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Last in the nation, Minnesota tightens drunk driving limit (story audio)
State Patrol chief
Bar owners are worried
House passes bill to lower drunk driving limit (03/31/2004)
Senate approves stricter DWI limit (02/12/2004)
Fact sheet on the new .08 law (pdf)
Fact sheet on drunk driving in Minnesota (pdf)
Minnesota Office of Traffic Safety
Last in the nation, Minnesota tightens drunk driving limit
A field sobriety test. Law enforcement officials are preparing to begin enforcing a stricter drunk driving limit in Minnesota. Beginning Aug. 1, the blood alcohol limit is .08, down from the current level of .10. (MPR file photo)
Minnesota's drunk driving law is about to get more strict. On Monday, police can start charging people who have a .08 percent blood alcohol content, down from the current level of .10. Supporters say the change will make Minnesota roads safer. But tavern owners say when you add the lower DWI limit to smoking bans and a higher minimum wage, their businesses will take a big hit.
St. Paul, Minn. — It's 10 o'clock on a Monday night, and Deputy Scott Schneider is just starting his job. Schneider works the night shift for the Minnesota State Patrol.
Schneider and his partner, Xena, a 7-year-old malamute, travel the highways of Ramsey, Chisago and Washington counties. Since he's been working the night shift, Schneider has seen a fair number of drunk drivers and alcohol-related accidents.
"Your summer months tend to be a little more active," says Schneider. "A lot of people are home from college, a lot of festivals and a lot of activities going on."
Schneider says he's arrested about 100 drunk drivers in the past year. That number is likely to increase as the legal blood alcohol limit for drunk driving drops from .10 to .08.
As Schneider drives from accident to accident, he also watches the road for impaired drivers. He sneaks up on a Ford Taurus that's swerving a bit.
"He weaved out of the left lane, weaved into the next lane over and he just about did it again," Schneider says.
Schneider pulls the driver over. She isn't drunk; she's 15 and doesn't have a driver's license. Schneider impounds the car and returns the two teenagers to their parents.
Schneider says many drunk drivers act is if they haven't driven before. They swerve from lane to lane, make sudden stops and don't have full control of their cars. A different set of troopers see those same characteristics and pull over a maroon Chevy Suburban.
On busy Interstate Highway 35E, just north of downtown St. Paul, a group of state troopers is busy searching the vehicle while a patrol officer conducts a sobriety test on the driver.
Bar owners are not sure what they can do to protect their business in the face of .08, the smoking ban and the higher minimum wage -- all taking effect this year.
The driver is clearly impaired. He can't walk a straight line, and sways back and forth when he tries to follow the deputy's finger. The driver has a .14 percent blood alcohol level, which is well over the legal limit. He's put in handcuffs and is headed for jail.
State Patrol chief Mark Dunaski says he expects about 1,300 additional DWI convictions a year, as Minnesota becomes the last state in the nation to adopt the .08 standard. He says the new law should also send a message that people shouldn't drink and drive.
"We do want them to understand that there are consequences out there for drinking and driving in Minnesota, and after August 1, that level is going to be slightly lower," says Dunaski.
Dunaski says Wisconsin, North Dakota and South Dakota all reported a drop in deaths due to alcohol-related crashes after they adopted the .08 standard. He says he hopes the new law forces people to ride with a designated driver if they drink, or to have fewer drinks before they drive.
While law enforcement agencies have generally positive things to say about the new drunk driving standard, it's a different story for bar and tavern owners.
It's a sunny afternoon in the Minneapolis warehouse district. A few people are sitting on the patio outside of Rosen's Bar and Grill. Others choose to avoid the heat and have a drink inside.
Mike Jennings owns Rosen's and the Refuge Bar just up the street. He says he understands that .08 could make the roads safer, but he's worried he'll see fewer customers.
"Our biggest concern is that people may just say it's just not worth going out anymore. That's where we start to worry about it," Jennings says.
Jennings says bar owners from other states told him he should prepare for a 15 percent drop in business when the law takes effect. He says he and other Minneapolis bar owners are also losing business because of a smoking ban, and are worried that a scheduled minimum wage increase will also hurt profits.
"Each individual issue causes particular problems. But when you combine all three of them altogether, I don't know what's going to happen. I think it could be a huge issue," he says.
Jennings says he knew the new .08 standard was inevitable when the federal government linked highway funding to states that adopted the standard. Minnesota lost out on $16 million in highway money for not passing the law sooner.
But even with the ability to plan for the change, Jennings says he's not sure what bar owners can do to protect their business in the face of .08, the smoking ban and the higher minimum wage -- all taking effect this year.
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Home › Employee News Online › 2018 › Aug. 9 › Surgical Tower construction project begins this fall: Major impacts on pedestrian and vehicular access
Surgical Tower construction project begins this fall: Major impacts on pedestrian and vehicular access
Site preparations will begin in late September 2018 for the construction of UNC Hospitals’ Surgical Tower, a seven-story building to be built in front of NC Memorial Hospital. The Surgical Tower will offer enhanced space and features for our surgeons and staff, including modernized operating rooms, improved space for recovering patients, and more space for families and guests. When completed in 2022, the Surgical Tower will be the largest building on UNC Hospitals Chapel Hill campus at more than 330,000 square feet. Learn more about what to expect.
click to enlarge An artist rendering of the completed tower
As we begin this exciting project, please note that the construction will have major impacts on pedestrian and vehicle traffic for both patients and staff in front of UNC Hospitals. Some of the first changes you will notice will include:
When site preparations begin in late September, construction fencing will be erected to mark off the perimeter of the construction zone. At this time, the Memorial Hospital entrance will be closed to pedestrians.
Also in late September, vehicular traffic in front of the hospital will be rerouted. When this occurs, both Memorial Hospital and NC Children’s Hospital will be inaccessible to vehicles. The pedestrian entrance to NC Children’s Hospital will remain open.
To limit the volume of traffic in front of UNC Hospitals once site preparation begins, employees being dropped-off or picked-up should do so in Jackson Circle – the traffic circle between the Jackson Parking Deck and the Physician’s Office Building. You can then walk up the steps to the bridge that connects to the Cancer Hospital.
Parking spaces in the CG parking lot in front of Memorial Hospital will be relocated to other parking decks when the new parking year begins on Aug. 15. Persons affected by this change have already been notified.
Handicapped parking in front of Memorial Hospital will be moved to the Dogwood Deck.
To assist patients and guests with mobility issues, including those parking in the newly relocated handicapped spots, golf cart service between the parking decks and the Cancer Hospital will be enhanced starting Sept. 1 with a new route and the addition of another cart.
We will share much more information about Surgical Tower site preparations and impacts on pedestrian and vehicular traffic in front of UNC Hospitals in the coming weeks, including key points to share with patients/guests and maps. In the meantime, general information about the project is available at this intranet page. Have questions about the project? Send them to uncmcsurgicaltower@unchealth.unc.edu.
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Hrithik to star in 'Agneepath' remake
Anyone would think that Abhishek Bachchan would be the natural choice to play Amitabh Bachchan's role in a 'Agneepath' remake. However, Hrithik Roshan has been roped in to play the part in the new-age 'Agneepath', while Mithun Chakraborty's award winning character has been completely done away with.
"When the idea of re-making 'Agneepath' came to producer Karan Johar, he right away locked in on Hrithik Roshan. It was a commitment to the actor, who is very keen to give his own interpretation to the character," a source revealed.
In fact, it was presumed by a very large section of the entertainment industry that Abhishek would play the eponymous part of Vijay Dinanath Chauvan. And Jaya Bachchan would play Vijay's mother, played with brilliant poignancy by Rohini Hattangadi in the cult orignal directed by the late Mukul Anand.
However, contrary to popular opinion, Abhishek was never offered the role in the remake.
"Hrithik will play it closer to Al Pacino in 'Scarface' than Mr. Bachchan in 'Agneepath'," says a source.
'Agneepath', it would be recalled, was deeply influenced by 'Scarface'. The remake, written and directed by debutant Karan Malhotra purports to pay homage to 'Scarface'.
While refusing to discuss the cast, producer Karan Johar says: "All I can say is that my 'Agneepath' is radically different from the 'Agneepath' that my (late) father (Yash Johar) produced. We've completely done away with the south Indian character played by Mithun Chakraborty in the original."
With that information, Mithun's dreams of seeing his son Mimoh cast on the role he originally played also goes up in flames.
Karan Johar's 'Agneepath' would be a solo act featuring Roshan Jr, who will experiment with the rasping dialogue-delivery that Big B had attempted in the original 1990's gangster film.
Many thought that it was his gravelly way of speaking in 'Agneepath' that made the movie a hit. But, Hrithik is determined to prove all the self-appointed soothsayers wrong.
"My father was very proud of Agneepath. I hope I don't let him down with my version of the film. Amit-ji had won the National award for it, it's a tough act to follow for any actor," Karan says.
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by Rodney Kenney, NISOA National Clinician and NISOA National Assessor.
In today’s game the assistant referees have become a major part of the refereeing crew. They are no longer just required to call the ball out of play and offside but must be fully involved in managing the game with the referee. They are expected to identify fouls and misconduct, protect the referees back, intervene when there is a confrontation between players close to them, help in maintaining bench control and along with the referee keep accurate records of goals, cautions and send-offs.
The players today are more sophisticated and faster at all levels then in the past making identifying fouls and misconduct more difficult. Teams are using the offside trap as a part of their total defense, therefore depending on the attention and positioning of the assistant to make the offside trap effective. These factors are also making the assistants’ job more difficult.
Because the assistant does not always work with the same referee, they must be able to adjust to each referee’s style and methods of controlling the game. They must listen carefully at the pre-game to ensure there is clear communications throughout the game, and know exactly what signals the referee wants, and when the referee needs their assistance.
There are many situations that the assistants find themselves in that can contribute to their failure. What follows is a list of the pitfalls that can affect the assistant’s performance:
1. Watching play on the other half of the field will cause the assistant to miss the offside because when a ball is played into their half, and assistant turns their head to look, they are not sure if the attacking player who received the ball was in an offside position when the ball was played. This is one of the major problem that cause incorrect offside decisions.
2. The assistant not being fit enough to keep up with play so they are not in line with the second to last defender or the ball on a fast break.
3. Players on the field close to the assistant blocking the assistants’ view of the players on the far side of the field who could be offside.
4. Assuming the goalkeeper is going to handle balls played to them, so the assistant does not following the ball all the way to the goal line.
5. Flagging fouls in front of the referee, causing the appearance of inconsistency between the referee and assistant.
6. Giving the wrong signals or signals that were not agreed on during the pre-game.
7. Being distracted by spectators behind them.
8. Not making eye contact with the referee after the ball is out of play or at a foul, which often leads to giving opposite directions.
9. Not supporting the referee’s decisions when pressed by the bench personnel about a referees call.
10. Flagging trivial fouls that the referee is not calling on other parts of the field, which again causes the appearance of inconsistency.
11. When the referee stops play for an injury or fight, the assistant closes to the ball does not remember where the ball was when play was stopped and does not know how to restart play.
12. Does not come on the field to assist the referee in the case of a confrontation, when it was agreed on for the assistant to do so at the pre-game.
13. At the end of the game does not go directly to the referee causing the referee team to linger on the field to long after the game.
14. The assistant can sometimes get tunnel vision because of there total concentration on offside and not see a player running through, causing an incorrect offside call.
15. The assistant can be distracted by players warming up both on the opposite side of the field and behind them.
16. Often the part of the field that is in the worst shape is where the assistant must run, causing another distraction.
17. Having players, coaches and spectators block the path or view of the assistant.
The dilemma is what can we do to solve the 17 problems that we identified as situations that affect the assistant performance? Having a more effective pre-game could solve five of the problems. Too often the referee does not take the time to review some of the more basic procedures, never mind those that will be needed in a competitive game. The referee should assume that anything that could go wrong in a game will go wrong and give a pre-game that will cover all the known high-risk situations, such as fights, injuries, serious foul play, violent conduct, bench control, incidents that happen in the penalty area and bad feelings at the end of the game.
Assistants understanding their role and not trying to referee the game from the sidelines could eliminate three more situations. The assistant must fully support the referee’s decisions and understand that even though they may have managed a situation differently had they been refereeing the game, they are there to assist the referee and not to insist that the referee manage the game to their standards. This is one of those “do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” situations. Ask the question. “If I were the referee would I want the assistants to take the game away from me?”
Assistants concentrating more intently on their half of the field when play is on their side, would solve six more of the problems. This is not to say that the assistant should never observe things happening on the other parts of the field. But be aware of how narrow the view is when play is on the assistant’s side of the field and they are looking up the line in contrast to watching play across the field where the view is much wider, and the assistant is able to see play on both halves of the field. If the assistant is looking up the sideline they will fail to see the action that is happening right in front of them. This causes many offside to be incorrectly called and fouls off the ball to be missed right in front of the assistant.
Although outside distractions in most games are unavoidable the assistants can train themselves to ignore most of those distractions. To help, during field inspection the referees should make sure the restraining lines for bench personnel and spectators are properly marked and there is security to protect the assistants from the bench personnel and spectators. Players should not be allowed to warm-up behind or in view of the assistant across the field. The referee should also ensure that there are no people on the bench that should not be there, and that the area the assistant must run in is clear of all obstructions and the conditions are good enough that the assistant will not have to watch where they step as they run up and down the line.
As you can see the assistant’s job has a high-risk for failure. Assistant can make or break a referee’s performance in a game. So when you find yourself assigned as an assistant do the best you can to avoid the pitfalls you will encounter in every game and be a useful part of the refereeing team.
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Malaysia's 5G plan a potential boon for China's Huawei
By Krishna N. Das
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia will start a nationwide demonstration of 5G projects next month, a minister said on Tuesday, indicating it was on track to become one of the first Asian countries to launch the technology.
The government has said it wants to start rolling out the ultra-fast mobile internet service early next year and, unlike Vietnam and some developed nations, is not averse to letting its telecoms companies work with China's Huawei.
Huawei, the world's largest telecoms equipment maker, was put on a U.S. blacklist in May after Washington said its equipment could be used for spying, a charge the company denies.
That put pressure on many other countries to follow suit. But Malaysia, a nation of 32 million people, has said it is not concerned about the spying allegations, focusing instead on the relative affordability of Huawei products.
"It is hoped that Malaysia's early commitment to 5G, to rapidly deploying 5G test beds and nationwide demonstration projects, will position the country as one of the leaders of 5G adoption in the world," Gobind Singh Deo, Malaysia's minister of communications and multimedia, said at an industry event.
Industry lobby group GSMA said in a report https://www.gsmaintelligence.com/research/2019/09/collaborative-platforms-for-digital-societies-in-asia-pacific/806 on Tuesday that by 2025 a fifth of the total cellular connections in Malaysia will be on 5G, higher than the 17% forecast for the whole of Asia Pacific.
Huawei already has preliminary 5G agreements with Malaysian companies such as Axiata's Celcom [AXIAO.UL], Telekom Malaysia and Maxis.
The Shenzhen-based company expects the memorandums of understanding (MoU) to lead to contracts, a Huawei official said.
"We are ready cooperate with our partners as Malaysia prepares to launch 5G services," he said on condition of anonymity because of company policy. "Our strengths are our technology, cost and delivery."
Huawei's main competitor in 5G is Sweden's Ericsson, which together with Celcom powered the first 5G hologram call in Malaysia last April. The other major players are Finnish company Nokia and China's ZTE.
China's big three state telecoms companies are racing to roll out 5G services in more than 50 cities this year. Some countries, including South Korea and the United States, have already started the service, which promises to support new technologies such as autonomous driving.
(Reporting by Krishna N. Das; Editing by Gerry Doyle and David Goodman)
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Martin Luther King, Jr. - Arrests 10
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Atlanta Constitution, 6 August 1946.
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King, Alberta Williams [Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.)]
Davis, Colonius S. [Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.)]
Scretchin, Wilhelmina H. [Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.)]
Stills, David C. [Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.)]
The Tragedy of Almost
EBCR-INP
Ebenezer Baptist Church, Miscellaneous Records, In Private Hands
Draft, ''New Year Hopes''
Press release, ''The GCCC observes one hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation''
Reynolds, N. Q. [Seventeenth Street Baptist Church (Gadsden, Ala.)]
Gadsden Christian Citizens Committee
Morning Star Baptist Church (Gadsden, Ala.)
Seventeenth Street Baptist Church (Gadsden, Ala.)
SNCCP-GAMK
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Papers, 1959-1972, Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., Atlanta, Ga.
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Press release, Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks at freedom rally in Edenton
Mitchner, John A. [Edenton (N.C.). Office of the Mayor]
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Edenton Movement (Edenton, N.C.)
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Hertford, N.C.
Edenton, N.C.
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Press release, ''King to speak before national conference''
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Synagogue Council of America
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Press release, Martin Luther King, Jr. addresses the National Conference on Religion and Race
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King, Martin Luther, Jr. [Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.)]
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Davis, Colonius [Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.)]
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Thomas, Ida K.
Hurt, Christine
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Press release, '''God's Own Love,' Dr. King's morning topic at Ebenezer''
Moore, Geraldine
Davis, Colonius
Demans, Bessie
King, Charlie (Mrs.)
Armstrong, Rachael
Bearden, Marze
God's Own Love
3/21/2011 alexmw
Press release, '''The Problem of Unanswered Prayer,' Dr. King Jr. at Ebenezer Sunday''
Gurley, Mary
Scretchin, Wilhelminia H. [Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.)]
Johnson, John O.
The Problem of Unanswered Prayer
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SDLC-INP, Stanley D. Levison Collection, In Private Hands 14
LDRP-NN-Sc, Lawrence Dunbar Reddick Papers, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, New York, N.Y. 13
MMFR-INP, Montgomery to Memphis Film Research Files, In Private Hands 12
BRP-DLC, Bayard Rustin Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 11
NAACPP-DLC, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Papers, 1909-1955, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 11
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NAACPP-DLC, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 9
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UPWR-WHi, United Packinghouse, Food and Allied Workers Records, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. 8
RGP-INP, Robert Graetz Papers, In Private Hands 7
DDEP-KAbE, Dwight D. (Dwight David) Eisenhower Miscellaneous Papers, 1957-1960, Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kan. 6
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Britton, Milton
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Faulkner, William J. [Congregational Church of Park Manor]
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Congregational Church of Park Manor
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Montgomery Improvement Association--fund raising
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Chester, Pa.
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Mattapoisett, Mass.
Pickett, Clarence
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Sylacauga, Ala.
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Sparkwood by Daria Defore
Sparkwood
Author: Daria Defore
Title: Sparkwood
Series: Part of LT3's My Dearest Enemy Collection
Pairing: M/M, Bi
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Finn has never trusted fairies, so it's no surprise to him when his twin brother turns up dead, probably by magical means. What he doesn't expect is an invitation to the funeral—in the fairy realm—and a chance to find out who killed him.
Investigating Luke's death is probably the stupidest thing Finn has ever done, and soon he's up to his neck in fairy trouble. In the midst of it all is Robin, the fairy who's supposed to be watching out for him—but who just might have had something to do with Luke's death.
I received this book as an ARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
When his twin is killed by fairies, Finn wants nothing more than to find the murderer and bring them to justice. When he's invited to the funeral the fairies are holding, Finn goes in the hopes of solving the mystery. Instead, Finn is accidentally embroiled in fairy politics and he quickly starts to realize that the longer he stays with the fairies, the sooner he'll end up dead like his brother.
I enjoyed the world building of this story a lot. The differences between the human town named Sparkwood versus the fairy town also named Sparkwood were very interesting. I particularly liked how the fairies tried to emulate the human side, but everything was just slightly off so Finn kept getting lost. The way the fairies were described with the strange eyes and the way they walk provided a lot of depth to the overall story.
While I did enjoy reading this book, I never felt like I was compelled to continue with it. It was missing a hook to yank me into the story. Part of that was because I couldn't identify with Finn. He's sullen and confused and generally unlikable, which made it difficult for me to follow his story. The relationship with Robin never gelled for me either.
I really liked the world building of the fairies in this story and the depth it provided, however I couldn't connect with any of the characters, which made it difficult to finish. I do recommend it because overall I did enjoy reading this book.
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Matt den Dekker
Good Luck Jerry Blevins
Today, we would not have seen Jerry Blevins come to the Mets, at least not in the fashion he did. On the eve of the 2015 season, the Mets would trade Matt den Dekker to the Nationals for Blevins. With that trade, the upstart Mets would have the LOOGY they needed to challenge the Nationals for the division. Looking at the way things are now, that trade would never happen today.
We can be thankful things were different in 2015.
Blevins Mets career would get off to a great start. In April, he made seven appearances pitching five scoreless innings. During that stretch, he got out a who’s who of players Mets fans have loved to hate – Bryce Harper, Ryan Howard, Freddie Freeman, and Chase Utley. With that, Blevins certainly endeared himself to Mets fans.
Unfortunately, Blevins would get hit with a come-backer breaking his arm. While rehabbing, he’d slip on a curb and break his arm again meaning he’d miss out on the Mets surprising 2015 run to the World Series, a run he’d help get started with his performance in April. He would not miss the next run as he would be a key member of the Mets bullpen in 2016.
During the 2016 season, Blevins was much more than the LOOGY we all imagined him to be. No, Blevins was a pitcher who could get both right and left-handed batters out. He became a guy you could entrust the 7th or 8th inning. During that season, the Mets had a very small margin of error, and his pitching in the same bullpen with Addison Reed and Jeurys Familia helped pull the Mets over the finish line and into the top Wild Card spot.
Blevins contributions were immeasurably important for a team who claimed a Wild Card spot by just one game. One or two slip-ups, and the Mets may not have even been in contention for a spot. That goes double in July and August when the Mets were teetering, and Blevins responded with a 1.88 ERA.
While Blevins would continue to pitch well for the Mets in 2017 and 2018, the Mets would not be able to continue what was a two year run. In total, Blevins was a Met for four years, and in that time, he was 14-4 with four saves, a 3.38 ERA, 1.269 WHIP, and a 10.8 K/9.
Breaking it down, his K/9 is the third best all-time among Mets relievers. When you consider Tug McGraw, John Franco, and Billy Wagner, he’s in the top five Mets left-handed relievers all time. Really, when you look at pure left-handed set-up men, the discussion is between him and Pedro Feliciano for the best in Mets history. That’s a truly amazing feat.
But Blevins was more than that. He was as fan friendly a player as you will see. He hosted a Fantasy Movie League for fans to participate. He had a fun Twitter account. He hosted a baseball camp. He had a good sense of humor, was self effacing, and really was just a great guy on top of being very good at what he did:
They sent the ball straight to Cooperstown. https://t.co/ZKALlvQGP4
— Jerry Blevins (@jerryblevins) August 17, 2018
In the end, Blevins will not just be missed because he was one of the best relievers in Mets history. He will be missed because he was a fun guy to root for during his time in Queens. He was that rare player who elevated his game in New York. He now returns to Oakland a new father looking to do for the Athletics what he did for the Mets.
For many reasons, Mets fans wish him the best of luck.
Addison Reed , Billy Wagner , Jerry Blevins , Jeurys Familia , John Franco , Matt den Dekker , Pedro Felicano , Tug McGraw
How and Why Dominic Smith Became a Left Fielder
Last night, Dominic Smith and Amed Rosario collided in the outfield leading to a ball dropping and the go-ahead run scoring. When a gaffe like this happens, many are sent looking to pin blame. As has often happens since he was first called up to the majors, Smith was an easy target.
Before looking to levy the blame on him, it is important to review just how Smith became a left fielder.
Back in 2011, the now defunct Sandy Alderson regime made Brandon Nimmo their first ever draft pick. Since that time, the Mets have drafted and signed just 27 outfield prospects.
The breakdown goes: 2011 (six), 2012 (none), 2013 (three), 2014 (five), 2015 (three), 2016 (three), 2017 (four), 2018 (three).
Putting aside Nimmo and Michael Conforto, the outfielders the Mets have drafted since 2011 have played a combined 35 games at the Major League level.
Last year, Travis Taijeron hit .173/.271/.269, and this year, Kevin Kaczmarski is 0-for-5 with a walk.
Currently, the Las Vegas roster only has one outfielder drafted from the aforementioned draft classes on their roster – Kaczmarski. Kaczmarski is currently battling for playing time with players like Zach Borenstein, Bryce Brentz, Matt den Dekker, and Patrick Kivlehan.
Binghamton had Tim Tebow playing everyday because there really wasn’t a Mets draftee pushing him out of the lineup.
Champ Stuart, the Mets 2013 sixth round pick, is repeating the level, and he is hitting .136/.280/.264. Patrick Biondi, the Mets 2013 ninth round pick, is also repeating the level, and he is hitting .222/.333/.247.
Overall, that’s just three part time outfield draft picks playing in the upper levels of their minor league system. Combine them with Nimmo and Conforto, and that makes just five outfield draft picks playing in Double-A or high from the past eight drafts.
Given how much the Mets drafts have not provided much in terms of outfield depth, the Mets were faced with calling up a Major League has been or never was or to give the shot to Smith. Given how Peter Alonso was nipping at Smith’s heels from Double-A, learning another position did make some sense.
Believe it or not, Smith in the outfield was not as absurd a proposition as it may sound. He entered the year leaner and faster. As noted by Baseball Savant, his sprint speed is better Jose Bautista and Jay Bruce, two players the Mets have felt eminently comfortable in the outfield. When he was drafted, Baseball America noted Smith had a strong arm and was a “fringy defender with below-average speed” in the outfield.
Still, the Mets were forced into that position because of how they handled Smith.
After he struggled last year, they were wise to bring in competition for him in Spring Training in the form of Adrian Gonzalez. Partially due to Smith’s injury in Spring Training, Gonzalez did win the job. However, he played poorly.
In 21 April games, Gonzalez hit .227/.312/.394. After going 3-for-4 with two solo homers in a game at Cincinnati, Gonzalez returned to form hitting just .267/.323/.350 over his next 20 games leading to his eventual release.
With the way Gonzalez was playing, there was a real chance to call-up Smith and give him a shot. The Mets passed, and they instead decided to stick with a guy who was not producing.
When the Mets finally released Gonzalez, they gave Smith three games to prove he could produce at the Major League level. In those three games, he went 4-for-12 with a double, homer, and an RBI. After that three game stretch, Wilmer Flores came off the disabled list, and he was given the first base job.
With Flores being bestowed the first base job, Smith’s great experiment in the outfield truly began. With Smith not playing well in the outfield, he found himself on the bench, and eventually, he would head back to Triple-A. When he was sent back to Triple-A, he was entrenched as the left fielder because Alonso had been called up and given the first base job.
In the end, you have a former first round draft pick and former Top 100 prospect playing out of position because the Mets have failed to give Smith a chance, the team has failed to develop outfield prospects at the upper levels of their minor league system, and the team is more willing to give failing veterans a chance over a younger player who could improve with Major League coaching and playing time.
Overall, that is how you get a promising prospect in the outfield, and that is how you have two young players colliding in the outfield and costing the Mets a game.
Adrian Gonzalez , Amed Rosario , Brandon Nimmo , Bryce Brentz , Champ Stuart , Dominic Smith , Jay Bruce , Jose Bautista , Kevin Kaczmarski , Matt den Dekker , Michael Conforto , Patrick Biondi , Patrick Kivelhan , Peter Alonso , Tim Tebow , Travis Taijeron , Wilmer Flores , Zach Borenstein
Mets Undefeated With McNeil
Well, it may not have been the prettiest of games, but the Mets came to play, and they beat the Pirates pretty handily.
Once again, it started with Michael Conforto and his hot hitting. After he would nearly hit one out against Pirates starter Nick Kingham, Wilmer Flores would actually hit one out.
The homer gave the Mets a 2-0 lead, and the team was off and running.
For three innings, it was back-and-forth with David Freese and Josh Harrison hitting two run homers off Steven Matz.
To Matz’s credit, he settled down, despite him apparently not feeling well, he gutted through six innings keeping the Pirates to the four runs. He would also strike out a career high nine batters.
Because the Mets bats exploded, he would get the win.
One of the big reasons why was Asdrubal Cabrera putting on a show in what is likely one of his final games in a Mets uniform. Overall, he was 3-5 with two runs, a double. homer, walk, and four RBI.
The first big inning for the Mets was the fourth, and it was aided by two big Pirates errors.
After a Cabrera two run homer, Conforto reached on a Harrison fielding error. Later that inning, with bases loaded and two outs in the inning, Freese threw it away allowing Devin Mesoraco to reach safely and Brandon Nimmo to score.
Jose Bautista would get thrown out at home with him trying to score from second. That would end the inning with the Mets leading 7-4.
The Mets bats awoke again in the seventh, and it began with a beautiful Jeff McNeil, who was starting his first game, base hit:
Q: Can he bunt?
A: pic.twitter.com/hEaki8TBab
— Good Fundies is short for Good Fundamentals (@goodfundies) July 27, 2018
It was an uneven game for McNeil in his first ever start. He was 1-2 with a run and two walks, and he did help turn two 5-4-3 double plays. He also made an error and base running mistake in the game. Fortunately, not only did they not cost the Mets the game, but his positives did outweigh his negatives in this game. It should come as no surprise the team is 3-0 in games he has played.
After a Mesoraco single, Jose Reyes predictably failed to deliver the big hit by popping out to Freese. Where Reyes failed, the player he is supposed to be mentoring (but isn’t) came up a delivered what could have been the final blow in the game. Rosario’s RBI single gave the Mets an 8-4 lead.
With Pirates reliever Rich Rodriguez throwing a wild pitch, Mesoraco was able to get to third and Rosario to second. This would not just allow Mesoraco to score on a Cabrera grounder to the right of the pitcher, but it would put Rosario to score on another wild pitch during Conforto’s at-bat. At that point, it was 10-4 Mets, which is a rare place for this team to have been lately.
Things were going so well for this team, Matt den Dekker would even contribute hitting a sacrifice fly in the eighth. In fact, Flores would hit one as well in the ninth giving the Mets a then 12-5 lead.
It is remarkable how the Mets had three sacrifice flies in this game. Those are the sort of small ball runs this team had been leaving on the bases all season long. While it has been a rough first year for Mickey Callaway, we are seeing this team improve fundamentally by getting bunts down and their starting to take advantage of these run scoring opportunities.
Surprisingly, Jerry Blevins and Paul Sewald would get the first cracks out of the bullpen. Blevins might’ve helped his trade value with a scoreless inning. Sewald struggled after two quick outs, but he did get out of his inning having allowed just one run scored.
It was the same story for Drew Smith. He got two quick outs before getting into minor trouble, minor because the game was nowhere near jeopardy. After he allowed one run, the Mets would win the game 12-6.
Surprisingly, this team is not only on a three game winning streak, but they are also over .500 in the Month of July. Oh what could have been.
Game Notes: Corey Oswalt was sent down to Triple-A so Jason Vargas could be activated from the disabled list to start the Mets next game.
Asdrubal Cabrera , Brandon Nimmo , Corey Oswalt , Devin Mesoraco , Drew Smith , Jason Vargas , Jeff McNeil , Jerry Blevins , Jose Bautista , Jose Reyes , Matt den Dekker , Michael Conforto , Mickey Callaway , Paul Sewald , Steven Matz , Wilmer Flores
Mets Do Just Enough To Lose
Heading into this year’s Yankee Stadium portion of the Subway Series, the Mets had a decided advantage in starting pitching. Yesterday, that led to a win with Noah Syndergaard on the mound.
Through the first three and a half innings, it seemed like it would be the case again with Steven Matz out-pitching Sonny Gray.
Up until that point, the Mets had a 1-0 lead due to a Michael Conforto second inning homer. That lead completely evaporated in the bottom of the fourth.
It started innocuously enough with a Giancarlo Stanton leadoff single. Then with one out in the inning, Matt den Dekker would make a number of defensive miscues starting with the Didi Gregorious RBI “triple.”
Throughout that fourth, Matz would make his pitches, but his team, specifically den Dekker, wasn’t making a play behind him. All told, it was a four run inning for the Yankees.
In the sixth, Conforto would get things started with a one out walk, and Jose Bautista followed with a walk of his own. This led to Aaron Boone lifting Gray and bringing in David Robertson.
With two outs in the inning, Amed Rosario hit an RBI single that not only brought Conforto home, but it allowed Bautista to go to third. It mattered because Robertson threw away a pickoff attempt allowing Bautista to score. The rally would end there as den Dekker struck out.
The Mets would quickly see the 4-3 deficit grow and grow.
In the bottom of the inning, Miguel Andujar doubled, and Greg Bird singled him home.
It’s hard to say Matz pitched well considering he surrendered five runs, all earned, but he did. The defense was that poor.
In consecutive innings, Tim Peterson and Anthony Swarzak would surrender a run to give the Yankees a 7-3 lead.
In the ninth, it seemed like Aroldis Chapman was in to pitch his inning and let everyone get home before the rain came later tonight. The issue with Chapman was he couldn’t get an out.
After loading the bases, he walked Jose Reyes and then plunked Brandon Nimmo. Suddenly, the Mets were down 7-5 with bases loaded and no outs.
Now, it should be noted Asdrubal Cabrera should have been due up. The problem was he was ejected in the fifth after getting tossed arguing balls and strikes. When that happened, he joined hitting coach Pat Roessler who was tossed in the third for the same issue.
Cabrera was replaced in the lineup by Devin Mesoraco (as a DH). He’d face Chasen Shreve who came on for Chapman, get the most important at-bat of the game, and he’d hit into a rally killing 4-6-3 double play.
Ty Kelly would score on the play to make it 7-6. Wilmer Flores then tapped out to Shreve to end the game.
With that, the Mets did just enough to lose. Just enough.
Game Notes: Jeurys Familia was finally traded to the Athletics. Yoenis Cespedes was unavailable as he was too sore to play. As it turns out, he also needs surgery to remove calcifications in both heels. The recovery time is approximately 10 months.
Amed Rosario , Anthony Swarzak , Asdrubal Cabrera , Brandon Nimmo , Devin Mesoraco , Jeurys Familia , Jose Bautista , Jose Reyes , Matt den Dekker , Michael Conforto , Noah Syndergaard , Steven Matz , Tim Peterson , Ty Kelly , Wilmer Flores , Yoenis Cespedes
3B Jeff McNeil Shows How Inept The Mets Organization Has Become
When Todd Frazier landed on the disabled list, one of the justifications proffered for the Mets not calling-up Jeff McNeil was the organization views McNeil as a second baseman, and at the moment, the team still had Asdrubal Cabrera.
In true Mets fashion, their narrative and their actions made this statement and position increasingly absurd. And that’s before you consider Cabrera having an MLB worst -16 DRS at second base.
First and foremost, the Mets actually had Mickey Callaway say Jose Reyes was playing well enough recently to man third until Frazier returns. It shouldn’t shock anyone that since Callaway uttered those words, Reyes is 1-for-17 at the plate.
1-for-17
While Reyes was hitting, sorry not hitting, Cabrera would hyper-extend his elbow requiring him to come out early from one game and not start the next.
Now, this wasn’t an opportunity to call-up McNeil. Not for a game. However, this was a chance to play Dominic Smith. After all, the former first round pick and once first baseman of the future has only started in 16 of the Mets past 28 games.
Instead, the Mets opted to start Wilmer Flores at first, Jose Bautista at third, and Matt den Dekker at third.
Think about that for a second, the Mets actually went out of their way to start the soon to be 31 year old den Dekker in center over giving the 23 year old Smith playing time. Naturally, the Mets are now looking to send down Smith while presumably keeping den Dekker up in the majors.
Because Amed Rosario was playing well, the team opted to have him sit against Max Scherzer. It should come as no surprise Reyes got the start at short in his stead.
With those lineup decisions, the Mets had a starting lineup with an average age of 29.6 years old. Take out Brandon Nimmo (25) and Michael Conforto (25) and that average age jumps to 31.2 years old.
The average age of the Mets bench last night was 26.0 years old, and that includes the 22 year old Rosario and the 23 year old Smith.
Remember, this is a Mets team who his now 17 games under .500. Sure, you can understand the concept of playing Bautista to try to pump up his trade value. However, it is unfathomable to sit both Smith and Rosario to get Reyes and den Dekker into the lineup.
If you think this is all a sick joke and a gross mismanagement of the team, we have yet to reach the best part.
Last night, McNeil, the guy the Mets solely viewed as a second baseman, played third base for Triple-A Las Vegas. On Monday, McNeil was just a second baseman. By Thursday, he was capable of playing third base. It didn’t take the Mets a week before completely upending their own narrative.
