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Blues Blast
Rhys Williams May 31, 2017
Aaron Burton – Southern Swagger
Self-release 10 songs – 40 minutes
Texan singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist Aaron Burton’s seventh album, Southern Swagger, continues in the same impressive vein as his most recent release, All Night Long (favorably reviewed in the 09 April 2015 issue of Blues Blast Magazine). The new album contains 10 self-written songs, with Burton on vocals, guitar and banjo, William “Stompin’ Bill” Johnson on harp, Dirk Cordes on drums and Joe Degelia on steel guitar. Sonnie Collie also adds bass to one track and guitar to another.
The musicians have played together for years and their ability and willingness to focus on the song has resulted in a highly enjoyable album of roots-influenced acoustic country blues. Cordes in particular sets up a series of irresistible rhythms while never over-playing or over-shadowing the song and the space that is left paradoxically creates a bigger sound. But there is also a palpable joy apparent throughout the album, as if the musicians had a total blast while recording it.
Opening with the gloriously-titled “My Name Is Aaron Burton” Burton explains the origins of his old pseudonym, Peetie Whitestraw, over an upbeat country folk blues groove. There is a sly wit to Burton’s songs, which he sings in a lazy but engaging drawl, but there is no lack of emotional depth in his voice – the haunting “Heroine And Cocaine” has echoes of the desperation and desolation of the great Skip James.
Lyrically, he covers traditional blues themes such as death (as in the ominous one-chord boogie of “Murder”) or basic carnal desires (in the rollicking “Real Good Booty” or the country blues of “Copulate”, in which he winningly admits “I want to copulate, copulate with you. I can’t concentrate, it’s all I wanna do. Look here mama, I’m telling you straight, all I want to do is copulate. I want to copulate with you”). He is also adept at finding what humour can be eked out from a desperate situation, as with his promises to his baby in “Jewelry Store”.
The rockabilly-country of “City Of Hate” reveals a complex relationship between the song’s protagonist and the city he calls home as Burton sings “Dallas, Texas is the place I long to be. I’m going back home. Pretty mama coming home with me….. I’m going down to Dallas, way down in that Lone Star State. I’m going back home, back to the City of Hate. I’m going back home, yeah, ‘cos I love the City of Hate.”
Burton adds bouncing banjo to “Caddo Line” but primarily lays down rhythm guitar on his acoustic. Burton, Johnston and Degelia all take solos at various times, but the primary focus of the album is on the songs with the lead instruments weaving in and out of the vocal melodies. One of the highlights of the album however is the closing instrumental, the album’s title track: wonderfully dreamy (but uncredited)- (correction; Fred Harvey)- sax playing and articulate finger-picking over the top of another top notch Cordes groove.
Southern Swagger is yet another top class slice of acoustic country blues from Aaron Burton. There is an enticing timelessness to his music. Highly recommended.
Elmore Magazine
Iain Patience December 16, 2016
Aaron Burton is yet another of those Texan pickers who seems to creep in under the radar, lodging himself in the mind and memory. With around half a dozen albums already to his credit, with Southern Swaggerhe brings more than a touch of Down South, low-down and dirty acoustic blues to the mix. All ten tracks are self-written and feature his laid-back, sensitive acoustic picking with its shades of past-masters and rolling rhythmic licks.
Obviously touched by Texan influences, including Sam Lightnin’ Hopkins, Burton nevertheless manages to slip sideways into the slipstream and stamp his own character on the material and the fine fretwork with evident ease. His droll, drawling vocal delivery matches his picking style perfectly, and he always squeezes some unexpected humor into the lyrical mix. Burton is one of those guys who is clearly comfortable with the music, and has an excellent grasp of the essentials of good ole’ traditional, southern blues. Southern Swagger is one to savor.
-Iain Patience
Rex Bartholomew April 09, 2015
Aaron Burton – All Night Long
Self Release
www.aaronburton.net
14 tracks / 51:48
As blues has evolved over time it has strayed pretty far from its original formula, but country and folk blues usually stays pretty true to the original sources of the genre. Aaron Burton’s self-released sixth album, Up All Night, falls into this latter category, and delivers a solid collection of roots and blues music with a Lone Star influence.
Aaron Burton hails from the Dallas / Fort Worth area, and he has shared his pleasant drawl and fine stringed-instrument prowess around the United States and all the way to the United Kingdom, where he is gaining a respectable collection of new fans. On Up All Night he takes care of the vocals, guitar, mandolin and dulcimer, and he his joined by “Stompin” Bill Johnston on the harp and Dick Cordes behind the drum kit. There are fourteen self-penned tracks on this release, with a couple of neat covers worked into the set.
The title track is up first, and it is readily apparent that Burton has put together a power country blues trio with a big sound. “All Night Long” starts with a dulcimer ostinato and quickly adds slide guitar and mandolin. Johnston’s harmonica takes an active role, filling in the parts that would normally be covered by a second guitar or keyboard. When you add Cordes’ hard-hitting drums into the mix, the effect is quite huge.
Burton’s guitar work is very good, but he does not show off as he plays only the notes and chords that are really necessary. This makes the CD more accessible to a larger audience and provides a more laid-back vibe. His vocals are rich and appropriately growly at times – perfect for the style of blues he is selling.
Aaron is a good storyteller and a capable songwriter as shown by “The Day Big Tex Caught Fire,” a tune that uses the classic blues lyrical style and his electric guitar to recount the loss of the famed Texas State Fair icon back in 2012. He also does a stunning job of capturing the listener’s attention and emotion with “Hard Luck Child,” a more modern blues tune that tells the sorry tale of innocent folks who never had a shot at happiness in their lives.
Despite the heaviness of this last tune, Burton maintains an upbeat mood for much of the album, with light-hearted songs about things that most folks can relate to. And those things are the highs and lows of relationships with the opposite sex. A great example of this is the good sense of humor he maintains as he tries to cut a deal with his ex in “Don’t Talk Bad About Me” (and I sure won’t talk bad about you).
There covers on Up All Night are pretty cool, and they include Charlie Patton‘s “Pony Blues” and Blind Willie McTell’s 1928 standard, “Statesboro Blues.” They both end up being a lot closer to the originals than the countless other versions out there, so if you really love the Canned Heat or Allman Brothers takes on these, you might be a bit let down. But, as they are, they are refreshingly different than what we have come to expect and they fit much better into the overall theme of this release.
The set closes out with a bonus track, “I’m Your Santa Claus,” which might be a fun inclusion for your next holiday party, and it is one last chance to hear some awesome harp work from Stompin’ Bill. Well, it should probably be an adult party, as there are plenty of double entendres that are set to the tune of John Brim’s “Ice Cream Man” (famously covered on Van Halen’s debut album).
Aaron Burton is a fine musician and a mature songwriter, and Up All Night is his best work since he first entered the studio ten years ago. If you are a fan of roots music or country blues, this CD will be just what you are looking for. Also, if you are near Dallas anytime soon, be sure to check out his website as he has a heavy gigging schedule in the DFW metro area, including a regular Tuesday night Delta Blues Jam at The Goat in East Dallas.
Reviewer Rex Bartholomew is a Los Angeles-based writer and musician; his blog can be found at rexbass.blogspot.com.
Wasser-Prawda
Ian Patience January 19, 2015
Aaron Burton - All Night Long
Autor Iain Patience, Kategorie English | Reviews
All Night Long is Texan Burton‘s sixth release to date and features his usual mix of drawling southern vocals with some fine understated guitar fretwork. Here he is joined by two musical buddies, ‚Stomping‘ Bill Johnston on Harp and Dirk Cordes on Skins.
Mostly self-written, material also includes Charlie Patton‘s ‚Pony Blues‘ together with a Willie McTell cover of ‚Statesboro Blues‘. The 14 tracks that make up the album are delivered with Burton‘s trademark laid-back style and sensitivity. Always soulful, the tempo is varied giving the whole a satisfying overall feel and vibe.
Having played a few gigs in Europe (France) last year in 2014, Burton is now targeting his launches at a UK and Europe-wide audience with considerable success; this album has already featured widely on UK blues radio playlists in recent months, gaining a well-deserved growing fanbase and interest for the guy and his music. Burton is clearly hungry, hoping for success and record sales in the European blues arena.
With this latest release he might just have produced the goods to carry him onto a wider world stage.
Blues Underground Network
Aaron Burton's newest release, "The Return Of Peetie Whitestraw" is by far, the best Acoustic Blues release I have had the pleasure of listening to, so far, for 2014 and although it is still early in the year, I am almost positive that is will remain one of the best such releases, come year end. John Vermilyea (Blues Underground Network) 5*****
Rainey Wetnight December 19, 2013
Aaron Burton – The Return Of Peetie Whitestraw | Album Review
Aaron Burton - The Return of Peetie Whitestraw
Self-Produced
http://www.aaronburton.net
CD: 14 songs; 46:13 Minutes
Styles: Traditional Acoustic Blues, Country Blues
Peetie Whitestraw, not to be confused with 1930s bluesman Peetie Wheatstraw, is actually a fantastic acoustic DFW Texas bluesman named Aaron Burton. He’s returned for his fifth musical foray – hence this new album’s title. It’s a follow-up to his 2005 debut release, “AKA Peetie Whitestraw,” and fans of traditional country blues will welcome his return. This is due to his acoustic and Dobro guitar mastery and gritty vocals, which definitely sound African-American although he’s Caucasian. As stated in an interview with Michalis Limnios for Blues @ Greece (http://blues.gr/profiles/blogs/an-interview-with-texan-aaron-burton-the-musical-heritage-of), “Like many of the great country blues men and women before him, Aaron is completely self-taught on his instruments which leads to a unique and interesting approach.” This is best proven on these three tracks (out of fourteen total originals):
Track 03: “Lafayette” – Songs about traveling, people and places have been a timeless staple of the blues. Featuring “Stompin” Bill Johnston on harmonica, it’s a jaunty, joyful ode to this Louisiana city. “Winter’s over; no more sleet and snow. Springtime is coming, and I’ve got to go – down to Lafayette, baby. Gonna get there just as fast as I can, get some red beans and rice….” This spicy treat of a track will have one playing both air guitar and air harp!
Track 09: “Leave My Girl Alone” – Another blues trope is a song about drinking. Here, our narrator takes umbrage when a bar patron bothers his fiancée: “Leave my girl alone. Did you hear what I just said? ‘Cause the last one to harass her got some lumps upon his head. Now, there’s a drunk girl at the end of the bar. Go bother her instead! You’d better leave my girl alone.”
Track 13: “If That’s Religion” – Religious faith, or lack thereof, completes Whitestraw’s trifecta of classic blues themes. “The world was created in only seven days? Mary was a virgin, and Jesus rose from the grave? Abraham’s willing to sacrifice his son? Now, if that’s religion, I swear I don’t want none.” He scoffs at 9/11/01 as a supposed sign of the end times, and ends with this scathing sentence: “Down a dangerous path from reality we run. If that’s religion, I swear I don’t want none.” Bold words from a Bible Belt native.
It’s hard for this reviewer to fathom why more people haven’t heard of Aaron Burton. The local scene may be to blame: “It’s hard to make a living playing blues around here. I here [sic] from the older guys that it used to be better,” he tells Mr. Limnios. Hopefully that will change in the near future, because “The Return of Peetie Whitestraw” is most welcome!
Ian Patience
The Return Of Peetie Whitestraw
Aaron Burton hails from Texas, a State with a long history of blues music mastery - Lightnin' Hopkins was certainly no slouch, after all.
This is Burton's fifth album to date, self-produced and promoted, it features fourteen self-penned tracks. Strong on southern drawl and laid-back acoustic guitar picking, this album is indeed so laid back that the guitar work at times comes close to being overlooked - a mistake, because the picking, though understated, is singularly soulful, sound and skillful, contributing effortlessly to a very finely honed sound that belies its own underlying complexity.
Burton is a guy who is self-taught, an autodidact with a background playing the bars and clubs of the Lone Star State and producing interesting material that touches all of the usual areas from love and heartache to death and misery. In other words a typical blues gamut of thought and emotion, underpinned by great guitar-work and a fine rambling, rumbling, drawling voice.
With fourteen tracks to choose from here, it's impossible not find something that should satisfy a blues lover's taste. This is a guy and a CD that is real surprise and a true discovery - an artist and material of genuine quality, well worth seeking out. Burton is due to record his next album over the next few months and I, for one, look forward to hearing his next offering.
Michalis Limnios November 13, 2012
An Interview with Texan Aaron Burton: The musical heritage of Texas through the prism of the folk blues
Posted by Michalis Limnios BLUES @ GREECE on November 13, 2012 at 1:00pm
"Life - I believe everyone has experiences that could be put to music."
Aaron Burton: Old recipe of blues
Aaron Burton is a young Texan guitarist, mandolinist, and vocalist who plays country traditional blues with a distinctly Texan spin having the talent. Aaron channels the rich and diverse musical heritage of Texas music through the prism of the country blues. Like many of the great country blues men and women before him, Aaron is completely self taught on his instruments which leads to a unique and interesting approach.
His fifty plus original compositions are drawn from various life experiences and are delivered with warm, soulful, and unforced vocals. His travels have taken him from Memphis to Maine but he has truly honed his skills playing for his daily bread in the clubs, bars, restaurants, house parties and streets of his native DFW, Texas.
Debut album was "aka Peetie Whitestraw" (2005), low-fi classic blues from Texas. All original Texas country blues and roots music “How Can I Be Blue?” (2008) album featuring Christian Dozzler on piano, harp, accordion and organ. In 2010 "Recession Blues" with original country blues gems featuring Christian Dozzler, Hash Brown, Stompin' Bill Johnston, Kevin Shermerhorn and Drew Alain. "Rising Sun" (2011) combines Aaron's authentic country blues/roots style with producer Pat Boyack's well established blues rock/soul sensibilities.
What do you learn about yourself from the blues and what does the blues mean to you?
That I'm stubborn and independent and will keep doing what I'm doing regardless. For me, the blues is therapy and expression.
What experiences in your life make you a GOOD BLUESMAN and SONGWRITER?
Life - I believe everyone has experiences that could be put to music. To me, the iconic bluesman embodies the American ideal of rugged individualism.
How do you describe Aaron’s sound and lyrics and what characterize your music philosophy?
It's like cooking; you take the recipes that have been handed to you mix 'em up, add your own touch, and create something new.
What's been their experience from “studies” on the road with the blues?
My studies have been living life and emulating musicians that I admire.
From whom have you have learned the most secrets about the blues music?
Mostly from various artists through their recordings. Alan Lomax's The Land Where the Blue Began is probably the best book I've read about blues.
Which was the best moment of your career and which was the worst?
It's all been pretty positive. I mean any day I get paid to play music is a good day.
What is the “feeling” you miss most nowadays from the “OLD DAYS OF BLUES”?
What's cool about the pre-war guys is that they were largely self-taught and so their guitar approaches are highly original.
Which is the most interesting period in your life and why?
Every period of my life has been interesting…at least to me.
Are there any memories from Honeyboy Edwards, which you’d like to share with us?
Haha - yeah…he tried to take a girlfriend of mine (Blue Lisa of KNON) back to his hotel room - at 90 something years old! That gives me hope for the future.
I saw a photo with Robert Lockwood Jr. tell me a few things about your meet with him?
I was busking at the King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena Ark. Jeff Dyson, who had hired me to open for Honeyboy, brought Lockwood by to hear me, knowing I covered a few of his songs. I played five or six of Lockwood's songs for him and he seemed pleased. He had some kind words for me and even put a tip in my case - a very nice man. Lockwood is one of my all-time favorites.
What is the best advice a bluesman ever gave you?
Sam Myers used to call showoff types "glory seekers". I understood that to mean that in seeking to gain fame and respect they weren't being real…and usually playing way to many notes.
What the difference and similarity between the ACOUSTIC and ELECTRIC BLUES feeling?
What I like about country blues is that you don't have to conform to and rely on a band.
Why did you think that Country Folk Blues continues to generate such a devoted following?
It's good stuff! I think a lot of folks like that it utilizes the full range of the guitar. Also, in an age of big, loud bands, various sound technologies, and over-production, it's nice to see a person engage the listeners directly, without fluff.
What’s the best jam you ever played in? What are some of the most memorable gigs you've had?
I've had some really cool jams at my Tuesday night Delta Blues Jam at The Goat in East Dallas. I have a different guest weekly and there are plenty of great players to choose from in the D.F.W. area; Ray Reed, Hash Brown, Texas Slim, Pat Boyack, Cheryl Arena, "Stompin'" Bill Johnston, Joel Foy, Holland K. Smith, K.M. Williams, James Hinkle, Andrea Dawson, Christian Dozzler and many others have been guests…and you never know who will drop in.
Some music styles can be fads but the blues is always with us. Why do think that is? Give one wish for the BLUES
It's simplicity has allowed it to be a foundation or part of other styles. I hope it can provide as much comfort for others as it has for me.
How do you describe your contact to people when you are on stage?
Depends on the crowd; if it's a listening/watching crowd I might close my eyes and get lost in the music, if it's a dancing/drinking crowd we interact more, and if it's neither I approach at it as a rehearsal.
Make an account for current realities of the case of the blues in Texas. Which is the most interesting period in local scene?
It's hard to make a living playing blues around here. I here from the older guys that it used to be better.
Do you know why the sound of slide guitar is connected to the blues and what is the secret for a good fingerpickin and slide player?
As I understand it, early blues players picked it up from recordings of Hawaiian music, and often used knives and other improvised slides.
Secret ... just practice.
Is it easier to write and play the blues as you get older?
Writing has never been that difficult for me partly because I don't take it too seriously. What I mean is, I don't set out to write something profound. I just want to continue to build on the success I've had and make a good living.
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Page 53, 7 October 2000 — Who killed the Congo?
7 OCTOBER 2000, Page 53
Who killed the Congo?
Anthony Sampson
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MR KURTZ by Michela Wrong Fourth Estate, £13.99, pp. 324 The history of tyranny and corruption in the Congo has been presented as such an unmitigated horror-story that some readers might recoil from a book about President Mobutu, its dictator for over 30 years, with its grim title evoking Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
They would be quite wrong, for this is a wonderfully readable and vivid account with a novelist's eye which makes Mobutu and his colleagues seem thoroughly com- prehensible as they extend their web of extortion and military rule: it even manages to make Mobutu after his deposition seem quite moving. Rare for a book about Africa, it is without moral superiority or lecturing; and it raises awkward questions about the role of the West in building up the dictator as an anti-communist hero of the Cold War.
The author, as correspondent for the Financial Times, is exceptionally well- informed, with access to a wide range of sources from the CIA agent to the Congo generals to the president's family. She was there at many dramatic moments, sharing the fear and chaos. But she carries her expertise lightly, remaining in the back- ground, sketching in the people and places and letting them tell the story themselves.
She does not shirk or play down the con- sequences of Mobutu's rule or the decline of a prosperous country into bankruptcy. In pitiless detail she recounts how the copper mines and diamond fields were looted, the profits diverted to the private accounts of the president and his cronies. She describes the preposterous palace in the jungle, the houses in France and Switzerland, the chartered Concordes. She conveys all the horrors of an army, overarmed and under- paid, that had gone out of control.
But she keeps asking how it was allowed to happen. She shows how the terrible dic- tatorship of the Belgian King Leopold, who made the Congo his private colony and massacred and humiliated its inhabitants, provided the prelude to Mobutu's own dic- tatorship; and how so many others, from dissident politicians to foreign diplomats were willingly conniving in the tyranny.
She shows how cynically Belgian, French and American diplomats competed and conspired to use the deteriorating regime for their own ends, and how Mobutu could manipulate and squeeze them like putty in his hands. 'He played us like a Stradivar- ius,' said Chester Crocker, in charge of American policy on Africa under Reagan.
The author is most devastating in her condemnation of the World Bank and the IMF (she might have also included several commercial banks) who continued lending without proper safeguards when they already knew that the money was going into Mobutu's coffers. It was a scandalous misuse of international institutions. But talking to officials in Washington, she was surprised by their refusal to recognise their blunders, or take any blame.
They felt a constant pressure to lend to developing countries, however shaky or corrupt; and by the time the debts went bad the official had moved on. Her account of how the IMF helped to ruin the Congo is all the more effective through its quiet understatement. 'The image of the Fund going on bended knees to beg one of the world's most corrupt leaders to take its money is not an attractive one.'
Her account of the many other culprits involved in the Congo does not exonerate Mobutu, but it makes his villainy more credible, explaining how quickly opposition crumbled, and how an intelligent and patri- otic young soldier turned into a crazed and isolated despot. 'No man is a caricature, no individual can alone bear responsibility for a nation's collapse,' she says in her intro- duction. 'The momentum behind Zaire's free-fall was generated not by one man, but thousands of compliant collaborators, at home and abroad.'
This is the most gripping and illuminat- ing book about Africa I have read for years, and it throws its light way beyond the borders of the Congo: not just to the neigh- bouring countries which are now compet- ing for the spoils from the demoralised country, but to the wider problem of pre- venting the drift to corruption and tyranny in other parts of Africa.
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Forbes has released it’s list of the 25 Best Places To Visit In 2020 and Northern California got a lot of love. Other than Los Angeles, the two NorCal destinations featured were the only places picked on the West Coast, and to be honest, they were spot on.
The first NorCal place on the list is Redding and the Shasta Cascades, which the article calls “as under-the-radar as it gets in the lower 48.” Here is what the article said about Shasta Cascade area:
Where: Redding and the Shasta Cascades, California
Chosen by: Melissa Klurman is a travel expert, writer and editor and contributor at Reader’s Digest, Frommer’s Travel Guides and Parents, among other publications.
Why: Beautiful and remote, the Northern California city of Redding and the Shasta Cascade region are about as under-the-radar as it gets in the lower 48. Considered to be a hidden gem in the west, it’s often referred to as “California’s Last Frontier,” and it’s also one of the best bargains anywhere in the United States. The region is scattered with 50 waterfalls, dozens of lakes, rivers, mountains, historic mining towns, two national monuments, six national forests, seven state parks and even active volcanoes—most of which are free or very inexpensive, so you’ll never break the vacation bank. For example, snowshoeing at Lassen Volcanic National Park costs just $1 per person. Plus, hotels, including the iconic Thunderbird Motel, rarely go above $100, making this a bargain vacation you’ll want to return to in every season in 2020.
The other NorCal destination featured in the article is (no surprise here) Lake Tahoe, which the article called “a crystal clear, alpine paradise hidden in the Sierra Nevada mountains.” Here’s the full description from Forbes:
Where: Lake Tahoe, California
Chosen By: At the age of 21, Lexie Alford became the youngest person to travel to every country on earth and broke the Guinness World Record. Follow her on Instagram (@LexieLimitless) and read more about her accomplishment here.
Why: When people imagine traveling to California, they most often visualize driving down the PCH in a convertible mustang and encountering celebrities below the Hollywood sign. As a native to one of the most visited states in the US, I can say from experience that travelers who only visit Southern California are missing out on the best part. A few hundred miles north lies Lake Tahoe, a crystal clear, alpine paradise hidden in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Home of the 1960 Winter Olympics, Lake Tahoe is best known for its eight top-rated ski resorts and laid-back mountain culture. A powder day in Lake Tahoe wouldn’t be complete without indulging in the après ski nightlife by the fire pit with a locally brewed craft beer.
Although Lake Tahoe is a winter wonderland, this place offers something for everyone all year-round, especially if you are a nature lover or an adventure enthusiast. From lakeside casinos and luxury resorts to golfing, camping and fishing during the summer months. You can even take a cruise around the 22 mile-long lake to get the most panoramic view of the snowy peaks. I also can’t forget to mention the countless hiking and biking trails surrounding the lake that are available to the whole family. If escaping from the city is in your 2020 travel plans, look no further than Lake Tahoe.
What a ringing endorsement for Northern California! Although we could recommend a few more great NorCal spots for the Forbes readers, you can’t disagree with these two areas making the list. Happy traveling in 2020!
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Sharon Mary Cicero, the former president of Madonna's Maverick Films company, has died, aged 53.The prominent producer passed away on 12 March (14)...
Amanda Seyfried & Rebel Wilson Film Shelved Due To Scheduling Issues
Production on Will Ferrell's latest comedy He's F**King Perfect has stalled due to scheduling issues.Les Miserables star Amanda Seyfried was cast in...
Sylvester Stallone Suffered Multiple Injuries While Filming Rocky Franchise
Sylvester Stallone still winces as he recalls the multiple injuries he suffered at the hands of his co-stars while filming the Rocky films.The Rambo...
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Susan Sarandon turned hairstylist on Monday (17Mar14) after her actress daughter Eva Amurri Martino was left without hot water following a 4.4...
"Sex scenes are great. A lot of my co-stars have been sexy guys my age who are really respectful and cool. So, why not? I'm not going to pretend it's...
Savannah Guthrie Gets Married Then Announces Pregnancy Live On 'Today'
Savannah Guthrie is now married and pregnant!The NBC News anchor made the two huge announcements on Monday's (March 17th) addition of the 'Today'...
What's Eating Tyler The Creator? A History
Inciting riots, homophobia, sexism, all things Tyler the Creator has been accused of in his career so far. On Saturday the 23 year old rapper was...
Mr. T To Be Inducted Into Wwe Hall Of Fame
Mr. T is to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. The actor and former wrestling star - best known for his mohawk haircut and collection of large...
Madonna And Anna Wintour Pay Tribute To L'wren Scott
Madonna and Anna Wintour have paid tribute to L'Wren Scott. The singer and the iconic Vogue editor have joined many in remembering the stylist and...
Chris Brown To Stay In Jail For A Month
Chris Brown's mother cried as he was sentenced to stay in jail for another month today (17.03.14).The 'Look at Me Now' singer was transferred to a...
Amanda Seyfried's 'Really Sexy' Kiss With Megan Fox
Amanda Seyfried thinks her on-screen kiss with Megan Fox was ''really sexy.''The 'Jennifer's Body' stars locked lips in the 2009 movie and Amanda,...
Raw Power: Remembering The Stooges Drummer Scott Asheton
In the words of his Stooges bandmate Iggy Pop, Scott Asheton ‘left a huge legacy to the world’. The 64 year old drummer of the influential early...
Kate Winslet Presented With Golden Star On Hollywood Walk Of Fame
Kate Winslet's name will be remembered for many years to come as the British actress is prized with one of Hollywood's top honors.The already...
Beyoncé Avoiding Kim Kardashian's Wedding?
Beyoncé reportedly thinks Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's wedding will be ''tacky''.The 'Drunk In Love' hitmaker - who married rapper Jay Z in a...
'Divergent' Star Shailene Woodley Believes Human Genetics Aren't Made For Monogamy
Sheilene Woodley is Hollywood's hottest young actress, but she can't seem to find her prince charming.However, this isn't something the 22 year-old...
Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears...William Shatner? The Worst Cover Songs Of All Time
News that Miley Cyrus is set to team up with The Flaming Lips and Andrew from MGMT to record a cover of The Beatles “Lucy in the Sky with...
L'wren Scott 'Sacrificed A Lot' For Mick Jagger
L'Wren Scott's former maid says she ''sacrificed a lot'' to be with Sir Mick Jagger.The fashion designer's tragic death from apparent suicide was...
Pacino As Han Solo?! Actors Who Turned Down Brilliant Roles And Probably Regretted It
Keanu Reeves as Neo, Tom Hanks as Forest Gump - sometimes in Hollywood an actor plays a role so perfectly you would have thought it was written...
Angus T. Jones Slams 'Two And A Half Men' After Finding Christianity: "I Was A Paid Hypocrite"
Angus T. Jones has been on the beloved US sitcom 'Two and a Half Men' since 2003, and was once one of the highest-paid actors on TV.But the 20...
Everything You Need To Know About Johnny Depp's Fiancee Amber Heard
Amber Heard has stolen Johnny Depp’s heart and she’s got the engagement ring to prove it. The 27 year old Texan actress has just celebrated her...
Nfl Officials Sue M.i.a. For $16.6 Million Over Super Bowl Halftime Show Incident
The NFL have finally settled on $16.6 million in their lawsuit against British recording artist M.I.A., real name Maya.The football league is suing...
'Offensive' 'Noah' Banned - Other Movies Banned By Religious Groups
Russell Crowe’s upcoming flick Noah has been banned in the UAE because of “scenes that contradict Islam and the Bible”, according to Juma...
Kylie Minogue's 'Precious' Relationship
Kylie Minogue's relationship with Jason Donovan was ''precious''.The 'Neighbours' co-stars - who had a hit in 1988 with duet 'Especially For You' -...
Tom Hardy Couldn't Handle Hollywood
Tom Hardy couldn't handle Hollywood when he first found fame. The 36-year-old star - who was catapulted to the spotlight in 2002's sci-fi film...
Lena Dunham "Disgusted" By Woody Allen Over Sexual Abuse Claims
Lena Dunham, the star of HBO's 'Girls,' has shared her opinion on the sexual abuse claims made against Woody Allen.Last month Dylan Farrow, the...
Alexandra Shulman Wanted Music Career
Alexandra Shulman initially wanted to go into the music industry.The editor of British Vogue magazine confessed she was charmed by a young boy who...
L'wren Was In Debt When She Died
L'Wren Scott was £3.5 million in debt when she died. The fashion designer was found in her New York apartment this morning (17.03.14) having...
Angelina Jolie's Mothering Quality Transfers To Director's Chair
Angelina Jolie says her skills as a mother transfer into being a directer.The 38-year-old star - who raises Maddox, 12, Pax, 10, Zahara, nine,...
Lily Allen: Men Behind Women's Success
Lily Allen claims there is a man behind every successful woman in the music industry. The 28-year-old singer - who recently made her pop comeback...
Lady Gaga: Ten Of Her Best (Or Worst) Wonderfully Wacky Outfits
Lady Gaga has appeared on the Jimmy Kimmel show wearing a dress made out of coffee filters - are we surprised? In a word, no. Where else is there to...
More Of Chris Brown's Troubling Rehab Tales Emerge During Trial
Reporting on Chris Brown’s behavior is becoming redundant at this point, if not just plain wrong – it’s no secret mental illness and life in...
Connor Cruise Insists Relationship With Mother, Nicole Kidman, Is "Solid"
Nicole Kidman's relationship with her two older children, from her former marriage with Tom Cruise, is fairly unknown, but that doesn't mean...
Fashion World Mourns Designer L'wren Scott's Untimely Death
Celebrated fashion designer L’Wren Scott was found dead in her apartment on Monday from an apparent suicide. According to Reuters, the police...
Rolling Stones Cancel Perth Gig After L'wren Scott's Death
The Rolling Stones have cancelled their first concert in Australia following the death of Sir Mick Jagger's girlfriend L'wren Scott.The body of the...
Original Veruca Salt Line-up To Reunite
The original line-up of rock band Veruca Salt is reuniting for the first time in 14 years and releasing a new album on Record Store Day (19Apr14).Alt...
Mick Jagger's Representative Dismisses L'wren Scott Split Rumours
A representative for Sir Mick Jagger has dismissed rumours the rocker split from fashion designer L'wren Scott prior to her death on Monday...
Stars Sign Up To Be A Part Of Ralph Steadman Documentary
Slash, Jason Mraz, Richard E. Grant and Terry Gilliam have added music and memories to Johnny Depp's new movie about artist Ralph Steadman.Depp...
Bernie Taupin: 'Robert Palmer's Addicted Girls Were Bennie & The Jets'
Sir Elton John's songwriting partner has revealed his vision of the pair's Bennie & The Jets was realised by Robert Palmer in his iconic Addicted To...
Simon Cowell Offers $1.1 Million For Rare Car
Music mogul Simon Cowell has offered to buy a rare Jaguar car for $1.1 million (£650,000) after spotting the vehicle on U.K. motoring show Top...
Model Nicole Trunfio Hospitalised
Australian model Nicole Trunfio was admitted to hospital on Tuesday (18Mar14) after suffering abdominal pains.The Face Australia mentor had just...
Studio Executives Dismiss Rumours Of Cancelled Pope Francis Meeting With Russell Crowe
Studio executives have dismissed rumours that Catholic leader Pope Francis cancelled an upcoming meeting with Noah star Russell Crowe, insisting they...
Brittany Murphy's Final Film To Be Released
Brittany Murphy's final film Something Wicked finally has a release date four years after her death.The Clueless star passed away in 2009 and her...
Nikolaj Coster-waldau's Marriage Tested By Cameron Diaz Infidelity Rumours
Game Of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau had a little explaining to do when his wife of 15 years started receiving notes about her husband's...
Godfather Cafe Under Threat Of Closure
A Rome cafe which has featured in films like The Godfather Part Ii and To Rome With Love is facing closure.The Antico Caffe della Pace near the...
Scott Baio's Comedy Cancelled
Former Happy Days star Scott Baio's Tv comedy has been cancelled after three seasons.See Dad Run will end later this year (14) when all 13 episodes...
Steve Carell To Star In Cancer Drama
Actor Steve Carell is set star in Priority List, a film based on the true story of a high school teacher diagnosed with brain cancer and given just...
Chris Colfer To Pen Episode Of Glee
Glee star Chris Colfer is expanding his role on the hit Tv series by writing an upcoming episode.The actor/author was approached by show producers...
"That's kind of off the table. It always felt spontaneous. I liked that about it, too. And I think it remains that way. We never planned anything. We...
Rolling Stones Cancel Perth Gig
The Rolling Stones have cancelled their gig in Perth following the death of Sir Mick Jagger's long-term partner L'Wren Scott. The band have axed the...
Jason Biggs' Son Changed His Life
Jason Biggs has changed since the birth of his son.The 'American Pie' star and his wife Jenny Mollen welcomed their first child, Sid, into the world...
Khloe Kardashian: It Was Difficult Watching Show
Khloe Kardashian is ''not through'' her marriage breakdown.The 29-year-old star filed for divorce from Lamar Odom in December amid allegations he had...
Georgia May Jagger Cancels Catwalk Show
Georgia May Jagger has pulled out of an appearance at Melbourne Fashion Week following the death of L'Wren Scott.The 22-year-old model - the daughter...
L'wren Scott's Friends Had Worries About Her
L'Wren Scott's friends were concerned about her behaviour in the weeks leading up to her death.The fashion designer - who was found hanged in her New...
Little Mix Served Raw Chicken On Tour
Little Mix were served raw chicken while touring Japan recently. The 'Wings' hitmakers - Jesy Nelson, Jade Thirwall, Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Perrie...
Princess Beatrice Plans Mila Kunis' Hen Party
Britain's Princess Beatrice is planning Mila Kunis' hen party. The 25-year-old royal is whisking the 'Ted' star and several of her closest friends to...
The Cat's Out Of The Bag And So Is Ahs's Season 4 Theme
Watch out American Horror Story fans. So far, the show has done “haunted house,” “insane asylum” and “witch coven” and now the writing...
Sienna Miller To Star In American Sniper
Sienna Miller is in talks to star in 'American Sniper'.The 32-year-old actress is in early negotiations to take on the lead female role, opposite...
Robbie Williams To Collaborate With His Dad
Robbie Williams is planning to collaborate with his dad. The 40-year-old singer, who invited his father Pete Conway to perform with him at London's...
Kian Egan: One Direction Could Split
Kian Egan thinks One Direction could split up because they don't appear to have a close bond anymore. The former Westlife star thinks the band would...
Pope Francis Cancels Meeting With Noah Team
Pope Francis has cancelled a meeting with the creative team behind 'Noah'.Paramount vice chair Rob Moore, director Darren Aronofsky and Hollywood...
Steve Carell To Star In The Priority List
Steve Carell is set to star in and produce 'The Priority List'.The drama, which is based on the memoir of David Menasche, tells the story of a Miami...
New Host, New Bandleader, Same Old "Dancing With The Stars"
It looks like Dancing with the Stars is really out to give us the old razzle dazzle this season, with a new co-host, new band leader and a whole band...
Ok, So 'The Maze Runner' Is The New Hunger Games, Divergent, Etc
The Maze Runner is the latest young-adult novel to get a movie adaptation as studios become ever more convinced of the literary genre's ability to...
Lena Dunham "Disgusted" With Woody Allen: "I'm Decidedly Pro-dylan Farrow"
Lena Dunham has become one of the only celebrities to comment publically on the familial tension between director Woody Allen, his ex-girlfriend Mia...
Angus T. Jones Wants You To Know That He Still Regrets 'Two And A Half Men'
Angus T Jones really, really wants you to know that he regrets his work on Two and a Half Men. About a year ago, Jones first spoke out about it in an...
Katie Price 'Weed In A Lunch Box'
Katie Price 'weed in a lunch box' and threw it out of a car window, a friend has claimed. The former glamour model - who has children Harvey, 11,...
Simon Cowell Buys Rare Car
Simon Cowell has splashed out £650,000 on ''the most beautiful car in the world.The music mogul ordered the super-rare Eagle Speedster Jaguar after...
Aaron Paul 'Doesn't Deserve' Wife
Aaron Paul doesn't ''deserve' his wife.The 'Breaking Bad' actor insists he is a ''good guy'' who would never do anything to hurt spouse Lauren...
Kate Winslet Receives Walk Of Fame Star
Kate Winslet received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame yesterday (17.03.14).The 38-year-old actress was honoured with the accolade hours after an...
'Interim Manager' Isn’T Quite 'Second Coming', But Who Cares: Mike Bassett Is Back
Everyone’s favorite football manager is back. No, Sven hasn’t been appointed to guide England to a First Knockout Round defeat at this summer’s...
Is Wayne Knight In Jurassic Park The Best Movie Death, Ever?
Wayne Knight is not dead. That much we know. But he did die in Jurassic Park - remember? The 58-year-old played computer programmer Dennis Nedry in...
Kim Kardashian Wants To Launch A Boys Line
Kim Kardashian is hoping to launch a boys line in the future. The 33-year-old reality TV star and her sisters Kourtney and Khloe have just released a...
David Beckham Named World's Best Underwear Model
David Beckham has been named the world's best underwear model. The retired soccer star, 38, has been crowned the champion by designer Tommy Hilfiger...
Nfl Now Wants $16 Million From M.i.a, But Will Madonna Help Out?
MIA’s issues with the NFL seemed like a minor incident, until it turned out that the organization was suing the singer for $16 million in damages....
Mixed Reviews For Itv's 'The Widower', But Reece Shearsmith Impresses Critics
The new three-part ITV drama, ‘The Widower’ aired last night (March 18, 2014). The show aims to tell the story of Mark Webster, who was convicted...
Did Courtney Love Just Find Missing Malaysia Airlines Mh370 Flight?
Courtney Love has weighed in on the mystery of the Malaysia Airlines plane disappearance as the search enters its tenth day. The Hole rocker and...
Bez Joins Anti-fracking Protest
Former Happy Mondays star Bez joined protesters at an anti-fracking march in Salford, England on Monday (17Mar14).The dancer/singer, real name Mark...
Beastie Boys Reach Settlement With Toy Company
The Beastie Boys have reached a settlement with bosses of a toy company to end a legal battle over their hit track Girls.The rappers became embroiled...
John Lennon's Writing Collection To Go For Auction
A collection of poems, short stories and drawings by John Lennon is to go under the hammer in New York later this year (14).The manuscripts written...
Sky Ferreira 'Saw Bone' Following Onstage Injury
Pop star Sky Ferreira "saw bone" in her leg after she fell down an elevator shaft onstage while supporting Miley Cyrus on tour.The singer was...
Robbie Williams To Collaborate With His Father
British pop star Robbie Williams is preparing a new family-based collaboration, according to the singer's father.The Angels hitmaker and his dad Pete...
Sullivan Stapleton Fell From Tuk-tuk In Thailand
Australian actor Sullivan Stapleton suffered a nasty head injury when he fell out of a tuk-tuk in Thailand and is expected to be out of action for up...
The X Factor Musical Abandoned Midway Through Performance
Simon Cowell's The X Factor musical has been hit by more problems after a performance was cancelled half-way through on Monday (17Mar14).Preview...
Stars Turn Out For Gabrielle Union's Engagement Party
Hollywood actor Jamie Foxx, pop star Kelly Rowland and comedian Kevin Hart were among the guests who turned out for Gabrielle Union's engagement...
Eddie Izzard Urges Scotland To Stay In The U.k.
British comedian Eddie Izzard is to perform a special gig in Scotland in an effort to convince the country's residents to vote against leaving the...
Kate Winslet Named Baby After House Fire
British actress Kate Winslet gave her newborn son the middle name Blaze to commemorate the terrifying house fire which brought her together with her...
Billy Crystal Organises Scavenger Hunt For Wife's Birthday
Veteran actor Billy Crystal took his wife on a scavenger hunt around Santa Monica, California for her birthday.The When Harry Met Sally... star...
Sienna Miller To Star In Clint Eastwood's Navy Seal Biopic
British actress Sienna Miller has landed a starring role in director Clint Eastwood's upcoming film, American Sniper.The Alfie star has been tapped...
Prince has released the duet he recorded with actress/singer Zooey Deschanel. The song, Fallinlove2Nite, premiered on an episode of Deschanel's Tv...
Actress Eva Longoria celebrated her 39th birthday by enjoying a dinner in South beach, Florida with a group of pals and her boyfriend, media mogul...
"I get a call that the song was pushed back... then I get a call that it isn't... gonna take the back seat with this one." Ariana Grande is in the...
Two-time Oscar winner Jane Fonda is set to receive the Robert Redford Award for Engaged Artists from the USC School of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles....
"I've been living with somebody for four years. I'm shacking up with someone, yeah. It can get pretty great when you're older. Because it's sort of...
Meeting Between Russell Crowe And Pope Francis Was Never On The Agenda
Pope Francis’ near-spotless public image lives on, as it has now come out that the Catholic leader did not cancel a planned meeting with Hollywood...
Lily Allen Earned "Nothing" From John Lewis Ad. Well, £8k
Lily Allen sure does have a strange concept of money. When asked how much she earned from the John Lewis Christmas ad, which saw the singer reach...
Cure Me I'm Gay: Doctor Warns "Adele Songs Will Make You Homosexual"
You may have seen interesting TV programme has been touted around Channel 4 ad breaks recently. We say interesting - we mean bizarre. "Cure Me I'm...
Angelina Jolie Embodies Evil In New 'Maleficent' Poster [Trailer]
It's just over two months until Disney's Maleficent is released and we get to experience the story of Angelina Jolie's wicked villainess told in a...
Kevin Spacey Swaps 'House Of Cards' For House Lights Down, With One-man Old Vic Play
Kevin Spacey is going above and beyond his responsibilities as Creative Director at the Old Vic Theatre by starring in a one-man play as part of the...
"Incognitive": David Beckham Stars In 'Only Fools And Horses' Clip [Video]
Viewers have got their first look at David Beckham's upcoming appearance in an Only Fools and Horses sketch for Sport Relief. The new skit, which...
Mel C Gets Feather Tattoo
Mel C has got a new feather tattoo.The former Spice Girls star has had the design etched onto her right arm and it is joined to her famous barbed...
Melissa George's 'Great' Three Day Labour
Melissa George was in labour for three days with son Raphaël. The 'Good Wife' actress and her boyfriend Jean-David Blanc welcomed their son into the...
L'wren Scott's Social Media Pages Removed
L'Wren Scott's social media profiles have been taken down.The late 49-year-old fashion designer's accounts on twitter, Facebook and Instagram have...
Kate Winslet Explains Son's Name
Kate Winslet's son is named in honour of the fire she escaped in 2011.The 'Divergent' actress met her now-husband Ned Rocknroll when they fled a fire...
Sarah Harding Uses Special Honey To Protect Voice
Sarah Harding uses luxury honey to keep her voice in top shape. The 32-year-old pop star relies on a special mixture of £10-a-jar Manuka honey, hot...
Sxsw 2014 Is Over, But Here's The Memories
SXSW 2014 is over. We saw 2200 bands playing over 100 stages. Well, we didn't actually see all those bands with our own eyes, but we've done all the...
Chris Evans: Public Need A Hero
Chris Evans insists it's important to have a patriotic superhero to admire. The 32-year-old actor - who plays the titular superhero in forthcoming...
James Spader Is Doing 'Unbelievable' Job As Ultron
James Spader is doing an ''unbelievable job'' as Ultron, says Kevin Feige.The 54-year-old actor has been cast as the titular villain - a crazed robot...
Terminator: Genesis Has 'Hardcore Action'
Arnold Schwarzenegger says 'Terminator: Genesis' has the ''same feel'' as the second film in the franchise.The 66-year-old star - who was forced to...
M.i.a Asks Madonna For $16m To Pay Nfl
M.I.A has jokingly asked Madonna for $16 million as the NFL step up their legal action for her middle finger salute during their 2012 Super Bowl...
Example Reveals Drug And Alcohol And Abuse
Example used to get ''absolutely battered'' before gigs.The 31-year-old rapper-and-singer - real name Elliot Gleave - has revealed his drug and...
Lady Gaga Reveals Tour Stage Design
Lady Gaga has unveiled the stage design for her upcoming 'artRave: The ARTPOP Ball Tour'.The 27-year-old star posted a photograph on Twitter of the...
Miley Cyrus' Tour Bus Catches Fire
Miley Cyrus and her crew escaped injury on Monday night (17Mar14) after one of the singer's tour buses burst into flames.The disaster was reported by...
Mick Jagger's Model Daughter Cancels Runway Show
Sir Mick Jagger's supermodel daughter Georgia May Jagger has cancelled an appearance at a fashion show and rushed to her father's side following the...
Melanie Chisholm Rescued From Dressing Room By Security Guards
British pop star Melanie Chisholm had to be rescued by security guards after she became trapped in her dressing room at a tiny London show.The former...
Rapper Dg Yola Arrested On Murder Charge
Rapper Dg Yola has been arrested on suspicion of murder.The hip-hop star, 28, who scored a hit with 2006 song Ain't Gon' Let Up, was detained by...
Lady Gaga Unveils See-through Stage Design
Pop star Lady Gaga has shown off an innovative set design for her upcoming world tour which will allow fans to dance underneath a transparent...
Shakira's Colombian School Has Improved The Community
Singer Shakira is convinced her latest school project in her native Colombia has turned around the fortunes of the local community after opening last...
Melanie Mel Brown Funding Her Own Pop Comemel Back
Former Spice Girls star Melanie Brown poured her own cash into recording sessions for her comeback single.The singer released a one-off track, For...
Belinda Carlisle Baffled By Lack Of All-girl Bands
Pop star Belinda Carlisle is baffled by the lack of self-formed all-girl bands despite improving gender equality in the modern music industry.The...
Josh Holloway Welcomes A Son
Actor Josh Holloway has welcomed his second child with wife Yessica Kumala.The Lost star has confirmed Kumala gave birth to a little boy named Hunter...
Stars Join Campaign To Improve Press Standards
More than 200 stars including Russell Brand, Sir Ian Mckellen and Dame Maggie Smith have put their names to a campaign to clean up the British...
Kate Winslet Left Baby Son Behind For Los Angeles Trip
British actress Kate Winslet had to be parted from her newborn son when she flew to Los Angeles to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame...
Khloe Kardashian Defends Herself Over Australian Tv Fall-out
Reality Tv regular Khloe Kardashian has denied allegations she cut short an Australian Tv interview after objecting to a question about her baby...
Julianne Hough Teams Up With Brother For Stage Show
Julianne Hough and her dancer brother Derek Hough are teaming up for a stage show tour across North America.The Footloose star was a professional...
Jennifer Garner Lands New Role With Save The Children
Actress Jennifer Garner has landed a senior position with a leading children's charity.The Daredevil star has been an ambassador for Save The...
Lenny Henry Brings Ethnicity Campaign To Bafta
British comedian Lenny Henry stepped up his campaign to launch more black actors on U.K. Tv by giving an impassioned lecture to members of the...
Dannii Minogue is launching a petite fashion range for department store Target in her native Australia. The diminutive singer's collection will be...
Black Eyed Peas star Will.I.Am is a fan of British children's Tv shows like In The Night Garden and Bob The Builder. The rapper tells Britain's Radio...
"I was just in London and we all had tea together. It was a private tea, nobody saw us, but we talked about our kids and regular stuff, like what...
Homeland's Damian Lewis, Scottish film star James Mcavoy and Doctor Who actor Matt Smith are among the celebrities who have been recruited for Robbie...
David Hasselhoff has headed back to Germany to film a documentary about the Berlin Wall. The Baywatch actor famously sang on top of the wall on New...
Veteran British comedian Ken Dodd was hailed as a Legend of Comedy at the 2014 Leicester Comedy Festival, held in Leicester, England. The 86-year-old...
"Everybody's been cheated on, everyone will be cheated on... We are human beings, we are complicated - you cannot go through life without tallying up...
Dame Vivienne Westwood In Shower Video
Dame Vivienne Westwood has released a video of her in the shower ahead of World Water Day on Saturday (22.03.14).The celebrated fashion designer is...
Karl Lagerfeld Does Russian Theme For Monaco Ball
Karl Lagerfeld has chosen a Russian theme for the Monaco Rose Ball.Chanel's creative director will organise the event, more commonly known as the Bal...
Lenny Henry Highlights Inequality In Entertainment Industry During Bafta Speech
Lenny Henry used his Bafta lecture to highlight the levels of inequality that are currently commonplace in the entertainment industry in the U.K,...
Batman, Superman, Iron Man And Spider-man Step Aside: Bananaman Is Coming
While Marvel and DC have been busy at work bringing every super hero character imaginable to the big screen, you can’t really go ahead and call...
Mick Jagger: 'I Am Struggling To Understand Why L'wren Scott Ended Her Life'
Mick Jagger has broken his silence following the death of his longtime girlfriend, revealing he is struggling to understand why his "lover and best...
Mick Jagger Pays Tribute To L'wren Scott
Sir Mick Jagger has paid tribute to his ''lover and best friend'' L'Wren Scott.The Rolling Stones frontman admitted he is ''struggling to...
Cameron Diaz: Everyone Will Be Cheated On
Cameron Diaz believes everyone will be cheated on at some stage in their life.The 41-year-old actress - who has previously dated stars including...
Michael Buble Feared Marriage
Michael Buble was afraid of getting married.The 38-year-old singer - who has five-month-old son Noah with spouse Luisana Lopilato - always knew he...
Cameron Douglas Released From Solitary Confinement
Michael Douglas' son has been released from solitary confinement.Cameron Douglas had spent almost two years incarcerated alone without visitors at...
Ashton Kutcher Sought Proposal Permission
Ashton Kutcher sought Mila Kunis' father's permission to marry her.The 'Anger Management' actor - who was previously wed to Demi Moore - wanted to do...
Jessie James And Eric Decker Welcome Baby Girl
Country music star Jessie James and her footballer husband Eric Decker have become first-time parents to a baby girl.The singer gave birth on Tuesday...
Take A Peek At Charlie And Snoop In This Cheeky 'Peanuts' Teaser [Trailer + Pictures]
2015 marks of the anniversary of Charles Schulz’s comic strip ‘Peanuts’. A goofy, hilarious read back then, the characters of Charlie and Brown...
She's On Fire! Miley Cyrus Tour Bus Up In Flames During Bangerz Tour
Miley Cyrus has had a pretty chaotic Bangerz North American tour so far but nothing so serious as last night's tour bus fire which apparently broke...
Hulk Hogan Is Fandango Fan
WWE Superstar Fandango admits it was a ''cool'' moment when his childhood idol Hulk Hogan told him he was a fan of his.The 32-year-old grappler...
Rolling Stones Postpone Australia And New Zealand Tour
The Rolling Stones have scrapped their upcoming Australia and New Zealand tour dates to allow frontman Sir Mick Jagger time to mourn the death of his...
Nirvana's First Drummer Not Eligible For Hall Of Fame Honour
Nirvana's first drummer Chad Channing has discovered he won't be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame alongside former bandmate Krist Novoselic...
Smokey Robinson Suing Ex-wife Over Copyright Interest
Soul icon Smokey Robinson is suing his ex-wife Claudette Rogers Robinson to prevent her from profiting from songs he wrote during their 27-year...
Tony Award-winning Composer Mitch Leigh Dead At 86
Tony Award-winning composer Mitch Leigh has died at the age of 86.Leigh suffered pneumonia and complications from a stroke and passed away on Sunday...
Judge Rejects Motion To Dismiss Kanye West And Kim Kardashian Suit Over Proposal Video Leak
Rapper Kanye West and his fiancee Kim Kardashian have been given the green light to proceed with legal action against a YouTube.com co-founder...
Publicist Max Clifford Bragged About Sleeping With Diana Ross, Court Hears
Celebrity publicist Max Clifford attempted to land a teenage model as a client after boasting of sleeping with superstar Diana Ross, a London court...
Sofia Coppola In Talks To Direct The Little Mermaid Live-action Film
Filmmaker Sofia Coppola is reportedly in talks to direct a live-action version of The Little Mermaid.British director Joe Wright had been attached to...
Lewis Hamilton Denies Engagement Rumours
Formula One race ace Lewis Hamilton has denied reports suggesting he has proposed to longtime girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger.The former Pussycat Dolls...
Angelina Jolie Forced To Do Yoga For Maleficent Role
Actress Angelina Jolie was forced to take up yoga to prepare for her evil role in Maleficent.The Salt star did many of her own stunts in the film and...
Newcomer Levi Miller Cast As Peter Pan In New Film
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By Bang Showbiz in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 30 April 2019
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A host of stars and directors have paid tribute to John Singleton following the filmmaker's death at just 51.
Spike Lee, Halle Berry and Viola Davis are among the stars to have paid tribute to the late John Singleton.
The 51-year-old filmmaker - who made history as the first African-American and youngest person to be nominated for the Best Director Oscar in 1992 for 'Boyz n the Hood' - had his life support turned off on Monday (29.04.19) following a ''major stroke'' two weeks ago and a host of big names in Hollywood have reflected on his work and legacy.
'BlacKkKlansman' director Spike praised his friend for his ''passion and heart''.
He wrote on Instagram: ''We Met While He Was A Film Student At USC.
''Over Many Years People Have Told Me 'I'm Going To Be A Filmmaker'.
''When John Said That To Me The 1st Time We Met, I Believed Him Right Away. It Was No Surprise.
''With His Passion, His Heart, The Way He Talked About His Love For Cinema And Black Folks I Could See John Would Make It Happen, And He Did.
''From Day One, We Have Remained Close Over The Decades, Cheering Each Other On In This Industry That Is Not Set Up For Us To Win.
''John Singleton's Films Will Live On Forever.
''Blessings And Prayers For His Family. May John Rest In Power. Amen.(sic)''
Halle praised the director as an ''innovator'' who will always be a ''beacon of light''.
She tweeted: ''#JohnSingleton was an innovator - he came with drive & a creative vision when people of color didn't have the same visibility we do now. He will remain a beacon of light in our community, and today we celebrate his legacy. Rest well my friend, we've lost one of the good guys.(sic)''
And Viola said the 'Higher Learning' filmmaker has ''inspired a generation''.
She tweeted: ''The best life is when we leave a trail. We leave something on this earth bigger than us. John Singleton....you inspired a generation of Artists. We will shoulder on....'May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest''. RIP(sic)''
Samuel L. Jackson, who worked with John on 2000's 'Shaft' remembered his ''true friend''.
He tweeted: ''Mourning the loss of a collaborator & True Friend John Singleton. He blazed the trail for many young film makers, always remaining true to who he was & where he came from!!! RIP Brother. Gone Way Too Soon!(sic)''
Quincy Jones also paid tribute to the 'Baby Boy' director's enduring legacy.
He tweeted: ''RIP to my dear brother, John Singleton. Gone far, far too soon...your storytelling & contributions to our culture will endure forever.(sic)''
Tyler Perry has been left ''heartbroken and shocked'' by the director's death.
He wrote: ''I cannot believe this man is gone at such a young age. He was always encouraging, supportive, and gracious to me. I will be calling his and his family's name in my prayers tonight. Heartbroken and shocked. May God add peace and rest to your ascending soul Mr. John Singleton.(sic)''
Fellow directors Edgar Wright and Ron Howard also paid tribute to their peer.
Edgar tweeted: ''This is way too sad. The word 'groundbreaker' is thrown around too easily, but it applied to John Singleton, an inspirational, influential film-maker. While he had many accomplishments in TV and film, you felt he had still more surprises up his sleeve. 51 is far too young to go. (sic)''
Ron wrote: ''Sad sad news. Such a good director and so well regarded everywhere he went. We will miss his work and his storytelling voice. RIP #JohnSingleton (sic)''
Hours after John's family confirmed on Monday they would be taking him off life support, they confirmed he had passed away.
They said in a statement: ''John passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family and friends.
''We want to thank the amazing doctors at Cedars-Sinai [Medical Center] for their expert care and kindness, and we again want to thank all of John's fans, friends and colleagues for all of the love and support they showed him during this difficult time.''
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Some compositional and analytical applications of T-matrices
Morris, R. D. 1989. "Some compositional and analytical applications of T-matrices." Integral 3: pp. 37-66.
Morris, Robert D
Copyright 1996-2013 Christopher Ariza.
“With the development of electronic and computer music, multidemnsionality of sound representation turned out to be both natural and useful. But music goes beyond multidimensionality -- it is even more complex.”
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“... the individual and the society are deprived of the formidable power of free imagination that musical composition offers them. We are able to tear down this iron curtain, thanks to the technology of computers...”
“... and the hope of an extraordinary aesthetic success based on extraordinary technology is a cruel deceit.”
“... but beware, technique can submerge the user: We must defend ourselves; it is good to use techniques, but we have to dominate them, to stay alert.”
“The characteristics of every sound depend on the way in which the sound was produced. Each art-form exploits its special production methods in order to endow the phenomena with unmistakable characteristics. Artistic economy demands that the means be appropriate to the end, and that the exploitation of the means be an end in itself.”
“The danger is great of letting oneself be trapped by the tools and of becoming stuck in the sands of technology that has come like an intruder into the relatively calm waters of the thought in instrumental music.”
“... the use of numerical machines no longer stands in need of justification. It is not a mystery. If there is a mystery, it is in the mental structures of music and not in the computers, which are only tools, extensions of the hand and the slide rule.”
“The computing machine is a marvelous invention and seems almost superhuman. But in reality it is as limited as the mind of the individual who feeds it material. Like the computer, the machines we use for making music can only give back what we put into them.”
“Composers are now able, as never before, to satisfy the dictates of that inner ear of the imagination. They are also lucky so far in not being hampered by esthetic codification -- at least not yet! But I am afraid it will not be long before some musical mortician begins embalming electronic music in rules.”
“Music is then no longer primarily conceived as a guide for premeditated emotions, but as the density of the possible relationships which first become actuality during production under the influence of chance, and which during performance are presented to the listener as sounds beyond any environmental associatiations, independent of bodily actions required to produce sounds...”
“The use of computers is the logical outcome of a historical development. It by no means heralds a new musical epoch; it simply offers a fast, reliable and versatile means of solving problems that already demanded solution. The person who writes the computer programme must bear the development of musical language up to the present in mind, and try to advance a stage further.”
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Vintage Texas fort inspires this new Austin-area ranch home
By Mary Jo Bowling, Houzz
The rear of the house makes the inspirations clear. Jacob Bodkin Photography, Houzz
Many of the early Texas ranches give a nod to Spanish missions. Photo by Jacob Bodkin Photography, Houzz
Old Chicago brick makes an interior appearance in the living room fireplace. Photo by Jacob Bodkin Photography, Houzz
This bathroom calls for a large window. Photo by Jacob Bodkin Photography, Houzz
The guest quarters. Photo by Jacob Bodkin Photography, Houzz
The porch of the guest wing. Photo by Jacob Bodkin Photography, Houzz
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The house is in a planned neighborhood on an 8-acre lot, but its primary influence is an 1880s Texas fort that is one of a few buildings standing on a 500-plus-acre spread. That inspiration is Fort Davis, the centerpiece of the Fort Davis Historic Preserve and one of the best existing examples of frontier strongholds.
The rear of the house makes the inspirations clear. As with many classic Texas ranch houses, its two wings appear to have been constructed at different times. The brick wing is the main house, and it holds the master bedroom, living room, and kitchen. If at first glance you think you are looking at a stone exterior, that’s understandable. The architect used Old Chicago (salvaged) brick to give the home the appearance of antiquity. The wooden wing appears to have been added at a later date, and it’s connected by a breezeway. This section of the dwelling houses the guest rooms. “It portrays a sentimental view of Texas,” architect Hugh Jefferson Randolph says. “It is nostalgic and evocative of old Texas.”
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The architect says that although the owners don’t live on one of the sprawling Texas ranches from days gone by, they loved the idea of rural architecture that is symbolic of the Lone Star State and points beyond.
“One of the things that influenced the owners was the farmhouse and farm buildings in Out of Africa,” Randolph says. The architect also brought his heritage to the table, introducing the couple to the style of rural Southern buildings that he experienced in his youth.
The landscaping does a lot to reinforce the “it’s long been here” look by relying heavily on native wildflowers.
Many of the early Texas ranches give a nod to Spanish missions. Inside this home, that tradition is visible with elements like the counter-to-ceiling Spanish-style tiles in the kitchen. “This room is open to the family room and dining room,” Randolph says. “It’s a big space, and small tile wouldn’t have been the proper scale for it.”
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On an adjacent wall, the architect included a large picture window that looks out to the lawn and trees. “I don’t want to say we have a formula, but someone once made the comment that we use really big windows or really little windows,” Randolph says. “I use big windows to frame or accentuate views, just as you would frame great art. I use little windows to let in light, but to provide privacy or hide an undesirable view.”
Old Chicago brick makes an interior appearance in the living room fireplace. The beams in the ceiling are also architectural salvage. Dark polished concrete floors are modern but take on the look of age in the surroundings.
There’s a bathroom that doesn’t have privacy issues, so it calls for a large window. “The owner wanted this room to be really connected to the garden,” Randolph says. “She chose the claw-foot tub to give the space a farmhouse character.”
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And there's a porch off the guest wing. “The big porches are important to the project,” Randolph says. “They are like big outdoor rooms.”
The homeowner made the choice to paint the doors on this wing an orange-red. “I like it because it has a Southwestern feel to it,” Randolph says. “I also like how it looks with the wood siding.”
Through the doors are the guest quarters. “To me, this is a very Western room,” Randolph says. “I love how it’s done in a very classic, basic way. It’s minimal without being modern.”
The architect says there are three ingredients that go into a great project: the site, the client’s personality, and what he and his team can bring to it. “In this project, we also had a client who had a clear sense of personal style and a love of materials and texture,” Randolph says.
“I think that the house reflects the souls of the people who live there and the land that it’s on,” he says.
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Category Archives: renewable energy
A look at some of the Tax changes that become effective on January 1, 2020, as a result of the Finance Bill 2019 that was signed by the President on 7 November 2019.
The highlight was the repeal of Section 33B of the Banking Act which had put an interest rate cap on commercial bank loans, but there are also other taxation clauses of note.
Import Declaration Fee levy has been increased from 2% to 3.5%. Also, the Railway Development Levy, which is an important component of paying for the SGR, has been increased from 1.5% to 2%.
Companies that list under the Nairobi Securities Exchange’s GEMS program for the next three years can be forgiven tax penalties and interest, provided they pay the principal amount. This move to encourage listing at the NSE became effective in November 2019. But if they delist within five years, that window lapses and all taxes due before listing will again become payable.
Taxes also go up for cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, fruit wines and spirits.
Motor vehicle excise taxes go up from 20 to 25% for cars over 1500 cc, and that for station wagons and race cars go up from 30 to 35%, but for electric-powered motor vehicles, that goes down from 20 to 10%.
Sports betting companies take another hit with a 20% tax lopped on to each bet amount, regardless of the outcome of the wager.
New economy taxes: The new year ushers in taxes on the digital economy market place – this encompasses “platforms that enable interaction between buyers and sellers of goods & services through electronic means” who are now liable for income tax and value-added tax (VAT). Along with that, a taxpayer PIN is mandatory when one is registering for a paybill and till numbers (to process mobile payments) through a telephone company
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT’s), which were exempt from corporate tax are now also exempt from income tax.
There is an income tax exemption for people who register under the Government’s Ajira Digital (online work) program from January 2020 to December 2022.
Green bonds: Interest income on all listed infrastructure bonds, or green bonds,that are a minimum three years to maturity will be exempt from income tax as will income on the National Housing Development Fund.
Turnover tax of 3% has been reintroduced and will be payable monthly by any business whose turnover does not exceed Kshs 5 million (~$50,000) in any year. EDIT – does not apply to companies already registered for VAT or those earning employment income rental income, engaged in management & professional services and limited liability companies. There is also a Presumptive Tax, a new tax that is 15% of the annual fee paid for a license e.g. to operate in Nairobi County and that can be offset when paying the turnover tax.
Environmental stuff: Plastic recycling companies will get a preferential corporate tax rate of 15% for five years and machinery and equipment used for plastic recycling plants are now VAT exempt. But, going the other way, equipment for the development of solar and wind energy, including batteries, which were previously exempt from VAT, now require the Cabinet Secretary for Energy to approve any such exemptions.
A taxpayer PIN is now mandatory when one is renewing membership in a professional body or with any licensing agency.
Mitumba and shipment consolidators are now recognized – if they have warehouses in the country of origin and Kenya, and have no history of dealing with substandard or counterfeit goods.
Meanwhile, the President said at the Jamhuri Day celebrations (on December 12) that a mortgage scheme he had previously proposed, and which entailed a deduction of 1.5% of salaries, would not be mandatory. Parliament resumes in February 2020 and we shall see if they amend that.
Extracts from reports done by KPMG East Africa, RSM Eastern Africa LLP and KN Law LLP .
This entry was posted in Kenya mortgages, Kenya taxation, NSE bonds, NSE investor awareness, renewable energy, SME solutions on December 31, 2019 by bankelele.
EAVCA: Fintrek explores Fintech opportunities in East Africa
This week, the East Africa Venture Capital Association (EAVCA) with Intellecap Advisory Services released the Fintrek – which explores fintech opportunities in East Africa, new frontiers in fintech (defined as firms using technology to deliver financial products/services or capabilities to customers or others firms) and fintech investments in East Africa.
Asia Pacific and Africa have been harbingers of mobile payments and that is transitioning into fintech now. The Fintrek report notes three underlying factors driving fintech uptake as:
(i) the use of alternative data to generate credit takings of the unbanked (and deliver services to them cheaply e.g no need for bank branches),
(ii) peer to peer networks (decentralized collaboration, payments across borders, unregulated) and
(iii) the emergence of nontraditional players (telcos, wallets like Google Pay & Apple Pay, e-retailers like Amazon)
smartphones offer fintech opportunities.
Regionally, Kenya is seen as a leader in the region owing to its levels of deposit penetration, deep financial sector penetration, and smartphone ownership (at 44% compared to less than 10% for Tanzania Uganda Rwanda and Ethiopia). Kenya is where most fintechs are setting up, and Kenya-based fintechs have raised $204 million between 2000 and 2017 which is 98% of the funding to the region.
Funding: In terms of funding, fintechs are still in early stages as seen in the small deal sizes: seed funding provided 47 deals (averaging $447,000) and 60% of all funding was to impact areas renewable energy/off grid lighting and health care (microinsurance). Five companies M-KOPA, Off-Grid Electric, SunFunder, Angaza, Azuri) have raised $345 million (through debt and equity) accounting for 55% of the funding between 2010 and 2017. Another finding was that while 53% of all funding between 2010 and 2017 was from venture capital funds, their average deal size ($6 million – e.g. from Apis, Madison Dearborn) is lower than those of corporates ($15 million – e.g. from Stanbic, Commercial Bank of Africa) and foundations ($10 million – e.g. from Calvert, Emerson, Omidyar Network) deals.
Fintechs needs a balance of debt and equity investments to grow, but they are struggling to get debt financing (mainly bank loans). Fintechs in East Africa had debt-equity ratios of 1:1 compared to 3:1 globally, indicating they have capacity to absorb more debt but are not doing it. The EAVCA report cites one of the funding challenges as investors want proof of traction while fintechs need working capital to demonstrate proof of concept, lack of funder knowledge about local markets, East Africa fintechs don’t look like what foreign investors expect, currency fluctuations make it had to raise debt and there is a lack of fundraising skill among local fintechs who can’t afford the teams that will enable them to raise money.
The Fintrek report identified 11 fintech opportunities models and 47 sub-models and identified 4 sub-models that have flourished in East Africa:
– Payments and Savings: digital wallets (M-Pesa, Alipay, Tigo pesa – which pays 7-9% interest and now attract high-end users), payment intermediaries (Cellulant, Direct Pay, Jambopay) and digital currencies (Bitpesa, Coinbase, Belfrics – a crypto-currency platform).
– Lending: direct lending (Branch, Tala – with 1.8M customers in Kenya, Kreditech, Umati capital), P2P lending (Lendable, Pezesha – has 6,000 borrowers & 200 lenders), and lending aggregators (lakompare). Also, there is telco-based nano lending (M-Shwari, KCB-M-Pesa, Equitel – which issued $57 billion worth of loans – and telco-bank lenders in Kenya account for over 76% of total loan accounts, but only 4% of the loan values)
– Financial Management: Insuretech (Bimaspace, BimaAfya, Microensure), Investech (Abacus, Xeno) and personal finance management – (Chamasoft, Caytree).
– FS Enablers: (Jumo – credit underwriting for 5 million customers and 20 million loans), Arifu, FirstAccess, NetGuardian – fraud identifier), FarmDrive, Sasa solutions, Lendddo).
Some recent fintech deals in East Africa include Farmdrive (from the Safaricom Spark Fund), Pezesha (DFS lab), Pula (DFS lab, CGAP), M-Kopa ($80M – Stanbic, CDC, FMO, Norfund), Tala ($30M – IVP), Jumo ($24M – Finnfund), Mobisol ($12M – FinnFund), Angaza ($10.5M – Emerson), Flutterwave ($10M – Greycroft), Netguardian ($8.5M – Freemont), Trine ($8M – Gullspang), Lendable ($6M – Kawisafi, Omidyar, Fenway), Direct Pay ($5M – Apis), Azuri ($5M – Standard Chartered), Bitpesa ($4.25M – Greycroft), Branch ($2M – from high-networth Kenyans and funds – arranged by Nabo Capital)
Production of the Fintrek report was supported by Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Africa and Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO).
See more of the EAVCA Fintrek report and other fintech opportunities at the 5th Sankalp Africa Summit on March 1-2, 2018 in Nairobi and see their private equity snapshot report.
This entry was posted in africa venture capital, EAVCA, Investing in Kenya, NSE investor awareness, renewable energy, Rwanda, SME solutions, solar, tanzania, Uganda on March 1, 2018 by bankelele.
Kengen the Geothermal Powerhouse
Kenya is the only African country that has successfully tapped the green energy potential of geothermal power and is ranked number eight in the world. Kenya’s 676MW geothermal output trails that of the USA (3,567MW) Philippines, Indonesia, New Zealand, Italy, Mexico, Turkey, and ahead of Iceland, and Japan.
The bulk of this geothermal power comes from the Kenya Electricity Generating Company (Kengen) which supplies 1.6GW (80%) of the country’s 2.3GW electricity output. Of that 533MW is from geothermal energy, primarily from the Olkaria area near Naivasha, where the first wells were dug in 1950 and their deployment and production accelerated after 2007.
Kengen has 294 drilled walls with an 80% success rate, and part of that leap has been due to a Kengen-pioneered “wellhead technology”, which was done in partnership with Green Energy, an Icelandic company. Wellhead technology allows Kengen to tap steam energy within a year or two of sinking a well and recoup their investments faster (it usually costs $6 million to dig a well). In all, Kengen generates 75MW from 7 wellhead stations at Olkaria and one at Eburu.
Kengen’s Olkaria IV geothermal power plant.
In terms of electricity generation, Kengen plans to have supply stay ahead of demand especially considering the long setup time for energy plants (about seven years). With funds raised from shareholders and investors in 2016, they plan to add 1,000 MW to reach 1,745MW by the year 2025.
Kenya has an estimated 10,000 MW of geothermal power potential, and geothermal steam allows high energy demand manufacturing such as steel, cement and glass processing take place. These are currently hampered by the high costs of electricity, but the separation processes of geothermal gases means that such companies can tap steam to use at their factories nearby and this is the strategy behind a planned Kengen industrial park at Olkaria, Naivasha. Already Oserian Flowers buys steam and pipes it to heat their greenhouses in the nearby area.
As at June 2017, Kengen had a diversified mix of installed energy sources comprising Hydro 818 MW (including Masinga 40 MW , Kamburu 94.2MW, Gitaru 225MW, Kindaruma 72MW, Kiambere 168MW, Turkwel 106MW, Sondu 60MW, Sangoro 21.2MW, Tana 20MW), Geothermal 534 MW (Olkaria I 45 MW, Olkaria II 105MW, Olkaria IV 149.8MW, Olkaria I AU 150.5MW), Thermal 253.5 MW (Kipevu I 73.5MW, Kipevu III 120MW, gas turbines 60MW) and wind power 25.5MW (three phases at Ngong Hills).
Kenya has a liberated energy production market, and other private sector players in the geothermal sector who are seeking support under a private-public partnership program include Sosian Power, Quantum Power, and Akiira, as wells as Africa Geothermal and Orpower who are close by Kengen’s fields at Olkaria.
This entry was posted in Investing in Kenya, Japan, Kengen, Kengen IPO, Kenya economic growth, Naivasha, renewable energy and tagged clean energy, geothermal, renewable energy on February 17, 2018 by bankelele.
Tegeta Escrow
Yesterday Harbinder Singh Sethi and James Buchard Rugemarila were charged with obtaining $22 million and 309 billion Tanzania shillings from the Bank of Tanzania in what’s been dubbed the Tegeta Escrow case.
The Charge Sheet of #TegetaEscrow
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— Maria Sarungi Tsehai (@MariaSTsehai) June 19, 2017
Perhaps the best summary of the Tegeta Escrow case comes from Africa Confidential (Vol 55 – N° 19) dated 26 September 2014 –
Heads may be about to roll after revelations about the contested transfer of 200 billion Tanzania shillings (US$124 million) from an escrow account in the central bank, the Bank of Tanzania, to Harbinder Singh Sethi’s Pan Africa Power Solutions Tanzania Limited (PAP, AC Vol 55 No 13). The complex details of how Sethi acquired Independent Power Tanzania Ltd. (IPTL) and then raided the BoT account have now been pieced together by two opposition members of parliament, Zitto Kabwe and David Zacharia Kafulila, with the help of The Citizen and Mwananchi newspapers.
If Sethi’s critics are proved right, this is the country’s biggest corruption scandal to date. Based in South Africa, Sethi is a Tanzanian-born businessman with a reputation for dubious past dealings in Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa and the United States. Sethi claims to have bought 70% of IPTL’s shares from Malaysia’s Mechmar Corporation, now in receivership. Yet Standard Chartered Bank Hong Kong (SCB-HK) claims to have purchased IPTL’s debt for $76 mn. in August 2005 and says Mechmar was already in liquidation when Sethi claimed to have acquired the shares.
The Tanzanian behind IPTL, former BoT employee and self-styled international consultant James Rugemalira, is also under investigation over the $75 mn. that he was paid by Sethi for his company’s 30% share in IPTL.
Both Sethi and Rugemalira have lived up to Kabwe’s description as ‘aggressive litigators’. Their strategy has been to steer the acquisition of IPTL away from non-Tanzanian jurisdictions (Malaysia and Britain), from other interested parties (SCB-HK) and lawyers, receivers and liquidators in Malaysia and Hong-Kong. In this way, SCB-HK’s property rights in IPTL have been summarily dismissed and attempts by SCB-HK’s lawyers to negotiate a compromise with Tanesco have all been blocked. Furthermore, the findings of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes over IPTL’s overcharging Tanesco for power supplied and the proposal for a solution involving SCB-HK claims have been ignored. Tanzanian courts have been complicit in rubber-stamping IPTL’s transfer to Sethi’s PAP. None of this helps improve the country’s image abroad.
The unfolding details about the Tegeta Escrow case resulted in the removal of four ministers back in 2014. On Saturday, the energy minister, Sospeter Muhongo, resigned over his alleged role in the affair last year that saw $180m (£116m) taken from the country’s central bank. The move follows the removal from office of the attorney general, Frederick Werema, the energy secretary, Eliakim Maswi, and the housing minister, Anna Tibaijuka, who was sacked over the transfer of $1m to her private bank account Chairs of three parliamentary committees have also resigned following the scandal: Victor Mwambalaswa, energy and minerals committee; Andrew Chenge, parliamentary budget committee; and William Ngeleja, legal affairs and governance committee.
Back in December 2014, Stanbic Bank Tanzania released a short statement on the-then parliamentary report on Tegeta Escrow and their role.
This entry was posted in corruption, renewable energy, Stanbic, tanzania on June 20, 2017 by bankelele.
France & Kenya and Renewable Energy
Yesterday there was forum on renewable energy in Nairobi. It was organized by the Embassy of France and the Kenya government to show executives from French energy companies opportunities to invest in renewables and other energy projects in Kenya and Africa. Aqylon, Engie, GreenYellow, Quadran, Sogea Satom, Total , UrbaSolar, Vegrent, and Vinci representatives were part of the group.
French companies built hydro dams in Kenya
Large silent corporations include Engie which produces 3 GW in Africa and Vinci which has EUR 800 million of revenue, and 14,000 staff in Africa.
SUNREF from AFD/KAM provides tailored finance for green energy to Kenyan companies through Bank of Africa, CBA, Diamond Trust and Cooperative Bank. 11 companies have now been financed, and some that have got SUNREF green energy finance include KTDA, Meru dairy, Strathmore University, and Redland Roses.
Kenya has 10 independe power producers (IPP’s) producing 650 MW (28%) of its electricity – shows how vibrant it is for investors.
Regional electricity sharing in future: Kenya produces 2,200 MW, Ethiopia 4,284 MW (90% from hydro), Tanzania 1,583 MW (65% from thermal), and Uganda 900 MW (80% from hydro)
GreenYellow works with factory, malls, hotels, to finance & build (heat/cold/solar/light) systems that reduce their energy costs by 30%
UrbaSolar is working with Kenyatta University on a 100% self-consumption plant that will reduce electricity bills by 80% (20% is night).
Total is constructing a 40 MW solar plant at Isiolo with Green Millenia, while Kenya’s rural electrification authority (REA) has got funding to do a 50 MW one near Garissa.
KenGen which provides 80% of Kenya’s electricity, has tendered for an Olkaria 5 plant, and will build an industrial park there.
There’s opportunity in Kenya off-grid & mini grid electricity, but there’s no legal framework for integrating with the national grid integration & projects sometimes face land acquisition or compensation delays.
Solar has not picked up in Kenya, but with drop of photovoltaic prices, there’s lots of interest here now – Energy Permanent Secretary J. Njoroge told the companies.. He also said renewable energy is intermittent – it can only be used up to a certain % of Kenya’s electricity grid supply. Later there was mention of CSP solar plants which are more complex & expensive than traditional PV ones which but do give stable solar electricity.
This entry was posted in France, Kengen, Kenya economic growth, KPLC, KTDA, renewable energy, solar, Total, World Bank on September 28, 2016 by bankelele.
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Media Moment: Kenya Landscape Report
This morning a, joint report by TIFA Research and Reelforge Media Intelligence was released about the media landscape in Kenya.
Excerpts from the report
Advertising remains a key source of revenue of media. Also the media, while still powerful faces many challenges including global competition for advertisers (Facebook and Google), and for consumers from other digital platforms.
Audiences are fragmented, with people interacting with five radio and 3 TV stations every day. TIFA has tried to improve on the traditional data collecting methods for audience measurement by using an app in the phones of test subjects.
For brands, Facebook is the most effective – used by 71% of corporations to reach audiences, followed by Twitter 26%. Least used are podcasts, email and surprisingly WhatsApp – despite its prevalence (all below 2%).
Social media and content marketing are the most effective ways of reaching consumers, according to the report. The least effective methods are email campaigns, public relations and outdoors advertising (all below 8%).
Whatsapp and Facebook are the most popular platforms with internet audiences – used by over 80% of the respondents – and this is largely because they are free from Telecom providers.
The top media spender in 2019 is projected to be Safaricom with Kshs 9.7 billion. In 2018 it was gambling company Tatua which spent Kshs 5.3 billion. In 2017 it was the Government of Kenya which spent Kshs 8.6 billion in that was an election year. Spending by gambling companies has been on the rise with half of the top advertising companies now being betting firms.
Radio remains attractive because it is free for audiences access. It also had the has the highest advertising over the period – mainly by political parties during the 2017 Kenya elections.
Newspaper circulation continued to decline, and the authors estimated at circulation went down by 33% between 2013 and 2018.
Digital migration has increased the reach of TV. Today, Kenya has 173 radio stations, 68 TV stations and 9 newspapers.
The report by TIFA and Reelforge is now available for download.
This entry was posted in corporate blogging, Gambling, Google, Media in Kenya and tagged media on July 10, 2019 by bankelele.
Whats’s Next In Media?
A forum titled #whatsnextmedia was organized by Nest at the Aga Khan Graduate School of Media and Communications, in Nairobi yesterday. The first panel had Dennis Itumbi, Owaahh, Gaddo and Carole Kimutai. There was some nice chats about the current state of media, but it all came down to – what’s next in in media?
Carole:
Tuko produces viral content as Kenyans want short precise news delivered daily
They have to monetize continue – and they have just started to scratch the surface. Their sister site in Nigeria has 1 million views daily.
A new website has give answers, as there’s too much content out there. People check ma3route every day as it gives enables them to make decisions like which road to drive on.
Legacy media need to understand their audiences. Readers wants smarter delivery e.g. her Qz.com news app talks to her about the news they deliver.
Young people are less informed and can’t answer simple questions. They don’t read, but love gossip – and they now have a gossip page that is very popular.
Gaddo:
As a cartoonist, he has benefited from the freedom of media and internet in Kenya
Buni (producers of the XYZ show) contracts state that media owners cannot interfere with the program’s content.
He;s worried that our brains can only process 140 characters – and it takes a lot of expertise to do good, short content
We should discuss media ownership in Kenya. The media is owned by the political elite and crooked people.
The Kenyan president has been an observer of his online accounts, but in the next financial year (from June 30, 2016), that will change and he will become more interactive on his personal (ukenyatta) and official (presidentke) accounts.
It’s been a struggle to upgrade, secure, and improve government websites (and emails) with limited budgets but that continues. More online interactions brings improvement of government services e.g. internships at NITA
He’s fought to get jobs for bloggers and digital strategists and there will be many more for independent-minded bloggers who can articulate and sell the Jubilee government agenda
They have a digital verification hub at State House to confirm and respond to negative media stories.
Owaahh:
Niches – there is no mainstream audience, you need to write for specific people
You can’t make content for revenue, and you don’t need 1 million readers. James Murua blog is very big in the literature community in Nigeria, even though not many Kenyans know it. And when you have a niche, you can monetize it.
ghlaflarization of media – other newspapers and media are adding more gossip content, and have click bait headlines to imitate Ghafla that gets 1-2 million visitors per month
There are about 8 million whatsapp users in Kenya – more than facebook & twitter combined, and it’s a powerful channel for exchange of information – CEO of @ongair
This entry was posted in ideaexchange, Investing in Kenya, Media in Kenya and tagged media, newspapers on May 26, 2016 by bankelele.
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david bax / the tv room / tv
The TV Room: The Jinx, by David Bax
by · March 18, 2015
I’m going to miss seeing Robert Durst on my television every Sunday. Saying such a thing about a man who is almost certainly a multiple murderer might make me sound like a creep. But to deny the man’s uncommon magnetism would be to ignore the true engine humming beneath Andrew Jarecki’s The Jinx.
Jarecki, in telling the stories of Durst, the three murders of which he is suspected and how he has managed to avoid being convicted of them, is not doing so in service of an investigative journalist’s thirst for truth, no matter what Jarecki may claim in the series’ occasionally disingenuous last two chapters. No, he knows that he is chiefly making an entertainment and he does so perfectly in the first episode, easily one of the finest hours of television this year so far. Jarecki spends nearly the entirety of the initial entry laying out the third murder, which took place in Galveston, Texas, first by describing the weird, gruesome details (cross-dressing, dismemberment) before dropping the first big reveal, that Durst is an obscenely wealthy New York real estate heir. The next surprise comes when we find out he has also long been suspected in the disappearance of his first wife decades earlier. But the final shocker is the game changer. Just when we feel sure The Jinx is another true crime whodunit, we learn that Durst himself has agreed to be interviewed. The telling of this story will incorporate the vantage point of the man himself. And we’re just getting started.
After that first episode, the comparison that seemed most apt was The Staircase, another docuseries that examined a rich man who may be a murderer. And while The Staircase is something Jinx fans will want to seek out if they haven’t seen it, the two are more different than alike. Whereas The Staircase swings you back and forth in your certainty that its subject is or is not guilty, The Jinx is interested more in the man himself than in building a case. Frankly, it seems it would be nearly impossible to construct a convincing argument for Durst’s innocence even if Jarecki wanted to.
