s department store, the old industrial space has been renovated as a workplace for spoiled young(ish) people. My 60-something boss joked that he and our department head, who also is in his early 60s, would be assumed by the other tenants to be somebody’s father. My extroverted, forever-ebullient, boss, said The Factory had the right idea in that the site showed nothing but open-plan office layouts, in which there were no cubicles or offices; just long tables with places for people to plug in computers and devices. Then, presumably, there were meeting areas and rooms. “Your headphones are your wall,” he said. “Just grab a room and go,” he added for how work life could be when the impromptu need for a meeting space arose.
The casual, fluid nature of the office appealed to me, and I already have headphones on all day listening to music, so noise wouldn’t be any more of an issue for me than it is already. But the lack of privacy—of constantly being within range of someone’s sight, while doing work or thinking—is jarring for me. In that way, the modern, open-plan office reminds me of a prison or mental hospital. I wonder, paranoid, if part of the love of the open-plan layout is the ability it gives managers to constantly keep their eyes on employees.
Unilever, a company based in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, is updating its workplace, and is following the same style I observed on The Factory Website. “Lots of open and shared spaces, and no assigned desks,” an article on northjersey.com reported. Unilever owns ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s, so there’s also free ice cream, and many greasy, savory options in the food marketplace in the building, but ever the modern, concerned employer, “there is a cafeteria overseen by a restaurant-trained chef who tries hard to tempt you away from fries and toward grain bowls and roasted veggies.” And there are yoga mats to use to de-stress.
I really like all those things—especially (most especially) the free ice cream—but I’m still having trouble with the elimination of private spaces, of which you can take ownership. Even if it’s tiny, there’s something psychologically helpful about a cubicle that’s yours alone, and comes with three walls shielding you from sight. When Training was owned by a previous company, I had a lavishly decorated cubicle, complete with named plants, including an Ivy plant, Rapunzel, whose vines eventually wrapped around my phone. I also had a foam frog on a wire affixed to the top of the cubicle, so I could be easily found. And there was even a rubber chicken named Harold. As an introverted, creative person, I found this private refuge, filled with creations from my imagination, to be comforting and therapeutic.
Open-plan office spaces are billed as greatly loved by creative types, but is that true? Who are these wide-open spaces really for? In addition to wondering if the true motivation is greater ability to watch employees, and lessen freedom during working hours, I wonder if the other motivation is cost reduction. Is it more cost-efficient to do away with cubicles, and just offer long tables with electrical outlets? Dressed up in cool, hip-seeming spaces, with gourmet foodie options, and yoga mats, is this all just a fancy way of keeping a stronger eye and thumb on employees, all the while saving money?
Innovation and creativity are catchwords in the corporate world, but as a creative, imaginative person myself, the open plan isn’t appealing. Many, if not most, creative types are not interaction-loving, life-of-the-party types. Many are solitary-seeking, reflective people, who want private spaces where they can think deeply and be imaginative. Unique ideas for new products and services begin in the imagination of one person. That one person then may share that idea, and have others add to, or alter, it, but it begins with that one person’s internal journey. Do open-plan offices, regardless how luxurious, encourage the deep, solitary reflection where those ideas are born?
Have you updated your office spaces lately? What changes did you make, and why? Have you tried open-plan office layouts? What are the advantages and downsides?
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Hiking at Black Balsam Knob in the Pisgah National Forest
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There’s something special about Asheville that the world is beginning to discover. This thriving mountain city features a funky and eclectic downtown, hundreds of studios and art galleries, a world-class culinary and craft beer culture, a thriving live music scene and, of course, the awe-inspiring scenery of the Blue Ridge Mountains. This must-experience destination is conveniently located a few hours by car from international flight hubs in Charlotte and Atlanta.
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This is the ultimate playground with diverse outdoor adventures. Asheville serves as a base camp for exploration with more than 324,000 hectares of pristine wilderness, mountain ecosystems and nearby waterfalls in addition to zip lines, whitewater rafting, outstanding hiking and mountain biking, and a colorful fall foliage display. The Blue Ridge Parkway – the USA's most visited scenic highway – runs right through Asheville.
It’s an area steeped in history, from Cherokee legends to the grand splendor of the 250-room Biltmore House, the USA’s largest home, and the historic Omni Grove Park Inn, to uniquely Appalachian traditions in music and craft evolving from the first Scottish and Irish settlers.
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Asheville is the kind of special place that lingers sweetly in your mind and memories for years to come. The city’s architectural legacy with its mix of art deco, beaux arts and neoclassical styles is the perfect retro-urban backdrop to the edgy energy that emanates from locally owned shops and art galleries, distinctive restaurants and exciting entertainment venues. Known as an art colony, a healing resort and a home to notable luminaries, statesmen and bohemians, Asheville is a welcoming, vibrant city. Check out working studios and galleries in the popular River Arts District, where you'll meet artists that specialize in painting, pottery, jewelry, woodworking and more.
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Asheville is a city where food is the centerpiece of daily life at 15 farmers markets, more than 250 independent restaurants, and a plethora of local breweries. With more than 20 craft breweries and known as Beer City USA, Asheville is in the Top 3 in the nation for having the most micro-breweries per capita. Biltmore is home to the USA's most-visited winery. The chefs cook with farm-fresh ingredients as a cardinal rule, and they do it well. Discover the flavors of Appalachian mountain and Southern heritage with heirloom tomatoes, wild onions, artisan cheese, spicy apple butter, and mountain trout caviar.
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A bastion of cutting-edge art and technology in the Blue Ridge, the city also prides itself on its fascinating Appalachian past and celebrates this culture with annual events such as Shindig on the Green and the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival. Creativity and inventiveness soar during Moogfest, a festival dedicated to technology, art and music. The nearby River Arts District features more than 150 artists, from glass blowers to potters and painters, further cementing Asheville’s legacy as a top arts destination.
Fodors.com named Asheville one of the “Places We’re Going,” and TripAdvisor.com named Asheville a winner of the Traveler’s Choice Awards for top food and wine destinations in the USA. And that’s just the beginning.
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Was a MD craigslist creeper offering sex for rent to a minor?
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60-year-old Lester E. Testerman of Westminster, Maryland was recently arrested for allegedly soliciting a minor for sex on craigslist. The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office was reportedly investigating craigslist ads that had the word ‘young’ in them. One ad, in particular, seemed to be offering a rent-free place to live to a young girl. The Sheriff’s …
Categories: craigscrimelist, craigslist•Tags: child solicitation, craigslist, Lester E. Testerman, maryland•
Woman didn’t like to hit child because “he’s white and it leaves marks”
Police in Calvert County, Maryland, responded to a home after they received complaints a 3-year-old boy had marks on him. The complaint came from teachers at the boy’s Head Start program. (Let’s hear it for teachers.) When the police and CPS approached the boy’s mother about the marks, 40-year-old Rocla Aceneth Tovar Calderon was said …
Categories: Abuse, Bad Breeders•Tags: hitting, maryland, Rocla Aceneth Tovar Calderon•
35-year-old cosplayer cruises cons and Instagram to prey on girls
(Story broke 5/3/2017) 35-year-old Derrick La Marr Jones, of Catonsville, Maryland, was arrested for allegedly trying to lure a 16-year-old girl from Ashburn, Virginia to Baltimore through Instagram, while using the screen name of ‘Toxicnfektion’. He is also said to have sent an Uber to the girl’s home to bring her to Baltimore. Authorities say …
Categories: Instagram, MyCrimeSpace•Tags: child solicitation, Derrick La Marr Jones, Instagram, Kanovski Zan-Lee Vulgen, maryland, Toxicnfektion•
Maryland pair accused of prostituting 16-year-old girl on Backpage
(Story broke 6/6/2017) 28-year-old Andre Lamar Russell and 23-year-old Heather Lynn Harding are accused of allegedly prostituting a 16-year-old girl out of a hotel in Jessup, Maryland. The girl is said to be a runaway who Russell offered a place to stay then sexually assaulted the girl and coerced her to use drugs, probably in …
Categories: Backpage, craigscrimelist•Tags: Andre Lamar Russell, Backpage, child prostitution, Heather Lynn Harding, Jessica Lynn Smitherman, maryland•
Craigslist creeper Uber driver had teen fantasy ‘for so long’
46-year-old Uber driver Asil Din, of Germantown, Maryland, is accused of allegedly soliciting sex from a 15-year-old girl from craigslist. Din reportedly placed an ad on Craigslist that asked “Any local young lady available?” Montgomery County police responded to the ad posing as a 15-year-old girl. “I don’t wanna lie I am only 15, is …
Categories: craigscrimelist, craigslist•Tags: Asil Din, child solicitation, craigslist, maryland•
Md. Kik and craigslist creeper used modeling scam to lure teen victim
I wasn’t planning on having a theme day today yet here we are. 31-year-old Roy David Evans Jr. is accused of allegedly having a ‘sexual relationship’ (child rape) with a 14-year-old girl that he met through craigslist. Evans is said to have placed an ad on craigslist looking for young models in the Baltimore area …
Categories: Kik, MyCrimeSpace•Tags: craigslist, Kik, maryland, modeling scam, Roddanger86, Roy David Evans Jr., statutory rape•
Maryland police looking for Backpage child pimp
Police in Howard County, Maryland, are currently searching for 28-year-old Nathaniel Lee Thompson from Delaware. He’s accused of allegedly prostituting a 17-year-old girl on Backpage. Arrested in connection with Thompson’s crime was 19-year-old Janice Figueroa who has been charged with multiple counts of human trafficking. Police were conducting a Backpage sting when they encountered the …
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Preacher charged with Backpage rapes
33-year-old Gabriel Omogbo of Hyattsville, Maryland, is supposedly a preacher but he’s obviously not a man of God if the charges are to be believed. Police in Rockville, Martyland, say that Omogbo has allegedly raped three prostitutes that he targeted through Backpage. As I’ve said before, contrary to what some would have you believe, Backpage …
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A kouple of Kik Kreepers for your weekend
38-year-old of Steven Wayne Robinson, of Daisetta, Texas, is accused of allegedly sexually abusing children including an infant and then trading the images through Kik and Dropbox. This one is a real piece of filth… That user initially said he created the contents of a folder named “baby niece,” but later admitted that another Kik …
Categories: Kik, MyCrimeSpace•Tags: child molestation, child porn, dropbox, Kik, maryland, Steven Wayne Robinson, Texas, William Henry Steinhaus IV•
Latest craigslist killing happens outside of Baltimore and no one cares
Homicide victim was lured by a Craigslist ad, police said: Police in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, say that 44-year-old Rene Filsdelfo Levia-Archilla of Baltimore was lured to his death by a craigslist ad. Mr. Levia-Archilla and a friend of his were in Harmans, Maryland, to buy a car from a craigslist seller. Instead it turned …
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A Nightmare A Day: Day 8 (Freddy Vs. Jason)
On October 30, 2015 October 30, 2015 By troubledproductionsIn A Nightmare A DayLeave a comment
Director: Ronny Yu (Bride Of Chucky, Bride With White Hair, The 51st State
Budget: $30million
US Box Office: $114.9million
Unskippable adverts on the DVD. This company REALLY wants me to hate their films don’t they?
I now refuse to watch Underworld on principle. On the principle that it looks awful.
As does Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the Michael Bay version, which is odd as I didn’t think chainsaws could explode)
Random fact: at one point Peter Jackson was on board to direct this. Nothing against Ronny Yu but that’s the second time a studio has turned down a chance to let Peter Jackson do a Nightmare On Elm Street film. Idiots.
Should point out: I won’t be counting the deaths in this one for two reasons
There’s too many
Not all of them are Freddy’s so would be wrong to compare body counts
Opening scenes show Freddy pre-death.
In a really disturbing scene, Freddy kills a small girl, then licks a photo of her.
Freddy origin story. I usually abhor this kind of thing, but it makes sense here as it was a while since the last Freddy film, and plus the Friday The 13th crowd might not know much.
Really good shot of Freddy’s eyes.
Yay, flashbacks to the earlier films. First death shown: the human puppet death. Evidently it’s not just my favourite one.
Also explains why there haven’t been any new films in a while.
“being dead is okay, but being forgotten, now that’s a bitch” Oddly poignant line there.
Montage of Freddy being bitch slapped by everyone.
Boobs! *sigh* Not needed. Could have been achieved through just shooting from the neck up and leaving it to imagination.
She puts a jacket on, but evidently the power of fanservice means one of the breasts attempts to escape and just hangs there outside her jacket as she runs. So disappointing. Horror films do know there’s a difference between “scared stiff” and “scared whilst stiff” right?
“you know what your gift is? No matter what they do to you, you cannot die” erm thanks, I got you a gift voucher, I feel our gifts are slightly uneven.
“make them remember what fear tastes like!” Chocolate covered gherkins?
Main character is called Lori, and her boyfriend disappeared, I bet that won’t come up later.
Hey it’s the member of Destiny’s Child who isn’t Beyonce or the other one.
“i only smoke when i drink” “but you always drink” “well that’s what I’ll work on next” Will admit, that made me chuckle.
“don’t be a total cocksmith” is that like a blacksmith, but with penis’s?
“i like the flow of your place, got good feng shui”, I hope this guy dies, slowly and painfully.
“babe, don’t make me ask you twice” All of you just die.
FFS more pointless boobs. This one’s even more annoying as the actress had a no-nudity clause in her contract so they had to hire a body double. See, the fact that no-nudity clauses exist are why their needs to be a greater representation of female film-makers. And the fact that directors pressure women into breaking that clause is why there these women need crossbows .
Hey, the guy died. Good.
So just saying “freddy” is enough to somehow make people who aren’t aware of Freddy Krueger scared of him. It could have been any Freddy: Mercury, Adu etc. That would be a much weirder film, people being haunted and killed by an American soccer player.
Lori dreams of walking past a set of posters of missing children, who turn to face her as she walks past. Proper video-game style scare. On that note: I was going to blog about Eternal Darkness today, and why that film is fantastic. I won’t now though as we’ll be having a special blog written by a guest contributor that will be very cool and we hope you enjoy. Oh, also in the dream there’s a girl with gouged out eyeballs who tells her more about Freddy and his love for little girls. I love gouged out eyes in horror, such a visceral image.
And now the feng shui guy is dead (I think, all white frat boys look the same to me). Hacked by a machete after waking up and seeing his dad’s head fall off. I hate when that happens.
Hey, there’s a mental institution with a guy in it with same name as Lori’s ex who disappeared randomly. What a crazy coincidence.
Hey, it’s young not-John Cusack (no, not Miles Teller, the other one).
“you had to sleep at a police station, I’d have had nightmares too” of course you would, you’re black, you’d get knocked the f*ck out.
Hey, the institution guy is her ex. Who saw that happening?
And luckily the guy not-Beyonce tried to hook her up with is now dead, so no moral questions of whether they’re still in a relationship or not. Lucky!
Oh, side note: Lori’s ex is called Will and is played by John Ritter’s son. So close to awesome.
“this fucker’s going to spread like the plague, kid’s are going to be falling asleep” Fairly certain that’s normal.
Jason appears at a rave and doesn’t dance. If this were CinemaSins they’d be a ding right there. Of course, if this was CinemaSins we’d have a bigger audience so….
He grabs a weird metal pipe, kind of like I do when I play Condemned. If he spends the next hour picking up dead birds this film is gonna suuuuuuuck.
Not John Cusack delivers a “Reason You Suck” speech to not-Beyonce. She deserved it.
“let’s go shake our ass on the dance floor”, says the only black character, yay stereotypes.
A raver basically rapes one of the characters. Some people would disagree but for me, she’s passed out, he tries to fuck her, that’s rape.
He dies. Good.
So does she, not so good. But she was kind of annoying, that’s bad too.
Jason steals Freddy’s kills. Come-on man, don’t be a shock-blocker (lame I know, but not many synonyms for kill rhyme with block, if he killed him with a kitchen appliance I could have said wok-block).
That reminds me: if a serial killer kills another serial killer does it work like conkers so he gains all his kills?
Jason appears in a cornfield and is heckled by two stoners. Because obviously if you see a serial killer (and in this universe Jason is real so you’d have to assume they know him) carrying a machete, you mock him.
Jason kills someone with a neck massage. Then goes to kill the fat stoner who attempts to run away.
Fat guy dies, this is why cardio is important, kids.
The guy spits blood at the screen when he dies. Fantastic shot.
Random fact: there was originally going to be a scene which showed that Freddy had raped Jason’s mother, thereby giving Jason motivation to go after Freddy. This was then changed to Freddy molesting Jason when he was a kid. This was then dropped for being “too dark”. I’d have dropped it for being kinda stupid and contrived, “too dark” is a stupid reason considering the amount of deaths in this.
Hey, it’s Titus’s brother. In a photo, and yet is one of the only actors I recognise in this film without having to look them up.
Freddy sets someone on fire, telepathically, then throws them across the room and writes a message in his back using burn marks. Personally, when I want to get a message across, I use e-mail, but I suppose he’s stuck in his ways.
A stoner, who’s totally not based on Jason Mewes
“freddy died by fire, jason by water, how can we use that?” I dunno, find someone died from air?
“not a virgin, even if you pay for it it still counts”
I think I’ve figured out the problems with these films. Too many dream fake outs. Moments where you think it’s reality but it turns out to be a dream. It pulls that trick far far too often.
Crushed to death by door. There must be a joke there but I’m simply not seeing it.
Not-jay follows a bong-smoking giant worm.
Jason accidentally sticks his machete in a computer console, electrocuting himself and a cop who’s name I can’t remember but he looks like he’s called “Jesse”.
Side note: how often do you think Jason has to sharpen his machete? Just a random deleted scene where we saw him hunched over a knife sharpner. And what does he do if it breaks? Can’t imagine there’s many places that would fix it. “Oh that, it’s just cranberry sauce, I was chopping up cranberries, why didn’t I use a normal knife? Erm, *hacks to death*”
Stoner gets hacked to death at the waist in a scene reminiscent of using the bastard sword from ED.
Jason chops of Freddy’s arms, I would make an “don’t worry about him, he’s ‘armless” joke but Freddy’s arms grow back and he makes the “wanker” hand gesture. And my room for jokes is “never be less funny than the thing you’re making jokes about”. That’s why I don’t make jokes about [insert public figure that you, dear reader, do not personally like]
Change of colour scheme there from red to green. Is weird as always associated red with Freddy, so it’s odd that the power struggle shift where Jason becomes weak is signified by the colour no longer being red. I’d have thought it would be the other way around.
I haven’t seen any Friday the 13th films so I may be wrong: but Jason isn’t afraid of water is he? So why is he here? The villain in the first film wasn’t Jason, he didn’t appear until the very end where he came out the water and killed someone. So if he was scared of water his first appearance wouldn’t work. Freddy works in dreams and has infinite powers there, you didn’t need to give Jason a weakness to make it an even fight.
Finally, over an hour in and we get the Jason origin story. Basically, he was bald and kids bullied him, put a bag over his head and throw in the river. Kids are awful people. Surely that goes beyond a prank is more, erm, what’s the word, homicide?
“what do you want me to, give him mouth to mouth?” dude, it’s not gay if it saves a life.
“Kia, he has asthma!” Worst dramatic line ever.
Beautifully lit scene where Freddy jumps out the water. One downside is the lighting makes him look like Darth Maul, or that weird thing from Insidious.
“always had a thing for the whores in this house” Dude, I know you’re a psychopathic child killer/rapist, but is there any need the misogyny? Freddy’s not a gentleman, he has a hat yet he never doths it.
Freddy says “bitch” far too often. It’s making me uncomfortable.
Generic rock music, track 4.