This just highlights how completely lost this entire Mets organization is.
The player the Mets view only as a second baseman is playing third base. The man who is supposed to be the first baseman of the future has played way out of position in left field over one-third of the time. Their starting shortstop, a player upon much of the future hangs, is sat because he’s playing too well.
The Mets would have to significantly improve things in order for them to start looking completely inept and confused. Really, this is as bad as it gets. But hey, at least the Wilpons are doing well financially.
Amed Rosario , Asdrubal Cabrera , Brandon Nimmo , Dominic Smith , Jeff McNeil , Jose Bautista , Jose Reyes , Matt den Dekker , Michael Conforto , Mickey Callaway , Todd Frazier , Wilmer Flores
Mets Lose With Veterans Again
Even when the Mets were at their best, Max Scherzer dominates them. In fact, as the Mets were preparing for what would be a pennant run, Scherzer threw a no-hitter against them.
With the Mets lineup featuring Jose Reyes and Matt den Dekker, it was fair to assume the worst.
Shockingly, the Mets were actually game against Scherzer tonight.
A pair of misplays from Michael Taylor in the first led to an Asdrubal Cabrera double and then his scoring easily on a Jose Bautista RBI single.
That rally sputtered with Bautista getting nailed by Taylor inches:
.@Nationals challenge call that José Bautista is safe at 2B in the 1st; call overturned, runner is out.
Powered by @Mitel. pic.twitter.com/zlRDtop9Qa
— MLB Replay (@MLBReplays) July 12, 2018
In the fourth, Bautista hit a solo homer, and Kevin Plawecki homered in the seventh.
It wasn’t enough as the Mets were chasing all night.
One of the reasons why is Anthony Rendon owned Steven Matz. Rendon hit a pair of homers off Matz giving the Nationals a 3-2 lead.
Aside from the Rendon at-bats, Matz had a pretty good game. He limited the rest of that lineup to six hits in 6.1 innings.
Still, he would be tagged with the loss.
The big hit for the Nationals came after Matz left the game. With the Mets down 3-2 in the seventh, Mickey Callaway brought in Jerry Blevins to face Bryce Harper. Harper would launch a homer to give the Nationals a 5-2 lead:
Friendly Reminder: Bryce Harper is competing in the #HRDerby on Monday. pic.twitter.com/NDxqMG9ozg
— Washington Nationals (@Nationals) July 13, 2018
Asdrubal Cabrera homered off Kelvin Herrera in the eighth to pull the Mets to within 5-4, but that was it.
After that homer, Bautista and Michael Conforto drew back-to-back walks putting the tying run in scoring position with one out.
Since it was the eighth and not the ninth, Wilmer Flores fouled out, and den Dekker followed with a strikeout.
In the ninth, Plawecki led off against Ryan Madson with a single. That went nowhere.
First, after Reyes failed to get down the bunt, he hit a fielder’s choice. Amed Rosario, who didn’t start because he was hitting too well (seriously) pinch hit and hit into a game ending double play.
The Nationals are back over .500 now and are in the thick of the postseason race. The Mets are 17 games under .500 and starting Reyes.
Game Notes: Jeff McNeil, a prospect the Mets previously said is only a second baseman, started tonight at third base. This is on the same night Bautista started at third for the Mets.
Asdrubal Cabrera , Jeff McNeil , Jerry Blevins , Jose Bautista , Jose Reyes , Kevin Plawecki , Matt den Dekker , Michael Conforto , Mickey Callaway , Steven Matz , Wilmer Flores
Mets Messed Up With Duda, Reyes, Gonzalez Decisions
To be fair, no one really expected the free agent market to go the way it has. Really, as free agency opened, the Mets with their limited budget was not expected to be able to bring in Jay Bruce, Todd Frazier, and Anthony Swarzak. Based upon past years, the Mets really only would have had the budget to get just one of them. However, with the way it has played out, it does beg you to re-visit the Mets offseason.
Certainly, there should be no quibbling with the aforementioned additions. Bruce provides the Mets both with a left-handed power bat as well as first base insurance. Frazier joins Amed Rosario to give the Mets a defensive left side of the infield they have not had since at least a decade ago. Swarzak helps solidify a bullpen that needed all the quality arms it could get.
Where you can question the Mets was their minor moves. The team brought back Jose Reyes back on a one year $2 million deal, and because the Dodgers are playing his 2018 salary, the Mets were able to sign Adrian Gonzalez for the league minimum. In retrospect, was this really the best move the Mets could have made.
When the Mets signed Bruce, it gave the team only four healthy outfielders on the 40 man roster. Two of those outfielders, Yoenis Cespedes and Juan Lagares, are injury prone. Already, both players are having health issues, which certainly calls into question whether the Mets outfield can last a full season. It gets even worse when you consider Bruce is dealing with plantar fasciitis.
Because of those injuries, the Mets may be left with the rock and hard place decision of choosing between putting Wilmer Flores in the outfield or playing Matt den Dekker and his career .234/.316/.354 batting line in the outfield. The Mets are faced with this decision because as Josh Lewin put it during the Mets Spring Training opener, Reyes has shown not interest in playing the outfield this year.
It does seem odd the player many consider to be the quickest, if not the fastest, on the team is not even going to try to play the outfield. Considering he was signed as a utility player, it certainly begs the question why he isn’t playing the outfield at all.
There’s also the matter of Gonzalez. There’s no doubt when he’s on the top of his game, he’s much better than Duda or what the Mets envision Dominic Smith will be. However, at 37 and with back problems, is Gonzalez really that player anymore? His last full season was 2016 when he hit .285/.349/.435 with 18 homers and 90 RBI. Considering how poorly he played last year, his needing two hours to work with trainers just to get onto the field, and his start to the Spring, it’s doubtful he even puts up those numbers.
Last year, Duda hit .246/.347/.532 with 17 homers and 37 RBI in 75 games with the Mets. Overall, he would have the second 30 homer season of his career. In three of his last four years, he’s hit 27 or more homers. The one year he didn’t was an injury riddled 2016 season.
Certainly, you can say Duda was a better bet than Gonzalez. Moreover, it’s fair to say giving him $3.5 million was a better decision than giving $2.5 million to Reyes and Gonzalez. It also would’ve given the Mets wiggle room to add another player to the roster who was at least capable of playing the outfield. Given their suspect depth there, you really need to question Sandy Alderson’s thought process on these respective decisions.
Adrian Gonzalez , Amed Rosario , Anthony Swarzak , Dominc Smith , Jay Bruce , Jose Reyes , Juan Lagares , Lucas Duda , Matt den Dekker , Todd Frazier , Wilmer Flores , Yoenis Cespedes
Trade Addison Reed To The Team With The Best Offer
In a report by Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe, the Washington Nationals are interested in obtaining Addison Reed from the New York Mets at the trade deadline. However, Cafardo also notes the Mets may not be inclined to trade Reed to the Nationals.
If true, this makes little sense.
Reed is a pending free agent. If the Mets do not trade him at the trade dealine, the best they can recoup for him is a second round draft pick, and that is only if the Mets were inclined to extend him a qualifying offer. When you consider the qualifying offer for last year was set at $16.7 million, it seems like the amount will be too high for the Mets taste. As a result, the Mets will likely lose Reed as a free agent with nothing in return if they do not move him at the trade deadline.
If the Mets are indeed trading him because the team is selling, there should be one and only one guiding principle in making a trade – Make the best trade possible. It should not matter if that team is the Yankees or the Nationals.
In fact, the Mets have already benefited from making a trade with the Nationals. On the eve of the 2015 season, the Mets traded outfielder Matt den Dekker for LOOGY Jerry Blevins. For his part, Blevins was lights out for the Mets that season before breaking his arm. With a good relationship already established, the Mets and Blevins have agreed to two different one year deals since. In Blevins time with the Mets, he is 9-2 with two saves, a 2.76 ERA, 1.187 WHIP, and a 11.4 K/9.
Where would the Mets have been if they refused to make an intra-division trade back then?
Speaking of the 2015 season, the Mets moved prospects John Gant and Robert Whalen for Juan Uribe and Kelly Johnson. Uribe and KJ were both important members of the 2015 team. Again in 2016, the Mets acquired KJ from the Braves. Again, KJ was an extremely important part of a Mets team that made the postseason.
In 2015, the Mets made two trades with division rivals, and those two trades helped them win the pennant. Now that they are selling, they should once again be willing to trade with teams in the division. The only guiding principle in making a move is to judge whether the trade is the best return the Mets can get for a particular player.
Will seeing the Nationals win the World Series with Daniel Murphy, Reed, or anyone else the Nationals may acquire from the Mets? Absolutely. However, wouldn’t getting a top prospect like Victor Robles patrolling center field for a World Series winning Mets teams more than ease that pain? Again, absolutely.
Now, can the Mets get Robles for Reed? Probably not. Then again, seeing the prospects got in exchange for Andrew Miller and Aroldis Chapman last year, it’s possible. That being said, if the Nationals won’t give up a prospect of the caliber of Robles, someone may very well do so. Again, the overriding point here is the Mets need to make the best trade possible . . . even if that trade is with the Nationals.
Addison Reed , Daniel Murphy , Jerry Blevins , John Gant , Juan Uribe , Kelly Johnson , Matt den Dekker , Robert Whalen
Bring Back Jerry Blevins
One of the resounding themes from the 2016 season has been how incredible it was the Mets made it back to the postseason despite Matt Harvey, Jacob deGrom, and Steven Matz needing season ending surgeries. However, that didn’t mean the Mets didn’t have good pitching that led them back to the postseason. In addition to Noah Syndergaard and Bartolo Colon, the Mets had a terrific bullpen that helped them maintain leads when the Mets weren’t getting hits with runners in scoring position, and they helped buttress the young starting pitching that couldn’t go quite as deep into games. While it is imperative the Mets starters come back healthy next season, it is equally as imperative that the Mets bullpen return in tact next year.
This means the Mets need to re-sign Jerry Blevins.
Coming into the 2016 season, Blevins had a reputation of only being a LOOGY. It was with good reason. During his career, Blevins has limited left-handed batters to a .214/.266/.322 batting line whereas right-handed batters have been a more robust .243/.332/.387 against him. In 2016, that began to change.
In Blevins 73 appearances with the Mets, he was actually better against right-handed batters than he was against left-handed batters. Blevins would face right-handed batters 65 times, and he would limit them to a .182/.266/.345 batting line. Granted, it is a small sample size, but there were some things Blevins did to induce those results. First, he scrapped his cutter, which was not an effective pitch for him at all against right-handed pitching. In turn, he used his curveball and changeups at a higher rate, which led to a higher strikeout rate and fewer line drives.
What this meant was the despite your prototypical LOOGY, you could trust Blevins to pitch a right-handed batter between two left-handed batters. It took some of the hand wringing out of which batter should you deploy your weapon. It also allowed you to rest some bullpen arms because you knew you could trust your LOOGY to actually go out and throw an inning unlike other LOOGYs.
Despite Blevins’ remarkable turn-around against right-handed batters, he is still a LOOGY, and as a LOOGY it is his job to get the big left-handed batter out in a big moment in the game. For his career, Blevins has been terrific in those situations:
.228 batting average against with RISP
.226 batting average against in late and close games
.218 batting average against in high leverage situations
.220 batting average against in innings from the seventh inning on
* late and close and high leverage situations are as defined by Baseball Reference
We saw this in action when time and again, Blevins limited the damage in games. Overall, Blevins only allowed 14.5% of inherited runners to score this season, which was the best on the team (40 IP minimum). That number is all the more impressive when you consider he inherited more runners than anyone on the Mets staff. In fact, Blevins inherited the second most runners in all of baseball this past year. Out of the pitchers that inherited over 50 batters in 2016, Blevins had the third best rate in preventing runners to score. It should come as no surprise then that he stranded the second most batters in the major leagues. Fo
Overall, when you have a pitcher who gets lefties out, is improving better against right-handed batters, and is at his best in high leverage situations, that is a guy you need to keep in your bullpen.
There is an other important reason to keep Blevins. The Mets don’t have another option. At one point, Josh Edgin was considered to be the LOOGY of the future. Unfortunately, he needed Tommy John surgery before the 2015 season (which ironically was part of the reason the Mets traded Matt den Dekker to obtain him). Edgin was able to pitch this season, but he has not fully regained his velocity. As a result, he wasn’t effective getting lefties out in AAA or the majors this season.
The other notable option is Josh Smoker. However, Smoker is a lefty with reverse splits. Effectively speaking, Smoker is a guy you bring in for the big strikeout, but he is not the guy you bring in to get the big left-handed batter out.
With the Mets having little to no internal options, and with Blevins being an effective LOOGY in his career, the Mets should make it a priority to re-sign him in the offseason. Fortunately for the Mets, Blevins has said he would like to return.amp;utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”>Jacob deGrom, and Steven Matz needing season ending surgeries. However, that didn’t mean the Mets didn’t have good pitching that led them back to the postseason. In addition to Noah Syndergaard and Bartolo Colon, the Mets had a terrific bullpen that helped them maintain leads when the Mets weren’t getting hits with runners in scoring position, and they helped buttress the young starting pitching that couldn’t go quite as deep into games. While it is imperative the Mets starters come back healthy next season, it is equally as imperative that the Mets bullpen return in tact next year.
We saw this in action when time and again, Blevins limited the damage in games. Overall, Blevins only allowed 14.5% of inherited runners to score this season, which was the best on the team (40 IP minimum). That number is all the more impressive when you consider he inherited more runners than anyone on the Mets staff. In fact, Blevins inherited the second most runners in all of baseball this past year. Out of the pitchers that inherited over 50 batters in 2016, Blevins had the third best rate in preventing runners to score. It should come as no surprise then that he stranded the second most batters in the major leagues.
There is an other important reason to keep Blevins. The Mets don’t have another option. At one point, Josh Edgin was considered to be the LOOGY of the future. Unfortunately, he needed Tommy John surgery before the 2015 season (which ironically was part of the reason the Mets traded den Dekker to obtain him). Edgin was able to pitch this season, but he has not fully regained his velocity. As a result, he wasn’t effective getting lefties out in AAA or the majors this season.
With the Mets having little to no internal options, and with Blevins being an effective LOOGY in his career, the Mets should make it a priority to re-sign him in the offseason. Fortunately for the Mets, Blevins has said he would like to return. Even with that said, the Mets are not optimistic a reunion could happen.
Editor’s Note: this was first published on Mets Merized Online.
Bartolo Colon , Jacob deGrom , Jerry Blevins , Josh Edgin , Josh Smoker , Matt den Dekker , Matt Harvey , Noah Syndergaard , Steven Matz
Lagares Should Only Play CF
The Mets are in the midst of a stretch of 17 straight games without a day off. On Thursday, they’re flying out to the west coast for an eleven game road trip. Madison Bumgarner was on the mound. With all these factors present, it’s difficult to take umbridge with Terry Collins’s lineup on Sunday. There were many factors to consider.
With that said, his outfield alignment was inexcusable.
The Mets had Michael Conforto in left, Yoenis Cespedes in center, and Juan Lagares in right. Collins put the 2015 American League Gold Glove leftfielder in centerfield and the 2014 National League Gold Glove centerfielder in rightfield. With the exception of maybe Conforto, everyone was out of place.
First off, it should be acknowledged Cespedes isn’t a good centerfielder. By his own admission, he prefers to play left. He averages a – 3.2 UZR in and a -4 DRS in center. Coincidentally, those were his numbers playing center for the Mets last year. Long story short, Cespedes is a below average centerfielder. He’s only out there because the Mets value his bat over Lagares’ glove.
Lagares’ glove? It’s transcendent. When he won the Gold Glove in 2014, he had an 18.6 UZR and a 26 DRS. Those numbers are all the more incredible when you consider this was his second best defensive season. However, Cespedes’ problem is his bat. He’s a career .262/.298/.365 hitter. Against righties, he’s even worse hitting .253/.285/.339. It’s hard to justify keeping that bat in the lineup everyday. It’s why the Mets not only traded for Cespedes, but it’s also a factor why the Mets re-signed him.
When Cespedes and Lagares have played in the outfield with Curtis Granderson, Cespedes has been in left while Lagares has been in center. That’s perfect. Each player is playing their best defensive position. Even better, you have three plus defenders in the outfield. This only works because Granderson is a rightfielder. Conforto is not.
Neither Conforto or Cespedes have played rightfield in a major league game. In fact, despite his appearance in the 2015 Future’s Game, Conforto has only played in left. Therefore, Lagares was left as the only outfielder with any experience in right. Coming into Sunday’s game, he has exactly 16 games and 89 innings of experience in right. Fourteen of those games were in 2013 when Collins actually believed Matt den Dekker was a better defensive centerfielder than Lagares.
It doesn’t make sense for Lagares to play anywhere other than centerfield. It makes less sense that Collins considered the idea in Spring Training and is following through on it. When Collins put Cespedes in center last year and put Lagares in right, he explained Lagares was the only one who played there previously. While that excuse might’ve worked in 2015, it should not work this year.
The Mets had an entire offseason andSpring Training to prepare for this situation. Either Conforto or Cespedes could’ve received some rightfield reps to permit Collins to have some level of comfort in placing them in rightfield. It’s what the Mets did with Wilmer Flores in teaching him first base. Now, Flores has shown the Mets they can feel comfortable putting him at firstbase. It’s what the Mets needed to do with Comforto.
No, instead the Mets decided to ignore the issue despite them being very aware that moments like this would arrive. The Mets actually believed that Lagares in right was a better idea than teaching the position to Conforto. Why the Mets foresaw this issue and decided it was in the team’s best interests to play their Gold Glovers out of position is beyond logic.
Fortunately, this decision didn’t affect outcome of the game on Sunday. Hopefully, this will be the last time we see that happen. The Mets shouldn’t weaken their team defense due to a 14 game sample size.
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Meet & Learn From Ayo Dawodu, the CEO of Loystar
Akinola October 28, 2019 October 21, 2019 Uncategorized 0
Ayo Dawodu is a Computer Science graduate from Covenant University. When asked what led to the creation of Loystar, he explained that he wanted to use tech to help businesses be more profitable.
“During my masters in England, I liked going shopping once in two weeks, but they had a system that would make you go back more than that once. For example, they would give you coupons that will expire at a certain time, forcing you to return often,” he said.
“I wanted to find a way to bring that back to Nigeria; a way to make smaller businesses use that concept because back here, it’s only big shops like ShopRite that use it, that’s why I created Loystar.”
So what does Loystar do? Loystar is a retail and loyalty platform designed to help micro, small and medium business sell and drive repeat sales in their businesses. It clinched third place in the 25th Nigerian Economic Summit (NES25) startup-pitch competition, beating almost 2000 other contestants.
Ayo explained how he was able to build the platform.
“Apart from my background in computer science, I did a course in mobile application development during my masters. So, I channelled what I learnt in the course,” he explained.
Loystar, since its inception in 2016, now has patronage from different businesses outside Nigeria. They’ve patronage from Ghana, Liberia, Gambia and the US.
He explained that they’ve been able to attract customers from all across Africa and beyond because he knew from day one that he wanted to build a global company. Also, they’ve been able to build a customer base with the aid of technology.
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“Loystar isn’t for Nigeria and Africa alone and technology has helped achieve our vision because tech has no border,” he stated.
However, despite its gradually booming customer base, Ayo says there is a big challenge in finding team members that are truly committed to the cause.
“Everything rises and falls with the team. You need team members that believe in your dream and it can be difficult to get people like that,” Ayo complained.
Apart from making it to the NESG’s top 3, he says his other biggest achievement was being part of Visa everywhere initiative.
“The companies we competed with were far ahead of us, but to be picked as one of the merchant companies was big,” Ayo expressed.
When asked if he had any tips to give to people looking to get into techpreneurship, Ayo had just one advice to give.
“Running very lean. There’s this concept called a lean startup. You use the least amount of resources you can; doing much more with the little you have,” he advised.
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23 TV Characters Who Are Magically Delicious
Lisa Babick at June 12, 2019 5:29 pm .
Magical powers come in many forms on television.
It's not just witches who can cast spells. Demons, vampires, and plain old humans have magical abilities that can cast a spell on all of us.
But there are some beings who are above and beyond when it comes to their abilities.
Not only do they have the power of magic (or some form of it), but there's something else about them that whets our appetites.
They may be handsome or beautiful or maybe they are full of charming charisma.
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Whatever the case, here are 23 TV characters who we think are the most magically delicious.
Do you agree with our tastes?
Let us know in the comments who your favorites are!
1. Cassandra Nightingale - The Good Witch
Cassandra may be a good witch, but you know what they say about good girls, right? Behind her good demeanor lies a seductive and mysterious witch that many find irresistible.
2. Lucifer - Lucifer
Um, hello? Lucifer can ask us anytime about our desires and the answer will be the same. Just mesmerize us with your devilish ways and let us enjoy the man beneath the suit.
3. Klaus - The Umbrella Academy
Dancing the night away with Klaus sounds like a great time. It doesn't matter that he has the ability to speak with the dead as long as he continues to rejuvenate our cold, dead souls.
4. The Eleventh Doctor - Doctor Who
What isn't delicious about the Eleventh Doctor? He's handsome, charming, has many adorable quirks, and he likes kissing people which is A-okay in our book.
5. Matthew Clairmont - A Discovery of Witches
Vampires are usually sexy anyway, but Matthew Clairmont is in a league of his own. He's classy not just because of his knowledge and love of fine wine, but also because of his gentlemanly ways. Can we say old school?
6. Jesse Custer - Preacher
Jesse is a little on the rough side, being a badass and all, but he's still delicious in every way. He didn't always have magical powers, but his ability to control minds makes him even more heavenly.
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Australia: Wong is wrong
I couldn't resist that headline -- in the tradition of one Arthur Augustus Calwell -- a former leader of the Australian Labor Party best known for enlivening a debate about Chinese immigration with the sage comment: "Two Wongs don't make a white"
NEW South Wales conservative Christian MP Fred Nile says federal Finance Minister Penny Wong is setting a bad example by having a baby with her female partner.
Senator Wong today announced her partner, Sophie Allouache, is due to give birth in December after falling pregnant through IVF.
NSW Christian Democrats leader Mr Nile is opposed to same-sex relationships and children being raised by gay couples.
"I'm totally against a baby being brought up by two mothers - the baby has human rights," the upper house MP said. "It's a very poor example for the rest of the Australian population.
"She needn't have made it public - it just promotes their lesbian lifestyle and trying to make it natural where it's unnatural. "The only reason she's made it public is to make a statement to the Australian people."
Mr Nile, who has led prayers vigils during Sydney's annual gay Mardi Gras parade, called on Prime Minister Julia Gillard to have a "talk" with her cabinet colleague about her decision to publicise the impending birth. "She should have a serious talk with her," he said.
But he also had words for the prime minister's unmarried status. "Because of her own life, that puts her in a weaker position than if she was traditionally married herself," he said.
Mr Nile said he was surprised Deputy Opposition Leader Julie Bishop had congratulated Senator Wong. "I'm surprised she's done that. She's treated this as if Penny Wong is in a traditional relationship," he said.
The NSW parliament last year passed legislation giving same-sex couples the right to adopt children.
Racial tensions flare after five days of rioting across Britain
Black thugs and useless police
WITH police overwhelmed, a desperate attempt by Birmingham Muslims to protect their properties and mosque has turned to tragedy with three men mown-down. The Muslims of Dudley Road armed themselves with bricks and stones, clubs and cricket bats to fend off carloads of marauding gangs.
Their vigilante stand may have saved a humble row of family-run shops and a red-brick mosque from the looters' grasp - but at a terrible cost.
A carload of rioters sped into a fleeing crowd of shop defenders, witnesses said, hurling three young men into the air and killing amateur boxer Haroon Jahan, 21, and brothers Shazzad Ali, 30, and Abdul Musavir, 31. Police have since detained the alleged driver of the car, charging him with murder.
"We all had stones in our hands. But we had no defense to stop a car. They revved their engines and drove right at us as fast as they could," Mohammed Ibrahim, 23, told The Associated Press. "These black men deliberately tried to kill us all."
Wednesday's 1 a.m. slaughter has laid bare racial tensions underlying this week's riots in Birmingham, Britain's second-largest city and its most ethnically diverse. A fifth of the city's 1 million "Brummies" are Muslims, most commonly of Pakistani origin. About 7 percent are black, mostly Caribbean, in background.
While the riots that have swept England this week have involved looters of every creed and hue, the street anarchy also sometimes has exposed the racial fault lines that run beneath the poorest urban quarters.
Resident after resident of Dudley Road and its surrounding Winson Green district commented that the attackers were black and accused them of targeting Muslim shops.
The passions echo streetfights from previous years, such as in 2005, when a neighbouring Birmingham district suffered two nights of violence between Caribbean and Asian gangs over unsubstantiated rumours that a gang of Pakistani men had raped a 14-year-old Jamaican girl. Two men were stabbed to death, firefighters faced machete-wielding mobs, and Muslim graves were desecrated during those clashes. The west side also suffered riots in 1981, 1985 and 1991 fuelled by minority hatred of white police and black resentment of the Asians' dominant position as shopkeepers.
"We'll hunt down these black men, cut off their heads and feed them to our dogs," said Amir Hawid, 20, who lives just a hundred meters from the killing scene and heard the screams of the crowd at the moment of impact.
As forensics specialists combed the bloodied, rock-strewn pavement for clues, hundreds of local Muslims and Sikhs - some wearing ceremonial daggers at their waists - packed into a community hall Wednesday to confront three white police commanders who had come seeking to calm tensions. Twice as many Muslims, many in robes and kufi caps, stood outside.
Speaker after speaker complained that they had pleaded by phone for police protection the previous night, when black gangs raided local markets and chased bar staff onto the roof of one pub, yet police failed to respond. Some argued that the police had warned them not to attempt to defend their own streets, yet had offered no alternative.
The three dead men "did nothing wrong! They died because they were doing the job of protecting our community. The job that you lot should have been doing!" one speaker shouted, jabbing an accusatory finger at the police panel.
Detective Superintendent Richard Baker, commander of the 60-strong police team hunting the killers, said they already had arrested the suspected driver and 11 others potentially linked to the shop attacks on Dudley Road. He pleaded for locals to overcome their antipathy to the police, give eyewitness statements and hand over amateur camera footage.
"I will deploy whatever it takes to get justice for this community," Baker said above a din of muttered heckles and shouted accusations, dozens of men trying to speak at once.
Baker and the local commander, Superintendent Sean Russell, defended their force's response to the killings - which Russell admitted he could see from the police control centre on a closed-circuit surveillance camera - because gangs were attacking shops in the city centre. That triggered angry cries that police cared more for protecting downtown shopping centres than Muslim communities.
Russell said it took officers 10 minutes to arrive; locals insisted it was a half-hour and the officers arrived in riot gear thinking the Muslim crowd might pose a threat. The officers said they had to be cautious.
Afterward, a chastened Baker said it had been the toughest community meeting of his life. In quiet one-to-one conversations, he offered his cell phone number to local residents and pleaded for them to find eyewitnesses.
"We really want to help you, but you need to help us too," he told one man, who said he'd been afraid to speak up and express moderate views during the meeting.
And a local black resident, who didn't want to be identified by name because of fears for his safety, pleaded outside with the departing Muslim crowd not to start targeting blacks in retaliation.
"Don't take your anger out on everyone. Don't keep saying it's black, black, black, black. Don't take this too far," he declared, street preacher-style, after abusive comments were directed at him. "I've lived and worked here seven years alongside you. I don't want to be afraid to walk down that street now. Don't make me afraid, because I didn't do it, man."
Several witnesses outside the hall, who like the dead men had taken up crude arms and manned the sidewalks in hopes of keeping the invaders at bay. None expressed confidence that the police would bring justice.
"We will avenge our brothers. This is a tight community, and someone in their group will brag about how they attacked the Muslims," said Waseem Hussain, 24, who joined the defense of the shops.
Hussain said several carloads of would-be shop raiders began casing Dudley Road, driving cars up and down the road before midnight, as scores of locals were still in the mosque observing the night's final Ramadan prayers.
He said one carload stopped at the local gas station and convenience store - which had been ransacked the night before and was now closed with metal shutters - and asked a few youths whether there was "anything new to rob."
He said locals threw stones and bricks at the cars, whose occupants had their windows rolled down. The two sides traded verbal abuse as the cars repeatedly passed, Hussain estimating at least a dozen times. The Muslim crowd grew as prayers concluded around 12:30 a.m.
After the cars canvassed the crowd once again under a hail of rocks, Hussain said, one of the occupants shouted a threat at them: "Are you asking for it?"
Two of the cars did a U-turn at the top of the road, he said, and gunned their engines, shifting their gears rapidly as they reached a speed he estimated at 110 km/h.
"The first car cut extremely close to the crowd but didn't hit anyone. We all were running for cover, but there were too many people and nowhere to go," he said.
"Some people didn't see the second car coming. It went deeper into the footpath and struck these three men, all standing in the same spot," he said. "They must have flown 20, 30 feet. One, Shazzad, was dead when he hit the ground. All of them were bloody and unconscious. They never had a chance."
British rioters the spawn of a bankrupt ruling elite
THE riots in London and elsewhere in Britain are a backhanded tribute to the long-term intellectual torpor, moral cowardice, incompetence and careerist opportunism of the British political and intellectual class.
They have somehow managed not to notice what has long been apparent to anyone who has taken a short walk with his eyes open down any frequented British street: that a considerable proportion of the country's young population (a proportion that is declining) is ugly, aggressive, vicious, badly educated, uncouth and criminally inclined.
Unfortunately, while it is totally lacking in self-respect, it is full of self-esteem: that is to say, it believes itself entitled to a high standard of living, and other things, without any effort on its own part.
Consider for a moment the following: although youth unemployment in Britain is very high, that is to say about 20 per cent of those aged under 25, the country has had to import young foreign labour for a long time, even for unskilled work in the service sector.
The reasons for this seeming paradox are obvious to anyone who knows young Britons as I do.
No sensible employer in a service industry would choose a young Briton if he could have a young Pole; the young Pole is not only likely to have a good work ethic and refined manners, he is likely to be able to add up and -- most humiliating of all -- to speak better English than the Briton, at least if by that we mean the standard variety of the language. He may not be more fluent but his English will be more correct and his accent easier to understand.
This is not an exaggeration. After compulsory education (or perhaps I should say intermittent attendance at school) up to the age of 16 costing $80,000 a head, about one-quarter of British children cannot read with facility or do simple arithmetic. It makes you proud to be a British taxpayer.
I think I can say with a fair degree of certainty, from my experience as a doctor in one of the areas in which a police station has just been burned down, that half of those rioting would reply to the question, "Can you do arithmetic?" by answering, "What is arithmetic?"
British youth leads the Western world in almost all aspects of social pathology, from teenage pregnancy to drug taking, from drunkenness to violent criminality. There is no form of bad behaviour that our version of the welfare state has not sought out and subsidised.
British children are much likelier to have a television in their bedroom than a father living at home. One-third of them never eat a meal at a table with another member of their household -- family is not the word for the social arrangements of the people in the areas from which the rioters mainly come. They are therefore radically unsocialised and deeply egotistical, viewing relations with other human beings in the same way as Lenin: Who whom, who does what to whom. By the time they grow up, they are destined not only for unemployment but unemployability.
For young women in much of Britain, dependence does not mean dependence on the government: that, for them, is independence. Dependence means any kind of reliance on the men who have impregnated them who, of course, regard their own subventions from the state as pocket money, to be supplemented by a little light trafficking. (According to his brother, Mark Duggan, the man whose death at the hands of the probably incompetent police allegedly sparked the riots, "was involved in things", which things being delicately left to the imagination of his interlocutor.)
Relatively poor as the rioting sector of society is, it nevertheless possesses all the electronic equipment necessary for the prosecution of the main business of life; that is to say, entertainment by popular culture. And what a culture British popular culture is!
Perhaps Amy Winehouse was its finest flower and its truest representative in her militant and ideological vulgarity, her stupid taste, her vile personal conduct and preposterous self-pity.
Her sordid life was a long bath in vomitus, literal and metaphorical, for which the exercise of her very minor talent was no excuse or explanation. Yet not a peep of dissent from our intelllectual class was heard after her near canonisation after her death, that class having long had the backbone of a mollusc.
Criminality is scarcely repressed any more in Britain. The last lord chief justice but two thought that burglary was a minor offence, not worthy of imprisonment, and the next chief justice agreed with him.
By the age of 12, an ordinary slum-dweller has learned he has nothing to fear from the law and the only people to fear are those who are stronger or more ruthless than he.
Punishments are derisory; the police are simultaneously bullying but ineffectual and incompetent, increasingly dressed in paraphernalia that makes them look more like the occupiers of Afghanistan than the force imagined by Robert Peel. The people who most fear our police are the innocent.
Of course, none of this reduces the personal responsibility of the rioters. But the riots are a manifestation of a society in full decomposition, of a people with neither leaders nor followers but composed only of egotists.
Wisconsin cops say blacks who targeted whites will not be charged with "hate crimes"
West Allis, WI police have released a statement saying that incidents at the Wisconsin State Fair, where many witnesses say large groups of black men attacked white fair patrons, will not be prosecuted as “hate crimes.” TMJ 4 reports on the new information released by police:
“The police department issued a statement with details of arrests, saying ‘None of these incidents possessed elements that would compel the pursuance of a ‘hate crime’ prosecution.”
Witnesses reported attacks on the opening night of the fair that seemed to be racially motivated with young African Americans beating up white fair goers, but police say at this point there is not enough evidence to support such claims.”
The Blaze reported Friday on the mayhem that ensued at Wisconsin State Fair on Thursday night. Here are some accounts of what witnesses claim to have experienced:
“I had a black couple on my right side, and these black kids were running in between all the cars, and they were pounding on my doors and trying to open up doors on my car, and they didn’t do one thing to this black couple that was in this car next to us. They just kept walking right past their car. They were looking in everybody’s windshield as they were running by, seeing who was white and who was black. Guarantee it.”
“I saw them grab this wide kid who was probably 14 or 15 years old. They just flung him into the road. They just jumped on him and started beating him. They were kicking him. He was on the ground. A girl picked up a construction sign and pushed it over on top of him. They were just running by and kicking him in the face.”
The Justice Department defines hate crime as the “violence of intolerance and bigotry, intended to hurt and intimidate someone because of their race, ethnicity, national origin, religious, sexual orientation, or disability.”
“The purveyors of hate use explosives, arson, weapons, vandalism, physical violence, and verbal threats of violence to instill fear in their victims, leaving them vulnerable to more attacks and feeling alienated, helpless, suspicious and fearful. Others may become frustrated and angry if they believe the local government and other groups in the community will not protect them. When perpetrators of hate are not prosecuted as criminals and their acts not publicly condemned, their crimes can weaken even those communities with the healthiest race relations.”
Do you think police made the right call in interpreting the motives of attackers at the Wisconsin State Fair Thursday night?
Australia: Some discrimination is OK, apparently
Gay and lesbian retirement village goes ahead at Ballan in Victoria
AUSTRALIA'S first gay and lesbian retirement village is being built on Geelong's doorstep at Ballan in Victoria.
The 120-unit complex for over 55s is being built on the Ballan-Geelong Rd, and it will include an indoor heated spa, bar and croquet lawn.
Work is expected to start on the complex early next year, and interested people will be able to buy units off the plan in two months time, the Geelong Advertiser said.
Developer Peter Dickson has billed the $30 million Linton Estate retirement village as a haven for the gay, lesbian and bisexual community.
Mr Dickson said he had expressions of interest from 226 people from across the world including Turkey, England and the United States as well as from Victoria and interstate.
He also said there had been some interest from people in Daylesford, 20 minutes up the road, which has a sizeable gay and lesbian population.
The retirement village, at the junction of Old Melbourne and Ballan-Geelong roads, will be built in five stages.
Ballan newsagent Ian Ireland said the retirement village would be a welcome addition to the town, which was experiencing rapid growth.
Mr Ireland said the area in question along the Ballan-Geelong Rd was formerly farmland which had been subdivided into large allotments of about 12 hectares. "They are just semi-rural properties," he said. "It should be good, it will mean having more people around it's growing anyway so this is no different. "It's virtually a retirement-style village development and there's nothing wrong with that."
The State Government recently confirmed it would be funding an upgrade of the Ballan Hospital to the tune of $2 million.