So, if Durst is so obviously guilty, how did he keep getting away with it? That’s the real motivation of The Jinx. The easiest answer would be that he got away with it because of his money. That’s certainly a contributing factor and Durst is on tape saying as much in a prison phone call to his second wife. But, as the fourth episode, which details the Galveston trial, shows, there’s something else. Durst may comport himself like a hunched little goblin. He may speak in an emotionless near-monotone. He may have large, black pupils that make his eyes look like twin gun barrels. But despite these things – or maybe even because of them – there’s something sinfully likable about the guy. How many people can admit to cutting up a dead body and throwing it in the river and then turn right around and make the jury laugh?
That Texas jury was only looking at one murder, though, and not the execution-style kiling of one of Durst’s closest friends in Los Angeles. In the fifth hour of the show, when new evidence in that case comes to the filmmakers, the focus switches from Durst to Jarecki and, by extension, to us the audience. This new information makes it so difficult to even entertain the notion of Durst’s innocence that it causes a nauseous dissonance. We’ve been able to lie to ourselves to some extent but now the show’s central conflict has been transferred to within us.
In order to resolve that conflict, we need Durst to be confronted. We need him to reckon with the same evidence that has thrown cold water into our faces. Jarecki makes that happen and the results are… inconclusive. Many have taken Durst’s accidental open mic soliloquy as a blatant confession. I wonder if those people are just making the conclusion what they need it to be. After all, we’ve seen Durst sarcastically assume the voice of his accusers before. So when he mumbles that he “killed them all, of course,” might that be no different than when he said of his slain friend in Los Angeles, “I shut her up”? Or maybe I’m the one with the clouded judgment. Maybe I’m kidding myself again, already letting Durst’s sinister charisma overcome my rationality. That, I now understand, is how he got away with it.
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That final recording is the creepiest thing I’ve ever heard. It sounds like a smeagol-gollum conversation. I wonder what happened when he realized he was still wearing a mic.
steve crobie says:
Nice Piece David. Truly one of the best things 2015 has had to offer us so far, and certainly one of the best documentaries I’ve seen in a long time, if not ever.
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Major Southern Australian basin and blocks (cratons) highlighting the Murray-Darling basin. [00-147]
Climate Zones of Australia and the location of Barrow Island in relation to the Sahul Shelf.
Bonaparte Archipelago and nearby islands and reefs.
Islands and reefs off the northwest coast of Australia, north of Broome and Derby. [00-370]
The territory of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, a territory of Australia in the Indian Ocean. [00-138]
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Western Australia coast from Derby, King Sound north to Bonaparte Archipelago. [06-026]
Australian Fisheries Surveillance Enforcement Line showing the area from Ashmore Reef to Scott Reef where traditional Indonesian fishermen are permitted to fish.
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The location of King Island and the Furneaux Group off the northeast tip of Tasmania with an inset showing the islands of the Furneaux Group.
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The islands of the Furneaux Group, eastern Bass Strait which includes Flinders Island, Cape Barren Island and Clarke Island.
Futuna and Alofi Islands (Hoorn Islands) base - 2012.
Country: Wallis and Futuna
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Japan - Australia coast showing major locations in both countries.
Country: Australia , Japan
Elevation map of Kakadu National Park showing the park boundary, floodplain (to 10m contour), neighbouring Arnhem Land and the western extent of the Arnhem Land Plateau.
Kakadu National Park location
Colour relief map showing the position of Kakadu National Park and a selection of NT locations.
Australia's third-largest island, just off the coast of South Australia, showing main conservation parks, wilderness protection areas and settlements.
Lake Eyre Basin
Location of the Lake Eyre Basin and the Great Artesian Basin in South Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland and New South Wales.
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Aboriginal languages centred around the Ord River area of northwest Western Australia and northeast Northern Territory.
Macdonnell Ranges, Northern Territory
Colour relief map of the Northern Territory showing mountains and locations within the Macdonnell Ranges.
Murray Island Protection Zone
Juristriction and protected zone areas covering the Torres Strait area of the Murray Islands.
The island of New Guinea with selected features and towns showing its proximity to Australia's top end.
Country: Australia , Indonesia , Papua New Guinea
Norfolk Island, one of Australia's oldest territories, showing the historic areas of Kingston and Arthur's Vale (World Heritage listed 2010) and the islands Reserves and National Parks.
North-west Shelf bathymetry
Bathymetric contours of the Northwest shelf of Australia.
Northeast Arnhem Land
The Northeast corner of the Northern Territory - Northeast Arnhem Land.
Northeast NSW
Colour elevation map of the northeast NSW/southern Queensland border area.
Northwest Australia
Islands and reefs off the northwest coast of Australia.
Country: Australia , Timor-Leste
Colour elevation map of Pakistan and surrounding countries showing major cities, rivers, provinces and disputed borders within Pakistan.
Pakistan base
Pakistan elevation map with provincial borders and capitals, main towns and rivers - 2012. PNG versions of the base map can be downloaded with or without elevation shading.
Pakistan regional divisions
Pakistan showing regional divisions and their capital city, main rivers and surrounding countries.
Roper River
The eastern section of the Roper River which forms the southern boundary of Arnhem Land, from Elsey to the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Sea levels BP (before present) from northern Australia and the island of New Guinea.
Seabed boundaries, IEEZ's and AEEZ's between Australia and Indonesia and East Timor (2006).
Country: Australia , Indonesia , Timor-Leste
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Australia & New Zealand shipping activities including major sea routes, cargo movements and annual ship visits to ports.
Country: Australia , New Zealand
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Sydney and surrounds showing electoral divisions and boundaries, national parks, major river, road and rail lines.
Basins and sub-basins of the waters surrounding Tasmania, including the 2000m contour.
The ACT and Region
The ACT and surrounding shires of NSW showing towns, roads, lakes and reservoirs.
The main islands and cays of The Bahamas, the coral-based archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean.
The Murray-Darling Basin
The Murray Basin and Darling Basin areas.
Colour map of the Torres Strait Islands from the tip of Cape York to the border with Papua New Guinea.
Torres Strait base
Torres Strait with reefs and island names - 2012.
Torres Strait Cultural Complex
Torres Strait Dialects
Western and Eastern language groups of the Torres Strait with island names in the native language.
Torres Strait language groups
Language groups of the Torres Strait Islands and southern Papua New Guinea.
Torres Strait Reefs
Colour map of the reefs and islands of the Torres Strait.
Vanderlin Island, Gulf of Carpentaria
Vanderlin Island, the largest of the Sir Edward Pellew group of islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Wallis and Futuna Islands base map - 2012. PNG versions of the base map can be downloaded with or without elevation shading.
Wallis and Futuna Islands with insets of both island groups - 2012.
Wallis Islands, Uvea and surrounding islands - 2012.
West Pakistan districts
West Pakistan showing regional divisions of Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
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World Mental Health Day: Why we should look to our past to design for better mental health
Designers and architects need to learn from history to plan spaces for the future, says Ben Channon for ICON.
As we transition from sedentary desk-dwellers to digital nomads, technology can often feel like the root cause of the anxiety and mental health issues many suffer from today. Social media encourages people to measure their own lives against literally rose-tinted photos, and notifications provide us with constant short-term dopamine hits – while our phones enable us to take work stress home in our pockets.
Yet, rather than seeing tech as an obstacle to happiness, it can be an enabler – but only if we take some lessons from our hunter-gatherer ancestors.
Our prehistoric parents were constantly immersed in nature, living in homes made out of natural materials, with access to water and air unpolluted by modern chemicals.
By Ben Channon
For Assael Architecture
Categories Thoughts
We now spend nearly 90 percent of our time indoors, according to the IWBI, and our disconnect from nature couldn’t be more apparent. The RSPB claims that four out of five children have now lost their connection to nature, in direct contrast to our ancient ancestors, whose connection to nature would have undoubtedly supported good mental health.
Studies from the Journal of Physiological Anthropology support this idea, showing that both blood pressure and the stress-inducing-hormone cortisol are significantly reduced when people spend time in natural surroundings. Additional research shows that a greater amount of time spent in nature correlated with higher rates of concentration and productivity; two factors that many developers and employers are seeking to bolster through better design.
As designers, we must therefore seek to bring the natural world in, creating access to flora to reduce polluting chemicals, like formaldehyde, and using tactile materials such as wool, timber and exposed brickwork to connect us back to earth.
The circadian rhythm
In his bestseller Sapiens, historian Yuval Noah Harari argued that the agricultural revolution has made life more complicated and less varied for humanity. Before the development of political structures, religion, economic systems and rapid population growth, humans were more connected to nature and its rhythms, which dictated our diets, sleep cycles and work hours.
But as Harari claims in his sequel, Homo Deus, now is the age of humanity’s pursuit of happiness. And despite our complex modern systems and immersion in technology, mental wellbeing is coming to the forefront of public debate after years of stigma.
While this heightened awareness of mental health in modern society certainly constitutes progress, it is matched in the ubiquity of the problem. Mental Health First Aid England (MHFA) reports that 1 in 4 people suffer from mental health problems every year, which claim responsibility for 72 million lost working days and costing UK businesses an estimated £34.9 billion a year.
So, what other lessons can we learn from our prehistoric ancestors? Well, alongside their connection to nature, early humans lived by the sun, which – as we all know – plays a vital role in supporting a healthy sleep cycle. Modern LED lights are remarkably cost and energy efficient but if the colour temperature is incorrectly specified, they can actually inhibit the production of melatonin, the chemical which signals to our bodies when it’s time to sleep.
The constant exposure to ‘melanopically ineffective’ light (light that doesn’t adequately represent the time of day in its temperature) that many of us experience can scramble our circadian rhythms, tarnishing our quality of sleep and subsequently impacting our mental health.
As a result, we are realising that daylight in buildings is even more important than we already believed, and something that designers must prioritise – be it through increased glazing, better layouts or joined-up masterplanning that considers overshadowing from the outset. Plus, we need to allocate spaces where people can unplug, escaping white and blue light to help regulate our sleep patterns more effectively.
Not only were ancient populations far better at maintaining such natural cycles, as nomadic hunters and gatherers they were also exercising every day, as a community. While regular exercise is seemingly becoming a top priority for society again with the growth of workplace wellness strategies, running and cycling to work schemes and the proliferation of affordable gyms, many workplaces – including even those managed by the NHS – do not provide facilities such as showers, lockers or adequate bike storage to support active commuting.
Building a community
What’s more, the community focus shared by our ancestors can be still lacking from our daily lives. Loneliness is an incredibly widespread issue in the UK today, with an estimated 9 million people ‘always or often’ lonely.
Luckily, design can be an incredibly powerful tool to encourage, and foster, the community support networks that are vital to maintaining and sustaining our mental wellbeing. This should be much more than the creation of breakout spaces and residents’ lounges, with wayfinding becoming a compelling tool to drive interaction as people navigate spaces, and the use of pop-up or temporary spaces to bring people together more frequently.
Fundamentally, to support good mental health we must learn from the world we evolved in. Many of the trials and tribulations of the modern world are unavoidable, but by bringing nature, light, activity and community into our buildings – and embedding them within our lives – we can capture the lessons of the prehistoric period to make us happier and healthier in the here and now.
Published in ICON on 9 October 2019.
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FGC Chapter 1 (commencing with § 3000) Pt. I Div. 3
2-CAFGC_3049-3055.txt - CC - 3/8/2006 0:00:00 - Statute - CA
FGC Sec 3049-3055.1 General Provisions Hunter Safety (BIRDS AND MAMMALS)
FISH AND GAME CODE
SECTION 3049-3055.1
3049. It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article
to ensure the health and safety of its citizens engaged in activities
requiring the use of hunting implements.
The Legislature finds and declares that individuals who engage in
hunting should possess an adequate understanding of hunter safety
practices, principles of conservation, and sportsmanship.
It is also the intent of the Legislature that persons so engaged
be mindful of their responsibilities to others, toward wildlife, and
toward their natural environment. The department shall take all
steps necessary to carry out the provisions of this article.
3050. (a) No hunting license may be issued to any person unless he
or she presents to the person authorized to issue that license any of
the following:
(1) Evidence that he or she has held a hunting license issued by
this state in a prior year.
(2) Evidence that he or she holds a current hunting license, or a
hunting license issued in either of the two previous hunting years by
another state or province.
(3) A certificate of completion of a course in hunter safety,
principles of conservation, and sportsmanship, as provided in this
article, with a hunter safety instruction validation stamp affixed
(4) A certificate of successful completion of a hunter safety
course in another state or province.
(5) Evidence of completion of a course in hunter safety,
principles of conservation, and sportsmanship, which the commission
may, by regulation, require.
(b) The evidence required in subdivision (a) shall be forwarded to
the department with the license agent's report of hunting license
sales as required pursuant to Section 1055.5.
(c) Subdivision (a) does not apply to any person purchasing a
hunting license under paragraph (5) of subdivision (a) of Section
3031. However, that license may not qualify as evidence required in
subdivision (a) of this section.
3051. The department shall provide for a course of instruction in
hunter safety, principles of conservation, and sportsmanship, and for
this purpose may cooperate with any reputable association or
organization having as one of its objectives the promotion of hunter
safety, principles of conservation, and sportsmanship.
The department may designate as a hunter safety instructor any
person found by it to be competent to give instruction in the courses
required in this article. A person so appointed shall give that
course of instruction, and, upon completion thereof, shall issue to
the person instructed a certificate of completion as provided by the
department in hunter safety, principles of conservation, and
sportsmanship.
The department shall prescribe a minimum level of skill and
knowledge to be required of all hunter safety instructors, and may
limit the number of students per instructor in all required classes.
The department may revoke the certificate of any instructor when,
in the opinion of the department, it is in the best interest of the
state to do so.
3052. No fee shall be charged for the instructor's service,
however, a fee to cover the cost of giving such instructions may be
charged each person participating and receiving such instructions. A
record of such expenses shall be kept for inspection by the
department. Such expenses may include, but not be limited to, such
items as range fees, ammunition and transportation of students.
3053. In the case of loss or destruction of a certificate, a
duplicate certificate may be issued by the instructor who issued the
original certificate, or, by an instructor of the sponsoring
organization having adequate records to establish successful
completion of the prescribed course, or by the department if verified
by adequate records to establish successful completion of the
prescribed course. An administrative fee of three dollars ($3) shall
be charged for the issuance of a duplicate certificate, for the
hunting license year commencing on July 1, 1990, and, for the
following years as adjusted pursuant to Section 713.
3054. The department shall furnish information on hunter safety,
principles of conservation and sportsmanship which shall be
distributed free of charge to persons designated as hunter safety
instructors for instructional purposes.
3055. (a) Any person who applies for a hunting license and
qualifies for the license through the issuance of a certificate of
completion of a course in hunter safety, principles of conservation,
and sportsmanship as provided by this article, shall obtain a hunter
safety instruction validation stamp. The hunter safety instruction
validation stamp shall be issued by license agents for a base fee of
two dollars ($2), as adjusted under Section 713, in the same manner
as resident hunting licenses. The validation stamp shall be affixed
to the certificate of completion. A certificate of competence issued
by this state prior to January 1, 1990, shall be accepted as
equivalent to a certificate of completion issued by this state after
(b) This section does not apply to licenses, permits,
reservations, tags, or other entitlements issued through the
Automated License Data System.
3055.1. (a) Any person who applies for a hunting license and
safety instruction validation. The hunter safety instruction
validation shall be issued by license agents for a base fee of two
dollars ($2), as adjusted under Section 713, in the same manner as
resident hunting licenses. The validation shall be affixed to the
certificate of completion. A certificate of competence issued by
this state prior to January 1, 1990, shall be accepted as equivalent
to a certificate of completion issued by this state after January 1,
(b) This section applies only to licenses, permits, reservations,
tags, and other entitlements issued through the Automated License
Data System.
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A Tourist's Album of Japan
Katherine Wolcott and her uncle, Robert Hull Fleming, compiled this photo album on their visit to Japan in 1909. Part of a larger Asian trip, the two stopped in Japan and collected photos, postcards, bookmarks, and other materials. Fleming was a graduate of the University of Vermont, and in 1929...
Show moreKatherine Wolcott and her uncle, Robert Hull Fleming, compiled this photo album on their visit to Japan in 1909. Part of a larger Asian trip, the two stopped in Japan and collected photos, postcards, bookmarks, and other materials. Fleming was a graduate of the University of Vermont, and in 1929 Katherine Wolcott helped to fund the construction of the Robert Hull Fleming Museum in memory of her late uncle. This album, a memento from their trip, was part of Wolcott’s own collection.
There are nearly 40 leaves of collected photographs and postcards, numbering two to three per album page. The pictures range in content, some depicting staged photos of daily life while others portray landscapes and countryside. The album itself measures approximately 11 x 14 x 4 inches and is currently housed at the Robert Hull Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont.
Wolcott’s album captures a unique view of Japan at the brink of burgeoning Western influence. After defeating the Russians in the Russo Japanese War (1904-05), Japan began to cement itself as a global power, and its efforts to modernize began to attract Westerners. The images in this album depict a Japan with a strong national heritage and cultural appreciation as well as a newfound embrace of modernization and technology.
Most of the pictures in the album sold commercially as a form of postcard. In the early 1900s, the Japanese populace began consuming millions of these types of commercially produced picture postcards. Eventually, the medium became so popular that it started to replace the more traditional wood block print. The citizenry sought pictures of their budding nation, wanting to hold a still image of the rapidly modernizing and changing countryside.
A bridge spanning a small river in the Japanese countryside
A charm to protect against fire
The charm was created to protect the bearer from fire. On the marker, it says Jadaiji temple, which may be the Jindaiji temple in Tokyo.
A group of female performers
The woman on the right is holding a Shamisen, while the other women strike poses.
A group of monks under a large Buddhist statue
A group of travelers on the Japanese coast
A group of five people and a horse appear to be traveling along the coast. A small town lies in the background.
A hotel in the Japanese countryside
In the upper left hand section of the picture, there is a black X inscribed on the picture. This was probably done by the original collector to identify which room (s)he stayed in.
A husband and wife dining
A lantern maker and his family plying their trade
A large house in the countryside
A man and five women dining
The gathered group of people appear to be eating either Udon or Soba noodles. The gender ratio is somewhat perplexing, but can most likely be attributed to the artificial nature of the picture.
A man carrying his goods to a shop
The man has a large variety of goods strapped to his cart. There are hand woven baskets as well as wooden containers and ladles.
A man paying homage to two Buddhist statues
A pond full of fish
A portrait of a young woman
A public park
What appears to be the entrance to a public park. If you look closely, you can detect the mixing of cultures. Some men wear the traditional robe, but also don a western hat.
A river flowing in a valley in the countryside
In the background you can barely see a road curving through the valley, supposedly behind at Miyanoshita.
A river in the countryside
A riverboat with passengers
A riverboat with passengers and workers
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Find Out If Your Doctor Is on the Take with Just Two Clicks | NutritionFacts.org
A long-time editor of a prestigious medical journal started his editorial on physicians’ conflicts of interest by describing a fantasy: “Doctors treat patients using simply the best evidence and their experience. They are not influenced by money or self-interest.”
“This is, of course, nonsense,” he wrote. There is a reason “pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars on the influencing, education, and entertainment of doctors around the world.”
As discussed in my video Find Out If Your Doctor Takes Drug Company Money, the vast majority of physicians in the United States take gifts from the pharmaceutical industry, and, ironically, cardiologists, whose practice centers around diseases that can largely be prevented and treated with lifestyle changes, receive the most payments of all. A previous compilation of surveys from the 1980s and 1990s found that, on average, doctors met face-to-face with drug industry representatives about once a week. Today, your family doctor may meet with drug company employees on average 16 times a month. There are only 20 workdays a month, so that’s nearly every day.
What does the public think about this? Only about half even appear to know what’s going on. Therefore, “if 83% of doctors receive gifts, it is likely that a significant percentage of patients are not aware that their personal physician receives industry gifts.” We’re not just talking about a token Viagra paperweight or soap dispenser. For marketing, pharmaceutical companies spend $15,000 per physician every year, making conflicts of interest one of the most pressing problems in American health care.
How do doctors feel about it? Most generally approve of the gifts. However, tellingly, physicians don’t want gift relationships made public. “Physicians’ disagreement that it is inappropriate to accept gifts, but their reluctance to disclose the gift relationship to the public, suggests that they must recognize that the public would not appreciate the practice.” To analyze how doctors resolve this contradiction, researchers conducted a series of physician focus groups. It turns out physicians use a variety of denials and rationalizations, including avoiding thinking about it, and denying responsibility. Physicians readily acknowledged the inherent conflict of interest, but this didn’t stop them. In fact, some complained that the gifts were getting more modest.
“We [doctors] tend to deny that we have any conflict of interest if a pharmaceutical company buys us a nice dinner. We tend to insist that it won’t affect our judgement in any way”—as if drug companies just like wasting money for the heck of it. Most physicians contend that their colleagues are susceptible to industry influence…but not them.
Though physicians don’t want these gift relationships to be public, that’s just too bad. Thanks to Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, the Sunshine Act was inserted into Obamacare. “For the first time, patients will now be able to see what, if any, financial ties their own doctor has with a drug or device maker.”
Doctors can’t hide anymore.
The Sunshine Act was designed to give patients some insights when choosing a provider, and law enforcement agencies can also use it to see who’s getting money from industry to investigate illegal kickback schemes. Right now, it might just be embarrassing, but this could allow attorneys general to go after doctors to see the kinds of incentives they may be getting for writing a lot of prescriptions. The database is live right now at openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/search/physicians or, for a more user-friendly version, Propublica’s Dollars for Docs page. The drug industry spends billions trying to influence doctors, and, for the first time, you can see if your physician, or any physician, has their hand out.
Senator Grassley hoped this would help save our nation money. It could reduce healthcare costs if patients viewed such doctors as less trustworthy and chose doctors less in bed with industry. It could also change physician behavior: Physicians may want to avoid financial relationships with companies to guard against patient distrust or becoming the target of an exposé or investigation.
Or they could just try to cover it up.
The American Academy of Family Physicians advised physicians how to “avoid getting burned” by the Sunshine Act. For example, drug companies now have to report when they give doctors free meals valued over $10. So, should family physicians just stop accepting free food from drug companies? No way! You just have to give the drug sales reps the right head count to ensure that the meal cost dips below $10 per person.
The former long-time editor of the New England Journal of Medicine said it best: “Although the spotlight has been on the failure to disclose (or adequately disclose) financial relationships with industry, the problem with [conflicts of interest] is not the lack of disclosure but the existence of the conflict itself.” Rather than just disclosing them, the best approach to financial conflicts is to have none.
No wonder physicians undervalue lifestyle interventions! See The Actual Benefit of Diet vs. Drugs and Why Prevention Is Worth a Ton of Cure. Inundated by Big Pharma without so much as a free mug from Big Broccoli, Physicians May Be Missing Their Most Important Tool. And, even worse, sometimes the drugs can do more harm than good. See my video on How Doctors Responded to Being Named a Leading Killer.
Financial arrangements can affect prescribing behavior for more than just drugs. See my video Should We All Get Colonoscopies Starting at Age 50?.
PS: I have never knowingly accepted gifts from the pharmaceutical industry, but “knowingly” is an important caveat. If you search for my name in the Dollars for Docs database you’ll see I apparently accepted money from a vision care company five years ago. I was giving a continuing medical education lecture at an optometric physicians conference and unbeknownst to me they had the corporation pay for my travel and lodging.
In health,
Michael Greger, M.D.
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CP giving ends first quarter 2.58% ahead of previous year's giving
by BP Staff, posted Monday, January 06, 2020 (13 days ago)
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NASHVILLE (BP) -- Giving through the Cooperative Program remains ahead of last year's pace by 2.58 percent as contributions to Southern Baptist Convention national and international missions and ministries totaled nearly $15 million in December 2019.
As of December 31, gifts received by the EC for distribution through the CP Allocation Budget total $47,511,312.90. This exceeds last year's first quarter budget contribution of $46,315,254.71 by $1,196,058.19 or 2.58 percent. The amount given is slightly less than the $49,125,000.00 year to date budgeted projection to support Southern Baptist ministries globally and across North America by $1,613,687.10 or 3.28 percent.
The final amount received in December totaled $14,940,016.37, which was $160,675.10 more than the $14,779,341.27 received in December 2018 but $1,434,983.63 less than the monthly budgeted amount of $16,375,000.00.
"Our world is in great need of Jesus Christ. The continued increase in giving through our Cooperative Program over last year in the first quarter of our fiscal year is a very good indicator that people know that Jesus is the ultimate answer for the world," said SBC Executive Committee president and CEO Ronnie Floyd in a statement to Baptist Press.
"I want to remind all Southern Baptists that the Cooperative Program of the Southern Baptist Convention is the financial fuel to take the Gospel to every person regionally, statewide, nationally, and internationally. Our giving helps move us forward to realize, in a greater way, our vision of reaching every person for Jesus Christ in every town, every city, every state and every nation. I want to thank all pastors and church leaders who are leading their churches to give through the Cooperative Program."
Designated gifts received in December amounted to $3,413,353.24. This total was $339,770.40 or 9.05 percent below gifts of $3,753,123.64 received last December. However, this year's designated gifts through the first quarter amount to $11,270,804.48, which is $1,038,696.03 or 10.15 percent more than the $10,232,108.45 given through the first quarter in the previous fiscal year. Designated contributions include the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions, the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions, Southern Baptist Global Hunger Relief, Disaster Relief and other special gifts. This total includes only those gifts received and distributed by the Executive Committee and does not reflect designated gifts contributed directly to SBC entities.
The CP is Southern Baptists' channel of giving, begun in 1925, through which a local church can contribute to the ministries of its state convention and the missions and ministries of the SBC through a unified giving plan to support both sets of ministries. Monies include receipts from individuals, churches and state conventions for distribution according to the 2019-2020 Cooperative Program Allocation Budget.
State and regional conventions retain a portion of church contributions to Southern Baptists' Cooperative Program to support work in their respective areas and forward a percentage to SBC national and international causes. The percentage of distribution is at the discretion of each state or regional convention.
The convention-adopted budget for 2019-2020 is $196.5 million and is disbursed as follows: 50.41 percent to international missions through the International Mission Board, 22.79 percent to North American missions through the North American Mission Board, 22.16 percent to theological education through the six SBC seminaries and the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives, 2.99 percent to the SBC operating budget and 1.65 percent to the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. If national CP gifts exceed the $196.5 million budget projection at the end of the fiscal year, the Executive Committee's portion of any overage falls to 0.0 percent while IMB's portion increases to 53.4 percent of the overage. The other entities' percentage distributions of the overage remain the same. The SBC Executive Committee distributes all CP and designated gifts it receives on a weekly basis to the SBC ministry entities.
Month-to-month swings reflect a number of factors, including the timing of when the cooperating state Baptist conventions forward the national portion of Cooperative Program contributions to the Executive Committee, the day of the month churches forward their CP contributions to their state conventions, the number of Sundays in a given month, and the percentage of CP contributions forwarded to the SBC by the state conventions after shared ministry expenses are deducted.
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Khabib Nurmagomedov vs Pat Healy – Mark Hunt vs Antonio “Big Foot” Silva – Two Upcoming UFC Fights to Look Forward To
Posted on September 17, 2013 by fighter in Poughkeepsie martial arts
The Ultimate Fighting Championship has been recognized as the number one Mixed Martial Arts organization in the world for two decades now for good reason. While many other MMA orgs may house considerable talent on their roster in select weight classes while lacking in others, the talent in the UFC is distributed equally throughout eight weight classes from Flyweight to Heavyweight. Nearly every UFC card these days, from their televised Fight Nights to their Pay Per View events, has numerous interesting style match ups in both the lighter and heavier divisions. One great thing about the wealth of talent in the UFC is that each of its fighters has his own unique skill set which makes for intriguing clashes in the cage and as such each fan finds themselves excited about different upcoming bouts and for different reasons. Two of the more popular UFC divisions in recent years have been the lightweight-155lbs class and the HW 265lbs class, and there are two upcoming fights in these divisions which I am looking forward to eagerly. These fights which I am greatly anticipating are Pat “Bam Bam” Healy vs Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 165 in Toronto, Ontario Canada and Antonio “Big Foot” Silva vs Mark Hunt at UFC Fight Night in Brisbane, Australia on December 7th. In this article I will discuss why I find these fights to be particularly intriguing to me stylistically and the strategies that I think each fighter will have to employ to be successful while giving my own personal predictions for the outcomes of these contests.
Of the two aforementioned fights, the Pat Healy vs Khabib Nurmagomedov LW fight at UFC 165 on September 21st is probably the one I am anticipating most eagerly. Both of these fighters are known for being well-rounded grapplers and fighters with a great deal of experience under their belts. Pat Healy (29-16-0-1NC) is an Oregon native and former Division 2 wrestler with strong Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu skills who is coming off a recent no contest against Jim Miller due to being caught using an illicit substance. Despite the fight result being over turned, Healy surprised many by catching the very tough and highly ranked Miller in a rear naked choke in the 3rd round. Prior to this, Healy had been very successful in the now defunct Strikeforce organization with decision wins over Kurt Holobaugh, Mizuto Hirota, Eric Wisely and Lyle Beerbohm, the latter of which was a fight of the year candidate in 2011 where Healy dealt Beerbohm his first loss ever. Healy has also had recent submission wins over Caros Fodor by way of arm triangle choke and Maximo Blanco by way of rear naked choke. Healy is most known for being what is often referred to in Poughkeepsie MMA parlance as a “grinder”. With most of his wins coming by way of submission, Healy generally overwhelms his opponents by clinching with them early and feeding them a study diet of low knees and body shots combined with a good deal of wall clinching and dirty boxing. When he has worn his opponent down his modus operandi seems to be to gain a takedown, usually by way of doubles, singles, inside or outside trips, and upon hitting the ground works feverishly from all positions with relentless ground and pound and submission attempts. His highest percentage submissions are generally rear naked chokes, side chokes and guillotines which he sinks in after thoroughly exhausting his opponents with his fast paced scrambling. Perhaps Healy’s best attributes are his incredible cardio and his solid chin. He rarely seems to get tired and this often causes his opponents to wilt even if they at first seem to have the upper hand in the fight because he is very good at suddenly turning the tide.
On the other hand, Khabib Nurmagomedov (20-0) is an undefeated fighter with a twenty fight win streak who hails from Russia and has an extensive background as a Combat Sambo Champion as well as holding a black belt in Judo who also learned to wrestle under the tutelage of his father growing up. Since his debut in the UFC both his Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and his striking have evolved and along with his top-notch grappling he is also known for having a hard overhand right and very good cardio. Since arriving in the UFC he has had finishes over Kamal Shalorus by rear naked choke and Thiago Tavares by TKO, as well as having decision wins over Gleison Tibau and most recently Abel Trujillo where he set the record for most takedowns in a single UFC fight, completing 21 out of 27 attempts. His record is fairly well rounded, with both 7 wins by way of submission as well as 7 knockouts and 6 decision wins.
So now that I’ve discussed both fighter’s backgrounds the question becomes: what are the strategies that could best be employed by these fighters to achieve victory in this contest? By all accounts this fight seems like it is going to be a barnburner and one which could likely go the distance. Both fighters have excellent cardio and wrestling as well as top notch submission skills, but Healy is a bit more of a “grinder” who has gone the distance a number of times whereas Nurmagomedov has finished half of his fights in the first round and has only gone the distance twice. When it comes to striking I don’t see either fighter as having a significant advantage so I’m not sure that it would benefit either to try to keep the fight standing for a long period of time. As far as Healy is concerned, I think he should do what he does best and try to take this fight into deep waters and expect or even hope for it to go into the third round. While Nurmagomedov has proven he can go the distance, he has still only seen the 3rd round three times while Healy really seems to thrive in long fights so I would think his best chance is to make the Russian work for every takedown, for every strike and for every position. He should push him into the fence and hang on him relentlessly, giving him no room to breathe whatsoever. However, Khabib is likely to look for the takedown and while Healy’s wrestling is strong, in my opinion Nurmagomedov’s is superior, especially seeing as he set the UFC’s takedown record in his last fight. For this reason, while Healy should make him work for those takedowns, he should not in my opinion waste his energy trying to take the Russian down early in the fight. Instead, I think it would serve him best to be cognizant of when he can fight off a takedown attempt no longer and then at the very last second, after having already made his opponent exert some effort in the attempt, he should occasionally give way to the Russian’s takedowns and use them as opportunities to create scrambles on the mat. Healy is particularly good at coming out on top in mat scrambling scenarios and I see him as being more likely to gain a top position on the Russian by sweeping or reversing him on the ground then taking him down outright. With the Russian’s takedown ability and his clear aggressiveness he might be taken off guard if Healy fights off some of the attempts fully while using others to gain the momentum to scramble, using moves like switches and granby rolls. In this way I think Healy could eventually end up on top of the Russian in the 2nd or 3rd round once he begins to tire and from there utilize ground and pound to either set up a submission or earn a TKO victory.
For Nurmagomedov, since I believe he has slightly superior wrestling to Healy, I think he should use the aggressive style that has worked for him in his past few fights and immediately take the fight to Healy. However, since Healy will probably expect the Russian to immediately shoot for the takedown I think he should instead start the fight with some striking, particularly leg kicks and straight punches which will keep him at bay and not allow him to establish the upper body clinches and dirty boxing against the cage which he often enjoys. Then once he has lulled Healy into a striking battle he should shoot hard for doubles, power doubles or singles from outside the clinch so Healy never has the opportunity to push him against the cage. If he does find any of his attempts stuffed he should immediately disengage and resume at striking range and should do the same if Healy engages him in a standing clinch, rather than trying to clinch with him as that is Healy’s territory. Since he has a good overhand right, the Russian may be able to catch Healy from the outside and then use the opportunity to shoot for a takedown or simply get him to respect his strikes then fake an overhand right and shoot instead. Once Nurmagomedov gets Healy down however, he should work position over submission and not rush anything as Healy likes scrambles and he should do his best to avoid frantic mat wrestling scenarios. Instead, Khabib should work slowly and patiently to pass Healy’s guard while keeping heavy shoulder pressure on Healy’s jaw as much as possible to make him uncomfortable and to give him as little space as possible to initiate a scramble or get back to his feet. Healy is also good at wall walking so the Russian should try to prevent him from sliding his back to the cage where he can regain his footing. Once he achieves a dominant position like sidemount, mount or backmount, the Russian should first strike from on top with short punches and elbows and only go for a submission if it really appears as if he can finish the fight because Healy is good at using failed submission attempts to tire the opponent out and then find a chance to escape. Overall, this is a fight where it is hard to pick a winner but if I had to make a prediction it would be that Khabib Nurmagomedov wins this either via unanimous decision based on takedowns and damage from top control or scores a submission at some point in the late 2nd or 3rd round. If Nurmagomedov can win this fight he can take Pat Healy’s place at number 10 in the UFC’S LW rankings and this is undoubtedly something he has in mind on his road to the top of the LW division.
Another fight I am eagerly anticipating is the HW tilt between the number 4 ranked Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva and Mark Hunt at the upcoming UFC Fight Night in Brisbane, Australia on December 7th. Both Bigfoot and Hunt received KO losses at UFC 160 back in May, to current HW champion Cain Velasquez and Junior Dos Santos respectively. Hailing from New Zealand, Mark Hunt (9-8) is most known for being an extremely heavy handed K-1 Kickboxing veteran with an iron chin and a reputation for being extremely difficult to knock out. Despite the fact that Junior Dos Santos recently proved that it is possible to knock Hunt out, few other than the very best strikers in the HW division would choose a standup battle with Hunt as their first course of action. Although prior to his arrival in the UFC Hunt had a fairly unimpressive record including several first round submission losses, over the past two years Hunt has amassed a 4-2 record in the UFC with impressive wins over Chris Tuscherer, Ben Rothwell, Cheick Kongo and Stefan Struve. His most impressive win under the UFC banner was his 3rd round TKO over 7 foot-tall Stefan Struve back in March. Struve is not only well known for being a very accomplished kickboxer but also for having very good Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu with 16 submission victories to his credit. While many thought Hunt might have the standup advantage in this fight most agreed that if Struve could get the fight to the ground he would easily submit Hunt. However, much to the surprise of many MMA fans, Hunt was not only able to survive on the ground against Struve, fending off some strong submission attempts and escaping inferior positions like mount and backmount, he was even able at one point to pass Struve’s very tricky guard and establish side control which is no easy feat. Hunt then got the fight back to a standing position where he landed a devastating over hand right to break Struve’s jaw, resulting in a TKO victory. This fight, as well as others have proven that Mark Hunt has greatly improved both his ground game and his takedown defense which were previously his weaknesses. He will need these new found skills if he is to defeat a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt like Antonio Silva.
The number 4 ranked HW Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva has had some impressive wins as well as some difficult losses since arriving in the UFC. With 2 wins and 2 losses since his arrival to the big show in May of 2012, “Bigfoot” has established himself as a “kill or be killed” fighter. His two losses in the UFC are nothing to be ashamed of as they have come at the hands of current HW champion Cain Velasquez. On the other hand, Silva has recently had impressive knock out victories over both 6’7 Travis Browne and devastating K-1 Grand Prix champion Alistair Overeem. Since he possesses serious knockout power and very long reach, Silva is often at an advantage when he can get his opponents to engage in a close-quarters brawl. However, because what he has in power he lacks in speed and mobility, this strategy can work against him against faster strikers like Cain Velasquez and Daniel Cormier. In these cases, the intimidating Silva usually looks to take his opponents to the ground and use his size and Black Belt Jiu-Jitsu skills to earn a victory either via submission or TKO from heavy ground and pound.
So having now looked at these two fighters’ skill sets, lets look at these fighters’ keys to success against eachother in the UFC’s octagon. For Mark Hunt, he clearly wants to keep the fight standing in order to utilize his striking advantage. While Silva does possess very heavy hands, he is not nearly as proficient a striker as Hunt who is a former K-1 veteran. He also does not possess Hunt’s iron jaw, and as such a stand up fight would not be advisable for him. Silva likely knows this and so will probably try to take Hunt down early and for this reason Hunt should be working on his takedown defense and should try to make this fight a “sprawl and brawl” affair where he shuts down Silva’s takedown attempts and forces him to engage standing. If taken down, Hunt will need to use the newly acquired submission defense he utilized against Struve and work to escape any inferior positions he is put in and regain a standing position. Even if he is taken down, if he can avoid being submitted or taking too much damage from ground and pound Hunt can likely score a knockout at some point in this fight.
On the other hand, Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva should try to get this fight to the ground as quickly as possible and avoid any lengthy standing exchanges with Hunt who is clearly the superior striker. Even though Hunt has significantly improved his ground game, Bigfoot is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt who should have just as clear an advantage on the mat as Hunt will have standing. If Silva can get the fight to the ground he would be wise to pass guard as quickly as possible and preferably achieve a strong mount where he can reign down punches on Hunt. Despite Hunt’s iron jaw, if the bigger Silva can trap Hunt in a dominant position on the ground it is possible he could finish him with strikes. However, if this fails then Silva can attempt any number of submissions which may be effective, such rear naked chokes, sidechokes and kimuras. His best shot at beating Hunt is to submit him as others have done in the past. That said, my prediction is that Mark Hunt wins this fight via KO late in the 1st round. While Hunt’s takedown defense is not world class, nor is Silva’s takedown offense and I believe that Hunt can stuff Silva’s attempts to drag him to the mat and land his signature left hook to the jaw for a devastating knock out. If taken down I also think that Hunt has what it takes to defend himself and get back to his feet and use his heavy hands to achieve the victory.
In summation, both Pat Healy vs Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 165 and Antonio “Big Foot” Silva vs Mark Hunt at the next UFC Fight Night in December have the potential to be barn burners. Both are intriguing style clashes which could go either way and could end in any number of scenarios. All four fighters have clear avenues to victory. However, as usual it all comes down to how these individuals’ skill sets, strengths and weaknesses play off of eachother when they finally meet in the cage. I for one know that I will be tuning in for both cards to see if my predictions are correct.
Jamey Bazes is a Poughkeepsie MMA practitioner holding a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu brown belt with over 15 years of competition experience earning over 100 tournament victories. He also holds a Masters of Arts Degree in English from SUNY New Paltz with a focus on the English Romantic poets. To train with Jamey, visit our website at http://bjjfighter.com
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TLN profile: Tracy Sinclair of Chitown Tennis- “For Me, It’s Perfect!”
Many athletic kids are good at more than one sport. Just think of what pro tennis would be like today if Rafael Nadal had chosen soccer over tennis -- Roger Federer might still hold the number one ranking! Or if Svetlana Kuznetsova, winner of both the US Open and the French Open, had chosen cycling, her parents sport– and instead rejected it because she thought it was boring! Or if Tracy Sinclair hadn’t come back to tennis after choosing swimming over tennis- Chitown Tennis would be short one sharp player!
“I played tennis (and was a swimmer) from about ages 5-14,” says Tracy. “But when I hit high
school I had to choose between the two sports. I chose swimming.” (Can you believe that!) “In the long run, it might have been better if I had chosen tennis, since it's easier
(and more fun to play tennis ) to do that as an adult.” Like the rest of us, she got smart, and, ultimately, tennis was her choice. She picked it up again when she moved from Cincinnati to Chicago at age 33.
A member of Chicago Tennis since 2007, Tracy is a 3.5 competitive player who has won about half her matches. Like most of us, she is a fan of her league, which for her is “a better experience” than belonging to her private club.
“I think it’s fantastic. I play lots of matches, it’s easy to set up, and it’s inexpensive.(Tracy, middle, with cousin Kelly and brother Andrew at last year's Michigan/Notre Dame game.) Tracy, who at the beginning of the season played 4-5 times a week, has played many “really close” matches this year, losing twice in tie breaks after splitting in pro sets. If I had won all those matches I would have a better record. Even matches that appeared to be a blowout one way or another were actually tended to be really competitive…
If you are looking to get back into the sport, this is a great way to do it. I’ve also found that even if you have friends that play, they are not necessarily going to play at your level. Chitown allows you to set up competitive matches easily.”
“I think Chitown is a good way to secure matches. It’s a really good value. In other leagues, people may not play. In the league, it is within your control how often you play and you can schedule as many matches as you want. You are not paying for court time. People are really nice, and they are out there to have a good match. I don’t mind that I lose more matches than I win. Just playing helps me improve. For me it’s perfect.”
Beats swimming, Tracy, doesn’t it?
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TLN Profile: Nicole Talent-- “Playing Through the Pain” in ChiTown
Nicole Talent is not just her name, it also reflects her tennis game. This 3.5 competitive player in ChiTown Tennis, our Chicago area League, has a solid 17-13 record. Nicole has playing since high school. As an adult, like so many of us in TLN, she was looking for a social/tennis combination when a Google search brought her to ChiTown Tennis in 2009.
For Nicole the ChiTown Tennis has met her two goals. 1) Finding players: “It’s been a really good experience, it’s convenient, and everyone been really nice.” 2) And being social: “It’s fun to meet new people,” Nicole says.
Nicole is glad to be back to tennis after a broken toe forced her to lay off tennis for a few weeks. How did that happen? Not on a tennis court, as you might think.
It’s likely that almost everyone reading this has suffered some sort of tennis injury or other physical (or mental?) problem at some point that keeps you off the court, whether it’s something minor like a blister, or something much worse, like a broken ankle.
Asked about how her injury occurred, she confessed: “Dancing in my apartment.” Although this interview was conducted by phone, you could almost hear her face turn red! (You could certainly hear it in her voice.) Her toe is still taped but, like a tennis trooper, she is “playing through the pain.” It’s terrific that you are back to playing, Nicole. But are you still dancing?
Nicole tries to play three times a week. Her major rival is Denise, who has defeated her three times. “But one of these days I’m gonna get her.” Nicole says. Look out, Denise. There’s some 3.5 talent behind that threat.
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CIP 023.Construct Your Own Heroic Life History: Ragnar Lothbrok, The Everlasting Legend of the Viking Leader
According to legend, Ragnar Lothbrok was the most famous Viking of his age. And he remains one of the greatest heroes of Viking history. But did a Viking leader named Ragnar Lothbrok actually exist? In this episode of Classic Influence, we’ll explore the power of this everlasting legend, and why the Vikings told and retold his story over and over again. This episode also reveals the power of story and legend and myth, and how a compelling epic can shape and, at last, radically transform the future. Drawing on the example of Ragnar Lothbrok, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and others, this episode also unmasks the power of your personal story, the cardinal importance of assuming your rightful role as both the author and the protagonist of your own heroic life history, and the power the storyteller role plays in the pursuit of your own grand aspirations and goals.
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Meet CMS Young Researchers 2019 Prize Awardees
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The CMS Young Researchers Prize dates back to 2012, when seven scientists from the CMS and ATLAS collaborations, as well as from the LHC project, were recognised by the Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation for their leadership role in the discovery of the Higgs boson. They awarded a special prize worth $3,000,000 split into three equal parts each for the LHC, ATLAS and CMS experiments (link).
The four CMS recipients of the award felt that some of the money they received should be used to acknowledge the contributions of the younger generation of CMS scientists and engineers.
Every year since then, the CMS Young Researchers Prize has been awarded to at least three persons for their significant and sustained contribution to the CMS experiment over many years. The award aims to identify and recognize young scientists and engineers working in CMS and celebrate their passion, open mindedness, persistence and love for research. The prize comprises a cash sum of CHF 2500 and a medal. It not only values their contributions, but also seeks to help them in their future career by providing high recognition from their peers.
Meet this year’s awardees who tell us about their achievements in CMS and their life as young researchers.
Lorenzo Bianchini - INFN Pisa: "For his crucial and sustained contributions to the commissioning of specific algorithms for the “particle flow” technique, the measurement of H-> ττ and the observation of the ttH channel"
Maria Cepeda - CIEMAT Madrid: "For her crucial and sustained contributions to the operation of the Level-1 and High-Level triggers, to the search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson, and to evaluating the attainable precision for the properties of the Higgs boson from future measurements."
Luokas Gouskos - CERN: "For his crucial and sustained contributions to MET studies in the initial phase of the experiment with ever increasing integrated luminosity, to the search for 3rd generation Supersymmetric particles and in machine learning based algorithms for b-tagging and classification of jet types."
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Review: American Splendor trade paperback (Vertigo/DC Comics)
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[This review comes from Adam J. Noble, a public librarian living in Eastern Canada. At Noble Stabbings!!, he is blogging his attempt to read all of the comic series Cerebus in 2009.]
“This guy might be the worst thing for comics.”
That summary of Harvey Pekar’s current standing comes courtesy one Tom Scharpling, host of the radio program The Best Show on WFMU, when Scharpling and regular guest/comedian Paul F. Tompkins were debating whether Pekar still has any relevance in modern comics. Scharpling posited that Pekar’s most recent issues of his autobiographical comic American Splendor (published by DC/Vertigo in 2006-2008) have gotten so dull that the only way to spice them up would be to have Pekar develop super-powers and be forced to write about the very thing that he loathes more than nearly anything on Earth: superheroes. (One industrious listener of the Best Show created a mock-up page of what American Splendor: Super “Hero” Harvey might look like and it is, one has to admit, pretty awesome.)
Scharpling and Tompkins’ shots at Pekar are pretty funny and, one has to admit, pretty accurate (“Are you seriously gonna leave me hanging? How did he like the oatmeal cookies?!” sez Paul). But the FM funnymen are being unfair: yes, Pekar’s living situation has changed – he had his comic made into an award-winning movie; he is retired (his sweetly autistic former co-worker Tobey Radloff is nowhere to be found within these pages, sadly), and, yes, Pekar does spend a lot of time in these twin volumes in the role of “writing about the life of a guy who writes about his life.”
But criticisms like this miss the point of these two volumes and of The American Splendor Project in general. First of all, American Splendor was never a thrill-a-minute cavalcade of laughs and tears, even in its “file-clerkin’/getting pilloried by David Letterman/going through a succession of romantic failures” heyday. It was always dull. That was kind of the point. And the hit-to-miss ratio has at least improved since the early-90s Dark Horse era of the book, which contained far too many lectures about jazz for anyone’s RDA. The second attraction of the book was/is its dare to the revolving door of artists: “hey, make this schlubby guy and his misadventures visually interesting!” And in that regard, the DC/Vertigo volumes trump nearly anything done in American Splendor before (excepting of course R. Crumb’s seminal work on the book).
In Another Day (reprinting DC/Vertigo’s first four-issue mini), we’ve got Ty Templeton, Eddie Campbell, Chris Weston (never been a huge fan, but his two-tone art sells me), and Gilbert Hernandez, as well as Pekar standbys Dean Haspiel, Greg Budgett and Gary Dumm. Recurring themes throughout the book are Pekar’s interactions with sales clerks, difficulties getting/taking medications and the everyman’s struggle with that most essential and infernal of household fixtures, the flush toilet.
Another Dollar (reprinting “Season Two,” another four-issue mini) sees a greater continuity between issues, as our hero injures his arm in #1 and struggles with this latest health crisis through subsequent issues. He is aided by some returning artists from the previous series, as well as Darwyn Cooke, Warren Pleece and Sean Murphy. David Lapham illustrates what is perhaps the funniest post-movie-era Splendor story, in which a neighbourhood teenage pseudo-fan awkwardly drops by the Pekar residence to ask our hero advice on how to break into film – during which Harvey gets so bored, he gets up to grab himself a drink of juice, abandoning the kid on the front porch for a spell.
And speaking of artists whose work is pleasantly surprising in black-and-white, Darick Robertson, who has always seemed to lack focus on Transmetropolitan and The Boys completely wins me over here. I’m guessing that doing a real-world story forced Robertson to reign in his tendency for over-the-top reaction shots which makes it a lot easier to admire his finely detailed, expressive and humane depiction of a Pekar faced with a broken-down car and the receptionist who proves his only ally against this crisis. In a comic where Pekar tries to come to grips with a reviewer who praises his comic but trashes its author, illustrator Chris Samnee reminds me of the early work of Stuart Immonen, which probably shouldn’t work, but does, terrifically – every ambivalent line on Pekar’s face is hilarious.
Harvey Pekar is a survivor – of failed relationships, of financial hardships, of a go-nowhere job, of cancer fergawdsake – all of which were chronicled wonderfully in decades’ worth of comics as well as in the filmed adaptation of said comics. The movie may have provided some validation to The American Splendor Project – the damaged-but-not-broken everyman putting his life on display for any who care to look, and thereby exalting that life – but it didn’t end it. Pekar’s journey to the finish line continues, financial success and retirement from civil service be damned, and these volumes do a superb job of capturing that journey and presenting it for any who care to follow him.
And in case you were still wondering, he liked the cookies.
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DC Comics Trade Paperback Solicitations for Early 2010
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I'm interrupting our Guest Review Month one more time for some early 2010 DC Comics collected solicitations for your comics library:
Final Crisis Aftermath
* Final Crisis Aftermath: Run
* Final Crisis Aftermath: Dance
* Final Crisis Aftermath: Ink
* Final Crisis Aftermath: Escape
- For those of you waiting for the trade to add Final Crisis to your bookshelf, all the spin-off mini-series are on their way.
* Superman: New Krypton Vol. 3: James Robinson
* Superman: Mon-El Vol. 1
* Superman: Nightwing and Flamebird Vol. 1
- The headline here is that New Krypton will run three volumes in hardcover before we see the various titles split into their own collections. In this case, here's Greg Rucka's run on Action Comics (and added, Superman: Mon-El, currently listed by mistake as from Vertigo on Amazon. This lists Richard Donner as one of the authors, suggesting it does indeed contain a story from a recent Action Comics annual).
* Batman R.I.P. SC
* Batman: Heart of Hush
* Oracle: The Cure
- Batman RIP and Heart of Hush both make their softcover debuts here, along with Oracle: The Cure, which I hope includes the final issues of Birds of Prey.
* The Flash: Rebirth
* Solomon Grundy
* JSA: Strange Adventures
* R.E.B.E.L.S.: The Coming of Starro
* Brave and the Bold Vol. 3: Dragons and Demons
* Batman: King Tut's Tomb
* Titans: Old Friends
* Strange Adventures
* Hardware: The Man in the Machine
* The Last Days of Animal Man
- New debut collections include R.E.B.E.L.S.; Titans: Old Friends finally comes out in softcover; glad to see Jim Starlin's Strange Adventures and Last Days of Animal Man both in one volume, not two; Batman: King Tut's Tomb reprints Batman Confidential #26-28, if not more; Hardware continues DC's new printings of the Milestone series.
* Starman Omnibus Vol. 4
* Hitman Vol. 2: Ten Thousand Bullets
* Justice League International Vol. 4
- New volumes of Starman and Hitman should make readers happy.
What are you most looking forward to next season?
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Review: The Perhapanauts: First Blood trade paperback (Dark Horse Comics)
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[This review comes from Kelson Vibber, whose websites include Hyperborea, K-Squared Ramblings, and the Flash-centered Speed Force.]
Perhapanauts is a fun, rollicking adventure featuring a team of supernatural troubleshooters as they track down creatures like vampires, chimeras, demons and Bigfoot. Actually, that's not quite right.
Bigfoot's actually a member of the team.
The series chronicles the exploits of a field team for BEDLAM, the Bureau of Extra-Dimensional Liabilities and Management. It's sort of a cross between the BPRD in Hellboy and the movie version of Men in Black, with a tongue-in-cheek tone somwhere between MiB and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
The leads are Blue Team:
Arisa Hines, a psychic and the team's leader.
M.G., a mysterious guy who can slide between dimensions. A condition of his employment was that BEDLAM would not dig into his past.
Bigfoot a.k.a. "Big", a Sasquatch who was exposed to an "evolvo-ray" which made him a genius.
Molly MacAlister, a timid ghost who hasn't quite adjusted to her status.
Choopie, a chupacabras who was exposed to the same evolvo-ray as Big, and has the mind of an 8-year old boy.
The cast is rounded out by BEDLAM's staff -- an administrator whose face is always in shadow, a telepath, a man whose eyes can erase memories -- its researchers, and Red Team, led by a no-nonsense ex-Marine whose training sometimes gets in the way of managing a team that includes a Mothman and a water sprite.
First Blood features two main stories. In the first, the team is dispatched to locate and detain a hulking, seemingly unstoppable monster from the dawn of time. By the time the story is through, the reader has a solid sense of each character's skills and personality, and how they manage when Plan A falls through. (One of my favorite moments is Molly's response to a plan that involves sending cement-eating slugs back in time to the precise moment needed to arrange for a building to collapse now.)
The second story pits them against an aswang, a vampire-like creature from Filipino mythology, and you get to see how they handle a somewhat less successful mission. Actually, "less successful" is putting it midly, as the book ends on a cliffhanger -- a gutsy move, considering it was originally published as a miniseries, with no guarantee of a sequel!
Like Buffy, Perhapanauts can switch between action, horror and comedy at the drop of a hat. BEDLAM learns about a breakdown in the fabric of reality...from a man who talks to butterflies. Choopie dismisses the aswang as a "stinking vampire...and then the scene shifts into intense character drama as Choopie struggles with his own bloodsucking nature. Craig Rousseau manages give his characters a full range of expressions matching the tone shifts.
All of the leads have at least a moment in the spotlight (I particularly like Arisa's psychic battle in the first story), but it's Choopie who steals the show with his hyperactive personality, his tendency to shoot first with his "mess-you-up gun," his penchant for mischief, and the fact that despite a need to drink pre-packaged goat's blood, he still has a thing for sugary junk food. (Fruit pies become a running gag in later volumes.)
In addition to the lead stories, there are three short character pieces. "The Terror from Within!" introduces Karl, the Mothman, whose ability to project fear is matched only by his inferiority complex. The story provides a glimpse into the minds of the heroes, as well as a first look at Red Team. "Seven Months Earlier" is a more action-oriented tale of the last disastrous mission of the previous Blue Team, and how Arisa proved herself capable of becoming its leader. "Fiepick" is a comedic piece in which Choopie tries to "help" as Big and M.G. tinker with highly advanced machinery.
Rounding out the book is a dossier with profiles of the BEDLAM agents, staff, and targets, and an art gallery featuring Kevin Nowlan, Nick Cardy, Mike Wieringo (who also wrote the introduction) and others.
First Blood is followed by Second Chances. With the third volume, Triangle, the series has moved from Dark Horse to Image. The later volumes broaden the focus considerably, allowing characters like Hammerskold the ex-marine, Karl the Mothman, and the Merrow to grow past the one-note caricatures glimpsed in the background of "First Blood." We also learn more about Blue Team, particularly Arisa and Big...and a surprisingly poignant revelation about Molly. Seemingly random events from volume one turn out to be setup for future storylines, and the title begins to make sense as the team begins to navigate "the Perhaps."
One word of warning: Image started the numbering over, so First Blood and Triangle are both labeled #1. Just go with the numbers in the titles, and you'll be fine!
If you'd like to check out the series, Todd Dezago has made the 2008 Perhapanauts Annual #1 available for free as a PDF on his website, http://www.perhapanauts.com/.
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Review: Star Wars: Legacy: Broken trade paperback (Dark Horse Comics)
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[This review comes from Bob Schoonover, who's annotating NBC's Chuck on his blog.]
Broken, the first trade in the Star Wars: Legacy series, is really a primer on how to start a new series in a shared universe. John Ostrander and Jan Duursema have crafted a truly worthy successor to the Star Wars Original Trilogy by creating a cast of compelling characters that comes close to equalling the characters everyone loved in the original movies. Each character has their own arc and motivations, and screen time is not given exclusively to the "protagonist" of the series, Cade Skywalker.
For those of you that feel daunted by the fact that there are approximately 300 comics and 50 novels in the Star Wars universe that you haven't read, let me sum up everything you need to know to hit the ground running in this newish series: Luke Skywalker and the Rebel Alliance started a new Jedi order and Galactic Republic; the Empire was defeated, but not destroyed, and became an ally of sorts with the Republic; the galaxy far, far away was invaded by an extra-galactic alien race called the Yuuzhan Vong, a warrior race that used biological, rather than electronic technology; the Yuuzhan Vong were defeated and allowed to remain in the galaxy, despite killing billions (they dropped a moon on Chewbacca!); Luke Skywalker married a redhead named Mara Jade and had a child, Ben. Okay, everyone is caught up.
Broken begins about 120 years after Return of the Jedi ended. The Empire is again at war with the Republic/Alliance (the reason for this becomes clear later). The Jedi are attacked by a horde of Sith warriors, and Kol Skywalker, among others, falls in battle. His son, Cade, in an attempt to avenge his father's death, sets out in a fighter to attack the Sith. Shot down, Cade is thought dead, and abandoned by the fleeing Jedi. Meanwhile, Darth Krayt, the newest Dark Lord of the Sith deposes the Emperor, Roan Fel, and takes over the Empire. And that's just the first few pages.
The story continues seven years later, following Roan Fel and his attempts to retake his Empire, Darth Krayt and his Sith minions ruling the galaxy, the scattered Jedi and their plans to fight the Sith, and Cade Skywalker: bounty hunter. Ostrander and Duresma (artist and co-plotter) have managed to find a new path for a Skywalker to follow. Cade, a reluctant adherent to the Jedi code in the first place, was recovered from his starfighter attack by mercenaries, scavenging the wreckage for Jedi artifacts. Cade joined up, and became a pretty good bounty hunter. Of course, as with every Skywalker, destiny calls, and Cade is thrust into the middle of the war between Fel and Krayt. However, Cade does not make a sudden turn to the Jedi way. Bucking conventional wisdom, Ostrander and Duresma keep Cade on the fringe, trying to sit out the galactic war, but always willing to use his Jedi training or natural Force skills if circumstances dictate.
What makes this story works is that the Sith have the variety and depth of the Sinestro Corps from Green Lantern. The many named Sith - Darths Krayt, Wyrrlock, Talon, Maladi, Nihl, etc. - each have an agenda, skill set, and personality, and could probably carry their own series (and yes, if Tomasi or Johns was writing it, I would read a series about Sinestro, the Cyborg Superman, or Ranx in a heartbeat). Likewise, Cade is not one- or two-dimensional - he's a protagonist who has been given a pretty bad hand in life and is doing his best to avoid being re-dealt a new, worse one.
I think my favorite thing about the new characters, though, is Marasiah Fel, the daughter of the deposed Emperor. She is the idealistic, fight-for-what-is-right character that most writers would put front and center. It would be easy (and predictable) to have her be the Skywalker descendant, fighting the Sith and standing for truth and justice. Instead, she is relegated to the second tier (at best). She may be fighting the good fight, and she might beat the Sith (it's hard to say), but that's not the story Ostrander is telling. He's telling a story about Cade, a complicated young man that finds his family heritage too much, and has just shrugged it off.
I can't finish this review without praising the artwork of Jan Duursema. The art in this book is top-notch. There are roughly 20 or 30 important characters - both alien and human - contained in this volume, and each is distinct and consistent throughout. There are also a ton of new starships and alien species, and each looks different than anything from before (although Imperial fighters have the same cockpit design they had 150 years earlier). The sheer effort at making this book look so good must have been phenomenal. The only disappointing thing about Broken, and in fact, all Star Wars trades by Dark Horse, is that not all of the cover art for the issues contained inside is displayed. The front and back covers of the trade display two covers, and I believe one more is shown in the interior, and that is it. With such great art, it's a shame Dark Horse can't give us everything.
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Guest Review: Saga of the Swamp Thing: Book One hardcover (Vertigo/DC Comics)
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This hardcover volume, entitled Saga of the Swamp Thing: Book One reprints "Saga of the Swamp Thing" issues 20-27, the opening eight issues of Alan Moore's mid-eighties run on the series. It includes the famous story "The Anatomy Lesson," in which the titular muck-man discovers that he is not a man transformed into a mossy beast, but rather a vegetable-creature who has deluded itself into believing it is a man.
As an "archival" edition, this new hardcover is ... durable, I guess, which you want in something calling itself "archival." Gone is the original beautiful Michael Zulli painted cover from the trade paperback, replaced by a lot of black, Alan Moore's name in big lettering and Swamp Thing's head in profile.
There are other problems with this volume, and they also have to do with how it stacks up to the earlier paperback edition. Yes, this hardcover is a big deal because, for the first time, it reprints "Loose Ends," issue #20 of the original series, where Alan Moore tied off the stump of Martin Pasko's run, and sowed the seeds of Moore's own story-to-come. However, there is always a price to be paid: we got some Moore, but we also lost some Moore. The original text introduction by Moore is gone in the new edition, most likely because it did its best to summarize Swamp Thing's back story for the new reader, up to and including "Loose Ends." Fair enough, death to spoilers and all that, but in the process we also lost some excellent musings on the horror genre, DC continuity, comic book continuity in general and storytelling in general including a tangent in which Moore discusses the possibility of Dr. Frankenstein performing experiments on the heroines of Little Women, a notion that seems to anticipate both League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Lost Girls.
(When this volume was announced, months ago, I donated my "Loose Ends"-less Saga of the Swamp Thing trade to my local library. After the hardcover came out, I quickly made a photocopy of Moore's intro to stick between the pages of the new hardcover. Don't laugh, there but for the grace of God go you.)
It's also a shame that Moore's intro has been lost because new readers may find themselves surprised at how easily Moore's Swamp Thing bumps up against other denizens of the DCU proper. After all, Gaiman's Sandman usually tried its best to ignore those early cameos by the Martian Manhunter and Mister Miracle. Same goes for much of Hellblazer. But Moore's Swamp Thing is a "mature readers" book that happily co-exists alongside Jack Kirby's Etrigan, the Justice League, and later, the Crisis on Infinite Earths itself. The DCU is a true cosmos of fiction that we're often in danger of taking for granted, and the lost Moore intro illustrates that point explicitly -- although we've still got the comics themselves, so I guess it's not so bad.
Oh, incidentally: instead of Moore's intro, we get a chummy, backslaps-all-around intro by Swamp Thing creator Len Wein and another by horror author Ramsey Campbell, who gives a brief history of the "mature reader" comic up to the point before Moore began to work in American comics ("My ward is a junkie!" et al).
It's necessary to read Swamp Thing now with the proper context in mind. Moore's prose is sporadically overblown and purple; the art by Moore's former Miracleman cohorts Stephen Bissette and John Totleben, while evocative and atmospheric, is sketchy and at times bogged-down with "inventive" (read: difficult-to-follow) panel layouts; the "horror" is, to be honest, pretty conventional. But the characters shine through all the rough patches: "Alec," the Thing himself; his lover Abby Cable; Abby's husband Matt (later to be seen as the pet raven of Dream); and perhaps most indelibly, Jason Woodrue, the villainous Floronic Man, who delivers to Alec the truth about his inhumanity, before trying to Take Over the World with only Alec to stop him.
Whatever its flaws and growing pains, without Moore's run on Swamp Thing, modern comics would look very different indeed, and we certainly wouldn't have Vertigo, which is the biggest evolutionary step that mainstream comics has ever taken.
And, finally, did anyone else's copy arrive slightly sticky, as if slicked with chlorophyll? If so, DC, I am declaring this the worst cover gimmick ever.
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Review: Ex Machina: The First Hundred Days, Vol. 1 Trade Paperback (Wildstorm/DC)
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[This review comes from guest reviewer Erika Peterman of the I Don't Read My Blog Either blog.]
Writer Brian K. Vaughan set the bar high with Y: The Last Man, an epic series set in the aftermath of the sudden, mysterious death of (almost) every male on Earth. While the circumstances in Ex Machina aren’t quite that dire, the story of an unlikely superhero-turned-politician in the post-Sept. 11 era is gripping in its own way.
After a disfiguring explosion, civil engineer Mitchell Hundred emerges with the ability to hear – and command – certain machines. With the aid of a flying contraption he built, Hundred embarks on a brief, bumpy career as “The Great Machine,” a hero that his fellow New Yorkers greet initially with skepticism and flat-out scorn. Hundred’s first meeting with salty Police Commissioner Amy Angotti is comically ill fated, but it also forces him to consider the unintended consequences of his crime-fighting activities. However, one particular act of heroism plays a key role in Hundred’s retirement as The Great Machine and his ascent to an arguably more intimidating job: Mayor of New York City.
The opening pages, which show a dejected Hundred partly in shadow, strongly suggest that his term doesn’t end well: “This is the story of my four years in office, from the beginning of 2002 through Godforsaken 2005,” he says. “It may look like a comic, but it’s really a tragedy.”
Ex Machina is often described as having the feel of a top-notch television drama, and the fast pacing and layers of intrigue are especially satisfying to experience in trade form. In the first few pages alone, Mayor Hundred faces down a would-be assassin and a bold journalist who interrogates him about his origin. As Hundred’s administration handles one crisis after another – a racially incendiary painting at a publicly-funded museum and murderous attacks on city snowplow drivers – there are revealing flashbacks to his childhood and his unconventional journey to the mayor’s office.
Vaughan has surrounded Hundred with a rich supporting cast, including longsuffering Deputy Mayor Dave Wiley, irreverent bodyguard Rick Bradbury, and intern-turned-staffer Journal Moore. But Hundred’s most emotionally loaded relationship may be with his longtime friend Kremlin, an old-school radical who pressures him to suit up again as The Great Machine. Kremlin has known Hundred since he was a boy, and there’s a sense that Hundred’s status as a politician – the ultimate insider – has come between them.
Such a complex story must have been a challenge to illustrate, but Tony Harris’ pencils expertly capture the sweep of the city and the authentic facial expressions of a diverse set of characters.
There’s a saying that people who enjoy sausage and politics should never see how either are made. In the case of Ex Machina, however, the down-and-dirty nature of politics – with a helping of superpowers – makes for a highly recommended comic series.
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DC September 2009 Solitications: Wonder Woman in simultaneous HC, TPB release
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Wonder Woman: Rise of the Olympian, to be released in hardcover and trade paperback on the same day!
Wow. I mean, wow. Wowser-wow-wow-wow. Wow.
Hate to interrupt Guest Review Month, but I couldn't let this one go by. For all the discussing, all the back and forth we've had on the Collected Editions blog about hardcovers versus trade paperbacks, how some people have collected paperbacks all along and that's what they like, while others find the hardcovers sturdier, how hardcovers may have better production values but they slow the release of the paperback, how if you want to stay current many feel they're roped in to paying more for a hardcover ...
Could those days be over?
I won't jump right now to how this could radically change trade paperback comic book collecting as we know it (but it could!). DC Comics is not doing this with every collection release, at least not as far as September 2009 is concerned. This could just as much be a fluke of the scheduling as a marketing attempt to get more people reading Wonder Woman. There could be a lot of reasons. But this really, really bears watching.
In the same vein, thumbs down to DC for switching Green Lantern Corps over to hardcovers with Emerald Eclipse. Yeah, I know it's all part of the big run-up to Blackest Night, but I dislike that this series that started in paperback now switches format (and expense). Wish they'd taken the cue from Wonder Woman and released both formats simultaneously; I tell you, what Blackest Night has to live up to gets greater all the time.
So which Wonder Woman collection format will you buy? What else caught your eye?
More guest reviews coming this week. And next month, the Collected Editions blog returns to regular programming as we head toward our review of Final Crisis. Don't miss it!
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Review: Batman: The Man Who Laughs hardcover/trade paperback (DC Comics)
This edition has, like Batman and The Joker themselves, a really weird and convoluted back-story. Here goes. Batman: The Man Who Laughs was originally a 2005 prestige one-shot by Ed Brubaker and Doug Mahnke (The Mask, Major Bummer) that told the story of The Joker's first caper, a direct sequel to the penultimate page of Batman: Year One, a.k.a. the best comic ever in history. The Man Who Laughs went out-of-print, and Brubaker's name gradually became more and more of a selling point.
Early last year, DC republished the book as a hardcover, and found some Brubaker-penned filler bound The Man Who Laughs together with three issues of Detective Comics in which Batman teams up with Alan "Green Lantern, no not that one" Scott, who is significant to the Bat-mythos in that he was the first superhero (in current DCU chronology, at least) to operate out of Gotham, and if you go by Hush, then Scott served as a major inspiration to young Bruce Wayne's initial idea to become a crimefighter.
Now, in 2009, The Man Who Laughs comes to us in softcover once again, still including the GL-team-up. And here's the thing: I bought this knowing that the titular story isn't very good. Brubaker is a great writer whom I've admired for more than a decade -- Criminal, Scene of the Crime, the under-read The Fall, Daredevil, Gotham Central (-- and Catwoman! -- ed.) are all masterworks of the crime comic form. Some of those books may feature superheroes, but nevertheless ... Brubaker is not a great superhero writer.
He doesn't know how to just let superheroes be ridiculous/stupid/fun, which I think is one of the criteria for the title of "great superhero writer." And if you are writing a Batman comic that attempts to fill in the gaps between Year One, The Killing Joke and Matt Wagner's twin Hugo Strange mini-series Mad Monk and Monster Men, you are one-hundred-percent obligated to provide another masterpiece, or just don't bother. This is not that thing, particularly in hindsight, now that a certain billon-grossing movie has given us (arguably) the definitive Joker, and at least the definitive Batman-fights-The-Joker-for-the-first-time story.
Doug Mahnke does a great job here, but the wild energy of his MAD Magazine-meets-George Perez style isn't right for Brubaker's psychological, low-key writing (a year later, Mahnke would be matched with his perfect writer on Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers of Victory: Frankenstein!, a book which is made of such unadulterated "win" I'm astonished it still isn't an ongoing). (Seconded! -- ed. again)
The Man Who Laughs' plot itself is just a re-hash of Batman '89 and Batman #1 with Joker seizing the airwaves to terrify Gothamites and assassinate prominent fat rich guys. But! I shelled out for the softcover, ultimately, because, primed by the silly and wonderful Batman: The Brave and The Bold, I wanted to see Batman on a really dopey team-up with Alan Scott, an 80-year-old media baron who wields the world's most powerful weapon, whose existence makes no sense in a Post-Crisis DCU, and whose only weakness is wood. (If Alan Scott didn't already exist, Jeff Parker would have had to invent him.)
But I should have known better: Brubaker is far too left-brained a writer to really have fun with this team-up. Something like a goofier, super-powered version of the "Beware the Grey Ghost" episode of Batman: The Animated Series should ensue, with Batman discovering that not only is one of his inspirations fallible, but, really, if GL had decided to remain in Gotham instead of joining the Justice Society and moving to New York, really could allow Bruce to take a weekend off now and then (maybe even the occasional Spring Break!).
Instead, we get a story of supervillain revenge that could have featured just about any other superhero. Brubaker manages to script a touching moment between the two heroes in the Batcave at the end of the final chapter, but it doesn't really feel earned. It feels like the end of a more interesting story, where Batman got to work out some super-abandonment issues with Alan Scott as a surrogate dad like those wire monkeys from the experiments, only powered by alien ore.
Anyway -- Tim Sale provides the original covers for the Green Lantern story, so those are at least unique and striking. I also have to wonder why DC didn't take the opportunity to cash in on the popularity of Brubaker's Criminal and Marvel's superhero Noir line and re-package Brubaker and Sean Philips' similarly out-of-print Gotham Noir one-shot here. But regardless, the book we have fails to live up to any of the potential the characters or creators should have brought to the table.
However, if you're anything like me, you will buy this trade anyway, because it is, after all, a sequel to Year One, after all, and you'll stick it on your shelf next to The Long Halloween. I guess the joke's on us.
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Review: Supermarket graphic novel (IDW Publishing)
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[This review comes from guest reviewer Angela Paman (@acomicbookgirl) of the 2 People Talking podcast.]
Brian Wood is one of those writers that I will buy whatever he writes in trade. He got me with DMZ. Since I couldn't exactly buy all of the issues, I decided to just buy it in trade. I made a pact with myself that I'll only buy his work in trade; makes collecting a little bit easier.
In between catching up with reading Scott Pilgrim and the gap for the latest volume to be released, I stumbled upon a comic in an issue of Previews titled Supermarket. Supermarket had similar art, and low and behold I saw the writer was none other than Brian Wood. I ordered it and a few months later it was in my hands.
Supermarket starts off with Pella talking about her typical day living in Woodland Hills, where everyone pays no matter what the charge. Pella works in a convenience store, not out of convenience, but because she likes sales and making her own money. When her parents are murdered, Pella learns of their past lives as members of the Yakuza gang and the Swedish adult entertainment industry. Pella must run for her life, learning along the way that Woodland Hills isn't as nice as she thought..
While the cover of the book by Kristian Donaldson reminded me of Scott Pilgrim, the darker art suits the story better. I especially liked the varied color palette that changed throughout the story.
Brian Wood is very versatile in his storytelling. Whether politics in DMZ or a girl finding her identity in Local, Wood brings it all together in Supermarket.
This trade is published through IDW and includes an art gallery of the original covers of the issues by Kristian Donaldson, as well as a pin up gallery that includes artwork by Evan Bryce, Jim Mahfood, Nick Derington, and Mike Huddleston.
Please check it out if you are fan of Brian Wood or Kristian Donaldson's work.
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Review: The Death of Captain America: The Man Who Bought America hardcover/paperback (Marvel Comics)
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[This guest review comes from Scott Cederlund of Pop Syndicate and The Secret of Wednesday's Haul]
In Daredevil: Born Again, Frank Miller wrote one of the most succinct and concise descriptions of Captain America:
"A soldier with a voice that could command a god ... and does."
A soldier that can and does command a god. The Captain America that Miller described was Steve Rogers and he's dead. Bucky Barnes now has the shield and wears the familiar stars and stripes but, as we saw in The Death of Captain America Volume 2, when he needed to inspire the American people and rally them in times of political and financial trouble, he wasn't able to. He failed where Steve Rogers most likely would have succeeded. Fighting the Red Skull's terrorists and soldiers, Bucky had all the moves and fighting skills but when it came to getting the people behind him as Captain America, he failed. He was learning how to be Captain America but he still had a long way to go.
In the third and final volume of the trilogy, The Death of Captain America: The Man Who Bought America, Bucky Barnes has two loose ends after the murder of Steve Rogers. Sharon Carter, Steve Rogers' lover, is still under the Red Skulls' control and the Skull is still poised to attack America on a financial, political and terrorist level. And then there's the little issue of someone else running around in a Captain America costume, saving Presidential candidates getting the American public excited about the return of a hero. And what can it mean when the second Captain America endorses a candidate who's a pawn of the Red Skull?
While this story is called "The Death of Captain America," maybe calling it "The Birth of a new Captain America" would have been much more appropriate. Over the course of three books (and more if you count the entire Brubaker/Epting run on Captain America,) Bucky Barnes is learning how to live up to the dreams and aspirations of Steve Rogers. By this book, he's finally figured out that they way to do that is instinctively to fight for what is important. Ever since Steve Rogers was shot down, Bucky has thought through and questioned every act. He's spent a lot of time inside of his own head, asking himself "what would Steve do?" Trying to be Steve Rogers and Captain America got in Bucky's way. There's still that questioning and probing in this final book but when it comes time to act, Bucky fights like he always has, even like he did when he was the kid charging into battle with Captain America -- act first and think later. Actions are what makes the hero and Bucky has finally learned and accepted that by this last book.
It's an oversimplification to say that Brubaker and artist Steve Epting have created a Captain America for the twenty-first century but that's exactly what they've done. For the past eight years, Captain America has tried to be relevant and topical and failed. All you need to look at is the Marvel Knights relaunch post-September 11th that tried to address the attacks on America and the heroes reactions to them. The character floundered around after that, trying to comment on current society while getting sucked into typical superhero shenanigans with Avengers Disassembled. Let's be honest for a moment; it's been a long time since the character really mattered. And that's a harsh statement for someone who may be the top American icon behind Uncle Sam and maybe even Superman.
Somehow with this new Captain America, Brubaker and Epting have finally made him a reflection of society without being jingoistic or patronizing. Brubaker's Captain America isn't the relic from the 1940s that Steve Rogers could easily become even though Bucky also is a relic from the 1940s. Steve Rogers was just too much "your father's Captain America," a soldier and an American cut out of an old and outdated cloth. Considering that he was revamped in the early 1960s and still espoused a very 50s/60s viewpoint of America, it was hard to take him seriously after everything that's happened in the last 50 years or even in the last 10 years. Bucky allows a younger view of America and gives the writer a chance to explore and rediscover what makes Captain America a hero and what makes him an American hero.
In all three volumes of The Death of Captain America, Ed Brubaker, Steve Epting and a few other artists redefine Captain America. Spider-Man, Green Lantern and even Superman have all had new or different characters step into the costumes and we know that never lasts. In the back of our minds, we know someday Steve Rogers will be back wearing the blue chain-mail costume and slinging the shield but Brubaker and Epting have been pulling off miracles since they began on Captain America. They killed the Red Skull, brought Bucky back, killed Steve Rogers and now have Bucky stepping into the costume and role of Captain America.
In any lesser creator's hands, none of this would have worked. It would all have felt like cheap stunts to increase sales. Brubaker and Epting have created an instant classic with The Death of Captain America, redefining the character in a time of political, financial and international uncertainty and war. Bucky Barnes may not have the voice to command gods yet but he's on his way to being a hero and an icon. Maybe a new Captain America can be a symbol for a new America.
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Review: The Death of Captain America: The Burden of Dreams hardcover/paperback (Marvel Comics)
What is a hero? That's one of the main questions that writer Ed Brubaker has been asking during his run on Captain America. What characteristics and qualities do you find in your heroes like Captain America, the Falcon or even Iron Man?
Ever since Brubaker revealed that Bucky Barnes was still alive and brainwashed into being the Winter Soldier, we've seen Steve Rogers doing everything he could to rescue and redeem his former sidekick, friend and fellow hero. As Steve Rogers struggled to believe in and help Bucky, we've had to ask if redemption and freedom was possible as we've seen the Winter Soldier be used and kill. The Winter Soldier was more weapon than man and he was a weapon in the wrong hands. Bucky, one of the great deaths in comics, was back but Steve Rogers was the only person who believed he could be saved and we watched as Captain America fought to reach out to his friend, his ally and his brother-in-arms. Now Steve Rogers is dead, killed by the Red Skull and Bucky is out for revenge. Without Steve Rogers around to guide him, can Bucky Barnes truly be a hero again?
In The Death of Captain America Volume 2: The Burden of Dreams, events begin to come more into focus following the killing of a national hero and icon. The book opens with two of the main characters, Sharon Carter and Bucky, captured by the Red Skull, one brainwashed into serving him and the other being tortured and brainwashed. Even as the Red Skull fights to keep control of his ally General Lukin, no one is in complete control of themselves or their actions but it does look like the Skull has the upper hand. But the Red Skull does not have as strong of a hold over everyone as he likes to think and Bucky soon winds up on a SHIELD helicarrier, under the control of Tony Stark.
While it is still part of the same larger story, The Burden of Dreams is a very different book than the The Death of Captain America volume one. Brubaker shakes up his storytelling, abandoning the quick and choppy transitional storytelling of the first volume and spending more time developing his scenes while he concentrates firmly on the growth and development of Bucky, who takes center-stage in this story. The chaos and confusion following the death of Steve Rogers is replaced by planning and action as Tony Stark and Bucky begin filling the void left following Steve Rogers' death. Borrowing a term from another superhero's famous death, what do you do in a world without Captain America?
I don't think it's much of a spoiler at this point to say that by the middle of this book, Bucky Barnes is wearing Captian America's uniform and slinging his shield. Does the fact that he's got the look make him Captain America? Does that make him a hero? Brubaker has shown since the beginning of his run on this title that there's more to the hero than the clothes and the shield. It's the man who's wearing those clothes that's important. Steve Rogers wasn't a hero because he was Captain America. He was Captain America because he was a hero first. That's the man he was, sacrificing himself in his last moments to save one of his guards from the assassins bullet. Brubaker has continually shown that Bucky Barnes was a fighter and that he was loyal but his heroism is still questionable.
Brubaker doesn't give any easy answers to the questions he raises. His story is a fantastic thriller, equal parts Bourne Identity, All The President's Men and old school Marvel. The best Captain America writers like Steve Englehart, Jack Kirby and Roger Stern have used the character to explore heroism and the American way. Brubaker continues the heritage of Captain America, questioning the characters role in the twenty-first century. Setting up the Red Skull as the now head of a large mega-conglomerate corporation, Brubaker shows America being attacked on many levels, from within and without. As well as the obvious and overt actions of Sin, the Skulls' daugther, at causing chaos in Washington DC, the Skull's company begins undermining the fabric of America, striking at Wall Street and Main Street through weak financial institutions. On all fronts, America has been beaten and weakened and is in need of a hero. It's in need of Captain America.
Bucky may have the costume and the mask but he's still not Captain America in The Burden of Dreams. It takes more than a costume to be a hero just as it takes more than a hero to be an icon. In this book, America is under attack and looking for a hero and that may be Bucky Barnes but he still has the same doubts about himself that others have -- can he fill the void left by Steve Rogers? Can he be a hero like Rogers was, fighting for something larger than himself? Of course, Steve Rogers wasn't the national icon overnight, so how can Tony Stark or the Black Widow expect Bucky Barnes to be?
Review: Captain America: The Death of Captain America hardcover/paperback (Marvel Comics)
Steve Rogers has been a hero, a soldier and an icon. When he is in the hands of the best writers and artists, he's a man of our times even when he was a man out of time. Since Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting took over the character in 2005, Steve Rogers struggled with the idea of Captain America. In Brubaker and Epting's first issue, they killed the Red Skull and introduced the Winter Agent, a shocking face from Captain America's past. In a move that most comic fans said could not and should not be done, Brubaker and Epting brought back Bucky, Captain America's WWII-era sidekick, long dead and a part of Captain America's legend for over 80 years. It was a bold move by the creative team that surprisingly worked out better than anyone actually thought. So, after bringing Bucky back, what could they do next?
They killed Steve Rogers. Shot him dead on a courthouse steps in front of hundreds of witnesses and broadcast around the world, thanks to the ever present live media coverage.
Captain America: The Death of Captain America literally begins with a bang as Brubaker wastes no time. There's no long, drawn out death scene, no final words or last rights; just a simple bullet in the early pages of the book. Even in the end, Steve Rogers dies a hero, saving the life of one of his guards. After the events of Marvel's Civil War, Rogers was arrested for his rebellion against the Super Hero Registration Act and was ready to meet his fate at the hands of the justice system. Brought to the court house by U.S. Marshalls, he is the only one in large crowd who notices a sniper's rifle in a far off building, trained on one of his own captors. Knocking the officer out of the way, Rogers apparently takes the bullet, saving a life as only he would.