“it’s just a scratch” says a dying person. Sadly, not a monty python reference
Slow pan down to blood pouring from him to make it clear he’s dead, as if we didn’t know already.
Again with the calling women bitch?
“how sweet, dark meat” That’s racist!
“what kind of faggot runs around in a christmas sweater?” Kelly Rowland there being massively homophobic. Important note: it’s not the script being homophobic, she improvised that, it’s all on her. The writers detested it, because they’re halfway decent people. I bet if the writers were in Destiny’s Child then Beyonce wouldn’t have left. Basically what I’m saying is, Kelly Rowland is directly responsible for me having to google Beyonce songs to try to think of a joke to end this bit on, thereby making my google search history that little bit more embarrassing, and I couldn’t even think of one. F*ck you Kelly Rowland.
Kelly Roland gets hit with a machete and somehow defies the laws of physics by not being cut, but by flying into a tree. If she survives I’m going to kill her.
Several close ups as something heavy hits a wall. Not so much “chekovs gun” as “check out this really obvious thing that’s going to happen”.
Freddy has lost his hat, now he looks more like a pizza than ever.
Lori there carrying flames like the olympic torch. Oddly apt considering how many deaths and evictions the olympics have caused.
Stuff happens, massive fight scene that goes on far too long and doesn’t feature any creative set pieces.
Jason comes out the water carrying Freddy’s head. I guess that’s that settled then.
Oh wait, Freddy winks at the audience. He’s still alive. I guess this whole endeavour was as pointless as the anatomy of a Ken doll.
Overall: not bad, but really weird when compared to the rest. From the increased death count, the language and the nudity, the whole thing makes it seem like it’s aimed at teenage males to go “wooo” at. It tries so hard to be mature that it ends up coming off as downright childish. It is very well directed though, has some truly beautiful shots, it’s just a shame the script is lacking.
The issue with these “vs” films is you can’t end them. You can’t show one defeating the other fully as it says the other franchise is weaker, so kills it right there. So you have to go with the fake out ending like they do here. It might have worked better as a video game, where you control one of the two and need to outlast/outkill the other. They’re DLC in Mortal Kombat, so we’ve got that I suppose
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GRIS is Something Special
Posted by Hatm0nster on December 19, 2018 December 17, 2018
I realize Wednesdays are usually news days around here, but I’ve got something a little more important to talk about this week. There’s no crisis that needs discussing or anything, just an excellent game that feel deserves all the attention it can get. As you might have guessed from the title, that game is GRIS.
I’ve played great games before; I’ve played games that absolutely outstanding before; I’ve played games that absolutely make the case for games as a legitimate medium for high-art before. However, never have I ever had a game affect me like a true work of traditional art. That is, it never happened before I played GRIS.
The game follows a young girl named Gris who’s become lost in her own world after suffering some sort of painful experience. Her journey is one that begins in sorrow and hopefully ends in healing. None of this is explicitly stated in the game though; GRIS’ story is told entirely through the game’s artwork, music and gameplay. And it’s absolutely breathtaking.
This game had me choked-up right from the very beginning. It’s not that there was anything overtly sad happening on the screen. No, I think it’s more like the music and the artwork synced up in a way that had me empathizing with this nameless young woman without knowing anything about what happened. I could see the pain in her expressions and movements, and the visual/animation style accentuated it. This can basically said for every quite moment the game has to offer. You don’t fully understand the significance of what’s happening on screen, but you can feel it. It’s the best kind of surreal.
Once again, the artwork does everything it can to accentuate this. The style they chose, the way almost everything moves and/or interacts with GRIS, makes this all feel like something out of a dream, yet a bit more significant than a dream. Everything happening has a sense of importance to it, as if it’s affecting Gris in someway. I said this before too, but the music is absolutely spot on. It’s quiet when it needs to be; flourishes when it should, and every time the world changes, the music makes the player feel as though the color bursting forth is somehow washing over them too.
I’m pretty sure I’ve called the visual presentation of some games “beautiful” in the past, but that doesn’t quite cut it with GRIS. The entirety of GRIS, the game itself is beautiful! And that makes a huge difference. This is a game isn’t like a work of art; it is a work of art! It has all of the emotional power of traditional art, perhaps even a degree more. Of course, not everyone is looking for a game that will make them feel something, but if you’d like to play something truly special, then give GRIS a try. You owe it yourself.
GRIS is available right now on PC and Nintendo Switch.
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Hide Declined Events in Calendar on HTC One M8
Edited by Thor, Ash0hley, Eng
Video: Hide Declined Events in Calendar on HTC One M8
Hello, and welcome to VisiHow. In this video, we are going to show you how to turn on or off the option to hide declined events in the Calendar application on an HTC One M8.
To begin, turn the phone on by pressing the Power button, located on top of the phone
Once the phone has been activated, we'll see the lock screen.
To unlock the phone, press down on the screen and swipe up
Once the phone has been unlocked, we'll see the home screen. At the bottom, there will be icons. It is one of these icons that we need.
We want to enter the applications folder
The icon for the applications folder is located at the bottom, in the middle. It looks like a grid of white dots. This is our applications folder icon. Press down on this icon and it will open up our applications.
Once it's open, we are looking for this icon of a calendar
It says the word, "Calendar" underneath it. Press down on this icon to open our Calendar application.
Now, we want to press this icon in the top right-hand corner of the screen
There are three small white squares in a vertical line. Press down on this icon to open our menu.
We want the option called "Settings"
Press down on the word "Settings".
We are looking for this option, which says "Hide declined events"
Right now, there is a blue check mark in this box, indicating that this option is activated. Any events that we have been invited to and declined through the Calendar application, will be hidden from view. We will no longer be able to see them. However, if we turn this option off and deactivate it, we will still be able to see our declined events. This can be quite useful, especially if we've declined an event because we didn't think we'd be available, but became available. We could still change our mind, and still be notified about this event. It can be quite useful, then.
If we wanted to turn this option on or off, just press down on the box
When the check has disappeared, the option is no longer activated. Declined events will not be hidden.
If we press down on the box again, and add a blue check to the box, we will activate the option
Now, declined events will be hidden from view in the Calendar application.
This concludes our tutorial on how to turn on or off the option to hide declined events in the Calendar application on an HTC One M8
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Looking to Break the Bank in Monte Carlo
Date: 15th October 2014 at 5:14pm
Written by: Kid Glove
Next weekend Stuart Hall travels to Monte Carlo in a bid to try and regain his IBF bantamweight title.
Hall lost the title when he defended it against Paul Butler.
However, as you are probably aware, Butler relinquished the belt to return to the weight below to try and win a world title at the lower weight.
In the discussions that evolved, it turned out that Hall was given a chance to fight the mandatory challenger, Randy Caballero.
As you?d expect, Hall is looking forward to the fight and has had this to say about what lies ahead, remarking,
‘Caballero will look at my last fight and maybe think he’s in for an easy night.’
?But there’s a whole new Stuey Hall come the 25 October in Monte Carlo.’
‘I’ve got a new trainer in Pat Lynch and Max McCracken and I’m training twice a day, every day.
‘I’m sparring four out of five days, I’m coming on loads, learning new things and it’s revitalized me.’
It all sounds promising for Hall as he prepares to fight on the under-card of the Martin Murray’s WBC Silver middleweight title defence against Domenico Spada.
Although we must not forget that Caballero is a decent fighter who has a good record although Hall slightly disputes that, remarking,
‘He’s beaten 21 people so he’s a definite threat.?
‘He’ll be full of confidence but in my eyes he hasn’t fought anybody but I won’t read too much into him.’
Next Saturday (October 25th) promises to be a good night when it comes to entertainment.
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We have updated the HTML editor within VolunteerMatters!
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Governor: Do your part to push vaccinations for all – Marin Independent Journal, 6/15/2019
Like the June 13 editorial, I strongly urge Governor Newsom to support SB 276, Dr. Richard Pan’s bill that tightens the rules for medical exemptions to school vaccination requirements.
This bill is necessary, given this year’s national measles epidemic, and given the few unscrupulous doctors who hand out fake exemptions to anti-vaccination parents in California. Requiring the California Department of Public Health to review medical exemptions to ensure they comply with criteria established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would eliminate bogus exemptions. It would protect the health of unvaccinated young infants, children with vaccination allergies, and children and adults with cancer and auto-immune disorders.
New York recently joined California in eliminating a religious exemption for school vaccinations. Governor, this is not about your role is a parent; this is about essential state public health policy designed to prevent epidemics of contagious diseases. In the meantime, I urge the Medical Board of California to discipline and/or de-license those unscrupulous doctors.
— Barbara Solomon, Corte Madera
< Why did the L.A. Times devote space to Biel’s “views”? Los Angeles Times, 6/14/2019 > Finally, vaccine and public health laws tighten across the country, American Council of Science and Health, 6/17/2019
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The Future of Wars and Technological Development Challenges
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Today, the future of war as a phenomenon is as vague as ever. Some analysts compare the current situation to the period before World War I – not relative to the acuteness of a contemporary conflict but rather warfare technology and the lack of expertise in using it. The scale of military confrontation between major powers with equal or comparable technical potential is still unclear.
The United States maintains military leadership in the world. But its leadership is being challenged. Russia has been developing advanced missile systems. China’s intermediate and shorter-range missiles are a cause of anxiety for Washington. China and India are building navies that may soon pose a challenge to the US navy. Any attempt to solve the North Korea nuclear problem by force is fraught with unacceptable risks.
The technological race has revealed several leading forces that are advancing at an approximately equal pace without deep gaps between them. This has been the case since the mid-20th century when the USSR proved capable of closing the technological gap within a short timeframe. But some analysts question the 20th century MAD constant, thus opening the door to speculation on the possibility of a technological breakaway that would enable a disarming first-strike attack.
It is interesting to peruse the military doctrines of the leading countries to see how their views on the possible future of warfare have been evolving. Since 2010, Russia’s military doctrine describes disruption of the information infrastructure and command and control systems as the second most important threat. It is clear that Russian military planners envision a scenario where the adversary would be technologically blinded, stunned and reduced to a 20th century level of technology with just paper maps and no computers.
If we are to believe the theory that the world order is defined by a ratio of potential force, then the world has been polycentric for some time. Even the hawk John Bolton, former President Trump’s national security advisor, once referred to a “multipolar ballistic missile world,” which implies China’s potential.
It cannot be ruled out that the US will be unable to stop as it becomes addicted to revising US-Russian nuclear arms control agreements. The US’ logic of breaking off treaties with Russia in order to contain China could extend to other agreements aside from the INF Treaty. The first in line of precedence is the New Start Treaty of 2010.
It is highly unlikely that the world will see new major multilateral talks on nuclear weapons. Any such talks would expose the US’ edge in conventional weapons, which many would like to reduce. But this is unacceptable for Washington. For this reason, a spontaneous conventional arms race, involving anyone who can afford it, will continue unabated. For Russia, this is not an unusual situation. Relative to the United States, Moscow is an alternative supplier of a number of military technologies of critical importance for achieving a military balance. This makes it a strong player in the global security field even if it does not step up its own military spending. This can be seen in Turkey’s strategic reorientation away from the United States. Ankara has decided to strengthen its security with the Russian S-400 air defense system and is preparing to purchase advanced multirole fighter planes.
Much risk is involved in a technological development that can exert a decisive influence on the potential of future armed conflicts. No one really knows what destructive potential could lurk in cyberspace. Cyber-weapons could hold a more affordable destructive capacity than modern hardware systems. But we can remain cautiously optimistic that reciprocal containment will remain significant in a new technological environment. Still, the role of artificial intelligence in military affairs has yet to be fully realized.
Evidently, the leading military powers do not believe in the likelihood of a doomsday scenario. In early 2019, Russian and US diplomats in Geneva jointly rejected the European proposal to limit the battlefield use of combat robots and artificial intelligence. Russia and the United States seem to be well off the starting blocks technologically and they do not regard the doomsday scenario as a possibility at this point. By all evidence, they do not believe artificial intelligence to be sufficiently advanced.
Historically, the West’s overwhelming edge in military technology has been the source of its global domination. But the problem with any technology is that you cannot monopolize it forever. At the next spiral of technological development, new weapons systems are likely to equalize and reshuffle each participating country’s potential.
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At the moment, two ideologies are clearly visible, providing the tools for gaining world domination. First, the conditional “American dream”, regularly expressed in the speeches of the US presidents before Congress and, second, attempts to create a “world caliphate” by Islamic groups. Moreover, these two ideologies are unnaturally connected and even imitate confrontation between each other.
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SanDisk puts flash storage firm Fusion-io out of its misery with $1.1B acquisition
Jordan Novet@jordannovet June 16, 2014 7:37 AM
A Fusion-io ioDrive Duo flash card for a server's PCie slot.
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Storage giant SanDisk today announced plans to buy niche flash storage brand Fusion-io, after Fusion-io enjoyed a meteoric rise and then experienced a sudden decline.
The deal will go through for $1.1 billion in cash, or $11.25 per share in Fusion-io stock, according to a statement.
Fusion-io’s stock was up more than 23 percent on the news. SanDisk stock was up 2.5 percent.
The acquisition follows a series of recent flash storage acquisitions. Western Digital bought Virident. Cisco bought Whiptail. Most recently, EMC bought stealthy DSSD.
Fusion-io has an interesting story. It picked up street cred by signing up high-profile customers like Apple, Facebook, and Spotify, as the industry touted Fusion-io’s super-fast reads and writes of data.
Fusion-io went public in 2011. But the company depended on deals with customers that would buy lots of its flash cards, and whenever one big buyer would go away — perhaps to a flash storage vendor that could offer lower prices — revenue would get whopped, and investors would hear about it.
Last year it seemed the company was trying to get things straightened out and start increasing sales at a steady clip.
Co-founders David Flynn and Rick White left.
And the company bought hybrid storage gear vendor NexGen Storage. The deal suggested Fusion-io would start focusing more on small- and medium-sized businesses that could afford equipment packing flash and more traditional hard disk drives.
Diversification of the customer base could have helped, alongside reparations with vendors of servers containing Fusion-io flash cards, like Dell and Hewlett-Packard. But the stock has not rebounded as much as chief executive Shane Robison and others in management expected.
Analysts last year suspected that SanDisk or another flash foundry owner, like Intel or Micro, would buy Fusion-io. So the buyer in today’s deal isn’t a surprise.
The price for the deal isn’t too surprising, either. Fusion-io stock has fluctuated between $8 and $12 for about eight months.
Fusion-io shareholders are already questioning whether the deal is bringing in as much money as it could. Three law firms announced investigations into the matter.
Following today’s deal, flash storage vendor Violin Memory could be an acquisition target, too. That company ditched its chief executive, Don Basile — who was previously Fusion-io’s chief executive, incidentally — in December.
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WE DIRECT / VICTORIAN PLUMBING
WE duo Tim Weatherall and Jon Evans have taken on the task of writing, directing and producing the latest set of ads for Victorian Plumbing. The brief was to launch the inimitable Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen as the face of their new campaign which will run for the next 18 months.
With Emmy award winning cinematographer Franklin Dow and Art Director Nigel Howlett on board, it's no surprise that WE have done a great job of nailing Laurence's trade-mark flamboyant style as he takes on the role of 'star employee' at Victorian Plumbing. For Laurence, no job is too big or too small - well, we wouldn't expect anything else. Looking forward to the next instalment guys!
Client: Victorian Plumbing
Director/Producer: WE
DOP: Franklyn Dow
Art Director: Nigel Howlett
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Ralph Breaks The Internet (4K UHD Blu-ray Review)
February 13th, 2019 by Brandon Peters
Disney animation’s new animation hot streak may be more notable for the Frozen phenomenon, but it did start the year prior with the very popular and profitable Wreck It Ralph. And before we start sequelizing the recent run and getting the (sure to be HUMONGOUS) Frozen 2, Ralph gets his second turn at bat. And […]
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Teen Titans GO! To The Movies (Blu-ray Review)
November 1st, 2018 by Brandon Peters
While some think DC is taking some time off this year from their cinematic output with “just” Aquaman at the tail end of the year, many forget they’ve actually put out two movies this year. Don’t forget the Teen Titans jumped from the small screen to the big one this past summer. While it didn’t […]
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LEGO DC Super Hero Girls: Super-Villain High (DVD Review)
May 3rd, 2018 by Brandon Peters
A few years back, DC broke some barriers and unleashed a brand of their famed comic book heroes aimed strictly toward young women. Great new figures, costumes and a cartoon were launched in the DC Super Hero Girls brand. But, you know how you really know you were successful with it? You not only get […]
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GRAVITY FALLS – The Complete Series Arrives On Blu-ray July 24th From Shout! Factory!
March 27th, 2018 by Brandon Peters
This summer, pack your bags and get ready to join Dipper and Mabel on their adventures in the enigmatic town of Gravity Falls! On July 24th, 2018, Shout! Factory will release Gravity Falls: The Complete Series, featuring all 40 episodes of Disney’s hit Emmy Award©-winning series available for the first time in a complete series box […]
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LEGO DC SUPER HERO GIRLS: SUPER-VILLAIN HIGH On DVD May 15th!
Everyone’s favorite female Super Heroes are left to deal with a new rival when a mysterious high school pops up in the all-new animated film, LEGO® DC Super Hero Girls: Super-Villain High. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, DC Entertainment and The LEGO Group, the film – a continuation in the worldwide DC Super Hero Girls franchise phenomenon – will be […]
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Batman: Gotham By Gaslight (4K UHD Blu-ray Review)
January 30th, 2018 by Brandon Peters
While the live action world of the DC superheros has been in a constant state of change, continually criticized for the quality and direction with which they have taken these legendary characters, the DCAU has been thriving quite mightily with its share of mostly good stories. This medium also allows more leniency in terms of […]
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BATMAN: GOTHAM BY GASLIGHT Rips Its Way Onto 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray February 6th!
November 14th, 2017 by Brandon Peters
The first true Elseworlds tale from DC comes to animated life as a steampunk Batman hunts Jack the Ripper through the shadows of turn-of-the-century Gotham City in Batman: Gotham By Gaslight. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation and DC Entertainment, the all-new, feature-length animated film arrives from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on Digital starting January 23, 2018, and on Ultra HD […]
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Justice League – Gotham City Breakout (Blu-ray Review)
July 11th, 2016 by Brandon Peters
Fighting crime is a full-time job and Batman NEVER takes a vacation. That is until he finally agrees to let Batgirl and Nightwing take him on a long overdue trip – leaving Gotham City under the watchful eye of the Justice League in LEGO® DC Comics Super Heroes – Justice League: Gotham City Breakout. Produced […]
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Pom Poko (Blu-ray Review)
Pom Poko is the seventh film from the animation house Studio Ghibli. It is also their first film in the canon to use computer animation in the film. I couldn’t tell you where exactly or how it was used, as its not very evident upon watching the movie as it all looks two dimensionally hand […]
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Adventure Time: The Complete Fourth Season (Blu-ray Review)
October 1st, 2014 by Brandon Peters
The fourth season of Cartoon Network’s hit show Adventure Time comes to Blu-ray this Tuesday from Warner Bros Home Entertainment. This show has proven to be a ratings champion for the network and is currently in this sixth season. Adventure Time will go longer than that, though, as its been renewed for a seventh season […]
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Futurama: Volume 8 (Blu-ray Review)
December 17th, 2013 by Aaron Neuwirth
Futurama has ended once again. After being resurrected by Comedy Central, the animated, sci-fi-comedy series from creator Matt Groening (The Simpsons) has once again reached its end. However, there is still this final batch of episodes on this Volume 8 Blu-ray release to go over and fortunately it is a good batch. While I have […]
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Good News Everyone! Futurama Volume 8, Along With The Complete Series, Hit Blu-ray And DVD This December
October 14th, 2013 by Aaron Neuwirth
Futurama has ended once again. After being resurrected by Comedy Central, the animated, sci-fi-comedy series from creator Matt Groening (The Simpsons) has once again reached its end. However, there is still this final batch of episodes to be released onto Blu-ray and DVD, and on December 10th, fans will have the chance to purchase Volume […]
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Batman & Red Hood To Battle on Blu-ray
June 28th, 2010 by Gregg Senko
This July, get ready for the latest high definition adventure of the Caped Crusader as he takes on his newest nemesis, the Red Hood. On July 27th, Warner Bros. will officially release its latest DC Comics animated film, Batman: Under the Red Hood. The 75-minute production matches up the Dark Knight against this latest foe […]
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Huntington Beach, CA Welcomes New 24 Hour Fitness® Club to the Community
Surf City Fitness Options Expand as Holidays Approach
Huntington Beach, CA. - Dec. 14, 2016
24 Hour Fitness is expanding its Huntington Beach presence with a new club and convenient location at the cross streets of Magnolia and Atlanta Avenues. In addition, it will offer amenities not previously available at other clubs in the area, like the TRX Suspension Training and a Multi-Functional Training Rig, offering customizable options for members who want more from their gym.