Moorabool Shire Council granted a planning permit for Linton Estate retirement village in 2008, but a project redesign has delayed construction.
Mr Dickson said they had hired an engineer and were now meeting with potential builders.
A spokesman for Moorabool Shire Council said the project was first mooted some years ago and he could not recall there being any objections.
Political correctness is most pervasive in universities and colleges but I rarely report the incidents concerned here as I have a separate blog for educational matters.
American "liberals" often deny being Leftists and say that they are very different from the Communist rulers of other countries. The only real difference, however, is how much power they have. In America, their power is limited by democracy. To see what they WOULD be like with more power, look at where they ARE already very powerful: in America's educational system -- particularly in the universities and colleges. They show there the same respect for free-speech and political diversity that Stalin did: None. So look to the colleges to see what the whole country would be like if "liberals" had their way. It would be a dictatorship.
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Naliboki [now in Hrodna, Belarus]
Naliboki-- a small town, village and estate on the Lebiezada River in the 4th police administrative district of Oszmiana province, with gmina and rural districts administered from the town. It lies 70.2 miles from Oszmiana & 103.4 miles from Wilno. According to the town records, the hunting-ground town Naliboki has 233 inhabitants (100 men and 133 women); according to Korejwy, the town area has 111 homes, 2,342 inhabitants; according to more recent reports, the town area has 115 homes, 2,465 inhabitants (12 Orthodox, 2,358 Catholics and 95 Jews). There is present a wooden Catholic parish church, named Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, a Jewish (Yeshiva) school, the gmina administration, a gmina court and a public school. Situated in the midst of an extensive forest in which large deposits of excellent grade iron ore are found, Naliboki was famous as a Lithuanian foundry complex. On the Naliboki estate grounds at present, there is large milling machinery as well as a factory providing forged and cast iron products on the Kletyszcze farmstead [ed.--apparently destroyed during World War II by either the Nazis or Soviets]. The yearly revenue taken from this operation is about 44,000 rubles.
Nicholas (the Black) Radziwill obtained Naliboki estate in 1555 from the Semiotte and Zawisza families. It later belonged to the Nieswisz inheritance [ed.-- or entail? as part of the Radziwill family activities centered in Nieswisz], and through this eventually passed to Duke Wittgenstein's ownership. It has remained the property of Duke Hohenlohe Schillingsfuerst up to 1881. Before the church was erected in Naliboki, there was a chapel. Following the provisions of the Nieswisz inheritance, it was provided with a chaplain by the Lacinski family. The first church was built out of wood in the year 1636 by Albrecht Radziwill, the Chancellor. Besides the pension received by the curate under the Nieswisz inheritance, interim funding was also made through assignments of fields and forests to the church. In 1655, Duke Albrecht bestowed a perpetual bequest to the church of Naliboki as a favor. This original church was allowed to fall into ruin for reasons unknown, and a new church was erected by the Radziwills in its place, which was consecrated in 1704 by the Bishop of Wilno, Konstanty Casimir Brzostowski. This church has been repeatedly renewed and restored at the expense of Radziwill princes, the last time in 1829. Recently, the present curate has required a substantial renovation.
This Catholic parish within the Wisniew deaconate has 4,344 faithful (2,113 men and 2,231 women). The Naliboki gmina belongs to the 3rd police district for peasant affairs at Wisniew and to the 4th conscription district of Oszmiana province headquartered in the town of Wolozyn. The gmina is composed of 3 rural districts (Naliboki, Prudy, and Pilnica), showing a count of 23 villages, 404 homes, and 3,628 peasant farmers. The figures include the town of Naliboki and the following villages: Naliboki, Nestorowicze, Jankowicze, Kreczety and Juridyka. The revision lists of 1865 identified 784 land-owning peasants, and 14 tenant or treasury farmers. Naliboki village has 14 revised peasant farmers [ed.-- this last passage still isn't clear].
Additional Slownik information on Naliboki from Volume XV:
Naliboki- town in Oszmiana Province. A glass foundry located there was established by Princess Anna (nee Sanguszko) Radziwill, wife of the Lithuanian Chancellor Karol. The foundry was still in existence in 1820, when it began to decline. The Naliboki estate was acquired by the Falz-Feinow brethren in 1899. K. Lapczynski has provided a botanical description of the Naliboki forest in (Fizygr. Memoirs, L IV, pp. 189-195).
Editor's Note: All Slownik longitudes in this article have been converted to modern coordinates which is based on the Greenwich zero meridian. All Polish measurement units (land areas, distances, height above sea level, etc.) were converted to American-English equivalents. Monetary units, where identified, were left in zlotys/zl. or rubles/rs.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1885, vol. 6, p. 890; 1902, vol. 15, p. 369]
This translation, by Mike Gansecki, is used by permission.
Naumowicze
a village in Augustów county, in Łabno district, served by the Roman Catholic parish in Adamowicze (Orthodox in Łabno), about 58 km. from Augustów. It has 59 houses and 459 inhabitants, and covers 1,538 mórgs of land. In 1827 there were 44 houses and 267 inhabitants. It was part of the government owned estates of Łabno.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1885, vol. 6, p. 935]
This translation, by William F. Hoffman, first appeared in the Spring 2000 issue of "Bulletin of the Polish Genealogical Society of America".
Netta, village and manorial farmstead, entailed estate, Augustów county, Kolnica gmina, Janówka parish, 10 versts [11 km.] from Augustów. It has 69 houses, 742 inhabitants. In 1827 the village, in Barglów parish, was owned by the government and had 66 houses and 402 inhabitants. In the 16th century there was supposedly a church here, a branch of the one in Barglów. The Netta manorial farmstead comprises an entailed estate granted to state councillor Chetyrkin. [No author named].
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1886, vol. 7, pp. 5-6]
This translation, by William F. Hoffman, first appeared in the Fall 2002 issue of "Rodziny, The Journal of the Polish Genealogical Society of America".
Nick, village on the river Dzialdówka, Mlawa powiat, Zielun gmina, Dlutowo parish, 38 km. from Mlawa. It has 23 houses, 199 inhabitants, and 726 mórgs of land; in 1827 it had 18 houses and 132 inhabitants.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1886, vol. 7, p. 32]
Nieciecz
Nieciecz: the river begins in the Nowo-Radom district near Dworszewice and flows westwards by Sucha Wola, entering the Czestochowa district at Kielczyglowa. It then continues northwards, passes Glina, enters the Laski district and flows through Rusiec, Dabrowa, Chrosty, Zborow and Widawy and 2 wiorst later it enters, from the left bank, into the Widawka. It measures 32 wiorst. J. Bliz. [Piotrkow gubernia, Congress Poland]
Nieciecz: 1.) a village by the river Wieprz in the Nowy Aleksander district and Golab commune and parish. It has 6 settlements and used to belong to the Deblin lands. In 1827 there were 8 houses and 51 inhabitants. 2.) a village and farm in the Nowy Aleksander district, Szczekarkow commune and Opole parish. In 1827 there were 2 houses and 17 inhabitants. 3.) a peasant village in the Garwolin district, Wilga commune and Gozlin parish. It has 16 houses, 88 inhabitants and 175 morgs of land. 4.) a village in the Sokolwski district, Sabno commune, and Nieciecz parish. It has a wooden parish church established in 1457 by Stanislaw from Wierow. The present church was built in 1713. The village has 42 houses, 557 inhabitants and 1182 morgs of peasant land. In 1827 there were 25 houses and 208 inhabitants. The Nieczecz parish belongs to the Sokolowski deanery, previously the Wegrow one.
Nieciecz: 1.) or Nieciecza, a rivulet in the Lida district, a left tributary of the Dzitwa. 2.) Nieciecz or Nieciecza or Netecza. [Grodno gubernia, Russian Poland]
Nieciecz: 1) a village on the Nieciecza stream in the Lida district, Polish area, Lida commune and the rural precinct of Dabrowka. It lies 8 wiorst from Lida by the road leading to Lipniszki and has 17 houses, 181 inhabitants of whom 87 are revisionists. [Grodno gubernia, Russian Poland]
2.) gentry lands on the streamlet Nieciecza with 2 houses and 33 inhabitants. [Grodno gubernia, Russian Poland]
3.) or manorial, a farm and village in Bielica commune, Tobol rural precinct, 9 wiorst from the commune and 27 from Lida, on the road to Slonim with 21 houses and 275 inhabitants. Here stands the wooden Catholic Church of Jesus Christ, built by the hunter, Koluszewski, in 1715 and renovated in 1837. The Catholic parish belongs to the Lida deanery and has 1701 parishioners. Earlier, there was a chapel at the cemetery. The Swiezynski family owns Nieciecz.
Nieciecz: or Nieciecza, a water-course which emerges on the boundary between Uhelna and Bereznica in the Wiedernica woods in the Stryj district. It meanders eastwards making up the boundary of those communes and then crosses through the areas of Siechow, Balicz Podrozny and, south of the village Sulatycz, it falls into the Swica, from its left bank. It is 15 km long and its waters are murky. Br. G. [Galician Poland]
Nieciecza: a village included in the Czerski starost. See Czersk. [Congress Poland]
Nieciecza: 1.) a village in the Tarnow district. It is situated on the right bank of the Danube, in a river valley 186 m above sea level. The meandering river’s bed has been straightened here. It belongs to the Roman Catholic parish in Otwinow. The post office is in Zabno, 0.4 km away. It has a public school and a lending bank holding 1397zloty. Earlier, the St. Thomas prebend existed here. The village has 541 Roman Catholics and 782 morgs, of which the majority possesses 126 morgs and the minority 655 morgs, which, in turn, include 137 morgs of marshland. According to Długosz’s Lib. Ben. (1, 9), in the XV century, Nieciecza belonged to Jan Rabsztynski from Krasnik. 2.) a landing-place on the right bank of the Danube, on the road from Wojnicz to Rudka, lies between the villages Komorow, Ostrow and Wierzchoslawice in the Tarnow district. Mac. [Galician Poland]
Niecieczka: a river in the Minsk province, a tributary of the Pereczutej. It flows south of Kojdanow.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1886, vol. 7, p.50]
This translation by Jola Jurasinska is used by permission.
Niepla
A Village in the powiat (district) of Jasło.
Once the property of the Abbey in Tyniec now of the religious foundation (do not have any idea about such foundations?) It is 11.8 km distant from Jasło, is situated on a stream which flows into river Wisłok – ('>Wisłoka' is the name of another river in the vicinity but also the genitive case of river Wisłok), in a sub-mountainous region with forests. Elevation - 292 meters above the sea level.
Part of this village belongs to the Roman Catholic Parish in Szebnie and part to Warzyce. The inhabitants are composed of 762 Roman Catholics and 2 Jews, there are also a rural school and a provident society with a capital of 702 zl. w. a. - waluty austriackiej, in Austrian currency (kasa pożyczkowa: there you can borrow money on credit)
The area to the west consists of a narrow belt of forests extending 13 km up to the river Wisłoka which cover the hills with the highest summit called "Pogorzały". (381 m).
The area of the larger estate consists of 15 morg of meadows and 322 morg of forest, the smaller estate consists of 659 morg cultivated fields, 93 morg of meadows, 51 morg of pasture and 69 morg of forest.
The area is bordered on the south by Chrząstówka and Bierówka and the north and west by Grzybówka.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1886, vol. 7, p.102].
This translation, by Jim Piechorowski, is used by permission.
Niwiska, with Hucisko, village, district of Kolbuszowa, lies in a sandy lowland (289 meters elevation), on a field in the midst of deforested coniferous woods. The highway from Kolbuszowa to Przecław (11 kilometers) runs through the village and a stream fllows into the Swierczówka River (which, father on its course, is called the Przyrwa) then into the Łęga River. In the center of the village stands a brick church, to the north a windmill and brickworks, while to the east is an abandoned glassworks behind which is found the hamlet of Hucisko which was founded by metallurgical settlers. Niwiska has a mission parish which belongs to the church in Rzochów, a public school 1-class, a community loan office with assets of 408 złoty (Austrian Currency), 1,198 Roman Catholic residents, 66 of whom work on the estate owned by Kazimierz Hupko. The property consists of 615 mórgs of fields, 147 mórgs of meadows, 112 mórgs of pasture land and 1,478 mórgs of forests; the lesser domain consists of 1,805 mórgs of fields, 291 mórgs of meadows, 249 mórgs of pasture land and 403 mórgs of forests. The present church was erected in the year 1876, replacing the wooden structure built in 1595. In addition, a brick chapel built in 1874 stands in the cemetery. The parish (Diocese of Przemyśł, Deanery of Mielec) embraces Dębrzyna, Hucina with Zabień, Leszcze, Hucisko, Poręby, Trześń, and Zapole. The population numbers 3,512 Roman Catholics and 141 Jews. Besides agriculture, the inhabitants are engaged in cabinetmaking and turnery (the art of forming solid substances into cylindrical or other forms by means of a lathe). In the 16th century, Niwiska belonged to the Lubomirski Family. In 1680 it was obtained by the Jesuits of Sandomierz for 15,000 Polish złoty, which they later loaned from the Bobola Foundation to Aleksander Lubomirski, voivode of Kraków, for the education of 12 students from the aristocracy. After the suppression of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), the monies were placed in an educational fund which was eventually sold. Niwiska borders on the east with Trześnia, on the north with Żabieniec and Hucina, on the west and south with many coniferous forests. Dr. Maurycy Maciszewski
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1886, vol. 7, p. 163].
This translation, by Anthony Paddock, is used by permission of the author.
Nowogródek [now Navahrudak, Hrodna, Belarus]
- a provincial town in Minsk gubernia. It was known as an ancient fortified town identified in the Russian Chronicles as Nowo-Horodok, in Latin documents as Parva Novogardia or Neogardia, and to Polish historians as Lithuanian Nowogródek or Krivician Nowogródek. During the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, it was the capital town of the Nowogródek voivodship; in these times of partitions of the country, it is a town on the railroad line between the provinces of Slonim, Lithuania and Grodno. Situated at 53° 56'N and 25°30'E in the Nieman river basin at a picturesque elevated location with small streams and beautiful brooks draining down to the Nieman, the view falls away in all directions. The town is located 94 miles from Minsk, 93 mi. to Wilno, 109 mi. to Grodno, 117 mi to Sluck, 148 to Pinsk, and 330 miles to Warsaw (via the postal road). It has about 12,000 inhabitants-- 470 White Russian Orthodox, 2,200 Polish Catholics, around 1,160 Moslems with 8,170 Jews accounting for the remainder.
In 1817 there were 437 residences in Nowogródek (9 of brick or stone) and 1,571 inhabitants including 726 Jews and 319 Tatars. Nowogródek town contains a post-office and international telegraph stations, 2 brick Orthodox churches, 2 Catholic churches (a parish and affiliate with a brick chapel), a brick Jewish synagogue, 5 Jewish schools and prayer houses (1 brick and 4 wooden), as well as a wooden mosque. Town structures consist of 130 brick or stone houses and about 780 wooden ones; in the town there are 86 brick and 10 wooden shops. In 1877, there were 27 artisan/craft businesses experienced in making household objects, 70 stores for dry goods, and 105 in housekeeping services. Regarding industry in Nowogródek: by 1881 there were three breweries employing 6 workers and generating 1,700 rubles annually; one mead-vault employing two workers and generating 200 rubles; a Dutch tile factory with four workers generating an annual revenue of 2,725 rs. In 1881, 98 weddings were celebrated, 320 children were born legitimately (5 illegitimate), and 290 residents died (164 men and 126 women). There was an increase of 35 residents that year. In the same year town revenues were 6,498 rubles and expenditures 5,138 rs.
Essential health industries within the town servicing the district consist of two drugstores, three physicians, and two hospitals-- one municipal and one Jewish. Also located there is a home for 16 orphaned children of the gentry, possessing about 19,000 rs. capital. The town owns or holds 703 ground-rent leases as well as three homes in townlets leased to private parties. A firefighting company composed of seven individuals has four horses, four fire engines, 12 water tanks and equipment suitable for other uses. Past fires have cost the town the lives of around 814 inhabitants.
With its deep concern for the centrality of education, Nowogródek had a Dominican school here up to 1834 until its annulment, rated as a 5th-class provincial school. It was transformed in 1858 to a 7th-class secondary school, which by 1868 had been changed to a 4th-class provincial school, providing equal educational opportunity for both boys and girls, with 400 students enrolled. Until recently, a private boarding school for girls existed here. Formerly, Nowogródek was also renowned for the "March Contracts", to which a multitude of gentry traveled; now all of this has been discontinued. Today there exists only a single inn for travelers, a restaurant, and several orderly shopping stores. In spite of charming surroundings, the town today has a dirty appearance, and is neglected with its pavement in especially bad condition. On Sundays, town markets feature produce from the countryside, and on March 19th, there is an annual fair for horses and cattle, generating 10,000 rs.
The original town annals are lost to history [ed.- or unenlightening as to origins]. The location between the former borders of Lithuanian and Jatvingian settlements forced a struggle to possess a stronghold at Nowogródek in distant times. When conquering Varangians (Scandinavian Vikings) poured into Slavic lands in the 10th Century, local inhabitants rallied around their chieftains in founding fortified towns. Existing chronicles relate a number of different traditions and assumptions about the founding of Nowogródek-- one is its foundation by Woldemar (Vladimir the Great) Viking king of Kiev; another by his son Yaroslav in 1044 as part of preparations against the Lithuanians; and a last one by Yaropelk, son of Vladimir Monomach in 1116. Certainly in most annals, historical Nowogródek began towards the middle of the 13th Century, namely in the hiring of Lithuanians there (as mercenary soldiers) by Prince Erdziwill for the divided Slavic tribes, who with the devastation of Nowogródek by Mongols in 1241 under the leash of Kajdan, profited in the scattering of Varangian rule. He and his men occupied the deserted town and surrounding countryside, constructing a splendid castle from rubble at this location and often stayed there. Soon after, Nowogródek became the capital city of the Lithuanians during the rule of Erdziwill's brother, the courageous Mendog (properly "Mindaugas" in Lithuanian).
Establishing his rule in Nowogródek, Mendog repelled an invasion by his brother-in-law Daniel, Prince of Halicz, obtained the title King of Lithuania from Pope Innocent IV in later accepting baptism for himself and his wife Martha, and was crowned in 1252 in his new kingdom. The Lithuanian historian Theodore Narbut maintains as factual that this recorded act took place in Lithuanian Nowogródek in the vicinity of Kiernow (called "Nauenpille" by the Teutonic Knights-from the Lithuanian National Journal). In any event, by his acceptance of Christianity, Mendog was confirmed on the Lithuanian throne. Despite this, fellow-country Russian rulers did not relinquish dominion or their own laws over their Slavic tribes [ed.- e.g Krivici, Dregovichi, etc.]. Because of this conflict, Mendog forced a continual struggle against them, but attaining supremacy was difficult. Among others, Towciwill, jealous for Mendog's crown, continually instigated sedition and joined with other enemies of Lithuania. Thus in 1256, allied with Russian and Jatvingian knights, Towciwill threatened Nowogródek, but Mendog escaped to Wruta (today the town of Horodische near Nowogródek) and Towciwill was compelled to withdraw.
In 1258, Daniel Prince of Halicz, striving for predominance in Russian lands, hastened his army towards Grodno, but Lithuanians there intervened through revenge on his properties. What finally resulted was an arrangement of power between Daniel and Mendog, in which the first (Daniel) gave up forever rights to Nowogródek and other Slavic tribes in Lithuania. Mendog afterwards settled his son Wojsielk there with the title "Prince of Nowogródek". Local princes knighted in Nowogródek-- so Narbut informs us-- were Jasiold, Bugie, Narwi, and Niemne (L.N.J as above). But not long after Wojsielk ruled as the Nowgorodian Prince by their consent because his father had resigned it to his cousin's brother, Roman Danielow of Halicz, and entered alone into the monastery at Polone. Later however, he resided in the Lawrszew monastery near the Nieman river; finally, when the Lithuanian courts determined the treacherous Trojdan to be the murderer of Mendog, Wojsielk secretly took refuge in the Leszczynski monastery at Pinsk. Following the assassination of Trojdan in 1265, Wojsielk, remaining at Leszcze, appointed his own brother-in-law, Prince Swarna Danielowicz of Chelrn, to the Lithuanian throne. To be sure after Swarna's sudden death, entreated by the people, Wojsielk took over the Lithuanian government, but lived in Kiernow rather than in Nowogródek. There is silence in the Nowogródek chronicles concerning the rule of Wojsielk and his successor Swentorog.
Under Great Prince Germund's command in 1274, Nowogródek experienced a Mongol (Tatar) attack under the leash of Jaruna, allied with Russian knights. The town was saved by the valiant opposition of its garrison and the quarrels among the adversary allies, who had put to death by fire all the inhabitants of the suburbs as well as plundering the unarmed populace in the countryside. The Lithuanian Great Prince Germund was fond of Nowogródek and bided his time, watching over the claims of several contenders. In 1278, Great Prince Giligin, Germund's son, halted the Mongol Tartars supported by the southern Russian knights at Nowogródek, and unable to conquer it the opposition returned empty-handed. In the same year of his death, Prince Giligin took the throne as the Great Prince, promoting his son Romund in Nowogródek. These were splendid circumstances for the town but the new prince's life ended very soon after that. His successor Trabus did not abandon Nowogródek, but following his death, the Lithuanian Prince Narymund in 1280 moved the capital once again to Kiernow. Henceforth, quieter times fell on Nowogródek, such that Lithuanian Prince Witenes settled the boundaries of his kingdom at the land of the Dregovicians, and at the Jasiold and the upper Nieman Rivers.
In 1314, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights Heinrich von Plotzke conceived an idea for the 'conquest of the Rus' in the upper reaches of the Nieman, and with highly skilled soldiers marched through the deep forests to distant Nowogródek, burning the town. However, the inhabitants took refuge in the castle. The garrison repelled their attacks using boiling oil manufactured on the castle walls, daring the shattered, discouraged Teutonic Knights to attack. Due to their exhaustion the Knights were forced to withdraw. And on the road to the Niernan, not far from Nowogródek, they were harassed by fortified Krivician warriors in bloody engagements. Due to the loss of their most courageous knights, their increasing panic at the skillfulness of their opponents, and at last from numerous plagues, sickness and starvation, they were put to flight into the wilderness. The unhappy circumstances were recorded in their own chronicles. In "The Treasure", Ignace Danielowicz cites his own details and those from Dusberg and others [ed.- ref]. In 1323, Lithuanian Great Prince Gedyminas mentioned this victory in his own privileges to Nowogródek through the creation of a grant in Nowogródek to the Franciscans, and in the following year, Pope John XXII sent monks to this new mission (see "The Treasure" by Danielowicz).
The fifth son in the succession of Gedyminas and the Russian Olga, Koryat, obtained the Principate of Nowogródek in 1329 from his father as his share, and was crowned in Nowogródek. At his death, Theodore, second in succession, received the Principate for his son, who reigned there until 1352. After him, the succession of the Koryat lineage ended in Nowogródek. The successor in the Nowogródek lineage, Dimitri Korybut, tenth son in succession of Prince Olgierd inherited it, but when he afterwards raised a rebellion against Prince Witold, he was overcome and captured at Dokudow, losing his Nowogródek share. Surprisingly soon after that in 1392, during the arrangements of Jagiello with Witold according to familial proportions, Nowogródek was restored to him, but which was encumbered with debts and problems because Witold wanted to remove some dissenters from it to the borders of Lithuania. In 1393, he removed the Sieverskian kingdom from it, but Lithuanian Nowogródek discontinued the inheritance feud and made amends with the crown. Armed legions of Teutonic Knights again besieged Nowogródek in wintry conditions in 1394. When the inhabitants received information of the approaching enemy, they burned the castle and fled to the woods. The Knights, unable to encamp in the ashes of Nowogródek, returned to Drohiczyn, the palace and countryside ruined (ref "The Treasure").
Witold raised the Nowogródek castle again from rubble, founded a parish church there, rebuilt the town, and settled migrant Tatars there in 1415. Under his patronage, a synod of Russian Orthodox bishops desiring certain political considerations there for an Orthodox church free from the influence of the Tsarograd Metropolitan [ed.- chief Orthodox bishop] See, gathered together in Nowogródek during the middle of November, and held a metropolitan election which established an independent church hierarchy. Gathered in Nowogródek at that time were bishops from the following locations: Czernigov, Polotsk, Luck, Chelm, Vladimir, Halicz, Smolensk, Czerwiensk, and Turov. They unanimously elected Gregory Cemblaka as the first metropolitan, designating for themselves three cathedral chairs: in Kiev, Wilno, and Nowogródek. In 1422, Nowogródek held a new commemorative feast, since King Wadislaw Jagiello had married his fourth wife there, Sonke (Sophia), the sister of Andrew Prince of Holszansk.
Witold, returning in triumph from an expedition against Pskov, distributed gifts during 1426 to his courageous knights in Nowogródek. In 1444, King Casimir Jagiello approved the Magdeburgian [ed.- municipal rights and privileges developed by German law] legal system for Nowogródek. When quarrels among Polish and Lithuanian gentry took place at the Lubelsk Sejm, King Casimir, to avoid domestic ferment, met with the Lithuanian parliament in Nowogródek on September 8, 1448, and took advice with quiet deliberation. At that time, there were invasions by Pereskov Tatars from Lithuania against King Alexander of Russia in the years 1503-1506. Nowogródek experienced some internal dissent, refused to take sides, and and succumbed to being plundered. Although the privileges granted by King Casimir were brought up at Brest, Nowogródek finally lived up to its status as a great town and ordained the Magdeburg convention. Truly, it finally organized itself in 1511, after which Zygmunt the Old gave a grant to the city fathers and added privileges to the town.
When Zygmunt I called the gentry to arms in 1537 to meet at Lwow, the Lithuainian knights first assembled in Nowogródek and then marched to Lwow for a notorious parliamentary session (nicknamed the "Hens' Wars"). In 1581, Stefan Batory ordained a tribunal of Lithuanian knights, and gave orders to call a Ruthenian "cadence"- a legislative session in Nowogródek and Minsk for two years following the 22nd Sunday [ed.- of the year]. The representatives to this tribunal immensely elevated the prestige of the town, chiefly in that documents were assembled there in great numbers for preservation in archives and for assisting the gentry. In order to preserve the documents safely, as fate would have it, an archives was set up for the Nowogródek Voivodship in the castle tower called "Szczytowska" (ref); a similar but partial archives was also set up in a nearby Dominican monastery. While attacks by the army of Tsar Alexi Michajlowicz against the knight Trubeck in 1662 were not intended to affect the archives, on May 1, 1751 a horrible fire damaged the entire town, and the archives could not be saved. After the first Partitions of the Country in 1775, the tribunal court together with the remaining archives were removed to Grodno. In 1676, Nowogródek received two great privileges from King John Sobieski: the first was an exemption to the town forever from having to quarter soldiers and even pay the wintering tax; and the second in effect, a consistent tribunal through construction of an excellent, new town hall equally for legislative and other purposes. A Castellan office was established there, which was filled at that time by Samuel Korsak (ref).
Latin was for the most part replaced by Slavic language ritual for the Ruthenians of Lithuania; from time immemorial two Orthodox churches had also existed in Nowogródek: one at the castle by name Assumption of the B.V.M., the second in the suburb of Borisolev, founded there later by Knight Wojselk Mendogowicz. For the elevation of the Orthodox churches there, Lithuanian Hetman [ed-- army chief of staff] Konstanty Ostrogski in 1517 donated the Bykowicze property in the Cyrinski province, situated in a region east of Nowogródek. In 1636, Metropolitan Wilhelm Rudzki established the Basilian code for his churches, endowed by the Chreptowicz family as shown on their family tomb. The Borislav monastery was founded in 1800 as an affiliate to the older Lawryszew monastery but annulled in 1830. Still in the l7th Century, eight of the following Orthodox churches existed in Nowogródek besides the two already mentioned: Elevation of the Holy Cross, St. Nicholas Performer of Miracles, Resurrection, St. John, St. Trucy, St. Nicholas Martyr, St Paraskew, and St. Simeon at the castle. The churches there had been mentioned in the diplomatic papers of Zygmunt III in 1610.
Often wartime fires did not spare towns and sanctuaries from despoliation. Indeed, of the venerable Orthodox churches already mentioned, there remains merely an Old Orthodox painting of the Virgin Mary from the original castle church, in Borisolev at the other St. Nicholas church founded by Franciscan monks in 1780. Around 1620, Adam Chreptowicz, Chamberlain of Nowogródek, provided funding for Borisolev churches near to the Basilian cloister, and a Basilian convent for women. The Basilian movement was annulled in 1839, and at the same time a Black Russian Orthodox monastery was created in Wolnej. At the Franciscan sanctuary, the liturgy had been in the Latin rite, already mentioned above, founded by the Lithuanian Prince Gedminas, and where Prince Witold had founded a missionary church at the ramparts of the shrine to Perun [ed.Slavic pagan god of Thunder], although the details of the latter construction were not preserved in the annals. Kristof Chodkiewicz, Lithuanian Master of the Horse, later Voivod of Wilno, funded a church at the cloister of the Dominican monks in the first part of the 17th Century.
At nearly the same time Bonifiraters [ed.- a religious order] were imported by Casimir Lew Sapieha, and Jesuits as well as Dominicans were brought in by Moszynski, who was later killed at Nieswisz in the Russian invasion of 1659. Calvinists had an assembly hall here during the middle of the 16th Century; somewhat later it served a spiritual purpose for the ministry of Jan Zygrowiusz. Arrogance and hate multiplied in Nowogródek equally between Catholics and Protestants. Amid the sorrowful moments of intolerance and controversies which had occurred there, on January 9, 1616 in Nowogródek, Zygrowiusz compiled memoirs of the dispute with the Jesuit of Niewisz, Benedict Brywilias. In the same year, the dispute of Zygrowiusz was printed in Lyubcha. The Protestant assembly hall remained closed at the command of King Zygmunt III for the year 1618. Of the Catholic priories and monasteries mentioned, none of them existed any longer as a consequence of the cassations [ed.- Tsarist cancellations] between the years 1830 and 1863.
In 1785, King Stanislaus August visited Nowogródek for a memorial service in his passage from Nieswiesz to Grodno. The recovered memoirs of Zygrowiusz gained merit in the King made at the beautiful ruins of the old castle on the lofty hilltop and at the nearby ruins on this hill called Mendog's Grave. He used the opportunity to lay to rest the doubtful (religious) matters at the grave of the Lithuanian hero, murdered treacherously in Livonia in 1263. In the mission church, today designated as an affiliate parish, a marble monument was erected by Jan Rudomine, Castellan of Nowogródek, as a memorial to the fallen knights in the battle of Chocim in 1621 [ed.- the terrible battle against Turkish invaders]. Remains of this exhibition piece in high relief show Rudomine's chieftains kneeling in full figures, and alongside of them nine kneeling companions-in-arms with their severed heads lying at their feet.
Nowogródek was the birthplace and childhood home of Adam Mickiewicz. There are besides his own, numerous first-hand articles concerning Nowogródek and its surroundings, namely in: F.M. Sobieszczanski's The Great Orgelbrand Encyclopedia; Adam Kirkora's Guardian of the Domestic Front, Michael Hausman's Description of Nowogródek, in the Illustrated Weekly, and War Chronicles of the Warsaw Library. Nowogrodian town sheriffs took office according to a Parliamentary law in the neighborhood of the castle, and the court met for 22 weeks where the tribunal of the Lithuanian knights had once assembled. Sheriffs there were forever joined to the dignity of the Nowogródek Voivodship and partners in the Polish-Lithuanian Crown economy as well as the Seneschalate, contributing 347 zlotys for the quarterly army tax and 412 zlotys for the winter army tax. Costs for Parliaments, land courts and demonstrations from among the entire knighthood were also taken care of out of the Sheriffs office. The last to occupy the office was Prince Joseph Jabłonowski, Voivod of Nowogródek.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1886, vol. 7, pp. 255-258].
Nowogródek powiat
- was up to the years 1793-1795 when temporarily by Tsarist Russia, one of three provinces within the Voivodship of Nowogródek. In these years, the southern and eastern portions became new additions to Nieswiesz province under the governance of Minsk, exchanging the following portions with Sluck province through the laws of the Minsk gubernia: the southern and eastern portions constituted as part of Slonim gubernia up to 1796 a part of Lithuania gubernia, which in 1801 was divided into two: Wilno and Grodno, the remainder transformed into its own Nowogródek province. In 1842-3 by decree of Tsar Nicholas, the boundaries were again altered and Nowogródek province was placed within the Minsk gubernia. Therefore, parts of the former Nowogródek province detached into different regions, are today in Sluck, Mozyr, Minsk, and a little in Slonim and Bobruisk provinces, but the essential part of it, the extreme western portion, remains under its former name and stands as the most populous and wealthiest province in the Minsk gubernia.
On the northwest and north it borders on Lida and Oszmiana provinces of the Wilna gubernia; on the northeast and east with the provinces of Minsk and Sluck, on the south with Pinsk province; and also to the west, with Slonim province of the Grodno gubernia lying between 43-45° N latitude and 25-26° E longitude. According to the latest information, it contains 1995 square miles amounting to around 1,276,600 acres. The Treasury possesses about 60,000 ac. of wooded tracts and 7 expired land grants; peasant ownership includes: 113,180 ac. on Treasury estates, 444,440 ac. on private estates, 768 home-quartered soldiers, and 443 sundry acres. 10,200 landed acres belong to the Orthodox churches, 397 ac. to the Catholic churches, and 1900 ac. to the town of Nowogródek, with the rest under private ownership (646,630 ac.). Around 1880, 173 Orthodox farmers owned 68,420 ac., while 507 Polish farmers possessed 482,811 ac. mostly in the uplands. In 1881, 143,200 ac. belonging to Polish owners passed into other hands. After this time, Polish landowners were no longer able to sell significant lands, and at present are hard-pressed owing to the disasters in agricultural husbandry in 1885 and the generally stagnant economy.
In 1881, the agricultural output of the province consisted of 4,187 Lithuanian barrels of winter wheat, 35,192 barrels of rye, 5,384 barrels of "ravine" wheat, 10,768 barrels of oats, 21,535 barrels of barley, 3,059 barrels of buckwheat, and 3,393 barrels of other grains, and 285,738 barrels of potatoes. It was a year of average productivity, perhaps somewhat higher than average considering the conditions of overall productive capacity. The arable land area in the province is about 756,000 acs., around 108,000 acs. of grazable moors, 243,000 acs. of wooded lands, with the rest (170,000 acres) marshes, water bodies, and pastures, with the sandy soils in the western, southern and eastern parts excellent for growing grain; in this locality the soil surface is undulating, of calcareous-gravelly composition, possessing a great deal of porosity. The northern and western portions of the province are stripped of woods, but to the south it contains significant wooded areas and interrupted stands. According to official statistical knowledge around 1860, there were 18,195 horses, 62,955 horned cattle, 40,753 common sheep, 41,460 specialty sheep, 27,502 hornless cattle and 515 goats.
In considering the ethnic composition of Nowogródek province, the characteristic inhabitants today are representative of earlier related ethnic Lithuanian-Slavic stock, from the Dregovichian, Krivician, Jatvingian, and Lithuanian tribes which bordered the area and formed into the typical original Kievan Rus, which our history and ethnography reckoned as among Black or White Russians. These judgments were shared among the original tribes in time. Amid the Ruthenian stock, Witold brought in Jews and Tartars over time. As to the fortunes of a unified Polish and Lithuanian polity, the impetus originated from Poland.
The overall population consists of about 185,000 persons, in which count there are around 18,000 [Stolpianskij] Poles, 9,400 Lithuanians, 25,000 Jews, 408 Moslems belonging to the Polish community, about 4,200 Ruthenian (Stolpian) Catholics, and the remaining (about 138,000) consist of Ruthenian Orthodox, up until the 1839 cassations mostly Uniate Orthodox (Eastern Rite). To our knowledge, none (of the latter) exist today. In Nowogródek province, there existed a 4th- Class secondary school in the town of Mir until its closing in 1868, at the present time a 2nd-Class school. Additionally, there are rural schools for each gmina; the most important are run by the gminas as public schools: the one in Szczorse has 120 pupils, that in Niehniewicze 116. Not only peasants but petty gentry students attend the gmina schools. According to the latest statistical figures, each can seat 110 students. Even such scanty instruction capacity negatively affects the morality of the people, and also many of them wish to remain there (in school). In general, the people are beginning to neglect the old customs, change their attire, confuse their native tongues, and sing erotic camp songs rather than traditional ones.
