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TOTW: Engagement
By: thecollective
What have been the most effective ways that you have connected with or communicated with other anarchists, anarchist projects and new ideas within the broader anarchist space? Once upon the time it was correspondence, publications, and social events like book fairs and gatherings. While these things still happen, increasingly it seems anarchists largely engage via the internet through sites like this one, or IGD, and podcasts that are often associated with those websites.
It would be easy to bemoan the loss of face to face interaction, and the intentionality of the published word to the either one-sided nature of many news sites (comments not allowed) or the cacophony of the troll army, but I am unconvinced that one forum is better than the others. While some of this is about how we each individually absorb information best, I think there are also some particulars to anarchist ideas that influence what works and what doesn’t, though I am unsure how to describe those particulars, so I guess additionally, what are challenges to engaging with new anarchists, projects and ideas?
anon (not verified)
my positive engagements with
my positive engagements with anarchists began through other means and non-anarchist contexts. when something works out and is positive, usually it's because i met an anarchist-minded person through a separate commonality, then as we got to know each other, anarchism came up as a topic of conversation. from there it was easy to begin thinking about projects to carry out, or simply have discussions.
for me, when an interaction began with anarchism, the social interactions tend to be manipulative or stem from an illusory sense of social cohesion. as we discover that cohesion is flimsy, things degenerate and nothing happens. usually we're relieved to quit attempts at collaboration.
PlatypusNihilist (not verified)
this answer is similar to
a conversation i had with people in a hiking meetup group. Meetup groups based on activity, rather than the ones where everyone meets up a restaurant and chats, are more fulfilling, and this positivity is only accomplished if the people in the group aren't pretentious and alienating.
the Webster dictionary says that an -ism is an "activity" but anarchism has manifested itself now a days in philosophy and popularity contests. Probably, if you were alive 70 years ago in the united states, you would have probably found about about anarchs- more deeply through complete obscurity. Anarchists have now built up a formidable history in the west, and i feel like the people who get stuck in the philosophy trap only experience political anarchism through books and the internet, and there are probably enough anarchists/anarchist sympathizers globally now to make the dead ones cum. The people who i would like to get to know would come out of the more recent DIY psychology and don't accuse the nihilists of being crypto- fascists, but only see CORRELATIONS between fascism, nihilism, and egoism. Ted Kaczinsky gave this a little bit of a leftist slant too:
"Revolutionaries should have as many children as they can. There is strong scientific evidence that social attitudes are to a significant extent inherited. No one suggests that a social attitude is a direct outcome of a person's genetic constitution, but it appears that personality traits are partly inherited and that certain personality traits tend, within the context of our society, to make a person more likely to hold this or that social attitude. Objections to these findings have been raised, but the objections are feeble and seem to be ideologically motivated. In any event, no one denies that children tend on the average to hold social attitudes similar to those of their parents. From our point of view it doesn't matter all that much whether the attitudes are passed on genetically or through childhood training. In either case they ARE passed on. "
I feel that LBC in particular has contributed to both sides of the coin. No one in the scene was really into the egoists/nihilists until they started selling it, hence, the "DIY anarchy" side of the coin. However, they still like to flirt with anti-fa a little, and they are engaged in a network that is largely stuck in some of the more academically id-pol trends of the 60's. They also live in a city, and can't really do anything about "society" anyways. A very poorly understood group of fucking losers! Dammit I think were all stuck in a technologized police state version of the 60's! Alien-nation.
I think there's also a huge amount of confused feedback loops on the left, because it has been co-opted by the police state, egotists, and capitalism. "The Union" is dead because unions are just another fucking business. Green anarchism doesn't exist on the internet, between most people, or in cities.
Yes, nihilist and egoist
Yes, nihilist and egoist tendencies have definitely been foregrounded by the work of LBC. I don't know about your assertions re: antifa and idpol though. Certainly there is some influence from the 60's, and no, they are not fascists, though I don't think that means the "still flirt with anti-fa," and I personally draw influence from various 60's movements (Women & Black Lib, the Situationists, the Anti-war movement), without descending into what I consider idpol. Feminist? sure. Anti-racist? Yup. Idpol? Nah, brah. I think one can glean a lot from past movements, without falling in to the traps that are set as those crystalize into ideology.
I also find it interesting that you don't think g@ exists in urban environments. It is certainly not the dropout/desertion form of rural comrades, but there are lots of us who live in cities who also want to see them crumble, though perhaps this is more generally anti-civ than explicitly G@? Though, on second thought, you should 100% call JZ and tell him he isn't a G@ since Eugene is a city. Will definitely listen to that episode...
*they still flirt.
*wink *brushing of leg
*wink *brushing of leg against calf *demure smile
Good question for my drinking night
I mean, I'm kinda pissed at LBC cuz they've never been that enthusiastic about talking to me directly.
"I'm kinda pissed at LBC cuz
"I'm kinda pissed at LBC cuz they've never been that enthusiastic about talking to me directly."
Dude.. if you're Zhachev, LeWay or some similar asshole just don't ask yourself why they're reluctant talking to you.
...or you probably are convince the whole world owes you some special attention? Why don't you have your try in Hollywood?
well if you say so
i guess i am the same username ( haha yeah right ), but i don't fucking get it, the whole thing has been in my head the past 6 years? I mean, at least just talking?
If your here to just tell me what's up, then just fucking say it. I don't understand. I'm pissed, I don't understand why, i really liked their books and just wanted to tell them. And I'm fucking prolly 2000 miles away, and still fucking dumb as shit as of knowing what the implication is here. Implication? Anon? where the fuck did you come from? Not wanting to talk? Well, you already did. Don't know what makes me an oogle or whatever the fuck you tryin to say. There's just nothing there, nothing anywhere, why don't you just tell me to fucking kill myself?
But also consider the lesser-destructive solution of stopping being a fake-ass troll behaving like you deserve to be taken seriously, while at the same time buddying with LeWank (who may the same troll I'm replying to). Standing by this annoyance makes you equally a bigger annoyance.
This bickering has escalated!
Go to your rooms, or your backpacks, and do some self-care!
random 09:58 anon, if other have already mocked this pseudonymed troll, you should consider not doing so right after, then the dynamic turns into one of piling on and cyberbullying, regardless of the veracity of your remarks. I also condemn your encouragement of self-harm, even if you attenuate it afterwards to keep with appearance.
PlatypusNihilist, please ignore your well-earned haters and go have a nice chat with LeWay. We can all learn from LeWay’s usual moderated temper when it comes to comments at least. There’s no need for mocking in jest to escalate to threats! This is the internet! Words on top of words! Don’t take it to heart! Let them go by!
TruePlatypus (not verified)
"fake-ass troll behaving"
Oh yes im so fake, im like a vegan scenester constantly complaining about how stupid the masses are!
I'm like debord, I'm lookin for that REEL life, with REEL people, with REEL food, i fly my confederate flag high! I just like to to sit down with some good hard workers, some REEL proles and have beer! My popularity is NOT in my racism, but my nihilist convictions!
http://anokchan.org/index.php
http://anokchan.org/index.php?q=/image/532.png
Lol, the shit jacketing
of the platypus! I obviously have attachments and resentments, thank you
i find that resentment tends to eat alive those that contain them. Just because certain wise old men in caves in india preached the nihilation of both of those things, doesn't mean that their failures were in vain. @news most absolutely IS the troll pit of cyber-anarchy, i don't become any less of a troll when i go away, even though sometimes i'm a little happier. The OP mentions that none of the modes of cyber anarchy are better than the other objectively.
This past week for me has been pretty rough, turning my thoughts into juvenile poetry about drinking and LBC, has atleast made my day a little *yes, yes, aragorn! stroking his non-existent beard*...interesting...
Keep writing that book my slavish artistic troll!
oh and dude
that's totally a linux manual by O'Reilly publishing...o.O
i mean what particular
characteristic makes me an asshole? Talking? There you go, you win. I AM AN ASSHOLE. There's nothing more to know about me! Have fun, have a nice life. I didn't know that posting on here meant you were trolling, yeah right! Yall are fucking dickheads, good job.
There was that asshole, saying, "anarchists say fuck you if you have an agenda", well, what's your fucking agenda? That this is my fault, FUCK YOU! Go have a nice night! Good job, you get that cookie! Implications, yeah right, this is fucking god speaking, no agendas here!
Le Way
Old samurai saying : The
Old samurai saying : The sword is like the pen, once the sword is drawn and used, it cannot be unbled.
Le Wank!
Yes, again, something i actually understand on this forum from an anon. LBC's book "free from civilization" basically said the same thing, that with written word, words became more permanent...of course! I talk to my friends and they say "oh yeah they were just feeling that way at that time." The Bible, oh jeez! You know you're actually talking to God!
Idk from my thoughts before, LBC is pretty much unrequited love to me. I mean, i don't even remember what happen, of course it makes sense to avoid putting your words into easy labels, but so many goddamn words! Would rather be the one asking the questions about them, than getting them erased on @101.
(Still drunk) well yah dawg, i am a fucking dickhead, but i mean, where is it coming from? Just all this crazy information bashing into my skull like a fascist! Like occupy, whelp, my demand is, I KEEP SCREAMING AT THE MOTHERFUCKIN' WALL!
The last thing, the correlation between zachez and LeWay? I mean, idk, i always enjoy LeWay's comments cuz they are some New Sage from the motherfuckin ice age, real funny to read! I don't know much about zachez, a lot of people think he's a fucking idiot/douche around these parts, i mean, like LeWay, but WHY? I heard he was talking to himself hidden as his "girlfriend" on @planet.
C'yall tomorrow!
"Old samurai saying"
Must be old, it is a comment on multiple posts.
Platypus (not verified)
i haven't been too interested in engaging with JZ
and i don't blame him for wanting not too engage with too many people, obviously falls into what psychology describes as the "introvert" as far as personality types are concerned.
there is actually an un-official G@ current in Asheville, North Carolina. I was there once and talked to some peeps and had a falling out with someone who i considered a little bit of the an insecure cult leader type who i have known a long time. He's kind of a fake redneck sympathizer. I do actually sympathize with rednecks cuz i am one, i live out in west virginia.
And yup im pretty gall-dern duuuummmmb sometimes *pops open budweiser*
there goes the conversation i was having with LeWay
yeah i KNOW collective, conversations about hillbillies and rednecks are prejudicial, not unlike racism. However, today i thought of something i wanted to say about the distinction between those two categories as i understand them, as LeWay's classic deliverance portrayal of hillbillies was pretty provocative.
But, no sense in continuing that train of thought now.
maybe you could figure out a
maybe you could figure out a way of relating that to the topic of the thread you're commenting instead of leaving a mopey comment like this about how you don't get to continue this tangential conversation with a troll
Face to face engagements with
Face to face engagements with anti-Statist amoral hillbillies is relative to the topic.
dot_matrix (not verified)
No they are not
that wasn't me! why pull me out of your butt, anon? i was so quietly comfortable...
also, surely you're capable of saying no, without taking someone else's name?!
the original dot matrix, gdmt.
I was talking to my partner,
I was talking to my partner, who is anarcho-adjecent, about how she became sympathetic to anarchist ideas. For her it was through her getting to know me, and then other anarchists, a lot of long conversations where I challenged some of her perpsectives, and she also pushed at some of the places where I was, shall we say, ideologically rigid, so it was a relational thing. I found that interesting, as my entry points (beyond the absurdly cliche punk rock and Food Not Bombs) was periodicals like AJODA, Green Anarchist, etc. which pushed me into uncomfortable ways that Crass and Keith McHenry did not. Much more theoretical, I guess.
As far as finding people and projects, it has largely been accidental feeling to me. I am not real good at the social stuff, and some of the projects I have been most involved with seemed to just be things I fell into. Some of the anarchists I have the most affinity with I just happened to meet through other acquaintances or because we were in the right place at the right time.
same anon as 14:33 - I was
same anon as 14:33 - I was thinking more about it, and in particular, it was the back and forth of the letters sections of some of the early publications I encountered that really challenged me. Yes, there was a lot of wing-nuttery, but also there were a lot of times when the debates that would come up really helped me to flesh out my own perspectives.
senileoldtroll (not verified)
I've always been comfortable
I've always been comfortable with being at least this much of an asshole: if your "activity" consists only of the passive spectacle of ideas and debates online or in books, no, you're not an anarchist, or interesting to me at all.
I recognize that this is gatekeeping and I don't care. You can insist it's just my opinion but I don't think it is, it's just a reality. The more you shut yourself away in isolation, the less you are anything (which is what those who deal in social control want, obviously).
This clears up quite a bit of confusion around definitions, automatically disqualifies most of the internet noise and makes everything much simpler. You "engage" by finding other likeminds who are actually doing something besides alienated, techno circlejerking and complaining. You'll also notice that this is a pretty exclusive club by default! I'm good with that too. Only so much energy I have for relationships anyway.
^ as usual, this wasn't
^ as usual, this wasn't supposed to be a reply to the above comment. Just a response to the OP
yes wise old man
but there were atleast a few similarities to the shit show going on above...
Ah, senileoldtroll,
Ah, senileoldtroll, sensibleoldtroll, maybe not a even a troll at all, so dearly held close to my heart, makes me yearn for simpler times, when people and places were at a walking distance, where public spaces (like the public square? What were the places?) were for convening and meeting people, not standing in line, paying at the cashier, and consuming (the food, the show, the drinks, and/or the scenery).
Maybe I should take the bus just to chat up with old ladies instead of chatting online. Maybe I’ve already done that, and it was real, but superficial. Maybe my coworkers are very real too, and our interactions just as superficial. Or maybe I can confide in fellow young people at the train, yank their phone for their hand and ask “Hey kid, do you want to fuck shit up?” or go straight to the police station, to skip the middle-person of the undercover provocateurs that may entice my attention with promises of “activity and engagement” at the places with the usual suspects.
If only you lived near me senileoldtroll! If only this wasn’t such a cloak and cipher affair!
Heh! You're sweet but that's
Heh! You're sweet but that's one of the main reasons why I hate the interwebs. People are still living right next to each other like they always have, it's only an illusion of separation.
Soon friend... Soon things will get so dire that the illusion will collapse. I know the hucksters have been peddling the old apocalypse hustle since forever but this time, it's for realsies! Lol
How would I know it was an anarchist project?
If I have to be told it is an anarchist, then I would be skeptical. Deeds or words! Deeds every time, right? What do anarchists look like when there is no agreement about what anarchy consists of.
Anarchy doesn't have form, it
Anarchy doesn't have form, it is random spontaneous eruptions of social energy.
"random spontaneous eruptions of social energy"
My problem with this shallow word-salad definition is how inclusive it is to random collective idiocy, fed by bigotry, ignorance, prejudice, faith and all the other lower common denominators. Like my neighbors who went as far as squatting an unused appartment next to theirs... but these guys are the lowest form of manchild idiots you can find around. And due to some curse (being in their twenties?) they even found a way to have stupid trashy girlfriends.
lol is squatting an unused
lol is squatting an unused apartment and having “trashy” girlfriends an example of “...random collective idiocy, fed by bigotry, ignorance, prejudice, faith and all the other lower common denominators...”?
lol they went as far!!!!!! as squatting an unused apartment !!!!!!!!!
wew lad!
wow, and you’re their neighbor, and you weren’t invited.
i wonder why...
jealus?
Nihilist (not verified)
prejudace is basically
a form of social self defense, people are worried about what could happen if they let those people in their lives...really pretty terrible, and sadly we are all a victim of it at one point or another. I always struggle with which prejudices i should hold when i see them and which one's i shouldn't, being without prejudice entirely i guess would make someone vulnerable? "Stupid"? "Naive"?
This pretty much how I feel 7:26
A non-exclusive anarchy. Of course, ppl will exclude, but everyone is up to how they want to do that.
The thing that depresses me about anarchy is that it's an ideal, it's not real. I feel like there will always be the dickhead bully waiting to use your honesty against you, especially online.
Anarchists should totally have a law against
Complaining! After, I can so live without running my fuck pie hole
daydreamdays
Tra-La-La
I've been on the outskirts of the Anarchist movement for a while and wish that I was more engaged with it. I just go to events and shows for the most part. I've been to a few protests and used to sort of be the distraction for a few Anarchists in the city that I live in. I'm mostly invested in theory and wonder if that has really gotten me anywhere.
I honestly have had sort of bad rap with the Anarchist community where I live as I had got into a spat with another Anarchist who has a lot of clout here. He sort of intentionally isolated me from the community and attempted to leave me stuck with the Mob which everyone just sort of let go because he was popular. He's grown older and more mature now and we have put our differences aside. I do wish that my engagement with the community had been predicated upon better circumstances, though.
As both an Anarchist and an Anarcho-Pacifist with very particular inclinations, I'm not sure exactly what there is for me to do in the community. I should've probably just been in a band or something.
I would like to be more involved, though. I feel like hanging out on the outskirts has become somewhat sociophobic. I'm just sort of not really dealing with my own social anxieties and whathaveyou.
I've rather liked all of the events that I've gone to. I guess I could try talking to people at them more. I do tend to be a bit standoffish. I think that people think that I'm a bit snobbish because of that, but, it's honestly just because I'm sort of anxious.
Idrk. This is some sort of engagement and so I think that that is good. You can only engage so much online, though.
EDIT: So, there's this local Mob boss who runs this bar in this city that I just can't seem to get people to stop going to who has it out for me since, in order to skirt entrapment, I convinced everyone that they should just rat him out if anything went down since he's already involved with the corrupt police here. He likes to pretend that I'm his protégé for a myriad of reasons most of which amount to either framing my person or getting me killed. Anyways, this very Mount Eerie Anarchist took an instant disliking to me upon first meeting me because I had on a strange sweater that I bought on consignment. He concocts this conspiracy which is designed to more or less force me to just simply roll with that I'm supposed to be this guy's up-and-comer which, I'm sure, he will claim was somehow supposed to be in my and everyone else's best interest, but, what I kind of suspect is that he was just simply trying to get me killed as well. I tried to address this with the local bookstore, but, they didn't really care to hear too much about it since he had been around longer than I had and was also blinded by the light of his intellectual dominance. He has matured now and has ceased to engage in such things and I have forgiven him and apologized for flipping out which I did do as I had, for a period of time, gone totally mad. All of the parties of Anarchists are now on good enough terms aside from that no one can seem to get people to stop going to the bar which is only really so much of a problem, all in all.
The very Mount Eerie Anarchist does just want for me not to bring this up, and, while I do think that we can just forget this whole thing altogether, I do need defend myself as I am still stuck on the outskirts and now honestly don't really have too much to offer given that I've spent so much time getting out of this mess.
If anyone thinks that they know what I am on about, that issue is a non-issue now, and, that was more or less what happened. The very Mount Eerie Anarchist just thought that I was annoying and took things too far. I scrambled my way out of it, but, lost my mind for a brief period of time in the process.
We really can just forget that that whole thing ever happened now.
EDIT II: That is related to engagement, but, I don't want to derail this thread, and, so, I would probably just respond to the original post and not the edits. Things really are alright now, and, so that is nothing that anyone needs to worry about.
Well i found out about
Well i found out about anarchy way too late, after i was practically finished with college. By then i was much too cynical and hyper-critical (and given up on everything) to “engage”. Up until then, throughout my whole life my form of “rebellion” (i didn’t see it like that, or think it’s the best way to frame it) rather took the form of disengagement. Withdrawing from church, family, people who wanted to got to movies, or play video-games, or go to parties. I had my own opinions and could have conversations with everyone, but shied away from expressing the more controversial ones, preferring to withdraw to avoid controversy and not to challenge them.
Thinking back there were people who shared with me ideas which i sympathized with and thought were interesting at the time, but i never insisted on the topic.
Partly because i was always hesitant to reveal my opinions to others unless i trusted them.
Funny how you mention you seem a bit standoffish, my “resting face” is a scowl. It’s good discourage random people messing with you, but maybe it doesn’t do favors in other areas, lol.
I got interested in Anarchism
I got interested in Anarchism through Wikipedia in high school. I vaguely sympathized with Anarcho-Pacifism, but, more or less considered myself to be a Libertarian. I just thought that it was more sensible somehow. I discovered that I was definitely wrong after reading Atlas Shrugged and making it through all 60 pages of the John Galt speech which I literally banged my head off of the dining room table while reading.
I, then, fell into a crowd of left-wing Liberals with radical sympathies and would later decide upon becoming an Anarchist. I was actually more of a Communist back in the day. I kept trying to figure out how to make Communism more libertarian and eventually just decided that I wasn't much of a Marxist. I see Communism as proceeding from Marx.
I later got interested in Autonomism and Communization through The Coming Insurrection and now want to study Giorgio Agamben.
I decided that Autonomism was ultimately rooted in Marxism and that there were Marxist determinst tendencies within Communization that I didn't really agree with and so sort of just fell out of that whole scene. It was realistically just myself anyways. I wasn't really around any Autonomists or Communization theorists.
I've recently come back around to just being an Anarcho-Pacifist. I more or less ascribe to some sort of Anarchism without adjectives.
I kind of missed the boat on being involved with the community as well. I never got heavily into Punk in high school and hadn't decided upon Anarchism until my early to mid 20s. I'm sort of in the phase of my life where I'm trying to figure out how to get everything together now.
I think that active disengagement is a good idea and could be more of a positive praxis than it is given credit for as "lifestylism".
I feel like I have sort of a stance. There's just a general way of standing that makes me seem unapproachable. It's only partially intentional. I do need to avoid certain crowds at certain shows, but, I have been a bit too intentionally off-putting in the past. You never live at all if you just avoid everyone.
I don't think that I am snobbish, but, people have said that I am before. The air is totally unintentional. I guess I do sort of have expensive tastes. I kind of only read theory and watch films from the Criterion Collection. I feel like I'm fairly down to earth, though. I don't really have the prejudices that I think that a lot of people think that I have. I honestly just think that it's because I'm of a minority inclination within the Anarchist community and I never really got heavily into Punk. I like Punk, I just don't see why I should devote my entire life to it. I don't really have the patches and the rest of the set of significations that let other Anarchists trust you. I guess I feel like the movement is a little too concerned with its aesthetic. Perhaps, it's just because I really am sort of out of place, though. I sort of feel like I don't really have that much to offer the community. I can give you a lot of good book recommendations, but, that's kind of about it. I don't really feel like anyone would really be interested in my music or poetry. Idk, though. I'm probably just second guessing myself too much, though.
@critic (not verified)
forming connections
Mostly I think, people never encounter each other. I suspect there's people living near me, with similar politics, who I've never met. Quite often nowadays, connection seems to be almost random. People find each other on corporate platforms like Facebook, in non-anarchist groups, through friends in common. And often it just doesn't happen. The difficulty with real-life interactions is getting enough people. And avoiding idpol shitstorms and big-man takeovers. Most people are very busy nowadays and quite a few don't go out much. Some will avoid political contexts because of repression or big-man politics or idpol or other bad experiences.
The anarchists and quasi-anarchists I still know are mostly people I know through two routes: people who were involved in my local scene when it was more lively, and people I know through involvement in online projects. A lot of them are in a similar situation to me: they don't have a real activity-context but are still in touch with old friends, and online contacts.
Past routes that I think were common:
1. People started out in student activism, passed through the left into left-anarchism and then into direct action. This is less common now because uni activism is so heavily idpol.
2. People started out in left sects, moved from one sect to another, finally found anarchism. This happens less now because the left sects have shrunk.
3. People started out in single-issue NGOs, moved towards the radical wing and thus into anarchism. This is less common now because moderate NGOs are too recuperated and don't protest much, there's too big a split between the NGOs and the radicals.
4. People move into anarchism from participation in a subcultural scene such as punk or raving. This is less common now because the scenes are smaller and more regulated. Also the internet has eaten into that whole pub/club/festival model.
5. People meet each other through DIY lifestyle practices like squatting, skipping, urban foraging, gardening, self-build, etc. I think this still happens, but is less common.
6. People get radicalised by a particular demonstration, riot or action, and move into anarchism more broadly from that. This still happens, but I think the level of repression makes it less common. A lot of people protest once, get traumatised, and stop.
7. People start out in cyber counterculture – hacker community, channing, piracy – develop hacker ethos and then move into anarchism from there. This still happens, but it's less common because the alt-right is so strong in these scenes and the repression is stronger too.
So I think we need to rethink how to build connections. We have the dense social networks at a macro scale with the internet, but we've lost the local affinity groups, we've got a kind of networked possessive individualism. And we're dealing with a different problem “activating” people now. If you look at Helena Flam's work, there's a clear difference in mobilisation problems in “democratic” and “authoritarian” regimes. In “democratic” regimes the big problem is getting people discontented enough to want to revolt. In “authoritarian” regimes the big problem is keeping up courage in the face of fear. I think the west has moved far enough towards the second pole that the problems have shifted more in that direction.
A few suggestions of how to revive connections. One is that we need to create our own social network sites that aren't corporate and aren't big-data mines, preferably on the dark web. Something doing for us what Gab is doing for the far-right. Second, we need good anarchist real-world events that are clear in not implementing idpol safe-space crap. Third, we need a group of people specifically dedicated to funnelling people active on social media into safer channels. Fourth, we need to recreate local affinity groups or autonomous zones based on 1, 2 and 3. Fifth, once we have groups we need to try to reach out to people like squatters, prisoners, homeless people and so on to recreate a milieu. We aren't far off the point where we could in principle have a global network coordinated from a few hidden autonomous sites which could gradually expand into ZAD-like autonomous zones all over the world.
interesting idea about the dark web
it's a pretty contradictory concept though, the dark web or deep web is just a collection of websites that don't want to be found by the anon normies. Gab sounds really horrible, what is it?! Do you think that people would benefit from it by using it as a type of meetup?
gift of the...
I didn't say *use* Gab, though trolling there might be great fun. I said make something similar for our side. Ideally darknet or peer-to-peer.
I believe there is a pressing
I believe there is a pressing need to rid ourselves of the '90s version of anarcho-leftism as not only it proved to be a failed model as both activist tendency and subculture -with the famous bands RATM and ATR standing as outward expressions of its inner failings- and seek for new ways to ARTICULATE, express, de-criminalize and de-demonize anarchy, putting it back on the public place.
Which means...
- graffiti and broken windows are not enough (duh). One-war communications serve their purpose, yet do not provide with space/time for a conversation. You can't make accomplices that aren't around.
- building supporting infrastructures and networking, not just for your GANG or affinity group, for EVERYONE who's in the game. The group gimmicks are too alienating for lesser socially-skilled individuals. Even if socially-skilled people are needed, we can't just count only on those (or else, endless social loop just repeating the same problem over and over).
- trash the Revolution paradigm, in favor of the Social War. Not as some fascist militaristic doctrine, but on the contrary as a building of awareness of society as war, in itself. That there's this Leviathan and it's fighting against us, while we're often caught fighting for it as well. That the war starts every business day at 7 to 9 AM, and that it's a 24/7 war against the wild and free living, through sophisticated means of control and submission, just like brutal exploitation. It is a war for the State's preeminence, so how to counter it without becoming it. The Revolutionary paradigm was based on evolutionist marxism and has no place in a world where Everyprole can be a Capitalist Traitor, or at least a snitch.
- Building trust between PEOPLE, not institutions or whatever, is key. Practical solidarity is crucial in building trust. This means a form of engagement... not to imperatives or institutions, but to physical living beings. But over which issues? That's another important question. While it's nice and dreamy to be perceiving Everyprole as a potential comrade, that's JUST NOT THE WAY THINGS ARE, and this sets a precedent for more deception. So trust is something to build, not to assume proactively by design. Being a "prole" or an "oppressed" doesn't mean any stance or moral alignment by itself, as in the real world many oppressed people end up with the same old Stockholm syndrome.
So this would redefine the notion of anarchist engagement. Being not about some global event that would change our lives, but rather about a shift in our global vision of the world that affects our daily lives, giving it a radically different narrative, that can 1start at the individual level.
Theory is more about articulating than drawing goals or causes.
SirEinzige
Good post as per usual @
90 percent of the problem and solution would simply be dumping IDPol as well as greater fundamentalist orthodox 1968 recuperated language. I've thought of the idea of a REAL intellectual dark web and an association of radical CHANable discursive edgy. Not the current one with all the Dave Rubtards. This would be a good way to introduce some post-left niche anarchist/anarch ideas into a newly minted discourse. Much of the current left hates the naughtier nicheier side of anarchism/anarchy.
For me something like Gab should maybe be slightly contested and with a marginal minority of non reactionaries if there is not to be an alternative non-IDPol radical equivalent in the near future. I'd like to see the leftypol stuff become more sophisticated and detankified and not so class reductionist but co/multi-structural in analysis and critique. There probably should just be one politically incorrect channel as opposed to two to duke these things out and show who really has edge. You say 'Hitler did nothing wrong', I'll see you that and raise you everything including pedophilia.
Neo Liberal power structures are going nutso right now with deplatforming and outright algorithmic control of discourse, just in time for the 2020 election of course to avoid the outcome that they did not like very much this past November 2016.
Fauvenoi (not verified)
"One-way communications..."
Fauvenoir (not verified)
two typos for a dollar
"Fauvenoir"
Uh, what’s this anarchy
Uh, what’s this anarchy thingy?
Andrew (not verified)
Long live the revolution.
Long live the revolution. Long live anarchy.
The main project should be --
The main project should be --{ How do we communicate with the dumb moronic anarchists who are out there but don't realize who they are, like the road ragers, cop abusers, fraudsters, homeless addicts, domestic violence offenders, bank robbers, sexual deviants, rapists and all those categories of beautiful anarch expression who have been criminalized by fascist moral Christian authority?!
how is forcing sex on someone
how is forcing sex on someone (rape) and domestic violence anarchistic? I swear, some people just want "anarchy" so they can be their fully-realized bully.
that's actually a good point 7:09
but you could have just said "how is forcing anarchy on anyone anarchistic"? I get pretty sick of the cult leader types myself too...it seems like there's an endless number of ways to beat people over the head with words, because there is hardcore word inflation in today's societies, and way too many people who are just completely lost in misery. It's kinda like you're using flippant terminology just to draw adrenaline addicted trolling "morons" like me into reading what you say.
7:09 (not verified)
I just meant that I don't
I just meant that I don't think rape and domestic abuse are "a beautiful anarch expression." That's bizarre to me.
no they aren't dude
i just get a little tired of the "in response to your flippant language, IM GOING TO THROW MORE FLIPPANT LANGUAGE AT YOU" keep trolling my non-friend friend!
i need to serious take a break from internet anarchy...
What do you think would have
What do you think would have been a less flippant way of communicating my idea?
i've just been having an inter-self crises, plz just ignore me and go back to being mad and flippant! I would like to go to a nice anger-management group.
I dunno how you're able to conflate "forcing anarchy" with "forcing sex". Do you know what "sex" means?
Impressionable people are all over the place, waiting for their gurus to trick and pwn them if they play the game right, skilled at using the right social identifiers. Then they'll throw the blame at the social misfits who got nothing to do with this game. Gurus gloating. Society has turned mankind into a nightmare. There is no trust, no respect, no authenticity, there is only the game of society.
It wasn't flippant but what I
It wasn't flippant but what I've experienced in real life, so phenomenological.
"cop abusers"
Mad_Nihilist (not verified)
you can't really abuse cops
when a cop's job title is "HEY, IM THAT GUY WHO CAN FUCK WITH YOU WITH IMPUNITY!". There was some lady on the street in DC recently who was telling me to donate money to cops as a potential role they could have in controlling bullying in schools in reaction to the fact that suicide rates among kids recently have been much higher. ARRGGGH. SHUT THE FUCK UP LADY. COPS CONTROLLING BULLYING?! DC BETTER JUST LOWER THE AGE REQUIREMENT FOR BECOMING A COP. THAT WOULD ACTUALLY BE ENTERTAINING.
Pretty much... "cop abusers"
Pretty much... "cop abusers" reads like "dem hunter-killing wild creatures".
Stockholm syndrome morons are posting on this site... whoadude! ;-)
Yeah I always had this fantasy
About releasing a tiger from a zoo...but doing illegal shit scares me. I just want to be happy in spite of society. @ any one who wants to do this: just cut the fence and throw the kitty some meat!
but LeWay...
why do you like cop abusers more than cops? cops weren't on your list, they're pretty much trained to uphold the law and then given pistols. Now this isn't to say A.C.A.B, but they're more likely to be assholes than say that bastard on the street. They are also the gatekeepers of a perpetually abusive system, the ones around where i live are also extremely corrupt...
i swear, everyone is my fucking enemy anyway, this life will keep fucking with me until i die
*hate
why do you hate cop abusers more than cops?
btw, i never commented on it, but those kids holding the "coffee without cops" table was a contrarian project i really enjoy.
I can't reconcile anyone who can just fuck with me and get away with it under an air of righteousness.
ThisIsMyName (not verified)
Yeeeeeees... one's stuck to 2 hours 9 min ago
US hegemony has worked well 2 hours 16 min ago
In other words, he would be 3 hours 59 sec ago
But we are all together, 3 hours 3 min ago
Anews is this really... 3 hours 25 min ago
Hes a linguist in academia 4 hours 6 min ago
Po-ta-to Po-ta-to Po-ta-to!!! 4 hours 14 min ago
I will say this, he's a 4 hours 20 min ago
well yeah only in a loose sense 4 hours 41 min ago
Okay for honesty's sake I'll 5 hours 30 min ago
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A day with SDF fighters amidst the siege in Raqqa
In Raqqa legends of unparalleled comradeship and self-sacrifice, that has grown with a deep sense of unity among the Kurdish and Arab fighters, are filling the pages of history.
ANF - HÎVDA HEBÛN
Thursday, 17 Aug 2017, 14:32
The Great Battle launched on June 6 by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) from two flanks to liberate Raqqa's city centre is ongoing. ISIS gangs are sitting in a tight deadlock following the two flanks' meeting. The days of the ISIS gangs, who are trying desperately to keep themselves alive by resorting to suicide attacks, planting of land mines and assassination plots, are numbered. The SDF has increased their operations in these last two weeks and have also started to engage in battle during daytime. The fighters are giving it all, to deliver the finals ISIS deserved.
When you talk about Raqqa, you will do injustice to the truth of the young men and women fighting at the front lines in Raqqa, if you restrict it to the advances on the ground, the captured areas and the numbers of ISIS thugs taken out. Because there is not only war in Raqqa, but huge resistance and legends are filling the pages of history every single day. In Raqqa epics of unprecedented comradeship and altruism, that have come into being with the deep sense of unity among the Kurdish and Arab fighters, are being written down. No words can ever describe the resistance put up by the Kurdish and Arab fighters, their loyalty to each other, their altruism and unexampled comradeship. These fighters that are engaged in a war in Raqqa are demonstrating how fraternity of the peoples will look like. They do not adhere to theories and policies, but live and fight side by side filled with affection and trustfulness, without even glancing at political benefits and balances. Only by recalling commander Egîd, whom we have witnessed with our own eyes, the attempt to express the comradeship shining in Raqqa can be facilitated.
A TWO DAYS OPERATION
As the fighting in Raqqa takes place also during daytime now, we accompanied the SDF units to document the operations there. A commander coordinating the battle said: "I will assign you to the Dirbêsiyê Battalion, to comrade Egîd, you will not sway from his commands."
When we reached our unit, we met Egîd, a young commander with a smiling face but who still looks a bit older due to his beard. He had been already informed that we were going to walk along with the unit under his command. He said that they would go into action the following day at 5 am and wanted us to prepare ourselves accordingly.
THE COMMANDER OF THE ATTACK FLANK
Egîd is a YPG fighter from Kobanê, in his twenties, and the commander of the Dirbêsiyê Battalion. He took part in the historic battle of Kobanê before and has joined almost all operations during the last six years. The Dirbêsiyê Battalion forms the attack flank in the Raqqa Operation. This battalion has served as the attack flank not only in Raqqa, but all operations until now. The age of its Kurdish and Arab fighters ranges from 19 to 23 years.
The next day at 5 o'clock in the morning we betook ourselves to the arranged point of departure. After a short time the unit gathered around the vehicles. We got into the cars together with the unit and started out. The cars reached finally a spot, from which we had to proceed with panzers. As the panzers halted in front of the historic city walls, it was time to go the rest of the way on foot. All groups gathered first together, checked once again the plan and headed eventually off. And we held on to the Dirbêsiyê flank.
OPERATION AGAINST THE POSITION TO BE CAPTURED FIRST
When they were close to the first ISIS position that was set to be captured first, the group's commander Egîd had already sent some fighters to check the building ahead. The building consisting of four floors was very spacious and had many rooms. For this reason, it took some time to guarantee full control of the building. After the fighters spotted the planted mines and checked the building thoroughly, they began to enter the building by twos. After all the building was checked from top to down, the group that was to hold the building was sent in. During the control many tunnels and holes, dug and hammered in by the ISIS gangs, were detected inside of the building. After commander Egîd warned that the ISIS gangs have laid an ambush nearby and that the clash would start now, the fighters started to take positions at once. After a short while, the clash began. The ISIS gangs tried on the one side to enter the building, and fired on the other side from afar at the building. The fight lasted up to an hour. After one hour, silence took hold for a short time. Then, while the fighters were shooting at the ISIS gangs from the 3rd floor inside the building in front of them, an explosion rocked the floor downstairs of the building. The fighters informed that an ISIS member detonated himself. And the building was suddenly set on fire.
THEY REALIZED THAT FIGHTER NEMIR WAS MISSING
Commander Egîd realized that the fighter named Nemir was missing. All the fighters started to call the name of Nemir simultaneously, but there was no respond. Egîd and a few fighters tried to get down, but the rubbles did not allow. The fighters tried persistently to climb downstairs, but were not able. The entire building was choked with black smoke. The flames were so high that even the people on the third floor could not stand the heat.
COMMANDER EGÎD TRIES TO JUMP INTO THE FIRE
Commander Egîd was constantly trying to cross somehow the flames. The fighters held him back, shouting that it was not possible to pass the fire. If he did so, he would also fall a martyr himself. But Egîd and a fighter called Çekdem insisted on breaking through that fire and reach comrade Nemir as soon as possible. The flames grew larger and larger because the ISIS gangs, who had laid the ambush, were constantly shooting rockets. In addition, the gasoline bins on the second floor of the building fuelled the fire and the flames would only grow bigger. The war coordination made contact with the group via the mobile radio and told them to stand by until the fire stifles. But neither Commander Egîd nor the fighter Çekdem would come to a halt. Egîd constantly said, 'Not without Nemir, I will take no step without getting him out of there'.
THEY EVEN DISOBEYED A DIRECT ORDER
The war coordination desk gave them instructions to leave the building at once and to move to a safe place. But Commander Egîd and his unit replied that they would never leave the building without Nemir. Commander Egîd was trying on the one hand to motivate his unit and provide them with morale and was looking on the other hand for ways to reach comrade Nemir. The whole group was very calm and no one was distressed in whatever way. All of them were only thinking of one thing, to reach Nemir.
EVEN IF HE TURNED TO ASHES, I WILL NOT LEAVE THOSE ASHES BEHIND
After a couple of hours, when the fire eased a bit down, the fighters winded themselves into blankets, crossed the flames and tried to retrieve their comrade, but every group that went returned empty handed. There were no signs of Nemir. Commander Egîd and fighter Çekdem went through the flames a couple of times, but they could not find him no matter what. When the war coordination desk ordered them: 'Leave the building now, you will return as soon back up arrives', Commander Egîd got very angry and replied: 'What are you saying, I will not leave until I get Nemir out of there.'
They said that Nemir had been burned most likely in the fire and that it was not possible for a person to escape from such an enormous fire alive. Commander Egîd responded to them saying: 'Even if he turned to ashes, I will not leave his ashes behind, if necessary I will turn to ashes myself, but I will not let him go'.
This time the war coordination desk told them: 'At least get out of the building and let the battalion with heavy weapons tear down the front buildings with DShK and missiles', but Egîd refused this as well. As much as Egîd's comrades tried to convince him over the mobile radio, he did not yield the slightest. Neither his comrades in arms, nor the war coordination desk, no one could convince Commander Egîd and his group. They all were united. At this stage everyone understood that nobody could get them out of there without comrade Nemir. There was a way out, the front of the building was already in the hands of the fighters, so it would be easy for them to leave if they only wanted to. But the spirit of comradeship did not allow them to leave Nemir there and climb out.
EGÎD AND ÇEKDEM WERE ALSO SOAKED IN BLOOD
As the inside of the burning building began to become somewhat visible, Egîd and Çekdem entered the burning floor again. The ISIS gangs were still firing at the building. When they entered, a violent explosion occurred. On hearing the sound of the explosion, we all started to rush to that floor. Commander Egîd and Çekdem were lying on the ground. Blood was pouring out from the chest of both. Nemir's burnt body was lying there just next to them. Yes, Commander Egîd and Çekdem did what they set their minds on and finally found Nemir. Commander Egîd, Çekdem and Nemir were lying on the ground next to each other ...
"I ONLY DO WHAT I HAVE TO DO"
We had seen the Commander Egîd at the beginning of the operation while dancing halay with his comrades. Even though he was only in his twenties, he looked with his immense self-confidence and resolute stance 10 years older beyond his years. When the Rojava Revolution started, he joined the revolution even though he had been yet a child and joined the YPG when he was 18 years old together with his elder brother. He used to say: 'All I want is, that when the people in these lands go to sleep, they shall not sleep with one eye open. The people of these lands deserve now to live in freedom. I am not doing anything at all, I only do what I have to do.'
NEMIR WAS AN ARAB FROM RAQQA
Nemir was a young Arab man from Raqqa at the age of 20. The ISIS gangs had killed many of his family members when they swept over the city Raqqa. He was repeatedly exposed to torture by the ISIS gangs. At the end, Nemir managed to escape and joined YPG. He had said: 'What I want is to clear this earth of the gangs. Not only Raqqa, but until the entire world is freed from the ISIS thugs, my heart will not be satisfied.' When we conducted an interview with Nemir before, we asked him what he wanted to do after Raqqa was liberated. He replied: 'When I fled from Raqqa I came to the Serêkaniyê city. I stayed there and I decided to join YPG there. I loved it there very much. For me, now all of Rojava is Raqqa.'
ÇEKDEM WAS ONLY 18 YEARS OLD
Çekdem was a young man from Kobane and only 18 years old. He had said: 'I have come to take revenge for the martyrs of the Raqqa Operation and all those innocent people. Raqqa is the last stronghold of ISIS and we will demolish that stronghold with our own hands.'
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Here’s hoping the iMac Pro learns from the Mac Pro’s mistakes
It's a bit odd, but it's the first step toward fixing Apple's pro desktops.
I got to thinking, the Xeon won't have Quick Sync, right? Might make for some odd positioning where for video editing, the consumer hardware is actually faster. I.e the Macbook Pro can out export the Mac Pro for this reason.
AVX-512 on it is hawt though. It's somehow comforting to know there remains a Unix workstation with CPU pipes that wide, 128GB ECC memory, pro graphics, etc. Like a sledgehammer in your back shed it just costs 5 grand to unlock.
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Chris FOM
But the color scheme looks awesome.
HuskyStark
I wonder, given the size of Vega, if it could be put into an MXM form factor and replaced down the road by Apple for a price. This way they iMac would be able to keep up with advancements in Graphics
Ishkabibbel
Tribus: Giggity
Andrew wrote:
At the same time, it comes in the form of an all-in-one PC, and one that doesn't appear to have any user-accessible parts to boot (the RAM hatch present on regular 27-inch iMacs isn't apparent here, and Apple's spec sheet doesn't mention user-accessible memory).
I'm used to iMacs not being component upgradeable, but lack of ability to expand RAM on a Pro machine is unforgivable.
mkuch90
This is exactly the solution my brother needs: a powerful desktop he doesn't want to think about. He's a media professional, does video and audio work, but doesn't particularly care what's under the hood so long as it works. He wants a desktop with more power, but doesn't have the technical expertise to make a hackintosh and the 2013 Mac Pro is too old, dated, and expensive to consider.
Tribus: Disaster Area Concert, row 38.7km, seat 42
From the x-ray shots, it looks like the ram is just standard dimms
http://imgur.com/a/b1o15
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Chris FOM wrote:
I like it too. That keyboard is really sharp. Maybe they'll sell it separately eventually.
Jehos
Tribus: DFW, TX
It won't be Skylake X. No way Intel would let them get away with the Xeon slides at WWDC if it were Skylake X.
My money is on Xeon Gold.
Mk.II
swholliday wrote:
It comes with 128 GB of RAM. How much do you want to expand to?
LauRoman
Tribus: New Constantinopolis
...while making new ones...
charlie don't surf
I am dying for that bluetooth extended keyboard. Yes it will definitely be available for sale separately, how else can you get a replacement when you spill coffee on one and kill it?
My big question, is the extended keyboard backlit? With such a big footprint, it could have enough battery capacity for backlighting.
Tribus: Somerville, MA
HuskyStark wrote:
That would depend entirely on how hot the GPU gets. Manufacturers are stuffing GTX 1080s into laptops, and the iMac is basically a laptop design that sits on a desk.
macphisto
Jehos wrote:
ECC RAM means it is indeed a Xeon, not Skylake-X.
They certainly could and they certainly won't.
Apple sells toasters. Do you upgrade your toaster when it gets old or do you buy a new one?
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zmwangx wrote:
I think people would rather not pay Apple's inflated prices.
Ulf wrote:
You pay inflated prices when you get an all-in-one. Not surprising.
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I have to give them credit for using a 10Gb ethernet port. BTW it is also capable of 2.5Gbe and 5.0 Gbe as well. So it should provide good >1Gbe flexibility. Honestly this should be the standard for new high end machines.
LGruinedMyLife
mkuch90 wrote:
The Mac Pro is too expensive but this starting at $5000 isn't?
NeoPlasma
charlie don't surf wrote:
I have a Matias wireless keyboard that looks very much like this one, and it can be paired to as many as 4 devices. I've had it for a year or so now and the build quality is quite excellent. My only misgiving is the lack of a backlight for the keys.
Ars Moriendi wrote:
Which I suspect means you will be able to upgrade the RAM if you're willing to pull an iFixit and pop the display off (similar to replacing a hard drive on the current iMac).
It's an ultra high-end workstation that includes anywhere from eight to 18 CPU cores (which almost certainly means that it's using Intel's new X299 platform and its accompanying Skylake-X processors)
This is almost certainly not correct. Yes Skylake-X is essentially rebranded Xeon processors but if the iMac Pro used a Skylake-X CPU all the promo material would say i7 and skylake-x not Xeon. If they are marketing it as a Xeon it is a Xeon processor. Intel is very strict about the product separation and identification.
Even if the machine is not "user serviceable" in the usual way, what is completely unforgivable about the current iMacs design, shared by the new iMac pro, is, that even for authorized dealers it is very difficult to get into the machine to perform repairs. And the small fans are eventually going to require service, but even if that just means cleaning them with a brush, it will mean a hefty bill outside of Apple care.
issor
I was also hoping for user serviceability, however, I think what they're doing makes sense given that they're targeted mostly at content creation and professional markets that will buy the whole thing as a package and use it until the next company hardware refresh.
The news that there is still a Mac Pro in the works is interesting. I guess I assumed this was it.
amyklai
This thing is designed for people who need lots of cores, powerful GPUs, big amounts of RAM and big SSDs, are willing to pay a pretty big Apple markup on said amounts of cores, RAM and SSDs and are absolutely sure they'll never need to upgrade the machines.
Seems like it's targeted at idiots with a big budget.
So shitty they didn't put a damn hatch on the back. If they had you could have easily upgraded the RAM and drives. The CPU and GPU do appear to be soldered components.
tayhimself
Tribus: Boston,MA
Statistical wrote:
What a stupid comment. A very large number of people use macOS for work. Please stop trivializing what people do, it makes you look like an idiot.
Yeah, as it stands you'll have to take apart the screen to upgrade. Pretty typical pro-bottom-line move by Apple (see sealing the mac mini etc.).
platocplx
With upgrade concerns in the article its stated how GPUs were the ones less stagnant than CPU. But can't this like the newer MacBook pros allow for external GPUs which helps extend the life of the machine?
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tayhimself wrote:
I think you misunderstood what I meant. I never said Macs weren't capable of real work. Simply that Apple's business model is about selling new products not supporting a lifetime of upgrades and their designs reflect that. Who sells upgradeable toasters? Nobody. If your current one doesn't meet your needs you throw it away and buy a new one.
Case in point the x-ray image of the imac pro someone shared upthread clearly indicate the CPU and GPU are soldered to the mainboard. No upgrade is possible. The RAM and SSD would be trivial to upgrade but Apple removed the access hatch so it would require a complete teardown of the system just to reach them.
This isn't a coincidence, Apple sells toasters. Very polished, highly capable toasters but nobody plans on what future upgrades are available for their toaster.
jdale
The base price is the version with 32 GB of ram. It's certainly possible someone might presently think that is plenty, and find in a year or two they'd rather have 64 or 128.
ubercurmudgeon
The iMac Pro is what I imagine Darth Vader's iMac would look like.
I was thinking Disaster Area's stunt ship control panel but each to his own. Some hoopy frood designed it, that's for sure.
jdale wrote:
Which is a feature for Apple. Better get 64GB now only $800 extra.
powermacguy
NeoPlasma wrote:
They should be shipping the Matias wireless aluminum keyboard with backlight in space gray this month.
http://matias.ca/aluminum/backlit/
http://matias.ca/aluminum/backlit/viewer/3.jpg
mappel
When will we see actual "pro" laptops with a lot of RAM (64G+) and big batteries? Fascination with light weight is getting ridiculous. Body shame a pro laptop all you want but at least it will have a big-ass battery and adult-sized RAM. I'll take a nicely -designed power heifer over a light waif any day [at least in a computer]. I'm rarely far from power and Apple's waif computer batteries barely last me 90 minutes unplugged when I'm using it for any real work.
What happens with an iMac when the cooling system gets clogged by dust? I know they try to design the consumer iMacs to run for as long as possible without running the fans by providing woefully inadequate graphics drivers so that people won't run intensive applications. But these computers will be pushed to the max for a considerable amount of time, so the fans will be whirring in many cases non-stop. How are they going to solve the cooling problems coming out of that?
SirOmega
Tribus: Las Vegas
I think the Mac Pro is more up my alley. My gripe is that it seems like a bad deal - you're spending so much of this money for an amazing monitor you have to throw out with the CPU when you want to upgrade.
I upgrade my PC every 3 years. I'm still running the same monitor I bought in 2005 (Dell 24"). The screen is amazing, but I don't have that burning desire to upgrade this every 3-5 years, along with the monitor. I want to buy a monitor, and have it last around 10 years (this one is overdue, but I spent all that money and more on a nursery so...), and a new computer every 3-5 years. I went from Sandy Bridge to Skylake, with some GPU upgrades in between (GF 8800, GT 260, GT 660).
Case in point the xray image of the imac pro someone shared upthread clearly indicate the CPU and GPU are soldered to the mainboard. No upgrade is possible. The RAM and SSD would be trivial to upgrade but Apple removed the access hatch so it would require essentially a complete teardown of the entire machine to get to them.
This isn't a coincidence, Apple sells toasters. Very polished, highly capable toasters but nobody plans on future upgrades for their toaster.
The market for used iMacs is quite robust though. Just because they can't be upgraded (or can be minimally with great effort) doesn't mean they have no aftermarket value. If someone buys a new one and a couple years later needs the newer, faster model, you can recoup much of that initial investment quite easily from someone who doesn't need the latest and greatest.
Old_one
Corporate computers are usually kept as long as the warranty lasts-- that's three years for my iMac. After three years it gets replaced. I can see that happening for the iMac Pro.
astie
I'm still using an Apple 2560 by 1600 display from 2007. I've changed the Mac Pro it is attached to several times, but I still have the same power guzzling but very serviceable display - and at 10 years old it's by far the oldest component that I use.
The idea of having a Pro system where individual components cannot be upgraded fills me with horror. The idea of an 18-core system that maxes at 128 GB does the same, as does the need to spend $5000 on a system that I could have someone put together with similar components for around half the price.
The choices Apple makes when provisioning a system are very obviously designed to maximize profit at the expense of user choice. The Apple tax is getting to be outrageous.
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Sunday, October 31st, 2010
All or Nothing or something in between: Pipilotti Rist at Luhring Augustine
by Suzanne Stroebe
Pipilotti Rist: Heroes of Birth at Luhring Augustine
531 West 24th Street, between 10th and 11th avenues
New York City, 212-206-9100
Pipilotti Rist, Heroes of Birth. Installation view, Luhring Augustine, 2010
Providing an immersive experience through the lush use of color, images, and sound is a signature of Pipilotti Rist’s installations. Captivating and disorienting, her current show at Luhring Augustine Gallery, Heroes of Birth, completely transforms the three-room gallery space, as only Rist can, yet it falls short of her own high standards, an innocuous version of earlier work.
Upon entering the gallery you are wrapped in warm pink light and pulled into another world. All or Nothing (alles oder nichts) (2010), in the entry gallery is an altar-like installation, comprised of a three-part video screen, with offerings of grains, fruit, flowers, and a water dispenser with cups displayed below on a minimal white shelf. On each visit to the show I found myself spending the most time with this simple piece which offers the viewer a moment to pause and reflect before entering the interior gallery. The video on display, a candy colored kaleidoscope of twirling hands and bouncing male genetalia, is mesmerizing, hilarious, and slightly embarrassing. Meanwhile the food and drink give you an excuse to stand and stare for a while. Inside the main gallery space, Layers Mama Layers (2010) is a multifaceted and slightly overwhelming installation. A video of fluffy sheep frolicking on lush green hills is projected onto and through four gossamer sheets of white fabric that have been hung from the ceiling. Fluorescent green circular patterns grow to fill the room, then recede. The sounds of a slowly tinkling music box fill the room eerily. Walking through the rows, the videos are projected through each sheet of fabric and onto you and the other viewers, resulting in an entirely cohesive yet disorienting experience.
The body parts from All or Nothing return in the back gallery, in the form of wallpaper. A human kaleidoscope lines the walls of a room lit by Massachusetts Chandelier (2010), a hanging structure crafted from pairs of large, unsexy underwear. This room is also filled with the innocent sounds of the music box, but the chandelier overshadows the other works in this gallery. Lit both from within and by colored lights projected onto the sculpture, Massachusetts Chandelier is funny, disturbing, and quite beautiful in an off-putting way, but is conceptually flat. Like the green graphic patterns in the main gallery, this piece feels decorative, a visually enthralling and funny way to fill space.
Pipilotti Rist, All or Nothing (alles oder nichts), 2010. Video installation; metal triptych with 3 LCD screens, 3 integrated players, 9 1/2 X 16 7/8 X 3 7/8 inches. Courtesy of Luhring Augustine
Themes of childhood, sexuality, and gender are threaded throughout the work, but no clear stance has been taken on any of these contentious issues. New techniques and tools are employed in Heroes of Birth, providing a trippy, out-of-body-experience, but the imagery feels recycled from Rists’ previous work.
Her massive installation at the Museum of Modern Art last year, Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters), for example, impressively transformed MoMA’s cold, modernist atrium into a swirl of hot pink light, and large-scale moving images of nature. Each aspect of the installation, including the rounded projector casings on the wall, the donut-shaped couch with soft cushions, and video projections of fruits, flowers and a female figure, were a gentle yet subversive move against the inherent masculinity of such art institutions. In a review in New York Magazine that was brimming with girly adjectives, Jerry Saltz declared that “Rist makes the institution ovulate.”
More explicitly sexual than Pour Your Body Out, Heroes of Birth is engaging in the use of dichotomous imagery: the masculine and feminine, salacious and infantile are all mashed together. Yet the show is a watered down version of what we know the artist can do. The work is titillating and enjoyable, but not as subversive or profound as Rist can be.
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Florida Senate - 2010 SB 312
By Senator Jones
13-00415-10 2010312__
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to public records; amending s.
3 119.071, F.S.; creating a public-records exemption for
4 specified personal information of current and former
5 public defenders and criminal conflict and civil
6 regional counsel, as well as their spouses and
7 children; providing for future legislative review
8 repeal of the exemption under the Open Government
9 Sunset Review Act; providing a statement of public
10 necessity; providing an effective date.
12 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
14 Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subsection (4) of section
15 119.071, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
16 119.071 General exemptions from inspection or copying of
17 public records.—
18 (4) AGENCY PERSONNEL INFORMATION.—
19 (d)1.a. The home addresses, telephone numbers, social
20 security numbers, and photographs of active or former law
21 enforcement personnel, including correctional and correctional
22 probation officers, personnel of the Department of Children and
23 Family Services whose duties include the investigation of abuse,
24 neglect, exploitation, fraud, theft, or other criminal
25 activities, personnel of the Department of Health whose duties
26 are to support the investigation of child abuse or neglect, and
27 personnel of the Department of Revenue or local governments
28 whose responsibilities include revenue collection and
29 enforcement or child support enforcement; the home addresses,
30 telephone numbers, social security numbers, photographs, and
31 places of employment of the spouses and children of such
32 personnel; and the names and locations of schools and day care
33 facilities attended by the children of such personnel are exempt
34 from s. 119.07(1).
35 b. The home addresses, telephone numbers, and photographs
36 of firefighters certified in compliance with s. 633.35; the home
37 addresses, telephone numbers, photographs, and places of
38 employment of the spouses and children of such firefighters; and
39 the names and locations of schools and day care facilities
40 attended by the children of such firefighters are exempt from s.
41 119.07(1).
42 c. The home addresses and telephone numbers of justices of
43 the Supreme Court, district court of appeal judges, circuit
44 court judges, and county court judges; the home addresses,
45 telephone numbers, and places of employment of the spouses and
46 children of justices and judges; and the names and locations of
47 schools and day care facilities attended by the children of
48 justices and judges are exempt from s. 119.07(1).
49 d. The home addresses, telephone numbers, social security
50 numbers, and photographs of current or former state attorneys,
51 assistant state attorneys, statewide prosecutors, or assistant
52 statewide prosecutors; the home addresses, telephone numbers,
53 social security numbers, photographs, and places of employment
54 of the spouses and children of current or former state
55 attorneys, assistant state attorneys, statewide prosecutors, or
56 assistant statewide prosecutors; and the names and locations of
58 current or former state attorneys, assistant state attorneys,
59 statewide prosecutors, or assistant statewide prosecutors are
60 exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State
61 Constitution.
62 e. The home addresses and telephone numbers of general
63 magistrates, special magistrates, judges of compensation claims,
64 administrative law judges of the Division of Administrative
65 Hearings, and child support enforcement hearing officers; the
66 home addresses, telephone numbers, and places of employment of
67 the spouses and children of general magistrates, special
68 magistrates, judges of compensation claims, administrative law
69 judges of the Division of Administrative Hearings, and child
70 support enforcement hearing officers; and the names and
71 locations of schools and day care facilities attended by the
72 children of general magistrates, special magistrates, judges of
73 compensation claims, administrative law judges of the Division
74 of Administrative Hearings, and child support enforcement
75 hearing officers are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art.
76 I of the State Constitution if the general magistrate, special
77 magistrate, judge of compensation claims, administrative law
78 judge of the Division of Administrative Hearings, or child
79 support hearing officer provides a written statement that the
80 general magistrate, special magistrate, judge of compensation
81 claims, administrative law judge of the Division of
82 Administrative Hearings, or child support hearing officer has
83 made reasonable efforts to protect such information from being
84 accessible through other means available to the public. This
85 sub-subparagraph is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review
86 Act in accordance with s. 119.15, and shall stand repealed on
87 October 2, 2013, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through
88 reenactment by the Legislature.
89 f. The home addresses, telephone numbers, and photographs
90 of current or former human resource, labor relations, or
91 employee relations directors, assistant directors, managers, or
92 assistant managers of any local government agency or water
93 management district whose duties include hiring and firing
94 employees, labor contract negotiation, administration, or other
95 personnel-related duties; the names, home addresses, telephone
96 numbers, and places of employment of the spouses and children of
97 such personnel; and the names and locations of schools and day
98 care facilities attended by the children of such personnel are
100 Constitution.
101 g. The home addresses, telephone numbers, and photographs
102 of current or former code enforcement officers; the names, home
103 addresses, telephone numbers, and places of employment of the
104 spouses and children of such personnel; and the names and
105 locations of schools and day care facilities attended by the
106 children of such personnel are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s.
107 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
108 h. The home addresses, telephone numbers, places of
109 employment, and photographs of current or former guardians ad
110 litem, as defined in s. 39.820, and the names, home addresses,
111 telephone numbers, and places of employment of the spouses and
112 children of such persons, are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s.
113 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution, if the guardian ad
114 litem provides a written statement that the guardian ad litem
115 has made reasonable efforts to protect such information from
116 being accessible through other means available to the public.
117 This sub-subparagraph is subject to the Open Government Sunset
118 Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed
119 on October 2, 2010, unless reviewed and saved from repeal
120 through reenactment by the Legislature.
121 i. The home addresses, telephone numbers, and photographs
122 of current or former juvenile probation officers, juvenile
123 probation supervisors, detention superintendents, assistant
124 detention superintendents, senior juvenile detention officers,
125 juvenile detention officer supervisors, juvenile detention
126 officers, house parents I and II, house parent supervisors,
127 group treatment leaders, group treatment leader supervisors,
128 rehabilitation therapists, and social services counselors of the
129 Department of Juvenile Justice; the names, home addresses,
130 telephone numbers, and places of employment of spouses and
131 children of such personnel; and the names and locations of
132 schools and day care facilities attended by the children of such
133 personnel are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of
134 the State Constitution. This sub-subparagraph is subject to the
135 Open Government Sunset Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15
136 and shall stand repealed on October 2, 2011, unless reviewed and
137 saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.
138 j. The home addresses, telephone numbers, and photographs
139 of current or former public defenders, assistant public
140 defenders, criminal conflict and civil regional counsel, and
141 assistant criminal conflict and civil regional counsel; the home
142 addresses, telephone numbers, social security numbers,
143 photographs, and places of employment of the spouses and
144 children of current or former public defenders, assistant public
146 assistant criminal conflict and civil regional counsel; and the
147 names and locations of schools and day care facilities attended
148 by the children of current or former public defenders, assistant
149 public defenders, criminal conflict and civil regional counsel,
150 and assistant criminal conflict and civil regional counsel are
151 exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State
152 Constitution. This sub-subparagraph is subject to the Open
153 Government Sunset Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and
154 shall stand repealed on October 2, 2015, unless reviewed and
156 2. An agency that is the custodian of the information
157 specified in subparagraph 1. and that is not the employer of the
158 officer, employee, justice, judge, or other person specified in
159 subparagraph 1. shall maintain the exempt status of that
160 information only if the officer, employee, justice, judge, other
161 person, or employing agency of the designated employee submits a
162 written request for maintenance of the exemption to the
163 custodial agency.
164 Section 2. The Legislature finds that it is a public
165 necessity to exempt specified personal information relating to
166 current and former public defenders, assistant public defenders,
167 criminal conflict and civil regional counsel, and assistant
168 criminal conflict and civil regional counsel, as well as their
169 spouses and children, from disclosure under the public-records
170 laws of the state. In the course of representing defendants in
171 criminal prosecutions, these attorneys routinely interact with
172 individuals who have criminal records or are currently engaged
173 in, or suspected of, criminal activity. These attorneys also
174 interact with the victims of crimes. In addition, criminal
175 conflict and civil regional counsel and their assistants also
176 provide representation in sensitive civil matters, such as those
177 in which a person’s parental rights may be terminated based on
178 allegations of perpetrating abuse and neglect against a child.
179 By providing legal representation in criminal and civil matters,
180 these attorneys provide a valuable service. However, individuals
181 may become disgruntled by the proceedings or the outcome of a
182 criminal or civil case, which could result in these attorneys
183 and their families becoming targets for acts of violence.
184 Disclosure of the information protected by the public-records
185 exemption created by this act would jeopardize the safety of
186 these attorneys and their families. Therefore, it is a public
187 necessity to exempt from disclosure the home addresses,
188 telephone numbers, and photographs of current or former public
189 defenders, assistant public defenders, criminal conflict and
190 civil regional counsel, and assistant criminal conflict and
191 civil regional counsel; the home addresses, telephone numbers,
192 social security numbers, photographs, and places of employment
193 of the spouses and children of current or former public
196 civil regional counsel; and the names and locations of schools
197 and day care facilities attended by the children of current or
198 former public defenders, assistant public defenders, criminal
199 conflict and civil regional counsel, and assistant criminal
200 conflict and civil regional counsel.
201 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.
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People I have met (part of a series), 2004
oil pastel on canvas, 30X50cm
S'fiso Ka Mkame at the African Art Centre
by Gabi Ngcobo
S'fiso Ka Mkame is not a new name to South African audiences; Durban audiences in particular will know his images from those cell c billboards changing our urban landscapes 'for the city'. Ka Mkame is represented twice on these billboards, either by mistake or intentionally as one of the pioneers of our time.
Ka Mkame rose to prominence in the 80's with his letter series Letters to my Child and Letter to God which commented on the political upheavals of the time. Today his work has shifted and dwells in an ancestral world balanced by sharp comments on the social ills and contradictions of the times, especially in human relationships. This is seen in works like The Moon shall be my Witness and Lament for Sister N, how can you protect me from what I am .
In this exhibition the work that stands out for me is a series of portraits entitled People I have Met. These portraits are created from the leftovers of his scrapings; a technique he has mastered by densely layering his surfaces with oil pastel colours and then, using razors, scraping and creating images, patterns and shapes, giving birth to a layered history of black contemporary issues.
The portraits greet you before you enter the gallery space and serve as an introduction to the characters encountered inside the main space. The striking difference from the rest of the exhibition rests in the sense that these are maybe 'zooming in' on the characters encountered inside.
They can also be seen as unmasked variations on his ancestral spirited masks that, in this exhibition, are placed in a context critically commenting on the colonial trade routes. The masks are seen within patterns at the edge of the paper and are reminiscent of 'African-Print' fabrics, which 'emerged in the 19th century as a Dutch attempt to undercut Indonesian batik production through the mechanisation of the wax-resist process. The Indonesians rejected these fabrics because of the unacceptable quality of their veining and spotting, but these very imperfections found favour on the colonial Gold Coast.' (Picton 1995) The rest, as they say, is history.
The residues are cleverly ironed onto canvas to create portraits of the artist's past encounters. People I have Met I and III are portraits. The serious gaze, concentration and symmetrical placing of the 'sitters' make them seem like official photographs taken for identity documents, a process everyone of us goes through at least once in our lives.
The sensitive manner in which they are delivered is confrontational and they seem to be saying 'see me, identify me, this who I am'. People I have Met IV, V and VI remind me of the kind of pictures taken at DIY passport photo places found in European and American bus and train stations. Here you may find friends packing themselves into the booth to take group photos, recording the happy moment of their meeting or the sad moment of their parting.
In Ka Mkame's 'pictures' the people do not seem necessarily happy. In IV there's a moment of tranquility between two women. One faces the 'lens' and the other is captured in profile, eyes closed.
In V three faces vie for position, one cut off in the middle. Again one set of eyes opens as the other two close, allowing only one person to see or be seen by the lens. The strong features tell of the pride, the pain, the intimacy and connectedness of their lives. The scratchy surface of the canvas reads likes the surface of old pictures, showing their age, perhaps symbolising a past packed away only to be revisited in those contemplative moments.
Unlike the works inside the gallery which are often loaded with issues, in this series we find ordinary people whose stories of places (physical and mental) they have traveled are etched onto their faces.
Closed: October 24
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NDC: A house engulfed in confusion and chaos
By Editor Admin December 12, 2018 206 No comment
The opposition National Democratic Congress has lately been in the news for all the wrong reasons owing to calculated efforts by some key party functionaries and gurus to ensure that former President John Dramani Mahama is made the party’s flag bearer willy-nilly.
This schemed agenda began with the party’s organized unity walks across the various regions which were made to headline only the former president as the main speaker at the organized walks.
It did not take a genius to come to the realization that those walks were tailored to promote the candidature of the former president.
Attempts by some party supporters to have this anomaly reversed proved futile.
Another incident that gave meat to the determined decision to project former President John Dramani Mahama against the other contestants was the use of Mahama’s song at the party’s National Executives’ elections held at the Trade Fair Center, Accra.
Try as the others might to have that anomalous move changed, the Mahama team would not budge.
No sooner had the party brought the curtains down on its national executives’ elections than another incident reared its ugly head; the race for the party’s presidential candidate in preparation towards elections 2020 took a new direction.
Actions and inactions of the elected National Executives have depicted that they do not only support Mahama behind the scenes but display this publicly and these officials who should act as referees have ganged up and are supporting Mahama to lead the party into the next elections.
The Ofosu-Ampofo/Asiedu Nketia-led National Executives Committee intensified their machinations to propel Mahama to the top to the detriment of the other aspiring candidates.
The party announced, much to the consternation of many political pundits and actors alike, a staggering amount of GH¢420, 000 as the filing fee every aspirant is expected to pay.
This announcement has brought in its wake series of agitations from some core party members who believe the party is being sold to the highest bidder.
Condemnations from all the aspiring candidates apart from John Mahama filled the airwaves.
The aspirants hold the view that the humongous filing fee being demanded from them is not only a disincentive to them but also something that goes against the grain of the party’s belief system.
According to Hon. Alban Kingston Sumana Bagbin, the GH¢420, 000 filing fee is worlds apart from the party’s social democratic orientations.
It is a widely held view that this astronomically huge jump in the filing fee from GH¢50,000 some three years ago to GH¢420, 000 is in a sharp conflict with the party’s social democratic ideologies and principles which seek to consider ostentatious lifestyles of party members and those at the top.
While the tempestuous furore rages on, eight of the aspiring candidates deemed it fit enough to petition the party’s Council of Elders which includes former President Jerry John Rawlings to register their intense opposition to these developments.
Former President Rawlings, on his part, has described the development as worrying and that they defeat the core values and principles upon which the NDC was formed.
The former president and founder of the National Democratic Congress has also intimated that only those who could steal from the state while serving in various capacities when they were in office could pay this staggering fee of GH¢420, 000.
In the midst of all these, Ghanaians woke up to witness a drama of a sort which was staged to give former President Mahama’s candidature a boost.
When the other aspirants have been complaining bitterly about the exorbitant amount of money being charged as filing fee, some MPs, in a very melodramatic fashion, came out to say that they have contributed money towards Mahama’s filing fee.
There was also this razzle-dazzle act of ordinary party members contributing to the filing fee of the former president, this, some say, is enzymic of the fact that the former president enjoys the support of the grassroots of the party and that Ghanaians support him.
The truth of the matter is that these bussed contributors contributed nothing; it was just staged to create a certain effect.
The other aspirants were being told, virtually, that Mahama is the man with swag and so, all the other aspirants should step aside honourably.
The NDC is at the crossroads, spinning out of control resulting in internal wrangling engulfing the party birthed and nurtured by Jerry John Rawlings.
Mahama has the party at his beck and call – he does whatever he pleases with the party because he is the cash king now.
He controls the current National Executives because he has the cash to bankroll the party in the coming elections.
His Excellency Jerry John Rawlings is enraged at the current happenings in the party he founded as is being torn apart due to one man’s overzealous ambition to control every facet of it.
He feels the party he formed out of a revolution is on the brink of collapse simply because a certain John Dramani Mahama believes he is God’s gift to the party in particular, and Ghana in general and so, must be given another opportunity at the Presidency of Ghana.
Alban Bagbin and his partners in crime are in limbo. They are in a dilemma. They can neither go forward nor retrace their steps. Their fates hang in a balance. It appears Mahama and his NEC has decided on their fates.
RAS MUBARAK’s DONATION TO JM HAS MADE NONSENSE OF HIS “ECONOMY IS HARD” MANTRA.
Somehow, these NDC MPs have managed not only to commercialize comedy but also patented it.
Ras Mubarak, the Kumbugu Constituency Member of Parliament, not long ago, rode a bicycle to Parliament to send the message out there that hardships of unprecedented levels have engulfed the masses, including those in the upper class, MPs included.
The noise that ensued as a result of that melodramatic act cannot easily be forgotten. The furore arising out of his drama still lingers in the minds of many a political pundit.
Is it not ironic that someone who claims to have been impoverished by the so-called bad economy has gleefully contributed to John Mahama’s filing fee fundraising?
These hypocritically pious dudes in the NDC can no longer deceive the general populace when their lives of debauchery depict them as people with money to burn.
It stands to reason that, that drama staged by Ras Mubarak was just for the cameras and to create a certain impression that Akufo-Addo’s economy is not working, when the reality is that, Ghana’s economy under His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is on a very sound footing.
Let no NDC executive or party faithful say the economy is bad since they have displayed to all and sundry that indeed their pockets are filled up with cash.
Many a Ghanaian is beginning to accept the fact that the opposition National Democratic Congress is home to a mountain of chaos and it will take a divine intervention to normalize the ills which have submerged it.
By John Antwi Boasiako
Email:john.antwiboasiako@yahoo.com
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By Editor Admin November 1, 2018
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Samson’s Take: Corporal Skalla is not guilty of assault!
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Maine’s most unusual ice fishing derby has begun
Gabor Degre | BDN
Joohwan Lee (right) an international student from Soul, South Korea, and Orono High School physical education teacher Chad Kirkpatrick set an ice fishing trap in the ice of Perch Pond in Old Town in March 2019.
By John Holyoke, BDN Staff • December 5, 2019 8:30 am
Before long, most of the state’s lakes and ponds will likely be covered by a thick coat of ice, and ice anglers will be out there enjoying some productive fishing. As soon as that happens — and reports are already indicating that some small ponds have begun to see some fishing action — one statewide ice fishing competition will rev up.
Wes Ashe of Brewer has organized Maine’s Ice Fishin’ Derby & Benefit for the past decade, and he and his fellow anglers are ready for the 10th annual edition of the event.
“When the derby began there were just a few of us — all fisheries graduate students at UMaine,” Ashe said.
A year later, after his high school friend Alec Cyr died after a battle with cancer, Ashe decided the fishing derby needed a bigger purpose.
“It really hits home when a high school buddy passes away, so I wanted to honor him and his family and donate half the proceeds to his newborn son’s education fund,” Ashe said. “I had no idea that the derby would still be around a decade later, but it is.”
The derby still serves as a fundraiser for Alec’s son, Chase. Over nine years, the derby has raised “a few thousand dollars” toward Chase’s education, according to Ashe.
The derby has grown from just three anglers during that first year to about 60 last year. The entry fee is low — just $10 — and participants can fish on any legal lake or pond in the state from Dec. 1 until March 31. Another unusual twist: The derby will potentially reward anglers who catch species of fish that most tournaments ignore. Among those: fallfish, smelt and sunfish.
The angler who catches the longest fish of each species is crowned champion, and all of those champs are tossed into a random drawing to decide who gets which prize.
“You can target any and all fish species, and each is weighted evenly in the lottery — a lake trout is no more important than a smallmouth bass, and a northern pike is no more valuable than chain pickerel,” Ashe said.
Last year, 28 different species of fish were caught by participants.
Most derbies focus their attention on a given lake or group of lakes for a day or two, which can result in huge crowds flocking to an area. That doesn’t happen in Maine’s Ice Fishin’ Derby & Benefit.
“It’s not a derby where you’re surrounded by tons of folks and it’s run entirely online, so it might be particularly attractive to introverted folks like myself who just want to fish with a couple friends on more secluded waters,” Ashe said.
Here’s how the derby works: Send a $10 check to Wes Ashe, 54 Clover Lane, Brewer, 04412. Then go fishing on any legal water in Maine. When you catch a fish, email a photo to icefishderby@gmail.com that shows the fish alongside a tape measure and your 2020 fishing derby entry card.
Among this year’s prizes are gift cards and prize packages donated by Dick’s Sporting Goods, Northeast Troller, Everett Lures, Swan Lake Grocery, Angler’s Restaurant and Rosalie’s Pizza.
The grand prize will likely be a new electric ion auger.
Ashe, who works as a fisheries biologist, spends a lot of time out on frozen lakes during the winter. He said the safety component can’t be overstated.
“In my career, I’m on the ice all the time. I’ve been through just once, but that was enough,” Ashe said. “I now wear a float coat all the time. If you don’t own a float coat, don’t be afraid to wear a life jacket under your gear. I’ve yet to catch one fish that’s worth taking a polar plunge … or worse.”
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David Price Stats
David Price was born on Monday, August 26, 1985, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Price was 23 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 14, 2008, with the Tampa Bay Rays. His biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this comprehensive David Price baseball stats page.
"IN JANUARY 2005, during his freshman year at Vanderbilt , David Price decided to drop out of school, quit baseball and work at McDonald's. He picked his preferred location, near his home in Murfreesboro, Tenn. He told his father, Bonnie, about his plan. Then he informed Vandy coach Tim Corbin of his intention in a tearful meeting in the Commodores' locker room. Sure, Price was a 6'6" lefthanded pitcher who could throw upward of 90 miles per hour and seven months earlier had been drafted in the 19th round by the Los Angeles Dodgers . But he had also just been shelled in a preseason intrasquad game, clearly a call to the Golden Arches. 'It was definitely kind of out there,' Corbin recalls, 'but I couldn't laugh because he was so serious.' Baseball has lost countless African-American athletes to basketball and the lure of the McDonald's All-American team, but not necessarily to McDonald's itself. Corbin needed an hour to convince Price that his future was in fastballs, not fast food. 'He had to survive that moment to show he could survive as a pitcher,' Corbin says. It was a crucial step, not only for Price but also for baseball in the black community. Today Price is the best African-American pitching prospect since Dwight Gooden , in an organization that has built around African-American players like no other current franchise." - Sports Writer Lee Jenkins in Sports Illustrated (April 4, 2008, 'Young, Gifted AND Black,' Source )
David 'Astro's Dad' Price Autograph on a 2009 Bowman Baseball Card (#213)
David Taylor Price ( Twitter : @DAVIDprice14 )
Astro's Dad
08-26-1985 (Virgo)
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Blackman High School (Murfreesboro, TN)
Still Active
2007 : 1st Round (1st)
David Price Pitching Stats
2008 23 Rays 5 1 0 0 0 .000 1.93 0 0 0 14.0 57 9 3 4 1 4 0 12 0 1 0 1
2009 24 Rays 23 23 0 10 7 .588 4.42 0 0 0 128.1 557 119 63 72 17 54 0 102 2 4 0 0
2011 26 Rays 34 34 0 12 13 .480 3.49 0 0 0 224.1 918 192 87 93 22 63 5 218 2 9 0 0
2014 29 Tigers 11 11 0 4 4 .500 3.59 1 0 0 77.2 320 74 31 32 5 15 0 82 0 0 0 0
2015 30 Tigers 21 21 0 9 4 .692 2.53 3 1 0 146.0 592 133 41 50 13 29 2 138 3 3 0 0
2015 30 Blue Jays 11 11 0 9 1 .900 2.30 0 0 0 74.1 296 57 19 20 4 18 0 87 1 0 0 0
2016 31 Red Sox 35 35 0 17 9 .654 3.99 2 0 0 230.0 951 227 102 106 30 50 1 228 4 7 0 0
2017 32 Red Sox 16 11 1 6 3 .667 3.37 0 0 0 74.2 317 65 28 30 8 24 0 76 2 4 0 1
2018 33 Red Sox 30 30 0 16 7 .696 3.58 1 0 0 176.0 722 151 70 75 25 50 0 177 1 10 0 0
2019 34 Red Sox 22 22 0 7 5 .583 4.28 0 0 0 107.1 458 109 51 57 15 32 0 128 3 3 1 0
12 Years 321 311 1 150 80 .652 3.31 17 3 0 2,029.2 8,314 1,813 746 819 207 527 12 1,981 39 59 5 2
David Price Hitting Stats
2008 23 Rays 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
2009 24 Rays 23 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .333 .333 .333
2015 30 Blue Jays 11 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000
2016 31 Red Sox 35 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 8 0 0 0 0 .000 .091 .000
2017 32 Red Sox 16 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000
David Price Fielding Stats
2008 Rays P 5 1 42 1 0.2 1 0 1 0 0 n/a n/a n/a 1.000 0.64
2009 Rays P 23 23 384 23 1.0 22 5 17 1 0 n/a n/a n/a .957 1.55
2010 Rays P 32 31 627 30 0.9 30 8 22 0 2 n/a n/a n/a 1.000 1.29
2011 Rays P 34 34 672 40 1.2 36 13 23 4 2 n/a n/a n/a .900 1.45
2014 Tigers P 11 11 234 4 0.4 4 1 3 0 0 n/a n/a n/a 1.000 0.46
2015 Blue Jays P 11 11 223 11 1.0 11 5 6 0 0 n/a n/a n/a 1.000 1.33
2016 Red Sox P 35 35 690 27 0.8 27 5 22 0 2 n/a n/a n/a 1.000 1.06
2017 Red Sox P 16 11 224 13 0.8 12 6 6 1 0 n/a n/a n/a .923 1.45
2019 Red Sox P 22 22 322 11 0.5 11 4 7 0 0 n/a n/a n/a 1.000 0.92
P Totals 321 311 6,091 302 0.9 290 78 212 12 12 n/a n/a n/a .960 1.29
12 Years 321 311 6,091 302 0.9 290 78 212 12 12 n/a n/a n/a .960 1.29
David Price Miscellaneous Stats
2008 Rays 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.00 7.71 2.57
2015 Blue Jays 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.83 10.53 2.18
2019 Red Sox 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0.0 2.0 2.0 4.00 10.73 2.68
David Price Miscellaneous Items of Interest
2008 Tampa Bay Rays 14 $650,000.00 - Stats
2009 Tampa Bay Rays 14 $750,000.00 - -
2010 Tampa Bay Rays 14 $1,834,671.00 Stats -
2013 Tampa Bay Rays 14 $9,831,954.00 - -
2014 Tampa Bay Rays 14 $14,000,000.00 Stats -
2015 Detroit Tigers 14 $19,750,000.00 Stats -
2015 Toronto Blue Jays 14 " " - -
2016 Boston Red Sox 24 $30,000,000.00 - -
2018 Boston Red Sox 24 $30,000,000.00 - Stats
David Price Stats by Baseball Almanac
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On September 30, 2012 , David Price recorded his twentieth victory of the year, making him the first 20-win pitcher in Tampa Bay Rays ERA Champion in Rays history as well. For his efforts, Price was awarded a Cy Young Award , the first Rays ' pitcher to receive the honor!
Did you know that during the first half of this decade (2010-2015), David Price struck out 1,258 batters, more than any American League (AL) left-handed pitcher? Did you know that only one AL pitcher had more strikeouts during that time frame? Do you know who it was? [ Answer ]
Did you know that David Price was the first pitcher in baseball history to lose in the playoffs in four successive years with four different teams? [2013-2016, respectively Tampa Bay Rays , Detroit Tigers , Toronto Blue Jays and Boston Red Sox .]
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All posts tagged The Comprehension of Private Copper
War Stories and Poems by Rudyard Kipling (1990)
An excellent Oxford University Press collection edited by Andrew Rutherford, showcasing Kipling’s fictional and poetic responses to three distinct military eras:
the small wars of the Late Victorian period 1889-1899
the Boer War 1899-1902
the Great War 1914-18.
Despite setbacks and defeats, in the first period nobody doubted the duty of Empire to expand and spread good government and law; the Boer War disheartened both the nation and Kipling with its evident mismanagement and incompetence; and the Great War left millions bereaved, not least Kipling himself, who lost his only son, John.
Thus, as Rutherford shrewdly points out, the tone of Kipling’s writing about the three periods can be broadly divided into epic, satiric, and elegiac.
Having seen the incompetence of the Boer War at first hand, Kipling spent the next decade warning the country that it wasn’t taking the threat to its security seriously enough, despite some military and naval reforms, in a series of minatory poems and warning stories.
When the Great War came, Kipling was goaded to fierce anger by the aggression and cruelty of the Hun, resulting in the white hot anger of the early war stories, such as ‘Swept and Garnished’ and Mary Postgate, both written in 1915. In September of the same year his son was declared missing presumed dead on his first day in action. For the rest of the war Kipling kept up a steady, indeed impressive, rate of journalistic reporting in support of the war effort – writing France at War, The Fringes of the Fleet, Destroyers at Jutland, The War in the Mountains and The Eyes of Asia – but avoided writing fiction about it.
Moreover, in 1917 Kipling took on the task of writing the official history of his son’s regiment, the Irish Guards, a task which required interviewing soldiers in person, and reading soldiers’ letters and diaries over a sustained period. It was a demanding labour which took until 1923 to complete.
It is only then, with his debt to the dead fulfilled, that Kipling seems to have been able to return to the subject of the War in fiction, and the stories he wrote in the 1920s – especially the series of tales set in the London Freemasons’ Lodge for ex-soldiers – ‘In the Interests of the Brethren’, The Janeites, A Madonna of the Trenches, A Friend of the Family – have a new depth and subtlety, an empathy and pity which is a new flavour in his work. This deeper mature tone is part of what helps to make his post-war collection, Debits and Credits, his best book.
Imperial Frontiers
The Drums of Fore and Aft (1889)
A Conference of The Powers (1890)
The Light That Failed, chapter two (1891)
The Mutiny of The Mavericks (1891)
The Lost Legion (1892)
Slaves of The Lamp, part two (1897)
The Boer War
The Way That He Took (1900)
A Sahibs’ War (1901)
The Comprehension of Private Copper (1902)
The Captive (1902)
‘Swept and Garnished’ (1915)
Mary Postgate (1915)
Sea Constables (1915)
Introduction to The Irish Guards in the Great War
A Friend of the Family (1924)
A Madonna of The Trenches (1924)
The Gardener (1925)
1. The Imperial Frontiers
The Drums of Fore and Aft (1889) Quite a long story, the gist of which is that an inexperienced Indian Army regiment is brought up to the North-West Frontier, and involved in a massed attack on a force of Pathans, alongside a Gurkha regiment and some Highlanders. Being completely inexperienced and – crucially – lacking older soldiers and officers with experience of the terrain and of fighting Afghans, the first attack of fifty or so Muslim fanatics armed with terrifying man-high machetes makes the Fore and Aft break in a screaming panic and run back to the pass they emerged from. The two coarse orphan fourteen-year-old drummer boys who were with the band, Jakin and Lew, are left behind in the mad flight, recover a drum and fife, have a swig of rum from a canteen of one of the casualties, and set about playing the stirring military tune, ‘the British Grenadier’, marching up and down between the Afghan lines and the trembling regiment cowering in its retreat. Shamed by their officers and humiliated by the example of the boys Jakin and Lew, the regiment regroups and charges back out, this time co-ordinated with attacks by the Gurkhas and Highlanders on its flanks, and decimates the Afghans, though not before both boys have been shot dead by the enemy.
There’s story enough here, but not much below the surface is a blatant tract or pamphlet lamenting the lack of training, the shortness of service and the disorganisation which can lead to such lamentable catastrophes. Also it is very violent. Early on, while still in barracks, Lew and Jakin establish their street credentials by kicking the crap out of an officer’s son they find spying on them. The battle itself is described with, for its day, pretty stomach-churning realism.
The English were not running. They were hacking and hewing and stabbing, for though one white man is seldom physically a match for an Afghan in a sheepskin or wadded coat, yet, through the pressure of many white men behind, and a certain thirst for revenge in his heart, he becomes capable of doing much with both ends of his rifle. The Fore and Aft held their fire till one bullet could drive through five or six men, and the front of the Afghan force gave on the volley. They then selected their men, and slew them with deep gasps and short hacking coughs, and groanings of leather belts against strained bodies, and realised for the first time that an Afghan attacked is far less formidable than an Afghan attacking; which fact old soldiers might have told them.
But they had no old soldiers in their ranks.
The Gurkhas’ stall at the bazar was the noisiest, for the men were engaged — to a nasty noise as of beef being cut on the block — with the kukri, which they preferred to the bayonet; well knowing how the Afghan hates the half-moon blade.
‘To a nasty noise as of beef being cut on the block’. Wow.
Kipling Society notes
A Conference of The Powers (1890) The narrator hosts a reunion in his London apartment for his friends, ‘Tick’ Boileau, ‘the Infant’ (who is to appear in other Kipling stories for the next 30 years), and Nevin. All are under 25 and have seen active service in India and on its frontiers. They are yarning away and putting the world to rights when there’s a knock and in comes the noted older novelist, ‘Eustace Cleever’. The rest of the ‘story’ amounts to the older man listening to the stories the young Army officers tell about their experiences and realising how little he understands about the lives of the men who maintain the Empire and keep him in the luxurious lifestyle to which he’s become accustomed. Particularly a long account by the Infant of a punitive expedition he led into Upper Burma to capture the leader of some dacoits or bandits, known as the Boh.
The story emphasises the pampered ignorance of London-based Liberals – and contrasts it with the clear-eyed enthusiasm and modesty of the Empire’s devoted servants. It also doesn’t scant on the reality of guerilla warfare and the dacoits’ savagery:
The Burmese business was a subaltern’s war, and our forces were split up into little detachments, all running about the country and trying to keep the dacoits quiet. The dacoits were having a first-class time, y’ know — filling women up with kerosine and setting ’em alight, and burning villages, and crucifying people.’
The wonder in Eustace Cleever’s eyes deepened. He could not quite realise that the cross still existed in any form.
‘Have you ever seen a crucifixion?’ said he.
‘Of course not. ‘Shouldn’t have allowed it if I had; but I’ve seen the corpses. The dacoits had a trick of sending a crucified corpse down the river on a raft, just to show they were keeping their tail up and enjoying themselves. Well, that was the kind of people I had to deal with.’
No wonder Kipling’s forthrightness made such a shattering impact on a literary world used to Tennysonian idylls.
The Light That Failed, chapter 2 (1891) The protagonist of Kipling’s early novel is an artist, Dick Heldar. His boyhood love for Maisie is frustrated so, like so many Victorian young men, he goes off adventuring round the Empire, only not as a soldier but as a freelance war artist. He bumps into a journalist named Torpenhow and Kipling packs in references to a lot of the small wars of the late 1870s and 1880s which they report and illustrate together, before they find themselves part of the expeditionary force sent up the Nile to rescue General Gordon, trapped in Khartoum, capital of Sudan, by the forces of the Muslim religious leader, the Mahdi. In the climax of the novel, Dick, Torpenhow and a host of British troops are all relaxing by the Nile, fixing boats and sails and clothes when they are subject to a surprise attack by several thousand Sudanese. The Brits quickly form into a square to fight off wave after wave of fanatical attackers, until the square gives and becomes the cockpit for savage hand-to-hand fighting.
