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Sac State Wins FLW College on the Delta
BETHEL ISLAND, Calif. (Sept. 30, 2019) – The Sacramento State University duo of Ilya Guryanov of West Sacramento and Will Karnthong, of Antioch, California, won the YETI FLW College Fishing event on the California Delta presented by Bass Pro Shops with a five-bass limit weighing 15 pounds, 7 ounces. The victory earned the Hornets’ bass club $2,000 and a slot in the 2020 FLW College Fishing National Championship.
“I’m a local, so I’ve spent a lot of time on the Delta and we definitely put in our practice time for this one,” said Karnthong, a freshman majoring in construction management. “We mainly stayed around the Central Delta – I had 10 to 15 spots where I knew we could catch fish. The name of the game for us was just covering a lot of water, then slowing down in the high-percentage areas.”
“We tried our best to find the big fish punching the grass – and we caught six – but those were all little guys,” said Guryanov, a sophomore majoring in nursing. “Our big fish came on a ChatterBait. We caught around 20 fish, but it was a slow day and we had to just grind it out.”
The duo’s main bait of choice was a green-pumpkin-colored Z-Man Evergreen ChatterBait Jack Hammer – Karnthong with a Z-Man Super Shad trailer and Guryanov with a Yamamoto Zeko trailer. They used a Big Texan-colored Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver when punching.
“Being a local was a huge advantage for us, because we had more water to fish,” Karnthong went on to say. “A lot of teams were covering water and running and gunning, but I had pre-fished a lot and was able to go from spot to spot knowing tha t the fish were there, instead of looking for them.”
The top 10 teams that advanced to the 2020 College Fishing National Championship are:
1st: Sacramento State University – Ilya Guryanov, West Sacramento, Calif., and Will Karnthong, Antioch, Calif., five bass, 15-7, $2,000
2nd: Sacramento State University – Aaron Nguyen, Discovery Bay, Calif., and Christopher Orgon, Sacramento, Calif., five bass, 13-2, $1,000
3rd: New Mexico State University – Ty Faulconer, Santa Clarita, Calif., and Daylon Smith, Frazier Park, Calif., five bass, 12-4, $900
4th: Chico State University – Tyler Bounds, Chico, Calif., and Miles Kaneko, Berkeley, Calif., five bass, 11-12, $700
5th: Oregon State University – Biagio Capp, Discovery Bay, Calif., and Thomas Robinson, Blythe, Calif., five bass, 10-6, $750
6th: University of California-Merced – Kalib Caples, Sebastopol, Calif., and Herbie LeBlanc, Merced, Calif., five bass, 10-4
7th: Washington State University – Madden Tobeck, Eatonville, Wash., and Nathan Baespflug, Sumner, Wash., five bass, 10-2
8th: Chico State University – Joshua Cutler, Hollister, Calif., and Chad Sweitzer, Sonora, Calif., five bass, 10-1
9th: California State University-East Bay – Yuan Liu, Fremont, Calif., and Zane Kazaka, Clearlake, Calif., five bass, 9-9
10th: Simpson University – Ryan Beaty, Martinez, Calif., and Nathan Phillips, Kelseyville, Calif., five bass, 9-5
Complete results for the entire field can be found at FLWFishing.com.
The YETI FLW College Fishing event on the California Delta presented by Bass Pro Shops was hosted by Russo’s Marina and the Sugar Barge RV Resort. It was the third and final regular-season qualifying tournament for Western Conference anglers. The next event for FLW College Fishing anglers will be a Central conference event – the YETI FLW College Fishing tournament on Lake of the Ozarks presented by Bass Pro Shops, Oct. 18 in Osage Beach, Missouri.
YETI FLW College Fishing teams compete in three regular-season qualifying tournaments in one of five conferences – Central, Northern, Southern, Southeastern and Western. All participants must be registered, full-time students at a college, university or community college and members of a college fishing club that is recognized by their school. The top 10 teams from each division’s three regular-season tournaments and the top 20 teams from the annual FLW College Fishing Open will advance to the 2020 FLW College Fishing National Championship, scheduled for Feb. 26-28 on the Harris Chain of Lakes in Leesburg, Florida. Additional teams will qualify for the National Championship if the field size in regular-season events exceeds 100 boats.
For complete details and updated information visit FLWFishing.com. For regular updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow FLW and their multiple tournament circuits at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube
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October 2017 Judge’s Report
David Swann
As a boy, I loved a story about a football player whose team had just won the FA Cup at Wembley Stadium. Sitting in the dressing room after the match, the player complained he'd lost a contact lens out on the pitch. One of his team-mates is supposed to have said, 'Well, this is our lucky day – why don't we go back out and find it?' According to the story, they did just that, and found the contact lens within moments!
I've never known whether the hunt for the lens ever happened, and I don't care – because the story's full of some weird ancient storytelling truth that I trust.
Now I often remember the tale when I'm entering writing competitions. The pitch at Wembley is vast, and success seems impossible.
Yet sometimes the luck is with us. Sometimes there's a glint in the grass.
This story is not only a parable for anyone entering writing competitions, but also for their judges. Faced by such an enormously impressive field, the job of selecting a handful of winners can be bewildering.
If your story was included in the longlist of 50 flashes (chosen from writers in 34 countries), I want to emphasise how well you did. Every single flash I received from Jude Higgins and her wonderful team possessed qualities I admired and envied.
In the first stage of judging, I had to kick out nine or ten extremely good pieces because I thought they needed a bit more drafting – and/or because they felt like they weren't quite as succinctly 'flashy' as the ones in my top 20.
In some cases, I reluctantly put aside entries containing beautiful writing – because I wondered whether they'd work better as sections in longer pieces of prose, or perhaps as poems.
So I guess I was searching for the pieces that struck me as being the purest flashes – the ones that couldn't really be anything EXCEPT a flash!
Also, I de-selected a few because of errors in lay-out, dialogue conventions, spelling, etc. When the standard's as high as it was in this batch of 50 pieces, I'm afraid that small errors tend to stand out, and this can undermine the flash. The moral here: proofread the hell out of everything you write!
The flash I really hated ditching from my top 20 was 'The True Cost of Carpeting Luxembourg' because it's one of my favourite titles ever! But I wondered whether the twin storylines were working off each other with enough resonance...
Ultimately I went for the flashes that moved me on first reading – and then still did their little magic tricks on second and third and fourth and fifth encounters: the flashes I felt ON my skin, and which then worked their way UNDER it!
But, as the list was refined, I started to wonder about my own tastes and prejudices, and I remembered wise advice from a judge who once told me that the selection process starts off being quite objective, but becomes increasingly subjective as the list dwindles towards its most outstanding entries.
In other words, there's an element not only of skill, but of luck, in winning a competition – just as there is in finding a contact lens on Wembley's acres of turf. You have to hope that your tastes line up with the judge's. You have to pray that he or she didn't spot the tiny lapse that you don't know how to correct – or hope that the lapse has been forgiven because the story contains some greater magic.
In essence, I guess what I'm doing here is consoling those who didn't quite make it into the Top 5. If your work keeps getting onto longlists and shortlists when the standard is as high as it was here, then you are doing something right – and you may not be very far from locating that tell-tale glint in the Wembley turf. Keep the faith, brothers and sisters! We've chosen a hard road, but it's a road that rewards those who love it enough to go on learning from their setbacks.
Alphabetically, the stories in my top 10 in the Bath Flash Fiction Competition were: 'The Chameleon', 'Disney', 'Faultlines', 'The Hierarchy of Substances', 'Not For Want of Trying', 'Pony', 'The School Centennial', 'Six Months Yesterday', 'What If Nothing Hurts Us More Than Imagination?', and 'You're It'.
The act of choosing winners from such a beautiful and incredibly varied collection of stories was almost impossible, and came to seem increasingly absurd. I was moved and impressed by all ten stories.
'Pony' (First Prize) took my breath away, several times. This flash uses language so sparingly that it earns the right to indulge itself in one grand phrase, which shines like a silver coin from a pocketful of small change. There is beauty and mystery here, counterpointed by the mundanity of the setting. If the creature in the poem speaks to the character of vocation, then this flash speaks to me of all the wild potential that surrounds us in everyday life... and yet which is so difficult for our flawed species to access. Haunting and elusive, yet simultaneously plain-speaking and precise – a story I won't ever forget, and my clear winner. Tremendous.
'The Hierarchy of Substances' (Second Prize) is an aching meditation upon the UK's lost world of deep-pit coal mining. Perhaps it works slightly too hard to squeeze in a metaphysical seam? Well, I settled with that – because it also digs up chunks of black humour from its dramatisation of the generation gap that has opened up since the pits were shut. And there is elegiac poetry throughout. At the end, when the story loops back on itself like a pithead lift, I felt I'd been given the privilege of inspecting a tiny, shining crystal, perfect in form and structure.
Whereas 'Pony' successfully secures itself to a single image in a few moments of time, 'Not For Want of Trying' (Third Prize) spreads out to tackle the long, harrowing odyssey of a refugee. It would be easy for a sprawling narrative like this to squander its energy, but the writer skillfully locks the story into a current time-frame where the stakes are high, and zeroes in on each stage of the journey with deadly precision and economy. A moving piece, and an important one – and an empathetic corrective to anti-immigrant bile spouted by 'The Daily Mail' and 'The Daily Express'.
The two commended stories were almost impossible for me to separate from the others on the list. Ultimately, I found myself returning time and again to 'Six Months Yesterday', 'The Chameleon', and 'What If Nothing Hurts Us More Than Imagination?'
On another day, all of these flashes would have made it into the Top Three, but I opted in the end to award Commendations to the extraordinary emotional intensity of 'What If Nothing Hurts Us More Than Imagination?' (all the more impressive for being balanced against impressive structural precision) and the gorgeous imagery of 'The Chameleon', a story that reminds us of flash's ability to find significance in the tiny and the overlooked.
In turn, these decisions meant that I was forced, myself, to overlook a small treasure: 'Six Months Yesterday'. I hated doing this – because it's a superb piece, written with true emotional intelligence. I was also angry at myself for sidelining 'You're It', 'Disney', and 'The School Centennial' – stories that used humour and dreams to access complex inner-worlds.
A few hours after writing this report, I went back again through all fifty flashes, just to make sure I hadn't gone mad when making my selection. In doing so, I marvelled once more at the form's ability to permit such a range of approaches – from slices-of-life to epic narration to poetic experiments, and beyond... There were a surprising number of flashes about earthquakes, and plenty more about dogs and road-trips – as well as quite a few that used photographs and technology. By the end, I felt once again like a very small figure in a very big field.
I would like to thank all the writers who made me laugh and gave me goosebumps, or made me think again about things I've taken for granted. It was an honour to read your work. Thanks, also, to Jude and her team for creating an environment in which flash can flourish, and for being such a pleasure to work with.
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on September 13, 2019 in Daily News, Features, Interesting People, News, Scene Around
Bob McFie, June 2019 at The National Piping Centre Otago Street with some of the ‘Vets’.
Asked about his early days in piping, Bob McFie leans back in his chair in a teaching room in The National Piping Centre Otago Street and raises his eyes to the sky. “I was six when my father gave me my first practice chanter and about nine or ten when I went to Peter McLeod Snr. for lessons. Old Peter [pictured, right] was my main teacher.”
Bob has been the main teacher at the Saturday morning class stretching back many years to when it was, of course, the College of Piping. He brings a wealth of experience in addition to appropriate qualifications. Bob has a Further Education teaching qualification from Jordanhill College, and has an RSPBA Tutor’s Certificate, College of Piping Tutor’s Certificate and a Post Graduate Diploma in Teaching from Glasgow University. In addition, he has a Teaching Certificate from the British Association of Ski Instructors.
Bob was co-author (with Jim Wark and John McAllister Jnr.) of the piping element of the RSPBA’s three-volume, Structured Learning for Pipers and Drummers manual. Bob’s own tune book, Music for the Highland Bagpipe, contains many excellent tunes, composed mainly by him.
Bob continued: “We lived in Partick but much later we emigrated to Linthouse. Members of the McLeod family were friends of ours. They lived in a ground floor flat in Exeter Drive. We lived further along Dumbarton Road, nearer Partick Cross. I remember clearly my first lesson from Old Peter. As I said, I was nine or ten and it was pelting with rain that day so I had been given money to take the tram to near Exeter Drive. On arriving I knocked nervously on the door. It was opened by Mrs McLeod. She said, ‘You’re soaked!’ in that beautiful Hebridean accent of hers. ‘Come away in’. She then sat me on the kitchen dresser then towelled my hair dry.
“My jacket was then hung on the pulley to dry. Old Peter came in and said it was time for my lesson to which Mrs McLeod replied, ‘He’ll get his lesson when I’m finished with him’. She told me to sit at the table and a bowl of soup was placed before me and a small jug of cream was emptied into it. It was delicious. From then on, before every lesson, summer or winter, I had a bowl of soup, laced with cream. This lovely lady was like a second mother.”
Cowal 1934. L-R: Robert Reid, Roddy MacDonald, Donald MacLean and Peter MacLeod Jnr.
Peter’s pupils received their lessons from him in the front room but my lessons were held in the kitchen. We sat at either side of the kitchen fire. Old Peter would sit and smoke his pipe and, not being a person who lavished praise, he would simply say, ‘Aye now. That was a wee bit better’. He could be a bit ‘crusty’, to say the least and when mistakes were made or when I made a mess of a taorluath, for instance, he would whack my leg, always the right leg, with his blackthorn stick! I remember arriving home on a number of occasions and my father looking at the bruises on my leg (boys wore short trousers in those days), saying, ‘Old Peter hit you his stick? You must have deserved it.’
“Young Peter, like most other males at that time, was unemployed, so I got extra lessons from him, at No 13, sometimes in the early hours of the morning. I remember clearly him teaching me at about midnight the first two parts of the tune, Peter’s Hornpipe.”
This was a halcyon period in Glasgow for piping. Bob became a Junior Member of the ‘Piper’s Club’, as many people then referred to the Scottish Pipers’ Association. At its Saturday night meetings in Elmbank Street the room would be filled to overflowing. The President, a Mr McMurchie, would invite members to provide a selection of tunes. People like John McDonald, Archie McNab, John Johnstone and lots of other top players of the day played.
Bob presenting Private MacAskill (3 SCOTS) with the Best Piper trophy at the 2018 Pass Out Parade, at the Army School of Highland Bagpipe & Drumming in Edinburgh.
“Those meetings were wonderful,” recalls Bob. “Young Peter was regularly invited to perform. Part way through his performance, and given permission by the President, Peter would position me in front of him and he played the top hand of the chanter and I the lower hand. The tunes played were nearly always eight parts of Cameronian Rant and Mrs McPherson. The young folks in the audience thought it was great, the establishment thought it mildly amusing. That was ‘kitchen piping’ in the 1930s!”
When still at primary school, Bob joined the Glasgow Junior Gaelic Choir. A friend’s father was the conductor. “That’s where I first met John MacFadyen. In 1939, we both joined the Glasgow Shepherds Juvenile Pipe Band. The talent in the band at that time was of a very high order indeed. Robert Leitch, Gus MacLeod, Donald MacPherson, Willie Waugh and others of equal ability.”
In the late 1930s the famous Empire Exhibition – an international exposition – was held in Glasgow. One of the exhibits was a model clachan [village] and in its Village Hall piping recitals featured occasionally. The performers at these were the top professionals of that era. On the programme one particular day was the Leading Amateur of the day, Robert Hardie as well as the Leading Juvenile – 13-year-old Bob. Many years later Bob played a number of times at the Glasgow Garden Festival and composed a tune for it, titled Strathclyde Heritage.
The war in Europe finished in May 1945. Bob’s Army documents stated that he was ‘in’ for the duration of hostilities and the people at the top of the Army chain seemed to find lots of places hostile enough to require his presence. Bob was released in late August 1948 … just in time for him to attend the Cowal Games.
Bob in Siberia some time in the 1980s with an interpreter and a major in the Russian army. Bob was there as part of a trade delegation. The major asked Bob to be an honorary member of his family!
Now a civilian, Bob finished his apprenticeship in Marine Engineering. Evening classes took up most of his time and qualifications in engineering, mathematics and other subjects were attained. Bob’s pipes, given to him by his father, were stolen in the 1950s so piping was put on the back burner for a while. Eventually, he joined the Veteran Pipers’ Association that met at the College of Piping in Otago Street in Glasgow’s west end. The ‘Vets’ still meet every Friday at these premises, now The National Piping Centre and Bob has for many years been the President. All pipers aged over 60 are most welcome to join.
Bob with George Takei (Mr Sulu) at a Star Trek convention in Glasgow sometime in the 1980s.
Bob had been attending the ‘Vets’ for only a few weeks when Margaret Grey, Seumas MacNeill’s secretary, informed Bob that Seumas had asked her to invite him to join the College teaching staff. She also asked if he required payment for teaching. Bob agreed to teach but said, “I’ve never ever taken money for teaching.” Two weeks later, Bob was again invited into the office. Mrs Grey informed him that other teaching staff had discovered that he was not being paid and that, “they thought they would be expected to give their services free so, we’ll need to pay you.”
Bob McFie (left) with Heidelberg & District Pipe Band.
Originally, Bob taught on two of the College’s evening classes but now is the Saturday morning class instructor. He says, “I enjoy the Saturdays. I have shared the Saturday class with Ian Sinclair, Jim Emslie and Caitlin McDonald. They have been excellent to work with, as have the many pupils, over the years.”
In addition to these classes, Bob has taught in other parts of the world, mostly in Europe. Indeed, several German pipes bands, and an Austrian one, have benefitted from his teaching experience. One of these bands, the Heidelberg and District Pipe Band, wears the MacFie tartan in his honour. The band’s original Pipe Major was Donald McPhee of Kilts & More.
• The National Piping Centre’s evening class and Saturday morning class are suitable for all levels. Students can opt to attend at McPhater Street or Otago Street. Click HERE to book. To join the Veteran Pipers’ Association telephone Gary on 0141 342 5252.
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New extended Beta-system
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The new extended BETA-system
This site describes the design and implementation of a new extended BETA-system.
The goals of the project are the following:
Develop a new language derived from BETA
As for Beta, the new language should support modeling as well as programming
The language is a general modeling- and programming language, but embedded systems, IoT and cyber physical systems are important targets.
The new language has been developed through a number of versions starting with minor changes to Beta.
The current version is called qBeta - which is not a name we expect to keep.
Develop a new Integrated Development Environment (IDE) consisting of
A new browser based on a new module mechanism for BETA
A new debugger based object sequence charts
In order to simplify the implementation of the browser and debugger the project includes:
A new compiler
A new virtual machine where the the first version of the interpreter was implemented in BETA. Subsequently a version of the interpreter ha been implemented in C.
The language qBeta and the IDE are constantly being evolved, which means that the pages here are updated regularly.
The BETA Language
BETA is an object-oriented language from the Scandinavian School of object-oriented programming that is based on the development of SIMULA. SIMULA is designed in the sixties by Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard.
An important characteristic of SIMULA and BETA is that they were intended for modeling as well as programming.
Descriptions of BETA are available from the following sources:
O.L. Madsen, B. Møller-Pedersen, K. Nygaard: Object-Oriented Programming in the BETA Programming Language, ACM Press, Addison-Wesley, 1993. Reprint.
B.B. Kristensen, O.L. Madsen, B. Møller-Pedersen: The When, Why and Why Not of the BETA Programming Language, ACM History of Programming Languages III, Conference, San Diego 2007.
The Mjølner System is a software development environment for BETA developed as part of the Nordic Mjølner Project - the Mjølner System is no longer maintained - the description of the BETA implementation in Mjølner may be found here.
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Source Note
JS, History, 1838–1856, vol. E-1, created 20 Aug. 1855–5 Apr. 1856; handwriting of Robert L. Campbell,
Leo Hawkins
19 July 1834–28 May 1859. Clerk, reporter. Born in London. Son of Samuel Harris Hawkins and Charlotte Savage. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by John Banks, 23 Oct. 1848. Immigrated to U.S. with his family; arrived in New Orleans...
, and Jonathan Grimshaw; 392 pages, plus 11 pages of addenda; CHL. This is the fifth volume of a six-volume manuscript history of the church. This fifth volume covers the period from 1 July 1843 to 30 Apr. 1844; the remaining five volumes, labeled A-1, B-1, C-1, D-1, and F-1, continue through 8 Aug. 1844.
Historical Introduction
History, 1838–1856, volume E-1, constitutes the fifth of six volumes documenting the life of Joseph Smith and the early years of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The series is also known as the Manuscript History of the Church and was originally published serially from 1842 to 1846 and 1851 to 1858 as the “History of Joseph Smith” in the Times and Seasons and Deseret News. This volume contains JS’s history from 1 July 1843 to 30 April 1844, and it was compiled in Utah Territory in the mid-1850s.
The material recorded in volume E-1 was initially compiled under the direction of church historian
26 June 1817–1 Sept. 1875. Born at Potsdam, St. Lawrence Co., New York. Son of John Smith and Clarissa Lyman. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Joseph H. Wakefield, 10 Sept. 1832, at Potsdam. Moved to Kirtland, Geauga Co., Ohio,...
, who was JS’s cousin. Smith collaborated with
Thomas Bullock
23 Dec. 1816–10 Feb. 1885. Farmer, excise officer, secretary, clerk. Born in Leek, Staffordshire, England. Son of Thomas Bullock and Mary Hall. Married Henrietta Rushton, 25 June 1838. Moved to Ardee, Co. Louth, Ireland, Nov. 1839; to Isle of Anglesey, Aug...
in collecting material for the history and creating a set of draft notes that Smith dictated to Bullock and other clerks.
Robert L. Campbell, a recently returned missionary and member of the Historian’s Office staff, transcribed
’s notes into the volume along with the text of designated documents (such as letters and meeting minutes). The Church Historian’s Office journal entry for 2 May 1855 pinpoints the beginning of his work: “R. L. C. on Book D forenoon, afternoon began book E.” Campbell’s work on the volume apparently concluded on 5 April 1856; entries in the Historian’s Office journal indicate that he then moved on to other assignments while another clerk, Jonathan Grimshaw, began work on volume F-1, the last manuscript in the series. (Historian’s Office, Journal, 2 May 1855; 5 and 9 Apr. 1856.)
Volume E-1 contains 391 pages of primary text and 11 pages of addenda. The initial entry on page 1637 is a continuation of the 1 July 1843 entry that closed volume D-1. The final entry in volume E-1 is for 30 April 1844.
The 391 pages of volume E-1 document a crucial period of JS’s life and the history of the church. Important events recorded here include
• An account of JS’s 2 July 1843 meeting with several Pottawatamie chiefs.
• JS’s 4 July 1843 address regarding his recent arrest, the
Principal gathering place for Saints following expulsion from Missouri. Beginning in 1839, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purchased lands in earlier settlement of Commerce and planned settlement of Commerce City, as well as surrounding areas....
Legion, and Mormon voting practices.
• JS’s 12 July 1843 dictation of a revelation regarding eternal marriage, including the plurality of wives, in the presence of
Hyrum Smith
9 Feb. 1800–27 June 1844. Farmer, cooper. Born at Tunbridge, Orange Co., Vermont. Son of Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack. Moved to Randolph, Orange Co., 1802; back to Tunbridge, before May 1803; to Royalton, Windsor Co., Vermont, 1804; to Sharon, Windsor Co...
17 July 1814–4 Dec. 1879. Bookkeeper, clerk. Born at Charnock Moss, Penwortham, Lancashire, England. Son of Thomas Clayton and Ann Critchley. Married Ruth Moon, 9 Oct. 1836, at Penwortham. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Heber...
• The 13 August 1843 disfellowshipment of
Sidney Rigdon
19 Feb. 1793–14 July 1876. Tanner, farmer, minister. Born at St. Clair, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania. Son of William Rigdon and Nancy Gallaher. Joined United Baptists, ca. 1818. Preached at Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio, and vicinity, 1819–1821. Married Phebe...
and revocation of his priesthood license.
• Dispatch of the first missionaries to the Pacific Islands on 20 September 1843, led by
Addison Pratt
21 Feb. 1802–14 Oct. 1872. Sailor, farmer, carpenter. Born in Winchester, Cheshire Co., New Hampshire. Son of Henry Pratt and Rebekah Jewell. Married Louisa Barnes, 3 Apr. 1831, in Dunham, Lower Canada. Settled on banks of Lake Erie, in New York, where he...
• JS’s 1 October 1843 announcement of
George J. Adams
7 Nov. 1810–11 May 1880. Tailor, actor, clergyman. Born in Oxford, Sussex Co., New Jersey. Lived in Boston during 1820s and 1830s. Became Methodist lay preacher. Married Caroline. Moved to New York City, before 1840. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of...
’s appointment to a mission to Russia.
• Minutes of a 6–9 October 1843 general conference inserted under the date of 9 October at which
pled his case in regard to his 13 August 1843 disfellowshipment and was permitted to continue as counselor in the First Presidency.
• Text of JS’s appeal to the Green Mountain Boys of
Area served as early thoroughfare for traveling Indian tribes. French explored area, 1609, and erected fort on island in Lake Champlain, 1666. First settled by Massachusetts emigrants, 1724. Claimed by British colonies of New York and New Hampshire, but during...
, inserted under the date of 29 November 1843.
• A 20 January 1844 entry that includes a poem by
21 Jan. 1804–5 Dec. 1887. Poet, teacher, seamstress, milliner. Born in Becket, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts. Daughter of Oliver Snow and Rosetta Leonora Pettibone. Moved to Mantua, Trumbull Co., Ohio, ca. 1806. Member of Baptist church. Baptized into Church...
commemorating the presentation of two copies of the Book of Mormon to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert by
Lorenzo Snow
3 Apr. 1814–10 Oct. 1901. Schoolteacher. Born in Mantua, Portage Co., Ohio. Son of Oliver Snow and Rosetta Leonora Pettibone. Attended Oberlin College. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by John F. Boynton, 19 June 1836, in Kirtland...
• JS’s nomination on 29 January 1844 as an independent candidate for the presidency of the
North American constitutional republic. Constitution ratified, 17 Sept. 1787. Population in 1805 about 6,000,000; in 1830 about 13,000,000; and in 1844 about 20,000,000. Louisiana Purchase, 1803, doubled size of U.S. Consisted of seventeen states at time ...
• An account of JS’s
King Follett
24/26 July 1788–9 Mar. 1844. Born at Winchester, Cheshire Co., New Hampshire. Son of John Follett and Hannah Oak (Oake) Alexander. Married Louisa Tanner, by 1815. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, spring 1831. Member of Whitmer branch...
sermon, 7 April 1844.
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<July 26> those vested with the powers of government, for redress of grievances; and that their right to bear arms in defence of themselves and the State, cannot be questioned. This over-wise right of gun-fence was made, as I have learned, for breachy Indians, but was used by
Gov. [Lilburn W.] Boggs
14 Dec. 1796–14 Mar. 1860. Bookkeeper, bank cashier, merchant, Indian agent and trader, lawyer, doctor, postmaster, politician. Born at Lexington, Fayette Co., Kentucky. Son of John M. Boggs and Martha Oliver. Served in War of 1812. Moved to St. Louis, ca...
, as a sine qua non, pointed with steel and burning with brimstone, to exterminate the Mormons. Truly we may ask, what is right, and what is law, contrary to the constitution? The Legislature of
Area acquired by U.S. in Louisiana Purchase, 1803, and established as territory, 1812. Missouri Compromise, 1820, admitted Missouri as slave state, 1821. Population in 1830 about 140,000; in 1836 about 240,000; and in 1840 about 380,000. Latter-day Saint ...
acknowledged the exterminating order of
Boggs
as constitutional, and appropriated more than $200.000 to pay the drivers and robbers, and I may as well say, mobbers of the Mormons, for services rendered the
in 1838. O Gladius! O Crumena! Viator.”
JS, Journal, 26 July 1843.
Shower of rain at noon.
27 July 1843 • Thursday
See 27 July 1843 entry in History Draft.
Clayton, Journal, 27 July 1843.
Comprehensive Works Cited
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
<27.—> Wednesday Thursday 27.— I drove <with>
Father [Isaac] Morley
11 Mar. 1786–24 June 1865. Farmer, cooper, merchant, postmaster. Born at Montague, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts. Son of Thomas Morley and Editha (Edith) Marsh. Family affiliated with Presbyterian church. Moved to Kirtland, Geauga Co., Ohio, before 1812. Married...
thro’ the city
TEXT: A transposition mark in text indicates two previous phrases to be reversed: “I drove thro’ the city with Father Morley”.
in my carriage.
Woodruff, Journal, 27 July 1843; Young, Journal, 27 July 1843.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Young, Brigham. Journals, 1832–1877. Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878. CHL. CR 1234 1, boxes 71–73.
The “Adelaide” having run aground on a Sand bar, as
Elder [Wilford] Woodruff
1 Mar. 1807–2 Sept. 1898. Farmer, miller. Born at Farmington, Hartford Co., Connecticut. Son of Aphek Woodruff and Beulah Thompson. Moved to Richland, Oswego Co., New York, 1832. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Zera Pulsipher,...
graphically describes their voyage, “it was like punching suckers out of <a> Trout brook,” on account of the lowness of the water. <Elders
B[righam] Young
1 June 1801–29 Aug. 1877. Carpenter, painter, glazier, colonizer. Born at Whitingham, Windham Co., Vermont. Son of John Young and Abigail (Nabby) Howe. Brought up in Methodist household; later joined Methodist church. Moved to Sherburne, Chenango Co., New...
W. Woodruff
Geo. A. Smith
> they were set ashore and took coach for
Also spelled Pittsbourg, Pittsbourgh, and Pittsburg. Major industrial port city in southwestern Pennsylvania. Near location where Monongahela and Allegheny rivers converge to form Ohio River. French established Fort Du Quesne, 1754. British captured fort,...
, where they arrived at 6 o’Clock; went to the Temperance Hall and unobserved heard
Elder [John E.] Page
25 Feb. 1799–14 Oct. 1867. Born at Trenton, Oneida Co., New York. Son of Ebenezer Page and Rachel Hill. Married first Betsey Thompson, 1831, in Huron Co., Ohio. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Emer Harris, 18 Aug. 1833, at Brownhelm...
preaching against the sects. There Here they met with Elders
H[eber] C. Kimball
14 June 1801–22 June 1868. Blacksmith, potter. Born at Sheldon, Franklin Co., Vermont. Son of Solomon Farnham Kimball and Anna Spaulding. Married Vilate Murray, 22 Nov. 1822, at Mendon, Monroe Co., New York. Member of Baptist church at Mendon, 1831. Baptized...
O[rson] Pratt
19 Sept. 1811–3 Oct. 1881. Farmer, writer, teacher, merchant, surveyor, editor, publisher. Born at Hartford, Washington Co., New York. Son of Jared Pratt and Charity Dickinson. Moved to New Lebanon, Columbia Co., New York, 1814; to Canaan, Columbia Co., fall...
28 July 1843 • Friday
<28> Thursday Friday 28 I was at home, sick, and was visited by
JS, Journal, 28–29 July 1843.
At noon,
James Sloan
28 Oct. 1792–24 Oct. 1886. City recorder, notary public, attorney, judge, farmer. Born in Donaghmore, Co. Tyrone, Ireland. Son of Alexander Sloan and Anne. Married Mary Magill. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Ordained an elder, ...
the Recorder, brought the desk containing city and church books and papers to the Mayors
Term usually applied to JS’s private office, which was located at various places during JS’s lifetime, including his home. From fall 1840 until completion of JS’s brick store, office was located on second floor of a new building, possibly on Water Street ...
, as he was about to go on a Mission to Ireland.
Woodruff, Journal, 28 July 1843.
The Twelve met at
Richard Savory
14 July 1813–7 July 1865. Mill manager. Born in Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. Son of Nathan Savery and Elizabeth Gammons. Family resided in Middleborough, Plymouth Co., 1820. Moved to Fairhaven, Bristol Co., Massachusetts, by 1830. Married Betsey H. Keen, ...
Elder [Brigham] Young
inquired concerning the proceedings of the Twelve in
Cincinatti
Area settled largely by emigrants from New England and New Jersey, by 1788. Village founded and surveyed adjacent to site of Fort Washington, 1789. First seat of legislature of Northwest Territory, 1790. Incorporated as city, 1819. Developed rapidly as shipping...
; found that Elders
[Heber C.] Kimball
[Orson] Pratt
[John E.] Page
had held a conference, organized the church, and then left for
. [HC 5:520]
Elder Page
stayed a few days and disunited what had been done, and re-organized the church; but the church was left in no better situation.
Elder Young
reproved
brother Page
for undoing alone what three of the Quorum had done together. He also alluded to my instructions to be gentle and mild in their teachings, and not to fight the sects any more at present, but to win the affections of the people.
In the evening they met at
Jeremiah Cooper
26 Aug. 1818–after 1879. Shoemaker. Born in Palmyra, Lebanon Co., Pennsylvania. Son of Caleh Cooper and Catherine. Moved to Philadelphia, by 1840. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 22 Apr. 1840. Member of Philadelphia branch, 1840...
’s house. Elders
[George A.] Smith
addressed the Saints, numbering seventy five.
29 July 1843 • Saturday
JS, Journal, 29 July 1843; Clayton, Journal, 29 July 1843.
<29> Friday Saturday 29. I rode up to the
Located in portion of Nauvoo known as the bluff. JS revelation dated Jan. 1841 commanded Saints to build temple and hotel (Nauvoo House). Cornerstone laid, 6 Apr. 1841. Saints volunteered labor, money, and other resources for temple construction. Construction...
and sent copy of certificate of Trustee, and
[Oliver] Granger
7 Feb. 1794–23/25 Aug. 1841. Sheriff, church agent. Born at Phelps, Ontario Co., New York. Son of Pierce Granger and Clarissa Trumble. Married Lydia Dibble, 8 Sept. 1813, at Phelps. Member of Methodist church and licensed exhorter. Sheriff of Ontario Co. ...
’s power of attorney to
Reuben McBride
16 June 1803–26 Feb. 1891. Farmer. Born at Chester, Washington Co., New York. Son of Daniel McBride and Abigail Mead. Married Mary Ann Anderson, 16 June 1833. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 4 Mar. 1834, at Villanova, Chautauque...
Located ten miles south of Lake Erie. Settled by 1811. Organized by 1818. Latter-day Saint missionaries visited township, early Nov. 1830; many residents joined Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Population in 1830 about 55 Latter-day Saints and...
. Walked up to near the
Lodge room
Illinois lodge Grand Master Abraham Jonas granted dispensation to establish Nauvoo lodge, 15 Oct. 1841. First lodge meeting held, 29–30 Dec. 1841, in Hyrum Smith’s office. Installation ceremonies held, 15–16 Mar. 1842. Prior to eventual dedication of Masonic...
, met my brother
Hyrum [Smith]
, and had a conversation about
H[enry] G. Sherwood
20 Apr. 1785–24 Nov. 1867. Surveyor. Born at Kingsbury, Washington Co., New York. Son of Newcomb Sherwood and a woman whose maiden name was Tolman (first name unidentified). Married first Jane J. McManagal (McMangle) of Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland, ca. 1824...
Letter to the Editor, Nauvoo Neighbor, 2 Aug. 1843, [2].
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
There was a political meeting at the
, when Mr.
Joseph P. Hoge
15 Dec. 1810–14 Aug. 1891. Lawyer, judge, politician. Born in Steubenville, Jefferson Co., Ohio. Son of David Hoge and Jane Scott. Graduated from Jefferson College, in Washington, Washington Co., Pennsylvania. Admitted to Ohio bar, 1836. Moved to Galena, ...
, Candidate for Congress addressed the citizens for three hours, and was replied to in short by
Mr. [Cyrus] Walker
6 May 1791–Dec. 1875. Lawyer. Born in Rockbridge Co., Virginia. Son of Alexander Walker and Mary Magdalene Hammond. Presbyterian. Moved to Adair Co., Kentucky, ca. 1794. Lived in Columbia, Adair Co., by 1810. Married Flora Montgomery, 30 Jan. 1817, in Adair...
Council of the Twelve Apostles met in the evening at
Brother [Richard] Savary
’s to teach the Elders—
A man should in the first place preside over himself, his passions, his person, and bring himself into subjection to the Law of God; then preside over his children and his wife in righteousness; then he will be capable of presiding over a branch of the church; but many Elders are contending about presiding over churches, when they are not capable of presiding over themselves, or the least child they have.
The first principle of our cause and work is to understand that there is a Prophet in the church, and that he is at the head of the church of Jesus Christ on earth.
Who called Joseph Smith to be a Prophet? Did the people, or God? God, [p. 1684]
July 26 those vested with the powers of government, for redress of grievances; and that their right to bear arms in defence of themselves and the State, cannot be questioned. This over-wise right of gun-fence was made, as I have learned, for breachy Indians, but was used by
Gov. Lilburn W. Boggs
27.— Thursday 27.— I drove with
Father Isaac Morley
thro’ the city in my carriage.
Elder Wilford Woodruff
graphically describes their voyage, “it was like punching suckers out of a Trout brook,” on account of the lowness of the water. Elders
were set ashore and took coach for
Elder John E. Page
preaching against the sects. Here they met with Elders
Heber C. Kimball
28 Friday 28 I was at home, sick, and was visited by
Elder Brigham Young
John E. Page
29 Saturday 29. I rode up to the
Oliver Granger
Henry G. Sherwood
Mr. Cyrus Walker
Brother Richard Savary
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Extra Sensory Powers
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Post by VeenaandNivyah » Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:11 pm
I've heard a lot of people talk about ESP or Extra Sensory Powers.
Do they existy, i mean such powers associated with ur dreams and stuff. They don't right? I mean, that's just biologicallyimposible, right?
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Post by cool A-level student » Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:29 pm
there was a test done on some certain ESP and it turned out negative on all the ones ive heard of, dreams are to do with your sub-conscience (prob spelt that wrong), i dont beleive personally in ESP as its far-fetched to be real, its only really a dream some people have made up in hope that they hve some form of super powers or at least thats wat i think
Post by mith » Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:07 am
Read up on James Randi(the magician) and his efforts to debunk sleight of hand and whatnot involved in most instances of "paranormal" activity.
Post by VeenaandNivyah » Fri Mar 10, 2006 11:38 am
cool A-level student wrote: i dont beleive personally in ESP as its far-fetched to be real, its only really a dream some people have made up in hope that they hve some form of super powers or at least thats wat i think
That's right. Have you seen the movie "Minority Report" (i think that's the name, not sure )? It's about some woman with ESP. I mean, it's practically impossible. I agree, nothing like that exists.
Post by cool A-level student » Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:00 pm
glad u agree, i think ESP is a load of twoddle
then again who knows wat the inactive parts of our brains do!
Post by VeenaandNivyah » Sat Mar 11, 2006 11:12 am
Can the inactive parts of our brain, actually SEE the future. I feel, it's usually by some kinda sheer luck.
Post by mith » Sat Mar 11, 2006 2:08 pm
Well, currently we have no way of knowing that scientifically, so it depends on whether you're a believer of the scientific method or something else. But to scientist it's a little hard to acknowledge something like that.
It might be able to see into the future, but then you'll have to assume that the future is already determined and that free will is an illusion. To some that's even a harder pill to swallow.
Post by MrMistery » Sat Mar 11, 2006 5:56 pm
Agreed, seeing the future means knowing what everyone is going to think and do...
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Post by alextemplet » Sun Mar 12, 2006 3:23 pm
Actually, some believe that "prophesies" only tell what might happen, not what's guaranteed to happen. But I still wouldn't put my faith in it, since most such predictions are only made after the fact. For example, after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, everyone wanted to claim that Nostradamus or some other psychic had predicted it, but such claims are worthless if we can't tell what's going to happen before it actually happens.[/code]
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Post by MrMistery » Sun Mar 12, 2006 6:39 pm
What might happen? Cool! The Sun will explode in 10 seconds. It might happen, although not a very big probability. Still there? Aaaaaaaaaaah
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Post by Khaiy » Sun Mar 12, 2006 10:02 pm
Even if the future were predefined, there's no biological mechanism that should allow someone to have advanced knowledge of it. Maybe there is more to the world than what we see, but for now it's all purely speculation, and it's all metascience.
Post by VeenaandNivyah » Mon Mar 13, 2006 12:27 pm
MrMistery wrote: What might happen? Cool! The Sun will explode in 10 seconds. It might happen, although not a very big probability. Still there? Aaaaaaaaaaah
Exactly... There's this psychic guy in our locality who predicted that the tsunami would occur again b'fore 2010 and that over half of our city would be vanquished. Honestly, he said that there would be an earthquake in the Himalayas and that half of India would be destroyed...AND he even said thet the Sun is gonna explode.
(that's the stuff u were talking abt, Mr Mistery).
WHAT A PILE OF CRAP.
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SPN TAKE 5
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Peele Crafts a Winner With His Debut Effort
Justice Reed, Film critic
With all the buzz surrounding Get Out and finally emerging from the annual awful line up of January and February movies, I highly anticipated Jordan Peele’s debut feature film. This film shows that Peele is not just a talented comedian, but a great new director/writer as well.
Get Out has more than what you’d normally expect from any other horror film. It manages to be eery, creepy, entertaining, socially relevant, fresh and hilarious throughout the film.
The acting is superb. The lead, Daniel Kaluuya, works wonders in his breakout role. He plays Chris, hitting a milestone in his relationship with Rose to meet her white parents, who don’t know he’s black. Kaluuya is believable in every scene, whether the situation offers comic relief or his life is at stake.
Not only Kaluuya, but the entire cast of actors is legitimately credible, including Allison Williams, who plays Rose, and Catherine Keener and Bradley Whitford, who portray her family. None of their acting took me out of the experience.
The only problem with the acting is the yard worker, who has a goofy dialect and mannerisms when talking to Chris, but it makes sense at the end of the film, even though it is a little silly. Not only that, there is a running scene with the yard keeper that is awkward as well and doesn’t make much sense.
I also have to mention Lil Rel Howery, who plays Chris’s best friend, because he steals every scene he’s in just with his hilarity.
In a great opening sequence, the film establishes a dreadful tone, which continues mostly throughout, but there is some frequent comic relief so you can label the work as a satire as well. The film is as equally funny as it is scary. Enough so, that I wouldn’t label this movie as only a horror film, but a social thriller.
Get Out is a little slow for the first 15 to 20 minutes but that’s completely forgivable and pays off tenfold because the rest builds with tension and suspense so thick that I was anxious through the last three-fourths of the film. There are a couple of cheap jumpscares, but I was glad to finally see a horror film not filled to the brim with because they’re cheap and lazy.
The plot is nothing we haven’t seen before, but it adds enough new twists to the story and relevant social commentary about racism that it feels refreshingly original. It uses the racial commentary intelligently and is not preachy in the least. It calls out people who say, “Racism is gone,” and are utterly ridiculous and not paying attention to what’s happening in our country right now.
And the film feels as relevant as ever as it brings out the problems of prejudice that we have in society and is truly thought provoking. It has great satirical value as well; it had me laughing more than most comedy films that come out today. Obviously, it’s a great thrill ride that manages to be just as socially important as it is scary. The third act was a white knuckling conclusion that was the best part of the whole movie which had me cheering along with my crowd.
Get Out is a well constructed and intelligent social thriller that I was pleasantly surprised by. I would recommend this film to everyone who enjoys comedy and thriller films, and it has something for everyone. It’s layered with great performances from all of its cast members, and the writing and direction make the film work as it easily could’ve been messy and not mesh all of it’s content well.
Get Out proves to be a great debut from Peele and I cannot wait to see what he does next.
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Characters, Black Company, New White Rose Rebellion
Brother Bear Torque
Brother Bear Torque and his brothers Stubby and Paddlefoot were sworn members of the Black Company. They were among the 10 Company survivors of the Battle of the Barrowland in The White Rose. They parted ways from the Company to follow Darling in The Silver Spike. With Darling, Silent, Bomanz, and an army of monsters from the Plain of Fear, the Torques helped in the lethal struggle against the Limper across both continents.
The three Torque brothers appear together in The White Rose but are not actually mentioned by name by Croaker.
They originated from the eastern region of the Lady's Empire, perhaps from one of the key Rebel cities of Rust, Frost, or Thud. They apparently joined the Black Company sometime before, or possibly even during, the Company's 2-year stay in the Hole out on the Plain of Fear in service to Darling. While they reported to the Lieutenant and Elmo, their true allegiance was to Darling and her New White Rose Rebellion. When Darling and the Lady forged their alliance to defeat the Dominator together, the Torques would be among those who departed the Hole to board onto the backs of windwhales and fly to the Barrowland. There, the three brothers probably set up with Darling at the Blue Willy inn.
During the Battle of the Barrowland, most of the members of the already-reduced Black Company were killed. The three Torque brothers were among the only 10 survivors, the others being Croaker, One-Eye, Goblin, Silent, Otto, Hagop, and Murgen. When Croaker called an official convocation for all Company survivors at the Blue Willy, the Torques and Silent turned down Croaker's offer to accompany him to fabled Khatovar. These same four men also were the only ones to take Croaker's offer to be discharged "without the stigma of desertion". They marched southward, alongside the 6 remaining Company brothers, out of the Great Forest. Once they reached the edge of the Forest, Croaker gave them each their shares of money and equipment, and they parted ways.
The Silver Spike Edit
Meeting Bomanz again Edit
The Torques and Silent loyally followed Darling after the Battle of the Barrowland. About a year later, they were all encamped in the Windy Country with a collection of allied monsters from the Plain of Fear. There, Bomanz caught up with them. Bomanz was seeking to recruit their help since he detected the rise of the Limper out of the Barrowland. One of the Torque brothers recognized him immediately, and was duly surprised... Bomanz had convincingly staged his death during his fight with the Barrowland dragon. They brought Bomanz onto the back of their thousand-feet-long windwhale. Bomanz, privately, judged them harshly, considering them all "lunatics", "morons", "cretins", etc., and belittling the Torques' "barbaric eastern gabble" and inability to speak in proper Forsberger. Much to Bomanz's confusion, whenever the windwhale descended to hunt for food, the Torques would hurl a menhir off the side of the giant beast while singing a merry work song. The menhirs would land upright, and would reappear later, unharmed. The Torques also informed Bomanz that they had sexual relations with the females of the sentient centaur race.
Besieging the Temple Edit
The Torques and the others flew over the Sea of Torments on the back of the windwhale. Deep into the southern continent, the Limper sent the fire-eater, a giant soaring demon, to kill their windwhale. The Torque brothers threatened to throw Bomanz over the side unless he acted to help them. Darling called the three brothers off with a single gesture. Although Bomanz eventually warded away the fire-eater, the windwhale was fatally wounded, and they crash-landed in a gigantic oily fire outside the Temple of Travellers' Repose. Fortunately for them, Raven and Case were on foot nearby, and helped them all escape the explosive inferno.
The Torques chatted around the campfire outside the Temple with Case, the talking buzzard Virgil, and some menhirs, all while Darling, Raven, Silent, and Bomanz brooded about nearby. When Darling sprung her trap on the Limper, Toadkiller Dog bolted out of the Temple and rushed at them all like a juggernaut. The Torques helped pierce the monster with arrows, but only Silent's attack seemed effective. Moments later, they were suddenly recalled by Father Tree, and the brothers accompanied the group back across the Sea. Case realized that the Torques were somewhat wary of him since he had been in the Eternal Guard, and they were originally Black Company. After a brief stopover in Opal, during which Raven was forced to reunite with his long-estranged son and daughter, they flew northward.
The silver spike confrontation at Oar Edit
The three brothers remained with Darling and Silent in Oar to track down the silver spike. (Raven, Case, and Bomanz split up and went together to the Barrowland for a time.) They set up a hidden headquarters in the stable of Lamber Gartsen, who was Darling's last remaining Rebel sympathizer in all of Oar. Raven conned Brother Bear into accompanying him during his attempt to capture and interrogate the spike thieves they observed from a distance. Raven did this without Darling's knowledge, as she would certainly have forbidden it. Smeds Stahl saw them coming, and slashed Brother Bear's throat, killing him. He also kicked Raven unconscious and would escape with his fortune for selling the spike. Brother Bear's sibling Paddlefoot would die about this time as well, leaving Stubby as the only survivor from the Torque brothers.
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Clarke's Playground
By Snowflake Oliver, August 23, 2019 in Entertainment
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Looks awesome, just praying it lives up to the high standards of the show.
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56 minutes ago, ...Dan... said:
I think it will, just because it's still written by and directed by Vince Gilligan!
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Think we'd need to have seen better caul Saul for this? I couldn't get into it, but loved Breaking Bad.
16 minutes ago, Kay said:
Give Better Call Saul a chance, it's a slow burner but found it rewarding in the end.
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4 hours ago, Kay said:
I'm guessing no since BCS takes place before BB (at least up until this point in the show) and this is after.
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There needs to be some sort of appearance of Walt in this or I will be letdown. Even if its just 30 seconds in a flashback.
But otherwise it looks good.
23 hours ago, Donald Trump's Bulge said:
I've heard they're holding him for ransom.
1 hour ago, Bucko said:
So he isn't dead?
I wouldn't really like that as an idea. It conceptually doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Cranston said he hadn't seen the script as of Nov 2018 and that was when filming wrapped but he could be lying.
Come on, Loliver.
5 minutes ago, Donald Trump's Bulge said:
Skylar, she was just a babe in the woods / He was always up to no good. It's the perfect end to the story.
On 9/25/2019 at 4:03 AM, Bucko said:
It really is. I initially checked out of it after watching 2 episodes, then months later gave it another chance and got as immersed in it as I did Breaking Bad. Better Call Saul is genuinely great. With that in mind, I have no doubt that this will be excellent. Vince has a proven track record if you ask me.
On 9/25/2019 at 6:10 AM, Patient #48273 said:
Well there’s one scene a season that takes place post BB, but they’re inconsequential. You just need to know Saul is living in isolation in the Midwest.
Which you can easily glean from the end of Breaking Bad (minus the midwest part, I suppose).
Better Call Saul is good, but in a strange way, it is a totally different show than Breaking Bad.
n i k u 733
1 hour until this drops. So stoked.
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Keep those spoiler tags on for a couple days friends. Won’t get to watch this for a few days.
Why the fuck did they have to ruin it like that. Walt Jr would never be a kingpin like his dad. So far fetched.
2 hours ago, Russel Coight said:
Although @Patient #48273 will probably expect you to watch it within 2 hours of release and if you see a spoiler after that then it's your problem for not having your forum settings set up in a specific way...
Nothing happened.
4 hours ago, ...Dan... said:
God forbid people who are sensitive about spoilers take some responsiblity for themselves!
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“Winning Together” confronts issues of race in athletics
By Jane Chang
Ann Basu
WORKING AS ONE: Associate Professor of Africana Studies Judith Casselberry participates in a Q&A panel at the Athletic Department’s “Winning Together: Intersections between Race and Athletics” event that looked to shed light on the unique experiences of athletes of color.
On Monday, the Athletic Department held an event called “Winning Together: Intersections between Race and Athletics” that invited students and professors, athletes and non-athletes, to engage in conversations about the role that race plays on Bowdoin’s athletic teams.
The event was divided into three sections, where attendees had the opportunity to participate in a Q&A panel, hear personal anecdotes from several of Bowdoin’s athletes of color and break into small groups to cultivate more personal dialogues.
“I think the biggest goal [of the event] was to have this conversation and really expose people to the issues that students of color on campus face,” said event organizer and softball captain Marisa O’Toole ’17. “[Since] our athletic community is so big on campus and so many students are involved in sports … we really wanted to [invite] people from every team … who could really absorb this [discussion’s content], engage with it, discuss it, be shocked, be surprised and be moved to have these conversations more.”
Topics examined at “Winning Together” ranged from white fragility and white spaces to what it means to be an ally. Associate Professor of Africana Studies Judith Casselberry and Assistant Professor of Sociology Theo Greene touched on these subjects and many more, including how to take the information and lessons learned from the discussion back to Bowdoin teams in order to continue promoting conversations about race on campus.
Track and field member Amani Hite ’20 was encouraged to speak at the event after sharing her story with her fellow members of Bowdoin’s Athletes Of Color group. Although most of the other stories shared at the event were anonymous, Hite shared her story herself.
“I decided to not go anonymous because I thought it would make it more original and raw if you heard my story and where I come from, just the challenges that I faced myself,” said Hite.
When asked about her plans for facilitating conversations about race after sharing her story at Winning Together, Hite said that she plans on being more open to answering her teammates’ questions about race to make sure they are educated on the issue.
“We all have some [ignorance] in us, but it’s not until you actually open yourself up and ask questions and attempt to educate yourself about things that you don’t know that you are actually able to see change happen,” said Hite.
Hite also said that she hopes to use these discussions to improve team dynamics and strengthen the bonds among her teammates.
Hite’s story made an impact on Sam Edwards-Kuhn ’20, who said that he found her story incredibly powerful and thought-provoking. Although Edwards-Kuhn is neither a Bowdoin athlete nor a student of color, he emphasized the need for white students to attempt to place themselves in the shoes of their non-white peers.
“I definitely got some perspectives that I haven’t heard. Just talking about how you stick out and what a white person takes for granted, it’s really hard to put yourself in that person’s shoes as the only person of color on the team,” said Edwards-Kuhn. “I think that just the general sense of being able to talk to friends who are going through these issues, increasing your ability to talk about guilt—not even that just being able to connect with them more and being able to understand it’s not your own understanding, it’s theirs.”
O’Toole agreed that these narratives allow other students and athletes to recognize the unique challenges that face certain members of Bowdoin’s community.
“I think that it was really important to have those stories unearthed … The idea is that once they’re unearthed you… really take [them] to heart and think critically about what happens every day here, and what we do in small ways that could contribute to [someone’s] struggle,” said O’Toole.
Although she will be graduating this spring, O’Toole is hopeful about Bowdoin students continuing this discussion.
“We really just wanted to make sure that this event didn’t just happen one time last year and then not be continued,” she said. “It’s just way too important to only happen one time. And even one time a year, I’d like to see it more frequently than one big event, so hopefully in the future that can happen.”
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Bill that clarifies existence of bike lanes through intersections passes committee
Posted by Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor) on April 16th, 2019 at 11:20 am
The paint ends, the lanes don’t.
Despite confusion from some lawmakers that led to an unexpectedly lengthy discussion prior to the vote, House Bill 2682 passed the Joint Committee on Transportation yesterday by a tally of 7-3.
I’ve described this bill as a no-brainer; but because it involves bicycling, you just never know what some Oregon legislators will get hung up on. I was amazed at how much consternation and discussion this simple housekeeping bill received in committee yesterday.
“The attempt of this bill is to clarify longstanding practice and expectation.”
— Lindsay Baker, ODOT government relations
Let’s be clear: Since bike lanes have existed in Oregon, it has been understood — both by road users and the legal system — that they exist inside intersections even though they are not painted. Same for every other lane. Road authorities do not paint lane lines in intersections because with all the turning movements it would be a maintenance nightmare, dangerously confusing, and useless.
Out of hundreds, if not thousands, of court cases over the years, for some reason two Oregon traffic court judges — one in 2009, one in 2018 — took it upon themselves to decide that a bicycle user did not have the legal right-of-way in a collision because the lane wasn’t painted. Out of concern that these two outlier cases might start a trend, advocates proposed HB 2682. The text of the bill is short and simple.
If passed, HB 2682 would amend Oregon Revised Statute 801.155 (definition of “bicycle lane”) to read: “A bicycle lane exists in an intersection if the bicycle lane is marked on opposite sides of the intersection in the same direction of travel.”
Despite this simple clarification, three lawmakers voted against the bill yesterday: Representative Brad Witt (D-Clatskanie), Representative Lynn Findley (R-Vale), and Representative Rick Lewis (R-Silverton).
Left to right: Representatives Lynn Findley, Brad Witt, and Rick Lewis.
Rep. Witt based his opposition on what appears to be a misunderstanding of what the bill actually proposes. “I think we create an exceedingly dangerous situation,” he said, in a discussion prior to the roll being called, “by creating bicycle lanes that go through intersections” (that’s what existing law says). Rep. Witt continued, “It would be reasonable for someone to assume if they are in a marked lane they have a right-of-way. And lanes that are marked on the same side that a car may be turning, I think is a prescription for disaster… I think this bill sets us up for disastrous accidents if it allows for passing on the same side that the lane is in, and I think that bicyclists are going to assume that they have a lane and that it’s safe to be passing vehicles on the side the vehicle is turning on.”
Rep. Lewis said he agrees with Witt, but his main concern is that the bill doesn’t include, “Some sort of traffic signal adjacent to an intersection that indicates a bike lane goes through.” Lewis is concerned that automobile users aren’t able to see all the way to the other side of an intersection and therefore won’t assume the bike lane exists. “A motorist could potentially be found liable if he turns right and hits a bicyclist and didn’t know there was a continuous bike lane on the other side because of the distance,” Lewis said.
“A motorist could potentially be found liable if he turns right and hits a bicyclist and didn’t know there was a continuous bike lane on the other side.”
— Rep. Rick Lewis
Senator Cliff Bentz (D-Ontario) also voiced confusion about existing law and what the proposed bill would do. “The question is, who has the right-of-way as you’re zipping through? If we’re merely painting a line to illustrate the existence of something already legally there, that’s one thing. If by painting the line we are creating a new set of rights, that’s another.”
This bill doesn’t “paint” anything so it’s unclear what Sen. Bentz was referring to.
At this point, Committee Vice-Chair Caddy McKeown felt the need for expert insights and called up Lindsay Baker from the Oregon Department of Transportation government relations office. Baker explained why ODOT never paints lanes through intersections and that the bill is simply to, “Clarify longstanding practice and expectations.”
Unfortunately ODOT’s Baker got one key fact very wrong in her testimony to lawmakers. She said the two decisions where judges ruled unstriped bike lanes have no legal standing were made in the Oregon Court of Appeals and as such, they set a legal precedent. That is incorrect. The two cases were decided in traffic court and no opinion was written.
Thankfully, Portland lawyer and bike law expert Ray Thomas made the trip to Salem and was in the room yesterday just in case this hearing went off the rails. Vice-Chair McKeown called him up and asked him to clarify the bill. Thomas has practiced law with a focus on cycling and traffic issues since 1979. He deftly laid out the rationale behind the bill, countered some of the concerns expressed in previous statements, and explained why this basic clarification is necessary.
After Thomas spoke, the vote was held. The bill passed 7-3. Reps. Lewis and Witt were not swayed by Thomas’ expert insights and Rep. Findley, after saying he agreed with Rep. Witt’s concerns, added a revealing reference to an unrelated bill: “Also, there’s a lot of discussion of adopting the Idaho standard for bicycling; which is, do not stop at intersections, just roll through and keep going. I think coupled with that, it compounds the situation.”
Rep. Findley was referring to Senate Bill 998 which passed committee last week. That bill would allow bicycle users to treat stop signs and flashing red signals as yields. The only connection it has to HB 2682 exists in Rep. Findley’s mind.
From here the bill goes to the full House for a vote and then it will be voted on by the Senate. Be sure to contact your state legislator and let them know how you feel about it. Stay tuned for updates.
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Jillian Detweiler April 16, 2019 at 11:37 am
Yesterday’s work session provides a window into what The Street Trust experienced in our efforts to get a hearing on this bill and then get it to a Joint Transportation Committee work session. The opponents are very vocal and many proponents are less so. It could have easily died in committee. We are thrilled we were able to get it out of the committee with a thoughtful strategy, great support from folks like Ray and Bend attorney Peter Werner, and behind-the-scenes lobbying. Now it’s on to the House and Senate.
Call or email your representatives today to ask them to support HB 2682 as it comes to a floor vote in the House and Senate!
Find out who your State Representative and State Senator is at https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/FindYourLegislator/leg-districts-mobile_new.htm
Call and/or email them with a short message about why you support clarification that bike lanes continue through intersections.
And beyond passing this bill, The Street Trust will continue its efforts identify and educate elected leaders who make these transportation decisions.
John Lascurettes April 16, 2019 at 11:47 am
I feel like I’ve said it a lot over the years, but once again: Thank you Ray Thomas.
Chris I April 16, 2019 at 12:01 pm
Clatskanie, Vale, and Silverton. Is it any wonder that they don’t seem to understand how bike lanes work? Their statements make it apparent that they have either never seen one, or haven’t been paying attention.
Gary B April 16, 2019 at 12:46 pm
Regardless of what’s going on in their hometowns, there are bike lanes wihtin a few hundred feet of the Capitol. It’s rather concerning our lawmakers don’t understand how they work and their legal responsibilities with respect to roads they presumably frequent.
todd boulanger April 16, 2019 at 4:12 pm
As to representatives in “Clatskanie, Vale, and Silverton” never* seeing a bike lane…perhaps that is why cycling advocates need to set up an alliance with farmers / farming community about jointing protecting their communities’ vulnerable roadway users: the farmer on a “tractor” (farm equipment travelling between fields).
*I hope these legislators from rural areas actually have seen a bike lane…as they do spend about 3 months during session in the “big city” of Salem that has bike lanes AND bicyclists.
Hello, Kitty April 16, 2019 at 12:18 pm
Rep. Witt said: “And lanes that are marked on the same side that a car may be turning, I think is a prescription for disaster… I think this bill sets us up for disastrous accidents if it allows for passing on the same side that the lane is in, and I think that bicyclists are going to assume that they have a lane and that it’s safe to be passing vehicles on the side the vehicle is turning on.”
In other words, don’t put a going-straight lane to the right of a turning-right lane. I have to agree with him on that (even though I think the notion that bike lanes disappear at an intersection is lunacy, and that this bill is a slam-dunk).
BikeRound April 16, 2019 at 1:10 pm
In the Netherlands, the bike lane is always on the right of the turning lane as it crosses the intersection, and motorists have become used to that setup. Also, motorists need to look out for pedestrians crossing, so the idea that drivers need to look out for traffic on the right as they are turning right is not a new concept even in the United States.
Josh G April 16, 2019 at 1:47 pm
One would think that in most circumstances a motorist turning right at an intersection would be found liable for hitting a bicyclist? Or am I missing something that Rep. Lewis sees?
Legally a bicyclist in a bike lane would expect to move forward through an intersection when the light turns green.
In reality we all know that right hooks are an issue, and you never know who will be turning right, and whether they will yield. That’s why the separate bike signals are so valuable. We just need a few thousand more of those perhaps.
Q April 16, 2019 at 1:57 pm
By the statement “The question is, who has the right-of-way as you’re zipping through? “, it seems as though these people view entering an intersection and continuing straight is somehow a crazy maneuver that “bikes” are pulling and poor automobile drivers have no way to account for it. So yes, I’d say you’re missing something – the fact that if these people are so mixed up that they think that not paying attention because you’re in a metal box should be protected by law.
TheCowabungaDude April 16, 2019 at 2:01 pm
I’ve often had this thought, but pedestrians also go straight when people are turning right at crosswalks. Which then led me to the thought of, “Well, people driving cars should be hyper vigilant and always ready to stop for an active road user.”
Hello, Kitty April 16, 2019 at 2:57 pm
Pedestrians rarely approach a driver in their blind spot, at speed. They move more slowly, and are visible for the entire time there is a risk of collision. I’m not saying cyclists are at fault for right-hooks, only that they differ from pedestrians in some important ways that makes accidental collisions with cars more likely given the way our intersections are designed.
Chris I April 16, 2019 at 3:04 pm
This statement would be true if motor vehicles didn’t have A-pillars, side mirrors, blocky/tall hoods, etc.
encephalopath April 16, 2019 at 3:25 pm
I started carrying my action cam with me to the corner store for that A pillar reason. I had one person claim, as a non-apologetic explanation for her actions, that she almost ran me down in the crosswalk because I was in her blind spot. Gee, I wonder whose job it is to look around that A pillar.
The light changes and you get 3 seconds (locations may vary) to step into the crosswalk before the countdown starts. It’s not like you have a choice as a pedestrian about when to enter the crosswalk. That tiny window of when you are legally permitted to step into the roadway is the thing that puts you into conflict with left turning motorists who can’t be bothered to look where their car is going.
The fact remains that statements along the lines of “they came out of nowhere” are just doublespeak for “I wasn’t paying adequate attention before executing a maneuver”.
This is absolutely sometimes true.
John Lascurettes April 16, 2019 at 3:52 pm
Yes, sometimes it’s just known as the get-out-of-jail-free card to play.
Opus the Poet April 20, 2019 at 3:05 pm
Yet somehow thousands of pedestrians are killed crossing with the light in a crosswalk by a vehicle turning through the crosswalk in both directions. Left turns especially vex me because the driver has a clear view of the crosswalk through the windshield, and they still kill hundreds of pedestrians that way every year.
was carless April 17, 2019 at 10:16 pm
Well sorry that you guys might think that, but literally EVERY bike lane in the United States is on the right. Bar none.
Tilting at windmills much? *exasperated*
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.514625,-122.6762769,3a,75y,105.75h,67.22t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s09HSK_9w_XlXVBloYPIJmg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
seager April 16, 2019 at 12:31 pm
Please remember to be SUPER polite if you contact them, or maybe don’t at all? We don’t want another repeat where the Idaho Stop Law gets killed because we piss of the legislators by communicating like jerks.
Alan Love April 16, 2019 at 12:57 pm
Thanks to state rep Rob Nosse (and Schouten) for sponsoring the bill. Rob brought this up after a constituent who likely reads this blog brought the 2 previous court cases to his attention. Talking to your elected reps works. We don’t always get what we want, but we do have politicians for a reason.
Ted April 16, 2019 at 1:28 pm
I definitely appreciate Rep. Nosse meeting with me to discuss the issue! It’s not every day that you get to draw pictures of intersections on napkins and discuss traffic laws over a Saturday morning coffee with your elected representative.
Kudos to BikePortland as well for covering this issue! I’m a former right-hook victim myself and was disheartened to hear about two fellow Oregonians that weren’t protected by the law as it was intended.
Jillian Detweiler April 16, 2019 at 5:09 pm
Thank you Ted for taking action, contacting Rep Jose and testifying at the public hearing in March!
It’s disheartening to see that lawmakers are confused by this topic. It doesn’t inspire confidence their decisions on other topics in the legislature are any more informed.
Also the idea that we would have to paint lines through intersection for lanes to be considered “there” would lead to total confusion about how unmarked crosswalks work. The breaks in the lines through intersections is how the unmarked crosswalk is delineated. Without the line breaks neither pedestrians nor drivers would be certain where pedestrians are supposed to cross and who has to yield to the other.
If they thought about this for even a second in the context of right-turn slip lanes, left turn pocket lanes, etc, they would realize how dumb they sound. If lanes don’t continue through the intersection, people could do whatever they wanted once they enter. U-turn from the right lane? No problem. Use the left turn and/or right turn lanes to pass someone going straight? Go right ahead.
Yes true there should not have been this much confusion. (Not everyone should have to be a traffic engineer…BUT why has not ODoT staff done any education and outreach to the elected representatives on this…or be in attendance at this session…their main office is just down the road, correct? WHY does Ray Thomas have to be the one to do this very important task.?!)
Jonathan – your article needs correction/ clarifications: “Same for every other lane. Road authorities do not paint lane lines in intersections because with all the turning movements it would be a maintenance nightmare, dangerously confusing, and useless.”
1) road authorities do in fact mark some car lanes through an intersection with a dash if the intersection is very large or the turning track is complex;
2) bike lanes at the top of a “T” intersection are often striped through the intersection, as this is a best practice (Eugene has been doing it for over 20 years, etc.); and
3) NACTO and many cities do stripe bike lanes (typically green ‘bike crosswalks’ at conflict zones) through many intersections, see NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide chapter on Intersection Treatments.
https://nacto.org/publication/urban-bikeway-design-guide/intersection-treatments/intersection-crossing-markings/
To Continue:
Actually these marked intersection treatments can be useful and provide a safety enhancement; as with ALL roadway marking and signage there is a maintenance component…one just attempts to BALANCE the safety outcomes with the maintenance costs. [At least that was what I was taught at my time with public works.] Or else all streets would be “naked”. [Potentially someday once VZ is 100% completed.]
Furthermore, good and consistent striping [especially for vulnerable roadway users facilities: bike lanes and crosswalks] for now will have a greater need as AI and “intelligent” cars being unleashed on many public streets need supplemental “information” on how to navigate these shared multimodal spaces (vs. their mono-modal test tracks or suburban Arizona communities).
Dan A April 16, 2019 at 1:23 pm
This is so idiotic.
If bike laws are being taken to these literal extremes, I have to ask whether bike retailers are helping people get around the bike tax by selling them a bike without the saddle.
“Oregon law defines a bicycle as a vehicle which is designed to be operated
on the ground on no more than three wheels. The wheels must measure
at least 14” in diameter. The vehicle must have a seat for the rider and be
propelled exclusively by human power. ”
https://www.oregon.gov/odot/programs/tdd%20documents/oregon-bicyclist-manual.pdf
Charley April 19, 2019 at 9:40 am
Great idea!!! So, I guess trials mountain bikes would not qualify!
Dan A April 19, 2019 at 11:22 am
Personally, I have never kept the stock saddle on any of my bikes. I’ve got a tub full of nearly new saddles that are not very comfortable.
B. Carfree April 16, 2019 at 1:35 pm
I understand that serving in the OR legislature isn’t likely to be anyone’s full-time job. However, if people who get elected can’t be bothered to take the time to understand the issue before them, they should either ask enough clarifying questions during the hearing to get that understanding or simply abstain from voting. These three make the entire legislature look unprofessional, ignorant and just plain awful.
The good news is our legislature is far from the worst in the nation in spite of these three gentlemen’s efforts. That’s also the bad news.
JaredO April 16, 2019 at 1:59 pm
If one has followed Rep. Witt over the years, one realizes he’s more concerned about the people who are breaking the law speeding (and caught by “speed traps” and traffic cameras) than the safety of people on our roads. Looking forward to his retirement, whenever that may come.
He looks like the type who would have trouble getting anywhere without the help of a mobility device (fossil-fueled or otherwise).
bikeninja April 16, 2019 at 2:30 pm
What makes me sad is that regardless of your politics it is obvious that none of these gentlemen is the kind of “big picture thinker” we need in both state and national politics if we are to solve the impending crisis that face our species and our planet in the immediate future.
Suburban April 16, 2019 at 9:47 pm
Spend a few days in Clatskanie. It will make more sense.
BC April 16, 2019 at 6:11 pm
Here’s a note I’ve drafted to my rep and senator. I’d appreciate it if some of y’all would take a look and see if I’ve got the facts right (some of this stuff is actually from memory and I haven’t gone back to confirm. If it’s useful to anyone, feel free to use some of this info in your own words. Anything else I should add? Please help me make it better in any way.
Dear Rep. [fill in your rep’s name]: I’m writing to ask you to support two bills that are really important to me and other people who get around by bicycle here in Washington County. Both clarify existing common practice and/or law, and both are crucial to making non-car transportation a viable means of getting around town for work, errands, school, etc. They’re also therefore vital to Oregon achieving its announced goals on reducing carbon emissions to protect our planet, and to saving us millions of dollars in infrastructure construction and repair costs.
HB 2682 clarifies that bike lanes extend through intersections, rectifying a couple of wrong headed traffic court decisions that contradict the previous universal understanding that if you’re riding in a bike lane approaching an intersection, and the bike lane continues on the other side of the cross street, then the bike lane also continues exist in the intersection itself. I realize this is pretty obvious to almost everyone, including drivers like me and my wife, but apparently it needs to be codified so that everyone’s legal responsibilities can match our common sense understanding.
SB 998 again makes law conform to reality. The so called Idaho Stop law allows bicyclists to slow down at stop signs, carefully check for traffic or pedestrians coming from either direction, and then proceed without coming to a total stop. Again, this is what everyone does anyway, because maintaining momentum is really important to making a bike ride enjoyable rather than a total sweaty slog where you might have to stop and start up every few blocks, overcoming inertia (and in my case putting a strain on my tendinitis-plagued knees). A lot of people who might choose to bike for a short trip to the library or gym or grocery store (short trips like these are the majority of car trips today) are discouraged by several seemingly small but practically difficult obstacles, and this is a really big one, making the difference for people who aren’t in their 20s and in perfect physical condition.
It also removes a possible means of harassment of African American and other minority cyclists by law enforcement agencies, a problem of racially disproportionate enforcement that’s been cited by minority representatives in East Portland. I’ve done the slow and go move many times in front of police officers, who have never pulled me over — but they could. Legalizing the Idaho stop removes one possible means of disparate enforcement. Most bicyclists are, contrary to myth, lower than average income people, which makes sense because a bike is a lot cheaper than buying, fueling and maintaining a car, so this is important in low income and minority communities.
The experience of Idaho and other jurisdictions that have implemented this practice has shown no increase in collisions, and an uptick in people choosing to use bicycles, and therefore presumably driving less (and exercising more, which is good for everyone). After all, we bicyclists have the greatest incentive to proceed carefully through any intersection — our lives are at stake.
A lot of my friends and family members bicycle for fun and practicality, and we all support the Idaho stop. (I haven’t talked to them about the other bill because I think we all assumed that was already the law.) I’m sure literally thousands of car trips would be avoided if these bills become law. Voting for both these bills will allow us to reduce our use of cars and help save Oregon money, not to mention helping, in our own small way, to save all of us from the effects of climate change. Thanks for listening.
“I’m writing to ask you to support two bills that are really important to me and other people who get around by bicycle here in Washington County.”
I would drop the reference to bicycles in that first sentence and just leave it as “bills important to me and others as residents of Washington County.”
Hold off on identifying yourself as a bicyclist as long as possible if at all. That’s going to make lots of people with windshield bias stop reading.
If you want your rep to read it, my advice is make it half as long, and then make it half as long again.
Note that this comment started out four paragraphs long.
GlowBoy April 16, 2019 at 8:45 pm
Maybe after passing this “bike-lanes-exist-in-intersections” legislation, the lawmakers can move on to important “bricks-are-heavy” and “the-sun-is-warm” legislation.
Caelin April 17, 2019 at 3:31 am
In my experience, a car traveling 25mph, seen aproaching 500 feet away from me, has no chance of seeing me. This is a golden rule that I rely on which has exclusively prevented me from ever being hit. Ramming some common sense through legislation is not going to make drivers less stupid. We need more enforcement. My neighbor was speeding drunk with a car full of kids, hit 2 people and 8 cars, charged with DUII, attempted manslaughter (he told police it was intentional because he was angry) and 5 counts felony reckless endangerment, 16 other charges… I personally talked to the district attorney, his sentence was an 80 dollar fine and recieving a brand new 32,000 dollar car. Bad drivers are encouraged and rewarded, it has to stop.
Steve Scarich April 17, 2019 at 9:38 am
If I am correct, this stems from the death of a Bend cyclist. The truck driver who killed him, was found not guilty at trial, because the judge essentially said that bike lane protection ceased during intersections.
Roberta M Robles April 17, 2019 at 9:36 pm
I’ve been watching this Committee for a while. I think Whitt has not been properly engaged. And he gets regularly ignored when he had a significant question (re:hearing on public transport from Hal Gard at TriMet. He gets it on some levels, maybe he is saying no to other things on the committee. Gentle nudges, do not insult. Kindness educates.
Wow, these legislators are dumb as bricks.
El Biciclero April 18, 2019 at 9:32 am
Wow. Misconceptions abound.
To address some of the concerns regarding the seemingly expected massive increase in right hooks, the legislature might also consider amending ORS 814.420 to change the wording in one of the exceptions:
(3) A person is not in violation of the offense under this section if the person is able to safely move out of the bicycle lane or path for the purpose of:
(e) Continuing straight at an intersection where the bicycle lane or path is to the right of a lane from which a motor vehicle must MAY turn right.
Although the interpretation some of these lawmakers would like to take does allow any bicyclist to take a full lane through any intersection.
Glenn the 2nd April 18, 2019 at 4:16 pm
This story seems to be the source of unlimited facepalms. Maybe we could use them to power TriMet buses.
bendite April 18, 2019 at 10:31 pm
Judge Adler is a Deschutes County Circuit Court Judge and not a traffic court judge. His ruling was about the Fedex driver who killed a cyclist after a right hook.
