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WSU Second Varsity Eight, Varsity Four Capture Wins Over UW
PULLMAN, Wash. -- - The Washington State women's rowing team defeated the University of Washington in two races Saturday during a dual regatta on the Snake River at Wawawai Landing, outside of Pullman.
The Cougars captured wins in the varsity four and second varsity eight competitions. WSU fell to Washington by just over two seconds in the varsity eight race.
'We did well today,' said WSU Head Coach Jane LaRiviere. 'We set ourselves up well with wins in the varsity four and second varsity eight races. We lost a tight one in the varsity eight, but I think that two and a half seconds is a deficit that we can work to easily overcome.'
In the first varsity women's action of the afternoon, the Cougars took the top two finishes in the varsity four race. The WSU 'A' crew of coxswain Meghann Price, Jennifer Copeland, Carey Homan, Casey Long and Sarah Lende captured the victory with a time of 7:31.44.
The WSU 'B' squad finished second in the fours race with a time of 7:40.73. Placing third and fourth were the UW 'A' and 'B' squads rowing to times of 7:42.14 and 7:45.71.
The second WSU victory of the day came during the second varsity eight race. Battling windy conditions, the Cougars were able to defeat the Huskies by five seconds. The Cougar 'A' squad of coxswain Kelly O'Brien, Sharon Finney, Amy Jo Hendershot, Willow English, Laura Griffin, Suzanne Vogt, Kim Behrends, Lori Maricle and Becca Gibson, completed the course in a time of 6:41.03. Washington's 'A' crew finished second with a time of 6:46.43, while WSU 'B' and UW 'B' placed third and fourth with times of 6:55.1 and 7:09.64.
The varsity eight race between No. 11 Washington and No. 16 WSU turned out to be the closest women's race of the day with the outcome decided by just over two seconds. Washington gained a slight advantage over WSU early on in the race and was able to maintain the advantage throughout the rest of the 2000 meter event.
UW finished with a time of 6:30.14, while the Cougars' crew which was comprised of coxswain May Lundberg, Catherine Shirley, Adele Durfey, Jody Thomas, Sarah Waterfield, Kasha Bloch, Robyn Stephenson, Lina Brazinskaite and Emily Collins, crossed the finish line with a mark of 6:32.8.
In the second novice eight race, UW 'A' squad rowed to a time of 7:14.11, while the Cougars finished second with 7:29.46, and UW 'B' placed third at 7:41.52.
In the novice eight race, the Cougars completed the course with a mark of 7:08.39, but was unable to defeat UW who finished with a time of 6:58.62. In the final novice race of the day, the novice four squad from Washington earned a mark of 8:15.39, while WSU completed the course with a time of 8:58.99.
The men's crews from both schools also participated in the dual regatta, with the UW varsity men's crew sweeping the WSU men's club rowing squad in four events. The Husky men captured wins in the varsity eight, second varsity/novice eight, second/third novice eight and varsity four races.
The Cougs return to action Saturday April 23 when they travel to take on Tennessee in a dual regatta.
UW vs. WSU Dual RegattaApril 16, 2005Wawawai Landing, Snake River, Pullman, Wash.Final ResultsWomen's Results:Second Novice Eight: 1) UW (A) 7:14.11 2) WSU (A) 7:29.46 3) UW (B) 7:41.52Varsity Four: 1) WSU (A) 7:31.44 2) WSU (B) 7:40.73 3) UW (A) 7:42.14 4) UW (B) 7:45.71Novice Eight: 1) UW 6:58.62 ,b>2) WSU 7:08.39Novice Four: 1) UW 8:15.39 2) WSU 8:58.99Second Varsity Eight: 1) WSU (A) 6:41.03 2) UW (A) 6:46.43 3) WSU (B) 6:55.1 4) UW (B) 7:09.64Varsity Eight: 1) UW 6:30.14 2) WSU 6:32.8Men's Results:Men's Novice Eight: 1) UW 6:11.12 2) WSU 6:12.18Men's Second Varsity/Novice Eight: 1) UW (A) 6:12.75 2) WSU (A) 6:35.12 3) WSU (B) 6:30.96 4) UW (B) 6:17.31Men's Varsity Four: 1) UW (A) 5:55.92 2) WSU (A) 5:56.70 3) UW (B) 6:11.26 4) WSU (B) 6:29.72 Race was shortened by 300m due to bad conditions
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From the Berlin Blockade and until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 American, British, NATO and Asian Allies waged a Cold War against their Soviet and Warsaw Pact Countries, North Korea and at times China and Vietnam. The war was a world war, fought by the major powers, their alliances and proxies throughout the world. It was a world of gray areas where soldiers, sailors, airmen as well as Special Forces and intelligence agencies from both sides attempted to gain dominance over the world through political, military, economic, diplomatic and intelligence means and through use of surrogates. Sometimes the war turned hot as in Korea, Vietnam and for the Soviet Union Afghanistan.
The conflict found its way to almost every corner of the earth and the world lived on edge wondering if the superpowers and their allies would end up in a hot war. US and NATO Navies played a cat and mouse game with the Red Navy both under the sea and upon the waters. Sometimes this war turned deadly as US and Red Navy Submarines disappeared and were never heard from again amid circumstances like those of the USS Scorpion that are still debated. On the high seas US and NATO ships shadowed each other and occasionally played a game of chicken where ships collided attempting to gain advantage as they undertook surveillance missions or shadowed task forces. Spy ships from both sides plied the seas collecting any type of information on their opponent’s operations. In the air spy aircraft maintained a ready vigil with US SR-71s and U-2s flying missions over the Soviet Union. Soviet Bear and Backfire Bombers probed the airspace of the United States and Canada and NATO forces at sea who responded by sending up interceptors. In the closed confines of the Mediterranean the Navies sparred while a in the Middle East and North Africa both sides sought dominance through treaties with the surrounding nations who moved from Western to Soviet and Soviet to Western orbit as they deemed fit. Ideology and behavior of these client regimes was less important than having them in your camp, creating a surreal world of moral ambiguity in the shadow realm of alliances.
In divided Germany NATO and Warsaw Pact Forces faced off in a tense standoff along the inter-German Border and where millions of troops planned and trained for a hot war on the Fulda Gap and Northern German Plain which would include the use of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical weapons. West Berlin was an island surrounded by the Olive uniformed Red Army and Field Gray of the German Democratic Republic. A similar watch was maintained on the Korean DMZ. In Africa, Asia, South and Central America, the Indian Subcontinent and the Middle East forces of the major powers worked with allies and surrogates to gain advantage. The Soviets blockaded West Berlin while in response to the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba the US imposed a naval blockade. The CIA sponsored a failed attempt by Cuban expatriates to land at the Bay of Pigs. The Soviets toppled governments and put down revolts in Hungary and Czechoslovakia while maintaining a system of Gulags at home. Even international sporting events became occasions where each side used propaganda to show itself off to the world as the ideal society. All of this occurring while the world lived under the constant threat of intentional or unintentional nuclear war. In missile silos and aboard Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarines and manned bombers men stood by to push buttons and turn keys that could have ended the world as we know it.
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Casualties were taken, even in places where the war was not “hot.” Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen and Intelligence Service personnel undertook missions that are still classified the details of which they cannot reveal to this day. Some suffer from PTSD from their involvement in and guilt over missions that they cannot reveal. Men from both sides know that the weapons systems that they were involved with killed men on the other side in operations that will never be known. American Veterans of the Cold War have been ignored by the country. Russian Veterans have been forgotten as the Soviet Union crashed down on itself. Countries spanning the globe bear the scars of the “hot” Cold War waged on their soil. The results of the Cold War are still with us. The West celbrated the collapse of the Soviet Empire but failed to make the new Russia a full member of the new world causing resentment which still boils today influencing Russian policy toward the West.
I met a man recently in hospital who was one of these veterans. Tormented by the demons of operations he cannot reveal he suffers from physical and emotional wounds. He is not alone. There are many like him. I do not suffer from my Cold War Service. I served as a platoon leader, company executive officer and company commander in Germany in the mid-1980s. If a war had broken out along the Fulda Gap my Chrysler Corporation bailout Dodge M-886 Ambulances with no communications systems adorned with bright red “mobile registration points’ were to be involved with reconstituting units which were expected to take 90% casualties. We trained for chemical and biological warfare. The maps used in my NBC defense officer course showed the housing area in which I lived. We lived in a world of alerts where within two hours we had to be ready to head to war. A world where Soviet spies operated and recruited Americans and where the German Red Brigade Terrorists bombed housing areas, clubs and even the Main Frankfurt PX, where we were on our way to when Judy felt sick and we had to return home. Occasionally American Servicemen were murdered by Soviet Agents or Red Brigade Terrorists. This was life for those stationed in Germany as well as South Korea.
I have been in East Berlin and was surprised as hell to see the Berlin Wall come down. I have been to the Korean DMZ and the Northeast Gate of Guantanamo Bay Cuba. I call it the “Commie trifecta.” Without the Berlin Wall there are only two places where the US faces a Communist state directly. Yet my time in a “hot” war has been in Iraq, I remember the days of the Cold War from childhood through my early Army career.
Cold War Veterans are the last forgotten Veterans group in the United States or even Russia. Their sacrifices are not recognized. The US belatedly issued a Cold war Service certificate for its veterans, but vets have to deal with a system that makes it difficult to even obtain a piece of paper that says “thank you” which gives them no other benefit. The certificate is available to any person who worked for the Federal Government, including temporary holiday employees of the US Postal Service and does not mention military service. A Cold Service Medal was constantly fought by DOD during the last administration as too costly to support at this time. The Cold War Service Medal last appeared in the FY 2008 DOD spending bills but was cut. With the present demands on the military in the current wars and the fact that the cost of any award would come out of DOD’s budget it is unrealistic to expect this any time soon as it would cut into the funds needed to fight this war. At the same time these Veterans have no memorial and no status. While their war was not “hot” it was world wide, lasted 40 years with many casualties. Yes I agree it was not a hot war and that many who served in it were not in combat. At the same time the Cold War veterans helped give the world a chance at a new beginning in 1991, unfortunately that has been squandered by governments around the world including the US government, but that is not the fault of those who stood the watch. Someday they should be recognized.
Me on the East German Side of the Berlin Wall, November 1986
I have my medals from Iraq, the War on Terror and Korean Defense service. I do believe that those men who stood the watch and many times paid with their lives or health should be recognized. Other countries have done so. I wonder why a few dollars per medal cannot be spent on men and women who served on the front line of freedom for 40 years. At the same time I understand that the costs of any such Medal would be born by DOD which is strapped to fight the ongoing wars. I don’t think it realistic to have the money spent now, but maybe when the dust finally clears and these conflicts subside someone will take the time to remember these men and women.
The gentleman I saw recently never got a thank-you, never got a parade, and never was able to talk about the things that haunted him. I wonder just how many more are waiting for the chance to come in from the cold. If you know one of them, thank them for thier service and if they are one of those suffering from their service take care of them.
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It’s no secret that as we age, our bodies change. Some things for the better, some things… not so much. However, it’s an inevitable part of life, so the best that we can all do is find a way to deal with any problems or issues that arise. With certain issues, though, “just dealing” can be really tricky.
This can, unfortunately, be said of testosterone treatment. With an increase in age can come a decrease in testosterone, which has a variety of effects on males as well as females. For example, both sexes require some level of testosterone to maintain a stable sex drive. Though the level that men need is much higher than that of women, a decrease in testosterone can still negative effect the sex drive of a woman.
So, what can we do to fix testosterone issues? As we mentioned briefly earlier, testosterone treatment can be tricky. That’s because Goldilocks’s “just right” level of testosterone varies from individual to individual. Too little won’t make a change; too much will change things that weren’t necessarily a problem, to begin with.
What are Testosterone Pellets?
Decreases in testosterone can occur with age, and doses of testosterone are often administered to patients who suffer from negative effects associated with hormone loss. One way to take testosterone to improve negative effects comes in the form of a testosterone pellet. Physicians administer the pellet into a patient’s skin, and the body absorbs the contents. Testosterone pellets can be more effective than oral treatments because it skips the digestive process, and the body is able to wholly absorb the hormones without disruption.
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Almost all symptoms of menopause, including hot flashes, are relieved with testosterone pellets alone. A study by Sherwin examined testosterone, testosterone with estradiol, estradiol alone and placebos. The group of women who responded best took testosterone. The groups that performed worst took estrogen or a placebo. Higher levels of testosterone were associated with a better response. Testosterone is the major substrate for estrogen production in the brain, bones, vascular system, breasts and adipose tissue. Some physicians disregard testosterone’s ability as a substrate and may insist on the necessity of estrogen therapy. Testosterone delivered by a pellet implant has been used to treat migraines and menstrual headaches. Testosterone also helps with vaginal dryness, incontinence, urinary urgency and frequency.
Pellets deliver consistent, healthy levels of hormones for three to four months in women and four to five months in men. Testosterone pellets avoid the fluctuations of hormone levels seen with every other method of delivery, which is important for optimal health and disease prevention. Pellets do not increase the risk of blood clots like conventional or synthetic hormone replacement therapy.
In both men and women, testosterone has been shown to increase energy, relieve depression, increase sense of well-being, relieve anxiety and improve memory and concentration. Testosterone, delivered by a pellet implant, increases muscle strength and bone density and reduces fat mass. Men and women need adequate levels of testosterone for optimal mental and physical health and for the prevention of chronic illnesses like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, which are associated with low testosterone levels. Even patients who have failed other types of hormone therapy have a very high success rate with testosterone pellets.
What are hormone pellets?
Pellets are made up of hormones, like testosterone, that are pressed or fused into very small, solid cylinders. Pellets are slightly larger than a grain of rice. In the United States, compounding pharmacists create the majority of pellets and place them in sterile glass vials. An FDA-approved, 75-milligram testosterone pellet exists.
Why do patients choose to take hormone pellets?
Pellets deliver consistent, healthy levels of hormones for three to four months in women and four to five months in men. They avoid the fluctuations of hormone levels seen with every other method of delivery, which is important for optimal health and disease prevention. Pellets do not increase the risk of blood clots like conventional or synthetic hormone replacement therapy.
In studies, when compared to conventional hormone replacement therapy, pellets have been shown to be best for relieving menopausal symptoms, maintenance of bone density, restoration of sleep patterns, and improvement in sex drive, libido, sexual response and performance.
Testosterone pellets have been used to treat migraines and menstrual headaches and relieve vaginal dryness, incontinence, urinary urgency and frequency. Testosterone has been shown to increase energy, relieve depression, increase sense of well-being, relieve anxiety and improve memory and concentration. Testosterone pellets increase muscle strength and bone density and reduce fat mass. Men and women need adequate levels of testosterone for the best mental and physical health and for the prevention of diseases related to lacking testosterone, like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
Patients have achieved successful results from pellets, even after futile attempts from other hormone therapy methods. Pellets remain the most convenient way to administer hormones, and physicians have been employing the practice in men and women since the 1930s. Significant data supports the method of inserting testosterone in men and women.
Bioidentical progesterone is not known to increase the risk of breast cancer like synthetic progestins. Progesterone, used vaginally, does not deter the positive effects of estrogen on the heart like the synthetic hormones. The bioidentical estrogen estriol, used often in Europe, does not attach strongly to estrogen receptors and does not stimulate breast tissue. Many studies have shown that vaginal estriol does not increase the risk of breast cancer and is safe for those who have survived from breast cancer.
Why don’t physicians recommend estrogen therapy or estradiol pellet therapy?
Testosterone alone can help symptoms like hot flashes and increases in effectiveness when it is inserted by a testosterone pellet. Testosterone pellets also do not result in any negative side effects like estrogen therapy. Estrogen therapy, including estrogen pellets, can cause uterine bleeding in women. If bleeding occurs, one should notify a doctor immediately for an evaluation. Estrogen can also cause breast sensitivity and other breast health issues, including painful cysts and a higher risk of breast cancer. Most women feel more comfortable with lower levels of estrogen in their bodies.
Almost all symptoms of menopause, including hot flashes, are relieved with testosterone pellets alone. A study by Sherwin looked at testosterone, testosterone with estradiol, estradiol alone and placebos. The group of women who responded best took testosterone. The groups that performed worst took estrogen or a placebo. Higher levels of testosterone were associated with a better response. Testosterone is the major substrate for estrogen production in the brain, bones, vascular system, breasts and adipose tissue. Some physicians disregard testosterone’s ability as a substrate and may insist on the necessity of estrogen therapy. Testosterone delivered by a pellet implant has been used to treat migraines and menstrual headaches. Testosterone also helps with vaginal dryness, incontinence, urinary urgency and frequency.
Bearing high levels of estrogen can result in negative physical effects, like anxiety, weight gain, belly fat, tender breasts, and negative emotional effects, like emotional lability, premenstrual syndrome and mood swings. Exposure to stronger estrogen, like estradiol and Premarin, or chemicals similar to estrogen over time can increase the risk of breast cancer.
Some individuals’ bodies change too much testosterone into estradiol, which can disrupt the positive effects of testosterone. Physicians may suggest or perscribe an inhibitor to halt the process of conversion. Any patient suffering with a testosterone conversion issue may be treated with combination testosterone and inhibitor implants.
Will hormone therapy with estradiol and testosterone pellets reverse hair loss?
Hormone deficiency can spur hair loss, yet testosterone pellets can help regrow, thicken and hydrate the hair.
How long is the recovery period after a pellet insertion procedure?
Some patients begin to return to their normal state of being within 24 to 48 hours while others may need a week or two to regain normalcy. To reach or maintain the best health, one must maintain a clean diet, healthy lifestyle and balanced hormones. Stress remains the top cause of hormone imbalance and sickness. Prescription medication side effects can cause disruptions of testosterone pellet treatment.
How long do testosterone pellets last?
Hormone pellets usually last between three to four months in women and four to five months in men. Hormone pellets eventually dissolve, eliminating the need for a return appointment for removal by a physician.
Should a dose of progesterone accompany the testosterone pellet?
Patients receiving pellet treatment do not require progesterone. However, progestins should accompany doses of estradiol or estrogen. Synthetic progestins may be used to prevent stimulation of the uterine lining caused by estrogen. If estrogen is uninvolved in treatment, progestin therapy is not required though it can aid patients in issues like anxiety and depression.
How are hormones monitored during therapy?
The physician may check hormone levels before the procedure begins. For women patients, the physician may check FSH, estradiol, testosterone and thyroid hormone levels. For men patients, the physician may perform a prostate specific antigen and check estradiol, testosterone, LH, liver profile, blood count and thyroid hormone levels. Before an additional treatment, physicians may check men patients for blood count and estradiol and perform a prostate specific antigen. Physicians may also suggest men contact a primary care physician to obtain an annual digital rectal exam. Physicians may suggest women continue to receive monthly self breast exams, mammograms and pap smears.
How much does pellet therapy cost?
The cost of pellet therapy ranges between $350 and $800, depending on the hormone dose and pellet amount. Because men need a higher amount of hormones, the cost may rise. Pellets need to be inserted two to four times a year, depending on the speed of the body’s absorption of the hormones. Pellets prove to be cost effective when compared with drugs to treat hormonal decline symptoms.
Will insurance cover the testosterone pellet procedure?
Some insurance companies cover the cost of pellets. Most physicians require payment for their services, yet some insurance companies may offer the option of reimbursal.
Can testosterone pellets improve conditions associated with peri-menopause?
Testosterone pellets can benefit pre-menopausal females who are still menstruating. Testosterone can relieve many of the symptoms associated with perimenopause, like migraines or menstrual headaches, premenstrual syndrome, anxiety, depression, lack of energy, disturbed sleep and low sex drive. Pre-menopausal females receiving testosterone pellets must use birth control due to a theoretical risk of giving male traits to a female fetus.
Can a patient be allergic to pellet implants?
Very rarely, a patient will develop redness and itching near the testosterone implant. It is a minimal reaction, yielding no tenderness or evidence of infection. Pellets are composed of testosterone, stearic acid and povidone. Povidone may spur a reaction in patients; therefore, implants can be made without povidone. Patients who develop a reaction to testosterone pellets may also have underlying problems causing the reaction and may require cortisol testing. If a patient experiences irritation from the testosterone pellet, a 25 to 50 milligram dose of Benadryl may help.
Benefits of Testosterone Pellet Therapy
Any time an incision is part of a procedure, patients can get a bit apprehensive. But with this type of therapy, the benefits really outweigh the minimal risk. What exactly are those benefits, though?
Sex Drive: We touched on this a little bit earlier, but it’s a pretty important part of life to just gloss over. Giving up on a sex life doesn’t have to be an inevitable part of aging. Testosterone is a sex hormone necessary for both sexes to maintain a healthy sex drive, and testosterone pellets can help get those levels back to normal and sex drive back in the right gear.
Muscle Mass: Loss of muscle mass is, unfortunately, another thing that accompanies an increase in age. Pellet therapy has been known to increase muscle mass. In fact, it is estimated that the average person gains 3-6 pounds of muscle mass within a 4-6 month treatment.
Body Fat: Decrease testosterone levels has been linked to an increase in fat build-up. Getting those testosterone levels back to normal helps decrease the risk of build-up in body fat and serious diseases such as obesity.
Miscellaneous: Testosterone pellet therapy has also been linked to increases in energy and a sense of well-being, anxiety and depression relief, and improved memory and concentration.
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The 2019 F-150 has to be many things to many people. From work truck to cruiser, off-road vehicle to boat hauler, there is an F-150 for virtually every task. As a result, the lineup is diverse. There are four engines available on the F-150, six trims and several body options.
The most basic engine is a 3.3L V6, which produces 295 horsepower, allowing for a tow rating of 7,600 pounds, which bests other competitors when equipped with their basic V6 engines. The next step up is a 2.7L turbocharged V6 that makes 325 horsepower and 400 lb-ft of torque. A bigger 3.5L turbocharged V6 makes 375 horsepower and 470 lb-ft of torque, helping the F-150 rate a class-leading towing spec of 12,200 pounds. Of course, a V8 is still available; it's a 5.0L unit making 395 horsepower and 400 lb-ft of torque. A high-output version of the 3.5L turbocharged V6 making 450 horsepower and 510 lb-ft of torque is new for 2019.
Trims include XL, XLT, Lariat, King Ranch, Platinum and Limited. The basic XL trim is available with three different cab sizes and three different bed lengths in either 2WD or 4WD configurations. Owing to its work-truck pretensions, the XL is relatively light on bells and whistles, with just basic utilities like an AM/FM radio and a 4.2-inch screen in the center stack.
The XLT, while still relatively basic, adds chrome bumpers, Ford's SYNC 3 system, fog lamps, an alarm, air conditioning, automatic headlamps, cruise control, keyless entry, power windows, a powered tailgate and power door locks.
Lariat-trimmed F-150s start to venture into more luxurious territory and are only available with extended or crew cab cabins. Standard equipment on the Lariat includes power folding door mirrors, a rearview camera, 18-inch wheels, ambient interior lighting, steering wheel-mounted audio and cruise controls, a power sliding rear window, an auto-dimming rearview mirror, leather-trimmed seats, a 10-way power adjustable driver's seat, SiriusXM satellite radio and an 8-inch touchscreen.
King Ranch versions come standard with the 5.0L V8 engine, a crew cab cabin and 2-tone exterior paint. Other features on the King Ranch include LED box lighting, LED headlamps, lots of exterior chrome, heated side mirrors with integrated turn signals and an auto-dimming feature on the driver's side, a remote starter, heated front and rear seats, wood interior trim and dual zone climate control.
The Platinum version is the urban cousin to the King Ranch trim. Like the King Ranch, it's only available with a crew cab and the V8. It also features a voice-activated navigation system, unique 20-inch polished aluminum wheels, LED side mirror spotlights, power deployable running boards, aluminum interior trim and a leather wrapped and heated steering wheel.
Finally, the Limited trim rides on 22-inch wheels and makes standard a whole range of convenience items that are optional on lesser trims. These include a 360-degree camera with split-view display, remote tailgate release, a twin-panel moonroof and more.
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The Ford F-150 continues into 2019 without too many changes. The biggest news is the addition of a new high-output turbocharged V6. While the F-150 had a few different engine options including multiple turbocharged V6's, the standard F-150 never got the ballistic V6 from the Ford Raptor. That has now changed. Owners wanting 450 horsepower lodged in a more standard F-150, without all the raptor suspension can now have their wish.
The F-150 might be the most important vehicle to the Ford motor company. It continues to be one of their top-selling vehicles, encouraging Ford to put their best foot forward with the 2019 model. The F-150 competes with the Ram, the Chevrolet Silverado and the GMC Sierra 1500, among others, in the full-sized truck category. Ford is clearly pushing its new technology and new ideas with the F-150, offering plenty of options not available anywhere else in this class, such as a 360-degree camera and integrated loading ramps stowed in the pickup bed. A smaller, more fuel efficient EcoBoost engine is also available, which should further improve fuel economy while providing the same kind of horsepower that would normally be delivered by mid-grade V8 engines. At the same time, the F-150 continues to excel at traditional truck tasks, with a best in class towing capacity of 12,200 pounds when properly equipped.
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Download TEPPEN – For Android/iOS
Publisher GungHo Online Entertainment
Size 836.8 MB
A Capcom licensed game for mobile? I’m pretty sure you have heard of “TEPPEN” or you’ve probably come across an ad showcasing this new game from Capcom and GungHo Online Entertainment. Capcom is seemingly very fond of making an ultimate crossover of their video games. There’s the epic Capcom Versus fighting game series that features all of their iconic characters from Street Fighters to Resident Evil. TEPPEN is a new mobile game that takes you to the ever-growing Capcom universe. Although the game is seemingly advertised as a fighting game, TEPPEN is actually a card game but follows a deep storyline that is complimented with amazing visuals.
Interestingly, TEPPEN follows a story of eight different heroes that are bounded by the same fate. Everyone crosses the same path and will battle their way up to the so-called Land of illusion to unravel the mystery and to discover the truth. If you are up for a creative story, TEPPEN delivers it masterfully. Each character has their own storyline which is all connected to each other. If Marvel has their own cinematic universe, Capcom developed their very own as well. This battle card game will feature characters from various Capcom franchises like Mega Man X, Street Fighter, Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Monster Hunter, and Darkstalkers.
The mechanics for TEPPEN is quite complicated and requires a lot of mastery but once you get used to it, everything will be smoothly done. Here’s how it works. Ryu is your first character in this game and his story will cover the training as well. As you enter your first battle, it takes you to the screen showcasing the two opposing characters. The standard battle interface features the image of your character on the left side and you opponent to another side. The center field is where the card battle will take place. Located below are the randomly generated cards from your personal deck.
Intense Card Battle
Each player has their own deck and each has its own function. Unit cards are cards you can summon on the battlefield to play both as offense and defense. You can summon a maximum of three unit cards per battle. Simply tap the unit card and drag them to any of the three slots above. Take note that you can only summon the unit cards if you get enough mana points. The mana bar will refill automatically at a certain time interval. Action cards, on the other hand, work like spell cards. To activate them, simply drag and drop them at the center.
What makes action cards special is that opponents are given the option to counter-attack using their own action cards. You can also do the same when the enemy initiates the attack. Every action you make allows you to earn Action Points (AP) and once you have the target AP points, you can activate your Hero Arts. These are your signature special attack which you can use even without consuming mana. Hero Arts and their effects will vary depending on the character you are using. Each character has their own life points and you can only inflict direct damage to your enemy if his defense has been broken. If there is no available unit card to defend the player, the attack goes directly to him. You win the match if the opponent loses all the life points.
Explore Hero Stories and More Campaigns
Of course, the best part about TEPPEN is the compelling and creative story involving some of our favorite game characters. Generally, there are eight major characters in this game and each has their own creative story to explore. These characters include Ryu and Chun-li from Street Fighters, Albert Wesker and Jill Valentine from Resident Evil, Dante of Devil May Cry, Morrigan of Darkstalkers, X of Mega Man X and the dragons Nergigante and Rathalos from Monster Hunters. The game also releases character-centric episodes like Jill Valentine’s Day of Nightmare.
Aside from the main campaign, TEPPEN also offers many other equally-engaging modes. Colosseum, for instance, is a campaign that allows you to enter Grand Prix for limited-time elimination battles while Battle Mode is where the PvP battle takes place which allows you to fight against another real-time online player. There’s also a rank match that encourages you to win and climb the chart board while Free Matches allows you to fight against other players to test out your new decks. Speaking of which, players can also customize their own decks and add new cards which they can earn from various ways.
Those who have played battle card games like Hearthstone will surely find TEPPEN equally enjoying. Considering that it carries the company’s name, more players will expect something grand. TEPPEN, however, is quite underwhelming at some point. We are probably aiming for an intense fighting game instead of a collectible card battle. What really makes this game so special is the remarkable graphics. TEPPEN is truly a visual delight. In fact, the illustration and CGI were notably better than Marvel Vs Capcom: Infinite. Overall, TEPPEN is truly worth a download and something you can confidently include on top of your game list. Just be mindful that the game requires huge space on your phone storage. Currently, TEPPEN is available for both Android and iOS devices and you can download this game for free. Have fun!
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Employing NIR-SWIR hyperspectral imaging to predict the smokiness of Scotch whisky
Julius Tschannerl, Jinchang Ren, Frances Jack, Stephen Marshall, Huimin Zhao
Measurement Science and Enabling Technologies
Research output: Contribution to conference › Proceeding
Scotch Whisky makes a significant contribution to the UK's food and drinks export. The flavour of this high quality spirit is derived naturally from the whisky making process, with smoky aromas being a key character of certain Scotch whiskies. The level of smokiness is determined by the amount of phenolic compounds in the spirit. Phenols are introduced by exposing the barley malt to peat smoke during the kilning process. The current techniques to determine the levels of phenols, such as High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), are time consuming as they require distillation of the malt prior to analysis. To speed up this process and enable real-time detection before processing, the possibilities of Near-infrared to Short-wave-infrared (NIR-SWIR) Hyperspectral Imaging (HSI) to detect these phenols directly on malted barley are explored. It can be shown that via regression analysis, various levels of phenol concentration used as working levels for whisky production could be estimated to a satisfying degree. To further optimise industrial application, a hyperspectral band selection algorithm is applied that yields good results and reduces computational cost and may open possibilities to employ multispectral rather than hyperspectral cameras in future applications.
Optical Characterization of Materials 2017 - Franhofer IOSB, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Tschannerl, J., Ren, J., Jack, F., Marshall, S., & Zhao, H. (2017). Employing NIR-SWIR hyperspectral imaging to predict the smokiness of Scotch whisky. Optical Characterization of Materials 2017, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Tschannerl, Julius ; Ren, Jinchang ; Jack, Frances ; Marshall, Stephen ; Zhao, Huimin. / Employing NIR-SWIR hyperspectral imaging to predict the smokiness of Scotch whisky. Optical Characterization of Materials 2017, Karlsruhe, Germany.12 p.
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by Julian James | November 8, 2019 · 9:40 pm
Monty Python Entered The Dictionary In Different Ways
Not just appeared in a dictionary under the term Python only, Monty Python has joined the lexemes in other ways.
The first word is “spam” which alludes to bulk or unwanted email. This term is stemmed from the sketch of the show “Spam” in 1970. In the show, a waitress when reciting a Spam-filled menu, a song was come up with the lyric repeating the term “spam”
May you not know, Guido van Rossum had created The Python programming language and Monty Python references usually refer to that language in sample code. The environment of that’s language program call IDLE or eric which are both in honor of Eric Idle.
In 2001 April Fool’s Day joke about the combination of Python with Perl was named “parrot” which was named after Dead Parrot sketch. Then after that, “parrot” was used in a project to interpret the bytecode of languages on a virtual machine.
In 1985, an unknown species of gigantic prehistoric snake’s fossil from the Miocene was discovered in Riversleigh, Queensland, Australia. An Australian paleontologist had discovered the unknown fossil snake in Riversleigh, Queensland, Australia. And he realized that it was a Monty Python fan, so he named the snake after Montypythonoides riversleighensis with respect of the Monty Python group.
In 2006, a coffee liqueur ice cream by Ben & Jerry’s with a chocolate cookie crumb swirl and fudge cows have called “Minty Python”. This name was suggested in 1996 in a contest in choosing the quintessential flavor of British ice cream
In 1999, regarding the group’s 30th anniversary, a beer called “Holy Grail Ale” was released by the Black Sheep Brewery in North Yorkshire.
One of the endangered animals, Bemaraha wool lemur (Avahi Cleese) was got its name after John Cleese.
A mutant gene of a flies was called “Indy”, the acronym of the dialogue line: “I’m not dead!” in the movie named Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It has its names because this gene prolongs mutant flies’ life to as twice as human life.
The band Toad the Wet Sprocket was named after the sketch of Rock Notes in the comedy series called Monty Python’s Contract Obligation Album.
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Tokyo Totem: A Guide to Tokyo
Wietze Gelmers
Our friends of creative collective Monnik recently launched their first book, Tokyo Totem: A Guide to Tokyo. And no, this isn’t another travel guide. Rather, it’s a collection of contributions from all sorts of urban explorers that allow you to see, read and experience the world’s largest metropolis from an entirely different angle.
“This book will be of little use if you want to know where to eat or what to see. Instead, this book is a subjective guidebook that is intended to help you navigate and read this city in a way that evokes both a sense of adventure and a feeling of belonging.” Tokyo Totem‘s preface immediately stresses what it’s about: offering an opportunity to experience Japan’s capital through the eyes of urban explorers and from different angles. This isn’t about ticking boxes on your to-do list — this is about really getting to know the city.
Most of us know that Tokyo is the largest metropolis in the world. Some of us may also know that it’s the safest city in the world. But does this mean that we really know the city? In Tokyo Totem, both insiders and outsiders offer various lenses to look through when getting to know Tokyo. An highly diverse collective of 46 urban explorers, including ‘bathhouse connaisseur’ Greg Dvorak, social design researcher Atsushi Miura and visual artist Jan Rothuizen, share their inspiring stories on Tokyo. The book refers to Tokyo as a ‘Still City’ — a city that’s not growing, but dynamic and continuously changing.
Artwork by Jan Rothuizen
Roppongi is an area that may illustrate this dynamism and continuous flux of transformation the most. As Norihisa Minagawa notes in ‘A Recommended Tour of Roppongi’s Uneven Topography’, this area is in particular known for its unique uneven topography. One finds highly contrastive townscapes offering built forms that vary from wooden houses to highrise appartment blocks; stairs that connect different parts of the neighborhood, and a unique mix of land uses, such as a cemetery, deprived housing and feudal gardens all in close proximity.
“So far, I’ve been to at least one hundred of these baths in Tokyo alone. It’s barely a fraction of the urban bathscape. (…) It has profound meaning for how neighborhood and community in this endless metropolis are experienced,” notes Greg Dvorak in ‘The Naked Neighborhood: Exploring The Metropolitan Bathscape’. Tokyo is a city that offers a plethora of hot springs and public baths — hunderds, perhaps even thousands are to be found. Dvorak argues that public bathing in Tokyo is something fascinating and entertaining that connects complete strangers to locals and shared rituals. The city’s bathing culture has a much deeper meaning — a naked relationship (“hadaka no tsukiai”), which indicates that a relationship between people is honest and they have (literally) nothing to hide for each other.
Another interesting chapter is ‘Signboard Machiya’. Opposite to a growing number of anonymous, commercial spaces, Tokyo still has many traditional shop-houses. These incorporate both working and living within one architectual unit. In most cases, these shop-houses are represented in Signboard Architecture: buildings that present a flat, front facade attached to a wooden machiya building. In the more traditional parts of Tokyo, one still finds many of these typical units. Because of their structure, living and working almost become one shared activity, increasing the personal realm and social space.
Tokyo Totem offers an original, inspiring and alternative view on the world’s largest metropolis. In a sometimes quite bizzare, unexpected way it introduces particularities and characteristics of Tokyo that make the city as it is. It allows you to see, read and perhaps even understand the city from different perspectives. An interesting read, that you definitely may want to bring besides your regular tourist guide when visiting Tokyo.
By Edwin Gardner & Christiaan Fruneaux (Monnik)
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Southerland Leads Statesmen Past Denmark, 83-70
SOUTH PRINCE GEORGE, VA — Led by Kenneth Southerland with 25 points, the Richard Bland College basketball team made it two straight victories by defeating Denmark Technical College, 83-70, on Saturday afternoon at Statesman Hall.
Men's Basketball Win Streak Comes to a Halt
BOLIVIA, NORTH CAROLINA -- Richard Bland College men's basketball falls at Brunswick Community College, Wednesday, despite a career day for sophomore forward Kenneth Southerland.
Men's Basketball Remains Undefeated at Home This Season
SOUTH PRINCE GEORGE, VA -- Richard Bland College men's basketball returned home to Statesman Hall for their first home contest of the New Year, Saturday, against Allegany College of Maryland and stunned their opponents with an array of dunks and high intensity to take home the victory, 70-67.
Men's Basketball Starts Off New Year Right
Bel Air, MD -- With Richard Bland College men's basketball's first game of 2020, the team gets off to the start they wanted with a hard-fought victory over Harford Community College, winning 74-68 in hostile territory on Monday.
Huge Dunk Powers Statesmen to Win
SOUTH PRINCE GEORGE, VA -- In a tight game, Richard Bland College men's basketball comes through with a powerful dunk and two clutch free-throws to seal a victory over Frederick Community College on Friday with a score of 85-82.
Second Half Surge Leads Catonsville Past Men's Basketball
Catonsville, MD -- Richard Bland College men's basketball succumbs to second-half comeback by CCBC Catonsville on Tuesday after being up big in the first half.
Another Strong Performance Not Enough for Men’s Basketball
Men's Basketball Falls in Close Contest
CUMBERLAND, MD -- Richard Bland College men's basketball faced off against Alleghany College of Maryland on Friday in a close game from start to finish but fall short by five points, 89-84.
Statesmen Pull Off Big Region X Win Over Cape Fear
WILMINGTON, NC -- The Richard Bland College men's basketball team pulled off a huge comeback after being down by 18 in the second half to overcome Cape Fear Community College for their first Region X Conference win of the season on Wednesday, 68-66.
High Energy Win for Men's Basketball
SOUTH PRINCE GEORGE, VA -- Richard Bland College's men's basketball team brought the energy in front of a packed house and gave the fans a show in a big win against Pitt Community College, winning 68-62 on Wednesday.
Late Comeback Not Enough for Men's Basketball
HAGERSTOWN, MD -- On Saturday, the Richard Bland College men's basketball team fought back hard in the second half but the gap created in the first half by Hagerstown Community College was too much in the end with the final score being 80-68.
Statement Win for Men's Basketball
BRYN MAWR, PA -- Coming off a tough loss on Friday, the Richard Bland College men's basketball team came out and executed in a strong win on Saturday over Harford Community College, 94-87.
Men's Basketball Drops High Scoring Game
BRYN MAWR, PA -- On Friday the Richard Bland College men's basketball team entered a high scoring affair with Harcum College in Pennsylvania but could not reel in their third victory of the season, losing 130-83.
Upcoming Weekend an Important One for Athletics
SOUTH PRINCE GEORGE, VA -- This weekend contains three big contests for Richard Bland College Athletics.
No Comeback for Men's Basketball on Wednesday
ANNANDALE, VA -- Richard Bland College's men's basketball team goes down to NOVA Community College early and cannot make the comeback that has fueled their last two victories on Wednesday, losing 65-87.
Second Win for Men's Basketball in Home Opener
The Richard Bland College men’s basketball team won their Winter 2019-2020 home opener 69-55 over Wake Tech Community College on Monday night.
Men's Basketball Gets Big First Win
LOUISBURG, NC -- The men's basketball team of Richard Bland College won their first game of the 2019-20 season on Saturday after beating a tough Louisburg team in a close contest.
Season Opener in the Books for Men's Basketball
LOUISBURG, NC -- The Richard Bland men's basketball team opened their season on Friday with a hard-fought loss against Davidson County Community College, 95-61.
New Coach. New Team. New Start.
SOUTH PRINCE GEORGE, VA – Andrew Lacey arrived as the new head men’s basketball coach at Richard Bland College of William & Mary on June 1. He needed to fill a roster, finalize a schedule and build a new foundation for a program that had been one of the nation’s finest in Junior College basketball circles.
Statesmen Basketball Adds Bo Jones to Staff
SOUTH PRINCE GEORGE, VA – Head Men’s Basketball Coach Andrew Lacey has announced longtime coach and former VCU standout Bo Jones as a new assistant coach at Richard Bland College of William & Mary.
Richard Bland Statesmen
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Game Program
Men’s Basketball Beats Suffolk 83-68 to Move on in GNAC Playoffs
Suffolk (7-19) 22 46 68
Johnson & Wales (RI) (15-11) 41 42 83
Pts: Michael Hagopian - 24
Reb: Kevin Querusio - 6
Ast: Jim Djema - 8
Pts: Anthony Jernigan - 23
Reb: Jarell Lawson - 6
Ast: Anthony Jernigan - 7
PROVIDENCE, RI. – After dropping its last two games, the Johnson & Wales University men's basketball team got back on track Tuesday. A quick start sent the Wildcats to the GNAC Tournament semifinals as they defeated Suffolk 83-68.
Suffolk: 7-19
Johnson & Wales: 15-11
Statistical Leaders:
Anthony Jernigan (JWU): 23 points, 7 assists, 6 steals
Jarell Lawson (JWU): 17 points, 6 rebounds
Michael Hagopin (SU): 24 points, 4 rebounds
Suffolk wouldn't score for the first four minutes as the Wildcats jumped out to a 9-0 lead. Matt Madoian (North Kingstown, RI) knocked down a 3-pointer to push the lead to 34-17 and the Wildcats went into the locker room up 41-22 on a pair of Anthony Jernigan (East Hartford, Conn.) free throws. The Rams got the lead down to 13 (73-60) with 4:40 to play but couldn't complete the comeback.
Leading the Wildcats in scoring was Jernigan as he poured in 23 points and produced seven assists and six steals. Jarell Lawson (Providence, RI) was right behind with 17 points and a team-high six rebounds. Madoian was the third Wildcat in double figures with 11 points to go along with five rebounds and five assists.
Suffolk's Michael Hagopin led all scorers with 24 points, including 5-6 from 3-point range. Thomas Duffy was next with 14 points and Jim Djema followed with 12 points and eight assists.
Both teams shot well in all three phases of the games. The Wildcats were 50.9 percent from the floor, 47.8 percent from 3-point range and 93.3 percent from the charity strip. Suffolk went 46.8 percent, 50 percent and 88.2 percent, respectively.
Johnson & Wales is back at home on Thursday for a 7 p.m. game against Lasell in the semifinals.
Tue, 01/07 | Men's Basketball at Brown L, 79-53 (Final) RC | BX | V
Sat, 01/11 | Men's Basketball vs. Regis (Mass.) L, 87-79 (Final) RC | BX | V
Sun, 01/12 | Men's Basketball at Yale L, 108-58 (Final) RC | BX
Tue, 01/14 | Men's Basketball vs. Wesleyan (Conn.) W, 70-67 (Final) RC | BX | V
Sat, 01/18 | Men's Basketball at Saint Joseph's (Me.) W, 84-74 (Final) RC | BX | V
Tue, 01/21 | Men's Basketball vs. Emmanuel (Mass.) (7:00 PM) V | LS
Sat, 01/25 | Men's Basketball at Colby-Sawyer (3:00 PM) V | LS
Wed, 01/29 | Men's Basketball vs. Suffolk (7:30 PM) V | LS
Sat, 02/01 | Men's Basketball vs. St. Joseph (Conn.) (3:00 PM) V | LS
Tue, 02/04 | Men's Basketball vs. Albertus Magnus (7:00 PM) V | LS
Sat, 02/08 | Men's Basketball at Anna Maria (1:00 PM) V | LS
Sat, 02/15 | Men's Basketball vs. Rivier (3:00 PM) V | LS
Tue, 02/18 | Men's Basketball at Lasell (8:00 PM) V | LS
Sat, 02/22 | Men's Basketball at Norwich (1:00 PM) V | LS
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Bacolod-Iloilo route
The Third Princess of Negros
Posted on November 13, 2016 by psssadmin
The first Princess of Negros (Photo credits: the “Commonwealth” and Gorio Belen
Many people when talking of the Princess of Negros which arrived in 1992 think she was the second Princess of Negros after the Princess of Negros which which arrived from Hongkong brand-new in 1962 and which did the Bacolod-Iloilo route. However, there was a prewar Princess of Negros which also arrived brand-new from Hongkong in 1933 which also did the Bacolod-Iloilo route and she was actually the first Princess of Negros and making the Princess of Negros that arrived in 1992 as the third Princess of Negros. Many do not remember now the first Princess of Negros because she was captured by the Japanese military in 1942 during the Pacific War, pressed into their service and was bombed and sank by US warplanes in 1944.
The second Princess of Negros (from the research of Gorio Belen in the National Library)
The third Princess of Negros was much bigger than the first two Princess of Negros ships as she was a RORO liner whereas the first two were short-distance cruisers. When the third Princess of Negros arrived, she became the flagship of Negros Navigation Inc. Her routes then were only to Bacolod and Iloilo from Manila as Negros Navigation then still basically served Western Visayas ports plus the port of Cagayan de Oro.
When the third Princess of Negros arrived in 1992 she joined her sister ship in the Negros Navigation fleet which was the Sta. Florentina which arrived for Negros Navigation much earlier in 1983. The Sta. Florentina was the Okudogo in Japan while the third Princess of Negros was the Okudogo No. 2. Their Japan owners was the Kurushima Dock. No, the sister ships were not built in Shin Kurushima Dockyard. Before, a shipyard in Japan can also operate ferries as a prop to the shipping industry.
From the research of Gorio Belen in the National Library
The sister ships were actually built by Shin Kochi Jyuko Company in Kochi, Japan. Okudogo No. 2, the latter Princess of Negros was completed in July of 1973 and given the ID IMO 7323310. She was a RORO ferry with the dimensions 118.9 meters by 20.6 meters with a gross register tonnage (GRT) of 4,700 as built. Her load capacity was 1,664 in deadweight tons (DWT). This RORO had bow and stern ramps as access and the visor bow ramps continued to be operational here when most RORO liners had those welded shut.
The ship had a raked stem and a transom stern. She had two masts, a single center funnel and later full scantling unlike her sister ship Sta. Florentina. The time she was fielded was already the peak of ship passenger demand and big passenger capacities were needed. The ship had three full decks dedicated to the passenger accommodations (but not at the start) and her passenger capacity across six classes was 1,499 persons. Later, this even rose to 2,002 persons when full scantling were built on the ship.
Creation by Irvine Kinea
A significant portion of her accommodations was dedicated to ever-so-on-demand Economy section which occupied the sterns of the three passenger decks. The higher classes as well as the restaurants were on the forward sections of that. The bridge deck of the ship was exclusive for navigation and for the accommodation of the crew.
The third Princess of Negros had a single car deck that had about 400 lane-meters. She carried TEU and XEU container vans both mounted on chassis and not and also a few vehicles. Her actual declared capacity was 100 TEU. In the Philippines the third Princess of Negros had only 4,494 in gross tonnage (GT) and 1,291 in net tonnage (NT), a violation of the IMO rule that the net tonnage of a ship cannot be less than 1/3 of its gross tonnage. It is certainly an underestimation given she has full scantling. Her sister ship Sta. Florentina had 1,518 in net tonnage and it had no full scantling.
The design top speed of the Okudogo No. 2 was 18.5 knots and that comes from 4 Fuji 8M32CH4C engines that develops 10,400 horsepower which is the same powerplant of her sister ship. In the Philippines as the Princess of Negros she usually cruised at 17 knots which was good for a 20-hour transit time to Bacolod or Iloilo. In 1994 she was displaced as the flagship by the beautiful and sleek St. Francis of Assisi but she continued doing the Bacolod and Iloilo routes.
When Negros Navigation began its big expansion program starting in 1995 when Negros Navigation acquired six more bigger and faster liners in a span of just over two years, Princess of Negros no longer did the exclusive Bacolod and Iloilo routes. First, she was sent to the long Cagayan de Oro route in pair with the Sta. Ana. A little later, she was already doing the Roxas City route and in that time she was the best ship in that route.
Photo credit: Ray Smith
With the entry of the new millennium, the over-expansion of Negros Navigation bit hard and the company was hit by illiquidity and shipyards and suppliers filed suits of garnishment. After that, the ships of Negros Navigation were barely sailing. They did not sink completely, however, as a white knight in the person of Manny V. Pangilinan appeared. However, in the restructuring, routes were cut and many of the RORO liners of Negros Navigation were offered for sale.
During that time there was already a crisis in the liner sector as the passengers had already began drifting to the intermodal buses and budget airlines. Panay island liners were hit hard when the Roxas, Oriental Mindoro to Caticlan, Malay, Aklan route opened in late 2003. Very soon, intermodal trucks and buses began rolling to Panay island and immediately most hit were the ports and ships going to northern and western Panay island ports.
The third Princess of Negros was laid up in Manila and for about two years she was appearing in ship-for-sale sites. There were no takers, however, and on 2007 she sailed to Bangladesh when she was bought by Chittagong breakers. She was eventually broken up on April 6, 2007 when she was still a good and reliable ship.
She served just a little over a decade in the Philippines.
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The Pioneering But Hard-Luck Cardinal Shipping
This article could be considered a tribute to Cardinal Shipping Corporation because among all shipping companies I consider them the true pioneers of island connections using short-distance ferry-ROROs (to distinguish it to the earlier LCTs). This is also an attempt to set the record straight because some government functionaries who have no knowledge in shipping repeat and repeat that the government-owned Maharlika ships first connected Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao through short-distance ferry-ROROs when that is simply not true and factually incorrect. Personally, I hate historical revisionism in any form and that is actually what these dumb government functionaries are actually doing and then some clueless young members of media take after what they say. If this is not checked, we will see a kind of Goebbels syndrome in shipping.
As they say, research and documentation are the most important things in making claims or in debunking claims and the Philippine Ship Spotters Society (PSSS) was fortunate a co-founder, Gorio Belen, took time to research in the National Library and found the proofs needed to back up what we oldtimers knew that there were ferries that antedated the government-owned Maharlika ships and sometimes one good proof are newspaper advertisements and photos of their ship docked in Allen port. Well, maybe another good proof would come from some retired bus drivers that loaded their ships aboard Cardinal Ferry 1 and those were mainly Pantranco South bus drivers. I myself is a secondhand source because some of these drivers bought merchandise from us to be sold in Calbayog and Catarman. Of course, another good source will be the Allen and Matnog LGUs (local government units). They will know, definitely, especially some of their retired local politicians and local government employees. Add to that also some retired or still active porters.
Cardinal Shipping Corporation actually started in cargo shipping with the Cardinal V. This is a small cargo ship built in 1968 that was formerly the Ryusho Maru in Japan and that ship engaged in tramper shipping. In 1979, Cardinal Shipping branched out into RORO shipping when they brought out the Cardinal Ferry 1 to do a Matnog-Allen RORO route to the consternation of the wooden motor boats doing the route like the MB Samar and MB Sorsogon of Eugenia Tabinas (later of Bicolandia Shipping Lines). The ports they were using were not yet the modern Matnog Ferry Terminal but the old municipal port of Matnog and in Allen, they used the old BALWHARTECO wharf. Both are no longer existing. The two ports were just near the Matnog Ferry Terminal and the present port of BALWHARTECO.
Cardinal Ferry 1 was one of the many Tamataka Marus that came to the Philippines and one of the earliest. She was Tamataka Maru No. 21 and she was acquired from Shikoku Ferry of Japan. The other Tamataka Marus in the Philippines are the Reina Emperatriz (Tamataka Maru No. 71), Reina Genoveva (Tamataka Maru No. 75), Reina Hosanna (Tamataka Maru No.78), all of Montenegro Shipping Lines Inc. and Marina Ferries, Queen Helen of Arrel Traders (Tamataka Maru No. 31), Golden Arrow of Arrow Shipping (Tamataka Maru No. 51), Viva Penafrancia of Viva Shipping Lines (Tamataka Maru No. 52) and the Dona Isabel of SKT Shipping (Tamataka Maru No. 32).
Cardinal Ferry 1 was a RORO ship built by Sanuki Shipbuilding & Iron Works in Sanuki yard, Japan in 1964. She was just a basic, short-distance ferry-RORO at 39.2 meters by 9.1 meters with a gross register tonnage (GRT) of 355 tons. Cardinal Ferry 1 had a passenger capacity of 400 persons in sitting accommodations and she was powered by a single Niigata diesel engine that gave her a top speed of 10 knots when new. She possessed the ID IMO 7743118.
In 1980, Cardinal Shipping fielded the Cardinal Ferry 2 to sail the Surigao-Liloan-Maasin route. There was no Lipata Ferry Terminal then yet and they used what is known now as the Verano port now in Surigao City. In Liloan, they used the Liloan municipal port as there was no Liloan Ferry Terminal yet. Liloan, Surigao and Maasin were better ports than Allen and Matnog infra-wise as both hosted overnight ships to Cebu. With the fielding of Cardinal Ferry 2, for the first time ever Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao were connected and a vehicle can roll from any part of Luzon to Mindanao and vice-versa. This was the fulfillment of the dreams of many including the late President Diosdado Macapagal in whose administration the JICA-backed Pan-Philippine Highway project (later renamed as Philippine-Japan Friendship Highway because Japan will partly fund the mega-project and war reparations to be paid by Japan will be used in it) first took shape. During Martial Law, this morphed into the Maharlika Highway. However, the government’s version of connection happened only in 1984 with the coming of Maharlika II and that was 4 years after Cardinal Shipping did it.
Cardinal Ferry 2 was the former Shikishima Maru No. 1 in Japan and she was built by Imabari Shipbuilding Company Ltd. in Imabari shipyard, Japan in 1960 (therefore she was older than Cardinal Ferry I) and she possessed the ID IMO 5322867. She was bigger than Cardinal Ferry 1 at 50.1 meters length by 7.8 meters breadth by 3.9 meters depth. The ship has 491 tons in Gross Register Tonnage (GRT), 302 tons in Net Register Tonnage (NRT) and 800 tons in Deadweight Tonnage (DWT). This ferry was powered by a single Makita engine of 640 horsepower and the top speed was 9.5 knots.
The next year, in 1981, Cardinal Shipping laid out the Cardinal Ferry III which was the former Sanyomarugame Maru No.1 of Sanyo Kisen in Japan. She was fielded in the pioneering RORO route of San Jose de Buenavista, Antique to Puerto Princesa, Palawan! [I really wonder until now what sense this made. Maybe a Cebu-Bohol or a Cebu-Leyte connection would have more sense.] This ferry was built by Kanda Shipbuilding Company in Kure yard, Japan in 1965. Her dimensions are 44.5 meters length by 10.0 meters breadth by 2.9 meters depth. Her original Gross Register Tonnage (GRT) was 495 tons with a Deadweight Tonnage (DWT) of 190 tons. The passenger capacity was 350 and she had twin Niigata engines of a total 1,700 horsepower. The ship’s top speed was 13.5 knots which is fast for a small RORO then. The ship’s ID is IMO 6607848.
In the same year of 1981, Cardinal Shipping acquired the former Taysan of Seaways Shipping Corporation which was an old cargo ship built way back in 1956 by Sanoyas Shipbuilding Corporation in Osaka yard, Japan. This became the Cardinal VI in the Cardinal Shipping fleet and like the Cardinal V she engaged in tramper shipping.
The last ferry and ship acquisition of Cardinal Shipping was the Cardinal Ferry Seven in 1982. She was the former Azuki Maru in Japan of Kansai Kyuko. This RORO ship was built in 1964 by Hashihama Zosen in Hashihama yard, Japan. She measured 41.7 meters length by 12.6 meters breadth by 3.6 meters depth. The original Gross Register Tonnage was 473 tons with a Deadweight Tonnage (DWT) of 165 tons . Her passenger capacity was 650 persons (that is a little big!). The ship was powered by two Daihatsu engines of 1,100 horsepower and the top speed was 12.5 knots. The ship’s ID was IMO 6502191.
Although pioneering, Cardinal Shipping was not successful for long. Even before the Maharlika I arrived in Matnog-San Isidro route in 1982 and the Maharlika II in Lipata-Liloan route in 1984, she was already under pressure. There were already other competitors that came in the two routes especially in Matnog-Allen route like the Northern Star and Laoang Bay of Newport Shipping (before this Newport Shipping has already been sailing a route from Manila to Samar). Eugenia Tabinas also got into ROROs when she was able to acquire the Eugenia from Esteban Lul of the Visayas. Later, she was able to acquire the Northern Star from Newport Shipping which became the Northern Samar after conversion in Cebu.
It was really hard to compete against the new Maharlika ships which did not need to show a profit as it was government-owned (that is how government always worked and the usual hackneyed reasoning is it is “public service”. However, there was no denying that the Maharlika ships were better as it was much newer. Cardinal Shipping also had ships that were not only old but built in the 1960’s when engines were still not that long-lasting as microfinishing was not yet in great use and metallurgical research was not yet that advanced. Their route to Palawan also did not make sense in that period. In San Bernardino Strait, they soon had a dogfight in their hands with many entrants. Not long after, the ships of Cardinal Shipping began losing to competition.
Cardinal Shipping did not completely go away however and it had a rebirth in the form of Cardinal Philippine Carrier which was based in Iloilo City. They were able to retain the former Cardinal Ferry 3 which was now known as Palawan Traders. Before this she was known as the Kanlaon Ferry, a name maybe given so she will stick in her revised route. They then added a pioneering ferry, a catamaran High Speed Craft, the Bacolod Express in 1989 to do the Bacolod-Iloilo route. This was very notable because before her only Manila had High Speed Crafts in the early 1970s. Some of those were even hydrofoils and they were used in a route to Corregidor which was being heavily promoted then as a tourist destination.
The Bacolod Express was the former Quicksilver I and she was built by NQEA Australia in Cairns, Australia in 1986. She arrived in the country in 1989 and she was formerly known as the Princess of Boracay and in 1990, she became the Bacolod Express. This aluminum-hulled catamaran measured 29.0 meters length by 11.0 meters breadth by 3.2 meters depth and with a gross tonnage of 318 and a net tonnage of 105. She had a passenger capacity of 356 and she was powered by two MWM engines of 2,700 horsepower which gave the High Speed Craft a top speed of 27 knots. This ferry was one beautiful catamaran.
Bacolod Express was successful in her route for a few years. The first sign of trouble came when BREDCO, the incomplete reclamation area then but her port in Bacolod suddenly began refusing her docking. She cannot dock in Banago port because that was controlled then by Negros Navigation Company, a competitor of theirs which operated conventional ferries between Iloilo and Bacolod, the Don Vicente and the Princess of Panay. Definitely, Bacolod Express was taking traffic away from NENACO which had no equivalent at the start to Bacolod Express (they later fielded the St. Michael). Everybody knows NENACO’s board were powers magnificent then in Western Visayas and could make things happen (or not happen).
Not long after, Bacolod Express also began experiencing engine troubles (in less than 10 years of operational life?) thus unreliability plagued her. That was deadly when new competitors came into her route. With Bacolod Express no longer able to carry the flag, Cardinal Philippine Carrier soon quit the business. They sold the Palawan Traders to E.B. Aznar Shipping where she became the Melrivic Seven. Today this ship still sails the Tanon Strait crossing between Escalante and Tabuelan where she once sailed before. She is the only remnant left and living reminder that once there was Cardinal Shipping but many people do not know that. Maybe not even her crew.
That was the sad tale of Cardinal Shipping which was pioneering in very many ways but which lost in the end. I doubt if many still remember them.
Photo Credits: Gorio Belen, Times Journal and Philippine Daily Express
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Monica Allen Wednesday, June 12, 2019
/ Categories: Research Headlines, Climate, Weather
New engine is driving NOAA’s flagship weather forecast model
Engines combine strengths of climate and weather models
As NOAA launches a major upgrade of its flagship weather forecast model today, an important part is the Global Forecast System’s new dynamical core. The story of how scientists developed the dynamical core or engine for the model is a view into how scientific invention works.
The dynamical core, called the Finite-Volume Cubed-Sphere, or FV3, is a key model component that computes wind and air pressure for successful numerical weather prediction. It is expected to bring a new level of accuracy and efficiency to the Global Forecast System’s representation of atmospheric processes from the jet stream, to thunderstorms, to hurricanes, to winter blizzards. In the future it has a potential to improve simulations of clouds and precipitation at resolutions not yet seen in an operational weather forecast model.
The result is expected to be more accurate and timely weather forecasting, and over time, longer lead times for weather forecasts. This will save lives and protect property and strengthen our economy that depends on accurate weather prediction.
“This week’s launch of the upgraded Global Forecast System with FV3 is a great example of why we need continued investment in long-term sustained research,” said Craig McLean, NOAA assistant administrator for Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. “It took many years of dedicated scientists’ commitment to convert an idea into an operational model’s dynamical core.”
Dynamical core team
A NOAA team led by Shian-Jiann Lin, center back row, developed the Finite-Volume Cubed-Sphere dynamical core and adapted it for NOAA's Global Forecast system. Credit: NOAA
Like many great scientific advancements, the FV3 began as research to solve another problem.
More than two decades ago, a young scientist named Shian-Jiann Lin joined NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Laboratory to work on models to predict how chemical substances in the air, including those that destroy the Earth’s protective ozone layer, travel through the atmosphere.
Modeling ozone destroyers
Working with other scientists, Lin developed a model to represent how flowing air carries these substances. The new model divided the atmosphere into cells or boxes and used computer code based on the laws of physics to simulate how air and chemical substances move through each cell and around the globe.
The model paid close attention to conserving energy, mass and momentum in the atmosphere in each box. This precision resulted in dramatic improvements in the accuracy and realism of the atmospheric chemistry.
Richard Rood, now a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Michigan, who had hired Lin to work with him at NASA, said Lin has a unique ability to visualize the dynamic flows of the atmosphere, called fluid dynamics. “Rather than write down the basic mathematical equations and start to derive relationships to represent the atmosphere, S.J. jumps ahead and visualizes the algorithm that can physically solve the problem.”
NASA began using this dynamical core, called the Finite-Volume dynamical core, as a key component of its weather and climate models. Soon others wanted in on the action. The National Center for Atmospheric Research and Harvard University adopted FV for its climate and atmospheric chemistry models in the early 2000s.
Highpowered engine for climate models
In 2003, Lin was recruited by Ants Leetma, director of NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), to join GFDL in Princeton, New Jersey.
“I love the place,” Lin said of GFDL recently, when describing how easy it was for him to make the switch from NASA to NOAA. It was a coming home for Lin who had completed his doctorate in atmospheric science at Princeton University where he’d worked with scientists at NOAA GFDL.
Very quickly Lin worked to advance the FV dynamical core to improve the world class climate models created by and used at GFDL. In 2007, a GFDL atmosphere and ocean climate model with the FV core outperformed all other climate models during a worldwide comparison by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in preparation for its fourth climate assessment.
Over the next few years, scientists at GFDL continued to improve climate models aided by high-powered super computers. As FV became FV3, models went from simulating climate on a grid of 60 to 120 square miles to more precise areas of less than two square miles.
The cubes of the FV3
The FV3 dynamical core divides the atmosphere into small cubes arranged on a grid and computes the changes in winds and pressure within each cube as part of a model's forecast. Models using the FV3 have the capability to zoom in on storm systems to improve predictions. Here, we see a satellite image of Hurricane Sandy with a stretched version of FV3's cubed sphere grid, zoomed in on the hurricane. Credit: NOAA
Then along came Hurricane Sandy in 2012, the worst hurricane the U.S. had faced since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Prompted by the disastrous hurricane, Congress passed the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act which included funding for NOAA to dramatically improve U.S. hurricane forecasting and develop a forecast system that would be second to none. Lin recalls getting a call around this time from Tim Schneider at NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory, who asked him to join the NOAA effort to improve weather prediction of hurricanes and other high intensity events.
Combining strengths of climate and weather models
Lin and his colleagues began adapting the FV dynamical core for use in NOAA’s next generation Global Forecast System. It would be the first time in nearly 40 years that the GFS would have a new dynamical core.
To drive innovation and find the best dynamical core for its new global forecast model, NOAA collaborated with partners across academia and the weather community. After a thorough review of different dynamical cores, NOAA chose the GFDL dynamical core, citing its superior accuracy, skill with global and regional forecasts, and computational efficiency.
Over the last three years, scientists from NOAA’s National Weather Service and NOAA GFDL have worked together to transition the FV3 to become the vital engine of the Global Forecast System. During extensive testing of the FV3-based GFS and other upgraded model components, it has outperformed the older GFS in predicting tropical cyclone track and intensity.
With a strong history of powering climate models that predict long-range weather patterns on scales of seasons to decades, the FV3 is now in the operational trenches helping NOAA forecast day-to-day weather to protect American lives and communities.
“This is an exciting time for weather forecasting,” said Brian Gross, Ph.D., director of NOAA’s Environmental Modeling Center within the National Weather Service. “The GFS with the FV3 dynamical core brings together the superior dynamics of global climate modeling with the day-to-day reliability and speed of operational numerical weather prediction.”
For more information, please contact Monica Allen, NOAA Research Communications, at 301-734-1123 or by email at monica.allen@noaa.gov
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A satellite and field view of the winter SST variability in the Taiwan Strait
Ming An Lee, Yi Chang, Kuo Tien Lee, Jui Wen Chan, Don Chung Liu, Wei Cheng Su
Department of Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering
Institute of Ocean Technology and Marine Affairs
Satellite-sensed advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR) sea surface temperature (SST) data over eight winters (1996-2003) and shipboard measurement during winter 2002 were used to analyze the winter SST patterns of variability in the middle of Taiwan Strait. Empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis of the spatial and temporal variance for 81 nearly cloud-free quarter monthly images was performed. The time series of spatial mean SST was like a non-linear mode associated with the seasonal thermal variation, having an average value about 20°C. The EOF analysis shows that the variance of oceanic feature was more significant in space than in time. The first mode (85.7%) of the spatial variance shows a persistent front near the Chang-Yuen Ridge in the middle of Taiwan Strait, which separates warmer surface water (>22°C) to the southeast from the colder waters (<19°C) off Mainland China to the northwest. The maximum temperature and salinity gradient at Chang-Yuen Ridge were found about 0.11°C/km and 0.048 psu/km, respectively. The second and third spatial variance modes are extremely low energy about 3.13% and 1.92%, respectively. The EOF's signal and field observation revealed that the heating exchange, balance and its strength (i.e. coolness index) of cold water to warm water, were temporally shifted in winter. From these images, we also constructed an overall coolness index, which revealed the relative strength of Mainland China Coastal Current in relation to the interaction of the South China Sea Warm Current and Kuroshlo Counter Current.
25th Anniversary IGARSS 2005
IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2005.1525524
2005 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2005 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of
International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
2005 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2005
sea surface temperature
Orthogonal functions
Advanced very high resolution radiometers (AVHRR)
coastal current
countercurrent
Earth and Planetary Sciences(all)
Lee, M. A., Chang, Y., Lee, K. T., Chan, J. W., Liu, D. C., & Su, W. C. (2005). A satellite and field view of the winter SST variability in the Taiwan Strait. In 25th Anniversary IGARSS 2005: IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (pp. 2621-2626). [1525524] (International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS); Vol. 4). https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2005.1525524
Lee, Ming An ; Chang, Yi ; Lee, Kuo Tien ; Chan, Jui Wen ; Liu, Don Chung ; Su, Wei Cheng. / A satellite and field view of the winter SST variability in the Taiwan Strait. 25th Anniversary IGARSS 2005: IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. 2005. pp. 2621-2626 (International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)).
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AB - Satellite-sensed advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR) sea surface temperature (SST) data over eight winters (1996-2003) and shipboard measurement during winter 2002 were used to analyze the winter SST patterns of variability in the middle of Taiwan Strait. Empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis of the spatial and temporal variance for 81 nearly cloud-free quarter monthly images was performed. The time series of spatial mean SST was like a non-linear mode associated with the seasonal thermal variation, having an average value about 20°C. The EOF analysis shows that the variance of oceanic feature was more significant in space than in time. The first mode (85.7%) of the spatial variance shows a persistent front near the Chang-Yuen Ridge in the middle of Taiwan Strait, which separates warmer surface water (>22°C) to the southeast from the colder waters (<19°C) off Mainland China to the northwest. The maximum temperature and salinity gradient at Chang-Yuen Ridge were found about 0.11°C/km and 0.048 psu/km, respectively. The second and third spatial variance modes are extremely low energy about 3.13% and 1.92%, respectively. The EOF's signal and field observation revealed that the heating exchange, balance and its strength (i.e. coolness index) of cold water to warm water, were temporally shifted in winter. From these images, we also constructed an overall coolness index, which revealed the relative strength of Mainland China Coastal Current in relation to the interaction of the South China Sea Warm Current and Kuroshlo Counter Current.
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T3 - International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
BT - 25th Anniversary IGARSS 2005
Lee MA, Chang Y, Lee KT, Chan JW, Liu DC, Su WC. A satellite and field view of the winter SST variability in the Taiwan Strait. In 25th Anniversary IGARSS 2005: IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. 2005. p. 2621-2626. 1525524. (International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)). https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2005.1525524
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Masters Degrees (Public Health)
Effect of an immunisation campaign in Natal and KwaZulu on vaccination coverage rates 1990-1991.
dc.creator Dyer, J. J.
dc.description Thesis (MMed.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1992. en_US
dc.description.abstract In 1990 the Department of National Health and Population Development of South Africa launched a nationwide immunisation coverage campaign targetted mainly at measles. In order to measure the effect of the campaign on vaccination coverage rates for children pre- and post- campaign vaccination coverage surveys were performed using a modified EPI technique, stratified for race and urban/rural residence. The results in Natal/KwaZulu showed no significant changes in vaccination coverage rates as documented by Road-to-Health cards for any race, although the trend was towards a slight increase. The results bring into question the effectiveness of immunisation campaigns as a strategy for raising vaccination coverage levels, and having a sustained impact on the incidence of measles. Alternative strategies, such as the strengthening and expansion of existing primary health care services, and changes to the immunisation schedule for measles, should be considered.
dc.subject Immunization--KwaZulu-Natal. en_US
dc.subject Measles--Vaccination--KwaZulu-Natal. en_US
dc.subject Theses--Public health medicine. en_US
dc.title Effect of an immunisation campaign in Natal and KwaZulu on vaccination coverage rates 1990-1991. en_US
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Baby and child care market set to boom with foreign brands
The domestic baby and child care market, which has been growing at CAGR of 17 per cent since 2012, is set for a big boom with a host of global players foraying with innovative products.PTI | March 30, 2014, 19:39 IST
The equity investment was led by Vertex Venture Management, a subsidiary of Singapore's staterun investment company Temasek Holdings.
Mumbai, Mar 30 () The domestic baby and child care market, which has been growing at CAGR of 17 per cent since 2012, is set for a big boom with a host of global players foraying with innovative products.
Brevi from Italy, Combi from Japan, Bubba Blue from Australia, Tiny Love from Israel, Grup Baby from Turkey, US Baby from China, Kiddy Gmbh from Germany, Tolly Joy from Singapore and Farlin from Taiwan are some of the top brands which will be foraying into the local market during an industry event taking place this week.
"The child-baby care product industry is highly fragmented with few organised players in the fray. Considering the huge potential that this market offers, these brands are making a debut in the local market," UBM India Managing Director Joji George said.
UBM India specialises in holding exhibitions with an aim to bring together all stakeholders -- manufacturers, distributors, retailers as well as consumers -- at one common platform and has been organising the second edition of industry event, CBME India 2014 from April 3.
With India being home to around 50 million babies in the 0-2 years age group and 304.8 million children in the 0-12 years group, the country offers immense opportunities to the segment players to tap this growing market, he said.
According to research and consultancy firm RNCOS, the domestic baby and children care products market which includes apparel, footwear, toys and baby cosmetics is growing in sync with the retail industry growth, and is estimated to grow at a CAGR of around 17 per cent during 2012-2017 to USD 26.2 billion from USD 11.8 billion in 2012.
Despite worldwide economic crisis, the sales soared to USD 11.8 billion in 2012, owing to strong demand for baby and children apparel, footwear, toys and baby cosmetics, RNCOS said in the report.
Some of the innovative products which are expected to be rolled out during the event include ergonomically designed furniture for infants and kids to support better growth and development, tablets for kids, musical toys which help to put the baby to sleep, among others, Joji said. IAS NSK STS RAH SNK
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Freefall: radiation shielding
(too old to reply)
Lynn McGuire
http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3400/fc03357.htm
I learned more about radiation than I ever wanted to learn.
Consequently, I have forgotten it all now.
And the ship's AI needs to be disciplined.
Her Man
Post by Lynn McGuire
On 16/11/19 9:15 AM, Her Man wrote:
ECHOLALIA.
LALIA.
Robert Woodward
Why? The AI is ignoring Sam; that is good.
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
â-----------------------------------------------------
Robert Woodward ***@drizzle.com
Post by Robert Woodward
An AI ignoring the owner is bad news. Even if the owner did steal the
space ship that the AI is in.
Jay E. Morris
Because the AI is programmed to only consider humans as owner/captain
and possibly crew.
So, in law, he is *not* the owner, and the AI does right to
ignore his wishes.
It would appear the AI is sufficiently I to know which of the
other entities aboard her have brains, and who don't, and respect
them accordingly.
Quadibloc
I agree, having raised this point myself, but while the comment was badly
phrased, I understand the concern.
The A.I. is not three-laws compliant.
I mean, suppose the artificial intelligence systems in office buildings in
downtown Honolulu, or Hawaii decided that the actual owner of the building was
among the heirs and assigns of an individual of Japanese descent... robots are
supposed to leave the tough questions to humans to figure out, and behave like
obedient machines.
Which is all right if the A.I. has (or is advanced enough that it should have)
the legal status of a person, and the responsibility for its own actions that
comes with that.
John Savard
Post by Quadibloc
downtown Honolulu, or Hawaii
That should have been "downtown Honolulu, or Vancouver"
David Johnston
The Three Laws say human. In fact defining what human is and what human
is not is something that came up as an issue with the Laws in various
stories. But Three Laws robots aren't obligated to follow the orders or
preserve the lives of extraterrestrial nonhumans.
Post by David Johnston
But Three Laws robots aren't obligated to follow the orders or
But there _weren't_ any aliens in Asimov's robot stories. In a world where there
are aliens, the reasoning that led to robots being given the Three Laws would lead
to all sentient life forms being included.
On Sat, 16 Nov 2019 22:48:06 -0800 (PST), Quadibloc
Not in the world of Freefall. The ship's AI apparently _is_ a
three-laws device, and it can justify killing Sam on the basis of at
least two of them.
<http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff500/fv00457.htm>
cough, cough:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Unintentional
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
***@panix.com
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]
Post by danny burstein
I think Asimov's own retcon of Foundation with robots established
that the Three Laws refer to the human masters only... so the
robots secretly went across the galaxy and exterminated all
the aliens. I suppose John Campbell would be... disappointed.
I don't recall the "Victory Unintentional" robots treating aliens
as masters. Well, the robots had already been given orders.
Which, as I said upthread, is what _Freefall_ is about: Florence
is not a robot, but she is an AI, and a major thread in the plot
has been to secure civil rights for her (and, by extension, other
Bowman's wolves, though we haven't met any others yet).
But there _weren't_ any aliens in Asimov's robot stories.
Victory Unintentional.
Perhaps more to the point however Asimov had the Solarians genetically
modify themselves into a distinct species from humanity and _their_
robots were hardwired with a definition of "human" that depended on
their physical peculiarities so they could kill homo sapiens without any
n a world where there are aliens, the reasoning that led to robots
being given the Three Laws would lead to all sentient life forms
being included.
Oh you sweet naive boy.
The main theme throughout _Freefall_ has been legal status of
persons, and the civil rights appropriate to them, for AIs.
The AI aboard the ship appears to clear that bar by a good
margin, and her* actions throughout this sequence support this.
That she refuses even to consider obeying Sam.
An Asimov-type three-laws-compliant, sufficiently intelligent
robot would not obey the random/nonsensical/dangerous commands of
a toddler, because First Law trumps Second.
*The use of a feminine pronoun for/by a ship goes all the way
back to Old English _seo scip_, a feminine noun.
Unlike, say, Amazon voice-activated devices, which have been known to
pay a /lot/ of attention to the wishes of very young children.
Christian Weisgerber
Wait, what? Old English "scip" was neuter, says Wiktionary, and
that's immediately plausible because the German cognate "Schiff"
is, too.
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber ***@mips.inka.de
It's pretty clear that the issue is that Sam is nonhuman.
"You are classified as a pet"
<http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3300/fc03271.htm>
It _is_ aware that he's an idiot: "Meets and exceeds defined
parameters".
Apparently he didn't actually steal the ship--somebody was trying to
<http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3300/fc03294.htm> The thing he (sort
of) stole was Florence
<http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff100/fv00005.htm>.
And finally we get to the crux of it: "The captain is the highest
ranking _human_ aboard ship."
I am confused. How can one become an owner by stealing?
Onership is lawful title, which is transferred by voluntary exchange, not theft or
Some people along the southern border might be inclined to equate
"eminent domain" with theft.
On Sun, 17 Nov 2019 09:57:30 -0800, Paul S Person
Post by Paul S Person
An error the Founders made, IMO, was in not making it clear that land
owned by citizens was theirs and not the state's. They obviously
thought about it a little because there is a requirement for
compensation but the compensation is set by the government and is
often inadequate.
Post by J. Clarke
The real problem was when the courts interpreted "public
use" as "public purpose," so that, for example, a homeowner
could be forced to sell to make things easier for business
owners who have pull with state and/or local government.
Like, this guy:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/19/donald-trumps-eminent-domain-nearly-cost-widow-house
IJ won that round, but a few years later we got this result:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London
BTW, the site at issue in the Kelo case _still_
hasn't been developed.
https://www.theday.com/article/20190510/BIZ02/190519944
Nothing like adding incompetence to naked injustice, is there?
That was fascinating reading though I skimmed most of the Wikipedia
detail. It seems strange that the city would go to such lengths without
some formal commitment from the drug company.
Pfizer used their facilities in New London until 2009. The developers who
wanted to build nearby?...
The Corcoran Jennison Cos., a Boston-based developer, had originally
locked in exclusive rights to develop nearly the entire northern half
of the Fort Trumbull peninsula.
But those rights expired in June 2008, despite multiple extensions, because
the firm was unable to secure financing, according to President Marty Jones.
https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Fort-Trumbull-still-vacant-4-years-after-seizure-11622633.php
After purchasing pharma company Wyeth, Pfizer consolidated across the
Thames River in Groton. {Locals pronounce the "th" as in "that,"
so we know we are in NEW England.)
The New London campus was a white elephant, but Groton's Electric Boat,
which makes submarines for the Navy, bought it.
This was a boondoggle from the get-go.
See Richard Epstein, who "wrote the book" on the Takings Clause:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/06/kelo-eminent-domain-richard-epstein/
While I'm not a Libertarian or anarcho-capitalist, I would consider the
appropriate point for compromise to be:
Private property may be expropriated... in time of war for purposes of national
defense, and not otherwise.
Expropriating somebody's home so that a developer can build a shopping mall?
Instead of that being a routine occurrence, a world in which "Are you crazy?" is
the normal reponse to such a notion would be a more free world.
On the other hand, while I want the government to get off the back of the little
people, large corporations might well feel the heavy hand of government
regulation to a greater degree were I running things. While I abhor some
populists, I think populism, if done right by honest people, is the best
ideology.
On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 11:27:22 -0800 (PST), Quadibloc
And so any time the Congress wants to grab somebody's land they
declare war on somebody.
But that is not a loophole that New York City or San Francisco or Denver have open
So it's an improvement.
So only the Federal government has the power of eminent domain?
The municipalities just declare a property "blighted," and
condemn it as part of a "war on drugs," "war on poverty, "war
on crime," or war on whatever-ya-got.
https://reason.com/2018/04/23/in-new-york-blight-is-whatever/
We have something like that here. There's a guy who drives around in
a town-provided car measuring dandelions. If he finds one a foot tall
he declares the property "blighted" and starts assessing $100/day
fines.