Dick waited with Torpenhow and a young doctor till the stress grew unendurable. It was hopeless to attend to the wounded till the attack was repulsed, so the three moved forward gingerly towards the weakest side of the square. There was a rush from without, the short hough-hough of the stabbing spears, and a man on a horse, followed by thirty or forty others, dashed through, yelling and hacking. The right flank of the square sucked in after them, and the other sides sent help. The wounded, who knew that they had but a few hours more to live, caught at the enemy’s feet and brought them down, or, staggering into a discarded rifle, fired blindly into the scuffle that raged in the centre of the square.
Dick was conscious that somebody had cut him violently across his helmet, that he had fired his revolver into a black, foam-flecked face which forthwith ceased to bear any resemblance to a face, and that Torpenhow had gone down under an Arab whom he had tried to ‘collar low,’ and was turning over and over with his captive, feeling for the man’s eyes. The doctor jabbed at a venture with a bayonet, and a helmetless soldier fired over Dick’s shoulder: the flying grains of powder stung his cheek. It was to Torpenhow that Dick turned by instinct. The representative of the Central Southern Syndicate had shaken himself clear of his enemy, and rose, wiping his thumb on his trousers. The Arab, both hands to his forehead, screamed aloud, then snatched up his spear and rushed at Torpenhow, who was panting under shelter of Dick’s revolver. Dick fired twice, and the man dropped limply. His upturned face lacked one eye.
I wonder if anyone had described contemporary warfare with quite such brutal honesty before.
The Mutiny of The Mavericks (1891) A satirical and comic story about nameless conspirators in America (highly reminiscent of the American scenes in the early Sherlock Holmes novels) who fund an Irish conspirator to join ‘the Mavericks’, nickname of a (fictional) Irish regiment in the British Army in India. This conspirator, Mulcahey, tries to spread sedition and is quickly recognised for what he is by the men, led by Dan Grady and Horse Egan, who come up with the simple idea of playing along, and telling Mulcahey everything he wants to hear, in exchange for an endless supply of beer.
One fine day Mulcahey sees the barracks in uproar, the men chanting and shouting, officers running in fear, the men consorting with native Indians – at last! The mutiny has broken out! But Kipling is taking the mickey. The men have been told they’re going to the Frontier to see some fighting and are excited about it. Moreover, Dan and Horse now make it crystal clear to Mulcahey that he’s not wriggling out of it, he’s coming along too. And when the battle starts they’re digging a bayonet into Mulcahey’s calf, so the only way is forwards. In fact Mulcahey goes wild with panic-fear, storms a compound, leads others to capture enemy artillery and then runs on, bereft of gun, hat or belt after the fleeing Afghans, one of whom turns and runs him right through the chest with a large knife. Dead.
All this time Mulcahey had been drawing funds from his ‘mother’ in New York, a front for the anti-British conspirators. The story ends on a comic note as the ‘mother’ receives a letter of condolence saying Mulcahey died bravely in battle and would have been recommended for a Victoria Cross, had he survived – which happens to arrive at the same time as a crudely forged letter from Dan and Horse promising to keep up the subversive work, if only they can be sent some more funds, on behalf of Mulcahey, who’s a bit under the weather, like.
Kipling is astonishing assured and confident of his subject i.e. the structure, organisation and morale of Irish regiments within the British Army. The American secret society comes over as melodramatic, but events in Ireland during this period involved conspiracies and atrocities. Although he is optimistic about the attitude of the average Irish soldier, it’s the detail and thoroughness of the portrayal, combined with schoolboy high humour, which impresses. Who else was trying anything like this kind of depiction of the reality of the British Empire?
The Lost Legion (1892) Told as if to a journalist (as Kipling indeed was). Some officers are leading a night-time cavalry foray into the foothills of Afghanistan to arrest a persistent bandit leader, Gulla Kutta Mullah. But they keep on hearing the chinking of cavalry behind them rather than in front; it isn’t their own forces and the bandits’ horses are silent.
Our boys are able to penetrate beyond the watch towers of the bandits because the bandits are calling to each other in terror about something. Our chaps realise it’s because down in the valley the Afghan bandits can see the ghosts of an entire native Indian regiment, which rebelled in the Great Mutiny of 1857, which fled the British into the marches of Afghanistan, and which was massacred a generation earlier. Now their ghosts have returned to haunt and paralyse the Afghans. Their dread allows the little expeditionary force to take Gulla Kutta Mullah’s village by surprise and (much to Kipling’s ironic disgust) politely arrest him and his other men wanted for various crimes and murders.
Slaves of The Lamp, part two (1897) ‘The Infant’ who told the novelist Eustace Cleaver the long account of his capture of the dacoit Boh in Burma in the story ‘A Conference of the Powers’ – is now 30 and has inherited a vast country house. He invites the narrator – identified as ‘Beetle’ from the Stalky stories – to come along to a reunion of boys, now men, from the old Coll.
There’s much larking about and reminiscing which, basically, turns into hero worship of Stalky himself, three of the men describing their encounter with him in the North-West Frontier, fighting the Afghans. Stalky is portrayed as a super-hero, at one with his men (Sikhs) who worship him, given to sneaking off for acts of derring-do. Since he and his men are besieged in an old fort by two Afghan tribes, Stalky sneaks out and kills some of one tribe, marking them with the victor’s sign of the other tribe. Next day, when the fort is under attack, he again sneaks out of the secret passage he’s found, with his Sikhs, and shoots at one tribe from the lines of the other, thus leading both tribes to end up fighting each other.
The others compound this by saying Stalky went on to pacify the border, dragoon the tribes into building roads, doing everything bar mint his own coinage, before being called to Simla to explain himself to the Imperial authorities.
The story brims over with schoolboy slang and enthusiasm. Stalky had adopted a tune from the pantomime of Aladdin which the boys had put on as schoolboys, as a signal to his troops, and the group of men convened at the Infant’s house keep stopping their tale to sing it, falling about laughing, all clamouring for more details of Stalky’s acts of heroism. Alas, Kipling’s boundless schoolboy confidence was to come a cropper in the Boer War, where the true Stalkies, the canny, sassy, unconventional fighters, turned out to be the Boers.
2. The Boer War (1899-1902)
The Way That He Took (1900) One of four stories about the Boer War published in the Daily Express then collected in a volume called Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides. It is a good atmospheric depiction of the landscape and people of South Africa, showcasing Kipling’s trademark research and understanding. In the first part a troop train pulls into a siding where detachment of Mounted Infantry are waiting. A captain gets talking to a nurse from the train and she turns out to have been born in the country, and have wonderful memories of a carefree childhood in the wide open spaces. This is the only scene of a man and a woman being tender and speaking softly under the stars that I can recall in any Kipling.
The second part commences a few months later when the captain has joined his regiment and they are in operations out on the veldt. In fact we first of all have a long scene where the leader of a Boer commando outlines a cunning plan – to send off the cattle trucks and some auxiliaries to stir up a lot of dust, and then wait on the low hills surrounding a little valley for the British regiment to come up – and shoot them like pigs in a pen. He knows the Brits will send a scouting party – who will poke around, draw the false conclusion the Boers are retreating, and return to the main force – and then lure them into the trap. It is crucial that a handful of men on a slope take a few pot shots at the scouting troop, enough to give them the impression they’re a rear-guard action – this will make the retreat seem even more real.
Sure enough the Brits see the dust cloud and send a scouting party. It is led by the captain we met talking to the nurse. He trots with his men through the twisting valleys to the place where a camp has apparently been struck and seems to be falling for the ploy. But then in a few vivid paragraphs, he realises something is wrong. It is as vivid as a movie. The hairs on his neck rise as he realises it’s a trap and it seems like someone else’s voice speaking when he gives the order to his sergeant, calmly to turn the men and go back.
At the last minute he remembers something the nurse had told him about her childhood, about how she and her siblings, on all their many ramblings, never went back the way they came. And suddenly taking this as his inspiration, the captain orders the men not to go back through the winding valley where (we know) a handful of Boers are waiting to take pot shots at them and one of them had singled him out as the officer to be killed. Thus, into this very military story, an element of voodoo slips. For it was the happenstance of remembering the nurse’s casual words, which saves the captain’s life.
The Outsider (1900) Another of the stories originally published in June 1900 (i.e. still in the early phase of the Boer War) in the Daily Express and only much later collected in a volume called Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides. Like the one above, it is a vivid impassioned story. Simply, but with great detail and persuasiveness, it contrasts the hard professional life of Jerry Thumper, an engineer on the Rand, and the privileged, limited worldview of a dunderheaded Army officer named Walter Setton. While his father the vicar and his mother fuss about buying Walter the correct socks for his posting to South Africa, Jerry is commanding men at the gruelling work of gold-mining on the Rand.
Their separate lives and experiences clash when Walter – wounded after a stupid attempt to capture a solitary Boer which turned out to be a trap and from which he only escaped with his life due to the canniness and bravery of Australian Irregulars – is posted to the most out-of-the-way railway station the Army can find to hide him. But even here he causes damage, because Jerry and his mates – kicked out of the Rand by Dutch rebels – have formed a corps of Railway Volunteers and are skilfully repairing the railway lines which the Boers have been at pains to blow up, and which are vital for ferrying British troops around the battlefield.
Kipling describes in great technical detail the engineering challenge Jerry and his men face trying to rejoin two severed lengths of railway line, and are right at the vital moment of riveting them together, when ignorant, stupid, blinkered, narrow-minded, officious Lieutenant Setton intervenes, demanding to know who gave them orders to do this work, and insisting they stop immediately until he receives written authority etc etc – intervening just long enough for the girders to collapse and knock over some braziers which start a small bush fire, insisting his soldiers escort the furious engineers to his tent for a dressing-down. In fact later that day it is Setton who is visited by an incandescent Colonel of Engineers who gives him an epic bollocking, and we last see him reduced to overseeing a saddle-cloth and boot-lace division.
The ‘story’ seethes with Kipling’s anger at the grotesque incompetence, narrow-mindedness and baseless snobbery of the English officer class – a long way from the hero worship of Stalkey and his mates. Every other nationality – the Australians and New Zealanders, the Canadians and especially the Boers themselves, are superior men and soldiers in every way.
The life of Second-Lieutenant Walter Setton followed its appointed channel. His battalion, nominally efficient, was actually a training school for recruits; and to this lie, written, acted, and spoken many times a day, he adjusted himself. When he could by any means escape from the limited amount of toil expected by the Government, he did so; employing the same shameless excuses that he had used at school or Sandhurst. He knew his drills: he honestly believed that they covered the whole art of war. He knew the ‘internal economy of his regiment’. That is to say, he could answer leading questions about coal and wood allowances, cubic-footage of barrack accommodation, canteen-routine, and the men’s messing arrangements. For the rest, he devoted himself with no thought of wrong to getting as much as possible out of the richest and easiest life the world has yet made; and to despising the ‘outsider’ — the man beyond his circle. His training to this end was as complete as that of his brethren. He did it blindly, politely, unconsciously, with perfect sincerity. As a child he had learned early to despise his nurse, for she was a servant and a woman; his sisters he had looked down upon, and his governess, for much the same reasons. His home atmosphere had taught him to despise the terrible thing called ‘Dissent’. At his private school his seniors showed him how to despise the junior master who was poor, and here his home training served again. At his public school he despised the new boy — the boy who boated when Setton played cricket, or who wore a coloured tie when the order of the day was for black. They were all avatars of the outsider. If you got mixed up with an outsider, you ended by being ‘compromised’. He had no clear idea what that meant, but suspected the worst. His religion he took from his parents, and it had some very sound dogmas about outsiders behaving decently. Science to him was a name connected with examination papers. He could not work up any interest in foreign armies, because, after all, a foreigner was a foreigner, and the rankest form of outsider. Meals came when you rang for them. You were carried over the world, which is the Home Counties, in vehicles for which you paid. You were moved about London by the same means, and if you crossed the Channel you took a steamer. But how, or why, or when, these things were made, or worked, or begotten, or what they felt, or thought, or said, who belonged to them, he had not, nor ever wished to have, the shadow of an idea. It was sufficient for him and for high Heaven (this in his heart of hearts, well learned at his mother’s knee) that he was an officer and a gentleman incapable of a lie or a mean action. For the rest his code was simple. Money brought you half the things in this world; and your position secured you the others. If you had money, you took care to get your money’s worth. If you had a position, you did not compromise yourself by mixing with outsiders.
Rarely has Kipling’s dichotomy between the dirty-handed, practical-minded men who do things – his beloved engineer class – and the superior, snobbish, ignorant English upper-classes been more fiercely delineated. It’s brilliant.
A Sahibs’ War (1901) – Umr Singh is a Sikh in the British Army who is in South Africa, tasked with going to Stellenbosch to collect horses. The text is his monologue to a Sahib who helps him get a ticket for the right train, in which he a) shows off his knowledge of Indian customs, religion, traditions and service in the Indian Army b) laments the British setbacks in the Boer War due to their being too courteous and considerate of the Boer guerrillas. The Sikh thinks it silly of the British not to have used the Indian Army to put down the Boers, silly and subversive, for if the Brits fail in South Africa other colonies will take note of their weakness.
But privately to me Kurban Sahib said we should have loosed the Sikhs and the Gurkhas on these people till they came in with their foreheads in the dust.
The reason being it is a White Man’s war. Umr is not happy to be given command of a load of ‘niggers’, Kaffirs, who are ‘filth unspeakable’. But the core of the story is how Umr and his Sahib, Captain Corbyn – both of whom volunteered to take ‘sick leave’ from their Indian regiment to come and fight the Boers – are tricked by Boers in an ‘innocent’ farmhouse who in fact organise an ambush of them in which Corbyn is killed.
In a rage Umr and the Muslim servant Sikandar Khan go back to the farmhouse to take revenge, beheading one of the wounded Boers inside it and taking the mentally sub-normal son to hang him in a nearby tree as punishment for the treacherous farmer-priest and his wife. At which point the spirit of Kurban Sahib appears to Umr and three times forbids him from hanging the boy, ‘for it is a Sahibs’ war’.
This latter part of the text, the account of the ambush and then the narrator’s revenge, is vivid and powerful, and the appearance of the Sahib’s ghost eerie – it has a real imaginative force – Kipling’s daemon pushing through. But it is embedded in a text which overflows with contempt, hatred, resentment and is continually teetering on the edge of, not just violence but sadistic violence, vengeful hateful violence.
Epitomised in the last few lines when Umr returns to the site of his Sahib’s death and rejoices to find, not only a memorial carved by the Australians (a platoon of whom were with Corbyn and Umr when they were ambushed) – but that the farmhouse, the well, the water tank, the barn and fruit trees – all have been razed from the face of the earth, by the ‘manly’ Australians, who aren’t shackled by the British concern for ‘fair play’. The narrator rejoices, Kipling rejoices, and the reader is meant to rejoice in this act of nihilistic vengeance – the kind of scorched earth policy which will characterise so much of 20th century history.
The Comprehension of Private Copper (1902) – A Boer guerrilla captures Private Alf Copper who had strayed unwisely far from his platoon. The Boer descants at length to Alf about how his father, a Transvaal shop-keeper, was deceived out of his livelihood by the British. But he gets a shade too close to Alf, who lays him out with one well-aimed punch.
Kipling couldn’t be more frothingly on the side of the British Army and against the treacherous, arrogant, deceiving Boers. Now it’s Alf who takes the stunned Boer captive and marches him back to the the English lines. Here they arrive to discover that Alf’s mates are looking over a British Liberal paper, which is, as usual, blackening their names, attacking the whole idea of ‘Empire’ and accusing British soldiers of abuse and worse. A fellow Tommy of Alf’s jokingly quotes it:
‘You’re the uneducated ‘ireling of a callous aristocracy which ‘as sold itself to the ‘Ebrew financier. Meantime, Ducky”— he ran his finger down a column of assorted paragraphs —“you’re slakin’ your brutal instincks in furious excesses. Shriekin’ women an’ desolated ‘omesteads is what you enjoy, Alf . . ., Halloa! What’s a smokin’ ‘ektacomb?’
The general idea is that both the arrogant Boer and the treacherous Liberals back home think the British Tommy doesn’t know what he’s fighting for and is a poor, badly educated pawn – but, Oh yes he does, and Oh no he isn’t, respectively! The humiliation of the Boer is part of the enjoyment of the story and, by extension, the humiliation of the hated Liberals at home by the reality of the tough-minded, no-nonsense British soldier.
The Captive (1902) – Starts as a third-person account of a journalist visiting a Boer prisoner of war camp during the Boer War (1899 to 1902). He is free to walk among the prisoners and gets talking to one in particular, at which point the narrative changes into a long, rambling, first-person account given by an American – Laughton O. Zigler from Akron, Ohio.
Zigler brought over a field gun and ammunition of his own design to sell to the Boers and ended up getting involved with one of their commandos, led by Adrian Van Zyl, fighting in the field alongside them against the British, until finally captured and brought to this camp. Kipling characteristically stuffs the man’s monologue with technical know-how about the artillery piece, the ‘hopper-feed and recoil-cylinder’, trying to out-man and out-engineer the reader.
It’s hard not to find Zigler’s facetious tone as he jokes about ‘laying out’ the British boys with his gun, offensive.
‘They [the Boers] fought to kill, and, by what I could make out, the British fought to be killed. So both parties were accommodated.’
The war is seen as a comradely adventure between ‘friends’ and all the British officers admit to being ‘a bit pro-Boer’. Is this how combatants saw the Boer War? Or is it the sentimental self-serving view of a privileged observer? In this account both sides spend half the time trying to kill each other and the other half being complimentary; often the combatants had actually met socially, dined and gossiped: now they are trying to kill each other.
The second half of the monologue describes a dinner the British General and officers give for Zigler and Van Zyl, comparing notes like professionals. The British General is mighty lofty and complacent, hoping the war will go on another five years or so, so that he can knock his ragtag collection of floor-walkers and stevedores into a professional army. Nothing is mentioned of the rank incompetence and idiocy which made the Boer War such a shambles for the British. (See The Boer War by Thomas Pakenham.) And a ghost walks over the text when the General boomingly declares:
‘It’s a first-class dress-parade for Armageddon.’
These are the kind of heartless pro-war sentiments for which, although put into the mouths of fictional characters, Kipling was so criticised. The ‘story’ is rammed full of political point scoring, relentless sarcasm about the stupidity of politicians and so on – though these are couched in Zigler’s down-home Yankee terminology:
‘Well, you’ve an effete aristocracy running yours, and we’ve a crowd of politicians. The results are practically identical.’
‘I tell you, Sir, there’s not much of anything the matter with the Royal British Artillery. They’re brainy men languishing under an effete system which, when you take good holt of it, is England…’
Overall the story is of a piece with Kipling’s other ‘warning’ poems and stories, warning that only eternal vigilance could keep Britain safe from her ever-present enemies, and lamenting the failure of peacetime politicians to pay enough heed.
3. The Great War
‘Swept and Garnished’ (1915) It is the first autumn of the Great War. Old German widow Miss Ebermann is in bed in her apartment in Berlin with a heavy cold, whining at her maid to bring medication from the chemists, and the maid scuttles off. To Miss E’s surprise, when she next opens her eyes, she sees, first one little child poking about in her room, and a moment later, five little children.
Miss Ebermann shouts at them to get out of her apartment, telling them they have no right to break into her home like this. But the children reply that they have been told to come here until ‘their people’ come to reclaim them. And then, through a series of hints, the reader realises that the children are from a town in Belgium where someone fired on the German army passing through, who promptly massacred the inhabitants and burnt it to the ground. Miss Ebermann remembers letters from her son at the front claiming that the German army has to carry out ‘justice’ when it is attacked by treacherous civilians. Now she is seeing the ghostly victims of German ‘justice’.
Her and the reader’s suspicions are crystallised when the children finally agree to leave, but on their way out, as they turn to go, Miss Ebermann sees their horrific open wounds and they leave blood puddled all over her bedroom floor. When the maid comes back into the room she finds the old lady on her hands and knees trying to scrub the blood off the floorboards, so the place is ‘swept and garnished’ ready for the Lord.
The Kipling Society website gives useful historical notes to this story, listing genuine German atrocities from early in the war, including the rumours that the Germans cut off the right arms of Belgian boy children, so they wouldn’t be able to fight in the future. Kipling’s stories are no longer about helping tottering old ladies in health spas as they were only a few short years previously. All is changed, changed utterly.
Mary Postgate (1915) This is an extraordinary story, combining war, vengeance, sadism and barely suppressed sexuality. Mary Postgate is the plain Jane, 44-year-old personal maid to old Miss Fowler. She fetches and carries without question, is always well organised and emotionless. Miss Fowler’s nephew, Wynn, is orphaned and comes to live with them and Mary brings him up almost as a surrogate son though he is unceasingly rude, arrogant and unfeeling to her. When war comes all the sons go off and Wynn enlists in the Air Force, coming to visit them in his fine uniform until one day he is reported dead, having died in a training accident – the implication being that he fell, maybe 4,000 feet, from the cockpit of one of those primitive early aircraft.
Both Mary and Miss Fowler are strangely unemotional – Miss Fowler had expected Wynn’s death all along, Mary had completely repressed her anxiety. The two women agree to donate Wynn’s uniform to the Forces, but to burn all his private belongings. Kipling then gives is a moving page-long description of a young man’s belongings, stretching back through all his toys and school prizes, which Mary collects and takes to the incinerator at the bottom of the garden.
Then she has to go buy some paraffin in the village and, on the way back, she and a friend she’s bumped into, hear a bang and a wail and run behind a house to find a local child, Edna, has been blown up by a casual bomb dropped from a German plane, maybe returning from a bombing raid on London. The friend, a nurse, wraps the little girl’s body in a blanket, which immediately soaks with blood and they carry it indoors. Here the blanket falls open and Mary sees, for a second, poor little Edna’s body torn ‘into those vividly coloured strips and strings’. (Not so far-fetched. I was recently at Essendon, a little village in Hertfordshire. Here, in the early hours of 3 September 1916, a German airship returning from a raid on London dropped a bomb on the village which killed two sisters and damaged the east end of the church. Dead, out of the blue, for no reason, except the incompetence and stupidity of the German Army High Command which thought it could invade and conquer France in 6 weeks in August 1914.)
Staggering out of the house with the eviscerated child, Mary regains control of herself and walks back to the big house. Here she wheelbarrows dead Wynn’s belongings down to the incinerator and begins piling them in to burn. It is at this point that she hears a noise from the trees at the end of the garden and discovers a German airman who also seems to have fallen from the skies and crashed through trees, landing badly injured not far from the incinerator.
And this is the crux of the story: for although Mary gets an old revolver from the house (the kind of thing which seems to have been much more common in those days than now) she decides to deliberately let the man die in agony without calling for a doctor or any help.
And it is in the phrasing of the physical bodily pleasure this gives her, that many critics detect a sexual element, some going so far as to say that the dying man’s death throes give the lifelong repressed virgin an orgasm, as all kinds of anger and repressions brought to a climax.
As she thought — her underlip caught up by one faded canine, brows knit and nostrils wide — she wielded the poker with lunges that jarred the grating at the bottom, and careful scrapes round the brick-work above… The exercise of stoking had given her a glow which seemed to reach to the marrow of her bones. She hummed — Mary never had a voice — to herself… A woman who had missed these things [love, a husband, children] could still be useful — more useful than a man in certain respects. She thumped like a pavior through the settling ashes at the secret thrill of it… She ceased to think. She gave herself up to feel. Her long pleasure was broken by a sound that she had waited for in agony several times in her life. She leaned forward and listened, smiling… Then the end came very distinctly in a lull between two rain-gusts. Mary Postgate drew her breath short between her teeth and shivered from head to foot. ‘That’s all right,’ said she contentedly…
Anger, revenge, violence, sadism, repressed sex – this is an extraordinarily powerful, haunting concoction of a story.
Sea Constables (1915) ‘A tale of ’15. In February 1915 the German High Command declared the North Sea a war zone in which all merchant shipping, including neutral ships, were liable to be attacked and sunk without warning. This story describes four Royal Navy men meeting at a choice restaurant in London.
The four men sat down. They had the coarse-grained complexions of men who habitually did themselves well, and an air, too, of recent, red-eyed dissipation. Maddingham, the eldest, was a thick-set middle-aged presence, with crisped grizzled hair, of the type that one associates with Board Meetings. He limped slightly. Tegg, who followed him, blinking, was neat, small, and sandy, of unmistakable Navy cut, but sheepish aspect. Winchmore, the youngest, was more on the lines of the conventional prewar ‘nut,’ but his eyes were sunk in his head and his hands black-nailed and roughened. Portson, their host, with Vandyke beard and a comfortable little stomach, beamed upon them as they settled to their oysters.
In Kipling’s usual late manner they settle down to telling stories, then concentrate on swapping notes about the Neutral vessel (presumably American, though it isn’t stated) which they were all partly involved in tailing through the North Sea, down the Channel and round into the Irish Sea. Winchmore starts it and hands over to Maddingham who played the lion’s share. The ‘Newt’, as they nickname the neutral vessel and its captain, claims to be carrying oil for Antigua, which they think a likely story. Maddingham follows him into an unnamed West coast port where the American captain prompts a Court of Inquiry into the way he’s being closely tailed and chased. This is given as one of the several examples in Kipling where the British bend over backwards to be fair and above board to an enemy which is utterly unscrupulous – an approach he thought bedevilled our efforts in the Boer War, the kind of ‘health and safety gone mad’ sentiment you can read any day in the Daily Mail. One of the four at table, Tegg, was a lawyer during the inquiry.
And that’s what you get for trying to serve your country in your old age!’ Maddingham emptied and refilled his glass.
‘We did give you rather a grilling,’ said Tegg placidly. ‘It’s the national sense of fair play.’
The Newt goes back to sea, closely followed again by Maddingham who tags him up and down the Irish Sea, in stormy foggy weather, regularly hailing the captain on his bridge and exchanging insults. Maddingham and the others suspect he was planning to rendezvous with a German submarine and transfer his cargo of oil to it. Eventually the Newt puts into Cloone Harbour, where the captain takes to his bed, ill with bronchial pneumonia. Dying, he asks Manningham to help him organise his affairs and write a will. Manningham sticks to his orders and refuses.
This is taken as the crux of the story, where a usually decent man fails to show common humanity / oversteps some moral mark, and is interpreted in some commentaries as an example of how war deforms morality. As usual the text is dense with naval jargon as swished around by a bunch of chaps used to shorthand expressions, fleeting references, who share the same values and so don’t have to explain their sentiments and views. A number of critics point to the clipped approach of these later stories, and the way they’re couched in talk, in reams of highly technical or slang or dialect speech, as evidence that Kipling had forged a kind of ‘modernist’ style of his own. Maybe. This is how the main talker, Maddingham, talks:
‘He set the tops’ls in his watch. Hilarity won’t steer under any canvas, so we rather sported round our friend that afternoon, I believe. When I came up after dinner, she was biting his behind, first one side, then the other. Let’s see — that would be about thirty miles east-sou-east of Harry Island. We were running as near as nothing south. The wind had dropped, and there was a useful cross-rip coming up from the south-east. I took the wheel and, the way I nursed him from starboard, he had to take the sea over his port bow. I had my sciatica on me — buccaneering’s no game for a middle-aged man — but I gave that fellow sprudel! By Jove; I washed him out! He stood it as long as he could, and then he made a bolt for Harry Island. I had to ride in his pocket most of the way there because I didn’t know that coast. We had charts, but Sherrin never understood ’em, and I couldn’t leave the wheel. So we rubbed along together, and about midnight this Newt dodged in over the tail of Harry Shoals and anchored, if you please, in the lee of the Double Ricks. It was dead calm there, except for the swell, but there wasn’t much room to manoeuvre in, and I wasn’t going to anchor. It looked too like a submarine rendezvous. But first, I came alongside and asked him what his trouble was. He told me he had overheated his something-or-other bulb. I’ve never been shipmates with Diesel engines, but I took his word for it, and I said I ‘ud stand by till it cooled. Then he told me to go to hell.’
Introduction to The Irish Guards in the Great War (1923) A few years after his son’s death in 1915, serving with the Irish Guards, Kipling was approached to write the official history of the Irish Guards during the war. He took the task very seriously, suspending his fictional writing and working his way through a mountain of official records, soldiers’ letters and diaries, and also interviewing scores of survivors of the various battles and campaigns. The result has often been praised as a thorough and unflashy chronicle of the regiment’s war. Throughout Kipling is concerned with the life of the soldier, from the soldier’s point of view, consistent with the Tommy’s-eye-view he had developed even before the Barrack Room Ballads.
The introduction is short but powerfully conveys the speed of events, the complete unpreparedness of the British forces, the scale of the slaughter and the terrifying turnover of men, and all the time the buzz of men’s conversations.
They speculated on all things in Heaven and earth as they worked in piled filth among the carcases of their fellows, lay out under the stars on the eves of open battle, or vegetated through a month’s feeding and idleness between one sacrifice and the next.
But none have kept minutes of those incredible symposia that made for them a life apart from the mad world which was their portion; nor can any pen recreate that world’s brilliance, squalor, unreason, and heaped boredom. Recollection fades from men’s minds as common life closes over them, till even now they wonder what part they can ever have had in the shrewd, man-hunting savages who answered to their names so few years ago.
It is for the sake of these initiated that the compiler has loaded his records with detail and seeming triviality, since in a life where Death ruled every hour, nothing was trivial, and bald references to villages, billets, camps, fatigues, and sports, as well as hints of tales that can never now fully be told, carry each their separate significance to each survivor, intimate and incommunicable as family jests.
A Friend of the Family (1924) Frame: The fourth in a series of stories Kipling wrote set in the Masonic Lodge, ‘Faith and Works 5837’. Four chaps get chatting over dinner – Bevin, Pole, a sassy Australian with a glass eye named Orton, and the narrator. They yarn about their respective trades (Bevin owns a chicken farm and is diversifying into herbs). They all grumble that all they wanted after the War was Judgement and justice, instead of which they got talk talk talk. Grumble grumble grumble.
‘We didn’t want all that talk afterwards — we only wanted justice. What I say is, there must be a right and a wrong to things. It can’t all be kiss-an’-make-friends, no matter what you do.’
But if any generation had a right to grumble it’s the men who went through the war. Kipling conveys the way they fall to remembering incidents e.g. on the beach at Gallipolli, then go quiet, their faces suddenly tight, with the awful memories.
Story: Once they’re all comfortably settled after dinner, Bevin tells the story of Hickmot, a quiet Australian from the back of beyond, ‘brought up among blackfellas’, who was the only survivor of his battalion at Gallipolli and seconded to what was left of Bevin’s battalion. He was very quiet, very unobtrusive. Then a new draft came out including a man from the narrator, Bevin’s, village, one Bert Vigors. His dad was a market-gardener and they tried to exempt Bert on account of the family business but the local tribunal didn’t listen and he was drafted. The same tribunal exempted the son of a Mr Margetts, also a market gardener, because he hired a canny lawyer and was friends with some of the tribunes. Result: Vigors’ business goes bust, Margett’s old man buys it up.
Vigors won’t stop moaning to anyone who’ll listen about his Grievance, so quite quickly all the boys nickname him ‘the Grief’ and avoid him – all except Hickmot. He’ll listen to Vigors about his Grievance for hours so long as Vigors will then listen to him talking about sheep in the Outback. The two become inseparable. Soon Hickmot cops it in the leg and is shipped home and then Vigors is killed.
Bevin knows he right on the edge of a breakdown and wonders whether he’ll win a VC for some reckless exploit or go postal and shoot everyone around him. Just in time he is brought out of the trenches. He is posted back to England as a bomb instructor. Since the training camp is near his home village, he is able to marry his sweetheart – who just happens to have been Bert Vigors’s sister – and sleeps at home in his own bed, before going off to instruction duty every day.
Then they get a letter from the Brighton hospital where Hickmot is recovering from his wounds, asking if he can come and stay. Since Bert’s sister (now Bevin’s wife) had read so much about Hickmot in the letters which Bert sent home, she says Yes. Hickmot arrives for his visit, with one leg amputated above the knee, hardly says a word, but fits right in and does all the chores. One day he unobtrusively accompanies Bevin to bomb instruction, holing up in the dugout where the duds are kept till used, then accompanying Bevin home at the end of the day. Then they see him onto the train to Roehampton, where he will be fitted with a prosthetic leg.
That night there is a series of explosions in the village, the villagers initially thinking they must be stray bombs from an air raid and running out into the street in panic. But Bevin and another officer quickly realise the damage is suspiciously localised; in fact, it is limited to the market gardener Margett’s property: the roof of his house has been bombed, so it burns down, two hay ricks set afire, the furnace in his greenhouse has exploded, demolishing the building and all his horses been mysteriously released to trample and graze in the new fields he’d bought off Vigors’s dad. Oddest of all, Bevin had applied to the local council to dam a local stream to create a duck-pond for his wife’s ducks but been refused permission. But a bomb happens to have exploded under the bank of the stream and blocked it exactly where Bevin wanted. Fancy that!
By now Bevin’s dinner companions are laughing. Silent Hickmot must have listened to all Vigor’s grievances in the trenches, and made a plan to enact justice for the injustice of Vigors’s drafting and his death. Asking to come and stay with Bevin was just a ruse to see the lie of the land and, when he learned that Bevin was giving bomb training, Hickmot hatched his brutal revenge on the all-conquering Margett family.
Revenge: So it is one of Kipling’s many ‘revenge’ stories, but this time the brutality of the war somehow justifies it, and also justifies it as comedy, or farce – and also – in the injustice of Vigors’s drafting and death – makes it very moving. On the surface it’s a story about how at least one soldier carried out poetic justice. But the real impact of the story comes from the many little touches in it indicating just how psychologically damaged and scarred by war the talkers are. There are several moments in his telling where Bevin’s face grows stiff and his hands go to tighten a belt he isn’t wearing, unconsciously carried back to the trenches.
More overtly, he admits that, after Hickmot’s wounding and Vigors’s death, he was reaching breaking point: he had a funny taste in his mouth and a sense of being distant from everything – just when his superiors had the sense to post him home as a bomb instructor. He is, in fact, just one more of Kipling’s many, many men on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
‘It took ’em five minutes to make me understand I was saved. Then I vomited, an’ then I cried. You know!’ The fat face of Bevin had changed and grown drawn, even as he spoke; and his hands tugged as though to tighten an imaginary belt.’
A Madonna of The Trenches (1924) Frame: One of several post-War stories set in the Freemason Lodge ‘Faith and Works 5837’. The narrator is helping the Senior Warden who is also a doctor, Dr Keede. During a lecture a new recruit, Strangwick, has a nervous attack, has to be helped out and administered a sedative. The noise of scraping chairs had reminded Strangwick of the noise made by the leather straps of the corpses which the French used to build their trenches over, of the squeaking noise the straps made when you walked on the duckboards laid over them. God. What horror. But as Keede gently questions and sympathetically listens to the stammering man, he draws out a story which is far weirder and stranger than mere post-traumatic stress.
Story: Strangwick was in the same regiment as an older man, Sergeant Godsoe, who he’d known since a boy and had been a father figure to him and his sister. On the day in question, Godsoe was found dead in a sealed gas room in the trenches, with two lighted braziers. Asphyxiation. Dr Keede knew about the incident but thought, like everyone else, it was an accident – that the gas-proof door banged shut and locked Godsoe in by accident.
Now Strangwick slowly, hesitantly, in his working class idiom, explains that Godsoe had been having an affair with his (Strangwick’s) auntie Armine, his mum’s sister (real name, in fact, Bella). Auntie Armine had given Strangwick, on his most recent leave, a note to take back to Godsoe, saying her little trouble would be over on the 21st and she was dying to meet him as soon as possible thereafter.
Strangwick, in his job as a runner on the fateful 21 January, thinks he sees his Auntie Armine at a corner of an old French trench, and, when he tells Godsoe, the latter realises what it means and makes Strangwick take him back to the scene. Here Strangwick’s hair stands on end as he realises that the apparition he thought was a trick of the light earlier on, really is the ghost of his Auntie who – he later finds out – had died of cancer that morning. The ghostly figure is holding out her arms to Sergeant Godsoe, imploring him with a terrifying look on her face to join her – and the Sergeant calmly beckons her into the gas room with the braziers and barricades the door behind him. He deliberately asphyxiated himself, killed himself, so that he can be with his lover for all eternity.
Frame: Having got all this out of his system, Strangwick sleeps. The Brother who introduced him comes along and apologises for his behaviour. He’s been under a lot of strain, he explains, on account of a ‘breach of promise’ action brought against him by his sweetheart, after Strangwick broke off the engagement. The Brother doesn’t know why he broke it off – but we know the full story and the way the sight of a) a middle-aged love affair b) and the ghostly horror of his ‘uncle’s death, have unhinged Strangwick. And there is a final irony because the Brother who brought him to the Lodge… is his actual Uncle, Auntie Armine’s husband! Only Strangwick knows that his Uncle’s wife was so totally unfaithful to him. And this is another element or level in his hysteria.
A spooky story, sure enough – but for me the ghost story element is outweighed by the touching sensitivity to hysterical soldiers shown by the narrator, the doctor and the other Masonic members, who quietly come to enquire if they can help. It is a community of men looking after men.
Strangwick, who had been fidgeting and twitching for some minutes, rose, drove back his chair grinding across the tesselated floor, and yelped ‘Oh, My Aunt! I can’t stand this any longer.’ Under cover of a general laugh of assent he brushed past us and stumbled towards the door.
‘I thought so!’ Keede whispered to me. ‘Come along!’ We overtook him in the passage, crowing hysterically and wringing his hands. Keede led him into the Tyler’s Room, a small office where we stored odds and ends of regalia and furniture, and locked the door.
‘I’m — I’m all right,’ the boy began, piteously.
‘‘Course you are.’ Keede opened a small cupboard which I had seen called upon before, mixed sal volatile and water in a graduated glass, and, as Strangwick drank, pushed him gently on to an old sofa. ‘There,’ he went on. ‘It’s nothing to write home about. I’ve seen you ten times worse. I expect our talk has brought things back.’
He hooked up a chair behind him with one foot, held the patient’s hands in his own, and sat down.
It feels a world away from the cocky young men kicking their native servants in Plain Tales, nearly 40 years earlier.
The Gardener (1925) Written 10 years after Kipling’s own son, Jack, went missing during the Battle of Loos, this short story is about a well-off single woman, Helen, who adopts the orphaned son of her scapegrace brother, George, who had got an unmarried woman pregnant.
When George died in India, Helen arranged the passage home of the baby, named him Michael, and raised him as his ‘Aunty’. Michael goes through prep and public school and is scheduled to go up to Oxford when the Great War breaks out. He enlists into a regiment which is posted to fill the gap in the Loos Offensive. (This is the prolonged battle during which Kipling’s only son was killed, aged barely 18.)
Helen at once accepts the terrible message of the telegram, and communes with the vicar and others in the village who have also lost sons.
After some years she gets an official letter notifying her that Michael’s body has finally been found and buried in Hagenzeele Third graveyard, the letter giving the grave’s row and number.
Helen decides to go and visit it and finds herself entering what Kipling describes as a well-established process for travelling to France, feeling like she is entering a sausage factory, a production-line type machine, which had been set up to process literally millions of grieving relatives.
She arrives at the pre-booked hotel in France, where she has a strange encounter with an insistent fellow grave visitor, who insists on sitting with her at dinner and nattering on about this and that, before she more or less forces her way into Helen’s bedroom to confess that, when she said she was visiting her friends’ sons’ graves, she was lying – she is in fact compulsively visiting and revisiting the grave of the only man she ever loved but who belonged to another.
Helen gets rid of her and lies in bed shaking. Everybody’s lives seem wracked. Next morning she walks to the graveyard and is appalled by the rows upon rows of graves, some 20,000 in total. A young man planting flowers helps her, asking the number of Michael’s grave and takes her to it. In the very last line there is the strong, ghostly implication, that the young man is Christ.
A man knelt behind a line of headstones — evidently a gardener, for he was firming a young plant in the soft earth. She went towards him, her paper in her hand. He rose at her approach and without prelude or salutation asked: ‘Who are you looking for?’
‘Lieutenant Michael Turrell — my nephew,’ said Helen slowly and word for word, as she had many thousands of times in her life.
The man lifted his eyes and looked at her with infinite compassion before he turned from the fresh-sown grass toward the naked black crosses.
‘Come with me,’ he said, ‘and I will show you where your son lies.’
When Helen left the Cemetery she turned for a last look. In the distance she saw the man bending over his young plants; and she went away, supposing him to be the gardener.
A masterpiece, a genuinely great story, which is all in the selection, the paring back to the barest essentials, just three short scenes conveying the relationship between the growing Michael and his Aunt – the disconcerting scene at the hotel with a distraught fellow grave visitor – and then just these seven sentences at the end. I’m crying as I write this.
A big thank you to the University of Adelaide for making most of Kipling’s works available online in such a stylish and accessible layout, and to the comprehensive notes provided on The Kipling Society’s website.
Kipling’s work online on the University of Adelaide website
The New Readers’ Guide to the works of Rudyard Kipling
Other Kipling reviews
Strange Tales (2006)
The Best Short Stories (1997)
Rudyard Kipling: Selected Poetry edited by Craig Raine (1992)
War Stories and Poems (1990)
Rudyard Kipling: Selected Verse edited by James Cochrane (1977)
Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Art by Charles Carrington (1955)
Charles Carrington on Kipling’s verse (1955)
A Choice of Kipling’s Verse by T.S. Eliot (1941)
Something of Myself (1937)
Limits and Renewals (1932)
The Muse Among the Motors (1904-1929)
Debits and Credits (1926)
A Diversity of Creatures (1917)
Rewards and Fairies (1910)
Actions and Reactions (1909)
Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906)
Traffics and Discoveries (1904)
Just So stories (1902)
Kim (1901)
The Absent-Minded Beggar (1899)
Stalky and Co (1899)
The Day’s Work (1898)
The Seven Seas (1896)
The Jungle Books (1895, 1895)
Many Inventions (1893)
Barrack Room Ballads (1892)
Life’s Handicap (1891)
The Light That Failed (1891)
The Man Who Would Be King and other stories (1888)
Plain Tales From The Hills (1888)
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Traffics and Discoveries by Rudyard Kipling (1904)
Kipling wrote some 250 short stories. He published them in all sorts of contemporary newspapers and journals throughout his long career, and it was his practice to bring them together into collections published every few years. These collections form milestones through his oeuvre.
It was also his habit to prefix or follow each story with a short poem commenting directly or obliquely on the narratives they decorate – a habit he picked up, apparently, from a favourite author, Ralph Waldo Emerson and took to new heights of complex interaction and subtle commentary.
This 1904 collection takes its name from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation of Richard Hakluyt (c. 1552-1616), a compendium of exciting Elizabethan sailing expeditions. Traffics and Discoveries includes:
The Captive (1902) – This starts as a third-person account of a journalist (obviously Kipling) visiting a Boer prisoner of war camp during the Boer War (1899 to 1902). As so often the opening scene setting is vivid and powerful. Wandering among the men he gets talking to one, an American – Laughton O. Zigler from Akron, Ohio – who gives a long rambling first-person account of how he brought across the Atlantic a field gun and ammunition of his own design to sell to the Boers and ended up getting involved with one of their commandos, led by Adrian Van Zyl, helping them fight in the field against the British, until they were all captured.
Kipling characteristically stuffs the text with his technical know-how about artillery pieces, about the ‘hopper-feed and recoil-cylinder’, trying to out-man and out-engineer the reader, which isn’t very difficult. Zigler’s tone, his description of the sporadic artillery encounters with the Brits, is very casual; it’s hard not to find Zigler’s joking about ‘laying out’ the British boys with his gun, offensive.
The war is seen as a comradely adventure between ‘friends’ and all the British officers Zigler meets admit to being ‘a bit pro-Boer’. (Is this how combatants saw the Boer War? Or is it the sentimental self-serving view of a privileged observer?) From Zigler’s account both sides spend half the time trying to kill each other and the other half being polite and complimentary. Often the combatants had actually met socially, dined and gossiped: now they are trying to kill each other.
The second half of the ‘story’ describes the dinner the British General and officers give for Zigler and Van Zyl, once they are prisoners, during which they compare notes like professionals. The British General is mighty lofty and complacent, hoping the war will go on another five years, so that he can knock his ragtag collection of floorworkers and stevedores into a professional army. Nothing is mentioned of the rank incompetence and idiocy which made the Boer War such a shambles for the British. (See The Boer War by Thomas Pakenham.) And a ghost walks over the text when the General boomingly declares:
Yes, far more so than anyone knew. These are the kind of heartless pro-war sentiments for which Kipling would later be crucified.
As well as satirising the amateur, jolly-good-chap attitude of the British officers, using Zigler, an American, as a mouthpiece, means Kipling can also be sarcastic about the British political class, all couched in Zigler’s down-home terminology:
The Captive is of a piece with Kipling’s other ‘warning’ poems and stories, warning that only eternal vigilance could keep Britain safe from her ever-present enemies, and lamenting the failure of peacetime politicians to pay enough heed, to take war seriously and to prosecute it whole-heartedly.
The Bonds of Discipline (1903) – Inspired by reading a book by a Frenchman who stowed away on a Royal Navy ship, the narrator travels to Portsmouth where he asks a publican to rustle up any sailors from the ship in question. He is introduced to Emanuel Pyecroft, second-class petty-officer, who serves on the very same ship and happened to be present when the French author of the book was caught masquerading as a Portuguese stowaway. He explains that the captain of the ship quickly realised the so-called Portuguese was in fact a french spy, and so proceeded to put on a lot of preposterous ship-board behaviour (including a mock execution) to rag and mislead him.
If The Captive allowed Kipling to showcase his knowledge of artillery, this story is a prolonged exercise in Kipling showing off his knowledge of naval speech rhythms, slang and technical gubbins aboard ship. The entire thing is told through the voice of Pyecroft which – like the voices of the three soldiers back in his Plain Tales period, or the rural dialect of his later Sussex period, is excruciatingly difficult to follow:
‘“When it comes to “Down ‘ammicks!” which is our naval way o’ goin’ to bye-bye, I took particular trouble over Antonio, ‘oo had ‘is ‘ammick ‘ove at ’im with general instructions to sling it an’ be sugared. In the ensuin’ melly I pioneered him to the after-‘atch, which is a orifice communicatin’ with the after-flat an’ similar suites of apartments. He havin’ navigated at three fifths power immejit ahead o’ me, I wasn’t goin’ to volunteer any assistance, nor he didn’t need it.’
“‘Mong Jew!’ says ‘e, sniffin’ round. An’ twice more ‘Mong Jew!’— which is pure French. Then he slings ‘is ‘ammick, nips in, an’ coils down. ‘Not bad for a Portugee conscript,’ I says to myself, casts off the tow, abandons him, and reports to ‘Op.
Like most of Kipling’s stories told by ‘characters’ in their slang and accents, it is almost unreadable (cf The Wish House). Kipling comes over as immensely pleased with himself and the bumptious diction of his music hall marine, revelling in his self-congratulatory facetiousness:
“In the balmy dawnin’ it was given out, all among the ‘olystones, by our sub-lootenant, who was a three-way-discharge devil, that all orders after eight bells was to be executed in inverse ration to the cube o’ the velocity. ‘The reg’lar routine,’ he says, ‘was arrogated for reasons o’ state an’ policy, an’ any flat-foot who presumed to exhibit surprise, annoyance, or amusement, would be slightly but firmly reproached.’
The ‘story’, as much as you can disentangle it from all this verbiage, is that the whole crew realised the Frenchie was a spy and so put on all manner of extravagant performances of incompetence and disobedience in order to mislead him, leading up to a faked execution by firing squad of a sailor. All of which is dutifully reported in the Frenchman’s book, which is the one the narrator was reading in the opening lines. Conclusions: Silly gullible French.
This is the first of six Pyecroft stories devoted to showcasing Kipling’s knowledge of naval matters and carry his booming calls for naval re-armament.
Kipling Society notes on The Bonds of Discipline
Kipling Society notes on the Pyecroft stories
A Sahibs’ War (1901) – Umr Singh is a Sikh in the British Army who is in South Africa during the Boer War and has been tasked with going to ‘Eshtellenbosch’ to collect horses. The text is entirely his monologue to a Sahib who helps him get a ticket for the right train, in which he a) shows off his knowledge of Indian customs, religion, traditions and service in the Indian Army b) laments the British setbacks in the Boer War due to their being too courteous and considerate of the Boer guerrillas.
The Sikh thinks it silly of the British not to have used the Indian Army to put down the Boers, silly and subversive, for if the Brits fail in South Africa other colonies will take note of their weakness. That is the view of Umr’s ‘sahib’, his former master, Captain Corbyn or ‘Kurban Sahib’.
The reason the Indian Army was forbidden to be involved is that it is a White Man’s war – white British against white Dutch. The actual African inhabitants of South Africa are hardly mentioned except insofar as they spark Umr’s own prejudices – he is not happy, when he arrives in Africa, to be given command of a load of ‘niggers’ – Kaffirs, who are ‘filth unspeakable’.
But the core of the story is how Umr and his Sahib, Captain Corbyn both volunteered to take ‘sick leave’ from their Indian regiment to come and fight the Boers – the kind of higher loyalty to the Empire and the Law which Kipling admires. They attach themselves to a regiment of Australians for whom Kipling has boundless admiration. In the central episode they are all tricked by the Boers inhabiting an ‘innocent’, ‘peaceful’ farmhouse, who are in fact organising an ambush of them all, a sudden fusillade of rifle shots, in which Corbyn is killed and Umr only just escapes.
In a rage Umr and the Muslim servant Sikandar Khan who they have picked up in their travels, go back to the farmhouse to take revenge, beheading one of the wounded Boers inside it and seizing the mentally sub-normal son of the householders to hang him in a nearby tree as punishment, as revenge on the treacherous farmer-priest and his wife.
But here – the irrational and uncanny in Kipling shows itself, as so often – for in the middle of this brutal wartime anecdote, the ghost of Kurban Sahib appears to Umr and three times forbids him from hanging the boy, ‘for it is a Sahibs’ war’.
This latter part of the text, the account of the ambush and then the narrator’s revenge, is vivid and powerful, and the appearance of the Sahib’s ghost eerie – it has a real imaginative force – Kipling’s daemon pushing through. But it is embedded in a text which overflows with contempt, hatred, resentment, is marinated in multiple types of racial prejudice, and is continually teetering on the edge of, not just violence but sadistic violence, vengeful hateful violence.
This is all epitomised in the last few lines of the text when Umr returns to the site of his Sahib’s death and rejoices to find, not only a memorial carved by the loyal and dutiful Australians – but that the Boer farmhouse, the well, the water tank, the barn and fruit trees – all have been razed from the face of the earth, by the ‘manly’ Australians, who aren’t shackled by the British concern for ‘fair play’.
The narrator rejoices, Kipling rejoices, and the reader is meant to rejoice in this act of nihilistic vengeance – the kind of scorched earth policy which will characterise so much of 20th century history.
‘Their Lawful Occasions’ The narrator (pretty obviously Kipling) is invited to go down to Weymouth to go aboard ship and witness Royal Navy manoeuvres; but in the town he bumps into his old mucker, Emanuel Pyecroft (who we met in The Bonds of Discipline). Very like Mulvaney, one of the Three Soldiers, Pyecroft has a cheeky and facetious sense of humour with which he explains that his ship, 267, is being mocked up by its captain to look like a destroyer so it can steam out and take part in the naval wargames starting that night. The whole thing is told in a tone of forced humour and all the characters speak with elaborate facetiousness.
A thin cough ran up the speaking-tube.
“Well, what is it, Mr. Hinchcliffe?” said Moorshed.
“I merely wished to report that she is still continuin’ to go, Sir.”
“Right-O! Can we whack her up to fifteen, d’you think?”
“I’ll try, Sir; but we’d prefer to have the engine-room hatch open — at first, Sir.”
Whacked up then she was, and for half an hour was careered largely through the night, turning at last with a suddenness that slung us across the narrow deck.
With Kipling, you often have the feeling that a huge amount of effort, imagination and humour has been wasted on ‘stories’ which no way justify them. Here, for example, is our hero describing what a torpedo boat sounds like if you’re trying to get to sleep on it.
‘Sleepin’ in a torpedo-boat’s what you might call an acquired habit.”
I coiled down on an iron-hard horse-hair pillow next the quivering steel wall to acquire that habit. The sea, sliding over 267’s skin, worried me with importunate, half-caught confidences. It drummed tackily to gather my attention, coughed, spat, cleared its throat, and, on the eve of that portentous communication, retired up stage as a multitude whispering. Anon, I caught the tramp of armies afoot, the hum of crowded cities awaiting the event, the single sob of a woman, and dry roaring of wild beasts. A dropped shovel clanging on the stokehold floor was, naturally enough, the unbarring of arena gates; our sucking uplift across the crest of some little swell, nothing less than the haling forth of new worlds; our half-turning descent into the hollow of its mate, the abysmal plunge of God-forgotten planets. Through all these phenomena and more — though I ran with wild horses over illimitable plains of rustling grass; though I crouched belly-flat under appalling fires of musketry; though I was Livingstone, painless, and incurious in the grip of his lion — my shut eyes saw the lamp swinging in its gimbals, the irregularly gliding patch of light on the steel ladder, and every elastic shadow in the corners of the frail angle-irons; while my body strove to accommodate itself to the infernal vibration of the machine. At the last I rolled limply on the floor, and woke to real life with a bruised nose and a great call to go on deck at once.
Vivid, as are the descriptions of the ship and of the sea, the English Channel, in its changing lights – all excellent, down to the presentation of tiny and convincing details.
Presently a hand-bellows foghorn jarred like a corncrake, and there rattled out of the mist a big ship literally above us. We could count the rivets in her plates as we scrooped by, and the little drops of dew gathered below them.
But there is little or no plot to speak of and what there is is very hard to make out. Only slowly did I realise that the ‘267’ is going under cover so it can ‘bag’ the destroyers in the war games; i.e. it is joining the flotilla masquerading as another ship and then will sail close enough to the other ships to – I think – mark them with some kind of paint, indicating that it is an ‘enemy’ ship and has ‘destroyed’ them as part of the war games.
In practice this amounts to dialogue-overheavy larks in the Channel fog and dark, as the captain and crew dodge and weave between the vast destroyers on manoeuvres.
Kipling was thrashed and beaten as a boy at his miserable foster home in Portsmouth and then at public school. It is difficult to read a story like this and not see it as the troubled adult who emerged from this hellish childhood fantasising about being accepted on their own terms by manly men – one of the team, one of the crew, manfully shaking hands, drinking strong liquor and eyes shining with troubles and challenges shared and overcome.
The manliness, the obsession with technical detail and the brusque, obscure way in which it’s conveyed, can be read as all part of the bookish, short-sighted wimp’s massive over-compensation, his adoration of Real Men.
Hence also, maybe, the excessive anger and vengefulness, the addiction to kicking the weak and vulnerable, which disfigures so many of his stories.
The Comprehension of Private Copper (1902) – A Boer guerrilla captures Private Alf Copper who had strayed unwisely far from his platoon and into the bush. The Boer descants at length about how his father, a Transvaal shop-keeper, was deceived out of his livelihood by the British, along with numerous insults of the British fighting ability or the morale of the poor Tommy far from home.
But in saying all this the Boer gets just a bit too close to Alf Copper, who lays him out with one well-aimed punch. Hah! Decadent, demoralised Tomy, is he! that’ll show ‘im! Kipling couldn’t be more frothingly on the side of the British Army and against the treacherous deceiving Boers.
More propaganda follows when Alf gets his now-captive Boer captive back to his picket, where his mates are looking over a British Liberal paper which is blackening their names back home. One of the Tommies satirically quotes it:
The general idea is that both the arrogant Boer and the treacherous Liberals back home think the British Tommy doesn’t know what he’s fighting for and is a poor, badly educated pawn – but oh yes he does and oh no he isn’t! The text sets out to humiliate the arrogant Boer and ridicule whining anti-Imperial Liberals.
Steam Tactics (1902) – Third of the six Pyecroft stories, in which the narrator – while driving in his new-fangled steam motor car – meets him and Hinchcliffe, the naval engineer, on leave in sunny Sussex. Taking the idea that there are all kinds of angers and revenges going on in Kipling’s mind and texts, stories like this provide plenty of examples of the way this anger operates not only at the level of storyline and character (arrogant Boer, stupid Liberals, dogged Tommy, in the stories above). It might also explain the deliberate, wilful and aggressive obscurity of individual paragraphs and sentences. For example:
A bluish and silent beast of the true old sheep-dog breed glided from behind an outhouse and without words fell to work.
It is impossible from reading this to know what is going on; only the succeeding sentence makes it clear:
Pyecroft kept him at bay with a rake-handle while our party, in rallying-square, retired along the box-bordered brick-path to the car.
So ‘fell to work’ means the dog began barking and menacing them. Ah. In individual paragraphs, in sequences, and across entire stories, Kipling deliberately keeps things from the reader. Why? In a spirit of Modernist elitism and allusion? No. In order to beat the reader, to ‘best’ the reader. To be the winner, yah boo sucks.
This enjoyment of physical humiliation is present from the first few lines, where the narrator takes typically brutal pleasure in driving up behind the dawdling horse-drawn postal carrier and using his loud steam hooter to scare the horse so badly that it bolts into the hedgerow, scattering parcels all over the road. Ha ha ha, yah boo sucks. Kipling thinks this is hilarious. The reader thinks he’s a bully.
The ‘story’ only finally arrives after pages and pages of Pyecroft’s ship’s engineer, Hinchcliffe, and the narrator’s own chauffeur and mechanic poring over the steam car’s entrails to show us Kipling’s detailed technical knowledge.
The ‘story’ amounts to the car being pulled over by a man who pretends to be a special constable who will fine them for exceeding the speed limit. But Kipling, Pyecroft and Hinchcliffe suspect he is an imposter and con man. So they invite him into the car and immediately strong-arm and threaten and humiliate him. They’re discussing whether to strip him of his boots or just hang him, when another jalopy turns up, driven by Kipling’s friend Kysh, and they fall to discussing how the authorities have got it in for the poor motorist (the kind of aggressive self-pity which and aggrieved victimhood which all motorists still enjoy to this day).
Instead they drive in Kysh’s vast powerful petrol-fuelled Octopod across Sussex, then off the road into a private park all to deliberately maroon the poor policeman in an early version of a safari park, among bemused kangaroos in a rich man’s private game park. Yah boo sucks to all traffic police.
“Wireless” (1902) – An eerie supernatural story in which Kipling is invited to the local chemist’s shop where the tubercular chemist, Mr Shaynor, is allowing a young friend, Mr Cashell, to set up very early radio antenna and equipment to receive a signal from Poole.
But wile the engineer is fussing over his equipment a completely different signal comes through: for the young chemist is in love with a local girl called Fanny but he is tubercular and coughing blood. He dozes off in a corner then suddenly wakes and, in a kind of trance, starta to scribble verses which Kipling realises exactly match The Eve of St Agnes, a long poem by the Romantic poet John Keats. And now the narrator realises that Keats himself was a chemist’s assistant, he had tuberculosis, he also was in love with a young woman named Fanny. The narrator has a weird out of body moment as he realises that– maybe the chemist is channeling the spirit of the long-dead poet!
For an instant, that was half an eternity, the shop spun before me in a rainbow-tinted whirl, in and through which my own soul most dispassionately considered my own soul as that fought with an over-mastering fear.
Weird and uncanny, like most of Kipling’s many supernatural stories. (And always a relief that nobody gets beaten or humiliated.)
The Army of a Dream (1904) – the narrator falls asleep in his club and has a long and obscure dream in which he meets old military men who live in a parallel universe, in a society designed and run to create an unbeatable amry, a society in which they recruit and train men much earlier and better, in fact starting as early as six. Having had the new system explained to him in theory, the narrator goes to watch men practising with arms in the vast parade ground in central London, realising that passersby and lookers-on admire and envy the British Army – unlike the mockery and condescension it suffers in actual Victorian society.
In other words, this long fantasia stems from Kipling’s anger at the incompetent amateurishness of the British Army during the Boer War.
Kipling’s stories often teeter on the edge of having no plot: this one falls over the edge into being a kind of fictionalised pamphlet, advocating a recipe for the militarisation of society in a way familiar to students of Prussian society or Nazi Germany. And what could be more stirring than marching in shiny uniform through an adoring public.
I rejoiced to the marrow of my bones thus to be borne along on billows of surging music among magnificent men, in sunlight, through a crowded town whose people, I could feel, regarded us with comradeship, affection — and more.
As a rule of thumb, the more dialogue in a Kipling story the more incomprehensible it will be, as he exercises his unfailing enthusiasm to do funny voices at the reader’s expense.
“I was roped in the other day as an Adjustment Committee by the Kemptown Board School. I was riding under the Brighton racecourse, and I heard the whistle goin’ for umpire — the regulation, two longs and two shorts. I didn’t take any notice till an infant about a yard high jumped up from a furze-patch and shouted: ‘Guard! Guard! Come ’ere! I want you perfessionally. Alf says ‘e ain’t outflanked. Ain’t ‘e a liar? Come an’ look ‘ow I’ve posted my men.’ You bet I looked. The young demon trotted by my stirrup and showed me his whole army (twenty of ’em) laid out under cover as nicely as you please round a cowhouse in a hollow. He kept on shouting: ‘I’ve drew Alf into there. ‘Is persition ain’t tenable. Say it ain’t tenable, Guard!’ I rode round the position, and Alf with his army came out of his cowhouse an’ sat on the roof and protested like a — like a Militia Colonel; but the facts were in favour of my friend and I umpired according. Well, Alf abode by my decision. I explained it to him at length, and he solemnly paid up his head-money — farthing points if you please.”
The most telling moment of this long, long text comes in the last paragraph where the narrator suddenly sees all the bright young officers who have been showing him round the dream army, dining and bantering and chaffing – he sees them all dead or expiring on the dusty veldt of South Africa. A characteristically brutal and bitter and angry symbol of the price of the Army, and society’s, rank incompetence.
It is characteristic of Kipling’s impact in the real world of active men, that the following year he had this ‘story’ – really a prospectus for the organisation of a conscript army – printed as a six-penny pamphlet ‘as there have been numerous requests from adjutants of volunteers etc. to get it to their companies’. (Rudyard Kipling: His life and Work by Charles Carrington, Penguin edition, page 469)
“They” (1904) The unnamed narrator is driving his car round Sussex when he comes across a mysteriously beautiful and quiet country house, where he spies children playing amid the landscaped gardens, before meeting the owner, an elegant beautiful woman who is quite blind. It takes several visits and repeated hints from the remote butler, before the penny drops, and the narrator realises that the elusive children are ghosts – a realisation passed to him when one of the children kisses his palm in a way he realises, with a jolt, only his dead daughter did. A major feature of Kipling’s fiction is its tendency to be clipped and elliptical. Thus nowhere in the story does it say it was the kiss of the narrator’s child; I only learned this crucial fact from the Kipling Society website’s excellent notes on the story.
Atmosphere and description he does excellently well. Here is the narrator in his car:
As I reached the crest of the Downs I felt the soft air change, saw it glaze under the sun; and, looking down at the sea, in that instant beheld the blue of the Channel turn through polished silver and dulled steel to dingy pewter. A laden collier hugging the coast steered outward for deeper water and, across copper-coloured haze, I saw sails rise one by one on the anchored fishing-fleet. In a deep dene behind me an eddy of sudden wind drummed through sheltered oaks, and spun aloft the first day sample of autumn leaves. When I reached the beach road the sea-fog fumed over the brickfields, and the tide was telling all the groins of the gale beyond Ushant. In less than an hour summer England vanished in chill grey. We were again the shut island of the North, all the ships of the world bellowing at our perilous gates; and between their outcries ran the piping of bewildered gulls. My cap dripped moisture, the folds of the rug held it in pools or sluiced it away in runnels, and the salt-rime stuck to my lips.
Mrs. Bathurst (1904) Fourth of the stories about Petty Officer Emanuel Pyecroft. As with all Kipling’s stories told in dialogue it is difficult to follow and hard to care.
“Moon — Moon! Now where did I last . . .? Oh yes, when I was in the Palladium! I met Quigley at Buncrana Station. He told me Moon ‘ad run when the Astrild sloop was cruising among the South Seas three years back. He always showed signs o’ bein’ a Mormonastic beggar. Yes, he slipped off quietly an’ they ‘adn’t time to chase ’im round the islands even if the navigatin’ officer ‘ad been equal to the job.”
“Wasn’t he?” said Hooper.
“Not so. Accordin’ to Quigley the Astrild spent half her commission rompin’ up the beach like a she-turtle, an’ the other half hatching turtles’ eggs on the top o’ numerous reefs. When she was docked at Sydney her copper looked like Aunt Maria’s washing on the line — an’ her ‘midship frames was sprung. The commander swore the dockyard ‘ad done it haulin’ the pore thing on to the slips. They do do strange things at sea, Mr. Hooper.”
The narrator meets old friend Hooper, a railway official, at Simon’s Town, the naval base in South Africa. They’re enjoying a beer in a carriage near the beach when up comes none other than Pyecroft accompanied by a burly marine, Sergeant Pritchard, a Royal Marine.
As in so many Kipling stories they get to yarning and gossiping about people we’ve never heard of and don’t care about – to establish the mood – and this takes up a good half of the text, before they get round to discussing a particular tale. This concerns a man they know who deserted for the sake of a woman, a Mrs Bathurst, a widow who kept a bar in Auckland. He was Vickery, fifteen years in the service and just 18 months short of his pension, hopelessly smitten by the loyal Mrs B.
Eerie aspects:
1. Vickery has four false teeth in his lower left jaw. They don’t fit very well, hence his nickname ‘Clicks’. This is the kind of detail Kipling does well.
2. Vickery sees Mrs B in a very early cinematograph film shot at Paddington station and being shown as part of a travelling circus in the Cape. He insists on taking Pyecroft to it five nights in a row just to watch 45 seconds of Mrs B walking jerkily and silently towards the camera. This is one of the first mentions of a cinematoscope in fiction and typical of Kipling’s interest in gadgets and technology.
3. Hooper has been listening hard all this time, and asks whether Vickery had a tattoo before revealing that, as part of his work, he had to investigate the case of two corpses found burnt to carbon in a densely wooded part of the rail system in the interior – and one of them had a tattoo like Pyecroft describes, and four false teeth!
Victorian culture prevented any mention of sex or sexual attraction. Maybe what makes stories like this so unfulfilling is that Vickery clearly had some kind of burning obsession for Mrs Bathurst – but whatever its true nature, the repressed obsessiveness of it comes out in the bizarreness of the details of the text, which are almost like symptoms in a case study by Freud.
Below the Mill Dam (1904) – One of Kipling’s ‘objects and animals speaking’ stories. The mill is, of course, as old as he Doomsday book and the Mill Wheel talks, so do the Waters, and the Grey Cat and the Black Rat which inhabit it.
The joke is that they speak in ever-so-posh phraseology, presumably mocking the English upper classes.
The plot seems to be that the humans have rigged up a dynamo to the mill wheel which, towards the end of the story, they switch on and which floods the mill house with new-fangled electric light, much to all the inhuman characters’ amazement!
And the twist is that the Spirit of the Mill adapts wonderfully fast to the new electric turbines and all its advantages. Within a page or so it has taken the new-fangled technology in its stride and is telling the animals all about the benefits of electricity, for example illuminating the barn where cows can now calve at night etc.
It is powerfully done – but imagining animals and machinery talking isn’t really a story.
Kipling and le Carré
In his aggressive public school facetiousness, Kipling reminds me exactly of the laboured humour of John le Carré:
After a great meal we poured libations and made burnt-offerings in honour of Kysh, who received our homage graciously.
I conceived great respect for Apothecaries’ Hall, and esteem for Mr. Cashell, a zealous craftsman who magnified his calling.
This is exactly the kind of pompous-sounding phraseology which mars so much of le Carré’s prose, as detailed in any of my reviews of his novels. Either the self-congratulatory and elaborately facetious lingo of the public school environment was remarkably consistent from the 1870s to the 1930s (when le Carré attended boarding school) or there’s a more direct influence of Kipling the Imperial propagandist on the twentieth century’s greatest spy writer. Would be interesting to know if a study has been made on the subject…
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Consists of records from the office of Nelson Mandela, generated during the period when Mr. Nelson Mandela was the deputy president and then the president of the ANC.
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Aan Phanse Ab Ban Mein Bhaiya
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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Today’s song is from the film ‘Asiai Sitara’ (1937) aka ‘Star Of Asia’.
The film was made by Harshad and Jagtap. It was distributed by Wadia Movietone. The director was Haribhai Desai, the music was by Master Mohammed and the lyricist was Pt. Anuj. The film cast was master Vithal, Jenabai Pawar, Minoo the Mystique, Vasant pehelwan, Master Dhulia etc.
After the initial surge of the films made on mythology, parsi fantasies and folk tales, the adventurous film makers moved on to make films on social issues, comedy, stunts, social reforms, history, love stories and religious personalities. From 1935, the rise of stunt films in talkie version (thanks to Fearless Nadia) gave rise to a genre, which lasted till the 1950’s. After that, it faded to a natural death. Nowadays, all the heroes do the stunts themselves, but their films are not called stunt films.
However, the audience, which was accustomed to films of fantasy, costume and folk tales, still existed, so on and off such films too were made by older film makers. The film ‘Asiai Sitara’ was also one such costume film. This was a film originally made by Haribhai Desai of Surya Film Company, Bangalore, as a silent film in 1932. In those days, Bangalore was the main city in South Circuit, so many big film distributors (mostly Gujaratis) had their offices in Bangalore. After the demise of silent films, most of them closed their distribution offices and jumped into talkie film making in Bombay. Some prominent distributors were, Dr. Ambalal Patel and Chimanlal Desai (started Sagar Movietone), Ramniklal Shah (started Mohan Pictures, Ramnik Films etc.) and Haribhai Raghunath ji Desai (started Surya Film Company in Bangalore itself).
The story of Haribhai Desai is very interesting. He was born in a very wealthy family of a village near Kutch area of Gujarat. He was very intelligent and completed his graduation in Bombay. The silent film industry was developing very fast. Haribhai decided to jump into it. To get his fundamentals strong, he went to America and did his graduation from New York Institute of Cinematography. Coming back to India, he took up a job as a manager in Laxmi Pictures and later in Suvarna Pictures of Poona. With this experience and few distribution contracts, Haribhai landed in Bangalore and set up his shop as a distributor.
Very shortly, in 1929, he established his own film production company – Surya Film Company at Bangalore, which was his main aim in life. He went to Kolhapur, hunting for talent. Kolhapur was an important film making centre in those times. There, he found Ganapatrao Baakre (गणपतराव बाकरे) – a very handsome, well built wrestler and a daredevil stunt actor working in Baburao Painter’s Maharashtra Film Co. He also noticed another very good looking young man, with good physique, working in stunt films for free (he was from a rich family). He was Zunzar Rao Pawar झुंझार राव पवार). His real name was DK Pawar, but was called by this name after his role in a successful company. Haribhai needed good and well known actors. He lured them with higher salaries and brought them to Bangalore. Ganpat Rao was paid Rs.1000 pm in those days.
Production of silent films started rapidly. Their first film was ‘Raj Hriday’ (1929). It was released in four theatres in Bombay in October 1929. The publicity of this film was handled by Kikubhai Desai (father of Manmohan Desai). Film pamphlets were showered on Bombay city from an aeroplane, as an advertisement gimmick! No doubt the film ran to houseful audiences in all theatres. In a very short time both actors from Kolhapur became very popular and famous. Surya Films made about 40 silent films.
Meanwhile Zunzar Rao Pawar fell in love with an Anglo-Indian girl – Jena Lawson, who was looking for an entry in films. They got married and she became Jenabai Pawar. Haribhai was not the one to lose such opportunities. He made two films with Jenabai Pawar as a heroine. The first was ‘The Hawk’ (aka ‘Baaz Bahadur’, 1931) and the other was ‘Asiai Sitara’ (1932). She did not work in more films. Soon Baakre and Pawar family returned to Kolhapur, after four years in Bangalore.
When the silent era ended and talkie films flourished, Haribhai closed Surya Films and went to Bombay. There, he remade his two successful silent films, made with Jenabai Pawar, as talkie films, with the same heroine. ‘Baaz Bahadur’ was made in 1936 and ‘Asiai Sitara’ was made in 1937. Now that these were talkie films, Jenabai also sang in the film. She sang four songs in each film. Considering she was not Indian, the songs were reasonably good. Earlier the silent films had Ganapat Rao Baakre as the hero, now in talkie films, Master Vithal was the hero.
Master Vithal (1906-1969) was the first superstar of silent films. He also has the credit of being the hero of the first talkie film of India ‘Aalam Ara’ (1931). He got this role only because of his un-paralleled popularity in silent films. He was the first ‘Angry Young Man’ of Indian cinema in the 1920s and the 1930s. His films were full of stunts, fighting and daredevil acts. Master Vithal was very handsome with a very muscular physique. He was the ideal of many aspiring young actors like Bhagwan.
So, when Bhagwan became stunt film hero and a director, his ardent wish was to act with Master Vithal or direct him. By 1940, Master Vithal was almost a gone actor, with very few Hindi films. So when Bhagwan got him to act in his film ‘Naghma e Sehra’ (1945), both Bhagwan and his close friend C Ramchandra were extremely excited. CR not only gave music to this film, but also did playback singing for Master Vithal and fulfilled his wish.
Today’s generation has no idea what position Master Vithal held in the minds of Indian audience in those days. Stunt films were very popular and Master Vithal, with his handsome looks, muscular physique and daredevil stunts was extremely popular. I am perhaps one of the very few remaining now, who has seen his film. I only remember one scene from that film, in which Master Vithal jumps from a tree onto an open car, fights with the goons and takes away the heroine, who promptly embraces him. I neither remember the name of the film nor of the heroine. She might be Zebunnisa.
Master Vithal (Vithal Raghunath Desai) made his début on the stage as a child artist with Raja Pur Natak Mandali. He then started his career as a film editor with Maharashtra Films, Kolhapur which was owned by Baburao Painter. His first film role was as a female dancer in ‘Kalyancha Khajina’, a silent era film directed by Painter. He continued to work as film editor and a dancer and played minor roles in films. His first break as a male lead was in the film ‘Ratna Manjari’ (1926) produced by Sharda Studios, which he had joined earlier in 1925. After ‘Ratna Manjari’, he was a permanent fixture in the role of a hero and he was the star attraction of the films from Sharda Studios.
Sharda Studios was owned by Nanubhai Desai, Anand Prasad Kapoor and Harshadrai Mehta. Nanubhai Desai was the studio founder and director of many stunt films produced by the company in which Vithal appeared in swashbuckling roles with Zebunnisa as his heroine. A professional wrestler, he became a very popular fearless hero acting in films on historical themes related to Rajasthan and Maharashtra; thus giving him the title ‘the Indian Douglas Fairbanks, a title Vithal hated. Audience adored him in his stunt hero role, which became his ‘forte’. By 1930, he was the highest paid male star in Indian cinema industry.
In 1930, Vithal’s popularity in stunt films attracted Ardeshir Irani of Imperial Film Company to invite him to join his company to make India’s first talkie, though Mehboob Khan was also vying for the role. Vithal, who was quite excited by Irani’s offer, accepted and moved to Irani’s newly formed film company Sagar Studios in Bombay, breaking his contract with Sharda Studios, only by few days. Nanubhai Desai was furious and he kidnapped Master Vithal. He was kept a captive, forcing him to extend the contract with Sharda Films. When Irani came to know this, he went to the court against Sharda films. Eminent lawyers like Setalwad and Mohmmed Ali Jinnah were employed by the litigating parties.
When the case started in the court, the judge asked Master Vithal, where he would like to join. That time Sharada was paying him Rs. 300 pm. Master Vithal replied that whichever company gave him more salary, he would join them. After this, there was an auction in the court and sums were spelt for master Vithal. Imperial Film company won when they offered Rs. 1200 pm as salary. The judge gave his judgement and Master Vithal joined Imperial. Thus he became the first actor to get a four figure salary in Indian Films. He was also the first actor in the industry, to own a car. After losing Master Vithal, Sharada Film company wanted a replacement for him. They appointed P. Jairaj, an upcoming handsome and muscular actor, on a salary of Rs. 100 pm!
The following year, Master Vithal played the hero in the first Indian talkie ‘Aalam Ara’ with Zubeida as the female lead. ‘Alam Ara’ was also the first film in which music was introduced, as many as seven music scores were part of the film. As his Hindi diction was poor, he could not deliver the dialogues properly; his acting quality in histrionic roles was also questioned. He was shown mostly in a state of trance or semi consciousness in the film and hardly had any dialogue. It is said that Vithal could not adopt himself to the new genre of talking-singing films in Hindi as he was “reduced to a hero who is (was) magically struck dumb in Alam Ara”. In 1932, he did some more silent films, which were no longer preferred by the audience. The talkies led to the decline of his career in Hindi films. Vithal would never get a major role in Hindi films again. From 1934 onward, he started doing some Marathi films realizing his limitations. From the 1940s onward, he regularly appeared in films by Bhalji Pendharkar and those featuring Lalita Pawar and Durga Khote. He also played in a side role in the 1944 blockbuster film ‘Ramshashtri’. Towards the end, he played only minor roles in Marathi films; his last film appearance was in 1966.
A lot has been said about his inability to speak Urdu dialogues and there is a popular myth, that after ‘Aalam Ara’, he did not get any talkie film and he left the Bombay film industry for Kolhapur to continue his career in Marathi films. Nothing can be farther from truth, because not only Master Vithal was cast as a hero in another talkie film, by Imperial Film Company itself – ‘Anangsena’ (1931), but many other well known production houses like Wadia, Mohan, Pradeep, BK Dave, Ranjit etc. engaged him for talkie films.
However, Master Vithal who was not very comfortable with Urdu dialogues, was no more interested in doing Hindi films anymore, so he did films very selectively. He acted in 8 silent films till 1934 and 16 talkie Hindi films till 1946. He even gave music to a film ‘Kashmir Ki Kali’ (1946), and also acted in it. All this after ‘Aalam Ara’.
Master Vithal is in history books as the first hero of the first Hindi talkie film and also has to his credit the introduction of a double role (by Shahu Modak) in a Bilingual film ‘Aawaara Shehzada’ (1933), which he directed (‘Autghatkecha Raja’ in Marathi). Master Vithal himself was the first to do a double role in silent film,’Prisoner of Love’ (aka ‘Raj Tarang’, 1927), made by Sharada Films.
Master Vithal acted in a total of 92 films – Hindi, Marathi, talkie and silent. He also directed two talkie films – one each in Hindi and Marathi. In one of his interviews, he regretted his decision to shift to Kolhapur in 1946 permanently as, he felt, this reduced his Hindi film participation. He had constructed a big chawl in Kolhapur and in his retirement years, he lived on its rental income. He died in 1969.
Haribhai Desai did not do anymore Hindi films. He was active in Gujarati films as a writer and director. He even made a Telugu film as a director. The film was ‘Bhaktimala’ (1941). It was made on the theme of Devdasi tradition of Maharashtra, where maidens are married to God. Actress P Bhanumathi did the main role. The film proved to be a great hit in south and remakes in southern languages were also made. This is considered a milestone movie in Telugu films.
‘Asiai Sitara’ has 8 songs. This song is sung by Master Dhulia, a famous Gujarati folk singer of repute. This song was composed as a parody of Saigal’s famous song “Balam Aaye Baso More Mann Mein” from film ‘Devdas’ (1935). The composer Master Mohammed, was famous for his patriotic songs. He had earlier composed another parody song, “Gaawo Gaawo Ae Mere Saadhu“, in the film ‘Miss Frontier Mail’ (1936), which was a parody of the KC Dey song ‘Jaao Jaao Ae Mere Sadho, Raho Guru Ke Sang‘ from film ‘Pooran Bhagat’ (1933).
The film ‘Asiai Sitara’ and singer ‘Master Dhulia’, both make a debut on the blog today.
[Author’s Note: Acknowledgements and thanks – The above write up refers to and has adapted material from books by Shri Vithal Pandya, Isak Mujawar, Dr RK Verma, and from Harish Raghuwanshi ji, CITWF, MuVyz.com, HFGK, Encyclopedia of Indian Films and my own notes.]
Song – Aan Phanse Ab Ban Mein Bhaiya (Asiai Sitara) (1937) Singer – Master Dhulia, Lyrics – Pandit Sampat Lal Shrivastav ‘Anuj’, Music – Master Mohammed
Unidentified Male Voice
Lyrics (Provided by Sudhir)
aan phanse ab ban mein bhaeee..yyaa
aan phanse ab ban mein bhaieee..yyaa
aan phanse
bhai..ee..ee..ee..yaaaaaaa
aan phanse ab ban mein
ye kya kar raha hai
taan maar raha hoon
jhoothe ke laaye
saanche gawaaye
sach bin lutiaa kaun piraaye
kaari badariya barsan laagi
baitha gar saawan mein bhaiya
baitha gar saawan mein
suratiya kaisi bhai kaari
ab to kamariya tootan lagi
tootan laagi
reh gayi mann ki mann mein bhaiyyaaa
reh gayi mann ki mann mein
nainanwa paayo nirbhaagi
tab hi pawanva phootan laagi
phootan laagi
dhool pari nainan mein bhaiyyaaa
dhool pari nainan mein
kaisi bhai ye harkat
kalaam le raha hoon
आन फंसे अब बन में भईsय्याआ
आन फंसे
भई॰॰ई॰॰ई॰॰ई॰॰य्याआआआआ
आन फंसे अब बन में भइय्या
आन फंसे अब बन में
ये क्या कर रहा है
तान मार रहा हूँ
झूठे के लाये
साँचे गवाए
सच बिन लुटिया काऊ पिराये
कारी बदरिया बरसन लागी
बैठा गर सावन में भइय्या
बैठा गर सावन में
सूरतीया कैसी भई कारी
कारी
अब तो कमरीया टूटन लागि
टूटन लागि
रह गई मन की मन में भइय्या
रह गई मन की मन में
नैननवा पायो निरभागी
तब ही पवनवा फूटन लागि
फूटन लागि
धूल परी नैनन में भइय्या
धूल परी नैनन में
कैसी भई ये हरकत
कलाम ले रहा हूँ
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Top 5 Games That Should Be Movies
THE game that needs to be a movie...
Today I read an article on IGN titled “Videogames That Should Be Movies.”
In this article, the author discussed a number of game franchises that they personally would like to see adapted to film.
While many of the games cited seemed to be of the jokey variety, namely their concepts of what an Excitebike and Star Fox would be like; most seemed to be largely genuine.
While the article was kind of a fun read, I found myself disagreeing with some of the selections listed.
Metal Gear and Halo felt like poor (but inevitable…) choices for films, given that both have sprawling canon that is far too dense for feature film; and both have a feel and presentation style that is already film-like in the first place.
If Avatar: The Last Airbender is an indication of the shit storm that can crop up when one tries to cram too much into 2 hours, I don’t wanna’ know what would happen if someone tried to do the same with a Metal Gear game…
At the same time, Portal struck me as a weird; somewhat fanboy-ish choice, given that the game has no real narrative; not to mention the gameplay mechanics are very much a novelty that is more fun to experience rather than watch.
Then again, I’m among the minority of people that didn’t really get much out of Portal, so I might be biased on that one…
Nitpicking aside, as I pondered on this topic; I found myself coming up with my own ideas of game series that I think could be fun in movie form.
That being said, while I can’t call them my “top” 5, being as they’re really the only ones I came up with; here are 5 choices/concepts for games that I felt should be movies:
#5. Saturday Night Slam Masters
Saturday Night Slam Masters may not have been the best of games, however it’s core concept and brilliant character designs (courtesy of Tetsuo Hara of Hokuto No Ken fame) made it a favorite of mine in my youth.
I loved how Slam Masters took the colorful pageantry of wrestling, exaggerated it in a borderline realistic manner; and then mixed it together with the 2D fighting gameplay of Final Fight and Street Fighter 2.
While the game really had no story to speak of, I think a Slam Masters movie could be a lot of fun if the wrestling universe was treated as reality ala Kinnikuman.
Basically, you take a fairly basic storyline; like Mike Haggar vowing to win the Slam Masters championship for his daughter/the glory of Metro city/an injured Guy or Cody, and then combine it with the tournament structure of Bloodsport or Enter the Dragon.
Make Scorp/The Astro out to be a Chong Li-esque uber-bastard, and boom; you’ve got a movie.
While the story or writing wouldn’t win any awards, in all honesty; I would happily pay money to see a pro-wrestling version of Bloodsport, provided the characters and costumes remained intact, and the fight choreography was up to standard.
I know this one is definitely not for everyone, but in my eyes; it could be a lot of fun.
#4. Final Fight
Despite it’s status as a beat ’em up, Final Fight actually has a fairly decent story to it.
For those that are unaware, the basic plot of Final Fight, is that the Mad Gear gang of Metro City kidnap the mayor Mike Haggar’s daughter in order to force his cooperation in their unlawful wrongdoings.
Being as he’s a beastly former pro-wrestler, and THE MAYOR to boot; Haggar instead decides to dish out some street justice on the Mad Gears via his fists, but not without first recruiting the aid of his daughter’s boyfriend/fiance Cody, and his random ninja buddy Guy.
While it isn’t much, I really think Final Fight could be a lot of a fun as a vigilante justice movie with a high quotient of hand-to-hand fight sequences.
Think The Warriors meets Taken/Edge of Darkness/The Man from Nowhere.
Besides, who the fuck wouldn’t want to see a Mike Haggar go toe-to-toe with Hugo Andore in live-action.
That alone would be worth the price of admission if it was staged with any sort of professionalism.
Shit, now all we need is a Marvel vs. Capcom 3 movie and we’ll have a cross-franchise trilogy of Mike Haggar movies…
#3. Front Mission
The Front Mission series plays host to some of the grandest and most believable storylines I’ve encountered in all of gaming.
While I honestly haven’t played all that much of the series, (half of #1, and half of #3) what I experienced was incredibly detailed, and more importanly; polished.
Reminiscent of the politically charged story Gundam, only far more accessible due to it’s story roots being set in existing continents and nations; Front Mission is a superior war drama that benefits from likeable characters and a largely believable art style.
While many have cried out for a live-action Gundam movie, personally; I feel the money would better spent bringing the far less gaudy Front Mission to the screen instead.
Truth be told, I think Front Mission would work best in long form, as a TV series or anime; but even so, there’s many elements of the timeline that I feel would be worth telling in standalone films, particularly the Huffman Conflicts that served to shape the Front Mission universe as a whole.
#2. Sunset Riders
Weird, somebody shopped the guns out of their hands. Damn censors...
I’ve actually wanted to see a Sunset Riders movie since I was a little kid.
Just like in the case of Saturday Night Slam Masters, I’m pretty sure it’s the colorful cast of characters in Sunset Riders that have always been the selling point for me.
In every story I’ve ever written, or dreamed up, or wanted to write; the characters are always the one element that I put most of my efforts into.
In my eyes, if you take a fairly pedestrian storyline and stuff it with quality action sequences and cool characters; chances are you’re going to end up with a really awesome movie.
It’s a simple formula, and I think it’d work just fine for Sunset Riders.
4 trigger happy, bounty hunter cowboys embark on a suicide mission to free the West from the evil of a gang of ruthless killers.
Sure, it sounds like every Western ever told; but with the awesome boss designs of the game, as well as the lack of assurance that everyone was going to make it to the end to ride into the sunset; and you have a classic Western with the added bonus of an action quotient like no other.
I’d picture it being kind of like a combination of the more colorful elements Tombstone, and the fatalistic “men on a mission” feel of The Wild Bunch.
Anything that can be compared to Tombstone or The Wild Bunch, let alone both; is guaran-damn-teed to kick-fuckin’-ass.
If ever I become a Hollywood film director, I will fight tooth and nail to get the licensing from Konami to make this movie.
#1. River City Ransom
You know how I said I wanted a Sunset Riders movie since I was a kid?
Well, even though I honesty didn’t start working on it until about 5 years ago; River City Ransom was a game that I actually tried to write up a plot outline for.
Technically, I used the original Japanese version of the game, Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari; as my jumping off point, but the only real difference between the 2 is the fact that one takes place in America, and the other takes place in a Japanese high school setting.
Anyway, the basic plot of River City was that a simple kidnapping of Ryan/Riki’s girlfriend, resulting in him and his rival; Alex/Kunio reluctantly joining forces to save her from a mutual enemy.
To me, the shaky alliance between the 2 is the real reason it would work.
I think if you were to establish them as hot-blooded rivals early on, a lot of drama would naturally spring up as a result of them working together as the story progressed.
I even remember putting a note in my plot outline explaining the bandages on Riki’s torso, and the band-aid on Kunio’s brow as actual bandages (as opposed to character decorations) for wounds they inflicted on one another near the beginning of the movie.
Combine the strained relationship between the 2 protagonists, with the awesome characters of the Kunio-kun series of games, including the Double Dragons; and I think you’d have a really fun high school gangster story with, of course; awesome fight scenes.
I put a lot of time into my idea for a River City Ransom movie, and I’d like very much to post it here someday; but for now, I’ll just say this:
River City Ransom needs to be a movie someday.
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Home News Xiaomi Launches Smart Weighing Scale in India Priced at ₹1,999
Xiaomi Launches Smart Weighing Scale in India Priced at ₹1,999
Xiaomi disrupted the Indian smartphone market a few years ago with its cost-effective smartphone and has achieved some stunning sales figures by means of its flash sale model. After recently introducing its series of ultra-thin LED smart TVs, Xiaomi has now launched a smart Bluetooth-enabled weighing scale in India.
The Mi Body Composition Scale is not your normal weighing scale as it is powered by smart algorithms that let users measure their BMI, body fat percentage, muscles mass etc. Xiaomi claims that the smart scale uses Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA) to give accurate details, basically by calculating them using your body’s weight. It is capable of measuring weights between 5 kg and 150 kg and also offers a body score to motivate users to improve their health.
Made with ABS material and topped with tempered glass which prevents breakage, the Mi Body Composition Scale comes with an LED display which turns on the moment you step on it. Simultaneously, a polished anti-slip surface prevents slipping even when you stand on it with wet feet. Xiaomi has also included a light sensor to optimize the intensity of the display based on ambient conditions.
The smart scale gets Bluetooth 4.0 using which it can pair with the Mi Fit app which can give you insights about your body’s while also letting you set fitness goals. The Mi Fit app integrates the data from the smart scale with data from other devices such as a Xiaomi fitness band to give you more accurate results. The smart scale can be used by as many as 16 different users and can automatically detect when a child is standing on top of it.
Weighing only 1.6 kg, the Mi Body Composition Scale has a 30x30cm2 measurement area. For power, the smart scale uses four AAA batteries which will last up to 8 months, claims Xiaomi.
The Mi Body Composition Scale is priced at ₹1,999 and is an attractive deal for anyone who wants to set and achieve realistic fitness goals. You can buy the smart scale from Mi.com starting today i.e. March 15.