Jason April 19, 2019 at 6:50 am
Listening to these Representatives object to this bill gives me chills. Really stop and consider the implications. They accept that motorists are going too fast and not looking where they are going. *That* is a recipe for disaster.
“The question is, who has the right-of-way as you’re zipping through? ”
Lewis is concerned that automobile users aren’t able to see all the way to the other side of an intersection .
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Skyharbour Partner Company Azincourt VTEM Survey Completed and Adds to East Preston Prospectivity
GlobeNewswire April 11, 2019
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 11, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Skyharbour Resources Ltd. (SYH.V) (SYHBF) (Frankfurt:SC1P) (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that its partner company Azincourt Energy Corp. (“Azincourt”) has preliminary results from the recent helicopter-borne Versatile Time-Domain Electromagnetic (VTEM™ Max) and Magnetic survey conducted over the southeastern portion of the East Preston Uranium Project, located in the western Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan.
Preston Uranium Project Map:
http://skyharbourltd.com/_resources/maps/SYH-Patterson-Lake.pdf
The survey was conducted between January 23rd and February 6th, 2019, and completed survey coverage over the entire 25,000-ha project area. This survey consisted of 498 line-km with 300 m line spacing and 1,000 m tie-line spacing – identical parameters to the previous VTEM™ Max survey, and ties directly into the previous flight lines. Flight lines are oriented NW-SE, perpendicular to the NE-SW trending structural and conductor trends of the basement rocks at East Preston.
Geotech, the survey provider, is finalizing final reports, but has completed data processing and has provided a merged dataset covering the entire East Preston project by combining the newly acquired VTEM survey data with the original VTEM data coverage. In-depth interpretation is on-going by Bingham Geoscience, geophysical consultants to Azincourt. Results of the interpretation will be reported once received and reviewed.
The initial interpretation of this new survey data has added an additional 7.5 km to 10 km along two of the same prospective previously-known conductive trends. There are offset breaks in the conductor trends with multiple, discreet conductors interpreted.
East Preston VTEM Survey:
http://www.skyharbourltd.com/_resources/images/East-Preston-VTEM-survey.jpg
More in-depth interpretation is on-going and will be used to add to the East Preston target inventory for future exploration drill testing.
VTEM Survey Grid – Completed January 2019:
http://azincourtenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Figure-1-VTEM-Survery-Grid-Jan-2019-AAZ.jpg
The survey consisted of 498 line-km with 300 m line spacing and 1,000 m tie-line spacing – identical parameters to the previous VTEM™ Max survey, and ties directly into the previous flight lines, oriented NW-SE, perpendicular to the NE-SW trending structural and conductor trends of the basement rocks at East Preston. 100% of the East Preston ground has now been subject to VTEM Max survey.
Geotech is currently completing data processing prior to passing to Azincourt consultants for in-depth interpretation. This new survey data will be used to add targets for future exploration drill testing and does not affect the current planned drill campaign.
East Preston Geophysical Work - Winter 2018:
Azincourt completed a winter geophysical exploration program in January-February 2018 that generated a significant amount of new drill targets within the previously untested corridors while refining additional targets near previous drilling along the Swoosh corridor.
The work included 51.5 km of grid preparation (line cutting/picketing), 46.1 km of horizontal loop electromagnetic (HLEM), and 40.6 km of ground gravity along the previously known airborne helicopter VTEM conductive trends.
Option Agreement:
Skyharbour and Clean Commodities entered into an Option Agreement (the “Agreement”) with Azincourt whereby Azincourt has an earn-in option to acquire a 70% working interest in a portion of the Preston Uranium Project known as the East Preston Property. Under the Agreement, Azincourt has issued common shares and will contribute cash and exploration expenditure consideration totaling up to CAD $3,500,000 in exchange for up to 70% of the applicable property area over three years. Of the $3,500,000 in project consideration, $1,000,000 will be in cash payments to Skyharbour and Clean Commodities, as well as $2,500,000 in exploration expenditures over the three-year period.
Payment Conversion:
Skyharbour also announces that it has reached an agreement with Azincourt in which The Company has agreed to accept 2,000,000 common shares (the “Settlement Shares”) of Azincourt Shares in settlement of a portion of the second year cash payment owing to Skyharbour in connection with the acquisition of an interest in the East Preston Uranium Project. As partial consideration for this interest in the project, a payment of $150,000 is owing to Skyharbour. The Settlement Shares are being issued in settlement of $100,000 of the payment owing to Skyharbour and are being issued at a deemed price of $0.05 per share. The balance of $50,000 owing to Skyharbour will be paid in cash.
Completion of the issuance of the Settlement Shares remains subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange. Following issuance, the Settlements Shares will be subject to a four-month-and-one-day statutory hold period in accordance with applicable securities laws.
Qualified Person:
The technical information in this news release has been prepared in accordance with the Canadian regulatory requirements set out in National Instrument 43-101 and reviewed and approved by Richard Kusmirski, P.Geo., M.Sc., Skyharbour's Head Technical Advisor and a Qualified Person.
About Skyharbour Resources Ltd.:
Skyharbour holds an extensive portfolio of uranium and thorium exploration projects in Canada's Athabasca Basin and is well positioned to benefit from improving uranium market fundamentals with five drill-ready projects. In July 2016, Skyharbour acquired an option from Denison Mines, a large strategic shareholder of the Company, to acquire 100% of the Moore Uranium Project which is located approx. 15 kilometres east of Denison's Wheeler River project and 39 kilometres south of Cameco's McArthur River uranium mine. Moore is an advanced stage uranium exploration property with high grade uranium mineralization at the Maverick Zone with drill results returning up to 6.0% U3O8 over 5.9 metres including 20.8% U3O8 over 1.5 metres at a vertical depth of 265 metres. Skyharbour has signed option agreements with Orano Canada Inc. and Azincourt Energy whereby Orano and Azincourt can earn in up to 70% of the Preston Project through a combined $9,800,000 in total exploration expenditures, as well as $1,700,000 in total cash payments and Azincourt shares. Preston is a large, geologically prospective property proximal to Fission Uranium's Triple R deposit as well as NexGen Energy's Arrow deposit. The Company also owns a 100% interest in the Falcon Point Uranium Project on the eastern perimeter of the Basin which contains a NI 43-101 inferred resource totaling 7.0 million pounds of U3O8 at 0.03% and 5.3 million pounds of ThO2 at 0.023%. The project also hosts a high-grade surface showing with up to 68% U3O8 in grab samples from a massive pitchblende vein, the source of which has yet to be discovered. The Company's 100% owned Mann Lake Uranium project on the east side of the Basin is strategically located adjacent to the Mann Lake Joint Venture operated by Cameco, where high-grade uranium mineralization was recently discovered. Skyharbour's goal is to maximize shareholder value through new mineral discoveries, committed long-term partnerships, and the advancement of exploration projects in geopolitically favourable jurisdictions.
Skyharbour’s Uranium Project Map in the Athabasca Basin:
http://skyharbourltd.com/_resources/SYH_Landpackage_2014.jpg
To find out more about Skyharbour Resources Ltd. (SYH.V) visit the Company’s website at www.skyharbourltd.com.
SKYHARBOUR RESOURCES LTD.
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Email: info@skyharbourltd.com
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This release includes certain statements that may be deemed to be "forward-looking statements". All statements in this release, other than statements of historical facts, that address events or developments that management of the Company expects, are forward-looking statements. Although management believes the expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance, and actual results or developments may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. The Company undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements if management's beliefs, estimates or opinions, or other factors, should change. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements, include market prices, exploration and development successes, continued availability of capital and financing, and general economic, market or business conditions. Please see the public filings of the Company at www.sedar.com for further information.
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November 5, 2019 / 5:01 PM / 2 months ago
Struggling Norwegian Air raises $272 million from share sale, bond issue
Gwladys Fouche, Lefteris Karagiannopoulos
OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian Air (NWC.OL) on Tuesday raised 2.5 billion crowns ($272.31 million) to meet the struggling airline’s cash needs through 2020 with its third share sale in two years and a bond issue.
FILE PHOTO: A satellite antenna is seen on the roof of the Norwegian Airways Boening 737-800 at Berlin Schoenefeld Airport, Germany, April 2, 2015. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski/File Photo
The airline said it sold 27.25 million new shares at 40 crowns per share in a private placement, a 13% discount to Tuesday’s closing price. It also raised $150 million via convertible bond issue.
With mounting debts and suffering from the grounding of its 18 Boeing (BA.N) 737 MAX aircraft, Norwegian has replaced breakneck expansion with cost cutting to regain profitability.
The company also announced a deal with a Chinese firm in October to offload 27 new Airbus (AIR.PA) planes to ease pressure on its finances and avoid becoming the latest airline to collapse.
“The private placement received significant interest from both existing shareholders in the company and new high-quality investors. The convertible bond issue received significant interest from international and domestic investors,” it said.
In a statement after the stock market closed, Europe’s third-largest budget airline by passenger numbers said the transactions would fully fund it “through 2020 and beyond based on the current business plan.”
“The proceeds ... will secure required financing of working capital during the winter season and create headroom to financial covenants while completing the strategic transformation of the company,” it said.
The airline also reported monthly figures showing passenger traffic declined in October from a year ago, the first such fall on record as the carrier cut loss-making routes from its network. The data had been scheduled for release on Wednesday.
Overall traffic, a measure of distance flown and the number of people carried (RPK), fell 3% year on year in October, the company said. Analysts in a Reuters poll on average had expected a fall of 12.1%.
Norwegian’s RPK had until now risen every month since it was first listed on the Oslo Bourse in 2003, its records show.
Trimming capacity at a rate of 5% year on year helped it fill aircraft, raising the so-called load factor to 87.1% from 85.0% in October 2018, in line with a Reuters poll.
Its yield, or income per passenger carried and kilometre flown, rose to 0.40 crown in October from 0.38 crown a year ago, also in line with expectations.
Additional reporting by Terje Solsvik; Editing by Edmund Blair and Cynthia Osterman
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If you're hoping for an Andrew Luck return, you should probably give up that dream
Frank Schwab
When a player retires in his prime, the default has become to assume he’ll be back.
Tony Romo didn’t come back. Rob Gronkowski didn’t return in 2019. And Andrew Luck likely isn’t going to play again either.
The NFL world was shocked when the Indianapolis Colts quarterback suddenly retired last August. Because it’s so hard for people to get their minds around a player giving up the game when he still can play, many figured Luck would change his mind.
That doesn’t seem to be the case, and his father said there are no signs he wants to play again.
Andrew Luck seems content in retirement
Oliver Luck is a former NFL quarterback and the XFL commissioner. He was on Dan LeBatard’s radio show on ESPN, and was asked about his son and whether he’d play again.
“I didn’t notice any hankering from him to get back on the field,” Oliver Luck told LeBatard, via ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
Perhaps Luck changes his mind. He’s 30 years old. He’d have absolutely no problem getting a job as some team’s starting quarterback.
But at this moment, there doesn’t seem to be any sign that Luck is anything but happy in retirement.
Andrew Luck's father says the former Colts quarterback isn't coming out of retirement. (Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images)
Colts don’t think Luck will return either
When Colts general manager Chris Ballard wrapped up the season with a news conference, he sounded like a parent that had run out of patience.
“Look: Andrew’s retired,” Ballard said, according to the Colts’ site. “Do I talk to Andrew? Yes I do. Haven’t talked to him here in a few weeks. I’m sure he’s been busy being a father. But Andrew is retired. I think we all need to accept that. That’s where he’s at. He’s retired.”
It’s good advice to take. There’s no need worrying about if Luck will play again, because he seemed pretty secure with his decision and all indications are he doesn’t have any regrets.
It won’t stop the occasional speculation, but that seems to be a waste of time.
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Maple Leafs show same resiliency, but can only earn point vs. Rangers
Justin Cuthbert
Yahoo Sports Canada December 29, 2019
The Maple Leafs managed just a single point after Tony DeAngelo's game winner. (Photo by Andrew Lahodynskyj/NHLI via Getty Images)
There are only so many answers.
While the Toronto Maple Leafs have mostly been front runners since Sheldon Keefe replaced Mike Babcock last month, they found themselves in the unfamiliar chase position for a third consecutive game with the New York Rangers in town on Saturday night. And while they stormed back to force a bonus period with another successful comeback bid, the Leafs weren’t able to convert that late surge into their seventh win in a row, losing 5-4 on Tony DeAngelo’s overtime winner.
Toronto has now scored 10 goals on Alexandar Georgiev in two meetings this season — and collected three of a possible four points in the process — but the Rangers netminder still returned to his stymying ways against the Maple Leafs, stopping 44 pucks for the win. Meanwhile Frederik Andersen continues to labour a bit in the Toronto goal, having allowed 17 goals in his last four games.
A New Year’s Eve showdown with the Minnesota Wild is all that separates the Maple Leafs from turning the page on 2019.
Until then, two points:
For my money, the best hockey tweet ever assembled in 280 characters or less (save for this one, of course) compared blocking shots to killing rats. “Doing it is preferable to not,” Kent Wilson wrote in 2015, “but if you’re doing it all the time it suggests you have bigger problems.”
When Sheldon Keefe was asked at his postgame press conference to comment on the team’s resiliency after fighting back to earn a point, this Wilson tweet immediately popped into my head. Paraphrasing, the coach said that you only talk about resiliency when it’s needed, and more often than not resiliency is only needed when you have put yourself in a bad position.
Killing rats for the last three games, the Leafs have been leaning far too heavily on their comeback ability.
There was that five-goal outburst from the Carolina Hurricanes that the Maple Leafs wound up countering right before the holiday break, as well as multiple deficits they were able to overcome Friday versus the New Jersey Devils. And while leaning on that late-game offence was enough to earn a point against the Rangers, it’s clear there are bigger problems at play as Wilson brilliantly and simplistically pointed out in his comparison between shot-blocking and rat-killing.
Still, the importance of eking out a point wasn’t lost on Keefe, who mentioned on multiple occasions that it was a decent result with all things considered. Playing on a back-to-back after a stretch away from the rink, and on the heels of losing Jake Muzzin and Ilya Mikheyev to injury, the Maple Leafs can work to iron out a few of those details at their first full practice in some time without too sour of a taste in their mouths.
Another deadly duo?
While Keefe won’t spin his wheels with any line or pairing, we’ve seen Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner semi-permanently installed as the No. 1 attacking duo for Toronto. And the byproduct of that combination might be another dangerous pair.
John Tavares and William Nylander worked out of the same unit for the second game in a row Saturday versus the Rangers, and might have been the most threatening tandem throughout the loss to New York.
On the ice together for over 20 total minutes, they racked up a 63 percent even-strength shot-attempt share and had 11 scoring chances compared to the opposition’s five. This is after a 75 percent possession and 72 percent shot-share outing versus the Devils one night before.
While they threatened all night at even strength, the lone strike from the two came on the power play, with Tavares feeding Nylander in front of the net after a clever bit of deception from below the goal line.
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Largely sharing the ice together over the past two nights, Tavares and Nylander have combined for 20 individual scoring chances. There’s something there.
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Our research collections include specimens from each of the world’s oceans and all seven continents. Take a peek at some of our oldest, rarest, and most amazing finds.
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16 May PMT Birmingham’s Official Grand Reopening
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The best just got better – the UK’s largest guitar store is set to move to a brand-new, purpose-built home this June
The music industry-leading, award-winning retailer Professional Music Technology’s (PMT) flagship store, PMT Birmingham, is moving from its current location to a brand-new premises at Trident Park, with big plans for a very Grand Opening on Saturday 15th June 2019.
Professional Music Technology Birmingham has been on Lawley Middleway since 2001, but due to major redevelopment the store will be moving just 5 minutes down the road to Trident Park to give customers a brand-new, hassle-free experience.
PMT Birmingham’s reputation has been that of the UK’s largest and most respected guitar shop for the past eighteen years, serving the likes of Robert Plant, Noel Gallagher, Stereophonics, Radiohead, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, The Prodigy and Tony Iommi to name a few. It has seen thousands of musicians come through its doors over the years, and is looking forward to welcoming many more in its new home along with the familiar faces that have been visiting the store, in some cases, for their weekly pilgrimage!
The new store will feature Europe’s first truly unique in-store shopping experiences from two of the world-leading music brands, Yamaha and Roland.
The ‘Yamaha Premium Centre’ will be taking over the entire mezzanine floor at the new PMT Birmingham location and will feature the full range of musical instruments and equipment from Yamaha and Line 6, including guitars, amplifiers, effects, studio and PA equipment, drum kits and more.
The ‘Roland Store’ will feature a fully dedicated area showcasing some of the brand’s latest and most iconic gear, all of which will be available to try with the aid of a dedicated in-house Roland & BOSS Expert.
The store will also include a number of existing features, such as the much-loved Hi-Tech area that has all the latest gear for DJs, producers and audiophiles; catering for lovers of Korg, Teenage Engineering, Shure, ADAM Audio, Native Instruments, Pioneer, KRK, PreSonus, Nord and Aston Microphones products.
The ‘Premier Taylor Room’ will feature double the amount of Taylor Guitars than the current store, plus there will be a newly built ‘Martin Heritage Room’ where you can play some of the most sought-after acoustic guitars in the world. There will also be a new Orange Amplifier demo booth, which will be available for somewhere more private to rock out or try out multiple amps or guitars.
And of course, Europe’s largest single guitar wall is being lovingly rebuilt to ensure we get even more electric guitars and basses from Fender, Gibson, Ibanez, PRS, Yamaha and more in the new Birmingham store.
A full concert-sized stage, dressed for live acts with fantastic PA systems and lighting (all of which is available to buy in store too), will also be installed so PMT can host live music, signings and masterclasses with brands and artists. Plus, a larger and more accessible free 65-space car park will be available for customers.
The Grand Opening of PMT Birmingham will take place on Saturday 15th June from 9:30 AM, so make sure you’re there early to watch the special guests commence with the ribbon cutting! There will be special offers, discounts and giveaways running for the entire weekend, plus, the first 200 customers on the Grand Opening day will also receive a Bostin’ Brummie goodie bag that will be filled with branded merchandise from PMT and other musical instrument brands. And one lucky winner may just find a £100 voucher in the their goodie bag to spend in store!
In the run up to the big move, make sure you visit PMT Birmingham in its current location, as there is a huge sale on in store, and everything (including the shop fittings!) must go. If you’re looking for a bargain on a new guitar, drum kit, synth or even lighting, make sure you head into the old PMT store.
The new address for PMT Birmingham is: Unit 4, Trident Retail Park, 6 Westley Street, Birmingham, B9 4EH
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Timeline | Attacks on peace consultants under the Duterte administration
Anne Marxze Umil July 10, 2019 detained NDFP consultants, GRP-NDFP peace talks, Hernandez political doctrine, Jasig violation, political prisoners
Detained NDFP consultants (Artwork by Dee Ayroso/ Bulatlat)
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL and RONALYN V. OLEA
MANILA – Consultants as well as other people involved in the peace negotiations are supposedly protected under the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (Jasig) which both the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and the Philippine government approved in 1995. But even then, these consultants are not spared from arrests. There were even cases of them going missing and being killed.
The arrest and detention of peace consultants also violate the Hernandez political doctrine or the Supreme Court ruling which prohibits the criminalization of political offenses.
The NDFP consultants are charged with common crimes to hide the political motive behind their arrest and detention and to portray them as ordinary criminals. Their lawyers have maintained that the evidence against them were planted.
In Rey Casambre’s case, for example, the police claimed to have found inside the couple’s vehicle one colt commander caliber 45 pistol; one magazine for cal. 45; seven live ammunition for cal. 45; one bundle electric detonating cord; one fragmentation grenade, cellphones, a laptop and cash. Four days later, his wife Cora was released pending the conduct of investigation on the said case as the Bacoor City prosecutor found the allegation as “preposterous.”
In this timeline, Bulatlat documents attacks against the peace consultants and Duterte’s statements pertaining to the resumption of the peace talks and issuance of the orders which the NDFP viewed as hindrance to resume the talks in the negotiating table.
Feb. 5, 2017 – President Duterte declares he is calling off the peace talks with the NDFP. He also threatens to arrest NDFP consultants and tags the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), New People’s Army (NPA) and NDFP as a “terrorist group.”
Feb. 6, 2017 – Soldiers arrest NDFP consultant Ariel Arbitrario and his two companions Jun Sinday and Roderick Mamuyac at a military checkpoint in Toril, Davao City. According to human rights alliance Karapatan, the three are brought to the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group XI (CIDG – XI) office in Camp Leonor, San Pedro. CIDG personnel bring Arbitrario to the Regional Trial Court (RTC) 11, Branch 1 in Nabunturan, Compostela Valley. Sinday is eventually released.
Feb. 12, 2017 – NDFP consultant Ferdinand Castillo is arrested by combined forces from the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), Intelligence Services Group-Philippine Army (ISG-PA) and Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (ISAFP). He is accused of illegal possession of firearms and heinous crimes, such as murder and attempted murder.
May 11, 2017 – Rommel Salinas, NDFP peace consultant and his companions, Bishop Carlo Morales of the Iglesia Filipino Independiente, his wife Ma. Teofilina and driver Isadome Dalid are arrested at a checkpoint in Ozamis City. Salinas is pushing for the continuation of the formal peace talks. He reportedly shows his document of identification as proof that he is protected under Jasig but it was ignored. While his companions are released, Salinas remains in prison.
Nov. 23, 2017 — Duterte signs Proclamation No. 360 cancelling peace talks between the GRP and the NDFP.
Jan. 11, 2018 – Manila RTC Branch 32 Judge Thelma Bunyi-Medina orders the re-arrest of Wilma and Benito Tiamzon as well as Adelberto Silva. They are previously granted bail on August 11, 2016 to participate in the peace negotiations. According to the decision, “the court found no reason to further allow their temporary liberty following President Duterte’s Proclamation No. 360, which terminated the peace negotiations between the GRP and the NDFP.”
Jan. 31, 2018 — NDFP consultant Rafael Baylosis, 68, and his companion Roque Guillermo Jr. are arrested along Katipunan Avenue in Quezon City by CIDG-National Capital Region (NCR) elements. The police claim that Baylosis and Guillermo have two caliber .45 pistols and a grenade in an eco-bag with brown rice. They are charged with illegal possession of firearms and explosives. On Jan. 15, 2019, Quezon City court dismisses the charges against Baylosis and Guillermo. The judge finds the police’s claims as “more imagined than real.”
Feb. 24, 2018 — Lora Manipis, NDFP consultant and husband Jeruel Domingo, an NPA commander in Saranggani and South Cotabato go missing. According to a news report, they are last seen in Kidapawan City. The NDFP-Far South Mindanao fears that the couple may have been executed by the military. Prior to their disappearance, the NDFP stresses that the couple are busy conducting dialogues with peasant and indigenous people allegedly affected by the Xstrata Mining operations in Tampakan, South Cotabato.
June 14, 2018 – President Duterte postpones scheduled resumption of peace talks in The Netherlands. He reportedly needs more time to review past agreements between the NDF and the Philippine government.
July 12, 2018 – Former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque says that the government will only resume peace talks through localized peace talks, a policy eventually rejected by the NDFP.
Oct. 16, 2018 – Adelberto Silva, 71, vice chairperson of the NDFP Negotiating Panel’s Reciprocal Working Committee on Social and Economic Reforms, is arrested together with four companions in Sta. Cruz, Laguna. According to news reports, the basis is a ” warrant of arrest related to the 15 counts of murder in the Inopacan, Leyte masscre.” The police claim there are two .45 caliber pistols and explosives found inside the car of Silva et al. They are charged with illegal possession of firearms. Silva is among the 19 consultants released in 2016 to participate in the formal peace negotiations between the NDFP and the GRP. His name is also included in the more than 600 individuals of Department of Justice’s proscription list.
Nov. 7, 2018 – Peace consultant Vicente Ladlad, 68, is arrested together with elderly couple Alberto and Virginia Villamor, in barangay San Bartolome, Novaliches, Quezon City at around midnight. According to news reports, the raid of a house in Novaliches is done by a joint team of the police and military. The latter claim to have recovered various rifles, pistols, ammunition, grenades and subversive documents from Ladlad and the couple. However, Ladlad’s wife, Fides Lim denies all allegations and stresses that the firearms are planted. She says Ladlad is also a chronic asthmatic which has degenerated into emphysema. Charged with illegal possession of firearms, Ladlad and the Villamor couple are currently detained at Camp Bagong Diwa in Bicutan.
Ladlad is also being implicated in the Hilongos, Leyte case.
Dec. 4, 2018 – President Duterte signs Executive Order No. 70 “institutionalizing the whole-of-nation approach to attain inclusive and sustainable peace.” In this EO, a national task force will be created to end local “communist armed conflict.” NDFP Chief Political Consultant Jose Maria Sison describes this as “presidential issuance to terminate and prevent the resumption of peace talks at the appropriate national level between authorized representatives of the Philippine government and NDFP.”
Dec. 7, 2018 – Peace consultant and Philippine Peace Center executive director Rey Claro Casambre, 67 and his wife Patricia Cora, 72, are arrested while on their way home in Bacoor, Cavite. Casambre is arrested by a virtue of a warrant issued by Davao Oriental Regional Trial Court on Nov. 23, 2018. He, together with six others, are charged with murder and attempted murder in relation to a supposed armed encounter on Sept. 13, 2018 in a remote village in Lupon, Davao Oriental.
Jan. 30, 2019 – Peace consultant Randy Felix Malayao, 49, is gunned down while asleep inside a bus in Aritao, Nueva Vizcaya at 2:30 a.m.
The police claim that the NPA is responsible for killing Malayao as the latter allegedly mismanaged funds and ran off with a woman. But the CPP disputes such claims and criticizes the police for spreading intrigues and trying to cover up the murder. Recovered from Malayao is his document of identification proving he was covered by the Jasig. He is the first peace consultant killed under the Duterte administration.
Feb. 19, 2019 – President Duterte once again expresses openness in the resumption of peace talks.
March 21, 2019 – NDFP peace consultant for the National Capital Region Renante Gamara and his companion, retired priest Arturo Balagat, are arrested by the Regional Special Operations Unit of the National Capital Region Police Office-Philippine National Police, Philippine Army and intelligence agents. They are charged with illegal possession of firearms and explosives.
March 25, 2019 – NDFP consultant Frank Fernandez, his wife Cleofe Lagtapon and Ge-ann Perez are arrested in Liliw, Laguna. Military says he had a bounty of P8 million for his capture on charges of rebellion, murder and attempted murder in Guihulngan, Negros Oriental province. His companions, meanwhile, are charged with murder and robbery case in Cadiz City, Negros Occidental province.
Other NDFP consultants Leopoldo Caloza and Eduardo Sarmiento were convicted of trumped-up criminal charges and are serving their sentences at the National Bilibid Prisons in Muntinlupa.
According to Karapatan, there are 532 political prisoners in the country, 209 of whom were arrested under President Duterte’s administration.
Kapatid, families and friends of political prisoners, have been calling for the release of their loved ones.
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British pastry purveyor adding Cherry Creek location
Libby Flood August 22, 2019 0
Pasty Republic will open at 2615 E. 3rd Ave. early next month. (Libby Flood)
The British are coming to Cherry Creek.
Pasty Republic has signed a three-year lease on 750 square feet at 2615 E. 3rd Ave., and owner Matt Cherry said he plans to begin serving up the savory Cornish packages — “basically big empanadas,” in his words — by early September.
“The Cherry Creek neighborhood is a great place for us because of what we do — gourmet fast food,” Cherry said. “Our product is quick, already hot and ready to rock, so it’s a fantastic match for the business community on a tight schedule. It’s an opportunity to market more to office workers.”
The location will join Pasty Republic’s food truck and a storefront along Tennyson Street that has operated since 2014.
The maker of British pasties has operated on Tennyson since 2014. (Pasty Republic)
Pasty Republic’s new site most recently was home to Victoria’s Chocolates, which closed Aug. 10. Cherry said his daughter takes dance classes at Cherry Creek Dance, next door to the site, so he noticed the “for rent” sign and contacted the landlord himself.
Pasties, marketed by the restaurant as “the original handheld meal,” are stuffed, savory pastries with roots in Cornwall, England. They’re made by folding dough around uncooked ingredients and baking the packets.
The business sells 14 varieties of savory pasties, including four breakfast options, all at around $8. The menu also includes dessert pasties and Sweet Action Ice Cream. Cherry said the pasties sold in Cherry Creek will be made at the Berkeley location.
“That’s the model I want to try and grow — one central hub that serves as a main commercial kitchen,” he said. “The business plan here is to take what we’ve done with the food truck and duplicate it with another brick and mortar.”
A Cornish pasty. (Pasty Republic)
Pasties are made by folding dough around uncooked ingredients and baking the packets. (Pasty Republic)
Pasty Republic was founded on Tennyson Street by Jon Walker and Sam Elhindi, who added the “Pasty Bus” within a year, Cherry said. The truck is also stocked with pasties made in Berkeley.
“One of the interesting things about the pasty business is that it’s extremely labor-intensive,” Cherry said. “We hand-lay all our dough, we hand-fold it, we chop all our ingredients — there’s a ton of labor involved. The truck’s been helpful because it’s another revenue source without much more labor investment.”
Cherry, a Lincoln, Nebraska native, moved to Denver for college in 2002 and was a teacher before opening the food truck Matt’s Snack Shack in 2012. He took over Pasty Republic in 2016 when Walker and Elhindi wanted to get out of the business, and is now trying to sell Matt’s Snack Shack.
The “Pasty Bus” launched in 2015. (Pasty Republic)
The truck has helped with the educational side of the business, which Cherry has been honing in on.
“I think (the original owners) ran into some educational problems right away,” Cherry said, adding that Walker comes from England. “Since I took over the business three years ago, I’ve been trying to push it to the next level educationally. The biggest challenge is that people don’t really know about them.”
As far as direct competition, there isn’t much in Denver. Cherry said GB Fish & Chips offers a few kinds of pasties, but that Pasty Republic is the only one “doing it from scratch.” He also said Three Lions Pub had served pasties before it shuttered in January.
About the Author: Libby Flood
Libby Flood is a BusinessDen reporter. She is a graduate of the University of Kansas.
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10 Best Billiard Games For Mobile Of All-Time
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by Kenneth Long | 5 November 2019
Billiard games are activities that many party people had played at least once in their life. The tables are there in the corners of bars, dives, and generally where people mingle and enjoy themselves. Billiard games are the ultimate partygoer’s game because skill is needed to be victorious. And now you can experience it on the go!
Without further ado, here are the top 10 billiard games of all-time.
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Top 10 Billiard Games For Mobile
1. Billiards City
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Billiards City is popular modern arcade style billiards game created by MOUNTAIN GAME. It’s reminiscent of the old pool flash games in gameplay mechanics, look, and feel. It’s one of the few pool games on the list with a decent single player mode.
In addition, the game comes with a variety of unique and interesting table shapes and configurations. For example, Billiards City uses the latest technology to create the most exciting and realistic billiards simulator. And allows you to experience pool like never before, thanks to the stunning HD graphics, fantastic playability and ultra realistic ball physics.
The game uses a level system and it gets progressively more difficult as you go and is entirely free with advertising. The ads may come at a frequent clip, but it’s better than dealing with a freemium game so it’s only a minor complaint from us. We would also like to see other game types in future updates if the developer can swing it.
This is one of the best free pool games with no in-app purchases.
Single Player Mode
Accurate ball physics
Realistic 3D ball animation
Touch control for Pool Cue
Smooth Controls
Frequent advertisements
Game sometimes crashes between ads
Billiards City is available for free with IAP’s on Google Playstore and Apple Appstore.
2. 8 Ball Pool
Currently one of the most popular pool games in the Appstore, 8 Ball Pool’s popularity stems from an incredible diversity of gameplay. For example, an online multiplayer mode, tournaments with up to eight players, and a shallow leveling system. You unlock various places to play pool and various table colors as you rank up.
Players who compete earn Pool Coins. They are usable to pay your way into higher ranking tournaments. The mechanics, graphics, and gameplay are fairly typical as you see in most freemium games. This is definitely one for the casual players and people who enjoy playing online.
The freemium grind is a little tedious in this game and some online components don’t always work as anticipated. However, it has 15 million reviews and 100 million downloads for a reason. People seem to like it. So if this is what you want, then the game’s gonna deliver.
Has 1-on-1 and 8 player multiplayer
Shallow level up system
Realistic physics
Sometimes puts more emphasis on microtransactions
8 Ball Pool is available for free with IAP’s on Google Playstore.
3. 3D Pool
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3D Pool is a decent pool game with decent mechanics. It features several game types, including 8-ball, 9-ball, and UK 8-ball. You also get pass-and-play local multiplayer, 10 playable characters, three AI difficulties, some table customization, and decent graphics.
You can play top-down or from the side if you prefer. The mechanics themselves are fairly standard. Drag the stick back and let it rip to hit the various balls at various speeds. There is even a Matrix Mode with some unique scoring elements. The game runs for $1.99 with no in-app purchases or ads. There is also a free version with ads if you want to try it.
Multiple game modes
Flexible difficulty
Matrix Mode is cool
No IAP’s or Ads on the $1.99 version
Frequent advertisements on free version
3D Pool is available for free with IAP’s or for $1.99 for the Ad free version on Google Playstore.
4. Kings of Pool
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Kings of Pool is an online pool game for the more competitive players out there. This one also has some really neat game mechanics. 8-ball is the name of the game in this one. It features leaderboards, decent graphics, and a trick shot engine for you daredevils out there.
This one also has an AR (augmented reality) element. You can scan a flat surface and pop a pool table there with your phone’s camera sensor. That is a fun trick and one you definitely don’t see every day. Pool feels like one of those types of games that works well in AR and our experience with it was fine.
The game has the occasional bug or physics issue, but nothing serious enough to really complain about.
Online Multiplayer for the competitive players
Trick shot engine
Augmented Reality compatible
Some bugs and physics issues
IAP’s can sometimes be pay-to-win
Kings of Pool is available for free with IAP’s on Google Playstore.
5. Pool Break Pro 3D
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Pool Break Pro is one of the older pool games on mobile. However, it’s also one of the best. You have a variety of game types to choose from. They include 3-ball, 4-ball, 6-ball, 7-ball, 8-ball, UK 8-ball, 9-ball, and 10-ball along with Carrom, Crokinole, Snooker (six and ten reds), and more. If you want a variety of game play, this is the one for you. The mechanics are simple enough and the game looks good. We even like the game physics.
However, this game hasn’t had an update in almost two years at the time of this writing. We’re a little worried that the developer abandoned it. We highly recommend trying out the free version (with ads) first to make sure it’s one you want to spend a buck on. It also features online multiplayer and pass-and-play local multiplayer.
Incredible variety of game types to choose from
Incredible 3D graphics
Flexible difficulty levels
Pass-n-play
Pool Break Pro 3D is available for $1.95 with IAP’s on Google Playstore.
6. Total Snooker
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Total Snooker is a great, basic Snooker game for mobile. It uses a top-down, 2D perspective for full board view. However, you don’t get the power of a 3D perspective. The game also features tournaments, online play, and you can invite friends to play with you. Otherwise, there isn’t really a lot to this game. You just play Snooker and move on with your day. We enjoy the minimalism, but some may want more content like a story mission mode or something like that.
Straightforward game of Snooker
Will sometimes play your game for you
Controls can be an issue
Weird difficulty levels
No multiplayer
Total Snooker is available for free with Ads or without ads for $1.99 on Google Playstore.
7. Pool Stars
Pool Stars is another simple pool game with a lot of content. The game comes with both 2D and 3D perspectives. Thus, you can play in the most comfortable fashion for you. You also get multiplayer, a single player career mode, and leaderboards. However, the game’s most unique feature is the custom challenge mode.
Players can create their own challenges and share with other players. This one features predominately 8-ball and 9-ball as the game types. It’s a freemium game and that means it has some of those freemium problems. On the other hand, we quite liked the creativity with the challenge creation mode.
This developer also makes Snooker Stars, another competent and enjoyable pool game. This same developer also does Pool Night and Pool Master. You can go with any of them. They all play basically the same with some minor exceptions.
Near realistic graphics
Comes with 2D and 3D perspectives
Custom Challenge is amazing
Has single player
Has emphasis on microtransactions
Multiplayer can sometimes pair you with a higher skilled player
Pool Stars is available for free with IAP’s on Google Playstore.
8. Billiards Club
Billiards Club is one of the simplest and easiest billiard games on the list. It boasts a more relaxing experience than a competitive one. It uses 8-ball rules. You simply plop the cue ball down and try to sink every ball. It boasts decent ball physics and a top-down, 2D style.
The game also supports offline play so you can play it almost anywhere. There really isn’t much wrong with it. It’s a bit shallow. You don’t get things like a storyline or multiplayer.
However, there are nine other pool games on the list so that’s fine. If you just want an arcade pool game as a quick time waster, this one does the trick nicely.
Simple game with Single player mode
Supports offline play
Billiards Club is available for free with ads on Google Playstore.
9. Pool Mania
Photo by Zwodnik
Pool Mania is one of the standout billiard games in the market. You don’t have a ton of game modes or super complicated mechanics. You put the cue ball down, hit it, and sink some balls. This is an excellent and simple arcade game for those who just want to goof around. There is an arcade mode with 120 levels along with a challenge mode, table customization, and more.
The developer also promises more stuff in future updates. We hope those updates also come with some optimization because the ads can be a little obnoxious from time to time and it drains the battery a little faster than we’d like for how simple the game is.
Otherwise, it’s completely free with advertising and no in-app purchases.
Arcade Mode and Challenge Mode are fun time wasters
Skill ceiling is low and is for all types of players
Incredibly simple
Pool Mania is available for free with IAP’s on Google Playstore.
10. Real Pool 3D
Photo by iphonecake
Real Pool 3D is one of the best billiard games out there. It features Facebook sign-in and you can play against your friends with that function if you want to. Additionally, the game features a 2D and 3D view, online games against random players, social clubs (like a guild or a clan), and a collection of pool cues to collect. You can also play 8-ball or Snooker. It’s a decent experience once you dump a couple of dozen hours into it. The early game for this one isn’t the greatest and you have to grind it out a bit before you feel like you’re playing real, actual pool.
Pass-and-play is possible
Frequent advertisements on the free version
Sometimes puts more emphasis on microtransactions on free version
Real Pool 3D is available for free with ads/IAP’s and for $2.05 without ads on Google Playstore.
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Kenneth Long
Kenneth is an avid mobile gamer who loves to share his gaming reviews with the world. Also a writer at heart, he is living the dream of writing gaming reviews. Kenneth is also a die-hard fan of Apple products and can't wait for the new iPhone release in 2020. In his spare time, he also reads up on blockchain and cryptocurrency.
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Budget 2017: Sops for job creation likely in labour intensive sectors
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“This in turn will push demand in the economy,” the official said. Extending fixed-term employment to all labour intensive sectors will give employers the flexibility to hire workers as per demand for a fixed period of time without compromising on their parity with permanent workers in terms of working hours, wages, allowances and other statutory dues.
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What is a synopsis?
How to write a novel synopsis in 4 steps
1. Get the basics down first
2. Highlight what’s unique
3. Edit for clarity and excess
4. Make sure it flows
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How to Write a Synopsis Agents Will Notice
Your novel is fully written, edited, and polished to perfection — you’re ready to pitch it to agents! But you’re missing a critical piece of persuasion: the synopsis. Even after putting together your entire book, you may have no idea how to write one, or even how to approach it.
Luckily, we’ve got answers for you. Read on for our best tips on writing a synopsis that’s clear, concise, captivating… and may even lead to an all-out agent battle over your novel!
How to write a masterful synopsis in just 4 steps #itslit
A synopsis is a summary of a book that familiarizes the reader with the plot and how it unfolds. Although these kinds of summaries also appear on the pages of school book reports and Wikipedia, this guide will focus on constructing one that you can send out to agents (and eventually publishers).
Your novel synopsis should achieve two things: firstly, it should convey the contents of your book, and secondly, it should be intriguing!
While you don’t need to pull out all the marketing stops at this stage, you should have a brief hook at the beginning and a sense of urgency underlying the text that will keep your reader going. It should make potential agents want to devour your whole manuscript — even though they’ll already know what happens.
While writing your synopsis, make sure that it includes:
A complete narrative arc
Your own voice and unique elements of your story
The ending or resolution (unlike in a blurb)
As for the ideal length for this piece, it varies from project to project. Some authors recommend keeping it to 500 words, while others might write thousands. However, the standard range is about one to two single-spaced pages (or two to five double-spaced pages).
You may also want to have an additional “brief” summary prepared for agents who specifically request a single page or less. Remember: as hard as it will be to distill all your hard work into that minimal space, it’s crucial to keep your synopsis digestible and agent-friendly.
When it comes to writing a synopsis, substance is the name of the game. No matter how nicely you dress it up, an agent will disregard any piece that doesn’t demonstrate a fully fleshed out plot and strong narrative arc. So it stands to reason that as you begin writing, you should focus on the fundamentals.
Start with major plot points
Naturally, you want agents to be aware of your story's major plot points. So the best way to start summarizing your story is to create a list of those plot points, including:
The inciting incident — what sparks the central conflict of your story?
The events of the rising action — what happens in the interlude between the inciting incident and the climax, and how does this build tension?
The height of the action, or climax, of your story — this one is the most important, as it should be the most exciting part of your book!
The resolution or ending — again, unlike a blurb, a synopsis doesn’t need to dangle the carrot of an unknown ending to the reader; you can and should reveal your story’s ending here, as this brings the plot and narrative arc to a close.
Listing these points effectively maps out the action and arc of your story, which will enable the reader to easily follow it from beginning to end.
Include character motivations
The key here is not to get too deep into characterization, since you don’t have much room to elaborate. Instead, simply emphasize character motivations at the beginning and end of your synopsis — first as justification for the inciting incident, then again to bring home the resolution. For example:
Beginning: “Sally has spent the past twenty years wondering who her birth parents are [motivation]. When a mysterious man offers her the chance to find them, she spontaneously buys a ticket to Florence to begin her journey [inciting action].”
Ending: “She returns to the US with the man who was her father all along [resolution], safe in the knowledge that she’ll never have to wonder about him again [restated motivation].”
Also note how the text here is written in third person, present tense, as it should be regardless of the tense or POV of your actual book. Writing a synopsis in first or second person doesn’t really work because it’s not meant to be narrated — just summarized. Basically, the present tense works to engage the reader while the third person allows the story to be told smoothly.
Now it’s time to spice up your synopsis by highlighting the elements that make it unique. Agents need to know what’s so special about your book in particular — and moreover, is it special enough to get readers to pick it up? Below are some features you might employ to grab an agent’s attention and assure them of your book’s appeal.
Your writing voice is an essential tool here: it conveys your novel’s tone and is one of the most important factors in making your work stand out. However, it’s also one of the most difficult elements to evoke in such a small amount of space.
The best way to capture voice in a synopsis is through extremely deliberate word choice and sentence structure. So if you were Jane Austen, you’d use clever words to magnify your wit: “When Darcy proposes to her apropos of nothing, Elizabeth has the quite understandable reaction of rejecting him.” You may not be able to use all the elaborate prose of your novel, but your synopsis should still reflect its overall feeling.
Even though they’re one of the oldest tricks in the book, readers will never tire of juicy plot twists. If your novel contains one or more of these twists, especially at the climax, make sure your synopsis accentuates it. But don’t hint too much at the twist, as this will make it seem more dramatic when it comes; a couple of words in the intro will suffice as foreshadowing.
For instance, if you were writing a summary of Gone Girl, you might open with “Nick Dunne wakes up one morning to find that his wife, Amy, has apparently disappeared.” This implies that she may not be as “gone” as we think she is, setting the stage for the later reveal.
Gone Girl-esque plot twist = unforgettable. Image: 20th Century Fox
Another aspect that might set your book apart is a distinctive point of view. Since you’ll be giving your synopsis in third person, you can limit this inclusion to an introductory sentence: “This book is narrated from the point of view of a mouse.”
Although this strategy works best for books with a highly unusual point of view (such as The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, in which the story is told by Death), it can also be very helpful to remember for seemingly bog-standard narrators. If one of your characters narrates in first person, make sure to address their individual narrative quirks as well as any biases or limitations; highlighting an unreliable narrator can really add to your novel’s intrigue!
Don’t shroud your synopsis in mystery; this is very frustrating to agents who just want to know what happens in your book! With that in mind, after you’ve written the bulk of your summary, it’s time to edit for clarity. You also may have to delete some text, so you can get it right in that couple-page sweet spot.
The paramount rule of synopses is a real doozy: tell, don’t show. It’s the opposite of that classic adage that writers have heard their whole lives, and it’s exactly what you need to write a successful synopsis.
As you return to what you’ve written, scan for sentences that are vague or unclear, especially toward the beginning. Many writers fall into the trap of trying to hook agents by opening with a sentence akin to the first murky line of a literary novel. Again, though you do want your intro to be intriguing, it has to cut to the chase pretty quickly.
When it comes to opening a synopsis, you need to think like Tolkien, not Tolstoy. “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” Crisp, clear, and to the point: one of the very few times you should tell, rather than show.
Editing excess words
If your synopsis is longer than a couple of pages at this point, you need make some serious cutbacks. Read through what you have, scrutinizing every sentence and word, even if you think you’ve chosen them carefully. Reduce any run-on sentences or subordinate clauses that unnecessarily lengthen your piece.
Finally, eliminate irrelevant details — anything that doesn’t lead to the next plot point or directly contribute to your voice or other distinctive elements. It’s unlikely you’ll have included any of these in the first place, but just in case they’ve slipped through, cut them. Save the frills for your book; remember, your synopsis is all about substance.
By the time it’s finished, your synopsis should read like a summary from an excellent book review — or at the very least SparkNotes or Shmoop. This means not only clearly and concisely hitting every important point, but also reading in a smooth manner, placing just the right amount of emphasis on the critical moments and unique aspects we’ve discussed.
Get test readers
A great way to ensure that your synopsis is paced precisely and flows well is to give it to test readers, either someone you know or a professional editor. You’ve spent way too much time with these words to be objective about them, so pay attention to what other people suggest: possible word substitutions, transitions, and which details to emphasize versus delete.
Use professional synopses as models
You don’t want to look at examples of other synopses too soon, otherwise yours will come out sounding formulaic and stale. That said, professional synopses can be a very valuable tool for refining toward the end of the process! Compare and contrast them to the synopsis you’ve written, and adapt any techniques or turns of phrase you feel would enhance it.
Here’s an example of a strong (albeit brief) synopsis of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, courtesy of the Oxford Companion to English Literature:
Phillip Pirrip, more commonly known as “Pip,” has been brought up by his tyrannical sister, wife of the gentle Joe Gargery. He is introduced to the house of Miss Havisham who, half-crazed by the desertion of her lover on her bridal night, has brought up the girl Estella to use her beauty as a means of torturing men. Pip falls in love with Estella and aspires to become a gentleman.
Money and expectations of more wealth come to him from a mysterious source, which he believes to be Miss Havisham. He goes to London, and in his new mode of life meanly abandons the devoted Joe Gargery, a humble connection of whom he is now ashamed.
Misfortunes come upon him. His benefactor proves to be an escaped convict, Abel Magwich, whom he as a boy had helped. Pip’s great expectations fade away and he is penniless. Estella meanwhile marries his sulky enemy Bentley Drummle, by whom she is cruelly ill treated.
In the end, taught by adversity, Pip returns to Joe Gargery and honest labor. He and Estella, who has also learnt her lesson, are finally reunited.
Pip and Estella meet again in Great Expectations (2012). Image: Lionsgate
This synopsis works well because it includes:
The inciting incident (Pip moving in with Miss Havisham), the rising action (him being in London), the climax (returning to Joe Gargery), and the resolution (reuniting with Estella)
Character motivations (Miss Havisham wants to punish all men because her fiancé betrayed her; Pip wants to become a gentleman so Estella will fall in love with him)
A plot twist (Pip’s benefactor being a criminal — whom he knows from his childhood!)
Distinctive voice (formal yet engaging, doesn’t detract from the plot) and smoothly written style (events are chronological and progress quickly)
Your synopsis is one of the biggest deciding factors in whether an agent wants to see more from you or not. No matter how chipper your query letter, the bottom line is that this summary tells agents (and later publishers) what they really need to know: what your book is about, what makes it unique, and most importantly, if they can sell it.
That’s why it’s vital that you make your synopsis airtight. Fortunately, if you’ve followed these steps, yours will be chock full of plot details with a touch of your own special writing sauce: a synopsis that any agent (hopefully) won’t be able to resist.
Many thanks to Reedsy editors (and former agents) Sam Brody and Rachel Stout for consulting on this piece!
Do you have any tips for writing an irresistible synopsis? Leave them in the comments below!
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This looks interesting, and I will read every word, but this would be different for a picture book. You only get one page to query for many children's books.
johnb
Publishers normally want a synopsis written on the space given on their own web site, which frequently means an author must adapt individually to specific requirements and so write a specific synopsis. They nearly all specialise in specific areas so a book which does not meet a genre will find problems in placing itself. Since agents, a dying race, seek books which meet their friendly publishers needs they too can create the same problem for new authors with a slant that is not in favour. My advice is to publish and be damned on Amazon and the like since readers… Read more »
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I am curious if anyone has ideas on how translators can write a synopsis for agents / publishers of works in translation? Might there be something about why this author is important in his/her country of origin and literary tradition? Which authors more known to English language readers might relate to this author (they've never heard of before)?
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Introducing the satsearch mission archive
Kartik Kumar on Nov 22, 2018
Satsearch now provides information about space missions, past, present, & future.
Over the last month, we’ve been working feverishly to expand and update the satsearch website. I’m excited to announce that we’re releasing a host of new features this week, including a completely new data set for our users to search through: the satsearch mission archive. This mission archive expands on our vision to build a single resource that offers users the ability to explore the global space supply chain and assess the state of the space sector worldwide. Go on, give it a go! Try your first mission search using the search box below.
Example searches: Falcon 9 ViaSat
Building a mission archive has been on our roadmap for a while. Ever since Erik Laan, founder of Eye On Orbit, and I sat down to discuss the vision for satsearch and the possibility of collaborating, we’ve had an eye on (no pun intended!) adding missions to our growing supply chain database. Eye On Orbit is devoted to bringing developments in space exploration and commerce to society and business by providing technical consultancy on policy, programmes, projects and proposals for space activities, intelligence on space missions, systems and data, and services for space education and outreach. This is directly in line with our goals at satsearch: hence it seemed obvious that we should partner in our efforts to democratize access to the growing, global space industry.
A snapshot of Eye On Orbit’s Space Missions Manifest, which provides a comprehensive overview of space missions.
One of the unique assets that Erik has developed and actively maintains is the Space Missions Manifest (SMM). The SMM enables users to search through past, present, and future space missions. We’ve partnered with Eye On Orbit to leverage the SMM, enabling satsearch’s users to access information about space missions directly through our website. Over the past month, we’ve been working behind the scenes to integrate the SMM into our database.
This announcement marks the official launch of the satsearch mission archive, powered by Eye On Orbit. Users can now search for space missions in the same way they’ve been able to search for space suppliers, products, and services. We’re very happy to add Eye On Orbit to our growing partner ecosystem, as we work towards opening up access to the space industry by building the missing data layer.
Developing and launching the mission archive also forced us to think about how we can simplify the way users can get to the data that they need, in as few clicks as possible. To this end, we’ve refactored our website structure and set up the following “hubs” that allow users to directly access each of the data sets that we’ve released to date. All four hubs are also easily accessible at the top of every satsearch page.
Supplier hub: this page allows users to use our search engine and interactive map to explore the array of space suppliers around the world.
Product hub: this page allows users to use our search engine and category browser to explore space products offered by suppliers globally.
Services hub: this page allows users to use our search engine to explore space services offered by suppliers globally.
Mission hub: this page allows users to use our search engine to explore past, present, and future space missions.
Not only do these new hubs allow satsearch users to easily access the underlying satsearch database, it also helps us strengthen our reach through popular search engines, enabling us to support a wider user community around the world.
As we continue to grow our platform, we will develop, expand, and improve the ways that users can navigate the global space supply chain. We have a host of new features in our roadmap for 2019, so stay tuned!
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Silurian Tales
"Here about the beach I wander,
Nourishing a youth sublime
With the fairy tales of science,
And the long results of time."
- Alfred Tennyson
The Silurian Period of the Paleozoic Era featured coral reefs in shallow seas, and abundant life - jawless fish, sea scorpions, nautiloid cephalopods, trilobites and other creatures - inhabited the oceans. Plants - mostly mosses - were just emerging onto dry land. What would it be like if we could travel back to that time?
Steven Utley has written a series of time travel stories featuring scientists exploring the Silurian era. As he explained in an interview:
The stories in Silurian Tales span 25 to 40 years in the lives of a number of recurring characters, scientists and other visitors to mid-Paleozoic time, who are trying to do the work that is important to them while coping — or failing to cope — with isolation, boredom, privation, their own and one another’s shortcomings, and the implications of so-called time travel in accordance with the many-universes hypothesis advanced by quantum physicists. It is, in short, a book of stories about folks trying to be happy.
Over the years Utley has read extensively to provide background for his stories:
The last time Utley calculated the number of books and magazine articles he’s consulted for the series, it was over a hundred. "Including the Atlas of the Prehistoric World, Wildlife of Gondwana, John G. Maisey’s Discovering Fossil Fishes, works by David Attenborough, John McPhee, books about plate tectonics and oceanography, back numbers of National Geographic," Utley said. "I got off into astronomy and quantum physics, too. Everything became grist for the mill. Will Durant’s Story of Philosophy proved useful in writing some of the stories, so, too, Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle, and throughout you’ll catch me paying homage, consciously or otherwise, to all sorts of authors besides Wharton — Jane Austen, Edmond Hamilton, H. P. Lovecraft, Conrad, Borges, Proust. Zane Grey, of all people: his description of a canyon in Riders of the Purple Sage or Heritage of the Desert somehow informs my sense of a Paleozoic landscape. [...]
While an anthology is supposedly in the works, it doesn't appear to have been published yet. Fortunately, several of Utley's Silurian tales are free to read online:
A Silurian Tale at RevolutionSF, originally published in Asimov's in May 1996
The Age of Mud and Slime at RevolutionSF, originally published in Asimov's March 1996
Beyond the Sea , Revolution SF, August 2002
All of Creation, Cosmos Magazine 2007
Image: Asaphus species (Trilobite) from the Ordovician-age strata near St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Does the eurozone crisis threaten liberal reforms in Eastern Europe?
Sean LHanley15 November 2012
Uncertainties about the EU’s future are undermining mainstream parties throughout Europe. In Central and Castern Europe politicians can no longer sell the European model of liberal reforms when that model is itself in crisis, argues Sean Hanley
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Although only three EU members in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), Estonia, Slovakia and Slovenia, have adopted the Euro, the knock-on effects of stagnation in the Eurozone has pushed governments across CEE towards unpopular austerity programmes, exacerbating social tensions and collapsing support for incumbent parties. The uncertainties about the EU’s future are also undermining mainstream parties in the region. Politicians can no longer sell liberal reforms as part of a successful, tried and tested european model as they once did, when that model is itself in crisis. For many this seems to point darkly towards a turning away from liberal politics in CEE and a growth in euroscepticism, populism and nationalism. (more…)
Tags: Central and Eastern Europe, crisis, Czech Republic, Denmark, Eastern Europe, elections, Estonia, EU, Euro, euroscepticism, Eurozone, extreme left, extreme right, Greece, Hungary, Janusz Palikot, Jobbik, Leszek Balcerowicz, Poland, political parties, populism, Richard Sulík, Roma, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Viktor Orbán, Zoran Janković
Angry mainstream: Eastern Europe’s new ‘centrist populists’
Sean LHanley20 January 2012
Allan Sikk and Sean Hanley detect a new breed of anti-establishment party emerging centre-stage in Eastern Europe.
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In both Western and Eastern Europe extremist populism and illiberal movements, we are told, are strong, politically influential and relentlessly on the rise. In countries such Austria, Slovakia and Poland radical right parties have already held government office. Elsewhere they have sufficient parliamentary representation to influence government formation and help make the political weather. Recent electoral breakthroughs in countries without strong illiberal populist traditions by parties such the True Finns (2011), the Sweden Democrats (2010) or Hungary’s Jobbik (2010) seem to highlight the accelerated growth of such parties.
Given the greater impact of recession and reduced EU leverage in the region, the new democracies in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) would seem to be especially vulnerable to such tendencies. However, notwithstanding the spectacular rise of far-right in Hungary, recent elections in key CEE states suggest that voters in the region are turning to new parties, which combine familiar anti-elite, anti-establishment populist rhetoric with mainstream pro-market policies, a liberal stance on social issues and calls for political reform.
Poland’s October 2011 elections, for example, saw the wholly unexpected emergence as the country’s third force of a grouping led by maverick and political showman, Janusz Palikot, on a platform combining anti-clericalism and social liberalism with flat taxation and a slimmed down, citizen-friendly state. In May 2010 a new pro-market anti-corruption party, Public Affairs (VV), campaigning to kill off the ‘dinosaurs’ of the political establishment enjoyed a similarly meteoric rise in the Czech Republic, winning 10% of the vote. In Slovakia in elections a few weeks later the Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party formed in 2009 by the economist and businessman Richard Sulík entered parliament with a similar vote share on a programme of fiscal conservatism and socially liberal reforms such as the introduction of gay marriage and decriminalisation of soft drugs. Hungary’s Green-ish Politics Can Be Different Party (LMP) can, with some qualifications, be regarded in a similar light.
Such centrist or (neo-) liberal populists, or as we prefer to call them anti-establishment reform parties (AERPs), are we believe, a growing and important phenomenon in Central and Eastern Europe and, perhaps Europe more generally. A more careful and wider look at the CEE region over the last 10-15 years suggests that such AERPs are a widespread and common phenomenon which can, in some contexts, enjoy landslide electoral success: the Simeon II National Movement in Bulgaria (2001), New Era in Latvia (2002) and Res Publica in Estonia (2003) were all new, anti-establishment reformers, which topped – or came close to topping – the poll at their first attempt and headed new coalition governments. (more…)
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Jesus talks about love of neighbor
Catholic Courier | 07.09.2019
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Saint for Today: St. Laurence of Brindisi
Jesus loved to teach people about God. Great crowds often would gather to hear him preach.
One day, a man who was an expert in Mosaic law wanted to test Jesus' knowledge of the law.
"Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" the man asked Jesus.
Jesus knew what the man was up to.
"What is written in the law? How do you read it?" Jesus replied.
"You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your being, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself," the man answered.
Jesus nodded.
"You have answered correctly; do this and you will live," he said.
Jesus had answered the man's question perfectly, but the man continued to test Jesus.
"And who is my neighbor?" asked the man, who wanted to justify himself.
Jesus replied by telling a parable.
"A man fell victim to robbers as he went down from Jerusalem to Jericho. They stripped and beat him and went off leaving him half-dead," Jesus began.
"A priest happened to be going down that road, but when he saw him, he passed by on the opposite side," Jesus continued.
Eventually, a Levite came along and saw the injured man collapsed on the side of the road. Likewise, he did not stop to help, Jesus said. Instead, he crossed to the opposite side of the road and kept on going, just like the priest had done.
"But a Samaritan traveler who came upon him was moved with compassion at the sight," Jesus said.
Even though Jews and Samaritans did not like each other, the Samaritan man treated and bandaged the injured man's wounds and took him to an inn to care for him. When the Samaritan had to leave, he paid the innkeeper to take care of the injured man, Jesus said.
"Take care of him. If you spend more than what I have given you, I shall repay you on my way back," Jesus said the Samaritan told the innkeeper.
"Which of these three, in your opinion, was neighbor to the robbers' victim?" Jesus asked the expert in Mosaic law.
"The one who treated him with mercy," the man answered.
"Go and do likewise," Jesus said.
READ MORE ABOUT IT: Luke 10
1. Who wanted to test Jesus?
2. Who was the injured man's neighbor?
ESSAY: What are some of the ways in which you show love and mercy to your neighbors?
There are several places in the Bible that tell of people who tried to trick Jesus.
For example, in Matthew 22:16-22, the Pharisees had their disciples and the Herodians ask Jesus a question. They thought there were only two possible answers. One would upset the people, and the other would upset the Roman rulers.
"Tell us, then, what is your opinion: Is it lawful to pay the census tax to Caesar or not?" they asked Jesus.
Jesus asked to be shown a coin with which the tax was paid. Jesus was given a Roman coin.
"Whose image is this and whose inscription?" he asked.
"Caesar's," they answered.
"Then repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God," Jesus told them.
But the Pharisees did not give up. In Matthew 22:34-40, they again tried to trick Jesus.
This time, they asked Jesus which commandment in the law was the greatest.
Jesus told them that the greatest and first commandment was to love God with all their hearts, souls and minds.
"The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself," Jesus said. "The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."
Soon after, the Pharisees stopped asking Jesus questions.
St. Laurence of Brindisi was born in Italy in 1559, and he was ordained a Capuchin priest in 1582.
Laurence was a very successful preacher. More than 800 of his homilies have survived, and they demonstrate his deep understanding of Scripture.
His work as a preacher and a leader in his order greatly contributed to the Catholic Reformation, which was in response to the Protestant Reformation.
Laurence died in 1619, and he was made a doctor of the church in 1959. We remember him on July 21.
Unscramble the letters in each word and arrange them to form a quotation from the children's story.
nad iwli ouy od vile hits
Answers: puɐ, llᴉʍ, noʎ, op, ǝʌᴉl, sᴉɥʇ
op sᴉɥʇ puɐ noʎ llᴉʍ ǝʌᴉl.
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News & Events across the Diocese of Parramatta and beyond.
On 28 December, everyone is welcome to pray for the protection of all human life (especially the unborn) from conception to natural death. Mass at 11am at Our Lady of the Rosary Parish, Kellyville, followed by a rosary procession to the Franciscan Shrine of the Holy Innocents. Image: Shutterstock.
The Lights of Christmas at St Mary’s Cathedral: 8-25 December 2016
Experience the joy of Christmas with sound and light projections on St Mary’s Cathedral. Bring the whole family to view the Fantasia-style animation of the classic Christmas favourite The Nutcracker Suite, Christmas carols and beautiful visions of the Madonna and Child as painted by the great art masters. Starts 7.30pm with a choir performance. The light show comes on just after dusk and stays on until midnight, every night until, and including, Christmas Night. For further information, click here.
Mass of the Holy Innocents: 28 December 2016
The principal celebrant for the 23rd annual pro-life Mass will be Sydney’s Auxiliary Bishop Richard Umbers. Mass at 11am at Our Lady of the Rosary Parish, 8 Diana Ave, Kellyville, followed by a rosary procession to the Franciscan Shrine of the Holy Innocents for devotions and benediction. Everyone is welcome to pray for the protection of all human life (especially the unborn) from conception to natural death. A luncheon will be provided – please bring a plate to share. Inquiries (02) 9629 2595.
The Epiphany Pilgrimage – the Journey of the Magi: 2-8 January 2017
The Epiphany Pilgrimage is a seven-day, 100km pilgrimage through the Blue Mountains bushland. Pilgrims stay overnight at parishes along the route, experiencing the welcoming hospitality of parishioners and spending time in prayer, adoration and fellowship. Pilgrims include Fr Piotr Kruk OP, Assistant Priest at Kingswood Parish, and Sr Rosie Drum MGL, Assistant Director of CYP. The pilgrimage finishes on the Feast of the Epiphany at the Chapel of the Magi at Bell. There are many ways that you can participate, either as a walking pilgrim or in the evenings of prayer, adoration and fellowship. To find out more click here.
House of Welcome needs your support
The House of Welcome is a work of St Francis Social Services that supports refugees and asylum seekers. They are about to move into the former St Joseph’s Convent at Granville and urgently need help to make the premises ready to receive clients. St Francis Social Services will be raising funds and seeking volunteers who can assist with maintenance projects, kitchen installation, carpeting, painting, etc. To make a contribution to ensure this service can reach people in need, tel (02) 9727 9290 or click here.
Catholic Super’s Pre-retirement Seminars during January 2017
The Australian Government has recently shifted the incentive for saving via super. Catholic Super can help you to learn more about your superannuation, take control of your finances and plan for a rewarding future. Catholic Super’s FREE seminars cover wealth-related issues as well as broader health and lifestyle issues to consider now and for retirement. Non-members, friends and family are all welcome.
Seminar dates include: Thursday 19 January from 10am-2pm at Burwood RSL Club, 96 Shaftesbury Rd, Burwood, and on Tuesday 24 January from 10am-2pm at Fairfield RSL Club, 14 Anzac Ave, Fairfield. For other dates and venues call 1300 658 776 or click here.
Pilgrimage to Israel Information Night: 6 February 2017
Fr Paul Marshall, Parish Priest of Our Lady Queen of Peace, Greystanes, is accompanying a pilgrimage to the Holy Land from 7-21 October 2017. An information night will be held on Monday 6 February 2017 at Our Lady Queen of Peace Parish, 198 Old Prospect Rd, Greystanes. RSVP for catering purposes (Middle Eastern treats) by Friday 27 January 2017, tel 1300 550 830 or katrina@olivetreetravel.com.au Bookings are being taken up to early February 2017. For more details or booking forms, please contact the parish office tel (02) 9631 8135.
Mass for World Day of the Sick: 9 February 2017
Everyone is welcome to this annual Mass in acknowledgment of carers and those for whom they care. Includes the Sacramental Rite of Anointing of the Sick and Prayers for Healing. Bishop Vincent Long OFM Conv will be the principal celebrant for Mass at 10.30am in St Patrick’s Church, 51 Allawah St, Blacktown, in Mary, Queen of the Family Parish. Plenty of parking – refreshments to follow.
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Chrissy I-Eece on The Freestyle Universe Radio Show
Freestyle Forum: Chrissy I-Eece on The Freestyle Universe Radio Show
When it comes to great voices and larger-than-life beauties in the Freestyle World; few can compare to the lovely and gifted Freestyle Legendess: Chrissy I-Eece!! When it comes to dedication to Freestyle Music, having a great time, getting out interviews with all the celebrities and tons of laughs and naughtiness there is no other broadcast like The Freestyle Universe Radio Show on emberradiolive.com with its hosts: Latina Bombshell – Delisious Deliza and the Freestyle Authority: Swins Fontenelle!! Get the best of both of these Freestyle Marvels on the Thursday, April 16th episode airing at 8:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (event invite: https://www.facebook.com/events/1070117213016406/ ). You’re sure to become a fan of this hit series that have had interviews with just about everyone you can imagine in the business: from India, Soave, Angel of the Cover Girls, Cynthia, Noel, Brenda K. Starr, Damaris and the list goes on and on, so become a fan of the show and follow all that’s going on by visiting the Official facebook page and pressing the LIKE button today: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-F...97040037025502
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Wondering about the difficulty of Dunwich Scenario:1A?
By Chron73, May 28, 2017 in Arkham Horror: The Card Game
Chron73 61
Just finished up Dunwich Scenario:1A on standard difficulty and it was much easier than anything from the core set.
We used Wendy, Roland, and Skids and I am wondering if this scenario is just that easy or if this party just works this well together? We used a different party for the core and never used these 3 together before tonight.
awp832 416
Perhaps the peices just fell into place for you, it happens sometimes. I don't think your party is either particularly well suited, or ill suited, to tackle the scenario.
That being said whichever scenario you choose to do first tends to be easier. The scenario you choose to do second tends to be difficult. I find The House Always Wins as the second scenario can be quite brutal, and for that reason I typically play it first. Anyway, good luck on The House Always Wins!
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HansZiegler 14
It's probably worth noting that 1A always has a "bad" outcome if played first, even if you succeed at (one of) the primary objective(s).
shosuko 2,173
Without spoilers I would say yes - the first mission in Dunwitch is definitely easy. It gets tougher as you go, and depending on certain actions it can get much more challenging. If you think it was easy after you've completed it all, then try a harder difficulty next time ^_~
*spoiler warning*
Dunwitch has 2 scenarios you can pick between to start with. If you start with A then you play B next, or vice versa. You can only get the "best" ending from the first one you choose, the other one forces you to get the "good" ending at most. Which one you pick first is going to be much easier than the one you do pick second as you have an entire extra agenda card worth of time to get through it.
If you feel the missions stay too easy, then you should definitely fail to save the students, cheat at the casino, and take the necronomicon. That will spice up your game some.
Edited May 30, 2017 by shosuko
C2K 246
Play it on Hard.
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BD Flory 694
Spoilers for later scenarios:
At this point, it seems as if the choice between the two scenarios is more between the Elder Thing token and Naomi's crew not having your back. That is, assuming Naomi's having your back pays off in pack 5 or 6.
mwmcintyre 264
If you feel the missions stay too easy, then you should................................................and take the necronomicon. That will spice up your game some.
I'm playing as Daisy and with her special ability the Necronomicon (which I have actually gotten into play most of the following scenarios) has turned her into an absolute beast. One of my most valuable assets definitely.
Edited May 31, 2017 by mwmcintyre
Network57 561
4 hours ago, mwmcintyre said:
There's another Necronomicon you will encounter later in the campaign that he was referring to. Not Daisy's signature asset.
2 hours ago, Network57 said:
That's the one I'm talking about. Daisy's signature card version of The Necronomicon is her signature weakness and is only negative in nature. The ability of the Necronomicon found during the campaign combines with Daisy's special ability in a VERY powerful way.
The necronomicon is very good - and Daisy would love it especially - but you get a 1 off in your deck while everyone deals with the added chaos token always. It adds the totem type, which can be worse than the auto-fail. If you do all 3 of these steps you get 1 tablet and 2 totem tokens added to the bag which can really spice up the game Also of the 3 things, only the Necronomicon gives you any benefit after the scenario, and it comes last in line - so you'll have been dealing with a tablet and totem up until you get the necronomicon and add a 2nd totem.
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Jobu 718
I call the Totem Token an Elder Thing Token. Is it named totem?
The official designation is Elder Thing. I decided to keep the Necronomicon because both the synergy with Daisy and I felt storywise as a character it's what she would choose. And overall in this campaign it's been the right choice. I've been able to play it early on regularly and it's made a huge difference. If I play through again as someone other than Daisy might make the other choice.
21 minutes ago, Jobu said:
Broken Tablet, Cultist, Skull, Elder Thing (looks like a tentacled heart), Auto-Fail or Tentacles, and Elder Sign (blue star), are the official names.
rsdockery 488
8 hours ago, shosuko said:
The necronomicon is very good - and Daisy would love it especially - but you get a 1 off in your deck while everyone deals with the added chaos token always.
You can dig it out with the Research Librarian, so it's not that bad. Plus, it might have some plot implications later on...
It does have a potential impact on the resolution of "Blood On The Altar". There are two ways to "win" in that scenario and whether you have it in play changes the resolution of one of those methods of winning. On the negative side in a couple of scenarios if you have it and are defeated, the bad guys get ahold of it and you lose it from your deck.
4 hours ago, rsdockery said:
I never said the necronomicon is bad. What is BAD is that you add a very bad token to the chaos bag that all investigators must live with through the entire campaign. The elder thing token is sometimes worse than auto-fail depending on the scenario. If you do all 3 things I listed you added a tablet and TWO elder things to the bag. This makes the bag objectively more challenging for everyone in the campaign.
I never said the necronomicon is bad - I only said taking it would spice up the game. I don't know where anyone got the idea I meant the necronomicon was bad... I named 3 things you can do in the first few missions that add bad tokens to the draw bag... It doesn't matter that the necronomicon is a great item - it still adds another elder thing token to the chaos bag that everyone must draw from for every skill check in they make... This is something that will make the game more interesting.
Edited June 1, 2017 by shosuko
HolySorcerer 4,103
On 5/31/2017 at 10:09 PM, mwmcintyre said:
I was a bit irritated with how that played out. I had the necronomicon in my hand when we finished that scenario.
6 hours ago, HolySorcerer said:
I actually had it in play, I was just afraid to take the time necessary to get the clues and I had a quick easy way to go for the kill. And I didn't know about the difference in resolutions.
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Braise Lamb Shanks with Aromatic Vegetables and Mixed Grains
Community Kitchen 2011 / Lamb
Chef Ian Lai from the Terra Nova Schoolyard Society demonstrated a simple Braise Lamb Shanks with Aromatic Vegetables and Mixed Grains in the Eating Together cooking class organised by the Touchstone Family Association in the celebration of Family Day in Richmond in the month of February. Ian’s philosophy on eating together is to introduce simple recipes with a few ingredients to encourage cooking at home.
Ian shared some lights on grains during the cooking class. We should eat more grains and stay away from refine food and processed food. Ian has shared about grains in a basic food skill workshop which I had attended. Here is more information about grains which Ian shared during the cooking class. I’m passing along the tips I learned here so that more can benefit from it.
Bulgur is a form of whole wheat that has been cleaned, steamed or parboiled, dried, and then ground into grains of several distinct sizes. Bulgur may be made from any variety of wheat, but durum is the most common.
Although the term bulgur is often used to mean cracked wheat, the two products differ in one important way; bulgur is precooked and hence requires only minimal preparation before eating. Unlike cracked wheat bulgur is ready to eat after just ten minutes of boiling.
Bulgur has a delicious, mildly nutty flavour. It is a good source of protein, iron, magnesium, and B vitamins. It is packed with fiber i.e. one cup (182 grams) serving of cooked bulgur has 8 grams of fiber and contains very little fat.
Couscous is a coarsely ground semolina pasta that is a dietary staple in North African countries. It is also widely used in Middle Eastern countries and has become popular in American dishes. It is made of semolina, flour, salt, and water. Similar to rice in shape, color, and texture, it is used in many dishes as rice would be.
Couscous is available in a pre-steamed version in many grocery stores. To prepare this type of dried couscous, pour boiling water or broth over the pasta and then seal the bowl with plastic wrap. After a few minutes, the grain swells and can be fluffed with a fork. When correctly prepared, it has tender, moist taste and a light, fluffy texture. It is faster to prepare thena most types of rice.
Buckwheat is a plant cultivated for its triangular grains. Unlike most other grains, it’s not a grass but a plant crop. That means it has broad, spreading leaves; it also has lacy white flowers. Buckwheat cultivation is on the decline in the United States, where other grains have supplanted it in popularity. The grain continues to be produced in a number of countries including japan and Canada.
Most commonly sold as a dark flour, buckwheat gets its color from husks that are left behind during the milling process. this grain is usually included in a variety of types of flour mixes, like pancake and waffle mix. Plain buckwheat, perhaps for baking bread, is also available. Buckwheat is also sold in whole or cracked from for use in breakfast cereals or to add texture to breads and other baked products. It has a distinctive nutty flavor that can be quite pleasing to the palate, especially when contrasted with other, more mild flours.
Though not technically a grain, quinoa can substitute for nearly any grain in cooking. Actually the seed of a leafy plant, quinoa’s relatives include spinach, beets and Swiss chard. Due to its delicate taste and rich amounts of protein, iron, potassium and other vitamins and minerals, it is quite popular. It is also a good source of dietary fiber and is easily digested.
A quinoa grain is flat and has a pointed oval shape. The grains exist in several colorations, including yellow, red, brown and black. When cooked, quinoa expands to about three or four times its size. It also has a unique texture; the grain itself is smooth and creamy, but the tail of the grain has a crunchy texture.
Barley’s been feeding humans for millennia, though it fell out of favor during the last one as people came to see it as low-brow peasant fare. It’s most often used in soups and stews, where it serves as both a puffy grain and a thickener, but it also makes a nice side dish or salad. At most markets, you”ll have to choose between two types of barley. Hulled barley is the most nutritious, since only the tough outer hulls are polished off. Pearl barley is polished some more, so that the outer bran layer is also scrubbed off. It’s less nutritious, but more popular since it’s not as chewy as hulled barley and it cooks faster.