In 1881, there were 2,684 marriages, 7,840 legitimate births, 184 illegitimate ones, and 6,407 deaths in the province. There were also 163 fires in 1881, of which 74 were deemed arson (almost half); 948 homes were destroyed for a total financial loss of 705,156 rubles. In the same year the arrears for unpaid taxes amounted to 125,508 rubles. In 1882, provincial industrial production amounted to the following: 8 beer breweries employing 16 workers at a production or sales value of 3,480 rubles; one mead vault with 2 paid workers worth 200 rubles; a Dutch tile factory, 4 workers, worth 2,725 rs.; 6 brick kilns, 26 workers, 5,265 rs.; one steam powered mill, 3 workers, worth 71,000 rubles; one rape-seed oil manufacturer, 25 workers, 10,500 rs.; 6 cheese makers, 12 workers, wages at 12,975 rs.; 16 distilleries, 80 workers worth 765,356 rubles; 7 turpentine producers, 7 wage workers, worth 3,819 rs.; 8 pitch burners, employing 8 and worth 1,650 rs. Total production capacity for the 55 industries was 183 wage workers worth 876,970 rubles.
There were three provincial drugstores in 1882-- two in Nowogródek and one in the town of Horodyszcze. Three hospitals were operational in Nowogródek province. For each gmina, there was an army surgeon and a small apothecary shop. As for public charities, there exists a shelter for orphans in Nowogródek with a capital endowment of 10,787 rubles provided privately, including education for 16 orphans of gentry descent, amounting to a budget of around 1,345 rs. annually and taking the form of an extraordinary perpetual private endowment. With regard to police administration, the province is divided into 5 (Tsarist) State police districts (okrag) and 24 gminas, comprising 57 rural sheriff offices. District 1-- Niehniewicze, administered from the same town includes the following gminas: Niehniewicze, Szczorsowka, Horodczanska, Wereskowska, Lubczanska and Wsielub; District 2-- administered from the town of Horodyszcze with the following gminas: Horodyszczanska, Cyrynska, Rajczanska, Poczepowska, and Koszelewska; District 3-- administered from Nowy Mir, containing the Nowomysk, Stolowick, Czernichowska and Zuchowicka gminas; District 4-- administered from the town of Mir containing the gminas Mir, Horodziejska, Korelice and Jeremicka; and District 5-- administered from the town of Snow, with the following gminas: Darewo, Snow, Jastreble, Ostrow, and Krzywoszyn.
The province is composed of four (civil) district courts and four military tribunal courts, located in Nowogródek, Mir, Horodyszcze and Darewie. According to available figures, there are 723 small villages and estates, 371 farmsteads, 54 rural settlements, and 27 other gentry and 25 small towns (named Cyryn, Horodyszcze, Iszkoldz, Jeremicze, Korelicze, Kraszyn, Krzywoszyn, Lipsk, Lyubcha, Mir, Nowogródek, Nowy Mysz, Niehniewicze, Ostrow, Poczepowo, Polonka, Poruczyn, Poloneczka, Stolowicze, Swojatycze, Snow, Turzec, Wsielub, Walowka, and Wiedzma). Only Nowogródek has the appearance of a somewhat orderly town, with the rest in the condition typical of poor Lithuanian villages, with Jews predominating in the town without brick/stone houses or paved streets. We note that somehow Horodziej which is not counted as a town, is the only one to recently acquire a major railroad station on account of its location on the Moscow-Brest line. Citizens of nearby Marcinkiewicze have properly adorned homes, inns and even shopping booths, so that the nearby village is called a "little town".
The most important river in the province is the Nieman, extending for 81 miles along the northwestern border of the province.; it has harbors or river ports in Jeremicze, Koladznie, Szczorsze, Lubycha, Delatycze, Morino, and Krivichi. Navigation can be accomplished through the considerable bends in the river without sails, assisted only by oars or riverside road-pullers. Not counting the many brooks and unnamed tributaries, there are 65 other named streams as follows: [ed.- 65 stream names not repeated here].
... There are no very large or important lakes in the entire province. The biggest here is Switez, mentioned in Adam Mickiewicz's ballads, about 277 acres in area and containing a viable fishery. Among other larger lakes are: Caesearia, Douhoje, and Krzywicki (on the Nieman), a second Douhoje, Gluche, Kruhloje, Koldyczewski (from which flows the Szczara river), Plosa, Sinie, Swiete (two), Szpakowskie, Snowskie (formed by the flooding of the Snowski river), Tartackie (formed by the flooding of the Dzierewianski River), Zablocki, and Zlobinski lakes. A considerable portion of the province is undulating and picturesque, the highest single points at 864 ft. above sea level in the vicinity of Koladzina and 727 ft. at Czernichowa. Through-routes by land in Nowogródek province from north to south connect with the main Moscow-Brest railroad lines-- with stations at Horodziej, Pohorelcy, Baranowicze, and Lesna, with a branch directed through Baranowicze station to Białystok. Earlier passers-through near the southern border used the Moscow-Warsaw high road along the moraine.; today there are three postal roads in use: from Nowogródek to Minsk, to Lida, and to Nieswiesz and Sluck. Well-kept military roads are maintained from Nowogródek through the town of Horodyszcze to Stolowicz; from there to Molczad and Polonki; from Nowy-Mysz to Polonki, Nieswisz, Kleck and Lachowicz. Commercial roads include: from Nowogródek to Molczad, Nikolaev, Stolowicz, and Nowy-Mysz to the Moscow-Warsaw high road and from the town of Korelicze to Zbynsk in Oszmiana Province.
Historical locations or those otherwise worthy of mention include: Darewo (where the gloomy Florian Bochwic lived); Horodyszcze, old Wruta (Mendog's battle with the Varangian knights around 1256); Korelicze (chiefly remembered for the confirmation there in 1733 of the Lithuanian party's king Stanislaus Leszczynski); Krzywicze (destruction of the Teutonic Knights in 1314); Lyubcha (ancient Slavic town famed for its printing house); Lawryszew (monastery); Lawczyce (sacred location for the Lithuanian Tatars); Mir, Nowogródek, Nowy-Mysz, Niedzwiadka (birthplace of Ignace Domejki); Osowiec (according to some the birthplace in 1798 of Adam Mickiewicz); Polonka (a memorial to the battle with the Tatars in 1506 and victory by Stefan Czarniecki over Prince Chowanski in 1660); Rzepiehowo (birthplace of Jan Czeczota); Ruta (birthplace of Metropolitan Bishop Weljamin Rutski); Soplicowe (mentioned in the novel Pan Tadeusz); Siedliszcze (birthplace in 1791 of Thomas Zana); Tuhanowicze (place of last home residence of Adam Mickiewicz [ed.- who died in exile]); Woroncza (burial place of the last Voivod of Nowogródek, Joseph Niesiolowski); Waszkowce (place of sojourn and death of the learned Florian Bochwic). Scientific collections or memorials include: at Czeszew Kobylinski (library, memorial, stamp collection); Niankowie (naturalist collection of Wadislaw Dybowski); at Obryn Kaszycow (porcelain exhibit, art collection); at Poloneczce Radzillow (library, archives, memorial, and art collection); Szczorcow Chreptowiczow (a remarkable library, amounting to 12,000 volumes, a large archives and memorial); at Lipie Obuchowicz (library and archives); at Sworotwie Niezabitowski (library, archives, memorial, art collection); at Serwecze Niesiolowski
(an early archives collection); at Waszkow Bochwic (library); at Zamirze A. Fuciaty (a great library); and at other wealthy residences: Obrynie, Wereskowie, Morino, Ostaszynie, Szczorsze, Horodziej, Poloneczce, Sworotwie, Swojatycze, Snow, and others. Exemplary inns are found in Szczorsze Chreptowicz, managed by F. Fiszera (mentioned in the 1880 Agricultural Gazette), Ostaszynie Bulhaka, Wereszczaki and many others. Ornamental gardens: in Waszkowszcze (30 morgs in area); in Obrynie, Swojatycze Czapski, Sworotwie, Horodzieje, Szczorcze, Poloneczce and others. Stud farms were once present at a number of these estates; there are still a few today... [ed.- not listed here]... Of the famous people worthy of mention who originated in the province, the greatest are: Adam Mickiewicz, Thomas Zan, Jan Czeczot, Tadeusz Rejtan, Joseph Niesiolowski, Rafael Slizien (sculptor), Ignace Domejko, Florian Bochwic, (philosopher), Weljamin Rutski, Joachim Chreptowicz and Adam Moskiewicz (biographers), Jewlaszewski (diarist), Julian Korsak (Nowogródek ambassador), Michael Obuchowicz (diarist), Wadislaw Dybowski (naturalist), Jan Rudomina (Castellan of Nowogródek, famous for his scales [ed. or balances/weights?] and author of a description of the Chocim battle).
Regarding religious participation up till 1839, Ruthenians of this place belonged to the Uniate Church, until its annexation to the predominant (Russian Orthodox) faith. In 1880, from the transformed Uniate churches, 20 brick or stone Orthodox churches, 49 of wood, constituting 49 parishes, one stone and 52 wooden chapels were enlarged. Up to 1839, there was an assembly of 50 Uniate parishes. Within the present borders of the province, 46 Ruthenian sanctuaries had founders or benefactors from Polish or Latin clergy. Very likely these funds were greater, but as reported no one stood up for the Orthodox churches without the cooperation of the Polish landed proprietors, while traces of them have disappeared in the continual struggles of the country. An instructive point about this is that until the elimination of the Uniate church in 1839, numerous Orthodox churches had been erected by Polish landowners. Details can be found in the works of Archmandrite Nicholas (detailed in the statistical-historical descriptions in the 1864 Minsk Eparchs archives). In this work are briefly summarized all of the churches attributed to Polish financing within the current boundaries of Nowogródek province.
They are: 1) the Borisolev monastery in Nowogródek from the charity of Adam Chreptowicz, proprietor of Szczorsze; 2) the monastery at Wolnej, funded by Kristof Kamienski in 1632. Other benefactors at different times were Michael Domaslawski, Casimir Malawski, and Paul Makaszycki; 3) the monastery at Mir funded by Prince Karol Stanislaw Radziwill in 1705, bequeathed with remarkable sums, closed in 1824; 4) the monastery at Darewie had benefactors Krzyzanowski and the Lopot family; 5) the Orthodox church in Nowogródek funded by the Franciscan fathers from 1780; 6) the Orthodox church in Berezce, her Radzwill benefactors leaving a bequest of land in 1627; 7) the Orthodox church at Wolkowicz in 1787, funding by Korsak; 8) the Orthodox church in Miratycze from 1713, funding by the Jesmanows; 9) the Orthodox church at Walowce, funded by landowner Kurcz; 10) the Orthodox church in Wsielub, built in 1840 at the expense of Count Joseph O'Rourke; 11) the Orthodox church at Wielki Zuchowicze, funding by the Radziwills; 12) the Orthodox church at Czernichow, funded by Marcin Chalecki; 13) the Orthodox church at Stojko, funder Judycki; 14) the Orthodox church at Horodziej, built in 1808 at the expense of the landowner Brochocki , and her benefactor Bykowacy; 15) the Orthodox church at Oszpowie, funded by Miternawski; 16) the Orthodox church at Podlesie in 1794 funded by Bykowski; 17) the Orthodox church at Horodyszce in 1764 by the Pac family; 18) a second Orthodox church at Darewie, funded from 1550 by Jurahow; 19) the Orthodox church at Jeremicze in 1790 by Chodkiewicz; 20) the church at Zalusz, funding by the Radziwills; 21) the church at Izwie in 1757, funding by Sobolewski; 22) the church at Kolpienicze in 1781, capital funding from the Wilno Roman Catholic church; 23) the church at Luka in 1779, funding through the Kossakowskis; 24) the church in Lipie in 1773 funded by the Obuchowicz family and benefactor Czapscy; 25) the church at Lysicy in 1689, funded by the Lysykiewiczs; 26) the church at Maly Zuchowicz in 1783 funded by Niesiolowski; 27) the church at Morino, funded by Pocieha, with benefactors Brochocki and Kristof Radziwill; 28) the church at Ostrow with funding from Bakanowski; 29) the church at Ostrow, attributed to the charity of Protasewicz; 30) the church at Niedzwiadce, funded by Jablonski; 31) the church at Poczepowie in 1770, funded by Korsak; 32) the church at Delatycze funded by the Radziwills; 33) the church at Polonce, funded by the Dominican fathers; 34) the church at Poruczynie in 1783, funded by Prince Jacob Kobylinski of Lack; 35) the church at Rajcze in 1817 by Rajecki; 36) the church at Lubonicze, from a former bequeathal of an owned estate with a given annuity; 37) the church at Swojatycze, built in 1823 at the expense of Niezabitowski children; 38) the church at Siennej in 1770 funded by Wolodkowicz; 39) the church at Niankowie in 1750 funded by Wojnillowicz; 40) the church at Sulatycze, built of brick in 1850 at the expense of landowner Puchalski; 41) a second church at Sulatycze built in 1824 at the expense of Jazwinski; 42) the church at Basinie, owned from a bequeathal of landowner Ignace Jazwinski, deeded in 1839, with a shelter for 6 poor aged folk; 43) the church at Snow in 1836 with funding by Rdultowski; 44) the church at Szczorsze in 1776, funded by Joachim Chreptowicz, of expensive brick construction and a fund provided; 45) the church at Jatrze in 1773 funded by Kaszycow; and 46) the church in Jastreblewie, funding provided by the Kotlubajows. With respect to curial administration they were divided into three deaconates (or blahoczynias): in Nowogródek, Wielki Zuchowicz, and Kolpienicy.
With its physical church structures and clerical personnel in a very reduced condition, the Catholic church in Nowogródek province combined the Minsk and Wilna dioceses in 1869. In 1883 it further combined the Catholics in this province with the Mogilev archidiocese, numbering 24,360 of both sexes from seven parishes: Nowogródek, Wsielub, Woroncze, Kroszyn, Darewie, Poloneczce, and Nowy-Mysz. Latest details are available from the Minsk archdiocese. Parish churches in Nowogródek, Woroncze, Wsielub and Nowy-Mysz are built of brick, while the rest are of wood. Protestant faithful have an ancient brick meeting-house in Ostaszynie, funded by Szwejkowski; the Ostaszynie church is an affiliate of Sluck parish. Moslems have two mosques, namely in Lawczycze and Nowogródek. Jews possess 7 synagogues and 20 schools or prayer houses.
Annual fairs which take place are in Lyubcha on the feast of St. Elias (July 20th); in Korelicze (October 1st) on the Ruthenian "Pokrowy"; in Horodyszcze on the feastday of the Ruthenian St. Jerzy (April 23rd) and another there on Whitsuntide (August l5th and September 8th); in Mir on the feast of the Three Crosses (January 6th) [ed.-- isn't this also the Russian New Year?] as well as on the feasts of St. Nicholas (May 9th and December 6th). Taxes from all of these events amounts to about 30,000 rubles a year. For the greater part, mostly horses and cattle are bought and sold; specialty fairs excel in Mir and Lyubcha.
The chief industries in the province are oriented around agriculture, which annually produces for export a million rubles worth of goods, with railroad lines facilitating this export. 200,000 rubles worth of forest products are sold annually, although the forests are gradually disappearing. 200,000 rubles worth of vodka and other alcohol spirits are produced in the province annually; 80,000 rubles of wool, and miscellaneous livestock bring in another 150,000 rubles. Fruits, poultry, and processed dairy products also add to overall sum of exported goods.
On the other hand, the province consumes or imports soil fertilizers, iron, herrings, copper utensils, steel articles, as well as manufactured and grocery goods roughly amounting to 500,000 rubles annually. Beekeeping is represented by over 3,000 hives. Fisheries in Nowogródek and the Minsk provinces by contrast are insignificant and hardly provide enough supply for local residents. In lakes and streams are found the following species: pike, perch, tench, crucian, trout, roach, bream, [ed. untranslated term **jasgarze**], and other smaller fish. Game animals are so rare in the depleted woodlands of the northern and western parts of the province that there are scarcely any rabbits, foxes, partridges, or heathcocks, but in the southern portion healthy specimens of these are more frequently caught. A temperate climate and favorable growing conditions allows orchards everywhere to produce delicate kinds of fruits, even Italian walnuts, hazelnuts, trellis grapes, exquisite plums and pears. Nowogródek province temperatures are on the same isotherm on a line from Suwałki, Grodno, and Charkowow; isobarically, on the same line as Radom, Niszy Novogorod and Perm; isohimeny: Warsaw-Grodno, Zytomirsk and Stavropol. Most commonly winds are from the west or northwest.
The final sections are lists of former Marshals of Nowogródek province [ed.-names, coat-of-arms not translated, and the dates]: Wadyslaw Brochocki h. Osorya-(the last from his election until 1863; Andrew Jundzil h. Labedz, & Joseph Korbut h.Korczak- 1807 to 1812; Count Alexander O'Rourke h. his own person [ed.- translation of ** wlasnego**], Prince Konstanty Radziwill, Rdultowski h. Drogoslaw, & Casimir Rejtan h. Rejtan, (prior to 1805); Francis Dunin Rajecki h. Labędz (1822); Joseph Wojnillowicz h. Syrokomla as changed, 1816-1820; Joseph Wijnillowicz [ed.-**t.h.**?], 1858; Nicholas Wolski h. Polkozic & Joseph Wereszczaka h. Lis, 1825.
Former Voivods of Nowogródek when it was a major entity in the Lithuanian-Polish kingdom: Peter Montygerdowicz, 1431-1453; Marcin Gasztold, 1464-1471; Wojciech Janowicz Moniwid, 1471-1475; Michael Montowtowicz, 1483-1484; Soltan Alexandrowicz (strictly speaking Soltan Stretowicz Alexandrowicz), 1486-1487; Nicholas Radziwillowicz, 1488-1490; Yuri Pac, 1492-1496; Jan Jurjewicz Zabrzezinski, 1496-1498; Jan Litawor Chreptowicz, 1498-1500; Knight Simeon Jurjewicz Holszanski, 1500; Peter Hlebowicz, 1502; Albert Marcinowicz Gasztold, 1503-1506 and later in 1508; a certain number of woiwods beginning with Knight Ivan Lwowicz Hlinski, 1507-1508; Jan Janowicz Zabrzezinski, 1509-1530; Stanislaw Albert Gasztold, 1530-1542; Gregory Grygorowich Ostyk, 1542-1544; Alexander Iwanowicz Chodkiewicz, 1544-1549; Knight Alexander Iwanowricz Polubinski, 1551; Ivan Hornostaj, 1551-1558; Paul Iwanowicz Sapieha, 1558-1579; Prince Nicholas Nikolaevich Radzwill, 1579-1589; Theodore Skuminowicz Tyszkiewicz, 1590-1618; Nicholas Kristof Sapieha, 1618-1638; Alexander Sluszka, 1638-1642; Prince Sigmund Karol Radziwill, 1642; Thomas Sapieha, 1643-1646; George Chreptowicz, 1646-1650; Kristof Chalecki, 1650-1653; Peter Casimir Wiazewicz, 1653-1658; Kristof Wolodkowicz, 1658-1670; Jan Kiersznowski, 1670; Dimitry Samuel Polubinski, 1671-1678; Boguslaw Alexander Unichowski, 1689; Stephen Tyzenhaus, 1689-1709; Prince Jan Nicholas Radziwill, 1709-1729; Prince Nicholas Faustyn Radzivrill, 1729-1746; Prince George Radziwill, 1746-1754; Prince Joseph Alexander Jablonowski, 1755-1773; and Joseph Niesiolowski, (elected from 1733 to 1814). [ed.: it appears that after about the mid 1500s, the position was retained for life except under unusual circumstances. The final date generally represents the year of death with some obvious exceptions].
Castellans of Nowogródek were: Gregory Grygorovrich Wolowicz, 1566-1585; Knight Alexander Iwanowicz Polubinski, 1586-1607; Samuel Wolowicz, 1608-1626; Wasil Wasilev'ricz Kopec, 1626-1636; Jan Dusiatski Rudomina, 1636-1646; Bogdan Wilhemowicz Zawierski Stetkiewicz, 1646-165 1; Samuel Stetkiewicz, 1652-1660; Nicholas Wladyslaw Judycki, 16601670; Stanislaw Zenowicz, 1671-1672; Kristof Jesman, 1672-1677; Nicholas Wladyslaw Przezdziecki, 1677-1683; Alexander Jasiennicki Wojna, 1684-1698; Stephen Aleksandrowicz, 1698-1700; Theodore Jerome Obuchowicz, 1700-1707; Anthony Nowosielski, 1709-1726; Anthony Oskierko, 1726-1734; Boguslaw Niezabytowski, 1734-1739; Jan Rdultowski, 17391744; Daniel Szyszko, 1744-1756; Jan Chreptovvicz, 1756-1765; Joseph Niesiolowski, 17651773; Raphael Joseph Jelenski, 1773-1780 and Gideon Jelenski, 1780-1798. [ed.: as with the Woiwods, the final date is generally the year of their death].
[Additional Slownik information on Nowogródek town/province from Volume XV]:
NOWOGRÓDEK ... 3). (amendments to S.G. Volume VII, 255-263)- a province [Powiat] town within the Minsk gubernia. In the third redistricting (not the second), Nowogródek became a provincial town in the Sluck gubernia (p.255). The picture of the Blessed Virgin Mary, formerly in the castle Orthodox church, is present today in the Borysogleb Orthodox Church (post-Basilian but not in St. Nicholas Church {p.258}). Michael Dabrowski, a Maltese knight, founded the Dominicans in Nowogródek and donated the Mogilny, Bulbrowszczyna, and Turzec estates to them. Among the Nowogródek province Marshals omitted in the earlier work were: Adam Wierzejski (1799-1807), Josef Wojnilowicz (1816-1820), and Josef Kaszye (1830).
The following works relate to Nowogródek: Edward Pawlowicz: "Nowogródek In the First Half of the 19th Century", a Russian writer (in Research Works Dedicated in honor of the 100th Anniversary of Adam Mickiewicz, Warsaw, V. II., pp. 136-144); Contained in footnotes of the lists of the Voivods and Castellans of Nowogródek (X.W.K?): "Oh marvelous picture of Our Lady in Nowogródek!" (same V. II., p.257 et. seq.); Edward Pawlowicz: "From the Wilija to the Nieman", Lwow 1901; same publication: "Nowogródek in the 19th Century", Krakow 1902.
Note: All Slownik longitudes in this article have been converted to modern coordinates which is based on the Greenwich zero meridian. All Polish measurement units (land areas, distances, height above sea level, etc.) were converted to American-English equivalents. Monetary units, where identified, were left in zlotys/zl. or rubles/rs.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1886, vol. 7, pp. 258-262; 1902, vol. 15]
Nowydwór
13) Nowydwór [German name Neuhof]: estate of the Chelmno bishops, Starogard powiat, postal, telegraph and railway stations, district civil registrar's office. Located 4 km. from Pelplin, it is served by the Catholic parish in Klonówka and the Protestant congregation in Rudno; it has a Catholic school. With the manorial farmstead of Debina (German name Eichwald) it has 13 homesteads, 48 hearths, 234 Catholic inhabitants (as of 1879), 516.1 hectares of arable land and gardens, 139.3 of meadows, 1.7 of pastureland, 12.2 unusable hectares, 8.9 of water, for a total of 678.2 hectares, with a net income of 9,796 marks from the land; it is about 12 km. from the powiat capital [Starogard Gdanski].
It appears that Nowydwór is one of the older settlements. In 1884 urns were discovered there, but only scraps were extracted. Long ago this estate was the property of the Pelplin Cistercians. The local manorial farmstead may already have been founded in the 15th century on the old territory of Pelplin (cmp. Rev. Kujot's Opactwo Pelplinskie, p. 386). There used to be two smaller farmsteads there, which circa 1618 were called Kamieniec and Starydwór [Old Manor]. In 1545 it and Ropuchy came into the possession of the monastic attorney Jerzy Pomierski. In 1548 King Zygmunt August confirmed Pomierski's lifelong tenancy, along with the monastery's charters. In 1594 farm-owners from Rudno leased the local manorial farmstead for 12 years at 700 zl. (2,659 marks) annually. The original of this agreement, designated for the monks' use, has been preserved to this day in the Pelplin records. In regard to form and signatures it is one of the most interesting relics of the Cistercian era. It was drawn up in Polish: "We, Oswald Kiclier (Lachtliwy) and Stanislaw Raikowski, soltyses, and all neighbors of the village of His Royal Majesty Rudno, leaseholders for this period of His Excellency Stanislaw Przyjemski, Royal Marshal, Konin starosta, etc." At the bottom and on the left side of this document all the lease-holders signed, but in German. Stanislaw Raikowski signs it with his own hand as "Stenzel Reke," his two brothers Pawel and Jan/ Hans do likewise. Alongside them stand Lukasz Mulintz (Milecz, from Milecz near Matawy), Jan Frost, Pawel Bielawski (Bilaw), Jan Hildebrandt (Hilbrandt). Several of the names are written very illegibly; there are 17 of them in all. Both the soltyses put their seals over their names. The shields are just as in their arms, but in place of the usual arms of Rajkowski there is a high cross to which a line is attached at a right angle from the left. The other soltys's seal has three stars on the shield. This document was drawn up in Rudno. The names show that adoption of German forms happened among the peasants of Pomerania as well as the nobles; from the days of the Teutonic Knights the inhabitants had become so used to these forms that they signed their names that way, even though they considered themselves Poles.
In 1661 with abbot Czarlinski's permission the monastery leased Nowydwór for three years to the renowned lord Jan Kenig. The lease-holder was to occupy: Grawensee, Szaszek, Rorteich, Dwaslupy, a pond in the woods, Starydwór by Wangiermucy, a small pond by the manor, and a second in front of the courtyard. The monastery kept for itself three ponds, Grabówko, Chójka "by the dike" and Lenartek. Five people and an innkeeper were left behind. Kenig had wood for free, but was not to touch the oak grove and small birch forest beyond the manor. The livestock consisted of 8 oxen and 3 cows (this was in the days after the Swedish war). The lease was for 500 zl. the first year, 900 the second, and 1,000 the third. The monastery allowed brewing beer for the house's use, but stipulated that Kenig was to leave a complete sowing on the farmstead of 1½ lasts of rye, half a last of barley, a last of oats, a quarter bushel of peas, and several bushels of wheat.
On 14 April 1683 a great fire broke out in Nowydwór and destroyed all the farm buildings and livestock.
Currently Nowydwór has 85 Chelmno-measure wlókas. After the transfer of the Chelmno diocese's capital from Chelmza to Pelplin in 1821, Nowydwór remained the property of the bishop. The Cistercians built the local chapel for their steward, who resided there.
[Editor's note: there are dozens of places named Nowy Dwór in Poland, and many were called Neuhof by the Germans because both names mean "new manor." So even if this name sounds familiar, don't jump to the conclusion this is the right one unless the one you want was located within a few kilometers of Pelplin, in what is now Gdansk province.]
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1886, vol. 7, p. 298, 13th entry under Nowydwór]
This translation, by William F. Hoffman, first appeared in the Summer 1997 issue of "Bulletin of the Polish Genealogical Society of America".
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The Facts of Barbie
There are certain things we all should know about Barbie history. When an icon carries this much weight in a society, it becomes so present, so commonplace that it becomes almost invisible, taken for granted. When this happens we have to dredge our collective memories, to see what awareness we can dislodge.
In her book "Forever Barbie", M. G. Lord does just that, and the bodies of many repressed memories come floating to the surface. In this "biography" of Barbie, Lord finds many fascinating parallels between the development of Barbie, and the evolution of our culture. She explores Barbie as if the doll is the collective subconscious of America, which I think in many ways is true. Many of the following facts come from "Forever Barbie".
Here are some high points from early Barbie history:
In 1945 Ruth and Elliot Handler form Mattel.
In 1957 Ruth conceives of a three dimensional adult-like doll. The body is based on German doll called "Lilli" which is sold as a sex toy for men.
In 1958 the first Barbie dolls are manufactured in Japan.
Barbie has her debut in winter 1959 at the American Toy Fair in NYC.
The marketing of Barbie is driven by Ernest Dichter, director of the Institute for Motivational Research. A PhD who studied psychology at the University of Vienna, Dichter used Freudian analysis to bring a "scientific" approach to marketing.
In 1963 "Sex and the Single Girl" is published.
In 1967 the "Twist and Turn" Barbie is released, with swivel waist and hips.
In 1971, with the "Malibu Barbie", Barbies eyes look straight ahead for the first time. Older Barbies eyes looked slightly down and to the side.
In 1975, "Skipper", Barbie's sidekick, sprouts breasts.
In 1979 Barbie gets a new accessory, the "Fur & Jewels Safe" with a security alarm. Just in time for the 80's.
In 1980 Black Barbie is released. She is designed by Kitty Black Perkins, a black woman.
Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America in 1983.
In 1984 Barbie is sold with the slogan "We girls can do anything". "Day-to-Night" Barbie comes with a briefcase, calculator, newspaper and business card. And Mattel releases "She-Ra, Princess of Power", promoted with the slogan "The fate of the world is in the hands of one beautiful girl".
Also in 1984, Geraldine Ferraro makes a bid for Vice President of the United States.
And finally in 1984 (busy year) Drexel Burnham Lambert supplies $231 million to Mattel. Michael Milken voices support for Barbie and Mattel, saying "I believe in Barbie."
And some facts of interest:
Barbie is made from polyvinylchloride.
If Barbie was human sized, she would stand 5 foot 6 inches tall, weigh 110 pounds, and have a 39 inch bust, 18 inch waist and 33 inch hips.
She is named after Ruth and Elliot Handler's daughter. Ken is named after their son.
"Plastic money", the credit card, came into use in 1958 with the invention of the American Express Card, the same year that plastic was used to mass produce Barbie.
Mattel used a widespread new medium for selling Barbie: television. Through TV, Barbie could be marketed directly to children.
Barbie is eleven and one half inches tall.
In 1992 the average American girl owned 7 Barbies.
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The Can Ball Report Recap – March 4
Last night’s top performers were highlighted by David Andoh’s double-double, Andrew Wiggins’ 20-point effort and three Simon Fraser ladies in The Can Ball Report Recap …
Montreal’s David Andoh. (PHOTO: Liberty Athletics)
The Pros
Vaughan, ON’s Andrew Wiggins had 20 pts, 5 rebs, 1 ast, 1 blk in 38 mins in MIN’s 100-85 loss to DEN.
Toronto’s Sim Bhullar had 18 pts, 8 rebs, 3 asts, 7 blks in 26 mins in Reno’s 158-152 win over Rio Grande Valley.
The NC-Double-Eh Men
Montreal’s David Andoh had 21 pts, 10 rebs, 1 stl in 29 mins in Liberty’s 80-70 loss to UNC Asheville.
Toronto’s Trae Bell-Haynes had 8 pts, 2 rebs, 5 asts, 4 stls, 1 blk in 29 mins in Vermont’s 66-39 win over UMBC.
Vancouver’s Drew Urquhart had 10 pts, 4 rebs, 2 asts, 1 blk in 20 mins in Vermont’s win over UMBC.
Toronto’s Tyler Stone had 17 pts, 9 rebs, 3 stls, 3 blks in 35 mins in Howard’s 71-62 loss to NJIT.
Toronto’s Daniel Mullings had 12 pts, 3 rebs, 2 asts, 3 stls in 23 mins in New Mexico St’s 69-48 win over Texas Pan American.
Toronto’s Malcolm Duvivier had 18 pts, 2 rebs, 3 asts, 3 stls in 39 mins in Oregon St’s 65-62 loss to Oregon.
Mississauga, ON’s Stefan Jankovic had 20 pts, 7 rebs, 1 stl in 23 mins in Hawaii’s 98-90 loss to UC Santa Barbara.
The NC-Double-Eh Women
Lethbridge, AB’s Katie Lowen had 20 pts, 2 rebs, 2 asts, 3 stls in 33 mins in Simon Fraser’s 64-56 win over Saint Martin’s.
Mission, BC’s Erin Chambers had 16 pts, 4 rebs, 4 asts, 1 blk in 39 mins in Simon Fraser’s win over Saint Martin’s.
London, ON’s Meg Wilson had 11 pts, 15 rebs, 1 stl, 3 blks in 37 mins in Simon Fraser’s win over Saint Martin’s.
Ottawa’s Kim Pierre-Louis had 22 pts, 4 rebs in 35 mins in Massachusetts’ 55-49 win over St. Bonaventure.
Ajax, ON’s Dakota Whyte had 16 pts, 1 reb, 2 asts in 32 mins in Wisconsin’s 58-56 loss to Purdue.
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Joel Figueroa steps back in the Ticats twilight zone
Oct/30/15 09:36 AM
A rash of injuries have forced the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to use four different left tackles in the past five weeks — and it's led head coach Kent Austin to wonder if there's a little pre-Halloween sorcery going on in the bowels of some nefarious opposing stadium.
"Somebody's got a voodoo doll on us at left tackle and they're are sticking needles into us," Austin said.
The run of injuries began with Jake Olson, who was having a solid sophomore season before tearing his patella in a week 12 matchup against the Edmonton Eskimos (the same game that saw quarterback Zach Collaros lost for the year with a torn ACL.) Joel Figueroa took over for Olson the following week, but was hurt (again) in the loss to Calgary.
Rookie Cord Howard was up next, starting in the Oct. 19 win over Montreal and again last week vs. the Lions. But he was forced from the game with a lower body injury in the first half, only to be replaced by Canadian guard Ryan Bomben — who then suffered an arm injury that will likely cost him the rest of the season.
So now the Ticats are in need of a starting guard and another left tackle.
"It's tough, because you want to put the most competitive group up front, because it starts there," Austin said.
Veteran Tim O'Neill will step in at guard, while Figueroa looks set to return to the tackle spot on Sunday against the Redblacks. A talented and athletic player, Figueroa has missed 21 games over the past three seasons due to injury and has made just four starts this season.
"Figs hasn't played a lot this year, but the good news is he's been with us, so we trust that he'll play well," Austin said.
In addition to Figueroa, the Ticats could also see the return of veteran receiver Bakari Grant, who has been plagued by injuries. They have forced him to miss eight of the last 10 games. He has 30 catches and 447 yards and also brings a physical dimension to the receiving corps.
"It's looking good for Bakari, so that's real positive for us," Austin said.
The Redblacks are having their injury issues as well. Quarterback Henry Burris missed his second straight practice on Thursday with a knee injury, though head coach Rick Campbell told Ottawa media that he was "very confident," Burris would play Sunday.
If Burris can't go, Thomas DeMarco would get the nod for Ottawa. Burris has 219 career starts, DeMarco six and Austin was cagey on how a change at quarterback might alter Hamilton's defensive game plan.
"We might tailor it a little bit," he said, smiling.
And what does a tailor use to get the job done?
Needles.
(thespec.com)
Joel Figueroa Switches Positions For Team
Jun/06/14 12:01 AM
The Ticats are testing driving a new look offensive line at this year’s training camp.
Tackles Brian Simmons and Joel Figueroa have flipped spots while a handful of others are competing for spots on the interior of the line.
Head coach Kent Austin says they want to see if the switch at tackle makes the o-line better.
Hamilton allowed a CFL worst 65 sacks last season, and Austin admits that he thought of making the switch in 2013.
“This year we’re at a little bit different place with our understanding of what we are trying to do,” said Austin.
Offensive line coach Allen Rudolph says it’s a good time to try the experiment.
Rudolph says, “In case of injury or whatever we can bounce those guys around,” adding they have some good depth in the trenches and are “mixing and matching” to see which player is the best fit at each spot.
Figueroa is willing to help the team in any way, saying “I do whatever the coach asks me, play both sides or any interior” position if it helps the team, “I’m glad to help.”
Moving from right to left tackle brings a change in stance, foot work and hand movements for the hulking Miami University grad, but says “it’s nothing really big, it’s pretty much the same.”
Simmons is relishing the opportunity to expand his skills, saying the technique and angles are different, but he likes it, “Because this is my fourth camp, I need a challenge.”
The 29-year-old Simmons is also rubbing some A5-35 on body parts that he doesn’t normally reach.
“I’m used to everything on the left (side of his body) hurtin’, now everything on the right side is hurtin’,” he said with a smile, “so it’s nice to get a change.”