Smart Weighing Scale
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Tapping into what matters: Relational Values and Policy mixes for sustainability
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CACOR cordially invites you to a Presentation and Round Table Debate
About the session
This is a presentation given by Professor Kai Chan and a workshop session run by the Values Committee.
Kai Chan is a professor at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia. Kai is an interdisciplinary, problem-oriented sustainability scientist, trained in ecology, policy, and ethics from Princeton and Stanford Universities. He strives to understand how social-ecological systems can be transformed to be both better and wilder. Kai leads CHANS lab (Connecting Human and Natural Systems), and is co-founder of CoSphere (a Community of Small-Planet Heroes). He is a UBC Killam Research Fellow; a Leopold Leadership Program fellow; a director on the board of the North American section of the Society for Conservation Biology; senior fellow of the Global Young Academy and of the Environmental Leadership Program; a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists; Lead Editor of the new British Ecological Society journal People and Nature; a coordinating lead author for the IPBES Global Assessment; and (in 2012) the Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Kai on Google Scholar, ResearchGate.
Policymaking involving the environment is dominated by one kind of thinking, particularly about values—economics. (Intrinsic values are often recognized, but lack the rigorous framework of economics.) Insights from many other relevant social fields are myriad but generally inaccessible, too late coming, or in formats not conducive to incorporating into decision-making. As a result, many good environmental policies—desperately needed to meet the challenge of sustainability—abort early, have perverse effects, or lapse due to recoil and resistance from stakeholders. The concept of relational values—as preferences, principles and virtues about human relationships involving the environment—is quickly gaining traction as a crucial and previously overlooked way of understanding what matters to people and why, and what could serve as foundations for new social norms. By incorporating relational values in decision-making of all kinds as I describe, we can incorporate a wide range of important insights from diverse social sciences and humanities, making environmental policies and programs implementable and effective, avoiding many unintended negative effects and harmonizing smart policy mixes to enable a transformation in social norms towards sustainability.
Round Table Conversation: The presentation will be followed by a guided dialogue on the exploration of values on individual and collective level – what weak signals would indicate if certain value was crossing the line – either in becoming excessive or deficient.
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Focus on Computer Resources
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Cell, Tumor, and Stem Cell Biology
mTOR Inhibition Induces Upstream Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Signaling and Activates Akt
Kathryn E. O'Reilly, Fredi Rojo, Qing-Bai She, David Solit, Gordon B. Mills, Debra Smith, Heidi Lane, Francesco Hofmann, Daniel J. Hicklin, Dale L. Ludwig, Jose Baselga and Neal Rosen
Kathryn E. O'Reilly
Fredi Rojo
Qing-Bai She
David Solit
Gordon B. Mills
Debra Smith
Heidi Lane
Francesco Hofmann
Daniel J. Hicklin
Dale L. Ludwig
Jose Baselga
Neal Rosen
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-05-2925 Published February 2006
Stimulation of the insulin and insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) receptor activates the phosphoinositide-3-kinase/Akt/mTOR pathway causing pleiotropic cellular effects including an mTOR-dependent loss in insulin receptor substrate-1 expression leading to feedback down-regulation of signaling through the pathway. In model systems, tumors exhibiting mutational activation of phosphoinositide-3-kinase/Akt kinase, a common event in cancers, are hypersensitive to mTOR inhibitors, including rapamycin. Despite the activity in model systems, in patients, mTOR inhibitors exhibit more modest antitumor activity. We now show that mTOR inhibition induces insulin receptor substrate-1 expression and abrogates feedback inhibition of the pathway, resulting in Akt activation both in cancer cell lines and in patient tumors treated with the rapamycin derivative, RAD001. IGF-I receptor inhibition prevents rapamycin-induced Akt activation and sensitizes tumor cells to inhibition of mTOR. In contrast, IGF-I reverses the antiproliferative effects of rapamycin in serum-free medium. The data suggest that feedback down-regulation of receptor tyrosine kinase signaling is a frequent event in tumor cells with constitutive mTOR activation. Reversal of this feedback loop by rapamycin may attenuate its therapeutic effects, whereas combination therapy that ablates mTOR function and prevents Akt activation may have improved antitumor activity. (Cancer Res 2006; 66(3): 1500-8)
Akt activation
IGF-IR
rapamycin
NVP-AEW541
Activation of phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt/mTOR signaling through mutation of pathway components as well as through activation of upstream signaling molecules occurs in a majority of cancers contributing to deregulation of proliferation, resistance to apoptosis, and changes in metabolism characteristic of transformed cells ( 1, 2). This pathway is normally regulated by upstream receptor tyrosine kinases, especially the insulin and insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) receptors (IGF-IR; ref. 3). Physiologic activation of these receptors also results in feedback down-regulation of the pathway, mediated in part by mTOR/S6K-dependent loss of insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1) expression ( 4– 8). IRS-1 is the major substrate of the IGF-I and insulin receptors, responsible for the propagation of the signal induced by ligand binding ( 2, 9). We speculated that constitutive activation of the Akt/mTOR pathway in cancer cells would induce upstream feedback inhibition of signaling via IGF-I/insulin and perhaps other transmembrane receptors. Feedback inhibition could have marked biological and therapeutic implications. First, feedback inhibition of upstream signaling pathways could cause hypersensitivity to mTOR inhibitors and inhibition of other elements of the activated signaling pathway (so-called “oncogene addiction”; refs. 10, 11). Second, inhibition of mTOR could cause the release of feedback inhibition, paradoxically activating IGF-I signaling and reducing the antitumor effects of mTOR inhibitors. We show herein that inhibition of mTOR in cancer cell lines and in patient tumors causes activation of Akt kinase which is associated with induction of IRS-1 and is prevented by IGF-IR inhibition. Furthermore, we show that IGF-I antagonizes the antiproliferative effects of rapamycin in serum-free medium and IGF-IR inhibitors sensitize cancer cell lines to rapamycin's antiproliferative effects.
Cell lines, antibodies, and reagents. DU-145, MCF-7, and MDA-MB-468 were purchased from the American Type Culture Collection (Manassas, VA). Anti-IRS-1, anti-IRS-2, and anti-FKHRL1 antibodies were from Upstate Biotechnology (Waltham, MA). pAkt(S473), p-p70/S6K (T389), p70/S6K, p-GSK3α/β, GSK3α, GSK3β, Akt, Akt1, Akt 2, Akt 3, p-FKHR(S256)/p-AFX(S193), FKHR, AFX, and p-FKHR(T24)/p-FKHRL1(T32) antibodies were from Cell Signaling Technology (Beverly, MA). Rapamycin and LY294002 were from Calbiochem (San Diego, CA). NVP-AEW541 was a gift from Novartis Pharma AG (Basel, Switzerland) and A12 was a gift from ImClone Systems, Incorporated (New York, NY).
Western blotting. MDA-MB-468, DU-145, and MCF-7 cells were harvested and lysed in mRIPA or NP40 lysis buffer. Protein concentrations were determined with the bicinchoninic acid method (Pierce, Rockford, IL). Samples were subjected to SDS-PAGE. Proteins were detected using the enhanced chemiluminescence kit (Amersham Biosciences, Piscataway, NJ) and bands quantitated with Science Lab 2003 Image Gauge (Fujifilm, Tokyo, Japan).
In vitro Akt kinase assay. Cells were treated with either 1 nmol/L rapamycin for 1 or 4 hours, DMSO vehicle (time 0), 10 μmol/L LY294002 pretreatment for 1 hour followed by 1 or 4 hours of 1 nmol/L rapamycin exposure, 800 nmol/L NVP-AEW541 pretreatment for 1 hour followed by 1 or 4 hours of 1 nmol/L rapamycin, or 10 nmol/L A12 pretreatment for 1 hour followed by 4 hours of 1 nmol/L rapamycin. Cells were harvested and the Akt kinase assay from Cell Signaling Technology was used. Akt1 was immunoprecipitated from lysates and used in an in vitro kinase assay to catalyze phosphorylation of a GSK-3 fusion protein (1 μg) in the presence of 200 μmol/L ATP. The reaction product was subjected to SDS-PAGE and probed with p-GSK3α/β antibody (S21/9).
Human solid tumor biopsy and immunohistochemistry. Tumor biopsies from patients treated with RAD001 were analyzed. Patients were treated with RAD001 administered p.o. daily (10 mg, four patients) or weekly (50 mg, four patients). Sequential tumor biopsies at baseline time point—prior to start treatment—and 28 days after therapy were done in all patients. All tissue specimens were fixed in 10% buffered neutral formalin for 24 hours at room temperature, then dehydrated and paraffin embedded. Immunostaining was done on 4 μm tissue sections placed on charged plus glass slides. After deparaffinization in xylene and graded alcohols, heat antigen retrieval was done in citrate buffer (pH 6) for 5 minutes in an autoclave. Following epitope retrieval, endogenous peroxidase was blocked by immersing the sections in 0.03% hydrogen peroxide for 10 minutes. Slides were washed for 5 minutes with TBS. Incubation with polyclonal anti-S473 pAkt antibody was made at room temperature for 2 hours at 1:50 dilution on 0.05 mol/L Tris-HCl buffer [DakoCytomation (Carpinteria, CA) Antibody Diluent]. The peroxidase-labeled polymer conjugated to goat anti-rabbit method was used to detect antigen-antibody reaction (DakoCytomation EnVision+ System) for 30 minutes at room temperature. Sections were then visualized with 3,3′-diaminobenzidine as a chromogen for 5 minutes and counterstained with Mayer's hematoxylin. All immunohistochemical stainings were done in a Dako Autostainer under the same conditions. The same sections incubated with rabbit nonimmunized serum were used as negative controls; for the positive control, sections of a breast carcinoma human tumor with a known expression of pAkt by immunohistochemistry and Western blot were stained. Tumor sections were studied on a light microscope with an ocular magnification of ×400. To score a tumor cell as positive for pAkt, nuclear and cytoplasmic staining was required. The percentage of stained tumor cells was scored in a whole section and the average percentage and intensity of tumor cell staining was calculated as a histoscore as described previously ( 12). Tumors with >1% of tumor cells staining were considered positive for such markers. Grading of scoring ranged from a score of 0 to 300. Scoring was blinded to time point data. Statistical analysis for Wilcoxon signed ranks test was done between pretherapy and posttherapy levels of pAkt (SPSS analysis software 10.0).
Cell proliferation studies. 100,000 DU-145 or MCF-7 cells, and 50,000 MDA-MB-468 cells were plated in normal growth medium. The cells were grown overnight before treatment with DMSO, 1 nmol/L rapamycin, 1 μmol/L NVP-AEW541, or combined 1 nmol/L rapamycin and 1 μmol/L NVP-AEW541. Cells were trypsinized and counted on a Coulter counter.
Cell cycle analysis. Cells (1 × 106) were plated in 10 cm dishes in normal growth medium and grown overnight before treatment with DMSO, 1 nmol/L rapamycin, or a combination of rapamycin (1 nmol/L) and NVP-AEW541 (1 μmol/L). The nuclei were isolated by the Nusse method ( 13) and subjected to flow cytometry to determine fraction of cells in sub-G1, G1, S, and G2.
Inhibition of mTOR induces Akt activity in tumor cells. We tested whether inhibition of mTOR caused activation of PI3K/Akt signaling by relieving feedback inhibition of upstream signaling. Prolonged exposure of breast cancer cell lines MCF-7 (PI3K mutant; ref. 14), and MDA-MB-468 (PTEN mutant), or the prostate cancer cell line DU-145 (PTEN wild-type) to the mTOR inhibitor rapamycin caused a marked increase in S473 phosphorylation and Akt kinase activity ( Fig. 1A and B ). These results are consistent with the recent report by Sun et al. who observed that rapamycin induced pAkt(S473) in several human cancer cell lines including DU-145 and MCF-7 ( 15). We also observed the induction of pAkt by rapamycin in the breast cancer cell lines, SkBR3 and BT474, cells in which PI3K/Akt is driven by overexpression of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2, and in the rhabdomyosarcoma line Rh30 ( Fig. 1C). In DU-145 and MCF-7, induction of S473 phosphorylation occurred within 20 minutes of rapamycin treatment and followed inhibition of mTOR-dependent S6K phosphorylation ( Fig. 1A and B). In both cell lines, pAkt was increased 4-fold to 5-fold by 24 hours of rapamycin exposure and remained elevated for at least 48 hours after the addition of the drug. As measured by an in vitro kinase assay, Akt activity in DU-145 increased in parallel with the induction of phosphorylation and was elevated 3-fold compared with controls 4 hours after the addition of the drug ( Fig. 1D).
mTOR inhibition activates Akt in tumor cells. A, 1 nmol/L rapamycin treatment induced S473 Akt and S21/9 GSK3α/β phosphorylation in vitro in a DU-145 prostate cancer cell line. Akt1, Akt2, and Akt3, total Akt, and total GSK3α/β did not change. Phosphorylation of p70/S6K decreased with rapamycin treatment whereas total p70/S6K levels did not change. B, 1 nmol/L rapamycin treatment induced S473 Akt and S21/9 GSK3α/β phosphorylation in vitro in a MCF-7 cancer cell line. Akt1, Akt2, and Akt3, total Akt, and total GSK3α/β did not change. Phosphorylation of p70/S6K decreased with rapamycin treatment whereas total p70/S6K levels did not change. C, 1 nmol/L rapamycin treatment for 24 hours induced S473 Akt in the breast cancer cell lines BT474, SkBr3, and the rhabdomyosarcoma cell line Rh30. Total Akt levels did not change. D, mTOR inhibition with 1 nmol/L rapamycin induced Akt Kinase activity in an IGF-IR-dependent manner. An Akt kinase assay in DU-145 cells confirmed that the increased pAkt (S473) resulted in increased Akt activity, which was abrogated by the inhibition of PI3K with the small-molecule LY294002 (10 μmol/L) and by inhibition of IGF-IR with either the small-molecule NVP-AEW541 (800 nmol/L) or the monoclonal antibody A12 (10 nmol/L). A Western blot of pAkt (S473) at the same time points in DU-145 showed the increased Akt phosphorylation which was abrogated by IGF-IR or PI3K inhibition. Although there is no detectable increase in pan-phospho-Akt as measured by Western blot, an Akt kinase assay in MDA-MB-468 cells reveals an induction of Akt activity and p-Akt1 (S473) that is abrogated by LY294002 as well as the IGF-IR inhibitors. E, treatment of MCF-7 cells with rapamycin (1 nmol/L) induced phosphorylation of the FoxO transcription factors, FKHR (S256 and T24), AFX (S193), and FKHRL1 (T32). The rapamycin-induced FoxO phosphorylation was abrogated by IGF-IR inhibition with 800 nmol/L NVP-AEW541. Total FKHR, AFX, and FKHRL1 levels did not change with rapamycin or NVP-AEW-541 treatment.
DU-145 and MCF-7 contain wild-type PTEN and have modest basal levels of p-Akt. In MDA-MB-468, PTEN is mutationally inactivated and p-Akt levels are constitutively elevated. In this cell line, it is difficult to discern a further increase in the S473 phosphorylation of total Akt after rapamycin exposure. However, a 3-fold increase in Akt kinase activity was noted at 1 hour and was accompanied by a 6-fold increase in the phosphorylation of Akt1 ( Fig. 1D). Thus, in both PTEN-wt and PTEN-mutated tumor cell lines, inhibition of mTOR function by rapamycin could lead to activation of Akt kinase.
Rapamycin-induced activation of Akt kinase was also associated with increased phosphorylation of endogenous Akt substrates. In MCF-7 cells treated with rapamycin, the phosphorylation of FoxO1a, FoxO3a, and FoxO4 transcription factors ( Fig. 1E) and GSK3α/β was markedly increased as compared with control cells ( Fig. 1A and B). The increase in GSK3α/β phosphorylation occurred in both DU-145 and MCF-7 cells and began after 40 minutes of rapamycin exposure, remaining elevated for at least 24 hours after initiation of rapamycin treatment. Phosphorylation of FoxO transcription factors was elevated after 1 hour of rapamycin exposure in MCF-7 cells and remained elevated for at least 24 hours. Total FKHR, AFX, and FKHRL1 levels did not change with treatment ( Fig. 1E). Thus, rapamycin-induced Akt phosphorylation and kinase activity leads to functional activation of Akt signaling in tumor cells.
Inhibition of mTOR induces S473 Akt phosphorylation in vivo in human tumors. In model systems, tumors with activated Akt secondary to PTEN loss or other causes have been shown to be hypersensitive to rapamycin ( 16, 17). This data has led to clinical trials of rapamycin derivatives ( 2, 18). As indicated above, we have shown that mTOR inhibition can activate Akt signaling in tumor cells in tissue culture. To determine if this occurs in patient tumors in vivo as well, we obtained tumor tissue from patients with advanced solid tumors who were being treated on a phase I protocol of the rapamycin derivative RAD001 (Everolimus, Novartis Pharma). The levels of S473 phosphorylated Akt in the tumor biopsies increased after RAD001 treatment (P = 0.018, Wilcoxon signed rank test; Fig. 2A-C ). Biopsies of liver metastases or skin lesions were taken from patients with colon or breast carcinoma before and after 4 weeks of RAD001 treatment. The levels of pAkt, as determined by immunohistochemistry and quantitated as a histoscore ranging from 0 to 300, were elevated in biopsies from patients receiving daily RAD001 (n = 4), as well as in biopsies from patients on a weekly dosing schedule (n = 4). Given that Akt activation results in cancer cell survival, proliferation, and growth, the induction of phosphorylated Akt is an unexpected and potentially undesirable consequence of mTOR inhibition.
mTOR inhibition activates Akt in humans. A, liver metastasis of a colorectal carcinoma from a patient treated with a daily administration of RAD001 for 4 weeks. pAkt was expressed in nuclei and cytoplasm of tumor cells (1) and levels of expression increased after therapy (2). Skin infiltration by ductal carcinoma in a patient treated with a weekly administration of RAD001 for 4 weeks. A similar increment of pAkt was observed before (3) and after therapy (4); (3,3′-diaminobenzidine, pAkt ×400). B, evaluation of levels of pAkt in paired tumor samples from patients treated with daily and weekly administration of RAD001 by immunohistochemistry. A significant increment (P = 0.018) of this protein was observed in eight patients. C, tumor and biopsy characteristics. The characteristics of each tumor biopsy and the dose schedule of the eight patients in the RAD001 clinical trial are described.
Induction of Akt kinase activity is IGF-IR dependent and is associated with up-regulation of IRS-1 protein levels. In normal cells, IGF-I and insulin induction of PI3K/Akt/mTOR signaling leads to an mTOR-dependent feedback inhibition of signaling, due in part to mTOR/S6K-dependent loss of IRS-1 expression ( 4– 8). Rapamycin reactivates signaling, reverses insulin resistance, and induces IRS-1 expression in these cells ( 4). We asked whether induction of Akt signaling by rapamycin in tumor cells is due to loss of negative regulation of IGF-I signaling and whether this induction is IGF-IR-dependent. To determine whether the induction of Akt activity and signaling by rapamycin is dependent on IGF-IR, we employed a small-molecule IGF-IR kinase inhibitor (NVP-AEW541, Novartis Pharma; ref. 19), and a human monoclonal antibody to the IGF-IR (A12, ImClone Systems; ref. 20). NVP-AEW541 shows selectivity for IGF-IR (IC50, 0.086 μmol/L) as compared with the closely related insulin receptor (IC50, 2.3 μmol/L). A12, a human monoclonal antibody to IGF-IR, blocks IGF-I binding to the receptor with an IC50 of 0.6 to 1 nmol/L and does not interfere with insulin binding. One hour of pretreatment with either of the inhibitors abrogated rapamycin-induced pAkt induction ( Fig. 3A and B ). The induction of Akt kinase activity was also abrogated by IGF-IR blockade and PI3K inhibition with LY294002 ( Fig. 1D). In addition, FoxO substrate phosphorylation was prevented by pretreatment with NVP-AEW541 in MCF-7 cells ( Fig. 1E).These data suggest that rapamycin-induced Akt activation is due to release of mTOR-dependent negative regulation of IGF-I signaling. Consistent with these data, we found that rapamycin increased IRS-1 protein levels, but not IRS-2 in DU-145, MCF-7, and MDA-MB-468 cells ( Fig. 3C). We also found that, in serum-free medium, IGF-I stimulated Akt activation in MCF-7 cells and that cotreatment with rapamycin enhanced this activation >2-fold ( Fig. 4A ). This further supports the idea that mTOR negatively regulates IGF-I signaling in these cells.
IGF-I signaling mediates AKT activation induced by mTOR inhibition. A and B, the induction of pAkt (S473) by rapamycin was abrogated by the small-molecule inhibitor of IGF-IR, NVP-AEW541, and by the monoclonal antibody against IGF-IR, A12, in both the DU-145 prostate cancer cell line (A) and the MCF-7 breast cancer cell line (B). Total Akt levels did not change. C, 1 nmol/L rapamycin treatment up-regulates IRS-1 levels in MCF-7, DU-145, and MDA-MB-468 cell lines by 1 hour, and this induction persists for 24 hours. IRS-2 levels remain unchanged.
IGF-I prevents and IGF-IR inhibitors enhance the antiproliferative effects of rapamycin. A, IGF-I (60 ng/mL) rescued MCF-7 cells from rapamycin's antiproliferative effects in serum-free medium and the induction of pAKT was greater in cells cotreated with rapamycin and IGF-I than in cells treated with either single agent. B, the combination of mTOR inhibition with IGF-IR inhibition resulted in enhanced antitumor effects. In vitro, combined mTOR and IGF-IR inhibition with rapamycin (1 nmol/L) and NVP-AEW541 (1 μmol/L) resulted in additive inhibition of proliferation in DU-145 cells, MCF-7 cells, and MDA-MB-468 cells as compared with either single agent. C, in the breast cancer cell line, MCF-7, and the prostate cancer cell line, DU-145, 2 days of combined mTOR and IGF-IR inhibition with rapamycin (1 nmol/L) and NVP-AEW541 (1 μmol/L) resulted in enhanced G1 arrest. In the breast cancer cell line, MDA-MB-468, 2 days of combination treatment resulted in enhanced apoptosis compared with single agent treatment groups.
IGF-I prevents and IGF-IR inhibitors enhance the antiproliferative effects of rapamycin. Rapamycin analogues have shown limited antitumor activity in clinical trials ( 21). IGF-I has been shown to rescue rhabdomyosarcoma cells from rapamycin-induced apoptosis, suggesting that IGF-I may antagonize the effects of mTOR inhibition ( 22). If so, our data implies that induction of IGF-I-dependent Akt activation by rapamycin could be responsible for attenuating its anticancer effects. We tested whether IGF-I could interfere with rapamycin-induced inhibition of tumor cell proliferation. MCF-7 cells were serum-starved for 16 hours and treated with rapamycin in the presence or absence of IGF-I ( Fig. 4A). Rapamycin treatment dramatically reduced the cell proliferation rate, but cells treated with both rapamycin and IGF-I were not inhibited and proliferated at a rate similar to the cells treated with IGF-I alone. When added to rapamycin-treated cells in serum-free medium, IGF-I acted to completely abrogate the antiproliferative effects of rapamycin. In addition, the induction of pAkt(S473) was >2-fold higher in cells treated with both rapamycin and IGF-I as compared with cells treated with either agent alone.
As IGF-I rescued cells from the antiproliferative effects of rapamycin, we tested whether IGF-IR inhibition enhanced the antiproliferative effect of rapamycin in cells growing in serum. Cells were treated with rapamycin, with or without NVP-AEW541, for 3 days. Simultaneous administration of NVP-AEW541 and rapamycin to DU-145, MCF-7, and MDA-MB-468 ( Fig. 4B) cancer cells resulted in additive antiproliferative effects as compared with either agent alone. Cell cycle analysis revealed additive effects on G1 arrest in the MCF-7 and DU-145 cell lines after 2 days of treatment with the combination of IGF-IR and mTOR inhibitors as compared with cells treated with either single agent or vehicle ( Fig. 4C). On comparison with control and single agent–treated cells, an enhanced sub-G1 population was observed in MDA-MB-468 cells after 2 days of treatment with combined mTOR and IGF-IR inhibitors ( Fig. 4C).
Dysregulation of mTOR function via physiologic or mutational activation of upstream pathways is a common event in tumors from many lineages ( 2, 11). We speculated that tumor cells with activated mTOR display a phenotype functionally equivalent to insulin-resistant diabetes with an exaggerated down-regulation of upstream signaling molecules like IRS-1 ( 4– 8). We report here that, in a variety of tumor cell lines, the mTOR inhibitory drug rapamycin up-regulates IRS-1 protein levels and induces Akt phosphorylation, protein kinase activity, and downstream signaling. In parallel clinical studies with the rapamycin derivative RAD001 (Novartis Pharma), the intensity of immunohistochemical staining of tumor biopsies for p-Akt was significantly elevated after 4 weeks of drug treatment. These data suggest that the induction of Akt activity observed in tumor cells in tissue culture is biologically relevant and may be important clinically.
Rapamycin and rapamycin-like molecules inhibit mTOR efficiently in patients, are useful as immunosuppressants, and suppress S6 kinase activity in normal and tumor cells in vitro and in vivo ( 18). Pharmacologic inhibition of mTOR has been shown to potently inhibit tumor cells with activation of PI3K/Akt signaling due either to PTEN loss, expression of Akt, or growth factor activation ( 16). In this regard, rapamycin derivatives are effective in in vivo models, as recently shown in myr-Akt-driven transgenic models of prostatic neoplasia ( 17). The Akt activation induced by rapamycin in tumor cells, however, is likely to reduce its antitumor effects, by activating pathways that attenuate its effects on proliferation and apoptosis. In tumors in which Akt activation is induced, rapamycin will not effectively inhibit PI3K/Akt kinase signaling except insofar as it is mediated through mTOR. We show here that IGF-I overcomes the rapamycin-induced inhibition of MCF-7 proliferation in serum-free medium. This result is consistent with those of Houghton and coworkers, who showed that induction of apoptosis by rapamycin via ASK-1 activation occurs in serum-free but not serum-containing medium ( 22). We find that inhibition of induction of Akt activation with agents that block IGF-I signaling enhances cell cycle arrest and apoptosis induction by rapamycin.
Despite the results from model systems, the clinical antitumor activity of mTOR inhibitor analogues has been modest at best. Our demonstration that rapamycin can induce Akt phosphorylation in tumors implies that its potential antitumor activity is attenuated by release of feedback inhibition of growth signaling pathways. The results also suggest a new model for the development of effective combinatorial anticancer therapy. Combined inhibition of constitutively activated oncoproteins and of normal pathways that are down-regulated by oncoprotein-inhibition (and thus up-regulated by oncoprotein-targeted drugs) may be much more effective than either alone. For the specific case discussed in this article, the work provides a rationale for tailored combination therapy with an mTOR inhibitor and an inhibitor of the growth factor receptor, such as IGF-IR, that normally drives PI3K activity in that tumor. Considering our results in which LY294002 abrogates rapamycin-induced Akt kinase activity, and the report by Sun et al. detailing the combined efficacy of LY294002 and rapamycin in non–small cell lung cancer cell lines, mTOR inhibitors and PI3K inhibitors might also be a promising combination therapy ( 15).
We have shown that rapamycin induces Akt activity and that abrogating this induction could enhance the antitumor effects of rapamycin in vitro, but the mechanism of rapamycin-induced Akt activity remains unclear. Our finding that rapamycin treatment induces IRS-1 expression suggests that rapamycin's inhibition of p70/S6K results in increased IGF-IR/IRS-1/PI3K signaling to Akt. Previous reports have shown that p70/S6K mediates phosphorylation of IRS-1 inhibitory serine sites (S312 and/or S636/639) which lead to IRS-1 degradation ( 8, 23, 24). Thus, suppression of p70 activity by rapamycin may prevent inhibitory IRS-1 phosphorylation, thereby stabilizing IRS-1. An increase in IRS-1 adapter protein levels may induce Akt activity by augmenting IGF-IR signaling to PI3K/Akt. The inhibition of pAkt induction with LY294002 implies that the phenomenon is PI3K-dependent and supports this mechanism. However, LY294002 inhibits several PI3K-like kinases, including mTOR, and has been reported to inhibit the activity of rictor-mTOR, recently described as the Akt S473 kinase/PDK2 ( 25– 27). It is possible that rapamycin, by some unknown mechanism, induces rictor-mTOR activity, resulting in increased S473 Akt levels. These possibilities are currently under investigation.
Grant support: NIH grant PO1-CA094060 and the generous support of the Taub Foundation. K.E. O'Reilly was supported by the Medical Scientist Training Program Grant from the NIH.
Received August 17, 2005.
Revision received November 22, 2005.
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In over the transom this weekend from Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders is a discussion of anxiety as it relates to treatment of autistic patients. It’s limited, if only because it revolves around talking only to eight people, and all eight of them only practitioners, and I think I only have a few quick things to note.
First, it strikes me as peculiar but perhaps not unsurprising that seven of the eight practitioners involved “indicated that psychological therapy was often very difficult for their clients on the autistic spectrum, due to challenges in identifying and understanding emotions” apparently without considering the possibility that since not just the methods but the formats themselves of psychotherapy are designed for and around neurotypical brains, a therapy sessions might itself be stymying the autistic brain’s monotropism.
Speaking for myself, even in relatively stress-free situations I’m limited in the degree to which I can multitask in socially-performative situations. In the high-stress socially-performative circumstance of a session of psychotherapy? You mostly can forget about it altogether.
Where’s the discussion, then, of the idea that psychotherapeutic formats themselves might be causing cognitive stress—or distress—in autistic patients, and how that might explain the “challenges in identifying and understanding emotions” these practitioners are identifying as a result of these sessions?
Second, and just as peculiar-but-unsurprising, is that in the paper’s section discussing the study’s limitations, nowhere do the authors suggest that talking only to practitioners and not to any actually-autistic people might be such a limitation.
Third, and all of that said, there’s at least an indication from these eight practitioners that absent much real empircal guidance on anxiety in autistic people, some practitioners are taking that as motivation to try to adapt existing therapeutic approaches to an autistic specific and to “think outside the box”.
Unfortunately, I continue to search in vain for such a practitioner covered by my insurance, and so am left only with a forthcoming phone appointment with my primary care physician to discuss medication to help address the anxiety spikes of the last few months.
Autism Mental Health Psychology Research Therapy
2:05 PM, Dec 21
Whoever would have guessed? The sensory processing differences of actually-autistic people predict “executive and cognitive dysfunctions”. Accommodate or mitigate our sensory sensitivities and, lo and behold, our brains function better.
Autism Health Psychology Research
“[O]ne potential outcome of [potentially traumatic events],” according to a study in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, “is the development of trauma and stressor-related symptoms such as avoidance of stimuli associated with the event, severe anxiety reactions triggered by stimuli related to the event, or nightmares.”
Since autistic people tend toward being more sensitive to (interior and exterior) environmental and sensory stimuli (in part possibly because their brains hold onto stimuli longer)—meaning that even “regular” events are potentially traumatic—I often wonder where’s the research on ways in which aspects of being autistic in and of themselves effectively are a kind of trauma. Wonder of wonders, this paper gets into this.
Kerns et al. (2015) also suggest that individuals with autism may be more susceptible to perceive non-threatening stimuli as threatening, due to misunderstanding of social cues and situations. Sensory sensitivities such as heightened sensitivity to noise and other stimuli (Wiggins et al. 2009) may also lead to stimuli that are perceived as non-threatening by most children to be seen as threatening by children with ASD.
I’ve a problem with the “non-threatening stimuli” language here, of course, because if the autistic brain in reality is experiencing harm than these are not “non-threatening stimuli”. They might not be threatening to a neurotypical brain, but that’s not the same thing as being “non-threatening” in some objective sense.
Still, it’s nice that papers like this aren’t just looking at past research into how events which would be seen as “threatening” even by neurotypicals are experienced by autistics but also citing research about how autism itself might mean an inherently more-easily-traumatized brain.
ETA: This is interesting: “Another explanation for the low levels of trauma exposure in the ASD and DD groups is that trauma exposure was under-reported by caregivers because they were unaware of the traumatic event.” Unfortunately, the paper then blames the autistic people (and we’re talking children and other young people here) for not communicating trauma, rather than any deficiency on the part of parents or caregivers in picking up on any trauma.
Rather than wondering how “language, social, and cognitive functioning may impact […] the child’s ability to understand and report traumatic experiences”, how about wondering if the children being studied have been subjected to treatments which teach them to supress any distress in order to “behave normally”, and how that might impact the reporting of trauma to parents, caregivers, or researchers?
Autism Disability Mental Health Psychology Research
11:13 AM, Dec 14
“[R]oad safety advocates have long complained that media outlets tend to blame pedestrians and cyclists who are hit by cars,” writes Richard Florida. “A paper published earlier this year in a journal of the National Academy of Sciences’ Transportation Research Board offers proof that they’re right.” Just one more reason why I hope it’s true, as suggested by Brooks Rainwater, that more car-free streets are coming to our cities.
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Max Masnick touts a great find: CiteAs, a tool to generate a properly-formatted citation “for diverse research products, from software and datasets to preprints and articles”. This will be much faster for adding things to How To Avoid Providing Mediocre Support than searching, clicking, cutting, and pasting via Google Scholar.
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A new approach to understanding social cognition in autistic and non-autistic people is gaining empirical support. Research is showing that difficulties in social interaction between autistic and non-autistic people are two way, evidencing a ‘double empathy problem’ (Milton 2012). For example, non-autistic people have difficulty interpreting the behaviour and intentions of autistic people (Sheppard et al. 2016), which can also lead non-autistic people to rate autistic people less favourably (Alkhaldi et al. 2019). Hence, future interventions could focus on helping non-autistic people to more effectively interact with autistic people. Reducing emphasis and pressure for autistic people and those with high autistic traits to camouflage their ‘true self’ could even help prevent risk of developing mental health problems, suicidal thoughts and suicidal behaviours (Mitchell et al. 2019), and create a more useful and accurate understanding of autism that values the unique social and communication style of autistic people (Jaswal and Aktar 2018).
From Is Camouflaging Autistic Traits Associated with Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours? by S. A. Cassidy, K. Gould, E. Townsend, M. Pelton, A. E. Robertson, J. Rodger
Autism Mental Health Research
6:36 AM, Dec 11
Compare and contrast the Thomas Frazier idea of understanding the atypical gaze of actually-autistic people—determined a priori by Frazier to be the source of the problem—purely in order to direct treatment to change it with the findings of a newly-published study which, according to one of its authors, “suggest that social interaction difficulties in autism are not an absolute or inherent characteristic of the individual” and that “social quality is a relational characteristic and dependent on the fit between the person & the social environment”.
“An increase in a person’s tendency to look at social information, for instance,” argues Thomas Frazier, “could indicate that a treatment is working.” In other words, the fact that actually-autistic people have an “atypical gaze” and “do not make the type of eye contact others generally expect” is seen by researchers and doctors as a flaw. It also equates the typical gaze with “social information” rather than considering the possibility that autistic people are attuned to or engaged in other sorts of “social information”, which would make the flaw a shared one in the social space between between typical and atypical brains. No, instead just assume that atypical means wrong, and structure the idea of treatment around changing them to be “normal” rather than changing “normal” to include them.
Autism Nonsense Research Science
1:35 PM, Dec 5
In news from the “research catching up to lived, autistic experience” department: yes, eye contact does, in fact, actually fuck us up.
An eyetracking analysis revealed that cross-modal coordination of speech production and facial expression was greater when the neurotypical child spent more time looking at the face, but weaker when the autistic child spent more time looking at the face. In sum, social communication difficulties in autism spectrum disorder may involve deficits in cross-modal coordination. This finding may inform how autistic individuals are perceived in their daily conversations.
The inevitable response from the treatment community will be to double-down on pushing us to just get used to making eye contact.
Autism Research Science
11:54 AM, Nov 29
Andy McIlwain quotes Greg Sterling saying that “most online research results in an offline purchase”. Not for me. In fact, once upon a time, I’d literally visit Powell’s in person to browse new releases and find things for my Kindle wishlist.
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5:23 PM, Nov 25
Despite the setup Forge uses, no one ever actually suspected that rich people were happier because of their purchases, but for precisely the reasons the cited study supposedly “reveals”. To wit: rich people aren’t stressed, you know, about survival. You know why rich people use their leisure time for “active activities (praying, socializing, maintaining close relationships, exercise, hobbies, and volunteering) as opposed to passive ones (watching TV, napping and resting, relaxing, and doing nothing)”? Say it with me: because they aren’t exhausted from the stress of just trying to survive.
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Autistic people we consulted thought that most of the existing items of the WHOQOL questionnaires were important. From the discussions, we found 13 themes that were identified as particularly relevant to QoL, including being positive about one’s autistic identity, other people’s (lack of) knowledge of autism, sensory issues, mental health difficulties, the nature of friendships, and supporting other people as carers or volunteers.
From What Is Important in Measuring Quality of Life? Reflections by Autistic Adults in Four Countries by Helen McConachie, et al.
12:09 PM, Nov 21
There’s a new study in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders of anxiety in autistic adults that indicates anxiety diagnoses in 20.1% of us as compared to just 8.7% of neurotypicals. The authors suggest possible explanations for this discrepancy drawn from both the social and medical models of disability.
Higher rates of anxiety disorders in people with ASD may occur for a number of reasons (Kerns and Kendall 2012). For example, people with ASD may be more likely to experience peer rejection and prevention or punishment of their desired behaviours (for example restricted, repetitive interests). Additionally, social difficulties such as repeated experiences of misinterpreting social situations or communication leading to misunderstandings may produce anxiety, particularly in social situations. In typically developing adolescents and those with ASD, social difficulties have been associated with increased anxiety (Bellini 2006) and in particular an individual’s perception of their social skills difficulties is predictive of social anxiety (Bellini 2004). The impact of social stressors may be increased by a biological vulnerability to anxiety. For example, limbic system dysfunction and behavioural inhibition are associated with both ASD and anxiety disorders. Lower arousal thresholds in the amygdala associated with behavioural inhibition may in turn result in people with ASD avoiding and being conditioned by negative experiences (Bellini 2006). Sensory over-responsivity has also been suggested as a possible cause of anxiety disorder in ASD (Mazurek et al. 2013), causing problematic fears to develop as a result of increased sensitivity to certain stimuli. In OCD, whilst obsessional thoughts are common in the general population, it has been suggested that the cognitive deficits associated with ASD may influence the manner in which these thoughts are appraised, resulting in more anxiety and the development of OCD (Russell et al. 2005).
(My own co-morbid diagnoses were social anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Should I ever find my way back to a mental health practitioner covered by insurance, I fully expect there’s at least one more co-morbid diagnosis lurking in there, somewhere.)
This argument that that both external conformity pressures and internal neurological pressures likely play roles in autistic anxiety squares with my own experience, and, I think, likely that of many other adult autistics.
Conformity pressures can be confronted fairly directly through our own individual and collective self-advocacy.
What potentially stymies addressing the neurological pressures, however, as the study’s authors point out, is the relative lack of clear and certain knowledge of how both psychotherapeutic and pharmacological methods devised for neurotypical brains impact autistics.
For all those reasons and more, this study definitely will get linked on my How To Avoid Providing Mediocre Support reference site for my medical, mental health, and social services practitioners.
Autism Disability Mental Health Research Self
Once upon a time, I disassembled a study by Lisa Sherman in which she claimed to find evidence for autism “recovery”. It did so primarily by deciding a priori not just that recovery from autism was possible at all but that any potential explanations for signals of such recovery which contradicted this recovery narrative would be excluded out of hand.
All this despite that the allegedly-recovered autistics nonetheless still in fact contended with “language and learning disabilities and a variety of emotional and behavioral problems”—just the sorts of indicators one might expect if they hadn’t recovered so much as learned to deeply camouflage their autism.
Not long after, I also detailed a takedown by Jonathan Shedler of the overused catchphrase “evidence-based therapy”. He mainly was discussing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, but his argument carried eerie echoes of the ways in which the actually-autistic community discussi Applied Behavior Analysis, itself typically described by its proponents not just as “evidence-based therapy” but as the only such therapy for autism.
Today’s followup comes via Ann Memmott who points the way to a study of early ABA treatment which found only “weak evidence” that early-intervention treatments for autism is effective—-suggesting that Shedler’s suggestion that “evidence-based therapy” might be little more than a marketing phrase seems to apply to early-intervention treatments for autism as well.
One thing that probably should be studied as researchers start to explore the actually-autistic adults out there is the impacts of ABA upon those who were subjected to it. Anecdotes are everywhere, but if it’s going to continue to be touted as “evidence-based therapy” for autism, longitudinal studies across autistic lifetimes seem to be called for.
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By Samantha Morris Music, News 16/03/2017
Shapeshifters and global drifters: New Zealand’s finest head to Parkwood
Shapeshifter have carved a name for themselves by creating a stadium-sized sound that simply cannot be pigeonholed. It’s electronica, but with layers of drum and bass, heavy soul, jazz and funk, pummeling guitar-driven jams and shapeshifting spice. The New Zealand five-piece – one of the most popular bands in that country – draw massive audiences at home and recently took out Best Group and Best Electronica Album at the NZ Music Awards. With three past releases going platinum plus sold-out shows across Europe aaaaaaand a new album under their belt, Shapeshifter are as much at home in a club as they are at a festival and they pride themselves by playing ‘off the grid’ using analogue and digital synths.
Twelve years of performing live and six albums recorded in a studio means Shapeshifter can totally own the title of being New Zealand’s premiere live electronic outfit. And this month, they’re bringing those transcendental electronic vibes to Parkwood Tavern. Nick Robinson had a chat to Blank Gold Coast editor Samantha Morris about the upcoming show and their sixth studio album Star.
After playing together for twelve years and with band members living in places as diverse as Kingscliff, Berlin, Melbourne and Queensland, you’d think Shapeshifter may have changed over the years. Not just musically, but as people but Nick Robinson says not so much,
“I think we are mostly the same,” he told Blank Gold Coast. “We still travel together and play music.”
If anything we probably as a band feel a bit more comfortable in our own skin. We all enjoy what we do immensely and luckily we’re still able to do so as a living.”
“Shapeshifter has quite a few home towns,” Nick said.
While absolutely owning that electronica space in New Zealand, maybe it’s that global travel and gyspsy-like idea of geography that has led Shapeshifter to connect with fans the world-over.
“We’ve always traveled a lot and we’ve based our selves in certain places and in the process gained ownership of a whole bunch of places,” says Nick.
The other obvious reason for Shapeshifter’s growing fanbase is, without a doubt, their ability to combine their love of electronica with a live rock show. Nick says a solid synth through a big PA is a wonderful thing. I’m sure most fans would agree.
“We basically just play like a rock band,” Nick said. “A bass, a lead and chords and drums. And vocals. So I guess we just drag the big ol’ synths up on stage and just jam and see what happens.”
And what happens is award-winning music. Shapeshifter have won two NZ Music Awards and three previous releases have gone platinum. I wonder if that means the pressure is on to continue to create popular music every time. Is there an expectation or some anxiety about how a song will “perform”?
“No,” Nick said.
“I think we always go into an album as a piece of art, and not being popular is a real possibility so we just get used to that fact and just do it for the love of doing it.”
“Writing songs together and the fun that comes with it is enough.”
To have people come to shows to listen to certain songs or hearing stories of people loving our sounds is just mind blowing.”
Gold Coast audiences will get a chance to see Shapeshifter in person when they play Parkwood Tavern in April. Australian audiences are some of the first in the world to hear the band’s new material – from latest album Stars – performed live.
“We love coming back,” he said, of the Gold Coast. “We recorded and wrote System Is A Vampire in Kingscliff just down the road and we love and respect the area.”
“We can’t wait to jam out some of the ol’ classics from back in the Kingy days, as well as a few off the new album as well,” Nick said.
“See ya there.”
Shapeshifter is PDigsss (vocals), Sam Trevethick (guitar/synths/sampler), Dan McGruer, Nick Robinson (bass/synths/MPC) and Darren Mathiassen (drums) and you can catch them at Parkwood Tavern on 5 April.
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Canada's Best Dressed 2018: See who made the list!
Canada is bursting at the borders with stylish fresh faces and fashion-forward industry veterans in every facet of stardom – from the silver screen and music to sports and daytime TV – so we’ve scoured the Great White North to bring you the 25 stars who help keep our country on the style map. Our listees come from the worlds of top tunes (hi, Shawn Mendes and Celine Dion!), high fashion (we see you, Grace Mahary and Victoria’s Secret first-timer Winnie Harlow!), the silver screen (think: Ryan Reynolds, Sandra Oh and Catherine O’Hara), sports (Tessa Virtue, anyone?) and more, but they all have one thing in common: a flawless sense of style that they truly make their own.
Click through to see who made the list (in no particular order!) and find some major fashion inspiration, plus sartorial secrets for being stylish and confident at any age…
RYAN REYNOLDS, Actor
Hometown: Vancouver, B.C.
Recent Projects: Deadpool 2
Keeping it simple: “I’m a real minimalist. I think [Blake Lively] looks at my closet and knows in her heart that I’d be so happy owning two T-shirts, two pairs of pants, some underwear and socks and that would be it,” he told People.
Putting the ‘art’ in sartorial: “I think fashion is a fully legitimate form of artistic expression, so it’s one of the few ways we as human beings get to express ourselves without a giant canvas sitting in front of us,” he told the publication.
Fashion fan: “I think he’s the style icon,” his wife Blake said at the People’s Choice Awards. “He’s my style icon.”
CELINE DION, Musician
Hometown: Charlemagne, Que.
Recent Projects:Toured Asia and the South Pacific all summer and now wrapping up her Caesars Palace residency with Celine Dion – The Final Shows
Fashion freedom: She told Vogue that she loves to play around with her style because it “gives [her] a bit of freedom when [her] life has been work, discipline; hard, hard work.”
Traveling wardrobe: “The clothes follow me; I do not follow the clothes,” she told the glossy, explaining that fashion houses from Armani Privé to Versace send teams to Las Vegas for fittings before her Caesars Palace shows.
Healing power of clothes: “I’ve always loved fashion, from as far back as I can remember,” she told People. “But as everyone knows, I’ve gone through some extremely difficult times in recent years, and I suppose that I’m spreading my wings a little bit more these days and doing so with the help of beautiful clothing and accessories.”
SANDRA OH, Actress
Hometown: Ottawa, Ont.
Recent Projects: Her performance in Killing Eve garnered the first-ever Emmy nomination for an Asian woman in the Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series category
Red-carpet secret: While walking the 2018 Emmy’s red carpet, the star revealed her comfort secret to People TV: “Oh, who has a platform? I can run backwards in them; I can moon walk!”
She wears the pants: “I love them! I have a long torso, so the high-waist cut works really well on me,” she told InStyle of her favourite style of slacks.
Collector’s edition: “I’ve been collecting blouses from the ‘80s for the longest time. It’s the best because no one else will ever have it,” she told the glossy
SHAWN MENDES, Musician
Hometown: Toronto, Ont.
Recent Projects: Released his latest self-titled album in May 2018 and is the new face of Emporio Armani Connected
Authenticity is key: “I just try to be very authentic with what I’m wearing, because that’s when you look your best,” he told GQ.
The Mendes mainstay: “My daily outfit is probably just Chelsea boots, jeans, a T-shirt and whatever jacket I can find,” he shared with the glossy.
Fashionable words of wisdom: “My number one style rule would be to try everything,” he added.
Style icon: “James Dean … When I started doing shoots, I was so uncomfortable and felt really nervous and the only way that I could get through them was to really try to mimic and channel him,” he told the publication.
JESSICA MULRONEY, Stylist and PR/brand consultant
Hometown: Montreal, Que.
Recent Projects: Fashion contributor on Good Morning America and CityLine, fashion and bridal expert at Hudson’s Bay
Stylish words of wisdom: “We are fed so much information when it comes to fashion – what we’re supposed to buy, what’s trendy, what we’re supposed to get rid of.” she told the audience on Good Morning America. “So, that’s a capsule collection. It’s finding those six pieces that you can mix and match, you can do day to night, you actually wear. They don’t just hang in your closet! These are the pieces that you will wear over and over again, so it’s cost effective.”
Dressing down: “Most people believe that I’m out all the time, all dressed up. But in reality, 90% of my existence is spent at home, in my pajamas,” the mother of three has said. “I do not go out a lot. People are always surprised to hear that!”
Canadian pride: “Being able to work with a true trailblazer, a woman who has paved the way for so many other artists was a real honour. I am a big supporter of Canadian fashion, so add that to the mix and I was in heaven,” she told InStyle of styling Shania Twain for the CCMAs
Variety is the spice of life: “I’m not obsessed with fashion though, and I think that that’s what makes me a little bit different,” she told The Globe and Mail. “I really enjoy the creativity of getting dressed, but not in a typical way. I like to mix things. I don’t just go to one place and buy a bunch of expensive clothing.”
WINNIE HARLOW, Model
Hometown: Mississauga, Ont.
Recent Projects: Making her debut on the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show runway in 2018
Breaking barriers: “I’m proud of the recent changes being made in the realms of fashion and beauty. It’s amazing to be among the wave of rule breakers for diversity. I keep hearing this term ‘new norm’ but really, this was always the norm; it’s just beautiful that it’s finally coming to light,” she told Harper’s Bazaar.
Style icon: “I have been loving Cher’s old looks. I’ve been looking through a lot of them and just seeing how she used to experiment with her hair, her looks and her outfits … Sometimes it’s hard to try new things, but she is living proof that you shouldn’t be afraid to experiment with your style,” she told Vogue.
Fashion evolution: “My sense of fashion has developed a lot … I still have my ’hood style – I still like to wear my gold chains and my grills. I’m surprised I don’t still have a gold nameplate from back in the day,” she shared with Elle Canada.
COCO ROCHA, Model and Brand Director at NOMAD MGMT
Hometown:Vancouver, B.C.
Recent Projects:This summer she launched Coco Rocha Model Camp to mentor the next generation of supermodels
Twinning: “I swore I’d never be one of those moms who makes her daughter dress like her... but I am... and I’m not sorry about it!” she captioned a video with daughter Ioni during New York Fashion Week
Iconic: “Elizabeth Taylor was the most glamourous woman in the world at a time when people didn’t really have stylists picking out every piece of clothing. She’s one of the most memorable beauties of the last 100 years”
The more prints the merrier: When designer Christian Siriano asked her for The Fashion Spot if she prefers leopard or zebra print, Coco responded, “Both at the same time! Why not? I love a good print.”
AMANDA BRUGEL, Actress
Hometown: Pointe-Claire, Que.
Recent Projects:The Handmaid’s Tale, Kim’s Convenience, Workin’ Moms
Unafraid of a print: Amanda debuted some of her best looks during TIFF 2018 as Hudson’s Bay’s red-carpet anchor host, working with stylist Erica Wark. Of her day-one leopard look, the actress wrote on Instagram, “Thank you to my Canadian glam squad for giving me the confidence to go full ‘leop’ on Day One.”
Feeling empowered: “[Canadian brand UNTTLD] encourages me to feel dramatic and strong and to apologize for neither attribute,” she wrote on Instagram after their Toronto Fashion Week show.
The best accessory: After debuting a daring new hairstyle (a blunt wig!) and plunging gown at the 2018 SAG Awards, the mother of two wrote on Instagram, “God bless my team for convincing me that power is the only accessory needed.”
Beach beauty: She feels most gorgeous at the beach “with wild, wind-dried hair, sun on my skin and a glass of wine in hand!”
P.K. SUBBAN, Hockey player
Recent Projects: The defenceman for the Nashville Predators coaches kids in his Subban Defence League and has collaborated on menswear with RW&CO.
Tastemaker style: “One thing I’ll always maintain in terms of my style and fashion sense is to straddle the line as someone who is creative and fashion-forward, but also someone who is classic, clean and sharp,” he told Sharp.
Suiting up: “When you see a man in a suit, you see that as a sign of someone who is professional,” he told the magazine. “When I put on that suit, it also represents that I’m someone who should be taken seriously.”
Personality is everything: “He’s got a very strong charisma and a strong personality and … that actually is very, very easy in dressing him is that we can reflect on that personality and the presence that he has in his natural character,” one third of P.K.’s suit styling team, Maud Marquis-Breton, told the Montreal Gazette.
TESSA VIRTUE, Ice dancer
Hometown: London, Ont.
Recent Projects: 2018 Winter Olympics and Stars on Ice
Got it from her mama: Tessa told HELLO! Canada about having her mom as a stylist, including for The Ellen DeGeneres Show! "I’m very lucky. She has a great, keen eye for what works for me, she knows my taste very well and I’m so busy now that I don’t have that much time to be shopping for events and stuff, so I’m very lucky that I have such a stylish mom."
Style inspiration: “I’ve always loved Audrey Hepburn, and her style has undoubtedly influenced my aesthetic, both on and off the ice,” she told The Loop.
From reps to red carpet: “I’m either in workout wear or black tie ready,” she told the publication. “I’d say my look has evolved in the sense that I’m better able to mix and match high-quality, high-end pieces with fun, funky, inexpensive elements.”
Take a load off: Relaxation keeps Tessa young! “We’re busy performing but I think it’s important to still take time for ourselves, whether that’s a bath at the end of the day or reading a good book,” she told HELLO! Canada. “Now it seems like the best relaxation is on a plane, because you’re sort of forced to disconnect.”
Photo: © Instagram/@tessavirtue17
EVANGELINE LILLY, Actress
Hometown: Fort Saskatchewan, Alta.
Recent Projects:Ant-Man and the Wasp and next year’s yet-to-be-titled Avengers film
Superhero style: “I believe my suit is the most comfortable of the [Marvel Comic Universe],” she told NDTV. “I don’t know if it was just because I liked it so much, and I felt so cool in it and I really wanted to wear it. I slept in it, I ate in it, I bathed in it, I never took it off ever,” she joked.
The Law of Styling: Evangeline had one of her most fashionable years yet while promoting her Marvel film across the world, working with Law Roach – the stylist also responsible for Canadian icon Celine Dion’s winning wardrobe!
Beauty secrets: She told her fans while on Instagram Live that she’s “a firm believer that drinking lots of water and getting lots of sleep is the best thing that you can do.”
CARLY RAE JEPSEN, Musician
Hometown: Mission, B.C.
Recent Projects: Released the new song “Party for One” on Nov. 1, the first single off her upcoming 2019 album
Have fun with fashion: “I like to play with fashion and feel the theatrics of a performance. I think that gets enhanced when you’re wearing something that’s a little more wild,” she told V Magazine.
Multiple personalities: “[My style is] generally playful, I like to experiment. Tomboy-ish on occasion, especially when I’m not on stage. A little hippy-ish, too … And grandma-ish, I have a very old lady who lives inside of me. She likes all things floral,” she shared with Cosmopolitan Middle East.
Red carpet style: “At the beginning I felt like, ‘oh, it has to be this very elegant, sophisticated thing.’ And then I’d find myself on the red carpet playing this person I’m not … It’s actually more important to find something I’m really comfortable in and that I still feel beautiful … and like me,” she told Radio.com.
Photo: © George Pimentel Photography
ANTONI POROWSKI, Reality TV personality and chef
Recent Projects: Netflix’s Queer Eye
First splurge: “This is actually the first thing I bought myself after the success of the show. I’m very frugal, so I don’t like to shop because I’m afraid everything is going away. It’s a bright-yellow Intrecciato fanny pack from Bottega Veneta … I still feel sort of shame-y about it, but I wear it every single day,” he told NY Mag.
Loud loungewear: “Bathrobes are my favourite, and usually I wear whatever they have in the hotels, but when my friend Aaron, who does PR for Versace, found out I was coming to Kansas City to shoot, he asked me what I might want from Versace and he jokingly said a bathrobe. So, he actually went and sent me a Versace bathrobe that is the loudest, gaudiest thing ever,” he revealed to the publication.
Fashion week faux pas: Of attending New York Fashion Week shows, he told Vanity Fair that he was only going to “Tom Ford, and that’s it. Apparently, you have to wear a suit. I’m very ignorant, and I thought that you could wear jeans and a T-shirt to an after-party.”
CATHERINE O’HARA, Actress
Hometown:Toronto, Ont.
Recent Projects:Schitt’s Creek
Earliest fashion memory: “I had a pair of clear plastic (with coloured sparkles) high heels that came in a set with a purse and a tiara. The purse now makes me think it was more ‘Little Queen’ than ‘Little Princess’.”
Celebrity closet raid: “Ryan Gosling’s ... for my sons. They need suits.”
Best style advice you’ve received: “’Stand up straight!’ I keep forgetting that one!”
Power piece: A great hat.
CHARLOTTE CARDIN, Musician
Hometown: Montreal, Ont.
Recent Projects: Main Girl (2017) received two JUNO nominations this year
Everyday uniform: “It’s very simple. I dress the same way in real lie [as I do] on stage or anywhere else – maybe not at a wedding, but for normal occasions,” she told FLARE. “I like good quality things but not anything over the top or too glamorous. My ideal outfit is black jeans, a white T-shirt and either sneakers or a cute pair of boots.”
Personal style icon: “Alexa Chung has really good style,” she told W Magazine. “Jane Birkin, Francoise Hardy. I like Snoop Dogg, sometimes.”
Day to night: “The same [as daytime], probably, just darker. Still simple. When it’s a bit colder, I’ll wear a nice pair of black boots,” she told the publication. “I like black jackets, so I just switch between a leather jacket or this really long jacket I like to wear.”
DINA PUGLIESE, Co-host of Breakfast Television Toronto
Hometown:Woodbridge, Ont.
Recent Projects: Serving up news and entertainment every morning on BTT
First splurge: “A winter coat that looked like a ‘70s couch. Full-on tapestry. With a punk rock-inspired purple and pink faux fur trim. I still love that hideous cloak of punk rock.”
Royal closet raid: “Meghan Markle. Hands down. She is elegance personified. I want everything she wears. Even if the tag is still hanging off of it.”
Off trend: “I love seeing others pair comfy kicks with dresses. Whenever I try, I look like Jerry Seinfeld. Big ol’ boats for feet overwhelm the look. I so envy anyone who can pull it off.”
Unlikely piece in your wardrobe: “My Dad’s navy blazer from back in the day. I wore it religiously throughout high school as part of the school uniform to “rebel” against wearing a kilt and blouse. I paired his navy blazer with grey slacks for the bulk of my time there.”
Photo: © Dina Pugliese
LAMAR JOHNSON, Actor and dancer
Recent Projects:The Hate U Give, starring alongside Elle Fanning in All the Bright Places (2019) and Sophie Turner in X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019)
Face of fashion: The Canadian star’s Instagram looks to be taken from the pages of a high-fashion magazine, featuring snaps from style shoots with designers like Toronto’s own Daniel Gregory Natale.
Sartorial inspiration: “He’s just killin’ it,” the 24-year-old told WWD during TIFF 2018 of one of his fave designers, Raf Simons.
Keep fashion fun: “I find myself, when I’m shopping, there’s music in the background, so as I’m looking through the clothes rack, I’ll be dancing a little bit. You get some stares,” he joked with Tribute.
SUZANNE ROGERS, Canadian fashion advocate and philanthropist
Recent Projects: Speaking at the Canadian Embassy about her Suzanne Rogers Fashion Institute during London Fashion Week’s Curated Canadian Collections showcase
First splurge: “A faux fur jacket from babysitting money at 14. It was the first real 'fashion' piece I bought. I wore it until it fell apart.”
Royal closet raid: “The late Princess Margaret”
Style words to live by: Giorgio Armani said “Elegance is not about being noticed, it's about being remembered.”
Agree to disagree: “I had a pair of denim overalls in University. Everyone would cringe when I wore them … but I loved them!”
Photo: © Chris Nicholls
GRACE MAHARY, Model
Hometown: Edmonton, Alta.
Recent Projects: Grace used an Eritrean print for a collaboration between SUNS shoes and her non-profit, Project Tsehigh, which works to provide renewable energy to developing countries
Earliest fashion memory: “Watching my mother transform when she would go out. I remember seeing her elegance radiate in whatever she dressed up in, her light but poignant makeup and my favourite – helping her select her jewelry for the night.”
Best style advice: “Only buy it if you LOVE it. I also had my very first agent once tell me his grandma told him that for any purchase, set a price per compliment given. If you receive enough compliments that add up to or surpass the price you spent on the item, then it was worth the purchase.”
Celebrity closet raid: “Rihanna”
First splurge: “In my modelling years, my first big purchase was a pair of boots and a purse from Miu Miu.”
JENNA BITOVE NAUMOVICH, Stylist and personal shopper at the Room at Hudson’s Bay
Recent Projects: Planning the ultimate fairytale Versailles-themed wedding! This summer, Jenna said “I do” to Nick Freda at her family’s waterfront home in Collingwood.
Power dressing: “A Balmain blazer definitely makes you feel like a boss.”
Fashionable regret: “Probably the first time I tried to dye my hair blonde! I did it with one of those store-bought packages. It turned orange! I had to walk around elementary school for a week with brassy orange hair before I got it professionally fixed.”
Best style advice: “Sometimes less is more and sometime more is, well, MORE! And that can be pretty fun.”
Royal closet raid: “Lady Kitty Spencer”
Style inspo: “I’m super into fashion bloggers right now like Chiara Ferragni, Erica Pelosini and Olivia Culpo.”
Photo: © George Pimentel
JOSHUA JACKSON, Actor
Recent Projects:The Affair
West coast sensibilities: “I’m not sure if it’s the same on the east coast but on the west coast we’ve got the “tall poppy” thing – nobody really likes to peacock and nobody likes to dress well. So it took me a long time to get over myself and recognize that if I want to grow up and be a man one day, first you fake it then you make it!”
Canadian tuxedo: “That was the required attire of my 40th birthday [on June 11]. And we looked good.”
Giving back suits him: “It took me a long time to understand and appreciate how much you’ve got to look the part to be the part.” So, it was a natural fit when Moores approached Joshua to be the 2018 ambassador for their suit drive this summer, which donates gently used professional clothing to donate to organizations across the country.
RUPI KAUR, Poet
Recent Projects:The Sun and Her Flowers (2017), plus the cover of Cosmopolitan India and a four-page spread in Vogue Spain
Stylish dreams: “I just dropped sciences and I dropped math and I was focused full time on just making gowns and preparing my fashion portfolio,” she told Girlboss of her passion before switching to writing poetry.
Front-row veteran: The Instapoet has become a staple in various fashion week front rows, sitting beside Gloria Steinem at Prabal Gurung’s 2017 NYFW show. “She was telling me it was her first ever fashion show. I was like, ‘Well, me too.’ Then I was like, ‘We’re doing a pretty OK job. We’re here, we’re front row and we look great,” she told the Toronto Star.
True beauty: “From such a tender age, we’re exposed to the world telling us that we are not good enough. Commercials reminding us our skin needs to be brighter. Billboards telling us that we don’t look like we could ever belong on a runway,” she wrote in her piece for Cosmopolitan India. “I want you (women) to wake up every day and look in the mirror and tell yourself you are beautiful.”
Photo: © Instagram/@rupikaur
SARAH GADON, Actress
Hometown: Toronto, ON
Recent Projects:The Death and Life of John F. Donovan and Alias Grace
Late bloomer: Given her sartorially savvy red-carpet looks, one would think Sarah had been practicing her whole life. “My mom didn’t even really let me buy fashion magazines until I was 16,” she told FASHION. “I just didn’t realize that they were a part of the world.”
Must-have beauty products: “The Body Shop has a tea tree oil stick that you can put on zits and it makes your zits go away,” she told Allure. “And I’ve always been a big Vaseline fan. I always end up going back to it.”
Wardrobe staple: “Great coats. Canada is cold. I invested in a camel Max Mara coat … best money I ever spent,” she once told HELLO! Canada.
NINA DOBREV, Actress
Recent Projects:Dog Days, Then Came You, fam
A change of perspective: “We didn’t come from money,” Nina told Harper’s Bazaar, adding that her mom nicknamed Value Village ‘Versace’ to take the sting out. “Eventually, I got to go to an actual Versace fashion show and sit in the front row. And now I go to vintage stores on purpose.”
Athleisure junkie: “It’s that functionality of having great workout clothes but still being able to go run errands afterwards or walk my dog, layer and add things together,” she told PeopleTV.
Sharing is caring: When asked what clothing she shares with BFF Julianne Hough, she told People, “Honestly, pyjamas. Almost every single time I go to Julianne’s house, we have a long night, watch movies, I spill something inevitably on what I’m wearing, so I typically steal her pyjamas or onesies.”
Style splurge: “The first thing I purchased when I started making a little bit more money was a Chanel purse when I was in Paris and I just felt a little special and magical,” she told the publication.
XAVIER DOLAN, Filmmaker
Hometown: Montréal, Que.
Recent Projects:The Death and Life of John F. Donovan, Boy Erased
Stay true to yourself: “There’s nothing more difficult than wearing clothes, which don’t represent you in any way, or which inconvenience you because of their style or cut,” he told August Man of his collaboration with Louis Vuitton in 2016.
Day and night: “Blue or black sweatpants, the same T-shirts shrunk from washing, I rotate between two or three bomber jackets with the same hoodie underneath, every day,” he said of his day look. “The second style is the one for premieres and red carpets. That one changes constantly, and I’d say it gets simpler with age.”
He does it all: Fellow Canadian Emily Hampshire (Schitt’s Creek and The Death and Life of John F. Donovan) spoke to his commitment to on-set styling during a TIFF event, saying, “He also gives you the world, too – he also designed the costumes … When he sends you the script, he sends you the look book, a beautifully bound look book, on great paper. It’s like something I want to sell because it’s probably worth a lot now. It’s amazing!”
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Blasey Ford – Kavanaugh Senate Hearing Today
by pandora
Are you watching today?
I have no idea what this will look like. Republicans plan to hide behind a woman’s skirt, but I’m not sure they’ll be able to keep quiet. I’m not even sure how the prosecutor, Rachel Mitchell, plans to handle this? Is her role to get to the truth, or discredit Christine Blasey Ford?
Also, which Kavanaugh will show up today? The sober virgin who said, ““I went to an all-boys Catholic high school, a Jesuit high school where I was focused on academics and athletics, going to church every Sunday at Little Flower, working on my service projects and friendship,” or the new version, ““Yes, there were parties. The drinking age was 18. And yes, the seniors were legal and had beer there, and yes, people might have had too many beers on occasion.”
FYI: The legal drinking age in Maryland, where Judge Kavanaugh grew up, was raised to 21 from 18 in 1982, when he was a high school senior, and he did not turn 18 until 1983.
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93 comments on “Blasey Ford – Kavanaugh Senate Hearing Today”
You got him Pandora. Solid investigative work there on that underage beer drinking issue. :).
I’m not the one who thinks underage drinking is a big deal. The fact that he lied about it is.
Wow! Is Grassley Kavanaugh’s defense lawyer? He sure isn’t here to have a hearing. I knew the GOP would mess up, but I didn’t expect it to start with opening comments.
Utterly tone deaf. Way to prove that this is indeed a partisan production.
Grassley is grandstanding in opening statement, blaming Democrats and trying to discredit Blasey Ford before she even speaks. But he’s having trouble reading.
Senator Feinstein a joke. Has started the filibuster already.
@Pandora: jinx! What is she supposed to say now? His remarks will go unanswered for lack of time.
Typical. Hire a woman to protect you from yourself and then blow it.
Poor Dr. Ford looks like she’s ready to cry. Wonder how many Xanax she popped this morning? More than the day of the two question “lie detector exam”?
The more you comment, the more I realize how nervous you guys are.
Looks like Dr. Ford is a little more nervous. She works a little harder, the tears will surely come.
Do we give a shit about her remodeling her home?
We already know you’re a vile asshole. You don’t have to keep proving it.
Oh, wait. That can’t be anger you’re demonstrating because you’re all about the lulz. You limpdick conservatives are all the same. You believe the lies you tell yourself about yourself, so you think we’ll all believe them to. You and Trump have a lot in common.
xyz has to go this route probably because he’s been involved in the same behavior.
Notice how he doesn’t attack her testimony, only personal attacks (slut-shaming, drug use accusations).
He can probably rest easy though. I doubt he’ll ever be anything of importance in his life where his victims will feel compelled to shield the public from him. Not saying I wouldn’t support justice… be it for a lifetime free ride on the taxpayers dime… or if hes cleaning toilets at a Wendys…. just saying, he’s already probably a nothing burger and, like all white men, thinks he is WAY more valuable than he actually is.
I thought Kavanaugh had a lot in common. His performance today was pure Trumpian.
try harder, dude. You come off as even more emotional and confused than your daddy did at his “i understand this guy because we’re both rapists” press conference.
I expect higher quality trolling and you’re like if Bevis started reading Redstate, then blogging drunk after yet another failed pickup attempt. What pisses me off most about you is how unoriginal you are. I’d charge that you are actually the work of one of the Contributors, an attempt to liven things up a bit, but they are all more creative than to come up with a crusty sock puppet like you. Be a better troll.
btw, I personally think Kavanaughs confirmation will be forced through, just like his “first time” … the fun will be impeaching him, Thomas, Gorschuch (or however the damp fuck spells it’s name) and replacing them with people I truly hope make guys like you stroke out with rage.
Glad that DiFi (!) is able to respond. The problem I see is how can Kavanaugh possibly prove the negative? That’s why the GOP are shooting themselves in a foot by denying an FBI investigation.
This 5 minute format is a mess.
LMAO she’s already been called out on half a dozen lies in her testimony. You really sure you want that FBI investigation?
Yes, I really want an FBI investigation. Are you, like Kavanaugh, changing your story?
I find this fascinating — the pingponging between the detailed questioning by the prosecutor and the combination of grandstanding (let’s be honest), entering into the record of documents, and piecemeal questioning by the Democrats. It’s very theatrical.
Pretty illuminating as to which side is interested in getting the facts and which side is…. not.
If your side was interested in facts, there’d be an FBI investigation and Mark Judge would be there.
FOX is not happy. Chris Wallace has called this a disaster for Republicans.
Wallace also says, “in wake of Kavanaugh allegations “two of my daughters have told me stories that I have never heard before about things that happened in high school & hadn’t told their parents… I don’t this we can disregard Ford and the seriousness of this.”
I’m sure these guys are just floozies and skanks, too.
agreed. the pro-rape MAGAT party really wants this to go away so they can get back to abusing brown children.
Not just brown children (altho they are their favorites). There’s an unusually high level of pedophilia in the GOP.
I am not watching, but I am keeping track of reactions across the internet. Hillary Clinton just called them deplorables. Today most of them, like our alphabet soup man, are demonstrating just how deplorable they are.
I’m also seeing tweets from everywhere talking about women crying openly while listening or watching what sounds like a typical GOP clown show. The damage the GOP is doing to itself is permanent; Kavanaugh’s seat on SCOTUS is not.
The problem for the xyz’s of this country is that nobody in the US holds power permanently. His ilk have mistaken a temporary situation for a permanent one. As my grandmother used to say (I’ll translate), “After the laughing comes the crying.”
To paraphrase our troll, when the Fox pundits are calling it a disaster for Republicans…
This prosecutor is sooo bad. Is her big point that someone who is afraid of flying flies? Hey! That’s me! I hate flying, but I’ve traveled by airplane. A lot.
Republicans made a huge error picking Rachel Mitchell. Did she even prepare for this? But we know when it comes to Republicans women are interchangeable. Hey! We need a women! (see: Palin, Sarah)
I think the questions are coming from the Senate staff. I think she might have gotten the job because she was the first one who said “yes.”
I wouldn’t blame the prosecutor — she is in an untenable position. I actually think that her detailed questioning of Blasey Ford is helpful, and her asking the line of questions about political influence (right after lunch) are going to be helpful in supporting Blasey Ford’s claim of this not being a political smear or politically motivated. I hope she is as deliberate and dogged in her questioning of Kavanaugh.
Prosecutor was low key and didn’t try to compete with the theatrics of the Democrats. She obviously knew very well that her intended audience consists of exactly three people – Senators Flake, Collins, and Murkowski. So she quietly poked enough holes in B-F’s case without embarrassing her, allowing the good Senators to vote Aye for confirmation of Judge Kav and not catch too much flak from the normies.
Mitchell poked no holes with her questioning.
It was subtle, Pandora, which probably explains why you didn’t pick up on it.
Unlike the clown show from the Democrats.
I’m sure you were jumping up and down along with the rest of the good people listening to Harris, Booker, Blumenthal, et al.
Notice you didn’t name them.
1) Who was at party – at least three versions
2) Was it laughter she heard? Or a conversation? Or steps?
3) Fear of flying?
4) When was the polygraph?
5) Who exactly did she tell about the incident?
6) Why exactly did she come out with the allegations?
You’re like the guy who volunteers to go on stage with a pickpocket and doesn’t know his watch is gone until the end of the act.
Once you realize your side lost bigly, you’ll be back to rationalize it away.
“Normies.” And we’re supposedly the funny ones.
And, just to take one step back again, why the compulsion to be here doing this? Why this driving need to rationalize your beliefs to people who don’t share them?
I think it’s because you believe that if you can “win” debates here it validates your selfishness, that if you prove to yourself that you’re smarter than those lame libs it justifies your worldview.
BTW, someone taking careful notes on the testimony isn’t doing this for the lulz. One of the things I learned in journalism is to ignore what people say but watch what they do. What did your field of endeavor teach you, other than “look out for No. 1′?
Alby – are you watching Kavanaugh?
He is absolutely killing it.
It’s over.
I think he’ll get at least half a dozen Democrats.
1) We already knew what she could and couldn’t remember.
2) Probably both. You know how guys like you talk. Lots of “Duuude! Bro!” She never claimed to have heard exactly what they said.
3) She doesn’t like to fly, and when you look at where those claims (that she couldn’t testify because she wouldn’t fly) came from it doesn’t seem to have come from her.
4) You’ll have to explain the point you’re trying to make the polygraph, ’cause I don’t get it.
5) She testified who she told about the incident. Why do you think this is important
6) Umm… because it’s true
Since that was discrediting to you, guess Kavanaugh’s tears are suspect.
No, I’m not watching, just checking online time to time. Dude, if you think he’s killing it, you don’t know any normies. From what I’m reading, it’s exactly the reaction I’d expect from someone lying. From a purely strategic standpoint nominating this guy was an unforced error.
He’s a crappy person, always has been. Just looking at his yearbook we all know that guy from high school. Nothing wrong with that per se, politics is full of that sort, but it’s a bridge too far to put him on SCOTUS. Your side fucked up by not cutting bait right away. Optics would have been entirely different if they had nominated the woman. Don’t bother denying it, they thought they were bulletproof and they weren’t. Face it, our political class, even the brains of the operations, are not the best and the brightest in this society, and it shows, and I’m talking about both parties.
“good people” = .
Nice editing job.
What an awful, horrible person Lindsey Graham is.
@Emma_Dumain
A woman just told @LindseyGrahamSC she was raped. He said, as he headed into an elevator, “I’m sorry. Tell the cops.”
“I’m sorry. Tell the cops.”
“It’s their job to ignore you. Stop bothering me.”
It’s pretty clear he is being blackmailed about something. I hope the stress ruins him.
Methinks he doth protest too much.
Ya think? 😉
Not sure why he thinks this is the best approach.
He’s playing to an audience of one: Please don’t withdraw my nomination, Mr. Trump.
Agreed. But it’s not a good look for him.
Trump hates weakness.
Exactly. Even the crocodile tears. This will give Fox something to run with. But doesn’t address his own multiple lies.
The questioning is going to brutal.
And this is his latest BIG LIE: On his yearbook: Renate Alumnus was meant to show affection for her and that “she was one of us.” It wasn’t a reference to sex.
Yeah, really brutal. He just left Feinstein gasping like a fish out of water.
She couldn’t even look him in the eye.
His tear-filled eyes?
Wow. His opening statement disqualifies him for the Supreme Court. “The Left”, “Borking”, “Revenge on behalf of the Clintons”; “Goes around comes around”.
It’s about time he shut up.
Holy crap! He really did disqualify himself for a seat on the court. How can he even claim impartiality after that statement?
Diane Feinstein asks why he doesn’t want an FBI investigation, Kavanaugh yells at her, but doesn’t answer the question.
I think he got drunk before his testimony. I want a bac test right now.
IF*, and that is a big if…. he is sober, this little trumper tantrum he is throwing is proof of what a violent, abusive drunk he must be.
Good-bye choirboy, hello frat boy
Good lord. He is belligerent.
I think the Republicans will regret their choice to use a sex crimes prosecutor. Her first questions after his opening statement were appropriate, but the impression is so demeaning. Grassley should have called a time out to let Kavanaugh collect himself.
He is forgetting the first rule — don’t ask a question that wasn’t asked.
But everyone else was doing it!
Except for his previous statements when he claimed he didn’t do what everyone else was doing!
Is K drunk now??? He’s so belligerent. Total meltdown. I think he is now grasping at straws for a last ditch effort to get a job as White House Counsel. That can be the only reason for him to go partisan in his opening statement. Deny, deny, deny.
He also hasn’t answered any questions from Dems
Kavanaugh claims that he would have been the legally drinking in the Summer of 1982. Kavanaugh was born February 12, 1965, making him 17 years old. He was not legally drinking that Summer and in 1983, when he turned 18, he would have not been “grandfathered” under the law change that occurred in January 1982.
I’m dying here. Kavanaugh says the reference to “ralphing” in his yearbook was due to his weak stomach and boofing referred to flatulence.
And Devil’s Triangle is a drinking game?
One important result of all this is that it exposes the fiction that “the elites” don’t run the Republican Party. A lot of these poor schmoes think the Democrats are the elitists. Some of them are, but they learned it from the GOP.
Anono
If he did this, then let the police come in and make an arrest. No woman should go thru what she did.
Should be term limits!
The FBI IS law enforcement, that is what multiple Democrats have asked for. They just want to drag this out, for political reasons……..to take control what they lost. They’ll do this for everyone, Trump puts up for the court.
“He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone at her.” Jesus Christ.
What in Jim Beam are you yammering about?
Don’t drink alcohol. Thank you! What part don’t you understand??
Why you think we care what you think.
I don’t care what you think, Al.
None of us cares what you think. Yet here you are. Why?
Must be love, that I’m feeling. AL! So, why do you comment, to any of my posts, If you don’t care? Miss me?
You might want to get that comma key fixed, on your, keyboard, so you don’t, have commas popping up where, they’re incorrectly used.
To clarify, I don’t care what you think. I do care that you won’t go away until you have something intelligent to add to the conversation.
There is still no evidence to back Blasey-Ford’s allegations, and all of the witnesses that she claims were there have emphatically denied that any of the events she described took place. Democrats didn’t even bother mentioning the other claims as it was clear it only made them look worse. Rachel Miller calmly poked several gaping holes in Blasey-Ford’s story. Reportedly the 30 year veteran sex crimes prosecutor told Republicans that following these hearings she wouldn’t even be able to obtain a search warrant based on Blasey-Ford’s testimony.
Feinstein was shown to be a complete incompetent. It is clear that Blasey-Ford was badly served by the blatantly political efforts of Feinstein’s office and their complete miscalculation of how these claims should have been handled.
Odds on Cory Booker and Kamala Harris obtaining the 2020 Democratic nomination have dropped significantly as their questioning closely resembled a wet firecracker. Both are one trick ponies who will not show up well on the national stage.
Lindsey Graham has grown a spine and issued a rallying cry that will echo through the midterms. It appears that the left has finally succeeded in uniting the never-Trumper and MAGA factions of the Republican party by their ridiculous actions with regards to this nomination.
Kavanaugh likes to drink beer. I’ll probably send him a case after the bullshit he has had to put up with.
He can drink it to celebrate his appointment to the Supreme Court early next week. 54-46. All Republicans plus Manchin, Donnelly, and Heitkamp will vote to confirm the appointment.
RE Vanella
Somebody missed the news today. Donnelly already said he was a NO before we got another delay.
Do you eat shit everyday or just on special occasions?
Try to keep up with the plot, dawg.
Here is Donnelly’s statement.
https://mobile.twitter.com/SenDonnelly/status/1045698329974386689/photo/1
You may want to fuck off and reassess I think.
Sorry you didn’t lose a few teeth down at your “protest” yesterday. Was kind of wishing the cops would go Chicago ’68 on the freaks.
Who the fuck are you? I’d happily see who’d lose teeth and in what cirumstance, but you’re a typical fucking anonymous coward.
You’re dim witted and soft. Plus you’re scared. It’s funny to me.
You should ask around motherfucker.
You have anger management issues! It’s Friday!
Don’t follow him down his rabbit hole. Notice how he ignored and deflected from your point on Donnelly?
Read a little more closely, genius. That’s all I am going to say on the topic.
Piece of trash anonymous troll nobody.
Come at me XZY if that’s your real name.
Don’t hide like a fucking baby. Sign your name.
Where do you dream up this stuff? You’ve already been proven wrong, as they’ve just made an apparent agreement for an FBI probe and a one-week delay.
Are you under the impression it makes you sound like some sort of serious analyst of politics? The fact is you’ve never made any statement showing an understanding of policy. It’s apparently just like sports, something to bet on and argue about whose predictions are better. Those of us who do understand politics see right through it. Why you continue to embarrass yourself is, again, something you should discuss with your analyst.
Everything you said above could be gleaned from listening to about a half-hour of conservative media and means essentially nothing; they’re just talking points, mostly based on subjective judgments that reflect nothing beyond an immersion in conservative media.
Donnelly already voted “No” on letting him out of committee, so they’ll demonize him no matter how he votes next week, meaning he’ll vote “no” then, too, because the damage is already done.
This is what I mean when I say you demonstrate no aptitude at all for punditry. All the snotty insults in the world won’t make up for having no game.
It will be 54-46 after the investigation. Bank it.
Feinstein and her crew of good people spent the whole hearing yesterday insisting on the FBI investigation.
They will now get one.
Now think about which branch of the government controls the FBI and will set the parameters and duration of the investigation.
The investigation will consist of the following. Interviews with three witnesses, Blasey-Ford, and Kavanaugh. As a matter of fact they may just review the statements already given.
They will find nothing to substantiate Blasey Ford’s allegations. The basic facts of the “case” will not change.
Red state Dems, Flake, Murkowski, and Collins will all now have a plausible reason to vote Yes.
54-46, just delayed a few days.
“Bank it.”
Your bravado might impress your friends down at the militia meetings, but it means nothing here. It appears the investigation will be a sham, so you don’t know what’s going to happen. Nobody does. And if you hit it by dumb luck, so what? It doesn’t make you smart.
Indeed, you like to pretend you’re some sort of expert when in fact you’re quite frequently wrong, you just don’t have to have any accountability, which is probably just the way you like it.
There are places you can place wagers on this. This isn’t one of those places. As I say, you have serious insecurity issues to feel a need or urge to do this in the first place.
Let me let you in on a little secret: Unless you place bets on these prognostications, there’s no money in it, and everyone here thinks you’re an asshole whether you guess right or not.
So what’s the real problem? Mommy didn’t love you?
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Apparatus to illustrate reflection in elastic shocks
Home > Room Index > Rooms XII and XIII. Teaching and Popularizing Science > Simple and Complex Machines >
Section of Rooms XII and XIII
Room XII
second half 18th cent.
wood, porphyry, brass
The apparatus shows that, in elastic shocks, the angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection.
A rectangular box with a small opening is mounted on a wooden base, fitted with three leveling screws to ensure that the apparatus is perfectly horizontal. The box carries an arm on which is mounted a horizontal board with a brass-lined hole. On the base is hinged a wooden frame bearing a porphyry slab, whose slope can be adjusted from 0° to about 45°. An ivory ball dropped through the brass-lined hole bounces off the porphyry slab; if the latter is tilted at 45°, the ball is deflected in such a way as to fall exactly into the box opening.
In describing the apparatus in Leçons de physique expérimentale (Paris, 1743-1748), Jean-Antoine Nollet notes that, in the real-life experiment, the angles of incidence and reflection are never exactly equal. The reasons include the imperfect elasticity of the materials, air resistance, and the ball's slightly curved trajectory after the rebound. Provenance: Lorraine collections.
- Lorraine collections
- Jean-Antoine Nollet
- Experimental mechanics
- Museo di Fisica workshops
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Abbott, Ian. and Loneragan, O. W. and Western Australia. Department of Conservation and Land Management. Ecology of Jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) in the northern Jarrah forest of Western Australia / by Ian Abbott and Owen Loneragan Dept. of Conservation and Land Management Perth, W.A 1986
Abbott, Ian. & Loneragan, O. W. & Western Australia. Department of Conservation and Land Management. 1986, Ecology of Jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) in the northern Jarrah forest of Western Australia / by Ian Abbott and Owen Loneragan Dept. of Conservation and Land Management Perth, W.A
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Ecology of Jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) in the northern Jarrah forest of Western Australia / by Ian Abbott and Owen Loneragan
Abbott, Ian, 1947-
Perth, W.A. : Dept. of Conservation and Land Management, 1986
xv, 137 p. : ill., maps ; 31 cm.
Bulletin (Western Australia. Department of Conservation and Land Management) no. 1.
Full contents
Summary in English, Esperanto, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese.
Bibliography: p. 119-135.
Jarrah. | Forest ecology -- Western Australia.
Loneragan, O. W. (Owen W.) | Western Australia. Department of Conservation and Land Management
Nq 634.906 WES Main Reading Room
The development of Jarrah regeneration / by A. C. van Noort
The jarrah forest avifauna and its re-establishment after bauxite mining / by B.J. Wykes
Site-vegetation mapping in the northern jarrah forest (Darling Range)/ by J.J. Havel
A guidebook to the Northern Jarrah Forest
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Apparition Hill DVD - 2-Disc Collector's Edition Set
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Seven strangers journey to Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, to investigate reports of miracles and supernatural phenomena. Join them as they search for answers to life’s big questions on APPARITION HILL, the groundbreaking documentary that continues to fill theaters and inspire audiences around the world. Rated PG-13 (for some thematic content). Learn more.
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Number of mobile gamers in North America 2014-2017, by device
Published by Christina Gough, Feb 1, 2019
The graph illustrates the number of mobile gamers in North America from 2014 to 2017, broken down by device. According to the findings, in 2017 there were 75 million smartphone gaming users in the region, up from 63.7 million a year earlier.
Number of mobile gamers in the United States and Canada from 2014 to 2017, by device (in millions)
Tablet gamer only 21.2 13.7 12.4 11.4
Smartphone gamer only 49.7 39.5 63.7 75
Smartphone/Tablet gamer 71 83.3 79.2 100.6
active mobile gamers who played in the past six months
Figures for periods other than 2017 come from previous reporting.
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Volume 88 Issue 10 | p. 4 | Letters
Issue Date: March 8, 2010
In Praise Of Water Research
Department: Letters
March 8, 2010 Letters
Sarcosine Risk Misinterpreted
All Safety Letters
I was dismayed at the negative tone of the article on Gerald H. Pollack's work on the structure of water (C&EN, Dec. 14, 2009, page 32). One would think that a $3.8 million dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health to a chemist would be celebrated by chemists as a long-overdue recognition that all disciplines—not just biochemistry—can contribute to health.
I have argued recently that logic would demand that NIH have an entire institute dedicated to the study of water. Instead, it doesn't have even one expert scientist in the field, and it cannot find a single study section to review a proposal on water (data provided for interested parties). Yet we spend hundreds of millions of dollars to look for water on Mars to argue that there may be life on Mars, because water is essential to life! But not to NIH.
Pollack's work is superb, careful, and thorough, and his data are unchallengeable. His presentation at the October 2009 Gordon Conference in Vermont, before his real worldwide peers, was unchallenged and celebrated. Yet C&EN sought comments from casual nonpeers who seemed to question and even belittle his remarkable discoveries. No one seemed to check with Martin Chaplin (with his myriad oligomers of H2O), inarguably the best informed chemist in the water business, and no one checked with Gene Stanley, the leader in the physics of water (with his 64 transitions in H2O).
By coincidence and as a materials chemistry representative, I happened to present a paper in Vermont directly supporting Pollack's data on Nafion's stunning epitaxial structuring of water. We did precisely the spectroscopy one of your commentators asked for, confocal Raman with a resolution of a few nanometers, studying in detail the epitaxial effects on water of the highest bond-strength materials. The depth of the most dramatic changes induced in pure waters, like reducing the main stretching bonds nearly to zero, ranged some hundreds of nanometers for quartz and ruby to nearly millimeters in diamond, and we found the same amazing effects with Nafion.
C&EN should celebrate and applaud NIH's decision on Pollack's work. It could encourage other chemists and materials chemists to bring their innovations to bear in new areas related to health. Lip service to "transformative" science by our agencies is not enough to save U.S. leadership
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Wow – Puerto Rico Governor Fires Emergency Response Director After Massive Warehouse of Unused Aid Discovered…
Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on January 18, 2020 by sundance
Folks, this is alarming. An explosive video from Puerto Rico shows a massive warehouse of emergency hurricane relief supplies discovered highlighting emergency supplies delivered in the aftermath of hurricane Maria that were never distributed.
The warehouse was discovered after the recent earthquake, and the building suffering damage. After CTH initially saw the report, I had to go find the raw video to see just how much 2017 aid was being hidden in this warehouse; and the full video is simply stunning. First, the report:
(VIA CBS) Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced fired the island’s emergency management director on Saturday, after a video showing aid sitting unused in a warehouse went viral on social media. Some of the aid has allegedly been sitting in the warehouse since Hurricane Maria struck in 2017.
“There are thousands of people who have made sacrifices to help those in the south, and it is unforgivable that resources were kept in the warehouse,” Vázquez said in a statement.
Garced said in a statement that she has ordered Secretary of State Elmer Roman to conduct a “thorough investigation into the mishandling of emergency aid in a warehouse in Ponce,” CBS News correspondent David Begnaud reports.
“I have given 48 hours for this investigation. The investigation is to include this warehouse and any others which may exist,” her statement read. “In the same vein, I have decided to relieve Carlos Acevedo of his duties as the commissioner of the National Emergency Management and Disaster Relief Agency.”
Vázquez said she would nominate the current Puerto Rican National Guard chief for Senate consideration to replace Acevedo. (read more)
Many CTH readers know I am a CERT response leader for Hurricane relief; and in that capacity I have a pretty good idea of logistics, costs, and the scale of moving supplies into impact zones. After initially reading the report on twitter, and seeing a portion of the video, I went in search of the raw video to see the size and scale of this ‘warehouse’.
Here’s the longer video:
What has been found here is a massive storage facility. I would estimate the size of the warehouse around 200,000 sq ft (minimum) based on video and exterior truck bays.
The video shows thousands of pallets, double and triple stacked, of key and essential emergency supplies. Bottled water, shelf-stable food, diapers, baby formula, blankets, tarps, tents, propane grills, propane, emergency lights, batteries, flashlights, emergency radios, potable water cans and much, much more.