A grand opening event is scheduled for Saturday, December 17, 2016, 9:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m., 24 Hour Fitness Huntington Beach Club, 9051 Atlanta Avenue, Huntington Beach, CA 92646. The community is invited to this free celebration, which includes club tours, prize drawings, group training demonstrations, innovative group exercise studio classes and more.
Huntington Beach is known for its long and scenic 9.5 mile stretch of sandy beaches, mild-climate, and excellent surfing conditions. Now the area can add the 24 Hour Fitness Huntington Beach club to its collection—providing a great resource and incentive to get in shape to enjoy the many coastal tourism and local resident activity options. As a part of the celebration, a Ribbon-Cutting ceremony will take place to the sounds of the local Edison High School Marching Band on Grand Opening day. Area dignitaries are expected to attend and welcome the new club to the community.
“24 Hour Fitness makes it our mission to deliver innovative fitness options to our members while striving to bring together the local community,” said Clayton Benton, General Manager. “The new Huntington Beach club is just one part of leading a healthy lifestyle. Our talented fitness professionals provide the tools and expertise that will help members achieve their fitness goals both inside and outside of our club.”
The new, 33,500+ square foot club features a modern design and open-floor plan. Amenities include:
Cardio, strength and functional training equipment
Large studio spaces for a full schedule of Cycle and Group X® classes, including new formats such as POP Pilates, Treat While You Train™ and bootybarre®
Virtual classes: Members can take Cycle and Group X® classes on their own convenient schedule, when the studios aren’t in use. It’s as easy as making a selection of virtual class format options, pressing a button, and GO!
The Turf Zone: One of the newest additions to the club and designed both for athletes and non-athletes alike. The area includes specialized fitness equipment that take your workouts to the next level
Indoor lap pool, spa and sauna
Personal and Group training services*
*Additional fees apply
To experience the new gym, download a free guest pass from 24hourfitness.com/HuntingtonBeach
About 24 Hour Fitness
Headquartered in San Ramon, Calif., 24 Hour Fitness is a leading health club industry pioneer, serving nearly 4 million members in over 400 clubs across the U.S. For more than 30 years, the company has been dedicated to helping members change their lives and reach their individual fitness goals. With convenient club locations, personal training services, popular group exercise classes and a variety of strength, cardio and functional training equipment, 24 Hour Fitness offers fitness solutions for everyone.
Please visit 24hourfitness.com for more information and to find the club nearest you.
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'Right place at the right time': Colorado deputy, bloodhound find missing girl in Wyoming
Updated: 4:26 PM CDT Jul 6, 2019
Jefferson County Sheriff's Office
Deputy Kelly Fosler and her bloodhound
SOURCE: Jefferson County Sheriff's Office
A Colorado deputy and her dog happened to be in the right place at the right time.Deputy Kelly Fosler and her bloodhound, Jessie, were in Wyoming on an unrelated call when they were requested for a search for a missing 12-year-old girl.They were searching an area filled with cactuses in nearly 90-degree weather on the weekend, and eventually, Jessie needed a 20-minute break.The pair searched for nearly two hours before the dog pulled her handler back in the direction they started. Fosler thought Jessie had lost the scent."Turns out, she knew exactly where she was going," Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office officials said Friday. When the pair got closer to a home, the bloodhound went around to the back. Near a large bush, they spotted the girl, hiding."(The girl) was hungry, dehydrated and sunburnt after 20 hours out in the elements," officials said, “but she was otherwise uninjured."
A Colorado deputy and her dog happened to be in the right place at the right time.
Deputy Kelly Fosler and her bloodhound, Jessie, were in Wyoming on an unrelated call when they were requested for a search for a missing 12-year-old girl.
They were searching an area filled with cactuses in nearly 90-degree weather on the weekend, and eventually, Jessie needed a 20-minute break.
The pair searched for nearly two hours before the dog pulled her handler back in the direction they started. Fosler thought Jessie had lost the scent.
"Turns out, she knew exactly where she was going," Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office officials said Friday.
When the pair got closer to a home, the bloodhound went around to the back. Near a large bush, they spotted the girl, hiding.
"(The girl) was hungry, dehydrated and sunburnt after 20 hours out in the elements," officials said, “but she was otherwise uninjured."
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Tuesday 3rd March 2020
Suitable for Ages 14+
Vincent Dance Theatre in association with Worthing Theatres
In Loco Parentis
Acclaimed company Vincent Dance Theatre return to Worthing with a brand new show.
What happens to young people when their parents can’t look after them? In Loco Parentis explores what it’s like to grow up in care.
“You do grow up quicker in care. We know more than you guys. That ain’t my house. Even if I had to live there ’til I was 18… that ain’t my house”. Young Person in Care, Sussex 2019.
Vincent Dance Theatre’s latest insightful and hard-hitting performance In Loco Parentis, combines movement, strong visual imagery and spoken word.
Critically acclaimed for translating real-life testimonies into beautifully crafted performance work, Director Charlotte Vincent illuminates the inner-worlds of care-experienced young people, demonstrating their extraordinary resilience, demanding their stories be heard.
“Agonisingly visceral, and often beyond words… this is also a piece about love as an enduring source of hope”. The Psychologist, on VDT Art of Attachment (In Loco Parentis companion piece)
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BalletBoyz: Deluxe
Giovanni Pernice – This is Me
Year 8 Interform Dance: Davison CE High School for Girls
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The Proclamation of Independence 1803
This is the text of the proclamation issued at the start of the second United Irishmen rebellion of 1803. led by Robert Emmet. Its noteworthy that the first act was to declare "church lands are the property of the nation." and point 13 declares "the people elect their officers up to the colonels" even if the introduction reassures "we do not make war on property"
Always question authority
"I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.
Ulster’s Solemn League and Covenant
This is the text of the 'Ulster’s Solemn League and Covenant' launched by Carson, Craig and the northern Unionist elite on 28 Sept 1912. Some 218,206 men were to sign it. Women were not able to sign it but 228,990 women did sign a declaration in solidarity with the men. The sermon delivered bu Dr William McKean included “We are plain, blunt men who love peace and industry. The Irish question is at bottom a war against Protestantism; it is an attempt to establish a Roman Catholic ascendancy in Ireland to begin the disintegration of the Empire by securing a second parliament in Dublin”.
Irish ferries - a great struggle but a terrible deal
Date: Fri, 2006-01-20 14:53
On December 14th the three week dispute at Irish Ferries came to an end. SIPTU claimed that the deal protects a "threshold of decency". Irish Ferries had offered redundancy to 543 crew members, who were to be replaced with staff employed on wages of just €3.60 an hour - less than half the national minimum wage.
Irish Ferries demonstrations - Magnificent show of solidarity
The old union motto "an injury to one is the concern of all" is taken more seriously by ordinary union members than by many of our "leaders". The Irish Congress of Trade Unions, sheltering behind the 1990 Industrial Relations Act which makes strikes in support of other workers unlawful, didn't call for a national walk-out. We knew they wanted us to strike and march but their over-cautious approach didn't exactly inspire workers with particularly aggressive employers.
Irish Ferries - Ships occupied
The (Irish Ferries) dispute escalated on November 24th when goons from a private security firm brought Eastern European seafarers onto the ships. If the ferries resumed sailing the dispute would be effectively over, with Irish Ferries winning hands down.
That's capitalism - WS90
Ireland now has six euro billionaires, Northern Ireland Assembly has cost taxpayers £78 million, 1,250 barristers and solicitors earn more than €200,000, Bertie Ahern received no less than 5 pay rises in the 6 months
The WSM - Who We Are, What We're For..
It's one of anarchism's fundamental claims that it's possible to organise in an effective manner without submitting to authority. Not only that, but we believe that it's more effective than organising in a hierarchial manner as it makes use of everybody's talents and minimises the alientation that comes with decisions being made over your head. That's why we don't have a leadership - we think it's ineffective.
Thinking about Anarchism: What is anarchism?
Many people still associate anarchism with violence, destruction, and chaos. This concept of anarchism is reinforced by the corporate media, and those that have an interest in discrediting the anarchist movement. Needless to say this idea of anarchism bears no correlation with the society we are trying to create, or our struggle to achieve it.
Rossport - Go west (and make Shell go offshore)
Though the issue of the Rossport pipeline was last in the news when the the five local men were released from prison, the conflict with Shell hasn't gone away. Since then the government commissioned a report, which essentially whitewashed Shell and gave the go ahead to build this dangerous pipeline
Review: Chomsky on anarchism
This book is a collection of essays by and interviews on anarchism with the man who has recently been voted the most popular intellectual in the world, (not that he was very impressed by that!)
Anarchist youth group formed
Late last year some younger anarchists in Dublin and Wicklow got together and formed their own organisation. Workers Solidarity asked them why?
Interview - The struggle for safe, legal abortion on demand continues.
Official Ireland pretends that abortion doesn't exist, the estimated 100,000 women who have travelled abroad to terminate pregnancies since the 1983 amendment to the Constitution know different. Workers Solidarity spoke to Niav Keating from the new pro-choice youth group.
Irish Examiner does an Irish ferries
We were assured during the Irish Ferries saga that it could only happen because it was a maritime industry and landbound Irish jobs were safe. Many newspapers editorialised against escalation and for reasoned negotiation etc, the Irish Examiner was no different.
A look at the Situationists
The Situationists are mostly known to anarchists as a group that had something to do with the May 1968 Paris Uprising. However, the Situationists played a relatively peripheral role in the disturbances. Although much of the graffiti that appeared around the city (some famous ones included : "Never Work" and "All Power to the Imagination") were taken from Situationist works, the group did not play a major role in initiating the revolt themselves.
Protest in support of asylum seekers
Date: Tue, 2006-01-24 23:17
Let asylum seekers stay and work! Stop the deportations
Hundreds of asylum seekers in Ireland entered 2006 facing an uncertain future at best, as they wait to see whether Justice Minister Michael McDowell agrees to let them stay in Ireland or tries to deport them, as he has many others.
1st Dublin Anarchist Bookfair - 2006
The first Dublin anarchist bookfair was held in the Nicholas Myra community hall in the Liberties. Much of the information below was retrieved from the blogspot used to promote that bookfair.
Anarchism and a moneyless economy
Anarchists are usually pretty good at listing the things we are against: capitalism, racism, religious sectarianism, authoritarianism and so on. We are usually pretty good at explaining how best to struggle: direct democracy and mass direct action.
Where we often fall down is in explaining what we want at the end of the day, and convincing our listeners that it is a realistic alternative rather than a utopian pipe dream.
Anarchy 4 dummies
WSM meeting Dun Laoghaire Art College
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Tag Archives: bourgeois counterrevolution
On the Causes of the USSR Destruction. Answers of WW to some misguided comrades
21.09.2018 Theoretical issuebourgeois counterrevolution, causes of USSR destructionStas 1004
It is hardly worth saying that the question of the causes of the death of the USSR is still now being discussed in the left and communist movements in Russia and the republics of the former USSR (as well as throughout the world): it is a common knowledge. The question is really important, because the answer to it directly defines the answer to another question – what should the working class and the working people do next, which way have they to go, where to move and what to strive for.
«Belavezha Accords»: How and Why the USSR Was Destroyed
21.09.2018 Theoretical issueBelavezha accords, bourgeois counterrevolution, causes of USSR destructionStas 303
On the 8th of December the working population of former Soviet socialist and now bourgeois republics called to memory a tragic date — another anniversary of signing of the ill-fated Belavezha Accords, by which in a sense the process of the USSR destruction was accomplished and legalized.
The great country, that had been astonishing the whole world with its tremendous success in economy, as well as in politics, and in the social sphere for the 70 previous years, suffered the final and terminating blow which made the country cease to exist. From that day the USSR became mentioned only in the past tense. And the Soviet people, who had never wished that, proved unable to prevent the process, and they have to pay for their weakness up to the present.
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WATCH: Jewish security group issues guidelines for synagogues on arms, hired guards
Guatemalan president promises to keep embassy in Jerusalem
Finnish MP arrested after trying to cut through Israel-Gaza border fence
PA, Hamas fight in Oman over who really represents Palestinians
IDF strikes Hamas sites in response to rocket barrage
South Dakota governor signs executive order banning boycotts of Israel
Israel loosens gun control for IDF veterans
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With the new guidelines, many more Israelis will be able to carry arms and defend civilians against terrorists.
Minister of Interior Security Gilad Erdan approved a plan to increase the number of weapons licenses in Israel through a change in the gun licensing laws that will enable hundreds of thousands of veterans of the IDF’s infantry units to obtain a weapons license.
Erdan signed off on the new guidelines that would allow the number of arms license holders in Israel to significantly increase.
According to the new rules, officers and commanders would not be required to return their weapons upon release from active reserve duty and could request to continue carrying them.
As a result of the new policy, the number of skilled weapons-carriers in the public sphere will increase by over half a million with veterans of the security forces and thousands of volunteers from the Israel Police and rescue organizations.
Concurrently, the minister enacted regulations that significantly upgrade the training process for new license applicants and holders of existing licenses.
“Many civilians saved lives during terror attacks, and in an age of ‘individual terrorists’ – the more skilled civilians carrying weapons, the greater the chance of thwarting attacks without casualties and reducing the number of casualties,” Erdan stated.
“Skilled civilians holding guns in the public space contribute to the sense of security, constitute an important defence line against individual attacks and serve as incidental power multipliers, thereby strengthening public safety,” he added. “The new policy balances the need to protect the public who may be at risk and the need to protect the public from the improper use of guns.”
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WATCH: More than 120 members of Congress express support for anti-Israel group
When at-risk and special-needs kids bunk together at camp
US imposes sanctions on Iranian general for involvement in massacre
Explosive balloons from Gaza return to haunt Israel’s south
IDF begins digging barrier in north
Analysis: Does ISIS still pose a risk to Israel?
Preparations for 75th anniversary commemoration of Auschwitz liberation go into high gear
Netanyahu discusses Middle East hot spots with world leaders
PM Benjamin Netanyahu (Amos Ben Gershon/GPO)
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Amid a flurry of diplomatic phone calls, the Israeli prime minister holds talks with with Russian and French leaders to confer on the latest developments in the region.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the latest developments in Syria.
The Kremlin said that Putin also called Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to discuss the same issue.
Tuesday’s conversations with Netanyahu and el-Sissi followed Putin’s calls with President Donald Trump and Saudi King Salman. They come a day after Syrian President Bashar Assad’s surprise visit to Russia for talks with Putin. The Kremlin says Putin and Assad discussed potential diplomatic initiatives for Syria ahead of a summit between Russia, Turkey and Iran and a new round of Syria peace talks in Geneva later this month.
According to the Kremlin, Putin and Netanyahu discussed specifics related to a de-escalation zone in Syria’s south, near the border with Jordan, which Israel says endangers its security.
Netanyahu and Putin have met on several occasions over the past year, most recently in Sochi on the Black Sea in August. The two leaders speak by phone on a frequent basis.
Also on Tuesday, Netanyahu spoke to French President Emmanuel Macron about the latest tensions in Lebanon, hours after Iranian president Hassan Rouhani told Macron by phone that his country was not seeking to “dominate” the Middle East.
Reuters quoted Macron’s office as stating that he had told Rouhani and Netanyahu that France was committed to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, but that regional subjects and Iran’s ballistic missile threat should be discussed separately.
Tuesday’s phone call comes after Netanyahu and Macron held a lengthily half-hour phone conversation on Sunday, during which the French leader updated Netanyahu on his country’s efforts to resolve the Lebanese political crisis.
During the conversation, which the Prime Minister’s Office said came at Macron’s request, the two agreed to meet in Paris next month.
“Netanyahu and Macron also spoke about the nuclear deal with Iran, Iran’s efforts to establish itself and Syria, and its actions in the region,” the PMO’s statement said.
Macron has held a series of phone conversations with world leaders in recent days about France’s efforts to keep Lebanon from spiraling into another arena for a growing conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia and their respective allies.
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Customers Arm Themselves with Recordings Against Comcast Guy Army
September 10, 2014, by Lisa Stapleton in Business Voip Phone Service, Unified Communications, Feature Tips, Business Tips, Contact Center, Featured
As Stephen L. Carter puts it, the Comcast Guy recording kerfuffle just gets weirder and more painful with every update. Now there are at least THREE outrageous Comcast customer service recordings out there going viral. It’s enough to make even the most stalwart pacifist take a well-edited page from Wayne LaPierre’s playbook: The only thing that stops a bad guy with a headset is a GOOD guy with a headset—and call recording.
The Comcast Army: Rude and Ready to Rumble
Inspired by Ryan Block’s viral recording of a long, painful, galling recording of a rude Comcast rep trying to keep Block from cancelling his service, consumers and even businesses are getting promises in the promisers’ own words. And they’re armed with call recording technology that today ranges from cell phones to the call recording features that come with business communications services—such as 8x8’s Virtual Office Pro package.
Fighting Back with Recordings
Already, the story of Tim Davis has also gone viral. He was promised a free visit from a technician for problems with his system, and was then charged $182 for the services. Comcast adamantly refused to back off or negotiate, until Davis played recordings he had made of a Comcast rep making promises. Even at that point, a Comcast employee admitted that the only reason Davis was getting the refund was that he had recorded the earlier conversation. Of course, customers shouldn’t have to record calls to get good service. Companies should be true to their word, just because it’s the right thing to do. And in some states, it’s illegal to record calls surreptitiously. But in many states, if you’ve already agreed to or heard a company’s announcement that they’re recording your call, you can make your own recording. So for many, pushing or clicking “record” is a no-brainer.
Why Businesses Record Calls
Many companies have been recording business calls for years, sometimes for compliance, but more often, because it gives everyone an easy record of what was said and who had which follow-up items. “I do a lot of interviews at my new job, and being able to play them back is sweeeeet,” says Phil Meagher, a marketing associate at JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments. Other companies record conversations to make sure their employees are well trained—and to clear up miscommunications.
Perhaps most importantly, though, call recording gives managers a way to understand what their employees face everyday. Often, hearing actual interactions gives a manager insight into where and why business conversations derail. You can’t change what you can’t hear. And for anyone who wants to avoid Comcast’s recent media disaster, that might be the best lesson of all.
To learn more about call recording, click here.