The rest of the book deals with the mourning and grieving of an American hero by those who knew and loved him. Sharon Carter fights to understand her own role in the tragic events. Tony Stark, the "winner" of the Civil War, tries to hold the country together. The Falcon and the Black Widow, two allies of Captain America, fight on, looking for the killers while trying to protect the legacy of Steve Rogers. Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier, faces the toughest battle, believing in everything Steve Rogers did even after witnessing his assassination. The Death of Captain America is about the survivors trying to make sense out of actions that should not make any sense at all to them. Sharon Carter and Bucky face the worst in this story. Each, in their own way, have betrayed Steve Rogers and have to come to terms with their failures.
In a brilliant move, Brubaker hides almost nothing from the reader from the moment that bullet is fired. This is not a "whodunnit" type mystery, looking for clues as to who pulled the trigger or why. From the outset, Brubaker lets us know who is behind the murder and how it was done. The motivations are clear and make perfect sense within the story that Brubaker has been working on for the last couple of years. The hows and whys of the act are not what Brubaker is particularly concerned about here. He is concerned with how all of the characters react to it.
Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting killed a hero and an icon. It's a gutsy move to take your main character, a hero of several generations, and completely remove him from the book but this is not some cheap death, designed to boost sales and ultimately be forgettable. Brubaker and Epting have a story to tell about the loss of an icon. Steve Rogers may be dead but the dreams of Captain America still live on in his friends and allies.
Review: Marvel Boy hardcover/trade paperback (Marvel Comics)
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There's always the question of what to listen to while you're reading. Grant Morrison probably would have picked something with more synth in it ("The Fall" is always a safe soundtrack for good superhero comics) but I went with Propagandhi's "Less Talk, More Rock" while re-reading the new hardcover collection of the 2000 Marvel Knights mini-series Marvel Boy, and it seemed to work OK -- both works are loud, dynamic, singular and explicitly in love with anarchy and hostile to corporations.
Until very recently when Marvel Boy (a.k.a. the Kree soldier Noh-Varr) joined the cast of something called Dark Avengers, debate raged as to whether this was the "secret first Ultimate Marvel book" which Joe Quesada had spoken obliquely of. Well, it's pretty clear now that it is in Marvel continuity proper (Earth-616) for better or worse, but the book definitely carries the smell of Ultimate Marvel and that imprint's mandate of "bringing Marvel Comics into the twenty-first century."
To me, the operative question is not "what universe is this book taking place in?" but rather "How does Marvel Boy figure into the oeuvre of Grant Morrison?"
On close examination, you can see Grant Morrison taking the opposite tack at Marvel than what he does with DC's stable of superheroes. At DC, everything he writes is connected, and Morrison is the first writer to use the notion of comic book continuity to its fullest literary potential. Animal Man connects to JLA connects to Batman connects to Seven Soldiers connects to All-Star Superman connects to DC One Million, and so on, enriching and enlivening the work. Of his three major works at Marvel, each has been self-contained to the point of barely needing to exist in a "comic book universe." The X-Men living in their own corner of the world is nothing new, but in four years' worth of New X-Men, Morrison never acknowledged the wider Marvel Universe. Fantastic Four 1234 was the same old FF story told on a broader scale and barely mentions any other superheroes. The same goes in Marvel Boy, except . . . not.
We never see the other superheroes, but their presence is felt. The villain, Midas, wears one of Iron Man's old suits, and is obsessed with giving himself the powers of the Fantastic Four. Marvel Boy is attacked by bastardized versions of Captain America called "Bannermen." Dum Dum Dugan and S.H.I.E.L.D. are present and accounted for. What's most important here is the sense of Marvel -- its ghost. As a logo, as a brand. Angry, alienated, rebellious ... Noh-Varr is almost the distillation of all the Marvel heroes, of Marvel as a brand\u2026 and so quite appropriately, Noh-Varr does battle with a living corporate identity at one point in the comic. (If not for thorny legal complications, I'm sure Morrison would have preferred to call this book Marvel Man.)
In both pacing, art style, coloring and dialogue cadence, Marvel Boy owes a lot to the then-recent Warren Ellis runs on The Authority and Planetary. And while J.G. Jones may be just a little less polished and fluid than Bryan Hitch and John Cassaday, his page layouts are more inventive, which serves to draw you back in for multiple reads. (However, Jones' at-times-stiff facial detailing recalls Bryan Talbot, who would is the last person you want drawing a Grant Morrison superhero comic.)
Noh-Varr is a punk superhero. He blows up an evil corporation with a cosmic bullet, carves obscenities into blocks of NYC and has his girlfriend blow up Epcot Center. Also, his best friend is his spaceship's living computer. (Is that punk? Sure! Why not!)
Superhero comics run on nostalgia and the veneration of decade-old concepts, so it's not surprising that something like Marvel Boy, which flies in the face of the familiar, takes some getting used to. But once you realize the hopefulness that's present in Noh-Varr's parting promise to turn Earth into the capital of the new Kree Empire, and also realize that Morrison will probably never complete this saga, it makes you love this unlikely volume all the more. Thanks, Marvel, for re-issuing this book as a hardcover, in an attempt to cash in on Final Crisis like the corporate shills you are.
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Pre-season Coaches Report: Craig Hayes
adminva March 8, 2016 Coaches Report
It has been a fantastic pre-season with the playing group getting a full 4 weeks under their belt prior to the Xmas break. We have now been back a couple weeks and are already some significant improvement on the fitness of the players in comparison to this time last year.
The club has had a very productive off season with a number of new players signing with the club before Xmas. Among these players are:
Kane Tenace who is an extremely fit, hard running midfielder, who uses the footy very well. Kane has numerous years of Division 1 senior experience with Eltham and Lower Plenty;
Ollie Parks who is a fantastic contested mark and will add some much needed height and fire power to our forward line. Ollie has Division 1 senior experience with Lower Plenty and had a year with Old Ivanhoe in the VAFA;
Brad Perry who is a dynamic tough midfielder, extremely strong overhead and uses the footy very well and will add some firepower to our forward line. Brad has played senior footy with a number of clubs and will be a valuable addition to our playing group.
Nathan Sleep who is a smooth moving midfielder/forward who will provide quality ball use. Nathan is coming back from a significant injury which saw him miss all of last season, however he has recovered fully from this and is training very well. Nathan has also played a number of senior games with Lower Plenty.
Mathew Aquilina who is a very fast forward/midfielder, who has impressed at training. Matt is also overcoming a significant injury which kept him out of football last year. Matt has played senior footy with Bundoora and Mernda, playing in Bundoora seniors premiership.
Ryan Burrell has returned to the club and will be a great asset with his leadership and fantastic work ethic. Tigs will add some much needed run and drive to our group.
These additions make for what I think will be a very exciting year.
Go Creekers
Hayesy
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Parade on Columbia University Campus, November 11, 1918
Women students in parade on Columbia University campus on Low Steps with Low Library and St. Paul...
Show moreWomen students in parade on Columbia University campus on Low Steps with Low Library and St. Paul's Chapel in the background. One student identified on back of photograph, but location in photo unknown: "Dorothy Brockway - undergraduate president 1918-19"
Visit of French and American Officers to Columbia Campus, November 1918
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Show moreBarnard students gathered at the ceremony for the visit of French and American officers to the Columbia campus on November 11, 1918. Handwriting on the back of the photograph says "Peace Day."
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Show moreProcession of professors and women students with Low Library in the background, November 11, 1918. People as identified on the back of the photograph: Professor Cramplin (first on left), Professor C. Knapp (first on right), Professor W. Braun (second on left), Professor C. S. Baldwin (second on right), Professor G. M. Hirst (behind Baldwin and Braun), Dorothy Brockway (undergraduate president, 1918-1919).
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Show moreA parade on the Columbia University campus for the visit of French and American officers, November 11, 1918. The parade is passing the base of the Low Library steps.
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"The fears of Henry IV" by Ian Mortimer
Ian Mortimer writes mediaeval history so readably. This biography of "England's Self-Made King" starts with 14 year old Henry in the Tower during the Peasant's Revolt and a retainer persuading the invading mob not to murder him. Henry had a glorious youth: son of John of Gaunt, England's richest and most powerful lord, grandson of Edward III (named as heir after Richard II and John of Gaunt), cousin and boyhood playmate of King Richard II, a talented musician, a big reader, a student who (in exile) attended lectures at the University of Paris, a star jouster from the age of 14, a crusader (with the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania) and a pilgrim (the only mediaeval English King to enter Jerusalem), and a key member of the opposition in Parliament to Richard II's increasingly arbitrary and tyrannical rule. All this potential seemed dashed by Richard's hatred (possibly caused by jealousy since the dashing Henry was everything that Richard was not). Richard continually promoted others over him (including naming them as heir) and slighted or spurned him. Finally Richard exiled Henry. In exile Henry must have felt that all his promise was for nothing. But he returned from exile to lead a rebellion against Richard, to depose Richard and to be recognised by Parliament as King in Richard's place. Then things began to go wrong.
All the early promise evaporated. His vow to be merciful was falsified almost immediately when he (probably) gave the order to ensure that Richard was killed in imprisonment (possibly starving him to death). Two harvest failures and an inability to be good with money meant that his manifesto commitment not to impose peacetime taxes plunged him into debt. Scotland, Wales and France all fought against him. There were many rebellions at home (including eight assassination attempts) culminating in the Battle of Shrewsbury when Henry decisively defeated and killed Harry Hotspur. Even peace left him at the mercy of a hostile and penny-pinching parliament. Finally some dreadful skin disease left him crippled and dying, dead before he reached fifty.
Mostly uncommemorated (Mortimer claims that his only statue is in Shrewsbury's Battlefield church) Henry started the tradition of giving to the poor on Maundy Thursday (his birthday) an amount proportional to his age. He owned an early (perhaps the first) portable clock (p93). In exile he stayed at Sangatte, outside Paris and in 'Newenham' Priory (I presume this is Newnham Priory which around this time was involved with Mowbray who was the Earl of Norfolk involved in a dispute about a rebellion with Henry which led to his and Henry's exile; Newnham Priory received a grant from Henry IV on 15th February 1409) in Bedfordshire on 7th July 1403 (p265).
Fabulous history of a fascinating king.
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Labels: biography, history
"The Devil's Cup" by Stewart Lee Allen
An interesting history of coffee is turned into a mesmerising thriller by the adventures of Stewart, following coffee from Ethiopian genesis to the USA. On the way this beatnik turned author travels on a gun-running boat from Djibouti to Yemen while these two countries are at war, negotiates a people-smuggling deal, is conned whilst trying to participate in an international forged art smuggling business, meets low-lifes of all sorts, travels from Italy to Rio, has his passport confiscated and his car searched, interrogates entranced mediums, and drinks every variety of coffee possible from Ethiopian brewed with the leaves to Yemeni, to Turkish, to Viennese, to Parisian, to Italian, to Brazilian, to American.
Unbelievable. Why have I never heard of this book before?
Labels: coffee, history
"Possession" by A S Byatt
A penniless literary researcher discovers a love letter from the Victorian poet whose biography he is working on to another Victorian poetess. He and a lady lecturer trace the details of an unknown and illicit Victorian love affair. What happened and why?
Despite acres of Victorian allusive poetry, pregnant with myth, and a whole chapter of letters from poet to poetess, mostly discussing nothing, this book draws you in. But oh how shallow the modern world appears and how unromantic our couplings and uncouplings are compared with the enforced chastities and unconsummated desires of the past.
A mystery but also a satire on the obsessions of the modern biography industry.
Delightful.
Labels: Byatt, fiction
"The Enchantress of Florence" by Salman Rushdie
This book reminded me of a silk and velvet version of my own 'Don Petro de la Hoz'.
It was certainly lavish. A yellow haired wanderer and magician of Florentine descent related to Amerigo Vespucci and named after Niccolo Machiavelli but calling himself the 'Mughal of Love' arrives at the imperial Moghul court of Akbar the Great. He tells a story of Qara Koz, the woman he claims to be his mother, a princess of the line of Tamburlane and Genghis Kahn, who was multiply abducted through the fortunes of war until she found love with a Florentine Janissary. This makes him Akbar's uncle.
His stories weave magic around the Mughal court and enchant the great emperor (who has himself conjured up a fantasy queen). And the tale weaves back and forth from past to present, from India and Persia and Ottoman Asia to Transylvania and Italy and the Nuovo Mondo, from history to fantasy, rich, gorgeous and romantic.
Philosophical: "If there had never been a God, the Emperor thought, it might have been easier to work out what goodness was." (Chapter 19).
Political: "Was foreignness itself a thing to be embraced as a revitalizing force bestowing bounty and success upon its adherents, or did it adulterate something essential in the individual and the society as a whole?" (Chapter 19)
Witty: "Only the humble did not stumble" (Chapter 19)
Spell-binding.
Labels: fiction, Rushdie
"The Pocket Encyclopaedia of Impressionists"
The Impressionists were an brilliantly talented bunch of artists who happened to meet in Paris and studied together and worked together and exhibited together and in some cases lived together.
This books explains their incredible history and then gives an authoritative analysis of some of the leading lights including the incomparable Monet, anarchist Pisarro, unwillingly controversial Manet, balletophile Degas, working class Renoir and gentle landscapist Sisley. It explains about their key beliefs, such as painting landscapes in the open air and their use of brilliant colours and concentrating on patches of light but it also explains which artists followed which styles.
My only complaint about the formidably impressive book is that the illustrations rarely co-ordinate with the text so that you are reading about one painting while seeing another or you are flicking through the book to understand what they are talking about. Perhaps a slideshow version of the book might be the answer.
Labels: art, art history, biography, history
"After Me, the Deluge" by David Forrest
This tells the story of a young priest in a tiny French village who receives a telephone call from God commanding him to build and Ark for the forthcoming flood that is going to destroy the world. The eccentric villagers including a massive, ex-para, whore-mongering, poorly endowed barman, an officious policeman and a pompous mayor help construct the Ark. But word gets out via a cod-Jewish newspaperman called Morry. The government send the police in but the Vatican send a Cardinal.
It reminded me very much of The Mouse that Roared which I read when I was about 12 and so I assumed initially that this book was written about the same time (late fifties/ early sixties) but the rather more explicit sexuality of this book firmly placed it in the seventies.
Light comedy; a fun easy read (but with a disappointing ending).
Labels: fiction, Forrest, humour
"Appleby House" by Sylvia Smith
A chronicle of a year in rented accommodation.
Sylvia rents a bedsit with kitchen in a four bedroom house, sharing with lonely Laura, Susanna and her sister Beverley, Sharon and her boyfriend Peter, and later Tracey. The girls bicker about the domestic arrangements and the noises they make to keep the others awake. They surf the highs of sharing a bottle of wine and getting a little tiddly and the lows of being ill at Christmas and redundancy. The characters are grey and thin, the dialogue is stilted and colourless, the book is banal and humdrum.
"The East End minimalist is back," says the Observer. "If her style were to be translated into an object, it would be an antimacassar or a crotcheted white-lace doily." Which is fair enough. If that is your idea of literature.
Labels: autobiography, everyday life, Smith
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ATH, Warwick the Kingmaker / Oman, C.W., 433 - 434, Volume 1891, Apr 4, 1891, Thomas Frederick Tout, From 'Athenaeum: Index of Reviews and Reviewers 1872-1900', Ghent University Library. [review] (12/19)
ATH, Pedes Finium : Finis relating to the County of Cambridge, From Richard I to the End of Richard III / Rye, Walter (ed.)., 94 - 94, Volume 1891, Jul 18, 1891, Thomas Frederick Tout, From 'Athenaeum: Index of Reviews and Reviewers 1872-1900', Ghent University Library. [review] (12/19)
ATH, Text-Book of English History for Colleges and Schools / Airy, Osmund., 216 - 217, Volume 1891, Aug 15, 1891, Thomas Frederick Tout, From 'Athenaeum: Index of Reviews and Reviewers 1872-1900', Ghent University Library. [review] (12/19)
ATH, Portugal / Stephens, H., 320 - 320, Volume 1891, Sep 5, 1891, Thomas Frederick Tout, From 'Athenaeum: Index of Reviews and Reviewers 1872-1900', Ghent University Library. [review] (12/19)
ATH, Le Royaume d'Arles et de Vienne (1138-1378) / Fournier, Paul., 446 - 447, Volume 1891, Oct 3, 1891, Thomas Frederick Tout, From 'Athenaeum: Index of Reviews and Reviewers 1872-1900', Ghent University Library. [review] (12/19)
ATH, Heroes of the Nations - John Wyclif / Sergeant, Lewis., 178 - 179, Volume 1893, Feb 11, 1893, Thomas Frederick Tout, From 'Athenaeum: Index of Reviews and Reviewers 1872-1900', Ghent University Library. [review] (12/19)
ATH, Commentaries on the History of England from the Earliest times to 1865., 498 - 499, Volume 1893, Apr 22, 1893, Thomas Frederick Tout, From 'Athenaeum: Index of Reviews and Reviewers 1872-1900', Ghent University Library. [review] (12/19)
ATH, The Story of the Nations-Bland., 126 - 127, Volume 1893, Jul 22, 1893, Thomas Frederick Tout, From 'Athenaeum: Index of Reviews and Reviewers 1872-1900', Ghent University Library. [review] (12/19)
ATH, A Short History of the English People., 126 - 127, Volume 1893, Jul 22, 1893, Thomas Frederick Tout, From 'Athenaeum: Index of Reviews and Reviewers 1872-1900', Ghent University Library. [review] (12/19)
ATH, History of England and the British Empire., 43 - 44, Volume 1894, Jan 13, 1894, Thomas Frederick Tout, From 'Athenaeum: Index of Reviews and Reviewers 1872-1900', Ghent University Library. [review] (12/19)
ATH, a summary of British History., 43 - 44, Volume 1894, Jan 13, 1894, Thomas Frederick Tout, From 'Athenaeum: Index of Reviews and Reviewers 1872-1900', Ghent University Library. [review] (12/19)
ATH, Things New and Old, Standard III., 80 - 81, Volume 1894, Jan 20, 1894, Thomas Frederick Tout, From 'Athenaeum: Index of Reviews and Reviewers 1872-1900', Ghent University Library. [review] (12/19)
ATH, Things New and Old : Standard III., 80 - 81, Volume 1894, Jan 20, 1894, Thomas Frederick Tout, From 'Athenaeum: Index of Reviews and Reviewers 1872-1900', Ghent University Library. [review] (12/19)
ATH, The Invaders of Britain., 81 - 81, Volume 1894, Jan 20, 1894, Thomas Frederick Tout, From 'Athenaeum: Index of Reviews and Reviewers 1872-1900', Ghent University Library. [review] (12/19)
ATH, A First Spanish Reader and Writer., 81 - 81, Volume 1894, Jan 20, 1894, Thomas Frederick Tout, From 'Athenaeum: Index of Reviews and Reviewers 1872-1900', Ghent University Library. [review] (12/19)
ATH, A Short History of the English People Vol. III., 81 - 82, Volume 1894, Jan 20, 1894, Thomas Frederick Tout, From 'Athenaeum: Index of Reviews and Reviewers 1872-1900', Ghent University Library. [review] (12/19)
ATH, Latin and Greek Verse., 243 - 244, Volume 1894, Feb 24, 1894, Thomas Frederick Tout, From 'Athenaeum: Index of Reviews and Reviewers 1872-1900', Ghent University Library. [review] (12/19)
ATH, Select Statutes and other Constitutional Documents illustrative of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I / Prothero, G.W. (ED)., 672 - 673, Volume 1894, May 26, 1894, Thomas Frederick Tout, From 'Athenaeum: Index of Reviews and Reviewers 1872-1900', Ghent University Library. [review] (12/19)
ATH, English History for American Readers., 739 - 740, Volume 1894, Jun 9, 1894, Thomas Frederick Tout, From 'Athenaeum: Index of Reviews and Reviewers 1872-1900', Ghent University Library. [review] (12/19)
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Below are the my best articles for the year 2008, listed in chronological order. If you didn’t get a chance to see them when they were first posted, you may want to check these out.
Previous articles are always available through the Archives box on the right, the Category selection, or the Search box.
A Killer Bee and Me (Dec ’07): My experiences with former AWA and WWF Superstar “Jumpin” Jim Brunzell.
[Ok, technically this was posted in Dec 2007 but I’m including it in the year-end list because I didn’t have enough content to do this in 2007]
One Degree of Separation? (Jan): A follow-up to the previous Brunzell article, where I talk about my potential as a celebrity look-alike.
Circling the Bowl? (Jan): My opinion of the downward spiral of the TNA wrestling product
Hey, I Recognize Those… Eyes (Feb): Whenever a local wrestling talent signs with a major promotion, they might not be recognizable at first. It took me a while to figure out who TNA’s Payton Banks was.
I’m with the Show (Mar): The importance of the referee in a wrestling match.
That Action Figure Looks Familiar (Mar): Finding the Daivari action figure in a local Target store.
The End of an Era (Apr): My thoughts on Ric Flair‘s last match.
Wait…Back Up a Second (Apr): The first appearance of Bam Neely (known locally as Hellraizer Gutz) on WWE TV.
“Bam Neely” Video (Apr): Video of Bam Neely against myself in Fridley, MN.
Gimmick Matches (May): My thoughts on why I’ve never been a big fan of gimmick matches.
Lenny Lane vs. The Great Sasuke (Jun): This was a match I saw live, and the phone number on the back of the program was how I got started in wrestling.
TV Wrestling “Quality” Measurement (Jul): July was when I started measuring how much time I spend watching wrestling to see if I was enjoying it more or less over time. The latest data can always be found on the TV Viewership Stats page.
Wrestling Training (Jul): This was the first of 3 posts on my experiences in wrestling training camp. You can get to the other two from this link.
Daivari (a.k.a Sheik Abdul Bashir) in TNA (Aug): For Shawn Daivari’s first appearance in TNA, I posted a reformatted version of an interview he had done locally for the Upper Midwest Wrestling Newsletter.
Colt Cabana (a.k.a. Scotty Goldman) (Sep): Colt Cabana showed up on WWE TV as Scotty Goldman. I posted a reformatted in I posted a reformatted version of an interview he had done locally for the Upper Midwest Wrestling Newsletter.
Enough with the Matt Morgan Already (Sep): One of several rants on the on-screen character known in TNA as Matt Morgan.
WWE Push into Japan – A Good Thing? (Oct): Is it a good thing that WWE is looking to take over more of Japanese wrestling?
Eddie Sharkey Video (Nov): I came across a documentary of one of my trainers, Eddie Sharkey, that I had forgotten about.
H.O.W. Interview on Trash Talking Radio (Dec): Local wrestler from Superior, WI builds a promotion from the ground up.
Links for December 2008
Wait…Back Up a Second
Eddie Sharkey Video
Wrestling Training- Part 3
AWA, bam neely, Brunzell, daivari, Eddie Sharkey, gutts, hellfire, hellraiser, Lenny Lane, Matt Morgan, referee, Ric Flair, Sheik Abdul Bashir, Terry Fox, TNA, tv
Otto (Hack-Man)
January 2nd, 2009 at 1:19 AM
2008 was a weird year, but at least there wasn’t a huge negative story like 2007 with Benoit.
I saw Darren Aronofsky’s “The Wrestler” movie earlier this week. Damn if Mickey Rourke doesn’t look like Bruce Willis trying to look like Jerry Lynn every time he puts on his reading glasses. If the weather isn’t too bad, I might catch it in the theater next weekend.
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Andreatta: RJ Hampton Won’t Spark a Revolution
By Ben Andreatta
Credit: USA Basketball
Before his announcement Tuesday, RJ Hampton’s crystal ball prediction said there was a 75% chance that he would commit to Kansas. Yeah, it’s okay, I didn’t see this coming either.
So what is his way? RJ announced on “Get Up” that he will be joining the New Zealand Breakers in the NBL. Hampton is widely considered a potential top 5 pick in the 2020 NBA draft. However, he’s elected to take the unconventional route to the NBA.
Two current NBA players have taken this similar route as well, Terrance Ferguson and Emmanuel Mudiay. While both are too young to make a judgement on the success of their careers, neither one of them have made a big impression in their limited NBA days. Safe to say neither Ferguson nor Mudiay were able to raise their draft stock by playing overseas.
RJ Hampton (ranked No. 5 recruit in ESPN Top 100) will forgo college to play professionally in Australia’s NBL. pic.twitter.com/xWmh7V5RaF
— Get Up (@GetUpESPN) May 28, 2019
Either way, I can’t imagine Jayhawks fans are too thrilled that their crystal ball prospect that they bet so much on is now walking out the door to go play overseas. Hampton wanted to do things his way, so let’s discuss.
So what will make RJ Hampton different? To be honest, I don’t really think it will make a difference. By not playing in college he’ll likely miss out on a lot of the National exposure compared to other draft prospects that will be shining for top College programs. And in my opinion that’s too good of an opportunity for those top prospects to pass up on. After a year college prospects can move on to enter the NBA afterwards and collect their check.
One big factor that I think plays a role in to a decision like this is the potential of getting hurt and being left with nothing. If Hampton does get hurt, he’s still collecting a paycheck in New Zealand that ranges from $300,000-$600,000 for top tier players according to the HeraldSun.
To counter that let’s take a look at some examples that will disprove this theory:
Michael Porter Jr.:
Played three games in his college career and he was still taken number 14 by the Denver Nuggets. If you were curious his rookie contract could make him up to $15.4 million dollars over the course of 4 years.
Darius Garland: A lock to be a top 10 pick in this year’s upcoming draft despite only playing in five games for Vanderbilt.
These two guys, despite suffering two season ending injuries are still going to secure the bag.
In response to this however, the NBA does need to lower its draft age back to 18. Guys need to be given the option to join the NBA if they think that they’re in fact ready.
Now lets say Hampton plays well in New Zealand, what does he gain from it? Sure he gets his paycheck for the season, but what else? His draft stock goes up? Does a successful season in the NBL outweigh what a successful season at Kansas would do? It’s hard to say.
This won’t be the last high school prospect that will try to make his name by playing overseas. NBA scouts will definitely be keeping a close eye on the 6’5 point guard over the next year to see how he develops. This is a trend I don’t think will catch on anytime soon.
Disagree? Leave a comment and let’s discuss.
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YouTube issues new warnings over proposed EU copyright directive
EU-Policies | October 28, 2018 | Digital Economy, News | No Comments
It’s fair to say that the proposed EU rules on copyright haven’t been popular in the digital media world. In fact, they’ve been met with a great deal of criticism, not just from internet giants, but from celebrities, freedom of speech campaign groups, and others. But in their latest warning, YouTube have suggested that the new rules could not only be damaging, but they could also make it impossible for users to upload their own videos to the site.
According to YouTube, the directive would be putting the entire creative online community at risk. They add that the new rules could “drastically change the internet that you see today”. This follows the ongoing concerns over the rules, which have been nicknamed the “meme ban”. The opposition claim that the directive would have a negative impact on the way the internet works; YouTube have pointed out, on several occasions, that it would hinder freedom of expression.
In the latest comments from the company, YouTube says that normal users could struggle to upload their own videos. This could result in them relying on larger companies to show content. Additionally, viewers in the EU could be banned from viewing some types of videos.
The result for smaller content creators could be disastrous. In a letter from the company, aimed at video creators, they say that article 13 “threatens to shut down the ability of millions of people – from creators like you to everyday users – to upload content to platforms like YouTube”.
It goes on to say that: “It threatens to block users in the EU from viewing content that is already live on the channels of creators everywhere. The proposal could force platforms, like YouTube, to allow only content from a small number of large companies. It would be too risky for platforms to host content from smaller original content creators, because the platforms would now be directly liable for that content.” Lastly, it adds that the rules could “threaten hundreds of thousands of jobs”
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07-000503PL Department Of Health, Board Of Medicine vs. Samuel Cox, M.D.
Recommended Order on Tuesday, June 19, 2007.
Summary: Respondent failed to recognize signs of a leak at the gastrojejunal anastomosis.
Document: Agency Final Order
Issued: 08/29/2007
Document: Recommended Order
Proceedings: Final Order filed.
Proceedings: Exceptions to Recommended Order filed.
Proceedings: Petitioner`s Response to Respondent`s Exceptions to the Recommended Order filed.
Proceedings: Agency Final Order
Proceedings: Letter to C. Sanford from J. Lynn requesting a new hearing date on the matter of the recommended order filed.
Proceedings: Eceptions to Recommended Order filed.
Proceedings: Recommended Order
Proceedings: Recommended Order (hearing held April 11 and 12, 2007). CASE CLOSED.
Proceedings: Recommended Order cover letter identifying the hearing record referred to the Agency.
Proceedings: Petitioner`s Proposed Recommended Order filed.
Proceedings: Letter to Judge Sartin from M. Strauss regarding exhibits 1,2,3 (not available for viewing) filed.
Proceedings: (Respondent) Proposed Findings of Fact filed.
Proceedings: Petitioner`s Motion for Extension of Time filed.
Proceedings: Notice of Filing Transcript.
Proceedings: Transcript (2 volumes) filed.
Proceedings: CASE STATUS: Hearing Held.
Proceedings: Letter to Judge Sartin from D. Kosches requesting rescheduling of hearing filed.
Proceedings: Petitioner`s Motion for Official Recognition filed.
Proceedings: Respondent`s Motion in Limine to Preclude Evidence of Prior Acts filed.
Proceedings: Amended Notice of Hearing by Video Teleconference (hearing set for April 11 through 13, 2007; 9:30 a.m.; Lauderdale Lakes and Tallahassee, FL; amended as to video and location).
Proceedings: Respondent, Samuel Cox, M. D.`s Proposed Pre-hearing Stipulation filed.
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4 Interesting Questions Every Formula One Fan is asking in 2017
Author Jenny NicholsPosted on February 13, 2017 August 7, 2018
With action day looming in March, every Formula One fan is angling to understand what is new and what to expect. Of course everyone has a different interpretation of what is expected to happen because after all, anything can happen in Formula One. No one would have thought Nico Rosberg would not be on the grid after his Championship title, but that’s just Formula One for you.
Below are some of the most obvious questions every Formula One fan and pundit is asking now that the action is about to start. Most likely, you also have the same questions in mind if you are an avid F1 fan:
1. Will Ferrari Turn Up?
If the term underwhelming required a new definition, it would aptly fit Ferrari’s season in 2016. After a promising start with and proclamation that the Scuderia could at last challenge Mercedes’ dominance, all hopes went up in smoke. By the end of it all, it was obvious the main driver, Vettel, was out of sorts even with the team.
His expletive-laden laced rant to the team in the Mexican GP showed just how frustrated the German was. The question on everyone’s minds now is whether Ferrari will match Red Bull after giving up its 3rd place constructor’s position last year.
2. Can Renault Recoup with Hulkenberg?
There is no denying that Nico Hulkenberg is the unluckiest driver because he never gets a top seat yet he is one of the most decent drivers in F1. A look at what he has done with Force India is just evidence enough that the Hulk can fight for podiums with the right car. It is no wonder Renault, which has had a poor year, has made a swoop for him. Is this going to be the impetus Renault needs to make a comeback?
3. Does Stoffel Vandoorne have an X-factor?
There is no denying that fans were delighted when Stoffel Vandoorne stood in for Fernando Alonso in Bahrain 2016. He was impressive and now with a top seat, it remains to be seen whether the Belgian can push the new car to its limits. In Alonso, he has a great teacher and he can still push the Spaniard to the edge to claim bragging rights. What you can bet on is that the Belgian has nothing to lose and you might just see another Max Verstappen on the track.
4. Is this the Year Max wins it?
It is too early to write off the likes of Vettel and Hamilton, but if 2016 was anything to go by, you can expect a lot of thrilling races from Max. The Red Bull driver is an asset to every team and it is no wonder Mercedes did not even dare look in his direction when looking for Nico’s replacement. Max is on a learning curve and it is no secret that he is learning fast.
Criticism aside, what did everyone expect when giving a teenager a car that makes a road supercar fade in comparison? He is learning and this might just be the year Hamilton starts feeling the heat.
So what’s on your mind about the new season? Do you think it will be more exciting? One thing is guaranteed; the cars will be faster so the thrill will increase for sure.
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What You Did not Know about the Austrian Grand Prix
Author Jenny NicholsPosted on August 8, 2015 August 8, 2015
The Austrian Grand Prix story starts, just like with many Grand Prix tales, with a group of individuals that were passionate about motor racing in the 1950s. These local folks created a very simple L-shaped circuit with hay bales and cones in Zeltweg town. The maiden race for the international sports cars took place in 1958. Wolfgang von Trips won this premier race in a Porsche. Nonetheless, the remarkably bumpy track attacked plenty of criticisms. This did not stop the circuit from holding two more rounds of Formula Two Championship (1959 and 1960).
The organizers had a dream of hosting an interesting Formula One race. In 1961 and 1963, Zeltweg town played host to non-championship events. Jack Branham and Innes Ireland won the races in 1963 and 1961 respectively.
Jochen Rindt, an Austrian superstar, rose as a result of the two events. As Rindt ascended through the F1 ranks, Zeltweg town pushed for a championship event. In 1964, the town realizes this great dream. Lorenzo Bandini went on to claim his only victory in motor racing. In 1965, Formula One did not return. However, the sportscar event still ran. Rindt, a local hero, won the race in a Ferrari.
Rindt’s success, combined with an ever-growing interest of Formula One racing was enough to attract funding. The funding led to the creation of a purpose built circuit. A natural basin was the location of the Osterreichring. Over time, it proved to among the fastest tracks worldwide. Its demand on driver skill, wonderful aesthetics, and impressive corners were some of the reasons for the high popularity of this circuit.
In 1970, the maiden Formula One race was held at the track. Rindt was highly dominant throughout the race. Actually, a win was expected for the Australian. Nonetheless, to the disappointment of home fans, this was not to be. Jacky Ickx took the chequered flag for Ferrari. The good thing is that there was always a next year. Sadly, at the same year’s Italian Grand Prix, Rindt died after a crash. He became the first racer of the sport to die during a race.
Consequently, the entire Austrian nation and sport fraternity were quite devastated. Fortunately, sooner than expected, NikiLunda would become Austria’s new hero. During the mid-1970s, home fans turned up in huge numbers expecting Lauda to win. This did not happen.
In the 1975 motor racing event, Vittorio Brambilla won in March’s torrential conditions.
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Sample the Legendary Monaco Hospitality
Author Jenny NicholsPosted on September 25, 2014 November 14, 2017
All hail the might Hercules because legend has it that this god gave us Monaco. If you have been to this city you understand why any traveller would be so enthusiastic to go back there because you can never get enough of the French Riviera and the Monaco Grand Prix hospitality.
Finesse in Holidaying
There are many good destinations in the world but none comes close to Monaco in terms of grandeur, elegance, fun, prestige and of course hospitality. From the Monaco GP to the exquisite beaches there is no limit of the fun you can wring out of this principality.
Simply put Monaco can be termed the epitome of elegant living and once you visit you will want to go back. Whatever tickles your fancy be it the thrill of F1 speeds, incredible night life, marina or amazing casinos it will be available for you.
Redefining Hospitality
Unlike most destinations where you visit amazing sights but hospitality levels let you down, Monaco offers you a complete package. To sample the best out of the city you should always find the best hotels to pamper your body after a tiring day exploring the city.
The hotels in Monaco offer thousands of rooms but that’s just a tip of the iceberg. The architecture ranging from belle, Mediterranean to Classical makes them sights to behold. Their exquisite personalized service makes the whole experience ethereal.
Some of the incredible hospitality offers can be found in facilities such as:
Yacht experience: How would you like to dine like royalty on water? This is exactly what you get especially during the Monaco GP. You not only get a breathtaking view of the race but also champagne breakfast, 5-star catering, champagne open bar, menus designed by Master Chefs from 5-star hotels and much more.
Thermes Marin Spa: Hospitality is not all about food and dining in Monaco but also health. At this world famous spa, there are heated marine pools, vast treatment options including sea-peels with Dead Sea salts, algae baths and much more.
Hotel De Paris’s Wine Cellar: Enjoy the world’s most storied wine cellar dating back to the 1870s. With over 450,000 bottles and 55 types of champagne there will of course be something to tickle your bud.
World-class hotels: You have a chance to enjoy personalized service at the world’s most exclusive hotels. These include the Metropole which has ESPA spa services, Hermitage which was built in the 1900s and is centrally located, Monte Carlo Bay, Columbus, Le Meridien Beach Plaza to mention but a few.
Super car experience package: Nothing beats travelling around this great city in a supercar. The dream car you have always ogled at in Motoring Magazines is within your reach here. In fact you will get a package that comes with accommodation, VIP tables during Monaco GP after parties and much more.
It is impossible to capture all of Monaco’s hospitality in one article. You just have to fly down there and experience the glamorous and luxurious service to appreciate what it is all about.
It is time to drink in what Monaco has to offer as you get pampered like royalty.
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In Russia
Rewriting History at the Russia Grand Prix 2014
Author Jenny NicholsPosted on September 19, 2014 February 13, 2017
What would you do if you were given a chance to recreate a popular event that was last held a century ago? This is the question Russia has had to deal with since the inclusion of the Sochi Autodrom in the 2014 Grand Prix circuit.
A Look at History
While most fans regard the Russian GP as a new phenomenon it dates back to 1913 and 1914 at St. Petersburg Square. It can thus be referred to as one of the oldest races but one that has also missed from action for the longest time.
These first races were won by G. Suvorin and Willy Scholl respectively but with the outbreak of WW1 it was abandoned. Plans to revive the circuit in the F1 calendar have been in the pipeline for over three decades.
Though plans to build a track have existed this long only after a meeting between FIA bosses including Ecclestone and President Vladmir Putin was an agreement signed. The city to host the track is the Black Sea resort city of Sochi which hosted the Winter Olympic Games.
Interesting Circuit Facts
Circuit length: The proposed length is a 5.853-kilometre track designed by renowned Hermann Tilke.
Location: Sochi and integrated around the Olympic Park infrastructure. The size of the circuit reduces to 13 meters at the narrowest point to 15 meters at the start and finish line.
Challenge: With 12 right and six left hand corners drivers are already predicting these to be the main challenges on the track.
Top speed: Expected top speed is 320 km/h
Last winner: Willy Scholl in 1914 still holds the record as the last winner.
Armchair Prediction
When BBC’s David Coulthard joined Sebastian Vettel to try out the circuit the driver felt the track resembled Korea in layout. To come up with a prediction using this experienced driver’s feel of the track any driver who exceled in the Korean GP 2013 can make history on this track.
Vettel was of course the 1st in the Korean GP 2013 followed by Raikkonen and Grosjean. Hamilton who is experiencing explosive form this season was 4th. You can bet with all these other drivers in the list not competing for honors the battle between Rosberg and Hamilton will be renewed.
Politics aside the Russian GP can join the great races with a rich heritage including Monaco GP if it beats the usual teething problems that come with new tracks.
Come October 12th all eyes will be on Sochi to see what it has to offer both fans and drivers.
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shoot999
Post subject: Re: 2019 Motogp Season
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2019 10:30 pm
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Congrats to Marc! Boring race today but a totally dominant season. So far he has finished first or second in every race except for the crash at COTA (a race where he was dominating). His form is just untouchable when you look at the relative inconsistency of all of his "rivals". The likes of Rins and Vinales can't seem to string together 2 good races and Dovi is all over the place too. Rossi is a spent force and, in general, there doesn't seem to be anyone who is a match for Marc. Kind of like Loeb in his day.
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It's been a fun season to watch for me, as I don't share the opinion that many people have, that the races are not exciting unless there are four people vying for victory on the last lap, at least in the GP class. If that is what these folks desire, Moto 3 delivers it nearly every race. That's not a shot at anyone here in general, just a consensus I see regularly online on other websites I go to. We've seen numerous last lap battles this year---more than I can remember, actually, in a long time. Rins over Marquez in Silverstone, Dovi over Rins in Austria, Petrucci over Marquez and Dovi in Mugello, Marquez over Fabio in Thailand and in San Marino. I was thrilled with those finishes, all that went down to the last lap, some to the last corner!!.
Regarding everyone one else besides #93, it's been tough to not seem them measuring up consistently, I certainly agree. Rins is probably the largest disappointment, as his crashing out of races, some while in the lead, have been painful to watch. I like the guy, but he just can't do that, he's not a rookie anymore. Vinales has rode well as of late, collecting several podiums but not quick enough to challenge Marquez for any wins; his issues are mystifying where he slows down in the middle of the race, and then rides like a demon at the end, only to be too far away to make up the ground he loses. Rossi is aging and slowing, Dovi has been robbed twice this year of races he looked to figure in, being taken out by FQ in England and Lorenzo in Spain when he was at the front. But...he's also had races when he couldn't compete. Quartararo looks to be the only person that can step up the challenge to Marquez at the moment. So----hopefully Yamaha has the decency next year to give him the A-spec bike with full revs and something similar to the factory guys, minus the latest updates. If they do that, hopefully he'll continue to contend like he has. Makes Vinales, and especially Rossi, look bad, though. Morbidelli is a good rider, but he hasn't figured in the picture to the extent that he needs to.
Next year I hope it won't be the same as this year, but it could be, as nearly everyone returns on the same motorcycle. it'll be interesting to see who will get the KTM seat that was vacated by Zarco. I'd love to see Aleix get it, he deserves a better ride than the crappy Aprilia he's on.
I'd rather die than be overtaken.
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Agree with all that. An odd season and not the one I was expecting/hoping for. Main disappointment has been the lack of Marquez v Lorenzo action which I was really hoping to see. Turned out to be a total non-event.
Problem is there are some great riders there but none of the outright pace and consistency to challenge Marquez every weekend. It's like Hamilton/Bottas. On his day Bottas can do it, but that's followed by 3 weekends where he just can't keep up. And that's why the titles will keep going Marquez's way.
"I'd rather lose a race going fast enough to win it, than win one going slow enough to lose it".
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Dolomite I share in your consternation about the Marquez v. Lorenzo battle that hasn't been one at all. I am a fan of Lorenzo, and it's painful to watch him flounder on the Honda, although to be fair, this year has been difficult to judge him as he's been injured nearly the entire year. The spine injuries are very serious, and it has to have put doubt and fear in his mind, at least in my opinion.
That being said, it is shocking to see him so far off the pace. I can't for the life of me think he's lost his talent and ability in one year, as when things were working on the Ducati, he was very fast as we all saw last year. I'm so bummed that relationship didn't work out, I think we'd all much rather he'd have stayed there then see what we are seeing with Petrucci.
Next yeari is it for Lorenzo---he has got to show the form that we all know he has. If he doesn't, what a sad way to end his career, getting clobbered by Marquez, and everyone else. He's a great champion with a storied career. I can't imagine him ending it like this. Frankly, Honda needs to step up and provide some solutions to his issues also. He's not the only Honda rider complaining about the bike, and it honestly elevates Marquez to even larger Rock Star status, as it is obviously not the easiest bike to ride, yet he's killing everyone with it.
Get back to the front, Jorge!
Good article on Maverick.
https://www.visordown.com/news/racing/m ... BOqnKP7Jog
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Zarco to stand in at LCR Honda for Takkagami for the 3 final races of the season, as he undergoes surgery on his shoulder.
Wow....just, wow.
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Vinales putting it in the gravel with a half a lap left to go in the Australin GP----I thought he was going to overtake Marquez and was rooting for him to do it, then that happened. Was bummed!
Great race, though.
Well the hairpin was the only place he was going to pass and Marquez covered that off quite quickly, so the dive bomb pass became nowhere to go as soon as it was attempted.
Well that was clever Marquez. Spent all qually trying to intimidate Quartararo and ended up face planting the tarmac. Now at the medical centre.
https://twitter.com/box_repsol/status/1 ... ers.com%2F
shoot999 wrote:
He was merely trying to get a tow from the fastest rider/bike, however I rather don't condone this type of riding and Marquez got payback for the car and mouse shenanigans that left his tyres too cold and the bike high sided him.
Glad to see Vinales competitive. Hopefully Yamaha can improve the engine for next year as I think hes the only rider who can challenge Marquez for a title
Marquez's opening lap... Oh my word. I don't recall ever seeing anything like that in motogp. The combination of ability, absolute confidence and sheer balls must be demoralising for the other riders.
Good to Vinales keeping it together and Rossi being punchy.
DOLOMITE wrote:
To think he nearly injured himself trying to get a tow so he could get a better starting position, why bother when you can go from 11th to 3rd in one lap, in fact I believe he was recorded as being 2nd across the start line before being re-passed by Miller.
Official: Jorge Lorenzo retires from MotoGP following Valencia Finale.
https://www.crash.net/motogp/news/93364 ... nt-updated
I'm crushed as is one of my favorite riders, but it makes sense, and surely the nasty spate of crashes has probably created such a vacuum of doubt in his mind he'd have never gotten over on the Honda. I will miss him greatly, but respect him fully for making what was probably a very arduous decision. Thank you for the memories, Champion.
Concur with your sentiments. I remember seeing him at Donington when he first entered the sport. A unique and exciting style. A shame it ended this way.
To me it looked like after several injuries he became too scared of crashing and thus finding the limit, he has form for this, after getting badly injured in the wet in 2013 he then seemed not have any confidence in those kind of conditions.
I guess this then means that Zarco will get signed up by Honda for next year?
That's a shame but from what we saw this year, the right call. Loved watching him ride when he was in the groove. Always felt he should have one of those lower back name decals (like Rossi 'The Doctor') saying The Metronome.
Not sure Crutchlow shouldn't get the nod before Zarco, and Zarco could then go to LCR, if they rated him, which they might. He's been doing a good job on Takaa's bike, especially last week.
There could be some other names out there. It's an exciting yet daunting opportunity at the same time. Getting crushed by Marquez, which is an ever-present likelihood, would be a difficult pill to swallow for anyone, no matter who they are. So whomever fills this seat has to be a bit intimidated by the wonderkid, whether they admit it,or not.
Regarding Zarco, though----if he ends up racing for Honda either at the factory team or at LCR (should Crutchlow be promoted), he'll have pulled a masterstroke by not taking that Yamaha test role. Which I thought he should take and was idiotic to do a 3 race bit with LCR. My God how his current prospects of staying in MotoGP have improved. Meteorically.
Interesting times in MotoGP, for sure.
On Jorge: I recall watching him race from when he was riding 250cc bikes in the mid-tier series back in the day. I was super-impressed right from the first time I saw him race. He was on a different level from the competition. Even guys like Simoncelli and Dovi were just not on his level. When he came into MotoGP he went right to the factory Yamaha team and that's where he really belonged. He was quick right away, challenged Rossi for the title in year 2 and in year 3 he had a dominant season; setting a points record for a single season.
From that point; Jorge was one of the top riders consistently up until he left Yamaha really. He challenged for titles almost every year and won a total of 3 (to add to his two 250 titles). His style of being both smooth and extremely fast and frequently dominating the races from the front was beautiful to watch. I have massive respect for him and there was a point where I felt he really didn't get the respect that he deserved for his consistency and his dominance.
With all that said, I do feel that Jorge's performance generally fell off since his last championship victory in 2015. It turned out that he was someone who struggled to adapt. Once he left Yamaha, he was never able to be competitive consistently, despite the fact that he was always on competitive bikes. I'm not sure how that impacts his legacy but I think he's an all-time great regardless.
Of course Honda value Crutchlow; he has been a fully factory contracted rider for Honda for a a number of years. But he has always been open about having no desire to go to the factory team. He has the same bike as the factory riders, and on many occasions the upgrades first so as to test them. The only difference according to him is that he has less Honda engineers and a lot less hassle.
The four in contention are the two LCR riders, Zarco, and a certain rider from Moto2. Guy named Marquez.
I'm not convinced by Alex Marquez. Took a long time for him to take the Moto2 title and generally I think real class is apparent earlier than that..
Very much the Ralf to Marc's Michael....
Marc Marquez was a freak since he got competitive in 125s so there's no point comparing anyone to him. They changed 125s and 250s and Motogp rules to make it more competitive and he still just dominated them all. Having said that I think it's a bad idea for Alex to be in the garage as I can only see it negatively effecting Marc
I wouldn't take Zarco at all. He got poles for Yamaha but cracked whenever there was pressure and KTM has been a total disaster. However they only have to fill the seat for a year when everyone becomes available again
Quartarao was anonymous in the lower classes, Rabat was a like a machine in his title year. MotoGP is just completely different to any other series.
Amazed Hamiltons motogp bike run is being held in Valencia in December. Valencia is freezing that time of year, can only see him having to use steel brakes and stuff then tip toeing round struggling to stay upright
Does anyone know why it's not being held in Abu Dhabi after the F1 and whilst rossi is there doing the rally? I'm sure abu dhabi would have paid for it. I appreciate they don't want Hamilton injuring himself and a motogp is well out of his current talent range but would surely have made more sense.
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While I agree Valencia is NOT a place I'd want Hamilton to be on a MotoGP bike, Abu Dhabi with it's absurdly long straight and close barriers all over is not a place a motorcycle race should ever be run, especially considering a modern MotoGP bike easily hits 215mph, maybe more, especially on that straight.
If I were Mercedes management, I would not want my world champion driver buzzing around in excess of 200mph in Abu Dhabi.
Maybe they'd cut the revs a little bit? More than the speed, the barriers there are really close, I'd worry about him having an off and hitting the barrier.
He's not going to be going at 215mph. He'll tip toe round like Alonso did at the Honda day a few years back. As I understand rossi will on track in the f1 car at the same tim
Seems a peculiar choice, the track temp this morning was single figures and that's only going to get worse. If they're lucky it will be dry. Just recipe for disaster
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Does Hamilton ride motorbikes on the road? If so, I'd make that far more dangerous than a closed circuit, full rescue and medical assistance on site, test run in December.
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He owns a motor bike and sometimes rides it into the circuit, so I would say yes.
He has a deal with MV for a limited edition bike, I'd be very surprised if he rides at all on roads when cameras aren't there
I'm not expecting anything catastrophic but pecco Bagnaia fractured his wrist today coming out of the pits.
I don't know why I've taken such an interest in this silly pr stunt but both the F1 car and MotoGp are going to have to be adapted/dumbed down as neither will work in the conditions.
Surprised this has garnered so much interest. Monster have been doing this sort of thing since the MS days.
So it looks like Marquez to join Marquez at Honda according to paddock rumours.
Shoot999---It is now official.
https://www.motogp.com/en/news/2019/11/ ... 020/319950
I don't know how I feel about this, but it will certainly be interesting. He's on a 1-year deal, too. That seat will get warm very quickly, I think, if he is not putting it in the top five regularly.
Ooh that's a brave move. Very exciting for us fans though. Let's hope he can take a fight to his brother in some races, if not at first, but later in the season.
I highly doubt that seeing his struggles in the lower classes.
The other strong rumour; denied by all, is Miller will be in the Ducati factory team early next season with a straight swop with Petrucci
Miller shot that one down almost immediately, and it seems unlikely, but so was Lorenzo back to Ducati in mid-season, so you never really know.
https://www.crash.net/motogp/news/93431 ... ti-rumours
Also, based on this article, Johann Zarco has declined to race with for the Avintia Ducati team next year, and looks to be trying to fill Alex Marquez' seat.
https://www.asphaltandrubber.com/motogp ... tomatters/
I don't get the signing of Alex tbh. Who wins here? OK Alex is in MotoGP but now what? OK we can probably expect better results than Lorenzo managed (sadly) but many riders would have met that brief. Marc should have him more than covered so then what?
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Roache has played Ken Barlow for more than 57 years, ever since the first episode of Corrie premiered Dec. 9, 1960.
His portrayal of the often-conflicted patriarch of the troubled Barlow clan—a frustrated intellectual with a lifelong way with women—has earned accolades and numerous awards.
It’s made Roache one of Britain’s most-beloved actors, a TV titan whose popularity is impossible to overstate among the loyal followers of the kitchen-sink drama seen in dozens of countries and airing weeknights and Sunday mornings in Canada on CBC.
This intimate one-on-one onstage interview allows William Roache to give fans a rare glimpse into his personal life. Audiences will be enthralled as he shares stories about his experiences on the famous set, the plotlines and the actors he has worked with over five decades, many of whom are equally adored by loyal audiences.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for an audience with true Coronation Street royalty and no fan will want to miss it.
Catégories : Central Coastal Drive (Members) Music & Performing Arts (Members) Étiquettes : member
Indian River Festival – Summerside Community Choir @ Historic St. Mary's
Juin 2 @ 7:00 – 10:00
The Summerside Community Choir’s 40th Anniversary Event.
Catégories : Arts, Culture & Heritage (Members) Central Coastal Drive (Members) Community Fun (Members) Music & Performing Arts (Members) Étiquettes : member
Stratford Community Choir Spring Concert @ Park Royal United Church Our Lady of the Assumption Church in Stratford
Juin 3 @ 7:00 – 9:00
Stratford Community Choir will be present their Spring Concert on June 3rd at Park Royal United Church beginning at 7:00pm. Special guests are FORTE a men’s chorus from Charlottetown. Adults $10.00, children 12 and over $5.00 or family $25.00. Tickets are available from choir members and at the door.
Catégories : Charlottetown (Non-Members) Music & Performing Arts (Non-Members) Étiquettes : non-member
PEI Mutual Festival of Small Halls @ Various Locations Across PEI
Juin 6 – Juin 24 Jour entier
An exceptional Island experience! The PEI Mutual Festival of Small Halls celebrates its 10th Anniversary from June 10-24, 2018! With more than 50 events showcasing music, dance and storytelling in small rural communities Island-wide, the Festival presents world-class entertainment with Island hospitality. Join us for concerts, workshops, children’s shows, and jam sessions for two weeks in June. For more info, visit www.smallhalls.com or call 902-892-2308.
Catégories : Arts, Culture & Heritage (Members) Central Coastal Drive (Members) Charlottetown (Members) Community Fun (Members) Music & Performing Arts (Members) North Cape Coastal Drive (Members) Points East Coastal Drive (Members) Étiquettes : member
The North Atlantic Tionol @ Benevolent Irish Society
The 4th Annual North Atlantic Tionól will be held from June 8-10, 2018.
The North Atlantic Tionól is a weekend series of workshops and concerts presented by masters of the uilleann pipes, fiddle, guitar, set dancing, and bodhran from Canada, the U.S., Ireland, and the U.K.
Information on registration, concert tickets, and full schedule can be found on our website www.northatlanticpipers.org
Le 4ème Tionól Atlantique Nord annuel aura lieu du 8 au 10 juin 2018.
Le North Atlantic Tionól est une série de week-end d’ateliers et de concerts présentés par des maîtres de l’uilleann pipes, du violon, de la guitare, de la danse et du bodhran du Canada, des États-Unis, d’Irlande et du Royaume-Uni.
Vous trouverez des informations sur l’inscription, les billets de concert et l’horaire complet sur notre site Internet www.northatlanticpipers.org
Catégories : Arts, Culture & Heritage (Non-Members) Charlottetown (Non-Members) Community Fun (Non-Members) Music & Performing Arts (Non-Members) Étiquettes : non-member
Indian River Festival – Open House @ Historic St. Mary's
Come help kick off the Indian River Festival summer season at our Open House! There will be music, food, drinks, and great conversation. Come see why they say #musicbreatheshere
Catégories : Arts, Culture & Heritage (Members) Central Coastal Drive (Members) Community Fun (Members) Free (Members) Music & Performing Arts (Members) Étiquettes : member
Queens County Relay for Life @ Confederation Landing
The Queens County Relay for Life is a community of people fighting back against cancer. The festival-like fundraising event brings together teams of family, friends and colleagues to celebrate cancer survivors, remember those we’ve lost and commit to raising funds to fight all types of cancer. We’d love to see you out cheering on Relay participants and enjoying the evening’s activities.
Catégories : Charlottetown (Non-Members) Community Fun (Non-Members) Free (Non-Members) Music & Performing Arts (Non-Members) Sports & Recreation (Non-Members) Étiquettes : non-member
Indian River Festival – Open Stage @ Historic St. Mary's
Come to our Open Stage to enjoy a relaxed environment filled with great local musicians, food, and drinks.
The John Denver Experience @ Harbourfront Theatre
It’s hard to believe that it’s been 20 years since the world lost music icon John Denver, Yet his legacy continues on through his many hits songs, including; “Rocky Mountain High”, “Take Me Home Country Roads”, “Thank God I’m a Country Boy”, “Annie’s Song”, “Back Home Again”, “Sunshine On My Shoulders”, “ Leaving On A Jet Plane “and more!
Many generations have adored this amazing singer, songwriter, actor, and humanitarian.
Relive the music of John Denver with award winning Chris Collins and his band Bolder Canyon as they create an unforgettable John Denver experience. The similarity between Collin’s and Denver’s voice is uncanny and Collins brings to the stage the unmistakable enthusiasm that was a hallmark of a John Denver concert.
From the same promoter who brought you “Hotel California” The Original Eagles Tribute Show, “RUMOURS” The Ultimate Fleetwood Mac Tribute Show and Beatles vs Stones, now brings you the world’s most exciting John Denver tribute show.
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Pixel Scroll 7/21/19 But He Can’t Be A Fan Because He Don’t Scroll The Same Pixel As Me
Posted on July 21, 2019 by Mike Glyer
(1) CROWDSOURCED SUCCESSES. The appeal to help send Tiptree Fellow Vida Cruz to Dublin 2019, “Help Vida attend the 77th WorldCon in Dublin!”, has raised $1,230 at this writing, slightly more than its target figure.
Con or Bust so generously sent me funds to pay for accommodations and airfare–two large chunks of expenses that make me hopeful that I will be able to attend. In fact, I have already booked the tickets and my AirBnB stay. I need only save up for food, transportation, and other smaller travel expenses.
However, I hit several snags recently. Sudden health issues required medicines and physical therapy. As a freelancer, my biggest contract was recently ended, and so I have been searching for part-time gigs and full-time jobs to not only help me fund this trip and pay GoGetFunding, but to help pay for my daily and medical needs. Your contribution will greatly help toward lessening the amount I need.
And when Brandon O’Brien was trying to round up the last $700 he needed to get to Dublin, look what happened! Jeff VanderMeer put up 7 of the Sub Press Borne signed special editions for $100 each to the first 7 takers. And just like that, he was funded.
So this happened… boundless gratitude to those who have contributed, and to @jeffvandermeer for offering such a generous gift to them!
This is the part where I say this community still blows me away in ways I am not used to. https://t.co/VRNWLiuSG7
— Brandon | a jump to the sky turns to a Rider Kick (@therisingtithes) July 14, 2019
Next 7 people to contribute at least $100 each to Brandon via paypal will get a limited edition of The Complete Borne hardcover (Subterranean Press), personalized to them, with a little drawing of the title character. This item is otherwise out of print. https://t.co/vOINDYJ5qB
— Jeff VanderMeer (@jeffvandermeer) July 14, 2019
(2) IN TIMES TO COME. Ethan Alter, in the Yahoo! Entertainment story “Everything Marvel Has Planned for Phase 4: Natalie Portman Returns As A New Thor, Mahershala Ali Will Be Blade, Angelina Jolie Trains to Be An Eternal, More” has the lineup for the next two years of movies and TV shows Marvel unveiled at San Diego Comic-Con.
Here’s who you won’t see as Phase 4 unfolds between May 2020 and November 2021: Spider-Man, Star-Lord and a new Iron Man. But you will meet what’s easily the most diverse superhero line-up in comic book movie history, including a master of kung fu and a group of eternals. You’ll also welcome back a strange sorcerer, a sharpshooting archer and a sword-swinging Valkyrie. Based on the crowd reaction, the most anticipated reunions are with Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster, who will be returning as a thunder goddess, and that vampire hunter Blade, now played by two-time Oscar winner, Mahershala Ali.
'Is Hollywood making EVERYTHING female nowadays?'#femalethor https://t.co/fDXEX9ir3P
— RT (@RT_com) July 21, 2019
(3) STAR DREAMING. Michael Benson’s New York Times opinion piece declares “Science Fiction Sent Man to the Moon”.
Most major achievements, be they personal or collective, arrive after rehearsals. Some unfold as flights of the imagination. The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing provides a great opportunity to examine how an entire branch of speculative fiction — novels, short stories and also feature films — lies behind the first human footprints on another world.
Works of fiction aren’t particularly known for having influenced historical events. Yet some foundational early rocket science, embedded deep within the developmental history of the Saturn 5 — the towering, five-stage rocket that took Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins to the moon 50 years ago this week — was paid for by the budget of the first science fiction film to envision just such a voyage in realistic terms.
Spaceflight as we know it today wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for three extraordinary figures: the borderline-crazy Russian spaceflight visionary Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the hard-right nationalist German-Transylvanian rocketry pioneer Hermann Oberth and the idiosyncratic American rocketeer Robert Goddard. All devised their distinctive strains of rocket science in response to speculative novels, specifically the stories of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells — founders of a nascent genre later to be known as science fiction. Tsiolkovsky and Oberth also had important roles to play in early 20th century film projects depicting trips to the Moon.
… Of the three, only Tsiolkovsky actually wrote science fiction, which he used as a scratch pad for his revolutionary ideas. Living in near-poverty 100 miles southwest of Moscow, he also issued a stream of theoretical papers. In articles published in 1911-12, he came up with the great utopian credo of the space age: “Earth is the cradle of the mind, but humanity can’t live in its cradle forever.”
(4) THAT OTHER 50TH ANNIVERSARY. NPR profiled SDCC: “San Diego Comic-Con Is Turning 50: Here’s Its Origin Story”.
Fifty years ago, a bunch of comics fans in San Diego decided they wanted a way to meet other fans. They were mostly teenagers — okay, and two adults — but what they created became the pop culture phenomenon we know as San Diego Comic-Con.
Today, Roger Freedman is a physics professor, but in 1969 he was 17 years old — and he had no idea what he was about to get himself into. “I think it’s fair to say that if you had come to us and said how Comic-Con was going to evolve, we would have said A) what are you smoking, and B) where can we buy some?”
It all started with a guy named Shel Dorf — one of only two adults involved with that first convention. Dorf had some experience attending and planning conventions, and more importantly, he had connections. He knew Jack Kirby, the legendary co-creator of characters like the X-Men and the Fantastic Four. And Kirby was willing to talk to a bunch of kids.
“I think we thought comic creators lived on some comic book Mount Olympus and couldn’t be approached by normal mortals like us,” says Mike Towry, who was 14 when he got involved with the convention committee. “And then to find out that we could actually meet them and talk to them one on one, and then have a convention where they would come and we would get to hang out with them was just kind of mind-blowing.”
(5) THE POWER OF TRANSLATION. Nathaniel Isaacson authors “Dispatches from the Future of a New China” for the LA Review of Books.
…It’s not hyperbole to say that without Ken Liu and his Herculean efforts in translation, Chinese SF would not exist — or at least it would not exist in its current state. When Ken Liu’s 2014 translation of Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem (2008) won the Hugo Award in 2015, not only was it the first Chinese work awarded the honor, it was the first work in translation from any language to be lauded so. At some point in the past decade, Chinese SF went from “having a moment” to “enjoying its golden age,” and if 2015 wasn’t the exact moment that shift happened, it was certainly when the translation heard round the world was sounded. The Three-Body Problem’s award signaled the significance of Chinese SF to many Anglophone readers for the first time, but equally important was its reaffirmation of Chinese SF for local readers. Liu’s translation has in turn been the source for the novel’s translations into other languages, putting Liu at the vanguard of Chinese SF’s march toward the world. Within hours of the award announcement, domestic internet searches and sales of both the first book and of Liu Cixin’s whole 2008–2010 trilogy increased more than tenfold. Publishing houses and state institutions like the Chinese Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China redoubled their efforts using SF as a vehicle for promoting China’s “peaceful rise,” and have identified SF as a key aspect of their propaganda and publicity campaigns.
In the same issue, Virginia L. Conn discusses Ken Liu’s earlier work: “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Finding and Losing Oneself in ‘Invisible Planets’”.
Just as, when pressed, Calvino’s Marco Polo claims that “[e]very time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice,” every story in Invisible Planets is saying something about the author’s own position — but that may or may not be the China we know (or think we know). Invisible Planets is not only the spiritual successor to Calvino’s Invisible Cities: it evinces the same magic without following the same formula, creating a panoply of possible worlds that may or may not be our worlds, and which may or may not be true.
(6) BRAZILIAN INVITATION. Canadian sff author Craig Russell received multiple items of good news recently.
First, “an incredibly kind” review of his novel Fragment written by Brazilian literature professor, Dr. Zélia M. Bora and published in The Interdisciplinary Journal of Literature and Ecocritics.
Some of the comments, translated from Portuguese:
“Craig Russell’s clever and captivating novel captures the sensitive reader’s attention from the beginning to the end of the narrative, in a balanced way between the real and the imagined.”
“Fragment is undoubtedly one of the most important ecocritical fiction works written in this millennium.”
Russell has also received an invitation to speak about the novel at the 2020 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (Brazil) conference in the city of Curitiba, Brazil (pending travel grant funding approvals.)
(7) STALKER. BBC has more information about the tragedy — “Kyoto Animation fire: Suspect ‘spotted in area’ days before”.
The man suspected of carrying out a deadly arson attack on a Japanese animation studio may have visited the area before, local media reported.
Neighbours spotted a man resembling Shinji Aoba near the Kyoto Animation (KyoAni) office before Thursday’s fire.
Mr Aoba, 41, who suffered severe burns, is in police custody and has been transferred to a hospital in Osaka.
On Saturday, a man died in hospital from his injuries, bringing the death toll from the attack to 34.
(8) TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS.
[Compiled by Cat Eldridge.]
Born July 21, 1911 — Marshall McLuhan. He coined the expressions the medium is the message and global village, and predicted the World Wide Web almost thirty years before it was invented. I read The Medium Is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects a long time ago. Somehow it seemed quaint. (Died 1980.)
Born July 21, 1921 — James Cooke Brown. He’s the creator of Loglan. Oh, and he did write SF. The Troika Incident written in 1970 features a global data net. That, and two short pieces of fiction, are the sum total of his of genre writings. The Troika Incident is available from Kindle but not from iBooks. (Died 2000.)
Born July 21, 1933 — John Gardner. Grendel, the retelling of Beowulf from the monster’s viewpoint, is likely the only work he’s remembered for. Gudgekin The Thistle Girl (and Other Tales) are genre fairy tales as are The King of the Hummingbirds (and Other Tales); A Child’s Bestiary is, well, guess what it says it is. Mickelsson’s Ghosts, his final novel written before his untimely death, is a ghost story. (Died 1982.)
Born July 21, 1939 — John Woodvine, 80. First role in our realm is as Macbeth at Mermaid Theatre back in the early Sixties. Shortly thereafter, he’s Badger in Toad of Toad Hall at the Comedy Theatre before being The Marshal in the Fourth Doctor story, “The Armageddon Factor”. He’s in An American Werewolf in London as Dr. J. S. Hirsch, and he had a recurring role in The Tripods as Master West. He did show up on The Avengers several times, each time as a different character, and he was Singri Rhamin for the episodes of Danger Man.
Born July 21, 1948 — G. B. Trudeau, 71. Not precisely genre or even genre adjacent, but he did an amazing series on the Apple Newton when it came out.
Born July 21, 1951 — Robin Williams. Suicides depress me. I remember a bootleg tape of a performance of him and Carlin in their cocaine fueled days. Such manic energy. Genre wise, he was brilliant in most everything he did, be it Mork & Mindy, Hook, The Fisher King, Bicentennial Man or Jumanji. (Died 2014.)
Born July 21, 1960 — Lance Guest, 59. An American film and television actor, best known for his lead role in The Last Starfighter. He also shows up in Jaws: The Revenge as Michael Brody, as Jimmy in Halloween II, as Kyle Lane in the “Fearful Symmetry” episode of The X-Files and as The Burning Zone in “The Critical Mass” episode.
Born July 21, 1976 — Jaime Murray, 43. If you watch genre television, you’ve most likely seen her as she’s been Helena G. Wells in the Warehouse 13, Stahma Tarr in Defiance, Fiona/the Black Fairy In Once Upon a Time, Antoinette in The Originals, and Nyssa al Ghul in Gotham. Film wise, she was Livinia in The Devil’s Playground and Gerri Dandridge in Fright Night 2: New Blood.
(9) DRIVE AROUND THE BLOCK AGAIN. Referring to the second tweet below — You never know who you’re going to wish you’d run into at Comic-Con.
It’s not every day that you see He Who Shall Not Be Named glaring at oncoming traffic and cursing Muggles. #cosplay #nerdistXsdcc #sdcc pic.twitter.com/77nPioXV2z
— Nerdist (@nerdist) July 20, 2019
(10) YEAR 6 IS IN THE BANK. The Uncanny Magazine Kickstarter is clicking along, too. Year 6 is funded, and they’re in hot pursuit of their second stretch goal already, with 24 days remaining.
ICYMI, YOU MAGNIFICENT SPACE UNICORNS!!
YOU DID IT!!! WE REACHED THE INITIAL FUNDING GOAL!!! THERE WILL BE A SIXTH YEAR OF UNCANNY MAGAZINE!!! THANK YOU!!!!! https://t.co/gtT1W5cW7r pic.twitter.com/dEyVMQA8FR
— Uncanny Magazine (@UncannyMagazine) July 19, 2019
OUTSTANDING NEWS, Space Unicorns! The Uncanny Magazine Year 6: Raise the Roof, Raise the Rates @kickstarter reached its FIRST STRETCH GOAL! Uncanny Year 6 will have an original @galendara cover!!! THANK YOU!!! https://t.co/gtT1W5cW7r pic.twitter.com/7OHac82p5Y
(11) ON THE HORIZON. The “Strange Horizons 2020” Kickstarter has also passed its $13,000 goal with 9 days to go in the campaign.
(12) EYE ON THE PRIZE. Bonnie McDaniel has posted her assessment of the Hugo Dramatic Presentation Long Form Finalists: “Hugo Reading (Viewing) 2019: Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form”. Coming in last place —
6) Avengers: Infinity War
This was the Big Superhero Showdown Marvel’s been aiming towards for ten years, but when I saw it, it felt a bit….underwhelming. With so many characters tossed into the mix and so much to do, there wasn’t time for any of them to make much of an impression, with the possible exception of Thor and Rocket. Also, if I’d been Chris Pratt, I would have been ticked off by the way my character was forced to wield the Starlord Stupid Stick, not once but twice. If Peter Quill had only killed Gamora in the beginning, like she asked him to do and he agreed, Thanos would never have found the Soul Stone. Of course, then we wouldn’t have had a $2 billion-plus grossing movie…..
(13) WIDENING GYRE OF HUGO COVERAGE. Steve J. Wright has completed his Campbell Best New Writer reviews + Pro Artist Hugo and Retro Hugo reviews.
“(Not a) Hugo Finalist Category: The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer”
Hugo Finalist Category: Best Professional Artist
“Retro Hugo Finalist Category: Best Professional Artist”
(14) THE PRICE IS RIGHT. Gizmodo reveals the final selling price of those newsworthy tapes: “Former NASA Intern Scores $1.82 Million for Moon Landing Tapes He Bought at Auction”
Former NASA intern Gary George sold off three of the agency’s videotapes of the Apollo 11 moon landing for $1.82 million at auction house Sotheby’s on Saturday, the 50th anniversary of the event, CNN reported.
Sotheby’s claims the videos have not been enhanced, restored, or otherwise altered and are the “earliest, sharpest, and most accurate surviving video images of man’s first steps on the moon,” CNN wrote. George paid $217.77 in 1976 (approximately $980 in today’s dollars) for 1,150 reels of NASA magnetic tape at a government auction while he was a Lamar University student interning at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
(15) CREDENZAS FOR CREDENTIALS. The Washington Post says these are the cat’s meow: “Custom wood kennels and memory foam beds: Welcome to the wild world of modern pet furniture”. (With photos.)
…For discerning pet owners who treat their cats and dogs like family — in some cases better than family — designers are creating stylish, even glamorous, furniture. Witness the new $5,000 Crystal Clear Lotus Cat Tower by the Refined Feline, with three platforms for lounging and a hideaway cubby at the bottom lined in white faux fur. (You can see one at the trendy Los Angeles cat cafe Crumbs & Whiskers.) And now you and Buddy can catnap or watch DOGTV on matching tufted Chesterfield-style Wayfair Archie & Oscar sofas; his is a $399 miniaturized version of yours in faux-leather scaled with similar nailhead trim and turned legs.
Custom wood kennels and memory foam beds: Welcome to the wild world of modern pet furniture https://t.co/oOAYG5IT3x
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 17, 2019
(16) IT WAS ALL A DREAM. Or maybe Archer was just pining for the fjords for three seasons. Anyway: “FX’s Archer renewed for surprise season 11, reveals major changes”. Entertainment Weekly interviews the showrunners.
FX’s Archer has some huge changes coming for season 11. The first piece of news is that there is going to be a season 11 (creator Adam Reed has previously suggested the show might end after the current 10th season). The second revelation is — as Archer producers just revealed at Comic-Con in San Diego on Friday — that Sterling Archer is going to wake from his three-year coma in the upcoming finale as the show plans a return to its spy agency roots next season. But there’s a lot more to it than just that.
EW exclusively spoke to executive producers Matt Thompson and Casey Willis about their season 11 shakeup. We got the scoop on the show’s major story line for next season, how long Archer has been in a coma, the future involvement of Reed on the show, and more.
(17) NEW STONE AGE. NPR reports “Notre Dame Fire Revives Demand For Skilled Stone Carvers In France”
A little over three months after Paris’ Notre Dame caught fire, French officials say the cathedral is still in a precarious state and needs to be stabilized. Ultimately, they aim to restore the monument, a process that will take years.
When that work begins, there will be a new demand for experts who have the same skills required to build Notre Dame 900 years ago. In the workshops of the Hector Guimard high school, less than three miles from the cathedral, young stone carvers are training for that task.
In an airy and light-filled workshop in the north of Paris, a handful of students chip and chisel away at heavy slabs of stone. Each works on his or her own piece, but all are sculpting the same project: the base of a Corinthian column. The students are earning a professional degree to hew the stone pieces needed to maintain and restore France’s historical monuments.
…”In the beginning, it was my own parents who were surprised when I left my architecture studies to do this,” says Marjorie Lebegue. “But most everyone who finds out I’m studying to be a stone carver says, ‘Wow, what a beautiful profession.'”
Luc Leblond instructs the aspiring stone carvers.
“There’s no reason this should be a masculine profession,” he says. “Men have more physical force, but as a professor, I see the women have a sharpened sensitivity for the more detailed work. So it’s complementary.”
(18) GOOD PLACE BLOOPERS. Shown at Comic-Con –
What? #SDCC wanted #TheGoodPlace Season 3 Gag Reel? Sorry, Shawn only gave us THE BAD PLACE version! ?? pic.twitter.com/a77pBNzfJQ
— ??? ???? ????? is going??SDCC (@nbcthegoodplace) July 20, 2019
(19) EVEN BIGGER BLOOPER. ComicBook.com covers the hottest cosplay at Comic-Con:
Los Angeles Times correspondent Benjamin Crutcher wound up going viral at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con by cosplaying as the infamous coffee cup that appeared during an episode of the final season of Game of Thrones.
The #GameOfThrones stars are at #SDCC50… even the infamous coffee cup ?? https://t.co/ztQFajoQTV #comiccon pic.twitter.com/kvFrcPUQJ2
— LAT Entertainment (@latimesent) July 19, 2019
(20) VIDEO OF THE DAY. “The Simpsons: Russian Art Film Version” on YouTube is what the opening of “The Simpsons” would be like in a gloomy Soviet apartment complex.
[Thanks to Martin Morse Wooster, JJ, Mike Kennedy, Cat Eldridge, Chip Hitchcock, John King Tarpinian, Michael Toman, Daniel Dern, Carl Slaughter, and Andrew Porter for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Jack Lint.]
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Pixel Scroll 12/16/18 Cold-Hearted Scroll That Rules The File, Removes The Pixels From Our Pile
Posted on December 16, 2018 by Mike Glyer
(1) ROLL ELEVEN. Nicholas Whyte reviews “Doctor Who, Series 11 (or 37), 2018”, beginning with an overview, followed by comments on individual episodes:
…Overall I have enjoyed it. I don’t agree with Darren Mooney that this has been the weakest series of New Who; I really think that Series 6 (2011), which started with The Impossible Astronaut and ended with The Wedding of River Song, made much greater demands onthe viewer for insufficient payoff. However I think I will agree that the highest points of this year’s stories were not as high as those of previous New Who seasons; even Series 6 had The Doctor’s Wife. On the other hand, none of the low points was quite as awful as the 2007 Daleks in New York two-parter or the 2014 Kill The Moon. I do agree with Darren Mooney that it looks in general much much better than any series of Doctor Who ever has before. The absence of continuity (no theme music in the first episode, no Tardis interior until episode two) was disruptive but also intriguing. The new music is a welcome change (not that I hated Murray Gold, but he’s been doing it since 2004)….
(2) SON’S MEMORIES OF LE GUIN. “Ursula K Le Guin remembered by her son Theo Downes-Le Guin” in The Guardian.
One of the last trips I took alone with Ursula was to New York, in 2014, when she received a lifetime commendation from the National Book Foundation. She wasn’t enthusiastic about the travel, but the award was contingent on her presence. She snarled about this requirement for a few weeks, then allowed me to book the flights. I spent a couple of days with her before the awards, visiting her beloved sister-in-law and viewing “old friends” the Metropolitan Museum and the Frick Collection. In the indifferent and harsh light of a big city, I could see for the first time how small and frail she had become. The vitality of her mind and spirit had concealed her physical state from me. I was shaken by the realisation.
Three days into our trip, I walked her to the stage on which she delivered a speech that was, even by her high standards, fearless. With limited time, in every sense, she had decided to speak plainly to the defence of freedom that courses through her work: freedom of artistic and intellectual expression, freedom from dualism, freedom from oppressors. I’d read a draft beforehand and knew that she was delivering the speech of a lifetime. The audience sensed this as well, and for a few moments after she finished, the room crackled with love, support, excitement and (for some, I’d like to think) shame.
(3) A WINNER. Seeing the movie prompted John Scalzi to have many “Thoughts on Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”.
2. It’s also a film where its chosen medium — animation — is exactly right for it. I think there’s a still a bit of aesthetic snobbery around animation, ironically particularly when it comes to superhero films. It’s still assumed to be a compliment if you say something along the lines of “that was good enough to have been live action.” In point of fact, this particular film wouldn’t have been better served as live action; live action and all its aesthetic requirements and expectations would have made it worse. The abstracting remove from reality that animation provides fits the film’s multiverse story and allows it to be a “comicbook film” in a way that most live-action superhero films can’t manage or look silly doing (see: Ang Lee’s Hulk).In live action, this film as it is would have come across as campy; in animation, it’s just doing its thing. This is of course more about our own expectations for live action and animation than it is about the mediums themselves. But you work with what you have.
(4) THE DRAGON CURE. After receiving an anonymous letter from a neighbor claiming that her three front-yard dragons violated the “true meaning of Christmas,” fantasy author Diana Rowland decided that the only proper response was … MORE DRAGONS!
An update to yesterday's tweet re the letter I received from an anonymous, judgy-mcjudgyface neighbor who disapproved of my dragon display and asked me to consider removing them: I have added more dragons. pic.twitter.com/OxsFQs5yQ1
— Diana Rowland (@dianarowland) December 16, 2018
(5) JUDGING SANTA CLAUS MOVIES. SYFY Wire’s “Ffangrrls” column examines “The best, worst and weirdest Santa Claus movies.” Good. Bad. Weird. Ffangrrls takes a look at four Santa Claus movies in each of these categories. It’s a pretty good bet that you won’t have even heard of one or more of these dozen, um, let’s say “classics.” Columnist Kayleigh Donaldson provides a trailer or clip and a fat paragraph on each:
GOOD: Miracle on 34th Street
BAD: The Santa Clause
WEIRD: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
GOOD: Rise of the Guardians
BAD: Silent Night, Deadly Night
WEIRD: The Polar Express
GOOD: The Nightmare Before Christmas
BAD: Santa’s Slay
WEIRD: Fred Claus
GOOD: The Spirit of Christmas
BAD: The Christmas Chronicles
WEIRD: Christmas Evil
(6) SPLATTERPUNK IN ITALY.At the Horror Writers Association blog: “Revelations on the New Horror Renaissance – an Interview with Italian Author/Editor/Translator/Poet Alessandro Manzetti”.
Q. As the first Italian to be awarded the Bram Stoker Award, and as a purveyor of hard-core horror and even splatter-punk how would you describe your reception amongst your Italian peers? What inroads do you hope to make in Italy with your publishing and writing?
A. Here in Italy Splatterpunk fiction represents a small market niche (same goes for poetry, and, unfortunately, also for traditional horror fiction, excluding a few big names), anyway I have a good audience, fans of the genre follow me with great passion; they’re very fond of some of my main characters, and many of them are women (even if I write hardcore/Splatterpunk horror). Somedays ago was released, from Cut Up Publishing, my first dark psycothriller novel, ‘The Keepers of Chernobyl’, something different from what I wrote so far, and I think that this kind of works could reach a larger audience. My goal is always the same: connect myself to the readers, be their accomplice.
(7) RAMBO ACADEMY. Sign up for Seanan McGuire’s workshop: “Crossing Over: Moving from Fanfic to Your Own Worlds”.
Good morning everyone! Are you guys signed up for Crossing Over: Moving from Fanfic to Your Own Worlds? Well, you should be! https://t.co/z97u95JKHc pic.twitter.com/WQtD7K6VJX
— Cat Rambo (@Catrambo) December 16, 2018
Join prolific, award-winning, and overall amazing writer Seanan McGuire for a workshop that will discuss what writing fanfic teaches you and how you can use that in fiction involving your own worlds and characters. Using lecture, discussion, and writing exercises, Sanan will provide you with inspiration as well as the tools with which to apply that inspiration to your work.
This is a single session workshop taught on Saturday, January 12, 2019 9:30-11:30 AM Pacific time.
Cost is 199 for new students; $79 for former Rambo Academy students and Patreon supporters.
Live classes are taught online via Google hangouts, are limited to 15 participants, and require reliable Internet connection, although in the past participants have logged on from coffee shops, cafes, and even an airplane. A webcam is strongly suggested but not required. If there is an on-demand version of the class, you will be provided with a free coupon for it, so you have access to those notes.
(8) THEY’REDEAD(POOL), JIM. Aw, Jeez, he’s at it again (HuffPost: “Marvel’s ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Trailer Is Even Better When Everyone Is Deadpool”).
So much Deadpool. Truly a maximum effort.
And we thought the last “Avengers” trailer was better when every character was Deadpool.
Istanbul-based digital animator Saruhan Saral has outdone himself with a new take on the recently released “Avengers: Endgame” trailer. In Saral’s latest video, voice actor Mishka Thebaud brings to life the Merc with a Mouth.
(9) WHALE TALE. ASLE-Brasil (Association of Literature and the Environment) interviewed Craig Russell about Fragment: “Craig Russell – Literature and Ecocriticism / Literatura e Ecocrítica”:
2. Z. Can you tell us about the specific characteristics of your narratives?
C. When writing, I find it’s important for me to find at least two interesting ideas that can play off of each other in the story. So in Fragment we have not only the catastrophic events that unfold when a huge part of the three-hundred-meter thick Ross Ice Shelf is thrust out into the ocean, but also the civilization changing interactions that come from humans and blue whales learning to communicate with each other. Then, I try to put my characters in a situation they can’t escape from. (Either because of physical limitations, like the three scientists who are held incommunicado aboard the submarine; or because of a sense of duty, like when Ring, the blue whale feels he has to stay near the Fragment, to warn other blue whale pods of the danger it poses to their survival. Once they’re locked into the situation I confront the characters with problems which I don’t know the solution to, and see how (and if) they can find a way to survive.
Some authors describe this as chasing your characters up a tree, and then throwing rocks at them.
(10) TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS.
December 16, 1917 – Arthur C. Clarke. When I was resident in Sri Lanka courtesy of Uncle Sam in the early Eighties, nearly every American ex-pat I ran into was reading The Fountains of Paradise. I never saw him but he was well known among the small British community there. I’ll admit that I’ve not read that much by him — Childhood’s End, Rendezvous with Rama and that novel are the only long form works by him I’ve read. I’m certain I’ve read The Nine Billion Names of God collection as well. And I’ve seen 2001 myriad times but I’ve never seen the sequel. (Died 2008.)
December 16, 1927 – Randall Garrett. Ahhh Lord Darcy. When writing this up, I was gobsmacked to discover that he’d written only one such novel, Too Many Magicians, as I clearly remembered reading reading more than that number. Huh. That and two collections, Murder and Magic and Lord Darcy Investigates, is all there is of this brilliant series. Glen Cook’s Garrett P.I. is named in honor of Garrett. I’ll admit I’ve not read anything else by him, so what else have y’all read? (Died 1987.)
December 16, 1928 – Philip K. Dick. OK, confession time. I’m not a fan of his work so the only acquaintance I’ve with him is the first Bladerunner film which I’ve watched in its various forms many times. (Died 1982.)