To give you an idea of the scale, there’s at least 100 semi truck loads of supplies in this video, in this single warehouse.
Logistically each trailer would haul 22/24 single stack pallets, or 66/72 triple stack. With more than a dozen staged pallet jacks, this warehouse is holding serious money.
It is unfathomable these supplies were not distributed; and worse yet were likely being re-sold on the black market.
These emergency supplies and materials were delivered in 2017. On December 28th, 2019, a magnitude 4.7 earthquake hit Puerto Rico and President Trump authorized an additional $8.2 billion in aid….
President Trump was correct:
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Update on Supreme Court
Armstrong Economics Blog/Rule of Law
Re-Posted Jan 16, 2020 by Martin Armstrong
QUESTION: I heard that several coin dealers conspired with the government in hopes of getting all the coins you ever had. Is that also something the Supreme Court will rule on?
ANSWER: I am sure there are always people who would conspire against their own mother for a buck. I believe that one dealer bought stolen coins and then tried to sell then 20 years later. I would not say he conspired with the government, but against the government.
The government was ordered to reply by December 2nd. They asked for an extension and were granted until January 2nd. They then said they could not make that deadline and were given yet another 30 days. So they will have to respond by February 2nd, we get a reply, and then the decision to hear the case will be made in early March.
The way this works is that the government does not respond to petitions to the Supreme Court for they get thousands. They respond ONLY to cases the Supreme Court is interested in taking which the Court then orders them to respond. Central to the case is the fact that they used a civil parallel case filed after the first case and then used that to intervene and disrupt the parallel case. Judge Owen was notoriously biased. I doubt that many other judges would have done what he did.
The Supreme Court has ruled that before a single court, what they did to me, 240 employees, and my family would have been unconstitutional. So the question is really if a single court cannot act in this manner, then can the government use a parallel case to do what is illegal in a single court?
Then there are numerous Supreme Court cases they just ignored.
Grupo Mexicano v. Alliance Bond Fund, Inc., 527 U.S. 308 (1999)
(holding that unsecured notes cannot be frozen)
2. Morrison v. National Australia Bank, 561 U.S. 247 (2010)
(held the SEC never had jurisdiction outside the USA)
3. Luis v. United States, 136 S.Ct. 1083 (2016)
(holding that if someone is denied the use of their funds to defend themselves, the judgment is automatically vacated because it is a structural error)
These are only three of the Supreme Court decisions that have been just ignored in my case because it became political. There are several others that were also ignored.
I understand there are people who point their finger at coin dealers, others at prosecutors, others at the CIA, and still others in Japan at their own government because I was not Japanese as they are doing to the head of Nissan. I do not believe it was the CIA. It was not instigated in the USA but on letters from the Japanese government that clients there believed were an intentional error claiming there was $10 billion outstanding when it was $1 which they then corrected only after everything began.
There is plenty of blame to go around. If the Supreme Court takes the case, it will be a watershed decision that will help so many people who are being abused by the SEC and CFTC. The Grupo decision clearly states that the equitable power of a federal court is confined to the known remedies as they stood in 1789 without statutory authority. The SEC never had any statutory authority to even create a receiver until 2010 when Congress finally granted that authority. So there was never any authority for a receiver either back in 1999.
If the Supreme Court takes the case, and they just affirm their prior decisions, the outcome will be very interesting. Even HSBC, who I believe conspired with the government to steal $400 million of profit in the notes, may find themselves liable for all the funds lost by 240 employees. Anyone else who conspired with the government may suddenly find themselves on the opposite side of the table which may include the receiver and his law firm.
Let’s see what happens
Hillary off the Hook!
An investigation launched into Hillary Clinton in November of 2017 by the DOJ and US Attorney John Huber has ended with no charges.
Former AG Jeff Sessions appointed Huber to investigate the Clinton Foundation.
Huber did nothing.
He never interviewed key witnesses.
Evidence was sent to the Huber investigation three times because they kept “losing it”.
It is a two tier Justice system and the American people are tired of it.
Now the ball is in AG Barr and Durham’s court.
It will be up to Barr and Durham to finally end the two tier Justice system or our Republic is lost.
Will Barr’s DOJ finally do something? Maybe when they are “hungry’ enough.
Is Hillary Clinton “off the Hook” and exonerated like the Washington Post claims?
Or does this mean that no one will talk to the Washington Post and they are making stuff up…as usual.
Stay Tooned, this is not over!
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Whistleblower Provides Attkisson New Details to Name Rod Rosenstein and Shawn Henry (Crowdstrike) as Defendants in Lawsuit…
A very interesting development in the ongoing effort of former CBS investigative journalist, Sharyl Attkisson, to resolve the issue of who spied on her, planted spyware and infiltrated her computer systems for illegal surveillance. [Attkisson website here]
According to a recent court filing [Source Here] a person who was engaged in the “wrongful activity” has come forward to provide Ms. Attkisson with details about the operation. As a result of those whistle-blower revelations Attkisson is able to name specific individuals who were running the operation:
Former DOJ Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein is named as the person who was in charge of the operation; and the former head of the FBI DC field office, Shawn Henry is also outlined.
Mr. Henry is the head of Crowdstrike, a contractor for the government and a politically connected data security and forensic company. Those who have followed the aspects related to the FBI use of the NSA database to illegally monitor U.S. persons; and those who followed the DNC cover story of Russia “hacking”; will be familiar with Crowdstrike.
According to the updated lawsuit (full pdf below) Rod Rosenstein, as the U.S. Attorney for Maryland, was in charge of the Obama 2011 and 2012 operation to monitor journalists specific to Ms. Attkissons reporting on Fast-n-Furious and Benghazi.
What I find additionally interesting is the overall timeline in the bigger picture.
In the April 2017 release from FISC Judge Rosemary Collyer outlining the abuses of the FISA-702 process by FBI “contractors”, where the NSA database was being use for unlawful surveillance of U.S. persons, Collyer specifically noted the findings of her review of the period from November ’16 to May ’17 (85% non compliant rate) was likely to have been happening since 2012. [Go Deep]
The “IRS Scandal” were the DOJ was creating a list of U.S. persons for political targeting, and requested CD ROM’s of tax filings, was the lead-up to the 2012 exploitation of the NSA database. [The Secret Research Project] So there’s a larger picture of government surveillance under the Obama administration that becomes more clear.
Political spying 1.0 was actually the weaponization of the IRS. This is where the term “Secret Research Project” originated as a description from the Obama team. It involved the U.S. Department of Justice under Eric Holder and the FBI under Robert Mueller. It never made sense why Eric Holder requested over 1 million tax records via CD ROM, until overlaying the timeline of the FISA abuse:
The IRS sent the FBI “21 disks constituting a 1.1 million page database of information from 501(c)(4) tax exempt organizations, to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.” The transaction occurred in October 2010 (link)
Why disks? Why send a stack of DISKS to the DOJ and FBI when there’s a pre-existing financial crimes unit within the IRS. All of the evidence within this sketchy operation came directly to the surface in early spring 2012.
This is the same time-frame when DNI James Clapper falsely denied to congress about the U.S. government -through the NSA- collecting metadata on all U.S. electronic communication. This is the same time-frame where CIA Director John Brennan was monitoring the computer networks of congressional intelligence oversight staff.
When you overlay the new information from the Attkisson lawsuit, what emerges is the picture of an intentional effort by the Obama administration to weaponize the ability to collect electronic information on domestic political opposition. It’s one long continuum.
Here’s the new Attkisson lawsuit (using new information from a whistle-blower):
Within the lawsuit the DOJ inspector general is identified as adverse to the interests of the case. Meaning DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz was engaged in behavior to help the institution cover-up what independent computer forensic technicians were able to discover. Employees from the IG’s office also told Ms. Attkisson they had received instructions from the DC offices adverse to the interest of truthful discovery.
In addition to the institutional cover-up effort; it would be worth noting that current DOJ and FBI officials, who have been identified as holding corrupt motives, are still being positioned at key offices. An example is FBI Supervisory Special Agent David Archey (Mueller Team) being promoted to head up the Virginia FBI field office.
Obviously the DC institutional swamp is very deep and very corrupt. Current and former politicians and federal officials who have engaged in corrupt behavior, or who have facilitated corrupt -potentially unlawful- surveillance activity, are still working within the system to avoid exposure.
Another recent example is former Christine Blasey-Ford hoax facilitator and Andrew McCabe attorney, Michael Bromwich, being hired by corrupt Chicago prosecutor Kim Foxx in an effort to protect herself from the outcome of the Jussie Smollett hoax in Chicago. Why does a Cook County, Illinois, State Attorney need to hire a DC-based lawyer?
It was obvious early on the Jussie Smollett hoax was connected to several members of the Obama team and network. Michael Bromwich is a former DOJ inspector general with ongoing direct contacts with corrupt DOJ and FBI officials inside the institutions. Chicago State Attorney Foxx hiring Bromwich is yet another example of DC managing the cover.
Whether it’s the identified weaponization of NSA databases; or whether it’s corrupt FBI officials covering for each-other and the DOJ ‘declining to prosecute’; or whether it’s current AG Bill Barr covering for the transparently corrupt former DAG Rod Rosenstein; or whether it’s the institutional need to hide DOJ scope memos which initiated a false investigation of a sitting United States President; one thing remains brutally obvious….
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Report: John Huber Completes Review of Clinton Foundation and Uranium One, Finds Nothing…
Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on January 9, 2020 by sundance
As with all things MSM it’s worth considering with a dose of salt. However, that said, media are now reporting that U.S. Attorney John Huber has completed his review of the Clinton Foundation and Uranium-One and found nothing worth pursuing.
This would be a major disappointment for Q-decoders and Trusty Planners who claimed John Huber had hundreds of investigators spanning several states and were forecasting: (1) a suspension of Habeas Corpus, (2) military tribunals, (3) mass arrests based on over 60,000 sealed indictments; and (5) pending incarcerations at Guantanamo Bay.
WASHINGTON – A Justice Department inquiry launched more than two years ago to mollify conservatives clamoring for more investigations of Hillary Clinton has effectively ended with no tangible results, and current and former law enforcement officials said they never expected the effort to produce much of anything.
John Huber, the U.S. attorney in Utah, was tapped in November 2017 by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to look into concerns raised by President Trump and his allies in Congress that the FBI had not fully pursued cases of possible corruption at the Clinton Foundation and during Clinton’s time as secretary of state, when the U.S. government decided not to block the sale of a company called Uranium One.
As a part of his review, Huber examined documents and conferred with federal law enforcement officials in Little Rock who were handling a meandering probe into the Clinton Foundation, people familiar with the matter said. Current and former officials said that Huber has largely finished and found nothing worth pursuing — though the assignment has not formally ended and no official notice has been sent to the Justice Department or to lawmakers, these people said. (read more)
✔@Reuters
U.S. inquiry into FBI, Clinton spurred by Republicans ends without results: Washington Post https://reut.rs/2QEj3kT
10:25 PM – Jan 9, 2020
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Posted on January 9, 2020 by sundance
Iran!
The latest fireworks in the Middle East involved an Iranian-led attack on our embassy in Iraq.
Our military took out their leader shortly thereafter. I’ve heard some say Trump is keeping Americans safe. That’s great, but why are so many Americans still in Iraq after all these years? Why are we in Syria? Why are we allies with a backward kingdom named Saudi Arabia?
That country beheads people for merely questioning their government. They use their oil money to spread Wahhabism, a radical form of Islam that breeds terrorism.
Iran is our enemy because they practice a different form of Islam and they hate us because our CIA conducted a coup against their Prime Minister. Mosaddegh wanted to nationalize the oil companies operating in his country, so he had to go. He was replaced with the Shah, and his brutality led to a revolution in the late 1970s. Iran has been run by Islamic fanatics who hate America since then.
President H. W. Bush and his son W. were both Skull and Bones men and war criminals. They got American troops in the Middle East using false flags and blatant lies. Millions of lives and trillions of dollars lost later—we’re still there—and in Afghanistan as well.
Iranian citizens suffer from a poor economy and harsh repression. They are not happy, and so the ruling Mullahs keep the fires of hate against America burning as a distraction. They must also think America is weak. After all, Obama gave them billions of dollars and John Kerry was happy to genuflect to Iran’s rulers. They made a ridiculous deal in the hopes they could keep Iran’s nuclear ambitions in check. Of course Iran kept right on going with their nuclear weapons program—just like the North Koreans did after cutting a sweetheart deal with the Clinton administration.
Our founding fathers wanted us to avoid foreign entanglements. Leaders such as the Bushes ignored their advice and so now we have permanent war in an area with a history of tribal warfare going back centuries. Those conflicts will never end. We should not be in the middle of it all—we are supposedly energy independent now. It’s time to let the countries in the Middle East battle it out on their own without us paying for it with American dollars and lives.
Bring the troops home!
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Suffer any Wrong Rather than Go to Court
Re-Posted Jan 2, 2020 by Martin Armstrong
COMMENT: Judge Jackson & the Lack of Judicial Impartiality
Martin in this very illuminating post you say:
“Clearly, the most dangerous flaw appears to be intentional – Congress appoints judges not lawyers”.
You’ve missed an important point here.
At the time of the founding most judges were “appointed” by the people; through elections!
Yes, with the federal courts it doesn’t work that way. But, with the inferior courts at the state and local level it still does; though the right has been assailed and so somewhat curtailed.
Still, it is estimated some 50,000 judge-ships are subject to the ballot; a power, like so many others, fully squandered by the American people.
The implications of an electorate organized to exercise these powers would have serious implications at the federal level just the same and these facts should not be forgotten or dismissed.
REPLY: Yes, the state and local levels are varied. My discussion was confined to federal, which is what Ben Franklin was opposed to. There are many regions in the state and local level where the judges are elected by the people. This too I see as wrong for they are still being sponsored by the Republican or Democratic Party and are declared as members. This still intertwines politics and does not eliminate the problem of bias.
I believe that Franklin was correct. The judges should NOT stand for election for that will transform the law into just the will of the majority. There was a case Nix v. Williams, 467 U.S. 431 (1984) which resulted in changing our constitutional rights because politically they demanded that a black guy be found guilty for killing a white 10-year-old girl. The police could not simply transport him after his lawyer got him to self-surrender. The lawyer warned the police not to question him on the way to the jail. They did any way. The officers began a conversation with respondent that ultimately resulted in his making incriminating statements and directing the officers to the child’s body.
A federal court in a habeas corpus proceeding found that the police had obtained respondent’s incriminating statements through interrogation in violation of his Sixth Amendment right to counsel. Brewer v. Williams, 430 U. S. 387. They had to put him on trial again using evidence concerning the body’s location. Legally, that should have never been allowed. But because this was a black man who had mental problems and a 10-year-old white girl, the thought of letting him walk was just politically unacceptable. The court thus created a rule known as the Inevitable Discovery Rule meaning that it was irrelevant that he showed the police where the body was buried, because the court ruled that they would have eventually found the body.
The impact of that political decision is that police really do not need a search warrant today, they merely have to sweep an unconstitutional illegal search and seizure under the table and rule that had they obtained a search warrant, they would have inevitably found the same evidence.
This is the problem when you mix politics with law. In order to make sure that this one black guy was punished, the entire society had to be stripped of our absolute right against illegal search and seizure. If the government wants you, you have no Constitutional rights whatsoever. Law has become the justification for legal persecution. Sir William Blackstone, upon whose seminal legal work was to found the foundation of American law, wrote: It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer. That is the way the law is supposed to work. When you mix politics with judges, there is no rule of law that remains. The statue of justice is supposed to be blind symbolizing impartiality. That is merely fiction – like once upon a time.
The corruption of the Rule of Law was always an English past time, which the Americans inherited and greatly improved upon. The idea of justice is merely a fictional dream. Charles Dickens wrote in his introduction to Bleak House;
“This is the Court of Chancery ..• Suffer any wrong that can be done you, rather than come here!”
Categories: Rule of Law
Pelosi’s New Years Eve Party!
PARTYING WITH PELOSI
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi loves money. That’s why she spends so much of her time fundraising. She is good at hitting up large corporations and wealthy donors.
As for her constituents? She spouts off the usual blue city leftist rhetoric to keep them placated. She represents California’s 12th congressional district, which mostly consists of the city of San Francisco. That city has degenerated under her rule. Its streets are littered with human feces and drug needles. The homeless don’t have money, so they don’t appear on Nancy’s radar.
Pelosi caters to the rich, limousine liberals who can afford to live there. She knows money is power and her wealth bought her a lot of influence in the Democratic Party. Just like Hillary did with her corrupt Clinton Foundation, Pelosi has amassed vast wealth as a politician—she’s worth well over $100 million. Some estimate her wealth is much greater than that. She made sure her son, Paul Pelosi Jr., got paid off, too. Like Hunter Biden, he was involved in kickbacks and Ukraine corruption.
It remains to be seen what Pelosi will do in 2020 to help thwart Trump’s reelection. Her Trump Derangement Syndrome will not be cured any time soon and her endless thirst for money will remain unquenched.
Judge Jackson & the Lack of Judicial Impartiality
Re-Posted Dec 31, 2019 by Martin Armstrong
QUESTION: I get your point that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is predisposed to the Democrats and was considered by Obama for the Supreme Court. How would you reform such political cases? Do you believe she had any basis to honor the Subpoena?
ANSWER: I find it very curious that the Democrats would seek a civil order to compel White House counsel Don McGahn to testify when it should have been a contempt of Congress and handed over to the Department of Justice. There is such a thing as Attorney Client Privilege. But let’s put that aside. As far back as the 1790s, it was established that contempt of Congress was considered an “implied power” of the legislature, on the basis that such a power existed in the British Parliament despite the fact we had a revolution against British powers. Congress was able to issue contempt citations against numerous individuals for a variety of actions without express powers granted to it by the Constitution.
Robert Randal was held in contempt of Congress for an attempt to bribe Representative William Smith of South Carolina back in 1795. Bribing a politician was then seen as a contempt of the legislative power. If that was applied today with lobbyists, there would not be enough jail space to house everyone.
Then there was William Duane, who was a newspaper editor who had refused to answer Senate questions in 1800. The freedom of the press seems to have been ignored from very early on when it involved something government demanded. They did the same to Nathaniel Rounsavell who was also a newspaper editor, for publishing sensitive information in the press back in 1812. He was finally released from custody on a house vote which took place on April 7th, 1812 after he agreed to answer the interrogatories.
In Anderson v. Dunn, 19 U.S. 6 Wheat. 204 204 (1821), the Supreme Court held that Congress’ power to hold someone in contempt was essential to ensure that Congress was “… not exposed to every indignity and interruption that rudeness, caprice, or even conspiracy, may mediate against it.” However, the case arose after the House of Representatives punished John Anderson for contempt but it did not identify his alleged offense, It was most likely attempted bribery. The Supreme Court ruled that contempt of Congress would be confined to simply imprisonment and that the person had to be released once the session of Congress was adjourned. They ruled out corporal and capital punishments as the penalty.
The Supreme Court has later warned Congress through its rulings on the use of contempt proceedings that it risked suppressing freedom of speech. Chief Justice Edward White extended protections of the 1821 Anderson v. Dunn ruling in the opinion of the Court in 1917 which ruled a contempt proceeding against a district attorney for statements he made about a House member went “far beyond Congress’ intrinsic power to protect itself.”
The theory that an attempt to bribe a politician was considered contempt of Congress was eventually abandoned in favor of criminal statutes. In 1857, Congress enacted a law that made “contempt of Congress” a criminal offense against the United States (Act of January 24, 1857, Ch. 19, sec. 1, 11 Stat. 155). Actually, the last time Congress arrested and detained a witness was in 1935. Since then, Congress has referred cases to the United States Department of Justice for prosecution. The Office of Legal Counsel has asserted that the President of the United States is protected from contempt by executive privilege. That makes sense whereby Congress could criminally then charge the President and that would then qualify them to be removed from office.
If we turn to Congressional Subpoenas, Congress claims that power is inherent in all of its standing committees as necessary to compel witnesses to testify and produce documents. A Congressional Committee rules provides for the full committee to issue a subpoena, and it authorizes subcommittees or the chairman (acting alone or with the ranking member) to issue subpoenas.
As announced in Wilkinson v. United States 365 U.S. 399 (1961), a Congressional Committee must meet three requirements for its subpoenas. First, the committee’s investigation of the subject matter must be authorized by its chamber. Secondly, any such investigation must pursue “a valid legislative purpose” although it need not actually involve legislation. However, it does not have to specify the ultimate intent of Congress. Thirdly, the specific inquiries must be pertinent to the subject matter area that has been authorized for investigation.
Here is the decision which I believe control. The Court held in Eastland v. United States Servicemen’s Fund, 421 U.S. 491 (1975), that Congressional subpoenas are within the scope of the Speech and Debate Clause which provides “an absolute bar to judicial interference” once it is determined that Members are acting within the “legitimate legislative sphere” with such compulsory process.
Under that Eastland decision, courts generally do not hear motions to quash Congressional subpoenas; even when executive branch officials refuse to comply. Courts tend to rule that such matters are “political questions” unsuitable for judicial remedy. In fact, many legal rights usually associated with a judicial subpoena do not apply to a Congressional subpoena. For example, attorney-client privilege and information that is normally protected under the Trade Secrets Act do not need to be recognized.
Here Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in the district court in Washington ruled that McGahn must testify and that the Justice Department’s argument “is baseless, and as such, cannot be sustained.” The judge ordered McGahn to appear before the House committee and said her conclusion was “inescapable” because a subpoena demand is part of the legal system and was not the political process.
The Supreme Court has made it clear in the Eastland decision, that a Congressional subpoena is NOT judicial (legal) but it involves “political questions” not legal or judicial. I believe her decision is incorrect and it was politically motivated. On the other hand, the proper course of action by Congress should have been to turn it over to the Department of Justice to prosecute criminal contempt. They obviously did not do that and sought to get a judicial decision on a question that is clearly political. She was appointed as a judge by President Obama on September 20, 2012.
I oppose judges being appointed by politicians. I agree with Ben Franklin that the proper system for judges would have been the Scottish system where judges are nominated by fellow lawyers, not politicians to who they may be beholding. While legal scholars tend to look at Article III of the US Constitution as based upon the English legal system modeled on Blackstone’s famous Commentaries on the Laws of England, Franklin argued for the Scottish System that was far superior. Indeed, the Scottish judicial system provided an important, but overlooked, model for the framing of Article III.
Unlike the English system of overlapping original jurisdiction, the Scottish judiciary featured a hierarchical, appellate-style judiciary, with one supreme court sitting at the top and an array of inferior courts of original jurisdiction down below. What’s more, the Scottish judiciary operated within a constitutional framework — the so-called Acts of Union that combined England and Scotland into Great Britain in 1707 retained the independent legal structure of Scotland and prohibited the English courts from interfering with those of Scotland.
The influence of the Scottish judiciary on the language and structure of the US Article III legal framework is clear where there is a Supreme Court with multiple inferior courts that are subordinate to, and subject to the supervisory oversight of, the sole supreme court. The Scottish model thus provides important historical support for the supremacy of the Supreme Court, however, the blending of this with the English system rendered the inferiority in Article III to operate as textual and structural limits on Congress’ jurisdiction-stripping authority from the courts.
Clearly, the most dangerous flaw appears to be intentional – Congress appoints judges not lawyers. This allowed the English legal system to be politically manipulated whereas the Scottish System was really independent. This MUST be corrected to restore the rule of law.
Important Discussion – Col Douglas Macgregor Has Suspicions About Pompeo, Esper and Milley…
Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on December 30, 2019 by sundance
Well, well, well…. we are not alone in our suspicions of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley.
Tonight Col Douglas Macgregor outlines his own suspicions about the U.S. military attack in Iraq and Syria that parallel our initial gut reaction. Macgregor states his belief that President Trump is being “skillfully misinformed”. WATCH:
POTUS has yet to make a comment about it.
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Anne Adams
Anne has been involved with Classical Sheffield since the beginning. Her enthusiasm for Sheffield's music scene is only surpassed by her dedication to music itself. She sings in Sheffield Bach Choir and Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus and is a prolific Twitter-rer!
So, what do you do as a musician in Sheffield?
I sing in the Sheffield Bach Choir and the Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus.
What's your most memorable musical experience in the city?
Hmmm that's a difficult one. I was pretty knocked out when I heard John Martyn at the Student's Union in the early 70s, and by Eric Clapton at the City Hall about 20 years later. But I also remember two particularly fantastic classical concerts at the City Hall - Bryn Terfel and Nicola Benedetti - and the two Classical Sheffield festivals were amazing too.
Which 3 musical guests would you invite to your dream dinner party and why?
I'd definitely invite the young Lithuanian conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla; I saw her at the Proms this year and she was electrifying - I'd love to meet her, she's sooo talented, did you know she didn't play an instrument, she just went straight into conducting and was winning awards almost at once - and she has such passion!
I'd invite Nicola Benedetti as I love her playing and very much admire the work she does with young musicians - not that she's old herself for goodness sake.
And then I'd just have to invite Jacqueline Du Pre - another passionate woman with extraordinary talent, and a very interesting woman - she'd add a bit of spice I reckon! I'm not sure I'd get a word in edgeways with these three though!
If you had to play another instrument, what would it be?
Piano, I really wish I had learned as a youngster.
What was the first record you ever bought?
'I Believe' by the Bachelors - I shudder with horror just to think of it now! In my defence, I was very keen on close harmony when I was a child - I used to make up parts to nursery rhymes and make my two younger sisters sing them!
What’s your favourite music venue in Sheffield and why?
St. Marie's cathedral without a doubt. It has the most exquisite acoustic. I used to sing the psalm there at Sunday Mass and the way the building catches hold of your voice and sends it round the space is truly magical. The Kings Singers sang there a few years ago and they were so impressed they want to come and record there, and the Tallis Scholars are back for a second concert on 16 December. It's definitely the best place to hear choral singing.
What's your first musical memory?
Hearing my Mum sing Irish songs and 'The Black Hills of Dakota' from Calamity Jane. She had a really beautiful soprano voice and I loved to hear her sing round the house. I also remember hearing Rossini's Thieving Magpie overture on our record player. I was about five and couldn't believe my ears, especially that really exciting bit at the end - it still thrills me to this day.
Who has been your most inspiring music teacher?
I'm not sure any have been inspiring, but I remember one of my music teachers at school in Blackburn with great fondness; she was a friend of Kathleen Ferrier's and was a quiet but encouraging influence.
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I love the passion of Juan Ortuno, Musical Director of the Sheffield Symphony Orchestra. It's quite clear that he adores his work with the orchestra, and they are very lucky to be able to have a weekly dose of excitement from this very special person. If I played an instrument I'd be there like a shot!
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Hear Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus sing Mozart's Requiem on Saturday 3 February; written on his deathbed and unfinished, it's one of the most haunting of choral masterpieces - don't miss it.
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Jay, Mandy (1)
SubjectAnimal bones, Dorset, England (1)Bone collagen, human and animal (1)Carbon (1)Cornwall, England (1)
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Stable isotope evidence for British Iron Age diet. Inter- and intra-site variation in carbon and nitrogen from bone collagen at Wetwang in East Yorkshire and sites in East Lothian, Hampshire and Cornwall.
Jay, Mandy (2009-10-23)
This thesis reports an investigation of Iron Age diet in Britain using carbon and nitrogen stable isotope data obtained from skeletal material from four locations across England and southern Scotland. Both human and animal bone Collagen has been analysed from Wetwang in East Yorkshire and other sites in East Lothian, Hampshire and Cornwall. Animal bone from Dorset has also been included. The aims of the study were to characterize British Iron Age diet in general isotopic terms and also to provide a contextual base for future analysis which allows an understanding of both inter- and intra-site variation in such data for this and other periods. The comparisons across the locations allowed consideration of geographical variability within England and southern Scotland and included material from coastal sites (Cornwall and East Lothian), from sites with easy access to rivers and estuaries (Hampshire) and an inland site where access to water would have been more difficult (Wetwang). All human groups were consuming high levels of animal protein and there was very little evidence for the consumption of aquatic resources. There was significant variation in 815N values between the locations, which was reflected both in the humans and the herbivores, such that it is likely to be related to environmental rather than to dietary differences. Intra-site group comparisons at Wetwang showed very little variation within the cemetery population IM according to age, sex, subjective status category or site phase. The data were very consistent within the populations, although those for Hampshire displayed more variation in nitrogen.
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Puzzle: Define HTML custom element subclasses that can fill in base class insertion points
Posted on June 11, 2013 by Jan Miksovsky
This post presents a little web component architectural puzzle which I’ve come across in the early stages of creating Quetzal. The puzzle deals with how Quetzal should best deliver an important component service on an HTML custom element substrate, and relates specifically to subclassing semantics. Any suggestions or comments would be much appreciated.
Background on the puzzle
Quetzal is an attempt to deliver key features of the QuickUI component model in HTML custom elements. One such feature is that an element subclass should be able to easily populate a slot (insertion points, in HTML parlance) defined by a base class. In practice, there are many situations in which you want to be able to say, “This new UI component should be just like that existing UI component, only with some stuff pre-filled in.” For example:
The QuickUI documentation presents a simple page template example in which classes in a small page template hierarchy fill in specific bits of their parents classes.
A DateComboBox fills in the popup portion of a ComboBox, which in turn is filling the content portion of a PopupSource. This same facility is also used throughout the QuickUI Catalog. Moreover, it is used in many QuickUI apps in which a stock Catalog component is specialized for the app’s context.
Along those same lines, this same issue should crop up in any organization that tries to create a library of standard components which implement the organization’s visual design language. Suppose your site’s designer has created a cool button class as an HTML custom element, and you have used that to create an Add to Cart button. You write some script so the button can show inside the button the existing number of items in a customer’s online shopping cart (to the right of the button label, say). You now want to package up the Add to Cart button so that it can be used as a component in its own right. For flexibility, you want the button’s text label to vary in places.
Well-defined subclassing semantics are essential for creating a UI component library with a good separation of concerns. If you look at the class hierarchy depicted for DateComboBox (above), you’ll get a sense of the degree to which it’s possible to portion out specific roles to a small constellation of classes, such that each class can focus on just doing one thing really well.
I’m hoping that it is possible to take advantage of such subclassing semantics in HTML custom elements — but it’s not proving to be particularly easy.
The puzzle is to come up with an architecture for custom element subclasses that meets the following design criteria:
An instance of a subclass is a proper instance of its base class. All the normal JavaScript stuff should work: property/method access should go up the prototype chain, and a subclass instance should report that it is an “instanceof” the base class. By default, the HTML <element> syntax permits an “extends” attribute to identify a base class, but a purely script-based solution that sets up the class hierarchy correctly is equally valid.
A subclass can put stuff into an insertion point defined by the base class. That is, the subclass can fill in a slot (or slots) defined by a base class. In turn, the subclass should be able to redefine such an insertion point so that the subclass itself can be subclassed.
Unless overridden, all base class behavior should function properly in an instance of the subclass. E.g., if the base class wires up an event handler, then this works as expected for subclass instances too.
Base class properties/methods can be overridden by the subclass. A subclass’ property/method implementation should be able to invoke the base class’ implementation by whatever language means are necessary. (CoffeeScript provides sugar for this; plain JavaScript developers have alternate ways of achieving the same result.)
The base class can be any HTML custom element class; the base class author shouldn’t have to do special work a priori to enable this kind of subclassing. This ensures a Quetzal author can always use someone else’s element class as a base class — even if that other person has never heard of Quetzal.
A successful solution needs to meet all five of these criteria. So far, the approaches I’ve tried can satisfy at most four at a time.
Let’s walk through a example from the small set of custom elements currently shown on the Quetzal home page. This set includes a base element class called quetzal-button that shows its content inside a button, and another element class called icon-button which adds an icon to the plain-button content. For clarity, here let’s just call that base class plain-button instead of quetzal-button, since the following source won’t actually involve Quetzal. In any event, we want markup like this:
<plain-button>Plain button</plain-button>
<icon-button icon="document.png">Icon button</icon-button>
… to produce something like this:
Where icon-button is reusing all the styling and behavior from plain-button; it’s not duplicating the styling and behavior. The challenge is to create the icon-button element so it both inherits (in the class sense) from plain-button and extends the visual representation of plain-button.
A partial solution to filling in base class insertion points
The first challenge is: how can icon-button add elements to the content shown by plain-button? Some approaches:
We could try to apply the template for both plain-button and icon-button to the same host element. The Shadow DOM spec supports multiple shadow trees attached to the same host. This feature alone is insufficient for the above example. Unless one shadow tree takes care to incorporate the other somehow, the most recently-added shadow subtree wins. If plain-button renders last, we get a button but no icon; if icon-button renders last, we get an icon but no button.
We can include a <shadow> element in the template for icon-button, and ensure plain-button renders its shadow subtree first. The <shadow> element allows icon-button to effectively include the representation for plain-button. Unfortunately, this inclusion effectively wraps the base representation, rather than filling it in. An icon-button does get a button and an icon, but the icon and content render outside an empty button:
We can have icon-button create an instance of its own base class, then have that instance contain the icon and the icon-button’s own content. (This approach is based on a suggestion from Shadow DOM spec author Dimitri Glazkov.)
Approach #3 does what we want from a strictly visual perspective. (Behavior is a separate matter.) The source for a Polymer element version of this approach looks something like:
<element name="plain-button" extends="button">
<content></content>
</element>
<element name="icon-button" extends="plain-button" attributes="icon">
<plain-button>
<img src="{{icon}}">
</plain-button>
See a live example of this. It should work in most browsers, but use Chrome if you want to see it working with real Shadow DOM. (Note: a Chrome bug prevents the buttons from responding correctly to mouse interactions. The buttons do receive mouse events, but for now it just doesn’t look that way.)
If you open the example and inspect it in Chrome dev tools, you’ll see that an icon-button has a shadow subtree containing a plain-button; the plain-button contains its own shadow subtree. Content of an <icon-button> element is therefore distributed twice: once into the <plain-button> element, and then again into the native <button> element. The ability of Shadow DOM to distribute nodes multiple times is called reprojection. (Or, at least, it meets the definition of reprojection as I understand it: “when an insertion point is a child node of another shadow host”.)
Inheritance versus containment
Unfortunately, while this approach looks right, it doesn’t behave quite right. An icon-button here is not only an instance of plain-button, it also contains a plain-button. That’s problematic.
When icon-button instantiates its inner plain-button, the inner button has no way to know its relationship to icon-button. Among other things, this means icon-button can’t easily override behavior defined by plain-button (one of the design criteria above). In the JS Bin example, you can turn on the Console pane to see debug output. The plain-button element class defines a readyCallback (in Polymer, “ready”) that invokes a base class method called log(). The icon-button class overrides that log() method, but because the inner plain-button is just that — a plain-button — its readyCallback will invoke the base plain-button implementation of log() instead of icon-button’s specialized log() implementation. Running the demo invokes log() four times, when: 1) creating an instance of plain-button to use as the prototype for icon-button, 2) creating the visible plain-button with text “Plain button”, 3) creating the inner plain-button used by the visible icon-button, and 4) creating the visible icon-button with text “Icon button”. It’s #3 and #4 together that are the problem: what we really wanted to do is invoke icon-button’s log() implementation once.
Automatic element references (a la Polymer, and also in Quetzal) aren’t inherited by default. If plain-button defines an element with id #foo, then plain-button methods can access that element via the automatic reference this.$.foo. Similarly, we want an icon-button to have access to the same reference this.$.foo defined by the base class. (Or, at least, we can debate whether such automatic references should be treated as “private” or “protected”, but it seems to me that “protected” would be useful.) It’s possible to work around this particular issue for a known set of frameworks — that is, Quetzal could workaround this problem for its own classes, and perhaps for those defined by Polymer — but it wouldn’t work in the general case of an unknown framework.
It’s easy to end up in situations where both icon-button and plain-button are duplicating work. Suppose an icon-button method invokes a super-method of the same name defined by plain-button, and suppose the base implementation of that method performs expensive work or obtains a reference to some resource. When the inner plain-button is instantiated, it might do that work — and then the same work or allocation might be repeated by the outer icon-button when it invokes the super-method. Conventions could be established to avoid this, but it would complicate otherwise simple situations, and again make it hard to use subclass elements from other frameworks.
As a common case of the above point, if the inner plain-button wires up an event handler, then it’s easy to end up in situations where the event is bound by both the inner plain-button and the outer icon-button. If the event bubbles up from something inside plain-button (a click on the button, say), you would end up handling the same event twice.
We could try to simplify things by just containing an plain-button, and not deriving from it. This forces us to give up one of the original design criteria outlined above: an instance of icon-button wouldn’t actually appear to be an “instanceof” plain-button. Moreover, if plain-button defined some attributes (“disabled”, say), icon-button would have to explicitly handle those too and forward their implementation to the inner plain-button.
We could have icon-button create a placeholder element (a <div>, say), create a shadow root for it, and populate that root with a copy of plain-button’s template but without actually instantiating that inner element as a real, live plain-button. This is the approach that Quetzal currently uses. It solves a number of problems, but is dependent on knowing how a given base element class works. Quetzal reaches into the base class’ implementation to obtain its template and then clones it, which might not be possible with other frameworks. This violates one of the design criteria above.
We could create a temporary instance of plain-button elsewhere, then clone just its contents into the icon-button instance. This avoids requiring detailed knowledge of what the base class is doing. But it could also result in subtle problems. E.g., the base class might not be expecting to have to serialize all its state into its shadow subtree, in which case the cloned content might not represent a coherent instance of the base class.
Looking for suggestions
This post is effectively a form of rubber duck debugging. The simple act of writing this up has forced me to better understand the problem, and led to consideration of alternate lines of attack. The puzzle remains unsolved, however. Given my understanding of custom elements, and the design criteria for the puzzle above, I’m not sure whether a solution exists.
It’s theoretically possible I’ve hit some limit in the expressiveness permitted to custom elements in their current state. Perhaps that limitation could be addressed. If not, I’d have to write off a big chunk of the solutions used by the QuickUI Catalog and QuickUI apps, and find alternate ways of meeting the same needs.
I’m hoping, however, that I’m just missing something. If you have some passing familiarity with HTML custom elements and Shadow DOM, and have ideas about how to approach this problem within the existing technology, I’d love to hear them!
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Do web component developers still need jQuery?
Posted on June 4, 2013 by Jan Miksovsky
I love you, jQuery. But maybe it’s time we started spending some time apart.
Improvements in cross-browser feature set and compatibility are reducing the need for jQuery, but more importantly, it turns out that a component-based app needs very little jQuery to begin with. These insights led to one of the first decisions I hit in starting Quetzal: should it require jQuery? The answer, so far, is no.
Since its inception in 2007, QuickUI has relied on jQuery as a crucial browser abstraction layer. Without jQuery, QuickUI would have never have come to exist. However, the QuickUI runtime itself only uses a fairly small set of core jQuery functions, and modern browsers now deliver standards-based solutions for those situations. Moreover, I’ve noticed that, when building QuickUI component-based apps, component code tends to rarely require sophisticated jQuery.
Meanwhile, the web has moved forward. The modern browsers — the latest Chrome, Safari, Mozilla, and Internet Explorer 10+ — are all much, much more consistent to develop for than browsers were six years ago. Glancing at pages on QuirksMode, one generally sees a see of green compliance, with most of the red markers of non-compliance for older versions of IE. And according to StatCounter, market shares for both IE 8 and 9 have now dropped below 10% (each), so it’s plausible for mainstream organizations to justify ignoring them.
Let’s break down the things jQuery is good at, and consider how necessary are in a web component-based application (specifically) targeting the modern browsers:
Handling an array of DOM objects. It’s convenient to be able to apply a jQuery function or plugin to a jQuery object containing a collection of DOM elements. However, modern web languages (CoffeeScript, ES6, etc.) provide syntax for iterating over a collection, substantially reducing the need for a special library for this purpose. And, while jQuery’s array model is easy to consume, it also makes writing components harder. QuickUI control classes inherit from jQuery, which means every QuickUI class method has to consider the possibility it’s being applied to multiple objects at a time, not just one. In practice, that’s been a consistent source of complexity and bugs.
Selectors. The standard querySelector and querySelectorAll functions provide a reasonable way to find matching elements. (I believe those functions were at least partially inspired by jQuery.) I’ve heard that jQuery’s Sizzle engine provides more power than querySelector, but again, in a component-based app, you’re rarely doing sophisticated searching of the DOM. In practice, when I’m writing an app with QuickUI components, I do very, very little searching of the DOM. Every QuickUI component already has its own reference to exactly the sub-elements it cares about. Polymer does something similar with automatic node finding. With such facilities in place, there’s no need to grovel around in the DOM to find something you’re looking for. In fact, with Shadow DOM, the things you’re probably looking for aren’t even findable. This is a good thing; encapsulation is preventing you from writing brittle code. Every time you do a $(“#foo”), you’re running the risk of picking up the wrong #foo — maybe not today, but tomorrow, when someone else adds a #foo element somewhere on the page. In Quetzal or Polymer, you never search for something like that; a component already has a direct reference (this.$.foo) to the element you want to manipulate. Unlike a DOM search, dereferencing is instantaneous and 100% reliable.
Traversing. Ditto. In practice, component subtrees — that is, the set of elements managed directly by a component — just aren’t that deep. A deep subtree is, in fact, often an indicator that component refactoring is in order. It’s exactly analogous to the way a deeply-nested set of code blocks (conditionals, loops) within a single function usually indicates the function should be refactored. Nearly all the time a QuickUI component needs to traverse the DOM, it wants to iterate over its own set of children — which, as noted above, can now be easily done in a modern language with decent syntax.
DOM manipulation. As browsers have become more consistent in the semantics of DOM operations, jQuery feels less necessary here. And much of the jQuery DOM manipulations one sees are a means to set up all or part of the DOM. in jQuery, one often sees code like: “Find all the divs of class ‘.menuItem’, and wrap them, stuff them, and wire them up so that they turn into menu items.” The existence of web components provides a much better way to accomplish the same result. All the population can be done through custom elements that provide a template for their DOM. That said, jQuery does provide a useful collection of helper functions. For example, to me it feels easier to use jQuery’s css() method, which can take a JavaScript object as a parameter, than use the raw DOM “style” property directly. Generally speaking, the DOM API feels more like an old school C API, while jQuery feels like a JavaScript API.
Function chaining. jQuery chaining lets you concisely apply a set of selector, traversal, and manipulation operations. In practice, all three of those types of operations come up less often in a web component-based app. In particular, one often sees long chains of jQuery function calls when populating the DOM, but a <template> is a cleaner way to do that declaratively. Over the years, in QuickUI apps, I’ve noticed that I use jQuery chaining less and less often, to the point where I only rarely take advantage of it today.
Events. Microsoft IE 9 finally added support for addEventListener, so that it’s possible to wire up event handlers in a consistent way. I expect there are still many discrepancies lurking in the details — when each browser decides to fire an event, for example — that might prove tricky to work around without an abstraction layer like jQuery that can normalize behavior.
Effects. CSS transitions and transition events now provide an easy, cross-browser way to do many of the same effects jQuery was first noted for. For years, the jQuery home page used to have a simple demo which, when you clicked a button, made a new DOM element appear with a transition effect. Such effects are now easily achievable without jQuery.
Data. jQuery provided a useful $.data service to associate data with DOM elements, because a browser’s garbage collector can get confused when DOM elements and JavaScript objects reference each other. The various browsers also had myriad bugs and inconsistencies with regard to extending DOM elements. So UI framework developers like those on Prototype gave up on extending the DOM. However, as far as I can tell from the way Polymer is tackling things, extending the DOM now appears to work (generally) as expected. So perhaps $.data is no longer necessary.
Ajax. I don’t write a ton of Ajax code myself, so for argument’s sake, let’s stipulate that jQuery’s Ajax wrappers are handier than directly working with XMLHttpRequest. In particular, jQuery’s use of promises as a data type simplify the task of writing async code. Perhaps for the time being, this particular aspect of jQuery is worth using on its own. A proposed browser standard for futures may reduce that benefit, however.
Plugins. Many, many of the jQuery plugins that exist today essentially create component-like things. These plugins effectively constitute a DOM template with some packaged behavior. I’d argue that a web component is a clearer, more maintainable way to achieve the same result. Encapsulation, in particular, is a huge advance to providing robust components. Moreover, many other uses for plugins could now be achieved by extending DOM elements directly.
Generally speaking, in a component-based app, you want to give each component the responsibility for managing its own appearance and behavior. You don’t want code walking all over the DOM tree and mucking around with things that aren’t its direct responsibility. Instead, you talk to the component managing the part of the DOM you care about, and ask that component to manipulate the elements it directly owns. In classic object-oriented programming terms, this is an application of the Law of Demeter.
In practice, compartmentalizing things that way leaves each component doing very simple manipulations on a comparatively small set of elements: instantiating a new element; iterating over its own children; applying or removing a style; etc. If a component wants to do something more sophisticated to its internals, more likely than not the component should delegate that operation to one of its own sub-components. The component’s own need to search is limited, reducing the need for a powerful selector/traversal engine. And, given a reasonably good programming language, simple DOM manipulations can be performed effectively — and with better performance — by directly accessing the DOM API.
I’m no cross-browser DOM API expert, and I’ve only just started to try to do things without jQuery. I could easily hit a landmine tomorrow, tripping upon some cross-browser nastiness I’ve been blithely unaware of, which jQuery for years has been invisibly and reliably been protecting me from. That said, work on Quetzal is progressing fairly smoothly without jQuery, and a week or two into this project, I’m not missing most of jQuery. It would be nice to have a much smaller library of helper functions which present a more JavaScript-flavored approach to the DOM API, as in jQuery’s css(), mentioned above.
From one standpoint, you could say I’ve just traded one browser abstraction layer (jQuery) for another (Polymer’s platform.js). However, platform.js feels like a pretty different animal than jQuery:
The beauty of Polymer’s approach of polyfilling forthcoming web standards in older browsers is that you can write code against the abstraction layer today that should invisibly start working against native implementations where and when those exist. It’s still early, and that promise remains to be proven — but that’s a very compelling promise.
Those future standards mean you’re working with facilities that someday every other developer will have (whether they want them or not). You’re writing code on top of a library that could get smaller over time, not larger.
The other difference with platform.js, as far as today’s web component developers are concerned, is that it’s really the only game in town. Unless you have the luxury of targeting the latest release of Chrome, you’ll need to use platform.js (or the complete polymer.js) to run on other browsers.
If one’s goal is to write components that many people will use, it makes sense to reduce the number of additional dependencies. If jQuery’s not required, then the lack of that dependency to some degree facilitates sharing.
We’ll see how the Quetzal experiment evolves, but so far, writing directly to the DOM API is working out okay.
So, jQuery, maybe we should spend some time apart. Maybe we should see some other people. It’s not you — it’s me! Don’t worry; I might miss you terribly and come running back. Or maybe we’ll just be friends.
It’s okay. We’ll always have IE6.
Quetzal: an experimental translation of the QuickUI component model to HTML custom elements
I’ve started an experiment called Quetzal that considers translating the core concepts from QuickUI to the proposed web component standards currently embodied by Polymer.
[Update June 13, 2014: The Quetzal project has grown into an open source project called Basic Web Components. Please take a look!]
While continuing working on QuickUI, I’ve been tracking the progress of the Google-led efforts on web components: custom elements, Shadow DOM, and related advances in the web platform. Those technologies address many of the same issues QuickUI addresses, so I’ve been trying to chart a path by which QuickUI and web components could co-evolve.
Until recently, those web component technologies were generally available only on Google Chrome, which means QuickUI can’t rely on them. However, since the start of the year I’ve been watching Google’s Polymer project which, among other things, offers a suite of polyfills that allows one to create and use components in the other “modern” browsers, including recent versions of Safari, Firefox, and Internet Explorer 10+. Polymer offers a fairly compelling story for using those future browser technologies today.
I’ve spent a bit of time looking at how to retrofit support for Shadow DOM and other aspects of web components into QuickUI. While that’s led to some progress, I’m not entirely sure that that’s the best approach. To ensure this is being done the best way, I’d like to try an alternative approach build from scratch directly on top of a custom element substrate. That experiment is Quetzal.
There are a number of aspects of QuickUI that I believe are quite compelling, and which are either not easily supported in the proposed web standards, or appear under-represented in the current body of web components work. My goal in Quetzal is to explore whether those aspects of QuickUI have meaning in the world of web components, and what’s the best way to bring those benefits forward. Some of those aspects of QuickUI I would very much like to see carried forward to the world of custom elements are:
A focus on subclassing as a means to achieve well-factored code, including a good separation of concerns. This includes an approach to populating the DOM in which an element class can fill in properties and content slots defined by their base classes.
The ability to concisely define component appearance and behavior in script instead of markup. While the <element> syntax is part of the standard, and therefore a useful baseline, markup feels limiting compared to what’s possible in script. A compact JavaScript object format can be at least as expressive, and possibly more expressive, than HTML.
A convention for multiple, named, DOM-valued properties.
The ability to run code when an element’s contents change.
Syntactic sugar for quickly defining common types of component properties.
Helper functions for tasks that come up often in UI component design. This includes, for example, a lightweight model by which an element can respond to changes in its size in order to perform custom layout.
A significant library of well-designed web user interface components, including a large number of useful base classes that people can use directly as the starting point for their own work.
The Quetzal experiment seeks to preserve the above features, while still allowing a designer or developer to create new custom elements which can interoperate with custom elements created by any other means (e.g., as Polymer elements).
Some early technical decisions for Quetzal:
I’m leaving jQuery out of Quetzal. I’ll go into that decision in more detail later, but the bottom line is that jQuery no longer seems absolutely necessary for web development. When QuickUI began back in 2007, jQuery was a vital cross-browser abstraction layer, but browsers have become a lot more consistent in the intervening years. If you look at the browsers currently supported by Polymer, the core DOM API appears consistent enough that it’s not overly cumbersome to use directly. And while any custom element library should support jQuery use, it would be nice if jQuery weren’t a requirement.
For the time being, Quetzal is written in CoffeeScript rather than plain JavaScript. I find CoffeeScript much more expressive, more productive, and easier to think in than plain JavaScript. As with QuickUI (which is also written in CoffeeScript), Quetzal elements can of course be created and extended in plain JavaScript. Still, I recognize that using CoffeeScript limits one’s audience. If Quetzal were to evolve to be a real open source project, I might feel the need to back-port it to JavaScript.
Quetzal only relies on the lower-level platform.js library created by the Polymer project, rather than the higher-level polymer.js library or the (higher still) library of Polymer elements. The Polymer home page currently includes an architectural diagram illustrating the relationship between these two libraries. Quetzal builds on the lowest, red-colored platform.js level, not the higher yellow or green levels. In this regard, Quetzal is comparable to Polymer elements. Because both rely on web standards, the results should be easily interoperable. As a side effect, Quetzal should also help prove out the ability of someone other than Google to build a UI component framework on top of platform.js.
I’m currently working and testing primarily in Chrome. At various points, I check to make sure Polymer is polyfilling everything correctly under other browsers, but at this early stage, it’s likely stuff will appear wonky in other browsers.
Quetzal isn’t ready for real use yet: it does just a few things at this stage, it’s not document, it’s buggy, it doesn’t work cross-browser (even with polyfilled custom elements), etc. But I wanted to announce the experiment now so that I can follow up here with additional posts as I go along. Work on Quetzal is generating questions I want to ask others, and to provide context for those things it’s going to be helpful to be able to reference Quetzal posts here and source code on GitHub. After exploring some ideas, Quetzal’s useful life may come to an end, or its lessons might get folded back into QuickUI, or it may evolve into a library of Polymer elements.
If you’re interested in following along, subscribe to this blog, and/or follow me on Twitter and Google+.
Jan Miksovsky
Main QuickUI site
Some lessons from an open source project that never gained critical mass
Ending active development of QuickUI
Filling in base class slots with the awesome new capability of the shadow element
Polymer list box and combo box elements
Quetzal, take 2: creating general-purpose UI components as Polymer elements
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Book Review: The Tygrine Cat
The Tygrine Cat
by Inbali Iserles
The Queen of the Tygrine Cats faces defeat at the hands of their ancient enemy, the Sa. Knowing that she cannot survive, but determined to save her people, she sends her young son Mati off to a strange land, and protects him with a spell of forgetting, while she sacrifices herself to save him.
Mati survives on the ship, eating scraps and drinking from a dripping shower stall, until the ship docks at the port of Cressida Lock. There Mati, alone and afraid, and with only scraps of memory of his former life, encounters a band of feral cats living in the catacombs under the leadership of a tomcat named Pirrup: The Courageous Chief Pangur, Lord of the Realm, or just Pangur for short. The Cressida Lock cats are suspicious of Mati, but agree to take him in at the encouragement of Sparrow, a kindly but eccentric older tom.
Mati is befriended not only by Sparrow, but by Domino, a young black and white cat, and Jess, a former housecat who get lost and couldn’t find her way home. But Mati has enemies, too, both within and without. Among the Cressida Lock cats, there are some who still mistrust Mati because he’s different, and who want to see him banished. And Mati is pursued by an ancient evil from his distant homeland, an evil determined to kill Mati and rule the world.
The Tygrine Cat is a good story with appealing characters, and overall I enjoyed it. Author Inbali Iserles’ writing shows promise – there are some lovely descriptive passages and creative metaphors – but it’s not as tightly controlled as it might be. For example, it’s sometimes jarring that in one paragraph things are mentioned in human terms that a cat wouldn’t understand, and a paragraph or two later we’re seeing the world through the cats’ eyes using their own language and way of describing things. I’m probably spoiled from reading too many Warriors books; Erin Hunter does a lovely job of keeping us immersed in the cats’ world, and I think I was expecting more of that.
Still, there was a lot to like about this book and I think it will have strong appeal for fans of animal fantasy, as well as those who interested in ancient religions and mysticism. The characters were well-drawn and appealing to cat lovers, and the plot was interesting, with some unique ties to ancient Egypt.
Edit: in re-reading this review, I think the tone of it was more negative than I intended it to be. I found this to be a good book overall, and I only had a few minor quibbles with it, so I edited the review to better reflect my overall opinion of the book without minimizing its shortcomings.
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Time reading: 3 hours
Time blogging: 1 hour
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Franchomme Edition featured in Le Violoncelle!
Selected Works for Cello and Piano by Auguste Franchomme, Edited and with Introduction by Louise Dubin (Dover Publications, 2017) headlines the recommended scores in Le Violoncelle‘s September 2017 issue! This is the magazine of the Association Française du Violoncelle…my copy arrived just recently, so this post is a bit late.
Click here for more information about the edition:
Info Sheet Selected Works for Cello and Piano Franchomme ed intr Dubin
This entry was posted in Scholarly and tagged Association Francaise du Violoncelle, cello, Dover, Franchomme, violoncelle on January 10, 2018 by weezeedee.
religieuse poésie: a concert review from 1853
© Louise Dubin 2017
On February 16, 1848, Chopin gave his first concert in Paris since 1842, at the Salle Pleyel, nº 22 rue Rochechouart. The cost of tickets was unprecedented: 20 francs for each of the 300 seats available (the best seat at the Opera went for 12 francs). The program included Chopin’s first public performance of his new sonata for piano and cello, Op. 65, with its dedicatee, Auguste Franchomme. Little did anyone know that this would be Chopin’s final publication; nor that this concert would be Chopin’s last in Paris, ever. Less than a week later, the 1848 Revolution erupted, forcing King Louis-Philippe to flee and eventually to abdicate the throne. Chopin left Paris shortly afterwards, and when he returned he was too ill to perform.
Franchomme and Chopin played only the last three movements of the sonata in 1848 because, according to Frederick Niecks, a misguided listener at a house run-through had criticized the first movement as “too obscure, involved too many ideas.” After Chopin’s death, Franchomme returned to the Salle Pleyel to perform the complete Op. 65 on April 6, 1853, with Thomas Tellefsen, who’d studied with Chopin for a few years and become his friend. This time, nobody complained about the first movement.
Léon Kreutzer published his account in the Revue et Gazette Musicale de Paris on April 10th, 1853: “Le morceau principal était une sonate de Chopin, pour piano et violoncelle…cette oeuvre a quelque chose d’intime et de mystérieux, c’est que tout en elle est plaintif et mélancolique… Franchomme, sur son eloquent violoncelle, a trouvé des accents admirables, qui donnaient aux belles melodies de Chopin une suavité pénétrante et pleine de religieuse poésie.”
“The main piece was a sonata by Chopin for cello and piano…the piece has something intimate and mysterious, everything in it is plaintive and melancholic… Franchomme, on his eloquent cello, found admirable expression, giving the beautiful melodies of Chopin a penetrating sweetness, full of religious poetry.”
They sure knew how to write about a great concert back then!
This entry was posted in Scholarly and tagged cello, Chopin, Franchomme, Op. 65, Paris, Piano, Salle Pleyel, Sonata, Sonate, Tellefsen, violoncelle on December 18, 2017 by weezeedee.
Dover Franchomme edition now @laBnF and other libraries!
I’m thrilled and honored to announce that the Dover edition of out-of-print works by Auguste Franchomme is now in the collection of the Music Department of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, where I did much of the research for its Introduction. May it help others further the research! http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb45334257s
Je suis ravie et honoreé d’annoncer l’édition d’Auguste Franchomme est @laBnF, Paris où j’espère la recherche peut aider les autres chercheurs/euses!
View some of the other libraries that have this book in their collections here, including Juilliard, U of Chicago, Columbia, and UNC at Chapel Hill: http://www.worldcat.org/title/selected-works-for-cello-and-piano/oclc/987981607&referer=brief_results
If you’d like your own copy, it’s for sale at Dover, Amazon (worldwide), Barnes and Noble and other booksellers.
This entry was posted in Scholarly and tagged BnF, cello, Chopin, Dover, Franchomme, Handel, Mozart, Paris, Piano, repertoire, research on September 21, 2017 by weezeedee.
Chopin’s influences, Pt. 2: Chopin’s solo piano music and the cello, by Sara Davis Buechner
The influences upon Franchomme by Chopin are multifold, as I’ve written in my doctoral thesis, my album notes and most recently in Dover’s Franchomme publication. But what about the influences of the cellist upon Chopin? A few weeks ago, I wrote this post from my cellist’s perspective. I recently discussed the topic by email with the celebrated (and now cello-brated) pianist Sara Davis Buechner, whom I’m honored to call my friend. I invited her to write her own essay about this, and she replied:
Dear Louise:
I was tempted to politely dismiss your kind invitation yesterday to write a little something about Chopin and the cello, yet this morning recalled the many piano lessons that have turned into frustrating urgings to students, who seem to know nothing of string playing, chamber music in general, or the importance of phrasing, breathing, bowing, etc. So out of PURE SELFISHNESS, I looked up a few favorite “cello” passages in my Chopin scores, and cobbled together a little essay for you. I will be sharing it with my piano students, too! Thanks, Louise, and bravo again on the Franchomme project! Yay!
Her essay follows! As I told Sara, there’s clearly much more to be written about this fascinating topic – but if you’d like to use any of this material, please contact me for citation instructions.
Notes On Chopin and the Cello
by Sara Davis Buechner ©2017
The extraordinary piano music of Frédéric Chopin (1810 – 1849) –being enough discussed, over-played, and analyzed to death, by too many performers, teachers and musicologists — is not a subject much given to my own natural literary impulses, in terms of adding yet more commentary to that already immense (if valuable) pile. Nonetheless the Dover re-publication of cello music by Chopin’s devoted friend August Franchomme (1808 – 1884), in a new edition by my esteemed colleague Louise Dubin, elicits my observations here.
Responsible pianists everywhere place great attention on the dextrous innovations largely credited to Chopin at the outset of the Romantic Era — a style of writing for the instrument that is quintessentially pianistic in terms of exploiting the human hand’s natural ability to project the myriad colors and shadings of the piano. In the course of conquering the manifold technical difficulties inherent in any fine performance of Chopin’s works, the pianist must also unravel the many influences upon the Polish master that contributed to his bold, even revolutionary musical style — Bach’s counterpoint; Mozart’s formal purity; the pedagogic innovations of Muzio Clementi, Carl Czerny and Friedrich Kalkbrenner; the folk music of Poland; and most essentially, the lyrical sound, phrasing and breathing of great Italian opera.
Chopin’s intimate and singular melodic genius is buttressed by keen and exciting bass parts, which often exploit his knowledge of the cello. Besides the well known “Cello Étude” in C sharp minor op. 25 no. 7 — an extended melody for the left hand which could easily be performed as a duo with piano (playing the treble line), there are numerous piano pieces in Chopin’s canon whose interpretation can be improved by an awareness of the cellistic sound of certain passages.
There are possibly too many such left-hand passages to enumerate, but a short list could include:
Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise op. 22
The left-hand part of the entire opening Andante could make for a most attractive cello solo Prelude.
Ballade no. 3 in A flat major op. 47
The transitional section in C sharp minor, measures 157 – 165.
Mazurka in C minor op. 56 no. 3
The four-voice contrapuntal nature of the opening measures should lead to a clear examination of the left hand itself, in the nature of a duo for two cellos.
Nocturne in F major op. 15 no. 1
Pianists who over-concentrate on the double-note challenges in the stormy minor passage, measures 37 – 48, often neglect the cellistic nature of the melody in the left hand.
Nocturne in E major op. 62 no. 2
Transitional section, measures 32 – 39.
Piano Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor op. 35
In the middle of the Scherzo movement (“Più lento”), there is a profoundly cello-inspired passage for left hand, measures 144 – 161.
Polonaise-Fantaisie op. 61
The beatific passage beginning at measure 148 (“Poco più lento”) is suffused throughout with lovely ostinato undulations in the left hand, ideal for the sound of the cello.
Prélude in C sharp minor op. 45
This lesser-known Prélude demonstrates one of the most remarkable qualities in Chopin’s style — his ability to transform techniques with larger perspective. Here again one may see cellistic writing in the left hand. But it does not limit itself solely to that interpretation, as the arpeggios that unfold from the bass of the keyboard upward actually reach high, well beyond cello range. As if the cello itself turns into a harp about midway on its journey.
Prélude in B minor op. 28 no. 6
Essentially a melodic study for the left hand.
Waltz in A minor op. 34 no. 2
The opening and closing of this well-known Waltz is essentially a melody for cello, accompanied by the right hand part of the piano.
Lastly, I’ll mention that one of the most-failed question on Piano Literature examinations is: “How many Sonatas did Frédéric write? The answer, of course, being four — the three solo Piano Sonatas and the Sonata for Cello and Piano op. 65, written for Franchomme. It may be fairly argued that of these four works, the Cello Sonata is the most successful, in terms of formal perfection and melodic directness.
We must always recall that, after his output for solo piano (and piano concertos), the next most-explored genres of Chopin’s repertoire consist of chamber music for cello, and vocal music. Clearly in his mind, the sound of these two instruments was similar, alluring, and reflective of what he wished to achieve sonically on the piano. To play Chopin on the piano is always (as my teacher Byron Janis would exhort) to sing. With the right hand Soprano or the left hand Cello.
Sara Davis Buechner, Philadelphia 2017
This entry was posted in Scholarly and tagged Buechner, cello, Chopin, Franchomme, Nocturne, repertoire on August 29, 2017 by weezeedee.
Some juicy details about Dover’s Franchomme Publication/Ma description de la publication Franchomme par Dover
©2017 Do not copy, publish or reproduce without the written permission of Louise Dubin
On May 17, 2017, Dover Publications released Selected Works for Cello and Piano by Auguste Franchomme, with Introduction by Louise Dubin. Many libraries have already acquired it, including Juilliard, Columbia and University of Chicago; check the constantly updating list on worldcat to find a copy near you.
These works have been out of print for over a century, and are reprinted here from their first editions, which include Franchomme’s original fingerings and bowings. The Introduction includes a good representation of my research, as well as some unpublished photos from Franchomme’s descendants. It should be interesting reading for any historian of early Romantic music (he was best friends with Chopin after all), and provide repertoire for cellists looking for unknown pearls. Please read below for more details, in English and French!
Selected Works for Cello and Piano by Auguste Franchomme, with Introduction by Louise Dubin. Dover Publications: Mineola, New York, 17 mai 2017.
Dover Publications a juste publié Selected Works for Cello and Piano by Auguste Franchomme, with Introduction by Louise Dubin. Les œuvres que j’ai sélectionnées ont été épuisées pendant plus d’un siècle, injustifiablement, et sont réimprimées ici des premières éditions qui incluent les doigtés et les coups d’archet indiqués par Franchomme. La Préface comprend une bonne représentation de mes recherches et quelques photos jamais autrefois publiées pas ses descendants. Ce devrait être une lecture intéressante pas seulement pour les violoncellistes, mais pour tous historiens de la musique romantique (Franchomme était le meilleur ami de Chopin après tout). Également, ce livre offre un répertoire nouveau pour les violoncellistes qui cherchent les perles inconnues.
Le violoncelliste Auguste Franchomme (1808-1884) est souvent rappelé comme l’ami et le collaborateur de Chopin. Mais en son temps, il était reconnu comme l’un des meilleurs violoncellistes en Europe. Ainsi que jouer la musique de chambre avec Chopin, Alard et beaucoup d’autres, il était également le violoncelliste solo de la Musique du Roi du Louis-Philippe, de l’Orchestre du Théâtre Italien et plusieurs autres orchestres, enseigné le violoncelle pendant 38 ans au Conservatoire de Paris, et publié plus de 50 œuvres originales pour son instrument. Les compositions de violoncelle de Franchomme sont des exemples superbes des genres popularisés par les violonistes et les pianistes au début du 19ème siècle, notamment les airs variés, les fantaisies, les caprices et les nocturnes (Franchomme a composé les premiers nocturnes en style Chopin pour le violoncelle). Ils comprennent souvent des airs et des thèmes d’opéra qui étaient familiers à son public.
Beaucoup de compositions de Franchomme démontrent sa technique virtuose de la main gauche et ses motifs élégants de l’archet, augmentant des pratiques de ses prédécesseurs Bernhard Romberg, Charles-Nicolas Baudiot, Jean-Louis Duport et les autres. Alors que son écriture de violoncelle atteint les nouveaux sommets de virtuosité, elle provient d’un tempérament raffiné; souvent douce, mélancolique ou humoristique, mais jamais inélégante, ironique, ou enflée. Ses pièces laissent de l’espace pour la réflexion. Dans l’Introduction, je discute des innovations de dans sa technique de violoncelle et ses compositions, y compris les influences sur et par Chopin.
Les Caprices, op. 7 et les Études, op. 25 de Franchomme ne sont pas épuisés, et ils sont dans les collections aux nombreux violoncellistes. Mais beaucoup de ses autres œuvres, y compris les compositions que j’ai sélectionnées pour ce volume, ont été épuisées depuis la mort de Franchomme en 1884, sinon plus longtemps. Plusieurs de ces pièces ont de grandes histoires attachées, comme j’explique dans ma Préface.
Ce volume offre aux violoncellistes des pièces charmantes à ajouter à leur répertoire. Certaines de ces œuvres sont déjà connues à cause des enregistrements de Roel Dieltiens, Anner Bylsma, et moi-même. Ce volume comprend également certains des arrangements de Franchomme des œuvres de Chopin, ainsi que sa collaboration avec George Osborne. Avec la recherche originale incluse dans ma Préface, ce volume devrait intéresser pas seulement les violoncellistes, mais aussi tous personnes qui s’occupent aux sujets de technique d’instruments à cordes, Chopin et musique du XIXe siècle en général.
English version:
The French cellist-composer Auguste Franchomme (1808-1884) is often remembered as Chopin’s friend and collaborator, but in his day he was renowned as one of the best cellists in Europe. In addition to performing chamber music with Chopin, Alard, and many others, he also served as the solo cellist of Louis-Philippe’s Musique du Roi, the Théâtre Italien and several other orchestras, taught for 38 years at the Paris Conservatoire, and published over 50 original works for his instrument. Franchomme’s cello compositions are superb examples of the genres popularized by violinists and pianists in early 19th century Paris, especially airs variés, fantaisies, caprices, and nocturnes (Franchomme composed the first ever Chopin-style nocturnes for the cello). They often feature tunes and opera themes that were familiar to his audiences.
Many of Franchomme’s compositions showcased his virtuosic left hand technique and elegant bowing patterns, expanded from the practices of his predecessors Bernhard Romberg, Charles-Nicolas Baudiot, Jean-Louis Duport, and others. While his cello-writing reaches new heights of virtuosity, it comes from a refined temperament and is often sweet, melancholy or humorous, but never bombastic or angst-ridden. I discuss Franchomme’s innovations both in his cello technique and his compositions, including possible influences on and from Chopin, in the Introduction.
Franchomme’s Caprices, Op. 7 and Etudes, Op. 25 are in print and owned by many cellists. But many of his other works, included the compositions I selected for this volume, have been out of print since Franchomme’s death in 1884, if not longer.
This volume offers cellists charming, challenging new pieces to add to their concert repertoire. Several have great stories attached to them, as I explain in the Introduction. I included some of the works that are already becoming known through recordings released by Anner Bylsma, Roel Dieltiens, and myself. Also featured are some of Franchomme’s arrangements of Chopin’s piano works, as well as his collaboration with George Osborne. Due to the original research included, this volume should be of interest not only to cellists, but also to any scholar of string instrument technique, Chopin, and 19th century music in general.
This entry was posted in Scholarly and tagged Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Chopin, Franchomme, recherche, repertoire, research, violoncelle on July 10, 2017 by weezeedee.
Who was the guiding force in their creative collaborations, Franchomme or Chopin? Part One
Because of this blog, I receive some interesting email queries. One that has come up a few times is the cross-influence of Chopin and Franchomme—to what extent, and in what direction?
For almost 2 centuries, many (including Schumann) have assumed that Chopin was the guiding force. But in my Introduction to the freshly published Selected Works for Cello & Piano by Auguste Franchomme (May 2017, Dover Publications: click here for Table of Contents), I discuss some examples of how Franchomme may have influenced Chopin (and vice versa). I’ve posted some excerpts below. After an email discussion this week with my friend, the great pianist and pedagogue Sara Davis Buechner, I invited her to share her own observations on the same topic, from a pianist’s perspective. Stay tuned for her fascinating post!
From my Introduction© to the Dover volume:
“After Chopin’s death, Franchomme sorted through the hundreds of pages of manuscripts that Chopin left to him and prepared several posthumous works for publication, including the Mazurka, Op. 68, No. 4. He contributed to the complete Chopin editions prepared by Chopin’s pupils Tellefsen (1860) and Mikuli (1880), and helped edit the Breitkopf & Härtel Chopin edition (1878–1880). All of this exposure to Chopin’s music must have inspired Franchomme’s 50-odd arrangements of his solo piano works for various cello combinations (many unpublished), including the Nocturnes, Op. 55, and the 1870 arrangements included in this volume. Chopin was also the direct inspiration for some of Franchomme’s original compositions, including his gorgeous Trois Nocturnes, Op. 15 (1839, included here) …The nocturnes of both Chopin and Franchomme feature aria-like melodies over broken chords, and usually have a ternary structure. Franchomme was the first composer of nocturnes for cello in this form…”
“Franchomme also influenced the works that Chopin composed for the cello, both directly and perhaps indirectly. We know that Franchomme performed Chopin’s cello works with him, and suggested changes to his Introduction and Polonaise Brillante, Op. 3 that Chopin incorporated into subsequent published editions. Chopin played his Op. 65 with Franchomme privately before completing it, and likely incorporated Franchomme’s suggestions into the final publication. In addition, Franchomme’s decade of performances in the Théâtre-Italien certainly inspired his own music, and may also have contributed to Chopin’s fascination with the Italian aria, and his incorporation of this vocal style into his solo piano writing…”
Cross-influence between Chopin and Franchomme in fingerings, phrasing, and style- this is where it gets technical, y’all!
“…Franchomme’s years of playing with singers clearly informed some of his fingerings.” For example, he “…relished slides under a slur on one string…which are rather out of style today and which even Duport had advised against except as a last resort, to avoid a ‘disagreeable sound.’”
Despite Duport’s warning, Franchomme apparently executed these slides with great taste. In the words of Henri Blanchard, “suave et pur, élégant et mélodique” (Revue et gazette musicale de Paris, April 25, 1841). Incidentally, similar vocal qualities in Chopin’s music were noticed by Charles Rosen! He wrote in The Romantic Generation that Chopin “composed with a sense of melody and a way of sustaining the melodic line derived directly from Italian Opera.”
In the Dover publication I also discuss “an even more remarkable fingering choice: Franchomme’s use of the same playing finger on several successive descending notes in a row. The most extreme example I have found occurs in his Fantasie sur Souvenirs de ‘Richard Coeur de Lion’ de Grétry, Op. 27, where he uses the third finger on a chromatic descent of 13 notes, probably a world record for a cello composition up to that point! Shorter examples of this unique fingering are found throughout Franchomme’s compositions (in this volume, see the three 4th fingers in the opening of his arrangement of Chopin’s Prelude, Op. 28, No. 20, four consecutive notes played with the 4th finger at the end of the introduction of his Op. 23, and the five consecutive descending third fingers in the opening Largo of his Op. 34). In Chopin’s own fingerings printed in his original publications, he often indicated using the same finger on consecutive notes in a melodic passage, for a supple cantabile led by the arm. Watching Chopin’s technique may have inspired these fingerings in Franchomme’s compositions. Or, perhaps Franchomme’s decade at the Théâtre-Italien contributed to Chopin’s own fascination with Italian arias and his incorporation of vocal techniques into his piano fingerings! (Interestingly, a comparison of Chopin’s fingerings to those indicated by Franchomme in his Chopin transcriptions reveals only that they both used this type of repeated fingering, but not in the same places.)”
“Franchomme’s works are full of… long slurs over many notes…[for example, his] transcription of Chopin’s ‘Cello’ Etude in C Sharp minor, Op. 25, No. 7, (p. 178) is as faithful as possible to Chopin’s long phrase markings, within the parameters of what is possible on the cello….In combination with Franchomme’s tendency to use thumb and harmonic fingerings in melodic lines, these clues suggest a tendency toward faster tempos, and a style of performance favoring elegance over massive sound production,” which seems also to have described Chopin’s playing.
©2017 Louise Dubin
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Submissions for variant NM_000257.4(MYH7):c.958G>A (p.Val320Met) (rs376897125)
GeneDx RCV000158772 SCV000208707 uncertain significance not specified 2017-01-12 criteria provided, single submitter clinical testing A variant of uncertain significance has been identified in the MYH7 gene. The V320M variant has previously been reported in association with HCM (Havndrup et al., 2003; Fokstuen et al., 2011; Brito et al., 2012; Marsiglia et al., 2013; Alvarez-Acosta et al., 2014). This variant was first reported in one Danish individual with HCM who required septal myocardial ablation (Havndrup et al., 2003). However, Havndrup et al. (2003) also identified V320M in the proband's brother, who had a normal cardiac exam, and in an asymptomatic child who had a suspicious septal bulb but was found to be asymptomatic after follow-up at 26 years-old (Jensen et al., 2013). Most recently, Alvarez-Acosta et al. (2014) identified V320M in one Spanish index patient with HCM who also harbored a variant in MYL2. The proband's cousin was less severely affected and harbored only the MYL2 variant (Alvarez-Acosta et al., 2014). The V320M variant was not observed at a significant frequency in approximately 6,500 individuals of European and African American ancestry in the NHLBI Exome Sequencing Project, indicating it is not a common benign variant in these populations. This substitution occurs at a position that is conserved across species, and in silico analysis predicts this variant is probably damaging to the protein structure/function. However, the V320M variant is a conservative amino acid substitution, which is not likely to impact secondary protein structure as these residues share similar properties. Despite the fact that several publications describe an association between the V320M variant in the MYH7 gene and HCM, segregation with disease was not reported. Furthermore, to our knowledge no studies have been performed to determine the functional effect of the V320M variant.
Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Cardiology,University of São Paulo RCV000201440 SCV000256154 likely pathogenic Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy 1 criteria provided, single submitter clinical testing
Invitae RCV000549661 SCV000623763 likely pathogenic Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy 2018-08-03 criteria provided, single submitter clinical testing This sequence change replaces valine with methionine at codon 320 of the MYH7 protein (p.Val320Met). The valine residue is highly conserved and there is a small physicochemical difference between valine and methionine. This variant is present in population databases (rs376897125, ExAC 0.01%). This variant has been reported in several individuals affected with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (PMID: 12566107, 20031602, 21239446, 22857948, 24093860, 27247418). ClinVar contains an entry for this variant (Variation ID: 161328). This variant is found within a region of MYH7 between codons 181 and 937 that contains the majority of the myosin head domain. Missense variants in this region have been shown to be significantly overrepresented in individuals with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (PMID: 27532257). Algorithms developed to predict the effect of missense changes on protein structure and function do not agree on the potential impact of this missense change (SIFT: "Deleterious"; PolyPhen-2: "Probably Damaging"; Align-GVGD: "Class C0"). In summary, this variant is a rare missense change that has been reported in several affected individuals. This evidence indicates that the variant is pathogenic, but additional data is needed to prove that conclusively. Therefore, this variant has been classified as Likely Pathogenic.
Laboratory for Molecular Medicine,Partners HealthCare Personalized Medicine RCV000549661 SCV000710839 likely pathogenic Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy 2019-02-08 criteria provided, single submitter clinical testing The p.Val320Met variant in MYH7 has been reported in over 20 individuals with hy pertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) (Brito 2012, Fokstuen 2011, Havndrup 2003, Hombu rger 2016, Jensen 2013, Marsiglia 2013, Walsh 2017) and segregated with disease in at least one affected individuals from one family (Havndrup 2003). It has als o been identified in 1/16250 African chromosomes by gnomAD (http://gnomad.broadi nstitute.org). This variant has also been reported in ClinVar (Variation ID: 161 328). Computational prediction tools and conservation analysis suggest that this variant may impact the protein, though this information is not predictive enoug h to determine pathogenicity. This variant lies in the head region of the protei n and missense variants in this region are statistically more likely to be disea se-associated (Walsh 2017). In summary, although additional studies are required to fully establish its clinical significance, this variant meets criteria to be classified as likely pathogenic for autosomal dominant HCM. ACMG/AMP Criteria a pplied: ACMG/AMP criteria applied: PS4, PM2, PP3, PM1.
CSER_CC_NCGL; University of Washington Medical Center RCV000148711 SCV000190441 uncertain significance Primary familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy 2014-06-01 no assertion criteria provided research
Blueprint Genetics RCV000148711 SCV000207090 likely pathogenic Primary familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy 2014-06-09 no assertion criteria provided clinical testing
Stanford Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease,Stanford University RCV000223879 SCV000280360 likely pathogenic not provided 2012-08-06 no assertion criteria provided clinical testing Note this variant was found in clinical genetic testing performed by one or more labs who may also submit to ClinVar. Thus any internal case data may overlap with the internal case data of other labs. The interpretation reviewed below is that of the Stanford Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease. p.Val320Met (c.958 G>A) in the MYH7 gene. We re-reviewed these results on 6/27/2012 and again on 10/1/13 and February 9th, 2015. Based on the strong case data and very low frequency in the general population, we consider this variant likely disease causing. The variant has been seen in at least 10 unrelated cases of HCM (not including this patient). There is weak segregation data. Havndrup et al (2003) observed this variant in a Danish woman with HCM (likely the same case that was included in Ho et al 2009). Her 15yo daughter had a proximal 'septal bulb' and also carried the variant. Fokstuen et al (2011) observed the variant in one patient with HCM recruited from Europe (not Denmark). Santos et al (2012) reported the variant in one patient with HCM in their Portugese cohort. We have seen this variant in one other HCM patient in our cohort. She had 12 HCM genes sequenced at PGxHealth/Familion and only this variant was found. Marsiglia et al (2013) sequenced MYH7, MYBPC3, TNNT2 in 268 Brazilian patients with HCM and found the variant in 5 patients. Alvarez-Acosta et al (2014) reported the variant in 1 of 124 HCM patients recruited from a clinic in Spain. It isn't entirely clear but it looks like the patient underwent sequencing of MYH7, MYBPC3, TNNT2, TNNI3, TPM1, ACTC, MYL2, MYL3, TNNC1. The patient also had a variant in MYL2. He had a relatively severe phenotyped, diagnosed at 16yo, with atrial fibrillation, 2.6 cm wall thickness, syncope, left ventricular outflow tract obstruction, heart failure, LBBB, ICD, and underwent alcohol ablation. His first cousin carried only the MYL2 variant and also had HCM. In silico analysis with PolyPhen-2 predicts the variant to be probably damaging. The valine at codon 320 is completely conserved across species, though not all neighboring amino acids are. I could not find any other variants reported in association with disease at this codon, though there are a few at nearby codons (p.Phe312Cys, p.Ala326Pro). In total the variant has been seen in ~1-4/60,452 published controls, laboratory controls, and publicly available population datasets. The variant was reported online in 2 of 4300 Caucasian individuals and 0 of 2203 African-American individuals in the NHLBI Exome Sequencing Project dataset (as of 10/1/13). The phenotype of those individuals is not publicly available, however the cohorts that were merged to create this dataset were all either general population samples or samples recruited for common cardiovascular disease such as hypertension. Of note, variants with strong evidence for pathogenicity have been observed at similar low frequencies in this data set. The variant was reported online in 1 of 59,906 individuals in the Exome Aggregation Consortium dataset (http://exac.broadinstitute.org/), which currently includes variant calls on ~64,000 individuals of European, African, Latino and Asian descent (as of February 9th, 2015). Specifically, the variant was observed in 1 individual of African descent. The dataset is comprised of multiple cohorts, some of which were recruited from the general population, others were enriched for common cardiovascular disease. Of note, the ESP and ExAC databases overlap (ExAC includes ESP). The discrepancy between them may be attributable to the primary data being re-analyzed in ExAC. The Seidman group observed the variant in 2 of 1963 individuals from the Jackson Heart Study who underwent sequencing of eight sarcomere genes (Bick et al 2012). They note the following about those individuals phenotypes: a 41yo with left ventricular wall thickness of 1 cm, LVDD of 4.2, LAD of 3.83, and FS of 0.38 and no known physiological risk factors; a 63yo with LVWT 1.02 cm, LVDD 4.54, LAD 3.69, FS 0.43 and no known physiological risk factors. The Jackson Heart Study is included in ExAC. The variant was not observed in the following published control samples: 100 Danish individuals (Havndrup et al 2003), 246 German and Italy individuals with normal echocardiograms and a mean age of 71 years (Fokstuen et al 2011). PGxHealth/Familion reported in another patient's report that they have not seen this variant in 200 controls of varying ancestry.
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UPDATE 1-Japan's MUFG posts 6.3% fall in H1 net profit as one-time factor peels off
* H1 profit Y609.9 bln vs Y650.7 bln a year earlier
* Maintains full-year outlook at Y900 bln
* Operating profit rose 11.1% (Adds context, CEO comment, share buyback)
TOKYO, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc (MUFG) reported on Wednesday a 6.3% drop in net profit for the six months through September, as its profit in the same period of last year was buoyed by the release of bad loan provisions.
Japan's largest lender by assets, which owns 24% of Wall Street bank Morgan Stanley, said net profit was 609.9 billion yen ($5.6 billion) in April-September, compared to 650.7 billion yen a year earlier.
MUFG maintained its profit forecast for the year to March-end at 900 billion yen, below the 930 billion yen average of 13 analyst estimates, according to Refinitiv data.
Its net operating profit, however, rose 11.1% due primarily to an increase in trading profit.
Japanese banks have been struggling for profit under an aggressive monetary easing policy that has seen the central bank guide short-term rates toward -0.1% and the 10-year government bond yield to around 0%.
As the traditional lending business remained weak, MUFG's net interest income came in at 934.1 billion yen for the half year, down 3.7% from a year earlier.
Given such an environment at home, MUFG has turned its eyes to overseas markets, particularly in Asia. Its banking unit, MUFG Bank, has spent 690 billion yen buying 94% of PT Bank Danamon Indonesia Tbk.
Last year, the firm's net profit was temporarily pushed up by the release of bad loan provisions as clients including Toshiba Corp and Sharp Corp improved their performance.
Credit rating firm Moody's said in August it would consider downgrading the bank's Baseline Credit Assessment (BCA), which is not a rating itself but an indicator of potential strength, saying the bank hasn't built its capital as rapidly as its competitors.
"We are not convinced with Moody's decision as we have constantly achieved around 900 billion yen of net profit," MUFG CEO Kanetsugu Mike said at an earnings briefing.
"Even if the BCA is downgraded, our rating will not be changed. So it's impact is limited."
MUFG also decided on Wednesday to buy back and cancel 50 billion yen worth of stock.
Peers Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc (SMFG) will announce its second-quarter earnings later on Wednesday, while Mizuho Financial Group Inc is scheduled to report on Thursday. ($1 = 109.1000 yen) (Reporting by Takashi Umekawa; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman and Christopher Cushing)
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News Open letter criticises Oxford’s harassment policy
Open letter criticises Oxford’s harassment policy
Rowan Borchers
135 students, OUSU sabbatical officers and alumni have sent an open letter to the Vice-Chancellor, expressing “concern and dismay” at the University’s handling of a student’s death.
An inquest into the death of Charlotte Coursier heard that she had been harassed by Pembroke Philosophy tutor Dr Jeffrey Ketland. The inquest heard evidence that Coursier had recieved ‘crazy and rambling emails’ from Ketland before she took her own life. Dr Ketland remained an employee of the university while an internal review was conducted, and he continues to be employed at Pembroke.
The open letter states, “We worry about the lack of information communicated to students. We further worry about the decision to keep Dr Ketland in institutionally mediated contact with students after the review began.”
The 135 signatories includes 39 of Coursier’s fellow Philosophy BPhil students, and 24 Philosophy DPhil students. Sarah Pine, OUSU VP Women, Lucy Delaney, OUSU Women’s Campaign Officer, Rebekka Hammelsbeck, former OUSU Women’s Campaign Officer, and several organisers of the It Happens Here campaign also signed the letter.
The letter criticises the university for failing to keep students informed about the review. It says, “The lack of comment has created a difficult atmosphere in the Philosophy Faculty. Some students now fear that harassment charges are not taken seriously. Others were upset to only learn of the situation in the national press.”
Secondly, the letter suggests the university should have limited student contact with Ketland after the police issued a warning under the Harassment Act. It reads, “It is strongly in the interests of students not to be placed at undue risk of harassment. It seems to us that when harassment allegations are made against a member of staff, the University should limit their institutionally mediated contact with students whilst a review occurs.”
As the letter notes, Ketland continued to have contact with students as the university conducted its review, urging “the swift adoption of such a suspension policy.”
A university spokesperson said, “The University can confirm it has received the open letter and has noted its contents. All University policies are kept actively under review.”
On the question of communication with students, a spokesperson told Cherwell, “The Department of Philosophy has held a meeting with graduate students to inform of the outcome of the inquest into Charlotte’s death and to discuss any questions arising.”
“A University review concluded in October. Its purpose was to inform senior members of the University of the circumstances of Charlotte’s death and to advise on any future steps. The findings of the review remain confidential but University is continuing to consider the most appropriate action as a consequence.”
Regarding the allegations against Dr Ketland, the University said it does not comment on individual members of staff.
Sarah Pine, OUSU VP Women, told Cherwell, “I decided to sign the letter because I share in the concern and dismay directed towards the information denied towards students at Oxford, as well as the decision to keep Ketland in contact with students while an investigation was ongoing.
“Women, even Oxford women, experience harassment and relationship abuse so frequently, it is saddening that they cannot be sure that others will respond in the ways that will best support them.”
Elena Cagnoli, Graduate Students Women Representative, explained her reasoning for signing the letter. “I signed the letter to urge the university to handle cases of alleged harassment more openly and carefully. The University’s duty of care towards its members, I think, demands such openness and attention toward the students’ welfare. The lack of information communicated to present and incoming students and the decision to keep the alleged harasser in institutionally mediated contact with students after the review began created a bad atmosphere amongst the student community.
“In order prevent this from happening again, the University could and should, I think, adopt a non-prejudicial suspension policy during reviews of harassment allegations. Such a policy would be in line with its own statute and with its duty of care. I think that the faculty of philosophy has been supportive of the students’ concerns, as well as respectful of the need of privacy and due process. I am grateful to the faculty for its support, and I hope the University will join students and faculty in their efforts to make Oxford a better place for women philosophers.”
The letter was first published on the blog Feminist Philosophers here and can be read in full here.
Read Cherwell’s initial coverage of the inquest here.
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Chang Ping: My Statement About the Open Letter to Xi Jinping Demanding His Resignation
By Chang Ping, March 27, 2016
On March 27, 2016, my two younger brothers and a younger sister were abducted by the Chinese police, becoming the latest victims in the incident surrounding the open letter demanding Xi Jinping’s resignation.
Since the reposting of the open letter on a state-controlled website, about 20 Chinese citizens have been disappeared.
On March 19, 2016, I published an article in Deutsche Welle titled “Jia Jia Was Disappeared for the Crime of Seeing,” criticizing these illegal abductions carried out by Chinese authorities. I was also interviewed by Radio France Internationale in which I shared my views on the Communist Party’s ongoing power struggle.
Following my article and interview, my direct family members and numerous relatives in China have been subject to investigation, harassment, and threats. On March 27, during a trip back to my father’s home in Duofu Township, Xichong County, Sichuan province (四川省西充县多扶镇) to celebrate my father’s birthday, my two younger brothers and a younger sister, who are based in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan, were taken away by officers from the township police station. The police showed no legal warrant for detaining them. I have not been able to contact my family members directly, but through other sources I’ve learned that the police asked my family to contact me and demand that I immediately cease to publish any articles that criticize the Chinese Communist Party, especially my Deutsche Welle column known as “Chang Ping Observation” (“长平观察”) or the government would find ways to charge my family members.
I hereby state:
1) All of my family and relatives in China have no understanding of my political beliefs, columns, and the media work I engage in, nor are they in any way related to it. Currently they have no communication with me, therefore they will be unable to meet the unreasonable demand of the police. I’d be in support of them, should they wish to cut off all ties with me at any point.
2) Apart from the above column and interview, I personally have no other connection to the open letter. I didn’t help draft it, I didn’t publicize it, and I only read it after it had already been widely promulgated. It’s just like I said in my column: I don’t get involved in internal Party power struggles, and I’ve no interest in doing so.
3) Every citizen has the freedom of speech to engage in comment or criticism of the political activities of state leaders. The Communist Party should immediately stop investigating the people they believe are behind the letter demanding that Xi Jinping resign, and cease the abductions, harassment, and investigations of media personnel, commentators, and netizens, and their family members.