Lisa Stapleton is a marketing manager at 8x8. She holds an MBA from Santa Clara University, an MA in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and a bachelor's degree in applied math and physics from UC Berkeley. [...] Read More >
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Taxation (TX)
Applied Skills exams
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Corporate and Business Law (LW)
Performance Management (PM)
Financial Reporting (FR)
Audit and Assurance (AA)
Financial Management (FM)
Regional variants available
In a number of countries, students have the opportunity to take this exam based on their national tax. Should a national tax not be available, we recommend students select the UK variant.
You can read about the differences in the 'Learning highlights for each exam variant' section.
Exam aims
Students will develop knowledge and skills relating to the tax system as applicable to individuals, single companies and groups of companies.
Learning highlights for each exam variant
Botswana (BWA)
Note: The following learning applies to the Botswana (BWA) exam variant.
Explain the operation and scope of the tax system and the obligations of tax payers and/or their agents and the implications of noncompliance.
Explain and compute the income tax liabilities of individuals.
Explain and compute the tax liabilities of companies.
Explain and compute the chargeable gains arising on companies and individuals
Explain the operation and scope of the system of withholding taxes.
Explain and compute the effects of value added tax on incorporated and unincorporated businesses.
China (CHN)
Note: The following learning applies to the China (CHN) exam variant.
Explain the operation and scope of the PRC tax system and its administration
Explain and compute the income tax liabilities of individuals
Explain and compute the corporate income tax liabilities of enterprises
Explain and compute the effects of land appreciation tax for individuals and Enterprises
Explain and compute the effects of value added tax, consumption tax and customs duty for individuals and enterprises.
Cyprus (CYP)
Note: The following learning applies to the Cyprus (CYP) exam variant.
Explain the operation and scope of the tax system and the obligations of taxpayers and/or their agents
Explain and compute the corporation tax liabilities of individual and groups of companies
Explain and compute the special contribution for the defence (SCD) liabilities of individuals and companies
Explain and compute the capital gains tax liabilities of Individuals and companies
Explain and compute the effect of social insurance contributions on employees, employers and the self employed
Czech Republic (CZE)
Note: The following learning applies to the Czech Republic (CZE) exam variant.
Explain the operation and scope of the tax system and the obligations of tax payers and/or their agents and the implications of non-compliance
Explain and compute the corporate income tax liabilities of companies
Note: The following learning applies to the Hong Kong (HKG) exam variant.
Explain the operation, scope and functions of the tax system, and the rights and obligations of taxpayers and/or their agents/employers and the implications of non-compliance and the rights and powers of the taxing authorities in the context of tax assessment, tax collection and tax recovery
Explain and compute the salaries tax liabilities of individuals, including employees, office holders and pension-earners
Explain and compute the profits tax liabilities of incorporated and unincorporated businesses, either resident or non-resident
Explain and compute the property tax liabilities of property income earners
Explain and compute the tax liabilities under personal assessment.
Hungary (HUN)
Note: The following learning applies to the Hungary (HUN) exam variant.
Explain the operation and scope of the tax system and the obligations of tax payers and/or their agents and the implications of non-compliance.
Explain and compute the corporation tax liabilities of individual companies
Explain and compute the effect of social security contributions on employees and employers
Explain and compute the effects of value added tax on incorporated and unincorporated businesses
Explain and compute the tax payable on company cars
Explain and compute the tax payable to local municipalities.
Ireland (IRL)
Note: The following learning applies to the Ireland (IRL) exam variant.
Explain and compute the corporation tax liabilities of individual companies and groups of companies
Explain and compute the taxation of residential property
Explain and compute the effect of social insurance and universal social charge on employees, employers and the self employed
Lesotho (LSO)
Note: The following learning applies to the Lesotho (LSO) exam variant.
Explain the operation and scope of the tax system and the obligations of taxpayers and/or their agents, and the implications of non-compliance
Explain and compute the corporation tax liabilities of companies
Explain and compute the effect of fringe benefits tax
Malawi (MWI)
Note: The following learning applies to the Malawi (MWI) exam variant.
Explain and compute the income tax liabilities of companies
Explain and compute fringe benefits tax on employee benefits
Explain and compute tax as it affects special trades and cases
Explain and compute the effects of indirect taxes, value added tax and custom and excise duties on incorporated and unincorporated businesses.
Malaysia (MYS)
Note: The following learning applies to the Malaysia (MYS) exam variant.
Explain the operation and scope of the tax system and the obligations of taxpayers, taxable persons, employers and/or their agents and the implications of non-compliance
Explain and compute real property gains tax
Explain and compute goods and services tax (GST).
Note: The following learning applies to the Malta (MLA) exam variant.
Explain the operation and scope of the tax system and the obligations of taxpayers and/or their agents and the implications of non-compliance
Explain and compute the corporate income tax liabilities of individual companies and groups of companies
Explain and compute the tax liabilities arising on the disposal of capital assets by companies and individuals
Explain and compute the effect of social security contributions on employees, employers and the self employed
Pakistan (PKN)
Note: The following learning applies to the Pakistan (PKN) exam variant.
Explain the operation and scope of the tax system and tax administration and the rights and obligations of taxpayers and/or their representatives and the implications of non-compliance.
Explain and compute the income tax liabilities of individuals and unincorporated bodies
Explain and compute the capital gains of individuals, unincorporated bodies and companies
Explain and compute the effects of sales tax on incorporated and unincorporated businesses.
Poland (POL)
Note: The following learning applies to the Poland (POL) exam variant.
Explain and compute the corporate income tax liabilities of individual companies
Explain and compute the effect of social security and health service contributions on employees, employers and the self employed
Note: The following learning applies to the Romania (ROM) exam variant.
Explain the operation and scope of the tax system and the obligations of tax payer and/or their agents and the implications of non-compliance
Explain and compute the effect of national social security, unemployment, health care and other similar contributions on employees, employers and the self employed
Russia (RUS)
Note: The following learning applies to the Russia (RUS) exam variant.
Explain the operation and scope of the tax system and its administration
Explain and compute the income tax liabilities of individuals in their capacity as individual entrepreneurs and employees
Explain and compute the corporate profits tax liabilities of Russian legal entities
Explain and compute the effects of value added tax on incorporated businesses
Explain and compute the effect of insurance contributions on employees, employers and individual entrepreneurs
Explain and compute the corporate property tax liability of Russian legal entities.
Singapore (SGP)
Note: The following learning applies to the Singapore (SGP) exam variant.
Explain and compute the effect of goods and services tax on incorporated and unincorporated businesses.
South Africa (ZAF)
Note: The following learning applies to the South Africa (ZAF) exam variant.
Explain the operation and scope of the tax system and the obligations of tax payers and/or their agents
Explain and compute the chargeable capital gains arising on companies and individuals
Note: The following learning applies to the United Kingdom (UK) exam variant.
Explain and compute the income tax liabilities of individuals and the effect of national insurance contributions (NIC) on employees, employers and the self-employed
Explain and compute the chargeable gains arising on individuals
Explain and compute the inheritance tax liabilities of individuals
Vietnam (VNM)
Note: The following learning applies to the Vietnam (VNM) exam variant.
Explain the operation and scope of the Vietnamese tax system and the obligations of tax payers and the implications of non-compliance
Explain and compute the personal income tax liabilities of individuals
Explain and compute the corporate income tax liabilities of both domestic and foreign owned companies
Explain and compute the tax liabilities arising under the regime applicable to foreign contractors
Explain and compute the effects of value added tax on businesses.
Zimbabwe (ZWE)
Note: The following learning applies to the Zimbabwe (ZWE) exam variant.
Explain and compute the effect of national social security (NSSA) and pension/benefit fund contributions on employees, employers and the self employed
How students will benefit
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You know you need to spend less time on your phone, and Google agrees. To that end, the company announced a set of new apps and tools to help you spend a little less time on your device — and more time being a little more productive. The new apps are part of a set of new Digital Wellbeing “experiments,” which are now available in the Google Play Store.
Digital Wellbeing, in general, was originally launched as a way for users to track how much they use their phone and the apps on their phone, and as a way to limit that usage. The five new apps are part of that initiative, however, they don’t seem to require Digital Wellbeing to actually be on your phone — so you can still take advantage of them if you don’t have a recent version of Android with Digital Wellbeing.
So what exactly are these new Digital Wellbeing experiments? Here’s a quick rundown.
Desert Island basically forces you to pick a few apps that you especially need to use — while the rest are totally hidden. Basically, you’ll choose only seven apps to show, while the rest are hidden from view — though you can still use them if you need to. After 24 hours, you’ll get a summary to tell you how you did only using the specific apps, and how often you stuck to using the chosen ones.
Morph is aimed at completely changing the look of your phone depending on when you’re using it. The idea is that using a single launcher can make opening your device a little distracting — so instead, Morph changes the launcher when and where you need to. You can create as many modes as you want, assign apps to be available in those modes, and have modes automatically activate based on the time or your location. Morph even limits notifications depending on the mode.
Paper Phone
Paper Phone is pretty different from the other apps — in that the goal of it is to do away with using your phone altogether. At the start of the day, you’ll use the app to print important information that you might need during the day, like contacts, tasks, weather information, and so on. The idea is that you’ll refer to that paper copy instead of your phone.
Post Box is aimed at helping you manage your notifications. The app essentially blocks notifications from appearing during the day, then letting them through in a bundle at a specific time, or up to four times, during the day.
Unlock Clock
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We Flip
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An Ole Miss walk-on has caught coach Hugh Freeze’s attention
William McFadden
Mississippi coach Hugh Freeze, center, waits to lead his team out onto the field. (AP Photo/Austin McAfee)
The Ole Miss Rebels’ coaching staff have spent the past summer determining which players will help them attain another successful season, but one player’s camp performance has been an unexpected surprise.
Freshman Dawson Knox, a walk-on tight end, was singled out by coach Hugh Freeze following Tuesday’s practice.
“Dawson Knox has had a great camp,” Freeze told reporters. “He’s an athletic kid, and he’s going to be a big kid, but he needs a year to get ready. He’s been a big surprise.”
Parrish Alford of insideolemisssports.com has more information on the Rebels’ tight end situation entering the fall.
Knox was initially recruited as a duel-threat quarterback, according to Rivals, and held offers from Air Force, Austin Peay and Cornell.
It looks as though the 6-foot-4, 222-pound Knox made the right decision when he chose to eschew his three offers and take his chances as a walk-on in the SEC.
Ole Miss certainly has enough candidates for the quarterback job, but letting Knox throw the ball on a tight end reverse would be spectacular.
Although he may not see much time on the field this season, it’s not often that freshman walk-ons get public praise in the SEC. Don’t be surprised if this particular walk-on makes an impact down the road.
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< Return to Famous Greco-Roman classical religionists
Amara Juliana Olivia Aquilla
of the New Mutants, X-Men
In addition to the ones others mentioned, I thought of Zauriel, but I'm not sure he is religious, as we'd understand it. Religion is an interpratation of a truth that he actually knows.
From: Brian Doyle
There was a nice conversation between Magma and Empath one time, when she tells him about meeting Hercules. He ponders whose faith is greater, her, because she has met one of her deities (well, demi-deity, but you get the idea), or his, because he has faith in something he's never seen (Despite the fact that Empath was a sociopathic sadist up until about this point (Thank you Ms. Simonson!) and was about as Un-Christian as it's possible to imagine).
Excerpts from: "Religion/Spirituality" discussion page, started 29 November 2003, on ComixFan.com website (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/archive/index.php/t-24121.html; viewed 10 January 2006):
Eric Travis
Feb 5, 2004, 02:49 pm
Mutants and religion can go hand in hand... But in my mind, if you want a strong Christian character searching for answers and divine help, then you can't go wrong with the original New Mutants series. Specifically, Rahne Sinclair...
Other strong religious characters include (of the X-Men variety): Dani Moonstar (Cheyenne/Norwegian beliefs), Kitty Pryde (Jewish)... Kurt (Catholic), Shan Coy Manh (Catholic), Amara Aquila (Roman pantheon).
[Wolfsbane is a] much, much better example [of a religious character than Nightcrawler] because Wolfsbane's religious beliefs were written as being a very strong part of the character - always. Kitty, Shan [i.e., Xi'an], and Amara are the only others that I would include.
Mirage and Amara have a rare sort of faith-system. Meaning: they've both met their respective gods face to face. Hercules for Amara, Odin/Thor/Loki/etc. for Dani.
From: "Religious Themes in Comics" forum discussion page, started 21 May 2003 on "Sketchy Origins" website (http://www.sketchyorigins.com/comics/archive/index.php?t-1380.html; viewed 12 May 2006):
I enjoy Religion in comics most when it's explored through the personal experience/development of a character, for example, I really liked the New Mutants issue where one of the characters [Magma] who believes and worships the Roman(/Greek) Pantheon of Gods is doubting her faith and then she gets to meet Hercules... Anything that makes it personal, that respectfully approaches and explores the human experience of how the individual relates to the Divine through the traditions of their own Religion is always interesting to me!
From: Leor Blumenthal
Date: Tues, May 5 1998 12:00 am
Why should religious people [in Chris Claremont stories] be constantly portrayed as backwards, primitive, or naive?
[Samy Merchi disagrees with previous poster Leor Blumenthal's contention that most religious characters written by Chris Claremont are "backwards, primitive and naive", or, on other words, negatively portrayed. Merchi counters Blumenthal's contention by categorizing all the religious Claremont characters he can think of. Most do not display the negative characteristics Blumenthal is complaining about.]
Date: Sat, May 9 1998 12:00 am
re: "Why should religious people [in Chris Claremont stories] be constantly portrayed as backwards, primitive, or naive?"
Let's see.
Tolerant, un-backwards, un-primitive, un-naive: Kurt, Reverend Conover, Hank..., Ororo, Kitty, Dani, Forge, Amara (though she came from a primitive culture, she was a genius, definitely not backwards or naive), Lilandra.
Total: 9.
Intolerant, backwards, primitive, or naive: Rahne, Reverend Stryker.
Additions? You'll have to add eight backwards people to validate your point, or invalidate eight of the people I gave.
Date: Mon, May 11 1998 12:00 am
re: "It started after Excalibur started, and since then she [Kitty Pryde] has mentioned that she is Jewish all of twice in the last three years (that I remember)..."
Which is more often than most characters mention their religion. (Aside from people like Ororo or Amara who constantly use their religion in their gasp-phrases.)...
From: Johan Lundstrom
Date: Tues, May 12 1998 12:00 am
re: "In hindsight, Claremont was following the comic book norms of tiptoeing around religion."
One of the reasons I loved New Mutants #81 [which focuses on Magma and her religious beliefs] was the interesting and un-comics-like discussion of religion. You're basically correct, though.
From: "Religion of the X-Men" message board started 15 May 2005 on Comic Book Resources website (http://forums.comicbookresources.com/archive/index.php/t-58362.html; viewed 13 June 2006):
Emerald Ghost
Do you ever wonder what religion an X-Man is? I know they are just characters, but still, just for the fun of it.
I am wondering if you could guess their religion by their character, or what they've said, etc.
Nightcrawler is obviously Roman Catholic... Magma and Sunspot, are they Catholic too?...
Jesse Newcomb
...Magma worships the Roman gods so she's a pagan...
...As for [other] characters...
Magma - Roman-Greco gods...
The Fury
The problem is that whether they are strongly religious or not.
While some like Nightcrawler, Storm and Sabra are obvious to their beliefs and faith, there are many that I don't think I've ever seen mention their beliefs or gone to church...
Also, the word Pagan. Earlier someone called Magma a Pagan, although she was, we knew what her religion was and so could have used that. Storm though, we know she is of a faith and a strong one at that. The use of the word Pagan there makes sense as we do not know what that faith is.
From: "Religion and X-Men" thread started 21 July 1998 on rec.arts.comics.marvel.xbooks newsgroup (http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.comics.marvel.xbooks/browse_thread/thread/b61ff5d2e422d0a5/1ebe80a26a7df2e5; viewed 13 June 2006):
From: Alan D. Earhart
Date: Tues, Jul 21 1998 12:00 am
Some of the recent discussion got me thinking about this once again.
When has religion been used as a plot device in an xbook? [i.e., a comic book series related to the X-Men]
...I seem to remember something from the New Mutants but I can't put my finger on it...
Others?
From: David R. Henry
Date: Wed, Jul 22 1998 12:00 am
...There was the rather good New Mutants issue that Claremont came out of the blue and returned with, dealing with Amara and Hercules...
From: Danny Miller
re: "I seem to remember something from The New Mutants but I can't put my finger on it."
Maybe that one circa [New Mutants] #72 where Hercules comes to "meet" Amara?
Date: Sun, Jul 26 1998 12:00 am
re: "Maybe that one... where Hercules comes to meet Amara?"
Yep. That was the one. I see a few people remembered it!
Ya' know, I knew there were a few but I didn't realize just how many [X-Men stories where religion was used as a central plot point] I had forgotten.
re: "...where Hercules comes to meet Amara?"
[This was in New Mutants] #81. Probably the best treatment of religion ever in an xbook.
From: "(OFFTOPIC) Sleepwalker and a RANT!" thread started 9 April 1996 on rec.arts.comics.marvel.xbooks newsgroup (http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.comics.marvel.xbooks/browse_thread/thread/530027d02cbeb884/7c688dd20f2f433c; viewed 13 June 2006):
From: Brian
Date: Wed, Apr 10 1996 12:00 am
Say, this [religious affiliations of the X-Men] would be a neat thread. My memory doesn't really remember a lot of the X-Men having stated a religion... Anyone know any issues where a X-Member professed his/her religion?
From: Sarah Anne Yost
Date: Fri, Apr 12 1996 12:00 am
I remember an old NM [New Mutants volume 1] when they used to have halfway decent lettercols [letter columns] where they gave all of the current members' religions:
Amara - Roman beliefs
Rahne - something like "Scots Presbyterian"
Roberto and Xi'an were both Catholic
Cannonball was some sort of Christian
Dani naturally had Cheyenne beliefs
From: "X-Men religious affiliations" thread started 1 June 2002 on rec.arts.comics.marvel.xbooks newsgroup (http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.comics.marvel.xbooks/browse_thread/thread/78e6830d00083d2f/102a03cd2dab9fda; viewed 13 June 2006):
From: Chris Dodson
Date: Sat, Jun 1 2002 9:38 pm
I'm looking for information on the religious beliefs of all the current X-Men for a story I'm submitting to Marvel...
Date: Sun, Jun 2 2002 8:28 am
...Magma - Worshipped the Roman pantheon when she thought she was a Nova Romani...
Date: Mon, Jun 3 2002 11:21 am
There was an interesting issue where Magma and Empath discuss faith, Magma has MET Hercules so knows her Pantheon to be real, whereas Empath, a Catholic (in name if not in deed) has never met his deity, so they ponder which is the stronger faith...
Date: Fri, Jul 5 2002 1:33 pm
Magma worshipped Roman gods, who to the best of my knowledge are are not at all worshipped at all in present-day Brazil...
From: Justin Samuels
She was brainwashed by Selene into doing this.
From: Prestorjon
Well, Magma was from some lost world Roman colony that happened to be located in Brazil right?
From: Dan
Date: Sat, Jul 6 2002 12:21 am
She was until it was retconned that she was a British girl who shipwrecked and was brainwashed by Selene.
From: "Atheist superheroes?" thread, started 21 September 1999 on rec.arts.comics.marvel.universe newsgroup (http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.comics.marvel.universe/browse_thread/thread/e8d686f0b20944a6/4d0bf3df5f0c4e8d; viewed 23 June 2006):
From: Carmen Williams
Date: Thurs, Sep 23 1999 12:00 am
Others on the list [of Marvel superheroes with known religious affiliations]:
Magma - used to be a Roman pagan; now, who knows?