Grain to Liquid Ratio Chart
Grain (1 part) Method Liquid Ratio Time
Couscous Rehydration 0.75 – 1.0 7 – 10 mins
Bulgur Steam/Rehydration 1.25 – 1.5 15 mins
Buckwheat Steam 1.00 – 1.25 10 mins
Quinoa Steam 1.25 – 1.5 15 mins
Pot barley Pasta 5.0 45 mins
Grains are versatile, nutritious, high in fiber and inexpensive. They can be added to meatballs or meatloaf to keep it moist. Cooked grains can be kept in the refrigerator for up to a week. Cook various grains individually as they need different cooking times. Do not wash the grains unless it’s stated on the package (like quinoa) as washing the grains will wash away the nutrients on the surface. Grains can be mix into salad, soup, wrap up with a tortilla, as breakfast cereal or make into a dessert by adding coconut milk and fruit.
This Braise Lamb Shanks with Aromatic Vegetables and Mixed Grains is another simple and hearty recipe. You can make a big batch and freeze the leftovers in single portion size since this recipe requires long simmering time.
2 large carrots cut into chunks
1 large onion cut into chunks
2 ribs celery cut into chunks
1 jar pasta sauce
1 can diced tomatoes
Source: Ian Lai
P/S: you may substitute the lamb shank with oxtail or stewing meat. You may also add in some garam masala for an Indian flavour lamb shank.
Vij’s Marinated Lamb Popsicles with Fenugreek Cream Curry
Ben requested me to make a dish from Vij’s which he enjoyed a lot. It is the Marinated Lamb Popsicles with Fenugreek Cream Curry. It’s easy to source the recipe as a search for it returned many links to the recipe. I got this recipe from http://cookingresources.suite101.com.
The first thing Ben commented was that it did not look like popsicle. Well, I did not trim off the meat from the bones as they are nice for chewing. Anyway, none of my boys like it because they dont like meat with bones and they do not like the sourish cream curry.
I also had problem finding the lamb rack. It took me 3 hours to look for the lamb rack after visiting 7 stores. The 1.8 lbs of lamb rack costs $22. I halve the recipe as it’s way too much for my family of 4. Even that, I find that the recipe for the cream curry is way too much as there is a lot of left over. Half of the recipe will be more than enough.
This recipe yields 30 medium size popsicles for 6 people. The number of popsicles per person depends on the size of the rack of lamb. For larger popsicles, four per person is usually enough.
Marinate for the lamb chop:
4 lbs French cut racks of lamb, in chops
3/4 cup grainy yellow mustard
Ingredients for Cream Curry:
1 tablespoon dried green fenugreek leaves (known as “kasuri methi”)
60 ml or 1/4 cup lemon juice
60 ml or 1/4 cup canola oil
3 tablespoons packed finely chopped garlic
1 teaspoon turmeric
Roast Leg of Lamb
This recipe is taken from the recipe posted on Simply Recipes.
Here is the Roast Leg of Lamb recipe which we bought a couple of weeks prior in Washington. The Leg of Lamb was huge, was about 5 lbs and it took me and my boys almost 5 days to finish it, that was when Ben was away on vacation. He only had two servings of it.
We had three meals with just the plain Roast Leg of Lamb with gravy and some steamed vegetable and rice and the last two meals with noodles and soup. The boys preferred to have the roast lamb in noodles and soup as I sliced the lamb very thin for them. They had hard times eating them in a steak form as they had trouble cutting them.
1 5 to 6 lbs leg of lamb, bone-in or boneless (I had boneless).
1/2 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
2 teaspoons of fresh thyme or 1 teaspoon of dried thymes
2 tablespoons of fresh chopped rosemary or 1 tablespoon of dried rosemary
1/4 teaspoon of fresh ground pepper
Green Curry Lamb
Tanni is a another talented cook of the South Arm Community Kitchen. This week, she prepared a set menu (printed out nicely and put on display) for the cooking class. Her initial plan is to make a salad and garlic toast as the appetizers, Green Curry Lamb as the main entree and finally a sweet rice soup/congee as dessert. But unfortunately, with the boiling water advisory still on, she decided to drop off the salad as a safety precaution.
I’ll start off with the main entree. Green Curry Lamb. It was a great dish to be served with steam rice. The Green Curry Lamb is loaded with rich flavour from lemon grass, coconut milk and palm sugar.
2 lbs lamb shoulder, chopped into bite size
2 pcs garlic, minced
2 onions, sliced
2 tablespoons green curry paste (add more if you like it spicy)
3 tablespoons fish sauce
1 lbs potatoes, peeled and cut into bite size
2 shallots, sliced
2 sticks of lemon grass, cut into 1 inch pieces
3 tablespoons palm sugar
1 can (400g) coconut milk
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Fellowship Time
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Human ashes have been sprinkled into the sky from airplanes and spread over the ocean from ships. But according to the Associated Press, Brian Kelly had something more glorious in mind.
In July 1994 Kelly, who lived in suburban Detroit, suffered complications from surgery on his intestines. Knowing he was soon to die, Kelly told his family what he wanted done with his remains. His request was unusual, but his family granted it.
Kelly's boss, Mary McCavit, at Independence Professional Fireworks shop in Osseo, Michigan, rolled up Kelly's ashes in a twelve-inch round fireworks shell. On Friday, August 12 at a convention of fireworks technicians near Pittsburgh, they shot that shell into the sky. It trailed two silvery comet tails as it ascended into the night sky, and then it exploded into red and green stars.
If you want to go out in a glorious display, you have to admit, that is pretty spectacular.
But that's nothing compared to the glory that God intends for the bodies of those who believe in Jesus Christ. The glory of our resurrection bodies will far surpass that four-second arc of light and color. Instead of a cannon report, there will be the awesome blare of the trumpet of God and the majestic voice of Jesus calling our bodies from the graves. In glorious resurrection bodies like that of Jesus Christ himself, we will ascend into the clouds and meet the King of Kings whose brightness is like the lightning shining from east to west. For ever and ever, Jesus said, we will "shine like the sun in the kingdom" of our Father.
Body, Death, Easter, Glory
Matt. 13:43; 1 Cor. 15:35-57; 1 John 3:2
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Contact Your Ohio State Governor & Legislators
The City of Xenia strongly encourages YOU to write your Ohio State Governor and Legislators to urge them to Restore Local Government Funding to Pre-Recession Levels.
PRESS RELEASE FROM CITY OF XENIA:
Xenia Ohio (April 30, 2019) - The Xenia City Council met in Regular Session on April 25, 2019, and passed emergency Resolution 2019-K Strongly Urging the Ohio Governor and Members of the Ohio General Assembly to Restore the Local Government Fund to Pre-Recession Levels.
As the Resolution states, reductions at the state level have resulted in a detrimental loss of revenue at least $1,000,000 annually for the City of Xenia. The restoration of local government funds to pre-recession levels would assist the City of Xenia and all other Ohio local communities to provide crucial services to residents, make improvements in infrastructure, and ensure public safety.
City Council members are strongly encouraging Xenia residents to contact the Governor's office and their respective State Legislators to support the Resolution. The Resolution cites that the Local Government Fund was reduced in 2011 by 50% during the Kasich Administration from 3.68% of General Revenue Funds to its current level of 1.66% of General Revenue Funds, making it difficult for municipalities and such monies should come back to the communities for the benefits of taxpayers.
The Resolution in its entirety and a cover letter has been sent to Governor DeWine, Speaker of the House Larry Householder,. State Senate President Larry Obhof, State Senator Bob Hackett, and State Representative Bill Dean.
Citizens are further advised to call the City of Xenia at 937-376-8904 for specific questions.
To Contact Your Ohio State Governor & Legislators:
Write a letter to them at the following addresses.
The Honorable Mike DeWine
Riffe Center, 30th Floor
77 S. High Street
The Honorable Bill Dean
77 S. High Street, 12th Floor
The Honorable Bob D. Hackett
Senate Building
1 Capitol Square, 1st Floor
The Honorable Larry Householder
The Honorable Larry Obhof
State Senator, Senate President
1 Capitol Square, 2nd Floor
The Cover letter that was sent to the Governors from the City stated the following:
RE: Restoration of Local Government Funding to Pre-Recession Levels
The Xenia City Council met in Regular Session on April 25, 2019, and passed emergency Resolution 2019-K Strongly Urging the Ohio Governor and Members of the Ohio General Assembly to Restore the Local Government Fund to Pre-Recession Levels. A certified true copy is enclosed.
As the Resolution states, the reductions have resulted in a detrimental loss of revenue of at least $1,000,000 annually for the City of Xenia. The restoration of local government funds to pre-cession levels would assist the City of Xenia and all other Ohio local communities to provide crucial services to residents, make improvements in infrastructure, and ensure public safety.
Michelle D. Johnson
Xenia City Clerk
Enc. Resolution 2019 - K
c: Ohio Municipal League, 175 S. Third Street, Suite 510, Columbus, OH 43215
State Representative Rick Perales, District 73, 77 S. High Street, 13th Floor, Columbus, OH 43215-6111
City of Xenia, Ohio - Resolution 2019-K
STRONGLY URGING THE OHIO GOVERNOR AND MEMBERS OF THE OHIO GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO RESTORE THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT FUND TO PRE-RECESSION LEVELS, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY
WHEREAS, the Local Government Fund was reduced in 2011 by 50% during the Kasich Administration from 3.68% of General Revenue Funds to its current level of 1.66% of General Revenue Funds;
WHEREAS, past Ohio General Assemblies have repeatedly decreased funding and revenue sharing to Ohio's municipalities since 2008, including eliminating the Estate Tax and phasing out the Tangible Personal Property Tax, in addition to significantly reducing the Local Government Fund;
WHEREAS, these reductions have resulted in a detrimental loss of revenue of at least $1,000,000 annually to the City of Xenia.
WHEREAS, over the same period the State has saddled municipalities with unfunded mandates and policy edicts, which have both increased net operating costs without any corresponding revenue to offset these expenses and decreased revenue collection potential through attempts to centralize local income tax collections;
WHEREAS, this revenue loss, whereby the State maxed out its rainy day fund by taking funding from Ohio's municipalities has made it increasingly difficult for the benefit of the residents that pay such taxes; and
WHEREAS, a restoration in Local Government Fund funding levels to pre-2008 levels will allow Ohio's municipalities sustain service levels and to invest in infrastructure and capital improvement initiatives, making it easier to foster safe communities, and revitalize their local economies, from which the State of Ohio reaps the benefits as well.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY OF XENIA HEREBY RESOLVES, at least five (5) members of the City Council concurring, that:
Section 1. This Resolution is an emergency for the reason that voting by the General Assembly on the proposal to restore Local Government Fund funding levels to pre-recession levels is imminent, so this Resolution must be forwarded to the State as quickly as possible.
Section 2. The City of Xenia strongly encourages the Governor and the Ohio General Assembly to restore the Local Government Fund funding to pre-recession levels, ensuring that Ohio's local communities are able to provide crucial services to their residents, make improvements in infrastructure, and ensure public safety.
Section 3. This Council does hereby declare its opposition any further cuts to the Local Government Fund or the future diversion of revenues from the Local Government Fund.
Section 4. The City Clerk shall forward certified copies of this Resolution to Governor Mike DeWine, State Representative Bill Dean, State Senator Bob D. Hackett, Speaker of the House Larry Householder, Senate President Larry Obhof, and the Ohio Municipal League.
Section 5. It is found that all formal actions of this Council concerning and relating to the adoption of this Resolution were adopted in an open meeting of this Council, and that all deliberations of this Council that resulted in this formal action were in meetings open to the public in compliance with all legal requirements, including Section 121.22 of the Ohio Revised Code.
Section 6. This Resolution shall be effective upon its passage, in accordance with Section 5.04 of the City Charter.
Passed: April 25, 2019
Michael D. Engle
President, Xenia City Council
Attest:
City Clerk, City of Xenia
Links to the Documents Above:
Cover Letter Sent to Ohio State Governor & Legislators RE: Restoration of Local Government Funding to Pre-Recession Levels
Strongly Urging the Ohio Governor and Members of the Ohio General Assembly to Restore the Local Government Fund to Pre- Recession Levels, and Declaring an Emergency
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Cinema, Comics, Cop Shows and Colonialism
Punished to Perfection
SPOILER ALERTS for the “Ride the Lightning” episode of Criminal Minds and V for Vendetta comics and film. Many thanks to Zoé Samudzi for early feedback on the idea. Mariame Kaba, Critical Resistance, Ruth Wilson Gilmore and other Black liberation and abolitionist organizers have long described and critiqued the same ideas and credit for anything insightful in what follows is due to them even if not directly cited, although they should not be blamed for any misuses of their ideas. Please support their work. Feedback whether constructive, destructive or other is always welcomed.
The fourteenth episode in season one of the CBS police procedural Criminal Minds, “Riding the Lightning”, follows the FBI’s Behavioural Analysis Unit (BAU) as they interview Sarah Jean Dawes and Jacob Dawes, a white serial killer couple scheduled the following day for execution in Florida after being found guilty of killing twelve young women plus their infant son Riley. The interviews reveal that Sarah Jean was uninvolved in the killings and was a herself victim of Jacob’s abuse yet the BAU, despite finding Riley alive, doesn’t intervene against her murder by the state. The episode creates a sympathetic saint through martyrdom while punishing someone towards their perfection and it is not alone in its carceral saintmaking. It is representative of very common narratives and assumptions that brutalizing people improves them.
“Riding the Lightning” opens with BAU agent Jason Gideon (Mandy Patinkin) having a teary, appreciative smile on his face while listening to a live performance of Bach’s “Cello Suite No.1, Prelude”. It transitions into the interior of an FBI vehicle where BAU agents Gideon, Derek Morgan (Shemar Moore) and JJ (A.J. Cook) are discussing the killing carried out by married couple Sarah Jean Dawes (Jeanetta Arnette) and Jacob Dawes (Michael Massee) while the rest of the unit similarly discusses in another vehicle. A team led by Gideon interviews Sarah Jean while Hotchner (Thomas Gibson) leads Jacob’s interview.
We meet Sarah Jean when Gideon visits her cell where she is painting. Sarah Jean exudes a weary serenity, wisdom and peace that has Gideon questioning whether she killed Riley and, later, whether Riley is even dead. Jacob is her opposite. He revels in sexual violence, enjoys taunting the BAU and lasciviciously celebrates his misogynistic history.
The episode follows the BAU’s divergent interviews with Jacob and Sarah Jean. Sarah Jean is contemplative, nurturing and wise while Jacob is vicious, creepy and mocking. Through probing interviews directly against the boundaries Sarah Jean tries to enforce, the BAU figures out by using very implausible psychology that, not only did she not kill her son Riley at Jacob’s directive, but she didn’t kill him at all and the boy is alive, adopted by a rich family. Meanwhile Hotchner engages in a regressive masculinity contest with Jacob.
The episode climaxes with the BAU frantically searching for and finding the proof that Riley is alive while Jacob is executed. At the moment right before Jacob’s face is hidden from the murder viewing room, Hotchner slaps a picture of a now teenaged Riley up to the glass telling him, “You lose!” Jacob is at last not gleefully lecherous, providing for the audience a comeuppance for…someone seconds away from being executed? Morgan and Elle find Riley but Gideon orders them to back off after deciding to heed Sarah Jean’s wishes and letting the state kill her, ostensibly to prevent Riley from being contaminated by his association with his parents. Sarah Jean requests that Gideon witness her murder which he does while the warden, tears in his eyes knowing she didn’t kill her son, over a sad melody, sees to her death.
Even by the standards of pro-death penalty US cop stories, the FBI, warden, and condemned teaming up together to execute a sympathetic character consciously against the evidence is a little remarkable. Jacob’s murder, because of Hotch’s actions, intends audience pleasure. Sarah Jean’s murder/suicide bonds those not killed together, witnessing while manufacturing her martyrdom and beatification. It is their act of jointly killing her that makes them heroic and her willing walk to the electric chair that makes her a saint. It is the act of punishing her that brings her to the ethical sublime. Despite the terrible writing – Criminal Minds is always mediocre from the perspective of canon consistency and psychology but rarely is it as corny as “Riding the Lightning” – the episode is one of the more moving ones. The “heroic” death of a sympathetic character is deeply affecting. All state murder is horror yet Criminal Minds finds a way to not only make it heroic, but virtuous even in the context of executing someone who didn’t do the thing for which they’re being executed.
V for Valorus Victimizing
In both the 1982 comics series by Alan Moore and David Lloyd and 2005 film directed by James McTeigue, V for Vendetta offers another version of punishing someone to righteousness. The comics and film have some differences – for example in the comics Evey is a sex worker and in the film a tv production assistant – but in both Evey Hammond is imprisoned and tortured to heroism. “Riding the Lightning” takes place inside the Criminal Minds version of a Florida concentration camp (euphemised in US discourse as a deracialized “prison”) while Evey’s torture at the hands of V takes place in a mock concentration camp of V’s creation in a post-apocalyptic fascist London.
In both the comics (issues 6 and 7) and film, V imprisons Evey in a dark, cold cell, starves her, beats her, drowns her, gaslights her, verbally denigrates her and threatens her with execution. While jailed, he slips her written letters through a hole in the wall from another purported inmate, Valerie, telling her story of how she was captured, tortured and experimented on for being lesbian, and the beautiful parts of her life and loves prior to her time in the concentration camp. These letters shore up Evey’s resolve to not give up “the last inch” of herself even as V seeks to torture her into doing exactly that. In both versions Evey refuses to snitch at the point of death, at which point V exposes the ruse.
In both versions Evey initially responds reasonably, with rage and horror directed not at the fascist system of torture and prisons, but in V’s reproduction of it. Yet she quickly comes to embrace this as a lesson in freedom. V has tortured her in and into service to the greater good. What makes this so effective in the stories are Valerie’s letters. Concentration camp narratives are nearly always devastating and the version written by Moore and reproduced in the film is gutting. It is this affect that allows for V’s actions to be interpreted as reasonable. Without Valerie’s narration, V’s violence against Evey would seem as baldly cruel as it actually is.
This, like the Criminal Minds episode above, reproduces fascism in order to serve the greater good. In both versions reproducing fascism is simply making more of it even as both versions imagine themselves as doing so to produce justice and confront repressive violence (misogynistic killings in the Criminal Minds, state authoritarianism in V for Vendetta). They do not intend to be the same politically. Criminal Minds aspires to validate the carceral state while V for Vendetta aspires to anarchist revolution. Yet they both imagine carcerality to potentially produce justice, to manufacture better people. In the case of Criminal Minds this extends to the jailers who are the story’s surviving heroes.
After the Holocaust…
Everyday discourse naming judges as “justices”, carcerality (Black Captivity) as “the justice system”, prisons and jails as “reformatories” and more all produce the ideas that prisons serve some kind of good. So it isn’t really surprising that popular culture, even dissident narratives like V for Vendetta, reproduces this. But lots of leftist or progressive narratives also do. Anyone who has done work towards Palestinian liberation for much time has heard at least once “I can’t believe Jews could do this after the Holocaust” or some version thereof. Leaving aside the ahistorical, wrongheaded and confused timeline and conflation of “Jews” with “Israeli settler state”, this idea has the same premise as “Riding the Lightning” and V for Vendetta in brutalizing people to righteousness.
That it is surprising that a state calling itself Jewish can perpetrate the dispossession of Palestine and Palestinians in spite of the Holocaust assumes that the Nazi’s concentration camps produced something other than conformity, horror and death (and has a bizarre romanticization of ethnonationalism!). Jews – and other Nazi victims – were just people before the Holocaust. Survivors came out also as just people, if horrendously traumatized. Concentration camps cannot produce righteousness in the material world any more than they can in Criminal Minds or V for Vendetta. The same logic would ask, “How could Palestinian merchants as victims of Zionism – including mass incarceration – in Palestine exploit Black people in the US?” Israeli prisons no more make angels of Palestinians – individually or collectively – than Nazi concentration camps make angels of Jews. That is not what concentration camps are designed to do and it is true horror that they are imagined to do so.
Do you feel remorse?
The above three examples deal with three concentration camps, one real and two imagined (though one purports to reproduce a real US concentration camp). In the material world functioning of US concentration camps parole boards ask detainees summoned to plead for their freedom questions, often something like, “Do you feel your sentence fits the crime you committed?”, “Do you feel remorse for your crime?” and “What would you do different if you found yourself in a similar situation again?” In other words, “How did your time in the concentration camp make you a better person?” Black Captivity’s concentration camps are expected by parole boards to produce contemplative, remorseful people when what prisons produce is primarily violence, isolation and boredom. And if you don’t answer the questions in a way that suits the board, you can be redenied your freedom (to the very limited degree that parole is any kind of freedom). The assumptions of Criminal Minds, V for Vendetta and some progressive activists are the same as parole boards.
This is a way carceral normativity is (re)produced in normative popular culture, surprisingly large swaths of counterhegemonic discourse and by prison functionings themselves. It is the imaginary “rehabilitative” quality of concentration camps when no amount of individual transformation could ever be expected to avoid systemically produced incarceration in the first place. This is, to use Mariame Kaba’s twitter handle, “prison culture”. Thanks for reading.
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If losing to the Yankees wasn't bad enough, we also had to listen to Bob Costas
His commentary worsened an already crappy night.
Adam Uren
Jeffrey Beall, Wikimedia
Twins fans have endured enough playoffs crap with the Yankees over the years as it is without having to suffer their first divisional series game since 2010 listening to a New York homer on commentary.
It may sound like sour grapes given Game 1 didn't go the Twins' way – heck, it's absolutely sour grapes – but that doesn't mean we and many other Twins fans aren't justified ripping Bob Costas for his game calling Friday night.
It started as early as the 2nd at-bat, when Jorge Polanco smoked a pitch into the left-field bleachers.
But, according to a thoroughly underwhelmed Costas, he hit it "off-the-fists," before crediting the homer to the weather and "this year's ball."
And then there's Nelson Cruz's home run, you can almost here his heart breaking as the ball makes it into the stands.
Home runs are meant to be exciting moments, Bob, for crying out loud.
He had a similarly downhearted reaction to Miguel Sano's blast, only showing some brief excitement as it looked like his man, Aaron Judge, was about to snag it.
Contrast it with Brett Gardner's homer, when Costas builds to an orgasmic crescendo, before pronouncing it "gone" as if drawing on a post-coital cigarette.
The homer was "almost on cue," Costas says, unlike the Twins' bombs which were an apparent affront to decency.
Costas – a native of, you guessed it, Queens – was also partnered by John Smoltz, who surely has nothing but fond memories of the Twins, such as losing Game 7 in the '91 World Series against Jack Morris.
Needless to say, the partisan commentary didn't go unnoticed by Twins fans, with "Bob Costas" in fact trending second on Twitter in Minneapolis at one point.
Yes we know the Twins lost and we're bad losers, but fans have been waiting a long time for this moment, it'd be nice if the announcers could treat them with the respect their 101-win season deserves.
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Good luck finding a pitcher who enjoyed their night.
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I hadn’t been to a gaming convention in a year, so a quick train ride to this past weekend’s HMGS Fall In! in Lancaster, Pennsylvania was a welcome getaway. With around 2000 people participating in the weekend’s games, lectures and hobby buying opportunities, the hours logged at the convention were the usual combination of fun and exhaustion. The “Home Before The Leaves Fall” convention theme paid homage to the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I, but their were hundreds of games covering prehistory to the future in just about every scale manageable.
Rallying colonial irregulars prepare to deploy against encroaching British
A British column cautiously marches through an American wood
The weekend started for me on Friday afternoon with an American War of Independence scenario in 25mm called “Defending Washington’s Flank.” The game represented a post Battle of Brandywine engagement with American volunteers looking to hold off a further British advance toward Washington’s retreating forces. Playing as British regulars my mission was to march through the table, ostensibly to destroy a key bridge objective in the far distance. A central road stretched the length of the table flanked by two forests leading to fenced fields and farms in the distance. American colonials threatened on each side and from defending positions at the farms ahead, so the British columns chose to break into two forces to the right around one forest and at a straight march down the road. Serving as a shield, the British front column marched straight ahead in European tradition, taking heavy losses from musket and cannon fire on either side of the road. With redcoats falling on the road ahead, their countrymen were able to mass into lines to the rear, tow a fieldpiece toward the front and slip another two columns to the right around the forest. With colonials holding the British at the halfway point on the board, they had successfully halted the redcoat advance.
The crowded dealer hall at HMGS Fall In!
I also hit the dealer’s hall Friday afternoon which seemed to be more full than the previous year’s Fall In! con. There didn’t seem to be a single “it game” but Bolt Action, Flames of War and other World War II games still seemed to dominate. I immediately scored a hardcover copy of Chris Anderson’s Seven Years War classic Crucible of War for just $30. Just down the way, another dealer was running a wildly-popular 40% off sale with guys carting away armfuls of models from Flames of War, Plastic Soldier Company, GHQ and a number of terrain suppliers. I scooped up two big 15mm European city block models from JR Miniatures to add to my growing Western European terrain collection.
Players gather for “Speak Easy and Carry a Big Stick”
Traffic clogs the streets of “Speak Easy and Carry a Big Stick”
A tour bus drives by the Metropole
Cars and civilians collect outside the Goldstein law offices
“Little Caesar” plays at the theater on the North Side
Street scene on the South Side in “Speak Easy and Carry a Big Stick”
The local Sinclair gas station
Deliveries on the side streets of “Speak Easy and Carry a Big Stick”
A Prohibition view from a window interior
Friday night’s game was the winner of best in show with a massive Prohibition era pulp game also in 25mm. Multiple tables were set up with a fictional city scene featuring more than 100 buildings supplemented by lit interiors, working advertising signs and theater marquees, scores of cars, trucks and vans, and hundreds of player gangsters and civilian characters. As period music played in the background, competing gangs battled it out over six hours. The simple rules allowed for a pretty wide-open game that was an impressive mix of miniatures gaming and role-playing. My south side gang began the game by hijacking a competitor’s delivery truck in a bloodless showdown in the middle of a bust street. From there, we drove in two directions to rob a corner savings and loan. With our vehicles parked on the curb, we drew our guns and announced a stick up. Just as we were making our escape, another gang showed up, blocked our getaway with their cars and shot down much of our gang in the street. With two crooked cops paid off by the other gang also shooting us up, our survivors were able to make it to our cars and ram our way through traffic and make it away from the scene bloodied but still hanging on. Other gangs spent the game whacking the competition, setting a warehouse on fire, gun-running and generally creating a city of mayhem of double-crossses and lead flying through the air. With probably more than 20 people playing, the game masters (who put in two years building and developing the game) did an amazing job in holding the entire game together.
My partner deploys some Canadian paratroopers
British paratroopers make their way across a road nearby Varaville
My first Saturday game was “The Bloody Gatehouse: Assault on Strongpoint Varaville,” a scenario on the morning of D-Day in 25mm using the Nuts! rule set from Two Hour Wargames. Run by John Stapleton and Steve Waddell from West Point, I had read about the game from a previous convention in Wargames Illustrated, and I was anxious to play the small action on an absolutely gorgeous table. Playing with a partner as members of the 1st Canadian Parachute Batallion, our mission was to push through the town and take control of a German-held stone building and artillery position beyond. The game progressed with my squad occupying a centrally fortified gatehouse and firing into German positions in the building and trenches across an open field of fire. Two of my rifle-armed Canadians managed to repeatedly injure, rattle, pin and kill a number of Germans, including a deadly MG42 crew as other Canadian squads crept toward a wood in a flanking maneuver to the right. My gatehouse paratroopers held the center of the table for the majority of the game, eventually taking heavy losses from HE rounds fired from the German gun. With bloody close-action combat in the woods and a vastly depleted German force in the stone building, by game’s end the Canadians had moved a Vickers machine gun and light mortar into position. Well poised to destroy the remaining German force, the day went to the Canadians.
Players command troops at the Battle of Dresden
Adjacent to my table for much of Saturday was a massive Battle of Dresden 1813 scenario in 15mm. The six-hour game was one of the signature Napoleonic games at the con, as a table teeming with beautiful Austrian, Russian, Prussian and French miniatures made slow and crowded progress across the fields outside of Dresden 300 years ago. A number of veteran players in the period (including my brother in the hat above) flocked to the game for the chance to replay this award-winning game of the third largest battle of the Napoleonic wars.
Andrew Hershberger running his home-made Sticks and Stones prehistoric game
Early man confronts a mammoth in Sticks and Stones
Down the hall, my nephew played in a prehistoric 28mm game called Sticks and Stones. With rules developed by the young game master Andrew Hershberger using early humans, mammoths, wolves and other prehistoric creatures by Acheson Creations, the snowy game presented an early hunter/gatherer tribe’s quest for survival in an unforgiving world of danger. Talking to Andrew after the game, he’s an incredibly engaging young guy with a passion for developing his new game — just the kind of person I love to meet at a con who is willing to carry the torch of the hobby into the future.
The “Killing Bin Laden” scenario replayed the American action against the Al Qaeda leader
A scenario of the US Navy Seals raid and eventual killing of Osama Bin Laden at Abbottabad, Pakistan in 2012 also proved to be popular throughout the convention weekend. Run by gamemaster and author of the new book Killing Bin Laden, King Chris has been a feature at cons since 2011 with games focusing on modern US actions in the Middle East.
The beautiful “Forest of Blood” French and Indian War skirmish scenario
French coer du bois prepare to raid the Colonist’s farms
The French and their Indian allies swarm the Colonist’s blockhouse
Late Saturday afternoon I signed on for a French and Indian War skirmish scenario called “The Bloody Forest.” Played with simple house rules in 25mm, the game represented colonial farmers and irregulars looking to defend their land against an Indian and French coer du bois war party swarming through the surrounding cornfields and forests. With colonials quickly falling back to the blockhouse, our Indian and French swarmed the palisade and took heavy musket and cannon fire while attempting to breach the walls. With the colonials making their last stand with their enemy attempting to kick in the blockhouse door, a British line of regulars appeared from the forest behind the French and Indians offering withering fire into the back of the raiders. The settlement had been saved for the day after a very, very bloody battle.
Kids play the holiday-themed “Save Santa VII: Halloween Horror!
The snowman army in “Save Santa VII: Halloween Horror!”
A good-sized contingent of kids and entire families were found throughout the con, but a few games were presented specifically for younger wargamers. A favorite was “Save Santa VII: Halloween Horror!” by Shawn Reis with a snowman army allied with forces from the Easter Bunny looking to hold off an assault by the Halloween forces of Jack-O-Lantern and save Christmas. The winter and fall seasonal sides of the board traversed by a candy-paved road was filled with fantastic large-scale models in a wonderful fantasy game.
Massive hordes of zombies are still popular at the convention
Crazy post apocalyptic carnage about to commence with the late night Road Warrior game
Post-apocalyptic games continue to be popular at the HMGS cons, attracting novice and veteran players of all ages to big tables filled with zombies, survivors, hand-built weapons and other mainstays of the genre. The con drew to a close for me late on Saturday night with a raucous home-brewed Road Warrior game by Eric Goodlander. Using fantastic modified Matchbox, Hot Wheels and other small vehicle models, the game was crazed as competing factions of raced down the desert highway. With bullets flying, gas bombs tossing, cars skidding and metal crashing, my “bad guy” team eventually met the “good guys” and their oil tanker in a head-on assault and a win for the forces of evil.
HMGS Fall In! for me is a chance to try new games, get fresh ideas for my gaming back home in Brooklyn and meet up with guys I’ve crossed paths with and come to know a bit over the years. From muskets to molotov cocktails, my con experience stretched across a wide swath of gaming that keeps me coming back to the tables every year.
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When and where is this located? And for 2015, when and where is the next convention??
kimbervanry says:
HMGS runs three conventions — Cold Wars, Historicon and Fall In — with info on all on their website: https://hmgs.site-ym.com.
There’s also NJCon which I’m checking out for the first time this weekend: http://njcon.org
Historicon is in Fredericksburg, VA July 16-19 and Fall In! is in Lancaster, PA November 5-8. NJCon is in Edison, NJ this weekend, June 12-14
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Channing Memorial Unitarian Universalist Church
Shaw Stained-Glass Window Restoration
The Shaw stained glass window at Channing Memorial Church is being restored due to age, weather and moisture damage. Workers from Board Stained Glass Studio are removing sections piece by piece and restoring them in their Fairfield Iowa studio. (Peter Silvia Photo)
Age, weather and moisture have taken a toll on the Shaw window over the last 139 years. Channing Memorial Unitarian Universalist Church in Newport has sent the Shaw window, the last major stained-glass window in its Sanctuary in dire need of repair, to Iowa for restoration. Because of its eastern exposure and old leaded glass protective covering, the window has been particularly vulnerable during Nor’easters. The Champlin Foundation is helping the church restore the exterior of the window and provide new protective covering.
Workers from Board Glass Studio remove a piece of the Shaw window which will be transported to the Fairfield Iowa studio for restoration.
(Peter Silvia Photo)
Given as a memorial to Ann Checkley Shaw, it features the theme “Faith, Hope and Charity” and represents a traditional English painted style of stained glass. Its white glass and soft colors light up the sanctuary on sunny days.
Channing Church was built in 1880 to honor the founder of Unitarianism in America, William Ellery Channing, a native of Newport. The Channing Sanctuary features late 19th stained-glass masterpieces in all styles representative of the era from Gothic Revival to American Opalescent. The church contains the first pictorial stained-glass windows by the great opalescent glass innovator John La Farge.
Worker holds a section of the Shaw window that will be restored.
“The church contains the most important selection of late nineteenth-century pictorial stained-glass windows in Newport,” according to Dr. James L. Yarnall, architectural historian and assistant professor of art history at Salve Regina University, in his 2005 book Newport Through Its Architecture.
Stained-glass scholars and students, domestic and international, as well as tourists often visit Channing for its windows. All major windows with the exception of the large Shaw window in the east transept have been restored. The Champlin Foundation supported the church in its ongoing restoration efforts with a grant in 2006 as well.
The national significance of the art and architecture of Channing Church was affirmed in 2009 by the award of a Save America’s Treasures grant for the restoration of its steeple and rare nine-bell chime. The church received a Doris Duke Historic Preservation Award in 2010 for this same project.
Photo Credit: Peter Silvia Photo
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Trump Claims Hillary Clinton Gave Anthony Weiner Access To 'Classified Information'
Apparently being in "close proximity" means passing along state secrets!
By John Amato
Huma Abedin announced today that she's separating from her husband Anthony Weiner.
"On Monday, Ms. Abedin said in a statement: “After long and painful consideration and work on my marriage, I have made the decision to separate from my husband. Anthony and I remain devoted to doing what is best for our son, who is the light of our life. During this difficult time, I ask for respect for our privacy.”
Donald Trump's initial comment about the separation of the two seemed surprisingly decent by his standards.
“Huma is making a very wise decision. I know Anthony Weiner well, and she will be far better off without him,” Mr. Trump said in a statement.
But then he followed up that up with one one of his typical asinine and unfounded assertions that aren't based in fact or reality.
“I only worry for the country in that Hillary Clinton was careless and negligent in allowing Weiner to have such close proximity to highly classified information,” he continued. “Who knows what he learned and who he told? It’s just another example of Hillary Clinton’s bad judgment. It is possible that our country and its security have been greatly compromised by this.”
I imagine one of his staff came up with the words "close proximity." Maybe it was Dr. Bornstein?
Is he claiming Huma should have been fired years ago when her husband was caught in a sexting scandal?
Sexist, much?
And he's also saying that Huma shared classified information with her husband?
I guess his word of the day is "possible."
It's also possible that Trump briefed Putin on his first "classified intelligence briefing" too.
It's very possible that Trump had a secret meeting with David Duke and offered him a job in his cabinet, if he helps get him elected. Those robocalls came out of something, right?
Yea, that's possible.
And here we go with bothsiderism as Duncan says:
I can't even bring myself to do the asshole olympics between the two - I'll just say that their alleged and actual actions are also not exactly comparable - but one was chosen by Donald Trump to be the "CEO" (whatever that is) of his campaign and one was not hired by Hillary Clinton to do anything.
The problem for Clinton team - after Democrats repeatedly pointed to Bannon personal past, going to be hard to argue Weiner is off limits
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 29, 2016
Anthony Weiner, Donald Trump
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A huge eye-roll this early in the week as Anthony Weiner gets caught again.
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Famed Holocaust Attorney Sues Over FBI Electioneering: It Could 'Lead To Impeachment'
E. Randol Schoenberg, an attorney renowned for recovering artworks stolen by Nazis during the Holocaust, filed a lawsuit against the FBI this week to get answers about why Director James Comey falsely suggested that Hillary Clinton committed a [...]
Andrea Mitchell Asks Ann Coulter To Comment On Huma Abedin's Separation
MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell on Monday urged controversial columnist Ann Coulter to discuss the "personal lives" of Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin.
Limbaugh Blames Huma Abedin: 'She Has Not Been Chief Of Her Husband's Staff'
Every time I think he can't be more disgusting, he proves me wrong.
Fox's Gutfeld: With Clinton And Weiner In The W.H. 'How Long Before The Rose Garden Has A Hot Tub?'
Fox News, The Five, April 21, 2015. GUTFELD: I want her (Clinton) to win the presidency, because if she does, that means she's going to appoint Huma Abedin in all likelihood as the chief of staff, so get this. You're going to have [...]
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What complexity issues are there in considering quantum algorithms with infinite gate-sets?
Suppose that you want to consider a model of quantum computation in which the gates used in the circuits may depend on the input size. Are there pitfalls to avoid when defining the circuits, to avoid obtaining unreasonable computational power from combining the coefficients themselves? Conversely: what limitations (aside from the conservative one of having a gate set of size $O(1)$ for the entire circuit family) yield a model whose complexity is still reasonable, and in particular does not disrupt too many of the things which we know hold for gate-sets of size $O(1)$?
Motivation and Details
The class $\def\EQP{\mathsf{EQP}}\EQP$ is the set of languages which can be decided with certainty by a polynomial-size uniform circuit family. Except — because of the fact that there is no exactly universal gate-set for quantum computation, the gates allowed may change from problem to problem. And it would seem that people remain unsure of whether to allow infinite gate-sets, so that the gates which are used in each circuit for a problem may depend on the input size.
It seems reasonable to me, in principle, to allow a unitary circuit family to use an infinite gate-set: for instance, a set in which the different gates used by the circuit on inputs of length $n$, grow as $O(n)$ rather than the scenario of $O(1)$ which is possible with (approximately) universal gate-sets. Gate-sets which scale as $O(n)$ are part of classical circuit complexity, after all. Furthermore, it's not clear to me that it should be necessary to allow a gate set of size larger than $O(n^2)$ — which would allow for a constant number of gate-sets having arity ranging from constant to the entire system. For many purposes, it may even be enough to have a gate-set of size $O(1)$ for each circuit size, but a different such set for each $n$ — so that one may describe the gate set used by the family as being $O(n)$ for the first $n$ circuit sizes.
However, allowing even a single distinct gate for each input size allows you to do strange things, even if you require that the coefficients of the gates be nicely behaved. For instance, you could allow as a gate a controlled-QFT gate $\Lambda\mathrm{QFT}$, acting on $2n$ qubits, which is defined on $\def\ket#1{|#1\rangle}\ket{m}\ket{x}$ for $m,x \in \{0,1\}^n$ by $$\begin{aligned} \Lambda\mathrm{QFT} \ket{m}\ket{x} &= \ket{m} \otimes \mathrm{QFT}_m\ket{x} \\[1ex]&= \begin{cases} \tfrac{1}{\sqrt m} \sum\limits_{k=0}^{m-1} \mathrm{e}^{2\pi i kx/m} \ket{m}\ket{k}, & \text{if $0 \leqslant x < m$}; \\[2ex] \qquad\ket{m}\ket{x}, &\text{otherwise}.\end{cases} \end{aligned}$$ This effectively allows you to simulate gates which not only depend on the input size, but on the input itself. In addition to being strange in itself, and making it potentially difficult to obtain a meaningful notion of complexity (how much work is being absorbed into the machine which describes the gates?), it would undo classic results in quantum computational complexity such as $\mathsf{EQP \subseteq LWPP}$ [Fortnow+Rogers-1999]. Admittedly, that result relies on a definition of $\EQP$ in terms of quantum Turing machines rather than circuits, so inherently depends on the gate-set of a circuit being finite; it would not be shocking to negate it, but negating it is a warning sign that we may be doing something unreasonable. It would still be nice to find a way to keep it intact.
There is a potentially more awkward problem, however, which I am less well-equipped to consider myself.
If we study $\EQP$ out of interest in theory of computation (as opposed to practical application, where $\mathsf{BQP}$ will be more relevant for the foreseeable future), it doesn't make sense to consider coefficients which are themselves only computable to finite precision. Instead we should probably consider coefficients which are expressed symbolically as algebraic numbers: that is, where each individual gate has coefficients drawn from some finite extension of $\mathbb Q$. This picture of quantum computation is preicsely what the classic results $\mathsf{BQP \subseteq PP}$, $\mathsf{EQP \subseteq LWPP}$, and $\mathsf{NQP = coC_=P}$ rely on, so I'm quite comfortable allowing the coefficients be specified abstractly and "symbolically", so that the only precision involved is the length of the representation of a polynomial of which a given coefficient is a root, or something similar.
The problem is this: completely aside from whether or not you can hide non-trivial polynomial amounts of computation in the computation of the coefficients, I worry that the linear combinations of these algebraic coefficients, arising from the matrix multiplication itself, might itself hide non-trivial amounts of work by simulating a Blum-Shub-Smale machine. I'm not very familiar with the issues involved in that, so I wonder whether allowing infinite gate-sets might be a bit of a minefield.
Question #1. What theoretical problems (as opposed to practical problems, i.e. let us not concern ourselves any more with experimental implementation than we would with the polynomial hierarchy) does one have to worry about — for bounded error as well as for exact quantum computation — if one considers infinite gate-sets allowing the simulation of complicated arithmetic over the reals?
Question #2. What are the sufficient conditions for an infinite gate set to be "benign", from a standpoint of computational complexity?
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Niel de Beaudrap
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To answer my own question: for the purposes of exact computation, there's no need to worry about having too much computational power from linear combinations of algebraic numbers.
On representations of algebraic numbers.
If the coefficients of all of the gates in a unitary circuit $U_n$ belong to a field extension $\mathbb E{:}\mathbb Q$ of finite dimension, we can represent elements of $\mathbb E$ as rational vectors of polynomial dimension by construction. Sums of these numbers are performed component-wise, and products by fixed elements of $\mathbb E$ are linear transformations of those vectors. So we may reduce the representation of this model of computation to one over the rational numbers, albeit with the property of unitarity (or for vectors, having unit $\ell_2$-norm) not being directly represented in the linear transformations.
Bounding the complexity of exact quantum computation with infinite gate sets.
For a decision problem represented as a function $P: \{0,1\}^n \to \{0,1\}$, using classic results involving uncomputation, we can suppose that the unitary circuit computes a function $$ U_n |x\rangle|0^m\rangle|0\rangle = |x\rangle|0^m\rangle|P(x)\rangle $$ for some number $\def\poly{\mathrm{poly}}m \in O(\poly(n))$ of ancillas. Being a standard basis vector, this obviously has only rational coefficients, so in the vectors representing the elements of the field $\mathbb E$ we only need to compute the component of rational contributions.
If — furthermore — the coefficients of all gates in $U_n$ can be expressed in the form $\tfrac{1}{m} \alpha$, where $m$ can be computed in polynomial time from $n$ and where $\alpha$ is a sum of algebraic integers, the standard proof that $\mathsf{EQP \subseteq LWPP}$ goes through with only simple modifications. Note that this appears to rule out the $\Lambda\mathrm{QFT}$ operator described above, for which we would have $m^2 = {(2^n)!}/{(2^{n-1})!}$, which is monstrously large.
Bounding the complexity of bounded-error quantum computation with infinite gate sets
Bounded error quantum computation with symbolically specified coefficients is slightly more worrying on the face of it, as it appears to allow unit-cost comparison of algebraic numbers with 1/3 or 2/3. Of course, the same is true for circuit families constructed from a finite gate-set; only in that case the comparisons are being made between algebraic numbers from a field-extension $\mathbb E{:}\mathbb Q$ which is of constant degree, rather than degree $D \in O(\poly(n))$ growing with the input size as in our setting.
It is clear that being able to make these comparisons allows us to save at most a polynomial amount of work, as any one coefficient of $\mathbb E$ is a $\poly(n)$-sized sum of numbers $a_j$, each of which can be computed to precision $\varepsilon$ in time $O(\poly \log(a_j) \poly \log(1/\varepsilon))$; and for deciding problems in $\mathsf{BQP}$, it suffices to consider $\varepsilon \in O(1/\poly(n))$. So any complexity which is subsumed into evaluating whether the norm-square of a coefficient is large or small will not affect any results concerning complexity classes, and actually only amounts to computing $\poly(n)$ algebraic integers numbers up to $\log(n)$ bits of precision and adding them.
An obvious solution to making sure that no complexity is hidden in the construction of the gate is to make the gate have cost greater than $1$ to use, associated to the complexity of the coefficients.
For consistency with the case of finite gate sets, we suppose that the cost of applying any gate from a gate-set of size $O(1)$ is only a constant; and so that results on complexity are robust, we want the cost of applying a gate
not to compound the cost of transforming many amplitudes in parallel (so that the cost of performing a single-qubit gate does not depend on whether you consider it to "act" on many qubits when you take the tensor product with the identity), and
to be independent of what other gates are used in the circuits (we don't assess the cost of any gate depending on whether the circuit uses more exotic gates as well).
We may therefore suppose that the cost of performing arithmetic on the amplitudes does not compound with the number of amplitudes being transformed in parallel, and that a rational linear combination (with coefficients $a_j$) of rational numbers $x_j$ may be performed effectively at a cost depending only on the complexity of specifying the coefficients $a_j$ themselves.
Extension degree cost. For a given gate $G$, one might assign to $G$ a cost which depends on the degree $d$ of an minimum extension $\mathbb G{:}\mathbb Q$ of a field $\mathbb G \subseteq \mathbb E$ which contains the gate elements. For a "typical" field extension of $\mathbb Q$ by radicals (i.e. by the $n^{\mathrm{th}}$ roots of numbers), multiplication of an element of $\mathbb E$ by a coefficient in $\mathbb G$ would be represented as a $D \times D$ linear transformation over $\mathbb Q$, which decomposes as a tensor product of a $d \times d$ matrix with a $D/d \times D/d$ identity operation — that is: it is analogous to performing a $d \times d$ matrix to several amplitudes in parallel — it seems reasonable to me to impose a cost for $G$ which is proportional to $d^2$.
Precision cost. To avoid ignoring any complexity associated with arithmetic involving any one of the coefficients (e.g. algebraic extensions of the form $\mathbb Q[1/{\sqrt N}]$, which is a degree two extension but where $N$ may be huge), we may take the further step of considering the coefficients of the minimal polynomial for each element of $G$ (which for ${1}/{\sqrt N}$ would be $Nx^2 - 1$). We then assign a "coefficient cost" to $G$ of $\ell = \max \log_2(|c| + 1)$, where $c$ is any one coefficient of a minimal polynomial for an element of $G$, and the maximum is taken over all such coefficients.
Arity cost. Finally, to avoid many single-qubit gates being performed with unit cost for arbitrarily many qubits, we impose on gates $G$ with arity $k$ and which do not factor as $G' \otimes \mathbf 1$ over any bipartition a cost proportional to $k$.
We may then assign to any $k$-qubit gate $G$ the cost $d^2\ell k$, essentially accounting for any work being performed by recombination of the coefficients. In the case of the extension $\mathbb E{:}\mathbb Q$ having finite degree, all gates would then have cost $O(1)$, reducing to the usual asymptotic analysis of computations with finite gate sets. This seems to me to be a perfectly fair way to assign costs to constructions of exotic gates.
If you allow gates which depend on the input size $n$, but
require that all gates for a given input size have coefficients which are expressible as a sum of terms $\tfrac{1}{m} \alpha$ for $\alpha$ an algebraic integer and $m$ a fixed integer computible in time $O(\poly(n))$, and
assign to each gate $G$ a cost $d^2 \ell k$, where $d$ in effect is the degree of the extension of $\mathbb Q$ required by $G$, $\ell$ effectively measures the precision required by the extension, and $k$ is the number of qubits on which $G$ acts,
then you recover a theory of quantum computation in which all of the classic complexity results seem to hold (save the equivalence of uniform circuit families to quantum Turing machines), essentially no complexity is being hidden in the choice of gates, and which reduces to the standard theory for constant-sized gate sets. As a result, it should be safe to define $\EQP$ in terms of such a gate model — and also $\mathsf{BQP}$, though the existence of an approximately universal gate-set makes this unnecessary.
$\begingroup$ Comments welcome. (In fact, considering that this is in effect a proposal for a final definition of $\mathsf{EQP}$, I implore you to comment if you have an informed opinion on the definition of the quantum circuit model per se.) $\endgroup$ – Niel de Beaudrap Apr 28 '14 at 1:34
$\begingroup$ I am fretting a little over the cost of an exact QFT over $\mathbb Z_{2^k}$ in this proposal. As the extension degree is $d = 2^k$, the cost of such a gate is proportional to $d^2 k = k 4^k$. This seems unrepresentative of how easy these gates are to simulate approximately, even if one does not think that exact QFTs of exponential modulus should be "cheap". I am currently mulling over the role of sparsity in the rational matrices corresponding to the elements of the field extension $\mathbb G{:}\mathbb Q$ describing the elements of a given gate, which for the QFT is particularly pertinent. $\endgroup$ – Niel de Beaudrap Apr 28 '14 at 10:42
$\begingroup$ In case anyone is keeping tabs on this: thinking on the above, I am reconsidering the cost of a gate. At bottom we have two priorities – simulating of circuit coefficients by GapP functions, and polynomial-size expressions of gate coefficients. Provided that the coefficients can be expressed concisely, simulation of composition by GapP would ensure that the computational power remains properly bounded. Then perhaps the cost of a gate should be related to the computation of a nondeterministic machine realising (one or more) GapP functions which serve to simulate the coefficient. $\endgroup$ – Niel de Beaudrap May 1 '14 at 8:36
$\begingroup$ Hi Niel, I missed your post when it first came out, but it's a really nice idea. What I think is missing is a proof that the class EQP is independent of the gate set (provided that you have a "sufficiently powerful" but "not too powerful" cost of gates). $\endgroup$ – Peter Shor Jul 1 '14 at 17:51
$\begingroup$ @PeterShor: Thanks! But I think that wanting to envision a single, simply named gate-set is the obstacle to an elegant and robust theory of exact quantum computation. I plan to edit this "answer" of mine again later, but the way that I would formulate my ideas now are as follows --- a finite gate-set is essentially a description of gates by an $\mathsf{NC^0}$ circuit with $O(1)$ output. This circuit produces a representation of each gate from the label of that gate. Why $\mathsf{NC^0}$, as opposed to e.g. $\mathsf{NC^1}$ or a logspace algorithm (especially for logspace-uniform circuits)? $\endgroup$ – Niel de Beaudrap Jul 2 '14 at 15:31
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CVHS is filled with over 70 different clubs ranging from robotics to dance to volunteer, giving students a diverse selection to choose from. This school year, Justin Tong started the Asian American Culture Club to spread Asian American culture and awareness throughout the community and campus.
“I’ve always wanted a club like this at our school,” said Tong, the club’s president.
After the release of the movies “Crazy Rich Asians” and “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before,” he noticed the success and the increase of diversity in the media for Asian Americans. It was the push he needed to start this club.
Asian American Culture Club members want to show students at this school that Asian Americans are a diverse group of people who aren’t better or worse than any other people.
“Asian Americans or any other ethnic group should have pride in their backgrounds and cultures,” said Tong.
Meetings for the club are every other Wednesday in Room 705. During the club meetings, the officers lead a discussion about different Asian countries and they talk about any updates on the club has regarding merchandise and events.
At the moment, the club doesn’t have any upcoming events, but the Cherry Blossom Festival and the Taiwanese American Cultural Festival are some of the events to look forward to later in the year.
“In the future, I hope the club stays relevant in CVHS and that its message of Asian American representation gets spread throughout the school,” said Tong. “I also hope my board and I would work to be able to run the club more efficiently so that we can provide our members a better experience in the future.”
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When Did Self-Help Become Self-Care?
Written by: blueskydime
Category: Health
What began as a method of improving one’s life has become something much kinder — and stranger.
Before she was running for president, Marianne Williamson was an author.CreditLucas Jackson/Reuters
“Wellness” is a word that has come to encompass our latest dominant sociocultural obsession — how to take care of ourselves in the world. It may, at one point, have been popularly understood as an extension of self-help, a category of literature and speaker circuits that is devoted to personal optimization (and often, productivity). But more recently, under the potent influence of millennial values, wellness has been positioned and marketed as self-care. This wellness is softer, gentler, more forgiving than its self-flagellating forebear. Definitely more fun.
Maybe the new wellness is — to borrow from the Democratic primary candidate and self-help author Marianne Williamson — a return to “love,” instead of fear?
Self-care is often critically characterized as a market for purchasable experiences like massages, manicures and “me time.” But its origins are in a series of loose, secular rituals meant to calm the nervous system, and are informed in part by the work of feminist writers of color, including Audre Lorde and bell hooks, both of whom wrote about caring for one’s self in oppressive conditions. In “A Burst of Light,” Lorde writes, “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
Of course, the concept has been simplified, and broadened to mean any number of things.
On Instagram, the axis of millennial life, there are about two million posts tagged #selfhelp, while there are around 18 million for #selfcare. Those form a soft-focus sea of cups of tea, journals, hand-drawn quotations, bed-nests of blankets, books, cats and snacks — basically, anything that might make someone feel good. It’s far removed from the self-help-style wellness that emphasizes labor and self-denial: punishing exercise classes, cleanses, detoxes and restrictive diets. That all might feel increasingly irrelevant in the context of the low-wage, ultra-precarious and generally diminished economic circumstances that millennials have found themselves in, and in the context of the anxieties of this era. The self of established, self-improving, self-help seeks to conquer. The self of the newer, kinder, weirder self-care seeks nourishment instead.
The Literature
If self-help is about fixing something, self-care thinks you’re already great. So much of current, trendy self-help dovetails with business management and entrepreneurialism, and a lot of the rest of it feels like it’s from another psychological era: It might be temporarily comforting, and even galvanizing, to engage in “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a ____ or to practice “The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a ____” or to “Un____ Yourself.” Before this era of tongue-in-cheek titles, self-help sought to categorize and instruct, as seen in best-selling titles like the heteronormalizing “Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus”; the productivity mandating “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”; the personality corrective “How to Win Friends and Influence People”; and the law-of-attraction guide “The Secret.”
But the self-consciously edgy formulas, and the even-cornier, prescriptive, top-down self-help books that engendered them, don’t necessarily wonder. They skip over the energy of empathy, warmth, tenderness and inclusion that is the best stuff of the millennial imagination.
If self-help is about how to do, self-care is about how to not do. Self-care, though, has no organizing rules, slogans or major, best-selling books — yet. Jenny Odell’s newish book, “How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy,” and adrienne maree brown’s “Pleasure Activism” espouse some of self-care’s feel-good ideologies (as do the seemingly infinite journal-ish workbooks and coloring books on the market), but the literature of self-care-informed wellness lives much more iteratively and personally on Instagram, in (frequently misspelled and misattributed) inspirational quotations and super-long captions, and on lingering blogs.
And yes, much of the wellness content of the internet is performative, metaphorical or gestural. The small daily efforts of self-care — establishing boundaries, going to the doctor, taking three conscious breaths and just doing less — aren’t that clickable.
The author Julia Cameron.CreditRamsay de Give for The New York Times
There is a self-help/self-care Venn diagram, however, and the overlapping section could be categorized as “spiritual self-help,” a classification that describes the work of Ms. Williamson, as well as popular authors like Julia Cameron (whose creativity manual “The Artist’s Way” is one of the most enduring books in the broader self-help genre, its purpose and style seemingly invulnerable to social and cultural shifts), Eckhart Tolle, Gabrielle Bernstein and Danielle LaPorte. Spiritual self-help seeks less often to fix, and more often, to understand, and to soothe and calm like self-care.
At the intersection of spiritual self-help and self-care is the reason for them: the pursuit of something deeper, something more elemental
The Leaders and Vendors
The authorities of a self-help-informed kind of wellness, who sell a specific program to live by and complain about, include exercise alphas like Jillian Michaels, Billy Blanks or any of the locally worshiped spinning or CrossFit instructors, as well as diet gurus like Melissa Hartwig of the Whole30 (so many rules!) and Dr. Alejandro Junger, of the Clean program.
The original and maybe only self-care star is Audre Lorde, whose conceptualization of self-care as a form of protest is the most critical.
Gwyneth Paltrow at Goop headquarters in Santa Monica, Calif.CreditAlex Welsh for The New York Times
Gwyneth Paltrow is a kind-of Gen X corporate wellness avatar — the Oz of an industry that confidently depends on women trying to mitigate their various anxieties. Her Goop empire sells self-care products, often at exclusive price points.
But other wellness entrepreneurs serve the kinds of seekers who want spirituality and connection and self-awareness along with, say, great skin. These include Amanda Chantal Bacon of Moon Juice, a nu-groovy operation that specializes in juices and adaptogenic “dusts”; Erica Chidi Cohen, a co-founder of LOOM in Los Angeles, which offers support around sexual and reproductive health and parenting; Ty Haney, the founder of Outdoor Voices, the Austin, Tex.-based “you-do-you” apparel brand; and Liz Tran, who founded Reset, a new wellness space, or “sanctuary,” in Manhattan that offers classes and workshops in the “formation of the integrated self,” with corporate career coaching, sound baths and astrology. (The space could be a sign of what’s next: Instead of millennial pinks and modernist clutter, here are jewel tones, warm wood and an 800-pound smoky quartz crystal from Madagascar.)
Products from Moon Juice.CreditSamuel Bristow for The New York Times
Authority vs. the Me-Archy
Many of the newer wellness products are direct-to-consumer. The individualization of self-care wellness includes custom vitamins from subscription services, like Ritual and Care/of, as well as curated boxes filled with candles, jade rollers and succulents.
Wellness might currently be code for “thin,” according to Jessica Knoll writing in The New York Times, but it’s also a superstructure for those who feel ignored or condescended to by Western medicine. While self-help-styled wellness involved a top-down, rules-based wellness orthodoxy — which does, of course, work for many women — newer, self-care-specific wellness is an easy sell for women on a heroine’s journey with their bodies and feelings, through sun signs, human design, snail-mucus face masks or blunts. Whatever works.
The Marketing
While self-help-oriented wellness products were straight out of the health-food store with utilitarian or medicinal packaging, the aesthetic of self-care wellness branding is often minimalist, sans-serif and streamlined. A good example is the packaging of the brand Dosist, which sells pens with precise doses of CBD and THC. The company pitches itself as health-adjacent, like many other savvy cannabis brands that are attempting to appeal to a new market with a clean, high-tone look and feel.
Dosist just opened a second brick-and-mortar location in L.A. to create “wellness experiences” (with the help of a “wellness concierge”), joining Saks, Neiman Marcus and the now-bankrupt Barneys New York, all of which have capitalized on the potential of luxe wellness, the natural extension of the self-care wellness model.
Many self-care-oriented wellness products, including those from CAP Beauty, Tulura, Golde, Tata Harper and Tatcha, look like a new kind of high-end beauty product. Others channel happy, kiddo vibes (see: Kopari Beauty, Supergoop, Moon Juice and Drunk Elephant). Those could respond to another feeling many who respond to self-care are seeking: a childlike lightness that momentarily distracts from the grown-up problems of the every day.
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iOS From Scratch With Swift: First Steps With UIKit
by Bart Jacobs 16 Dec 2015
Difficulty:BeginnerLength:LongLanguages: EnglishEspañolBahasa IndonesiaPortuguês
iOSiOS SDKXcodeXcode 7SwiftSwift 2IDEsOOPUIKitMobile DevelopmentHow-To
This post is part of a series called iOS From Scratch With Swift.
iOS From Scratch With Swift: Exploring the Foundation Framework
iOS From Scratch With Swift: Auto Layout Basics
UIKit is the framework that you'll user most often when developing iOS applications. It defines the core components of an iOS application, from labels and buttons to table views and navigation controllers. In this article, not only will we start our exploration of the UIKit framework, we will also explore the internals of an iOS project and the basic building blocks of iOS applications.
What Is the UIKit Framework?
While the Foundation framework defines classes, protocols, and functions for both iOS and OS X development, the UIKit framework is exclusively geared towards iOS development. It's the equivalent of the Application Kit or AppKit framework for OS X development.
Like Foundation, UIKit defines classes, protocols, functions, data types, and constants. It also adds additional functionality to various Foundation classes, such as NSObject, NSString, and NSValue through the use of Objective-C categories.
Objective-C categories are a convenient way to add extra methods to existing classes without the need for subclassing. They are similar to Swift extensions. Read this tutorial by Aaron Crabtree if you want to learn more about Objective-C categories.
Instead of exploring the key classes of UIKit, like we did for the Foundation framework, we're going to create and journey through a new iOS project, exploring the classes we encounter. By taking this approach, it will quickly become clear in what context a class is used, how each class fits into the broader scheme of an iOS application, and what role it plays.
Launch Xcode and create a new project by selecting New > Project... from the File menu. In the iOS section on the left, select the Application category. From the list of project templates, choose the Single View Application template.
The Single View Application template contains the basic building blocks of an iOS application, which makes it a good place to start our journey.
Name the project FirstSteps and enter an organization name and identifier. Set Language to Swift and set Devices to iPhone. Leave the checkboxes at the bottom unchecked.
Tell Xcode where you want to save the new project and make sure to put the project under version control by checking the checkbox labeled Create Git repository on My Mac. Revisit this article for more information about version control and its benefits.
We have learned quite a few new things since the last time we created an iOS project from scratch so it's a good idea to explore the various files and folders of our new project to see if they ring a bell.
In the Project Navigator, you should see two folders at the root of the project:
a folder with your project's name, FirstSteps in this example
Let's take a look at the contents of each of these folders.
The Products folder currently contains one item. It bears the name of the project and has an extension of .app. The Products folder contains the application—or applications—created by the project after compilation of the source code.
Have you noticed that FirstSteps.app is highlighted in red? Whenever Xcode is unable to locate a file, it highlights the file in red. Don't worry, though. Because the project hasn't been compiled yet, Xcode hasn't created the product yet.
Project Folder
Most of your time is spent in the project folder, which currently contains six files. The first two files, AppDelegate.swift and ViewController.swift, are source files. These files contain the source code of the application.
Main.storyboard contains the user interface of the application. We've already worked with storyboards earlier in this series. Notice that there's a second storyboard, LaunchScreen.storyboard. This storyboard is used by the operating system when the application is being launched. Instead of showing an empty view, the operating system uses this storyboard to dynamically create a launch image, which is shown to the user when the application is loading.
Info.plist, commonly referred to as the "info-dot-plist" file of a project, is a property list that contains various configuration settings. Most of these settings can also be modified by selecting the project in the Project Navigator, choosing the target in the Targets list, and opening the General, Capabilities, and Info tabs.
Assets.xcassets is a special type of folder for storing your project's assets, such as images.
Application Components
Now that we know what the different files and folders in our project are for, it's time to explore the different components of an iOS application. As we continue our journey, we will come across several classes that belong to UIKit. Each class that belongs to the UIKit framework starts with the class prefix UI. Remember that Foundation classes are prefixed with NS.
The Model-View-Controller Pattern
Before we start exploring the UIKit framework, I want to talk about the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. The MVC pattern is one of the most widespread patterns in object-oriented programming. It promotes code reusability and has close ties with the concept of separation of responsibilities or concerns. One of the main objectives of the MVC pattern is the separation of an application's business logic from the presentation layer.
Cocoa Touch embraces the MVC pattern, which means it's important to understand what it is and how it works. In other words, by understanding the MVC pattern, it will be much easier to grasp how the different components of an iOS application work together.
In the MVC pattern, the model layer is in control of the business logic of an application. Interacting with a database, for example, is the responsibility of the model layer. The view layer presents the data that is managed by the model layer to the user. The view layer manages the user interface and user input.
The controller is the glue between the model layer and the view layer. While the model layer and the view layer don't know about each other's existence, the controller knows about both.
Because the controller knows about model and view, it's often the least reusable piece of an application. The less an object knows about its environment and the objects it interacts with, the easier it is to reuse.
UIApplication
Even though the UIApplication class is a key component of every iOS application, you won't interact with it very often and you will rarely, if ever, feel the need to subclass UIApplication.
When an application launches, a singleton of this class is created. Do you remember what a singleton object is? It means that only one object instance of the UIApplication class is created during an application's lifetime.
The UIApplication instance is the entry point for user interaction and it dispatches events to the appropriate target objects. The exact meaning of this will become clear in a few minutes when we take a look at view controllers.
In iOS applications, the UIApplication instance has a delegate object associated with it. Whenever you create an iOS project using one of the provided templates, Xcode will create an application delegate class for you. Take a look at the names of the source files in the project folder in the Project Navigator. The first file is named AppDelegate.swift.
The instance of this class is the delegate of the UIApplication singleton. Before taking a closer look at the AppDelegate class, we need to understand what the delegate pattern is.
Ole Begemann wrote an excellent article about the launch sequence of a typical iOS application. In his article, Ole talks about the various components involved and their role during the application launch sequence. I highly recommend reading this article if you want to get a better understanding of the role of the UIApplication class.
The Delegate Pattern
The delegate pattern is used extensively in Cocoa and Cocoa Touch. In a future article of this series, in which we explore the ins and outs of table views, you'll discover that table views rely heavily on the delegate (and data source) pattern.
Like the MVC pattern, delegation is common in object-oriented programming. The delegate pattern in Cocoa Touch, however, is slightly different, because it makes use of a delegate protocol to define the behavior of the delegate object.
Let's jump ahead and take a look at table views. If you've spent any amount of time with an iPhone or iPad, then the UITableView class should be familiar to you. It presents an ordered list of data to the user and it does this job very well.
How does a table view know what to do when a row is tapped? Is this behavior included in the UITableView class? Certainly not, because this behavior varies from application to application. If we were to include this behavior in the UITableView class, it would not be very reusable.
The table view outsources this responsibility to a delegate object. Put differently, it delegates this task to another object, a delegate object. Take a moment to inspect the class reference of the UITableView class. It has two properties named dataSource and delegate. The delegate is notified by the table view when the user taps a row. It is the responsibility of the delegate object to respond to that touch event.
The data source of the table view is similar. The main difference is that the table view asks the data source object for something, the data that it needs to display.
Delegate and data source objects, such as the table view's delegate and dataSource objects, are almost always custom classes. In most cases, it's up to the developer to create and implement these classes, because their implementation is specific to each application.
The Application Delegate
Now that we know what delegation is, it's time to explore the AppDelegate class Xcode created for us. At application launch, the application creates an instance of the AppDelegate class. This AppDelegate instance is then set as the delegate of the UIApplication instance the operating system created for your application. You never explicitly instantiate an application delegate object.
Open AppDelegate.swift to examine the implementation of the AppDelegate class. Ignoring the comments at the top, the first line imports the UIKit framework so we can work with its classes and protocols.
import UIKit
On the next line we see something we haven't covered yet, an attribute. Attributes in Swift start with an @ symbol and can be seen as instructions for the compiler. The @UIApplicationMain attribute tells the compiler that AppDelegate is the class that should be used as the application delegate. That is all you need to know about this attribute for now.
@UIApplicationMain
The next line should look familiar. This is the start of the declaration of the AppDelegate class. It specifies the name of the class and the class's parent class, UIResponder.
It also tells the compiler that AppDelegate conforms to the UIApplicationDelegate protocol. This isn't surprising since we already know that AppDelegate serves as the application's delegate.
class AppDelegate: UIResponder, UIApplicationDelegate {
The next line is a property declaration for the window property. Note that the property is a variable of type UIWindow?. The UIWindow class is a subclass of UIView, the base class for views on iOS.
var window: UIWindow?
The most interesting part of the interface of the AppDelegate class is the UIApplicationDelegate protocol. Take a look at the reference of the UIApplicationDelegate protocol for a complete list of the methods the protocol defines.
The protocol defines dozens of methods and I encourage you to explore a few of them to get an idea of the protocol's capabilities. The method that's most interesting to us at this point is application(_:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:).
When the UIApplication object has finished preparing the application for launch, it notifies its delegate, the AppDelegate object, that the application is about to launch.
Why does it notify the application delegate of this event? The UIApplication instance notifies its delegate about this event so that it has an opportunity to prepare for application launch. The implementation of application(_:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:) is pretty short as you can see below.
func application(application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [NSObject: AnyObject]?) -> Bool {
It provides a reference to the UIApplication instance and a dictionary of options. You can ignore the dictionary of options for the time being. To make sure the application is launched by the operating system, we return true.
The Xcode project contains another interesting file, Main.storyboard. The storyboard defines what the user interface of your application looks like. By default, the storyboard is named Main.storyboard. Select the storyboard to open it.
The storyboard currently contains one view in the central workspace. On the right of the Project Navigator you can see a list of items, which are the objects you see in the view. The top item, View Controller Scene, contains one child item, View Controller.
The View Controller object also has a number of child items, but there is one that is of special interest to us, the object named View. Remember the discussion about the MVC pattern. You can now see the MVC pattern in action. The model is missing at the moment, but we do have a view, the View object, and a controller, the View Controller object.
When the application launches, the storyboard is used to create the application's user interface. The view controller is automatically instantiated and so is the view controller's view. The View object in the storyboard is managed by the view controller.
Wait a minute. Where can I find the class of the view controller in the storyboard? How can I change its behavior to create a unique application? Select the View Controller object on the left and open the Identity Inspector on the right.
The Identity Inspector tells you everything you need to know. At the top, in the section Custom Class, you can see the name of the view controller's class, ViewController. Have you noticed that the file we haven't talked about yet bears the same name? We'll explore this file in a few moments.
The view controller is instantiated for us, because it is the initial view controller of the storyboard. This is indicated in the storyboard by the arrow pointing to the View Controller Scene.
UIViewController
If you open ViewController.swift, you'll notice that the ViewController class is a subclass of UIViewController. Like AppDelegate, the UIViewController class is a subclass of UIResponder. View controllers, or subclasses thereof, fall in the controller category of the MVC pattern. As the name implies, they control a view, an instance of the UIView class, which belongs to the view category of the MVC pattern.
As we'll see later, a view controller manages a view and its subviews. To do this, the view controller needs to know about the view. In other words, it needs to have a reference to the view.
The view controller in the storyboard has a reference to the view. You can verify this by selecting the view controller in the storyboard and opening the Connections Inspector on the right.
In the Connections Inspector, you should see a section named Outlets. The term outlet is a fancy word for a property that you can set in the storyboard. Hover with your mouse over the outlet named view and observe how the view in the workspace is highlighted. That is the connection between the view controller and the view.
Even though your application can only have one instance of UIWindow, it can have many views. The UIView class is an important component of the UIKit framework, because many classes inherit from it—directly or indirectly.
Revisit Main.storyboard by selecting it and take a look at the Object Library at the bottom of the Inspector.
Browse the Object Library and drag a label and a button to the view in the workspace. It doesn't matter where you position them in the view as long as they are in the view controller's view.
Notice that two new objects have been added to the Objects section on the left. Both the label (UILabel) and the button (UIButton) inherit from UIView. Have you noticed that the Label and Button objects are slightly indented compared to the View object? This indicates that the Label and Button objects are subviews of the View object. A view can have one or more subviews that it manages.
As I mentioned earlier, the UIView class is an important component of UIKit. A view manages a rectangular area or frame on the screen. It manages the contents of the area, the subviews, and any interactions with the view's contents. The UIView class is a subclass of UIResponder. You'll learn much more about views over the course of this series.
Let's take a look at an example to illustrate the relationship between the storyboard, the view it contains, and the view controller. These three components are important and I want to make sure that you understand just how they work together.
A few moments ago, you added a label and a button to the view controller's view. How does the view controller know about these objects? At the moment, they don't appear in the Connections Inspector, but we can change that by telling the view controller about them. Open ViewController.swift and add a property for the label and one for the button.
class ViewController: UIViewController {
@IBOutlet var myLabel: UILabel!
@IBOutlet var myButton: UIButton!
By adding the @IBOutlet attribute to the property declaration, the properties appear in the Connections Inspector in the storyboard and that's what we want.
Head back to the storyboard, select the View Controller object in the View Controller Scene, and open the Connections Inspector on the right. The new properties are now listed in the list of Outlets. However, the view controller hasn't made the connection between the new properties and the objects in the storyboard yet.
This is easy to remedy. Drag from the empty circle on the left of the myLabel outlet to the label in the workspace. This will create the connection. The view controller now knows about the label. Repeat this step for the button.
Even though we can change the text of the label in the storyboard, let's do this in the view controller to illustrate that the view controller has access to the label and button in the storyboard.
Open ViewController.swift and look for theviewDidLoad() method. Modify the viewDidLoad() method to reflect the implementation below. Comments have been omitted for clarity.
myLabel.text = "This is an instance of a UILabel."
We can send messages to the label property by accessing the view controller's myLabel property. We can change the text of the label by setting the label's text property, using a string literal.
The viewDidLoad() method is automatically invoked when the view controller has loaded its view. The override keyword indicates that we are overriding a method that is defined by a class higher up in the inheritance tree. The UIViewController class, the parent class of the ViewController class, implements this method.
Also note that we invoke viewDidLoad() on super. What is super? Just like self refers to the current instance, super refers to the parent class, UIViewController. In other words, we invoke the viewDidLoad() method on the superclass. This is often important when overriding a method in a subclass, because the superclass may be carrying out important tasks in its own implementation and we don't want to break anything.
Run your application in the simulator by clicking the Run button in the top left. Notice that the label's text has been updated. Don't worry about the position of the label and button. That's something we'll fix in the next tutorial.
We've explored a lot of new things in this article. I want to end this installment by talking about actions. Just like outlets, actions are nothing more than methods that you can access in the storyboard.
Let's see how this works. Open ViewController.swift and add the following method below the viewDidLoad() method.
@IBAction func changeColor(sender: UIButton) {
print(sender.classForCoder)
print(sender.superclass)
let r = CGFloat(arc4random() % 255)
let g = CGFloat(arc4random() % 255)
let b = CGFloat(arc4random() % 255)
let color = UIColor(red: (r/255.0), green: (g/255.0), blue: (b/255.0), alpha: 1.0)
view.backgroundColor = color
Don't be confused by the @IBAction attribute. This attribute indicates that the method is an action and, therefore, accessible in the storyboard. If we take a closer look at the changeColor(_:) action, we can see that it takes one argument of type UIButton.
As the argument name implies, the argument of the method or action is the object that sent the message to the view controller. I will explain this in more detail in just a bit.
Revisit the storyboard, select the View Controller object in the View Controller Scene, and open the Connections Inspector. A new section has appeared in the Connections Inspector, Received Actions, and the action we just added is listed in this section.
Drag from the empty circle on the left of the action to the button in the workspace. A pop up menu with a list of options should appear. The list contains all the possible events that the button can respond to. The one that interests us is Touch Up Inside. This event is triggered when a user touches the button and lifts her finger within the bounds of the button.
Run your application one more time and tap the button. The view controller's view should change color every time you tap the button. We added two print statements to the changeColor(_:) action. Let's see what the output looks like when you tap the button.
Optional(UIControl)
The first line displays the class of the sender, an instance of UIButton. This proves that it is the button that's triggering this method on the view controller. It's sending a message of changeColor(_:) to the view controller.
The second line displays the superclass of the sender. Remember that not every class has a superclass. That's the reason we get back an optional. The output tells us that the parent class of UIButton is UIControl.
The method itself is pretty simple. We generate three random integers between 0 and 255, pass these values to init(red:green:blue:alpha:) to generate a random color, and update the background color of the view controller's view with the randomly generated color. Note that view references the view that the view controller manages.
In this article, we explored a few classes of the UIKit framework and we took a close look at the various components of an iOS application. We'll explore and work with the UIKit framework in more detail in the rest of this series. If you don't fully understand the various concepts and patterns, then I'm sure that you will as the series progresses.
If you have any questions or comments, you can leave them in the comments below or reach out to me on Twitter.
Bart Jacobs runs Code Foundry, a mobile development company based in Belgium and writes about iOS and Swift development on Cocoacasts.