On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 20:42:55 -0500, J. Clarke
Not that I am a fan of dandelions or anything, but that does sound a
bit ... extreme.
r***@rosettacondot.com
One of my former coworkers experienced something similar. Someone from the
city rang his doorbell and handed him a citation for not having his fence
in proper condition. It seems that there can only be a certain (fairly small)
number of broken or missing "slats" in a privacy fence before it's considered
to be in disrepair. He was warned that if the fence weren't brought up to
standard he would continue to receive citations.
He immediately went to the local Home Depot, purchased the required number of
slats and repaired the fence. The same gentleman from the city rang his
doorbell the next day and handed him a somewhat larger citation for repairing
his fence without a permit. It seems that if the fence is considered to be
in disrepair a permit is required to repair it. The lesson learned (other than
"move out of that city") is to make sure that you replace the slats before they
hit the magic threshold that changes the action from "maintenance" to "repair".
Robert K. Shull Email: rkshull at rosettacon dot com
Post by r***@rosettacondot.com
Or you could file a massive lawsuit.
Claiming "civil stupidity" as the offending action.
Might not work, might get the laws changed to exempt repairs made
within a certain time after the first citation from the permitting
requirement.
Unfortunately I don't think "stupidity" is unconstitutional or illegal, and
those are the only two remotely applicable justifications for overturning a
home rule city's sovereign immunity. Now if the inspector had knocked down the
fence with a city vehicle that would be different...
Scott Lurndal
In fact, it sounds like hyperbole.
Post by Scott Lurndal
I believe it. I lived near a small beach town in Florida that was
supposed to be upscale (it was at one time). One of the city council
members would go about town looking for the smallest infraction, then
calling code compliance in.
Post by Jay E. Morris
Foot tall dandelions seems like hyperbole to me.
To be honest, I think some of mine have gotten that high.
Before I cut them down to size or removed them, of course.
Magewolf
Not to me. I inherited some land adjacent to The People's Republic of
Cary that my father had kept horses on. I sold the horses and then a
little later one of the neighbors bought the land. In the time in
between the grass in the pasture grew up to less than six inches. So
one day my mother got a phone-call from Cary for my father(deceased)
saying that the grass was too high and unless it was cut immediately
they would do it and charge him $150 an hour for it. I called and
explained that it was outside the city limits and that it was posted
against trespassers so any employees of the city who set foot on it
would be prosecuted.
A dandelion that size would tend to lay down from its own weight,
but if the inspector were allowed to pull the plant up to its
maximum height for measuring a one foot height is possible.
In my experience, on a neglected yard the first weeds to reach
one foot in height would be thistles.
I think there are a lot of plants that get called "dandelions" because they
have yellow flowers and form similar seedheads.
"Texas Dandelion" (Pyrrhopappus multicaulis/pauciflorus) can reach 2-3 feet
if it's left alone and we get something (possibly western salsify/Tragopogon
dubius) that can reach at least 4 feet and has seedheads 3-4 inches across.
I remember pulling foot-long blades of grass out of fields, or even woodlots,
where they would grow from the base of trees and stumps. We'd chew the
ends, like we were Huck and Tom, watching the Mississippi go by.
Of course, living on an island, with many small inlets, and /s/w/a/m/p/s/
wetlands, what was often considered "out of place" was the dreaded cattail
(rush, "Typha.") Great for habitat for youg fish, ducks, etc, but they foul
propellers something fierce. Other types of grasses and reeds abound.
Letting your property go so that wild grasses, or crabgrass would flourish
a short breeze away from your neighbors' meticulously mowed and manicured
suburban lawns was a horror that could not be tolerated. Even if there were
no village ordinance nor homeowners association bylaw prohibiting such
behavior, keeping neighborhood peace would compel one to at least attempt
too conform. I loved the North Shore bungalow we stayed in summers.
There was NO lawn, only tress, with some moss, bushes and clumps of grass
crowing at the base of same. There was no level surface "lawn grasses" could
grow on, and too much shade for them. It was great for playing Natty Bumppo
and Chingachook, or Daniel Boone and Mingo, but we had to walk down the
hill to a local park to play baseball.
My uncle, who had the next bungalow over, and a house with a small
"lawn" in Queens he did not want to have to mow, would put in ground
cover plants, such as myrtle, rather than grass. Smart man.
Trump would argue that we /are/ at war and the Wall /is/ for national
defense.
And, indeed, at war we are -- in Afghanistan, and maybe in a few other
places, on drugs, on terrorism, and maybe a few others.
The response should to find how /who the developer bribed/ and put
both of them in prison for a suitably long time.
Government regulation is at its /best/ when it is in response to
/specific abuses/. This leaves those businesses who are not, as yet,
abusing their position free to operate more efficiently.
You can't predict or prevent every possible abuse anyway.
Congress has not authorized a declaration of war. Absent that, there is no time of
war. So even Korea and Vietnam don't count, never mind the war on drugs.
Words mean things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_Against_Terrorists
The AUMF is NOT a declaration of war, Sunshine.
Dimensional Traveler
Still not a declaration of war.
"You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?"
Post by Dimensional Traveler
Something I posted in `03, when the Taliban reared their evil little
heads in Afghanistan, again:
I was chewing this over, and I remember a thought I had shortly
after 9/11, when people were arguing over how the U.S. should respond:
as toward a military threat, with our armed forces, or according
to a law enforcement model, led by the FBI and other investigators.
It struck me that modern terrorists are frequently PIRATES.
They hijack ships (Achille Lauro) and planes. They fly false
flags. They hold hostages and expect to be paid ransom.
Navies have long had the duty of ridding the seas of pirates.
They have never needed a declaration of war to empower themselves
to catch or sink such blackguards.
[/quote] Message-ID: <***@posting.google.com>
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.arts.comics.misc/dPiAzYsbBPc
Since this was a comics group post, I brought up Lee Falk's "The Phantom,"
sworn enemy of all pirates.
On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 17:07:22 -0600, Lynn McGuire
We've already had this argument. You lost.
So has a court ruled it to be a declaration of war? If not then how
did he "lose"?
GUCS.
Congress has not authorized a declaration of war. Absent that, there
is no time of
Quaddie sounds like too much of a neo-con to be a GUCS.
I would hesitate to call anyone in the Canadian forces
"Gutless." The best the US ever did against Canadian soldiery
was, arguably, a tie.
Now, some of their pols....
We've already had this argument.
We have?
You lost.
Yet here I am still.
Not a declaration of war.
So what would you be more scared of ?
1. a declaration of war from the Congress of the United States against you ?
2. an authorization from the Congress of the United States for the
President to use any means necessary to kill you ?
Not any difference between these two. You are dead either way.
Completely ignoring the legal differences that effect civil liberties...
If the issue is giving the government the authority to perform some
action, and a declaration of war is necessary in order for the
government to be able to do it, then it has to be a declaration of
war, not an "authorization to use military force".
Authorization for use of force may be very unpleasant for somebody in
Afghanistan but it doesn't mean that the government can seize the
house of some old lady in Tulsa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Powers_Clause
Congress has not authorized a declaration of war. Absent that,
there is no time of
Not nearly good enough...
...but that's pretty much your pattern.
Actually there is a large difference between the two.
None of them declared so no, that doesn't work here.
But many potential abuses are easily predictable and should be
preemptively outlawed.
On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 15:19:17 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
I keep hearing this, but has it actually been tested in a Court of
Law?
And they are -- if they are that predictable they are criminalized.
deceptive advertising
false "sale" prices
collecting sales tax and not turning it in
collecting payroll taxes and not depositing them
skimming money off the top
bribing public officials
Explicit regulation often results when a /specific/ industry finds a
/new/ way to cheat, lie and steal.
It is also an alternative to breaking up a monopoly -- that is, the
monopoly can be recognized as desirable (utilities are a good
example), and then regulated to prevent exploitation of monopoly
status.
Since being "in time of war" is not an actual prerequisite it is
unlikely to ever be tested that way.
-dsr-
Please tell us how much of North America is currently owned, then.
Reminder: very little was voluntarily exchanged by the invaders after 1492.
Post by -dsr-
Both the invaders and the invaded are long dead.
Try Palestine then.
If the Jewish Autonomous Region weren't part of the Korean national homeland... or
maybe the Manchurian national homeland via the Jurchen... it would be a fitting
place to relocate the Palestinians to help Israel enjoy peace and quiet.
Your argument is that theft does not confer ownership, but theft plus murder
does?
Nope. My argument is that theft plus many generations of inheritance
confers ownership.
I believe there is something called the doctrine of adverse possession.
It has always baffled me as to why such a thing would be put into the laws. Why
would anyone wish to encourage lawlessness by giving rights to squatters?
In English jurisprudence, and in that of the "daughter countries" that
adopted the common law tradition, adverse possession was seen as a way
to settle disputes between landowners who couldn't be bothered, for whatever
reason, to protect their rights and privileges under the law.
I believe similar situations pertain regarding the law on easements.
If you don't contest the usurpation of your property, at some point,
the courts won't back ou up when you finally do. Hence, in publishing,
the rapidity with which "cease and desist" letters are sent if a trademark
or copyright is being trespassed on, beyond "fair use." Hell, they send
those letters to folks whom a court would find had used the protected
work or mark within the law.
I remember when I lived in a beach town, on waterfront property, how my
parents and their neighbors were assiduous about not letting J Random
Beachcomber walk the beach above the high-tide mark, as that was not
property common to the community, the way the intertidal zone was.
Walking after asking permission? If it were done politely, and the
visitors had a plausible reason for being there - "We've been invited to
stay with the Smiths, who have the cabana further down the strand" -
they were wished a good day and allowed to pass.
The beach road was cut off from the next town in the 1930s, when
Long Island Lighting built a new powerplant and fenced it in down to
the low-tide mark, leading my Great-Uncle and others to get our hamlet
incorporated as a Village. The state neglected to enforce the easement
of the residents, out of "public necessity," I'm sure. We weren't
about to further reduce the value of the shoreline properties by making
the beachfront a thoroughfare.
There's something similar involving fence lines in some places. If the
fence line isn't contested for some not exactly defined amount of time
then it becomes the accepted property line.
We bought some land and when the surveyor did what was probably the first
accurate marking of boundaries ever we found that a number of acres of
"our" land were on the other side of the fence line, which actually ran at
an angle. Also a half mile of county road was "ours".
Landowners of dubious morality are known to take advantage of their neighbors'
absence to rebuild fences in a slightly different and advantageous position.
That is slimy behavior, and in the "Bad Olde Days" might have led
to a range war, especially if it messed with rights to water.
Frost was right, in a way. "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors."
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44266/mending-wall
That's not the only way to read that poem, of course.
I like to think "Good Neighbors Make Good Fences, if
fences are needed at all!" Sometimes they are, if only
to keep one's ambulatory charges from eating the neighbors'
windfalls or trampling their roses.
Your point is valid.
Some people - Ayn Rand included, but I don't believe she is alone in this - have
attempted to rationalize the colonial theft of continents on the basis that
since the indigenous people hunted on the land, rather than farming it, they did
not have title to the land in which they hunted, because they did nothing to
improve it.
Indeed, even the Indians themselves didn't think in terms of owning their
hunting grounds as any kind of property (let alone making the distinction
between personal property and real estate that is made in British law).
None the less, the argument is obviously a specious rationalization.
Proof: you can be convicted of murder for smothering someone to death with a
pillow.
Hence, despite the fact that your victim did not hold title to the Earth's
atmosphere, it was a wrongful act of aggression to deny that victim access to
the atmosphere to obtain needed sustenance from it.
Cutting someone off from the atmosphere, so he cannot breathe, and cutting that
person off from the fields and forests, so he cannot hunt there, and therefore
eat, are basically the same thing, different only in time scale.
Hence, Robin Hood was right in treating the restrictions on the King's deer as
oppressive, and the Enclosure Acts are properly regarded as evil.
The trouble is, of course, that without the United States, the Nazis or
Communists would have conquered the world. Also, many American Indian tribes
committed aggression against other American Indian tribes.
Since it's infeasible to crowd the non-native population of the Americas back
into Europe, or to have them move on to unoccupied frontiers on Mars...
it is unclear what can be done to satisfy the dictates of true, absolute
morality.
I admit to not being terribly much more botherd by this than most people are. None the less, I think we should recognize the issue, and look for a solution if one could be found.
Possibly, with advances in building construction and food production, the non-
native population of the Americas could all be relocated to former Aztec
territiory, as that rather nasty bunch could arguably be said to have forfeited
its territorial rights. Presumably their innocent descendants would not face
difficulty finding homes within the national homelands of other native American
tribes - given how many of them all we've exterminated, they'll all have room to
spare for a while.
Dear me. That's the line Laura Ingalls Wilder's mother used.
"They don't farm it, they just roam around on it!"
An attitude that goes back to the memory of man runneth not to
the contrary. For another point of view, in Genesis God rejected
the cereal crops of Cain (a farmer) and accepted the meat products
of Abel (a pastoralist).
And rather later (1943, but set in 1906):
"I'd like to say a word for the farmer.
He came out here and made a lot of changes."
"He came out here and built a lot of fences,
And built 'em right across our cattle ranges!"
---Oscar Hammerstein, _Oklahoma!_
The Eastern Woodland Indians tribes did some farming.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters_(agriculture)
I grew up on Long Island, and the local Lenape/Delaware, the
Matinecock and Patchogue, and the Pequot - related tribes
the Shinnecock and Montaukett did a lot of gathering, fishing
and hunting, and some farming or gardening.
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/precontact-and-early-colonial-era/before-contact/a/northeast-indian-culture
The transfer of land from natives to settlers by sale was recognized by
the Dutch and the English, but, seen from the point of view of the tribes,
may have been of dubious legality. Did any one chief or leader have the
authority to alienate the land? Some would say not, just as Irish clan
chiefs had no right to surrender land to the Tudor kings, and accept
a regrant from the English king, now an overlord.
The Algonquian peoples were not united, and a canny sachem might use the
Europeans as allies against his enemies, even if that meant giving up
sovereignty, as we moderns would call it, over once-tribal land.
On Fair Pomonauk (LI) Wyandanch was particularly good at this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyandanch_(sachem)
There's conquest, and there's being swindled. The invaders and
settlers used whatever was in the toolbox.
I say this as someone who prefers a system of allodial title to
a feudal model. That doesn't change our getting there by less
than honest methods.
Most "private property" in the US is held "in fee simple," and
as such is subject to taxation. One can consider the annual
property tax as equivalent to feudal rent, in which case few
in the US actually "own" their land. It would be unusual to
hear of someone living on a property with a "99-year leasehold"
from the local or state government, here in the US, though in many
Commonwealth countries that would not be strange.
As for Rand and her Lockean explanation of the justice of colonization,
there are facts in evidence against it. The "Lockean Proviso" reads:
Nor was this appropriation of any parcel of land, by improving it, any prejudice
to any other man, since there was still enough and as good left, and more than
the yet unprovided could use. So that, in effect, there was never the less left
for others because of his enclosure for himself. For he that leaves as much
as another can make use of, does as good as take nothing at all. Nobody could
think himself injured by the drinking of another man, though he took a good
draught, who had a whole river of the same water left him to quench his thirst.
And the case of land and water, where there is enough of both, is perfectly the
— John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, Chapter V, paragraph 33
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7370/7370-h/7370-h.htm
Leaving the "non-farming" tribespeople with the worst land, and not
enough of it, violates Locke's dictum.
(putting his ol' PoliSci degree to use, for once.)
To address the first bit: if you're going to point to an event hundreds of
years later to justify genocide, then you are (a) justifying genocide and (b)
stark raving insane.
To address the second bit: you appear to be claiming that murdering
murderers is justified -- and so is murdering their entire tribe or nation.
I am leaning towards insanity.
Your idea of reparation is forced relocation?
Raving insane asshole. You aren't civilized in the least.
Not to mention,a whole lot of people who are descended, in
whole or in part from the Aztecs, still live there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Mexico#Ethnic_groups
Yeah, the plan is to move them out, apparently.
Into North America, if I'm following this.
Quaddie has a long history of proposing death, destruction, and radical change for people who are not Just Like Him.
He usually wants Americans to do it for him.
Post by Peter Trei
Sounds like a Zionist.
From the context of the rest of your response, it seems you think I'm suggesting
relocating the Native Americans to that area, instead of relocating the white
people there so that the Native Americans can have their land back. So you seem
not to have read carefully.
years later to justify genocide,
I am pointing to an event hundreds of years later to justify not, hundreds of
years later, giving back lands stolen by genocide hundreds of years ago. That has
nothing to do with justifying the original genocide itself, which was not
addressed one way or the other.
Again, please read carefully.
Every culture has committed aggression. Therefore attacking them is not
aggression. Therefore no culture has committed aggression.
Fortunately, the alien culture that designed me, unlike those that designed
several computers encountered by one Captain James T. Kirk, incorporated
precautions against thermal overload and other malfunctions due to infinite loop
conditions. Instead, they are detected at real-time-clock interrupts and
terminated.
s***@yahoo.com
I was at a science con, talking to young scientists, including some from Denver. I explained why the standard measurement should be the daily background radiation for folks living there. So if the news reports a radiation leak of 0.7 Denvers we can easily tell it's not very important.
Nils K. Hammer
Post by s***@yahoo.com
This doesn't work if you live near Three Mile Island,
Chernobyl, Fukushima... so that local radiation
is already pretty high.
In some sci fi, future Earthmen all wear lead
underwear due to worldwide radioisotope pollution
interfering with their underbits.
I was at a science con, talking to young scientists, including some from
Denver. I explained why the standard measurement should be the daily
background radiation for folks living there. So if the news reports a
radiation leak of 0.7 Denvers we can easily tell it's not very important.
I suspect that the background level at Three Mile Island is less than
Denver's background. Besides, I believe that he was advocating using
DENVER's background level as a base (of course, there are places whose
background is significantly higher than Denvers's; because they are
sitting on a low grade thorium or uranium orebody.
ISTR that Edinburgh (Scotland) has to be cautious about
ventilation to fend off radon poisoning, because it's built on
(and of) granite.
Juho Julkunen
Yeah, you don't want to spend too much time in unventilated cellars in
Finland, either. The bedrock's mostly granite, and there's not a lot of
soil on top of it, either.
I've understood that Denver gets a double dose from both radon and
cosmic background radiation.
Post by Juho Julkunen
And according to a link in another post in this thread, a *triple* dose, with the
third due to plutonium from a nuclear weapons manufacturing plant in Rocky Flats.
Well. Denver, radiation... oh my:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_contamination_from_the_Rocky_Flats_Plant>
Not what I expected (but the city didn't get the worst of it).
I was thinking more about the altitude - which means extra
cosmic ray exposure.
I was going to mention Aberdeen, in Scotland, which is built
in and on granite. But that's not all there is there, either.
<https://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/rsh/Aberdeen_Beach_radioactive.html>
I wonder if you can get lead kilts? Could be risky otherwise
though. Those pleats are going to nip together...
If the radioactivity is coming from sand they are walking on wouldn't
lead kilts just kind of funnel it to the sensitive parts?
Perhaps you're right. Here is something more suitable in local culture:
<https://www.springthyme.co.uk/ah11/ah11_04.htm>
<http://www.rampantscotland.com/poetry/blpoems_tams.htm>
"Fen I wis only ten year aul I left the pairish squeel,
Ma faither fee'd me tae the mains tae chaw his milk an meal;
I first pit on ma nerra breeks tae hap ma spinnle trams,
Syne bukkelt roon ma knappin knees a pair o nicky tams."
Surely impenetrable :-)
I remember Duncan Lunan describing how he was occasionally asked
"What is worn under the kilt?" and he would reply, "NOTHING is
worn under the kilt; it's all in perfect working order."
Ted Nolan <tednolan>
"Akk lad I don't know where you've been but I see you've won first prize"
columbiaclosings.com
What's not in Columbia anymore..
I was at a science con, talking to young scientists, including
some from
radiation leak of 0.7 Denvers we can easily tell it's not very
important.
Yeah, he quoted that one too.
Radon is an issue in a lot of places. You can buy kits to test your basement.
There are spots in India where the
exposure in houses built of local stone can be 80 times the average, and
several times the recommended maximum from artificial sources.
Allegedly, the most radioactive natural spot in NYC is the west entrance of
Grand Central Station, due to the granite it is built from.
Jaimie Vandenbergh
On Sun, 17 Nov 2019 08:59:13 -0800 (PST), Peter Trei
I totally misread that as kilts. What a world!
Everyone knows the story that radon accumulation in homes was discovered
thanks to a nuclear plant worker who kept setting off the radioactivity
alarms on leaving work? He probably wasn't wearing a kilt though.
https://www.the-scientist.com/research/radon-research-typifies-challenges-facing-risk-assessment-60260
Cheers - Jaimie
'Rings! Rings! Wherever they may be
I am the Lord of the Rings,' said he
'And I'll find them all, wherever they may be
And I'll bind them all in the dark,' said he -- Kevin Ahearn
On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 00:59:54 +0000, Jaimie Vandenbergh
Post by Jaimie Vandenbergh
Note that the article's description of radon is rather garbled--the
article says that it's "not radioactive but decays in the
atmosphere"--that's nonsense. It is radioactive and decays in or out
of the atmosphere to several different radioactive isotopes that are
not gases at room temperature.
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Microsoft Resumes Rerelease of Windows 10 Version 1809
By Kurt Mackie
Microsoft on Wednesday once more resumed its general rollout of the Windows 10 version 1809 upgrade, also known as the "October 2018 Update."
In addition to this Windows 10 rerelease, upgrades to Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server version 1809 (the "semiannual channel" version of the product) were resumed on Wednesday, too, according to information added to the "Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 Update History" page. This history page now includes more descriptive information about Microsoft's OS releases, including when Microsoft may be blocking a release due to software flaws, bad drivers or application incompatibility issues.
Wednesday's rollout constitutes the second rerelease of Windows 10 version 1809. Microsoft first released it on Oct. 2. Later, Microsoft pulled that release due to data loss issues, and then rereleased it on Nov. 13.
Microsoft is now resuming Windows 10 version 1809 releases in "phased rollouts," and the new OS also will arrive to "seekers." A so-called seeker is someone who simply uses the "Check for Updates" capability that's built into Windows interface, which will trigger an automatic download of the new OS, even if it's unwanted.
Even though Jan. 16 is the most current release date of Windows 10 version 1809, organizations using it will still have their update cycle clocks tuned by Microsoft to the previous Nov. 13 release date, Microsoft previously explained. It's an important planning detail for organizations, since Windows 10 needs to be upgraded after either 18 months or 30 months, depending on the Windows edition used and whether the release was a fall channel release or not.
According to the history page, there are still blocks in place for Windows 10 version 1809 for some systems, namely systems that have the following dependencies:
Intel display drivers versions 24.20.100.6344 and 24.20.100.6345.
F5 VPN clients that use a split-tunnel configuration.
Trend Micro's OfficeScan and Worry-Free Business Security software.
AMD Radeon HD2000 and HD4000 series graphics processing units.
Those blocks were still in effect from back in December. Microsoft uses its "telemetry" data gathered from systems to assess whether they are ready to receive a new Windows OS upgrade or not. Blocks get set when potential upgrade problems are detected.
Woody Leonhard, a longtime Windows patch observer and Computerworld writer, advised caution in a blog post about permitting Windows 10 version 1809 upgrades to occur, even though Microsoft has spent about three months addressing its problems. Consumer users of the Home edition, though, won't have easy options to block its arrival.
After problems with the release of Windows 10 version 1809 had become apparent back in November, Microsoft had announced plans to be more transparent about Windows 10 servicing and quality issues. The history page now appears to serve that function.
Microsoft has added a link in the history page to get feeds, which can be used in RSS readers to determine when this page gets updated. Clicking that link leads to this page, which gives the user an option to get the feed in either Atom or RSS formats. At press time, though, the RSS feed option for Windows 10 didn't have any effect, so it's apparently a work in progress.
Kurt Mackie is senior news producer for the 1105 Enterprise Computing Group.
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Major Shifts In Germany!
Posted on October 9, 2015 by RonMamita — 7 Comments
True or not, Germany see itself as the Leader of the E.U. and many governments have said Germany is the economic engine of Europe. “How goes Germany, so goes Europe”.
So what’s REALLY going on in Germany?!
Is Germany Under Attack?
“Made In Germany” pride may take an international hit.
Specifically Germany’s banking industry is facing severe challenges and there are hints that some entities inside Germany are at odds with the “Western BLOC” Geopolitical Leadership.
Is it a combination of (dominoes) China’s economic slowdown, Germany’s slowdown, soon to become Europe’s …
Deutsche bank’s woes
Bundesbank’s repatriation of their GOLD
Volkswagen’s scandal (U.S. pulled the carpet…) and German prosecutors are looking into possible criminal fraud
German Industrial Production Collapses by 4%…
Germany’s fence straddling when geopolitics moves against Russia (A important commerce trading partner); obviously Germany desires peace and economic trade with its Easterly neighbors.
Some conservatives in the Western BLOC may attempt to coerce Germany to remain within the U.S.-NATO strategy that attacks Russia, while the USD is monetarily discredited by the emerging markets.
How can Germany deal with War Refugees?
*Side-NOTE: The Russian complexity is important and the U.S. led sanctions failed, (the U.S. greatest fear is of a China-Russia Formal Alliance), Russia has international borders with 16 sovereign states, including two with maritime boundaries (US, Japan)…
If You Didn’t Know The USD-Bretton Woods System is DEAD
Of course the details are hidden secrets and plans to reform the international monetary system are discussed behind closed doors, but we piece together the jigsaw puzzle from institutional forums and documents as in their words they seek “world financial stability”. -Something That has Never Existed since the creation of money.
The last cog from the Post WWII Bretton Woods Agreement was the U.S. Dollar consensus, and it is now broken.
What nations want to rebuild the U.S.Dollar Empire?
Who Trusts the PNAC Neocons promoting U.S. Military supremacy?
Cheney and G.W. Bush (Iraqi invasion) destroyed that international support (for the U.S.-NATO police force), and later the 2008 collapse destroyed the international monetary consensus for Washington’s King Dollar.
(I am thinking many in Germany are aligning with the emerging markets’ consensus for SDR and the inclusion of other currencies into the reserves, as Pres. Obama Fails to garner international Trust.)
Remember China’s call to De-dollarize the world, with Russia, the other BRICS members with a consensus of emerging economies agreeing that Bretton Woods is dead and it is time to move away from the U.S.Dollar.
The G-20 nations and IMF agreed on reform (in 2010), however the U.S. has reneged on that agreement, or have simply failed to complete its side of the agreement. You have heard the Chief of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, on several occasions state her displeasure that the U.S. Congress has not voted on the agreement. The opinions expressed are that the U.S. does not want to diminish its top position with IMF Veto power and other international financial levers.
“NEWS AND VIEWS FROM THE NEFARIUM OCT 8 2015”
Video posted 08 Oct 2015
Did Germany’s Bundesbank just start playing hard ball with its gold repatriation issue?
Here’s the (short but highly suggestive) article:
“Germany made a 2,300-page list detailing every single bar of gold it owns”
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/germany-made-2-300-page-142907131.html
PDF: http://www.bundesbank.de/Redaktion/EN/Downloads/Topics/2015_10_07_gold.pdf?__blob=publicationFile#page=5
WOW, Deutsche Bank to Post 6.2 Billion Euro Loss for 3rd Quarter!
That is a staggering (7 Billion) loss on a quarterly basis.
What will [non-German] institutional investors do?
No surprise that Deutsche Bank shares fell on the “surprise news“.
See: Bloomberg.com
See Reuters:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/08/us-deutschebank-outlook-idUSKCN0S12K820151008
The bank may cut or eliminate dividends…
https://ronmamita.wordpress.com/2015/06/05/russia-announces-plan-for-brics-s-w-i-f-t-version-for-world-financial-transfer-transactions/
https://ronmamita.wordpress.com/2014/11/27/is-china-the-hidden-hand-that-delays-imf-reforms-through-republican-party-donations/
https://ronmamita.wordpress.com/2014/10/15/puzzle-pieces-monetary-reset-plan/
https://ronmamita.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/follow-the-money-petro-yuan-petro-dollar/
https://ronmamita.wordpress.com/2014/07/23/is-the-u-s-targeting-allies-that-are-too-cozy-with-russia/
https://ronmamita.wordpress.com/2014/02/15/brief-legal-financial-probes-ripples/
https://ronmamita.wordpress.com/2014/01/30/german-efforts-to-repatriate-their-gold-reserves-continues-to-reveal-corruption/
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7 comments on “Major Shifts In Germany!”
Is This A Media Campaign Against Germany?
There are transportation industry rumors that the software bug that helps fudge the emission numbers in favor of the cars has been known for over a year and that software may also be in other manufacturers’ cars!
Now, I ask why was this U.S. allegation made at this time and only against V W?
Some economic analysts say Germany over invested in China, I remember hundreds of Volkswagen autos were destroyed in the Tianjin Explosion. China’s economic slump affects Germany, and Germany may also be taking economic-hits from the sanctions against Russia.
The oligarchs, crooks, controlled-mass-media, and the geopolitical institutions all have a stake in this public media hype against Volkswagen and Germany…
Thus, reading behind the scenes and using discernment becomes a challenge!
“The VW scandal and “Made in Germany””
Worrying signs for ‘Made In Germany’
German industrial orders fell unexpectedly in August as demand from non-euro zone countries weakened.
As Ivor Bennett reports, it’s raised worries a slowdown in China will cut into exports from Europe’s biggest economy.
How Germany Is Still Divided By East and West
My question is the DIVIDE still a pro-U.S. vs pro-RUSSIA ? ~Ron
Germany at 25: Reunification, Reform, Regrowth by Goldman Sachs
Yeah, by Goldman Sachs! I wanted to hear their “SPIN”!
Twenty-five years after Germany’s reunification, its economy has grown into one of the five largest in the world. Goldman Sachs economists Huw Pill and Dirk Schumacher discuss Germany’s re-emergence as an economic power and evolving role within Europe. Learn more: http://link.gs.com/Zs9b
“Germany is a volatile economy, more volatile than France…”
Hmm… does that mean it is easier for covert ops to destabilize the German Economy, if Germany doesn’t remain in line with the Western BLOC?
Can the current World War escalation be halted?
The currency war spills over to the trade wars, then to military conflict… ~Ron
Annual G7 summit in Germany Ends With Sanctions Continuing Against Russia
Amazing duplicity! They face world recession, escalation of World War, and still slap Russia with arbitrary economic sanctions that could further undermine the fragile economies of the world.
Apparently Germany is being reluctantly dragged into a policy against Russia, how long will this last?
Some secrets are hiding their real agendas… ~Ron
Everything Is Manipulated!
Forget not this fact. The international monetary system is a managed (mis-managed via secrecy, coercion, fraud and deception) construct. The engineers of that monetary system have “Reset” it in the past. They reset the international monetary system after WWI, again they reset it after WWII, and again they reset it in 1971!
We are watching them reset it now…
As we and others have maintained ever since the IMF, in 2010, announced their reforms agreement, that the Chinese Yuan, aka RMB or Renminbi will be included into the basket of World Reserve Currencies alongside the U.S. Dollar.
The transition is happening, the question is how long and how much opposition…
“Pressure on IMF to be more radical”
“China to Share Metadata with IMF – Yuan in SDR Basket Next?”
Examine & Question Everything, and Think For Yourself
There is so much to examine!
Think about secrecy, volatility, unemployment, tax hikes, and expensive food and cost of living.
And October is usually very volatile, be prepared for more than winter’s cold!
See how they are campaigning for “Carbon Taxes” under the guise of “Global Warming” – changed to “Climate Change” – changed to “Sustainable Development”.
“IMF’s Lagarde calls for countries to support a carbon tax”
Dystopian Future – Orwell Was Right:
The G8 G7 met again without Russia and keeping economic sanctions against Russia. Details missing from media reports.
The U.S. Sec. of Defense, Ashton Carter had meetings in Europe concerning Russian airstrikes in Syria. Details missing from media reports.
So called Free Trade Agreements (TPP, NAFTA, and all the other corporate monopolistic legislation)…
So called Economic Recovery…
So called Sustainable Development…
Technocrats (bankers’ corporate executives with their legal and public relations staff) on target to control the world…
Fed ADMITS Global Economic Slowdown Preventing Interest Rate Hike!
“Why October Is the Worst Month for Investors – Bloomberg Business”
Why do corporate employers like to fire workers after the Fall season?
Devastating families’ holidays. Kids Christmas ruined.
Approaching Assad would be an about-face in the way the West is dealing with Syria
Germany, France and others appear to be backing away from the warmongering PNAC-Neocons that seek to exploit military supremacy.
“The End Of The U.S Empire Is Here”
“In this video Luke Rudkowski breaks down key geo political world moves that will eliminate the U.S from being the global world power that it is.”
End Quote.
Warhawks’ Propaganda: U.S. Officially in “Proxy War” with Russia, Putin Is the New Hitler
Propaganda hyping military conflict against Russia and demonizing President Putin.
Retired General Jack Keane is a paid lobbyist for war and board member for General Dynamics.
He also is associated with Frederick Kagan, and the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) the notorious NEOCONS that are connected to 9/11 “a Pearl Harbor Like Event” to justify America waging war…
If you believe the highly scripted propaganda news networks — and conveniently ignore the recent history of U.S. imperialism in the middle east — then Putin is now the greatest aggressor since Hitler.
General Jack Keane, a former U.S. Four Star Army General, a board member of military contractor General Dynamics, and a neocon warhawk, gave testimony that Russia has officially started a proxy war with America, and he calls for action to shutdown Russian forces in Syria before Putin can instigate a world war the way that Hitler did.
In reality, WWIII is and always has been part of the narrative. After toppling or destroying nation after nation in the middle east region, the U.S. bid for a “New American Century” of superpower dominance, must meet Russia in an Endgame.
This delusional thinking, and its variant strategies, have been responsible for dragging American soldiers into endless wars in theaters across the globe… all while undermining the Constitutional powers for war, and supplanting national sovereignty in favor of world government management.
Disgusting and sick! Let’s hope their attempt to spark a full blown war — with this “proxy war” as a catalyst — is stopped short.
Truthstream Can Be Found Here:
Website: http://TruthstreamMedia.com
FB: http://Facebook.com/TruthstreamMedia
Twitter: @TruthstreamNews
Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/bbxcWX
You’re right. Everything is manipulated. Obama’s defense budget is said to be the largest since the Second World War; The USA is the largest debtor nation in the world – and still we are all obliged to trade using the US dollar, and the Armchair leftists in the US still think Obama is the man!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I’ll reply on your blog-post.
The Turkish narrative is missing from mass media, as we get slanted news about Kurdish tensions and rigged elections…
But “Follow The Money” is very important, and the World Bank & IMF annual meeting began yesterday; and more G-20 meetings are scheduled in Turkey. (News report Protests in Lima Peru as the World Bank & IMF meet. Apparently the People want the WB & IMF Out of their country…)
We need to know the truth.
Erosion of The Washington Consensus?
Will Turkey take the hint and leave NATO?
The woes that are falling on Germany may be artificial or covert…
The video below may hint at what is hidden, if discernment can read between the lines:
Title: “EU turn: ‘European policies must not be dictated by Washington’ ”
If Armed Conflict Isn’t Halted In Syria?
I have pointed out many times that WWIII had begun sometime after the 2008 crisis, with currency, trade, Iraq-Libya-Syria-Ukraine Wars.
Furthermore, I pointed to the effect, that if WWIII was allowed to escalate that eventually the world super powers would eventually, no longer limit the war to economics and proxies, but it would spillover to direct military engagement between China, Russia, and U.S.NATO.
We need to halt armed hostilities. (Many people can not grasp the concept that world wars begin prior to the media announcements.)
The geopolitical earthquakes keep rolling in, I am guessing that the central banks have agreed to fund the Russian Federation’s military campaign. I have not read this anywhere and as far as I know these details have not been discussed in the public.
I recall: “France: FM Fabius says Russia will be reimbursed for cancelled Mistral warship”. A few days ago the G-8 met again without Russia, and agreeing to continue with economic sanctions against Russia.
I guess I am breaking with a news exclusive discussion of what may be going on behind closed doors!
Think about this: Russia has economic difficulties, they are trade-sanctioned by the WEST’s banking powers.
Russia’s funds are too limited to face the combined WEST (U.S.NATO and the banks), unless they have been given the funding to go ahead with expensive international military operations in Syria. Russia gets to show off its mighty weapons and dispel any concerns that Russian military capabilities are inferior to the U.S.. Additionally this means that the Russian arms suppliers are capable of resupplying to maintain armaments to the required capacities should war escalate for prolonged and more intense campaigns. War planners can never leave such essentials to chance. The funds and war-products must be pre-planned prior to deployment.
This is more than a mere geopolitical embarrassment for the Washington Neocons! U.S. Military superiority is challenged. More bluntly stated, the banks have revealed they are capable of funding both sides.
The Washington Neocons need to be removed from office before they formally declare war on Russia or China!
The Washington consensus is revealed as ancient history, and the tide is rolling toward a new consensus. The U.S. Dollar is sure to show signs, in the months and years ahead, that its status has changed.
A lot remains to be revealed, but this is food for thought. As always Follow the Money. ~Ron
FRENCH GOVERNMENT ALIGNS WITH RUSSIA’S WAR AGAINST ISIS
October 11, 2015 paulcraigroberts.org
LOOKS LIKE THE IMMORAL DUMBSHITS IN WASHINGTON ARE LOSING CONTROL OF THEIR EMPIRE
This article originally appeared in German Economic News. Translated from the German by Werner Schrimpf.
The French will support Russia’s fight against terrorists in Syria. U.S. President Obama will be kept informed about developments.
Last Monday, French foreign minister Laurent Fabius took a surprising stance in favor of Russian air strikes in Syria. During an interview with French radio station Europe1 Fabius stated that these aerial attacks must be flown not just against ISIS but against all other groups which can be classified as terroristic. Russia’s news agency TASS also cited this interview.
The interesting aspect of this interview is the correction of a former announcement of French president Hollande on last Friday arguing Russia is just allowed to hit ISIS – and nobody else.
This is bad news for NATO. Since the launch of Russia’s air strikes NATO and U.S.-Neocons are keen to escalate the situation accusing the Russians of attacking other terrorist groups beyond IS. But this is exactly the task of the Russians, Fabius declared during his interview.
Fabius explained further that president Hollande shares of course the same view but had been in a hurry during his last interview and probably was not precise enough. It is very embarrassing for the U.S. and Turkey that Fabius explicitly defined Jabhat al-Nusra Front as potential target. Al Nusra Front– a Syrian Al-Qaida branch is financed and equipped by the U.S. and Turkey.
A permanent information exchange concerning the progress of the raids has been established. Israel is being informed as well and cooperates with the Russians on an informal basis.
The French air raids have been flown for a while now. Obviously there is no common idea within NATO concerning the future strategy in Syria. It is not clear whether there is coordination between Russia and France when flying the aerial attacks.
Gulf states and Turkey share other interests in the region and are opposing the Russians. Turkey is demanding financial support from the EU to cover the cost for running the refugee camps and additionally for some sort of standstill agreement with respect to Turkey’s own military activities in Syria and Northern Iraq.
Source URL http://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2015/10/05/gegen-die-nato-frankreich-unterstuetzt-russland-in-syrien/
Title: “NEWS AND VIEWS FROM THE NEFARIUM OCT 15 2015”
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How Obasanjo, Tinubu, Osoba destroyed Afenifere –Okurounmu
FormerPresident Olusegun Obasanjo and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka have been accused of being partly responsible for the series of crises currently plaguing the country. Making the assertion in an interview with SATURDAY SUN, leading Afenifere chieftain and former NADECO scribe, Senator Femi Okurounmu noted that the problem of insecurity and other challenges presently facing the country could have been averted if the duo have not contributed to the electoral victory of APC in 2015.
“Nigeria would have been saved the present agony we are going through if Obasanjo and Soyinka had not supported Buhari. But now that things are going awry ,they are now speaking out against their man, Buhari. Through their support for Buhari, Obasanjo and Soyinka are part of those that put Nigeria in the current mess we found ourselves”, he declared. He also spoke on other national issues. TUNDE THOMAS brings you the excerpts.
At 80, would you say that this is Nigeria of your dream and the nation envisaged by the founding fathers?
Nigeria of today is a total failure. This is not Nigeria envisaged by the nation’s founding fathers. Not only that, the Nigeria we have today is not Nigeria of my own dream, it is not Nigeria I dream of when I was returning to Nigeria from the United States of America, after I had attended Harvard University where I read Engineering, and later proceeded to have my Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT in 1967. The dreams of the nation’s founding fathers for Nigeria have not been realized.
Instead of Nigeria being a progressive nation that would have become a source of pride to the black race, we are retrogressing, and becoming more and more of an embarrassment to the black race, and the international community.
What do you think is responsible for this?
We got into this mess and sorry state as a result of military intervention dating back to the first coup in 1966, and the subsequent ones. As soon as the military took over, they introduced unitary system of government, which was a departure from the federal arrangement that was in place at independence.
At independence, Nigeria was a federal state, and federalism was working very well for us as each region was developing at its own pace and there was healthy competition for development and growth. Between 1960 and 1966, Western region for example was doing very well. It was doing better than countries like Singapore, Malaysia and some other developing nations then. Nigeria itself was moving forward, even though the regions were not moving at the same pace. Each region was developing at its own pace. But the Western region was at the forefront leading the regions.
But as soon as the military took over they abolished federalism, and introduced unitary system which created a big setback. Since power was now concentrated at the centre, the regions were no longer able to take any initiative of their own any longer.
Until we return to true practice of federalism, Nigeria can’t move forward. We got independence on the basis of federal constitution and until we return to that Nigeria can’t move forward. The military sabotaged the federal constitution and replaced it with unitary constitution, which is now giving the country a lot of problems. The military dragged Nigeria backward. In fact, military intervention in Nigeria is a big curse for Nigeria.
Through this military intervention, power has been put in the hands of a section of the country, and that section is the least capable to lead Nigeria successfully. This least capable section instead of moving Nigeria forward or taking Nigeria to greater heights is not only interested in holding on to power in perpetuity, but is also determined to dominate and lord it over other sections of the country.
As far as this section that is obsessed with power control is concerned, they always want members of their own ethnic group to be in power and also to dominate others at all times. They are determined to control others. They are determined to enslave other sections of the country.
Which section of the country are you referring to?
I’m referring to the North but most especially the Fulani. The Fulani controls the North. The Fulani have expansionist agenda. They want to control other people’s territories, and that’s why the Fulanisation agenda accusation made by former President Olusegun Obasanjo should not be glossed over or dismissed with a wave of the hand.
The present state of insecurity in the country has become worrisome, as it has assumed a frightening dimension, what do you say about this ugly development?
This insecurity is programmed by government itself. Government has a hand in it. All these things happening are part of the Fulanisation agenda. Some eminent Nigerians like General Theophillus Danjuma, and General Olusegun Obasanjo have told Nigerians what I’m saying here. These are eminent men who know the inner workings of the government and for them to come out and say that the federal government is involved or have hands in some of these things happening is quite revealing and should not be dismissed with a wave of the hand.
Fulani herdsmen are terrorists and they been so declared by the international community. And their agenda is to take over Nigeria and create a homeland for Fulani in Nigeria and their kith and kin in other countries. They see Nigeria as a country where people take all insults and hardly resist oppression by the feudal lords, and that’s why they are killing and maiming people all over the country and Buhari’s government has not arrested any of these killers.
You know they control the Immigration Department, and that’s why the Immigration has thrown open our borders for herdsmen from different countries to flock into Nigeria with their deadly weapons including AK 47 rifles which they are using to kill defenceless Nigerians.
What is the way out for Nigerians?
Nigerians should be ready to defend themselves, otherwise their lives are in danger. Any Nigerian who thinks that government will protect him from Fulani herdsmen is deceiving himself. Since these herdsmen have been killing thousands, has there been any arrest, has there been any prosecution of any herdsman?
Look at the way these suspected herdsmen killed the daughter of Afenifere leader, Papa Fasoranti, Funke Olakunrin. These herdsmen want to set Nigeria on fire. A time will come when Nigerians will be pushed to the wall in order to defend themselves.
Even look at the Southwest governors, have you seen any of them condemning these herdsmen? They no longer have the courage again to speak because they don’t want to offend Buhari. They have to show that they are loyal to Buhari, and because they don’t want to offend Buhari their leader, they have now become betrayers of their own people.
But the question is this, are these Southwest governors supposed to be loyal to Buhari or are they supposed to be loyal to their own people who voted them into office? Unfortunately, these governors decided to be loyal to Buhari thereby betraying the people of the Southwest.
What is your view on Professor Wole Soyinka’s recent declaration that Nigeria’s problems have overwhelmed Buhari, and that a national conference should be organized to chart a way forward?
Soyinka is a hypocrite. He was one of the staunch supporters of Buhari. He was short of declaring Buhari a saint immediately after Buhari took over in 2015. Thank God his two eyes are now clear. May be he didn’t shine his eyes very well before eulogizing Buhari and openly supporting him. It is good that Soyinka and former President Obasanjo are now realizing their mistakes for supporting APC to get power.
Soyinka and Obasanjo helped Buhari to get into office by supporting him, but it is good that Buhari is showing his true colour now. He is a creation of both Obasanjo and Soyinka. I agree with Soyinka that Buhari has been overwhelmed by Nigeria’s problems. He has nothing to offer again.
What is your reaction to the recent letter written by former President Obasanjo warning President Buhari about the danger of the present state of insecurity degenerating further?
Obasanjo himself, is he not part of Nigeria’s problems? Was he not Buhari’s chief promoter before things fell apart between them? Then, when Obasanjo was in power for eight years, and he was advised on some of the things to do to move Nigeria forward, did he listen to anybody? Is he now just waking up to realize that Nigeria is drifting towards anarchy under Buhari? As the saying goes, you reap what you sow, Obasanjo sowed Buhari, and he is only reaping what he had sowed. The only unfortunate thing is that it is Nigerians that are being made to suffer through the action of people like Obasanjo, Soyinka and others who supported Buhari to get power.
Then to show you that Soyinka and Obasanjo are not sincere, why are they calling for convocation of national conference again.
What about the 2014 national confab reports and recommendations that Buhari has decided to dump? That conference had representatives from different parts of Nigeria in attendance and there was no dissenting voice to its recommendations by any of the attendants. Why should Buhari dump that confab reports and recommendations? Like I said earlier Buhari is virulently opposed to restructuring of Nigeria and restructuring was one of the key recommendations made by that 2014 confab, and that’s why Buhari dumped that confab’s recommendation.
What Nigerians should realize is this, there is no alternative to restructuring and the further we delay it, the more the crises plaguing Nigeria will continue, and the more we are postponing the evil day. We don’t pray to have a situation like what happened in Rwanda and Somalia here in Nigeria but unfortunately with what is happening now, we may have another Somalia or Rwanda situation on our hands. We should do the needful now to avert the looming crisis.
On the issue of polarization of Afenifere, talking about the split has become a source of concern to some Yoruba. As a former Secretary-General of the group, what is responsible for the crisis?
The split started as soon as the then Alliance for Democracy (AD), which was part of Afenifere then won the gubernatorial elections in the Southwest. That time I was elected as a senator on the platform of AD. The crisis in Afenifere was triggered by the over-ambition of Lagos State governor then, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Before then, he was always portraying himself as a NADECO warrior and a pro-democracy activist based abroad. But Tinubu in real sense of it was none of these.
Information available to those of us running NADECO in Nigeria was that Tinubu contrary to what he claimed to be was actually running his own business abroad that time. But some members of NADECO at home in Nigeria thought Tinubu was a NADECO stalwart.
When Gen. Sani Abacha’s regime collapsed and he returned to Nigeria, and Afenifere then had to choose who was to be governor of Lagos State, there was a preference for him over late Funso Williams who was then Tinubu’s arch-rival for the governorship ticket of Lagos State.
Many members preferred Tinubu over Williams because Williams was a civil servant working with Lagos State government, so many labeled him a pro-Abacha element. Initially, Afenifere leaders decided that the governorship tickets of Lagos and other states in the Southwest were to be given to candidates based on their competence and loyalty to Afenifere.
But some people later started demanding that we should have primaries to pick candidates, that is, Afenifere leaders should hold elections to decide candidates to be picked.
Some of those who were at the front of these agitations include Segun Osoba, former governor of Ogun State, and some of these agitators including Osoba took active part in Abacha’s transition programme. Osoba was in Democratic Party of Nigeria, DPN, one of the five political parties that adopted Abacha to transmute himself to life president of Nigeria before Abacha suddenly died.
I’m setting this record straight because I read how Osoba was distorting the origin of Afenifere crisis in SATURDAY SUNnewspaper, and how he was blaming Afenifere leaders and elders. Osoba was not an original Afenifere member. He was not initially part of the NADECO struggle. After June 12 annulment by the military and sack of the Interim National Government, ING headed by Ernest Shonekan when everybody thought that Abacha would hand over to Abiola, Osoba identified with the June 12 struggle. He was even arrested for a while.
But as soon as Abacha bared his fangs, and everybody realized that pro-June 12 elements were for a long struggle, Osoba and others ran away, abandoning NADECO. By then, we had decided and taken the decision that no NADECO and Afenifere member would take part in Abacha’s transition programme.
Osoba was one of those who disobeyed Afenifere leaders. He went and participated in Abacha’s transition programme and became a member of DPN. It was not until Abacha died that Osoba returned with his supporters to re-join Afenifere.
All what I’m saying are facts that can be verified, and this is what I expect journalists to do. Journalists should do more of investigative journalism, if they do, they won’t be taking what Osoba has been telling them hook, line and sinker.
At the time Osoba wanted to come back and rejoin Afenifere, I was then the Ogun State Chairman of Afenifere, and we resisted him. We didn’t want to have him back because he took part in Abacha’s transition programme. We even wrote a letter to the then Afenifere leader, late Pa Abraham Adesanya expressing our resolve not to take Osoba back.
You were talking about the factors responsible for the split in Afenifere …
Cuts in … I know. But I have to veer off to talk about Osoba because of his claims in the papers which were not true, and like I was saying earlier, Afenifere later organized primaries between Tinubu and Funso Williams to pick governorship candidate for Lagos State, and the result could have gone either way, but because of the bias we had against Funso Williams, the ticket was given to Tinubu.
But as soon as Tinubu became governor, he began to scheme on how to subvert the Afenifere leadership. Tinubu began to plot how to subvert the leadership of Abraham Adesanya as Afenifere leader. In doing this, he took advantage of the crisis that broke out following the primaries conducted by Afenifere leaders to pick AD presidential candidate between Chief Olu Falae and late Chief Bola Ige. Tinubu latched on to the apparent dissatisfaction of Ige with the Afenifere leadership following his shocking loss to Falae who was eventually picked as the AD presidential candidate during the primary conducted by the Afenifere leaders at D Rovers Hotel, Ibadan to pick AD presidential flagbearer.
For that primary, Afenifere set up an electoral college consisting of 23 respectable elders. This electoral college was to elect AD presidential candidate between Falae and Ige. The contest was even thrown open, but only Ige and Falae applied. Only two of them showed interest.
Now in choosing this electoral college, Bola Ige participated. Bola Ige then was deputy leader of Afenifere, he was deputy to Abraham Adesanya. In fact when the 23 members of the electoral college were to be selected, somebody suggested that Bola Ige should not be part of the team that will select members of the electoral college since he himself was a contestant but he protested, and his objection was upheld, thus he was part of the team that picked 23 members of the electoral college. So together with Ige we then recommended who should be members of this college.
Now let me tell you how these 23 people were picked. First of all, by that time the six AD governors in the Southwest have been elected so the six governors were members of the electoral college, then the state chairmen in those six states were also members, and then AD state chairmen in Kogi and Kwara were also added.
Then we had nine elders that were selected across Yoruba land. Thus making a total 23 members of the electoral college. The nine elders include the late Chief Solanke Onasanya, late Senator Jonathan Odebiyi, late Archdeacon Alayande, late Justice Adewale Thompson, late Dr Aina from Ekiti State, Senator Ayo Fasanmi, and Senator Mojisoluwa Akinfenwa.
From this list of members of the electoral college, one can see that most of them were Bola Ige’s loyalists, more than half of the members of the electoral college were Ige’s loyalists. Unfortunately some of these Afenifere leaders including Abraham Adesanya, Ayo Adebanjo and Pa Fasoranti that have been accused of not wanting Bola Ige to be AD presidential candidate were not members of the electoral college.
On that day we voted and Chief Olu Falae won. But as soon as Falae won, Bola Ige was upset. He was all in rage. He was furious, so Tinubu capitalized on this because Bola Ige believed that it was Afenifere leaders that didn’t want him. But this was not true. So what Osoba was saying in those recent interviews he granted were tissues of lies. Osoba is an opportunist. He lied. I challenge him to a public debate on this issue and other contemporary ones. Let him come out, I challenge him to an open debate. Apart from my challenge to Osoba, I have chronicled all these happenings including the Afenifere crisis , June 12 struggle, and NADECO activities in my biography which I recently launched in Lagos. Members of the public, students of history and political science should go and read my book and they will read about the ignoble roles played by both Tinubu and Osoba in the June 12 imbroglio, NADECO and Afenifere crisis. Not only that, both Tinubu and Osoba fraternised with General Sani Abacha.
You were still talking about Bola Ige and the outcome of the primary organized by Afenifere at Ibadan …
Cuts in … As I was saying earlier, Tinubu capitalized on Bola Ige’s discontentment with the result of the primary that led to Falae’s emergence as AD leader by trying to further drive the wedge between Bola Ige and Afenifere leader, Abraham Adesanya and others.
Tinubu started instigating AD governors to stop attending Afenifere meetings called by the late Abraham Adesanya. It was only late Chief Adebayo Adefarati who was then the governor of Ondo State that Tinubu couldn’t buy over. Adefarati was more sensible as he refused to join other AD governors that Tinubu has told to stop attending Afenifere meetings. Tinubu openly encouraged other AD governors to rebel against Adesanya’s leadership.
There was a time when we were to organize convention to pick AD chairman, in the year 2000. In order to really sabotage Adesanya, Tinubu and others decided to pick another person as AD chairman contrary to Adesanya and other Afenifere leaders choice. They decided to make Alhaji Abdulkadir as substantive AD chairman.
But the thing about Abdulkadir’s choice by Tinubu and others in his group was that they picked Abdulkadir to spite Adesanya and other Afenifere leaders. Abdulkadir was not an AD member. He has never been a member of AD for one day.
Abdulkadir was handed over to Bola Ige by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to destabilize AD. It was around this period that Bola Ige decided to go and join Obasanjo’s cabinet as a Minister without consulting or informing Afenifere, whereas Afenifere as a body had collectively agreed that whosoever or any member of Afenifere that wants to go and work with Obasanjo should inform Afenifere as a group so that we can all agree that the person was representing Afenifere and not that Obasanjo had poached the person. It was apparent Bola Ige was taking up Obasanjo’s offer as a Minister to spite Afenifere, and to spite Afenifere the more Ige accepted Abdulkadir who was handed over to him by Obasanjo to be AD substantive chairman. Not only that, Ige also sold Abdulkadir to the rebellious AD governors who accepted him knowing fully well that Abdulkadir was not an AD member. So this was how Ige, Tinubu, and other rebellious AD governors including Osoba, Ogun; late Lam Adesina, Oyo; Niyi Adebayo, Ekiti and Bisi Akande, Osun accepted Abdulkadir as AD chairman against the wish of Adesanya and other Afenifere leaders. This was how Afenifere split, and the gulf has continued to widen since then. You can see that Osoba lied. I challenge him again to a public debate on this issue. He was trying to distort history but he has failed. He and Tinubu destroyed Afenifere. They are the major precipitators of the crisis rocking Afenifere. Not only that, several efforts that have been made to resolve the crisis have been frustrated by Tinubu and Osoba. Even the late Mama HID Awolowo made an effort during her lifetime to reconcile the two factions, but Osoba and Tinubu made it impossible.
Even during his lifetime, late Justice Kayode Eso also made efforts to reconcile the factions, but Tinubu and Osoba sabotaged his efforts because of their personal ambition. Bishop Bolanle Gbonigi also made efforts but these two and their collaborators frustrated his efforts. Tinubu and Osoba are betrayers of Yoruba people. This is why you see them working with Buhari and romancing him despite the fact that herdsmen are kidnapping and killing Yoruba people.
Have you seen Osoba and Tinubu speaking out against the killing and kidnapping of Yoruba by herdsmen? When Chief Olu Falae was kidnapped by herdsmen on his farm, did you see Tinubu and Osoba condemn the herdsmen? Tinubu and Osoba have lost their voice. They can’t speak out against the herdsmen attacks and killings of Yoruba people because they are wining and dining with Buhari. But what a shame. Tinubu, Osoba, Bisi Akande, Niyi Adebayo, Olabiyi Durojaye and the current Southwest APC governors are sell-outs. They have betrayed Yoruba people. But they should not forget that posterity and history will record what they are doing today.
As for Senator Ayo Fasanmi who is parading himself as Afenifere leader while working for Tinubu, one can forgive him because he is an old man. That is the way I can explain his recent behavior. Fasanmi is behaving quite unlike him, very much unlike him when compared with his younger days. At 94,may be Fasanmmi can no longer think straight again because of his old age. Tinubu and Bisi Akande are just using Fasanmi. Fasanmi can’t think clearly again. It is a shame that Fasanmi has become a yes-boy or boy-boy for Tinubu.
But I’m not surprised by what Tinubu, Osoba, Fasanmi, Olabiyi Durojaye and Bisi Akande are doing today. Even during Papa late Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s lifetime, he was also betrayed by some Yoruba people. But surely Tinubu and others betraying Yoruba people today will reap what they are sowing.
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Information about direct flights, railway, bus and ferry... By plane Riga has a range of direct flights with European cities: London, Manchester, Liverpool in the Great Britain, Paris and Nice in France, Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Dusseldorf in Germany, Amsterdam in the Netherlands, Barcelona in Spain, Rome in Italy, Istanbul in Turkey, Tel Aviv in Israel and more others. You can use different airlines to fly to Riga. airBaltic is the Latvian national airline that flies to Riga from more than 25 international cities. Other airlines flying to Riga: Aeroflot Czech Airlines Finnair LOT Lufthansa Norwegian Ryanair Riga International Airport is the biggest in the Baltic States. It offers flights to 78 destinations in the entire world. Schedule and map of flights is available here: www.riga-airport.com By Rail The central train station is located in the very center of the city. Direct trains link Riga with St. Petersburg, Moscow and Minsk. See more detailed information about local and international train timetables www.ldz.lv By bus Riga has good developed bus traffic to many cities in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Great Britain, France and etc. Companies that provide passenger traffic services to Riga: www.luxexpress.eu www.hansabuss.ee www.nordeka.lv www.ecolines.net By ferry Every day a passenger ferry drives direct from Stockholm to Riga. The trip lasts approximately 15 hours. More information about daily ferry traffic between Stockholm and Riga can be found here: www.tallinksilja.com
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Riga has a range of direct flights with European cities: London, Manchester, Liverpool in the Great Britain, Paris and Nice in France, Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Dusseldorf in Germany, Amsterdam in the Netherlands, Barcelona in Spain, Rome in Italy, Istanbul in Turkey, Tel Aviv in Israel and more others. You can use different airlines to fly to Riga. airBaltic is the Latvian national airline that flies to Riga from more than 25 international cities.
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Riga International Airport is the biggest in the Baltic States. It offers flights to 78 destinations in the entire world. Schedule and map of flights is available here: www.riga-airport.com
The central train station is located in the very center of the city. Direct trains link Riga with St. Petersburg, Moscow and Minsk. See more detailed information about local and international train timetables www.ldz.lv
Riga has good developed bus traffic to many cities in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Great Britain, France and etc.
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Understanding Why 'The Squad' Screams 'Racism'
# Opinion # Conservative # social-media # racism # media # liberal-media # aoc
Star Parker
Unfortunately, the U.S. House of Representatives is starting to look more and more like America's universities.
Freshmen show up not to learn but to teach. They think they already know it all and see their personal mission is to set straight the faculty, the university administrators and the world.
So we see it with "The Squad," the now-famous far-left freshmen four in the House — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley — who believe they have been elected to a first term in Congress to reinvent what they think is a failed America and set straight the leadership of their party and the nation.
Fortunately, most Americans do not share this highly vocal four's negativism about America. In a new Gallup poll, 70 percent agreed with the statement "If you work hard and play by the rules, you will be able to achieve the American dream in your lifetime." Even a significant majority — 61 percent — of households earning less than $40,000 agreed.
It goes without saying that immigration is a high-priority issue on the national agenda because millions from around the world want to come here. There is no more sought-out destination than the USA, and the reason is that no nation in the world offers more opportunity.
So why is this dubious group of naysayers commanding such attention?
The first rule on the list of Rules for Radicals, authored by famed left-wing community organizer Saul Alinsky, is "Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have."
Our age of technology and social media adds immeasurable power to Alinsky's advice to gain attention way beyond the support you actually have.
Another Alinsky rule, "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon," provides the ammunition.
These four young freshmen Democrats have no interest in a public discourse of deliberation where we soberly seek what is true and what really works. Their only interest is selling their dogma.
So, following the advice of Alinsky, they get attention not by developing quality ideas for public policy reform and engaging in thoughtful discourse about these ideas but through sensational hype of dogma and character assassination of those who disagree.
As a result, the discussion is not about the merits of the socialism they are selling, about their big-government answers to health, housing, education and lifting up the poor, but about answering their charges that anyone who does not agree with them is a racist.
Attacking the messenger, rather than discussing the message, is a well-established tactic of those whose aspiration is political power rather than seeking truth.
Demagoguery is an age-old threat to freedom and the democratic process. There will always be those who long for power and will try to get it with heat rather than light.
There is only one weapon I am aware of to fight this. And that is doing the hard work to inform people and get the truth to them.
The opposition to socialism, support for freedom, is not about being racist.
It's about believing in human potential, the uniqueness of every single person, and that no system serves human potential better than freedom.
This is not dogma. There's tons of research and data that supports this conclusion.
And it is this that has made and makes the USA so great.
The task is particularly formidable among our youth, where so many have abandoned traditional faith, and among our poor, where the harshness of life increases susceptibility to political demagoguery.
It is no contradiction to say our country and its tradition of freedom is what makes us great but to also be open and honest about how we have problems.
Most of these problems — fiscal problems and social problems — are manifest in areas where we have departed from our tradition of freedom and allowed big-government answers into our lives.
Don't agree? This is the discussion we will have in 2020.
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August 28, 2014 Alexandros Morelas
Chip with Brain-inspired Non-Von Neumann Architecture has 1M Neurons, 256M Synapses
San Jose, CA — Scientists from IBM have unveiled the first neurosynaptic computer chip to achieve an unprecedented scale of one million programmable neurons, 256 million programmable synapses and 46 billion synaptic operations per second per watt. At 5.4 billion transistors, this fully functional and production-scale chip is currently one of the largest CMOS chips ever built, yet, while running at biological real time, it consumes a minuscule 70mW — orders of magnitude less power than a modern microprocessor. A neurosynaptic supercomputer the size of a postage stamp that runs on the energy equivalent of a hearing-aid battery, this technology could transform science, technology, business, government and society by enabling vision, audition and multi-sensory applications.
The breakthrough, published in Science in collaboration with Cornell Tech, is a significant step toward bringing cognitive computers to society.
There is a huge disparity between the human brain’s cognitive capability and ultra-low power consumption when compared to today’s computers. To bridge the divide, IBM scientists created something that didn’t previously exist — an entirely new neuroscience-inspired scalable and efficient computer architecture that breaks path with the prevailing von Neumann architecture used almost universally since 1946.
This second-generation chip is the culmination of almost a decade of research and development, including the initial single core hardware prototype in 2011 and software ecosystem with a new programming language and chip simulator in 2013.
The new cognitive chip architecture has an on-chip two-dimensional mesh network of 4096 digital, distributed neurosynaptic cores, where each core module integrates memory, computation and communication, and operates in an event-driven, parallel and fault-tolerant fashion. To enable system scaling beyond single-chip boundaries, adjacent chips, when tiled, can seamlessly connect to each other — building a foundation for future neurosynaptic supercomputers. To demonstrate scalability, IBM also revealed a 16-chip system with sixteen million programmable neurons and four billion programmable synapses.
“IBM has broken new ground in the field of brain-inspired computers, in terms of a radically new architecture, unprecedented scale, unparalleled power/area/speed efficiency, boundless scalability, and innovative design techniques. We foresee new generations of information technology systems — that complement today’s von Neumann machines — powered by an evolving ecosystem of systems, software and services,” said Dr. Dharmendra S. Modha, IBM Fellow and IBM Chief Scientist, Brain-Inspired Computing, IBM Research. “These brain-inspired chips could transform mobility, via sensory and intelligent applications that can fit in the palm of your hand but without the need for Wi-Fi. This achievement underscores IBM’s leadership role at pivotal transformational moments in the history of computing via long-term investment in organic innovation.”
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has funded the project since 2008 with approximately $53M via Phase 0, Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3 of the Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics (SyNAPSE) program. Current collaborators include Cornell Tech and iniLabs.
Building the Chip
The chip was fabricated using Samsung’s 28nm process technology that has a dense on-chip memory and low-leakage transistors.
“It is an astonishing achievement to leverage a process traditionally used for commercially available, low-power mobile devices to deliver a chip that emulates the human brain by processing extreme amounts of sensory information with very little power,” said Shawn Han, vice president of Foundry Marketing, Samsung Electronics. “This is a huge architectural breakthrough that is essential as the industry moves toward the next-generation cloud and big-data processing. It’s a pleasure to be part of technical progress for next-generation through Samsung’s 28nm technology.”
The event-driven circuit elements of the chip used the asynchronous design methodology developed at Cornell Tech and refined with IBM since 2008.
“After years of collaboration with IBM, we are now a step closer to building a computer similar to our brain,” said Professor Rajit Manohar, Cornell Tech.
The combination of cutting-edge process technology, hybrid asynchronous-synchronous design methodology, and new architecture has led to a power density of 20mW/cm2 which is nearly four orders of magnitude less than today’s microprocessors.
Advancing the SyNAPSE Ecosystem
The new chip is a component of a complete end-to-end vertically integrated ecosystem spanning a chip simulator, neuroscience data, supercomputing, neuron specification, programming paradigm, algorithms and applications, and prototype design models. The ecosystem supports all aspects of the programming cycle from design through development, debugging, and deployment.
To bring forth this fundamentally different technological capability to society, IBM has designed a novel teaching curriculum for universities, customers, partners and IBM employees.
Applications and Vision
This ecosystem signals a shift in moving computation closer to the data, taking in vastly varied kinds of sensory data, analyzing and integrating real-time information in a context-dependent way, and dealing with the ambiguity found in complex, real-world environments.
Looking to the future, IBM is working on integrating multi-sensory neurosynaptic processing into mobile devices constrained by power, volume and speed; integrating novel event-driven sensors with the chip; real-time multimedia cloud services accelerated by neurosynaptic systems; and neurosynaptic supercomputers by tiling multiple chips on a board, creating systems that would eventually scale to one hundred trillion synapses and beyond.
Building on previously demonstrated neurosynaptic cores with on-chip, online learning, IBM envisions building learning systems that adapt in real world settings. While today’s hardware is fabricated using a modern CMOS process, the underlying architecture is poised to exploit advances in future memory, 3-D integration, logic, and sensor technologies to deliver even lower power, denser package, and faster speed.
http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news/2014/08/chip-brain-inspired-non-von-neumann-architecture-has-1m-neurons-256m-synapses
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I was a Voice Actor for a Day: Here’s What I Learned
by Scintilla Studio | Nov 2, 2017 | Blog, Step 4, Storytelling | 0 comments
Image courtesy of Stalwart Theatre
“The Blueberry is pretty sensitive,” the audio engineer told me, adjusting the height of the little black microphone. “Keep it at about your chin so we can avoid harsh plosives.” Bare bulbs and wood paneling surrounded me, and my own voice was crisp through my headphones. My friends over at Stalwart Theater had asked me to reprise my role as Arthur Seward in their production of “Dracula,” but this time instead of a staged reading we were making a podcast. For that Saturday, the little kid making funny voices and watching too much BBC had won – I was a voice actor.
Voice actors have what seems like the perfect job – watch cartoons, play video games, make funny voices and never sit in a makeup chair if they don’t have to. And while in the ‘90s they were all but unnoticed, professionals like Kevin Conroy, Tara Strong, Rob Paulsen and Jennifer Hale now enjoy Hollywood prestige, drawing huge crowds at conventions and enjoying some of Twitch‘s most notable success.
The Stalwart Theatre family recorded Dracula over a full workday, 8:00 to 5:00 with a short break for pizza in between. That about counts as a mile in their shoes. So for what my answer to the question is worth, here’s what I learned about how to be a voice actor.
Be an actor first and a voice second. Portraying Seward meant doing the same character study, dialect research, and rehearsal I did for the stage show. There’s an art to changing your voice, sure, but it’s far more important for voice actors to do what all actors must: give genuine, relatable, creative performances that connect with the audience.
Voice actor Liam O’Brien made this point brilliantly in his episode of Geek and Sundry’s Signal Boost, citing Kenneth Branagh’s “Henry V” as his inspiration. “Every Elven king, lowly footsoldier, and demon voice I do today is inspired by the mastery of language exhibited here,” says O’Brien.
Don’t be afraid to look stupid. You’re not just talking to yourself in a little glass room – you’re taking fake punches, grunting, sweating and breaking down in tears with no more prompting than a voice in your head. Our Van Helsing spent a lot of time shouting instructions and life-or-death advice; when it didn’t ring true, we reminded him he shouldn’t pretend to yell – he needed to really rattle the windows. Always remember that rule #1 is “commit to the bit.”
Actor David Tennant said it very well in his speech to the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s 2016 graduating class: “This is not a job for the sane . . . remember it’s all nonsense.” (Watch the full speech here, starting around 27:13)
This is work, and you should treat it as such. Make no mistake here. I experienced the exhaustion of staying on my feet for hours at a stretch, wearing out my voice, and summoning raw, intense emotion over and over again without the benefit of an audience’s energy. Like any job, there’s no sympathy for doing it halfway or turning in a weak performance.
Elizabeth Gilbert, best-selling author of “Eat, Pray, Love,” said in her book “Big Magic,” “Creative success depends on talent, luck, and discipline, and two of those are out of my control.”
Follow the work. I got a call for this production from having worked with the director before. The more productions you do the more connections you have, and the more likely you are to book the next one.
Of course it’s not a perfect formula. To quote Tennant again, “The distribution of spoils in the acting community seems so random, so often unconnected to ability or to merit.” But he goes on to say that if you want to be asked back, “Be on time, learn your lines, and be nice; everything else is forgivable.”
At the end of the day I was exhausted and yet fulfilled. The cast had made just a little piece of something we could all be proud of. And while I can’t say I’ve got the insider’s secret for how to be a voice actor, I did confirm the advice of some great success stories.
You can find “Dracula” this Halloween wherever you listen to podcasts. Subscribe at stalwarttheatre.org, or on iTunes at Stalwart Audio Drama.
If you like what you hear and want to support great audio fiction from this team, leave them a like and tell them the Spark Otter sent you.
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[DVD Review] Fuller House: The Complete Fourth Season; Now Available On DVD & Digital From Warner Bros
December 20, 2019 · by Kevin Lovell · in Reviews, TV, TV Reviews. ·
Fuller House: The Complete Fourth Season [DVD]
Cast: Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin, Andrea Barber
A Review By: Kevin Lovell
Disc Rating: 6.5/10
On the fourth season of Fuller House, the Tanners, Fullers and Gibblers are set for more fun adventures and life-changing moments. Steve and D.J. face relationship pressures while they try to recreate the magic they used to have when they were younger. Jackson learns how to drive, begins playing high school sports and attends the prom. Max runs for class president. Kimmy deals with pregnancy cravings and worries her relationship with Stephanie will change once she has Stephanie’s baby. Stephanie questions her ability to be a mom. Danny ponders if retirement was the right call, and Fernando gets a surprise visit from his mother. It’s an exciting season filled with laughs, surprises and good times that fans won’t want to miss!
Please Note: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided me with a free copy of the DVD I reviewed in this Post. The opinions I share are my own.
The fourth season of ‘Fuller House’ sees numerous changes in the air with D.J. and Steve having finally realized they want to be together and embarking upon a new relationship from scratch, yet simultaneously loaded with history. Meanwhile, their newfound realization has left repercussions, including D.J.’s ex and former vet partner Matt opening his own business nearby which launches a feud with D.J. and a fight for customers. At the same time, Stephanie finds herself trying to prepare for motherhood, while also getting a bit overly protective of Kimmy currently pregnant with her future child which leads to a closer bond between the pair forming amidst the disagreements. Meanwhile, the kids of the household tackle their own problems with love, school politics and more, as Danny remains at the house on an extended stay while struggling with career decisions. And that’s only part of the craziness and humorous fun that season four of ‘Fuller House’ has to offer.
The fourth season of ‘Fuller House’ comes with plenty of excitement, stress and crazy happenings occurring throughout the Tanner-Fuller-Gibbler household. With everything on the table this season from Holiday blues and uncertain young love, to a new baby on the way for Stephanie and Kimmy’s brother, with Kimmy as the surrogate of all people. Interestingly enough, the fourth season might also just be the funniest yet, the goofy fun and laughs seeming to come far more frequently than usual. But worry not as the show never leaves the heart and emotion behind in favor of the laughs, still managing to balance it all remarkably well and keep to the show’s familiar tone, even with some notable behind the scenes changeups occurring. As far as the technical aspects of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment’s 2-disc ‘Fuller House: The Complete Fourth Season’ DVD release are concerned, it collects all 13 episodes from the show’s fourth (and it now appears penultimate) season between two discs, and while unsurprisingly absent of any bonus content just as the other sets were, it serves up quite clean and capable widescreen video presentations and multichannel soundtracks on every episode that should surely satisfy those who found little to no complaints with the previous three season releases of ‘Fuller House’ on DVD and those individuals will likely also want to add season four to their collection whenever possible.
Overall, season four of ‘Fuller House’ delivers another funny, rewarding and just downright enjoyable collection of episodes at the Fuller household with plenty of new struggles, life lessons and rewarding moments to be had by all. The series continues to prove itself to be a funny, touching and thoroughly family friendly show, the likes of which we sadly don’t see enough of these days. Fans that have been collecting the DVD releases for each season and have been generally pleased with what they have to offer should be equally satisfied with Warner Bros. Home Entertainment’s 2-disc DVD release of ‘Fuller House: The Complete Fourth Season’ which provides solid overall video presentations accompanied by nice multichannel soundtracks for all thirteen episodes, in addition to matching artwork and side-slipcase packaging that’ll fit on your shelf perfectly with the show’s previous three DVD season sets.
The DVD release of ‘Fuller House: The Complete Fourth Season’ features a 16×9 friendly video presentation utilizing the show’s original 1.78:1 Aspect Ratio on all of the fourth season’s episodes. The video presentations look pretty great, and deliver quite admirably within the confines of the DVD format; offering generally sharp, smooth and brightly colored presentations with little lacking throughout and no notable faults to be uncovered along the way; even holding up smoothly during the more heavily populated and fast moving moments. Overall, these are solid standard definition video presentations that look quite great altogether and should more than satisfy those who were pleased with the show’s previous DVD sets and anyone still content with the DVD format in general.
The DVD release includes a 384 Kbps 5.1 channel Dolby Digital soundtrack on all 13 Season Four episodes. These multichannel soundtracks provide solid audio presentations on every episode that remain sharp, clean and smooth throughout. They don’t often get too aggressive with the surround elements, with bits of music and other minor tidbits occasionally occupying the back channels while keeping the majority of activity front and center as one would expect (by no means a fault of the soundtracks, merely the way the show is presented which often doesn’t leave much need or even rhyme or reason for excessive back-channel content) and never encountering any troubles throughout. Overall, these are great 5.1 Dolby Digital soundtracks that more than deliver in every way required of them and shouldn’t disappoint.
As was the case with the previous season releases on DVD, the DVD release of ‘Fuller House: The Complete Fourth Season’ doesn’t include any bonus content whatsoever.
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Rian Johnson’s New ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy Might Arrive as Early as 2020
It’s Friday. The news this week has been…not great, to say the least. So while this update from the wonderful world of Star Wars is not entirely official, it’s the sort of optimism we could all use at the end of yet another long week: Rian Johnson’s producing partner says we might just see the first installment in his new Star Wars trilogy by 2020. Maybe. Hard maybe.
Speaking with the Israeli site From the Grapevine (via /Film), producer Ram Bergman — who also worked on the highly uncontroversial and universally adored, ahem, The Last Jedi — offered a teensy update on Rian Johnson’s “completely new” Star Wars trilogy. Bergman reiterated that the new trilogy will also feature “all new characters,” which means no more Skywalker clan. To be honest, after nine films about this family, we’re excited to explore other corners of the vast galaxy far, far away.
When asked when the first film in the new trilogy will arrive, Bergman said:
I can’t tell you because we don’t know yet. Maybe in two years; it’s just in the early stages.
Last we heard, Johnson had yet to begin so much as writing the thing, so 2020 seems wildly optimistic. 2021 or 2022 (wow we’re really in the future now, huh) feels more correct, especially since Episode IX is scheduled for a December 2019 release. Again, this isn’t an official timetable, but sometimes it’s nice to dream, ya know?
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What We’ve Seen
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23 Apr 2019 Screen Zealots 2019 Film Reviews 241 comments
LOUISA:
We need to talk about Thor.
Let me back up for a second and explain. I love superhero movies. Marvel is by far my favorite cinematic universe. “Avengers: Infinity War” was on my Top 10 Best Films of the Year list. It pains me to say it, but “Avengers: Endgame” left me so disappointed in its (what I had hoped would be an exciting) conclusion. This sequel is a complete letdown.
From the beginning, everything about this movie feels “off” in terms of tone and attitude. There’s an inordinate amount of moping and glassy-eyed staring into the camera. It’s great that the filmmakers choose to focus more on the human connections between the group, but the emotional character development turns this into a thinking person’s “Avengers” that stresses brains over brawns.
Smart superhero movies are great, but I doubt this is the film’s target audience. Adult themes like remorse, heartbreak, crushing guilt, and making the tough decisions that can ruin your own family while saving others is something that may punch a 40 year old man in the gut but will leave his 8 year old slumped in his seat with his hands on his chin. I feel most of this movie will go over the heads of most kids. Hell, I’ll wager a bet that half the adults in the audience will be confused by the inconsistencies of the varied time travel explanations.
You heard me.
They’re the two most dreaded words in a blockbuster movie that’s written itself into a corner: time travel. Can’t figure out a solid ending? Go the cheap “let’s go back and rewrite history by transporting ourselves through the space / time continuum” route. The film plays with time in a way that is less fanboy fun and more lazy storytelling. It’s so similar to the “Star Trek” reboot and “Back to the Future” that it feels like a cop-out rather than a well thought out solution to the Thanos puzzle. Once again, fan theories that have peppered the internet in the last year prove to be more exciting and interesting than the actual movie.
“Endgame” is entertaining enough, but not what I would call enjoyable. The story is at its best when it jumps around in time and we see how each of the remaining heroes deal with life after the snap, grappling with their colossal failure to save half of the universe. It’s humanity like this that makes us all aware that even superheroes are fallible, and it’s darker territory for what normally would be a lively springtime blockbuster.
The snapped Avengers play very little role in the narrative and the remaining heroes aren’t robust nor charismatic enough to carry the movie (Hawkeye and Black Widow, I’m looking at you). There’s also zero sense of real danger, something that the film’s predecessor had going for it (but at least the menacing Thanos firmly clinches his throne as one of the very best screen villains in comic book movie history here). But what’s truly unforgivable is the decision to make an iconic character an absolute laughing stock and the butt of many jokes. His initial introduction in the film is mildly amusing, but increasingly feels more and more distasteful as it drags on.
Most of the new Marvel clichés make an unwelcome appearance, including the continuous, borderline offensive pandering to women that kicked off in a spectacularly over-the-top fashion in “Captain Marvel.” We get it, House of Mouse: women can be superheroes too! There’s no need to include disingenuous all-female shots of your complete roster of lady characters when they are fighting among men. It’s time to buck up, really show them as equals, and refrain from treating them as a separate movie still that’ll look good on a poster touting the studio’s diversity initiatives come awards season.