From: "What are the religious beliefs of the main mutants in the X-Books?" forum discussion started 16 January 2007 on "Comic Book Resources" website (http://forums.comicbookresources.com/archive/index.php/t-160293.html; viewed 16 May 2007):
What do you think the religious beliefs of the following mutants are?
jmc247
I guess Magma would be a Pagan as well.
Deus ex Chris
...Yeah.
fishtaco
Yeah, Wolverine's atheist. Nightcrawler and Shadowcat are obvious. Storm (and probably Magik) are complicated. Rogue is Christian, but I don't think we know whether that's Protestant or Catholic or something else. I don't think Longshot understands the concept of religion, so I guess that might make him an atheist. Wolfsbane is Presbyterian, Cannonball is Christian as of New Mutants (1st Series) #15. I suppose Magma believes in the Roman (Greek) gods? Forge? I think Gambit is atheist. Thunderbird III is Hindu. There are Shi'ar gods... Shaara, Kythri), Lilandra worships them.
The other day I was thinking about religion and comic books... What I'm interested in is the way religious characters are portrayed in comic books...
I think the first step is listing what characters are what religion...
LordEd1976
Living Lightning is Christian, possibly Catholic
Sasquatch is Jewish
US Agent may have been raised Christian but is at the moment somewhat lapsed.
I believe the Atlanteans still worship Neptune
I think I remember an old New Mutants story that featured a group of people that still worshiped Hercules...
mattbib
The Nova Romans worship the Roman pantheon. Hercules isn't a god, so I while he's probably revered I don't think he's worshiped.
Dizzy D
Hercules was worshipped as a god by the Romans and Greeks. He had shrines and temples dedicated to him. In the myths Hercules became a full-fledged god after his mortality was burned away. Dionysos is another demi-god (at least a demi-god in most versions of his myth) becoming a full-fledged god, so it isn't uncommon.
Arilou
Hercules is very much a god. He was the subject of quite serious worship in ancient Rome and Greece...
From: "Question for other atheists" forum discussion, started 6 March 2006 on "Comic Boards" website (http://www.comicboards.com/dcb/view.php?trd=060306051129; viewed 23 July 2007):
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Posted by Hellstone on Monday, March 06 2006 at 11:26:30 GMT
re: "Are there any?"
Hoo boy, yeah.
re: "How do you relate to the characters in comics, DC especially, who are characterised as atheistic/agnostic?"
Well, being a bit self-centered, I guess I consider all (or most) characters atheists until they have explicitly stated otherwise.
Other than that, I don't relate to atheistic and religious characters in any different ways. As long as they aren't fundamentalist nutjobs (but those exist among atheists as well).
re: "Would you still be an atheist if you'd had the experiences Mr Terrific and co have had?"
Impossible to answer. But I can easily see Mr. Terrific's point. In a world of cosmic energy beings and larger-than-life superheroes, why would we believe that the so-called "gods" are any different in nature. Maybe it's even easier to be an atheist in the DCU because of that.
Posted by Icon on Monday, March 06 2006 at 11:55:58 GMT
As noted in other discussions over the years, they [DC Comics] seem to bend over backwards to NOT assign denominations or faith statements to characters, due in part to a fear of alienating readers who might find it too much of a disassociation. Heroes should be relatable, and there are few things more divisive than religion.
I recall a discussion in an old New Teen Titans where Dick and Wally are infiltrating Brother Blood's base and have a discussion about their repsective viewpoints. IIRC [If I recall correctly], Wally definitely had a denomination, though I can't recall if mentions it by name (Baptist?), and Dick says that he believes in God, but doesn't go to church regularly. That struck me as an interesting commentary, but certainly didn't feel it changed my opinion of them as characters.
I am not an atheist, and am happy in my religious beliefs, but even if I WERE an atheist, I'd probably join a church just to annoy the likes of Richard Dawkins (A particularly irritating, "evangelical" atheist here in the UK who views anyone who has a faith as being, essentially, a misguided fool) :-)
...There's a nice discussion in an old New Mutants where the Catholic Empath and the Roman pantheon worshipping Magma (I think that technically makes her a Pagan, but I'm never sure whether that's a suitable word to use) discuss their respective faiths after Magma relates a story wherein she met Hercules. Is her faith stronger because she's met one of her Gods, or is his, because he still believes even though he HASN'T met his God. Appropriately, it doesn't give an answer.
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At the Rubens at the Palace hotel, London’s largest living wall flourishes year-round, with 10,000 ferns and herbaceous plants. It is irrigated by runoff from the hotel roof.
Photo courtesy Rubens at the Palace
Plant selections and continuity of vegetation from the ground up maximize the diversity of birds, butterflies, and other fauna finding refuge and foraging at a data center in Malaysia designed by Ken Yeang for DiGi Telecommunications.
Photo © T.R. Hamzah & Yeang
Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia’s design for the Sheraton Phu Quoc Resort combines an extensive green roof with the “Greenfall” facade of vines and a steel trellis that he used on a 2013 Hanoi house renovation.
Image courtesy Starwood Hotels
Early plans for overhauling Portland’s Edith Green–Wendell Wyatt Federal Building anticipated 200-foot-high vegetated panels shading the western facade. The renovation, designed by Cutler Anderson Architects and SERA Architects and completed in 2013, instead used aluminum rods for shading amid concerns about the proposed living walls’ cost and their viability under wind and strong sun. Vines growing up the facade from ground level retain a green design element.
Photo © Nic Lehoux
Portland-based developer SolTerra employs proprietary living walls as a marketing symbol; 1,100 square feet of vertical vegetation surrounds its LEED Platinum–certified Woodlawn development.
Photo © Sean Airhart
Roof runoff from Portland’s Expo Center filters through a StormWall designed by GreenWorks consisting of a 30-by-60-foot array of planters.
Photo courtesy City of Portland
The StormWall slows the runoff en route to city drains much like a green roof.
The first living wall in Genoa, Italy, is being monitored to better understand the cost of green walls, their maintenance requirements, and the potential for energy savings.
Photo courtesy Anna Positano
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Facades are a building’s most visible element, and adding plants offers entirely new dimensions of texture, symbolism, and seasonal dynamism. As French botanist and green-wall pioneer Patrick Blanc has said, “A simple wall can become something poetic.” Of course, poems can be tragic, and the risk of failure that comes with vegetating facades has tempered many architects’ enthusiasm. To put it bluntly, green walls can die.
Katia Perini, an instructor at the University of Genoa’s architecture school and an expert in green walls, says the perception of risk has slowed their acceptance. “As architects, we’re not used to having to relate to a growing material. If you use concrete or steel, you know how it will work. In the case of vegetation, everything can change,” says Perini.
A steady uptick in green-wall installations shows that architects are getting past anxiety. Researchers, green-wall providers, and architects say the mainstreaming of planted roofs, marked growth in interior green walls, and accumulated insight from exterior projects to date are all engendering greater comfort with planted facades.
They also see rising awareness of green-wall benefits—from sound and thermal insulation and provision of habitat for bugs and birds to cleaner air and the generalized sense of wellbeing known as biophilia. “The combination of all these benefits is starting to get traction. Green walls are now something that people are taking seriously,” says Gary Grant, a principal with London-based Green Infrastructure Consultancy.
It still takes “the right developer” to push forward a project, says Grant, because green walls are not cheap. But he sees a clear trend toward integration of green walls and says the excitement they offer justifies the expense. “When people want something, they find the money.”
Two Faces of the Green Wall
Engineered green walls take two forms. One type, which academics like Perini refer to as “green facades,” grows climbing vines and ivy on cables or scaffolds, forming a living screen over a built facade. While plants have crawled up walls for millenia, the modern green facade took shape in Berlin in the 1980s and 1990s, where eco-minded incentives spurred the installation of more than 2.5 million square feet of them.
The other green walls—living walls—are dense vertical gardens whose plants seem to burst out of a building’s skin. These consist of preplanted panels or modules affixed to a structural wall or frame, the first of which were developed by Blanc in the 1990s. They gained global fame in 2005 with his 8,600-
square-foot installation at Ateliers Jean Nouvel’s Musée du quai Branly in Paris. Blanc’s plants grow hydroponically within a water-soaked mesh fabric, while competing systems employ lightweight soils (akin to the growth media developed for green roofs) in fabric pockets or trays. All require continuous irrigation and infusions of nutrients and fertilizer.
Living walls’ verdant and varied plantings offer a far more diverse pallet of textures and colors. This design power and biodiversity can be expensive, however. Living walls can reach $125 per square foot, according to Perini. That is three to 10 times the cost of green facades, and she says living walls also require more maintenance.
Grant and other green-wall designers say both types are improving as their creators learn what plants thrive under which conditions. The designers say they are also educating clients better, steering them away from projects facing higher risks of horticulture failure, and preparing them for natural variation.
As Grant puts it, green walls will not always be green. Plants on a southern exposure in London, for example, will die back under summer heat. “They may not look their best all the time. It’s about managing expectations,” says Grant.
Jungle Walls in the Tropics
Green walls are at their greenest and most dramatic in verdant Southeast Asia. Climate helps in locations such as Singapore and Malaysia, where relatively high humidity and narrower temperature swings put less stress on plants and demand less of irrigation systems.
For Malaysian architect and ecologist Ken Yeang, who started planting facades in the 1980s, green walls are first and foremost about engineering ecosystems. Yeang employs flora that supports local fauna, and stresses habitat connectivity to maximize ecosystem value.
Yeang wrapped a vegetated wall around a data center near Kuala Lumpur. The project, completed in 2010 for cellular provider DiGi Telecommunications, includes about 16,000 square feet of plants that angle up from the ground at one corner and zigzag around the structure. Continuous greenery, he says, makes the building an extension of the surrounding habitat. The living wall is also used creatively to improve other building functions. For example, air intakes lie behind the living wall, filtering out particulates and providing what he calls a “small degree” of precooling.
The architect makes no apologies for the pruning, replacement of dead plants, and other maintenance required. “I tell the owners that it’s like having your own garden, where you must cut the grass and look after the flowers. They must be committed to looking after the garden,” he says.
More recent projects in Southeast Asia blend planted facades, terraces, and roofs to literally drape structures in greenery. In contrast to DiGi, where a band of living wall visually complements the otherwise rectilinear facade, for these projects the organic-inorganic frontier almost disappears.
Twin skyscrapers under construction in Kuala Lumpur, another of the many collaborations between Nouvel and Blanc, will be splashed with growing greens and reds across most of their 49 and 43 stories. Video released by Hong Kong–based developer Wing Tai shows living walls at the penthouse levels, while flowering plants climb stainless-steel cables to adorn the bulk of the towers’ steel-and-glass facades. One newspaper described the effect as “jungle-themed.”
Jungle certainly evokes the work of Singapore-based WOHA whose buildings seem enveloped in greenery, as well as recent projects by Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia. Take the Sheraton Phu Quoc Resort designed by Nghia’s Ho Chi Minh City–based firm for Starwood Hotels, scheduled to open in July 2017. In some renderings, the nearly 380,000-square-foot structure nearly disappears into its wooded surroundings under a continuous coating of vegetation.
Vertical Green in Portland
Making green walls practical at higher latitudes is a taller order. Larger seasonal shifts and extreme weather stress plants, and they test the irrigation systems required to sustain living walls. One region showing progress even so is the Pacific Northwest.
Despite their reputation for moderate climates, cities like Seattle and Portland freeze in winter and their summers can be bone dry. “We’ve gone 90 to 110 days without rain in recent summers,” notes Brian Heather, president at SolTerra, a Portland-based design-build developer with a penchant for living walls.
Heather says that SolTerra has gained a great deal of knowledge since creating a proprietary living-wall system in 2009, especially about irrigating big walls. Irrigation systems must automatically drain during cold snaps to protect water lines from bursting, and they must anticipate gravity and wind to distribute water evenly. “You can end up with a lot more water at the bottom of the wall than at the top,” he says.
In 2010, concerns about irrigation helped torpedo 200-foot-high green walls proposed for the extensive overhaul of the 1970s-era Edith Green–Wendell Wyatt Federal Building in Portland. Initial plans called for vertical fins adorned with plants to shade the 18-story office tower’s western facade from intense midday sun and heat. But doubts about the viability and cost of maintaining living walls in that harsh environment killed the original green-wall plan.
Cutler Anderson Architects and SERA Architects, who designed the renovation, ultimately used aluminum rods to shade the facade. But they retained a vegetated fringe at the bottom by sending vines up the rods from ground-level planters. The climbers have thrived since the project’s 2013 completion and add “a lot of visual interest,” according to Amy Chomowicz, an urban planner in Portland’s Bureau of Environmental Services. “The vines must be at least 30 feet high,” she says.
SolTerra, meanwhile, is now scaling up its own living walls after “years of trial and error,” says Heather. They feature in SolTerra’s first completed development and in almost all of the 12 more under construction or at the permitting or design stage. Its 18-unit Woodlawn development in Portland, an apartment building with ground-level commercial space completed last year, teems with 3,500 plants covering most of its vertical surfaces that aren’t glazed.
Green walls head skyward in the next SolTerra projects, including an office project under construction in Portland, Oregon. It will feature a 70-foot-high, 40-foot-wide living wall mural. Heather says green walls project the ecology and wellness-oriented marketing strategy behind SolTerra’s LEED Platinum developments. With rental revenue running 40 percent higher than projected, he says the walls are worth the cost: “There’s a huge amount of payback for our company from incorporating sustainable features, and the living walls in particular.”
Green walls may ultimately follow the trajectory of green-roof adoption, combating a broad array of urban ills such as flooding, overheating, and air pollution. Grant, from the Green Infrastructure Consultancy, took an early stab at putting walls to work against stormwater surges in a 2013 installation at London’s Rubens at the Palace hotel.
Greening the roof was not an option, structurally, for the century-old building, so Grant designed a 38,000-square-foot living wall—London’s largest—to turn the Rubens’s previously unadorned brick face into a living sponge. Two 2,600-gallon cisterns buffer the runoff, then pump it to the wall’s ferns and herbaceous plants.
Planner Chomowitz, who champions green roofs, spearheaded a more direct stormwater wall at the Portland EXPO Center in Oregon. The city commissioned local landscape architect GreenWorks to fashion custom planters, arrayed across the EXPO’s north wall, to filter runoff from its 9,400-square-foot roof.
Completed in 2014, the living wall’s 20-foot-long planters overflow with ferns, salal, and other rain forest natives. A pair of mallards took up residence this spring. Irrigation sustains the rain forest scene through the summer, evoking the flora of the nearby Columbia Gorge.
Mike Faha, GreenWorks’ founding principal, says the StormWall employs the same media typically used to soak up water on large green roofs planted with desert sedums and bunch grasses. But here the growth media is four to five times deeper, maximizing water retention.
Tim Kurtz, a city engineer tracking the StormWall, estimates that it reduces peak flows by 50 to 70 percent during big storms. “It’s definitely having an impact,” says Kurtz. If implemented at a large scale, he says, such walls could reduce the number of times rainfall overwhelms sewers and wastewater treatment plants.
Green walls can also treat the urban heat island (UHI) effect whereby solar radiation absorbed by roads and buildings makes cities hotter than surrounding rural areas. UHI is not just a future threat associated with climate change. In Melbourne, where UHI effects increase air temperature as much as 7 degrees Centigrade, a 2009 heat wave caused a 62 percent spike in human mortality.
Vegetating surfaces provides shade and also cools through transpiration of water vapor. Researchers at Australia’s University of Melbourne and Monash University identified important roles for green walls in a recent review of strategies for mitigating UHI. Economical green facades, they write, could cool large swaths of the city where limited open space precludes tree planting.
Trees can block ventilation and become counterproductive in tight city spaces. According to the Australian review, living walls—which cost more but will probably deliver more cooling—could target these hot spots.
Mainstream Green
Green walls are beginning to get credit for their ecological and societal benefits under development codes that increasingly mandate green screening. SolTerra is taking advantage of Seattle’s Green Factor landscaping mandates, which award developers extra points for green walls to encourage innovation.
However, researchers say better quantification of green wall benefits is needed to underpin incentives such as Seattle’s and spur investment by developers. While green roofs have proven their ability to pay for themselves through energy savings, stormwater mitigation, and extended roof lifetime, a dearth of data on green walls means they remain largely driven by aesthetic whim.
Perini took an early stab at a cost-benefit study in 2013, modeling south-facing green facades and living walls for a fictional four-story Genoa office building. Using data drawn from the academic literature, she estimated property value appreciation and energy savings worth a combined $4,200 per year for a living wall and about $2,300 per year for a green facade. The green facade paid for itself. The living wall, with its higher installation and maintenance costs, did not.
However, she says the study was deliberately conservative, since it relied on other researchers’ data. To get better data, Perini and her colleagues built Genoa’s first living wall and have been studying it since the end of 2014. She has yet to disclose the wall’s performance, but hints that their data put living walls in a better light. “We do hope to demonstrate that living walls can be economically sustainable,” says Perini.
Some of the less tangible benefits of green walls, such as biophilia, may be hard to quantify, but their value is easily observed. SolTerra’s Heather recounts watching a couple with a young child outside the Woodlawn development, pointing up to a bird nesting in the living facade. “It adds to the neighborhood,” he says. “It is something that people are much more proud of than a traditional building.”
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Another New Year with Amma
Om Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu. This is the prayer that is chanted in Amritapuri, and by Amma’s devotees around the world, as the clock strikes midnight each New Year’s Day. The collective effect of many thousands one-pointedly chanting this powerful prayer for the peace and happiness of all beings everywhere serves to help purify the atmosphere, contributing positive vibrations to a world all too accustomed to its own negativity.
The ashram residents and visitors sat chanting the sacred mantra around Amma’s chair in the large hall, and Amma joined them just before midnight. Then, leading the prayer while the world entered the new year, Amma gave us the priceless blessing of inaugurating this year in a most auspicious way — by praying for the welfare of others.
Amma was quick to remind us, however, that although the numbers of the year are changing, if we don’t change internally, then there is no real meaning in saying it’s a ‘new’ year. Amma said that the real change has to take place within us, by uprooting our latent negativities and cultivating positive qualities. This in turn will have the natural effect of changing the world for the better.
Amma asked Her children to offer their thoughts on how we can contribute to the upliftment of the world in this New Year. Many heartfelt responses were given, but most shared a common element: that we all strive to practice Amma’s teachings on Love, Compassion and Selflessness, as this is the surest way to peace and happiness for all. One devotee asked that we all be as willing to serve each other as we are to serve Amma, and another added to this saying that his wish is to learn to see Amma in all, so that he doesn’t have to always come to Amritapuri for Amma’s darshan!
Many devotees shared touching personal stories. One person from Mumbai told how he had been meaning to come see Amma for many years, but never did. He had planned to spend this New Year as always with friends, but at the last minute had an insight into the meaningless of that type of ‘ happiness’ and felt a deep urge to seek the source of true peace. So, he immediately caught a train and came to Amritapuri to see Amma — without luggage or even changing his clothes!
Another devotee from Calcutta drew laughs and applause as he took the mic, saying, “I’m sorry, but I’ll be taking up a lot of Amma’s time now, because the chance to speak directly to Amma in this way is a once in a lifetime opportunity.” He told how his family had been trying to get him to meet Amma for a long time, but he persistently declared to them that, ‘That’s your thing, not mine!” But, this past year when Amma visited his family’s home, they finally persuaded him to at least come just to see Amma. He hesitantly agreed, but said that when Amma stepped out of the car and Her eyes met his, he felt a deep surge of love and ended up staying for the whole three days that Amma was there, unable to tear himself away! Now, he said, he had the great blessing of speaking directly with Amma, and tearfully pleaded, “Amma, never leave this child alone! Always be with me, Amma!”