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By TOM DAVIES - May. 08, 2019 11:58 PM EDT
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Sports betting will become legal in Indiana and construction of two new casinos will be allowed in the state under a bill signed by the governor on Wednesday.
Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb endorsed the bill on his final day to act on the measure approved by lawmakers after they reached a deal in the final hours of this year's state legislative session.
So far this year, Indiana joins Montana and Tennessee in moving to legalize sports wagering after six other states moved quickly following a U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing it nationwide last year. An Iowa sports betting bill is awaiting a decision by that state's governor and several other states are considering legalization measures.
Indiana sports wagering could start in September. Bets could be placed by anyone 21 or older at a casino or by mobile devices after a bettor has registered with an Indiana casino.
Holcomb said Indiana's casino industry faced greater competition as neighboring states have legalized more forms of gambling.
"By modernizing our laws, this legislation will spur positive economic growth for our state and for an industry that employs over 11,000 Hoosiers," Holcomb said in a statement. "Additionally, it will bring in new revenue and create hundreds of new jobs — both permanent and in construction."
The Indiana House had voted to permit sports betting only at casino sites as some members argued it would easily allow illegal wagering by minors and set the state up to future attempts for letting traditional casino games like blackjack move online. But Senate sponsors pushed to allow sports wagering through smartphones, arguing that doing otherwise would be an unreasonable limit.
The Indianapolis-based NCAA last week rescinded its policy prohibiting championship events from being held in states that have legalized sports gambling. The ban that previously kept events such as the men's basketball tournament out of Nevada became impractical as legal sports gambling spread to more states.
Indiana's law will allow wagering on collegiate sports, but not on high school or youth sporting events.
The proposal sets a 9.5% tax on sports wagering, but no windfall is expected for the state. A legislative analysis estimates the proposal will bring in about $12 million a year — less than one-tenth of 1% of expected state tax collections.
Another section of the bill allows the two horse track casinos near Indianapolis to have table games such as blackjack with live dealers starting Jan. 1, 2020 — 18 months earlier than allowed under current law.
It also allows the owner of the two Gary casino boats on Lake Michigan to move to a new casino along heavily traveled Interstate 80-94 in the city and sets up the process for opening a casino in the western Indiana city of Terre Haute. Indiana has 11 other existing casinos.
The law requires Spectacle Entertainment, which is buying the two Majestic Star Casino boats in Gary, to spend at least $150 million on a new Gary casino and pay a $20 million state fee for the move. The company has proposed a $300 million project building a new casino and 200-room hotel for Gary.
Some legislators criticized the final package as overly generous for lowering a previous version's requirement of a $100 million fee from Spectacle to build the new Gary casino to $20 million and allowing perhaps $40 million in tax breaks over five years.
Spectacle has sought to transfer a Gary casino license to Terre Haute, but the bill's final version allows any Indiana casino operator to submit a bid to the state gaming commission for the license. Under the law, voters in Vigo County would first have to approve a referendum in the coming year allowing the casino in Terre Haute, and the operator would have to spend a minimum of $100 million on the new facility.
The Indianapolis Star reported in March that Spectacle's CEO treated Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb to private jet flights last year as they traveled together for meetings in Colorado and Arizona. The newspaper also found that one of the company's investors helped arrange a Vigo County government contract for GOP House Speaker Brian Bosma's Indianapolis law firm.
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India: Supreme Court advises PM and CMs not to appoint tainted persons as ministers
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2 September 2014.
A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice R M Lodha advised the Prime Minister and Chief Ministers not to appoint people to public office, against whom charges have been filed in criminal or corruption cases.
According to the Association of Democratic Reforms, at least a dozen ministers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet have been mentioned in criminal cases. About 34 per cent of the current Lok Sabha members have criminal cases pending against them, including 21 per cent who face serious charges like murder, kidnapping and sexual assault.
The court said that a clean cabinet is a ‘constitutional expectation’ and tainted people “thwart the principle of good governance” and destroy the trust reposed by the Constitution in the highest executive. “We are saying nothing more, nothing less and it is left on the wisdom of the PM to decide,” the bench said, adding this is also applicable to CMs.
The Prime Minister, the Court said, while living up to the trust reposed in him, would consider not choosing a person with criminal record to become a member of the cabinet. “This is what the Constitution suggests and that is the constitutional expectation from the Prime Minister. Rest has to be left to the wisdom of the Prime Minister. We say nothing more, nothing less,” the bench said.
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An Holistic Approach to Empowerment
We believe that women, unskilled and disadvantaged can change their own world... And then, like a ripple turning into a tide, women can change our world.
I am thankful to Creative Handicrafts for giving me the courage to face life when I had no one to lean on, for helping me overcome my problems and single handedly raise my children
Suvidha Therade - member of Creative Handicrafts Cooperative
Learn about education & childcare programs offered
Learn about our healthcare initiatives
Learn about the many ways we support women's empowerment
Learn how women's lives have been transformed
Women's Stories
Investing in the next generation
children were impacted through Balwadi's last year
Balwadi
The Balwadi Project caters to the educational development of children aged 3 to 6 years from the slum and tribal area in Andheri and Goregaon Aarey milk colony. Currently, 5 Balwadis function in slums and in the tribal hamlets.
The Balwadis were started in response to the problem of malnutrition and non-enrolment in school among children in the slums and tribal colonies around Andheri. The Creative Handicrafts Balwadis provide foundational learning and ensure that children are enrolled into school at the right age.
Child Development Centre
Balvikas Kendra
The Child Development Centre (CDC) or Balvikas Kendra as it is known in the local dialect, was started with the aim of providing a safe place for children from the community to spend time, study and rest while their parents are at work. To begin with, these were children of people engaged in begging.
Today, any needy family can enroll their child (aged 3 to 16 years) in the CDC at a nominal cost of Rs.10 per month. Children are provided with breakfast and lunch. A full-time teacher looks over their school work and ensures their homework is completed. Children enrolled at a CDC are much less likely to drop out of school and their chances of pursuing higher education are greatly improved.
children were supported by the Child Development Centre last year
children benefited from Creative Handicrafts' daycare in the past year
When Creative Handicrafts first began, women brought their little ones to the Cooperatives while they worked. Trying to work and care for their child at the same time was far from ideal! This led to the creation of a day crèche for Cooperative members and the women who come into the training centers. During the workday, this provides a safe place for their children aged 6 months to 16 years. The children benefit from daily nutrition, play, rest and tuition at the crèche.
School-going children are helped with their studies and smaller kids are cared for. The crèche also makes it possible for mothers to breastfeed their babies or check on them when needed because it is located next to the Cooperatives where the women work.
Education Sponsorship
One way to help women in the slum break free from poverty is to help them educate their children. Creative Handicrafts runs a sponsorship program in partnership with the NGOs, Tramundi (Spain) and La Joyeuse Vague (Belgium). They help support the educational expenses of around 150 children. You can sign up for the sponsorship program too!
Children aspiring to complete their higher education are also supported. These children are encouraged to support another deserving child once they have become financially self-reliant.
LEARN ABOUT SPONSORSHIP
university graduates, sponsored through Creative Handicrafts
Good health determines the quality and capacity of the women to manage their work and their family life. However, many women neglect their health for the sake of their family or due to insufficient finances.
Preventive care is seen as a low priority in the community as a whole. Health camps are run to help establish its importance and make health care more accessible to the women members and their children.
Over 200 people benefit from the health camps that are held every year.
Eye checkups
Gynecological checkups
TB detection and awareness
HIV AIDS awareness
Reproductive health awareness
Reproductive health awareness programs
Mutual Health Fund
Arogyanidhi
Disadvantaged women and their families often struggle to maintain good health. A lack of funds means they either cannot adequately address their needs or they take loans which may financially cripple them. For a time, Creative Handicrafts supported these women through the generosity of donors. However, a more structured way of addressing health emergencies was needed.
A mutual health fund called Arogyanidhi was started in January 2010. It is a substitute for medical insurance, maintained entirely by Creative Handicrafts. All members of the Cooperative are eligible to join. Members pay a fixed amount every month as a premium , with a matching contribution made by Creative Handicrafts. Medical expenses are reimbursed when the need arises.
Arogyanidhi has helped women overcome the worry of financial constraints when a medical crisis hits.
Economic & Social Empowerment
Sewing training is provided to women from the slum and tribal community who are unskilled and facing a severe financial crisis in their families. Women are selected after a survey of their socio-economic status. Keeping in mind the financial struggles they face, they are paid a stipend to help provide some relief while they learn the intricacies of sewing.
A woman's progress in the tailoring course is assessed at the end of the 3rd and 4th months. Those who have achieved a satisfactory skill-level are moved into the existing Cooperatives to eke out a living. Women who pick up the skills more quickly are shifted to the cooperatives much sooner.
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women are trained to sew each year
groups, each with around 20 women
Fair Trade Cooperative Groups
Once trained, a woman joins the Cooperative as a member of a group. These groups produce textile based handicrafts, garments, accessories and soft toys. The Cooperative is managed by its women members.
Each Cooperative has its own bank account and administrative setup. An elected head of the group supervises and guides production activity ensuring the timely completion of orders. She serves as the link between the Cooperative and Creative Handicrafts' central office. The central office assists the Cooperatives in securing orders, marketing and sales of products and overall financial management.
Flexible Employment Options
The Home Project was initiated in order to provide employment opportunities on a part-time basis to women who have skills but are not able to join the Cooperative.
Around 400 women assist in embroidery and patchwork. These women are associated with Creative Handicrafts for 3 to 4 months every year. This part-time, home-based employment helps them supplement the income of their households, while also allowing them to be present at home for their families.
women employed in part-time positions
women prepare meals each day
Project Asli Food was initiated to provide an employment opportunity to those women who came from financially disadvantaged situations but could not pick up sewing skills.
Lunchbox services, party and catering orders are received and successfully executed by these women all on their own strength. At present over 510 lunch boxes are prepared, packed and delivered each day by 20 women under the Asli Food project.
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Over the years we have seen a transformation not only in the economic status of the women but also socially. We have seen the women draw strength from the various awareness programs, counseling and guidance provided by social workers at Creative Handicrafts. These women then step out to provide support for others in their group who face similar situations. This is the core purpose of the capacity building sessions and programs.
The capacity building is primarily based on the issues of women empowerment, gender equality and ending violence against women.
The goal is for women to stand up for equality and build a violence-free society.
Perspectives on gender and sex
Building violence-free marriages
Types of violence against women
Identification and prevention of child sexual abuse
Safety of women in public spaces
Understanding patriarchy and its effects
women benefit from Saving & Credit groups
Earning combined with saving is the only way to ensure that the women do not fall into a debt cycle with money lenders. With this in mind, Creative Handicrafts started Saving and Credit groups.
After 6 months of regular savings contributions, women are eligible to take a loan. Members are encouraged to take loans for educational purposes, medical emergencies and for entrepreneurial activities. The Saving and Credit groups are managed by the social work department of Creative Handicrafts.
At present 120 groups with a total of 1500 women in the community are benefiting from this program.
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Davita Galloway asks the question: What does it take to survive as a creative in Charlotte?
On Friday, June 2 at Warehouse 242, Charlotte artist Davita Galloway shared her dynamic story of survival with over 300 fellow creative Charlotteans. As a costume designer, talk show host, writer and publisher, and co-owner of powerhouse creative studio, dupp&swat, Davita’s tale is both deeply personal and resonates with us all. Early chapters in her narrative involve such heartbreaking moments as a medical diagnosis, an assault, and an arrest. Today, ability to keep surviving is both an inspiration and a warning shot for all creatives in Charlotte – as she works to keep alive a business that is both pure self expression and a ‘safe space’ for fellow creatives. A self-proclaimed #GirlBoss, Davita challenges us all to consider what we need in our creative survival kit.
Davita Galloway attended UNCC, where she received an MSPH, and Parsons The New School for Design in New York. Having created dupp&swat — a creative studio named ‘1 of 100 Things to Do in Charlotte’ — with her brother, Dion, a product of A&T, they are involved in all forms and facets of creative expression ranging from fashion show production to poetry events, from wardrobe styling to photo shoots with a celebrity clientele and much more. Their studio is a ‘safe place’ for creatives and serves as a platform for expression as the venue is often used for small, intimate events/workshops, etc. Recently listed as one of the Top 10 Players in Charlotte via Charlotte Agenda and as one of the three features in Posh Partners via SouthPark Magazine, the sibling duo plays a significant role in Charlotte’s cultural scene.
As a team, the duo continues to produce. In Autumn 2014, they launched a quarterly production entitled SPREAD—which is another ode to expression. This lifestyle magazine embodies their young, vibrant spirit and is chock-full of quirky columns, graphic visuals and needed nostalgia. In short, in the magazine realm, it’s a breath of fresh air and can be found in various markets. The brother-sister team can also be found ‘arting the city’ with their latest venture and nonprofit, CrownKeepers. With the mission to provide hands-on training, as well as art and trade-based education to those lacking creative and entrepreneurial opportunities, CrownKeepers pledges to create platforms and tangible goods through a holistic experience for the benefit of the public.
More, Davita, having served as Lead Stylist for Africa Fashion Week New York for several years, and as the resident costumer for On Q Productions, believes that wardrobe is paramount in the self-expression arena. She was also recently featured on Black Wednesday’s blog as one of thirteen influencers in the fashion community.
Davita is also one-half of Nita&Vita, a YouTube series dedicated to delivering the ‘raw and real’ and is bountiful in #GirlPower. Using the nomenclature, SincerelySwat, Davita is aggressively pursuing her passions and is genuinely happy in doing so. To learn more about this quirky, never-matching personality visit: SincerelySwat.com and swing by DUPP&SWAT’s new location at 2521 The Plaza (OPENING SOON).
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NFHS Rules Committee: A-11 Offense, Not Yours
Rick Chandler
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Uh oh. The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Football Rules Committee may have just put the kibosh on the A-11, our new favorite everyone-just-go-long offense.
Among changes in its January 24-25 board of directors meeting in Indianapolis:
Changes in Rules 7-2-5 and 2-14-2 clarify the numbering-exception rule from when it was originally approved in 1982.
"The definition of a scrimmage-kick formation was clarified to differentiate formations that have been used traditionally for attempting a field goal or kick try from those used for a punt," Colgate said. "In addition, the circumstances under which the numbering exception can be utilized have been changed to clarify what can be done on first, second, third and fourth downs."
The A-11, invented and developed by Kurt Bryan and Stan Humphries at Piedmont (Calif.) High in 2007, used the loophole in the rules that all 11 players were eligible to catch a pass if a team lined up in the scrimmage kick formation for every play. The rules committee has seemed to have closed that loophole.
The A-11 Offense Will Revolutionize Football, Make You Dizzy
When Kurt Bryan first introduced the A-11 offense at Piedmont High last season, he was nearly given
So, a victory for slow, dim-witted linemen everywhere. Hey, I was one of those!
Of course, it remains to be seen how each state will interpret the rule change; some may ignore it completely, just as some had chosen to outlaw the A-11 before the new ruling ever came down. So we'll see.
Horse Collar Tackle To Be Penalized In High School Football [NFHS]
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Denis Niezgoda
At DHL, Denis is currently leading the Robotics Accelerator program which supports our DHL divisions with the widespread adoption of robotics solutions and jointly prototypes new solutions together with partners, customers, and startups. The program allows faster utilization of robotics technologies and provides customers with hands-on experience and customer-centric innovation.
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Troy McCann
Troy is the founder of Moonshot – they make it easy by helping people develop new innovations that evolve into, or use, new space technologies to solve real-world problems on Earth and beyond. Today, Moonshot runs their Gemini Ideator across more than 20 cities across the globe and will launch their first space tech accelerator in late 2018.
For Troy, the wonder of space is where science and entrepreneurship intercept, and where the result is taking humanity as we search for a more abundant future. Troy mixed his passions for technology and entrepreneurship together through multiple businesses started during and after graduating university, before starting Moonshot: an organization dedicated to ‘Make Space Easy’ through the cultivation of space innovation ecosystems around the world.
Ralph Echemendia
Seguru
Ralph Echemendia is a world-renowned cyber security expert, known internationally by his alter ego “The Ethical Hacker.” For over 20 years, Ralph has delivered training on hacking and other security information to corporations including the US Marine Corps, NASA, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, AMEX, Intel, Boeing, Symantec, and IBM.
His portfolio of work and reputation as a leading professional across several industries has landed him the credibility to make appearances on CNN, Fox News, USA Today, and Forbes, to name a few. Ralph took his talents to Hollywood, California and has worked with award-winning Director Oliver Stone as a technical supervisor on films such as “Savages” and “Snowden” as well as other projects such as the film “Nerve” and award-winning TV series Mr Robot.
He has now joined forces with some of the music industry and Hollywood’s most influential names and is working on cutting edge technology for consumer cybersecurity. Ralph has also been a featured speaker/panelist/keynote at events such as DigitalK in Bulgaria, WoHiT in Barcelona, The Customer Contact Expo in London, Georgetown Law University Cyber Event, WHiNN in Denmark, Raytheon’s Public Sector Cybersecurity Summit in Washington, DC, Austin’s South by Southwest ® (SXSW ®), the LA Film Festival, the Tribeca Film Festival, Pioneers Festival 17 in Vienna and Web Summit to name a few.
His jaw-dropping “Hacking Hollywood” appearance has been presented at Creative Artists Agency, the Digital Entertainment World Expo, the Content Protection & Piracy Summit, as well as the Anti-Piracy and Content Protection Summit.
Liviu Babitz
Cyborg Nest
Liviu is the CEO and co-founder of Cyborg Nest, a company aiming to help people expand their perception of reality by adding artificial senses to their life. Cyborg Nest launched their first artificial sense, the North Sense, a miniature piece of technology connecting the owner to the earth’s magnetic field.
In his previous roles, Liviu spent his time leading projects driven to impact social and fiscal layers of the society. Liviu was the COO of Videre est Credere and spent time in managing undercover networks of people capturing human rights violations in the most remote places on the planet.
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German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Research and management of R&D projects in robotics. Management of strategic alliances/business developer. Specialities: industrial and humanoid robots, grasping and manipulation, motion planning, torque control, mechanical hands. Development of mechatronic devices.
Lauri Järvilehto
Lightneer
Lauri Järvilehto, PhD, is a serial entrepreneur, philosopher, author, musician and a
Sherlock Holmes fan. He is the founder of the Finnish Academy of Philosophy and co-
founder of the learning game studio Lightneer. He is on the Boards of Directors of Unicef
Finland, Lightneer and the Finnish Academy of Philosophy. He has written several
bestselling books on thinking and learning and is an active public speaker worldwide.
Twitter: @laurijarvilehto
Douglas Hansen-Luke
Future Planet Capital
Douglas is an experienced asset management professional dedicated to helping institutional investors and corporations achieve strategic investment objectives.
He has a background in senior managerial positions at firms including Robeco Middle East, (CEO – ME, Africa & Central Asia), finance (Board Advisor and CEO – ME, Africa and Central Asia) and ABN AMRO Asset Management (the Far East, Global & Regional leadership positions).
Today, as Executive Chairman of Future Planet Capital, he is focused on connecting large investors, including sovereign wealth funds, with hard-to-access opportunities in technology and life sciences.
Aside from commercial projects, Douglas is committed to a significant amount of pro-bono work and is highly engaged in politics. He sits on the Advisory Board of the Rwandan Cricket Stadium Fund, on the Jesus College, Oxford, Campaign Board and on the Committee of the Poppy Ball. He is a Global Representative of Conservatives Abroad and stood as a Parliamentary Candidate in the 2015 UK General Election.
He maintains a strong interest in the key themes of emerging market and impact investing and holds a firm belief in the positive power of profit – investing for good can also be a good investment.
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Overheard at Contact: Our International Agent Steve reports back from Rio
We heard Steve from The Agency had been popping over to Brazil on works time, so we decided to investigate!
It’s a long way to go, so why Brazil?
It is, so I was fortunate enough to go for 2 reasons.
Firstly, as Rio is where our Agency project originates it was a great opportunity to connect with Agência de Redes para Juventude (Agency of Youth Networks)– the Brazilian project – and continue to collaborate and build links with our projects discussing the similarities and differences in our communities and how we overcome similar issues.
Secondly, the trip was the culmination of *Relative Values an exciting research project we have been working on which is looking at how we can measure the impact of our participatory programmes. I attended a conference and spoke about Contact and the work we do in the community.
I’ve been fortunate enough that this is my 3rd time visiting the Agencia in Rio so I know the team really well and its always an inspiring and invigorating experience.
So was it all work, work, work, or did you manage to do some exploring?
We had most of our mornings free so I did manage to see some of the city and enjoy the amazing beaches Rio has to offer and of course managed to eat some amazing Feijoada.
Oo what is that (and how to we pronounce it)?
It’s a traditional Brazilian dish consisting on Pork, beef, sausage & black beans with rice and kale. It’s pronounced “Fesh wada”, I think, it’s really tasty, traditionally its eaten on a Saturday in Brazil so you can go for a sleep afterwards cause it’s pretty heavy.
So, apart from eating some tasty food, what was the most exciting part of your trip?
Our cultural visit to Maré which is one of the largest Favelas in Rio housing over 130,000 people, the area is a melting pot of culture, life and energy, a real world inside of a world. It has its own economy, schools, libraries, universities all run by the local community and of course Redes da Maré which is a theatre and dance school working out of 2 disused factories on the edge of the territory, it’s incredible and even more so when you consider the area is under complete control of the local drug gangs and is very much a no go area for police or military. We were extremely lucky to be able to walk around and engage with the community.
Do you have any top travel tips?
Erm…try to sleep and make sure you have plenty of books to read and listen to podcasts.
What podcast are you listening to at the mo?
I’m a film geek so the Kermode and Mayo show and Empire magazine podcasts are always on rotation but I also really enjoy Greg Proops “smartest man in the world” , The Joe Rogan Experience and The Doug Stanhope podcast.
Obviously we are really jealous, is there anything that you can tell us about your trip that might make us feel less bad about missing out?
Not really haha. It was only a 4 day trip so it was a lot of travel but it’s always a great opportunity to go away with work and even more so that it’s somewhere as incredible as Rio.
The Agency seems to be growing and growing, what’s next?
It does, so in September this year we will be launching the project in Belfast and Cardiff with our new partners Fablab and The National Theatre of Wales in addition to our London and Manchester projects. We also have some more exciting news that we’ll be sharing later in the year, so stay tuned!
We loved chatting to Steve about his exciting trip! Want to know more about The Agency? Yes you do! Click here.
*Relative Values is a research project in partnership with The Arts and Humanities Research Council, Arts Council England, People’s Palace Projects, Queen Mary University of London, NECCULT, Contact Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre, Agency of Youth Networks and Networks of Maré, which is looking at how we can measure the impact of our participatory programmes in relation to GDP. Find out more here.
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Cartography, Personification, Figuration
Personification was something of an early modern topos, and a device for how to preserve unity. When that man of letters Desiderius Erasmus singled out personification as a trope worthy of imitation in De utraque verborum ac rerum copia (1517), a primer on how to vary and embellish writing in an elegant manner. The use among literate classes and high social orders of forms for amplifying written expression emphasized inventive models of expression, valuing the versatility in inventing and experimenting with combining varied modes of rhetorical accomplishment as illustrations of virtuosic skill and ability. Far removed from a techne, the art of deploying tropes or figures of speech provided a tool to please one’s audience, employing figures of speech from allegory to synecdoche in order to illustrate the abundance and fertility of forms of public expression and engage one’s audience.
The adoption of standards of amplifying abundance in speech as a form of rhetorical virtuosity was not limited to oratory, but was readily transferred in interesting ways to how nations were embodied in early printed maps, whose formulaic construction lent them to the sort of combinatorial arts by which rhetorical practice had been increasingly understood, both as a form of technical writing by state secretaries and personal scribes described and provided models by which to organize formal written as well as verbal expression by virtue of their plenitude. Indeed, if the proliferation of early modern maps is often tied purely to printing to meet cartographical demand or a taste for maps, the embellishment of chorographical city-views as well as national maps provided a canvas on which to express settlement as a form of unending abundance to provide confirmation of the nation’s actual and symbolic wealth for readers. Maps provided particularly apt vehicles for copia, especially through the allegorical personification and amplification of the inhabited land, in ways that merged the purely quantitative tools of mapmaking with elegantly qualitative detail.
Erasmus lent currency to the figure of speech as an exemplary method of expression. In a book often cobbled together from model passages of classical works of writing and rhetoric that served audiences as a guide throughout the sixteenth century as a model of written communication, Erasmus personified the abstract virtues of a number of ancient writers from Aristophanes to Chrysippus and Horace with attention to how the trope of personification could encompass the virtues of mythical beings–the trope served to make vividly present for the eyes of readers something absent through varied forms of expression. The evocation of a personified form seems to have encouraged cartographers to attribute a similar poetics of embodiment to mapped expanse, and indeed helped make such figurations of bodily unity more easily recognized by their audiences as expressions not only of virtues, but as a deeply symbolic measn to mediate surveys that augmented their coherence and power, and convert them to texts that better engaged audinces.
The trope or topos of visual personification informed terrestrial maps’ coherence and continuity has been neglected, in some unintentionally or unwittingly intentional way, however, in a story that privileged the mathematics of cartographical accuracy, and tended to marginalize more clearly allegorical maps as curiosities. The striking popularity of these device-like images both as forms that encoded information and processed it in a recognizable graphic form was particularly popular in mid- to late-sixteenth century Europe, intersecting with emblematics as well as the quantitative sciences or mathematical learning. These images reflected the broader currency maps had gained as sophisticated tools to process a cognitive relation to expanse that readers could readily–and almost intuitively–grasp. Figuration augmented the power of the map as well as its coherence, and indeed served to render maps in a readily recognizable format for their viewers–even if those viewers were not practiced in the arts of surveying or intuitively able to graps the mathematics of terrestrial projection. For personification helped cartographers use the formats of mapping to bridge the tools of transcription of place and the assertion of their cultural unity.
The corpus of regional maps of France and England alone by practices of surveying and triangulation acquired virtues of embodying national identity for cartographers who presented their maps as images of the nation that analogously rendered the abstraction of royal rule concrete: the royal mathematician Oronce Finé’s deep pride at the national map of France he went to considerable difficulties to create in the late 1530s, studied by Lucien Gallois and more recently in a collective volume edited by Alexander Marr, extended the poetics of embodiment achieved in his cordiform (or heart-shaped) world-projections–a creative mathematical innovation of global projection departing from Ptolemaic schema, using a model first rendered in diagrammatic form by the Austrian imperial astronomer Johannes Stabius. But the design that Fine engraved invested the form of the globe–or the surface of the heart-shaped globe–with a joint physical and symbolic presence, using a form had wide significance as a form of Christian devotion among religious reformers as a symbol of devotion and sincerity, as Giorgio Mangani suggested, imbuing the world’s map with deeply spiritual association, even as its design also served to foreground the proximity of France to the New World in an age of global discovery in ways that would delight royal audiences. The international appeal of the embodiment of the world as a heart-shaped form rendered it an engaging site of contemplation, if not encoded the map with deep significance as a meditative form.
Finé’s elegantly harmonious cordiform projection offers a strikingly material symbolic form of terrestrial unity, organizing words as if on a plastic surface that not only foregrounded the proximity of France to the New World that would be pleasing to a French monarch at a time of global discoveries–but communicating the concrete presence of the legible surface of the globe, as if to render it by a new portrait rich with emblematic significance, framed both by an elegant cornice and armature and against a dark red field:
The map’s harmony intersected with Christian imagery of devotion–undoubtedly also underscored by the deep red field of its background–as if to treat mapping as a form of piety, as well as provide a satisfying variation of the format for ordering the map’s surface. The organization of place-names on the curved meridians and parallels of its surface preserve a sense of its perfect smoothness, distorting Antarctica as a ˆTerra Australis” but doing so to lend the organization of what seem four large landmasses or continents far more harmonious symmetry and structural balance.
The 1538 map of France, if far less famous as a symbolization of unity, accorded embodiment to France as a nation that is particularly striking in its attention to record only the sites of population or topography within its national frontiers, which not only received a royal privilege, but was enabled by his charge to take surveying measurements by an instrument of triangulation he claimed was his own device, and which he invited each inhabitant in the nation to submit any reading that deviated from the “portrait” he set forth–adopting a language of personification for the jurisdictional boundaries of its expanse, here including part of current Switzerland:
This stunning woodcut from the Bibliothèque nationale‘s online collection presented something of an icon of national unity. As much as providing accurate records based on new instruments, the comprehensive coverage of local detail in maps as that of Fine responded to political exigencies: even if we can associate the determination of accurate base-lines with Cassini and Turgot, the uses of maps to refigure national unity or to imagine the nation-state that a monarch ruled was actually more of a purely Renaissance affair. For the French mathematician sought “depingere Galliam insignorem nostrae melioris Europae regionem . . . ad vivum quantum fieri potuit figurate” in an image that knitted the Cisalpine and Transalpine Gaul into one life-like image, “pour ample et facile intelligence”–and in doing so would bridge the historical divisions in France that Caesar had described in his Gallic Wars. While this boast was sure to attract erudites and illustrates his intended audience, the life-like notion that he sought to attribute to the map, I would argue, revealed its deeply figural properties, much as does its adoption of a language of cartographical portraiture.
The royal portrait of Elizabeth I by Maurice Gheeraerts the Younger gestured to the role of maps in providing a concrete figuration of national unity in the counterpoint that he drew between the nation as embodied by map and by monarch–the opposition of the body of the nation and the body of the king (or, as it were, queen)–in the 1592 Ditchley portrait standing astride a map of her land recently mapped in detail in Saxton’s 1579 atlas:
The Saxton atlas was crafted with royal permission to visit private lands, and is not to be opposed to narrowly to a figuration of monarchical authority. In the portrait painted by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger of the queen in her sixty-second year, showing Elizabeth as leading her country into the future after a storm, the map re-figured her relation to the nation in vital ways. The material precedent of the thirty-four highly ornamented maps that Saxton printed of the realm’s counties, issued as an atlas of 1579, afforded a model for this multi-colored map, and presented each county in differing colors, much in the Saxton’s popular county maps, in ways worth viewing in close-up detail:
Take, for example, Saxton’s mapping of Kent in his highly ornamental, if also in part practical, colored atlas, for which he had received special royal privileges to enter villages and private properties for the purpose of conducting his surveys:
The topos of the map provided a powerful symbolic model for the figuration of monarchical identity, and for a new poetics of embodiment, less invested in the trappings of monarchical authority alone, and recognizing the extent to which national identity had become increasingly mediated in maps by the late sixteenth century.
Indeed, the master-engraver and cartographer Abraham Ortelius himself had personified the continents in the frontispiece of his authoritative collation of maps in his 1570 Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, a massively ambitious comprehensive compendium of maps of the known world which became known as the first modern “atlas”:
–and gave pride of place to the figure of a crowned female Europe, surrounded by the artifacts of cartographical practice and knowledge distinguishing practitioners as himself, and fabricated European knowledge of non-European peoples–here represented by less regally clothed figures of Asia and Africa that theatrically gesture on both sides of the monumental classical architectural frame on its title-page.
In this context, the use of “Europa Regina” provided a new figuration of Europe’s identity when it was reprinted in Sebastian Munster’s Cosmographia in 1586, and enjoyed considerable success in the reprintings of later years. Similarly, in the cycle of maps of the Italian peninsula that was composed from surveys that the mathematician-catographer Egnazio Danti specially took of papal possessions in six regions of the peninsula that were formally included in papal lands. The surveys provided a starting point for which the cartographer worked with a team of painters in the Gallery of Maps in the Vatican Palace whcih refigured the peninsula’s identity as a region embodied by the church, rather than a series of constituent states–and indeed cast the unification of the state by the Reform church as a historical conclusion to the conclusion of the violent civil wars by Augustus, in a symbolic analogy that was potentially fraught if powerful in the authoritative model of peninsular unity: Augstus’ ascension to his rule was by no means peaceful, but his shoring up of state authority after the Civil Wars was a historical touchstone.
Such maps stake visual arguments about national unity. They do so by inviting their audiences to linger on the coherence with which cartographical tools embody a coherent record of territorial extent. The maps mediate a carefully worked record of territorial surveys to present a united field for viewers to scan in particularly pleasurable terms. The cartographers of each employhd mathematical expertise to express political unity in particularly useful ways: for they blur nature and culture to mediate images of nations invested with symbolic values of unity and coherence, often doing so by gesturing to the organic unity of the body. Each map advertised its own pictorial coherence by taking advantage of the formal unity of mapmaking. Gheeraerts seems to have adopted this language of personification much as Saxton was engaged in refiguring English identity from the country earlier best known from the 1564 Mercator’s maps of the country. The national mapping of France later took on new urgency in an age of confessional divides, for example, as a generation of cartographers sought to knit its divides, and in an age of religious wars create a literal metonym for religious concord and confessional uniformity, rendered as legible in flourishing rivers, forests, and fertile plains, and praising, as Bougereau’s map of France, the many rivers that gave it nourishment. And Claes Jansz. Visscher’s “Leo Belgicus” (1611)–or “Leo Hollandicus“–
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The map elegantly embodied the Netherlands as a rearing lion, restored to its symbolic unity, to mark the restoration of integrity and peace region’s liberation from Spain and the truce that brought tranquility to the region–and restored local commerce. Is it only a coincidence that the “brain” or mind of the lion is effectively occupied by the sea, the site of the compass-rose that remained an iconic tool of orientation in nautical cartography?
The figuration of the region in the form of a rearing lion celebrated the region’s regained autonomy in a chorographic format of a regional map, ringed by a series of individual city-views of startling detail; situated beside the hirsute lion’s mane and legs, paired views of the peaceful countryside and of the active shipping commerce, to celebrate the benefits of the new age of peace that the treaty inaugurated.
Indeed, if the colored 1648 Fischer map of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg is better known from postcards, the image derived from a 1583 map that stunningly figured the Netherlands in the form of a lion that the Austrian diplomat and geneologist Michael Eytzinger published in the Civitates orbis terrarium compiled by Ortelius’ friend and colleague Michael Hogenberg:
In a strikingly dense period of designing and printing maps, cartographical refiguration provided a persuasive graphic form of material personification, and something of a learned figuration of a fabricated regional identity. As a figural image, the map became a basis to imagine the future of the region as a nation, but more compellingly to render its history and prefigure its future in vividly persuasive form.
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Will You Be Able To See It? Mile-Wide Asteroid With Its Own Moon Set To Do A Flyby This Weekend
Valerie Musson
1999 KW4 asteroid, scheduled to pass Earth on Saturday, May 25 Photo Credit: NASA
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Prepare yourselves, astronomy fans: a mile-wide “double asteroid” is approaching Earth and may be visible on Saturday night, May 25, according to the Farmers’ Almanac .
The asteroid is categorized as 1999 KW4 and consists of a primary space rock just under a mile wide.
The asteroid also has a .3-mile-wide “companion” asteroid, which experts are calling an “asteroid moon” in orbit.
The 1999 KW4 completes an orbit around the Sun once every 6.18 months (188 days).
Though the asteroid will undoubtedly be difficult to spot, there are some amateur astronomers who will take initiative and attempt to locate it as it passes by Earth. Even at its brightest, however, it will be around 12th magnitude, which is about 250 times fainter than the faintest star that can be seen with the naked eye.
Still, the asteroid raises some concerns regarding the ongoing risk of a celestial object affecting the Earth.
“We know today that our planet is literally in a celestial shooting gallery. And it is not a matter of “if” an asteroid impacts our planet, but when,” writes Joe Rao, Farmers’ Almanac contributing astronomer. “In fact, there are nearly 2,000 “PHA’s” (Potentially Hazardous Asteroids) that have a potential of colliding with Earth, and 1999 KW4 is one of them. New ones are being found all the time.”
Of course, for the time being, experts say we’re set to “dodge yet another cosmic bullet” as the asteroid passes through Earth’s orbit this weekend.
"Most of us will not be able to see 1999 KW4 as it streaks past us on Saturday evening," Rao says.
To view a list of PHAs that have a potential of colliding with Earth, click here .
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doodles, 中文
太重了！
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2009/04/01/too-heavy/
Girl: 我的包太重了！
wo3 de bao1 tai4 zhong4le
My bag is too heavy!
Boy: 我拿吧！
wo3 na1 ba
I’ll carry it!
Girl: 好，给！
hao3, gei3
Good, here!
Boy: 呃，真的很重！
e4, zhen1 de hen3 zhong1
Hey, it really is very heavy!
包 = bag
重 = heavy
很 = very
给 = take
呃 = onomatopoeia, “eh”
From ChinesePod: Newbie: Too Heavy! I fall ever further behind. This one I actually drew a couple times and in the end I’m still not super thrilled about the result, but hey that’s all part of the process here. I see my friend 包, as seen in 面包 and the 红包 in “新年好!”. Just as the girl in “新年好!” was invited to 给她红包 the boy here gets to 给包太重了.
Thanks, Joe, for nudging me along.
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Better Slacking Through Science!
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2009/04/02/better-slacking-through-science/
Look what I found on the Internet, via a Facebook friend: Facebook, YouTube make better employees: study
The University of Melbourne study showed that people who use the Internet for personal reasons at work are about 9 percent more productive that those who do not.
“Short and unobtrusive breaks, such as a quick surf of the Internet, enables the mind to rest itself, leading to a higher total net concentration for a days’ work, and as a result, increased productivity,” [Study author Brent Coker] said.
Nine percent, biatch! The article points out they’re talking Internet browsing < 20% of the time, and that Internet addicts lose productivity. I think this is consistent with “work-life balance” . . . take a break to clear your mind, then get back to work refreshed.
Taking a walk in the sunshine is also a nice alternative to the Intarnetz.
I also think drinking lots of water and coffee is a good habit: you keep getting out of your chair to adjust your fluid balance, if ya know what I mean. Also, eating-at-your-desk is an awful awful sin which should be committed only when you don’t have much choice. Like, on Tuesday I had an all-day deployment, otherwise I take my food down to a sunny spot in the cafeteria and enjoy with a book or magazine.
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Iowa!
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2009/04/03/iowa-gay-marriage/
We used to visit Newton, IA every year or two for McConeghey family reunions. Iowa’s a nice place, though admittedly somewhat dull. But today, America has a big patch of purple right at its heart because the Iowa Supreme Court has declared the state’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. Joe Eskenazi explains beautifully in “Will Gay Mecca Relocate From San Francisco To Des Moines?”
Disdain of San Franciscans’ disdain of all things Midwestern has become nearly as clichéd as the original sin. And, yet, there’s always a touch of schadenfreude anticipating city residents’ chagrin whenever legitimately good news emanates from the Midwest indicating its denizens have out-progressived our self-anointed capital of progressivism.
The Iowa Supreme Court this morning did what many observers feel its San Francisco-based California colleagues will not — rule that a ban on same-sex marriage violates the constitutional rights of gay and lesbian couples. This morning’s decision adds Iowa to the very short list of states in which same-sex marriage is legal — Connecticut, Massachusetts, and, now, The Tall Corn State. Perhaps it’s only fitting for a state with the motto “Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain.”
From what I have read, if conservatives want to defeat this, it will require the legislature to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot. This could be done by 2011, and even then Iowa residents may not support it. Personally, I’m just really proud to see progress being made on this issue, from of all places, the “fly over country” where I grew up. (Well, I’m from Illinois, but I can still root for the hawkeyes on this one.)
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Iowa Likely to Keep Gay Marriage
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2009/04/08/iowa/
Eileen linked me to this YouTube video. It rocks. It is Iowa’s Senate Majority leader Mike Gronstal making it clear, in no uncertain terms, that he will not cooperate with the Republicans to amend Iowa’s constitution to ban gay marriage. He quotes his daughter, Kate, after listening for several minutes to her older colleagues complain about the subject:
“You guys don’t understand. You’ve already lost. My generation doesn’t care.”
Well, I, for one, care. And Mike Gronstal is clearly compassionate and thoughtful on the subject:
I think I learned something from my daughter that day, when she said that. And I’ve talked with other people about it and that’s what I see, Senator McKinley. I see a bunch of people that merely want to profess their love for each other, and want state law to recognize that.
Is that so wrong? I don’t think thats so wrong. As a matter of fact, last Friday night, I hugged my wife. You know Ive been married for 37 years. I hugged my wife. I felt like our love was just a little more meaningful last Friday night because thousands of other Iowa citizens could hug each other and have the state recognize their love for each other.
No, Senator McKinley, I will not co-sponsor a leadership bill with you.
And Vermont passed gay marriage, this time through the legislature, and overriding a governor’s veto! Sure, gay marriage can be had in only four states today, but I’m getting this hopeful feeling that the cooler heads prevailing in Iowa are the real tipping point. The Right thought California would lead the nation, and they fought hard to win Prop 8, and they won that battle. But while they were fixated on the West Coast, they have been outflanked by the reasonable Midwesterners making reasonable decisions in the middle of the country. Hoorah!
Also good, thank you Tom, is the Supreme Court Summary for Varnum v Brien, which lays out in simple language over six pages the case for why gay marriage ought to be legal. Basically, unless there’s a compelling reason to ban it, equal protection means you should allow it, and there’s no compelling argument for why a state ought to ban it, so, now, Iowa has it!
Like, duh!
Dreams, Quotes
Dream: “Scramble Time at a Methadone Clinic”
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2009/04/10/dream-scramble-time-at-a-methadone-clinic/
I was at some sort of lecture for really smart people, and a precocious young woman asked a technical question of the speaker, who answered back with some Math, and the questioner apologetically asked for a moment to run the Math through her head before she could follow-up. The speaker replied that she should take her time, because after all, “this is an open forum, not scramble time at a methadone clinic.”
And I was like where the heck did that line come from?!
Later in the dream I was looking for my car in a parking garage and found it not where I thought I had parked it but a little ways away where I had actually parked it earlier in the dream. I was like “this dream has a great continuity” and then I had to pee so I was looking for a toilet in the parking garage. That is when I got up to pee, and realized that I had slept really soundly this night. I was glad the sun was managing to peek through the clouds.
Excerpts, Featured, Good Reads, Quotes, Sundry
Humanity: Developmental Retards
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2009/04/14/systematic-developmental-retardation/
I am presently enjoying an old thick history book. A footnote in the first chapter says:
“Biologically considered, the distinguishing mark of humanity was systematic developmental retardation, making the human child infantile in comparison to the normal protohuman. Some adult human traits are also infantile when compared to those of an ape: e.g., the overdevelopment of brain size in relation to the rest of the body, underdevelopment of teeth and brow-ridges. But developmental retardation of course meant prolonged plasticity, so that learning could be lengthened. Thereby the range of cultural as against mere biological evolution widened enormously; and humanity launched itself upon a biologically as well as historically extraordinary career.”
W H McNeill
“The Rise of the West”
I was thinking that domesticated animals are similarly developmentally retarded relations of their wild kin. Dogs mature to a wolfishly adolescent level. By remaining in a younger, more affably co-dependent state, they more easily get along with humans. From what I have seen, a lot of adult humans could be described as childish, and while the usual concern is that they are less effective for their childishness, they also subordinate themselves more readily to more ambitious leaders, and this facilitates collaboration.
Or, I guess, domesticated humans and animals fall more naturally into packs, for better and for worse.
doodles, Featured
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2009/04/15/tweet/
Apple Fail
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2009/04/28/apple-fail/
In order to make a Mac nearly half as useful as a typical Unix distribution, you have to sign up with Apple to download special “developer” stuff like a compiler. That means that years after you have given up on using a Mac, you’ll get funny spam like this one:
So, they are soliciting me for a design contest, and the “fine print” to unsubscribe is not merely the usual small, gray text, but small, gray text on a gray background. Layers of delicious failure.
The last spam I received from Apple was for a recruiting event, with no unsubscribe option whatever.
Arrr! . . . Avast!
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Guilty until proven innocent.
Gee, maybe now we know why Isaiah Crowell was nervous during that arrest.
The charges that were leveled against former Georgia tailback Isaiah Crowell last summer and ultimately led to his dismissal by the Bulldogs were dismissed by the State of Georgia this week.
According to court documents obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Thursday, the felony charge of possessing a weapon with an altered ID mark and misdemeanor charges of possession and carrying a concealed weapon without a license and carrying a weapon within in a school zone, were dropped by Athens-Clarke County District Attorney Kenneth Mauldin.
In the dismissal document filed by assistant D.A. James Chafin, it was explained to the court while the gun was found under the driver’s seat of Crowell’s car, which belonged to his mother, “the state would be unable to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that this defendant actually possessed the weapon or even knew it was there.”
I’m sure the mea culpas will be flowing shortly – I’m looking at you, Coach Dooley and Mark Bradley.
Some random thoughts:
This is what sucks about living in a 24-hour news cycle/Internet reaction world, that rush to judgment that feels so good, yet ultimately holds no accountability. There’s no place for nuance, or for letting little things like the judicial system run their course.
Which is why I can’t blame Mark Richt for the decision to let Crowell go. Standing by the kid would have been an enormous distraction. But I bet Richt gets plenty of mileage out of this going forward dealing with the media and its next rush to judgment.
Does Georgia get a Fulmer Cup mulligan?
I figure Jimmy Williamson still counts this as a notch on his gun.
Remember where this all started: “an officer smelled an odor of marijuana”, although none was found in the car at the time of the arrest.
Bottom line is that there’s a pretty high asshole quotient with this story.
Filed under Crime and Punishment, Georgia Football
103 responses to “Guilty until proven innocent.”
If the officer “smelled” marijuana, but none was found, then he couldn’t possibly have smelled any. Would that not render his search invalid and thus make any evidence found impermissible? Or am I being much too literal with this 4th amendment thing?
The Bill of Rights is so yesterday.
Your logic escapes me. Of course he could have smelled something. That fact that it’s no longer in the car doesn’t mean the smell is gone, too.
Yeah, I thought of that right after I typed that comment. I’ve never been in a position that required me to hastily dispose of a bag of marijuana, so I’m not experienced in the methods employed. However, I do wonder at what point an officer’s olfactory senses became a good enough reason to justify probable cause. Seems like something that would be a little too subjective. But that’s just me.
It’s not that unlikely that he smelled pot and couldn’t find any. Maybe they disposed of it by smoking it just a few moments earlier?
It’d probably have a pretty strong smell in that case too wouldn’t it 😉
Or maybe there never was any pot.
I would guess that if they had just smoked it all, they wouldn’t need to use smell for probable cause. Licking windows and proclaiming they taste like snozberries is pretty indicative of intoxication of one kind or another…
Right. Except nobody acts like that after smoking a doobie. Ever. A strong odor is the most obvious indicator that someone has been smoking weed. Plus it’s a lot easier to smell it after it’s been smoked compared to when it’s still in the bag.
The kid had a bit more than marijuana when he started preaching about the taste of snozberries…
I realize pot doesn’t make you do that. That scene just popped in my head and made me giggle a bit.
Coastal Dawg
Didn’t all the people in the car pass a drug test administered after the arrest?
Watch “Super Trooper” to discover how the cops helped the kids get rid of their bag of marijuana.
Smoke smell lingers in fabric and other materials. A burned up dooby (roach) can then be eaten. Not saying this was done, but could be true that it was detected although no physical evidence is present.
What was the haul from that traffic stop? Certainly they stopped others. Resultant?
I had a cop stop me on a boat, on a windy day and used the “I smelled MJ” as an excuse to search me and my boat. He found nothing but a few sandwiches and fruit juices and spent 30 minutes going through all my tackle to see if we had any illegal gear.
No, you don’t understand. All black people smell like marijuana. Latinos too. That is the only plausible explanation for why so many stops are initiated because the officer “detected a faint odor of marijuana,” yet never actually discovered a trace of marijuana in the car.
On a related note, it’s amazing how often blacks/latinos “follow too closely” on I-75–another common basis for road stops. They must just be bad drivers . . .
Those officers have their olfactory nerves calibrated once a week. The dreds and skin color couldn’t have been a factor.
Whatever the basis for the reasonable suspicion, they did find an illegal gun. Not cool, even if it was Mom’s fault.
Mom: “Honey… have you seen my piece? I’ve looked all over for it.”
Dad: “Don’t worry…. I’m sure it will show up sooner or later.”
“But don’t worry. I filed off the serial number.”
You’re really going to make this about race? Wow.
Believe it or not, there is still a lot of stuff that happens in the “justice” system that is clouded by race. Cops, prosecutors, defense attorneys, jurors and judges are all human and some people (many unfortunately) still allow race to color their view of the facts/evidence. I am a lawyer and tried a case involving an African-American defendant where a white juror thought my guy was guilty because his co-defendant (not my client) was a “thug” because of his dreads. That was clearly racist and thank god the other jurors stood strong against that bastard.
Just because it happens *sometimes* doesn’t mean it’s appropriate to say that it *did* happen this time. Didn’t Crowell fail a drug test or two during his time in Athens? With all that we know about him I think it’s a pretty strong leap of faith to call a cop a bold faced liar.
I know one of the cops who was working the traffic stop that night. This wasn’t about race. Honestly, knowing this officer, and several others in town, college-aged kid + entitled athlete are more likely to prove suspicious to them. There’s definitely a they-must-be-up-to-something feeling with teens and young adults in the APD, some way more than others. This particular officer is a nice guy, very conservative, but not like some of the others I’ve known, who has called all attendees of the local high schools “animals.”
That you used “African-American” and “white” in the same sentence without irony is exactly the reason racial tensions still exist.
Jimmy Williamson
Just another reason why we shouldn’t have night games. Bad things happen at night. Mandatory curfew if you ask me.
according to the UGA Student-Athlete handbook — perhaps the most-thumbed reference tome on campus — any felony arrest carries “immediate suspension from athletic competition.”
Wonder how long his case would have taken to get resolved if he had not been dismissed from the team?
While we rarely see it happen, or even suspect it in Clarke County, could this be a “the kid has already been kicked out of school and off of the team, maybe he has suffered enough”? Maybe Richt spoke with the DA? Either way, hopefully this is a turning point for this kid.
I still think it was a blessing he was kicked off the team.
I’m sure Crowell agrees with you.
It would have been really interesting to see how the carries would have been split b/w Crowell and Gurshall. As easily as he got winded, I think he would have been relegated to 3rd string.
So, in way, maybe it was a blessing for him.
Abso-freaking-lutely.
Being a father who has had experience with law enforcement, cops ALWAYS say there was enough evidence of pot in the car to arrest the subject, but they were lenient. It’s part of their bullying script.
Dawg in Beaumont
I know it is the norm on this blog, but the constant painting of ALL cops as racist bullies gets to me.
Did these cops handle things wrong? Definitely looks that way to me
Are there a lot of racist/bully cops? Hell yes
But please consider that cops don’t ALWAYS say there was enough evidence of pot in the car to arrest the subject. Some cops actually do the right thing. In fact, I know a lot whom I believe do the right thing daily.
Can we critique the individuals who do the wrong thing (and even the system in many cases), but please consider that there are plenty of good cops out there?
While I tend to agree that we always paint the cops as ‘bad guys’.. the evidence def points to them always taking a hard line with ‘football looking players’.
Only in Athens, though.
JRod…”always” ?? Cops have a tough job. No matter which way things fall, they often get painted as assholes. I’ve never been stopped or been in a car that was stopped that it wasn’t deserved…yet the cop is always “an asshole”. I’d say the chances are way over 90 percent (my guess) that if you or anyone else is stopped by a police officer you deserve it. Just because no grass was found doesn’t mean none was used…ever throw anything out the window? I don’t know what happened that night, and I’m glad IC won’t have this on his record (and hopefully he can get on with his life), but the “blame the cop first” attitude is kind of stale.
You’re looking at it the wrong way. During my years in Athens I went full retard (see the movie Tropic Thunder for reference) many times. Did dumb things, just like every other college kid does. Many times these things were even in the nearby vicinity of the police. My record remains clean.
It just seems that if APD took the same line against every college kid as they did against football players it’d be one thing. But I don’t think thats the case at all.
You have no reason to state that’s the case except your prejudice against cops.
I’ve known law enforcement people who, when smelling pot at a party, made no effort to use their nose to make an arrest. I have seen some that reflexively jerked their head toward the area when smoke was detected and people were told to cool it. They did.
Even though I am a scofflaw for smoking pot, I’ve never had police scarfing me out. Instead, They have ignored the smell and permitted me to go on my way as long as they didn’t stop me for driving unsafe. What has been a respect for the job most cops do and the danger they place themselves into each day, there are; however, those who have other enforcement activities, but aren’t cops. Fish and Game in my area took joy in busting people at a romantic area on the lake. Teenagers smoking pot is the big enforcement catch for many of the cop wannabees.
Cops shouldn’t take any hit for doing their job at a traffic stop. When it happened, I didn’t hear a soul condemning the cops. Why now?
“When it happened, I didn’t hear a soul condemning the cops.”
I didn’t get the sense that you were preaching for Isaiah’s benefit and not until the last of all posts did I read anything approaching the present outlook on loss of rights in this case. At no time did I see that you thought Isaiah was guiltless from the arrest and propose that it was an overeagerness by the cops.
I certainly agree with your last statement in that blog concerning the erosion of our rights during the last 30 yrs of the War on Drugs. What do you think of the present course of using technically apped chemical detectors held surreptiously in their hands at your window while you talk to the police? In 1990, in Canada, I had one held near me at a road stop as I was driving the family to dinner. They detected alcohol and asked how much I had to drink. Had one drink before leaving home and told them so; whereupon, the Mountie replied that he detected the same level. No problem and I drove to dinner. Nowadays I hear of us using that in law enforcement PLUS using handheld.chemical detectors for pot smoking. Has that come to pass? Is it still continuing to be pushed? Do you think that this will be legalized (noninvasive detection vs blood and pee testing)? What is the jump from asking you to let them search to surreptious detection (as far as sliding down a path of no return)? Would like to hear from you and other barristers concerning rights erosion based upon the war on drugs.
Agree, cops of all colors should be obeyed and offenders regardless of color should be charged. That is the only way society can work and not supporting that is weird to me. Deal with bad cops more harshly than normal offenders when found but don’t ever excuse criminal behavior. As good as the posters here are on football they often sound like rebellious teenagers when it comes to law and order. Charging and convicting innocent people is terrible, no one denies that, but not supporting the enforcement of laws is far more concerning than the occasional mistake.
While there may not have been enough evidence to convict Crowell in court a football team’s rules can be different. Having a bad attitude isn’t against the law but a coach can, and should, dismiss players who are problematic. IC was a cancer on the team and had so many chances to change his behavior/attitude that Richt had no choice but to remove him. And if I get stopped today with a pound of cocaine in my car I don’t think linking me to how it was acquired will matter. Who I associate with, how I drive, when I am out, and where I am at what time of night will increase my chances of getting caught.
I think the DA may have felt there were better uses of his resources and would be happy to see Crowell get things together in his life. But people black or white, athletes or nerds, should be arrested when they break the law and their bad behavior shouldn’t be excused.
“Deal with bad cops more harshly than normal offenders when found…”
Doesn’t happen nearly enough to make a difference.
“IC was a cancer on the team…”
What do you base that on? I’ve never seen a single “good riddance” comment from one of his teammates.
Again, did Crowell turn into an enormous distraction/problem for Richt? Absolutely, and I can see why MR felt he had no choice in what he did. But once you toss this situation out, how different were Crowell’s off the field problems from, say, Alec Ogletree’s?
I agree that dealing with the problem cops harshly doesn’t happen nearly enough. My only nuanced disagreement with some commenters would be the extremely broad brushes cops get painted with. I’d argue they have no higher of a percentage of assholishness than bankers, real estate agents, teachers, etc. It’s just more obvious (and potentially dangerous) when cops are assholes.
I’m 100% on board with your analysis of Crowell. He strikes me as a dumbass, albeit a dumbass who to my knowledge never beat anybody up or made threats, assaulted women, etc.
Not much different than other players we’ve had in Athens (Ogletree was a good example)
But this was an untraceable gun found that was that way because it had been used in the commission of a crime or was going to be used. I didn’t read where Alec was arrested under those circumstances.
UGA had no course except to dismiss him from the student body, I don’t care how the gun got there. Has anyone spoken up and claimed ownership or that it was his Momma’s? That leaves only Crowell responsible out there driving his gun around with other players in the car.
Mac is correct. His anti-coach in-your-face activities at the SECCG and before was a cancer of disrespect toward the coach and our school that he represented. Crowell cut his own cord when he did that. Whether he was injured or whatever, he has no excuse for thrusting that crap into our football program.
That’s similar to saying that what Rodney Garner did for us early on gives him the excuse for not recruiting linemen hard and affecting the team negatively later. Doesn’t compute here.
I wonder how Crowell would have been in the locker room, if Gurley took over the starting role. Would he have been a happy 2nd stringer?
most pot heads are pretty laid back.
A personal contact who verified the confrontation of team leaders with IC before the SECCG after a practice and his “timidity” of hiding behind the green jersey, his observed aloofness when not playing and sitting alone on the bench, and his public rebuke at Richt after his personal foul against LSU. Granted, you can say “cancer” is overstated or that it may have been Stage 2 and not Stage 4. I don’t find it unusual that there weren’t “good riddance” comments, the team seems pretty good about speaking publicly about internal problems. Even last year when the length of suspensions were not known there were no comments about who would play from the team and they had to know who was practicing with the first team. I agree the public distraction was an issue CMR had to address.
I don’t find it unusual that there weren’t “good riddance” comments, the team seems pretty good about speaking publicly about internal problems.
So what does that tell you about Cornelius Washington’s blow up?
I never doubted there was unanimity on either side and confident IC had supporters/friends. CW’s public rant at the fans was poor form regardless of his thoughts on IC. The bigger issues are the divisiveness of Crowell among team/fans and the circus that seemed to surround him. I am sure he isn’t without his good points and wish him well but I was not unhappy with Richt’s decision then, or now. I recall saying on your blog that week we would be better in 2012 than we were in 2011 at RB. Not right all the time on predictions, and I certainly didn’t see a season like Gurley had coming, but I don’t think we could overcome the lack of dependability that Crowell exhibited in 2011.
It occurs to me that CMR knew a lot more about IC and his situation, attitudes, etc., than any of us bloggers who are on the outside looking in. He dismissed the kid for whatever reasons he had and second guessing his decision without knowing what he knew is silly and really kind of pointless.
Another heartwarming episode of ‘Driving While Black’…
This wasn’t a “Driving While Black” incident. This was a vehicle checkpoint on campus at 2:20 a.m. Not an unreasonable time to police drivers.
I’m glad Crowell got off, for his sake. Hopefully he learned from this. He still has a future in college football and maybe in the NFL and I, for one, wish him well. That said, anyone who believes that Crowell didn’t know that gun was under the seat………
The NCAA enforcement office is looking for a few good men like you, Mayor.
NCAA math: 1+1=3. (Or whatever number they want it to be.) 🙂
All of us white guys that live in nice white neighborhoods probably have a slightly different opinion of cops than the folks that inhabit the places most heavily patrolled by those same “good guys”.
Amazing how a lack of evidence can just be brushed aside as “well I am sure he did it”. Getting to that assumption is pretty ugly, no matter how you got there.
Even more amazing is the lack of evidence being there all along and no one addressed it for over a year. Where is the “lack of evidence” when a gun with filed serial numbers is found in your possession? I don’t think the dismissal for that reason plays out to the facts.
Crowell was cut slack and given a gift. You mean those bad ole law enforcement people were nice and gave an African American a second chance by not having him adjudicated in court? Doesn’t sound like racism along any path you want to travel in this matter. And accusing cops of that because Crowell has a black skin IS racism.
Where is the “lack of evidence” when a gun with filed serial numbers is found in your possession?
What possession? That’s why the DA dismissed the charges.
You’re being a little bit disingenuous here.
Actually the Senator is right on the law. Kids get busted in cars with a bag of dope found in the car all the time. When the authorities can’t prove whose dope it is they all walk.
My point is that while he’s right on the law, OJ Simpson was also right on the law back when he got away with murder. Due process is a good thing, but to suddenly presume Crowell is some unfortunate choir boy, and that everyone should all obviously agree, because he got off when he had a damn pistol with the serial number filed off under his seat is disingenuous at best.
Nobody should be convicted of anything in a court of law without being proven guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt. But the rest of society, sports writers and former Coaches/AD’s included, don’t have any obligation to act like a crime wasn’t obviously committed just because someone wasn’t convicted, or the DA dropped the case because the evidence was shit or the cop didn’t handle the search properly or whatever the reason is.
CoachSpurlock
As I asked when this all went down, did they even dust the gun for prints? I thought then that if IC’s prints were not on the weapon, he’d get off.
Prints are actually rarely recovered from a gun.
Senator, read Mike at 10:30. He has your “possession” all lined up for you.
And at 11:55.
Really. It’s been a long time since I took an English class, but when you’ve got a statute with the language “to carry to or to possess”, it seems to me the law distinguishes between the two actions.
Again, look at the language from the DA: “the state would be unable to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that this defendant actually possessed the weapon…”
Merely being in the same car with the weapon isn’t proof of possession per se, no matter how much you guys believe it should be.
Cheez, Bluto, we are learning here also. When we discussed this last year, these legal hair splittings as to what constitutes “possession” are like discussing the difference between “shall” and “will” legally. I’m now hearing that possession means holding it in your hand or carrying it on the body.
Gee, I feel safe to have an empty beer can discovered under a seat of my truck and just tell the cops that I don’t know anything about it. Or a gun. I’m hearing that there is no proof of possession as long as I don’t buy it nor have a receipt. I learn new things everyday from my fellow Dawgs.
It’s a matter of “knowingly possessing” something. If they can’t prove that he knew it was in the car, they can’t prove that he “possessed” it.
Based on my personal experience, most of which is admittedly more than a bit aged (late 70’s, early 80’s), I doubt racism, of any overt variety, was at work here. But I absolutely do think the ACC PD has a long history of viewing young males of any color with great suspicion.
I have twice had firearms aimed at me by Athens’ finest for no damn good reason at all, once while walking home from work at 3 in the morning (cop wanted to know what I had in my hands–sweet roll and milk!–and what I was doing out so late); and one evening when my girlfriend and I were leaving my garage apartment (they had the area staked out looking for a burglar; he lowered his rifle and let us go once I convinced him I lived in the apartment). Not to mention a couple of pull overs for no reason at all. And a dogged attempt to nail me for a gas theft that never occurred. Hell, I was a pretty good kid, never smoked a doobie in my life (tho they probably could’ve gotten me for DUI a time or 10, something I’d not proud of). Had other friends (white and black) who had their own similar experiences. I can also personally attest to several instances of stunning incompetence–including a successful robbery of a convenience store while the cops had it staked out!
I’ve known a lot of guys on the force. Even have a relative who’s a deputy. Some are jerks, some are damn good guys, and I really hate to cast aspersions on a group based on a few a-holes, especially since my experiences are perhaps over-ripe. But I lived in four different locales in my teens and twenties, traveled quite a bit, and Athens cops were definitely most aggressive when it came to dealing with young men.
Also O/U on comments for this thread? 85?
It has everything, Friday, Cops are dicks/heroes, Crowell.
Also fills that need for middle class white guys to look down their nose at football player.
I guess the kids are paying for those jerseys themselves and their Dads would never wear one.
The old “I smelled an odor of marijuana” is like “I’ll call you in the morning” – whenever I see that I suspect an unlawful search. Total bs. An excuse to search a car to see what he can come up with. Like staying in a poker game hoping for the straight. That said, it was time for him to go after all of the other nonsense. Richt again shows good judgment.
Holy Shiite everyone! Are you missing something? He CONSENTED to the search. You don’t need probable cause when the owner of the vehicle consents to the search. Cops did their job correctly and found an illegal firearm. How many of you are comfortable with a bunch of college kids driving around on a Saturday night with a loaded gun in the car. The cops made Athens safer that night by taking care of a dangerous situation. That’s their job.
How many of you are comfortable with a bunch of college kids driving around on a Saturday night with a loaded gun in the car.
There are plenty of people in the Georgia General Assembly who are totally comfortable with that.
no shit. RP must live under a rock, in a cave, on mars with his fingers in his ears and his eyes closed.
Damn near every politician in this state will tell you straight to the camera that everyone is safer with more guns around. I
Personally, I know several members of the General Assembly and I’m not comfortable with THEM driving around with guns.
The weird thing about consent is that, even when it’s technically consent, it really isn’t consent (to write a confusing sentence). There are all these legal standards about it has to be free and voluntary, but courts adopt quite a misguided notion of human nature when they consider what is free and voluntary. For instance, when asking for consent, cops don’t have to inform you of your right to not consent. Many people, when put in a situation of a cop requesting something assume they HAVE to do what the cop says; that can be especially true in the black community which does face greater police scrutiny (whether it be due to race, socio-economic status, areas of town, WHATEVER) than many middle-class, well-to-do white people.
I’m sure Corwell legally consented to the search. I’m just not sure it is as free and voluntary as I, in my admitted never-grew-out-of-teenage-anarchism ways, would like for free and voluntary to be.
If you think that an adult (over the age of 18) possessing a handgun is a dangerous situation, then I will say I disagree. I have one. I know other adults that have them. We’re not dangerous.
I’ve had a friend who was stopped for a minor traffic violation and had his car searched after the officer smelled pot. It was a legit search; My friend told me he had tossed the joint out the window, and he was sweating they would find something in the car. You can’t paint all cops as dishonest. Well, you can, but it’s really stupid. Like thinking that Athens police target football players. So, then, they have permanent tails on team members they want to bust? Yeah, and George Bush took down the Twin Towers.
No shit!!! George Bush I or II?
Neither one. It was Jeb.
I don’t understand this sentence: “Gee, maybe now we know why Isaiah Crowell was nervous during that arrest.”
He was nervous b/c he didn’t know his mommy stashed a Luger with the serial #’s scratched off under the front seat?
I hope IC learned a lesson too. Pretty boy athletes aren’t above the law. No guns on campus. No concealed guns without a permit.
And if we are to believe the ludicrous assertion that the gun belongs to mommy, perhaps he’ll learn to conduct a check of any car he borrows from mommy to make sure he cleans out the emery boards, coupons, back issues of McCalls and Luger 9mm with the serial# scratched off.
Damned good, Mike.
You dont have to accept that the gun belonged to his mom, you should look at the assertion that the gun definitely belonged to him. Since it was not in his possession, making the leap to possession requires a leap. Make it if you want, but know that not everyone would.
If it is within reach then it is treated as “in his possession”. If his mommy wanted to hide a 9mm Luger in IC’s car, she should’ve put it in the trunk where it is not legally “on his person”.
from OCGA 16-11-127.1 “it shall be unlawful for any person to carry to or to possess or have under such person’s control while within a school safety zone or at a school building, school function, or school property..”
The felony for scratching off the serial number was rightly dropped b/c this crime requires knowledge. The lesser charge of possession on school grounds should not have been dropped IMHO.
The Keystone Kops in Athens are not the police but the incompetent DA who has pursued a “catch and release” program with Athens criminals for years.
Tired Old Dawg
Point of Order here:
It wasn’t a Luger. I initially got excited because it appeared that while IC may have been stupid he seemed to have excellent taste in firearms. However as Lugers are very expensive because of their high cool factor, collectability, and relatively scarce numbers I checked out the police arrest report online suspecting that the caliber was a 9mm Luger but the firearm itself was something substantially less cool.
I was correct. He had a Hi Point C9 with the serial number filed off. The pistol retails for just over $100 in most places and is quite possibly one of the ugliest weapons for sale today. They do have a reputation for reliability though and Hi Point has superior warranties.
I can’t blame the guy for having a cheap gun in college – money is always tight for students. But having the serial number filed off is definitely “How stupid can you be?” territory.
EgginDawg
Sad that Jimmy Williamson and his Keystone Kops get away with this shoddy police work a lot more than people know. Personal example is my son was recently charged for underage possession of alcohol without any proof- i.e. a blood test or breath test to confirm the allegation. In addition the incident report included facts/ statements that were completely untrue and unproven. Needless to say the charges had to be dropped. $500 bond was required when my son was charged and he was incarcerated over 8 hours on the bogus charges. It’s all a game to increase revenue.
Best part is that he had totally been drinking, no?
If it was underage possession they wouldn’t have to do a breath or blood analysis to determine if he was DUI, would they? They didn’t arrest him for DUI, just that he possessed it. If there was nothing to base “underage possession”, how can they even process him without the evidence?
Something is wrong here and it may be the absence of wrongdoing being twisted for our anti-cop consumption. Methinks that Eggin Dawg may be a troll. Who would ever admit to that title?
What’s wrong here is that too many think that if something can be exused with a technicality or the lamest defense, that it makes it OK. This kind of thinking is what gives people like OJ legal legs to walk out of a murder trial. If your kids misbehaving you should punish him even if the law doesn’t.
Using the kind of “reasoning” we’re seeing from some here today, we must admit that there was no dirty hit on AM during the Alabama game, because it didn’t get called..
Or that most cops are just expediting the issue because “look at him, we know he is guilty.”
Personal anecdotes are always the best way to judge every situation
you mean that the plural of anecdote is not data? who knew?
Also my o/u call was pretty solid, if I do have to say so myself….and I do.
good weekend everyone. If you like awesome beer look for Stone’s Enjoy By 5.17.13 in the 22oz format this weekend. Great IPA that is fresh fresh fresh.
Also Founders All Day IPA is a great session beer for this time of year.
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Athletes and the justice system should be a topic if its own. Colleges classes, books, TV shows…. The possibilities are endless
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DarkSider News for May!
Winter is coming and we have just thing to snuggle up with...
Heart of Eon by Anna Hackett (Book 3, Eon Warriors) was released on 23 April.
Okay, maybe hijacking an alien commander’s warship wasn’t her best idea…
Genius computer geek Wren Traynor prefers her high-tech comp lab to socializing with people, and she definitely prefers it over crawling through the bowels of the huge Eon warship she’s hijacked. When Earth’s Space Corps blackmails her into this deadly mission, Wren will do anything to help her beloved sisters and save the Earth from invasion by the insectoid Kantos aliens. That includes entering into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the tall, hunky, and seriously enraged Eon war commander who captains the Rengard...
War Commander Malax Dann-Jad is a born protector and has forged a successful career in service to the Eon Empire. Haunted by an early mission where he lost good warriors, he’s dedicated to protecting his ship and its crew. Especially since his warship is carrying a special, top-secret cargo. But one tiny, infuriating Terran puts all that at risk when she commandeers his ship and refuses to listen to reason!
When the ravenous Kantos set their sights on the Rengard - using sneaky, underhanded tactics - Malax finds himself with an armful of curvy woman. He and Wren must join forces to fight back, and are shocked at their improbable, intense attraction. But with lives at risk, both will learn that strength comes in more ways than one, and love can hit when you least expect it, and that in order to survive, you have to put everything on the line!
Read an excerpt.
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Princess Avenger by Bernadette Rowley (Book 1, Queenmakers Saga) was released 26 April. It has a new cover, editing and formatting.
…an avenging princess, determined to protect her citizens from her tyrannical father. Alecia’s only worth is to have a son, who will be heir to the kingdom.
…a dangerous shifter, tasked with guarding a princess who refuses to be shielded from danger. Vard’s dark secret could spell the end of the woman he’s sworn to protect.
And yet, when thrown together, neither of them can deny the forbidden attraction. As their lives spin out of control, will love be enough to pull them from the vortex and perhaps save the kingdom?
Princess Avenger is the first book in the epic Queenmakers Saga, combining the sweeping high fantasy world of Thorius with sizzling romance. If you like magic, political intrigue and mythical creatures, wrapped up in a ‘beauty and the beast’ love story, then you’ll adore Princess Avenger.
This book contains sex scenes and is intended for mature readers.
The Lady's Choice by Bernadette Rowley (Book 2, Queenmakers Saga) was released 5 May.
…the perfect plan…With her people on the brink of starvation, Lady Benae Branasar devises a daring rescue. She will marry powerful Prince Jiseve of Brightcastle and use his fortune to save her estates. But first she must compete against three princesses equally determined to win his hand.
…a dangerous distraction…When she finds herself drawn to her reluctant escort, the prince’s squire Ramón Zorba, her plans begin to unravel.
Ramón is dealing with problems of his own, but as he thaws, Benae glimpses the devastating man beneath. The more time they spend together, the harder Benae finds it to focus on her objective. Will she stay true to her people? Or will love and fate intervene?
Benae and Ramón face temptation, danger and tragedy in this passionate fantasy romance.
Princess in Exile by Bernadette Rowley (Book 3, Queenmakers Saga) was released 19 May.
…a princess of the people in self-imposed exile. Nothing could prepare Alecia for what she faces as she leaves all she has known behind and embraces a future with her rescuer.
…a tormented shapeshifter, desperate to defend the woman he loves. Vard Anton fights both external forces and the least controllable of his forms – the bear.
The lovers travel to a lost city, hoping a sorcerer there may help Vard master his transformations. They soon discover this mentor has his own devious agenda. Will Vard and Alecia escape? Can their love survive Alecia’s fear of Vard’s animal forms? What secret does the princess hold with the power to destroy Vard’s trust?
The answers to all this and more are contained in the pages of Princess in Exile, the dark sequel to Princess Avenger.
Embodied by Shona Husk (Book 3, Coven of the Raven) was released 13 April.
A love potion gone wrong leads to a goddess hijacking Alexis’s body. Now Alexis will do anything to catch her boss’s eye. It’s unfortunate that he starts to notice her for all the wrong reasons. Such as the army of cats following her around.
Peyton Kilpatrick has always kept his relationship with Alexis professional despite the simmering interest. But something has changed, she crackles with magic and she wants more from him than he’s able to give. As a witch and a lawyer his life is complicated enough, throw in a hell hound bite that causes all kinds of side effects around the full moon and he really isn’t boyfriend material.
When Alexis finally gets Peyton in bed, things get hairy. Peyton reveals what he is and convinces her to give up her new-found power. If she doesn’t get rid of the goddess inhabiting her body, she’ll die.
Last Run of the Ice Princess by Shona Husk (Book 1, A Tale of Distant Colonies) was released 11 April.
Bern Ober is on a discrete mission to the Evron starsystem of the breakaway Distan Colonies to gain support for a band of revolutionaries in the Terran Republic. It is a dangerous mission, but he is a dangerous man. When Terran operatives capture him, Lady Fortini hires a reluctant smuggler and her starship, the Ice Duchess, to run the Terran blockade and collect him. Captain Veronik Ayres and her intrepid crew must risk everything to run a gauntlet of warships to rescue the rebel spy. However, getting in is easier than getting out. To get back, the Ice Duchess must slip past the alerted Terran blockade ships or try their luck against the pirate corsairs of the Lotharian stellar coast.
Vorn and the First Comers by Donna Maree Hanson (Kushlan Silvertongue, Tales from Argenterra) was released on 1 May and is available for FREE!
A choice between life or death…
Kushlan Silvertongue has been commissioned to write the Tales of the First Comers, Tales of Argenterra.
This novella is the story of Vorn and the First Comers and their journey from violence and death to the beautiful magical land of Argenterra, the Silverland.
Mighty warrior, Vorn, leads the survivors to a new land and sets in motion a civilisation that lasts for over one thousand years.
Discover the origins of the given magic and how the first comers made the oaths that secured that magic forever.
The other function of the novella is for readers to get a taste of Argenterra and then get the rest of the series if it interests them.
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Nightworld Academy: Term One by LJ Swallow (Book 1, Nightworld Academy) is expected to be released on 17 April.
I'm told my curse is a gift. A valuable one that could cost me my life.
My lifelong visions are weird, but my new school is weirder. All lessons take place in the evening, and the majority of students are on an advanced program where they take extra classes late into the night.
The pupils here are predictable for an English boarding school. There's Ash, the rugby team captain and the school’s most popular guy. Then there’s Andrei, the moody guy with a bad attitude who takes pleasure in annoying me. And Jamie who’s studious and friendly but intense.
I thought I had the school figured out: the mean girl, the quirky friend, the nerd, the emo, and the jock. But on the evening I swear allegiance to my new school house, things spin out of control, and I realise I’m dealing with more.
One of us will die, and I know who.