December 16, 1937 – Peter Dickinson. Author who was married from 1991 to his death to Robin McKinley had a number of truly great works, both genre and not genre, including Eva, The Tears of the Salamander and The Flight of Dragons. His James Pibble upper class British mystery series are quite excellent as well. (Died 2015.)
(11) LINGUISTICS. Available as an on-demand class: Juliette Wade’s “The Power of Words”, “Everything Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers Need to Know about Linguistics at the World-building and Prose Level.”
In this class, we will discuss the study of linguistics and its relevance to genre writing. Author and linguist Juliette Wade shows how linguistics differs from the study of foreign languages, and gives a survey of eight different subfields of linguistics. She examines principles of language at levels of complexity from the most basic articulation of speech sounds to the way that language is used to participate in public forms of discourse. For each subfield, she looks at how it can be used to enhance a writer’s portrayal of characters and societies in a fictional world. After completing this examination of linguistics and its relevance to in-world languages, Wade moves to the meta-level to talk about using the principles of linguistics to hone point of view and the effectiveness of narrative language in storytelling.
(12) BUNNY TIME. Tim Goodman supplies “‘Watership Down’: TV Review” for The Hollywood Reporter.
In 1978, the film Watership Down became legendary for scaring the bejeezus out of children everywhere, drawn there by parents who either didn’t read the book or thought it would hide — not graphically triple down on — all the violence from the book. It’s funny now because so many people have harrowing stories of how that defined their early childhood.
On Christmas Day, Netflix, in a co-production with the BBC, will drop the eagerly awaited, star-studded latest version, a four-part effort that tones down the movie’s bloodshed and finds a good balance, letting Adams’ story unfold as it did in the book (with some tweaks) and suffering no loss of drama by curtailing those awful bunny screams.
Having seen the whole thing, the biggest obstacle the new version has to overcome is that the animation is decidedly flatter than what modern moviegoers are used to in the last chunk of years (decade?), and it’s often difficult to figure out which rabbit is talking or which rabbits are in peril as they fight other rabbits to survive. The saving grace to all of that, of course, is the magnificent voice cast that seems to be employing every available actor in Britain.
(13) CATCHING UP ON 2017. Lady Business delivers a blast from the past, asking contributors to recommend “Media released before 2018 that you didn’t get to until thisyear and loved.” First on the list —
Castle Hangnail by Ursula Vernon. What a treasure. I have already yelled about that book in this space, but basically this is a gem of a middle-grade book that you’ll love if you love Eva Ibbotson. I have been responsible for at least five purchases of this book this calendar year, and three of those are me giving it as a gift for Christmas. I regret nothing.
(14) FREE READ. Vice’s Motherboard “imprint” has posted a free short story, “The Bonus,” by Liz Maier.
Two hundred extra hours of life per month, and only a few would have to be dedicated to the Company. Who would say no to not sleeping, to the bonus?
(15) APPROACHING GENRE. An NPR interview: “Lin-Manuel Miranda On ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ And Writing His Way Onstage”.
Audie Cornish: I was reading that your favorite song from the original Mary Poppins movie — maybe not favorite, maybe you have a mixed relationship with it — is “Feed the Birds.”
Lin-Manuel Miranda: [Laughing] “Openly hostile” is probably my relationship to it as a child.
I mean, that’s a little strong.
Yeah, no. I just found it so sad. The notion of this bird lady, who cares for these birds and sits on the steps of St. Paul’s Cathedral, I couldn’t bear it as a child — it was too much for me. And so, I only saw the first two-thirds of the movie many times as a kid: As soon as “Feed the Birds” came on, I would turn it off. Such was VHS technology.
If it has an equivalent in this movie — not so much that I would turn off the movie — there’s a beautiful song in our film called “Where the Lost Things Go.” Mary Poppins is singing to these children — they’ve lost their mother the year before. And she sings about it in such a smart Scott Whitman lyric, because it’s about loss and it’s about grief, but it’s also in a way that a child can understand and is not condescending, it doesn’t talk down, doesn’t baby-talk. It’s just really beautiful. If I were a kid at the time, I probably would’ve fallen apart at it.
Your character offers a kind of path of joy and advice out of that mood. I’m thinking of a song like “Trip a Little Light Fantastic.”
That’s sort of Jack’s MO, is that he sees the light in any situation. He looks for the bright side, the hope, even in a dark time or in a dark place, and it’s a lovely sentiment. It’s also eight minutes of nonstop dancing. It was one of the last numbers we shot, and we basically spent the entire movie shoot rehearsing for it.
“Trip a Little Light Fantastic” (audio only) from Mary Poppins Returns.
(16) MYTH REFURBISHED. Paul Weimer’s latest contribution to Nerds of a Feather is “Microreview [book]: In the Vanisher’s Palace by Aliette de Bodard”.
The story of the Beauty and the Beast, bound relationship to a monster as a price for a service or favor, is a story that spans the globe, and strikes at the heart of a lot of myths and tropes about family relationships, gender politics, power dynamics, autonomy, freedom, choice and a whole lot more. Beauty and the Beast is far more than dancing animated clocks and the song “Be Our Guest”. In The Vanishers’ Palace, Aliette de Bodard takes the Beauty and the Beast story in new directions, giving a strong critique of some of the tropes, interrogating others, and providing a queer friendly narrative, amongst many other strands, in a densely packed novella.
(17) SHATNER ON PARADE. Parade magazine has made their recent interview with William Shatner available online (“William Shatner on His Christmas Album, Shatner Claus, & Why Star TrekIs Still So Popular”). In the usual style of Parade interviews, breadth is emphasized overdepth. It touches on Shatner family holiday traditions, his country album Why Not Me?, recent memoir Live Long And…: What I Learned Along the Way, non-Trek movies he’s involved in, and his longstanding Hollywood Charity Horse Show.
(18) SNL. The New York Times coverage of the most recent Saturday Night Live includes two skits of genre interest.
Several celebrity guests turned out for the final new “Saturday Night Live” broadcast of 2018, including Alec Baldwin, Ben Stiller, Matt Damon and Robert De Niro.
In the show’s opening sketch, Baldwin returned to play President Trump in a sendup of the film “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
While it’s rare to see “Saturday Night Live” offer up topical comedy in the waning moments of an episode, the show did just that in a sketch that imagined Theresa May (McKinnon), Britain’s prime minister, struggling to host a Christmas-themed talk show after having survived a party confidence vote.
As McKinnon opened the show, she said, “What a dreadful week it’s been. My Brexit deal is falling apart. I almost got voted out and no one in the world likes me at all. But it’s still Christmas so let’s try to have some cheer tonight, shall we?”
She went on to introduce guests including her predecessor, David Cameron (Damon); Elton John (Bryant); and the Harry Potter villain Lord Voldemort (Mikey Day), whom she introduced as “the one person in Britain more reviled than me.” Day apologetically resisted McKinnon’s attempts to compare her to him: “If you could maybe not lump us together, I just can’t have that be the pull-quote from this interview,” he said.
[Thanks to rcade, John King Tarpinian, Mike Kennedy, JJ, Cat Eldridge, Chip Hitchcock, Martin Morse Wooster, Carl Slaughter, Craig Russell, Rob Thornton, and Andrew Porter for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Kip Williams.]
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Posted on August 9, 2017 by Mike Glyer
(1) VERIFIED FILER IN HELSINKI. Daniel Dern sent a photo of himself at Worldcon 75 wearing his Filer button: “From the batch I had made at Sasquan. Also note ‘pocket program’.”
Daniel Dern
Can it be, a pocket program that fits in a pocket?!!
Good thing – they need all the room they can get.
(2) JAMMED. Cheryl Morgan on “Worldcon 75 Day 1: Where Did All These People Come From?”
The Helsinki Worldcon is now well underway, and the big topic of conversation is the attendance. On the face of it, this is a good thing. We all want Worldcon to grow. The largest number of attending members in history is still LA Con II in 1984 with 8365. LonCon 3 in 2014 had more members in total, but only 6946 attending. The last I heard Helinki was up to 6001. Some of those may be day members, who have to be counted somewhat differently from full attending members, but even so it is an impressive number. Helsinki certainly looks like being in the top 5 Worldcons by size.
Unfortunately, based on previous Worldcons outside of the US/UK axis, expected numbers for Helsinki were more like 3500. Messukeskus could handle that easily. It is more than big enough in terms of exhibit space for what we have. But the function space, where programming happens, is stretched to the limit.
There are many things that a Worldcon can do to cope with the unexpected, but building new program rooms is not one of them. Seeing how memberships were going, Helsinki did negotiate some space in the library across the road. It did not try to turn empty exhibit halls into function space because we all know how badly that went in Glasgow in 1995.
(3) MORE SPACE COMING. Nevertheless, Worldcon 75 chair Jukka Halme says:
We will have more function spaces on Thursday available, and even more on Friday and Saturday. These things take time, as some of these rooms need to be built in halls, since we already have all the available rooms in Kokoustamo at our disposal. I believe this will help out the congestions somewhat.
Also, we are closing all membership sales on our website. http://www.worldcon.fi/news/closure-membership-sales/
All in all, I believe still we had a very good opening day for Worldcon 75 and the next four will be even better! See you in Messukeskus!
(4) UNPRECEDENTED. Kevin Standlee says:
In 1993, committee set 10K limit, but because we didn't expect to hit it, we didn't publicize the decision.
— Kevin Standlee (@KevinStandlee) August 10, 2017
I believe that’s true. And simply because I happen to know this story I will add that before L.A.con III (1996), Bruce Pelz and I briefly discussed what our membership cutoff should be – a topic because the previous L.A. Worldcon (1984) set the all-time attendance record. We considered 16,000. But since our attending membership sales didn’t even crack 7,000, it never became an issue.
(5) YOU CAN’T GET OUT OF THE GAME. Doris V. Sutherland finds three points of interest in Pat Henry’s answer to Alison Littlewood, refusing to take her off the Dragon Awards ballot — “The Dragon Awards: A Peek Behind the Scenes”. The third is:
3: The Dragon Awards were originally conceived as a way of building a reading list for SF/F fans during the nominations phase, with the awards themselves being of secondary importance.
Now, the first two of these takeaways won’t be much of a surprise to anyone who’s been keeping an eye on the proceedings, but the third point is significant.
For one, it explains something that had rather puzzled me about the Dragons: the shortness (less than one month) of the period between the ballot being announced and the voting process ending, leaving very little time for a typical reader to get stuck into a single novel category before voting. If fans are expected to continue using the ballot as a reading list after the awards are presented then this is a lot easier to swallow.
(6) WHAT REAL WRITERS DO AND DON’T DO-DOO. Chuck Wendig offers a “PSA To Writers: Don’t Be A Shit-Flinging Gibbon”.
Here is a thing that sometimes happens to me and other authors who feature a not-insignificant footprint online or in the “industry,” as it were:
Some rando writer randos into my social media feed and tries to pick a fight. Or shits on fellow authors, or drums up some kind of fake-ass anti-me campaign or — you know, basically, the equivalent to reaching into the overfull diaper that sags around their hips and hurling a glob of whatever feces their body produces on any given day. The behavior of a shit-flinging gibbon.
Now, a shit-flinging gibbon hopes to accomplish attention for itself. It throws shit because it knows no other way to get that attention. The gibbon’s most valuable asset, ahem, is its foul colonic matter, so that’s the resource it has at hand.
Thing is, you’re not a shit-flinging gibbon.
You’re a writer.
Your most valuable asset is, ideally, your writing.
If it’s not, that’s a problem. A problem with you, to be clear, and not a problem with the rest of the world. It rests squarely upon your shoulders.
If your best way to get attention for yourself is to throw shit instead of write a damn good book, you are a troll, not a professional writer.
(7) A SPRINT, NOT A MARATHON. Here’s the place to “Watch five years of the Curiosity rover’s travels in a five-minute time-lapse”.
Five years of images from the front left hazard avoidance camera (Hazcam) on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover were used to create this time-lapse movie. The inset map shows the rover’s location in Mars’ Gale Crater. Each image is labeled with the date it was taken, and its corresponding sol (Martian day), along with information about the rover’s location at the time.
(8) COLD EQUATION. Although sf is not really a predictive genre, that doesn’t stop people from enjoying the recognition when the things they’ve warned about in fiction happen in reality: the Antarctica Journal has the story — “Craig Russell, Canadian Novelist Predicts Arctic Event”.
In 2016, a Canadian novelist, Craig Russell — who is also a lawyer and a theater director in Manitoba — wrote an environmental cli-fi thriller titled “Fragment” about a major calving event along the ice shelf of Antarctica. The Yale Climate Connections website recently recommended the novel, published by Thistledown Press as a good summer read.
Ironically, scientists in Antarctica are in fact right now monitoring the Larsen C ice shelf with a huge crack in it and threatening to fall into the sea any day now. How is that for reality mirroring art?
How did Craig Russell respond when asked how he felt about his accurately future-predicting novel being in the news now?
“Some 40 years ago, as a student, I lived and worked at a Canadian Arctic weather station, 500 miles from the North Pole,” he added. “So I’ve remained interested in polar events, and was both fascinated and appalled by the Larsen A and B ice shelf collapses in 1995 and 2002.”
“To see world events catch up so quickly with a fictional reality I spent years creating has been quite unnerving,” he added.
(9) STAR WARS INTERPRETATION. Syfy Wire will show you the lot: “Star Wars: The Last Jedi teaser posters get the LEGO treatment “.
The long wait for the next Star Wars film can be painful to endure. We hang on any morsel we can get, any tie-in we can overreact to, and anything else that can get us geeking out. Then there is LEGO, who can help ease the painful wait by just getting us in a good mood. Take the new teaser posters for The Last Jedi, which were released in mid-July at the D23 Expo.
LEGO has now taken those same posters and LEGO-fied them, giving us six posters with LEGO mini-figure art that corresponds to those D23 posters. Again, repeating the crimson robe attire, echoing the red we saw on the first poster and also the ruby red mineral base of planet Crait. There’s no telling yet whether these posters are just part of Lego’s social media campaign or if these posters will be part of their gift with purchase program for VIP Lego Club members.
(10) TODAY’S DAY
From the scent of a rare first edition book found in an old time book collection, to a crisp, fresh book at the local supermarket, the very sight of a book can bring back memories. Reading as a child, enjoying the short stories, the long books and the ability to lose yourself in a story so powerful that at the end your asking yourself where to get the next book in the series. This is for the reader in all of us, the celebration of Book Lovers Day!
(11) TODAY IN HISTORY
August 9, 1930 — Betty Boop premiered in the animated film Dizzy Dishes
(12) TODAY IN ALTERNATE HISTORY
Women compete with a “robot” in a tug of war on Venice Beach, circa 1935. Via @LAPublicLibrary. #tech #history https://t.co/tky0pIf4JF pic.twitter.com/vZzuljNQn4
— Humanoid History (@HumanoidHistory) August 9, 2017
(12b) YESTERDAY’S BIRTHDAY FILER
Born August 8, 2017 — Sophia Rey Tiberius Pound
(13) COMIC SECTION. Chip Hitchcock saw yesterday’s Bliss and thought: “Flame on!”.
(14) RELICS OF WAR. Something to watch out for when beachcombing in Helsinki: “German woman mistakes WW2 white phosphorus for amber”.
A German woman narrowly escaped injury after picking up an object she believed to be amber but which then spontaneously combusted.
She had plucked the small object from wet sand by the Elbe river near Hamburg and put it in a pocket of her jacket, which she laid on a bench.
Bystanders soon alerted the 41-year-old to the fact her jacket was ablaze.
The stone was actually white phosphorus, which had reacted with the air as it dried.
Police say the two are easily confused.
Chip Hitchcock adds, “Yes, most amber comes from the south coast of the Baltic, and leftover munitions may be more common in Germany than in Finland.”
(15) RIGHTING THE RECORD. Max Gladstone decides it’s up to him to salvage the reputation of a famous academic: “Defending Indiana Jones, Archaeologist” – at Tor.com.
First, I want to acknowledge the common protests. Jonesian archaeology looks a lot different from the modern discipline. If Jones wanted to use surviving traces of physical culture to assemble a picture of, say, precolonial Peruvian society, he’s definitely going about it the wrong way. Jones is a professional fossil even for the mid-30s—a relic of an older generation of Carters and Schliemans. Which, if you think about it, makes sense. By Raiders, he already has tenure, probably gained based on his field work in India (Subterranean Thuggee Lava Temples: An Analysis and Critical Perspective, William & Mary Press, 1935), and the board which granted him tenure were conservatives of his father’s generation, people who actually knew Carter and Schliemann—not to mention Jones, Sr. (I’ll set aside for the moment a discussion of cronyism and nepotism, phenomena utterly foreign to contemporary tenure review boards…)
Jones is the last great monster of the treasure-hunting age of archaeology. To judge him by modern standards is to indulge the same comforting temporal parochialism that leads us to dismiss post-Roman Europe as a “Dark Age.” Jones may be a lousy archaeologist as we understand the field today. But is he a lousy archaeologist in context?
(16) PROGENY. I can’t even begin to imagine, but apparently somebody at DC Comics can — “Superman & Wonder Woman’s Future Son Revealed”. ScreenRant has the story.
If you’ve ever wondered what the children of Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, or Aquaman would look like, the time for wondering is over. Thanks to DC Comics, every fan gets to see the parentage and superpowers of the sons and daughters of the Justice League. The good news is that they’re every bit the heroes that their parents were, making up the Justice League of the future… the bad news is that they’ve traveled back in time to seek their parents’ help. Because as heroic as their superhero parents taught them to be, the future may be too lost for them to ever save.
(17) GUFFAW OF THRONES. If you don’t mind MAJOR SPOILERS, then this Bored Panda post is for you — “10+ Of The Most Hilarious Reactions To This Week’s Game Of Thrones”. Funny stuff.
If you haven’t watched this week’s Game Of Thrones, come back to this after you do because it contains MAJOR SPOILERS. You have been warned. All the rest of you probably agree that The Spoils of War was one of the most emotional episodes of the show to date. Judging from all the reactions online, at least the internet certainly thinks so.
Bored Panda has compiled a list of some of the funniest reactions to Game Of Thrones Episode 4 of Season 7, and they brilliantly capture the essence of the plot….
(18) FASHION STATEMENT. Architectural Digest wryly calls this “Innovative Design” — “Game of Thrones Uses IKEA Rugs As Capes”.
As any of the HBO series’s devoted fans can tell you, Game of Thrones is not a cheap production. In fact, with the budget for its most recent season coming in at more than $10 million per episode, it’s among the most expensive television shows in history. (If you have dragons in a scene, they need to destroy things . . . and that’s not cheap). But it’s not only the dragons and set designs that are costly; it’s also the costumes. There are upward of 100 people who work to ensure that each character is wearing an outfit that’s as realistic as possible. What might surprise some fans, however, is that IKEA rugs are often used as clothing.
“These capes are actually IKEA rugs,” Michele Clapton, an Emmy Award–winning designer, told an audience at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles last year. “We take anything we can,” Clapton added with a chuckle as she described the process that goes into designing medieval garb. “We cut and we shaved [the rugs] and then we added strong leather straps. . . . I want the audience to almost smell the costume.” The result is an IKEA-inspired cape that not only appears worn-in but also has the aesthetic of real medieval clothing. It remains unclear as to which IKEA rugs were used to dress the GoT characters. The next time you visit IKEA, see if you can envision Jon Snow marching into battle with a Höjerup or Alhede wrapped around his shoulders.
(19) POORFEADING. Another graduate of the Pixel Scroll Editing Academy & Grill:
A concise argument for copy editors. pic.twitter.com/n6yuGkIqb3
— Naomi Schalit (@Naomi_Schalit) August 9, 2017
(20) DINO TIME. This dinosaur had more bumps on its head than a Star Trek: Voyager humanoid: “It’s Official: Stunning Fossil Is a New Dinosaur Species”.
About 110 million years ago in what’s now Alberta, Canada, a dinosaur resembling a 2,800-pound pineapple ended up dead in a river.
Today, that dinosaur is one of the best fossils of its kind ever found—and now, it has a name: Borealopelta markmitchelli, a plant-eating, armored dinosaur called a nodosaur that lived during the Cretaceous period. After death, its carcass ended up back-first on the muddy floor of an ancient seaway, where its front half was preserved in 3-D with extraordinary detail.
Unearthed by accident in 2011 and unveiled at Alberta’s Royal Tyrrell Museum in May, the fossil immediately offered the world an unprecedented glimpse into the anatomy and life of armored dinosaurs.
(21) THUMBS DOWN. Carl Slaughter says If you have read the Dark Tower series, you will probably share this reviewer’s shrill disapproval of the screen adaptation.
(22) MARJORIE PRIME. This doesn’t sound too jolly.
2017 Science-Fiction Drama starring Jon Hamm, Tim Robbins, Geena Davis, and Lois Smith
About the Marjorie Prime Movie
Eighty-six-year-old Marjorie spends her final, ailing days with a computerized version of her deceased husband. With the intent to recount their life together, Marjorie’s Prime relies on the information from her and her kin to develop a more complex understanding of his history. As their interactions deepen, the family begins to develop diverging recounts of their lives, drawn into the chance to reconstruct the often painful past. Marjorie Prime is an American science-fiction film written and directed by Michael Almereyda, based on Jordan Harrison’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated play of the same name.
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Call for Papers: FAFNIR 1/2018
Författare suoscficPublicerat den september 29, 2017 november 10, 2017
Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research invites you to submit a paper for the upcoming issue 1/2018!
Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research is a peer-reviewed academic journal which is published in electronic format four times a year. Fafnir is published by Finfar – The Finnish Society of Science Fiction and Fantasy Researchers (Suomen science fiction- ja fantasia tutkimuksen seura ry, http://www.finfar.org).
Now Fafnir invites authors to submit papers for its issue 1/2018. Fafnir publishes various texts ranging from peer-reviewed research articles to short overviews and book reviews in the field of science fiction and fantasy research.
If you would like to submit your text for Fafnir 1/2018, we kindly ask you to take the following into account:
– The submissions must be original work, and written in English (or in Finnish or in Scandinavian languages).
– Manuscripts of research articles should be between 20,000 and 40,000 characters in length.
– The journal uses the most recent edition of the MLA Style Manual (see for example https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/).
– For further notes on style and submission guidelines, see http://journal.finfar.org/for-authors/
– The manuscripts of research articles will be peer-reviewed.
– Please note that as Fafnir is designed to be of interest to readers with varying backgrounds, essays and other texts should be as accessibly written as possible.
– Also, if English is not your first language, please have your article reviewed or edited by an English language editor.
In addition to research articles, Fafnir welcomes text submissions such as essays, interviews, overviews and book reviews on any subject suited for the journal.
The deadline for the submissions is 30 November 2017.
Please send your electronic submission (as an RTF-file) to the following address: submissions(at)finfar.org. For further information, please contact the editors via submissions address. See also more detailed information on our checklist and submission guidelines: http://journal.finfar.org/for-authors/submission-guidelines.
The upcoming issue is scheduled for March 2018.
Publicerat den september 29, 2017 november 10, 2017 Författare suoscficKategorier CFPEtiketter CFP, Fafnir
CFP: Academic Track at the 75th World Science Fiction Convention: “100 Years of Estrangement”, 9–13 August, 2017
Författare suoscficPublicerat den september 1, 2016 september 1, 2016
Call for Papers for
Academic Track at the 75th World Science Fiction Convention:
“100 Years of Estrangement”
9–13 August, 2017
Messukeskus, the Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre, Helsinki, Finland
Estrangement, or defamiliarization (ostranenie), has long been a crucial concept in our understanding of speculative fiction. Since its first appearance in Viktor Shklovsky’s essay “Art as Technique” (or “Art as Device”) in 1917, estrangement has made its way into the theories of prose fiction, of theatre, and of film, and it forms the core of some of the foundational works in the theory of science fiction, such as Darko Suvin’s definition of SF as cognitive estrangement.
To celebrate the centenary of Shklovsky’s essay, the Worldcon 75 Academic Track calls for proposals for scholarly presentations from any academic discipline to examine, interrogate, and expand research related to the concept of estrangement, to related terms such as cognitive estrangement, the uncanny, the unnatural, Brecht’s Verfremdungseffekt or Derrida’s différance, and to their role in the analysis of speculative fiction in any medium. We hope for a broad, interdisciplinary discussion on the many ways in which estrangement or defamiliarization relates to the genres of science fiction, fantasy and horror, and on how those genres form a particularly fertile ground for extending our understanding of how the familiar is made new, or the strange comprehensible.
To examine these phenomena, we invite proposals addressing e.g. the following questions:
● What is the status of Shklovsky’s original ostranenie in contemporary theories of speculative fiction (widely understood)?
● How does defamiliarization or estrangement function in different fantastic (sub)genres?
● What are the differences and similarities between the techniques or strategies of defamiliarization in different media (e.g. prose fiction, graphic narratives, theatre, films, games)? How does defamiliarization relate to inter- or transmedial storytelling?
● What is the dynamic between defamiliarization, mental transportation and identification? How do estranging and fantastical effects impact the reader’s perception of the storyworld or sympathy towards the characters?
● How do works of speculative fiction balance estranging or defamiliarizing techniques and the naturalizing effects inherent to its worldbuilding and characterization? How does defamiliarization relate to the realistic illusions created by speculative fiction?
● How does estrangement help us to describe metafiction and formal self-reflection in speculative fiction?
● Are there different scholarly traditions around estrangement in different academic fields (e.g. literary studies, aesthetics, film theory) and in different language areas (e.g. Anglo-American, Russian, German, French)?
● Arising from Russian formalism and the avant-garde, estrangement has strongly political roots that have to do with the freedom of art within society. How does this political aspect of estrangement fare today?
● How is defamiliarization used in fantastic genres to question or critique societal issues and/or social identity categories (e.g. gender, sexuality, ethnicity, age, social class)?
● What can the study of defamiliarizing techniques offer to the posthumanist line of interdisciplinary research and its interest in the relations between humans and nonhumans?
● What commercial functions does estrangement have, and how do those interact with its aesthetic and ideological functions in speculative fiction?
In addition to these theoretical questions, we call for analyses of the effects of estrangement in specific works of speculative fiction in any medium. Beyond the specific conference theme of defamiliarization, proposals on all other topics to do with speculative fiction are also welcome.
Submission guidelines:
Papers will be allowed a maximum presentation time of 20 minutes, with 10 minutes for discussion. All presentations will be given in English.
● For an individual paper, please submit
a max. 500-word abstract, outlining your argument and the grounding of your scholarly approach
a max. 100-word description of your academic affiliation(s) and publications (i.e. a ‘bio note’).
● For a pre-arranged session of three or four presentations (3x20 minutes or 4x15 minutes), please submit a proposal including
a summary paragraph of the central purpose of the session
the name of the session chair
the individual abstracts of all speakers
bio notes of all speakers.
Please note that we will accept only one presentation per scholar, but you can submit both an individual abstract and a full session proposal, if you wish.
All proposals should be sent as e-mail attachments (Word or PDF) to merja.polvinen@worldcon.fi by October 31st, 2016.
We hope to announce the selections to the programme by 30th November, 2016. All selected speakers will be responsible for their own travel and accommodation. There is no separate conference fee, but all speakers in the Academic Track must join Worldcon 75 as attending members. For more information on purchasing memberships, please see the convention website at http://www.worldcon.fi/memberships/.
About the event:
Worldcon, or the World Science Fiction Convention is the annual convention of the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS). The first Worldcon was held in 1939 and, after a hiatus during WWII, has been held continuously since 1946. The convention brings together thousands of science fiction and fantasy aficionados from all around the world, and the programming includes five multi-track days of panel discussions, presentations, workshops and art exhibitions, as well as the annual Hugo Awards ceremony. For more information on Worldcon75 and on the venue in Helsinki, please see http://www.worldcon.fi/.
The Academic Track is organised by Worldcon 75 in cooperation with FINFAR, The Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research. For more information on submissions, or any other aspect of the Academic Track, please contact merja.polvinen@worldcon.fi.
Looking forward to welcoming you to Helsinki!
Dr Merja Polvinen
Chair of the Academic Track committee
Department of Modern Languages, University of Helsinki https://tuhat.halvi.helsinki.fi/portal/en/person/mpolvine
FINFAR, The Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research, http://finfar.org/en/
PDF: Worldcon75AcademicTrackCFP
Publicerat den september 1, 2016 september 1, 2016 Författare suoscficKategorier CFP
CfP: Fafnir 4/2016: Speculative Fiction in Comics and Graphic Novels
Författare suoscficPublicerat den maj 13, 2016
Call for Papers:
FAFNIR 4/2016: SPECULATIVE FICTION IN COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS
Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research invites authors to submit papers for the upcoming edition 4/2016. Theme for the edition is “Speculative Fiction in Comics and Graphic Novels”. We invite papers that focus on speculative fiction in, for example, genres of comics, graphic novels and graphic narratives, cartoons, animations, anime or manga.
Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research is a peer-reviewed academic journal which is published in electronic format four times a year. Fafnir is published by FINFAR Society (The Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research) from 2013 onwards. Fafnir publishes various texts ranging from peer-reviewed research articles to short overviews and book reviews in the field of science fiction and fantasy research.
The submissions for the edition 4/2016 must be original work, and written in English, Finnish or in Scandinavian languages. Manuscripts of research articles should be between 20,000 and 40,000 characters in length. The journal uses the most recent edition of the MLA Style Manual. The manuscripts of research articles will be peer-reviewed.
Please note that as Fafnir is designed to be of interest to readers with varying backgrounds, essays and other texts should be as accessibly written as possible. Also, if you are writing in English, and English is not your first language, please have your article reviewed or edited by an English language editor.
In addition to research articles, Fafnir constantly welcomes text proposals such as essays, interviews, overviews and book reviews on any subject suited for the journal.
The deadline for research articles is August 15, 2016 and for other submissions November 15, 2016.
Please send your electronic submission (saved as RTF-file) to the following address: submissions(at)finfar.org. For further information, please contact the editors: jyrki.korpua(at)oulu.fi, hanna.roine(at)uta.fi and aino-kaisa.koistinen(at)jyu.fi.
More detailed information about Fafnir and the submission guidelines is available at our webpage journal.finfar.org.
This edition is scheduled for December 2016.
Aino-Kaisa Koistinen, Jyrki Korpua and Hanna-Riikka Roine
Editors, Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research
Publicerat den maj 13, 2016 Författare suoscficKategorier Yleinen
Författare suoscficPublicerat den mars 29, 2016
Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research is a peer-reviewed academic journal which is published in electronic format four times a year. Fafnir is published by The Finnish Society of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research (Suomen science fiction- ja fantasiatutkimuksen seura ry, http://www.finfar.org).
The submissions must be original work, and written in English (or in Finnish or in Scandinavian languages). Manuscripts of research articles should be between 20,000 and 40,000 characters in length. The journal uses the most recent edition of the MLA Style Manual. The manuscripts of research articles will be peer-reviewed. Please note that as Fafnir is designed to be of interest to readers with varying backgrounds, essays and other texts should be as accessibly written as possible. Also, if English is not your first language, please have your article reviewed or edited by an English language editor.
The deadline for the submissions is May 31.
Please send your electronic submission (as an RTF-file) to the following address: submissions(at)finfar.org. For further information, please contact the editors: k_ainokaisa(at)yahoo.com, jyrki.korpua(at)oulu.fi and hanna.roine(at)uta.fi. See also more detailed information on our checklist and submission guidelines: http://journal.finfar.org/for-authors/submission-guidelines.
The upcoming issue is scheduled for September 2016.
Publicerat den mars 29, 2016 Författare suoscficKategorier CFP
CfP: The Far Side of English: New Gothic and Science-Fiction Monsters
Författare suoscficPublicerat den februari 24, 2016
The Far Side of English:
New Gothic and Science-Fiction Monsters
University of Tampere, Finland, 3.-4.5.2016
Ever since Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the Gothic and Science Fiction have been moving in parallel ways – Brian Aldiss refers to the latter as characteristically cast in the Gothic or post-Gothic mode. Both the Gothic and Science Fiction are replete with allegories and metaphors about the human condition, particularly in topics that are considered taboo, such as ethnicity/“race”, the origin and eventual fate of life, or the human place in the cosmos. Both in the Gothic and in Science Fiction, to understand the monster lurking in the shadowy forest or the alien crawling on the space station, is to understand one’s self.
We invite English-language literature students and researchers at all levels to submit abstracts (~250 words) for presentations related to “The Far Side of English”, which will be held from 3.-4.5.2016 at the University of Tampere. Areas of research and fields of study can include (but are not limited to):
- Gothic/Science-Fiction “others”.
- Adaptations and allegories of classic and modern myths in a Gothic/Science-Fiction context.
- The future of the Gothic and Science Fiction.
- Hybridity, artificial intelligence, and conceptual monsters.
Please submit your abstracts via email to christos.angelis@uta.fi by 20.03.2016. Speakers will be notified of their acceptance by 25.03.2016.
Attendance at the conference is free of charge.
See also http://www.uta.fi/ltl/plural/konferenssit/farside.html
Publicerat den februari 24, 2016 Författare suoscficKategorier Yleinen
CfP: Fantastic Paper Workshop in Tampere, June 30th – July 1st, 2016
Författare suoscficPublicerat den januari 22, 2016
Call for Papers for a
Fantastic Paper Workshop in Tampere, June 30th – July 1st, 2016
The Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research (FINFAR) organises an annual paper workshop at the threshold of Finncon 2016, at the University of Tampere on June 30th and July 1st 2016.
Finncon is one of the largest events on science fiction and fantasy in Europe. In 2016, Finncon is held in Tampere (University of Tampere), on July 1st–3rd. The main theme of the event is “fairytales”. For more information on Finncon 2016, visit http://2016.finncon.org/en/what-is-finncon/ .
Science fiction and fantasy research is present at Finncon 2016 in two forms: an academic track and a paper workshop. The Guest Scholar for Finncon 2016 is Raffaella Baccolini (University of Bologna). If you wish to present in the academic track, please respond to the separate call for papers (http://finfar.org/en/call-for-papers-for-the-academic-track-at-finncon-2016-fantastic-visions-from-faerie-to-dystopia-3/ ).
The paper workshop, held prior to the beginning of the main event, is a closed feedback session for written research papers. The papers are read by all participants beforehand, and the workshop is dedicated to comments and discussion. The workshop is targeted at undergraduates, graduate students and established scholars alike. We welcome proposals from all fields and approaches, as long as the subject matter relates to science fiction or fantasy. Established Finnish scholars on science fiction and fantasy will comment on the papers. Due to the participatory nature of the workshop and limitations on time and space, the workshop is open only for the participants and designated commentators.
Please send your 300-word abstract describing the content of your proposed paper, and a few words about yourself and your studies by March 31st, 2016, to kaisa.kortekallio@helsinki.fi and liisa.rantalaiho@uta.fi with the title “FINFAR WORKSHOP 2016 ABSTRACT [YOUR NAME]”. The selection will be made by April 15th. The final paper should be 10,000–15,000 characters in length. You can submit a paper either in Finnish or in English. The deadline for the final paper is May 31st, 2016. Further information and instructions will be sent upon approval.
If you have any questions about the workshop, please contact either Kaisa Kortekallio (kaisa.kortekallio@helsinki.fi) or Liisa Rantalaiho (liisa.rantalaiho@uta.fi). For further information on FINFAR, visit http://www.finfar.org .
Publicerat den januari 22, 2016 Författare suoscficKategorier CFP
Call for Papers for the Academic Track at FINNCON 2016: Fantastic Visions from Faerie to Dystopia
Call for Papers for the Academic Track at FINNCON 2016
Fantastic Visions from Faerie to Dystopia
July 1–3, 2016, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
Finncon 2016 is one of the largest events in Europe for anyone interested in science fiction and fantasy. By tradition, it is free of membership fee, and offers you several programme tracks with presentations, panels and lectures on all aspects of science fiction and fantasy. The main language will be Finnish, but there are programme tracks also in English and Swedish. For more information, see http://2016.finncon.org/en/what-is-finncon/ .
Finncon 2016 includes an academic track, organised in cooperation with the University of Tampere research project Darkening visions: dystopian fiction in contemporary Finnish literature and the Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research (FINFAR, http://finfar.org/en ).
The Finncon 2016 Academic Track aims to bring together a wide range of scholarly perspectives on the speculative and the fantastic. We hope for a broad, interdisciplinary discussion on the many ways in which genres such as fantasy, science fiction and horror take their readers, users, and consumers to strange speculative worlds, from modern dystopias to classic fairylands.
The Academic Track now invites presentations on fairy tales and dystopia. The general theme of Finncon 2016 is fairy tales, and accordingly the Author Guests of Honour are Catherynne M. Valente (USA), Jasper Fforde (UK) and Anne Leinonen (Finland). Fairy tales are a part of the shared human cultural heritage, and each culture has fairy tales of its own. Although fairy tales are often seen as children’s culture, fairy tale tropes and motifs may also belong to a galaxy far, far away, as they have become material for popular culture in many forms.
We also wish to emphasise the fiction of dystopia. One of the most noticeable trends in speculative fiction has been the rise of dystopian themes and visions that expand from undesirable, oppressive societies to apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic scenarios of the future of the mankind and life on earth more generally. What is the attraction of these dark imaginations that also penetrate young adult fiction?
The Guest Scholar will be Raffaella Baccolini (University of Bologna), who will give a plenary lecture and comment on papers.
Proposals for scholarly papers from any academic discipline that seek to examine, interrogate, and expand research related to any aspect of fairy tales or dystopia, for any age group, in any medium are welcome. Papers will be allowed a maximum presentation time of 20 minutes.
Please submit a 500-word proposal describing the content of your proposed paper, and a few words about yourself and your research to either Saija Isomaa ( saija.isomaa@uta.fi ) or Jyrki Korpua ( jyrki.korpua@gmail.com ).
The deadline for the proposals is February 29, 2016.
Tampere is easy to get to either directly by air or by train (or car) from Helsinki. The convention location is the University of Tampere which is downtown, near the train station and a short way from several hotels, shops and markets.
If you have any questions about the Finncon 2016 or the Academic Track, please contact Liisa Rantalaiho ( liisa.rantalaiho@uta.fi ).
Publicerat den januari 14, 2016 Författare suoscficKategorier Yleinen
The Issue 3/2015 of Fafnir now out!
Författare suoscficPublicerat den oktober 6, 2015
We are proud to present the third issue of Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research in the year 2015! The issue can be read at http://journal.finfar.org.
This issue celebrates posthumously the lifework and accomplishments of two beloved writers of science fiction and fantasy: the great Sir Terence “Terry” Pratchett and the renowned Michael Crichton. The legacy of Prachett’s work is discussed in a special obituary, while the sole research article of this issue studies the relationship between fan and merchant in the Wincanton Hogswatch celebration. The issue also includes an overview studying the significance and scope of Crichton’s too often neglected fictional works, which present his concern for societal issues regarding science and technology.
The rest of the issue specializes in topical issues in Finnish. We are proud to present Juha Raipola’s lectio praecursoria which focuses on representations of the future and future-oriented thinking in Finnish writer Leena Krohn’s work, drawing a connection between the theme of uncertainty and the portrayal of agentic force by non-human things, beings, and technologies. The issue also contains two literary reviews: one on a recent dissertation dealing with the Disney comics by Don Rosa and the other on the first book on the philosophy of horror genre in Finnish.
Please do remember that Fafnir welcomes submissions of research articles, short overviews, academic book reviews, essays, opinion pieces and the like. More detailed information on the journal and the upcoming issues is available at journal.finfar.org.
The next issue is scheduled for December 2015. In the meantime, Fafnir wishes our readers a sunny autumn!
Remember to join Fafnir’s Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fafnirjournal.
Jyrki Korpua, Hanna-Riikka Roine & Päivi Väätänen
Editors-in-chief, Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research
e-mail: submissions@finfar.org
http://journal.finfar.org
Publicerat den oktober 6, 2015 Författare suoscficKategorier Yleinen
CFP: Fantastic Workshop in Oulu, Dec 4 2015
Författare suoscficPublicerat den oktober 6, 2015 oktober 27, 2015
Fantastic Workshop in Oulu
What: Workshop for Science Fiction and Fantasy Scholars
When: December 4, 2015, 12-16
Where: At the University of Oulu
The deadline for submitting abstracts is November 2, 2015 (at 23:59).
The Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research (FINFAR) has for several years organised a yearly paper workshop at national events on the fantastic (such as Finncon and Archipelacon). This year the summer workshop was so popular that the society decided to organise an additional workshop during winter.
The workshop is open for scholars focusing on science fiction and fantasy who want peer support and expert comments – whether you are working towards a seminar essay, article, MA thesis or a PhD. We welcome proposals from all fields and approaches.
Due to the participatory nature of the workshop and limitations on time and space, the workshop is open only for the participants and designated commentators.
Please send your 300-word abstract describing the content of your proposed paper, and a few words about yourself and your studies by November 2, 2015 to kaisa.kortekallio@helsinki.fi with title “FINFAR WORKSHOP 2015 ABSTRACT [YOUR NAME]”. The final paper should be 10,000–15,000 characters in length. You can submit a paper either in Finnish or English. The workshop is meant for written papers, not presentations.
The selection will be made and further instructions sent before 9 November. The deadline for the final paper is November 20, 2015.
At the same time (December 3−4, 2015), the 8th Conference on Cultural Studies in Finland will take place at the University of Oulu. The theme of this year's conference is Borders. The conference discusses and problematizes the meanings and manifestations of various kinds of borders, both concrete and more metaphorical or symbolic by nature. Undergraduate and Master Students are entitled to participate in the event free of charge. For registration, go to http://www.oulu.fi/english/rajat
If you have any questions about the Finfar workshop, please contact either Kaisa (kaisa.kortekallio@helsinki.fi) or Aino-Kaisa (aino-kaisa.koistinen@jyu.fi).
Welcome to the fantastic workshop!
For further information on Finfar and the Conference on Cultural Studies:
The Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research: http://www.finfar.org
The Conference on Cultural Studies: http://www.oulu.fi/english/rajat
Publicerat den oktober 6, 2015 oktober 27, 2015 Författare suoscficKategorier Yleinen
CFP: Sharing the Play seminar, 16.-17.11.2015
Författare suoscficPublicerat den september 29, 2015
SHARING THE PLAY – A seminar on Play of and between Children and Adults
University of Jyväskylä, November 16th – 17th 2015
Play has traditionally been considered as something children do, whether as idle pastime and “mere play”, or as serving developmental functions. In recent research literature we still find the playful child contrasted to the goal-oriented adult. The picture is however quickly changing, as playing and games have been accepted as potentially productive modes of doing things. A playful attitude is promoted to children for educational purposes, to adults for improving work results, and to senior citizen for keeping them physically and mentally healthy. Today it is also increasingly common for people to carry on playing games after entering the adult world, with family and work responsibilities. Pop and rock music led the way here as it became evident that it was not just a question of a certain age of adolescence, but of an enduring habit. There are similar developments in the world of playing and games: instead of adults playing with children occasionally we now have adults playing games amongst each other, or children and adults playing together on more or less equal terms, whether with dolls or with virtual avatars in online worlds. Some indeed say that we have entered the ludic age.
The status of play is ambiguous in many academic fields. While it is a key concept in the classical tradition of aesthetics and hermeneutics, it is only recently that actual playing and games have gained more attention in humanities and social sciences. Within the multidisciplinary field of childhood studies there has been reluctance towards using the concept, as it has been felt that it degrades and marginalizes children’s activities. In education a trend identified as “the learnification of education” has brought with it an increased emphasis on measurable outcomes instead of human growth: there is then little room for play except as instrumentalised for learning purposes.
In the Sharing the Play seminar we hope to bring together researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds, such as childhood and youth studies, game studies, gender studies, arts and culture, media, education, psychology, sports and social sciences. There will be two internationally recognized keynote lecturers presenting in the seminar. We especially invite contributions that analyse participants’ – both children and adult – own perspectives and understanding of playing and gaming.
The keynote lectures will be delivered by Jessica Enevold (Senior Lecturer, University of Lund & IT University of Copenhagen) and Helle Skovbjerg Karoff (Aalborg University, Denmark). They will also provide comments on the seminar papers.
Papers may be related to topics such as:
- Functions and ends of playing and gaming: psychological, social, existential and ontological;
- Hermeneutics of playing and gaming;
- The relationship of play and playfulness to imagination, creativity and the arts;
- Improvisation, negotiation, rules in plays and games;
- Co-operation and competition in plays and games;
- Intergenerational, intercultural and gender issues of play and games: anonymity, roles and the re-positioning of identities;
- Play-worlds and games as imaginary worlds and as transformations of the everyday;
- Effects of play and playfulness on the experience of social and physical environments;
- Affordances for play in physical and institutional environments: pros and cons;
- Educational and learning games;
- Playing, gaming and well-being.
Deadline for abstracts (400 – 500 words): September 6st. Please send your abstract as a pdf, rtf or word attachment to Mari Vuorisalo (mari.vuorisalo@jyu.fi).
Acceptance Notification: September 21st
Seminar Dates: November 16th - 17th
The Seminar is arranged by the LaNKa research cluster Children, Young People and their Growth Environments and the research project Ludification and Emergence of Playful Culture.
There is no participation fee!
More information: https://www.jyu.fi/edu/laitokset/lanka/lanka-tutkijafoorumi/ajan/call-for-papers-sharing-the-play-seminar-nov-16-17-2015
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LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST ..........DON'T STAY PUT.......
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Resort Review: Sabin Resort Hotel (Ormoc City, Leyte)
Date of Stay: April 14-15, 2000
RATING (Scale of 1 to 10)
Location: *******
Rooms: ********
Condition and Cleanliness: *******
Staff Performance: *******
Room Comfort: *******
Food and Beverage: ********
Other Amenities: *******
Value for Money: *******
Sabin Resort Hotel
Our de luxe room
Sabin Resort Hotel has 60 spacious airconditioned rooms with cable TV and private bath, some with verandas facing the pool and the sea (superior, de luxe, premiere, executive suite and presidential suite).
The resort has a unique, huge and ectomorphic swimming pool with its sunken poolside bar at the center accessed by a bridge. The pool is well lit at night.
The resort's private beach, along Ormoc Bay, has waters were so clear you could see your toes underneath. An added spectacle was the magnificent sunset also best seen from a view deck beside the resort. From here you could also see the city's port (a 5-min. drive from the resort) with Hotel Don Felipe prominent in the background.
The resort's unique pool
Its Mario's Restaurant serves Spanish and Filipino cuisine and also has a nightly live band. The third floor Club Andone, on the other hand, serves fine wines. For conferences, conventions or small group gatherings, the resort has the 400-500-pax grand ballroom (Rose), the 100-150-pax Garvie Hall and two 30-50-pax conference rooms.
Arch. Roy Perez help conceptualize the design of the hotel while Cebuano Doro Barandino did the interiors.
Sabin Resort Hotel: Brgy. Bantigue, Ormoc City, Leyte. Tel: (053) 255-3801 to 03. E-mail: info@sabinresorthotel.com. Website: www.sabinresort.com.
Posted by Benjamin Layug at 12:30
Labels: Beaches, Leyte, Republic of the Philippines, Resorts
Location: Ormoc City, Philippines
BENJAMIN "BENJIE" LAYUG, an architect by profession (he finished his B. S. Architecture degree from the University of the Philippines Diliman in 1982), is an avid reader, traveler and free-lance travel writer in his spare time, contributing articles to Travel Update, Philippine Daily Inquirer, COLORS, TODAY, 7107 Islands Magazine, Business Day, Bluprint and the Business Mirror.
He is also the author of the following travel books:
A Philippine Odyssey (New Day Publishers, 2005)
Pathfinder’s Travel Guide: Boracay (Great Books Trading, 2006)
A Tourist Guide to Notable Philippine Churches(New Day Publishers, 2007)
A Tourist to Notable Philippine Historical Landmarks, Monuments and Shrines (New Day Publishers, 2010)
A Tourist Guide to Notable Philippine Museums(New Day Publishers, 2012)
Some of his books now appear in the local library shelves of the National Library of the Philippines, De La Salle University, Ateneo de Manila University, University of Sto. Tomas, U.P. Diliman, Centro Escolar University, San Sebastian College, Miriam College, Silliman University, to name a few, as well as internationally at the National Library of Australia and the University of California Berkeley Library.
Now a senior citizen, he is probably one of the oldest, if not the oldest, active travel blogger in the country today.
He also has a travel blog called B.L.A.S.T. - Benjie Layug: Adventures of a Savvy Traveler (www.benjielayug.com). Benjie has traveled to 55 of the country's 81 provinces and over 20 countries in 4 continents.
F.Y.I. is the common abbreviation for "For Your Information" or "For your Interest." The travel blog F.Y.I. aims for these things, providing the reader with news and information on people, places and events that would interest the avid traveler and tourist, but it also aims to be much more.
F.Y.I. also wants to "Fire Your Imagination," as readers gets to know the movers and shakers in the tourism industry (through interviews); find out where to titillate the palate (restaurant reviews); rejuvenate your body (spa reviews); get entertained (movie, musical and concert reviews); unwind and relax (hotel, resorts and inns reviews); satisfy your craving for history and culture (museum reviews); and find out what's being celebrated and where (festival reviews).
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Robert B. Shetterly
In 1978 the East Oakland Youth Development Center opened its doors. Its mission was to help disenfranchised young people receive the same training and opportunities as students with wealthier backgrounds. This commitment that the EOYDC made to the residents of East Oakland was a commitment that was first made by its founding father Robert B. Shetterly.
After graduating from University of Rochester he started working for the Procter & Gamble Co. He served as chief executive officer during Clorox’s transition in 1969 from a subsidiary of the Procter & Gamble Co. to an independent company. Shetterly set the stage for Clorox to become one of America’s leading manufacturers and marketers of consumer household products.
Although Robert was a prominent businessman and a long time resident of Orinda he had a great vision and passion for Oakland. He was aware of, and strongly opposed to, the current the plight and social inequalities of ethnic minorities in this city and believed that access to education and opportunity should not be based on skin color.
Oakland was the place where Robert would share his economic vision and his legacy of equal opportunity. He convinced many businesses to settle in downtown Oakland as opposed to other local cities. He knew that without the investment of businesses there would be a future of instability and poverty in Oakland, the city that he believed is the heart of the East Bay.
Like many common people Shetterly had a vision. Shetterly believed “To do well, you must first do good,” and unlike most, he made a personal commitment to changing the conditions of injustice for under privileged youth. He was willing to make the personal sacrifice and financial commitment to make a difference.
Mr. Shetterly went on to become more than a visionary; he became an activist, putting in the time and effort to live his dream. He became involved with various organizations with significant causes including the Black Panthers, providing financial support to help run their Free Breakfast Program. He did what most people gave lip service to; he used his influence and wealth to give back to the community.
During the early 70’s he began to promote his vision of a community-based program that helps under privileged youth; this vision became the East Oakland Youth Development Center (EOYDC). He convinced the Clorox Company to become a partner in developing the EOYDC; “All it takes is hard work, time and some money” said Shetterly. It was a motto that he lived by in his life concerning the Center. The vision was becoming a reality, the EOYDC would be a place that gave minorities the opportunity to learn and thrive.
Mr. Shetterly provided more than a building on the corner of 82nd and International Blvd., he left his legacy, the legacy of the EOYDC. It has provided the staff with the tools for being a part of the solution by helping our youth achieve success.
Robert Shetterly was an activist until his death on August 23, 1997 in Cambridge Massachusetts. While he may have received many awards for his involvement in his adopted community, for him it was always about making a difference and redefining the status quo. Even though Robert has passed on, he can rest assured that his spirit and vision will live on at the East Oakland Youth Development Center.
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iCarly Easter Eggs
"DanWarp Tweets" and "Follow DanWarp" - 10.0/10 with 1 votes
There are many times in the series where Carly, Sam, Freddie, and Spencer will wear capped-sleeved shirts with different random phrases on them. Most of these say things such as "Church Pants" and "Bacon Farm". However, in two different episodes you will... more
Sam Doesnt Love Jonah, but She Loves Drake Bell! - 9.6/10 with 8 votes
At the beginning of the show, Sam gets Cheez Whiz out of her locker. When you see inside her locker, look for a tiny picture of Drake Bell!
Helicopper - 9.0/10 with 1 votes
On the episode where Spencer gets a letter in the mail that says that the movie he rented "Boogey Bear Takes Manhattan", is late by 10 years, look at the part when he's in the movie store explaining to the lady what happened. If you look closely when... more
Schneider's Pickles - 9.0/10 with 1 votes
On the new episode, iPity the Nevel, look closely at when Nevel's roaming the streets, thinking everyone will hate him. When the man sprays Nevel with water, look at the bench. The bench is an advertisement for Schneider's Pickles.
Josh in the Attic - 9.0/10 with 1 votes
In the iCarly episode "I Christmas" when Carly wishes for Spencer to be normal, she goes to the iCarly studio, which was originally the attic, and there were boxes that said things like "Josh's things" and "Josh's T-Shirts." Josh was a character in Dan... more
Pear Laptops - 8.5/10 with 13 votes
In many episodes, Freddie's laptop used for the iCarly show has a pear on it making it a Pear Laptop(Gimmick of an Apple).
In Zoe 101 Zoe uses the same type of laptop brand, Pear!
Girly Cow - 8.1/10 with 8 votes
in icarly,drake&josh,and zoey101 there is a cartoon show called girly cow,in icarly the episode iam your biggist fan the girls are asleap on the couch and they wake up and say "hey girly cows on,is this a new one?" "yea i think so" and you can hear someone... more
Toonjuice - 8.1/10 with 38 votes
I was amazed when I noticed this. Watch the episode of Zoey 101, "Chase's Girlfriend", about Chase's rude girlfriend and Chase wants to get his and Michael's cartoon on a website called ToonJuice.com. Well, watch the Theme Song to iCarly and you'll see... more
Schneider's Convenience Store - 8.0/10 with 2 votes
on the episode of icarly where the kids are trying to bust this supposed "pirated dvd seller" and they go to the store where the suspect lives. well right before they get in the store, it shows the outside and the sign says "Schneider's Convenience Store."if... more
Schneider in the Court - 8.0/10 with 1 votes
Right after Carly comes downstairs and says "what happened to the apartment?" you hear spencer talking on the phone, and he says something about Mr. Schneider.
The Slap - 8.0/10 with 1 votes
At the begining of every ICARLY Freddie says "In 5 4 3..." and you can see ICarly.com being typed. Below that is ZapLook Search, DanWarp, TheSlap, and Splashface. All of them are mentioned in the show. DanWarp relates to the producer, DAN Schneider,... more
Schneider's Mustard - 8.0/10 with 1 votes
On the iCarly episode iWon't Cancel the Show, look closely at the part when Gibby is brushing his teeth with Mustard. If you look at the bottle, it reads Schneider's Mustard, a reference to the producer of the show.
Quinn Pensky was a Pageant Girl too? - 8.0/10 with 1 votes
In the episode "iWas a Pageant Girl," when Sam goes off the stage after announcing herself in the pageant and asks Carly for the ribs, you can clearly hear in the background "My name is Quinn Pensky, and I love bunnies!" Quinn Pensky was a friend of Zoey's... more
Shambrolay Hotel - 8.0/10 with 1 votes
On the episode of iCarly "I Rocked The Vote" listen to the part where Sam is telling the iCarly audience where Wade Collins is staying. She says he'll be staying at the Shambrolay Hotel. The Shambrolay Hotel is mentioned in the hit show Drake and Josh,... more
Schneider's Dentistry - 7.5/10 with 2 votes
In the episode with Harry Joiner, Spencer goes to work at Schneiders Dental Association. Schneider's Bakery is the name of the people that make iCarly.
Icarly in Drake and Josh Add - 7.5/10 with 2 votes
On the ad for the christmas special for drake and josh (2008, yes it's very recent) in the scene when the little girl talks to drake and says "I want this to be the best christmas ever!" in the background, there is a computer. If you look closesly, it's... more
Pump Up the Fruit - 7.0/10 with 3 votes
In the episode where Gibby is trying to get a date with someone and goes out with Carly instead, near the beginning you can see Spencer wearing a shirt that says PUMP UP THE FRUIT. This is a name of a segment from the iCarly movie, iCarly saves TV.
Drake Sticker - 7.0/10 with 2 votes
In the episode of iCarly when Sam falls in love with the weird boy who she said makes funny chicken noises, at the beginning of the episode right after you see the teacher who walks in the school halls with the bird costume, Carly starts talking to Sam... more
TheSlap - 7.0/10 with 1 votes
In iBloop, two bloopers in the section "Things that didn't happen the way they were supposed to" on both the TV and monitor showing TheSlap, a website shown frequently in another of Dan Schneider's shows, "Victorious". Also, in future episodes of iCarly,... more
Peruvian Puff Peppers - 7.0/10 with 1 votes
In the food fighting show of iCarly, listen carefully when they are rushing to make the tacos. She says, "pass me the Peruvian puff peppers." That is a reference to Miranda Cosgrove's last TV show, Drake and Josh, when they are trying to win the salsa... more
Megan and Carly - 7.0/10 with 1 votes
When Carly is sitting watching tv, you can hear,"And, you didn't kill Harvay, the camera flash just stunned him." And Carly says, "That girl is good at pranks.... "The "girl" is actually Megan from Drake & Josh who is played by Miranda Cosgrove,who also... more
Reference to Drake and Josh - 6.8/10 with 4 votes
In the episode "I Want to Stay With Spencer," when the old guy is talking to Spencer he says he is "staying at the Parker-Nichols hotel." This is a reference to Drake and Josh in the TV show, whose names are Drake Parker and Josh Nichols.
Fladoodles Are Contagous! - 6.7/10 with 3 votes
So sometime in the Biggest Fan episode, Carly says something about Fladoodles. But in the World Record episode, the repair guy comes and says "Look there is a gas leak and I don't give a FLADOODLE if you're trying to beat a world record, now get out!"... more
Another Drake & Josh Reference - 6.0/10 with 2 votes
In the episode they advertise Techfoots, which are made by Daka. In Drake & Josh: Really Big Shrimp, Drake's song "Makes Me Happy" is in a Daka commercial.
The Blix Machine - 6.0/10 with 1 votes
If you watch the episode where Sam gets a job at Chili My Bowl and then right before Sam kicks open the door to clean the men's restroom you can see a Blix Soda Machine like they have in Zoey 101. This is probabbly because the producer, Dan Schnider,... more
Hotel of Drake & Josh? - 6.0/10 with 1 votes
in Season 1 episode 5 of icarly iWanna Stay with Spencer says the granddad of Carly " i stay in the Parker-Nichols hotel"
this is a references to Drake and josh, because Drakes last name is the serie was Parker and the last name of Josh was nichols
Schneider's Peanuts - 5.5/10 with 2 votes
On the iCarly episode "iGo to Hollywood," When they bust into the TV writers' room for Totally Terry, a man is eating some "Schneider's peanuts." Mr. Schneider is the producer of iCarly.
Robin's Weiners - 5.0/10 with 1 votes
In the episode where the gang looks for Bigfoot Sam wants to go to Robin's Weiners. Robin Weiner is a producer of iCarly.
Dan Schnider - 5.0/10 with 1 votes
On the iCarly movie iGo To Japan, look closely at the part where Carly, Sam, Freddie, Spencer and Freddie's mom get in a fight with the security guards. One of the guards holds up a stick which say phrases like "Happy Birthday" and "I Don't Speak English".... more
Joe Catania - 5.0/10 with 1 votes
On the iCarly movie "i Quit iCarly" look at the part where Spencer is watching T.V. He is trying to win a boat and he has to send in the answer to a trivia question by texting. If you listen closely, one of the questions asks "In 1997, Joe Catania..."... more
The Whacky Shack - 5.0/10 with 1 votes
On the episode of iCarly, "i'M Your Biggest Fan" listen to the part when Sam and Carly are coming back from the Groovie Smoothie. They're saying that Mandy is nuts blah blah blah. If you listen to what Carly tells Spencer, she says, "That girl should... more
G-o - 5.0/10 with 1 votes
On the iCarly episode, iWanna Stay With Spencer, look at the part when Carly is cleaning out her locker. You'll see the Carly has a G-O, which is like an iPod. That G-O is mentioned in the hit show Drake and Josh. It's on the T.V. movie "Drake and Josh... more
Victorious and Drake and Josh Theme Songs - 5.0/10 with 1 votes
On the new episode "I Got A Hot Room" at the ending credits, Carly, Sam and Freddie are seen singing the iCarly theme song. Then, Sam and Freddie sing the wrong song and they end up singing part of the Drake and Josh theme song and part of the Victorious... more
U.S.A. - 5.0/10 with 1 votes
On the brand new episode of iCarly "I Got A Hot Room" listen to the part where Spencer and the whole crew are going up stairs to work on Carly's room. You can hear the crew chanting "U.S.A." like 5 or 6 times, just like Drake and Josh's grandfather, Papa... more
Pear Pad - 5.0/10 with 1 votes
On the brand new episode of iCarly "I Got A Hot Room" look at the part when Spencer is calling all the crew's names. He is using a Pear Pad, just like Robbie used a Pear Pad in the hit show "Victorious". It's on the episode when the gang gets stuck in... more
Robin Weiner - 5.0/10 with 1 votes
On iCarly Sam and Carly borrowed their friend Robin's Weiner dog. This is a probable reference of Robin Weiner, one of the creators of the show.
Gary Coleman Grill - 5.0/10 with 1 votes
On the episode of iCarly "iCook", look at the part when Sam is waiting for her steak to be ready in her locker. When Freddie comes by, she tells him "I'm cooking one of my steaks in my Gary Coleman Grill!" Gary Coleman Grills were mentioned in the show... more
Drake and Josh Hat - 5.0/10 with 1 votes
In the new iCarly, I Party With Victorious, the iCarly gang goes to Spencer's ex-girlgriend's house to change their look. When She gives Gibby the hat and sunglasses, if you look very carefully at Gibby's hat it says Drake and Josh. Dan Schneider liked... more
Dan Shneider T-shirt - 5.0/10 with 1 votes
In the episode I Start a Fan War, when Spencer and Jack Black are fighting at Webicon, some people watching the fight are wearing shirts that clearly say Dan Shneider. You can also see Dan's name on a small billboard also when they are fighting.
Schneider's Apple Juice - 5.0/10 with 1 votes
In the episode iBloop2, next to the puppet Chrisopher there's a bottle of apple juice. It says Schneider's apple juice. Schneider is the creator of iCarly.
Reference to Roxy Hunter - 4.5/10 with 4 votes
On the episode when Carly, Freddie, Sam, and Mandy go down stairs, Mandy asks Carly why the drumset is there. Carly says, "I don't know why they are there," then Mandy says "It's a mystery."
This a reference to Roxy Hunter and the paranormal hour because... more
Trademark Atari Joystick Usage - 3.5/10 with 2 votes
In the episode "iHatch Chicks" the episode where the main cast catch lost baby chickens or chicks: Spencer makes an appearance in the prologue before the opening theme wearing a Trademark Atari Joystick Shirt.
Megan's Song - 2.5/10 with 2 votes
This egg is in the the episode of iCarly where Carly's grandfather wants Carly to live with him. When Carly's grandfather is telling Spencer about this, he starts saying lalalalala and puts on his iPod. When he takes his headphones off, you can hear the... more
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The Chelsea Forum
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Frank Lampard Appointed Chelsea Head Coach
By Michael Tucker, June 15, 2019 in The Chelsea Forum
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39 minutes ago, NoblyBobly said:
Hang on a minute! You said a few posts ago that he wasn't involved in the League Cup until the semis and only played 90 min twice in the Europa League. You also quoted a stat that he had played a total of 1167 mins last season. I have a stat that says he only played 391 mins in the Prem league last season, so where are you getting the other 776 mins from?
The two games in the Europa league are from the period you chose to use as some sort of argument as to why we did well in the cups and not the league.
The extra 776 minutes comes from all the games except the premier league, across the whole season so including the league he made a total of 24 appearances for a total of 1167 minutes.
NoblyBobly
Just now, Martin1905 said:
paulw66
Location:West Sussex
1 hour ago, NoblyBobly said:
Wow! Interesting stats. Hard to believe that little old Josh McEachran had either more, or the same number of debut season starts than Gerrard, Trent AA, JT, Beckam or Kane.
It just demonstrates how some Chelsea managers went above and beyond to promote academy youth.
Particularly Sarri
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Location:Moo Moo Land
2 minutes ago, Martin1905 said:
The lad has a serious injury and who knows how long it takes for him to recover, and I doubt the next head coach will have him as the shining light next season.
What the next coach has is a pool of ~60 players when you include the loan squad to select a squad of 25 to make the top for by the end of the season. The next real player investment will start in the summer of 2020.
1 minute ago, paulw66 said:
More likely peer pressure.
Droy was my hero
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It demonstrates just how detached from the facts some of the youth promoters and most of the media are about Chelsea/
18 minutes ago, The_Ghost said:
Next season we have a few very promising players potentially at our disposal who did see some serious game time at at least Championship level. Trevoh Chalobah (20 in July), James (20 in December), Mount (20), Abraham (22 in October). Add Ghuehi (19 in July), McEachran (19 in August), Ampadu (19 in September), Hudson-Odoi (19 in November), Mount (20), Christensen (23) and Loftus-Cheek (23) and that is fairly large HG/academy pool to draw from for a 25 man squad.
It is good. But is is a B team for a squad that has about 40 B team players already (including many on loan) and only about 5 or 6 A team players.
It could certainly be intriguing to see what Lampard could do with a large group of youngsters spiced up with some top names next summer.
The new manager (sadly Sarri's knowledge of the players has been lost) is going to have to make a lot of decisions in just a few weeks. The PL season closes on August 8th ( 9 weeks today). We desperately need 4 top players in (ideally 6 or 7, but 4 is as much as one can hope for). And about 30 senior pros need to be sold or put out on loan (admittedly the deadline for that is 3 weeks later for moves outside Prem or abroad). At least 3 players start the season with unknown fitness and 4 or 5 over 30 with potentially rapidly declining form.
It is one hell of a job for any manager, let alone one with 12 months experience in the Championship preparing for CL and PL.
I do hope he ignores all the marginal players and concentrates on the ones like Jorginho and Kepa who will truly make the difference this season and the next.
If I were an agent I'd be pushing very hard to get my kid out on loan again.
DannyLB
In other news, there are pictures surfacing over the net of Cech and Marina at the Bridge today. Gee, wonder why...
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Engagement party?
Lump Of Celery
If this summer pans out as it currently appears it will then I feel like the board have become far far too complacent. Complacent in thinking we wouldn't get a transfer ban and preparing the squad for it accordingly. Complacent in not delaying the ban, thinking we can easily get top four next season with current playing squad. Complacent in thinking a man with very little management experience is the man to do that. Complacent in not replacing Emenalo 2+ years after he gave notice. Complacent in trusting Cech with our biggest rebuild of the RA era, he has zero experience and just finished playing. Complacent in thinking Pulisic is an adequate replacement for Hazard. Complacent thinking they know better than the football men and that 3rd 4th 5th choice signings would suffice last time we won the league.
I get that all of ths may not happen. I also get that football is an emotional thing and people are excited by the prospect of legends coming home, and don't blame them for that. If Frank, Jody and Petr come I will absolutely get behind them don't get me wrong, and Pulisic. I've always been someone to look at things like this in a more sensible rather than emotional manner. If you put the emotion a side for a sec and look at these decisions collectively on paper, on a footballing and business level, in the cold light of day, you'd think we've lost our marbles.
I know people will want to the point the finger at x manager for problem y, but the board were the constant that oversaw their hiring, firing and recruitment. Yet they seem beyond reproach and it seems are never held accountable. If we are going to have a big shake up can we not get rid of some of the higher ups that contributed massively to the quagmire we are in this summer. Crazy to think 2 seasons ago we had just won the league. We have won two more trophies in that time, it's just so frustrating that we could have done so much better. And I don't think this is part of some grand plan to be happy with 6th and nurture our talent for a few years. That doesn't sound like Roman. I think it's just, that word again, complacency.
Not trying to dredge up the debate of who else is to blame for xyz that dominate this forum, and probably won't get involved if it does, this post is more borne out of the aforementioned frustration and concern for the direction we've been taken and the boards involvement with that. Bit negative but once the season starts I will try to look on the positives of wherever we are and hope for the best. Promise! It would be exciting to see a team with a few academy products, managed by Frank, once I see those my mood and outlook will change and the excitement will kick in. Atm I just feel its not particularly healthy for a club with our lofty ambitions.
Interests:Chelsea..dogs,,GWPs that is....carving out an existence on the Frontier!!
This isn't quite the right forum but I for one am very concerned about CHO (RLC and Rudiger to a slightly lesser extent).
Apart from not being available to any new coach appointment I worry that his injury may prove detrimental to his career....going back as far as Ossie...he said himself that after his broken leg he never quite recovered the pace he had prior to his injury.
I hope for the best for all three injured guys not just in a Chelsea context but for their own futures.
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A list of corrections
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Quinno
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Dead link with updates included or subbed
Update link at Bartons Arms to http://thebartonsarms.com/
Remove old link Wild Lime Bar and Kitchen new one subbed
Remove old link The Farm new one subbed
Update Walkabout to http://walkabout.eu.com/venues/walkabout-reading/ (presumably same applies to other Walkabouts)
update The Battleaxes to http://www.flatcappers.co.uk/the-battleaxes/
same here: New Holly new url is http://www.new-holly.co.uk/
and here http://www.stpetersbrewery.co.uk/london-pub/ to http://www.stpetersbrewery.co.uk/london-pub/
and here Zerodegrees to http://www.zerodegrees.co.uk/bristol
and here Chamberlain Hotel to http://www.thechamberlainhotel.co.uk/food-and-drink
and here The Water Tower to http://www.flaminggrillpubs.com/pub/...reading/c2831/
and here Hole in the Wall to http://holeinthewallcambridge.com/
Zerodegrees to http://www.zerodegrees.co.uk/reading (the other ZD pubs in Cardiff and Blackheath will need doing I guess - why can't web developers put in a re-direct?!)
and here Horse & Groom to http://www.horseandgroomwindsor.co.uk/
and here Horse & Groom to http://www.thehorseandgroombelgravia.com/
and here The Royal Oak to http://www.royaloakwindsor.co.uk/
and here The George Inn to http://www.georgeinneton.co.uk/
and here The Crown to http://www.smithandjonespubs.com/pubs/crown-egham
and here The Gate to http://www.thegatepub.com/Pages/default.aspx
and here The Purple Turtle to http://www.purpleturtlebar.com/reading/
and here Hop Leaf to http://www.hopback.co.uk/our-pubs/the-hopleaf.html
dead link - The Crown Inn subbed a new one
dead link - The Hatch subbed a new one
Dead link The Latchmere subbed new one
dead link - The Spin Bar new one subbed
The White Horse Inn has a new website - http://www.whitehorsewokingham.co.uk/ and the old one needs removing.
update link at The Wellington to http://wellingtonhotelwaterloo.co.uk/
update Fernandes Brewery Tap url to http://www.ossett-brewery.co.uk/Pubs...3/Default.aspx ??
dead link: http://www.smithandjonespubs.com/bars/aberystwyth here for The Varsity and the Bramwell one doesn't go to the pub. However this one does: http://www.smithandjonespubs.com/pub...ty-aberystwyth
All the Steamin Billy pubs now have their own page from http://www.steamin-billy.co.uk/ so The Cow and Plough is now http://www.steamin-billy.co.uk/cowplough/
All Dawkins pubs now have their own pages - http://www.dawkins-taverns.co.uk/
update Founders Arms url to http://www.foundersarms.co.uk/
dead link Cross Keys subbed new one
Purely dead links
dead url: The Kelham Island Tavern
dead url The Ackhorne Inn
dead http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/61637/
dead url The Hop Pole Inn
dead url The Angel
dead url: The Barley Mow
dead url: Up The Junction
dead: Adam & Eve
dead: The Farm
Delete the url here The Holly Tree
and here The Royal Oak
dead link - The Speaker
dead Facers link The Two Rivers
url not working for The Harlequin
Dead link The Hare & Hounds
dead link The Star Inn
same here - The Queens Arms
dead link The Crown & Thistle
dead The Swan Inn
dead The Royal Oak
Removal of link
Remove Abbeydale link - Bath Hotel
First two links go to the same place - http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/24225/
Both links go to the same place - The Old Joint Stock
of the two links at The Ship Inn this one http://www.shipmousehole.co.uk/ goes nowhere
Can't locate Farriers on the listed site - The Farriers Arms - remove link?
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Television, Movies and Videos
By Amateur, December 24, 2011 in Television, Movies and Videos
Amateur 10
Has anyone ever watched it? I've not seen season 1, but I watched season 2 and the wife and I loved it. They've finished casting for season 3, but thats all the info I can find about season 3. It's been almost 2 years since season 2 was out. I like the show. They come up with some neat ideas and it's about as real as it's going to get besides the real thing.
tinderwolf 11
I watched a few episodes when this first came out and I didn't really care for it, can't tell you exactly why but it just didn't sit well with me even though there were some good ideas and things going on.
Season 2 is supposedly a LOT better. I never saw season 1, but season 2 had more normal people in it as far as their background.
I bet it is, just not enough time in the day for another show for me. I'm just getting ready to watch the first season of LOST because I have been getting a lot of flak from people for not seeing it.
meddle2243 11
The second season is a lot better. They are in a 10 sq. block neighbor hood in New Orleans that was messed up by Katrina.
ricksconnected 11
love this show. ive only seen season 1 though.
where can i watch season 2 on the web at?
I watched it on youtube
that might be an option.
JamesHitt74 10
I thought this was going to be the show to watch, hands down. But as it went on I got the feeling that it was just too fake and put on to accurately depict what things would really be like in those situations. Other than that, I think it woke some perple up to what they might be facing if they want to survive those scenarios.
honestly, i think this show gives off some great ideas, but some lame stuff too.
i think it shows how it can be to have to go hungry. how to spread out your food supply to make it last as examples. i think it shows how well you need to really cover an area well to find use for the things you find. there are a lot of hints and ideas on this show if you watch it with the right mind set. IF.
nickanator8 10
The show itself was kind of shallow, though season 2 was much better than season 1. Obviously a lot of it was staged but as previously stated, if you take everything with a grain of salt, there is quite a bit to learn.
Yes, a lot of it was staged, but so is Man Vs. Wild. It's to give you an understanding of what COULD happen in a disaster situation and I think they portray it quite well.
Canteen81 10
I really liked the first season. I didn't see all of it and didn't get to see the second season. I think I'll have to track them down again.
Spoon 10
That show was terrible. In a real TEOTWAWKI situation they'd all be dead. Lets face it the world is already filled with a-holes who want your stuff, imagine what happens when they really need it? No protection, sleeping on watch, letting people forage by themselves with no overwatch... It made me too angry to keep watching. To much focus on trying to restore things they were familiar with.. power for one and not really surviving. /rant mode over.
It was a perfect example of what the general public is going to do when TSHTF. Most don't have a game plan and even some that do will be too distraught to follow it. People will band together with friends and family and it will be just as diverse as the show.
NavyVet_77 13
In my opinion that show doesn't do anyone much good for learning how to truely survive a disaster. The subjects are provided with certain materials on location. They still have to make something out of it, but they are guided and manipulated.
That show really just illustrates group dynamics. But even this isn't a good example as the subjects know they aren't in a true survival situation. THe psychology isn't there to accurately monitor group dynamics in a disaster.
At the end of the day, you really haven't learned anything after watching.
Capt Bart 113
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If this is the one I think it is, I really disliked it. Making a 'spy in the sky' .... really? that's a concern in the immediate aftermath of TSHTF? They were safe ONLY because the MZBs played by rules. Too few people guarding too much real estate. An interesting mix of skills and the raw materials exactly matched the available skills. Fascinating. To my mind, all this proved was that depending on luck was a really, really lousy Plan A.
7thgroupdoc 10
the one thing that really bothered me about this show was the "group" come on now, what is going to be the chances of your group having a dr. or nurse, an electrical engineer, master carpenter, solar power expert, spec.ops military guy, etc. !! what a load of crap! why not just jerk ten people off the street and drop them in that situation! now folks, THAT WOULD BE A SHOW WORTH WATCHING!!!!!
Lemonmint 10
They did that with season 2...it was more of a reality show than anything. I liked season 1 because they had all those people. I know it's not realistic to find that kind of a group but we did learn from what they managed to put together. I gave us ideas to explore further like the ozone machine or the gasifier. Season 2 was just a soap opera
i agree mint.
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Let’s celebrate the romance of Test cricket
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One of the hottest topics of discussion in sport in the recent past has been the possible demise of Test cricket. From administrators to players – past and present – this had become such a fancy topic that all kinds of suggestions were made as to how one could ensure sustained interest in the longest form of the game.Looking back, that seems like a futile exercise as the 2,000th Test match gets underway at Lord’s next Thursday. And what makes it even more special is this will be the 100th Test between India and England.Virender Sehwag’s triple century in Multan is undoubtedly one of India’s greatest Test moments.The previews for what is expected to be a razor-sharp series have already started coming in. Be it the armchair critics or the serious columnists, the unanimous view is that this Test series will be very intense and for India to maintain their No. 1 status will not be easy.The coming weeks will see high-voltage action and, even as fans are kept guessing as to when Sachin Tendulkar will score his 100th international century, I am of the view that Test cricket has survived every challenge.In the old days, Tests were about cricket being played at an almost leisurely pace and how the men in white flannels epitomised good manners and playing in the spirit of the game.Today, Test cricket is played so hard that even the umpires come under intense pressure and the use of technology has become a must. Yet, the beauty of the game is that while there have been innumerable series involving the top nations, some remain etched in memory.advertisementFrom the Indian point of view as well, Test cricket is the ultimate thing.In an era when the slam-bang Twenty20 format has made it cricket plus huge commerce, Tests have still maintained an exalted status for all those who are involved in it, including the spectators.If people reflect on the glory of India in Test cricket, images of 1971 come in a flood, with the series wins in England and the West Indies standing out prominently.After that as well, there have been some amazing matches, with the second tied Test between India and Australia at the Chepauk in 1986 being right on top for the sheer drama and excitement it produced.Those of us who were fortunate enough to see Anil Kumble weave magic against Pakistan at the Kotla in February 1999 can never get over his 10-wicket haul in one innings.And when you rewind to the more recent years, the application which Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman showed against the mighty Australians in the Kolkata Test in 2001 – where they shared a fifthwicket stand lasting over a day – figures at the top. The same goes for Virender Sehwag’s triple hundred at Multan in 2004.When one compares all these Test performances with one-day cricket and T20, what stands out is how the longer version hasn’t needed much tinkering.The ODIs began as a 60-overs-a-side affair and currently last 50 overs each innings. From whites to coloured clothing, and the white ball instead of the red cherry, it is the ODIs which have needed more changes to sustain themselves.Add to it the rule changes, field restrictions and what not to make the game more attractive, those who run the sport have their hands full. Again, the birth of T20 is a tinkering of the ODI format, as it is believed people want to watch instant cricket just as they want to have instant Maggi noodles!But Test cricket has pretty much remained a constant and has survived all the competition well.At a time when the ICC needed to break its head about how many teams there should be in the 2015 World Cup, Tests are the preserve of elite nations, as I see it.When you talk of series involving any of India, Pakistan, Australia, England, South Africa and Sri Lanka, the action has been high voltage and nobody can complain of it having been boring.However, for maintaining the sanctity of Tests, the ICC needs to ensure the minnows aren’t playing too many lop-sided series.So what is it about the Tests that any player worth his salt wants to prove himself in the format?The answer is simple: Test cricket is the ultimate test of a player’s skill and temperament and, even in this age, a bowler or a batsman has a chance of turning things around dramatically.Today, huge chases in Test cricket bring about excitement and no one can complain there is no instant gratification in it.advertisementLooking back, there are three big incidents which rocked Test cricket and yet it survived.From the infamous Bodyline series to Kerry Packer’s breakaway World Series Cricket and the ugly match-fixing scandals, each one threatened to rock the edifice of cricket.And yet, Test cricket remains the pinnacle where the skill, stamina, concentration and application of a player are tested to the hilt. And that is why, even for someone like Yuvraj Singh, who was such a big part of India’s World Cup triumph, the England series will be a challenge.Folks, this is the time to celebrate the romance of Test cricket. read more
India vs England: The clash of the titans
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Sachin Tendulkar has his sights in his 100th Test century as India and England starts a high-voltage Test series at the Lord’s on Thursday.For the statistics savvy, the India vs England series opener is the 2000th Test match in the history of the game.The India vs England first Test also happens to be the 100th Test between the two teams.And if Sachin manages to score a hundred, the historic venue will also become witness to another milestone in Sachin Tendulkar’s 100th international century.Of the 99 games that India has played against England, India has won 19 while England emerged victorious in 34.However, India has the dubious record of winning only one out of the 10 Tests its played against England at the Lord’s.The four-match series is also touted as a fight between two best teams of the world for Test cricket’s top position. read more
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Micha Simbalista is the director of the Youth Village “Nirim”, located in Bustan Hagalil, adjacent to the Western Galilee coastal town of Acco. There are many youth villages in Israel, all of them do their work faithfully on behalf of at-risk youth, but the Nirim youth village is quite unique. The village Director’s vision is to push the youths in this village in the direction of excellence and in achieving the high goals and objectives he challenges them with. Many of the youths who come to the village are at a court order as a last step, meet a dedicated team who is focused to maintain and utilize their last chance of a normal life. During the years, the youth at the village finish their education with a high-school diploma and substantial military service recruits. The need which occurred in the youth village is to provide graduates, soldiers and those who finished their service a home to return to. Galila chose to help Micha in his vision to establish an alumni home which will enable the graduates to have a bridge to full integration into society as citizens. The alumni home is the last step in a long journey for the youth from a life crime to a normal life of citizens who contribute to society.
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Zack Mwekassa (James Law/GLORY)
GLORY 22’s Zack Mwekassa: Coming to Create Mayhem
GLORY 22 co-headliner Zack Mwekassa isn’t here for titles. He’s here to create mayhem.
“The Black Warrior” became a household name for kickboxing fans in 2014 after a pair of vicious knockout victories. The first was a knockout of popular former UFC fighter Pat Barry in his GLORY debut. The second, a thunderous punch that dropped Brian Collette. The knack for a knockout, combined with a lifetime’s worth of experiences, has made Mwekassa into one of the promotion’s biggest stars.
Mwekassa (R) (James Law/GLORY)
Mwekassa is coming off a loss to top contender Saulo Cavalari at GLORY 18. He will face Tiger Schulmann’s Carlos Brooks at GLORY 22. Brooks comes from a karate background, but Mwekassa keeps it simple with how he stacks up against the opposition.
“Just like I match up against any human being — with two hands, two legs and one head,” Mwekassa told Combat Press.
It’s that kind of attitude that has no doubt helped Mwekassa through a life that’s been filled with struggle. If fans have not read his pre-fight interview prior to GLORY 18, it would serve them well to catch up on the backstory of Mwekassa. With a life that’s seen all sorts of horrors, it would seem like a kickboxing match would be a walk in the park.
“Saying it’s a walk in a park would be a big lie,” Mwekassa said. “It’s hard work and requires a lot of discipline. But coming from a country of war and witnessing what I have, no human scares me.”
Outside of a mental edge, Mwekassa utilizes raw power in his hands that few opponents can match. So, what’s the secret to his knockout power? Is it weightlifting? Powerful legs and hips? Perhaps it’s his outside-the-box diet plan? He’s previously discussed his eating habits — consuming worms and water for the weeks leading up to a fight — but his “cheat meals” are even more unorthodox.
“Sometimes, I have snails, beans, raw beef or horse meat for raw power,” Mwekassa said.
“Lions, the most powerful animals, don’t cook their meat,” he quips.
Mwekassa (L) (James Law/GLORY)
It’s his self-proclaimed “warrior diet” that allows him to maintain proper nutrition levels heading into a fight. However, while most fighters head into their bouts looking to advance toward a title shot, Mwekassa’s career plans don’t necessarily include a GLORY belt around his waist.
“I want people to say, ‘Oh my god! I want to see this guy again!’” Mwekassa said. “I am not in GLORY to win a belt. I am in GLORY to create mayhem. If we can make a big fight where the belt is on the line, that’s a bonus.”
With his knockout power, mayhem is on the menu for GLORY 22 with Chef Mwekassa serving it up for kickboxing fans.
Mwekassa expressed that he’s currently looking for sponsors. He can be contacted via his Facebook page.
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Jean Nouvel – World Architect
Frenchman Jean Nouvel (b. 1945) is a superstar in the world of architecture. His designs are not superfluous yet everything possible is used in over 200 projects dating from the early 1970’s to the present. Lattice work opens and shuts in response to light. Windows frame vistas. Color is a strong element in his designs, including generous use of red and blue. Shear scale make his buildings impressive in amongst themselves.