There are even more emotionally manipulative “hold for applause” (and “hold for tears”) moments accompanied by soaring music that are dripping with an obnoxious insincerity that quickly sours the whole experience.
It’s not all bad, however. Alan Silvestri’s score is beautiful, and there are some clever plot points that are sure to bring delight (I especially enjoyed the way Ant-Man is brought back into the story). While the majority of the comic relief goes for passive, obvious jokes, there are some unexpected cameos guaranteed to bring smiles to faces. Also enjoyable is how several previous “Avengers” movies are incorporated into the story, providing Easter eggs that will deliver diehard fans the appropriate closure as the arc comes full circle.
The brightest spot here is the cast, all giving performances from the heart. There’s not a dog in the bunch, and this is one of the very best acted MCU films to date. You can tell how important these roles are to the actors, so much so that they literally lend their personal signatures of approval to the closing credits.
Much has been said about the 3 hour plus run time and yes, this movie feels long. There’s too much story exposition at the start, which kicks everything off with a sentimental whimper rather than the bang many will be expecting. The film follows a conventional storytelling timeline, and the couple of obvious, direct rip-offs of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” did nothing but remind me of the far better movie. It’s as if J.J. Abrams set the new standard of what’s supposed to happen in a big budget studio movie, ensuring that any “surprises” no longer feel that way.
What doesn’t work outweighs the good, making “Endgame” and its anticlimactic ending a real bummer. While this film is disappointing, I need to be fair: it’s something I feel is a direct result of “Infinity War” and its outstanding setup being so great. But even when taken as a standalone film, this sequel proves to be a letdown.
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“There are even more “hold for applause” (and “hold for tears”) moments accompanied by soaring music that are dripping with an obnoxious insincerity that quickly sours the whole experience.”
Woman . . . you best not be talking about the scene where Cap wields Mjolnir.
Screen Zealots says:
Nah, mostly the end with the black suits.
I am happy to see I am not alone on this. Thank you for wording my issues with this movie.
Seriously, literally all the things I nagged about are written here
Thanks! Good to know others feel the same way. So bummed at how disappointing the movie is.
I haven’t seen the movie yet, but I felt the need to read the negative reviews because those are more honest these days. After seeing what happened to Alita and then in contrast saw Captain Marvel I’ve realized that the people who are paid to promote a movie can be quite biased. I also understand that it takes a lot of courage to go against the grain. Thank you very much for this review and I applaud your dedication to your fans. Thank you for being true to yourself and what you love.
Thank you so much for the kind comments, they mean the world to me.
librini says:
Time travel in this movie Is realistic, but It Is not realistic that captain America get old…
It is realistic that he got old. He didn’t come back through the time travel spot but decided to arrive in front of them over the view with the same spot and time that he originally went back in the 1970s. He lives out his life like a normal human being. BTW He’s not immortal…Not a fanboy, I just didn’t agree with half of that.
Good point, thanks for commenting.
That doesn’t make sense since they don’t actually time travel. He didn’t go back into their own timeline so he couldn’t just wait for this very moment. Anyway this could be a long discussion since dimension and time travel are bullshit and have no actual rules.
Naz (@_naz142) says:
Fair argument.
Great review! I enjoyed reading your breakdown of the movie. I will be seeing it anyway, but I was interested to hear negative reviews on it as well. I also feel it’s been super hyped and I’m a little nervous hearing that a lot of fan theories were better than the reality. Ah well. I kind of expected it. Thanks for your honest and helpful review! 🙂
Hi Catherine! I hope others enjoy it more than I did. See it soon so you’ll avoid spoilers.
Josué J. says:
Not to mention all the deus-ex-machina that goes on the whole time.
Steven Majewski says:
I fully agree with this review. I would give INFINITY WAR a solid B while I would give this one a D. The writing felt really, really lazy with the time travel and the first 15 minutes is two steps back from everything Infinity War set up. This felt like a bad episode of Dr Who. The survivors were incredibly dull (I enjoy Don Cheadle but this performance felt like a stop up to pick up a check, hell, probably a dozen actors here felt like they phoned their performances in)
The stones being destroyed, Thanos picking fruit (Not sure why I was the only one laughing), Thanos, the big baddie who killed half, being treated like a punk, time travel, time travel silliness, forced and cheap emotional moments (Stark’s near miss in the first 15 minutes only to get *another* one at the end thats hard to even care about), the Iron Man stone moving gauntlet (I was seriously the only one wondering wth was this, it was never mentioned or hinted at before)
The Cap hammer bit was cheap, and while I get it; he is worthy, it was pointless and pure fan service.
Adam Warlock doesn’t even show up, which is a waste of an Thanos / Infinity Stone / Cosmic storyline.
The five years later bit was silly, and had crowds confused.
Great comments, and I agree. I also laughed at the fruit picking scene, for what it’s worth. Thanks so much for taking the time to share your thoughts.
Alek says:
The movie feed you dozens of ‘wait, what just happened’ moments that are meant to give fans fun nostalgia feelings, when in fact it’s smoke and mirrors to cover up the hundreds of mile-deep plot holes that make no sense. Basically, any rules that this universe held true to in previous movies, and even this one, are completely thrown out the door . . . everyone can do everything, and also nothing . . . and just for funzies they add a girl-power me-too moment.
Yep, completely agree with your assessment, Alek.
GamingRock says:
Spoilers:
Thanos needed a whole movie to collect the stones however, they were able to collect them very easily. I felt that they went back only to revisit the old movies before saying goodbye. They could have made collecting the stones more challenging.
Great point, thanks for sharing.
You nailed it. Infinity War was so perfectly paced and made so much sense and now such a cheap and cheesy conclusion? I really hope this will be the exception and not the new Marvel standard. Up until now I loved all MCU movies. With Captain Marvel I started to have first little doubts, because she is soo powerful, and now this desaster. I tried to look up comic references. Cap at least hold the hammer for a short moment in Thor #390, but Thor was never fat like that. It is really unnecessary. The “being fat” joke in Infinity War makes sense, because Chris Pratt actually put on some weight, so they used that fact and tried a comedy angle. But with Thor? Chris Hemsworth is still in good shape and it serves absolutely no story purpose. It is just used for bad jokes. And time travel as you said is the worst option you can take to solve a problem. It is a shame, because they have proven that they can be so much better!
I am a bit anxious about the next phase. At least they got James Gunn back and hopefully we get another Taika Waititi…
Agree with everything you just said. Thanks for commenting!
LSilver says:
You were absolutely right. There was basically one action sequence and that was at the end. The remaining two and a half hours could be called ‘an actors’ film’ in that they get to do what they love best which is emote while looking anguished. And all the critics are saying that the climax is the biggest and most exciting superhero battle ever filmed but, while technically proficient, the sequence felt perfunctory and generic like a video game cut-scene. And the audience i saw it with was grumbling and getting restless like they couldn’t understand why there was all this talking and talking and talking and no action. And after the big fight, it felt like the movie just kept going on and was taking forever to end. Apparently it’s too much to ask for a superhero film to just be fun these days.
That was a big issue with me too: I love dramas as much as anyone, but this doesn’t feel like a fun superhero movie. And at the end of the day, that’s what most of us want. I had a feeling audience / fan reactions would differ from critical reactions. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
Me or someone else? I’d love for you to expound on this.
James Moss says:
My opinion of the movie 100% does not align with yours, but kudos to you for keeping comments open.
Thanks James! Would love to hear what you felt about the movie.
This site really cheered me up after the letdown of the movie yesterday.
On the bright side, as I crawled the internet for reviews that match my emotions, I found this site. That would definitely not have happened if Endgame had been a more worthy follow up to Infinity War 😉
I flipped through your TOP 10 lists and I got some new inspirations for future movies. THANKS! *non native english speaker*
Oh, thank you so much for the kind words. I know lots of fans are feeling the same disappointment I am.
I think some of the fan service was absolutely needed. Hammer Cap and Avengers Assemble. The most disappointing for me was the lack of battles. Infinity war had the feels in it but didn’t have to stop progression to do so. The most disappointing for me was the lack of a Hulk redemption.
Great comments! Thanks for sharing.
I’m ready for the fanboy hate.
Sexist.
Fanboy is used as a generic term, much like mankind. But yeah, I can add in fangirl as well. Thanks for the suggestion.
simonsez.junk@gmail.com says:
Fanboy is often a (somewhat hurtful) term used by non-fans who “just don’t get it”. I appreciate the fact that you alluded to confusion about many of the plot points and references, but many of the moments that you write off as unwanted exposition, nostalgia, and fan service, are the payoff to a decade-long investment that many fans were actually awaiting.
I agree that the movie is inferior to it’s predecessor, and probably doesn’t work as well as a stand-alone film, but that is obviously not the point for a culmination of 20+ interconnected endeavors. There was some over-the-top silliness, the action in the final act seemed a bit garbled and over-crowded, and some of the emotional moments felt quite obligatory and predictable (but never the less brought the feelings).
I know you said you are trying to foster fanboy (fangirl) hate. I’m not sure why picking fights has become a staple for reviewers, but disparaging actual fans is becoming an all too common practice in reviews recently. It is my hope that there is a way to highlight this trend “to bash other’s opinions” as extremely negative, and counter-productive, without escalating into the hate for which you claimed to have steeled yourself?
Endgame, IMHO, IS still a good movie! Is it perfect? Definitely not… it did a more-than-adequate job tying up a series of stories, that have been enjoyed by many people, tapping far into “mainstream” movie-goers, not just “fanboys”.
Thank you for this. As a fan myself, I never considered the term to be hurtful, so I apologize. In no way was my review meant to disparage fans because, again, I am one myself.
Rupert Russell says:
I like to read the ‘bad’ reviews first and in hindsight this critic is spot on, thank you!
I scanned through the comments yesterday, some interesting points, many from people who’ve not yet seen the film. I’d be curious to know what they think post viewing?
Huge fan of some of the MCU offerings, lot’s that did nothing for me. Loved ‘Assemble’, dismissed ‘Age of Ultron’, blown away by ‘Infinity War’. ‘End Game’ was poor in comparison. I raised an eyebrow 2-3 times, laughed a few more but never sat forward in anticipation of any single moment, didn’t shed tear and yawned a few times.
Lucky to have Game of Thrones to keep me distracted!
Thanks, Rupert!
Ok. No doubt You didnt like enjoy the movie, becouse You didn’t watch it. The time travel in this flick doesn’t rewrite history. And the Avengers explained that TWO times in the movie. That’s why they only brought back snapped victimes. the explained everything abaout the rules of time travel that happens in the movie. TWICE. How can you not catch it. Recommend you wa Another thing is how can You not enjoy all famale shots when You’re a woman by yourself? Maybe you’re aware of power and importance of the girls in hollywood, bou the 90 % of population not. That’s why there must be scenes like this! The same goes with Russo cemeo when he tells about his date.
I’m working on an article about all of the inconsistencies of the time travel aspect in the movie. There are many. The female “hold for applause” moment felt disingenuous and pandering, and I expect more — and fans should demand more — from studios.
chimbrouer says:
@Rupert Russell says: “Lucky to have Game of Thrones to keep me distracted!”
That was exactly my thought when I left the cinema: “Hopefully the climax at Winterfell on Sunday in episode 3 will redeem my faith and joy in fantasy films”. *Fingers crossed*
Regarding time travel:
As I understand, the underlying idea is: Every time I go back in time, I create a new timeline (=branch) which is different from the timeline I am coming from.
Now what the avengers did is: They created multiple new timelines and the interacted with these timelines. They stole the stones from these timelines. Is this responsible? Should they do this? What about the damage they do to these timelines. E.g. Loki freed himself in one of these timelines. How much damage may he do in that timeline. And the Avengers of our timeline are responsible for that damage! But they just don’t care. This is selfish behavior! Not “worthy” for an Avenger you may think… 😉
Another good point!
That’s why Cap went back in time to return the stones to the exact point they were taken. This way there would be no branching timelines. This was explained very clearly by the ancient one before she gave up the time stone to Banner Hulk. It was a selfless task carried out by cap, and at the end of it he made one more time jump as a reward to himself. The bit that does not make sense is how cap – having branched off a new timeline from the 1940’s/50’s managed to appear back in the previous timeline in 2023 having waiting in real time until then. But then again who knows how time travel would really work?
More very good points, and yeah, I caught the Cap explanation. But the time travel inconsistencies were enough to make my head spin! Thanks so much for commenting .
Also killing the whole army from Thanos is a questionable thing. These are also living beings. The avengers did something comparable to genocide or holocaust you may argue. It would have been enough to kill Thanos and move those other beeing back to their home planet. Even in WW2 they took prisoners and did not kill everybody from the opposition after winning a fight.
Even Thanos only killed 50% of his “enemies” not 100% .. 😉
I know this is a bit of nitpicking for a fun blockbuster movie. Forgive me.
What interesting points you bring up. I hadn’t thought of it this way, and thank you for sharing.
And what about the 5 years later scenario. 50% of the people vanished. Now we have about 7.5 billion people. 50% means about 3.75 billion people. That is the world population of 1971.
Do you really think there would be no baseball games any more? A deserted stadium? Why? Life would go on, that is what humans are about. Sure they all will grief the loss of relatives and friends, but life will go on 5 years later. So the I do not believe in this deserted baseball stadium world. That is a 5-10% people scenario, not a 50% scenario.
My husband said the same thing. The baseball scene really bothered him for the same reason.
Sorry, my mind can’t stop 😉
The scene when Black Widow and Hawkeye both want to give their life.
I can believe that Hawkeye is the most important being for Black Widow.
But is Black Widow really the most important being in the world for Hawkeye? What about his kids? Or his wife, the mother of their children? Are these not the most important people in Hawkeyes life? Maybe not. Or they do not count, because at that moment they are dead/suspended? Or Black Widow is really more important to Hawkeye than his daughter. But I doubt that.
In that scene I thought: It must be Hawkeye, because of the above reasoning.
I couldn’t stay out of the convo lol
Well at that moment HE didn’t had his family. All it was left was BW, part of the family in his book. Actually I kinda felt that will be BW cause there was no family legacy for her, not in a past nor in future. Plus once I heard there are rumors of BW standalone movie with past stories of hers – well kinda made sense. Not to mention HE would be Ronin for 1h 30m only if he was about to be sacrificed.
Not to defend movie, that scene actually did made sense for me, but here are some that where not. And let me assure you those aren’t “Fan service” ones that I will address, but the ones that rubbed me the wrong way in a sense that I felt mocked, or like I am blind follower that will swallow anything ( in a way insulting me as a fan and my intelligence).
Ok here we go. No order for this instance nor referencing time travel issues or so. Not even the obvious ones but the ones that I find important to me. The issue with returning stones to there timelines. Ok time stone will be given to Ancient one, others will be placed to suitcase and storage room etc. But how Cap managed to “return” Reality stone to Jane and, by far, something I was looking for to see: Soul stone! And to Red Scull! You know, Captains, in a way, reason for becoming what he is!? And how he actually managed to return it? Hypothetically, let’s say he managed to get to that reality moment before BW was counting meters of that cliff… how did he “give” back that stone? And how did he react seeing his archenemy? Hmmm…
Next is actually holding stones with out orb, urn, cube, well any kind of protective object. I clearly remember when Ego told SL in GotG vol2 that “once he heard about Teran that was able to hold IS in hand, he knew that was his son”, or something along that line. The stone killed the room service girl at Collectors place, almost Peter as well, until all Guardians shared power, strenght, whatever with him. And he is partially Celestial! He said so, well not in that exact words, but he said to Tony “that 50% that is bad, that’s 100% you ( lol )” in End Game ( if you don’t recall GotG 1 & 2 ). Yet, our heroes where able to hold stones, multiple times, in there bare hands during time travel part.
I am not even going to go to bringing Mjolnir to our reality, mostly cause I like that part ( lol! ) and as Chim said, because I can’t even imagine how that impacted that, past reality, however I have strong issue with battle scene with Mjolnir. That wasn’t the Cap scene, it was scene where Thanos was actually able to push Mjolnir towards Thor. Now, no one, except Vision was able to lift Mjolnir before, let alone stop it ( that Quicksilver scene from AoU ). Pushing also counts as Loki can confirm. So we can establish, that up to Past Mjolnir no one could control or cary Mjolnir nor push it well not by brutal FORCE! Now, all of the sudden Thanos is able to do so.. or is he valuable enough to do so? Which lead us to next… Thanos stamina… I mean this is something that entire theater had issue swallowing during movie. The fact that heroes had hard time with immobilizing him, even more then once he had gauntlet… it’s just wrong…
And then was Gamora… that just … vanish! Was she wipe out by IM? If so – why? She fought on avengers side. We where even given scene with her and Peter and … nothing after. Like really nothing. We don’t know what happened. Did she return to past? Stayed in present? Killed? Survived? What happened to her! She wasnt on ship with the rest of the team. And I mean, she was first real casualty of Thanos, the one that shifted tone of Infinity War and put another layer on Thanos to his character… she deserves more than simple randevu with Peter and to be extra in battle so the others Heroes exit be more plausible…
Thanos character was also no consistent comparing to Infinity but I had problem with Scarlet Witch the most! I know, I know, it sounds like I am nitpicking but honestly that really rubbed me the wrong way. The “you took everything away from me” was really powerful but kinda sounded like a lie knowing SW history. Everything was taken away from her in AoU ( she volunteered 4 experiments to avenge her killed family ), then she was taken freedom, credibility and half of the surrogate family during Civil war. Now with Vision, Thanos is guilty. I mean, he is, no doubt,but she switches priorities in every movie. Like, family that have her doesn’t matter. And that’s where my biggest concerns stand as well. The family… the part that was crucial to this movie, something that was emphasized so many times here… I mean really Cap? Not shield to Bucky? That’s the guy you cared so much! 2 movies actually! Beside Carter that was your next big person! And you just didn’t give anything to him, no explanation, nothing… Vacandanians did more for him then you at the end… and the 3-4 persons around Iron once he fall? Thor leaving his people? Dang… doing so much entire movie cause they own to others, for there family and in the end they are more disjointed then connected…
I don’t even wanna start about Pegasus…
Don’t get me wrong, I like epic moments, they are welcomed, but they are there just so they can be “given” and not because they are epic in true matter or because they are important for story or needed for narrative let alone logical or rational…
Someone might say I look too much in to this and completely exaggerated 2 or 3 points in this list or that list isn’t important to the story or that this is superhero movie ( what did I expect duh ). Well excuse me, but I expected to be treated as a fan and customer and with respect that doesn’t indulge me on some silly way or stamps on my intellect. For something that’s closing 11 years and 22 movies, my time, emotions and money invested in it – well I should be treated with more. More for connection that was present during previous movies at least. All my questions are not out of resentment but because I care. Because I swallowed, eat and breath all those movies that actually tried to explain something, that showed investment with story complicity, Easter eggs, surprises, details in every aspect! I referenced every movie before that addressed some issue that’s totally out of the window in End Game, things that where ether emphasize or magnificently portrayed or repeated in previous installments.
It just feel sloppy. It feels that it was made solely to be made because that was expected.
I like movie cause it’s legacy and closure however it’s more homage then fulfillment. Which true fan doesn’t need, cause they will worship everything but with respect so walk throw the memory lane wasn’t for fans, they know almost every scene in every movie. What they needed was epic, coherent, brilliant closure. And we got only closure.
Yes, thank gosh for GoT, cause that will keep me occupied from mourning a year of anticipation, my phone battery that screamed for every notification from trailer crackers on YT and movie news outlets, etc etc lol
I am glad I watch it, I would kick my behind if I haven’t, I am glad I spend this 11 years with this story I am just not pleased with overall impression of End Game that felt short, weak, unchanging and butchered…
Its and ok movie… but by my opinion not for ppl who look into the entire franchise with respect and seriousness…
Wow, thank you so much for taking the time to share this! I enjoyed reading it, and what great points you bring up.
Trunuyawkr says:
Regarding your “Where’s Gamora?” Question: as Thor is walking into Peter’s ship (just before the “who’s in charge” argument) we see Quill doing a search for Gamora on the computer, which he quickly shuts down once he hears everyone coming. So, to me that means she’s alive and still in the new timeline; yet the fact that the computer can not find her means she is somewhere beyond distant, possibly with Nebula learning to be sisters again.
I’m living my best one now, thanks!
Thanks for the review man. I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed many annoying flaws. Still sad I didn’t enjoy the film though.
Yep, I’m so sad too. I wanted to love it so badly.
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Yeah saw that too but the thing is I believe she deserve to have clear stand. She was a tool for Gamora storyline as well Infinity war. It just seem odd that one moment you see her next you don’t. Especially with that Peter encounter. I know it’s not pivotal for End game but wasn’t necessary to cut her like that after bringing her to reality and setting her up as important tool for narrative. I know there is “imagination” factor, but even dusted char had ending scene. She was left out with no appears to reason and yet she was very important as cause and tool especially to leave her to our imagination… that’s the empty thing I find disturbing. I remember the dust that was stirred when Lady Sif was no where to be seen, but one can say “she wasn’t very important to story telling, maybe just for main char feelings and traits exploration, a proxy” but Gamora certainly is more then that just to be “invisible” and “untraceable” after all…
For a very “clear” movie that’s a bit murky, probably not that important cause it will be explained in next installment but still a let down…
@ screen-zealots & Louisa
Likewise. It’s my opinion thou, felt need to share because, just like you, was ready to love it right from first second, yet it was a long story full of circumlocutions. Still ok but as someone said before almost entire time was like deus ex machina. Part of loving something or someone is also pointing what it didn’t work and was wrong to make it even better. I know this might be bias grounded by personal preferences and gravity towards importance but balance, consistency and coherency should be priority not privilege to fans.
Great observation, thanks for commenting
I dont think these movies can be judged as movies but parts of a very long very expensive tv season with 22 episodes. None of these films have any gravity without that personal investment . Christopher Nolan made s super hero trilogy of movies that stood out independently and required very little if any knowlege of what went before. I can only hope that now the mediocre season finale is finished that we get some stronger individual films next tume around
Absolutely took the words right out of my mouth.
Ondray says:
Hi, while your review doesn’t seem that negative, you only rated the movie 2/5. I would like to show my view on this.
Warning: My comment contains movie spoilers (and also bad english).
1) “Go the cheap “let’s go back and rewrite history by transporting ourselves through the space / time continuum” route.” Well thank god time travel doesn’t work like that here. They had to do it different way, because you can’t change the original future by affecting the past – you are visiting an alternate timeline by going to the past. The elements beyond this are the infinity stones and they have to be brought back to the same moment when they were taken. They don’t have to, but it’s selfish to doom the other timelines, isn’t it? All the past MCU movies led to quantum realm travelling (starting with Ant-man, that’s why he was introduced). Each movie plays a part in this big story and everything was explained before. Only Hulk added one line to this and even compared it to other movies, where it works differently than in their universe.
2) Thor
While I’m not a fan of this big superhero change, they HAD to do it. Why? Because at the end of Infinity War we all know what happened. Fully powered Thanos with all 6 infinity stones got very nearly killed by Thor who just threw his Stormbreaker at him. He only aimed at the wrong spot with his weapon. Thor obviously feels guilty for his mistake… the Avengers would have won. Instead half of the universe turned to dust. Not half of humanity or the Earth, but half of the whole UNIVERSE. Just because he wanted to let Thanos know that he’s about to get killed, but not delivering the final killing blow. There was no real danger on new Asgard or the Earth now, so Thor just goes with his new lifestyle (he always loved beer anyway). 5 years later he kind of moved on, but still froze and felt guilty when Hulk said the name Thanos. He doesn’t believe in himself anymore (he later has to check if he’s still worthy of Mjolnir), he gets fat, lazy. But he still feels anger towards Thanos and joins the fight anyway, but he is not in shape and form anymore to do much. If he was, he would have just killed Thanos easily, like he almost did in Infinity War. They couldn’t just make Thor disappear from the movie, they had to “nerf” him. 😀
3) The women power scene
Oh yes, very unnecessary, but I heard some cheering in my movie theatre. I guess someone liked it, but it felt very forced (characters landing out of nowhere, all suddenly at the same side of the battlefield, without any communication?). There is no “all men” scene, you know what I’m saying.
4) Movie length
I don’t think the movie was long at all. Actually I think so many important scenes were missing.
We didn’t see anything about the New Asgard, it just appeared, fully built. They skipped Captain Marvel’s arrival in the beginning (Cap Marvel post credits scene was enough I guess?). No Hulk-Banner transformation. Nothing about Cap returning the stones! (This opens up a ton of questions: How did he return soul stone or aether? Did he jump back to the time where the other Cap was frozen, that’s why he could stay with Peggy? And when the other one “unfroze” did he jump back to present? Did he visit Wakanda to get the new shield?).
In my opinion there weren’t any unnecessary scenes except the “funny” ones (but it’s Marvel after all).
5) Time jump
I know this isn’t really your point, but some people in this comment section seem to dislike it.
The 5 year time jump was necessary, because it took 5 years until the rat stepped on the button in the quantum van. 😀 Funny to think the entire universe relied on a rat.
As a standalone movie it really wasn’t that great. But imo this was the perfect end for the Avengers.
Thanks if you went through my super long comment and I’m sorry for my not-perfect english. 😀
This is an amazing analysis, and thank you for taking the time to share it. I understand your comments about Thor, but I still think going that route in the film was unnecessary.
Alex Heinlein says:
In the end, they made a LOT of fans happy and themselves more money than you’ll ever see. Thankfully you don’t speak for the fans who happily gave them money more than once this weekend to see such a “lackluster” movie. That’s why you write about movies instead of create them. Get lost.
And I’m thrilled for the fans who were happy with the film, I’m just not one of them. No need to be rude.
Maybe another thing to think about:
Normally there seem to be three things necessary to do a timetravel: 1. a special Quantum Realm Nano Suit, 2. a special Quantum GPS device 3. the time machine itself.
Thanos and all his minions in the armee and the space ship itself were missing at least 1. (the suit) and 2. (the GPS device). So how was Nebula able to pull that stunt?
Yeah, I know we are a bit too analytical here, but why not 😉
I just loved how quickly Stark discovered a time travel solution. I laughed out loud! Thanks for sharing your observations.
You have a point about the suit, and I hadn’t thought about that. In order for the Pym particles to work, the suit would’ve been a necessity. However, I didn’t have an issue with them traveling in time to the right point – bad Nebula had the time GPS unit she took from good Nebula. Traveling back to their time would’ve been unnecessary anyway, since Thanos’ plan was to get the gauntlet with the stones, and he could have done pretty much anything he wanted to, so I wasn’t concerned about his return trip.
rAdishhorse says:
Thanos and and his army don’t have Pym particles to begin with. Only bad Nebula has and she also didn’t have the suit. How were they able to shrink that ship?
Remember how Rocket gave the Benatar to Natasha (or was it Clint)? It was like a small bird origami.
One possible answer is that Thanos ordered his minions to replicate Pym particle. Or Nebula just rig the time travel machine which Tony Stark created. In fairness, it was implied that Tony has been working on a time travel machine for quite some time before he figured it out.
Yeah, Nebula actually becomes a genius that she actually rigged a.k.a. removed all the plot contrivances Tony programmed into his Quantum machine to be able to bring Thanos back to the future.
But I have a much better answer: All of the above—that’s just lazy writing!
The inconsistency in the time narrative within the movie makes my head spin.
Yup I said it says:
https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/26/avengers-endgame-critics-film
Lady said it all… for all those “argumentative flock that thinks of them self as a part of something grande”! I guess they still think earth is round cause “minority” thought ( and had proof ) that’s not the case… and since you, me, guy over there is minority – we must be wrong, right?
If anyone said anything but great and brilliant and specifically explained why he/she meant that: I would agree… but all I hear is “great movie cause it ends great”… well then Infinity war should have been a bit longer so we don’t be disturbed by brain gymnastic that was utterly pointless for 3h… All those cameos, empty story telling and inconsistencies comparing to fact previously given in past MCU movies and yet it’s for fans? Ummm no… well at least not for one that hadn’t have complete lobotomy or amnesia… And everything I see from those type of fans is “idiot”, “go do this or that to yourself” or “you don’t get it”… very argumentative… just say you like it cause it’s Marvel not cause quality. Oh yes, and the guy who “happily gave money again to see it” … dude, viagra works much better and it’s kinda cheaper, but I get it you desperately need sex and life cause you kinda spend it on filling Disney’s ppls pools and private jets. But hey if it works for you… awesome 😎
P.S. Luisa if you ever get desire ( never stated anywhere ) to make superhero flick, give me a buzz! Cause we can send Tony’s daughter in past, she won’t influence time flux cause never been born back then, and she can retrieve stones, ha! Or we can make decent movie lol
Thanks so much for taking the time to share this!
joel watches movies says:
Good review! I thoroughly enjoyed myself throughout the film and generally thought it was great, but you make a lot of fair points, and I can definitely agree that the time travel plot device is done pretty badly- I had no clue how any of it was really working. Definitely felt a little lazy, though it did provide some cool moments in those flashbacks to previous movies.
I did enjoy the flashback and tie-ins to previous movies. That was a lot of fun, especially for fans!
Before I start, there are a few minor spoilers here, but nothing that would ruin the movie for anybody. But be warned in case you haven’t see it yet. I do mention some things that happen – or don’t happen – in the movie.
I’ve now seen this movie three times, with this coming Thursday making it four viewings. You could not BE more wrong about this movie – it’s fantastic! I’m not sure what your distaste about time travel is, but the way they use it here is very satisfying, and actually makes sense. Every time travel movie will make their own twists as to how actions in the past change, or don’t change, the future. They explain how it works here, and it makes sense.
The earlier parts of the movie are solemn, no doubt, but what about that should be any kind of surprise, considering half of all live – in the freaking UNIVERSE – has been wiped out. Of course it’s going to be forlorn and devastating for the survivors. I like that they gave time to process all of this for the viewers, rather than blazing ahead with a myriad of action scenes that cheapen the emotional havoc the world has gone through.
Is the movie perfect? Nope. I have yet to see a perfect movie. But it’s a more than satisfying conclusion to the 21 movies that came before it. Technically, I guess the next Spider-Man movie is actually the conclusion of this latest phase of the MCU, but this is clearly the one that wraps up the most plot points. One thing I didn’t care for was something you mentioned – the heavy-handed nod to the female heroes. It was an unneeded, gratuitous moment that actually did make me grimace. Let the female heroes shine seamlessly in the movie – we don’t need a spotlight shone on them saying “this is the moment we want to announce “Me too!” I didn’t care for it, but it didn’t take anything away form the movie as a whole. Not for me.
Also, I wan’t satisfied that the Hulk didn’t get his revenge on Thanos – sure, he had a MAJOR part in figuring out how to get things done, but he never got to lay a beat down on Thanos, and that’s a shame. I know he wasn’t 100% when the big fight came along, but they still could have given him a chance to get a huge haymaker in.
In the end, any minor issues I may have had had VERY little impact on my enjoyment of this movie. I’m fully satisfied with it. Based on things I’ve heard, a large majority of people were. It’s a shame some people can’t get past some small issues, or feel they need to be a stubborn voice of non-conformity.
I hope you don’t think I’m a “stubborn voice” because that was not my intention, but I was just so let down by this movie. And with many of these movies so intent on “talking down” to women, I’m quite sensitive to those types of scenes. I’m so glad it worked for you, though, and I appreciate you taking the time to comment.
I think a main reason why this thread is so long is that almost all other reviews are 5 stars with no critique at all. So this is one of the very few places in the internet that points out some flaws and some disappointment, and still almost everyone states that they still love the MCU as a whole.
Absolutely! Still love the MCU but as a fan, I was also disappointed. I didn’t expect to be. I’m enjoying the lively discussion too.
LOL, after seeing the GoT “The Long Night” yesterday, I solemnly declare that the script for Avengers is top notch and all my criticism was unfounded. Wow, what a week and soo much money unwisely spent by the supposedly best in the industry. At least 2019 had already had the Umbrelle Academy and maybe, maybe Stranger Things manages to produce another good season.
There’s so much great entertainment nowadays, that’s for sure.
Janon says:
I don’t think this review is very fair. As with many movies, after the initial viewing is over and you sit back and think, yes you can find problems. The Last Jedi, for example, is a disaster that has destroyed Star Wars. The Force Awakens, although better, is an unoriginal fiasco – I really can’t believe you think it was better than Endgame. So yes, Endgame has problems, but overall it was still a great and entertaining movie.
That being said, there are problems. The biggest I have is that even though the movie *should* be 3 hours long, the scenes that needed more time were rushed, and the scenes that needed less time dragged out. For example, gathering the stones just seemed too easy. The Time Travel needed more explanation. Why not say that a new timeline is only created when a truly significant event occurs? Why not have Thanos send some minions back in time to stop the collecting. The idea was workable, but it seemed forced without more ‘science’ behind it. It’s not that there were time travel plot holes, it was that there was no attempt to fill them when there could have been.
I agree with some of your fanboy issues but not most. Worthy Cap was the best part of the movie, and old Cap was a great character arc conclusion. We didn’t get Game Of Thrones deaths, but we got enough to make it real. Yeah, Women Assemble was bad, and Fat Thor was a little overdone, but overall, still a great movie. And unlike The Last Jedi – another critically loved movie – it didn’t not destroy the Marvel Universe like they destroyed Star Wars. I give it a solid A minus.
Awesome observations, thanks for sharing.
18cinemalane says:
Good review! I can definitely understand why you didn’t like this film. However, I thought it was a great movie! Yes, this wasn’t a perfect or near perfect film. But, I liked it for what it was. I also wrote a spoiler-free review of Avengers: Endgame, with a spoiler review coming on my blog this weekend. Here’s the link if you want to check it out:
https://18cinemalane.wordpress.com/2019/04/27/take-3-avengers-endgame-spoiler-free-review/
Thanks! Spoiler-free reviews are so difficult to write.
Anytime I write a review for current, theatrically released films (which is not often), I always set aside time to write a spoiler and spoiler-free review. The spoiler review is used to clarify things that I was unable to explain in the spoiler-free review. That way, both reviews are treated as companion pieces.
Fine review. A couple things hit home with me. I too am troubled by how they interpret Thor but also Hulk. Like you I laughed when we first saw him. But then they bounce back and forth between wanting him to be sympathetic and using him as a walking punchline. And Hulk is so underserved.
And I get what you’re saying about time travel. I can be a quick and easy cop-out. I thought they used it pretty well here. I don’t put much into the explanations since it is such an absurd concept to begin with.
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terriblety says:
Hmmm… Now that I think about it, I feel I should mention I really didn’t care about the time travel confusion either way.
Y’see, in kingdom hearts, the plot tends to get ridiculously gimmicky and painful. But I don’t mind that because the goal was never to make scientifically accurate no plot hole… plot. It was to allow the writer to explore concepts that couldn’t have been explored otherwise.
I get the same feeling from endgame. The purpose of the time travel was to allow us to take a stroll through memory lane. And it did work… Sometimes.
I agree with the rest of your review, for the most part. Just mentioning it.
Still can’t get over why they never did any cool high concept stuff with the infinity stones. I hope there’ll be some kind of prequel or sequel that really explores the ramifications of stones that can control reality, time, and so on. Catapults getting launched at spaceships. Eldritch horrors bleeding into reality from the terrified dreams of children. It would be split in so many directions it wouldn’t be funny, but the idea fascinates me.
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Darren Johnson says:
Interesting to read a negative review of the movie. I actually have opposite opinions of you on “Endgame” and “Infinity War. ” I do agree that the time travel narrative is clumsy at best, but it does provide some exceptionally rewarding moments that emotionally deliver. I’d encourage you to read my “Endgame” review here: http://djscreens.wordpress.com/2019/05/19/avengers-endgame/
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Washington Open: Tsitsipas, Kyrgios set up intriguing semi-final; Murrays bow out of doubles
Top seed Tsitsipas beat 10th seed Paire 7-5, 6-0 to reach the semi-finals and ensure he will overtake Zverev to crack the world rankings’ top five.
Aug 03, 2019 · 11:02 am Updated Aug 03, 2019 · 11:12 am
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Three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray moved closer to a singles return six months after right hip surgery while Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas rolled into the world’s top five Friday at the ATP Washington Open.
Britain’s Murray and his brother Jamie, in their first doubles event since the 2016 Rio Olympics, lost to New Zealand’s Michael Venus and South African Raven Klaasen 6-7 (3/7), 7-6 (8/6), 10-7 in a quarter-final at the US Open tuneup event.
Murray has practiced singles this week to improve his conditioning after the long layoff.
“I feel fine,” Murray said. “Practice has been fine. No issues physically. So progressing well. Just keep practicing the next 10 days or so and see what happens.”
Top seed Tsitsipas beat French 10th seed Benoit Paire 7-5, 6-0 to reach the semi-finals and ensure he will overtake Germany’s Alexander Zverev to crack the world rankings top five on Monday.
“Once you’re in a certain position for a long time, you really crave for more,” Tsitsipas said.
“This one position difference might not feel a lot for some people but for me it really means a lot because there has been a lot of hard work behind it, just a lot of suffering in general.
“I feel I deserve this position. It means a lot for sure.”
The 20-year-old Australian Open semi-finalist, who lost to Zverev in last year’s Washington semis, booked a semi-final against Australia’s Nick Kyrgios, who ousted Slovakian lucky loser Norbert Gombos 6-3, 6-3.
“I’m excited to play him,” Kyrgios said of Tsitsipas. “He’s one of the best players in the world right now.”
Murray, who feared his career might be over after the January operation, hasn’t played singles since the Australian Open but says he might return at the ATP Cincinnati Masters starting August 12.
“If I feel like I’m ready, I’ll give it a go. If not, I’ll wait probably until after New York. But so far it has been fine.”
Murray, set to play doubles next week at Montreal alongside Spaniard Feliciano Lopez, doesn’t want his first singles matches back to be the best-of-five-set variety offered in Grand Slams.
He ruled out playing in Winston-Salem the week before New York, figuring he would be better off practicing for a post-US Open return.
“I’ve never competed the week before a Slam,” Murray said. “If I’m not ready five or six days beforehand, I’m assuming that I’ll probably just give it a miss.”
The 32-year-old Scotsman, a former world number one now ranked 222nd, captured Grand Slam singles crowns at the 2012 US Open and at Wimbledon in 2013 and 2016.
Tsitsipas’s shoe issues
The Tsitsipas victory was marked by his third straight game with a delay to change left shoes, having said he damages the laces when he slides incorrectly.
“There’s nothing I can do about it,” he said. “The only thing is probably change my footwork, stop doing that.”
Russian third seed Daniil Medvedev advanced to the semi-finals by defeating Croatian sixth seed and 2014 US Open champion Marin Cilic 6-4, 7-6 (9/7).
Medvedev, chasing his fifth career ATP title, took the only break at the start and never faced a break point.
“I managed to do what I had to do, hold my serve and win the tie-breaker,” Medvedev said. “I’m really happy with my level of play.”
Next up for Medvedev will be 122nd-ranked German lucky loser Peter Gojowczyk, who outlasted British 13th seed Kyle Edmund 6-3, 4-6, 6-3.
Gojowczyk, who only made the event after Australian Bernard Tomic dropped out with a finger injury, won his only title in 2017 at Metz.
In the accompanying WTA event, Taiwan’s 31st-ranked Hsieh Su-Wei lost to Catherine McNally 6-4, 6-3. The American faces Italy’s Camila Giorgi in the semi-finals.
Russian qualifier Anna Kalinskaya ousted France’s Kristina Mladenovic 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 to book a semi-final date with American Jessica Pegula
Men, Quarter-finals
Peter Gojowczyk (GER) bt Kyle Edmund (GBR x13) 6-3, 4-6, 6-3
Daniil Medvedev (RUS x3) bt Marin Cilic (CRO x6) 6-4, 7-6 (9/7)
Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE x1) bt Benoit Paire (FRA x10) 7-5, 6-0
Nick Kyrgios (AUS) bt Norbert Gombos (SVK) 6-3, 6-3
Women, Quarter-finals
Jessica Pegula (USA) bt Lauren Davis (USA) 6-2, 7-6 (7/2)
Anna Kalinskaya (RUS) bt Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) 6-4, 4-6, 6-2
Catherine McNally (USA) bt Hsieh Su-Wei (TPE x4) 6-4, 6-3
Camila Giorgi (ITA) bt Zarina Diyas (KAZ) 6-3, 6-2
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Lun Calsari
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The Way is a RPG maker game series created by Lun Calsari. This game expanded into six episodes that deals with a warrior named Rhue, and his search for his true love. This game considered one of the best installment in the series and won numerous Misao Awards including Game of the Year.
The story begins with a first glance at the "protagonist," Rhue. He has been searching all along "The Way" which is the name given to the world of this game by his childhood friend, whom was separated from him many years earlier. His travels take him to many settlements, he meets a very wide and varied cast of characters, and has adventures ranging from dungeon crawling, to stopping sieges, to tournaments and even some acting!
Meanwhile, a mysterious killer wreaks bloody havoc, and dark things stir in the Reaches. As the Way's mysteries are slowly revealed, Rhue follows the trail through mountain and forest and fire--and learns more about himself and the world he lives in than he's ever wanted to know...
Episodes Edit
Episode 1 Edit
The Way follows the story of Rhue of Landorin, a young wanderer on a quest to regain a piece of his past. He's been searching the Way for many years already as Episode 1 begins. With his hopes diminishing further and further each day, he is setting a frantic pace for himself, desperate for a simple clue that might help guide him to that which he lost so many years ago. However, his situation and that of many others is about to become quite deadly as a shadow killer begins a murderous spree of destruction along the Way.
A troubled past echoes in Rhue's mind as his skills are put to the test in a grueling three day tournament for fame, fortune, and the affections of a beautiful woman. He will have little time to sort through his thoughts. Bar fights, suicide jumpers, and an all out assault by the feared Blue Scarves await him as his search for a lost love continues.
The horrific events of the Landorin Massacre haunt Rhue as he continues his search for Serena. Strangely, it appears that the beautiful and charismatic leader of the vile Blue Scarves may hold the secrets to the whereabouts of Rhue's childhood love. Though Rhue intends to investigate, this task may prove difficult with the mysterious and fearsome Phantom Slasher still roaming free. Prepare yourself wanderer, life is about to get very interesting as Rhue gets his first taste of the darker side of the Way. The bizarre world that exists silently in the shadows of the Way is about to become very real.
The Way saga continues in Episode 4 - Words To A Lonely Song, as Rhue is plunged into the turbulent politics of a city of epic proportions. Torn between Guided, Vigilante, Blood Lyn, Blue Scarves, and others, Rhue finds himself in the fight of his life as he seeks out Cetsa to learn the truth about Serena.
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Characters Edit
Rhue: Known formally as Rhue of Landorin, he is the main character of "The Way." A rather complex character, he is obsessed with finding his lost love Serena, at any cost. While initially weak, he eventually builds up a respectable number of combat maneuvers before the story is over.
Strata: An amazingly talented sword fighter, who is first introduced when he robs Rhue. After being left for dead, Rhue steals back what is his from Strata. Strata and Rhue develop a fierce rivalry that spans most of the game, and Strata never misses an opportunity to make Rhue's life difficult.
Traziun: A red-haired swordsman Rhue meets early in the first episode. He is quite a talented fighter, and seems to have some connection to the Blood Lyn, an elite group of warriors for hire. His personality is a good complement to Rhue's for the beginning of the game, and he serves as a good instructor for newer players.
Gaius: A blue-haired man of mystery who has apparently had past dealings with Rhue. He seems nice enough, though there is some part of him that hides his true intentions. Much like Traziun, he may be a far more powerful fighter than he lets on.
Lyrra: A young girl with a love of stories of all kinds. Her passion for fiction, and a very unique and roundabout way of talking, makes her a very entertaining character. Her silly stories though, are her way of blocking out the memories of a painful past.
Cetsa A.K.A, Dancing Violet: This unique character is introduced in the beginning of the second episode. She is a pink-haired beauty who delights in getting what she wants from dazzled men. She is also apparently the leader of the Blue Scarves, a fearsome bandit troupe.
Kloe: A female Blood Lyn who was contracted out to the foreman of a town named Lide. She is very powerful, quite rash, and more then a little violent. At first she and Rhue hate each other, but over time they grow quite close.
Alanthreonus Phillipe Straphachar: Often called simply Alan, he is the rich snob of "The Way" universe. His manor of speech is very confusing, even for the player, so Rhue often has no idea what he is talking about. They cross swords once in a tournament in Lide, but after that all their meetings are friendly, even if Rhue can't stand Alan.
Kygar: A master fighter that travels with Cetsa to cheat towns out of their money. His skill is far greater than Rhue's when they first meet, but he is bested by Traziun. He appears now and again, always changing sides.
Slade: A warrior of justice, known as a Shadow Foot. Slade is viciously powerful and strongly devoted to his cause. Blindly obeying the words of his superiors causes him a great deal of remorse and depression. He also crosses swords with Rhue more then a few times, because both of them are too stubborn to talk.
Scatha: A mysterious woman who lives in the reaches beneath the ground. She constantly wears a mask to hide her face. She speaks very harshly of men, which makes her interactions with Rhue when they meet very difficult.
Dirk: An elderly man who claims he is a legend on The Way, yet none of the other characters have ever heard of him, aside from Scatha. He is somewhat lecherous, and never takes anything seriously, even the end of the world. Make no mistake though, his knowledge of The Way surpasses anything known by any other character we meet, even if we never see the true depths of his wisdom.
Phantom Slasher: A silent killer whose identity is unknown. Appears to be following Rhue.
Geography Edit
Stretches: The Way is divided into stretches of land of varying terrain. Stretches are named by forerunners. Wanderers generally choose a Home Stretch to refer to when formally introducing themselves to others.
Landorin Stretch: Rhue's refers to this as his home stretch. It was the site of a massacre that forever defined Rhue as a person.
The Rolling Mists: All-consuming, legendary fog that supposedly exists at the far front and back of the Way. Some claim they exist to punish those who remain behind, while deterring those who go too far ahead.
Janwen: An ancient city said to have been so overcome by evil that it was burned to the ground. Has since found a home in wanderer slang and historical study.
Estrana: An enormous city that Rhue encounters halfway through his journey. While seemingly friendly, it has a thriving criminal underground. As Rhue's journey continues, Estrana develops an odd significance.
The Lower Way: A network of underground caverns that is more commonly referred to as the Reaches. It is infested with monsters and the lower parts are dominated by a great sea of lava. It is ruled by the Lord of the Reaches, who is apparently very powerful but remains a mystery for most of the story.
The Upper Way: The heaven to the hell of the Lower Way. Although it is mentioned several times its true nature generally remains a mystery.
The End of the Way: Also legendary. It is said that whoever reaches the End of the Way first will become all-powerful. There are those who say that the End of the Way is very close, but there are still others who believe the Way is eternal and therefore, the End of the Way does not exist.
People Edit
Wanderer: Any man, woman or child that exists on the way. They are generally divided into Guided, who follow the will of the Purpose; Strays, who follow their own will; and Settlers, who have forsaken the Way and settled down. Some refer to the settlers as Deserters. There are different extremes of each class.
Paradan: Followers of the path of Para. They are extreme pacifists, and sometimes refuse to kill even animals.
The Vigilante: Those loyal to the Vigilance Council. They are the Way's police force, and have become a very influential establishment. Elite members of the Vigilance Council are known as Shadow Foots.
The Guided: A group devoted to obeying and enforcing the Purpose on the Way, whether people like it or not. Believed to have formed shortly after the destruction of Janwen, they detest settlements. Bitter enemies of the Blana Sera, they are not to be confused with Guided wanderers, their less extreme cousins.
Lyn: Warriors committed solely to advancing their combat ability. The Plunge has its origin firmly in Lyn culture. Lyn are classified by ability, from common Plyn to the god-like Pharaphalyn, whose abilities were so great that some now doubt Pharaphalyn ever existed.
Blana Sera: Mercenaries that are trained from birth in mysterious Battle Grounds, and contracted out to employers at the age of eighteen. More commonly known as Blood Lyn. They are bitter enemies of the Guided.
Blue Scarves: A formidable bandit troupe led by Dancing Violet. Its fame has spawned a look-alike gang in the city of Estrana. Its relation to the Blue Scarves proper is unknown.
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Reception Edit
The Way has won multiple Misao Awards for almost every episode in the series, and its popularity within the RPG Maker community is comparable to that of A Blurred Line. Episodes 2, 4 and 5 are considered to be the best in the series, with 1 and 3 being the least and the value of 6 being arguable.
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Idle No More II. Pastel on paper. 16 x 16 inches. 2013. Artist: David Garneau.
An Uncertain Latitude
A PC/Cp Reflection
By David Garneau
I wonder about artistic privilege. The advantages, attention, and public money granted to select artists, but especially the social margin, passage, and exception we occasionally enjoy. In exchange, artists make the absent present. We reflect the fleeting known in condensed, beautiful, novel, and more permanent or replicable forms. We recite, repeat, refresh, and invent. Artists fabulate the real. We devise the displays by which a people know and show themselves. We entertain. We educate without looking you in the eye. Slow, by seduction, through pleasure and mystery rather than rote, humiliation, trial, and test. We devise insoluble puzzles, medicine dissolved as needs require. We also create comfortably disturbing distractions and abstractions. We aestheticize suffering, and anesthetize it, too.
Most artists are reflective, they stimulate, satiate, and reproduce the known desires and meanings of their patrons. Others are reflexive. Seeing, for example, injustice and erasure, living it, they resist and refigure the social imaginary by performing presence and giving figure to critique. Artists are relied upon not just to picture and resemble but also to see, show, and tell what the dominant imaginary cannot yet admit to consciousness. This is an evolutionary impulse. Healthy societies tolerate contrary people. Artists are given latitude in the hopes that their difference might generate improvement, which is fitness for unpredictable futures. Because this impulse concerns long-term survival, healthy societies permit difference even if it contradicts or threatens the dominating class and ideology. Such systems require dissenting possibilities because any one of these differences might prefigure more successful modes of future being.
Some artists are awarded artistic privilege, are temporarily freed from mundane toil so they can engage extra-rational toil. They research and produce public experiences considered a social good. If their effort is not baldly education or social work, they may bathe in art’s aura, one that dazzles the viewer; a scrim that shields with art’s illusion the machinery of our superfluous purpose. While most of this work is reflective, customary, fashion, education, and entertainment, occasionally it is difference, dissent, and transformative. In this margin, difference is embroidered, becomes a tangible pride and showy presence, a needful disruption of more than is necessary.
Healthy societies give some artists a wider berth out of hope, but also out of fear. The powerful is anxious about the power of unmoored embodied critique, affective dissent, and creative revisioning that exceeds their dominating imagination. However roomy, a berth is still an allotted space. Artist-run centres, in part, received public funds in order to contain the radical imaginations that emerged in the 1960s and 70s. They were the necessary nuisance grounds where bricoleurs repurposed social waste for audiences that rarely exceeded themselves.
I was fortunate to attend the It’s a Cultural Thing: Individual Expression, Collective Inspiration gathering in Calgary in 1993. Organized by the Minquon Panchayat, First Nations and of colour artists disturbed, and eventually re-figured, the white spaces and culture of the artist-run network. While the resulting changes to the network are significant, it was the fact and mode of gathering that rocked my world. A quarter century later, I attended Primary Colours, a gathering of more than 120 Indigenous and of colour artists, curators, cultural activists, thinkers, and doers at the Songhees Wellness Centre, Lekwungen Territory, Victoria, British Columbia (Sept. 23 - 26, 2017). It’s a Cultural Thing was about justice, inclusion. Primary Colours was too, but the main message I felt was the importance of these gatherings as an alternative to mainstreamed “alternative” art culture.
I recognize these meetings as a performance of what Richard Rorty describes as new forms of social cohesion and momentum that can emerge when grand narratives lose their credibility, when shared stories and beliefs fail to include and inspire community. His three principles are contingency, irony, and solidarity. Emergent communities are liberal, in that numerous narratives are entertained but none rule. It is recognized that truth is contingent on experience, self-knowledge and self-authorship rather than reliance on accepted meta-narratives. Such a position is ironic in that knowers are always in doubt because competing narratives about like situations and things are compelling. Nevertheless, we have to live, do things, together. So it is solidarity, the will to include difference without subjugation that provides social cohesion and momentum.
Primary Colours, the Summer Intensive Institute at the University of British Columbia in Kelowna, and numerous other Indigenous-centered gatherings of recent years, are centers that endeavor to hold without containing. They are gentle vortices drawing divergence close, but only for a moment, and not with the desire to puree. They are contingent. For artists who dissent for reasons other than art fashion, these temporary eddies succeed artist-run centers by not aspiring to become institutions, but to become relationships. Institutions are designed for survival despite their momentary occupants. Relationships between non-institutionalized actors only exist because they aspire to respond to the immediate and changing needs of their participants.
Primary Colours is ironic in that it was a gathering of differences. While mostly conducted in English, there were numerous French speakers, simultaneous translation, and folks who spoke many other tongues, and who came from a great range of territories and cultures. I am Métis. While also a Canadian citizen, I glimpse my Canada rarely; this was one of those times. Organizers, France Trepanier and Chris Crieghton Kelly, centered the Indigenous, but it was often uncentered by the active and welcome presence of Black artists. Whether it was the reminder of Black and Indigenous colonial slavery, or the need to recognize Canada’s continuing colonization of territories beyond Turtle Island, the violence of borders, and our communion 25 years ago in Calgary, I felt a sense of fragile relations renewed. The possibility of solidarity. I felt a shift from seeking solitary spaces of artistic privilege, to shared places of artistic responsibility. I felt a turn from a desire for inclusion in the mainstream, alone, and toward also engaging and creating communities of like Others, territory beneath, above and aside from the one pulled over us, called Canada, or not, located at an uncertain latitude.
David Garneau (Métis) is Associate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Regina. His practice includes painting, curation, and critical writing. He recently co-curated, with Kathleen Ash Milby, Transformer: Native Art in Light and Sound, National Museum of the American Indian, New York; Moving Forward, Never Forgetting, with Michelle LaVallee, an exhibition concerning the legacies of Indian Residential Schools, other forms of aggressive assimilation, and (re)conciliation, at the Mackenzie Art Gallery in Regina. View bio.
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James Bond – The Road to Bond 25, Part Twenty-One: The World Is Not Enough (1999)
By Dave Bond 10 January 2020 7 January 2020
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Four years on from his debut in the well-regarded GoldenEye, the success level of the Pierce Brosnan era was reflected in the fast rise in budgets for the films. From a $60 million debut, The World Is Not Enough (TWINE) arrived in 1999 backed by a generous $125 million. For all the extra money thrown at it, however, TWINE would end up a frustrating project. Despite the love shown to GoldenEye, Pierce Brosnan had one shot at greatness, and this was it.
TWINE opens with the longest pre-title of the series. James Bond is in Bilbao, at the offices of a Swiss bank, where he is to retrieve $5 million for oil tycoon Sir Robert King (David Calder). When the banker is killed before Bond can get from him the name of the killer of another MI6 agent, Bond escapes with the money and returns to London. When King comes to retrieve the money, it turns out it is booby-trapped, killing King, and sending Bond off after the killer – the mysterious cigar girl (Maria Grazia Cucinotta) he met in Bilbao. Catching up with her, Bond offers a deal, but she commits suicide before more can be learned.
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Despite injuring his shoulder, Bond is cleared for duty. Tracing the money to Renard (Robert Carlyle) – a man previously shot by MI6, and unable to feel any sensory responses, such as pain, due to the resulting brain damage – Bond is sent to protect King’s daughter Electra (Sophie Marceau) – Electra having been kidnapped in the past by Renard. Protecting the vulnerable lady, Bond slowly begins to fall for her, as he prevents a number of attempts on her life. With her oil pipeline equally susceptible to attack, Bond goes to see Valentin Zukovsky (Robbie Coltrane, returning after his short turn in GoldenEye) to learn more about her attackers. Deducing her head of security, Davidov (Ulrich Thomsen) to be a mole, James follows, then replaces him, on a plane to Kazakhstan, where he poses as a nuclear scientist and meets nuclear physicist Dr Christmas Jones (Denise Richards… no, really!). Encountering Renard, who is stealing weapons-grade plutonium, Bond deduces that Electra may be the real brains behind Renard’s operation.
After angrily confronting Electra – with some back and forth on the truth, or otherwise, of her guilt – Bond and Jones are able to fake their own deaths in an abortive attempt to protect the pipeline from attack. Now knowing that Electra is both guilty and in possession of plutonium (as well as having been revealed as the killer of her father, Sir Robert), James and.. sigh.. Christmas head to Istanbul where they will attempt to prevent a nuclear attack at the very heart of the three pipelines with which the King pipeline competes. Can they stop Electra before she and Renard cause a disaster, all in the name of gaining a monopoly over the oil market in the region?
If we were to ask the producers of the James Bond series in what films James Bond has genuinely fallen in love, they would certainly name On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and Casino Royale. They would also very likely name Spectre; though this could be retconned by No Time To Die – time will tell (plus that relationship was far from convincing – more on that, down the line). Were they to give an accurate answer, they would have to name The World Is Not Enough. This entry was Brosnan’s one shot at that humanist 007 film, in the vein of the Lazenby effort. Where GoldenEye was the reminder to the audience of the classic era of Bond adventures, TWINE was an effort at that deeper, more emotional, character-driven work that is – and should be – rare in Bond canon.
For around 55 minutes, the film succeeds. Bond is vulnerable, in a way that virtually never happened before the Daniel Craig era. It is almost unbelievable now to think that the character having an injured shoulder was genuinely a big deal in 1999, particularly when we consider the faultless, best-at-everything persona of the Brosnan incarnation of the character. The film opens with a sprawling 14 minutes-plus of decent action, with a set-up seeding real intrigue for what is to come.
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Pierce Brosnan is at his peak in the role, giving (with one major exception we’ll come to) his best performance in the role. He is as relaxed as he will ever be, and in better shape that he would be for his final effort. He has palpable chemistry with Marceau – something very rare in this era, as Brosnan had chemistry with extremely few of his co-stars – in fact he probably had more connection with Moneypenny (Samantha Bond) than any of his other leading ladies. We believe these two have growing feelings, and Marceau plays the grey areas of her character well enough that the is-she-isn’t-she-evil dynamic is very real (apart from the name ‘Electra’ being a stonking great big clue, of course – subtlety was never a strength of these writers).
The James Bond series – pre-2006 – had a formula. Sometimes, however, that formula became self-defeating. Take You Only Live Twice: Bond’s lover, Aki – with whom he has decent chemistry – dies. Formula dictates he needs to end the film in the arms of the woman, so Kissy Suzuki – a character with whom he has no connection at all – is rushed into the film, so that the ending-the-film-with-a-woman trope can be satisfied. TWINE has this problem, in stereo. Denise Richards was far too young for this role; bizarrely fashioned to look like Lara Croft (1990s edition), and utterly unbelievable as the holder of a doctorate. Her line delivery is flat, and she has – surprise – zero chemistry with Brosnan. Having given us one of the stronger connections in the series in Bond and King, the film then insults this by pairing him with the Playmate of the Year – one named simply in service of finishing the film on a piss-weak pun.
The villain (or henchman, it turns out), Renard, is one of the wasted chances of the series. A villain who can feel no pain; a dying man who gets stronger as he weakens. That presents a world of opportunity. So what did the filmmakers do with this awesome opportunity? Have him hold a hot rock, and put his hand through a table. It feels like they gave up just before the halfway point. As did Brosnan for that matter. Having played early scenes with Electra in a soulful, caring, engaged manner; as soon as Electra is exposed, Brosnan becomes hilariously petulant (“There’s no point LIVING if you can’t feel alive… isn’t that your MOTTO?”). Having begged, behind the scenes, for meatier character work, Brosnan was finally offered material that allowed his character both to feel something, then to experience the pain of betrayal – and he fluffed it. It is no surprise EON went 100% in the direction of flashy nonsense after this. On balance, though, this is his best performance in the role – and it is certainly more good than bad – but when it is bad, he presents us with some of the poorest work from a leading man in the whole series.
It is like the producers lost their nerve. Having James Bond in the uncharted territory of being injured, they spend much of the film ignoring this. Having set up a Moneypenny that fulfilled franchise expectations, but sparred with Bond in a fun way, they revert her to a simpering, love-starved secretary. In fact, that’s an insult to Lois Maxwell: Maxwell’s Moneypenny may have been a little hung-up on Bond, but she always demonstrated more spirit and self-respect than this parody effort (complete with tasteless Monica Lewinsky-inspired cigar joke). Samantha Bond deserved better. All in all, this should have been Brosnan’s best entry. In the event, it became the biggest wasted opportunity, and the 90s ended with somthing of a whimper.
Three entries into his run as Bond, however, Pierce Brosnan had captured the imagination of the public. Lauded in many quarters as the best Bond since Connery (how times change, eh?), there were even magazine articles predicting the series would die once he left: implying he was now irreplaceable. EON was delighted to take up the option of a fourth outing for their leading man. With an extra year’s gap, the 20th entry would be released in the year of the 40th anniversary of the cinematic series. With the franchise in outstanding health, and a leading man popular with the general public, the next outing looked set to be a memorable celebration for cinema’s favourite spy. What could possibly go wrong?
The Road to Bond 25 will return with Die Another Day (2002).
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20 Different Ways to Successfully Find Love in 2020
How to Get Out There and Find the One for You in the New Year
There’s this common belief that falling in love is something that just happens to us. Despite all our efforts, there’s nothing we can truly do except hope that the next person we meet is “the one.”
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Sure, it might just be a type of right place, right time situation when it comes to meeting the person you’re supposed to spend the rest of your life with, but that doesn’t mean you can’t stack the deck in your favor. There are plenty of ways to cast yourself in the best light, increasing your chances for meeting the person who completes you.
If your 2020 resolution is to finally find the right person, you’ve come to the right place. Here are 20 expert tips for finding love this year.
1. Put Yourself Out There
This might be the most common advice people doled out when it comes to finding love. In fact, you may be reading this thinking, “How much more could I possibly be out there?” Well, putting yourself out there goes beyond just simple things like visibility on dating apps or frequenting your corner bar.
“Create more opportunities for you to meet other people, learn new things, and generally improve and expand your life,” says relationship expert Amy Hartle. “These should be things you actually WANT to do; activities you actually have an interest in. When you focus on doing the things you love, the right person will come into your life – not only because you’re putting yourself out there and taking chances, but because when you’re focused on the things you love, you become the best version of yourself. A potential partner gets to see you in your element.”
2. Take a Class
“Education improves who you are and exposes you to not only potential partners who may be in the class, but many others who are around the educational facility,” says relationship therapist Andrew Aaron. “Those who value education also share many other good values and thereby increasing the chance to meet someone special of high quality.”
3. Perform Volunteer Work
What’s a cause you truly care about? Volunteering helps to improve your overall mood and self-esteem, and connects you with others who share the same values.
“Unlike on a dating website or Tinder where deception and distortion are easy, participating in a group effort actually takes a commitment – something that separates those who are low in motivation from those who are vital, ambitious and determined,” says Aaron.
4. Be Open to Finding Love in All Different Places
Opportunity waits for no man, so don’t be afraid to strike up a conversation with a potential match at the grocery store, on an airplane or anywhere you meet someone who catches your eye.
“Being open can mean something as simple as making eye contact with others,” says therapist Lauren Cook. “As you enter 2020, commit to actually ‘seeing’ other people in the new year by looking at those around you.”
5. Network With Dates Who Didn’t Work Out
This may seem like strange advice, but according to marriage and family therapist Dana McNeil, the more you expand your social circle, the more likely it is you’ll meet someone.
“If you and a date don’t work out having a love match, but you really like the person and their character, there is no reason you can’t help each other to network your perspective groups of friends or family members,” she says. “If you are both able to be mature and acknowledge that a love connection isn’t happening for the two of you, why not put your collective network to good use and consider if there is someone that either of you knows who might be a good match?”
6. Ask People in Your Life to Set You Up
“It is very likely the people you admire and genuinely care for in your world hang out with and have a close relationship with other admirable and quality people who may also be looking for a new love,” says McNeil. “Letting your network (co-workers, neighbors, colleagues, etc.) know you are open to and interested in meeting some new people this year is just reinforcing your efforts with help from a community who probably has your back, and wants to help you find the best match.”
7. Leave Selfies and Filters in 2019
Speaking of online dating profiles, start putting your true self out there in 2020.
“Dating profiles that are filled with selfies make that person look like they have no social life, or like they love themselves more than anyone else ever could,” says dating profile writer Eric Resnick. “You don’t need a ton of group shots in your profile, but have your friend’s take some pics for you. You are going to have a much more natural smile when you are relaxing with your friends than when you are trying to look at the screen with one eye and at the lens with the other.”
8. Don’t Just “Spray and Pray” Online Dating Messages
Sending out the same message to hundreds of potential matches online may make your inbox more full, but if you’re serious about finding love this year, Resnick says to go for quality over quantity.
“Don’t message a woman unless there’s some evidence in her profile that she’s looking for someone like you,” he says.
9. Don’t Be Afraid to Get Off the Wheel
Dating apps can be great tools to help you find love, but they can also burn you out. If it’s too much to handle, it’s alright if you want to take a breather.
“Online dating should not be a part-time job,” says Resnick. “If you’re spending more than 20 minutes of your day on it in 2019, it’s time to limit yourself in 2020. FOMO isn’t real here, but burnout is. The people you don’t see today will still be there tomorrow, but your will to find them might not be.”
10. Know What You Value
What actually matters to you in a relationship? Getting clear on what you value most in a potential partner will help make it clear when you’ve found the right one for you.
“When you are unsure what matters to you in a relationship, it can be easy to be swayed purely by chemistry rather than an actual character traits connection,” says Cook. “Does your ideal life include adventure, safety, achievement, connection, creativity? From this, you can begin identifying what matters most to you.”
11. Be Vulnerable Where It Matters
“Many of us either operate in a space where we are totally closed off or share too much,” says Cook. “Find a happy medium where you are willing to connect in a safe and open way that allows you to get to know someone. You can still protect your heart without appearing guarded and defensive. If you notice that your partner has a wall up as well, carefully consider if they are at a place in their lives where they are willing to be thoughtfully vulnerable as well. In other words: Don’t date someone who is not open to love at this time.”
12. Own Who You Are and What You Want in a Relationship
If you really want to be in a serious relationship, why pretend you don’t to appease someone else? It’s okay to make that known.
“Pretending to be interested in only casually dating or portraying yourself as someone who is willing to hook up without a commitment when that isn’t who you are is not going to serve you in relationships,” says McNeil. “You send mixed messages to both the new partner and yourself by accepting less than you want. The right person for you will find it refreshing and attractive that you are willing to own who you are, and state your expectations about what you are looking for regardless of whether or not the other person agrees or validates you.”
13. Stop Being So Rigid in Your Expectations
You may have a prepared plan as to what you want out of the person you date, but make sure you’re focused on the right things.
“So many of my clients shoot people down before they ever have a chance to meet because of their ‘requirements’ for a new partner,” says McNeil. “Not every woman has to be a perfect size two in order to be a fit.” Instead, make a list of must-haves based on what a potential new person values – “their character, their ability to take personal responsibility for their behaviors, and sense of genuine concern for their needs,” continues McNeil. “Then you are more likely to find someone who is actually a good long-term fit.”
14. Consider Therapy to Learn How to Set Healthy Boundaries
“The common denominator in all your relationships is you,” says McNeil. “If you feel you give more than you receive in relationships and they often leave you feeling disappointed, frustrated, victimized or resentful, you may have difficulties setting healthy boundaries in relationships.”
If you find yourself feeling that no matter how hard you try, nothing you ever do is good enough, or you catch yourself walking on eggshells out of fear about how your partner will respond to you, it’s time to do some work on yourself.
15. Evaluate Your Beliefs About Dating
Your beliefs about the dating landscape you’re in can impact whether or not you’ll be successful. Meaning, if your internal monologue consists of feeling like women never notice you, that you have to be a bodybuilder in order to get any attention or that all the good ones are taken, it’s time to challenge that thought process.
“Our beliefs create our reality, so really examine what thoughts you think on a regular basis about dating,” says relationship expert Kat Trimarco. “What if these beliefs weren’t true? As you choose different thoughts that are more in alignment with what you want to experience, these new thoughts over time become your beliefs and shape the new experiences you’ll have. Your willingness to see things differently will open up doors to meeting new people.”
16. Have a First Date Plan
When you’re going on a first date with someone you barely know, it can be tempting to leave the date up to chance. As Aaron explains, taking initiative to thoughtfully plan out a first date can really work to your advantage.
“Having planned for the date shows forethought; it signals to your date that she or he is important and worthy of your time,” he says. “Pre-planning also shows leadership, a fine strength to demonstrate. Share the plan as a way of keeping your date informed of what will happen, but also to get agreement that the plan will be pleasing to them.”
17. Incorporate an Activity Into Your Next Date
If firing questions back and forth at a bar on first dates isn’t getting you anywhere, Aaron suggests planning a date that focuses on an activity both of you enjoy.
“A date that incorporates a physical element adds a source of conversation,” says Aaron. “Taking a walk, riding bikes, going bowling, exploring a location, dancing, and climbing stairs to see a beautiful view are all examples.”
18. Listen More Than Talk on Your First Few Dates
“I often tell my clients that the people you date will generally tell you who they are within the first few dates,” says McNeil. “Allow yourself to have potentially uncomfortable silences without rushing to fill the void. Let the other person share the responsibility of creating a space that feels mutually acceptable, and see if the other person is aware of your needs during conversations.”
19. Believe There Will Be a Second Date
The goal of any first date is to get to date number two, but going into a first date with that pressure hanging over your head can actually work against you.
“The best way to get a second date after a first date? Decide that there’s going to be a second date before that first date even starts,” says relationship expert Jenny Block. “Instead, enjoy the date. Look for the positive. Remember that love at first sight is mostly in the movies, and love that grows is the kind of love that lasts. You just might be surprised by what you discover about a person when you’re looking for their best instead of their worst.”
20. Go On a Second Date Even If the First One Wasn’t “Perfect”
“Many of my clients tell me they give someone just one date to get it right, and if they don’t feel a spark, then they move on,” says McNeil. “Have you ever considered that maybe you should give someone a few dates to get comfortable, and allow some of the nerves to die down so they can show you who they really are? Give this person a few dates to get comfortable with you and you with them. There is no rush to get to the finish line, and sometimes a person grows on you once you get to see them in a relaxed space.”
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How to Get More Right Swipes on Dating Apps, According to Science
13 Science-Backed Ways for Guys to Get More Right Swipes
A smooth opening line, your air of confidence or some gallant gestures are all things capable of grabbing a woman’s attention — in real life, that is. In the digital dating world, it’s all about your profile. Every single word and photo you use counts when it comes to making a good impression, and various studies have shown that certain profile strategies may inspire more right swipes.
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You want to present yourself in the best light possible, all while being your most authentic self. Exaggerating about your job or using a photo from years ago will get you … well, just about nowhere when your match eventually sees the real you.
Need some guidance? Fortunately, there’s a wealth of research on which dating app strategies are most effective. Consider these 13 science-backed tips while perfecting your profile, and watch as the matches come rolling in.
13 Foolproof Ways to Get More Right Swipes on Dating Apps
1. Include a Full-Length Photo
To no surprise, app users want to be able to scope out their potential dates from head to toe.
A 2019 survey conducted by Carphone Warehouse and dating expert James Preece asked 1,000 Brits about their biggest dating app turn-ons. The results? 86 percent of both men and women would like to see a full-length photo.That means even if the rest of your photos are zoomed in from the waist up, make it a point to include just one picture that shows your full physique.
Speaking of photos, make sure you have at least one. A whopping 93 percent of survey respondents said they would straight up ignore someone on an app if their profile was lacking images (for obvious reasons).
2. Skip the Emojis
You may want to think twice about using those emojis, too. Results from that previously mentioned survey had a whopping 80 percent saying they’d consider ‘em to be a turnoff. Wouldn’t you rather use that valuable space to write something that’s actually informative or insightful anyway? Save the emojis for after you’ve landed a match.
3. Flaunt Your Furry Friend
Unsurprisingly, pets can make your profile more that much more attractive. That doesn’t mean you should snap a picture with any random dog just to bait the ladies into swiping right, but if there’s a furry animal out there that has a special place in your heart, feature them on your profile.
According to the Carphone Warehouse survey, 77 percent of people think photos with pets make someone more attractive. Who knew things whiskers could be such phenomenal wingmen?
4. Add a Group Photo (But Not Too Many)
Capture a cool shot with your buddies on a fishing boat or hanging at a summer BBQ? Show it.
Hinge’s 2017 Profile Picture Report found that pictures of dating app users having fun with friends were 74 percent more likely to get a like. That said, going overboard with the group shots will only leave swipers questioning who you really are.
If they’re unclear of who you are amongst the group, that extra effort may leave them swiping to the left instead of giving you a shot.
5. Show Your Active Side
Part of a hockey league? Or maybe you just participated in a Spartan Race? Be sure to include a photo that demonstrates your active lifestyle. Data from Hinge’s 2017 Profile Picture Report showed that photos of users playing a sport or doing something athletic performed 75 percent better than the average, non-athletic photo. How’s that for some fitness inspiration?
Some extra incentive comes from a 2014 WIRED analysis of data from OkCupid and Match.com — surfing, yoga, skiing, hiking, and tennis were among the words and phrases most associated with popular profiles for men.
6. Pose With Your Mama
Next time you’re home for a holiday or some other occasion, you may want to snap a few photos with dear ‘ol mom. According to a 2018 study by The League, dating app users who have at least one photo with their mother experienced a 7 percent higher match rate than those who didn’t have one.
While some may take it as a sign of a momma’s boy, this kind of photo shows that family is important to you. After all, there’s nothing wrong with showing some appreciation for the lady who gave you life.
7. Ditch the Shades
Just as you shouldn’t wear sunglasses indoors, when choosing the best photos for your profile, skip the ones in which you’re wearing glasses. A 2016 study from Tinder revealed that users wearing glasses in a profile picture (both prescription and sunglasses) were 15 percent less likely to get a right swipe.
Shades and spectacles make it more difficult to see someone’s face, and isn’t that what you’re supposed to be showing it off on your profile?
8. Be Forthcoming About Kids
Having children may not be something you want plastered all over your dating profile. But if you’re worried they may scare off some prospective dates, consider this: One in three women who participated in Carphone Warehouse’s survey said they liked to see photos of matches with their children.
Besides, it’s always best to be honest about your situation from the get-go. If someone doesn’t like your kids, there’s no point in wasting your time or effort in getting to know them.
9. Get Candid
An easy way to stand out on a dating app is by having at least one or two candid photos in your profile. Hinge’s 2017 Profile Picture Report found that a whopping 80 percent of users’ profile pictures were posed, but get this: Candid photos were 15 percent more likely to get a like from other users. There’s something about a candid shot that’s inexplicably attractive because it looks more natural, and thus, shows off your true, filterless self.
10. Implement the 70-30 Rule
It’s easy to ramble on and on about yourself in your dating app profile. You’re trying to give potential matches as much information as possible before they make a decision which way to swipe, right? Well, according to Statistic Brain, the most popular online daters used about 70 percent of their profiles to talk about themselves, with the other 30 percent describing what they’re looking for in a prospective partner.
Consider following that formula in your own profile, and always look for opportunities to shed light on your dating intentions and priorities.
11. Don’t Be Afraid of That Four-Letter Word
If you’re looking to lock down something serious, then you might want to sneak “love” into your profile somewhere. Surprisingly, wearing your heart on your sleeve can be to your advantage.
After examining 1.2 million profiles, PlentyofFish discovered that people who used this word in their bios were the most successful at engaging in committed relationships. Men also appeared to benefit from words like “romantic” and “relationship,” too.
12. Highlight Your Travels
Whether from a bachelor weekend in Boston or backpacking around Switzerland, make sure to use a photo from that trip in your profile. A
2017 Hinge study found that travel photos receive 30 percent more likes than the average photo, and research from Match Group found that 74 percent of women want a partner who shares their travel interests. It makes sense, too, given that jet-setting can make a person appear worldly and adventurous.
Fun fact: According to Hinge’s data, for men, a photo in Munich garnered a whopping 210 percent more likes than the average photo, while a photo in Portland, Oregon, racked up 56 percent more likes.
13. Mind Your Grammar
Regardless of whether you’re looking for a casual hookup or a serious relationship, you may want to proofread your dating app bio.
A 2019 study published in the “Journal of Social and Personal Relationships” found that spelling and grammar errors such as writing ‘teh’ instead of ‘the,’ and using upper case letters in the wrong places, could be detrimental to your odds of getting more matches. Researchers believe this may be because such errors suggest laziness and lack of attention to detail.
It doesn’t take long to run your bio through spell check. Considering it could seriously boost your odds, it seems to be well worth the effort.
How to Approach Sleeping Over at Her Place Like a Gentleman
The Best Way to Handle Staying the Night for the First Time
For one reason or another, dates tend to happen at night.
While some people might try to have a daytime first date over coffee or a walk in the park, the dominant cultural script we have for dates (dinner, movie, bar) is one that begins some time after 5 p.m. and winds its way through the course of the evening.
Meaning, if you’re having sex with your date, it’s probably late at night. And there’s a good chance that may lead to one person sleeping over after the hookup.
Now, in some cases your date will be sleeping over at your place, but especially for men dating women, they’re often invited over to their date’s place rather than vice-versa.
Why? Well, many women will feel more comfortable in their own home. Being alone with a man they don’t know very well yet can be a bit scary, and having the interaction play out on their turf is more likely to set them at ease. (Also, let’s be real, most single guys don’t have very appealing living situations.)
Regardless, that first sleepover — whether it’s happening the night of the first date, the first hookup, or later on — can make or break a fledgling romance.
Out on the town and dressed nicely, people might be able to put up a bit of a façade, but in a more domestic setting, fresh from having sex, it’s easy to let your guard down and show the real you — and if that’s not someone your date is into, things could be over in a hurry.
In order to help you pull off a relatively mistake-free first sleepover, here are some dos, don’ts and expert tips from a selection of dating coaches and psychologists.
1. What to Do When Sleeping Over for the First Time
The most important thing to keep in mind when sleeping over with a date is that their experience matters, too — and how they feel about things could impact whether you ever see each other again or not.
“It’s not just about you and what you’re hoping for,” says Tina B. Tessina, Ph.D., psychotherapist and author of “Dr. Romance’s Guide to Finding Love Today.” “Your date will also have expectations, and they may not be compatible with yours. If you’re hoping for a relationship, what you do tonight (and after) can make or break the deal.”
To that end, Tessina suggests being generally kind and courteous.
“Be amiable, but not overeager,” she says. If you’re dating a woman, you have to consider that she might not be used to having a man in her space. “Women are often feeling fragile on this first sleepover, so take it easy. Mind your manners.”
She also adds that if you’re invited over directly, rather than after going out together — such as being hosted for a romantic dinner, perhaps as a second or third date — that bringing flowers isn’t a bad idea. However, whether that’s the case will depend on your age — younger generations might be weirded out by such an overt display of traditional courtship.
Meanwhile, Connell Barrett, the founder of Dating Transformation and a dating coach with The League, says you should try to take the sleepover seriously — even if the relationship isn’t yet.
“The morning after, you want to make your date feel great about the decision they made — to take you into their bed, to be intimate,” he says. “While you’re not in a relationship yet, treat them like your partner, not a hook-up. Whisper sweet nothings, spoon, talk, tell them how great last night was.”
However, the best way to get an idea of how to be the perfect houseguest? According to Jor-El Caraballo, a relationship therapist and co-creator of Viva Wellness, it’s not to make too many assumptions.
“Ask, ask, ask,” Caraballo says. “Every person desires different things, so there is no one ‘right’ way to show someone that you’re a gentleman.”
“As a general rule, it’s nice to be polite and treat people with courtesy, but if it’s not genuine and coming from your heart, chances are your date can feel that,” he says. “Either they’ll dislike that and let you know or won’t consider your gentlemanly efforts important and just move on. The golden rule — ‘treat someone how you want to be treated’ — is a good place to start, and with periodically checking in for affirmative cues you can be sure that you’re on the path toward making a good impression.”
2. What Not to Do When Sleeping Over for the First Time
When it comes to things to avoid, there are also a handful of those to consider. For starters, it’s important not to treat the experience with a ‘been there, done that’ mentality, says Barrett.