Simmons says apart from the physical stress that comes with training camp, he says the mental preparation “is the biggest challenge for me.”
(900chml.com)
Ticats’ Joel Figueroa ‘absolutely loves the game’
Aug/21/13 08:47 AM
HAMILTON — The defensive back is running towards the end zone. He's picked off a Henry Burris pass and, even though it's practice, he's steaming towards the goal line as his fellow DBs whoop and holler encouragement.
Offensive tackle Joel Figueroa does not like this. He's running full speed in pursuit, weaving through coaches, equipment guys, and teammates, 20 yards, 30 yards, now 40 yards. The defensive back starts to pull up. Figueroa does not.
Splat.
Professional football players don't tackle in practice and they certain don't flatten their teammates. Figueroa knows it's wrong — this is not the first time he's done it — but he's like a kid who can't help but touch the hot stove, even though he knows better.
"I don't like turnovers and when it happens, I see red and I attack. The DB wasn't moving as fast as I thought he was and I kind of just ran into him," Figueroa explains, somewhat apologetically (but not really.) "If you intercept the ball or pick up a fumble and run, then it's live. If you stop, then I'll stop. I'm not going to let you score, even in practice."
It is entirely possible that Joel Figueroa is 12-year-old boy trapped in a giant body. He plays the game with an energy and enthusiasm that's infectious, almost playful. Ask his teammates about him — even his head coach — and they inevitably begin to chuckle.
"We love Figs. He absolutely loves the game and we love players that love football," said Kent Austin. "He'll block anywhere. He'll block in the stands if has an opportunity to, if the whistle hasn't been blown.
"I'm from the deep South — we like physical football players."
Born in Puerto Rico and raised in Miami, Figueroa played his college ball at the University of Miami and seemed on track for a pro career before a rash of injuries cut into his playing time. Back surgery before his senior season — he was given another year of eligibility due to its severity — scared off all of his potential NFL suitors.
He sat out a year after graduation, staying in shape and working out, hoping for an opportunity. But he also did something far more valuable with his time.
It was nearly two years ago that Figueroa's brother-in-law was killed in car accident, leaving behind a pregnant wife and young son. The entire Figueroa clan stepped into the breach — Joel is the youngest of three in a tight family — including "Uncle Joey."
"Every chance I get, I look after those kids like they're my own. There's a lot of motivation to make sure they grow up happy, finish school," Figueroa said. "We play around all the time, trying to tire them out. They end up wearing me out though.
"Their love and support keeps me focused."
After a steep learning curve — Figueroa admits he didn't know it was three downs, 12-men or a bigger field when he first got here – the six-foot-six, 320 pounder has now settled into in a starting role the last two weeks. He naked aggression has been integral in the Ticats finally establishing a much-needed running game and improving Burris' protection.
"At times we have to dial him down but it's easier to dial a guy down than to dial him up," Austin said.
The coach adds one more caveat.
"We don't want Figueroa tackling our guys. That six-six, 340 landing on our little DBs," Austin said. "We don't need that."
(guelphmercury.com)
PHOTO: Joel Figueroa Celebrates A TigerCats TD
Hamilton Tiger-Cats (Left to Right) Samuel Giguere, Mike Ingersoll, Justin Hilton, Greg Ellingson, and Joel Figueroa celebrate Ellingson's touchdown. (CP/Aaron Lynett)
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Home Safety The truth about video games
The truth about video games
Mike Goldsmith
Video games are amazing, right?
Remember losing days to Super Mario World with your brother on the SNES as a kid? How about all those Resident Evil references that cuddly Simon Pegg crammed into Spaced?
Too nerdy? What about that Prosecco-ed up marathon on one of those Japanese dancing games when you were on that hen weekender down in Weymouth?
Still too much? Okay, what about being sat on the loo at work sneaking a crafty go on Words With Friends because you need to beat your best mate?
Now we have you.
But videogames and kids… In 2018, that’s a tough one. Nipper-friendly YouTuber DanTDM plays lovely 7+-rated Minecraft (the Modern Parent’s gaming safety net) but he also sets Hatchimals on fire and vlogs about nasty old Call Of Duty, there are Five Nights at Freddy’s cuddly toys on sale in Asda and as for Grand Theft bloody Auto…
Like we say, it’s tough. You don’t want to be one of ‘those’ parents who only let their teenager play Peppa Pig Kart Racer but you know letting your kids retreat to their boycaves with a copy of Skyrim isn’t exactly the smartest thing to do. It’s the same as tablets, it’s the same as social media, it’s the same as everything digital – and you need help.
So here’s some help. Like all advice, you need to back this up with your own common sense, shared experience and research. If you read two articles, try The Guardian’s crash course in gaming for parents and a visit to askaboutgames.com, an industry-created website full of handy parental guides about the appropriateness of specific videogames.
We’ve tried to dispel a few myths, create some discussion but also to remember one thing. Videogames are amazing… so how can you make sure your kids think so too?
Are video games ratings really necessary?
“Can I download Fortnite? All my friends have it!” Whether that’s on a PS4 or a hand-me-down smartphone (and Fortnite is a 12 no matter what device you use, BTW – wait til high school, youngster), it’s the eternal question – should you let your child play a videogame when the rating says it’s for an older age group?
It’s the same as modern movies – when the subject matter is superheroes or fantasy ‘stuff’, it’s just silly and made up, right? Well, just as there’s a world of difference between The Lego Batman Movie and Deadpool 2 (which looks hilarious), games deserve the same level of scrutiny. Ratings are there to be respected and, most of all, used.
The PEGI rating system is now on every console or PC title by law, with clear age levels (3, 7, 12, 16 and 18) plus supporting ‘content descriptors’ detailing whether a game features Sex, Violence, Fear, Bad Language etc. As for mobile devices, both Google Play and iTunes have clear age ratings that you should respect before giving your fingerprint over to another iTunes purchase.
Be smart and treat these seriously. Shops aren’t legally allowed to sell games to under-age children and while you can’t be prosecuted for letting your children play age-inappropriate games, it’s not bloody clever is it? Explain this to your kids – there may be tears in the short-term but rather that now than long-term effects.
• PEGI goes legal: https://www.vg247.com/2012/07/30/parents-in-the-dock-pegi-finally-goes-legal-in-uk/
• Guide to PEGI ratings: https://pegi.info/page/parental-control-tools
• Videogames and violence: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/04/video-games-violence-parents-guide-pegi-call-of-duty-grand-theft-atuo
• The Video Recordings Act and age ratings: https://legalgamer.weebly.com/blog/the-legal-status-of-age-ratings-uk
• Commen Sense Media review Fortnite: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/game-reviews/fortnite
But what about gaming online?
You may be able to monitor and even control the games your kids buy, play and download, but there’s a lot of devil in the detail. What about those infamous in-app purchases and micro-transactions? How about downloading games and demos to an empty console hard drive? And what about playing online with distant gamers whispering into your child’s Bluetoothed ear?
Back in the day when gaming meant buying a shiny CD-ROM, it was easy but, yup, that pesky internet has ruined everything. Thankfully, there are plenty of guides to settings that will prevent you getting a big iTunes bill for magic coins or letting your kids download first-person shooters to the Xbox. Once again, the trick is to talk sensibly about this, just as you have when explaining chatrooms, internet safety and even online pornography.
Choose a time when your child isn’t in silly mode, get your script down (see the resources below) and clearly lay out the ground rules. Do not buy anything, whether the pop-up screen asks for pounds, euros or unicorn tears. Do not download anything above the agreed age rating. Do not chat to strangers online, whether on a microphone or in a text window. If something sounds inappropriate, it probably is – stop and check with a parent/adult/carer.
TL;DR? If something looks too good to be true, it probably is.
• Safer Children in a Digital World: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120107041050/https://www.education.gov.uk/publications/eOrderingDownload/DCSF-00334-2008.pdf
• PEGI guide to parental controls: https://pegi.info/page/parental-control-tools
• Ask About Games on parental controls: http://www.askaboutgames.com/advice/parental-controls/
Come back tomorrow for part two, including when to let your kid go solo, how to manage gaming on playdates and sleepovers, and how long is too long?
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Purple breeze
Untamed and tighter than Lana Turner’s sweater
Do you remember Tiki ? That slightly frightening carved-wood divinity from the 1960s ? Recently, I went to the quai Branly museum to see the exhibit Tiki Pop : America imagines its own Polynesian paradise, which is all about the American obsession for South Pacific culture from the 1940s to the 60s. I do personally own a muumuu dress, and I have a vague memory of tiki mugs and tiki torches. And the hut-like architecture styles displayed in the exhibit looked familiar to me once there. But how could I have known who Don the Beachcomber was before I was even born ?
The quai Branly museum is a relative newcomer to the Parisian museum scene. Built by the architect Jean Nouvel, it was inaugurated in 2006, and specializes in the art and civilizations of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. The elongated red “bridge-museum” is built on stilts and hovers above an enormous park. The winding paths and decorative pampas grasses which brush my arms as I’m walking through the park leave me feeling a long way from the busy road alongside the Seine just behind me.
Once inside, the museum is dark and cool. And even though the design and layout already feel dated, the Tiki Pop exhibit is fun and refreshing. Beginning with reference to Gaugin’s paintings of Polynesian women in the 1890s, the exhibit lead me through the post-World War II period, when novels like James Michener’s Tales of the South Pacific helped popularize the islands, and then it explained how the Tiki divinity became co-opted by restaurateurs and bar-owners on the West coast and through other parts of the U.S.
You’re probably no stranger to the mid-century aesthetic, which has become popular (again) in the last ten years. When I lived in the U.S., I loved collecting colorful Melmac dishes (which some French friends have refused to eat from, with the exception of during a picnic), Danish coffee tables, or scraps of barkcloth. The Mad Men craze hit France a few years back, and with it a renewed love for all things mid-century. A gallery called Les Modernistes opened in a street near ours a few years ago, mercifully replacing a shop full of glorified phone booths called TaxiPhoneDar. So now instead of hearing people scream into telephones as I walk by the shop, I can regularly ogle Danish desks or even a multi-colored Charlotte Perriand bookshelf.
Modern portrayals of the 1950s show how the era was all about achieving the American dream : job, house in the suburbs, wife, children, and a great car. Think Don Draper - his only jobs once back home after work were to have a(nother) drink, read the paper, and simply put his feet under the dinner table (mettre les pieds sous la table, as the French so aptly put it). Betty Draper’s job was to provide him a stress-free environment far from the crowds, grime, and crime of the city.
Tiki culture took the 1950s American man one step further into relaxation, into the carefree world of the South Pacific islands, represented by the Tiki divinity and the vahiné, or bare-breasted hula girl. The so-called primitive island lifestyle involved palm trees, thatched huts, ukulele music, and of course, cocktails.
Mai tai and bamboo
Back in California, Sugie’s Original “The Tropics” was one of several Tiki-themed establishments that sold many a cocktail while glorifying the island lifestyle. Opened in Beverly Hills in 1936 by an Englishman, Harry “Sugie” Sugarman, the Polynesian-themed restaurant and cocktail lounge featured palm trees and pretty much anything you could possibly fashion out of bamboo. Menu items included a cocktail called Lana Turner’s “Untamed : One drink and you’re tighter - than Lana Turner’s sweater !” The price you paid for getting tight ? A whopping 64 cents.
The quai Branly curators set up a tiny replica of a Mai Tai bar in a cozy room in one corner of the museum, although I was disappointed to discover that they don’t actually serve cocktails. But I slid into a cushioned built-in seating area around a rattan table and looked through the exhibit catalogue, and I admit that those cushions were so comfortable that I closed my eyes for a glorious ten minutes. Where else but Paris could you have a nap in a museum ?
But the exhibit also includes Tiki mugs, menus from other bars like Don the Beachcomber’s in Los Angeles, and even photos and dioramas of the Tiki architectural style that was used for bowling alleys, motels, and restaurants that sprang up in California, Florida, and other areas of the U.S. during the period.
Makin’ Wicky Wacky
Even though the late 1960s saw a fading out of this style, which was deemed to be colonialist, decadent, and old-fashioned by the younger counter-culture generation, the recent craze for all things mid-century has revived the Tiki aesthetic. And once I’d seen the exhibit, I started finding Tiki influence everywhere : while looking through the web site of the amazing German company Wallpapers from the 70s, I ran across the one called Megamba in black/greyor pale green. Even my local cinema’s 1930s architecture (at Gambetta) features spooky-looking faces above the marquee that strangely resemble Tiki.
But if you don’t have a Tiki around, how about just making and serving a Purple breeze ? The cocktail recipe is below, and it was adapted from the recipe provided by the Tiki Lounge in Paris’ 11th district. If you want to put on a few songs from the period, simply click on the quai Branly’s Deezer playlist, and don’t forget Sophie Tucker’s “Makin’ Wicky Wacky Down in Waikiki” ! Put on your favorite muumuu or Hawaiian shirt, sip away, and peruse the immense exhibit catalogue, written by the urban archeologist Sven Kirsten. Aloha ahi ahi... And let me know in the comments section below if Tiki shows up at your door !
for the hibiscus syrup :
¼ cup (50g) raw sugar
scant 2¼ cups (500ml) water
¾ cup (25g) dried hibiscus flowers (sometimes called "flor de Jamaica," you can find these in Mexican food shops or at Amazon)
note : This makes much more hibiscus syrup than you’ll need for the cocktail, but stored in a jar in the fridge, it comes in handy for drinking on its own or making more cocktails later.
for the cocktail :
⅓ cup (65ml) dark rum
¼ cup (50ml) freshly squeezed orange juice (1 orange)
1½ tablespoons (20ml) hibiscus syrup
1½ tablespoons (20ml) freshly squeezed lime juice (½ lime)
¾ cup (150ml) ginger beer or ginger ale, or more (to taste)
how to make it :
First make the hibiscus syrup : put the sugar and water in a small casserole and bring to the boil.
As soon as the sugar is completely dissolved, place the hibiscus flowers in the syrup.
Let this mixture boil for two minutes.
Cover the casserole and let the mixture cool while letting the flowers infuse the syrup for 1 hour. Strain the syrup into a jar.
To finish the cocktail, put the rum, orange juice, hibiscus syrup, and lime juice into a shaker or jar and shake vigorously with several ice cubes.
Divide this mixture into 2 tiki mugs or glasses (I used some 1950s French flea market finds) and top up with the ginger beer or ginger ale.
Decorate with straws, umbrellas, a slice of pineapple or orange, or anything South Pacific you can find ! Okole Maluna ! (Bottoms up !)
makes 2 cocktails
Tags : cocktail , Tiki , quai Branly , mid-century , rum , hibiscus flowers
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Obama on Small-Town Americans (Updated)
Filed under: 2008 Election — DRJ @ 6:30 pm
[Guest post by DRJ]
At a weekend a fund-raising event with wealthy San Francisco donors, Barack Obama reportedly singled out small-town Americans who “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them” (audio and full transcript at the link):
“But — so the questions you’re most likely to get about me, ‘Well, what is this guy going to do for me? What’s the concrete thing?’ What they wanna hear is — so, we’ll give you talking points about what we’re proposing — close tax loopholes, roll back, you know, the tax cuts for the top 1 percent. Obama’s gonna give tax breaks to middle-class folks and we’re gonna provide health care for every American. So we’ll go down a series of talking points.
But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there’s not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.“
For an intellectual who has spent his entire adult life in a professional career, Obama (and his wife, for that matter) are pretty good at digging holes.
H/T cfbleachers.
UPDATE 4/12/2008 – Obama doubles down:
“But before a raucous crowd in Terre Haute, Ind., Friday night, Obama not only repeated many of the same lines, he expanded on them. “When I go around and talk to people, there is frustration and there is anger and there is bitterness. And what’s worse is when people are expressing their anger, and politicians try to say, ‘What are you angry about?'”
“Of course they’re bitter. Of course they’re frustrated. You would be, too — in fact, many of you are,” Obama said.
Obama also returned fire on both his critics.
“Here’s what’s rich: Senator Clinton says, ‘I don’t think people are bitter in Pennsylvania. I think Barack’s being condescending.’ John McCain says, ‘He’s obviously out of touch with people.’ Out of touch? John McCain, it took him three tries to figure out the home foreclosure crisis was a problem and to come up with a plan for it, and he’s saying I’m out of touch? Senator Clinton voted for a credit card-sponsored bankruptcy bill that made it harder for people to get out of debt — after taking money from the financial services companies — and she says I’m out of touch?
“No, I’m in touch. I know exactly what’s going on. … People are fed up. They’re angry and they’re frustrated and they’re bitter, and they want to see a change in Washington.”
— DRJ
179 Responses to “Obama on Small-Town Americans (Updated)”
I dedicate this post to Levi:
“Because everyone is stupid by default, and it’s really easy to stay stupid. It actually requires a little bit of effort to be smart, so there’s not as many smart people as there are stupid people. And because we live in a democracy, stupid people’s votes count just as much as smart people’s. Thus, George Bush.”
DRJ (a431ca) — 4/11/2008 @ 6:44 pm
Isn’t Obama opposed to NAFTA and the free trade agreement with Colombia? And yet he accuses others of clinging to anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
This man is not fit to hold the office he seeks.
Steverino (6772c8) — 4/11/2008 @ 6:45 pm
Sorry, DRJ. I should have come to you with this link, but I don’t know the best way to do that yet.
Anyway, …
So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.“
The get bitter…you mean like when they call us a mean, lazy, slothful country? When they say we are the US of KKK America? When they say God Damn America? Like that kind of bitter?
The cling to guns…you mean like the gang violence between the Crips and the Bloods? You mean like the inner city crime statistics using weapons to commit armed robbery, rape, aggravated battery…that kind of clinging to guns?
Clinging to religion…you mean like not denouncing black liberation theology after it has been outed as an incendiary cocktail of racial and class warfare? Or more like clinging to the Nation of Islam where white people are called the devil and Jews are accused of being garbage and following a “gutter religion”…you mean that kind of clinging?
Anti-immigrant sentiment, you mean like hatred toward Korean and Jewish shopowners, fights with Latinos by gang members and calling a Jewish neighborhood “Hymietown” and disparaging Italians and their “garlic noses”…that kind of anti-immigrant sentiment?
And trashing NAFTA and the Columbian trade agreements…do you mean that kind of anti-trade sentiment?
You know for some fringe hard leftists, there really are no mirrors in their glass houses.
[cfbleachers: I saw this story on TV but I also owe you a H/T for raising it so I added it above. Anytime you want to email me, you can use drj432-at-yahoo.com but I’m sometimes lax in checking my mail. Thanks again. — DRJ]
cfbleachers (4040c7) — 4/11/2008 @ 6:59 pm
Now, remembering what stef has said about Elton John, we can only go by what people say, and not infer what they must have meant.
“And because we live in a democracy, stupid people’s votes count just as much as smart people’s. Thus, George Bush.”
Which would presume all the smart people wanted John F kerry to be president. Which is um….stupid.
buzz (ab76d9) — 4/11/2008 @ 7:11 pm
long ago, talking to a biz buddy, i said “borrowing a line from lincoln, the lord must have loved stupid people, because he made so many of them.”
buddy says “lincoln said that??”
assistant devil's advocate (a83422) — 4/11/2008 @ 7:20 pm
They cling to bowling, too….wonder why he forgot to mention that.
driver (faae10) — 4/11/2008 @ 7:21 pm
These people are just elitist snobs … and not very smart ones at that.
SPQR (26be8b) — 4/11/2008 @ 7:25 pm
Three years ago, Obama was a state Senator from the black political machine on the south side of Chicago. He’s never done anything of note outside that small world and it shows. Those small town people in PA are “typical white people” and you know how they are.
Mike K (86bddb) — 4/11/2008 @ 7:37 pm
As a typical white person coming from a small Pennsylvania town, I can assure Barry Hussein that this honkey mf’er will never vote for a racist demogogue who espouses socialist and pacifism. My dinky little hometown has a memorial statue dedicated to the local Union soldiers who died to help end slavery. Those carpetbagging jackasses Ebony and Ovaries are both clueless, prevaricating elitists who may have conned the elite media and glitterati but not normal white men who are capable of rational thought. Ugly Brit Homosexual Elton John is another horse’s ass with his misogyny claims about people against sHrillary. She’s far from ideal, but I’d choose a black woman who prays ten times a day Condi Rice over either Hill or the clueless mulatto who dangles from the hindquarters of Rev. Wright for 20 years.
“F” Barry Hussein and the camel he rode in on and the Chrissie “I squat to pee” Matthews type tingling leg media buffoons.
madmax333 (24a00f) — 4/11/2008 @ 7:42 pm
Damn, madmax, I wish I’d said that.
Herein lies the problem with impressionable minds being littered with the flotsam and jetsam backwash of class warfare and racial warfare.
Michele and Sen Obama really don’t know this country…at all.
“Small town” people…known by other names in the effite, elite and soon to be obsolete …fringe leftist movement as …”flyover country”, inbred Jeds, rubes, hicks, white trash, trailer trash, mouth-breathers, …are incapable of resisting their “mean, angry, slothful, racist, gun-toting, Bible-thumping” ways…and need to be dealt with.
You know, like children. Stupid, irrational, angry…children.
When you have been brainwashed and indoctrinated into a narrow and pernicious worldview, pretty words and lofty speeches contextualizing it, is like putting lipstick on …well, Maureen Dowd, for instance.
The more Michelle and Sen. Obama come into the light, the more the mask slips off. The first hints should have come early…in his book, when a white basketball teammate tries to empathize with him, after feeling awkward and clumsy at an all black party…does young Barack help his friend through that moment?
In the words of Rev Eric Lee…NO, NO, NO. Young Barack says he wants to physically assault…punch…his teammate.
His instinct is to lash out at those who want to empathize and reach out.
Just as Rev. Wright does, and Farrakhan does and Rev Moss does and Rev Meeks does and Michelle did and Rev. Lee did.
Anyone who seeks to reach across the divide offering a hand in kindness…is slapped across the face. These are not the instincts of a healer, they are the instincts of a divider.
When young Barack turns 12 or 13, he renounces his mothers race. He reads Malcolm X and identifies saying he wishes he could extract every drop of his white blood from his veins. These are not the instincts of a healer. These are the instincts of a divider.
When Rev. Wright makes his vile and vicious statements, Sen. Obama does more to embrace him than to divorce him. These are not the instincts of a healer, these are the instincts of a divider.
When Michelle writes her thesis, she renounces the “white world”, she displays her lack of pride and bitterness…these are not the instincts of healers, these are the instincts of dividers.
When Sen Obama takes off his flag from his lapel, when he doesn’t put his hand over his heart for our pledge or our National Anthem, he isn’t seeking to unite, he is signaling his separation.
Sen. Barack and Michelle Obama see a country through a very narrow prism. And for 75% of this country, they apparently want to bend your light to fit it.
If elected, Obama will teach America about the Three Rs: Rifles, Racism and Religion.
Bradley J. Fikes (1c6fc4) — 4/11/2008 @ 8:02 pm
Steverino, I disagree because I’m pretty sure this is what he meant to say:
You go into these urban areas of Pennsylvania and, like a lot of inner city hellholes in the Midwest, decent jobs are hard to find, mostly because they require a minimum level of education. Unfortunately, most of the inhabitants are barely qualified to make change at McDonalds. Studies show that lack of a high school diploma and teen pregnancy are surefire guarantees of prolonged poverty; but in spite of Democrat control of most cities and public school administrations, nothing has improved for 25 years …And yet they voted for local and state Democrats through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive Democrat administration has said that somehow these inner cities are gonna regenerate and they have not.
And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to pipedreams of reparations or racial paranoia or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
capitano (03e5ec) — 4/11/2008 @ 8:03 pm
So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter…
You at least must give Big O credit for knowing all about bitter. It dogs him around the domicile and preaches to him every Sunday.
allan (a757d4) — 4/11/2008 @ 8:08 pm
My liberal friends tell me “It’s all about the context”. And you need to understand that Obama delivered those comments in the home of Ann and Gordon Getty on what is aptly described as “Billionaire’s Row” in Pacific Heights in San Francisco. My same libral friends tell me that the Getty mansion in San Francisco has an interior that would put a Medici Palazzo in Florence, Italy to same. For all of my fellow red neck, mouth breathing, squirrel frying friends(where is Huckabee when we need him!) that means that the Gettys were able to, and probably did, spend more on decorating the room where the Obamessiah spoke than a dozen of us will earn in a lifetime. They are rich dudes–400 of them (and yes they can all fit in one room in this modest mansion in San Francisco) who paid $2,300 a pop (or at least that’s what they reported–I suspect several of them gave a heck of a lot more) to hear the Great One.
I got an e-mail early this week transmitting an e-mail from a San Francisco fellow who had attended the event. The attendee thought that Obama was a great and inspiring speaker. I mean these rich doofuses either needed someone to explain the strange cultural customs of the squirrel fryers to them, or else he was simply stating what they knew to be the obvious truth.
Can you spell “Effete Elite?” Or, since we’uns is jes simple folks and can only handle four letter words, how about “Snob” or “Jerk”
Mike Myers (31af82) — 4/11/2008 @ 9:44 pm
where is Huckabee when we need him
It makes me physically ill to read that line…
Scott Jacobs (d3a6ec) — 4/11/2008 @ 10:54 pm
Or, since we’uns is jes simple folks and can only handle four letter words, how about “Snob” or “Jerk”
Or as I often so colorfully put it, to all the canidates: “Fuck” and “y’all” (hey, it’s four letters… get off my back).
Big O is wrong about small town people but not in the way you might think. I personally know people who are very much like the people he is describing but they don’t all live in small towns and they arent all underemployed. They live in many situations with or without jobs and have many reasons for their anger, frustration, or bigotry….all carefully justified and rationalized too. Except for the real live full on rednecks who arent going to rationalize anything for anyone f*ck you very much.
Making it all about lack of jobs is oversimplifying. Does Obama’s oversimplifying make him more of an “elitist” than any other presidential contender? Nah.
It does bring up his inexperience again though.
He and particularly his wife keep forgetting that now, everything, they say and do, they are always always ON. And it will be even more so if the man mangages to get into the white house.
EdWood (a29242) — 4/11/2008 @ 11:17 pm
Ah, I saw elsewhere the rest of O’s speech where he tries to pull his foot out of his mouth (you forgot to post that part DRJ, not that it really helps him) at least he knows when he’s stepped in it.
EdWood (8300f1) — 4/12/2008 @ 12:14 am
A wiser, less retarded man would know to not step in it in the first place…
Scott Jacobs (d3a6ec) — 4/12/2008 @ 12:19 am
No wonder Hillary’s in it to win it. This guy is stupid.
Vermont Neighbor (e7ed47) — 4/12/2008 @ 2:48 am
Mr. Obama, could you please explain “psychological projection”?
htom (412a17) — 4/12/2008 @ 6:46 am
Ed, one of the few things Obama has going for him is his speaking ability. But here he is on the campaign trail, trying to speak extemporaneously, and insulting everyone around him.
Maybe he only speaks well when he has carefully prepared notes?
If that’s the case, he has all the mental acuity of an actor.
Steverino (6772c8) — 4/12/2008 @ 7:19 am
What is it going to take to admit that Barry is a racist?
I am outraged at the pass the MSM gives this guy. He should lose his candidacy, and be investigated for any other affiliations/ideation of racist values.
Why should this man even serve as Dog Catcher? Had a candidate of any other racial extraction provided the same insight to racial values, he/she would be gone.
With so many other decent, fair-minded men and women of any color available to run ,why do the Dems have to pick the worst?
New bumper sticker:
SACK BARRACK
paul from Fl (47918a) — 4/12/2008 @ 9:56 am
Why can’t those crackers in those nowhere burgs quit their bitchin’? When Barry O’s elected he’s gonna deliver a big helping of hope and change to them. Are they stoopid or something?
daleyrocks (906622) — 4/12/2008 @ 10:33 am
“If that’s the case, he has all the mental acuity of an actor”
– Steverino
An actor, huh? I guess we’d better elect him to two terms and idolize him for an entire generation.
Leviticus (d7e3df) — 4/12/2008 @ 11:17 am
It smells like……
It smells like victory.
Problem is, Obama didn’t have the KGB monitoring his activities because they percieved him a threat…more than 20 years before he ran for president.
Paul (4e4a20) — 4/12/2008 @ 11:29 am
EdWood #21 (emphasis supplied):
I didn’t forget anything. The link goes to a Huffington Post article that purports to have a complete transcript of Obama’s remarks. If you want to highlight a different portion of the transcript, feel free.
DRJ (a431ca) — 4/12/2008 @ 11:37 am
He sure knows he stepped in it now (h/t Little Green Footballs): Obama concedes remarks were ill chosen.
MUNCIE, Ind. – Democrat Barack Obama on Saturday conceded that comments he made about bitter working class voters who “cling to guns or religion” were ill chosen, as he tried to stem a burst of complaints that he is condescending.
“I didn’t say it as well as I should have,” he said.
As Obama tried to quell the furor, presidential rival Hillary Rodham Clinton hit him with one of her lengthiest and most pointed criticisms to date.
“Senator Obama’s remarks were elitist and out of touch,” she said, campaigning about an hour away in Indianapolis. “They are not reflective of the values and beliefs of Americans.”
I’ve updated the post to add Obama’s recent statements. They are being reported as a quasi-apology or – as in Paul’s link – regret over ill-chosen words, but Obama’s remarks don’t sound regretful or apologetic to me. It sounds like Obama is saying he’s right and we didn’t understand what he was really saying.
DRJ – That sounds like one of John Kerry’s patented, I’m sorry if some of you were too stupid to understand what I meant, apologies.
I work at a university, and Barry’s condescending attitude reflects the majority on any campus.
What a shock it must be for him and his equally privileged and whiney wife to encounter The Other–Americans!
Patricia (f56a97) — 4/12/2008 @ 12:03 pm
I’m having fun imagining Mayor Daley pulling out his hair over this. Or maybe not. Maybe grinning gleefully. Obama is not going to be President, he is not going to challenge Mayor Daley for Mayor of Chicago, he will probably not be re-elected to the U.S. Senate, and he will fade into obscurity like Carol Moseley Brown.
“Give your enemy food to eat and water to drink for you shall heap coals of fire upon his head and the Lord shall reward you.”
If anybody knows gangster tactics (real gangsters not the street trash who call themselves that), the Daleys do. Obama will know that the Daleys were not his best friends, hopefully, not when St. Peter tells him so but when he and his wife actually have to work for a living.
nk (6b7d4f) — 4/12/2008 @ 12:04 pm
Just as soon as he finishes two terms as governor in highly populated states, I might agree with you. Until then, shove your snark.
Trouble is, Reagan spoke extemporaneously much better than Obama has so far.
Steverino (6772c8) — 4/12/2008 @ 12:10 pm
And, he wrote much better, too!
Another Drew (8018ee) — 4/12/2008 @ 12:14 pm
DRJ – Levi was poking around the site earlier. It’s too bad that after you dedicated this thread to him he has avoided it. I just don’t understand it.
daleyrocks (906622) — 4/12/2008 @ 12:21 pm
“Until then, shove your snark.”
-Steverino
Heh heh heh. I rule.
Leviticus (362bf3) — 4/12/2008 @ 12:35 pm
Daleyrocks,
No loss. Leviticus is a better advocate for liberal ideas than Levi.
DRJ (a431ca) — 4/12/2008 @ 12:43 pm
You don’t rule when you’ve been posterized.
Paul (4e4a20) — 4/12/2008 @ 12:44 pm
What do I have to say about gossipy bullshit like this that I haven’t said before? Conservatives seem to think they ‘follow politics’ because they endlessly dissect the most pointless, insignificant little details about the most mundane non-happenings. You don’t have to dig nearly as hard to find some horrifying detail about the Bush administration that’s had actual disastrous consequences for our country, economy, and military, and here you all are, again, breathlessly speculating about how this proves Obama’s some sort of Communist sleeper agent. I mean what the fuck does a story that Obama told about his 12 year old self say about Obama as a 46 year old Presidential candidate? This is all you do all day, it’s all you’ve done for years. Lord knows you haven’t governed (you’re in charge of that right now, remember? OH WAIT! The President you elected is a universally hated disaster, better pretend like he never existed!) You’d call yourselves informed because of gossip like this? Savvy navigators on America’s political high seas? You people don’t even understand anything about modern liberalism in America, you just unquestionably buy right into the Rush Limbaugh approved and mass produced caricature. Was Clinton’s presidency anything at all like the extremely socialist administration that you all fear Obama will run?
The basic story here is that Obama was blunt, and that’s about it as far as I can tell. He’s outlining all the ways in which the Republican establishment has duped people into voting for Republican candidates, even as it has worked out against their own economic interests, with trivial wedge issues like illegal immigration and this weird brand of inauthentic G.O.P. political Christianity. The Republican distractions that flood and overwhelm the public discourse are a significant part of the problem, as many liberals such as myself see it, and I think it’s great that Obama not only recognizes it as such, but has the balls to address it publicly.
None of this is any different from what I’ve said about Republicans and the way they inflate these bullshit non-stories before, but why don’t we try something different in this case, since you did specifically ask for my opinion about this one, and abstain from dozens of comments insulting my intelligence and ridiculing my existence? Could you try responding to what I actually say for once?
Levi (76ef55) — 4/12/2008 @ 1:28 pm
Why should we?
All you do is spew profanity and non-logical thinking (if what passes for thought in your cancerous cranium can be so classified).
Unfortunately, Levi, you’re not even comic relief anymore, just tiresome.
Another Drew (8018ee) — 4/12/2008 @ 1:32 pm
Levi – Could you try responding to the actual topic of the thread for a change.
The thread is not about George Bush or something Obama said as a 12 year old. It is about something he said at a San Francisco fund raiser last week that he is attempting to do major damage control on as week speak. It’s not some Republican fantasy Levi. Your guy screwed up once again. Can you focus and stay on topic.
daleyrocks (906622) — 4/12/2008 @ 1:39 pm
Trolls never stick to topic, because that contradicts the voices in their head.
Again, I’d like to point out that I wouldn’t have posted anything in this thread had I not been specifically called out, by name, by both you and the thread starter, to do so. And all you’re gonna say is ‘I’m going off topic,’ when I do what you ask, and give my opinion? Why would I ever want to talk to somebody like you?
And I’m telling you, after you asked me, that I fully agree with what he said, and commend him for doing so. I didn’t just leave it at that, though, I actually explained why I agree with him, you just don’t want to confront that explanation. You’d rather insist that it’s too crazy, that I’m too stupid, blah, blah, blah, for you to even waste your valuable time addressing my answer to the question that you asked me.
Tell me something, what do you think an honest liberal would say about this story? If I’m such a crazy, deranged liar, what would a real liberal, whatever that might mean to you, what would his response be? You obviously don’t give a shit about what I say, so how would a reasonable liberal react?
I’m a troll? Even as threads are being dedicated to me, even as people clamor for me to give my opinion? I’ve been here a few weeks, and already I got me a nice little conservative entourage following me from thread to thread, you’re one of them.
Additionally, if all you’re going to do is toss insults at me, you could at least put some effort into making them funny. Why waste everyone’s time? A put-down is only a good put-down if it’s hilarious. Kindergarteners would be embarrassed for you if they read that shit.
Rather than address the topic of Obama’s eltism Levi, AGAIN AND AS ALWAYS, projectile hurls a profanity laced invective of nothing that invites even a remote hint of desire to engage in civil disagreement. All you ever seem to do is display yourself for the immature, stark, raving ass that you are.
Jack Klompus (6637b8) — 4/12/2008 @ 2:30 pm
I mean what the fuck does a story that Obama told about his 12 year old self say about Obama as a 46 year old Presidential candidate?
According to him, it means that he’s got foreign policy experience. No, wait. That was the 6-10 year old Obama. My bad.
The basic story here is that Obama was blunt, and that’s about it as far as I can tell.
Yeah. People care about their religion, the Second Amendment, illegal immigration, and they’re xenophobic racists because of the economy. I advise Barack to run hard on that message.
He’s outlining all the ways in which the Republican establishment has duped people into voting for Republican candidates, even as it has worked out against their own economic interests, with trivial wedge issues like illegal immigration and this weird brand of inauthentic G.O.P. political Christianity.
You must have missed the Clinton bashing portion of the Gospel According to Obama.
The Republican distractions that flood and overwhelm the public discourse are a significant part of the problem, as many liberals such as myself see it, and I think it’s great that Obama not only recognizes it as such, but has the balls to address it publicly.