Born in Fumel, Lot-et-Garonne, France to the country’s chief school superintendent, Jean appeared on a path to a technical career when he discovered drawing. His architecture practice began at age 25 and he was brought to the world stage with his renowned design of the Arab World Institute building in Paris in 1987. In 2008, Nouvel won the Pritzker Prize, the highest architecture award . Presently Atelier Jean Nouvel has one of the largest design firms in France with offices in Paris, London, New York, and other cities. Much like other architects including Frank Lloyd Wright, Nouvel designs many aspects of a structure including interior elements such as door handles, tables, chairs, and water taps.
Completed projects litter the country of France, Japan, United States, Brazil, Spain, Germany, and the United Kingdom. One simply can stroll Manhattan and stumble upon one of several of his works, including 40 Mercer in SoHo, and 100 11th Avenue.
Future works include several buildings in New York, Los Angeles, and Qatar.
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"LIQUID SKY" Cult Sci-Fi Classic Makes Blu-ray/Special Feature Debut April 24
Vinegar Syndrome/OCN Digital Distribution Proudly Presents
"LIQUID SKY"
Groundbreaking Cult Film Made Indelible Impression on Pop Culture of the Day
Available on Blu-ray for the First Time Ever April 24th
Featuring an Amazing 2 ½ Hours of Special Features
“A two-hour act of imagination.” — Time Magazine (1982)
“Displays originality, color, rage, nonchalance, sly humor and ferocious fashion sense.” — New York Times (1982)
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Mar. 1, 2018 — For Immediate Release — In one of the most memorable portraits of Manhattan’s early and, ultimately, dark '80s new wave subculture, Liquid Sky (1982) is an iconic, underground science-fiction masterpiece, which had an indelible impact on pop culture, film, music and fashion.
Available for the first time ever on Blu-ray and highlighted by an acclaimed soundtrack, Liquid Sky will be available April 24 in a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, featuring an amazing 2 ½ hours of special features that make it a must for fans and collectors.
Liquid Sky stars Anne Carlisle in an outstanding dual role as promiscuous, erotic and bi-sexual fashion model Margaret and her gay rival and nemesis, the androgynous Jimmy. The most successful independent film of 1982, Liquid Sky is seen as heavily influencing a club scene called electroclash, which emerged in the early 2000s in New York, Berlin, Paris and London.
In Liquid Sky – a term referring to heroin in the New York City slang of the day – aliens arrive in the city in miniature flying saucers in search of heroin. However, an experiment reveals that the chemical released in the human brain during orgasm is just as powerful, even preferable to the drug they crave. Hanging around the young Margaret’s apartment, the aliens are able to achieve their desired fix. However, Margaret’s numerous casual sex partners soon each begin to die a mysterious death.
Liquid Sky is a visually stunning film that delves heavily into the era’s world of fashion, club scene and prevalent drug use in the city that never sleeps and delivers an experience that will not disappoint.
Scanned and fully restored in 4k from the 35mm original negative, the Blu-ray edition of Liquid Sky brings back to life the visual mastery of director Slava Tsukerman and the avant-garde cinematography of Yuri Neyman. The film is presented in full screen, with an aspect ratio of 1:85:1 and DTS-HD master audio mono.
Director’s introduction and commentary track; interviews with Tsukerman and Carlisle; Alamo Drafthouse screening Q&A with Tsukerman, Carlisle and Clive Smith (co-composer); “Liquid Sky Revisited” (2017), a 50-minute, making-of feature; behind-the-scenes rehearsal footage; never-before-seen outtakes; isolated soundtrack; alternate opening sequence; photo gallery; reversible cover artwork by Derek Gabryszak; multiple trailers; and English SDH subtitles.
About Vinegar Syndrome:
Vinegar Syndrome is an exploitation film/distribution company and film archive located in Bridgeport, Conn. Founded by genre-film lovers for genre-film lovers, Vinegar Syndrome’s mission is to preserve, restore and release the massive number of exploitation titles in our archive. We’re always searching for the rarest and most interesting exploitation movies we can find and, with a constantly growing in-house film archive consisting of thousands of 35mm and 16mm negatives and prints, there’s always a new treasure to be discovered and released. Our goal is to as accurately as possible recreate a theatrical viewing experience and only use digital restoration tools to remove or reduce severe image damage. All film scanning, color grading, digital restoration and disc authoring is performed inhouse by our sister company, OCN Digital Labs. By constructing a completed DVD or Blu-ray, we offer these films an opportunity to have a new life on home video (and theatrically, in some cases), to find new fans and rediscover old ones. Visit us online: www.vinegarsyndrome.com
Vinegar Syndrome/OCN Digital Distribution
Genre: Cult/Science Fiction
Blu-ray/DVD Combo (2 Discs)
Original Release: 1982 Color
Rated: R
Running Time: 112 Minutes (Plus 160 Minutes Special Features)
Pre-Order: April 3, 2018
Street Date: April 24, 2018
Catalog #: VS-200
UPC Code: #814456021324
Box Lots: 30
Labels: 1980s, aliens, classic, cult films, exploitation, film, Horror, movie, sci-fi, science fiction
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中山利和希尔顿酒店
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Argentina gears up to welcome Chinese visitors
BUENOS AIRES, July 14 (Xinhua) -- If the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, then maybe the same applies to China's growing number of globetrotters.
Argentina is banking on the old adage to attract more Chinese tourism, and the strategy is part of "Hilton Huanying" program that derives from the Chinese word for "welcome."
The program is an initiative already in place at more than 150 Hilton hotels around the world, but relatively new to the property in Argentina's capital Buenos Aires, the first Latin American city to offer it.
"We are very proud to be part of the Hilton Huanying program here in Buenos Aires," director of sales and marketing at Hilton Buenos Aires, Mariano Cannello, told Xinhua."We see it as a great opportunity to welcome Chinese travelers with the standards of personalized service we know they expect and enjoy," Cannello added.
According to the hotel, after the program was launched, bookings by Chinese tourists rose 160 percent per night compared to last year, with an average stay by Chinese tourists of 2.15 nights.
Gonzalo Tordini, head of educational affairs at the Latin American Center on Chinese Political and Economic Studies, said Argentina is keen to tap into China's booming outbound tourism to help its flagging domestic economy.
Buenos Aires is an attractive destination for the Chinese traveler given its culture, cuisine and passion for football. But the country offers a wide variety of sights, such as Patagonia to the south, a region characterized by the beauty of its glaciers, lakes and mountains.
"Argentina has great potential for receiving Chinese tourists. Patagonia, in particular, offers conditions that may be of great interest to Chinese visitors," said Tordini, whose center signed a cooperation agreement with Ente Patagonia Argentina last year to promote Chinese tourism."With impressive landscapes, excellent infrastructure, diverse adventure activities and a hospitable population, Patagonia expects to attract travelers from literally the other side of the world," said Tordini.
Argentina is also taking other steps to boost tourism from China, including easing the visa application process and working to improve air connectivity.According to data from the Argentine Ministry of Tourism, between 2011 and 2017 the arrivals of Chinese tourists to Argentina increased steadily, reaching around 60,000 tourists.
In 2017, 10-year visas were issued to Chinese citizens traveling to Argentina for tourism or business purposes.In August 2018, Chile and Argentina announced an agreement for the reciprocal recognition of visas for Chinese tourists starting January 2019.
"The work that is being done to facilitate visas and improve air connectivity between the two countries will surely further support this effort," said Tordini.
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Cristiano Ronaldo inspires praise, and more goals, from Lionel Messi
Will you be the first P16 Billion Powerball jackpot winner from the Philippines? Messi and Ronaldo dueled for nine years in the Spanish league before the Portugal forward opted to move to Juventus. Despite facing off directly in two league matches each season, they also met several times in other competitions and were constantly compared, week in, week out.With the Champions League now down to the final eight, they could be back on the same field soon. The quarterfinal draw is on Friday.The five-time Ballon d’Or winners have met five times in the Champions League. Ronaldo’s Manchester United edged Barcelona in the 2008 semifinals, but Messi got revenge a year later when he scored in a 2-0 victory over United in the final. They met again in 2011 semifinals, when Messi scored twice to help Barcelona eliminate Real Madrid.Both players have winning the continent’s elite tournament again as a priority. Messi has won it four times, Ronaldo five.Messi promised his fans he would do all he could to win another European Cup at the start of the season, while Ronaldo is surely eager to prove he was the reason Madrid won it for four of the past five years.Messi counts Juventus as one of the top candidates standing in his way, but it is not alone.“There are several very good teams,” Messi said. “(Manchester) City, Juventus… Ajax has shown that it has a great team of younger players who aren’t afraid of anyone. Liverpool has a lot of firepower like it showed against Bayern (Munich).“We’ll have to see who we are drawn with and prepare for what is to come, which will be the hardest part yet.” Not to be outdone, Messi responded a day later by scoring twice and providing two assists to turn a balanced matchup against Lyon into a 5-1 blowout.But while the talent gap between them is almost imperceptible, their public displays remain unmistakably dissimilar.FEATURED STORIESSPORTSGolden State Warriors sign Lee to multiyear contract, bring back ChrissSPORTSCoronation night?SPORTSThirdy Ravena gets offers from Asia, Australian ball clubsRonaldo used an obscene gesture, mimicking a similar one by Atletico coach Diego Simeone during the first leg, after the final whistle of the 3-0 win in Turin.When asked about his goals, Ronaldo said “that’s why Juventus signed me.” LATEST STORIES Tom Brady most dominant player in AFC championship history Rogue cops marked as Gamboa’s targets in his appointment as PNP chief Don’t miss out on the latest news and information. Messi, in contrast, followed up his outstanding performance by praising Ronaldo.“What Cristiano and Juventus did was incredible,” Messi said after Wednesday’s win at Camp Nou. “I was surprised because I honestly thought Atletico would be stronger, but Juventus ran over them. Juventus is very powerful and besides that it has Cristiano, who had a magical night with his three goals.”Messi worked a bit of his usual magic as well.The Argentina forward gave his team the lead against Lyon with an early penalty. And just when the French team pulled a goal back for 2-1 and was pressing for a draw that would have sent them through, Messi took control by scoring a solo goal when he wrong-footed a pair of defenders. He then set up two more goals.“We did everything we could to stop (Messi), but when he is playing like this he is one of the best players of all time,” Lyon coach Bruno Genesio said. “He was like Ronaldo. He put the team on his shoulders.”ADVERTISEMENT Eugenie Bouchard’s bid for Australian Open spot ends in qualifying Gretchen Barretto’s daughter Dominique graduates magna cum laude from California college Sports Related Videospowered by AdSparcRead Next Ginebra beats Meralco again to capture PBA Governors’ Cup title Nadine Lustre’s phone stolen in Brazil MOST READ Ginebra beats Meralco again to capture PBA Governors’ Cup title Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, right, celebrates after scoring his side’s third goal during the Champions League round of 16, 2nd leg, soccer match between FC Barcelona and Olympique Lyon at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, March 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)BARCELONA, Spain— Now playing in different countries, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo still find ways to inspire one another to new heights.Ronaldo captured the attention of the soccer world on Tuesday when he scored a hat trick to lead Juventus past Atletico Madrid and into the Champions League quarterfinals.ADVERTISEMENT Anilao Windsurf Regatta 2019: Historic windfoiling and fun-filled freedom Praise, festivities at Quiapo Church ahead of Black Nazarene’s return PLAY LIST 02:54Praise, festivities at Quiapo Church ahead of Black Nazarene’s return00:50Trending Articles00:50Trending Articles02:14Carpio hits red carpet treatment for China Coast Guard02:56NCRPO pledges to donate P3.5 million to victims of Taal eruption00:56Heavy rain brings some relief in Australia02:37Calm moments allow Taal folks some respite03:23Negosyo sa Tagaytay City, bagsak sa pag-aalboroto ng Bulkang Taal01:13Christian Standhardinger wins PBA Best Player award Japeth Aguilar wins 1st PBA Finals MVP award for Ginebra View comments read more
Transport Hike, State of Emergency Restrict Movement, Depopulate Monrovia
The sustained hike in transport fares and the recently imposed State of Emergency have dramatically restricted movement and depopulated Monrovia, according to statistics of a week-long survey by the Daily Observer.The State of Emergency has, for the past week across the country, also relatively restricted the movement of food, other commodities and services.Central Monrovia and its suburbs are classic examples of how greater Monrovia has depopulated dramatically for the past one and half weeks.On top of that serious situation, the booming commercial activities in three of Monrovia’s commercial districts of Red-light, Duala and Waterside have dramatically dropped and prices of most critically needed commodities have sky rocketed.Transport fares for many Monrovia and surrounding routes have dramatically increased despite Commerce Ministry prohibition, and commuters and businesspeople continue to bear the brunt of the socio-economic hardships.Regrettably, essential food commodities that should be coming from rural Liberia have become so scarce that the average low income earners in Monrovia are being stretched to the limit.Some unscrupulous small businesspeople are taking advantage of the grave situation and escalating locally produced food commodities on the Liberian market to the detriment of ordinary Liberians.A week’s tour of the three major commercial districts in Monrovia revealed that prices of food and other commodities have tripled. Prices of food commodities in the three highly populated markets are preventing low income earners from buying and this is making it difficult to afford decent meals for their families.“This has led to genuine socio-economic belt-tightening and unbearable hardships in Ebola- stressed Liberia,” a political and economic commentator told the Daily Observer.Commentator Jackson Smith Davis, 55, suggested that strategies intended to implement the current State of Emergency should consider the fact that critically needed food commodities must come to the urban markets.“I must state quite frankly that the overstretched population cannot bear to cope with scarcity of critically needed food commodities, and this could generate to a full blown political and economic crisis [fueled by] resentment,” Mr. Davis cautioned.“While the Liberian Government and partners are heavily preoccupied with fighting the deadly Ebola virus in the country, other problems, including starvation, continue to send some Liberians to their early graves,” Mr. Davis said.A house wife of the Soul Clinic Community in Paynesville Tuesday told the Daily Observer that her every day trip to the Red-light Market to buy food has become a nightmare, as the prices of food commodities are indeed beyond reach.Housewife Hawa Brown Washington also intimated that if the current trend continues unchecked by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, starvation may engulf many homes in Monrovia and its environs.“I have seen many households going to bed without food owing to the unbearable escalation of food prices at the Red-light Market,” Mrs. Washington lamented.“Even the measurement sizes of greens of all varieties have been reduced to the extent that LD$500 cannot prepare decent meal for a family of five in Monrovia,” Mrs. Washington asserted.Since the official statement by the Liberian Government for immediate reduction in the prices of critically needed commodities such as rice and petroleum products, there has been an upsurge of prices of the same commodities in Monrovia and other parts of the country.Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) read more
Sheriff funding being restored
-with files from Adam Reaburn and the Canadian Press Nearly one month after the B.C. government announced it would be cutting funding for several sheriff positions, it is now restoring that funding.B.C.’s Attorney General Barry Penner says the money is being returned after judges complained about the pressures on the court system.- Advertisement -The Province was set to cut 52 auxiliary deputies, equivalent to approximately 34 full-time positions.The original announcement had met with considerable opposition, including in Fort St. John where the City had sent a letter to various ministries and all municipalities in the Union of B.C. Municipalities to complain about the lack of consultation and notification about the cuts.Sheriffs have various responsibilities, including escorting prisoners to and from court houses, providing security within courtrooms and transporting prisoners to penitentiaries. When Sheriffs are not available, it is up to the local RCMP to take over some of those responsibilities, removing them from their regular duties, for which local municipalities pay.Although some judges had delayed or halted trials due to safety concerns, there is no information to suggest there were any cases that were disrupted in Fort St. John.Advertisement read more
Local businesses ‘seriously ill prepared’ for Brexit crash out
Donegal County Councillor Liam Doherty has criticised the government for what he says has been their failure to assist border businesses adequately prepare for the outcome of Brexit.The Finn Valley-based Sinn Féin councillor has said some of the initiatives rolled out to date by government to help businesses prepare for Britain’s withdrawal as ‘nothing more than window-dressing’.Cllr Doherty is calling on the government and state agencies to be much more proactive in their approach to ensuring business preparedness. He said: “It is incredible that this week we heard from Enterprise Minister Heather Humphries take to the airwaves to tell businesses to step up their ‘Brexit preparedness’ when it is the government itself that is failing in this regard.“The government is of course making a lot of noise and has been urging companies to avail of state supports and even advising them to contact their local enterprise Ireland office for news on supply chains.“These may make nice sound bites and is clearly an attempt from this administration to highlight the work it’s doing to help business get ready for Brexit day but, in reality, a lot of these initiatives have been nothing but window dressing.”As Brexit deadline looms on March 29th, Cllr Doherty said businesses are not getting the support they need from the state: “We’re six weeks away from a potential no-deal Brexit and the best that this government can come up with is a help-line and a slideshow from consultants. – this is not good enough in my view,” he said.“Enterprise Ireland has already warned that some 25,000 jobs could be lost in a no-deal scenario, and there’s little doubt that the border region would see its fair share of any potential job cuts.“I speak with business owners and employers here from across the border region every single day and, based on what they are telling me about their experiences, businesses here are being left to their own devices in terms of Brexit planning and are being left without much in the way of practical support from the state.“I am talking about the local shop keeper, the butcher, local retailers, hoteliers, restaurateurs, farmers and small manufacturers, all of whom speak of feeling cast adrift.”Cllr Doherty suggested that his party’s document on Brexit preparedness has the answers to impending economic disruption: “Sinn Féin has repeatedly highlighted the need for direct government support for businesses, particularly border businesses which, given their close proximity to the border, stand to be most adversely affected.“Importers and exporters based locally and that trade exclusively with Britain, the vast majority of which are small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), have voiced real fears that – given they have neither the expertise, scale or resources to easily change practices or navigate the complexities of heightened red tape – they are seriously ill prepared for a potential crash out Brexit by the end of March 2019.“Instead, government is demanding the impossible of our SMEs and, when challenged about their approach, Fine Gael chooses to hide behind a helpline, slideshows or seminars yet, there is very little tangible support being made available to business.“Sinn Féin on the other hand has listened to the concerns of businesses and, last week, the party launched its document on Brexit preparedness which includes a number of practical supports businesses should be able to avail of as Brexit looms. “The package equates to a €2bn Brexit stabilisation fund which would be in addition to any EU supports for agriculture and exporters.“Sinn Féin’s plan will address things like structural issues, while mitigating the short-term effects of Brexit on our exporters.“The time for action is now and I am calling on government to get its act together fast and provide local businesses here in the border region with the supports they need to survive and be sustainable despite all the uncertainty Brexit will create.”Local businesses ‘seriously ill prepared’ for Brexit crash out was last modified: February 19th, 2019 by Rachel McLaughlinShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Tags:BrexitCllr Liam Doherty read more
DDTV: SEE THE STORY BEHIND LEO’S TAVERN, CLANNAD AND ENYA
The story of Leo’s Tavern and how it led to the birth of Clannad and Enya is one of legend.Simply click on this video by RTE to see the story of one of Donegal’s most famous musical families. DDTV: SEE THE STORY BEHIND LEO’S TAVERN, CLANNAD AND ENYA was last modified: December 21st, 2015 by StephenShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Tags:ClannadEnyaLeo’s TavernRTE read more
ARREST WARRANT ISSUED FOR MAN WHO LEFT PUB WITHOUT PAYING
A JUDGE has issued an arrest warrant for a man with a County Cork address wanted in Donegal for allegedly leaving a pub without paying.Dermot O’Connor, who is 59 and from Kilkorney in Mallow, failed to appear when he was called at Letterkenny District Court.He faces a charge of leaving the Central Bar in Lifford on June 3 last without making payment. ARREST WARRANT ISSUED FOR MAN WHO LEFT PUB WITHOUT PAYING was last modified: June 16th, 2014 by John2Share this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Tags:courtdrinkLetterkenny District CourtLiffordThe Central Bar read more
Winners Revealed: Have you won tickets to the Letterkenny Food Festival?
The second summer Off the Street Letterkenny Food Festival kicks off in less than 24 hours – so it’s time to announce the winners of our Donegal Daily giveaway!We have TWO family passes to give away for this festival of food, drink and entertainment at the Orchard Inn car park on Saturday and Sunday 28th and 29th July.And the winners are… Anne Breslinand Chris Frize Congratulations! You’ve each won a family pass to Off the Street LK!The Letterkenny Food Festival opens at 12noon this Saturday 28th July. Families and friends will be flocking to the Orchard Inn car park to sample great local food, learn all the tricks from producers and chefs, and listen to top local music artists.A jam-packed programme is set out featuring demonstrations from some of Donegal’s best chefs and stories from dozens of local artisan producers to the backdrop of a wide array of street food vendors and singer/songwriters.All are welcome to come along and experience Donegal for not only its world-class scenery but also its exciting emerging culinary heritage.When? Saturday 28th (12-8pm) and Sunday 29th July (12-6pm)Where? Behind the Orchard Bar, High Road, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal.How much are tickets? €3 per adult for a day pass, €5 per adult weekend pass (2 days), kids go free! Check out OFF THE STREET FEST on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram for further updates on the event.Winners Revealed: Have you won tickets to the Letterkenny Food Festival? was last modified: July 27th, 2018 by Rachel McLaughlinShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Tags:competitionletterkenny food festivaloff the street lk read more
Big Science Goes Total Left in Opposing Trump
Have they no shame? Science is not supposed to take political positions. What they’re doing this week undermines their credibility as unbiased seekers of the truth.Everyone knows the country is deeply divided politically, but there are certain groups who should keep out of politics on company time. If a scientist wants to express his or her views privately, that’s legit as it is for any citizen. But pretending that ‘science’ per se (as represented through scientific institutions and journals) only has one view of the new president is out of bounds. Maybe Big Media is refusing to report on scientists who support the new administration, but all you read in the major media is that ‘scientists’ not only dislike President Trump; they vow to fight him. Here are some samples:dScientists join massive protest against Trump (Nature). What could be clearer? “Scientists,” an imprecise group if there ever was one, are “against Trump.” Conversely, as the article implies, Trump is against science — and against “diversity” and “equality,” too. Sara Reardon reports, “Researchers at Women’s March in Washington DC defend their work as US president takes office.” Conservative scientists or researchers need not apply, because they don’t even exist in this broad-brush generalization. Nature also posted tweets from “Scientists on their hopes and fears for Trump administration” — only negative tweets, of course. Example from an anonymous Mr. E: “As teacher of well-founded Theory of Evolution, I worry about science under #BetsyDeVos & her science denying ilk. ”Climate scientists brace themselves for a Trump-led witch-hunt (New Scientist). “Witch-hunt?” Them’s fightin’ words. And the leftist pseudo-science rag New Scientist is fightin’ with ’em. Scientists, that is. Global warmists. Panicked piglets at the government teat.THE Climate forecast for the next four years is bleak. Donald Trump notoriously tweeted in 2012 that global warming was a hoax created by China to damage US manufacturing. As president-elect, he has chosen a climate change denialist to head the Environmental Protection Agency, and his pick for the helm of the energy department (DOE) is Rick Perry, who once suggested dismantling it.Question: if the DOE were dismantled, would it warm the planet or change anything? The DOE didn’t even exist until the summer of 1977. Take a moment to watch Bjorn Lomborg allay the fears and non-reason of these fearmongers (Prager University). The over-the-top propaganda words in the NS article are unworthy of science. If you thought for a moment that NS is a “news” site, pay attention to the bottom of the article, where they tell climate scientists where they can get legal counsel. The BBC is in on the campaign across the pond, too, promoting the march on Washington and the rogue Twitter accounts – no mention of the friendly meeting yesterday between President Trump and their own Prime Minister, Theresa May.Scientists Plan Washington March in Response to Trump (Live Science). Laura Geggel reports only scientists in favor of protesting Trump and his policies, giving the impression that ‘scientists’ represent a monolithic political bloc. Her bias mirrors that of the mainstream media, who gave 129 times more coverage of the anti-Trump women’s march on Washington compared to the March for Life (source: Newsbusters). A website was made to advertise the event, scientistsmarchonwashington.com.‘Rogue’ Science Agency Twitter Accounts Mock Trump-Ordered Restrictions (Space.com). Like Geggel, reporter Tariq Malik presents only anti-Trump positions of selected people pretending to speak for science. These people have set up unofficial Twitter accounts emblazoned with the logos of federal agencies such as the National Park Service, NOAA and NASA, to blast the new administration and its policies. Then Malik hands the baton back to Geggel with a link to her anti-Trump article about the march on Washington. Incidentally, Mindy Waisgerber presents the same bias in her Live Science article about the rogue Twitter accounts.3 Things You Need to Know About the Science Rebellion Against Trump (National Geographic). Et tu, NG? This blatantly partisan article by Paul Nicklen slanders Trump about orders “silencing” certain department heads without giving any response from the administration’s side. Nicklen makes it seem like Trump is acting out of personal peeve instead of studied position. The “heroes” of Trump’s “muzzling” of these departments (which do, after all, report to him), are scientists fighting his alleged “attacks” on science, and those supporting the march on Washington. One wishes in vain for a response by Kellyanne Conway, Mike Pence or Reince Priebus in the name of fairness, but Nicklen’s advocacy piece is nothing short of a battle cry, shouting ‘bravo‘ to the anti-Trump forces. And he calls it “three things you need to know.”Doomsday Clock Ticks Half-Minute Closer to Midnight in Historic Move (Live Science). It should be patently obvious to any thinking person that this “Doomsday Clock” scientists keep promoting has nothing to do with science, since nobody can foresee the future. It’s only a visualization gimmick to further certain political objectives. By reporting this charade, Mindy Waisberger joins with the self-appointed prophets to engage in fear-mongering about Trump’s election and his apparent denial of the science of man-caused global warming.What is fascism? (Live Science). Fascism belongs in the history and political science departments, not “live science.” In this not-so-subtle salvo against the Trump administration, Jessie Szalay pretends to offer a balanced presentation of the political history and nature of fascism, citing history experts. The opening photo shows Mussolini and Hitler. The timing of this article, however, is highly suspect, coming right after Democrats have accused Trump of fascism and ‘Hitlerian’ statements. That could be OK, shedding light on history, if Szalay also included some balance to defend Trump against the slander, but Szalay misrepresents conservatism as a stepping stone to fascism. Any mention of the anti-Trump protestors sporting blatantly communist slogans and resorting to violence? Crickets.Women’s access to birth control and abortion fading under Trump (New Scientist). Shouldn’t it be good news that abortion is becoming “safe, legal and rare” for liberals who once advocated those descriptive words? What could science possibly have to do with abortion? For all practical purposes, scientists would have to agree that a human life begins at conception, when a full complement of unique human genes began the developmental program toward birth. Why does NS writer Clare Wilson begin her anti-life rant with a photo of protestors with signs, “Stand with Planned Parenthood,” when that abortion provider was founded by a notorious eugenicist and racist?Those are just a few recent articles showing the lopsided political bias of Big Science. We’re not even caught up yet on the latest news. Trump hasn’t even done much concerning science after one week in office other than sign some executive orders, and the Senate has dragged on confirmation of his Cabinet appointees. Wouldn’t it be more scientific to actually watch for some data to come in, rather than to shout that the sky is falling? Who knows; liberals might even like some of Trump’s policies a year from now.It bears repeating: there are many great individual scientists who do quality work in their specialties, regardless of their political feelings. But their institutions — Big Science and its lapdog, Big Media –have gone so radically far left that they cannot be taken seriously when they engage in blatant, overt, shameless political advocacy. Treat them like you would Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton. (Visited 70 times, 1 visits today)FacebookTwitterPinterestSave分享0 read more
Final whistle for winning Team SA?
Cape Town was the host city for theHomeless World Cup in 2006. Gerald Bez shoots for goal during theHomeless World Cup match between SAand Australia, held at the Grand Paradein Cape Town, South Africa, in 2006.(Images: Flickr)MEDIA CONTACTS• Clifford MartinusSAHSS: Director+27 21 704 6815 / +27 82 945 4812Ray MaotaThe South African Homeless Street Soccer (SAHSS) initiative teaches young people life skills for handling issues such as HIV/Aids, crime and substance abuse.This they do by using soccer as a tool to keep them off the streets and opening them up to opportunities outside their normal environment.The initiative is part of Oasis: “Reach for your dreams”, which was started in 2000 by director Clifford Martinus and his friends as an informal soccer team for youngsters living in the streets of Cape Town, but grew bigger and was formally registered as a non-profit organisation (NPO) in 2002. Oasis Soccer Club still exists today and takes part in local tournaments.Established in 2006, the SAHSS became part of a worldwide network known as the Homeless World Cup Foundation, which includes 94 international partner organisations whose goal is to improve the lives of homeless people through soccer.The foundation is the brainchild of Mel Young, the co-founder of The Big Issue, a weekly magazine sold by homeless people in Scotland. He is also responsible for setting up the International Network of Street Papers (INSP), a global network of street papers sold worldwide.It was in Cape Town, at the end of the annual INSP conference in 2001, that Young and Austrian Harald Schmied, who is also involved in issues relating to homeless people, came up with the concept of the Homeless World Cup Foundation.“When we started out it was just to get the youth busy with soccer,” said Martinus.“Never did we realise that this was the beginning of a way of reaching more people and become a sense of opportunity for others less fortunate than ourselves.”He added that they are looking to expand their soccer programmes to more provinces and in future host a national street soccer tournament.Team SA is ranked 20th out of 56 nations involved in the international tournament. This year’s event takes place in Mexico in October and will host a record 72 countries, with 56 taking part in the men’s event and 16 in the women’s.The tournament started in Graz, Austria in 2003, and has been to four continents.National teams send different members every year, so as to give as many of their incumbents exposure to travelling and learning about new cultures as possible.“People tend to think this is just a joyous trip, but for these youngsters, meeting people with similar situations – whether it is drug abuse of being considered anti-social – is an eye-opener,” said Martinus.“They are boarding a plane for the first time to another country, and when they get there they realise that some of the people they meet are going through the same situation and there is a way out of it.”Not only for the homelessMartinus said although it’s named homeless street soccer, it does not include only the homeless and destitute.“Most of the participants live in places of safety and are from the streets, while others live in informal settlements,” he said.The team taking part in this year’s event will consist of eight players, four technical staff members and two social workers. It is in need of funds to help cover travelling costs.Mobile phone company Cell C, which was team sponsor for the 2010 and 2011 competitions, has had to restructure its sponsorship responsibilities this year.“Unfortunately our funding this year has gone to women and children initiatives and we could not carry on with the sponsorship,” confirmed Mag Pillay, Cell C public relations manager.The issue is uppermost on Martinus’s mind.“We need to get funds for flight tickets, the kit and a stipend for the players so they can feel comfortable among their counterparts at the tournament.”The cost of the trip is likely to exceed R200 000 (US$24 000) due to the airfares.Success stories of the initiativeAyanda Nqkayi (35) is a former captain of the team. Before joining the initiative he used to sell dagga as a means of survival, but through the SAHSS programme has become involved with the Cape Town Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA).Nqkayi participates in YMCA projects such as the After School Programme, where youngsters are motivated to develop their education, confidence, leadership, and social skills in a safe environment.Martinus said they also recently had the Western Cape Street Soccer finals and called on previous players to facilitate with the proceedings so they can earn some money.Thulisile Bolana (24) from Khayelitsha is also a member of the SAHSS team. He will be going to Germany in June to a leadership camp organised by the UN Sport for Development and Peace. He is one of only three from Africa who were invited to represent the projects to which they belong and share ideas with others from around the world.He will be representing Oasis and speaking on how youth from around the world use soccer and sports in general to develop themselves.Lukhanyo Mdokwa, who was captain of the team in 2010, was taken in as assistant coach for South Africa at last year’s event. While there he was asked by the director of Paris-based Saint-Germain soccer club, who is Brazilian, to assist with the Brazil homeless team.“Lukhanyo will this year go again as assistant coach if we do get the funds to go to Mexico, but he will not come back to South Africa as he will join the Brazilian team and work at an NGO in Brazil,” said Martinus. read more
Gallery: Eastern Cape, a place of natural wonders
Cross the border into the Eastern Cape, whether along the N6 or N2, and an overwhelming calm takes over. Its green hills, dense forests and warm seas embrace the visitor, revealing all that is sacred and making you feel as if you have arrived home.The Eastern Cape’s landscape is varied and suits the taste of any tourist. You can ski the alpine slopes of Tiffindell, hike the forests of Tsitsikamma, lounge on any of its golden beaches and take in the savannah culture of the Karoo. (Images: Shamin Chibba, unless stated otherwise)Compiled by Shamin ChibbaIt’s September. It’s spring in South Africa – and Tourism Month, celebrated this year with the theme “Tourism for All”. To inspire your next road trip we bring you nine galleries, one for each province, showcasing our country’s remarkable beauty and diversity.A thriving tourism industry means South Africa is closer to achieving its National Development Plan goals of skills development and creating decent employment through inclusive economic growth.The Eastern Cape’s natural landscape is varied and caters for tourists of all kinds. One can ski the alpine slopes of Tiffindell, surf the Supertubes in Jeffrey’s Bay , hike the forest in Hogsback and explore the oddities in the savannah-like Karoo towns.The Eastern Cape is a storied part of South Africa, filled with people carving out a life in what is the country’s poorest province. Despite this, its people have a lot of heart and if you spend a little time with them, you will feel as if you have always belonged there.The East London beachfront hosts one of the country’s biggest New Years’ bashes each year. But between the parties, it is calm, with many East Londoners walking or running on the promenade at the end of the day.Kologha Forest in Stutterheim is the second largest natural forest in South Africa after the Knysna Forest. It can be explored by foot, mountain bike and even on horseback. For those looking to do a spot of fishing, the forest’s waterways are home to trout. Be on the lookout for the forest’s many inhabitants, which include bushpigs, bats, monkeys, duikers and numerous birds. (Image: SA-Venues.com)Built between 1860 and 1880, the Donkin Street terraced houses in Port Elizabeth are actually integrated as a single unit. The whole street was declared a national monument in 1967.Tiffindell Ski Resort, in the Southern Drakensberg, is South Africa’s only ski and snowboarding resort. Established in 1993, the resort has since become the country’s winter playground. It uses snow making and grooming machines to maintain the ski hill. (Image: Tiffindell Ski Resort)The Eco Shrine in the mystical village of Hogsback is a nod to the power of art, nature, science and the sacred. In the distance are the three ridges from which the Hogsback takes its name. Some speculate that Hogsback’s magical surrounds inspired JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. Residents have run with the claim, with names like Camelot, Hobbiton, Rivendell, The Shire, Lothlorien and Middle Earth seen everywhere. When you visit, don’t forget to hike to the Madonna and Child waterfall. (Image: Flickr, South African Tourism)The Big Tree in Tsitsikamma is estimated to be between 600 and 800 years old, stands 36.6 metres tall and has a trunk circumference of nine metres.Found in the town of Storms River, the Big Tree is a yellowwood. This species, South Africa’s national tree, is endangered. Before yellowwoods were cut and logged almost to extinction, they dominated country’s landscape, particularly in the Eastern Cape and Western Cape. Today, there is just 10% of the yellowwood trees of 350 years ago.Hole in the Wall is a village south of Coffee Bay on the Wild Coast. In isiXhosa, the area is called esiKhaleni, which means ‘the place of sound’. Some say the name comes from the cracking sound made by waves slapping the rocks while others believe it comes from a legend about a young maiden who fell in love with one of the mythical ‘sea people’. (Image: Flickr, South African Tourism)Jeffrey’s Bay is South Africa’s number one surf spot, known as Supertubes. It attracts some of the best surfers in the world for the Billabong Surf Pro Championship, in July each year. (Image: Flickr, South African Tourism)The beachfront in East London is a great place for tourists to pick up arts and crafts.The N2 road runs along the Eastern Cape coast, linking Cape Town and Durban and beyond. It forms part of the Garden Route. The road cuts through some of the country’s diverse flora and fauna as well as picturesque Eastern Cape towns such as Port Alfred and Kenton-on-Sea.A man and his dog, a common sight at Nahoon Beach, East London.In Nieu Bethesda, The Owl House is a testament to the power of imagination. With its numerous sculptures of owls, bottle-skirted hostesses, mermaids, camels and pilgrims, The Owl House has become almost a required stop for visitors to the Karoo village. Depending on your outlook, the place is either weird or wonderful. (Image: Flickr, South African Tourism)Donkin Reserve in Port Elizabeth’s city centre was declared a public space in perpetuity by Sir Rufane Donkin. It has a lighthouse and stone pyramid monument upon which an inscription was placed by Donkin in honour of his late wife, Elizabeth, after whom the city was named.The Paul Sauer Bridge, better known as Storms River Bridge, has become symbolic for travellers along the Garden Route. It was the highest concrete arch in Africa at 120 metres above the river until the Bloukrans Bridge was built in 1984. The latter stands at 216 metres above the river. Both bridges are on the N2. (Image: Flickr, South African Tourism)In times long past, the home of elephants and, more recently, woodcutters, the village of Storms River attracts the curious tourist with its charm and special ambiance. With little lighting, silence and few people, it is perfect for anyone in search of a bit of solitude.Whatever your taste, you can find pristine beaches void of people or touristy resorts along the long Eastern Cape coast.The East London Golf Club, one of the oldest and best courses in the country, has hosted the South African Championships six times and the Africa Open Golf Challenge. Overlooking Nahoon Beach and Nature Reserve, it is considered a must-play course by golfers.The dolerite columns of the Valley of Desolation, just 14 kilometres from Graaff-Reinet, rise 120 metres from the valley floor. The nearby Camdeboo National Park, seen in the background, is known for its biodiversity, with more than 220 species of birdlife, 336 plants and 43 mammals. (Image: South African Tourism) read more
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Kamailio v4.3 ============= http://www.kamailio.org Table of contents I. About Kamailio II. Feature List III. Getting started IV. About the project V. Obtaining Help VI. More Information I. About Kamailio ================= Kamailio is an industrial-strength, free server for realtime communication, based on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP RFC3261). It is engineered to power Realtime Communications such as IP telephony and presence infrastructures up to large scale. With embedded support for WebSockets, HTTP, MSRP and XMLrpc as well as Json-rpc it's a modern server, up to date with current standards. Kamailio keeps track of users, sets up multimedia sessions, relays instant messages and creates space for new plug-in applications. Its proven interoperability guarantees seamless integration with components from other vendors, eliminating the risk of a single-vendor trap. Kamailio has successfully participated in various interoperability tests in which it worked with the products of other leading SIP vendors. The Kamailio software enables a flexible plug-in model for new applications: Third parties can easily link their plug-ins with the server code and provide thereby advanced and customized services. With a modern RPC interface, 3rd party application can integrate and interact with services provided by Kamailio. By using the EVAPI interface or the embedded HTTP server restful applications can be built. Kamailio's performance and robustness allows it to serve millions of users and accommodate needs of very large operators. With a low-cost dual-CPU, the Kamailio server is able to power IP telephony services in an area as large as the Bay Area during peak hours. The Kamailio server is extremely configurable to allow the creation of various routing and admission policies as well as setting up new and customized services. Its configurability allows it to serve many roles: network security barrier, presence server, application server, IMS server or PSTN gateway guard (Session Border Controller) for example. II. Feature List ================ Please visit http://www.kamailio.org/ for the most up-to-date feature list. Note that as features easily are added as modules, changes can occur quickly. Most of Kamailio's features are implemented as plug-in modules. See our web site for a current list. III. Getting started ==================== The INSTALL document will guide you through the installation. Kamailio is composed of a core and additional modules. For each module there is a README with documentation on how to configure and use the module. These are available in each modules source code directory as well as on the kamailio.org web site. We recommend that you continue with reading README-MODULES and then the document named INSTALL. IV. About kamailio.org ======================== The Kamailio project has roots in a line of projects starting with SIP Express Router, then OpenSER and now Kamailio. A merge project was started during the fall of 2008 by developers from the OpenSER project, recently renamed to Kamailio.org and SIP Express Router (SER) from iptel.org. Kamailio is the result of a merge of the code base and years of experience from both developer teams. In release 4.0, during the spring of 2013, the merger of the products was completed and a unified product was released. See http://www.kamailio.org/ for the story of SER, OpenSER/Kamailio and kamailio.org. V. Obtaining Help ================= We offer best-effort free support for Kamailio. "best-effort" means that we try to solve your problems via email as soon as we can, subject to available manpower. To receive feedback to your inquiries, we recommend you to subscribe to the sr-users mailing list and post your queries there. This mailing list is set up for mutual help by the community of Kamailio users and developers. To participate in the mailing list, subscribe at the following web address: http://lists.sip-router.org/mailman/listinfo/sr-users VI. More Information ==================== Most up-to-date information is always available at our website, http://www.kamailio.org/ Particularly, it includes: - administrator's guide - configuration cookbooks (core, pseudovariables and transformations) - module documentation - installation guidelines (INSTALL) - download links - etc.
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If you need to get sex tips from Cosmopolitan Magazine, you are either 10 or in really bad mental shape. Perhaps you have been locked in a basement for the last decade of your life and are just now emerging, horny and ready to mingle. Reading Cosmo sex tips was kind of like listening to Lady Gaga's CD. It was severely disappointing and I think it gave me a little bit of brain damage. Why did I listen to it / read the sex tips, you ask? Because I'm curious to a fault.
OK! So some of the sex tips involved things like, "blow on his penis", "lick his penis with your tongue", and detailed instructions on how to masturbate a man with a circumsized penis. In all fairness, this was an issue from 2009 and hopefully we've all matured since then, but, who doesn't know by now that putting a man's thing-a-ma-jig in your mouth makes him happy? I decided, perhaps I should write my own sex tips column for people, because I've had sex once. So here goes. By the way, sadly, this is how I get most of my ideas - reading other people's attempts at them and thinking, "I could do better than that." It's a sad way to live, but I didn't ask to be born.
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5. Last, but not least, this one is called the old switcherroo. If you are dating a caucasian man, you will need a brown marker, and if you are dating a brown man, you won't need to do this trick. Simply tell your guy, you've always wanted to know what it would be like to have sex with an African American man. This is going to put him off at first, because he knows that by "African American man" you mean "guy with a bigger dick than you". But it's OK, he'll calm down as soon as you tell him that tonight, you're both going to pretend to be African American. Show him your vagina area, which you've pre-colored with brown marker, and then slowly, intimately color his penis with a brown marker, never breaking eye contact. Erection of his life, guaranteed. When you are finished, have sex with him. Be sure to use a Sharpie or permanent marker for best results.
Now THERE are some sex tips for ya. I'm sick of Cosmo treating us all like we have just recently discovered this thing you call schlong. Have fun and BE SAFE. Only have sex with DOCTORS.
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It's been a great year together - let's make 20 double 1 even better
For a good handful of years now, I've been writing demented songs that have put smiles and / or frowns on your faces and the faces of people close to you. I've been publicly denounced by the US Catholic League, I've traveled the world and rocked your town / city / state / country. I've entertained you and horrified your parents / neighbors / religious leaders. And what an utter blast it has been.
I don't have a big powerful music label behind me supporting what I do. Everything I do is paid for by me. All the press I get - I get it for me. All the songs I write are written by me, not the hit factory or Dr. Luke. Even my CDs are designed by me, I drew that unicorn you see. I am a one woman band / business. It's a great way to live my life and I'm thrilled to be able to eat / drink and survive this way, but I do have help -- I have generous friends and fans out there who keep buying my demented CDs and egging me on.
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1. Buy CDs / mp3s. I get most of the money from any iTunes / ReverbNation / paypal sales. I love you for doing this.
2. Tell your friends about my music. Share your CDs. Send them to friends for birthdays and holidays and to soldiers in Iraq, strangers you hate, give them out to homeless people or your friends who work in entertainment. If you are a big shot, hire me to write a song for your movie or to play at your kid's bat mitzvah or to be in some TV show you're producing. I promise to be awesome.
3. If you ever see an article or piece of press about me, like it, share it through Facebook, Twitter, your blog, etc. Comment on it. Say anything at all - say there is a monkey robbing cookies out of your cabinet, I don't care. Just comment. Let the world know that people (you) are reading and paying attention when they write about me.
4. Email me and invite me to perform at shows / events that you know about. Tell me about your friends / relatives who produce / book festivals / TV shows / etc. Introduce me to them via email.
5. Donate to my PayPal in any amount - $1 or $1000. The money in my PayPal account goes directly back into my music and performing. You can do that at jess delfino at yahoo dot commmm through http://www.paypal.com/.
6. Come to my shows and bring friends.
7. Read my blog every day. Send the link to friends. "Follow" the blog. This shows bigger labels (read: people with money) that I have a following - YOU.
8. Collaborate with me - let's make a video, write a song together, try something new. This broadens the output of what we make for both of us.
9. Keep loving my dirty mouth and encouraging me -- this makes me want to write new songs for you and never stop making the world an even more deliciously twisted place.
If you do any of those things, I will be able to sing dirty delicious demented funny songs for the rest of my life, which is the goal.
Thank you a million.
PERFECT HOLIDAYS NOW ON iTUNES!!
A Merry hopefully not scary Happy Christmas and holiday season to you and yours. What are you guys gonna be for Christmas this year? A Nancy homemaker, trimming the tree and house to Martha-like perfection? A black sheep uncle, kicking the living room table over and telling everyone what you really think of them? The well-behaved college aged kid who returns home on time expecting a car in the driveway with a bow on top -- and getting it? A stoner who eats all the rum balls and passes out on top of a pile of coats in the bedroom?
All are acceptable options.
Should you need a holiday soundtrack, might I suggest, "Perfect Holidays", now available on iTunes?
In a little write up on NY Press, they said of it, "Jessica Delfino has a new album out today and it features "Christmas Idiot," which has to be our favorite new holiday song." Check out what else NY Press said about it here.
And have yourself a Merry Juana Christmas...right now.
PONGO POWER FUNNY FITNESS SHOW
What a fun show, and I like Union Hall, too. Not every venue is fun to perform in and not every venue treats performers nicely (free drinks, food discounts, good sound, competent & friendly staff) but Union Hall is definitely at the top of my BK venues list after tonight. Erzsi looked stunning in her gold halter skirt and everyone made me laugh.
If you missed the show, boooo on you, you are lazy or had something else going on. But here is a segment of my set: It's a few dieting tips to help you get into shape butt fast. Implement them or be fat.
Buy a digital scale that measures points like 120.8 pounds and here is the fun part: weigh yourself every few minutes to see if you’ve gained or lost any weight. Write the number down on a piece of paper and carry it with you, charting your points of pounds over the course of the day.
Tell people you are on a diet so that people know and can refrain from sharing their chocolate and cake with you. It’s not enough to simply say, “I’m on a diet”, you have to yell it out really loudly for everyone to hear, for example, at a restaurant or Bat Mitzvah. That way people can feel insecure about not being as healthy as you and you can feel like you’re taking control of your weight.
Drink 8 gallons of water every day. Some people say to drink 8 glasses, but these people are total wooses. Not only will you gain weight just from lifting a gallon up to your mouth all the time, but you’ll be drinking so much water your stomach will break, and it’s hard to eat with a broken stomach, and it’s hard to gain weight if you can’t eat.
Have a red flag weight: When you do the three items above, melting off virtually hundreds of pounds in only a matter of weeks, you will love your new thin self so much that you will want to stay thin forever. That is why you have to have a red flag – a weight that you pick that will set you into diet mode high alert. What’s your red flag weight? Mine is 96 pounds.
Visit Erzsi's Pongo Power.com or her fitness center by the same name located in Park Slope and ask her about getting your rotund rear into shape.
***Oh, and where can you see me next? Great question. Pop into Otto's Shrunken Head THIS SAT 6 pm - 10 pm and snag a few of my home-made tampon ornaments ($5) or demented holiday cards ($3). I may even sing a few songs for you (free).***
NEXT DELFINO APPEARANCE:
Thurs. 12/16 - Funny Fitness
Pongo Power presents: Funny Fitness
Tomorrow (Thursday) Dec. 16 @ 8:30 PM
Erzsi Pongo hosts an eclectic collection of comedians in Park Slope such as Victor Varnado, Ben Lerman, Liam McEneaney and Claudia Cogan. Erzsi who has a background in comedy and performed around NYC for several years took her knowledge and love of fitness and opened her own fitness center in Park Slope called Pongo Power. Her business savvy and independence inspire and motivate me. She's a sweet gal and she knows how to work and play hard hard hard. And she's wicked buff, too.
So come to the show, n' shit.
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Erzsi's Website / Pongo Power
Bowery Pop Up Store opens 6 PM +
BTK Band set @ 9 PM
It's another busy night in Delfino land where there is no rest for the retarded. I clearly take on too much but I feel that is why I'm in NYC. When I'm old and decrepit I can look back on these days and hopefully not kick myself for not spending more time with my family or whatever.
6 PM: BPC's cafe is being turned into a makeshift holiday pop up shop. Come buy some indie hand crafted holiday goods including jewelry, cards, ornaments, shrines and more, all home made. Also, enjoy the art opening with works by Sam Jablon. If you have crafts to sell, please get in touch asap. jess delfino at yahoo dot commmm. For more info about the pop up shop, visit www.craftermathnyc.blogspot.com.
9 PM: While the BPC pop up shop will go until at least 8 PM, to be followed by Bingo, and possibly stay open into the weee hours (midnight), I'll head over to Under St. Marks to do a nice leisurely demented song set with BTK band. Come join the merry. They combine storytelling, improvisation and live music, so that's guaranteed to be nifty.
This is funny - I'm filming a segment for Bravo TV today with one of the Real Housewives. I'll let you know how it goes.
See you after a while, crocodiles.
The Continuing Story of Carla Rhodes
with special guest: ME
@ Arlene's Grocery, 8 PM
and BUSHWICK BAZAAR in Bushwick, Brooklyn
If you haven't seen "The Continuing Story of Carla Rhodes" yet, get your booty out the door and check it out this Sunday. It's a great show full of puppetry, full band-itry and drinkery. Arrive early or stand in the back! I'll do a small piece in Carla's show at 8 PM and then do a whole solo set later at 9 PM. I hope to see your (smiling, frowning or otherwise) face there.
For some early afternoon fun, head over to Bushwick Bazaar. What is it, you ask? Well let me elaborate with the creator's own scribe (NOTE: FREE BEER). Also, I will be doing tarot readings and may sing some songs.
On Sunday December 12 at 3pm, the BUSHWICK BAZZAR will be riddled with this and that; cool people, art, crafts, local food, FREE BEER, and evening musical and comedy performances. You can also get your tarot read and maybe find out what your life's been missing...
BUSHWICK BAZAAR is located at 1342 Dekalb, near the intersection of Dekalb/Central/Myrtle (The Devils Palm) - it's a brand new space that needs to be filled with creators, creatives, performers and teachers.
Do me a quick favor...
People write to me all the time, asking me, "When are you coming to Florida / LA / Georgia / Iowa / Austin / New Hampshire / Chicago / MY TOWN?"
Great question! And thanks for the ego boosting emails! But for realz, do you want me to totes come to your city this year? Then fill out this questionnaire and email the results to: survey@lilithfair.com. I've made some suggestions for you below, in parenthesis. If you do this in high enough numbers and with enough zeal and enthusiasm, you will be rewarded for your hard work by seeing me in YOUR CITY in 2011. Please do this asap! Today! It will take you 3 minutes and it will make me really happy. Thank you.
1) Who was your favorite headliner on Lilith 2010? (Whatever you want to write)
2) Which artist would you like to see headline Lilith 2011? (What ever you want to write)
3) What other Artists would you like to see on the Lilith 2011 line-up? (JESSICA DELFINO)
4) What cities and venues should Lilith visit in 2011? (Please suggest both) (YOUR CITY)
THIS WEDNESDAY 12/8:
artwork by MollyButterfoss.com. Thanks Molly!
I don't mean to brag but...
Pee Wee Herman and David Cross in the same weekend. No, not a threesome, a weekend full of visual delight. (I just watched.) I even ran into Craig Baldo at Pee Wee's show, which as far as I'm concerned was *almost* as good as seeing Pee Wee himself. Pee Wee, I cancelled a show to hang with you! Thank you Lauren Oppelt, you're the greatest dresser EVER.
At the end of Pee Wee's show, he tossed his ring DIRECTLY to ME. It went INTO my hand and then bounced delicately out and onto the floor, where an elderly silver fox lady picked it up like it'd landed there for her. It was MINE salt n' pepa! MINE! She refused to make eye contact as she slid it onto her aging finger. FUCK ME. I watched her walk away all self-satisfied. Part of me wanted to say, "Excuse me -- do the right thing woman and GIVE THAT RING BACK!" But instead I let her walk away with it. Later, my friend gave me one of Pee Wee's rings, but it was not the ring I caught that was later lifted. It wasn't the one, son.
And then tonight (Sunday) Bowery Poetry Club hosted David Cross, Fred Armisen, Kristen Schaal, Amber Tamblyn, Sarah Vowell and others for Bowery does Poetry does Comedy. It was a great time and the cheese was extra stinky. For anyone who's eagerly prepared to dis BPC, stick it in your pipe, you schmoe. Bowery is an awesome venue and I'm so glad to be a part of it. It's one of the few venues who eagerly lets me sing songs about vaginas and anything else I want to eagerly sing about.
Well, tomorrow is Monday, you know what that means - back to the grind. See you all there.
PS - Listen - if you are David Sonenberg, CALL ME. We have to TALK.
Don't Be A Christmas Idiot This Year
As is tradition, many people put up Christmas decorations the day after Thanksgiving, and as is per tradition, this is generally when houses, or in this case and also this case, mobile homes start catching on fire. Don't do that! Don't light your house on fire this Christmas. If for some reason, your loved one accidentally burns the house down this year, the song below is for you.
As much as anyone who loses their home this way during the holidays must be glad to be alive and safe, part of them must want to just look at the person responsible and yell, "You ass-tard, all of our possessions are gone!" And that is why I wrote this song.
You can find this jam on PERFECT HOLIDAYS is out now - you can order your copy by emailing $10 (shipped in the US, $15 shipped anywhere else) to me at jess delfino at yahoo dot com, through paypal.com.
NICE JESSICA, meet NAUGHTY JESSICA
This is the artwork on the CD donated by a terrific photographer who wishes to remain nameless because he is working in America W.O.P. and is being hunted by the CIA, the KGB and his parents. JK JK lol lol
Enjoy! And don't forget to get your signed, numbered copy (only 100 made and over half are gone) of Perfect Holidays by sending $10 to jessdelfino at yahoo dot com HERE. ($15 shipped anywhere outside of the USA) And if you're itchin for some JD tonight, Thursday Dec. 2 (that's me), stop by Upright Citizen's Brigade around 6:30 PM and for $5, catch me (and a bunch of other fun people) singing all ethnically in Jena Friedman's "Refugee Girls".
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JIM PLAYS NYC BUSINESSMAN AT POSH "BULL & BEAR" AT WALDORF-ASTORIA IN TV DRAMA "DAMAGES"(on "FX")
I had received recent calls from Ronan at Sylvia Fay Casting to do background work on the FX show called "Damages"(starring Glenn Close, Ted Danson and William Hurt), but scheduling conflicts arose. "Damages" begins it's second season this January 2009 on the FX channel and has received critical raves; new episodes have been taping since July 2008. Ronan called me back late Monday afternoon Sept. 15th asking if I could play an upscale NYC businessman having drinks/dinner at a posh NYC steakhouse scene, and I said yes! (this show can sometimes also shoot in Brooklyn at Steiner Studios or at other Brooklyn locales, but I learned it would be shot in Manhattan which is more conducive for me getting to the set on time). The holding area was St. Bartholomew's Church at 109 E. 50th Street between Park and Lexington, and my call time was 6:00AM. I was familiar with "St. Bart's" as I had walked past it many times on my way to a piano restaurant gig I did for almost 2 years at "DESTINO", which was also on E. 50th at 1st Avenue. My problem was trying to get my clothes pressed and ready while catching the Monday Night Football contest between the Eagles and Cowboys--and TRYING to get to sleep--knowing I'd have a 2:15AM alarm for the 4:20 AM bus leaving Wescosville PA for Manhattan. Since the Eagles-Cowboys game turned out to be a barnburner scoring frenzy with no obvious winner--I resigned myself that "sleep" was not going to happen tonite! At 11:45 PM I crashed after the Eagles blew a 37-34 lead and succumbed to the Cowboys 41-37. Before I knew it I was on my way to NYC and cursing that Jerry Jones team! I got to the set around 6:15AM(I had let them know that the bus gets in around 6AM and I'd get to set ASAP after that)...wardrobe supplied me with a cool blue striped power tie to go with my new suit I had brought, and they OK'd my second change for a later scene with my purple shirt and tie, and Navy blue sport coat and black slacks. Scarfed down some breakfast at the catered buffet outside of St. Bart's, and an hour or so later several of us were led to the set--I had wondered what "upscale steakhouse" had been secured by the "Locations Crew"--and was pleasantly surprised that it was the "Bull & Bear Steakhouse" located in the prestigious Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, adjacent to St. Bart's. ( http://bullandbearsteakhouse.com/ ) I had a wonderful history with the Waldorf--having played grand piano for a tribute gala dinner for Milton Berle in a banquet room there back in October 1996(with a cavalcade of stars in attendance including then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani). I also played a wedding reception for a lovely couple from London in a suite at the Waldorf Towers a few summers ago, so being back at this NYC landmark was a sentimental treat! As we entered the Bull and Bear, I was eventually placed at the bar with a nice lady named Christine; others were seated at tables adjacent to the main dining table where the star actors would be in dialogue. We were given "prop drinks" to "drink"(appropriately mine looked like a scotch on the rocks--lol)..in another scene Christine and I were placed at a table near the bar; it seems the entire restaurant would be involved in a sweeping camera shot to capture the idea of a full restaurant that the stars were dining in. One star jumped out at me--yet none of us that I spoke to were able to pinpoint her name...I kept thinking she had a middle name that she also used in her "stage name"--and it wasn't until the next day after doing some googlng that it came to me--MARCIA GAY HARDEN--check her out at http://faceof.net/marcia/news.htm ...as that site mentions, Harden joins the cast in it's new second season as a high-powered attorney who locks horns with Glenn Close's character. While we were shooting these initial scenes, I noticed another actor who had been at the "main table" come into the bar area on a break. I recognized him as an actor from a soap opera(or two), yet something else about him tugged at me. It wasn't until I was tapped to move into the dining area for some later scenes, sitting at a row of 2 seat tables along the wall that this actors identity became clearer. He was addressed as "Mark" by one of the directors--and then it "clicked"--Mark LaMura, who had played Erica Kane's(Susan Lucci's)brother on "ALL MY CHILDREN" back in the 1980's. What I also knew was that Mark was also an alumnus of Allentown College of St. Francis DeSales(now DeSales University), and I saw him do various Shakespeare Festival roles at the college several seasons ago--yet we had not met. I was a Theatre & Speech major there from 1979-1981(left to do radio at WAEB and then WZZO in the Lehigh Valley)--Mark was there during the inception of the Theatre Department, taught by it's founder Rev. Jerry Schubert and Bill Callahan(as I had been). On a break, Mark happened to be walking by me and I introduced myself. He was happy to learn of our similar backgrounds, and asked me what alums I might have known that he also knew. Hopefully we'll be in touch in the coming weeks as there are some Alumni functions going on. Small world, huh? Learn more about Mark's years on "AMC" at http://pinevalleybulletin.com/Quick%20Guide/BiographiesWeb/DaltonMark.html On breaks in the action we would return to our holding area, on the 3rd floor at St. Bart's Church, and by around 2PM many of the actors on set were "wrapped" for the day--they were Non-Union. The remaining 15 to 20 or so AFTRA actors including myself were told to change into our "2nd change", and not long after we returned to the "Bull & Bear". I was seated again in the dining room at the same table by the wall as previously, with an actress named Vivian. They were shooting some bar scenes with Marcia Gay Harden and we would be in the background of that-- with a waiter coming to our table refreshing our wine glasses. Vivian and I were able to converse in whispers as were away from the basic action, and we talked about the recent upheavals with Lehman Brothers and the weather in Texas, which affected some of her friends. Before we knew it the scene was over and we returned to St. Bart's for a 3PM buffet lunch that was to be savored(I always look forward to the meals on set--first class!) Since the "Bull & Bear" had to get ready for their regular hours of business--our time there today was over--and so we were wrapped at 3:30PM--I and many of the actors were relieved that it wasn't a 12 hour day or more as we were all pretty exhausted(even NYC area actors can't seem to sleep much when there is a 6AM calltime). I caught a 4:30 bus back to the Lehigh Valley, closed my eyes and reviewed this great day in my mind...THIS EPISODE ENTITLED "A PRETTY GIRL IN A LEOTARD" will debut Wednesday, February 11th,2009 on FX(and will air a few times that week until the following Wednesday)... visit their Official Site at http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/damages/ .
JIM DOES HIS 7th EPISODE OF LAW & ORDER:SVU("SWING")--rehearses scenes with Mariska & Co.!!
Back on April 24th, 2008 I did my 6th episode of "SVU" on location in Harlem(scroll down this JOURNAL to read)--it was the only time I was "on location" rather than being at the North Bergen NJ studios. On September 8th I got a call from Dave at Grant Wilfley Casting in NYC to return to the set of SVU the next day. Call time was 8:00AM on September 9th, this time I was to portray a "Paralegal"--my first time back in "the courtroom" at the studios since my first episode "STRAIN"(where I was a featured jury member). It was to be two scenes of arraignment hearings. I got to the set by 7:15AM and after checking in with the Production Assistant(PA) and helping myself to the plentiful breakfast buffet, the PA asked me how tall I was. When I told him 5' 10" , he handed me the "Sides"(small script for the day)and told me to report to set for the 8AM rehearsal--I was to be the stand-in for the Judge in todays scenes--Judge Alan Ridenaur played by veteran actor Harvey Atkin (www.harveyatkin.com --of "Cagney & Lacey" fame). I, along with about 6 or so other actors who were also plucked from the courtroom "cast" to be stand-ins, headed for set to watch the rehearsal. I circled my lines on the script and watched the first scene unfold. The episode was entitled "SWING" and involved some drama close to home to the character Elliot Stabler(Played by Chris Meloni). His daughter Kathleen(played by Allison Siko)is in trouble with the law, and Stabler's estranged wife Kathy(Isabel Gillies) is seated adjacent to her daughter. Tempers flare in this scene and the Judge has to restrain Kathleen; Kathy storms out of the courtroom after strong words to Stabler. The stand-ins are referred to as "THE 2nd TEAM" and so not long after several rehearsals we took the places of the "1st TEAM"(the stars)...how cool was it to sit in that big Judge chair with the gavel to my right ready to pound away! Our job is to help the crew set up camera angles/lighting and so forth, sometimes running lines to cue each actor and keep the scene flowing. Later we would report back to set as our actual "characters"(seated in the gallery of the courtroom simply watching the arraignment proceedings). The crew runs the scene several times on camera, changing the focus so as to get closeups of various actors and their lines. Originally the right side of the courtroom where the defendant was not standing was not in camera view; but after the crew got what they needed on that side of the room, they reversed angles to catch our reactions on our side of the courtroom. The defense attorney for "Kathleen" was ironically played by C.C.H Pounder--a recurring role she has as "Carolyn Maddox"--it was this actress who asks me the hypothetical question in my first SVU episode "STRAIN"--"You've got a gun--would you shoot him(Osama Bin Laden)to save the city?" The camera then zooms in on me and my pensive closeup. Well later in the day during rehearsals for the second arraignment scene, the "1st team" returned to set, but Harvey Atkin(the judge)was nowhere to be seen...I stayed put in the chair and was asked by the Assistant Director if I minded saying his lines. I certainly needed no prodding and jumped in with glee. The scene actually "belonged to the judge" in that it was his verdict rendering of Kathleen. I was told to pick up the scene at the very end where the judge says to Kathleen "See you back in six months for a status check"--he then pounds the gavel and bellows "Call the next case!"...I can't tell you how cool it was to see C.C.H Pounder and Mariska Hargitay(Olivia Benson--the show's co-star)along with Meloni in the back of the courtroom watching me and avidly listening to my decision. Mariska(as Benson)stares at me(as the judge)with a look of agitated disbelief and makes a quip to Stabler(Meloni)as she exits the courtroom unpleased with the verdict. We reheased this for at least 20 minutes and then broke for a late afternoon lunch. After lunch we returned to the courtroom to finish this second scene--I and a few other actors were selected to walk past the courtroom doors as Mariska is exiting the courtroom(as described above), so look for me when she exits(if you catch the episode). Being a stand-in has perks of a higher pay rate--and I would also learn at the days end(we had what would be considered a short day today--wrapped at 5:18PM)--I learned that my "offstage lines" during the rehearsal also counted for a few more bucks. We have vouchers we complete with all this info recorded, and the the PA signs it and gives us our copy. I went outside the studio as there had been showers forecast for today, checking to see if it was raining. I noticed the SVU director *David Platt having a cigarette--he saw me and said "Nice job today." I took this opportunity to introduce myself, saying I'd worked on a few "SVU's" that he directed, and said I do TV and film as an actor AND a musician(I cited two recent on-air roles as an organist and pianist in "Confessions of a Shopaholic" and "Unorthodox" respectively). I gave him my card and he put it in his shirt pocket saying "Thank you--I'll keep this." And so I gathered my things and headed back to Pennsylvania very proud of another great day on SVU--and the chance to technically "audition" for David Platt and his directing crew...one never knows when those little moments arise--if they will yield bigger things... ***THE AIRDATE FOR "SWING" WILL BE TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14th AT 10:00PM E.S.T. ON NBC--it is the 4th episode of the new season of "SVU". *more about David Platt at http://www.film.com/celebrities/david-platt/14624960
JIM IS TUXEDOED PIANIST FOR UPSCALE COCKTAIL PARTY SCENE In Hallmark Hall of Fame film "LOVING LEAH!!
After leaving the set of the FOX TV show "FRINGE" at 66th Street after 9PM Wednesday night September 3rd, I found myself drifting downtown past the Pierre Hotel at E.61st Street--I chatted with the doorman and was happy to learn that their Piano Room was due to resume after it had been closed last year indefinitely. Continuing on 5th Avenue under a full moon, the wondrous Plaza Hotel rose like a Phoenix in the NYC night sky. It had been under reconstruction for several years and has been opening gradually for business. This venue brought back sentimental memories for me, as I had played two galas there in April 1996 for actress Rosetta LeNoire and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. I entered the historic venue and a manager updated me on their progress there...later I met up with my actor friend(who is in the upcoming Broadway musical "A Tale of Two Cities".) We hit a few bars in Hell's Kitchen and retired for the night--as I had a 9AM call for the film "Unorthodox" in the Central Park West area of 76th Street--160 CPW at the Fourth Universalist Society Church (http://www.thecityreview.com/uws/cpw/cpw160.html ) This would be the holding area for all of the upscale folks in tuxedoes and nightgowns for this upscale cocktail party(perhaps even a wedding--not sure at this writing)..I arrived at holding via taxi around 9AM; we helped ourselves to some breakfast just outside the doors of the church, and wardrobe checked our tuxes and gowns afterward. I could not find my black bow tie and had brought along a red paisley bow tie and cumberbund and royal blue tie and cumberbund as options. The black bow tie they supplied for me they later changed their minds about, and they fetched a regular scarlet long tie. I showed them the red paisley--and after a few meetings with the director, the wardrobe dude returned with the decision that MY red tie and cumberbund "won out"(funny--that had been given to me by a waitress who worked an Allentown PA bar then called "H.A. Winston's" in the 1980's--has been a "Rookies Sports Bar" ever since--I'll have to let her know that her tie got into a Hallmark Hall of Fame film--LOL!!)...Prior to going to set we all had makeup and hair done by professionals. I was also given a CD of the music I would be "mimicing" to--that is, I would be pretending to play the piano keys, as the background tracks on the CD would be the actual music aired. (This would be similar to my stint back in March 2008 on the film "Confessions of a Shopaholic" where I am mimicing playing the church organ to background organ music). The songs were very familiar to me--old standards from Gershwin, Porter and Kern("Someone to Watch Over Me", "Night and Day", "The Way You Look Tonight" and "I've Got You Under My Skin"). In the late morning hours we headed around the block to the set; the grand piano lid was actually "taped down" so it could not be lifted, and a flourescent light was attached to it perhaps to illuminate me behind the piano. The shots of me would be of me "behind the piano" so my hands would actually not be seen, as the emphasis would be on the actors dancing in the foreground. A few of them would be the lead actors and they had dialogue occuring during the dancing, so we were the "backdrop" for their scenes(one of the stars is Lauren Ambrose of "Six Feet Under" ( http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0024404/ ) I was given an earpiece so I could hear the music piped in--there would be times where the music was shut off for the dancers but I would still hear it in my head--they would not, and would have to keep dancing as if the music was playing...this would be where dialogue lines were being spoken between actors-- and so no music could be heard there. My first "piano playing" however involved the "mingling of the guests", and the camera was further away from me--it was only 12 hours later that we would finally get to the scenes of me actually playing for "the dancers". Yes folks--this was to be the LONGEST I ever was on set for a film or TV show--15 hours! We wrapped at 1:00AM--and I had called my NYC friend to alert him that I needed to "crash again" at his place--as I was going to miss the last bus back to Allentown(12:15AM bus). On the set I had met the director Jeff Bleckner (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0088121/ )and he asked if the CD had helped me to become familiar with the songs--I said I knew them all--and could have sung and played them live. But I know that they need the background tracks for continuity and exact timing, and of course "sound quality"--but he said he'd try to get a shot of my hands playing...that never happened, as perhaps the day got away from them a bit with the long shoot..."LOVING LEAH" follows the story of three Jewish families and the unorthodox decisions they are faced with--airing Sunday, January 25th on CBS as the 235th presentation of the legendary Hallmark Hall of Fame.
JIM WORKS ON BRAND NEW FOX SERIES "FRINGE" AS UPSCALE NYC BUSINESSMAN!!
Tiffany at Central Casting in NYC called me Labor Day weekend wanting to cast me as a NYC businessman for an episode of the new FOX sci-fi series "FRINGE" on Wednesday, Sept.3rd. I was unsure because I had also received a call from Amerifilm Casting in NYC to be the piano player for an upscale party scene for the film "Unorthodox" shooting Thursday, Sept. 4th. I wanted to make sure I was "rested" for that role as it was more of a feature, and I knew if I had to return to Pennsylvania late Wednesday I'd get virtually no sleep for the next day..so I called an old NYC actor friend and asked if I could crash Wednesday into Thursday--he gave me the thumbs up. So I called Tiffany back and locked it in--what a two-day ride I was in for!! Call time was 7:00AM at 16 E. 10th Street in Manhattan(between 5th and University)...I took the earliest Bieber bus leaving Wescosville PA that morning(4:20AM)--the ride was smooth and fast and we pulled into the Port Authority at about 6:10AM...I taxied it downtown, got some breakfast at the outdoor craft service area on set, and I and the other actors headed to our "holding area" around 7AM. We had to walk up 2 flights of winding stairs to a warm apartment room with only two small fans to keep us cool. Our Production Assistant(PA) Lisa was very nice and accomodating..but we were to wait hours before being called to the streets below...the first scene I was to play a pedestrian along with other actors, criss crossing 10th St. and University--the star of "FRINGE" Anna Torv ( http://www.anna-torv.com/ ) would be "jogging" in one scene, and I walk right past her as she jogs by me. Prior to this however, while waiting to go to set, one of the AD's came up and asked me to come with him--my "hands" were being beckoned. I was being considered as a "photo double" for one of the main actors--but only my "hands"--when they discovered that the hair on my hands could probably help me land a role as a caveman in the Geico commercials--they sent me back to "holding"(lol)--apparently the star actor was very fair skinned and had little-to-no body hair.(There also would have been a "Pay bump" in my paycheck had it worked out). Once we finished the pedestrian work, (which was troublesome as the NYC commuters and residents did not like being told by the crew that they could not walk down 10th street), many of us were huddled into a van and transported to 646 Park Avenue at 66th Street--the old 7th Regiment Armory Building--now simply called The Park Avenue Armory (http://artobserved.com/nyc-seventh-regiment-armory-to-become-contemporary-art-space/ )Ah--alas this would be a fully air-conditioned building that would be the venue for an upscale business seminar featuring many of us in upscale business formal wear. Again Anna Torv and a few other main actors were at this "seminar"--and we were to mingle around them--waiters attending to us. An entourage of main actors descend a long staircase--and I and a pretty lady named Madeline are sent up the staircase passing them. Later in some scenes I was paired with another pretty actress named Colleen, and we would stroll past the many other actors likewise playing business people, greeting them. Our day lasted until 9PM at the Armory where we wrapped...This episode will air most likely in October, probably about the 4th one of the new season--this blog will be updated with the airdate so check back! Visit the main site for this show at http://www.fox.com/fringe/ , and for a fun You Tube video of a "Behind the Scenes look at FRINGE" go to http://www.fringetelevision.com/2008/09/video-behind-scenes-at-fringe.html
JIM PLAYS WALL STREET GUY ON "UGLY BETTY EPISODE!!
I was contacted by Grant Wilfley Casting in NYC to do some background work on Season 3 of "UGLY BETTY". Calltime was a cruel 6:15AM in lower Manhattan on July 21st-- though I napped for 3 hours(didn't fall asleep), I had to get up at 12:30AM to start the process of getting to the Battery Park area of NYC by 6:15AM; left home around 2:00AM, got to Hamilton Station in NJ at 3:15, boarded 3:54 train to Penn Station then grabbed cab to 7 State Street for the holding area at Our Lady of the Rosary Church across from the Staten Island Ferry(ironically several weeks ago I shot a scene w/Katherine Zeta Jones on that Ferry for her film "The Rebound"--just "background extra"--but hey--got a free Ferry ride around the Statue of Liberty!)...so it was deja vu to be back in that neighborhood where we remained for all the various scenes--played Wall Street guy just walking back and forth in front of action; other actors played the same or tourists or whatever; even by 10AM sun was scorching so plenty of bottles of water were provided--I bought two new suits(got a great deal--and I can use them for similar shows that need that business look)- the other scene was also business man(summer suit)at the U.S. Custom House at Bowling Green--we played business men gawking at models stripping off their bras(it was "indicated as such"--we had to improvise like we were seeing that)...during that shoot is when we first got out glimpse of "Ugly Betty" in some action--and then later indoors at the Museum of Native American Culture we did a more casual scene--LOOOONG day--wrapped at 8:15PM(supposedly the longest ever spent shooting her episode--she actually left at 8PM because contractually she is allowed to--and they had to continue shooting a scene just with the other actresses lines/reactions being done--and she had to imagine "Betty" was there..had nice feast mid-afternoon...stay tuned on my website for airdate of this episode!!
JIM'S PERSONAL MEMORIES OF FILM DIRECTOR/ACTOR SYDNEY POLLACK
I was saddened to hear of the passing of the great film director/actor SYDNEY POLLACK this past Memorial Day 2008(May 26th) in his home at Pacific Palisades CA. Mr. Pollack fought a courageous battle with stomach cancer which was diagnosed 9 months prior. He was 73. When I had first started playing piano at DESTINO RESTAURANT(851 First Ave, NYC) in April 2006, not long after Mr. Pollack visited us for dinner a few times. On one particular Thursday evening, I spotted Sydney at the Destino bar dining solo--enjoying a simple marinara pasta dish and I introduced myself as the pianist at this venue. He was instantly gregarious and we began chatting. I told him I was also an actor and that "I came at a much cheaper price tag than Tom Cruise"(as I gave him my business card)--my memory was that Sydney was sipping his glass of red wine as I said this and almost spewed it across the bar as he chuckled. It struck me that this giant of Hollywood was so accessible and friendly. He said that he'd be back to Destino as he had a NYC residence right around the block from the restaurant. When I asked him what his current projects were, he spoke with avid interest of his foray into the documentary film world, and began describing in detail one of his then-current films. After his story we shook hands and I went to the piano and he stayed for my first set. He waved goodbye an hour later...but this would not be the last time I would see him... On another Thursday evening(August 17,2006), once again I noticed Sydney at the intimate Destino bar about to have dinner. I greeted him again and he instantly remembered me and was once again gracious. After a brief chat, I told him "I had forgotten to do something the last time we met"--and said I'd make up for it now. He looked at me quizzically and I then headed for the piano. I then played and sang "The Way We Were", the theme song of the film which he directed, and followed that with the theme of his Academy-award winning film "Tootsie", the Stephen Bishop song "Maybe It's You". He smiled several times as he looked over and at one point lifted his wine glass in the air, "toasting" my renditions. What a great honor it was to tribute him in that manner, and as I look back on the memory I realized that I never saw him again after that evening. But those moments with the great Sydney Pollack will forever stay with me--rest in peace Sydney and thank you for your great work in the film industry--and the gift that you were to all of us. For more about the man, check out these links: http://news.aol.com/entertainment/movies/movie-news-story/ar/_a/famed-director-sydney-pollack-dies/20080526212209990001 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Pollack http://www.emulsioncompulsion.com/tag/sydney-pollack
JIM PLAYS 'DEPUTY INSPECTOR" on "Law & ORDER:SVU" episode "COLD"(airing May 13 on NBC)!!
Thursday afternoon April 24th I received a call once again from Dave at Grant Wilfley Casting asking me to work on "Law & Order:SVU" the following day. I agreed--this would be the 6th time I worked on the show--but the first time I was being asked to report to a Manhattan location rather than their North Bergen NJ studios. I always drove to North Bergen--but usually take a bus into NYC from Allentown. This would be the first time I was playing a policeman on the show--and more specifically--an NYPD Deputy Inspector(full "Brass" regalia!) My call time was 1:00PM at St. Joseph of the Holy Family Church at 125th St. and Morningside Avenue in Harlem. This would be the "holding area" for the actors. Friday morning, April 25th I took a 9:15AM bus from Allentown and got to the Port Authority in NYC by 11:15AM. I then took the "C" train uptown to 125th Street at Nicholas Avenue and walked a block over to Morningside and entered the church "holding area". It was a few minutes before noon, and only two other actors were there. Soon the Production Assistant(PA)arrived and told us if we wanted breakfast it was a few blocks away at 128th street, so a few of us walked down Nicholas Avenue and found the breakfast truck(interestingly, there is a You Tube video of the area we walked at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLNMZFen2rA&feature=related ). When we returned, the wardrobe ladies arrived with various NYPD uniforms for myself and the other police "brass"; there were probably 75 actors called today playing various background roles from detectives to regular cops to photographers and press people. Our check in numbers were called(I was #2)and our uniforms distributed. According to the casting director, myself and others were to be "passerbys" and "neighborhood people" in the first scenes and then CHANGE into the police uniforms for later scenes. Around 2PM however we were told by the PA that our holding area was moving to another building closer to the set--it was at this time that a wardrobe girl told me "I should be changed into my police uni"...obviously the original sequence had been scratched or moved and now I only had a few minutes to make the change. I elected to do it at the new location, and just as I was putting my socks and black patent shoes on--we were called to "set"--just in time! The shoot location was a small junkyard around 127th street and Nicholas where a crime scene was being addressed. Cop cars with lights aflashing were parked strategically around the junkyard which was located on a corner. The real drama of today however was much greater than I'd ever had imagined. Today was the day that the ruling on the Sean Bell murder case came down--ACQUITTING the police officers involved. A link about this can be found at: http://www.blackvoices.com/newsarticle/_a/sean-bell-case/20080425093009990001?icid=templatized_template_test.M The opening lines read like this: "Three New York City police officers were found innocent of all charges Friday in the shooting death of an unarmed black man killed in a hail of 50 bullets on his wedding day. Justice Arthur Cooperman cleared two officers of manslaughter and other charges and a third of reckless endangerment in the death of Sean Bell , 23, who was shot, along with two friends, after a bachelor party at a strip club in November 2006. The case has generated outrage in New York's black community." As we prepped for the scene, being put in place by the assistant directors, the tensesness in the Harlem neighborhood was palpable. Those of us with NYPD uniforms were advised to either turn our jackets inside out or have other jackets on as we walked to and from the set--to conceal our connection to "NYPD". As we began shooting some scenes with most of the SVU star on hand(Chris Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Ice-T, Richard Belzer and more to arrive to the set later)--a black woman in her mid-50's began taunting us from the fence that enclosed the junkyard. She screamed and carried on, cursing the NYPD that we represented as actors. Her tirade went on for a good half hour, until she was somehow removed from the area. Later in the afternoon, others would likewise bellow their resentment--and at one point I turned to see who was yelling--and a black man screamed at me--"Yeah that's right--I'm talking to you!" I was one of maybe five actors dressed head to toe in the impressive suit and tie and hats with gold brass medals and decorations. Later that day when actors Diane Neal(A.D.A Casey Novak) and Dann Florek(Lt. Cragen) joined the set--Diane looked straight at me and said "you guys look great!"--Dann then came over and chatted with us "in character" beginning by saying "you guys are my best--my brass!" We huddled together and talked about the derision we experienced earlier by the black community, and how hostile it was. Dann brought up the Rodney King LA riots of April 1992 and hoped that NYC did not follow that same path. It was interesting to talk to Dann and be intimately involved with the star cast of "Special Victims Unit"--and feeling like we were not just "acting"--but were--ourselves--in the midst of potential real danger. Fortunately, the powder keg did not ignite this day in Harlem, though it had been tense. We broke for dinner at 7:00PM--and were back on set by 7:45PM as we still had many more scenes to shoot. Tamara Tunie(medical examiner Dr.Melinda Warner)was on the set with her little dog when I arrived--it was a sweeter moment in a hectic Harlem day. As we began shooting, actor Chris Meloni(Det.Elliot Stabler)scolds one of our 'brass' for tainting the crime scene by standing in the blood on the ground of the junkyard. I and another inspector are standing behind him, and we look over and then move away from the area--various scenes like this would be shot tonight, with the 'brass' crossing behind or being "panned" by the cameras to acknowledge our presence at this crime scene. We were sent back to "holding" in the 11:00 hour, with still a few hours of shooting remaining. The PA told those of us who were "passerbys" to change out of our current look and into our "second change". This allowed for me to put the NYPD uni away and prepare it to give back to wardrobe; my second change would be my own clothers and so I could depart Harlem dressed that way. The hours went by and we were not called to set--I had prepared to stay with a friend in NYC in case the shoot went beyond 12:15AM--the time of the last bus out of NYC back to Allentown. Around 2AM we were told to return our wardrobe and prop items and so several of us walked to those trucks and did so. At 2:30AM we were finally called to set--but alas when we arrived director David Platt was thanking Diane Neal and others on set for a job well done--and that it was a wrap! We returned to holding, filled out our SAG vouchers and turned them into the PA who signed them and gave us our copy. It would be a good $$$ day for SAG members as we worked 13.5 hours; also various other items 'kick in' such as two 'night premium' payments and three meal penalties(not serving us a sit down meal at least 6 hours after 7:30PM)--a few of us took the A train from the 125th St. subway station to our respective destinations downtown--I had met several new friends on the set today and look forward to seeing them in the future(some others I actually worked with on the last SVU "Authority" episode)...this one we did today is entitled "COLD" and will air May 13th, 2008 on NBC-TV--look for me "IN THE BRASS"!!!
JIM WILL BE "CHURCH ORGANIST" IN WEDDING SCENE OF DISNEY FILM "CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC"!!