One devotee said that she thought the quickest way toward world peace was for more people to meet Amma, and a young girl approached and explained that this was her first time meeting Amma, saying it was a major turning point for her and she was now dedicated to the spiritual life. Another young girl who had just met Amma for the first time this day came up and spoke a few words, taking the mic nervously. She said that before today, she was too shy even to speak to two people at once… and now she was addressing Amma and a crowd of hundreds! She said that she didn’t know how she was able to, and that it was Amma’s grace that gave her the courage. Her mother then spoke, saying that she was so happy to see her daughter speaking so confidently, and attributed it to her faith in Amma. She prayed that this faith and devotion last forever in her daughter’s heart.
One of Amma’s engineering college student said that he made so many mistakes in the past year, and prayed that he may not repeat them. Amma really liked this simple but wise answer and clapped happily. Two other devotees spontaneously offered songs to Amma, and many others offered tearful expressions of gratitude, one after another declaring that it is by living the life that Amma is teaching that we can find true lasting peace and happiness. After listening to all of Her children, Amma enjoined everyone to chant the Mahishasuramardini slokas to the great Goddess of protection, Durga.
In Amma’s New Year message, Amma called upon us to pray for suffering humanity, particularly the victims of the recent devastating earthquake in Iran. Amma said that we should send our heartfelt prayers to the survivors, that their wounds, inner as well as outer, be healed quickly, and for those that have passed on, that their souls may rest in peace.
With such intimate guidance from a great spiritual Master like Amma, we have only to listen to Her words with our heart and live Her words with a simple faith. Then will each moment be new, all bliss be ours, and an enduring peace be upon the earth.
Happy New Year to all of Amma’s children, from Amritapuri!
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The Leatherback turtle: biology and conservation.
Spotila, James R. and Pilar Santidrian Tomillo.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. Octavo, laminated boards, photographs, illustrations, maps.
Weighing as much as 900kg and reaching lengths of over seven feet, Leatherback turtles are the world's largest reptile. These unusual sea turtles have a thick, pliable shell that helps them to withstand depths of more than one thousand meters below the surface. Leatherbacks have been declining in recent decades, and some predict they will be gone by the end of this centurydue to human redevelopment of nesting beaches and commercial fishing. There are only twenty-nine index beaches in the world where these turtles nest, and there is immense pressure to develop most of them into homes or resorts. At the same time, longline and gill net fisheries continue to overwhelm waters frequented by leatherbacks. In The Leatherback Turtle, James R. Spotila and Pilar Santidrian Tomillo bring together the world's leading experts to produce a volume that reveals the biology of the leatherback while putting a spotlight on the conservation problems and solutions related to the species.
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Samsung Galaxy Note 4 help, tips and tricks!
The top tips and tricks for the Samsung Galaxy Note 4, all on one page
If you're looking for help with your Samsung Galaxy Note 4, this is the place to be. This is where you'll find your Galaxy Note 4 tips and tricks. You'll find help if you're new to the Note 4, but there's also tons of information here to apply what you know from the old models to the latest Note.
These tips and tricks are for everyone. It's important to remember that there are thousands of people every week picking up Android — and the Galaxy Note 4 — for the first time, so it's OK to not know everything. We were all there once, weren't we? So keep that in mind as you read our Galaxy Note 4 help pages. It's all about learning.
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Though two-year contracts are all but gone now, the 24-month cycle of upgrading to a new phone is still very much in play. So when we see a huge phone release like the Galaxy Note 7, there are tens of millions using a Note 4 who perk up and take notice. Let's talk about upgrading.
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Notable improvements in design and build are tempered by a couple big feature losses. The Galaxy Note 5 clearly marks a new direction for Samsung in bringing the Galaxy Note series closer in line with the Galaxy S, and that means a pretty stark change compared to the Galaxy Note 4. Though the Note 5 retains the same basic shape and size, the materials and design have taken a huge leap...
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T-Mobile has begun pushing out updates to the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and Galaxy Note Edge that bring a fix for the Stagefright exploit.
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is it me or i Type with no Mistakes with iPhone Keyboard then with Galaxy ?!?!!!!!
it is incredible who many times i need to retype words with the Galaxy !!! seriously
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Gondry’s Animated Chomsky Movie Opens Friday
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Tomorrow marks the debut of an indie animated picture that has been flying under the radar in recent weeks. The animated documentary Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?, is a DIY project by Oscar-nominated director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) in which he illustrates a series of interviews he held with distinguished linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky. The pic will open in select theaters on Friday (Nov. 22).
The hand-drawn digital toon features Chomsky’s musings on life, creativity, art and our modern existence and offers a beautiful crash course on the well-respected thinker’s body of work. Gondry, who also used animation in his 2006 features The Science of Sleep, met the author while spending time at MIT in Boston, and decided to use abstract animation to illustrate his complex ideas.
Gondry told The Hollywood Reporter that he is a fan of Tex Avery as well as abstract work of Norman McLaren and Len Lye.
“I want to see abstract art move. Especially in the ’30s, you had animators doing innovative work and I was entranced by that. It’s basically what you see when you close your eyes. When you fall asleep it’s called a hypnagogic hallucination. I was always into that because I am very intrigued by my dreams. It’s a transition between the real world and the dreams.”
When asked about the process of his animation, the director replies, “The first part I did was the explanation of how we perceive the tree. It’s captivating. It excited me to draw a tree. You start with a trunk and you divide each branch into two and each smaller branch into two or three. It’s like a fractal. I would play the three minute segment of his answer in a loop and I would hear it again and again, the goal to allow myself to absorb it and put it out in an instinctive way. I was more illustrative and narrative in some other parts. Especially when he talks about his everyday life and memories. I would breach the two with transitions, my own ideas.”
Here is the trailer for Gondry’s movie, which is released by Sundance/IFC Films in theaters today:
Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?
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FOIA Number: DOE-19-1240
The administration agreed to search for and release multiple categories of Ukraine-related records to American Oversight, prioritizing any records of Rick Perry’s communications with high-level Ukrainian officials and associates of Rudy Giuliani.
Joint Status Report: American Oversight v. DOE – Perry and Brouillette’s Ukraine Records and Communications
Joint Status Report filed by American Oversight and the Department of Energy in American Oversight’s lawsuit seeking the release of Secretary Rick Perry’s communications with high-level Ukraine officials; with outside groups associated with U.S. energy interests in Ukraine; and with particular associates of President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph Giuliani. American Oversight is also requesting records regarding the U.S. delegation, led by Perry, to Ukrainian President Zelensky’s inauguration, including the records of former Chief of Staff Brian McCormack. The Department of Energy agreed to make the first production of records on Jan. 28, 2020, prioritizing Perry's and McCormack's communications as well as records related to the delegation. Subsequent productions are scheduled for Feb. 4 and March 16.
Complaint: American Oversight v. DOE — Perry and Brouillette’s Ukraine Records and Communications
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The pressure on the president and his administration has been even further intensified thanks to the release of damaging text messages sent by government officials.
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Without a doubt, all fans of the first Siberian Storm slot will definitely want to play the sequel, which of course, was designed by the well known slot game developer, IGT.
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The Siberian Storm Dual Play is another 5 reel slot, but here, forget about the 243 ways to win offered on some Aristocrat pokies the difference is here that the players have an astonishing 1400 or 2880 ways that he or she can win at this game – so how awesome is that.
The game’s design gives the player a rather chilly feel as the backdrop features a wintry scenario with a marvelous white tiger that guards the reels of the game. Other figures that can be found are another two tigers, a unique selection that features encased fossils in game stones, and the iconic eye of the tiger. In regards to the game’s sound, here players will find that it is somehow very familiar to that of a regular floor casino.
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Therefore, this simply translates in the ability of the player to play not with one, but with two machines that are connected by the use of the middle reel which gets to around ten symbols. If the player chooses to spin using only the upper machine, then he or she will have 1400 ways of winning, whereas, if the spin is being initiated on both machines by doubling the stake, the winning chances will reach all the way up to 2880.
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Unlike the more traditional paylines, in Siberian Storm Dual Play, fans of the genre can expect to trigger winning combinations by matching symbols on adjacent reels.
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In terms of the free spinning bonus, this can be activated only if the player manages to land five bonus symbols successively on either the bottom or the top machine and in this case, 8 free spins will be awarded, but as long as someone lands another five bonus symbols, then those will be added together and can reach at first to a total of 160 free spins.
Moreover, while the free spins are being played, extra wilds will be brought into play, which of course, this will increase the player’s chances of success.
As previously said at the beginning of this review, fans of the first Siberian Storm will surely want to give its sequel a go today on our site, as they will find plenty of action with the well known thrill that pokies games from IGT have to offer.
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Salt Mine Road
Photo: The cool greens of summer give way to golden cottonwood trees in the Verde Valley. | Jeff Kida
Prescott National Forest, Camp Verde
By Roger Naylor
Everything you need to know about Camp Verde can be learned by driving Salt Mine Road. It highlights the town’s rural character and provides multiple history lessons and delicious scenery. Most significantly, it accentuates the life-altering dynamics that exist where desert and riparian habitats collide.
Salt Mine Road begins as a tree-draped country lane. On the left, you’ll spot a big stone house built in the 1870s by William “Boss” Head, who ran the sutler store at Fort Verde and later became an Arizona senator. The road rolls past tidy ranch homes where you’ll see more horses in the yards than dogs. After a mile, residences thin out and the landscape starts to widen. On the right side you’ll see the road’s namesake, a mound so defiantly white it would put a gleam in Captain Ahab’s eye.
For a closer inspection, turn onto the small dirt track and park at the gate. Tucked among the hills are decaying timbers, crumbling foundations and hulking, rusted machinery, remnants of a salt-mining operation that ceased in 1933. What’s not immediately apparent is that this might be the site of the oldest underground mine in America.
During commercial operations, the company began unearthing artifacts such as woven yucca sandals, ax handles and torches. After two mummified miners were discovered, an anthropologist was brought in. The anthropologist discovered ancient tunnels and determined that salt was being mined throughout the Sinagua era, a.d. 1300-1450. Further studies led to speculation that the mine may have been worked for 2,000 years, as long as man has inhabited the Verde Valley.
Back on Salt Mine Road, the scenery alternates between domesticated groupings of ranchettes and sprawling open terrain. At about 3.5 miles, the road crests a low ridge and exposes a striking panorama. Limestone hills ring the valley and craggy mountains muscle up behind them. In the distance, the toothy cluster of the San Francisco Peaks gnaws the horizon. A corridor of green and gold curves along the valley floor, as cottonwoods and willows canopy the Verde River along its winding path. At the peak of the season, this serpent-like mass blazes with autumn hues.
The road meanders through scrubby foothills with rocky slopes rising on all sides. Nestled along the Verde Rim, the rarely visited Cedar Bench Wilderness looms to the south. Just past 8.5 miles, the road bends sharply left and soon afterward the pavement ends. Continue on this easily managed stretch of gravel for another mile or so to Beasley Flat, a day-use area on the banks of the river.
In spring this is the put-in spot for kayakers and canoeists. It’s an idyllic location any time, with white cliffs rising from the opposite bank, gouged with scores of crevasses and caves. Tree-lined banks shelter an array of wildlife, including Sonoran mud turtles, beavers and river otters. Swimmers and picnickers swarm the grounds during summer, when the mercury punches through the top of the thermometer with a blood-red fist. In autumn, a sense of tranquility settles over the waterside nook, radiant with fall color. Too bad all dead-end roads don’t reach such joyous conclusions.
Note: Mileages are approximate.
Length: 11 miles one way
Directions: From Phoenix, go north on Interstate 17 for 87 miles to State Route 260 (Exit 287). Turn right (east) onto SR 260 and continue for 2.8 miles to Salt Mine Road.
Vehicle Requirements: None
Warning: Back-road travel can be hazardous, so be aware of weather and road conditions. Carry plenty of water. Don’t travel alone, and let someone know where you are going and when you plan to return.
Information: Verde Ranger District, 928-567-4121 or www.fs.usda.gov/prescott
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Home Science First manned test flight of new deep-space capsule likely delayed: NASA
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. The first manned test flight of NASA’s new deep-space Orion capsule faces a likely two-year-year delay until 2023 due to development and budget concerns, officials with the U.S. space agency said on Wednesday.
The capsule, along with its multibillion-dollar heavy lift launcher, are the most expensive parts of a long-term U.S. human space exploration initiative leading toward a crew landing on Mars in the mid-2030s.
NASA had been aiming for its first crew test flight of Orion in August 2021. But on a conference call Wednesday, NASA Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot told reporters the agency had lost confidence in that date.
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Given technical, financial and management hurdles the capsule will face during development, he said an April 2023 launch date now seemed more likely.
NASA plans to spend another $6.77 billion between October 2015 and April 2023 for two of the new Orion capsules, which are currently under development by lead contractor Lockheed Martin Corp.
The agency has already has paid $4.7 billion for Orion design and development, Lightfoot said.
He said an unmanned Orion was still scheduled for liftoff in December 2018, carried aloft by a Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that is the focus of a separate $7 billion development effort.
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NASA intends to first test an Orion capsule in a lunar orbit, then use it for a mission to rendezvous with a boulder that has been robotically plucked from the surface of an asteroid and positioned into an distant orbit around the moon.
“We’re really trying to build a program,” said William Gerstenmaier, NASA associate administrator for human exploration and operations. “Ultimately, we’d like to get where we’re flying these missions about once per year.”
NASA last year announced an expected year-long schedule slip for the debut flight of the SLS rocket, previously targeted for November 2017.
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So far, the agency has not provided cost estimates for any missions or production cost beyond the first test flight of Orion, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a report issued in July.
NASA spent about $9 billion between 2005 and 2010 on a previous human space exploration initiative called Constellation. That included $5.8 billion for an earlier version of Orion.
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KISSin Time at The Dog House, Maplewood, MN (31 Mar 2018)
KISSin Time Poster
KISSin Time Setlist
Love Her All I Can
Strange Ways
Watchin You
Jam #49
Nothin’ to Lose
Got To Choose
Cold Gin
100,000 Years
Let Me Go Rock ‘n Roll
Rock and Roll All Nite
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Gene Simmons, the man behind KISS and is a franchise king, has opened up a restaurant called Rock & Brews, with impresario Michael Zislis and concert promoter Dave Furano. …
“You wanted the best, you’ve got the best” –
There are tens of thousands of tribute bands, scattered about the world, paying homage in a live setting, to many of our very favorite acts, and no band has perhaps spawned as many tribute bands as the audio and visual spectacle that is Kiss.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees have always had much to take in live from a sensory standpoint- from almost five decades of songs to their distinctive makeup and stage show theatrics, so there’s much to draw from.
Niche tribute bands like Mini Kiss (four small people in makeup/costumes) and Priss (made up of all-female band members) extend that tribute even further and we have one band locally, KISSin Time, that covers only music from 1973-75, specializing in re-creating their 1974 World Tour (which is even before the live album Kiss Alive, would have been recorded). On a chilly evening before Easter in suburban Maplewood, KISSin Time was part of a rock bill that let fans unwind for a few hours, on the evening before spending the holy holiday with family and friends.
Though taking the early slot on the bill (Metallica tribute band One, would close the night), KISSin Time still managed an eighty-minute full set, packed with classic songs from the formative era of the iconic band that many would argue, is still their best. On a stage packed with speaker stacks, candelabras, rotating police lights, and a centerpiece of a giant lighted sign of the Kiss logo, the costumed foursome made their way to the stage to start with 1974’s ‘Deuce’.
The foursome (Rikka Zer0 as Paul “Starchild” Stanley; Xenia Sandstrom-Mag Uldhir as Gene “Demon” Simmons; Jace Young as Ace “Spaceman” Frehley; Pete Campbell as Peter “Catman” Criss) are clearly also fans of the band whose music they play, with Zer0 even mimicking many of Stanley’s own trademark spoken phrases, i.e.- “Let me hear ya!”, and “Listen, Listen!”, and throwing frame-ready spray-painted gold signed vinyl discs out to the crowd between songs.
‘Jam #49’, which showcased Young’s riffs as Frehley, got his guitar literally smoking (thanks to a stage effect) which then led seamlessly into ‘Firehouse’, with Zer0 donning a fire helmet as stage lights turned appropriately red and police lights spun around atop speaker stacks.
‘The crunchy ‘She’ (from 1975’s Dressed to Kill) featured a pair of dancing girls in Kiss-appropriate dresses briefly up on stage, which led nicely into ‘Nothin’ to Lose’, Kiss’ first single release from self-titled debut album.
Stanley’s imitable spoken intro to ‘Cold Gin’ gave way to Young’s formidable Spaceman guitar licks on the track, showing justice to the signature Frehley track. The blood didn’t quite come off as planned for the Demon’s turn on ‘100,000 Years’, though the basslines were all there and Campbell had his chance to shine with an admirable extended solo, to finish off the song.
1974’s ‘Let Me Go Rock ‘n Roll’ ended with an exclamation as Zer0’s Starchild took guitar to floor, bashing it on stage a couple times until it separated completely and the set ended with confetti thrown and lights flashing for the band’s definitive song, 1975’s ‘Rock n’ Roll All Nite’, splitting the lead vocals on the party anthem as the crowd inching closer on the floor, clapped and sang along.
The actual Kiss may not ever tour together ever again (though there have been a few recent partial reunions) but thanks to their enduring legacy, inspiring tribute bands like KISSin Time, not only can you experience that original reunion in some form, but also dial the clock back forty-five years to experience the same setlist, that would catapult the band to worldwide fame.
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Gene Simmons w/ Ace Frehley & friends - The Children Matter Benefit, St. Paul (20 Sept 2017)
I’m Gonna Make You Love Me
Quiet Corners & Empty Spaces
I’d Run Away
Flipp
Clone Me
I Wish I Was a Planet
Half a Brain
Long Time Coming
Dream Police
Gonna Raise Hell >
Take It Easy (Eagles song)
Pride and Joy (Stevie Ray Vaughn cover)
Hotel California (Eagles song)
Gene Simmons Band
Shout It Out Loud
Do You Love Me
Christine Sixteen
Calling Dr. Love
Shock Me
with Ace Frehley
Gene Simmons Band Tour Dates
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10/24/17 Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, Argentina
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10/28/17 Northside Festival Monterrey, Mexico
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Capitol Records will be releasing the DVD/Blu-ray to History of the Eagles on Tuesday, April 30th, 2013. The documentary is on three discs: History of the Eagles…
Cheap Trick was next and they played a 90 min set. These guys are amazing. They have their set down, cranking out one song after the other. Yes, they play stuff from Cheap Trick at Budokan…
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The classic rock equivalent of baseball’s All-Star Game took place fittingly, at a minor-league ball park for a great cause, and featured a little KISSstory in the making, to boot—
KISS bassist Gene Simmons headlined The Children Matter: Hurricane Benefit Concert at the home of the St. Paul Saints baseball team, CHS Field, a benefit concert to support the victims of recent hurricanes which also featured the all-star line-up of Don Felder (former lead guitarist of The Eagles), Cheap Trick, The Jayhawks and Flipp.
With just a week to go before the show, egos were put aside and fences were mended as former KISS bandmate Ace Frehley was a surprising add-on to the bill, making this the first time in over sixteen years that the pair has shared the same stage and performed together.
All proceeds from the concert went towards MATTER's relief efforts for hurricane relief in partnership with their on-ground partners. MATTER will send and distribute MATTERbox Meals Kits, sanitation supplies, contamination prevention supplies and more, to the over 100,000 children and families affected and displaced by the recent storms. The Children Matter is a collaborative initiative created by Simmons and the nonprofit on the simple belief that the lives of children matter, regardless of race, income, gender, religion, or location.