Again, I suggest several million dollars of advertising dedicated to disseminating that message.
None of this is any different from what I’ve said about Republicans and the way they inflate these bullshit non-stories before, but why don’t we try something different in this case, since you did specifically ask for my opinion about this one, and abstain from dozens of comments insulting my intelligence and ridiculing my existence?
You might want to mention that to Mrs. Clinton.
Pablo (99243e) — 4/12/2008 @ 2:34 pm
Illegal immigration has pushed down wages in the less-skilled job sectors, disproportionately affecting minority – especially black – americans and its a “wedge” issue?
That’s pretty delusional. I really think you need to avoid the brown koolaid.
Okay Jack, let’s go ahead and talk about Obama’s ‘elitism.’ What’s your problem? Did you read what I’ve said about this story, that I agree with what Obama said? You’d call Obama an ‘elitist’ for thinking that he has better ideas for running the country than the base of the Republican party? That’s called being a liberal. I could make the same argument against conservatives, ‘Oh Bush and McCain are elitists, they think they know what’s good for us, that’s why they want this war to keep going.’ See how that works?
Obama’s worried that people are focused on the wrong shit, those perennial Republican wedge issues like gay marriage and abortion, and ignoring the important stuff, like the economy and the environment and real national security. That’s not being elitist, he just wants to take the country in a different direction, one that agrees with his political philosophy, and not yours, or NASCAR fans’. Conservatives do the same thing, McCain and Bush think that liberals don’t understand the terrorist threat, and they want to do something different on that issue because they believe they have better ideas about how to handle it than us, but that doesn’t make McCain and Bush elitists, it makes them conservatives.
Notice that people who decide to opt for a Republican in an election are “duped” into doing so. Raising concern about the substance of what a candidate says are “distractions” and are “inflations of bullshit nonstories.” Seriously, dude, are you not able to look at the tone of your own opinions and recognize the smarmy contempt that reeks off of you? You choose the easiest route to dismiss the intellect and values of your political opposites. Raising questions about what a politician says about people whose President he wishes to be, is not inflating “bullshit nonstories.” Can you understand that? Are you so dense that you can only deride another opinion with playground level insults?
“Obama was blunt….. He’s outlining all the ways in which the Republican establishment has duped people into voting for Republican candidates…”
I wouldn’t say he was blunt, he just didnt flesh out what he meant to say very well. (there is a post at Huffpo where he give a longer explanation about what he meant)
Obama was NOT blaming everything on Republicans in that speech. He blamed the last TWO administrations and said that people were voting on specific issues like gun control and had stopped voting for candidates based on work or economic issues.
You could say he was trying to attack BOTH of his contenders for the presidency by making small town anger and frustration a problem caused by the Clintons and the Republicans. It’s just that he botched his attack.
Maybe he isn’t good at speaking extempore, or maybe he hasn’t gotten it yet that every time he farts it’s going to be analyzed and pronounced opon (“He farted in front of the FLAG, Obama will NEVER be president now! How could such a vile racist unpatriotic named after terrorists person ever be allowed to lead this great nation!!!!! pant pant).
Or maybe people occasionally screw up trying to articulate thier ideas in a speech (last 7 years of presidential speeches ring a bell?) and his little bumble says nothing about him. GW didn’t bring down nuclear armageddon on us coz he bumbled a speech, niether will O, or Hill or Prez. McCain when he screws up who is Sunni and who is a Shia for the 500th time.
EdWood (3045b3) — 4/12/2008 @ 2:53 pm
Liberals always say one thing to the people, then when they think they are alone, they tell the truth to their kindred kind. Obambi got caught at it. The elites love to brag to each other how clever they are.
bill-tb (26027c) — 4/12/2008 @ 2:57 pm
So even he is genuinely “worried” about people’s values, for what purpose is he so worried? Does he feel that there needs to be a change in people’s beliefs, particularly the, one might say somewhat important, beliefs about religion, the 2nd Amendment, and immigration issues? Does Obama believe that there’s something wrong per se with people and they need to be changed? Or does it just frustrate him because of how those beliefs might not jibe with his political agenda and therefore cost him votes? Does it not smack of eltism to deliver these remarks to a room of some of the wealthiest people in the country who wear their fashionable liberal politics like their million dollar jewels? Get together with your rich friends and make tut tut remarks about the distateful values of a crude stereotyping of middle America, yeah really endearing.
It’s not nearly as an important right now as a number of other things. And the conservative stance on immigration is still heavily inflated by xenophobia racism. I mean, I can buy the arguments about how it’s not a smart thing for our economy and public services, but when you morons start in about how English needs to be the official language, well that reveals your true motivations, in my view. You’re all racists!
Seriously, dude, are you not able to look at the tone of your own opinions and recognize the smarmy contempt that reeks off of you?
Haha! Dude, ‘smarmy contempt’ is exactly how I would describe my disposition towards George Bush and everything and anyone that had anything to do with him getting into office. You put it better than I ever could.
Hire a good copyeditor. All you really needed was:
“’smarmy contempt’ is exactly how I would describe my disposition”
Levi #47,
I want to clarify something you misunderstood about my first comment. I wasn’t “calling you out.” My hope was that you would see how silly you sound and that you would take a page from more productive liberal commenters like Leviticus, voiceofreason2, Aplomb, Aphrael, EdWood and others.
I realize we all get angry at some discussions and say things a little over-the-top now and then. You are almost always over-the-top. IMO that’s not productive or helpful, and that’s a shame because it’s important to have a debate with conservative and liberal views well-represented.
Another Levi gem:
“when you morons start in about how English needs to be the official language, well that reveals your true motivations, in my view. You’re all racists!”
My god you are such an insufferable asshole it’s almost comedy gold.
If the Obamas are ‘elites,’ and the McCains are worth many tens of millions more than the Obamas, does that make the McCains super-elites?
“the McCains are worth many tens of millions more than the Obamas, does that make the McCains super-elites?”
So what if they are? You’re side of the political divide is always crowing that Republicans are rich, white, and assorted other evils and that “progressives” are the model of tolerance and care about the working class and common man. Hardly a valid rejoinder.
EdWood #54,
I generally agree with you but when a candidate like Obama runs a campaign that claims words matter, I don’t have a lot of sympathy for him when his opponents point out that his words matter, too.
I mean, I can buy the arguments about how it’s not a smart thing for our economy and public services, but when you morons start in about how English needs to be the official language, well that reveals your true motivations, in my view. You’re all racists!
English is only spoken by a single race? I think you’re the one who needs to examine his bigotry, Levi.
Rob Crawford (b5d1c2) — 4/12/2008 @ 3:44 pm
So even he is genuinely “worried” about people’s values, for what purpose is he so worried? Does he feel that there needs to be a change in people’s beliefs, particularly the, one might say somewhat important, beliefs about religion, the 2nd Amendment, and immigration issues?
It’s not that he’s worried about people’s values, he’s worried about the political charlatans who seek to manipulate people by exploiting their values. It’s these mouthpieces, your Hannitys and Limbaughs, that advocate ludicrously extremist positions like state-sanctioned torture and perpetual, economy-eroding war, that drape themselves in religiosity and faux patriotism, then insist they’re defending the ‘values’ of the common man, that trouble liberals like Obama and myself.
That’s not to suggest that we should be shutting down Hannity’s radio show, liberals obviously bear part of the responsibility for losing these sorts of demographics. But it is…. hard, I will say, for our side to counter Republicans because they’ve co-opted religion. Religion generates unreasonable certainty, that’s why Republicans target these low-income, very religious demographics. Abortion is the most illustrative example. For years the Republicans have been saying they’re gonna stop abortion, stop the killing, restore good Christian morality to government, bring about a culture of life, and where are we decades later? Abortion’s no closer to being criminalized and we started a war that’s killed or displaced millions of poor foreigners. And yet, pro-life Christians line up to vote for Republicans each and every cycle, why is that?
The Republican establishment cares about the religious right in this country insofar as it gets them elected. They know that if you just throw them a bone every once in awhile, like this retarded stem cell ban we’ve all been forced to endure, they’ll continue happily voting Republican, no matter how un-Christian the policies are. Religious people, again, are certain. They’re psychologically predisposed against self-criticism or re-evaluation. That’s why they’re targeted by Republicans. It’s an almost entirely dependable voting bloc that you don’t have to do anything for once you’re in office, hell, you can even cause them all to lose their jobs and homes and they don’t waver. How sweet is that?
Does Obama believe that there’s something wrong per se with people and they need to be changed? Or does it just frustrate him because of how those beliefs might not jibe with his political agenda and therefore cost him votes?
He seems to be more worried that those beliefs don’t jibe with the Republican political agenda, either. He’s watching these loyal G.O.P. constituencies come back to the Republicans over and over even after years of getting screwed by them. Those people aren’t being represented in government by anyone.
Does it not smack of eltism to deliver these remarks to a room of some of the wealthiest people in the country who wear their fashionable liberal politics like their million dollar jewels? Get together with your rich friends and make tut tut remarks about the distateful values of a crude stereotyping of middle America, yeah really endearing.
‘Million dollar jewels?’ Gimme a break, complain about the McCain’s millions of you wanna bitch about rich candidates.
DRJ, Yes, which is why he is having to scramble not to try and get his words back. He blew it and he knows it. People complain about candidates that seem bland and plastic and speak in cliches and platitudes but it seems like such a risk to make some definitive statement coz then you really have to stay consistant with that statement. That was why I was wondering earlier if Obama (and Ms Obama) really get it that they are ON all the time now. Maybe everyone here is right and they know it but just cant themselves.
Its just another indication that Obama – the cult adoration of his acolytes notwithstanding – is too amateurish to be in this race.
That the race is neck and neck for the Democratic nomination shows just how poor the candidates are, and how pathetic the Democratic party has become. Definitely not the party of adults.
I’m serious about this. I get most of the arguments against illegal immigration, they make sense. It’s not good for the economy, for the environment, for public health, etc., I’m down with that. But the Republicans always lose me when they take the ‘Let’s ban Spanish!’ leap. That doesn’t make any logical sense to me whatsoever, and conjures up images of red-faced Republicans screaming at some Mexican kid in the Burger King because they put ketchup on their Whopper. I know racist bullshit when I smell it.
I’m one of those rednecks from a small town (Jim Thorpe) in the rural part of Pennsylvania, and I’m not the least bit offended by Barack Hussein Obama’s words — because I knew, all along, that that was how the leaders of the Democratic Party felt. I switched my registration from Republican to Democratic, just so I could vote against Hillary Clinton on my birthday and I’ll still do so, but, come November, I’ll be voting for John McCain. (I’d vote for Satan before I’d vote for a Clinton.)
As it happens, our 42nd President will be at the Jim Thorpe Area High School — only a few blocks from my humble abode — tomorrow afternoon, making a campaign stop for his darling bride. In the local barber shop this morning, the guys were joking that he was bringing Monica Lewinsky with him!
Alas, I won’t see either Miss Lewinsky or Mr Clinton! The Clintons have lied to me enough over the airwaves; I don’t see any particular need to have Mr Clinton lie to me in person, so I shall decline the honor of attending.
Dana R Pico (c36902) — 4/12/2008 @ 4:07 pm
If Obama’s such a ‘poor candidate,’ why has he only crushed John McCain in campaign fundraising? Why are more people registering as Democrats than Republicans? Why has Democratic turnout trounced Republican turnout this primary season? Why has Obama received more campaign contributions from soldiers in Iraq than John McCain?
If Obama and Hillary are poor, McCain is downright garbage.
Levi (is this the same as Leviticus?) wrote, and DRJ quoted above:
Yet, oddly enough, the less educated you were, the more likely you were to have voted for John Kerry. If you never finished high school, you more probably voted Democratic. The more productive your were, and the more money you earned — things we associate with increasing education and intelligence — the more probable it was that you voted for George Bush.
A hint: it really isn’t hard to look up this kind of stuff. Indeed, someone who made “a little bit of effort to be smart” would probably have done so before making a statement like the one you did.
“(I’d vote for Satan before I’d vote for a Clinton.)”
One’s just a trademark owned by the other.
Levi, do take a logic course some day, your ignorance of the most basic logical fallacies lead you to commit about two per sentence. Most annoying.
Levi asked:
Could it be because the Republican contests are over, the nominee decided, and it’s the Democratic race that’s the only action left?
Now, as it happens, I’m one of those people who changed my registration from Republican to Democratic — shameless blog plug alert — but it was solely so that I could vote against Hillary Clinton. Come April 23rd, I’ll be reregistering as a Republican. That might explain some of the increased Democratic registrations.
Dang! Forgot to set off Levi’s quotes in a blockquote above.
Not to mention, Dana, that for quite some time the trend has been for higher turnout in Democratic primaries. His “points” are all non sequitur.
But Levi, being ignorant of every topic upon which he opines, will cover that up with more profanity, I’m sure.
I didn’t misunderstand anything, don’t worry. Others have called me out, in this thread and elsewhere, and they tend to be the same people who always insist that I shut up and stop disturbing the circle jerk.
Just because you’re moderating these threads doesn’t mean you’re a good judge of whether or not liberal views are being well-represented. I’m a liberal, don’t you think I’d be in a better position to make that call? What does something as vague as ‘you’re too over the top’ even mean? What do you expect me to do?
No, it couldn’t be. Because even when the Republican race had some ‘action,’ if you could call it that, all of those things were true. About turnout, registration, fund-raising, all of it. This was only a couple of weeks ago, you don’t remember any of this happening?
Levi writes in discussion of religious voters:
“They’re psychologically predisposed against self-criticism or re-evaluation. That’s why they’re targeted by Republicans. It’s an almost entirely dependable voting bloc that you don’t have to do anything for once you’re in office, hell, you can even cause them all to lose their jobs and homes and they don’t waver. How sweet is that?”
You could not summarize more perfectly the attitude that the Democratic Party establishment takes toward urban and minority voters. I suggest you live in Philadelphia for one year and witness your disparaging remarks about your caricature of Republican voters come vividly true to life.
“images of red-faced Republicans screaming at some Mexican kid in the Burger King because they put ketchup on their Whopper. I know racist bullshit when I smell it.”
I’ll bet you revel in these caricatures of your political bogeymen that you create. Again you just show what an insufferable asshole you are with remarks like this. You’re not insightful, you’re certainly not funny. You’re leaving a rich body of work that reveals what crass, ill-informed stereotypes you peddle in and what should be clear evidence, in your OWN WORDS, of why people here do NOT have a very pleasant opinion of you as a person.
Okay then brainiac, if Obama’s such a poor candidate, then why does Democratic turnout continue to increase? Do you know what a non sequitor is?
Sometimes, I think the best thing John McCain could do for his candidacy would be to go on a long vacation, get a lot of rest and come back in November. By then, he might find that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have completely disappeared. The Democratic Primary looks like two punchdrunk fighters trying to hand the bout to the other.
For example, just when it looked like the Hillary-Bosnia flap was starting to blow over, here comes Bill appearing before the usual crowd of curious onlookers (“Hey Bob, didn’t that guy used to be a president?”) explaining how Hillary screwed up the Bosnia story. According to Bill, she made the claim at 11 at night when she was tired from lack of sleep. Big deal, said Bill. Problem was, Hillary said it multiple times-and not at some late hour as Bill claimed. Then Bill stuck it in even farther, asking his listeners to understand how it is to be sixty years old and tired. You know, plays tricks on your memory don’t it? Well, I don’t know about you, but I’m not interested in having someone as commander-in-chief who is starting to lose her memory due to old age. Not that I believe that; on the contrary, Hillary’s selective memory is astounding. As for Bill, he is starting to remind me of Pete Rose at an autograph show.
Anyway, I have a question for those Clinton-admirers out there: Are you starting to realize that the Clintons-both of them-are nothing more than a couple of BS artists?
Meanwhile, just as our “bringer togetherer” presidential candidate, Barack Obama, was starting to put the Wright deal behind him-at least in the minds of the Democratic voters-he stepped in it himself. This time, it was not the words of his wife, Michelle, nor the words of his pastor, but his own words. In San Francisco, speaking before an audience of well, “San Franciscoers” (inside joke), Obama described the backwoods, gun-totin’, bible-thumpin’, minority hatin’, immigrant-bashin’ hicks that populate Pennsylvania. You know, people right out of the cast of “The Deer Hunter”, people who are not too receptive to a “46-year-old- black guy” like him.
What is it about those people in Pennsylvania? First, their own Governor, Ed Rendell implies that they are racists and not willing to vote for a black candidate. Now Obama delights an elite San Francisco audience with his own description of a Dickensian Pennsylvania inhabited by steel workers and coal minors.
As a personal comment, I lived in Pittsburgh from 1987-1990, and I happen to have a high opinion of the folks there. (Pittsburgh, unlike Philadelphia, which is a classical Eastern city, would be classified more as a Midwestern city culturally.)
But I digress. Obama’s remark was ridiculous. After first defending himself defiantly in Terre Haute from criticism by Hillary and the McCain campaign, Obama admitted that he chose the wrong words. Indeed.
I am having serious doubts about Obama-specifically on his honesty (in speaking about Wright) and his judgement. As for his experience, he is obviously lacking. I seriously suspect that there is a side to the Obamas that they are hiding. It would be great if the mainstream media started asking him more pointed questions-which they don’t. The msm was forced to discuss the Wright issue. Hopefully, they will be forced to examine the relationship between Obama and former (unrepentent)Weather Underground bomber, William Ayers (now Professor William Ayers). That is yet another story out there that relates directly to Obama’s fitness for president.
Meanwhile, the Great Sausage Race stumbles toward the finish line.
gary fouse
fouse, gary c (7b7c7c) — 4/12/2008 @ 4:41 pm
Gary, how can you doubt Obama’s judgment? His campaign makes sure the word is printed on every podium before he speaks …
Levi, if you want to know what the logical fallacy of non sequitur is, you’ll have to google it for yourself. Pretending you know by demanding that I explain a word I’ve already used is pretty transparent frankly.
Oh, and Levi, the Republican nominee was clear more than a couple of weeks ago. As you would know were you not completely ignorant of what you opine upon.
The urban and minority blocs are in the same boat all these jobless ruralites are in, George Bush is using the government to help big business screw them over. Religion is the only thing keeping rural communities in the Republican column. I think you’re saying that Democrats exploit race and plays up black victimhood to hang onto the black vote the same way Republicans exploit religion to hold onto the religious vote, the difference is that Democrats actually do things to help these groups when they’re in power. With Republicans, all you get is lip service. And foreclosure.
If I’m just full of ill-informed stereotypes, why don’t you shatter my illusions? Convince me that there’s an ounce of logic or reason to forcing people to learn English, or refusing to print government documents in Spanish. Just try to convince me.
Non sequitor means does not follow.
Now please, kindly explain how your use of it applies to what was being said. To recap, someone said Obama is a poor candidate. I refuted the idea, supported it with the fact that Democratic turnout has dwarfed Republican turnout among a number of other things, and then you dismissed everything I said as ‘non sequitor.’ I don’t see how it applies. How does it?
I’m completely ignorant of what exactly? You don’t think I know when McCain became the nominee? You just think I’m pretending to be interested in politics? You don’t think I’ve been following along for the last few months? Does George Bush give out secret medals for mindlessly arguing semantics or something?
Now, I don’t know who brought this up, but – as far as the construction trades here in SoCal are concerned – it is an accurate statement.
Entire segments of the construction trade that used to be occupied by Black workers, are now almost exclusively Hispanic, and at a lower wage level.
So, someone can have the satisfaction of saying:
I told you so!
Levi is still a BDM troll.
That sentence was originally mine, Another Drew. Who knows what happened to the poor thing when captured by Levi, he probably tortured it.
“the difference is that Democrats actually do things to help these groups when they’re in power.”
Possibly the biggest laugher line of the lot. Phiadelphia’s underclass has been entrenched long before the all-evil Bush’s reign of terror over them. Billions and billions of local tax dollars are spent on “human services”, i.e. government social service bureaucracies, in the inner city and you still would get your ass handed to you walking around the rough neighborhoods of Philly and I’d gather other large cities. I would love for you to see the poverty, despair, crime, and dysfunction among “these groups” and cast the entire blame on GWB and Republicans. That one-dimensional explanation has little if any merit and just allows you to wallow in your simple-minded, rhetoric-laden politics that sees every ill in human society as a result of the perfidy of your political foes.
Levi #77:
First, I am not a moderator. I guest blog. There are no moderators here, which is why every comment posts automatically. The only person who has the authority to remove a comment is Patterico, and he’s pretty liberal about what he allows.
Second, I think it’s over-the-top to use frequent profanity and to repeatedly tell other commenters how stupid they are. (FWIW, I think it applies to liberals and conservatives.) If you really feel people here are stupid, I don’t know why you would want to comment here. If you don’t, then your purpose is to be dramatic or petulant. Neither is the hallmark of a reasoned debate.
Barack Obama’s remarks are not only telling but disturbing as they resonate of remarks made by Adolf Hilter regarding Jews.
The Outlander (2b5b49) — 4/12/2008 @ 5:41 pm
“Convince me that there’s an ounce of logic or reason to forcing people to learn English, or refusing to print government documents in Spanish. Just try to convince me.”
I won’t try to convince you because I am simply one of the dumb people here but I know that after 11 years of working in public schools,I have seen a multitude of Spanish speaking parents completely in the dark regarding their children’s truancies/petty crimes/education because their English speakinng children lie to them in Spanish. There is not always a translator available and Spanish speaking parents believe it is incumbent upon the school to provide them a translator whenever they need one. However, it is not always feasible. Unfortunately, too, the kids often blame the school for targeting them, the parents believe them, and then the complaints end up at the district level.
It works out beautifully for the kids – they not only get away with the lies, they also have it reinforced that they can get away with increasing truancy/petty crime, etc.
Knowing the language that their children speak would only empower parents to more effectively determine what their kids are up to and to communicate with school officials.
Without wishing to sound trite, language is power, and I habitually see willfully powerless parents who expect others to do the heavy lifting for them.
Dana (fd88d5) — 4/12/2008 @ 5:48 pm
Possibly the biggest laugher line of the lot. Phiadelphia’s underclass has been entrenched long before the all-evil Bush’s reign of terror over them. Billions and billions of local tax dollars are spent on “human services”, i.e. government social service bureaucracies, in the inner city and you still would get your ass handed to you walking around the rough neighborhoods of Philly and I’d gather other large cities.
At least Democrats address the issue, what’s the Republican stance on poverty? ‘Wait for the tax cuts I just gave myself to trickle down upon you! Pull yourself up by the boot straps!’ That about sums it up, doesn’t it? I’m not too keen on the idea of the government perpetually propping people up, but if we’re ever going to get anywhere on these issues of social and economic inequality, there’s going to have to be some sort of public institution to provide that bridge, isn’t there? You just want to wait for it to happen all on its own?
I would love for you to see the poverty, despair, crime, and dysfunction among “these groups” and cast the entire blame on GWB and Republicans. That one-dimensional explanation has little if any merit and just allows you to wallow in your simple-minded, rhetoric-laden politics that sees every ill in human society as a result of the perfidy of your political foes.
I don’t blame poverty in America on George Bush, but I blame him for not doing anything about it for the past 8 years, that’s fair, isn’t it? Bush is playing ball for the corporations, and regular Americans and the poor are taking the brunt. They’ve lost jobs to closures and outsourcing, lost their houses to an unregulated, predatory mortgage industry, they’re paying more for everything because of more expensive oil, and health insurance and college costs are increasing every year. Your guys are trying to bring back the lazy fair (can’t spell it, the French word, you know what I mean) economics of the 19th century that brought us child labor and rat shit in the food supply. It’s not gonna work any better today than it did back then. The stumbling economy should be telling you that….
Levi – I’m not surprised you are backing Obama’s original comments to the hilt. That’s your automatic patellar response. Contrary to your statements above, this kerfuffle originated on the left, at Huffington Post, as opposed to the right. Don’t blame the people here for something the loony left brought up to talk about, something you do repeatedly.
I’m with the commenter above, I think it was cfbleachers, if you think Obama was right, I recommend a full court press on the politics of fear, xenophobia, religion as an opiate of the masses, and anti-trade stances for Obama as a way to win the votes of those heehawing Ezekiels in flyover country. They love to be lectured on why they feel the way they do by big city liberals because they are too dumb to figure it out, why they adopted religious faith falsely that they have had since birth instead of because they needed black street cred, they love being lecture on guns by gun control nuts and probably most of all they love pushing one for english and two for spanish.
The Politico, I forget whether they lean left or right, has a nice piece explaining why they think it is a winning strategy for Obama:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9561.html
Enjoy Levi. You just get more stupid as time passes.
Levi, your comments are just more examples of your divorce with reality. Literally everything you write about the Bush administration is just flat out false. You claim Bush has done nothing about poverty but social spending has been going up during the Bush administration. Government provided benefits have increased in both amounbt and scope. Employment is up, long term unemployment down, etc.
Your entire understanding of America’s economy is just flat out wrong.
It is a constant with you. Your every opinion is found to be based upon “facts” that are not.
These numbers appeared in the NRO Corner recently:
Key Labor Market Statistics in 1996 and 2008
1. U.S. Unemployment Rate 5.5% 5.1%
2. Number of Long-Term Unemployed 1.33 million 1.28 million
3. Average Weeks Unemployed 17.3 weeks 16.2 weeks
4. Median Weeks Unemployed 8.3 weeks 8.1 weeks
5. Not in Labor Force because discouraged over job prospects 451,000 401,000
Great?
As stupid as I believe all of you to be, you’re getting people elected, which troubles me. Stupid people running the government, what could be worse? Anybody that genuinely cares about the survivability of this country should be very interested in what’s going on with the modern conservative movement, because there’s never been a group so dumb that had so much power.
Levi – You can’t even describe the tax cuts honestly, so why is it worth engaging you.
“At least Democrats address the issue, what’s the Republican stance on poverty? ‘Wait for the tax cuts I just gave myself to trickle down upon you! Pull yourself up by the boot straps!’ That about sums it up, doesn’t it? I’m not too keen on the idea of the government perpetually propping people up, but if we’re ever going to get anywhere on these issues of social and economic inequality, there’s going to have to be some sort of public institution to provide that bridge, isn’t there?”
Bush’s tax cuts took millions of people off the tax rolls. Repealing them would increase taxes for the average income family (around $62,000) by $1,800. Tax cuts are for people actually paying taxes. Welfare and other social programs are not related to taxes, somethig liberals frequently forget when they talk about tax cuts. Obama thinks rich means income of $75,000 per year. Do you? When you talk about tax cuts for the rich Levi, what exactly are you talking about? Can you define your terms please?
Also, what are these issues of social and economic equality you raise? Are you suggesting that everyone should make the same amount of money and that it should be regulated by the government? What issues do you mean? Do the people get to vote on these issues?
Okay, Levi, thanks for your response.
They’d be funny to you if you weren’t such a retard.
Paul (4e4a20) — 4/12/2008 @ 6:19 pm
This from a commenter that thinks anybody who disagrees with him is a retard.
Levi, you keep talking about stupid people.
But everytime you explain one of your opinions, you use “facts” that aren’t.
You seem to have your IQ evaluations inverted.
Oh looky here:
They know that if you just throw them a bone every once in awhile, like this retarded stem cell ban we’ve all been forced to endure, they’ll continue happily voting Republican, no matter how un-Christian the policies are.
See, everyone and everything that disagrees with Levi is retarded.
Judged in a vacuum, Bush’s tax cuts might arguably have been good for the economy, but since he didn’t cut spending and started a ridiculously expensive war, those tax cuts only amplify the economic problems Bush created by increasing spending and starting the Iraq war! It’s a viscious cycle.
Everyone sounds pretty impressed with the shape of the economy as Bush rounds third, is that accurate? Conservatives honestly believe we’re in better economic shape, both as a country and as individuals, after 8 years of George Bush? Is that what you’re all saying?
Paul, want to bet any money that Levi can’t correctly articulate what the “stem cell ban” actually is?
I am suddenly struck with the gut-level belief that Levi thinks “Idiocracy” is actually a valid worry…rather than an utter rip-off of “The Marching Morons.”
Foxfier (74f1c8) — 4/12/2008 @ 6:29 pm
Abortion is the most illustrative example. For years the Republicans have been saying they’re gonna stop abortion, stop the killing, restore good Christian morality to government, bring about a culture of life, and where are we decades later?
Ever think that maybe there some opposition to making those changes?
Retard.
It’s an almost entirely dependable voting bloc that you don’t have to do anything for once you’re in office, hell, you can even cause them all to lose their jobs and homes and they don’t waver. How sweet is that?
That description better fits the black voting bloc.
Levi, our current economic issues have only the most tenuous connection to the amount of the Federal deficit.
You really have no clue about economics.
Just because you’re moderating these threads doesn’t mean you’re a good judge of whether or not liberal views are being well-represented. I’m a liberal, don’t you think I’d be in a better position to make that call?
By your own logic, we are in better position than you to expound the “Republican” platform. Because you are posting here doesn’t mean you are a good judge whether or not conservative views are represented. And since, by your own admission, you don’t make any effort to differentiate nuances between conservatives (“I don’t have the time to figure out every difference, get over it”) is all the proof we need that your judgement in such matters is lacking.
…but since he didn’t cut spending and started a ridiculously expensive war, those tax cuts only amplify the economic problems Bush created by increasing spending and starting the Iraq war!
Would that be the war that Kerry and Clinton voted for?
Now that Democrats control both houses of Congress, how much have they cut spending?
What exactly are the “economic problems” caused by increased spending the Iraq war?
Perfect Sense (b6ec8c) — 4/12/2008 @ 6:49 pm
Prove that it isn’t. With links to actual proof, not opinion, assumptions and conjecture, since you don’t accept that from anyone else.
And if you answer with only opinion, assumptions and conjecture wthout any proof to back them up, not only are you a retard, but by writing only those with no effort, you are proving your own statement:
Because everyone is stupid by default, and it’s really easy to stay stupid. It actually requires a little bit of effort to be smart, so there’s not as many smart people as there are stupid people.
Remember that? The statement that dedicates this thread to you?
From Protein Wisdom:
Donk Duet [Dan Collins]
Obama: Unelectable, that’s what you are
Unelectable though near or far
Though the rants of Wright may hinder me
Her transparent lies screw Hillary
Never before has someone been more
Hillary: Unelectable in every way
That’s why I am here, that’s why I stay
That’s why, Barry, it’s delectable
That someone so unelectable
Thinks that I am unelectable, too
Obama: Unelectable in every way!
Hillary: That’s why I’m still here, the crap you say!
Both: S/he thinks her/his shit’s undetectable–
How can one so unelectable
Think that I am unelectable, too?
I noticed he no longer provides links to back up his statements after Pablo and I carved his a** like the firsr summer pig roast some weeks ago.
Paul, I got a bunch of slices too. He is certainly about the dumbest troll I recall visiting here. He is persistent, though.
Guys, wise up. Levi has your number. He’s right when he says that one comment of his is enough to make you his entourage. You’re not just feeding him. You’re sticking a line in your veins and transfusing him. I’ll bet you a dollar that he’s the most conservative troll under another name on leftie sites.
nk (6b7d4f) — 4/12/2008 @ 8:00 pm
nk – Elitist
You really should start your own blog. With open comments. You will be successful.
I mean it seriously and with all the goodwill in the world. You have a talent for provoking discussion. Follow Patterico’s example and be tolerant of the discussion you attract within the limits of decency.
Just Google Blogger. It will guide you the rest of the way. And it’s free.
NK’s right, Levi. You have a talent for essays.
Go for it Levi – Name it the Bitterness Express or something. All on board.
I would recommend a whimsical and memorable but otherwise non-imposing name. For example, I believe “Patterico” was what Patterico’s father called him as a child. Let your readers take their own meaning from it — don’t force it on them.
On names, I rather like mine– it’s from a Magic card, that said “only a fool fears foxfire.”
It’s always a bonus if your name is unusual, yet easy.
Guys, wise up. Levi has your number. He’s right when he says that one comment of his is enough to make you his entourage.
Not when I string him up with his own comments.
Ever notice, nk, that when I show up, he immediately stops commenting?
*puts on conspiracy cap*
He’s never seen with you…so he IS YOU!!!!
*evil, insane laughter*
PauLevi?
DRJ, there’s no way I could fake such an utter lack of facts, logic, reason or ethics.
Besides, I’ve aready been accused of writing Staunch Brayer’s comments also.
Remember, our host is the blogosphere’s expert on sock-puppetry.
Foxfier #123,
If we are talking about the same thing, I played with foxfires when small, on our farm. Ball-shaped, very fragile mushrooms that glow in the dark?
NK- I’ve never seen it, personally; I’ve wished to, often.
But I do think it’s the same thing the card was talking about.
BTW– if anyone was confused…I was teasing Paul.
We knew you were teasing and also that Paul is not Levi.
It’s the internet. You HAVE to mention this stuff. *grin*
Wait a minute. Isn’t Levi from Montana?
The picture is becoming clearer.
Ok. Help me with this. I created a blogspot and I want to give everybody the codes so that everybody can do anything he/she wants anytime. Anybody interested? More important, how do we keep out the spammers? Or should we allow spammers since each and every one of us can do anything we want to the blog anytime we want? Including deleting it forever?
Patterico, will you allow me to start this experiment in blog anarchy by posting the username and code words here?
nk – What are we bitter dumb jobless hicks supposed to do when we aren’t in church handling snakes and speaking in tongues, out shooting something, chasing down hobos and illegal immigrants, lusting after our relatives, cleaning our one good tooth, if we can’t take out our bitterness on some idiot on the internet who’s presidential candidate doesn’t understand a thing about us but claims he and the government can solve all our problems because he can change things. Yeah right.
Pull my finger.
daleyrocks –
*twitch*
My family name is Hicks.
Worse yet, my DAD is David Hicks. Not the terrorist.
I twitch a lot….
nk, you can activate a captcha which will keep the spambots from posting. Go to Settings > Comments and enable word verification. That way, any human can post.
Foxfier – Twitching can be good in certain situations. Did you hear the one about the guy in the nursing home who met the woman with parkinsons….
Is your family name where the expression came from? I’ll think of another word to use going forward – rubes or something like that if I remember.
No, Pablo. I meant anybody being a team member. Is it possible?
Levi, if you want it, it’s yours. I’ll email you the passwords and you can change everything except the URL. You can immediately change the password so nobody else could access it and you could pick any header you like for it.
nk, is that likely to be a problem? If it becomes one, you could always just change the password periodically.
Pablo (99243e) — 4/12/2008 @ 10:13 pm
email me at anybody.onymous@gmail.com if you want. I’ll email you back the passwords. You’ll see what I mean then.
Is your family name where the expression came from?
No, my family–with typical English logic– comes from the name “Richard.”
Richard=>Rich=>Rick=>Hicks.
Although I am a ranch kid by breeding.
Foxfier (74f1c8) — 4/12/2008 @ 10:46 pm
Obama does damage control (via Exurbanleague).
Foxfier – I was just kidding around.
Did Obama say anything that is untrue? Small town folks DO cling to the Second Amendment and religion.
Obama is just another tax and spend liberal, and I wouldn’t vote for him. Despite this, what he said is true.
Rudy (2f7ea6) — 4/13/2008 @ 2:40 am
Rudy – Please explain why what Obama said is true, especially if you are religious, hunt, jobless, and live in a small town and so can speak with authority about such matters.
daleyrocks (906622) — 4/13/2008 @ 5:46 am
Well, yes. He said that these beliefs, along with racism, xenophobia and economic isolationism are held dear because of the economic policies of Clinton and the Bushes. It is untrue to suggest that small town folks universally feel that way, and it’s also wrong to suggest that those who do feel any of those things do so because of national leadership.
Pablo (99243e) — 4/13/2008 @ 5:58 am
But the Republicans always lose me when they take the ‘Let’s ban Spanish!’ leap.
Who’s called to ban Spanish? What’s wrong with saying government business will by default be conducted in the dominant language?
Rob Crawford (b5d1c2) — 4/13/2008 @ 6:33 am
You’re sort of right. By my logic, that should be true, but it ain’t. People don’t necessarily have to be part of a political faction to know and understand it. I know quite a bit about the Republican platform, in fact, I’d posit that I probably know more about it than most Republicans. It’s not that hard to ‘get’ Republicans and George Bush, their ideology and policies have been on prominent display for the past 8 years.