“A big mistake is treating it in a casual, transactional manner,” he notes. “Don’t bounce at the crack of down with no more than a curt ‘bye.’ That makes the other person feel used and means you likely won’t be spending a second night at their place.”
As for concrete specifics to consider, Tessina notes that creating a mess and having poor bathroom hygiene are big don’ts, particularly for a female date.
“Be tidy in her place. Don’t leave your stuff all over,” she says. “If you use the bathroom or shower, make sure you leave it neat.”
Caraballo agrees that a guy’s use of a woman’s washroom can be a tricky hurdle to clear.
“Don’t leave the toilet seat up,” he advises.
As well, if your date has roommates or lives with family, it’s important to be conscious of that.
“Ask how you should behave in accordance with their house rules (maybe don’t walk around to the bathroom in the middle of the night, etc.),” Caraballo suggests.
Another good tip is to not be too demanding or over-assertive. You might be used to sleeping in a certain way, but in a new space, it’s a good idea to let your date set the tone in terms of how things function.
Of course, you can make requests — think something like “Is it cool if we leave the fan on? I get overheated easily at night” — but being insistent or simply doing what you want may leave your host feeling uncomfortable or annoyed.
As before, the guiding principle here is courtesy. Regardless of whether it’s a cramped apartment or a sprawling multi-story house, their home is their space and inviting you there is a bit of a gamble — so treat it (and them) with respect.
3. Coming on Too Strong vs. Seeming Too Distant
One potential conundrum of sleeping over for the first time is that it can be a very intimate moment.
Sleeping in the same bed with someone implies a certain amount of trust, and it’s something that we traditionally associate with married or long-term couples. However, if you’re just starting to date, you likely don’t know each other very well — and that can make for an awkward mismatch.
If you lean into being romantic and affectionate, it might send the other person a signal that you’re very serious about them, even if you aren’t; alternately, if you intentionally put the brakes on things like post-coital cuddling and pillow talk, they might think you’re rude, distant or uninterested.
The best way to deal with that uncertainty, according to Caraballo, is to be communicative, rather than overconfident about what your date is looking for.
“I think the biggest mistakes guys (and really anyone) can make is making assumptions about what’s supposed to happen or not happen next,” he says. “While I know many people frown at the idea of being explicit in communication, it’s always helpful to check in with your partner to make sure that they’re feeling comfortable and that you know what their expectations are and if you can meet them.”
Barrett agrees that being open to communication is important — and notes that you should focus on ensuring your host doesn’t feel like you’re just using them for sex.
“Be present to how your date’s feeling and don’t overdo this, but let them know that even though this is casual, it’s about more than sex. They want to know you like them for who they are.”
4. How to Handle Leaving in the Morning
One of the most important aspects of a post-hookup sleepover is how it ends.
Why? Well, that’s the last time you’ll see each other for a little while — it could be just a few hours or it could be weeks. Or, if things go badly, it could be for good.
If your time together has been going well but you botch the ending, that could leave an unpleasant aftertaste in your host’s mouth, as it were, and change their perspective on how they feel things really went. But by the same token, if the hookup was only so-so, you can still potentially turn things around by nailing your departure.
Tessina suggests planning for the morning after the night before — that way you have some kind of plan — rather than just deciding what to do when you wake up.
“If you have to leave at a certain time, let your date know the night before,” she says. “Don’t just rush out.”
Barrett agrees that discussing the morning strategy before you fall asleep is a good move.
“If you’re not sure you’ll want to lounge away the morning with your date, the night before, say that you’re meeting a friend in the morning,” he advises. “This way, if you both want to have a long, lazy sleep-in and spend more time together, you can always say you moved the appointment. And if you’d rather get going sooner, you can bounce without any bad feelings.”
That being said, if things are going well, Tessina suggests sticking around for anything your host offers, like coffee or breakfast, and potentially re-initiating some of last night’s physical affection, like kissing or hugging, and telling them you had a great time the night before — unless you didn’t.
“If it wasn’t wonderful for either of you, then say something like ‘I guess that didn’t go so well,’” she advises.
Caraballo suggests taking what, if anything, you know about your date’s personality into consideration when you wake up the next morning and are wondering how to proceed.
“This is highly subjective, and obviously pretty tricky territory,” he says. “If you haven’t talked about the morning plans before the sun rises, I think the best bet is to be honest in your exit.”
What does that imply, exactly?
“Do what feels right for you, and consider what feels like a reasonable and ethically compassionate exit, given the interaction,” Caraballo explains. “Does your date seem like someone who you appreciate a simple note left? What about a wake-up kiss? It all depends on the mood, but take the circumstances into consideration.”
One thing Barrett cautions against in particular is staying too long — a scenario which can make people too shy to ask you to leave or feel trapped in their own home, especially if they weren’t expecting you to be there initially.
“Don’t overstay your welcome,” he advises. “Your date might have things to do. Ask them first thing in the morning, ‘What’s your day looking like?’ They may have somewhere to be. If they don’t and you want to enjoy more time with them, suggest taking them out for brunch, coffee or doughnuts.”
Even if you don’t go out somewhere together, ending on a high note is a good idea, Barrett adds.
“Leave your date feeling great,” he says. “If you want to see them again, tell them.”
How to Have Dating Success No Matter What You Look Like
Here’s How Ugly Guys, Average Guys and Handsome Guys Can Find Love
From birth, women are told they need to be beautiful. They’re confronted by the message everywhere they look — fashion billboards, magazine covers, movies and music videos.
The idea even worms its way into decidedly non-visual media, taking the form in books that describe female protagonists’ beauty, love songs that go on about how beautiful the singer’s lover is and the compliments people pay little girls.
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But even though that shallow view of women is undoubtedly not equally placed on young boys growing up, that doesn’t mean that men aren’t conscious of their looks at all. While it might be easier for a guy to dress sloppily or groom himself little if at all, many men internalize messages of how to look growing up, and come out of it feeling ugly.
That feeling of inferiority, whether it’s about your looks or about anything else, can really hamper your ability to find romantic success. Not because of how you actually look, however, but because if you’re expecting other people to treat you badly, you’ll be starting every date and flirtatious conversation off on the wrong foot.
But no matter what you look like, it’s possible to have dating success. The most charming average-looking guy will have way more success on the dating scene than a devastatingly handsome guy with a deeply unpleasant personality, and a so-called ugly guy who makes the people he’s with feel great will be much more attractive to lots of people than a decent-looking guy who treats everyone he dates like garbage.
Don’t believe me? To prove it, we spoke to a dating coach and two psychologists about the relative unimportance of looks when it comes to dating success.
It’s Time to Stop Overestimating the Importance of Looks
“Men put way too much importance on their looks, especially straight guys,” says Connell Barrett, a dating coach with The League and the founder of DatingTransformation.com. “We project our world view onto women. Men prioritize visual beauty, so we assume women do the same. But women are more attracted to behavior, confidence and intelligence. Good looks are a nice bonus to women, but a guy can [be ugly or handsome], as long as he makes his date feel good vibes. For most women, physical attractiveness doesn’t crack top 10.”
This focus on looks is rarely a case of men patting themselves on the back for being handsome. In fact, many men who could be considered traditionally handsome still view their looks as underwhelming or disappointing.
“It’s not just average-looking men [worrying about their looks],” notes Barrett. “Many objectively handsome guys fight this fear because they don’t have six-pack abs or runway-model looks.”
All that anxiety doesn’t add up to much, according to Jor-El Caraballo, a relationship therapist and co-creator of Viva Wellness.
“I generally think that (straight) men overestimate the importance of looks with dating,” he says. “While there is no definition of success that’s objective, I do think that men could work on being more compassionate with themselves and focus on what they do bring to the table rather than what they think they are lacking. This will help them appear more confident and self-aware, and those are very attractive qualities.”
What to Focus on Instead of Your Looks
“There’s so much media focus on looks that we all get the impression that looks are most important,” says Tina B. Tessina, Ph.D., psychotherapist and author of “Dr. Romance’s Guide to Finding Love Today.”
Instead, she suggests men consider focusing more on their grooming habits. “While styles change, being clean and tidy is always attractive. There’s a grunge look being advertised now, but don’t be too gritty. Clean up your act, wear some acceptable clothing, and look your best.”
If you’re already well-groomed but you still feel like your looks put you at a disadvantage, there are tons of other things people look for in a male partner, regardless of their gender.
“A man can do many things to become more attractive,” states Barrett. “He can develop his sense of humor because everyone loves to laugh. He can become a better, more present listener because everyone loves to be heard. He can communicate in a more expressive, less filtered way because a man who ‘tells it like it is’ is magnetic.”
Even outside of self-improvement, a simple mental switch can help you feel more confident. According to Barrett, a guy who’s struggling to feel handsome should “focus on and feature the traits that make him a great catch — the fact that he, say, speaks three languages or has a cool job or makes amazing guacamole.”
How to Have Dating Success If You’re Insecure About Your Looks
Step one to overcoming a feeling of ugliness in the dating game? Working on your confidence.
“Insecurity about looks is kryptonite for a guy’s dating success,” says Barrett. “If you’re out on a date and burdened by thoughts of ‘I’m not good looking,’ then you’re toast.”
How much fun would you have if you could tell your date was super insecure about their looks? Probably not much. Instead, try to re-frame what the focus is, highlighting what makes you attractive rather than what you feel makes you unattractive.
“Play to your strengths,” he adds. “Tell great stories. Crack jokes. Be vulnerable. Find commonalities. Learn to flirt. Become a better man and showcase your real, vulnerable, always-improving self.”
Tessina argues that connection is the real place that attraction manifests itself, and connection can develop with no real regard to looks.
“You’re at your most attractive when you’re a good listener, who clearly cares about what your date is saying,” she says. “Show interest. Don’t let nerves cause you to talk non-stop. Give them a lot of chances to tell you who they are and what they like.”
And even if you’re insecure about some aspect of your body you definitely can’t change, whether you’re too short or too tall, too heavy or too slight, you can put a new spin on how you come across with the right style and grooming choices.
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“In dating, your looks don’t matter, but your look matters,” says Barrett. “You can’t change your face without a surgeon’s knife, but you can upgrade your style today. Buy shirts and pants that look fitter for your body, wear quality shoes, get a great haircut. Dressing sharp makes you feel more confident, and when you’re more confident, you’re more attractive.”
If you’re not sure where to start, consider asking for help from someone whose fashion sense you respect, or by asking salespeople in clothing stores what they’d recommend.
Regardless, if you’re willing to put in a little effort in that department, it can totally revolutionize your look (and your confidence) without much time or even money.
How to Have Dating Success If You Feel Like You Look Average
Feeling like you’re average-looking can feel like a death sentence for your dating chances.
But even if you don’t feel like your looks are holding you back, feeling stuck in the middle can sap you of your confidence in a heartbeat — particularly in a modern dating culture that can feel completely looks-obsessed at times.
However, according to some anecdotal data, what really resonates in dating app photos isn’t your looks so much as how happy you look.
“With Tinder and the apps, the attractiveness of your photos largely corresponds to the emotions you convey in the shots,” notes Barrett. “I’ve run countless tests on Photofeeler, and pictures that show a man smiling or laughing rate twice or even three times as attractive as the shots where the guys do a smoldering, [runway model]-type pose. To be more attractive on Tinder and get more matches, dress great, look into the lens and smile.”
Tessina, for her part, notes that average-looking guys can take their attractiveness up a notch by being strong conversationalists.
“Don’t sound average,” she advises. “Have some conversational topics that will interest a woman. Make sure she knows you care about who she is, not just how she looks.”
How to Have Dating Success If You’re Confident in Your Looks
Compared to all the less visually fortunate men out there, handsome guys might think they’ve got it made on the dating scene, but as noted above, looks aren’t the be-all and end-all of attraction.
Barrett, for one, cautions handsome guys not to get so cocky about their looks alone to get them dates.
“Think of it like this,” he says. “Jerry Seinfeld said that famous comedians get a ‘grace period’ at the start of a performance, but after a few minutes the audience says, ‘OK, time for you to deliver.’ In the same way, great-looking guys can’t rest on the laurels of their looks. They still have to connect, to flirt, to be interested, to be authentic, and be the best men they can be.”
Good looks might cause people to seek you out in greater numbers, particularly on looks-focused apps like Tinder, but love (and even good dates) is more than just a numbers game.
If you’re handsome as hell but feel lonely all the time or struggle to get matches or good conversations on online dating sites and apps, trying to unhook your expectations and approach from your looks and focusing on what you can bring in terms of your personality and developing true connections will do you a world of good when it comes to your love life — just as it will for guys who feel like they’re ugly.
4 Dating Tips for Shy Guys and Introverts That Can Totally Change the Game
An Introvert’s Guide to Dating
With such an overwhelming number of apps and unfortunately real phenomenons like ghosting, zombieing and kittenfishing in existence, dating has become more stressful than satisfying. Add something like introversion to the mix and it can prove even more difficult. Sure, introverts can make phenomenal partners, but the excess stimuli in the outside world combined with the already anxiety-producing nature of dating can leave them feeling super drained.
“The inherent stress of being social puts pressure on the introvert because they feel the need to be ‘on’ during the date,” says Fran Greene, licensed clinical social worker and author of “The Secret Rules of Flirting.”
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Dating requires you to be in tune with someone else’s needs and desires rather than focused inward. Not to mention, being open about sharing your own inner thoughts and feelings is essential — both of which can be difficult as an introvert.
“Dating can be particularly challenging if you struggle to talk about yourself and aren’t sure how to highlight your best qualities,” explains Pricilla Martinez, CEO of Regroop Online Life Coaching. “It can feel super invasive to get asked questions you don’t normally share until much later.”
Luckily, you don’t have to dread dating just because you’re an introvert. Just heed the following tips to ensure smooth sailing from the get-go.
Dating Tips for Shy Guys and Introverts
1. Set a Time Limit for the Date
While extroverts get their energy by being around others, introverts re-energize themselves while being alone. That means that limiting your time on a date is crucial to prevent yourself from feeling depleted.
“Don’t plan a marathon date that is going to exhaust you,” says Greene.
As much as you may think having early evening drinks at a bar, heading to a restaurant for dinner and then going to see a show will impress someone, it’s very likely to take a lot out of you (which means you won’t exactly be the best version of yourself on the date).
Instead, choose one thing to do together. It’s better to give 100 percent of yourself and less of your time than to overextend yourself and end up feeling drained.
2. Go Beyond the Expected
Meeting up for drinks may be the norm nowadays, but it can put a lot of pressure on you to keep the conversation flowing. Without an activity or something else to focus on, you’re left with little material.
“Do something that keeps it fun and active so you don’t feel you have to be the entertainment,” says Martinez. “You want to try to keep things light until you’re feeling more comfortable. It’s about striking a balance between have surface-level conversations and ones that are more intimate and give insight into who you are.”
That’s not to say you can’t meet in your typical social setting, of course, but consider doing so on the third or fourth date. Until you’ve established a sense of security, you may want to consider going bowling, scoping out an exhibit or seeing some live music at a cozy venue — all of which provide plenty to talk about.
3. Choose Activities That Keep You in Your Comfort Zone
While you may enjoy taking the reins with planning dates, at some point or another, you may find yourself in a situation where your date takes the initiative. If that’s the case, always make sure to check in with yourself to gauge what feels do-able.
“Don’t try to impress your date by saying yes to something that is going to be uncomfortable for you,” says Greene. “It’s okay to be honest (to a degree) and tell your date you prefer quieter surroundings and that you do not thrive in crowds. You may have to compromise a bit, but you won’t waste your energy pretending to want to be at a music festival with 30,000 other people and then secretly wanting to escape instantaneously.”
The idea is to select environments and activities that make you feel as comfortable as possible so that you can enjoy the experience more, and so you’re more likely to engage than to withdraw.
According to Greene, a few ideal dates for an introvert include going to a movie or other performance during off-peak times, sticking with very small gatherings and parties and having coffee, drinks or dinner at places with a quiet, intimate vibe.
4. Give Yourself Permission to Bail
There may be times that you start to feel overwhelmed on a date. In those situations, you shouldn’t sacrifice your well-being just to avoid disappointing someone you don’t know very well. Similar to the first point about hinting that you’re on a clock, Martinez notes that the best way to avoid these scenarios is to set up a finite amount of time for the date from the get-go.
“Let them know that you have other plans or something to do after your date,” she explains. “If you’re enjoying yourself, you can always ‘change’ those plans later.”
While this handy little strategy is highly effective at the beginning of a relationship, you’ll eventually want to be honest with your date about feeling overwhelmed.
“Give them a chance to navigate this with you,” she adds.
And if your date can’t handle your introverted ways? Well, they’re simply not a good match. Greene adds that it’s always better to cut a date short than to let it drag on while you’re feeling tired or uncomfortable.
“If your date gets the feeling that you are trying to escape, your chances of another date are not likely,” she notes. “It’s always best to end a date on a high note.”
Dating as an introvert may have its challenges, but don’t forget that you have so much to offer any potential love interests. Introverts are known for being excellent listeners who are highly in touch with their emotions and needs, and who can cultivate super deep and meaningful relationships.
Keep all of that in mind while you’re navigating the dating world, and you’re sure to attract someone who not only accepts your introverted ways but sees them as a major perk.
Being a Gentleman Will Help You on the Dating Scene
Here’s Why Being Chivalrous Is Always the Best Way to Act
The Dating Nerd is a shadowy figure whose whereabouts and identifying details remain unknown. What we do know is that he is really, really good at dating. He’s been on more dates than you can shake a lengthy bar tab at, and he’s here to help the average guy step his dating game up a notch — or several.
Hi Dating Nerd,
A female friend tore me a new one recently because she says I’m a jerk to the girls I date. She listed off a bunch of things I’d done on dates with some of her friends or girls she knew (not paying for meals, not paying for cabs, talking too much apparently, openly asking if the girl wanted to hook up), and said I was behaving like a scumbag. This caught me by surprise — I feel like it’s no different from what every other guy out there is doing. Am I wrong? Is she right? Won’t I come off weird and loser-ish if I’m super nice and don’t assert myself?
– Disappointed Danny
Danny, Danny, Danny.
This may sound crazy, but perhaps the single biggest favor you could pay your future self right now is to learn how to be a gentleman.
Gentlemanly values have been experiencing a slow and steady decline over the past several decades, if not centuries. Things like chivalry went from held in high esteem to OK at best to unnecessarily fallen to the wayside. If you were to give a random woman your arm to try and help her out of a car at this very moment, you’d be met with a significant amount of skepticism — to say nothing of throwing your coat over a puddle so she could walk through without getting wet.
Today, it’s far more common for women to experience shabby treatment from men. Getting ghosted, getting roached, getting unwanted dick pics, short flings that disappear as soon as you develop any feelings for the other person — that’s the modern dating experience in a nutshell for a lot of people who date dudes.
If you’re not interested in treating your matches well, that probably suits you just fine. Chances are you’re unlikely to be noticeably worse than the next guy, and most people will be so burnt out by previous bad treatment that they won’t be expecting much by the time you roll around.
However, the paucity of good dating behavior in contemporary singles culture has a flip side, and if you’re willing to put in even a little bit of effort towards being gentlemanly, you stand out in a serious way.
These days, you’re not competing against kings, princes, male models and rock stars. Your rivals are Kyle, who’s trying to get more Tinder matches than every other guy in his frat before Friday, and Jon, who knows more porn stars by name than actual women.
Have you ever heard the old canard, “People won’t remember what you said, and they won’t remember what you did, but they’ll remember how you made them feel?” Well, that’s what being a gentleman is all about: making people feel good.
Next time you’re on a date, suggest a time and place. Ask your date questions and make her feel like the star of a one-night, two-actor show. Pay for everything you both do, and appreciate your time together no matter what happens at the end.
In short, you’re going to be a gentleman.
Why, you might ask? Well, in one shot, you’re doing a few different things.
For starters, you’re elevating the level of dating behavior, even if microscopically, for the whole culture. We fix this environment where we’re all horrible to each other by putting ourselves on the line, acting with kindness and grace rather than with naked self-interest.
Secondly, you’re treating her right. You’re not treating her like an audience for your blathering, and you’re not treating her like a vending machine for sex. You’re treating her like a person. Whatever she thinks about your looks, your musculature or your car, I guarantee she’s more interested in how it feels to sit across from you. And if it feels good, she’s going to want more of it.
Thirdly, look, the date might not fall the way you want. When a first date sputters out, it’s not fun for either party. But here’s the thing — if you were a consummate gentleman from point A to point Z, that attitude will carry over to your future outings.
If you treat your next date like trash and make her regret the day she ever agreed to meet up with you? Well, you’re only doing your part to worsen the dating culture for everyone. You’re absolutely destroying your chances, and you’re more or less guaranteeing that no one will want to give you so much as a second look.
So take your pick. Being a douchebag might be easier — but don’t you think being a gentleman has a happier ending? You tell me, Danny.
How to Know If You’re in Love
Not Sure If You’re in Love or Not? Here’s How to Know for Sure
What does it mean to be in love with someone, when you really get down to it?
You might picture stereotypical scenes from romantic movies or lyrics from songs about love, people claiming they can’t live without the other person or they think about the other person constantly, but there’s more to being in love than just experiencing romantic desire and passion for someone else.
What Does ‘Being in Love’ Mean?
“Deep romantic feelings are only part of the picture,” says dating coach Connell Barrett. “You also have a strong need to contribute to that person’s life — to make them happy, to give them kindness and compassion, to help keep them safe. You also want to grow with them. In short, being in love is about needing to give to and grow with someone you have strong romantic feelings for.”
Tina B. Tessina, Ph.D., psychotherapist and author of “Dr. Romance’s Guide to Finding Love Today,” agrees that wanting to share your full lives is a big aspect of being in love with someone.
“Being in love means wanting to share life with a partner, wanting to make that partner happy, caring about your partner’s feelings and wants, and feeling good about being together,” she says.
In short, being in love with someone is a combination of different feelings — a strong desire to see and spend time with someone, not just in one specific way but in many different ways, not just in the short term but in the long-term as well.
Being in love with someone is about feeling that you’ve met your perfect match — someone who’s deeply right for you, someone you’ll care for no matter what.
The Difference Between Loving Someone and Being ‘In Love’
Of course, you might be curious about what differentiates simply loving someone from being ‘in love’ with them — and that’s a fair question. Is “I love you” different from “I’m in love with you?” And if so, why do we say the first to people we love as well as to people we’re in love with?
Some people might not necessarily draw a distinct line between the two concepts, but generally speaking, people understand that you can love someone without being in love with them — that we reserve ‘in love’ for one person only, someone we love in a romantic and passionate way.
“We love all kinds of people: parents, children, dear friends, good buddies, beloved mentors,” says Tessina. “However, being in love means wanting to share all aspects of life with that partner: living together, making love, building a life for the two of you (and maybe a family) feeling especially close to one person, closer than anyone else you love.”
Part of that dynamic, Tessina notes, is the idea that the two of you could conceivably turn your long-term relationship into spending your entire lives together.
“Your parents and children will grow away from you as you or they grow up,” she notes. “Your friends may move, get married, or otherwise be unavailable. The person you’re in love with and you intend to be with each other always, and you’re willing to work to make sure the relationship grows and thrives.”
What drives that desire for it to just be the two of you? Barrett argues that it’s simple: passion.
“When you’re in love, you’re fueled by a strong passion for that person,” he says. “It feels like being possessed. That’s what a great relationship is: love and passion. Without that desire, you’re like very close friends. You may love them, but you’re not in love.”
While that passion is primarily emotional, often it can take the form of physical (that is, sexual) passion.
“You want to be intimate with someone you’re in love with; kiss them, cuddle them, and have sex with them,” says Engle. “As simple as this sounds, ‘love’ vs. ‘in love’ basically boils down to romance and, unless you’re on the asexual spectrum, sex.”
Signs That You’re in Love With Someone
So how do you recognize that you’re really, truly in love with someone? Of course, there’s no simple way to do this. It will feel slightly different for every person and every couple, and there’s no simple set of things you can check off to show you that you’re in love.
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However, there are some signs that might be useful in determining if your feelings really do qualify as being in love.
“If you can picture a future with your partner, and there’s no one else you can picture that future with, that’s probably love,” says Tessina.
It may also present itself as a feeling of nervousness or giddiness, initially.
“The old phrase ‘butterflies in your stomach’ to describe love is actually pretty accurate,” says SKYN Condoms’ Sex & Intimacy Expert, certified sex coach, sexologist and author Gigi Engle. “This is short-term anxiety that feels exciting — kind of like being on a roller coaster. When you first fall in love, your brain is flooded with dopamine and oxytocin, which feels amazing. This is what cultivates sexual and romantic attraction.”
“Another sign is when your mind is obsessively thinking about the person,” Engle says. “Obviously in some cases this can be unhealthy — such as, if this isn’t someone you’re actually dating or potentially dating — but, when we’re in love our minds are awash with feel-good chemicals. We’re looking for that next hit of the good stuff: oxytocin, or the ‘love hormone.’ This is why being in love feels so good, and why we can’t seem to get our minds off our partner.”
Barrett agrees that thinking about someone a lot is definitely part of the package.
“It starts with a feeling of euphoria, being in a new, exciting world,” says Barrett, comparing the feeling to the point in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ when the movie goes from monochromatic to full color. “That person in your thoughts constantly, making you giddy just to think of them.”
“You’re very interested in the things that they like,” he adds. “You check your phone a lot to see if they’ve messaged you.” And likely, he notes, you’ll be spending a lot of time being physically affectionate — whether that’s sex or things like holding hands, kissing, hugging, or simply lounging in each other’s arms.
However, lots of these factors can be present in the early stages of a relationship — truly being in love is when these feelings last long enough to start thinking of what your life together will be like.
“You want to plan the future with them in the picture — the trips you’ll take, the dog you’ll get, the house you’ll buy,” Barrett says.
Signs That You’re Not in Love With Someone
OK, so maybe the above signs weren’t totally conclusive for you. What about when you’re not in love? Are there any surefire signs of that to help you sort out your feelings?
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For starters, Tessina suggests, imagine if you could never have sex again — or your sex life would all but dry up. Would that change how you felt about your partner in a drastic way or would you want to stick with them?
“If your main interest in your partner is sex, that’s not the same as love,” she says.
For Barrett, sex is less of a factor. He thinks if you’re not in love with someone, you’ll forget about them completely as soon as they’re not around.
“The biggest sign you’re not in love with someone is that they’re not on your mind when you’re not with them,” he says. “You may like them, enjoy them, have great sex with them. But if you’re not thinking about them often, you’re not in love.”
“Another big indicator? They back out of something you’ve planned to do together — and you’re relieved,” he says. “And if you don’t day-dream about the things you share with this person, then you’ve either lost that lovin’ feeling — or you never had it to begin with.”
“You can be dating someone, find them fun and cute, and still not be in love with them,” says Engle. “Maybe you are enjoying playing the field or aren’t in a place in your life to get serious with someone. That’s OK too.”
“Really, if you want to know if there’s a future, envision yourself in a long-term, monogamous (assuming you’re monogamous) relationship, and see how that makes you feel,” she advises. “Are you scared or anxious? If it doesn’t make you happy or excited, it’s probably not love.”
Tessina agrees. “If you feel neutral about the relationship, and not committed to it, you’re not in love. If you don’t make each other happy, that’s not love.”
How to Handle It If Only One of You Is in Love
What about situations where two people are dating but only one of them feels like they’re in love with the other?
Is the relationship doomed to failure or can you make it work? Of course, there’s no guaranteed way of knowing, but some factors can make it more or less likely that you’ll be able to work things out. The first thing you should know is that you shouldn’t panic.
“It really depends on the context of the situation,” says Engle, as to whether things are salvageable or not. “If your partner says they love you and you aren’t ‘there’ yet, that’s OK.”
“Not everyone falls in love at the same time, despite what the movies will tell you about fairytale romances,” she notes. “You might just need a little extra time to get to that place. As long as you see the potential for things getting to love, you’re doing alright.”
“You have to be open and communicative with your partner about this,” Engle advises. “Let them know that you see the relationship moving forward and that really excites you, but you just aren’t ready for ‘I love you’ yet. It will probably hurt their feelings, but you have to be honest with yourself about these things and not say something you don’t mean.”
What about if you’re the person who’s in love, but your partner isn’t? That can be a trickier place to be from an emotional standpoint. Tessina advocates giving them some space to figure out how they really feel.
“The first thing to try is backing off a little, to see if the person is just taking you for granted because you’re making it too easy,” she says. “If the other person comes forward when you back off, then it might be possible to balance out the relationship. If not, the relationship may always be one-sided, and it’s probably better to let go and find someone else.”
Barrett agrees that sometimes, a relationship where only one person is in love just won’t be workable in the long-term.
“When only one person is in love, that’s often the death knell for a relationship,” he says. “You can have an honest, heart-to-heart conversation to find out what might be missing for the person who’s not in love. Maybe there’s something you can work on.”
“But it takes two to have a great, passionate, loving relationship,” he says. “If only one of you feels that way, and it doesn’t seem like the other person’s feelings will change, end it. Life is too short to live it without real love.”
How to Talk About ‘Being in Love’ With Your Partner
If you’re not sure how to bring that heart-to-heart conversation up, that’s normal. Love is a big, intense feeling, and the fear that your emotions might not be reciprocated can cause even the bravest people to clam up. So first things first, don’t beat yourself up if you’re struggling to open up about things.
“There is a beauty to vulnerability when it comes to being open about falling in love,” says Engle. “The best thing you can do is go for it, if it’s what you really feel. If you want to be more cautious, starting with,
‘I think I could see myself falling in love with you’
is a good first toe in the water. This way you get to gauge out where your partner is emotionally and move from there.”
She advises that you keep the conversation small and real, however — rather than shooting to be romantic.
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“No grand public gestures,” Engle insists. “This will probably freak your partner out and could lead to an embarrassing situation for both of you. If you want to do something cute and romantic, send them roses after the ‘I love you’ has happened. You don’t want to put pressure on someone to say something they don’t mean.”
How to Navigate Football Season When Your Partner Hates Sports
Does Dating Someone Who Doesn’t Share Your Love for Game Day Warrant a Breakup?
Stating that autumn is one of the most wonderful times of the year is hardly a controversial opinion. From the changing colors of the leaves and all things pumpkin spice to costume parties around every turn, it’s easy to see why people love when the calendar flips to September and October. Here in the U.S., of course, we have another time-honored tradition that makes the fall season that much more special: football.
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Saturdays and Sundays in the fall are practically holy days in American households across the nation — and no, not the get-down-on-your-knees-and-pray kind of holy. By one count, 73 percent of men and 55 percent of women watch NFL games on television, while millions more attend the contests in person every season.
That means roughly two out of every three Americans tune in to the NFL each weekend. Those numbers mean that if you’re a guy interested in finding a football-loving partner, you have pretty solid odds. But what happens if you don’t? What happens if you meet your significant other during the offseason, but when it comes time for kickoff, they refuse to sit down and watch a game with you?
If the two of you have other things in common, there are ways to stay happy without every weekend inevitably leading to a standoff over how to spend your time.
First off, if you’re with someone who doesn’t like sports, just know there is a zero percent chance you’ll be able to watch every single game you want — unless your plan involves becoming single again, that is. If your desire is to press onward with this individual, that’s a fact you simply have to accept.
Second, there is no magic wand you can wave to make your significant other care as much about football as you do. If they haven’t grown to appreciate the sport by now, it’s unlikely that your repeated attempts to sit them down in front of the television on Sundays are going to uproot their deeply entrenched beliefs that the game is either boring, pointless or just too aggressive for their liking.
The road to bettering your relationship, or at least making sure it doesn’t go off the rails, during those precious four to five months that football graces the television starts with one word: moderation. While you may want to watch 20-plus hours of football on the weekend, doing so will result in no favors where your partner is concerned. In fact, that behavior is more likely to result in you spending the night cold and alone on the couch.
“The assumption today is that you will watch any football possible,” wrote “The Wall Street Journal” columnist Jason Gay in a thinkpiece published a few years ago. “Not only will you watch it, you need to watch it, because it is the highlight of your weekend and the fiber of your being, as essential to your happiness as sunlight and chicken fingers and maybe actually more than the sunlight. Your attention is not so much courted as it is expected.”
In reality, we know the world won’t end if we miss some of the big game to spend a bit of time with our significant other. Relationships always call for a little bit of sacrifice, and getting away from the television for a while is a healthy habit to get into. Plus, they created sports highlights for a reason, you know?
The second thing to focus on is gratitude. Maybe it sounds a little weird to say “thank you” to your partner for putting up with your football addiction, but if they’re sitting down to watch a game with you when it pains them to do so, you have to realize that they’re making a small sacrifice for you. Buckling in for a three-hour affair that they absolutely abhor is likely not the way they prefer to spend their time, so simply acknowledging their willingness to do will you do some good.
As for the way to truly seal the deal, ensuring football season doesn’t leave your relationship in shambles? Be extra conscientious of the things you’re doing with your partner while the game isn’t on. That’s when you need to be paying attention to your partner as much as you can — partly to show them that no, sports aren’t the only thing you care about, and partly to store up some brownie points when kickoff comes back around.
Take your significant other out for a midweek date, cook dinner together one night or watch a show or movie they enjoy. The more your partner feels valued and connected to you throughout the week, the better chance they’ll be more accepting of your football fanaticism on the weekend … even if they still have trouble getting into the game themselves.
Speaking of getting into the game, there are a couple things you can do to get your disinterested partner more involved on game day. Thomas Edwards Jr., founder of The Professional Wingman, says getting them in the mix during football season just takes a little bit of planning.
“If you’d really like for your significant other to be a part of the experience, you can incentivize them,”says Edwards. “For example, if you’re a guy who likes to watch sports with the boys, have your boys invite their girlfriends and that’ll make yours more excited to join you.”
Basically, you should make game day more of a social event. For some, that means the actual game is the main event, while for others, the excitement comes more from spending time with friends or loved ones, sharing a smorgasbord of game day treats with one another, and basking in the party-esque vibes of the day.
If you just can’t seem to get your partner on board whatsoever, or if it seems that your viewing preferences will never exactly align, Edwards notes that’s no reason to cause concern in regards to the future of your relationship.
“Your viewing preferences are no different than your hobbies or interests,” he says. “Sometimes, they are different from your partner’s, and that’s okay — especially when individualism and ‘me time’ in a relationship are needed.”
For this same reason, Edwards also thinks we don’t necessarily need to seek out partners that are as wild about football or other sports as we are.
“If you really want to have a partner who’s as obsessed as you, awesome,” he says. “If you’d rather keep your fanaticism to yourself and have your partner be wild about ‘Jane the Virgin,’ that’s fine, too.”
Dating With an STI Can Be Difficult – These Sites Can Help
Best Dating Sites for People With Herpes
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Dating can be hard in the first place, and approaching it with an STI certainly doesn't make it any easier. It’s one of those things you have to disclose despite there never really being a good time for it. In fact, the idea of breaking down your own walls and sharing something so sensitive, not to mention something that inevitably comes with a backstory, may make dating seem difficult or even impossible.
Even with endless knowledge at our fingertips, many still still lack widespread knowledge of STIs — specifically, herpes. For those who don’t understand the incurable but highly preventable herpes virus, the idea of dating someone with it may seem like an automatic no, when there’s actually a lot more to it than you were taught in your sex ed class.
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First of all, HSV (herpes simplex virus) is more common than you probably think. It’s estimated that about half of the population has HSV-1, or what is widely understood as oral herpes spread just from oral contact. Beyond that, about one out of every six people age 14 to 49 have HSV-2, the latter which usually falls into the ‘traditional’ category of an STD. This strain is more often spread by more intimate sexual activities.
More important than how many people have the virus is the lifestyle that comes along with it. Just because someone has herpes does not mean he or she cannot date, or that they are tarnished in some way. An STI can be spread during an individual's first sexual encounter or simply because a past partner was not honest about their condition. Despite the outdated stigma our society carries around, having herpes in no way signifies the infected individual is dirty or promiscuous.
Dating with herpes may require more communication, self-restraint and creative intimacy, but it’s far from impossible. If you have HSV-2, it's important to be honest and tell your partner about the virus at an appropriate time. It shouldn’t be the first sentence that comes out of your mouth, but it also shouldn’t be the last before you jump into bed when passion can overtake rational thinking.
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Luckily, the Internet breaks down some of the self and society-imposed barriers that come along with dating with herpes, providing a transparent medium to interact and get to know others without so much worry about ignorant judgment or responses. When you discover the world of online dating for people with herpes, you’ll find that the comfort and security of being behind a screen allows you to easily open up about your specific condition, and be upfront and blunt more effortlessly than you are likely to be face-to-face. The virus becomes less important and who you are as an individual —your personality, quirks, likes and dislikes — are elevated.
The sites below, catered to those with herpes, provide a communal feeling for its users. Just being on them may do wonders to increase your confidence in offline dating, too. More importantly, niche sites designed for people with herpes streamline the process of getting over the STD-talk road bump, allowing for fun, meaningful connections with others while remaining both safe and honest. When it comes down to it, if you have the virus, there’s really no reason not to explore such sites. Go ahead and save yourself some time in your dating life as you read on to discover the best dating sites for people with herpes.
Debatably the most well-known dating site for people with STDs, Positive Singles has an impressive 1.5 million membership base and counting. The dating site may be so attractive to individuals because it focuses on matching you not just based on your medical condition, but based on other, more standard compatibility factors such as your interests, lifestyle preferences, and even star sign. Beyond the non-bias matching system, Positive Singles has a host of other features some casual hookup sites don't.
Positive Singles provides both transparency and privacy, with highlights such as the ability to see who has viewed your profile, the option to browse anonymously, detailed privacy settings that allow you to hide your profile based on a specific set of rules you create, a setting to hide areas of your profile (including the type of STD you have), and even the option to require a special password to open the app on your mobile phone. It also goes above and beyond to provide an immersive online dating experience complete with a 15-question profile section listing your answers, as well as the answers you’d like your match to have. There are also profile verification options, a Tinder-style swiping section, and even free one-on-one dating advisors — which usually alone cost more than any standard dating site membership. While it doesn’t constantly remind you that you are on a niche dating site (in a good way), it does provide some helpful resources and support including a care location directory, Q&A section, forums, and more.
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MPwH, which stands for ‘Meet People With Herpes,’ claims to be the original dating site for people with the virus. The inviting site is available for members with all sorts of relationships statuses, including those who are married and in a committed relationship, but is restricted for people only with HSV-1 or HSV-2. Profiles list what type of the virus you have, but it’s only a small field amongst over 25 other profile fields, including multiple choice and open ended questions. There’s also a reassuring profile verification option, along with a handful of privacy settings you can customize to your liking.
The herpes-only dating site feels and works much more like a traditional dating site, and is filled with an abundance of features that allow your personality to dominate your online presence. Video introductions and private albums allow you to make your experience on the site truly unique. You can sign up for a free membership and use about half of the features on the site, or upgrade to a paid membership to unlock over 30 additional features. It's not a big issue if you don't pay, but if you want to really get detailed in your searching or see others’ interest in you, such as who liked your profile, the upgraded membership is worth the price tag.
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H-Mates is dedicated to connecting people with STDs for anything from friendships to serious dating. The site has a rather detailed sign-up form that looks much like one from its founding date of 2004. It has all the features of a basic dating site and operates just like one. There isn’t a ton going on behind the scenes here, with H-Mates providing more of a supportive online community where real connections can be formed. The site is not solely dedicated to people with herpes, but there is a profile field that lets you select the types of members you are looking to meet based on the type of STD(s) they have.
The options for self expression are impressive here, with the ability to upload an unlimited number of profile pictures (and a video introduction). You can browse and search to discover others, but there are a few other matchmaking features available after answering various types of questionnaires. You also get all the typical online dating ways of interacting, and even some rather unique ones, such as sending virtual kisses. The niche site doesn’t have the most modern interface or advanced matching algorithm, but it is 100 percent free to use. Going along with the ‘supportive’ theme of the site, H-Mates does accept donations, giving you access to premium features. With no paid membership, it somewhat equals the playing field for all members.
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Best Gay and LGBTQ+ Dating Sites
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GayFriendFinder
When it comes to online dating, gay men have been fortunate enough to find a space where they’re able to communicate with their dating prospects without judgment from the outside world. Sure, there are public spaces where it can be possible to meet a potential match, but even the gay clubs of today are filled with women who don’t want to be hit on by straight men, and straight guys so comfortable with their sexuality that they don’t mind the go-go dancers. Meaning, gay dating sites have been a welcome innovation.
According to a study conducted by HuffPost on the online dating behavior of 4,000 gay men, over 49 percent of users are between the ages of 25-39. Basically, if you’re a millennial, this is one of the best options for connecting with another gay man in a completely casual way. Of all the men surveyed, 79 percent stated that after using an app, they found a lasting and fulfilling relationship (whether is was a friendship, romance or friends with benefits), while 21 percent said they did not find love, only lust. You can take away that from purely a numbers perspective, men seeking men (or women seeking women!) would benefit from having an online profile.
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But online dating, no matter what your sexual orientation, can be challenging. You have to wade through hundreds of filtered pictures of strangers. Then you have to make awkward small talk to see if you’ll even have common interests to talk about once you meet up … and after all that, there is still the coordinating of the first date. It can be exhausting to go through the process time after time in the hopes of finding someone who will make you want to delete your online dating profile forever.
So if you’re looking to meet a new friend (or find the perfect guy to bring home to meet mom), browse below to find a beginner’s guide to online dating as a gay man.
The Best Dating Apps for Men in the LGBTQ+ Community
Although not exclusive to gay men, OkCupid still remains one of the most used online dating websites owing to the fact it’s free and has some major name recognition. When it comes to asking your friends which online dating website they’re signed up for as a millennial, most will respond with OKCupid.
It allows you to fill out questions in order to find matches with similar minded people, and since it is not toted solely as a sex app- chances are you’ll more likely to find someone you’ll be happy to bring home to mom to. OkCupid skips being like all those other dating sites with a slew of extra features such as allowing you to swipe on potential matches (much like Tinder) as well as answer insightful questions about yourself such as “What are your favorite novels?”
Whether you’re a gay Christian looking for another gay date to discuss your faith with, or if you’re a bisexual dude looking to experiment with going out to coffee with another male, chances are the OkCupid is the place to find them. In addition, their mobile app allows you to take your online dating profile everywhere you go, making this one of the best free gay dating options available to you. It’s worth mentioning that OkCupid was the first dating app to let users choose their preferred gender pronouns, and also provides 22 gender and 13 sexual orientation options to choose from.
Price: Free (A-List packages range from $32.99 to $119.99)
Pros & Cons of OkCupid
No cost to browse and interact with people on the site
Simple and straightforward design is easy to use and isn’t distracting
Upgrading to the A-list is cheap and offers great features
People aren’t taking it seriously as it’s free to register
Have to pay to get full functionality of the site
Not as much selection in smaller cities or towns
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One of the more commonly known gay online dating sites, Adam4Adam is more straightforward with its users’ intentions than OkCupid. The site is primarily used to find sexual partners who match your sexual and physical interests. This is great news for anyone who wants to try out a sexual fantasy or experience they’ve yet to have since Adam4Adam has an extensive filter feature that allows you to sort through users by age, race, weight, sexual position, and relationship status.
Yes, Adam4Adam even takes into account that a lot of homosexual couples are more adventurous with their sex lives. You’re able to sort through gay couples who are seeking to bring in a third for either solely fun or for a gay polyamorous relationship.
Either way, this free site has stood the test of time since it was launched in 2005 because it simply works to connect gay men who are both looking for a sexual connection and the potential for it to turn into more than just a one-night-stand.
Price: Free (VIP Memberships range from $5.49 to $104.99)
Pros & Cons of Adam4Adam
Full range of services for free
Offers users vast filtering options
High volume of fake profiles
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Perhaps the most widely used gay dating app, Grindr has become synonymous with gay online dating. The reason for this is simple: Grindr is a clean looking app that allows you to filter through your matches who are in your local area. Using GPS match generation, Grindr allows you to see how far away your potential dates/ hookups/ new friends are from you.
Grindr is free, however the premium feature (which begins at 14.99 a month) allows you to see unlimited men in your area and get more specific with your filter searches (for example, the free version of Grindr only allows you to filter your searches with 3 categories while Premium lets you filter through 8 categories of specification).
Grindr is also known for first introducing the “tribe” feature for gay men. You’re able to sort yourself into categories such as: Jock, Nerd, Discrete, Twink, Daddy, Rugged, Poz, Trans, and Otter. This allows you to connect not only with like-minded people, but allows people who are interested in your specific “tribe” to locate you. All of this makes Grindr a big step up from using your local classifieds.
Price: Free (Xtra memberships range from $22.99 to $92.99)
Pros & Cons of Grindr
Popular app with large active user base
Location-based platform allows users to more easily find others for in-person hookups
Free account has limited search capabilities
Lots of ads
Can only view small number of profiles in your area
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Piggybacking off of Grindr, Scruff is another geolocation gay dating app that allows you to “unlock” photos of yourself and others in order to expedite the pesky “pics?” problem apps like Grindr face. Scruff also has employed the tribe feature on the app, but allows you to back search for people who are directly interested in the group of gay men you most identify with.
In addition, it allows users to check out which queer-focused events are going on in their area during the week and which Scruff users in your area have RSVP’d. This feature not only makes Scruff both a great dating and sex app, but it allows gay men to meet in safe spaces where they can connect in real life.
Of course, Scruff is primarily used for those looking to make a sexual connection, and the lack of requirement for a profile picture opens up users to fake profiles and catfish. But, despite these minor setbacks Scruff succeeds where most gay dating websites fail- it moves beyond the solitary matching scheme and offers users the chance to attend events together, and to discuss queer news with each other.
Even if finding a sex buddy isn’t on your mind, Scruff is ideal for finding someone in your area that checks all your boxes owing to their varied and nuanced ‘categories’ section and filter options. It fulfills the need for connection, friendship, sex, and, yes, community building, something usually missing from those other gay dating apps.
Price: Free (Scruff PRO memberships range from $11.99 to $99.99)
Pros & Cons of Scruff
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The gay dating website that doesn’t have a sexually charged name, GayFriendFinder sets the scene for gay men to connect beyond sexual hunger. The site is free to sign up and allows users a plethora of space and description to tell the world what they’re looking for in a partner. Other apps- such as Grindr and Scruff, limit how many characters are able to be in a user's’ bio, which can mean a less concrete chance of finding the ideal person for you.
Much like Scruff, GayFriendFinder allows users to coordinate meetups, such as gay board game night or even a night out with new friends. The website allows you to search for gay singles in your area— and even includes a feature that allows users to announce when they’re traveling and who else will be in the area during that time.
By giving gay men more to do on a dating application than to ask each other for nude pictures, GayFriendFinder allows you to find your next date, friends-with-benefits, and, yes, next best friend.
Pros & Cons of GayFriendFinder
Gives users option to find singles, couples and groups
Promotes community with forums and original blog content
Verified email profiles
Extremely limited free profile
Lack of active members
Limited filtering options
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Owned and operated by Bumble, Chappy proudly bills itself as “the space for gay connections.” The social connection app is on a mission to end stereotypes concerning gay men and dating, doing so through four unique connection opportunities: “All Dating” (open to any type of connection), “Casual” (sex or FWB, basically), “Commitment” (looking for a relationship) and “Friends” (no pressure). Other than these connection filters, the app operates just as Bumble does, using the familiar swiping method to make matches. It’s nice to see a company that's finally catering to the gay community and not as an afterthought by offering a safe, judgement-free space.
Pros & Cons of Chappy
A Bumble-like app full of gay users
Easy to indicate what (and who) you’re looking for
More people seeking relationships
Prompts can come across as excessive
No direct matching algorithm
Still new, not many users
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Tinder may seem like a straight person’s app, but it has recently made great strides for LGBTQ+ inclusion. Launched around Pride 2019, Tinder introduced the features “Orientation” and “Travel Alert”. The former is rather straightforward: Orientation lets users select their sexual orientation, acknowledging that the feature will “continue to evolve and change, just like sexuality.”The latter, Travel Alert, could potentially be a lifesaver, protecting LGBTQ users when they enter any of the 70 countries that have laws criminalizing queer people.
Tinder will alert an LGBTQ user when they open the app in one of these countries so they can take extra caution and not unknowingly place themselves in danger. Once the alert is activated, users can choose to remain hidden or connect with new people. If they choose to stay visible, their sexual orientation or gender identity will not be displayed until they leave the area. While the Orientation feature is admittedly a little late to the party, Travel Alert is a new and important feature that deserves to be recognized.
Price: Free (Tinder Plus purchases range from $1.39 to $27.99)
Pros & Cons of Tinder
Quick registration matched with a user-friendly interface
No matching algorithm to narrow field for gay men
Limited bio prompts
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Growlr is an app similar to Grindr and Scruff, but is more niche, marketed primarily for bears (the typically huskier, harrier variety of gay man). The app, like Grindr and Scruff, uses geolocation technology to source potential mates for whatever type of connection you’re seeking. Currently, Growlr hosts a fraction of users that the other popular gay dating apps do, but that’s to be expected when you’re marketing to a fraction of the gay community.
Since its recent acquisition, the company that purchased Growlr, The Meet Group (which also owns dating apps Lovoo, Tagged and Skout) plans to introduce live-streaming capabilities. The streaming is meant to be an entertainment component with the idea being that when users aren’t getting a lot of messages, there are livestreams put on by others that can provide entertainment.
Price: Free (Growlr PRO Memberships range from $5.49 to $13.99)
Pros & Cons of Growlr
Users are active
Limited “type” of men
No matching algorithm
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The Awkward-Proof Guide to Handling the Check on a First Date
How to Handle the Check on a First Date Without Making It Awkward
Nothing can disrupt the mood on a first date more than the bill being dropped on your table. Sure, the cocktails were killer with the conversation flowing freely, but just like that, the air shifts. It’s a stiff standoff as you and your date both awkwardly fumble for your wallets.
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Perhaps they reach for their card with no intention of actually paying, forcing you to repeatedly insist that you’d like to treat. Or perhaps you assumed you’d go dutch, but your date isn’t even attempting to contribute. There are lots of potential misunderstandings that can happen when the check comes, but luckily, it’s totally possible to avoid them altogether.
According to a recent survey of 300,000 single Americans, a whopping two-thirds (63 percent) of guys think that the man should pay on a first date. However, less than half of women (46 percent) agree. And while nearly one in five women prefers going dutch, less than one in 10 men are down to split the bill evenly. Sounds troublesome, right?
In reality, handling the check doesn’t have to be such a conundrum. The key is to go into the date with a specific intention, set that expectation ahead of time and stick to your guns. As for after the first date … well, then it gets a little more complicated — but we’ve got you covered. Below, we’ll go over how to handle the bill at every stage of your relationship.
How to Handle the Check on the First Date
According to etiquette and relationship expert April Masini, figuring out who should pay actually has nothing to do with gender. If you’re looking for a rule you can stick to that will simplify things, she’s got one.
“Whoever does the asking should do the paying,” she says. “In other words, if you ask someone out on a date, the polite thing to do is to treat them.”
Basically, if it was your idea to grab drinks or hit up that new restaurant, the gracious thing would be to cover the bill on your dime. That said, there’s still a chance that your date will try to contribute when the check comes. In order to minimize any potential awkwardness, Masini recommends being very clear about your invitation from the get-go.
For example, you might say “Let me buy you dinner,” or “Let me take you out, I’d love to treat you.” That way, your date can relax when the check comes as you’ve already made things clear ahead of time.
On the other hand, if you’re the one who was invited on the date and you feel uneasy about letting the other person pay, Masini suggests offering to cover the tab if/when you decide to go out again.
How to Handle the Check on the Third Date
Once you’ve gone out a few times, the dynamic may shift a bit. If one person initially paid the bill, the other person may decide to pick up some of the slack. But there are a few factors at play here: who did the inviting, like before, and who’s in a financial position to treat.
“If you both make similar amounts of money, then you can start alternating who pays for dates,” says Masini. “This should happen organically and casually. For instance, the person who has not been paying may pick up tickets to a concert and invite the other person. Or they may invite the other person for a home-cooked meal that they shop for and prepare.”
While some couples may opt to go dutch, Masini notes that it’s less romantic than switching off who pays the check.
“It doesn’t create a feeling of taking care of one another, which is a nice part of relationships,” she explains.
How to Handle the Check Once You’ve Started a Relationship
By the time you’re in a committed relationship, the status quo changes again. Very often, as that initial courting stage ends, both people in the relationship expect each other to pull their own weight. This is especially true once you move in together, blending your finances together as one.
“You both know more about how much you each make, save and spend,” says Masini, “and it’s easier to know who can afford to treat, and how you want to handle money as a couple. If you’re living together, you don’t just have dates to think about — you have to think about paying rent or mortgage and who pays what, who’s on title or on the lease and how you save and spend separately and together. By the time you’re living together, who pays for dates is a much smaller blip on the radar, and it’s dwarfed by who pays for groceries and how you’re saving for vacations and retirement together.”
Of course, income still comes into play when deciding who will foot the bill on dates. According to Masini, if there’s a significant difference in how much both partners are earning, the person who has the vastly higher income should pay for a larger portion of the dates as the relationship progresses. That being said, there are ways for the partner who earns less to contribute financially in their own way.
For example, if the higher earner picks up dinner on date night, the other partner can grab breakfast (or just coffee) the next morning. It’s important to note that it’s always better to openly discuss this kind of financial understanding than it is to make assumptions. While it may feel awkward to bring up who’s paying for what, it’s the only way to ensure you’re both on the same page, thus preventing the kind of misunderstandings that breed resentment or lead to conflict.
And any perceived awkwardness around the bill typically stems from your internal anxieties or beliefs.
“It’s often carried over from the way money was handled or taught growing up,” notes Masini. “If you expect to pay for a date because you invited someone out to dinner, then there’s no awkwardness. And if you expect to be treated to dinner because someone invited you, there is no awkwardness.”
Paying for a date is a very personal thing, and the status quo will vary from couple to couple, depending on their personalities, preferences, incomes, and other factors.
“In some cases, it’s more important to one person — regardless of whether they have more or less money than a partner — to do the paying because it makes them feel more capable and chivalrous,” adds Masini.
In other words, there is no perfect rule or formula for figuring out who should pay on a date. Generally, if you invite someone out, it’s a good idea to cover the costs — at least in the very beginning of the relationship. But when in doubt, talk it out. Once your relationship begins to progress, your dynamic will undoubtedly change, explaining why constant communication is key. The best part? Having these tough money talks early on will only make your relationship stronger (and will help keep from spoiling your dinner).
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How Dating and Relationships Have Evolved Over the Last 20 Years
Then & Now: 20 Years of Dating, Sites, Apps and Rules
Like with many different things in our lifetime, a span of 20 years is bound to bring some significant changes. And at no time does that feel truer than now, in this digital day and age when change feels so constant that it can be difficult to stick with at times.
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For better and for worse, dating is one of those integral aspects of our lives that’s constantly touched by change, especially as the online side of things has made its way to the forefront over the last 15 years or so. But as things have changed, AskMen has been right here, helping you make it through every step of the way.
That’s why, as the site celebrates turning 20 years old this month, we wanted to take a look at just how far things have come since the late 1990s. The following is a snapshot of where we’ve been, as well as where we are now.
Meeting Someone, Then & Now
Then — You’ve got two solid options: get out there and be social, or have your friends set you up with someone they know. If you go the blind date route, you’re literally going in blind; there’s no way for you to check this person out beforehand, unless your buddy physically gives you a photo of them. Good luck!
Now — Tinder, Bumble, Grindr, Facebook, Instagram, eHarmony, Match … the list goes on. Go ahead and slide into those DMs before someone beats you to it.
Then — Find out what you can from friends and friends of friends. Realize all of the information was wrong when you meet face-to-face.
Now — You are a social media sleuth. Check their Facebook (they do have one, right?), their Twitter, their Insta, their Pinterest or maybe even their LinkedIn. Just don’t accidentally like a photo from two years ago, or you’ll look like a major creep.
Getting in Touch With Potential Bae, Then & Now
Then — Sure, cell phones are around, but who even has one of those? You’re going to be calling a landline — you know, one of those stationary telephones with a spiral cord that loves to get tangled. Everyone except for the person you’re trying to reach will answer. You’ll have to leave a message with someone, but unfortunately, there’s no real guarantee that it will ever reach the ears it was meant to grace.
Now — You’re not a caveman … just text them. Use some emojis while you’re at it.
Then — Maybe you’ve added them to your contacts on AIM or MSN Messenger. Maybe you’ll get lucky and catch ‘em signed on to their dial-up, or maybe their little icon will tell you they’re away with a cheesy lyric-filled message. Either way, tread carefully: there’s always the possibility you’re getting trolled by their little brother.
Now — Get the Snapchat streak going because that’s how you know it’s real. Really, though, it’s easy: you hardly even have to have a conversation anymore. Just take an artsy selfie, scribble out most of your face, insert a self-deprecating yet playful message about how ugly you are, and send that baby on its merry way.
Becoming Your Best “Romantic” Self, Then & Now
Then — Stand in line at the local grocery store or pharmacy and pretend you aren’t looking at the glossy covers of women’s magazines that promise to teach you about “the hottest sex tricks you have to try.” Sneak a glance at some of the articles, mentally take a relationship quiz and then internally freak out after finding out you’ve been doing it all wrong.
Now — The articles have migrated online and multiplied a thousand fold, if not more. Travel to the darkest corners of the Internet. Find out anything and everything … just make sure you’re not looking at it on your work computer. They can track that.
Spending Time Together, Then & Now
Then — Plan cute dates frequently, whether that’s going out for ice cream, seeing a movie, or playing mini-golf. Hang out at the mall, because at this point, that’s still a thing. Picnics in the park are popular too, as is rollerblading or taking a long, leisurely hike (but actually).
Now — Does binge watching “Stranger Things” with your blackout curtains permanently closed count as a cute date?
Then — Stay up until an ungodly hour talking on the phone about life, your hopes and dreams, what you had for dinner, what you’re doing next weekend, regrets, your fears and your most embarrassing moments — any and all topics under the sun. Wake up the next morning, receiver still in hand, busy signal steadily thrumming in your ear.
Now — Fall asleep without responding to their goodnight text. Wake up the following morning to a scathing diatribe about your qualities, not only as a partner, but also as a human being. Alternatively, get hit with radio silence for the first half of the day. That’s dating for ya in 2019.
Then — Write each other cute messages on sticky notes, leaving them in places where they’re likely to be found. Author full-on love letters sharing or reinforcing your true feelings. Cobble together the perfect playlist filled with the likes of Savage Garden and Backstreet Boys, burn the songs onto a CD, create your own cover art and relish the look on their face when you give it to them.
Now — Text each other using incomplete sentences sprinkled with copious amounts of hearts winking kissy faces and eggplant emojis. How else would you get the message across. And by the way, what in the hell is a CD? Share a YouTube link to Lizzo’s latest banger.
Calling It Quits, Then & Now
Then — Man up and break it off in person, or stop answering the phone. Your call.
Now — Man up and break it off in person, or stop answering the phone. On top of that, you can now block their number, unfriend them on Facebook, unfollow them on Instagram, unmatch on Tinder, ignore their Snaps, or sign up to fly to Mars with Elon Musk.
In 2019, your choices are endless.
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Are you interested in finding a long-term partner who works just as hard as you to form an adorable power couple? There’s an app for that. Do you have plenty of money, but not enough time to enter a relationship and would prefer a more casual connection? The internet has you covered in that area, too.
The question is: How should one navigate dating when time is limited? The answer requires sacrifice. “If dating is something you really want to commit to, then you need to prioritize and make time,” says Michelle Herzog, a relationship/sex therapist and owner of Center for Mindful Living in Chicago. “It's not likely that a romantic interest will suddenly appear while you are at your office 60+ hours a week.”
As a young professional's time is valuable, be clear on what kind of romantic relationship you have time for before starting the dating process. “If you are someone who regularly works more than 40 hours a week, travels often or has an unpredictable work schedule, then honesty with yourself and the people you are dating is critical to help manage expectations,” notes Herzog. “There are definitely ways to get creative while dating as a young professional, which includes joining local young professionals organizations, advisory boards or networking events specifically geared towards professionals in your age groups.”
As a busy professional, it's also important to be up front about your time constraints. “If there is a particular person you are interested in, engage with them on a regular basis and being consistent in finding a time to meet for another date can be helpful steps towards prioritizing your romantic life,” she adds. “For most people, quality relationships determine quality of life, not how much time you spend at your office.”
Because prioritizing work can lead to a skills deficit when it comes to dating and building healthy, adult relationships and we know that you’re busy, we've assembled a list of the best dating sites for professionals. Read on to get just what you’re looking for.
Dating Apps for Professionals
As professionals, we respect a business that gets to the point. Elite Singles matches you with other successful people, and gives you more than a Facebook photo to base your opinion on, too. The high-end dating site collects information about profession and appearance, so you can be as selective with your dating game as you are during the hiring practice.
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Match.com is a household name. As a professional, you know that to become a household name, you have to be doing something right. When you’re looking for a relationship with another grown-up who is ready for a real relationships and real conversations, Match is the high-end dating site for you.. Rather than just swipes, the site asks for information that is both erotically and intelligently useful. If you know you’re looking for a toned brunette, those filters are available. Likewise, if you know you’d be better paired with someone who interested in marriage and children someday, you can search for that, too. Match.com essentially lets you search for your dream partner. While it’s free to look, it will cost you per month depending on what package you pick. Think of it as an investment. Plus, that monthly fee helps to weed out the flakes who would only waste your precious time.
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The League made headlines for its professionalism in the likes of Forbes for a reason. The dating app bills itself as the go-to high-end dating app for professionals with high standards. Rather than Facebook, it uses LinkedIn to verify work and education information provided. Not anyone can join The League; you have to apply. However, with application comes the promise that your matches are likely to be people that you’re actually compatible with. With the slogan “date intelligently,” their ads encourage you to keep Tinder for casual hookups, but use The League when you actually want to date someone.
You have to play by the rules to stay in The League. Members who don’t log in for two weeks will be kicked out. That also goes for “flaky” members who ignore messages, so get over your fear of commitment before you apply. For professionals looking to meet someone up to their standards, it is the way to go. You can rest assured that all potential mates have been screened and approved, so fear not about fakes or bots. The app makes it clear that the office is in mind, because every day at 5 P.M. (happy hour) their “concierge” sends you a batch of matches. If you “heart” one another, it’s on. Start chatting and meet up for in real life happy hour next time.
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SeekingArrangement is undeniably controversial — we’re just going to lead with that. But as any businessman knows, if something is infamous, it’s because a lot of people are paying attention. SeekingArrangement connects sugar babies and sugar daddies. That means that usually beautiful, younger women, looking for a mentor to help with school or support their art, seek wealthy older gentlemen (and their wallets) for companionship.
We don’t judge and we’re not going to get high and mighty on you. Sometimes you want marriage; sometimes you want an arrangement. We praise Seeking Arrangements for its honesty. We respect that it can be hard out there for women to make it on their own. We also respect rich businessmen who would rather set up a casual arrangement when they want some company. And FYI, the website hosts sugar mommas, too. So if you’re a hot young guy looking for some support while you launch your own app, enjoy cougar hunting.
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Here’s the thing about Raya: It’s an application-based app “for people in creative industries.” (Read: celebrities) The waitlist is notorious; we know famous hot writers still stuck on the waiting list, so don’t let your ego get bruised if you don’t make the cut. However, if you are a professional in the creative industry, taking a shot and applying can’t hurt. You might end up sleeping with your celebrity crush.
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The Inner Circle markets itself as “fine dating,” and they aren’t lying. Sure, like Raya, there is a waiting list that makes the app sound a bit pretentious but after swiping past dozens of disappointing potential Tinder matches, the selective screening process of the high-end dating app may be just the ticket for the serious person with precious social and literal currency. They vet potential users on age, photos, and social networks. You’ve worked hard to get where you are, so when it comes to dating, you’re allowed to be a bit pretentious.
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Sure, everyone and their mother has Tinder, but that’s exactly why we’re here for it. Having Tinder is like owning good socks. Sure, it may not be the most special item of clothing in your wardrobe, but it’s pretty much a requirement. Along with hosting endless matches, we love Tinder for its easy location-based swiping. You may meet your future spouse, or you may meet a hottie for a one-night hotel stand while on a business trip. Tinder is a staple that everyone should have on their phones.
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eHarmony is a staple of dating websites. We use the word “websites” because it’s been around longer than apps even existed. While Tinder pretty much rely on photos and location. eHarmony digs deeper, asking about how many children you have, your religious beliefs, and how often you smoke and drink. This, paired with its success rate, inherently makes eHarmony a high-end dating site.
We dig eHarmony because while it’s more for people looking for long-term relationships rather than hookups, it has the same name recognition as apps like Tinder. That means more members, which means more matches for you. As a businessman, you understand that there’s power in numbers.
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While it’s certainly happened, you may not feel totally comfortable sliding into the LinkedIn message center of the hottie who works for your company’s competition. However, you may enjoy the idea of meeting someone who shares your ambition. This is where BeLinked comes in. With a tagline of “Date like a professional,” the app connects you to other ambitious singles using LinkedIn information.
It even weeds out unemployed users, or those without jobs up to the app’s standards. BeLinked is for busy professionals who don’t just want to date or hook up, but that are interested in forming a power couple. While some hard workers are happy to use their gains to support a partner, others prefer those who work just as hard as them and have their own wealth. If that’s what you’re looking for, BeLinked is for you.
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Whim tackles one of the biggest challenge of dating as a busy businessman: time. There’s a reason you have an assistant at work schedule meetings; you’re too busy attending them to tackle time management on your own. Whim acts as both your matchmaker and your personal assistant. You jot your schedule into the app, click the profiles of the people you want to meet, and Whim sets up the dates for you. All you have to do is show up.
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Dating Site for Medical Professionals
Convenience is important for medical professionals as hours can be sporadic, long and unpredictable. It also means you have no time for duds. If you’re seeking something serious and substantial, Coffee Meets Bagel could lead you to your soulmate. Perhaps what’s most alluring about the app is it provides a limited number of matches each day, pairing you with only the most compatible profiles. The app also relies on mutual friends to pair you up, meaning prospective partners will not be complete strangers and may even give you something – or someone – to talk about. Like you, Coffee Meets Bagel values efficient dating because you’ve got no time to waste.
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Dating Site for Black Professionals
BlackCupid resides under the umbrella of the leading niche dating group, Cupid Media, which operates over 30 reputable dating sites. Like most sites in their portfolio, BlackCupid’s function is fairly basic, offering standard, gold and platinum memberships. The website asks users to list their occupation, making it a viable space for professionals to meet. While the dating site is rather rudimentary in its function, it is unique in that it offers a space where black singles can speak with other black singles. Best of all, BlackCupid offers a profile verification feature, so you can be assured there is no insidious behavior going on.
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Exclusive Dating Site for Professionals
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Time is of the essence for busy and frantic professionals. That means convenience is important, and it’s why Happn may be the high-end dating app for you. Happn uses a unique geo-targeted system which matches users with people they’ve come into close contact with throughout the day. Considering most professional positions are stationed in large cities, matches in nearby office buildings or on bustling streets will be far more expansive than if you lived in a small town. Matches include the company and job title of each user, as well as any shared interests you two have, making for easy, breezy conversation. A suggestion: It’s also super easy to set up a casual drink after work at a nearby bar.
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Dating Site for Young Professionals
If you’re young and educated, Bumble is the app to use. According to stats, 72 percent of the dating app’s user base is under 35-years-old, and 91 percent of them have at least a Bachelor’s degree. The app is also great for those will little time to socialize because, as with work, there are deadlines to be met. Once a match is made, users only have a 24 hour window to make their first interaction, which in the case of this app, is all up to the female – an asset for those who fear the process of writing an inventive intro.
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Ask E. Jean – How to Cope When Your Ex Get’s Engaged
Dear E. Jean: Last year I met an adorable fellow at a bar. One thing led to another, and we ended up going home together that night. We saw each other off and on for several weeks, then he dumped me, saying I was too young for him. I’m 24. He’s 31. Six months later, he started dating a phony, obnoxious, downright dim-witted woman I work with. (We work in TV.) She was with me the night I met him! I had a hard time dealing with them being together, seeing as how he broke my heart, but I managed to function at work. Well, guess what, E. Jean? That bitch got engaged to him! Now it’s impossible for me to pretend that they don’t exist as she is wagging her ring all over. I’m inconsolable! How can a woman like that get engaged, and someone like me—smart, funny, friendly, cute—be single? It’s unfair! So unjust! How do I deal?—The Cast-off
Cast, my kumquat: Trust me, I’ve been there. You’ll never get over him until you stop hating her. Besides, the proper etiquette for picking up a random homie in a bar is for the young lady to make the event fun for everyone. So, how to “deal”:
1. Distance yourself. Step back, be the dragonfly on the wall when you interact with the woman—and observe yourself in the experience. Be “curious, not judgmental,” as old Walty Whitman says. You’ll feel instantly less wigged out.
2. Give her an engagement gift. This will make you see yourself—to elaborate on your female dog metaphor—as less the foam-flecked Hound of the Baskervilles and more the lovable Lassie.
3. While children are starving on this planet, you can loudly complain about “unjust,” but do it while you volunteer at a family homeless shelter. Check out the National Center on Family Homelessness (“For Every Child, a Chance”) at Familyhomelessness.org. You may meet someone here who’s “adorable” and not a total dickhead.
This letter is from the Ask E. Jean Archive, 1993-2017. Send questions to E. Jean at E.Jean@AskEJean.com.
Ask E. Jean: Why Hasn’t He Called?
Dear E. Jean: I’m a 28-year-old television news producer in Atlanta, and I met a guy (a creative director at an ad agency) two weeks ago in a bar. We had fantastic chemistry. After dancing half the night, we went back to my place. It all felt so good until he took his shirt off. I ran my hand over his back, and he was covered in large moles! I got seriously turned off, couldn’t touch him, couldn’t even look at him. I said we were moving “too fast” and asked him to put his shirt back on.
He stayed the night, so basically we made out. I have to admit I was not impressed with the way he kissed. In the morning, I just wanted him out of my bed. Frankly, I was desperate to get him out of my apartment. Okay, he was a lousy kisser and his moles got to me, but my question is: It’s been 13 days, so why haven’t I heard from him? What went wrong? I thought he liked me! Why hasn’t he called? —Crazy, Stupid Crush
Miss Crazy: Auntie Eeee will lose her faith in womankind if you’re sincerely asking why you haven’t “heard” from a chappy you couldn’t bear to “touch,” “look at,” kiss, or run your hand over. For future reference, if you want a man to call, tell him: “Don’t call me.” Men (and women—as you so perfectly prove) are more turned on by a challenge than by an invitation. For more tips about calling (and cocktail coaching), go to DatingEJean.com.
This letter is from the E. Jean archive.
How do signs of the zodiac have sex? Are they sensual? Is it spontaneous? What vices do they make out? What turns them away? An Athens escort can easily tell apart what sign of the zodiac is the partner she has!
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The favourite phrase of Aries is “Fast to the Roast“. Aries’s temperament in sex does not differ from his real life – he likes it spontaneous adventurous and wild. Feelings are better to miss, otherwise Aries get… the down walk.
Nevertheless, he will give his best, perhaps more than needed.
Unlike Aries, Taurus has other vices. He wants hugs, he wants atmosphere, he likes sensual situations. He will welcome his partner with candles, red wine and strawberries – whatever you see in TV.
If he falls into a partner who snorts sensuality and wants unpredictable sex (that is, Aries), he gets him down.
Gemini, while he is old-fashioned and wants specific things in sex, likes to have a “basic recipe“. Occasionally, he wants sensuality, sometimes he also wants to get it. Sometimes he wants a little role play, and others wants to move from one room to another.
If you do not want to move around, do not stay undead or “starfish“. She does not have sex just to do.
Most times Cancer is misunderstood, he’s too romantic and sweet to sex. The truth is that one of the reasons that he is unique is because to take out his vices he has to do it slowly – otherwise he will scare his partner.
If you want to push the Cancer, just look at yourself in bed.
He wants to have tremendous performance in sex. And it is not enough for him to feel himself performing well, he wants and his partner to agree to. He likes words in sex, especially when it comes to him and how delightful his sex is.
He will get back if he realizes that you are bored even for a while – he will not like it at all.
As long as the hypothetical partner takes care of the body’s (and oral) hygiene, Virgo can become very “dirty” in bed. It is enough to get to know a little, so much that there is the necessary intimacy.
He will be in an unperturbed sensitive area or dirty sheets. He must have his head clean so that he is concentrated wherever he should.
Libra is another sensual sign. At the same time, he likes to experiment, in such a way that he learns his partner’s buttons: by mutual masturbation let’s say.
He will be even if he is hurt, even for fun. For example telling him about his belly, it probably will not have any positive results.
He will do his best to satisfy his partner – the Scorpio’s partner will be badly miserable. He is observant and knows how and when he should add a bit more passion. Especially enjoying anal sex, as it requires more lust.
It turns him off when he finds his girlfriends with someone who just make her happy. No, if you do not want sex, do not give him the favour.
It is the definition of experimentation. To the extent that if his partner is not very open-minded, he may freak him a bit. He likes to play porn movies on screen as long as he does sex; not because he’s “making it” but because he likes to try out ideas.
If you want to force him, tell him “I love you” the first time you have sex.
Generally, Capricorn works with goals, sets them and achieves them. So that’s the sex for him. What is the purpose of sex? Have orgasm both. Therefore, he will learn everything about his partner’s tastes and will adapt accordingly. The next stop is his own, though.
If you do not want to stay away, do not criticize his or her tastes on the bed. Everybody bothers them, but Capricorn affects him a little bit more.
To irritate an Aquarius, you must stimulate his mind first. He likes cinematic sex – and we do not mean sex under the sheets combined with a French kiss. He’s looking for exaggeration. And if this exaggeration means sex on the balcony or bromoglossy at a loud intensity, the Aquarius is in.
You will be relieved if you want the same things all the time. Some people like it, not Aquarius.
Pisces are supposed to like romance, and you are right. But he has another side, his wild side. For anyone looking for a partner who ‘sells’ a little the fairytale, but to do a wild bed, Pisces is the ideal one.
Pisces does not easily move away. However, if he does not like something, he tells you and you ignore it, better go home.
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Who are more Prone to being Unfaithful?
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What is the real reason why women deceive their comrades?
While there are many motivations for infidelity, including revenge, boredom and emotion, experts say that sex determines precisely why we can cheat behind the back of our partner.
People deceive for all sorts of reasons, but it is your gender that determines why you may be unfaithful.
As for women, ladies tend to play in the field if they feel emotionally depressed – while men are more likely to move away if they are not satisfied with the physical side of their relationship.
While there are many reasons for unfaithfulness, experts say that the majority of times, the motivations behind cheating differ according to gender.
Why are women deceiving?
Surveys show that women often wander when they feel they have an emotional gap with their other half and feel lonely
Men tend to deceive when they feel they do not get enough sex at home or they are sexually attracted to another woman
Family therapists claim that women usually say, “I felt alone, there was no contact between us, I was not close to my partner, and he always took me for granted.”
They also say they need to have someone to look at them and make them feel sexy again.
Women tend to be unfaithful if they feel emotionally deprived.
Which gender is more likely to fall in love after cheating?
Rutgers University biologist, Ellen Fischer, says women are more likely than men to fall in love with the person with whom they cheated on their partner.
Women are also more likely to be deceived if their mothers have cheated their father in the past.
A recent study showed that 71% of the women who cheated revealed that their mother had also done so!
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7 Sexy Tips On How To Set Up Your Bedroom
It’s common knowledge that our environment has an influence on our realities and the way we feel. If you could stand some improvements in the bedroom, there are some fantastic ways that you can improve your romantic life, and most of them are so simple and easy to do. Things can get stale if you don’t change them up every now and then. We have some 7 sexy tips about how to set up your bedroom for better sex.
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1. Turn your bedroom into a sacred space
A bedroom that is filled with work equipment, dirty laundry or piled high with miscellaneous items doesn’t create a romantic mood. Find another place to store these items and make your bedroom your romantic sanctuary. Remove the things that remind you of work and create a comfortable and clean space that is reserved for sleeping and romance.
2. Decorate with equality
Since there are two of you in the relationship, if you’re living with a partner, decorate the room to be relaxing and sexy. Make sure to include things that make you feel special and things that make your partner feel equally special. When it’s a space that both of you are comfortable in, the sparks are more likely to ignite into flames. Creating equality in the physical outlay of the bedroom can be symbolic of your relationship.
3. Make the bedroom smell inviting
There are many different kinds of sexy scents that you can invest in for your bedroom. It’s a good idea to choose scents that you both like. A word of warning though. When browsing through the various aromatherapy scents available, look for one that creates a sense of calmness but one that also invigorates you. When you feel more invigorated, you’re more likely to have an energetic intimate encounter.
The sense of smell has a powerful influence on our sexual appetites and desire. Find a scent that you both agree upon, find a good quality diffuser or lightly scented candles and lightly scent your bedroom. A few tips on relaxing scents are jasmine, vanilla, tea tree oil, and lavender. Energizing scents are rosemary, citrus, orange, and lemon.
4. Keep the temperature a little cool
A room that is too warm can make you both feel sleepy. It can also interfere with the quality of an erection. The ideal temperature for a sexy bedroom is slightly cool. This can help to stimulate both partners and keep the heat down until your raise it naturally. The perfect temperature setting is between 67-70 degrees Fahrenheit. You’ll also enjoy a better quality of sleep.
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4 No-Pain Tips For Anal Sex Beginners
Anal sex can be such a fun, exciting and super-pleasurable experience. However, lots of people get it so wrong that anal sex has a bad name. Some people try to avoid having anal sex altogether. First, I’m going to cover the ground rules of preparing for anal sex, which you absolutely can’t avoid, like staying clean and safe.
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The reason so many people never want to try anal sex with their partner is because they think it will be messy, unsexy or even unsafe. Follow these guidelines during your anal sex preparation and you will never have to worry about it being messy or unsexy.
TIP 1. Make sure you are clean
Some people think that just because you can’t get pregnant from anal sex means you don’t need a condom. If you are not both 100 percent monogamous or have been tested, you need to wear a condom. Catching an STI from anal sex is very possible. This is especially true if it’s the receiving partner’s first time, due to very small skin tears in the anus and rectum.
Choosing the right condom and lubricant is also crucial when learning how to prepare for anal sex. If you are using a latex rubber condom, then you must NOT use an oil-based lubricant. Oils will degrade the latex condom, making it highly likely that it will tear, something you absolutely don’t want to happen. So remember to choose a water-based lube when using latex condoms.
Tip 3. Don’t do anything you feel forced into
One of the biggest problems when preparing for anal sex is that guys can develop an obsession with it. It could be because he’s curious, he wants to tell his friends “I’ve had anal sex,” or it could be any other reason.
That’s perfectly fine, but you absolutely should never feel forced to have anal sex with anyone. Just because your man is insisting on it doesn’t mean that you have to do it with him. If you really don’t want to try it, then don’t. It’s as simple as that
TIP 4. Learn to relax your sphincter muscle
At the entrance of your anus is your anal sphincter. This muscle plays a crucial role in how much you enjoy anal sex with your man. This muscle isn’t like others. It can’t relax very quickly; instead, it takes quite a while to fully relax, but once it does, it can stretch quite a bit. When it’s tight, it’s very tight. So during your anal sex prep, you need to set aside some time to allow your sphincter to relax comfortably.
If your man just tries to enter you without allowing you to first relax, then you’re going to have a very painful time. A good way to start getting it to relax is to first slip a lubed finger in there. Then, hold it in place for a few minutes and just relax. You’ll notice after a while that your sphincter just naturally loosens up. The key is to allow your sphincter to relax enough so you can fit your man’s penis comfortably in you.
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By Shira Anthony May 31, 2016 Category: Dreamspinner, Dreamspinner Press, Excerpts, gay, Gay Romance, Guest Blogger, New Release, New Releases, Series, UncategorizedTags: dystopian, Elizabeth Noble, paranormal, Sentries
Please welcome the wonderful Elizabeth Noble who is visiting to share an excerpt from her Sentries series! Have I mentioned that I LOVE this series? Yep. I have now! – Shira
Hello and thank you Shira for hosting me today. The first chapter of Ringed Love is posted on Dreamspinner Press, so over the next two weeks I’ll be offering the first one hundred or so words of each subsequent chapter.