On February 4th while on the set of "ALL MY CHILDREN" in New Hope PA at the New Hope-Ivyland Train Station, an actress I worked with that day gave me a valuable lead. We had conversed throughout the day, and at one point she asked, "You said you play piano--do you also play Church Pipe Organ?" I said that I did--in fact that I've played the Church organ from age 13 to my late '20's in my parish Catholic Church--and have played various Church wedding ceremonies ever since. She told me she read an ad online at NYcastings.com seeking an actor who played Church Pipe Organ for a wedding scene in the Disney film "Confessions Of a Shopaholic". It's not often that roles are so "dead on" for me, and I was excited about the opportunity. The next day I joined NYcastings.com so I could retrieve the information--it was Comer & Gallucci(C & G Casting)in NYC that had posted the ad seeking the Church Organist. Once I sent my info to them and called them as well--they said they would get back to me as the date of the shooting of that scene was still a few weeks away. And so I waited patiently...and sent follow-up emails..it finally paid off... I received a call from C & G Casting March 8th(on the 11th anniversary of my father's passing)--saying that the director wanted to go with me for the role of the Church Organist! (I'm thinking Dad had something to do with this as he used to be the cantor at some of the Masses I played on Sundays!)...I was told that I had to learn/know two traditional wedding songs--Trumpet Tune and Air by Henry Purcell and Trumpet Voluntary by Jeremiah Clarke. I knew both of them--but did not know the "Air" part of the Trumpet Tune(the middle part)and so I was to spend most of Saturday and Sunday listening to mp3s of the songs on my computer. Another conflict is that the call time for the film shoot was 5:00 AM on Monday March 10th in NYC--the holding area was the Central Presbyterian Church at 593 Park Avenue at 64th Street. Over the years my method of transport to NYC was the Bieber Bus leaving Wescosville--but even their new early bus schedule was not early enough to get me to Manhattan by 5AM--so I chose to book a cheap hotel the night before so I could awaken in NYC that Monday morning. I was told to wear a dark suit as the organist and so I brought that along and an overnight bag and Sunday night I took the 6PM bus to Manhattan. A few hours later I was checking in to the Best Western President Hotel on 48th Street(a hotel I've stayed at previously that was very reasonable). Though I tried to sleep, getting to bed a bit after 10PM--it seemed like 3AM came much too quickly as a drowsy Jim showered, got dressed and hailed a cab for 64th Street. When I arrived at the the holding area(Central Presbyterian)--dozens of actors were gradually filing in--looking as groggy as myself. Most of them would simply be "the wedding guests" at this church--and as many as 200 were called in. As we all checked in and were given our vouchers to fill out so that we can be paid correctly(I was check in #136), one of the Production Assistants on "Confessions" told me I would be receiving extra paperwork to fill out since I would be paid under a AFM Contract rather than by Screen Actors Guild. "AFM" meaning American Federation of Musicians--since I was playing an instrument on camera, it was not under the jurisdiction of SAG but the AFM--this would prove to be a more lucrative situation for me as well. I was also told that I would be wearing actual "Choirmaster" garments as the Church Organist rather than my dark suit--and eventually the actor playing the minister and myself were directed to the wardrobe truck. There we were given our appropriate robe and surplice--I must say I looked "smashing"(a British term--appropriate as the lead actor in this film-- Hugh Dancy-- is a Brit). Though the holding area was a Church--it was not where the filming would take place--eventually the production staff walked us all over to St. James Episcopal Church on the corner of 71st St. and Madison Avenue ( http://www.stjames.org/). As I arrived I noticed that the organ was on the altar(on the right side if you are viewing it from the pews). I was concerned about trying to get time to rehearse my songs and adjust the organ settings--but was told by one of the assistants that I WOULD BE 'MIMICING" or pretending that I was playing the songs. The reason for having an authentic organist however is that it had to look believable that my hands and arms were moving in a convincing manner--in sync with a taped version of the wedding marches I would be "playing". As the morning progressed, it took some time to get the couple hundred actors situated in the pews and start rehearsals for the wedding processional. I had opened the organ, pulled out various organ "stops" and pressed some buttons so that in case there was a closeup shot--it looked like the organ had been "set to play". Once the music began for the bridal party's entrance, I noticed the melody was not familiar to me--and was more "violins and stringed instruments". Due to having numerous takes, I was able to memorize the tune and play the notes/chords convincingly(I still don't know what the melody was!)...At some point the tape switches to the "Trumpet Tune" that I was familiar with--and this is when the actress Krysten Ritter playing "Suze" comes down the aisle as the bride to meet her groom "Luke" played by Hugh Dancy(Australian actress Isla Fisher is the "Shopaholic" Rebecca Bloomwood and matron of honor). There is no actual ceremony that is filmed so I'm not sure how this wedding scene fits into the plot of "Shopaholic"(fans of the book series by Sophie Kinsella can email me here to fill me in). Much of the filming was actually from the back of the church looking into the church, with some disturbance occurring prior to the wedding in the Church vestibule. The hours went on as I watched the actors in their pews looking restless--welcome to showbiz!(a lot of 'hurry up and wait")...An area was set up downstairs in the church basement for a craft service table--and so actors were excused periodically to eat and use the restrooms. I noticed a few lady friends from back in the Lehigh Valley were on set today, so that was a fun discovery. They and others I met on the set told me they actually "thought I was playing the organ"--so that is the best compliment I could receive. As we kept shooting even into the evening hours, around 8:00PM most of the actors were dismissed except for a few in the front pews. Close up shots of the wedding party and couple near the altar, along with the minister and myself at the organ were filmed. It was only at this time that I felt I may have been getting "my closeup"--as the cameras were now at the front of the altar--and why should they not get the "choirmaster" organist costume into the film?(lol)--we'll see--when the film comes out in February 2009. Around 8:30PM it was finally a "wrap"--whoooh--15 and a half hours later!! In the coming days I contacted the AFM in NYC, Green Scarf Productions(the film's producers)and tried to get a sense of how I was to be paid. A representative from the Philly SAG office was on the set that day as an actress--and she advised me to be vigilant about this as I could be "credited" for my role as the organist in the closing credits of the film. After a week or so of explaining my situations to various people at the AFM on both coasts--Green Scarf was in touch telling me they spoke with Disney people in CA and they had granted me the AFM contract for the film--and almost a month later I received a sizable check for my time. I was also told by AFM in NYC that once the film is released and then goes to DVD--I could see residual checks every 6 months on the sale of the DVDs due to the music I was playing--or "mimicing"--on screen. It's all very complex how all this minutia is worked out..I'm just going to keep my mailbox open--keep those checks coming!(so I can be a "Shopaholic" too)... Here are some links for the film--enjoy! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1093908/fullcredits#cast http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Dancy-And-Ritter-In-Confessions-Of-A-Shopaholic-7470.html http://buzzsugar.com/tag/confessions+of+a+shopaholic
Jim plays "Business Commuter " waiting for train on "ALL MY CHILDREN"!!
Mike Lemon Casting in Philadelphia sent an email out to all AFTRA actors in the Philly & suburban area to check our availability for working on the ABC-TV soap opera "ALL MY CHILDREN" that would be shooting some scenes in New Hope, PA. The shoot date was originally Friday, February 1 but was moved to Monday the 4th of February. I was available, and after talking with Annette at Mike Lemon I was told I'd be a "business commuter" at the New Hope Ivyland Train Station. Our call time was set for 4:45AM in Center City Philly where we were to be transported by bus to the New Hope site. What was ironic is that I had been working as a musician in New Hope the past year rather consistently(moreso than at any other time in my career)and was familar with where the train station was. I asked if I could DRIVE TO THE STATION myself rather than taking the Philly bus. Though she preferred all actors to leave from this designated area, she checked with the show and the next day she called to say I was granted this exception, and could report at 6:30AM to New Hope. This bought me a bit more "sleeptime"--but would also prove to be beneficial as I'll reveal to you later! I got to the set around 6:15AM dressed in a black suit with white shirt, blue tie, and black overcoat. We were told to seek out "Enza"(who was an associate producer for the show)to check in with her. We had to present some working papers that were sent to us from Mike Lemon Casting that enabled us to work on the show. This was actually my first AFTRA "gig" even though I had joined AFTRA prior to my Screen Actors Guild membership in 2003. AFTRA does most of the daytime dramas-- and though I had submitted to many of those shows casting directors over the years I had not been called. So the rules for this union were a bit different--and perhaps were based on the soap operas or networks stringent rules. Upon pulling into the train station I noticed that the Philly bus was already there with the motor still running--it was a frigid February Monday with rain in the forecast so this was as good a "holding area" for those actors as any. I walked to the station where the crew was setting up their equipment for the days shoot, and I asked if Enza was there. I was greeted by the stage manager Marty who said Enza was not there yet but that I could help myself to some breakfast inside an adjacent building to the ticket area of the train station. He then went to greet the other actors(about 25) and they filed out of the bus and also headed for some oatmeal and bagels(and lots of other goodies!). I chatted with a few of the actors and eventually we all headed back to the bus as it was agreed that it was warmer there than the inadequately heated station. I saw that a lady was shuffling through working papers of the other actors and so I gave her mine and she assured me they would get to the right place. After waiting on the bus for 15 minutes or so, Marty came on the bus and asked for a few of us to come to the set. This was about 7:30 to 7:45AM--so shooting would begin rather early. I had been watching "All My Children" and knew that two actors Darnell Williams and Debbie Morgan had returned to the show after almost 20 years--they were one of the first African American couples on daytime TV playing "Jesse" and "Angie". "Jesse" had supposedly died and from what the viewers could sense from their return(and thanks to the soap opera magazines that are story "spoilers")--there would eventually be a reunion of this couple who's storyline is very endearing to fans of the show. What I did not know until Debbie Morgan stepped out of the train station onto the platform where I had been placed along with other actors--is that these New Hope scenes would in fact be the staging ground for this reunion of Jesse and Angie. This thought excited me and I felt honored to be a part of this action. I had been placed right next to Debbie Morgan to her left as she views the train slowly passing her--as they roll "action!" I notice that Darnell Williams is on that train and she spots him(or "Jesse")in the train window. Debbie("Angie")drops her pocket book and ticket on the ground and screams "JESSE"!! as she runs down the platform after the train...she would repeat this action a few times as they would back the old train up--on the first take I uttered to her "that was dramatic"--she either did not hear me or chose to ignore it and walked back into the train station(actors are always running lines in their head and it's not a good idea to say anything to them)--however later she smiled when after take 5 or so I said "you're getting your exercise today". All of us react to Angie running after the train--and in subsequent shots she is filmed wallking back towards us in a daze, almost ghostlike. Both she and Jesse are dressed in the same shades of brown which make for an alluring color scheme when they are eventually reunited. *THESE SCENES WERE SEEN ON FRIDAY FEBRUARY 15th AND CAN BE VIEWED AT THIS YOU TUBE VIDEO LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwNYYPWaZTc (at 1:46 into the video you see me placing my bag onto the train platform and "Angie" crossing in front of me to wait for the train--the camera stays on us for a few seconds; then from 2:00 to 2:20 of the video you see me standing next to Angie from the camera angle INSIDE OF THE TRAIN(Jesse's perspective)and that is where Angie spots Jesse on the train and begins to run after him--near the videos end she walks slowly back to the station and you can see me "far away" a few times still standing on the platform). In between takes of the above described scenes we were asked to head back inside the station and other actors were placed in other scenes outside on the platform--this is when I noticed that another veteran actor from the show had arrived--and to my delight it was Michael Knight who has played Tad Martin on the show 'forever'. I had actually met Michael a few years ago in Allentown PA--I was playing a grand opening for a new Crowne Plaza Hotel at 9th and Hamilton in their lobby, and after my gig went for a drink in the bar--Michael walked into the bar and was greeted by a waitress by name. When I heard his full name announced I turned and was shocked to see "Tad" there--I shook his hand and expressed how I loved his work all these years. We spoke for a half hour--he was in town to shoot a film in the PA area and was staying at the hotel...well fast forward to Monday morning February 4th and there is "Tad Martin" walking into my life again!--I shook his hand again and reminded him of our Allentown meeting a few years back. He lit up and say "I was just thinking of that this morning!"--perhaps it was his first return back to this part of Pennsylvania and it was on his mind. We would not speak at length though as--once again--he was running lines with Darnell Williams and this would consume most of his day. The idea was that "Jesse" was on the run and "Angie" could not know he was alive--though he loved her greatly--and she him--if they knew he would be alive it would endanger her life and the life or their son Frankie. Some unidentified criminal element has impressed this fact on Jesse and he is driven to remain "dead". "Tad" is the only one so far that knows Jesse is alive and is reluctantly facilitating his getaway via a train to "somewhere"--remember that word as it will be explained later... We broke for lunch at about 12:30 and we all headed for the adjacent Triumph Brewery at 400 Union Square--check them out at www.triumphbrew.com --a wonderful buffet awaited cast and crew--salmon, ziti, mixed veggies, barbecued chicken, potatoes and more. Our 1:15 curfew came too soon and we headed back for more shooting on the platform of the train station. This time we filmed commuters walking TO the train station to enter and get our tickets. "Jesse and Tad" are seen approaching and entering the station, and later "Angie" approaching the station and seeing that her train is delayed. After viewing the actual show this is the only segment I was not seen in as they cut just before I strolled into the picture. At one point some air-activated "hand warmer" packets were distributed to the cast by the crew--we gladly put them in our gloves and shoes as the light freezing drizzle and frigid air on this cloudy February had us cold to the bone. The fortuitous foggy and damp weather contributed to the melodrama of the days scenes with Angie sad over seeing Jesse on the train. At times the drizzle changed to snow and we thought "How pretty that would be if that could be filmed"--but in reality the camera can't pick that up and "fake snow" has to be created(from "milk" I was told)to allow it to be discernable on camera. While some of us were inside, I was called out to speak to the stage manager Marty. He asked me if I could stay longer today--as he knew I drove to the set. The other background actors had to board the bus back to Philly by 5:00PM. I heartily agreed--as I assumed I would be in more scenes(obviously). When I returned inside, an actor asked me in front of Debbie Morgan(Angie)and others what I had been called about--I said in a low ominous voice"THEY WANT ME TO STAY UNTIL MIDNIGHT". I finally got a laugh out of Debbie Morgan as she said "honey you can stay but I know I'll be long gone by then!" Sure enough, at 5PM I saw the bus pull out of the New Hope Train station taking the 25 or so actors back to Center City--an actor from NYC named Chris Stadulis ( http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2617580/resume ) was the only other actor on the set besides Michael Knight and Darnell Williams--Chris and I have kept in touch after that day--he played the police officer in several scenes who "Jesse" was nervous about(that he could be looking for him). What we filmed next was Jesse and Tad entering the train station and chatting inside; Tad asks him where he's going and Jesse responds "somewhere"--Tad advises him to stop delaying and go get a ticket to "somewhere". At this point the director had me standing at the ticket window; I was mimicing that I was talking to the ticket guy and my profile can be seen for several seconds as Jesse approaches the ticket counter behind me. I take my ticket and then Jesse is asked where he wants to go and he responds "Toronto--one way". This scene occured on Valentines Day, February 14th near the end of the show, and as mentioned earlier, the initial scenes we shot today appeared the next day. Monday February 18th was the actual meeting of Jesse and Angie where they embrace and leave the train station--I am seen in a recap of Fridays scene as she walks back to the train station after chasing the train. The music bed underneath the scene is Alicia Keys "Like You'll Never See Me Again"--it is a powerful song that perfectly mirrors the inner angst Angie and Jesse are feeling. **TO VIEW THE FEBRUARY 14th SCENE OF ME GETTING MY TICKET AT THE TRAIN STATION WINDOW, GO TO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q2gIaUBLg0&feature=related ((you can see me at 1:35 to 1:53 into the video) We were told when we signed on to work on "ALL MY CHILDREN" that we would be paid for 3 episodes since our shoot encompassed 3 days of viewing. We wrapped at 6:30PM--I shook hands with Michael Knight and Darnell Williams and thanked them for the experience. Marty the stage manage wrote down "7:30PM" for me as he asked me how long it would take me to get home(I said about an hour). Two weeks later I would get a check from the Disney Company(I forgot that they had bought ABC-TV)for a very nice piece of change for my 13 hours on the set. If you watch the scenes on You Tube you'll note at least 30 other videos relating to this Jesse-Angie reunion are there as well--this was a very popular couple in daytime drama and I was elated to be a part of such a historic reunion--so there's your inside peek at my day--hope you enjoyed it!!
JIM PLAYS FOR HARRY POTTER NARRATOR--FAMOUS ACTOR/SINGER JIM DALE!!
I had the distinct honor of playing for one of the great actor/singer/comedians of all time at Destino Restaurant Thursday night Jan.17th--and someone I had met years before--but did not recognize him until he introduced himself when leaving. This tall distinctive man entered with his wife Julia Schafler(which I learned from googling a few things when I came home)and immediately asked to be seated near the piano--I nodded to him as it is unusual for Destino customers to make any eye contact with me or request tables in the bar--they all head for the restaurant or an initial bar drink but keep their concentration there...so I knew there was something about him that was curious and special. His wife seemed uninterested in sitting near the piano but he won the battle. Throughout their drinks and dinner he would hum or sing along with tunes I was playing whether they be standards/Broadway or Pop tunes---I would nod to him and smile to encourage him to continue--little did I know at the moment who he was-- yet I had this uncanny feeling like "I knew him"...over an hour later he rose from his seat and came to put a few dollars in my tip jar--I said "you have a nice voice"--to which he responded--"I'm a singer"--I asked him his name-- as by this time I was confident that this was just no ordinary singer. He responded "JIM DALE". Immediately the light bulb went on and I shook his hand and said "of course!--" I told him I saw him in "Barnum" years ago(the late '80's)and that he did the show with my friend Jim Fyfe from my alma mater Allentown College where we were both Theatre majors. I went backstage to see Jim Fyfe and also met Jim Dale at the same time...(note: the show was actually "Privates on Parade"--an off-Broadway musical Dale starred in that Fyfe was also a cast member in--I mistakenly said "Barnum" because that was his more identifiable show which won him a Tony award years before.) Jim Dale nodded to me that he remembers Jim Fyfe(who of course has gone on to have a great career himself)and I saw him speak with his wife about it--he took my card and exited Destino, hailing a cab for both of them. Upon arriving home I googled his name and many great links came up--Jim Dale has been the voices(Literally!--over a 170) of ALL of the Harry Potter books/DVDs and is currently the narrator for the new ABC show "Pushing Daisies". What is SO weird is last week at Destino I started playing the music for "Georgy Girl" on the piano--not singing it--because I didn't know all the words--but always liked that melody and just happened to think of it. WELL-- JIM DALE is the LYRICIST for that 1966 song which was a #2 hit and nominated for an Academy Award! (Hey there Georgy Girl!)...at 22 years old he was the first singer to be produced by Sir George Martin(the Beatles producer); so many other kudos to his career that can be found at the links that follow...hard to believe that he is 72 years young--he looks great... learn more about JIM DALE at: www.jim-dale.com , the Wikipedia link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Dale a recent pic of he and his wife at an opening party for the "Pushing Daisies" show at: http://www.thepiemaker.com/pushing-daisies-exclusive-jim-dale-interview-pics-from-nytvf/pushing-daisies-jim-dale-julie-schafler-5/ How Jim creates his incredible "Potter patter" at: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20070902/ai_n19501634 ...and another Pushing Daisies site: http://pushingdaisies.wetpaint.com/page/Jim+Dale?t=anon
JIM IS THE STAND-IN FOR ACTOR GREG KINNEAR ON THE FILM SET OF "BABY MAMA"!
Background: Former Saturday Night Live writer and "Weekend Update" anchor Tina Fey, star of her own NBC TV show "30 Rock"(she's up for a 2007 Emmy for best comedy show and female actor in a comedy)--has added the film "BABY MAMA" to her starring credits. Her co-anchor on SNL Amy Poehler costars in the film--which deals with a single professional woman (Fey) opting to hire a surrogate mother (Poehler) so she can have a baby and keep her career on track. Actor Greg Kinnear stars as the love interest of Fey's character and Sigourney Weaver stars as the head of the surrogate agency. I was aware of this film as I had been called a few weeks ago to be an extra(background actor)on some scenes shooting in NYC. When the call time was bumped up to be an overnight shoot--I realized it would conflict with a music gig I was doing the next day--and so I regretfully had to bow out...this would be the FOURTH TIME I'd decline a Tina Fey project due to contracted music gigs becoming an obstacle--the other times were for her "30 Rock" TV show. On Tuesday July 17th I was preparing to drive to Ocean City NJ for a private surprise anniversary house party I was playing when my cell phone rang--it was Diane Heery Casting in Philadelphia. They were asking if I'd be interested in being the "stand in" for Greg Kinnear the following day on the set of this "Baby Mama" film shooting in Philly. They told me I was their "first choice" as my resemblance to Kinnear was the closest of all the actors they had on file(a "Stand In" usually resembles the starring actor and helps the film crew establish their camera angles/lighting for each shot; they then step aside and allow the main actors to shoot the scene). My mind reeled at the great opportunity and I tried to think if there were any conflicts that again would stunt my chance to work with Tina and Greg--there were a few calls I had to place to avail myself--so I made those calls and called Heery Casting back to say YES! They told me to check their website later that evening for the call time for Wednesday(it is determined by how late the shoot goes the previous day). Being that I was in Ocean City until at least 10PM--I had my sister and other friends checking the site--it was not posted until after 10:30PM and as I drove the 2 hour trip home from Ocean City I learned that I had to report to Front and Reed Streets in Philly at 8:30AM to catch a shuttle bus to our first shoot location(which would be Chinatown). The film shot mostly in NYC from May through July--however "BABY MAMA" is BASED IN PHILADELPHIA so it was necessary to go there to do scenes germane to the plot. What I learned is that the film in fact was "wrapping"(finishing)the week of my involvement with it--and only 3 days would be spent in the City of Brotherly Love. 4 scenes were scheduled on Wednesday--my "stand in" scenes for Kinnear were scenes 2, 3 and 4. We were all told to show up with casual summer clothes and a few "changes" for the other scenes--though I brought a veritable wardrobe I learned from the wardrobe folks that I could stay the same thoughout the shoot(that worked for me!) I wore jeans and black dress shoes with a flowery blue Hawaiian kind-of shirt over the pants. The bus driver took us at about 9AM to Chinatown where we all walked the streets in varying ways to shoot some "atmosphere" of that area. About 50 extras had been called and I quickly was acquainting myself with several of them as we enjoyed a lovely morning on the set. When that was successfully captured, I was told to report to a van where I would be taken to the Kimmel Center at Broad & Locust Streets(where I had played a private corporate function a year and a half ago in their "Tier 2" restaurant area). Here I met "Laura B"--the Tina Fey stand-in who also works with her on the "30 Rock" set(which she told me she begins work on again in one month). The director had us entering the Kimmel Center lobby together and walking about 60 feet into the center of the lobby(the idea is that the characters are "dating" and so I had my arm around her and we were chatting in a friendly manner). After a few takes and hitting "our marks"(preset pieces of tape on the floor), many of the background actors were added to the mix to create the atmosphere as we entered the Kimmel Center. Tina Fey entered the building near the end of our "stand in" work and she smiled at me instantly--I actually did not realize it was her at first as various people were entering the lobby to purchase tickets for productions there, and I assumed she was another "ticket buyer". As she approached us I said "OH--Tina!" and introduced myself with a handshake. She looked very pretty--A navy blue blouse and conservative skirt; her hair well done and sans her usual eyeglasses. I noticed Greg Kinnear had entered the lobby at some point and he was dressed in jeans, a cool lime green shirt and funky white and green sneakers. At this point they then took over and did a few takes(they are called the "A TEAM"--we are the "B TEAM"). Laura and I would then ascend to Tier 2 and then Tier 3 to shoot other scenes overlooking the lobby,and not long after Tina and Greg would put their unique stamp on the scenes of them flirting and enjoying the ambient Kimmel Center spectacle(these scenes today had no lines--essentially I envision music being the backdrop and the actions of Tina and Greg would speak volumes and become a "montage" for their various dates at Philly landmarks.) After what they call a "walk away lunch" I was then transported to Scene 3 at Love Park at 16th and Arch Streets--heavy rains and thunder had been forecast for today and sure enough the skies at 3PM were looking ominous. Anticipating this, the film crew quickly erected a tent to keep most of us dry as a hard sustained rain began to fall. After about 45 minutes a reprieve availed us the chance to walk a bit around the Love Park "circle" and we stopped at a designated area for a "kiss"(again dozens of background actors were added to the scene)--soon after Tina and Greg appeared and they shot the scene as quickly as possible before another rain event might occur--thankfully it held out and became sunny and more humid then previously. Greg needed to be at another appointment by 6PM so I knew that we would be wrapping somewhat early today(shoots can go up to 18 hours)...today would be Greg's last on the set, and the next day Tina would work a half day and then the film would be "in the can". Around 4:30-5PM the van took Laura and I a short distance over to the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum at the Benjamin Franklin Parkway for the final scene of the day--we would be seated on a park bench at the the top of the stairs--during the setup for the scene, a high school friend of Tina's visited the set with her three little kids(Tina is originally from Upper Darby PA). I chatted with her friend(Marlene)and her kids as they were so excited to see Tina--I learned that she lived perhaps 20 minutes from me in the Collegeville PA area. When Tina arrived on set she hugged her friend and the kids and not long after they were all placed on an adjacent park bench by the director-- where they would be seen in the film(I thought that was a sweet touch). Around 5:30 the director said "Ladies and Gentleman, the final day for Mr. Greg Kinnear! This is a wrap!" We all applauded, I came over and introduced myself to Greg and told him it was "great to be him for a day". Tina was chatting with her friend, and at that point I reminded Tina that I had done a sketch comedy show for years based in the Lehigh Valley but it had aired in NYC on Manhattan Cable("The Sturdy Beggars Comedy Show")--Tina had met our writers a few years ago when they were interviewed by Lorne Michaels for SNL--she said "Oh those guys are FUNNY! I was just thinking of them this week". I asked her to keep us in mind for potential situations on her "30 Rock" TV show. She thanked me--and I headed to the shuttle bus with the rest of the actors as we headed back to Front and Reed streets--we all had "vouchers" that we need to fill out so we can be paid--so in a flurry before we boarded the bus, we had them signed by the staff and our copies returned to us...a few nice friendships were forged today, and a great experience once again as my Screen Actors Guild membership proved to be a fortuitous vehicle--enabling me to work with the best in the business--thanks for reading and look for "BABY MAMA" in theatres in 2008--when you see those Philly scenes in the film--remember who did them first!
***JIM IS THE OPENING ACT FOR "SHAW-BLADES" AT CROCODILE ROCK CAFE ALLENTOWN!!!***
I'm happy to share with you that I had the privilege of opening for two superior rock icons on Friday night March 23rd at Crocodile Rock Cafe in Allentown--TOMMY SHAW(lead guitarist/singer with superband STYX and DAMN YANKEES) and JACK BLADES(bassist/guitarist/singer with NIGHT RANGER and DAMN YANKEES). Visit their site at www.shawblades.com. The duo reunited after a hiatus of several years and have recorded a great CD called "Influence", songs they cover from Simon & Garfunkel, Yes, Steely Dan, ELP, the Zombies, and more. I heard a week prior to the show that the duo was coming to Allentown, and I pursued a course of action that actually was based on trying to "sit in" with them on keyboards and vocals. After reviewing the songs on their new CD I realized they were laden with keyboard solo parts(and great harmony opportunities). Since they were touring with just acoustic guitars and a few effects pedals, I thought they may be interested in that added musical ingredient. I went on the "forum" section of their website and hooked up with some folks going to their NYC show at B.B. Kings on Wed March 21. They got a letter backstage to Tommy and Jack informing them of my request to sit in with them. And so I waited with anticipation... Crocodile Rock Cafe owner Joe Clark and I have known each other over 20 years--he had Tom Epler and I open for Molly Hatchet way back in 1987 at another club he owned, and in 2001 a trio I performed with called "Three Together" (w/Jake Kaligis & Gordon Gorin) opened for Todd Rundgren at Crocodile Rock. I called Joe Thursday night to see what he thought of my idea--he said he would run it by the guys when they arrived Friday afternoon but he was not optimistic. At 3:00PM Friday afternoon I received a call from Croc Rock club DJ Tom Taylor. Tom said, "Hey Jim--it's not gonna work with you playing with Tommy and Jack--but they ran it by their management--and they'd like you to OPEN for them." I was told to be there by 6PM to set up--doors opened at 7PM and I was to go on at 7:30. I quickly updated my website to reflect this wondrous opportunity, sent out an e-mail announcing it, packed my car with keyboards and acoustic guitar(and PA system which I was not going to have to use), showered/dressed and grabbed a half-eaten tunafish hoagie and chips and set out at 5PM to try to beat the Friday traffic. I arrived before 6PM to the strains of Shaw-Blades doing their sound check. After a half-hour of glorious harmonies and steller 12-stringed twanging I got to meet the guys and thanked them for the opportunity. They were very gracious and they exited to grab some dinner--the Croc Rock staff helped me get hooked up to their incredible in-house system, I ran through a few songs and it was time to let the crowd in... The DJ played some dance David Bowie music and I concentrated on song selection--I decided I'd open with two Doors tunes--"Touch Me" and "Light My Fire". I was told I had a half-hour to play so I took the stage at 7:30PM and introduced myself to the crowd--I assured them they were in for a great night and they immediately seemed ready to hear some music--and welcomed my Doors songs with eager ovations. I then grabbed my acoustic and hit a button on my keyboard to play pre-recorded keyboard parts with full orchestration on "Comfortably Numb" from Pink Floyd. I then did an original tune "A Little '60's Tune"(you can hear it here on my website at the MP3 samples); I switched gears and did "Tiny Dancer" from Elton, then Bowie's "Space Oddity" on acoustic with the prerecorded keys again. Since it had been raining for a few days I thought of the 1967 Hollies hit "Bus Stop" and that got the crowd dancing a bit("Bus Stop wet day she's there I say 'please share my umbrella")...With weather on my mind, and since "it's been a long and lonely winter" it led me to think of "Here Comes the Sun" and so I did that on keys(there had been many taunts from the crowd for some Beatles). At that point I felt like I was nearing the 8PM cutoff but the soundman flashed both his hands at me--meaning '10 more minutes".. "She's Got A Way" from Billy Joel was my next selection--and after another warm reception from the Shaw-Blades fans I asked them what they might want to hear--complete cacophany broke out and nothing was discernable--except the bouncer who bellowed "FREEBIRD"!! I drolled like Ronnie Van Zant from the Skynyrd live album "What song is it choo wanna hear??!!" The crowd pulled out lighters as I began "Freebird" on the piano--I did a short version and rocked it out on the keys...and I was done. A final burst of applause and grins from the ladies made me feel like I did my job--I kept the music related to the Classic Rock mode they were going to hear that evening--and it worked like a charm. I broke my equipment down--had it off the stage in 10 minutes...and we awaited Shaw-Blades to take the stage... What I did not realize until later that evening is that the Boston MA show the guys were to do the night before had been cancelled due to Tommy Shaw having extreme laryngitis...the tour manager told me they shot him with a steroid and he sounded flawless with Jack Blades and a third guitarist backing them up with incredible vocal power as well when they took the stage around 8:30PM. "Summer Breeze" was one of their first songs along with Tommy's Styx hit "Too Much Time On My Hands"(we all did the 2-claps after "Too Much(clap-clap)Time On My Hands")...some stand out songs were the Damn Yankees tune that Tommy and Jack did while in that band--(Can You Take Me)"High Enough"...also "Your Move" from Yes would have made Jon Anderson proud. Never leaving the stage for 2 hours, and surrounded by a litany of acoustic guitars to choose from, Shaw-Blades joked and entertained like real pros--their show was chock-full of humorous stories of the road(Jack at one point admitted that he didn't know the lyrics to CSNY's "Love the One You're With" was "there's a rose in A FISTED GLOVE")--he actually did phone tag with Stephen Stills to insure those were the right words...by 10:30 PM, and after great renditions of "Crystal Ball" and "Fooling Yourself" from earlier Styx days and the finale--a slow brooding version of "Blue Collar Man"--the boys were done--an incredible show! I was 16 when I first played "Fooling Yourself" and "Grand Illusion" in my first band back in 1978(my bandmates were in their '20's)--though I did not get to play those keyboard parts on THEIR songs--they allowed me to do much more--have the stage to myself for 40 minutes...after a few hurried autographs near the exit door the guys bolted into a waiting Hummer that owner Joe Clark got behind the wheel of and drove them off to their hotel(word from the tour manager was that Tommy was still not feeling well and perhaps the steroid shot was wearing off--I'm crossing my fingers that they can fulfill their ambitious tour)...the tour manager gladly took my CDs and said "we'll play it on the bus"--so after 30 years of doing Styx songs--Tommy can hear some Jim Loftus songs...how cool is that...thank you all for lasting through this long journal entry--hoping you felt closer to the event!
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WMGK 102.9 PM DJ SCOTT CARR SENDS ME OLD PHOTO OF OUR OLD DJ DAYS AT Z-95!!
Well it's been quite awhile since I placed an entry in the journal here--and here's a "blast from the past" entry...In another life(and different century)I was a part-time disc jockey for WZZO(Z-95)FM radio then located in the Westgate Mall in Bethlehem, PA(it has been in Whitehall PA for several years now)...after a stint at WAEB 79 AM in Allentown PA from May to October 1981, I sent a tape to T.D. Kelly at Z-95 with the earnest desire to be a rock and roll DJ--and it worked. At 20 years old(and instead of starting my junior year at Allentown College in the Theatre Department[now DeSales University])--I started doing 7-midnight Saturday nights and the "Sunday Night 6-Pak"(6 albums back-to-back) from Midnite to 5:30AM Monday morning for the biggest rock station in the Allentown/Bethelehem/Easton PA area(and beyond)..I also filled in for every other DJ except the morning show during my tenure at Z-95...our overnite guy, then named Skip Carr--has been at WMGK 102.9 FM in Philadelphia for awhile now(and previously 94 WYSP for years)-- I called him a few times recently overnight and caught up.."Skip" is now "Scott" Carr--and he sent me an old photo of our DJ staff posing in front of our WZZO van with our mascot lying on top of it(circa 1982!)--and I have it posted in the "PHOTO GALLERY" on my website here...there was not enough room in the photo caption area to list all the DJs--but if you were around at that time and listened to Z-95--take a nostalgia trip with me and try to recall these names(maybe cut and paste the pic and then cut and paste the following underneath it): left to right: Steve McNee, noon to 4PM; Gene Romano, morning show 5:30-9:30AM; Joan Edwardson, morning show news 5:30-9:30AM; unidentified person(not a DJ--sorry!), seated--T.D.(Tom)Kelly--our boss, program director, 4PM to 8PM; Bruce Bond, music director, 9:30AM to noon, Skip/Scott Carr, midnite to 5:30AM, Rick Strauss, 8PM to midnite(Rick now works with Clear Channel radio--passed him on 6th Ave in NYC one night after a gig at Nino's Tuscany last year, and on the bus back to Allentown from NYC another time--hey Rick!); I'm the next one(2nd from right)--almost unrecognizable--I know(yikes); and Chip Murdock, midnite to 5:30AM Sunday morning(Chip is an old buddy who has been living in LA for some 20 years; see him every once in a blue moon in Lehigh Valley--wassup Chip!)...so there ya have it...thanks to Scott Carr for bringing back some memories--25 years ago this year--wow.
JIM MEETS AND PLAYS FOR MR. TONY BENNETT!!
On Tuesday night, January 17th, as I was about an hour into playing piano at Nino's Tuscany in Manhattan(where I do a regular Monday gig but was filling in for 10 days for Irving Fields)... a recognizable figure popped into the restaurant briefly to chat with the manager. A few gasps from patrons indicated that none other than Tony Bennett had walked in. As a few of them grabbed their table napkins and ran over for an autograph, this pianist decided to also meet this legendary singer. I grabbed my recent compilation CD "Ballads of Broadway, Bee Gees..and Me" and handed it to Mr. Bennett as he was leaving...he commented that he enjoyed my playing--I had ironically been doing a Michel LeGrand tune "What Are You Doing the Rest Of Your Life" which Tony had recorded. He was very personable...I returned to the piano and did a rousing version of "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" to the crowd's delight...but it wasn't over yet... The next evening after I finished my dinner at the bar at Nino's Tuscany, the bartender Dino suggested that I start playing--I thought he was just referring to the crowd that was starting to assemble, but I didn't notice what he was truly indicating until later...I began my set with Irving Berlin's "How Deep is the Ocean" and went on to "As Time Goes By" from the film Casablanca when a bar patron I knew greeted me as "Mr. Casablanca". My third song was "New York State of Mind", and I would go on to play other standards like "Fly Me to the Moon", "Our Love is Here to Stay" and a tune I did the previous nite--"What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life"...the first song I would sing in the set was "What a Wonderful World"...not long after that number, I noticed a young blonde lady getting up from her table. A column had blocked my vision of who she was seated with--and I was surprised to once again see Mr. Tony Bennett following her out. He greeted me with a smile at the piano and my first tip of the night. "Two nites in a row--Tony"--I said to him affably...he thanked me for the tunes saying "Nice job, man"...I recalled that I had wanted to mention something to him the previous nite--I told him I had written a song some 13 years ago when Tony was making a nice comeback thanks to MTV--I had tried to get it to his management company but was not sure if Tony ever heard it--he seemed unaware of it and so I said I'd try to get him a copy of this tribute song entitled "Thank You Tony Bennett"--he smiled and thanked me. What an honor. A singer Frank Sinatra once called "the greatest pop/saloon singer in the world" paid me the highest compliment--his admiration. The songs I listed above that I had played were ironically numbers he had covered in his career--and the only one I sang--"What a Wonderful World"--was a duet he did with k.d. lang that sparked his career comeback(and "New York State of Mind" was a recent duet with Billy Joel not long after the 911 travesty)...had I known he was there I might have piped up on a few numbers--or perhaps asked him to sing...but this was much more perfect--coincidentally doing standards he had sung with no knowledge of him being in the room...my guardian angel must be a musician!! Thank you--Tony Bennett!!!
JIM TAPES HIS 4th STINT ON "LAW & ORDER:SVU!!!
On Wed., December 21, 2005, Jim taped his 4th stint on "LAW & ORDER: SVU" which will air February 28th, 2006. The episode called "GONE" has Jim playing a father--he and his wife, who holds a crying baby, enter an elevator that is under surveillance and the image is caught on a video observed by the SVU team; on 2 other episodes Jim is in the background as a clerical worker in precinct scenes in the episodes "ROCKABYE" and "STORM"(both Nov.2005)...and if you scroll down here at the "JOURNAL" you can read about his day on the set doing the episode "STRAIN" as a featured jury member. Call time was 9:00 AM in North Bergen NJ at the SVU studios--this was DAY TWO of the infamous NYC transit strike, and so Jim turned down a previous offer to play an FBI agent for a day on the NBC-TV pilot "KIDNAPPED" starring Dana Delany and Jeremy Sisto (which will air in January 2006) due to it being shot in downtown Manhattan on this same day--and travel to this destination may have been compromised due to this strike. So the later phone call to once again do "SVU" seemed fortuitous as it involved shooting at the Jersey location. In the scene we shot around 10:30AM--I enter an elevator with "my wife" and our baby boy which she is holding--the child is crying and I am irritated--I push "floor 6" on the elevator and the door closes on us--supposedly this is caught on a surveillance camera the SVU folks are monitoring. (You may see my name in the final fade of credits as "the Dad"(lol))...later that day I and other actors were transported ironically to Manhattan to shoot a club scene at " 'disiac" at 402 W. 54th St. (www.disiacnyc.net ) I may be seen at the bar(wearing black leather jacket) with two others as 4 young kids exit(3 males and a pretty blonde--all playing underage)who figure highly in the plot of this show; also you may see me standing at perhaps the same dance club in the background while the young girl dances with one of the guys she's with. We wrapped around 7:30PM but until I was transported back to my vehicle in North Bergen I was clocked out at 9PM--another great day and the last SVU to shoot before the Christmas break--look for it on Feb.28, 2006 at 10:00 PM E.S.T on NBC-TV.
JIM SINGS WITH LISA LOEB AT STERLING HOTEL, ALLENTOWN!!
Below is the text of the article written by Paul Willistein which appeared in the Nov.9-10, 2005 East Penn Press in the Lehigh Valley, PA. Check the "Photo Gallery" here at the site for action shots, and be sure to keep up with Lisa at www.lisaloeb.com (she has a new TV show about to air on the E! Network about her recently "single" life entitled "#1 Single". "JIM LOFTUS PUTS ON A HARMONY WITH LISA LOEB"(Nov. 9, 2005) By PAUL WILLISTEIN (photos also Paul Willistein/East Penn Press) pwillistein@tnonline.com Lisa Loeb was singing her hit, "I Do," at the Sterling Hotel when she asked who was adding the harmony. A man raised his hand. Loeb, performing solo in Allentown PA for an American Red Cross benefit, asked the man on stage. When he started singing, it was clear it wasn't him. Shushing him, she asked again. A deep voice resonated from the audience. In a mocking basso profundo tone, Loeb said, "Yeah, right." That's when Jim Loftus, Lehigh Valley singer-songwriter and musician, stepped right up. Indeed, it was Jim who had been adding the harmony."Ironically, Dominique and I did the song when it first came out," said Loftus, referring to his former duo partner. Loftus appears with Gordon Gorin, performing 8 p.m.-midnight Nov. 17, Dec. 1 and 15 at the Leather Corner Post, along Kernsville Road at 6855 Horseshoe Road, Lowhill Township, near Orefield PA(610-395-1782), and solo Nov. 19 at the Terrace Restaurant, Rt. 145, Walnutport PA(610-767-1545). Jim plays keyboards, acoustic guitar and harmonica. Gordon is on electric and acoustic guitars. Their repertoire includes songs by James Taylor, Billy Joel and the Eagles. More information: http://ats.jimloftus.com/ At the Sterling, Loeb displayed her amazing vocal range, gutsy guitar-playing and humorous banter. Her set included songs from her most recent CD, "The Way It Really Is," fourth since her decade-ago breakthrough, "Stay" from the soundtrack to the Ben Stiller-directed "Really Bites. Loeb hung out after her gig to sign autographs, including her blue guitar, ironically won by that unharmonious other guy. For Loftus, hitting the right notes was second-nature. "I just instinctively did the high harmony on that one ['I Do']," he said. When Loeb broke into the Doobie Brothers' "Listen to the Music," Loftus also chimed in. Loftus is versatile. He soloed at the closing night party for the "Linda McCartney's Sixties" exhibition at the Allentown Art Museum. He programmed the parts to The Beatles' "A Day in the Life" and sang it, strumming an acoustic guitar. He also did other songs of the rock luminaries in the McCartney photos. Loftus gigs 7-10:30 p.m. Mondays at Nino's Tuscany, 117 W. 58th St., near 6th Avenue, in Manhattan. Opening for Loeb at last month's benefit for Gulf Coast hurricane victims was New Hope's Lindsay Rush, whose dad Robert plays in the surf band Ripchords; Mike Rauscher, of the Aardvarks; Sarah Ayers, with Greg Lipsky on guitar, and Northampton High School grad Alex Seier, of The Blackout Effect. Rauscher and Ayers sang on Loftus's CD of original tunes, "The Fame Game." Ironically, before he stepped on stage with Loeb, Loftus watched himself on TV at the Sterling bar. He was an extra in a jury scene on "Law and Order SVU." Loftus also appeared on this year’s “Hope & Faith”. --Paul Willistein
Jim plays for soap stars at his Nino's Tuscany gig!
When I showed up Monday August 22nd at Nino's Tuscany on W. 58th St. in Manhattan to begin my usual Monday nite piano gig--I was told it would be a slow nite with only 12 reservations on the books...but later Christina the hostess feigned a fainting spell and told me "I just seated this really cute guy on 'All My Children!" I originally noticed Kin Shriner of "As the World Turns"--most noted for his memorable run as 'Scotty Baldwin' on "General Hospital" in the awesome "Luke & Laura" days of the '80's(when I used to watch him!) As I started my gig and played several tunes including a Beach Boy's medley--I then noticed Jacob Young seated across from Kin--he is a young star on "All My Children" playing Adam Chandler Jr. They were both with their blonde dates--and after my first break Christina begged me to approach them(for her...lol) I introduced myself to Kin and Jacob and their dates and thanked them for being at Nino's--and that I enjoyed their acting work over the years(I was also familiar with Jacob's shows). Jacob said "Hey--we enjoy YOUR work" and thanked me for the Beach Boys medley(It wasn't until I read of it that I learned he ironically was in a film about the life of the Beach Boys). I asked then if they had any song requests, and Kin offered "I'm a bit partial to 'Greensleeves'. Jacob said he really likes Billy Joel's "Allentown"(I really love the way that song starts with all the sound effects"...I told him that Allentown is my stomping grounds--and where I got my start in piano bars). Kin added that his Billy Joel fave is "Vienna"--and then somehow the song "Brandy" came up (which is one of my faves). Jacob mentioned that he is working on a new CD himself(and is an accomplished singer/musician with previous CD releases). I asked him to sing "Brandy" but he declined--so I set off to the piano and played their requests--Jacob waved appreciatively. When they left they shook my hand and treated my tip jar--Kin affirmed that they would be back--he said "I'm always here." It was a very cool experience as I've truly enjoyed watching both actors over the years--to learn more about Jacob Young check out http://abc.go.com/daytime/allmychildren/bios/69891_1.html and http://maribarb.homestead.com/files/jacobyoung.html and Kin Shriner sites are http://soapoperadigest.com/features/atwt/interviews/shrinerscottfree/ and http://www.cbs.com/daytime/atwt/about/bios/kshriner.shtml .
JIM PLAYS A WEDDING GUEST ON ABC-TV's "HOPE & FAITH"!!
Kee Casting, who cast me back in 1995 to be one of the several news persons on the set of Mary Tyler Moore and Gregory Harrison's ill-fated CBS-TV series "New York News", called to book me for the zany ABC-TV show "Hope & Faith" with Kelly Ripa and Faith Ford for a Thursday, August 4th shoot. I was told it would be a short day--that we'd be taping a wedding scene. Call time was 10:30AM in Long Island City at Silver Cup Studios East, and despite leaving the house at 7:30AM--traffic and a few wrong turns and gridlock approaching Lincoln Tunnel and eventually the Midtown Tunnel made me an HOUR LATE! I was elated to find that upon locating the holding area for the extras--no one had "acted yet" and were still awaiting approval of their clothing by the wardrobe department. When we finally got down to the set at 1:15PM, we went through a few rehearsals with Kelly Ripa--she was playing the bride AND the the bride's "Evil Twin" who disrupts the wedding proceedings by objecting to the union of marriage. Kelly donned a black wig, veil and tight-fitting dress as the evil twin--but was glowing in white as the bride. I was seated behind her as she played the evil twin, and I had to gasp and moan with the rest of the actors at "her disruption" of the wedding--was very cool and hilarious. We were done shooting by 3:45PM, and I was pleased to get to shake Kelly's hand upon completion--I got to tell her that I too had worked with her sidekick Regis Philbin when I opened for him back in 1992 at the State Theatre in Easton...that Kevin Bacon "6 Degrees of Separation" thing has some merit to it... I'll let you all know when the episode will air--for more on "Hope & Faith" go to http://abc.go.com/primetime/hopeandfaith/main.html .
JIM SITS IN AT "JIM CARUSO'S CAST PARTY" NYC!!
"Jim Caruso's Cast Party" at Birdland, 315 W. 44th St. in NYC is undeniably the most fun you can have on a Monday nite in Manhattan(with your clothes on). Comedian/singer Jim Caruso hosts this wild open mike that features some of the best cabaret singers in New York--and many a star has been known to stop in for the party(from Liza Minnelli to Jon Bon Jovi!) Anyone that wants to sing has to put their name on the sign-up sheet and Jim will bring them up. Several years ago I worked with Jim Caruso on a New York TV show called "Cafe DuArt"--so a few Mondays ago I re-introduced myself to Jim, dropping by Birdland to watch the Cast Party unfold. On Mon., August 1st after my weekly gig at Nino's Tuscany on W.58th St., I took a cab down to Birdland and eventually sat in doing Todd Rundgren's "Hello It's Me" on their awesome Boesendorfer piano(one of my fave songs). Pianist Billy Stritch--a jazz/cabaret legend in Manhattan is the usual accompanist each week but will vacate the piano for other instrumentalists, and it was great to meet him and play their piano. So if you're visting NYC on a Monday--by all means come see me at Nino's Tuscany but ALSO rush over to catch "the Cast Party"--read more about it at http://www.castpartynyc.com/ .
JIM PLAYS A JURY MEMBER ON "LAW & ORDER:SVU"!!!
Tuesday, May 31st I spent a 15 hour day on the set of the award-winning drama "LAW & ORDER: SVU(Special Victims Unit) thanks to Grant Wilfrey Casting in NYC. (Visit the show's website at http://www.nbc.com/Law_&_Order:_Special_Victims_Unit/index.html ). On at least 3 different occasions I had been called to do one of the "Law & Order's" but a musical gig conflicted with the date. It's ironic that on this said date--a NYC engagement at Nino's Tuscany fell through and my regular Tuesday gig at Whitemarsh Valley Inn was cancelled due to it being Memorial Week--so it cleared the way for this great experience. A veteran of doing "extra" work by now(I've done 5 episodes of the CBS show "HACK" filmed in Philadelphia, an episode of "Sex & the City", several films and other TV shows), this was my first time on a "Law & Order" set and it was special because it's probably going to be my most featured opportunity--as a jury member on an episode called "STRAIN"--airdate Tuesday, October 18 at 10PM E.S.T. on NBC. I drove to their North Bergen NJ studios for a 7AM call time that day--arriving a little after 6AM so as to be in plenty of time for their mammoth breakfast(one thing you can always count on with a great TV show or film is being fed all day!) The craft service tables are usually well-supplied, and then you have a formal sit-down lunch or dinner (The crew and main cast members eat first, followed by background SAG actors, then Non-Union--there truly is a "caste/cast system")[pun intended]...we began working fairly early--on the set about 7:30AM--I was placed in the front row of the jury second to the end--we had two wardrobe changes to indicate two different days of the trial--this first scene I was in a blue shirt and gold tie. What is still fascinating to me is watching the crew set up for each scene--most folks who watch at home obviously have no idea of the meticulous plotting and planning that goes into each shot and scene. Almost an hour can be allotted in "blocking the scene" with the stand-in actors for the stars--who walk through the movement, stopping at areas on the floor that have colored masking tape to mark their "stops"(the camera people use measuring tape to measure how far the actor's face is from their cameras at each "stop", and a light guage is placed against their face to sense how much or little light is needed to illuminate that specific area)...various hand-held screens or gels placed in the cameras are set up to allow just the right amount of light through. Eventually the "first team rehearsal" is called for and the actual stars and guest stars appear on the set to do a run-through of the scene. Actress Diane Neal appears, seated closest to us--she is Assistant District Attorney Casey Novak on the show. Today her hair is pulled back and braided beautifully on the back of her head--she looks like a stunning Grace Kelly--wearing a black pin stripe blazer and skirt. Though she is a former model, Diane greets us affably and sets a tone early that she is accessible and lots of fun. She begins to chat with us about the particular case we are trying today when she is interrupted by the director to do her walk-through. Her funny quip under her breath to us indicates she'd rather hob-nob with us then "get serious"--I found that to be an awesome attribute when most stars do not mingle with "the background actors"--later in the day she and I would exchange some quick small talk--"What flavor of gum, Diane?"--I asked once--"Nicorette" she retorted. I later read an article on the wall at the studio about her personal fight to quit smoking and it all 'connected'--ironically, her closing statement as the prosecutor in today's case made an analogy to the tobacco industry. The show has to do with a young man murdering two men to avenge the death of his brother--who he felt was intentionally killed via a new strain of the AIDS virus that is associated with the drug "meth". Though the rumor was that the shooting schedule was moving briskly today--there sometimes were 2 hour breaks before the jury was brought back in to shoot again--and by the end of the day a good 4 hours went by before we were brought back at 9:30PM to shoot the jury's REACTION shots to the closing arguments of the attorneys--the cameras are placed directly on us as the main actors repeat their lines for the umpteenth time and we react facially to their words. (Here I am wearing a light brown suede casual shirt). Yawns, red eyes and general weariness abound throughout the cast, crew and extras and after a one-take on these reaction shots the director yells the long-awaited "THANK YOU! GOOD NIGHT!"...the fellow jurors had been discussing how close we SAG actors were to receiving "Golden Time" pay rate--when we wrapped at 10PM we were an hour away from receiving the FULL day rate of $118.00 per day to be paid PER HOUR starting at 11PM--we already had night premium and overtime--and what they call "meal penalties" had accrued for the day--which means our sit-down lunch at 2:10PM(much later than it should have been) and no sit-down meal later puts more money in our pockets--it's great to be in "the union" as all these particulars are taken into consideration and written on our payment vouchers--which are signed at days end by the gentleman in charge of us...in closing-- this was jury duty I didn't want to get out of--and it certainly pays better!
IT'S A SMALL WORLD--even in MANHATTAN!!
I was in NYC Wednesday May 18 for a Musical Theatre Workshop that ASCAP runs every year and afterwards went to a restaurant nearby at 117 W.58th St. where I knew an older gentleman named Irving Fields played piano(legendary player)...the place is "Nino's Tuscany"(www.ninostuscany.com ) a venue opened only 6 months ago--and one of 5 restaurants owned my Nino Selimaj...I chatted with the bartender Jimmy and he said Irving plays there Tues-Sun..I said "What about Mondays?" Though he said it was slow there Mondays I told him I had that nite recently "vacated"...and he said he'd mention it to Nino and took my card...Mr. Fields wife Ruth was next to me and I overheard her talk about the singer Roslyn Kind--sister of Barbra Streisand--I had met Ms. Kind years ago and have her CD--so we struck up a conversation--I was introduced to a singer beside her named Steve Maglio who sings Sinatra at the nearby Carnegie Club Sat nites with an 11-piece orchestra http://www.stevenmaglio.com/ --when Steve found I come from the Philly area he questioned whether I knew agent Jerry Samuels(who books the senior retirement facility circuit)--when I said that Jerry books me for those gigs--I learned that Steve HAD RECENTLY BEEN CALLED TO FILL IN FOR A DATE I COULD NOT DO!!! HOW IRONIC AND "SMALL WORLD" is that!? Steve lives in the Jersey area and so I guess Jerry Samuels agency encompasses quite a geographic area--but that set the stage for Steve doing some numbers with me at the piano after Irving left(I also met Mr. Fields--real nice guy--almost 90 years old yet very good health..the next evening the bartender called me and said that I could fill in for Mr. Fields during Memorial Week when he's on vacation--a few days later however he learned that Irving had a replacement already set--but it resulted in me getting STEADY MONDAYS THERE! So beginning June 6, that's where I'll be--my first weekly gig in NYC in about 5 years!...for more about Mr. Fields go to http://www.rebooters.net/hippoirvingnytimes.html and to check out all of Nino's venues go to http://www.ninosnyc.com/--see ya on Mondays in Manhattan!
Spotlight: THE ROGER GIRKE BAND!
After playing a gig at the Brookside Country Club in Pottstown on Friday nite March 18th, I decided to travel all the way into the Blue Bell area on Rt. 73 from Pottstown. I know that a great new Italian place in North Wales, PA called Bacco(www.baccobacco.com ) has incredibly good bands on the weekends..so just after midnight(to quote an Eric Clapton song) I entered the foyer of Bacco's and was greeted to the sweet sound of some funky blues. All of a sudden I heard the lead singer say "take it away Roger Girke!"..now, the only Roger Girke I knew was my good buddy from the Lehigh Valley who I've known since the late '80's. As I approached the stage(which is floor level with the bar)--sure enough Roger's gritty smile I recall was joined by his grittier, searing guitar lead. He interrupted the lead for a few seconds for a quick hug, and a few songs later his show was over. He was sitting in with another band that evening, all from quite a distance from North Wales. Roger has resided in Delaware for many years, and so the few times he travels to PA is always a treat for me--and what an unexpected one to walk into! Seated at the bar ironically was the owner of one of my weekly gig venues--Leo Leone of San Marco Ristorante in Spring House (www.sanmarcopa.com )..I introduced Leo to Roger (hey Roger--you know you owe Leo some Santana tunes next time you're in town--lol)...Roger and I caught up after at least 7-8 years of not seeing each other--before departing to Delaware he had played integral roles in the bands "the Front" and "Righteous" in the Lehigh Valley. He handed me his new CD(released in 2004) that is simply awesome--entitled "My Baby Loves That Stuff" by the Roger Girke Band. Roger sings and plays some of the funkiest R&B/Soul- tinged Chicago & Delta Blues with New Orleans funk you'll ever hear--and I'm so proud that he is making major headway in the Delaware/Maryland markets(and the national scene should be next!) How overjoyed I was to see him--and to share his music with all of you--please go to www.rogergirkeband.com and next time you consider hitting Rehobeth Beach think of this guy--I'm so glad I took that long ride up Rt. 73 tonite!(..I think there's a blues song there...)
Jim sees Ann Hampton Callaway in NYC!
On Wed., March 16 I travelled to Manhattan to check out a songwriter showcase sponsored by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets(MAC) & ASCAP, featuring new cabaret-oriented songs performed at the Lighthouse at 111 E.59th St. in NYC. The special guest for the evening was the incredible singer/pianist/composer Ann Hampton Callaway who performed selections from her new CD "Slow"(with a new song she co-wrote with Carole King and the song she wrote for Barbra Streisand's wedding to James Brolin), and a haunting CD single "Who Can See the Blue the Same Again" about the Tsunami disaster[with all proceeds going to the Prasad Project serving the victims www.prasad.org ]. She was interviewed afterward by Jamie DeRoy of MAC and her witty, comedic responses were amusingly self-deprecating and warmed us to this modest, statuesque lady with incredible talent. I had the pleasure to meet and work with Ann several years ago on the sketch-comedy show entitled "Cafe DuArt" that starred comedienne Louise DuArt in a cabaret setting where various perfomers(including Callaway, Lainie Kazan, Linda Lavin and others) would perform--I was part of the "background actors" cast for the show which aired in the late '90's on the Nostalgia Good network. In a meet-and-greet after her performance where she signed her CDs, Ann and I caught up after all these years. Check her out at www.annhamptoncallaway.com and if you have a chance to see her in the future, don't hesitate..her CDs are available at her site as well. In a side note, though he was not present, an old Allentown college buddy Michael Ogborn penned one of the songs featured in the evening's showcase--"Ou Apres La Guerre"--Michael has been increasingly successful as a musical theatre writer in Philly and beyond--he now resides in NYC--here is a link to some of his work: http://curtaincallprod.tripod.com/news.html And before the day was over, I found my way to Sam's Restaurant and Bar at 245 W. 45th St. where I used to play some dinner hour slots a few years ago--my friend singer/actress Tia was behind the bar..when a few guys came in wondering why there was no music, I volunteered to play for them and the crowd and a marvelous time was had by all! God I love NYC...
Check out THE THREE MONKS jazz trio!
I had the pleasure to catch Doug Hawk's somewhat new trio The Three Monks this Sunday evening at Allentown's Stooges Bar & Grille (www.stoogesbarandgrille.com) Doug is an incredible well-trained vocalist who became well-known in the Lehigh Valley a few years ago with the jazz fusion group Rhino Campground, where I got to know him personally. Now he and classically trained pianist Dan DeChellis and talented drummer Rian Carr are a trio that must be seen--Doug's lyrics are penned to Dan's dreamscape jazz meanderings that challenge the listener and invite them to expand their music appreciation. The trio uses Dan's big Yamaha electic stage piano to provide the sole musical accompaniment, with Carr's persussion enhancing the mood DeChellis creates. Hawk sometimes scat-sings, raps proficiently, and soars his tenor voice with deft precision--wanna be a singer?--check out this young man!(he also gives private lessons). Though Hawk would prefer doing originals all evening, he and the trio sprinkle a choice amount of great cover songs from Steely Dan's "My Old School" to Stevie Wonder to a hauntingly slowed-down interpretation of the Beatles "A Day In the Life" interspersed with a digression into "Eleanor Rigby". The trio puts their unique stamp on these cover songs which only makes them more appealing to listen to. I invite you ALL to check out their site at www.threemonks.net and go see them soon--they play dates in the Lehigh Valley and Philly/Manayunk venues so there should be a place in comfortable travelling distance to see these guys.
Jim's brief appearance in Will Smith's "HITCH"!
AS A SAG actor every once in awhile I'll enjoy doing some "background" work on TV or film--and last year I did a few scenes on the recently released Will Smith hit "HITCH" filmed in NYC. No--not a cameo--no lines--just an "extra" on the set. TO VIEW THE SCENE I AM IN RIGHT NOW GO TO http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/hitch/clips/ and click onto Clip #4 called "PERSEVERANCE"--here is a description of the scene: actress Eva Mendes is delivered a garishly yellow walkie talkie in a gift bag--Will is speaking to her on it from a Greenwich Village street. As the conversation builds and comes to it's end--she agrees to go to breakfast with him and says as she winces--"I guess I could do Sunday"--they cut back to his line "you forgot to say over--over."--Will is walking straight at the camera head-on towards the viewer--on this line from Will I pass his right shoulder (my back to camera--left side of the screen of the viewer) in a light olive-green suit speaking with another fellow business man(I have glasses on in the scene)... you can still see me maybe 30 feet behind Will walking down the street behind him after the line--too funny. GREAT date flick--check it out!
Jim meets the Eagles Jon Ritchie!
On this particular Friday evening I was hanging at a great restaurant/nightclub I had heard of for months--the Freight House in Doylestown PA (http://www.thefreighthouse.net) Around midnight in the frenzied atmosphere there I spotted Eagle running back Jon Ritchie seated at a table--I knew he also was a guitarist and had his own band so that is where the conversation began. When he and his manager and lead guitarist who were present learned I was a keyboardist, they mentioned that might be a nice addition to their band. We hung out for a few hours discussing the potential of this. Jon was injured mid-season in 2004 and did not return to the Eagles lineup. More on the progress with Jon's band in future journal entries at my site--learn more about Jon's band at http://www.jonritchiesfault.com
A Groundhog Day in NYC on the Great White Way
A few weeks ago I saw a review of two new shows in NYC that suggested that "shows about street people and the homeless seem to be a popular theme in the current Broadway fare"...this statement immediately caught my attention. You see, I was already in the planning stages of bringing back a musical that I had on the shelf for 10 years that dealt with the homeless problem--"Ghosts On Broadway." It had received a showcase back in May 1995 at the John Houseman Theatre in NYC--and since I could never finish the script or "book" of the show--and was unsure of what direction I should take the plot--it lay dormant. But recent research and articles I read suggested that the homeless problem is FAR WORSE than it has ever been--so rather than straying far from my original premise--I decided to bring it back pretty much as it is and add more length and plot to the show. And so to help me get an idea of what these two shows were about, Wednesday Feb.2nd I decided to see BOTH OF THEM. I caught a matinee of Kathie Lee Gifford's "UNDER THE BRIDGE" at the Zipper Theatre on W.37th St.(featuring my old NYC buddy Dan Cooney)and "BROOKLYN:the musical" at the Plymouth Theatre on W.45th. "Bridge" is a delightful show based on a children's novel--Gifford wrote lyrics & the book; it tells the story of a stubborn hobo in 1953 Paris who is content to stay 'under the bridge' and reluctantly shares it with a homeless mother and her 3 kids. It only plays until Feb.20th in a limited engagement; but in a Q & A after the performance she let the audience who stayed to see her that there is a future for the show beyond the Zipper Theatre. I got to meet and privately chat with Kathie Lee which was a real treat--I opened for her former co-host Regis Philbin back in 1992 at Easton's State Theatre. I shared with her how I was bringing my show back and the similarities between both of our shows(and that I opened for 'Reege')...to find out more about her show go to http://kathieleegifford.com/underthebridge/index.php ...a few weeks before seeing "Brooklyn: the musical" I had been introduced to it's director Jeff Calhoun at Sam's Restaurant in NYC. At the time I was unaware of how similar my "Ghosts" and his show were--what a dynamic, soulful rocker this thing is--only 5 stage performers(all "street performers") with a heart-wrenching story of a girl singer extraordinare named "Brooklyn" and her journey to find her father that brings her back to NYC and a vocal showdown with the reigning diva in a contest not unlike "American Idol"...I chatted with the "Brooklyn" actress Eden Espinosa after the show--she worked with Walter ONeil--my friend who directed "Ghosts"--in the musical "Wicked"(Walter is still in the show). Go to http://www.brooklynthemusical.com to order tix or check out the show...after seeing both shows I was filled with great ideas and inspiration on what to do with "Ghosts"--TO OBTAIN A DVD COPY OF "GHOSTS ON BROADWAY" go to my "Original CDs" link here at my website for ordering info..more on all of this later!
Jim attends great concert of "THE FAB FAUX"
Saw a great Beatle tribute band at the State Theatre in Easton Sunday nite, Jan.30th; here's what I posted at their website http://www.thefabfaux.com: As a performer and musician/composer myself, (and note-for-note perfectionist), I salute the Fab Faux for their mastery and diligent effort in delivering the Beatles work with such fine-tuned fidelity. Every nuance of guitar sounds, drum rolls, bass lines, vocal arrangements, strings/horns and keyboard sounds have been studied and rendered as flawlessly as is possible in a live situation. After the litany of Beatle-lookalike bands that inevitably suffer from not being as musically gifted(and so the visual spectacle numbs the audience from examining the musical prowess)--The Fab Faux is an energizing breath of fresh air! Saw the "Abbey Road" show at the State Theatre--wow--what deft precision and energy!...I invite the band and all of you to check out a '60's music tribute song I recorded a few years ago called "A Little '60's Tune" that has several Beatle references--very fun song--it's at http://www.cdbaby.com/loftus3 --thank you Fab Faux on behalf of the State Theatre and ourselves and know that you passed the audition!
Jim plays the Yale Club in NYC
Thanks to a booking through Gigmasters.com, Bob Hill of Trautman Wasserman & Co.(www.trautmanwasserman.com) found me. The occasion was a poignant and memorable memorial for his mother Marcia Hill who had passed last month. The venue was the prestigious Yale Club of NYC at 50 Vanderbilt Ave.(www.yaleclubnyc.com) on Sun.,Jan.16th at 4PM. The 4th floor library was tastefully used for the gathering where over one hundred family and friends paid heartfelt tribute in words and lovely powerpoint presentations that illuminated this great woman married for 44 years to Bob Hill Sr.(a gregarious, full-of-life man who was a former Shakespearian actor). "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" from Gigi--the song that played while the couple met over 4 decades ago--played in the background over a presentation of 'all her girls' on the screen. "Try to Remember" and the Carpenters version of "I Just Fall In Love Again" tugged at us over another collection of family photos. Interspersed in the hour and 15 minute program, I played a Steinway upright and sang 3 songs--one I chose--"To Where You Are" from Josh Groban, and two John Denver songs selected by the Hill family(and the first artist MY parents introduced me to as a child)--"Annie's Song" and the tearjerker "For You"--which has become one of my new favorites. In a trip to the Yale Club the previous Thursday, I met Bob Hill there to see the venue and then we retired around the corner to an Irish bar and became fast friends. This made me feel right at home at the tribute for his mother, as I subsequently met many of his family and friends after the memorial at the 2nd floor bar at the Yale Club. Many were touched by my music--and I by their moving tribute to Marcia Hill. As the crowd dispersed by 8:30PM, I was gratified to know that it is singular events such as these that define what I do as a performer and make what I do so valuable. It is just not 'punching the clock' and getting to the next gig, but personal relationships where the music is a healing and celebratory force. I'm happy to be able to share this all with you.
Jim sits in with "3Somethin"
Was a blast starting the New year off sitting in with one of my favorite new bands "3 Somethin"...{ www.3somethin.com } The venue was the intimate caberet-style room at Stooges in Allentown {www.stoogesbarandgrille.com } Billy is an old buddy on guitar, Melissa is one of the best and sassiest lead singers I've seen in awhile, Jake and Steve a tight rhythm section. The eclectic music ranges from standard classic rock(Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Allman Bros., America, the Beatles) to funkier and newer sounds (the Indigo Girls,Sade, Psychedelic Furs, Los Lonely Boys, the Neville Bros.) The style is somewhat unplugged and so there is a great coffehouse funky feel--I added harmonies and keys to their tight renditions and the result was a very cool, full sound that crowd, staff, and band really enjoyed--check my calendar as there will be more future dates with Jim and 3 Somethin'!
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Identity Papers
April 2, 2013 | 1 Comment
I wrote about poverty before, here, in statistical terms, and in how they remain invisible in mainstream entertainments — at least in Hollywood — and when they appear in indi films, they are usually fetishized.
One thing that seems absent, too often, are the working poor. Statistically, there are 22 million people looking for full time work. Most work is part time, and temporary. That’s another hidden item in most government statistics on this topic.
Wages have declined, hours increased, and union power is almost non-existent.
Unions have been demonized in Hollywood, unless its a nostalgia project — (Sally Field as Norma Rae) — but an audience rarely connects that battle to their own relationship with management. Reagan ushered in an era waiting to happen — where union busting was seen as a sort of tough guy no-nonsense way to run a business. The trope changed. The tough union organizer was replaced with the tough manager, the tough owner of production, the Ayn Rand hero. Unions were gangsters or just filthy lazy moochers.
Union membership dropped another 3% again last year.
Outsourcing cost more jobs. Union workers were “too costly” (too costly for what?)….and the American working class was encouraged to blame immigrants, and foreigners for this rather than factory owners. And the few new jobs were mostly minimum wage. Seeing sixty year old women taking your order at KFC, or working as shop “girls”, or grey haired old gentlemen busing tables at the local cafe, is pretty common now. Capital focused on taking away dignity.
I was thinking about the very idea of nations, recently. About territory and borders, and about the history that drove these ideas, commerce, and transport, etc. The United States today, exercises economic domination, while also extending military exercises throughout the poor and developing world. The wars are there to make money for defense contractors, to secure oil and gas (and water, increasingly) but the real domination takes place via capital. The British tried a pseudo colonial model in India, and had a tribute paying client state ruled, however, by military force that was stationed in-country. The US is no different. Not really. The military extracts payment from countries like Iraq, but it also uses its military indirectly, and often covertly. The economic domination is backed up by the close to 1000 military bases worldwide.
One of the problems with the Negri/Hardt vision of nation states in decline is that it’s simply not true. What HAS changed is that there is a perceptual deterritorializing that goes on in culture — a sort of strange absence of place. I remember watching The Bourne Tomato or whatever it was, one of the franchise pieces, and the action jumped from locale to locale, but without actually being anywhere. Part of this was achieved by the attention deficit editing and hand held camera (or steady cam). One never had time to process the image. All that was left were fractyls, shards of half image that contained enough signifiers for place (I saw a tuban….must be….wait….I know those weird yellow shoes…its Morocco)…..that one could track at least the basic plot outlines as they pertained to location — but the experience of deliberating on place was gone.
The idea of nation states declining and that some form of sovereignty exists in this post modern ‘nowhere’ empire is really to miss the actual material coercion that is rooted in actual nation states. The U.S. Empire compels state behaviors (obedience usually) from a globe of client states, mixed in with a recalcitrant few (China, Russia) and a handful of unruly resisters (Cuba, Venezuela). The compulsion exercised by the U.S. is acute, even if often indirect.
I suspect the nature of this “indirection” is a generating element in cultural product that reflects an absence of place. In ‘Spiderman’ we lack air, space, and in ‘Bourne’ we lack locale, and in a good deal of Television we are intentionally cast adrift in generic-land (often the generic show is filmed in Canada, doubling for the large American city). Fact is, Vancouver is not Seattle, and it’s certainly not New York or Chicago — but in a sense this is part of the homogenizing of place. The viewer is being trained to ignore the small nuances of an area, the historical traces of locale and the people of a specific place.
When a city is clearly established (with some exceptions, such as the doomed “Boss” with Kelcey Grammer…in which an actual Chicago could be seen) the rendering of this city is ahistorical. It is often never more ahistorical than when focusing on “history”. For its not history, its “history”.
The world is concrete: and low paying jobs are concrete, and sweat shops are concrete (and note that since the 1970s the definition of part time was expanded…allowing greater exploitation by management) and this materiality is rarely depicted in mainstream entertainments. The ways in which daily life is dominated by this exploitive system, the ways in which social relations reflect the dynamics of manager and worker, but in the most regulated manner, all serve to reinforce the idea of the state.
There is nothing immaterial in this. Globalization is capitalism first, everything else second. The entire apparatus of inequality is the result of the logic of capital — profit, accumulation, and commodification — the exchange value trumps use value. Still, the idea of territory, of states, can be opaque. What is not opaque is the violence that coerces these structures. It is a violence reflected in rape, both in the military and civilian sectors, in all domestic abuse, in all police actions, in the constant back drop of prisons and a corrupt judicial system. The state is opaque, but the coercion is not.
The compulsions to behave, to obey, are concrete and real. In fact, the control and compulsions visited upon the worker are part of what generated such an instensifying of passport regulations, border specifics, and a shared legal definition of the idea of territory. In fact, a brief note here on passports and movement. The legitimate right to travel, to move in or out of “country” as well as travel within one’s country, are more and more abridged today. Where as recently as the 1800s passports hardly existed, today the demand for ‘papers’ when attempting to exercise your legitmate right of movement, is systemic — it is, in fact, more and more authoritarian in practice. It is, however, important to note that Imperial Russia and even in England during the era of the Magna Carta, forbid all but peers of the realm and important businessmen from free movement.
People’s identity is welded at the base to the state and the issuance of identity papers. Birth certificate, social security card, or identity card, and passport. It is complex and interesting to view the history of passport control, as well as migrations and their effect on the evolution of the nation state. Karl Polyani pointed out that birth of the “poor” as a specific group took place during the industrial revolution in England (those not connected to the manor) — in other words, serfs without a landlord. This coincided with the birth of policing vagrants. If the modern idea of a nation grew out of the French Revolution, then the modern vision of population control seems to have grown out of the Industrial Revolution in England. Certainly control, as a principle, came from 19th century England. However, throughout feudal Europe, the poor, serfs, were always limited in their ability to move freely.
So, the passport today is international. You cannot leave or enter anywhere, not even your own country, without approval. Your passport must be stamped. Your ID checked, and of course these days, you will likely be searched if flying, and quite possible even if driving or traveling by car or train. Surveillance is a practice born of control, not protection. What has changed is that nations became institutionalized. The modern state is an institution, with vast bureaucracies and systems of information and data on its populace.
Historically, movement of populations is linked to two ideas: wealth (business, labor) and the military. Young men could be conscripted — the basis of armies in feudal europe (well, feudal anywhere) depended on having a good supply of military age men.
Its also good to remember that until the 19th century, the idea of travel was sort of abstract, if not mythic. The post feudal world of the 1880s, coupled to the inventions of transport at the time, raised an awareness, even among the poor, that movement was possible. The colonies existed, Australia, and far away lands in which one could make one’s fortune. Such grew the narratives connected to this age.
The 20th century emerged with a sense of protectionism for “citizens”. The preventing of brain drain, and of currency controls. Trade tariffs. Hobsbawm pointed this out, a sort of hard shell that intensified as fear intensified. John Torpey has pointed out the new gated communities internally, within nation states, reflect small fiefdoms privately regulated. State control, then, becomes local, privatized enclaves of the rich —while the wild boys snarl and forage beyond the gates. This is the new Carolingian Europe, in the Coachella Valley, or Carmel or The Hamptons.
The rise of sci-fi narrative that includes the collapse of state control, seems to suggest an almost desire for a new feudalism — coupled to the elite’s fear, as they manufacture this narrative — that if that happens, the serfs might overrun the walls.
The U.S, military now de-facto occupies much of the planet. It creates and coerces a string of compliant states, client states. The new development zones (Haiti, Honduras) are there as slave holdings, really. The belief that somehow this spreads economic health to these places is, of course, nonsense. It’s also, de-facto, more erasure of history. More destruction of community, and more control. The modern identity is increasingly one of inside or outside. But you can now be outside while staying inside.
As a sort of footnote, Henri Lefebvre’s “The Production of Space” (1974), was a pretty prescient analysis…
In the West, therefore, absolute space has assumed a strict form: that of
volume carefully measured, empty, hermetic, and constitutive of durational
unity of Logos and Cosmos. It embodies the simple, regulated and
methodical principle or coherent stability, a principle operating under the
banner of political religion and applying equally to mental and to social life.
This assumes material form in monuments which govern time by means of
well co-ordinated materials whose objective ordering – in terms of vertical
pressures and physical mass — successfully achieves both a natural and a
rational equilibrium.
History remained, the traces of social space, embedded in some fashion …but however one analyses these questions, the sense of totalitarian society, of social domination, which is reflected today in the corporate product that is mass entertainment, cannot be missed.
We already know several things about abstract space. As a product of
violence and war, it is political; instituted by a state, it is institutional. On
first inspection it appears homogeneous; and indeed it serves those forces
which make a tabula rasa of whatever stands in their way, of whatever
threatens them — in short, of differences. These forces seem to grind down
and crush everything before them, with space performing the function of a
plane, a bulldozer or a tank. The notion of the instrumental homogeneity of
space, however, is illusory — though empirical descriptions of space
reinforce the illusion – because it uncritically takes the instrumental as a
given.
The questions of identity link to the creation of space by the state, and by the mechanisms and institutions of control now so established as to be seen as natural.
The U.S. economy depends on defense spending. Wars make a lot of money, and that’s more important than their cost, according to the logic of empire. The invention of abstract space, both psychologically, and materially, is a reflex adjustment to the need for control. It makes no sense that citizens cannot go wherever they choose, whenever they choose. There is no rational need to even have a passport, let alone other papers of identification. The international police state, with the U.S. military sitting atop it, is now in the process of creating internment areas (er…development zones) for the poor. Sweat shops, gated communities, check points, and more and more secret bases and prisons….that is the post industrial landscape.
Aesthetic resistance needs to question definitions of space, of identity, and reclaim those autonomous realms of reflection, silence, and history.
Lefebvre again:
“The aforementioned contradiction between the global (the capacity to
conceive of and deal with space on a wide scale, even on a world scale, as in
the cases of computer science and the geopolitics of air transport) and the
fragmentary (the subdivision of space for purposes of buying and selling)
intensifies at the strategic level. In strategic spaces resources are always
localized. Estimates are made in terms of units, whether units of production
(firms) or units of consumption (households). Objectives and ‘targets’, by
contrast, are always globalizing in tendency, and effectively worldwide in the
case of the chief states and chief transnational corporations. Dispersion and
subdivision, often carried to the point of complete segregation, are controlled
and dominated by strategic aims, by wills-to-power of the highest order in
terms both of the quantity of means employed and of the quality of goals
pursued. Everything that is dispersed and fragmented retains its unity,
however, within the homogeneity of power’s space; this is a space which
naturally takes account of the connections and links between those
elements that it keeps,paradoxically, united yet disunited, joined yet detached from one
another, at once torn apart and squeezed together.”
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Eilif Verney-Elliott says:
Interestingly, this (as it is going on around most of the ‘West’) is becoming a hugely heated topic here in Britain, that is, the concept of ring-fencing the Island! “WE ARE NOT EUROPE!” the decry! LOL – Nationalist insanity. Whilst the EU has its problems ( and big ones at that ) I think it is better for Britain to be in it than out of it ( especially since our laws haven’t been upgraded since 1866!)
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A 1982 Peter Davison tale of jungle weirdness, Doctor Who: Kinda is still the source of ferocious arguments (just wait ’til it’s out on DVD and they explode across the special features). Is this a brilliant piece of art, or does it just have the most rubbish ‘snake’ ever broadcast? Is it a Buddhist metaphor, or borrowed from Ursula le Guin? Is it mind-expanding or mind-deadening, philosophically intriguing or just New Age socialism? I answer some of these questions in a highly partial and occasionally spoilertastic way…
“You will agree to being me… This side of madness or the other.”
Few Doctor Who stories have raised such wild passions for and against them as Kinda. Yes, I was one of those ten-year-olds who helped vote it bottom of Peter Davison’s first season for DWM’s poll back in 1982, largely through a vivid last memory of ‘that snake’; at the other end of the spectrum, some fans have announced that anyone who disagrees with their assertion that this is the best Who story ever is an emotional Nazi. I shall leave it to your own judgement any irony involved in people who use “Nazi” to decry those whose precise tastes do not absolutely accord to theirs…
I started a re-evaluation of Kinda through my wobbly audio copy, in those days before video. The old wise woman’s “Wheel turns” speech was quite hypnotic, and so I gradually found myself thinking Kinda was rather interesting – despite one of Uncle Terrance’s least lively novelisations trying to convince me otherwise [like the director, his prosaic prose isn’t in sympathy with the weird wonder of the story]. Nowadays, with repeated video viewings, I’ll admit that I can’t see how I ever thought the story worse than Four to Doomsday or Time-Flight, and I’ve got a lot closer to the adoring end of the spectrum than the embarrassed end I used to sit at. But will I go all the way? Well, I don’t think so, though I’ll waver between perhaps eight and nine out of ten. Let me explain.
On the whole, Kinda is interesting and refreshing, one of the Who stories with the most ideas, married to one of the Who stories that looks most like a pop video. The Dark Places of the Inside are fantastically imagined and realised, and the ‘time’ sequence is hardly less impressive. Unquestionably, the subversive ‘menaces’ of the trees, the “primitives,” Hindle, Dukkha and The Dark Places of the Inside or wherever, all combine tantalisingly to disrupt expectations and are carried off brilliantly.
In the story’s second half, however, and especially after the main hallucinatory effects sequences end, the action-based director and thoughtful script start to work against each other (notably from the blown cliffhanger to Part Three on), particularly as the author’s ideas become less successful. The fourth episode is definitely the weakest, despite quite a strong scene with Hindle’s toy madness and Panna’s consciousness passing on to demonstrate that no-one actually dies in the story (albeit the three ones who went missing…?). Studio floors, technobabble and ‘that snake’ summing up a glib and dull resolution – not to mention interminable Adric / Tegan bitching scenes – make it a curiously uninventive and unimpressive ending. This story is probably best watched as a whole, rather than an episodic let-down.
I’ve recently taken to watching Who again on an episodic basis. Yes, that’s right – as the BBC gods intended! As you might expect, with all stories written that way, most of them work much better that way. And it’s become clear that a key reason so many of us disliked Kinda on first watching – other than the shame of (all together now) ‘that snake’ at school the next day – was that this story didn’t. For a few stories where not all the episodes work, the resolution is the killer. Watch a rather good story with a poorer Part Four (Paradise Towers or The Creature From the Pit spring to mind to tease you with, or perhaps The Leisure Hive if you want one that fewer people hate so much), and it’s plain that only watching ‘the bad bit’ in one sitting leaves you with a nasty taste in your mouth that wouldn’t be so strong if you’d watched it as a ‘movie’. Watch Kinda episodically, rather than all of a bundle as video encourages you to, and it’s striking that it wasn’t just the increasing sophistication of the viewing fans that has led to Kinda’s startling turnaround since its original broadcast. It was the ‘poor Part Four’ effect at work in a peculiarly devastating way when we first watched it.
Oddly, watching Kinda episodically, I’m also struck that despite every review mentioning how the story centres on Janet Fielding, it isn’t a ‘Tegan story’ at all – more of an Adric story. He has quite a lot to do throughout the whole story (though achieving little, at least he only pretends to side with the villain this time; clearly Hindle responds to another boy to play with), while her strong role in the first two parts vanishes almost completely later on. She is superb when oppressed and then possessed by Dukkha (though an effective ‘rape’ scene apparently unlocking her sensuality is an unpleasantly disturbing message), but her appearance in Part Three is just that. Aris merely steps over her unconscious body at one point, and she neither moves nor speaks in a ‘blink and you’ll miss her’ cameo. As all the companions are buried way down in the cast list to start with, it seems particularly unfair on Matthew Waterhouse that he still gets later (and shared) billing than Janet Fielding for Part Three, and that Sarah Sutton gets no billing at all for the middle episodes.
My other reason for recently re-evaluating Kinda is that I’ve now read the book that’s said to be one of its main sources, Ursula Le Guin’s The Word for World is Forest. Now, this isn’t a story that can simply be explained by reference to any one of the mountain of references it makes, whether Judaeo-Christian Garden of Eden symbolism, Buddhist analogies or Vietnam-era sci-fi. However, as the Buddhism’s been written about in great detail, I found comparisons with Le Guin’s book intriguing, and they helped crystallise why I don’t think Kinda is quite as clever as many take it to be – or quite as enjoyable.
Despite some clear similarities in the setup, including a sophisticated sexual division of labour in the “primitives,” “idiot” / “insane” colonial military leavened by a sympathetic anthropologist, and dreaming, sophisticated “primitives” (as well as blatant nods like “Planet S14” in Kinda for “World 41” in the book, Aris’ captive brother for Selver’s enslaved and murdered wife, or “ILF” – “Intelligent Life Form” – for “hilf” – “High Intelligence Life Form”), the story itself has remarkably little in common with The Word For World is Forest. Quite funny that the villain of the book is “Captain Davidson,” though, as it’s of course the Doctor who enables the snake to enter Eden! Kinda is far less successful in getting across an idea of the local people as sophisticated – with the dubious exception of Panna and the double helix jewellery, it’s merely told, rather than shown. How do they have access to molecular biology? On the face of it, nicking the necklaces from an alien spaceship crashed in the jungle would be more logical an explanation. Shouldn’t we have had some shared dreaming, or something to put the Box of Jhana in context? Instead, these “primitives” really are telepathic, which even the Mara correctly notes is a very boring way to communicate.
Instead of evidence of intelligent thought, the Kinda (surely everyone in this story bar the Doctor, Todd and Panna are just that – ‘children’?) follow Aris like sheep, and flee after a ludicrous attack on the Dome using a TSS-style ‘wicker man’ (instead, in Le Guin’s book Selver’s attacks on the Terrans use their own bombs against them, as well as showing the lethal effectiveness of ‘primitive’ weapons. The Kinda merely appear stupid). Of course, the whole effect is engineered by the Mara to bring about their misery, but instead of a powerful, co-dependent, co-defending (“the dreaming of an unshared mind”) group intelligence, they merely combine into a herd. This is especially obvious in contrast with Aris and Panna / Karuna, who are intelligent and resourceful because they are individuals. The extremely collectivist ideological slant of the story is objectionable both because it isn’t to my personal taste anyway, and because the author’s clear wish to impose it on us has not led him to consider whether it works – in the context of the story, it doesn’t, and it fails even to make an attractive case. It seems not only philosophically disagreeable, but artistically unsuccessful.