On the other hand, it’s become pretty clear in my time here that none of you understands or even cares to understand modern liberalism in America. These threads are all the same; Obama says something, then all of you take turns calling him an elitist, socialist, black liberation Communist-Nazi. It’s all uninformed speculation based on a few statements taken out of context and who Obama went to church with. There certainly haven’t been any honest, reasoned dissections of Obama’s liberalism, at least while I’ve been here.
What I’m saying, essentially, is that I know more about your side then you know about mine.
Levi (76ef55) — 4/13/2008 @ 8:23 am
I was exaggerating, but not by much. So tell me, what purpose does saying the government will conduct it’s business in English serve?
That’s what you are saying. But what you are showing with your comments is that you actually understand neither.
SPQR (26be8b) — 4/13/2008 @ 8:30 am
A usial like any liberal demacratic bigot he has shown why he dont deserve the whitehouse
krazy kagu (d982eb) — 4/13/2008 @ 9:11 am
Levi wrote:
Levi, we had a very generous welfare program for generations, and it didn’t work. Why ought we to keep throwing good money after bad, on programs which do not work, just to show that we are compassionate?
There is one, and only one, solution to poverty: get your ass off the couch and go to work! very time we try to be compassionate and make it easier for people to keep their dead asses on the couch, and not have to work for a living, we are keeping them in poverty, not lifting them out of it.
Dana R Pico (c36902) — 4/13/2008 @ 9:16 am
Levi, in comment #98, describes conservatives:
As stupid as I believe all of you to be,. . .
You’ll understand, then, that others might have a similarly negative opinion of you?
Indeed, I’m not sure why you’d say such a thing: telling people that you think they are stupid — and the phrase “all of you” would certainly mean that you think that every last one of us who disagrees with you is stupid — and then making a point you wish to push is necessarily the best way to persuade people that you are right or have pressed a serious point.
This from a commenter that claims he doesn’t have the time to learn the “nuances of each conservative position” so he puts them all in a single group, and says “get over it.”
Which brings us back to your not making an effort:
Paul (4e4a20) — 4/13/2008 @ 9:37 am
There certainly haven’t been any honest, reasoned dissections of Obama’s liberalism, at least while I’ve been here.
You mean the public image Obama is tryng to cultivate?
Sorry, Levi. We know the difference between an object painted gold, and an actual piece of gold.
So tell me, what purpose does saying the government will conduct it’s business in English serve?
Look at immigrants who speak English and their level of economic success versus those who don’t speak English. If you’re going to live and work in another country it is unquestionably in your best interest to speak the native language. If you have to learn English, you will. If you can eke by without it, the odds that you won’t increase greatly.
Pablo (99243e) — 4/13/2008 @ 10:15 am
Haw haw, here is a link from Wonkette.
news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/04/13/poor-bit
ter-americans-should-cheer-up/
When Hillary and McCain manage to beat Obama to death with their bogus “elitist” meme they will then turn it on each other in the general election. If the list at the bottom of the article is any sample of the ammo these guys are going to have then McCain is definitely going to win. He’s Way less elitist. All the brave, courageous, intelligent, educated, innovative, and spunky small town people everywhere already know this of course coz although he allegedly admits to not being an economics kind of guy, and keeps messing up who is sunni or shia (these gotchas courtesy of Huffpo and Crooks and liars of course), JMc IS pro-gun, pro-life, and anti-gay marriage, I forget how he thinks about immigration is that a flip flopper for him?
EdWood (726c30) — 4/13/2008 @ 12:25 pm
Yeah, like Ken Layne is a credible source.
Levi:
I doubt it. We were all liberals, too, when we were your age.
I just keep thinking that when I get my next job I’m going to stop going to church, put down my rifle, be all about gay marriage and open borders immigration and support the Smoot-Hawley type trade restrictions the democrats favor. Right now, though, I’m all about teh bitterness. It’s scary like how Obama can read my mind.
Gotta go to the store though and buy another twelve pack and dynamite some fish for dinner, otherwise the wife and kids won’t eat. It’s fun too!
Daleyrocks: You can come visit us in the backwoods of Pennsyltucky. Instead of dynamitin’ fish in the Lehigh River, we gots deer and bears that keep walkin’ through the yard, so’s we just pop one when the food gets low in the freezer. Drag the carcass down to the butcherin’ shed in the back, and the freezer’s full again.
‘cept, o’ course, what we gives to the dogs.
T’night, right after Bill Clinton’s speech at th’ high skool, we’re having bear steaks and beans and taters. C’mon over!
Daley, if you were a REAL redneck, you’d get one of them old crank teliphones, toss the lead-wires into the pond, and give it a couple of turns…
That’s how a REAL edneck fishes…
Scott Jacobs (d3a6ec) — 4/13/2008 @ 1:37 pm
Out yonder in West Texas, we ketch rattlesnakes for Sunday supper. It tastes jest like chickn.
Yeah, I’ll bet Obama fishes like a sissy, jest like he bowls.
“We were all liberals, too, when we were your age.”
Ah, the age of innocence ignorance…good times, good times.
Dana (59f0fc) — 4/13/2008 @ 2:35 pm
Y’all plain folk are funny.
DRJ, really? I’d heerd that chicken tastes just like rattlesnake and sur ‘nuf once I stole sum, they was rite.
So? Geez whiz, Louise, we are more important to you than you are to us? Who woulda thunk it?
Well, I for one know about Modern Liberalism;
aka, Multi-Cultural Fascism.
We know the difference between an object painted gold, and an actual piece of gold.
That’s why the more we learn about Obama (and that wife of his), I can’t figure why Caroline Kennedy would group him with her father.
JFK, with all his connections to the dark side of being a Kennedy, had compassion and an understanding of decency. Were Obama to possess either of those (he doesn’t), it would’ve occurred to him to bail long ago on that pastor/mentor/baptiser of his. Just a real poser.
It’s scary that many people have no problem with these startling new facts about BHO’s thinking and choices. I honestly think Obama is the enemy of my enemy candidate.
Vermont Neighbor (629f2e) — 4/13/2008 @ 4:00 pm
Because she and most everyone else on the Left have idealized JFK and his presidency, rather than look at actual facts.
JFK would have never made it into the primaries as a Democrats with his platform on taxes (a rising tide lifts all boats) among other issues.
“Painted gold” because he’s black?
Racist.
Leviticus (b987b0) — 4/14/2008 @ 8:42 am
Who said “because he’s black?” You made that up. Are you vying with the other Levi over who can look like the bigger idiot? Perhaps Paul should refer to you as “Retardicus” just to keep your respective identities clear.
Xrlq (b71926) — 4/14/2008 @ 9:37 am
I was attempting to parody the Fringe Left. I was being sarcastic. I was kidding. Yikes.
You’ve seen a lot of wacky comments if you thought mine was serious.
… Although the whole “Retardicus” sentiment must’ve been bubbling close to the surface for it to boil over so quickly.
Paul, I know that Levi would have to understand that re Camelot. (JFK was his mother’s liberal – and no relaton to Obama.)
Indeed I have, but that’s no excuse for my falling into the sarchasm, something I usually poke fun at others for doing. My bad.
Don’t take it personally. The only reason that name occurred to me so quickly was that the post reminded me of another commenter. I won’t tell you the other commenter’s name, but will tell you that he:
Really is a retard.
Posts under a name similar to yours.
Put differently, the connnection between “retard” and the first half of your name was well established, but through no fault of your own. Thus, it only took one post with the name “Leviticus” plus content reminiscent of the other guy for the moniker “Retardicus” to practically write itself.
Xrlq (62cad4) — 4/15/2008 @ 4:04 am
Don’t worry about it. I’ve misinterpreted my fair share of intended parody on this site; sometimes it’s hard to convey sarcasm through a keyboard.
Here’s a useful link for those instances guys. The best rendition of the song, too, in my opinion.
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I’ve been meaning to write about some of my favorite musicians that I’ve seen over the past year or so, but now feels like the best time, as one of my favorite bands, hands down, is Frightened Rabbit.
After a long battle with depression and other mental health issues, the lead singer of the band, Scott Hutchinson, was found dead Thursday night. To say I’m upset is an understatement. FR’s words have carried me though some of the most stressful and difficult parts of my life the past few years. Andrew and I have seen them in concert three times, including once the day after returning from Scotland. I listen to their songs when I run, when I commute, while I work. I want to dance to Old Old Fashioned at my wedding.
The thing that drew me to FR in the beginning was Scott’s raw lyrics and vocals, aptly depicting the pain and anxiety of love and life. It’s now apparent that his pleading voice was a reflection of his own internal battles, as he tried to work them out over and over again onstage. Paired with the sometimes almost upbeat instrumentals, the songs, although sad, felt hopeful to me. We’re all a little broken and life is hard sometimes, but when you realize we’re all alone, you’re not really alone at all.
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“Get together now/ find hope/ there’s life beyond the one you already know” — “Lump Street”
“You are not ill, and I’m not dead/ doesn’t that make us a perfect pair?” — “Modern Leper”
“There is light but there’s a tunnel to crawl through/ There is love but its misery loves you/ There’s still hope so I think we’ll be fine/ In these disastrous times, disastrous times” — “Oil Slick”
“Though the corners are lit/ The dark can return with the flick of a switch/ It hasn’t turned on me yet” — “Not Miserable”
“And while I’m alive, I’ll make tiny changes to earth” — “Heads Roll Off”
Scott was incredibly open about his struggle with mental illness, and I think that openness helped so many others who were suffering. I hope he rests easy knowing he made a lot more than tiny changes.
And of course, if you are feeling like you are all alone, or that suicide is the only escape, please know that it’s not, and please reach out to 1-800-273-8255 or visit www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org. There are plenty of people who love and care for you.
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The girls apartment is actually based on one I had in Lakeland with some roommates of my own. Ours was three bedrooms, but the two bedroom layout is practically the same. The blueprint for it is eternally burned into my head when drawing and setting up each panel contained within this environment.
UPDATE: Yeah I’m failing miserably at getting this comic done. I’ll have to push it to Monday, but it is 4 tiers, and it’s the content of all missed posts. My apologies. I had a rough time getting this one how I wanted. :\
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C00kieX_8
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First? For real?
mR. Blue
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For reals. Second? Really?
Lukkai
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Minutes! It’s been going for minutes!
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Time is fleeting.
Madness takes its toll
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But listen closely
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not for very much longer
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I’ve got to keep control.
Gravatarless
I remember… doing the Time Warp…
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Drinking those moments when
jeffepp
If you’re lost you can look – and you will find me
If you fall I will catch you – I’ll be waiting
C-c-c-c-c-combooo breakerrrrrr!
That one guy
And Cyndi Lauper for the combo breaker at that. Interesting choice by Jeffepp, there.
…being as I’ve rented the same house since moving out of my parents, I’m not seeing the plot here. What, is he trying to corner the market on Lakeland real estate?
Sirqster
They broke down the door to HIS apartment….and according to their contract they can’t tell anyone why.
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Sure but that contract is utterly unenforceable. Signing it made a fool buy them some cars, but it doesn’t constrain future actions except by their own honor.
Much more importantly, TiredGuy has footage of them assaulting Alex. The door is small potatoes to going up the river for assault.
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That depends on the laws of this world, it may in fact be legally binding here, that if they do talk about it he can sue them for all of the money spent on them. Also did he get footage? Because the door was knocked down so that camera should be out, and the cat swallowed the others, the phone was in the freezer and the rest were in their apartments.
Using the footage might become problematic for him anyway, given this new information. For the question would come up of how it was acquired. And that would quite likely lead to the question if he, as actual holder of the appartment Danny used, was involved in the business coordinated from there.
We know he wasn’t. But it might be difficult to prove.
Sure, he could argue to have found the record in the appartment. He’d then have to explain as to why he was searching his subletters personal possessions though.
Ignoring the fact that Ellie, as a policeman’s daughter, would probably get a more favorable treatment, he could point to his nephew directing him to the site due to the apartment looking like his. Unless he worked fairly heavily in computers, he could play the age card on himself for it taking time to track down where the site was coming from, and as the lease holder for the apartment Danny was subletting, having a tenant breaking the rental agreement is an issue he would have to show movement against to defend himself.
Now unless there’s also evidence that Danny told him what he was up to and wanted to do in renting the apartment, then I think he can probably get away with using the video. Primarily because his use of the video isn’t for something the legal system would consider to be a gain for him, but just to notify the legal system (and/or rich and possibly lawsuit-happy rich parents of the victim) of a crime.
The real thing that would bite him is if he talked Alex into going to visit them. If he went that far and it gets discovered, then this backfires very badly upon him (and Alex, probably).
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Actually considering he wants Quinn’s appartment and has already acquired all those around hers, it would be him trying to gain something from this. Which would at the least place some doubt on his claims to not have been involved in any kind of way. Which the nephew in question of course couldn’t have known.
He might be able to get away with it, if he was going to use the video. But he might also get into trouble himself. And it certainly wouldn’t be all that easy getting out of the mess he’d create with what he wants.
Tired Guy to police officer: “My nephew pointed out a website to me because he said the backgrounds looked like my apartment. I recognized my upstairs neighbors. I have had disagreements with these neighbors in the past, which even included the darker haired girl cutting my air hose. Since I have reason to be concerned, I continued watching occasionally. I happened to see evidence of an assault and my computer allowed me to save it. I am concerned with my safety and hope you can help me.”
If there isn’t any evidence that he knew Danny was peeping on them or that he set up Alex to go get his ass kicked, I don’t see that backfiring on Tired Guy.
He can’t be that stupid. But how did Danny boy get in touch with Tired Guy in the first place? If it was through the site users, then there is that link that would crap on Tired Guy’s plans faster than Quinn with a second pair of scissors and a second air tube.
Officer: where were you sir, when this girl cut your air hose?
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Yeah, there is definitely the question of how he ended up subletting to Danny. Though Danny certainly could’ve been looking for openings in the building and found it himself and that wouldn’t seem odd at all. Would be a bit odder for Tired Guy to approach some guy spending time around Ellie and try to ask him if he wasn’t to do something awful to them.
Quinn to said police officer: “He’s been pretty much stalking me for months now. Trying to weasel his way into my appartment and using every opportunity to threaten me with having me removed from the building. Now after months of unsuccessful threats, harassment and desperate attempts to find any pretence by which he could have the landlord throw me out, someone illegally installs cameras in the appartment me and Ellie Buckingham are living in. Someone that was provided an appartment by our neighbour in question, which is used as a base for this operation. And he is part of the watching community pretty much from the start.
Now nevermind that Alex had an amazingly good timing showing up after the first hours did of videos did not show anything that could compromise my status as holder of the lease. And pretty much went out of his way to provoke us into throwing him out. That whole setup still stinks. Especially considering he’s aiming for complete holding of all the appartments in this building and mine is the last one he’d need for that. He’s already proven in the past to go to deep lows to achieve his goal. So who says the whole thing wasn’t set up by him?
Oh, the air hose? Yeah, he was trespassing in my appartment and wouldn’t leave even after continued demand to do so. So since I knew that wouldn’t cause him any more trouble than having to go back to his own flat and get one of his spares, thus forcing him to leave, I cut the line. No harm done there, except the few dollars for the hose.”
To land him in some trouble, there doesn’t need to be clear evidence he orchestrated it. All there’s needed to start an investigation would be sufficient ground for suspecting. And that – your mileage may vary of course, but here Ellie’s background might come in as an advantage – is actually there.
Now as far as we know there is no clear evidence whatsoever, so he would most likely be cleared in the end. But that would take a while and still seriously harm his reputation with anyone he’d want to gain for his side in the conflict with Quinn either way.
And chances are good that even if the girls had to answer for whatever they did to Alex (and we still don’t really know what they did), they wouldn’t lose the appartment over it, given the circumstances. So the whole thing sounds like way too much trouble for no real gain.
Trying to use it as leverage against the girls in the hope that they don’t think too far and react as he wants to. That I could see.
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You’re missing that an elderly man on oxygen presenting a video of two teen girls who live in his building beating the crap out of another young man would likely cause him to be believed on fearing for his safety. That being the case, the police, ignoring benefits of Ellie being related to chief, would investigate the girls and not communicate anything about the older man. Had he done that and not shown up here to taunt them, they wouldn’t have even had any idea he was on Danny’s site or owned the apartment.
However, if he gave the video to Alex’s rich parents, he can taunt them without too much trouble in any case as long as he didn’t put Alex up to it. All he did was give some upset parents evidence to help them find their son’s attackers. Also at that point Ellie’s connections don’t help as they’d probably just abuse them in civil court effectively forever.
I think that’s basically the point why giving the video to the police would lead to the mentioned problems for him: That he showed up taunting the two and even let slip that he knows about the site. Otherwise, he’d have had a decent chance of only getting them into trouble. Though at one point, the police would have had to talk with the two about it. They wouldn’t have known it was by virtue of him and probably suspect, if anyone, Danny behind it.
Now giving the video to Alex’s kin is something I didn’t think of. Yet it would probably be the plan with the highest chance of success of any that involve such a video.
I can see the video going to Alex’s parents easier than I could see Tired Guy going to the police. And the only way that Alex’s parents are going to find out is if and only if Alex and Tired Guy have some sort of thing going on.
Quinn & Alex dated for months, and he apparently hears a lot that goes on there. All it’d take is something cluing him in to the boyfriend having rich parents and a last name and he can probably track them down.
If Alex ended up in the hospital, he might be able to track the hospital and find the parents there, too. Granted, that’d be easier if there were a police report, and I suspect there wasn’t here.
Some Unregistered Punk
It also depends if subleasing is legal in that particular state and town.
For example in NYC, technically he wouldn’t be able to hold that many apartments because he can’t live in them all.
Subletting is only allowed if the owner plans to come back to singular piece of property that he or she is subletting. It’s temporary and the renting is for more than 30 days. If he claims that each apartment is subletted to family, the law will still kick his claim to those apartments out because he would need to prove that they are immediate family. Cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents don’t count.
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Most leases I’ve signed have explicitly barred subleases, which leads me to believe that in all those places subleasing is legal and must be in the lease for the landlord to have any means to stop.
If it is illegal there, then he would’ve been very dumb to tell the girls that he has eight apartments leased.
It’s legal under strict laws under NYC’s system.
It becomes illegal if the person that subletted doesn’t follow the laws as it’s written. Usually what happens is that the person that was subleased to, complains to the city about something which brings about an investigation. The Landlord or the owner of the property usually gets out of trouble because his or her leases will mark subleasing as not allowed on the property. The person that subleased will be hit with massive fines and some punishments and then the IRS gets involved.
The people that are living in the apartment are given a few weeks to a few days ( depending on which county of NYC this is happening in) to vacate the property. The landlord or the owner may then decide to go after the fool who subleased to make that person’s grief even worse. The landlord will be able to claim a financial loss and the law will give it to him.
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oh and the people that lived in the apartment will also be able to sue the person that subleased the apartment to get some money back especially if the rent they were being charged was higher than the rent that the landlord was charging the fool that subleased.
Let’s go with that.
He would have seen Alex there while he was with Quinn. So he knows what he looks like and possibly how he gets around. And if he’s got the other tennants by the short and curlies, then he’s got a near anonymous way of getting messages around.
Tired Guy wants something, he’s got more faces than Harvey Dent and Janus combined. So let’s suggest that it’s a 50/50 that he prodded Alex into showing up with the possibility of ______ with one of the girls. Which one was not mentioned.
Additionally, he could have forced one of the other tennants into forging a note just for Alex.
Wondering Where the Lions Are
More then four faces? Then he’s an evil Darkman? ( I can’t think of any other face changing fictional character at the moment. )
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Raw Shark?
I made comment below.
Caleb borked the door with his disdain.
See I’d agree but A: tired guy don’t care. B: It was standing when they called to find out where Danny was.
Just because someone was able to make the door fit back into the jamb doesn’t mean that it was fixed in an instant.
his boogness
They did? When?
He has no rights to the apartment as owner. At best and as far as we know, Danny boy is still the rightful owner of the premises in question.
Rusche
You’re thinking I won’t explain that at some point ;P
Muria
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Nah. We just wanna know NOW! :D
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Inquiring minds and what not Bossdude.
Ever seen No Country for Old Men?
So……. someone stole something from old guy and hid it in the duct work of the girls apartments, and he’s been slowly purchasing the leases of the surrounding apartments to cut off access to theirs, and now it’s just a matter of getting them removed so he can purchase the lease of that apartment and finally gain access to the something that’s hidden there?
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mumble mumble Air ducts mumble mumble “Cupcake thingy” mumble mumble chika (or what ever) mumble mumble Thunderbolt and Lightfoot? mumble mumble THE CAT”S HOLDING OUT ON US!
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What was that Martin Lawrence movie with the diamond heist and the gato joke?
Blue Streak. (saw it in theaters, too. Go figure)
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I didn’t get that luxury.
You’d think that he could just get a little drone with a camera to find it.
Maybe he did and it was eaten by McFatfat?
Deepbluediver
Even before I read your post, I was thinking that this plot was becoming more Scooby-doo-esque by the moment.
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“Now let’s see who he really is!” *removes mask and gasps* “The Urine Salesman?!”
“Urine fer sale!!”
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Ruh ruh raggy, he’s sprasshing.
If you’d said Doctor Who (since it returned to the air after a decade), I’d assume the plot involved aligning all of the apartments into some sort of doomsday device. This would to be done to set unimaginably high stakes that no one would expect to be lost, as a stand-in for having likeable-but-disposable characters in reasonable peril, to engage the audience emotionally in the outcome.
Interesting. If his goal was noise abatement he would only need to monopolise the first and second floor apartments and occupy the ground unit (and being old and decrepit it would make sense not having to climb stairs). If his goal was to isolate Quinn & Co. for whatever reason, he would only need the second and third floor units. So there’s some reason he’s renting all the units. Heist money behind the blackboard(s)?
Well that last sentence is really redundant now.
It privileges you to a “Called it!” should it turn out to be the truth.
True, but I would be at the end of the line. I guess what I was trying to say was that Tired Guy isn’t just after Quinn’s apt. but ALL the units, Quinn’s is just the last one. IF there’s money or other valuables hidden in all of them he’s probably retrieved most of it/them, which would explain how he could afford eight leases, but wouldn’t explain why he’s STILL renting them, unless he has them for a full year.
At least it’s not the secret film in the leg of a pew in a church in the middle of the country.
But I want to know who really killed Kennedy!
Even if you have to shove an injection needle into your heart to survive a neurotoxin first?
Hey, at least I got the prom queen! That’s gotta count for something.
Disembodied Mind
Does she bite?
McClaud
I think he’s using the apartments to brew Montage.
Danny was a client, that’s how he knew to sub-let from Tired Guy.
This guy really likes his privacy. Too much.
It’s a way to make money for sure. And ensure who your neighbors are.
Does Tired Guy own the building in some way?
He’s just grouchy because no one else will play tic-tac-toe with him and allow him 8 moves to their 1.
Isn’t that more like 2D yahtzee?
Wait a second. . . He sub let to Danny boy, he surmised who they were from the get go. He can not use anything against the girls, because his intentions were and are circumspect. If he has some financial gain from those other apartments is HE breaking any fair trade with the owners and/or management office in his actions in having a primary lease with those 8 apartments?
Also, what kind of borken ass kerfluffle is Tired Guy trying to pull? He has some hand somewhere in Danny boy’s website by pproviding the location. Maybe legal maybe not. If not I say he hasn’t got a leg to stand on.
They did break the door down to his apartment…..
Caleb borked it first.
Heh, I’ve used borked so much, the phone suggests it with broken.
I know I haven’t been following the comic very closely lately, but I seriously don’t remember them breaking the door down.
Oh no… we have a straggler.
*sends reeducation team*
“Oh hey, you guys here for the tazer party? Well you’re a little early, it doesn’t start for another houGIGIGIGIGEH!!”
*slump*
Is that like a Tupperware party?
Gnatevil
With Tazers!!!! Shocking, isn’t it!
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OH my, that’s very, very, very, very shocking.
I’ve never been to a Tupperware party myself, but I always assumed that’s how they typically went.
I can’t decide if tasers would make Tupperware parties more or less popular.
I’m not sure, but at least you have a portable insulator.
Hm… So… Basically it’s a free for all. And you try to send down the others while at the same time using your tupperware as a shield. Last person standing is the winner and gets the price.
I was thinking more something like you sit in a circle and first person failing to make the Tupperware burp gets tazed until you get down to few enough people for the next round (whatever that is).
Tazing for a non burp is funny.
Mr. Blue puffs up to a height and size bigger than James.
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Ve are here to, {claps hands} educate you up!
If you go to comic The Chain Part VII (currently 26 Mar 2015) where Caleb breaks the door down, you will see the hinges are attached to the flying door and pieces of the wood along the door frame are missing from said door frame and flying through the air.
If you go to comic Number 400 (currently 28 April 2015) where the ladies walk in on them which appears to be the morning after Caleb appeared, they entered the apartment without waking them up and the door is propped diagonally behind them.
Now it was in the door frame when Ellie called him in the previous comic (The Chain Part XX), though.
So the two scenarios would be that Danny & Caleb fixed the door that evening and girls broke it again without waking either of them up (they were drinking, but Ellie & Quinn were standing patiently behind them until they woke up, so we’re not talking hours here), or Danny & Caleb propped the door back in the frame and didn’t fix it and the girls noticed when they touched it and quietly set it down to avoid waking them up with the door breaking.
Second one seems more likely to me.
And until we find out that the lease is broken, YES I USED BROKEN. Danny Boy is the rightful owner of that property, and the door. Tired Guy has no legal say until we find out that the lease was broken.
He could probably make an argument about hearing crashing and going to knock found the door detached and taking the same “not breaking and entering if the door’s busted” approach. However, I believe there is usually some form of “exigent maintenance circumstances” that generally allow landlords to enter tenants’ apartments, so he could be going that route too (and with a busted door and a lot of damage to tenant’s stuff, could justify more than just a quick look).
Another possibility is that he’s been to visit Danny in jail and is there with Danny’s blessing for some reason.
Additionally Danny’s check might’ve bounced after Caleb drained the account to pay the girls’ bribes and then transfer the rest back to his main account. That shouldn’t be enough to evict him, but may allow some degree of suspension of his rights.
Finally we don’t know what Tired Guy put in the subletting agreement. It might give him more permission than a usual lease.
1. Lease all apartments surrounding The Noisy Heathens.
2. ?????
3. PROFIT!
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Well, remember speculation is that step 3 for blind guy is REVENGE rather than PROFIT.
Sometimes one and the same!
So he’s got a naked sketch of Ellie, and now (I assume) he has videos of Ellie undressing on his hard drive. The evidence he’s gathered to get them evicted is only making him look creepier and creepier.
Well, we know how far she undressed before cam.
Of course, just not sure if the old guy saw it or not. The *potential* is there, I just wanted to point out.
Nardo Polo
Ok, so having a good look at Tired Guy in today’s and Friday’s comic, he bears a VERY striking resemblance to a character in a TV show from the mid-90s called “The Pretender”, dress shirt, oxygen tank and everything. And yes, I am that old.
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Ooohh.. I liked that show!
I remember that show.
I remember that the second or third season really seemed to go off the rails.
That YOUNG, you mean.
He’s had that vibe going on since the start. Well, when he started, that is.
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Every time lightning strikes the peach cobbler goes out!
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Okay Brick. Now let’s try to drive over the bridge.
I like the slogan “Almost Affordable” for the apartment complex.
Stewardess jokes are acceptable replies if you can come up with good ones (I don’t know any).
Clearly the only reasonable course of action is to knock Tired Guy unconscious, drag him back to “his” apartment, and set him on fire after planting evidence that makes it look like he was smoking in bed.
thelastoutlaw
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Well, THAT escalated quickly…
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Escalating to “last resort” levels saves time in the long run.
Ash Blackwell
Jumping to Last Resort level usually saves time, yes, but if you have to move all the stuff you care about out of your own apartment to set fire to the guy in the apartment below yours to convince folks he was smoking in bed, that might change the time equation a little. [grin]
DragonKing
My guess, Tired Guy wants to turn the apartments into a single large condo for himself. Or he is trying to buy the entire building, but doing so secretly. Or he has a ton of money, and is really bored with his retirement and just doing whatever catches his whim, which is currently involves owning all the apartments in that building or something.
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And part of his whim is trying to get Quinn evicted?
Maybe he’s keeping tabs on Quinn for her dad, who wants to force her to fall back on him? I dunno. Patriarchy!
So when is he going to get the lease on the 3 complexes on the other side?
What kind of money does this man have that he can afford to lease eight units in an apartment complex O.o
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Enough that he could move somewhere a lot nicer if he didn’t actually like the neighbors.
Larathiel
I’m wondering WTF he’s up to that he needs to completely isolate his abode sound-wise from other people while still living in an area with high population density. After all, it would be far cheaper to pay the mortgage on a single-family home for what 9 units would cost (9 since he’s trying to surround the one he lives in with the surrounding 8). Along with the observation that he must have *been* someone, I suspect that he’s former intelligence or some such.
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Aszuming he’s not renting the others. However we do have a basketball goal near Quinn’s car.
He’s got a money deal with the leasing office, splitting the extra $$ 50/50.
OK, let see. The old guy has several units surrounding our heroines. He sublets (something most apartment complexes don’t allow) the apartment to a person (a person just arrested for montage) who sets up illegal video and audio cameras in their home. He keeps said illegal videos.
I personally hope he doesn’t try to blackmail them out of the apartment. After all, it will look like he stalked them. The girls can truthfully and contractually say they had no idea they were being monitored. He’d have to explain where he got the video and that he had nothing to do with creating the video. Kind of hard when he leases all the surrounding apartments and subletted to the guy who did the dirty work.
If he leased that many apartments, he could easily move down one floor and not hear anything as there would be an entire apartment between him and the girls. He’s looking like a pervert/stalker.
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It’s in the air ducts! (see discusin’ above)
Well, I’m sure extortion is going to be happening, succeed or fail, but how and with what he’s going to threaten our heroines is currently unknown. We know he saw the site but was he alerted to it by his sleezy nephew or did he already know about it and was watching when sleezy nephew contacted him? Did he save any video and what would said video show? Did he know what Danny was up to when he sub-let the apt? Maybe he hopes Quinn and Ellie thinks if the fact they were on such a site gets out it would ruin them or something. We’ll find out soon enough.
Saving the video was discussed when we learned that they were put in place.
DAMN! I misspelled sleazy.
That awkward moment when… you realise your browser reset on an update and ate a few bookmarks for reasons random. -_-
Siro-A kicked A tonight. Big A. I would almost put them up against SHOTGUN SHUFFLE.
But, then, they do have a live show. . .
No, I can’t do that to Ellie and Chris.
Ellie really is too nice sometimes. Looking back at the first panel again it looks like she has an, “Awww, poor old guy doesn’t remember where he lives! I should help him!” expression on her face.
Yep, she does.
I’d laugh more at the “almost affordable” bit, except that I live in New York, and the rents there are just plain ludicrous.
How much is there rent again? Also I am guessing that Quinn is the one in the master bedroom. Not that it really matters as they both seem to have there own bathrooms.
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I have no doubt that Quinn’s room is the right hand bedroom with the ensuite bath. The other bathroom however, opens into the hallway, so it would be used by any guest to the apartment as well as Ellie. She should make sure it’s kept spotless. It would also make it rather difficult for Ellie to use Quinn’s shampoo.
My big question is where does the door in the dining room (next to the window) lead to?
Hmm… Fire exit, maybe?
I’m guessing balcony.
Nah, that’s actually marked down adjacent to the living room. It’s gotta be something that is not considered part of the lease.
You’re quite correct, I didn’t look back at it.
I suppose fire escape is possible, but I don’t think it’s generally required for each apartment to have one from a building code stance, so would seem unexpected to have that many of them.
Granted, I can’t think of anything else that seems remotely likely either.
It might be storage space. You know those odd, cut down doors about three feet high that have attic space behind them because the roof and ceiling slopes down and there’s a short wall you can’t stand beside but you could put a table or other furniture against what do you CALL that you know what I mean, right?
I’d still expect such a space to be shown on the floor plan. So I’m guessing no.
Yeah, I think you’re right.
Storage space is to the left. How about a second patio was designed, but cut.
It was waaaay past my bed time when I wrote that post, and it just popped into my mind but I couldn’t compose it well. I think one term for it is ‘null space’. The door looks too big for it to be storage, maybe it just opens into the open air, like mR. Blue said, a patio was cut. Actually, just because something is on a floor plan doesn’t mean it’s there in reality.
mR. Blue, are you refering to the utility room left of the kitchen? I believe that’s where the clothes washer & dryer go. Good place to store some stuff as well.
Yeah. I was referring to the utility room as storage. Just wondering if there are seperate laundry facilities on the premises.
Drawing copy/paste error for where the third bedroom goes in the 3 bedroom layout is a possibility.
That’s possible. Didn’t think of that.
Although I just checked the small plans Tired Guy is holding in his hands in the comic. And it seems that all the bedrooms in the three bedroom layout are still on the same side of the appartment. Just that the bedrooms are smaller there. The appartments however mostly or completely of the same size.
Yeah, you’re right. I’m stumped what that door is for/to.
The actual site has the three bedrooms next to each other.
Obviously it leads to The Twilight Zone.
Water slide exit. Benefit of being on the top floor is you get the best slide.
Now that would be all kinds of awesome!
Good selling point for a Florida apartment too. Less popular in North Dakota I hear.
It gets hot in North Dakota too. As for winter, use a toboggan.
I didn’t think about the sledding option. I was more thinking percentage of the year it’d be enjoyable, but the sledding option certainly opens up more there, possibly even for a larger percentage of the year that it’d be usable than Florida.
I think that they have the B2 style. But I need to scope the floor plan above. Yep, they’ve got that one. The rent is listed as $815 – $925. Two bedrooms and two bathrooms. And it seems to fit Quinn’s running from the kitchen into her bedroom past Ellie’s door.
Now, let’s speculate, perhaps Tired Guy added 25% to the rent in order to make spending money, and 33% tops to make money in addition to spending money and oxygen tanks. That brings the subleasor’s rent to a range from $1,018.75 – $1,156.25 at 25% and $1,083.95 – $1,230.25 at a 33% increase.
If we work on the square footage off of the suggested rent prices found in an online search, the girls have 1,129 square feet in their apartment. Tired Guy more than likely has a one bedroom abode, and those floor plans are 707 square feet in total. If the apartments are based on square footage costs, then they should be somewhere around $0.72 to $0.82 for the girls apartment. This could translate to a possible cost of 510 – 580 at a minimum for Tired Guy’s apartment.
I’ve come up with eight different numbers, based on the possibility that Tired Guy is splitting the difference with the management office which could be one of the ways that might explain how he’s got eight different leases. $46.88, $79.48, $101.88, $115.63, $134.48, $152.63, $170.63, $207.63. Seven of these numbers will pay for his own rent while the sublets pay for their own rent as well. He needs to get a minimum of $63.75 to pay for his own apartment using this scheme. Everything else is cake.
John Merklinghaus
You’re the first one here to address what I had been thinking: this man is a land baron in this for the money, and these girls are “squatters” on “his” land. And the landlord above him might be okay with this as long as the rent gets paid.
I think I had this whole conversation with Rusche a while back, when Ellie first moved in. If I recall correctly, I believe he said Ellie’s share of the rent was in the range of $400 per month, and so the whole unit is probably around $800. It wasn’t an exact amount, I just wanted a general idea.
Yeah, I was thinking something in the $650-$700 range for some reason. I can’t decide if $150 in utilities would be too low, though. Apartments generally don’t have particularly efficient HVAC or water heaters if they’re per/unit, but this building is big enough that might be central, which would put that on the landlord (so he’d buy more efficient) and lower the girls’ utility bills so that $100-$150 might be about right.
Actually that makes me wonder how good is the building they’re in. Is it well constructed , inexpensively built, or shoddily thrown up. How old is it and how would it fare in a hurricane, ect ect.
Oh shit is going down!
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More like heading towards the ventilation device, really. ;)
With a sublet, generally, the landlord should be kept appraised of the situation. It behooves the rentor to work with his landlord to check that the party renting the sublet property passes acumen, muster or at least the credit and rental history checks.
However, the first renter then becomes the landlord for the subletting party.
Mary of Scotts
“Little do these girls realize that in ten years they are going to be building the railway through here.”
I just signed up as a Patron, and I’d like to catch up on all the Patron-only comics. Is there an easy way to read them sequentially? It’s really time-consuming to have to re-load the entire page with all the comics and comments every single time.