The concert was well-run, acoustically sound (more summer concerts at this venue, please) and started a bit ahead of its scheduled time, as The Jayhawks took the stage for a brief 22 min. opening mini-set (all sets were abbreviated due to the limited time and number of acts). Gary Louris and co. seemed in fine form, going through a quick set of hits and happy to be involved in the show, with ‘Waiting for the Sun’ nicely stretched with on a slinky groove worthy of Petty and the Heartbreakers.
Locally resurrected band Flipp was next, revving up the audience and the volume, with a short set of two-decade old favorites that made the band a name on as a homegrown favorite in 1995-2003. “It’s a beautiful day, people, let’s do this thing!” singer Brynn Arens yelled, hair slightly more white and without face makeup, but dressed in a Joker-esque black and white striped suit he was known for.
With new member Less Able Paul, the band crunched through its twenty-minute set with charting single ‘Freak’ retaining the energy of the original and Arens recruited an audience member (named Beth, cue the Kiss references) on stage to try and play guitar to close out with ‘Half a Brain’.
Ringmaster Gene Simmons came out following, to not only to explain the aim of the night’s benefit but to also introduce Cheap Trick, in perhaps their shortest set in years. Playing just thirty-minutes, the band turned up the energy with singer Robin Zander in familiar white jacket and police cap and guitarist Rick Nielsen throwing picks out to the crowd by the handful.
The foursome managed to work in several of their hits, even working in a drum solo by drummer Daxx Neilsen on a ten-minute ‘Gonna Raise Hell’, anchored by the steady bass of Tom Petersson. “Thanks to Gene Simmons for all the talent they brought here tonight… including ourselves, of course!”, the elder Neilsen quipped.
Former Eagles guitarist Don Felder made the most of his three-song, eighteen minute set by bringing out members of Cheap Trick to help out, beginning with Zander guesting on The Eagles’ ‘Take it Easy’. “Anybody here like the blues?” Felder asked as he brought out Rick Neilsen to play on a smoking cover of SRV’s ‘Pride and Joy’ then switched to his familiar double-neck guitar for the closing ‘Hotel California’, a song he wrote the music for.
Gene Simmons has always been smart enough to surround himself with gifted players and the current incarnation of The Gene Simmons Band is no exception, which features guitarist Phil Shouse (Rodney Atkins, John Corabi, Lipstick), drummer Jarred Pope (Thee Rock N Roll Residency), guitarist/bassist Jeremy Asbrock (The Shazam, John Corabi) and guitarist Ryan Cook (Hair Of The Dog) and their hour-long headlining set was an axe shredding tour-de-force peppered with plenty of Kiss songs.
Drummer Pope stepped off the drum kit so Logan “Robot” Gladden could take over for a couple songs, “how old are you?” Simmons asked, “Thirteen”, Gladden replied, “That’s good… I’m 113”, Simmons answered. Simmons then brought up ten ladies to dance along to 1976’s ‘Do You Love Me’ and a couple rarities were played including 1979’s ‘Charisma’ (“the #1 song in Mexico… who knows why?” Simmons mentioned) and 1978’s ‘Radioactive’, the lone single released from the Kiss bassist’s first solo album.
“Tonight is a very special night” Simmons said “let’s hear it for Ace Frehley!” and the crowd roared to see the reunion that fans have been waiting sixteen years for. Simmons generously gave the stage to Frehley for a trio of songs written by the Space Ace beginning with 1974’s ‘Parasite’, which also showed that his guitar chops haven’t rusted.
Signature Ace songs ‘Cold Gin’ and ‘Shock Me’ followed, fitting again like a familiar glove and with fans beaming to see the pair playing these classic songs together again. “I got electrocuted in Lakeland, FL… 1977, I think… I wrote a song about it” Frehley said, the crunchy guitar riffs doing the rest of the talking. And to close the show, Simmons invited thirty more people on stage (though more came up) for the closing party of ‘Rock and Roll All Nite’, including the “Kiss Kids”, four grade schoolers in full makeup.
With talk of any future band reunions being completely dismissed both by Simmons and Paul Stanley separately, this may have been the one rare occurrence to see Gene Simmons and Ace Frehley play together one last time, in the name of charity. For at least this night, not only did the music matter, but the children mattered as well, as all was put aside for a good cause.
Don Felder with Rick Neilsen
Don Felder, with Robin Zander
Gene Simmons at The Children Matter Benefit, St. Paul (20 Sept 2017)
Gene Simmons with Ace Frehley
Posted by W♥M on Saturday, 30 September 2017 at 09:33 AM in Cheap Trick, Don Felder, Flipp, Gene Simmons, John, Kiss, St Paul, The Children Matter Benefit, The Eagles | Permalink | Comments (0)
KISStory in the Making: Gene Simmons and Ace Frehley to reunite at MATTER Benefit Concert on Sept 20
09/20/17 Matter.ngo Concert St. Paul, MN
09/23/17 Edmonton Expo Edmonton, AB
“See a great rock show, celebrate life, and do some good at the same time” – Gene Simmons
Hot on the heels of announcing his own massive Vault Experience box (which starts at $2,000 and which he’ll personally deliver to you for a mere $50,000), rock’s greatest capitalist shows off his equally big heart as KISS bassist Gene Simmons headlines The Children Matter: Hurricane Benefit Concert at the home of the St. Paul Saints baseball team, CHS Field on Sept. 20.
Buzz has hit the internet stratosphere as former KISS bandmate Ace Frehley has been recently added to the bill, marking the first time in over sixteen years that the pair has shared the same stage and performed together.
The benefit concert to support the victims of recent hurricanes also features Don Felder (former lead guitarist of The Eagles), Cheap Trick, The Jayhawks and Flipp for a historic rock and roll event for a very worthy cause.
All proceeds from the concert will go directly towards MATTER's relief efforts for hurricane relief in partnership with their on-ground partners . MATTER is sending and distributing MATTERbox Meals Kits, sanitation supplies, contamination prevention supplies and more, to the over 100,000 children and families affected and displaced.
The Children Matter is a collaborative initiative created by Simmons and the nonprofit MATTER on the simple belief that the lives of children matter. Regardless of race, income, gender, religion, or location, every child deserves the same access to a full and healthy life.
Fan Zone – $79.50
VIP – $109.50
VIP + Meet & Greet – $249.50
Meet & Greet VIP tickets are an exclusive opportunity to get your picture taken with each performing artist before the concert.
Meet & Greet will take place from 5:00-6:30 pm.
Other VIP ticket perks include private access to on-field restrooms, private bar, and a standing area closest to the stage.
Tickets can be purchased online at thechildrenmatter.ngo/tickets
Posted by W♥M on Thursday, 14 September 2017 at 09:21 PM in Ace Frehley, Gene Simmons, John, Kiss | Permalink | Comments (0)
Head East at Fun Festival, New Richmond, WI (11 July 2015)
Head East Setlist
Raise a Little Hell (Trooper cover)
Get Up and Enjoy Yourself
Lovin’ Me Along
Gettin’ Lucky
City of Gold/Fly by Night Lady
Say Yeah
Mama Let Him Play (Jerry Doucette cover)
Jefftown Creek
Since You’ve Been Gone (Russ Ballard/Argent cover)
Never Been Any Reason
Footstompin’ Music (Grand Funk Railroad cover)
20 Aug - Des Moines, IA - Iowa State Fair
04 Sep - DuQuoin, IL - DuQuoin State Fair
05 Sep - Independence, MO - Santa-Cali-Gon
12 Sep - Chesterfield, MO - Chesterfield Amph
19 Sep - Melvin, IL - Ford County Fairgrounds
10 Oct - Northwood, IA - Diamond Jo Casino
21 Nov - Medina, MN - Medina Entertainment Center
Speaking of Wisconsin, Fun Fest Music Festival kicks off on Thursday and continues to Sunday, July 13th. Let's hope with all the Minnesota's flooding doesn't extend to our neighbor. …
If you grew up in the Midwest in the late ‘70s/early ‘80s and listened to any classic rock radio, there’s never been any reason you haven’t heard of Head East.
The band has actually been around in some form since 1969, starting out in east central Illinois and made noticeable waves with their 1975 album, Flat as a Pancake and song ‘Never Been Any Reason’ and brought the current incarnation of the band to rock a tent full of people for New Richmond’s Fun Fest.
Opening the evening was classic Kiss tribute band, Strutter, who brought their own blast-from-the-past nostalgia with an authentic in-makeup and costume performance of the original band from its classic Kiss Alive and Kiss Alive II eras. All the classic ‘70s hits were performed with “Ace” posing during his solo, “Gene” splitting blood during ‘God of Thunder’, “Paul” going shirtless, and “Peter” stepping out from the drum kit to a front stool for ‘Beth’.
The band was ideal for an event like this, playing songs everyone knew and could drink and toast along to. Of course, the last song was “Rock and Roll All Nite’ complete with everything from the original Kiss except the confetti cannons and pyro.
Head East: Darren Walker
As with most bands still going after over 40 years, Head East’s lineup has changed plenty, with founding keyboardist Roger Boyd being the mainstay of the quintet. The rest of the group (Darren Walker - lead vocals; Glen Bridger - lead guitar, vocals; Greg Manahan - bass guitar, vocals; Eddy Jones – drums, vocals) sounded tight but were also clearly having fun during their 90 min. set.
Opening with ‘Raise a Little Hell’, a 1978 cover of Canadian band Trooper, then following with their own ‘Get Up and Enjoy Yourself’, the band clearly aimed to elevate the party spirit inside the music tent. The only distracting thing was the large steel tent pole positioned right in the middle front of the stage, which looked awkward and made the drummers in each band, difficult to see unless you watched from an angle.
Playlist stayed mostly in the 70’s, working in over half of Flat as a Pancake (which was fine with me), but a few newer songs were slotted in as well. Singer Walker had good vocal range and brought a heavy metal edge to the blues rock band, moving constantly from one end of the stage to the other and even posing with fans mid-verse for selfies.
Guitarist Bridger shone on the new, ‘One Night’ while ‘Prisoner’ took its lyrical inspiration from Native American legends. Another cover and radio standard from the era, 1977’s ‘Mama Let Him Play’ sounded fresh again with Walker’s vocals and Bridger’s soloing, so much so that most in the audience likely didn’t realize it wasn’t their song originally.
Bass and drums got their time during ‘Jefftown Creek’ with a little ‘Peter Gunn Theme’ thrown in for good measure, and the Russ Ballard cover that followed sounded authentic as well. “Is there one you really want to hear?” Walker asked as Boyd strapped a keyboard over his shoulder for the main set closer, ‘Never Been Any Reason’, which brought the strongest response of the night, and the Grand Funk Railroad cover to close the evening that followed, ended everything with an exclamation.
Head East continues to tour the Midwest and beyond, doing 30-40 dates a year and are well worth catching for anyone into blues-infused classic rock. or that grew up listening to the group’s ‘70s hits on midwest FM radio.
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Posted by W♥M on Tuesday, 14 July 2015 at 08:57 AM in Fest, Festival, Fun Fest, Head East, John, Kiss, Music Festival, New Richmond, Strutter, Wisconsin | Permalink | Comments (0)
Minneapolis Music Guide: August 17 - August 23, 2014
Here is the weekly guide of some Minneapolis live concerts and events from August 17 to August 23.
Kiss / Def Leppard / The Dead Daisies
“You wanted the best, you got the best!”, so is the classic stage intro for Kiss, who come to town alongside fellow hard rock legends, Def Leppard. At least two of the best anyway, as Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons lead the now-Rock Hall inducted band in what will no doubt be a highly pyrotechnic and entertaining show.
Though Def Leppard’s guitarist Vivian Campbell continues to bravely battle Hodgkin's lymphoma, he refuses to let it sideline him and expect him and the band to play all the 80s/90s classics during their hour+ set.
Down Under-formed band The Dead Daisies begins the evening, featuring ex-INXS singer Jon Stevens and an A-list of supporting players.
Best of all, KISS and Def Leppard jointly are supporting members of the armed services by partnering with numerous military organizations for the tour.
08/15/14 East Troy, WI Alpine Valley Music Theatre
08/16/14 Tinley Park, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
08/17/14 Minneapolis, MN Target Center
08/20/14 Des Moines, IA Wells Fargo Arena
08/22/14 Noblesville, IN Klipsch Music Center
08/23/14 Clarkston, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
08/24/14 Burgettstown, PA First Niagara Pavilion
08/26/14 Cuyahoga Falls, OH Blossom Music Center
08/28/14 Maryland Heights, MO Verizon Wireless Amph. St. Louis
08/29/14 Tulsa, OK BOK Center
08/31/14 The Woodlands, TX The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Summer Set Music Festival
Summer Set 8/15, 8/16, 8/17 Wu Tang, Big Gigantic, Bassnectar …
SOMERSET AMPHITHEATER
Summer Set Music & Camping Festival
Summer Set Music Festival, not to be confused with the band The Summer Set, is wrapping itself up over the weekend (August 15-17), in, where else?, Somerset, Wisconsin.
Too many bands on the bill, but the big headliners that played were recently-reformed Wu-Tang Clan, Chromeo and Cults.
Sunday's bands:
Bassnectar
Datsik
Cedric Gervais
The Floozies
ProbCause
Kids Like Us
The Main Squeeze
R.A.S. Movement
The Polyphonic Spree just played the Varsity Theater in Minneapolis, near the start of their 2013 tour for their upcoming album, Yes, It's True (coming out August 6th). …
Time to “reach for the Sun”!
Dallas-based choral symphonic rock band The Polyphonic Spree is back on the road for their Psychphonic Tour in support of last year’s Yes, It's True and just-released remix album Psychphonic (Kirtland Records). Expect a gang of robed singers to crowd the small Cedar Cultural Center stage and an unavoidable feeling of glee to fill the audience.
The oddly named Catbath opens, composed of former members of Nightosaur, Hot Rash, and Skipper, as well as a current member of MiddlePicker—what’s that mean?—arrive early to find out.
08/15/14 Academy Of Contemporary Music
08/16/14 St. Louis, MO Blueberry Hill's Duck Room
08/19/14 Evanston, IL SPACE
08/21/14 Cincinnati, OH Taft Theatre
08/22/14 Ferndale, MI Magic Bag
08/23/14 Cleveland, OH Music Box Supper Club
08/25/14 Boston, MA Brighton Music Hall
08/26/14 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Bowl
08/27/14 Philadelphia, PA Prince Music Theatre
08/28/14 Washington, DC Black Cat
08/29/14 Carrboro, NC ArtsCenter
08/30/14 Atlanta, GA Loft At Center Stage
08/31/14 Jefferson, LA Southport Hall
11/01/14 Dallas, TX Gilley's Dallas
Lewis & Clarke
Lewis & Clarke since 2009's Light Time EP, but having previously worked with the likes of Bat For Lashes’ Natasha Khan and Strand Of Oaks’ Timothy Showalter, Rogai has not been dormant during his time away from the spotlight. …
Strand Of Oaks w/ Christopher Denny
Strand of Oaks can attest to the healing power of music.
The project is essentially singer-songwriter Tim Showalter who plays somewhat dark folk rock and was sidelined last Christmas as Showalter and his wife were involved in an icy car accident with two semis that left him concussed with all broken ribs on his right side. The resulting HEAL (Dead Oceans Records) is a revelatory insight into Showalter’s near-death trauma.
Southern pre-country blues folk singer Christopher Denny to open the show.
08/15/14 Bloomington, IN Russian Recording
08/16/14 Goshen, IN Ignition Music Garage
08/17/14 Chicago, IL Schubas Tavern
08/18/14 Milwaukee, WI Pabst Theater
08/19/14 Minneapolis, MN 7th Street Entry
08/21/14 St. Louis, MO Off Broadway Nightclub
08/22/14 Kansas City, MO Riot Room
08/26/14 Seattle, WA Tractor Tavern
08/30/14 San Francisco, CA Independent
08/31/14 Santa Cruz, CA The Crepe Place
09/05/14 Phoenix, AZ Last Exit Live
09/08/14 Austin, TX Waterloo Records
09/09/14 Austin, TX Lamberts Downtown Barbecue
09/14/14 Washington, DC DC9
09/15/14 Brooklyn, NY Rough Trade
09/17/14 York, PA Central Market House
09/18/14 Arden, DE Arden Gild Hall
12/01/14 Toronto, ON The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern
Kingmaker (UK)
Kingmaker were a British indie rock group, founded in Kingston upon Hull in 1990. The group was formed during their gap year by school friends Loz Hardy and Myles Howell.…
Kingmaker w/ Seeker, Widow
When I saw that Kingmaker were playing at the Garage in Burnsville, Minnesota, I was really excited. After all, we haven't heard much from this British band since the 90s (they broke up in 1995 but reformed in 2010). But alas, this Kingmaker band is a hardcore band from Chicago.
With the recent Sleeper at Studio B at the Skyway Theatre because fans of Louise Wener may be disappointed to find out that, this Sleeper is actually a Minneapolis DJ.
I suppose there's only so many names to go around, but still...
Anyway, Kingmaker are touring with Seeker, a metal band from Dallas, and Widow, a metal band from Houston.
08/15 Haysville, KS - KC's Too
08/16 Salina, KS - Indian Lodge
08/17 Oamha, NE - THe Hideout
08/18 Des Moinse, IA - Underground Rock
08/19 Cudahy, WI - Metal Grill
08/20 Burnsville, MN - Garage
08/21 Barrington, IL - Penny Road
08/22 Evansville, IN - The Hatch
08/23 St Loise, MO - Fubar
Wrapping up their "'Merica F*ck Yeah Tour'" this week w/ Dog Fashion Disco and The Bunny The Bear, Psychostick are taking a break in July to reboot and get back on the road ..
What's next after Psychostick's "'Merica F*ck Yeah Tour'"? Starting today (Friday 08/15), the band is back on the road for "The Blood, Guts, and Sprinkles Tour" in August with One Eyed Doll and Wild Throne. What's next? Possibly "Touring 'Til We're Dead! Tour".... Whatever the tour is, they sure look like a lot of fun.
The Blood, Guts And Sprinkles Tour w/ One Eyed Doll, Wild Throne:
08/15 - Newport, KY @ Thompson House
08/16 - Beckley, WV @ Muncheez
08/17 - South Bend, IN @ Cheers Pub
08/19 - Chicago, IL @ Reggie's Rock Club
08/20 - Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
08/21 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
08/22 - Eau Claire, WI @ Hipps Pub-N-Grub
08/23 - Missouri Valley Fair Grounds
08/24 - Williston, ND @ DK's Lounge
08/25 - Minot, ND @ 'O'riginal Bar
08/26 - Fargo, ND @ The Aquarium
08/28 - Des Moines, IA @ Vaudeville Mews
08/29 - Pontiac, IL @ Freaksters Roadhouse
08/30 - New Albany, IN @ The Rustic Frog
08/31 - Knoxville, TN @ The Concourse
09/02 - Raleigh, NC @ The Maywood
09/03 - Charlotte, NC @ Amos Southend
09/04 - Destin, FL @ Club LA
09/05 - Orlando, FL @ Bombshells
09/06 - Jacksonville, FL @ Aqua In
09/07 - Tallahassee, FL @ Atmosphere
Minnesota State Fair
It's that time of the year again: the Minnesota State Fair! We went last year to see Wilson Phillips at the Leinie Lodge Bandshell inside the State Fair. As we mentioned, the MN ...