4) I’ve been involved in news reporting and commentary for over 20 years, and I’ve always taken to it in a spirit of professionalism, and with independence and autonomy and the conscience of an intellectual. I’ve always done what I think is right, and have always been willing to accept whatever fate brings as a result of that. The harassment and threats of the authorities allow me to see even more the value of my writings, and encourage me to work harder in future.
5) I strongly condemn the Communist Party’s attempts to interfere with the freedom to publish of Western media like Deutsche Welle and RFI. I call for the international community to speak out against these barbaric kidnappings by Chinese police.
Chang Ping
Chang Ping (长平) is the former chief commentator and news director of Southern Weekend. In January, 2011, he was forced to leave the Southern Media Group, and in late 2011, while working at the now-suspended news weekly iSun Affairs (《阳光时务周刊》) in Hong Kong as the editor-in-chief, he was denied of work permit and forced to live in exile in Germany.
Also by Chang Ping on China Change:
We’d Be Satisfied With Any Government!, October, 2015.
Chinese Students Studying Abroad a New Focus of CCP’s “United Front Work” , June, 2015.
Tiananmen Massacre not a “Passing Lapse” of the Chinese Government, July, 2014.
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Finder says:
You are a traitor colluding with foreign enterprise who wants to see China fail and making a living off of it, and brought this on yourself, you useless son of bitch.
五毛黨滾開！
The CCP and its faithful wumao toy soldiers (like yourself) say, “foreign enterprise”, “western forces”, etc. but it’s becoming all to clear to Chinese people that these battle cries (or tears) and their country under CCP leadership has led to destruction, corruption, pollution, xenophobia, poverty, mass confusion, and shame. Our country has a long, rich history and it is time to put down and move beyond this shameful period of bastardized communism and worship of selfish, inept government figures to something that truly makes China a 1st world country and power that takes leadership in this world.
Finder, educate and prepare yourself. Your world is about to change, if not because of statements and actions made by passionate, educated, and revolutionary citizens, then by the rest of the world guiding our wonderful country to close this shameful chapter and build towards a future that gives our people the option to decide what it means to be Chinese.
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The incident in Mogadishu, Somalia, made famous by the book and movie, “Black Hawk Down,” changed my life.
It all began after high school when I visited an army recruiter. I asked, “What do you consider the toughest job in the army?”
“Being an Airborne Ranger,” was his quick reply.
“That’s what I want to be.”
I had two goals when I joined the army. One was to see how good my training was and the other was to test my faith in God. I knew the best way to accomplish these goals was to go to war.
In the 1989 invasion of Panama, Operation Just Cause, and later in Kuwait, Operation Desert Storm, I was shot at and placed in many dangerous situations. But I never thought I was in danger of losing my life.
This all changed in 1993 in Mogadishu, Somalia. The United Nations had been handing out food to the starving people in this East African country. There were several warlords in Somalia, and most of them had no problems with the U.N. One, Mohamed Farrah Aidid, saw the U.N. as a threat to his power. He began to ambush and kill U.N. workers. In one raid he killed and mutilated 24 Pakistanis.
The goal of my unit, Task Force Ranger, was to capture Aidid and bring his key men to justice for the death of those Pakistani workers.
Prior to our final mission on October 3rd and 4th, Task Force Ranger had conducted six successful operations. Everything had gone exactly as planned. But on that seventh mission, generally referred to as Black Hawk Down, things changed.
The Convoy
I was a 24 year old squad leader and placed my nine men in two Humvees. We led a ten vehicle ground convoy into the city. The job of the convoy was to retrieve the Rangers and Special Operations
Forces who had been dropped by helicopter onto the roof and in the surrounding alleys of the target building. We were to return them and their prisoners to our base.
The operation went exactly as planned with one exception: a Ranger, Todd Blackburn, in a Black Hawk helicopter, missed the slide rope and fell 70 feet to the ground. He hit his head first and our medics felt he would not survive unless he received immediate special medical care. As soon as I arrived at the target building, my commander called and told me to take Todd back to our base at the airport.
We loaded him into a Humvee and with my two vehicles around him we began to make our way back to the airfield. Mogadishu is about seven miles by two miles in size and one and a half million people had gathered there from all over Somalia to be fed.
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Bitcoin Operating System
Aleksander Svetski
Hairless chimp interested in Money, Bitcoin, ⚡️, Anthropology, History, Economics & Business. I also write…when I get time. (link: https://tippin.me/@AleksSvetski) tippin.me/@AleksSvetski
By Aleksander Svetski
Bitcoin is a new “Monetary Network”, not a “Payments Technology”.
Bitcoin is the first time we’ve combined Money as a unit, with Money as a Network, into one thing.
More on this here:
“Why Bitcoin Matters”
And because it’s so different, it’s hard to wrap our heads around it.
The problem is further compounded by the fact that nobody really understands money, but most people get payments. Payments are easy: move money, and because it’s been handled digitally for the last 20–30yrs now, it’s even easier to grasp.
But money, that’s a much broader, more foundational concept, and to understand Bitcoin better; we’ll need to understand its real innovation, and in the process separate ‘money’ from ‘payments’.
As we’ve established, Immutability is derivative of cost. It’s this cost of validating transactions and maintaining the network of distributed but consistent ledgers that gives something like Bitcoin its immutability.
Bitcoin’s true innovation was an autonomous network that can establish the authenticity and validity of the state of the broadly distributed ledger.
The ONLY advantage of using this type of costly infrastructure is for actions that require a large degree of trust and assurance, those that should never fail and those that should not be easily reversed. There are a limited set of these, i.e. every transaction / or state change that happens in the world does NOT need this.
The world works pretty fine right now.
Could we make it better by stamping a “net state” to something immutable once a week / once a month?
Yes — definitely. But every transaction? No way. It’s just overkill.
Bitcoin is the most secure / immutable network that exists, NOT because of its “blockchain”, but because of its elaborate and expensive authentication mechanism. Your laptop has the ability to process hundreds of thousands of transactions a minute. That process is trivial. Payments is trivial.
Autonomous, distributed validation is the innovation.
And this is where people go astray.
People don’t ‘get’ bitcoin because they perceive it as some form of payments technology, or some “blockchain” mechanism (which they don’t really understand) for moving funny internet money (which they also don’t understand). That’s not what Bitcoin is.
Bitcoin is a complete reinvention of “money” — the world’s oldest social contract and society’s most foundational layer.
To understand its impact, you need to have a broad understanding of both networks and money. The problem is, most people don’t. In fact, nobody really understands what money is, because it’s not taught anywhere. Few can define it, whether they’re in banking, finance, technology, fintech, capital markets, and especially payments — so they apply their biases to it, and completely miss the point.
It’s like discussing the structure of the egyptian pyramids with your pet goldfish. The goldfish simply lacks the context.
Money requires an understanding of our evolution as a species, anthropology, biology, social engineering, psychology, game theory and what I like to call “the societal stack.” Discussing this is well outside the scope of this section, but I’ll touch on an area which I hope will give you a reference point, the societal stack, in a subsequent section of this edition of The Bitcoin Times.
The complexity of network dynamics doesn’t make the job of understanding Bitcoin any easier. I will touch on this further in a dedicated section — but suffice it to say networks are just as foreign to our intuitive understanding of the world as the pyramids are to the goldfish — the track record of the experts adds weight to this.
Back to payments VS money.
Bitcoin is not a “payments technology”. It’s fundamentally a reinvention if money. Like the motor vehicle was a reinvention of transport — not a better horse and cart. Same as the internet. It reinvented the fabric upon which we communicate. It reinvented the way information is transported. It did not push more, richer or smarter “data” through the phone networks infrastructure.
It used that infrastructure as physical onramps; but the internet is not the cables, or the hardware — it’s so much larger.
That’s why it swallowed them up and is the foundation upon which the majority of today’s society operates. And what’s more, the internet is only picking up speed. Bitcoin is where the internet was in the late 80s. Still largely misunderstood. People are still arguing about speed of payments! They don’t realise that “payments” as we know them today will completely transform.
The same way we’re no longer talking about the quality of the phone call and number of phone calls this “internet thing” will support, we will see new conversations emerge for what can be done on Bitcoin.
The world is changing. The internet was only the beginning….Bitcoin is the next chapter.
Speaking of next chapters, as we near the end of the Medium series for the first edition of The Bitcoin Times, we’re going to begin exploring networks, how the function and dig into where there are some high level conceptual similarities to the internet.
Download the full guide at:
https://bitcointimes.news
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Journeyman: Elabs
Lennart Fridén
9 Jul 2015 • 6 min read
Let me preface this instalment of my journeyman tales by this: if I was living in Gothenburg, I would eagerly spend my working days at Elabs. But more importantly, I would want to spend a lot of my free time with them as well. To the outside world Elabs might be a powerhouse when it comes to building and designing web applications, but up close that notion is secondary to a welcoming warmth and familiar familiarity. This is a collective of individuals that truly care about one another; a second family.
At the heart of this is CJ who without fault took excellent care of me during my stay. He and his wife and partner Lilly are the epitome of hospitality. Though always impressed by the meticulousness applied to the Nordic Ruby and True North conferences, it became more evident than ever that it stems from a genuine wish to make people at ease and enjoy themselves. Given such an environment, is it at all surprising that Elabs has attracted the kind of friendly talent it has? Hardly.
Why visit Elabs, you might ask. As I told CJ, Elabs are renowned - especially in the Ruby community. Not only for the many, many open source tools and libraries that have been released over the years, but also for the conferences. To this day, the format, atmosphere, and overall experience are what I measure all other conferences against.
Setting it all up was a breeze. A few days after announcing my journeymanship, I reached out to CJ enquiring about the possibility of spending a week at Elabs. Not only was he very receptive to the idea, but also offered to provide lodging. A month and a half later I took the morning train from Stockholm to Gothenburg, arriving just in time to settle in and have lunch with CJ and Lilly.
Pairing up
Early on in the company's existence, Elabs decided on making pair programming the rule rather than the exception. As such, fitting me in took a little bit of reshuffling the current pairs, but eventually I would spend the remainder of the day and the next with Nicklas at one of the office's pairing stations. Indeed, the developers don't have individual offices and office computers, but instead there are a number of iMacs set up with dual keyboards and mice. The computers are configured to cater to all developers when it comes to editors and other tools, making it easy to swap rooms and pairing partners alike. By all means, it's quite possible for a developer to use the same pairing station for extended periods of time, but there's no real notion of mine when it comes to computers and rooms. I found this to be quite refreshing.
Niklas and I worked on the frontend of an application used by a client combatting climate change. As developers we don't always get to work on something used for such a worthy cause, so this was another refreshing experience. Since the vast majority of the application was in CoffeeScript and I was quite rusty in the frontend department, I initially had some fears that I would be less than useful, but for the next day and a half, Nicklas and I squashed bugs and closed issues. Above all, it was an absolute joy to pair with Nicklas as he was very verbal and careful to explain things. As the week progressed I would experience the same traits with all my pairing partners.
Working in Atom I could also draw upon my Sublime Text skills to be productive. As the Atom team has mostly copied the keyboard shortcuts from Sublime Text, I also got to show a few editor tricks. After all, the whole point about my journeyman tour is for it be a two-way street of knowledge flowing in both directions. On occasion I would try something that Atom still lacks, but overall I found it to be a rather decent alternative to Sublime.
We ended the second day on this project with a conference call with the client, followed by mocking up the next feature to be added.
With Nicklas taking a few days off in order to move to a new apartment, it was time to find a new pairing partner. After another round of reshuffling the pairs I ended up working with Kim. Given that Gothenburg is considered the Swedish capital of puns, I had set my mind to out-Gothenburg the Gothenburgians. Imagine my dismay when CJ told me that the punniest in the office was Kim, coming from Vaxholm outside of Stockholm.
Kim had been working on fixing a nasty authentication bug in a Ruby on Rails application. For a non-obvious reason some users signing in using Facebook's OAuth could end up being signed in as the wrong user. Tracking this particular bug down and reaching a point where it could be understood and reliably replicated took most of the day, but in the end we prevailed. Half-way through, another pair working on an elusive bug popping up in a Celluloid-based application asked for help to troubleshoot. It didn't take very long for Kim to work out the race condition likely responsible for the problem. Impressive.
Unfortunately the fix we deployed for the authentication problem revealed another problem, caused by the client's iOS application not honouring the API contract. Naturally, the quickest way around this problem was changing a few lines and redeploying. Pragmatism trumps all when your code is already in production. Plus, a few of us were heading out for dinner and drinks. Georgian wine and an Italian white tasting suspiciously similar to a dry cider from Normandy, were new acquaintances to me.
As it was my last night in Gothenburg, CJ and I ended up back at the office conversing over a 40-year-old whisky. I shared my impressions of the week and as we drifted into talking about the Elabs team it became quite obvious that CJ is not only a proud father of two daughters. Elabs is his baby and the people working there are also part of his family.
Levelling up
As my final day with Elabs happened to be on one of their fortnightly lab days, we all gathered in the morning to come up with ideas on what to work on and pair up as desired. While you're here, it'd be nice to do something in Elixir, Jonas said. I proposed extending it to a mob if more were interested in hacking Elixir. Thus CJ and later also Kim joined us. Figuring out a suitable hack, we settled on building Othello using Phoenix and WebSockets. The week after, this would prove invaluable as it gave me enough experience to facilitate a similar exercise at Transmode.
Naturally, since we were in the land of puns, the project was named OTPhello. How could it not be?
As the day drew to an end, the team held demos and talked about what had be learnt. Apart from showcasing our mob's massive multiplayer online reversi game board, others had been experimenting with everything from Angular to Julia. Those of us who had been playing with Elixir mused on the utility of it in past and present projects, before I had to take my leave of the team and rush to my train. A round of hugs later I was on my way again.
Going to Elabs I expected to find a bunch of dedicated, talented people. While true enough, this only tells a part of the story. I found people that honestly enjoy each other's company. Having left a tightly knit team at Mag+, I find it heartening that given the right circumstances and the right people, the world can be full of second families.
My deepest thanks Elabs for letting me play with you. Let's do it again soon!
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You, Pia said, waving a finger at me as I was sitting next to her waiting for the next lightning talk to begin at Agila Sverige. I want to talk
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Tux Exchange
Tux cryptocurrency Exchange has closed down its trading as of July 6th, 2019. The reason is still unclear though the company cites “unfavorable conditions” and a “lack of trading volume” as the key reasons for this sudden decision.
About Tux exchange
Tux is a crypto-to-crypto exchange based in Ontario, Canada. Tux exchange cryptocurrencies do not support the tradition currency flow. Named after the tuxedo cat, the company started in August 2016. Tux is also hosted on Amazon’s AWS platform. Registration on Tux is free of cost but transaction cost is applicable. Upon registration, the user gets free DOGE coins.
Features of Tux exchange
The platform is known for its diversity in trading currencies such as Litecoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin, Peercoin, Dash, Namecoin, Zcash, Emercoin, Potcoin, Blackcoin, Syscoin, Counterparty, Golem, Iconomi and PEPECASH that can trade against Bitcoin.
The platform has currently no affiliations from any other exchange or a reputation organization. The company is operational 24*7. The trading engine is fast and reliable. The exchange operates internationally and is involved in universal transactions. The platform offers the feature of spot trading for Bitcoin and other currencies.
Tux is also a highly secure platform. Regulating digital assets is difficult. Thus, company follows strict compliance and protects the trader’s account using advanced security system.
According to Tux reviews, it uses DDoS mitigation system for protecting the servers. Most of the digital currency is stored in cold storage thus protecting it against any cyber criminal activity or a virus. In hot storage a very limited currency is stored, enough to make active transactions.
The company also follows the security system of two-factor authentication. A user can download Google authenticator and scan the QR code of his Tux account. Once the account is synced with Google, a user would get 6-digit code every time he tries to log in. This adds an additional layer of safety, which is very essential when it comes to digital assets.
Tux is powered by Amazon web services and cloudfare. The maker fee at Tux is 0% while the taker fee is 0.3%. Thus, Tux is a great platform when it comes to trading and exchange.
How to set up a new Tux account?
In order to setup a new account, a user can log on to website. Click on the “register” tab and enter the details such as email ID, username and password. A verification email is sent to the registered email ID. A user can click on the given link to activate the account. Once again the user has to log in to access the wallet.
Tux Market & Bitcoin Wallet
Click on “Bitcoin wallet” tab and select the currency of choice for making an withdrawals and deposits. The address of the deposit is already present in the box. There is also a balance sheet that shows the users orders and investments he has made so far. It also updates the remaining balance available in the wallet.
Click on the “market” tab. It shows the list of all the available cryptocurrencies. A user can select the desired currency for trade, buy/sell. It shows the time interval in minutes, hours, and day, which give a clear picture of the current market value.
A graph also shows the current bid on the selected currency to give insights to the users. The user can select the amount for the buying or selling. While doing so, a user can also browse the market history tool for relevant information.
Tux API Documentation
A user can also access API through http post and JSON formatted data response. There are two different access method i.e. public API and authenticated API. There are also two keys available one is public and other is private key. The address of both the keys are available. Thus, for exchange, buy/sell the user can go through API documentation rather than using the online platform.
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Microsoft's Ajax Toolkit - Atlas
News.com is reporting on an upcoming toolkit to assist in the creation of Ajax applications.
It sounds from the description that it'll be a Javascript wrapper around the existing XMLHTTPRequest functions; I doubt it will be more useful than Ajax.NET but it's interesting nonetheless.
This bit's funny though:
"People who do (AJAX development) are rocket scientists," Fitzgerald said. "In some ways, this papers over the mess that is JavaScript development. It's easy-to-build 'spaghetti' code."
That's Charles Fitzgerald, Microsoft's Manager of Platform Technologies (?). Does he seriously believe that Javascript lends itself to messy development? Prototype, Mozilla (who use JS extensively in their apps and extension system), and Jeremy seem to disagree.
But the irony is that Microsoft's current big web technology, ASP.NET, can lead to spaghetti code of the highest order. With templated controls and the absurd event model, ASP.NET can be a minefield in the wrong hands... just like Javascript.
So I think Charles has chosen his words wrongly in this circumstance. It will be interesting to see who picks up on this.
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Isaiah Livers Garrison Brooks Xavier Simpson Eli Brooks Jon Teske Cole Anthony Franz Wagner David DeJulius Sports Men's college basketball College basketball Basketball College sports Men's basketball Men's sports
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Brooks, Michigan upset No. 6 UNC 73-64 in Battle 4 Atlantis
By AARON BEARD - Nov. 28, 2019 06:12 PM EST
PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas (AP) — Eli Brooks and his Michigan teammates kept rolling off screens, whipping the ball past defenders and burying shots with ease against a flummoxed highly ranked opponent.
“Share the game,” first-year coach Juwan Howard calls it.
The plan is working perfectly, too, for these new-look Wolverines — who took down sixth-ranked North Carolina to give Howard his first marquee win.
Brooks matched his career high with 24 points and Michigan ran off 19 unanswered points in the second half to score a big upset, beating the Tar Heels 73-64 on Thursday to reach the Battle 4 Atlantis championship game.
Michigan will face No. 8 Gonzaga on Friday in the title game. Gonzaga beat No. 11 Oregon 73-72 in overtime in the second semifinal.
Isaiah Livers added 12 points for the Wolverines (6-0), who led by five early in the second half before exploding for a huge run that turned the matchup into an unexpected rout. Then the Wolverines held on amid the Tar Heels’ frantic rally in the final 8 minutes.
Howard inherited a program from John Beilein that made regular deep pushes in the NCAA Tournament, though there were plenty of new faces after losing its top three scorers from last year.
No matter. The Wolverines have experience, size and a bunch of guys willing to make the next pass to seek out a better shot.
“Granted, they’ve been very successful in the past,” Howard said. “But to embrace a new staff and to be all in, I’m very thankful for that — because each and every one of them, they didn’t have to. It was a choice, but it was a choice because they trusted the staff, they trusted us as men to help lead them and teach them and develop them.
“But I must say they’re inspiring to watch compete.”
Michigan’s 19-0 burst included a dazzling run of five straight made shots to build a huge margin.
“I think that goes off shot selection, just sharing the ball,” Brooks said. “We take good shots. People aren’t afraid to share the ball because they know the next person’s going to do their job.”
The Tar Heels (5-1) didn’t have much of an answer.
At one point, Brooks buried a 3-pointer to push the lead to 19 and left UNC coach Roy Williams standing on the sideline with both hands on top of his head. Yet Franz Wagner followed with another, then Brooks added a runner that pushed the lead to 60-36 with 11:18 left and finally forced the timeout-hoarding Williams to burn one.
“It was frustrating,” Williams said. “I’ve never stood there in 32 years and 8 million games and thinking about calling timeout with 12 minutes left in the friggin’ game. That’s so silly to me. We’ve won a few games doing it my way.
“But I watched three extra possessions, and we missed and they scored three straight times.”
Freshman Cole Anthony had 22 points and seven rebounds to lead UNC, which shot 43% while struggling with Michigan’s size anchored by 7-foot-1 senior Jon Teske inside.
UNC: The Tar Heels entered the game ranked seventh in KenPom’s adjusted defensive efficiency by allowing 87.5 points per 100 possessions, along with being the national leader in rebounding margin. But Michigan controlled the paint (32-24 points in the paint) and the Tar Heels earned only a 36-34 edge on the glass. It was a sign that the Tar Heels still have plenty to figure out, especially with Williams saying he had to question the team’s toughness in the second half.
“We were 5-0 coming in, but it hasn’t been a very good 5-0 compared to the way I think we should play and could play,” Williams said, “and I’ve got to do a better job of coaching my team.”
Michigan: The Wolverines entered shooting 53.2% on the season to rank second in the nation. After shooting 58% on Wednesday against Iowa State, they finished at 50% and made 11 of 26 3-pointers in this one while holding the Tar Heels to 1-for-14 shooting out of halftime.
UNC’S FRANTIC RALLY
The Tar Heels twice got as close as eight on interior buckets by Garrison Brooks in the final 3½ minutes. But Eli Brooks all but closed it out by swishing through a 3 with the shot clock winding down at the 1:12 mark, pushing the margin back to double figures.
Michigan’s David DeJulius had 11 points while seeing extra work with starting point guard Zavier Simpson dealing with foul trouble. ... Teske had 10 points, eight rebounds and four blocks. ... UNC made just 2 of 13 3-pointers and 10 of 20 free throws.
North Carolina: Faces No. 11 Oregon on Friday in the third-place game.
Michigan: Faces No. 8 Gonzaga on Friday in the championship game.
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Oddities Sports Football College football College sports SEC Football Championship Game
LSU SEC Georgia
LSU fans invited to grab a grassy gift ahead of championship
- Dec. 02, 2019 07:12 AM EST
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana State University fans will have a chance to take home an unusual souvenir as the football team heads to the SEC championship -- free slabs of Tiger Stadium sod.
LSU Athletics announced that fans can claim their grassy gifts on Monday at the bullpen lot at Alex Box Stadium in Baton Rouge.
LSU’s 50-7 rout of Texas A&M on Saturday puts the undefeated Tigers up against The University of Georgia’s Bulldogs in the SEC championship game in Atlanta.
On Twitter, the university invited fans to “grab a piece of history” by picking up some of the field. The sod is being removed as LSU works to improve drainage at the stadium.
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‘Bumblebee’: Angela Bassett on Finding Her Decepticon Voice
by Perri Nemiroff December 25, 2018
Academy Award nominee and all-around badass – especially in American Horror Story – Angela Bassett joins the Transformers film franchise by lending her voice to the Deception, Shatter, in Bumblebee. The movie takes place in 1987 and follows Bumblebee to Earth after narrowly surviving and escaping an epic battle between the Autobots and Decepticons on Cybertron. But he’s far from safe at that point. Shatter and her sidekick Dropkick (voiced by Justin Theroux) are on his tail, and Shatter is particularly skilled when it comes to manipulating human beings in order to get more information on Bumblebee’s whereabouts.
With Bumblebee now in theaters theaters, I got a little time to chat with Bassett about finding her Decepticon voice, working with director Travis Knight from opposite sides of the country, the big difference between voicing a character in this film compared to the other voice work she’s done before, being embraced by the Transformers and Marvel fan communities, and also what the term “Oscar movie” means to her. You can hear about all of that in the video interview at the top of this article and for more on Bumblebee, click here for my conversation with Knight.
Image via Paramount Pictures
Here’s the official synopsis for Bumblebee:
On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie (Hailee Steinfeld), on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns this is no ordinary, yellow VW bug.
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Bosco Sodi, “Untitled,” 2013. Mixed media on canvas, 78 3/4 x 110 1/4″. Courtesy of the artist and Pace Gallery. Photo by Rachel Styer.
Born from mounds of matter piled, dripped, and gently sculpted by Bosco Sodi, then left to its own devices to crack, shift, and solidify over time, Untitled evokes both past and future, while arresting one’s attention in the present. Dark rivulets, mountains, and gorges form labyrinths of a scorched post-human earth, or perhaps a distant planet of rocks and ice, leaving the viewer unsure if they are viewing something on the cusp of creation or post-destruction. Created just after Sodi’s waterfront studio was entirely destroyed by waters from the New York Harbor, Untitled is haunting, foreboding, almost shamanic in its presence—at peace with its impermanence while in command of its presence.
Red pigment from the studio of participant artist Bosco Sodi, flooded across the Van Brunt Street pier in Red Hook, Brooklyn. October 2012. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Rozalia Jovanovic.
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Constitutional Conduct
Conclaves: Proceedings
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE CITIZENS OF INDIA: INDIA DOES NOT NEED THE CAA-NPR-NRIC
On January 9, 2020 By constitutionalconductIn Constitution, Governance, Public affairs
Dear Fellow Citizens of India,
Over the past few weeks, many of you have been understandably agitated over the enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 (“CAA“). Your fears have been compounded by the contradictory and confusing statements made by spokespersons of the Government of India on the implementation of the National Register of Indian Citizens (“NRIC”), Though that government now seeks to delink the National Population Register (“NPR”) from the NRIC, we, the Constitutional Conduct Group, comprising former civil servants from the All-India and Central Services committed to the Constitution of India, consider it our duty to inform you that the three issues are linked, acquaint you with the facts regarding the NPR, NRIC and the CAA and emphasise why these measures need to be resolutely opposed. For easy comprehension, we are listing the issues pointwise:
There is no need for the NPR and NRIC
Both the NPR and NRIC exercises flow out of the amendments in 2003 to the Citizenship Act, 1955 (“1955 Act”) and the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003 (“2003 Rules”) framed by the then NDA government in 2003. The NPR has nothing to do with the Census of India, which is conducted every ten years and is next due in 2021. While the Census collects information about all residents of India without listing their names, the NPR is a list of names of all those who have lived in India for over six months, regardless of their nationality. A Population Register will contain the list of persons usually residing within a specified local area (village/town/ward/demarcated area).
The NRIC will effectively be a subset of the Population Registers for the entire country. The 2003 Rules provide for verification of the details in the Population Register by the Local Registrar (normally a taluka or town functionary) who will separate out cases of doubtful citizenship and conduct further enquiries. After carrying out enquiries in respect of residents whose citizenship status is suspect, the Local Registrar will prepare a draft Local Register of Indian Citizens, which would exclude those not able to establish, through documentary proof, their claim to be citizens of India.
It is at this stage that the experience of the citizens of Assam can cause apprehensions in the minds of those who are required to establish their citizenship, whether or not they profess any religion. The NPR 2020, unlike the NPR 2010, asks not only for the names of the parents of the resident, but also seeks to also record their dates and places of birth. A person who is not able to furnish these details for his/her parents or, for that matter, for himself/herself, could well be classified a “doubtful citizen”.
The 2003 amendments to the 1955 Act (vide Sections 3 (b), 3 (c) and 14A) and the consequent introduction of the 2003 Rules seem to indicate an undue obsession about illegal migrants, without any factual basis. We fail to understand the need for a nationwide identification of “illegal migrants”, which is what the NRIC in effect amounts to, when census statistics over the past seven decades do not show any major demographic shifts, except in certain pockets in some areas of North-Eastern and Eastern India adjoining our neighbouring countries.
We are apprehensive that the vast powers to include or exclude a person from the Local Register of Indian Citizens that is going to be vested in the bureaucracy at a fairly junior level has the scope to be employed in an arbitrary and discriminatory manner, subject to local pressures and to meet specific political objectives, not to mention the unbridled scope for large-scale corruption. Added to this is the provision for objections to the draft Local Register from any person. The Assam NRC exercise has thrown up the dangers of such a large-scale exercise: lakhs of citizens have been made to spend their life’s savings running from pillar to post to establish their citizenship credentials. Worrying reports are already coming in of people in different parts of India rushing in panic to obtain the necessary birth documents. The problem is magnified in a country where the maintenance of birth records is poor, coupled with highly inefficient birth registration systems. Errors of inclusion and exclusion have been a feature of all large-scale surveys in India, the Below Poverty Line survey and the Socio-Economic Caste Census being prime examples. The recently completed NRC exercise in Assam has been equally error-ridden and has led to major discontent. Indeed the State Government itself, with the BJP in power, has rejected its own NRC data, an extremely ludicrous scenario.
The provisions of the CAA, coupled with rather aggressive statements over the past few years from the highest levels of this government, rightly cause deep unease in India’s Muslim community, which has already faced discrimination and attacks on issues ranging from allegations of love jihad to cattle smuggling and beef consumption. That the Muslim community has had to face the brunt of police action in recent days only in those states where the local police is controlled by the party in power at the centre only adds credence to the widespread feeling that the NPR-NRIC exercise could be used for selective targeting of specific communities and individuals.
Added to the inconvenience that the NPR would put the common person through is the unnecessary expenditure on the NPR exercise, when data which is now to be gathered is already available through the Aadhaar system: these include name, address, date of birth, father/husband’s name and gender. Most Indian citizens are already covered by Aadhaar. The purpose of gathering a lot of the additional data (over and above the Aadhaar details) is unclear and will only give rise to the reasonable apprehension that the bona fide citizen could be enmeshed in an interminable, costly bureaucratic exercise if his/her citizenship status comes under doubt.
Our group of former civil servants, with many years of service in the public sphere, is firmly of the view that both the NPR and the NRIC are unnecessary and wasteful exercises, which will cause hardship to the public at large and will also entail public expenditure that is better spent on schemes benefiting the poor and disadvantaged sections of society. They also constitute an invasion of the citizens’ right to privacy, since a lot of information, including Aadhaar, mobile numbers and voter IDs will be listed in a document, with scope for misuse.
Why authorise widespread setting up of Foreigners’ Tribunals and detention camps?:
The Foreigners (Tribunals) Amendment Order, 2019 (issued on 30 May 2019) has unnecessarily stoked fears that Foreigners’ Tribunals can now be set up on the orders of any District Magistrate in India and is the precursor to a widespread exercise to identify “illegal migrants”. While the central government may contend that there is no such intention, it was surely impolitic, given the prevailing atmosphere in Assam and elsewhere, to issue such blanket orders delegating powers for constituting Foreigners’ Tribunals. The experience with Foreigners’ Tribunals in Assam has been, to put it bluntly, traumatic for those at the receiving end. After running the gamut of gathering documents and answering objections to their citizenship claims, “doubtful citizens” have also had to contend with these Tribunals, the composition and functioning of which were highly discretionary and arbitrary. Consequently, a number of citizens lost their lives in the quest for affirming citizenship or have had to suffer the indignity of incarceration in detention camps.
There have also been media reports, not denied by the Government of India, that orders for setting up detention camps have been given to all state governments. We are frankly bemused by the Prime Minister’s recent statement that no such camps are in existence, when reports have documented the construction of such camps in states as far apart as Goalpara in Assam and Nelamangala in Karnataka and the intention to construct a detention centre in Navi Mumbai in Maharashtra. The Government of India has not come out with any statistics to show that the “illegal migrants” problem in India is so severe that it requires the large-scale construction of detention camps all over the country.
The constitutional and moral untenability of the CAA:
We have our grave reservations about the constitutional validity of the CAA provisions, which we also consider to be morally indefensible. We would like to emphasise that a statute that consciously excludes the Muslim religion from its purview is bound to give rise to apprehensions in what is a very large segment of India’s population. A formulation that focused on those suffering persecution (religious, political, social) in any country in the world would not only have calmed local apprehensions but would also have been appreciated by the international community. In its current formulation, the CAA does not even mention the word “persecuted”, probably because using this word in the context of Afghanistan and Bangladesh would have marred India’s relations with these countries. Given that the Government of India has powers to grant citizenship after a migrant has completed eleven years in India, it would be instructive to know whether the Government of India has cleared all pending cases of “illegal migrants” till end-2008. Since the discretion to grant citizenship and to exempt individuals/groups from the purview of the Passport Act, 1920 and the Foreigners Act, 1946 lies entirely with the Government of India, this discretion could have been exercised on a case by case basis by the Government of India without any need to go through the exercise of the CAA and mentioning specific communities from specific countries.
What has given rise to grave apprehensions about the intentions of the Government of India has been the rash of statements by Ministers of the Government of India in recent times, linking the NRIC and the CAA. The Prime Minister’s statement at a public meeting in Delhi on 22 December that the CAA and the NRIC are not linked contradicts the averments of his Home Minister on repeated occasions in various fora. In such a welter of conflicting and confusing utterances, it is hardly surprising that the ordinary citizen is left bewildered and is overcome by unknown fears, more so when government has not entered into any dialogue on this issue. At a time when the economic situation in the country warrants the closest attention of the government, India can ill afford a situation where the citizenry and the government enter into confrontation on the roads. Nor is it desirable to have a situation where the majority of State Governments are not inclined to implement the NPR/NRIC, leading to an impasse in centre-state relations, so crucial in a federal set up like India. Above all, we see a situation developing where India is in danger of losing international goodwill and alienating its immediate neighbours, with adverse consequences for the security set-up in the sub-continent. India also stands to lose its position as a moral beacon guiding many other countries on the path to liberal democracy.
We, therefore, urge our fellow citizens to insist, as we do, that the Government of India pay heed to the voice of the citizens of India and take the following steps at the earliest:
Repeal Sections 14A and 18 (2) (ia) of the Citizenship Act, 1955, pertaining to the issue of national identity cards and its procedures and the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003 in its entirety.
Withdraw the Foreigners (Tribunals) Amendment Order, 2019 and withdraw all instructions for construction of detention camps.
Repeal the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019.
SATYAMEVA JAYATE
(106 signatories, as below)
1. Anita Agnihotri IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Department of Social Justice Empowerment, GoI
2. Salahuddin Ahmad IAS (Retd.) Former Chief Secretary, Govt. of Rajasthan
3. V.S. Ailawadi IAS (Retd.) Former Vice Chairman, Delhi Development Authority
4. S.P. Ambrose IAS (Retd.) Former Additional Secretary, Ministry of Shipping & Transport, GoI
5. Anand Arni R&AW (Retd.) Former Special Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, GoI
6. Mohinderpal Aulakh IPS (Retd.) Former Director General of Police (Jails), Govt. of Punjab
7. N. Bala Baskar IAS (Retd.) Former Principal Adviser (Finance), Ministry of External Affairs, GoI
8. Vappala Balachandran IPS (Retd.) Former Special Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, GoI
9. Gopalan Balagopal IAS (Retd.) Former Special Secretary, Govt. of West Bengal
10. Chandrashekhar Balakrishnan IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Coal, GoI
11. Sharad Behar IAS (Retd.) Former Chief Secretary, Govt. of Madhya Pradesh
12. Madhu Bhaduri IFS (Retd.) Former Ambassador to Portugal
13. Meeran C Borwankar IPS (Retd.) Former DGP, Bureau of Police Research and Development, GoI
14. Ravi Budhiraja IAS (Retd.) Former Chairman, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, GoI
15. Sundar Burra IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Govt. of Maharashtra
16. R. Chandramohan IAS (Retd.) Former Principal Secretary, Transport and Urban Development, Govt. of NCT of Delhi
17. K.M. Chandrasekhar IAS (Retd.) Former Cabinet Secretary, GoI
18. Rachel Chatterjee IAS (Retd.) Former Special Chief Secretary, Agriculture, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh
19. Kalyani Chaudhuri IAS (Retd.) Former Additional Chief Secretary, Govt. of West Bengal
20. Anna Dani IAS (Retd.) Former Additional Chief Secretary, Govt. of Maharashtra
21. Surjit K. Das IAS (Retd.) Former Chief Secretary, Govt. of Uttarakhand
22. Vibha Puri Das IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Ministry of Tribal Affairs, GoI
23. P.R. Dasgupta IAS (Retd.) Former Chairman, Food Corporation of India, GoI
24. Nareshwar Dayal IFS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs and former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
25. Pradeep K. Deb IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Deptt. Of Sports, GoI
26. Nitin Desai IES (Retd.) Former Secretary and Chief Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance, GoI
27. Keshav Desiraju IAS (Retd.) Former Health Secretary, GoI
28. M.G. Devasahayam IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Govt. of Haryana
29. Sushil Dubey IFS (Retd.) Former Ambassador to Sweden
30. K.P. Fabian IFS (Retd.) Former Ambassador to Italy
31. Prabhu Ghate IAS (Retd.) Former Addl. Director General, Department of Tourism, GoI
32. Arif Ghauri IRS (Retd.) Former Governance Adviser, DFID, Govt. of the United Kingdom (on deputation)
33. Gourisankar Ghosh IAS (Retd.) Former Mission Director, National Drinking Water Mission, GoI
34. S.K. Guha IAS (Retd.) Former Joint Secretary, Department of Women & Child Development, GoI
35. Meena Gupta IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Ministry of Environment & Forests, GoI
36. Ravi Vira Gupta IAS (Retd.) Former Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India
37. Wajahat Habibullah IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, GoI and Chief Information Commissioner
38. Deepa Hari IRS (Resigned)
39. Sajjad Hassan IAS (Retd.) Former Commissioner (Planning), Govt. of Manipur
40. Siraj Hussain IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Department of Agriculture, GoI
41. Kamal Jaswal IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Department of Information Technology, GoI
42. Jagdish Joshi IAS (Retd.) Former Additional Chief Secretary (Planning), Govt. of Maharashtra
43. Najeeb Jung IAS (Retd.) Former Lieutenant Governor, Delhi
44. Rahul Khullar IAS (Retd.) Former Chairman, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
45. K. John Koshy IAS (Retd.) Former State Chief Information Commissioner, West Bengal
46. Ajai Kumar IFoS (Retd.) Former Director, Ministry of Agriculture, GoI
47. Arun Kumar IAS (Retd.) Former Chairman, National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority, GoI
48. Brijesh Kumar IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Department of Information Technology, GoI
49. P.K. Lahiri IAS (Retd.) Former Executive Director, Asian Development Bank
50. Subodh Lal IPoS (Resigned) Former Deputy Director General, Ministry of Communications, GoI
51. S.K. Lambah IFS (Retd.) Former Special Envoy of the Prime Minister of India
52. P.M.S. Malik IFS (Retd.) Former Ambassador to Myanmar & Special Secretary, MEA, GoI
53. Harsh Mander IAS (Retd.) Govt. of Madhya Pradesh
54. Lalit Mathur IAS (Retd.) Former Director General, National Institute of Rural Development, GoI
55. Aditi Mehta IAS (Retd.) Former Additional Chief Secretary, Govt. of Rajasthan
56. Shivshankar Menon IFS (Retd.) Former Foreign Secretary and Former National Security Adviser
57. Sonalini Mirchandani IFS (Resigned) GoI
58. Sunil Mitra IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Ministry of Finance, GoI
59. Deb Mukharji IFS (Retd.) Former High Commissioner to Bangladesh and former Ambassador to Nepal
60. Shiv Shankar Mukherjee IFS (Retd.) Former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
61. Pranab S. Mukhopadhyay IAS (Retd.) Former Director, Institute of Port Management, GoI
62. Sobha Nambisan IAS (Retd.) Former Principal Secretary (Planning), Govt. of Karnataka
63. P.G.J. Nampoothiri IPS (Retd.) Former Director General of Police, Govt. of Gujarat
64. Surendra Nath IAS (Retd.) Former Member, Finance Commission, Govt. of Madhya Pradesh
65. P.A. Nazareth IFS (Retd.) GoI
66. Amitabha Pande IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Inter-State Council, GoI
67. Alok Perti IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Ministry of Coal, GoI
68. R.M. Premkumar IAS (Retd.) Former Chief Secretary, Govt. of Maharashtra
69. T.R. Raghunandan IAS (Retd.) Former Joint Secretary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj, GoI
70. N.K. Raghupathy IAS (Retd.) Former Chairman, Staff Selection Commission, GoI
71. V.P. Raja IAS (Retd.) Former Chairman, Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission
72. C. Babu Rajeev IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, GoI
73. K. Sujatha Rao IAS (Retd.) Former Health Secretary, GoI
74. M.Y. Rao IAS (Retd.)
75. Satwant Reddy IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Chemicals and Petrochemicals, GoI
76. Julio Ribeiro IPS (Retd.) Former Adviser to Governor of Punjab & former Ambassador to Romania
77. Aruna Roy IAS (Resigned)
78. Manabendra N. Roy IAS (Retd.) Former Additional Chief Secretary, Govt. of West Bengal
79. Deepak Sanan IAS (Retd.) Former Principal Adviser (AR) to Chief Minister, Govt. of Himachal Pradesh
80. G. Sankaran IC&CES (Retd.) Former President, Customs, Excise and Gold (Control) Appellate Tribunal
81. Shyam Saran IFS (Retd.) Former Foreign Secretary and Former Chairman, National Security Advisory Board
82. S. Satyabhama IAS (Retd.) Former Chairperson, National Seeds Corporation, GoI
83. N.C. Saxena IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Planning Commission, GoI
84. Ardhendu Sen IAS (Retd.) Former Chief Secretary, Govt. of West Bengal
85. Abhijit Sengupta IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Ministry of Culture, GoI
86. Aftab Seth IFS (Retd.) Former Ambassador to Japan
87. Ashok Kumar Sharma IFS (Retd.) Former Ambassador to Finland and Estonia
88. Navrekha Sharma IFS (Retd.) Former Ambassador to Indonesia
89. Pravesh Sharma IAS (Retd.) Former Additional Chief Secretary, Govt. of Madhya Pradesh
90. Raju Sharma IAS (Retd.) Former Member, Board of Revenue, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh
91. Rashmi Shukla Sharma IAS (Retd.) Former Additional Chief Secretary, Govt. of Madhya Pradesh
92. Har Mander Singh IAS (Retd.) Former Director General, ESI Corporation, GoI
93. Padamvir Singh IAS (Retd.) Former Director, LBSNAA, Mussoorie, GoI
94. Satyavir Singh IRS (Retd.) Former Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, GoI
95. Sujatha Singh IFS (Retd.) Former Foreign Secretary, GoI
96. Tirlochan Singh IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, National Commission for Minorities, GoI
97. Jawhar Sircar
IAS (Retd.)
Former Secretary, Ministry of Culture, GoI, & former CEO, Prasar Bharati
98. Narendra Sisodia IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Ministry of Finance, GoI
99. Manoj Srivastava IAS (Retd.) Former Commissioner, Departmental Enquiries (Chief Secretary rank)
100. Sanjivi Sundar IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Ministry of Surface Transport, GoI
101. Parveen Talha IRS (Retd.) Former Member, Union Public Service Commission
102. Thanksy Thekkekera IAS (Retd.) Former Additional Chief Secretary, Minorities Development, Govt. of Maharashtra
103. P.S.S. Thomas IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary General, National Human Rights Commission
104. Geetha Thoopal IRAS (Retd.) Former General Manager, Metro Railway, Kolkata
105. Hindal Tyabji IAS (Retd.) Former Chief Secretary rank, Govt. of Jammu & Kashmir
106. Ramani Venkatesan
IAS (Retd.) Former Director General, YASHADA, Govt. of Maharashtra
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OPEN LETTER TO HONOURABLE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT ON THE RECENT POLICE ENCOUNTER IN HYDERABAD
30 thoughts on “AN OPEN LETTER TO THE CITIZENS OF INDIA: INDIA DOES NOT NEED THE CAA-NPR-NRIC”
Girdhar Rathi
To dumb down the citizens, BJP spokespeople on all channels almost rebuke with a challenge…Where is this written in the C A A…When the citizen responds–it is feared …then at once he is bullied–what fear?Show us where is written…Evidently ,not every citizen can cite the horrific instances of Deprivation of Citizenship. Perhaps the Assam experience needs to be foregrounded. All communities, classes, professions. are potential targets of these inhuman legal gallows.
dutchindolia
Please never ever visit west Europe or USA where you may be asked to present your ID no matter if you are a citizen or a tourist and failure to do that will land you in jail with a hefty fine of around 250 euros to 500 euros.
Obviously why do we need CAA, NRC, NPR, UCC? Why should even India think of becoming a superpower let’s just be content with 9 to5 job till 60 years of service, marry our children and then criticize the government’s policies until Yamadoots come to retrieve us 🙄🙄
Vibhuti Salvi
Do you realise…that no one wants to respond to you….
….pata nahi kabir kahe the ki nahi….
…gyani jab mile gyanee se kare gyan ki baat…
..gaadha jabhue mile gadhue se…khaiee due due laath…..
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
So just 2 words to u Vibhuti: F**k off
Against AndhaBhakti
“Obviously why do we need CAA, NRC, NPR, UCC? Why should even India think of becoming a superpower”??? These will make India super power or the economy will? Where are we on jobs and development? GDP growth by Government estimate will be below 5% this year. Where are the 1 crore annual jobs when unemployment is the highest in 45 years. And do not give the crap about six years only in rule, six years is long enough to show your priorities. Since you keep comparing NRC with theocratic states in the West, can you also please compare us on any international index of development?? You cannot because this government is not interested in that. How will we become superpower with a NRC is beyond me….Also, these 106 people have served India and its interests in India and abroad, there is a former NSA and Foreign Secretary in the list. Service to India is beyond abusing people anonymously on websites.There is also a BJP appointed ex-Governor on the list. Are all of them “Congress stooges”? Can Congress whose Rahul Gandhi couldn’t save his own seat against a TV soap actress actually convince 106 people f such repute to sign an open public document?
ganeshbhattgb
India, like any sovereign nation, needs a citizenship database and system that guarantees freedoms its constitution provides to them. The idea has always been out there; now the country appears to take decisive action on the matter. However, it must do this carefully and cautiously — in the truest spirit of “sab deshvasiyon ka saath, unka vikas aur vishwas”!
That said, it would benefit all of us — current and future citizens— if the following issues/concerns/actions are addressed before moving further:
1. Criteria for “doubtful citizenship data”? What should be done to make the process trouble free for those who are not illegally staying in India?
2. How can government make resources that collect, verify, and prepare NRC/NPR records people helpers and not staff vested with corruptible powers?
3. How will India create a system that does not end up becoming a tool for politicians to exploit the data to serve their interest?
4. How can the government create a multi-step process for citizenship confirmation so that lawful citizens do neither spend money nor time in running from pillar to post? Government must facilitate the process in next stages once the relevant preliminary information has been supplied by the citizen.
5. Government should include points learnt from census and economic and other data collected from time to time in the past. Obviously, too many flaws exist in these processes.
6. All information available and proven in census and Aadhaar processes should not be recollected. Govt should clarify why any data not already collected at census/Aadhaar level is required now.
7. Govt must ensure how it’s system would secure citizens’ privacy in the wake of all the information it collects on its citizens.
8. Post the initial data collection, verification and implementation, how is govt to go about identifying undetected and/or future illegal migrants?
9. How will govt prevent targeting of innocent citizens by zealots on the basis of differences that crossover to becoming socially or politically discriminatory?
10. The honourable Supreme Court should give it’s ruling on the constitutional validity of the exercise intended once the govt has responded to the above and other relevant concerns of India’s citizens reasonably satisfactorily.
freespeechcollective
One of the clearest analysis I have read on why the CAA-NPR_NRC is such a terrible move, morall, ethically, legally and constitutionally!
That you don’t get to decide. Thankfully we have Supreme court I. India and not rabid fools like you fell vering verdicts on matters they scantly even comprehend
Sheeraz Naqvi
CAA is unconstitutional as per article 15 of the constitution of India. As Home minister told that this act will be helpful to give citizenship to the minorities i.e. Hindu, Sikh, Cristian from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh on the basis of religious prostitution , I have no problem in this act but the document is differ as our home minister says. In the document, there is no any word of about religious prostitution.
#NoCAA
#NoNRC
#NoNPR
Article 15 is for Indian citizens you dumbo.
CAA is for non Indian citizens and it’s for those religiously persecuted, not prostituted 😆😆😆
C.Nagendra Rao
bloody individual ‘ it is not prostitution dear prostitute it is persecution. dont submit your habit on this public space
S. Ganguly
Very well written. Thank you. Assuming that the Supreme court does not strike down CAA and the government proceeds with NPR-NRC, what suggestions do you have for ordinary citizens?
Leave India for any of these 3 countries and apply citizenship there and when persecution starts there on you, then apply for Indian citizenship back under CAA and thank current government for bringing this in the first place.
Also leave your communist antinational brain when applying for Indian citizenship again which can’t see the benefits that would be accrued with the nation building exercises like CAA, NPR, NRC and most importantly UCC
S.Ganguly is questioning the government, which is what a citizen does in a democracy, he is not anti-national. There is a difference. Perhaps if you could move beyond Andha Bhakti, you could see it too. He could be a tax paying nation builder, you don’t have to prove your nationalism by agreeing to whatever regulations a government wants. And I wonder why you are talking of NRC when the Hon’ble PM has said that his government has not even mentioned the NRC.
Bajro
Do you know ‘dumbo’ how many will be benefited by CAA? According to the sleuths of home deptt. of the Govt. of India, the figure is 31,311. To benefit 31311 foreign intruder why devastating lives of 1.35 billion citizens of the country? When a prime minister can not show his graduation certificate, has he any authority to ask for documents from crores of under-privileged who do not bother to preserve any such things?
All the 106 dumbols who have signed this open letter (similar to the 46 chameleons who signed open letter on 6Dec2019 beating chest that SC made a wrong decision) are stooges of congress party and work symbiotically in a congress ecosystem cultivated with decades of corruption.
First congress took care of them and now they are taking care of the congress without realizing that Indian population has seen through your act.
No western nation (N America & west Europe) is without NPR and NRC. Moreover, everyone is always expected to carry your Visa, resident permit or passport (as per case of different Nationals or citizens) in case authorities ask.
Failure to do so can land one in jail and fine.
So all 106 of these pseudo intellectuals are politely requested to travel there and then immediately burn their IDs on which they entered and enjoy the reception they will get in the jails of these countries.
Only then these arm chair experts will understand how badly we need NRC, NPR, UCC and most urgently strict population control laws
Bhaskar Gupta
No doubt India, our respected BHARAT MATAA is in a terrific conditions…her children r struggling on roads against Rulling Party leaving Campus_es against CAA/ NRC/NPC/ BEYROJGARl/ Economical Conditions/ Bhook Mari etc.etc.
This is first time that after enactment of an ACT( here,CAA) , Govt is on d job with d assistance of Rulling Party & it’s Constituents ( most r opposing like AASU) 2Teach d Citizens about d Act & even Dharma Gurus r giving Notes on it.
Mind it Rajiv Gandhi as a Prime Minister respected Students Leaders from Assam ( here.AASU) and invited them Delhi 4Discussions arranging Special Flight & solved d issues related with Citizenships….
Let’s Try our best 2Solve d issues amicably….no Violence but Peace only d way through dialogues 2Save India, our BHARAT MATAA.Jai Hind.
Chintan Shah
This time i am with my country voice….
Though time …I am don’t support CAA & NRC…
Today I see my country back 15 years as Growth….
Pls our Central gov. Employee come with us & Avoid to CAB…
Mini Mohan
Those who are happy with it stay in India and rejoice as India begins nation building exercises which should have been done in 1951 and celebrate the rich culture knowing all of us want the best for India and will live and die for it wherever in the world we live.
Those who are unhappy can apply for the citizenship of the countries they think will support their idea of secularism in which minorities could be rampant and vandals but majority should always uphold the secular views over nationalistic views.
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sebastiankjose
You have very well done your duty. This is the need of the hour. It is pertinent that you have addressed the citizens of India not it’s rulers. This is the right approach in a democracy. Had this been translated into regional languages it would have reached the entire population of the country. Hope the rulers who are also citizens will heed this sane message.
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A succinct and excellent letter that clearly explains the dangers inherent in the two exercises (NRC and NPR) coupled with the CAA.
With the obduracy of the current dispensation, despite online polls showing a vast majority against the CAA and NRC-NPR, it seems that protests will have to continue while we await the SC opinion on PILs filed against these initiatives.
Thank you for your letter addressed to us. I will do my best to spread it round.
Yeah please spread the hate, fear around and start your 2020 by fulfilling the duty of spreading your master – Chaos’s Dharma
Reni R
You servants of India are misleading citizens of India, those who work or stay in other countries can understand the need of these, you don’t understand what is happening in Kerala due to illegal migrants who comes for job spread violence, tidy environment, robbery, killings. You learned people are misleading the Indian citizens
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23 July 2018 / Technology
Virgin drops 10 UKTV channels: are you affected?
10 UKTV channels, including Gold, were dropped by Virgin Media over the weekend after a dispute between the two companies – how do you feel about the changes?
Update: UKTV channels are returning to Virgin media after a deal was reached (August, 2018)
Back in February 2017 we discussed a similar situation – Sky TV subscribers were set to lose all 13 of the Discovery network of channels.
Fortunately in that case, a last-minute deal was struck between the two companies to keep the channels on. This time around? No such luck – the channels have already been removed, and people aren’t impressed.
Naturally, both companies are blaming each other for the situation, with customers caught in the middle.
And, as it’s 2018, this dispute is playing out very publicly. Here’s UKTV’s take:
We’ve worked with @virginmedia since its launch in 2006. We’re so sorry for any viewers who are missing our channels, but we couldn’t afford to take such a huge pay cut. We are still available on @SkyUK, @BT_UK, @FreeviewTV, @Freesat_TV, @TalkTalkTV and @NOWTV. pic.twitter.com/FRnghOs72u
— Official UKTV (@UKTV) July 21, 2018
And here’s Virgin Media’s response:
To be clear: we are ready to restore UKTV’s free channels for our customers immediately with @UKTV’s permission.
Read more: https://t.co/Yl9kD2kiVJ pic.twitter.com/9z6nfJU3du
— Virgin Media (@virginmedia) July 22, 2018
Five of the 10 affected channels (Dave, Drama, Home, Really and Yesterday) are still available via Freeview and Freesat, and Virgin has also added new channels to ‘replace’ the UKTV offering.
However, that may not be enough to appease viewers of the five paid channels (Gold, Alibi, Edin, Good Food and W) – and the news is especially bad for fans of old BBC classics like me (such as Blackadder, Only Fools & Horses and Porridge) which air regularly on Gold.
I had a chat with our Consumer Rights team to see what options are available to frustrated customers, but unfortunately they’re pretty limited.
Virgin’s Ts&Cs are pretty iron-clad for these scenarios:
1. Some content included in the television service from time to time is supplied by other organisations and may be changed or removed due to matters outside our reasonable control or for commercial or contractual reasons including but not limited to the loss of particular content or programmes or other components from the television service.
2. You agree that changes in the content available or changes in access to particular content will not be a significant change to the television service or this agreement.
It’s unlikely you’ll be able to cancel easily if you’re still in contract, but there’s nothing to stop you haggling for a lower monthly fee, especially if the UKTV channels made up a considerable portion of your viewing. And if you’re out of contract, you can always switch to another supplier.
Have you been affected by the removal of the 10 UKTV channels? Are you considering leaving as a result?
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Sophie Gilbert says:
It isn’t this that has made me leave Virgin, but I should have switched a long time ago. I stayed with them because of their cable technology, but now I’m fed up with paying a price I don’t think matches the service I get, eg £19.99 for the phone line. I also find it scandalous that Virgin should sue the NHS for not being awarded a contract. Branson a spoilt brat!? I don’t want to give him my money anymore.
I do remember a long time ago when Virgin stopped showing Sky One because of some sort of dispute. Not Virgin, not anyone else is interested in providing a service primarily, they’re interested in making money. Providing a service is utterly incidental to the businesses. Look at the NHS again, and look at the trains!! Virgin Trains compared to eg the TGV? The French are laughing.
I’m switching to Utility Warehouse because of a ?Which review. They don’t offer a TV service at present, but nowadays I rarely watch TV live anyway (*), so I’ll watch catch up TV through broadband. Fingers crossed the connection is reasonable.
(*Except the 6 Nations, Rugby World Cup, Football European Cup, and Football World Cup. Wasn’t this world cup fabulous? (Great shame about what’s going on in the location politically, but that’s definitely another matter.) So many exciting matches, and this English team is one to watch. They’ll be back! 🙂 )
Brian Fenlon says:
Richard Branson has little to do with Virgin Media which was sold to Liberty Media some years ago. I agree with most of what you say.
Karen Brown says:
The arrogance of all concerned has really angered me. As long-standing Virgin XL customers with bundled broadband and phone, you would have thought they could have let us know. I found out through the Radio Times Twitter feed!
We are now looking into reducing our package with them to a minimum as we don’t really watch many of the extra channels they provide. Also, as we have Freeview and Netflix, there really isn’t much that we can’t watch in another way.
I feel that all providers have us over a barrel – deciding at a whim what we can and cannot watch, despite paying out many hundreds of pounds a year. I remember being particularly annoyed at ITV when they decided to set up a Sky only channel (Encore) and made one of my favourite shows, The Americans unavailable. That obviously didn’t work very well for them, and now I can see it again on ITV4. What next?
We don’t have any guarantees that other channels that Virgin currently use won’t follow suit. We really are at the mercy of large, greedy companies and, guess what, it is the customer that suffers every time.
As well as cutting out content for their customers, Virgin are bullying UKTV who, quite reasonably in my view, want a higher payment for their prestige channels in return for making the free ones available. I am not a Virgin customer, so it doesn’t affect me, but I sympathise with those who have committed everything to Virgin and have no alternative technology to catch the channels they like.
I agree with Sophie about Virgin Trains they are not so fast as the French ones and not so spacious but that’s not their fault; most of the the British railways were built to a smaller loading gauge than those on the Continent, but there are equivalent trains on the route from St Pancras and through the Channel Tunnel [I won’t mention HS2].
john scandrett says:
virginmedia had not got the guts to tell there customers about it or even offer a reduction in there charges I am unhappy about it they seem to have no loyality to there customers after being with them for years
I got a glib response on Twitter from VM who suggested I should watch UKTVs channels via the web.
Virgin Media is owned by Liberty Global who pay a licence fee to use the name. (The same is true of many of the other Virgin named business.) So Virgin Media, Trains, Money etc all have different ownership
Freeview offers good value for money.
So does freesat. porbably uses the same dish as your other satellite provider. Having said that we rarely use ours, relying on freeview.
I’m not a Virgin subscriber, so:
Have I been affected by the removal of the 10 UKTV channels? No.
Am I considering leaving as a result? No.
If my PlusNet BB ever turns out to be too slow, I might join Virgin for a BB only service.
John Sims says:
I am upset that some of the UKTV channels have been removed and have looked at the alternatives, but as we can see our recorded programs in other rooms at a bargain price with Virgin it is not economic to change to another provider. Free view is not the answer as we used to record UKTV programs that are on late at night. I am not impressed.
frabstor says:
I’ve been a VM customer for many many years including all their previous incarnations NTL, Nynex etc etc.. They have undoubtedly shot themselves in the foot. I’ve been reading comments on the VM’s own community site and to say there is a groundswell of dissatisfaction would be an understatement of biblical proportions. It seems people have already, or are in the process of changing supplier, mostly to Sky. For my part I will give it a month to see if the enormity of their mistake and the ensuing PR disaster finally dawns on them. Then I will consider my options.
Whilst I realise that their contract is probably watertight in that they reserve the right to add or delete channels at will I find it difficult to understand how they justify the removal of UKTV and its substitution wth totally random second rate channels announcing ’The addition of new and exciting channels’. Some of these are even duplicated and were already included in my TV XL bundled phone and broadband package anyway….’new and exciting’ I don’t think so! Surely this is totally misleading.
In the meantime I shall be contacting VM to demand a reduction in my subscription. Although just how I contact them is another matter since amazingly for a Tech company they do not appear to have an email address for complaints. Their customer complaints telephone line is always engaged and and ‘Live Chat’ is always ‘unavailable at the present time’ surprise surprise!
I gave up on Virgin back when they removed all the Sky channels. Luckily I was out of contract so just moved to Sky. Have never regretted it. Virgin treat their customers with utter contempt. I think someone should challenge the legality of their contract wording – it basically says ‘you’ll have whatever you’re given and still have to pay the same’. Nope!
Trebor says:
Have been with Virgin from start and the one before (forget its name).
Always have to haggle each year on renewing – getting right fed-up of it !
But it seems there are all crap – some more than others.
It’s a case of picking the smallest pile of it that’s less harmless/flustering etc.
The only use we ordinary folk are is to be shafted by the lot of them !
Utilities – Politicians – Government – Councils – Police – Insurers – and so on !
Intermittent Virgin broadband service for the past 2 weeks, now down completely, many hours on the phone to Indian call centres where I just get a scripted reply or totally misleading information. Now spoken to Customer service who offers an immediate reduction of £37 (on this months subscription of £90), a 12 month reduction of £15 pm provided I contract to stay with them for 12 months. Not sure whether to accept or just tell them to shove it.
John refuse the 12 month reduction as that puts you on a NEW contract with new conditions . You are not alone and yes the complaints are all up to date – this month
https://www.broadband.co.uk/broadband/providers/virgin-media/reviews/ I take it you are on Virgin Media CABLE John ? This gets most people 100Mbps but as you say their service is lousy when a fault occurs . some people go back to FTTC although its a drop in speed.
I have just remembered John BT is competing with VM now by offering GFAST which offers speeds up to 300Mbps over copper . It might be available in your area .
Muir says:
I have been with Virgin since its inception – previous Freeserve, then Ntlworld customer – and i think it is UKTV that is at fault – they supply free to air channels but are barring Virgin from using them unless they take the full package on offer from UKTV – i cannot get easy aerial reception – so using Freeview to view these channels is not an option – as to my Virgin service i have the Big Kahuna bundle and it is mainly for their Broadband speeds – and every six months or so i will haggle with Virgin customer service to get a bit of a discount and also 6 months free Sky Sports – or as at present 6 months free Movies package. and for other commenters – Virgin Money is a separate entity as is Virgin trains – and Virgin Healthcare
Muir, if you cannot get “easy ” terrestrial reception of Freeview why dont you install –Freesat ? I have both terrestrial and satellite reception of Astra 28 degrees E which is the same satellite Sky uses so I have a choice of two ways of viewing . This signal is very strong in terms of satellite reception in the UK and not only that my sat box (Technomate ) has a slot for a card so that I can watch SKY –if I pay for it . I realise you watch on cable but this is a free option if you install it yourself and you can install a much bigger dish for better spread of bandwidth. BT are now challenging VM with the “Gfast ” (trademark ) network which will give you about 300Mbps ( depending on distance etc ) on Copper. Glasgow has a lot installed now in competition with Virgin Cable. FTTP is now being installed on a parallel basis too.
OldDerbeian says:
I am on the Virginmedia Fun package. The loss of Dave, Really, etc is a big inconvenience to me and my wife. We habitually record some of the old programs (Last of the Summer Wine, for example) on the Tivo box for watching at our convenience. Of course, you can’t do this with Freeview without buying another complicated expensive box and it seems that Virgin will delete all my Tivo recordings after 3 months! If we don’t get UKTV back, we will think about cancelling Virginmedia, buying a new recording box and looking at who can give us a cheap home telephone service.
NB One of the replacement channels is 127 Premium Sports HD. The Virginmedia website says that this will be subscription free for 2 months. We don’t watch sports much and I am concerned that I will be charged for this automatically after the 2 months (I have no idea how much!) I have phoned VM to cancel this channel but it is still on my channel list. I have been caught out before by so-called “free” upgrades only to find a later rise in my bill. So it is worth watching out for.
If Virgin is suddenly bereft of some of its key channels it either has to fight back or capitulate. Regular subscribers are going to be ***** off (my asterisks, translate them if you wish) and Virgin will lose some of its revenue. Price reductions probably won’t compensate. People want to watch what they want to watch. It seems as though Virgin can’t fight back in a channel blocking war, or the opposition would have not bothered to blank their output for fear of reprisal. The other option is to pay what is asked of them and take the additional cost on the chin, quietly hiking the subscription fees. Sky does this very effectively claiming that they are doing us a favour and we shouldn’t begrudge them a little extra. It is a cut throat business with many companies vying for our subscriptions and the fickle public shifting loyalties to the next attraction or trend. Is there an argument that the public are entitled to see the television they wish to see, provided they pay for it, thus each supplier should be required to supply every channel as part of their service? If this were the case, then, like the power industry, it would be the service each provided that would gain them the leading edge. Now, each company has their own little cohort of programmes to peddle and they are getting protective about who else can show them. The consumer can only sit and watch -or not as the case may be.
We are bereft without Alibi, Drama and Yesterday. VM offered to lower our payments but as have Netflix and Freeview already on another TV I’m thinking of cancelling. I’m getting 100mbps B.B. Anyone think of any reliable suppliers for just B.B.?
Terry M says:
I have been a virgin Media customer ever since it laid a cable in my street many years ago. How Virgin expect the owners of the channels we can no longer watch to drop their charges, I do not know. All prices are going up. Virgin have the cheek to increase our package prices (Over £100 per month for us) and stop us watching our favourite channels. We are missing the old re-runs of The Bill and similar on W and Dave. Seriously considering changing our providers for TV internet and telephone. When Virgin act without even considering their customers, they do not deserve to retain our loyalty.
Raymond Lees says:
you have broken your contract me us so you shound drop your prices NOW. The extra channels r rubbish .
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News Feb. 1, 2019
ExxonMobil Earns $20.8 Billion in 2018; $6 Billion in Fourth Quarter
IRVING, Texas — Exxon Mobil Corporation today announced estimated 2018 earnings of $20.8 billion, or $4.88 per share assuming dilution, compared with $19.7 billion a year earlier.
Full-year cash flow from operating activities of $36 billion, highest since 2014
Tenth discovery offshore Guyana, increasing Stabroek resource estimate to more than 5 billion barrels
Fourth quarter 2018 liquids production up 4 percent from prior-year quarter driven by Permian growth
Forth Quarter Third Quarter Twelve Months
2017 % 2018 %
(Dollars in millions, except per share data)
Earnings (U.S. GAAP)
8,380 -28 6,240 -4
19,710 +6
Asset Impairments
(1,294) (18)
Earnings Excluding U.S. Tax Reform and Impairments
3,732 +72 5,987 +7
15,289 +38
Earnings Per Common Share Assuming Dilution
1.97 -28 1.46 -3
4.63 +5
Capital and Exploration Expenditures
8,999 -13 6,586 +19
Exxon Mobil Corporation today announced estimated 2018 earnings of $20.8 billion, or $4.88 per share assuming dilution, compared with $19.7 billion a year earlier. Excluding U.S. tax reform and asset impairments, earnings were $21 billion, compared with $15.3 billion in 2017. Cash flow from operations and asset sales was $40.1 billion, including proceeds associated with asset sales of $4.1 billion. Capital and exploration expenditures were $25.9 billion, including incremental spend to accelerate value capture.
Fourth quarter 2018 earnings were $6 billion, or $1.41 per share assuming dilution, compared with $8.4 billion in the prior-year quarter. Earnings excluding U.S. tax reform and impairments were $6.4 billion, compared with $3.7 billion in the prior-year quarter.
“Strong results during a period of commodity price volatility demonstrate ExxonMobil’s ability to deliver superior cash flow in different market environments,” said Darren W. Woods, chairman and chief executive officer. “Our continued focus on long-term fundamentals and portfolio improvements position us well to grow shareholder value. ExxonMobil’s 2018 results further demonstrate our advantages in technology, scale and integration, providing a strong foundation to successfully compete across commodity price cycles.”
Fourth Quarter 2018 Business Highlights
Crude prices weakened in the fourth quarter, while natural gas prices strengthened with higher LNG prices and increased seasonal demand.
Natural gas volumes were supported by stronger seasonal gas demand in Europe.
Permian unconventional production continued to ramp up in the fourth quarter, with production up more than 90 percent from the same period last year.
Industry fuels margins weakened during the quarter due to lower seasonal gasoline demand and increased supply.
The company captured benefits from North American crude differentials with its integrated logistics and manufacturing capabilities.
Overall reliability remained strong during a quarter with higher levels of scheduled maintenance activity.
Chemical margins weakened during the quarter with lengthening supply from recent capacity additions.
Sales growth from investments resulted in the highest annual volumes in over ten years.
Turnaround activities were completed at the Singapore chemical plant during the fourth quarter.
Strengthening the Portfolio
ExxonMobil made its tenth discovery offshore Guyana and increased its estimate of the discovered recoverable resource for the Stabroek Block to more than 5 billion oil-equivalent barrels.
ExxonMobil subsidiary Esso Italiana completed its sale of the Augusta refinery, three fuel terminals in Augusta, Palermo and Naples, and associated pipelines to Sonatrach Raffineria Italiana S.r.l. ExxonMobil will continue to serve the Italian market, where it has operated for more than 125 years, with high-performance products, including Esso fuels and Mobil lubricants.
The company generated full-year cash proceeds from asset sales of $4.1 billion, slightly above the previous 5-year average of $3.3 billion.
Investing for Growth
ExxonMobil made a final investment decision to develop the West Barracouta gas field in Bass Strait to bring new gas supplies to the Australian domestic market. The project, located in the VIC/L1 Block offshore Victoria, is part of the company’s continuing investment in the Gippsland Basin and will be tied back to the existing Barracouta infrastructure offshore in Bass Strait.
Mozambique Area 4 co-venture participants, including ExxonMobil, secured liquefied natural gas (LNG) offtake commitments from the partners’ affiliated buyer entities, a key milestone enabling a rapid move toward a final investment decision in 2019 on the first phase of the Rovuma LNG project. Those commitments are subject to the conclusion of fully-termed agreements and the approval of the government of Mozambique.
The company commenced operations of a new coker unit at its Antwerp refinery in Belgium to convert heavy, higher-sulfur residual oils into high-value transportation fuels such as marine gasoil and diesel. The new 50,000 barrel-per-day unit expands the refinery’s capacity to meet demand for cleaner transportation fuels throughout northwest Europe. The company’s investment in the new coker will also help meet anticipated demand for lower-sulfur fuel oil to comply with new standards to be implemented by the International Maritime Organization in 2020.
Advancing Innovative Technologies and Products
ExxonMobil started up its advanced hydrocracker expansion project at the Rotterdam refinery in the Netherlands. The new unit uses proprietary catalyst in a unique refining configuration to upgrade lower-value vacuum gas oil into higher value EHC™ Group II base stocks and ultra-low sulfur diesel.
ExxonMobil has signed a partnership agreement with IBM to advance the potential use of quantum computing in developing next-generation energy and manufacturing technologies. As part of the agreement, ExxonMobil becomes the first energy company to join the IBM Q Network, a worldwide community of Fortune 500 companies, startups, academic institutions and national research labs working to advance quantum computing and explore practical applications for science and business.
Exxon Mobil Corporation Fourth Quarter 2018
(millions of dollars)
Fourth Quarter Third Quarter Twelve Months
Corporate and financing
(2,806) (344)
Net income attributable to ExxonMobil
(2,133) -
Total U.S. Tax Reform
(481) -
Total Asset Impairments
Earnings and Volume Summary
Millions of Dollars
(unless noted)
4Q 2018 Adjusted1 4Q 2017 Adjusted1 Change Comments
U.S. 549 (60) +609 Higher natural gas prices and liquids volume growth
Non-U.S. 3,161 2,578 +583 Higher natural gas prices, favorable tax and foreign exchange impacts, partly offset by lower liquids prices
Prices +660, volumes +180, foreign exchange +80, other +270
Production (koebd) 4,010 3,991 +19
Liquids +97 kbd: growth, partly offset by decline, lower entitlements and divestments
Gas -467 mcfd: decline largely in U.S. aligned with value focus, lower demand, lower entitlements and divestments, partly offset by unconventional growth
U.S. 999 306 +693 Lower downtime/maintenance, higher margins capturing crude differentials, improved yield/sales mix and favorable tax impacts
Non-U.S. 1,730 646 +1,084 Higher divestment gains including sale of Augusta refinery / Germany Retail conversion to branded wholesaler (+888), higher margins and improved yield/sales mix, partly offset by higher downtime/maintenance
Divestment gains +680, margins +550, yield/sales mix +200, downtime/maintenance +130, other +220
Petroleum Product Sales (kbd) 5,495 5,624 -129
U.S. 282 442 -160 Weaker margins
Non-U.S. 462 493 -31 Weaker margins, higher growth-related expenses and higher downtime/maintenance, partly offset by favorable tax item (+212) and higher sales volumes
Margins -350, downtime/maintenance -90, tax item +210, sales +100, other -60
Prime Product Sales (kt) 6,672 6,782 -110 Downtime/maintenance, partly offset by growth-related volumes
Lower U.S. tax rate
1Earnings excluding U.S. Tax Reform and Impairments
U.S. 549 606 -57 Lower liquids prices and higher expenses, partly offset by higher liquids volumes and stronger natural gas prices
Non-U.S. 3,161 3,352 -191 Lower liquids prices, partly offset by higher volumes, stronger natural gas prices and favorable foreign exchange impacts
Prices -1,110, volumes +660, foreign exchange +100, other +100
Production (koebd) 4,010 3,958 -248
Liquids +62 kbd: growth and lower unscheduled downtime
Gas +973 mcfd: higher seasonal demand and entitlements
U.S. 999 961 +38 Higher margins capturing crude differentials and improved yield/sales mix, partly offset by higher downtime/maintenance
Non-U.S. 1,730 699 +1,031 Higher divestment gains including sale of Augusta refinery / Germany Retail conversion to branded wholesaler (+888) and higher margins, partly offset by higher downtime/maintenance
Divestment gains +870, margins +500, yield/sales mix +70, downtime/maintenance -460, other +90
Non-U.S. 462 309 +153 Favorable tax item (+212), partly offset by growth-related expenses
Tax item +210, margins -110, other -70
Prime Product Sales (kt) 6,672 6,677 -5
Mainly absence of favorable one-time tax item
FY 2018 Adjusted1 FY 2017 Adjusted1 Change Comments
U.S. 2,036 (459) +2,495 Higher liquids prices and liquids volume growth and favorable mix, partly offset by higher growth-related expenses
Non-U.S. 12,211 8,196 +4,015 Higher prices and divestment gains / one-time items, partly offset by lower volumes and higher expenses largely from increased maintenance
Prices +7,040, divestment gains / one-time items +780, maintenance / growth-related expenses -970, volumes -240, other -100
Liquids -17 kbd: growth in North America, more than offset by decline, lower entitlements and divestments
Gas -806 mcfd: decline largely in U.S. aligned with value focus, lower entitlements, divestments, and higher downtime
U.S. 2,974 1,336 +1,638 Higher margins capturing crude differentials, favorable tax impacts, lower downtime/maintenance and favorable yield/sales mix
Non-U.S. 3,079 3,660 -581 Higher downtime/maintenance, lower margins and unfavorable foreign exchange impacts, partly offset by higher divestment gains and favorable yield/sales mix
Margins +660, divestment gains +490, yield/sales mix +260, downtime/maintenance -530, foreign exchange -290, other +470
Petroleum Product Sales (kbd) 5,512 5,530 -18
U.S. 1,642 1,855 -213 Volume growth, more than offset by higher growth-related expenses and weaker margins
Non-U.S. 1,716 2,328 -612 Weaker margins, higher growth-related expenses and higher downtime/maintenance, partly offset by volume growth, favorable tax item (+212) and favorable foreign exchange impacts
Margins -910, downtime/maintenance -150, sales +320, tax item +210, foreign exchange +140, other -440
Prime Product Sales (kt) 26,869 25,420 +1,449 Growth from new assets and stronger demand
Higher pension and financing related costs, lower U.S. tax rate, and lower net favorable tax items
Cash Flow from Operations and Asset Sales
Net income including noncontrolling interests 6,206 Including $206 million for noncontrolling interests
Depreciation 5,028
Changes in working capital (1,331) Mainly inventory build and timing of tax payments
Other (1,296) Including adjustment for gains on asset sales
Cash Flow from Operating Activities (U.S. GAAP)
Asset sales 884 Including Augusta
Net income including noncontrolling interests 21,421 Including $581 million for noncontrolling interests
Depreciation 18,745
Changes in working capital (1,356) Inventory build, partly offset by favorable payables
Asset sales 4,123 Including Germany Retail, Augusta, Scarborough
Twelve Months 2018 Financial Updates
During 2018, Exxon Mobil Corporation purchased 5 million shares of its common stock for the treasury at a gross cost of $425 million. These shares were acquired to offset dilution in conjunction with the company’s benefit plans and programs. The corporation will continue to acquire shares to offset dilution in conjunction with its benefit plans and programs, but does not currently plan on making purchases to reduce shares outstanding.
ExxonMobil will discuss financial and operating results and other matters during a webcast at 8:30 a.m. Central Time on February 1, 2019. To listen to the event or access an archived replay, please visit www.exxonmobil.com .
Outlooks, projections, goals, targets, descriptions of business plans and objectives, and other statements of future events or conditions in this release are forward-looking statements. Actual future results, including project plans, capacities, and timing; resource recoveries; earnings, margins and volume growth and mix; and maintenance activities could differ materially due to a number of factors. These include global or regional changes in supply and demand for oil, gas, and petrochemicals and other market conditions that impact prices and differentials; reservoir performance; timely completion of new projects; the impact of fiscal and commercial terms and the outcome of commercial negotiations; changes in law, taxes, or government operations or regulation and timely granting of governmental permits; war and other political or security disturbances; the actions of competitors; the capture of efficiencies between business lines; unforeseen technical or operating difficulties; unexpected technological developments; general economic conditions including the occurrence and duration of economic recessions; the results of research programs; and other factors discussed under the heading Factors Affecting Future Results on the Investors page of our website at www.exxonmobil.com and in Item 1A of ExxonMobil’s 2017 Form 10-K. We assume no duty to update these statements as of any future date.
Forward-looking statements in this release regarding future earnings refer to plans outlined at ExxonMobil’s Analysts’ Meeting held on March 7, 2018. The growth figures presented at that meeting are not forecasts of actual future results but were intended to help quantify future potential and goals of management plans and initiatives. See the complete March 7, 2018 presentation available in archive form (including the Cautionary Statement and Supplemental Information included with that presentation) on the Investors page of our website at www.exxonmobil.com for more detailed information. That material includes a description of the assumptions underlying these potential growth estimates including a flat real oil price of $60 per barrel, downstream and chemical margins consistent with 2017 levels, and future gas prices consistent with our internal company plans, as well as a reconciliation of adjusted 2017 earnings used as a baseline.
Frequently Used Terms and Non-GAAP Measures
This press release includes cash flow from operations and asset sales. Because of the regular nature of our asset management and divestment program, we believe it is useful for investors to consider proceeds associated with the sales of subsidiaries, property, plant and equipment, and sales and returns of investments together with cash provided by operating activities when evaluating cash available for investment in the business and financing activities. A reconciliation to net cash provided by operating activities is shown for 2018 period on page 8 and for 2018 and 2017 periods in Attachment IV.
This press release also includes total taxes including sales-based taxes. This is a broader indicator of the total tax burden on the corporation’s products and earnings, including certain sales and value-added taxes imposed on and concurrent with revenue-producing transactions with customers and collected on behalf of governmental authorities (“sales-based taxes”). It combines “Income taxes” and “Total other taxes and duties” with sales-based taxes, which are reported net in the income statement. We believe it is useful for the corporation and its investors to understand the total tax burden imposed on the corporation’s products and earnings. A reconciliation to total taxes is shown as part of the Estimated Key Financial and Operating Data in Attachment I.
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Following the December 22, 2017, enactment of the U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, in accordance with Accounting Standard Codification Topic 740 (Income Taxes) and following the guidance outlined in the SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118, the corporation included a $5,942 million credit in its 2017 results, representing a reasonable estimate of the income tax effects of the changes in tax law and tax rate. The corporation’s results for 2018 include a $291 million tax credit, mainly in the Non-U.S. Upstream, reflecting an updated estimate of the impact of U.S. tax reform including clarifications provided in proposed transition tax regulations issued by the U.S. Treasury in 2018. The corporation has completed its accounting for the enactment-date income tax effects of the U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in accordance with Accounting Standard Codification Topic 740 (Income Taxes).
In 2018, the corporation assessed the carrying values of certain assets, largely located in North America and with limited development potential. This review resulted in an after-tax impairment charge of $429 million in the fourth quarter. In 2017, the corporation ceased development planning activities for certain non-producing assets outside the U.S. and recognized impairments for certain U.S. asset groups which resulted in a fourth quarter 2017 after-tax charge of $1,294 million.
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Estimated Key Financial and Operating Data
Exxon Mobil Corporation Fourth Quarter 2018 - Attachment I
(millions of dollars, unless noted)
Earnings / Earnings Per Share
Total revenues and other income
Total costs and other deductions
(5,392) 2,634
Net income including noncontrolling interests
Net income attributable to ExxonMobil (U.S. GAAP)
Earnings per common share (dollars)
Earnings per common share - assuming dilution (dollars)
Exploration expenses, including dry holes
Dividends on common stock
Per common share (dollars)
Millions of common shares outstanding
At period end
Average - assuming dilution
ExxonMobil share of equity at period end
ExxonMobil share of capital employed at period end
Total other taxes and duties
Total taxes
Sales-based taxes
Total taxes including sales-based taxes
ExxonMobil share of income taxes of equity companies
Exxon Mobil Corporation Fourth Quarter 2018 - Attachment II
Net production of crude oil, natural gas liquids, bitumen and synthetic oil, thousand barrels per day (kbd)
Canada / Other Americas
Natural gas production available for sale, million cubic feet per day (mcfd)
Oil-equivalent production (koebd)1
1 Gas converted to oil-equivalent at 6 million cubic feet = 1 thousand barrels.
Exxon Mobil Corporation Fourth Quarter 2018 - Attachment III
Refinery throughput (kbd)
Petroleum product sales (kbd)
Gasolines, naphthas
Heating oils, kerosene, diesel
Aviation fuels
Heavy fuels
Chemical prime product sales, thousand metric tons (kt)
Exxon Mobil Corporation Fourth Quarter 2018 - Attachment IV
Net cash provided by operating activities (U.S. GAAP)
Proceeds associated with asset sales
Cash flow with operations and asset sales
Exxon Mobil Corporation Earnings - Attachment V
$ Millions $ Per Common Share 1
First Quarter 9,100 2.10
Second Quarter 8,780 2.05
Third Quarter 8,070 1.89
Fourth Quarter 6,570 1.56
Year 32,520 7.60
Year 7,840 1.88
1 Computed using the average number of shares outstanding during each period.
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windeln.de honored with additional Tmall Global award
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Munich, February 9, 2018: windeln.de, one of the leading online retailers for baby and toddler products in Europe and for customers in China, has won an award for the most popular product in the category “mother & baby” on Tmall Global (TMG), Alibaba Group’s B2C cross-border e-commerce marketplace. The ceremony was held on February 6, 2018 in Beijing, China at TMG´s annual forum. TMG honored six companies, each in a different category, for their role to build up the most popular products on its e-commerce platform in 2017. windeln.de received the award in the category “mother & baby” for driving the growth of popular German baby milk powder brands.
windeln.de opened its flagship store on TMG in July 2016 (windelnde.tmall.hk) in addition to its existing Chinese windeln.de webshop (windeln.com.cn). TMG describes itself as a globalized platform to help its Chinese consumers improve the quality of life and gives access to millions of Chinese families. Since the launch of the flagship store, windeln.de has generated strong growth. One highlight is the annual Single’s Day on 11.11.: in 2017, windeln.de recorded an order intake of EUR 3.5 million in one day which represents about 300% growth compared to the Single’s Day in the previous year. The cross-border e-commerce market in China is a fast-growing market especially driven by young customers with high purchasing power. windeln.de has positioned itself in this market as a well-known brand for trustworthy and high-quality German baby products.
Julia-Caroline Schmidt, Head of the China Business at windeln.de: “We are honored to receive this special award after we have already won the award for the “most popular international brand” in April 2017. The awards once again reflect the trust that Chinese parents put in our brand and offerings. The Chinese business is an important part of our company. We strive to continuously optimize our service and fulfill the needs of our customers in the best way possible.”
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About National and Cultural Costumes
Many different countries have their own national costumes, from the geisha-style clothing of Japan to lederhosen in Germany and the tribal costumes of African nations and Native Americans. Traditional costumes play a role in a country's heritage and are often passed from generation to generation. Costumes are worn in countries such as:
Sensitivity Issue
Choosing to wear a cultural costume should be done with sensitivity to the culture, never as a joke or a way to poke fun at a particular culture. These costumes have deep meanings for the people of those nations or cultures that should not be made light of, even by people who don't understand the nuances of that particular culture.
It can be difficult to make national and cultural costumes yourself because there are so many details that go into getting the costume just right. While you might be able to wear just about anything plaid on Halloween and call yourself a Scotsman, if you're marching with the bagpipe brigade, you need to be much more detail-oriented.
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Most nations and ethnicities are proud of their national costumes, and may make authentic costumes available to outsiders who wish to order and wear them. They are usually rather expensive because they are often handcrafted and made to the exacting standards of the people of that nation or culture who would be wearing them.
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Choosing a national costume is probably not the best choice if you're just looking for a fun costume for Halloween. If you come from a particular country or ethnic group, or are simply very interested in that group of people and would like to have authentic clothing from that region, investing in authentic national clothing can be a worthwhile expression of your heritage or interest.
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HughesReviews: The Ten Best Christmas Movies of All-Time
Jeff Hughes | December 24th, 2019
This year I started watching holiday films on the day before Thanksgiving, opening with the wonderful Home for the Holidays and Planes, Trains and Automobiles. A month later, I’ve sat through just about every Christmas movie, TV special and Christmas sitcom episode there is to sit through. 68 in total. Before getting to my ten favorites, a few notes.
I can’t deal with It’s a Wonderful Life. It’s just so damn dreary. I know it’s beloved but not by me.
No, A Christmas Story is not on this list. And I recognize that will be an issue for many but this is my list and I legitimately dislike that movie.
Those stop motion pictures creep me out. Year Without Santa Claus, Rudolph…etc.
Can’t an argument be made that A Christmas Carol is the greatest book ever written? Look at how many brilliant interpretations of that novel have been created (two on this list alone).
Even the non-great films produce some beautiful scenes:
Mila Kunis and Christine Baranski in the church at the end of Bad Moms Christmas.
Seth Rogen tripping out at the sight of a crucified Jesus in The Night Before.
Nic Cage coming clean to the town in Trapped in Paradise.
Schwarzenegger rifling off the names of the reindeer in Jingle All the Way.
Tim Allen giving the cruise to his neighbors in Christmas with the Kranks.
John Lithgow’s scenery chewing in Santa Claus the Movie.
Danny Elfman’s great tunes in Nightmare Before Christmas.
The list, with clips and such instead of writing. All of these movies are known.
#10 Die Hard
I’m sure people have discussed this but here’s my verdict on Die Hard as Christmas movie.
The villain is named Hans Gruber.
The music of “Silent Night” was written by a man named Franz Gruber.
Christmas movie.
— HughesReviews™️ (@HughesReviews) December 15, 2019
#9 Bad Santa
#8 Home Alone
#7 Gremlins
#6 The Ref
Tagged: Holiday Movies, HughesReviews
Three Questions With One Game Remaining
Jeff Hughes | December 23rd, 2019
The Bears are one game away from wrapping up this miserable bore of a campaign. Here are three questions facing them.
#1. Have they seen enough from the QB? He’s awful, plain and simple. If he’s the starter next September the ceiling for 2020 is 8/9 wins. Last night was his SEVENTH game this season with a rating of 70 or below. And when you’re checking down on 4th and 23, and throwing jump balls out of bounds into double coverage, do we really need to discuss your football IQ anymore? He can’t play.
#2. How many inside backers do they pay? Roquan, when mentally right, is a stud. Kwik and KPL can play. Trevathan is still beloved in the locker room and a veteran leader. Where will the Bears spend their resources at this position come the off-season? Is there really a wrong decision?
#3. Will they extend Allen Robinson? He’s an incredible player and he’s proven that true with some of the worst QBs in league history. Robinson should be back in Chicago, extended, and paid handsomely. The Bears have the structure of a terrific receiving corps. They just need someone capable of getting them the football,
Tagged: Chiefs, inside linebackers, Mitch Trubisky
Week 16: Chiefs at Bears Game Night Thread
Jeff Hughes | December 22nd, 2019
(Photo by Brian Bahr/Getty Images)
Tagged: Bears, Chiefs, John Tait, Week 16
Week 16: Crappy Sunday Early Football Open Thread
Tagged: Sunday, Week 16
Week 16: Saturday Football Open Thread
Jeff Hughes | December 21st, 2019
Tagged: Buffalo, Labatt Draft House
Chiefs at Bears Game Preview Volume II: Can the Bears Pull Off a Signature Win in 2019?
I miss the Billy Goat every single day I’m not there.
Even now, even through this rocky campaign, I still do.
Three Statistical Thoughts
QB rating is a flawed statistic. A Hail Mary picked off to end the first half is the same negative as an interception thrown on a final drive with the team down 4. Productive incompletions don’t exist. Bubble screens and easy completions are gold. But ultimately the stat persists because it’s become a good, general representation of which quarterbacks are playing well and which quarterbacks are not. (One needs only look at the top 12 in the stat currently to see that there are very few, if any, outliers.)
Trubisky has 6 games this season with a 70 rating or below. Six.
Mahomes has one in the last two seasons combined. One. Total.
Right now there are 11 teams with a turnover differential of +5 or better: Pats, Packers, Seahawks, Vikings, Saints, Ravens, Steelers, Chiefs, Titans, Bills, Niners. Only one of those teams – the Titans – are not currently in the playoffs. (And they are basically playing playoff games the next two weeks.) It is the most important statistic in the game and it’s a primary reason the Bears aren’t in the postseason this year. Their defense has been good but it hasn’t been able to compensate for the bad offense by turning opponents over and scoring.
Everyone blames the Bears lack of rushing attack for their struggles on offense, if the goal is not to blame Trubisky. The Chiefs rank 25th in this category and run for only 7 more yards per game than the Bears. Yet they are top five in both total yards and points per game. The reason why is pretty simple.
And the Chiefs don’t have a particularly good offensive line either. Not a single member of that unit was voted to the Pro Bowl. Nor was a running back. Yet the QB, two receivers and a TE were. Again, not hard to figure out why.