Today’s excerpt is from chapter 13, the final chapter. Thank you to everyone who has joined along during this tour!
Nick stood quietly to the side and watched the scene before him. Todd had a map spread out on the big table in Nick’s clinic. That was the best place to gather the area sentries when they all had to meet.
“Listen up, boys and girls, here’s the plan.” Todd pointed to different areas on the map as he talked.
“There were three bad earthquakes in less than two weeks, and things are getting bad down there.”
He nodded to one group of three people. Kids, really. When had Nick gotten so old that young men and women in their twenties and early thirties with families of their own seemed like kids?
Blurb: New Colorado Protectorate fell with the assassination of Chancellor Clarke. Like many others, Todd and Nick Ruger left the land of their birth and made a home to the north in Yellowknife. Their world was ever changing. The time came to say a sad farewell to some of their friends and loved ones, but they were taken in with open arms by others and in turn offered shelter to yet more. Through the years they remained steadfast in their duty as sentries to protect and defend those that needed it the most.
Time marches on but through it all they hold each other dear and cherish the love they’ve shared. There are still angry ghosts, Windigos and water spirits to contend with. Their lives change, offering them new roles. When the time comes, they do what sentries have done for generations prior and teach others the skills to carry on as sentries. The Rugers lives were rich and their hearts full with their devotion and love for each other. The tradition of the sentries lived on forever. It was the legacy of Todd and Nick Ruger. That was the way it was always meant to be.
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Bio: Elizabeth Noble started telling stories before she actually knew how to write, and her family was very happy when she learned to put words on a page. Those words turned into books and fanfiction that turned into a genuine love of M/M romance fiction. Being able to share her works with Dreamspinner is really a dream come true. She has a real love for a good mystery complete with murder and twisty plots as well as all things sci-fi, futuristic, and supernatural and a bit of an unnatural interest in a super-volcano in Wyoming.
Elizabeth has three grown children and is now happily owned by an adorable mixed breed canine princess and her sidekick, tabby cat. She lives in her native northeast Ohio, the perfect place for gardening and winter and summer sports (go Tribe and Cavs!) and stargazing all year long. When she’s not writing she’s working as a veterinary nurse, so don’t be surprised to see her men with a pet or three who are a very big part of their lives.
Elizabeth received several amateur writing awards. Since being published two of her novels have received honorable mentions in the Rainbow Awards. Her novel Jewel Cave was a runner up in the 2015 Rainbow awards in the Gay Mystery/Thriller category.
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May 20 Charlie Descoteaux
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May 24 Sarah Madison
May 25 Rick R. Reed
May 26 Skylar M. Cates
May 27 Lou Sylvre
May 30 Ki Brightly
May 31 Shira Anthony
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Food in the field: Iron Rations
Cooks mincing bully beef from Iron Rations to make rissoles at a field kitchen in Ypres, 1917 (AWM E01064)
Posted on May 7 2018
If a soldier entered enemy territory or was stuck in No Man’s Land, a well packed kit could mean the difference between life and death.
For this reason Australian troops were issued with the ‘Iron Ration’, an emergency supply of preserved meat, cheese, biscuit, tea, sugar and salt.
The ration was designed to provide a minimum of 13,890 kilojoules (3,319 calories) per day, sustaining a man in the field for 24 hours, and it was not to be eaten except in emergency—with permission from an officer.
The theory was that as troops moved in an advance, their division train would push supplies forward and provide fresh meals.
The reality, however, was quite different.
Graham Wilson, in his book Bully Beef and Balderdash, found that Australian soldiers often had to rely on their Iron Ration:
“Quite often, men might have no more than their 24-hour iron ration to sustain them for up to three days, sometimes even longer, until they either got back to their own lines or the supply system caught up with them. It is for this reason, no doubt, that the many personal memoirs of the AIF recall ‘going over the top’ with a voluminous pockets of the Australian blouse stuffed with extra tins of bully beef and packets of biscuit, ‘just in case’.”
Catering for diverse cultures and food habits across the Imperial forces – including British, Indian and Australian – was not an easy task.
Biscuits were an important part of the ration. Initially these were provided by companies in India but in 1915 manufacturing was moved to Australia.
The biscuits, known as hard tack, had to be softened with a liquid. They were so tough that soldiers frequently used them to make trench art and some are still held by the Australian War Memorial.
The name ‘Iron Ration’ came from the tinned, boiled beef to distinguish the emergency supplies from fresh rations. Australians adapted the French term ‘bouilli beef’ to ‘bully beef’.
The pack generally included:
1lb preserved meat
3 oz cheese
12 oz biscuit
5/8 oz tea
½ oz salt
1 oz meat extract
The allocation did not have the relevant nutrients for long-term wellbeing, including Vitamin C, calcium and fibre, but it was appropriate for soldiers for one day, as intended.
Bleuets for remembrance in France
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June 6, 1995; 24 years ago (1995-06-06)
Dick's Sporting Goods Park
Commerce City, Colorado
18,061, expandable to 19,680[1]
Kroenke Sports & Entertainment
Conor Casey (interim)
Western Conference: 11th
Overall: 21st
Playoffs: Did not qualify
Home colors
Away colors
The Colorado Rapids are an American soccer team that plays in Major League Soccer. They are one of the founding clubs of the MLS. The hometown of Rapids is Denver, Colorado. The club was formed in 1996.
1 Stadium
2 Honors
3 Team records
3.1 Year-by-year results
3.2 Year-by-year stats
3.3 By opponent
3.4 International tournaments
Stadium[change | change source]
Dick's Sporting Goods Park, Colorado's home stadium since 2007
Mile High Stadium; Denver, Colorado (1996–2001)
Invesco Field at Mile High; Denver, Colorado (2002–2006)
North Area Athletic Complex; Arvada, Colorado (2003) 1 game in US Open Cup
Dick's Sporting Goods Park; Commerce City, Colorado (2007–present)
The Rapids play their home games at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado (ca. 8 miles north of the center of Denver). The stadium capacity is 19,680 and cost $131 million to construct. It is a stadium for football only. The soccer stadium opened on April 7, 2007. Before moving to DSG Park in 2007, Colorado Rapids shared Mile High Stadium and then Invesco Field at Mile High with the Denver Broncos an American football team.
Honors[change | change source]
MLS Cup
MLS Eastern Conference
Winners (Playoff) (1): 2010
MLS Western Conference
Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup
Minor Trophies
MLS Reserve Division (2) 2006, 2007
Rocky Mountain Cup (2) 2005, 2006
Team records[change | change source]
Year-by-year results[change | change source]
Champions' League
1996 5th, West (11–21) Did not qualify Semifinals Did not qualify
1997 4th, West (14–18) Final 3rd Round
1998 3rd, West (16–16) Quarterfinals Did not enter Qualifying Round
1999 4th, West (20–12) Quarterfinals Final Did not qualify
2000 3rd, West (13–15–4) Quarterfinals 2nd Round
2001 4th, West (5–13–8) Did not qualify 2nd Round Not held
2002 4th, West (13–11–4) Semifinals Quarterfinals Did not qualify
2003 3rd, West (11–12–7) Quarterfinals Quarterfinals
2004 3rd, West (10–9–11) Quarterfinals 4th Round
2005 3rd, West (13–13–6) Semifinals 4th Round
2006 4th, West (11–13–8) Semifinals Quarterfinals
2007 4th, West (9–13–8) Did not qualify 2nd Round
2008 4th, West (11–14–5) Did not qualify
2009 6th, West (10–10–10)
2010 5th, West (12–8–10) Champions
2011 5th, West (12–9–13) Quarterfinals Group stage
2012 7th, West (11–19–4) Did not qualify 4th Round Did not qualify
2013 5th, West (14–11–9) Knock Out Round 3rd Round
2014 8th, West (8–18–8) Did not qualify 5th Round
2015 10th, West (9–15–10) Did not qualify 5th Round
2016 2nd, West (15–6–13) Semifinals 5th Round
2017 11th, West (9–19–6) Did not qualify 5th Round Not held
2018 11th, West (8–19–7) Did not qualify 4th Round Group stage
Year-by-year stats[change | change source]
Sources: [2] [3]
League Record
Points GP W L D GF GA Name Goals
1996 29 32 11 21 0 44 59 Jean Harbor 11
1997 38 32 14 18 0 50 59 Paul Bravo 8
1998 44 32 16 16 0 62 69 Wolde Harris 13
1999 48 32 20 12 0 38 39 Jorge Dely Valdés 10
2000 43 32 13 15 4 43 59 Junior Agogo 10
2001 23 26 5 13 8 36 47 John Spencer 14
2002 43 28 13 11 4 43 48 C. Carrieri, M. Chung & C. Henderson 11
2003 40 30 11 12 7 40 45 John Spencer 14
2004 41 30 10 9 11 29 32 Jean Philippe Peguero 7
2005 45 32 13 13 6 40 37 Jeff Cunningham 12
2006 41 32 11 13 8 36 49 Kyle Beckerman & Nicolás Hernández 7
2007 35 30 9 13 8 29 34 Jovan Kirovski 6
2008 38 30 11 14 5 44 45 Conor Casey 11
2009 40 30 10 10 10 42 38 Conor Casey 16
2010 46 30 12 8 10 44 32 Omar Cummings 14
2011 49 34 12 9 13 44 41 Jeff Larentowicz 7
2012 37 34 11 19 4 44 50 Jaime Castrillon 8
2013 51 34 14 11 9 45 38 Deshorn Brown 10
2014 32 34 8 18 8 43 62 Deshorn Brown 10
2015 37 34 9 15 10 33 43 Kevin Doyle 5
2016 58 34 15 6 13 39 32 Shkëlzen Gashi 9
2017 33 34 9 19 6 31 51 Dominique Badji 7
Total 922 730 265 314 151 935 1,072 Conor Casey 50
Note: MLS did not allow ties prior to the 2000 season as games were decided by shootout when tied at full-time.
By opponent[change | change source]
Regular season record [4]
Chivas USA 2
As of July 3, 2017
Dissolved after 2001 season.
International tournaments[change | change source]
1998 CONCACAF Champions' Cup
Qualifying Play-off v. Club León – 1:0, 2:4 (León advances 4:3 on aggregate)
2011–12 CONCACAF Champions League:
Group Stage v. Isidro Metapán – 3:2
Group Stage v. Real España – 1:1
Group Stage v. Santos Laguna – 1:4
2018 CONCACAF Champions League:
↑ "Stadium Facts" (PDF). Dick's Sporting Goods Park 2018 Fan Guide. March 23, 2018. Retrieved June 19, 2018.
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Transportation & Air Quality
Transportation & air quality are connected issues, critical to evaluating and deciding on transportation initiatives. This collection of solutions and blocks provides a quick summary of resources on this topic.
Cut emissions from mobile sources by reducing emissions from the City fleet
The City is currently on track to replace or retrofit 90 percent of its diesel on-road vehicles to meet 2007 emissions standards or better by 2017. The impact is significant—it is estimated that replacing or retrofitting a vehicle to 2007 standards reduces emissions by approximately 90 percent over the previous standard. The City will consider targeting the remaining 10 percent of its diesel on-road vehicles. The City is also promoting the adoption of new technologies through a variety of innovative projects, including increasing electric vehicles in its fleet. This follows a legacy of leadership in technology development and adoption. For example, DSNY tested state-of-the-art technology and alternative fuels and helped pioneer the improvements in heavy-duty diesel emissions that are now taking place nationwide. At present, the City operates over 800 Electric Vehicle (EV) plug-in units of some type and plans to reach at least 1,000 EV units in operation by 2017. The City currently operates 203 EV chargers, which is the largest network in the state of New York. We plan to have at least 250 chargers in operation by 2017. By 2016, the City also plans to introduce fast-charging chargers and at least one solar carport, an EV charger that draws all its power from solar panels.
Cutting pollution through multi-modal transportation options
This solution addresses lack of environmentally sustainable transportation in Paris, France for local communities
Smart and Sustainable Paris
Incentives for reducing car use
Climate and Energy Action Plan
Enforce the updated DEP Air Pollution Control Code
The recently updated DEP Air Pollution Control Code controls emissions from currently unregulated sources such as commercial charbroilers, wood boilers, refrigeration trucks, and mobile food trucks. Altogether, these unregulated sources account for 14 percent of local PM2.5 emissions. Reducing emissions from commercial charbroiling is a cost-effective way to address a currently unregulated and significant pollution source. An analysis based on 2005-2007 data estimated that installing existing control technology could reduce charbroiler emissions in New York City by 85 percent and result in over 300 avoided deaths and 500 avoided emergency department visits and hospitalizations for cardiovascular and respiratory disease annually. The code also provides incentives to use clean technologies for auxiliary power units (APUs) for mobile food trucks and refrigeration trucks through registration-fee waivers and stricter controls on idling for vehicles without APUs.
Reduce emissions from private truck fleets and for-hire vehicles
Currently, the City’s Hunts Point Clean Trucks Program offers rebates to trucks servicing the Hunts Point market for voluntary upgrades to cleaner vehicles or fuels, including diesel replacements. Rebates are offered for the costs of upgrading or retrofitting to a CNG or hybrid, and old “dirty” trucks are being scrapped to ensure they are not resold. As of March 2015, the Hunts Point Clean Trucks Program has funded diesel replacement for close to 450 trucks, reducing their particulate matter emissions by 97 percent. The City will consider replicating the Hunts Point Clean Trucks Program in other industrial areas, with a focus on environmental justice communities and including private waste haulers serving those communities.
Reduce emissions from vehicle idling and toll crossing
Vehicle idling is a major source of pollution in New York City. According to the Environmental Defense Fund, air pollution from idling engines is a contributor to elevated levels of air pollutants, and people who live near heavily-trafficked roadways face significantly greater risks of suffering from asthma and heart diseases, among other conditions. Existing laws need to be enforced, and we will work with the City Council to explore new ways to address this serious problem. Finally, the City will work with the MTA to expand the use of gateless tolling—a system that dramatically speeds up the process of toll payment—to reduce congestion and the attendant vehicle emissions at major bridge and tunnel crossings in New York City.
Reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector
This solution addresses environmental degradation and public health problems associated with greenhouse gases in New York City, USA for local communities
Reduce carbon emissions from the City government’s vehicle fleet
Significant air quality improvement
This solution addresses lack of air quality improvement in New York City, USA for local communities
Accelerate conversions of residual heating oil boilers in buildings
Identify additional targeted air quality improvements through data analysis and community engagement
Sustainable transformation & traffic breakthrough through bike sharing
This solution addresses lack of cycling options as part of multi-modal strategy in Paris, France for local communities
Fostering bike share adoption in other cities
Impact on car traffic reduction
Financing through advertising
Trial in smaller city (Lyon) and replication in Paris to develop ideal model
Track performance of equity outcomes for impact
Infrastructure systems adapted to maintain continued services
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US Shopping Sites
Health and Beauty Supplies
Deals & Details for Beach Fashion
Roxy Womens Fashion & Beach Clothes for Girls
| Babies and Kids, Clothing and Accessories, Sports Equipment and Outdoor Gear |
When Quiksilver decided to start a women’s line in 1990, it was a gutsy move. The surf market has always been a fickle one. And female surfers, despite their achievements in and out of the water, hadn’t drummed up nearly the notoriety nor the community that guys had long enjoyed.
But great ideas always take some guts. And the company saw the untapped women’s surf market as a huge opportunity. Turns out they were right.
Roxy has long been in the media spotlight. After garnering editorial merit from major publications like Lucky, Teen Vogue and In Style in addition to most of the U.S. and international surf and snow publications, it was only a matter of time before Roxy hit prime time. “Surf Girls”, a collaboration of Roxy and MTV Networks, debuted on MTV in 2003 featuring Roxy’s team manager Danielle Beck as host and Roxy team rider Heidi Drazich as a cast member. The series was a hit, and helped to further popularize women’s surfing and Roxy’s part in the sport. The series also gave Roxy two new team riders: Kula Barbieto and Aimee Vogelgesang.
Strong retail presence is key to a strong brand, and Roxy retail stores were the perfect opportunity to showcase the Roxy lifestyle. The first freestanding Roxy store was opened in Hawaii in 1997, and another store followed in 2000 in Southern California’s South Coast Plaza. The Roxy retail chain now features stores all over the world, offering a taste of the Roxy surf lifestyle to girls everywhere.
Tags: Accessories, Beach Fashion, Kids, Surfing, Swimwear
California Lifestyle Clothing, Mens Clothing, Womens Clothing, Jeans, Tees, Hoodies, Boardshorts, Sneakers and Accessories at PacSun
| Clothing and Accessories, Gifts and Flowers and Food |
PacSun are constantly launching new ranges for Men’s and Women’s collections and have just released a new range for the holiday season!
The company sells lifestyle apparel, along with footwear and accessories designed for teens and young adults. Many of the lines are exclusively featured at PacSun and are available online before shoppers can purchase the products in the stores. These new products make excellent gifts for both men and women or even for yourself if you’re looking to keep up with the trend!
PacSun have evolved from just a surf and skate apparel shop into a leading retailer of emerging brands. Collaborations with notable design minded labels Whitley Kros and LnA coupled with a turn to style and fashion focused garments has given the brand an elevated look. 2012 saw PacSun collaborate with sisters Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner to produce their own fashion line based on their personal style which has been a massive success.
PacSun has been part of the Californian fashion scene for many years and with over 600 stores across the country, they strive to embrace and deliver all aspects of the California lifestyle to customers, leaving the possibilities limitless.
Tags: Accessories, Beach Fashion, Beachwear, Boardshorts, Clothing, Fashion, Gift Ideas, Shoes, Skateboarding, Sneakers, Surfing, Swimwear, Tshirts
Crocs Comfortable Shoes, Clogs, Flip flops & Sandals
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Crocs, Inc. is a world leader in innovative casual footwear for men, women and children. Crocs offers a broad portfolio of all-season products, while remaining true to its core molded footwear heritage.
Born in Boulder, Colo. as a simple, comfortable boat shoe, today Crocs™ footwear can be found across the globe and in more than 120 styles for men, women and children. With distinct collections, Crocs offers colorful, lightweight comfort for any occasion and every season.
All Crocs™ shoes feature Croslite™ material, a proprietary, revolutionary technology that gives each pair of shoes the soft, comfortable, lightweight, non-marking and odor-resistant qualities that Crocs fans know and love.
Crocs celebrates the fun of being a little different and encourages fans to “Find Your Fun” in every colorful pair of shoes. Since its inception in 2002, Crocs has sold more than 300 million pairs of shoes in more than 90 countries around the world.
The Crocs™ brand stands for innovation, fun and comfort for people who want shoes that conform to their personalities and lifestyles, as well as to their feet. Now in more styles and in more places for more occasions than ever before, Crocs™ is taking a big step forward in providing intuitive comfort to feet everywhere.
What separates Crocs™ from ordinary shoes? Radical thinking, industry-leading innovation, meticulous health-minded research, and never forgetting who we ultimately answer to: Feet. With utilitarian design with versatile function helps Crocs™ stand out. In a world full of bells and whistles, less is more.
Tags: Beach Fashion, Beachwear, Clogs, Crocs, Flip Flops, Kids Shoes, Sandals
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'Inconsiderate' And 'Rude' Bride Wants To Edit Bridesmaid's Tattoos Out Of Wedding Pictures
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Olivia Nazarewich 23 Aug 2019
Some brides can be down right bridezillas. In all fairness, it is their day after all. But some go a bit overboard, planning every exact move of how they want the day to go and freak out if it doesn't go the way they planned. We've all heard horror stories.
However, one bride reached out to the subreddit Am I The A****le to find out if other people thought she was in the wrong for wanting to Photoshop her bridesmaid's tattoos out of her wedding day photos.
One bride reached out to the subreddit Am I The Ale, where people share stories and welcome others' feedback on whether or not they think they're in the wrong or right.
Unsplash | Fernanda Prado
The bride-to-be wanted to find out if other people thought she was in the wrong for wanting to Photoshop her bridesmaid's tattoos out of her wedding day photos.
Reddit user and bride-to-be krofififjfj took to Reddit to see what others thought about her sticky situation.
She wrote that she is in a predicament. She has a bridesmaid who has a full-sleeve tattoo, and, well, she doesn't want her bridesmaid to have a full-sleeve tattoo on her wedding day.
She mentioned that the friend has previously covered them before for work purposes, so she asked her if she would cover up her tattoos on her wedding day.
Unsplash | Annie Spratt
"She said she wouldn’t feel comfortable with that as it’s part of her identity and she doesn’t want to just for my ‘aesthetic’ wedding," the bride-to-be said.
So, she contacted her photographer without her bridesmaid knowing to inquire about editing the tattoos out of the photos, which the photographer agreed to do.
So, she contacted the photographer, without her bridesmaid knowing, to inquire about editing the tattoos out of the photos.
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The photographer agreed to do so.
The Reddit user told the bridesmaid, but it didn't go over well.
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Well, unfortunately ma'am, most of Reddit thinks you are.
Reddit user TieDyeShyGuy started the discussion off, saying, "I'd say YTA [you're the a****le]. I imagine you asked her to be a bridesmaid because she's your friend? It shouldn't matter that she has tattoos. The fact that she is there and is a part of this important day should be all that matters."
And others agreed. One Reddit user expressed, "It blows my mind that people care more about the aesthetic of their bridal photos than about the fact that their friends and loved ones were there to celebrate with them as they are. OPs priorities are whack."
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And others agreed.
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One Reddit user expressed, "It blows my mind that people care more about the aesthetic of their bridal photos than about the fact that their friends and loved ones were there to celebrate with them as they are. OPs priorities are whack."
One Reddit user pointed out that, unless the tattoos are vulgar and inappropriate, then they cause no harm.
They wrote, "YTA. I have tattoos and as a woman they make me feel more beautiful and I love them. If one of my friends wanted to photoshop them out of her photos I’d feel like she wasn’t accepting me for who I am and what I choose to put on my body (which I have chosen thoughtfully and carefully). I could MAYBE understand if her tattoos were vulgar or inappropriate or something but her tattoos are who she is and she shouldn’t have to change or be changed to fit your aesthetic."
Some people feel that the bride doesn't truly care about her friendship with the bridesmaid.
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"People treat their bridesmaids like decorative accessories rather than people. It’s so weird," one user wrote.
Some people also felt that if a bride doesn't want their bridesmaids to look a certain way, they shouldn't ask them in the first place.
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One Reddit user replied, "Why would you ask someone to be in your bridal party, if you don't actually want them to be there as they are?"
One Reddit user brought up a good point. They said, "You wouldn't Photoshop her to be thinner if she was a overweight person, would you?"
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"That tattoo is a part of who she is and you are incredibly inconsiderate and rude in wanting to hide away a part of what she is," another Reddit user said.
While the response was mainly unanimous, there were a few people who didn't see a problem with the bride's actions.
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"I have multiple tattoos myself, I love all of them, and yet I plan on covering all of them up if I ever get married because they’d completely draw attention away from what is supposed to be the focus in photos," user HarleyQ wrote.
Another agreed, "I would totally cover my tattoos because that’s not someone asking me to change myself. Tattoo are something I use to decorate myself, but they are not me."
Another agreed, "I would totally cover my tattoos because that’s not someone asking me to change myself."
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"Tattoo[s] are something I use to decorate myself, but they are not me."
Hmmmmmm. This is definitely a tough situation for the bride-to-be and her bridesmaid!
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What would you do? Would you ask your bridesmaid to cover their tattoos? Let us know!
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Misplaced blame? Gay marriage not culprit for divorce, child abandonment
Recently, The Federalist featured a column from Heather Barwick about how the gay community is hurting children. Barwick should know. She was raised by two lesbian women. In her column she explains that her mom was always gay. Still, she ended up marrying a man (Barwick’s father) because “things were different then.” When Barwick was the tender age of 2 or 3, her mom split from her father and settled down with another woman — the environment that Barwick ultimately grew up in.
Barwick describes the pain of divorce and always longing for a father figure even into adulthood — recalling how her father wasn’t around after her parents split. She explains how this pain and her admittedly cozy upbringing ultimately led her to realize that families led by gay parents weren’t good for children.
The problem is, at no point in her article does she manage to connect the two and explain why. In fact, the article could serve as a case study for how gay marriage bans can ruin families and hurt children.
Stuck in the closet
Rather than having a mother who was able to be open about who she was and raise a child in a loving, non-divorced gay household, Barwick ended up with a mother who tried to fit the mold of a straight society that proclaimed she was an abomination.
It’s no surprise that her straight marriage eventually collapsed and Barwick suffered. What Barwick doesn’t seem to realize though is that this is not a failing of the gay community. This is a failing of a society that pushed people together who never should’ve been together and forced people to betray the very fiber of their being for as long as they could.
The real problem: Divorce and child abandonment
Barwick’s experience isn’t anything exclusive to the gay community. In fact, throughout her column, everything comes back to her parents’ divorce and growing up with someone who was not her father — what she is actually detailing are the kind of feelings thousands of kids who have gone through family divorce have written about.
Barwick cites no studies to back up her claims about needing both a man and woman in the house — and even her own experiences don’t make it clear such a thing is necessary. At no point does she lend any clarity as to why a man and woman were both needed in her household beyond the fact that she felt she was missing a father — again, a common issue for many children who’ve been through a divorce (even those who end up with step-parents).
The remedy: Gay marriage?
The truth is, embracing gay parenthood and gay marriage could possibly prevent the sort of unfortunate childhood Barwick seems to have had — preventing more broken marriages and households.
If we were to base things off of personal experiences, there are thousands of kids in broken homes and thousands of adults who had a difficult time growing up who could write Barwick’s exact same column with the headline “Dear Straight Community: Your Kids Are Hurting.”
That’s why social science and psychological studies are important — they paint a clearer picture than those of subjective experiences. And right now, while there are few studies on the topic, the ones out there indicate that gay households turn out kids about as well as straight ones.
Interestingly enough, Barwick’s column could be seen as a testament to that conclusion — and possibly even be an example of why we need gay marriage.
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[GAMES] Atlus Opens New Persona 5 Website with a New Countdown Clock
With the anticipation building for the latest installment to Atlus’s beloved Persona RPG series, a new official website for Persona 5 has finally…
With the anticipation building for the latest installment to Atlus’s beloved Persona RPG series, a new official website for Persona 5 has finally been launched, and it is called Persona5.jp. The website still does not reveal any new details on the upcoming game, but is counting down to one huge announcement, along with the words, “TAKE YOUR HEART”:
That countdown clock is scheduled to reach zero on 5 May 2016 at 10:30 pm JST. The date for the end of the countdown, 05/05, can also be found in the website’s URL (http://persona5.jp/0505/).
The game is slated for release in Japan this summer 2016, with an international release also being confirmed. No other details on the release date has been made so far, however, it is expected to be announced once the countdown reaches zero. The game will be released for both the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 platforms.
You can check out the game’s main characters, as well as a few screenshots here: http://www.afachan.asia/2015/09/games-new-persona-5-screenshots-reveal-main-characters-and-their-personas/
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A wide field fluorescence lifetime imaging system using a light sheet microscope
Author(s): Phil M. Birch; Lamar Moore; Xiaofei Li; Roger Phillips; Rupert Young; Chris Chatwin
Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) has allowed scientists to discern information about the chemical properties of biological processes and has become a vital tool in the life sciences and medical research communities. Measuring the spatial lifetime distribution of the fluorophores as well as the intensity distribution enables users to discern vital information about the chemical environment. It however, remains challenging and often involves slow scanning. We present a new microscope system based on light sheet illumination that uses a micro channel plate (MCP) device called a Capacitive Division Imaging Readout (CDIR) which has been developed by Photek Ltd. The device uses an array of capacitors to move the charge site from the MCP to four pre-amplifiers and time-over-threshold discriminators. This camera has the ability to image photons as well as measure the arrival time, enabling high speed FLIM imaging of biological samples.
Proc. SPIE 9887, Biophotonics: Photonic Solutions for Better Health Care V, 98871O (27 April 2016); doi: 10.1117/12.2230908
Phil M. Birch, Univ. of Sussex (United Kingdom)
Lamar Moore, Univ. of Sussex (United Kingdom)
Xiaofei Li, Univ. of Sussex (United Kingdom)
Roger Phillips, Univ. of Sussex (United Kingdom)
Rupert Young, Univ. of Sussex (United Kingdom)
Chris Chatwin, Univ. of Sussex (United Kingdom)
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Michelin GTLM Insider: A Toast to Petit Le Mans
This week’s Michelin GTLM Insider, looking at the of Petit Le Mans…
Photo: John Dagys
It is difficult to believe that this week will produce the 20th edition of the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta.
In a world where everyone looks for a perfect scenario and ways to minimize risk, it is easy to forget that professional sports car racing in the U.S. was in considerable disarray when Dr. Don Panoz and his group made a bold move in creating the event in 1998.
Big events have something special. Right from the start, Petit Le Mans had character and quickly developed the tradition and history to make Road Atlanta a proper bookend to the season openers at Daytona and Sebring and a fitting place to conclude what is now the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
Early Days at Petit Le Mans
That first year, Porsche’s Allan McNish was asked about nighttime visibility and noted that his headlights pointed into the trees as cars climbed down the backstretch. “You want to be in the middle of the track approaching the crest to be in position for the landing zone,” he said.
In the race, co-driver Yannick Dalmas, trailed a TWR Porsche at the crest, and was launched into a spectacular flip (see below).
Even practice sessions have provided drama as in later years, Scott Sharp took a couple of mighty hits during practice and Gunnar Jeannette once found himself upside down aboard the DeltaWing.
Petit Le Mans has also provided some spicy treats. Porsche brought its Porsche 911 GTR Hybrid, a test bed for what was to become the Porsche 919 hybrid, to Road Atlanta in 2010.
In 2012, the DeltaWing created a sensation with its North American race debut with Gunnar Jeannette and Lucas Ordonez aboard for an impressive run to fifth place overall despite not being permitted to pit with the other prototypes.
This year, Team Penske prepares for its 2018 return to sports cars with an LMP2 entry featuring a star-studded line-up of drivers Juan Pablo Montoya, Helio Castroneves, and Simon Pagenaud.
Motul Petit Le Mans GTLM teams have added stars like Scott Dixon and Sebastien Bourdais at Ford Chip Ganassi Racing, Marcel Fassler and Mike Rockenfeller at Corvette Racing, Nick Tandy and Earl Bamber at Porsche GT Team, Kuno Wittmer and Nicky Catsburg at BMW Team RLL and Alessandro Pier Guidi at Risi Competizione Ferrari.
Photo: Michelin
An Ideal Combination
Ten Hours at Road Atlanta is a winning combination. Starting on an early fall morning and ending well after dark with changes in track conditions, the race is long enough to open up different pit and tire strategies and expose any weaknesses in the team, car or driver line-up.
At 2.54 miles, Road Atlanta is a fast, challenging circuit with a relatively short lap time of 73-74 seconds for Prototypes and 78-80 seconds for GTLMs.
Traffic certainly comes into play and with the race win, WeatherTech championships and manufacturer, sponsor, team and driver contracts on the line, the margin between boldness and discretion in traffic is constantly tested.
Michelin has participated in Petit Le Mans since the outset and, like Sebring and Le Mans, has a big data base and hands on experience to draw on in assisting its technical partner teams.
Recent Drama
In 2014, SRT Viper’s Kuno Wittmer finished in third place in GTLM to clinch the class driver and team Championships. Viper had pulled the plug on the program before he reached parc ferme.
The following year Nick Tandy and Patrick Pilet passed and repassed the entire Prototype field in the wet to take their Porsche 911 GTLM entry to an historic overall race victory. Less well remembered is that BMW Team RLL’s John Edwards, Lucas Luhr and Jens Klingmann were close behind and made it a GTLM 1-2 overall race finish.
Last year, after heartbreak in the previous race at Circuit of The Americas, it was Risi Competizione Ferrari taking a popular GTLM win.
While Corvette Racing’s Jan Magnussen and Antonio Garcia are poised to claim the WeatherTech GTLM Driver Championship, the manufacturer battle sees Chevrolet and Ford separated by just four points.
Putting PLM in Perspective
Leaving Braselton, Ga. the morning after one of the first Petit Le Mans races, a local radio station was promoting an upcoming event in the nearby town of Flowery Branch.
The announcer was excited to report on the upcoming week-long celebration for the grand opening of the Flowery Branch State Package Liquor store.
On Monday, they were hosting an appearance by the track champion from Lanier Motor Speedway.
The next day, they would have the winner of the big feature race and on Wednesday, well they had a former track champion.
On Thursday, there was driver who had never won the big feature or track championship, but had a lot of fans. And on Friday, they were hosting a guy who had driven a NASCAR truck a few times, plus the Jägermeister girls.
This would lead to the grand finale on Saturday featuring a champion bass fisherman complete with his boat and trailer.
Photo: Rick Dole/IMSA
Thinking back to the big crowd at Road Atlanta the previous day, there was an appreciation of how much Dr. Panoz and his Road Atlanta team had accomplished launching a major international sports car endurance race deep in NASCAR country in the middle of football season and on the eve of the grand opening of the package liquor store.
This weekend’s attendance at Petit Le Mans will likely be north of 120,000. Few are expected to bring their bass boats.
And according to Johnny O’Connell, a former Petit Le Mans winner who resides in nearby Flowery Branch, the package liquor store closed a couple of years ago. But thankfully, Petit Le Mans goes on better than ever.
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How LSU turned its defense around just in time for the playoff
ATLANTA — LSU coach Ed Orgeron came off the sideline in Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Saturday, amid the purple and gold confetti and the raucous celebration of the program’s first SEC championship since 2011, and searched for No. 24. Luckily for him, his freshman cornerback and star in the making wasn’t difficult to spot. He was the one with the bright smile being swarmed by reporters.
Orgeron picked Derek Stingley Jr. out of the crowd and gave him a big hug. He said he wanted to let him know how proud of him he was and that all his work during the offseason had led to this.
If the rest of the country didn’t know Stingley’s name before, they surely did after his two interceptions in a 37-10 win over No. 4 Georgia. LSU’s much maligned defense successfully turned a corner that night in Atlanta, and it was due in no small part to its 18-year-old phenom at cornerback.
“He’s one of the finest corners I’ve ever been around,” Orgeron said of Stingley.
Linebacker Patrick Queen called Stingley “the best cornerback in the country” regardless of age. Defensive lineman Rashard Lawrence took it a step further, putting on his draft analyst cap and declaring, “He could be a top-three or top-five pick right now.”
This kid they call the technician, this up-and-comer they raved about all season has finally arrived. And not a moment too soon. Heading into the College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, against an Oklahoma offense that has the second-most yards per game in the country, LSU found its anchor on defense.
“This game kind of proved a point because a lot of people, they didn’t really respect us,” Stingley said. “But we came out and played and showed everybody what we’re made of.”
That wasn’t faux defiance, either. That sense of disrespect was pervasive in the LSU locker room after the Tigers beat Georgia.
Derek Stingley Jr. had two interceptions in LSU’s 37-10 win over Georgia in the SEC championship game. Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports
All week the defense had heard about the Bulldogs’ massive offensive line, how physical they were and how they’d be able to control the line of scrimmage. Defensive lineman Breiden Fehoko could recite the narrative: “You talk about a team that just kind of bullies people.”
The expectation was that LSU would win and punch its ticket to the playoff — but not in a way that would prove anything to people who doubted the Tigers were a complete football team.
That phrase — “a complete football team” — had been attached to Ohio State as a way of justifying its leapfrogging LSU to No. 1 in previous weeks. One could play defense, the rationale went, and the other couldn’t.
Sure, the Tigers’ revolution on offense under new coordinator Joe Brady and Heisman Trophy front-runner Joe Burrow was thrilling to watch, but it seemed like the program had lost part of its identity along the way. Its traditionally stout defense floundered against the likes of Texas, Vanderbilt, Florida and Alabama.
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Then, against Ole Miss, it seemed almost broken beyond repair. Against a team that would fail to reach a bowl game and would fire its head coach, the LSU defense gave up 37 points and let freshman quarterback John Rhys Plumlee rush for 212 yards and four touchdowns.
With that caliber of defense, how far could this team go?
Safety JaCoby Stevens heard the talk from the media and even LSU’s fans afterward, and he said it backed the defense into a corner. It made them uncomfortable. “It made us want to prove a point,” he said.
Defensive coordinator Dave Aranda challenged his players, appealing to their pride, and they accepted.
“We gave up a lot of yardage, but we knew the kind of talent we had, the type of leadership,” Fehoko said. “We just had to trust our scheme and technique.”
To a man, whether it was Fehoko or Queen or Stevens, they all said the turnaround was simple. They just needed to stop pressing and do their jobs.
LSU coach Ed Orgeron wanted to tell cornerback Derek Stingley Jr. how proud of him he was after the SEC title game. Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images
We saw it play out against Arkansas, when the defense allowed just two field goals through three quarters. Then, against Texas A&M, it gave up one touchdown all game.
Georgia didn’t find the end zone until the fourth quarter. Its massive O-line couldn’t protect quarterback Jake Fromm, nor could it help a running game that managed only 61 yards.
“You know what?” Lawrence said. “We had a lot of talk coming in all week about how they were going to run the ball on us. We heard it against A&M that this defense is not good. But you know what? We just kept working and let the chips fall where they may.”
Queen admitted that the talk about the Tigers not being a “complete team” was annoying.
“As much as you want to block it out, you do pay attention to it a little bit,” he said. “We knew people were doubting us, and we wanted to come out tonight and prove to everybody that we’re a complete team. I believe in my defense, I believe in the offense, and we can take this thing all the way.”
With Stingley elevating to superstar status and safety Grant Delpit finally healthy, the building blocks are in place. If you don’t throw to Stingley’s side of the field, then you have to throw to Kristian Fulton‘s, and that’s like “picking your poison,” Lawrence said.
“With Grant at full speed and everybody healthy, we’re a dangerous team,” he added.
The combination of Delpit and speedy outside linebacker K’Lavon Chaisson could be instrumental in slowing Oklahoma’s run game, especially quarterback Jalen Hurts, who was 2-0 against LSU as a starter at Alabama before transferring this past offseason.
“Obviously, we’ve played against him before,” Orgeron said of Hurts. “He’s an outstanding player, and he actually beat us with his feet. He made big plays with his feet, and he threw the ball very well. I haven’t watched him at all this year, but I have watched Coach [Lincoln] Riley’s offense, especially that counter read. I’ve asked him about it. I think they’re one of the best in the country in running what they do on offense. They’re very difficult to stop.”
Difficult but not impossible.
It’s tough to look at LSU the past few weeks and say it’s anything but a complete team now. In fact, it’s a team peaking at the right moment.
“I think we turned a corner,” Lawrence said. “We had some growing pains. It’s tough playing great teams week in and week out and having a great defense. But the good thing about us: We’re getting better as the season goes, and we have two more games to establish our dominance.”
This article was originally published by Espn.com. Read the original article here.
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Leon Bailey set to miss Reggae Boyz’ Nations League outing
By Paul-Andre Walker September 20, 2019
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Reggae Boy Leon Bailey will not play for the country when it takes on a pair of games against Aruba in October.
The Reggae Boyz begin their CONCACAF Nations League tie against Aruba at the National Stadium in Kingston on October 12 but then move on to Curacao for the away leg two days later.
Bailey’s unavailability was confirmed when scans showed a muscular tear following Bayer Leverkusen's UEFA Champions League game against Locomotiv Moscow.
Bailey has proved a little underwhelming, since coming into the Reggae Boyz line up for, first the Gold Cup, and now the CNL, but managed to score his first goal for the outfit earlier this month as the side crushed Antigua & Barbuda 6-0.
Bailey will be absent for about a month and won’t be available until November 15 and 18 when the Reggae Boyz take on Antigua & Barbuda and Guyana.
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Alcacer, Mariano and the 'short-term options' Man Utd could target after Rashford injury
Having already lost key midfielders Paul Pogba and Scott McTominay to serious injuries, Manchester United now face the prospect of being without top scorer Marcus Rashford for the most important part of the season.
The England international aggravated a back injury during a second-half cameo against Wolves in the FA Cup third-round replay victory, and after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer downplayed United's worries, it was later confirmed to be much more serious than first thought.
Reports began to emerge during United's 2-0 defeat to Liverpool that Rashford had actually been playing through the pain and Solskjaer confirmed he suffered a double stress fracture against Wolves, meaning he could potentially be out for three months.
As such, Solskjaer acknowledged United might be forced into seeking "short-term" solutions in the transfer market, with Mason Greenwood and Anthony Martial their only recognisable forwards.
Below, we highlight some potential options.
Paco Alcacer (Borussia Dortmund)
Spain international Alcacer has had a peculiar time at Dortmund. He managed to score 18 times in the Bundesliga last season even though he only started 11 matches, while he has five top-flight goals this term despite only six of his 11 appearances coming as a starter. While he is a completely different type of forward to Rashford, he does represent a kind of attacker United simply do not have, in that he is a poacher. Following the arrival of Erling Haaland – apparently a target of Solskjaer's before he joined BVB – Alcacer might be attainable.
After falling out of favour at PSG, Uruguay striker Cavani has asked to leave before his contract expires at the end of the season, with Atletico Madrid and others said to be interested. A proven goalscorer and immensely experienced, Cavani would certainly provide United with a focal point they can aim for and play off – though his wages are not insignificant and he might not be entirely suited to counter-attacking football.
Mariano Diaz (Real Madrid)
Since returning to Madrid in 2018, Mariano has had a difficult time of it. Niggling injuries have impacted his availability and he has unsurprisingly struggled to make a telling contribution as a result. He is yet to feature in LaLiga this term, having fallen well down the pecking order – but that is not to say Mariano is a poor player. Quick, technically good and certainly capable of finding the net, he is perhaps rather more suited to United's style of play than Alcacer or Cavani.
Cedric Bakambu (Beijing Guoan)
In 2018, Bakambu cost Beijing Guoan €40million, the release fee in his contract with previous club Villarreal. The DR Congo striker had enjoyed a solid three-year spell at the Yellow Submarine, with his combination of athleticism, ability on the ball and finishing making him standout as a potential target for bigger clubs. He has continued to score on a regular basis in China and is starting to attract interest from Europe again, with Arsenal and Atletico Madrid apparently keeping tabs on him. United could do a lot worse than the former France youth international.
Promote from the academy
Solskjaer certainly can't be accused of neglecting the young talents coming through at the club. If he was to promote from within, rather than dip into the transfer market, D'Mani Mellor and Largie Ramazani would likely be the two frontrunners. Mellor is a 19-year-old forward who likes to drop deep and engage in sharp link-up play with his back to goal, while he is also a capable dribbler. Ramazani, 18, often operates a little more from wider positions, but the Belgium youth international has impressed for United's Under-23s this term with nine goals in 13 league appearances. Excellent on the ball and a possessor of explosive pace, Ramazani certainly seems to fit the mould Solskjaer likes his forwards to be.
Ronaldo solves 100 problems for Juventus - Sarri
Maurizio Sarri hailed "champion" Cristiano Ronaldo after his brace saw Juventus to a precious 2-1 Serie A home win against Parma.
Ronaldo scored in either half to clinch victory on Sunday, capitalising on title rivals Inter's failure to beat Lecce earlier in the day.
The Portuguese was a defensive contributor, too, yet he was outjumped by Andreas Cornelius as Parma briefly pulled level.
Sarri is happy to take the rough with the smooth when it comes to his star man, though.
"We have a champion who sometimes creates a problem for you but solves 100 of them," he told Sky Sport Italia. "The rest of the team has to revolve around him."
Ronaldo had chances for further goals, and Sarri was frustrated with his team's inability to extend their lead and set up a straightforward finale.
"The mental intensity can be improved, even the management of certain moments of the matches," he said. "I don't even like dribbling in our own half in the last few minutes.
"I would prefer to concede a goal on the counter-attack than in our own penalty area.
"Putting Higuain on at 2-1 was a clear message to the team: let's end the game."
Victory saw Juve move four points clear of second-placed Inter, although Lazio are also a threat a further two points back but with a game in hand.
However, Sarri is concerned by neither the Nerazzurri nor the in-form capital club.
"I have a fear for other things, not for football. Concern? Even that [would not describe it]," he said. "We are talking about sports.
"We know we have two very strong opponents. One is in an amazing moment that will hopefully not last long."
Sergio Busquets refused to compare Barcelona under Ernesto Valverde and Quique Setien after the Catalans made a winning start to life under their new head coach.
Barca returned to the top of LaLiga with a 1-0 win over a dogged Granada at Camp Nou on Sunday.
The home side enjoyed nearly 83 per cent of the possession but could not break down their visitors until Lionel Messi struck 76 minutes in after German Sanchez had been sent off.
Setien's variation of a 3-4-3 saw Barca monopolise the ball and push high up the pitch, a style more in keeping with the methods of Johan Cruyff and Pep Guardiola than Valverde, who was sacked this month after losing to Atletico Madrid in the Supercopa de Espana.
Busquets was pleased with their display but would not enter into comparisons between the methods of Setien and Valverde, who eventually lost the faith of the fans and the board due to his more cautious approach.
"We were a solid team. We had control of the ball. They created little against us," he told Movistar.
"It's true that we struggled when they dropped deep but, in general terms, the team played a good game.
"It's not about comparing. Every coach has his style and his way of seeing football. You'll see what Setien asks us to do. We're not going to reveal it.
"We're delighted with what Ernesto did and we're delighted with Setien."
Setien also earned a cheer from the Camp Nou crowd for bringing on Masia graduate Riqui Puig, who found chances hard to come by under Valverde.
The 20-year-old won back possession on the edge of the Granada box in the build-up to the goal, and Busquets hopes it is just the start for the midfielder.
"He has a lot of things to mature, but it looks like he can be here [to boost the team]," Busquets added.
Barca are level with Real Madrid on 43 points at the top of the table after 20 games, with Atletico Madrid and Sevilla eight points adrift.
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The Hurricane Effect
June 2, 2010 /3 Comments/in Economic Growth, James Johnston, Money and Investments, The Daly News /by James Johnston
Part One: The Money-Material Correlation
James Johnston, Guest Author
A hurricane is a dynamic system. Heat, air and water create pocket thunderstorms that come together and gather strength in a powerful spiral effect, destroying whatever isn’t prepared for it on land.
A hurricane is gathering strength in the global economy, as a self-reinforcing spiral of debt, money and materials hurls toward us, with most of us obliviously lying on the beach in our bathing suits and shades on, assuming the calm weather will last indefinitely.
This is the first in a two-part editorial, where I will examine the correlation between money and material throughput in the Canadian economy as a case study. Today, I focus on the correlation between income and throughput, and in part two, I’ll explore how debt plays a role in creating the economic hurricane effect.
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To understand why we’re sitting complacently in the path of an oncoming hurricane, it’s important to recognize the difference between conventional economic wisdom and economic facts. Conventional wisdom suggests that money doesn’t represent a unit of material. Services will take the place of resource extraction industries over time, ‘dematerializing’ the economy by ‘decoupling’ material input from wealth production – eventually improving environmental outcomes. The hope for realizing this ideal is reflected in its number of synonyms, including the value-added, ethereal, knowledge-based and post-industrial economy. You’ve heard them all before.
But this hasn’t really happened in Canada.
What do real estate and oil have in common?
In the 21st century, Canadian economic growth has been rooted in real estate and oil production. Canada has a resource-based economy, even though almost three-quarters of Canadians have jobs in services like real estate, which have little or nothing to do with resources. In fact, only 5-6% of Canadians actually work in the primary sector, where resources are extracted. Yet the country has one of the highest ecological footprints on the planet, partly due to international demand for its oil and minerals.
Over time, the volume of materials that circulates through the Canadian economy hasn’t changed much despite improvements in intensity (material used per unit of income). As a result of this peculiar structure, Canadians have become a nation of extractor-investors, with the remainder of people working in a manufacturing sector centered around transportation equipment, which has been struggling to remain competitive for the last decade.
Services have become a top-heavy trophic layer in the economic structure, with material throughput remaining roughly the same over time despite modest and constant population growth. According to Brian Czech’s trophic theory, the tertiary sector sits atop the secondary sector, which sits atop the primary sector. The three sectors are mutually dependent, imitating the same trophic structure of an ecosystem. Resources flow from one sector to the other in an entropic thermodynamic process, which subjects them to the laws of irreversibility and path-dependence. In other words, material and immaterial economies can’t be considered separate from one another. It’s more like a top-heavy layered cake which, miraculously, doesn’t fall over.
Money-material correlation
Herman Daly writes that “ecological economics sees this coupling as by no means fixed, but not nearly as flexible as neoclassical believe it to be – in other words, the ‘dematerialization’ of GNP and the ‘information economy’ will not save growth economics” (Daly, 2007). So I tested the idea. I compared materials use (used domestic extraction), with income (gross domestic product) to analyze trends in the Canadian economy over the last quarter century.
And what I found was that – for the data available – the coupling of aggregate materials and aggregate inflation-adjusted income in Canada seems pretty tight. Take a look for yourself:
A case of chicken vs. egg?
What does this strong coupling of income and throughput mean? One thing’s for sure: conventional economics doesn’t do a very good job of explaining what’s happening in the Canadian economy. Dematerialization might describe modest intensity gains, but it certainly doesn’t mean ‘decoupling’ or sector substitution the way some economists like to pretend.
When people talk about ‘growth’ in Canada, they really do mean material growth – more stuff – and all the consequent repercussions for large-scale environmental problems associated with high throughput, including climate change, interference with the nitrogen cycle and biodiversity loss. We know from publications like the Stern report that the long-term costs associated with the status quo are unduly high and will eventually force a decline in production due to system feedback.
The second implication is more of a chicken vs. egg question. What drives the trend? Money or stuff? Well that’s complicated. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that it’s not just money, and it’s not just stuff. It’s a little bit of both, underlined by socio-cultural factors that we can’t put on a tidy graph.
Although we can’t easily isolate what drives the cycle, we can more easily isolate what keeps it from slowing down: debt. Debt is the key component that binds the thunderstorms together into a massive whirling super-storm. The way the finance system is set up, we couldn’t stop the cycle even if we wanted to.
James Johnston has a MPhil in Land Economy from Cambridge University.
Tags: Debt, Decoupling, Dematerialization, Throughput, Trophic Structure
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Roger K. Brown says:
Dr. Johnston writes:
When people talk about ‘growth’ in Canada, they really do mean material growth – more stuff – and all the consequent repercussions for large-scale environmental problems associated with high throughput, including climate change, interference with the nitrogen cycle and biodiversity loss…
Although we can’t easily isolate what drives the cycle, we can more easily isolate what keeps it from slowing down: debt.
I think that it is extremely easy to isolate what drives the cycle of growth: The competitive accumulation of financial security. Savings do not represent consumer goods such as food, clothing, fuel, etc. squirreled away in warehouses for the exclusive future use of the saver/investor; They represent investments in economic infrastructure. Infrastructure investments are a losing proposition unless that infrastructure is producing income in the present. Our desire to secure our future by ‘storing up value’ produces a constant driving force to increase total economic production.
Even in the most legitimate and conservative form of saving (i.e. consuming less than you produce today in order to consume more than you produce at some later less productive time of your life without any desire to earn interest) is destructive since a perfect match between present savings and future excess consumption is unlikely. For example consider two people who retire at age 70. One dies of a heart attack and the other live to be 98 years old. Both of them feel compelled to store up a large amount of economic value just in case.
A sustainable form of economic organization requires that the competitive accumulation of financial security should be replaced by cooperative maintenance of the means of production. How to alter our social institutions to bring about such cooperation will be the key challenge of the post growth era.
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Volunteer program provides free assistance with taxes
Vita Marketing and Recruitment Supervisor Dillon Karaan goes over a complicated return with VITA volunteer Kana Carpenter.
Ladan Teherani went to professionals to have her taxes filed last year, but only earned $10 from her refund after paying for their services. This time, she drove from Calabasas to Northridge to get free help from IRS-licensed tax preparers working with the Bookstein Institute’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program. Without a reservation, and less than a week before the filing deadline, Teherani had to wait about an hour outside Juniper Hall. After going over forms with volunteers for another hour, the annual chore was complete.
“It was worth it,” Teherani said. The recent Pepperdine graduate’s refund came out to about $1000 this year.
The VITA program’s staff and volunteers help people that make less than $54,000 a year get the maximum value of their refunds while cutting out costs, confusion, and headaches. VITA will charge nothing for the services it provides at CSUN and other locations throughout the North East Valley until the program closes for the season on April 15.
VITA Operations Supervisor Ara Kiledjian said that the refunds VITA has processed average between $300 and $400. However, VITA staff note that college students can apply for a variety of special tax credits designed to offset the costs of education by filing a 1098-T form.
Volunteer and accounting senior Kana Carpenter said that one taxpayer she was filing documents for almost had to pay a substantial amount of money to the government. She was a student that had received scholarships and didn’t think she was eligible for education-related tax credits. Carpenter told her she should “still check [the 1098-T] … and she wound up getting money back.”
In addition, many students qualify as low-income workers and are eligible for what VITA clinic faculty member Professor Lucy Nalbandian called one of the most significant federal anti-poverty measures: the earned income tax credit.
People who earned less than $10,000 in income do not need to submit tax forms, but they still have plenty of reasons to have their taxes prepared by VITA, according to Kiledjian. He said people can earn a refund even if they’re not required to file. They also avoid the risk of punishment if they are mistaken about their income status.
“I’ve never had a client actually owe money to the government,” Carpenter said.
If a client does need to pay the IRS, they can find help managing their penalties at the Bookstein Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic, just across the hall from VITA’s office.
“We can get you on an installment agreement,” Kiledjian said. He added that “sometimes there is doubt as to whether or not you’re liable [for a penalty].”
The hour-long sessions are also valuable as a learning opportunity for the VITA program’s clients and the accounting students that comprise its volunteers. The software they use replicates the look of the physical versions of tax forms. VITA Marketing and Recruitment Supervisor Dillon Karaan said that, as a result, taxpayers that file with them have a chance to become familiar with tax documents and get to see the process from start to finish.
Staff at the VITA program expect to serve nearly 10 times as many clients this year than they did in 2015.
“Halfway through our season, we already met our yearly goal of 1800 returns,” Kiledjian said. “Right now we’re between 2,300 and 2,400.”
Tax preparers are working hard to keep pace with demand.
“I’ve filed five returns today,” said senior accounting major Anoosh Danilof.
She and other volunteers said that, as the filing deadline draws near, they have seen a surge of taxpayers coming to them for assistance. Valley residents can still take advantage of the VITA’s services if they make an appointment, or drop in at one of the program’s locations.
Deadline to file taxes is April 18.
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deadly spin
Insurance company insider Wendell Potter, a former senior vice president of CIGNA, speaks out on how corporate PR is killing health care and deceiving Americans.
"My name is Wendell Potter, and for twenty years I worked as a senior executive at health insurance companies. I saw how they confuse their customers and dump the sick—all so they can satisfy their Wall Street investors." —Senate testimony, June 24, 2009
Wendell Potter is the insurance industry's worst nightmare.
In June 2009, Wendell Potter made national headlines with his scorching testimony before the Senate panel on health care reform. This former senior vice president of CIGNA explained how health insurers make promises they have no intention of keeping, how they flout regulations designed to protect consumers, and how they skew political debate with multibillion-dollar public relations campaigns designed to spread disinformation.
Potter had walked away from a six-figure salary and two decades as an insurance executive because he could no longer abide the routine practices of an industry where the needs of sick and suffering Americans take a backseat to the bottom line. The last straw: when he visited a rural health clinic and saw hundreds of people standing in line in the rain to receive treatment in stalls built for livestock.
In Deadly Spin, Potter takes listeners behind the scenes to show how a huge chunk of our absurd health care spending actually bankrolls a propaganda campaign and lobbying effort focused on protecting one thing: profits. Whatever the fate of the current health care legislation, it makes no attempt to change that fundamental problem. Potter shows how relentless PR assaults play an insidious role in our political process anywhere that corporate profits are at stake—from climate change to defense policy. Deadly Spin tells us why—and how—we must fight back.
"An illuminating, up-to-the-minute testimonial sure to garner widespread attention and controversy." ---Kirkus
"The recently passed health care bill did many good things.... What the bill did not do is reform the healthcare system. Wendell Potter explains why not, and what went wrong." ---Howard Dean
"Wendell Potter is a straight shooter---and he hits the bulls-eye here with an exposé of corporate power that reveals why real health care reform didn't happen, can't happen, and won't happen until that power is contained." ---Bill Moyers
"The ideal whistleblower...his testimony [is] logical, specific, and convincing." ---Time
"This whistle-blower perspective will heighten discussion and debate on the vital topic of health care in America." ---Booklist
"Potter's street cred and deep knowledge of the industry make his indictment unusually vivid and compelling." ---Publishers Weekly
An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans
Author Wendell Potter
Narrated by Patrick Lawlor
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Lesson activities to accompany the DVD "These wer…
Lesson activities to accompany the DVD "These were the reasons” produced by Howie Smith which has been widely distributed at Workshops of the Labour History Project. The 10 chapters of the DVD explores the events and issues that shaped the labour movement in British Columbia throughout the 20th century. Additionally the film “explores the relationships of government and labour, and the role of unions in our society.” This is a unit created by the Labour History Project, a group of retired and current British Columbia teachers collaborating to develop a series of lesson plans, activities, and workshops focused on labour studies and labour history. See: http://www.labourheritagecentre.ca/education/lesson-plans/ for further information and release date for the on-line version of the DVD.
Labour History
Wobblies
Relief camps
Charter of rights
The materials address aspects of the key learning standards of the current social studies 10 and 11 curriculums. Critical thinking skills are applied throughout as well as research and writing skills as described in the “skills and processes of social studies”. Aspects of “Identity, Society and Culture” are addressed in the materials including gender roles, ethnicity and daily life as well the interactions of Aboriginal peoples in early Canada. For Social Studies 11 the development and impact of Canadian social policies and programs related to immigration, the welfare state, and minority rights are explored. Elements of the “Economy and Technology” learning outcomes are discussed in the examination of resource development and technological innovations. Relationships to the economic cycles with reference to the Great Depression and the labour movement in Canada are covered as well as descriptions of the roles of women in terms of social, political, and economic change in Canada For Social Studies 11 aspects of the Politics and Government learning outcomes are covered in explain how Canadians can effect change at the federal and provincial levels as well as the impact of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms on Canadian Society. Additionally, aspects of the environmental impact and attitudes towards resource extraction are developed as they relate to the “Environment” learning outcome of the social Studies 10 IRP.
Files: These were the reasons
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Labour History 4
Child Soldiers 1
Civics 1
Crise d'Oka 1
Deniers of climate change 1
Dignity and Worth 1
Equal pay 1
Equity and Equality 1
Extraction des ressources 1
Financial Literacy 1
Forced Migration 1
Global warming 1
Income Inequality 1
Indian Residential School 1
Industrial Workers of the World 1
International Humanitarian Law 3
International law 1
Kyoto to Paris 1
LGBTQ2S+ 1
Les animaux sauvages 1
Life Skills 1
Oil pipelines 1
Poverty 1
Refugees 1
Relief camps 1
Residential Tenancy Law 1
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2.17.13 … I was happy last night … I must have at least one snow a year …
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Charlotte, snow: I was happy last night … I must have at least one snow a year.
history, Lent: So, I am a Pharisee now …
Nevertheless, I was always taught, “If you gave something up for the Lord, tough it out. Don’t act like a Pharisee looking for a loophole.”
Over the years, modifications have been made to the Lenten observances, making our practices not only simple but also easy. Ash Wednesday still marks the beginning of Lent, which lasts for 40 days, not including Sundays. The present fasting and abstinence laws are very simple: On Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, the faithful fast having only one full meal a day and smaller snacks to keep up ones strength and abstain from meat; on the other Fridays of Lent, the faithful abstain from meat. People are still encouraged “to give up something” for Lent as a sacrifice. An interesting note is that technically on Sundays and solemnities like St. Josephs Day March 19 and the Annunciation March 25, one is exempt and can partake of whatever has been offered up for Lent.Nevertheless, I was always taught, “If you gave something up for the Lord, tough it out. Dont act like a Pharisee looking for a loophole.” Moreover, an emphasis must be placed on performing spiritual works, like attending the Stations of the Cross, attending Mass, making a weekly holy hour before the Blessed Sacrament, taking time for personal prayer and spiritual reading and most especially making a good confession and receiving sacramental absolution. Although the practices may have evolved over the centuries, the focus remains the same: to repent of sin, to renew our faith and to prepare to celebrate joyfully the mysteries of our salvation.
via History of Lent.
Lenten practice, Facebook, LOL:
Wonder what it says about FB that so many people are abstaining from it for Lent?
and one of his friend’s comment …
I’m Betting they cheat and look ..just not commenting.
via BW
Lent, Lenten devotionals: These jumped out at me …
Seeing the Beauty and Goodness in Front of Us
We don’t have to go far to find the treasure we are seeking. There is beauty and goodness right where we are. And only when we can see the beauty and goodness that are close by can we recognize beauty and goodness on our travels far and wide. There are trees and flowers to enjoy, paintings and sculptures to admire; most of all there are people who smile, play, and show kindness and gentleness. They are all around us, to be recognized as free gifts to receive in gratitude.
Our temptation is to collect all the beauty and goodness surrounding us as helpful information we can use for our projects. But then we cannot enjoy it, and we soon find that we need a vacation to restore ourselves. Let’s try to see the beauty and goodness in front of us before we go elsewhere to look for it.
via Daily Meditation: Seeing the Beauty and Goodness in Front of Us.
Indeed, the God of my rigid ideologies, of my complacent Theology; the God who validates my unwillingness to explore heresies, and rewards me for arrogantly dismissing them as sinful; the God who grounds my intellectual arrogance in His omniscience, and my politics in his omnipotence; the God who vanquishes all of His and my inquisitive foes, forever silencing their obnoxious questions with the fires of Hell; whose very Nature demands that humans separate and categorize the world into manageable divisions; the God who has made His Will known to us through Natural Law, and a Holy Book, every word of which we are to follow without hesitation or consideration; whose ethical character remains beyond discussion; whose decisions remain beyond the scope of human analysis; the God who grounds all Thought in his Being – this God, who is Himself nothing more than an idol of Modernism, is dead.
My goal for Lent is to remember this death, and to meditate on it in reverence, humility, and mystery. And to reflect not on the God who rules by power, but a god who leads by love; who identifies with the weak; whose foolishness upsets omniscience; a God who reveals Himself in many ways, who reveals Himself in a first century peasant named Jesus; a God who empties Himself of God, and offers Himself to his enemies in submission and servitude; who is concerned with the plight of widows and orphans, the least among us, and the disadvantaged; who sends Jesus to go after the marginalized and the misunderstood, and to bring back home again those who have been ostracized and forgotten.
I am giving up God for Lent to make room for God. I am prying open my fingers, and letting all of my theological idols crash to the ground. And I am lifting up my empty hands to Heaven in anticipation of God’s arrival, and quietly echoing the unsettling words of Meister Eckhart: “I pray God to rid me of God.”
via Brandon Ambrosino: Giving Up God For Lent.
Kneeling in Jerusalem, Ann Weems, Lent: Ann Weems’ book Kneeling in Jerusalem is a great resource during Lent.
Lent is a time to take the time
to let the power of our faith story take hold of us,
a time to let the events
get up and walk around in us,
a time to intensify
our living unto Christ,
a time to hover over
the thoughts of our hearts,
a time place our feet in the streets of Jerusalem or to walk along the sea and listen to his word,
a time to touch his robe
and feel the healing surge through us,
a time to ponder and a time to wonder . . .
Lent is a time to allow a fresh new taste of God!
from Kneeling in Jerusalem by Ann Weems
clergywear, pastors, stoles, FPC-Charlotte, Lent, fyi:
What Are Our Pastors Wearing Around Their Necks?
Of all the questions I have received since arriving as your pastor last September, the most popular has been about what we wear on Sunday during worship.
The name for what we wear around our necks is a “stole.” Stoles are worn by the clergy of many denominations – Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, Episcopal, and Roman Catholic.
The shape of a stole is reminiscent of a yoke that symbolizes the yoke of Christ, which reminds those of us who wear the stole (and those who see us wearing it) of whom we serve. Stoles are a symbol of ordained ministry – and are often given as gifts to a pastor on his or her ordination to service in the Church.
You may have noticed that the stoles we wear even change colors! The color of our stoles follows the season of the Christian year: purple in Advent and Lent, white in Christmas and Easter, green in ordinary times, and red in Pentecost.
You’ll also notice that the color of our stoles coordinates with the materials that cover both the pulpit and the communion table. These materials are called “paraments.”
Christians follow a different calendar – defined by our salvation history – because as we are baptized into Christ’s death and resurrection, we are called to live a different kind of life.
Finally, most of your pastors’ stoles have a story – about where they were made or by whom they were given. Feel free to ask us about them sometime!
source: FirstNews
Camino de Santiago, Camino de Santiago Forum, bucket list: Thank you CCP for sharing this one. One day …
Thoughts on Camino de Santiago – YouTube.
architecture, I.M. Pei, Gateway Towers, Singapore, optical illusion, Wired.com: strangely two-dimensional …
Gateway Towers, Singapore
Completed in 1990, the trapezoidal shape of I.M. Pei’s Gateway Towers in Singapore create an optical illusion when viewed from certain angles — the 37-story office buildings appear strangely two-dimensional.
via Wired’s Weekly Picks of Stunning Architecture | Wired Design | Wired.com.
uncreative writing, language, Digital Age, Brain Pickings: subversive ..
The rest of Uncreative Writing goes on to explore the history of appropriation in art, the emerging interchangeability between words and images in digital culture, the challenges of defining one’s identity in the vastness of the online environment, and many other pressing facets of what it means to be a writer — or, even more broadly, a creator — in the age of the internet. Complement it with the equally subversive How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read.
via Uncreative Writing: Redefining Language and Authorship in the Digital Age | Brain Pickings.
art, The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien, Brain Pickings,
Letters From Father Christmas: Given that Tolkien’s
Letters From Father Christmas is one of my favorite Christmas books that I shared with my children … and to a large extent because of Tolkien’s whimsical drawings, I know I would love this edition of The Hobbit.
A rare piece of cross-disciplinary creativity from the mind of one of modern history’s greatest creators, Art of the Hobbit is equal parts literary treasure and treat of art, exploring the notion of the author as designer — a particularly timely concept in the age of self-publishing and disciplinary cross-pollination in the making of books.
via Art of the Hobbit: Never-Before-Seen Drawings by J.R.R. Tolkien | Brain Pickings.
Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R. Tolkien’s children. Inside would be a letter in a strange, spidery handwriting and a beautiful colored drawing or painting. The letters were from Father Christmas.
They told wonderful tales of life at the North Pole: how the reindeer got loose and scattered presents all over the place; how the accident-prone North Polar Bear climbed the North Pole and fell through the roof of Father Christmas’s house into the dining room; how he broke the Moon into four pieces and made the Man in it fall into the back garden; how there were wars with the troublesome horde of goblins who lived in the caves beneath the house, and many more.
via Letters From Father Christmas: J.R.R. Tolkien: 0046442512657: Amazon.com: Books.
Obamacare, Uninsurables Program: I thought this was one of the good things about ObamaCare … 😦
Enrollment around the country has been lower than expected, partly because some people could not afford the premiums. But individual cases have turned out to be costlier than originally projected.
In documents provided to the states, the administration said the program has spent about $2.4 billion in taxpayer money on medical claims and nearly $180 million on administrative costs, as of Dec. 31. Congress allocated $5 billion to the plan.
“From the beginning (the administration) has been committed to monitoring PCIP enrollment and spending closely and making necessary adjustments in the program to ensure responsible management of the $5 billion provided by Congress,” PCIP director Richard Popper wrote in a memo. “To this end, we are implementing a nationwide suspension of enrollment.”
via Obamacare ‘Uninsurables’ Program Quietly Winds Down As Funding Dries Up.
news, journalism, mobile journalism, end of an era, Poynter; “News needs to solve problems” hmmm … ” We need to solve information problems for our users and drive measurable revenue for our advertisers. Mobile is not merely another form factor, but an entirely new ecosystem that rewards utility. Flipboard is a classic example of solving a problem (tablet-based content discovery) while The Daily is an example of a product that did not.”
4. News needs to solve problems
A study by Flurry in November found that the news category only accounts for 2 percent of total time spent on mobile apps. Social apps gobble up 26 percent. Facebook alone accounts for 23 percent of all time spent with mobile apps, according to Comscore in December. That beats every news organization’s app combined by a long shot.
As Facebook (and Twitter) grow in time spent – and since both are populated with plenty of news – they’re increasingly competitive with news organizations’ mobile experiences by sheer volume.
As a result, simply extending a news organizations’ current coverage into mobile isn’t enough. We need to solve information problems for our users and drive measurable revenue for our advertisers. Mobile is not merely another form factor, but an entirely new ecosystem that rewards utility. Flipboard is a classic example of solving a problem (tablet-based content discovery) while The Daily is an example of a product that did not.
“The key insight from thinking about your business this way is that it is the job, and not the customer or the product, that should be the fundamental unit of analysis,” said Clayton Christensen, David Skok and James Allworth in a Nieman report. “This applies to news as much as it does to any other service.”
“The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It’s to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself,” explains Y Combinator’s Paul Graham. “By far the most common mistake startups make is to solve problems no one has.”
via 5 reasons mobile will disrupt journalism like the Internet did a decade ago | Poynter..
2013 Festival of Legal Learning, US Supreme Court, US Supreme Court Confirmation Process: One of my favorite lectures. The speaker was a little dry, but I learned a great deal about the confirmation process from nomination to confirmation, vetting both by the White House and the Senate, the role of public relations and media, etc. Once again, I have confirmed that I am a nerd.
Insider’s View of the Supreme Court Confirmation Process
Michael J. Gerhardt, Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor in Constitutional Law and Director of the Center for Law and Government, UNC School of Law
this session will explore the nuances of the U.S. Supreme Court confirmation process. The speaker has significant experience in this arena. He advised several senators on the nomination of John Roberts as Chief Justice, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the nomination of Samuel Alito Jr., and served as Special Counsel to Chair Patrick Leahy (D-vt.) as well as the Senate Judiciary Committee for the nominations of Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court.
via Festival of Legal Learning.
2013 Festival of Legal Learning, Student Athletes, Penn State, caveat emptor: You should always be ticked when the presenter starts off telling you that there will be very little about Penn State despite the fact that it is in the title.
Sex, Violence and Student Athletes: Penn State and Beyond
Barbara J. Osborne, Associate Professor, UNC Department of Exercise & Sport Science
this session will explain the 2012 U.S. Department of education’s Sexual violence guidance. Institutional liability will be discussed using recent situations involving student-athletes at the high school and college level, as well as the Office of Civil Rights’ complaint against Penn State for the Sandusky scandal.
Festival of Legal Learning.
Life With Dogs: Thank you, EWP, for sharing this Life With Dogs’s photo …
this is like one of those old-fashioned fox stoles that my grandmothers used to wear – EWP
Find Rufus Competition, corgies, visitlondon.com: What is it with the Brits and corgies?
Can You Find Rufus The Corgi?
For your chance to win a romantic trip to London, use the clues to find Rufus in the map below. Remember, he’s only a little dog, so you might need to zoom in!
via Now See It For Yourself – Find Rufus Competition – visitlondon.com.
translation apps, Google App, NYTimes.com: My husband downloaded an arabic translation app for his next trip to Kuwait. We’ll see how that goes …
I’ve been watching Google’s translation tools improve over the years, but this trip would be a true test: could it really blunt the trauma of arriving in a country where the average American is instantly rendered illiterate, deaf and mute?The answer: yes, though knowing your way around it in advance will help. (United Nations interpreters need not fear for their jobs, at least not yet.) Here, then, are my tips, learned the hard way….
Pantomiming and phrasebooks have always worked for you in the past, and are more fun anyway? I hear you. But even if you want to stay old-school, the world is moving on without you. At least once a day during my trip, the Chinese broke out their own translation apps before I had a chance to break out mine. In other words, this train has already left the station. Or, to pick a cliché more appropriate to my trip, you don’t want to miss the boat.
via Lost in Translation? Try a Google App – NYTimes.com.
Carnival Cruise, Triumph Failure, Total PR Fiasco, bathrobes, twitter: They may have tweeted too fast … bathrobe fiasco!
They may have been stranded aboard a busted cruise ship for five days with little food, broken sewage systems and no heat or air conditioning, but at least they’ll get to keep the bathrobe.
On Friday morning, as more than 3,000 tired and dirty customers finally disembarked from the stranded cruise ship Triumph, @CarnivalCruise tweeted, “Of course the bathrobes for the Carnival Triumph are complimentary.”
It was a remarkably tone-deaf finish to a week-long public relations fiasco that began Sunday night when an engine fire crippled the Caribbean-bound ship and set it adrift in the Gulf of Mexico. Nonstop news coverage and social media chatter brought the public vivid images of the fetid conditions aboard the Triumph. Reports from passengers included details about overflowing toilets, hours-long waits to get food and flooded rooms during the five days they were stranded at sea.
via Carnival Cruise Tells Passengers They Can Keep The Bathrobes In Total PR Fiasco.
The Art of Kissing: A 1936 Guide for Lovers, kith/kin, high school, Westminster Schools, memories, Brain Pickings: I had a friend in high school who got a hold of this. I never laughed so hard as I did one night … Can anyone guess who possessed this “pamphlet”?
Between Edison’s scandalous footage of the first kiss in cinema in 1896 and Bill Plympton’s quirky animated guide to kissing a century later, the public image of lip-locking underwent some radical transformations. In 1936, the year my grandmother was born, a man named Hugh Morris penned a small illustrated pamphlet titled The Art of Kissing (public library), in which he guided young lovers through the techniques, tricks, and “approved methods of kissing,” including such varieties as “the spiritual kiss,” “the nip kiss,” “the pain kiss,” “the surprise kiss,” “the eyelash kiss,” and “the French soul kiss,” as well as tips on how to prepare for a kiss and how to approach a girl. Delightfully dated in its assumptions about love, heterosexuality, and marriage, it’s as much a charming time-capsule of a bygone era as it is a sure source of a good chuckle.
THE ‘VACUUM’ KISS
Here you start off by first opening your mouth a trifle just after you have been resting peacefully with closed lips. Indicate to your partner, by brushing her teeth with the tip of your tongue, that you wish for her to do likewise. The moment she responds, instead of caressing her mouth, suck inward as though you were trying to draw out the innards of an orange. If she knows of this kiss variation, your maid will act in the same way and withdraw the air from your mouth. In this fashion, in a very short while, the air will have been entirely drawn out of your mouths. Your lips will adhere so tightly that there will almost be pain, instead of pleasure. But it will be the sort of pain that is highly pleasurable. That may sound odd, but nevertheless it is a fact. Pain becomes so excruciating as to become pleasurable.
via The Art of Kissing: A 1936 Guide for Lovers | Brain Pickings.
Valentine’s Day memes, follow-up: Since I was off FB for VD … I enjoyed a belated FB experience this morning. Some are nice … some, not so nice …
Valentine’s Day, Valentine’s Day gift, StoryCorps: I think I’ll suggest this one to my husband for next year. LOL
Looking for a thoughtful Valentine’s Day gift? Grab your sweetheart and head to StoryCorps at the AHC to record your love story! Appointments are available this Saturday! http://ow.ly/hHctG
StoryCorps is pleased to be in partnership with the Atlanta History Center and Public Broadcasting Atlanta to record, preserve, and share the stories of communities in Atlanta.
via Atlanta, GA | StoryCorps.
StoryCorps is an independent nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. Since 2003, StoryCorps has collected and archived more than 45,000 interviews with nearly 90,000 participants. Each conversation is recorded on a free CD to share, and is preserved at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. StoryCorps is one of the largest oral history projects of its kind, and millions listen to our weekly broadcasts on NPR’s Morning Edition and on our Listen pages.
We do this to remind one another of our shared humanity, strengthen and build the connections between people, teach the value of listening, and weave into the fabric of our culture the understanding that every life matters. At the same time, we will create an invaluable archive of American voices and wisdom for future generations.
In the coming years we will build StoryCorps into an enduring institution that will touch the lives of every American family.
via About Us | StoryCorps.
Downton Abbey, The Dowager Countess, quotes, LOL: : )
”I do think a woman’s place is eventually in the home, but I see no harm in her having some fun before she gets there.”
Georgia, Yumion – the Vidalia Onion, Vidalia GA, kitschy, corporate mascots: I must admit, I would go out of my way to see Yumion … I have done so to see the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile and the Famous Idaho® Potato Truck …
Explore Georgia
Be sure to look for Yumion, the Vidalia Onion, when you visit Vidalia, Georgia! http://budurl.com/Vidalia
Tiffanys, Costco, knockoffs, retail, knockoffs, icons, iconic jewelry, blue boxes, diamond rings, ABC News: If I were a bride, I’d be ticked …
Speaking of retail, a wild story. A big fight between tiffany’s and costco. Tiffany’s wants the big box store to knock off the knockoffs, selling fake versions of its iconic jewelry.
Here’s abc’s tanya rivero. Reporter: It’s the little blue box, versus the big box retailer. On valentine’s day, as lovers everywhere snuggled,iffany and co.
Slapped costco with a lawsuit. These pictures allegedly show tiffany koffs inside a california costco. Tiffany sent someone in, bought one of the rings.
They were not made by tiffany. They are not tiffany rings. They have nothing to do with tiffany.
Reporter: Being sold at a fraction of what real tiffany rings cost. Everybody would love a deal on a tiffany ring. And unfortunately, it just doesn’t happen.
Tiffany diamonds are never on sale. Reporter: Tiffany alleges costco had been selling the fakes for years. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of engagement rings were sold using the tiffany trademark.
Reporter: A rep for costco told abc news, we will be making no comment on this story as it involves pending litigation. Court papers say an unnamed consumer blew the whistle, contacting a tiffany store to complain. She was offended by the fact that tiffany would be selling engagement rings in costco.
In this particular case, there’s enormous room for confusion among consumers because costco does sell a of big brands at deep discounts. Reporter: Shoppers at tiffany’s flagship store weighed in. You think you’re buying into a brand.
And you find out it’s a rip-off. When you buy a tiffany diamond, you’re buying into the row mant schism and there’s only one place to get it. Costco has removed all tiffany labels.
But tiffany is a suing for additional mary damages. And whether customers will sue remains to be seen. If you have any doubt about a tiffany’s item you own, you can bring it into a tiffany’s store.
They’ll tell you if it’s the real thing. Diamonds are never on sale.
via Tiffanys Battles Costco Over Knock Off Diamond Rings | Video – ABC News.
weddings, trends, gold, The Huffington Post: I am pretty traditional … but I really like the gold …
Beyond emerald and yellow, one of the fastest growing color trends this year in weddings is gold. For a while, gold had become passé as platinum gained in popularity and silver made a resurgence. However, gold is back, and here to stay. With sequins so popular (we’re on board!), and because this color can be paired with so many options from pink to black and white, all that glitters is GOLD for 2013.
With the help of patterns and rose gold, check out our favorite golden wedding ideas in the gallery.
via Kellee Khalil: 2013 Wedding Color Trend: Gold.
Twitter, David Boreanaz, Playmobil, adult play, random: So if I were to create a scene using playmobil figures, what would I create?
You see my photo!!!! Playmobil Bones!!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/Zb55U6pA
Twitter / lauris_dm: @David_Boreanaz You see my ….
elephants, internet videos, random:
VALUE9.com India
most happiest elephant in the world
via most happiest elephant in the world.
Marine Corps, Chesty the Recruit, WSJ:
The Marine Corps on Friday unveiled their future mascot. If all goes as planned, Chesty the Recruit will become Private First Class Chesty XIV later this year, replacing Sgt Chesty XIII.
Chesty XIII became one of the most storied dogs in the long history of Marine Corps mascots when he faced off last year with Bravo, the Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s golden retriever.
As chronicled in The Wall Street Journal, the growling confrontation earned Chesty a promotion to Sergeant and raised the bulldog’s reputation among many of the enlisted and officers at the Marine Corps barracks. But it didn’t sit too well with some of the officer’s wives.
Some of the women viewed Chesty the XIII as crotchety and ill-mannered to guests. (Check out the video here.)