Welcome to the Nightworld Academy, attended by vampires, shifters, and witches. A place filled with harmony and mutual respect between the supernatural races.Sometimes.
Beltane Bliss by Lilliana Rose (Book 1, Pagan Pleasures), was released on 30 April.
Edi Court is training to be a modern-day white witch, her unique ability is healing. Emotionally wounded from her ex, Anto, she has run away from the covenant with a need to heal herself. Following her psychic ability, she finds herself south, along the coast from Melbourne Australia, where she decides to set up her own healing shop, Crystal Sands.
Voltaire is a down to earth guy, a plumber by trade, he believes only what he sees in the physical world. The loss of his mom and sister to breast cancer and his ex, who stole his money and left him with a debt to work off, has caused him to close his heart.
Can Edi stop herself from rescuing another man and landing in deep water? Or with the Beltane energies thick in the air, can this be the start of a new relationship between two wounded souls?
Volt must become a believer in the Magiks and allow his heart to heal. And Edi must learn to trust herself again.
Will a non-believer and a believer find love over Beltane?
Lust and Other Drugs by TJ Nichols (Book 1, Mytho) was released by Dreamspinner Press on 21 April.
Police officer Jordan and dragon shifter Edra might have to work together, but they don’t trust each other—even if sparks do fly between them.
If anyone finds out Jordan’s a mytho sympathizer, it could kill his career. No one can know that he frequents the satyr dens and uses the drug Bliss. Another satyr overdose might not get much attention, but two dead humans? That shouldn’t be possible.
And it might not be an accident.
Edra, Mythological Services Liaison, has been covering up mytho crimes to protect the community’s reputation. With a mayoral election looming, the last thing his people need is a scandal.
To get a murderer off the streets, Jordan and Edra will be spending a lot of time together, and it won’t be easy to keep up with their deceptions… or to keep resisting each other.
Available from Dreamspinner Press.
Non spec-fiction
Rough and Ready by Cathleen Ross (Book 2, Outlaw Warriors) was released on 15 April.
Before special ops soldier Hugo Boudreaux can move on, he has one last thing to do–fulfill a wartime debt to the friend who saved his life. He must infiltrate a vicious Louisiana MC club to stop their next illegal weapons shipment and send the president to jail. What he didn’t plan on was ending up an unwilling bodyguard to the man’s daughter–innocent and attractive nurse Alice Kaintuck.
Alice wants a normal life with a nice guy. But her rough-edged bodyguard is the sexiest man she's ever met. Suddenly she can’t stop thinking about just how hot he makes her. Before she knows it, she’s tumbling into his muscular arms…though she'll be damned if she'll fall in love with a man as dangerous as her father. Only Hugo doesn’t make love, he consumes her and turns her life upside down with his carnal, erotic sex. Dreams of nice guys vanish when her enemy becomes her obsession…
Mission: Her Safety by Anna Hackett (Book 5, Team 52) was released on 23 April.
A sexy, grumpy black ops scientist will do anything to track down the mysterious woman who broke into his lab.
After Dr. Ty Sampson catches a mysterious female intruder in his home and lab, he’s obsessed with finding out who she is and what she wants. He’s a man who trusts very few people and hates anyone in his space. His role as Team 52’s lead scientist brings him into contact with a host of powerful, ancient artifacts, so he knows the woman must be after something dangerous and he refuses to let her succeed.
River Elliott-Hall is good at finding things and prides herself on always getting the job done. When a very valuable painting by a master is stolen from a famous museum, it is her job to get it back. The trail leads her to the bright lights of Las Vegas and she’s heard rumors of the covert, black ops Team 52. But as she investigates if they know anything about the painting, she finds herself drawn into a battle of wits with a big, bad-tempered, and far-too-handsome genius.
Life has taught River and Ty to guard their hearts, so as these two circle each other, they warily agree to work together. Because it soon becomes clear that the painting is more than just a painting, and someone with a dangerous plan is working behind the scenes. Fighting their intense chemistry, Ty and River—along with Team 52—will risk everything to save the day, and both find themselves battling the unfamiliar needs to claim, protect, and keep each other safe.
The Love Left Behind by Daniel de Lorne was released by Escape Publishing on 4 May.
What happens when a man with his heart in the clouds falls for one whose feet are firmly stuck to the ground? Pilot Nick Galanos is on a mission to visit the fifty countries his mother couldn't before she died. But the closer he gets to his goal, the more he worries that he won't have anything to show for it but stamps in a crowded passport. On a rare visit back home, he meets a hot electrician with a killer set of dimples. Suddenly a future of shared adventures seems possible.
Except for one thing...
Lyall Turner's big brother died in a plane crash. He's been afraid of flying most of his life, but there's no shortage of destinations in Australia that don't require a boarding pass. But then he meets Nick and suddenly his 'no biggie' phobia stands squarely in the way of a beautiful future together. Now he has to decide whether he's going to let his fear or his heart take the lead.
And will Nick stay grounded while he decides?
Buy links available from Books2Read.
Valor by Mel Teshco (Book 5, Dragons of Riddich) is due for release on 9 July.
The dragons will search the universe for their one true mate...
As a breeder, Rebel Mayfield attracts Riddich dragons like bees to honey. But to guarantee her next dragon capture, she has no choice other than to lay a trap for sharp-witted, blond-headed Valor. She waits in a dark alley, and when her breeder instincts sense Valor near, she signals to her male colleague to approach and pretend he’s hurting her. Valor falls for the ruse and is so enraged he nearly kills the male operative. Until the Paranormal Detection Agency—Rebel's team—step in and take Valor as their prisoner.
As Valor lays chained on a gurney, his body bloodied and bruised, and the air too frosty to call on his dragon, he dreams of escape along with hundreds of ways to kill everyone in the underground facility. Everyone except Rebel. He’s got a special kind of hell for her. He’ll use her body again and again before taking his ultimate revenge. That it’s Rebel who gives him the opportunity to escape might be her only salvation … but only if she can handle his dragon’s physical demands.
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It Starts with a Kiss by J.L. Peridot will be released by Kyanite Publishing on 13 September.
A steamy, friends-to-lovers office romance on a pre-AI space station.
Celeste is a talented engineer who doesn’t realise her job’s going nowhere fast. She’s a little naïve. She’ll cut code and solder cables forever as long as Owen’s around. Owen, on the other hand, knows exactly how badly things suck—he just doesn’t care. Sure, his skills aren’t what they used to be, but they’re still better than what Halcyon Aries deserves.
Then it happens. The company’s toxic management team finally cross the line. As both techies race to upgrade the station, to free the team from their oppressive contracts, they come to learn that life—and love—can only ever be what you make it.
Pre-order from:
Kyanite Publishing
Shelter by Claire Boston (Book 1, First Response) is due for release 24 June.
She’s desperate to fit in. He’s searching for forgiveness. Can they break their emotional chains to free true love?
Border Force Agent Zamira does everything by the book. But when she hears rumors of a missing friend held captive, she opts to ditch the rules and go rogue. Met with suspicion upon her arrival in Blackbridge, she sweet-talks a handsome resident and watches sparks fly at exactly the wrong time…
Jeremy volunteers to fight fires to atone for his father’s death. With his feelings heavily guarded, he’s surprised when the beautiful Zamira sets his heart racing. But after the agent’s quest puts them both in harm’s way, he hopes the dangerous hunt won’t cost him yet another person he loves.
As shadowy figures track Zamira’s every move, finding her friend may mean ignoring the deepest connection she’s ever felt.
Can Zamira and Jeremy liberate the girl and free their hearts?
Shelter is the first book in an enthralling romantic suspense series. If you like wounded heroes, small-town Australian settings, and fast-paced action, then you’ll love Claire Boston’s gripping tale.
Pre-order links on Claire's website.
I Dream of Zombies by Imogene Nix doesn't have a release date as yet.
After the apocalypse the world was a different place. Those who survived did so by wits, strength and by banding together.
Julia is a soldier—not by choice but circumstance in a world where taking up arms is a necessity. She’s buried the softer parts of herself including her heart.
Leroy on the other hand is a warrior. An ex-soldier who has to come to terms with what he hides and a loner by choice.
Now they have a mission—retrieve those missing from Camp Queanbeyan. Survival is just the first step on a rocky road toward redemption and there’s no guarantee of success.
Congratulations to all our DarkSiders!
Thanks for sharing in our news. Until next time, happy reading!
Labels: Anna Hackett, Bernadette Rowley, Cathleen Ross, Claire Boston, Daniel de Lorne, DarkSider News, Donna Maree Hanson, Imogene Nix, JL Peridot, Lilliana Rose, LJ Swallow, Mel Teshco, Shona Husk, TJ Nichols
Magic Thursday: Inspiration Behind Beltane Bliss
by Lilliana Rose
Way back in January, in the spur of the moment, at a point where I thought I didn’t have much going on for the year ahead, I joined a writing group. The aim was to bring out a series this year with five of the pagan holidays; Beltane, Summer Solstice, Mabon, Samhain, and Yule. I love writing paranormal romance, and I have an interest in pagan celebrations, so I thought that this would be a fun challenge for me. I was ready to start a new series, and I jumped on board.
First of the rank, was the celebration of Beltane, hence the title of my book Beltane Bliss. The main inspiration for this book was of course Beltane. I had a story idea brewing in my mind for years where the main character owned an alternative healing shop, and so I put this idea into the story (I pinched this from another character whose story I’ve not written, the poor woman! I’m sure she won’t mind when I go back and give her a new story line, or maybe in the future she might well be part of Crystal Sands). I’ve spend time over the years, learning about crystals, and I’m a Reiki master, and so some of my own knowledge of alternative healing was put to very good use to help create this story.
I began to develop the main character, Edi, who was a white witch, and such a business venture is well beneath her skill in the Magiks. But she’s running away from a relationship and her covenant, so I like this being a solution for her that might work out, especially if there was a love interest! Cue the very hot non-Magik hero, Volt. It was going to be interesting to see how a believer and a non-believer would find love. The story was quickly beginning to take on its own life.
In the past, I’m more of a darker writer when it comes to paranormal, for some reason this one is more in line with white witches. So, I went with this new inspiration, and I’m glad I did, Beltane Bliss was a lot of fun to write.
lillianarose.com
Beltane Bliss (Pagan Pleasures book 1)
Read on KU, or buy on Amazon
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Labels: Beltane Bliss, Inspiration, Lilliana Rose, Magic Thursday, paranormal romance
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center DAAC
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SAFARI 2000 Global Historical Climatology Network, V. 1, 1874-1990
ABSTRACT: This data set consists of a southern African subset of the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) Version 1 database. All stations with the following bounding coordinates are included in this subset: 5W - 60E and 5N - 35S. There are three files available, one each for precipitation, temperature, and pressure data. Within this subset the oldest data date from 1874 and the most recent from 1990. The GHCN V1 database contains monthly temperature, precipitation, sea-level pressure, and station-pressure data for thousands of meteorological stations worldwide. The database was compiled from pre-existing national, regional, and global collections of data as part of the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) project, the goal of which is to produce, maintain and make available a comprehensive global surface baseline climate data set for monitoring climate and detecting climate change. It contains data from roughly 6000 temperature stations, 7500 precipitation stations, 1800 sea-level pressure stations, and 1800 station-pressure stations. Each station has at least 10 years of data; 40% have more than 50 years of data. Spatial coverage is good over most of the globe, particularly for the United States and Europe. Data gaps are evident over the Amazon rainforest, the Sahara desert, Greenland, and Antarctica. The earliest station data are from 1697; the most recent are from 1990. The database was created from 15 source data sets including: The National Climatic Data Center's (NCDC's) World Weather Records, CAC's Climate Anomaly Monitoring System (CAMS), NCAR's World Monthly Surface Station Climatology, CIRES' (Eischeid/Diaz) Global precipitation data set, P. Jones' Temperature data base for the world, and S. Nicholson's African precipitation database. Quality Control of the database included visual inspection of graphs of all station time series, tests for precipitation digitized 6 months out of phase, tests for different stations having identical data, and other tests. This detailed analysis has revealed that most stations (95% for temperature and precipitation, 75% for pressure) contain high-quality data. However, gross data-processing errors (e.g., keypunch problems) and discontinuous inhomogeneities (e.g., station relocations and instrumentation changes) do characterize a small number of stations. All major data processing problems have been flagged (or corrected, when possible). Similarly, all major inhomogeneities have been flagged, although no homogeneity corrections were applied. More information can be found at: ftp://daac.ornl.gov/data/safari2k/climate_meteorology/ghcn/comp/ghcn_v1_readme.pdf.
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http://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/dsviewer.pl?ds_id=631
Identified by : s2k_ghcn_v1
This dataset was released on January 01, 2002.
The time range for this dataset is July 01, 1874 to December 31, 1990.
The spatial range for this dataset is -35° to 5° latitude, and -5° to 60° longitude. map (center)
DOI : 10.3334/ORNLDAAC/631
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Honeywell Names New Leader for Aerospace Business Group and a new Chief Commercial Officer
(October 2019) Honeywell Names Mike Madsen To Lead Aerospace Business Group, Tim Mahoney To Drive Enterprise Transformation, Jeff Kimbell Joins Company As Chief Commercial Officer
Honeywell (NYSE: HON) announced that Mike Madsen, an executive with more than three decades of leadership experience within its Aerospace strategic business group, has been named President and CEO of Honeywell Aerospace, effective immediately. Madsen, 56, succeeds Tim Mahoney, who held the role for the past 10 years and has been named Senior Vice President, Enterprise Transformation. In his new position, Mahoney, 63, will have broad responsibilities for Honeywell Digital, the company's global, cross-functional digitization initiative that is driving improvements in customer service and efficiency.
Madsen and Mahoney will work closely over the coming weeks to ensure a smooth transition of responsibilities. Both will serve as company officers, reporting to Chairman and CEO Darius Adamczyk and based in Phoenix, Ariz.
Download the databahn Honeywell Company Profile Report here
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*Throwback Thursday* #117 - Douglas MacArthur Part 1
Professor Buzzkill History Podcast
The Unknown Martin Luther King: Flashback Friday
Martin Luther King, Jr. wanted so much more from the US government and US elite, than most people realize. Popular history has airbrushed out far too much about his life and work. Professor Phil Nash reminds us of the importance of King’s work, especially during the forgotten period between his 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech and his assassination in 1968. Listen and learn.
info_outline Ben Franklin, "A Republic, if You Can Keep It" - Quote or No Quote?
When announcing the beginning of impeachment proceedings, the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, brought up a Ben Franklin “quotation.” Franklin supposedly said this after the Founding Fathers had agreed on the broad nature of the new U.S. government in 1787. But is the quote genuine? We explain it all, and the wider context of Franklin’s political and social world.
info_outline Throwback Thursday: The Pentagon Papers
We explain the complicated and much-mythologized history of the Pentagon Papers, which is shorthand for the government-funded study of US involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. Once leaked by Daniel Ellsberg and others, American newspapers, led by the New York Times, printed significant extracts from the Papers. This led to a major freedom of the press controversy, and Supreme Court ruling.
info_outline Republicans and Impeachment: Nixon and Now
You often hear that "the real heroes" of the Nixon Impeachment Crisis were the Republicans in Congress. They put country ahead of party, so the story goes, and facts ahead of friendship, and urged Nixon to resign rather than be impeached and removed from office. But is that what really happened? Were the 70s Republicans heroic? And exactly when did they take their heroic stand? Professor Buzzkill explains all the complexities!
info_outline Martin Luther King and the Arc of the Moral Universe
Lots of people take comfort from the quote “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice,” and it’s usually credited to Martin Luther King. He said it, but was it an original MLK thought? The long history of this famous quote is fascinating and uplifting. Listen and learn!
info_outline Auld Lang Syne
Should old acquaintance be forgot? What? Should we forget old friends? Should we sing about remembering them. What does Auld Lang Syne actually mean? Why do we sing it every New Year’s Eve? Join the Professor as he waxes lyrical and sentimentally about Auld Lang Syne, Scotland, and good auld Robert Burns!
info_outline 12 Days of Christmas
Was there special, secret meaning behind the lyrics in the famous Christmas song, The 12 Days of Christmas? Ten Lords a Leaping and Nine Ladies Dancing sounds like a pretty good party! But why wasn’t Professor Buzzkill invited? We explain it all and wish all you Buzzkillers out there a happy holiday season!
info_outline Throwback Thursday: World War I Christmas Truce
The truce between the trenches in Christmas 1914 is one of the most famous stories from World War I. Was it one big truce across the whole Western Front? Or was it lots of little ceasefires? How did it happen, and what did the soldiers do during the Christmas Truce? Did they become friends for a day? Did they play football? Did they exchange cigarettes and pose for pictures? Professor Theresa Blom Croker explains all!
info_outline Flashback Friday: Pearl Harbor
Professor Phil Nash joins us to explain the myths and misconceptions about the December 7th, 1941, as well as the complexities of the cultural importance of the attack since then. Did FDR know about the attack ahead of time? And who was the attack more devastating for - the United States or Japan? You’ll learn more about an event that you thought you already knew well by listening to us!
info_outline Wisdom Wednesday: Mark Twain "Life is Just One Damn Thing After Another"
Sometimes, Buzzkillers, the stars just seem to align. There's a meteor shower and a rainbow on the same day. And a whole bunch of writers, pundits, journalists, and aphorists come up with roughly the same idea at roughly the same time. Or at least they come up with it over a couple of decades, and, in terms of the history of quotations, that's the story of the aphorism and witticism, "life is just one damn thing after another." But it's easier to attribute such a quotation to Mark Twain, and that's what people have done. Did he ever say it? Listen and learn.
Douglas MacArthur is one of the most famous and celebrated generals in American history. Along with Patton, however, he’s one of the most misunderstood and most mythologized. Born in the 19th century, MacArthur served in both World Wars, the Korean War, and other, less extensive US military actions. Yet he is also considered another attention hound (like Patton), sometimes overly-dramatic, and often letting his over-inflated view of his own abilities and destiny get in the way of sound judgement. In this Throwback Thursday episode, the Professor looks at his early life and his career through World War II and tries to determine who was the real Douglas MacArthur.
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The New Gospel of Christian Atheism by Thomas J.J. Altizer
The New Gospel of Christian Atheism
Thomas J.J. Altizers The New Gospel of Christian Atheism is a largely rewritten version of his earlier classic and controversial book on this subject, which was a major contribution to twentieth century American theology. This revised and updatedMoreThomas J.J. Altizers The New Gospel of Christian Atheism is a largely rewritten version of his earlier classic and controversial book on this subject, which was a major contribution to twentieth century American theology. This revised and updated version is set forth in prose that is at once lucid and bold, and gives us nothing less than a new vision for the postmodern era in original and unforgettable terms. The New Gospel of Christian Atheism by Thomas J.J. Altizer
Poesie der Nordseeküste.
Great Glorious Garlic Recipes: For Garlic Lovers Only!
The Wrath of Mulgarath (The Spiderwick Chronicles, #5)
Doorbraak!
Irish-American Relations
Dominadas
The Identity Clues: A Brush with the Past
Proliferation Concerns: Assessing U.S. Efforts to Help Contain Nuclear and Other Dangerous Materials
101 iPad Tips, Tricks and Tweaks: A Guide to Essential Apps and Everything Else You Didnt Know the i
Dont Camp Out in the Garden of Eden
Where Love Blooms: A Domestic Discipline Romance (Anna and Grayson Book 1)
John Speelmans Best Games
The History of Many Memorable Things Lost, Which Were in Use Among the Ancients: And an Account of M
Delight Your Husband: A Christian wifes manual to love, passion, and mastering oral sex: Make Him Cr
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2015 Best Art Schools in the World
Schools Top 10
by Andrew McDonald 7 months ago 3 min read
The Best Art Schools for 2015 is something we take very seriously and no external influences or payments are entered into at any point. Our rankings focus on the quality of students portfolios that are submitted to our judging panel which best reflect the recruitment interview process.
Top 20 Schools to Study VFX/Animation and Next-Gen Gaming for 2015
1. Gnomon School of Visual Effects Los Angeles, USA 351
2. Savannah College of Art and Design Savannah, USA 316
3. Think Tank Training Center Vancouver, Canada 226
4. Media Design School Auckland, New Zealand 226
5. The Animation Workshop Viborg, Denmark 188
6. Vancouver Film School Vancouver, Canada 175
7. ArtFX Montpellier, France 166
8. Ringling College of Art and Design Sarasota, USA 165
9. Academy of Art University San Francisco, USA 148
10. Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Ludwigsburg, Germany 136
11. Sheridan College Oakville, Canada 130
12. University of Hertfordshire Hatfield, UK 122
13. Full Sail University Winter Park, USA 120
14. ISART DIGITAL Paris, France 120
15. Bellecour School Lyon, France 109
16. Bournemouth University Bournemouth, UK 91
17. Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, USA 91
18. National Animation and Design Centre Montréal, Canada 81
19. 3dsense Media School Clarke Quay Central, Singapore 79
20. L’Institut Supérieur des Arts Appliqués Paris, France 73
How we rank the best Art Schools
Our rankings focus on the quality of students portfolios that are submitted to our judging panel which best reflect the recruitment interview process.
The reason we take this approach is because we believe the goal of each creative school is tasked with helping students learn the right creative and technical skills that mirror the requirements of industry. It is their job to train artists to a level that allows them to transition from to a professional environment with ease.
The end result for students is less about grades, it’s about creating a digital portfolio that best showcases their skills and displays an understanding of production pipelines. This is why our judges review portfolios and review student work in the same manner as a professional job application.
The rankings are based on the scores as awarded by the official judging panel. Opinions by the general public are by no means considered.
Students are judged on their creative skills, technical skills, presentation, variety of skills, complexity, raw talent, and employment potential.
How we analyse the data
The most important factor here is that a median is not affected by outliers. This means that schools are not penalised for incomplete entries and schools are not favoured for a single high score that is not the norm. Student scores often have outlier values and using the median is the more robust solution to determine an average.
Important details about how a school score is calculated:
Each student receives a performance score. Max 100 points. (Student Score)
Median students score calculated per school. Max 100 points. (Median Student Score)
Andrew is the co-founder of The Rookies has been working in the visual effects industry since 2002. Most recently he was a CG Supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic.
Think Tank Training Centre
Rookies Certified Schools
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Barbarian Press, 4 results 4
Llewellyn Edward Jones fonds Barbarian Press Text
Barbarian Press Papers
Part of Barbarian Press Papers
Papers for its commissioned and non-commissioned work. Includes correspondence, designs, dummies, proofs from blocks, and page proofs.
Barbarian Press
This gift contains Proofs and Design Drawings for C. Toselli’s Immobile correndo (Motionless in Motion) from proofs to deluxe edition, Crispin Elsted’s A Natural History of Surprise, Abigail Rorer’s Endgrain Editions Two, Arnold Shives’ Mountain Journal, and miscellaneous. There are also Proofs and Design Drawings for Founts and Circumstance and A Sloth of Bears,
This accession consists of the manuscripts, illustrations, page proof sheets, correspondence and other editorial material for Barbarian Press books released between 2002 and 2005, including: Endgrain Editions Three: Peter Lazarov (2002), John Keats’ Eve of Saint Agnes (2003), Hoi Barbaroi: A Quarter Century at Barbarian Press (2004), Emily: Opposites Attract (2004), Carlo Toselli’s What is Time? (2004) and John Loney’s Gallipoli (2005). It also contains material for smaller, miscellanous Barbarian Press projects, including catalogues, wedding invitations and broadsheets.
This collection complements the existing Barbarian Press Papers held at the Fisher Library. It consists of a variety of material – including correspondence, manuscripts, and other production material – related to the production and publishing of the Barbarian titles Venus & Adonis (published 2005), The Wolf’s Carol (2006), Under Strange Sail (2007), Amours de Voyage (2007) and Not Yet (privately printed in 2006), as well as various pamphlets, broadsheets and ephemera produced by the Mission, B.C. team of Crispin and Jan Elsted.
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Dewart, Leslie, 12 results 12
Dewart, Leslie
Part of Leslie Dewart Fonds
Series consists of materials related to the sale of Dewart’s books, including publication agreements and royalty statements from his publishers, as well as materials relating to his personal banking, including trust company documents, checkbooks, saving account pass books, and banking statements.
There are 6 files and a detailed description of the material in each category is provided in the Leslie Dewart Fonds finding guide.
This series consists of materials related to the professional and personal correspondence that Dewart collected throughout his life in the form of typewritten letters, written letters, postcards, printed emails, and greeting cards. This includes recommendation letters that Dewart wrote on behalf of colleagues and students, internal correspondence and memos related to the University of Toronto, and personal letters from family in Cuba.
There are 54 files and a detailed description of the material in each category is provided in the Leslie Dewart Fonds finding guide.
Faculty Material
This series consists of materials related to Dewart’s involvement with the Faculty of Theology, the Graduate Centre for Religious Studies, and the Institute of Christian Thought. This includes materials related to the PhD committees that he served on, the committees that he was involved in, the conference for the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Association, and the Vatican’s investigation of his book, The Future of Belief.
There are 9 files in this series and a detailed description of the material in each category is provided in the Leslie Dewart Fonds finding guide.
This series consists of material related to the courses Dewart taught. Files for specific courses may include lecture notes, syllabi, reading lists, copies of course readings, class lists, course evaluations, and final examination booklets.
Group Grievance of 1994
This series consists of materials related to legal proceedings of professors O'Connell, Bilanuik, McSorley, and Dewart in filing a group grievance against the University of Toronto concerning the tenure of professors in the Faculties of Divinity and Theology. This includes correspondence, a report of the Grievance Review Panel, and legal documents used in the panel.
Emeritus Grievance of 1995
This series consists of materials related to a grievance that Dewart filed against the University of Toronto concerning the status and rights of professors emeriti. This includes correspondence, copies of university memorandums and policies that Dewart consulted, copies of archival materials, and the legal documents used in the Grievance Review Panel.
Leslie Dewart Fonds
This fonds consists of correspondence (professional and personal), personal papers, financial documents, and materials related to Professor Dewart’s writing process such as manuscripts, reviews, copies of published works, research notes, and reference files. The fonds also consists of material relating to Dewart’s time as a professor at the University of Toronto, including faculty material, course material and material relating to the the three grievances that he was involved in.
The series and their scope are:
• The Grievance of Professor Richardson: Material related to the dismissal of Professor Herbert Richardson from USMC and Dewart’s involvement in the case as his agent. Includes correspondence, legal documents compiled for research and to be used in the hearing, copies of Richardson’s case file and personnel file, and meeting minutes. Access to series is restricted.
• Faculty Material: Materials related to Dewart’s involvement with the Faculty of Theology, the Graduate Centre for Religious Studies, and the Institute of Christian Thought. This includes materials related to the PhD committees that he served on, the committees that he was involved in, the conference for the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Association, and the Vatican’s investigation of his book, The Future of Belief.
• Course Material: Material related to the courses Dewart taught. Files for specific courses may include lecture notes, syllabi, reading lists, copies of course readings, class lists, course evaluations, and final examination booklets.
• Manuscripts: Includes edited and unedited drafts, master copies, and publisher’s master sets of book chapters, entire books, articles, and academic papers.
• Research Notes: Includes early drafts, outlines, maps, audio reels and notes compiled by Dewart during the writing process of his books and articles.
• Personal Papers: Material related to Dewart’s personal life. This includes pocketbooks, childhood materials, photographs, pilot’s flying log books from WWII, and some correspondence.
• Reviews and Published Works: Includes copies of academic papers, essays, articles, reviews, lectures, and chapters that Dewart published or delivered at conferences as well as reviews published about Dewart’s books.
• Group Grievance of 1994: Materials related to legal proceedings of professors O'Connell, Bilanuik, McSorley, and Dewart in filing a group grievance against the University of Toronto concerning the tenure of professors in the Faculties of Divinity and Theology. This includes correspondence, a report of the Grievance Review Panel, and legal documents used in the panel.
• Financial Documents: Materials related to the sale of Dewart’s books, including publication agreements and royalty statements from his publishers, as well as materials relating to his personal banking, including trust company documents, checkbooks, saving account pass books, and banking statements.
• Emeritus Grievance of 1995: Materials related to a grievance that Dewart filed against the University of Toronto concerning the status and rights of professors emeriti. This includes correspondence, copies of university memorandums and policies that Dewart consulted, copies of archival materials, and the legal documents used in the Grievance Review Panel.
• Correspondence: Materials related to the professional and personal correspondence that Dewart collected throughout his life in the form of typewritten letters, written letters, postcards, printed emails, and greeting cards. This includes recommendation letters that Dewart wrote on behalf of colleagues and students, internal correspondence and memos related to the University of Toronto, and personal letters from family in Cuba.
• Reference Files: Includes card catalogs comprising the bibliographic information of articles, books, and editorials that Dewart consulted for research purposes.
The Grievance of Professor Richardson
This series consists of material related to the dismissal of Professor Herbert Richardson from USMC and Dewart’s involvement in the case as his agent. Includes correspondence, legal documents compiled for research and to be used in the hearing, copies of Richardson’s case file and personnel file, and meeting minutes.
There are 19 files and a detailed description of the material in each file is provided in the Leslie Dewart Fonds finding guide.
1957-[1999]
Series consists of edited and unedited drafts, master copies, and publisher’s master sets of book chapters, entire books, articles, and academic papers.
There are 4 subseries:
• Hume's Challenge and the Renewal of Modern Philosophy
• Articles and Papers
• Master Sets and Manuscripts of Early Books
• Evolution and Consciousness
A detailed description of the material in each category is provided in the Leslie Dewart finding guide.
[1960]-[1980]
Series consists of early drafts, outlines, and notes compiled by Dewart during the writing process of his books and articles.
Reviews and Published Works
This series consists of copies of academic papers, essays, articles, reviews, lectures, and chapters that Dewart published or delivered at conferences as well as reviews published about Dewart’s books.
• Published Works
A detailed description of the material in each category is provided in the Leslie Dewart Fonds finding guide.
Series consists of card catalogs comprising the bibliographic information of articles, books, and editorials that Dewart consulted for research purposes.
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FukuchiyamaTourist Association
The Top 10 Sights of Fukuchiyama
The Top 10 Flowers of Fukuchiyama
The Top 10 Mountains of Fukuchiyama
Legendary Oni Village "Oe"
Shops, Facilities, & More
Fukuchiyama Castle and Fukichiyama Odori Dance
Fukuchiyama Castle is said to have been built by Akechi Mitsuhide and has been registered as one of "Japan's Best 100 Historical Parks" and a "Kyoto Prefecture Tourism Asset" because of the beautiful views and sights it offers. A folk museum which exhibits articles left behind by historical castle lords is located inside the castle keep, and the Fukuchiyama City Sato Taisei Memorial Art Museum and the Tanaba Seikatsukoromokan (Tanba daily life clothing museum) are located at the base of the castle.
The Fukuchiyama Odori Dance is said to have originated when the Fukuchiyama Castle was being built over 400 years ago, and the people under Akechi Mitsuhide's rule were carrying stone and lumber for the castle and would chant "dokkoise, dokkoise" while raising their hands and swinging their legs in an interesting manner. The Fukuchiyama Dokkoise Festival is held around the time of the Bon holiday every year and the central city streets are filled with dancers.
Take train to JR Fukuchiyama Station then walk 15 minutes.
Sandan-ike Park (Izaki, Fukuchiyama City)
This is a multi-purpose park which is surrounded in lush nature and pine groves, and is a popular spot for cherry blossom and azalea viewing in the spring, and seeing the changing color of the leaves in autumn. The park features a Children's Science Center equipped with a planetarium, a zoo, an urban greening botanical garden and other facilities aimed at "allowing visitors to enjoy themselves while learning", and also has a large grassy field designed to look like a large prairie, with great views of Mount Shiroyama, making it a perfect place for families and group recreation.
Park facilities are closed every Wednesday (or the following day when a Wednesday falls on a holiday).
Take train to JR/KTR Fukuchiyama Station, then take a Kyoto Kotsu Bus to the "Sandan-ike" stop, and walk 10 minutes.
Take Anga Bus to "Sandan-ike Koen" stop.
Motoise Sansha Shrines
Motoise Naiku Kotaijinja Shrine has one of the only two black lumber tori gateways in the country, and is a shrine with a long and distinguished history, said to have been established more than 54 years before the Grand Ise Shrine in Mie Prefecture. Motoise Geku Toyokedaijinja Shrine is dedicated to the agricultural god "Toyoke No Okami" who descended from heaven to the Tango region, and so is referred to as the main shrine of the Grand Shrine of Ise Geku. Motoise Amano Iwatojinja Shrine is located in a rocky ravine that seems a fitting place for the legend that says it is where gods descended from heaven. The main temple and the Gozaishi (seat stone) where the gods were said to sit are located in this secluded location.
[Naiku]
Car: Approximately 20 minutes from the Kyoto Jukan Expressway Maizuru Oe IC.
Train: 15 minutes' walk from Oe-Koko-mae Station on the Kyoto Tango Railway.
[Geku]
Train: 15 minutes' walk from Oeyamaguchi-naiku Station on the Kyoto Tango Railway.
Futasegawa-Keiryu mountain stream (inside Tango Amanohashidate Oeyama Quasi-National Park)
The scenery created by the fantastically shaped rocks and winding mountain stream throughout the four seasons are of rare beauty even within Kyoto Prefecture, with the changing of the leaves in autumn being a particularly beautiful sight that draws many visitors. The suspension bridge located here is a famous location often filmed for use on television.
Choanji Temple
A Nanzen-ji branch Rinzai Sect Buddhist temple. The temple grounds feature stunning scenery throughout the four seasons as well as a dry landscape garden, and the temple is especially famous for its beautiful views during the autumnal changing of the leaves and is widely known as "Tanba momiji tera" (Tanba Japanese maple temple). Mt. Himegami behind the temple is famous for the "Tanba daimonji" great bonfires.
Take Kyoto Kotsu Bus Komaki Line from JR Fukuchiyama Station to the "Handa" stop, then walk 20 minutes.
Obara Shrine and Ubuya
Obara Shrine is said to have been constructed in 852, and attracts many worshippers who mainly pray to the god of easy childbirth. Ubuya is a building where modern visitors can learn about ancient childbirth methods and traditions.
Ubuya uses a construction style called Tenchikongenzukuri, and both it and the Obara Shrine have been designated Kyoto Prefecture Tangible Folk Cultural Properties.
Car: Approximately 10 minutes on National Route No. 9 from the Maizuru-Wakasa Expressway Fukuchiyama IC.
Train: Close to the "Obara" bus stop after taking the City Bus bound for Senzoku for approximately 15 minutes from JR Ayabe Station.
Mount Oe Mountain Range, beech tree primeval forest, and the sea of clouds
Mount Oe is a mystical mountain which is the setting for a number of Oni legends including the Oni "Shuten-doji". It is also a natural treasure trove, making it a perfect hiking destination. The "sea of clouds" that can be viewed from Onitake Inarijinja Shrine at the 8th station in the autumn makes the peaks of the mountains appear like islands floating in a milky white sea.
The beech forest is a precious remaining primeval forest. The forest was designated a "Quasi-national Park" on August 3, 2007.
Take train from JR Fukuchiyama Station to Oe Station on the Kyoto Tango Railway, then take City Bus bound for "Oeyama no Ie" to the last stop and walk 1 hour.
Ogura Basalt
Selected as one of Kyoto's Best 200 Natural Sites and a Prefecture Designated Natural Monument. Here visitors can see the hexagonal columns formed when lava flowing from an eruption of Mount Takara hardened. The area is illuminated at night, creating a fantastic and magical ambience.
Train: Close to the "Genbungan Koen" stop after taking the City Bus Ito/Chihara Line from JR Kami-Yakuno Station.
Tenneiji Temple
A Myoshin-ji branch Rinzai Sect Zen Buddhist temple. The temple was established in 1365 when the high priest Guchu Shukyu was invited. The Ashikaga Yoshimochi Shogun family also worshipped at the temple, and it is a famous temple which promoted the Zen culture during the Muromachi Period. The temple grounds convey the traditions and history of Zen Buddhism, and it is home to the hall of the Medicine Buddha and houses arts, crafts and other cultural assets designated as National Important Cultural Assets.
The temple is nestled in lush natural surroundings, allowing visitors to enjoy the ever-changing scenery throughout the four seasons.
Take Train from JR Fukuchiyama Station to Shimoamazu Station on the Kyoto Tango Railway, then walk 40 minutes.
Yuragawa River and Otonase Bridge
The Yuragawa River has a total length of 146 km, and has long supported the livelihoods of people in the region, including in the water transportation industry in the past. The water is clean and pure, and the river flows through lush natural surroundings, making it much loved. The Otonase Bridge which sits astride the Yuragawa River has a long history, and is even mentioned in the Fukichiyama Ondo folk song.
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Fourteenth Archive
Items from 8 September 2012 to 28 January 2013
21 January to 28 January 2013
This mudboat, which is built on a skeleton of plywood rings, has a base made from mud plaster topped with a roof of shingles. Designed by Terunobu Fujimori, the structure is supported by cables attached to posts, and is accessible only by a ladder. The mudboat was designed as a tea house and has circular windows to allow ventilation to clear away the heat from the stove.
Imposter!
Copyright theft has now moved into the area of architecture with wellknown architect, Zaha Hadid, discovering one of the buildings she designed has been copied. Her original building is under construction in Beijing while the copy is in Chongqing.
Chairful
Back to being chairful, on the left is a tree which was prompted to grown into a chair and on the right is the dodecahedronic chair which would be one of the most uncomfortable chairs ever designed.
Safe place for birds
A basic roof tile has been transformed into a birdhouse by Klaas Kuiken who came up with the design after consultation with the Dutch Bird Association. Behind the opening is a basket where the birds can shelter and which also effectively prevents them from accessing the ceiling area.
This delightful elephant was created by Frenchman, Marc Sparfel, from discarded furniture he found on the streets of Barcelona. His workshop is filled with masses of broken and derelict pieces of wood which were once a part of an item of furniture. He particularly likes chairs which he pulls to pieces and gives them a new life where they no longer have the stress of supporting uncaring people. Barcelona must be an interesting place as Marc said there was often so much wooden furniture in the streets he could hear the trees shout.
Above is Marc Sparfel with one of his sculpture pieces made from discarded furniture
All about a structure made from willow saplings
My old hometown, Melbourne, is temporarily home to a construction made from willow saplings which are woven into walls and which transform a basic metal frame into a willow church which is being described as a stickwork ballroom. Patrick Dougherty used 10 tonnes of willow tree branches and spend three weeks to build the structure which is at Federation Square. In Victoria, and possibly in other parts of Australia as well, the beautiful willow tree is known as a weed. The trees have roots which happily invade house foundations, pipes etc and the heavy leaf fall does terrible things to the quality of streams and rivers.
Dentists aplenty in Mackay
After a rough few years, when there was such a shortage of dentists in Mackay that you had to wait weeks for an appointment, the situation now is far better with an influx of new dental surgeries. And if shoes went to dentists, this pair of Balmorals, would face enormous bills. Perhaps not as the teeth are fake.
Peace on earth!
I have received numerous emails from people who are equally revolted by this disgusting xmas card.
4 January to 13 January 2013
The photograph of a water droplet was taken by Markus Reugels. He calls this a liquid sculpture and it is made by using guar gum to thicken water. He uses a timing device which enables him to capture beautiful patterns.
Shipping containers have often been transformed into homes, shops and even offices, and now one has become a sauna. But this is not for bargain hunters, the price tag is US$41,000. Designed by Canadian studio, Castor Canadensis, these saunas can be easily moved, need very little site preparation and are powered by solar panels. The interior boasts carved stools made of stone and numerous wood and metal elements. Standard features are ipod stereos, electric guitar hook-ups and bronze antlers.
Hazelnut pollen isn't just a favourite of honeybees. Artist Wolfgang Laib, who has been collecting the pollen since the mid 1990's, has transformed the Museum of Modern Art into a pollen-centric installation.
This is one art installation which had a very short shelf life.The Belfast Festival featured a short lived art installation by Nele Azvedo who covered the steps of the custom house with hundreds of carved icemen. As the day grew warmer the figures slowly melted showing the 'transitory nature of life, and death'. It was publicised as a tribute to those who died when the Titanic went down.
There comes a time in every young man's life when his skateboard dies a natural death. Skater Harosh, from Tokyo, has transformed recycled skateboards into art pieces which are displayed and sold
in galleries.
The tooth fairy might not be all she is cracked up to be, although cracked could be the operative word here. Malpractice amongst toothfairies includes the insertion of a tooth, left by a boy under his pillow, into his ear. In other cases there was a failure by the tooth fairy to leave money and instead of taking the tooth away, it was put in the children's oesophagus'.
One tooth fairy, aka idiot father, put his childss tooth in his nipple piercing whereupon a jolly good abscess ensued. Researchers into the wrong doings of the toothfairy, suggest doctors view with deep suspicion all cases where children present with a tooth related complaint.
Easy way to give up pipe smoking
Giving up smoking would be a breeze with this pipe which was an exhibit in Jeremy Hutchison's show, Erratum, which was held recently in London. Items, which were purposefully made disfunctional, were sent in from factories in India, Turkey, Pakistan and China. Having been displayed as intentional mistakes, they are now luxury items available on Erratum's website. The pipe has a sales tag of 475 pounds UK.
I like this thing
I like this thing which 'articulates the spirit of human movement through colour, texture and sculpture'.
Mexican Relaxation
Two mature trees are very much a part of this building, designed by Cadaval and Sola-Morales, at Tepoztlan, 50 kilometres from Mexico City. Based on a triangular design the building has a living area, kitchenette, reading room enclosed spaces where people are encouraged to relax.
What goes where?
University of California scientists have created the first interactive map of how the brain organises groupings of objects and actions which are seen by our eyes. For instance humans and animals are grouped together which is straightforward although the combination of buckets and hallways may only make sense to mad cleaners. Maps show more than 1700 visual categories with relationships to one another also expressed. Researchers suggest a better understanding of how the brain organises visual input could help with medical diagnosis, and even with treatment of brain disorders.
21 December to 25 December 2012
(Back row) Will, Amanda, (next row) Denese, Suzanne, Michael, Tahlia, (front row) Nick, Kial, Alishia, Isabella and Lakeda.
Best wishes to everyone for a safe and a healthy day, and best wishes to Peggy, pictured below with Mikaila, Ben and Malakai.
Tramp, tramp, along...
This gentleman is in a hurry as he hurtles along a path which is a 170 foot long trampoline. Salto, an architecture firm from Estonia, developed the path for the archstoyanie festival which was held recently in Russia.
Nesting time
This nest was inhabited by what I know as a sunbird but I may be wrong. The bird is tiny with a bright yellow body and black on top and seems to hover. The day after this photograph was taken much needed heavy rain in Mackay knocked it to the ground but by then the babies had flown.
Aileen's housemates, photographed by Aileen, are Seal and Pixie (the little one), who is an RSPCA rescue cat. The last photograph is not a cat.
Wonderful plastination
A few weeks ago I spent a very enjoyable four hours watching a dvd called Autopsy. The dvd showed a number of autopsies undertaken by Gunther von Hagens whose name is tied to the process of plastination. This technique, which can take between 1000 to 1500 hours, prepares bodies which are sliced very thinly. These human specimens are available for both basic and continuing medical training and are also used for general medical education of the public.
Gunther von Hagens, when he was still an anatomy assistant, saw a body embedded in a polymer block and wondered why the polymer hadn't been put inside the specimen to stabilise it. This led to his development of plastination at the University of Heidelberg in 1977.
Home, and not amongst the gum trees
These large garbage bins, which are lockable, have been transformed by Philipp Stingl, in Germany, into homes, or house containers, for people who are homeless. One container is a micro-sized living room with a window in one side and with a detachable drinking water canister. The other container has been transformed into a bath.
The right to bear arms...
December 15, 2012 - 20 children and 7 adults murdered
August 5, 2012 - 6 people murdered
July 20, 2012 - 12 people murdered
4 December to 9 December 2012
New Zealand is obviously leading the way, although in a rather obscure fashion. A team is teaching three rescue dogs, Porter (shown above), Monty and Ginny, how to drive. The vehicle is a modified version of the Mini Countryman which features paw-friendly brakes and accelerators. The team is made up of Mini Cooper New Zealand, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and Ikon Engineering. The idea is to show rescue animals are far from second class, and to prove you can definitely teach a dog, especially a rescue dog, new tricks.
Assistance dogs need your help
Assistance Dogs Australia trains Labradors and Golden Retrievers to help people with physical disabilities. You can make donations online.
Oscar dies just before he turns 105
I wrote about this architect, Oscar Niemeyer, in an earlier post when, at the age of 103, he was still designing buildings. He died recently, just a few weeks before he would have turned 105 and below is the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral which he designed last year. His buildings featured curves, reinforced concrete, and unconventional, abstract patterns, and he was crucial to the design of Brazil's capital Brasilia in the 1950's. Sadly he was barred from working in the USA due to his political beliefs but this did not stop him from being awarded one of the top architecture awards, the Pritzker Architecture Prize, which is awarded each year to a living architect who has produced "consistent and significant contributions to humanity and to the build environment".
Gingerbread men are passe
New directions for cooks
So for all those who make gingerbread men at this peculiar time of year, it is time to turn your talents in another direction. Why not follow on from this display, at Le Parker Meridien, which features the six wonders of the world, all made from gingerbread?
This shoe is one of many interesting objects which are featured by artist, Jeremy Hutchison, in his show called Erratum which is underway in London during December. He invited workers from factories in China, India, Turkey, and Pakistan to insert an error in the items they mass-produced every day. These items will later be for sale through a luxury shop in London. Each item will be numbered, sealed and authenticated with the provenance.
The number 147 has haunted me for many years, and it also haunts my children, so it was no surprise that I read 147,000 Australians died last year. This was an increase of 2.4 percent on the 2010 figure, and an increase of 14.3 percent on 10 years ago.
My theme is fountains and here is a frog fountain at the Universal Film Studio theme park in Singapore. A similar park is in Japan but the one in Singapore was officially opened on May 28 2011 following four years of construction.
26 November to 2 December 2012
While a red ribbon is the symbol for World AIDS Day, Mackay has coloured the fountain a beautiful pink. Or perhaps I am colour blind, anyway it looks lovely and is a great way to mark the day and to remind people of the need to improve support for people living with HIV and to prevent further infections.
More than 190 countries participate in World AIDS Day which was declared in 1988. The theme for World AIDS Day 2012 is HIV is still here. The aim is to encourage all Australians to be aware of the prevalence of HIV/AIDS; to take action to reduce the transmission of HIV by promoting safe sex practices; and to accept individuals living with or affected by HIV/AIDS.
Below is the hagfish
A delightful name for a fish which is really an eel
In a few years people could be wearing clothing made from fibres modelled after slime from the hagfish. Goodbye to other synthetics including nylon and Kevlar which have their beginnings in petroleum.
Everyone would love to know that the hagfish, which is really an eel, can produce quarts of slime in just seconds which are made of thousands of threads, 100 times thinner than a human hair but which are very strong. Poor fish who wander into the hagfish neighbourhood can be suffocated by this slime.
Hagfish is the only known living animal which has a skull but does not have a vertebral column. They do not have jaws and are in fact, living fossils being very similar to hagfish from 300 million years ago.
Biomuseum
Photograph taken by Victoria Murillo
The Panama Puente de Vida Museo, designed by Frank O. Gehry, is a scientific centre which documents the culture of the ocean and land species which originated in the
Panamanian Isthmus. The musuem includes eight
galleries, a botanical garden and aquariums. Inside
are 16 pilars that will describe mankind's effect on the panamanian ecosystem.
A new and wonderful black hole
In the centre of this disk galaxy is one of the biggest central super-massive black holes ever found. The black hole has the mass of 17 billion Suns. This can be compared to the black hole in the centre of the Milky Way which has a mass of four million Suns. The galaxy hosting the new black hole appears to have formed more than 8 billion years ago, and does not appear to have changed much since then.
The image was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope.
20 November to 25 November 2012
I had no idea there was an Australian breed of cat, called the Australian Mist, which was bred by Dr Truda Straede and was registered in 1977. The cat is a combination of Burmese, Abyssinian and the domestic short hair.. The Australian Mist is very affectionate and is a pacifist, as are my cats. There is also the Marbled Mist and the Spotted Mist. Today there are approximately 100 breeding cats and 1500 pets in Australia.
Not a spaceship
This spaceship type house is in Barvikha, in Russia, and was commissioned by Russian businessman Vladislav Doronin. The tower is 22 metres high and provides 360 degree views of the countryside. The value of the house is not known however Doronin has an estimated net worth of $1 billion dollars so can no doubt afford any price. The house was designed by Dame Zaha Hadid who won the Pritzker Architecture Prize, architecture's equivalent of the Nobel Prize in 2004, and the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011.
Lots of cats
Eat your heart out, or rather try this cake made from red velvet sponges.
Or if you haven't the heart, can you face it?
Buy watermelons in Mackay
In Mackay watermelons are cheap and readily available during the summer months. A very different picture is apparent in Japan where the Densuke watermelons are sold for thousands of dollars. The fruit is only grown on Hokkaido Island in Japan and has a smooth dark outercovering with pink flesh. First crops of each season are sold for staggering amounts. In Japan a bunch of grapes can sell for $900 while two mangoes cost $2000.
Nothing to do with watermelons, another cake
And now for something completely different - a tree house
A tree house with a difference is this cocoon tree, a sphere made of aluminium and accessed by security nets. The coverings are either Korea tarpaulin or Ferrari high quality tarpaulin. The cocoon looks equally beautiful in the forest as it does near the beach.
Ah hah! Now we can look at cute photographs of kittens and puppies at our workplace and know we are significantly improving our attention to detail. In a series of experiments, a new study at Hiroshima University showed that viewing cute images enhanced performance on tasks that required careful focus and dexterity.
Researchers believe cuteness is an essential emotional trigger, but not just anything can be cute as the key characteristics involve disproportionately large heads and eyes, clumsy behavior, and apparent but endearing helplessness. In short, features shared by young animals.
Brain cells at risk
Rutgers University researchers have discovered that the number of nerve cells in the hippocampus of the brain were reduced by nearly 40 percent in rats drinking alcohol at a rate which compared to three to four drinks for women and five drinks for men on a daily basis.
Drinking a couple of glasses of wine each day has generally been seen to promote cardiovascular and brain health however researchers say moderate drinking can become binge drinking without the person realising it and long term effects on learning and memory are adverse. Such drinking could lead to a substantial decrease in brain cell numbers over time could have profound effects on the structural plasticity of the adult brain because these new cells communicate with other neurons to regulate brain health.
At risk drinkers are men who drink 14 drinks a week and women who drink seven.
6 November to 12 November 2012
I was brought up to be polite which did not stand me in good stead last week. I received a phone call from a woman with a clear Indian accent who suggested I had had an accident and if I said I had neck and back injuries, then I would receive more than $8000. I told her I wasn't interested. Within an hour I had a second call and had fun leading the caller on for half an hour. At one point the person ringing me must have thought they were close to reeling me in because I was passed on to a supervisor who realised, after a few minutes I was not interested and passed me back to the original person.
Over a period of about four days I had more calls. Firstly I just politely said I wasn't interested and hung up. Secondly I asked that the supervisor be told to remove my number from his list. And then, when the phone rang yet again, I verified it was the same lot of scammers and gave the loudest longest scream into the receiver.
And it worked. Go for it but be warned you will have a sore throat and possibly some bleeding, but the silence is bliss.
28 October to 5 November 2012
I know all about webmasters, but pumpkin master is a new phrase for me. But that is just who you need to create a disembowelled pumpkin zombie, which is just what every botanic garden needs, but only the New York Botanical Garden, gets. New York artist, Ray Villafane, and a crew of four carvers, used oversized pumpkins which were then transformed into creatures of the night.
Looking down, down, down
Image courtesy of Schmidt Hammer Lassen architects
The University of Aberdeen, which was established in 1495 and which is the fifth oldest English langage university in the world, now has a new library which was designed by Danish architects, Schmidt Hammer Lassen. The central atrium rises through eight stories, right to the roof and is surrounded by 1200 reading spaces, 250,000 books and manuscripts, archives and historical collections.
Image courtesy of Matthew Cusick and the Pavel Zoubok Gallery
Collages, made from maps, are the focus for artist Matthew Cusick who transforms notable women using segments of maps. The collages use the same colours asthose which are used in the world of cartography and the maps are particular to each subject.
Cornell University ornithology graduates have discovered a new bird species in the Peruvian Andes. The Capito Fitzpatricki has a bright red breast and a black mask and eats fruit. The name honours John W Fitzpatrick who discovered seven new bird species in Peru during the 1970's and 1980's.
When you finish your drinks, make a face
22 October to 27 October 2012
I've had the interesting experience of watching Zombie Nation, the second worst film I have ever seen and number six on IMDb's Bottom 100. One viewer wrote that even if you were curious about seeing this film it would be more enjoyable to stick cocktail umbrellas in your eyes instead. Critic Staci Layne Wilson from horror.com said the only way she could be made to watch another film by Ulli Lommel would be to make her choose between that or "having a loaded pistol taped to my temple which is rigged to an active landmine under my foot as you douse me with itching powder".
This film totally lacks production values, the nation of zombies is made up of five females with black around their eyes, the storyline is painful, the acting is non existent, and all the interiors appear to be filmed in the same warehouse.
Spoil your poultry
If you have hens you could consider providing them with the perfect henhouse, the Heritage Hen Mini Farm, designed by Svetlana Simon which sells for just $100,000. The accommodation is two storeys high and comes complete with a chandelier and living room and broody room. And just what all hens need, a library which includes books (perhaps there are bookworms here too in which case the hens will find they make an inteligent feed).
Tramp, tramp, tramp across the bridge
The design firm, AZC, has produced a new idea for a bridge across the Seine River in Paris, a bridge made from enormous trampolines. This blow up, but not blown up, bridge will provide a fun way for people to bounce their way across the river. It is made up of three 30 metre round inflatable modules encircled by trampoline mesh so walkers and bouncers don't end up in the drink.
The Echair
This Echair is one from Joseph Walsh's Enignum Chairs collection all of which feature wood that has been stripped into thin layers and then manipulated into free form seats.
Studies are undertaken into the strangest of subjects, and this one takes the cake, sorry chocolate. Professor Franz Messerli from Columbia University, has discovered that countries which consume the most chocolate win the most Nobel prizes. Interesting side note, a story I was following persisted in calling the prize the 'Noble' which makes me wonder if that information was taken from the study itself, and if so, with such an alarming mistake, perhaps not all the information is believable.
Anyway it is a sweet story. With a consumption of 13 kilograms per year per capita, Switzerland has the most Nobel laureates, a total of 31. Countries whose citizens consume very little chocolate, score at the bottom of the list and they include China, Japan and Brazil.
I think Australia has 13 Nobel laureates to date. We must eat more chocolate.
Pretty frog - and aren't they all?
This very pretty rainbow frog is from Deviant Art and was edited by Satsuki-Hana using Paint Tool.
Label your fear
Yet another study suggests people should not only face their fears, they should label them. A UCLA study encouraged 88 people, who were terrified of spiders, to go close to a large tarantula and to describe how they felt, eg 'I am totally terrified, get me out of here!' The researchers said in other types of studies attempts were made to change the way people thought, for instance, 'I really love spiders'.
Participants, who were originally divided into four groups, only one of which did the labelling, were re-tested and asked to get closer to the tarantula and if possible to touch it. Those who had labelled their fear performed the best. Researchers looked at how much the people's hands sweated which is a measure of fear. I notice no one checked how the tarantula was holding up, after all he had been exposed to 88 people coming close to it with no doubt awful looks on their faces.
Whale mothers
The question that is no doubt on everyone's lips, why do female killer whales have the longest menopause of any non human species, has now been answered. It is so that they can continue to care for their adult sons because if a male is over 30, the death of his mother means a fourteen fold increase in the liklihood of his death within the following twelve months. For females under the age of 30, the death of their mothers had no effect on their survival rates. Female killer whales produce offspring until they are in their thirties or forties, but may live to 90.
With killer whales, sons and daughters stay with their mothers in a single group throughout their lives. Older mothers therefore have the opportunity to increase the transmission of their genes by helping their adult offspring to survive and reproduce. When sons mate, their offspring are cared for by females in another group, whereas when daughters reproduce the offspring stay in the group.
8 October to 14 October 2012
I used the photograph above simply so I could write the pun. There should have been another, smaller door, for pets.
Doors are not always adoorable. University of Notre Dame psychologists recently published the suggestion that doorways triggers event boundaries in the mind, which separates one set of thoughts and memories for another. And thus you can walk into a room with a definite purpose but forget it when you walk through the doorway. Thoughts or plans you had in the first room are neatly filed away by the brain when you cross the event boundary, and a blank slate is ready for the second room and poof! away goes your memory of your intended purpose.
Support for Gay Marriage
A rally for the rights of gay people to marry, had a good turnout in Mackay recently. The subject has given rise to numerous letters and texts to the editor of the Daily Mercury with a fairly clear division of those absoloutely in favour of the recognition of gay marriage, and from those totally against the idea, usually sprinkled with many odd references to the bible.
Wooden it
Sebastian Errazuriz was born in Chile and lives in New York where he makes miniature sculptures and has now increased his output to make the lifesize boat coffin which is a truly effishent use of an item which otherwise rots under the ground.
Vegetate!
I appear to have gone overboard with puns. A pun is also called paronomasia and the word pun, thought to be a contraction of the word pundigrion, has been used for almost 500 years.
2 October to 7 October 2012
Gardener and birdlover, Thomas Poulsom, may be an adult but he has been mixing and maxing it with the toy, Lego, and after producing a series of six British birds made from Lego, he followed up with a set of tropical birds, and is now making ones from North America. He makes the birds lifesize and their shape and colour are true to the originals. He hopes his creations will become official Lego products.
This mobile hotel room, called the hypercubus, is modular and portable. The units have been specifically made to use existing resources and to be easily moved from place to place. The design is from Studio WG3 in Austria.
Nothing to do with genealogy, just roots
I've watched some dvds made in the USA lately and an alarming number feature actresses who have dyed blonde hair and who have dark black roots. I have discovered this is not laziness, nor a lack of money, but a fashion statement similar to the stubble seen on the faces of a variety of actors. Fifteen years ago a Dr Tony Fallone said blonde was not a hair colour, it was a state of mind. Perhaps blondes of today would mind very much if they had to resort to the dyes used in the past which included urine from horses and pigeon dung.
24 September to 1 October 2012
Farewell to Charlie Dudley
A true gentleman, Charlie Dudley, husband of Doreen and father of four sons, Earl, Dean, Ian and Ken, died on 3 August this year (2012) at the age of 97. I have put his story on my Dudley page.
Bird House, image by Joe Kesrouani
The bird house was created from 2500 brass bullets collected from areas in Lebanon where a great deal of hunting is done. It is a commentary on the uncertainty of life during war and was made by a New York collective L.E.FT.
Shoes to go
British designer, Dominic Wilcox, has developed these fascinating gps shoes which will take you where you want to go, provided you have plotted the correct course to your destination. The location is uploaded to the shoe. Click the heels and the system is activated. Progress is shown on a bar of LED lights. Definitely not for people who have problems with left and right.
Get fit, make music
Compose while you cycle, another idea from New York designers is the music machine which is run by pedalling a stationary bicycle. By cycling at different speeds, different compositions are created.
Welcome to the proposed new natural history museum in Denmark designed by Big
Architects which features a whale hall where some of the oldest skeletons in the world
will be exhibited. From this central area a subterranean level connects all the buildings forming a continuous loop. Skylights provide lighting and the loop also includes greenhouses.
17 September to 23 September 2012
A group of people from Chicago, who have taken part in a study that looks at why some people still have excellent memories in old age, all plan to donate their brains for further study. The people who were studied, called superagers included 10 people whose average age was 83.1 and 14 others with an average age of 57.9. By using MRI scans it was shown one brain region in those studied was bigger than the brains of the middle-aged people.
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine researcher Emily Rogalski said the outer layer of the older people's brains was much thicker than normal. This area is important for thinking abilities, for memory and for attention. It was also found that the anterior cingulate of SuperAger participants' was thicker than in the 50 to 65 year olds. Miss Rogalski suggested the SuperAgers had very keen attention which supported their exceptional memories.
The brain pictured above is not from a human, it is made from chilli.
Combating Pain
The Mackay Pain Support group, which began in January this year, is enlarging very quickly which shows the absolute need for support for people with chronic pain. The group now includes 170 consumers who live with persistent pain. The group is supported by the Mackay Pain Management network which is a multidisciplinary healthcare team of 14 members who include a general practitioner, pharmacists, psychologists, nurses and physiotherapists.
The monthly meetings, which are increasingly well attended, feature guest speakers and on October 13 there will be two topics, 'chronic pain and the impact on families', and 'control pain, don't let it control you'. The November 17 meeting will feature a pain specialist from the Queensland Pain Clinic.
The Mackay Pain Support group now has an offshoot, a walking group which meets fortnightly and strolls along the river from Canelands to the restaurant, Bridges.
Photographs of Queenie and Stampy for absolutely no reason
A green school and the ants plants
8 September to 16 September 2012
A bamboo column at a new school in Bali was transformed into a musical instrument with the installation of a harp. The idea of a green school was conceived by John and Cynthia Hardy and designed by PT Bamboo Pure to use bamboo throughout, not only in the structure but also as flooring, seating, and other furniture.
The school helps spread the idea of sustainability and has rice fields, gardens, a fish pond and compost toilets. Students are very lucky to have frequent visits from both regional and international artists.
Below is a very helpful ant
Flowering female plant with a visiting ant photographed by Maria B Garcia
Three species of ants are helping an endangered plant to continue to thrive. The plant, the Borderea chouardii, is only found on two sheer sides of a cliff in the Pyrenees and is critically endangered. Maria Garcia and a group of researchers from the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology discovered two of the ant species were the main pollinators for the plant which, because of its situation is protected from herbivores, and has been known to live for more than 300 years.
Between air installation
This installation, called 'between air', was created for the Spanish pavilion at the Venice 2012 Architecture Biennale by architects Jose Selgas and Lucia Cano. Recycled plastic was used to make the airpots which feature holes which bring light to the root system. When the roots reach the air they dry out and are naturally pruned, encouraging them to grow in a different direction. The irrigation tubes are based on the hydroponic idea of bringing nutrients to the plants in water and are also very flexible and can be used for curves. A mechanism moves the airpots closer to, then away from light sources, to enable a variation of light and heat.
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A Lifetime Educator License is a Tier III license that may be issued to educators who successfully completed at least six semesters of experience in Wisconsin in the license area of their Provisional Educator license and have completed all statutory requirements. The six semesters of successful experience must meet the following criteria:
Experience completed in the license area (Teaching, Administration or Pupil Services) while holding either a Provisional, Initial Educator, Professional Educator or Master Educator license.
Experience completed in the five years immediately preceding the July 1 start date of the Lifetime license.
Experience must be providing direct services to students or providing administrative oversight in a prekindergarten through grade 12 setting in the license area of the Provisional license verified as successful experience by an educational entity in Wisconsin.
Note: Short-term substitute experience does not meet the experience requirement listed above.
Background Check Requirement
Educators who hold a valid Lifetime license will need to complete an application to have a new background check conducted at least once every five years. If the background check is not completed by June 30th of the fifth year, then the license will become invalid. Follow the Application Directions for Background Check to Maintain Lifetime License to submit a background check. Be aware that paying for a license application of any type will also prompt a new background check.
The year of most recent background check is available on License Lookup.
Employment Requirement
The Lifetime license becomes invalid if the educator has not been regularly employed in education for five consecutive years.
"Regularly employed in education” means employed as an educator providing services directly to students, families or fellow educators in a prekindergarten through college setting for one hour per day per semester or its equivalent.
Once an educator’s Lifetime license is invalidated due to not being regularly employed for five consecutive years, he/she is eligible to apply for a Provisional license. The Provisional license would be in the same subject and grade levels and allow the educator to work in the exact same assignments as the Lifetime license. The educator may apply for a Lifetime license again once they have completed six semesters of successful experience within the five years immediately preceding the start date of the new Lifetime license.
How to apply for the Lifetime license
Follow the Application Directions for Lifetime License to apply for a Lifetime license.
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The Granary, Earsham
Durrants and Cripps Developments are pleased to offer an exclusive development, The Granary, which is situated in the popular village of Earsham, just under 1 mile from the town of Bungay. Unusually the site is offering an enviable mix of 2 and 3 bedroom detached bungalows.
Renowned for their high level of specification, but offering traditional comfort and everyday practicality that the latest technology can provide, to offer a low maintenance home in keeping with the character of the local area.
All properties are now available for sale. Please contact our Beccles office for full details.
Contact office >
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The plots below are reserved/SSTC
The Heathers, Wenhaston
Hopkins and Moore have been developing quality family homes in East Anglia for many years. Their development at The Heathers sees them returning close to their origins.
This is the final plot on a select development within this popular village close to Southwold. Plot 10 is £439,995 and offers four bedrooms, two bathrooms, a double garage and extensive farmland views.
For further information and to book an appointment to view please contact our Halesworth office on 01986 872553 or by e-mail to halesworth@durrants.com
Palfrey Place, Halesworth
Heritage Developments has an excellent track record in combining the traditional appearance of houses with modern design and materials. The homes at Palfrey Place are typical of the attention to detail and skill that they bring to developing high quality homes.
Now with only two properties remaining and with prices starting from £350,000 subject to contract, this could be your last chance to own one of the highly desirable four bedroom detached family homes.
Meadowlands, Wrentham
Meadowlands is an exciting new development in the popular village of Wrentham. The site offers a range of different properties from two, three, four bedroom bungalows and houses.
All properties are now available for sale. Please contact our Southwold office for full details.
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Blacksmiths Gardens, Thurlton
Blacksmiths Gardens is an exclusive development of three and four bedroom houses and bungalows in Thurlton near Beccles.
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Lords Terrace, Southwold
Standing proudly on Mights Road, framing the gateway to Southwold, this striking row of nine three and four bedroom terraced houses will be built to a high standard offering flexible accommodation with views over the marshes opposite. With low maintenance gardens and two parking spaces these superb properties will make wonderful family homes.
Award winning architects, CMP, have produced a scheme which complements the immediate architectural style surrounding the site and adding many features like large glazed dormers which mirror the iconic beach huts found on the seafront and maximise the amazing light found in this part of Suffolk.
Sole Bay Terrace, Southwold
On the corner of North Road, this elegant elevated row of four two bedroom, two bathroom houses, complements Lords Terrace with the same striking design maximising light and space. Located just a short stroll from the sandy beach, these properties are built to a high standard with gardens and carport.
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1957 TV-14 1 season
Quicker on a card draw than with a pistol, gentleman gambler Bret Maverick (James Garner) and his brother, Bart (Jack Kelly), drift across the Wild West, going where the game leads them and relying on wit and moxie to keep out of trouble. Playing to each other's strengths, silver-tongued Bret and stouthearted Bart win hands and the occasional lass, with brother Brent (Robert Colbert) and cousin Beau (Roger Moore) joining the duo in later seasons.
Jack Kelly, James Garner, Robert Colbert, Roger Moore
TV Shows, TV Westerns, TV Classics, ABC
Witty, Feel-good
Hollywood veteran James Garner stars in this Old West series as Bret Maverick, a charismatic card shark with a knack for landing himself in the middle of conflict -- primarily between law-abiding citizens and the villains who are out to exploit them. Joining Garner in this entertaining series are Jack Kelly as Maverick's straight-talking brother Bart and future James Bond incarnation Roger Moore as the Maverick brothers' English cousin Beau.
English SDH, Spanish (Neutral), French
TV-14 - This program contains some material that many parents would find unsuitable for children under 14 years of age.
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DZone > Performance Zone > Understanding Lambda Expressions
Understanding Lambda Expressions
Lambda expressions are code blocks that can be assigned to certain variables, and they've been around a while. Here's a breakdown of lambdas, with examples in several languages such as Python, Ruby, and Scala.
Luis Atencio
Dec. 31, 15 · Performance Zone ·
Lambda expressions (or lambda functions) are essentially blocks of code that can be assigned to variables, passed as an argument, or returned from a function call, in languages that support higher-order (first-class) functions. They have been part of programming languages for quite some time. Some examples include Smalltalk, Lisp, Ruby, Scala, Python, and, more recently, Java and JavaScript. Here are some examples:
square = lambda x: x**2
square(6) //->; 36
Ruby:
square = lambda { |x| x * x }
square.(6) #-> 36
del square = x => x * x;
square(6); //->36
JavaScript (fat-arrow functions):
var square = x => x * x;
square(6) //-> 36
Lambda expressions are also known as closures or blocks. If you look closely at the Ruby code, you can see the declaration of a “callable” block of code (encapsulated in { } braces) that is assigned to a variable and run. Lambda expressions are also called closures because they access state from its surrounding lexical scope. This is unlike function pointers in C, which can also be passed around but do not carry (or close over) their lexical scope.
Most people perceive lambdas simply as an anonymous function, but when you study them closer (perhaps from a functional programming point of view), lambda expressions carry a lot more meaning and are a lot more powerful than you think. To speak about this more concretely, I’ll refer to JavaScript’s “arrow” syntax shown above.
The most notorious difference is in syntax. Lambda expressions offer a syntactical advantage of over a traditional anonymous function declaration
function (x) { return x * x };
by removing a few artifacts like the function and return keywords, which makes these expressions feel more like just callable blocks of code. This syntax also makes your code a lot more succinct when used in conjunction with higher-order functions like map, reduce, and filter:
range(1, 5).map(x => x * x); //-> [1, 4, 9, 16, 25]
The benefits of using lambda expressions extend way beyond just syntax. Lambdas encourage you to practice the first of the famous SOLID principles of software design: Single Responsibility. Applied to functions, single responsibility just means that functions should have a single purpose. While you can have lambda expressions contain multiple statements
(x, y) => {
// do something with x and y
// statement 1
most of its usage derives from being inlined as a function argument into larger expressions. This means that you can create several small lambda functions that do exactly one thing, and combine them together to form whole programs:
range(1, 5)
.filter(x => (x % 2) === 0)
.map(x => x * x); //-> [4, 16]
But to really understand why they are so important, we need to examine lambda expressions from a functional programming point of view.
Functional programming treats functions as pure mathematical relations or mappings between sets of types; in this case the set of inputs (domain) and output (range or codomain). Hence, you can view any functions as a mapping of types. For instance, the squared function is a mapping from Number to Number:
You can also map into any types, including user-defined types like a Long number to an Account object:
As you can see from these diagrams, mathematically speaking, a functions output must be solely derived from its input and not from any other state outside of the function’s scope. This absence of side effects is what determines that a functions is pure, as all functions in FP should be. Lambda expressions encode this pretty well into its syntax by using the logical implies symbol “=>” to mean that a set of inputs implies a certain output.
We can extend this concept of purity to a mathematical principle called referential transparency, which means that a pure function can always be substituted for its computable value without altering the meaning of an expression. For a concrete example, consider a pure function like size:
var size = (arr) => !arr ? 0 : arr.length;
And a function average:
var average = (arr) => Math.round(sum(arr) / size(arr))
For an input such as [80, 90, 100], size will consistently return the value 3. Because this function always returns the same output on the same input, it’s said to be referentially transparent — actually the entire program above is. That means that I can use size(arr) interchangeably with the value 3 in the expression above, without altering its meaning. This mathematical quality makes our programs much easier to reason about and easier to trace on any given input. Indeed, these are very simple functions yet the concepts apply equally as well to the most complex algorithms. Referential transparency means that I can treat functions truly as black-boxes because I can predict a function’s outcome based solely on the input provided.
Consequently, it’s easy to see that under referential transparency there’s no room for either no-argument functions or void functions; mathematically speaking, either of these cases implies the empty set “∅” in the domain or codomain, respectively. Take the following example that uses the empty set notation in place of the arguments list:
var hello = () => console.log('Hello!');
Zero-arity functions or void functions always imply that side effects are taking place, since no other real work could be done without accessing resources outside of its own scope. Lambda expressions reveal this mapping more closely.
All of these principles serve an important purpose: to facilitate function composition — the epitome of functional programming. Composition is used to orchestrate the execution of functions in a loosely coupled manner where the output of one is used as the input to the next.
f o g (x) = f(g(x))
At a fine-grained level, function composition resembles the “coding to interfaces” principle because it treats functions as a black boxes with clear inputs and outputs. For example:
var str = 'We can only see a short distance
ahead but we can see plenty there
that needs to be done';
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Italy Reading and Movies
by Andrea Segura - Friday, March 3, 2017
Literature on Italy
General Italy or multi-region:
Moderata Fonte: Women and Life in Sixteenth-Century Venice by Paola Malpezzi Price (co-founder of ExperiencePlus!).
The Land Were Lemons Grow by Helena Attlee; The story of Italy and its citrus fruit.
A Bell for Adano, a 1945 Pulitzer Prize novel by John Hersey. An American-Italian officer is positioned as administrator of Adano during WWII and helps the town replace its bell that the Fascists melted down for weapons. A great story of intelligence, kindness, and respect.
Bread and Wine by Ignazio Silone. Looks at fascist Italy.
Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi. A portrait of Fascist Italy focusing on the south.
The Penguin Book of the Renaissance by J.H.Plumb.
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. Masterpiece of Italian Literature set against the background of the Black Death of 1348.
The Agony and The Ecstasy by Irving Stone. A gripping account of Michelangelo.
The Lost Battles by Jonathan Jones. Fascinating storytelling of the competition of two great artists, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, and Renaissance art.
The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior by Paul Strathern provide a narrative of the history of the intersecting lives of Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia.
Italian Neighbors and the sequel Italian Education by Tim Parks.
The Italians by Luigi Barzini. A book about the events and personalities that shaped the “unique” Italian persona and psyche. A bit outdated in a few parts as it was published in the mid-60s.
Attila: King of the Huns – the Man and the Myth by Patrick Howarth. A good monograph to learn about his horsemen and his army that became known as the “scourge of God” in Western Europe.
Love and War in the Apennines by Eric Newby.
The Aspern Papers by Henry James.
The Words of Bernfrieda, A Chronicle of Hauteville by Gabriella Brooke.
Pride of Carthage by David Anthony Durham. A fascinating historical odyssey.
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. The author leaves her job and life in New York and spends a year traveling in Italy, India, and Indonesia.
The DaVinci Code/ Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. A controversial masterpiece history of the Catholic Church.
Galileo’s Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love by Dava Sobel. The author has woven, in a masterful way, Suor Maria Celeste’s letters to her father within the detailed and often anguished story of his life and vicissitudes.
House of Niccoló by Dorothy Dunnet. History of a young apprentice in a Flanders textile merchant’s house, later to become Nicholas de Fleury.
Central Italy: The Collected Traveler: Tuscany and Umbria by Barrie Kerper is a guide book that reads more like a story.
Up at the Villa Travels with my Husband. Dina Jenkins’s collection of essays, poetry, photography, and recipes wrap around her relationship and off-the-beaten path travels in Italy (and elsewhere) with her husband. Her educational and inspirational writing style provides an easy read.
Made in Italy: A Shopper’s Guide to Italy’s Best Artisanal Traditions from Murano Glass to Ceramics, Jewelry, Leather Goods, and More. Author Laura Morelli discusses and the old world traditions and handmade items one can find while travelling throughout Italy.
Emilia Romagna:
The Broker by John Grisham. A Grisham thriller that immerses the reader in the culture of Bologna.
Playing for Pizza by John Grisham. A story filled with Italian food and wine, and American football being played in Parma.
Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant. This time Dunant takes us to Ferrara during the Italian Renaissance.
Ravenna in Late Antiquity by Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis. A scholastic approach, including illustrations, to Ravenna’s history, art and architecture.
The Art Cities of Emilia Romagna. An e-book that highlights the art cities of the Emilia Romagna region. http://www.blog-ville.com/art-cities-emilia-romagna-ebook/.
Sardinia:
D.H.Lawrence and Italy: Twilight in Italy; Sea and Sardinia: Etruscan places by D.H.Lawrence.
The Lead Goat Veered Off by Neil Anderson. A bicycling adventure on Sardinia.