My wife left me home alone with the kids to go out drinking with her friends. A lesser man might whine and complain, but instead I’m just playing Chumbawamba’s 1997 hit “Tubthumping” over and over and over. On the jukebox at their bar. Using the TouchTunes app. pic.twitter.com/jqhbOLdddQ
— Henpecked Hal (@HenpeckedHal) December 17, 2019
Tagged: Chiefs, Week 16
Chiefs at Bears Game Preview Volume I: Mitch vs. Mahomes
If you want to make this week’s edition of Sunday Night Football interesting, here’s a potential drinking game. Every time a broadcaster mentions the fact that Mitch Trubisky was taken before Pat Mahomes in the 2017 NFL Draft, drink a full pint glass of Malört. Or bleach. Or motor oil. Or better yet, blow off the drinking game and just watch the game on mute.
If there was any thought that Sunday’s loss to the Green Bay Packers would take the steam out of the remainder of the 2019 season, this match-up immediately dispels that notion. Sure it’s primetime, national television, Soldier Field. But more than any of those things, it’s Mitch versus Mahomes, for the first time. To this point in their careers, the battle has been a hypothetical one. And Mitch has been hypothetically knocked unconscious in the first round.
But two seasons do not a career make. And don’t think for a second that Mitch doesn’t know it.
The beleaguered quarterback has been fiery of late, especially with the media. He’s playing with more anger, and more urgency, and more fight. Many of the NFL’s failed quarterbacks didn’t want to be great; didn’t put in the work required to achieve greatness. Mitch doesn’t have those problems. He wants it. He works for it. But he’s still nowhere near the top shelf of NFL quarterbacks, even while showing multiple flashes of the ability Ryan Pace expected on a week-to-week basis when he selected him second overall.
Green Bay felt like a litmus test game for Trubisky but was it? If Trubisky plays well over these final two games, will anybody remember the one time he struggled over the final month plus of the season? And more importantly, if he can out-play the man whose success haunts him like the ghost of Jacob Marley, it could send a shock wave of positive vibes through the Halls of Halas and inspire confidence in the teammates who until recently had been questioning their signal caller in DMs across the internet.
A follower on Twitter (@mosconml) put it best. Trubisky has upgraded from “needs to be replaced” to “needs competition”. That’s where things stand now. When the clock strikes Monday things could be significantly different. Because while they’ll never be on the field at the same time, Sunday Night Football is all about Mitch vs. Mahomes. The latter has proven he’s one of the best quarterbacks in the sports. The former has proven nothing.
Tomorrow: Volume II, including the Game Prediction!
Tagged: Mitch Trubisky, Pat Mahomes
Week 16: The Game Poem
The String
by j. hughes
They call it the string,
and you play it out.
It’s not a fun thing,
to be writing about.
Too often this team
has found themselves here.
Ending a dream,
with eyes on next year.
The table was set
for a brilliant campaign.
Expectations unmet,
we keep corked the champagne.
The string is what we fear,
to see it played out,
As we add another year
To the Super Bowl drought.
Tagged: Game Poem, The String, Week 16
The Season is Over. Now What?
Many fans, even yesterday, were still clinging to the 1.8% chance (or whatever it was) of the Bears making a late push to get into the postseason tournament. With another dismal offensive failure, those chances have now officially evaporated. So where do the Bears go from here? Here are four thoughts.
Thought #1. Start Kevin Toliver.
Prince Amukamara is not healthy and he’s playing like it. He’s also very unlikely in the team’s plans for next season. Kevin Toliver has looked the part of an NFL starter and the Bears should make sure he gets these valuable, real-game reps over the final two weeks, especially considering the next two opponents feature prolific passing attacks.
Thought #2. Put Akiem Hicks on IR.
Hicks is a warrior. There’s no denying that. But this is not a battle worth fighting. The most important thing for Hicks and the Bears is that one of their best players is healthy come opening day in September. Shut him down.
Thought #3. Trubisky is coming back, so…
…the team needs to use these final two games to evaluate him as best they can. He’s clearly improving. He’s clearly got the potential to be an NFL starter. But he’s nowhere near good enough to get this team – and specifically this defense – to the first Sunday in February. Does this club believe he can take “the leap” prior to the 2020 season? Will they bring in a veteran to actually challenge 10 or is a Marcus Mariota coming around to provide more support in the room? The Bears know they have an issue at quarterback. How are they gonna address it?
Thought #4. Have Some Damn Fun
Fans hate talking about sports as entertainment but man, so many of these Bears games this season have been horrible bores. Spend these final two games – both against playoff teams – emptying the playbook and giving the fans something to enjoy. Blitz a bunch. Go for it on fourth downs. Put a few trick plays into the plan. Do everything in your power to provide a good, solid product. It’s the least you can do.
Tagged: Akiem Hicks, Kevin Toliver, Mitch Trubisky
Trubisky is not the guy.
(This column first ran after the Saints game. There’s no point in rewriting it.)
If you want to spend this Monday criticizing the defensive performance over the last two weeks, go right ahead. But I’m not going to join you. Sure they have struggled getting off the field but the Bears have a collection of terrific defensive players and they’ll be just fine in the long run.
If you want to question the vision and direction of the head coach over your morning coffee, go right ahead. Matt Nagy’s play-calling has been suspect (at best) and the offense lacks any semblance of coherence. But Nagy’s going to get time to right this ship because unlike his most recent predecessors, he has a 12-4 division title on his resume.
If you want to discuss the fumbling or the blocked punts or whatever other mistakes are on your mind before lunch, feel free to do just that. Those things shouldn’t happen to championship-caliber clubs and championship-caliber is what was expected from the 2019 Chicago Bears.
But those things aren’t the story today.
The story was picked number two and wears number ten.
The story plays the most important position in professional sports.
The story is Mitch Trubisky.
And the story is over.
Tagged: Mitch Trubisky, Saints
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Norwalk Woman Faces Disorderly Conduct Charged After Incident At Darien Restaurant, Police Say
Intersection of Allwood Road/Inwood Road in Darien Photo Credit: Google Maps
A Norwalk woman has been charged with disorderly conduct after an incident at a restaurant in Darien, according to police.
Darien Police say they were dispatched to the area of Allwood Road and Inwood Road on the report of a potentially intoxicated woman running in the roadway on Friday, May 17 around 1:40 a.m.
Police say they were initially unable to locate the woman, but she later emerged from a wooded area near the intersection and did not have shoes on.
The woman appeared intoxicated and became agitated by the police presence, officers say.
Further investigation revealed that the woman, identified as 25-year-old Gabrielle Matlak of Norwalk, had been at a restaurant with friends earlier in the evening. When the group was departing, Matlak allegedly refused to leave with them. Police say Matlak’s friends had to physically escort her from the premises because they did not want to leave her alone due to her level of intoxication.
Police say Matlak then became physically assaultive while driving in Darien, punching and scratching the victim repeatedly.
Matlak attempted to exit the moving vehicle multiple times and had to be physically restrained by other passengers, according to police.
Matlak subsequently exited the vehicle and began walking in the area of Allwood Road and Inwood Road, police say.
Matlak was transported by Post 53 for medical evaluation and issued a misdemeanor summons for disorderly conduct. She was released on a promise to appear and was scheduled to appear in court on Friday, May 17.
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A dub companion to the critically-acclaimed Rainford album that sees the Upsetter and co-producer Adrian Sherwood radically re-version the original tapes with a host of guest musicians including Brian Eno and Vin Gordon.
As well as highlighting the deft musicianship of the original backing band on the Rainford sessions (which include core On-U luminaries from Creation Rebel, Tackhead and Dub Syndicate) these re-works also invite some further players into the cosmic mix. Brian Eno makes an unexpected right channel entry into “Here Come The Warm Dreads”, a heavily processed sound system overhaul of Rainford highlight “Makumba Rock”, cheekily re-titled as a nod to Eno’s own debut solo album. This completes a circle started in 1981 with African Head Charge’s My Life In A Hole In The Ground similarly referencing the contemporary collaboration between Eno and David Byrne, and their “vision of a psychedelic Africa”.
Elsewhere, legendary trombonist Vin Gordon (one of the hornsmen on Bob Marley & The Wailers Exodus amongst many other classic sides) lends his distinctively woozy blowing to tracks such as “Rattling Bones And Crowns” (a late night flipside to “Kill Them Dreams Money Worshippers”) and “Crickets In Moonlight” (“Cricket In The Moon” refracted through some beautifully louche late summer heat haze lens). On the closest the album has to a title track, “Heavy Rainford” strips back the narrative from “Autobiography Of The Upsetter” to ride the rhythm with all sorts of mixing desk tricks, anchored by the killer “I Am The Upsetter” hook from LSK.
It’s important to note that it’s not all Rainford re-works though: “Dreams Come True” and “Above And Beyond” are Scratch and Sherwood originals, heard here for the first time and equally strong material for this purple patch in the career of an unstoppable Jamaican maverick and true musical pioneer.
https://darksiderecords.com 5060263722625
Label: ON-U SOUND
Heavy Rain [Limited Edition Silver LP]
Artist: Lee 'scratch' Perry
1. Intro - Music Shall Echo
2. Here Come The Warm Dreads (featuring Brian Eno)
3. Rattling Bones And Crowns (featuring Vin Gordon)
4. Mindworker
5. Enlightened
6. Hooligan Hank
7. Crickets In Moonlight (featuring Vin Gordon)
8. Space Craft
9. Dreams Come True
10. Above And Beyond
11. Heavy Rainford
12. Outro - Wisdom
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Funny Bonz IV
garym
In parochial school, students are taught that lying is a sin. However, instructions also advised, that using a bit of imagination was OK to express the Truth differently without lying, for example:
The hairdryer;
An attractive young woman on a flight from Ireland asked the Priest beside her, 'Father, may I ask a favor?' '
'Of course child. What may I do for you?'
'Well, I bought my mother an expensive hair dryer for her birthday. It is unopened but well over the Customs limits and I'm afraid they'll confiscate it.
Is there any way you could carry it through customs for me? Hide it under your Robes perhaps?'
'I would love to help you, dear, but I must warn you, I will not lie.'
'With your honest face, Father, no one will question you.'
When they got to Customs, she let the priest go first. The official asked, 'Father, do you have anything to declare?'
'From the top of my head down to my waist I have nothing to declare.'
The official thought this answer strange, so asked, 'And what do you have to declare from your waist to the floor?'
'I have a marvelous instrument designed to be used on a woman, but which is, to date, unused.'
Roaring with laughter, the official said, 'Go ahead, Father. Next please!'
Djinnie
Adam's Rib
Adam was walking around the Garden of Eden feeling very lonely, so God asked Adam, "What is wrong with you?"
Adam said, "Lord, I don't have anyone to talk to"
God said, " Then I will give you a companion, and she will be called woman. This person will cook for you and wash your clothes, she will always agree with every decision you make. She will bear your children and never ask you to get up in the middle of the night to take care of them. She will not nag you and will always be the first to admit she was wrong when you've had a disagreement. She will never have a headache, and will freely give 'love' and compassion whenever needed. She will never question your behaviour or the company you keep. She will support you and understand that you have important decisions to make throughout your life and don't have time for nonsense"
Adam asked, " what will this woman cost?"
God said, " An arm and a leg "
Adam said, " What can I get for just a rib?"
Aug 23, 2013 - 8:40 am
The original sin...
Stupid Man
There was a flood in a village. One man said to everyone, "I'll stay!, God will save me!. The flood got higher and higher and a boat came, and a man said, " Come on mate, get in! " .. "No!" replied the man, " God will save me! " The flood got very high and the man had to stand on the roof of his house. A helicopter soon came, and a man offered him help," "No!, God will save me!" he said.... Eventually, he died by drowning.... He got to the gates of heaven and he said to God, " Why didn't you save me?"....God replied " For goodness sake!! I sent you a boat and a helicopter, what more do you want!!
Older men scams...
Women often receive warnings about protecting themselves at the mall, parking lots, etc. But this is the first warning I have seen for men, and I wanted to pass it on in case you haven't heard about it.
A 'heads up' for those men who may be regular customers at Lowe's, Home Depot, Costco, or even Wal-Mart. Last month I became a victim of a clever scam while shopping. Simply going to get supplies turned out to be quite traumatic. Don't be naive enough to think it couldn't happen to you or your friends.
Here's how the scam works:
Two nice-looking, college-aged girls will come up to your vehicle as you are putting away your purchases. They both start wiping your windshield with a rag and Windex, with their breasts almost falling out of their skimpy T-shirts. (It's impossible not to look). When you thank them and offer them a tip, they say 'No' but instead ask for a ride to McDonald's.
You agree and they climb in the vehicle. On the way, they start undressing. Then one of them starts crawling all over you, while the other one steals your wallet.
I had my wallet stolen June 4th, 9th, 10th, twice on the 15th, 17th, 20th, 24th, & 29th... Also July 1st & 4th, twice on the 8th, 16th, 23rd, 26th & 27th, and very likely again this upcoming weekend.
Wal-Mart has wallets on sale for $2.99 each. I found even cheaper ones for $.99 at the Dollar Store and bought them out in three of their stores.
Also, you never get to eat at McDonald's. I've already lost 11 pounds just running back and forth from Lowe's, to Home Depot, to Costco, etc.
So please, send this on to all the older men that you know and warn them to be on the lookout for this scam. (The best times are just before lunch and around 4:30 in the afternoon.)
MDCinSC
Any particular McDonalds or . . .
GSRon
An Oldie
An Oldie but a goodie... for guys, that is...!!! :)
Just like Frank...
A man walks out to the street and catches a taxi just going by. He
gets into the taxi, and the cabbie says, "Perfect timing.
You're just like Frank."
Passenger: "Who?"
Cabbie: "Frank Feldman... he's a guy who did everything right all the time. Like my coming along when you needed a cab, things happened like that to Frank Feldman every single time."
Passenger: "There are always a few clouds over everybody."
Cabbie: "Not Frank Feldman. He was a terrific athlete. He could have won the Grand-Slam at tennis. He could golf with the pros. He sang like an opera baritone, and danced like a Broadway star. And you should have heard him play the piano! He was an amazing guy."
Passenger: "Sounds like he was something really special."
Cabbie: "There's more. He had a memory like a computer. He remembered everybody's birthday. He knew all about wine, which foods to order, and which fork to eat them with. And he could fix anything. Not like me, I change a fuse, and the whole street blacks out. But Frank Feldman, he could do everything right."
Passenger: "Wow, some guy then."
Cabbie: "He always knew the quickest way to go in traffic and avoid traffic jams. Not like me, I always seem to get stuck in them. But Frank, he never made a mistake, and he really knew how to treat a woman and make her feel good. He would never answer her back, even if she
was in the wrong; and his clothing was always immaculate, shoes highly polished too. He was the perfect man! He never made a mistake. No one could ever measure up to Frank Feldman."
Passenger: "An amazing fellow. How did you meet him?"
Cabbie: "Well... I never actually met Frank before he died. I just married
his widow..."
aditya_fighter
Sep 03, 2013 - 11:12 am
Reason for delay
The Ambidextrous Golfer.....
A group of guys lived and died for their Saturday morning round of golf. One got transferred to another city. It wasn't the same without him.
A new woman joined their Club. She overheard the guys talking about their golf round. She said, "You know, I used to play on my golf team in college and I was pretty good. Would you mind if I joined you next week?"
The three guys looked at each other. Not one of them wanted to say 'yes', but she had them on the spot. Finally, one man said it would be okay, but they would be starting early - at 6:30 am
He figured the early tee-time would discourage her. The woman said this may be a problem, and asked if she could be up to 15 minutes late. They rolled their eyes, but said okay. She smiled and said, "Good, I'll be there at 6:30 or 6:45 am"
She showed up at 6:30 am sharp, and beat all three of them with an eye-opening 2-under par round. She was fun and a pleasant person, and the guys were impressed. Back at the clubhouse, they congratulated her and invited her back the next week. She smiled, and said, "I'll be there at 6:30 am or 6:45 am"
The next week she again showed up at 6:30 am sharp. Only this time, she played left-handed. The three guys were incredulous as she still beat them with an even par round, despite playing with her off-hand. They were totally amazed.
They couldn't figure her out. She was again very pleasant and didn't seem to be purposely showing them up. They invited her back again, but each man harbored a burning desire to beat her..
The third week, the guys had their game faces on. But this time, she was 15 minutes late, which made the guys irritable. This week the lady played right-handed, and narrowly beat all three of them.
The men mused that her late arrival was due to petty gamesmanship on her part. However, she was so gracious and so complimentary of their strong play, they couldn't hold a grudge.
Back in the clubhouse, all three guys were shaking their heads. This woman was a riddle no one could figure out. They had a couple of beers, and finally, one of the men asked her point blank, "How do you decide if you're going to golf right-handed or left-handed?"
The lady blushed, and grinned. "That's easy," she said. "When my Dad taught me to play golf, I learned I was ambidextrous. I like to switch back and forth. When I got married after college, I discovered my husband always sleeps in the nude. From then on, I developed a silly habit. Right before I left in the morning for golf practice, I would pull the covers off him. If his you-know-what was pointing to the right, I golfed right-handed; if it was pointed to the left, I golfed left-handed."
The guys on the team thought this was hysterical. Astonished at this bizarre information, one of the guys shot back, "But what if it's pointing straight up?"
She said, "Then, I'm fifteen minutes late."
Cops that care...
I get irritated when people come down on our police officers,
saying that they don't care about or respect others.
Well, here is a story that clearly shows not all cops are in that category.
This story involves the police department in the
small hill country town of Fredericksburg , TX who reported
finding a man's body last Saturday in the early evening
in the Pedernales River near the state highway-87 bridge.
The dead man's name would not be released until this family had been notified.
The victim apparently drowned due to excessive beer consumption
while visiting "someone" in Kerrville .
He was wearing black fishnet stockings, 4 inch spiked heels, a red garter belt,
a pink G-string, purple lipstick, dazzle dust on his eyelids,
2 1/2 inch false eyelashes
and an Obama T-shirt.
The police removed the Obama T-shirt
to spare his family any unnecessary embarrassment.
See there, Texas Police do care.
Sep 13, 2013 - 9:32 am
Sex after death...
A couple made a deal that whoever died first would come back and inform the other if there is sex after death. Their biggest fear was that there was no after life at all.
After a long life together, the husband was the first to die. True to his word, he made the first contact:
"Marion .... Marion"
"Is that you, Bob?"
"Yes, I've come back like we agreed."
"That's wonderful! What's it like?"
"Well, I get up in the morning, I have sex. I have breakfast and then it's off to the golf course. I have sex again, bathe in the warm sun and then have sex a couple of more times.. Then I have lunch (you'd be proud - lots of greens). Another romp around the golf course, then pretty much have sex the rest of the afternoon. After supper, it's back to golf course again. Then it's more sex until late at night. I catch some much needed sleep, and then, the next day it starts all over again!”
"Oh, Bob! Are you in Heaven?"
"No -- I'm a rabbit somewhere in Florida.”
Golf and the genie...
A Husband takes his wife to play her first game of golf. Of course, the wife promptly hacked her first shot right through the window of the biggest
house adjacent to the course.
The husband cringed, 'I warned you to be careful! Now we'll have to go up there, find the owner, apologize and see how much your lousy drive is
going to cost us.'
So the couple walked up to the house and knocked on the door. A warm voice said, 'Come
on in.'
When they opened the door they saw the damage that was done: glass was all over the place, and a broken antique bottle was lying on its side near
the pieces of window glass.
A man reclining on the couch asked, 'Are you the people that broke my window?
'Uh...yeah!, sir. We're sure sorry about that,' the husband replied.
'Oh, no apology is necessary. Actually I want to thank you.. You see, I'm a genie, and I've been trapped in that bottle for a thousand years.
Now that you've released me, I'm allowed to grant three wishes. I'll give you each one wish, but if you don't mind, I'll keep the last one for my self.'
Wow, that's great!' the husband said. He pondered a moment and blurted out, 'I'd like a million dollars a year for the rest of my life.'
'No problem,' said the genie 'You've got it, it's the least I can do. And I'll guarantee you a long, healthy life!'
'And now you, young lady, what do you want?' the genie asked.
'I'd like to own a gorgeous home in every country in the world complete with servants,' she said.
'Consider it done,' the genie said. 'And your homes will always be safe from fire, burglary and natural disasters!'
'And now,' the couple asked in unison, 'what's your wish, genie?'
'Well, since I've been trapped in that bottle, and haven't been with a woman in more than a thousand years, my wish is to have sex with your
wife.'
The husband looked at his wife and said, 'Gee, honey, you know we both now have a fortune, and all those houses. What do you think?'
She mulled it over for a few moments and said, 'You know, you're right. Considering our good fortune, I guess I wouldn't mind, but what about you, honey?'
You know I love you sweetheart,' said the husband.I'd do the same for you!'
So the genie and the woman went upstairs where they spent the rest of the afternoon enjoying each other.
The genie was insatiable.
After about three hours of non-stop sex, the genie rolled over and looked directly into her eyes and asked, How old are you and your husband?'
'Why, we're both 35,' she responded breathlessly.
'No Kidding,' he said.
'Thirty-five years old and you still believe in
genies?'
The new teacher...
A former Army Ranger took a new job as a high school teacher. Just before the school year started, he injured his back. He was required to wear a plaster cast around the upper part of his body. Fortunately, the cast fit under his shirt and wasn't noticeable.
On the first day of class, he found himself assigned to the toughest students in the school. The smart-aleck punks, having already heard the new teacher had been an Army Ranger, were leery of him and he knew they would be testing his discipline in the classroom. Walking confidently into the rowdy classroom, the new teacher opened the window wide and sat down at his desk. When a strong breeze made his tie flap, he picked up a stapler and stapled the tie to his chest.
Dead silence...
The rest of the year went very smoothly.
How the internet started...
NO...this is not an Al Gore story...
In ancient Israel, it came to pass that a trader by the name of
Abraham Com did take unto himself a healthy
young wife by the name of Dorothy.
And Dot Com was a comely woman, Large of breast, broad of shoulder and
long of leg. Indeed, she was often
called Amazon Dot Com.
And she said unto Abraham, her husband, "Why dost thou travel so far
from town to town with thy goods
when thou canst trade without ever leaving thy tent?"
And Abraham did look at her as though she were several saddle bags
short of a camel load, but simply said,
"How, dear?"
And Dot replied, "I will place drums in all the towns and drums in
between to send messages saying what you
have for sale, and they will reply telling you who hath the best
price. The sale can be made on the drums and
delivery made by Uriah's Pony Stable (UPS)."
Abraham thought long and decided he would let Dot have her way with
the drums. And the drums rang out
and were an immediate success. Abraham sold all the goods he had at
the top price, without ever having to
move from his tent.
To prevent neighboring countries from overhearing what the drums were
saying, Dot devised a system that
only she and the drummers knew. It was known as Must Send Drum Over
Sound (MSDOS), and she also developed
a language to transmit ideas and pictures - Hebrew To The People (HTTP).
And the young men did take to Dot Com's trading as doth the greedy
horsefly take to camel dung. They were
called Nomadic Ecclesiastical Rich Dominican Sybarites, or NERDS.
And lo, the land was so feverish with joy at the new riches and the
deafening sound of drums that no one noticed
that the real riches were going to that enterprising drum dealer,
Brother William of Gates, who bought off every
drum maker in the land. Indeed he did insist on drums to be made that
would work only with Brother Gates'
drumheads and drumsticks.
And Dot did say, "Oh, Abraham, what we have started is being taken
over by others."
And Abraham looked out over the Bay of Ezekiel, or eBay as it came to be known.
He said, "We need a name that reflects what we are."
And Dot replied, "Young Ambitious Hebrew Owner Operators."
"YAHOO," said Abraham.
And because it was Dot's idea, they named it YAHOO Dot Com
Abraham's cousin, Joshua, being the young Gregarious Energetic
Educated Kid (GEEK) that he was, soon
started using Dot's drums to locate things around the countryside.
He soon became known as God's Own Official Guide to Locating
Everything (GOOGLE).
That is how it all began.
NanoSecond
But did it end when she took a bite of that APPLE?
icemantoo
A pretty blond, recently divorced, just had a nepherectomy. While trying to find an appropriate date for her wedding, she asked her Surgeon how long do I have to wait after the surgery to do it?
Surgeon: I can be available in about 3 weeks, and
we can take the stitches out then.
Icemantoo.
An Arizona Highway Patrol officer stops a Harley for traveling faster than the posted speed limit, so he asks the biker his name.
'Fred,' he replies.
'Fred what?' the officer asks.
'Just Fred,' the man responds.
The officer is in a good mood, thinks he might just give the biker a break, and write him out a warning instead of a ticket. The officer then presses him for the last name.
The man tells him that he used to have a last name but lost it.
The officer thinks that he has a nut case on his hands but plays along with it. 'Tell me, Fred, how did you lose your last name?'
The biker replies, 'It's a long story, so stay with me.' I was born Fred Johnson. I studied hard and got good grades. When I got older, I realized that I wanted to be a doctor. I went through college, medical school, internship, residency, and finally got my degree, so I was Fred Johnson, MD. After a while I got bored being a doctor, so I decided to go back to school. Dentistry was my dream! Got all the way through School, got my degree, so then I was Fred Johnson, MD, DDS. Got bored doing dentistry, so I started fooling around with my assistant and she gave me VD, so now I was Fred Johnson, MD, DDS, with VD.
Well, the ADA found out about the VD, so they took away my DDS. Then I was Fred Johnson, MD, with VD. Then the AMA found out about the ADA taking away my DDS because of the VD, so they took away my MD leaving me as Fred Johnson with VD. Then the VD took away my Johnson, so now I am Just Fred.'
The officer walked away in tears, laughing.
I love Maxine...
TWENTY-NINE LINES TO MAKE YOU SMILE
1. My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God and I didn't.
2. I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it.
3. Some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them.
4. I used to have a handle on life, but it broke.
5. Don't take life too seriously; No one gets out alive.
6. You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me
7. Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
8. Earth is the insane asylum for the universe.
9. I'm not a complete idiot -- Some parts are just missing.
10. Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.
11. NyQuil, the stuffy, sneezy, why-the-heck-is-the-room-spinning medicine.
12. God must love stupid people; He made so many.
13. The gene pool could use a little chlorine.
14. Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.
15. Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
16. Being 'over the hill' is much better than being under it!
17. Wrinkled Was Not One of the Things I Wanted to Be When I Grew up.
18. Procrastinate Now!
19. I Have a Degree in Liberal Arts; Do You Want Fries With That?
20. A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
21. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.
22. Stupidity is not a handicap. Park elsewhere!
23.They call it PMS because Mad Cow Disease was already taken.
24. He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless DEAD.
25. A picture is worth a thousand words, but it uses up three thousand times the memory
26. Ham and eggs... A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig.(how true)
27. The trouble with life is there's no background music
28. The original point and click interface was a Smith & Wesson.
29. I smile because I don't know what the heck is going on.
Appreciate every single thing you have, especially your friends!
Life is too short and friends are too few !
Only the Irish...
Into a Belfast pub comes Paddy Murphy,
looking like he'd just been run over by a train.
His arm is in a sling, his nose is broken,
his face is cut and bruised and he's walking with a limp
"What happened to you?" asks Sean, the bartender.
" Jamie O'Conner and me had a fight," says Paddy.
"That little s**t, O'Conner," says Sean,
"He couldn't do that to you,
he must have had something in his hand."
"That he did," says Paddy, "a shovel is what he had,
and a terrible lickin' he gave me with it."
" Well," says Sean, "you should have defended yourself,
didn't you have something in your hand?"
That I did," said Paddy.
"Mrs. O'Conner's breast, and a thing of
beauty it was, but useless in a fight."
An Irishman who had a little too much to drink
is driving home from the city one night and,
of course, his car is weaving violently all over the road.
A cop pulls him over.
"So," says the cop to the driver,
where have ya been?"
" Why, I've been to the pub of course,"
slurs the drunk.
" Well," says the cop, "it looks like you've had quite
a few to drink this evening."
"I did all right," the drunk says with a smile.
"Did you know," says the cop, standing straight and
folding his arms across his chest,
"that a few intersections back, your wife fell out of your car?"
"Oh, thank heavens," sighs the drunk.
"For a minute there, I thought I'd gone deaf."
Brenda O'Malley is home making dinner, as usual,
when Tim Finnegan arrives at her door.
"Brenda, may I come in?" he asks.
"I've somethin' to tell ya".
"Of course you can come in, you're always welcome, Tim.
But where's my husband?"
"That's what I'm here to be telling ya, Brenda."
There was an accident down at the Guinness brewery..."
"Oh, God no!" cries Brenda. "Please don't tell me."
"I must, Brenda. Your husband Shamus
is dead and gone. I'm sorry.
Finally, she looked up at Tim.
"How did it happen, Tim?"
"It was terrible, Brenda. He fell into a vat
of Guinness Stout and drowned."
"Oh my dear Jesus! But you must tell me truth, Tim.
Did he at least go quickly?"
"Well, Brenda... no. In fact,
he got out three times to pee."
Mary Clancy goes up to Father O'Grady after
his Sunday morning service, and she's in tears.
He says, "So what's bothering you, Mary my dear?"
She says, "Oh, Father, I've got terrible news.
My husband passed away last night."
The priest says, "Oh, Mary, that's terrible.
Tell me, Mary, did he have any last requests?"
She says, "That he did, Father."
The priest says, "What did he ask, Mary? "
She says, He said,
'Please Mary, put down that damn gun...'
ANDTHE BEST FOR LAST
A drunk staggers into a Catholic Church,
enters a confessional booth, sits down, but says nothing.
The Priest coughs a few times to get his
attention but the drunk continues to sit there.
Finally, the Priest pounds three times on the wall.
The drunk mumbles, "ain't no use knockin,
there's no paper on this side either!"
Exercise...
Beer, more than just a breakfast drink...
I hope these show on your screens, they're funny!
Texas_wedge
Not on mine I'm afraid, Gary.
Your age according to Home Depot...
You are in the middle of some home projects: putting in a new fence, painting the porch, planting some flowers and fixing a broken door lock. You are hot and sweaty, covered with dirt, lawn clippings and paint. You have your old work clothes on. You know the outfit -- shorts with a hole in the crotch, an old T-shirt with a stain from who-knows-what, and an old pair of tennis shoes.
Right in the middle of these tasks, you realize that you need to run to Home Depot for supplies.
Depending on your age you might do the following:
In your 20's:
Stop what you are doing. Shave, take a shower, blow dry your hair, brush your teeth, floss and put on clean clothes.
Check yourself in the mirror and flex. Add a dab of your favorite cologne because, you never know, you just might meet some hot chick while standing in the checkout line.
And yes, you went to school with the pretty girl running the register.
Stop what you are doing, put on clean shorts and shirt. Change your shoes. You married the hot chick so no need for much else.
Wash your hands and comb your hair. Check yourself in the mirror. Still got it! Add a shot of your favorite cologne to cover the smell.
The cute girl running the register is the kid sister of someone you went to school with.
Stop what you are doing. Put on a sweatshirt that is long enough to cover the hole in the crotch of your shorts.
Put on different shoes and a hat. Wash your hands. Your bottle of Brut is almost empty, so don't waste any of it on a trip to Home Depot.
Check yourself in the mirror and do more sucking in than flexing.
The hot young thing running the register is your daughter's age and you feel weird about thinking she's spicy.
Stop what you are doing. Put on a hat. Wipe the dirt off your hands onto your shirt. Change shoes because you don't want to get dog crap in your new sports car. Check yourself in the mirror and swear not to wear that shirt anymore because it makes you look fat.
The cutie running the register smiles when she sees you coming and you think you still have it. Then you remember -- the hat you have on is from Bubba's Bait & Beer Bar and it says, "I Got Worms".
Stop what you are doing. No need for a hat any more. Hose the dog crap off your shoes. The mirror was shattered when you were in your 50s.
You hope you have underwear on so nothing hangs out the hole in your pants.
The girl running the register may be cute but you don't have your glasses on, so you're not sure.
Stop what you are doing. Wait to go to Home Depot until you call the drug store to have your prescriptions ready for pick up too and check your grocery list for a quick stop there. Got to save trips! Don't even notice the dog crap on your shoes.
The young thing at the register stares at you and you realize your balls are hanging out the hole in your crotch… who cares?
Stop what you are doing. Start again. Then stop again. Now you remember you need to go to Home Depot. You go to Wal-Mart instead. You went to school with the old lady greeter.
You wander around trying to remember what you are looking for. Then you fart out loud and turn around thinking someone called your name.
In your 90's & beyond:
What's a home deep hoe? Something for my garden? Where am I? Who am I? Why am I reading this?
Did I send it? Did you? Who farted?
donna_lee
I regret to say...
that I have been to the hardware store(s) in the jeans that have been splattered with a bleach solution from pressure washing the patio, my stained purple Relay t-shirt, old shoes and a straw hat with a hole in it for my pony tail. But I don't have a dog or a ripped crotch in the pants. But still in my 70's and who cares? Am I on track for the aging list?
Good luck Mr. Gorsky...
IN CASE YOU DIDN'T ALREADY KNOW THIS LITTLE TIDBIT OF TRIVIA....
ON JULY 20, 1969, AS COMMANDER OF THE APOLLO 11 LUNAR MODULE, NEIL ARMSTRONG WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO SET FOOT ON THE MOON.
HIS FIRST WORDS AFTER STEPPING ON THE MOON, "THAT'S ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND," WERE TELEVISED TO EARTH AND HEARD BY MILLIONS.
BUT JUST BEFORE HE RE-ENTERED THE LANDER, HE MADE THE ENIGMATIC REMARK
- "GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY."
MANY PEOPLE AT NASA THOUGHT IT WAS A CASUAL REMARK CONCERNING SOME RIVAL SOVIET COSMONAUT. HOWEVER, UPON CHECKING, THERE WAS NO GORSKY IN EITHER THE RUSSIAN OR AMERICAN SPACE PROGRAMS .
OVER THE YEARS, MANY PEOPLE QUESTIONED ARMSTRONG AS TO WHAT THE - 'GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY' STATEMENT MEANT, BUT ARMSTRONG ALWAYS JUST SMILED.
ON JULY 5, 1995, IN TAMPA BAY , FLORIDA , WHILE ANSWERING QUESTIONS FOLLOWING A SPEECH, A REPORTER BROUGHT UP THE 26-YEAR-OLD QUESTION ABOUT MR. GORSKY TO ARMSTRONG. THIS TIME HE FINALLY RESPONDED BECAUSE MR. GORSKY HAD DIED, SO NEIL ARMSTRONG FELT HE COULD NOW ANSWER THE QUESTION.
HERE IS THE ANSWER TO "WHO WAS MR GORSKY":
IN 1938, WHEN HE WAS A KID IN A SMALL MID-WESTERN TOWN , HE WAS PLAYING BASEBALL WITH A FRIEND IN THE BACKYARD. HIS FRIEND HIT THE BALL, WHICH LANDED IN HIS NEIGHBOR'S YARD BY THEIR BEDROOM WINDOW.
HIS NEIGHBORS WERE MR. AND MRS. GORSKY.
AS HE LEANED DOWN TO
PICK UP THE BALL, YOUNG ARMSTRONG HEARD MRS. GORSKY SHOUTING AT
MR. GORSKY, "SEX! YOU WANT SEX?! YOU'LL GET SEX WHEN THE KID NEXT DOOR WALKS ON THE MOON!"
IT BROKE THE PLACE UP.
NEIL ARMSTRONG'S FAMILY CONFIRMED THIS IS A TRUE STORY.
Senior love...
I was in my back yard trying to launch a kite.
I threw the kite up in the air, the wind would catch it for a few
Seconds, then it would come crashing back down to earth.
I tried this a few more times with no success.
All the while, my wife Vicki is watching from the kitchen window,
Muttering to herself how men need to be told how to do everything.
She opens the window and yelled to me,
'You need a piece of tail.'
I turned with a confused look on my face and yelled back,
'Make up your mind. Last night, you told me to go fly a kite
Dinner date conversation...
A while back, when I was considerably younger, I picked up a lovely date at her parents' home.
I'd scraped together some money to take her to a fancy restaurant.
She ordered the most expensive items on the menu. Shrimp cocktail. Lobster, Patron, Champagne .
I asked her, "Does your mother feed you like that when you eat at home?"
"No," she replied. "but my mother's not expecting a bl** job tonight."
I said "Would you care for dessert?"
Rainy weekend...
We had a power outage last weekend and my PC, I-Phone, TV and games console all shut down immediately.
It was raining, I couldn't golf or go fishing, so I talked to my wife for a few hours.
She seems like a nice person.
Bail'em out..!!..?? Hell...
Bail'em out..!!..?? Hell... back in 1990, the Government seized the Mustang Ranch in Nevada for tax evasion, and as required by law tried to run it. They failed and it closed. Now we are trusting the economy of our country, our banking system, our auto industry our health plans to the same nit wits who couldn't make money running a ***** house and selling whiskey..?? What the hell are we thinking..?
From a cartoon just sent to me...
Oct 05, 2013 - 1:24 pm
Sitting here in the UK, I'd say: Absolutely, without any reservation!!!
Oct 11, 2013 - 10:35 am
Puerto Rico postage stamps...
Had to clean this one up a bit, but you'll get the gist...
A woman calls her Gyno for an appointment explaining that she keeps finding Puerto Rican postage stamps in her panties.
At the appointment the doc says its one of the strangest things he has ever heard and says "Lets take a look." so into the stirrups she goes.
As he examines her the doctor suddlenly begins to laugh uncontrolably, which upsets her and she demands to know what he is laughing at.
"Well" he says, "they're not postage stamps, they're Chiquita Banana stickers."
It was an honest mistake...
This morning I was beaten up by a woman. I was in an elevator when this beautiful, busty woman got in. I was staring at her boobs, when she said, "Would you please press 1?"
Maybe I pressed them both...I don't remember much after that.
A well written police report...
You can tell a lot about a wonan's mood by looking at her hands.
For instance, if she is holding a gun, she is probably angry.
Physicians Weigh in on Obama Care...
The AMA has reported the following regarding the AHCA;
The Allergists were in favor of scratching it, but,
The Dermatologists advised not to make any rash moves.
The Gastroenterologists had sort of a gut feeling about it, but.
The Neurologists thought the Administration had a lot of nerve.
Meanwhile, Obstetricians felt certain everyone was laboring under a
While the Ophthalmologists considered the idea shortsighted.
The Pathologists yelled, "Over my dead body!",
While the Pediatricians said, "Oh, grow up!"
The Psychiatrists thought the whole idea was madness,
While the Radiologists could see right through it.
Surgeons decided to wash their hands of the whole thing and
The Internists claimed it would indeed be a bitter pill to swallow.
The Plastic Surgeons opined that this proposal would "put a whole
new face on the matter".
The Podiatrists thought it was a step forward, but,
The Urologists were pissed off at the whole idea.
The Anesthesiologists thought the whole idea was a gas, and,
Those lofty Cardiologists didn't have the heart to say no.
The Proctologists won out,
Leaving the entire decision up to the a$$holes in Washington.
Why, why, why???
Why, Why, Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are getting weak?
Why do banks charge a fee due to insufficient funds when they already know you're broke?
Why is it that when someone tells you that there are one billion stars in the universe, you believe them but, if they tell you there is wet paint, you have to touch it to check?
Why do they use sterilized needles for lethal injections?
Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?
Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you throw a revolver at him?
Why did Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
Whose cruel idea was it to put an "s" in the word "lisp"?
If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?
Why is it that, no matter what color bubble bath you use, the bubbles are always white?
Is there ever a day that mattresses are not on sale?
Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?
Why do people run over a string a dozen times with their vacuum cleaner, then reach down, pick it up, examine it, then put it down to give the vacuum one more chance?
Why is it that no plastic bag will open from the first end you try?
How do those dead bugs get into enclosed light fixtures?
Why is it that whenever you attempt to catch something that's falling off the table you always manage to knock something else over?
Why, in winter, do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in summer when we complained about the heat?
How come you never hear father-in-law jokes?
The statistics on sanity say that one out of every four persons is suffering from some sort of mental illness. Think of your three best friends.
If they're OK, then it's you.
A day without a smile is like a day without sunshine! And a day without sunshine is, like, well, night.
Why Ethel changed hotels!!!!!!
Ethel checked into a motel on her 60th birthday and she was a bit lonely. She thought, "I'll call one of those men you see advertised in phone books for escorts and sensual massages."
She looked through the phone book, found a full page ad for a guy calling himself Tender Tony a very handsome man with assorted physical skills flexing in the photo. He had all the right muscles in all the right places, thick wavy hair, long powerful legs, dazzling smile, six pack abs and she felt quite certain she could bounce a sixpence off his well-oiled buns....
She figured, what the heck, nobody will ever know. I'll give him a call.
"Good evening, ma'am, how may I help you?
Oh my, he sounded sooo sexy! Afraid she would lose her nerve if she hesitated, she rushed right in.
"I hear you give a great massage. I'd like you to come to my motel room and give me one. No, wait, I should be straight with you. I'm in town all alone and what I really want is sex. I want it hot, and I want it now. Bring implements, toys, rubber, leather, whips, everything you've got in your bag of tricks. We'll go hot and heavy all night - tie me up, cover me in chocolate syrup and whipped cream, anything and everything, I'm ready!
Now how does that sound?"
He said, "That sounds absolutely fantastic, but you need to press 9 for an outside line."
A new bedtime wine for seniors...
A single glass at night could mean a peaceful, uninterrupted nights sleep.
NEW Wine for Seniors, I kid you not.....
Clare Valley vintners in South Australia,
which primarily produce
Pinot Blanc, Pinot Noir, and Pinot
Grigio wines,
have developed a new hybrid grape
that acts as an anti-diuretic.
It is expected to reduce the number of trips
older people have to make to the
bathroom during the night.
The new wine will be
marketed as
PINO MORE
I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE!!
I just could not help it!
Cheap Drinks..
OK, those few of you from the other side of the pond will get this a bit faster than some of us Yanks... Ron
Four old retired guys are walking down a street in London . They
turn a corner and see a sign that says, “Old Timers Bar - ALL drinks 10p.”
They look at each other and then go in, thinking, this is too good to be true.
The old bartender says in a voice that carries across the room, "Come
on in and let me pour one for you! What'll it be, gentlemen?"
There's a fully stocked bar, so each of the men orders a martini. In no time the bartender serves up four iced martinis—shaken, not stirred—and says,
"That'll be 10p each, please."
The four guys stare at the bartender for a moment, then at each
other. They can't believe their good luck. They pay the 40p, finish their martinis, and order another round.
Again, four excellent martinis are
produced, with the bartender again saying, "That's 40p, please."
They pay the 40p, but their curiosity gets the better of them. They've each had two martinis and haven't even spent a £1 yet.
Finally one of them says, "How can you afford to serve martinis
as good as these for a 10p a piece?"
"I'm a retired tailor," the bartender says, “and I always wanted
to own a bar. Last year I hit the Lottery Jackpot for £25 million and
decided to open this place. Every drink costs 10p. wine, liquor, beer—it's all the same."
"Wow! That's some story!" one of the men says.
As the four of them sip at their martinis, they can't help noticing seven other people at the end of the bar who don't have any drinks in front of them and haven't ordered anything the whole time they've been there. Nodding at the seven at the end of the bar, one of the men asks the bartender, "What's with them?"
The bartender says, "They're retired people from Yorkshire .
They're waiting for Happy Hour when drinks are half-price”.
Nov 04, 2013 - 8:21 pm
Newspaper Corrections
Honest..it's in a trade newsletter
At least one positive thing can be said to have come from the sixteen-day government shutdown that brought nearly all federal agencies to grinding halt. Someone finally threw out that can of soup that's been languishing in the lunchroom refrigerator. Yes, the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cleaned out their employees' lunchroom fridge and discovered a leftover can of Campbell;s soup that had taken up residence there since 1997. (Source: WashingtonPost.com)
Nov 08, 2013 - 11:44 pm
OK.. you are warned..
OK.. you are warned.. laughter is apt to break out when you see this video...
http://www.youtube.com/embed/2kpjnGWPmj0
It's Thursday-Pun Time
T-Shirts for Sale:
7 days without a pun make one weak.
Her bootlegging was illegal, but I loved her still.
Poultry in Motion. (with chickens walking)
A tardy cannibal gets the Cold Shoulder
A backward poet writes inverse.
Never play cards in the Serengeti. There are too many cheetahs.
I regret not developing my photographic memory.
For Lease Navidad.
Once I was a tap dancer but I fell into the sink.
Mathemeticians wear glasses because they improve division.
'Tis better to have loved a short person than never to have loved a tall.
When I talk about computers, I make my motherboard.
Ancient orators tended to Babylon.
Dishonest golfers don't play the fairway.
That cheese doesn't belong to you. It's nacho cheese.
My theory on inertia has no momentum.
Sports quotes...
I’m working as hard as I can to get my life and my cash to run out at the same time. If I can just die after lunch Tuesday, everything will be perfect.
- Doug Sanders, professional golfer
All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives “See, there’s a fat guy doing okay. Bring me another beer."
Mickey Lolich, Detroit Tigers Pitcher
Last year we couldn’t win at home and we were losing on the road. My failure as a coach was that I couldn’t think of anyplace else to play.
- Harry Neale, professional hockey coach
When it’s third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers; I’ll take the whiskey drinkers every time.
- Max McGee, Green Bay Packers receiver
I found out that it’s not good to talk about my troubles. Eighty percent of the people who hear them don’t care and the other twenty percent are glad you’re having trouble.
- Tommy LaSorda, LA Dodgers manager
My knees look like they lost a knife fight with a midget.
- E. J. Holub, Kansas City Chiefs linebacker regarding his 12 knee operations
My theory is that if you buy an ice-cream cone and make it hit your mouth, you can learn to play. If you stick it on your forehead, your chances aren't as good.
- Vic Braden, tennis instructor
Blind people come to the ballpark just to listen to him pitch.
- Reggie Jackson commenting on Tom Seaver
When they operated, I told them to put in a Koufax fastball. They did – but it was Mrs. Koufax’s.
- Tommy John N.Y. Yankees recalling his 1974 arm surgery
I don’t know. I only played there for nine years.
- Walt Garrison, Dallas Cowboys fullback when asked if Tom Landry ever smiles
We were tipping off our plays. Whenever we broke from the huddle, three backs were laughing and one was pale as a ghost.
- John Breen, Houston Oilers
The film looks suspiciously like the game itself.
- Bum Phillips, New Orleans Saints after viewing a lop-sided loss to the Atlanta Falcons
When I’m on the road, my greatest ambition is to get a standing boo.
- Al Hrabosky, major league relief pitcher
The only difference between me and General Custer is that I have to watch the films on Sunday.
- Rick Venturi, Northwestern football coach
I have discovered, in twenty years of moving around the ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.
- Bill Veeck, Chicago White Sox owner
Because if it didn’t work out, I didn’t want to blow the whole day.
- Paul Horning, Green Bay Packers running back on why his marriage ceremony was before noon.
I have a lifetime contract. That means I can’t be fired during the third quarter if we’re ahead and moving the ball.
- Lou Holtz, Arkansas football coach
I won’t know until my barber tells me on Monday.
- Knute Rockne, when asked why Notre Dame had lost a game
I tell him “Attaway to hit, George.”
- Jim Frey, K.C. Royals manager when asked what advice he gives George Brett on hitting
I learned a long time ago that “minor surgery” is when they do the operation on someone else, not you.
- Bill Walton, Portland Trial Blazers
Our biggest concern this season will be diaper rash.
- George MacIntyre, Vanderbilt football coach surveying the team roster that included 26 freshmen and 25 sophomores.
I think the way they have treated Lance Armstrong is just terrible. He won seven Tour DeFrance races while on drugs. I couldn't even find my bike when I was on drugs. - Willie Nelson
The poker player...
Two couples were playing poker one evening.
Jim accidentally dropped some cards on the floor. When he bent down
under the table to pick them up, he noticed Bob's wife,
Sue wasn't wearing any underwear under her dress!
Shocked by this, Jim upon trying to sit back up again, hit his head on
the table and emerged red-faced.
Later, Jim went to the kitchen to get some refreshments. Bob's wife
followed and asked, 'Did you see anything that you like under there?' Surprised by her boldness, Jim admitted that, well indeed he did.
She said, 'Well, you can have it but it will cost you $500. 'After
taking a minute or two to assess the financial and moral costs of this
Jim confirms that he is interested.
Sue told him that since her husband Bob worked Friday afternoons and Jim
didn't, Jim should be at her house around 2 p.m. Friday afternoon.
When Friday rolled around, Jim showed up at Bob's house at 2 p.m sharp -
and after paying Sue the agreed sum of $500 - they went to the
bedroom and closed their transaction, as agreed.
Jim quickly dressed and left.
As usual, Bob came home from work at 6 p.m. And upon arriving, asked his
wife: 'Did Jim come by the house this afternoon?'
With a lump in her throat Sue answered 'Why yes, he did stop by for a
few minutes this afternoon.'
Her heart nearly skipped a beat when her husband curtly asked, 'And did
he give you $500?'
Sue, using her best poker face, replied, 'Well, yes, in fact he did give
me $500.'
Bob, with a satisfied look on his face, surprised his wife by saying,
'He came by the office this morning and borrowed $500 from me.
He promised he'd stop by our house this afternoon on his way home and
pay me back.'
Now THAT, my friends, is a poker player
Nov 15, 2013 - 7:42 am
Diapers vs. Depends...
The reason why baby diapers have brand names such as Luvs and Huggies, while undergarments for old people are called Depends:
When babies poop in their pants, people are still gonna Luv'em and Hug'em.
When old people poop in their pants, it Depends on who's in the will!
Nov 16, 2013 - 10:50 am
Gary is in the hospital
Who the hell is Gary ?
Well Gary is the geezer who got home late one night and his wife says "Where the hell have you been?"
Gary replies "I was getting a tattoo!"...
"A tattoo"? She frowned. "What kind of tattoo did you get?"
"I got a hundred dollar note on my privates" he said proudly.
"What the hell were you thinking"? She said, shaking her head in disgust. "Why on earth would a CPA get a hundred dollar note tattooed on his privates?"
"Well,
One, I like to watch my money grow.
Two, once in a while I like to play with my money.
Three, I like how money feels in my hand.
And, lastly, instead of you going out shopping, you can stay right here at home and blow a hundred dollars anytime you want."
Gary is now in The Critical Care Unit, Room 233. No visitors until further notice.
angec
ONLY YOU, Alex can tell these
ONLY YOU, Alex can tell these jokes! It did make me laugh! Hope you are well!
The Dentist
This attractive woman is at the Dentist... The Dentist says, "Wow, that tooth has got to come out.." The woman replies.." I would rather have a baby than have my tooth pulled." To which the Dentist answerw... "OK but I will have to adjust the chair..".. (hope that is not a repeat..).
I am proud to live in Toronto (suburbs)
I don't know if anyone has been following the bizzare behavior of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford including his heavy drinking, smoking crack, doing coke, sex scandals, fighting with the police, association with mafia, etc. I find him very amusing and sort of a kindred spirit.
Here's his latest "Eating Out" scandal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4siKr6qY8w (mature themes) and his "Crazy Rant" caught on video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcPD7tzcU60 (violence, coarse language)
And for all other cities: "How to Tell if Your Mayor is Smoking Crack" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q_uLzEljo8
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Sean Hannity Reveals He Has ‘Damaging Videos’ Of Jimmy Kimmel
On Monday Fox News’ Sean Hannity agreed to a truce with loud mouth liberal late-night host Jimmy Kimmel after the two had a heated back and forth battle over Kimmel’s comments that made fun of First Lady Melania Trump’s accent during the White House Egg Roll, reports Breitbart News.
Hannity begins his open monologue by recapping the events that lead up to now and said that he has carefully read Kimmel’s apology that he recently released after he heard Hannity’s backlash:
“I read the apology carefully—a couple of things are clear to me. On the surface, I will be honest. It seems to be more like a forced Disney apology directed to the LGBT community rather than Kimmel’s comments about the First Lady. But honestly, that’s ultimately up to you to decide here. I believe everyone should accept apologies, that’s what my religion teaches me. I assume he is sincere.”
Then Hannity suggests something that not many conservative news anchors would do and asks if Kimmel would like to come on his show to talk about it.
“You want to come on this show? I’ll promise no name calling, no anger, no rehashing of the Twitter fight. You want to have a serious discussion? We can talk about the president, policies, health care, comedy, political correctness, ending boycotts, how I supported Bill Maher, Howard Stern, Don Imus, Opie and Anthony, people that I disagree with vehemently. My bet is you will agree with me on a lot more issues than you think,” Hannity said.
Hannity continues and implores Kimmel to cut it with his vicious attacks on people like Melania Trump and others who have done nothing to deserve his childish name calling and abuse.
“But from my point of view, it’s over with Jimmy Kimmel. But I meant what I said, unfair attacks—there needs to be an end to this. There is no shortage, by the way, of comedic material out there. Jimmy, if you do want to start up again, I promise I will punch back even harder. My producer spent all weekend compiling a lot of your highlights, or lowlights, in your career. They don’t make you look too good. Instead of airing them, we will put them in storage, and we have more important pressing issues,” Hannity said.
#fox news#Jimmy Kimmel#Liberal Media#Melania Trump#Sean Hannity
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Enabling artists to fulfil their potential
Dead Doll Music
There is an ‘i’ in team
A note to Murdoch
Gloria’s Record Bar
Sellotape, Bruce’s and a Psycho Killer
7/10 ain’t bad
My in-group
The manager-coach
The Dead Army
TDP music and merch
Thee Deadtime Philharmonic
Based in the ex-mining town of Swadlincote, South Derby, Murdoch’s songwriting reflects the carnage left behind in a town still on its knees from Thatcher’s stranglehold on the working classes.
Relentless gigs all over the UK (including all the major cities and the nowhere towns where most bands don’t bother to go) have gained the band an ever-growing army of dangerously devoted fans. Their militant working class stance caught the eye of Clash legend Mick Jones who took Deadtime out on the road as special guests. The Clash connection continued when Strummerville (The Joe Strummer Foundation For New Music) invited Deadtime into the family by funding their first single, double A-side Moths / Spine with producer Paul Tipler (Idlewild, Eighties Matchbox B-line Disaster, Dr. Feelgood, Elastica). Strummerville also added ‘Spine’ to their prestigious DIY download page, where it held the No.1 slot for nine months in the Strummerville chart. Among the band’s other supporters was the late Michael Davis of legendary The MC5.
Deadtime continue to receive outstanding reviews for their high octane, raw, emotive live shows. International and national radio airplay for the band has come from the likes of Don Letts, Jarvis Cocker, Janice Long and Tom Robinson. Deadtime have also appeared on Channel 4 (Strummerville Sessions) and Russia Today (Going Underground). Michael Socha, star in This is England and Being Human, performed in the band’s Bad Lad video.
New album Estate of the Heart is available on iTunes, Spotify and Amazon.
Accolades:
”Great band and one of the very few genuine working class critiques of our lives in music out there today. You’ll get more out of this than pretending to read Marx”
Dr. Lisa Mckenzie (Author, Academic, Russia Today, Guardian)
”Great working class band, documenting the times we live in”
Mick Jones (The Clash)
Jarvis Cocker (Pulp)
”One of my favourite albums of 2018”
Steve White (Style Council, Paul Weller, The Art of Drumming)
”They’re like Shane Meadows. This Is England in musical form”
Scott Rowley (Editor-in-Chief: Classic rock, Metal Hammer, Louder)
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Island Health wants municipalities to monitor water quality at beachs like Comox Lake / George Le Masurier photo
Who’s monitoring water quality at Island beaches?
Sep 10, 2019 | Environment, News
The Vancouver Island Health Authority announced last month that it planned to drop a public health responsibility and dump it onto BC municipalities, but it apparently forgot to inform municipal officials.
The health authority said it has already stopped monitoring water quality at popular public beaches, and that it had told municipalities last summer that the responsibility would shift to them.
Courtenay CAO David Allen says he hasn’t seen anything in writing from Island Health.
“The City of Courtenay has reached out to Island Health to request further information and documentation about this change in their policy,” Allen told Decafnation. “City staff are also in discussions with other regional local governments to identify roles and responsibilities.”
Shelley Ashfield, the Town of Comox’s chief engineer said the Town has not received any directive from VIHA regarding sampling of any public beaches at this time.
Rob Crisfield, manager of operations for the Village of Cumberland told Decafnation with possibly a hint of irony that “The village is not currently monitoring any beaches.”
And there was no response from the Comox Valley Regional District.
Regardless of where the communications went awry, no water quality testing has apparently occurred this summer at popular north Island beaches.
An Island Health officer said some municipalities in the south Island, such as Saanich and the Capital Regional District have taken on the task, while most have not.
Island Health has a long list of north Island beaches that should be monitored. They include beaches at Goose Spit, Kin Beach, Kitty Coleman, Kye Bay, Tribune Bay, Little Tribune Bay and Whaling Station Bay on Hornby Island, Miracle Beach, Point Holmes, Puntledge Park and Puntledge River swimming areas and Saratoga Beach.
Island Health says that environmental Health Officers have reviewed water quality results from samples at popular beach areas every summer and posted advisories where swimming was not recommended.
But, a VIHA spokesperson said, they were transferring the task of taking samples and providing oversight to municipalities as all the other BC health authorities have done. Island Health will pay the cost of analysis and courier fees to testing laboratories and will continue to post the results and advisories on their website.
Water quality tests for indicator bacteria identify whether fecal contamination exists and to what degree. A “no swimming” advisory would be posted if the average of several samples exceeds 200 E. coli or 35 Enterococci, or a single sample exceeds 400 E. Coli or 70 Enterococci per sample.
More Environment | News
Comox Valley to discuss the climate crisis on Wednesday, Nov. 20
The Comox Valley will join millions of people worldwide to talk about the reality of the climate crisis, what it means and what you can do. The local event will take place from 7 to 9 pm on Wednesday, Nov. 20 at the Comox United Church Hall
Maude Barlow: leading Canadian activist for the public’s right to water
Maude Barlow’s presentation today at the K’omoks Band Hall is not just another stop on the tour to promote her new book, Whose Water Is It, Anyway? The co-founder of the Council of Canadians and the Blue Planet Project is on a mission to sound the alarm about a global water crisis
Comox Valley climate strike draws thousands to Courtenay march
Comox Valley residents joined millions of people marching worldwide on Sept. 27 demanding that governments step-up their efforts to tackle the climate emergency
Comox passes $250,000 lawsuit over to global insurance firm
The Town of Comox has handed off Norine and Ken McDonald’s $250,000 lawsuit to one of the world’s largest independent providers of claims management solutions, Crawford and Company
From the Sentinel: How the small village of Cumberland returned a forest to the people
The Cumberland Community Forest Society (CCFS) has been purchasing and protecting privately owned forests scheduled for logging near the Village of Cumberland since 2000
Take a hike, see devastation in the Comox Lake watershed
A trip up logging roads around Comox Lake and the Cruickshank River shows the devastation from logging around the Comox Valley’s drinking water source
Phil G.Harrison on 10/25/2019 at 5:51 pm
Well, The manure spread on local farms smells-a lot.And it rains here in the Fall and Winter.This could be a contributing factor to Baynes Sound issues.And of course our sewage treatment plant,sending effluent from 40,000 plus into the ocean.
While some are blaming failed septics ,most rural residents take care of their own wastes -responsibly. They don’t dump effluent in the ocean or spread it on their property.
Only limited studies have been done by the CVRD-so contamination is obviously not an issue for the 66,000 residents who fund our Regional Government.
Good on you Ken for raising the issue. I’m not swimming in Comox Bay anymore, and few are.Times have changed.
Ken McDonald on 09/10/2019 at 2:43 pm
Island Health’s decision to delegate responsibility for water quality testing to the municipalities before they have established monitoring programs is irresponsible but understandable. Island Health has absolutely no control over the sources of water contamination… the municipalities do. The primary health risk to swimmers is fecal contamination, especially human fecal contamination. There are several sources of fecal contamination including effluent from the CVRD Sewage Treatment Plant, municipal stormwater, failing septic systems, agricultural runoff and irresponsible boaters. The largest sources (sanitary and storm water) are the jurisdiction of municipalities.
I have no doubt that Island Health’s decision to pass responsibility for water quality monitoring to the municipalities is to make them more accountable.
What I find most surprising is that the provincial government and the people responsible for planning and engineering our liquid waste management plan are more concerned about the impact of fecal contamination on the shellfish industry than they are about beach-goers. Don’t believe me? Take a few minutes to download the April 2011 Comox Valley Regional District South Region Sewage Collection, Treatment and Discharge Study. Do a search on “fecal”. What you will find on page 15 is that the maximum government guideline for fecal contamination of shellfish at Baynes Sound is 14 cfu/100 ml. The maximum level of fecal contamination for swimmers at Goose Spit is 200 cfu/100 ml. The level of contamination to close a shellfish operation is 14 times less that what is allowable for swimmers!
Page 18 of the report states:
The maximum fecal coliform concentration in the effluent is recommended to be as high as 19,250 cfu/100 mL depending on the distance from the outfall at which the shellfish water quality guideline of 14 cfu/100 mL is required to be achieved.
In June of this year, I took a sample of the water flowing in Golf Creek. The fecal coliform level was 60,000 cfu/100 ml and the E Coli was 18,000 cfu/100 ml… significantly worse than what is being discharged from the sewage treatment plant!
Every time it rains, contaminants from roofs, gutters, roads, parking lots and drains wash into our freshwater streams and into the ocean. And, it isn’t just beaches that are a problem. Kids love to splash around in the local urban creeks. They are being exposed to dangerous levels of fecal contamination. Have you ever seen a sign along the creek trails warning people not to let their children play in the creek or let their dog drink from the creek? Why not? Well if our municipalities tested the water quality, found that it was unsafe and had to post warning signs, people might start asking difficult questions.
I encourage you to write to Ronna-Rae Leonard asking her why the Provincial government allowed Island Health to abandon water quality testing before the municipalities were ready to take over. You also might want to talk to your local municipal councilor about their plans to clean up the pollution of Comox harbor caused by stormwater runoff.
Finally, my advice is to avoid eating shellfish and swimming at any of the beaches in the Comox Valley until you have confidence that our municipalities are acting responsibly.
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Home Regional News Asia Pacific Compact Sub Design Revive Russian-Italian Cooperation
Compact Sub Design Revive Russian-Italian Cooperation
Tamir Eshel
The S-1000 design maintains all weapon systems at the front and clears the hull for customizing the sub for the customer’s requirements. Illustration: Fincantieri.
The Russian shipbuilder Rubin plans to update its S-1000 submarine design introduced in 2004 under cooperation with the Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri. The 1,000 ton diesel-electric powered submarine was positioned to be a ‘compact sub’, smaller than the Project 636 (Kilo) class and Amur 1,650 ton submarines Rubin is already offering.
The S-1000 was one of the contenders for the Indian Project 75 submarine program, that eventually favored the French Scorpene in 2005. For the Indian bid the S-1000 was positioned against the larger Rubin 1650 project submarine – both have lost to the 1,700 ton French sub design. Amur 1650 is still considered for the second (P75i) segment of the Indian program but the biggest challenge for Rubin is the questionable heritage of this type – the Lada class submarine developed for the Russian Navy but cancelled in 2011. The Russians are hoping that, by resurrecting the cooperation with the Italians, they could turn their designs into more competitive ones, thus compensating for the damage caused by the cancellation of the LADA. While the cooperation promoted by the Italian MoD and Russian export agency Rosoboronexport, the S-1000 is positioned to attract navies in Asia and the Middle East, rather than compete for the procurement contract with Italian or russian navies.
Originally based on the Russian Amur 950 design from Rubin, S-1000 introduced modern construction techniques mastered by the Italian shipbuilder (that have never built submarines but is well known for its efficient surface vessel constructions). These capabilities have helped reducing the S-1000 cost to around $200 million per boat. Improved efficiency means the sub can be operated by a crew of only 16 able submariners.
The 56.2 meters long vessel has a top speed of 14 knots and is equipped with a new fuel cell-powered Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) system developed by the Italian firm, that can maintain the boat underwater on a two-week (15 days) mission. The external envelope of the S-1000 remains unchanged, while internally, the designers are introducing changes that better meet customer requirements. Baranov said.
Designed primarily for exports to third countries, the new submarine will feature an impressive array of weaponry, including Italian heavyweight, wire-guided Black Shark torpedoes or Russian Club-S cruise missile system capable of hitting underwater, surface and land targets. When required the boat can accommodate up to 15 commandos. While Rubin 950 was designed with four torpedo tubes and ten vertical launchers for missiles, the S-100 has six torpedo which can launch 21″ wire guided torpedoes (533mm) or anti-ship/land attack cruise missiles. The submarine has a storage facility for eight torpedoes/missiles. This design made the entire hull area more spacious and better configurable for multiple missions.
Despite its small size (56 meter long) the sub is designed to include fuel-cell based air-independent propulsion system (AIP) developed by the Italian firm accelerating the submarine to a speed of 14 knots. The submarine was originally designed for anti-submarine and anti-ship warfare, reconnaissance missions, and transportation of up to 12 troops (accommodations arranged in the torpedoes storage area).
According to Andrei Baranov, deputy head of the Rubin Central Design Bureau, these compact submarines are currently in great demand in the world. “Countries that are actively looking for new submarines are setting some totally unexpected demands for those ships,” Baranov noted.
Amur 950, the original design the S-100 was based on, could carry four torpedo tubes and ten vertical launch tubes, but left minimal space for living and operating area. This sub could also go faster and deeper than the S-1000. Illustration: Rubin
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(director/writer: Patrick Lussier; screenwriter: Todd Farmer; cinematographer: Amanda Treyz; editor: Tommy Aagaard; music: Michael Wandmacher; cast: Omar Epps (Det. Mike Denver), Tom Atkins (Talbott), Jamie Kennedy (Dr. Steven), Ellen Adair (Sheriff Lisa Jayne), Kristina Reyes (Cheryl Winston), Todd Farmer (Deputy Wan), Vanessa Aspillaga (Agent Tina Mendez), Thom Niemann (Patrick Weaver), Robert G. McKay (Agent Swift), Alex Breaux (Len); Runtime: 97; MPAA Rating: NR; producers: Ellen Wander, Ita Kennedy; RLJE Films; 2019)
“Inferior seasonal splatter film.“
Writer-director Patrick Lussier (“Drive Angry”/”My Bloody Valentine”) helms this inferior seasonal splatter film, one that features the slaughter of innocents and police on the Halloween holiday by a maniacal serial killer who returns every Halloween to the same spot of his original attack or to nearby spots to do his evil thing. Lussier is the co-writer with Todd Farmer, whose horror film might be energetic but is senseless, unappealing and certainly not a treat. It’s an absurd tale about a supernatural killer, Patrick Weaver, nicknamed Trick, short for Patrick (Thom Niemann). While it follows along the lines of a police procedural, it leads to a big plot-twist changing directions at the finale (unmasking the killer’s identity after the bodies of those he brutally kills mounts) but that reveal somehow doesn’t make the film any better or make more sense.
It’s set in the small upstate NY town of Benton, where police detective Mike Denver (Omar Epps) and the local sheriff Lisa Jayne (Ellen Adair) are at a loss why the unknown pumpkin masked killer re-appears on Halloween to slaughter their residents. He believes the killer is a supernatural evil spirit, something she dismisses as poppycock–thinking it’s a copycat killer. But she needs his investigative expertise, so continues to team with him.
The backstory is told in the opening scene. It was in 2015 when Trick during a high school student Halloween costume party was playing spin-the-bottle, using a knife instead of the bottle to do the spinning, and when the knife pointed to a man the panic-stricken Trick in a homophobic rage used the game knife to slice into pieces the players before being stabbed himself. One wounded student (Kristina Reyes) managed to survive, but is of little help for the investigation.
After taken to the hospital, Trick gets patched-up by the doctor (Jamie Kennedy) and then kills the police guard and jumps out the hospital’s third floor window and staggers to a nearby river. That’s where Detective Denvers puts five slugs in him and he falls apparently dead into the river. But his body is never found.
This film, though well-acted and executed, has no humor or any redeeming social value, as it chooses to shoot just for low-level entertainment and can be seen as just another rip-off Halloween film.
REVIEWED ON 11/13/2019 GRADE: C+ https://dennisschwartzreviews.com/
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Honor View 20 Review
Honor View 20 Review: Overview & Price
In this Honor View 20 review, we go over everything you need to know about the phone as well as showcasing the best Honor View 20 contract deals in the UK.
The Honor View 20 phone was released on January 22nd of 2019; it is a cheaper alternative to some of the early 2019 flagships, i.e. the Samsung Galaxy S10.
The phone offers a solid battery life and some cool features at an affordable price of £499 in the UK.
The Honor View 20 performance aspect is great, ploughing through anything you throw at the phone with ease.
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Some of the highlights of the phone are its crazy 48MP camera, 256GB of internal storage and a cool punch hole in the display, it really is unique and gives users a huge amount of value for money.
You may be wondering if the Honor View 20 is waterproof? Find out shortly in this review.
The Honor View 20 takes reflective glass to a whole new level, with an interesting V shape being the focus of the design, is it enough to put you off this eye-catching phone?
Let’s take a close look…
Honor View 20 Review: Design & Display
The first thing you will notice about the Honor View 20 design, is its crazy reflective design.
Honor has implemented a chevron pattern which points towards the base of the phone, this is super eye-catching and really looks flashy when in direct light.
The Chinese call this phone the ‘Honor V20’ and it’s easy to see why! The phone is sold in Blue, Red or Black and being honest they all look fantastic thanks to this design.
The phone also has a gradient effect, which makes it grippier to the touch and makes it feels nice to hold in your hand.
The second thing you will notice is that it has a very unique hole-punch camera at the top left of the display.
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Honor say rather than trying to hide the camera in a bezel, which some users don’t like anyway, why not just hide it in plain view, and that’s exactly what they have done.
Honor has achieved this by placing the selfie-camera behind the glass, then cutting a hole out of the panel.
Honor has still managed to squeeze the light sensor and earpiece at the top of the display without the need for a notch.
Around the back of the phone you will find the rear fingerprint sensor, this is in a great position and your finger naturally gravitates towards it rather than having to move your hand in an awkward position to unlock the phone.
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The sensor is super fast and responsive but we would have preferred to see the more recent in-screen style, fingerprint reader.
Just above this sensor you will find the camera setup, slightly raised but not enough to make your phone wobble when sat flat on a desk, it looks pretty cool.
You will also find a 3.5mm headphone jack, which is a rarity nowadays with most companies following suit and removing it.
Now, unfortunately, the Honor View 20 is not waterproof, meaning you will need to be extremely careful when using this device around water.
Qi charging would have been a nice added feature to this phone, especially with it having a glass back, although we imagine this would boost the price up a fair bit and with this being a cheaper alternative we can see why they didn’t add this.
Image: HiHonor
The Honor View 20 has a beautiful 6.4-inch IPS LCD display which takes up 91% of the front view of the phone.
It has curved corners and extremely small bezels, giving you an almost completely edge-to-edge display.
Brightness levels of the display are strong, however, when in direct sunlight you may struggle to see the screen.
Now with this being an LCD panel, it means that blacks won’t be as deep as what you would find on an OLED, nor will the colours pop as much.
That being said the display overall is extremely impressive, and we found it delightful to watch YouTube videos and lots of Netflix on this phone.
The display is crisp and colourful, sharpness is superb and without knowing that this display is an LCD, you might even mistake it for an OLED!
There are multiple colour profiles to choose from in the settings tab, giving you the options to choose from a more natural look, or boosting up the saturation for those super bright colours.
HDR is present on the Honor View 20, giving you way more dynamic range than you would expect from a none-HDR display.
We found that the phone would manage really well considering it has a hole punch in the display, when watching YouTube videos the phone would automatically cover the hole with a black bar, meaning you can’t be distracted by this when watching movies on your phone.
Keeping in mind that networks are offering some extremely cheap Honor View 20 deals and the value for money on this thing is great, we had no real concerns with its display.
Honor View 20 Review: Performance
When it comes to the Honor View 20 performance, it has plenty of power under the hood, it is up there with the same performance power as the Huawei Mate 20 Pro and iPhone XS.
The phone uses a Kirin 980 SoC (System-on-chip), which has an efficient 7nm manufacturing process, essentially allowing the phone to be extremely efficient with its battery life whilst maintaining great performance.
This is the same chip used in the Huawei Mate 20 Pro so you know the phone means business when it comes to the power department.
Alongside this powerful chip is the two storage options; 128GB or 256GB, more than enough for the average user and giving the phone enough space for business use also.
The Honor View 20 also has a whopping 6GB of RAM or 8GB depending on the region in which you purchase the phone.
All of these specifications combined gives you an amazing experience overall when using the phone, you will not find any lag or stutter when running graphically demanding games, and storing music and movies on the phone is a breeze with the huge amount of internal storage onboard.
The Honor View 20 has a cool GPU Turbo feature which essentially boosts the performance even further when gaming, of course, we tested the phone out on some of our favourite games.
Firstly we played PUBG, which for those who don’t know is a very demanding game especially for a handheld device, the phone ran the game smoothly without any interference or lag which was as expected from a phone with this much horse-power.
Next, we then moved onto Runescape, which is an MMORPG, again extremely intense for most phones but the Honor View 20 handled it exceptionally well and we found ourselves immersed in the game for over an hour.
Some phones would overheat when playing a game like this for long periods of time, however, Honor say that they have implemented some new cooling technology into the device.
This runs up the main internal components of the phone keeping everything cool and allowing the phone to get rid of unwanted heat caused within the phone, keeping it cool and stopping it from overheating even when under lots of pressure.
We did find that when multi-tasking applications on the phone, because it was ridiculously fast and snappy, that it would almost be a little too fast for the apps to handle and cause a second of lag before swiping through the app.
This only happened on a rare occasion but we found it to be extremely annoying as we were used to the phone being so responsive.
One feature worth mentioning that Honor has been shouting about is their triple antenna Wi-Fi, claiming that the phone has the capabilities to grab a stronger connection from almost anywhere when used in reality we did not notice a huge difference to other phones we reviewed.
That being said we did manage to maintain a strong connection throughout the whole time using the phone.
The Honor View 20 is also dual-SIM, meaning that if you have another number you would like to use in the phone, alongside your personal number then this can be easily placed into the SIM tray.
This is great for those who travel a lot or have a business line they would like to use in their handset. As a whole, the performance of this phone is extremely impressive.
Although one downfall is the speakers, they aren’t as loud as we hoped for and sound a little tinny, for a phone as well built as this we expected a little better speakers to enhance the gaming experience.
The Honor View 20 runs Android 9.0 Pie, which is the latest version of Android. Also having the Magic UI skin over the top of the phone, which essentially overwrites the operating system to make it customisable.
Software-wise it is almost identical to what is used in Huawei phones, you won’t find an application drawer when pulling it out of the box, but you can enable one in the settings.
Gesture navigation is also available to use on the Honor View 20, which can be easily adjusted in the settings.
We found it takes some getting used to but once the gestures are all set up it makes it a whole lot easier to navigate around the device.
For example when you take a screenshot on the phone you will find that an icon appears on the display, you have a few options from there such as flicking the icon up, which allows you to share the image on social media, flick down to take a scrolling shot or swipe along to dismiss the image.
Honor View 20 Review: Camera
On to the most interesting part of the phone, well what we think is the most interesting anyway.
The Honor View 20 has a 48MP Sony sensor with a secondary ToF (Time-of-Flight) sensor, with multiple features and fantastic specs to help even the most novice photographers capture some incredible images.
Now just because the Honor View 20 has more megapixels doesn’t necessarily mean it has a stronger camera than other flagships out there.
The Honor View 20 will take an image in 48 mega-pixels, then will shrink the image down into a 12MP image, in doing so the image will become refined and have a lot more details, way better dynamic range and some incredible low light shots.
We were blown away when using the Honor View 20 camera; it was able to capture some amazing images, with great detail and strong dynamic range.
Images were sharp and looked crisp, we definitely recommend taking images with the 12MP setting turned on, as we found it gave a much better overall image than when shooting in the phones natural 48MP setting.
The Honor View 20 camera also has an ‘ultra clarity mode’, which when turned on will use AI to produce the highest resolution image possible.
However when using this mode it does take a second or two to actually capture the shot, so it’s far from ideal when trying to take a picture of a moving object or if you need to take a quick snapshot.
The area of the phone’s camera which we were the most impressed with is definitely when in low light situations, the phone stacks multiple images on top of each other whilst drawing in as much light as possible.
Even when taking shots in almost total darkness, the camera would still manage to draw in more than enough light to capture an amazing image; again this does take a few seconds to capture the image.
Being able to capture such amazing images when in great darkness is an incredible feature of the phone, making the Honor View 20’s camera stand out from the crowd.
The front-facing camera is equally impressive, with a 25MP selfie-cam the phone has the capabilities to capture you that Instagram ready selfie.
That being said the phone can sometimes over-process images making the final image look a little bit too smoothed, this is a minor and down to personal preference, just with images being produced on the slightly cooler side you might find that it can make you look a little paler than usual.
The Honor View 20 can record 4K video at up to 30fps and Full HD in up to 60fps; video footage looks clear and crisp, making it easy to record stunning footage in any light condition.
We were extremely impressed with the recording ability of this phone; the whole camera side of the phone was brilliant in-fact.
Honor View 20 Review: Battery Life
The Honor View 20 battery is a strong 4000mAh, which is at the higher end of the scale when it comes to smartphone batteries. Easily enough power to get you through a full day of usage, of course depending on how you use the phone.
Gaming for long periods will decrease this and watching multiple videos will too, however for the most part and an average user the battery will be more than capable of getting you to the end of the day if not more.
The Kirin chipset also makes the phone extremely efficient at managing the power distribution to keep you going for longer, when the Honor View 20 is in stand-by you will find that it hardly uses any battery life whatsoever.
The phone also comes shipped with an Honor supercharge plug, which supports 5A/4.5V speeds and will power up the phone in no time, when testing this we found it would shoot up from 0-50% in just 30 minutes.
Honor View 20 Review: Summary
We had so much fun reviewing the Honor View 20, simply because it is such a unique phone in so many ways.
From its stunning chevron design to its whopping 48MP camera, the phone really does stand out from the crowd.
We wished that the Honor View 20 was waterproof though, as we feel an IP68 rating on this device would have been the icing on the cake.
As well as these impressive features it also packs a huge amount of power under the hood, great for gamers or those who love to watch long movies or videos on their phone.
The huge amounts of storage and RAM on the phone make the Honor View 20 performance aspect incredible, capable of sailing through intense tasks, multi-tasking is a breeze and the option to place another SIM in the phone is great.
The main competitors for this phone are the Oneplus 6T, we definitely recommend you check out our review on that phone before making any purchase decisions as both offer great value for money.
We hope you have enjoyed our Honor View 20 review, feel free to leave a comment and check out the best Honor View 20 contract deals at the top of this post.
Honor View 20 Review: Full Specification
Launch: 2018, December
Dimension: 156.9 x 75.4 x 8.1mm (6.18 x 2.97 x 0.32 inches)
Build: Front glass, aluminium frame
Sim: Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by)
Type: IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colours
Size: 6.4 inches, 101.4 cm² (-85.7% screen-to-body-ratio)
Resolution: 1080 x 2310 pixels (-398 PPI density)
Protection: Yes
OS: Android 9.0 (Pie); Magic UI 2
Chipset: HiSilicon Kirin 980 (7nm)
CPU: Octa-core (2×2.6 GHz Cortex-A76 & 2×1.92 GHz Cortex-A76 & 4×1.8 GHz Cortex-A55)
GPU: Mali-G76 MP10
Internal: 256GB, 8GB RAM or 128GB, 6/8GB RAM
– 48MP, f/1.8, 1/2″, PDAF
– ToF 3D stereo camera
Features: Panorama, HDR, LED flash
Video: 2160@30fps, 1080p@30fps, 720p@960fps, (gyro-EIS)
Secondary:
– 25MP, f/2.0, 27mm
3.5mm Jack: Yes
WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot
Bluetooth: 5.0, A2DP, aptX HD, LE
USB: 3.1, Type-C 1.0 reversible connector, USB On-The-Go
Sensors: Fingerprint (rear-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass
Non-removable Li-Pro 4000 mAh battery
Charging: Fast battery charging (50% in 30 mins)
Colours: Saphire Blue, Phantom Blue, Phantom Red, Midnight Black
Price: As seen in the above post
Display: Contrast ratio; infinite (1313), 3.597 (sunlight)
Audi Quality: Noise – 93.1dB / Crosstalk -64.5dB
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Dohnes Fit the Bill Perfectly in Wagin
Original articles courtesy of Kylie Nicholls and Aidan Smith, Farm Weekly, Western Australia. Original photo courtesy of Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development.
CLAYTON SOUTH WAGIN, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
“My breeding objective is to ultimately produce a ewe that can wean her own body weight in lambs at 15 weeks, as well as produce a 5kg fleece.”
CLAYTON South, with partner Polly and sons Ky and Jarryn, run a 6500 head self-replacing Dohne ewe flock, on their 4900 hectares of owned and leased land at Wagin. They crop about 70 per cent of their property, sowing wheat, barley, canola, lupins and milling oats.
As one of the producer speakers at LambEx 2018, which was held in Perth, Mr South focused on the use of new technologies in his commercial sheep operation. “All the technology we are using has more than paid for itself in terms of ease of management,” Mr South said. “Even in the good years it is still giving us benefits, but when the season is tight, we are able to make more targeted decisions based on an individual animal’s requirements.”
“With genetic gain in our flock, the ram is only half the picture, so if we want to go and source those high fat, high eye muscle genetics, that’s going to drag our flock genetic gain up, but we wanted to make sure our ewe flock was pulling its weight as well.” The core flock is managed for high fecundity with a premium placed on twinning ewes and the flock lambing percentage is between 100 and 120 per cent each year. According to Mr South, the technology is helping to increase flock fertility by providing important breeding information.
“Although we may not be getting any more efficiencies in throughput at drenching or weaning, we are gaining a lot of valuable data at the same time as undergoing our normal husbandry operations. The sheep handler has made the job less physical, having the sheep immobilised, and therefore less stressful and more enjoyable.”
Wagin sheep producer Clayton South uses his EID stick reader to scan for information regarding his mixed-age Dohne ewe flock.
A tight joining period is employed with the rams going in for only 30 days. The ewes are then pregnancy scanned in April and foetal aged into early and late lambing and twin and single-bearing categories. Mr. South said that identifying twin bearing ewes was crucial to the flock reaching the objective. “Pregnancy scanning is essential – for us that is the best 80 cents I’d spend without doing anything else,” he said. “Foetal ageing – that’s been a game changer for us in terms of ease of management”
“At scanning, as the ewes go through the normal scanning box and three-way draft,their tags are read with the stick reader and an auto record board is used which has the different lambing categories pre-programmed so each ewe can be identified and her pregnancy status inputted directly into software on the laptop”, Mr South said. “The ewes are then managed in their twin and single-bearing mobs until about four weeks prior to lambing when they are then split into early and late lambing mobs using the sheep handler and auto draft to read the tags and pregnancy status. This allows us to provide a more targeted approach to their nutritional requirements as we know exactly where they are in their gestational period. It also means we don’t have 6500 ewes lambing at once, so our management and husbandry operations such as marking and weaning, are staggered. Dry ewes are culled immediately and late lambing, single-bearing ewes are moved to the terminal flock the following year.”
The South family has also started collecting information on growth rates. In partnership with a neighbour, they have purchased a lamb weigh crate and scales so each lamb’s tag is read and weight recorded at marking, then weighed through the handler at weaning. The ewe lambs are then run in mobs of up to 800 head, based on their weight categories.
“Lamb weighing gives information about the rate of weight gain for each animal and helps determine the lambs that aren’t gaining weight so they can be pulled out of the flock,” Clayton said. “The most important weights are the marking to summer drenching points as these show the performance of the individual animal. By removing the slower growing sheep from the flock, I’m hoping that faster growing ewe lambs will in turn produce faster growing lambs in the future”
A second and larger benefit from lamb weighing is the ability to mate the larger ewe lambs as hoggets. All of the ewe lambs are weighed to determine their weight in January, with those weighing more than 40kg drafted off and mated at 7months of age. “Ideally we are aiming to get around 50% of these ewe lambs into lamb. I understand they would be better mated at 8-9 months but then that interferes with the cropping operations on the farm. Apart from the benefits of getting extra lambs out of our ewe lambs, we’re also finding these ewe lambs are more productive the following year as traditional maidens, both the ones that have lambs and the ones that are scanned dry as ewe lambs”
They have also purchased a barcode printer and scanner to record ewe hogget fleece weights at shearing. “Dohne ewes consistently produce 4-6kg high quality finer wools in the range of 18-22 micron, with no threat of contamination to Merino fleece. “While our focus hasn’t been on the wool, we are finding huge variation of wool cut within the flock so it’s the same as everything we measure. It’s all about identifying our most productive ewes. We are cutting more wool per hectare now than we were with traditional Merinos”, Mr. South said.
“Our aim is to have a highly productive easy-care sheep that doesn’t require mulesing and can turn lambs off quick. The Dohne Merinos, with their high fertility, ease of lambing, excellent maternal quality, and wool quality, fit the bill perfectly.”
Trial Using Sensor Collars to Match up Maiden Twin Ewes and Their Lambs
WE CALCULATED a gross margin per ewe using kg/lamb weaned & Fleece Weight & took into account all costs for each ewe for 12 months. One (ewe) raised three (lambs) – produced more than 90kg of lamb and 3.6kg of wool – which was a profit on that ewe of $227.
“No surprises, the bottom one failed to raise one (lamb) and still only cut 3.6kg of wool – she’s cost me $16.40 to run around on my place for the year.
The average of ewes that raised 2 lambs was $122.85 profit per ewe. The average of ewes (scanned as twins) that only raised 1 lamb was $71.73 profit per ewe.
“The overall average was $85 per head – which was quite pleasing.
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Construction and screening of A cDNA library for the C3 gene(s) of the Nurse Shark (Ginglymostoma Cirratum)
Janette Cristina Builes, Florida International University
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Sylvia L. Smith
Charles H. Bigger
Janet A. Lineback
Mammalian C3 is a complement protein which consists of an α chain (125kDa) and β chain (75kDa) held together by a disulfide bond. The a chain contains a conserved thiolester site which provides the molecule with opsonic properties. The protein is synthesized as a single pro-C3 molecule which is post-translationally modified. C3 genes have been identified in organisms from different phyla, however, the shark C3 gene remains to be cloned. Sequence data from the shark will contribute to understanding further the evolution of this key protein. To obtain additional sequence data for shark C3 genes a cDNA library was constructed and screened with a DIG-labeled C3 probe. Fifty clones were isolated and sequenced. Analysis identified four sequences that yielded positive alignments with C3 of a variety of organisms including human C3. Deduced amino acid sequence analysis confirmed a β/α cut site (RRRR), the CR3 and properdin binding sites, the catalytic histidine, and the reactive thiolester sequence. In the shark there are at least two C3-like genes as the gene sequence obtained is distinct from that previously described.
Builes, Janette Cristina, "Construction and screening of A cDNA library for the C3 gene(s) of the Nurse Shark (Ginglymostoma Cirratum)" (2001). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1940.
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Heavy rains and snowfall killed 43 people in Pakistan | Eurasia Diary - ednews.net
Heavy rains and snowfall killed 43 people in Pakistan
Pakistan is hit by flash floods and severe cold-wave, resulted the death of over 43 people due to heavy rains and snowfalls, Eurasia Diary reports citing Dispatch News Desk(DND) News Agency.
Severe cold-wave coupled with constant rain and snowfall in majority of Pakistan caused death of over 43 persons till the filling of this news report.
According to data collected from different parts of the country, exceptionally heavy snowfall in mountainous areas and flash floods in upper and lower parts of Pakistan caused death of 43 persons while road accidents due to heavy rains are not included in this figure.
Intercity traffic has severely disrupted and air flights have been cancelled in KPK and Baluchistan provinces.
Met Office of Pakistan has issued a warning for more heavy snowfall and rains in the districts of Swat, Kohistan, Shangla, Buner, Mansehra, Abbottabad, Murree, Galyat, Neelum, Bagh, Haveli, Rawalakot, Astore, Hunza and Skardu on Monday(Night).
Roads are blocked in several parts of Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, Malakand and Hazara districts.
Constant rain in Islamabad and Rawalpindi and adjoining areas have caused over 23 road accidents during the last 24 hours.
Murree Hills in Punjab and KPK, Neelum Valley in Azad Kashmir received over four feet of snow, cutting Ayubia, Nathia Gali and Changla Gali from the rest of the country.
Met Office believes that a strong westerly wave is affecting most upper and central parts of Pakistan and situation would remain for next 48 hours— till Wednesday morning.
Met Office official while talking to DND News Agency stated that heavy falls may generate flash flooding in Turbat, Kech, Panjgur, Kalat Quetta and. Heavy snowfall is also expected in districts of Quetta, Harnai, Ziarat, Qilla Abdullah.
Heavy snowfall is also expected in Chitral, Dir, Swat, Shangla, Buner, Mansehra, Abbottabad, Kohistan, Neelam valley, Bagh and Haveli. Murree & Galiayat, may also receive heavy snowfall. Possibility of landslides cannot be ruled out in districts of Malakand, Hazara, Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir.
All concerned authorities are advised to take precautionary measures during the forecast period.
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What does the phrase “listen to yourself” mean?
I was discussing something on another SE site(link). The discussion with full context is,
I searched and found two recent mechanics questions which got migrated to Phys.SE, 1 and 2. Note that problem solving questions aren't allowed on Phys.SE, only conceptual questions are. So homwork questions migrated from MSE can be closed there. — user103816 yesterday
@user103816 These two aren't math questions at all... By the way, 10k users can check the list of recently migrated questions here. I count six questions migrated to Phys.SE in February. Only one of them had some amount of mathematical content, and in that case the OP requested themselves for the question to be migrated. – Najib Idrissi yesterday
@NajibIdrissi Both of them are classical mechanics questions. Classical Mechanics is a well known field of Mathematics. – user103816 yesterday
Classical Mechanics is not a field of Mathematics. – quid yesterday
"Classical Mechanics is a well known field of Mathematics." Do you even listen to yourself...? – Najib Idrissi yesterday
Is the phrase "listen to yourself" some idiomatic expression? Or does it literally ask me can I listen to myself. What does it mean?
When is it used? Does it have a negative connotation?
Now let us discuss the exact phrase, "Do you even listen to yourself...?". As I understand it is asking me do you listen to yourself with emphasis. What I am confused about is whether it says me that I do not listen to myself all the time I say something, or, just that I didn't listen to myself only when I wrote that "...well known..." sentence. E.g. consider the sentence "Do you even wash hands". To me it appears that someone is implying that I never wash hands, that is a an every-day(continuous) type action. I cannot conceive a one-time type sentence with wording "Do you even xyz".