The Marines rolled out the red carpet for 9-week old Chesty the Recruit Thursday night at the Home of the Commandants at the Washington, D.C., Marine Barracks. Bonnie Amos, the wife of Marine Corps Commandant James Amos, met the latest Chesty Thursday night.
via Marines Roll Out Red Carpet for Chesty the Recruit – Washington Wire – WSJ.
short stories, literary genres, publishing, book industry, NYTimes.com.
The Internet may be disrupting much of the book industry, but for short-story writers it has been a good thing.
Story collections, an often underappreciated literary cousin of novels, are experiencing a resurgence, driven by a proliferation of digital options that offer not only new creative opportunities but exposure and revenue as well.
“It is the culmination of a trend we have seen building for five years,” said Cal Morgan, the editorial director of Harper Perennial Originals, who until last year ran a blog called Fifty-Two Stories, devoted to short fiction. “The Internet has made people a lot more open to reading story forms that are different from the novel, and you see a generation of writers very engaged in experimentation.”
via A Good Fit for Small Screens, Short Stories Are Selling – NYTimes.com.
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What Do Writing Courses Do?
On January 16, 2020 January 16, 2020 By guitarsophistIn Pedagogy1 Comment
When we design and teach writing courses (which of course are also reading courses) we often start by looking at the outcomes for the course or by creating our own list of outcomes. Then we start listing writing assignments, often based on texts we find interesting to teach. We imagine how long it will take to present the assignment, for students to write and revise the various sub-components and drafts, how long we need to grade it and return it, and we set a due date. We create a sequence of reading/writing units, probably of increasing difficulty and length. Ideally, each assignment with its various tasks and drafts addresses at least some of the listed outcomes. Realistically however, the connections to some of the outcomes may be tangential at best. In addition, some students started out weaker or stronger than others. They are unlikely to end up at the same place.
And what happens after your course ends? Do students go on to another course? Do they write in their disciplines? Have you prepared them to do that? What is it all for? Where are we going?
In order to think about this a little differently, I created the following chart:
I intend this as a big picture map of what a writing program needs to do. The course you happen to be teaching might be focusing on a few of the cells in the chart more than others, but as you design your course, you should be aware of the big picture. These cells are not discrete items in a list. There are complex relationships between them.
Fluency is based on a lack of fear. The fear is usually caused by the concern about “Standard Written Conventions” in the opposite corner of the chart. Students given an assignment will sometimes spend 30 minutes writing and rewriting the first sentence before they have even decided what to write about. No real writing can occur in the face of anxiety about making a grammatical error. We have to work on that.
“Self-expression” is important to beginning writers. It is a powerful purpose. It shouldn’t be denied absolutely. It is a purpose to build on. How does a student grow beyond self-expression? “Intertextuality” is one direction. What do other people say? Can you quote them to support what you are saying too? “Inquiry” is another. Can you find out more? Do you still think the same thing after knowing more? Both of these types of activities help build audience awareness too.
“Interdisciplinarity” is the connection of the writing course to the rest of the academic world. The student in your class is not likely to be an English major. When they write in science or in engineering, will they have to unlearn some of your stylistic recommendations? Do you have to know how to write like an engineer in order to teach them? No, but you can help them ask questions and analyze documents to see how it is done. Also, rhetorical strategies such as thinking about audience, arguments, and evidence tend to be universal. It is stylistic preferences and organizational patterns that change.
Making Things Happen
“Making Things Happen” is really the true purpose of all writing, but it is more obviously true of academic and workplace writing. Students should be aware of the connections your course has to writing in other environments for other purposes. It makes your class more meaningful to them and they are more likely to be engaged.
And in fact, thinking about how your course fits into the big picture might help you become more engaged too!
The Web Requires a New Kind of Reading
On November 10, 2019 November 10, 2019 By guitarsophistIn Modern Rhetoric, PedagogyLeave a comment
Reading on the internet is a new kind of reading. Some of the skills we use when we read printed material still apply, but we need to develop new skills as well. Because almost anyone can post images and text to the internet, we have new questions about who is an expert, who is knowledgeable, and who trustworthy. Because texts link to texts and then to other texts creating hypertexts, we no longer read in a predictable linear fashion. There is a sense in which the entire internet is just one big text. And while the internet is full of helpful volunteers willing to share valuable knowledge, it is also full of pretenders, deceivers, and charlatans with political or criminal agendas.
I used to read the Los Angeles Times every morning. The paper was delivered about 6:30 am and I had read or skimmed most of it by 8:00. News stories covered the basic who, what, when, where, why in the first three paragraphs. Details followed, sometimes spiraling down to the very specific, but it was often enough to read the first three paragraphs of stories that interested me. This was my habit for decades. I always knew where I had read something, even to the page. If I discussed it with someone, they had read the same article. We had the same facts.
Now I still read the L.A. Times, but also the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Sacramento Bee, and a vast selection of articles delivered through the Apple news app. I read everything on my iPad and I end up having little idea of where I read something. I know things, but I don’t know how I know them. I am exposed to a great deal of news and opinion, but it is an effort to sort it all out. Is this better? Well, yes and no. But one thing is clear: we need to develop a new skill set to sort through all of this information. We need to retrain our brains.
Traditional newspapers were never perfectly objective, but they made an attempt to be so, and they had procedures for fact-checking and policies in place to prevent the advertising department from influencing or even contacting the newsroom. Now they are struggling to survive, as readers and advertisers leave and shareholders demand more and more profits. They also have to compete with news aggregating sites that are often reporting on their reporting, without having to pay the expense of having reporters on the scene. In this kind of environment, how can we know what is true?
Four Moves
Mike Caulfield, in his very useful online book “Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers,” offers four moves for students who are trying to check the validity of information they find on the internet:
Check for previous work: Look around to see if someone else has already fact-checked the claim or provided a synthesis of research.
Go upstream to the source: Go “upstream” to the source of the claim. Most web content is not original. Get to the original source to understand the trustworthiness of the information.
Read laterally: Read laterally. Once you get to the source of a claim, read what other people say about the source (publication, author, etc.). The truth is in the network.
Circle back: If you get lost, hit dead ends, or find yourself going down an increasingly confusing rabbit hole, back up and start over knowing what you know now. You’re likely to take a more informed path with different search terms and better decisions.
Caulfield also advises students to “check their emotions.” He says, “When you feel strong emotion–happiness, anger, pride, vindication–and that emotion pushes you to share a ‘fact’ with others, STOP. Above all, these are the claims that you must fact-check.”
Something Simpler and Deeper
Caulfield’s online book offers detailed procedures for implementing each one of these moves. It is certainly worth a look if you are assigning a full-blown research paper. However, it seems to me that we need something both simpler and deeper. Also, I think that Caulfield relies too much on finding out what other people think, instead of having the students think for themselves. We need a new way to read. Perhaps we could call it “skeptical reading” that leads to “informed reading.”
What Caulfield is getting at with “check your emotions” is what psychologists call “confirmation bias”: we enthusiastically accept information that confirms what we already believe and we resist information that runs counter to our own opinions. (This article. “Confirmation bias: 6 ways to recognise it and 5 ways to counter it,” and the included links offer a detailed account.) Google’s algorithms have confirmation bias built into them. Google wants to make us happy, so it shows us what we want to see. Different people doing the same search on their own computers will get different results. Trump supporters will see pro-Trump sources. Democrats will see liberal sources. It is all tailored to the individual. One solution is to search with DuckDuckGo instead of Google. But Facebook and other social media platforms have similar algorithms. Perhaps the question is “Do I want to be happy, or do I want to know the truth?”
Caulfield makes “check your emotions” a kind of unnumbered fifth step, a “habit of mind” rather than a move, but I think understanding and accounting for your own biases is a fundamental first step. The questions to ask are “Why do I like/dislike this? Is my bias influencing my judgment about this article?” This is related to the “believing game” and the “doubting game.” If you are inclined toward the believing game, try the doubting game first, and vice versa. We could associate this move with pathos.
Once we have thought about our own personal biases, we can start more objective moves. Caulfield’s second move is to “go upstream” to the original source. Because a lot of content on the internet is reporting on reporting, i.e. paraphrases, summaries, or commentary on other writer’s stories, a good move is to follow the links or do searches to find the original source. The questions here are “Where did this come from?” and “Who did the original reporting?” If there is no actual source, this is a big red flag. Caulfield recommends what he calls “reading laterally” at this point, by which he means doing searches to find out what other people think of this source and this writer. We could call this an “ethos investigation.”
At this point I am going to depart from Caulfield’s recommendations and make a more rhetorical move. The question to ask is “What is this writer or source trying to do?” This is a question about motives and purpose. Thinking about why a writer is saying what he or she is saying will likely reveal much about the writer’s agenda.
To summarize, there are three moves in my simplification:
Check Personal Bias: Why do I like/dislike this? Is my bias influencing my judgment about this article?
Check Original Sources: Where did this come from? Who did the original reporting? What do other people think of this source and/or this writer?
Check Motives and Purposes: What is this writer or source trying to do?
I think these three moves are possible for students to remember and implement. These habits of mind will lead to informed reading.
Teaching (in Grammar B)
On July 9, 2019 July 9, 2019 By guitarsophistIn Modern Rhetoric, Pedagogy, teaching literature, UncategorizedLeave a comment
Where’s my roll sheet?
sleep oh sleep
Most of them are here.
didyoudo the reading the writing the reading
Hector? Oh there you are.
werewe supposed to
Does this work?
idk idk
OK, let’s get started.
omg quiz
ARISTOTLE!
no quiz no quiz
LOGOS!
richard textingme
ohoh sisterphone
ETHOS!
howmany pages whendo
GROUP DISCUSSION!
didyoudo
whatdid itsay
googlephone
wesay this
ASSIGNMENT!
DISMISSED!
nextclass
howmany
See previous post for info on Grammar B.
The Alternate Style
On July 8, 2019 July 9, 2019 By guitarsophistIn Courses at Cal Poly Pomona, Modern Rhetoric, Pedagogy1 Comment
In late June I went to Santa Cruz for a graduation, Sacramento for a presentation at an ERWC leadership conference, and then to Monterey for the Young Rhetoricians Conference, a delightful small conference frequented mostly by Community College folk, but with a smattering of K-12 and university people as well. The hotel is right on the beach. These days, the high tide reaches almost up to the seawall. It’s lovely, but probably doomed by climate change. The ocean will take it eventually.
One of the presentations I saw was “On and beyond Grammar B” by Randy Fallows and Tamar Christensen from UCLA. Grammar B is a concept introduced in a 1980 book by Winston Weathers, An Alternate Style: Options in Composition. “Grammar A” is what Weathers calls the traditional “grammar of style” that insists on “continuity, order, reasonable progression and sequence, consistency, unity, etc.” (6). Weathers argues that whether you write like Henry James, or write like Ernest Hemingway, you are still writing in Grammar A.
Grammar B is an alternate “grammar of style” that deploys variegation, synchronicity, discontinuity, ambiguity, and other disjunctive devices. Grammar B is not bad Grammar A. Weathers characterizes it as a different game, with its own rules, played with the same deck of cards. Grammar B is not new, nor was it invented by Winston Weathers. Writers as diverse in style and time as Laurence Sterne, William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and D. H. Lawrence have played this game.
However, even as we have students read Grammar B authors such as the above, we persistently teach them Grammar A. Weathers argues that if we add Grammar B, we will give students “a much more flexible voice, a much greater communication capacity, a much greater opportunity to put into effective language all the things they have to say” (8). I might also add that there will be less disjunction between the literature they read and the writing they are asked to do. Also, Grammar B is more fun.
What exactly is Grammar B? First, it deploys some different genres and treats traditional genres in a looser, more playful way.
The “Crot”
According to Weathers, “crot” is a obsolete word meaning “bit” or “fragment” resurrected by Tom Wolfe in the introduction to a book of fiction from Esquire magazine. It is an autonomous bit of discourse, set off without transitions between previous or subsequent crots. (If you don’t like the sound of “crot,” in “Collage: Your Cheatin’ Art” Peter Elbow calls them “blips” (3).) A crot can be a single sentence or many.
One way of thinking about this is to use the ancient Greek term “parataxis.” “Parataxis” is to put elements side-by-side and let the reader intuit the connections between them. Humans are good at this, but different readers will imagine different connections. The opposite is “hypotaxis” in which transitions and connections are made clear. Logically, this is the sophists versus Aristotle, or Grammar B versus Grammar A. Note also that by putting “versus” between those terms, I am specifying a contrastive relationship. For the most part, this blog post is written in hypotaxic Grammar A.
Really Long Sentences and Fragments
Two other stylistic devices favored by Grammar B are “the labyrinthine sentence” in which one grammatical sentence goes on forever, and the sentence fragment. Both of these are strongly discouraged by Grammar A teachers, often marked as “run-on” or “frag.” Yet both are common in literary texts.
This section of the book reminded me of Steering the Craft: A 21st Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story, by Ursula K. Le Guin, a book I assign in my genre fiction course. One of the early activities is “write a half page to a page of narrative, up to 350 words, that is all one sentence” (32). My students usually freak out because this is so contrary to what they have been taught. They freak out even more when she asks them to write 150-350 words of narration with no punctuation or breaks of any kind. Exercises such as this demonstrate how much students have been brainwashed by their instructors about “correctness.”
Many students have read The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien. One whole chapter is simply a list of items carried by G.I.s in Vietnam during the war, clearly a Grammar B technique. Lists are powerful. The items form connections. They have contexts. They say things about the listmaker and his or her times and purposes. It is easy for students to make lists.
Double-Voice
This technique involves a conversation between two voices that may in fact not be hearing each other. There might be tension between what the writer is thinking and what he or she is writing. It might be objective description plus ironic commentary. The voices might be in separate columns or alternating sentences. This is not quite the heteroglossia that Bakhtin is talking about when he describes an author taking speech from a specific part of society and putting it into the mouth of a character, where it has the voice of the original speakers, the voice of the character, and the voice of the author, all speaking at once. However, Bakhtin would recognize the technique instantly.
Repetition and Refrains
Writing that repeats phrases almost like the refrain of a song is discouraged by English teachers, though in disciplines like Engineering, synonyms and circumlocutions are frowned upon and a strut remains a strut throughout the document no matter how many times it is repeated. Here in Grammar B, however, repetition is used for an aesthetic effect, to remind, to call upon sameness and difference, in the way that a refrain like “Tangled Up in Blue” or “Memphis Blues Again” in a Bob Dylan song repeats the same words in every chorus, but evokes a different meaning every time it comes around.
There’s more of course. Language play. Puns. Fanciful spelling. Unconventional orthography and layout. Lots of fun stuff. (A bit of Grammar B here.)
Fallows and Christensen Have incorporated activities based on Grammar B in their First Year Writing course and upper-division courses. A lower-division assignment says:
While more traditional academic essays compel you to justify your perspective and reach definitive conclusions in a seemingly objective manner, grammar b essays encourage you to explore your ambivalence in an openly subjective manner. That being said, grammar b shares the same goal as traditional academic essays in that it should bring about new perspectives and insights as you explore the nuances of your subject. Through the use of stylistic choices, you can explore any number of conflicting or coinciding thoughts by utilizing different genres, juxtaposing opposing perspectives, jumping around in time, and making the layout of your page reflect the layout of your thoughts.
To my eye, this assignment is dancing between Grammars A and B, probably to avoid freaking out the students (as my students did when asked to write without punctuation) and to appease the institutional authorities, who will perhaps tolerate alternative pedagogies as long as the students end up fluent in Grammar A. But there is a lot of leeway here for exploration and expression, much more than in a traditional essay. This looks really cool. I think writing courses should teach both grammars.
Le Guin, Ursula K., Steering the Craft: A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story. New York: Mariner Books, 2015.
Weathers, Winston. An Alternate Style: Options in Composition. Rochelle Park, New Jersey: Hayden Book Co., 1980.
What Makes Punctuation So Confusing?
When I directed a University Writing Center we fielded a lot of questions about punctuation, and we saw a lot of punctuation problems in writing produced by students, staff, and faculty. Most writers, even professional writers, feel uncertain about proper punctuation on occasion. The main problem is that we have three contradictory systems of punctuation operating at once: a breath and pause system, a grammatical system, and a system of rhetorical effects. It’s normal to be confused.
Punctuation practice is rooted in oral language. Face-to-face speech is a multimodal, multichannel event that encodes a lot of redundant information. In addition to speaking words embedded in grammatical structures, we vary the intensity of our speech, we pause for effect, we modulate the intonation, making the voice rise and fall, and we use physical gestures, body language and facial expressions.
In a telephone conversation we are no longer in a face-to-face situation and we lose the visual channels. Generally, we compensate by attending more closely to words, intonation and syntax.
A Significant Disadvantage
However, in a speakerphone conference in which some of the participants are physically present to one another while another only has access to audio information, the latter party may feel that he or she is at a significant disadvantage. And when the two parties to a telephone conversation have different cultural backgrounds, or when one party doesn’t speak the language of the conversation well, we feel the need of information from the missing channels to confirm our interpretations.
When we write, we lose all visual and auditory channels, leaving only words and grammatical structures to carry the message. Rather than a broad array of redundant channels to rely on, when we write, we have only two. Or perhaps I should say two and a quarter, because we also have punctuation.
These days we might also include emojis, a more recent and very interesting development in the history of punctuation. 🙂
Bringing Back Intonation
The punctuation system is designed to bring back into writing some of the information encoded in pauses, gestures, and intonation. As a substitute for the living voice, it is a pale shadow only. Instead of shouting and shaking a fist, we have the exclamation point. Instead of a conspiratorial whisper we have . . . well, we don’t have anything, because there is no mark for whispering. In fact, there are many common devices of speech that have no equivalent in the punctuation system. What marks we do have commas, colons, semi-colons, dashes, question marks and the rest—are generally seen to indicate pauses of varying lengths and are historically associated with the breath. However, they are also associated with the grammatical structures, and thus there are grammatical rules for their use.
Contradictory Conceptions
The two traditional conceptions of punctuation—to indicate pauses for breathing and to delineate the grammatical boundaries of the text—are to a certain extent contradictory, opposing the creative, living, breathing, individual voice with an analytical, logical, rule-driven structure. These conceptions co-exist in our society, making punctuation both difficult to teach and confusing to learn.
The earliest work on punctuation in English is the anonymous Treatise of Stops, Points, or Pauses, published in London in 1680. The theory of punctuation presented here is based entirely on breathing and rhetorical pauses. Clearly designed for classroom use, it contains the following verses for easy memorization:
A comma is a breathing stop: no more,
Stop at it while you may tell one, therefore.
Where semi-colon placed is; there you,
May please to make a stop, while you tell two.
A colon is a longer stop; therefore,
Stop at each colon, while you may tell four.
The author of the Treatise is also aware of the intonation patterns implied by certain punctuation marks, as is illustrated by the following couplet on the question mark:
When e’re a question you shall propound,
An interrogation’s made: but raise the sound.
Indeed, the Treatise is valued by linguists today more for what it says about the pronunciation and intonation of seventeenth century English than for the author’s insights into the use of punctuation marks (and certainly not for the author’s poetic ability!). Still, it is a good example of the relationship between breath and punctuation in the historical tradition.
Modern authors are likely to attempt a compromise between the two views. G.V. Carey, author of Mind the Stop: A Brief Guide to Punctuation, writes: “I should define punctuation as being governed two-thirds by rule and one-third by personal taste. I shall endeavor not to stress the former to the exclusion of the latter, but I will not knuckle under to those who apparently claim for themselves complete freedom to do what they please in the matter.” Carey’s position is probably an accurate statement of the case, but we might ask, “What kind of rule applies only two thirds of the time?”
The Harbrace Handbook
Even the Harbrace Handbook hedges its position on the comma: “The use of the comma depends primarily on the structure of the sentence and signals a small interruption. Inflexible rules governing the use of the comma are few, but there are several basic principles.” So far, so good.
The Harbrace then lists four principles, stating that commas: a) precede coordinating conjunctions when they link main clauses; b) follow introductory adverb clauses and, usually, introductory phrases; c) separate items in a series (including coordinate adjectives); and d) set off nonrestrictive and other parenthetical elements.
A Morass of Jargon
For the average handbook consulter, in the move from the general statement to the basic principles the Harbrace has leapt from cogent wisdom into a morass of grammatical jargon. The four principles are constructed almost entirely of complex grammatical terminology. One gets the feeling that those who understand this terminology probably already know how to use a comma.
For the reader with a little more understanding, the principles appear to contradict one another. For example, principle “a” says that commas precede coordinating conjunctions, while “b” puts a comma after a conjunction (which is not, in fact, “coordinating” in this instance). Similarly “c” contains a parenthetical element (set off with parentheses) while “d” says that commas will be used to set off parenthetical elements.
There is nothing incorrect here, just potential confusion. The Harbrace comma principles conform to the condition known in technical writing as C.O.I.K: Clear Only If Known.
The Handbooks are Wrong
In “Teaching Punctuation as a Rhetorical Tool,” John Dawkins advises us to disregard handbook advice on punctuation anyway. He says, “Manuals of style and college handbooks have it all wrong when it comes to punctuation (good writers don’t punctuate that way).” He proposes that there is “a system underlying what good writers, in fact, do; it is a surprisingly simple system; it is a system that enables writers to achieve important—even subtle—rhetorical effects; it is, even, a system that teachers can teach far more easily than they can teach the poorly systematized rules in our handbooks and style manuals” (CCC December 1995 533). Let us hope that Dawkins’ system is simpler than the punctuation he uses in that last sentence!
A Simple System
Dawkins argues that “all discourse, written or spoken, consists of independent clauses or underlying independent clauses.” What Dawkins calls “underlying” independent clauses are clauses that would be sentences on their own were it not for a subordinating word, such as “although” or “because,” or missing elements that make it necessary for the clause to be attached to a main clause, which could stand by itself. Dawkins sees the various punctuation marks as encoding different degrees of separation between independent clauses, or between elements in independent clauses. This perspective is different from either the breath-related or the grammatical perspectives already discussed, in that it is based on the writer’s perception of the conceptual relationships.
Three Patterns and Three Possibilities
Dawkins argues that independent clauses either have extra words, phrases or clauses attached to them, or they don’t. If they do, there are three patterns: the attachment can come at the beginning, at the end, or in the middle. In each pattern, the question for the writer is “Do I punctuate, or don’t I?” If punctuation is used, it is chosen on the basis of the degree of separation or connection the writer wishes the ideas to have, or in other words, the “meaning and intended emphasis.”
There are also three possibilities. 1) If the attachment comes at the beginning, only zero, comma, dash, or colon are permissible. 2) If the attachment is at the end, all functional marks are permissible. 3) If the attachment comes in the middle, only paired marks (commas, dashes, zeros, and parentheses) are possible. In this case, with the added material in the middle, the choice boils down to “two marks or none.”
Raising and Lowering
Dawkins then introduces the concept of raising or lowering. By “raising” he means using a mark that is higher in the hierarchy than would normally be used. He includes a chart of the “degree of separation” each mark signifies (535):
Here is a sentence with a single independent clause and material added at the end. The basic marks are zero or comma:
1) Gerald promised to write the paper when he had the time.
2) Gerald promised to write the paper, when he had the time.
Example 2 gains more emphasis for the attachment. The higher up in the hierarchy you go, the greater the separation, and the greater the emphasis for the added materials. Thus:
3) Gerald promised to write the paper—when he had the time.
4) Gerald promised to write the paper. When he had the time.
The likelihood of Gerald actually writing the paper diminishes, and the irony of the tone increases, as the punctuation marks get stronger. This is Dawkins’ main point—that good writers use punctuation not to indicate breathing points, not to satisfy grammatical rules, but to create rhetorical effects. Example four creates a sentence fragment, violating a basic handbook rule that is often violated by published writers. Dawkins’ system explains why this rule is so often broken.
It should be said, however, that novelists and short story writers are much more likely to punctuate in the manner Dawkins describes than writers of business correspondence or scientific reports. There is insufficient space to summarize Dawkins’ whole article here. However, perhaps it is enough to know that punctuation cannot be reduced to rules of breath, counting, or grammar, and that there are good reasons to be confused about it.
Note: This post is a revised and updated version of a newsletter article I wrote for the faculty at Cal State L.A. in the mid 1990’s, which you may find online in various places. A copy of this revised version in .pdf format can be downloaded here.
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Baltimore County schools claims “one time” clerical error responsible for destroyed financial disclosure statements for key personnel
Posted by Ann Costantino on 19th June 2018
Baltimore County schools is claiming a clerical error was responsible for the destruction of original financial disclosure statements belonging to a key member of the system’s central office staff, Ryan Imbriale, the executive director of the Department of Innovative Learning.
Citing a one-time mistake, Andrew Nussbaum, an attorney that advises the school system’s ethics panel said, “The employee who collects and files the Statements was of the mistaken belief that when an employee files an amended FDS, the earlier document should be discarded. Unfortunately, when Mr. Imbriale filed his amended Statement, the initial filing was destroyed. Fortunately, the employee was quickly advised that it was an error to destroy the previously filed Statement and I was told that this one was the only FDS that was discarded.”
However, as reported in March, a review of financial documents by The Baltimore Post found that two years’ worth of Mr. Imbriale’s financial records were actually destroyed after originals were replaced with new versions — in one case 19 months after the original document was filed.
Moreover, the statements for three other employees were left intact, although they too were amended to disclose previously undisclosed positions or payments around the time Mr. Imbriale amended his forms.
To put it into perspective, even former Superintendent S. Dallas Dance’s disclosure documents were left intact despite amendments – albeit incomplete – that he made to four years’ worth of disclosures. But the school system says Mr. Imbriale’s destroyed files were an error, nonetheless.
Dance is currently serving time in a Virginia jail for lying on those financial disclosure statements, despite amending his forms.
On November 14, 2017, Mr. Imbriale replaced his original disclosure statement for the 2015 reporting period, 19 months after the original filing period deadline.
On December 4, 2017, Mr. Imbraile replaced his financial disclosure statement for the 2016 reporting period, while amending it again one month later, on January 18, 2018, eight months after the original filing period deadline.
On December 15, 2017, Jeanne Imbriale, the school system’s director of Enterprise Applications, and also Mr. Imbriale’s wife, amended her disclosure form for the 2016 reporting period, adding an unpaid position that she had in which she served on the National Council for Digital Convergence. However, unlike Mr. Imbriale, Ms. Imbriale’s original financial disclosure forms were among the documents available for public inspection.
On June 2, 2016, John Mayo, the system’s director of Human Resources, replaced his disclosure form a few months after originally filing for the 2015 reporting period. Like Ms. Imbriale, Mr. Mayo’s original financial disclosure statement was among the documents available for public inspection. Mr. Mayo also declared his educational consulting company, Commonwealth Educational Consulting Services –or CECS. He did not, however, declare any income earned through the company. Mayo has worked for the school system since 2012.
In 2016, after former Superintendent Dance was found in violation by an independent ethics review that he failed to disclose an adjunct teaching position and a consulting company, he amended his 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 financial disclosure statements. But all original statements remained intact.
In February, The Baltimore Post requested the financial disclosure documents for eight school employees. While reviewing the records for Mr. Imbriale, The Post noticed disparate signing dates relative to dates the forms were originally due. In other words, the dates the documents were signed did not line up with their filing deadlines.
The Post inquired with the system’s ethics department multiple times about the forms and was told they had been amended. But when the original forms were requested, an employee stated that Mr. Imbriale’s original documents had been “destroyed” after he amended them electronically.
The ethics department stated that the software filing system was responsible for overriding Mr. Imbriale’s old filings with new versions. The school system’s law office told The Baltimore Post that the software for the filing system was created “in house” by school system employees. Mr. Imbriale’s wife, Jeanne Imbriale, works in the department that created and maintains the software.
But hardcopies that Mr. Imbriale filed with the ethics department were also destroyed when he amended his forms electronically. It is unclear, however, how those forms were destroyed. Questions about the process have not been answered.
Financial disclosure statements are required to be filed annually by school system employees who have the authority to make a final decision to commit the school system to the spending of public funds.
Along with the superintendent, community superintendents, cabinet members, executive directors, managers, purchasing agents, principals, and legal counsel, even school board members must file annually to report income and relationships with any company doing business with the school system.
Baltimore County schools’ policy states that financial disclosure statements must be retained for four years before discarding them. The policy mirrors state law.
But according to Michael W. Lord, the media director for Maryland’s State Ethics Commission, it is up to local agencies, like Baltimore County schools, to oversee themselves. And it is up to the Ethics Board to regulate itself and its compliance with rules, policies and regulations as well as to interpret and align their policies with state laws.
The Baltimore Post asked the ethics department in March if it violated its own ethics policy by destroying Mr. Imbriale’s forms. Late last week, the department’s attorney responded, stating he was told it was a one-time clerical error.
But when pressed for clarification about other employees’ forms remaining intact despite amendments to them, Mr. Nussbaum did not respond. The Baltimore Post also requested clarification since Mr. Imbriale’s forms were apparently destroyed – not once as Mr. Nussbaum stated – but twice. The Post did not receive a response.
The school system has been beset by issues surrounding financial nondisclosure. In addition to former Superintendent Dance, interim Superintendent Verletta White has also been criticized for failing to disclose income on her financial disclosure statements.
Ms. White amended her forms in February to reflect a consulting job and adjunct teaching position after an ethics complaint revealed that she violated two ethics policies for failing to disclose the work. One of the jobs was a consultant position with education consulting firm, The Education Research and Development Institute – or ERDI.
The New York Times reported in November that Ms. White worked as a consultant for ERDI.
Unlike Dance, however, White has not been accused of any crime. The interim superintendent told Maryland State Delegates in January that, also unlike Dance, her intention was not to mislead.
When The Post requested Mr. Imbriale’s original financial documents in February, it was originally regarding nondisclosure of an adjunct teaching position he has with Johns Hopkins University.
When Mr. Imbriale filed his forms in 2014 for the 2013 reporting period, he declared working for the university. When he filed in 2015 for the 2014 reporting period, he did not. But the two following years, he disclosed the position again.
Baltimore County schools contracted with a department at the university in 2014 to evaluate its laptop-for-every-student, STAT program, the year Mr. Imbriale did not disclose the position.
STAT, which Mr. Imbriale and former Superintendent Dance spearheaded, stands for Students and Teachers Accessing Tomorrow. The program will extend to all Baltimore County high schools in the 2018-2019 school year, completing former Superintendent Dance’s vision to convert the entire school system to all digital curriculum for all students and teachers.
Mr. Imbriale has taught technology-related courses at the university as an adjunct professor. The department evaluating STAT is the Center for Research and Reform in Education at the university. The lead researchers evaluating STAT also study education technology and educational software programs, including DreamBox, a Baltimore County school system vendor. DreamBox is a mathematical game-based computer program used by the district’s elementary students as part of its STAT program.
The Baltimore Post asked Mr. Imbriale in March about the disappearance of his original financial disclosure forms. He did not respond to the inquiry, nor to questions regarding his disclosure of the Johns Hopkins teaching position.
Requests for other copies of his 2015 and 2016 financial disclosure statements – that may still exist – also did not yield a response.
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Response to Intervention An Alignment Guide for READ 180 Scholastic Inc. has prepared this Alignment Guide to assist Local Education Agencies (LEAs) and schools who are currently implementing or are considering
Response to Intervention An Alignment Guide for READ 180 Scholastic Inc. has prepared this Alignment Guide to assist Local Education Agencies (LEAs) and schools who are currently implementing or are considering adopting a Response to Intervention (RTI) model. This guide provides key background information on current educational policy related to RTI, and demonstrates how READ 180 Enterprise Edition (EE) can complement and strengthen the implementation of RTI and effectively raise student achievement. This Alignment Guide provides the following key information: Response to Intervention Overview READ 180 Enterprise Edition Overview Alignment of READ 180 Enterprise Edition to RTI Core Components READ 180 EE is a research-based, intensive reading intervention program designed to meet the needs of students in grades transitional 3 and above whose reading achievement is below the proficient level. READ 180 EE: Effectively raises student achievement by delivering a systematic program of reading intervention that directly addresses individual needs through adaptive and instructional software, high-interest literature, and direct instruction in reading skills; Supplies software-generated assessment reports that can be used to develop students academic achievement goals, monitor students progress, modify direct instruction, and evaluate the effectiveness of the program; Provides professional development that is integrated into the teaching materials, and a customizable in-service and professional development plan that prepares instructors to effectively deliver the program. Using the Alignment Guide Beginning in January 2006, districts are permitted to use up to 15% of their Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) funds for interventions and measurements to be used within a RTI framework. This alignment guide addresses how the Scholastic READ 180 Enterprise Edition program supports and strengthens the implementation of RTI. For all questions regarding Response to Intervention services, please consult the final IDEA, Part B regulations governing the Assistance to States for Education of Children with Disabilities Program and the Preschool Grants for Children with Disabilities Program. They can be found at Contents Response to Intervention (RTI)Overview...2 What is RTI?...2 The Purpose of RTI...2 IDEA 2004 Critical Points Core Components of RTI...3 READ 180 Enterprise Edition Overview READ 180 Enterprise Edition Aligns to Response to Intervention Core Components A Multitiered Intervention Model Universal Screening Scientifically Validated and Research-based Interventions Fidelity of Intervention Implementation Frequent Monitoring of Student Progress Data-based Decision Making Professional Development Appropriate Interventions for At-Risk English Language Learners Supplemental Instructional Materials CoordinatedFunding...15 Summary References Appendix: Related Research About Scholastic Inc. Scholastic is committed to providing teachers with effective materials for every stage of reading instruction to ensure that students develop the skills and strategies needed to succeed in school. Our reputation is built on an 85-year history of helping foster and support effective learning for all students. For years, we have worked with leading researchers to develop scientifically based products that produce significant results in student achievement, as well as meaningful changes in teacher effectiveness. We look forward to partnering with you to improve reading achievement, and would like the opportunity to talk with you about how we can best support your efforts to implement your Response to Intervention program. 1 Response to Intervention (RTI) Overview The information in this section of the alignment guide is informed by the IDEA 2004 Regulations, the National Association of State Directors of Education (NASDSE) 2005 Report, guidelines provided from the Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts at the University of Texas at Austin, and consultation from Dr. Joe Witt s isteep model on the core principles and practical implementation of RTI in schools. What is RTI? Response to Intervention is the systematic practice of: Providing increasingly intensive, high-quality instruction and intervention matched to students needs Measuring student progress over time Using resulting data to make important educational decisions RTI is not a specific program, curriculum, or model. Rather, RTI is a framework for allocating instructional services and resources in response to students needs. Scholastic READ 180 Enterprise Edition supports and complements the implementation of RTI. The Purpose of RTI is Threefold. 1. The prevention of future educational difficulties by reorienting service delivery to provide effective early intervention 2. The remediation of existing educational difficulties 3. The provision of an alternative and valid method of Learning Disabled (LD) identification and referral for Special Education services IDEA 2004 Critical Points Requires that states permit the use of RTI as part of the identification of Specific Learning Disabilities Allows states to prohibit the use of the IQ-Achievement Discrepancy model for the identification of Specific Learning Disabilities Does not allow states to require the use of the Discrepancy model Requires that RTI be only one component of the process by which children are identified for special education and related services Does not require or mandate one particular RTI model; provides the states with flexibility to adopt criteria, programs, implementation models, and professional development that best meet local needs Requires that the Special Education Eligibility Report include evidence that parents of children participating in an RTI process were informed of state policies regarding child performance data and the general education services that would be provided; strategies to support their child s rate of learning; and a parent s right to request an evaluation at any time Urges early screening and intervention for all students Recommends a multitiered intervention strategy Recommends systematic, ongoing progress monitoring of students response to highquality, research-based intervention Recommends integrating services between general and special education 2 Core Components of RTI 1. A Multitiered Intervention Model Multiple tiers of intervention allow schools to offer increasingly intensive interventions to those students who are not making adequate progress in the core curriculum (Tier I). Interventions in Tiers II and III may be intensified by increasing instructional time, decreasing group size, using materials matched to students instructional levels, modifying modes of presentation, and providing regular corrective feedback. 2. Universal Screening All students should be screened three times a year to identify those students who are not making expected academic progress. Screening measures should be brief, reliable, valid, and appropriately identify those students who require more intense interventions. 3. Scientifically Validated and Research-Based Interventions IDEA 2004 and No Child Left Behind (NCLB) require the use of research-based interventions to the extent possible. Interventions should be based on research-proven practices. In addition, the intervention should be validated by scientific efficacy studies. 4. Fidelity of Intervention Implementation The fidelity of intervention implementation must be monitored to ensure that students are receiving the intervention as designed and validated by research. Interventions should include guidelines and tools regarding implementation fidelity. 5. Frequent Monitoring of Student Progress The progress of students receiving interventions must be monitored frequently in order to determine if the interventions are producing the desired academic gains. The progress monitoring measures should be brief, target specific skills, be administered easily, and accompanied by decision rules to inform instruction. 6. Data-based Decision Making In all tiers of intervention, data from screening and progress monitoring measures should be used to make educational decisions for individual students. 7. Professional Development A high-quality professional development plan should be used to support teachers implementing RTI. The plan should allow for coaching, e-learning courses, and other opportunities. 8. Appropriate Interventions for At-Risk English Language Learners Intervention programs should include literacy instruction that targets at-risk English language learners who have not yet been identified as needing special education services. 9. Supplemental Instructional Materials The use of supplemental instructional materials, where appropriate, strengthens the efficacy of the comprehensive core curriculum and supports student learning in Tier I. 10. Coordinated Funding Components of RTI funded by IDEA may be coordinated with activities funded by, and carried out under, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). 3 Response to Intervention READ 180 Enterprise Edition Overview READ 180 Enterprise Edition is a 90-minute-a-day intensive reading program designed to meet the needs of students whose reading achievement is below the proficient level. READ 180 directly addresses individual needs through adaptive and instructional software, high-interest literature, and teacher-directed instruction in reading and writing skills and strategies. The instructional software was created as a result of more than ten years of research by experts at Vanderbilt University. Through a collaborative research effort between Vanderbilt University and the Orange County Public School System in Florida, the READ 180 prototype was used with thousands of students between 1993 and The research conclusively showed that when schools implement and follow the program s instructional model for one to two years, significant reading gains can be expected, more positive attitudes and behaviors develop, and overall higher school achievement is realized. The READ 180 Instructional Model combines research-based reading practices with the effective use of technology, offering students an opportunity to achieve reading success through a combination of instructional, modeled, and independent reading components. The READ 180 Instructional Model is designed to send a strong message that each individual is respected, supported, given choices, and can succeed. 4 An Alignment Guide for READ 180 READ 180 Enterprise Edition Aligns to Response to Intervention Core Components The following information details how Scholastic READ 180 Enterprise Edition (EE), with professional development support from Scholastic RED, addresses the Core Components of a Response to Intervention (RTI) Model. RTI 1 A multitiered intervention model with intensity of services increasing as students move up the tiers. This includes: Increased instructional time Decreased students per group Materials matched to students instructional level Modified modes of presentation Regular corrective feedback READ 180 Enterprise Edition The READ 180 EE Instructional Model includes the intensity of services as described above. The program provides intensive intervention to struggling readers through three stages of instruction: Stage A for upper elementary, Stage B for middle school, and Stage C for high school. Each stage requires a 90-minute class period that meets 5 days per week. The on-model student-teacher ratio in READ 180 is 15:1, and students get daily small-group instruction (5:1) for more targeted intervention. Within these small groups, teachers differentiate instruction based on student needs, using specific teaching methods for English language learners and students with specific learning issues. In addition, students can select reading materials at their reading level from the independent reading paperbacks using the Lexile Framework provided with READ 180. Student performance on the Scholastic Reading Inventory TM (SRI) is used to adjust the reading passages on the software to meet each individual student at his or her level. As students progress through the program, they receive regular, corrective feedback on reading, spelling, and comprehension through the READ 180 Software. READ 180 EE delivers its reading achievement gains through four core instructional activities: Individualized instructional software The READ 180 Software provides each student with customized reading instruction plus continuous assessment of his or her progress. The software has built-in supports, such as anchor videos that build background knowledge for reading passages, Universal Access Provisions, and language translations. Data-driven small-group instruction Comprehensive READ 180 EE reports provide detailed and immediate feedback to identify student needs and to inform Small-Group Instruction. 5 Response to Intervention Direct, explicit instruction in whole or small groups The READ 180 EE rbook Teacher s Edition provides for explicit instruction and scaffolded practice through research-based routines. Independent reading READ 180 provides students with an independent reading library of high-interest and leveled paperbacks, as well as grade-level Audiobooks. Quick Writes and Scholastic Reading Counts! (SRC!) are used to assess students understanding of what they have read. RTI 2 Universal screening measures that are brief, reliable, valid, and appropriately identify students for Tier II intervention READ 180 Enterprise Edition READ 180 EE continually assesses students using a variety of instruments. Students begin by taking the Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI) to assess their reading levels and determine if placement in the program is appropriate. All students may be screened using SRI. The research-based assessment, the Scholastic Reading Inventory, and/or the Lexile Framework have been the subject of seven validation studies. The research ranges from a normative study with a sample of 512,224 students (Lexile Framework) to an analysis of gender, race, and ethnic differences among fourth- through ninth-grade students. The Scholastic Achievement Manager (SAM), which collects data from SRI assessments and daily READ 180 Software use, generates more than 40 detailed reports that allow teachers to identify and measure skill areas in which students require further improvement. Reports include: Student Diagnostic Report, which helps teachers to identify and prioritize students needs in comprehension, word recognition, spelling, and fluency. Student Action Report, which describes students performances and SRI test history using Lexile measure, grade equivalency, and normative data, as well as recommends how to help students meet grade-level expectations. Demographic Proficiency Report, which provides a breakdown of SRI performance according to subgroup. Proficiency Summary Report, which reports the reading performance of students within a district, school, or grade for an individual teacher, class, or group. RTI 3 Scientifically validated and research-based interventions READ 180 Enterprise Edition The READ 180 EE program and services strongly align with the 15 key elements of effective adolescent literacy programs as cited in Reading Next: A Vision for Action and Research in Middle and High School Literacy (Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2004). 6 An Alignment Guide for READ 180 The instructional software was created as a result of more than ten years of research by experts at Vanderbilt University. Through a collaborative research effort between Vanderbilt University and the Orange County Public School System in Florida, the READ 180 EE prototype was used with thousands of students between 1993 and The research conclusively showed that when schools implement and follow the program s instructional model for one to two years, significant reading gains can be expected, more positive attitudes and behaviors develop, and overall higher school achievement is realized (Taylor, 2001). Upon acquisition of the prototype, Scholastic agreed to maintain the integrity of all researchbased principles and to enhance the library of books and the ease of use of the program. More recently, Scholastic developed the READ 180 EE rbook Teaching System. The Teaching System is a print-based interactive worktext for Small- and Whole-Group Instruction that includes nine content-area Workshops focusing on key reading and writing skills. The Teaching System utilizes research-based instructional strategies and routines (Feldman, 2002; Feldman & Kinsella, 2004). These Workshops cover mostly content-area nonfiction, with a high percentage of science and social studies passages, as well as gradeappropriate, high-interest literature. Additional resources, such as the Resources for Differentiated Instruction books (RDI), the Scholastic RED Teacher Handbook, and rskills Tests provide lesson plans, instructional routines, professional development, and assessment. Reading and technology experts have written about the development of READ 180 and its effects in numerous journals. This literature includes: Struggling Middle School Readers: Successful, Accelerating Intervention (Papalewis, 2004) Literacy Instruction for Older Struggling Readers: What Is the Role of Technology? (Hasselbring & Goin, 2004) Turning the Tide (Daley & Rubin, 1999) The Computer Doesn t Embarrass Me (Hasselbring, Goin, Taylor, Bottge & Daley, 1997) Multimedia Environments for Developing Literacy in At-Risk Students (Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt University, 1994) Anchored Instruction and Its Relationship to Situated Cognition (Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt University, 1990) For more information on the READ 180 EE research base, please refer to: READ 180: A Heritage of Research Before Reading Next: READ 180, An Alignment of READ 180 and Reading Next READ 180 Aligned to NCLB These publications can be downloaded at the Web addresses listed in the References section of this guide on page 16. 7 Response to Intervention READ 180 EE has been the subject of numerous scientifically based research evaluations, including quasi-experimental, correlational, and descriptive studies. The studies report reading gains for various populations and subgroups of students, including middle and high school students, English language learners, students in special education, and Native Americans. Results from third-party evaluations show that struggling readers in READ 180 EE show progress, often substantial, in learning to read. Impressive gains are reflected on students reading scores on standardized tests, such as the Stanford Achievement Test-9 (SAT-9), TerraNova, and the Scholastic Reading Inventory. For more information on research that validates the use of READ 180 EE, please refer to the Appendix on page 17 and to RTI 4 An intervention with fidelity of implementation guidelines that can be evaluated through reporting or observational measures READ 180 Enterprise Edition Ongoing evaluations reveal strong correlations between the quality of implementation and the desired achievement outcomes. The Research and Validation Department at Scholastic developed a READ 180 Research Protocol and Tools guide that includes a detailed READ 180 Observation Protocol that links to the READ 180 Implementation Checklist. The checklist includes ten key indicators for evaluation of the quality of implementation. This implementation checklist and an abbreviated version of the Observation Protocol have also been made available in the READ 180 Leadership Implementation Guide. RTI 5 Use of frequent and brief progress monitoring assessments with decision rules that inform instruction READ 180 Enterprise Edition READ 180 EE provides continuous assessment and immediate feedback for students and teachers. READ 180 EE contains assessments for initial screening, diagnostic placement, progress monitoring, and pro
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Posted: December 17, 2017 in Uncategorized
Tags: city of riverside, mayor ron o. loveridge, mayor terry frizzel, mayor william rusty bailey, rin tin tin, ronald loveridge plaza, sendai
PROFESSOR PLUM IN THE LIBRARY WITH THE CANDLESTICK
You simply can’t make this stuff up – even Harvey Weinstein couldn’t have concocted a better storyline! But back in October of 2012 community activist Karen Wright exceeded the 3-minute rule for public comment at a City Council meeting and was subsequently arrested. And then the “who-dun-it?” game began.
Who had the authority to call for the arrest? The Riverside Police Department pointed their finger at our former City Attorney, Greg Priamos. Priamos pointed back at the RPD officer in attendance. It was great theater, as all parties tried to deflect their own involvement in a story in which they couldn’t control the message: the intimidation of critics of the powers-that-be that were running the ship aground. (And how do we posit that? Well, Measure Z, of course! … but more on that later)
KCAL 9 reporter Greg Mills would quote former Mayor Loveridge that, “he’s never seen somebody arrested for exceeding the 3 minute limit,” in an apparent attempt to distance himself from the fracas. Since the Mayor didn’t want to talk to anyone on camera (and answer questions that might implicate himself), the Mayor’s Spokeshole declared, “that for now on, the only person that could demand somebody be arrested at a City Council Meeting, is the Chairperson of the City Council…. that Chairperson…is the Mayor.” Haha! But we’ve always known who the guilty party was (and it wasn’t Ms. Wright, whom the DA would bring no charges against), and the great reveal is below.
Fast forward to May of 2014 and we find former Mayor Ron Loveridge making public comment in City Council chambers and exceeding the 3-minute limit rule. Current standing Mayor William “Rusty” Bailey nervously succumbed to his wishes and allowed him to continue speaking as seen in the above video. Strangely [sic], the meeting wasn’t stopped, the speaker wasn’t interrupted, the buzzer didn’t go off, and gasp, Ronny wasn’t cuffed and stuffed.
Residents in OUR City of Riverside have become sick and tired of the two sets of rules in our community, and are aware of what seems to be a culture of entitlement amongst those that believe they are the ruling elite. Despite the disparate treatment, we do not buy into their vision of a caste system, of peasants and elites. We scoff at the notion that we need to live up to their standards in order to be accepted into their high society cultured class so that our opinions may count…an attitude exemplified by former Mayor Loveridge, and enabled by current Mayor Bailey. Mayor Loveridge certainly was treated as if he was better than Ms. Wright…and in true California fashion, style won over substance. Elitism and entitlement of old school Riverside families, trumps normal families.
RETURN TO SENDAI, AUTHORITY UNKNOWN
Back on March 22, 2011 Riverside City Council unanimously, with the support of then Mayor Loveridge, transferred $100,000 from the public general fund to the Sendai Relief Fund. The question then became, can a public entity contribute a gift of public funds to another, even if it is for a good cause? As a general rule, you can only give away to others what you own. But by definition funds owned by the city are public, and elected and appointed officials are stewards of those funds.
Article XVI, section 6 of the California Constitution undeniably prohibits gifts of public funds, therefore the City of Riverside gifting $100,000 of public funds to Sendai was illegal. Voluntary individual contributions by elected and appointed officials and other persons would have been the legal way of raising appropriate relief funds to gift to Sendai. Rules and regulations have been developed for a reason: to prevent taxpayer fund abuse. The State constitution is very clear: there must be a direct or primary public purpose and benefit to the public at large when general funds are used to avoid being a gift.
Article XVI, Section 6 of the California Constitution:
The Legislature shall have no power to give or to lend, or to authorize the giving or lending, of the credit of the State, or of any county, city and county, city, township or other political corporation or subdivision of the State now existing, or that may be hereafter established, in aid of or to any person, association, or corporation, whether municipal or otherwise, or to pledge the credit thereof, in any manner whatever, for the payment of the liabilities of any individual, association, municipal or other corporation whatever; nor shall it have power to make any gift or authorize the making of any gift, of any public money or thing of value to any individual, municipal or other corporation whatever; provided, that nothing in this section shall prevent the Legislature granting aid pursuant to Section 3 of Article XVI.
Rather then going with the rule of law, the Mayor never advised the Council that this would be violation, and further, he never asked the advice of then-City Attorney Greg Priamos. But that is beside the point, because even if anyone knew the rule of law within City Hall, they would’ve turned a blind eye to it… because that was how the City and the Mayor rolled/rolls with your money.
LAST TANGO IN PERRIS
Let’s not to mention Former Mayor Loveridge’s predilection for young students! As former Mayor Terry Frizzel stated at a November 13, 2012 City Council Meeting. So what was this predilection for young students that has also been the talk in closed circles? Maybe UCR needs to open up an investigation on the current professor.
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Former Mayor Terry Frizzel shocked the crowd at this City Council Meeting and had much to say about Mayor Ron Loveridge and his behavior with young students:
The thing that really, really, really, disappoints me.. is our mayor tells us that we have to make our city a better place to live, he preached that on his nights out (Mayor’s Night Out Event)…and then for him to do what he did was unfounded (the arrest of public speaker Karen Wright). You should never ever take away the liberty and freedom of speech. And you were a political science professor?
How would you have liked it when your wife went up to UCR and complained about your running around with some of the students up there. Would you like it if the police had carried her out of there. No you wouldn’t have! .. and I was right there and saw that you had young students in your car driving around that campus when I was first got elected here.
You have no purity, you have no conscious, you are there just to be a big shot… and that’s all you ever try to be. You don’t care about the people of this community or you would never had said the things that you’ve said. I’m totally disgusted there was no reason for what you did to Karen. I wish I would have been here, because you would have never had let you get away with this..
And you Mr. Davis, I stuck up for you when you were being put on the carpet, because you had every right to be heard and they tried to shut you up.
What’s the matter with you people, what’s the matter with you, and he (Mayor), he makes the word that you can’t be like Terry Frizzel and veto stuff. He (Mayor) didn’t like the manner of my operation. But I can tell you one thing. (gasp from mayor Loveridge in the background).
Mayor, when Ab Brown came up to this podium, you sent me notes, shut em up, shut em up.. and I would send you notes, no, he has the right to speak.
When Karen Renfroe came up here, you said shut her up, shut her up, no..she has a right to speak
That’s your mode of operating your City Hall. Be proud of yourself because you are leading a very, very bad, bad imitation of what the City of Riverside Mayor should be. I hope he (mayor elect Rusty) does not follow in your footsteps, because if he does I will be right and correct him every time.
– Former City of Riverside Mayor Terry Frizzel
RIDING THE GRAVY TRAIN
So who has protected the former Mayor and his alleged bad behavior? Who enabled him? Was it a festering culture that existed and continues to allow the privileged class to do what they please because they simply believed they are somehow exceptional? Does the Crème De La Crème use their self-determined authority against those in the community who speak out? We can assume those who surrounded this culture knew, but decided to do nothing! As a metastasized cancer, this culture has fervently become ingrained and intermingled within all aspects of City business…. from the police and fire unions, SEIU, teachers unions, local universities, and close establishment associations and of course, our politicians. We would say it is run as a criminal organization. You could smell the aroma of injustice when these basted gravy bastards all came running to the Council podium when there gravy train of entitlement was challenged by their employer, the taxpayer. They have undermined and plotted against you and I, for their own personal gain.
Was it Mayor Ron’s intention all along to get something of significance named after him as a gift from the community elite, which he himself basted in gravy? Perhaps we assume too much, but how else could you explain the establishment groups trampling to the Council podium of the king roach, swarming as cockroaches from the wood work to push through the naming of our cherished City Hall to the “Loveridge City Hall?” Or was this simply a gift by the ‘Mutual Admiration Society’ to one of its founding members?
We at TMC had a thought or two about the naming of public properties. We felt these kinds of honors should be reserved for someone of significance that revered the City of Riverside and helped to place it on the map. And we certainly didn’t consider that to be a politician who receives a paycheck and takes care of his cronies above the general public.
As the story goes, a core group of establishment supporters got together, allegedly with the help of Loveridge’s Chief of Staff Kristin Tillquist (who received a 15% raise by Loveridge one year…aka pension spiking). This private committee was headed was headed by ringleader, Jack Clark, a partner in litigation for BB&K, a firm which receives millions in taxpayer money for their legal advice to the city, and let’s not forget the assumption of their lease at the Mission Square building by Riverside Public Utilities. This self-appointed “brain trust” included the same-old recognizable names with long, seemingly-important titles: ex-City of Riverside Manager Brad Hudson, Private Developer Mark Rubin, Yeager Construction Companies Jack Yeager, Senior VP of The Entrepreneurial Corporate Group (which owns the Mission Inn) Ted Weggeland , City of Riverside Mayor’s Chief of Staff Kristin Tillquist, Riverside County Fair Housing Executive Director Rose Mayes, President/CEO Riverside Chamber of Commerce Cindy Roth, Roth Carney Law Firm Partner Jane Carney, Riverside County Superior Court Judge Roger Luebs, Director of Center for Philanthropy La Sierra University Dr. Jim Erickson, Retired Superintendent Alford Unified School District Dr. Damon Castillo, RUSD School Board Kathy Allavie. The majority of these people in one way or another have benefited from City Hall and/or have had their palms financially greased by the taxpayer/ratepayer/feepayer.
Many speakers at public comment were vehemently against the proposal. Some suggested other names should be considered – those which embody Riverside – such as Eliza Tibbets, John Wesley North or even Frank Miller. Councilman Steve Adams believed that the naming of City Hall needed to go to the people, and a private independent committee does not have the authority to make that call. Still others said City Hall belongs to the public and shouldn’t be named for anyone.
Some mentioned that Ronny was getting paid to do the work of the people. As our forefathers of this country stated, no one should be elevated to level of king for doing the work of the people. Now, if Ron did the work of the people AND didn’t get paid for doing it for 30 plus years, we wouldn’t have a problem voting for Loveridge City Hall. This would reflect a sacrifice and a deep passion for the community he served. But there are people in the community who also work 30 or 40 years in a job without anyone naming a building after them, and there job is just as important as the mayor’s. Names are for extraordinary circumstances.
Our opinion is that Rin Tin Tin personifies a historical facet of the City of Riverside. The dog was loyal, honorable, ardent, trustworthy and lived in Riverside. … traits that candidly we do not personify former Mayor Ron Loveridge (although we begrudgingly submit that he did live in Riverside). The ugly truth of the matter he wasn’t a man of/by/for the people, but instead the good-old-boys that enabled him and kept his behaviors under wraps. When it appears that politics has gone to the dogs …. we thought it would be fitting that the naming should as well… “The Rin Tin Tin Riverside City Hall!”
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But eventually Loveridge partly attained his wish, which he and his cronies hoped solidify his legacy by the naming of the plaza outside of City Hall. The City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday, July 9, 2013 to call the Main Street mall between Ninth Street and City Hall, “Ronald O. Loveridge Plaza.”
Well he finally received something that was unearned, and eventually, down the line, may be removed, because of his past behavior. But the establishment always seems to protect their people no matter how bad they are or what they have done.
“He’s one of Riverside’s iconic leaders,” said Brent Lee, president of the young business leaders’ organization the Pick Group. As an elected RUSD School Board members with no doubt higher ambitions, we think Brent Lee may one day be eating his words.
Council members also described their former colleague in glowing terms. “He was about finding the middle ground and getting things done as best we could with seven minds up here that think differently but have the same ideal of doing what’s best for Riverside,” said Councilman Paul Davis. We’re sure Councilman Paul Davis may have needed a Heimlick maneuver in order to clear his throat after that utterance. But those who know Davis, in terms of politics, know he seems to go wherever the wind blows.
And still, the “it” crowd continues to shield the Steve Adam’s, Ron Adam’s, John Burnard’s, Russ Leach’s, Chris Lanzillo’s, Brad Hudson’s, Tom DeSantis’s, Belinda Graham’s, Brenda Dietrich’s, Greg Priamos’s, Luxory Girl Strout’s, Code Enforcement, Sergio Diaz’s, the Scott Barber’s of the world and many more……how much taxpayer monies did it and will it cost?
Over the years TMC has seen this entitled culture of taxpayer welfare recipients, and we have seen it within the boundaries of the ole’ River City’s Thirty Miles of Corruption…and Ron Loveridge is the “great reveal” for those not following the bouncing ball.
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CITY OF RIVERSIDE: $100,000.00 GIFT TO SENDAI: A VIOLATION OF THE CALIFORNIA CON$TITUTION?
Posted: May 23, 2011 in Uncategorized
Tags: article XVI section 6, california constitution, gifts, public funds, public utilities, riverside, riverside city council, ron loveridge, sendai, state constitution
On March 22, 2011 Riverside City Council unanimously transferred $100,000.00 from the public general fund to the Sendai Relief Fund. The queston now became, can a public entity contribute a gift of public funds to another, even if it is for a good cause? As a general rule, you can only give away to others what you own, which includes cities. But by definition funds owned by the city are public, and elected and appointed officials are stewards of those funds. Therefore, according to Article XVI, section 6 of the California Constitution undeniably prohibits gifts of public funds, therefore the City of Riverside gifting $100,000.00 of public funds to Sendai is not only illegal but a violation. Individual contributions by elected and appointed officials and personal would have been the legal way of raising appropriate relief funds to gift to Sendai. Rules and regulations have been developed for a reason, to prevent taxpayer fund abuse. The State constitution is very clear, there must be direct or primary public purpose and benefit to the public at large when general funds are used to avoid being a gift.
UPDATE: 05/24/2011: NOTED AT CITY COUNCIL, $100,000.00 WITHDRAWN FROM GENERAL FUND AS A GIFT TO SENDAI. HOW MANY MORE GIFTS OF CONTRIBUTION FROM THE GENERAL FUND HAVE OCCURRED FOR OTHER NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS?
UPDATE: 05/29/2011: RIVERSIDE PUBLIC UTILITIES DONATES $2000.00 TOWARDS A DINNER HONORING MAYOR RON LOVERIDGE AND WIFE. A SILVER SPONSORSHIP INCLUDES A TABLE WITH A SEATING FOR FOUR AND AN AD ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. IF THE DONATION WAS WITH PUBLIC FUNDS AS INDICATED BY THE SPONSORSHIP LISTING, THIS WOULD BE ILLEGAL AND A VIOLATION OF ARTICLE XVI, SECTION 6 OF THE CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTUION. THIS WOULD ALSO BE A CONFLICT OF INTEREST SINCE RIVERSIDE PUBLIC UTILITIES IS A PUBLIC ENTITY. TMC INVESTIGATES, STAY CONNECTED.
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Video: Alabama Shakes “Hold On” & “You Ain’t Alone”
The Alabama Shakes will be playing at Radio Radio on Wednesday, December 14th. Tickets are $10. I suggest you act swiftly Indianapolis, as this will likely be the last time you will ever have the chance to see this band for such a moderate price. And it’s sure as shit the last time you’ll ever see them in a venue as small and intimate as Fountain Square’s Radio Radio.
This Athens, AL quartet is winning over crowds all over the country of late. Their performance at Jack White’s Third Man Records during Next Big Nashville’s Soundland music festival in September was a consensus critic favorite. A couple of weeks ago, they followed suit by knocking the socks off of a packed Bowery Ballroom as part of CMJ Music Marathon in NYC. The New York Times’ Jon Pareles had this to say:
“But some of CMJ’s best moments this year looked even further back: toward roots-rock, far away from laptops, concepts and surface cleverness. The Texas bluesman Gary Clark Jr. played sets that were simply incendiary, following bleak sentiments with slashing guitar solos. And a band called Alabama Shakes, led by a bespectacled songwriter and guitarist, Brittany Howard, harked back to the fervor and smoldering drama of 1960s Southern soul and left its audience screaming for more. They were working CMJ the old-fashioned way: making converts with sheer live impact, now letting the Internet multiply the word of mouth.”
Pareles drives home the point that this band is beyond buzzworthy. This is whiskey drenched, headboard rattling, soulful rock n’ roll. Watch below for evidence. The top video was recorded at Pegasus Records as part of the Live from the Shoals video series. Watch “Hold On”:
Below is a music video for the song “You Ain’t Alone” featuring footage from The Alabama Shakes’ performance at Chattanooga’s Track 29. The video was directed by Joshua Shoemaker. Both songs are featured on the band’s debut self-titled EP: Album Stream – Alabama Shakes. Do not sleep on this show Indianapolis. Get to Fountain Square on December 14th or risk kicking yourself come Christmas.
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MSNBC Formally Apologizes for 'Demeaning' Tweet After Republican Party Boycott
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus at the National Press Club in Washington, in 2013. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus at the National Press Club in Washington, in 2013.
Manuel Balce Ceneta—AP
By Zeke J Miller
Updated Jan. 30, 2014, 5:05 p.m.
The cable news network apologized Thursday for a tweet suggesting Republicans “hate” biracial families, which sparked a boycott from the Republican National Committee.
The offending tweet from the network, posted Wednesday evening and since deleted, read “Maybe the rightwing will hate it, but everyone else will go awww: the adorable new#Cheerios ad w/ biracial family. http://t.co/SpB4rQDoAR.” RNC Chairman Reince Priebus sent a letter Thursday morning to network President Phil Griffin saying he banned all RNC staff from “appearing on, associating with, or booking any RNC surrogates on MSNBC,” and in a separate memo encouraged GOP elected officials and strategists to avoid the network as well.
Preibus wrote:
We can have our political disagreements with MSNBC, but using biracial families to launch petty and ridiculous political attacks is low, even by MSNBC’s standards. It only coarsens our political discourse.
MSNBC hosts—including Alec Baldwin, Martin Bashir, Melissa Harris-Perry, Alex Wagner, and Ronan Farrow just to name a few—have had a troubling streak in the last several weeks of making comments that belittle and demean Americans without furthering any thoughtful dialogue. Perhaps it’s time for the executives at MSNBC to consider whether their network is upholding a meaningful journalistic mission.
This is more than just a tweet or an offhand comment. This is part of a pattern of behavior that has gotten markedly worse, and until Phil Griffin personally apologizes and takes corrective action, we cannot be part of this network’s toxic programming.
I am confident that he will want to “lean forward” and prove to the American people that he does not condone this behavior. I look forward to his apology and corrective action.
Though MSNBC already apologized on Twitter, Priebus, knowing full-well the political upside of extending this controversy, said he wants a personal apology from Griffin. And he got one Thursday afternoon.
The tweet last night was outrageous and unacceptable. We immediately acknowledged that it was offensive and wrong, apologized, and deleted it. We have dismissed the person responsible for the tweet.
I personally apologize to Mr. Priebus and to everyone offended.
At MSNBC, we believe in passionate, strong debate about the issues and we invite voices from all sides to participate. That will never change.
Priebus’s office accepted the apology, but continued on to say that it “will aggressively monitor the network to see whether their pattern of unacceptable behavior actually changes. We don’t expect their liberal bias to change, but we will call them out when political commentary devolves into personal and belittling attacks.”
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MalaysiaMalaysia Sends Back Tons of Trash From Rich Countries, Saying It Is 'Not the Dumping Site of the World'
Snake River with the Grand Tetons in the background, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 1948.Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
Snake River with the Grand Tetons in the background, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 1948.
Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
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See Breathtaking Photos of Jackson Hole in its Dude Ranch Days
Eliza Berman
The Jackson Hole valley today is a major hub of tourism in the American West: skiers in the winter, national park-goers in the summer and mountain lovers all year round. But its primary tourism draw—long before the word “resort” became associated with the peaceful Wyoming locale—was once its dude ranches. Back then, its cowboy bars served actual cowboys, its main street was paved with dirt and its vast expanses were more populated with bison than with people. In 1948, LIFE photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captured the region’s quiet yet dramatic beauty in vivid Technicolor, preserving it—at least on film—for posterity.
Liz Ronk, who edited this gallery, is the Photo Editor for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter @lizabethronk.
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Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony Celebrate Their Twins' 9th Birthday
James Devaney—WireImage
By Dave Quinn / People
Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony may no longer be married, but the former couple reunited Monday at a birthday celebration for their twins Maximilian David and Emme Maribel, who turn 9 on Wednesday.
The couple were all smiles as they posed with Leah Remini and her husband Angelo Pagan in a photo posted to Remini’s Instagram page.
“Celebrating our Max & Emme’s 9th birthday,” Remini, who is Max and Emme’s godmother, captioned the shot. She hashtagged it, “#familia #memories #friendship.”
On her own page, Lopez shared a collage of photos of her children, captioning it:
“Emme and Maximilian…I cant believe it’s 9 years ago today that God entrusted me with the biggest blessings of my life… he finally sent me my beautiful twins, my babies, my love and life in two lil human beings. I immediately felt bonded, protective, overwhelmed with emotion and like the luckiest woman on this earth. And I’ve felt that way every day since.”
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She continued, “You make me proud every single moment of every single day! You are two shining lights that make this world a better more beautiful place for me and everyone who is lucky enough to know you…Thank you Lord for choosing me to be Max and Emme’s mom. The word LOVE is not enough for how my heart and soul feel when I think of you… Happy Happy Birthday my lil coconuts!!!”
Lopez and Anthony tied the knot in a secret ceremony in June 2004 at Lopez’s home in Beverly Hills. They dated for just six months before getting married — though first met as friends in 1998 when Anthony was starring in Broadway’s The Capeman.
The couple split in in July 2011, after seven years of marriage, but have remained close since their divorce was finalized in June 2014. They shared the stage in New York City in August, and even shared a kiss after Lopez presented Anthony the Latin Recording Academy’s Person of the Year award at November’s Latin Grammys.
They’re currently hard at work on a Lopez’s new all-Spanish album, which Anthony is producing. It’s slated for release sometime this year.
A major musical inspiration for Lopez continues to be her twins. As she told PEOPLE Editor-in-Chief Jess Cagle, her 2011 hit single “On the Floor” was motivated by her two children.
“I had given birth and the kids honestly just gave me a new direction,” the singer said, wiping away years. “They just made me realize … what was real and what wasn’t real. They just changed everything.”
This article originally appeared on People.com
Motto welcomes outside contributions. Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of TIME editors.
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Registrar agreement
In which cases can the registrar agreement be transferred?
The registrar agreement cannot be transferred to a new organisation except for in cases where there is a merging or a change of the organizational structure.
In these cases you have to send an application to transfer the agreement. You must include a copy of the company’s Certificate of Registration and documentation which shows that a there has been a merge or a change of the organizational structure.
In cases where the registrar business should continue on a new organisation, a new registrar agreement must be established. When the new agreement is in place, the domains can be transferred to the new registrar handle. Please contact us on info@norid.no to receive the necessary documents.
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Multiswitch Business Group Structure for Conventional or ISDN Access Generic Requirements
Document Number TR-NWT-000868
Issue Date Nov 1991
ABSTRACT: This Technical Reference (TR) provides the view of Telcordia on generic requirements for a Multiswitch Business Group (MBG) structure.
The MBG structure provides for the creation of MBGs that extend the conventional Basic Business Group (BBG) and the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) Basic Business Group (BBG-I) to multiple switches. An MBG can include the same categories of entities that are eligible to be included in a BBG-I: directory-number/call-type pairs served by ISDN interfaces (basic rate and primary rate), conventional lines, virtual private facilities supported by Signaling System No. 7 (SS7), and conventional private facilities. The feature requirements section of this document covers feature options, internal call-processing controls, signaling/message structure, administration/operations, and interactions.
TR-NWT-000868 replaced TA-NWT-000868 and TA-TSY-000404.
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Little Women 2019 *****
Greta Gerwig is a talented woman in a field where women are rarely listened to or valued, but she’s earned her place at the front rank of Hollywood creatives. Louisa May Alcott’s venerable property is one which Sony have been keen to develop for a while, and with Gerwig as writer/director, the resulting rich slice of period drama is something of a triumph for all concerned. For Gerwig, it proves beyond any doubt that her directorial debut, Lady Bird, was no fluke; for Amy Pascal and Sony, it’s a strong return on their faith in a fresh and radical female director, handling a big-name cast and a lush studio production. And for audiences, it’s a chance to return to a classic, often filmed text, and find something new and exciting through the eyes of a genuine auteur.
The bildungsroman is an ideal target for a 2019 do-over; today’s youth chronicle their coming of age in lugubrious detail, so it’s something of a breath of fresh air to find Alcott’s character brought to life with such brief but incisive strokes. Gerwig puts Jo (Saoirse Ronan) and her development centre-stage, opening with the author nervously awaiting the opinion of a publisher of her early work. His understanding, that a story about a woman must end with her either married, or dead, is one that Jo wants to question, but she’s also savvy and prepared to negotiate, on art, on commerce, on all terms. The question is, how did she get so smart?
From here, the narrative fractures, as we travel back seven years to see the formative experiences which have inspired Jo’s work, namely her sisters Margaret (Emma Watson), Amy (Florence Pugh) and Elizabeth (Eliza Scanlen), and also remain in the present to get acquainted with how things work out for the sisters. There is an eccentric aunt (Meryl Streep, giving it some Maggie Smith in the dowager stakes), and a handsome suitor Laurie (the more-than-personable Timothy Chalamet), while the stern but loving hand of mother Marmee (Laura Dern) is there to steady the ship when the girls’ youthful enthusiasm threatens to put things out of kilter. The way the narrative jumps backwards and forwards in time may dissuade those have come just for the classic text and chocolate-box visuals, but it revitalises the narrative in a satisfying way, and makes familiar events more surprising as they play out. As a director, Gerwig plays down the potential for sentiment, while retaining the caustic wit of her script work on Lady Bird and Frances Ha; these Little Women feel like real people, with Ronan’s sparring with Pugh a particular highlight.
Little Women is an unexpected delight, a period film that feels relevant, a woman’s picture that should have a universal appeal. It’s easy to cheer Jo as she rises above her difficulties, and Gerwig is always firmly plugged into her heroine’s psyche. The ending, while clever, is unashamedly romantic; Gerwig’s sumptuous film shows a modern audience that feminism and romance can fit together nicely.
awards, emma watson, feminism, film, florence pugh, Greta Gerwig, laura dern, little women, louisa may alcott, movie review, novel, romance, saoirse ronan, sony, timothee chalamet
Midsommar 2019 ***
‘Get on with it’ would be a more appropriate title for Ari Aster’s glacially slow horror film, a follow up to Hereditary that repeats many of the same tropes but with a remarkable drop-off in terms of effect. Midsommar went from much anticipated to immediately forgotten after a big hype and subsequent minimal performance; it’s a strange misfire which gains points for imagination and atmosphere, but is crippled by a lack of plot and character development.
A commendably brief set up establishes the troubled family history of Dani (Florence Pugh); her sister killed herself, taking her parents with her. While Dani waits for a response to frenzied phone-calls, her boyfriend Christian (Jack Reynor) is meeting his bros and planning a holiday in Sweden. When Dani comes along, clearly in a state of mourning, it’s obvious that if the copious drugs consumed won’t dislodge something from her psyche, then something will have to give in the fragile relationship she has with Christian.
After a brief interlude with hallucinogens, the group find themselves in a bizarre and remote commune where the apparent niceness and friendly overtures of the locals hide a dark secret. Some kind of pagan worship is going on, and as with The Wicker Man, if you have to ask who is getting sacrificed, then the answer is probably ‘you’. Despite the considerable running time, there’s considerably more culture clash involved in the Wicker Man trope, which gets into details about how and why these outdated customs are adhered to. Aster, swimming in the other direction, depicts the rituals in great length without much in the way of explanation; the result is as dull to watch as a royal wedding in some arcane culture.
Crucially, Aster’s characters lack agency even before they’re given drugs which render them immobile; escape attempts are offscreen and unclear, while the striking setting becomes boring when it becomes apparent that the entire story is guessable from the trailer. The cast don’t have enough material to establish the group beyond rote slasher movie archetypes, and even the sense of dread so powerful in Hereditary eventually fades here as events spiral slowly towards a non-existent punchline.
If Aster goes on to less obviously undercooked projects, Midsommer may gain in resonance, but on it’s own, it’s a weak story killed by over-confidence. The visuals are striking, and the whole package is tempting, but ultimately Midsommer feels like Hostel played at half-speed, minus the gore, humour or excitement.
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Preoperative serum albumin level is a prognostic indicator for adenocarcinoma of the gastric cardia
Yung Chang Lien, Chih Cheng Hsieh, Yu Chung Wu, Han Shui Hsu, Wen Hu Hsu, Liang Shun Wang, Min Hsiung Huang, Biing Shiun Huang
Among patients with adenocarcinoma of the gastric cardia, we noted that patients with higher preoperative serum albumin levels appeared to survive longer than patients with lower levels. Thus, we evaluated serum albumin as a prognostic factor for patient survival. From 1987 to 1997, 314 patients with adenocarcinoma of the gastric cardia underwent curative resection. Patient serum albumin levels were evaluated on the second day after admission, before any nutritional support. Patients were divided into two groups: those with normal serum albumin levels (>3.5 g/dl) and those with abnormal serum albumin levels. The perioperative mortality and morbidity were 5.7% (18 of 314) and 22.3% (70 of 314), respectively. The surgical resectability rate was significantly better among patients with normal serum albumin levels (P <0.001). The 5-year overall survival rate of patients with normal serum albumin levels was also better than those with abnormally low serum albumin levels (38.4% versus 19.1%, P = 0.0003). In each cancer stage, the 5-year survival rate of patients with normal serum albumin levels was better than that among those with hypoalbuminemia. By multivariate analysis, serum albumin level and the pathologic T, N statuses were independent factors correlated with prognosis. Preoperative serum albumin level correlated highly with resectability and survival. Patients with abnormal serum albumin levels had worse survival than did those with normal serum albumin levels. We recommend that postoperative adjuvant therapy be given to all patients with hypoalbuminemia preoperatively.
Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gassur.2004.09.033
Hypoalbuminemia
gastric cardia
Lien, Y. C., Hsieh, C. C., Wu, Y. C., Hsu, H. S., Hsu, W. H., Wang, L. S., ... Huang, B. S. (2004). Preoperative serum albumin level is a prognostic indicator for adenocarcinoma of the gastric cardia. Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, 8(8), 1041-1048. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gassur.2004.09.033
Preoperative serum albumin level is a prognostic indicator for adenocarcinoma of the gastric cardia. / Lien, Yung Chang; Hsieh, Chih Cheng; Wu, Yu Chung; Hsu, Han Shui; Hsu, Wen Hu; Wang, Liang Shun; Huang, Min Hsiung; Huang, Biing Shiun.
In: Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Vol. 8, No. 8, 01.12.2004, p. 1041-1048.
Lien, YC, Hsieh, CC, Wu, YC, Hsu, HS, Hsu, WH, Wang, LS, Huang, MH & Huang, BS 2004, 'Preoperative serum albumin level is a prognostic indicator for adenocarcinoma of the gastric cardia', Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 1041-1048. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gassur.2004.09.033
Lien YC, Hsieh CC, Wu YC, Hsu HS, Hsu WH, Wang LS et al. Preoperative serum albumin level is a prognostic indicator for adenocarcinoma of the gastric cardia. Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery. 2004 Dec 1;8(8):1041-1048. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gassur.2004.09.033
Lien, Yung Chang ; Hsieh, Chih Cheng ; Wu, Yu Chung ; Hsu, Han Shui ; Hsu, Wen Hu ; Wang, Liang Shun ; Huang, Min Hsiung ; Huang, Biing Shiun. / Preoperative serum albumin level is a prognostic indicator for adenocarcinoma of the gastric cardia. In: Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery. 2004 ; Vol. 8, No. 8. pp. 1041-1048.
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ToolGuyd > Hand Tools > Layout & Measuring > New Bosch “Pocket-Sized” Laser Distance Measurers
New Bosch “Pocket-Sized” Laser Distance Measurers
Apr 27, 2015 Stuart 16 Comments
Bosch’s GLM 15 laser distance measuring tool is a super-compact and pocketable bare-bones model that’s a far cry from the bulky fully-featured laser measurers that must be worn on your belt or stowed in a tool bag. It’s as basic a laser measuring tool as you can get, and it’s just $50 (via Amazon).
Bosch revealed in their recent consumer email that there will be 3 new additions to their compact laser measuring tool range, and we dug up additional details on them. In addition to being better featured than the GLM 15, the new models are slightly more accurate as well: ± 1/16″ vs. ± 1/8″ for the GLM 15.
GLM 30
The GLM 30 has a range of 100 ft and sports a new backlit LCD display. Additional measurement features include area/volume, indirect measurements, and plus/minus operations.
It’s priced at $70.
Buy Now(via Home Depot)
The GLM 35 is nearly identical to the GLM 30, but has an extended measuring range of 120 feet.
It’s currently available for $76.
Buy Now(via Amazon)
The new GLM 40 offers all of the same features as the GLM 30 and GLM 35, but has a range of 135 feet and the addition of a 10-setting memory.
This model is currently available for $100, which is the same price as the larger GLM 50 (via Amazon), which has a range of 165 feet and a couple of extra features such as changeable reference points.
I like the small size of the GLM 15, as well as its simplicity, but it’s a little too bare-bones for a lot of things. On the other hand, its price is incredibly appealing, and there’s nothing quite on the market like it. The only other name-brand models that approach the GLM 15’s price point are Stanley’s laser distance measurers, and even theirs start at $55 (via Amazon).
The new models cost a bit more than the GLM 15, but they offer greater functionality that I’ve been missing with the GLM 15. They’re not fully-featured, but look to come pretty darned close.
I think that the GLM 30 is a nice step up from the GLM 15. The GLM 35 will be more appealing to those who need greater range, and the GLM 40 has that memory functionality.
One thing that I’m concerned about is the size of the new laser distance measuring tools. In most of the images, the GLM 30, 35, and 40 look to be almost as svelte as the GLM 15. But in angled views, they look appreciably chunkier to the point where they don’t look very pocketable at all. The same can be seen in Bosch’s promo videos:
While they don’t look quite as large as Bosch’s prior laser distance measurers, the new models aren’t quite as compact as the GLM 15. This is understandable, as more functionality means more electronic guts and a larger screen, but it’s still somewhat disappointing.
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James C says
I think one of these will be in my future. I don’t get the difference between the 30 and the 35. So the 35 is identical to the 30 but it can measure out an extra 20 feet and costs just $6 more. Why would they even make the 30 if that’s the case? Are you sure that info is correct?
The GLM 35 and 40 are now in stock at Amazon. The GLM 30 isn’t even listed there, but is in stock at Home Depot.
It could be that the GLM 30 was built to serve a cheaper price point requested by HD or other retailers. I’m just guessing here, as I cannot think of any other reason for Bosch to do this.
This is really odd. Bosch already has/had a model GLM 30 that’s different than what’s being shown here. What I have seen is identical to the GLM 15 in all features, sizes, and specifications except being able to measure out to 30 meters (~100 feet).
All the Home Depot stores near me supposedly have them in stock right now so I might go look at them today. I won’t be purchasing one, but I want to see if they can physically show me one of these. Something’s a little hinky and I’d like to see if those reviews from Home Depot are of something they actually sell.