Sicily:
On Persephone’s Island: A Sicilian Journal by Mary Taylor Simeti. A woman from the states visits Sicily and falls in love and marries a Sicilian and recounts their time spent living in Palermo and eastern Sicily.
The Leopard (il Gattopardo) by Guiseppe di Lampedusa. A classic read set in the 1860’s about a Sicilian nobleman and the threats to aristocracy due to the revolution, unification and democracy forces occurring in Italy.
Midnight in Sicily: On Art, Food, History, Travel and la Cosa Nosa by Peter Robb describes the mix of people, culture, traditions, food and politics of southern Italy and Sicily.
The Stone Boudoir: Travels through the Hidden Villages of Sicily by Theresa Maggio provides her essays on her insights on travels to numerous Sicilian towns considered to be the pulse of Sicily.
Sicily: Three Thousand Years of Human History by Sandra Benjamin. This interesting and in-depth history demonstrates how the geographic location of Sicily played a role in its conquests by the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Normans and continues through the unification of Italy.
Sicily: An Illustrated History by Joseph F. Privitera provides a concise discussion on the complex history of the island of Sicily.
Little Novels of Sicily by Giovanni Verga. A collection of short stories that portray every day Sicilian life.
All of the Neapolitan series written by celebrated Naples born Italian novelist Elena Ferrante.
History on the Road, The Painted Carts of Sicily by Marcella Croce and Moira F. Harris. An interesting presentation of the Sicilian carretto, along with the history and culture of the mountainous island.
Tuscany/Florence:
Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King. An enchanting tale for anyone with an admiration for brilliant architecture, historical drama, or the breathtaking beauty of Florence. All titles by Ross King are worth a read: Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling; Machiavelli.
The Stones of Florence by Mary McCarthy. Available in Harcourt Brace Jovanovich paperbacks.
D.H. Lawrence’s ramblings in Tuscany with Sketches of Etruscan Places, or others like Aaron’s Rod.
The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall by Christopher Herbert provides the history of the famous Medici’s line. A good read especially for those interested in the history and culture of Florence.
A Tuscan Childhood by Kinda Beevor.
Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy by Frances Mayes. Published in 1997, the Tuscan version of Peter Mayle’s A year in Provence. A description of the author’s adventures buying and remodeling a villa in the Tuscan countryside, interspersed with stories and recipes about Italian food. Also a movie.
Bella Tuscany and Every Day in Tuscany: Season of an Italian Life. Frances Mayes’s sequels following her success with Under the Tuscan Sun.
April Blood by Lauro Martines. A look at Renaissance Florence when on a Sunday in April 1487 assassins kill a Medici family member and wound his brother while they attend Mass in a cathedral in Florence.
Within Tuscany: Reflections on a time and place by Matthew Spender.
Fortune is a River by Roger D. Masters. Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo’ Macchiavelli’s magnificent dream to change the course of Florentine history.
The Merchant of Prato by Iris Origo. Daily life in Medieval Italian City.
Home to Italy by Peter Pezzelli. A delightful tale of loss and grieving, of personal tragedy and of rebirth.
Too Much Tuscan Sun (Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guide) by Dario Castagno. A mix of anecdotes about those tourists you hope you’ll never encounter, natural history, and historical and cultural vignettes.
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant. Recounts in detail the four years (1494-1498) of Savonarola’s ruling of Florence, Italy.
War in Val d’Orcia: An Italian War Diary 1943-1944 by Iris Origo. World War II diary written by a woman who witnessed life behind the battle lines and cared for refugee children in her estate in Southern Tuscany.
The Light in the Ruins by Chris Bohjalian. An epic love story and suspense novel that weaves two stories. One set in Tuscany at the end of WWII of the noble-lineage Rosartis family, and the other of a Florence police investigator in 1955 that is assigned the case to find the serial killer determined to murder members of the Rosartis family. The Crete Senesi region where most of the book takes place is one of the author’s favorite areas to bicycle. Those of you that have cycled our Best of Southern Tuscany trips may especially enjoy this.
Umbria:
A Valley in Italy by Lisa St. Aubin de Terán. John Mortimer, in the Mail on Sunday writes: “immensely enjoyable. Captures the true, immensely practical, magic of Italy.”
Marcus of Umbria: What an Italian Dog Taught an American Girl about Love by Justine van der Leun
Veneto/Venice:
Across the River and into the Trees and A Farewell to Arms. (The latter is set a little to the north and east of Venice) by Ernest Hemingway.
In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant based in 16th century Venice. Reflects on the meaning of life, the difficult balance between the pleasures of the flesh and the demands of the heart, human greed for wealth and the longing for love.
Venice for Pleasure by J.G Links. Essentially four walking tours told in a charmingly conversational style by an author who is clearly in love with Venice.
Vidal in Venice by Gore Vidal. An engaging story of the history of Venice, complete with photos, by an award winning author.
A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich, one of the most comprehensive books of the history of Venice.
The Gondola Maker. A highly researched compelling historical novel that takes place in 16th century Venice about the gondola making craft and the willingness or unwillingness of the heir to take on the trade.
The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan. As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though there waits someone who cares deeply about how they appear. Then they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell and become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession. From this novel also the movie by Paul Schrader.
Literature about Italian Food & Wine:
Buy and carry with you The Marling Menu-Master for Italy. This excellent pocket aid by William E. and Clare F. Marling will guide you deep into the heart of Italian food while leading you through a typical menu.
Slow Food Revolution: A New Culture for Eating and Living by Carlo Petrini. A discussion of the philosophy of the Slow Food movement.
Songbirds, Truffles, and Wolves (An American Naturalist in Italy) Gary Nabhan. Points out everything in the Italian countryside, from sunflowers to tomatoes to prickly pears, that explorers like Columbus brought back to Italy and Europe. Some of these plants have contributed significantly to modern Italian landscape.
Venice and Food by Sally Spector. Examines Venice and food from historical, social, cultural, and artistic points of view.
Eating in Italy (A Traveler’s Guide to the Gastronomic Pleasures of Northern Italy) by Faith Heller Willinger. Includes brief vignettes on such distinctly Italian delights as: pasta and risotto, olive oil, truffles, pizza and other flatbreads, gelato, herbs and spices, digestives and apéritifs.
A Passion for Piedmont: Italy’s Most Glorious Regional Table by Matt Kramer. Discovers Italy’s most glorious regional table.
The Culture of the Fork by Giovanni Rebora. A brief history of food in Europe.
Italian Cuisine: A Cultural History by Alberto Capatti and Massimo Montanari.
Pasta: The Story of a Universal Food by Silvano Serventi and Françoise Sabban.
The Miracle of Castel Di Sangro: A Tale of Passion and Folly in the Heart of Italy by Joe McGinniss.
Italian Slow and Savory by Joyce Goldstein presents the diversity of Italy’s cuisine with home-cooked recipes from numerous regions of Italy.
The Art of Italian Cooking by Maria Lo Pinto and Milo Miloradovich – an excellent cookbook reported to be passed down through generations of family members of some of our favorite travelers.
Movies about or set in Italy
Ciao Professore. A heartwarming story about a teacher and students in Naples.
Johnny Stecchino. a hilarious movie with Roberto Benigni and Nicoletta Braschi, about the Italian mafia.
Bicycle Thief. a classic tale of family life in Rome after WWII, harder to find, but worth the effort!
Icicle Thief. a modern spoof on the older movie (Bicycle Thief) highlighting modern Italian materialist society.
Big Night. The hilarious tale of two brothers and their Italian restaurant in the US. A feast for the eyes and soul! Learn how to eat Italian style.
Life is Beautiful. With Nicoletta Braschi and Roberto Benigni, dubbed or subtitled in English. A controversial but very worthwhile film about an Italian Jewish family in the holocaust.
The Best of Youth. A movie that spans Italy’s recent history from 1966 to 2000 through the eyes of two brothers.
Any Fellini movie—classic historical movies on Italy (such as La Dolce Vita, Nights of Cabiria, 8 ½, Amarcord)
Divorce-Italian Style starring Marcello Mastroianni. A quirky pro-divorce 1960s film before divorce was legalized in 1974, featuring murders and honor as the only way to “divorce” in Italy.
Eat Pray Love. Based upon the book by Elizabeth Gilbert and starring Julie Roberts. She leaves her job and life in New York and spends a year traveling in Italy, India, and Indonesia. While the movie gets poor reviews there are scenes of Rome and Naples.
Tea With Mussolini, featuring Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith, Lilly Tomlin, and Cher. The story of a group of British ex-patriots, set in Florence in the 1920s and 30s. Great scenes of Florence, San Gimignano and Central Tuscany.
A Room With a View. Based on the novel by E.M. Forster. A film about British travelers in Florence at the turn of the century. Includes beautiful scenery of the countryside.
Much Ado About Nothing. Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson. A Shakespearean romantic comedy set in the Chianti (Tuscany) region of Italy.
Portrait of a Lady. With Nicole Kidman and John Malkovich. The Henry James classic about the diffident American woman, parts of this movie were shot in Lucca and Florence.
Letters to Juliet. While visiting the Casa di Giulietta (Juliet’s house) in Verona–the setting of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, a woman finds a decades-old letter and sets out to find its author. Beautiful scenes of Tuscany and parts of northern Italy.
The English Patient. Written and directed by Anthony Minghella. This epic WWII love story was filmed in Pienza, the Orcia Valley and the Monastery of Sant’Anna in Camprena. Beautiful scenery of Umbria and Tuscany.
My House in Umbria. Maggie Smith plays a British romance novelist that invites several survivors of a terrorist attack to recuperate at her Italian villa. Scenes of Umbria.
The Tourist. Venice is the setting for an espionage thriller starring Johnny Depp as a tourist that meets Interpol agent Angelina Jolie.
Pane e Tulipani (Bread and Tulips). A cute movie about a southern Italian housewife who spends a “singles” year in Venice.
The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) 1963. Based upon the book by the same name the movie stars Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, and Caludia Cardinale, a story about a Sicilian nobleman and the threats to aristocracy due to the revolution, unification and democracy forces occurring in Italy.
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso. An Italian classic memoir about childhood and movies in a small Sicilian town.
The Great Beauty (La grande bellezza). An Italian film directed by Paolo Sorrentino about journalist Jep Gambardella (Toni Servillo) who, after the success of his one and only novel has been a large part of Rome’s literary and social circles and its seductive nightlife, finds himself facing a shock from his past as he turns sixty-five. His change in lifestyle has him looking at the beautiful city with an entirely new perspective.
Langhe Doc. An award-winning documentary on food and wine production in Italy and the threats to tradition, culture, and lifestyle that are presented with development and urbanization of a region.
La mafia colpisce solo d’estate “The Mafia Kills Only In Summer” by Pierfrancesco Diliberto (Pif), awarded as Best New Director at the David Di Donatello 2014, Nastri D’Argento Awards 2014: Winner Best Original Story, Best New Director Golden Globes Italy 2014: Best Screenplay. Referred to as the best film work on Mafia ever made. The author makes a “remarkable job negotiating the delicate balance between humor and heartrending emotion in his terrific directorial feature debut with a powerful message”
La donna della domenica by Luigi Comencini (1975). Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Louis Trintignant. Police commissioner Santamaria is investigating the murdering of the ambiguous architect Mr. Garrone. The investigations soon drive him into the Torino’s high society. Santamaria suspect Anna Carla and at the same time falls in love for her. Lello is the lover of Massimo, a homosexual platonic friend of Anna Carla. He is following another direction in order to find out the truth, and his results are confusing the Policeman. But another murdering happens… This Italian movie gives a an intriguing picture of the northern Italy in the 70’s.
Basilicata Coast to Coast by Rocco Papaleo.(Winner of 2 Nastri D’argento awards) “The journey is the reward” and that’s been the subject of the movie when four guys who play in a band together decide to go on foot to a music festival, the proverb becomes their reality. It’s decided that they should cross Basilicata from one coast to another with only a wagon and horse to carry their equipment, and an unenthusiastic young woman played by Giovanna Mezzogiorno (La Bestia Nel Cuore). It talks about the region of Basilicata, the area of Italy bordering on Campania to the west, Puglia to the north and east, and Calabria to the south, and that’s part of the group’s dilemma. Basilicata is sort of “Nowhereland” (where there is nothing to envy, says the opening song – they don’t even have the mafia) and the characters feel that they are going nowhere in it. It’s a beautiful movie, because Basilcata is beautiful with its arid, mountainous terrain and resembling a little sparsely populated Colorado.
The Comfort of Strangers by Paul Schrader. The movie is about decadence in Venice, a place of long golden afternoons, steamy nights, grand palazzos, dark alleys, incredible beauty, unrecognized malignancies and, finally, death. “The Comfort of Strangers” is too much, which is just about right for a horror film so romantic that its true nature is only revealed at the very end, when escape is no longer possible. Harold Pinter, who adapted the screenplay from Ian McEwan’s novel, has never written a film as alarmingly ghoulish as this tale of terminal love. “The Comfort of Strangers” is a Grand Guignol variation on the kind of scary Pinter play in which the menace remains discreet. Not here. Two couples meet, it seems, by chance…
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Workplace: Département des Sciences Économiques (Department of Economics), École des Sciences de la Gestion (ESG) (Business School), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) (University of Quebec in Montreal), (more information at EDIRC)
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Protectionism and the Business Cycle
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International Actions to Halt and Delay 5G
The growing awareness of the health impact of the 4G/5G densification is resulting in action by policymakers worldwide. Cities are issuing resolutions and calls for research before deployment. There are citizen organizations in almost every country working on this and a growing list of public officials speaking out.
For example, in the United States the state of New Hampshire has a 5G Bill HB 522 that asks, “Why have 1,000s of peer-reviewed studies, including the recently published U.S. Toxicology Program 16-year $30 million study, that are showing a wide range of statistically significant DNA damage, brain and heart tumors, infertility, and so many other ailments, being ignored by the Federal Communication Commission (FCC)?” and, “Why have more than 220 of the worlds leading scientists signed an appeal to the WHO and the United Nations to protect public health from wireless radiation and nothing has been done?”
EHT is compiling a list of actions. This is NOT a complete list. Please email EHT at [email protected] let us know actions we need to add. Note that US City actions are detailed on the EHT page on City 4G/5G policy.
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1/2/2020 Post Courier: Minister Masiu halts 5g trials amid health risk debate
The Kalamata City Council decided not to continue the 5G pilot program after a three hour debate. News coverage: “The city council decided to suspend 5G in Kalamata”
There are 26 counties in Ireland and 5 have voted to stop 5G.
Six County Councils: Clare, Roscommon, Leitrim, Wicklow, County Laois and Sligo County Councils
Co Clare – June 2019 – Cllr Clare Colleran Molloy
“In light of a recent appeal to the EU from 180 scientists and doctors from 36 countries warning about the danger of 5G, which will lead to a massive increase in involuntary exposure to electromagnetic radiation, that Clare County Council in exercising its responsibility to protect the environment and the public from harm: opposes the roll-out of 5G in the County; and calls on CommReg to deny licensing for its roll-out; and calls on the Minister for Communication, Climate Change and the Environment, to establish a working group to establish the facts about the radiation impact of 5G on the environment & human health due to the current questionable scientific knowledge.”
Co. Roscommon – July 2019 – Cllr Orla Leyden:
“That Roscommon County Council opposes the (1) testing of 5G and the roll out of 5G in County Roscommon, (2) calls on ComReg to deny licencing for its rollout and (3) calls on the Minister for Communications, Climate Change and the Environment to establish the facts about the radiation impact of 5G on the environment and human health with reference to global scientific knowledge.”
Co. Leitrim – September 2019 – Cllr Justin Warnock:
“That Leitrim County Council, in exercising its responsibility to protect the environment and the public from harm, and in invoking the precautionary principle in relation to 5G, opposes the testing of 5G, the roll out of 5G, and any action that would facilitate the deployment of 5G in the County, calls on ComReg to deny licencing for its roll out, and calls on the Minister for Communications, Climate Change and the Environment to establish the facts about the radiation impact of 5G on the environment and human health with reference to global scientific knowledge.”
Co. Sligo – September 2019 – Cllrs Martin Baker, Michael Clarke, Martin Connolly, Gerard Mullaney, Dara Mulvey, Joe Queenan and Paul Taylor:
“That Sligo County Council delays (1) the testing of 5G and the roll-out of 5G in County Sligo (2) calls on ComReg to delay the licensing of its roll-out and (3) calls on the Minister for Communication, Climate Action and the Environment to establish the facts about the radiation impact of 5G, and to delay the roll-out across the country until a full assessment of the health and environmental implications are carried out with a report compiled and presented to the Oireachtas.”
Co. Wicklow – October 2019 – Cllr Tom Fortune and Mary Kavanagh
“Wicklow county Council has a social responsibility to serve, inform and protect the public and environment from exposure to harm, and therefore it opposes the roll-out of unregulated 5G in the county of Wicklow based on the precautionary principle pending the enactement by Dail Eireann of protective legislation. In the meantime, it is proposed that a 5G Advisory Council Committee or working group be established (including independent representatives) who would be mandated to report back to the Council on the potentially harmful effects of wireless EMF on the environment and in particular on our carbon footprint”
A vast number of Facebook pages (and online petitions) can be found in Ireland: Wireless technologies awareness Kinvara, #Stop 5G Ireland, Stop 5G Monaghan – Ireland, Stop5GConnacht&Leinster, Stop 5G Cavan – Fermanagh, Stop 5G Roscommon, Stop 5G Waterford, Stop 5G Kinsale & Surrounding Villages, Stop 5G Dublin, Stop 5G Donegal Public Group, Stop 5G Dingle, 5G awareness Dungarvan and An Rinn, Stop 5G Wexford, 5G Awareness Ireland, No5GNI.
County Laois – November 2019
Read Concerns lead to calls to put 5G roll-out on hold
Belgium, Brussels, Radiation concerns halt Brussels 5G development, for now, HLN Brussels Times, 01/04/2019
11/2019 The council of Bad Wiessee has unanimously decided to allow no 5G installations in the municipal territory. Read news reports at this link.
As of October 23, 2019 it is reported that over 67 Cities in Italy have officially opposed the 5G rollout. Read a list here.
Scanzano Italy, Mayor of Scanzano (region Basilicata, where EHS people are exempt from medical co-payments) announces he is prohibiting 5G rollout on the basis of health concerns, quoting the precautionary principle and the need to protect electrosensitives. TV footage , News: 5G hazardous to health: Scanzano Jonico forbids it 8/3/2019, The municipality of Scanzano Jonico has banned 5G trials to prevent health risks
Florence, Italy “It causes damage to the body!” Florence brakes on 5G and applies the Precautionary Principle. Motion in defense of health approved (almost) unanimous, EXCLUSIVE NEWS OASI SANA, 05/04/2019
Florence, Italy Florence will use the precautionary principle for the rollout of 5G, Lennart Hardell’s Blog, 08/04/2019
XII Municipality of Rome, Italy A Municipality of Rome votes against 5G: what will the Giunta do? Terra Nuova, 28/03/2019
Municipality of Rocca di Papa, Italy 5G moratorium approved in Rocca di Papa (Rome), the city council deliberates on the precaution: “We do not authorize technologies that can aggravate the unhealthiness” EXCLUSIVE NEWS OASI SANA, 24/04/2019
Montecitori Palace, Rome, Italy Stop 5G: a parliamentary motion commits the Government to the moratorium, Ortica Web, 20/05/2019
As of June 24 2019 it is reported by Oasis Sana the following actions by Mayors and municipalities in Italy to halt 5G have been approved:
Rome Capital City Hall XII APPROVED MOTION
Municipality of Florence MOTION APPROVED
Municipality of Rocca di Papa (Rome) RESOLVED APPROVED
Municipality of Savignano Irpino (Avellino ) RESOLVED APPROVED
Municipality of Viareggio (Lucca) RESOLVES APPROVED
Municipality of Cinto Euganeo (Padua) APPROVED RESOLUTION
Municipality of Cervaro (Frosinone) APPROVED RESOLUTION
Municipality of Fresagrandinaria (Chieti) MOTION APPROVED
Municipality of Conca Casale (Isernia) MOTION APPROVED
Municipality of Marsaglia (Cuneo) MOTION APPROVED
Municipality of Sesto Fiorentino (Florence) MOTION APPROVED
Municipality of Campiglia Cervo (Biella) RESOLUTION APPROVED
Municipality of San Gregorio Matese (Caserta) PROHIBITION OF THE MAYOR AT 5G
6/24/2019 Oasis Sana: Mayors Stop 5G, here is the first Italian suspension order. And the list of 13 council resolutions and municipal motions for the precaution.
The following City Councils have passed motions to halt 5G until safety data provided: Brighton, Hove, Devonshire, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, Frome, Totnes, Wells, Glastonbury, Trafford.
11/2019 Wells Somerset, England
“This Council has a responsibility to protect the public and environment from exposure to harm, albeit unpredictable in the current state of scientific knowledge, and therefore opposes the roll-out of 5G in the Parish of Wells City Council – based on the ‘Precautionary Principle’ – until further information is revealed.” –Minutes of Wells City Council Meeting
11/2019 Lampeter Town Council
“Lampeter Town Council has agreed to ‘draw a line in the sand’ and refuse to endorse the rollout of 5G technology pending more scientific research on any potential harmful effects”–Town council takes stand against 5G – Cambrian News, 20th November 2019
October 21, 2019 Shepton Mallet, Somerset council blocks 5G roll out until ‘Government can prove its safe’
Somerset Live, Shepton Mallet Somerset Blocks 5G
West Monkton Parish council in Taunton Somerset resolution tonight to apply the PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE to the rollout of 5G.
“Even though parish councils can’t stop 5G infrastructure coming into our communities, it sends out a clear signal to central government that there is an issue , it creates local awareness through media coverage, helps other councils to follow suit and creates a ripple affect and ground swell. Please 5G campaigners call you local parish clerk and ask to speak about 5G , which is normally 5 mins, mention that the precautionary principle has now been applied in Glastonbury, Frome, Sheppton Mallet, Wellington, West Monkton, Totnes and Kingsbridge.” Facebook link of residents sharing the news.
10/2019: Brighton City Council bans 5G masts.
10/2019: Hove City Council bans 5G masts.
Read news report “Brighton and Hove City Council join growing list of local authorities banning 5G masts”
10/2019: UK, Devonshire officials ‘ban’ new installations.
News Report: Town’s war with 5G: Devonshire officials ‘ban’ installation of new high-speed network after campaigners demand further research into its effects on health.
Totnes mayor Jacqi Hodgson, a Green Party county councilor, said: ‘Our concern is that there will be a much higher blanket of radiation all around us.’
UK Frome, Somerset voted to apply the precautionary principle.
News Reports: Frome could be second town in Somerset to oppose 5G roll-out due to health impact concerns
Frome Town Council discuss 5G: Town Council Website
“The hotly debated subject of 5G was discussed by Frome Town Councillors at July’s Council Meeting. The Councillors agreed the following recommendation: Frome Town Council has a moral responsibility to protect public health and the local environment. Until there is more independent scientific consensus that 5G wireless radiation is harmless to humans and the environment, FTC adopts the precautionary principle and will not endorse the rollout of 5G. Leader of the Council, Rich Ackroyd said, “Clearly Frome Town Council is not in a position to ban or allow 5G to go ahead in our town. Although our official position doesn’t endorse the rollout it does not mean that Frome Town Council is against 5G, simply that we’re exercising caution until we have more information available.” FTC has agreed to work alongside Glastonbury Town Council to keep abreast of any further developments.”
Totnes council issues moratorium on 5G. A Devon town has become one of the first in the country to try and prevent new 5G mobile phone networks being installed. Totnes Town Council does not have the power to stop new masts going up, but councilors said their moratorium sent the message that they did not want the technology in the town until there was evidence it was safe. Mayor of Totnes Jacqi Hodgson said it was another form of emissions that were not being monitored.” Read Totnes council protests 5G mobile phone networks
Glastonbury Town Opposes 5G: Glastonbury Town Councillors opposed the introduction of 5th Generation (5G) technology in Glastonbury until further information has been obtained on the health effects on residents. At the Glastonbury Town Council meeting on Tuesday 11th June a motion proposed by Cllr Mike Smyth and seconded by Cllr Jon Cousins read as follows:
“This council has a social responsibility to protect the public and environment from exposure to harm, albeit unpredictable in the current state of scientific knowledge, and therefore opposes the roll-out of 5G in the Parish of Glastonbury – based on the precautionary principle – until further information is revealed from a newly convened 5G advisory committee (working group)…..”-Town Council challenges 5G, June 2019
England, Trafford, Trafford Council Rejects 5G, News4Trafford, 11/02/2019
Netherlands, Chamber wants radiation research first, then 5G network, AD News, 04/04/2019
Slovenia:
Website of Organization: Movement for Technology Kind to Human (Gibanje za cloveku prijazno tehnologije)
Russia, The Ministry of Defense refused to transmit to the operators the frequencies for 5G, Vedomosti, 28/03/2019
Dutch house of representatives is concerned about the health risks of radiation from the new 5G network. Political parties want to know as a matter of urgency what the 5G dangers are before 5G is rolled out on a large scale. Link
Cantons of Geneva, Jura, and Neuchatel vote to halt the 5G rollout (no new permits) until safety is shown. Canton of Vaud also issued a resolution but has been reluctant to implement their resolution. News reports state that 5G has been halted due to widespread protests. Switzerland’s government states they will start monitoring radiation levels.
Switzerland refuses to weaken radiofrequency radiation limits: A parliamentary motion demanding a weakening of the precautionary emission limitations for mobile phone base stations has been rejected by the Swiss Parliament, therefore the precautionary installation limit values in the ONIR remain at 4-6 V/m for this type of installations.
5G infrastructure halted
Switzerland, Health fears prompt Swiss 5G revolt, MSN, 9/18/2019
Switzerland, Health fears prompt Swiss 5G revolt. AFP Relax News, Yahoo, 9/18/2019
Switzerland, Opponents of 5G start campaign to force nationwide vote, Swissinfo.ch, 10/15/2019
Massive protests in Bern
“On September 21 last year, several thousand people demonstrated in Bern, on the Federal Square, against the new 5G mobile communication standard, considered dangerous for the health of the population, subjected according to protesters to “forced irradiation”.
Switzerland, Bern, Several thousand protest against 5G in Swiss capital, Swissinfo.ch, 9/21/2019
Switzerland, Bern, Thousands of Swiss protest 5G wireless over health fears, CNA International, 9/22/2019
Switzerland, Bern, Thousands protest in Bern against 5G, La Liberte, 9/2019
Switzerland to monitor radiation levels amidst 5G rollout.
“ Switzerland will introduce a monitoring system to assuage concerns about the potential health impact of fifth-generation (5G) mobile frequency emissions and smooth the cutting-edge technology’s rollout, the government said on Wednesday.
The cabinet agreed to have the federal environmental agency measure levels of so-called non-ionising radiation, assess the risks and regularly inform the public about its findings.”
– Reuters April 2019
Switzerland to monitor radiation levels.
Jura, Switzerland adopts a resolution for a moratorium of 5G. “Jura Minister of the Environment David Eray believes that it is wise to delay and privilege the precautionary principle in relation to the effects of 5G on health.” Watch News Story.
Cantons of Geneva and Neuchatel officials vote to halt the 5G rollout (no new permits) until safety is shown. Canton of Vaud also issued a resolution but has been reluctant to implement their resolution.
Green Member of Parliament Sabine Glauser Krug in Vaud “asks the State Council to strengthen information and awareness actions concerning non-ionizing radiation emissions.” Read online.
Geneva, Canton of Vaud, Geneva stops construction of 5G antennas, 20 Minutes Switzerland, 11/04/2019
Geneva, Canton of Vaud, Geneva blocks the erection of 5G mobile antennas, le News Switzerland, 02/05/2019
Cantons of Geneva, Vaud, and Neuchatel, Switzerland blocks the deployment of 5G telephony until its security is demonstrated, ABC Society, 14/04/2019
Canton of Vaud, Swiss canton blocks 5G mobile rollout, le News Switzerland, 11/04/2019
Cantons of Geneva, Vaud, and Jura, May the antennas be built or not? Cantons complain of 5G chaos, Aargauer Zeitung, 5/22/2019
ZURICH (Reuters) – Switzerland, Switzerland to measure RFR levels and monitor potential health risks posed by 5G networks, KFGO, 17/04/2019
Switzerland (Reuters), Switzerland to monitor potential health risks posed by 5G networks, It News, 18/04/2019
Watch below press coverage from a protest in Bern.
The People of Geneva are fighting against 5G antennas, Tribune de Genève, 01 April 2019
In Switzerland, a task force of specialists is analyzing studies on the effects of 5G, Le Matin Dimanche, 31 March 2019
Australian Parliament opens up an Inquiry into 5G
On 13 September 2019 the Minister for Communications, Hon Paul Fletcher MP asked the Committee to inquire into and report on the deployment, adoption, and application of 5G in Australia. The Committee invites written submissions by Friday, 1 November 2019.
“Terms of Reference: The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Communications and the Arts will inquire into and report on the deployment, adoption, and application of 5G in Australia. 5G refers to the fifth generation of mobile technology, in line with the International Mobile Telecommunications-2020 (IMT-2020) Standard of the International Telecommunications Union and the associated releases of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). The Committee will:1. Investigate the capability, capacity, and deployment of 5G; 2. Understand the application of 5G, including use cases for enterprise and government.
Matters relating to national security are out of scope for this Committee.”
Link to inquiry.
Link to Submissions
8/9/ 2019: The Austrian parliament has commissioned study on 5G health effects
According to the Telecom Paper news report, “The Austrian parliament has commissioned a study into the health effects of 5G networks due to concerns among the public the new generation of mobile services could pose risks from increased radiation exposure.
The Advisory Council on Technology Assessment of the Austrian Parliament has decided to obtain expertise in the field and appointed a consortium of the Institute for Technology Assessment of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Austrian Institute of Technology to conduct a study. The research institutes already provide the parliament with scientific advice on many topics.
The study is expected to be ready by January 2020, providing an overview of the latest research on the topic. The report will be published on the parliament’s website.
11/2019: The Kalamata City Council decided not to continue the 5G pilot program after a three hour debate.
“The City decided not to renew the contract with the telecommunications company- a contract originally signed for the development of a 5G Pilot program. This is a result of a 6 month effort made by the people of Kalamata to stop the 5G deployment in their town,” stated Dr. Theodore Metsis who has been presenting across the country on the environmental and human health issues posed by 5G.
News coverage: “The city council decided to suspend 5G in Kalamata”
September 19, 2019: Cyprus Medical Association and the Cyprus Committee on Environment and Children’s Health Submitted POSITION on 5G Deployment in Cyprus to Cyprus Parliamentary Committees on Environment and Health
The position statement includes that exposure reduction must be regulated by legislation that must provide:
a.IMPLEMENTATION OF 5G-FREE PROTECTION ZONES for schools, playgrounds and hospitals. PROHIBITION of the use of wireless internet and wireless devices e.g. tablets and mobiles in kindergartens and schools at least up to the age of 15.
See the Cyrus Medical Association Position submitted to Parliament here.
Large Protests in Cyprus Public health must be prioritised over phone companies’
Actions by US Cities:
Petaluma, California, no Small Cell shall be within 500 feet of any residence.
Fairfax and Mill Valley California, small cells prohibited in residential zones
San Diego County, no small cells located within 1,000 feet of schools, child care centers, hospitals, or churches.
Mason, Ohio, No small cells in residential areas or within 100 feet of residential property
Burlington, Massachusetts, annual recertification fees for small cells.
Baton Rouge, Small cell deployment halted. May 30, 2019, Baton Rouge mayor hits pause on AT&T’s ‘small cell’ towers after complaints from residents
See a full compilation of the US Cities issuing ordinances to slow the densification of 4/5G Antennas at this link USA Cities on 5G Small Cells Action.
California – Notable Court Ruling on Small Cells, California Supreme Court Sides with Cities in Small Cell Faceoff, Government Technology, 05/04/2019
Cities across the country are enacting ordinances to restrict cellular antenna deployment into neighborhoods near schools and homes.
Los Altos California: no antennas in residential areas, 500-foot setback for multi-family residences in commercial districts, 500 ft separation from schools, 1500 ft separation between nodes.
Los Altos Urgency Ordinance:
Los Altos Citing Guidelines:
San Diego County, no small cells located within 300 feet of schools, childcare centers, hospitals, or churches, (1000 foot setback for schools was changed to 300 ft setback after industry lobbying), expanded ADA language- whereby sensitive individuals with disabilities and medical conditions who must avoid increased exposure to rf radiation may apply for and receive ADA accommodations such that small cells are not placed within a certain radius of their home or very nearby. Link
US State Action
Watch a family speak about how 5G small cells impacted their health in the video below.
Towards Protective Laws on 5G, Wireless and Small Cells
Passed: New Hampshire Bill 522: An act establishing a commission to study the environmental and health effects of evolving 5G technology which asks “Why have 1,000s of peer-reviewed studies, including the recently published U.S. Toxicology Program 16-year $30 million study, that are showing a wide range of statistically significant DNA damage, brain and heart tumors, infertility, and so many other ailments, being ignored by the Federal Communication Commission (FCC)?” and “Why are the FCC-sanctioned guidelines for public exposure to wireless radiation based only on the thermal effect on the temperature of the skin and do not account for the non- thermal, non-ionizing, biological effects of wireless radiation?”
Read the Comments, Meeting Notes and Agendas for the Commission here http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/statstudcomm/committees/1474/default.html
Passed- Vermont: H.513 (Act 79) An act relating to broadband deployment throughout Vermont
Read section 24 of the full act which discusses wireless radiation and health concerns.
Sec. 24. WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES; PUBLIC HEALTH REPORT (a) “On or before January 1, 2020, the Commissioner of Health shall submit to the Senate Committees on Health and Welfare and on Finance and the House Committees on Health Care and on Energy and Technology a report on the possible health consequences from exposure to the radio frequency fields produced by wireless technologies, including cellular telephones and FCCregulated transmitters. The report shall include a summary of available scientific data as well as a comparison of various emissions standards and guidelines.
(b) The purpose of this report is to provide policymakers and the general public information deemed significant by many Vermonters. It is not intended that the information gathered in the report be used to form the basis of policies that are inconsistent with federal law.”
Passed- Louisiana: The Louisiana House voted to have the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality and the Department of Health conduct a study on the effects of 5G technology, not just on the environment, but also public health. The Louisiana legislature passed House Resolution 145 with a vote of 103 in favor and zero representatives voting against the measure.
Passed -Oregon
The state of Oregon has passed SB 283 “A bill relating to exposure to radiation in schools in this state; and declaring an emergency.” The Act states that the Oregon Health Authority shall:
Review peer-reviewed, independently funded scientific studies of the health effects of exposure to microwave radiation, particularly exposure that results from the use of wireless network technologies in schools or similar environments; and
Report the results of the review to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to education not later than January 2, 2021.
The review described in paragraph (a) of this subsection must, at a minimum, consist of a literature review of peer-reviewed, independently funded scientific studies that examine the health effects of exposure to microwave radiation on children.
The Department of Education shall develop recommendations to schools in this state for practices and alternative technologies that would reduce students’ exposure to microwave radiation that the review described in subsection (1) of this section identifies as harmful.
SECTION 2. This 2019 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2019 Act takes effect on its passage.
Read SB 283:
News Reports “School Wireless Safety Bill Passes State Senate” KDRV June 14, 2019
Proposed State Laws
11/2019 Chicago: State Sen. Suzy Glowiak Hilton seeks task force to study impacts of 5G networks
Proposed New York State A08637: Establishes a temporary commission to study the environmental and health effects of evolving 5G technology.
Proposed Hawaii HCR197 REQUESTING A STUDY THAT SUMMARIZES THE PUBLISHED REPORTS AND STUDIES ON THE EFFECTS OF 5G WIRELESS
Proposed– Montana Joint Resolution 13: “A JOINT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF MONTANA URGING CONGRESS TO AMEND THE FEDERAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT TO ACCOUNT FOR HEALTH EFFECTS OF SITING SMALL CELL NETWORK EQUIPMENT IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS” which states “the State of Montana has long valued its healthy environment and the well-being of its citizens; and the siting of modern small cell network infrastructure in residential areas can create radiation exposure risks for citizens; and section 704 of the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 prohibits state and local governments from regulating wireless service provider infrastructure sitting on the basis of environmental effects. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF MONTANA Congress be urged to amend the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 to account for the health effects of sitting small cell network equipment in residential areas.”
United States Resolutions on 5G and Small Cells
2019: Wilton Manors Florida Resolution NO. 2019-064: Urging Members of Congress to Oppose Senate Bill 1699 that streamlines 5G Small Cells and pre-empts local authority.
2019: Clearwater Florida 19-29 Resolution to Initiate A Scientific Study of 5G” the City of Clearwater believes it is in the best interest of its residents and visitors, as well as of all citizens, for the Federal Government to initiate a scientific review of the health and economic impact of 5G technology”
2019: Town of Hillsboro Beach Florida Resolution No. 2019-035: Opposes FL Senate Bill 1699 which preempts local control regarding Small Cell Deployment
2019: Carmel, Indiana: Resolution CC-10-21-19-03: Requests the Indiana State Legislature to take all necessary steps to thoroughly study the effects of 5G technology on humans and to immediately suspend the deployment and use of this technology in Indiana until scientific evidence conclusively establishes that it poses no harm to humans.
Hallandale Beach Florida 5G Small Cell Tower Resolution: Read press release here. See the Hallandale Beach Florida Resolution here.
Portland City Council in Oregon. The City unanimously approved a resolution calling for the Federal Communications Commission to study the health hazards of 5G technology. The resolution introduced by Commissioner Amanda Fritz said the FCC has not studied such risks, even though studies compiled and released by the European Union found cancer and other risks. Link
Greendale, Wisconsin Resolution No. R2018-20 in November 2018 : The Board of Trustees of the Village of Greendale, County of Milwaukee, State of Wisconsin, passed Resolution No. R2018-20 in November 2018 in opposition to the FCC’s September 26, 2018 Order because the Order s an unprecedented attack on local control of Greendale’s largest asset, the public rights-of-way, for 5G technology; threatens the Village’s responsibility to protect the health, safety, and welfare of its residents; and threatens the Village of Greendale’s designation as a National Historic Landmark. The Village asked the FCC for changes that maintain a reasonable level of local control. The Resolution was sent to the FCC and State and Federal officials.Resolution No. R2018-20 Greendale Wisconsin RESOLUTION RELATING TO EXPANDED USE OF PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY BY WIRELESS PROVIDERS FOR 5G TECHNOLOGY AND OTHER WIRELESS SERVICES, AND ASKING FOR CHANGES THAT MAINTAIN A REASONABLE LEVEL OF LOCAL CONTROL
Increasing Awareness of 5G Health Effects Internationally
Germany, BfS recommends careful 5G expansion, The Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS), 20/03/2019
Guernsey, Call to halt 5G technology in Guernsey due to health fears, ITV News, 11/03/2019
Malta, Brussels 5G scare sparks no action over Huawei in Malta, Malta Today, 12/04/2019
Citizen Petitions on 5G
(Please contact us with petition hyperlinked so we can paste your petition in.)
5G Appeal for Scientists and Doctors
5G Appeal to Stop Deployment on Earth and Space
Australia, Stop the 5G Rollout in Australia, Change.org
Canada, Stop 5G from coming to Canada!, Change.org
Estonia, We need to stop installing 5G technology in Estonia!, Rahvaalgatus.ee
Germany, Germans petition Parliament to stop 5G auction on health grounds, TELECOMPAPER, 08/04/2019
Isle of Man, Isle of Man if you are concerned about 5G please act now!, Change.org (Website) (Facebook)
Republic of Cyprus, Stop 5G in Cyprus, AVAAZ.org Community Petitions
Switzerland, Petition against 5G and its dangers, Change.org, A 21-year-old nursing school student, Martin Grimm, launched a petition against 5G and its health risks in 5 languages addressed to the President of Switzerland and three others, including the Minister of communications, at the beginning of March. It now has over 50,000 signatures.
United Kingdom, Stop the Trial of 5G on the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall, 38 Degrees
United Kingdom, Stop 5G in Bath and North East Somerset, Go Petition
United Kingdom, The UK EM Radiation Research Trust call for urgent health & safety assessment on 5G, Change.org
United Kingdom, Pause Bristol’s 5G Rollout, 38 Degrees
See a video on 5G from Australia
This page will be updated soon as we compile more.
Where can I find published research on 5G?
Please go to EHTs page on peer-reviewed published research on 5G
Where can I learn more about 5G?
Read EHTs Top 20 Facts On 5G: What You Need To Know About 5G Wireless And “Small” Cells
Read the EMF Scientist Appeal in the European Journal of Oncology.
Letters from the US Congress asking for documentation of safety in regards to the 5G rollout
Letter from Senator Richard Blumenthal (Connecticut) and Rep Anna G. Eshoo (California) to the FCC 12/2018
Letter from Rep Thomas Suozzi (New York) to the FCC 4/2019
Letter from Rep. Peter A. DeFazio (Oregon) to the FCC 4/2019
Letter from Representative Andy Kim (New Jersey) to the FCC 4/2019
Chairman Pai’s Response to Members of Congress Regarding the Potential Impact of 5G Deployment on RF Exposure
Letter from the FCC to Senator Richard Blumenthal (Connecticut) and Rep Anna G. Eshoo (California)
Letter from the FCC to Rep Thomas Suozzi (New York)
Letter from the FCC to Rep. Peter A. DeFazio (Oregon)
Letter from the FCC to Representative Andy Kim (New Jersey)
In a 2019 US Senate hearing on 5G where Blumenthal asks industry representatives about any research on the human health impact of 5G wireless technology and was told that industry is not supporting such research.
See Senator Richard Blumenthal’s Press Release “At Senate Commerce Hearing, Blumenthal Raises Concerns on 5G Wireless Technology’s Potential Health Risks.”
“I believe the American people deserve to know what the health effects are…We are flying blind here on health and safety”.
– Senator Richard Blumenthal
Article tags: 5G
Maryland Residents Halt Small Cell 5G Pre-emption Bill and Continue to Fight 5G Cell Tower Zoning at Local Level
Maryland has received major news coverage as citizens move to raise health risks related to cell towers, wireless and cell phones to their elected officials at every level of government. Citizens have halted a state pre-emption bill that threatened to remove local rights to decide on wireless installations in neighborhoods. In addition, at the local level, in Montgomery County- a large organization of citizens is working to protect neighborhoods. See these news reports.
WTOP News Story “Montgomery Co. residents: 5G wireless cell antennas pose health risks”
Bethesda Beat Journal: “County Residents Express Concern About Adding Antennas To Deliver 5G, Council to consider bill allowing more small cell towers in downtown areas”
WJLA iTeam Investigative Report with Ramazzini Study “Are mini-cell phone towers a health risk in your neighborhood?”
Fox 5: “Montgomery County residents fighting rezoning to allow new 5G cell towers”
In Maryland citizens organized to halt a proposed 5G streamlining bill that would have pre-empted local control and allowed 5G cell towers in front yards, near homes and parks and schools. Citizens started the Maryland Coalition to Halt Cell Towers at Schools which was featured in a Washington DC Metro WJLA Investigative News Report on April 6, 2018.
In Maryland’s district of Montgomery County, residents are advocating to their council for zoning that protects neighborhoods. WTOP News recently featured a hearing in Montgomery County where citizen after citizen testified to halt wireless antennas near their homes.
Environmental Health Trust was featured in the WTOP news article.
“We are very concerned about the placement of wireless antennas in places where people play, sleep and work,” said Theodora Scarato, executive director of Environmental Health Trust. “There are hundreds of scientists who have concluded that this is a risk.”
The WJLA investigation interviewed Dr. Fiorella Belpoggi, Director of Research at the Ramazzini Institute about the Ramazzini study that found the same rare cancers in exposed rats as the US government study but at much lower radiofrequency radiation levels. The WJLA I-Team investigation also found out that the Maryland Senator who proposed the streamlining bill accepted campaign donations from Verizon Good Government Club, Comcast and eBay (campaign donations to Maryland lawmakers)
Article tags: 5G, Internet of Things, Maryland, Small Cell 5G
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Italian imam posts photos of nuns on beach: FB account blocked
The imam of Florence has posted a picture of habit-wearing nuns splashing along the seashore on Facebook, calling for dialogue about burkini bans… but got his account blocked instead. The post by Izzedin Elzir got some 2,700 shares, and came in response to the French southern cities – like Cannes and Nice – prohibiting the wearing of burkinis on the beach.
The day after the imam published his post, he awoke to find his account blocked.
″It′s incomprehensible. I have to send them an ID document to reactivate it. They wanted to make sure it′s my account – it′s a very strange procedure,″ the indignant imam told La Repubblica.
On Friday, his account was back in: the imam said he hopes it wasn′t blocked because of the picture, as it urges dialogue, and ″we live in a society of law and freedom.″
He also noted that the burkini had only come into fashion among Muslim women over the past few years and he expressed regret that ″some politicians in France, instead of responding to the political and economic needs of their citizens, are focusing on how Muslims dress.″
On Tuesday, Italy′s Interior Minister Angelino Alfano told Corriere Della Serra that Italy wouldn′t follow France′s suit and ban the burkini, but will step up regulations of imams and mosques.
Two days later, Italian authorities expelled the Tunisian imam Khairredine Romdhane Ben Chedli. The 35-year-old imam was lately absolved of terrorism-related charges, but still deemed unfit to remain in his post, the ANSA news agency said. (Russia Today)
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Comments for this article: Italian imam posts photos of nuns on beach: FB account blocked
Unfortunately, not the same thing
Submitted by Matthew on 24.08.2016 | 22:53 Uhr
This was not in France, number one.
Number two, these nuns are dressed as they are because they are part of the clergy.
That woman who had to remove her burkini was not a member of the clergy. I'm not sure she would be allowed to under Islamic doctrine anyhow.
"THIS IS HATE, IT'S HATE"
No, it's just not the same thing.
Burkinis
Submitted by Robin Tudge on 25.08.2016 | 11:03 Uhr
Shame on France!
Why is their religious
Submitted by Saira on 26.08.2016 | 13:08 Uhr
Why is their religious obligations accepted and not those of a Muslim women? Yes, it's hate .
Burkinis are love. Since when does the government of France become a fashion police? Now they will dictate what colours to wear , too? If they are not the fashion police then they are not the religious police either
It is the SAME Thing
Submitted by Muhammad Taimur... on 26.08.2016 | 14:35 Uhr
Whether its France or not, does not matter. The argument is that when nuns wear the dress representing their religious views, nobody points a finger. But when it comes to muslims, suddenly the standards change.
Do you have to be a part of clergy to be allowed to wear your choice of clothes? Clergy have different rights on the beaches and muslims have different rights? that's insane.
No, it is the same thing
Submitted by Martin on 26.08.2016 | 14:59 Uhr
In both cases, the clothing is based in the tenets of the religion, clergy or not. But, as you astutely pointed out, it goes against the doctrine of Islam to go uncovered. Under what circumstances do you think it acceptable to force someone to disrobe in public?
And the comment about France seemed to be in response to the policy of several FRENCH cities, not a claim that the photo came from France.
RE: Unfortunately, not the same thing
Submitted by Matt on 26.08.2016 | 15:21 Uhr
While true it didn't take place in France it does demonstrate a certain hypocrisy among other Europeans who'd like to see the ban imposed in their own countries.
Nuns are not members of the clergy, membership of one of the holy orders is a vocation true but not one with any ecclesiastical standing. Nuns by virtue of possessing the wrong genitals are barred from entering the cloth.
Fundamentally a convent or monastery is simply a club that has Papal backing, their rules, uniforms et cetera are their own; traditional perhaps but not mandated by the church proper... pretty much exactly the same as the Burka in that respect.
Although it must be said the Burka has nothing to do with Koranic law, the closest thing you'll find is an instruction for women to cover their cleavage with the tails of their scarf, curiously in the same verse that it instructs that men shouldn't gawp at said cleavage (you'll note that that part of the passage gets rather less press) Surah 24:30 if you're interested. It sort of assumes that scarf is worn (not too surprising considering that the abandonment of head-wear has only been popular in the last century) but it doesn't actually mandate it. Course some of the Hadith disagree, but the Koran does say that you should interpret it yourself and not trust other people to do it for you.
Whether or not the woman was
Submitted by Nicole on 26.08.2016 | 15:25 Uhr
Whether or not the woman was a member of clergy, or whether she was allowed to be, is so irrelevant it's ridiculous. They both wear that clothing for purposes of modesty. Why is a nun allowed to be modest and a Muslim woman is forced not to be? Why does anyone think they have the right to make ANY woman show her body who does not want to? It is so wrong its infuriating!
Ban on freedom
Submitted by Allyson on 26.08.2016 | 19:19 Uhr
Banning ANY type of clothing is placing a ban on freedom. That is certainly not LOVE.
Unfortunately, not the same thing (in response to Matthew)
Submitted by Anonymous on 26.08.2016 | 19:30 Uhr
In more ways, it IS the same thing. The nuns are dressed that way due clergy as you rightfully said, and clergy deems that is the right way to dress due modesty & appropriateness that a person of the cloth upholds. Now, all the 3 religions Judaism, Islam & Christianity, all have the same conservative dress codes if you care to study their origins and teachings. The same modest dress codes are still practised by conservative judaism, conservative christians (and its clergy and religious orders) and Islam. So to tell a nun to disrobe and wear bikini is the SAME as telling a Muslim lady to tear off her burkini as both regard the attire as not only cultural but also religious and a moral/doctrinal requirement based on the original teachings of the 3 major religions.
Italian imam posts photos of nuns on beach.
Submitted by Paul Browne on 27.08.2016 | 02:25 Uhr
It does seem very unbalanced, banning burkini and allowing Nuns to paddle. Why not just let people dress how they want? If the Police are really this troubled by a burkini they are not doing their job.
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Ha Giang welcomes Japanese businesses
The northern mountainous province of Ha Giang rolls out the red carpet for foreign investors, including those from Japan, to seek investment opportunities
VNA Friday, June 09, 2017 19:03
Organic agriculture seeks solutions to grow
Tuesday, April 04, 2017 16:21
Vingroup develops commercial complex in Ha Giang
Sunday, August 14, 2016 17:39
Ha Giang eyes trade representative office in Japan
Ha Giang anticipates pace of growth to hit 7.5 percent by 2020
Wednesday, February 03, 2016 10:37
Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Van Son (L) and President of the company Murooka Katsunori (Photo: songoaivu.hagiang.gov.vn)
Ha Giang (VNA) – The northern mountainous province of Ha Giang rolls out the red carpet for foreign investors, including those from Japan, to seek investment opportunities, Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Van Son has said.
Ha Giang signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Japan-Vietnam support industry assistance joint stock company in June 2016 after the Japanese firm made several fact-finding tours in the fields of healthcare, tourism, vocational training, and agriculture.
The Japanese company has supported the province to build a rehabilitation hospital and a centre for training human resources in the health sector.
It also helped the Ha Giang vocational college carry out a training programme in automobile technology and veterinary.
The two sides have implemented cooperation programmes to develop hi-tech agriculture and tourism.
President of the company Murooka Katsunori said in the third quarter of 2017, his firm is stepping up coordination with the province to start the construction of the Japan-Vietnam joint venture rehabilitation hospital.
In addition to completing the cherry park project in Quan Ba district, the two sides have launched a centre of testing and piloting plant varieties in association with processing products for exports to Japan.
The company will promote the strengths of Ha Giang in Japan and dispatch business organisations to explore the local investment environment, Murooka Katsunori said.
According to Son, local authorities have granted investment license and business registration certificate for the company.
The provincial People’s Committee pledged to direct relevant agencies to promptly address difficulties for businesses to ensure the progress of investment projects, he said.
He expressed his belief that with the effective bilateral cooperation, the Japan-Vietnam rehabilitation hospital in Vi Xuyen district and the cherry park in Quan Ba district will open up huge opportunities to serve Japanese tourists to the northernmost province.-VNA
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Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh received Second Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brunei Dato Erywan Pehin Yusof in Nha Trang city, Khanh Hoa province, on January 17 on the sidelines of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ retreat.
Vietnamese, Chinese top leaders hold phone talks
PM signs directive to promote digital enterprises
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has signed a directive to promote the development of digital enterprises in Vietnam with a target of developing 100,000 tech firms by 2030.
Cars which provide passenger transportation via ride-hailing platforms like Grab will have to put on top TAXI sign or carry logo stickers showing that they are contract vehicles.
ABBANK reports 36 percent rise in profit
The An Binh Commercial Joint Stock Bank reported a profit after-tax of 1.23 trillion VND (53.18 million USD) for 2019, an increase of 36 percent from the previous year.
Vietjet on January commenced its latest international route connecting the resort city of Da Lat in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong and Seoul – the capital city of the Republic of Korea.
Vietnam is joining the 11th International Plastics Exhibition 2020 (PLASTIVISION INDIA) that opened in Maharashtra state of India on January 16.
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Resistive random-access memory
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This article's lead section does not adequately summarize key points of its contents. Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page. (August 2014)
Computer memory types
GDDR
Williams–Kilburn tube (1946–47)
Delay line memory (1947)
Mellon optical memory (1951)
Selectron tube (1952)
Dekatron
T-RAM (2009)
Z-RAM (2002–2010)
Mask ROM
ReRAM
Early stage NVRAM
MRAM
PCM (3D XPoint)
FeFET memory
CBRAM
Racetrack memory
NRAM
Millipede memory
FJG RAM
Paper data storage (1725)
Drum memory (1932)
Magnetic-core memory (1949)
Plated wire memory (1957)
Core rope memory (1960s)
Thin-film memory (1962)
Disk pack (1962)
Twistor memory (~1968)
Bubble memory (~1970)
Floppy disk (1971)
Resistive random-access memory (ReRAM or RRAM) is a type of non-volatile (NV) random-access (RAM) computer memory that works by changing the resistance across a dielectric solid-state material, often referred to as a memristor. This technology bears some similarities to conductive-bridging RAM (CBRAM), and phase-change memory (PCM).
CBRAM involves one electrode providing ions that dissolve readily in an electrolyte material, while PCM involves generating sufficient Joule heating to effect amorphous-to-crystalline or crystalline-to-amorphous phase changes. On the other hand, ReRAM involves generating defects in a thin oxide layer, known as oxygen vacancies (oxide bond locations where the oxygen has been removed), which can subsequently charge and drift under an electric field. The motion of oxygen ions and vacancies in the oxide would be analogous to the motion of electrons and holes in a semiconductor.
Although ReRAM was initially seen as a replacement technology for flash memory, the cost and performance benefits of ReRAM have not been enough for companies to proceed with the replacement. Apparently, a broad range of materials can be used for ReRAM. However, the discovery[1] that the popular high-κ gate dielectric HfO2 can be used as a low-voltage ReRAM has encouraged researchers to investigate more possibilities. Among these, SiOx has been found to offer significant benefits and is currently[when?] being explored by some companies such as Weebit-Nano Ltd.[citation needed]
RRAM® is the registered trademark name of Sharp Corporation, one of Japanese electronic components manufacturer, in some countries including members of the European Union.[2]
2 Forming
3 Operation styles
4 Material systems for resistive memory cells
5 Demonstrations
5.1 HfO2-based ReRAM
5.3 HP Memristor
5.4 Adesto Technologies
5.5 Crossbar
5.6 Programmable metallization cell
6 ReRam test boards
7 Future applications
In the early 2000s, ReRAM was under development by a number of companies, some of which filed patent applications claiming various implementations of this technology.[3][4][5] ReRAM has entered commercialization on an initially limited KB-capacity scale.[6]
In February 2012, Rambus bought a ReRAM company called Unity Semiconductor for $35 million.[7] Panasonic launched an ReRAM evaluation kit in May 2012, based on a tantalum oxide 1T1R (1 transistor – 1 resistor) memory cell architecture.[8]
In 2013, Crossbar introduced an ReRAM prototype as a chip about the size of a postage stamp that could store 1 TB of data. In August 2013, the company claimed that large-scale production of their ReRAM chips was scheduled for 2015.[9] The memory structure (Ag/a-Si/Si) closely resembles a silver-based CBRAM.
Different forms of ReRAM have been disclosed, based on different dielectric materials, spanning from perovskites to transition metal oxides to chalcogenides. Silicon dioxide was shown to exhibit resistive switching as early as May 1966,[10] and has recently been revisited.[11][12]
In 1963 and 1964, a thin-film resistive memory array was first proposed by members of University of Nebraska–Lincoln.[13][14] Since August 1967, this new thin-film resistive memory has been presented by J.G. Simmons.[15][16] In 1970, member of Atomic Energy Research Establishment and University of Leeds tried to explain the mechanism theoretically.[17]:1180 In May 1997, a research team of University of Florida and Honeywell reported a manufacturing method for "magneto-resistive random access memory" by utilizing electron cyclotron resonance plasma etching.[18]
Leon Chua argued that all two-terminal non-volatile memory devices including ReRAM should be considered memristors.[19] Stan Williams of HP Labs also argued that ReRAM was a memristor.[20] However, others challenged this terminology and the applicability of memristor theory to any physically realizable device is open to question.[21][22][23] Whether redox-based resistively switching elements (ReRAM) are covered by the current memristor theory is disputed.[24]
Silicon oxide presents an interesting case of resistance switching. Two distinct modes of intrinsic switching have been reported - surface-based, in which conductive silicon filaments are generated at exposed edges (which may be internal - within pores - or external - on the surface of mesa structures), and bulk switching, in which oxygen vacancy filaments are generated within the bulk of the oxide. The former mode suffers from oxidation of the filaments in air, requiring hermetic sealing to enable switching. The latter requires no sealing. In 2014 researchers from Rice University announced a silicon filament-based device that used a porous silicon oxide dielectric with no external edge structure - rather, filaments were formed at internal edges within pores. Devices can be manufactured at room temperature and have a sub-2V forming voltage, high on-off ratio, low power consumption, nine-bit capacity per cell, high switching speeds and good endurance. Problems with their inoperability in air can be overcome by hermetic sealing of devices.[25] Bulk switching in silicon oxide, pioneered by researchers at UCL (University College London) since 2012,[12] offers low electroforming voltages (2.5V), switching voltages around 1V, switching times in the nanoseconds regime, and more than 10,000,000 cycles without device failure - all in ambient conditions.[26]
Forming[edit]
Filament forming: A 50 nm × 50 nm ReRAM cell by Crossbar shows[clarify][dead link] the instance of filament forming when the current abruptly increases beyond a certain voltage. A transistor is often used to limit current to prevent a runaway breakdown following the filament formation.
The basic idea is that a dielectric, which is normally insulating, can be made to conduct through a filament or conduction path formed after application of a sufficiently high voltage.[27] The conduction path can arise from different mechanisms, including vacancy or metal defect migration. Once the filament is formed, it may be reset (broken, resulting in high resistance) or set (re-formed, resulting in lower resistance) by another voltage. Many current paths, rather than a single filament, are possibly involved.[28] The presence of these current paths in the dielectric can be in situ demonstrated via conductive atomic force microscopy.[27][29][30][31]
The low-resistance path can be either localized (filamentary) or homogeneous. Both effects can occur either throughout the entire distance between the electrodes or only in proximity to one of the electrodes. Filamentary and homogenous switching effects can be distinguished by measuring the area dependence of the low-resistance state.[32]
Under certain conditions, the forming operation may be bypassed.[33] It is expected that under these conditions, the initial current is already quite high compared to insulating oxide layers.
CBRAM cells generally would not require forming if Cu ions are already present in the electrolyte, having already been driven-in by a designed photo-diffusion or annealing process; such cells may also readily return to their initial state.[34] In the absence of such Cu initially being in the electrolyte, the voltage would still be applied directly to the electrolyte, and forming would be a strong possibility.[35]
Operation styles[edit]
For random-access type memories, a 1T1R (one transistor, one resistor) architecture is preferred because the transistor isolates current to cells that are selected from cells that are not. On the other hand, a cross-point architecture is more compact and may enable vertically stacking memory layers, ideally suited for mass-storage devices. However, in the absence of any transistors, isolation must be provided by a "selector" device, such as a diode, in series with the memory element or by the memory element itself. Such isolation capabilities are inferior to the use of transistors if the on/off ratio for the selector is not sufficient, limiting the ability to operate very large arrays in this architecture. Thin film based threshold switch can work as a selector for bipolar and unipolar ReRAM. Threshold switch-based selector was demonstrated for 64 Mb array.[36] The cross-point architecture requires BEOL compatible two terminal selectors like punch-through diode for bipolar ReRAM[37] or PIN diode for unipolar ReRAM.[38]
Polarity can be either binary or unary. Bipolar effects cause polarity to reverse when switching from low to high resistance (reset operation) compared to switching high to low (set operation). Unipolar switching leaves polarity unaffected, but uses different voltages.
Material systems for resistive memory cells[edit]
Multiple inorganic and organic material systems display thermal or ionic resistive switching effects. These can be grouped into the following categories:[32]
phase-change chalcogenides such as Ge
5 or AgInSbTe
binary transition metal oxides such as NiO or TiO
perovskites such as Sr(Zr)TiO
3[39] or PCMO
solid-state electrolytes such as GeS, GeSe, SiO
x or Cu
organic charge-transfer complexes such as CuTCNQ
organic donor–acceptor systems such as Al AIDCN
two dimensional (layered) insulating materials like hexagonal boron nitride[40][41]
Demonstrations[edit]
Papers at the IEDM Conference in 2007 suggested for the first time that ReRAM exhibits lower programming currents than PRAM or MRAM without sacrificing programming performance, retention or endurance.[42] Some commonly cited ReRAM systems are described further below.
HfO2-based ReRAM[edit]
At IEDM 2008, the highest-performance ReRAM technology to date was demonstrated by ITRI using HfO2 with a Ti buffer layer, showing switching times less than 10 ns and currents less than 30μA. At IEDM 2010, ITRI again broke the speed record, showing <0.3 ns switching time, while also showing process and operation improvements to allow yield up to 100% and endurance up to 10 billion cycles.[43] IMEC presented updates of their ReRAM program at the 2012 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits, including a solution with a 500 nA operating current.[44]
ITRI had focused on the Ti/HfO2 system since its first publication in 2008. ITRI's patent 8362454 has since been sold to TSMC;[45] the number of prior licensees is unknown. On the other hand, IMEC focused mainly on Hf/HfO2.[46] Winbond had done more recent work toward advancing and commercializing the HfO2-based ReRAM.[47]
Panasonic[edit]
Panasonic revealed its TaOx-based ReRAM at IEDM 2008.[48] A key requirement was the need for a high work function metal such as Pt or Ir to interface with the TaOx layer. The change of O content results in resistance change as well as Schottky barrier change. More recently, a Ta2O5/TaOx layer was implemented, which still requires the high work function metal to interface with Ta2O5.[49] This system has been associated with high endurance demonstration (trillion cycles),[50] but products are specified at 100K cycles.[51] Filament diameters as large as ~100 nm have been observed.[52] Panasonic released a 4Mb part with Fujitsu,[53] and is developing 40 nm embedded memory with UMC.[54]
HP Memristor[edit]
On 30 April 2008, HP announced that they had discovered the memristor, originally envisioned as a missing 4th fundamental circuit element by Chua in 1971. On 8 July they announced they would begin prototyping ReRAM using their memristors.[55] HP first demonstrated its memristor using TiOx,[56] but later migrated to TaOx,[57] possibly due to improved stability.[58] The TaOx-based device has some material similarity to Panasonic's ReRAM, but the operation characteristics are different. The Hf/HfOx system was similarly studied.[59]
Adesto Technologies[edit]
The Adesto Technologies ReRAM is based on filaments generated from the electrode metal rather than oxygen vacancies. The original material system was Ag/GeS2[60] but eventually migrated to ZrTe/Al2O3.[61] The tellurium filament achieved better stability as compared to silver. Adesto has targeted the ultralow power memory for Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. Adesto has released products manufactured at Altis foundry[62] and entered into a 45 nm foundry agreement with TowerJazz/Panasonic.[63]
Crossbar[edit]
Crossbar implements an Ag filament in amorphous Si along with a threshold switching system to achieve a diode+ReRAM.[64][65] Their system includes the use of a transistor in 1T1R or 1TNR architecture. Crossbar started producing samples at SMIC on the 40 nm process in 2017.[66] The Ag filament diameter has been visualized on the scale of tens of nanometers.[67]
Programmable metallization cell[edit]
Main article: Programmable metallization cell
Infineon Technologies calls it conductive-bridging RAM(CBRAM), NEC has a variant called “Nanobridge” and Sony calls their version “electrolytic memory”. New research suggests CBRAM can be 3D printed[68][69]
ReRam test boards[edit]
Panasonic AM13L-STK2 : MN101LR05D 8-bit MCU with built in ReRAM for evaluation, USB 2.0 connector
Future applications[edit]
Compared to PRAM, ReRAM operates at a faster timescale (switching time can be less than 10 ns), while compared to MRAM, it has a simpler, smaller cell structure (less than 8F² MIM stack). A vertical 1D1R (one diode, one resistive switching device) integration can be used for crossbar memory structure to reduce the unit cell size to 4F² (F is the feature dimension).[70] Compared to flash memory and racetrack memory, a lower voltage is sufficient, and hence it can be used in low-power applications. Also, due to its relatively small access latency and high density, ReRAM is considered a promising candidate for designing caches.[71]
ITRI has shown that ReRAM is scalable below 30 nm.[72] The motion of oxygen atoms is a key phenomenon for oxide-based ReRAM;[73] one study indicated that oxygen motion may take place in regions as small as 2 nm.[74] It is believed that if a filament is responsible, it would not exhibit direct scaling with cell size.[75] Instead, the current compliance limit (set by an outside resistor, for example) could define the current-carrying capacity of the filament.[76]
A significant hurdle to realizing the potential of ReRAM is the sneak path problem that occurs in larger passive arrays. In 2010, complementary resistive switching (CRS) was introduced as a possible solution to sneak-path current interference.[77] In the CRS approach, the information storing states are pairs of high- and low-resistance states (HRS/LRS and LRS/HRS) so that the overall resistance is always high, allowing larger passive crossbar arrays.
A drawback to the initial CRS solution is the requirement for switching endurance caused by conventional destructive readout based on current measurements. A new approach for a nondestructive readout based on capacity measurement potentially lowers the requirements for both material endurance and power consumption.[78] Bi-layer structure is used to produce the nonlinearity in LRS to avoid the sneak path problem.[79] A single-layer device exhibiting a strong nonlinear conduction in LRS was reported.[80] Another bi-layer structure was introduced for bipolar ReRAM to improve the HRS and stability.[81]
Another solution to the sneak current issue is to perform read and reset operations in parallel across an entire row of cells, while using set on selected cells.[82] In this case, for a 3D-ReRAM 1TNR array, with a column of N ReRAM cells situated above a select transistor, only the intrinsic nonlinearity of the HRS is required to be sufficiently large, since the number of vertical levels N is limited (e.g., N = 8–32), and this has been shown possible for a low-current ReRAM system.[83]
Modeling of 2D and 3D caches designed with ReRAM and other non-volatile random access memories such as MRAM and PCM can be done using DESTINY[84] tool.
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Pope Francis-appointed pro-LGBTQ Jesuit Fr. James Martin
By EPHESIANS-511.NET on August 9, 2017 • ( 0 )
Editor of the liberal-left America magazine is named consultor to Vatican communications office
From the LGBTQ New Ways Ministry web site
Francis-appointed Cardinals back Jesuit’s pro-LGBT book
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/francis-appointed-cardinals-back-jesuits-pro-lgbt-book
By Claire Chretien, April 7, 2017
A top Vatican cardinal and several other high-ranking prelates have praised a new book on what the Catholic Church’s relationship with the “LGBT community” should be, written by progressive Jesuit Father James Martin.
Martin’s book is titled Building A Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity. Religion News Service reports that in the book, Martin says “church leaders should address LGBT people by the term they call themselves.”
Martin also says Church employees shouldn’t be fired for going against Church teaching by endorsing homosexual acts or openly professing homosexuality because “such firings selectively target LGBT people.”
Far-left dissident nun Sister Jeannine Gramick* endorsed Martin’s book as a “must-read” that “shows how the Rosary and the rainbow flag can peacefully meet each other.”
Fr. James Martin and Sr. Jeannine Gramick
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has banned Gramick from “any pastoral work involving homosexual persons.”
Cardinal Kevin Farrell, appointed by Pope Francis to head the Vatican’s life and family dicastery, called Martin’s book “a welcome and much-needed book that will help bishops, priests, pastoral associates, and all church leaders more compassionately minister to the LGBT community.”
“It will also help LGBT Catholics feel more at home in what is, after all, their church,” said Farrell, the former bishop of Dallas.
Farrell has repeatedly praised the controversial exhortation Amoris Laetitia, which critics say contradicts or can be interpreted to contradict Catholic moral teaching. He says it opens the door for those living in invalid sexual unions (labeled by the Church to be adultery) to receive Holy Communion.
Newark Cardinal Joseph Tobin, made a cardinal by Pope Francis, endorsed the book: “In too many parts of our church LGBT people have been made to feel unwelcome, excluded, and even shamed. Father Martin’s brave, prophetic, and inspiring new book marks an essential step in inviting church leaders to minister with more compassion, and in reminding LGBT Catholics that they are as much a part of our church as any other Catholic.”
Tobin has criticized the four cardinals who asked Pope Francis for moral clarity on Amoris Laetitia as “troublesome” and “at best naive.”
Martin’s book is also endorsed by San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy, famous for instructing his priests to accept “LGBT families” and give Communion to adulterers, banning an outspoken pro-life priest from writing bulletin columns, and calling the Catechism’s language “very destructive.”
“The Gospel demands that LGBT Catholics must be genuinely loved and treasured in the life of the church. They are not,” according to McElroy’s endorsement. The book “provides us with the language, perspective, and sense of urgency to replace a culture of alienation with a culture of merciful inclusion.”
McElroy has suggested there is an “anti-gay prejudice that exists in our Catholic community and in our country.”
“My own view is that much of the destructive attitude of many Catholics to the gay and lesbian community is motivated by a failure to comprehend the totality of the church’s teaching on homosexuality,” McElroy told America magazine. Labeling homosexual acts as “intrinsically disordered,” as the Catechism does, is “very destructive language that I think we should not use pastorally,” he said.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that those with same-sex attraction “must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity” and “every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided” (CCC 2358).
The Catechism also teaches: “Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that ‘homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.’ They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved” (CCC 2357).
When it comes to same-sex relationships, the Catechism makes distinctions between the person, the inclination, and the act. It labels sexual activity between people of the same sex, and the inclination to commit them, disordered. It does not, however, label any person disordered. Being attracted to people of the same sex is not a sin in and of itself, the Catechism teaches, but acting on it would be.
In November 2016, Martin accepted an award from a pro-gay group, New Ways Ministry, that has been condemned by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the U.S. Catholic bishops. In his acceptance speech, Martin said the Church should embrace homosexuality’s “special gifts.”
In the same speech, he suggested that some Catholic bishops who uphold the Church’s teaching on sexual morality might be “trapped brethren” who are secretly gay themselves. He also praised a 17-year-old for “coming out” on a retreat and equated sexual proclivities with race and age.
New Ways Ministry has been banned from speaking in Catholic dioceses across the country. It is “a gay-positive ministry of advocacy and justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Catholics, and reconciliation within the larger Christian and civil communities.” Part of its mission is to “identify and combat personal and structural homophobia,” and “work for changes in attitudes and promote the acceptance of LGBT people as full and equal members of church and society.”
When President Trump rescinded the Obama administration’s transgender bathroom order, Martin tweeted his support of boys using the girls’ bathroom and vice versa to over 100,000 twitter followers.
*Dissenting authors and speakers
http://www.ourladyswarriors.org/dissent/disspeop.htm
Sr. Jeannine Gramick, SSND
Homosexuality (New Ways Ministry). Formally notified of her error by the Vatican and removed from her position.
*Theological disputes
http://natcath.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2005a/022505/022505h.php
National Catholic Reporter, February 25, 2005
Fr. Robert Nugent and Sr. Jeannine Gramick: The two spent much of their religious careers working in ministry to homosexuals. In 1984 they were forced to leave their New Ways Ministry. In 1988, they were again investigated and in 1999 the Vatican sanctioned them for not representing authentic church teaching about homosexuality.
They received sanctions from their religious congregations that essentially prohibited them from participating in public ministry to homosexuals. Nugent, a Salvatorian priest, accepted the sanctions. Gramick left the School Sisters of Notre Dame and joined the Loreto Sisters in 2004
see story).
2 of 94 readers’ comments
1. Cardinal Kevin Farrell seems to forget that the Catholic Church is Christ’s Church, founded by Jesus on St. Peter & His First Apostles. It does not belong to the LGBT. Jesus laid down the rules (the Ten Commandments) & gave us the Sacraments & the Holy Mass & His promise to be with His Church until the End Times.
There is no compunction on anyone to be a member of His Church, except that if you are not you most probably won’t be saved from eternal damnation. Those who willfully trashed the Sacred Liturgy in deference to false ecumenism with schismatics & those who now wish to re-write the Ten Commandments to ‘accompany’ & ‘welcome’ those who find them too hard to live up to, will definitely know all about the existence of Hell, which they now deny, as it’s not in keeping with the gospel.
2. If Cardinals do not care & fail to publicly defend the teachings of the Church for which purpose they are elevated to that position, then they are not fit for purpose & should be required to resign their offices. If the reigning Pope and hierarchy have relinquished Christ’s commandments & are embracing NWO Marxist/Masonic ones then they should be publicly exposed as apostates. This would be in keeping with Our Lady’s statement that the apostasy would start at the top.
Top Vatican and U.S. church officials back new gay-friendly book
http://religionnews.com/2017/04/07/top-vatican-and-us-church-officials-back-new-gay-friendly-book/
David Gibson, April 7, 2017
The Vatican’s point man on family issues and a U.S. cardinal who is close to Pope Francis have both blurbed a new book by a Jesuit priest and popular author that calls on the Catholic Church to be more respectful and compassionate toward gay people.
They called it “brave, prophetic, and inspiring” and a “much-needed book.”
Such positive language from such senior church leaders is extraordinary and another sign of how Francis is reorienting the church toward a more pastoral focus.
“Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity,” by Rev. James Martin of America magazine, does not advocate for any changes in doctrine nor does it touch third-rail topics like same-sex marriage; nor do the churchmen who praise the book, to be published by HarperOne on June 13.
But simply using terms like LGBT to describe people is highly controversial for many in the church who insist that gay people be described as “homosexual” or “same-sex attracted” rather than by words that seem to affirm their orientation.
Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who was recently chosen by Francis to head the Vatican office on laity, family, and life issues, praises Martin’s writing in his blurb: “A welcome and much-needed book that will help bishops, priests, pastoral associates, and all church leaders more compassionately minister to the LGBT community.
“In too many parts of our church LGBT people have been made to feel unwelcome, excluded, and even shamed,” Newark Cardinal Joseph Tobin, who Francis personally picked for the New Jersey archdiocese, adds in a blurb.
“Father Martin’s brave, prophetic, and inspiring new book marks an essential step in inviting church leaders to minister with more compassion, and in reminding LGBT Catholics that they are as much a part of our church as any other Catholic.”
“The Gospel demands that LGBT Catholics must be genuinely loved and treasured in the life of the church. They are not,” writes Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego, also a rising star in the U.S. hierarchy, in another endorsement.
McElroy says Martin “provides us with the language, perspective, and sense of urgency to replace a culture of alienation with a culture of merciful inclusion.”
Francis himself sparked controversy when he used the term “gay” last year in saying that the Catholic Church should apologize to LGBT people, among others, that it has “offended.”
The pope’s comments came in the wake of the shooting massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., in June that left 49 dead, and Martin’s book also emerged from that tragedy.
Martin, whose books about Jesus and Catholic spirituality and related topics have landed on the best-seller lists, has often written about the role of gays and lesbians in the church, and about the need for the church to do more to welcome them.
But he was struck by the relative lack of compassion from U.S. bishops for gays and lesbians who were targeted in the Orlando shooting and elsewhere, and he voiced his concerns in a powerful Facebook video that went viral.