The message that progress is horrid and only leads to destruction, and that people are much better off as happy sheep, is despairingly poor. Even the ‘dangers of progress and exploration’ message of The Green Death, for example (which I rather like), is leavened by the saving grace of individuality, while even that other anti-questioning Buddhist parable, Planet of the Spiders, notices the danger of not having a mind of your own as well as of unrestrained ego. Again unlike The Word For World is Forest, which shows the destructive effect of ‘progress’ on the Athshean culture, Kinda is a zero-sum game – there has been no effect on the tribe by the end; again, intelligent life is changed by experience, while the Kinda appear like drones.
Perhaps Christopher Bailey should have read the author’s Introductions to The Word for World is Forest. Ursula Le Guin talks of art as the pursuit of liberty, “escapist” from reality into the freedom of imagination. She also warns of the power an artist has over their characters leaching into desire for the power to influence other people.
“The desire for power, in the sense of power over others, is what pulls most people off the path of the pursuit of liberty,”
she warns, and notes that when artists believe they can do good to other people, they forget about liberty and start to preach. Bailey has failed to heed her warning, and has been “inextricably confusing ideas with opinions”.
Another of my Summer holiday repeat season, originally written for the now-junked site Outpost Gallifrey in 2000 or 2001, I quite enjoyed that one, despite being more pompous than usual (these days I flatter myself I hide it better). As you can tell, I’d recently read The Word for World is Forest, and wanted to explore that ‘source’ for the story rather than go along with the fan meme that the story was all about Buddhism, despite both being mentioned in the famously po-faced and impenetrable media studies textbook Doctor Who – The Unfolding Text which studied Kinda at length a quarter of a century ago.
‘Arthouse’ Vs ‘Macho’ Peter
Unfortunately, Kinda isn’t out on DVD yet, so it’s not as accessible as some to make your own judgements over (though a second-hand VHS is probably cheap enough). I’ll bet it’ll be paired with its even better sequel Snakedance when it is released, but in the meantime, what I didn’t say above is that it may be the most striking example of one of the two warring styles found throughout Peter Davison’s time as the Doctor. While most Doctor Who seasons have a relatively consistent tone within them, Peter’s stories divide sharply between what I think of as ‘arthouse’ and ‘macho’ – wild imagery and gently elegiac tales versus the sort that, as Peter cackles on his commentaries, have more on-screen deaths than Rambo or The Terminator (and those stories that are neither ‘arthouse’ nor ‘macho’ are mostly just forgettable). Like I suspect most fans, I’m convinced that Peter’s best story is his final one, The Caves of Androzani, but less usually I reckon one of the reasons is that it finally unites those two styles, bringing vicious characters and extreme violence to the screen but with evocative dialogue, a deranged love story and dreamlike music and camerawork. That combination, as much as its extraordinary quality, makes it the ideal Peter Davison Who story. There are some, though, who champion Kinda, the ultimate arthouse Doctor Who – and I think I’ve explained why for me it’s good, but not that good. It is, however, a hugely important story, marking out a new direction in which the series could go, helping pull it away from the nothing-but-macho approach of the incoming script editor at the time – where Kinda’s ‘possession with added hippy weird shit’ Vietnam-flavoured existential crisis (directly following two other existential crisis stories) sometimes makes you wonder if the author was on the same drugs as Philip K Dick, Eric Saward appears to be mainlining nothing but testosterone.
Kinda has a lot going for it as an experience. There’s brilliant imagery, and the psychological horror of Tegan in the Dark Places of the Inside uses ’80s video effects like almost no other story (though, as Not the Nine O’Clock News might say, nice video, shame about the song). There’s a remarkable cast – Richard Todd (a major film star actively subverting leading roles he actually took, such as Sanders of the River), Nerys Hughes, Simon Rouse – with superb roles, and Peter Davison finds his feet as the Doctor by stepping aside for much of this story in a way that it’s difficult to imagine Tom Baker doing. Most criticism I’ve read of Kinda focuses on the design, but though the jungle’s not much cop and the giant snake at the climax is every bit as funny as you can imagine, it’s the ideas that let Kinda down for me – both that it runs out of them by the end, and that some of them aren’t very good in the first place. A lot of it’s compelling, but there’s something off-putting at the heart of it. The sledgehammer-unsubtle moral that it’s better to be passive and pastoral than ask questions, develop speech or even be an individual at all seems more Pol Pot than Doctor Who. The series is all about thinking for yourself, about finding new ideas and new places; this pits itself solidly against both, so it’s ironic that it’s often called one of Doctor Who’s most ‘intellectual’ stories it preaches so earnestly against the intellect.
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BEDLAM Arts and Mental Health Festival 2019
In this podcast Switch Radio's James Sandy speaks to Bedlam Festival 2019 producer Sabra Khan about this year's vibrant programme of spoken word, dance, participation, theatre, film & visual art and Hip Hop.
For more information go to: https://macbirmingham.co.uk/news/2019/07/22/bedlam-2019-birminghams-4th-arts-and-mental-health-festival-returns
'BEDLAM Arts and Mental Health Festival 2019' is a King of the Buttons Production 2019 for Switch Radio 107.5 FM, DAB & Online- with thanks to M Seven Public Relations.
Image courtesy of Sampad Arts.
Music (excerpt): 'In the clouds' by Stefan Kartenberg (c) copyright 2019 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/JeffSpeed68/59123 Ft: Javolenus
The New Curiosities Box: Show Thirty- A State of the Arts Special
In this special 30th edition of the New Curioisities Box we take a snapshot of the state of the arts in Birmingham and beyond.
Joined by three leading lights from the city's cultral scene we explore the issues, potential and challenges on the horizon for the sector.
The show's guests are:
Deborah Kermode, Chief Executive & Artistic Director at MAC (Midlands Arts Centre), Birmingham.
Steve Ball, Associate Director at The Rep Birmingham & Director of Culture Central.
Anita Bhalla, Chair of Performances Birmingham and Founder of BBC Asian Network.
Due to copyright restrictions some of the music used in the radio show does not feature in the podcast version. Check out the spotify playlist on the blog to hear the tracks.
Title music: 'Café connection'(excerpt) by morgantj (c) copyright 2009 and licensed under creative commons.
This show was first broadcast on 25th June 2019 on Switch Radio 107.5FM, DAB & Online.
The New Curiosities Box is written and presented by James Sandy and is a King of the Buttons Production 2019.
Our thanks to the guests, their teams & staff for supporting this programme throughout the last three years.
Flatpack Festival 2019
Birmingham’s Flatpack Festival returns this May Day Bank Holiday for its thirteenth edition. Flatpack 2019 boasts a wonderfully eclectic line-up over the 6-day festival with 100 events taking place at 14 different venues across Birmingham. With everything from car park theatre and cat-shaped bento to Moomins and post-punk legends, this year’s Flatpack will treat audiences to a week of inspiring screenings, exhibitions, live performances, installations and some very special guests.
Full details of the Flatpack Festival programme and ticket information can be found at www.flatpackfestival.org.uk
In this Podcast Switch Radio's James Sandy talks to Flatpack Festival Director, Ian Francis about the programme of special events, drop-in activities, live cinema, international features, optical sound and documentaries.
This podcast is taken from the Switch Radio programme 'The New Curiosities Box: Show 28' (Broadcast 30th April 2019) and was written and presented by James Sandy and is a King of the Buttons Production 2019.
'The New Curiosities Box' is a monthly arts & culture show broadcast on Birmingham's Switch Radio 107.5FM, DAB & Online. Check out our schedule at: www.switchradio.co.uk
All rights are reserved and copyrights observed.
Derek Bishton- ‘Handsworth Self Portrait: 40 Years On’
In this podcast James Sandy talks to Derek Bishton about 'Handsworth Self Portrait: 40 Years On' an exhibition presenting original photos taken from a studio on Grove Lane, Handsworth, Birmingham in 1979.
Passers by were invited to take their own photograph, passing them the shutter release so they could control the decisive moment of how to present themselves and when they were ready for the picture to be taken.
More than 500 people stopped by to take part in this ground-breaking ‘Selfie’ project - some alone, some with friends or family, some striking formal poses, others being more playful.
Derek Bishton, Brian Homer and John Reardon : Handsworth Self Portrait: 40 Years On runs at the Arena Gallery, MAC Birmigham from Saturday 23rd March until Sunday 2nd June 2019. Admission is Free.
There is an Opening Event of the exhibition on Saturday 30th March 2019 and A Talk with Derek Bishton on Sunday 2nd June 2019. For more details visit:
https://macbirmingham.co.uk/exhibition/handsworth-self-portrait-40-years-on
Instagram: handsworthselfportrait
This podcast was written and presented by James Sandy and is A King of the Buttons Production 2019. The interview forms part of the March edition of 'The New Curiosities Box' on Switch Radio (scheduled to broadcast Tuesday 26th March @7pm) 107.5 FM, DAB & Online.
Image: Stephen aka ‘Steppers’ from Handsworth Self Portrait (1979) © Bishton, Homer & Reardon appears with kind permission and is copyright of the artists. All rights reserved.
The Blood Tales: Kate Joyner
The Blood Tales transports audiences into the mystical landscape of a woman’s blood through the lens of its narrator, a witty, funny and sensual witch who is not afraid to ‘tell it how it is’. The show seeks to dispel the outdated views across the globe of shame, taboo and disgust towards women and their menstrual cycle.
The Blood Tales is presented by Silver Moon Theatre Co. and receives it's London & UK premiere on International Women's Day Friday 8 March 2019.
In this podcast, James Sandy speaks to Birmingham-born experimental actress and spoken word poet Kate Joyner about how The Blood Tales re-wires the shamed based narrative of women’s moon blood into a tale of beauty and empowerment that is both deeply provocative and political in its delivery.
This interview was first broadcast on 26th February 2019 as part of 'The New Curiosities Box' on Switch Radio 107.5FM, DAB & Online.
The New Curiosities Box is written and presented by James Sandy and is a King of the Buttons Production 2019 for Switch Radio.
https://www.switchradio.co.uk/jamessandy
Image appears with kind permission.
With thanks to Mandy Rose at M Seven Public Relations.
‘Matthew Krishanu: The Sun Never Sets’
In this podcast we consider the art of Matthew Krishanu through his new exhibition 'The Sun Never Sets', which takes inspiration from his childhood spent in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka to produce dream-like, reflective paintings.
Matthew Krishanu: The Sun Never Sets runs at First Floor Gallery, Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) Birmingham until Sunday 10th March 2019. Admission is Free.
For more venue information contact Box Office & Enquiries on 0121 446 3232 or visit: www.macbirmingham.co.uk/exhibition/the-sun-never-sets
For more information on the artist visit: http://www.matthewkrishanu.com/
'Matthew Krishanu: The Sun Never Sets- A podcast' was written and presented by James Sandy and is a King of the Buttons Production 2019.This podcast was compiled from a section of 'The New Curiosities Box' programme which was first broadcast on 30th January 2019 on Switch Radio 107.5FM, DAB & Online.
All rights are reserved and artwork/photograph reproduced with kind permission.
Birmingham Improv Festival 2018
The Festival is celebrating its 3rd birthday in the city and has grown year on year from a weekend event in 2016 to 9 days of performances this year! A great endorsement reflecting the growing popularity of the Improvisation.
Troupes and performers from New York, Edinburgh, London, Birmingham, Bristol and more will be descending on the city for 9 days of comedy, fun and a bit of madness!
In this podcast I speak to JP, Kate and Jon about the forthcoming festival shows, workshops and activities.
For full listings and to book tickets go to www.birminghamimprovfestival.com/
Twitter: @bhamimprovfest
Facebook: fb.me/Brumprov
Instagram: Birmingham Improv Festival
Hashtag: #Brumprov2018
This podcast is taken from the forthcoming episode of The New Curiosities Box (31.10.18) and was produced by James Sandy for Switch Radio 107.5FM, DAB & Online. A King of the Buttons Production 2018 with thanks to M7 Public Relations.
MAC Makes Music: Switch 2
We return for a catch up with MAC's resident band Switch as they prepare for their 'Switch Sunset' Gig at in the MAC Arena. There's interviews with the band, back stage recordings and exclusive live performances.
Switch, The Warriors, Dan Whitehouse, Holly Radford, Youth Music and all at MAC Birmingham.
Switch and the 'MAC Makes Music' project are supported by Youth Music and are part of the Alliance for a Musically Inclusive England. The work has been made possible by funding from the National Lottery via Arts Council England. For more information go to youthmusic.org.uk
'Switch 2' was written and presented by James Sandy and is a King of the Buttons Production 2018 for Midlands Arts Centre.
The New Curiosities Box: Show Seventeen
In this show we speak to up and coming singer songwriter Eileen Quigley as she lauches her new EP 'Jumpers for Goalposts', we gaze into the past through the For-wards project's 'Iris' as it adds mood to Erdington and we say goodbye to one of Birmingham's oldest markets through the immersive arts experience 'Everyting Must Go'.
This show was first broadcast on Wednesday 27th June 2018 on Switch Radio 107.5FM, DAB & Online.
The New Curiosities Box is written and presented by James Sandy and is a King of the Buttons Production.
With thanks to Friction Arts, For-wards, Eileen Quiqley, M7 PR and 448 Creative.
'Jumpers for Goalposts', Artificial Flowers' and 'Soundtrack of Life' by Eileen Quigley appear with kind permission. All rights are reserved.
Title and incidental music: 'Café connection' by morgantj (c) copyright 2009 and licensed under creative commons.
Sally Payen: The Fence And The Shadow at MAC Birmingham
In this podcast we get insight and perspective on a study of women's activism, protest and peace campsthrough a conversation with artist Sally Payen exploring The Fence And The Shadow exhibition at MAC Birmingham.
Thanks to Sally Payen & Mandy Fowler and MAC Birmingham for thier support in the making this podcast.
For more information and links check out our blog: thenewcuriositiesbox.blogspot.com
This podcast is taken from a show that was first broadcast on 25th October 2017.
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This is a reprint of the popular game: Balloon Cup, but with the original theme from the designer. In Piñata, the players compete in several short balloon flights (hops) to collect the colored cubes associated with each hop. Four landscape cards -- two plains alternating with two mountains -- are laid out, and 1, 2, 3, or 4 cubes in assorted colors (gray, blue, green, yellow, red) are added to these cards. From a hand of eight balloon cards, you must try to pass each landscape by adding cards matching the colored blocks onto their side of table, although winds (and cunning) may occasionally cause them to play on their opponent's side -- a move that can really ruin the opponent's plans. High-valued balloons are played on the mountains, and low-valued balloons are played on the plains. Whoever is the better balloonist takes the cubes from the card, which is then flipped over -- mountains becomes plains and vice-versa -- and refilled with cubes. Five trophy cards of value 3 to 7 are placed at the top of the cards. When a player has collected enough cubes of a given color, he earns the trophy card for that color. Players may even trade three otherwise useless cubes for one they can use. The first player to earn three trophy cards is the winner!.
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Kiper: Top 5 running back prospects
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The 2013 NFL draft was the first one in the Common Era to not have a running back taken in Round 1. And it wasn't particularly close. Giovani Bernard came off the board at No. 37 overall to the Bengals, and the interesting thing about that is Bernard is largely prized for his pass-catching skills out of the backfield.
So in some ways it makes perfect sense that my top-ranked running back for the 2014 NFL draft is, right now, a player who doesn't look at all like a traditional running back. In fact, I'm sure some will argue about whether he projects to play that position at all at the NFL level.
I think it's fair to say the position has lost some value at the top of the draft board, but it's also evolving as the league evolves from an offensive standpoint. So even if the traditional running back is seen as more fungible, I think we're entering an era where the multi-faceted running back is making offense exciting.
With that, here's an early look at the top players on my board at the position.
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Home 2019 September 7 Plan To Evacuate Nigerians From S. Africa Suffers Setback
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Mr Allen Onyema, the Chairman of Air Peace, made the revelation in Lagos. “The Air Peace flight to South Africa will take off from the Lagos Airport and also return to Lagos. .
As earlier stated, the take off could be Sept 9 or Sept 10. This is because the Nigerians in South Africa have to obtain travel certificates because many of them do not have travel documents and their passports have expired,” he added.
The airline with the support of the Federal Government planned to begin evacuating Nigerians from South Africa on Sept. 6, after the xenophobic attacks against Nigerians and other foreign nationals living in that country.
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MAN Roland 'R905 L' 6 colour sheet fed printing press (1999)
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Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC) is one of the most famous and widely seen Indian television game show which has successfully been aired on TV for a number of years now. YOUR GAMING WORLD. The picture on the left links to the adding up to 10 version. But there is a catch: you can only connect them to the same color or same shape. Here are just a few samples of projects we have worked on. It is designed to provide students with a fun and engaging activity to practice inference and prediction at a variety of skill levels. JumpStart is the ideal learning environment for kids with fun educational games, activities, worksheets & lesson plans for all grades. I used to play with him a little. We have designed and built dozens of online games in order to drive traffic to our clients' websites. 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Coming clean on Facebook reach
Is there any greater source of emotional debate and mis-information on the web today than Facebook reach? I recently had a little debate on this subject with a person who wrote a glowing article on the promise of Facebook reach -- despite what appears to be pretty bad news in this corner of the web. I challenged him -- Why write an article that seems to be so counter to the facts? "I'm tired of so much negativity about Facebook," he said. "I wanted spin the facts in a more positive way." With so much at stake and so much mythology out there, it is certainly difficult to know who to believe or what to believe any more .... and we certainly do not need to be "spinning the facts." Part of the reason for so much confusion is that the truth is hard to come by. The real numbers are hidden behind company administrative accounts. There are only a few companies in the world with access to enough of these Facebook pages to make a meaningful statement about the true nature of Facebook reach.
The truth about Facebook reach
One of these rare companies is AgoraPulse, and my friend Emeric Ernoult The company's founder) was kind enough to share his raw data with Tom Webster and I to dissect on our latest episode of The Marketing Companion podcast. We were able to dive into the numbers behind 8,000 Facebook pages over the past 12 months and we found some surprising facts:
More than 70 percent of all companies across 104 industry designations had a decline in organic reach of 30 percent or more in the past year. I think it is accurate to say the decline in Facebook reach has been incredibly steep and rapid.
While Facebook brand pages reach an average of 6 percent of their fans, there is wide variation by company and industry. The declines ranged as low as 1 percent to as high as 65 percent
Only 6 percent of the industry categories have seen Facebook organic reach grow or remain steady in the past 12 months.
There is definitely a "hierarchy of conversation" among brands that leads to higher Facebook reach. Certain types of companies are just more conversational, leading to better reach. For example, nearly 550 pages consistently still have organic reach of 40 percent or more. Media companies and sports-related brands top the list.
This last point was especially interesting to Tom and I and one of the things we discussed on the podcast was the concept of using the data as a predictive model -- Could you guide a Facebook strategy based on a number that indicates potential engagement level? Let's look at some of the numbers: The decline in organic reach was steeper and more rapid than I expected. No wonder marketing strategies are in turmoil if organic reach has declined 30 percent or more for some companies in such a short period of time:
What's the recipe for higher organic reach?
AgoraPulse gets to see more Facebook success stories than almost any company out there. So what is the key to success? The company's founder Emeric Ernoult shared these tips: "As with everything in the online world, there's no one-size-fits-all recipe. But to help focus on some success themes, I've hand-picked four Facebook pages that are doing extremely well and enjoying an average post reach above 50 percent of their fan base. Let's learn from them." Animals Australia OK, granted, this non-profit is about protecting animals and people love visuals of animals (and love their pets!). But they don't only post good looking puppies, they also post a lot of very interesting content relating to their cause. You're in the animals business? Facebook will make you happy. The Daily Muse Career advice? Yes, the Muse is a real business with a real business model (selling job postings to employers) but they also have so much content (very helpful and insightful content!) that their fans are engaged way above average. Super Chevy Mag Car lovers love to share their passion. And they usually love to read magazines that focus on that passion. Having a Facebook page for such a magazine cannot be a bad idea. Maxxess Maxxess is a French e-commerce site selling motorbike accessories. There is no doubt that motorbike owners are very passionate about their bike and the biking lifestyle. If you sell stuff to people who have a passion, Facebook is a must.Episode 31 What do these 4 pages have in common:
They target an audience with a strong passion
They publish very good content (at least, very good for their target audience)
They publish very consistently (at least once a day, often more)
They get a LOT of shares (thanks to the 3 points above), and shares are what offers the highest level of "viral" visibility for a page's content.
I'm sure you'll agree this is pretty interesting stuff but to get the inside scoop, you'll want to check out our new podcast, which also covers a hilarious new social media app called "Get a Room!"
The Time for Twitter is Now
Are you using Twitter for your business? Maybe the time for Twitter is now if you consider some of the trends on this popular social media platform:
Twitter has momentum. Revenue jumped 124 percent in the latest quarter, and it "beat the Street" estimates for user growth.
Twitter shined during the World Cup, owning the online conversation for the planet's biggest sporting event.
It appears that Twitter is preparing a "buy now" button.
In our new Marketing Companion podcast, Tom Webster and I dissect the economics of Twitter for business and demonstrate why this might be the best time to integrate Twitter into your marketing plans. Some of the podcast highlights:
How Twitter is giving a free advertising bonus most businesses don't know about.
How to use Lead Generation Cards as a free business-building tool.
Twitter has become the de facto "second screen" for television -- what does this mean to the value of Twitter for business?
Although only 16 percent of adult Americans have active accounts, more than three times that number actively see tweets or watch a Twitter stream without logging in -- a "ghost audience" for businesses that does not show up in the numbers.
Why analysts should not keep lumping Twitter in with Facebook and LinkedIn
Businesses are overlooking powerful free research capabilities -- we provide a real example and look at the three levels of free Twitter search
The meaning of Twitter for personal networking
Both Tom and I agree on this one -- this is an excellent time for businesses to look at Twitter as a research, advertising, and networking platform, Ready to check out the podcast?
The book The Tao of Twitter, Revised and Expanded New Edition: Changing Your Life and Business 140 Characters at a Time Songza, a curated music channel Christel Quek of Twitter Jay Baer's book Youtility: Why Smart Marketing Is about Help Not Hype
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Chi-wang Yang is a Los Angeles-based theater director and digital media artist. Committed to physical performance and interdisciplinary collaboration, his work synthesizes stage, media, and technology. His work has been featured at REDCAT, New York International Fringe Festival, the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe, Time-Based Arts Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, and the Platform International Animation Festival.
He is a founding member of Cloud Eye Control, a performance collective that integrates live theater, animation, and music. Their recent performance, Under Polaris, was created in residency with the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) and will premier in Los Angeles in 2009.
Recent projects include the world-premier staging of composer Sandeep Bhagwati’s Vineland Stelae, conceived as a theatrical concert at REDCAT. He also recently directed the workshop production of a new theatrical production titled The Closest Farthest Away/Entrañable Lejanía. Conceived as a hybrid of cinema and theater, the project is being created collaboratively by a team of US and Cuban artists.
Chi-wang received his MFA in Theater Directing and Integrated Media at the California Institute of the Arts where he studied under Travis Preston. Other training includes the SITI Company with Anne Bogart, the Kitchen Summer Institute, and Brown University (BA) where he was a Walter and Miriam Rutman National Scholar. He is the recipient of the 2006 Princess Grace Award for Theater Directing.
Chi-wang has been a guest artist at Concordia University (Montreal), CalArts, UCLA, Pitzer College, and the Pacific Northwest College of Art. He currently is faculty at the California Institute of the Arts.
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The Singapore wing of Midnight Shift marches on, joining forces with kindred Technologue from across the border for a night of sonic alchemy on the night of 23 Sep 2016 at CATO.
Firmly on homeground, knighted Midnight Shift crew Haan and Jamie React take over and hold it down while Kaye, purveyor of electronic funk, plays a hybrid live-DJ set from his arsenal of sonic weaponry, while
Parachuting in is Edycted, partner and one-third of Technologue, known as one of KL’s most influential underground collectives and his love for the tough and funky, straight out of the streets of Kuala Lumpur.
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CHSAA Preview: Friars Poised to Regain Crown For First Time Since 2002
The 2009 New York State Catholic High School wrestling season was one that was marked by the return to the top of Monsignor Farrell High School. After nearly 20 years of watching as other Christian institutions had their days in the sun and hoisted the championship hardware, the team trophy was finally headed back to Staten Island, a location that Lion coaches Lou DeStefano, Rob Pavis, Anthony Anastasio, Phil Squatrito, Pete Hamm, Jason Bross, etc. hope to keep it for the unforeseeable future….One primary opponent standing in the way of a Farrell dynasty is the Friars from St. Anthony’s High School. Much like their rivals accomplished last season, the Friars, led by coaches Antoni Walters and Keith Eckert, will be hungry and determined to regain their spot atop the proverbial mountain, a position that the Huntington, NY based high school has not enjoyed winning back-to-back team titles in 2001 & 2002… Continue reading “CHSAA Preview: Friars Poised to Regain Crown For First Time Since 2002”
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Emergent City
Bucket Loads of Health
BLH Update 1: Getting Creative
Jess Drewett
We are currently in Phase 1 of the BLH project, which comprises a series of interactive, creative workshops. In this phase, participants are working with visual and narrative methods including body mapping, and personal story telling to reflect upon their experiences around water shortage, water saving, water reuse and water disposal – and what these mean to their health and well-being. As part of the workshop process, participants are also making music to accompany their body maps and stories. We are providing some insight into these workshops with updates on each as they happen.
Our first creative workshop was held in the second half of February over 5 days, with residents of Enkanini, an informal settlement on the outskirts of Stellenbosch in the Western Cape. Participants working together to link different sounds of water to memory, culture and personal experience.
Creative workshop: exploring the sounds of water
Through the use of hand mapping, community mapping, body mapping and music making, as well as drama and personal storytelling, the Enkanini participants shared their knowledge, experiences and insights around water in the informal settlement. They also conveyed their perspectives on research conducted in their community. These creative processes clearly showed that the priority of Enkanini residents in terms of their water needs are the introduction of drainage and improved sanitation.
Hand maps
We look forward to working with the Enkanini participants again in Phase 2 of the BLH project where they will share their creative outputs with water microbiology researchers as a part of a community engagement, knowledge exchange and co-learning process.
Enkanini residents creating their body maps
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We seek to nurture youth to build livelihoods through acquiring skills, broadening their social networks and investing in interests. Our work responds to the high level of youth unemployment in communities where the alternative attractions include gangsterism, whilst despondent youth often embrace harmful drinking substance use. We encourage youth act in a considerable and responsible manner in their explorations. Our YOLOekazi project, for example, mobilised young men and women in Delft and Philippi to reflect on their experience of drinking and alcohol, focusing on their dreams and ambitions through moderating potentially harmful behaviour. A central component of this work encourages youth to embrace hobbies (music, dance, skating, cycling etc.) as pathway to livelihoods through the acquisition of new learning and networking.
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We seek to promote the sustainable use of natural resources among urban harvester groups in Cape Town. Our work responds to the threat to the Cape Fynbos biome as a result of the unsustainable harvesting of plants for cultural and medicinal purposes for which there is a high demand in urban communities. Our research on this challenge identified the role of traditional healers who, though reliant on indigenous flora for medicine and rituals, have a strong awareness of the need to sustain natural habitats and linkage between the environment and culture. Working with these individuals, we have sought to address the unsustainable demand through creating alternative systems of supply in local gardens and street based planting. Our Herbanisation project in Seawinds and Retreat, for example, built awareness on the importance of indigenous flora, contributed to the greening of the streetscape and made sources of medicinal plants locally available.
Holding Government to Account
We seek to hold government to account for their responsibilities to provide safe, inclusive and sustainable cities. Our work focuses on ensuring that the three tiers of government within the state fulfil their mandate in respect to providing public safety, redressing the apartheid legacy of spatial inequality, ensuring citizen access to basic services (especially potable water and sanitation) and upholding citizen rights. Our work in Delft South, for example, supported the neighbourhood watch and community police forum to successfully campaign for greater state investment in visible policing and meaningful action to address corruption. In holding government to account, we conduct original research within communities, amplify community voices, facilitate dialogue in public platforms and network with civil city. We have successfully used visual technologies to more effectively communicate on accountability and building campaign support.
Strengthening Citizen Mobilisation
We seek to strengthen efforts to mobilise citizen groups to oversee community initiatives, solve challenges and support development interventions. Our work promotes community based organisations such as neighbourhood watches or health workers committees to engage with government and non-state actors to advance meaningful interventions on pressing local issues such as high crime, youth unemployment, trader rights or health worker fatigue. Using creative methods and participatory tools, we have highlighted the important role of these efforts at citizen mobilisation and raised awareness on the need for support to broaden impact and ensure sustainability. The leadership of citizen movements often feel isolated, under-resourced, and threaten by powerful interest groups and corrupt state officials. Our work provides these leaders with opportunities to reflect and re-strategize.
Enabling Micro-enterprises to Achieve Sustainability
We seek to enable micro-enterprises to achieve business sustainability. Our work promotes appropriate development strategies in programmes for township economic development and entrepreneurship. We advocate for interventions that support existing businesses and build upon organic growth. Based on detailed research, we develop strategies for infrastructure investments to support street traders and provide business space for micro-enterprises within integrated development hubs. Through working with township businesses, we have learnt that such investments must be responsive to the business needs, appropriate to the market situation and spatial requirements of the business, and manageable through local organisational capabilities. We aim to identify opportunities to support micro-enterprises gain access to financial services, strengthen their brands, establish better supply chains and upstream linkages, and build social capital and technical skills.
Reducing Barriers to Economic Inclusion
We seek to reduce the barriers to economic inclusion for informal workers and the self-employed in the informal economy. Our work advocates for the reform of inappropriate legislation which restricts the spaces and places accessible to the informal sector and hinders access to legal protection via formalisation. We support the economic rights of street traders, mobile hawkers, waste pickers and persons operating home-based micro-enterprises. Our research has highlighted the ‘enforced informalisation’ of self-employed persons who, in seeking to provide a livelihood, are unable to comply with laws fashioned for established formal businesses and enduring spatial inequality. Most informal workers and micro-enterprises have no alternative to operating informally (and illegally) and are, as a result, subject to a host of challenges from police corruption to unfair competition to tenure insecurity to financial exclusion. We have documented the impact of these barriers in townships across South Africa.
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Details of Christmas and New Year services are now available on the Greater Anglia website
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Snow Updates
Greater Anglia have a number of ways of keeping passengers updated during times of disruption. With the potential for problems over the winter period the following information may be useful:
Check for the latest information and updates via the GA website at greateranglia.co.uk
Follow all the latest news, information and advice live via the GA Twitter feed
@greateranglia
Travel regularly? Get information about your journey anytime. Sign up at journeycheck.com/greateranglia
Free GA mobile app
Plan train journeys, check live train running and get London Transport updates with the free app. Just search for ‘Greater Anglia’ at your app store.
You can now receive alerts for your regular journey via the GA text service. Sign up at journeycheck.com/greateranglia
All the latest updates and journey planning advice from National Rail Enquiries - 08457 48 49 50
Live departure boards
Live information by station available online, or via the MacWidget/Windows Gadget. More details at
greateranglia.co.uk
On station
75% of GA stations have help points providing information and assistance 24 hours a day.
Train Tracker™ text
Text your start and end stations to 84950 to get the next train times for your journey. (Texts cost 25p).
Greater Anglia "Print Your Own Ticket" Facilty Available
Following a successful pilot scheme in the summer Greater Anglia have now rolled out their scheme allowing passengers to purchase and print their own Advance train tickets to London and certain other routes at home, or download them to mobile phones.
For details click here
Rail Fares Set To Rise
Rail Fares are set to rise by just over 4% in the new year. The rise should actually have been greater but for intervention by the government to limit it to 1% over inflation - the original target being 3% plus inflation.
Annual season tickets from Manningtree will increase to £5,060 from £4,860.
Wi-Fi Coming To Manningtree Station
Wi-Fi will soon be available at Manningtree Station. Greater Anglia is working with The Cloud to rollout Wi-Fi access to stations in Essex and Manningtree is on the list to be included.
Passengers will be able to use the service free of charge for one hour a day with BSkyB customers having unlimited access.
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Poor Rail Replacement Service
The MRUA has received a number of complaints about the poor weekend rail replacement service that has involved trains going to Witham with buses taking passengers to Billericay to catch a further train for intermediate stations to London.
Specific issues include:
Unhelpful staff with a poor attitude at Witham Station, despite there clearly being chaos all around.
Surly coach drivers
Passengers having to unload their own luggage from coaches
General chaos
The MRUA has raised this with Greater Anglia.
Mums To Be - Did You Know?
If you are pregnant and in your last eight weeks of pregnancy before maternity leave, you may apply for an authority to travel which will allow you to sit in a First Class seat if there are no seats available in Standard Class.
To obtain this authority you must be in possession of a season ticket photo card. If you do not hold such a card please take a recent passport size / style photograph to any Greater Anglia ticket office. A photocard will created for you free of charge.
For more information, please click here
Passenger Focus Disappointment For Greater Anglia
In Passenger Focus's Autumn Report Greater Anglia does not come out well in a couple of areas highlighted by the passenger watchdog.
Overall Satisfaction scores on individual routes in the country varied from 97% (Merseyrail - Wirral) down to 70% (First Capital Connect, Thameslink and Greater Anglia)
Value for Money satisfaction varies from 75% (ScotRail - rural) down to 23% for Greater Anglia Mainline.
Record Breaking Performance At Greater Anglia
Greater Anglia has issued the following press release which is self explanatory:
Greater Anglia - the region’s train operator – has reported further improvements in train service performance, recording its best train punctuality results yet for the four-week period ended 13 October, with a public performance measure (PPM) of 95.03%. This is the highest PPM figure recorded for any four-week period since the current franchise structure for East Anglia was introduced in 2004, and the first time that franchise-wide performance in excess of 95% has been achieved in a single period.
Greater Anglia has consistently delivered improvement in train punctuality since taking over the franchise in February and the moving annual average (MAA) punctuality - measuring performance over a 12 month average - has improved to a new-high of 91.7%, which is the best MAA figure for the East Anglia franchise area for at least 12 years.
The entire Greater Anglia network again performed well in the most recent period ended 13 October. Metro services between Liverpool Street and Shenfield / Southend Victoria achieved their highest-ever period punctuality of 97% and annual average punctuality of 94.3% is also at an all-time high. The Mainline route recorded 95% period punctuality and the MAA has improved to 90.8% - in both cases these are the best results recorded for the Mainline route in the past 12 years (and on a much more intensively-used route).
Elsewhere, services on the Rural routes network in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire saw period punctuality of 94% and an improving annual average performance now standing at 92.2%. The West Anglia network also performed exceptionally well with punctuality of 94.7% and Stansted Express 92.2%.
The improvement in train service performance achieved by Greater Anglia since February reflects the ‘alliance’ the train operator has established with Network Rail as part of the current franchise. This is providing a real focus on improving performance and when problems do occur improved contingency plans are helping to ensure that the service can recover more quickly following any disruption. Greater Anglia’s train fleet is also operating more reliably and its Class 90 locomotives and Mk3 coaches on intercity services are currently the second most reliable intercity fleet in the rail industry.
Ruud Haket, Managing Director Greater Anglia said: “I am delighted that over 95% of Greater Anglia trains arrived on time for the past four weeks, achieving our best-ever levels of punctuality and improving still further on the excellent performance we delivered over the Olympics and Paralympics Games.
“Our alliance with Network Rail and excellent reliability of our fleet of trains has again helped to achieve the best four-week period of performance in this franchise so far. We are not complacent however, and there remains more work to do in delivering consistent levels of train service performance for our customers across London and East Anglia, and we will continue to work with our colleagues at Network Rail, focusing on further improvement.”
No Change To Greater Anglia Franchise Timetable
Ben Gummer, MP for Ipswich, raised the question in parliament of whether the process to decide the next franchise currently run by Greater Anglia will be delayed by the recent West Coast Mainline franchise debacle. The Minister for Transport, Patrick McLoughlin assured him that the process to determine the next franchise here should not slip.
The next franchise is due to run for fifteen years, starting in mid 2014, with consultation due to commence in 2013.
Greater Anglia on BBC Essex
Greater Anglia are due to be on the Dave Monk show on BBC Essex this coming Friday, the 19th October. If you would like to raise any issues with the company who run our trains then please contact BBC Essex on 01245 495050 or alternatively via email at: essex@bbc.co.uk
Leaf Fall Timetbale In Operation
The annual Leaf Fall Timetable is now in operation and will continue until until 7th December 2012. Details can be found here
Reduction In Weekend Engineering Works
Network Rail and Greater Anglia have announced that there will be significant fewer disruptions in 2013 caused by engineering work. Also, for the first time in many years disruption this Christmas will be kept to a minimum.
Under the new plans scheduled for 2013 on the GE Mainline, only two Saturdays are affected by engineering work that will require a replacement bus service. There will be no disruption requiring replacement buses from the end of March to October.
Since 2007, there have been on average 30 weekends a year requiring bus replacement services. In 2013, there will only be 7 planned weekends of such disruptive engineering work.
Greater Anglia Franchise Agreement
The Great Anglia Franchise agreement is now available to download on the Department for Transport website.
Inter City Carriage Refurbishment
The rail media is reporting that East Midlands Trains are now intending to bid for the refurbishment work of the Mk3 carriages used on the London - Norwich services. Greater Anglia has confirmed that work is likely to start next year with the carriages receiving [another] coat of paint in GA white with red doors.
Interior improvements have been discussed and the work may include automatic plug-doors which have been successfully implemented on the same carriages used on the Chiltern Line. Such work would extend the life of these coaches considerably raising questions about future plans for new trains on this line.
Ageing Greater Anglia Trains
The average age of trains run by Greater Anglia is now 24.72 years which is significantly higher than the national average of 17.93 years. This puts Greater Anglia (GA) in 4th spot overall for the oldest fleet on the network. Although GA is carrying out a deep clean of its trains as part of its franchise agreement, nobody can deny that the fleet needs some significant work carried out on it to counter the age and poor condition of the trains.
'Meet The Manager' At Liverpool Street
There will be a Meet The Manager session at Liverpool Street station this Wednesday, the 19th, from 16:30 to 18:30. This is an opportunity for Greater Anglia customers to ask questions of the station's management team.
If you are unable to make the session but have a question you can use the Twitter hashtag #ttmga
Petition Against Fare Increases
A petition has been set up on the government's e-petition website to protest against rail fare increases. Unfortunately the wording is not perhaps as good as it might have been but if enough people sign up for it then perhaps the government will take note.
The petition can be found here
Anger At East Anglian Rail Subsidies
An article in today's East Anglian Daily Times (EADT) highlights the extraoridinary way that passengers in this region are heavily subsidising other parts of the rail network while we endure all but the oldest trains in the country and a level of underinvestment that adversely affects the service we receive on a daily basis.
Members of the ERUF committee, of which the MRUA is a member, will be meeting Simon Burns, MP for Chelmsford and recently appointed Transport Minister, on the 10th September and this ridiculous situation will be top of the agenda.
The full story in the EADT can be found here.
The "Cancelled" 05:54
For the second time in recent months we have had another instance of a train being "cancelled" only for passengers to see it hurtle through Manningtree station less than half empty. Yesterday's 5:54 ex Manningtree to Liverpool Street was "cancelled" due to Level Crossing problems at Diss. However the train passed through Manningtree (and Colchester too). As before, a passenger from Stowmarket who uses this train confirmed there were less than 10 passengers in their carriage - this in a train with standing room only on a normal day.
The MRUA understands that the Controller took this action as the train was running 17 minutes late and there was a danger of the return service being delayed. A cynic may think this demonstrates very clearly that statistics showing trains running on time are more important to Greater Anglia than providing good Customer Service.
The MRUA awaits a full explanation.
New Manningtree - Liv St Season Ticket Price
For information the proposed price increases will see an annual season ticket from Manningtree to London go up from £4,860 to £5,161. That is an increase of £512 in 2 years. Extraordinary really.
"Above Inflation Rail Fare Increases Are A Tax On Users"
The Essex Rail Users Federation , of which the MRUA is a member, has this morning issued the following press release:
“The new rail fare increases are grossly unfair and a tax on Essex rail users” says the Chairman of Essex Rail Users Federation, Derek Monnery.
The Rail Minister, Theresa Villiers, said on Breakfast television this morning that a 3% surcharge on fares was to be charged in January 2013 to pay for rail improvements. However, Essex is not the beneficiary of any of the planned rail investment with all of it being spent elsewhere. So the 3% rise is effectively a tax on rail fares.
Even this might be tolerable if the rail service was good. Rail passengers have persistently scored local train operators near the bottom of the national poll for rail satisfaction. This is due to the scruffy condition of much of the rolling stock and repeated infrastructure failures causing train delays.
Derek Monnery concluded “Without serious investment in the Essex rail network a 3% surcharge on our fares is quite unjustifiable. We are already starting to receive angry feedback from Essex rail users.”
Buy And Print Tickets At Home
A pilot scheme has been introduced to enable passengers to purchase and print tickets at home. The pilot will be available on the London - Norwich route, connecting stations from Harwich, connecting trains from Sheringham and connecting stations from Great Yarmouth to London.
Passengers will be able to book and pay for their tickets online and then choose to print them at home or if they prefer download them to the Greater Anglia phone app.
The pilot will be rolled out over the remainder of connecting stations into the mainline and any other routes where advanced tickets are available.
Details at www.greateranglia.co.uk
Greater Anglia Smart Phone App Updated
Greater Anglia (GA) have updated their smart phone app to add more features. Highlights include:
The ability to search for stations close to customers' location and obtaining train times from that station including next departure.
The GA Twitter Feed is now embedded within the app providing up to date information about services.
Additional information for passengers traveling onwards to London, including a journey planner ad live updates about the status of the tube and London buses.
These features are in addition to the existing facilities that include the ability to book train tickets, check train times for future journeys and view live departure boards at all UK rail stations.
The free app is available on iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Windows phones.
Our Rail Problems Go Global!
Interesting to note that the media stories regarding heat affected services on the GE mainline have been seen online in:
Chelmsford Weekly News
MSNBC (USA/Online)
Atlantic Cities (USA)
WKZO (USA)
WTAQ (USA)
WSAU (USA)
WHTC (USA)
Malaysia Star
Norwich Evening News
Reuters Africa
Globe & Mail (Canada)
BreakingNews.ie
Irish Examiner
TNT Magazine
and the Evening Standard.
Stories about trains not stopping at Stratford (THE Olympic station!) to avoid delays, will not show our railways in the best light. Take note Network Rail and Greater Anglia!
Would A Poor Rail Service Affect The Way You Vote?
The ongoing problems suffered by Manningtree commuters almost daily, caused mainly by lack of investment in infrastructure, and the ever increasing costs in traveling by train have prompted some to suggest it would affect the way they vote at the next election.
Would your vote be affected by the local train service? Let us know at info@mrua.org
Beaulieu Park - New Station
It is understood that work will start on constructing the first of the new houses at Beaulieu Park, north of Chelmsford, in March 2013. Importantly for Manningtree passengers, initial work on the new station there is currently out to tender, so could start soon. The new station will include long passing loops to enable fast trains to pass slower ones thereby improving journey times.
Inter City Coaches To Be Refurbished
Rumours in the media suggesting Greater Anglia are making plans to refurbish the Mark 3 Inter City carriages that make up the London - Norwich services. The refurbishment will include a repaint into GA white with the red doors, cosmetic and corrosion repairs. Interior improvements including new seats and improved lighting have also been discussed apparently.
A single restaurant car has already been been treated because it needed additional work carried out but rumours suggest the rest of the fleet will be done next year.
Rail Manifesto
If you would like a copy of the Rail Manifesto that was launched on Monday, please contact us at info@mrua.org and we will email a copy to you.
Manifesto For A Better Rail Service Launched
A prospectus entitled Once in a Generation - A Rail Prospectus for East Anglia has been launched by an alliance of interested parties claiming that the existing rail network is holding back economic performance in Essex, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk.
The document is seen as a realistic and technically feasable programme of improvements between now and 2032.
Improvements of interest to local passengers include infrastructure upgrades on the Great Eastern Mainline, new trains and increased frequency on branch lines.
The prospectus is being supported by local MPs, over 25 local authorities and 19 Rail User Groups including the MRUA as part of the Essex Rail Users Federation.
Olympics Train Information Available
Details of timetable changes to accommodate the London Olympics are available for download from the Greater Anglia website.
Greater Anglia Passengers The Least Satisfied
A survey carried out by the passenger watchdog, Passenger Focus, earlier in the year shows passengers in this region the least satisfied in the country.
The results put Great Anglia (GA) at the bottom when it came to value for money, punctuality, stations, how the company dealt with delays and overall satisfaction with the service. A lowly 30% said the service provided value for money.
The survey was taken shortly after Greater Anglia took over the franchise, so much of the criticism is leveled at National Express East Anglia and indeed GA claim punctuality is up to 93% from when they took over when it was 88%.
Regular passengers will know however that there is much to do. Unfortunately the shortness of the current franchise makes the long term investment desperately needed unlikely.
Greater Anglia Staff To Ballot For Strike Action
Greater Anglia (GA) staff are to be balloted for strike action over Olympic payments. RMT members will vote on strike action after they rejected an offer from GA.
MP Requests Improved Disabled Access For Manningtree
Bernard Jenkin MP has written to the department for Transport requesting disabled access at Manningtree Station be improved. The MRUA has been campaigning for improved access for some time and any improvement would be welcomed by many.
Currently access to and from platform 3 can only be made via the narrow subway which involves steep steps. Those in wheelchairs have to seek assistance to be escorted across the track. The situation has been made worse by effectively turning Manningtree into a terminus for Harwich trains making the need to change platforms an issue for even more people.
Changes To Departure Boards At Liverpool Street - Your Thoughts?
The main departure boards at Liverpool Street were today changed to reflect the geographical groupings detailed in the previous post. The MRUA certainly has a view on this but would be interested to hear your thoughts? Contact us at info@mrua.org
Liverpool Steet Departure Boards Are Changing
Network Rail will be making changes to the main departure boards at Liverpool Street on Wednesday 28th March. The boards will be split into three sections based on the geographic groupings of services.
Section 1 will display services to:
King’s Lynn, Cambridge, Stansted Airport, Bishop's Stortford, Hertford East, Enfield Town and Chingford
Section 2 will feature a ‘Special Notice’ display, giving our customers additional general information concerning train services.
Norwich, Ipswich, Harwich Town, Walton-on-the-Naze, Clacton-on-Sea, Colchester, Colchester Town, Braintree, Southminster, Southend Victoria, Shenfield and Gidea Park.
There will be no change to the current Stansted Express information on the departure board.
5:54 Ex Manningtree 5th March
The MRUA have asked Greater Anglia for an explanation as to why the 05:54 was 'cancelled' this morning. Passengers at Manningtree were told it was cancelled due to overrunning engineering work only to see the train hurtle through the station without stopping. The train didn't stop at Colchester either and arrived at Liverpool Street all but empty of passengers.
Those left at Manningtree endured a slow train to Liverpool Street heaving with passengers.
A cynic might think the 5:54 was allowed to avoid Manningtree and Colchester so as to arrive at Liverpool Street within ten minutes of its booked time and therefore not be logged as late.
A Rise In 'Signals Passed At Danger'
The number of Signals Passed At Danger (SPADs) incidents in East Anglia more than doubled last year according to figures released by National Express East Anglia.
In its annual report, National express revealed that the number of SPADS went up from 0.44 per million miles in 2010 to 0.96 per million miles in 2011. That works out at about 20 incidents on the entire East Anglian network throughout the year.
In 2010 there were only 9 SPADs in the region. However this number was regarded as an exception with 2011 providing figures more in line with the norm.
NXEA confirmed that the vast majority of SPADs involved trains passing a signal by only a metre or two usually as a result of slippery rails. Details of more serious SPADs were not provided.
Greater Anglia Launch Ticket App
Greater Anglia have today launched an app to enable passengers to purchase tickets via their iPhone, Android, Blackberry or Ovi phones. iPhone users can also download timetables that can be used offline.
Details can be found at http://tinyurl.com/82ultqo
Greater Anglia Starts Today
Today sees the start of the Abellio Greater Anglia franchise. It is unlikely that any major changes will be forthcoming in the short term but details of their services can be found at http://www.greateranglia.com
Passenger Fined For Crossing The Tracks At Manningtree
A passenger has been fined £100 for crossing the tracks at Manningtree rather than use the subway. Toby Millet ignored warnings from staff and became abusive when challenged.
In addition to the fine - which was deemed as paid through time spent in custody - Millet was also ordered to pay £85 costs and fined another £85 for 'failing to surrender' as he turned up at court on the wrong day.
MRUA Requesting Action On Pedestrian Access To Station
The MRUA has approached Essex County Council, Tendring District Council and Lawford Parish Council requesting action be taken to reduce the dangers to pedestrians and cyclists as they approach the station. Pedestrians take their lives in their hands crossing the various roads to get the station and this is particularly dangerous at the bottom of Station Approach where vehicles often negotiate the entrance far too fast.
Help With Travel During The Olympics
A useful website is now available offering information about transport hotspots during the Olympics this summer. Details at: http://www.getaheadofthegames.com/
NXEA Come Bottom In Customer Satisfaction Survey
In the latest Customer Satisfaction Survey conducted by Passenger Focus, National Express East Anglia came a very poor last scoring only 77% - a full 3% less than the next worst performer First Capital Connect. Rather worryingly Northern Rail - another Abellio franchise - only scored 83%.
On a more positive note Merseyrail, the third franchise with Abellio connections, came third overall with 93%.
Grand Central came top with an impressive 95%.
New Management For Abellio Franchise
With less than 2 weeks to go to the launch of the new Greater Anglia franchise, Abellio has announced the board of directors who will lead the company for the next 29 months. Only one of the NXEA management team appears to have moved across.
Ruud Haket - Managing Director
Andrew Goodrum - Customer Services Director
Adam Golton - Finance Director
Thijs Jan Noomen - Projects Director
John Ratcliffe - Engineering Director
Nanouke van ‘t Riet - Operations Director
Andrew Camp - Commercial Director
Simone Bailey - Asset Management Director
Dave Welham - interim HR Director
Rail Fare Rises in 2013 & 2014 To Stay At RPI+3%
The government has confirmed that rail fare rises at the start of 2013 and 2014 are to stay at RPI+3 per cent. The rise at the start of this month was kept to RPI+1 per cent, after a policy u-turn announced by the Chancellor at the end of November, but nothing was said at the time about what would happen in future years.
The confirmation has come in its announcement about the issuing of Invitations to Tender for the next Intercity West Coast franchise.
In a note attached to the ITT statement, the Department said: 'The ITT for the InterCity West Coast franchise follows the current agreed regulated fares policy as set out in the 2011 Comprehensive Spending Review – a rise in 2012 of RPI + 1 per cent and RPI + 3 per cent for 2013 and 2014, returning to RPI + 1% thereafter. Over the long term we are committed to reducing the cost of running the railways and the goal of ending the era of above-inflation fare increases.'
Changes To Departure Boards At Liverpool Street
Network Rail, NXEA and Atos are making plans to change the information currently displayed on the main departure boards at Liverpool Street. The main board will be split into 3 sections as follows:
Section 1 will display services to: King’s Lynn,Cambridge, Stansted Airport, Bishop's Stortford, Hertford East, Enfield Town and Chingford
Section 2 will feature a ‘Special Notice’ display, giving passengers additional general information concerning train services.
Section 3 will display services to: Norwich, Ipswich, Harwich Town, Walton-on-the-Naze, Clacton-on-Sea, Colchester, Colchester Town, Braintree, Southminster, Southend Victoria, Shenfield and Gidea Park.
There will be no change to the current Stansted Express information on the main departure board.
It does not appear that the actual technology is changing so the most common criticism received about the clarity of the boards is not being addressed.
NXEA 'Tweet The Manager'
There will soon be another opportunity for users of Twitter to talk to senior NXEA managers. The next 'Tweet the Manager' session will be on 17th January between 1630 and 1830. Train Planning and Performance Managers will be in attendance. Use hashtag #ttmnxea
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Britney Spears being inspired by Jamie Lynn Spears to go darker.
Britney Spears’ Boyfriend Sam Asghari ‘Absolutely’ Wants to Marry the Pop Star
An engagement on the horizon? Britney Spears’ boyfriend, Sam Asghari, opened up about his relationship with the pop star and revealed that he hopes marriage is in their future.
“Absolutely,” Asghari, 25, told Entertainment TonightOpens a New Window. Wednesday, September 4, when asked about the possibility of marriage with Spears, 37. “This is something that every couple should do. That’s the whole point of a relationship — we are a family.”
Asghari then pointed out that “if we do ever get married, everybody’s going to know.”
Though the couple aren’t necessarily saying “I do” anytime soon, the actor and personal trainer shared that the pair’s families have gotten close. “I have three sisters. We’ve hung out a lot of times,” he explained.
“We’ve been together for three years and my sisters love her, my family loves her,” he continued. “My mom lives in another country [but] when she was here, she met her.”
Spears and Asghari, who made their red carpet debut at July’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood premiere, met three years earlier while shooting a music video for her 2016 hit, “Slumber Party.” When the Grammy winner reflected on the duo’s first meeting, she recalled how things got off to an awkward start.
“We were doing the scene where I was doing the walk scene through the hall to go through the door to go to the bedroom, and we were sitting there and waiting and waiting together for like 20 minutes at a time,” she said on CBS Radio’s Fast in the Morning With Nathan FastOpens a New Window. in January 2017. “We were having to be literally stuck there together, so we were basically forced to talk to each other.”
On Wednesday, Asghari told ETOpens a New Window. that sparks began flying between the pair when they talked about Spears’ favorite food, sushi. “We connected, we talked. We talked about, ‘What do you like to eat? Sushi.’ … And then [exchanged] text messages and, next thing you know, a date. Just like a normal couple,” he said.
Asghari’s full interview with Entertainment Tonight will air Wednesday, September 4, and Monday, September 9 (check your local listings for airtime).
Britney Spears' Dad Allegedly Got in 'Altercation' with Her 13-Year-Old Son, Says K-Fed's Lawyer
Kevin Federline's lawyer tells PEOPLE that a physical altercation occurred between the rapper's son, Sean Preston, and Britney Spears' dad, Jamie
Kevin Federline has accused Britney Spears‘ father, Jamie, of physically abusing his 13-year-old son, Sean Preston.
The rapper’s representative, powerhouse Los Angeles family law attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan, tells PEOPLE that the alleged incident occurred on the evening of Aug. 24 while Sean Preston and his brother, Jayden James, 12, were on visitation with their mother at Jamie’s house.
A representative and lawyer for Spears did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s requests for comment. Jamie was also unable to be reached by PEOPLE.
“There was a disagreement that occurred while Britney and the children were visiting with Jamie at his home that led to a physical altercation that was observed by Jayden,” Kaplan says. “Britney did the right thing and removed the children and took them out of there, but the trauma to the kids is nonetheless.”
The Blast reports that Jamie allegedly “violently shook” Sean after breaking down a bedroom door to reach him.
As a result, Kaplan says he and Federline, 41, went to the Ventura County Sheriff’s station the next day, Aug. 25, to file a police report in an attempt to obtain an emergency protective order for his kids. Kaplan says that they decided not to proceed with an “evidentiary hearing on the domestic violence order against Jamie” after notifying Britney’s lawyers and attempting to work things out.
Additionally, the alleged incident prompted Federline and Kaplan to file documents on Aug. 28 to officially adjust the former couple’s previous 50/50 custody agreement. Now, Federline has custody of the boys for 70 percent of the time, while Britney, 37, has them for 30 percent of the time — an arrangement which Kaplan says has been unofficially in place for “almost the last year.”
Though several outlets have reported that the new custody agreement grants Britney unsupervised visitation rights, Kaplan claims “that’s not the way this is.”
“The custody remains supervised,” he says.
Regardless of what might have happened with Jamie, Kaplan says Federline and the boys are both “doing great” now.
“It was important to Kevin that regardless of this event that the kids still had continuing and meaningful contact with their mother,” he says.
Jamie Lynn Spears Asks Andy Cohen If She and Sister Britney Can Be on Watch What Happens Live
Jamie Lynn Spears is ready for her Bravo moment.
On Wednesday, Watch What Happens Live host Andy Cohen shared a throwback photo with Britney Spearson Instagram.
“That time @sarahjessicaparker brought me backstage to meet @britneyspears! (I aged, she didn’t),” Cohen captioned the adorable post.
Shortly after, Jamie Lynn appeared in the comments, seemingly asking for an invite to appear on the show with her big sister, writing: “That time Me and B were on WWHL………” Cohen quickly responded with, “Spears girls on WWHL!”
That time @sarahjessicaparker brought me backstage to meet @britneyspears! (I aged, she didn’t.)
A post shared by Andy Cohen (@bravoandy) on Aug 7, 2019 at 11:14am PDT
There’s no word yet on whether the sisters will join Cohen, 51, in the Playhouse. But Jamie Lynn, 28, is a Bravo devotee, and Britney, 37, had a memorable encounter with the talk show host last year.
In July 2018, Britney performed at Radio City Music Hall in New York, Cohen joined her onstage during her song “Freakshow.” After leading a harness-clad Cohen around the stage on a leash (and spanking him!) Spears thanked her special guest — whom she appeared to not recognize.
Britney and Jamie Lynn Spears; Andy CohenIMAGE GROUP LA/DISNEY CHANNEL VIA GETTY; JON KOPALOFF/FILMMAGIC
“I think you all know who this is! Give it up for … him!” Spears told the crowd at the time.
The day after the concert, Cohen opened up about the viral moment on his SiriusXM Radio Andy show.
“First of all: Why would Britney know my name? She’s Britney, bitch! … I’m a mortal! And Britney is Britney,” Cohen said at the time. “I don’t [think she knows who I am]. She gave me what I want. I don’t need to think that she would even really know who I am. … I mean it’s pretty funny, right?”
After the Instagram account Comments By Celebs reposted the concert video, fans immediately started theorizing that Britney didn’t know who he was, prompting Jamie Lynn to comment, “Looks I need to have a bravo binge with someone…. WE LOVE YOU ANDY COHEN.”
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Geddy Lee surprise performer at Second City Show to Benefit Jake Thomas and Spinal Cord Injury Ontario
Last night (July 18th) Geddy Lee made a surprise appearance singing "Take Off" along side the McKenzie Brothers (Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis), in a Second City benefit show which raised $325,000 for Thomas' nephew Jake Thomas, who was paralyzed from the waist down after a snowmobiling accident. Jake is the son of Ian Thomas, whose band opened for Rush in the 70's. Funds also went to Spinal Cord Injury Ontario.
The charity show featured comics Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis on the Second City stage, alongside fellow former “SCTV”-ers Martin Short, Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara.
Second City says the intimate evening saw the McKenzie brothers riff on craft beer, political correctness and inventing rap on their first album. Meanwhile, Short revived his manic manchild Ed Grimley and performed as clueless Hollywood reporter Jiminy Glick, who conducted a celebrity interview with Rick Mercer.
O’Hara and Levy reprised their “SCTV” characters Bobby Bittman and Lola Heatherton, while former “Saturday Night Live” star Dan Aykroyd offered up some auctioneering and blues.
Geddy Lee was a surprise musical guest, who led a rousing rendition of Bob and Doug’s hit “Take Off.” That was in addition to appearances by musicians Paul Shaffer, Ian Thomas and Murray McLauchlan, and comics Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald and Scott Thompson of The Kids in the Hall, and Robin Duke and Katherine Greenwood of Women Fully Clothed.
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Police in Kasama have arrest three ex-convicts and one Taxi driver for burglary and theft
Northern Province Police commissioner Richard Mweene said police apprehended four suspected criminals who have been terrorizing residents and recovered property worth over K100,000.
Mweene identified the culprits as Dennis Kamoya Chibesa aged 33, Evans Mukokoto aged 27, Friday Chilumba 45 who are ex-convicts and Davis Chitoshi aged 30 a taxi driver all of Kasama.
“The quartet are believed to have conducted break-ins and in the process stealing assorted household goods including prasma televisions, radio cassettes, computers, blankets, motors, mattresses, gen-set,” stated Mweene.
He has since warned that police are on high alert and that perpetrators of such vices would be brought to book.
Meanwhile, a 47-year-old man of Chilindi Village in chief Puta of Chienge District has been arrested for attempting to sell his 13-year-old son in exchange for a fishing boat and nets all valued at K6,800.
Police spokesperson Esther Katongo has reported that the suspect identified as John Chishimba was on Monday around 09:00 hours approached by a member of the nearby community that he was selling his son in exchange for a fishing boat and nets.
“It was reported that on 17th May, 2019 around 0900 hours, John Chishimba (suspect) approached the complainant and told him that he had a son that he was selling in exchange for a boat and fishing nets and he promised that he would deliver the boy any time,” Katongo said.
She said that on the same day, the suspect took his son and demanded that he should be given the boat and the nets as payment for the sale of his son.
Katongo revealed that the complainant then informed the Community Crime Prevention Unit (CCPU) members who later apprehended the suspect and took him to Mununga Police Post.
She said the suspect has since been arrested, detained at Mununga Police Post and would appear in court soon.
Magistrate commits two siblings to the High Court for sentencing after finding them guilty of incest
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Mynewsdesk Nominated For Two Spinn Awards
Blog post • Oct 29, 2015 11:30 GMT
Mynewsdesk’s internet-breaking campaign, Mynewsdesk Now, has been honoured with two nominations at Spinn – Sweden’s most renowned PR awards ceremony. And to say we’re pretty chuffed would be the biggest understatement of the year!
The campaign, which followed 82 year-old Kerstin on her first steps into the digital era, was bigger than anyone at Mynewsdesk ever anticipated, receiving widespread coverage in the The Mirror, Washington Post, Reddit and beyond.
I caught-up with the lady behind the campaign, Sofia Juhlin…
How did the Spinn nomination come about?
We felt that Mynewsdesk Now had a real chance of getting recognition, so we put ourselves forward and the rest is history; it has been nominated for two categories, Best B2B Campaign and Best Content Marketing.
We were very excited when we heard the news. But, in our perspective, we’ve already won because of the results Mynewsdesk Now achieved.
What did you set out to achieve?
The plan from the start was to run with a relatively small campaign to highlight Mynewsdesk as a modern PR platform, while raising an important social issue. But the campaign escalated and every morning we were waking up to new coverage. The success of it all was so exciting!
What has the campaign taught you?
We’ve all learned so much from Mynewsdesk Now but I’d say there were three main lessons which we should keep in mind, going forward:
Firstly, working with an agency doesn’t mean you can leave them with a brief and just let them get on with it. You have to constantly work alongside them, teaching them about who you are as a brand, your positioning in the market and your values. In Sweden, many people have heard of Mynewsdesk but they still think of us as a crazy company who run around in red jumpsuits, and that just isn’t the case!
Secondly, I learned to trust myself. Agencies approached us with some really fun and elaborate ideas, but they just weren’t addressing who we are as a brand. If you’re not fully comfortable with an idea then don’t run with it. Trust your instincts until you find the right fit.
And finally, I realised the complexity of internal comms. Before Mynewsdesk Now, I hadn’t really considered the job that internal communications can play and just how important it is that the whole company is kept informed. I didn’t really prioritise it, but next time around I definitely will! It’s better to reach your own colleagues before sharing news with the wider world; get everyone onboard before going ahead.
Which piece of coverage were you most proud of?
The subject we chose was one that enabled journalists to write about the campaign from so many different angles, so it was cool to see who wrote what. But for us, getting covered in The Washington Post was pretty amazing!
We'll be keeping everything crossed until the awards ceremony on 12th November. GOOD LUCK, team!
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Digital Bicycle Bell Wins Prestigious Award At Advertising Week
Press releases • Sep 28, 2016 09:36 BST
Mynewsdesk and Hovding’s 2016 campaign “Give A Beep” has won the D&AD Impact Award for Creativity That Contributes To A Better World. Mynewsdesk - the digital PR platform providers - challenged a customer to reach 100 million people through effective storytelling. Hovding was the chosen customer for the campaign.
Mynewsdesk Reveals New Look Newsroom
News • Jan 30, 2016 13:20 GMT
Good news for all of our users! We've JUST rolled out the first part of several major product improvements we have planned for 2016. As you can see when you log in, we’ve freshened up the design of the entire tool. But don’t worry - all your favourite features are still in the same place as before - but this new look and feel will hopefully enhance the way you use Mynewsdesk.
Surfing the silver way: watch the reaction of an 82-year-old digital novice join Tinder
Blog posts • Mar 09, 2015 14:30 GMT
Today marks the kick off of the EU Summit on Innovation for Active and Healthy Ageing, a discussion on how demographic change can offer new opportunities for innovation and growth - 'the Silver opportunity'.
Top of the PR Pops: 2015's Best Bits
From the stars of social media to the campaigns that caused a stir, we take a look at our favourite stunts and ads from 2015.
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Taiwan to discuss lithium ion battery energy storage with Tesla following blackout
The Taiwanese government is planning to approach Tesla to discuss the feasibility of setting up lithium ion battery facilities for storing renewable energy on the island, in line with a project the U.S. technology company recently launched in Australia, a top official said on Thursday following a mass power blackout earlier in the week.
Good to see Tesla becoming a top choice for large battery backup solutions.
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Tesla releases new Autopilot 2.0 software update, adds Automatic High Beam worldwide
Very cool feature for those who use high-beam headlights:
We’ve added a new setting, Auto High Beam, that makes using high-beam headlights more convenient by automatically switching to low beams to avoid shining too much light at other drivers. When you enable this setting and turn your high beams on, Model S temporarily switches to low-beam headlights if traffic is detected in front of the vehicle.
Tesla Aims to Streamline Service Contacts
McNeill wrote, “To make contacting the right person at Tesla easier, we’ve streamlined our contacts for you:
For any customer issue, you can call us (877-798-3752), tweet us (@teslaservice) or email us ([email protected])
For Body shop or collision repair issues, you can get a Tesla Body Shop Customer Advocate to assist you by emailing us ([email protected]) or calling 877-798-3752 (press 2, then 4).
To escalate any issue, you can log into your Tesla account, click Support and then Executive Escalation.
I'm glad to see that Tesla is making efforts to improve their communication channels with customers.
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Tesla Model 3’s aero wheels look awesome without their aero caps
But you can actually remove the aero caps off the wheels and now we get to see the standard 18″ wheels without the caps for the first time. It looks pretty cool.
It's great to see that the 18" aero wheel covers can be taken off and that the bare wheels look great. For those that are looking for increased handling but a stiffer ride, then the 19" wheels will be the wheels of choice. However, for those that prefer more comfort (ie., for highway driving) or want to save some money will likely be better off with the 18" wheels.
2017 Tesla Model 3 Has Unexpected Electric Motor Design
Tesla choose permanent magnet motors for Model 3:
For one, PM motors are more efficient, so long as you're not intent on building a hyperperformance machine. This makes them a better choice for daily-driven commuter vehicles. Not to oversimplify it too much, but AC induction motors have to use some of the electricity stored in the car's battery to generate the necessary magnetism within the motor. Permanent magnet motors have no need for this because they are made using, as the name suggests, permanently magnetic materials. This change has many cascading benefits, especially if you are trying to build a smaller, less-expensive electric car. A more efficient electric motor means you can use a smaller battery to achieve a given range, which not only lowers the price, but also reduces the battery's weight and footprint. A smaller and lighter battery in turn allows for a smaller and lighter car, which increases efficiency and range and reduces the need for a big motor even more. It's a self-reinforcing change that makes the Model 3 possible, as well as affordable.
Aswath Damodaran calls Tesla’s bond buyers 'naive'
Damodaran added bond issuance doesn't make sense for the company either. He cited how Tesla has historical losses of more than $4 billion, which negates any tax benefit against profits from debt's interest payments. In addition, he is concerned added debt gives the company additional liquidity risk. "While the benefits from debt are low to non-existent, the costs are immense," he wrote. "The company is still young and losing money, and adding a contractual commitment to make interest payments on top of all of the other capital needs that the company has, strikes me as imprudent, with the possibility that one bad year" could put the company at risk.
Prof. Damodaran is an academic expert in company valuation models. However, I believe he's unaware that Tesla is likely going to show large profits starting 2nd half of next year. And if this happens, it will change the Tesla story for investors and skeptics as well. I think the main reason Tesla chose to borrow money (via bonds) rather than issue stock is because Tesla management strongly believes that they will turn a huge corner in showing profits in about a year and they're comfortable taking on debt payments.
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With the departures of both CJ Fair and Jerami Grant, there are plenty of questions in the Syracuse frontcourt heading into the 2014-15 season. For many Orange fans, the answer to most of those questions could come in the form of 6-foot-10 Chris McCullough, a guy Jim Boeheim recently described as having “unlimited potential.” Now that word is coming out McCullough has met all potential eligibility concerns, it’s time to look ahead to just how enormous that potential is.
You guys may not realize this, but Jim Boeheim isn’t someone who throws around compliments particularly easily or often. In recent years he has said that Dion Waiters was perhaps the most talented guard he’d ever recruited, and that Tyler Ennis was the most ready point guard he had ever brought in. So far we haven’t seen much to contradict either of those statements, which means that it’s time to get excited about what McCullough can bring to the table.
And let’s not kid ourselves here, his seat at the table has been well established since pretty much the moment he committed. Back then, he was a top-10 national prospect and has only recently slid in the rankings because of questions surrounding his departure from Brewster Academy, and the notion among some scouts that he tends to sleepwalk a little bit during games. But the one thing everyone can agree on is that there’s a basketball monster lurking somewhere in that long, athletic frame.
If you’ve never seen McCullough play, or watched any of his highlights, he’s an outstanding athlete with size and agility. He’s explosive and can really get out and run in transition, and loves to finish with authority on alley oops and putbacks. But he’s not just an athlete, either. He’s shown some pretty strong signs of being able to put the ball on the floor well for a guy his size, and he’s got a good enough shooting stroke to be able to knock down midrange jumpers and the occasional three. To put it another way, he’s coming in as a better shooter than Jerami Grant ever became in his two seasons at Syracuse, with similar athleticism.
That’s not to take anything away from Grant, either, mind you. It’s just to let you know that in McCullough, the Orange are getting a guy who, if he puts everything together, could be a top-5 pick in the NBA draft sooner rather than later. In addition to his somewhat raw, but very apparent offensive skills, he’s also got the potential to be an intimidating shot blocker on the collegiate level. Between his size, length, footwork, and explosive leaping ability, there’s a real chance he’s going to make driving the lane against the 2-3 zone a genuine nightmare for a lot of folks.
Strength is a concern as he transitions from high school to the highest level of Division I basketball, but he’s hovering around 225 and has the type of frame to put on another 15 pounds of muscle without losing any of his quickness or leaping ability. If he can get to around 240 by the time the season rolls around, and continue to hone his offensive skills, watch out.
Now, some folks have attributed his recent slide in the national rankings to a lack of fire that has led to a lack of overall progression over the last couple of years. There are those who feel like he’s kind of gotten lackadaisical in his approach and that’s caused his development as a player to stall out a bit, and that could very well be true. Again, though, we’re looking at the potential that McCullough brings to the Orange roster, and at this point that potential makes him arguably the most intriguing recruit that Syracuse has nabbed since a certain Baltimore swingman rolled into town in 2002.
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Digging Up The Past – True Ghost Story
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Sarah was like many other teenagers during the war. She still wanted to go out, to see films, to meet her friends. But the harsh realities of war had a way of taking over. Her parent’s house in Sliema was destroyed by a bomb and they were forced to rent a house in Pieta’, Malta.
It should not have been such a hardship. The house was, after all, huge. At the back of the building, a huge garden stretched out beneath the towering mass of St Luke’s Hospital. And yet, something was not quite right.
When Carmen, her mother, first climbed up to the door and walked into the house, she would have sworn that something was barring her way. Nothing tangible, just a ‘thickness’, a pressure, as though an air-filled bag was inflated in the doorway.
The house had plenty of space for Carmen and her husband, Sarah and her younger sister, Joanna, and her other married daughter with her baby. She set about decorating it. The house was soon filled with huge, dark paintings, and old, imposing furniture that they managed to find here and there. Carmen may have liked the style, but Sarah found it oppressive, spooky.
And it was not just because of the furniture. The house was often shrouded in smoke screens let off to protect the boats in the nearby Torpedo depot, giving the place an eerie atmosphere even in broad daylight.
And on the wall on the roof they could see where some stones had crumbled and fallen. It seemed that lightning had once hit that spot, killing a man in the process.
And were the neighbors’ stories true? Had someone committed suicide in the house?
Unlike Sarah, Carmen could not allow herself the luxury of allowing her imagination to run riot. They were lucky to have a roof over their heads. She was a pretty no-nonsense woman.
For some time, the family lived there and the only change in their lives was the asthmatic wheezing caused by the smoke.
Until some people moved in next door. The house had an even larger garden than Carmen’s and the family decided to start up a small weaving industry. Sarah and her sisters spent many hours sitting on their balcony that summer, draped over the railing, watching the men work in the garden next door. Sarah was quite a stunner and was quite aware of the admiring glances she was getting from the men below. But the harmless flirting came to an abrupt end when the men started cutting down a huge blackcurrant tree at the bottom of the garden.
The men had started to dig out the roots when their spades uncovered a gruesome sight. They carefully dug out the crumbling bones of a skeleton. Or at least most of a skeleton. Sarah and her sisters could hardly believe their eyes. Their hands flew up to stifle their screams. They watched in amazement as the men lifted out one long limb after another.
The men gathered around the bones and seemed to be discussing the find. They then casually tossed them into the pile of rubble which had accumulated against the adjoining wall and carried on digging.
“Ma, Ma!” the girls yelled as they ran indoors.
“They’ve dug up some skeletons … ” But Carmen would not have any of it. “Don’t be ridiculous. It was probably a dog or something.”
Sarah was about to insist but thought better of it.After all, she argued with herself, why on earth would a skeleton be buried under a tree … unless ….
Her mind was filled with images of murders and strange disappearances. It was only later that evening that Sarah realized that the men had only dug up the limbs and torso. No skull.
Sarah’s younger sister was studying for her school exams at that time and she used to help the neighbors’ sons with their homework. It wasn’t too difficult; they were only about 10 years-old and quite hard-working. So Joanna had no idea what their mother would want to talk to her about when, one day, she pulled her over to one side. “Have the kids said anything to you about a man?” Joanna stared at her blankly. “What do you mean?” she asked. It seemed that the boys kept complaining that there was a man wandering around at the bottom of their garden. The neighbor wanted to know whether Sarah and Joanna had ever seen anyone from the balcony.
Joanna mentioned it to her mother, but soon forgot all about it. Shame, really, as it was a warning of the things to come ….
One summer evening, the girls were all sltting around the dining-room table, a sultry breeze blowing in from the open door to the garden. Carmen was bustling around the kitchen. She was a creature of habit and had little rituals that she followed regularly. Every evening, she would send the girls up to bed and follow a little while later with a tray of hot drinks and biscuits. But tonight, it was not to be.
She suddenly went deathly-pale and stifled a scream. “Sarah, shut the antiporta,” she yelled and then, to the girls’ bewilderment, she turned and ran out of the room, up the stairs. They heard the door of her bedroom slam shut and the key turn in the lock. And then there was silence.
They had no idea what was wrong. They tried to work out what could have happened but the only thing that Sarah remembered was the sound of the light-switch flicking on and off. Not that that would have meant anything. It was one of the days when they did not have any electricity and the room was lit by a large oil-lamp. And she also heard the door-handle rattle slightly after her mother left the room, but it did not open and she thought it was just the way her mother had slammed it.
The girls waited for a while and then realized that their mother was not coming down again. They were surprised. What could have frightened her so much that she would run away and leave her children down there?
It was not till the next morning that they found out. Even then, she was reluctant: “You’ll go mad if I tell you.” Eventually Carmen, looking fearfully around as she spoke, told them that she had looked up to see a smart, elegant man walk into the room from the garden. He was tall, dressed in evening wear.
And instead of a face, a skull grinned lewdly at her.
The effect on Carmen was profound. Whenever the girls went out, she would refuse to stay in the house alone, and would wait by the antiporta. She refused to talk about it again, but often Sarah would catch a look of horror flitting across her face. The ghost was obviously still in the house.
What is more, it seemed to have attached itself to Sarah. For weeks, Sarah would suddenly feel a coolness behind her. The light-switch would click on and off as she walked into a room and the door-handle would rattle. They once heard the sound of heavy, rasping breathing coming from their bedroom. But she never saw anything, and the door never opened.
Her sister one day flew down ,the stairs. Till then, she had been pretty skeptical, but her face showed that something had changed her mind. “OK,” she gasped. “I believe you. There is something there.” She too refused to talk about what she had seen or heard.
The days passed, and their mother grew more and more fretful. In the end, the strain of the unwelcome visitor proved too much for her, and she had a heart attack and died.
The girls were beside themselves with grief. But the house loomed larger and more terrifying after that. They tried all sleeping together in one room, but in the end, fear got the better of them They decided to move in with Sarah’s brother in Mellieha for a few months. Eventually, they gave up the house and moved into a far smaller place that the authorities managed to find for them.
The family did not really want any reminders of the house, but they had spent a small fortune doing it up. Sarah’s married sister, Mariella, insisted on removing at least the bathroom fittmgs and some other bits ano pieces. She was to regret her decision.
They all went into the house together, hoping to find safety in numbers. Mariella’s little girl clutched her aunt Sarah’s hand, aware of the strange tension in the air. As they all walked down the stairs, the little girl was suddenly snatched from Sarah’s side and slammed against the wall opposite. No, she didn t fall. She was actually thrown horizontally across the stairs, banging her head, and falling unconscious to the ground. Even now, Sarah can remember with a shudder of horror the silence after she had fallen down onto the ground. Not even a cry. Mariella had scooped the little girl up into her arms and run out into the street with her, with Sarah and Joanna not far behind.
They never went into the house again.
The authorities immediately found three other families desperate for a roof over their heads. But even these families did not last long in the house. Sarah heard that one woman died soon after moving in.
Her aunt told her that another woman had seen someone, something, while she was in her bath, and had run out into the street, terrified out of her wits, completely naked. The neighbors abandoned their weaving industry and apparently left the island.
And the house still stands. Sarah is now in her 70s and whenever she passes the house, she wonders whether the family who now lives there have ever seen the man with no face.
And whether the workmen who dug up the skeleton from under the blackcurrant tree could have had any idea of the forces that they had unleashed ….
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1-DG1725 VIKINGS: Solitaire Wargame Vikings: Scourge of the North. Europe in the last centuries of Dark Age was beset by Scandinavian raiders. Their longships sailed the high seas, reaching lands as far as the Volga and North America. While mainly known for their pillaging, the Vikings were also explorers, traders, and colonists.
This is a solitaire game. You lead a band of warriors with their ships and weapons. Units represent historical Viking leaders such as Leif Erikson and Harald Hardrada. You can recruit elite huskarls and fanatic berserkers, and build more longships. You are in pursuit of gold, glory, and new lands to settle on a map running from Russia to Vinland, from Scandinavia to the fabled lands of the Byzantine Empire.
Saga cards send you on four different voyages of discovery and quest fulfillment. Voyage cards bring in special actions such as forming a shield wall in combat and ending the game with a Viking funeral.
Game Contents: One 11x17-inch map, 40 die cut counters, 18 Campaign Cards, and eight-page rules booklet. 1 vol, 4 pgs 2019 CA, DECISION GAMES
1-PWAR091 PAPER WARS: Issue 91 - Jihad: The Rise Of Islam 632-731 A.D. JIHAD! is a game type simulation of the first century of the Islamic expansion after the death of Mohammad, the Prophet and rounder of the Islamic religion. During this period the holy war of conquest and religious conversion of non-Arab peoples were the mainsprings of Islam and the Arabs progressed from a religious force to a secular great power. JIHAD! covers these events on a grand strategic scale with each turn representing 5 years and military units representing entire armies.
The game is for one or two players with one player controlling the Islamic forces and the other controlling all of the various opposing forces including the Byzantines, Persians, Berbers, Franks, Goths, Kaazars, Sinds, and Turks. Players alternate recruiting forces, engaging in religious conversion, moving their forces, and engaging in combat. The objective of the game is for the Muslim player to at least duplicate the conquests of Islam over the historical time frame while for the opposing player the object is to prevent that level of advance by Islam.
* Complexity: 1-10 (high): 5
* Solitaire Suitability: 1-10 (high): 9
* Time Scale: 5 years per turn.
* Map Scale: 270 kilometers per hex.
* Unit Scale: Armies.
* Players: 1-2.
* Playtime: 2-3 hours. 1 vol, 4 pgs 2019 US, COMPASS GAMES
1-83740 Aitchison, Nick PICTS AND SCOTS AT WAR, THE The author pieces together details from severalsources to detail the evidence for a good degreeof military organization and discuses their arms,armor, forts & naval warfare; biblio, index. 1 vol, 256 pgs 2003 UK, SUTTON PUBLISHING
1-62260 Bachrach, Bernard EARLY CAROLINGIAN WARFARE The author demonstrates how the Pippin II and his successors built upon late Roman technology and surviving military institutions to prepare the way for Charlemagne's empire, biblio, index. 1 vol, 432 pgs 1999 PHILA, UNIV OF PENNSYLVAN
1-AYG5500 Beckett, Beau and Stahl, Jeph 878 VIKINGS: Invasion of England Wargame The year is 878. For the past 75 years, Viking raiding parties from Norway and Denmark have been terrorizing the coasts of England with 'hit and run' attacks. The treasures and stories gained from these attacks have allowed the Norsemen to raise huge hosts of eager men seeking glory and riches. These armies now stand poised to thunder across England where they will settle and farm the fertile land they conquer. The divided English kingdoms are unprepared for this impending onslaught. The Vikings are coming!
Players control the invading Vikings or the English nobles who are trying to withstand the invasion. Viking players either play as Norsemen Viking freeman or as the fearless Viking shock troops known as Berserkers. The English play as the Housecarl (Kings' household troops) or as the Thegns (regional noble leaders). The English players will also be able to call up the Fyrd (peasant levies) to defend their cities.
Players for each side strategize together in order to coordinate their strategies. Each side attempts to control Cities on the map to win. The English start the game controlling all of England but a Viking Leader will invade from the sea each Turn. The English players raise reinforcements from cities they control, while the Vikings must wait for a new invasion for reinforcements. The game ends when the Treaty of Wedmore is called and the side controlling the most cities wins the game. 1 vol, 1 pgs 2017 US, ACADEMY GAMES
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1-86910 Benedikz, Benedict VARANGIANS OF BYZANTIUM The author examines the six hundred plus years ofthe Norsemen's service to the Byzantium Empire andEmperor's. B/w illust/maps, biblio, index 1 vol, 256 pgs 2007 UK, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
1-196670 Bernage, Georges LES VIKINGS EN NORMANDIE (911-1066) Oversized at 8.5 x 12 inches, this outstanding work presents a complete study of the Vikings and their culture. Through brilliant illustrations and photographs we will learn about their civilization, their boats, and the various artistic styles unique to each period.
In addition, the book provides an overview of the types of swords used and a historical perspective of the Viking raids in Normandy -- from their first establishment in 911, the first dukes, and the Scandinavian vestiges in Normandy until the English invasion in 1066.
French text, but Heimdal loads its books with full color photos throughout of re-enactors and other imagery. 1 vol, 96 pgs 2011 FRANCE, HEIMDAL
NEW-hardcover, available late November 2011 [French text] ......$30.00 with a discount of 15%
1-206110 Burne, Alfred The Agincourt War - A Military History of the Hundred Years War from 1369 to 1453 Henry V's stunning victory at Agincourt was a pivotal battle of the Hundred Years War, reviving England's military fortunes and changing forever the course of European warfare.
In this exciting and readable account Colonel Burne recreates the years leading up to Agincourt and its bitter aftermath. He also puts the battle in the perspective of the other important, yet less well known, engagements of the war such as the battles of Verneuil and Fresnay. As with the battles, so with its commanders: Henry V is known to all, but Colonel Burne gives rightful honour to Talbot, Salisbury, Bedford, Chandos and many others. On the French side he details the parts played by Bertrand du Gueschlin and of course Joan of Arc.