AUGUST 21-SEPTEMBER 1
MINNESOTA STATE FAIRGROUND
Toby Keith, Aretha Franklin, Kid Rock, more
Good news: The Minnesota State Fair is here!
That’s somewhat bad news as well, as it signals the end of what’s been a very pleasant summer, but the Grandstand has a few noteworthy acts on their main lineup, starting with the opening weekend which brings in tastes of country, classic soul, and straight-up rock.
Food on a stick, the great outdoors, and music filling the air- sounds like a good way to enjoy summer’s last days.
Acts this week:
Thu., Aug. 21- Toby Keith with special guest Colt Ford
Fri., Aug. 22- Aretha Franklin with special guest The Four Tops
Sat., Aug. 23- Kid Rock with special guest Blackberry Smoke
For a show that was reportedly had a pre-sale of 800 tickets, it sure felt really sold out as bodies crushed us in the front at Portugal. The Man's show at First Avenue in Minneapolis ...
LORING PARK
Cultivate Festival
How much would you pay to see Portugal. The Man, Grouplove, The Mowgli's, and Vintage Trouble together on one bill? How about FREE, courtesy of Chipotle. This is an unbelievable deal! If you've never seen these bands, get there early for a good spot. Bring fold-able chairs or blankets. Let's hope it doesn't rain.
Although this will be Minneapolis' first Cultivate Festival, the festival started in 2011 in Chicago. 2014 is the first time the Denver-based burrito chain is expanding to Minneapolis.
Spokesman Chris Arnold said festivals in other cities have drawn between 25,000 and 40,000 people... but based on seeing the turnout for the Internet Cat Video at Walker Art Center last night, I would think higher!
Anyway, the concert I was referring to was for Kansas City's Making Movies, a band that sings in both English and Spanish. They played at this tiny coffeehouse called The Beat Coffee ...
After attending the Cultivate Festival, you still have enough time to head over to the Cedar Cultural Center for their "The Cedar's 25th Anniversary Dance Party", free courtesy of Target.
Headlining the show will be Making Movies, who I've previously seen and described them as "a band that sings in both English and Spanish".
Description from the Cedar:
A night of regional world music goodness, ticket giveaways and other fun. Featured acts are Making Movies (Kansas City, MO), De La Buena (Milwaukee, WI), and Worldwide Discotheque (Minneapolis, MN).
As a thank you to all who have kept us going through the past 25 seasons, and with help from Target, this event is free and open to all!
Beer specials: $4 Pabst tallboys!
Grand Prize: One lucky winner will go home from this event with our first ever Cedar Passport! We will be selecting one random winner (must be present to win) during the course of the evening. The Cedar Passport winner will gain free access for themself and a +1 to all on-site Cedar events in the 26th Season (certain restrictions will apply; non-transferable, no cash value).
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Review – The Holy Rosenbergs, National Theatre
Your favourite son is being buried tomorrow. Do you:
a) Spend the evening worrying about the day to come
b) Spend the evening with your family reflecting on your loss / celebrating his life
c) Invite someone round for dinner to discuss a catering contract
Some members of your community deeply resent your involvement in an investigation into war crimes on both sides of the Arab/Israeli conflict and are threatening to demonstrate at your brother’s funeral tomorrow. It’s late at night. How would you make sure they knew you had resigned from the Enquiry and so get the demonstration cancelled:
a) Get the people who know who they are to contact them directly
b) It’s impossible; I have been painted into a corner, plot-wise
c) Put something on the Enquiry’s website; they are bound to read it
You are a doctor and prescribe a prescription to help a mother deal with the stress of the upcoming funeral of her son. The daughter (whom you resent) needs to pick up the prescription. Do you…
a) Tell her to run
b) Tell her to get a cab
c) Hand her the keys to your Jag without a moment’s hesitation
Which of these axe-related works do you most admire?
a) Strait-Jacket
b) Mommie Dearest
c) The Cherry Orchard
Which of these foodstuffs could be featured in a play without making half the audience think of Acorn Antiques?
a) Potato latkes
b) Chicken soup
c) Macaroons
Which form of staging would most suit your play?
a) A nice, traditional proscenium arch
b) A nice, traditional proscenium arch
c) In the round
You have unwanted body hair. Which would you go for?
a) Sugaring
b) A Brazilian
c) A Gaza Strip
Which celebrated designer are you least likely to spot in the audience?
a) Ralph Lauren
b) Calvin Klein
c) John Galliano
Which of these plays would you quite like to have written?
a) Jerusalem
b) The Merchant of Venice
c) All My Sons
If you said Mostly Cs you are playwright Ryan Craig. If you didn’t, you’re almost certainly not.
This entry was posted on Friday 11 March 2011 at 2:37 pm and is filed under West End Whingers.
Tags: Cottesloe Theatre, entertainment, Henry Goodman, Laurie Sansom, London, National Theatre, play, review, Ryan Craig, The Holy Rosenbergs, theatre, west end
9 Responses to “Review – The Holy Rosenbergs, National Theatre”
webcowgirl Says:
Friday 11 March 2011 at 4:54 pm
HA HA HA bless you any regrets I had for not buying tickets for this are now gone!
Saturday 12 March 2011 at 10:28 pm
Maybe should have stayed but left at half time. Dialogue sounded bogus, situation seemed bogus and everyone seemed to be ACTING.
Ged Ladd Says:
Sunday 13 March 2011 at 5:22 pm
Thank you. Thank you. I have tried in vain to convince Daisy (my gal) since last night that the plot had more holes than a packet of polos. So ahead of the formal reviews, I am mighty relieved to have found your witty and thoughful posting.
Both Daisy and I agreed last night that the play owed an awful lot to All My Sons. Just a shame (IMHO)that Ryan Criag didn’t learn a bit more from Miller about tight dialogue and believable plots.
The acting on the whole was superb despite all of the above, with the exception of the Rabbi who seemed far too wooden even for a shy, confused young man of the cloth.
Wednesday 16 March 2011 at 5:54 pm
I wish I’d left at half time. I spotted the “All My Sons” similarity too. And it waasn’t helped from Tier 2 that I was mostly looking at the top of people’s heads!
I don’t think the acting was all that good, but the characters were certainly caricatures.
Very weak!
Cuthbert Says:
Wednesday 16 March 2011 at 11:42 pm
Arthur Miller and Clifford Odets have nothing to worry about. What a mess, too bad, a few of the actors were pretty good.
Thursday 17 March 2011 at 9:26 am
Oh, bother. Have tickets for this tomorrow and was so looking forward to seeing the Chosen People represented in theatre for once.
Thursday 17 March 2011 at 10:24 am
Wasn’t so bad. Worth staying for after the rather caricatured first half. Acting generally good with Henry Goodman giving his usual reliable performance
JDM Says:
Thursday 17 March 2011 at 12:46 pm
Thank goodness for your review. I read Michael Billington’s in The Guardian and wondered what play he had seen! Holy Rosenbergs wasn’t so bad as to drive us out at the interval, but it was a poorly written play – just about every idea that could possibly be included, was. Someone should have imposed some discipline on the playwright!
Friday 18 March 2011 at 11:46 pm
Well wished I’d read this before wasting 2 1/2 hours of my life tonight on this tosh!
Interestingly at the platform tonight Ryan Craig said he was influenced by Arthur Miller but also was inspired by Antigone for this play!
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Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is 77 years old and crazy, standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-men-who-want-to-talk-about-Jesus crazy. She is also Elsa's best and only friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother's stories, in the Land of Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas, where everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal.
Nothing to Apologize For
By Deborah Jacob on 03-19-16
By: J. Bengtsson
Narrated by: Andi Arndt, Joe Arden
Quiet and aloof rock star Jake McKallister and outspoken, vivacious college student Casey Caldwell are polar opposites: Casey is bubbly and talkative; Jake is reclusive. Casey enjoyed a picturesque childhood; Jake’s childhood could only be described as a well-publicized nightmare. Jake’s life revolves around music, and Casey can’t carry a tune.
good listen - great narration
By Maggie on 12-19-16
You Can Thank Me Later
A Novella
By: Kelly Harms
Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
When the Dickenson clan sits down for Thanksgiving dinner in 2016, it is the last holiday where their tight-knit family will ever be the same. Oldest brother Pete and his wife are expecting their first child. Youngest sibling Sophie is too busy running her restaurant. The Little Plum, to bother with any kind of social life. And middle child Charlie’s happy, uncomplicated life as a midwestern science professor is upended when his wife Annette is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Knowing this will be her last Thanksgiving, Annette asks Sophie to look after Charlie after she’s gone.
Lovely Thanksgiving chick lit.
By Amazon Customer on 11-16-19
Once We Were Brothers
By: Ronald H. Balson
Narrated by: Fred Berman
Elliot Rosenzweig, a respected civic leader and philanthropist, is attending a fundraiser when he is suddenly accosted and accused of being a former Nazi SS officer named Otto Piatek, the Butcher of Zamosc. Although the charges are denounced as preposterous, his accuser is convinced he is right and engages attorney Catherine Lockhart to bring Rosenzweig to justice.
5-Star Thriller with History and Heart
By Ella on 11-22-14
By: Melanie Dobson
Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
What happened to Brigitte Berthold? That question has haunted Daniel Knight since he was 13, when he and 10-year-old Brigitte escaped the Gestapo agents who arrested both their parents. They survived a harrowing journey from Germany to England, only to be separated upon their arrival. Daniel vowed to find Brigitte after the war, a promise he has fought to fulfill for more than 70 years.
A beautiful story of redemption!!!
By Steve on 10-07-18
The Secret Letter
By: Debbie Rix
Narrated by: Jacqueline King
Germany, 1939. A tumbledown farmhouse, on the outskirts of a close-knit village in the heart of the rolling hills of Bavaria. A once happy family home torn apart by Nazi rule. And one young girl who refuses to give up on what she believes in...London, 2018: When 94-year-old Imogen receives a letter addressed to her in neat, unfamiliar handwriting, she notices the postmark is stamped from Germany - and it sends shivers down her spine....
The Victory Garden
By: Rhys Bowen
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong 21-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage. When he is sent back to the front, Emily volunteers as a “land girl,” tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. It’s here that Emily discovers the long-forgotten journals of a medicine woman who devoted her life to her herbal garden.
Not literary genius, but very sweet!
By ellegreenland on 02-26-19
By: Catherine Ryan Hyde
Narrated by: Chris Chappell, Cassandra Morris
Former Broadway dancer and current agoraphobic Billy Shine has not set foot outside his apartment in almost a decade. He has glimpsed his neighbors--beautiful manicurist Rayleen, lonely old Ms. Hinman, bigoted and angry Mr. Lafferty, kind-hearted Felipe, and nine-year-old Grace and her former addict mother, Eileen. But most of them have never seen Billy. Not until Grace begins to sit outside on the building's front stoop for hours every day, inches from Billy's patio.
Inspirational and humbling and awesome.
By Michele on 11-08-15
If You Find Me
By: Emily Murdoch
Narrated by: Tai Sammons
Fourteen-year-old Carey and six-year-old Jenessa have lived in the woods with their mother for as long as they can remember. Now abandoned, they must fend for themselves - until they’re found by Carey’s father and thrust into a bright and perplexing new world of comfort. Carey desperately wants to believe in this new reality but is held back by loyalty to her mentally ill mother, who gave Carey her violin and taught her to play the music that helps her survive.
So worth a credit!
By Lauren on 04-20-13
A View Across the Rooftops
By: Suzanne Kelman
Narrated by: Alan Medcroft
Would you risk your life to save just one person? An incredible story of love, hope, and friendship; and a testament to humanity and courage in history’s darkest days. 1941, Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Professor Josef Held has never recovered from the loss of his beloved wife - and has no intention of ever letting anyone new into his quiet, safe world. But then the Nazis come for the Jews - and Mrs Epstein is killed. And Josef, in an impulsive act of courage, offers his student Michael Blum a place to hide.
Didn’t want it to end!
By Daylelianna on 10-30-19
My Lost Family
An Audible Original
By: Danny Ben-Moshe, Dasha Lisitsina
Narrated by: Danny Ben-Moshe
Growing up in a poor Yiddish speaking home in 1950s London, Lillian - then just a teenager - marries charming older man Raymond. One day he takes their children to the local park. But he never returns. When they reappear 40 years later - the search for the truth begins. Unfolding like a mystery, we follow Danny Ben-Moshe and his eccentric Jewish family as they unearth secrets, attempt to reconcile, and hear shocking news that sheds a new light on events.
Very interesting/upsetting story
By Bobby Galvez on 10-20-19
In pre-war Prague, the dreams of two young lovers are shattered when they are separated by the Nazi invasion. Then, decades later, thousands of miles away in New York, there's an inescapable glance of recognition between two strangers. Providence is giving Lenka and Josef one more chance. From the glamorous ease of life in Prague before the Occupation, to the horrors of Nazi Europe, The Lost Wife explores the power of first love, the resilience of the human spirit, and the strength of memory.
©2011 Alyson Richman (P)2012 Recorded Books, LLC
The Secret of Clouds
The Garden of Letters
The Velvet Hours
The Golem and the Jinni
The Dark Tower I
Kfcarter
BEST book I have read in a long time
If you could sum up The Lost Wife in three words, what would they be?
I don't want to write any spoilers, but want to say that you MUST read this book. The story is happy, sad, heart-wrenching, satisfying, well written, etc. Just make sure to have a box of tissues handy - I cried through the whole last hour of this book. The author did an amazing job with this story, the chapters changing between the stories of Josep and Lenka. The narrators did a fantastic job. I highly recommend this book.
Lovely and heartbreaking.
What made the experience of listening to The Lost Wife the most enjoyable?
This book captured me from the start.
I sat in my car and cried at the end.
Love, Strength & Survival
This book is a beautifully written story of love and strength. The book spans 80 years in the lives of several families that intersect, separate and then join again over time. It is based on the lives of real people and speaks of deep familial love and struggles for survival in WWII Prague. The narrators each gave perfect voice to the characters they portrayed. At first I was concerned about the two alternating readers-- but it quickly made sense and added depth to the telling of the story. While the book speaks of desolation and destruction it also presents beauty, art, deep love and courage. A really wonderful recommended listen.
Loretta R. Cooper
Beautiful Story
I've read/listened to a lot of holocaust stories, and while it is always excruciating to bear witness to such suffering and evil, I am always amazed and the resiliency of the human spirit. This narrative had an especially hopeful tone. If I have a criticism of the author it is just that I wanted "more". More time with the characters, more time in the epilogue scene... more insights in to what makes people survive overwhelming loss and cruelty.
Kudos to author Alyson Richman, and narrators George Guidall and Suszanne Toren for the most heart rendering book I've read on audible. I will be thinking about this story for a long time to come. I love the narrators' depiction of the characters and their story . I am overwhelmed and never read a book so quickly.
So much, and yet - not too much!
This book found the important balance between tragedy and evil on the one side and strength and character to overcome it all on the other side. Sometimes an author can create a story about losing everything without losing oneself. In these stories the characters, while you mourn with them for their loses and for the impact of those loses on their lives, you still experience the resiliency of human spirit to make a life in the wake of it all. This book was so good I bought it for others as a gift.
Thornhill,, Ontario, Canada
Never read a book so fast
What did you love best about The Lost Wife?
Everything. I loved the way the two narrators wove the story of the star-crossed lovers chapter by chapter. I loved the character development and the way the accents were done.
I enjoyed the epilogue and felt the ending was perfect. This is one of the most endearing books I've listed to and I was sorry to have it end.
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Lost Wife?
Josef's careful descriptions of his feelings are precious. I felt that when he burned his letters to Lenka, he was putting to rest his restless longing for her. His dreams of his family being happy for him are foreshadowing for what is to come. Don't want to spoil the book by saying much more.
What does George Guidall and Suzanne Toren bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
The two narrators brought the characters to life and I could not possibly have gotten the same feeling I got listening to their voices. I was impressed by Mr. Guidall's recitation of the Kaddish prayer, which was very authentic. I would seek out more books narrated by him.
The meeting of the two grandparents at the end was memorable.
Run don't walk to download this book. I don't think I've ever worn my earbuds for so long!
History, Memory, Humanity
I really enjoyed listening to both narrators. I esp. enjoyed George Guidall's voice. They both did a great job.
I cried. I've never cried while listening to an audio before, but when Lenka's family is transferred to Auschwitz I finally cried. They had already been through so much and had experienced so much tragedy that my heart just ached for them and every single person that endured the horror, injustice and pure lack of humanity of the concentration camps. I can't begin to imagine living through the Nazi occupation. There are so many layers of grief and suffering that were caused by the occupation - families were separated across countries and oceans, some were left behind to endure or die in a camp, so many people were never able to say good-bye, or just live a normal life, full of normal happiness, suffering and longing. normal. I only imagine the guilt, the ongoing guilt knowing you survived while so many of your innocent family and friends died.
This could have been a 5 star book. I wish the ending would have been different. The 2nd half of the audio moves and flows so naturally, and so intensely in a way that it was hard to escape the images from my mind. And then the end of the story came and it just didn't do the rest of the story justice. I was wowed by this heartbreaking story of love and family. I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys historical fiction. Yes, you might cry but it will be worth it!
PlantCrone
Thoughtful, sad but engrossing love story
Over the span of 60 + years, thru WW!! and concentration camps, 2 young Czech lovers stories are told by fabulous George Guidall as Josef and Suzanne as Lenka. This is a novel that translates wonderfully to audiobook, especially with such talented narrators.
Alyson Richman gives a brief synopsis at the end of the book about who the characters are modeled after and much of the story is fictionalized history. I was born in 1943 and it amazed me to think that I was a happy well fed baby with no fears, raised in Los Angeles with my mom and dad and grandparents while in Europe babies my age were being starved to death or simply murdered. Books like this are important-we must never forget.
The story is haunting and can't help but be very sad, but the inner strength of some of the people makes me wonder if people today could endure what these families went thru with the same courage and grace.
5 Stars-everyone should listen to this if only for its historical value.
FanB14
Not Stellar, but Solid
Joseph and Lanka fall in love during Nazi occupation in WWII. Told from alternating points of view, the two take divergent paths and most of the book is spent on their quest to find each other, meaning, and simply survival be it from atrocities or boredom. The characters are fairly well developed as are the backstories. Entertaining, enjoyable, just not engrossing. There are so many other titles during this time period to be placed at the top of your lists, but this one is solidly in the middle. Great purchase if on sale.
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Warloch Ponds Road Bridge
Things To Do Elsey, Roper Gulf, Northern Territory
Historical Sites and Heritage Locations
The site consists of a single-lane steel and concrete structure spanning Elsey Creek on an old section of the Old Stuart Highway 18km south of Mataranka near the historic Elsey Cemetery and the Elsey Homestead Memorial Cairn.
The Warloch Ponds Road Bridge is the longest one-lane road bridge of its type in the Northern Territory and is a good example of World War II heavy engineering. It reflects technical accomplishment and achievement particularly in view of its remote location.
The bridge, one of seven of its type en-route to Darwin, has historic and engineering significance as a structure directly associated with development of the Stuart Highway, the military build-up in the Northern Territory and military control of the Darwin region during World War II. The bridge has also acquired historic significance through its association with road transport in the post war development of the Darwin and Katherine regions.
Disabled access available Hiking History & Heritage Scenic Drives
Elsey Cemetry, Lot 5417, NT Portion 6773 (A) (2945 Roper Highway, Elsey), Roper River, Northern Territory, Australia
Elsey, 0852
Mataranka War Memorial
Mataranka, Roper Gulf
Elsey Memorial Cemetery
Mataranka Thermal Pool
Elsey, Roper Gulf
Elsey National Park
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