Is the sentence "Do you even listen to yourself...?" a continuous type question or one-time type?
What does the three dots after 'yourself...' mean?
As a native English speaker if you put yourself in my position then how much negative that sentence would sound to you? That is what is its level of negativeness? Is it simply rude or highly humiliating?
Another thing that user Mar Amezani said is that 'even' gives the sentence some negative cannonation and if it is replaced by 'ever' then the sentence is okay. How is the sentence Do you even listen to yourself...? different from Do you ever listen to yourself...? Is the second version a continuous type action sentence or one-time type?
meaning-in-context phrase-usage phrase-meaning idioms
For a decision with no possible mistakes, you would want to get the whole context. But I think it means that you should first think about what you're saying. – It's Over Feb 20 '15 at 11:01
@MARamezani Should I give a link to the actual discussion? – user31782 Feb 20 '15 at 11:04
That would be really helpful to decide if the guy intended to write something with a negative connotation. – It's Over Feb 20 '15 at 11:05
I don't think "listen to yourself" is inherently negative, but when put in the form of a question – Do you even listen to yourself? – that sounds like it's intended to be negative most of the time. – J.R.♦ Feb 20 '15 at 11:22
It seems rather rude. It's too bad the flag was declined―that sort of reply could easily be written in a more neutral fashion. – snailcar♦ Feb 20 '15 at 19:15
"Classical Mechanics is a well known field of Mathematics." Do you even listen to yourself...? – Najib Idrissi 19 hours ago
The user "Najib Idrissi" asks the author of the sentence Classical Mechanics is a well known field of Mathematics. to read that statement for themselves. Najib makes sure that the author will realize the scientific mistake in that sentence and, in short, "will come to their senses."
It's like your friend has told you something very oddly wrong, and you didn't expect him to say so. You tell him/her to listen to himself/herself, so that s/he will realize the mistake they've made. In this case, it seems very rudimentary to the mathematicians that "classical mechanics" are a physics' subject, and hardly related to math. So, "well known", as it means that "many are familiar with it being a part of mathematics" seems a very idiotic expression to them, as if the author didn't know what they were typing, or simply, talking about.
If you ask me, there is a bit of negative connotation in this sentence, but it wouldn't be considered as offensive. (As "offensive" is too strong for it)
In fact, the expression "listen to yourself" is commonly used in the area of philosophy when there's a speak of art of communicating between humans.
philosophy reference 1
And this is a nice example of a similar usage. (Though it contains the expression and not the exact question)
in Google books
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As a side note, "even" in the "do you even listen to yourself?", could be understood as a negative connotation increase remark, but for some others, it might not. – It's Over Feb 20 '15 at 11:45
To me "Listen to yourself" seems ok but "Do you even listen to yourself" seems negative. It sounds like he is asking me have you ever listened to your self, that is do you ever think carefully about what you say. – user31782 Feb 20 '15 at 11:54
@user31782 As I understood from the meta.math.SE link that you provided, you weren't the one being "attacked" (if we can call it that) and, "Do you ever listen to yourself?" is different from "Do you even...?". You can't say that for sure, the author had an intention for attacking. Plus, of course the writer's question is no "walk in the park", but "offensive" manner is very different from a single rhetorical question that wants the author to think about what they're claiming. – It's Over Feb 20 '15 at 11:56
I am user103816 there. What does these type of sentences mean: "Do you even wash hands after eating food"? Does it mean that someone is asking whether you wash hands every day after eating, or does it mean that someone is asking whether you washed hand recently(only once not everyday)? – user31782 Feb 20 '15 at 12:01
@user31782 firstly, sorry, it came to my mind that you were the poster of the question in that meta. And, "Do you even wash hands...?" is about a continuous action (you eat food three times a day) but the meta.math issue is about a one-time claim. – It's Over Feb 20 '15 at 12:09
"Do you even listen to yourself?" is an insulting reply to a statement that is perceived by the listener to be patently absurd. The listener who asked the question is saying that the statement was made in haste, thoughtlessly, without thinking. If the first speaker stopped to think about what he said, he would realize the ridiculousness of his statement.
The elipses at the end just signify that this is a well-known expression that does not need to be finished. An implied finish would be "..speaking such drivel?" or some such.
I would go ahead and say, yes it is an idiomatic expression and it does not literally mean whether you can listen to yourself or not, and yes it is used as negative criticism, it just means the person who asked you "do you even listen to yourself?" thought something that you said/replied/mentioned was illogical or weird or outright stupid.
Lets assume a hypothetical conversation between a martial arts trainer and a die hard video game enthusiast (MA - Martial Artist; VG - Video Gamer)
MA - I have been training hard for 10 years
VG - So have I
MA - I can take on 15 guys at the same time in real life
VG - I know so many spells that no one dares to pick a fight with me
MA - I have a black belt in Karate i can beat you anywhere any time
VG - I am a lvl 68 super awesome mage I can beat you even before the fight starts
MA - do you even listen to yourself?
Here in this conversation the Martial Artist is talking about real life situations and real life prowess, but the Video Gamer is applying his digital life powers to real world scenarios which is absolutely stupid and so the Martial Artist asks the Video Gamer "do you even listen to yourself?".
A question like "do you even listen to yourself?" in essence is
1) Idiomatic -it means something else entirely 2) Rhetoric - It tries to prove a point, it does not warrant an answer.
"Listen to Yourself " is an idiom meaning " Consider what you are saying and think about the logic of it and how creepy/weird it might sound before you say it out loud " so when someone asks you "do you even listen to yourself?" they are trying to ask you " Do you consider what you r saying, before you say it? and/or Do you know how stupid that sounds?". So it is most certainly negative when someone uses "do you even listen to yourself?" on you.
P.S : No offence meant to Video Gamers, I myself am a regular player of League of Legends.
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This isn't an idiom; the meaning of the phrase is in fact the literal meaning of the words. However, the question is being asked rhetorically, to signal that the statement made was ridiculous. An actual answer is not expected or really desired. – Esoteric Screen Name Feb 20 '15 at 11:54
@EsotericScreenName I understand where you are coming from, yes it is does seem like it literally means "do you listen to what you are saying ", but what is the point in asking if someone is listening to themselves or not, the point is to tell them that they sound stupid and ask them if they realize it or not, I smell an idiom there. – NANDAGOPAL Feb 20 '15 at 12:01
Hello Nandgopal. Thank you for the answer. I've edited the question to elaborate it further. Could you also explain these issues. – user31782 Feb 21 '15 at 10:00
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accents on english | fall 15-winter 16
Home / News & Events / Newsletter / Accents on English, Fall 2015-Winter 2016 / Tempe Legends
Mystery Doors, Feathered Revenants, and Mummified Senators: Legendry from the Dark Heart of Hayden's Ferry
Students and Folklore
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Newsletter of the Department of English
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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
Several weeks ago, I took a brief stroll around the abandoned shell of Monti's La Casa Vieja on First Street and Mill. What a sad sight it was. In a city that seems intent on relegating its architectural heritage to rubble and memory, Monti's stalwartly resisted the resolute crawl of corporatization in once seedy but always interesting Old Town Tempe.
For years, it had been a gathering spot for our family. My grandparents would come up from their citrus groves in Chandler Heights, my grandpa gruff and stoic in his straw Stetson and bola tie, my grandma wearing one of her ubiquitous flowered hats and smelling of rosewater, stuffing the contents of the bread basket in her purse at meal's end. It was at one of our get-togethers that my mother spoke of the doors on the northwest face of the Old House. In her day, she told us, these doors led to cubicles where the "bad girls" at the university (then, Arizona State College) supplemented their incomes. She didn't go into the details.
My mother had plenty of stories about Tempe in the mid-1940s, when she attended what would become ASU: The screened sleeping porches in the dorms, the obligatory whitewashing of the big letter on A mountain by incoming freshmen, dorm mother Sally Hayden, dour and ever on the lookout for attempts to smuggle boys into the rooms of her charges.
These, however, were more in the realm of oral history than the account of the doors, which smacks of what folklorists call legend—that is, narratives, full or fragmentary, involving remarkable happenings that challenge belief. Never verifiable but ever plausible, legends draw their energy from a dialog between certainty and doubt, and their endurance from the extraordinary nature of their subject matter. My mother's revelation may have been more a rumor than an actual legend as it had little narrative content, but its peculiar irony, prurient appeal, and relevance to student concerns (what extremes might I go to when tuition and expenses come due?) would beg discussion through the construction of compelling narratives. Perhaps these would have their origins in FOAF (in folklorese, friend of a friend) accounts of dangerous liaisons with the keepers of the doors, or in observations of peculiar goings-on from eyewitness narrators.
My Uncle Chuck would occasionally drive in from California to join us at Monti's. He had been a flight instructor in WWII and afterwards flew crop dusters in the Gila Valley. He told stories of the latter experience that were cautionary in nature—of pilots accidentally getting too close to the spinning blades of planes, or discovering rattlesnakes nesting under the seat cushions they had placed in the shade of their wings in anticipation of a nap. Had he been present when these events happened? Had he heard them from other pilots, who perhaps had heard them from other pilots still? Or had he invented his stories from whole cloth to goof a credulous nephew, as uncles will do? One man's prank can evolve into another's legend, and with multiple generations of tellings, becomes enriched with fascinating possibility as the prankster stands in the shadows, contemplating and relishing what he has set loose.
Ghosts about Town
To many, legendry is associated with ghostlore. The legendary potential of my uncle's accounts could easily generate tales of revenant manifestation—a headless duster pilot, victim of a propeller accident, haunting an abandoned airfield in Eloy or Maricopa, accompanied by a comrade wailing mournfully as he vies in eternal combat with an angry diamondback. And perhaps one of the soiled sisters of Monti's, murdered by a client (you fill in the backstory), wanders the forlorn gothic spaces of the Old House as we speak.
Casey Moore's, Tempe's premier venue for things supernatural, boasts such a legend. It tells of a woman boarder (or prostitute, depending on the variant) who was strangled in an upstairs room, which she haunts to this day. Before its service as a restaurant, boarding house, and (some say) brothel, Casey Moore's was the residence of the Moeur family. My mother lived there briefly when she attended the State College. She had been invited by her friend Joanne, the granddaughter of Mary Wilson Moeur who, in ghostly form, has been seen dancing with her equally ghostly husband on the restaurant's upper floor. Joanne, my mother told me, claimed that there are no ghosts in the Moeur House, but many who have staffed the restaurant over the years say otherwise.
Every now and then, on the corner of Ninth and Ash just south of the Moeur House, I have to defer to a brace of peacocks, elegantly appointed and persistently territorial of the crosswalks in the four way stop. Escapees, no doubt, from the lair of a local urban farmer, but my sister and I are convinced that one of them is our reincarnated mother, former neighborhood resident and inveterate clothes horse in her middle years. Chickens also frequent the intersection. We've concluded that our brother lives in one of these birds. Back in the day, he played guitar in a local country/western band called The Legendary Thunderchicken. The musicians, jokers to a man, would place a caged chicken on stage wherever they performed. Once, it got loose and was nearly trampled by beer-sodden bluegrass dancers. Karma will have its due, and families their legends.
While Thunderchicken was making the rounds of Tempe's dive bars with their tormented mascot, I was doing my undergraduate work at the University. Downtown, the new city hall had just been built. Its inverted pyramid design seemed to reflect the recent popularity of the Pyramid Power movement. I recall the owner of a local bicycle shop riding the streets of Old Town wearing a tubular, pyramid-shaped plastic hat through which, he told me, he had achieved an astonishing degree of focus.
It was said that the body of a dead bird could be suspended within such a structure and survive for years without decaying. Somebody made the connection, and the story went around that the upside-down pyramid had been constructed to contain and forever preserve the body of former senator Carl Hayden, born in the Casa Vieja and a duffer several times over before he finally died. I haven't heard the tale since then, but for a time Tempe had its very own Walt Disney, sans cryonics and spending eternity in digs far less exotic than the secret cavern that lies below The Pirates of the Caribbean in Disney Anaheim.
Many years later when I came back to ASU to attend grad school, the old Gentle Strength Co-op on the corner of Ash and University provided a home for the ancient and arcane mysteries of the Granolakultur of the 60s and 70s. One denizen in particular tempted legend by wearing an impossibly voluminous 1920s cap over a great mop of gray hair. Word had it that he raised alfalfa sprouts for the co-op's produce department in this unlikely greenhouse. A vacant lot lies on the corner where the co-op once stood, and I wonder if on moonless nights you might not see the spirit of this generous gardener wandering its grounds in search of salads and open-faced toasted cheese sandwiches.
Enduring Mysteries at Home
But let us venture to our home ground. In the SS building (a.k.a., The Leaning Tower of Social Sciences), stories circulate of the constant movement of faculty, staff, and students about the four corners of the structure to establish stability and thus counter imminent collapse from subsidence. And just to the east, in the bowels of the LS building, you will find an imposing door crafted from a thick maple slab and secured with more stainless steel hinges and locks than necessary for any level of security. What transpires in the eldritch caverns that lay beyond its fastness? Surely, questionable experiments and investigations into the unthinkable. This is, after all, Life Sciences—a curious discipline with priorities and protocols that confound the imagination of the humanist.
And what of our very own mystery door in Language and Literature? You know the one I'm talking about, on the southernmost point of the third floor. It is locked fast, and no one I've spoken to in my twenty years in the department has ever seen it opened. In the 1990s, TAs on the floor theorized that it concealed a great detention center that housed PhD candidates who were slow in finishing their programs. Down the hall, the graduate lounge reveals a cognate tale. For a brief period, folks returning to work on Monday mornings would find the lounge strewn with pint bottles and potato chip wrappers, and noticeably redolent of street funk. The paranormal manifestation of a ghostly visitor, or a former grad student in need of a flop and a dram?
And we ourselves should beware lest we become entrapped by folk dynamics that lie beyond our control. Several years ago, I learned that some of my former students had created a Facebook page under my name. For the profile picture, they had photo-shopped my head (presumably, harvested from my faculty page portrait) on the naked-above-the-waste torso of a body builder, replete with tattoos and an excruciating array of piercings, chains, clamps, and rings. The page went on to illustrate my adventurous encounters with authors across the canon. In one, I (rather, the Shelleyan cyber-abomination of my profile pic) am with Edgar Allan Poe in the chamber of "The Raven," my arm around his shoulder. The page was short lived, and while I did grumble about its good-natured assault on my dignity, I do miss it. I'm thinking that given time, they would have had me riding with the scalp hunters of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian.
As Fox Mulder reminds us, the truth is out there. The tellers and audiences of legendry will court truth but they will keep it at arm's length, for nothing would be sadder than to ruin a good story.
—Larry Ellis
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Dugald Gordon McDougall Index: University of Tasmania Collection
University of Tasmania, 2014 , Dugald Gordon McDougall Index: University of Tasmania Collection , University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania.
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Dugald Gordon McDougall (1867-1944) MA. BCL (Oxford), MA. LLD.
(Melb). was Professor of Law and Modern History in the University of Tasmania from 1901-1915 and Professor of Law from 1915-1932. UT537 includes copies of his lectures and published booklets 1907-1910. UT23 is a manuscript of his retirement address 1934. UT24 is a copy of his lectures on the History of England 1907.
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Darryl S Pickering
Jagtvej 160, 2100 København Ø, 22, Building: C213
picker@sund.ku.dk
https://drug.ku.dk/
In vitro and in vivo effects of a novel dimeric inhibitor of PSD‐95 on excitotoxicity and functional recovery after experimental traumatic brain injury
Sommer, J. B., Bach, Anders, Rytter, Hana Malá, Strømgaard, Kristian, Mogensen, Jesper & Pickering, Darryl S, 20 Jan 2017, In : European Journal of Neuroscience. 45, 2, p. 238-248 11 p.
Investigation of antidepressant-like and anxiolytic-like actions and cognitive and motor side effects of four N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonists in mice
Refsgaard, L. K., Pickering, Darryl S & Andreasen T., Jesper, 1 Feb 2017, In : Behavioural Pharmacology. 28, 1, p. 37-47 11 p.
Binding and functional pharmacological characteristics of gepant-type antagonists in rat brain and mesenteric arteries
Sheykhzade, Majid, Amandi, N., Pla, M. V., Abdolalizadeh, B., Sams, A., Warfvinge, K., Edvinsson, Lars & Pickering, Darryl S, 10 Feb 2017, In : Vascular Pharmacology. 90, p. 36-43 8 p.
Pharmacology and crystal structure of novel 2,3-quinoxalinediones at kainate receptors
Møllerud, Stine, Pallesen, J. S., Pasini, D., Marconi, L., Han, L., Bornholt, J., Johansen, Tommy Nørskov, Kastrup, Jette Sandholm Jensen, Pickering, Darryl S & Frydenvang, Karla Andrea, Aug 2017, In : Journal of Neurochemistry. 142, S1, p. 124 1 p., MTU07-13.
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Effects of the dimeric PSD-95 inhibitor UCCB01-144 on functional recovery after fimbria-fornix transection in rats
Sommer, J. B., Bach, Anders, Rytter, Hana Malá, Strømgaard, Kristian, Mogensen, Jesper & Pickering, Darryl S, Oct 2017, In : Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior. 161, p. 62-67 6 p.
Aryl- and heteroaryl-substituted phenylalanines as AMPA receptor ligands
Szymańska, E., Chałupnik, P., Johansen, Tommy Nørskov, Nielsen, Birgitte, Cuñado Moral, A. M., Pickering, Darryl S & Kieć-Kononowicz, K., 1 Dec 2017, In : Chemical Biology & Drug Design. 90, p. 1271-1281 11 p.
Revisiting the Quinoxalinedione scaffold in the Construction of New Ligands for the Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors.
Demmer, C. S., Rombach, D., Liu, N., Nielsen, Birgitte, Pickering, Darryl S & Bunch, Lennart, 1 Dec 2017, In : A C S Chemical Neuroscience. 8, 11, p. 2477-2495 19 p.
Augmentation of Anticancer Drug Efficacy in Murine Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells by a Peripherally Acting Competitive N-Methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) Receptor Antagonist
Gynther, M., Proietti Silvestri, I., Hansen, J. C., Hansen, K. B., Malm, T., Ishchenko, Y., Larsen, Y., Han, L., Kayser, S., Auriola, S., Petsalo, A., Nielsen, Birgitte, Pickering, Darryl S & Bunch, Lennart, 14 Dec 2017, In : Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 60, 23, p. 9885-9904 20 p.
Vascular and molecular pharmacology of the metabolically stable CGRP analogue, SAX
Sheykhzade, Majid, Abdolalizadeh, B., Koole, C., Pickering, Darryl S, Dreisig, K., Johansson, S. E., Abboud, B. K., Dreier, R., Berg, J. O., Jeppesen, Jørgen, Sexton, P., Edvinsson, Lars, Wootten, D. & Sams, A., 2018, In : European Journal of Pharmacology. 829, p. 85-92
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Alhred of Northumbria
Alhred or Alchred was king of Northumbria from 765 to 774. He had married Osgifu, either the daughter of Oswulf, granddaughter of Eadberht Eating, or Eadberht's daughter, and was thus related by marriage to Ecgbert, Archbishop of York. A genealogy survives which makes Alhred a descendant of Ida of Bernicia through a son named Eadric.
Æthelwald Moll was deposed in 765 and Alhred became king. Little is said of his reign in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle other than the bare facts that he became king, and was then deposed and exiled in 774. Symeon of Durham's "Historia Regum Anglorum" reports that he fled to the kingdom of the Picts, where he was received by King Ciniod.
Frank Stenton notes Ahlred's connection to the English missions on the continent. The mission of Saint Willehad, which led to the founding of the Archbishopric of Bremen, was authorised by a religious assembly called by Alhred. A letter from Alhred to Saint Lull, Archbishop of Mainz, a native of Wessex, also survives.
He was succeeded by Æthelred, son of Æthelwald Moll. Alhred's son Osred would later be king. A second son, Alhmund would be killed in the reign of Eardwulf and develop a cult as Alcmund of Derby.
* Anderson, Alan Orr, "Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers A.D. 500 to 1286." David Nutt, London, 1908.
* Higham, N.J., "The Kingdom of Northumbria AD 350-1100." Stroud: Sutton, 1993. ISBN 0-86299-730-5
* Kirby, D.P., "The Earliest English Kings." London: Unwin, 1991. ISBN 0-04-445692-1
* Marsden, J., "Northanhymbre Saga: The History of the Anglo-Saxon Kings of Northumbria." London: Cathie, 1992. ISBN 1-85626-055-0
* Stenton, Sir Frank M., "Anglo-Saxon England." Oxford: Oxford UP, 1971 (3rd edn.) ISBN 0-19-280139-2
* Yorke, Barbara, "Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England." London: Seaby, 1990. ISBN 1-85264-027-8
*List of monarchs of Northumbria
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Osred II of Northumbria — Osred was king of Northumbria from 789 to 790. He was the son of Alhred and Osgifu, daughter of Eadberht. He succeeded Ælfwald, son of his mother s brother Oswulf, who was murdered by the patricius (ealdorman) Sicga. Osred, even though he united… … Wikipedia
Æthelwald Moll of Northumbria — Æthelwald Moll was King of Northumbria, the historic petty kingdom of Angles in medieval England, from 759 to 765. He seized power after the murder of Oswulf son of Eadberht; his ancestry and connection to the royal family of Northumbria is… … Wikipedia
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Ceolwulf of Northumbria — Ceolwulf was king of Northumbria from 729 until 737, except for a short period in 731 or 732 when he was deposed, and quickly restored to power. Ceolwulf finally abdicated and entered the monastery at Lindisfarne. He was the most glorious king to … Wikipedia
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Iran Air flights to European destinations underway
TEHRAN, Jan. 13 (MNA) – Iran Air Airline announced that all European fights of this Airline to Frankfurt, Hamburg, London, Amsterdam, Paris, Milan, Vienna and Cologne destinations have been resumed according to the scheduled program.
Following the rumors released on the social networks with regards to cancelling European flight of Iran Air National Flag Carrier (HOMA), this is to inform that all European flights of Iran Air Airline to the destinations [including Frankfurt, Hamburg, London, Amsterdam, Paris, Vienna and Cologne] are done according to the scheduled program and none of these flights have been cancelled.
Accordingly, the flights to two destinations of Stockholm and Gothenburg will be resumed as soon as the flight license is received.
Iraq negotiating purchase of Russia’s S-300: envoy
Making Americans leave region true revenge on US: Jahangiri
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Cajuns Get Commitment from Mason Narcisse
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When he announced the December signing class for the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns, head coach Billy Napier said they were holding a couple of scholarships for the February date.
This may have been what he was talking about.
Highly sought after defensive lineman Mason Narcisse, who originally committed to Tulane then re-opened his recruitment, has announced he will be playing football for the Cajuns. Narcisse made the announcement via Twitter:
Narcisse prepped at St. Charles Catholic. His commitment could propel the Cajuns to the #1 signing class in the Sun Belt.
Filed Under: billy napier, Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns, mason narcisse, ragin' cajuns football, tulane green wave
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» People » Academics » Dr Wendy Merritt
Dr Wendy Merritt
Contact email:Wendy.Merritt@anu.edu.au
Location:Robertson Building (46)
Centre:The Integrated Catchment Assessment and Management Centre (iCAM)
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Researcher, Integrated assessment & decision support: Analysing trade-offs between NRM investments, agricultural opportunity costs and resource condition outcomes
Badham, J, Hunt, R, Guillaume, J et al 2019, 'Effective modeling for Integrated Water Resource Management: a guide to contextual practices by phases and steps and future opportunities', Environmental Modelling and Software, vol. 116, pp. 40-56.
Croke, B, Merritt, W, Cornish, P et al 2018, 'An integrated approach to improving rural livelihoods: Examples from India and Bangladesh', IAHS Scientific Assembly 2017, ed. Croke B. Jewitt G., Copernicus Publications, Online, pp. 45-50pp.
Iwanaga, T, Zare, F, Croke, B et al 2018, 'Development of an integrated model for the Campaspe catchment: A tool to help improve understanding of the interaction between society, policy, farming decision, ecology, hydrology and climate', 8th International Symposium on Integrated Water Resources Management, IWRM 2018, ed. Z. Xu, D. Peng, W. Sun, B. Pang, D. Zuo, A. Schumann, and Y. Chen, Copernicus Publications, TBC, pp. 1-12.
Fu, B, Dyer, F, Kravchenko, A et al 2017, 'A note on communicating environmental change for non-market valuation', Ecological Indicators, vol. 72, pp. 165-172.
Merritt, W, Fu, B, Ticehurst, J et al 2017, 'Realizing modelling outcomes: A synthesis of success factors and their use in a retrospective analysis of 15 Australian water resource projects', Environmental Modelling and Software, vol. 94, pp. 63-72pp.
Merritt, W, Patch, B, Reddy, V et al 2016, 'Modelling livelihoods and household resilience to droughts using Bayesian networks', Environment, Development and Sustainability, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 315-346pp.
Merritt, W, Patch, B, Reddy, V et al 2015, 'Modeling Livelihood Indicators and Household Resilience using Bayesian Networks', in V.R. Reddy and G.J. Syme (ed.), Integrated Assessment of Scale Impacts of Watershed Intervention: assessing hydrogeological and bio-physical influences on livelihoods, Elsevier, Amsterdam, Kidlington and Waltham, pp. 287-316.
Syme, G, Reddy, V, Ahmed, S et al 2015, 'Analytical Framework, Study Design, and Methodology', in V.R. Reddy and G.J. Syme (ed.), Integrated Assessment of Scale Impacts of Watershed Intervention: assessing hydrogeological and bio-physical influences on livelihoods, Elsevier, Amsterdam, Kidlington and Waltham, pp. 23-54.
Merritt, W, Rao, K, Patch, B et al 2015, 'Exploring Implications of Climate, Land Use, and Policy Intervention Scenarios on Water Resources, Livelihoods, and Resilience', in V.R. Reddy and G.J. Syme (ed.), Integrated Assessment of Scale Impacts of Watershed Intervention: assessing hydrogeological and bio-physical influences on livelihoods, Elsevier, Amsterdam, Kidlington and Waltham, pp. 379-407.
Merritt, W, Fu, B, Ticehurst, J et al 2015, 'Synthesising and evaluating the criteria of successful decision support models to support water resource assessment and management', 21st International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2015), ed. Weber, T., McPhee, M.J. and Anderssen, R.S., The Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc., Australia, pp. 498pp.
Fu, B, Dyer, F, Scarpa, R et al 2015, 'Valuing environmental water – lessons from a
transdisciplinary ecological-economic study', 21st International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2015), ed. Weber, T., McPhee, M.J. and Anderssen, R.S., The Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc., Australia, p. 594.
Akter, S, Grafton, R.Q. & Merritt, W 2014, 'Integrated hydro-ecological and economic modeling of environmental flows: Macquarie Marshes, Australia', Agricultural Water Management, 145, 98-109.
Jakeman, A, Merritt, W, Fu, B et al 2013, 'Decision support systems: experiences, lessons and recommendations', 22nd NSW Coastal Conference, 22nd NSW Coastal Conference, Australia, pp. 1-15pp.
Patch, B, Merritt, W, Reddy, V & Rout, S 2013, 'Evaluating watershed development impacts on physical capital using household surveys and Bayesian networks', 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, ed. Piantadosi, J., Anderssen, R.S. and Boland J., Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc., Australia, pp. 2959-2965. (http://www.mssanz.org.au/modsim2013/L16/patch.pdf)
Fu, B & Merritt, W 2012, 'The Impact of Uncertain Ecological Knowledge on a Water Suitability Model of Riverine Vegetation', International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs 2012), ed. R. Seppelt, A.A. Voinov, S. Lange, D. Bankamp, International Environmental Modelling & Software Society, Leipzig Germany, pp. 917-924.
Ticehurst, J, Pollino, C & Merritt, W 2012, 'Bayesian networks as integration tools in collaborative research', in Ted Lefroy, Allan Curtis, Anthony Jakeman & James McKee (ed.), Landscape Logic, CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Victoria, pp. 239-254.
Race, D, Curtis, A, Kyle, G et al 2012, 'Exploring landscape history through integrated participatory research: experiences from Victoria', in Ted Lefroy, Allan Curtis, Anthony Jakeman & James McKee (ed.), Landscape Logic, CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Victoria, pp. 145-156.
Merritt, W, Reddy, V, Tallapragada, C et al 2012, 'Modelling social and environmental impacts of watershed development in Andhra Pradesh, India', International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs 2012), ed. R. Seppelt, A.A. Voinov, S. Lange, D. Bankamp, International Environmental Modelling & Software Society, Leipzig Germany, pp. 451-458.
Fu, B, Pollino, C, Merritt, W et al 2011, 'Coupled Bayesian Networks and recursive partitioning method for wetland and ecological modelling', MODSIM 2011 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, ed. Chan, F., Marinova, D. and Anderssen, R.S., Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc., Australia, pp. 2451-2457.
McIntosh, B, Ascough II, J, Twery, M, Chew, J, Elmahdi, A, Haase, D, Harou, J, Hepting, D, Cuddy, S, Jakeman, A, Chen, S, Kassahun, A, Lautenbach, S, et al. 2011, 'Environmental decision support systems (EDSS) development - Challenges and best practices', Environmental Modelling and Software, vol. 26, no. 12, pp. 1389-1402.
Merritt, W, Reddy, V, Rao, K et al 2011, 'Integrated modelling for understanding watershed development impacts on social and biophysical systems', MODSIM 2011 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, ed. Chan, F., Marinova, D. and Anderssen, R.S., Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc., Australia, pp. 2887-2893.
Ticehurst, J, Curtis, A & Merritt, W 2011, 'Using Bayesian Networks to complement conventional analyses to explore landholder management of native vegetation', Environmental Modelling and Software, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 52-65.
Merritt, W, Ticehurst, J, Pollino, C et al 2010, 'The value of using Bayesian Networks in Environmental Decision Support Systems to support natural resource management', International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs 2010), ed. David A. Swayne, Wanhong Yang, A.A. Voinov, A. Rizzoli, T. Filatova, International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, Canada, pp. 2080-2088.
Merritt, W, Powell, S, Pollino, C et al 2010, 'IBIS: a decision support system for managers of environmental flows into wetlands', in N. Saintilan and I. Overton (ed.), Ecosystem Response Modelling in the Murray-Darling Basin, CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, pp. 119-135.
Kelly, R & Merritt, W 2010, 'The Role of Decision Support Systems (DSS) in Planning for Improved Water Quality in Coastal Lakes', in B. Manos, K. Paparrizos, N. Matsatsinis, J. Papathanasiou (ed.), Decision Support Systems in Agriculture, Food and the Environment: Trends, Applications and Advances, Information Science Reference, Hershey, USA, pp. 47-73.
Merritt, W, Pollino, C, Powell, S et al 2009, 'Integrating hydrology and ecology models into flexible and adaptive decision support tools: the IBIS DSS', International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM 2009), ed. Anderssen, R.S., R.D. Braddock and L.T.H. Newham, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc., Australia, pp. 3858-3864.
Merritt, W, Duncan, D, Kyle, G et al 2009, 'Using local knowledge to identify drivers of historic native vegetation change', International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM 2009), ed. Anderssen, R.S., R.D. Braddock and L.T.H. Newham, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc., Australia, pp. 2392-2398.
Ticehurst, J, Curtis, A & Merritt, W 2009, 'Analysing social data on adoption of conservation practices: Exploring Bayesian networks', International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM 2009), ed. Anderssen, R.S., R.D. Braddock and L.T.H. Newham, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc., Australia, pp. 2450-2456.
Merritt, W, Herron, N & Letcher, R 2007, 'Scoping the Functionality of a DSS for Water Quality Improvement in the Great Lakes Region of NSW', International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM 2007), ed. Les Oxley & Don Kulasiri, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc., New Zealand, pp. 664-670.
Merritt, W, Cohen, S, Neilsen, D et al 2006, 'Learning with Local Help: Expanding the Dialogue on Climate Change and Water Management in the Okanagan Region, British Columbia, Canada', Climatic Change, vol. 75, no. 3, pp. 331-358.
Letcher, R, Croke, B, Jakeman, A et al 2006, 'An integrated modelling toolbox for water resources assessment and management in highland catchments: Model description', Agricultural Systems, vol. 89, no. 1, pp. 106-131.
Letcher, R, Croke, B, Merritt, W et al 2006, 'An integrated modelling toolbox for water resources assessment and management in highland catchments: Sensitivity analysis and testing', Agricultural Systems, vol. 89, pp. 132-164.
Merritt, W, Alila, Y, Barton, M et al 2006, 'Hydrologic response to scenarios of climate change in sub watersheds of the Okanagan basin, British Columbia', Journal of Hydrology, no. 326, pp. 79-108.
Merritt, W, Croke, B & Pratummintra, S 2005, 'Determining crop yield and water use', in A Jakeman, R Letcher, S Rojanasoonthon, S Cuddy (ed.), Integrating knowledge for river basin management: Progress in Thailand, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra, Australia, pp. 129-139.
Merritt, W, Croke, B, Saifuk, K et al 2005, 'Estimating the effects of changed land use and management on soil loss', in A Jakeman, R Letcher, S Rojanasoonthon, S Cuddy (ed.), Integrating knowledge for river basin management: Progress in Thailand, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra, Australia, pp. 141-156.
Merritt, W, Letcher, R, Croke, B et al 2005, 'Using the Integrated Water Resource Assessment and Management project decision support system to understand trade-offs and improve decision-making', in A Jakeman, R Letcher, S Rojanasoonthon, S Cuddy (ed.), Integrating knowledge for river basin management: Progress in Thailand, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra, Australia, pp. 177-202.
Ekasingh, B, Merritt, W & Scott, A 2005, 'Natural resource management policies in Thailand and their use in the Mae Chaem Catchment', in A Jakeman, R Letcher, S Rojanasoonthon, S Cuddy (ed.), Integrating knowledge for river basin management: Progress in Thailand, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra, Australia, pp. 29-54.
Croke, B, Merritt, W, WittawHatchutikul, P et al 2005, 'Simulating the effects of land-cover change on streamflows', in A Jakeman, R Letcher, S Rojanasoonthon, S Cuddy (ed.), Integrating knowledge for river basin management: Progress in Thailand, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra, Australia, pp. 109-127.
Ticehurst, J, Rissik, D, Newham, L et al 2005, 'Development of a decision support tool for the integrated management of NSW coastal lake catchments', NSW Coastal Conference 2005, Conference Organising Committee, unknown.
Merritt, W, Croke, B & Jakeman, A 2005, 'Sensitivity testing of a model for exploring water resources utilisation and management options', Environmental Modelling and Software, vol. 20, pp. 1013-1030.
Merritt, W, Croke, B, Jakeman, A et al 2004, 'A biophysical toolbox for assessment and management of land and water resources in rural catchments in northern Thailand', Ecological Modelling, vol. 171, pp. 279-300.
Croke, B, Merritt, W & Jakeman, A 2004, 'A dynamic model for predicting hydrologic response to land cover Changes in gauged and ungauged catchments', Journal of Hydrology, vol. 291, pp. 115-131.
Perez, P, Ardlie, S, Kuneepong, P et al 2002, 'CATCHCROP: modeling crop yield and water demand forintegrated catchment assessment in Northern Thailand', Environmental Modelling and Software, vol. 17, pp. 251-259.
Letcher, R, Croke, B, Jakeman, A et al 2002, 'IWRAM: An integrated toolbox for considering impacts of development and land use change in Northern Thailand', Biennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society 2002, ed. A.E. Rizzoli and A.J. Jakeman, International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, Switzerland, pp. III 97-102.
Merritt, W, Croke, B & Jakeman, A 2002, 'Sensitivity Testing of a Biophysical Toolbox for Exploring Water Resources Utilisation and Management Options', Biennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society 2002, ed. A.E. Rizzoli and A.J. Jakeman, International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, Switzerland, pp. 311-316.
Schreider, S, Jakeman, A, Gallant, J et al 2002, 'Prediction of monthly discharge in ungauged catchments under agricultural use in the Upper Ping Basin, Northern Thailand', Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, vol. 59, pp. 19-33.
Merritt, W, Croke, B, Jakeman, A et al 2001, 'Predicting flows in unguaged catchments and catchments subject to forest cover changes', International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM 2001), ed. Ghassemi, F. et. al, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc., Canberra, pp. 59-64.
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The NAMFS Piggybank: How Eric Miller and Harvey Weinstein Are Alike
By Paul Williams on October 17, 2017
If You Subscribe And Are Not Donating, You Are Part Of The Problem, Not The Solution!
Eric Miller, the National Association of Mortgage Field Services (NAMFS) Executive Director, has always been the Harvey Weinstein to the financial institutions. The how and why of what brought Miller to NAMFS is up for grabs and many insiders have stated that he was to be there only two terms and then the position was to be handed off to another, fellow LPS colleague. Nearly a million dollars later — a million in salaries, perks, and losses — Miller is still at the helm, pimping out anyone he might make a dollar on. What has changed, though, is the willing complicity by many to participate in Miller’s support of #Fraudsters.
For years, Miller and his all white NAMFS Board of Directors, have refused to address the millions of dollars in fraud perpetrated against Minority Females and Labor. In fact, Miller’s right hand woman, the former and now disgraced NAMFS Secretary, Heather Berghorst, was the highest profile NAMFS Member which Foreclosurepedia has reported upon, to date. At each and every step of the way while Berghorst defrauded not only Minority Females and Labor, but financial institutions such as Fifth Third Bank, Eric Miller had email reports and documented proof. Additionally, Altisource, by and through their Associate General Counsel, was aware.
So heinous and egregious was the fraud that Berghorst committed and Miller had knowledge and aforethought upon, that Fifth Third challenged the Berghorst Bankruptcy saying,
26. 11 USC 523(a)(6) provides that a debt arising from a willful and malicious injury by a debtor [Heather and Doug Berghorst] to another entity or the property of another entity is not dischargeable.
27. The Debtors [Heather and Doug Berghorst] willfully caused Berghorst Enterprises to transfer the Collateral outside the ordinary course of its business without the approval of Fifth Third.
30. The knowing transfer of the Collateral, subject to Fifth Third’s security interest, was a willful and malicious injury to the bank’s property interest in the Collateral.
This is the standard modus operandi which NAMFS Members operate under daily. And all the time, Eric Miller is the Gatekeeper, paid to protect they and their continued Membership in NAMFS. To say that NAMFS is a Criminal Enterprise as defined by RICO, is an understatement. And to say that Eric Miller handles the day-to-day operations of NAMFS, as a Criminal Enterprise, crossing state lines, in the furtherance of artifices and schemes is calling the kettle black. Hit Them Hard; Hit Them Fast; and Hit Them Continually is the mantra which has caused change in the Mortgage Field Services Industry. And Foreclosurepedia has just begun.
Justis Smith, the daughter of Rowe Enterprises founder Jerry and Donna Rowe, is the new face which NAMFS is attempting to put forth. The gender card is nothing new and we all remember what Mitch Davidson, Purdy
Enterprise, had to say about Deana Alfredo. And most notably, is the telling fact that NAMFS continues to refuse to allow Minorities upon their Board of Directors. Born with a silver spoon in hand, Smith has been doing her best to attempt to smooth ruffled feathers while quietly plotting for the resurgence of NAMFS as a semi legitimate Trade Association. Problem is that Eric Miller has blown through roughly One Million Dollars of NAMFS monies while Executive Director. Moreover, though, NAMFS continues to refuse to release their IRS Form 990, required to be presented, upon request. Foreclosurepedia reiterated our request for such and have, once again, filed an IRS 13909 Complaint for the fourth year in a row. What Miller hasn’t confided to Smith is that when Foreclosurepedia begins to dig, and dig we will, it is an #Epic excavation project. The sad reality is that virtually anything which Foreclosurepedia investigates pertaining to NAMFS, virtually everything we need to know is publicly available.
For years, Miller has stated that NAMFS is not in the business to regulate its Members. That, though, is a lie. First and foremost, NAMFS provides education and certification. Above and beyond the fact that the NAMFS By Laws govern the conduct of its Membership, when a Trade Association begins to provide the very fabric and foundation upon which is the cloth sewn by the Industry, regulation of its Membership becomes not simply necessary, but mandatory.
Had Foreclosurepedia not came on the scene when we did, the reality is that many of those innocuous blips on the fraud radar would never have been located. Always a Friend of Labor, Foreclosurepedia has been able to connect the dots, of NAMFS Racketeering, using a Wiki Type Mind Mapping System we call ISTAR — Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, and Reconnaissance. NAMFS stands as the poster boy for mismanagement of its brand, reputation and franchise. In fact, Miller’s protection of firms, such as ASONS, has done nothing other than protect predators charged with rape upon underaged, hadicapped females in Eden, North Carolina. Mickey Snow’s behavior, both as a sexual deviant and arsonist has stretched over three decades. Snow is well known to Eric Miller and in fact Miller’s friend and CEO of ASONS, Milan Thompson, had this to say about the horrific rapes committed by Snow,
If he did wrong, he should be punished, but I am here to tell you that Mickey was my friend and I’d probably go visit his stupid butt in prison. — Milan Thompson, 21 October 2015
Thompson is no stranger to achieving wealth at the expense of those whom might least afford it. In fact, Thompson, along with his wife, Carol Beeson, obtained a $27 Million facility for a bit over one million dollars by promising to give 100+ jobs to Indianians. With the blessing of Vice President Mike Pence, Thompson bought his current facility through a scheme which narrowly tailored those whom could bid resulting in ASONS being the only entity to bid upon the former Muncie, Indiana, school. Then, almost immediately, he forced his employees to take a massive pay cut and fired those whom questioned him. Employees or former employees who contacted The Star Press this week expressed concern that the proposed pay cuts were so high that they would jeopardize their own family’s income at the expense of keeping the company operating. “The group meeting ended with, ‘What if we don’t offer to take enough pay cut, what happens then?’ The answer was, ‘Here’s the door,’” said Eric Laughner, who was terminated as project manager in recent days.
Years ago, when Countrywide Inspection Services (CWIS), a NAMFS member, got their larger start in the Mortgage Field Services Industry, Thompson partnered with and played a pivotal role scaling Dave and Carolyn Ramagos, the owners, up. Word on the bricks is that CWIS is now under investigation for issues stemming from their US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Management and Marketing (M&M) Field Service Manager (FSM) Contract. In fact, after a scathying Foreclosurepedia Podcast Interview with L&B Management‘s Owner, Billy Maysonet, a native Puerto Rican, CWIS was forced to pay nearly One Hundred Thousand Dollars they owed to L&B.
CWIS, a [HUD] FSM Prime Vendor, has been under fire from multiple quarters recently. Billy Maysonet, a native Puerto Rican based in Carolina, Puerto Rico, alleges they owe him nearly One Hundred Thousand Dollars amongst a litany of criminal accusations leveled at Dave Ramagos, CWIS CEO. During the course of the investigation, as earlier reported by Foreclosurepedia, ASONS attorney, John Bravacos, HUDs Backdoor Man, was able to transmit information pertaining to the confidential Maysonet investigation to personnel whom had no need to know. More on point, though, questions remain how Bravacos, the former HUD Philly HOC Director, was able to access this information and what his statement, “It’s being fixed,” actually meant with respect to the confidential Maysonet Investigation.
Miller, with the blessing of his fellow #Fraudsters, has perpetrated a protection racket, without public disclosure, by effectively silencing any form of dissent. For years, Miller has exercised his ability to keep people like Berghorst and Patricia McTaggart, Altisource, out of NAMFS By Laws Section 2.6 Proceedings. The pertinent portion of Section 2.6 reads as follows,
Conduct prejudicial to the interests of the Association. Upon determination by the Board of Directors that a member has engaged in conduct materially and seriously prejudicial to the interests or purposes of the Association, the Board may vote to terminate the membership of that member. The decision to initiate expulsion proceedings shall require a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the Board in accordance with the quorum and voting rules set forth in these Bylaws applicable to meetings of the Board.
The case of the haggard Heather Berghorst is a startling example of precisely to what lengths Eric Miller is willing to go if the payoff is right. Patricia McTaggart, Altisource, is yet another example of the level of criminality NAMFS and
Miller are willing to accept. After years of reporting upon the millions of dollars that Buczek Enterprises and Berghorst’s firm Berghorst Enterprises had defrauded from Minority Females and Labor, Altisource commissioned a DO NOT USE list targeting those whom objected to being defrauded. Illegal in any fashion with respect to federal contracting, NAMFS was so brazen that when a South Carolina firm brought it to the attention of Miller and the NAMFS Board of Directors, earlier this year, Miller informed the misclassified employee that NAMFS would do nothing about the issue.
I want this to sink in, for just a moment. Above, you may clearly read that Altisource willingly transmitted its legal acknowledgement that they maintain a DO NOT USE LIST. Miller stated clearly, that even the existence of such would be grounds for expulsion. And then, in the same breath, Miller tells the misclassified employee that NAMFS would do nothing to help him.
In fact, here is what Miller had to say to the misclassified employee earlier this year,
NAMFS appreciates your bringing this issue to our attention and for taking the time to discuss your concerns with the Officers last week. To address the comment regarding recording the phone call, NAMFS does not record any calls.
As to the issue discussed, NAMFS stands firm that the creation of an industry blacklist has not nor will be supported. That said, NAMFS does support the right of individual companies to make business decisions regardless of size. NAMFS did speak with additional parties and was provided with communication between yourself and Laudan Properties in which reasons for the decision to end the business relationship were provided.
The decision of the Officers is that no further action will be taken at this time by the Association. As discussed on the phone call, your NAMFS membership is not at risk should you decide to take any additional action.
Using private monetary settlements, with gag orders for Minority Females and Labor instead of public courtrooms, is precisely how NAMFS Members have continued to commit crimes and moreover, to defraud US Taxpayers. Going back as early as John Ward’s early days of founding NAMFS, pools of money have been set aside to cover NAMFS Member perpetrated fraud in much the same way as Big Pharma does when a new drug comes to market. People like Robert Klein, Founder of Safeguard Properties (SGP), one of the largest serial predators within NAMFS, have bragged openly about how it works.
Home Star Property Solutions (HSPS), a National Association of Mortgage Field Services (NAMFS) Regime Offender Member was of the WORST CALIBER, facing bankruptcy according to HSPS Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Steve Hozie. Foreclosurepedia has been covering the HSPS Trainwreck of Fraud for several years. Here is what Hozie had to say to one misclassified employee with both NAMFS and Miller well aware of the dialogue,
Thanks for taking my call today. As I mentioned, I am working on behalf of the company to resolve issues without the aid of attorneys due to the company having very limited resources. Please send me what you think you need to be paid to settle the AP between HSPS and your company. The Homestar AP records I have receive from our accounting group are attached for your review. Let’s compare notes and see if we can’t come to some reasonable settlement to clear up all matters. Keep in mind that Homestar Property Solutions is having severe liquidity issues and there is a strong possibility that the company will go bankrupt at some point and very limited resources, if any, would be available to settle claims with general unsecured creditors. — Steve Hozie, HomeStar CFO, 06 February 2015
Wow! And everyone knew it, whom were NAMFS Members. And not a single person contacted law enforcement. In fact, Foreclosurepedia worked directly with the State of Minnesota’s Senior Labor Investigator, Dan Cunningham, in having HSPS business licenses revoked. At each step of the way, Foreclosurepedia ensured that Eric Miller was advised. Miller’s only action was to continue to ensure that HSPS continued to remain a NAMFS Member. In fact, millions of dollars were defrauded from Minority Females and Labor during the period of time that Miller protected Londa and Micheal Breese.
The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry (“Department”) has revoked the residential building contractor license of HomeStar Property Solutions, LLC and taken enforcement action against HomeStar LLC and HomeStar Field Services, LLC. Attached is a copy of Licensing Order and Administrative Order issued by the Department, with both actions taking effect on or about October 21, 2015. As this is the extent of the Department’s authority, we will close our files at this time. If you have any questions, please contact me at the number below.
Thank you for your time and cooperation.
Dan Cunningham, Sr. Investigator
DLI – CCLD
There is not a single NAMFS Member today whom could cover all outstanding work order debt with cash on hand. In fact, anything which even remotely resembled a Margin Call would cause a catastrophic house of cards collapse of NAMFS Members. Justis Smith, Rowe Enterprises, would know this and know it intimately well. You see, people like Smith and the rest of those whom keep silent the criminality of NAMFS, are just as guilty as those committing the crimes.
The people whom this policy truly hurts; the most vulnerable, are the minority female business owners. The socioeconomically deprived are footing the bill for the latest in a wholesale blood letting within the Mortgage Field Services Industry. And it isn’t going to let up until HUD steps in. — Paul Williams, Editor-in-Chief Foreclosurepedia, in recent radio interview.
Five Brothers recently skated on a ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLAR Lawsuit filed against they and US Bank pertaining to False Claims Act violations. Fact of the matter is that the identical issues presenting to that case are now visible in how Countrywide Inspection Services (CWIS LLC) is handling their US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Contract in Florida, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. More on point, though, is the simple fact that HUD has had just about enough of the bullshit. Time and time and time again, Labor is paying the price for the litigation and protests people like Dave and Carolyn Ramagos, owners of CWIS LLC and Joe Badalamenti, Owner of Five Brothers and his ne’er-do-well, ambulance chasing son-in-law become embroiled in.
US Assistant Attorney Valorie Smith, New Jersey, appeared to have an agenda when she stacked the deck against the Relator in Brown v Five Brothers, et al. As the Brown case became a thorn in the side of Smith; as we are told that US Bank requested full disclosure of what was in the pipeline and immunity from such, the wholesale sell out of Kelly Brown began long before the wheels of his plane ever touched down to discuss the case. The fact of the matter is that Smith appears to have been assisted in the sell out by Brown’s very own attorneys, Shepherd, Finkelman, Miller and Shah LLP (SFMS). Did I forget to mention that Assistant US Attorney Smith’s law firm formerly represented US Bank? Or that both Smith and SFMS knew intimate details which allowed for ongoing security compromising of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s computer data system referred to as the P260?
Now, here is where the story becomes stranger than fiction. I brought the case to HUD and no one within the HUD Management and Marketing (M&M) Program had ever heard of it. They asked permission to move it over to the HUD Office of the Inspector General (OIG). A year later, HUD OIG stated that they had never heard of the case and were going to formally look into the matter. This is the problem when one begins to expose the connected dots in the ISTAR System I spoke of earlier.
The Watertown Daily Times reported upon a meth lab bust, on 04 December 2016, located at 3205 Church Street, Port Leyden, New York. In conjunction with Lewis County sheriff’s deputies, the NY State Police’s Special Operations Response Team, the US Drug Enforcement Agency, the US Department of Homeland Security and the NY State Police’s Contaminated Crime Scene Emergency Response Team apprehended three people stemming from the methamphetamine lab. Port Leyden firefighters and the Lewis County emergency management also assisted, according to the Watertown Daily Times. According to sources speaking on condition of anonymity, Vendor Resource Management (VRM) contracted with ASONS to perform the cleanout at
3205 Church Street. At no time were any methamphetamine remediation services performed. In turn, VRM listed the property for sale located here. The same sources informed Foreclosurepedia that neither in the public nor private MLS documents appear any information pertaining to the methamphetamine contamination. In fact, in a Waiver Form required for entry into the Church Street property, obtained exclusively by Foreclosurepedia, no information is present which would advise necessitation for the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) normally required to keep humans safe from exposure. To use the terms which properly describe VRMs Church Street asset, a Clandestine Drug Laboratory (CDL), the DEA issued its Red Book in conformance with Section 2405 of the 1988 Anti-Drug Abuse Act. The Guidelines are very specific and, in fact, delineate the hazards associated with methamphetamine. If you are a NAMFS Member, though; if you work the right deal with Eric Miller, even laws pertaining to Clandestine Drug Laboratories do not apply to you!
Fact of the matter is that for years Melissa Shankin, Vendor and Operations Manager (depending upon which emails you read) for Five Brothers, is a convicted drug offender. She has a felony record for possessing under 25 grams of cocaine. With a tax lien for nearly EIGHTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS and multiple judgments against her, including one from JARZEMBOWSKI FUNERAL HOME INC, one has to wonder precisely where stands.
That is reassuring, though, to others like Amy Edgil and Erla Shaw — the same Erla Carter Shaw whom was Executive Vice President, at Taylor, Bean and Whitaker. The same Erla Carter Shaw whose proliferation of signatures are legend in robo signing circles. Carter-Shaw, whose boss, Lee Farkas, defrauded $2.9 Billion dollars and was convicted on 19 April 2011, and profiled on American Greed. And the same Erla Carter Shaw whom is Five Brothers’ Compliance Director. Look, there are nearly two thousand articles on Foreclosurepedia which stand as a testament to the corruption and criminality overseen by Eric Miller. Miller, whom receives OVER ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS PER YEAR, CONSUMING OVER SEVENTY FIVE PERCENT OF ALL NAMFS MEMBER DUES AND TWICE THE NATIONAL AVERAGE SALARY FOR HIS POSITION, has served as a surrogate and shelter for the NAMFS Offender Members over the years.
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A rousing sendoff and republican skeletons are once again on the loose.
Shout out to CNN for allowing the rest of A-merry-ca to see how you Negroes send your dead home today. You all were sure having church up in Newark, New Jersey. Those Winans are no joke. They might be the best export from Detroit since the automobile. The tributes by Kevin Costner and Tyler Perry were on point, and every song was terrific and from the heart. Bobby, you should have been there.
Oh, and while I am at it, let's go ahead and praise governor Krispy Kreme for doing the right thing for once. I know I am always hard on him, but this is one of those times when I am going to give him credit. The governor took a lot of heat from the general public and wingnuts for having the flags in Jersey flown at half staff after Houston's death, and he stood his ground.
"Why can't we focus on the true Heroes that fight for our country? This is getting ridiculous with the whole flag lowering thing for celebs!" Ray Leichner wrote.
"I get the concept of she was a famous NJ Native but really, I think the idea of flying the flag half-staff for her is going a bit over-board," wrote Karen Preston. "I think it is a shame that the Governor would give this honor to Whitney Houston when there are true heroes that are Native New Jerseyans who have died for our country that do not get the same respect."
Riiiight. Man I love these people in A-merry-ca. I wonder where all this outrage is coming from? Hmmmm. -"Don't say it field, don't you dare say it."- The governor has done this over 42 times before. He did it for Jersey soldiers, entertainers, and a BASKETBALL COACH for crying out loud! Nothing like a little "color arousal" to bring out the outrage in folks.
Finally, the problem with being a preachy [right] wingnut ideologue, is that you can't always practice what you preach. Take, for instance, the case of Paul Babeu. Mr. Babeu belongs to that camp in A-merry-can politics who loathes both immigrants and Gays. And yet.....
"FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) — A sheriff seeking the GOP nomination for an Arizona Congressional seat was forced Saturday to confirm he is gay amid allegations of misconduct made by a man with whom he previously had a relationship.
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu on Saturday denied claims he tried to threaten the man, a Mexican immigrant and a former campaign volunteer, with
deportation if their past relationship was made public. The man's allegations were first published Friday in The New Times, a Phoenix alternative weekly magazine.
Babeu, a first-term sheriff who has risen to national prominence with his strong opposition to illegal immigration and smuggling, said the accusations were an attempt to hurt his political career.
He vowed to continue his campaign in Arizona's rural western 4th Congressional District seat, but said he had called presidential candidate Mitt Romney's staff to say he would step down from his post as state campaign co-chair.
"This whole rumor, this whole of idea of who I am in my private life has been shopped around," Babeu told reporters during an hour-long press conference Saturday in front of his sheriff's office. "This was a way, the hook, of how this could be brought out, and to malign and attack a sheriff who does stand for conservative principals, who does enforce the law."
The lawyer for the man, Melissa Weiss-Riner, did not returns calls or emails from The Associated Press on Saturday, but told The New Times that Babeu's attorney and campaign consultant falsely told her client that his visa had expired. Babeu told reporters he believed the man, identified only by his first name Jose, was living in the country legally.
The New Times posted a photo provided by the man of the two embracing. It also posted a cell phone self-portrait of a smiling Babeu in his underwear and another of what appears to be the shirtless sheriff in a bathroom, posted on a gay dating website. The man provided the magazine with photos of himself and Babeu and text messages between the two.
The congressional district where Babeu is seeking election runs from western Arizona through Prescott and south to take in parts of Pinal County south of Phoenix. Its voters are heavily Republican and generally very conservative." [Source]
Fortunately for Flipper, Mr. Babeu will step down from his campaign. I am quite sure that the last thing Flipper needed was the added distraction of a Gay campaign manager who is dating an -alleged- illegal immigrant. Lord knows he has his hands full with Ricky.
Labels: half staff, Paul Babeu., Whitney Houston funeral, Winans
Hooray for Gov. Christie. Field, stop calling our Governor Krispy Kreme. Show some damn respect! Our Gov is 10 times the Gov of PA and you know it.
I wish Gov Christie had run for President. His election for President would be a no-brainer.
Field, "Shout out to CNN for allowing the rest of A-merry-ca to see how you Negroes send your dead home today. You all were sure having church up in Newark, New Jersey. "
What do you FN Negroes know about 'having church in Newark' or anywhere else? Most of you are anti-God, anti-religion and anti-Christian.... Get real.
Field, Whitney's homegoing turned out really nice. It was a beautiful services. I wished they would have had an open casket, but I understand and respect the family wishes. Tyler Perry was really good, I think he is missing his calling. Kevin Costner was good too and so was the Winan brothers. I thought that they all did a wonderful job. It was a great, joyful, and lovely celebration.
Yes, it was a wonderful celebration of Whitney's life!!
Damn field, Bobby Brown hanging out with you, and eating a lot red meat.
Shit!!, talk about being fatter than a motherfucker.
You and Bobby Brown get your fat asses into the gym, field.
And, leave that red meat, bacon grease, and cornbread alone, too.
As in the movie, "this isn't about you". The family sent off their loved one with the decorum and ritual their faith calls for.
Nice to watch...and empathize with their loss.
Sometimes, a Governor has to be an adult. He was correct to have the flags at half-staff.
What is in the water in AZ? Brewer wags her finger at Obama (sitting US President) as if she was Queen O' BFE and he is a Pullman Porter. Arpaio faces numerous Federal charges...and this Sheriff.
The GOP just needs to come out of the closet and they would be alot nicer.
Christie went out of his way to deprive gays of their civil rights but he insisted flags fly at half mass for a black drug addict. Yeah, that makes up for things just like if the Gov of Mississippi demanded flags be flown at half mass for a white woman who died through over indulgence yet worked to force blacks to sit at the back of the bus. Um, yeah.
The Purple Cow said...
Interestingly, Santorum's Communist relatives in Italy are unhappy about cousin Rick's Conservative politics.
http://tinyurl.com/7yu48wa
Apparently many of his aunts and uncles will be "turning in their graves"
As indeed they should...
"Shit!!, talk about being fatter than a motherfucker.
You and Bobby Brown get your fat asses into the gym, field."
You are being blasphemous. I stay in the gym. Willing to take bets on who has less body fat? :)
"Christie went out of his way to deprive gays of their civil rights but he insisted flags fly at half mass for a black drug addict. Yeah.."
He should have done both. But your characterization of Ms. Houston shows that you are quite ignorant and insensitive yourself.
Speaking of gym. (and I just tweeted this) You ever wonder why some women go to the gym? Like why do they even need to be there? It's like buying a brand new car off the show room floor, and then taking it to the car wash. Like WTF?
PC, I see that Levi, the SA batsman, just set the merk for fastest 20 International century.
The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. Moreover, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The official unemployment rate excludes those individuals who would like to work but have not searched for a job in the past four weeks as well as those who are working part-time but would prefer full-time work; if those people were counted among the unemployed, the unemployment rate in January 2012 would have been about 15 percent. Compounding the problem of high unemployment, the share of unemployed people looking for work for more than six months —referred to as the long-term unemployed —topped 40 percent in December 2009 for the first time since 1948, when such data began to be collected; it has remained above that level ever since.
-CBO
"Speaking of gym. (and I just tweeted this) You ever wonder why some women go to the gym? Like why do they even need to be there? It's like buying a brand new car off the show room floor, and then taking it to the car wash. Like WTF?"
Yes indeed, "Like a hot knife cuts through butter"
Mr. Rubin's assessment is right on the money! :)
and have you asked the Mrs. about these women that you've (just casually) noticed that have no need to be there at the gym?...On second thought maybe you'd better not....;)
Women go to the gym to meet men, Field.
The bigger question is knowing this, why do fine, successful, MARRIED men continue to go to the gym?
On second thought never mind, we ALL know what's going on here, lol!!
Redeye said...
CNN had the best coverage, MSNBC was trying to be the National Enquirer IMHO. Don't know what Fox did...if anything.
I don't know what's going on within the family, but I agree, Bobbie Brown should have been there.
"I don't need permission to make my own decisions. It's my perogatvie"
"Women go to the gym to meet men, Field."
"The bigger question is knowing this, why do fine, successful, MARRIED men continue to go to the gym?
On second thought never mind, we ALL know what's going on here, lol!!"
LOL! NOOOOoooooooooooooo, No Dr. Queen, I;m sorry but The Field is NOT like that He 'just casually' observed as he was trotting away on the treadmill all bored and stuff...maybe he should put on some earphones with music to distract him....noooo that may make it wors...never mind...
"The bigger question is knowing this, why do fine, successful, MARRIED men continue to go to the gym?"
She must have left him. I told my wife to get ready for 300 lbs. If you see me at the gym something went wrong and the whole time I'm on the treadmill I'll be thinking "damn, now I gotta do this shit again".
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
A man on a treadmill is DEFINITELY looking for trouble!!!
Real men looking to work out, hit the free weights. Not much cleavage hanging out and tight spandex/yoga pants there, LOL!!!!
Lawd the women on this site will get you in trouble.
Walk away, PilotX. Walk away. :)
Field, here are some brief highlights of Levi's innings, I'd never even heard of the guy before.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB3wuDrQo0U
Yes, Bobby should ave been there as well as his daughter's other siblings. We loved, loved Whitney's talents but the way Bobb Brown was treated speaks volumns and speaks about the true character and motives of those in attendance who watched security handle him and children that way and stood sliently by. Christ like? Right thing to do ? Or just an event to be seen at and inprove personal branding.
However hats off to Revs Jakes and the other guy. The media has slaughtered Bobby Brown over the years and continue to demonize him however he has been strong enough to get it together in spite of it all. Maybe if her industry father and her family didn't treat her as chattel she would be here living a greatlife with the man the public knew she loved and her beloved daughter.
I pray for Whitney's daughter to realize that she needs her father especially if she has substance issues and put her life in order by going to college to become a doctor or something but be stronger that her mother was in claimng and directing her own life.
RIP Whitney. Bobby you have been vindicated but don't stop fighting to save your daughter from what is obviously hate-filled people.
Bobby Brown is like a lot of people who grow up in the 'hood but fail to leave their 'hood like ways behind them despite becoming successful adults (of course had he been college educated too, he MAY have learned how to act in settings such as funerals).
The fact is that it was tacky as hell for him to bring more people than he knew could be comfortably accommodated at the funeral. Then again, if he had "put a ring on it" BEFORE making so damn many babies, he may not have needed 20 seats at the funeral.
Calista said...
Ms.Queen said...
You might might want to try that youself sometime instead of the laundromat, Queen, although I'd lay off the spandex.
Iron Mike said...
Bobby Brown is like a lot of people who grow up in the 'hood but fail to leave their 'hood like ways behind them despite becoming 'successful' adults
Irony alert!
The ONLY irony around here Billy Bob, is that you haven't been caught stealing internet service yet.
Then again, no one is checking for what's going on in trailer parks unless it's a Meth bust.
And while I'm at it, allow me to remind you and the lesbo stalking a$$ sniffer that neither of you will:
EVER be educated.
EVER hold a real job.
EVER have anything that resembles real life.
EVER feel equal to Blacks.
And did I mention that you'll NEVER feel equal to Blacks?
Vitali said...
You are right about that.
She is too dumb and "edumacated" to even get the "irony"
Queen, I seriously think these dudes have a crush on you.
You know Field, I get this kind of attention from White men in my real life ALL the time.
With the exception that in real life the White men are educated or fellow Scientisits, aren't lowlifes (that's probably obvious), and have careers/jobs. And they're REAL White men, not men of color Jews , pretending to be White.
Dr.Queen The Hoochie Mama Hoodrat said...
Honey you aint nuttin but a livin stereotype and I do mean a big stereotype.
Everybody knows that girl that oozes fat and grease out of her too tight clothes, uses chicken fat to grease down her fro and sounds like an idiot because she has the brain of a chicken, but goes around screamin to guys "you know you want this" and "you all just jealous" as they run away puking sideways at the sight and smell of her.
I am sure you are a "Scientisits" and know several other "scienrtisitAmagicians" in the hood. Maybe some day in your mind will become a "Dok-terer"
But anyway we all know you are a frontin ho who makes shit up to somehow feel better bouts herself. Kinda sick but there goes that stereotype again.
Dr. Manley Whiteberg said...
And they're REAL White men, not men of color Jews , pretending to be White.
Bigoted ignorance is just one of the features you possess that are not on the list of qualities looked for in medical school candidates.
You will never be a doctor.
You know Field, it's occurred to me that the reason Putz has so much time to spend posting on your site all day long is because after he failed the PE exam numerous mimes, he got his Jew boy lawyer "friend" to file a claim for disability.
Dr. Murray Marceau said...
Really? That is what occurred to you? What does failing numerous mimes have to do with it? Are you implying Jewish people hate mimes?
Maybe you ought to ask him to hook you up with that lawyer. You are going to need a source of income pretty soon.
^^^^^ I'll bet your tin trailer that I'll be a Doctor DECADES before you stop sucking my out my colon and get a life!!!
So holla' back, colon sucker!!!!!
PS- what I'd really like you'd to do is get a bracelet saying that you refuse to be treated by a Black doc so I don't have to worry about ever putting my hands on your filthy ass.
Dr. Queen
Perhaps Mr.Brown was a little intimidated by the rumors that he was not welcome and thought to bring friends in case he needed them?
A lot of people blame him for Whitney's drug use and I've no doubt they were in that together, but I believe that no one can coerce or entice you to do drugs unless you yourself want to. Also he cleaned up his act.
I'm really sorry to see that there is some parental alienation going on there. I def think his daughter should be allowed to see her father. He was there beside her throughout her growing years. Whitney loved him. That ought to be enough for the family to not alienate him. It's too sad. He and Bobbi Christina must be suffering doubly.
If Field insists on going to the gym, why not get a home gym? Treadmill, cycle, weight bench, the works and all in the comfort of your home ;)))
Intimidated or not, he should have followed instructions and not had so many guests with him. The funeral was NOT about him!
Yeah Field, why not have a home gym and avoid temptation, loll???
An maybe if Mr. Brown had arrived on time, he could have seen his daughter.
I have NO sympathy for this man.
R. Brown said...
Desertflower said...
"Perhaps Mr.Brown was a little intimidated by the rumors that he was not welcome and thought to bring friends in case he needed them?"
That's a good point, Desert. Often times when large groups of black people congregate, random outbursts mayhem and violence occur. He was just bringing a few of his 'peeps' so he would have some back up.
"If Field insists on going to the gym, why not get a home gym? Treadmill, cycle, weight bench, the works and all in the comfort of your home ;)))"
Now see...
"That's a good point, Desert. Often times when large groups of black people congregate, random outbursts mayhem and violence occur. He was just bringing a few of his 'peeps' so he would have some back up."
Do you know where the word 'vandalism' originated? I rest my case :)
BrookLyn said...
Hey Field quick question for your attorney's mind...would a woman be able to sue her health insurance provider if they cover Viagra and not birth control under sex discrimination laws?
All jokes aside, there's nothing wrong with working out at a gym as a middle aged MARRIED man, lol!!
I notice there is a click on this blog when it comes to having fun and joking around. Why is it Dr. Queen or Desert or Field or PilotX never include Anons?
Some of you FN folks are such clickish prejudiced mofos against Anons who are trying their best to be part of the FN conversation. Why can't we get any love?
"I notice there is a click on this blog when it comes to having fun and joking around. Why is it Dr. Queen or Desert or Field or PilotX never include Anons?"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~TThe word is spelled 'clique' LOL There, that enough love for you? :)
Well Dr. Queen and Desert Flower just fell under the spell. adies love the X-man. Ha!
If tolerance is wrong I don't want to be right.
Obama the "snob"?
Disparaging religions and killing senators.
Cadillac man.
The truth post.
A new low.
CNN Laughfest.
And a Christian shall lead them.
One flew over the GOP nest.
A "teachable moment", but who should teach it?
A rousing sendoff and republican skeletons are onc...
Flying pot, the firing of a racist, and crack hoes...
Take an aspirin, stick it between your legs, and c...
"The Year Of The Bible", and when in Rome.....
Breaking stereotypes. But are we still color arous...
OBL, Whitney, and the rise of American Theocracy.
"Coming Apart"
That small CPAC tent.
A new kind of work- study at Temple University.
Will the Catholic Church support his religious fre...
Hateland.
The "Southern Strategy" never gets old.
Super Bowl commercials and birthday boys.
Halftime Show.
Flipper takes Nevada, and white folks try to take ...
He is furious.
Not so exceptional.
Flipper's flop.
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The Queer Kampala International Film Festival is the first and only LGBTIQ film festival in Uganda. It offers a platform to promote the rights of LGBTIQ persons through Film Advocacy. QKIFF illuminates the diversity of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer communities by providing spaces where queer films and stories are screened, discussed and celebrated. Its goals include pushing for legal reforms through expanding the network of LGBTIQ advocates, supporters and activists who can lobby the relevant authorities and stakeholders particularly politicians. QKIFF will prevent the discrimination of the LGBTIQ community through creating awareness to the general populace about the LGBTIQ community, which is done with an aim of changing perceptions and attitudes of the general populace thus reducing stigma and discrimination against the LGBTIQ community; and promoting production of quality LGBTIQ films by providing spaces where their films can be exhibited as well recognizing and awarding the brave filmmakers who daring enough to tell the suppressed LGBTIQ stories. The festival brings together filmmakers, researchers, activists, academics, lawyers, journalists and LGBTIQ persons from around the world.
The inaugural Queer Kampala International Film Festival was held 9th – 11th, December 2016 at different venues in the country’s capital Kampala. Security measures included screening of attendees, keeping the venues secret and mobile daily. The attendants had to go to a different venue in the morning and afternoon. Venues were announced within hours to the event. Encouragingly, the LGBTIQ community, supporters and sympathizers hung in there and religiously followed us to the different venues attracting a turn up of more than 800 visitors with in a space of three days.
On 8th December 2017, the first day of the 2nd edition of the QKIFF opened in Kampala and It was a huge success, the festival sold out.
It was however raided by the police on the second day 9th December 2017 after a tip off. The Festival was later completed on 28th and 29th December 2017 but held in private spaces and with only trusted persons invited.
To learner about QueerKIFF see the Past Media Coverage links below.
Ruby Pratka
A conversation with the risk-taking organizer of the first queer film festival in Uganda.
https://news.vice.com/en_ca/article/ev5gaw/a-queer-film-festival-comes-to-uganda-where-homosexuality-is-illegal
James Michael Nichols
HuffPost Queer Voices Deputy Editor
A Queer Film Festival Is Headed To One Of The Most Anti-Queer Countries
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/uganda-queer-film-festival_us_578fb993e4b0f180da6414a2
Uganda Christian News
Bishop who says being gay is not a sin returns to defend Kampala’s 1st LGBTQ film festival
http://ugchristiannews.com/bishop-who-says-being-gay-is-not-a-sin-returns-to-defend-kampalas-1st-lgbtq-film-festival/
December 15, 2017 8:36AM EST
Uganda: Police Raid Queer Kampala Film Festival
https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/12/15/uganda-police-raid-queer-kampala-film-festival
Mamba Online
Uganda’s defiant LGBTIQ film festival completes screenings.
http://www.mambaonline.com/2018/01/02/ugandas-defiant-lgbtiq-film-festival-completes-screenings-secret/
Uganda's LGBTI film festival defiantly returns after police raid
https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/ugandas-lgbti-film-festival-defiantly-returns-after-police-raid/#gs.QotVI0A
10 Countries Where Art Was Censored in 2017
https://hyperallergic.com/419184/art-censorship-2017/
Jury Awards:
Best Narrative Short
Best Documentary Short
Best Ugandan Film
Best East African Film
Best Foreign Film
Audience Choice Awards:
Best LGBTQ Themed film of the Year
Queer Kampala International Film Festival (QueerKiff) will only consider LGBTQ content.
To be considered: pay the required fee, then send a link and password to an online screener to info@queerkiff.com
You must have the authority to submit the film for Queerkiff consideration.
You must have obtained all the necessary rights (including music rights), consents, authorizations and licenses covering the film.
If accepted, an exhibition copy will be accepted in blu-ray format. Disks must be received by no later than 1 Dec 2018. Stills, trailers, synopsis, promo material will be requested upon approval. All notifications will come via email.
Amy Baklini
So honored to have our film be a part of such a fantastic festival. Thank you for including us :)
Katsuhide Yamago
Thanks for all your hospitality. It was very warm feel comfortable.
Daniele De Muro
Honoured to have my music video "A House by the sea" at this beautiful Festival. I hope to submit a new project next year.
Judith Westermann
It was a great honor to be part of this wonderful festival. Thank you so much to the organizers! I highly recommend submitting to this very important festival and please also consider supporting its on-going crowdfunding campaign!
Laurie Mannessier
A very brave and essential film festival we were very proud to be part of. This team is gold and they're fighting like lions, for their rights, that are also ours, and for our films.
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Ranja Koverola at the pizza oven at Pizzeria Sotto il Ponte under the Hakaniemi Bridge in Helsinki on November 16 2013. Picture: Roy Bäckström
Restaurant Day is a delight for someone like me, who has a deep, abiding love for food, especially cultural food; it’s an event I have been dying to attend since moving to Finland!
In November last year, at pop-up restaurants scattered about Helsinki, there was everything I could imagine. Pad Thai? Yep. Spicy egg rolls? Yes, they had those too. Plenty of hot drinks for a cold day? No problem.
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But here’s the bad news: next Saturday’s food carnival will in the future be arranged once a year only, instead of the four fixed dates.
And here’s the good news: you could now technically munch on those spicy egg rolls daily, as the founders behind the event encourage people to arrange pop-up restaurants as often they want. “While the international food carnival is a great event, it no longer serves the original purpose of Restaurant Day. We wanted to show people that a pop-up restaurant can be opened anywhere and anytime,” Timo Santala, one of the founders of Restaurant Day, says in a bulletin.
A lady serving Pad Thai, the stir-fried rice noodle dish in Helsinki on November 21 2015. Picture: Ashley Tukiainen for Finland Today
According to Santala, an enormous amount of pop-up restaurants are opened worldwide four times a year, but only a handful outside those days.
This will now hopefully change.
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“Restaurant Day has never asked – or gotten – any kind of special permits or exceptions to regulations. All pop-up restaurants participating in Restaurant Day can be realized on any given day. Therefore, from now on, every day is Restaurant Day,” Santala says.
But because Restaurant Day is also celebrated as a global food carnival, the annual birthday, the third Saturday of May, will still turn into the big shared food feasting filling streets, parks and homes with pop-up restaurants and their customers.
Sweetie Pies! restaurant served North American pies and cakes in Helsinki on May 19 2015. Picture: Tuomas Sarparanta
The first Restaurant Day was celebrated on May 21st 2011 and the food carnival quickly grew up to be the biggest food event in the world. Within five years, 26,600 pop-up restaurants have been opened in 75 different countries and food has been served to approximately 3 million people. “A living city is alive each and every day of the year, not only on special occasions or theme days. We believe that if we have the courage to make our craziest ideas and wildest dreams come true each and every day, our society becomes better”, says Antti Tuomola, another Restaurant Day co-founder.
For the first five years, the event has highlighted only one-day pop-up restaurants. A brand new map will be opened after Saturday, and in the future each and every food establishment, restaurant, café, bar, food truck, bicycle and wagon, not to mention shorter or longer running food and drink events, will be welcomed as part of Restaurant Day. According to the arrangers, in the future, the Restaurant Day map will feature the world’s most diverse variety of food.
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Conspicuous Trailer of the Week: SENNA documentary
On January 27, 2011 January 27, 2011 By ruthIn Flix News
I saw a tweet about Ayrton Senna’s documentary trailer being released this week and I immediately remembered how my car-enthusiast brother used to talk about him. Senna was and still is considered the greatest motor racing driver of all time… practically a Saint in his native Brazil. His sudden tragic death came on Sunday, May 1st 1994, when his car crashed into a concrete barrier at the speed of 130 MPH. He was only 34 years old.
Here’s the documentary synopsis:
Senna’s remarkable story, charting his physical and spiritual achievements on the track and off, his quest for perfection, and the mythical status he has since attained, is the subject of SENNA, a documentary feature that spans the racing legend’s years as an F1 driver, from his opening season in 1984 to his untimely death a decade later. Far more than a film for F1 fans, SENNA unfolds a remarkable story in a remarkable manner, eschewing many standard documentary techniques in favour of a more cinematic approach that makes full use of astounding footage, much of which is drawn from F1 archives and is previously unseen. – per HeyUGuys.co.uk
As I’m doing research for this post, I watched this actual BBC news clip from that sad day, the same weekend when another racer was also killed in the same circuit. Man, to say Formula 1 is a deadly sport is no hyperbole. But apparently it doesn’t stop Senna’s own nephew, Bruno Senna from following his footsteps… or tire tracks in this case.
A couple of reviews from Sundance premiere have trickled in. SlashFilm had this to say: ” Senna’s story has it all – an interesting origin, a rise to the top, a bitter rivalry, backstabbing, politics, triumph, defeat, life, death, heroes, villains, you name it and Senna lived it.”
TheFilmStage also praised the film, “Senna is a straightforward-yet-breathtaking ride whose tragedy ensures the safety of future racers and whose story will continue to inspire generations, especially those who have never heard of him in the first place.”
If they decide to make a biopic out of him, I think James Franco might be suitable to play him, don’t you think? Or maybe Andrew Garfield? Anyway, not sure when it’ll be released nationwide in the US after Sundance, but I’ll be sure to look for this on Netflix.
What do you think folks? Any F1 racing fan out there?
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I remember watching the Formula 1 race and seeing him getting into that accident. He certainly was one of the best F1 driver of his era.
I don’t remember if I saw the actual accident, but man, that must’ve been a pretty big news back in the day. He’s regarded as the best even today.
DEZMOND
the only F1 film I’ve ever watched was the one with Kip Perdue, it made me remember Kip’s name and forget the title of the film 🙂
Which one is Kip Perdue? His name sounds so familiar, he’s blond right?
he’s very much blond, my dear 🙂 http://www.hunkymalecelebs.com/kip_pardue/pictures/4.jpg
Ahah, you and your hunks, Dezzy 😀
I saw the film last Saturday at Sundance. I heard about Senna my whole life from my father, a Brazilian and a devoted fan, but I was too young to grasp who he was at the time. I can tell you personally that this movie will make a devoted fan out of anyone! Asif has done an incredible job with the film. It is an absolute MUST SEE. Even if you know nothing about F1 – even if you normally hate documentaries – even if nothing about this movie sounds interesting at all – you will love it. It’s impossible not to. There is just something magic about Senna.
As to the remark at the bottom of the post – I too thought of James Franco for Senna, but I don’t think even he could do him justice. The family, as I understand it, is extremely protective of Ayrton’s name/image and though many, many have tried, they refuse to release the rights to produce a biopic. They were even cautious and wary when Asif and his people approached them with this. Don’t think we’ll be seeing one of those any time soon.
But seriously, this is just as good. It feels like a biopic, except Senna himself is the actor.
Hi Jen, welcome to FC! Thank you for your brief review on this film, really appreciate it. I’m not into documentaries but F1 fascinates me as I grew up playing with match cars 😀 From all the clips I watched about Senna, he’s really an extraordinary person, kind of larger than life, but he’s also the best at this sport.
I totally understand that his family is protective about his image, I’d do the same if he were a relative of mine. I hope the family’s pleased with how this documentary turns out. I heard that they tried to be as truthful with it as possible.
Thanks again for the info. I’m really looking forward to this.
My liking towards Formula 1 has dwindled a bit over the last few years but Ayrton Senna was an incredible driver and I remember distinctly watching the race when he crashed and died. It was a very sad moment. I’m definitely looking forward to seeing this.
Yeah, just watching the clips as I wrote this post saddens me. With these motor racers, their lives are always on the line… but still, 34 is just far too young 😦
Surprising post on an F1 driver, and the greatest one at that, it’s about time someone has done a documentary or something on his life. Top Gear Series 15, episode 5, Mr. Clarkson gives a touching memorial at the end of show on Senna.
Oh I should check that out, hopefully it’s on Youtube. I like Top Gear, fun show!
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Fall Exhibitions Opening Party
Join us for a party to celebrate a new season of exhibitions, including:
The Way She Looks: A History of Female Gazes in African Portraiture
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Lucy Lu: Da Pi Yuan
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Drawn from the extraordinary holdings of The Walther Collection, The Way She Looks revisits the history of African photographic portraiture through the perspectives of women, both as sitters and photographers. Spanning the beginnings of colonial photography on the continent to the present day, the exhibition features contemporary works by female artists, including Yto Barrada, Jodi Bieber, Lebohang Kganye, Zanele Muholi, Grace Ndiritu, and Nontsikelelo “Lolo” Veleko alongside 1950s studio portraits by such important historical figures as Malick Sidibé and Seydou Keïta, and nineteenth-century prints, cartes de visite, postcards, and albums.
Toronto-based artist Syrus Marcus Ware imagines a world where racialized people have survived the “Black death spectacle” writ large on the nightly news; survived the catastrophic impact of the Anthropocene; and survived the crushing effects of white supremacy. Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art and the RIC, the artist draws on the shared language of speculative fiction and political activism to transform the Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall into a portal through which the next generation of racialized activists communicate with us, their ancestors, and offer us insights into the future.
In Da Pi Yuan, artist Lucy Lu explores the complexities of growing up with a mixed identity. Returning to her childhood home in Xi’an, China, to the gated apartment community where her grandparents still live, Lu documents the places and people that have remained vivid in her memories in order to understand what it means to be Chinese-Canadian. Through images and words, Da Pi Yuan examines notions of home, belonging, and the fragmented nature of memory.
Image: S. J. Moodley, [Two women wearing Western attire], 1981 (printed 2016), inkjet print. Courtesy of The Walther Collection
Ryerson Image Centre 33 Gould Street
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Lyall Mews West
Lyall Street, London, Westminster
Lyall Mews West is a cobbled cul-de-sac, approached through its own arch on Lyall Street in Westminster, opposite Lyall Mews, another original/ surviving Mews. There are 6 properties in the Mews, used for residential purposes.
Between October 1940 and June 1941, a high explosive bomb is recorded falling directly onto Lyall Mews West, meaning the buildings had to be rebuilt and therefore belie any equestrian usage in the past. The area was noted as being fairly comfortable with good, ordinary household earnings when the London Poverty Maps were first published.
The Mews is part of Westminster City Council’s Belgravia Conservation Area; first designated in 1968, it was laid out as a fashionable residential area to the west of Buckingham Palace. There is a high degree of townscape uniformity and a formal layout based on a grid pattern. The area is predominantly residential with some shops on the edges. There are also a significant number of embassies, diplomatic buildings and institutional headquarters.
The Mews has two storey, painted and rendered brickwork buildings with roofs hidden behind parapet walls. The buildings are surrounded by a cobbled road surface and parking is restricted. There are both intact and converted garages present in the Mews.
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The original purpose of the Mews was to provide stable/ coach house accommodation to the main houses in the surrounding area. Nowadays, the function of the properties is mainly residential.
A few planning applications have been made since 2003 for alterations to properties, namely; roof extensions and changes to the fenestration. Conservation Area controls now apply to new development in the Mews.
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Home » In the Heart of Africa
CHAPTER XIV. Startling disclosures - The last hope seems gone - The Bari chief's advice - Hoping for the best - Ho for Central Africa!
We were to start upon the following Monday. Mahommed had paid me a visit, assuring me of his devotion, and begging me to have my baggage in marching order, as he would send me fifty porters on Monday, and we would move off in company. At the very moment that he thus professed, he was coolly deceiving me. He had arranged to start without me on Saturday, while he was proposing to march together on Monday. This I did not know at the time.
One morning I had returned to the tent after having, as usual, inspected the transport animals, when I observed Mrs. Baker looking extraordinarily pale, and immediately upon my arrival she gave orders for the presence of the vakeel (headman). There was something in her manner so different from her usual calm, that I was utterly bewildered when I heard her question the vakeel, whether the men were willing to march. "Perfectly ready," was the reply. "Then order them to strike the tent and load the animals; we start this moment."
The man appeared confused, but not more so than I. Something was evidently on foot, but what I could not conjecture. The vakeel wavered, and to my astonishment I heard the accusation made against him that during the night the whole of the escort had mutinously conspired to desert me, with my arms and ammunition that were in their hands, and to fire simultaneously at me should I attempt to disarm them. At first this charge was indignantly denied, until the boy Saat manfully stepped forward and declared that the conspiracy was entered into by the whole of the escort, and that both he and Richarn, knowing that mutiny was intended, had listened purposely to the conversation during the night; at daybreak the boy reported the fact to his mistress. Mutiny, robbery, and murder were thus deliberately determined.
I immediately ordered an angarep (travelling bedstead) to be placed outside the tent under a large tree. Upon this I laid five double-barrelled guns loaded with buckshot, a revolver, and a naked sabre as sharp as a razor. A sixth rifle I kept in my hands while I sat upon the angarep, with Richarn and Saat both with double- barrelled guns behind me. Formerly I had supplied each of my men with a piece of mackintosh waterproof to be tied over the locks of their guns during the march. I now ordered the drum to be beaten, and all the men to form in line in marching order, with their locks TIED UP IN THE WATERPROOF. I requested Mrs. Baker to stand behind me and point out any man who should attempt to uncover his locks when I should give the order to lay down their arms. The act of uncovering the locks would prove his intention, in which event I intended to shoot him immediately and take my chance with the rest of the conspirators.
I had quite determined that these scoundrels should not rob me of my own arms and ammunition, if I could prevent it.
The drum beat, and the vakeel himself went into the men's quarters and endeavored to prevail upon them to answer the call. At length fifteen assembled in line; the others were nowhere to be found. The locks of the arms were secured by mackintosh as ordered. It was thus impossible for any man to fire at me until he should have released his locks.
Upon assembling in line I ordered them immediately to lay down their arms. This, with insolent looks of defiance, they refused to do. "Down with your guns thus moment," I shouted, "sons of dogs!" And at the sharp click of the locks, as I quickly cocked the rifle that I held in my hands, the cowardly mutineers widened their line and wavered. Some retreated a few paces to the rear; others sat down and laid their guns on the ground, while the remainder slowly dispersed, and sat in twos or singly, under the various trees about eighty paces distant. Taking advantage of their indecision, I immediately rose and ordered my vakeel and Richarn to disarm them as they were thus scattered. Foreseeing that the time had arrived for actual physical force, the cowards capitulated, agreeing to give up their arms and ammunition if I would give them their written discharge. I disarmed them immediately, and the vakeel having written a discharge for the fifteen men present, I wrote upon each paper the word "mutineer" above my signature. None of them being able to read, and this being written in English, they unconsciously carried the evidence of their own guilt, which I resolved to punish should I ever find them on my return to Khartoum.
Thus disarmed, they immediately joined other of the traders' parties. These fifteen men were the "Jalyns" of my party, the remainder being Dongolowas - all Arabs of the Nile, north of Khartoum. The Dongolowas had not appeared when summoned by the drum, and my vakeel being of their nation, I impressed upon him his responsibility for the mutiny, and that he would end his days in prison at Khartoum should my expedition fail.
The boy Saat and Richarn now assured me that the men had intended to fire at me, but that they were frightened at seeing us thus prepared, but that I must not expect one man of the Dongolowas to be any more faithful than the Jalyns. I ordered the vakeel to hunt up the men and to bring me their guns, threatening that if they refused I would shoot any man that I found with one of my guns in his hands.
There was no time for mild measures. I had only Saat (a mere child) and Richarn upon whom I could depend; and I resolved with them alone to accompany Mahommed's people to the interior, and to trust to good fortune for a chance of proceeding.
I was feverish and ill with worry and anxiety, and I was lying down upon my mat when I suddenly heard guns firing in all directions, drums beating, and the customary signs of either an arrival or departure of a trading party. Presently a messenger arrived from Koorshid Aga, the Circassian, to announce the departure of Mahommed's party without me, and my vakeel appeared with a message from the same people, that if I followed on their road (my proposed route) they would fire upon me and my party, as they would allow no English spies in their country.
My last hope seemed gone. No expedition had ever been more carefully planned; everything had been well arranged to insure success. My transport animals were in good condition, their saddles and pads had been made under my own inspection, my arms, ammunition, and supplies were abundant, and I was ready to march at five minutes' notice to any part of Africa; but the expedition, so costly and so carefully organized, was completely ruined by the very people whom I had engaged to protect it. They had not only deserted, but they had conspired to murder. There was no law in these wild regions but brute force; human life was of no value; murder was a pastime, as the murderer could escape all punishment. Mr. Petherick's vakeel had just been shot dead by one of his own men, and such events were too common to create much attention. We were utterly helpless, the whole of the people against us, and openly threatening. For myself personally I had no anxiety; but the fact of Mrs. Baker's being with me was my greatest care. I dared not think of her position in the event of my death among such savages as those around her. These thoughts were shared by her; but she, knowing that I had resolved to succeed, never once hinted an advice for retreat.
Richarn was as faithful as Saat, and I accordingly confided in him my resolution to leave all my baggage in charge of a friendly chief of the Baris at Gondokoro, and to take two fast dromedaries for him and Saat, and two horses for Mrs. Baker and myself, and to make a push through the hostile tribe for three days, to arrive among friendly people at "Moir," from which place I trusted to fortune. I arranged that the dromedaries should carry a few beads, ammunition, and the astronomical instruments.
Richarn said the idea was very mad; that the natives would do nothing for beads; that he had had great experience on the White Nile when with a former master, and that the natives would do nothing without receiving cows as payment; that it was of no use to be good to them, as they had no respect for any virtue but "force;" that we should most likely be murdered; but that if I ordered him to go, he was ready to obey.