Speaking of which, Home Depot has the DUMBEST review system in the world. This first occurred to me when I saw this Top 100/Top 50/Top 10 contributor thing out the side (there seem to be at least 1,000 of these “top” contributors). People love these tags under their name, so naturally they’re going to start writing a lot of reviews….whether they own the product or not.
THEN, I noticed this “Seeds Program” – they send you free stuff if you write a bunch of reviews about 1,000’s of products you could never afford. Incentivizing people to right as many reviews as possible – what could possibly go wrong? For whatever reason, these particular reviews are all bumped up to the top, and since these people are getting FREE stuff, they naturally give every product 5 stars. Unless you’re a professional, well-respected reviewer like Mr. Toolguyd, typically you will drool all over a $300 product that you someone said “here, i’ll give this to you for free just to see what you think!!!!11 btw, reviews are welcome”
Now products that aren’t even on the market have reviews. I see reviews by these Top 100 people that are about the WRONG product. Home Depot is now ab-so-lute-ly useless for product information.
They’re trying to mimic Amazon’s Vine program. I’ve seen some negative Vine reviews, but others where the reviewers had absolutely no clue as to what they’re talking about.
Yep, what you’re describing is exactly why I thought something is amiss. There are several reviews for this new GLM 30, all from Seeds members in the top 100+ reviewers list, for a brand new product that no one else seems to have.
While I was out this afternoon I did stop by a Home Depot. Three of these were supposed to be in stock. But their system had no information on their location, I could not find them on the shelves or at the professional desk, and no one could recall having seen them. On my way home I stopped by another one. Five in stock with the same result.
I’ve saved a copy of Home Depot’s page with all of the reviews. If this product turns out to be the older GLM 30 they will have some explaining to do.
Tomas says
Actually the GLM35 say $65 on amazon right now, does that change your opinion on it?
Damit, it went up to $79 just now. I’m sure amazon’s computerized price fluctuations detected some interest. I’m going to set a camelcamelcamel price watch on this thing for $65
Can someone explain the “X” models? Bosch has a GLM 40 and GLM 40 X as well as another model I was looking at coming out soon the GLM 50 C and GLM 50 CX model. I cannot seem to find any difference between X and non X models at all and the Bosch site is useless to show any difference. I thought maybe one was a Home Depot exclusive model but Home Depot sells both! Why do they have to be so difficult to difference these myriad of models?
sundar says
i am using the glm 40. in this i can’t change the unit of measurement. now its showing as a feet . i want to change feet to meter. in the manual it says press and hold the function key i will display some thing. but in there nothing is displaying . any one can help me to short out this problem please. my email – [email protected]
Umesh Gulati says
Hi I am using the Glm 40 can’t change it from feet to metre pls help me
My mail I’d is
Arun says
i am using the glm 40. in this i can’t change the unit of measurement. now its showing as a feet . i want to change feet to meter. in the manual it says press and hold the function key i will display some thing. but in there nothing is displaying . any one can help me to short out this problem please.
Ayman HAMED says
i am using the glm 40. in this i can’t change the unit of measurement. . i want to change feet to meter.
Naveen verma says
i am using the glm 40. in this i can’t change the unit of measurement. . i want to change feet to meter.This is a worst product
Defry says
(1) Switch the measuring tool off.
(2) Hold down the On/Off button. It will displays “UNIT” of measure, keep holding the button, it will cycle “ft” to “m” (and back to ft again, back and forth).
(3) Let go of the On/Off button when it displays the units you desire (either “ft” or “m”). After releasing, the measuring tool switches itself on with the selected setting.
https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1046822/Bosch-Glm-40-Professional.html?page=15#manual
Hope this help! Cheers
Naveen Nimalan says
It’s working , thank you…
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New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Pet Shop Boys release Inner Sanctum today, a live performance film from their critically-acclaimed sold-out run London's Royal Opera House last summer. The full-length film is also accompanied by two CDs of the complete audio from the live show, plus a bonus feature of the duo's performance at Rock in Rio.
Pet Shop Boys first presented this live show in 2016 with four sold-out shows at the Royal Opera House, which were then reprised in 2018 as part of their Super tour for four additional performances. The show was staged by designer Es Devlin, choreographed and directed by Lynne Page, and the film was directed by David Barnard.
Super entered the official U.K. Album Charts at #3 marking the duo's sixteenth U.K. Top 10 album to date. The first single "The Pop Kids" reached #1 on Billboard's U.S. Dance Club Charts. The album was written in London and Berlin and features 12 new Tennant/Lowe compositions.
Over the last 25 years Pet Shop Boys have gained a reputation as innovators of the modern live music show. They were among the first to integrate multimedia and theatrical elements into their productions, and they have collaborated with Derek Jarman, Zaha Hadid and Sam Taylor-Johnson.
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1. Inner sanctum
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3. The Pop Kids/In the night/Burn
4. Love is a bourgeois construct
5. New York City boy
6. Se a vida é (That's the way life is)
7. Love comes quickly
8. Love etc.
9. The dictator decides/Inside a dream
10. West End girls
11. Home and dry/The Enigma
12. Vocal/The Sodom and Gomorrah Show
13. It's a sin
14. Left to my own devices
15. Heart/Go West
16. Domino dancing
17. Always on my mind
18. The Pop Kids (reprise)
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All posts by Gary Frank
June 25, 2019 The Politics of ChangeGary Frank
No one knows for sure how many change efforts fail. An often-cited statistic is that nearly three quarters do. Some have pushed back at that number as being far too high. To complicate the matter further, when a statistic like this is mentioned, criteria for judging success or failure are never cited.
Leaving “failure” (however that may be defined) aside, a lot of change efforts, in my experience, fail to reach their intended potential. For all of the effort and disruption that people experience through the process of the change, there is often a considerable gap between what was initially envisioned and what becomes reality. Think of it as the change potential gap.
There are a variety of factors that contribute to the gap. I’m guessing that if I asked you to make your own list it might look something like this: Continue reading →
May 19, 2018 Executing ChangeGary Frank
A colleague and I made a rookie mistake in our very first work system redesign project for a manufacturing organization.
Through a great deal of joint effort over many months, the organization had been transformed from a traditional assembly line where workers could only perform a few narrowly prescribed tasks to a high performance work system where, among other things, workers could:
Build the entire product from beginning to end individually.
Manage all aspects of process and product quality.
Plan and execute their own daily and weekly production schedule.
Continuously improve and innovate the process and the organization.
All of these activities happened in self-managed teams. It was a huge transformation for the organization and its team members.
It became evident pretty quickly that paying people according to their old pay grades, based on now outdated job classifications, no longer made sense.
The organization needed to pay people for acquired and applied skill. The client needed a skill-based pay plan.
Along with the client, we gave ourselves a crash course in skill-based pay plans and even sketched out a framework for what we needed. Armed with our homework, we met with the Director of Compensation in HR, confident that he would see the misalignment as we saw it and come to our aid in putting a solution in place.
His reaction surprised us.
April 13, 2018 Change LeadershipGary Frank
I am delighted to introduce Pamela Dennis, Ph.D., a long-time friend, colleague, and former owner of Destra Consulting, who has graciously agreed to share her experience and wisdom on the subject of "change-ability" in this guest post.
I work with executives who want to grow their companies, but they’re concerned that creating change will slow things down and make their organizations ponderous.
When it comes to growth, they want their companies to be racehorses, not elephants.
But did you know that elephants, despite being the world’s largest land animal, run up to 25 miles per hour? Usain Bolt, currently the world's fastest human, averaged 23.3 miles per hour in his world record 100-meter race.
Growth and size don’t always have to make companies slow and unwieldy.
In my experience, the critical factor is having a company that possesses “change-ability” – the natural capability for speed and agility in response to an ever-changing environment.
The 3 Most Important Drivers of “Change-ability”
How do you create a company with speed and agility while at the same time maintaining current advantage? Your company must have these core abilities:
February 15, 2018 Change Leadership, Engagement, Executing ChangeGary Frank
This is the third post in my series on meaningful engagement. You can check out the other two posts in the series here:
Meaningful Engagement vs. Buy-In: What's the Difference and Why Should I Care?
What's the Driving Force Behind Engagement?
Meaningful engagement and the co-creation of change can produce much more commitment than simple buy-in can.
Organizations that settle for buy-in, rather than aspire to meaningful engagement, miss out on the opportunity to:
Deepen commitment to the change process
Stimulate co-creation of solutions
Build business literacy and other important business skills, and
Accelerate the pace of change.
I define meaningful engagement as:
“Any authentic involvement that allows people to make consequential contributions to the process and the outcome of a change and deepens their understanding of it, their commitment to it, and their ownership of it.”
As I wrote in Meaningful Engagement vs. Buy-In: What's the Difference and Why Should I Care?, leader commitment – including the belief that ordinary people can make extraordinary contributions and the willingness to commit time, effort, and resources to enable them to do so – is the pivotal difference between enabling meaningful engagement and settling for buy-in.
Without a leader’s resolute commitment to authentic involvement, the full measure of meaningful engagement will not be realized.
If we know that meaningful engagement is what we want and need in our organizations, how do we go about creating it?
June 28, 2017 Change Leadership, Foundations for Changebuy-in, change, change leadership, change management, engagement, leading change, meaningful engagement, organization change, organizational changeGary Frank
In my previous post Meaningful Engagement vs. Buy-In: What's the Difference and Why Should I Care?, I posed two questions.
“… why do we continue to manage change in ways that do not truly engage people and foster conditions where “meaningful engagement” can occur commonly?
Why do we continue to settle for “buy-in” when we want and actually need much more?"
I suggested five reasons why many organizations settle for buy-in rather than aspire to meaningful engagement. I refer you to the previous post for the specifics (Buy-In vs. Engagement: What’s the Difference and Why Should I Care?). Briefly, though, I argued that buy-in more often triumphs as the objective of change management because it doesn’t require the same level of leader or manager commitment that meaningful engagement does. Aiming for buy-in just doesn’t demand as much time and effort and, in the end, expediency wins.
BUT, and it’s a big but, I argued that tacit buy-in doesn’t produce nearly as much commitment as meaningful engagement and the co-creation of change can. Done right, meaningful engagement in organizational change has the potential to:
Strengthen everyone’s understanding of the need for and direction of change
Deepen commitment to the change process and objectives
Build business literacy and other important business skills
Accelerate the pace of change, and
Propel the change beyond the envisioned outcome
In this post, we’ll continue this exploration of meaningful engagement and pose two additional questions.
How does meaningful engagement produce more than simple buy-in?
What are the dynamics at work?
Who Should Be Responsible for Managing Change?
March 3, 2016 Change Leadershipchange management, managing change, organization change, transitionGary Frank
Effective change doesn’t happen by accident. It is the result of careful planning and thoughtful execution. Leaders play a pivotal role in change because they possess legitimate power to authorize the change, establish the vision, provide direction and resources, and hold organizational members accountable. Everyone looks to the leader for guidance and that person must model the way for the rest of the organization.
Change would be a much tidier process if that were all it took – an effective leader who knows what to do and how to do it and is at the front leading the charge.
But as important as the leader’s role is, it isn’t the leader who ultimately executes change. Change (from simple to complex) is always a matter of people in impacted areas making the transition from the way things are now to the way they’re supposed to be in the future.
Transition at the people level involves, among other things:
Answering their questions about why and what it will mean for them
Describing how things will be in the future
Helping them understand whether or not they will be in that future
Involving them to co-create that future
Providing a credible plan for moving forward that speaks to them at their level
Communicating frequently and reliably about what’s happening now and what will happen next
Learning new skills and applying new knowledge
Becoming part of a new work group
How does this all get done? Who is leading the charge on this? More to the point, who should be leading the charge on this? Continue reading →
Impacts of Organizational Change
January 4, 2016 Foundations for Changechange impacts, change management, impact of change, organizational changeGary Frank
People prefer stability. It may seem odd to read that as the opening sentence of a blog on the subject of organizational change, but let me say that again. People prefer stability. It’s part of the human condition. For all of the inevitability and necessity of change that we talk about, we actually prefer things to be stable and predictable.
When change occurs – and it always does - we find it disruptive. Exactly how disruptive a change may be is highly individual. The amount of disruption we experience is a function of how much the change affects our individual construct of reality – the routines, preferences, habits, patterns, and ways we understand things. As we all know, this disruption can range from minor inconvenience to the “sky is falling.”
It is axiomatic that the level of change management that must be applied to a change effort is directly proportional to the amount of change people will experience. If this is true, how do you assess the impact of change in order to plan for the level of support? Where do you look and what do you examine?
The Utility of Resistance
November 4, 2015 Foundations for Changechange practitioners, change team, organization change, resistance to changeGary Frank
Since man began to sail the open seas, sailors have used a very simple device to figure out how to take maximum advantage of the wind. Pieces of ribbon or yarn attached to the main mast and to the sides of the jib tell a sailor when the wind is up and how to trim the sails to use them most efficiently to make the best headway. These pieces of ribbon or yarn (three red strips in the photo below) are called a “tell tale” and “tell tales” are one of a sailor’s best friends.
When it comes to organization change, leaders, managers, and change practitioners also have a “tell tale.” It’s called resistance. However, resistance is rarely regarded as anyone’s best friend. Quite the contrary, resistance is usually regarded as something to be “overcome,” “managed,” “mitigated,” “addressed” or otherwise “eliminated.”
What if we thought about resistance and used it differently?
Leading Change: The Special Case of the Middle Manager
September 29, 2015 Change Leadershipchange, leading change, middle manager, organizational changeGary Frank
Leading change is too difficult and complicated to accomplish alone. It requires a support network to augment your personal sponsorship and direct leadership. Much has been written about building an effective sponsor network and it’s all relevant and true. However, there is a significant resource at your disposal that is often over-looked and untapped.
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Ultraman R/B Episode 18 & 19
EuricaeriS / February 4, 2019
“A World Without Tomorrow” and “Good People and Bad People”
We sleep through episode 18, then watch as D.R.L.N. sends the bad robot to go fight the Ultramen.
Euri’s Thoughts
I may have spent more time looking into why we got ‘A World Without Tomorrow’ instead of, like, anything relevant to pushing the plot along. Don’t get me wrong, these side episodes are sometimes the best that Ultraman has to offer (see that Ultraman X rugby episode we like to talk about) but we’re hot off the heels of the Halloween special. It might be because of Culture Day in Japan, but that’s a bit of a guess on my part as there doesn’t appear to be any kind of acknowledgement. At any rate, this episode isn’t that great, but it does have a few good moments.
Perhaps my favourite thing about Ultraman as a whole is when they dig deep into the Ultra-vaults and pull out a bizarre and obscure monster to use. We saw that with Booska last episode (although admittedly, that plays more so for Western fans because from what I can tell, Booska is pretty well-known in Japan) and we see it again briefly here with Alien Chibu, who appears as a hologram and bosses the other aliens around. The other two aren’t quite as obscure, at least according to my pretty biased barometer of whether I know them or not given I’ve not seen much Ultraman in general. We saw Alien Zarab back in Ultraman X, and Alien Mefilas is one I’ve at least seen in passing.
The episode itself is pretty bland. It’s an interesting concept for sure, but honestly I think it’d be more interesting to see some regular news coverage of Earth from the aliens, rather than see them attempt to spice it up. Seeing Papa Minato in the leading role for the episode was good to see, but ultimately didn’t really pay off. His story was incredibly cliché, arguably deliberately so, but it didn’t really add anything to the episode one way or the other. The most fascinating part of the episode was not the bomb plot, but rather the cool, old flip clock they used for the countdown. I guess my biggest problem with the episode is that it didn’t lean into anything – it didn’t fully commit to being serious or being silly.
‘Good People and Bad People’ is a return to the main plot after two weeks of absence (for Japan, anyway!) but even then, failed to move the needle until the very last conversation in the episode. Goth Alien wanting to save Asahi is believable at this point, so having her temporarily team up with Ruebe isn’t really that outlandish. The interesting part of the episode, D.R.L.N. getting hacked somehow, is left completely unanswered. It’s not clear whether this is just an excuse for the show to dump garbage-tier monster King Joe on us again, or whether there’s plot reasons for it happening.
My best guess would be that Aizen is back, but going for Asahi to spite her is only something he’d do if he was really paying attention. The more obvious answer is that it’s to lure out the Ultramen, but even that’s kinda questionable when King Joe didn’t really do much damage to the country, and seems very much designed to murder people inside itself? Put it this way, if Aizen is behind that, and counted on Goth Alien to get in there and save her, then fair play to him. I just don’t see it, especially as there was no trap for her inside Joe. So going back to the earlier point, who hacked D.R.L.N., and does the show actually mean for it to be a plot point anyway?
We do learn right at the end that the Ultraman morphers actually belonged to Goth Alien’s brothers, so I guess we’ll finally get confirmation on who she is and where she came from in the next episode or two. Hopefully we’ll see Asahi’s origin story too?
I miss Aizen.
King Joe sucks and always has sucked. I realise that this isn’t going to be a popular opinion among Ultraman fans but I just can’t stand the thing.
Dinosaur Tank though. Now there‘s an evergreen design. But still no Dinosaur Tank.
colons’ Thoughts
This series has completely destroyed my trust in its flags about what is worth paying attention to and not worth paying attention to. They made two episodes in a row that were completely inconsequential, and at the same time they were at least as novel as any of the alternating bad episodes we’ve seen so far. We’re being trained to treat any plot that involves the impending destruction of earth as a flag indicating that the current arc is a joke, which seems pretty irresponsible given where it seems this show is going.
I am extremely into putting Ultraman toys in shock mounts
Papa Minato has a very good hat with a very good badge
The robot should have dabbed
Please don’t come back
February 4, 2019 in Tokusatsu. Tags: men in rubber suits beating up other men in rubber suits while everything behind them explodes, tag, tokusatsu, ultraman, ultraman r/b
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Late Night Television Needs More Tipsy Celebs
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On Thursday night, Late Night with Seth Meyers aired an especially good segment of his “Day Drinking” series in which he throws back cocktails with celebrities. This time he did so with maybe the only famous person who knows how to have a good time: Rihanna.
If you’re skeptical as to whether these two are actually drinking real alcohol, there is absolutely no mistaking that these are real drinks by the end of the episode, which finds Meyers slurring, getting his makeup done by Rihanna, and singing “Work” to her while she gleefully films on her cell phone (an unfortunate moment in the video, I assure you.) Here’s what Rihanna does while she’s tipsy:
Stops drinking a disgusting drink Meyers hands her consisting of a Twinkie in Champagne to just chug Champagne straight from the bottle
Meyers asks her for advice on how he can “blow his wife away” on a date, to which Rihanna replies, “You just said it... blow your wife.”
Admits she wanted, at one point in her life, to become a pilot after realizing her grades sucked
Can’t come up with a good nickname for Seth because she “doesn’t know him like that” and when he demands she say the first nickname to pop in her head on the count of three, she just meekly whispers “...Seth?”
It’s funny because Rihanna is funny, but also because she’s drinking. More celebrities should be drinking on late night television! There’s a reason that the Golden Globes is the best awards show and it’s because there’s an open bar. And how exactly does Andy Cohen get guests on Watch What Happens Live to answer questions and say crazy things (like Shania Twain admitting she peed herself on stage???) that they might never say elsewhere? Well, because he’s good at his job, but also the fact that drinking is a key part of the show.
If you invite celebs to your show, for the love of god just pour them some tequila.
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That 3-Year-Old Baby DJ Totally Won South Africa's Got Talent
Julianne Escobedo Shepherd
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DJ Arch Jnr is a baby DJ that is quite unlike the “baby” “DJs” who holler at you in bars, because he is actually a baby and also a DJ. He’s so good at being both these things—at age three, he’s already been DJing for one full year—that he just emerged victorious as the grand-prize winner of South Africa’s Got Talent.
According to Fact, wee baby DJ Arch Junior has developed himself as a YouTube phenomenon, but it’s clearly the live experience that really establishes him as one of the world’s best DJs of all time. He needs a visual countdown to start because he is really too young to understand the concept of time, but rhythm is clearly inherent at any age, as he throws down kwaito and house tracks with at least the precision of the scrub “selecting” at the last bar or party you attended. He’s on CDJs and two laptops and already has signature DJ moves.
Surely curmudgeons like Deadmau5 have something to say about this but if they do they are total monsters, because Arch Jnr is a child, and he is three. This baby DJ is thriving, and he beat out a fully grown adult woman whose talent was puppetry. To paraphrase Zhane: “Hey baby DJ keep playin that song all night on and on and on...”
Contact the author at julianne@jezebel.com.
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Life and times of Joseph Adeleye Obutu
in Arts & Life, Life - The Midweek Magazine
My earliest memory of my father is a bit foggy: rather like a camera trying to focus on its subject. I can barely make out a guy that was always trying to tell me something by mouth when we are alone or through his eyes when there were other people. However, I have a vivid, cinematic picture of locations, of people and my father who was always watching me.
In the years gone by, the message was constant, the teaching repeatedly drilled to avoid any chance of being lost. My father’s teaching was a whole life motion picture that continued to the very last day of his life on earth. His teaching was at first in those early days a monologue to a little boy, later a dialogue, a conversation that was so unique that I am particularly privileged to have been part of.
At about the turn of the nineteenth century, a powerful (very powerful) exiled Prince from the Benin Kingdom ended up at Igbo Ajagun an outpost not far from present day Iju and Itaogbolu with his battle weary entourage after a protracted and monumental journey through the woods of Akoko-Edo and beyond. The settlement made up of arriving groups in the area was a form of a military camp from where the nucleus of early settlers of Iju and Itaogbolu eventually migrated. At this unsettled war period in Yoruba land, affiliations were made and groups emerged making decisions on choice of place of permanent settlement.
The Benin Prince, Prince Obutu Akenzua took his entourage to Itaogbolu which along with Iju were the two main evolving settlements at the time. Consequentially, the elders of Itaogbolu invited him to ascend to the throne. But, he declined stating he was there to rest after a long and difficult journey. In the local parlance, he was there to Simi with a proviso that his offspring should reserve this right in the future. The elders immediately made Imi a traditional title with Obutu as the first and the family a ruling house in Itaogbolu. The revered Prince had nine wives as was the practice of nobility at the time.
One of the nine wives was a maiden chosen from the prominent Isaoye family of Iju- Ifasote Olofinsusi. She arrived as the eight and one of the two junior wives. This union yielded four male children of which Papa Joseph Adeleye was the third born in the year 1927. His early years were in the royal household under a close watch of his father who took a special interest in him.
Unfortunately, this early romance that Papa used to talk fondly of, ended in his early teen with the death of the patriarch of the family. This momentous event in the early life of the young Adeleye led to his mother taking her four boys back to her paternal household of Isaoye in Iju where Papa continued his early childhood.
Papa taught himself to read and write and used this knowledge to travel extensively engaging in various merchandising; he traded in clothing materials and Agro chemical products. In 1951, he came back to Iju, settled down, took up extensive cocoa cultivation in addition to his commodity trading business. In 1953 he married a beautiful Princess – Juliana Ademolahan from the royal household of Oloofe of Oke-Iju a union that produced Papa’s greatest treasure of all-his children who he brought up as Princes and Princess. Till his later years, papa remained a very active and successful cocoa buyer and exporter.
For someone who did not have the benefit of formal education, Papa understood the imperative of it. He realised very early that the only way his Princes and Princess would not be labourers and messengers to others was for them to have good education.
Papa thrived in knowing his children were educated. He saw this as his own education and his window to the world.
Papa was a man of extraordinary faith. Till his last days on earth, he conducted his early morning family prayer. His prayer was really a command. Papa always asked that we speak with our Eleda. One particular instance has stuck with me over the years; I was sent home for my school fees during my secondary school days: it was one of those years when cocoa was under-priced and the market was bad. In the morning, Papa prayed, commanded his Eleda to provide so that his Prince can return to school. Daily prayers time was six o’ clock in the morning.
This particular morning, as Papa opened the outside door, there was a man waiting. He came to buy Agro chemical. Strangely, this was old stock that had been there for years. Like it was a normal, regular day, he bought his stuff in cash and went. I looked at Papa and said so “your Eleda heard you.” He said yes with a big smile. “You must learn to communicate with your Eleda,” he said. He gave me my school fees and I went back to school.
When I was preparing to leave home for the first time to the boarding school, Papa and I had the first in the many series of admonition never to forget who I am and where I am came from. “Life can never really be a happy place for anyone that forgets his root”. Again, we had this conversation when I was travelling overseas. I found this particularly profound as I discovered that man is just a number the moment he is detached from his root. There is something abouta man’s root that cannot be replaced. “You are special” Papa would say.
Never look at someone else’s plate
I earlier intimated how unique it was being my father’s son; this is without any chance of exaggeration. How do you bring up a child that would literarily never look at someone else’s plate? “What is in your plate is the sweetest and the best there is, what is in the other person’s plate is of no concern to you” Papa always thought us to envy no one, to be confident of who we are and be content with that which is ours.
For a man to thoroughly enjoy life, he must love himself, be able to smile at the face in the mirror. Papa loved, he cherished the company of the man in the mirror, enjoyed life, his smile, his unhindered laughter and the acknowledgment of his self.
Papa thrived on giving to people. “Through giving you might appear to help someone else but in fact you are helping yourself”. The joy of giving is an intrinsic pleasure that cannot be measured.
Think no evil
This of Papa’s teaching is rooted in his faith and believes that no evil can come his way for he wished no one evil. By extension Papa was convinced that no evil would ever befall his children since all he wish everyone was good-will.
The capacity to forgive is an immeasurable strength. What it means is that you, the forgiver know something the other party is incapable of. Papa never had someone he would call an enemy. Throughout his life challenges and tribulations, he never had anyone he called his enemy. I was always surprised as a kid when people that I thought had wronged him would come back to the house to eat and drink with him.
Have no fear
Fear is a conscious recognition of a superior force, an unconscious acceptance of a faith and belief that might not be. As a kid growing up with Papa in an environment where witches and juju were prevalent, fear of something or certain people was the norm. But, Papa had no fear and thought us to have no fear. I know he had no fear because he thought me very early in life that the darkness at night is only the other side of the sun.
If you know your place in the world, you would feel strong. Papa was strong in his spirit and as a physical specimen. As a kid I thought he was strong, as an adult I know he was immensely strong. “Food you must only eat to live but never live to eat” Papa taught me how to live and stay hungry.
Papa’s life and teaching is about the age old riddle of man and the process of his journey on earth. If you know who you are, you would have genuine faith, be strong, have confidence, imbibe the capacity to forgive your fellow being, help, give, have no fear and draw strength from being who you are.
Thank you Papa. I know you are smiling.
•Akinsoji Adeleye, CEO, Infex HC is the eldest son of Late Pa Joseph Adeleye Obutu.
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Making Data Readily Available for Developers
Technology / Sponsored
21 Oct 2019 5:00pm, by Libby Clark
VMware sponsored this podcast.
The technology industry is undergoing a data revolution in which the unlimited storage and compute power of the cloud is changing how data is stored, processed and managed.
Alluxio is a platform for data orchestration that aims to simplify and standardize how data is managed across different types of infrastructure by creating a layer of abstraction between the storage and application layers.
The Alluxio orchestrator virtualizes data and allows applications to access it in a way that’s compute, storage and cloud-agnostic. It’s a platform designed to eliminate data silos and make data readily available and performant for developers.
Haoyuan (H.Y.) Li, CTO and founder of Alluxio, is a co-creator of the Apache Spark streaming library and built Alluxio as an open source virtual distributed file system for a computer science Ph.D. project at Berkeley. Li is now building a startup, which currently boasts 40 employees and several large enterprise customers. The company offers enterprise features and support on top of its open source project.
“There are so many data silos which [are] caused by many storage systems in the industry,” Li said. “In fact, every five to 10 years there’s another generation of storage systems being created. These data silo issues won’t go away and it won’t be solved by a new storage system… We looked at this problem and took a dramatically different approach than the rest of the data industry.”
VMware software powers today’s complex digital infrastructures. Our cloud, networking and security and digital workspace offerings provide dynamic and efficient solutions to over 500,000 global customers. VMware is committed to being a force for good, from its breakthrough innovations to its global impact.
On this episode of the Makers podcast, The New Stack editorial and marketing director Libby Clark talks with Li about what data orchestration is, where it fits into the cloud native stack and how it can make on-premises data more accessible in the cloud, and vice versa. Making this connection between the application and data stores on-premises and in the cloud is a key challenge in providing artificial intelligence and realtime analytics capabilities to the enterprise.
1:39: Could you start by talking for a minute about the origin story of Alluxio?
6:40: How do you view this as a company, and creating a company on top of that sort of industry-wide common layer?
16:00: How is it that you are able to improve that performance?
19:28: So what is the scenario for Kubernetes? How do you sit in relation to a storage orchestrator with Kubernetes? Are teams then writing a bunch of YAML files to do the provisioning?
22:48: So what are some of the drawbacks or compromises to this approach?
25:55: How are you making sure that those policies and access points are secure?
Feature image via Pixabay.
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Quinnipiac Power Rankings
Morey Hershgordon
Photo: Rebecca Castagna
1. Men’s Soccer (10-4-4, 7-0-3 MAAC)
Last week: Saturday, Nov. 1: W 2-1 at Iona; Wednesday, Nov. 5: W 2-0 at Fairfield
This week: Friday, Nov. 14 vs. Fairfield at 1 p.m- MAAC semi-finals; Sunday, (with a win on Friday) Nov. 16 vs. Monmouth/Iona at noon – MAAC championship
Two games separate the Bobcats from returning to their second consecutive NCAA Tournament. Head coach Eric De Costa’s squad is now undefeated in it’s last 16 conference games (10-0-6) dating back to last season and hasn’t lost a game this season since Sept. 17 at Holy Cross. The non-conference schedule (Northwestern, Northern Illinois, Boston College, Providence) clearly paid dividends for this team. With the MAAC Championships this weekend in Hamden, the Bobcats are the clear favorites to go dancing yet again.
2. Women’s Ice Hockey (7-0-1, 2-0-0 ECAC)
Last week: Idle
This week: Friday, Nov. 14 vs. Union at 7 p.m.; Saturday, Nov. 15 vs. Rensselaer at 4 p.m.
T.T. Cianfarano. Get to know her. The freshman is sort of a big deal already. She’s tallied 7 goals and 4 assists in her first eight collegiate games. A close second to men’s soccer … head coach Rick Seeley may have the best team in Hamden. The 5th ranked Bobcats shut out Cornell in Ithaca on Nov. 1, 3-0. It was the first time since 2006 that the Big Red were shut out at home.
3. Men’s Ice Hockey (5-2-0, 2-0-0 ECAC)
Last week: Friday, Nov. 8: W 5-0 vs. Colgate; Saturday Nov. 9: W 1-0 vs. Cornell
This week: Friday, Nov. 14 at Union at 7 p.m.; Saturday, Nov. 15 at Rensselaer at 7 p.m.
No one could have imagined a four game winning streak including back-to-back conference shutouts against No. 4 Colgate and Cornell following a 1-2-1 start. Head coach Rand Pecknold’s team is now in full-swing. A third consecutive weekend sweep and a 4-0 record to start ECAC play should have this Bobcats team back in the top 15 in the country.
4. Women’s Cross Country (2nd at the MAAC Championships)
This week: Friday, Nov. 14 @ Van Cortlandt Park (Bronx, New York) NCAA Regional Championships
Second consecutive season in which the Bobcats finished in second place in the MAAC. Sophomore Niamh Ashe and freshman Kaleigh Roberts were All-MAAC selections. Extremely bright future for this team.
5. Men’s Cross Country (3rd at the MAAC Championships)
This week: Friday, Nov. 14 at Van Cortlandt Park (Bronx, New York) NCAA Regional Championships
Best team in head coach Carolyn Martin’s six year tenure. Headlined by junior Brendan Copley, the Bobcats jumped four spots in the MAAC standings from last year’s seventh place finish.
Under Consideration:
Lost both regular season conference games at home in either the final minutes of regulation or in overtime. A season of missed opportunities. They do return the MAAC goalkeeper of the year Megan Conaboy next year.
Just defeated West Chester, 36-17 on Senior Day. Head coach Becky Carlson and Co. are looking to win their first national championship.
MAAC Cross Country
MAAC Soccer
Bobcats start off second half strong with 3-1 win over Princeton
Quinnipiac Women’s Basketball Adds Transfer Rose Caverly From Vermont
Quinnipiac scores season-high six goals in win over Harvard
Bobcats school Hawks 60-53 on College Experience Day
Tweets by QBSN
Whelan, Petruzzelli lead #20 Quinnipiac to 4-3 victory at Holy Cross
Women’s Basketball takes over in third quarter, tops Jaspers 70-58
It’s a Musical Life
Scarred, but still standing
Cross country gears up for rest of season
No sophomore slump for Brendan Copley, runner starts season strong
Freshman cross-country runner Kyle Liang dances his way to YouTube fame
Copley, Mannion are ‘stars’ for men’s cross-country
Levine Impresses Coaches as Bobcats Fall at Home
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A theoretical study of surface mode propagation with a guiding layer of GaN/sapphire hetero-structure in liquid medium
Mohd Farhanulhakim Mohd Razip Wee, Muhammad Musoddiq Jaafar, Mohd Syafiq Faiz, Chang Fu Dee, Burhanuddin Yeop Majlis
Gallium Nitride (GaN) is considered as the second most popular semiconductor material in industry after silicon. This is due to its wide applications encompassing Light Emitting Diode (LED) and power electronics. In addition, its piezoelectric properties are fascinating to be explored as electromechanical material for the development of diverse microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) application. In this article, we conducted a theoretical study concerning surface mode propagation, especially Rayleigh and Sezawa mode in the layered GaN/sapphire structure with the presence of various guiding layers. It is demonstrated that the increase in thickness of guiding layer will decrease the phase velocities of surface mode depending on the material properties of the layer. In addition, the Q-factor value indicating the resonance properties of surface mode appeared to be affected with the presence of fluid domain, particularly in the Rayleigh mode. Meanwhile, the peak for Sezawa mode shows the highest Q factor and is not altered by the presence of fluid. Based on these theoretical results using the finite element method, it could contribute to the development of a GaN-based device to generate surface acoustic wave, especially in Sezawa mode which could be useful in acoustophoresis, lab on-chip and microfluidics applications.
https://doi.org/10.3390/bios8040124
Theoretical Models
Surface Properties
Phase velocity
Acoustic waves
Gallium Nitride
Microfluidic
Sezawa wave
Surface acoustic wave
Mohd Razip Wee, M. F., Jaafar, M. M., Faiz, M. S., Dee, C. F., & Yeop Majlis, B. (2018). A theoretical study of surface mode propagation with a guiding layer of GaN/sapphire hetero-structure in liquid medium. Biosensors, 8(4), [124]. https://doi.org/10.3390/bios8040124
A theoretical study of surface mode propagation with a guiding layer of GaN/sapphire hetero-structure in liquid medium. / Mohd Razip Wee, Mohd Farhanulhakim; Jaafar, Muhammad Musoddiq; Faiz, Mohd Syafiq; Dee, Chang Fu; Yeop Majlis, Burhanuddin.
In: Biosensors, Vol. 8, No. 4, 124, 05.12.2018.
Mohd Razip Wee, MF, Jaafar, MM, Faiz, MS, Dee, CF & Yeop Majlis, B 2018, 'A theoretical study of surface mode propagation with a guiding layer of GaN/sapphire hetero-structure in liquid medium', Biosensors, vol. 8, no. 4, 124. https://doi.org/10.3390/bios8040124
Mohd Razip Wee MF, Jaafar MM, Faiz MS, Dee CF, Yeop Majlis B. A theoretical study of surface mode propagation with a guiding layer of GaN/sapphire hetero-structure in liquid medium. Biosensors. 2018 Dec 5;8(4). 124. https://doi.org/10.3390/bios8040124
Mohd Razip Wee, Mohd Farhanulhakim ; Jaafar, Muhammad Musoddiq ; Faiz, Mohd Syafiq ; Dee, Chang Fu ; Yeop Majlis, Burhanuddin. / A theoretical study of surface mode propagation with a guiding layer of GaN/sapphire hetero-structure in liquid medium. In: Biosensors. 2018 ; Vol. 8, No. 4.
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Give Your Business a
December 9, 2019 by Brian Clark
Tips and tools for building your perfect business. Let's get started!
If you worked for a large corporation (I know, I shudder at the thought), you'd probably be bracing for a performance review. No fun, but they actually serve a valuable purpose.
So why not do one for your solo business? After all, how are you going to improve if you don't objectively evaluate how you've done and what you'd like to do better?
This week, we've got five questions to ask yourself about this year to set smart goals for 2020. That plus a great guide to doing effective keyword research, how to drag yourself our of a slump, developing a smart content marketing strategy, and why you need to be paying attention to the rapid acceleration of artificial intelligence.
And speaking of taking it up a notch in 2020, it all starts with smarter email marketing. Get the most out of ConvertKit with the Mastering ConvertKit course. More details below in the sponsor section.
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How (and Why) You Should Give Yourself a Year-End Review | Fast Company
The end of the year is near, and you know what that means: Everyone is talking about what they've accomplished (or what didn't make the cut). It's important to reflect on your year and take stock of where you're at so you can plan where you want to be. Do you do this every year?
Have You Been ‘Ghosted' in Business? Here's How to Tell | Flying Solo
No one likes to be ghosted; in dating and certainly not in business. But sometimes it's hard to know if that's actually what's happening. Maybe your prospective client got busy and missed your email. Or perhaps your client contact moved companies and didn't think to update you. Whatever the reason, this article will help you determine if you've really been ghosted or not.
In a Slump? Try These 5 Tips to Get Motivated | Freelancers Union
Struggling to push through the last few weeks of 2019? These five tips should help you kick things into gear.
Beyond the Editorial Calendar: New Rules of Content Strategy for 2020 | HubSpot
“Ultimately, times have changed, and marketers are no longer in charge. Customers are.
They want to enter and exit and travel forwards and backwards and up and down however, and whenever, they choose. They want to consume content whenever, wherever, and however they please.”
3 Things I Learned Moving from Content Marketer to Thriller Novelist | Copyblogger
Brian's buddy Joe Pulizzi is living the dream. First he sold his company, now he's published his first novel: “My goal was to build an audience so that there would be a second book. Being patient is a competitive advantage. So is giving away content for free.”
AI is Moving too Fast, and That's a Good Thing | Fast Company
“2019, in other words, was the year that two things became unavoidably clear about the rocket ship of innovation called artificial intelligence. One: It's accelerating faster than most of us expected. Two: It's got some serious screws loose.”
Keyword Research for SEO: The Ultimate Guide | Yoast
Keyword research isn't just for SEO. It's mirroring back the language your prospects, customers, and clients use when they think about a particular topic. And that, of course, is also great for SEO!
Let me know what you think about this week’s roundup on Twitter or email me at kat@unemployable.com! Also, be sure to tune in to the latest episode of the Unemployable podcast.
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About Brian Clark
Brian Clark is a writer, traveler, and entrepreneur. He's the founder of Copyblogger, curator of Further, and your host for Unemployable.
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Posts by Robin Parkes
As Royal Mail’s new Songbird stamps hit the right note with collectors, BBC’s Chris Packham signs for Westminster…
4th May sees the release of Royal Mail’s stunning new Songbird stamps. As soon as we heard about the release of the stamps, we discussed who we could work with to create the ultimate presentation for collectors.
Chris Packham signing the limited edition Songbird Stamps Collector Card
It didn’t take long for us to unanimously agree that Chris Packham was our man!
Chris is one of today’s most highly respected television naturalists presenting BBC’s Springwatch, Autumnwatch & Winterwatch. And adding further to his CV, he proudly serves as Vice President of the RSPB.
Shortly after contacting him, we were delighted to hear Chris had agreed to sign 500 framed Songbirds stamp sets for us. Here he is at home signing the first of the collector cards.
Once these arrive back with us, they’ll be sent off to Royal Mail to have the stamps specially postmarked with the first day of issue postmark and then returned to us once again to have them professionally framed.
The full set of stamps features the Nightingale, Wren, Blackcap, Cuckoo, Yellowhammer, Great Tit, Goldcrest, Willow Warbler, Song Thrush and Skylark.
We’re now taking pre-orders for the special Chris Packham Signed Edition. Just 500 will be made featuring all the Songbirds stamps on a Framed Collector Card, postmarked with their first day of issue…
So if you want one, click here for details before they sell out.
Posted in Blog Home, British Stamps, By Theme, Information, New Issues, Stamps and tagged autumnwatch, bbc, birds, blackcap, british birds, chris packham, cuckoo, goldcrest, limited edition, nightingale, Royal Mail, royal mail stamps, rspb, skylark, song thrush, songbird stamps, songbirds, springwatch, willow warbler, wren
New Peter Rabbit coin breaks the internet – Silver Proof 50p sells out in HOURS
By Robin Parkes | April 4, 2017 | 27
The record-breaking 2017 Peter Rabbit UK Silver 50p Coin
Britain showed itself as a nation of nostalgic coin lovers as the release of the new Peter Rabbit Silver Proof 50p brought the numismatic net to a standstill.
At one point The Royal Mint had over 50,000 people in a queue to access its website and The Westminster Collection also saw record traffic – with all hands on deck to keep the servers running.
All available Peter Rabbit coins were sold out before the newspapers even ran a story – and collectors who got in early were left feeling like they won the lottery.
30,000 coins gone in just a few hours
The pandemonium echoed the release of the 2016 Peter Rabbit 50p, which also caused a collecting frenzy but was limited to 15,000 coins. This year’s issue has an edition limit of 30,000 but the demand was also amplified.
The coin was fully allocated across the board by 4pm, but the queues were still long as collectors changed their focus to the Brilliant Uncirculated editions of the coin. Savvy buyers were desperate to bag what will go down in history as one of the UK’s most sought-after coins.
Beatrix Potter coins are big news
Fully allocated across the board by 4pm on its day of issue
The lucky few that secured the 2016 coin for £55 now own a coin that changes hands for up to £400 on Ebay. This year’s coin has already started appearing in auctions, and whatever happens it looks like the £60 retail price will turn out to be a bargain.
Undoubtedly a few speculators got in there but with demand so high it was literally first come, first served – leveling the playing field and making getting a coin a real achievement for anyone.
Did you manage to secure a 2017 Peter Rabbit Silver Proof 50p? If you were one of the lucky ones, let us know in the comments!
We still have stock of the collector edition Certified Brilliant Uncirculated 2017 Peter Rabbit 50p available. Click here now to secure yours – you will also have the chance to pre-order the other three coins in the series.
Posted in Blog Home, Coins, Information, New Issues, Sell Outs, Uncategorized and tagged Beatrix Potter, Coin Collecting, numismatics, Peter Rabbit, Sell out, Silver Proof Coin, The Royal Mint, The Westminster Collection
Meet the FOUR new Beatrix Potter 50p coins…
Four new Beatrix Potter 50p silver coins have been revealed by The Royal Mint. Benjamin Bunny, Mr. Jeremy Fisher, and Tom Kitten all feature for the first time on UK coinage – whilst Peter Rabbit scampers back onto our currency for the second year in a row.
The four coins issued in 2016 created a collecting frenzy, crashing The Royal Mint’s website and selling out within days. And these new character coins are just as cute, just as evocative, and importantly – just as collectable.
Here’s a first look at the new silver coins, with details of when they are available…
The 2017 Peter Rabbit UK Silver 50p Coin
2017 Peter Rabbit 50p
Everyone’s favourite mischievous bunny is back – pictured in a familiar pose dashing away… presumably from Mr McGregor’s garden.
Probably Beatrix Potter’s most familiar character, the coin is bound to be sought-after.
Last year’s Silver Proof Peter Rabbit coloured coin now changes hands on Ebay for up to £400, underlining its collectability.
The 2017 Jeremy Fisher UK Silver 50p Coin
2017 Mr. Jeremy Fisher 50p
This silver 50p, due to be released in June, pictures the unlucky frog Mr. Jeremy Fisher – who only wanted to catch some fish for dinner for his friends but ends up almost being eaten by a trout.
Each of the Silver Proof editions is limited to just 30,000 coins. Given the level of demand for last year’s series this may well not be enough for everyone that wants one.
The 2017 Tom Kitten UK Silver 50p Coin
2017 Tom Kitten 50p
Available late July, the Tom Kitten Silver 50p features the original illustration from the front cover of Beatrix Potter’s book. The naughty kitten appeals to children everywhere with his antics and is another favourite character from the series.
All four coins have been struck to a fine ‘proof finish.’ It really brings the designs to life – and is often referred to as ‘the collector’s favourite’ due the high level of craftmanship required to achieve the result.
The 2017 Benajmin Bunny UK Silver 50p Coin
2017 Benjamin Bunny 50p
The last coin to be made available (slated for September) introduces another of the Rabbit family. Benjamin Bunny is Peter’s Cousin and leads him on another jaunt into Mr. McGregor’s garden. The illustration featured on the coin is taken from the original front cover.
I’m sure you’ll agree, these four coins are the perfect continuation of the series, and really capture the nostalgic charm of Beatrix Potter’s original stories.
But if there’s one lesson you can take from last year, make sure you get yours early – before they sell out!
You can see the full range of Certified BU UK coins here…
Posted in Blog Home, Coins, Information, New Issues, Uncategorized and tagged 50p, Beatrix Potter, Benjamin Bunny, British Coins, Coin Collecting, Jeremy Fisher, numismatics, Peter Rabbit, Royal Mint, Silver Coin, Tom Kitten, UK Coins
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Fresh issue
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Physical and Mathematical Modeling. Oil, Gas, Energy /
Releases /
2018, Vol. 4 /
№3 /
SPICE-Modeling of the Processes of Associative Self Learning and Unconditional Discrimination in the Logic Unit of a Neuroprocessor
Physical and Mathematical Modeling. Oil, Gas, Energy
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Bulletin of Tyumen State University. Physics and mathematics. Informatics (№4, 2012)
Tyumen State University Herald. Physical and Mathematical Modeling. Oil, Gas, Energy
2018, Vol. 4. №3
Author: Alexander D. Pisarev
For citation: Pisarev A. D. 2018. “SPICE-Modeling of the Processes of Associative Self Learning and Unconditional Discrimination in the Logic Unit of a Neuroprocessor”. Tyumen State University Herald. Physical and Mathematical Modeling. Oil, Gas, Energy, vol. 4, no 3, pp. 132-145. DOI: 10.21684/2411-7978-2018-4-3-132-145
Alexander D. Pisarev, Cand. Sci. (Tech.), Associate Professor, Department of Applied and Technical Physics, Head of Laboratory of Beam-Plasma Technologies, SEC “Nanotechnologies”, University of Tyumen; eLibrary AuthorID, ORCID, Scopus AuthorID, spcb.doc@gmail.com
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This research relates to the industry of creating nanoelectronic blocks intended for the implementation of a neuroprocessor, which is a hardware platform of neural networks and complex biomorphic architectures, which may, for example, simulate the work of the cortical column of the brain. This article describes the scheme of the electronic logic block, which is the key node of the neuroprocessor, which performs, in particular, the functions of associative self-learning and unconditional unraveling of the neural network.
The logical block of the neuroprocessor consists of elementary cells, in the electrical circuit of which a memristor connected to a diode-transistor logic component is used as a memory element. The topology of the logic block has a 3D-periodic design, which is a composition of CMOS layers and crossbars with memristor material. The manufacturing process of the logical unit is simple enough and can be adapted to existing production lines of electronic devices, since it is based on typical physical and chemical production methods. Memristor crossbars are manufactured by the method of reactive magnetron sputtering, which is combined with common standard CMOS technology.
Based on the logic block, the author suggests an electrical circuit that performs the functions of the known Hodgkin — Huxley neuron model. As examples of the realization of the processes of associative self-learning and the unconditional “unlearning” of the electronic logic unit, the principles of interaction of neurons in living objects during the elaboration of a conditioned reflex were used.
The operation of the logic block in the basic modes was investigated by the computer SPICE simulation method. For this purpose, model schemes of control drivers were developed, which were connected to the crossbar lines of the logical unit to generate information signals and set the operating mode of the logical unit. As simulation results, the stress and current diagrams of the combined memristor crossbar are obtained in the specified modes of operation of the device.
The main result achieved is the model of the neuron synapse realized by the analog operation of the memristor as a memory element of the logical block when it is read and written pulse. The change in the resistance of the memristors of the logic block during the pulse recording is shown and stable functioning during reading in the processes of associative self-learning and unconditional raising of the three-layer neural network.
nanoelectronics
SPICE-modeling
biomorphic neuroprocessor
combined crossbar
memristor
associative self-learning
Pisarev A. D., Mayevskiy O. V., Busygin A. N., Udovichenko S. Yu. Invention Application of 27 June 2017 no 2017122704 “Mnogosloynaya logicheskaya matritsa na osnove memristornoy kommutatsionnoy yacheyki” [Multilayered Logic Matrix Based on Memristor Switching Cells]. Patent granted on 10 April 2018.
Udovichenko S. Yu., Pisarev A. D., Busygin A. N., Mayevskiy O. V. 2017. “3D KMOP-memristornaya nanotekhnologiya sozdaniya logicheskoy i zapominayushchey matrits neyroprotsessora” [3D CMOS-Memristor Nanotechnology Creating a Logical and Memory Matrix of a Neuroprocessor]. Nanoindustriya, no 5, pp. 26-34.
Baladron J., Hamker F. H. 2015. “A Spiking Neural Network Based on the Basal Ganglia Functional Anatomy”. Neural Networks, July, vol. 67, pp. 1-13.
Bobylev A. N., Busygin A. N., Pisarev A. D., Udovichenko S. Yu., Filippov V. A. 2017. “Neuromorphic Coprocessor Prototype Based on Mixed Metal Oxide Memristors”. International journal of nanotechnology, vol. 14, no 7/8, pp. 698-704.
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Samples used in anime/game music
peronmls
Originally Posted by strugglepoo
"Welcome Prism" (sorry, no link) from Technictix contains two samples that I've heard elsewhere: Front Mission 3 - Base Invasion (the high whistling synth starting at 0:07) & Mega Man Zero 2 - Ice Brain (the sample that kicks in right away, which I'm pretty sure I've heard in another VG track or two as well)
Anyone know where these are from?
Also, how about those synth toms that SuperSweep has used a lot (among other artists)? It has a very distinct sound to it.
ohhh I hope we can find the Megamam Zero sample!
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"Track 33" (sample 2) from "AMG: 160dB The Drum&Bass Interface" was used in 1.06 "Nitro Mantra"
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felineki
Added some drum samples from Gradius II to my list. I think the closed hihat is probably from the RX-11 as well, but my ears just wouldn't give me that 100% confidence in saying so.
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Only tangentially related to the topic, but at around 4:25 in the Capcom Friendly Club CFC Style Vol. 1 Video, a short glimpse of the mid 90's Capcom sound department can be seen. And sure enough, there in the background, to the left of Toshio Kajino's head are a Roland U-110 and an AKAI S1100!
Not sure what the black machine(s?) between those two is, but perhaps if it was identified it could lead to more identified sounds from other Capcom games of that era.
Last edited by felineki; Sep 23, 2013 at 04:14 PM.
strugglepoo
Nice! Thanks for sharing. No idea what's being said, but it's still cool to watch regardless.
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Went through Zero-G's Datafile 1 last night and recognized a couple voice clip samples, one used in Street Fighter 3: Third Strike's Hugo stage theme, the other in the first opening theme of Gundam Wing. Added them both to my list earlier in the thread.
Last edited by felineki; Oct 2, 2013 at 03:22 PM.
Found one more Super SF2 sample: The ride cymbal is from the Korg T1.
Edit: And yet one more. The saxophone is from a Roland S-550 library. I can't recall a saxophone actually ever being used in the soundtrack offhand, so it might be another case of unused data, but I ought to check to make sure.
Last edited by felineki; Oct 11, 2013 at 07:36 AM.
Anyone run into anymore?
Not yet. I'm hoping someday I can get a hold of the Akai S-900/S-950 libraries, because if that guitar lick sample I mentioned in the Darkstalkers sample listing is any indication, Capcom was using those. Also the image I posted above shows they used an S1100, and it was backwards compatible with those libraries. I have managed to come across this catalog which has a listing of all the libraries, but no luck in finding either disk images or actual disks for sale online.
EDIT: Actually I do have samples from Teyandee's soundtrack identified that I still need to add to my list. I'll get around to that soon.
Last edited by felineki; Oct 21, 2013 at 03:57 PM.
Originally Posted by felineki
Hm do you know what Hardware Koji Kondo used?
I haven't looked into any of his games that much, but I'm pretty sure I remember Super Mario World having a snare drum from the Roland R-8 (the same Reverb Snare that the CPS1 Street Fighter IIs used). That was a very famous and widely-used drum machine, nearly everyone was using it back in the early to mid 90s.
Interesting thing I found out: the vocal sample from Snow Mountain in Zelda TP was used in Majora's Mask as well. Don't know which track though.. (but I guess it's gotta be Snow Mountain there as well?)
And I also think OMINOUSITY from Distorted Reality was used in Majora's Mask. Again, not quite sure which track (maybe Snowhead Temple, but I'm very iffy about that...), but there's a sample in the game that's alike it. If you hear the actual sample from the game itself, you might tnink otherwise, but it's the same with the ELVES sample (from reverse Stone Tower Temple theme).. it sounds very dull in comparison. And since the OMINOUSITY sample is basically pure ambience, that probably makes it even worse compared to the original (and of course - the pitch is slightly different as well).
Last edited by Nisto; Oct 24, 2013 at 04:57 PM.
Biohazard 0 (Resident Evil 0)
"BAD GUY" from "Spectrasonics: Distorted Reality" was used in 5.21 "養成所メインテーマ" (track number and title from the box) (0:39)
"QUASIMODO" from "Spectrasonics: Distorted Reality 2" was used in 1.04 "EYE OF THE WIND (Lower Town)"
"FUZZ TUBES" from "Spectrasonics: Distorted Reality 2" was used in 1.18 "EYE OF THE WIND (Uppertown)"
"GULLS" from "Spectrasonics: Distorted Reality 2" was used in 1.18 "EYE OF THE WIND (Uppertown)"
"SUPER TREM" from "Spectrasonics: Distorted Reality" was used in "Gnasty Gnorc" (not on any official soundtrack)
Thanks to peronmls for the find of the GULLS sample.
Last edited by Nisto; Oct 27, 2013 at 09:15 AM.
JRokujuushi
Big thanks for compiling this list! It's pointed me to a few samples I've been looking for for quite some time.
I've got a few more samples I'm interested in finding sources for, but before that, I've got some duplicates mentioned in the thread that I've heard in other locations.
First off, the TRANSFORME sample from Spectrasonics: Distorted Reality 2 is also used in:
Myst 3: Exile track 17 - "The Airship Chasm" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQnEpunUDxs&t=7s )
Uru Music track 3 - "Out of the Hive" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-BOPts42rk )
Wave Race: Blue Storm - Lost Temple Lagoon (Stormy) ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9djK9Le6Fw ).
Second, Track 76 from Best Service: Voice Spectral has also made appearances in:
Cruis'n World - "Cairo Cruis'n" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKFVLlz0oL4&t=20s )
Parasite Eve 2 track 2.16 - "Ark" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COEo3G-Modk&t=39s )
Kakuto Chojin - "Love-Hate Chant" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WU1SLwUDDw )
Third, I don't know what the sample is called, but in the "DR2 Lives" demo for the same library, it uses one of the same drum loops used in Uru Music track 4 - "Badlands" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u092jgfqC-U ).
As for the ones I'm trying to find the sources for:
The filtered drum loop used in:
Wave Race: Blue Storm - Aspen Lake ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzHwH1NAUr4 )
Castlevana: Lament of Innocence track 10 - "Dark Palace of Waterfalls" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjW8bATf--Y&t=1m7s )
The loop with the shakers and triangle used in:
Wave Race: Blue Storm - Aspen Lake Intro ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iueek0npTN8&t=3m19s )
Resident Evil 4 track 2.01 - "Infiltration" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p7w966kCXI&t=7s )
The guitar riff in:
Conker's Bad Fur Day track 11 - "Surf Punks" ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNNnzQtIkco&t=11s )
Tekken 3 Arcade track 12 - "Eddy Gordo" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaP0qm9jZ5Y&t=9s )
And finally, it's possible that this is the LULU BOY1 sample from Spectrasonics: Symphony of Voices listed under Xenosaga 2, but I don't have that library to verify. This is in reference to the vocal phrase in:
Xenosaga ep. 1 track 2.11 (or 2.22 in the second edition) - "Song of Nephilim" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36Nt3P3MI4g&t=6s )
Xenosaga ep. 2 track 2.15 - "Nephilim" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlLPC6DPcII )
Uru Music track 14 - "Trailer Music" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEURZ6B9YxI&t=1m4s )
and it even makes an appearance in Team America: World Police, but not on the soundtrack for some reason
Last edited by JRokujuushi; Oct 31, 2013 at 05:09 PM. Reason: Marking known sample source
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Cool, thanks, I'll look into the samples you mentioned!
This was actually already found. Maybe you looked under R, as in "Resident Evil"? The Resident Evil series are under the original titles (Biohazard).
"Mission Impossible" from "East West: Percussive Adventures" was used in 2.01 "Infiltration"
Ah, thanks. Forgot about that distinction there.
Found one sample from Biohazard 2 (& 3!) while searching for that guitar riff in Tekken 3. I THINK I've heard it in one of the libraries I have at this point.
"Track 54" (sample 13) from "Zero-G: Datafile 3" was used in 01 "The Beginning Of Story" (1:04)
"Track 54" (sample 13) from "Zero-G: Datafile 3" was used in 1.26 "Coldhearted Soldier" (0:04)
I also recognize that sample at ~0:12 in "The Beginning Of Story". If anyone knows the sample, please let me know (I'm thinking it's another Zero-G library, perhaps one of the Cuckooland libs).
Nov 6, 2013, 01:15 PM
Added one Mario Paint sample (harp glissando) that I was able to identify thanks to Best Service's "Cult Sampler" bundle. Said bundle doesn't give any information on its source beyond "Akai S612 & S900", but the aforementioned catalog I came across has a disk for the S612 that consists of two harp glissandos, so I would assume it's from that. Said Mario Paint song also includes a second upward glissando, which could very likely be the other glissando on that same disk, but there's no way to confirm that at the moment.
This is a really old sampler, and one whose libraries would be particularly hard to get a hold of and search through, seeing as they use a strange QuickDisk format that requires having the original hardware to do anything with them, as opposed to floppy disk or CD based libraries which can be read by a PC with the proper software.
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Working on adding the Teyandee samples. I'm listening to everything again to jog my memory. Amusingly, the Harmonica sound used in the theme song is seemingly the same Yamaha DX7 one used in Tina Turner's "What's Love Got To Do with It"!
Distorted Reality 2s "REV WEIRDO" was used in Utada H./Kingdom Hearts Simple and Clean 0:53-0:56 & 3:04-3:08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJHkV27zdvs
"Witch Doctor-D#2" from "Zero-G: Cuckooland 'ghost in the machine'" was used in 1.18 "ST-04 (古城地下ステージ)" (0:14)
"Is that the Door-G#3" from "Zero-G: Cuckooland 'ghost in the machine'" was used in 1.18 "ST-04 (古城地下ステージ)" (0:26)
EDIT: Whoa!
Knife Edge: Nose Gunner
"Riff 04 31-06" from "Sounds Good: Methods of Mayhem" was used in "Path Select" (not on any official soundtrack)
Didn't think I'd ever find a sample from such an obscure N64 game.
I also found a sample from Skinned by Zero-G (SYNTHPADS_OS_SOUND94_SK) that reminded me of a couple of tracks, but I guess it's not the sample.
Ico - Shadow (0:00)
Devil May Cry 2 - OVERTURE (1:13)
Last edited by Nisto; Mar 13, 2018 at 09:44 AM.
Originally Posted by Nisto
And I also think OMINOUSITY from Distorted Reality was used in Majora's Mask.
I'm pretty confident about this now. I slowed it down by 25% where it sounds quite a bit closer to the DR sample itself.
EDIT: I don't know if it was really used in Snowhead Temple / Snow Mountain (even though it's in that bank), but I definitely hear it in Ikana Valley, and it is much more audible in the actual game than in the track on the soundtrack release (PICA-2006 anyway). It starts about 0:07.
Last edited by Nisto; Nov 22, 2013 at 08:16 AM.
Yea its probably it. Also in that track Ikana Valley 0:06 that scrap synth thing I have heard in a library. Most likely Distorted reality.
Ok, all the samples I have identified from Teyandee at the moment have been added to my list earlier in the thread. They sure got a lot of mileage out of that Roland R-8! Like I said earlier, that was a very famous and widely used machine, and it would have been pretty new at the time this show was made.
"Track 35" (sample 7) from "Zero-G: Datafile One" was used in 04 "BLACK CAT MOON"
"DEMENTOR" from "Spectrasonics: Metamorphosis" was used in 2.06 "Trespass" (HBMC-021)
Found some samples from KH1 used as SFX. They are Sephiroths SFX and they all come from Zero G Ambient 1.
Zero 2 - Used when he is has successfully locks on to you when he uses the death spell. When you get that aurora around you as it comes in you hear like a hhhaAAaa voice effect which is in fact saying "Zero". (Kind cool and creative)
Monoilth - Uses a couple of times. When he is using meteor and supernova and the asteroids start spinning you start hearing this.
Belltress2 - This one is tough to hear. You hear it as he powers up and says "I am the chosen one" with that green aurora.
There is probably more in there.
Its hard to hear because the PS2s synth warps it into what the sound designers programmed it to do. I was able to hear the samples by extract them so i can hear what they sound like unmodded with no noise.
EDIT: Also Ocarina of time cave ambience. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9bjzC-x-uM at 0:06
Its SPACEOSPHERE from Ambient 1. You have to pitch bend them both the opposite way at the same time. Heres a little demo i made of it. Its not dead on put its what he used. https://www.mediafire.com/?1hmfj8dbhojdlg2
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kokujin
Found one from Guardian Heroes.
"LP-22 101" from "EastWest Dance Industrial I" was used in the track "Indy"
Found one from Capcom vs. SNK
"5301 TRNCE" from "X-Static Goldmine Vol. 3" was used in "stage of geese - vigor force"
Found one from Fighting Vipers(Arcade/Saturn)
"Track 1"(sample 5) from "Zero-G: Datafile Three" was used in "Advertize"(Arcade) and "Fallen (An' I Can't Get Up)"(Saturn)
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Ok I have been hear this same Tribal Drum beat that as been in many tracks. Dexter, Halo Reach and Kingdom Hearts 2 and I need help finding it.
Kingdom Hearts II (2005) "Sacred Moon" 0:14
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4eN6y6_bTg
Halo: Reach (2010) Overture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkV7YpM6zxE
I need to find these!!! I cannot find any tribal librarys that came out on or before 2005.
ALSO THIS SAMPLE I NEED HELP TRACKING.
Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix (2005) The 13th Reflection
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrI2F5XhKd8 0:00-through out
Blackout (Film) (2008)
Unofficial OST Opening music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvDiEzigv2g 0:45-0:56
Please help me find these guys!!!
Kosmos90
peronmls, why don't you ask Nisto to add the samples you are looking for to our sample list?
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Breath of Fire IV has lots, but one that recently stood out was the male voice sample in Song of the Plains which also shows up in a Grandia II town track ("Nightmare Village Milm"). Don't know the source.
Aoki does some fun things to the sample. She makes it a bit more exotic by stretching it out and adding inflection common to many indigenous vocalizations.
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A three-dimensional numerical study on exhaust gas emissions from a medium-duty diesel engine using a phenomenological soot particle formation model combined with detailed chemistry
T. Kaminaga, Jin Kusaka, Y. Ishii
Graduate School of Environment and Energy Engineering
This paper reports a three-dimensional numerical study, using the KIVA-3V code with modified chemical and physical models, of the exhaust (NOx and soot) emissions from an in-line, four-cylinder, 3.01, turbo-charged, direct injection diesel engine operated in spray diffusion combustion mode, by injecting fuel at top dead centre, in typical operating conditions for city driving (70 per cent load, 1500 r/min engine speed) with various exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) rates. To predict soot emission parameters, a gas-phase polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) precursor formation model was coupled with a detailed phenomenological particle formation model, including soot nucleation from the precursors, surface growth/ oxidation, and particle coagulation, since changes in the surface area of particles and surface reaction rates had to be taken into account. In order to predict NOx emission parameters, the extended Zeldovich (thermal), intermediate N2O and NO2 from NO formation mechanisms were also included in the modelled elementary reactions. From the numerical simulation results, it was shown that the present code had sufficient performance for predicting the amount of exhaust soot and NOx with practical central processing unit (CPU) time. Comparison of the results of the numerical simulations with data obtained from empirical tests show that the applied code provides adequate predictions of soot and NOx emissions for engine design and optimization within practical CPU times. The results also show that the EGR rate does not greatly affect the soot surface growth rate, although it was previously thought to be a major determinant of soot masses. Instead, soot oxidation rates, especially rates of oxidation by OH radicals, were found to be the most influential factors affecting soot emissions under the tested engine operating conditions.
International Journal of Engine Research
https://doi.org/10.1243/14680874JER00908
Soot
Exhaust gases
Gas emissions
Surface reactions
Reaction rates
Combustion simulation
Detailed chemistry
KIVA-3V
Soot formation
Kaminaga, T., Kusaka, J., & Ishii, Y. (2008). A three-dimensional numerical study on exhaust gas emissions from a medium-duty diesel engine using a phenomenological soot particle formation model combined with detailed chemistry. International Journal of Engine Research, 9(4), 283-296. https://doi.org/10.1243/14680874JER00908
A three-dimensional numerical study on exhaust gas emissions from a medium-duty diesel engine using a phenomenological soot particle formation model combined with detailed chemistry. / Kaminaga, T.; Kusaka, Jin; Ishii, Y.
In: International Journal of Engine Research, Vol. 9, No. 4, 2008, p. 283-296.
Kaminaga, T, Kusaka, J & Ishii, Y 2008, 'A three-dimensional numerical study on exhaust gas emissions from a medium-duty diesel engine using a phenomenological soot particle formation model combined with detailed chemistry', International Journal of Engine Research, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 283-296. https://doi.org/10.1243/14680874JER00908
Kaminaga T, Kusaka J, Ishii Y. A three-dimensional numerical study on exhaust gas emissions from a medium-duty diesel engine using a phenomenological soot particle formation model combined with detailed chemistry. International Journal of Engine Research. 2008;9(4):283-296. https://doi.org/10.1243/14680874JER00908
Kaminaga, T. ; Kusaka, Jin ; Ishii, Y. / A three-dimensional numerical study on exhaust gas emissions from a medium-duty diesel engine using a phenomenological soot particle formation model combined with detailed chemistry. In: International Journal of Engine Research. 2008 ; Vol. 9, No. 4. pp. 283-296.
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TV-MA | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Vikings transports us to the brutal and mysterious world of Ragnar Lothbrok, a Viking warrior and farmer who yearns to explore - and raid - the distant shores across the ocean.
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The story of Easy Company of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division, and their mission in World War II Europe, from Operation Overlord, through V-J Day.
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Without hostile intent, a Soviet submarine runs aground off New England. Men are sent for a boat, but many villagers go into a tizzy, risking bloodshed.
Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin, Brian Keith
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36. Battle of Britain (1969)
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Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Harry Andrews, Curd Jürgens
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40. The African Queen (1951)
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Let’s wave goodbye to the Queen’s Speech
May18 by weegingerdug
I tried to watch the Commons debate on the Queen’s Speech this afternoon, a parade of vacuousness and entitlement in fancy dress and monarchical waving. Watching Tories in the Commons is like getting drowned in a vat of sewage by some really smug people who think the entire process is an audition for an amateur stand up comedy slot at a public school fete where there’s a prize for the best impersonation of a donkey. All that I could think the entire time was does Davie Cameron not have a face that cries out to be slapped? But saying that probably counts as an example of the extremist radicalism that the Tories want to make illegal. That’s the kind of remark that will get a Home Office drone outside your bedroom window making a note of all the times that you share subversive pics of LOLkats on Twitter.
As well as introducing new measures to crack down on the perfectly legitimate desire to slap Davie Cameron about the chops with a wet fish, the delights of Torydom that we were promised in the speech include a commitment to a British Bill of Rights. We need British rights because common or garden human rights are a bit too humane for the Tory party, and besides, realising that we do in fact share the same needs, desires, and wants as the rest of the human race is dangerously foreign and might lead to demands for a proper living wage, maternity rights, and a decent amount of annual holiday leave because that’s what they get in Germany.
For the Tories, the really great advantage of a British Bill of Rights is that unlike its European equivalent it’s entirely within the power of the Westminster parliament to make changes to it whenever it feels like it. A British Bill of Rights is a Tory Bill of Rights. It enshrines your human rights in the same way that PPI payments protected your consumer rights. The only rights it enshrines are the rights of the Westminster parliament.
The Queen’s Speech came with a raft of measures designed to allow Tory voters not to feel like the enablers of a shower of basterts that they actually are. When you were a wean your maw taught you that you are put on this Earth to help other people, Tory voters are the ones who think other people were put on this Earth to help them. They have the same attitude about governments. Governments are there to help Tory voters get a second house and a second holiday, not to help people who are worse off than they are.
Adoption law will be loosened, and there are plans to turn every school in England into an academy. This was billed as a liberalisation of the education system when in fact it’s an attempt to introduce privatisation by the back door and reduce even further the already diminished power of local authorities. It increases the influence of organised religion and business in schools, and reduces the power of parents.
Reforms of prisons in England and Wales were announced, although the reforms turn out to be plans to build more jails to replace the overcrowded Victorian prisons but not actually to take any steps to reduce the prison population. The UK has one of the highest rates of imprisonment in Europe. But then the private companies who run much of the prison service nowadays have a vested interest in keeping the prison population high while spending as little as possible on the care and rehabilitation of inmates. That’s not going to change as long as we have a prison policy that’s driven by headlines in the Daily Mail and the Express, newspapers which have the same relationship to truth as the Tory party does to compassion and humanity. We shouldn’t be surprised though, this is a country where if you rob from a bank you go to jail, but if you rob an entire banking system you get a peerage and an advisory post with the Treasury. When you’re ruled by thieves and liars theft becomes normal and lies become the truth.
Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn’s response to the speech was an exercise in how not to get people engaged with politics. He droned on for approximately the same amount of time that it took for humanity to evolve sentience from apes then de-evolve and lose it again in the Tory party, refusing to allow any interventions from the braying wannabe stand up comedians on the other side. What was needed was a witty, excoriating, and passionate denunciation of the iniquities of Tory rule, and what we got was a presentation from a semi-retired planning officer about the disadvantages of relying on the private sector to implement traffic flow measures in Maidstone. And there weren’t even any graphs. However Jeremy did demonstrate that he cares deeply about his own personal flow and never once gave way. God how we wished that he had done.
I’m sure there were highlights in the Labour leader’s speech, but along with the rest of the country I lost the will to live and stopped paying attention and went off to do something more interesting. Navels don’t defluff themselves you know. The only part of his speech I caught was his announcement that Labour would oppose the devolution of business rates to English local authorities. That’s the Party of Devolution for you, or more exactly, the Party of Saying No to Devolution.
There was bugger all in the Queen’s Speech about Scotland apart from some waffle about completing the process of disembowelling the Smith Commission proposals. Scotland no longer matters to Westminster. As long as they don’t think that we’re about to declare independence, they don’t have to think about us at all. They can leave us to be managed by Fluffy, ignored and sidelined until the next time that they realise with terror that we might just walk out of the UK. Watching the Queen’s Speech only confirms that Scotland is another country, that our concerns are no concern of Westminster, that there is nothing in this sorry charade that speaks to us. The day is coming when Scotland will wave the Queen’s Speech goodbye.
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25 comments on “Let’s wave goodbye to the Queen’s Speech”
shemorvena says:
Looking forward to waving Lizzy Sax Coberg’s speeches away along with her family of benefit scrounges. Ute sooner the better. The assault of Scotland by the Tories has only just begun.
annelawrie says:
Mrs Windsor’s hat has a coach all to itself.
Cloggins says:
So? Time for a new queen, this time not related to anything German. It can be anyone, you know. There is no need for a Windsor. Because the Scots are Sovereign. SOVEREIGN. It is so easy to overlook.
Oh bloody great there goes my early evening entertainment i mean did you have to give the score away , well thats the whole night f/kd now , How in gods name did we ever believe we were part of this Pantomime this total bleedn disneyland experience played out in fool view of the watching world who must think we are a right bunch of idiots .
Never mind Jackson Carlaw has nicely set the tone of the next session of Holyrood by reporting too SNP MPs to the standards commissioner for impropriety , I wonder if this is the same commissioner who turned both blind eyes when asked to deal with Mr Carmichael’s small indiscretion that cost the taxpayer a reported One Million Pounds , just asking .
The day better be coming soon “when Scotland will wave the Queen’s Speech goodbye” because this bunch of self-serving Tory bastards will soon see to it that everything of any value, material or social, has been waved goodbye to as they flog it off to their pals and cronies.
Tinto Chiel says:
You really are the vilest of vile cybernats, attacking David Cameron, the Conservative Party, the House of Lords, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Leader of Her Loyal Opposition in one sordid, ill-informed piece of Republican ranting against those very people and institutions which have made Britain great.
daviestrachan says:
Still doing a “Nelson” covering your good eye.
It can’t be soon enough for me.
The Queen`s opening of parliament is on yahoo under the heading of `Entertainment`. Quite appropriate I think.
Albamac says:
Less than absorbin’?
The Tories couldn’t have prescribed a more efective soporific for Labour’s pseudo-socialists.
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Bibbit (@allwasdark) says:
Has anyone ever noticed that Scots refer not to ‘Queen Mary of Scotland’ but to ‘Mary Queen of Scots’? That’s because legally, the people of Scotland hold sovereignty.
Our monarchs are their by our leave, not, as in England and other kingdoms, by their will.
As Angus Roberson said we know the nation the one-nation-tories are referring to. England or more precisely Toryland.
Elisabeth the first – and the last – is not queen of Scotland but of Scots. The Scots wanted it that way, it seems – but they may not have asked you for your opinion. Elisabeth the second is queen of England, long may she rule over the Englanders therein.
I note (for the last time) that Scotland 2016 continues to be a nice little earner for the Unionist Dead Tree Scrolls churnalists tonight.
How many times has Anna Burnside featured, nd her DR co pilot, David Clegg, who allowed himself a wee sleekit murky smirk over the SNP Sex Romp tit bit.
The Herald for once took a back seat, with the Evening Times’ Stewart Paterson getting a wee boost from my TV licence money to his wages for a change.
It is becoming a parody of itself , this mutual Unionist jerk off of a show.
Joffre: She force fed the argument that the total irrelevance to Scotland and its ‘devolved administration’ (not ‘Government’ BTW) of Auld Lizzie’s Speech was the ‘sign of a mature democracy’. Pee.
Crossing the line between reporter of events to acting as a Unionist mouthpiece comes easy to some whose very livelihood depends on their doggedly not understanding the democratic deficit. Perhaps she should read David Walsh’s Mortality Report?
On what planet does this Unionist stooge live?
I’m going to stop giving this farce of a Unionist Propaganda Show the oxygen of publicity: I’ll not be watching or commenting on it again.
I believe that they are down to a few thousand viewers now, anyway,
Small wonder.
Still it’s a nice little earner for the Unionist Dead Tree Scrollers, at my expense of course.
I see HS has a wee juicy story about a wheelchair bound ex SNP councilor and his wife, allegedly moonlighting as an escort lady, who were the victims of a blackmail scam.
The Dead Tree Scribes. Cruddy sleazy, and now beyond contempt.
She who is ‘just a figurehead’ and makes no ‘political decisions’ according to every royalist I have ever met. So they must be fine that she and her hangers on, sit on so much cash, so much land and property while many many people are actually going hungry! The French had the right idea, but we could just put them in a council house and make them take the bus to sign on, in case folks get a bit squeamish.
These people, in their disgusting clothes and crowns, make me literally sick. They keep the disgusting class system alive and kicking in UKok. The millions south of the border, will wake up one day, and it won’t be pretty.
Scotland will be free of the clutches of these parasites by then.
jingsandthings says:
Seemingly the promised great British Bill of Rights will underline (no doubt in red, white and blue) Westminster’s sovereignty. Wonder what the SNP MPs might think of that, or the Scottish electorate who believe they are sovereign and not a few upstarts sitting in parliament or on thrones.
diabloandco says:
Only this morning my Microsoft feed referred to the Queen as ” the Queen of England” and the English are most welcome to them all – but can I keep Harry please ? I have a wee soft spot for him.
Derek Thomson says:
Aye, he’s the absolute spit of his father, isn’t he?
Tsk!
Irene Danks says:
While scudding David Cameron in the coupon with a wet fish will do as an appetizer, the trusty baseball bat or the pool ball stuffed sock will always be the main course.
JGedd says:
I like that menu!
Gus Coutts says:
Does anybody know how much yesterday’s pantomime cost – all for the sake of a specch which can’t have lasted for much more than a minute?
WRH2 says:
They could have just put it on HM Gov website and saved even more money. We all knew what was going to be in it, make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
The Tree of Liberty says:
God, I hate this fuckin union!
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Famed 89-Year-Old Houston Business Leader and Philanthropist Welcome Wilson, Sr., to Ride in His 53rd Salt Grass Trail Ride
Welcome Wilson, Sr., one of Houston’s best-known business leaders and philanthropists and Chairman of Welcome Group, will participate in his 53rd annual Salt Grass Trail Ride this year. Wilson estimates that he holds the record for the most years riding in the Salt Grass Trail Ride, the oldest and most historic of the 11 trail rides that now take place every year leading up to the opening of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Wilson’s group on the ride is called The Desperados.
Although this year Welcome Wilson, Sr., who will be 90 years old next month, is riding the trail in a buggy, he has had many adventures during his years riding horseback on the Trail Ride on a dun horse named Freckles and sleeping under the stars near an open campfire.
Before one of his earliest trail rides, Wilson was testing out a new horse that his daughter Cindi might ride. The horse suddenly started to gallop and Wilson began to pull on the bridle to slow it down. The bridle came off in his hands. Either it had not been secured properly or it broke. Now Wilson was riding a completely out-of-control, runaway horse that was heading directly for an oak tree with thick, low-hanging branches.
“I thought I would try rolling over on the horse’s side like the cowboys do in the movies to duck under the branches,” says Wilson. “Instead I went sailing off the horse, hit the ground and slid into a nearby campfire.” Wilson reports that he had a bruise for five years from that adventure. The injury ultimately necessitated a hip replacement 30 years later.
Wilson was not discouraged, however, and this year once again will be enjoying the camaraderie, green countryside and open air of the trail ride and spending the nights in a sleeping bag near the fire.
The Salt Grass Trail Ride began in 1952 when four friends planned a horseback ride from Brenham to Houston to help publicize what was then called the Houston Fat Stock Show. The trail was named “Salt Grass” after the coastal prairie salt grass that provided an excellent diet for Texas cattle. The trail ride concept was based on the old cattle drives that took cattle from ranch to market. Today the Salt Grass Trail Ride begins in Cat Spring, Texas. Riders travel 103 miles from Cat Spring to downtown Houston as the official opening for the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.
Weather for next week calls for rain, but, regardless of the weather, Welcome Wilson, Sr., will be in his sleeping bag under the stars.
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Caterers have been asked to consider eco-friendly packaging, in an initiative that is now being reflected across The Spencer Academies Trust.
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L-R: Evie Fletcher – Year 13 student, chairperson of the eco-committee, Matthew Harrison – Year 10 eco-rep, Olivia Lakin-O’Rafferty – Year 8 eco rep, Sebastian Willcocks – Year 7 eco rep
Eco-ambassadors from across Rushcliffe School are leading a unique programme of work designed to embed sustainable thinking across all aspects of learning and academy operations.
Projects initiated since the start of the 2018-19 academic year include Bronze and Silver accreditation as an ‘eco-school’ – with Rushcliffe now working toward the most prestigious Green Flag award; and recognition of Head of Geography and Global Learning Coordinator Laura Lacey as a qualified climate change teacher under a new UN programme.
Sustainability has been integrated to all curriculum areas as part of Rushcliffe’s goal to foster responsible global citizenship among the academy’s 1600 students and sixth-formers.