The video prompted more than the usual level of anger and criticism of Martin, and prompted him to begin writing about how to address the rift between LGBT people and church leaders.
He outlined his views in an October talk — an address that would become the basis of “Building a Bridge” — as he accepted an award from New Ways Ministry, a group for LGBT Catholics and causes that in the past has been condemned by church leaders who said it was not authorized to represent itself as a Catholic organization. (The talk was reprinted in America magazine.)
A co-founder of New Ways Ministry is Sister Jeannine Gramick, whose views were considered so far outside the bounds of Catholic teaching that she was barred by the Vatican and her order from speaking about homosexuality. She transferred to another order and has continued to minister and speak and write on the topic.
In fact, Gramick also blurbs Martin’s book, writing: “Father Martin shows how the Rosary and the rainbow flag can peacefully meet each other. A must-read.” That she is endorsing the same book as senior church leaders is an indication of the sea change under Francis.
“I was delighted that Cardinal Farrell and Cardinal Tobin found the book helpful,” Martin said in an email to RNS. “To me, it’s a reminder that many in the hierarchy today support a more compassionate approach to LGBT Catholics.”
In his talk, as in the book, Martin called on church leaders and all Catholics to treat gays and lesbians with greater respect and sensitivity.
He said church leaders should address LGBT people by the term they call themselves, and he called for an end to the indiscriminate firings of church employees who are discovered to be gay or who make their sexual orientation public. Such firings selectively target LGBT people, he said.
But he also called on gays and lesbians to be more considerate and respectful of the hierarchy, saying both sides must listen to each other and learn from each other.
“This may be very hard for people who feel beaten down by the church to hear,” Martin writes in the book.
“One gay friend recently told me that this mockery comes not from a place of hatred, but from a sense of betrayal. But being respectful of people with whom you disagree is at the heart of the Christian way. And part of this is surely about forgiveness, an essential Christian virtue.”
The book also includes biblical passages and meditations for LGBT Catholics and their families.
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Vatican names pro-gay Fr. James Martin as communications consultant
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-francis-picks-pro-gay-jesuit-as-consultant-for-vatican-communications
By Claire Chretien, April 12, 2017
The Vatican has selected a prominent LGBT-pushing Jesuit priest to be a consultor to its communications office.
The priest selected is Father James Martin, a progressive Jesuit who’s the editor-at-large of America magazine. Martin’s new book is titled Building A Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity.
In it, Martin argues Church employees shouldn’t be fired for going against Church teaching by endorsing homosexual acts or openly professing homosexuality because “such firings selectively target LGBT people.” He also says “church leaders should address LGBT people by the term they call themselves.”
Several Pope Francis-appointed cardinals endorsed the book along with far-left dissident nun Sister Jeannine Gramick, who said it “shows how the Rosary and the rainbow flag can peacefully meet each other.”
In 2016, Martin accepted an award from New Ways Ministry, a pro-gay group that has been condemned by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the U.S. Catholic bishops. New Ways Ministry describes itself as “a gay-positive ministry of advocacy and justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Catholics, and reconciliation within the larger Christian and civil communities.” Part of its mission is to “identify and combat personal and structural homophobia,” and “work for changes in attitudes and promote the acceptance of LGBT people as full and equal members of church and society.”
During his speech to the gay activists at the New Ways Ministry event, Martin said the Church should embrace homosexuality’s “special gifts,” praised a 17-year-old for “coming out” on a retreat, and equated sexual proclivities with race and age. He said the Church should “lay to rest” its language about the “objectively disordered” nature of homosexual inclinations and acts.
The Catechism’s language is “needlessly cruel” and “needlessly hurtful,” he claimed, because it says “that one of the deepest parts of a person — the part that gives and receives love — is ‘disordered’ in itself.”
Many Catholics who feel same-sex attraction yet follow the Church’s teachings disagree with Martin and this reductionist approach.
After President Trump rescinded the Obama transgender bathroom order, Martin tweeted to over 100,000 followers his support of boys using the girls’ bathroom and vice versa.
Martin told America he’s “very happy to serve the church in this new way,” and that he learned the news via Twitter.
The Vatican’s Secretariat for Communications, the office Martin will be working with, runs the pope’s official Twitter account, Vatican radio and TV, and the Holy See’s website.
Michael Warsaw, EWTN’s Chairman of the Board, was appointed as a consultor to the Secretariat for Communications. So were another Jesuit and Dominican priest, several other priests, and faculty of Pontifical universities.
Dr. Dino Cataldo Dell’Accio, Chief ICT Auditor at the United Nations, will also be a consultor to the Vatican communications office.
2 of 101 readers’ comments
1. As disgusted as I am at this announcement, I’m not surprised. The proper response is prayer. I’m a hypocrite when I say this because my first reaction is to shout obscenities. However, nothing is above God and His grace. I have to believe that in this situation He can bring some greater good.
2. The Globalists are running the Vatican. They’ve embedded themselves in the hierarchy since the 50s. These are the effects of foreign, freemasonic, anti-Catholic ideologies passing off as “Catholic theology.” Read about Bella Dodd and her cohorts working to infiltrate the seminaries with Marxist priests. This is how liberation theology got started. Satan’s 100 years are coming to an end soon. So, it’s only fitting. “St. Michael, the Archangel…”
From the dissident-progressive America magazine:
Father James Martin appointed by Pope Francis to Vatican department for communications
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2017/04/12/father-james-martin-appointed-pope-francis-vatican-department-communications
Ashley McKinless, April 12, 2017
On April 12, Pope Francis appointed James Martin, S.J., America‘s editor at large, as a consultor to the Vatican’s Secretariat for Communications.
The pope created the new secretariat on June 27, 2015, which consolidated all existing Vatican communications offices and operations under one department. Msgr. Dario Edoardo Viganò, formerly the director of the Vatican Television Center, was made its first director.
“I’m very happy to serve the church in this new way,” Father Martin said upon learning of the appointment.
“I learned of the news early this morning, when Josh McElwee of The National Catholic Reporter and Cindy Wooden of Catholic News Service contacted me via Twitter to congratulate me. And given the importance of social media in the church today, that’s a good way to find out good news.”
The secretariat is responsible for Vatican Radio and the Vatican Television Centre as well as the Holy See’s website and the pope’s Twitter handle, @Pontifex.
In an interview with America earlier this year, Msgr. Viganò spoke about the principles guiding reforms to the Vatican’s communications system under Pope Francis. “Christianity is not an idea,” he said. “It is an experience within a people in a given land and must relate to the cultural, social and communicative context in which it finds itself. And since today the system of communication is strongly digital, it must connect to that.”
Two other Americans, Michael P. Warsaw, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of EWTN Global Catholic Network, and Ann Carter, co-founder of Rasky Baerlein Strategic Communications, were also appointed to the secretariat.
Appointment of Consulters of the Secretariat for Communication
The Holy Father has appointed as Consulters of the Secretariat for Communication the Rev. Fr. Ivan Maffeis, under-secretary for the Italian Episcopal Conference; Fr. José María La Porte, dean of the Faculty of Institutional Social Communication of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross; Dr. Peter Gonsalves, S.D.B., dean of the Faculty of Social Communication Sciences of the Pontifical Salesian University; Fr. Eric Salobir, O.P., Promoter General for social communications for the Order of Preachers; Fr. James Martin, S.J., Jesuit Magazine America; Fr. Jacquineau Azétsop, S.J., dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Pontifical Gregorian University; and Dr. Paolo Peverini, lecturer in Semiotics at the LUISS “Guido Carli”; Dr. Fernando Giménez Barriocanal, president and delegator advisor of Radio Popolar Cadena COPE; Dr. Ann Carter, Rasky Baerlein Strategic Communications; Mr. Graham Ellis, deputy director of BBC Radio; Dr. Michael P. Warsaw, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of EWTN Global Catholic Network; Dr. Dino Cataldo Dell’Accio, Chief ICT Auditor at the United Nations; and Dr. Michael Paul Unland, executive director of the Catholic Media Council (CA.ME.CO.).
Pro-gay Vatican consultant: Church must welcome LGBT people as God’s beloved children
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/pro-gay-vatican-consultant-church-must-welcome-lgbt-people-as-beloved-child
By Claire Chretien, May 31, 2017
A video promoting Jesuit Father James Martin‘s new book on the “LGBT community” features a same-sex couple being received by a priest and a woman who identifies as a man. Martin was recently named a communications consultant to the Vatican.
“The Catholic Church has an obligation to welcome LGBT people to show that they’re beloved children of God, to celebrate their gifts, to listen to them, to accompany them, and suffer with and even for them,” Martin says in the video.
This video isn’t the first time Martin has called for the Church to embrace homosexuality’s “special gifts.” He said this after receiving an award from the dissident group New Ways Ministry, which has been condemned by the Vatican and the U.S. Catholic bishops. Martin has also tweeted his support for boys using girls’ restrooms and vice versa to his more than 100,000 Twitter followers.
The woman who identifies as a man, briefly shown in the video, appears to be Mateo Williamson. Williamson advocates that the Church become accepting of people’s transgenderism and use their chosen pronouns rather than ones that correspond with their sex.
In the video, Martin touts his book as answering a number of contentious questions, such as whether the Church should fire employees who enter into same-sex “marriages.” The video makes no distinction between same-sex “marriage,” which is not recognized by the Church, and man-woman marriage.
The only mention of Catholic teaching Martin makes in the video is of the portion of the Catechism that calls for people who experience same-sex attraction to be treated with “respect, compassion, and sensitivity.” He does this in the context of celebrating Pope Francis’s “Who am I to judge?” line.
“But we need not go far to look for other signs of welcome” besides the pope’s famous remark, said Martin. He then pointed to that line in the Catechism.
Martin didn’t mention what appears directly before it: “Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that ‘homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.’ They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved. The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial” (CCC 2357 – 2358).
Building a Bridge is “about more than an invitation to welcome,” Martin continued. It “offers practical spiritual resources for LGBT Catholics, their families, and their friends.”
“The book includes selected Bible passages as well as meditations and reflection questions to help LGBT Catholics with their relationship to God, their Church, and their own self-understanding – and to help their families and friends too,” the Jesuit said. “Because ministering to LGBT Catholics is not just about the LGBT person, but their parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, as well as their friends, co-workers, neighbors, and fellow parishioners” and “all who care about the spiritual life and welfare of LGBT people.”
The Catholic Church: already welcoming, already sensitive
Martin’s words suggest that the Catholic Church doesn’t already “welcome” those who are attracted to the same sex or confused about their gender. This couldn’t be farther from the truth.
The Catholic Church welcomes and ministers to people with same-sex attraction, making a clear distinction between homosexual actions and inclinations (which it labels “disordered”) and the person (which it never labels “disordered”) who commits or experiences them.
It ministers to people who are engaging in premarital sex, which the Church labels gravely wrong. It welcomes people who are addicted to pornography. The priests who reach out to such people and encourage them to follow Catholic teaching do so because they know we are made for more than that. We are made for authentic, sacrificial love – not the blind indulgence of every sexual inclination, or to be used and use other people for pleasure.
Truly welcoming and loving people means wishing eternal salvation for them. This is why orthodox Catholics encourage people to refrain from certain activities that the Church teaches are spiritually harmful, and that secular data show are physically and emotionally harmful as well. This is also why many who have returned to the Church after being betrayed by the sexual revolution’s promises encourage others to do the same.
There are many same-sex attracted Catholics who don’t identify as “LGBT” or want to be referred to as such. They reject this reductionist approach to their identities and experiences.
“Either man governs his passions and finds peace, or he lets himself be dominated by them and becomes unhappy,” the Catechism explains (CCC 2339).
This, and the purpose of our male and female bodies, is at the heart of a truly pastoral approach to same-sex attraction. The heroic parish priests who deal with this delicate issue operate with love and utmost respect. They don’t condemn people because of their attractions or desires. They help all of their parishioners, regardless of circumstances, achieve self-mastery, get closer to God, live out their Christian vocations, and grow in virtue.
Talk to a priest who preaches the fullness of the Church’s message on sexual ethics, and you’ll meet a shepherd who cares deeply for the souls of his flock.
Below are some resources for Catholics who experience same-sex attraction, or for people interested in learning more about Church teaching on it:
The Third Way
Desire of the Everlasting Hills
Courage, a Church-approved apostolate for men and women with same-sex attraction
Chastity Project: Homosexuality & Gender
Living the Truth in Love: Pastoral Approaches to Same-Sex Attraction, by Fr. Paul Check, former executive director of Courage International, and Janet E. Smith
1. Martin’s views are not Catholic, they are of one who is a pagan.
2. Read “Amoris Laetitia”. It condones “fornication, adultery, and sodomy”. Fulton J. Sheen profiled the coming war between the God-Man and the Man-God. This is all about turning man into a God without any moral restrictions. As seen in another comment, it is called paganism. The “devil walks in the Vatican” and it isn’t at Midnight. It is in the bright of day.
Why I Don’t Call Myself Gay’: A same-sex-attracted Catholic tells his story
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/ex-gay-homosexuality-is-just-another-human-brokenness
By Doug Mainwaring, June 12, 2017
Fr. James Martin, SJ, a prolific public supporter of LGBT issues. Fr. Martin was recently honored by New Ways Ministry, an LGBT group previously condemned for representing itself as a Catholic organization, and some top Vatican and U.S. church officials are praising his gay-friendly book
Homosexualist Jesuit priest release new book Fr. James Martin
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/homosexualist-jesuit-priest-releases-new-book
By Rodney Pelletier, New York, June 13, 2017
Father James Martin, the pro-sodomy Jesuit, is celebrating the release of his book and telling homosexuals and so-called transgenders that God created them that way.
In his latest book, Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter Into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity, Martin continues his mantra of denying Catholic Church teaching on human sexuality and natural law.
He is echoing the latest excuse parroted by homosexual or pro-homosexual priests and bishops, seeking to justify behavior the Church has always taught as “intrinsically disordered.” In his book, he claims the need to “build a bridge between LGBT community and the Catholic Church,” because of “a lack of communication and, sadly, a good deal of mistrust, between L.G.B.T. Catholics and the hierarchy.”
The book bears the recommendation of three bishops, Cdl. Kevin Farrell, prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, Cdl. Joseph Tobin, archbishop of Newark and Bp. Robert McElroy of San Diego — all of whom have spoken favorably of homosexuality.
Crux, the Knights of Columbus funded news agency comments, “In this much anticipated new book, Fr. James Martin, S.J, seeks to end the ‘us’ versus ‘them’ mentality that has long divided LGBT Catholics and the institutional Church.”
In a recent video, Martin answers questions about Biblical condemnations of homosexual activity. He answers, the proscriptions listed in the Old Testament and those written by St. Paul in the New Testament, “have to be understood in the historical context,” adding that in the times of the Old Testament, “they didn’t understand the phenomenon of homosexuality and bi-sexuality as we do today.”
He justifies his interpretation that since there are prohibitions against certain kinds of food, dressing habits and other things are no longer taken literally, homosexual activity should be considered in the same light. He even adds that Jesus Christ never spoke against homosexual relations in the Gospels, adding, “It’s not a sin to be LGBT, that’s the way God created you.”
Martin is attending a book launch at the pro-homosexual Jesuit parish of St. Ignatius on Park Ave. in New York on June 13.
St. Ignatius, itself, has recently “come out” in acceptance of homosexuality, announcing in its bulletin the creation of a “parish LGBTQ ministry,” as described by the pastor, Fr. Dennis Yesalonia, S.J.
He writes, “For reasons unique to each person, our LGBTQ parishioners are firmly committed to being Catholics, despite how they are characterized by the official teaching of the Church. They are nonetheless buoyed by their hope that the Church’s teaching will change.”
It goes on, “[T]hey want to feel accepted by this community, their parish, for who they are and to be affirmed, not simply vaguely known or tolerated as being LGBTQ. They yearn to be true to who they are, created out of love by God as gay, as lesbian, as bisexual, as transgendered, or as questioning of their identity.”
Yesalonia expects his “decision will not be universally welcomed or accepted.” He adds:
An LGBTQ ministry may seem to some to be unsettling and inappropriate for this parish. Some may argue that it goes against the teaching of the Catholic Church. Others may view it as the unleashing of dark and sinister forces which will lead to the unravelling [sic] of our social order or of the church itself.
He answers his critics, “Our Savior Lives! The shackles of ignorance, darkness and fear have been destroyed forever.”
Recently, Martin was presented with an award by dissident Catholic group, New Ways Ministries, with the Bridge Building award “in recognition of his ministry of communication which has helped to expand the dialogue on LGBT issues in the Catholic Church.”
Father Martin is the editor-at-large of the often dissident Jesuit magazine America, and has a constant media presence on Facebook and Twitter.
Progressive Clergy Intend to “Normalize” the Sin of Sodomy
http://www.tfp.org/progressive-clergy-intend-normalize-sin-sodomy
By Luiz Sérgio Solimeo, June 14, 2017
April 7: Kevin Joseph Cardinal Farrell−who was recently chosen by Francis to head the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life−praises the book, Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity, by pro-homosexual Jesuit priest Fr. James Martin. He wrote a promotional blurb for the book: “A welcome and much-needed book that will help bishops, priests, pastoral associates, and all church leaders more compassionately minister to the LGBT community.”3
April 12: Father James Martin was appointed by Pope Francis to the Vatican’s Secretariat for Communications.4
April 28:
Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Ky., spoke at the “Catholic” homosexual New Ways Ministry symposium in Chicago.5 This organization has been condemned by the Catholic bishops because of its position against the doctrine of the Catholic Church.6
May 5 at 9:20pm:
Fr. James Martin, S.J., tweeted about the Saints: “Some of them were probably gay. A certain percentage of humanity is gay, and so were most likely some of the saints. You may be surprised when you get to heaven to be greeted by LGBT men and women.”7
Why Bishops Should Condemn Fr. Martin’s Dangerous Bridge
https://onepeterfive.com/bishops-condemn-fr-martins-dangerous-bridge
By Brian Williams, June 14, 2017
The crisis in the Church today is accelerating at a speed surprising even by post-conciliar standards. Nowhere is this more obvious than the current shift in how the Catholic Church addresses homosexuality. The election of Pope Francis four years ago, the subsequent synods on the family, and several strategic promotions within the hierarchy have led to a watershed moment in the 2,000 history of the Church.
Later this month Harper Collins will publish the latest book from Jesuit Fr. James Martin, editor at large of America Magazine. Fr. Martin is also well known for his large social media presence (over 100,000 followers on Twitter and more than a half million on Facebook), as well as his past appearances on the Colbert Report on Comedy Central, and his consultative work on Martin Scorsese’s recent movie Silence. He was also recently tagged by Pope Francis to join the Secretariat of Communications dicastery in Rome as a consultant on means of evangelizing the world in the digital age.
Herein lies the problem, and it’s known by everyone in the Church, but sadly too often excused or dismissed: Fr. James Martin has become a vocal activist for “LGBT Catholics”, even going so far as to receive awards from dissident groups like New Ways Ministry (who openly support same sex marriage and call for the Church to evolve on this issue).
Fr. Martin also frequently takes to social media with articles and quotes in support of LGBT activism and talking points, only to receive praise from his followers. When doctrine is misstated by those very same followers, or they openly endorse homosexual acts as being holy and normal, he fails to correct them. That he sows confusion is evident after only a few minutes of reviewing his social media accounts.
In many ways, however, Fr. James Martin is a perfect representation of the contemporary Church. He is a post-conciliar poster child. He is the embodiment of the new Francis Church, where accompaniment, encounter, and dialogue (“building bridges”) have pride of place over outdated words such as sin, repentance, conversion, grace, judgement, Heaven, or Hell.
One only need to look at the endorsements given his soon to be released book Building a Bridge to realize where we are today. We are experiencing one of the great crises in the history of the Church.
Not one, but two recently-promoted cardinals have endorsed Fr. Martin’s book.
Cardinal Kevin Farrell, whom Pope Francis appointed as Prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life, writes:
“A welcome and much-needed book that will help bishops, priests, pastoral associates, and all church leaders more compassionately minister to the LGBT community. It will also help LGBT Catholics feel more at home in what is, after all, their church.”
Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey says:
“In too many parts of our church LGBT people have been made to feel unwelcome, excluded, and even shamed. Father Martin’s brave, prophetic, and inspiring new book marks an essential step in inviting church leaders to minister with more compassion, and in reminding LGBT Catholics that they are as much a part of our church as any other Catholic.”
The very problematic and progressive Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego, appointed by Pope Francis, writes:
“The Gospel demands that LGBT Catholics must be genuinely loved and treasured in the life of the church. They are not. [Fr. Martin] provides us with the language, perspective, and sense of urgency to replace a culture of alienation with a culture of merciful inclusion.”
And then, among the endorsements of these prelates, we find Sr. Jeannine Gramick of the previously mentioned New Ways Ministry:
“Father Martin shows how the Rosary and the rainbow flag can peacefully meet each other. A must-read.”
So why would New Ways Ministry invite Fr. Martin to address their Bridge Building Award ceremony, and why would Sr. Gramick be asked to endorse his new book? After all, neither seek accompaniment, but rather acceptance-not of themselves but of their lifestyle.
And this is why we, the laity, need our bishops and priests — those who still hold to the gospel truth and Catholic doctrine — to condemn this bridge of Fr. Martin’s and an increasing number of bishops and cardinals. The bridge being built isn’t designed for repentance, conversion, and sanctity. It is not a bridge built to lead souls to heaven. In fact, the entire language of this current movement is completely void of the supernatural. It is therapeutic language solely focused on a temporal end: acceptance. It is capitulation to the cultural left rather than proclamation of the gospel truth.
This proposed accompaniment and encounter, this bridge being built, is not meant to bring souls out of sin and into a life of grace, but rather it seeks the conversion of the Church. It waits for the Church to evolve on this topic. Few in the movement care whether or not doctrine can or will change (it can’t); pastoral evolution accomplishes their work for them. At least for now.
By comparison, look to the international apostolate Courage which seeks to help people struggling with same sex attraction. From their site:
Persons with homosexual desires have always been with us; however, until recent times, there has been little, if any, formal outreach from the Church in the way of support groups or information for such persons. Most were left to work out their path on their own. As a result, they found themselves listening to and accepting the secular society’s perspective and opting to act on their same-sex desires.
In concluding their purpose, Courage notes:
In helping individuals gain a greater understanding and appreciation of the Church’s teachings, especially in the area of chastity, Courage extends the Church’s invitation to a life of peace and grace. In chaste living, one finds the peace and grace to grow in Christian maturity.
But here is why an apostolate like Courage will receive no public endorsement from the cardinals and bishop quoted above, or from Fr. James Martin: it begins with the clearly stated understanding that the homosexual act, just like pre-marital sex, or adultery, or any other sin of the flesh, must be conquered. Their accompaniment does not come at the cost of sowing confusion or with a tacit endorsement of a continuing homosexual lifestyle.
What Courage does have that the erroneous new movement doesn’t is a profoundly spiritual component. This is their bridge, designed to bring active homosexuals back into a life of grace:
1. To live chaste lives in accordance with the Roman Catholic Church’s teaching on homosexuality. (Chastity)
2. To dedicate our entire lives to Christ through service to others, spiritual reading, prayer, meditation, individual spiritual direction, frequent attendance at Mass, and the frequent reception of the sacraments of Reconciliation and Holy Eucharist. (Prayer and Dedication)
3. To foster a spirit of fellowship in which we may share with one another our thoughts and experiences, and so ensure that no one will have to face the problems of homosexuality alone. (Fellowship)
4. To be mindful of the truth that chaste friendships are not only possible but necessary in a chaste Christian life; and to encourage one another in forming and sustaining these friendships. (Support)
5. To live lives that may serve as good examples to others. (Good Example/Role Model)
The other reason why this new bridge being built is dangerous and must be condemned is that it is part of the ongoing movement to discontinue the very language found in the Catechism of the Catholic Church related to same sex attraction. This, sadly, is consistent with the message being given by Rome these days. But nevertheless, the Catechism instructs:
“Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.” They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.” (CCC 2357)
The genesis of Fr. James Martin’s book was an America Magazine essay entitled, Simply Loving, and his address at the October 2016 New Ways Ministry event. Both taken together provide us with the strategy being employed to de-emphasize and confuse the Church’s teaching on human sexuality. We can generally break down this faulty bridge building into three components:
The Absence of Conversion: Unlike the Courage apostolate, nowhere in this strategy is repentance or conversion discussed. Instead, the focus is on the overly feminized and therapeutic language objectives of “respect, compassion, and sensitivity.” Fr. Martin notes that this comes directly from paragraph 2358 of the Catechism. However, when separated from the preceding language of the paragraph above, the context and balance is completely lost. Intentionally so. Authentic Catholic accompaniment requires that we include the language of sin and grace, mercy and judgement. Anything less is simply giving our struggling brothers and sisters a false compassion, or worse, affirmation of their error.
The Secular Language of the LGBT Left: Fr. Martin states that people have a right to name themselves. He told his audience at the New Ways ceremony:
“Names are important. Thus, church leaders are invited to be attentive to how they name the L.G.B.T. community and lay to rest phrases like “afflicted with same-sex attraction,” which no L.G.B.T. person I know uses, and even “homosexual person,” which seems overly clinical to many…I’m saying that people have a right to name themselves. Using those names is part of respect.”
In the current environment where self-definition has grown to include gender fluidity and transgenderism, Fr. Martin’s words are eerily similar to that of the sexual left. Further, the actual designation of “LGBT” for a group of people was a 1990’s construct of the secular Left. This is an identification with a set of beliefs and an agenda, one based on the approval and promotion of homosexuality as normal behavior. And this brings us to the third and final strategic aim…
The Depersonalization of the SSA Catholic: What the Courage apostolate does so well, and what the Catholic religion has always instructed, is to recognize the dignity of the individual. Fr. Martin and those bishops who support him also claim this. The problem, however, is that the LGBT label and movement that they have decided to embrace does just the opposite. The individual takes a backseat to the group and to the behavior. The same-sex attracted Catholic is defined by their sexuality and through identity politics.
It is interesting to note that Fr. Martin acknowledged this himself during his address at New Ways Ministry, although the irony of it seems to have been lost upon him:
“In this, as in all things, Jesus is our model. When Jesus encountered people on the margins, he saw not a category but a person.”
This is not the model he is following however.
What must be done at this time is for faithful bishops, priests, and laity to openly oppose this false mercy proposed through a faulty bridge.
Bishops are the local ordinary for their diocese. They can deny any priest or bishop from speaking within their parishes and authorized conferences. This is what many have done with retired auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit, who has frequented some of these very same New Ways Ministry events in the past.
Fr. James Martin will no doubt be promoting this new book heavily in the coming weeks. He will very likely be asked to speak at some parishes or on local Catholic radio. Our bishops and priests, and those in the laity with a platform to communicate the message, must help prevent further confusion.
No one is more threatened by this dangerous bridge than those brothers and sisters with same sex attraction. Let us see more of our priests and prelates directing them toward an apostolate like Courage, and away from those who would seek to “accompany” them right off the cliff.
1. Martin is a card-carrying member of the lavender mafia. He’s an enemy of the Catholic Church and his ultimate goal is the acceptance of same-sex “relationships”, Communion for homosexuals who engage in sodomy and the elimination of the Catechism’s condemnation of this activity as seriously sinful.
Of course, this is an enormous leap but every giant step can be broken down into 39 smaller steps so incrementalism prevails. First, we must be “welcoming”……blah, blah, blah…..you know how it goes, right folks? We know the dissident playbook by heart, at this stage.
Not surprisingly, in the present climate, he recently received a promotion and is now a member of some Vatican group or other and his sissy-boy grin is everywhere.
2. Let us pray that Pope Francis does not approve gay marriage as a sacrament! This is FR Martin’s goal!
3. Some old fashioned views on sodomy:
1. Athenagoras of Athens (2nd Century):
“But though such is our character (Oh! Why should I speak of things unfit to be uttered?), the things said of us are an example of the proverb, ‘The harlot reproves the chaste.’ For those who have set up a market for fornication and established infamous resorts for the young for every kind of vile pleasure – who do not abstain even from males, males with males committing shocking abominations, outraging all the noblest and comeliest bodies in all sorts of ways, so dishonoring the fair workmanship of God.”
2. Tertullian (160-225):
Tertullian was a great genius and apologist of the early Church.
“But all the other frenzies of passions–impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes–beyond the laws of nature, we banish not only from the threshold, but from all shelter of the Church, because they are not sins, but monstrosities.”
3. Eusebius of Caesarea (260-341) the “Father of Church History”:
“[God in the Law given to Moses] having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men.”
4. Saint Jerome (340-420) both Father and Doctor of the Church:
“And Sodom and Gomorrah might have appeased it [God’s wrath], had they been willing to repent, and through the aid of fasting gain for themselves tears of repentance.”
5. Saint John Chrysostom (347-407) Doctor of the Church:
“But if thou scoffest at hearing of hell and believest not that fire, remember Sodom… Consider how great is that sin, to have forced hell to appear even before its time! For that rain was unwonted, for the intercourse was contrary to nature, and it deluged the land, since lust had done so with their souls. Wherefore also the rain was the opposite of the customary rain. Now not only did it fail to stir up the womb of the earth to the production of fruits, but made it even useless for the reception of seed. For such was also the intercourse of the men, making a body of this sort more worthless than the very land of Sodom. And what is there more detestable than a man who hath pandered himself, or what more execrable?
6. Saint Augustine (354-430):
“Those offences which be contrary to nature are everywhere and at all times to be held in detestation and punished; such were those of the Sodomites, which should all nations commit, they should all be held guilty of the same crime by the divine law, which hath not so made men that they should in that way abuse one another.
For even that fellowship which should be between God and us is violated, when that same nature of which He is author is polluted by the perversity of lust.”
7. Saint Gregory the Great (540-604) both Father and Doctor of the Church:
“Sacred Scripture itself confirms that sulfur evokes the stench of the flesh, as it speaks of the rain of fire and sulfur poured upon Sodom by the Lord. He had decided to punish Sodom for the crimes of the flesh, and the very type of punishment he chose emphasized the shame of that crime. For sulfur stinks, and fire burns. So it was just that Sodomites, burning with perverse desires arising from the flesh like stench, should perish by fire and sulfur so that through this just punishment they would realize the evil they had committed, led by a perverse desire.”
8. Saint Peter Damian (1007-1072) Doctor of the Church, cardinal and a great reformer of the clergy:
Saint Peter Damian wrote his famous Book of Gomorrah against the inroads made by homosexuality among the clergy. He describes not only the iniquity of homosexuality, but also its psychological and moral consequences:
“Truly, this vice is never to be compared with any other vice because it surpasses the enormity of all vices.… It defiles everything, stains everything, pollutes everything. And as for itself, it permits nothing pure, nothing clean, nothing other than filth.
“The miserable flesh burns with the heat of lust; the cold mind trembles with the rancor of suspicion; and in the heart of the miserable man chaos boils like Tartarus [Hell]…. In fact, after this most poisonous serpent once sinks its fangs into the unhappy soul, sense is snatched away, memory is borne off, the sharpness of the mind is obscured. It becomes unmindful of God and even forgetful of itself. This plague undermines the foundation of faith, weakens the strength of hope, destroys the bond of charity; it takes away justice, subverts fortitude, banishes temperance, blunts the keenness of prudence.
“And what more should I say since it expels the whole host of the virtues from the chamber of the human heart and introduces every barbarous vice as if the bolts of the doors were pulled out.”
9. Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274):
“Given the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans] sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that led them to sin against their own nature followed… I say, therefore, that since they changed into lies [by idolatry] the truth about God, He brought them to ignominious passions, that is, to sins against nature; not that God led them to evil, but only that he abandoned them to evil… “If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that which he has of the animal nature, much more deserving of condemnation are the sins against nature by which man degrades his own animal nature… “Man can sin against nature in two ways. First, when he sins against his specific rational nature, acting contrary to reason. In this sense, we can say that every sin is a sin against man’s nature, because it is against man’s right reason…
“Secondly, man sins against nature when he goes against his generic nature, that is to say, his animal nature. Now, it is evident that, in accord with natural order, the union of the sexes among animals is ordered towards conception. From this it follows that every sexual intercourse that cannot lead to conception is opposed to man’s animal nature.”
10. Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)a great mystic and Doctor:
“But they act in a contrary way, for they come full of impurity to this mystery, and not only of that impurity to which, through the fragility of your weak nature, you are all naturally inclined (although reason, when free will permits, can quiet the rebellion of nature), but these wretches not only do not bridle this fragility, but do worse, committing that accursed sin against nature, and as blind and fools, with the light of their intellect darkened, they do not know the stench and misery in which they are. It is not only that this sin stinks before me, who am the Supreme and Eternal Truth, it does indeed displease me so much and I hold it in such abomination that for it alone I buried five cities by a divine judgment, my divine justice being no longer able to endure it. This sin not only displeases me as I have said, but also the devils whom these wretches have made their masters. Not that the evil displeases them because they like anything good, but because their nature was originally angelic, and their angelic nature causes them to loathe the sight of the actual commission of this enormous sin.
11. Saint Bernardine of Siena (1380-1444) a famous preacher, celebrated for his doctrine and holiness:
“No sin in the world grips the soul as the accursed sodomy; this sin has always been detested by all those who live according to God… Deviant passion is close to madness; this vice disturbs the intellect, destroys elevation and generosity of soul, brings the mind down from great thoughts to the lowliest, makes the person slothful, irascible, obstinate and obdurate, servile and soft and incapable of anything; furthermore, agitated by an insatiable craving for pleasure, the person follows not reason but frenzy.… They become blind and, when their thoughts should soar to high and great things, they are broken down and reduced to vile and useless and putrid things, which could never make them happy…. Just as people participate in the glory of God in different degrees, so also in hell some suffer more than others. He who lived with this vice of sodomy suffers more than another, for this is the greatest sin.”
12. Saint Peter Canisius (1521-1597) Jesuit and Doctor of the Church:
“As the Sacred Scripture says, the Sodomites were wicked and exceedingly sinful. Saint Peter and Saint Paul condemn this nefarious and depraved sin. In fact, the Scripture denounces this enormous indecency thus: ‘The scandal of Sodomites and Gomorrhans has multiplied and their sins have become grave beyond measure.’ So the angels said to just Lot, who totally abhorred the depravity of the Sodomites: ‘Let us leave this city….’ Holy Scripture does not fail to mention the causes that led the Sodomites, and can also lead others, to this most grievous sin. In fact, in Ezekiel we read: ‘Behold this was the iniquity of Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and abundance, and the idleness of her, and of her daughters: and they did not put forth their hand to the needy, and the poor. And they were lifted up, and committed abominations before me; and I took them away as thou hast seen’ (Ezekiel 16: 49-50). Those unashamed of violating divine and natural law are slaves of this never sufficiently execrated depravity.”
Note: These quotes are taken from Defending A Higher Law: Why We Must Resist Same-Sex “Marriage” and the Homosexual Movement.
On the way to hell. And he needs to be told it, before it’s too late!
https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-on-the-way-to-hell?mc_cid=ae58d8a030&mc_eid=7c0b31649a
By Michael Voris, June 15, 2017
Before we address today’s topic, I’d like to ask if you could offer a prayer for my mom. She died 13 years ago today; and it was her sacrifice which brought me back to the Faith, as many of you know.
Now, someone has to say it very clearly, for the good of his own soul; Fr. James Martin is speeding straight toward Hell. He is lying about the Faith and deceiving many. He is one of the leading homosexualist priests in the United States and is abusing his authority and role as a priest to the press for his own agenda.
This man was ordained to be conformed to Christ, to be an alter Christus, and is allowing himself to be manipulated by the diabolical to promote evil. Being a member of the ordained class does not make what he says true or preserve him from Hell.
Fr. Martin has been a longtime advocate for homosexuality in the Church. He deftly manages to push the envelope ever so carefully right to the edge, without ever coming out and admitting if he’s homosexual or if he supports sexual acts between homosexuals, but everything else he says and does around the issue indicates that he does.
He uses gay vocabulary, for example, never using the term same-sex attracted but preferring “LGBT,” which is not how a Catholic priest should be speaking. The very word “gay” or the term, “LGBT” are part and parcel of the lexicon of the homosexualist movement. He has had millions of opportunities to make himself clear, but he chooses to remain wrapped in ambiguity; and after so many times, it’s safe to say that he does indeed support a homosexual lifestyle, meaning he thinks homosexual acts are perfectly moral.
He’s written a new book, Building a Bridge — How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion and Sensitivity. Wow! What a load of hogwash. First of all, notice the implication that the Church isn’t compassionate or caring or respectful. The Church provides a means to salvation despite the disorder of homosexuality. How much more compassionate and caring could the Church be? But most importantly, in an interview for the book with Religion News Service, Martin finally admitted his real agenda — he wants the Church’s teaching about homosexuality changed.
The lines that irks the daylights out of the homosexualist crowd are in paragraphs 2357 and 2358 (Catechism of the Catholic Church), which say in part, “Homosexual acts [are] acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered. … They are contrary to the natural law. … This inclination, which is objectively disordered…”
For the homosexualists, this language has to go. Even Philadelphia Abp. Charles Chaput, seen as an orthodox champion of some kind, has agreed that the language “disordered is not helpful.” Whatever that means. Clerics like Chaput and Martin offering these kinds of comments is what’s unhelpful. They both say, people don’t understand this phraseology because it’s philosophical, which begs the point be made — the reason people don’t understand it is because clerics have not done their job properly and have allowed their flock to be steamrolled by the homosexualist movement.
Of course, it’s disordered. The sexual powers are ordered to procreation. That’s why they exist. They don’t exist for the purpose of bringing pleasure. They exist for the end of creating new life. Using the sexual powers in homosexual acts goes against their end, their order and are therefore DIS-ordered.
There, that wasn’t so hard to explain, now, was it? We’re willing to bet that anyone who heard that could easily understand what’s meant, whether they agree with it or not. It’s not a hard concept to get your mind around. But bishops have been so unwilling to even mention any of the sexual sins for the past fifty years, that they have created a vacuum that clerics like Martin have rushed in to fill. Having passed on their role as teachers, they have allowed distorters to come in, and boy have they come in.
As an aside, think about this for a second. Why is a layman standing here warning a priest that he is on his way to Hell instead of his superiors or bishops? Well, we know why. Martin, in the recent interview promoting his gay propaganda as theology, said the following, “Saying that one of the deepest parts of a person — the part that gives and receives love — is disordered is needlessly hurtful. A few weeks ago, I met an Italian theologian who suggested the phrase ‘differently ordered’ might convey that idea more pastorally.”
First of all, notice the appeal to emotions and not the Truth. It’s hurtful. Well, sometimes Father, the truth hurts, and the Cross just has to be carried. And that’s true of everyone on earth. But most importantly, notice the complete sleight of hand here. To suggest that “differently ordered” would be good to use instead of “disordered” is to completely change the meaning of Church teaching. It’s a lie.
And this is where Fr. Martin is imperiling his soul. He knows he is changing Church teaching by subtly introducing such a false term into the discussion. To say something is differently ordered is to admit that it is ordered in the first place. Homosexual acts are not ordered to anything, that is, except narcissistic physical pleasure. All homosexual acts, by their very nature, are forms of masturbation and are therefore ordered to nothing but intrinsic evil. They share the same “order” as homicide and rape, for example, which are also “ordered” to self-pleasure and not ordered to procreation.
Fr. Martin wants to make homosexuality out to be just a different thing with its own order, that we must respect and have compassion for. When he keeps talking about compassion and care and respect, he deliberately blurs the line between the person with same-sex attraction and the sexual acts. He blurs a further distinction between sexual acts and giving and receiving love.
One need not have to engage in sexual acts to love another, and likewise, just because a person does engage in sexual acts, does not mean they love. But see, to bring forth these critical distinctions would completely destroy Martin’s position; and he knows it. That’s why he lets them just hang there in the ether.
He diabolically twists “objectively disordered” into “differently ordered” and leaves unchallenged the assumption that one must engage in sexual acts if the person loves. This kind of evil on the part of a priest can only merit Hell, if unrepented. If he died unrepentant of this gross calumny against the Faith, how could he possibly hope for salvation? He is a tool of the demonic powers in confusing many people and leading people into Hell with him.
None of this said to be mean and all those stupid charges. It’s said out of a terrible concern for his soul. No Catholic could ever want or hope for another person to be damned, much less a priest. Especially a priest. St. Teresa of Avila said that when she was shown Hell, she could distinguish which souls were those of priests because of the intense agony they felt in their hands — the horrible burning where the holy oils had been administered to them on the day of their ordination.
But if that be not enough to turn this priest from his evil thoughts and actions, then at least let it serve as a warning to those who might listen to him. Do not. He is possessed of evil. Fr. Martin is on the way to Hell by his own choosing. Whatever demon he is wrestling with has gained the upper hand over him; and he has completely succumbed to him.
Pray for him that he might regain his strength and fight with everything he has to turn off the road to Hell. In the meantime, fight and resist all this kind of evil and demonic infiltration that has accomplished so much, through wicked clergy.
1. He’s a JESUIT!!! This is a revelation in and of itself. The Jesuits here in Munich are similarly liberal….
2. I VERY much doubt whether this man still believes that hell exists.
Fr Martin try his damnedest to cover up the sin of same-sex attraction, like using the fancy term ‘differently ordered’, but it ain’t gonna work; he’s living in denial, denial, denial
4. This priest should be ex -communicated enough said!
5. All that I have done in this ministry for the last 9 years, offering the truth in charity has been dismantled by this heretic in a matter of weeks. -Bro. Christopher
6. I can see why Father Martin would want to try to get these people into the Church. It is the ordinary means of salvation. Good so far. Once they’re there, what then? They can’t receive Communion, if they are living an active homosexual life-style; that would be sacrilege. If they don’t change their lifestyle, being in mortal sin at death, they go to Hell. So, I would agree that we need to get them to the Church, but we need to have the uncomfortable conversation sooner than later informing the individual of the danger that they are in. That is what truly loving someone is all about; giving them the truth.
Who’s really responsible for Fr. James Martin’s revolution?
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/whos-really-responsible-for-fr.-james-martinsrevolution
With each passing week the pace quickens. The revolutionaries continue to grow more emboldened. There is no time to lose. For those who wish to remake the Church in the image of fallen Man, instead of defending the immutable Truth of Our Risen Lord, the time is now.
With every new tweet to his 125,000 followers on Twitter, or every pro-LGBT article shared to his half a million Facebook followers, Fr. James Martin, S.J. ups the ante. The rogue Jesuit (which might be redundant), described by some as a wolf in sheep’s clothing (or Roman collar), has apparently made it his personal mission to change the faith of our fathers.
As I’ve written about before, Fr. Martin’s latest effort is Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity (Harper Collins, 2017).
The book is interesting enough for the simple fact that it largely comes from an address Fr. Martin gave to New Ways Ministry in October of last year.
Now much of this might sound familiar to you. And this is where we start to realize just who is really responsible for Fr. Martin’s revolution.
In 1992, the founders of the pro-LGBT New Ways Ministry, Father Robert Nugent and Sister Jeannine Gramick, wrote Building Bridges: Gay and Lesbian Reality and the Catholic Church. The book was released four years after the Holy See had established a commission to review the work and writings of New Ways.
By 1995, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (under prefect Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger) was handling the investigation into the ministry of Fr. Nugent and Sr. Gramick. In May 1997, the CDF issued a statement regarding their findings. The similarity to the current confusion caused by Fr. James Martin’s “bridge building” is quite remarkable:
… the positions advanced by Sister Jeannine Gramick and Father Robert Nugent regarding the intrinsic evil of homosexual acts and the objective disorder of the homosexual inclination are doctrinally unacceptable because they do not faithfully convey the clear and constant teaching of the Catholic Church in this area. Father Nugent and Sister Gramick have often stated that they seek, in keeping with the Church’s teaching, to treat homosexual persons “with respect, compassion and sensitivity”.
This is interesting, of course, since it is the very co-opting, and proof-texting, of the Catechism (CCC 2358) that Fr. Martin employs in his ministry; even incorporating it into the subtitle of his new book. The CDF continued in their statement:
However, the promotion of errors and ambiguities is not consistent with a Christian attitude of true respect and compassion: persons who are struggling with homosexuality no less than any others have the right to receive the authentic teaching of the Church from those who minister to them. The ambiguities and errors of the approach of Father Nugent and Sister Gramick have caused confusion among the Catholic people and have harmed the community of the Church.
If this doesn’t capture the strategy employed by Fr. Martin today, then nothing does. However, that’s only the tip of the revolutionary iceberg.
As a result of their investigation, the CDF announced in that very same statement from May 1997 that Fr. Nugent and Sr. Jeannine Gramick were “permanently prohibited from any pastoral work involving homosexual persons…”
Writing 13 years later, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (then)-president Francis Cardinal George said:
I wish to make it clear that, like other groups that claim to be Catholic but deny central aspects of Church teaching, New Ways Ministry has no approval or recognition from the Catholic Church and that they cannot speak on behalf of the Catholic faithful in the United States.
And yet, what do we find on the back of Fr. James Martin’s new book, but an endorsement from Sr. Jeannine Gramick:
But this is nothing new. All this proves is that this current battle is decades old, even down to the very language employed by the revolutionaries (“respect, compassion, and sensitivity”). In the age of Laudato
si and eco-Catholicism, it’s understandable that the Catholic left would recycle their heterodoxy.
What is different now from the past, however, is Rome itself. Leading the defense of orthodoxy and doctrinal clarity back then was Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. While Fr. Robert Nugent and Sr. Jeannine Gramick could spread their errors and ambiguities, they did so with the condemnation of the Holy See. That is not the case with Pope Francis.
To understand who is really responsible for today’s revolutionary spirit, one that seeks to make the LGBT’s agenda the Church’s own, go back to the back … of Fr. Martin’s book that is.
Who else do we find endorsing Fr. Martin’s 2017 repackaging of the New Ways message of the 1990’s? None other than three of Pope Francis’ most recent episcopal appointments: Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey; Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life; and Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego, California.
All three of these prelates, much like Cardinal Blaise Cupich of Chicago, are viewed as Francis bishops: big on “mercy,” light on doctrinal clarity. Personnel is policy.
But it’s worse than that. For Pope Francis has withheld the red hat from traditional episcopal seats like Philadelphia (Archbishop Charles Chaput) and Los Angeles (Archbishop Jose Gomez); both men viewed as far more conservative and consistent regarding the Church’s teaching on marriage and sexuality. The elevation of Joseph Tobin to the College of Cardinals speaks volumes, as the Archdiocese of Newark had never had a Cardinal archbishop before.
So what does Cardinal Tobin, very much a Francis bishop, say about Fr. James Martin’s book:
Bishop Robert McElroy, appointed by Pope Francis to head the Diocese of San Diego last year, has immediately demonstrated his willingness to embrace the New Ways agenda of Sr. Jeannine Gramick and (now) Fr. Martin. He writes:
As we have seen, the only thing Fr. Martin has provided us is the tired old errors and confusion of New Ways Ministries. What has changed, of course, is that while St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict (Cardinal Ratzinger) are gone, Sr. Jeannine Gramick remains. But now Rome is on her side it would seem.
Three recent Francis appointments. All singing the praise of a priest who (nearly) daily sows confusion and dissent through ambiguity and error via social media and the internet. But he is only one man. One bad Jesuitical apple. His words carry much more weight because of those two Cardinals and one bishop who endorse his work. They are favored sons of Rome. Each of them. And everyone knows it. Most of all their brother bishops.
While we are right to condemn the “LGBT ministry” of men such as Fr. James Martin, it is also important to understand who is really responsible for this revolution. Otherwise, we are simply wasting our breath.
1. What are we to make of the silence of prelates, Pope Francis regarding Father James Martin? Your article sums it up.
2. Yes, it comes from the very top. Though obvious, it is good to see it stated. Thank you. Many still don’t understand, many refuse to look and see. Many look and celebrate sodomy. As sodomy is celebrated and as children are indoctrinated with it as something worthy of pride, we have become Sodom. The Church leads the way in spreading it.
3. Martin and his fruitcake ilk aren’t just enabling but encouraging homosexuality, shouting from the rooftops that sodomy and other acts of coprophilia are an expression, not of abject degeneracy, but of love. It would be better if a millstone were tied around their necks and they threw themselves in the sea for this straightforward scandal, but I doubt they’re believers. Google the photo of Martin giving the “devil’s horns” hand sign with both hands as he introduces an overtly Satanic rock band, and then consider that the pope singled out this imposter-priest for big things to come.
4. President Truman once said: the buck stops here! Correct. It’s the man at the top, and now we are seeing a “trickle down” revolution against the true Magisterium. Our Lord forgave the woman caught in adultery, but He also told her to go and sin no more. These clergy are enabling mortal sin by not condemning it; not shouting from the housetops what dangerous peril their souls are in. And because of that, they will be held responsible for the loss of their flock to the evil one.
5. The buck stops with the Vicar of Christ himself, Pope Francis. He can put an end to this right away. He could have Fr. Martin removed from the Priesthood right now. He chooses not to.
Fr. James Martin Would Declare Pro-Gay Nun a Saint–’I’m going to canonize Sr. Jeannine Gramick’
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/fr.-james-martin-would-make-dissident-pro-gay-nun-a-saint
By Christine Niles, Detroit, June 27, 2017
Celebrity priest Fr. James Martin, S.J. is claiming a dissident nun condemned by the Vatican for her homosexualist views should be declared a “saint.”
“I’m going to canonize Sr. Jeannine Gramick, who was the co-founder of New Ways Ministry,” said Martin during a June 16 podcast, as reported by Deacon Jim Russell. “You know in the ’80s, they were really under a microscope, and then in the ’90s, Cdl. George in Chicago said they couldn’t call themselves Catholic; it was really severe, and, you know, she persisted.”
“Here’s this woman who has really struggled, and has really fought, and has really advocated, at great cost, you know, within her own Church,” Martin continued. “I’d put her up for canonization, and at least, servant of God, or beatification.”
Gramick was formally censured by the Vatican in 1999 and ordered to stop ministering to homosexuals because she was promoting views contrary to Church teaching. She defied the order and continues her dissent to this day with her group New Ways Ministry, which has a long history of defiance toward the Church:
Cdl. James Hickey of Washington, D.C. kicked out the organization from his archdiocese in 1984 for refusing to comply with Church teaching
The Vatican’s Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life ordered founders Sr. Jeanine Gramick and Fr. Robert Nugent to “separate themselves totally and completely from New Ways Ministry,” forbidding them from exercising “any apostolate without faithfully presenting the Church’s teaching regarding the intrinsic evil of homosexual acts” — an order Gramick and Nugent defied
In 1988, the Holy See established a commission under Detroit’s Cdl. Adam Maida to investigate New Ways Ministry, which recommended disciplinary measures for Gramick and Nugent for their defiance of Church teaching
The Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith took over the investigation in 1995, issuing a declaration that the teachings presented by New Ways Ministry were “erroneous and dangerous”
The CDF issued a formal declaration in 1999, approved by Pope St. John Paul II, that the founders’ positions on homosexuality “are doctrinally unacceptable because they do not faithfully convey the clear and constant teaching of the Catholic Church in this area”
The CDF concluded: “For these reasons, Sister Jeannine Gramick, SSND, and Father Robert Nugent, SDS, are permanently prohibited from any pastoral work involving homosexual persons and are ineligible, for an undetermined period, for any office in their respective religious institutes”
This censure has never been lifted.
Gramick has pushed for women priests as well as an end to Church teaching on contraception. She’s also publicly promoted same-sex marriage.
“I’m very saddened that some of our Church leaders have claimed that marriage must be between one man and one woman,” she said during a 2012 press conference, “that the definition of marriage has always been the same, that it cannot change. Well, this is simply not so.”
This is the woman Fr. Martin would declare a saint.
Martin recently published a book titled Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity. Gramick endorsed the book, writing, “With this book, Father Martin shows how the Rosary and the rainbow flag can peacefully meet each other. After this must-read book, you’ll understand why New Ways Ministry honored Father Martin with its Bridge-Building Award.”
Several prelates also offered high praise for Martin’s publication, with San Diego’s Bp. Robert McElroy — a well-known, pro-gay progressive — writing, “The Gospel demands that LGBT Catholics be genuinely loved and treasured in the life of the Church. They are not. Martin provides us the language, perspective, and sense of urgency to undertake the arduous but monumentally Christ-like task of replacing a culture of alienation with a culture of merciful inclusion.”
Cardinal Kevin Farrell, head of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, also endorsed the book, along with Cdl. Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, who recently caused scandal by giving his blessing to an LGBT pilgrimage and Mass in his cathedral, where he explicitly avoided calling gay Catholics to a life of chastity.
Martin avoids insisting that LGBT Catholics should be called to chastity — as the Church teaches — instead focusing on welcoming and accepting them as they are. He was recently criticized for justifying the homosexual lifestyle by claiming, “Pretty much everyone’s lifestyle is sinful.”
Phil Lawler of CatholicCulture.org shot back, “That statement is outrageous. In a sane world, Father Martin’s Jesuit superiors would order him to apologize.”
In February, Michael Voris aired a Vortex asking Martin a straightforward question: “Are you homosexual? Yes or no?” The priest has never answered.
1. I am a sinner but my Catholic lifestyle is not. Subconsciously he must have been speaking for himself!
2. No intellectual discourse necessary. When you listen to persons like Fr. Martin, they have no space for anyone else but themselves and their issues. You KNOW they don’t LOVE you. He feels so smart and smug. Elitist, with his own needs – he is only thinking about himself. What he has just said is – you have your problems – keep it to yourself. He has blocked you. Periphery my foot. These people don’t care one hoot about my soul. Not willing to make a sacrifice. Take sleep and mark death people.
3. Are they still calling this guy “father”? God help any child placed under this man’s care. It looks like it is over for the Jesuits!
4. Isn’t it about time to call for Pope Francis to step down for promoting Martin to Director of Communications? Pope Francis is ruining our Church. CM calls Martin a liar, which he is. Why should the Pope put a liar in charge of communications? Afraid?
Archbishop criticizes pro-gay Vatican advisor for book normalizing homosexuality
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archbishop-criticizes-pro-gay-vatican-advisor-for-book-normalizing-homosexu
By Pete Baklinski, Philadelphia, July 7, 2017
As newly-appointed Vatican advisor Father James Martin continues his campaign for greater openness to homosexuality in the Catholic Church, a prominent archbishop has now stepped up to correct the Jesuit priest’s misuse of Catholic teaching.
In a column Thursday, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput criticized Father Martin for failing to be clear about the sinfulness of homosexual acts.
Chaput said that while Martin is correct in stating that the Church must have “respect, compassion and sensitivity in dealing with persons with same-sex attraction,” this does not give a license to him or other influential leaders within the Church to suddenly start ignoring Biblical teaching on sexuality.
“What the text regrettably lacks is an engagement with the substance of what divides faithful Christians from those who see no sin in active same-sex relationships,” the archbishop wrote in a column titled A letter to the Romans.
Pointing to St. Paul’s condemnation of homosexual practices, Chaput added: “If the Letter to the Romans is true, then persons in unchaste relationships (whether homosexual or heterosexual) need conversion, not merely affirmation. If the Letter to the Romans is false, then Christian teaching is not only wrong but a wicked lie. Dealing with this frankly is the only way an honest discussion can be had.”
Fr. Martin in his June 2017 book titled Building a Bridge urges Catholics who identify as “gay” to begin “conversations” with their bishops so as to move the Church in the direction of eventually normalizing homosexuality as part of God’s creation.
“I’m just inviting people to take the first steps, and for many LGBT people those conversations can’t even happen, because they don’t feel like they are even welcome to step foot in a church,” Martin said in a July 6 interview with CNN.
Archbishop Chaput wrote that Jesus “didn’t come to affirm us in our sins and destructive behaviors – whatever they might be — but to redeem us.”
“Paul’s message was as resented in some quarters then as it is now. In an age of sexual confusion and disorder, calls to chastity are not just unwelcome. They’re despised. But that doesn’t diminish the truth of the words Paul wrote, or their urgency for our own time,” he said.
While the unity between all the baptized championed by Fr. Martin is important, he said, there will be no real unity apart from truth. “The Church is not simply about unity – as valuable as that is – but about unity in God’s love rooted in truth.”
Chaput said that one book that takes the right approach to Christian teaching on homosexuality is the new book from Ignatius Press, Why I Don’t Call Myself Gay
by Daniel Mattson.
The archbishop quoted from Mattson’s book to highlight the shortcomings he noted in Martin’s book:
We cannot remain reluctant to speak about the beauty of the Church’s teaching on sexuality and sexual identity for fear that it will appear ‘unloving,’ ‘irrational,’ or ‘unreal.’ We need to love the world enough to speak about the Christian vision of sexual reality, confident that God’s creation of man as male and female is truly part of the Gospel of Jesus Christ we are called to proclaim to a lost and confused world.
We need to be a light for the world and speak passionately about the richness of the Church’s understanding of human sexuality. We can’t place the Good News of the Church’s teaching on human sexuality under a bushel any longer, for the world desperately needs the truth we have.
Commented Chaput: “Spoken from experience. Spoken from the heart. No one could name the truth more clearly.”
Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, urged bishops and priests in his foreword to Mattson’s book to speak boldly the Church’s teaching on homosexuality.
“[The Church teaches] things in the Catechism about homosexuality that some members of the clergy choose not to quote, including the clear warning: ‘under no circumstances can [homosexual acts] be approved’ (CCC 2357). The respect and sensitivity to which the Catechism rightly calls us does not give us permission to deprive men and women who experience SSA (same-sex attraction) of the fullness of the Gospel. To omit the ‘hard sayings’ of Christ and his Church is not charity,” he wrote.
1. We need more clergy to speak up on the blight that is active homosexuality in the church.
2. “Blight”? More like a “cancer”.
3. I am very proud of Archbishop Chaput for speaking the truth.
All Bishops need to heed the words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer – Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
Church leaders rip Fr. Martin’s new book on homosexuality
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/church-leaders-rip-fr.-martins-new-book-on-homosexuality
By Doug Mainwaring, July 12, 2017
A scathing new review of Fr. James Martin, SJ’s recently published pro-gay book points out its flawed premise, namely “that the Church has misunderstood God’s plan for human sexuality for her entire history.”
Martin’s book, Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter Into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion and Sensitivity is critical of the church’s pastoral approaches to the “LGBT community.”
Fr. Gerald Murray explains in the National Catholic Register that Martin goes further, asserting that the Church “must now switch to a new teaching, namely that the union of man and woman in marital love is not the only path for the true and good expression of human sexuality.”
Fr. Murray cuts through the layers of sentimentality and misinformation that now engulf and entwine discussion about the LGBT world, especially within the Catholic Church:
“The real purpose of this book is to advocate for a relaxation of the Church’s teaching that sodomy is gravely immoral and that any attraction to commit acts of sodomy is an objective disorder in one’s personality,” said Murray. “The thesis of this book is that lesbians, gays, bisexual persons and transsexual/transgendered persons have been made to be such by God, and thus they should gladly live and express their God-given, differently ordered sexuality in a differently ordered way.”
Daniel Mattson, a same-sex attracted man whose book Why I Don’t Call Myself Gay was published on the same day as Fr. Martin’s pro-gay book, explains, “The reframing of human sexuality from behavior to identity has brought about a lot of confusion in the world, especially among young people. … It is the ‘greatest single victory of the gay movement.'”
According to Murray, Fr. Martin “assumes that God made some people by design to be homosexual and thus any disapproval of homosexuality and even homosexual activity is in fact an attack on God’s plan.” Fr. Murray points out, “This, of course, cannot be squared with Catholic teaching — it is the rejection of that teaching.”
In this way, the Jesuit Fr. Martin has aligned himself with the gay movement, not the Catholic Church.
“Father Martin rejects the teaching of the Catechism of the Catholic Church that the ‘inclination’ to ‘homosexual tendencies’ is ‘objectively disordered'” (2358).
Archbishop Chaput critical of Martin’s pro-gay book
Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput has also criticized Father Martin for failing to be clear about the sinfulness of homosexual acts.
Cardinal Sarah’s advice to priests like Fr. Martin
Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, recently issued an impassioned plea to his fellow bishops and priests in his foreword to Why I Don’t Call Myself Gay.
He delivers a strong rebuke, calling attention to the fact that the Church teaches “… things in the Catechism about homosexuality that some members of the clergy choose not to quote, including the clear warning: ‘under no circumstances can [homosexual acts] be approved’ (CCC 2357). The respect and sensitivity to which the Catechism rightly calls us does not give us permission to deprive men and women who experience SSA (same-sex attraction) of the fullness of the Gospel. To omit the ‘hard sayings’ of Christ and his Church is not charity.”
Those prelates and clerics who justify homosexuality challenge the Church’s genuine understanding of the human person and of human sexuality, sweeping aside authentic Church teaching and endangering, rather than helping, those who are same-sex attracted.
In a phrase abounding with as much love as it is truth, Cardinal Sarah warns, “We cannot be more compassionate or merciful than Jesus.” The “hard sayings” of Jesus are often the ones which have the most power to deliver from darkness and transform lives.
Yet as Fr. Murray points out, Fr. Martin insists on proposing an alternate catechism.
Brian Williams, the “liturgy guy,” goes further: “The rogue Jesuit (which might be redundant), described by some as a wolf in sheep’s clothing (or Roman collar), has apparently made it his personal mission to change the faith of our fathers.”
1. If James Martin S.J. isn’t somewhere on the A to Z Pope Francis list, he should be. His views have been implicitly approved by virtue of his being appointed to his position after they have been known, and have not been repudiated.
I am reminded of the Dr. Seuss book “On Beyond Zebra”, wherein Dr. Seuss continued the alphabet with numerous and bizarre “letters” attached to fantastical animals. Maybe Fr. Martin would be best represented by “yuzz”, “fuddle”, or “vroo”.
2. The rebuke needs to be pointed right at, square in the face, James Martin. It is appreciated that our Church doctrines are addressed in this matter, but, I really do think that this heretic priest needs to be called out.
How many bishops have permitted him access to their flock, as he spews this garbage in many parishes? I have never in my life, seen such weak men, in positions of authority, fearful of addressing the person, by name, who is desiring many to turn away from Christ and His teachings, as he and others like him, ” accompany” each other straight to hell.
3. I wish we could quit calling him and the other heretics like him “priests”!
Illinois Bishop calls out gay lobby. Slaps down criticism by homosexualist Jesuit James Martin
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/illinois-bishop-calls-out-gay-lobby
By Rodney Pelletier, Springfield, Illinois, July 21, 2017
Bishop Thomas Paprocki, head of the diocese of Springfield, Illinois, is calling out the gay lobby in the Church.
In a decree dated June 12, 2017, and titled, “Decree Regarding Same-sex ‘Marriage’ and Related Pastoral Issues,” Paprocki declared that clergy or representatives of the diocese cannot bless so-called same-sex unions or provide church facilities or objects for events connected to gay weddings. He further asserted that people in same-sex sexual relationships cannot present themselves for Holy Communion, serve any ministerial role in a parish, and if they die unrepentant, they cannot have Catholic funerals.
After being attacked by many self-proclaimed Catholics, including popular homosexualist Jesuit Fr. James Martin, Paprocki doubled down, clearing up confusion cast by Martin.
In his July 9 letter, Paprocki noted, “The fact that there would be such an outcry against this decree is quite astounding and shows how strong the LGBT lobby is both in the secular world, as well as within the church.”
He noted the decree is “totally consistent with Catholic teaching about the sacraments and the understanding of marriage as between one man and one woman that has prevailed for millennia in all of society, not just in the church.”
The bishop also addresses the criticisms of Fr. Martin, saying “he gets a lot wrong.”
Paprocki noted there is a difference in church law between people who commit sins of a private nature, like those who use birth control and those who are “manifest sinners” who give “public scandal” such as those who have public, legal status in same-sex marriages.
He addressed other situations in which “manifest sinners” cannot present themselves for Holy Communion without repentance and reception of the sacrament of Confession such as:
Those who have had sexual relations outside of marriage, whether they are heterosexual or homosexual
Those who have had an abortion or have assisted in performing or procuring an abortion
Those politicians and judges who helped to make same-sex marriage legal and who aid and abet abortion, for example, by voting for taxpayer funding of abortion
Those who use artificial contraception
Those who miss Mass on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation, unless it would be impossible due to a grave cause such as serious illness
In response to Paprocki’s letter, Bp. Patrick McGrath, the pro-homosexual head of the diocese of San Jose, California, wrote, “We will not refuse sacraments or Christian Burial to anyone who requests them in good faith.” It goes on, “Finally, let us remember and be guided by the words of Pope Francis, ‘The Eucharist is not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak.'”
Paprocki is one of the only U.S. Catholic bishops to express the existence of a “gay lobby” in the Church and to issue directives to priests and diocesan representatives to have nothing to do same-sex weddings.
He finishes his letter by affirming, “The truths of the Faith revealed by Our Lord in Scripture and Tradition are not always easy to accept, especially in a world that seeks to make all truth subjective. The fact is that some truths are objective and unalterable.”
1. Bishop Paprocki for Pope!
2. Bp. McGrath says: “Finally, let us remember and be guided by the words of Pope Francis, ‘The Eucharist is not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak.'”
And let us ALSO remember and be guided, Bp. McGrath, by the words of St. Paul, inspired by the Holy Spirit, who said, “”Whosoever,” he says, “shall eat this bread or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord.” And again: “He that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself.”
There is a difference between being weak, which would indicate at least some level of a) remorse and b) limited attempt to fight temptation and complete surrender (or worse) to sin.
3. God bless Bp. Paprocki! His career is probably over given the climate in the Church these days, and he might not make it to retire at age 75, but I’m starting to be impressed, I feel that way about very, very few US bishops.
Though it be completely out of season, preach the gospel, bishop! Speak the truth in grace and let those hear who have ears to hear.
In a just world, the Cdl Burkes and Bp. Paprocki’s would be the ones running the entire Church. Or rather, men like them would be so common their words and deeds that today make news headlines would go virtually unnoticed — it would simply be expected (and accepted; and respected & appreciated) that every bishop would say & do such things.
4. The comments on Father Martins Facebook post are horrifying. He is encouraging a seething hatred against the Church, her teachings and faithful Catholics.
5. Thank God, that the Church Militant is still alive and there are such websites! It’s awful how the Church today is infiltrated by anti-christian ideologies including that which calls to resign from any fight against evil and rejects ecclesia militans which in fact is one of the main divisions of the church. What one hears on Vatican Radio for example sounds much for often like anti-christian mainstream media. It seems like hippie ideology got to the very heart of Vatican. One can only dream today about the Vatican organising a crusade to save Christians or constituting a real opposition against world political players. When the catholic hierarchy acts against spreading the Word of God under cover of anti-proselytism and fully accepts anti-christian political order of the world created over last three centuries I believe that the infiltration has gone terribly deep and we are already at the very low point. But I believe also that with God’s grace and effort of the real faithful the Catholic Church may be reconquested from the ‘savage wolves’ and the false ideologies uprooted. And I believe that there still may be, before Jesus comes again to destroy all evil definitively, another huge victory of the People of God in the world against the satanic forces like it happened for example during the Maccabean Revolt.
http://angelqueen.org/2017/04/15/more-bad-news-from-the-vatican-re-dissent-lover-fr-james-martin-s-j/
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QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 09-THE POPE UNDERGOES NEW AGE TREATMENTS
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_09-THE_POPE_UNDERGOES_NEW_AGE_TREATMENTS.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 10-NEW AGE CONSULTOR TO THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR CULTURE NOW DENIGRATES THE EUCHARIST
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_10-NEW_AGE_CONSULTOR_TO_THE_PONTIFICAL_COUNCIL_FOR_CULTURE_NOW_DENIGRATES_THE_EUCHARIST.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 11-PRESIDENT OF THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR CULTURE JOINS IN RELIGIOUS RITUAL OF NEW AGE CULT
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_11-PRESIDENT_OF_THE_PONTIFICAL_COUNCIL_FOR_CULTURE_JOINS_IN_RELIGIOUS_RITUAL_OF_NEW_AGE_CULT.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 12-CATHOLIC CRITICISM OF ENCYCLICAL LAUDATO SI’
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_12-CATHOLIC_CRITICISM_OF_ENCYCLICAL_LAUDATO_SI’.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 13-SOME QUESTIONABLE ECCLESIAL APPOINTMENTS OF POPE FRANCIS
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_13-SOME_QUESTIONABLE_ECCLESIAL_APPOINTMENTS_OF_POPE_FRANCIS.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 14-A DANGEROUS POPE CHALLENGING THE CHURCH?
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_14-A_DANGEROUS_POPE_CHALLENGING_THE_CHURCH.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 15-THE POPE SPEAKS ON CLIMATE CHANGE AIR POLLUTION AND A HERETICAL PRIEST EVADES PROLIFE ISSUES
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_15-THE_POPE_SPEAKS_ON_CLIMATE_CHANGE_AIR_POLLUTION_AND_A_HERETICAL_PRIEST_ EVADES _PROLIFE_ISSUES.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 16-CARDINAL DANNEELS REVEALS THAT HIS CLERICAL MAFIA STRIVED FOR BERGOGLIO AS POPE
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_16-CARDINAL_DANNEELS_REVEALS_THAT_HIS_CLERICAL_MAFIA_STRIVED_FOR_BERGOGLIO_AS_POPE.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 17-HOW WILL TRADITION VIEW POPE FRANCIS’ PAPACY?
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_17-HOW_WILL_TRADITION_VIEW_POPE_FRANCIS_PAPACY.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 18-CATHOLIC CRITICISM OF POPE FRANCIS’ MOTU PROPRIOS ON MARRIAGE ANNULMENT
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_18-CATHOLIC_CRITICISM_OF_POPE_FRANCIS_MOTU_PROPRIOS_ON_MARRIAGE_ANNULMENT.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 19-CRACKDOWN ON THE FRANCISCAN FRIARS OF THE IMMACULATE
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_19-CRACKDOWN_ON_THE_FRANCISCAN_FRIARS_OF_THE_IMMACULATE.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 20-ATHEIST PAPAL ADVISOR BELIEVES IN NEW AGE GODDESS
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_20-ATHEIST_PAPAL_ADVISOR_BELIEVES_IN_NEW_AGE_GODDESS.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 21-AWARDED 2015 PERSON OF THE YEAR BY ANTICHRISTIAN PETA
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_21-AWARDED_2015_PERSON_OF_THE_YEAR_BY_ANTICHRISTIAN_PETA.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 22-THE CONTRACEPTION AND RABBITGATE CONTROVERSIES
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_22-THE_CONTRACEPTION_AND_RABBITGATE_CONTROVERSIES.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 23-THE LUTHERANIZATION OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_23-THE_LUTHERANIZATION_OF_THE_CATHOLIC_CHURCH.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 24-APOSTOLIC DECEPTION AMORIS LAETITIA
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_24-APOSTOLIC_DECEPTION_AMORIS_LAETITIA.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 25-SHAME AND SCANDAL IN THE FAMILY
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_25-SHAME_AND_SCANDAL_IN_THE_FAMILY.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 26-THE DECENTRALIZATION OF DOCTRINAL AUTHORITY (SYNODALITY AND COLLEGIALITY)
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_26-THE_DECENTRALIZATION_OF_DOCTRINAL_AUTHORITY.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 27-THE CHIEF DRAFTER OF AMORIS LAETITIA AND THE ART OF KISSING
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_27-THE_CHIEF_DRAFTER_OF_AMORIS_LAETITIA_AND_THE_ART_OF_KISSING.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 28- QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 28-DID GERMAN PELF INFLUENCE THE SYNOD ON THE FAMILY?