I was delighted with Richarn's rough and frank fidelity. Ordering the horses to be brought, I carefully pared their feet. Their hard flinty hoofs, that had never felt a shoe, were in excellent order for a gallop, if necessary. All being ready, I sent for the chief of Gondokoro. Meanwhile a Bari boy arrived, sent by Koorshid Aga, to act as my interpreter.
The Bari chief was, as usual, smeared all over with red ochre and fat, and had the shell of a small land tortoise suspended to his elbow as an ornament. I proposed to him my plan of riding quickly through the Bari tribe to Moir. He replied, "Impossible! If I were to beat the great nogaras (drums), and call my people together to explain who you are, they would not hurt you; but there are many petty chiefs who do not obey me, and their people would certainly attack you when crossing some swollen torrent, and what could you do with only a man and a boy?"
His reply to my question concerning the value of beads corroborated Richarn's statement: nothing could be purchased for anything but cattle. The traders had commenced the system of stealing herds of cattle from one tribe to barter with the next neighbor; thus the entire country was in anarchy and confusion, and beads were of no value. My plan for a dash through the country was impracticable.
I therefore called my vakeel, and threatened him with the gravest punishment on my return to Khartoum. I wrote to Sir R. Colquhoun, H.M. Consul-General for Egypt, which letter I sent by one of the return boats, and I explained to my vakeel that the complaint to the British authorities would end in his imprisonment, and that in case of my death through violence he would assuredly be hanged. After frightening him thoroughly, I suggested that he should induce some of the mutineers, who were Dongolowas (his own tribe), many of whom were his relatives, to accompany me, in which case I would forgive them their past misconduct.
In the course of the afternoon he returned with the news that he had arranged with seventeen of the men, but that they refused to march toward the south, and would accompany me to the east if I wished to explore that part of the country. Their plea for refusing a southern route was the hostility of the Bari tribe. They also proposed a condition, that I should "LEAVE ALL MY TRANSPORT ANIMALS AND BAGGAGE BEHIND ME." To this insane request, which completely nullified their offer to start, I only replied by vowing vengeance against the vakeel.
The time was passed by the men in vociferously quarrelling among themselves during the day and in close conference with the vakeel during the night, the substance of which was reported on the following morning by the faithful Saat. The boy recounted their plot. They agreed to march to the east, with the intention of deserting me at the station of a trader named Chenooda, seven days' march from Gondokoro, in the Latooka country, whose men were, like themselves, Dongolowas; they had conspired to mutiny at that place and to desert to the slave-hunting party with my arms and ammunition, and to shoot me should I attempt to disarm them. They also threatened to shoot my vakeel, who now, through fear of punishment at Khartoum, exerted his influence to induce them to start. Altogether it was a pleasant state of things.
I was determined at all hazards to start from Gondokoro for the interior. From long experience with natives of wild countries I did not despair of obtaining an influence over my men, however bad, could I once quit Gondokoro and lead them among the wild and generally hostile tribes of the country. They would then be separated from the contagion of the slave-hunting parties, and would feel themselves dependent upon me for guidance. Accordingly I professed to believe in their promises to accompany me to the east, although I knew of their conspiracy; and I trusted that by tact and good management I should eventually thwart all their plans, and, although forced out of my intended course, should be able to alter my route and to work round from the east to my original plan of operations south. The interpreter given by Koorshid Aga had absconded; this was a great loss, as I had no means of communication with the natives except by casually engaging a Bari in the employment of the traders, to whom I was obliged to pay exorbitantly in copper bracelets for a few minutes' conversation.
A party of Koorshid's people had just arrived with ivory from the Latooka country, bringing with them a number of that tribe as porters. They were to return shortly, but they not only refused to allow me to accompany them, but they declared their intention of forcibly repelling me, should I attempt to advance by their route. This was a good excuse for my men, who once more refused to proceed. By pressure upon the vakeel they again yielded, but on condition that I would take one of the mutineers named "Bellaal," who wished to join them, but whose offer I had refused, as he had been a notorious ringleader in every mutiny. It was a sine qua non that he was to go; and knowing the character of the man, I felt convinced that it had been arranged that he should head the mutiny conspired to be enacted upon our arrival at Chenooda's camp in the Latooka country.
The plan that I had arranged was to leave all the baggage not indispensable with Koorshid Aga at Gondokoro, who would return it to Khartoum. I intended to wait until Koorshid's party should march, when I resolved to follow them, as I did not believe they would dare to oppose me by force, their master himself being friendly. I considered their threats as mere idle boasting to frighten me from an attempt to follow them; but there was another more serious cause of danger to be apprehended.
On the route between Gondokoro and Latooka there was a powerful tribe among the mountains of Ellyria. The chief of that tribe (Legge) had formerly massacred a hundred and twenty of a trader's party. He was an ally of Koorshid's people, who declared that they would raise the tribe against me, which would end in the defeat or massacre of my party. There was a difficult pass through the mountains of Ellyria which it would be impossible to force; thus my small party of seventeen men would be helpless. It would be merely necessary for the traders to request the chief of Ellyria to attack my party to insure its destruction, as the plunder of the baggage would be an ample reward.
There was no time for deliberation. Both the present and the future looked as gloomy as could be imagined; but I had always expected extraordinary difficulties, and they were, if possible, to be surmounted. It was useless to speculate upon chances. There was no hope of success in inaction, and the only resource was to drive through all obstacles without calculating the risk.
The day arrived for the departure of Koorshid's people. They commenced firing their usual signals, the drums beat, the Turkish ensign led the way, and they marched at 2 o'clock P.M., sending a polite message "DARING" me to follow them.
I immediately ordered the tent to be struck, the luggage to be arranged, the animals to be collected, and everything to be ready for the march. Richarn and Saat were in high spirits; even my unwilling men were obliged to work, and by 7 P.M. we were all ready.
We had neither guide nor interpreter. Not one native was procurable, all being under the influence of the traders, who had determined to render our advance utterly impossible by preventing the natives from assisting us. All had been threatened, and we, perfectly helpless, commenced the desperate journey in darkness about an hour after sunset.
"Where shall we go?" said the men, just as the order was given to start. "Who can travel without a guide? No one knows the road." The moon was up, and the mountain of Belignan was distinctly visible about nine miles distant. Knowing that the route lay on the east side of that mountain, I led the way, Mrs. Baker riding by my side, and the British flag following close behind us as a guide for the caravan of heavily laden camels and donkeys. And thus we started on our march into Central Africa on the 26th of March, 1863.
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Will Atlantis outshine SG1 Season Eight?
Thread: Will Atlantis outshine SG1 Season Eight?
May 26th, 2004, 10:21 PM #1
Chief Master Sergeant
Is anybody else thinking/concered that Atlantis season one will outshine/outdo SG1 season eight? I can't help but think that it will, judging by what I've read and the new pics from "Rising". It seems like all the creators efforts are going into Atlantis. I've also seen it happen before with a spin-off show in the case of Buffy and Angel. Angel's season 3 and season 4, were much better then Buffy's season 6 & 7.
Mr Prophet
Re: Will Atlantis outshine SG1 Season Eight?
Originally Posted by Jonas
Angel's season 3 and season 4, were much better then Buffy's season 6 & 7.
You want to step outside for a minute?
I mean, seriously; 3/6 I'll maybe give you, but Season 7 made Season 4 of Angel look mimsy. Even when a power-that-was walked the streets of LA, Angel's still felt like the 'also-ran' apocalypse.
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Although i enjoyed Angel's seasons 3/4, I think Buffy's seasons 6/7 was generally still always better than Angel, although Angel did have more dramatic scenes which i thought were much better. I think Season 8 of Stargate will not be outshined by Atlantis.
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Buffy 7 was great, but come on! Season 6 sucked. The baddies were three geeks! Thats aawful!
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On the one hand, you don't want Atlantis completely outshining season eight, as SG-1 rating would probably suffer because of it.
However, on the other hand you don't want season 8 outshining Atlantis, as then people wouldn't watch Atlantis and the show would crash and burn, which we don't want to happen.
So they'll probably be around equal, maybe Atlantis slightly better as it's getting off the ground and more attention is devoted to it.
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ShadowMaat
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Atlantis vs. SG-1
I think that Atlantis is hobbled from the start. I don't think it stands a prayer of "outshining" SG-1... unless S8 is so appallingly bad that it drives fans away. Of course, if people hate S8 it's a question mark whether or not they'll like Atlantis since the same writers will be pulling the same stupid stunts on both shows.
Atlantis will probably be treated like the ugly red-headed stepchild, especially if SG-1 goes on for another season.
Failing that, I think the writers have pretty much proven they're out of ideas, so starting off a whole "new" show when you've forgotten how to write quality stories, well... It ain't gonna be pretty.
I hope against hope that Atlantis will be allowed to thrive, but after the frustrations of S6 and the near-constant disappointments of S7, I don't think there's much hope of that.
Gods forbid they should actually hire new writers to help...
Nox Envoy
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Hopefully both series will thrive,but I tend to share some of Shadow's views about the potential of staleness from the writing/production teams.
Good Luck to both Shows,anyway.
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I found Season 6 of Buffy - like Season 4 - to be better on a second viewing. Season 6 of Stargate held up well enough on DVD; except for Full Circle, which just gets worse.
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It is up to the writers and producers, and the chemistry between the actors.
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Jelmer
I doubt very much that "all the creators efforts are going into Atlantis", I do think though that there's a bit of extra effort going into Atlantis - which is only logical as Atlantis is a whole new series with new characters, while SG-1 has 7 seasons of fleshing out behind it and doesn't need much more than a road map and new scripts.
I also think it's impossible to compare the first season of a new series to the 8th (!!!) of an existing series. The first season is always partially finding its feet and almost always involves a bit of stumbling (think of "Emancipition" from SG-1's first season), but at the same time it's all new and exciting. While an 8th season is stable in its characters, storylines and such, but also gets a bit "boring" because it's lost its newness. That last part takes a lot to overcome, but even if they don't entirely overcome it they still make very enjoyable episodes. I personnally found the whole of season 7 very enjoyable, the problem was that some episodes felt a bit done-before ("Revisions" for example) and I was hoping for more episodes about the bigger Goa'uld/Anubis storyline.
So no I'm not worried, if they manage to make season 1 of Atlantis better than season 8 of SG-1 I think that's a good sign for the future of Atlantis - but I still think it's uncomparable.
Wass
Well I think both series will do well because SG-1 already has a big following, Atlantis looks very good from what I have read and seen. Specially the new wraith pic on gateworld. I think it would be unfair to suggest that TPTB are putting all the effort into Atlantis and in doing so ignoring the SG-1, of course they want Atlantis to be successful so they will put extra work into it but that does not mean they won’t put any “creators efforts” into SG-1.
Overall I think both series should be judged on there on merit rather then comparing it each other or any other series. To answer the original question I don’t think Atlantis will out shine SG-1 or the other way round.
I don't think Atlantis will 'overtake' Stargate straight away, I think the first season will have to be constructed very well in order for this to happen
However, I do think that Atlantis will get some great ratings
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Off the topic a little...First, I think that they will be about the same...but they are quite different...S8 is going to be a another part in an ongoing story, which I liked S8 overall, where Atlantis has to not only suffer the "get off your feet" of a new show but even the needed basic explanation stuff of a new show...they will touch on basic gate stuff and basic...this is our new galaxy stuff...it will get better and eventually kind of run itself...I think that people are being too hard on SG-1...I think alot of what made S7 feel a little odd is that they didnt plan for it...They thought that S6 was it and then...oh, we got another season okay what do we do...this year will be better because they did have an idea that it was coming...and the off topic part....I think or hope that they do more "discovery of the past stuff"...I really liked the one where Daniel finds the fossils of old snakes...finding out the history of the Goa'ulds rise to power might be cool and I hope that they do it...anyway just rambling because I dont want to get back to work
petzke_42
Cle Elum, WA
Everybody should tune into both. Just because.
"When all else fails, there's always delusion." - Conan O'Brien
Id be more concerned with Atlantis being a flop, Like Highlander the raven.
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Probie
Think about it, the bulk of people watching Atlantis will be people that already like SG-1. I think that people won't decide over which is better and just watch both.
I agree, the majority of SG-1 viewers will probably watch Atlantis as well. Although i do think SG-1's cast members do look and act better than the Atlantis cast (i've seen some of the Atlantis cast in some other movies/tv)...
I can't wait for both shows to premiere this July.
the_fours
weston-s-mare, england
atlantis is new and fresh so im kinda hoping it does outshine s8, sg-1 is closing down (i think its hard to tell sometimes) so i think if atlantis hits the audience with the right impact there wont be a problem
sshspooky
2 points here.
firstly, i wouldn't be surprised if Atlantis outshines SG-1 this eyar due to all the new stuff, new enemies, new everything that will be introduced, and that newness will be what puts it on top. however, SG-1 will still be great and i think it's gonna be an exiting year, but you just can't say that you are more excited for SG-1s 8th season of the same format great quality episodes, then for something totally new and interesting.
second, on the Buffy 6/7 V Angel 3/4, i don't think you can compare them as they are totally different. Angel was great because seasons 3 and 4 of Angel told an epic story that brought the whole series and everything that had happened together, while Buffy 6 and 7 was good because season 6 was griity, and different, with the big bad being life itself and living in this world, while season 7 was buffy back to it's roots, with a high school, load of potentials, Dawn becoming likeable and a vampire with a soul around. They are both great for different reasons and they were both on a high.
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Jaguar Cars (inc. SS)
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Catshed
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1 of 36 Tue 22nd Jan 2013 8:59pm
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Here's my grandfather's 'SS' Jaguar in the Forest of Dean, don't ask me what the exact model is though. They originated in Holbrooks and derived from the Swallow Sidecar company.
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NeilsYard
2 of 36 Thu 24th Jan 2013 11:27pm
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I lost my dad ten years ago but always remember him telling me about when he was small during the war him being terrified of the SS1/nee Jaguar that was parked in the rear entry of the house they were living at the time in Grangemouth Road.
3 of 36 Fri 25th Jan 2013 11:23am
I believe Jaguar dropped the 'SS' tag after the war for obvious reasons.
4 of 36 Fri 25th Jan 2013 5:39pm
This was my dad's Jaguar, I think it's a Mk I but am not sure, I remember he turned the ignition on but let me press the starter on the dashboard. I can still smell the insides now and he sold it for £70 as the clutch went on it.
PhilipInCoventry
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Hi Catshed I feel your vibes on that. I let my Wolseley 6/80 go for a song, simply because I was saving for a house. The car did about eighteen gallons to the mile (it might have been the other way around). I hope you like the Jaguar in Ted & Jean's driveway on our railway.
On 25th Jan 2013 5:39pm, Catshed said: This was my dad's Jaguar, I think it's a Mk I but am not sure
Hi Catshed, You are right it is a Mk1.
7 of 36 Sat 26th Jan 2013 4:10pm
Thanks for identifying it Meerkat, and Philip, in my photo of the Jag, the garage it's facing had those very same shape of windows as the one in your layout.
8 of 36 Tue 5th Mar 2013 12:45pm
There's editions of the "last few examples" of certain marques at Gaydon, Dutchman. They'll certainly fetch bigger money, though the early S1/S2 E-types were prettier and fetch bigger bucks. S1 E-Type reg. 9600 HP is the earliest surviving E and was restored a few years ago. Here it is at the '61 Geneva Press launch as it went on to be used as the official Press test car. Think of a number and add zeros as to its worth now.
Steve Morley
9 of 36 Tue 12th Mar 2013 12:34am
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Seeing the picture of the Fixed Head E-type reminds me that if you worked at Jaguar and could drive, then when we had a fire drill, you were expected to drive an E-type from the factory out onto Browns Lane. When there was a fire drill there would be a line of unregistered E-types that went all the way down the hill from the factory. Getting in and out was always a problem with the E-type. In the convertible, they unwary would have the hood hit you just above the left ear as you got in whereas in the fixed head the roof would attempt to take the top of your head off. Getting out of both variants, you had to feed your legs out first and slide your bum from the seat and over the sill before ducking out of the door opening and trying to stand up. It was rumoured that Jag never made any money on selling cars but actually made all the profit out of spares. Incidentally, the bonnet of the E-type was meant to be made out of fibreglass. However, producing them in any numbers proved impossible and so they were made out of steel. Also, the seams on the body were originally lead loaded, ie the seam was filled with molten lead and then rubbed down so that the seam was impossible to detect before painting, let alone afterwards. It still is one of the world's most beautiful cars. Jaguar's expertise in fibreglass, or GRP, led eventually to the Daimler Dart, one of the worlds ugliest cars, although I do remember selling the last Dart bodyshell on the Browns Lane site.
10 of 36 Tue 12th Mar 2013 1:52am
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Yes, I once mentioned the gaps in the bodywork to Stan Taylor who was a partner in the panel beater firm which built the body for the prototype and he explained to me that there were no gaps in the hand built original.
Hidden Roman ruin in Coventry could be revamped...(1978)
11 of 36 Sat 16th Mar 2013 7:06am
Member: Joined May 2012 Total posts:341
Please put me right on this if I have it wrong, but I was told that only 6-7 E.types went out to the showrooms when they first came out. They would be returned after a few weeks or so, and would be given a full re-spray in a different colour and new mileometer then go out again.
Always looking forward to looking at the past.
12 of 36 Wed 24th Sep 2014 4:01am
Member: Joined Aug 2014 Total posts:32
Interesting to read the previous posts I did my apprenticeship at Jaguar in the early 50s and it was a great place to work, I finished from memory in 1958 and experienced the fire that destroyed a lot of the Jag, then spent a few months in the experimental dept before doing a couple of years or so in various garages finally returning to Jaguar and the experimental dept where I remained until my departure to NZ. The only Jags I owned were 2.4L Mk 1 which I took to NZ then when we had settled down I sold it and brought a XK150 that started a life long love affair with all kinds of sport cars. I will try to find some pics if I can remember where they are.
Roger T
Torksey
13 of 36 Wed 24th Sep 2014 10:34am
Oh what a lovely thread - please keep it going and more pictures. I cannot add much to the story except that I lived just off Browns Lane (Harvey Close) and obviously saw a shedload of Jaguar E type output, seem to remember they all went out on road test down the A45 before delivery. Only other anecdote is the builders firm I worked for, W.H.Jones, was the contractor "on site" for day to day work under the works engineers dept. Our owner William Aubrey Jones was a personal friend of Sir William Lyons. One of our surveyors one day wrote off a brand new E type emerging from Jag gate a bit too smartly onto Browns Lane - hit it amidships
14 of 36 Fri 26th Sep 2014 3:52am
The Jaguar Apprentice School c1952 run by Mr (Joe) Barker To get an apprenticeship was not exceptionally hard - first was an interview and written test, if successful it was followed by a 3 month probationary period, first the Apprentice School where you were instructed in the basics of the motor car, also how to use a file, hacksaw, lathe and milling machine etc. A couple of tests were to make with a file and hacksaw a one inch square from a sheet of ¼ inch steel sheet to an accuracy of plus or minus 0.010 of an inch, another was to make a one inch cube of steel to the same degree of accuracy on the milling machine, you also spent time in the factory on the tracks, parts dept, engine assembly. All being well you then signed your life away to an indentured apprenticeship for 5 years. One day a week at the Coventry Technical College and four days at the factory.
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15 of 36 Tue 30th Sep 2014 8:26am
I have been enjoying this post and would like to submit this link to a 1961 film of car manufacture at Browns Lane. Quite nostalgic.
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The Danger of Belief
Flat Earth Community
Tom Bishop
Zetetic Council Member
Flat Earth Believer
There was a brilliantly crafted segment from the from the TV Show Friends which creates some philosophical reflections on what it means to be a skeptic and a believer, which I believe pertains directly to this subject matter. Runtime: 4m45s
Who won the argument? Was it the skeptic, or was it the believer? More importantly -- who was the skeptic and who was the believer?
« Last Edit: September 03, 2018, 04:15:59 PM by Tom Bishop »
Bobby Shafto
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdv72TaxoaafQr8WD
The Importance of Context
Right about the time I first became aware of the rise in flat earthism, I saw this clip used an illustration for an article about "reasoning with a flat earther":
http://theconversation.com/how-to-reason-with-flat-earthers-it-may-not-help-though-95160.
AllAroundTheWorld
Re: The Importance of Context
Quote from: Bobby Shafto on September 03, 2018, 04:28:21 PM
I read the same thing - a while after I joined this place.
It's interesting because in theory it's correct to say that - unless you're an astronaut - you don't know the earth is a globe. I guess you could go further and claim the astronauts are being fooled too and are really in an elaborate simulation - although the more common FE claim is they are all "in on it".
Ultimately it comes down to how do you "know" anything? What is the difference between "thinking" something and "knowing" it? Really the only difference is your own perception of how certain you are. If you say you "think" something it implies you are not certain, if you say you "know" something then you are certain.
But that means you can "know" something which isn't true - you may be absolutely certain about something but that doesn't mean you're correct.
In real life no-one goes around with the attitude that we don't really know anything and we must verify everything for ourselves. FE people may claim to, but if they did then they'd never get out of bed in the morning without testing that the floor would bear their weight - sure, it did yesterday but how do we know a load of termites haven't eaten away at it overnight? Actually they only apply this logic to FE, they have to because there is such a huge mountain of evidence backing a globe earth the only way of rationalising that we could all be mistaken is to go down the "we don't really know anything for certain" route.
For the earth to be flat thousands of years of science has to be wrong, the entire global space industry must be fraudulent, satellite TV, GPS and all kinds of other technology which relies on satellites must really work some other way. Is it possible? I guess by the strictest definition of the word it is, but you could extend that argument to pretty much anything. It's an extraordinary claim though which requires extraordinary evidence and despite being on here for a while now I've yet to see any.
Quote from: Tom Bishop on June 24, 2018, 06:50:44 PM
If you are making your claim without evidence then we can discard it without evidence.
Re: The Danger of Belief
I am not much into soaps, but that is a beauty, who won the argument ?
Well, is it about winning, or is it not about challenge your indoctrination ?
Let us say, if the theory evolution is faulty, and this nothing exploding and creating everything is wrong, then what happened ?
It is a pretty big tree going down, and we can start all over recreating everything, sound good to me !
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New info about arrest of Troy Hoffmann, accused of fatally shooting Chad Bickler
Posted 9:00 pm, December 27, 2019, by Hannah Jewell, Updated at 11:49AM, December 28, 2019
TOWN OF NORWAY -- A small, normally quiet town in Racine is reeling more than 24 hours after a man and dog were murdered in their home. The suspect turned himself in more than 50 miles away from the alleged crime.
Chad Bickler
Family members of 40-year-old Chad Bickler cannot understand why this happened.
"I wish he could go through some of the pain we're going through," said Brian Johnson, Bickler's cousin.
Racine County investigators say 40-year-old Troy Hoffmann drove to the lakeside home off W. Loomis Road on Thursday night, Dec. 26. He crashed into a car parked in the driveway and opened fire on the house. Officials say Hoffmann then forced his way into the home, fired more shots, killing Bickler and his dog, Tucker.
Other family members were able to escape the attack. Bickler's brother was there for Chad's final moments.
"He got to hold his brother one last time and tell him he loves him and gave him a kiss and then he faded away right in his arms," Johnson said.
Fatal shooting at Town of Norway home
Troy Hoffmann
Police were seen at Hoffmann's New Berlin home on Friday. After a 20-hour-long manhunt, Hoffmann was found in the Village of Hustisford. Authorities say the owner of a laundromat, who is also a member of the village board, somehow came into contact with Hoffmann -- and walked with him to the police station was Hoffmann was placed under arrest. Hoffmann was later transferred to the Dodge County Jail.
Hoffmann's car was located behind the laundromat in an alley next to homes where residents say Hoffmann is a stranger to them.
"An hour and 20 minutes away drove up here and parked next to my house. Didn't know anything about that. It's a little alarming," said Karl Greeb, who lives in Hustisford.
Bickler and Hoffmann both worked at Engineered Security Solutions in New Berlin. A spokesperson said Hoffmann's employment has been terminated. Brian Bautz, Owner and CEO of Engineered Security Solutions, Inc. issued the following statement:
"We are devastated by this senseless tragedy and are praying for our colleague and his family. He was a friend, an outstanding performer, a trusted teammate and an all-around wonderful person. He will be greatly missed. We will do everything in our power to assist law enforcement with their investigation. In the meantime, we are working to support our colleagues as we all come to terms with this unimaginable loss."
Court records show Hoffmann was recently divorced -- and he has no criminal history.
Suspect arrested in fatal Racine Co. shooting, family identifies victim: ‘Good one gone way too soon’
Manhunt underway: 1 killed, suspect identified in Racine County shooting
Topics: Chad Bickler, Racine County Sheriff's Office, Troy Hoffmann
Troy Hoffmann jailed on homicide charges after Racine County shooting prompted manhunt
Prosecutors: Troy Hoffmann faces homicide charges in shooting sparked by love triangle
Troy Hoffmann pleads not guilty to charges in fatal shooting of Chad Bickler
ID of 1999 homicide victim revealed: ‘She suffered long-term and horrific abuse’
Racine Co. Sheriff: Suspect ID’d, arrested for attempted child enticement of Burlington HS student
Idaho police say time is running out in case of missing siblings
‘She’s still out there:’ Family of Lynn Rickard, missing for more than 2 years, hires private investigator
Racine County Jane Doe Peggy Lynn Johnson-Schroeder to receive proper headstone on Dec. 18
‘He was a great mechanic:’ 1 year later, no arrests in hit-and-run that killed 61-year-old in Racine Co.
Sheriff: Man out on bond on charges tied to 6th OWI offense arrested for OWI
Grandmother of Idaho boy, 7, missing since September, praying for him and his missing sister, 17
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MK10ART
Why Does Dr. Danielle Roberts Still Have a Medical License?
Readers of Frank Report often enjoy the splendid artwork of MK10ART – but the following is a post written by her and accompanied by some of her splendid artwork.
By MK10ART
Dr. Danielle Roberts is/was a member of the Nxivm cult, serving under leader Keith Raniere. Raniere has been found guilty of multiple felonies and is awaiting sentencing in January. While a few of the top members of NXIVM have faced legal consequences for their actions, many have escaped justice. One of these escapees is Dr. Danielle Roberts.
Allison Mack will perhaps be better remembered for her work with Dr. Danielle Roberts than for her acting talents.
Roberts permanently scarred up to 150 women in their pubic regions with a hot cauterizing pen. She branded these women, without anesthesia, in a private residence in Clifton Park, N.Y.
An example of Dr. Roberts’ branding technique.
In addition to this, Dr. Roberts deceived her ‘patients’ by intentionally misleading them concerning what she was carving into their flesh. Roberts did not tell them that it was Keith Raniere and possibly Allison Mack’s initials.
Instead, a story (lie) was concocted about the brand being symbolic of the elements.
Some may argue that because the brainwashed NXIVM-DOS members, who were blackmailed by collateral, asked Dr. Danielle to scorch their flesh – nothing illegal happened. They asked and the bad doctor provided. However, a doctor is not only required to follow the law but also the ethics of their profession.
Dr. Cauterizing Pen broke several.
While Dr. Danielle Roberts may not have technically broken the law, she should still face some consequences for the pain and suffering she inflicted along with the ethical breaches she made.
Below are the American Medical Association’s principles of medical ethics. In bold are the strikes again the doctor who branded young women like cattle. My comments are in parentheses.
“Appendix C American Medical Association Principles of Medical Ethics (2001)
The medical profession has long subscribed to a body of ethical statements developed primarily for the benefit of the patient. As a member of this profession, a physician must recognize responsibility to patients first and foremost, as well as to society, to other health professionals, and to self. The following Principles adopted by the American Medical Association are not laws, but standards of conduct which define the essentials of honorable behavior for the physician.
I. A physician shall be dedicated to providing competent medical care, with compassion and respect for human dignity and rights. (Dr. Roberts acted against human dignity by engaging in harming others under false pretenses.)
II. A physician shall uphold standards of professionalism, be honest in all professional interactions, and strive to report physicians deficient in character or competence, or engaging in fraud or deception, to appropriate entities. (Dr. Roberts deceived the people she branded as well as others in regards to ESP activities – endorsing a criminal organization.)
III. A physician shall respect the law and also recognize a responsibility to seek changes in those requirements which are contrary to the best interests of the patient. (Dr. Roberts should have declined the act of branding but did not. Instead she willfully hurt others. Her blind obedience to NXIVM cult throws her own judgement into question.)
IV. A physician shall respect the rights of patients, colleagues, and other health professionals, and shall safeguard patient confidences and privacy within the constraints of the law.
V. A physician shall continue to study, apply, and advance scientific knowledge, maintain a commitment to medical education, make relevant information available to patients, colleagues, and the public, obtain consultation, and use the talents of other health professionals when indicated.
VI. A physician shall, in the provision of appropriate patient care, except in emergencies, be free to choose whom to serve, with whom to associate, and the environment in which to provide medical care.
VII. A physician shall, recognize a responsibility to participate in activities contributing to the improvement of the community and the betterment of public health. (Again Dr. Roberts participated in activities which brought down the community and adversely affected public health.)
VIII. A physician shall, while caring for a patient, regard responsibility to the patient as paramount.
IX. A physician shall support access to medical care for all people.
Dr. Danielle Roberts was a cult follower.
She was ostensibly under the influence of the neurolinguistic programming used by NXIVM leaders. Under this influence, Dr. Roberts caused harm to others. At the very least, Roberts should be required to address the programming she was under while a member of NXIVM.
If she is still a NXIVM member, her license should be taken away.
NXIVM is a criminal organization as determined by a jury in a court of law. If Dr. Roberts is still promoting ESP and other NXIVM related programs, she should no longer be allowed to practice medicine.
MK10ART – a painting of Danielle Roberts burning the Hippocratic Oath.
Bangkok Compares Lauren Salzman and Kristin Keeffe
Bangkok: Lauren Salzman Deserves to Be Forgiven
Shivani: Is Kristin Keeffe Still Caught up in Keith Raniere’s ‘organized misdirection’?
It’s clear the rule of law does not exist. Clearly. Further, the misandry of the bigoted prosecutors is evident. It’s a joke to blame KR for everything. Brainwashed lol, who isn’t. So many evil and illegal acts perpetuated by women were ignored by female prosecutors. It’s all laughable.
Whatever you can get away with and these women got away with plenty.
Capt.Crunch says:
Lesko is NOT female.
What's up Doc? says:
Is Capt, Crunch also Capt. Cautery?
AnonyMaker says:
Sounds to me like an apologist, perhaps a former NXian who has soured on the leadership but still wants to uncritically excuse what members did – including those in DOS.
Ducknoise says:
yes, or maybe a loyalist from exo/eso.
Good point, I forget they weren’t necessarily all NXians as well – though I presume the intent was to eventually recruit them, including into DOS.
“Capt.Crunch” does seem to know something about NXIVM’s inner workings, at least from following the trial, though.
Possibly also Porters’ wife.
So many lies Here.
150?? Really?
Also debunked at trail.
You people make up this crap as you go along!!!
You are as sinister as The Vanguard and Prefect.
If it wasn’t 150, it was still somewhere between dozens and around hundred, which is hardly exculpatory. Do you actually have a better number you would like to provide, or are you just going to paint Roberts as some sort of victim, even though she did what she did to people under the NXIVM belief that there are no ultimate victims?
Such petty complaining about inaccuracies that are inconsequential to the broader picture, particularly in the absence of providing any better information to the contrary, is known as “sharpshooting,” and is one of the techniques commonly used by cult apologists and propagandists. It’s arguably a variation of the logical and evidentiary fallacy of anecdotalism (and related to whataboutism, which I cited in an earlier comment), virtually the stock in trade of culty thinking, and high control groups or cults themselves:
Your Fallacy is: anecdotal
“You used a personal experience or an isolated example instead of a sound argument or compelling evidence.
It’s often much easier for people to believe someone’s testimony as opposed to understanding complex data and variation across a continuum. Quantitative scientific measures are almost always more accurate than personal perceptions and experiences, but our inclination is to believe that which is tangible to us, and/or the word of someone we trust over a more ‘abstract’ statistical reality.
Example: Jason said that that was all cool and everything, but his grandfather smoked, like, 30 cigarettes a day and lived until 97 – so don’t believe everything you read about meta analyses of methodologically sound studies showing proven causal relationships.”
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/anecdotal
When I get a bakers dozen at my local bakery, the Box Never has 150 doughnuts it!
That would be a 90% INACCURACY, which doesn’t APPEAR inconsequential, but does make for a great headline.
As Scott pointed out, Salem is alive and well in 2019!
Stick to the facts
One day they may come for you
and I’m fairly certain you would want the facts, not the 90% inaccuracies of every person’s version.
To begin with, you completely failed to answer the fundamental question:
“Do you actually have a better number you would like to provide”
And I wrote “dozens,” plural, since it’s clear she branded a significant number of women in Albany and Brooklyn, even if we don’t have an exact count.*
If you bought a big box of donuts, and found several dozen of them to be bad, wouldn’t that be a real problem, even if it was half or less?
Your evasion and illogical are typical of what is seen from followers and apologists of cults and other such groups.
The lack of ability to properly deal with facts and evidence, and to reason and evaluate, is all too common among diehard cultists – though it’s not always quite the reason people get into such groups initially. If Dr. Roberts suffers from such deficits, then she should indeed not be practicing medicine – she can do her great non-medical physical therapy type stuff or whatever she’s actually qualified for.
* Someone could try to put together a better count of Brandin’ Dani’s victims, if you’d like – and maybe even feature it as a new article, since you seem to think getting the count closer to right is an important issue.
“Roberts did not tell them that it was Keith Raniere and possibly Allison Mack’s initials.”
Excuse me but do you understand anything about this case or are you as childish as your “art”?
It was debunked fully! IT IS NOT HER INITIAL!
“Some may argue that because the brainwashed NXIVM-DOS members, who were blackmailed by collateral, asked Dr. Danielle to scorch their flesh – nothing illegal happened. ”
It’s funny you say that because you apply this for the other DOS member but ignore that for Allison it was a fact proved!
And sorry to say but there is nothing illegal (that why it’s not mentionned that much in the trial).
Sadly , it’s considered as tattoos and other body modifications…you can easily find a tattoo parlor who would be ok to legally mark you.
But you need a licence (as far as i heard) and Roberts didn’t had one so she could be punished for this.
So she is a victim, by your own word…just like Allison.
Then one question: Why the raging against the victims? AIM AT THE REAL TARGET ! Lauren was doing the NLP with her mother , Not Allison, Not Roberts…
Even if she isn’t…The oath as been broken and her licence is technically revoked in the eyes of medecine.
“NXIVM is a criminal organization as determined by a jury in a court of law.”
Wronfully i would add…While the real leader, the one that willingly did the crime like Raniere, Salzmans , potentially bronfman (but seeing how she act, i’d say she was under influence), are indeed in a crime enterprise, Others like Allison, Russell and some of the under influence (NLP, Starvation and sleep deprivation (and potentially drug as nobody talk about the powder that the starved member had to consume) should be treaten as victims.
Clifton Parker says:
Good Lord, Nicki…. Two words: Spell. Check.
Real target, Bullseye.
Fool Me Not says:
I personally would like to know if she knew what Dr Porter was doing, and failed to report that unethical behavior.
Roberts was probably not aware of what Porter was doing, or vice versa. There was a LOT of compartmentalization of information in NXIVM, as there is in any MLM scam.
Actaeon says:
It should be pointed out that Danielle Roberts is not an MD, she’s a DO. An osteopath. A little research reveals that the field of osteopathy is “controversial”. Here’s this gem from the New York University Medical center:
“What Is the Scientific Evidence for Osteopathic Manipulation?
There is little evidence as yet that osteopathic manipulation is helpful for the treatment of any medical condition.” https://web.archive.org/web/20071102155501/http://www.med.nyu.edu/patientcare/library/article.html?ChunkIID=37409#evidence
Osteopathy, evidently, was conceived in the 19th century as an “alternative” to conventional (i.e., real, science-based medicine). It involved manually manipulating joints, pretty much just an offshoot of chiropractic. It’s a relic of an earlier age when the family doctor couldn’t really do much for his patients other than lend a sympathetic ear and make them feel better, and its modern cousins are those “alternative medicines’ that rely on folk medicine and feel-good vibes. I can see how osteopathy appealed to Raniere and his ship of fools, it was right up their wacky alley.
shadowstate1958 says:
Actaeon:
Doctors joke that the Osteopath holds the Doctor’s coat while the Doctor actually examines the patient.
Even nurses look down on Osteopaths.
It’s not quite as significant as you are implying: https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ACYBGNTakehtZnuyZZeq6fkTGn5yj0Rr0A%3A1570561929676&ei=id-cXajnKI_IsQWwu4_4Bg&q=md+versus+do&oq=md+ve&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0l10.113288011.113295951..113298481…1.7..0.489.1734.0j2j2j0j2……0….1..gws-wiz…….0i71j0i273j0i131j0i67j0i10.Bmo95UH2R40
Having said that, there are quacks who are MDs and quacks who are DOs. In fact, my Amway Platinum upline joined the now defunct CieAura MLM holographic chip scam, after our common upline was kicked out of Amway.
Dr. James LaRose, a DO: https://web.archive.org/web/20120525061757/http://www.cieaura.com/medical-board.html Lucky for him, he never approached me about the new scam he joined.
An Extra 300 to 500 hours in muscular-skeletal training who tried to practice what she preaches, who put MORE countless hours into developing an exercise program all while paying for advanced education, with zero knowledge of what transpired between Jaye and India because she was busy working.
So. because she believed in meditation and yoga as a peaceful platform for healing and in exercise, she must be a BEAT DOWN, no matter what.
The fact that this brave lady still tries, should speak volumes to all of you. This COULD have happened to you or your family. Keep shutting your eyes and opening your judgemental mouths.
That sounds like the sort of rationalization that Roberts would be making.
What’s at issue here is her branding of in the ballpark of 100 people, under conditions that wouldn’t have been allowed in a tattoo parlor, and that were in violation of her Osteopathic Oath and standards of medical ethics and practice. She caused permanent harm to the bodies of people who in many cases were not fully informed about, and had not properly consented to, the procedure that they were to be subject to. That it was done outside her formal scope of practice is the only thing that prevented her medical license from being taken away immediately, but that doesn’t mean that she didn’t still misuse her position and responsibilities as a physician and does not deserve to at least be censured and disciplined.
That is a line of fallacious, culty justification along the lines of the infamous “Mussolini made the trains run on time” (which also turns out to be false), as if good things someone may have done somehow justify the bad – essentially a reversal of the guilt by association fallacy, though I can’t find a formal name for it. It’s similar to “whataboutism,” another one also typically employed by cult apologists:
“Whataboutism, also known as whataboutery, is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent’s position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument,[1][2][3] which in the United States is particularly associated with Soviet and Russian propaganda.[4][5][6] When criticisms were leveled at the Soviet Union during the Cold War, the Soviet response would often be “What about…” followed by an event in the Western world.[7][8][9] As Garry Kasparov noted, it is a word that was coined to describe the frequent use of a rhetorical diversion by Soviet apologists and dictators, who would counter changes of their oppression, “massacres, gulags, and forced deportations” by invoking American slavery, racism, lynchings, etc.[10]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Just because I said being a DO vs. an MD isn’t as bad as some make it sound doesn’t mean I’m a Roberts fanboy. I’m not. However, if she didn’t know about the collateral that caused the others to “volunteer” to have themselves cauterized for a half hour or so, I don’t see it being illegal or unethical. Here’s some people who do similar things to “fit in” with their social circles, and is something I would never do: https://www.google.com/search?q=black+men+branding+omega&sxsrf=ACYBGNR5x-pdFeJO1gklPdRj9ToEZOyLBg:1570740378005&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiKp4_yx5LlAhVJ_J4KHWpUBGEQ_AUIEigB&biw=1278&bih=729 If your beef is ONLY with the cauterizing, then get outraged about this as well.
That might have been true long ago, but no longer is – or else you’re confusing them chiropractors, homeopaths (believe it or not, there were also once homeopathic hospitals) or one of the other more obscure old pseudomedical professions.
From the Mayo Clinic:
“What kind of doctor is a D.O.? Does a D.O. have the same training as an M.D.?
A doctor of osteopathic medicine (D.O.) is a fully trained and licensed doctor who has attended and graduated from a U.S. osteopathic medical school. A doctor of medicine (M.D.) has attended and graduated from a conventional medical school.
The major difference between osteopathic and allopathic doctors is that some osteopathic doctors provide manual medicine therapies, such as spinal manipulation or massage therapy, as part of their treatment.
After medical school, both M.D.s and D.O.s must complete residency training in their chosen specialties. They must also pass the same licensing examination before they can treat people and prescribe medications.”
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/consumer-health/expert-answers/osteopathic-medicine/faq-20058168
Shadowstate,
That’s good one!
These days osteopaths are being trained in the standard essentials of primary care, including obstetrics and even general (minor) surgery, so they are considered physicians and granted licenses to practice medicine, and are more like general practitioners or internists – for what that’s worth, it’s what Porter was. Osteopathy has essentially become a sideline to their conventional medical training, though it still puts them in a category a notch lower and thus attracts people who couldn’t quite make the grade for regular medical school, and who are probably a bit more prone to try to including pseudo-science in their practices. Osteopaths can get staff privileges at hospitals, and there are even a few osteopathic hospitals left out of what were once quite a number.
Chiropractors are still largely focused on the old and discredited pseudo-science, though they are trying to get on the primary care bandwagon so that they can bill insurance for basic office visits – plus even pushing to get unproven chiropractic treatments covered. They almost never get staff privileges at hospitals, and there once was such a thing as chiropractic hospitals but they were little more than nursing care facilities.
There’s nothing necessarily wrong with with psycho-social, complementary or holistic medical approaches when they’re evidence-based, or backed up by research. I assume we’d all agree, for instance, that doctors ought to consider and talk to patients about lifestyle when they’re suffering from conditions like obesity and heart disease, rather than just prescribing medicines for symptoms.
Anonymaker,
Don’t forget the Chiropractic pseudo “science” was started by a man who recieved his chiropractic knowledge from a supernatural spirit ghost.
Niceguy, thanks for the reminder.
He also avoided getting it completely shut down at one point, by setting it up as a religion!
It’s bizarre that things like that, and homeopathy, even still exist.
low ratings says:
Danielle Roberts was a known DOS member who had to have given collateral to have her brand. How could she not know?
She has a 2.25 rating out of 5 and several people have left comments that she was a member of a sex slave cult and branded women.
How she stays in practice is beyond me with or without a Medical License
here is the link
https://www.vitals.com/doctors/Dr_Danielle_Roberts.html
Marie White says:
I love how she captures each characters different emotional branding experience while master Raniere hangs on a frame above all the others. From Allison’s gums and her holding down the naked breasted slave, who is clearly in anguish, to the insane look of the branding Doctors eyes is a joy to look at.
Right, cause she was there, must really add to her cartoons, huh?
150? REALLY?
You really make up whatever suits you, don’t you?
Lauren’s testimony proves that.
I have read a lot of untruths HERE.
AND you bet your ass there were mega compartmentalizations. You can only know what you know at the time.
There are times medicine calls for more exercise, less drugs. And rehab is often painful and hard work. There are times it calls for painkillers and it’s a balance humans struggle with daily.
Dr. patient/ relationships matter and the belief that this wasn’t of that scope but instead was a voluntary commitment of like-minded people.
Taking her license just reinforces another Raniere win against women!
You demand her compassion, Where’s YOURS?
Oh wait, probably all used up
On Sarah, who never went through what this lady did and India who was fortunate enough to have wealth and power to rescue her with no repercussions.
I really wonder if you people have any idea how hard this woman worked? Why you want to facilitate him ruining more lives is beyond understanding. You can bet your bottom $, sleep deprivation played a huge role.
Sanction, maybe, but sounds like the 3 years of hell already endured sounds much more reasonable. , time served!!
Is this satire?
Mike Parker says:
MK10ART, you are a genius. Please keep the artwork coming. You really capture the depraved essence of these wack jobs.
Thanks for citing the Principles of Medical Ethics, which are really interesting to see juxtaposed with notes about what Roberts did.
Medical boards are rightfully hesitant to take away doctors’ licenses, given the enormous investment of resources involved in obtaining them, and the valuable services that a doctor can provide to the community – there are already too few of them. Plus of course any human group tends to have some bias towards protecting its own members.
Boards often set up remedial programs for physicians whose fitness to practice has been called into question, and that can indeed be a suitable solution for a doctor who needs some sort of additional training, or reinforcement about professional practices – and it also comes into play, for instance, in cases of substance abuse, in which they may be directed to undergo rehabilitation and demonstrate that they have resolved the problem. I’ve been peripherally involved in informally consulting on one case that involved someone who could, come to think of it, have been a NXIVM member sort of like Roberts, a hardcore competitive athlete who essentially lacked compassion in treating patients who didn’t share their own sort of suck it up and tough it out attitude, to the point of under-treating them and putting them in danger.
As much as I find Roberts’ conduct reprehensible, I can also sympathize with the board’s difficulty in judging something that appears outside her scope of professional practice. Thinking it through, I suspect that in Porter’s case, the fact that the was conducting experiments, and doing so in a setting that had more of the appearance of a professional environment, weighed against him as more clearly constituting a sort of malpractice.
What to me counts most against Roberts, is that she at least informally traded on her reputation as “doctor” to reassure people or even help lure them into the branding – there have been reports about how people felt that meant she could be trusted. Plus, the brandings were done without proper informed consent it’s hard to imagine a physician doing something like that, even outside of their practice, with fewer formalities than even a tattoo parlor would observe.
I think a case could be made that Roberts should just be subject to ethics and judgment training, and a period of oversight, so long as she demonstrates that she has come to appreciate that what she did was wrong, and has cut ties with a group that had undue influence over her.
What counts to me most about Roberts is that she informally traded on her reputation, “Have You Ever Heard of Sports Medicine ” in your lifetime? Athletes are known for sticking thier Joints, etc. , in buckets of ice! If an osteopath manipulation saves them from a life of ICE, why wouldn’t they be inclined to try it ?
Not to mention our veterans who are subjected to extreme physical rehabilitation, These doctors HELP..
Mk10Art,
Great article! I hope you write more of them. It is appalling that Roberts still has a medical license to practice medicine.
Welcome to the Salem witch hunt. I’m no fan of Roberts, but unless it can be shown she was aware of the collateral, which she very well may have been since she presumably has her own private parts cauterized with Raniere’s initials. However, her collateral may have been that she was doing the cauterizing and wasn’t aware of the others being blackmailed. Remember that NXIVM was full of compartmentalized information and the assumption that everyone knew everything from day one is not a competent assumption. Cauterizing/scarification isn’t illegal or unethical: https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130517/new-york-city/scarification-emerges-as-cutting-edge-body-art-brooklyn#slide-6 and who better than a doctor to monitor the healing and potential infections?
This is no Salem Witch Hunt.
This was a sex slave cult run by criminals, perverts and reprobates.
Notice how all of the NXIVM members are denying knowledge of what was happening in NXIVM.
A recent article in the Frank Report recounts how Allison Mack was interested in Cami’s 10-year long relationship with Raniere.
But now Allison Mack acts like she had no idea that Raniere was a pedophile.
Enough of the lies and excuses by NXIVM’s elite to cover up their criminal behavior!
This article was a Salem Witch Hunt. Even a sex slave cult run by criminals, perverts and reprobates has the right to defend themselves to each individual charge in a court of law and be proven to have broken a written law, including every single element, beyond a reasonable doubt by an unanamous jury of their peers. Try reading the Constitution before you get on your high horse.
Of course they will deny it, and it’s the DOJ’s job to prove them to be liars. We do know there was a lot of compartmentalization going on in NXIVM. Cami’s 10-year long relationship with Raniere is immaterial when it comes to Roberts cauterizing.
Would YOU like to be convicted of a felony or lose a license based on what someone else thought you knew? I am no less personally disgusted than you are regarding what NXIVM did (except for Mack, we all know you’re over the top with her), but when the law and medical licenses are at stake, evidence must prevail, or it WOULD be a Salem Witch Hunt.
“Even a sex slave cult run by criminals, perverts and reprobates has the right to defend themselves to each individual charge in a court of law ”
The gangster leaders of NXIVM were provided with a written indictment citing specific laws which were broken.
And all five of Raniere’s co-defendants made a plea deal.
Even Raniere tried to make a plea deal.
They all had the opportunity to defend themselves.
And as far as I am concerned they are all as GUILTY AS SIN.
They were not accused of witchcraft.
They were accused of real crimes.
Computer Hacking
As far as I am concerned, the US DOJ was far too lenient with these gangsters.
We don’t know whether Raniere tried to make a plea deal, that was rumor. It may or may not be true. Of course they are guilty, five plead guilty and the other was found guilty as the result of a trial, so what you think is irrelevant. We are talking about Roberts, not the NXIVM 6. The term “Salem Witch Hunt” is slang that means to declare someone guilty with little to no evidence. Sometimes you are so literal it’s hilarious. I wish the DOJ had obtained more guilty pleas as well, but they are the professional prosecutors and they wanted the guaranteed bird in the hand and not the two in the bush. That’s another figure of speech, it does not involve the literal holding of a bird in your hand or any birds in a shrub. LOL
MK10Art has produced great drawings that fully illustrate the Madness and Criminality of the whole NXIVM Gang.
I highly recommend MK10Art’s work.
I also thank MK10Art for her latest drawing of Allison Mack in prison playing with her pet rat.
I am proud that my comment last August inspired MK10Art to produce this truthful work of art.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3V_3hhHFp4/
And I would like to thank the 53 people who voted positively for this great drawing by MK10Art.
It is one of MK10Art’s most popular drawings.
And to Marcos Brabilla who panned this work of art I respond:
Allison Mack gave no respect to women when she ordered that they be branded like cattle.
Allison Mack is receiving the precise amount of respect which she deserves.
Perhaps Marcos when Allison Mack gets out of prison she should brand you and you, Marcos, would then understand the pain and suffering Allison Mack inflicted on these young women.
Now to the sadistic Dr. Danielle Roberts.
Several years ago I underwent a painful medical procedure.
At every step of the way my doctors provided me with information about the procedure and answered my questions.
They received my informed consent and took appropriate steps to alleviate any pain.
They also gave me anti-biotics to reduce the risk of infection.
These doctors were professional in every respect.
One of them is a doctor at the University of Chicago Medical School.
To me the idea of Dr. Danielle Roberts taking orders from Allison Mack, an actress with no medical training, is incomprehensible.
My procedure was medically necessary.
Dr. Roberts procedures, inflicted on unknowing patients at the directive of Allison Mack, were totally unnecessary and no efforts were made to reduce pain or the risk of infection.
Dr. Danielle Roberts engaged in unethical conduct that robbed these young women of their human dignity.
Indeed the entire process was designed to initiate these young women into a sex slave cult.
As for Dr,. Danielle Roberts my understanding is that she now practices in Long Island and occasionally visits Allison Mack’s wife Nicki Clyne in Clyne’s Brooklyn apartment.
Sounds to me like Dr. Danielle Roberts is still a part of the NXIVM cult.
How do you know you inspired the artwork? The “rat” is known to be an unknown person who made a comment on Tighe’s website.
The pain was intended to be part of the process, and I’m sure you know what Mack’s comment was regarding the cauterizing vs. a tattoo. LOL
How do you know what efforts were made to prevent/monitor infections? Have you heard a single story of any of the women getting an infection?
People have things done to their bodies all of the time that are not medically necessary.
My understanding is you also visit Clyne’s apartment hoping that Mack will be there and she keeps slamming the door in your face. See, I have just as many facts as you do, ZERO. LOL
No, not one infection BUT be careful, If you write it here, I bet they will INVENT ONE now!
We don’t need to invent anything about NXIVM, the truth is wilder than anyone’s imagination.
“How do you know you inspired the artwork? ”
In the comment quoted on the side of the drawing MK10Art quotes from an article I wrote last August.
A writer on Frankreport.com asks “At what point do we begin to regard #AllisonMack as a grown woman who made her own choices and not like a frail helpless little girl?
Keep in mind that Allison Mack had the financial resources to leave NXIVM at any time.
Allison Mack traveled all over the world.
Allison Mack always had communications access, via phone and internet, to the whole world.” https://frankreport.com/2019/08/02/allison-mack-enjoyed-torturing-women/
Allison Mack Enjoyed Torturing Women
By Shadow State
Allison Mack always had communications access, via phone and internet, to the whole world.”
https://frankreport.com/2019/08/02/allison-mack-enjoyed-torturing-women/
But I must admit Scott Johnson that you inspire me to laugh whenever I think about how dedicated you still are to Amway.
Telling me that all one needs to be successful in Amway is “self-confidence.”
Amway is a scam.
Amway is a pyramid scheme that will always be doomed to failure.
All of the confidence in the world will avail one against the simple mathematical fact that pyramid schemes, like their Ponzi scheme cousins, will eventually run out of new investors (suckers) to swindle.
How do you know she didn’t do the artwork first and then found the quote applicable? Why would that quote cause her to draw a rat, rather than the Tighe website where someone named “The Rat” made at least one comment? I know the answer, it’s your huge, out of control, ego. But it’s okay, we see right through your humble-brag. LOL
I’m dedicated to educating others that Amway and most MLMs are scams, how is that being “dedicated” to Amway?
Thanks for your usual logical fallacy. I never said all one needs to be successful in Amway is self-confidence. I said the reason most people don’t join is a lack of self-confidence. In this instance, they are the lucky ones who don’t lose time and money. It is quite rare to make money from doing Amway or most other MLMs.
I know Amway is a scam, that’s why I have two websites and have dedicated myself to educating others about Amway and other MLM scams since 2005 and have done a radio show/podcast every week for over four years. Just because you know Amway is a scam doesn’t mean enough other people know, or it would collapse. Duh. But you just illustrated AGAIN that everything is about you. LOL
Amway dooms most people who join to failure, but the owners/employees and top level distributors are doing just fine.
Your “simple mathematical fact” is also WRONG, as there are 4-5 million people turning 18 years old in the U.S. alone. Multiply that number for the worldwide figure, then estimate the first 10 years after turn 18 are the prime years to be scammed by an MLM, for a variety of reasons. The judge in the Ger-Ro-Mar case slammed the FTC prosecutors for suggesting that saturation is real, and the judge in the 1979 Amway case rejected that invalid theory again. To my knowledge, the FTC hasn’t tried that failed theory again, but I’m sure you will, because you are incapable of learning.
Your “understanding ” is as flawed as your ego. Medical necessity constituted the Dr./Patient Relationship.
From what I read, infection control WAS provided.
I’m sure your “AWARE” of the repeated yeast infections that antibiotics can cause, ESPECIALLY in women and how the Pain meds constipate everyone just like your aware a glass of wine kills brain cells, while I don’t advocate over drinking the largest difference is in our youth and the passing through the brain blood barrier if your under 21 yrs. of age.
Listen, to everything there is a Season.
What you experienced was right for you at that particular junction!
Yes, we wouldn’t want to use antibiotics after getting third degree burns, you never know when it will happen again. LOL
Local or topical anesthetics are typically used in cautery – and don’t have the downsides you mention.
The failure to use, offer, or even properly document the informed refusal of, anesthesia, is one of the most troubling aspects of Roberts’ brandings.
Shivani33 says:
There’s one well-concealed kind of pervasive reasoning amongst people who hide their ill will behind the image of the “devil” as they try to ingest and to reingest foulness. And Danielle Roberts is a member of the party. How come she gets to practice medicine now? There’s a dark web of protection, combined of deliberateness and indifference, even contempt.
Maybe we aren’t yelling loudly about this outrage. Danielle Robert’s seems to have chosen her path of toxicity. This is bound to fall. So. Why wait? Let’s get on with it. She is the opposite of a healer. Who amongst you would participate in the enforced branding of flesh ?
But Frank Parlato is here and keeps on reminding us. Call the f*cking hospital where she is employed. Write to those who choose to ignore her employment, ring them up, speak! Sitting around carping about Roberts is too permissive of an approach. It is always time to do more, to apply the strength of “free will.” Shout! Be loud. If you are so inclined. Give this Mengele gal no bushel to hide beneath. Hit the high beams. We can. Yes, by God, we can. For our children, our grandchildren and for ourselves.
Shivani:
Dr. Danielle Roberts is listed on the internet and overall has a poor reputation.
She is affiliated with the Plainview Hospital on Long Island.
“About Dr. Danielle D Roberts DO
Dr. Danielle D Roberts, DO is a doctor primarily located in Plainview, NY, with another office in Plainview, NY. She has 11 years of experience. Dr. Roberts is affiliated with Plainview Hospital. She speaks English.”
(I would think that German might be more appropriate for Fräulein Doktor Roberts.)
“The overall average patient rating of Danielle D Roberts is Poor. Danielle D Roberts has been rated by 24 patients.From those 24 patients 13 of those left a comment along with their rating.The overall rating for Danielle D Roberts is 2.25 of 5.0 stars.”
Plainview Hospital
888 Old Country Rd
Plainview , NY 11803
“Concerned Dr. Roberts not in prison.
Self-verified patient of Dr. Danielle D Roberts – Posted on May 8th, 2019
She is the proud sex cult doctor who use a cauterizing pen to brand over 150 women as part of an initiation ceremony for Nxivm.”
“She branded women!!”
“sex branding doctor…branded women’s pelvic area without anesthesia.”
Danielle D Roberts DO
Ah, so she’s not an MD. She’s an osteopath. “Alternative medicine”, also known as a witch doctor.
““Alternative medicine”, also known as a witch doctor.”
I grew up in a family with PhDs, Anesthesiologists, Nurses and Pharmacists and in the medical hierarchy Osteopaths are even lower than RNs, LPNs and ward clerks.
Some people rate Osteopaths lower than candy stripers.
Your ignorance is only preceded by your arrogance!
May you experience two frozen shoulders, a severe sinus infection and perhaps a connective tissue disorder in your old age. No worries, your family can medicate you heavily!
Arrogant idiot!
Oh and i’m sure your fantastic family must be proud of the beautiful person you are!
Village idiot is quite a nice up position ! Congratz!
Yes, I have the number of the hospital and called it today (not the first time) asked for her and was told “hold on” as the operator tried to connect. So it looks like Roberts is still there.
However, my own household has been unusually and nearly urgently busy today. I have nada to say to Roberts anyway, but did get confirmation that she was there.
Also, I’ve found that letters are more effective than phone calls and leave more of a record for officialdom, and I keep my own copies of any letters involving a protest like this.
Like she is the only doctor with that name?
So you interrupted a busy doctor so you could hang up before they answered. Bravo, with that mentality, the patients , are sure to come first.
Did you use your real name when you pretended to be a self verified patient 13 times? Oh, they dont even ask for your name, how convenient for you.
I bet that’s illegal, maybe you should ask one of those PHD’s in your family just in case.
“I bet that’s illegal, maybe you should ask one of those Ph.D.’s in your family just in case.”
It is but Shadow Don’t care… he can do anything on the web…because he is hiding in a public Library!!!
Too bad for him that eventually, all his actions will come to bite his ass.
I’m sure his vision of justice will change once it will be served to him!
In 1938, Frank MacCracken “invented” the Osteopathic Oath for the Associated College of Osteopathy, and doctors of osteopathic medicine swear to that 1938 Oath rather than to the Hippocratic Oath.
This would be a long story to go into in any detail, to offer the background motives, to elucidate the linguistic distinctions in the Osteopathic Oath, etc.
I do like the way that CRACK was the major syllabic content of Frank McCracken’s surname.
More elegant than ‘Captain Crunch” surely, ouch!
I never have availed myself of the services of the Witch Doctor Danielle Roberts.
And as a NON athlete that’s your choice! However gymnasts, pole vaulters, football, basket ball ,etc. are happy to work with physical therapist, D.O.’s and chiropractors and that is thier choice.
When you read the ingredients listed on your cereal-aisle fatass Captain Crunch box, right away you’ll see how futile it is for the Cap’t. to be able to mutter any kinetic curses whatsoever. Such cursings as were regurgitated here have all of the impact of fake intellectualism. You can see it as shrouded in a kind of mental “erectile dysfunctionality,” as yet unnoticed by the one spitting out the brief orchestral “curse” insertions. A sort of counterpoint, delivered via arrhthmia, cacaphony. The sounds are heard, even appreciated, but those sounds are made in passing; nobody stays stuck paying much attention to these additions or you will miss most of the action.
Even cacaphony has its uses and offers value as a measure of any entirety, wherein no sound is ever really lost.
Oddly enough however, people who study for hours or months or lifetime(s) find ways to restore themselves quite naturally with walks, teatime breaks at 4 in the morning or whenever it’s needed, hanging with loved ones and pets, music. It is just like keeping a fire going in the fireplace. You become your own hearth cleaner and chimney sweeper, too. It is pointless to curse work that you yourself haven’t bothered to do. And the lack of investigative fire always and inherently, invalidates itself. Swiftly and beyond any need for words. Devotees of truthfulness don’t need to argue amongst themselves. Disagreements instead are used to be supportive of mutually-held pursuits and are exploratory but rarely include the application of any brakes or stoppage.
Besides, there’s always Tiger Balm.
The more people toss curses, the more immunity to those stingy noises will arise in the “cursee.” The crabbiness, after awhile, resembles little squads of tapdancers doing their huzzah routines off somewhere in the background. Even that becomes an entertainingly brief diversion rather than a pain in the ass. There is a distinction between detachment and indifference. No one has to be indifferent, or benumbed, to be able to experience inner detachment, so far as attempted criticisms go.
The longer you study, the more amusing the accompaniment of the tapdancers becomes. Into view and out of view, as soloists or as troupes, it is soft shoe. Not as unpleasant as stomping boots, not as destructive as 21st century weapons of mass destruction, critiques are only effective if they contain some kind of attractive, genuinely responsive intelligence. Elevator muzak is an impotent, minorly interruptive and hamfisted method to deploy. It cannot derail the spontaneity, the concentration or the stubbornness of anyone’s volition.
Oh, did I say may, must have slipped, I meant IF
Must be all the good vibes flowing here. Have a melodious day!
Bullied more people lately? calm down!
While I agree that she shouldn’t get away keeping her license after what she accepted to do, you are going too far with the “Mengele” allégations…It’s Porter who did the experiments, she just accepted to brand the girls (while she was probably coerced).
Like someone pointed in a comment, she easily could brush the argument by pointing that it was done outside of her work…
Still, she has a responsibility as she is supposed to do her best to make people feel better, not to hurt them.
I see you employ your own style of cursing. Much more intelligent, Yay You.
One Night in Bangkok Makes a Hard Man Humble says:
I agree that she’s a quack, but those medical ‘ethics’ you’ve cited only apply to doctors PRACTICING MEDICINE in their capacity as doctors —- not as gals doing weird shit in their free time.
Many doctors are members of so-called cults in their free time, which many people could argue applies to every religion like Christianity, Mormonism, Islam, Wicca, etc.
All these religions have stories which defy scientific evidence, but which are believed by worshipers. Some even have practices which might defy medical ethics.
Many doctors also belong to local gangbang and sex groups.
Dr. Roberts would argue that she was asked to brand these ladies in her capacity as “Danielle” and not as “Dr. Roberts”.
*Unless those branding videos show that she was saying things which made women believe that they were under the care of a licensed doctor, then I don’t think those medical ethics will apply.
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The appalling toll in injuries and lives from Tuesday night’s attack east of Tripoli at the Tajoura Detention Centre speaks to the deep concerns, expressed repeatedly¸ by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), over the safety of people in detention centres. This latest violence also speaks to the danger both IOM and UNHCR have warned over returning migrants and refugees to Libya after their interception or rescue on the Mediterranean Sea.
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Originally created as a single-purpose test tool, modern clampmeters offer more measurement functions, greater accuracy and sometimes specialised measurement features. Today’s clamp meters include most of the basic functions of a digital multimeter, such as the ability to measure voltage, continuity and resistance.
Who uses them?
Industrial maintenance technicians
Control technicians
Electricians – in-house and contractors
Facilities, building maintenance and HVAC technicians
Service organisations
What are they used on?
Commercial/industrial HVAC
Why are Clamp meters so popular?
Safety: Clamp meters allow electricians to bypass the old-school method of cutting into a wire and inserting a meter’s test leads into the circuit to take an inline current measurement. The jaws of a clamp meter do not need to touch a conductor during a measurement.
Convenience: During measurement, it is not necessary to shut off the circuit carrying current—a large boost in efficiency.
They are primarily used for:
Service: Repair existing systems on an as-needed basis.
Installation: Troubleshooting installation problems, perform final circuit tests, and supervise apprentice electricians while installing electrical equipment.
Maintenance: Perform scheduled and preventative maintenance and system troubleshooting.
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Absolute Maximum AC Current Measurement
Absolute Maximum DC Current Measurement
Absolute Maximum AC Voltage Measurement
Absolute Maximum DC Voltage Measurement
Absolute Maximum Resistance Measurement
AC Current Measurement Resolution
DC Current Measurement Resolution
Best DC Current Accuracy
Clamp Meter Type
Best AC Current Accuracy
Best AC Voltage Accuracy
Best DC Voltage Accuracy
Best Resistance Measurement Accuracy
Maximum Conductor Size
Safety Category
Safety Category Voltage
Resistance Measurement Resolution
Safety Category Level
Temperature Measurement Resolution
AC Voltage Measurement Resolution
Absolute Maximum Temperature Measurement
Best Temperature Measurement Accuracy
Jaw Capacity Busbars
Functions Measured
DC Voltage Measurement Resolution
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BK Precision BK316 Clamp Meter, Max Current 100A ac, 100A dc CAT II 600V, CAT III 300V
Μονάδας
Κωδικός Προϊόντος RS 192-4574
Εμπορικό σήμα BK Precision
Κωδικός Κατασκευαστή BK316
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Chauvin Arnoux PAC16 Clamp Meter, Max Current 40 (60A Calibre) A ac, 400 (600A Calibre) A ac, 60 (60A Calibre) A dc,
Εμπορικό σήμα Chauvin Arnoux
Κωδικός Κατασκευαστή PAC16
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Chauvin Arnoux PAC26 Clamp Meter, Max Current 100 (150A Calibre) A ac, 1000 (1400A Calibre) A ac, 1400 (1400A Calibre)
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Megger DCM340 AC/DC Clamp Meters, Max Current 600A ac, 600A dc CAT III 600 V
Εμπορικό σήμα Megger
Κωδικός Κατασκευαστή 1000-305
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FLIR VT8 Multifunction Clamp Clamp Meters, Max Current 100A ac, 100A dc CAT III 600 V, CAT IV 300 V
Εμπορικό σήμα FLIR
Κωδικός Κατασκευαστή VT8-600
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FLIR VT8 Multifunction Clamp Clamp Meters, Max Current 200A ac, 200A dc CAT III 1000 V, CAT IV 600 V
Κωδικός Κατασκευαστή VT8-1000
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RS PRO Clamp Meter Demo Kit
Εμπορικό σήμα RS PRO
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Megger DCM310 AC/DC Clamp Meters, Max Current 400A ac CAT III 600 V
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Κωδικός Κατασκευαστή CM46
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Megger DCM1500 AC/DC Clamp Meters, Max Current 1.5kA ac, 1.5kA dc CAT IV 600 V
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Beha-Amprobe ALC-110 Leakage Current Clamp Clamp Meter, Max Current 60A ac CAT III 600 V
Εμπορικό σήμα Beha-Amprobe
Κωδικός Κατασκευαστή ALC-110-EUR
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Beha-Amprobe AMP-25-EUR Current Clamp Clamp Meter, Max Current 300A ac, 300A dc CAT III 600 V
Κωδικός Κατασκευαστή AMP-25-EUR
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Fluke 376 FC AC/DC Clamp Meter Bundle, Max Current 1kA ac, 1kA dc CAT III 1000 V, CAT IV 600 V
Εμπορικό σήμα Fluke
Κωδικός Κατασκευαστή FLK-376FC/114 KIT
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RS PRO RS380 AC/DC Clamp Meter, Max Current 400A ac CAT III 600 V
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Why I’ll Never Regret My (Awful) Audition to Be a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader
Written by Jen Jones Donatelli on April 27, 2018
As a high school cheerleader, one of my favorite perks was the body. Growing up, I’d always been slightly pudgy, but the extra pounds magically melted off once I started cheering. By senior year, I was a size two, and my prom dress needed to be tailored closer to zero. Some of my neighbors thought I was anorexic, but I loved to eat everything from hero subs to Cap’n Crunch. My extreme weight loss was simply the product of a suddenly sky-high metabolism and cheering at practices and games.
My newly concave stomach followed me to college, where I proudly wore crop tops and skimpy bikinis. Even the discovery of alcohol and late-night Papa John’s at my self-professed “party school” didn’t do much to derail my svelte shape.
That is, until after graduation, when the realities of a desk job and lack of exercise caught up with me. I’d gotten out of school and onto a rollercoaster that would take me on a 15-year ride of gaining and losing the same 20 pounds again and again. (At one point, I was 45 pounds heavier than I’d been in college.)
I tried every means possible to reclaim my former form, from the Curves diet to Weight Watchers to Nutrisystem to juice cleanses. I even took part in several infomercial focus groups and adopted a rigorous workout regimen and the lean diet required to participate. My attempts almost always succeeded temporarily, but like a stubborn rubber band, my weight always snapped back to its new, higher “anchor” number.
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Though I’d lost my fit cheerleader physique, I hadn’t lost the desire to cheer. After college, I spent a few years dancing for a semi-pro team in Chicago, but I secretly yearned to take the floor with the Luvabulls, the Chicago Bulls dance team. This desire followed me when I moved to Los Angeles, where I longingly eyed annual audition calls for the Clipper Girls and Laker Girls.
Next year, when I have a better body, I promised myself. Not surprisingly, I found myself making that same promise every year—and never hitting that magic number on the scale.
So naturally, when the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team reality show debuted on CMT, I was hooked. I couldn’t get enough of watching these women endure the rigorous training camp and—if they were lucky—receive their reward of those coveted white boots at its conclusion. I became intimately familiar with the organization’s impossibly stringent standards, from a dangerously lean figure to Rockette-worthy high kicks.
My husband often teased me about my about my guilty pleasure. (“Watching the DCC again?”) It was clear: The DCC had been indelibly added to the wish list that the Laker Girls, Clipper Girls, and Luvabulls already occupied. Except the DCC somehow seemed different—their big, flirty style of dancing was closer to my own, and they didn’t mandate technical dance experience like many other pro squads. Maybe I could actually do this… if I could get the body.
When I turned 35, a sense of urgency struck—it was now or never. Ten long years had passed since I’d begun my annual “next year” resolution. I was well aware that I was far above the age (and weight) of most NFL cheerleaders, but the story of 40-year-old Bengal cheerleader Laura Vikmanis gave me a glimmer of hope. It was time to hit the gym and go for it—or let go of the dream for good. So I booked travel to Dallas for the May auditions, figuring that would make me accountable for follow-through.
I was on a mission.
I began exercising six times weekly, throwing myself into Pilates, Zumba, Spin, yoga, kickboxing, and weightlifting with a vengeance. I took burlesque and hip-hop classes. I enrolled in a weight-loss challenge at my gym, which tracked my measurements and body fat percentage. (Let’s just say it was considerably higher than the DCC average of 12-15 percent.)
It was harder to get my diet in check. With every indulgence, I felt increasingly guilty and worried. I knew all about the catty comments made by the audition judges and the way the reality show worked. “I just don’t want to be in the fat montage,” I said to my husband, picturing the sports bra and booty shorts I’d have to wear on national television.
When the scale hadn’t moved much by April, it was time to employ extreme measures: I resurrected the lean protein diet I’d learned from the infomercials; I stepped up my exercising, working out daily—sometimes twice or several times; I turned down business lunches and dinners, knowing the caloric avalanche that accompanied. I had already given up alcohol, but I started adding aloe vera juice and protein/flax smoothies into my daily regimen.
The scale finally dipped, and not a minute too soon—tryout week had arrived. My anxiety escalated as I scrambled to achieve the look. I ordered compression tights for the illusion of thinner legs. I booked a colonic for a flatter stomach. I purchased water pills to ensure minimal bloat. I spray-tanned for a more contoured look.
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Somehow, I arrived in Dallas two pounds from my goal weight, with an acceptably flat-ish stomach. I felt like I actually might be able to wear a midriff in front of the masses.
When I arrived at Cowboys Stadium for the audition, 400-plus girls were already in line. It was an attractive pack, with former Pro Bowl cheerleaders, college dance team captains, and even high schoolers on the verge of graduation. I was one of just a tiny handful over 30—including a 56-year-old who aspired to be the oldest DCC in history, and a 62-year-old grandma who’d undergone thyroid surgery and realized “life was too short” not to chase your dreams. Like me, she’d kept her decision to audition a secret from almost everyone she knew.
The day went like this: Hit the “fluff and puff” area for beautification, hear a pep talk from fearless leader Kelli Finglass, and then hit the tryout floor in groups of five for the carefully cultivated panel of judges (including a tanning salon owner and the DCC fitness guru).
When my group’s turn came, we stood in front of the judges under the relentless glare of the hot CMT reality show lights. This was the moment. I tried to stop my leg from shaking as I introduced myself on the microphone, then stepped back as the music began.
I purposefully launched into my freestyle combination and swiftly made rookie mistake No. 1: My hair got caught in my lip gloss and completely covered my face. My cheer career had trained me never to stop for snafus, so I kept going even though I probably resembled Cousin It.
Though I’d lost my fit cheerleader physique, I hadn’t lost the desire to cheer.
I then committed rookie mistake No. 2: completely blanking on my choreography. I went into full-blown panic mode and ended up doing an unflattering squat and some other, equally uninspired moves.
As the music wound down, we stood in front of the judges for final scrutiny. My hair continued to stick to my lips. I scurried offstage, bewildered and mortified. My many months of preparation had culminated in… that?! I managed to sit through the rest of the groups and make peace with it. At least I’d gotten out there—at that point, all I could do was laugh.
After the audition, a CMT producer requested an interview in one of the stadium suites. My mind raced—I knew how the show worked. I was going to be the older “hot mess” candidate who’d completely flubbed her audition. I decided to take them up on it, figuring I could redeem myself and give them some footage beyond a flailing mess of an audition.
When the semi-finalist board was revealed, I wasn’t surprised to see my number missing from it. My spirits were still somewhat high as I said goodbye to new friends and took one last look at cavernous Cowboys Stadium. I drove back to my hotel in a daze and immediately passed out from mounting exhaustion and disappointment.
I awoke a few hours later, completely disoriented and half unsure whether the whole thing had been a dream—then the panic washed over me, as I pictured looking ridiculous on reality television. Despite all of my hard work, I’d managed to neglect the one simple thing I needed to survive the audition in style: They hadn’t seen the real me, the person who loved to dance and excelled at it. Sure, I fit into skinny jeans, but did it matter?
Then it hit me: I’d been so obsessed with my body for so long that I’d lost sight of my real purpose—honoring my lifelong love of dance and enjoying one last hurrah. My fixation with my weight had overcome me. In the end, I’d gotten the look that I wanted, but my audition couldn’t have gone worse.
Sure, I fit into skinny jeans, but did it matter?
That was the healthy dose of perspective I needed (along with a juicy Texas burger). With the DCC audition experience checked off my bucket list—for better or worse—I decided to grant myself a pat on the back and move on. And thankfully, the reality show gods took pity on me when the show premiered, as I was nowhere to be seen on screen.
The experience helped me realize that while I may not be waif-thin—and no longer pro dance team material—I’m a lucky woman, with a supportive husband, a fulfilling job, and a life she loves—curves and all. And that alone is more than enough.
For me, that’s the spirit.
Jen Jones Donatelli is a freelance writer and editor who recently relocated from Los Angeles to Cleveland, Ohio. She is also the author of the Team Cheer fiction series and a contributor to numerous dance- and cheer-related publications. Say hi on Twitter at @creativegroove.
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Here are the 1994 JC Penney Marvel “Vintage Pack” reprints. These are 2nd printings of Marvel comics from the 50’s-70’s. There are a total of 15 different comics in the set. Here they are in alphabetical order-
Amazing Fantasy #13
Amazing Spider-Man Special #5
Captain America #109
Fantastic Four #66 and #67
Sgt. Fury #13
Sub-Mariner #8
Thor Special #2
Tomb of Dracula #25
Uncanny X-Men #28, #62 and #63
Young Men #25
These comics were only available through the 1994 JC Penney Christmas Catalog (exact page reproduced below) and originally cost $14.99 plus shipping. The description in the catalog entry is wrong, however, since it states that the comics printed are from 1970-1990 yet the earliest comic in the set is originally from 1954 (Young Men) and the latest from 1974 (Tomb of Dracula).
The front covers of these comics look exactly like the originals but once you open the comic there are many ways to differentiate these from the originals. First of all except for Young Men #25, which has all the original inside ads, the rest have ads from 1994. All of these reprints do share the same ads on the inside and back covers although Sgt. Fury #13 has a Bic Pen ad on the back cover and the Stridex ad on the inside back cover (See the Stridex and Bic Pen back covers above).
Another way to distinguish these from the original is the indicia has “second printing” after the text (see scan above).
I also noticed that three of these issues are actually printed from certain reprint titles in the 70’s and not from the original comic although the cover is from the original. Here are the issues and where they are reprinted from-
Fantastic Four #66 reprinted from Marvel’s Greatest Comics #49
Sgt. Fury #13 reprinted from Special Marvel Edition#11
Uncanny X-Men #28 reprinted from Uncanny X-Men #76
These can be easily determined by as the references inside are to the reprint titles and not the originals.
Lastly, a lot of these reprints have production defects that makes getting a NM/M set a bit of a challenge. Specifically you will see miscut back and front covers causing “overhand”, poorly centered covers and “tilted covers” or those that are rotated so they are not aligned horizontally.
Update! (2/11/07)
After the 1994 article more research showed that there are in fact two other Marvel Vintage Pack (MVP) sets which precede the 1994 set! There are 1992 and 1993 MVPs with 20 issues in each set. Most of them are much easier to identify from the cover but most are not quite as “vintage” as the 1994 set. They are also IMHO tougher to find than the 1994 MVP set.
I discovered the 1992 MVP set after comparing a few early 90’s issues that had different art in the UPCs from the originals. It finally became clear that these were reprints of some sort. This set was sold through the 1992 Sears Wish book and possibly other catalogs but that is the only one I have actually seen them in (See scan below). The actual set printed is not pictured and in fact the entry is incorrect since quite a few of the issues are from after 1990.
All the issues in the set, with one exception which I will talk about later, have common identifying characteristics. The most obvious tell is that all have a swinging spider-Man in the UPC just like the 30th Anniversary Spidey UPC with the 1962-1992 dates at the top even though none of these issues were originally published after 1991. There is also a blank under the issue number in the price box where the regular edition has the UK price. Secondly, the indicia clearly states “Second Printing” at the end (See sample indicias). Lastly, they all have the same ads from 1992 and back cover which differ from the original printings. The back cover has an X-Men card ad with Wolverine bursting out of it.
As I mentioned above the only issue that is different is the Marvel Milestone Edition: Hulk #1. I bought all twenty issues from the same buyer and he assures me those were all in the same box and there was another set on E-Bay that had the same twenty issues together as a set. This MME Hulk #1 is different from the more common MME Hulk #1 in various ways. First of all the cover is much lighter gray and you can barely make out “Facsimile Edition” in the “M” logo above the price. The interior pages are also newsprint-like paper and not the slick paper of the regular edition… all of the ads are otherwise identical. The covers of all twenty issues are in the gallery below.
The 1993 MVP set has many similar characteristics to the 1992 set except that some are from older comics that did not have UPCs. If the original issue had a UPC then the 1993 MVP version will have swinging spider-man like the 1992 MVP UPC but with no text in the box. If the issue does not have a UPC then it will have subtle coloring differences on the front cover but the same X-Men Video ad on the back cover as all other 1993 MVPs. As with the 1992 MVPs they all have ads from 1993 and not the ads when originally published. Unlike the 1992 MVPs, however, these are not noted as second printings in the indicia (See sample indicia below).
Three of the 20 issues in this set are Marvel Milestone Editions: ASM #1, X-Men #1 and TOS #39. The MMEs for the 1993 set are also different than the regular MMEs. Like the 1992 MVP Hulk MME all the interior pages are newprint-like paper and not slick paper. All of them also have much darker grayish covers unlike the regular MMEs which have more of a silvery cover. The ASM MVP MME has no outline around the “M” logo on the top left and the TOS MVP MME has the familiar swinging spider-man in the UPC on the back cover instead of an Iron Man face. The X-Men MVP MME also has page numbers on bottom of all the interior pages unlike the regular edition.
I found the original ad for this set in the 1993 JC Penney catalog and although many of the comics in the actual set are pictured-not all are the actual editions included. Again, this may have been available through Sears or some other outlets but this was the only one I could verify (See scan). This set was pieced together by me after some exhaustive research and the same issues were in a set sold by a seller on E-Bay who still had them in the box they originally came in. Although there are no big key issues in the set-the most popular comic seems to be the ASM #330 due to the abundance of Spider-Man completists. Several of them have been sold for premium prices over the past year. All issues can be seen in the 1993 MVP gallery below.
Captain America #384 Daredevil #267 Daredevil #273
Darkhawk #5
Iron Man #258 Marvel Milestone Edition: Incredible Hulk #1
New Warriors #10 Silver Surfer #32
Silver Surfer #33
Sleepwalker #8
Spectacular Spider-Man #145 Spectacular Spider-Man #156 Web of Spider-Man #81
Web of Spider-Man #83 Wonder Man #2 X-Men #268 X-Men Classic #47
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New Warriors #3 (Peter Parker, the) Spectacular Spider-Man #26 (Peter Parker, the) Spectacular Spider-Man #27 Thor #312
What If…? Vol.2 #4 X-Men #60 X-Men #61 X-Men #245
Incredible Hulk #140 Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #13
Sub-Mariner #8 Thor Special #2 Tomb of Dracula #25 X-Men #28
X-Men #62
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Juice Wrld's Crew Reportedly "Unlikely" To Be Charged With 70 LBS. Marijuana Found On Jet
by Kyle Eustice
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Chicago, IL – Following Juice Wrld’s death last Sunday (December 8), the FBI uncovered 70 pounds of marijuana, three guns and a bottle of codeine in the private jet carrying the multi-platinum selling rapper and his entourage.
According to TMZ, it’s “unlikely” the members of his crew will be charged with possession of the monster weed load. Law enforcement sources reportedly said it’s “next to impossible” to figure out who the weed belonged to considering nobody would cop to the multiple vacuum-sealed bags found onboard. Plus, there were no identification tags on any of the suitcases.
Sources add the Chicago Police Department is combing through every suitcase and weed bag searching for DNA and fingerprints, however they say there’s no way to prove who really packed the weed and/or owned the suitcases. Feds have essentially deemed it a “non-case,” which is why they turned it over to local authorities.
Two of Juice Wrld’s security guards, Henry Dean and Christopher Dean, were arrested on weapons charges as a result of the search but have since been released.
While there has been no word on an official cause of death, Juice Wrld reportedly swallowed multiple Percocet pills prior to the fatal seizure in an effort to evade police. He was 21.
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Venezuela’s Friendly International – September 2019 Preview
For the first time since their quarter-final exit at Copa América, La Vinotinto has been reassembled. Just like this time last year, a kickabout with their neighbours to the west awaits. Here, @DarrenSpherical provides a look at those looking to see action.
Tuesday 10 September 2019 – Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, Florida, USA
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Reportedly owing to visa issues relating to his new club adventure in China, Salomón Rondón has been compelled to withdraw from Venezuela’s sole international friendly this month.
Thus, with MLS hotshot Josef Martínez also not part of the squad, a considerable opportunity has presented itself up front, with either Andrés Ponce (Akhmat Grozny, Russia) or Jan Carlos Hurtado (Boca Juniors) best placed to profit. Both men were absent from June’s Copa América cohort, but Ponce’s output has in the past suggested that he might have a future at this level, most notably last October when he bagged two goals in the Vinotinto shirt. On the other hand, although Hurtado has struggled to find the net during his senior career at club and international level, the 19-year-old inspires many a fan’s daydreams, even more so these days as he has recently been signed by Boca Juniors and donned their much-fetishised shirt in the Superclásico.
Rondón’s absence also throws up a rare situation for the national side: not one of the three R’s will be trotting onto the field in Vinotinto colours. Indeed, the other two components of the much-capped trio, captain Tomás Rincón and Leganés new-boy Roberto Rosales, have not been summoned. Neither for that matter has Yordan Osorio, who put in a memorable display against hosts Brazil in June and has recently earned a loan move to Zenit St. Petersburg. In an interview with Conexión Goleadora, one player currently in the USA has lamented the absences as well as the somewhat underwhelming prospect of only a solitary game having been scheduled, but as is often the case in matters concerning the FVF, the precise truth is difficult to discern.
Nevertheless, trials and experiments are thus guaranteed to be taking place in all the outfield positions. Firstly, with no Rosales, who has been fielded on both flanks at the back, a number of players will be hoping to get the nod on the left. These include the versatile pair Luis Mago (Palestino, Chile) and Rolf Feltscher (LA Galaxy, USA), both of whom were part of the Copa squad, with the latter the only one of the seven defenders to not see any action in the tournament. Alternatively, manager Rafael Dudamel could well give a run-out to the only home-based player in the squad, the recalled Bernardo Añor of Caracas FC, a 31-year-old who only made his international debut last year. Less promising – though rather curious – are the prospects of club-less 21-year-old left-back Alejandro Mitrano, hitherto a virtual unknown who was last recorded playing in Slovakia and who was called up to train with the squad after the initial 23-man announcement. Who knows what he may bring to the table, but such intrepid talent-scouring reinforces Dudamel’s previous comments about the long-standing issues the national side has with this particular position.
At centre-back, with no Osorio, Wilker Ángel (Akhmat Grozny, Russia) will be seeking to reclaim a place in the line-up after injury forced him to miss Brazil 2019. However, there is now much competition for these two positions, with erstwhile partner Jhon Chancellor – who has earned a big move to Brescia in Serie A – and Mikel Villanueva – who, however awkwardly, has been accommodated back into the Málaga side – both also in the running. As, for that matter, is the recalled Under-20 2017 World Cup runner-up Nahuel Ferraresi (Porto B, Portugal), still only 20 years of age.
Moving on, Rincón’s absence opens up an opportunity in the line of three that typically helps to reinforce the back four as well as kickstart attacks. If regulars Yangel Herrera (Granada, Spain, on loan from Manchester City, England) and Júnior Moreno (DC United, USA) get the nod, then joining them could well be either Renzo Zambrano, who plays under ex-Vinotinto and Swansea City striker Giovanni Savarese at Portland Timbers or Bernaldo Manzano (Tolima, Colombia, on loan from Deportivo Lara), who last season made headlines for being the first player in a Copa Libertadores match to bag a goal, grab an assist, net an own goal and get sent off.
Alternatively, the outspoken and more attack-minded Juan Pablo “Juanpi” Añor – who, like Villanueva, has also been grudgingly granted minutes by cash-strapped Málaga – could well reprise a role similar to that in which he shone in June against Bolivia. There is also a chance that Dudamel could instead utilise the La Liga man in the customary attacking pairing that will support either Ponce or Hurtado, although here, perhaps more than anywhere, there is no shortage of talented competition. Indeed, the four players who duked it out for these roles in Brazil are all in the current squad: Darwin Machís (Granada, Spain), Jhon Murillo (Tondela, Portugal), Jefferson Savarino (Real Salt Lake, USA) and Yeferson Soteldo (Santos, Brazil). However, accompanying them this time will be Rómulo Otero (Atlético Mineiro, Brazil), unquestionably the biggest surprise omission from the Copa squad. Perhaps his individualistic streaks played a part in this decision, but as more than one fan commented during the tournament, the team really could have done with some of his gravity-defying set-piece spectaculars. Surely at the Raymond James Stadium he will be given an opportunity to win back the trust of Dudamel.
Overall then, plenty of players will be seeking to shake up the boss’s thinking. Even if the preparations for the game have not been ideal, the side are arguably in a better state than twelve months ago when, after a ten-month hiatus, they kickstarted their current cycle with a 2-1 loss against Colombia in a match also played in Florida – it was Miami Gardens back then and it is Tampa now. The Cafeteros are coming into it off the back of a creditable 2-2 draw with Brazil, whereas Venezuela enter poised in the highest position that they have ever attained in the official FIFA rankings: 26th. Ultimately, Dudamel may well be looking more for performances than a result, but any opportunity to get one over their historically more-illustrious neighbours will always be greatly received back home.
To keep track of how things pan out, please continue to check this website as well as @DarrenSpherical for updates.
Venezuela Squad
Notes: Owing to visa-related issues at club level, Salomón Rondón has withdrawn from the convocatoria. Also, Alejandro Mitrano has been called up to train with the squad.
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Wuilker Faríñez (Millonarios FC, Colombia) & Rafael Romo (Silkeborg IF, Denmark).
Wilker Ángel (Akhmat Grozny, Russia), Bernardo Añor (Caracas FC), Jhon Chancellor (Brescia, Italy), Rolf Feltscher (LA Galaxy, USA), Nahuel Ferraresi (Porto B, Portugal), Ronald Hernández (Stabaek, Norway), Luis Mago (Palestino, Chile), Alejandro Mitrano (No club) & Mikel Villanueva (Málaga, Spain).
Juan Pablo “Juanpi” Añor (Málaga, Spain), Yangel Herrera (Granada, Spain, on loan from Manchester City, England), Darwin Machís (Granada, Spain), Bernaldo Manzano (Tolima, Colombia, on loan from Deportivo Lara), Júnior Moreno (DC United, USA), Jhon Murillo (Tondela, Portugal), Rómulo Otero (Atlético Mineiro, Brazil), Jefferson Savarino (Real Salt Lake, USA), Yeferson Soteldo (Santos, Brazil) & Renzo Zambrano (Portland Timbers, USA).
Jan Carlos Hurtado (Boca Juniors) & Andrés Ponce (Akhmat Grozny, Russia).
This entry was posted in Venezuela National Team and tagged Alejandro Mitrano, Andrés Ponce, Bernaldo Manzano, Bernardo Añor, Carlos Queiroz, Colombia, Darwin Machís, International Friendly, Jan Carlos Hurtado, Júnior Moreno, Jefferson Savarino, Jhon Chancellor, Jhon Murillo, Juan Pablo Añor, Juanpi, La Vinotinto, Los Cafeteros, Luis Mago, Mikel Villanueva, Nahuel Ferraresi, Rafael Dudamel, Rafael Romo, Rómulo Otero, Renzo Zambrano, Rolf Feltscher, Ronald Hernández, South American football, USA, Venezuela, Wilker Ángel, Wuilker Fariñez, Yangel Herrera, Yeferson Soteldo on September 9, 2019 by hispanospherical.
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