The programme has been managed by an Eco-Committee established at the start of the year, and which includes more than fifty students from across the school. Committee members, known as ‘eco-reps’ began by identifying areas of focus including waste and recycling; litter and healthy eating, and then formulated plans in each area.
This has included engagement with national programmes, including the Walkers Crisp packaging campaign – with students collecting 6,300 crisp packets for recycling – and curriculum work. For example in science, where teacher Victoria Williams designed an experiment where students washed clothes and then examined wastewater under a microscope to identify micro-plastics in the water.
Other activities have included battery collection for responsible disposal; designation of recycling points and student-led initiatives around the school with a focus on energy use and conservation. Energy audits were carried out before and after Switch Off Week and showed measurable savings in carbon use and cost following a whole-school initiative.
The Eco-committee has been led by Y13 Evie Fletcher. Evie says: “Being part of the eco-committee at Rushcliffe School means getting hands-on with amazing projects designed to support our community and environment. Most of all, I enjoy the feeling of knowing you have helped reduce the global issue of climate change, it may be just a small change – like switching off a light – but if we can encourage the younger generation to share their knowledge of making small changes with their wider community, then this can have much greater impacts on our society”
The programme has been supported by Geography teacher Laura Lacey, one of the UK’s first tranche of dedicated climate change teachers trained by a new UN academy known as the UN Climate Change Learning Partnership (UN CC: Learn). Teachers studying within the academy develop their own understanding of climate change and are then expected to act as ‘ambassadors for change,’ sharing this knowledge across schools.
The first academy graduates, including Ms Lacey, will be given free access to a database of over 500 climate change lesson plans usable across the curriculum. Rushcliffe students will also have access to specialist resources, including an online ‘media room’ and will be encouraged to write and VLOG to spread the word.
Ms Lacey says: “It has been an honour to work with Evie and the eco-committee to establish Rushcliffe as a pioneering school for environmental awareness. The whole community benefits when schools promote awareness of the importance of sustainable thinking. If students are not leading community change, who will?”
Rushcliffe Principal Damian Painton said: “We are very proud of the eco-committee, Evie, Ms Lacey and all of the other colleagues and students who have joined together to make Rushcliffe a leading school for sustainability and look forward to an even more active second year.
‘At Rushcliffe School our aim to create global citizens, preparing students to be thoughtful and responsible leaders throughout their lives. Environmental awareness is just one of the ways in which members of our school community shine brightly and live out our core values.’
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The rugby players and the weaker kids
Feb 18, 2018 | Jonathan
It’s a rough generalisation but I’ve observed that there are two attributes which help towards being an effective rugby player.
The first is to be large. The second is to be fast. The very best players seem to be those who are large and fast.
When I played rugby at school I was small and slow.
I wouldn’t say that people at the school I went to were obsessed by the game, but participating in rugby certainly came to be seen as an important factor in boosting your social standing. Those who played for the first team were allowed to wear a different coloured tie than other pupils and were generally feted and celebrated by the teachers.
This was despite the fact, which seemed glaringly obvious to me, that this preferential treatment cultivated and encouraged in some an unwarranted sense of entitlement and magnified existing character flaws.
To put it more simply, a small number of the players were bullies. But because they played rugby, much of the thuggish and loutish behaviour was tolerated or ignored. Indeed, they were often portrayed as ‘lovable rogues’.
This is not to assert or even suggest that such behaviour is typical of those who play rugby. Most of the players I knew were perfectly decent and reasonable. A couple were my friends. Our school’s outstanding player, who later won The Heineken Cup playing for Ulster, was never anything other than friendly and fair in my limited dealings with him.
But it is undoubtedly true that the few who displayed aggressive behaviour towards weaker kids were indulged. Indulged because they were good at rugby.
Neither would I wish for it to be inferred that my teachers in proper academic disciplines ever treated me with anything less than perfect fairness. That would be unfair. I have no doubt they gave their best but, in truth, I revealed very little of myself for them to work with. I was a poor student. There’s only so much you can expect a teacher to do.
I’m strangely proud that a small number of my former teachers now read this blog. I certainly never did anything to warrant their loyalty.
What I’m driving at is this. A school is a community. A community must rally around something and, in this case, it became rugby. Our team reached the final of the Schools’ Cup when I was in sixth year and it caused a minor sensation. It’s easier to rally around a successful rugby team than around the quiet kids, the ones who have trouble looking you in the eye. And nobody wants to hear about the faults of those who have driven the adventure.
In every community there are those who fall through the cracks.
I was forced to play rugby at school for three years. This was the minimum period you were expected to compete before you could give it up. I despised every moment and got nothing from it. It fractured my already brittle confidence, displayed my physical frailty in front of others and made me a target for rough treatment from stronger kids. I dreaded the double Games period every week like it was a death sentence. I was usually unable to sleep the night before rugby and would be reduced to a state of physical and mental terror before going out onto the pitch. I know that several of my peers had similar feelings of doom about being yelled at while they were standing, trembling in a muddy field. Sadly those who taught rugby seemed to have no idea how to deal with us who had little aptitude for the game other than dripping abuse and mockery in our direction. The rugby pitch was not the place for empathy.
This was done in the name of education. At the time I was firmly of the view that it was destructive and damaging. Three decades on I remain convinced of that.
Our school was relatively small so there were just enough boys in a year to make up three teams, A, B and C.
For a short time in first year I found myself (remarkably) in the A side before my limitations at the game were exposed. When it was quickly revealed that I preferred not to touch the ball, to tackle or to be tackled, I was relegated to the B side.
On one occasion I remember our B team playing against a team from Coleraine Inst (I would have been in second year at the time). We were beaten 76-0. On the minibus on the way back to school our sports teacher told us that he had been in the job for decades but had never witnessed anything so ‘disgraceful’ as our efforts. The then principal refused to read out the score at assembly the next day, such was the obvious shame.
The sad irony of the whole affair was that I was far from the worst. I actually liked sports and was a useful footballer. I just wasn’t very good at rugby. There were several kids who disliked any participative sport who were forced to compete and I can only assume it was worse for them. But in my case the only thing that three years of playing rugby achieved was to push me towards having a dread of taking part in any physical activity which had a direct competitive element. This lasted for many years. It ruined my enjoyment of other sports.
Games was timetabled for one double period each week and one session of compulsory practice after school. The basic format was some running and exercises to warm up, perhaps some passing, tackling or scrummaging drills and then a practice match.
The practice match usually consisted of the A side playing against the B side. There was an obvious flaw in this. The A side were better. Bigger, stronger, faster, fitter, nastier. They were much, much better than us.
This resulted in a series of lopsided matches which, frankly, I could see no value in. The A players pushed us aside like annoying wasps as they racked up try after try. It certainly did nothing for our morale to be so thoroughly beaten on such a regular basis and I couldn’t see how it benefited the A side to be facing such feeble competition.
One week I actually pulled together the courage to put this point to the rugby teacher. Would it not make more sense, I wondered, to mix the teams up a bit? If you had some of the better players on either side then it might make for a more even encounter?
He looked at me, a mixture of scorn and amusement in his eyes. Then he said: ‘Well if I did that then you’d never get any better, would you?’
I stared at him. I can only presume these words made some sort of sense to him within his head when he uttered them.
And so it went on. A seemingly unending series of dismal one-sided practice matches. I was on the pitch for many of them, clinging to my allocated spot on the left wing, as far away from the ball and as close to the changing rooms as I could manage.
But sometimes when you dig a batch of spuds you uncover one that’s a funny shape. There’s often that one day when, for no reason that you can identify, things are a little different. Perhaps the sun was shining. Perhaps the wind was blowing in a different direction. Perhaps the A side were missing a few players, maybe they were not properly focused on the usual procession of sacrifice.
For whatever reason on that day (I was in third year at this point), things were a bit different. The match was competitive. One of our forwards seemed to have woken from a lifelong coma and was demanding the ball and roaring straight into the A side’s pack with a previously undiscovered relish.
This one boy’s enthusiasm seemed to be spreading throughout the side. I remember we scored a fine try when the ball was worked through several pairs of hands in the back line before one of the smallest kids in the year touched down in the corner. It was hard to know what was more satisfying, seeing the unfettered joy on his face or how quickly the backs in the A side turned on each other, mouthing abuse and blame.
Even I was carried along by the shift in momentum. I threw myself into a tackle when a much bigger boy ran at me. In textbook fashion my arms snaked around his waist and then slid down towards his ankles. Unfortunately instead of falling he just kept running and I was dragged along the grass behind him like Indiana Jones in the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark when he clings on to the speeding Nazi truck.
But despite it all we were still losing. Although only by a few points rather than the usual avalanche. I was aware that we could still win with a try and there were probably only a couple of minutes of play left.
A scrum was formed on the left side of the pitch. I was hugging the left touchline as ever. The ball was fed into the gap between the opposing packs by the A side’s scrum half.
And then something unusual happened.
The ball popped out of the opposite side of the scrum to which it had just been fed, landing just a couple of feet in front of me. For a few seconds nobody seemed to notice. I had a moment of panic. Was I even allowed to pick it up?
I grabbed the ball from the grass.
Then I ran like I was being chased by death itself.
Now I know what you’re thinking. I’m giving you a lovely story about how I scored the winning try in the dying moments of the game. Not a bit of it. It soon became clear I had nothing like the pace needed to reach the opposition line. Indeed if I was thinking anything at all in those moments it was ‘How the feck do I get rid of this fecking ball?’
As I ran I glanced back and could see two of the faster, larger A players hurtling towards me, their faces full of bad intentions. No way did they intend losing to the Bs. They were clearly going to put me down. But just behind them, I also saw a B player, red cheeked and panting, struggling to keep up.
I veered further left and waited until the two A players were right upon me, grabbing desperately at my neck. Intuitively I knew they would both want to tackle me, to impose maximum damage. Just as they collared me I hurled the ball backwards, over my shoulder.
Where, quite astonishingly, it landed right in the arms of my teammate, who now had a clear run to the opposition line to secure the most unlikely of victories.
Except it didn’t quite work out that way. I hadn’t learnt very much in three years of playing rugby, but what I had learnt was that in order to score a try you must ground the ball. You have to touch it down.
As I crashed painfully to the ground under the weight of two larger, stronger boys I saw my teammate run unopposed between the opposition posts.
What happened next could be put down to panic, ignorance, excitement, defiance. I simply don’t know.
Rather than touching down the ball down, he hurled it to the ground in the manner of an American footballer celebrating a touchdown. The ball bounced straight back up again, hitting him in the face and knocking him over.
At this point the teacher blew his whistle. The A side had won. Just like they always did. We all stomped back to have a shower and get ready for the next class. It was unusually subdued in the changing room. Nobody on either team seemed to really want to talk about what had happened.
Shortly after this I was able to give up playing rugby. I felt like I had been massively unburdened, like a long-endured tumour had been removed. I remember feeling a certain levity which lasted for days. Perhaps life was worth living after all.
It’s so obvious as to be barely worth pointing out, but no child should ever be made to feel this way. To be so grounded in misery for the sake of a game.
It’s right that children should be encouraged to try as many things as possible. Give them every opportunity you can.
And it’s equally true that sometimes you have to persuade a child to persist. To get them to overcome their fears and find their potential.
But one of the surest truths of my lifetime was that I was never going to make a rugby player. The same could be said of countless other young boys of my generation. And it was surely equally obvious the desperate unhappiness that was being caused by forcing us to play.
And then for a school to build an honours system around the very practice which caused so much habitual dolour, when so many kids had already been made to feel like less than they should have been; it was…..well I’ll choose my word kindly….it was unfortunate.
My son will be going to secondary school in a few years. I hope to Christ things are better by then.
4 thoughts on “The rugby players and the weaker kids”
June mchugh says:
I love this blog. I’ve read it to my grandson who is 6 and he reminded me of sports day in his school last year. When all the great athletes were weary carrying numerous medals round their neck the headmaster announced that all of those who didn’t get a medal should line up and get one . It was l like the walk of shame. Then we heard the father of one of these poor recipients say , “Charlie why did you get a medal . You didn’t win it . You are crap at running . What a load of shite .” !!!!! Charlie thought this was hilarious !
Thank you June. I love to get your feedback x
Marie Stewart says:
Sad but true! I really hope times have changed. The whole purpose of physical education and playing sport in school is to encourage a life-long habit of exercise and physical fitness as part of our normal routine. The idea being that if a child finds a sport or activity he/she enjoys, they will continue it into adulthood. At school I watched as athletic, active kids were relegated to the side-lines and told they were ‘useless’ as the teenagers who had had a growth spurt or, there’s no kind way to put this, were suffering from childhood obesity were feted as school celebrities for being on the rugby team. It was no surprise that some teenage boys, on being told they were stars, turned into insufferable bullies. The problem is far worse in America, where the High School football team are local heros who can do no wrong (and have their crimes hushed up.) Celebrity does not sit easy on teenage shoulders.
Stephen Wilson says:
Well the good news is that Coleraine Inst doesn’t exist anymore.
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MUST READ: Young person’s account of harassment and violence at WYD
Posted on 21 August 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
Nolite mirari fratres si odit vos mundus.
Wonder not, brethren, if the world hate you.
In Madrid during WYD the were no lack of twisted, benighted wing-nut protesters harrassing the pilgrims and young people.
One of the readers here has a daughter who was in the midst of the unrest the protesters caused. She wrote to me about her daughter’s description of what happened. I asked her permission, and through her her daughter’s to post the young lady’s account here, which I believe was posted on her Facebook page. I am anonymizing it for now.
The the reader and/or her daughter want to identified, they can chime in.
You might remember the photo I posted of the protests. The girl who wrote what follows was in one of the photos.
With some editing and my emphases:
We had been wandering Madrid all day, chillin
The boys were wearing their kilts so we got stopped for photos many times
One guy who stopped us said there was an anti Catholic protest in Sol so we went to check it out
There was this HUGE crowd of people so Seamus & Louise didn´t want to come check it out with us, they sat at a corner
We went in and people were shouting filthy slurs and cursing the Pope and it was awful
So we knelt down and prayed a Rosary for them in the crowd and got surrounded by angry protesters, shouting and threatening and spitting and filming us and mocking us and trying to burn our flags.
A gay couple came and made out in front of us but whatever
Anyway, Dominic made us stand up because he felt threatened so we finished our Rosary standing but on the last decade, a fight broke out right next to us between the Catholics who had been standing behind us and and the protesters so some of the other Catholics lead us out of the crowd.
We went back and dropped our bags with Louise and this time Mim stayed back so it was just Me & Dominic & Greg & Billy who went back and prayed a second rosary on the side of the crowd and we got more of the same, people getting up in our faces screaming
We were met with a couple more of Juventutem but they left after we finished our second Rosary before one had an emotional breakdown.
Everyone left but the group I just mentioned above and we chanted BENEDICTO, BENEDICTO and VIVA PAPA and waved our Papal flag and so on up against the police line
Lots of people yelled at us still
Then, the police line broke and they charged at us and we had to run for our lives a little more urgently than after our Rosary
Then the riot police came out and beat the ___ out of the protesters
At least one guy lost a WYD pilgrim from his group in the crowd and a lot of medics showed up… A lot of people got lost & hurt
The cops wouldnt let us take the metro there so we went off to find a pub
That´s BASICALLY what happened
Expect more of this in the future, dear readers.
This is the cloaca secularism and even the liberal Catholic agenda brings us, allied as it is with secularism, because it undermines Christian values and therefore respect for human freedom and dignity.
Start think about this sort of thing every day.
Start getting used to the idea.
1 Peter 4:12-14, 16
Revelation 2:10-11
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73 Responses to MUST READ: Young person’s account of harassment and violence at WYD
smad0142 says:
As a young man myself, I am suprised more fights didn’t occur. Praise God for the much more effective witness given by the praying of the Rosary. Also, the fact that the police were so brutal to the agitators might be a sign that Catholicism isn’t as defeated in Spain as some would think.
Banjo pickin girl says:
Yes, the police there are probably like the police here, more likely to be oriented to following rules, including the Golden Rule, and hence more likely to be Christian which would mean Catholic over there of course.
Jesus went to the Garden of Gethsemane and prayed. The next day he was reject by his nation, publicly mocked, and then murdered.
Sometimes the only way to change people’s hearts is with prayer and non-violent resistance. These WYD participants were, in a way, non-violent resistance to the hedonism that is sweeping through Europe and the rest of the world. The world will trash you and spit on you and maybe even beat you up. If you respond with hate, it will go out all over the media that Catholics are just as bad as their persecutors. If you simply pray and turn the other cheek, the world will see the true evil for what it is. And maybe even those who are persecuting Catholics will be moved to question their own beliefs.
Pray. Fast. Get ready for public humiliation. But don’t give take their bait. Peaceful, non-violent resistance to hedonism and secularism. Stand up for the Kingship of Christ and extent his crown rights to all the souls in this passing world.
benedetta says:
Why would someone break a police line to chase and beat up young people for praying publicly?
While we in this country have become acclimated to the possibility of terrorism occurring within our borders in the wake and horror of 9/11, some of the European countries have been dealing with home grown terrorism for a few decades now.
This is no different really from any other sort of terrorism which targets human beings on the basis of actual or perceived religious affiliation and attempts to silence or restrict freedom by spectacle designed to incite fear. We should take note, we should be prepared, we should pray, but we should not be afraid.
Joseph-Mary says:
There is no respect for the young people but that is no surprise for the devaluing of even unborn life has infiltrated everywhere and the murder of the pre-born children only escalates throughout the world. Perversion is coming to rule. The prince of this world is wielding a great power but it will lose in the end because Jesus is Victor. And Our Lord allows us to share in His Passion.
But so many souls hang in the balance! It is for us to ‘stand in the gap’ with our prayers and sufferings. What these young people are experiencing is also what those who pray at abortion mills experience–hatred and vitriol stirred up by the demonic forces of evil. I have had things thrown at me and so forth.
Carlos_Esteban says:
I am a Spanish journalist, from Madrid (www.intereconomia.com) and we’d like very much to translate and publish online the mail of your reader’s daughter. [Keep in mind that the young lady’s account may be on her Facebook page as well. FWIW.]
It brought tears to my eyes to read this! It feels like, and is, an attack on all of us and of course on Our Lord Himself! God bless all you young people who sacrificed to be there and to endure all of this!
Joseph-Mary, I agree. A society that is premised on denial of rights to the most vulnerable, most innocent, and supports the elimination of 30 million is premised on a dysfunction which proposes as acceptable violence towards God and neighbor. This traumatizes us all and many of us are not even aware of it or its effects.
I also think that the sentiments which put the harassers up to this have been working to divide, destroy, and engender hatred towards Catholics for some time in various capacities through lies and stereotype. And this explains a lot of things I have wondered about. I think that essentially many of our leaders charged with responsibility for courageous witness to the faith may have already been harassed such that they have become frightened themselves to the core. I also see the factionalizing in the Church in a new way — perhaps many have been protected by the liberal and even dissenting Church from this onslaught, and thus preserved from harm and may now be able to realize their dignity and exercise leadership to guide people through who are just now registering it or taking it in. We should support the universal Church now more than ever and even if we have disagreed with the direction of taken in the celebration of the sacraments we should make our presence known at local level and see if there is anything we can do to support and encourage our leaders who deserve our prayers and support.
Hmm, this isn’t quite what I thought when I first saw the pictures.
I assumed that this was anti-Catholic protestors disrupting a WYD group event, but from this description it seems it was the other way round.
Guessing that the ‘Sol’ where they say the anti-Catholic protests were taking place was Puerta del Sol, the main square in Madrid, a quick look at Google Maps shows that it was 5 or 6 miles from the Cuatro Vientos area where this weekend’s WYD events were taking place. And, from the description above, it seems the anti-Catholics were being kept well away from the WYD events by the police, so there was no risk from that crowd of any disruption to the WYD events.
So from the description posted here, it seems a few WYD attendees deliberately went to the anti-Catholic protest, and did something that they must have known would annoy the protestors.
Now that isn’t to say that what these WYD people did was wrong (although I’m not sure about using prayer in this way). But I don’t really feel I can blame the anti-Catholic crowd for reacting badly to what was effectively an invasion of their protest.
introibo says:
Of course this is barely being covered in the press…
Andrew Mason says:
Richard T: I see where you’re coming from, but error and disrespect must be met where it is. The protestors were ridiculing the faith and our Pope, and all the young people did was respond with prayer. The martyrs didn’t have the attitude of “well, the pagans are way over there and not bothering me so I’ll leave them be.” Rather, they went and preached and often died in witness to Christ. May God bless these young witnesses who bring the Lord to those in darkness.
RichardT, And what exactly were these protesters as you call them actually protesting? The existence of Catholics. I’m sorry but when the raison d’etre for a protest is to say that one religious group should be prohibited from existence itself, then, it is not a legitimate protest, for one thing.
But no one said that the World Youth Day pilgrims were to be confined to a corral. Why would you have it be so? The city invites them and they mean for them to visit the entire city. Further the World Youth Day attendees stay all over the city.
And if one hears them chanting such lies then inevitably young people, being who they are, especially Catholic young people, being what they are and Who they are all about, are inevitably going to wish to say, “This is who we really are, flesh and blood.” If these protesters as you call them could not call their vile names to the faces of real Catholic people then what’s up with that. Then it was a sham to begin with, nothing legitimate and had no good proposals to offer.
Their premise is that Catholics have no right to exist. When the Catholics showed up showing that they do exist, why would people then want to break police lines (obviously there was some idea that there would be a need to protect others in the first place if there were police lines set up?) to chase and beat them, to assault them, just for being human?
Their premise, that Catholics have no right to exist, has zero place in enlightened society or any human civilization, and further, if it was any sort of proposal, kudos to the young people for saying, right back, thanks, but no thanks. We do exist. Whatever the hate.
So was there a permit issued by the city of Madrid, for an anti-Catholic mob?
And as to what you say “using prayer in this way” well, I’m not really sure what you mean. These few (and if they went deliberately obviously they accepted that they would be so outnumbered) did not show up armed. Are we not to pray? Are we not to pray for those who persecute, for our enemies? And if your answer is no, would you say that to Mohandas Gandhi? Would you say that to Rev. MLK?
Fr. Andrew says:
This story is relevant just in case anyone was wondering whether or not there are people alive today who would kill Jesus just as brutally as they did 2,000 years ago. Be ready, the time is short…
benedetta, by “using prayer in this way” I meant in a way that is clearly going (even if not deliberately designed) to annoy the people you are praying for. They could have prayed for the protestors in a church without any trouble, and the prayer (as prayer) would have been just as effcacious.
But instead they chose to go to the protesters and make the prayer an act of witness.
That doesn’t mean that what they did was wrong. But it also means that I don’t think we can blame the protestors for their reaction (since the WYD pilgrims don’t seem to have actually been physically attacked).
And no, the WYD pilgrims were not “confined to a corral”. Quite the opposite indeed; it seems the anti-Catholic protestors were “confined to a corral” in their own city, boxed in by a police line, to keep order.
That group of pilgrims chose to enter the opposition’s ‘corral’. Whether that was brave, foolish or both I do not know (it’s the sort of thing I may well have done myself in my youth), but if people stick their head into a lion’s den, others shouldn’t complain when the lion roars at them.
I was horrified when I first saw these pictures, on Fr Z’s earlier post, because I thought that they took place at a WYD event (it was described as “harassing young Catholics at WYD”). But having now read this later post, my feelings have changed.
Augustin57 says:
This is just the beginning. The real enemy isn’t the Muslims, although, they can be dangerous. The real enemy is secular humanism, brought on by the Enlightenment project, begun in France about three centuries ago, as an attempt to create a society without God. It’s being pushed heavily in the schools, especially where socialism has gotten a foothold.
I believe that we will experience a chance for a lot of us to become blood martyrs in our time. May God give us the strength to endure and persevere to the end!
skull kid says:
This looks like a video of the incident (the guy in the blue t-shirt looks the same!):
Marcha laica vs. JMJ 2011 (Insults and clashes in the Anti-Pope Protest. WYD 17/07/2011) W SUBTITLES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZnPqWTkc8M
Oh, and bernadette, yes, I think Gandhi was a self-promoting trouble-maker. But then I am British, so I also think that George Washington was an ungrateful oath-breaking traitor.
Gail F says:
RichardT: I’m with you. It’s a very different thing to go out of your way to find protestors and pray in front of them than it is to have them come find you. I’m not sure whether I agree with what these young people did, but at the very least you have to admit that it is not the same as their going to their WYD events and being attacked by protesters.
Ezra says:
so we went off to find a pub
…and that, gentlemen of the press, is how you know you’re covering a Catholic event.
I was struck by a letter published in the British Guardian. This has to be the most hilariously over-the-top thing I’ve read about WYD to date, and makes me think – once again – that the best response to some of these hysterical pearl-clutchers on the atheist/secularist side is laughter:
… Large areas of the city centre have been closed to traffic for days and vast public spaces effectively hijacked to create a spectacle of Nuremberg Rally proportions…
We need to know their identities and how they succeed in annexing public resources, particularly at a time of economic stringency, in the interests of engendering mass hysteria and proselytising in favour of religion to which substantial numbers of citizens are averse. When we see the massed ranks of Catholic youth, with attendant flags and “cheerful” rightwing iconography, we are reminded of travellers’ tales from 1930s Germany. You should be warned!
Hugh Adams and Rogelio Vallejo
In the past, I’ve been pretty ambivalent about some of what goes on in the name of WYD. The reaction to it is starting to make me re-think my position.
RichardT,
Don’t be so wet. Christ was being blasphemed, the Holy Father insulted, and all manner of freakery promoted. These young Catholics had the courage to make a stand for truth and decency in the midst of all that. 1 Corinthians 15:25 isn’t limited to particular suburbs or neighborhoods.
Lori Pieper says:
But it also means that I don’t think we can blame the protestors for their reaction (since the WYD pilgrims don’t seem to have actually been physically attacked).
I don’t know what’s considered proper where you live, Richard, but most ordinary people consider such acts as spitting on people, cursing them, screaming vile insults at them and burning their property (flags) to be blameworthy, when those people are not harming you in any way. And how are these things not a physical attack? Is the only kind of physically attack punching and beating someone? The only reason they didn’t succeed in physically beating the Catholics was the presence of the police.
There is absolutely no excuse for what these protestors did. period. They are very much to be blamed.
All this from people who would no doubt hold themselves up as supporters of “tolerance” in the face of Catholic “bigotry” and “intolerance.” Riiiiight.
Ahh! The Spanish police have a well-deserved reputation for taking no nonsense!!
crifasi says:
RichardT wrote: “they chose to go to the protesters and make the prayer an act of witness. That doesn’t mean that what they did was wrong. But it also means that I don’t think we can blame the protestors for their reaction (since the WYD pilgrims don’t seem to have actually been physically attacked).”
This was the “reaction” for which you don’t think we can blame the protesters: “shouting and threatening and spitting and filming us and mocking us and trying to burn our flags. A gay couple came and made out in front of us”
Please explain again how that’s not blameworthy.
The pilgrims had deliberately gone out of their way to do something that they knew would annoy the protestors. In response, the protestors ‘made out’ in a way that they hoped would annoy the pilgrims.
Sure, our way, prayer, is much better. But both sides deliberately did things that were clearly going to inflame an already tense situation.
I’ve got a lot of respect for the pilgrims for having the guts to do it. But although I can criticise the protestors for the anti-Catholic bigotry that started their rally, I don’t really feel I can blame them for their reaction to that group of pilgrims.
“…it also means that I don’t think we can blame the protestors for their reaction…” Ah, the poor, poor ‘protesters’, battered and bashed about by the prayers of provocateurs. Did they use the language of abusers? “Don’t make me hit you! Don’t make me spit on you! Don’t make me curse you, curse you!!” As beings with free will, we are responsible for all our actions, or none of them. One cannot have it both ways. (I do not include courts of law; their jurisdiction covers the laws, not morals and will.)
Oh come off it, Kerry, I’m not feeling sorry for the protestors. And if they’ve done anything illegal, then sure, charge them with it.
But if you deliberately go out of your way to find a large protest (which is confined to a small part of the city and so isn’t causing you any real trouble), and then knowingly rattle their cage, you’re going to get a load of abuse back.
sea the stars says:
Those beautiful Catholic girls and boys were bringing the light of Christ to the pit of Sodom. May they be richly rewarded.
Richard, yes, you’ve explained how it is very likely that people who are already ratcheted up with hate will react to something as innocuous as prayers with screaming and abuse. Statistically, yes, likely. But you have done nothing to explain how it is not blameworthy and reprehensible conduct. So do you actually condone this conduct? Do you find it good? Do you think it a fair response?
Pachomius says:
The young people do seem to have been rather unwise in their choice of what to do. There’s preaching the Gospel, and there’s waving it about in the face of an already-angry bull. And yes, one of the great saints might have gone up and preached at them. And he might have got himself killed without converting a single person, too. There are times and places when evangelisation is appropriate, and there are times and places when a strategic withdrawal might be more advisable. I also don’t see what meeting protest with protest achieves.
Plus, I’m very uncomfortable with this sort of prayer-as-protest. It seems to me to be exactly the sort of showy praying which Christ condemned in Matthew 6:5-6: “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. ”
Either pray or protest, but combining both seems to me to be somewhat blasphemous and to abuse prayer for an aggressive purpose.
That said, I think RichardT is wrong that we can’t blame the protesters’ reaction. We absolutely can and should blame them for and condemn that reaction.
“Do you find it good?” No.
“Do you think it a fair response?” Yes.
It was obvious to me all along that RichardT wasn’t condoning things that are wrong or sympathizing with the protesters. That’s the problem with blogging, people read their own expressions into things.
AnAmericanMother says:
No – not a fair response.
First of all, these ‘act up’ types have been getting in our faces for years and years in far more extreme ways . . . disrupting Masses, throwing stuff on priests and bishops, blocking access to churches and cathedrals. To my knowledge nobody has ever gone medieval on them, much as they may have deserved it. They don’t get to go medieval on us, either.
Second of all — and this is what really bothers me — what you’re saying, in effect, is that these people are not bound by the law like everybody else, that they lack the intelligence and ability to conform their behavior to civilized norms — they were “born that way and can’t help it,” they are allowed to lose it and hurt other people because they are privileged and just can’t tolerate dissent or protest. So they get a pass.
It’s the same argument that allows certain groups to riot and loot and so forth, but it’s a sort of excuse-making that is inhuman in the extreme — essentially denying them full humanity.
If it helps calm down the discussion, I think when I said “I don’t blame them” I was talking in a broad sense rather than suggesting an actual moral law. Of course some of what the protestors did was a sin, including their loss of temper. But we all sin, and in the circumstances I don’t see what they did as being a particularly great sin. And on a social level, it’s an entirely expected reaction.
My reaction to the initial posting of these photographs was that it was an attack on a WYD event, which would be a horrendous outrage and an alarming change in the climate of society (I’m not blaming Fr Z for that misunderstanding; he posted what information he had). Now we know more about it, I don’t think it was anything especially bad, alarming or surprising. Just one of those rows that sadly happen all too often when people rub up against each other.
Yes, it’s sinful, and it weakens society as well as tarnishing the soul, but it’s no worse than a hundred other over-angry arguments that happen every day in every city, most of them nothing to do with religion. It’s sad, but I don’t think getting worked up about this one little incident gets us anywhere.
Do I think the protestors should be ‘condemned’? I think there’s a lot of things to condemn first; this seems to be a long way down the list.
I suppose I am willing to give RichardT the benefit of the doubt on this one though he refuses to say what the protesters were saying and he also seems to be saying that the Catholics were supposed to be confined and should not be free to move about. I disagree that they deliberately prayed to annoy people — I think that is an assertion which would require RichardT to be able to read their hearts. We don’t know their intentions. But, here are the facts. Before the towel guy went over to 4 (in a crowd of how many hostile chanting that the Pope is a pederast?) young ladies to ridicule them while they knelt on the sidewalk to pray, earlier in the week, mobbing people did seek out to harass, intimidate, alarm, annoy and threaten the pilgrims such that there are numerous photos of grown men screaming in faces invective to, habited nuns, frightened young women, pilgrim after pilgrim having to walk in a line single file past people screaming at them.
So if it is true that, what would it be, maybe, 12, if that, young people took a stroll over to pray, assuming good intentions, and why should they fear walking around in the daylight in a city that invited them to be there in the first place, just for being associated as a Catholic, really, to say, we are walking in the flesh and yes it is very ok, well, let’s not repress or suppress or forget or deny what really did happen earlier in the week.
In context of what was documented by mainstream media, it isn’t as RichardT would have it seem and I say kudos to those young people all the more. They showed that they are not about intimidation, not about imposition, they quietly prayed. But to pretend that they don’t exist or to have to be confined to the small space marked out for them from the very start of the week when the mobs tried to harass them into fear, from the very first days, well, sorry but that we as Catholics can’t do. Catholics exist and have every right to exist and move about freely. That is not going to change no matter the spectacle or the attempt to intimidate and make people afraid. The young people were not afraid to show who they were. Not pederasts or all the lies and hype chanted to or about them, as kicked off by the mobbers from day one.
Still no one can say what they allegedly were protesting and that is because it was not protest. It was hate.
AnAmericanMother, I’m not saying “they were born that way” or that they “get a pass”. But if you wind people up, they’re likely to shout back at you. Sure, they shouldn’t have done it. But how many of us have never done things we shouldn’t? I can’t see that this is a big thing.
And you’re objecting to “‘act up’ types . . . disrupting Masses”. But these pilgrims disrupted their protest meeting.
Other than the fact that we have right on our side, if we look at it from a secular point of view, what is the difference between the pilgrims’ actions and (for example) the ‘rainbow sash’ groups attending Mass? Both are doing something that should be instrinsically good (praying, attending Mass) but choosing to do so publicly in a way that will antagonise others, in order to proselytise.
benedetta:
“RichardT … also seems to be saying that the Catholics were supposed to be confined and should not be free to move about”
Don’t be silly. It seems to be the protestors who were confined, in a small area of the city (‘police lines’ are mentioned), not the Catholics. The Catholics could walk anywhere, but these ones chose to go to the one part of the city where there was a big protest. Sadly sometimes we have to separate opposing groups, and just as the protestors should not have been allowed to “freely move around” to hurl abuse at WYD attendees, Catholics who seek out protestors in this way are making trouble.
“I disagree that they deliberately prayed to annoy people”
And I was very careful to avoid saying that their motive was to annoy people. What their motive was, of course I cannot know. But they did deliberately choose to pray in a way that they knew would annoy people, when there was plenty of opportunity to pray in a way that would not do so, and that’s making trouble.
Making trouble isn’t always wrong, of course, but it does generally lead to trouble.
“earlier in the week, mobbing people did seek out to harass”
Then that was very bad; they should have been stopped from doing so, and possibly the riot police in this story are a sign that the authorities did act (although a bit late). But that’s not what we are talking about here. We’re talking about the opposite – a group of Catholics who deliberately sought out the protestors and did something that they knew would annoy them.
The difference is significant: disrupting a Mass is trespassing on private property.
The public streets are just that — public. You are not “disrupting” a public protest by standing on the side of the street and praying, or even holding a sign. That’s what “public” means — open to all. Now, if you start throwing things, or getting in people’s faces, or yelling at the protestors, that’s another story.
The agitators have been doing the latter all week – making kids and little old nuns ‘run the gantlet’ of cursing, spitting, shaking fists and fingers in their faces – again assuming that they are privileged to do what they like, and the Catholics won’t dare respond in any way. In effect they have had a campaign of intimidation going, to keep the Catholics terrorized and cowed.
Good on these kids for showing the agitators that they are not intimidated. And sometimes public prayer is a good method to reach people when nothing else will do the job.
“disrupting a Mass is trespassing on private property”
Surely Mass is a public event? The Church isn’t a private club (except in the eyes of the secular law, which surely isn’t an attitude that we should be supporting).
But it’s gone midnight over here, so I’m off to bed. Good night all.
RichardT this is what you said
We’re talking about the opposite – a group of Catholics who deliberately sought out the protestors and did something that they knew would annoy them.
First of all why should people go around thinking that prayer would annoy? That is ridiculous. Further you still have not said what they were protesting. If they were protesting, Catholics, then, all the more reason for Catholics to nonviolently resist the gross and dehumanizing stereotype by showing up in an unthreatening (and quite vulnerable given the comparison of sheer numbers) way. Given what happened earlier in the week, it was probably a very good thing on the whole for young people to say, you are all hopped up on hate, against, what, exactly, human beings? Well, here we are. See for yourself. Just ask us.
I take issue with all of your presumptions, that this was about valid and legitimate protest (you still don’t say, and I can’t find, what exactly), that Catholics because of the vile harassment they faced while walking single file to get from one place to another even in the confined area should then have felt, as visitors (say, from the Philippines, or, Mexico?) afraid to move about, to visit the entire city and enjoyably meet the people, that somehow they asked for it just for be willing to go out to meet with people who seemed deceived and manipulated such that they were willing to chant that the Pope was a pederast. What about it was a protest meeting. And, given that there was ample opportunity to scream at the Catholics earlier in the week, what necessitated the big spectacle follow up meeting. Who was the leader, spokesperson, what are the viewpoints, and like I said, was a permit for assembly applied for or was it all about threats, terror and anarchy. This was not a conversation, nor did these so called protesters extend respect or welcome or hospitality to the attendees who obviously have no say power authority or control over their sick or distorted beliefs about Catholics people or the affairs of the Spanish government. Just pointless, all the way.
Now if it had been a ‘real’ protest, with legitimate, something (anything?) other than for the purpose of expressing hatred towards one religious group (of all nationalities, ethnicities, cultures and languages even, apparently?) then perhaps the so-called protesters would have taken the moment to have a conversation with these, however you call them, stupid or brave Catholics for being in the wrong place at the wrong time as the people wanted it known, no Catholics allowed, and, if they come we will hurt you (as they sent that message from the beginning upon the arrival of the pilgrims). Those were the premises. It was fear, shock and awe, as is all terrorism, with, nothing reasonable behind it, otherwise if there had been we would in fact be debating its relative merits right now. Pointless hatred. Very sick and very dysfunctional. Altogether unhealthy for the human spirit and the human community.
I know you’ve headed off to bed (good night!) but you’re overlooking the difference between an invitee on private property and a member of the public on public property. And it has nothing to do with a “private club”.
The Church, which owns the property, invites the public onto their property for a specific purpose: to worship. Not for any purpose that the public may take into their heads, like shouting obscenities at the priest or throwing red paint on the altar.
The same is true of any private property owner. A store owner invites customers to come and shop – not hold a revival meeting. A restaurant owner invites the public to come and eat a meal – not play football in the restaurant. If you invite the public onto your house property for a garage sale, that does not mean they get to rove all over the place poking into stuff.
The public street is different. Nobody gets to control what anybody else is doing in a public place — so long as they don’t block traffic, harass or assault others, or damage property, the public can sing, dance, play football, eat a meal, or sell hot dogs. Or pray.
eulogos says:
Here is a ten minute video of what went on. There are translations on the screen. The things which are said are pretty shocking. The Pope is called a Nazi and a Pederast. People have signs saying “The Pope is coming, watch out for the children.” One protestor says to a WYD participant “Your religion is a provocation.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZnPqWTkc8M&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
It looks as if the WYD people just came out of a subway station and were in the midst of a protest crowd. People yelled things of unutterably foulness at them, and they used spiritual weapons,holding up crucifixes and saying the rosary. They mostly didn’t respond to the ugliness, although one guy said, “Gay pride day, I stay home. When it is our day, you do this.”
I think the young people did amazingly well.
Susan Peterson
Some of the protestors were yelling “We are sinners.” As they did it, they were sometimes making sexual gestures, or ridiculing Catholic practices as they imagine them. But it was pretty amazing to hear them shouting “we are sinners.”They meant, I think, “You think we are sinners.” It was almost as if they were identifying themselves unwittingly as those whom Jesus came to save. I think at that point the Catholics ought to have joined their chant; maybe it would have made them think.
Yes Goodnight RichardT (goodnight, Jon-boy…).
The notion that with the week thus kicked off for the World Youth Day Catholic pilgrims, nuns, young women, of the single file walk through hatred, threats and intimidation, the very idea that anyplace in the city ought to be feared as off limits for freedom of movement because of thuggery disguised as pretense is something that should be resisted, completely.
What if instead of this handful of however you decide to label them, stupid or brave young Catholics showing up, a gaggle of nuns en route somewhere? Or a lone priest. Or just a city resident who happened to be wearing a World Youth Day lapel pin. What then?
Along RichardT’s reasoning any Catholic was supposed to be living in fear from the treatment delivered through threats at the very beginning of the week however these handful of youth didn’t get the message about living in fear and hatred and showed up, as is, anyway. Yet the alleged protesters were in costumes.
This is not about politics, not about legitimate protest, not even about the Church really. It is hatred against any person who identifies as a certain religion and that sort of hatred has no place in civilized society. After decades of people working for peaceful coexistence among people, for respectful dialogue, to come here and all the more single out Catholic youth as this sort of they asked for it sentiment is bizarre and a smokescreen to deflect us from recognizing the real issue.
Whenever a group has come together united by hatred against a people affiliated, whether actual or perceived, with a particular religious practice or culture or ethnicity, in history this is about scapegoating. This is the face and demeanor, the actions of xenophobia and intolerance.
Many of us have had the opportunities for edification and discourse that arises as a result of living in diverse areas. In New York after the terrorist attacks, reasonable and enlightened minds called for calm, tolerance and to resist impulse to blame or stereotype Muslim believers as a group, and people were very responsive to this.
Here, Catholics were invited to gather in Madrid, and, people came out in mobs to threaten. It is not reasonable. Leaders there should be asking how in the midst of that society and culture, in supposedly sophisticated locales, this could happen. As there seem to be no coherent viewpoints or ideas, political or otherwise, from the supposed protesters, there seems similarly no leadership. Still there must be cultural, academic, educational institutions, religious groups, that should be asking the questions and following up. If there is no ability to follow up, because there are no traceable activism revealing the viewpoints, then one can be sure that what is behind the incitement of people to threaten and intimidate, as grown men, nuns, and thus make young Catholics feel afraid to move about freely, are, lies, deception, manipulation that really doesn’t care a thing for these protesters. It’s terrorism and it’s xenophobia and I am not going to condemn young people for showing up, vulnerable, few as they were, and say, you want to see us? Here we are.
If the protesters could not face the Catholics face to face because of manipulated and hopped up on some senseless, faceless hatred, then, it’s about xenophobia, scapegoating, and a reflection of dysfunction in the dictatorship of relativism. It appears that all is not as enlightened and tolerant as has been previously asserted. It seems that there are chasms of irrational hatred against one religious group. It’s about investment in a stereotype instead of willingness to meet people face to face. The supposed protesters started things off by sending a message of hatred, fear and intolerance. A handful of Catholics showed up to say, there is no reason to hate or fear us and further we find no reason to fear you. Their presence was a tiny application of hope to a horrible, out of control situation not grounded in reality but in sickness. They trusted these supposed protesters that they would respect them once they had a chance to really meet and know them. They ran a risk. That is what the Christian adventure is all about. We should not be afraid, of evil, of hatred, and certainly not be afraid of fellow human beings wherever human beings are. I plan to follow the example of these young people. There is no way that I am going to live in fear of humanity with whom I am privileged to belong, in all our great and beautiful diversity. We are just going to have to respect one another for who we are, and if a group of religious adherents visits our city, and we do not care for that religion, we are going to have to all the more show hospitality, respect, welcome and gratitude for their presence. That’s life.
Seamus says:
“But they did deliberately choose to pray in a way that they knew would annoy people, when there was plenty of opportunity to pray in a way that would not do so, and that’s making trouble.”
Every January, the March for Life takes place in Washington. Every year, the anti-Catholic counter-protesters come out and stand on the sidelines, yelling the usual hateful things (“Get your rosaries off my ovaries”, “The Pope is a pederast”, etc.), in a way that they know will annoy people. And the marchers, being provoked, get up in the faces of the counter-protesters and yell hateful things back at them, and eventually break through the police lines to charge the anti-Catholics. Oh, wait, no. They do nothing of the sort. They walk on past, perhaps shaking their heads sadly and offering a prayer that God will melt the hardness of the hearts of those who hate the Church.
“I think Gandhi was a self-promoting trouble-maker.”
haha, I have been thinking lately that I want to learn more about Gandhi. He’s pretty much been canonized by the Left, which makes me a bit suspicious of his “sainthood.” I know the quote attributed to him, ie, “I like your Christ, but I do not like Christians,” or something to that effect. And think how ironic that Mother Teresa came to do her work in his country. Would he not have liked her?
Not sure what to think of this. We could start seeing more of this horrible stuff, especially in Europe, not only from secularists, but also from Islamofascists as well. However, I guess I think there is something to the idea of self-fulfilling prophesies, and I’m not sure it’s wise to speak ominously about persecutions, etc, as though they are a foregone conclusion. Of course we can’t ignore harassment and the like, and all this should be kept in prayer, but there is still much to be positive about vis-a-vis religious expression and practice, especially in the US. Hopefully this is true in Europe as well, although I admit the situation doesn’t look quite as healthy there.
RichardT, you’re confusing the moral content of a reaction with the fact that it’s a socially expected one. For instance, “on a social level,” it doesn’t surprise me at all that many missionaries in history were killed when they deliberately preached in hostile cultures. To use your words, “on a social level, it’s an entirely expected reaction” in many cultures. Yet I doubt you would waste keystrokes making such a critique of missionaries. So why are you doing it now?
To those who are not familiar with Spanish (and for that matter Latin/Mediterranean) culture, Spaniards–whether Catholic or not–are a passionate people, for better or worse. And they show this in public, too. Just as the Spanish Left is not afraid of loudly insulting the Pope and his flock to their faces, the Spanish Right also boos and insults the current Socialist Prime Minister in public events. Of course, actually assaulting others physically is another matter. Nonetheless, this attitude is in marked contrast to that of Americans, for example; who, though they might insult their politicians in the bloggosphere and in private conversations, would never actually dare do so to their faces in public.
Seamas O Dalaigh says:
Thanks for showing us those two photos. It is gratifying that at least two of the excellent young people in the second photo are my fellow Australians (the young lady in the centre kneeling and the one on the left standing).
I note the protester is carring a rainbow flag, an all to familiar sight here in Sydney.
Yes, I’m sure we’ll all see more and more of this.
Charivari Rob says:
It sounds as though the young pilgrims made some decent choices in their behavior when face-to-face with some ugly behavior but may have made questionable choices regarding going to there in the first place, staying there, and most particularly in going back after having left.
Speaking as someone who has experience of school group international trips in high school and college, and a tiny little bit of experience chaperoning teens on smaller scale domestic retreats – I gotta say that my principle reaction is to wonder what conversation they had with their chaperone/group leader after the fact. Actually, before the fact, too.
It’s not clear from the account whether they’re high school or college age.
In college, we were at an age to accept some responsibility for our actions, and had some liberty to wander. In high school, while we weren’t in the company or custody of our chaperones 24/7, we had defined limits to our wanderings, instructions to stay together, and instructions to check in.
As a chaperone, if any of my “yutes” came back to me with this story… After ascertaining if anyone was hurt, the next part of my reaction would be – “YOU WHAT!?” Well, hopefully I wouldn’t yell and would communicate calmly. “I want to make sure I understand correctly. You had unstructured time in our schedule and permission to go about the city, and you (a) heard about an anti-Catholic demonstration & decided that your little group of Catholics should go “check it out”, (b) when you got there & it appeared hostile enough to make some of your group nervous, you divided your group, and (c) after it proved to be hostile and you left, you again divided your group and went back?”
At the very least, such a youth would find their privilege of liberty revoked. At most, serious discussion would take place among the adults as to whether the youth needed to be sent home.
None of that excuses the protesters and the haters, but my main concern in such a situation would be the safety of my group. I don’t have too much control or any responsibility for the actions the protesters make that affect my group, but I do have responsibility for my decisions and how they may affect my group.
Singing Mum says:
RichardT, don’t be so hard on Washington. There are a lot of British oaths one shouldn’t take or keep. Seems to me that’s what got England in so much trouble.
And I wouldn’t be so hard on the Catholic kids, either. If more Brits were able to demonstrate the witness of the WYD counter-protesters, you just might have a more vibrant faith on your little Fair Isle.
Captain Peabody says:
Have we really reached the point where public prayer is a “provocation”? A place where actions such as these are not only understandable, but even excusable and justifiable?
There is no “justification” for actions such as these. And even if there were, silent prayer in one’s sight does not constitute such a “justification.”
Is it something that could be predicted given the sort of people that go to such protests? Yes. Does this in any way justify, excuse, or make licit these actions, or in any way make the people that did such things “not to be blamed”? No. If anything, the fact that silent prayer in their sight provoked such visceral reactions is to their blame, not to their credit.
Now, is it possible that these young Christians acted unwisely in these actions? Yes, I think that’s probably the case. But one is not justified by the foolishness of others. And the actions of the protesters are both unjustifiable (including attempting to physically attack the praying students) and demonstrate precisely what others have said they demonstrate: hatred for the Church, and a fundamental lack of respect for human dignity.
This reminds me of nothing so much as the ancient accounts of martyrdoms, where the arena mobs would actively cheer on and assist in the punishment and deaths of Christians, and respond to their resistance and prayers with shouts of rage and demands for further tortures. The ancient spirit of the arena is never far from man, I think; and it rears its head especially where the Church is absent, and where she is hated.
For the sake of his sorrowful passion, have mercy upon us, and upon the whole world. Amen.
Bettnet says:
I’m in Madrid now. This week, a religious sister with our group was leading some pilgrims through the city when they encountered a protest. They did not seek it out, but keep in mind that for most of the week the pilgrims have been in the city center, not out in the Cuerto Vientos, and thus confronted with the protests. However, I would also point out that these protests were much smaller compared to World Youth Day than the media depictions would have it.
In any case, one of the protesters got in the faces of this group of pilgrims with the sister–who is known for her holiness and who has herself suffered religious persecution in her homeland in the Middle East, so she knows something of this– and she met him with the love of Christ. She kept a smile on her face and asked him why he wanted to scare the kids and so on. She told him they only wanted to come to Spain to pray and be with others to pray and to be with the Holy Father. Long story, short: By the end of the conversation, the protester was in tears in her arms and saying how sorry he was. The love of Christ when lived authentically is a greater witness than any words.
Traductora says:
Richard T and others:
You´re ignorant of the circumstances. The M15 people are a group of mostly anarchist and hard-left ¨protesters¨ who were camped for several weeks in the Puerta del Sol. The city was finally able to get them out, although the national government found them useful and resisted Madrid´s attempts to control them. They took to having running street battles with the police and also harrassing passersby, including tourists. They and the gay groups and atheist groups applied for a parade permit to have an anti-Pope parade and demonstration that was designed to coincide with the Pope´s route and the places where WYD attendees would be likely to be found.
The City of Madrid attempted to give them another route, but again, the representatives of the Church-hating Zapatero government insisted that they be allowed to do this exactly where it would intimidate and provoke the greatest number of WYD participants. Sol is a big transportation connection where a number of Metro lines come together, so they knew the WYD people would have to pass through there sooner or later. The police were not permitted to intervene unless the demonstrators physically touched the WYD people.
The ¨protesters¨ gathered there. People who hadn´t been following the Spanish press had no idea in advance that the gays and M15 were waiting for them in the plaza, and they emerged into a situation of screamed insults, people waving condoms, etc. The Catholics who came did so to protect the arriving young people and clergy (who were attacked just because they were identifiable by their cassocks, just like in the leftist good old days of the Spanish Civil War) and to show that Catholics were not intimidated by the tactics of the left and the fact that the left had the full support of the Spanish government.
A number of the Catholic supporters were Spaniards, since virtually all of the gays and leftists were Spaniards and they were screaming at and terrifying foreign visitors (who didn´t even understand what they said, but the gist was pretty obvious) and it was clear that the visitors needed help and protection. The police intervened when the gays and M15 began to throw things, but the Catholic young people were there to support the arriving WYD attendees with their presence and to escort them through the crowd of thugs. I heard from other people that this was a great help. They weren´t there at first, and WYD arrivals were coming out of the Metro and walking right into this howling band of gays and leftists with no idea of what was going on,
Navarricano says:
I have tried to read all of the reactions before posting, and I’ve got through most of them, so I’ll just add one or two other things here.
First, with regard to Sol and the World Youth Day events: WYD was not confined to one area of the city, it took place throughout the city, at different locations and pilgrims were spread all through the city during the entire event. The Cuatro Vientos airfield was the site chosen for the macro-Mass on the final day, but all the different meetings between different groups of young pilgrims and their bishops, catechetical sessions, concerts and theatrical performances and so on took place at locations throughout the city. The confessionals, for example, were installed in a section of the city’s central Retiro park (think Central Park in New York or Hyde Park in London), which is not very far from Sol on foot or by Metro.
So the young Catholics in this article WERE NOT the only ones who suffered abuse as a result of deliberately diving into the middle of an anti-Catholic protest. Yes, these seem to have made a choice to “go and check it out” as they write, and to pray in front of the protestors, and to leave and return. And I both admire their courage and question their judgement. I tend to be of the “prepare for martyrdom if God asks it of you, but don’t go looking for it” school, though I admire the evangelical zeal of a St. Francis of Assisi preaching to the Sultan. Anyway, others have written and discussed that extensively in their responses, so I’ll leave that aside and move on.
But, as I wrote here a few days ago, there were quite a lot of young people, as well as their chaperones and priests and religious, who were in Sol for reasons of tourism when the anti-Catholic mob poured into the plaza. There were also those who, having a bit of time between scheduled events to do a little tourism, surely came up out of the Metro unawares to encounter a howling mob of angry nutcases. These were also abused, insulted, spit upon and physically threatened. There are plenty of YouTube videos of the proceedings out there, so, no, it is not the case that the vast majority of the protestors were deliberately being provoked by anyone. There was also no question of the WYD organizers informing people of this event and warning them to stay away from the plaza, because the permission for the march was given at the 11th hour aftger WYD was already underway and there was no effective way to get the word out to all the WYD attendees.
So, the larger question remains: why did the Government Delegate and the Ministry of the Interior allow this march in the Puerta del Sol plaza during the WYD events, especially knowing how it was likely to turn out? And they did know, because of the nature of the groups who were requesting permission for the demonstration. Would they have permitted a Catholic procession with an image of Christ through the Chueca neighborhood on Gay Pride Day in the name of “free speech”? No. Would they have allowed anti-Shariah protests outside Madrid’s M-30 mosque on a Friday during Ramadan? No. So why this?
The simple answer is that this government, the present Socialist government of Spain, is belligerently anti-Catholic and has spent the last 7 years doing everything possible to attack and undermine the Church in Spain. They could have impeded this or forced the protestors to hold their little sabbat in some other part of the city, but they didn’t. Even the head of the police officers’ union here in Spain has filed a formal complaint in protest of the decision and the situation it put the police in. So, any incidents that occurred or people injured during the protests are the fault of the government in my view. This should never have been allowed.
Call it youthful imprudence, foolhardy, whatever you like, that they went anyway when the group sent the message from the beginning of the World Youth Day week that all Catholics were to fear them (recall the anarchist with the anarchy tatoo standing toe to toe — but of course doing little else than — and staring a police officer in the face, for the photo opp) since they intended harm towards all Catholics. But we should still thank those young people for going anyway, though it was a risk. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself…and these young people went making the world safe for democracy. To use a couple of phrases that have now begun almost cliche. In person, they say to the thuggery, this is who we are, nothing more, nothing less. And, since it was so much spectacle and photo op, in the first place, now Catholics all over the world have one of our own to go with the behavior of the anarchists and the non-legitimate protest protesters screaming hate. So I thank these young people and if they missed their curfew, hey, that happens. I just don’t think we ought to live in fear, period, on many levels, and who knows maybe some in the crowd screaming had a change of heart as a result of their prayer. Can we really say we know, everything? Likely those in the crowd, like the young people in London, were manipulated into showing up by social media elites who don’t mind saying all kinds of wrong, deceitful, or stereotypic things in order to put people up to doing things they probably would feel ashamed about in their hearts if they really were honest with themselves and about being human. Even if one mistakenly consents to that sort of deceitful spirit, somewhere in one’s inner self there is a yearning for truth, love, peace and the prayers of these young people could very well give God permission to love those who were screaming hateful lies all the more. I add my prayers and rosary to theirs.
Why am I not surprised that the Zapatero government is aiding and abetting these thugs? And the harkback to the Spanish Civil War is disturbing.
Socialists hate and fear the Church. They may use her more naive or misguided members for their own purposes, but once they get in power they do everything they can to harm her.
Sound familiar to anyone?
All of us, especially the young, should be trained in non-violent protesting. This is a long and hallowed tradition within the Catholic Church. One can be trained not to engage violent or irritating protesters, even ones who are “in your face”. Those of us who have stood at abortion mills know how to ignore the nasty comments and rude responses. This is the art of peaceful protest. Prayer, the rosary, singing of hymns, or merely silence, are learned responses. One does not have to use the situation to preach, teach, or return harassment. Also, fighting at this level is not the Catholic way, nor is it necessary.
I am not against “warfare” which is defensive or necessary, such as outlined by the Thomists. But, in the face of protests, one should look to pacific and non-inflammatory ways of responding, so as neither to encourage or inflame the situation.
When it is time for a crusade, I would be the first to encourage my men-folk to fight, but we are not there quite yet….Some saints die in peaceful protest and some in war. Our Lady of the Rosary and Our Lady of Vienna, the Holy Name of Mary, pray for us.
What the thugs gamble on (and most ought to know better) is that Catholics live in some kind of unicorn and rainbow nonreality world. We can look to Fr. Z’s post about the Collect. We have eyes open, we do not repress or deny the full reality, since we know Good Friday intimately that means we also realize the full reality, import and power of the Risen Lord. If what we see is ugly, crass, or base, or even threatening, that is never the fullest reality, never the whole story, not the way God views the world. Even if we become surrounded, or invaded, by hostile, personal, threats and lies, we choose the good, we choose what is beautiful, noble, good, kind, holy and we have ample witnesses who have proven in much worse circumstances that this exists, is always an option no matter how things might be portrayed by powers that be. No matter how much hate or scorn can be heaped on us, we still have the ability in our being to go with God who is love and living charity right in the most concrete moments of life. We are best prepared remain fortified by God’s goodness when we face and acknowledge that evil, the one who was a liar and a thief, a murderer from the beginning, exists, with a certain ability to attract and to sway people to do limited and often senseless things. We don’t prepare on its terms, which is to dominate, impose, to lead with fear, shock and spectacle, terror. We prepare on the terms of God’s power, confidence and goodness which already overcame evil. We pray that people in free will see and choose to place their abilities with the goodness of God. But we cannot control if some refuse, we cannot control if some choose to hate, and we don’t control those who choose to attack, Christians. We are not having a conversation with senseless, irrational, evil, which in fact seeks none but only to use and abuse humanity for its own purposes. We are in relationship with God, and this we freely choose. But those who deny that evil exists (though we pray every Easter to renew our baptismal vows) will be caught unprepared for the way that evil utilizes the dictatorship of relativism for its own ends. It will cave to it in fear and even in fear it neglects to choose the good. I agree with Supertradmum. We should resist evil and pray for the peace of Christ to reign in our hearts. If we prepare as in fantasy or halcyon checking out of reality that it is not at work then we can find ourselves, despite our intention or desire, to cooperate, and often through being duped. It is a universally human experience. But when we do we may approach God with confidence and be reconciled and strengthened to commit ourselves again to goodness, to walking with the Way, the Truth and the Life, in the communion of His Church, with the knowledge and wisdom that experience and looking at the world fully conscious provides to go forward, without fear.
Centristian says:
I believe that public demonstrations against any religion are completely tasteless and inexcusable.
Last Summer I was in Palmyra, New York, where the LDS Church finds its origins and maintains several historic sites relevant to Joseph Smith and his alleged visions. Each Summer, the Mormons host a pageant on Hill Cumorah (where the tablets were allegedly found) which dramatizes the story of the Book of Mormon. A friend (a Catholic priest, in fact) invited me to attend, and I agreed to join him.
Upon arrival we were appalled to find hordes of loud, mean-spirited, obnoxiously misbehaved Evangelical “Christians” carrying bullhorns and shouting insults against the Mormons present, against all those entering the grounds, and against the Mormon religion, in general. I couldn’t believe it. To me it was the height of bad taste, to camp out right across the street from a religion’s sacred site and there to verbally trash that religion using bullhorns and loudspeakers. Of course, they also carried nasty placards and sandwich boards and passed out anti-Mormon literature.
The Mormons responded by not responding at all. They didn’t approach the demonstrators; they simply ignored them. They seemed completely unfazed, in fact, by the insulting diatribes being shouted at them on their own turf. They welcomed all visitors cheerfully, they escorted us to our seats, directed us to the facilities and refreshment stands…and never once tried to proselytze us, incidentally. They were all smiles and joy and welcome.
I don’t believe in a word of the Book of Mormon, obviously; it’s all fiction. But that day, those Mormons won my respect and my sympathy by their exemplary behavior in the face of the shouts and protests of their enemies endured at one of their own sacred sites. I’ve never cared for Evangelicals and Fundamentalists to begin with but this seemed like a new low, even for them. The Mormons handled it all with impressive grace and dignity.
This demonstration in Madrid likewise reflects the complete disregard for boundaries that seems to plague society, today. To organize in a public place with the express purpose of mocking somebody else’s religion is so utterly despicable as to astound, really. To protest someone else’s politics is one thing, but someone else’s religion? It’s no better than the behavior of those Baptist “God Hates F*gs” protesters that show up at the funerals of fallen soldiers.
Too many people disregard too many boundaries, today. We can disagree with a religion without behaving like animals about it.
Totally agree, Centristian. We don’t have to invest faith in other religious practices or choices but we can show respect to one another in the dignity of our shared humanity. Respect means, at the very least, refraining from a mob ganging up to shout horrid things at real people.
I also think that just as it is totally wrong to somehow believe this is legitimate political protest, it is not altogether accurate to label this as anti-Catholic. Of course it has expression in things which are hostile to Catholics in their effects. But, very likely the majority who engaged in this were duped, deceived, manipulated and put up to it for various reasons. As I said some may have been paid. But the great many likely were convinced of some hateful things without basis in fact or reality. Pure hate against one religious group tends to work like that. If there was reason employed to begin with, or actual viewpoint even in relativistic sense, we would know it and be able to debate it, but, there is nothing. Further, the chants themselves had no shred of truth to them. Now I would guess that the majority of young people who supported the hate do not or have not had occasion to know really any practicing Catholics and so have fallen for hype and stereotype advanced which does have roots in anti-Catholicism though still not in reason. That is why we should be assertive when mainstream media here or institution or academia voices even small lies, deceptions, stereotype, caricature, mockery and ridicule towards Catholics and with charity show that Catholics are real people and what they are doing is rooted in hatred and scapegoating. It matters, even the small deceptions because young people who lack means to enlighten or know the truth or get accurate information, who for the cool factor will permit themselves to be duped or manipulated into non-reality, will be the agents who carry out the acts of hatred on behalf of the ones who instigate with little or subtle lies or stereotype. When it happens we should ask for dialogue with reason and respect. If there is possibility for rational dialogue it will happen. But if the intent is to destroy, divide, threaten and harm, it will run from the light and will avoid open discussion and meeting at all costs. I admit, looking around our own shores we can see the damage has already been done in some ways, and sadly, some in the Church have allowed themselves to be used maybe unwittingly to support this, but it is by no means a lost cause and we should recognize that reason and the light, discussion in respect support the free and open expression of religion, not mobbing and innuendo about Catholics. We should not be afraid and we should cheerfully make our presence known, for our own sake, the sake of our children and young people, for the sake of an open society and our country, and for the sake of those who would be duped into acts of hatred. If we agree on the terms of hatred to hide the joyful practice of our faith then we assent to life in fear which is not God’s plan.
Bettnet, thanks for the story. I hope that reminds Cathloics of our calling to witness to our faith out of love for God and love for souls. God bless Sister for her courage and tender heart.
Madrileno says:
No one said that the events of the WYD were going to be in Cuatro Vientos Airport before Saturday night Pope’s speech.
I mean, pilgrims start arriving Madrid on Monday, so from that day to Saturday night ALL events were on the city centre (Retiro, Cibeles, etc). Just check the agenda in the official web: http://www.madrid11.com/
Don’t know what kind of information you read, or from where you take your data, but it’s simply not true.
From Madrid, Spain.
“Guessing that the ‘Sol’ where they say the anti-Catholic protests were taking place was Puerta del Sol, the main square in Madrid, a quick look at Google Maps shows that it was 5 or 6 miles from the Cuatro Vientos area where this weekend’s WYD events were taking place.”
RICHARD, you’re WORNG!
RichardT et al:
1. This very thread is a victory for THEM. Spending, having to waste time even here on WDTPRS. Worldwide, .BBC to Vancouver times (“hurling shouts at each other”) moral equivalence , media eclipsing of WYDMadrid.
2. This was PLANNED, my dear Sir.And hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Spaniards knew it. Foreign MSM probably did too.
On the 8th of August,( before the 17th, in my book,) my inbox had email from | MasLibres.?org and hazteoir.org , check them out,do. detailing HOW THIS WAS PLANNED and organizing a publicorder peticion, which naturally I signed as did many Spaniards.
Spanish law supposedly guarantees freedom of religion INCLUDING religious practice on the public square.Following EU ideas of relegating religious freedom to the back bedroom to avoid “Hurting” and “Offending”, this is under attack. (Sounds familiar to you cousins?) But, that IS the law as it stands. Spanish law also allows counterdemonstrations under freedom of expression, but, rightly, under the restriction of first come first served – if you’ve “booked” , say Trafalgar /Times Square as it were months back a counterdemo MAY wholly legally be, (and is when a cause THEY like is in question), prohibited /rerouted on public order grounds by the “delegado del gobierno”(local reresentative of the federal, as it were, “home office”) at the same venue and within x100yards of it or on most of its habitual access routes, etc.Typically a cordoned-off sidestreet on an access route, or odd outer park, is authorized for such. This is routinely considerably widened to whole city centres being off limits for “counterdemos” for eg major football matches, on PUBLIC ORDER GROUNDS ALONE. (And National Livelihood : you gotta tourist industry as GNP-relevant as Spain’s, you gotta keep the place an attractive event venue.)
All the spiritualities in the church, and all Spanish dioceses, wished, planned, and obtained public order permission, many months ago, to have many on the street etc acts and events around WYD, including all the rest of Spain as pilgrims arrived and were put up days before ( 500 clicks from Madrid we put up four, not to praise myself, so did everybody everywhere.)
Bear in mind :
On the “Madrid public security board”
Less on the side of the angels than one could wish,but propapal vist and in some ways procatholic, genuinely pro catholic freedom of worship, at least: the Madrid PP (Partido Popular, RINOS is a very rough usa approx.)regional Govt .Controls many buildings and services, hospitals, education, fire services, etc. Pressed for limits on counterdemos as above .
Madrid municipality: same party, PP, as above, but lukewarmer in its mayor,.(Mayor’s outlook could be compared to Guliani in USA). Controls municipal policemen and much else that you wouldn’t necessarily imagine.Keen at least on promoting madrid as a venue, making gestures to catholics in its voting base, the volume of commerce in an offmonth…
Pressed for limits on counterdemos as above, including technical reports.
Professional Police advisors: similar, on constitutional and public order grounds alone, according to Libertaddigital, a web news service founded by the catholic radio services two top ex journalists, where you can check interviews with police union spokespersons to this effect.
Govt of Spain, seat located in Madrid.Worse than you’d think, unless you revere, say, Castro or Chavez. Names and controls the abovementioned “Delegado del Gobierno ” for Madrid,as for all 17 autonomous regions in Spain, whose main responsabilty is controlling and coordinating security: Civil guard, national police, riot squads, and similar.Authorizes demos, power to choose itineraries etc as above.
Move 1. Counterdemo not authorized anywhere near eg Puerta del sol
move 2. 16th : news came that (too late to inform pilgrims) that the nonpermission order had been rescinded for the “hub of the universe ” , ie Puerta del Sol , a real Madrid “mustpassthrough” presumably central Govt overriding its own minion. (She and they have got “form”)
Much more could be said!
One moral : exposing onself to MSM is an occasion of sin. I suspect believing and thinking as a result of MSM reports is culpably sinful, but then I’m ignorant.
Follow up if you’re interested:
” (info@maslibres.org)
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 4:13:06 PM
To: …./…
Yo SÍ espero a Benedicto XVI
Pide a la delegada del Gobierno en Madrid que aplique la Ley e impida la celebración de la “manifestación anti-Papa” del próximo 17 de agosto.
¡Basta ya de hostigar a los católicos!Grupos autoritarios y gente del llamado “Movimiento 15-M” de indignados preparan un boicot a la Jornada Mundial de la Juventud y la visita del Papa Benedicto XVI.Quieren tomar el centro de Madrid con su mensaje de odio a los católicos el próximo 17 de agosto, víspera de la llegada del Santo Padre.
Ayúdanos a parar este acto intolerante. Nuestras leyes garantizan la libertad religiosa y de culto.
http://www.hazteoir.org/firma/40580-firma-yo-si-espero-benedicto-xvi“
Mdepie says:
I am not sure what Richard T’s point is, but if he means the anit-Catholic protestors are creepy lunatics and those of us who are parents should discourage our youth ( especially young women ) from directly engaging them, well than he has a point. ( the picture of the white clad, sandal wearing dude spitting on the young women speaks for itself as to the nature of these folks) . I hope no one would suggest that the proper response to any of the WYD participants regardless of anything they said or where they went, was to spit on them. In my world people who spit on young women are moral slime. In the United States this also constitutes battery so if a cause of legal action and/or police involvement. Sorry.. that’s just the way it is. If law enforcement in Spain dealt with such people by beating the _____ out of them, well more power to law enforcement in Spain.
In any case I would tend to see the Anti-Catholic protestors as either deranged or possessed. (Again I refer to the bizzarre garb in the picture) . There are also evidently pretty stupid since according to the story they ended up getting themselves pounced on by the police. Beyond police the only folks who should directly confront them are trained exorcists or psychiatrists. While we must stand for the Faith to the point of martyrdom if it comes to that, we need not kneel down in front of such individuals in order to facillitate getting spit on. To the extent that anyone sought out the anti-Catholic protestors it is indeed foolish. It reminds me a little bit of What Christ said about not throwing pearls before swine. Kneeling in front of them and saying the rosary will not inspire them to convert or impress them with our meekness. It will fire them into spasms of demonic rage which for them will be an occassion of greater sin and blasphemy. Or I guess in the case of the gay couple who started making out wild displays of homosexual affection… go figure….. In any case pray for them of course, but do so without a lot of overt displays of religiousity. When in Church among ones fellows, it is laudable to show our submission to God by kneeling, among the unrestrained demoncially possessed, crazy or very evil, best to stay on one’s feet. It is an easier posture from which to escape if attacked or if absolutely necessary to reliate if required for defense of someone else or yourself. Lets not seek out martyrdom, it may every well be forced upon us, but not just yet.
cjcanniff says:
I am a sophomore at Boston College, and BC led a group of roughly 15 students attending World Youth Day. On my second night in Madrid, I was going to board the metro at the Sol station, but the entire square was blocked off by police due to the problems with protesters. That was the first instance of papal protest that I encountered. Then two nights later, after the pope had presided over the Way of the Cross, I was walking through the streets, and my friends and I encountered a small contingent of protesters who were roughly our own age. They waved gay pride flags and were screaming things in Spanish. We asked another faithful youth who was from Spain to tell us what the protesters were saying. He told us that they were saying some nasty things about the Holy Father. I said a prayer for them, and our group walked away just in case things happened to escalate. It was very upsetting to encounter such hatred, but overall these occasions of protest were isolated. World Youth Day was a joyous celebration for the faithful; the whole experience was immensely edifying.
drea916 says:
I agree with Richard T.
Sometimes we do things that seem holy, but it’s actually our pride that is at work. Fraternal correction (and this would be a form of this) is one place where pride can be at work. I’m not required by my Faith to go out and get in these people’s faces and be obnoxious. I AM required to pray for them, but I can do that anywhere. WHY were they getting in their faces? I think it was pride.
drea916, Fraternal correction? No that would be between believers. How would just showing up, vulnerable in a small group before a huge crowd, be obnoxious? So just for saying, hello they were asking for, what exactly? Just for being themselves? And who got in whose faces. Anyway what in your opinion was the purpose of the mob that you believed ought to be respected, the message that Catholics should fear walking around the city? Hmmm…
Mdepie, They weren’t protesters, nor could it be said really that they are anti-Catholic. They may have been paid to do various things that could get someone arrested. They did seem duped into doing and saying various nonsense (and it was nonsense).
It’s really a shame that someone made those poor people get so horrendously hateful that they wanted to make the World Youth Day attendees fear for their lives and be humiliated when walking from place to place. But no, why would you accept the premise that they should live in fear and confine their prayers to the church? The Spanish people wanted them there.
I don’t agree at all with your ‘pearls before swine’ sentiment. Innumerable people may have been converted by the prayers of those few young people. At the very least if I had been in that crowd of spitting haters I would not have been able to continue to deny that what I was doing hurt real human beings.
What the kids did was was not the most prudent thing (and had my daughter been among them I’d perhaps be a little upset): but I admire them for their behavior. I thoroughly enjoyed the account–both for its content and for the Holden Cauldenish style of presentation.
I am not sure I understand your point or that I made myself clear. I would say the WYD participants surely had a right to pray, travel and do whatever they wished, I am not saying they should “confine their prayers to church”. I believe Richard T made a point that the kids may have sought out the anti- Catholic protesters. I was responding to this.
First it does not matter, whether the kids sought them out or not, that does not give the likes of those in the picture to burn flags, harass or spit on the kids.
My second point is this: I do not think the spitting haters care one whit about hurting real human beings! I think that is their goal. To the extent that Richard T had a valid point about not confronting these lunatic haters it has nothing to do with not provoking them, etc etc.. it has to do with the fact that such people are unhinged and/or vile and are potentially dangerous. I do not think we want college young people dealing with them unless accompanied by someone with a taser gun. I am not enamored of good kids getting spit on.
I think the admonition to avoid throwing “Pearls before Swine” is perfect here. Msgr Charles Pope from the Archdiocese of Washington has described this as follow : “Sacred matters, sacred things, wisdom, and participation in sacred things should not be easily offered to those who are incapable of appreciating them. There are those who despise what we call holy. There is little that can be done in such cases except deny them the pleasure of tearing apart holy things or trampling them underfoot.”
Praying for this people face to face on ones knees seems to be exactly that, it offers these people something holy, that they will only respond to by trampling underfoot.. Prayer is fine but I would approach these people in a manner analogous to how an exorcist approaches the possessed or the psychiatrist approaches the dangerously psychotic.
Mdepie, Thanks I think I understand you better now. Many have pointed out that the culture of death is so insatiable and irrational in its demands to claim more and more innocent life that the best way to understand it is as a demonic force. And I also concur with even atheist historians who have agreed that whenever a group unites over hatred towards religious adherents of a particular faith, it reflects a dysfunction at the roots of society, xenophobia, scapegoating.
That said, a very constructive way to overcome an attempt to dehumanize one religious group through hateful bigoted stereotype is to make known our shared human condition in the form of real faces, real flesh and blood. Group hate tends to dehumanize around stereotype and lies (the chants in the video were lies, not anything of any substance or meaning). The participants in this sort of mobbing feel that there are no victims to what they are doing, and also do not perceive Catholics, having been manipulated and deceived themselves, are fellow human beings like themselves. So the best way to overcome that is in a charitable way to reveal the flesh and blood that we all share. It would be one thing for the disguised person to taunt (and I didn’t read that he did spit on them but it could very well have happened) like I said he was very likely paid to do so thus the need he had to disguise. But for many others even if they remain in their deceived state and convinced of the righteousness of their hatred and attempt to continue to be united to others through that, they will not be able to continue to deny that Catholics are human beings just the same as they themselves are. They will not be able to continue to deny the possibility that their vicious stereotyping and harassment is very harmful, and will have difficulty justifying it, to their peers certainly and then to the wider world, if they attempt to justify it at all.
Msgr. Pope is right of course that one must recognize who God is and who we are and then present one’s self to the communion of the Church the same as everyone or as a catechumen and can not expect to receive the communion and benefits of grace when one remains outside of the Church or persists in a life of sin or grave error. One must take certain responsible steps as a catechumen, whether formally, or for others of us, somewhat informally. This is an ancient recognition by the Church that growing in the faith is not a transaction and not a one time thing but a constant process requiring obedience to the wisdom of the Church and her authority and making one’s self inwardly disposed to receiving the grace the sacraments of the Church imparts.
These youth were just walking around as normal people. Not as clergy dispensing sacraments. Not as catechists. People are entitled to go where they wish and pray as they wish without fear. And if they were moved by the Holy Spirit to take a gamble that many parents would rather their sons and daughters not, well, sometimes in this world risks may come even when we do not ask for them, know them ahead of time (hindsight is something different) in detail.
Indeed some did chase these young people. As others have pointed out that is an assault whether or not they reached or touched them. A certain subgroup of them were willing even to resort to violent methods to further express their hatred.
Again looking at the full context of what happened factually in the week, the pilgrims were immediately threatened harassed, and intimidated, by grown men, even towards habited nuns at the very start of the week. We can call the harassers what we wish including protesters or anti Catholic since their actions had expression in anti Catholic effect, still none of those labels is based in fact since they chanted hate and lies, there were zero rational or political views expressed, not one leader, no permit applied for with the city, and anarchy has no political views at any rate but just courts and desires mayhem for all, for the point of it. But, it seems, they did wish for the WYD pilgrims (and now we’re talking, 2 million, compared to the harassers, what, 100?) to feel afraid.
The terms set by evil and hatred from the beginning of the week was fear. Fear for the pilgrims and, fear for the citizens of Madrid who in the HuffPo were very quick to point out to strangers that the sick harassers did not speak for them. The terms set by evil were irrational hatred, dehumanization, humiliation. So, these young people evidently then took a risk, agreed. Now it seems they did note that there was a police presence already with this crowd again who showed up apparently organized as in London via blackberry messenger and not through legitimate organizing, political or any other way. They may have changed their minds had they shown up and seen, no police. But police were there already. That says something in and of itself, a situation of dysfunction at work there which really has nothing at all to do with World Youth Day and a recognition by police of some elements that tend to work against the peace and free movement of the people they serve every day.
The young people made a decision, probably observing a police presence, to not play by the terms of evil which is to separate human beings one from another and generate hatred. They even showed that the crowd wasn’t so dangerous or to be feared as the big spectacle created earlier in the week was designed to do. As they trusted that they would not be killed by these haters and they were not. The crowd did them a favor and resisted physically harming them. The whole thing is fascinating in that it shows that the evil one time and time again wants human beings to hate one another but that the power of goodness, from God is much much more powerful and cannot be controlled or manipulated. I don’t care what you label what these young people did and I recognize that not every parent wants to know that’s what their son or daughter did as parents will worry but I’m with the young people one hundred percent. There is no way we as Catholics should live in fear of other human beings, no matter what the big spectacle or the organized lies.
Mdepie also if you are convinced that public prayer for those who persecute, right in the midst of being surrounded by angry misunderstanding and stereotyping mob is not historically effective in bringing about change of heart in the life of the Church then why not go back and read Acts, as well as the excellent posts on martyrology that Fr. Z has written on this his blog? Public prayer and witness remain just as important, though persecution takes on different forms depending on the circumstances and the whim apparently of the organizer. We may not be martyred but whatever the form of persecution public prayer for those who have been manipulated into committing certain acts is still important. St. Paul would be a good one for intercession.
We should recognize also that what those young Catholics did serves all people, diversity itself, whatever one’s beliefs or affiliation. No person should be bullied into fear. We should all be grateful for what they did, dissenters included. I read that 1500 young people in Madrid took the opportunity to pray together at Mass offered in the Extraordinary Form. The preparation in the faith currently offered in many places sadly will support the faith of young people being even unwittingly preyed upon. But young people who are prepared prudentially will be less afraid, less willing to be manipulated as a conduit for others’ unresolved hatred. Perhaps it doesn’t have to be a Catholic approach. But character education, values, respect, they are going to have to be taught clearly and exemplified by adults much more than the last decades.
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