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_28-DID_GERMAN_PELF_INFLUENCE_THE_SYNOD_ON_THE_FAMILY.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 29-PROTESTANT ALPHA COURSE ENDORSED BY POPE FRANCIS
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_29-PROTESTANT_ALPHA_COURSE_ENDORSED_BY_POPE_FRANCIS.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 30-ECUMENISM WITH PROTESTANTS
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_30-ECUMENISM_WITH_PROTESTANTS.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 31-AMORIS LAETITIA-CONTINUING FALLOUT
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_31-AMORIS_LAETITIA-CONTINUING_FALLOUT.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 32-PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR THE FAMILY UNVEILS DIABOLICAL SEX-ED PROGRAMME
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_32-PONTIFICAL_COUNCIL_FOR_THE_FAMILY_UNVEILS_DIABOLICAL_SEX-ED_PROGRAMME.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 33-POPE FRANCIS DECLINES DONATION BECAUSE OF 666 FIGURE
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_33-POPE_FRANCIS_DECLINES_DONATION_BECAUSE_OF_666_FIGURE.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 34-POPE FRANCIS AND THE HAMMER AND SICKLE CRUCIFIX
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_34-POPE_FRANCIS_AND_THE_HAMMER_AND_SICKLE_CRUCIFIX.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 35-RESURREXIFIXES AND A STRANGE CROZIER
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_35-RESURREXIFIXES_AND_A_STRANGE_CROZIER.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 36-THE BENT CROSS CONTROVERSY
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_36-THE_BENT_CROSS_CONTROVERSY.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 37-A BEACH BALL BEFORE THE TABERNACLE
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_37-A_BEACH_BALL_BEFORE_THE_TABERNACLE.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 38-CONFESSIONAL ABSOLUTION WITHOUT A SHRED OF REPENTANCE
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_38-CONFESSIONAL_ABSOLUTION_WITHOUT_A_SHRED_OF_REPENTANCE.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 39-SILENT ON ISLAMIST TERRORISM CONCEDING TO ISLAM
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_39-SILENT_ON_ISLAMIST_TERRORISM_CONCEDING_TO_ISLAM.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 40-THE PURGE OF THE CONGREGATION FOR DIVINE WORSHIP
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_40-THE_PURGE_OF_THE_CONGREGATION_FOR_DIVINE_WORSHIP.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 41-LIBERATION THEOLOGIAN BANNED EX-PRIEST BOFF SAYS FRANCIS IS ONE OF US
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_41-LIBERATION_THEOLOGIAN_BANNED_EX-PRIEST_BOFF_SAYS_FRANCIS_IS_ONE_OF_US.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 42-PRO-SOCIALISM, ANTI-CAPITALISM
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_42-PRO-SOCIALISM_ANTI-CAPITALISM.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 43-FIRST-EVER ANGLICAN SERVICE IN VATICANS ST PETERS BASILICA
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_43-FIRST-EVER_ANGLICAN_SERVICE_IN_VATICANS_ST_PETERS_BASILICA.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 44-ARE THESE RUMOURS OR ARE INTERRELIGIOUS MASSES NEXT
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_44-ARE_THESE_RUMOURS_OR_ARE_INTERRELIGIOUS_MASSES_NEXT.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 45-CRITICISM OF TRADITIONAL RELIGIOUS ORDERS AND THE TRIDENTINE MASS
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_45-CRITICISM_OF_TRADITIONAL_RELIGIOUS_ORDERS_AND_THE_TRIDENTINE_MASS.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 46-CLIMATE OF FEAR IN THE VATICAN
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_46-CLIMATE_OF_FEAR_IN_THE_VATICAN.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 47-CRASS COMMENTS AND AD HOMINEM ATTACKS ON FAITHFUL CATHOLICS
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_47-CRASS_COMMENTS_AND_AD_HOMINEM_ATTACKS_ON_FAITHFUL_CATHOLICS.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 48-THE DESECRATION OF SACRED SPACES IN ROME
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_48-THE_DESECRATION_OF_SACRED_SPACES_IN_ROME.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 49-LITTLE REVERENCE FOR THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_49-LITTLE_REVERENCE_FOR_THE_BLESSED_SACRAMENT.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 50-ABOLITION OF THE SOLEMN TRAPPINGS OF THE PONTIFICAL OFFICE
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_50-ABOLITION_OF_THE_SOLEMN_TRAPPINGS_OF_THE_PONTIFICAL_OFFICE.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 51-I AM THE POPE-I DO NOT NEED TO GIVE REASONS FOR ANY OF MY DECISIONS
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_51-I_AM_THE_POPE-I_DO_NOT_NEED_TO_GIVE_REASONS_FOR_ANY_OF_MY_DECISIONS.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 52-STRIPPING THE CHURCH-THE CATHOLIC FUNERAL OF THE FUTURE
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_52-STRIPPING_THE_CHURCH-THE_CATHOLIC_FUNERAL_OF_THE_FUTURE.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 53-POLICE BUST DRUG AND GAY-SEX ORGY IN VATICAN APARTMENT
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_53-POLICE_BUST_DRUG_AND_GAY-SEX_ORGY_IN_VATICAN_APARTMENT.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 54-PRESBYTERIAN PASTOR MADE DIRECTOR OF L’OSSERVATORE ROMANO ARGENTINA
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_54-PRESBYTERIAN_PASTOR_MADE_DIRECTOR_OF_L’OSSERVATORE_ROMANO_ARGENTINA.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 55-BRUTAL DISMISSAL OF CARDINAL MULLER AS PREFECT OF THE CDF
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_55-BRUTAL_DISMISSAL_OF_CARDINAL_MULLER_AS_PREFECT_OF_THE_CDF.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 56-HELL BENT ON THE DESTRUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY
(POLITICISATION/ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION)
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_56-HELL_BENT_ON_THE_DESTRUCTION_OF_CHRISTIANITY.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 57-MORE NON-CATHOLIC EXPERTS ENTER THE VATICAN UNDER ARCHBISHOP PAGLIA
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_57-MORE_NON-CATHOLIC_EXPERTS_ENTER_THE_VATICAN_UNDER_ARCHBISHOP_PAGLIA.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 58-HIS NEW PONTIFICAL ACADEMY FOR DEATH
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_58-HIS_NEW_PONTIFICAL_ACADEMY_FOR_DEATH.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 59-HERESY-GOD CANNOT BE GOD WITHOUT MAN
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_59-HERESY-GOD_CANNOT_BE_GOD_WITHOUT_MAN.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 60-RESHAPING THE COLLEGE OF CARDINALS TO INFLUENCE THE FUTURE OF THE CHURCH
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_60-RESHAPING_THE_COLLEGE_OF_CARDINALS_TO_INFLUENCE_THE_FUTURE_OF_THE-CHURCH.doc
QUO VADIS PAPA FRANCISCO 61-CURIAL CARDINAL QUESTIONS POPE LEO XIII DECLARATION ON NULLITY OF ANGLICAN ORDERS
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/QUO_VADIS_PAPA_FRANCISCO_61-CURIAL_CARDINAL_QUESTIONS_POPE_LEO_XIII_DECLARATION_ON_NULLITY_OF_ANGLICAN_ORDERS.doc
AMORIS LAETITIA AND THE CURRENT CRISIS IN THE CHURCH
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/AMORIS_LAETITIA_AND_THE_CURRENT_CRISIS_IN_THE_CHURCH.doc
AMORIS LAETITIA AND THE GAY MAFIA IN THE VATICAN 01
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/AMORIS_LAETITIA_AND_THE_GAY_MAFIA_IN_THE_VATICAN_01.doc
AMORIS LAETITIA-THE SSPX ANALYSIS AND CRITICISM
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/AMORIS_LAETITIA-THE_SSPX_ANALYSIS_AND_CRITICISM.doc
THE DUBIA OR DOUBTS ABOUT AMORIS LAETITIA-FOUR CARDINALS ASK FIVE QUESTIONS
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/THE_DUBIA_OR_DOUBTS_ABOUT_AMORIS_LAETITIA-FOUR_CARDINALS_ASK_FIVE_QUESTIONS.doc
POPE FRANCIS APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION AMORIS LAETITIA ACCUSED OF HERESY BY 45 THEOLOGIANS
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/POPE_FRANCIS_APOSTOLIC_EXHORTATION_AMORIS_LAETITIA_ACCUSED_OF_HERESY_BY_45_THEOLOGIANS.doc
POPE FRANCIS HIMSELF QUESTIONED ORTHODOXY OF AMORIS LAETITIA
http://ephesians-511.net/docs/POPE_FRANCIS_HIMSELF_QUESTIONED_ORTHODOXY_OF_AMORIS_LAETITIA.doc
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Franco’s Catalans
There’s so much dreadful journalism in Catalonia that it’s a great relief to read Xavier Rius, head hontxo over at e-noticies.com. Here’s a slightly abridged version of a piece by him:
Of all the initiatives presented by ERC [the Catalan separatists] to obtain forgiveness for the sin of having formed a pact with the PSC [the Catalan socialist party] the most surreal is its urging the Spanish government to make “a public request for pardon” for the execution of Lluís Companys [president of the Catalan regional government during the war, shot for treason by the nationalists in 1940 following a perfunctory trial]. As if Mr José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero – one of whose grandfathers they also shot – had something to do with what happened to the so-called martyr president…
There are those who still think the war in 36 was a confrontation between Catalans and Spanish. Maybe it’s time to bury the myth of Spain against Catalonia or even that of fascism against Catalonia. When all’s said and done, el Tercio de Nuestra Señora de Montserrat [a Carlist regiment in Franco’s army that was devastated in the battle of Codo-Belchite, SE of Zaragoza, but subsequently played an important role in the battle of the Ebro] was full of Catalans. Franquista Catalans, but Catalans. And that’s not to forget the Catalans who either died at hands of the lawless [els incontrolats], the FAI [Federación Anarquista Ibérica] or the SIM [Servicio de Información Militar, the republic’s secret police], because there were also killings on the republican side.
Ignasi Riera, in a delightful book from the late 90s, has already reviewed Franco’s most illustrious Catalans, one of whom [Juan Antonio Samaranch], by the way, later became president of the International Olympic Committee and La Caixa [the Catalan regional savings bank] and contributed substantially to blocking the creation of a Catalan Olympic Committee. Despite this, [in April Rafel] Niubó [Catalan secretary of sport] wanted to name him “ambassador” for Catalan sport [Samaranch denied he’d been approached]. That’s the stuff.
(While we’re dealing with politically motivated censorship, there’s a report in this month’s Barcelona Business that the Opus Dei-owned Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (actually a vocational high school for those with more pence than sense) has sacked Rius from the staff of its journalism school for publishing an innocuous story about another local Catholic pay-per-pew institute, Abat Oliba.)
El Barça, Franco’s favourite team?
There is no statistical evidence for claims that the Franco government worked for Real Madrid and against Barça.
Franco and the golden ages of the sardana
The sardana was encouraged by the Francoist state and suffered its greatest difficulties during the period of revolutionary anarcho-syndicalist and Stalinist
Justo Bueno chiselled out of historical memory
The mysterious disappearance of an anarchist serial killer from the Catalan version of the Valle de los Caídos.
Good judges
I’ve always wondered where Spanish judges, particularly local ones, find justification for their habit of ignoring judicial precedent and ruling whatever
Generalitat de Catalunya: St George is Susanowo in Japanese
Yesterday the Catalan government mounted some kind of co-branding (brand leeching, if you prefer) spectacle with the Japanese ambassador to Spain,
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Sense8: We Will All Be Judged By The Courage Of Our Hearts
June 22, 2015 3:06 PM - Season 1, Episode 8 - Subscribe
We learn more about Wolfgang's (and Felix's) past. Riley shows Will around her home in Iceland. Lito has some relationship troubles. Sun throws down in the yard. Nomi goes on the run. Kala is about to tell her potential father in law that she doesn't want to marry Rajan when they're interrupted.
posted by yasaman (20 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
Man, episodes 7 and 8 were really painful. The stories got clichéd and terribly predictable, and the dialogue so bad we were laughing. And did we really need to linger so long on Lito having his breakdown? What the hell happened to the main plot? It's like they misplaced it somewhere, along with the antagonist. If the side stories hadn't degenerated into maudlin and/or silly junk (the hacker stuff was so absurdly dumb) the lack of forward motion on the main storyline would be fine, honest. But they did and so it's not.
After the joyous orgy in episode 6, this episode and the one before were a total slog. At times it's like watching two different shows - one full of wonder and neat ideas and cool action and powerful emotion, and the other full of ridiculously lazy writing and pacing clunkier than the worst Syfy schlock. We almost gave up after this one, but folks told us it was worth finishing. We'll see.
posted by mediareport at 8:15 PM on June 22, 2015
This episode did have the excellent chase scene with Nomi on the run from the bad guys though! It was a really thrilling scene, the first real glimpse at the new dimension sensate abilities can bring to what would otherwise be a standard on the run from bad guys scene. Because not only did Sun come to perform asskicking services, Will came to help Sun in a nice bit of teamwork. And then, in response to Nomi's "I don't know how to drive!" who should show up but Capheus! And man, his sheer joy is just so infectious. He was so clearly thrilled to be able to help, and thrilled to be living out a real life action movie of sorts.
posted by yasaman at 10:44 PM on June 22, 2015 [6 favorites]
After this episode (and the one before) my husband and I were so bored that we skipped straight to the season finale. I have gone back and skimmed through the one we missed, but yeah. There were moments of awesome but it was slow going and didn't feel like it advanced the plot, or the characters, very much.
posted by tracicle at 12:19 AM on June 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
I lived a couple blocks from the start of the bicycle chase scene. Looks like they removed a guardrail to give a straight shot to the walkway. I was hoping they'd map out a course of escape maybe through Diamond Heights park. (That area is crying out for a foot/bicycle chase scene.) But she goes from there to approaching the Castro/Market/17th clusterfuck intersection from the north, which doesn't make much sense.
posted by nom de poop at 5:06 AM on June 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
Yeah the chase was a ton of fun but all it did was contrast a short scene of intense coolness with 40 minutes of dullness. The lack of movement of the larger plot after 8 episodes is crushing the high hopes I had for the show, and the at times hilariously bad dialogue is grinding them into the dirt.
posted by mediareport at 5:30 AM on June 23, 2015
Was there anything non-clichéd and non-obvious about Sun's prison story, e.g.? Is there any doubt about where Lito's story is going after the breakup? Was anyone really needing to know the story of Felix and Wolfgang's childhood meeting? What exactly does that add here?
So.....much.....padding......
Huh. I pulled this from Wikipedia: "Initial writing was split between the Wachowskis and Straczynski every few episodes. The Wachowskis wrote episodes one, two, three, seven and eight. Straczynski wrote episodes four, five, six, nine and ten."
Seems like episodes 4 through 6 have been the ones pulling everybody in. Difference in initial writer? Can't help but wonder.
posted by dlugoczaj at 7:29 AM on June 23, 2015
I wouldn't call all that padding, because it's character work, and I for one always appreciate more/better character work over plot. But oh man, did Sense8 push me on that score when it came to episodes 7-9. I definitely recall getting impatient at about this point in the series, because it felt like the larger plot was spinning its wheels, and I admit to starting to tune out during the subplots that interested me less. Like, I confess that while in theory I appreciated the Wolfgang backstory, in practice I started drifting off and not paying attention, to the point that I didn't realize there was actually some interesting stuff going on in those flashbacks in terms of German reunification and how it presumably influenced Wolfgang's life.
Episodes 10-12 definitely regain traction though.
posted by yasaman at 9:28 AM on June 23, 2015
This episode was a little slower but I liked it. I'm glad that this show is interested in rich variation and spends so much time with these characters.
The show is also very interested in how these people were as children; have we seen every character as a child? I like that there are connections between the backstories and current situations of the different sensates but they are tenuous; everyone's experience is not the same.
The AV Club reviewer notes that he wishes we saw more of this side of Felix as an adult; I understand but this makes for a better story. I never quite liked Felix, but we get an idea of why Wolfgang does. This is another thing the show is good at: deep, family-like connections between people.
Nomi's escape - with lots of help - was fantastic. Also wonderful was Diego walking in on Will "kissing" "Riley."
posted by mountmccabe at 10:32 AM on June 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
Really nice character studies and development. Yeah, the main plot hasn't taken a backseat for the moment, but it's so worth it. Sense8 is an emotional journey with these people, it's ok to dial back the action as we learn more about them.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 11:28 AM on June 24, 2015
Just to be clear, I'd love it if these middle episodes had given us interesting emotional journeys and character development. They don't. They give us cliches instead. Again, there's little about Sun's prison laundry bully escapade that hasn't been done a million times in Oz, Prison Break, Orange Is The New Black and endless other prison bully stories. What was her character development there again? That we hadn't already seen?
There was none. Same goes for child Wolfgang and Felix. If the digressions had continued to be as interesting as the flashes we'd seen in early episodes - i.e., if they'd actually shown character development beyond the initial sketches we'd gotten early on - I'd have been so, so ok with putting the Sensate-origin/Whispers-hunt story aside for them. But they didn't, and I wasn't. It's fine if other folks feel differently, but at this point in the season, I'm surprised to find anyone who thinks there wasn't a ton of padding going on.
I loved the four person escape scene and Nomi calling on three different people for help. AWESOME. Also, really enjoyed the Will/Riley makeout scene and him being caught.
Poor Daniella. I want the boys to do a rescue, stat. It would probably get them killed, though. Also, that dad stabbing came outta nowhere!
posted by jenfullmoon at 9:06 PM on June 28, 2015
The slow parts did get a bit slow, but that escape scene was so epic that I would sit through a lot more slowness to see more scenes like it.
posted by isthmus at 8:05 PM on June 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
And despite any slowness, I'm still very much enjoying the show.
posted by isthmus at 8:05 PM on June 30, 2015
Was anyone really needing to know the story of Felix and Wolfgang's childhood meeting?
Ohh, I was so entranced by how SERIOUSLY spot-on those kids were to their adult actor counterparts that I really enjoyed the backstory, more than usual.
posted by desuetude at 11:29 PM on August 2, 2015 [5 favorites]
Please tell me this show gets better. I want to like it, but I feel like I get 45 minutes of pablum for every five minutes of greatness. I was on board for about three episodes, and have been really struggling the last three.
I am totally bored with all of their individual stories. I am tired of the cliches, and I am tired of the simple ethnic caricatures. This show is so great when the Sensates are switching bodies, and so dull otherwise.
Is this it, is this just what the show is? Or is this some (a lot) of mid-season padding?
posted by kanewai at 6:59 PM on January 5, 2016 [1 favorite]
This is what the show is. If you don't like that, feel free to bail now without guilt.
posted by jenfullmoon at 10:26 PM on January 6, 2016 [1 favorite]
I think I was reasonably interested not only in the whole sense8 thing, but also in at least five of the eight individual stories. If you're batting 0/8 on the individual stories, this might not be the show for you.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 4:12 AM on January 8, 2016
Again, there's little about Sun's prison laundry bully escapade that hasn't been done a million times in Oz, Prison Break, Orange Is The New Black and endless other prison bully stories. What was her character development there again? That we hadn't already seen?
I'm actually really enjoying what I see of Sun's character development, but the actress is doing it very understated, and I'm not sure if I see what I see.
Where I think they're going is that Sun has to learn to value herself and her choices. She has always been a protector, but she's choosing who to protect. And in return, she is being admitted to the loyalty of women - which I get the impression she's been closed off from and hasn't experienced. She is learning to develop positive relationships, that good things bring good in return. For me, it's not about Sun fighting the bullies - it's about the paintbrush with her chopsticks.
That said, holy hell did I not expect Kala's story to go like that!
posted by corb at 10:38 AM on October 20, 2016 [2 favorites]
What was her character development there again?
she made a stoic sacrifice for somebody else, like she always does
AND THEY NOTICED
AND THANKED HER
AND REPAID HER AS BEST THEY COULD
the most life-changing series of moments any character has experienced so far. this is a very boring show considering how trashy it is, but Sun's slow discovery that she can be treated like a worthy human being and not a dishrag when she does good deeds, as long as she does them for people who deserve it, meaning other women and not men? that should be a dramatic cliche by now but I put it to you that it is not. it was incredible and her reaction to her discovery was the closest to subtle this show is capable of. so, not subtle at all but the actress sold it all the same. and it was set in motion by hearing herself say to the other woman, "you didn't have to help me." as you do say, when someone puts herself out for you, but nobody ever said to Sun herself.
and I dare say it was the only time the show allowed itself to subvert its own premise, by allowing one character to expand her consciousness and find real solidarity and connection in a way that was all thanks to her own good choices. Sun didn't need to be saved by the loving psychic care of her creepy instafamily brain friends, she just had to redirect her terrific personality to help people who deserve it. she thought she was tough enough to do without gratitude and respect, and she was, but it is easy to scorn something you never had. everything is different now that she's had a taste of it.
AND Felix can't talk anymore, for at least a little while. what a delightful episode.
posted by queenofbithynia at 10:56 PM on November 20, 2017 [1 favorite]
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Jennifer Lopez in skintight leather catsuit at Italian music festival
By Asianista
Jennifer Lopez reprised the catsuit look — this time in leather — at the 60th anniversary of the San Remo music festival in Italy. The ensemble actually appeared to be high-waisted leather pants embellished with lace-up ties and crystals, and a tight leather blouse that ended above her bosom. Take a look…
Tags jennifer lopez, leather catsuit
Categories Current Events, Entertainment, Fashion style
Heidi Klum, Kim Kardashian, Joan Collins, Kimora Lee strut the runway for Red Dress Collection 2010 Fashion Show
New York Fashion Week (Feb. 11 to 18) is off to a red hot start. Thursday night was the Red Dress 2010 Collection by The Heart Truth featuring 20 celebrities wearing 20 different red dresses designed to “celebrate the Red Dress as the national symbol for women and heart disease awareness.”
See the photos and decide which is your favorite dress!
Heidi Klum in John Galliano:
Tags bethenny frankel, felicity huffman, heidi klum, isabella oliver, joan collins, john galliano, kim kardashian, kimora lee, marchesa, New York Fashion Week, oscar de la renta, red dress fashion show 2010, regina king, zac posen
Categories Current Events, Entertainment, fashion news, fashion show, Uncategorized
Rachel Zoe in NYC for Naomi Campbell’s ‘Fashion for Relief’ Superstar Runway Show for Haiti
Rachel Zoe/Twitter
Rachel Zoe is in the da house! The diminutive stylist bundled up in sleek black boots, furry black hat and a giant white coat to brave the New York City snow storm. She even tweeted about it.
Zoe is in town to review Fall 2010 collections at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York City from February 11-18.
The celebrity stylist will also be working outfitting the superstars who will be walking the runway for Naomi Campbell’s Fashion for Relief — a charity fashion show and auction — that, this year, will be benefitting mothers and children of Haiti. It takes place February 12.
Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson will be hosting the charity fashion show, which promises to “feature internationally recognized designers, celebrities and VIPs.” The donated garments, including from designers Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen and Dolce & Gabbana, will be auctioned online at NET-A-PORTER after the event.
Tags fall 2010 collections, fashion for charity, mercedes-benz fashion week, naomi campbell, New York City, rachel zoe, stylist
Categories Current Events, Entertainment, fashion news, fashion show
Carrie Underwood looks white-hot at Super Bowl 2010
February 8, 2010 //
Carrie Underwood wore all white to sing the national anthem at tonight’s Super Bowl XLIV. The singer donned the cropped “Cary” jacket from Rock & Republic’s RTW Spring 2010 line — accessorizing it with silver chains on her right shoulder — and wore it over a sparkly silver blouse and tight white jeans.
Underwood looked sleek and stunning, though I wasn’t loving those chunky white platform heels. White pumps always look so plastic-y. What do you think?
Tags all white suits, carrie underwood, jacket, rock & republic, super bowl
Rihanna and Lady Gaga – High Fashion at the Grammys
I just loved these two looks!
First, Rihanna wore a beautiful Elie Saab Haute Couture gown. The earrings and bracelet are by Neil Lane. He additional jewelry is by Yvel and Diamond in the Rough.
Lady Gaga in an Armani Prive dress, custom-made, of course. She’s just awesome like that.
What do you think? What looks did you just love from this year’s Grammys?
Photos courtesy of PicApp.com.
New York Magazine: Straight From the Red Carpet: Looks From the Grammys — Vulture
Rolling Stone: The 2010 Grammys in Photos
L.A. Times: 2010 Grammy Awards fashion coverage
Tags Grammy Awards, Grammys, Lady Gaga, Rihanna
Categories Current Events, Dresses, Entertainment, fashion news, Style
Golden Globe Awards – 10 Best Dressed
After last year’s recession-reserved red carpet styles, the 2010 awards season is showing us a crop of much more daring choices.
The colors covered the range and included whites, neutrals, bold brights and blacks coupled with romantic details like beading, dramatic drapes, pretty ruffles and delicate flounces.
Everyone was a lot more comfortable taking a risk. Most of those risks paid off.
Here are OpenFashion.com’s top 10 best dressed and a couple of honorable mentions.
Drew Barrymore’s champagne Atelier Versace gown:
Tags Arists for Peace and Justice, celebrity, Chloë Sevigny, Diane Kruger, Drew Barrymore, Emily Blunt, fashion, Ginnifer Goodwin, Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globes, Julia Roberts, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mo'Nique, Olivia Wilde, Rose Byrne, Sofia Vergara, Style, Zoe Saldana
Categories Beauty, Current Events, Entertainment, fashion news, Fashion style, Style
15 Best Fashion iPhone Apps (and 5 Hand-Picked runners up)
image from the WSJ.com - (l-r) Donna Karan; Norma Kamali; Ralph Lauren; Getty Images; Donna Karan; Getty Images; Elie Tahari; Tommy Hilfiger
One benefit of having a fashion blogger who is also a tech geek and tech blogger is more topics! I just wrote a post over at The Next Web titled: 20 Fashion Apps for the iPhone. Of course, you can check it out there (in fact, please check it out there too.)
Here I get to sort through that list with more of a fine-toothed comb. For you lovelies, I’ve ranked them by iTunes ranking and have thrown in five more I think look good.
Tags apps, fashion, iphone, iphone apps
Categories Accessories, Entertainment, fashion news
Nicole Richie Launching a Clothing Line for Women
All sorts of new collections are starting up:
Tom Ford announced he’s returning to womens wear and will design a new line for women
Jimmy Choo’s line for menswear is in H&M stores now
Stella McCartney’s line for kids goes on sale at babyGap and GapKids next month
Now we’ve got the news that Nicole Richie is also expanding on her fashion empire with a contemporary clothing line for women. She’s already had success with the House of Harlow, her 60s inspired line of jewelry, and her Nicole for Pea in the Pod maternity line.
A Winter Kate jacket layered over a camisole and vest with House of Harlow 1960 accessories. Photo by Raquel Olivo
Winter Kate is the name of the new line. It will debut next spring. The line, which takes her daughter Harlow’s two middle names, will also be 60s and 70s inspired. The 37 pieces will have a bohemian feel. The line will have mostly bed jackets, tops and vests as these are the focus points of Richie’s personal wardrobe.
Richie told Women’s Wear Daily, “I probably wear the same two pairs of jeans every day as the background to a fabulous top,” she said. “Bed jackets are a staple of my wardrobe because they are a gorgeous way to give jeans and a white T-shirt a completely different look.”
For Richie, “Fashion should be accessible.” Both the House of Harlow and Winter Kate target the same type of customer. “She is a woman like me: She does not look at labels; she knows how to mix and match. The pieces can be dressed up, made casual, but most importantly, they provide the wearer a means of self-expression and fun.”
You’ll be able to buy Winter Kate separates beginning in February at Nordstrom, Bloomingdale’s, Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Ron Herman, Intermix and Kitson.
Women’s Wear Daily: Nicole Richie Launching Contemporary Line
Grazia Fashion: Nicole Richie does womenswear!
The Thread: Nicole Richie Launches New Fashion Line
Tags celebrity, fashion news, news, Nicole Richie
Categories Current Events, Entertainment, fashion news, Fashion style
Fashion 2.0 – Burberry, D&G, Alexander McQueen, Louis Vuitton and Roland Mouret
October 6, 2009 //
It’s been a few years since a Julie Frederickson got unceremoniously tossed out of the Bryant Park tents for daring to interview Anna Wintour. To Anna’s credit, however, she answered Frederickson’s questions. It was the publicist, Kelly Cutrone, who went ballistic and tossed her. My how things have changed!
As you know, OpenFashion.com has been on Twitter and Facebook for the last few weeks following the fashion week shows happening in New York, London, Milan and Paris. The shows, the clothes and the buzz are exciting and fun to keep up with.
However, once the shows got across the pond to Europe, the innovation kicked up a notch.
It started with Burberry Prorsum broadcasting live from London Fashion Week.
screen shot from the live Burberry Prorsum show
Then in Milan Twitter simply blew up when Federico Marchetti, the CEO of an Internet site Yoox.com, and bloggers BryanBoy, Tommy Ton, Garance Doré and Scott Schuman got the front row at the D&G show.
Today Alexander McQueen had brilliant webcast of his Paris Fashion Week Spring Summer 2010 runway show today at 2:15pm Paris time. He paired with SHOWstudio, which is headed by photographer Nick Knight. SHOWstudio is known for incorporating innovation into how they present fashion to the world and just opened a space in London a few weeks ago.
In an interview with WWD, McQueen talked about wanting to break new ground in how the public views fashion by making it more accessible.
“I want to break new ground in the way the public sees and understands fashion,” McQueen told Women’s Wear Daily, fashion’s top trade journal. “I want to generate something for a wider audience,” he added, acknowledging he is embracing new media such as Twitter with great passion. Weary of seeing snippets of his shows on YouTube, he joked, “Really, what I’m aiming for is world domination.” (quote from star.com: Alexander McQueen brings once-exclusive show online)
If you missed it, the webcast link is up on McQueen’s website: Alexander McQueen’s Plato’s Atlantis Spring/Summer 2010 webcast.
Hopefully, it will stay up so that everyone who wants to see if gets a chance. It’s a great 17 minutes.
screen shot of the beginning of the McQueen SS10 show
screen shot of the end of the McQueen show
You can follow McQueen on Twitter at @McQueenWorld and SHOWstudio here @SHOWstudio. Both McQueen and SHOWstudio get top marks for innovation. The runway setup and video cameras on rails just made it all a great show.
Burberry and McQueen aren’t alone. Others are planning to join this web trend.
Louis Vuitton has been promoting its planned October 7th show very aggressively on Facebook: Louis Vuitton Women Spring/Summer 2010 Live Fashion Show on Facebook. Last I checked, there were over 46,000 people who’d RSVPed that they’d “attend”. Since we all know 46,000 people won’t be there in person, that means all of these people have indicated they’ll watch the webcast. People will have 24 hours to view the show. Then, I guess, the video will be taken down.
Let’s see how many make the time to tune in tomorrow live. There were so many people trying to view McQueen’s show that there simply wasn’t enough bandwidth and many didn’t have a chance to view it live. If the response to the Vuitton show is similar to McQueen’s the same thing might happen.
Another designer announced another live stream for tomorrow, October 7th: Paris 2.0: Roland Mouret Show Will Join Online Party. Roland Mouret will pair with Fashionair.com.
We’re witnessing the democratization of fashion, and that’s incredibly exciting!
Women’s Wear Daily –Everyone’s Doing It: Brands Take on Social Media
Wall Street Journal – From the Runway to Your Laptop (great audio commentary accompanies this article, click over and listen)
A recap of the Fredrickson/Cutrone spat – New York Observer: Oh, Lowly Blogger? Your Seat’s in the Back
Tags Alexander McQueen, BryanBoy, Burberry Prorsum, D&G, Facebook, Fashionair.com, Garance Doré, Jak & Jil/Tommy Ton, London Fashion Week, Louis Vuitton, Milan Fashion Week, Paris Fashion Week, Roland Mouret, SHOPStudio, The Sartorialist/Scott Schuman, Twitter, Yoox.com
Categories Current Events, Entertainment, fashion news, fashion show, Latest trends, Uncategorized
Emmy Fashion 2009 – A Stunning Display of Good Taste on the Red Carpet
So who do you think rocked the red carpet at the 61st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards?
I’ve always been a fan of simple and sleek lines, bright colors and great accessories. I’m all about “less is more”. That seemed to be the theme a lot of designers and celebrities liked too.
Maybe the classic lines and understated details are reaction to these tough economic times. Whatever the reason, this was a very well-dressed group!
I decided to use video instead of pictures, so I’ve linked to a bunch of TV Guide video interviews from last night’s red carpet. You can see them all on TV Guide’s YouTube channel.
Check them out. Yes, there are some stars and great looks that are missing.
However, if your favorite isn’t here. Let me know who it is!
Chandra Wilson:
Glenn Close, Holly Hunter and Marcia Gay Harden:
Padma Lakshmi:
Seal and Heidi Klum:
Hayden Panettiere:
Christina Applegate:
Leighton Meester:
Kristin Chenoweth:
Jane Krakowski:
Julia Louis-Dreyfus:
Dana Delany:
Cobie Smulders:
Vanessa Williams:
Mariska Hargitay:
Kate Walsh:
Rose Byrne:
My favorite? Blake Lively’s Versache low cut red dress.
Pic yanked from Bonnie Fuller's Twitter stream - click to read Bonnie's tweet!
It was simple yet just stunning.
Thanks to TV Guide for such a great YouTube channel!
TVGuide – 2009 Emmys: Red Carpet Hits and Misses
Film.com – Best and Worst Red Carpet Emmy Fashion 2009
Los Angeles Times – Fashion lends the Emmys some added sparkle
New York Daily News – At Emmys, Kate Walsh, January Jones, Padma Lakshmi show TV’s a big fashion contender, too
Tags 61st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, awards, celebrities, Emmys, fashion, red carpet, They Emmy Awards
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Signal, Garcia Consulting land $30M award to simplify patent process
By Colleen O'Hara
The Patent and Trademark Office awarded last month a $30 million contract to Signal Corp. and Garcia Consulting Inc. to provide information research and system development support for patent examiners.
Signal and Garcia Consulting will compete for task orders under the Information Research and Facilities Services (IRFS) contract a five-year pact that will assist patent examiners in conducting searches on a wide variety of topics using on-line and hard-copy information resources.
PTO officials are looking to the IRFS to lessen the strain on the patent examining process. Advances in automation and on-line services and an increase in emerging technologies such as biotechnology and computer software have complicated the examination process changing the types of skills patent examiners need to fulfill their jobs.
The IRFS which will support PTO's Scientific and Technical Information Center should help PTO examine and issue patents in a more timely and efficient way.
Field Specialists
"This is not your run-of-the-mill contract in terms of the kind of specialists it requires " said David Peterson corporate vice president of Signal. He said the company is providing specialists in chemical mechanical and electrical fields among others who will develop appropriate search strategies based on what information patent examiners need.
Carol Wood vice president of information services at Garcia Consulting said search assistant positions require a master's degree in library science a technical degree and "exceptional on-line search capabilities." Assistants will be required to be familiar with more than 900 commercial databases she said.
Garcia Consulting has provided search assistance to PTO under a sole-source contract awarded about two years ago. The IRFS replaces that contract and various other task orders.
Signal and Garcia Consulting also will train examiners on how to use new search tools techniques and on-line services more efficiently.
The contract also covers information resources analysis to help identify appropriate sources of information on patent applications as well as library support services and facilities management operations for PTO libraries and information dissemination services.
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London Calling: Yanks, Red Sox promote MLB’s Euro arrival
By RONALD BLUM
LONDON (AP) — An array of retired All-Stars and Hall of Famers conducted a youth clinic. Workers put final touches on new clubhouses, batting cages and bullpens.
No ducks on the pond quite yet — not so soon after flying across it. Having landed in London, the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox relaxed, saw a few sights and tried to give Major League Baseball some buzz ahead of the first regular season games in Europe this weekend.
“More important than the two games is what continues to happen here in England after we’re gone,” baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said Thursday at the clinic in north London’s Finchley Park, not far from Tottenham. “It’s programs like this that provide kids with playing opportunities that are so crucial to the growth of our game.”
Mariano Rivera, Reggie Jackson, Alex Rodriguez, Andy Pettitte, Hideki Matsui, Carlos Beltran, Nick Swisher and Aaron Boone worked with players ages 8-15 and then joined Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner to present a truck of baseball equipment to the London Mets youth club. There was a cloudless sky and the temperature was in the mid-70s on a day when London had no resemblance to its Big Smoke nickname.
“I like the way that it’s different to other sports,” 8-year-old Milo Mandolini said. “I like batting, I find that quite fun.”
In a land dominated by Premier League football — soccer to novices back in the States — baseball wants to make inroads. Olympic Stadium, home of the West Ham soccer club, has been reconfigured for baseball, an artificial turf surface imported and foul poles installed. Red cards have been replaced by lineup cards, rituals on display for young fans to emulate.
“There’s no doubt this country’s about soccer,” Beltran said. “There’s some kids here that they hope and wish one day to become ballplayers.”
Fans will be asked to sing “Sweet Caroline,” just as they do at Fenway Park. A hawker was brought over to train British vendors the skills selling hot dogs and beer. Delaware North is even promoting 2,000-calorie-plus delicacies of Americana priced at 19-24 pounds ($24-$30), one involving 2-foot hot dogs, the other 2 feet of corn chips, and both with jalapenos.
On a less weighty matter, a variation of the Washington Nationals’ Racing Presidents will take place between innings — but featuring Winston Churchill, King Henry VIII, the Loch Ness Monster and late Queen vocalist Freddie Mercury.
And The Freeze is coming — not the typical British weather but instead the Atlanta Braves between-innings sprinter.
Major League Baseball is billing this as “Old rivalry. New ground.” Many of the regular fans are making the 3,500-mile or so journey. Red Sox season ticket holders purchased an average of 5,831 seats per game and Yankees buyers 4,752 during the presale, ready to mind the gap and take the Jubilee or Central line to the Queen Elizabeth Park rather than the No. 4 to the Bronx or the Green line to Kenmore Square.
Still, the majority of fans will be local. The baseball will vastly outdraw the Cricket World Cup, which includes Australia vs. New Zealand on Saturday at Lords and England vs India on Sunday at Edgbaston in Birmingham.
“We certainly hope to pick up some fans while we’re over there,” said Ron Bumgarner, Boston’s executive vice president of ticketing, events and concerts.
Both teams are taking advantage of British ties. Boston is hosting clients and sponsors of European champion Liverpool, which like the baseball team is owned by Fenway Sports Group. The Yankees learned about the youth baseball organization from Premier League champion Manchester City, the baseball team’s partner in Major League Soccer’s New York City team.
“You’re making this game grow,” Steinbrenner said at the clinic. “You’re getting people interested that maybe thought they wouldn’t be interested in baseball,”
Boone and Red Sox manager Alex Cora had never been to London before — the only European city Boone had visited was Barcelona, Spain. Players are creatures of routine, but Cora had no patience for gripes.
“Someone mentioned it’s a long trip, I said: ‘How about this one? You can be in Double-A right now on a bus ride, bad hotels and bad meals,'” he recalled. “Let’s put everything in perspective. It’s not that bad.”
Managers call the trip a distraction from the season’s monotony. Boone and Cora planned to visit Buckingham Palace before batting practice Friday to watch the changing of the guard. Both teams were due Friday night at the Tower of London — for a party, not imprisonment, though in the days of George Steinbrenner that latter likely would have been threatened for consecutive defeats.
Each player on the trip gets an extra $60,000, according to baseball’s labor contract. That more than covers the ticket cost of “The Making of Harry Potter,” the Yankees’ most-mentioned activity choice. Before he was sent to Triple-A in a roster crunch, Yankees outfielder Clint Frazier said some teammates envisioned a possible lengthier excursion: Paris.
“I know it’s only about a 3-hour train ride,” he said.
AP freelance writer Ken Powtak contributed to this report.
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Communal politics and religious difference in Denmark
Tatiana Fogelman
Rum, Sted, Mobilitet og By (MOSPUS)
Publikation: Konferencebidrag › Konferenceabstrakt til konference › Forskning
Most scholars and lay observers alike see Copenhagen as "a pioneering municipality and a role-model for other municipalities with respect to diversity" in Denmark (Andersen et al 2014: 4). In 2014 the city itself has boasted that it had become the 3rd most inclusive city in Europe, according to the Intercultural cities index, and claimed it was well on its way to achieve its goal to become "the most inclusive metropolis in Europe" by the year 2015. That very same year, however, left-dominated Copenhagen municipality ended the decades-long cooperation agreement with the only Jewish nursery and preschool in Denmark, effectively forcing it to leave the public sphere and privatize. This came about as the municipality's Children and Youth Committee withdrew its previous willingness to accommodate the daycare's need for more closed days (due to Jewish holidays) than the officially permitted number. Drawing on document analysis related to the case and interviews with the main actors in the process, this paper examines the reasons for this turnaround against the background of both self-proclaimed "diversity mainstreaming" in the city and politicians' lingering concerns about minorities' parallel societies. We focus on how these actors, including dissenting politicians on municipal and national level in the process, articulate diversity, especially religious diversity, and modes of its governance both in the city and Danish society and nation more broadly. In understanding of the contestations about the incorporation of religious diversity into the "new Danish nation" we point in particular to the persisting legacies of equality thought of as sameness and paradoxical secularism, especially as they play out in the context of multiple and differently-size and positioned religious minorities that majority engages with.
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Udgivet - 2017
Royal Geographical Society - Institute of British Geographers Annual Event: Decolonising geographical knowledges: opening geography out to the world - University of Cambridge, London , Storbritannien
Varighed: 29 aug. 2017 → 1 sep. 2017
http://www.rgs.org/NR/rdonlyres/8917A904-2E3F-4C58-95EC-613E0D70A0E5/0/AC2017ProgrammeBookforcirculation.pdf
Royal Geographical Society - Institute of British Geographers Annual Event
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Fogelman, T. (2017). Communal politics and religious difference in Denmark. Abstract fra Royal Geographical Society - Institute of British Geographers Annual Event, London , Storbritannien.
Fogelman, Tatiana. / Communal politics and religious difference in Denmark. Abstract fra Royal Geographical Society - Institute of British Geographers Annual Event, London , Storbritannien.
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Communal politics and religious difference in Denmark. / Fogelman, Tatiana.
2017. Abstract fra Royal Geographical Society - Institute of British Geographers Annual Event, London , Storbritannien.
T1 - Communal politics and religious difference in Denmark
AU - Fogelman, Tatiana
N2 - Most scholars and lay observers alike see Copenhagen as "a pioneering municipality and a role-model for other municipalities with respect to diversity" in Denmark (Andersen et al 2014: 4). In 2014 the city itself has boasted that it had become the 3rd most inclusive city in Europe, according to the Intercultural cities index, and claimed it was well on its way to achieve its goal to become "the most inclusive metropolis in Europe" by the year 2015. That very same year, however, left-dominated Copenhagen municipality ended the decades-long cooperation agreement with the only Jewish nursery and preschool in Denmark, effectively forcing it to leave the public sphere and privatize. This came about as the municipality's Children and Youth Committee withdrew its previous willingness to accommodate the daycare's need for more closed days (due to Jewish holidays) than the officially permitted number. Drawing on document analysis related to the case and interviews with the main actors in the process, this paper examines the reasons for this turnaround against the background of both self-proclaimed "diversity mainstreaming" in the city and politicians' lingering concerns about minorities' parallel societies. We focus on how these actors, including dissenting politicians on municipal and national level in the process, articulate diversity, especially religious diversity, and modes of its governance both in the city and Danish society and nation more broadly. In understanding of the contestations about the incorporation of religious diversity into the "new Danish nation" we point in particular to the persisting legacies of equality thought of as sameness and paradoxical secularism, especially as they play out in the context of multiple and differently-size and positioned religious minorities that majority engages with.
AB - Most scholars and lay observers alike see Copenhagen as "a pioneering municipality and a role-model for other municipalities with respect to diversity" in Denmark (Andersen et al 2014: 4). In 2014 the city itself has boasted that it had become the 3rd most inclusive city in Europe, according to the Intercultural cities index, and claimed it was well on its way to achieve its goal to become "the most inclusive metropolis in Europe" by the year 2015. That very same year, however, left-dominated Copenhagen municipality ended the decades-long cooperation agreement with the only Jewish nursery and preschool in Denmark, effectively forcing it to leave the public sphere and privatize. This came about as the municipality's Children and Youth Committee withdrew its previous willingness to accommodate the daycare's need for more closed days (due to Jewish holidays) than the officially permitted number. Drawing on document analysis related to the case and interviews with the main actors in the process, this paper examines the reasons for this turnaround against the background of both self-proclaimed "diversity mainstreaming" in the city and politicians' lingering concerns about minorities' parallel societies. We focus on how these actors, including dissenting politicians on municipal and national level in the process, articulate diversity, especially religious diversity, and modes of its governance both in the city and Danish society and nation more broadly. In understanding of the contestations about the incorporation of religious diversity into the "new Danish nation" we point in particular to the persisting legacies of equality thought of as sameness and paradoxical secularism, especially as they play out in the context of multiple and differently-size and positioned religious minorities that majority engages with.
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Tag Archives: BBC
“Who” 50th Anniversary Special – 3D timey-wimey frenzy!
“A 50″ LED TV costs HOW much?!”
Hmm…shiny.
The Doctor is celebrating his fiftieth anniversary this very year and the isn’t being shy and retiring about giving the Galloping Gallifreyan his due.
“It also plays ‘Words With Friends’…”
Cue an monster-stuffed, action-packed anniversary special blow-out of an episode which is now to be broadcast – to those with suitable televisions from the space year 3000 – in 3D. So, yay?
Word reaches us via The Guardian – as yet unconfirmed officially by those cards-close-to-the-chest BBC folks – that this special will also be shown in cinemas, though there’s no word yet as to the extent of the release, or whether this is a 2D-to-3D conversion or your actual, native 3D experience. The prospect of cinematic “Who” goodness is quite enticing, though, isn’t it?
Your obligatory, contractually stipulated Jenna-Louise pic.
Matt Smith‘s be-quiffed visage looming large and in three dimensions? Souffle Girl winking at you from the stalls? Classic “Who” Monsters running amok?
I have a love-hate relationship with 3D – on one end, the Cameron/Paul W.S. Anderson/”How To Train Your Dragon” end of the scale, on the other, goofy conversions which bring nothing to the party. But – this? This is something that I want to be good, and that I would love to see on the biggest screen possible. Make it happen, cash-strapped, politically on the ropes, brilliant BBC!
Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Episode Will Be in 3D (tor.com)
Doctor Who goes 3D for 50th birthday (guardian.co.uk)
Tagged as BBC, Clara Oswin, Doctor, Doctor Who, Doctor Who fandom, Guardian, Jenna-Louise Coleman, Matt Smith, Steven Moffat, TARDIS, Time Lord
“Doctor Who” – Snowy Spoilers?
If you want to witness the new Tardis interior for yourself, without resorting to vaguely spoilerific images released by the BBC, you definitely shouldn’t click on this link to the SFX story on said topic.
There’s only five days to go, after all, and we’re largely patient adults more than capable of not spoiling our seasonal surprises, are we not?
Oh, Jingle Bells to it!
“The Doctor and Clara/Sitting in a tree…”
Have a look at the Doctor (Matt Smith) and new companion/Dalek hybrid/pan-dimensional woman of mystery Clara (Jenna Louise Coleman) giving it major lip-lockage in the name of audience-baiting, out-of-continuity shenanigans for a turkey-stuffed festive audience.
See you on Christmas Day, Doctor, terrifying snowmen and all…
‘Doctor Who’: Jenna-Louise Coleman talks about becoming the Doctor’s new companion – EXCLUSIVE (insidetv.ew.com)
Be part of your own Doctor Who Adventure in Cardiff Bay (visitwales.co.uk)
“Asylum of the Daleks” – Spoiler-laced review of explodey-wodey awesome
Definitely scary, huge in scale, a surprise around every corner – “Asylum of the Daleks” is a brilliant “Who” adventure.
I don’t know how to begin to review “Asylum of the Daleks”, the first episode of season seven of “Doctor Who”. The ‘Too Long/Didn’t Read’ version is ‘awesome ep/big reveals/cool story bro’.
If you divulge too many of the events which transpired in the story, you run the risk of really spoiling some fairly major surprises for the very fans who will most affected by learning them ahead of time. If you don’t say enough about the episode, you may as well just skim the BBC press release and talk in generalities, which satisfies nobody. A quandary, then, and one which I intend to tackle by stating for the record – herein be BIG HONKING SPOILERS. Approach at your peril.
Spoiler-averse U.S. Whovians look away…now!
So, remember how we were going to meet the Doctor’s new companion, apparently named Clara, in the Christmas special? There was this whole intricate plan about how she was going to be introduced?
Aren’t you showing up a bit early, Jenna? I mean, it’s only September…
Yeah, so that didn’t happen – Moffat pulled one of the bigger surprises of recent years by introducing actress Jenna Louise Coleman in this opening episode and somehow, in the era of constant internet spoilers and social media leak campaigns, managed to keep that humdinger of a storytelling gambit completely under wraps.
Mrs Rolling Eyeballs and I were genuinely surprised by the reveal, but it was but one surprise in an episode full of “Wait now – what?!” moments. We had been told ahead of time by Moffat to expect a seventh series which was the stuff of blockbuster cinema, with a larger canvas and more self-contained storytelling which didn’t rely as heavily on the ongoing continuity which has been a staple of the Moffat era of “Who”.
I think what we got was a mix of old and new – continuity was there, but not to such an extent that it would have put off a viewer who was only casually familiar with the show. Spectacle was there but didn’t swamp the story and characters and the scale of the episode was compellingly different – this really isn’t the studio-bound “Who” of yore, where budgetary and technical constraints conspired to hobble what could be achieved by the show and gave it an unfair reputation of being a kiddie, kitschy kids’s show and certainly not one to be taken seriously by adults.
I’m not sure how much I should spoil of the story – Skaro! – but I found it really compelling and oddly reminiscent of some of the John Carpenter directed 1980’s genre movies which I grew up watching, with the likes of “Escape from New York“, “The Thing”, and even the tense horror of “Halloween” woven into the fabric of the episode.
Mysterious Dalek asylum, crashed spacecraft, weird signals, strange survivors – fun for all the family…
This was a ‘men on a mission’-type tale, with the Doctor, Amy and Rory tasked with teleporting onto a Dalek asylum/prison planet and switching off a force-field guarding the world, so that the Galaxy’s most genocidal pepper-pot warrior race could destroy the facility which housed the most deranged of their kind. And woven into that framework, we saw that Amy & Rory’s relationship had suffered a little fall-out in the wake of the events on Demon’s Run last season. As in, the Doctor’s favourite young marrieds being separated and signing divorce papers.
It was this latter aspect of plot which was the most gripping element of “Asylum of the Daleks” – more so than the sci-fi adventure A-plot or the introduction of Jenna Louise Coleman. Seeing Rory and Amy sniping at one another in the manner of all torn-asunder couples was really distressing and high point of the episode – more so than the locations, big effects sequences and high concept sequences, the scene where Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill confronted each other over the fall-out from their relationship was utterly riveting TV and a nice riposte to those who might dismiss “Who” as that nerdy thing that kiddies and families watch on a Saturday night.
Obviously, that family friendly promise is something which “Doctor Who” should have – there’s no sense at all in turning this much-beloved fantasy drama into “Boardwalk Empire” just to please chin-stroking TV critics and self-appointed taste makers, but the way that Moffat can sprinkle moments of simple, real world drama amidst the explosions, Dalek attacks and grotesque thriller tropes elsewhere in the story is quite something. Focussing on the married companion’s relationship for a few minutes doesn’t draw attention away from the main plot – it, in fact, integrates beautifully into the whole and makes the experience that bit richer than it might otherwise be.
The final reveal – of who Jenna Louise Coleman’s character is and what that means for the series as it continues – was brilliantly done, wrong-footing me entirely and leaving with it a raft of as-yet unanswered questions which hopefully the keen Moffat mind will resolve in a timely and satisfying fashion. What we’re left with now is the knowledge that Coleman is a sparky, delightful counterpoint to Smith, carrying herself in a manner which is so confident, quick-witted and full of minor-key eccentricity that she somehow manages t0 make the Eleventh Doctor look like a buttoned-down, low-key wallflower.
Whether she continues to play that kind of character, or a derivation thereof, is a question which will be answered when we know a little more about who Clara is – because Clara isn’t the protagonist of the episode we saw yesterday, if I read things correctly (and after a good few hours interrogating forums, Twitter and blogs on Saturday evening, I’d like to think that I’ve derived the appropriate conclusion). Of course, as Mrs Rolling Eyeballs has pointed out to me, perspective and residual self-image are devious things at the best of times and how Jenna Louise Coleman’s character saw herself is quite different to how she was eventually revealed to us when the Doctor eventually met her/it.
Confusing? Count on it – it’s a Moffat story.
Watching this first episode – and the trailer for next week’s gloriously titled “Dinosaurs on a Spaceship” – I was reminded of how confidently and expertly the current architect of “Who” has steered the series after Russell T. Davies‘ undervalued tenure on the show. Not everybody loves what he’s doing – and the Internet community frequently isn’t happy unless it can find something to whine about in over-entitled fashion – but I find his stories never less than exciting, his use of incidental detail and throwaway asides a delight and his wit without peer.
“Asylum of the Daleks” was fantastic telly, brilliantly performed, expertly staged and great entertainment from beginning to end.
Asylum of the Daleks (review) (everything2.com)
Doctor Who: Asylum of the Daleks (Series 07, Episode 01) Review (geeksyndicate.wordpress.com)
Doctor Who: Asylum Of The Daleks by Steven Moffat (SPOILER WARNING) (hotcutegirlygeek.wordpress.com)
Doctor Who: Asylum of the Daleks (kellydanver.wordpress.com)
Filed under Films, Geekery, TV
Tagged as Arthur Darvill, Asylum of the Daleks, BBC, Dalek, Doctor, Doctor Who, Doctor Who fandom, Eleventh Doctor, Jenna-Louise Coleman, Karen Gillan, Matt Smith, Moffat, Russell T Davies, Skaro
“Asylum of the Daleks” airdate – sooner than you think…
I know what I’ll be doing on September 1st 2012 at 7:20pm…
Now that I’ve been Freshly Pressed – Thanks, nice WordPress editors – I get a hint of what it’s like to write for a blog like Kotaku or The Mary Sue. People are reading me! Quick – look busy!
In that spirit, I’m delighted by news from dear old Auntie Beeb today, which has confirmed that “Doctor Who” will be back on September 1st for viewers in the UK and US, with the first tranche of episodes finishing on September 29th. The season picks up again in Spring 2013 – after the Christmas special, which introduces new companion Clara, played by Jenna Louise Coleman.
So, new “Who” quite soon, then not so much for a while, with seasonal “Who” filling the void until we’ve seen off the Winter and it’s time to start geeking out again in the spring. I can get with that schedule and eagerly await what else will be shown next year to mark the good Gallifreyan’s special anniversary…
First review – Doctor Who: Asylum Of The Daleks (standard.co.uk)
“Asylum of the Daleks” – spoiler-free review at Den of Geek (fluffrick.wordpress.com)
Asylum of the Daleks trailer for Doctor Who s7 (geeknative.com)
Tagged as Amy Pond, Arthur Darvill, BBC, Clara, Dalek, Doctor, Doctor Who, Jenna-Louise Coleman, Karen Gillan, Kotaku, Rory Pond, Steven Moffat, TARDIS
“Doctor Who” wallpaper is Dalek-mungous!
My, what a lot of Daleks you have there, Doctor.
Following hot on the heels of that crazily exciting BBC America trailer for the new season of “Who” (Dinosaurs! Chastising Mechs! DalekCon 2012!), comes this nifty wallpaper with Matt Smith cradling some ginger lass whilst an assortment of homicidal pepper mills look on askance.
At least, I guess that’s what happening. It’s Thursday – you shouldn’t expect any coherence out of me this late in the week.
Still no news on when the awesome will be descending on television channels in your corner of the globe to help you get your geek on – if the Great and Wise Moffat has any clue, I’m sure he’ll be letting us know.
Have the Daleks done in Amy Pond? Doctor Who is coming back to our screens (dailyrecord.co.uk)
A Touching Tableau From “Doctor Who,” Season 7 (nerdist.com)
TV: Doctor Who teaser reveals ‘unconscious’ Amy Pond in Asylum of the Daleks (walesonline.co.uk)
Filed under Geekery, Spoiled!, TV
Tagged as Amy Pond, Arthur Darvill, BBC, BBC America, Dalek, Doctor Who, Eleventh Doctor, Karen Gillan, Matt Smith, Rory Pond, Steven Moffat
Run To The Hills!
Tired of Olympic hype? Try living in the UK. Your humble (and normally quite reasonable) blogger has had it up to his Musketeer-style chin beard with all things sporting after a year or so of relentless build-up to London 2012 and would happily go into suspended animation until the whole thing is over.
Go Jess!
As a dyed-in-the-wool, adopted Sheffielder, I obviously wish Jessica Ennis well in her heptathlon campaign but I really would rather ignore the vast majority of the Olympics – a feat made quite challenging by the approximately 906 channels being devoted by the BBC to the imminent hostilities glorious sporting spectacle about to unfurl.
To distract those of you who can’t get that excited by athletes doing things slightly more quickly than they did them previously, take in the joyful image above of Iron Maiden‘s mascot Eddie, as originally found on the Metal Hammer website.
Maiden America (fluffrick.wordpress.com)
Video: Britain’s Track-and-Field Golden Girl Jessica Ennis Prepares for the Games (olympics.time.com)
Jessica Ennis: It’s gold or failure at London Olympics (standard.co.uk)
Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson Calls Out Texting ‘Wanker’ at Indianapolis Show (loudwire.com)
Heptathlete Jessica Ennis ‘hopes to do Sheffield proud’ at the Olympic Games (itv.com)
Filed under Blogs, Geekery, Music
Tagged as 2012 Summer Olympics, BBC, Eddie, Eddie the Head, Iron Maiden, Jessica Ennis, London, London 2012, Metal Hammer, Olympic, Olympic Games, Olympics
He’s NOT the UN Peace Keeper you’re looking for…
I know that times are tough for us all, but surely the BBC can afford to employ people who call the difference between the UN and some made-up dudes from “Halo”?
BBC News mistakes Halo UNSC logo for UN • News • Xbox 360 • Eurogamer.net.
Video game icon Master Chief, from the “Halo” series. Not presently working for the UN.
Under-Secretary-General for UN Peacekeeping Operations, Hervé Ladsous. Does not have own, multi-million-selling FPS franchise.
I’m thinking that the difference between those gentlemen is wholly apparent, even to those zany funsters at the BBC. Isn’t it great to know that your license fee money in the UK goes towards employing folks who know what they’re doing?
Give me five minutes and Google Image search and I’m pretty sure that I could find the proper logo. Call me unduly competent if you must…
Filed under Blogs, Geekery, Random Notes
Tagged as BBC, BBC News, First Person Shooter, Halo, Master Chief, Peacekeepers, UN, United Nations, Video game, Xbox
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Oldham considering moves for playing duo
Toby Wilding
League Two side Oldham Athletic are considering moves for free agents Chris McCann and Billy Clarke, journalist Alan Nixon has reported.
Versatile midfielder McCann, who played in the Championship with both Burnley and Wigan Athletic earlier in his career – also making a handful of appearances for the Clarets in the Premier League – has been without a club since leaving MLS side DC United in July.
Clarke meanwhile, is a free agent after leaving Bradford following their relegation to League Two at the end of last season.
The striker had been training with League One club Bolton Wanderers earlier in the summer, although the 31-year-old has now linked up with the Latics
According to the latest reports from Nixon, both McCann and Clarke were involved in a behind closed doors match for Oldham on Tuesday, as the pair look to secure a contract with the club.
Oldham. Had a look at Chris McCann and Billy Clarke in a private game yesterday. Both free agents.
— Alan Nixon (@reluctantnicko) October 2, 2019
It has been a difficult start to the League Two season for Oldham, who have won two and drawn four of their opening 11 games of the league season to sit 20th in the early standings, and recently sacked manager Laurent Banide, replacing him with former Stevenage boss Dino Maamria.
I think this could be a really good bit of business for Oldham.
Given their difficult start to the campaign, it does seem as though the Latics could do with some fresh faces in order to help kick start this season.
Considering Oldham have something of a young squad at the minute, the addition of players who have been around as long as McCann and Clarke could be a welcome boost in that sense as well.
With both having also played further up the division throughout much of their career, you feel both would be able to fit in well for Oldham at League Two level.
Would Chris McCann and Billy Clarke be good signings for Oldham?
Related Topics:Billy ClarkeChris McCannOldham AthleticSky Bet League Two
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Waste Not: Research Finds that “Far from Junk DNA,” ERVs Perform “Critical Cellular Functions”
In the past, reporting by Evolution News has documented a variety of important functions for endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) and other transposable elements and retrotransposons. These, of course, have frequently been called “junk DNA,” mere evolutionary waste or flotsam, by critics of intelligent design. Evidence of this widespread function is nothing new. As a 2017 paper in Nature Reviews Genetics noted, “Transposable elements (TEs) are a prolific source of tightly regulated, biochemically active non-coding elements, such as transcription factor-binding sites and non-coding RNAs.”
Now a pair of new articles in Nature Genetics acknowledge just how widespread ERV and retrotransposon functionality is. One is a research paper and the other is a summary article. The summary article opens by explicitly denying that retrotransposons are junk DNA:
Far from being junk DNA, the pervasive retrotransposons that populate the genome have a powerful capacity to influence genes and chromatin. A new study demonstrates how the transcription of one such element, HERV-H, can modify the higher-order 3D structure of chromatin during early primate development.
The summary further notes that “many ERVs have been co-opted for critical cellular functions.” It reviews some of these functions:
For example, ERVs frequently act to distribute regulatory information and thus confer genes with new patterns of expression and function. Similarly, multiple ERVs have been re-purposed as novel genes themselves, including the ERV envelope-derived syntactins that drive trophoblast fusion and establish the placental fetal–maternal interface. Now, Zhang et al. have identified an additional activity of co-opted ERVs — the alteration of the genome’s 3D structure itself — that may have the capacity to substantially affect gene regulation.
Research and Rhetoric
Looked at from a rhetorical perspective, Nature Genetics is clearly very sensitive about the implications of the study. After all, it shows that ERVs have extremely important functions, which is a bitter pill for many ID opponents. Nearly every time the summary describes an ERV as “functional” the word “co-opted” is placed nearby just to remind you that the ERVs really started off as something like junk and were “co-opted” by evolution to have a function. Words like “co-opted” are what the late National Academy of Sciences member Philip Skell called called in The Scientist “narrative gloss” — words that have no explanatory value but are brought in after the fact to make a connection to evolution. As Skell wrote:
I found that Darwin’s theory had provided no discernible guidance, but was brought in, after the breakthroughs, as an interesting narrative gloss.
Indeed. The evidence shows these ERVs are functional, but not only that. ERVs have crucial functions that help regulate genes and even determine cell types. Claiming they were “co-opted” is mere uninformative gloss. To understand the nature of their function, one must turn to the research itself.
The research paper here, “Transcriptionally active HERV-H retrotransposons demarcate topologically associating domains in human pluripotent stem cells,” starts by noting that the three-dimensional structure of chromosomes is crucial for building gene regulatory networks in animals:
The three-dimensional organization of chromosomes enables long-range interactions between enhancers and promoters that are critical for building complex gene regulatory networks in multicellular species.
That opening comment by itself refutes claims from some evolutionists that the shared three-dimensional structure of chromosomes across different species — often called synteny — is meaningless and reflects only their common ancestry, rather than important functional requirements. But as the paper explains, the three-dimensional organization of chromosome is “critical” for building gene regulatory networks (GRNs) that govern the development and growth of an organism.
The paper explains that chromosomes have “a dynamic but non-random hierarchical structure” where they are organized into transcriptionally active, and transcriptionally silent regions. These regions are further broken down into “topologically associating domains (TADs),” which are basically chromosome regions that have important “intradomain interactions.” TAD domains are cell-type specific and species specific — in other words specifying domains of chromosome activity helps determine what kind of proteins will be produced, which helps determine what kind of cell a cell will become. Specified cell types ultimately produce tissues, which produce organs, which produce physiological systems, which produce an organism, which define a species. It’s all hierarchically regulated and it starts at the level of chromosomes with TAD domains.
Sound Designed to You?
TAD boundaries on chromosomes are marked by bundles of proteins, some of which are called CCCTC-binding factors (CTCFs). And it turns out that CTCF binding locations on chromosomes are often controlled by so-called “transposable elements” — those supposed junk DNA elements that make up some 50 percent of the genome. But how important are transposable elements for this role? The paper notes that “how much transposable elements play a role in shaping the genome architecture during evolution has yet to be directly tested, particularly in primates.” Again, the words “during evolution” are more gloss that really just means “important for function.”
The Paper’s Central Finding
And now we come to the central finding of the paper — that a type of endogenous retrovirus (ERV) is critical for defining TAD boundaries:
By interrogating the dynamic remodeling of chromatin architecture during human cardiomyocyte differentiation, we discovered a class of primate-specific endogenous retrotransposons — human endogenous retrovirus subfamily H (HERV-H) — that is involved in establishing TAD boundaries in human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs). … [C]omparative analysis of the chromatin architecture in primate and non-primate species supports a role for actively transcribed HERV-H elements in demarcating primarily hominid pluripotent stem cell (PSC)-specific TADs. Overall, our results provide direct evidence for retrotransposon elements in actively shaping the chromatin architecture in specific cell types during evolution.
“During evolution”? Right, that’s more gloss, adding nothing to the empirical findings of this study. Again, these ERVs are crucial for defining TAD domain boundaries, which helps shape chromosome architecture, which helps determine cell types, which, as we saw, form the crucial foundation for a hierarchically controlled network that ultimately builds an organism. Here’s the research paper’s conclusion:
Here, we provide multiple lines of evidence showing that the primate-specific HERV-H retroviral elements can delineate TAD boundaries in hPSCs. Previous studies suggested that HERV-H elements integrated into the human genome during primate evolution to regulate human-specific pluripotency by creating novel chimeric transcripts (ESRG, linc-ROR and LINC00458) and providing potential binding sites to recruit pluripotency factors (NANOG, SOX2 and POU5F1). However, our findings indicate that HERV-H sequences may affect gene regulatory programs by also creating new hPSC-specific TAD boundaries that shape the chromatin architecture…. [O]ur findings suggest the intriguing possibility that other endogenous retrovirus families of repeats and/or other families of repetitive elements may have similar abilities to create TADs and insulation.
Evolutionary detritus is what neo-Darwinian theory would expect, but it’s not what we find. ERVs play extremely important functional roles in humans and many other animals. That’s not bad for something that great numbers of evolutionists have told us for decades is nothing more than junk DNA.
Photo credit: VanveenJF via Unsplash.
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Charleston Music Hall
Upper King Street in downtown Charleston has one cultural gem that is hard to miss: the Charleston Music Hall (CMH), a place where live music flows from the artist to the audience and both historical elegance and modernity combine to create an unforgettable experience. In addition, the hall proudly hosts some of the best acoustics in the whole of Charleston. It’s no wonder then that the CMH’s mission to “create extraordinary artistic and theatrical experiences and promote the finest local, regional, and national acts” is embodied in every aspect of the center, from the architecture to the cutting-edge equipment.
Charleston Music Hall History
In a historical city like Charleston, it’s common to find ancient buildings on almost every street. In 1850 the Tower Depot was opened for the first time to cater for passengers of the South Carolina Railroad. It had a three-story tower and its architecture was more of a gothic revival style. But after the Civil War, the depot was closed down then an earthquake brought down the tower in 1886. For almost a century the building was empty and dilapidated. Until in 1995 the Bennett-Hofford Company bought it and converted it into a music hall.
Best Friend Program
The Best Friend Program is a loyalty program that gives you the opportunity to book seats 24 hours before they go public. It’s a way for you to consider yourself a promoter of arts because you will also receive a T-shirt and a sticker that proclaims you a friend of Charleston Music Hall. And if you’re wondering where the name of the program came from, it’s from a train that used to stop at the current location. The name of the train was “Best Friend”. The program comes in two varieties: “The Front Row Program” and “The Premium Program.”
Variety of Shows
Right from the start, CMH had aimed to provide a unique musical experience to its audience. That meant more than just live musical performances by local and regional artists. Offering a mix of live music and musicals such as Grease is just one way of shedding new light on old gems. Movies are also screened sometimes with live performances either before or after the movie.
When you are in Charleston, you can’t miss an evening of live music at Charleston Music Hall. With the best acoustics in town, you’re in for a great night. Call us today for more information about similar attractions in Charleston.
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Laggies is even less of a Lynn Shelton movie than Lynn Shelton’s last movie
Lynn Shelton
Keira Knightley, Chloë Grace Moretz, Sam Rockwell
Has success spoiled Lynn Shelton? Are we losing her—year by year, film by film—to the anonymity of Indiewood? Heartening though it is to see the director of Humpday work her way up the industry ladder, earning the bigger audiences and bigger budgets she deserves, the career advancement seems to have come at the expense of her artistic personality. Shelton, who used to make scrappy, wholly improvised indie gabfests, continues to sand down the rough edges of her style, so that each new movie feels a little less distinct—and a lot less transgressive—than the one before it. That pattern of diminishing returns persists with Laggies, her most innocuous creation yet. Like last year’s Touchy Feely, the film finds Shelton operating with the safety net of a full screenplay. And she didn’t even pen this one—credit there goes to first-time screenwriter Andrea Seigel—which may explain why it almost never feels like a movie from the woman who built a winning comedy around a game of sexual chicken between two straight friends.
The plot is a Focus Features executive’s wet dream come true (though the film went to A24 after premiering at Sundance): Stubbornly clinging to her adolescence, 28-year-old Megan (Keira Knightley, rocking a flawless American accent and a girlish lilt) floats aimlessly through post-college life, exhibiting an Apatow-like lack of ambition that her more “mature” friends fret about. When her high-school sweetheart (Mark Webber) proposes to her, Megan freaks out, buying time by leaving for a weeklong self-improvement seminar. Except, she ends up blowing that off for the exact opposite of self-improvement, hiding out instead with a high-school student, Annika (Chloë Grace Moretz), for whom she once purchased beer. She also cozies up to the girl’s father (Sam Rockwell), who proves surprisingly quick to trust this grown woman spending all of her time with his teenage daughter.
Given that basic premise, it’s something of a miracle Laggies isn’t completely insufferable. That it manages to occasionally charm is thanks almost entirely to Shelton’s ease with the actors—especially the teenage ones, including a scene-stealing Kaitlyn Dever as Annika’s eccentric best friend. Little moments earn smiles: the parking-lot meeting between Annika and Megan; the latter’s attempts to explain to her budding-yuppie friend (Ellie Kemper) that twisting the nipples of a giant, plastic Buddha is a joke about nipples, not a joke about Buddha; and the scene in which Rockwell’s character, acting as a surrogate for the audience, demands answers from the stranger sleeping on the floor of his daughter’s bedroom. (Actually, every scene with Rockwell is a highlight. He’s a national treasure.)
Ultimately, though, Laggies is undone by the sitcom contrivance of its scenario and some very on-the-nose dialogue, which keeps reminding viewers that, yes, this is a story about willful regression. (The film’s message about sometimes needing to go back to move forward is one Shelton could stand to process, as it might result in a creative course correction.) And while Knightley is often quite funny in the role, she’s playing a blatant screenwriters’ invention—a character whose behavior most people would find disturbing or infuriating, not adorable, in real life. Shelton brings out the best in her cast; she can make one-liners sing, a skill possibly acquired while moonlighting on New Girl. Still, it’s hard not to wish she was letting the actors make up their lines on the spot, à la her much funnier early films. Whatever they’d come up with would have to be better than this, right?
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FILM REVIEW: Coconut Hero (2015) – filmed in Canada
August 11th, 2015 Sonja ENGLISH FILMS, FILM REVIEWS, FILMED IN CANADA, GERMAN FILMS
(Last Updated On: 5th December 2017)
This is the story of Mike Tyson. No, not the boxer Mike Tyson. A different one… This Mike Tyson lives somewhere out in the Canadian wilderness, is constantly bullied and therefore decides to commit suicide. But as so often in life, everything turns out totally different as originally planned…
Aged 16, Mike has already had enough of his life (or rather that miserable existence that you call life). He doesn't have any friends in his sleepy Canadian hometown, his German father Frank (Victoria director Sebastian Schipper) has been absent for pretty much all of Mike's life and single mum Cynthia (Krista Bridges) is constantly moaning about everything.
So one day, Mike decides to end it all. He orders his own obituary from the local newspaper and shoots himself in the head. However, his story doesn't end here. To his disappointment he survives the suicide attempt…
Coconut Hero. © Majestic Filmverleih
Just shortly afterwards though, the doctors find a tumour in Mike's head. Mike can hardly believe his "luck" of getting a second chance to die and so covers up the illness in order to avoid life-saving treatment.
However, things don't go as planned. For once, his long lost father reappears again, trying to reconnect with Mike. Then, Mike meets Miranda (Bea Santos) – a girl about his age with slightly crazy ideas. They start to hang out and get on really well. Until fate strikes again. But not in a way you might expect…
The scriptwriter (Elena von Saucken) and director (Florian Cossen), both Germans, were inspired to set Coconut Hero in the sheer endless woods of North America when they travelled through Canada in 2010: "We thought it was much more exciting to shoot a film about depression and boredom in an area where you will get an overwhelming feeling of vast lands, the horizon and freedom!"
Filming took place far away from any kind of infrastructure – a true nightmare for any filmmaker. The hard work paid off though: In Coconut Hero, the setting of a small town somewhere in the vast wilderness of Canada emphasizes the fact that Mike, despite having the freedom of the wild on his doorstep, feels trapped in the little town where nothing ever happens and everything always stays the same. Supposedly…
Cruising with Miranda. Photo: © Majestic Filmverleih
German director Florian Cossen and the international cast, especially new talent Alex Ozerov, did a really good job with this indie tragic-comedy full of really dark humour. I was laughing at many of its jokes, even though there were times when I asked myself if I really should be laughing right now. Occasionally, I found the film a bit slow. But towards the end the pace caught up again with a – to me totally unexpected – turn of events.
Mum-Dad-Son encounter. Photo: © Majestic Filmverleih
I classified this film as German because the director / production team behind is in German. However, it is set in Canada and the original language is English. If you can, I would recommend to watch Coconut Hero in English as I heard that the dialogue is not so good in the dubbed German version.
Dance lessons with Miranda. Photo: © Majestic Filmverleih
My verdict: Somehow, through the dense forest of the darkest jokes you can ever imagine, the message of this coming-of-age flick is still that of enjoying life in the moment to its fullest potential!
*** 3 out of 5 stars
Over to you: Have you watched Coconut Hero yet? What did you think of it?
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Fuck Off Squad by Nicole Goux (Murders, Jem and the Holograms) and Dave Baker (Action Hospital, Suicide Forest) is a graphic novel that follows three would-be miscreants as they attempt to navigate the trials and tribulations of growing up in Los Angeles.Needless to say, it's the greatest comic about Instagram, skating, and low-key trying to date someone while you're still in a relationship ever made.
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What It Takes To Be An Olympic Athlete
The one thing spectators of the Olympics don’t get to experience, is the endless training and preparation athletes endure to reach the height of their career at the Olympics. So before you start thinking you’re going to make the Tokyo games, we chat to current Australian Institute of Fitness Master Trainer student and three-time Olympian, Libby Trickett to find out what it really takes to be an athlete at the games.
If you have aspirations of living the Olympic dream, the number one thing you need on your side is your health and fitness. But do you know what an Olympian’s training schedule actually entails? “In preparation for major competitions, I would be training ten session in the water, two weights sessions, two runs, two stationary bike sessions, one yoga class, one pilates class, and four core sessions,” shares Libby. That is a whopping thirty-five hours a week training… WOW!
Now, if competing in the Olympics is a goal of yours, we are not suggesting that you need to start training thirty-five hours per week. What you should be doing is assessing your fitness levels, finding yourself a coach that specialises in your event/sport that you are aiming to compete in and set yourself SMART goals. “I found writing down my goals and putting them in obvious places around the house, allowed me to stay focused on what I was trying to achieve and working towards,” says Libby.
We all know you can’t out train a bad diet - YES, even if you are training thirty-five hours a week - so eating a healthy balanced diet when training for an event is imperative. When Libby was prepping for the Olympics, she said consistency in your diet is key. “I never wanted to change anything in my diet when I was racing, and would EVEN cut out chocolate completely in the lead up to big events.”
In the off season, LIbby is a firm believer of everything in moderation though, and advises you to listen to your body and what it is asking for.
Physical health and fitness is arguably the MOST important aspect when preparing for the Olympic games, however mental preparation is a large focus, especially in the weeks leading up to an event. “In the lead up to our main meets, we would visualise our races and try to execute our race processes,” shares Libby, who adds that she used to see a sports psychologist who helped with little tips that aided her performance in the pool.
Another way of establishing a strong and healthy mindset, is creating a routine prior to a race or event. “I had a pretty set routine that made me feel comfortable before I raced. I would eat around two hours before my event and arrive on pool deck an hour and a half before I raced,” Libby says. From there she would stretch for 20 minutes, warm up for 20 minutes, then have one last pep talk with her coach before the race. That is the routine that occurred before almost EVERY event!
So whether you are aiming for the Tokyo Games in 2020, or training for your first 10k run, having your health and fitness on side and a strong mindset will have you on the right path.
Libby’s advice: ”for any athletes hoping to make the Olympics one day, find something that you absolutely love and work your arse off to achieve it. It can be tough, it can be difficult, and it may seem impossible at times, but if you want it enough and you work smart, I believe that you can achieve it.”
This content is not intended to be used as individual health or fitness advice divorced from that imparted by medical, health or fitness professionals. Medical clearance should always be sought before commencing an exercise regime. The Institute and the authors do no take any responsibility for accident or injury caused as a result of this information.
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I Love Kevin / Jill Soloway
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I once got in a terrible fight with an ex wherein he told me he wanted to be a composer, and I simply replied, “Well, then do it.” He never could get over my cruel response, which had been bred into me by the artistically inclined, privileged company that I keep.
This kind of insider art-world drama is central to the first half of I Love Dick, an adaptation of the 1997 novel by Chris Kraus based on her marriage to Semiotext(e) founder and philosopher Sylvère Lotringer. Directed by Transparent’s Jill Soloway, I Love Dick premiered last Friday on Amazon. Many of the nods to “-ality” and group shows are cringeworthy, but Soloway does ultimately give us a reason for this gruesome and exclusionary setup of art jokes.
Soloway’s direction is reminiscent of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, with her occasional dash of absurdity and long, languid shots that seem otherworldly. However, it will be the thematic content, I expect, that will create the most buzz. The series has been heralded as being about modern feminism, and it certainly is, but there is something fundamentally more expansive about I Love Dick, something deeply self-critical and disturbing in its prescience about artistry and self-hatred.
After explaining the premise of her film about the oppressive weight of sexism upon women, as well as the woes she has had creating the film, filmmaker Chris (Kathryn Hahn) does not receive the sympathy she had expected from the men who surround her. Instead, the mysterious, sexy scholar Dick (Kevin Bacon) — who is running the Marfa residency where I Love Dick takes place — dourly turns to Chris’s husband Sylvere (Griffin Dunne) and says, “My guess is that she doesn’t want to be a filmmaker, because if you wanted to be a filmmaker, you’d be one.” Chris is naturally aghast, but then returns home to begin a long, erotic letter detailing her obsession with the decidedly misogynist Dick. She then reads the letter to her husband, who cannot contain his own arousal, and they produce a mechanical fuck that ends when Sylvere cums and hops giddily away.
I Love Dick is a feminist ode, to be sure, but it is also about the lies perpetuated by self-construction, by vanity, and the passionate masochism of lusting for our brittle egos to be shattered. Though Chris is a talented artist, it seems that she feels she is a fraud, and it is Dick’s painful, yet erotic, job to dismantle an already flailing self-esteem. I Love Dick is truly brutal, and it shows the lusterless ashes of creativity being slowly extinguished.
This beautiful sense of foreboding is amplified by Soloway’s masterful adaptation of a book — based on Chris’s obsessive letter — that has no traditional plot. Though it is Chris’s text that we can hear and see, Soloway creates a disorienting combination of desires, as if everyone could be speaking for everybody else. The result, a shared doldrums of mutual attraction and bitterness, is surprisingly resonant.
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