Colonel Burne's outstanding reconstruction of the war is written for layman and historian alike and conveys the drama that Agincourt and its heroes have always so vividly evoked. This new edition of a classic text includes a new introduction by Anne Curry, the world's leading authority on the battle of Agincourt. 1 vol, 360 pgs 2014 UK, FRONTLINE BOOKS
1-66677 Canales, Francisco SIMANCAS 939 The Battle of Simancas (also called Alhandega or al-Khandaq) was a military battle that started on July 19, 939, in the Iberian Peninsula between the troops of the Christian king Ramiro II of Leon and Muslim caliph Abd al-Rahman III near the walls of the city of Simancas. The battle decided the control of the lands of the Duero.
The battle unfolded after the army of Abd al-Rahman III launched toward the northern Christian territories in 934. Abd al-Rahman III had gathered a large army of Moorish fighters, with the help of the Moorish governor of Zaragoza, Abu Yahya. The Christian king Ramiro II led the counterattack with an army constituted of his own troops, those of the Count Fernan Gonzalez, the Navarrese under Garcia Sanchez I, the Kingdom of Galicia, and the Kingdom of Asturias. 1 vol, 110 pgs 2012 ITALY
NEW-softcover, available late March 2012 [Spanish text] ......$24.00
1-208850 Carr, John FIGHTING EMPERORS OF BYZANTIUM Fighting Emperors of Byzantium assesses the contribution of those Emperors whose military leadership determined the survival of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire for a thousand years after the fall of Rome. 1 vol, 288 pgs 2015 UK, PEN & SWORD
NEW-dj, available late June 2015 ......$40.00 with a discount of 15%
1-217980 Cooper, David BADON AND THE EARLY WARS FOR WESSEX: Circa 500 to 710 Reappraises the evidence regarding the early battles for Wessex territory. It charts the sequence of battles from the c. AD 500 siege of Badon Hill, in which the Britons defeated the first Saxon attempt to gain a foothold in Wessex territory, to Langport in 710, which consolidated King Ine's position and pushed the Britons westwards.
Discussion of the post-Roman British and Germanic factions provides context and background to Badon Hill, which is then covered in detail and disentangled from Arthurian legend. In considering how the opposing commanders are likely to have planned their campaigns, enduring principles of military doctrine and tactics are discussed, using examples from other periods to illustrate how these principles applied in Dark Ages Britain.
Going on to follow subsequent campaigns of the West Saxons in southern Britain, a credible assessment is made of how these resulted in the establishment of a viable Wessex kingdom, two centuries after Badon. Grounded in the latest academic and archaeological evidence, David Cooper offers a number of new insights and ideas. 1 vol, 280 pgs 2018 UK, PEN & SWORD
1-200010 Decker, Michael THE BYZANTINE ART OF WAR Explores the military history of the thousand-year empire of the eastern Mediterranean, Byzantium. Throughout its history the empire faced a multitude of challenges from foreign invaders seeking to plunder its wealth and to occupy its lands, from the deadly Hunnic hordes of Attila, to the Arab armies of Islam, to the western Crusaders bent on carving out a place in the empire or its former lands.
In order to survive, the Byzantines relied on their army that was for centuries the only standing, professional force in Europe. Leadership provided another key to survival; Byzantine society produced a number of capable strategic thinkers and tacticians-and several brilliant ones. These officers maintained a level of professionalism and organization inherited and adapted from Roman models. The innovations of the Byzantine military reforms of the sixth century included the use of steppe nomad equipment and tactics, the most important of which was the refinement of the Roman mounted archer.
Strategy and tactics evolved in the face of victory and defeat; the shock of the Arab conquests led to a sharp decline in the number and quality of imperial forces. By the eighth and ninth centuries Byzantine commanders mastered the art of the small war, waging guerrilla campaigns, raids, and flying column attacks that injured the enemy but avoided the decisive confrontation the empire was no longer capable of winning. A century later they began the most sustained, glorious military expansion of their history.
This work further sketches the key campaigns, battles, and sieges that illustrate Byzantine military doctrine, vital changes from one era to another, the composition of forces and the major victories and defeats that defined the territory and material well-being of its citizens. Through a summary of their strategies, tactics, and innovations in the tools of war, the book closes with an analysis of the contributions of this remarkable empire to world military history. 1 vol, 320 pgs 2012 US, WESTHOLME PUBLISHING
NEW-pb, delayed until May 2013 ......$30.00
2-60580 Devries, Kelly NORWEGIAN INVASION OF ENGLAND IN 1066, THE The victory of Harold over the invading army of King Haraldr, (4) maps, biblio, index. 1 vol, 352 pgs 2003 UK, BOYDEL & BREWER
1-1947512 Di Colloredo, Pierluigi LA BATTAGLIA DI CAPO COLONNA 982 The battle of Stilo was fought during the weekend of 13 or 14 July 982 near Crotone, in Calabria, in the area between the forces of Emperor Otto II and his Northern allies, the Lombards, versus those of Abu Al-Ali, Emir of Sicily and the Middle Kalbids.
Some sources claim that the Muslims would have been helped by the Byzantines in southern Italy, allocated long in retaliation for the invasion of the province of Apulia, but there is no confirmation for this historic indictment. 1 vol, 62 pgs 2016 ITALY, THE SOLDIER SHOP
NEW-pb, [Italian text, English captions] available late May 2016 ......$32.00
2-45920 Evans, Stephen S. LORDS OF BATTLE, THE:Warriors & Warbands The Lords of Battle examines the image of the comitatus, or warband, as it is portrayed in literary and historical sources from Britain's early medieval period, attempting to determine the extent to which it reflects an historical reality. Through an extensive use of a variety of source material, literary, historical, and archaeological, the book investigates both the structure of the warband, and the practices and institutions which supported it.
After a review of the historical background of Dark Age Britain, Stephen Evans explores the practical characteristics of the comitatus: its military organisation; its internal social structure and its place within society as a whole; and the lord-retainer relationship, its duties and obligations. He also examines the cultural, social, and economic institutions which produced and supported the warband. Overall, the study provides a number of insights into the ideals and practices of Britain's Celtic and Anglo-Saxon warrior-elites during a turbulent period.
1 vol, 0 pgs 1997 LONDON, BOYDELL & BREWER
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1-86590 Gabriel, Richard A. MUHAMMAD:Islam's First Great General An examination of Muhammad's life as military leader, (12) b/w maps, biblio, index. 1 vol, 288 pgs 2007 US, UNIV OF OKLAHOMA
1-902920 Gagelmann, Strassmeir DAS FRANKISCHE HEER DER MEROWINGERZEIT: Vol. 2 The Frankish army of the Merovingian: Volume 2.
Under King Clovis I and his successors, the Frankish Empire became the leading military power of Central Europe. Due to the Frankish law of succession, the Empire suffered repeated Imperial divisions, which eventually led to the decline in the power of the Merovingian dynasty -- especially after two minor sons split the Empire after the death of King Dagoberts.
The graphic reconstructions based on rich archeological finds show weaponry, shields, and uniforms of Merovingian foot and mounted troops dating from the mid-6th to the middle of the 7th century, as well as Alamanni after the absorbtion of the Kingdom of Thuringii and Bavarii. 1 vol, 64 pgs 2015 GERMANY, BERLIN ZINNFIGUREN
NEW-softcover, available mid July 2015 [German text] ......$32.00
1-980021 Gravett, Chris & Nicolle, David NORMANS:Warrior Knights and their Castles Describes the equipment, training, tactics and the daily life of a typical Norman Knight 1 vol, 242 pgs 2003 LONDON, OSPREY PUBLISH'NG
2-980021 Gravett, Chris & Nicolle, David NORMANS:Warrior Knights and their Castles Describes the equipment, training, tactics and the daily life of a typical Norman Knight. 1 vol, 242 pgs 2003 LONDON, OSPREY PUBLISH'NG
1-199540 Hill, Paul THE ANGLO-SAXONS AT WAR 800-1066 This book chronicles the time of the great Anglo-Saxon kings like Alfred, Athelstan, Aethelred, and Edmund Ironside and what was warfare really like - how armies were organized, how and why they fought, how the warriors were armed and trained, and other aspects of the Anglo-Saxon experience of war.
The role of violence and war in Anglo-Saxon society is explored, in particular the parts played by the dark age/medieval king and the noblemen, and the means by which, in times of danger, the men of the fyrd were summoned to fight. The controversial subject of the Anglo-Saxon use of cavalry is also explored. Land and naval warfare are central sections of Paul Hill's book, but he also covers the politics and diplomacy of warfare - the conduct of negotiations, the taking of hostages and the use of treachery.
The weapons and armor of the Anglo-Saxons are described - the spears, the scramsaxes, axes, bows, swords, helmets, shields and mail that were employed in the close-quarter fighting of the day. Among the most valuable sections of the study are those dealing, in vivid detail, with actual experience of battle and siege - with the brutal reality of combat as it is revealed by campaigns against the Danes, in the battles of Ashdown, Maldon and Stamford Bridge, and sieges at Reading and Rochester. 1 vol, 0 pgs 2012 UK, PEN AND SWORD
1-62390 Hollister, Warren ANGLO-SAXON MILITARY INSTITUTIONS A detailed account of the military institutions just prior to the Norman Conquest. 1 vol, 170 pgs 2000 UK, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRS
1-198330 Jacobsen, Torsten Cumberland A HISTORY OF THE VANDALS The fifth century AD was a time of great changes in the Mediterranean world. In the early 400s, the Roman Empire ranged from the lowlands of Scotland to the Upper Nile and from Portugal to the Caucasus. It was almost at its widest extent, and although ruled by two emperors-one in the West and one in the East-it was still a single empire. One hundred years later, Roman control of Western Europe and Western North Africa had been lost. In its place, a number of Germanic kingdoms had been established in these regions, with hundreds of thousands of Germanic and other peoples settling permanently inside the former borders of the Western Roman Empire.
One of the most fascinating of these tribes of late antiquity were the Vandals, who over a period of 600 years had migrated from the woodland regions of Scandinavia across Europe and ended in the deserts of North Africa. In A History of the Vandals, the first monograph in English covering the entire history of the Vandals from their emergence to the end of their kingdom, historian Torsten Cumberland Jacobsen pieces together what we know about the Vandals, sifting fact from fiction.
In the middle of the fifth century the Vandals, who professed Arianism, a form of Christianity considered heretical by the Roman emperor, created the first permanent Germanic successor state in the West and were one of the deciding factors in the downfall of the Western Roman Empire. Later Christian historians described their sack of Rome in 455 and their vehement persecution of Catholics in their kingdom, accounts that were sensationalized and gave birth to the term 'vandalism.'
In the mid-sixth century, the Vandals and their North African kingdom were the first target of Byzantine Emperor Justinian's ambitious plan to reconquer the lost territories of the fallen Western Empire. In less than four months, what had been considered one of the strongest Germanic kingdoms had been defeated by a small Roman army led by the general Belisarius. Despite later rebellions, this was the end of the Germanic presence in North Africa, and in many ways the end of the Arian heresy of Christianity. For the Romans it was the incredibly successful start of the reconquest of the lost lands of the Western Empire. 1 vol, 344 pgs 2012 US, WESTHOLME PUBLISHING
NEW-dj, available late May 2012 ......$30.00
1-84450 Jones, Charles FORGOTTEN BATTLE OF FULFORD 1066 Account of the third battle of 1066 that saw the Earls of Mercia and Northumbria defeated by a Viking army of Hardrada and Harold's brother Tostig, b/w illust/maps, glossary, biblio, index. 1 vol, 260 pgs 2006 UK, TEMPUS PUBLICATIONS
1-190790 Kaegi, Walter BYZANTIUM AND THE EARLY ISLAMIC CONQUESTS Study of how the Byzantine Empire lost Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia and Armenia. The problem of strategic and tactical cohesion is studied using the battle of Yarmuk. Maps, biblio, index 1 vol, 313 pgs 2009 UK, CAMBRIDGE UNIV
NEW-pb, reprint edition ......$45.00
2-212980 Kim Hjardar, Vegard Vike VIKINGS AT WAR A depiction of how the Vikings waged war: weapons technology, offensive and defensive warfare, military traditions and tactics, fortifications, ships, and command structure. It also portrays the Viking raids and conquest campaigns that brought the Vikings to virtually every corner of Europe and even to America.
Contains over 380 color illustrations including beautiful reconstruction drawings, maps, cross-section drawings of ships, line-drawings of fortifications, battle plan reconstructions, and photos of surviving artifacts including weapons and jewelry.
Currently in its fourth printing in Norwegian, the translation presented here makes it available for the first time in English. Awarded the Norwegian literary prize 'Saga Prize' in 2012.
1 vol, 400 pgs 2019 US, CASEMATE PUBLISHING
NEW-softcover edition, available mid September ......$30.00 with a discount of 15% rct
1-69270 Leprevost, Thierry & Bernage, George HASTINGS 1066:Norman Cavalry and Saxon Infantry 9x12, plenty of color and b/w illust/drawings of re-enactments. 1 vol, 80 pgs 2002 FRANCE, EDITIONS HEIMDAL
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1-190960 Marechal, Jacques HASTINGS 1066:Battle for a Kingdom 9x12, fully illustrated in color with 160 photos of 2000+ re-enactors. 1 vol, 132 pgs 2009 FRANCE, H&C
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1-84340 Marren, Peter BATTLES OF THE DARK AGES Author examines the battles and shows how they were fought, where they were fought and why, b/w maps/illust, biblio, index. 1 vol, 210 pgs 2009 UK, PEN & SWORD BOOKS
1-86770 Marsden, John HARALD HARDRADA:The Warrior's Way Author reconstructs the military life of this hard-fighting Norse leader. Scandinavia to Byzantium to his death at Stamford Bridge in 1066, b/w maps and illust, biblio, index. 1 vol, 256 pgs 2006 UK, TEMPUS PUBLICATIONS
1-61320 Mersey, Daniel ARMIES OF MEDIEVAL BURMA: AD700-1300 Burmese armies 700-1300AD, includes Army composition, Tactics, Troop types, and the obligatory color plates. 1 vol, 40 pgs 2000 UK, OUTPOST WARGAME SERV
1-68880 Patterson, Benton Rain HAROLD AND WILLIAM: The Battle for England 1064-66 A highly entertaining narrative, 25+ b/w illust, biblio, index. 1 vol, 260 pgs 2001 NY, COOPER SQUARE PRESS
1-200260 Peers, Chris OFFA AND THE MERCIAN WARS: The Rise and Fall of the First Great English Kingdom In England in the eighth century, in the midst of the so-called Dark Ages, Offa ruled Mercia, one of the strongest Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. For over 30 years he was the dominant warlord in the territory south of the Humber and the driving force behind the expansion of Mercia's power. During that turbulent period he commanded Mercian armies in their struggle against the neighboring kingdoms of Northumbria and Wessex and against the Welsh tribes. Yet the true story of Offa's long reign and of the rise and fall of Mercia are little known although this is one of the most intriguing episodes in this little-recorded phase of England's past. 20 illustrations. 1 vol, 256 pgs 2012 UK, Pen & Sword
1-65380 Pollington, Stephen ENGLISH WARRIOR, THE:From early times to 1066 This book is for the most part an examination ofweapons & warfare from about 500AD to 1066AD, lotsof useful information, b/w drawings, biblio, index 1 vol, 268 pgs 1996 UK, ANGLO SAXON BOOKS
1-71390 Pullen-Appleby, John ENGLISH SEA POWER 871-1100 AD This work examines English sea power prior to the Norman Conquest, detailed account about the appearance and use of fighting ships, b/w maps and illust, biblio, index. 1 vol, 128 pgs 2005 UK, ANGLO-SAXON BOOKS
1-66642 Saez, Ruben illust by J.L. Serrano Silva LAS CAMPANAS DE ALMANZOR 977-1002 'Osprey' type book with (8) color plates with several figures per plate, many b/w illust/maps, covers the battles/campaigns. 1 vol, 80 pgs 2012 ITALY
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1-ST162 Schettler, John ST #162:Clontarf and Saipan Two Games
Clontarf - Irish vs Vikings 11th Century
Saipan - June 1944 1 vol, 80 pgs 1993 US, SPI
1-90130 Short, william R. VIKING WEAPONS AND COMBAT TECHNIQUES The author and his colleagues at Hurstwic, a Viking-Age living history group, have reconstructed the various techniques. Copiously illustrated, battle maps, biblio, index. 1 vol, 232 pgs 2004 US, WESTHOLME PUBLISHING
1-90080 Stephenson, I.P. LATE ANGLO-SAXON ARMY, THE (16) pages of color including photos/line drawingsof uniform equipment, b/w photos/illust/drawings. 1 vol, 160 pgs 2007 UK, TEMPUS PUBLISHING
1-200640 Stephenson, Ian VIKING WARFARE Comprehensive study of the weapons and warfare of the Vikings, examining the types and range of weapons and armor found to build a complete picture of the warfare of the period. The quantity and quality of the finds allow us to build a picture of not simply an individual's panoply, but also of army structure and tactics. Alongside this, the artifacts allow us to examine the cultural interaction between the Roman and Barbarian worlds, which, as the finds show, was not a simple one-way process: each side impacted on the other. 46 illustrations (25 in color) plus 16 pages in color. 1 vol, 128 pgs 2012 UK, AMBERLEY
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2-211850 Storr, Jim KING ARTHUR'S WARS After months of field work and map study, discusses how the Anglo-Saxons conquered England; county by county and decade by decade. 'King Arthur's Wars' exposes what the landscape and the place names tell us. As a result, we can now know far more about this 'Dark Age'.
What is so special about Essex? Why is Buckinghamshire an odd shape? Why is the legend of King Arthur so special to us? Why don't Cumbrian farmers use English numbers when they count sheep? Why don't we know where Camelot was? Why did the Romano-British stop eating oysters? What does this have to do with Napoleon's Ulm campaign of 1805, or the Prusso-Danish War of 1864? 'King Arthur's Wars' tells that story. Includes 96 figures, maps, and 16pp color illustrations. 1 vol, 320 pgs 2019 UK, HELION & COMPANY
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1-222420 Syvanne, Llkka BRITAIN IN THE AGE OF ARTHUR: A Military History Starts with the assumption that King Arthur existed and that Geoffrey of Monmouth's account has preserved details of his career that are based on real events. He then interprets these by using 'common sense' and the perspective of a specialist in late Roman military history to form a probable picture of what really happened during the period (roughly AD 400-550). Includes 50 b/w drawings and diagrams, and 16 pages of plates.
This approach tests the entire literary evidence for the existence of Arthur to see if the supposed events of his career match what is known of the events of the period, the conclusion being that in general they do. Arthur's military career is set in the context of the wider military history of Britain and Europe in this period and along the way describes the nature of armies and warfare of the period. 1 vol, 256 pgs 2020 UK, PEN & SWORD
NEW-dj, available mid January 2020 ......$45.00 with a discount of 15% rct
1-69820 Time Life editors WHAT LIFE WAS LIKE WHEN LONGSHIPS SAILED 10x10, this book focuses on the daily lives of Vikings both at home as well as on raids/conquests many b/w & color illust, maps, glossary, index 1 vol, 142 pgs 2002 ALEXANDRIA, TIME LIFE BKS
1-914147 various VAE VICTIS # 147: La Conquete de la Saxe par Charlemagne Wargame : Lex Saxonum
Lex Saxonum is a two player game that simulates the conquest of Saxony by Charlemagne in the last quarter of the 8th century. One of the players represents the Carolingians of Austrasia, Hesse, Thuringia and West Friesland, the other player controls the different Saxon tribal federations and their Danish and Frisian allies. The goal of Charlemagne is to integrate Saxony into the Carolingian domain, including through terror and exemplary massacres.
* Complexity: 4/10
* Solitaire suitability: 2/10
* Duration: 2 to 3 hours
* Game turn equals one year
* A unit equals a few hundred men
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1-201190 Venning, Timothy AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF BRITAIN: The Anglo-Saxon Age Explores the various decision points in a fascinating period of British history and the alternative paths that it might have taken. While necessarily speculative, all the scenarios are discussed within the framework of a deep understanding of the major driving forces, tensions and trends that shaped British history and help to shed light upon them. In so doing they help the reader to understand why things panned out as they did, as well as what might have been.
For example, was a reconquest by the native British ever a possibility (under 'Arthur' or someone else)? Which of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms might have united England sooner and would this have kept the Danes out? And, of course, what if Harold Godwinson had won at Hastings? 1 vol, 256 pgs 2013 UK, PEN AND SWORD
1-972027 Williams, Gareth 027 VIKING WARRIOR vs ANGLO-SAXON WARRIOR: England 865-1066 In the two centuries before the Norman invasion of England, Anglo-Saxon and Viking forces clashed repeatedly in bloody battles across the country. Repeated Viking victories in the 9th century led to their settlement in the north of the country, but the tide of war ebbed and flowed until the final Anglo-Saxon victory before the Norman Conquest.
Using stunning artwork, this book examines in detail three battles between the two deadly foes: Ashdown in 871 which involved the future Alfred the Great; Maldon in 991 where an Anglo-Saxon army sought to counter a renewed Viking threat; and Stamford Bridge in 1066, in which King Harold Godwinesson abandoned his preparations to repel the expected Norman invasion in order to fight off Harald Hard-Counsel of Norway.
Drawing upon historical accounts from both English and Scandinavian sources and from archaeological evidence, Gareth Williams presents a detailed comparison of the weaponry, tactics, strategies and underlying military organization of the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, and considers the developments which took place on both sides in the two centuries of Viking incursions into Anglo-Saxon England. 1 vol, 80 pgs 2017 UK, OSPREY PUBLISHING
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Can artificial intelligence really be smarter than you?
It’s all over the news: AIs have beaten world champion chess players, they’re driving cars and soon they’ll be flying drones in our backyards delivering Amazon books and cluster bombs. Is this the reality though? In this talk, Mike will explain how AIs are more like weirdly specialised savants that can’t be trusted to cross the street by themselves than like masterminds from The Matrix. He’ll also share what AI is telling us about ourselves – how we think and what makes us human.
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Dr. Naukhez Sarwar (Principal and Dean)
Degree : PhD (The University of Manchester, UK), MBA (Asian Institute of Technology) Thailand & (European School of Management, Oxford) UK
Specialisation : Business Administration
Dr. Muhammad Sabir
Degree : PhD Economics (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands), Masters of Applied Sciences (MAS) (Applied Economics Research Center, Karachi University), M.A. Economics (University of Peshawer)
Ms. Mahvesh Khan
Degree : Masters in Creative Writing (Novels) City University,London Masters of Business–Mgt Information Systems (Edith Cowan University,Perth,Western Australia) B.Sc. (Hons) in Economic & Mgt University of London (External Degree, University College Islamabad)
Mr. Saad Khan Al-Marwat
Degree : MBA (Finance), Cass Business School, UK
Specialisation : Finance, Private Equity, Venture Capital, Islamic Finance
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Dr. Rehman U. Mian
Degree : PhD in Finance, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. Research Diploma in Commerce & Management, Hitotsubashi University, Japan.
Dr. M. Suhail Rizwan
Degree : PhD Business Administration (Finance)-NUST Business School (NBS), NUST, Pakistan.
Dr Nabeel Safdar
Degree : PhD Business Administration (Finance), University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China
Dr. Zahid Irshad Younas (HEC Pakistan – Approved PhD Supervisor)
Degree : PhD Finance (Germany), MS Banking and Financial Economics (GCU Lahore), MSc Banking and Finance (GCU Lahore), MA Economics (PU Lahore) and B.COM (Hailey College of Commerce).
Dr. Mohsin Sadaqat
Dr. Saadia Irfan
Degree : PhD Management, University of Leicester, UK, MS Finance, University of Sheffield, UK
Dr. Fazli Azim
Degree : MS (Accounting & Finance) Manchester University, UK
Dr. Muhammad Shariq
Degree : MBA (International Banking & Finance) Liverpool John Moores University,UK
Ms. Riffat Jabeen
Degree : Chartered Accountant of Pakistan (ACA) from Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP) Bcom from University of Punjab
Mr. Tariq Abbasi (On PhD Study Leave)
Degree : MS Financial Engineering , University of Twente, The Netherlands
Dr. Waseem Hassan (HEC Pakistan - Approved PhD Supervisor)
Degree : Ph.D Management Sciences (2011-15) China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, PR China. MBA (Marketing) (2006-07), The Islamia University Bahawalpur
Specialisation : Marketing and Brand Management
Dr. Lubaba Sadaf
Degree : PhD Sociology.School of Social and Political Science. University of Glasgow UK. MSc. Social Anthropology.Quaid-e-Azam University. Pakistan
Dr. Zujaja Wahaj
Degree : PhD Sociology & Social Anthropology, University of Glasgow UK
Dr. Adeel Ahmed
Degree : BS Agriculture Economics, Agriculture University Peshawar MSc Agriculture Economics , Agriculture University Peshawar PhD Development Economics, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Dr. Nauman Wajid
Degree : PhD (Relationship Marketing) - Manchester Metropolitan University (UK); MSc - International Business & Management - The University of Bradford (UK)
Dr. Ghufran Ahmad
Degree : Ph.D. in Economics from Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA Committee chair: Dr Guoqiang Tian Graduated with CGPA 3.79 B.Sc. (Hons) Economics from Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan Graduated with CGPA 3.89
Dr. Beenish Tariq
Degree : PhD in in Marketing. University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia. MBA, Marketing. Air University, Pakistan. BBA, Marketing. Baha-ud-Din Zakariya University, Pakistan
Dr. Muhammad Adnan Waseem
Degree : PhD (International Marketing) - Monash University; MS (Management) COMSATS Institute of Information Technology.
Mr. Kashir Asghar
Degree : M.Sc Marketing, University of Leicester, UK. MBA Marketing, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University,Pakistan
Ms. Rabeel Khan
Degree : MS Marketing Research, Michigan State University, USA. BE Telecommunication Engineering, NUST
Ms. Ameena Zafar
Degree : Pursuing PhD in Linguistics (Focus: Languages in Marketing) University Technology Malaysia. MPhil English Linguistics. Focus: Business Communication. IIUI, Islamabad. Master’s in English Language &Literature,Federal Govt. College,F-7/2,Islamabad, Pakistan
Mr. Bilal Ahmed Chohan
Degree : Msc. Marketing Management , University of Surrey, United Kngdom. BBA-Hons (Mkt), COMSATS, Islamabad
Ms. Ayesha Pervaiz
Degree : MBA (Quaid-e-Azam University) Pakistan
Ms. Sadaf Taimoor
Degree : MSc Marketing & Strategy, Warwick Business School. University of Warwick, UK BBA- Marketing & Sales, Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi
Ms. Aleena Amir
Degree : MA International Political Economy (2012) – University Of Warwick. BSc. (Hons) Economics (2009) – Lahore University of Management Sciences
Dr. Ateeq-ur Rahman Irshad (On Leave)
Degree : PhD Econometric, International Islamic University, Islamabad / Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA, USA
Mr. Abid R. Khawaja (On Study Leave)
Degree : MS (New Jersey Institute of Technology) USA
Dr. Asfia Obaid
Degree : PhD in Business Administration. Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK. MBA (Quaid-e-Azam University) Pakistan
Specialisation : Compensation and Performance Management
Dr. Mujtaba Hassan Agha- (HEC Pakistan - Approved PhD Supervisor)
Degree : PhD in Industrial Engineering. ENSIACET-Institut National Polytechnique Toulouse, France. MS Mechanical Engineering. IMFT-Institut National Polytechnique Toulouse, France. MBA, NUST Business School,Pakistan.BS Mechanical Engineering GIKI, Pakistan
Dr. Mumtaz Ali Memon (HEC Approved Ph.D. Supervisor)
Degree : PhD in Management from Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia; MS in Human Resource Development from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia.
Dr. Muhammad Naseer Akhtar | Head of Research | Editor-in-Chief NUST Business Review (NBR) | HEC– Approved Ph.D Supervisor
Degree : PhD Business Administration (2012-15) HUST School of Management Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan – PR China. MA Management (2007-09) Chester Business School (University of Chester, United Kingdom)
Dr Muhammad Mustafa Raziq - (HEC Pakistan - Approved PhD Supervisor)
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy (Strategy and Management) – Massey University, New Zealand. MBA – Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden. Master in International Management – Uppsala University, Sweden. MCS & BBA PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi.
Dr. Muhammad Moazzam
Degree : PhD Logistics & Supply Chain Management, Massey University, New Zealand. PGDip Logistics & Supply Chain Management, Massey University, New Zealand. MBA Marketing & Agribusiness, B.Sc. (Hons.) Agricultural Economics University of Agriculture,Faisalabad,PAK
Dr. Zunaira Saqib
Degree : PhD Scholar, Leicester University, UK. MA HRD and Consulting, Lancaster University, UK
Dr. Fareesa Malik
Degree : PhD (Business and Management), Received University of Manchester’s President Doctoral Medal Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. MS (Computer Science) Virtual University of Pakistan
Dr. Aqeel Israr
Degree : PhD Entrepreneurship, Northern University of Malaysia, Malaysia. MBA (Marketing), Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan
Dr. Ayesha Abrar
Degree : Ph.D Entrepreneurship (Essex Business School, University of Essex, UK) M.Sc Economics, University of Peshawar
Dr. Madiha Gohar
Dr. Hussain Tariq (HEC Pakistan – Approved PhD Supervisor)
Degree : Ph.D in Business Administration from University of Science & Technology of China, China; MS in Management from National College of Business Administration & Economics, Lahore, Pakistan; MBA from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Dr. Muhammad Saleem Ullah Khan Sumbal
Degree : PhD (Knowledge Management), Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong; MSC, Heriot Watt University, UK; BE, Air University, Pakistan.
Dr. Noor Ullah Khan (HEC Approved Supervisor)
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (Management & HR) Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM).
Engr. Dr. WAQAS AHMED
Degree : Ph.D. in Industrial & Management Engineering, presented for best Ph.D. Thesis Award (Hanyang University,South Korea), MS in Mechanical Eng (Seoul National University,South Korea), MBA in Operations Mgt (Institute of Business & Management,UET, Lahore, Pak)
Dr. Muhammad Imran
Degree : Ph.D Industrial Management Engineering (Hanyang University, South Korea) MS Industrial Engineering (University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, PAK) BS Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, PAK)
Ms. Kishwar Sameen Gulzar
Degree : MPhil. in Innovation, Strategy and Organization, Judge Business School, Cambridge University, UK MBA in Human Resource Management, NUST Business School, NUST, Pakistan
Dr. Adeel Tariq
Degree : Ph.D. (Innovation and Technology Management), Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. MBA (Management), Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. MBA (Risk Management), Hailey College of Banking and Finance, Pakistan.
Dr. Gulen Hashmi
Degree : Doctorate of Business Administration (2013-2017) Business School Lausanne Switzerland. MA Management (2012-2013) Masters in Science (MSc) in Environmental Governance University of Essex UK. Executive MBA (2010-2011) Sabanci University Istanbul, TURKEY
Mr. Muhammad Kamran Khalid
Degree : ongoing PhD in Supply Chain Management, MS in telecom management, GGU USA, Bachelors of Engineering in Software Engineering, MCS, NUST
Dr. Mehwish Iftikhar
Degree : Ph.D in Business Administration. University Malaya, Malaysia.
Dr. Faran Ahmed
Degree : PhD–Industrial Engineering Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. Master of Science - Industrial Engineering Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. Master of Science - Engineering Management National University of Science & Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pak
Dr. Sophia Ali
Degree : Ph.D in Business Administration from Kobe University, Kobe, Japan; MBA Cum Laude from Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Ms. Sana Ahmed
Degree : M.Sc (Research) Employment Relations and Organizational Behavior, London School Of Economics and Political Science, U.K. MPA , Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan
Mr. Faqir Taj
Degree : MS Information System, Macquarie University, Australia. MBA, MGSM, Macquarie University, Australia
Mr. Mommin Arshad Durrani
Degree : MS Management Science-IM Sciences Peshawar. MBA Institute of Business Administration-Karachi. MSc Electronic and Electrical Engineering-University of Glasgow. BSc Electrical and Electronic Engineering-U.E.T Peshawar
Ms. Nida Karim (Programme Head BBA)
Degree : BSc Applied Accounting (Oxford Brookes University) ACCA MSc Innovation and Entrepreneurship (University of Warwick)
Ms. Neelab Kayani
Degree : MSc. HRM Fox Business School, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
Mr. Asad Amjad (On Study Leave)
Degree : MBA (University of Sheffield) UK, MCS (Hamdard University) Pakistan
Ms. Maria Khan (On Study Leave)
Degree : MSc. International Human Resource Management & Comparative Industrial Relations - The University of Manchester, UK. Bachelor in Business Administration (Hons.) - NUST Business School, Pakistan
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Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain [George III] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained, and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies, without the consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For protecting them by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.
We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.
We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence.
They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare.
That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
The signers of the Declaration represented the new States as follows:
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samual Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
More about the signers of the Declaration of Independence
Colonial Hall: Biographies of the Founding Fathers
Virtualology.com: Declaration of Independence
US History.org: Signers of the Declaration of Independence
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Icelinus Jordan [D. S.] 1885:898 [110] Masc. Artedius quadriseriatus Lockington 1880. Type by original designation (also monotypic). Proposed as a genus or subgenus, but treated as a genus. •Valid as Icelinus Jordan 1885 -- (Bolin 1944:22 [ref. 6379], Washington et al. 1984:442 [ref. 13660], Yabe in Masuda et al. 1984:325 [ref. 6441], Peden 1984 [ref. 5193], Yabe 1985:111 [ref. 11522], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1987:189 [ref. 15964], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:400 [ref. 25968], Parin et al. 2002:S76 [ref. 28300], Rosenblatt & Smith 2004:556 [ref. 27912], Parin et al. 2014:252 [ref. 33547], Pietsch & Orr 2015:41 [ref. 34694], Girard & Smith 2016:549 [ref. 34786]). Current status: Valid as Icelinus Jordan 1885. Cottidae.
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Light in Inner Space — October 2017-November 2018
(c) Julie Loar 2017
“There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.” ~Edith Wharton
Scorpio is the eighth zodiac sign and is described as a fixed water sign. British astrologer Ronald Davison has said, “Each water sign prepares the way for a new kind of manifestation, and every fixed sign represents a particular gathering of power.” The zodiac includes three water signs: Cancer’s cardinal water energy can be seen like the ocean and constantly shifting tides. The mutable water of Pisces can be described as water in motion from streams to waterfalls, and Scorpio’s fixed energy is like a tsunami, a water spout in the ocean, or the unrelenting march of a glacier.
Scorpio embodies tremendous emotional power that can be used constructively or destructively. Scorpions crawl on the ground, hiding in secret places, and their human counterparts are not reluctant to explore and experience what is hidden or concealed. This includes everything from sexuality to the most sacred of mysteries. Scorpio energy can express as course vibrations, ruled only by the lower senses, which can be selfish and even cruel. Unconscious Scorpios are often stung by the force of their own ruling passions. Scorpio is co-ruled by Mars, and when Scorpios are backed into a corner the equivalent of a formidable stinger is raised, and they can eject their venom with “Martian” force. There is a need to master speech for the tongue of Scorpio can be as venomous as the sting of it’s eight-legged namesake.
Scorpio is a complex sign with a range of symbolic emblems. The lower level of Scorpio is symbolized by the eight-legged scorpion. The second level is represented by an eagle, said to be the highest flying bird, soaring above earthly concerns, and possessing far-seeing vision. Eagles symbolically even enter into another sphere, the element of air. In indigenous traditions the eagle is said to be first to greet the rising Sun, suggesting that lofty insight is possible when we rise high enough to gain perspective. Regeneration is the highest expression of Scorpio energy, and this complex sign has a third symbolic emblem, the phoenix. Mythically, the imagery of regeneration is embodied by this legendary creature that submits to a period of self-immolation, and then rises reborn from the ashes of its former self. This symbolism contains the idea of degeneration and regeneration, death and resurrection, and the ultimate attainment of immortality through right use of will.
In myth Pluto (Hades), the ruler of Scorpio, is lord of the underworld. Psychologically, this domain contains all that is hidden or buried. This could be treasures, talents, skeletons, or “monsters.” Hermes/Mercury was the only Olympian who could travel between Mount Olympus and the Underworld, which he did by virtue of his Caduceus wand. As Messenger of the Gods he carried information back and forth between Hades (Pluto), and Zeus (Jupiter). This suggests the importance of our consciousness and mental nature in traversing and mastering the heights and depths of human experience.
Hades name meant “the Invisible,” and was not spoken aloud for fear of arousing his anger. Instead, he was most commonly called Pluton, “the Rich,” signifying the wealth of gems and minerals that could be mined from the earth. Pluton was often depicted with a horn of plenty. According to myth, the infant Jupiter was raised on the milk of a goat whose horns continually overflowed with food and drink, encoding the abundance of Jupiter. This combined symbolism powerfully links Jupiter’s sustenance with the bounty that can lie unclaimed or unrecognized in the underworld of our psyches.
Jupiter’s positive qualities include a jovial expansiveness, a sporting approach to life, and an unquenchable optimism. His influence is generally fortunate, benevolent, and generous. Astrologically, Jupiter acts to expand, and hopefully enlighten, the signs he visits. His natural energy is nearly boundless, and he soars around heaven bestowing bounty and largess when he isn’t hurling thunderbolts. Used unwisely these same characteristics can become extreme in viewpoint, wasteful, and disregarding of resources. Jupiter can trust too much to luck, which brings misfortune. His expansive nature can be difficult to contain, and because he always wants to take the larger view, there is also a risk of dismissing details as insignificant, leading to misfortune.
Jupiter was considered to be a god of light, and therefore wisdom, and was said to deal with the realm of super-consciousness. He is therefore a widener of horizons, although his mythical dalliances don’t always reveal his higher attributes. Being confined to the focused, dark, and intense energy of Scorpio, or by association the unseen realms of the underworld, is not Jupiter’s natural habitat but used wisely, it’s like seeing in the dark.
Emotions will run both deep and wide with increasing intensity and expansion. This combination is akin to focusing sunlight through a magnifying glass, and has the potential to make light “coherent” through Scorpio’s ability to focus like a laser. Like the caduceus, Jupiter in Scorpio connects the heights of Mount Olympus to the deep realm of the Underworld that exists in the microcosm within each of us. Understood this way, Jupiter in Scorpio can bring the “light of heaven” to the darkness of the deep, revealing many things that are normally unseen. Treasures and unhealed wounds lie buried in the darkness.
Characteristics of this combination include heightened passion with fuel to burn to achieve our desires. But a consuming passion which ignites under this influence could grow to become an obsession if the energies remain unchecked. Jupiter in Scorpio can either intensify the desire to know the truth or increase the will to have power and control over others. The energy may express as great strength and courage or degenerate into woven webs of deceit. There can be risk of overly strong feelings, pushing toward excess of expression and even violence in search of release. Another lesson of Jupiter in Scorpio is the value of silence and the power of keen observation–we should observe and listen more than we speak.
Jupiter in Scorpio can engender a magnetism that can bring success in outer world, potentially in the realm of finance, as the planet of abundance in Scorpio highlights economics. This could bring major motivators of money and power to center stage. Keen insight and disciplined minds combined with well-chosen investments and careful timing could yield positive results. This energy is also helpful in detective and police work as well as aiding efforts in engineering, chemistry or medicine. Investments in healing technologies could be beneficial as Scorpio’s penetrating nature and capacity for research could result in new forms of healing.
If we’re paying attention this archetypal combination can bring heaven’s light into a realm which is ordinarily cloaked in darkness and secrecy, like shining a flood light into a cave, or parting the veil that conceals the deeper aspects of reality. We have to be willing to explore what’s hidden to heal as well as to unearth treasure. Taking advantage of the energy of Jupiter in Scorpio is an optimum astrological mix to delve deeply into the underworld of our own consciousness as well as exploring sacred mysteries. Matters that have been hidden may come to light, bringing a potentially vital transformation or a rude awakening. We might choose to leave a dead-end job or end a painful relationship as we “see the light.” The key is turning insight and vision into appropriate action. By benefit of the transit we can potentially access depths of our own underworlds, gaining access to secret knowledge, hidden wisdom, buried treasure, or whatever is normally concealed from us. At the level of highest potential Jupiter in Scorpio directs these energies, through right focus of force or will, toward a sort of immortality that is sought not through procreation or lineage but through a great work or discovery that lives on.
Because Scorpio has three symbols, three levels of interpretation are possible. At the level of the scorpion light shines in dark places and illuminate matters that have been hidden. This energy could reveal something that was purposely hidden and back someone into a corner, provoking an attack of venomous thunderbolts. When Jupiter combines with the symbolism of the eagle, the king of heaven gains the keen bird’s eye view of the soaring king of birds. When these two monarchs join forces, insight can be raised from basic instinct to a broad view of the horizon, offering vision to make a better choice. At the highest potential for expression the archetypal god of light undergoes a metamorphosis in the flames of the phoenix. Jupiter can now be reborn from the ashes of prior choices and karma into a wiser and transformed expression. If we set our intention to reach the highest expression of these energies, we are bound to gain higher ground.
Those who were born with Jupiter in Scorpio will experience the benefits and challenges of this transit. Jupiter circles the Sun about every twelve years, so looking back to events and circumstances in our individual lives twelve, twenty-four, or thirty-six years ago, may shed light on what to expect personally in the next thirteen months. Understanding how the twelve-year cycle plays out in our own lives, can reveal how the planet’s current transit will affect us. Similarly, at roughly twelve year intervals from our birth, Jupiter returns to the degree and sign he occupied at that moment, providing an infusion of growth and energy we can optimize. This “Jupiter return” offers blessings and expansion in the specific area of life. Or, it can seem to be too much of a good thing.
The French occultist Eliphas Levi, born Alphonse Louis Constant, wrote of a maxim he called the “powers of the sphinx,” which comes from his most famous work Transcendental Magic. Levi says, “To attain the sanctum regnum, ‘holy kingdom,’ the knowledge and power of the Magi, four conditions are required: an intelligence illuminated by study, an intrepid nature that nothing can check, a will that cannot be broken, and a prudence that nothing can corrupt. To know, to dare, to will, and to keep silence—such are the four words of the Magus that are inscribed upon the four symbolical forms of the sphinx.”
The origin of the “powers of the sphinx” is unknown, but Levi ties these qualities to the mythical creature, the Great Enigma, that is a composite of the four fixed signs of the zodiac. In occult symbolism a sphinx has a human head-Aquarius (to know), the torso and paws of a lion-Leo (to dare) the back side of a bull-Taurus (to will) and the wings of an eagle-Scorpio (to keep silence). The creature is therefore also said to be a symbol of the Macrocosm, and the work of the spiritual disciple is to master the elements, bringing them into balance and equilibrium.
www.JulieLoar.com
Originally published in Atlantis Rising Magazine
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Schneps Media buys AM New York and merges it with Metro NY in their continuing consolidation and parodying of local news media
Fifteen-year-old Metro New York, one of the city’s two freebie daily papers, will disappear following the sale of assets to Schneps Media, which already owns the other freebie paper amNew York.
A merged paper will be reflagged as amNewYork Metro starting Jan. 6.
“We’ve purchased the assets of Metro New York and Metro Philadelphia,” said Schneps Media president Joshua Schneps, confirming a story that The Post reported on Dec. 30. Metro Philadelphia will continue to be published under its current name.
The staffs of both papers were laid off by former owner Metro US on Friday, but Schneps said some of the employees will be offered jobs at Schneps.
“We have job offers out to about 20 people,” he said. Group publisher Ed Abrams and Philadelphia publisher Susan Peiffer are expected to keep their jobs under the new owners.
Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park Report
Now that Brooklyn Paper owner Schneps Media, recent buyer of amNewYork (now downsized), has bought (and apparently closed) the other free daily, Metro, it's worth a look at the recent podcast interview, Schneps Media Publisher on Dominating Media Online and Offline.
At 8:19 of the interview, Walker asks, "What do you look for in terms of like a quality of a writer or a story?"
Schneps responds:
The first thing is we always look for people who get it about community news. So we have editors. For every single one of our papers has their own editor, so that they are the voice of the community. We don’t homogenize news and we use our team of reporters to cover each part. Let’s say in Queens, we’ll have the editor-in-chief, but then we’ll have reporters covering the northwest, the northeast, the western, the southern parts, so that we are able to get the stories and make sure we have reporters who get it about the importance of the community, the business community, because I believe that without a strong business community like we have on Bayside on Bell Boulevard.
When you don’t have any empty stores, that means that’s a good neighborhood, because that neighborhood is supporting the businesses. So I’m a big believer in supporting local businesses and then being able to know that we have them understand that you’ve gotta go to the community board meetings, and it’s not what’s on the agenda, it’s the people in the audience.
So we really train our reporters to be as grassroots as we are, in terms of reaching out and getting stories, being exclusive with the story, being able to develop relationships with some of the political leaders that need to have their story told.
We’re not a political newspaper, but we get it that we have to cover the politics of our borough. We just went through a crisis with Amazon in Queens, and the disaster of a few people who were very negative and left-wing about giving Amazon incentives, and that was a big story for us because it was local but yet it was also international and national.
While it is true that most of the Amazon incentives were off-the-shelf, there were significant questions as to whether they were justified. Moreover, there was a discretionary grant of half a billion dollars from the state, plus a seemingly generous land deal. (Plus, as we just learned from the Wall Street Journal, an initial offer that was more generous.)
That's supposed to generate journalism. Schneps is more likely to gush about Hudson Yards (in what seems to be a freebie hotel visit).
Gushing is understating it, from her cheesy titled weekly op-ed "Victoria's secrets"
Friendships take me on many paths and this weekend I discovered a new world in our great city: The Hudson Yards created over the ugly train rail on the West Side of Manhattan.
The train tracks are there, but some creative genius engineers figured out how to put a “roof” over them and build stunning soaring buildings on the new surface.
My friend Lydia Sarfati was honored two weeks ago at the Polish American Women’s Conference in Manhattan. At the VIP party, I had the good fortune to meet Emily Kopelman, the impressive manager of the Equinox Hotel. I had heard positive things about the cutting edge hotel that opened in Hudson Yards a few months ago.
She and I immediately bonded and she invited me to stay at the hotel. I accepted and last Saturday it was my treat to spend the night there.
As I drove up the West Side highway and took a left turn onto the “campus” of the Hudson Yards, I saw the glistening Vessel, the extraordinary centerpiece of the Yards surrounded by a Neiman Marcus mall, which connects to The Shed, a cultural center, and my destination, the Equinox Hotel.
I felt lost in the remarkable setting and called Emily, who told me to look for her doorman wearing a white shirt. With her guidance I found the hotel across from the shopping mall.
The doorman showed me to the elevator, which I took to the 24th floor to check in. From there, we were taken to our corner room on the 30th floor with incredible views of the Hudson River and Midtown.
The Equinox brand is 25 years old and this is their first hotel. I love how their theme of “high-performance living” has translated into an unusual 5-Star luxury hotel experience.
I was amazed when the bellman showed me the TV sleep system programming, which included relaxation, stretching, and yoga videos.
I knew I was in a special place for a serene night of sleep when I saw the puffy down comforters and specially designed push-button blackout shades from an iPad with temperature and light control.
I took a tour of the Equinox’s 60,000 square-foot gym, as well as their rejuvenating spa, which added to their “temple of well being” feeling I had at the hotel.
A glimpse of the 60,000 square-foot gym inside the hotel.
Brunch was on the 24th floor overlooking the Hudson at Electric Lemon, offering the fluffiest, tastiest egg-white omelette I ever ate. There’s something enervating about sitting on top of the world and the sun shining light onto our comfortable plush sofa seating.
Gothamist actually did a shockingly good report on this:
The addition of the amNewYork brand, a respected citywide outlet, would seem to bolster Schneps’ claim to being the most far-reaching media company in the New York market—and one of the few publishers to find a path for growth in an era of crisis for local news.
Appearing on NY1 earlier this week, Josh Schneps attributed their success to maintaining a “deep investment in the local community.” The company was started by his mother in her Bayside living room in 1985, and has remained rooted in the neighborhoods of northeast Queens through its flagship, Queens Courier.
But as the publisher continues to seize wide swaths of the city’s battered local news landscape, those who’ve found themselves under the stewardship of the Schneps family are raising concerns.
According to current and former reporters and editors who spoke to Gothamist, the Schneps playbook involves cozying up to advertisers and local powerbrokers, while muzzling critical coverage of friends and public officials close to the owners. Employees who didn't embrace that approach say they were soon made to feel unwelcome by the new management.
“It very quickly became clear that they’re less of a news company than a promotions company,” said Vince DiMiceli, the former editor-in-chief of Brooklyn Paper, who was let go two months after Schneps’ acquired Community News Group last September. “They wanted to make sure that anything we wrote about any politician was glowing. That's not what newspapers do.”
Reporters at multiple Schneps-owned properties said that the family was particularly fixated on pleasing local judges, since they dictate placement of the mandatory legal notices that remain a major source of revenue for community newspapers. Within months of Schneps takeover, fawning profiles of controversial justices like Noach Dear—who once organized a government trip funded by a whites-only Johannesburg city council, and was later the subject of a federal complaint for campaign finance violations—began appearing in the Brooklyn Paper, with no mention of past scandals.
Reporters also said they were suddenly assigned to cover low-stakes political events—like Brooklyn political boss Frank Seddio's anniversary party—with explicit direction to highlight as many judges as possible. The company’s 76-year-old founder would call the newsroom “several times a day” if a print spread did not feature enough flattering photos of public officials, according to one ex-employee.
“All of a sudden that’s what my editors were doing instead of editing my copy,” that person recalled. (Most of the half dozen editorial employees who spoke to Gothamist requested anonymity, out of fear of angering powerful employers in New York City media or because they’re not authorized to speak about company operations.)
Expect more of this hard-hitting intrepid journalism with our "free" dailies and weeklies.
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Labels: journalism, manufacturing consent, merger, Schneps media, victoria schneps
Certainly, this is a pure crap article! Crappy must be desperate.
ron s said...
That puff piece in "Victoria's Secret" sounds like she was ought off with a room and an omelet. Don't expect any hard-hitting news.
This is the woman who went to India and did not realize she needed a visa to enter the country...
She'd get lost in an elevator, people and Politicians (Are Politicians "People"?) kiss her ass.
She sponsors "Events" at venues like Terrace on the Park. Honoring among others "20 over 20 up and comers". What's not being said is Vicki gets a cut of the gate and it's rumored to be as high as 20%....
I guess in this day and age, there's no such thing as being too cynical.
Julie B. said...
Before the takeover, each paper was pretty good. AMNY for lighter stuff, and Metro for more ink. Both had their own edge and AMNY had a cool urban vibe with tweets, etc. Now they look like the Bayside Times, the Queens Chronicle, and the Pennysaver. My grandmother would have enjoyed these. Screw them, won't be picking these up anymore.
Anon 1:
Articles. There are four there.
Is this a Schneppie?
“It very quickly became clear that they’re less of a news company than a promotions company,”
What I find interesting about Gothamist's spread is that this is the same site that's involved with the Riis Park Beach Bazaar and all their articles on food look more like promotions of the "artisans" and also the restaurants where they are from.
@Certainly, this is a pure crap article! Crappy must be desperate.
Certainly doesn't look that way, but looks like you have a bit of an agenda.
You'd be hard pressed in life to meet a more artificial, disingenuous, uncaring individual than the totally disgusting Victoria "Greedy" S.
She turns 80 this year? Her papers are old news too.
Alvy Singer said...
From Woody Allen's 1977 film 'Annie Hall':
"I heard that Commentary (Magazine) and Dissent (Magazine) had merged and formed Dysentery."
This was once called monopoly and illegal
Its the same shit with all the broadcast TV and FM radio now, the API included
We had democrat voters and that SOB rapist, socialist, Bill Clinton to thank for such deregulation.
It was Clinton pen to the Telecommunications act of 1996 (unregulated media cross-ownership monopoly coast to coast)---underhandedly passed of as a bill to lower cell phone and CATV costs. Shortly after passage of this bill is when all the shit started happening when I was working for NBC New York.---Not a registered democrat or member of a liberal cause or club? --Get placed in thumbscrews stripping paint off studio floors, quit or have an accident down a service elevator shaft.
Perhaps Clinton didn't read what he signed because being more interested in Monika under his desk or wondering which Disney, MTV, Viacom, Sony intern he was getting his next blowjob from.
If there are only two papers on the market for this niche, and someone purchases both, isn't it an anti-trust issue? How much of the NYC paper media market can they swallow before it triggers an anti-trust situation?
Bernie is almost 80 is he old news too ?
@Alvy
Max sounds better
I wish the telecommunications act that raped, pillaged and morphed networks and papers would get more attention, but it's obvious why it never will again.
And Bubba was all those things and more. IMO also
Absolutely correct! One addition, Obongo put the icing on the cake when sold out the OTA broadcast frequencies for the telco companies.
*** She turns 80 this year? Her papers are old news too.***
Dude, you almost killed me during breakfast :) :) :)
"NYC paper media market can they swallow before it triggers an anti-trust situation"
The usually buy up these papers & radio stations so they can kill them (the competition). Paper is dying off so fast, especially with this new green footprint stuff coming into play. The laws are so de-regulated and corrupt its easy to keep away from anti-trust.
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Slash - Discography
What Is The Best Slash Album of All Time?
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What's The Best Slash Album of All Time?
Slash (Self-Titled) 2010
Deluxe Edition Cover
Slash, his Self-Titled album is just so f u c k i n g good. There's really no other words to describe it. Awesome? Yes. Fantastic? Absolutely. Kick ass? You betcha. This is like the ultimate mix CD/Party album. I've been listening to this pretty regularly for awhile now. The entire album is full of guest singers and it's what I would call the closest thing to a Guns N' Roses reunion album we will get since 4 of the 5 former GN'R members are present here. Welcome back home Izzy Stradlin, Duff McKagan and Steven Adler. No, they don't all play together at the same time, but they each contribute to their respective songs. Only one missing of course is Axl Rose. Duh.
Izzy Stradlin can be found performing rhythm guitar on Ghost featuring Ian Astbury, which is a great opening track to this album. Duff McKagan along with Dave Grohl can be found on Watch This, a full-fledge instrumental for Slash to shred. Steven Adler can be found on the Deluxe Edition on the song for Baby Can't Drive, which also features Alice Cooper, Nicole Scherzinger and Flea. The song can also be found on the Vinyl version as well.
Normally I'm not a fan of these kinds of records. I prefer to have consistency throughout an album, i.e. same band and singer from song to song, top to bottom. But with this one I gladly make an exception. It's clear that Slash must have had a blast putting it together. The songs and the track order is about as close to perfection you can get. There isn't one wasted minute here. Stand out performances for me are Ian Astbury, Ozzy Osbourne, Fergie, Chris Cornell and Myles Kennedy.
Fave Songs: Every last one of 'em. MVP, hands down goes to Beautiful Dangerous featuring Fergie. So many guest vocals here, it deserves a full track list run down. If your too lazy to look at the back of the cover up above, then look down below here, b i t c h e s.
1. Ghost (feat. Ian Astbury)
2. Crucify the Dead (feat. Ozzy Osbourne)
3. Beautiful Dangerous (feat. Fergie)
4. Back from Cali (feat. Myles Kennedy)
5. Promise (feat. Chris Cornell)
6. By the Sword (feat. Andrew Stockdale)
7. Gotten (feat. Adam Levine)
8. Doctor Alibi (feat. Lemmy)
9. Watch This (feat. Dave Grohl & Duff McKagan)
10. I Hold On (feat. Kid Rock)
11. Nothing to Say (feat. M. Shadows)
12. Starlight (feat. Myles Kennedy)
13. Saint Is a Sinner Too (feat. Rocco DeLuca)
14. We're All Gonna Die (feat. Iggy Pop)
Deluxe Edition Tracklist
15. Sahara (English version)" (feat. Koshi Inaba)
16. Paradise City (feat. Cypress Hill & Fergie)
17. Mother Maria (feat. Beth Hart)
18. Baby Can't Drive (feat. Alice Cooper & Nicole Scherzinger)
19. Sahara (feat. Koshi Inaba)
20. Beautiful Dangerous (Radio Mix) (feat. Fergie)
21. Demo #4
22. Demo #16
23. Back from Cali (Acoustic) (feat. Myles Kennedy)
24. Fall to Pieces (Acoustic) (feat. Myles Kennedy)
25. Sweet Child O' Mine (Acoustic) (feat. Myles Kennedy)
26. Watch This (Live) (feat. Myles Kennedy)
27. Nightrain (Live) (feat. Myles Kennedy)
28. (Bonus DVD) Making of the Album
29. (Bonus DVD) Back From Cali feat. Myles Kennedy (Live)
30. (Bonus DVD) By The Sword (Music Video)
31. (Bonus DVD) Behind The Scenes of 'By The Sword
32. (Bonus DVD) Starlight feat. Myles Kennedy (Live)
33. (Bonus DVD) Mean Bone feat. Myles Kennedy (Live)
34. (Bonus DVD) Track-By-Track Interview with Slash
Highly recommend this if your into Slash or Hard Rock in general.
I love both version of the Album cover. The regular edition one with the skull and bones with Top Hat fits Slash to a T. But I'm pretty fond of the Deluxe Edition cover that was drawn by caricaturist artist Ralph Steadman.
Slash and Fergie have already shot the video for Beautiful Dangerous but it has yet to be released. So for the time being you will have to watch the video below. The sound and picture quality is surprisingly good. Gawd she looks so hot in leather. Fergie ftw!! She really should ditch the Black Eyed Peas. Her vocal chops are being wasted in that genre and that band if you ask me.
Slash (Self Titled) Music Videos
Slash featuring Andrew Stockdale - By The Sword
Slash featuring Myles Kennedy - Back From Cali
Slash featuring Fergie - Beautiful Dangerous
Slash featuring Fergie - Beautiful Dangerous (Live - Cell Cam Version)
The Making Of Slash's Self-Titled Album
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCDP6tznmmw
Slash featuring Adam Levine - Gotten (Short Film)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76vtlREgALI
The extended version of the music video that was released today and deserved it's own separate post here. Clifton Collins Jr. did a fantastic job with this one.
great record.
need to get THIS on vinyl too!
I would definitely pick this up on Vinyl for myself.
Slash Talks New Album: "Apocalyptic Love"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MFUzKTwioM
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Curious... Why do you guys get vinyl?
Because the rest of us think you're an idiot.
Quote from: Mac on June 01, 2012, 03:44:52 pm
I can't speak for Boyinblack, but for me personally it's old school habit. As you know, I'm into art and vinyl (covers) are in fact artwork. Plus, at the end of the day, the music just sounds so much better.
Pa-shaw
it sounds better.
with a good sound system the dynamics and tone have more range, from a digital signal (especially on something cheap like a CD) ...it's not all there like it is on vinyl
that's basically it.
it's not saying digital is bad...but you get what you pay for...a CD maybe costs 3 cents to make if that...and the dynamic range on it is limited....it's convenient...MP3's the quality is even worse....that's why people go for FLAC files and there's even something that has more range now..can't think of the name of it off the top of my head.
but unless you have a high output computer and top notch speakers...playing a FLAC through a built in a 1 inch speaker is basically pointless anyway
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CHINESE NAVAL SHIPS MAKE PORT CALL IN MYANMAR FOR THE FIRST TIME
The Government-controlled Xinhua news agency of China disseminated the following news on August 30,2010:
"The 5th Escort Task group of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA)- Navy, made up of two warships -- "Guanhzhou" and "Caohu" --- made a friendly call at Myanmar Yangon's Thilawa Port Sunday (August 29 ) afternoon.
"It was also the first time for Chinese naval warship to have called at Myanmar port.
"The five-day mission is aimed at promoting friendly relationships between the two armed forces of the two countries and exchange between the two navies.
"A grand ceremony was launched to welcome the Chinese warships amid rain, attended by Major Han Sein, Commander of Myanmar Navy Dockyard Base, Chinese Ambassador to Myanmar Ye Dabo and other embassy officials as well as representatives of Chinese companies, teachers and students based in Myanmar and local Chinese residents totaling about 200.
"After the ceremony, the warships were open to the visitors for viewing.
"During the call, the Chinese PLA escort task group will launch a series of exchanges with the Myanmar navy.
"Myanmar is the fourth country that the 5th Chinese PLA escort task group called on after completing its escort missions in Gulf of Aden and the waters off Somali coast.
"Prior to Myanmar, the escort task group had called on Egypt, Italy and Greece."
My comment: Why the two ships did not make a port call in Sri Lanka?
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Ficus tremula Warb.
This species is accepted, and its native range is SE. Kenya to KwaZulu-Natal.
Accepted Infraspecifics
According to Flora Zambesiaca
[FZ]
Moraceae, C. C. Berg. Flora Zambesiaca 9:6. 1991
Tree up to 10 m. tall or a shrub, hemi-epiphytic and strangling or secondarily terrestrial, sometimes a liana.
Leafy twigs 1–3(5) mm. thick, sparsely minutely puberulous, periderm not flaking off.
Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to elliptic or subobovate to ovate-lanceolate, 2.5–8 x 0.7–3 cm., subcoriaceous to chartaceous; apex subacute to somewhat acuminate; base obtuse to rounded or emarginate; margin entire; both surfaces glabrous, or the midrib puberulous beneath; lateral veins 6–9 pairs; tertiary venation reticulate; petiole 0.7–3(4) cm. long, c. 0.5(1) mm. thick; stipules 2–10 mm. long, up to 3 cm. long on new flush, glabrous, caducous.
Figs 1–6 together on curved spurs up to 2 cm. long on the older wood; bud scales of the spurs glabrous or nearly so; peduncle 5–20 mm. long, 0.5–1 mm. thick; basal bracts c. 3 mm. long, free pans caducous or sometimes subpersistent.
Receptacle subglobose to ellipsoid, 2–2.5 cm. in diam. when fresh, 1–1.5 cm. in diam. when dry, sparsely or densely minutely puberulous to almost glabrous, ?green at maturity, not or hardly wrinkled and slightly stipitate when dry, wall 0.5–1 mm. thick when dry.
According to Flora of Tropical East Africa
[FTEA]
Moraceae, C.C. Berg (University of Bergen). Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1989
Tree up to 10 m. tall or a shrub, hemi-epiphytic (and strangling) or (? secondarily) terrestrial, sometimes a liana.
Leaves in spirals; lamina subcoriaceous to chartaceous, oblong to subobovate, elliptic or ± ovate, 2.5–8(–11) × 0.7–4(–5) cm., apex subacute to rather faintly acuminate, base rounded to cordulate, margin entire; both surfaces glabrous or the midrib puberulous beneath; lateral veins 5–9 pairs, tertiary venation reticulate; petiole 0.7–3(–4.5) cm. long, ± 0.5(–1) mm. thick; stipules 0.2–1 cm. long, up to 3 cm. on flush, glabrous, caducous.
Infructescences
Figs 1–6 together on ± curved spurs up to 3 cm. long on the older wood; peduncle 0.5–2 cm. long, 0.5–7 mm. thick; basal bracts ± 3 mm. long, free parts caducous, occasionally subpersistent.
Receptacle subglobose to ellipsoid, 2–2.5(?–3) cm. in diameter when fresh, 1–1.5(–2) cm. when dry, sparsely to sometimes densely minutely puberulous to almost glabrous, ? green at maturity, when dry not or hardly wrinkled and slightly stipitate; wall thin.
Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Mozambique, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zimbabwe
Ficus tremula subsp. acuta (De Wild.) C.C.Berg
Ficus tremula subsp. kimuenzensis (Warb.) C.C.Berg
Includes 2 Accepted Infraspecifics
Ficus pulvinata Warb.
Ficus tremula Warb. appears in other Kew resources:
Brenan, J.P.M. [8315], Tanzania 13143.000
Verdcourt, B. [3949], Kenya 31006.000
Greenway, P.J. [9800], Kenya 23401.000
First published in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 20: 171 (1894)
Kalema, J. & Beentje, H. (2012). Conservation checklist of the trees of Uganda: 1-235. Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa an annotated checklist Strelitzia 14: 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
Launert, E. & Cope, G.V. (eds.) (1991). Flora Zambesiaca 9(6): 1-135. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Berg, C.C. & Hijman, M.E.E. (1989). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Moraceae: 1-95.
Flora of Tropical East Africa
J.P.M. Brenan, Check-lists of the Forest Trees and Shrubs of the British Empire no. 5, part II, Tanganyika Territory p. 357 (1949).
R. O. Williams, Useful and Ornamental Plants in Zanzibar and Pemba p. 265 (1949).
Peter, Flora von Deutsch-Ostafrika 2: 101 (1932).
Hutch. in Flora of Tropical Africa 6(2): 137 (1916).
Engl. in Die Pflanzenwelt Ost-Afrikas und der Nachbargebiete, Theile C: 162, fig. 10F–K (1895).
Warb. in A. Engler, Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 20: 171 (1894).
Flora Zambesiaca
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The classic banjo is a fretted instrument fitted with five nylon strings tuned to G C G B D. (Note: this is the normal tuning for the classic banjo) The instrument is played with the bare fingers, this method of playing is known as finger style.
NOTE: The classic banjo has in the past been called finger style banjo also classical banjo, but the preferred name is now classic banjo.
Classic banjo is a type and style of banjo playing, not to be confused with the playing of classical music on the banjo. Any type of music can be played on the classic banjo.
The banjo had been in existence long before it was rediscovered in America at the beginning of the 19th century. During the 19th. century the classic five string banjo as we know it today was developed in America and Britain, by various players and musical instrument makers. (For a detailed history of the banjo see the links listed on the classic banjo links page.) During the late 19th. century and early part of the 20th. century, the classic banjo became one of the most popular musical instruments to play, hence a large amount of music was composed for it, by performers and composers, such as Joe Morley, Emile Grimshaw, Olly Oakley, Alfred Cammeyer, Vess Ossman and Parke Hunter etc. (For more information about Classic Banjo Composers see the links page.) By the second part of the 20th. century, the classic banjo had started to decline in popularity, and by the end of the 20th. century it would have disappeared for ever, had it not been for the efforts and enthusiasm of a few people worldwide who still listen to, and play the classic banjo. (Information about classic banjo societies etc. can be found on this page and the links page.)
American Banjo Fraternity
For more information go to the American Banjo Fraternity website
Website: www.banjofraternity.org
The British BMG Federation
For more information go to the British BMG Federation website
Website: www.banjomandolinguitar.org
The Fretted Instrument Guild of America
For more information go to the Fretted Instrument Guild of America website
Website: www.allfrets.com
More information about classic banjo societies etc. can be found on the links page.
"BMG Magazine"
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"The British BMG Federation Newsletter"
The British BMG Federation Magazine
Published by the British BMG Federation
"5 stringer"
American Banjo Fraternity Magazine
Published by the American Banjo Fraternity
More information about classic banjo magazines etc. can be found on the links page.
The zither banjo was developed from the open back classic banjo at the end of the 19th century, by Alfred D. Cammeyer. It was designed with a deep resonator and fitted with a mixture of steel and gut (nylon) strings to give the classic banjo a more sustained ringing tone. Today many classic banjo players, play both zither and open back classic banjos, and consider the zither banjo to be just another type of the classic banjo. For more information about the zither banjo Click here to go to a website devoted to the zither banjo, or go to the Classic Banjo Links page on this website.
( Listed in alphabetical order)
James Allgrove is a performer and teacher of the Classic Banjo. For more information Click here to go to the James Allgrove website.
Douglas Back is a performer and teacher of the Classic Banjo. For more information Click here to go to the Douglas Back website.
Chris Sands is a performer and teacher of the Classic Banjo. For more information Click here to go to the Chris Sands web page, on this website.
Elias Sibley
Probably one of the youngest professional classic banjo performers in the world today is Elias Sibley, who started playing the banjo when he was ten years old. In the Millennium year he made a recording of some of the classic banjo music he performed during that year. For more information about this CD see the CD Recording pages on this website.
For more information Click here to go to the Elias Sibley website.
For information about other outstanding Classic Banjo performers, go to the Banjo Links page on this website.
For more information about playing and tuning the classic banjo, also books and CDs etc. Click here or go to the Classic Banjo Links page on this website.
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SAP to Bring Fastest Live Updates for ICC World Cup 2015 Fans - Zacks.com
With International Cricket Council (“ICC”) World Cup inching towards a climax, SAP SE (SAP - Analyst Report) has decided to gratify the hysteria sweeping millions of cricket fans across the globe by offering detailed statistics and historical insight on the ICC Match Center. Lately, this leading enterprise application provider has collaborated with ICC to offer ball-by-ball match analysis by leveraging the real time competency of its SAP HANA Cloud Platform and SAP Lumira software.
One of the most digitally advanced tournaments in the World Cup history, 2015 Cricket World Cup has already witnessed 3 million ICC Official mobile application downloads. ICC management has also claimed to make concerted efforts to transform its official website by introducing state-of-art designs, and making it highly responsive and adaptable to all sorts of devices. This, in turn, has rendered the website extensively informative and engaging for fans, allowing them an access to a vast array of information and data about the event.
Coming back to the news, SAP has developed a Match Centre for ICC, which is available across both SAP HANA Cloud Platform and SAP Lumira software. The software flashes the fastest live score updates that are not available anywhere else on Internet.
The company’s powerful platforms will offer cricket fanatics with ICC World Cup’s historical statistics over the last 40 years – a first oof its kind in the World Cup history. The predictive excellence of the SAP HANA Platform will enable fans to compare past and present performance of cricketers and teams, thereby helping them effectively identify the best bowlers and batsmen in the ICC history.
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2 Decades Without Windows
by Roy Schestowitz at 12:00 pm
“Windows 98 should have been released for free on Jan. 1, 1996 and titled Windows 95.1. If this were Hollywood, then Windows 98 would be the equivalent of ‘Heaven’s Gate’, ‘Waterworld’ and ‘Godzilla’ rolled into one. A huge, overhyped, bloated, embarrassment.”
–Jesse Berst, ZDNet editor
MY GENERATION (I’m 37) grew up on DOS. Not necessarily Microsoft DOS, either. Just DOS. As a kid I used to work from the command line. We, as kids, taught one another new tricks; sometimes an adult would visit to teach us things and copy some programs for us (floppy disks with compressed archives). Various utilities like RAR were useful. Sometimes an infection (malicious program) needed to be removed. That was before the days of Windows 3.x — the days we used ncurses-type interfaces to type documents and send these to printers. Later on I did some programming with batch files and at around age 15 I started with Pascal (quite popular at the time owing to simplicity and relative elegance).
I mostly missed the BBS generation (some friends of mine used it; they’d copy for us files they got from there). When bulletin board systems were still popular many computers did not even have modems (few of my classmates had them, usually because of lack of a technical parent, and only one of them was a GNU/Linux user in the mid/late nineties). I think I got my first modem when I was 14 and IRC was probably the first thing I used “on-line”. After Windows 95, which many people used at that time, I bought my last Windows laptop. Actually, my father bought it. He used it and then passed it to me. It had only 32 MB of RAM and Windows 98. I carried it around and used it in university as an undergraduate student (at the faculty I used GNU/Linux at the time). It retired years later and I’ve not bothered with Windows since then. I wrote a great deal about it in USENET at the time. Memories from these days are mostly gone by now; I barely ever touch Windows and when I do it’s over Remote Desktop, typically to access a client’s network, e.g. to run PuTTY from a remote system. That happens about once a month (patching Debian GNU/Linux servers).
Was Windows 98 a decent operating system? No, it was unreliable, but at least it ran on modest hardware without much RAM. I ran Firefox on it, with a total system capacity of something from the mid-nineties (~400MegaHertZ CPU, 32 MB of RAM). That was before Microsoft added back doors to Windows (this was reportedly done in 1999), before the bloat of NT and before DRM (Vista).
With 3 weeks left before the end of this year (and this decade) I remember not so fondly the 90s, back when I used Windows. In 2000 I moved to GNU/Linux, helped by a Finnish friend, an exchange student at the university. In a sense, next year I become a 20-year GNU/Linux user.
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the sleep of reason produces monsters…..or, au contraire!
And a heaven in a wild flower,
And eternity in an hour.
Thus begins William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence. Wonderful. But from this beginning Blake goes on to 120-odd lines that speak of good and evil, innocence and experience, corruption and clarity. All at once and then some. Contrasting one with the other. Talking of things to the contrary. Ah! William Blake.
A friend of mine liked the first four lines so much she went and read out the rest of the poem (“…after the elation that the first four lines gave me…” in her words). From elation she went to saying, “[I] didn’t expect the poem to leave me feeling disturbed….made me shift in my seat…”. But that was the genius of Blake. To show experience in the light of innocence and look at innocence through the eyes of experience.
For Blake, Innocence and Experience were two states that had to be each given its own due and acknowledged. Putting things forth as they were however disturbing they were. Innocence is not a vacuum, it exists in the world of experience. In Experience there is the vestige and hope of innocence. But while others would tell us one part of the story, hold out only hope, Blake would tell it as it is hoping his readers would go through his larger body of work to get to what he wanted to get at.
So in Blake’s worlds, and in his words, for every Clod which sang….
“Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives it ease,
And builds a heaven in hell's despair.”
…there was a Pebble that sang back,
“Love seeketh only self to please,
To bind another to its delight,
Joys in another's loss of ease,
And builds a hell in heaven's despite.”
In fact the sub-title to Blake’s most-beloved work is “Showing the Two Contrary States of The Human Soul”. But this relationship of Innocence and Experience, this inter-play of these contrary states, is not one of direct, static contrasts, but with ever-shifting perspectives and thoughts and tensions. But what about the Soul? If these be the Contrary States, what about the Soul itself?
The difficulty in trying to get the whole import (if one can ever get to it, or to the best of one’s ability) of Songs of Innocence and Experience is that the States are so intertwined that it is difficult to see the Hope in experience and the fear in Innocence. Later on in his illustrious career, Blake would be more clear….showing the separation of the States from the Individual. The Individual being real and eternal, with the illusory States being temporary conditions through which the Individual would pass. The Body and the States just a ‘clothing for the soul divine’ (see below). That’s what it says in the immortal Gita. With broad strokes, reminds one of the eternal philosophy of Advaita, from which we know that once you that ‘Thou art That’ and cast away the subjective reality of Maya, and uncloak yourself from avidya and agjana, will you realise that ‘Thou art Bhraman’. It’s a long way to go, seemingly impossible. But there’s still the hope. The knowledge. But coming back to Blake, why wait to read the later works, when this same message is there in ‘Auguries of Innocence.’
"Man was made for joy & woe,
And when this we rightly know
Thro' the world we safely go.
Joy & woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the Soul divine…"
But why not then make it apparent from the beginning? There’s a reason. It’s called progression. In Blake’s own words (selectively selected from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell)
“…As a new heaven is begun…the Eternal Hell revives……
…..Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence.”
Without Contraries, there is no progression. And another interesting point to note is that Blake refers to ‘a new heaven’ while hell is eternal. Hmmm….is it because Joy is rare and ephemeral, but misery and sorrow is ever present. Is it because Joy and Happiness come in small portions but Misery and Sorrow do not? Like Shakespeare wrote, “When sorrow comes, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”. Or is it because each Joy is Joy, but not every sorrow the same? Leo Tolstoy I think got it right when he started Anna Karenina with this of-quoted line, “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Well. Too much thought. One can think and think and write and write. Sigh.
Well, one can but barely scratch the surface, knowing that the answer and the explanation may never be within reach. But one can try. And spew it out from his onto his blog, for no particular reason except that one cannot help but think. Keep thinking. Sharks need to keep moving. If they stop, they sink. Similarly I guess if I need to stay afloat, I must keep moving, thinking. Even if it be to no end, to serve no purpose, and for no one but myself. But thinking has its own evils.
But some thoughts get to you. Some thoughts are like monsters. Restless. Eating into you, till you show them the light of day. Let them escape, and set them free from the caverns of your mind. You need to get them out somewhere. You need to grapple with thine demons. And thinking helps it not. Like that other great man in my pantheon realised, ‘the sleep of reason produces monsters…”. At face value, works just fine for me. And thus i guess I am left with some reason to put an end to this post with this image from Goya, called The Sleep of Reason produces Monsters...
“La fantasia abandonada de la razon, produce monstruos imposibles: unida con ella, es madre de las artes y origen de sus marabillas.”
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the sleep of reason produces monsters…..or, au con...
Bharat ka Ratan
Let's take a trip together
And thus she’s mine forever
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East Nashville Americana rockers Cordovas are taking their place amongst the musical lineage of cosmic country greats like Gram Parsons, Americana poster kids Uncle Tupelo, the New Riders of the Purple Sage, and the early roots-rock of Little Feat. Led by Joe Firstman, the band released their album That Santa Fe Channel this year. Produced by The Milk Carton Kids' Kenneth Pattengale, it's a collection of songs anchored with electric guitars, rhythms and grooves that usher the songs along, mellifluous pedal steel, and sweet, sweet harmonies.
It's a timely — and timeless — version of a sound that's existed for 50 years, ever since pioneers like the Grateful Dead and the Allman Bothers Band blurred the lines between rock, country, and amplified folk music. If That Santa Fe Channel nods to the band's influences, though, it's still a fiercely unique album, recorded in a series of live takes that shine a light not only on Cordovas' songwriting chops, but their strength as a raw, rugged live band, as well.
On That Santa Fe Channel the band toured Europe extensively in spring and this month they are back for two festivals:
12/07: Oberhausen (DE) @ Static Roots Festival
13/07: Weert (NL) @ Bospop
Related artist: Cordovas back
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Poetry + Prose
Women, Translation, and the Haitian Revolution
Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Dance on the Volcano, trans. Kaiama L. Glover (New York: Archipelago, 2016); 492 pages; ISBN 978-0914671572 (paperback)
Siobhan Marie Meï
sx salon 28
• June 2018
The 2017 publication of Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s masterpiece Dance on the Volcano in English language translation by Kaiama L. Glover is significant not only for the salience of Vieux-Chauvet’s critical engagement with colonial legacies of liberalism, patriarchy, and racism in the Americas, but as a work both authored and translated by a woman and published in a literary market in the United States that continues to disproportionally favor male voices. Given the historical ephemerality of Vieux-Chauvet’s oeuvre—owing in part to a complicated editorial history that limited the reissuing of many of her works after the halt in distribution of Love, Anger, Madness in 1968—the publication of this new translation is perhaps a hopeful sign that more work by Vieux-Chauvet will be appearing in English and, tentatively, that efforts are being made on behalf of some readers, editors, and publishing houses to support and circulate the voices of women of color, both as translators and in translation.1
Set in late-eighteenth-century Saint Domingue, Dance on the Volcano (originally published in French as La danse sur le volcan in 1957 by Éditions Plon) draws on accounts from Haitian scholar Jean Fouchard’s historical text, Le théatre à Saint Domingue (1955) and reimagines the male-dominated narratives of the Haitian Revolution, centering the voice and experience of Minette, a young, free woman of African descent. Minette’s racial consciousness develops over the course of the novel as she experiences prejudice and violence while seeking an independent artistic lifestyle as a performer on the Port-au-Prince stage, despite colonial laws that prohibit women of color from occupying such coveted spaces in the public sphere.
One of the most striking aspects of Dance on the Volcano—and one of the great successes of this translation—is the novel’s attentiveness to colonial gendered dress, particularly to ways clothes served to externally mark bodies and signal class and racial status. Dress was strictly monitored in the French colonies and was enforced through laws such as the Code Noir of 1685. These laws became particularly strict toward the end of the eighteenth century in Haiti as a massive slave revolt emerged as a viable threat to the political economy.2 In the vivid first paragraphs of the novel, Vieux-Chauvet illustrates the colonial anxiety over public self-fashioning through the gaze of white creole women who are angered at the subversive display of dress and jewels by a group of Port-au-Prince’s free women of color:
The jewels adorning the toes of the mulatto women—whom a new law had banned from wearing proper shoes—just made them all the more fascinating and desirable. Seeing their diamond-shod feet, the white women regretted having called for the new regulation directed at “those creatures” who had dared imitate their clothing and hairstyles. Having complained to the Governor about the inexcusable offense, they had called for justice—without admitting of course, that their real desire was to punish and humiliate these rivals who had become far too appealing to their own husbands and lovers. (7–8)
Vieux-Chauvet’s attention to patterns, bare skin, fabric, and the movement of clothes on and off women’s bodies underwrites the novel’s depictions of racial and gendered performances of belonging. Minette, for example, must constantly refashion herself (her demeanor and her dress) in order to conditionally pass as white and to continue to perform in Port-au-Prince’s opera house. Simultaneously, as Minette’s political consciousness grows, so does her desire to participate in the revolution, and accessories such as the madras scarf become symbolic of her commitment to fighting for the liberation of Haiti’s enslaved peoples. Vieux-Chauvet’s depictions of dress reveal an insistence on the nuanced ways women were historical actors within the Haitian Revolution and the role that women’s fashion played in openly disordering colonial hierarchies.
Recreating a text whose depth and lushness is derived from detail—the tightness of a bodice, the shape and shade of one’s lips—is no easy task, and Glover’s translation effectively captures the various social and legal nuances of colonial vocabulary relating to race and class status. In the original text, words designating phenotype, such as mestive or manant, or items of clothing, such as gaule, are footnoted with definitions intended for an audience perhaps unfamiliar with Haitian history or the legacy of French colonization in the Americas. In many cases, reproducing footnotes from a source text is not an ideal strategy for a translation, since footnotes tend to be expensive for publishers and some translators find them cumbersome. Terms that are culturally and, in many cases, temporally bound are thus always a challenge for a translator who must find a consistent strategy for conveying meaning without overamplifying the original sense.
In the case of Dance on the Volcano, Glover has adopted a foreignizing approach, italicizing words that may be unfamiliar to an English-speaking audience, leaving the readers to discover on their own (or to draw from context) the role this terminology played in colonial Haitian race and social relations. While Dance on the Volcano labors to preserve the opacity of certain words and phrases, the most beautiful and energizing aspects of this translation are Glover’s poetic renderings of the novel’s many vibrant and complex characters. Glover’s translation of Bouche-en-coeur, the nickname of Minette’s seductive and savvy friend, as Kiss-Me-Lips is a rich example of the ways Glover recreates, in both sound and style, moments of simultaneous playfulness and density in Vieux-Chauvet’s prose.3
Dance on the Volcano is only the second of Vieux-Chauvet’s five novels to appear in full English translation.4 When asked in an interview during Women in Translation Month (a yearly series of events launched in 2014 by literary blogger Meytal Radzinski) why so few women are being translated, Glover responded by pointing to the shortage of published books by women in general, underlining the significant role that race and class privilege play in this process:
The reasons for this are complex, but might be said to boil down to a sort of suspicion that somehow “women’s issues” are limited and particular, whereas what men write has broader purchase (and I use the word “purchase” intentionally—to point to questions of marketability and of capital that surround the global literary institution). And if you add the matter of race to the presumed specificity—and attendant unmarketability—of gendered perspectives, things get even more “challenging,” shall we say.5
Dance on the Volcano thus serves not only as a critical addition to the canon of Haitian letters in English (as one of only a small number of novels about the Haitian Revolution written from the perspective of a Haitian author) but as a key contribution to contemporary discourses situated at the intersections of race, gender, coloniality, and authorship.
Siobhan Marie Meï is a PhD candidate in comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her translations and original poetry have appeared in carte blanche, the Adirondack Review, Transference, and Asymptote. She is a co-editor of the H-Haiti series “Haiti in Translation” and her coauthored book chapter, “Women (Re)Writing Authority: A Roundtable on Feminist Translation,” is forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook of Translation, Feminism, and Gender.
1 Other recent English language translations of work by Haitian women authors include Évelyne Trouillot, Memory at Bay, trans. Paul Curtis Daw (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015); Kettly Mars, Savage Seasons, trans. Jeanine Herman (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015); and Yanick Lahens, Moonbath, trans. Emily Gogolak (Dallas: Deep Vellum, 2017).
2 “Between 1758 and the revolution the persecutions mounted. The Mulattoes were forbidden to wear swords and sabres and European dress.” C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (New York: Vintage, 1963), 41.
3 To read Glover’s thoughts on her translation process, see Nathan Dize, “Haiti in Translation: Dance on the Volcano by Marie Vieux-Chauvet; an Interview with Kaiama L. Glover,” Haiti in Translation (blog), H-Net, 22 December 2016, https://networks.h-net.org/node/116721/discussions/158058/haiti-translation-dance-volcano-marie-vieux-chauvet-interview.
4 An earlier, now out of print edition of Dance on the Volcano, translated by Salvator Attansio, was published in 1959 by William Sloan. In 2009, Love, Anger, Madness, Rose-Myriam Réjouis and Val Vinkour’s rendering of Vieux-Chauvet’s celebrated 1968 triptych Amour, colère et folie, was published by Modern Library.
5 Kaiama L. Glover, “Women in Translation Month Q&A with Kaiama L. Glover,” Book Culture, 2017, www.bookculture.com/blog/2017/08/30/women-translation-month-qa-kaiama-l-glover.
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