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Well, thing I’d do is log in and then click on the Shotgun Shuffle page and go to the posts tab/section where you’ll see several. From there I’d just scroll down opening browser tabs for new comics until I got to what was posted on the main site already. Rusche put a “[Patreon]” on the archive page list for all of those.
Never mind — It didn’t take as long as I feared to get caught up.
Arbithian
With him “owning” as much of the building as he does, depending on the tenant aggreement, he could vote them evicted at a condo board meeting. It would depend on the wording of the condo board charter.
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Backlot: The Decline Of Western Civilization II: LACMA Panel Backlot
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No. 11 Lady Texans rout Hill College 88-48 Sunday at the Texan Dome
Hill College (7-5, 0-0) 14 8 12 14 48
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While PC chose to sulk and keep hush, Shahid made a move on the first lass who came his way, Genelia. The two were spotted canoodling soon after the young Romeo’s break-up. And the — separately — happily every after story of Ranbir and Deepika, soon after their break-up is as well known.
This new rebound trend seems to be catching. “The easiest way to get over somebody is to get under somebody,” says Prerna Erms, 17-year-old college student. “You direct your attention towards someone else. It works like a charm and is so much better than sulking around!” she laughs.
“Teens need space to weather these storms,” suggests psychologist Dr. Sona N. “After all, they need to learn these vital coping skills. But don’t discount the youngsters’ feelings just because they are young! They feel deeply because they are young! And parents need to soothe the young wounded spirit. Distraction and preoccupation of any sort is good during heartbreak. Having a confidante? or even an admirer? can uplift the zest to press on.”
Ritesh Mandal, 16, has an interesting twist on ‘rebound’, calling it the concept of a ‘break-up buddy’. “My girlfriend of two-and-a-half years and I broke up on mutual terms. I got through the grieving period quickly because I started hanging out with a friend with who, out of the blue, I got into a relationship,” he says.
But there are the ‘Old School’ die-hards who find it hard to move on after a break-up. People like Madhumitha Das, who says, “I withdrew and couldn’t stand the company of anyone at all. I am starting to recover slowly, and have come to value my friends more.”
Yet, she says, “Relationships and serious commitments are totally off limits now; casual flirting and easy chat-ups are so much more convenient and easy on the heart. No-strings attached!”
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4 Methods to Take Out the Master Computer–Friday Four
Welcome to the automatic society. We all knew that machines were going to take our places in the workforce, however gradually, doing the work that we humans didn’t want to do. The list of what we didn’t want to do kept growing, though, and soon the computers were doing jobs that no one ever expected them to–like running the world, for example. It’s quite a bit different from the Robot Revolt–we gladly handed over the reins. For some people, it’s a paradise, where no one has to do anything they don’t want to do. Their days are free to be filled with fun and joy, spending all their time on friends, family, and entertainment.
Others, however, view the machine with suspicion… have we sacrificed something innately human for a life of luxury? Are people losing their drive and curiosity, becoming complacent with the status our civilization has reached? Does mankind die not with a nuclear bang, as we once feared, but a slow whimper as we become so distracted by what we’ve built that we cease looking outward?
Not if you have anything to say about it. It’s time to free human civilization from this pampered tyranny–time to take out the Master Computer that rules this land.
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4 of the Coolest Cyberpunk Clubs–Friday Four
Cyberpunk these days is often heavy on the aesthetics–there’s a look to the whole genre that’s often considered crucial (and sometimes that’s one of the only things separating it from the present). What better way to showcase that style than by going to the local night club, one of the most obviously fashionable places around? While most of our heroes aren’t exactly the types to party in a cyberpunk club, their story will usually find a way to get them in the door, looking for a bad guy, or an informant, or hacker. Of course, these are way cooler than any place you or I have ever seen: lavishly decorated, crowded yet spacious, and playing some really loud (often really awesome) music.
Here are 4 of these hippest places to be, pulled straight from the dystopian cities in which they thrive.
Anime . Cyberpunk . science fiction . SciFi TV series . Serial Experiments Lain . Strange Days . television series . The Matrix . Tron . Tron Legacy
4 Character Actors You Didn’t Know You Knew–Friday Four
In the past, we’ve talked about some weird casting situations, where patterns emerged or unusual relationships between characters and actors (or even whole franchises) appeared. Most of those involved the big names of the show’s cast, the people with their names right after the opening credits. And as important as the main cast can be for a show’s success, it’s often the recurring character who help to give a show its flavor, often coming out of the shadows to emerge as fan favorites. This week, continuing on from our focus on recurring characters in the SHIELD review, we’re going to look at some of the actors whose names aren’t quite so prominently displayed, but whose work you’re probably more familiar with than you realize.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. . Babylon 5 . Battlestar Galactica . Continuum . Crusade . Doctor Who . Dollhouse . Firefly . science fiction . SciFi TV series . Sliders . Space: Above and Beyond . Star Trek . Star Trek: Deep Space 9 . Star Trek: Voyager . Stargate . Stargate SG-1 . television series . Terminator . Terra Nova . The Sarah Connor Chronicles . The X-Files . Tron . Tron Legacy
6 Degrees of Science Fiction–Friday Four(-ish)
Ever heard of “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon?” It’s a little game people like to play with celebrities, based on the idea that you can get from any one actor to another (typically the aforementioned Kevin Bacon) by naming someone who was in a movie with another actor, who starred alongside a third in a different movie, and so on, until you make it to an actor who appeared on screen with Kevin Bacon. Today’s Friday Four (well, six, this week) is going to engage in some fun trivia by pulling the sci-fi version of this–counting each jump from universe to universe, how many jumps away are some of the biggest Sci-Fi heroes from each other? Let’s find out!
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This Week in Sci-Fi–March 8-14, 2015
Didn’t find much this week, but there’s still something. Star Wars news is always big news, right? I guess it depends on if you count Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion’s crowdfunding campaign as sci-fi…
Ascension . Daredevil . Marvel . Marvel Cinematic Universe . Star Wars . Tron . Tron Legacy
4 of the Longest Waits Between Sequels – Friday Four
With the news of Blade Runner 2 moving forward, with a completed script and Ridley Scott stepping back to allow another director, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that this 1982 film will finally get its sequel, whether fans want it or not. It’s never quite clear to me why studios choose to do a sequel after such a long time instead of their typical reboot MO, although this case makes more sense than some others given what a classic the original is. Given that they haven’t even started filming yet, however, it’s still a good three years away at minimum. If it’s released in 2017 (just 2 years shy of when the original was set!), that’ll mean that 35 years will have passed between the release of the first film and the sequel, which is a damn long wait for the continuation of the story. But Blade Runner is far from the only film to wait over a decade for a direct sequel–just take a look at these, 4 of the longest breaks between sequels in sci-fi history.
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New Release: Come, Ye Weary Sinners
By: Riverside Community Church
We are so excited to release Riverside’s first 3-track EP. This project was birthed out of a singer/songwriter group that met a few times to throw around ideas about songs we were working on and to encourage each other to write worship songs. We have even sung some of these songs in worship in our Sunday gatherings. We hope that you will enjoy listening to them.
A big thanks goes out to Greg Willson for his efforts not only coordinating the singer songwriter group, but also for organizing the recording sessions and mastering the final tracks. We are very grateful for Greg’s ministry to us over the past year and we are so excited to see him continuing to minister on the other side of the pond. Everyone involved in the making of this FREE EP asks that you would take five minutes to consider supporting Greg and Christina by going to their site (click their image to open a new tab) to see how you can partner with them and what they will be doing over in Manchester. The music will still be here when you are finished, come back here and give a listen.
Come, Ye Weary Sinners by Riverside Community Church
Greg Willson (Writter/Producer/Guitar/Vocals),
Josh Parks (Writer/Vocals),
Tanner Arrington (Writer/Vocals/Guitar),
Christian Markle (Vocals/Ukulele/Banjo),
Ben Childes (Vocals/Other percussion), and
Stephen Justice(Vocals/Bass/Mandolin)
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Solgen moots sinister aim in Sandigan ruling By Benjamin B. Pulta 05/12/2011
PLEA BARGAIN ‘DONE DEAL’ SINCE MAY LAST YEAR — CADIZ
Solgen moots sinister aim in Sandigan ruling
Solicitor General Jose Anselmo Cadiz imputed sinister motives in the recent decision of the Sandiganbayan to uphold the plea bargaining agreement entered into between the Office of the Ombudsman and former military comptroller Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia and in denying the Office of the Solicitor General’s (OSG’s) bid to intervene in the case for the government as Cadiz floated a theory that the agreement was a “done deal” early as May last year —before President Aquino won the election — and that the recent ruling was just “a formality.”
“My thesis is the Sandiganbayan approved the deal on May 4 last year when President Aquino was leading mightily in the surveys. The Sandiganbayan only wanted Gen. Garcia to comply with some conditions, or to transfer your assets to the government. So when he complied, the court just came up with a resolution formalizing the deal,” he explained.
Cadiz said the OSG will insist on its legal standing to intervene in the plea-bargaining agreement between the Ombudsman and before the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court..... MORE
Congress approves bill to reform state firms By Gerry Baldo 05/12/2011
Congress approves bill to reform state firms
The congressional bicameral conference committee yesterday approved a bill creating a body that would oversee the operations of government-owned and controlled corporations (GOCCs).
The move, aimed at curbing the alleged excesses of some officials of the GOCCs, will look over the 157 GOCCs under the present Aquino administration.
Sen. Franklin Drilon said the approval of the bill will institute wide-ranging reforms in government corporations.
“This law will create a Governance Commission for GOCCs (GCG) which will review the performance of these GOCCs. The abusive practices of the board — as we have seen in the MWSS (Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System) — of granting 36-month pay for 12 months of work, or in GSIS (Government Service Insurance System) where the directors would earn half a million pesos for attending one board meeting,” he told a press conference yesterday..... MORE
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Losing proposition FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 07/06/2011
Losing proposition
The Supreme Court (SC) ruling that upheld the revocation of the Stock Distribution Option (SDO) plan that gave Hacienda Luisita farmers shares of stock in Hacienda Luisita Inc. (HLI) in lieu of land ownership in the Aquino-Cojuangco sugar estate merely brought the farmers’ decades-old fight for what they believe to be theirs -- by virtue of the sale contract between the Cojuangcos and Tabacalera decades ago stipulating that the farmers would be granted land --- is back to where it was during Corazon Aquino’s time as president of the republic.
Ironically, this SDO issue crops up again, at a time when Cory’s son is now in Malacañang and once again, the farmers are going to be shortchanged — the third time over.
The first time was when the Cojuangco family reneged on the condition of the sugarland sale. The second time was during Cory’s time, when she circumvented the CARP law by coming with that SDO scheme with an election where it was reported, had the military looking over the farmer-electorate voting ways.
The third time is the SC’s decision in having yet another polling exercise for farmers to again go into the SDO scheme..... MORE
‘Mining’ for dirt vs GMA EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 07/06/2011
‘Mining’ for dirt vs GMA
From all indications, it certainly seems that Noynoy’s sole mission in his presidential life is to “develop” cases against his predecessor, with the “success” of this mission as his “greatest achievement,” while the more important aspects of the presidency and governance are being brushed aside.
And he seems so proud of the fact that it is on his orders that cases against Gloria Arroyo are now being “developed” by the executive branch.
Noynoy’s term of “developed” in the context of cases of graft and possibly plunder against Gloria is interesting, because it indicates that he and his aides are scrounging around to dig up more dirt left by his predecessor. This in turn translates to his not having at this time, the goods with which to make a case against her but that he will do everything to ensure that Gloria gets charged, which could also mean coming with cases that may have no solid evidence to back them..... MORE
Thailand’s fate rests on how Thaksin wields new power ANALYSIS 07/06/2011
Thailand’s fate rests on how Thaksin wields new power
BANGKOK — Thailand’s hopes of emerging from years of political turmoil hinge on how a victorious opposition wields its new-found power, including a possible amnesty for its fugitive leader, experts say.
After overseeing a landslide victory by his Puea Thai party from self-imposed exile, Thailand’s controversial former leader Thaksin Shinawatra is widely expected to pull the strings in the new government.
It marks a dazzling comeback for the Thaksin camp five years after the nemesis of the Thai establishment was ousted by the army, with his sister Yingluck now set to become the nation’s first female prime minister.
Yet hasty attempts to bring him back as a free man would likely rattle his powerful enemies and threaten his sister’s tenure, as well as the stability of the kingdom, which is deeply split between his supporters and enemies..... MORE
Governance C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Jonathan De la Cruz 07/06/2011
Let’s be very clear about things. It is not true that Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio did not even feel sorry for losing her temper and castigated then punched court sheriff Abe Andres in full view of the cameras for not giving in to her request to stay the court ordered demolition. She said she blew her top as she was already neck deep in responding to the needs of the flood victims in another part of the city and she just could not understand why the sheriff had to proceed with the demolition when all she asked was two hours to ensure that no violence erupted when the crews moved in. She did not object to the demolition; she was trying to ease things knowing as she did that there was resistance to it which if not properly handled could erupt into violence. Which it did before she got into the scene. And, then, after saying all those things about the courts, i.e., the withdrawal of assistance, allowances, and the like, in the heat of the moment, she got back and said she offered to take care of Andres’ hospitalization and advised one and all that she was ready to face the consequences of her actions..... MORE
Walk the talk, solon dares Aquino on Arroyo exposés By Angie M. Rosales and Virgilio J. Bugaoisan 07/06/2011
.Walk the talk, solon dares Aquino on Arroyo exposés
By Angie M. Rosales and Virgilio J. Bugaoisan 07/06/2011
Despite the frequent breast-beating of President Aquino about what he claimed as numerous anomalies that took place during the term of his predecessor President Arroyo, a senator noticed yesterday the slow pace that his administration is taking to do something about such allegations or to “walk the talk” so to speak.
Senate Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano scored what he noted as slow pace of Palace action on alleged irregularities committed by the previous administration.
But even as he aired his displeasure on the Aquino administration, Cayetano is urging Malacañang to conduct a parallel probe into the alleged misuse of Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) funds which the two Houses of Congress are now poised to investigate.... MORE
Noy: RP-China conflict Gloria’s fault By Virgilio J. Bugaoisan and Michaela P. del Callar 07/06/2011
AQUINO’S BLAME GAME ESCALATES
Noy: RP-China conflict Gloria’s fault
By Virgilio J. Bugaoisan and Michaela P. del Callar 07/06/2011
The blame Gloria game has become much too ridiculous.
Except perhaps for the devastation caused by typhoons that regularly visit the Philippines, especially at this time of the year, the rest of the country’s problems — past and present — are all caused by former President Arroyo in the eyes of President Aquino as he blamed her again, this time for causing the diplomatic row between the Philippines and China.
In his speech during the 113th Anniversary of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), Aquino singled out the Arroyo administration as being responsible for aggravating the disagreement between China and the
Philippines in relation to each country’s claims in the Spratlys group of Islands.
Aquino accused Arroyo of approving the inclusion of Manila-claimed territories, such as the Reed Bank near Palawan, in a joint oil exploration in 2005 between the Philippines and rival claimants China and Vietnam..... MORE
Davao mayor accountable for beating Sheriff By Gerry Baldo 07/06/2011
Davao mayor accountable for beating Sheriff
The Department of Interior and Local Governments (DILG) should act on the beating incident involving Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio.
House Deputy Minority Leader and Zambales Rep. Ma. Milagros “Mitos” Magsaysay said sanctions should be meted to Duterte-Carpio even if court Sheriff Abe Andres decided not to press for charges because it will set a precedent.
“Dapat parusahan siya (Duterte-Carpio), inaantay ko kung ano ang magiging desisyon ng DILG dito because this will be a precedent,” Magsaysay said yesterday.
Diwa party-list Rep. Emmeline Aglipay agreed with Magsaysay, saying the DILG should at least investigate Duterte-Carpio administratively..... MORE
Death toll from landslides in Bukidnon reaches 7 By Mario J. Mallari 07/06/2011
Death toll from landslides in Bukidnon reaches 7
Two more children have died after a third landslide hit in Valencia City, Bukidnon, bringing to seven the death toll from the disaster spawned by continuous heavy rains in the province for several days now.
National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (NDRRMC) executive director Undersecretary Benito Ramos confirmed that the third landslide that struck in Barangay Tongan Tongan buried two children, whose identities were not immediately available.
Last Monday, two landslides hit Barangay Lumbayao also in Valencia City killing at least five people while several others remained missing..... MORE
BI men at NAIA tightly screen Pinoy tourists bound for Bahrain 07/06/2011
BI men at NAIA tightly screen Pinoy tourists bound for Bahrain
Immigration officers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport have been ordered to tightly screen Filipino tourists bound for Bahrain following reports that many of them ended up becoming undocumented contract workers in the Middle East country.
Immigration Commissioner Ricardo David Jr. issued the order after the Philippine Embassy in Bahrain alerted the bureau about the practice of many overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who travel to the kingdom on visitor’s visas but later convert them to work visas once they find an employer.
At the same time, David assured Ma. Corazon Yap-Bahjin, Philippine ambassador to Bahrain, that airport immigration officers are continuously exercising vigilance and thoroughly screening Filipino tourists bound for Bahrain and other countries known to be favored destination of OFWs..... MORE
2 nursing board execs fired for exam leakage By Arlie O. Calalo 07/06/2011
2 nursing board execs fired for exam leakage
Two members of the Board of Nursing of the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) were found guilty of leaking the questionnaires for the board exams in 2006, the Office of the Ombudsman said yesterday.
Ordered dismissed from the service were Anesia Buenafe-Dionisio and Virginia Diolola-Madeja, acting Ombudsman Orlando Casimiro said. Dionisio was assigned to Psychiatric Nursing while Madeja was examiner in Medical Surgery Nursing.
In the 32-page decision, the anti-graft office established that majority of Dionisio’s test questions had reached the reviewees of the RA Gapuz Review Center in Baguio City and Institute for Review and Special Studies in Manila..... MORE
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‘Power crisis in Mindanao rehashed, contrived’
People’s organizations and green groups accuse the Aquino government not only of reneging on its promise to pursue renewable sources of energy but also of contriving the power crisis in Mindanao to railroad the construction of coal-fired power plants.
By MARYA SLAMAT
MANILA – A multi-sectoral rally in Davao marked the ongoing power summit today as various people’s organizations expressed doubts over the motives of the stakeholders in the said summit. “It is more advantageous for the people and the economy of Mindanao to harness renewable energy sources,” said Juland R. Suazo, spokesperson of Panalipdan, a broad alliance of environmentalists and people’s organizations in Southern Mindanao.
So far though, based on the Aquino government’s actions in response to the Mindanao power crisis, harnessing renewables does not seem to be its priority. Instead, the Aquino government and some energy capitalists are seen as railroading the approval of coal-fired power plants and further privatization of existing power plants, all of which have long been rejected by people of Mindanao.
Today’s ongoing summit has also been preempted by what environmentalists described as “hasty” approval of coal power plants. The construction of at least three is now reportedly being fast-tracked, to the dismay of protesting host communities.
Renewable energy sources abound in Mindanao. Pursuing it is viable, the sources are available and the prices are competitive, said Von Hernandez, executive director of Greenpeace Southeast Asia. Mindanao is sitting on a veritable “gold mine” of renewable energy sources that have yet to be tapped, he said.
The energy department’s renewable energy program itself lists up to thousands of available megawatts from renewable energy sources in the island such as geothermal (290MW potential plus current 103MW plus approved 50MW projects), hydropower (1080MW current capacity plus 1263.9MW targeted additional capacity), wind (336MW potential capacity), biomass (36.8MW awaiting implementation), and solar power (estimated 5KWhours per square meter). Additional resource mapping may further increase the potentials, said Greenpeace.
Josephine Pareja (Photo by Marya Salamat / bulatlat.com)
Unfortunately the government seems to be reneging on the promise Benigno “Noynoy” C. Aquino III made before he assumed the presidency. He said then that he was for the phase-out of coal power and that the country must make the serious shift toward clean energy sources. According to Hernandez of Greenpeace, it has been nearly three years since the Renewable Energy Bill became law. But it is not yet being implemented up to now. He said in Filipino that the Aquino government is “sleeping on the job when it comes to issuing decisions over proposals for renewable energy sources. On the other hand, it is fast-tracking left and right approval and implementation of coal-fired power plants.”
Davao and Zambo up in arms vs coal-fired plants
Two adjacent but separate coal-fired power plants, with a total of 300MW capacity once operational, have reportedly begun construction in Davao del Sur.... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/04/13/%E2%80%98power-crisis-in-mindanao-rehashed-contrived%E2%80%99/
Truce under threat: Syrian violence continues as UNSC debates new resolution
A ceasefire in Syria seems to be have been broken after troops clashed with rebels in many parts of the country, reportedly killing five people. The UN Security Council is debating a new resolution to authorize an observer mission in Syria.
UN Security Council members met behind closed doors Friday to discuss a draft resolution that would allow an observer mission to be dispatched to Syria “as soon as possible,” as requested by Kofi Annan.
Russia’s UN envoy Vitaly Churkin admitted that “it is crucial for the monitors to be on the ground” in Syria. He said however that more negotiation would be needed over the draft resolution, as the text was longer and more complicated than expected..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/syria-border-clashes-blame-965/
Stealth mode: ENGAGE. Iran shuts off oil tankers’ trackers to cloak supply routes
Most of Iran's tanker fleet is now operating in "off-radar" mode. Tehran has ordered the captains of its 39-strong oil fleet to turn off the tracking devices aboard the tankers in order to disguise the destination of its oil shipments.
Only seven of Iran’s crude oil carriers are still visible via the AIS (Automatic Identification System) tracking system, Reuters reported on Friday. Neither the captains from the National Iranian Tanker Co nor the purchasers of Iranian crude have given any official comments on the situation.
"NITC oil tankers are going to operate in stealth mode," the report cites an unidentified oil shipping industry official as saying..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/iran-oil-tanker-tracking-system-018/
US hit with worst drought in years
Climatologists say a dry spell devastating almost all of America is starting to worry the weather community during what is one of the worst droughts in recent years.
The federal agency that investigates dry weather, the US Drought Monitor, says that more than half of the continental United States are experiencing “abnormally dry” conditions, which have so far proven to be the worst the country has experienced since 2007.
"Conditions are starting to worry us now," Keith Eggleston, a climatologist with the Northeast Regional Climate Center in Ithaca, N.Y., tells USA Today..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/us-drought-dry-conditions-033/
Two UP students harassed during Holy Week
According to Anakbayan, one youth or student leader has been victimized every week.
MANILA – Progressive youth group Anakbayan condemned the harassment of two students from the University of the Philippines–Manila by suspected military agents. Anakbayan members Cleve Arguelles, outgoing vice-chairperson of UP Manila University Student Council, and Nikki Gamara were reportedly subjected to surveillance and harassment last April 2 and 3.
“We condemn the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Aquino administration for this latest attack on our members” Anakbayan national chairperson Vencer Crisostomo said.
According to the fact sheet, on April 2 Monday at around 7:00 p.m., an unidentified woman went to Arguelles’ residence saying that she was lost and was looking for someone named “Nikki” but was unable to give a surname. Fellow UP Manila student Nikki Gamara was in the house visiting Arguelles at that time.
Gamara and Arguelles became suspicious because the house is located at the very back of a compound, and that the place is not visible to passersby from the main street.
(Photo courtesy of Cleve Aguelles Facebook account / Bulatlat.com)
On April 3, Tuesday at around 7:00 p.m., Arguelles and Gamara received a report that Gamara’s father, Renante Gamara of the partylist group Bayan Muna, together with Santiago Balleta, was arrested by the police and military in Las Piñas earlier that day. Balleta is the father of Jane Balleta of the Morong 43, a group of health workers who were arrested and detained in Feb. 6, 2010.
Arguelles then accompanied Gamara to her family’s house at around 11:00 p.m. of the same day . When Arguelles was going home, after around 30 minutes of commuting, he noticed that a black Toyota Corolla was following him. He then transferred to other jeeps twice but the car continued to tail him. Arguelles went inside a fastfood restaurant..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/04/13/two-up-students-harassed-during-holy-week/
Amended law decriminalizing vagrancy attacks exploited women – Gabriela
“The amended law turns a blind eye to the realities of poverty and unemployment that heightens women’s vulnerability to trafficking, prostitution and slavery.” – Rep. Luz Ilagan, Gabriela Women’s Party
By INA ALLECO SILVERIO
Women legislators of Gabriela Women’s Party have denounced anew the Benigno Aquino administration for signing into law a measure that criminalizes women forced into exploitative situations by poverty. Reps. Emmi de Jesus and Luz Ilagan said President Aquino declared that prostituted women are criminals when he signed Republic Act 10158, or An Act Decriminalizing Vagrancy.
It is the consolidated version of Senate Bill 2726 and House Bill 493, which decriminalizes all forms of vagrancy and effectively repealed the law on vagrancy – a law widely criticized as being anti-poor. The amended law, however, declared that prostitution – an outcome of vagrancy – is a crime. It was submitted to Aquino last March 7, 2012 and signed into law on April 7.
“The administration is perpetuating the archaic view contained in Article 202 of the Revised Penal Code, but, at the same time, it allows the exploiters of women and those who earn from their exploitation to go scott-free,” De Jesus said..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/04/13/amended-law-decriminalizing-vagrancy-attacks-exploited-women-gabriela/
Miriam calls for probe of beauty products laced with toxic chemicals By Angie M. Rosales 04/14/2012
Miriam calls for probe of beauty products laced with toxic chemicals
Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago has called for an investigation in the upper chamber into the alleged toxic chemicals found in some cosmetics and other personal care items used by men, reported to have caused various diseases, including cancer and male-health effects.
Santiago raised alarm over the reports and moved for a conduct of an inquiry, in aid of legislation, and possibly determine the need to introduce and implement so-called toxic reduction strategies in cosmetics and other consumer products.
“Given the dangers of everyday exposure to toxic chemicals found in beauty products, the government should ban outright the use of toxic substance in cosmetics and other consumer products,” she said in filing Resolution No. 749..... MORE
Erap named ‘Father of e-commerce’ 04/14/2012
Erap named ‘Father of e-commerce’
He is known to his constituents as the “Father of the Masses” but former President Joseph Estrada has earned another title: “Father of e-commerce.”
The former leader was given yesterday by E-Best the “Father of e-commerce” award for pioneering e-commerce in the Philippines.
In presenting the award, Corazon Chan, Chairman of E-Best declared: “President Joseph Ejercito Estrada has always been an advocate of technology.”
“During his administration he signed the Philippine E-Commerce Act into law on June 14, 2000. President Estrada has always been hopeful that the Philippines is in a good position to gain a good part of the cyber information technology (IT)-related markets. .... MORE
Militants demand release of missing peasant leader By Charlie V. Manalo 04/14/2012
Militants demand release of missing peasant leader
The militant peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) and the Katipunan ng mga Samahang Magbubukid sa Timog Katagalugan (Kasama-TK) yesterday condemned the abduction of Pagkakaisa’t Ugnayan ng mga Magsasaka sa Laguna (Pumalag — KMP) chairman Alex Arias, who was abducted by suspected state security forces last April 7, and demanded the Aquino government and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to immediately produce him.
Reports reaching the KMP national office said Arias, 56, was driving a motorcycle on his way home to Liliw, Laguna last Saturday when his way was blocked by armed men in Barangay Bubukal in Sta. Cruz town. The armed men, believed to be elements of the 1st Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army were on a van escorted by a number of motorcycles..... MORE
Binay urges use of carabaomilk in processed food 04/14/2012
Binay urges use of carabaomilk in processed food
Vice President Jejomar Binay has urged food manufacturers in the country to include local dairy products in their ingredients.
“The (food manufacturers) are big firms and their products are sold from Aparri to Jolo and abroad. Their products are also used by other big companies in making bread and other foodstuffs. Our local producers must be tapped to supply their demand for milk products,” Binay said during his visit to the Philippine Carabao Center in Muñoz Nueva Ecija Tuesday..
This public-private partnership was the key to improving the carabao and livestock industry in the country, the Vice President said..... MORE
7 die in road mishaps in Agusan, Cam Sur By Gina Peralta-Elorde 04/14/2012
7 die in road mishaps in Agusan, Cam Sur
At least four people were confirmed dead while 50 others were wounded when a truck loaded with passengers went out of control in Prosperidad, Agusan del Sur on Thursday afternoon.
Reports disclosed that the truck was loaded with passengers who had come from a burial in Barangay Sta. Irene, Prosperidad when it suddenly turned on its side.
Police investigators said most of the passengers were thrown out of the vehicle, while some of them fell into a ravine just beside the road..... MORE
People’s champ to take oath as member of VP Binay’s PDP-Laban, not Noy’s LP By Angie M. Rosales 04/14/2012
People’s champ to take oath as member of VP Binay’s PDP-Laban, not Noy’s LP
People’s champ Sarangani Rep. Manny Pacquiao is poised to take his oath as a member, not of the Liberal Party (LP) of President Aquino, but of the Partido Demokratikong Pilipino-Laban ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) of Vice President Jejomar Binay.
Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III yesterday announced Pacquiao’s impending formal entry into their party which recently led the forming of the coalition called United Nationalist Alliance alongside former President Joseph Estrada’s Partido Masang Pilipino.
Pimentel, who is the current PDP-Laban president, said it’s “all systems go” as far as Pacquiao is concerned in joining their party following what he called a “meeting of the minds” recently..... MORE
Explosion rocks QC gas station; two hurt 04/14/2012
Explosion rocks QC gas station; two hurt
Two people were wounded when an explosion rocked a gas station in Quezon City before noon yesterday.
Quezon City Police District (QCPD) report said the incident happened at around 11:40 a.m. when a truck with plate number RCB 885 loaded with diesel was unloading fuel at a City Oil branch located in Barangay Talayan, Quezon City.
Wounded were Jerome Nava, an employee of the gas station, and Eddie Magada, the truck driver.
Magada’s body was caught fire the report said, He sustained burn injuries and is now being treated at the East Avenue Medical Center while Nava sustained wounds when metal fragments from the exploded truck hit him..... MORE
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There was a cat on the stairs leading to the cemetery.
As I glanced at it, the cat held my gaze.
It walked in front of me as if to say, "This way, please."
The cat bounded along with ease as I strained to keep up.
It would have been hard to spot the tombstone I was looking for in such a large cemetery, but by following the cat, I managed to reach it without getting lost.
This slightly peculiar bit of serendipity brought me to Wasaka-hime's grave.
Stories describe her as "Japan's first international bride."
Her father was Yaita Kinbei, who was the first to successfully manufacture matchlocks in Japan.
At the time, Yaita was working day and night trying to build matchlocks, but was unable to figure out how to make the "screw" for the bisen bolt in the barrel of the firearm.
Seeing her father struggling, Yaita's daughter made a bold decision.
To help her father, she would marry a Portuguese man and leave for a far-off country.
There, she would learn how the screw was made and bring the knowledge back to Japan.
If it were not for her marriage, work on completing the matchlocks would have stalled and the history of Japan's Warring States Period may have turned out very differently.
Tanegashima was home to a woman who greatly influenced the course of history.
She took on a mission to go alone to a foreign country in a foreign land and research technology.
I wondered, "What if that were me..." and realized that I could not do what she had done.
She was a wonderful and strong woman who lived not for herself, but for her father.
Perhaps the cat had wanted me to know this about Wakasa-hime and that is why it led me to her.
Encounters come hand in hand with travel, but some of those encounters are with people from long ago.
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9:20 AM PT10:20 AM MT11:20 AM CT12:20 PM ET4:20 PM GMT12:20 AM 北京时间9:20 AM MST11:20 AM EST, Sep. 29, 2018
Carter-Finley Stadium, Raleigh, North Carolina Attendance: 57,600
Person, WRs help NC State top Virginia 35-21 in ACC opener
(AP Photo/Chris Seward)
By AARON BEARD
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) North Carolina State's offense is still finding playmakers ready for bigger roles.
Freshman Ricky Person, Jr. ran for a season-high 108 yards while sophomore receiver Emeka Emezie had his own big day to help North Carolina State beat Virginia 35-21 on Saturday, claiming its Atlantic Coast Conference opener along with a 4-0 start.
Person hadn't played since the opener due to a hamstring issue, but provided big-play burst to the Wolfpack's grind-it-out ground game. And Emezie gave NFL prospect Ryan Finley yet another receiving target at an already stocked position.
"Good teams have good depth," Finley said, "and that's what you're seeing from us."
Person ran six times for 5 yards in the opening win against James Madison and hadn't played since - and he's still not fully past the hamstring issue. But he's the team's first 100-yard rusher this season - in just 14 carries - and earned the game ball afterward from coach Dave Doeren.
"I knew my time was coming," Person said. "I just had to take advantage of it."
Then there's Emezie, a 6-foot-3 sophomore with five catches for a career-best 90 yards and a second-quarter TD for the Wolfpack (4-0, 1-0). Doeren pointed to Emezie following the lead of fellow receivers Kelvin Harmon and Stephen Louis.
"What Steph and Kelvin do, they work as hard as any player in the country," Doeren said. "And he just said, `I want to be just like you.' He went everywhere they went for a whole offseason.
"It's easy to say you've got great leaders but it also takes the followers to know who to follow."
Bryce Perkins connected twice with Olamide Zaccheaus for touchdowns for the Cavaliers (3-2, 1-1), including a 35-yarder for Virginia's only lead at 7-3. But the Wolfpack responded with 24 unanswered points to lead 27-7 in the third, putting the Cavs in catch-up mode the rest of the afternoon.
"I think they earned the victory today," Cavaliers coach Bronco Mendenhall said. "We played well enough to make it interesting but not well enough to win the game."
Virginia: Perkins and Zaccheaus (nine catches, 109 yards) were tough matchups all day, but Virginia's offense struggled to get much going until after N.C. State led big. Virginia got a late touchdown, recovered an onside kick and drove inside the 10 before Dexter Wright batted and intercepted Perkins' pass with 1:06 left to seal it.
"I thought we had a great chance there to finish this off and possibly pull a comeback," Mendenhall said. "Again, we just weren't consistent enough to make that play."
N.C. State: This showed N.C. State doesn't need Finley - who passed on going to the NFL for a final college season - to be at his sharpest to win. As an example, look at Emezie's 39-yard catch on a fleaflicker into double coverage and his 16-yard TD grab in a tight window against Brenton Nelson at the front left pylon. Finding more playmakers can only help.
Harmon, another NFL prospect, finished with six catches for 94 yards and a touchdown on a back-shoulder throw from Finley in the fourth quarter.
RUNNING BETTER
Playing behind Reggie Gallaspy, Person had four runs of at least a dozen yards to help N.C. State post a season-best 176 yards rushing.
"Reggie's going to run hard, he's going to run through people," Doeren said, adding: "But you still want that guy that can put his foot in the ground and change direction - and Ricky can do that."
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Zaccheaus' third 100-yard receiving day this season moved him past Kris Byrd (2008-11), Tyrone Davis (1991-94) and Germane Crowell (1994-97) into fourth on the school's career yardage list (2,196).
BETTER FUTURE?
N.C. State is 4-0 for the first time since doing so in 2014 and 2015. Those teams both finished 3-5 in ACC play.
Virginia: The Cavaliers are off next week and host No. 16 Miami on Oct. 13.
N.C. State: Boston College goes for its third straight win in Raleigh when it visits the Wolfpack next Saturday.
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Derrick Hall satisfied with D-backs’ buying and selling The 5: Takeaways from the Coyotes’ introduction of Alex Meruelo Comments Share Head coach Bruce Arians hadn’t had to worry about a long snapper since arriving in 2013; and the Cardinals hadn’t for four years prior to Arians being named coach.That all changed when Mike Leach announced his retirement on Jan. 27, ending a 16-year career, including the last seven with the Cardinals.Leach, 39, never missed a game with the Cardinals. More importantly, he hardly ever had a bad snap.“The biggest thing is with a guy like Mike you can’t replace him because of the leadership but just the dependability and the thing that he did so much is he really was a great influence on (punter) Drew Butler and (kicker) Chandler Catanzaro. He was almost like a father-figure to them,” special teams coordinator Amos Jones said. “Hate like heck we got to replace him but wish him nothing but the best.”The Cardinals will miss Leach’s reliability. They hope, though, to find his replacement, possibly with either Canaday or Dillon.Both were their school’s long snapper for four seasons.Canaday, 6-foot-4 and 245-pounds, played in 41 games at Portland State and was named an FCS third team All-American following his senior season.Dillon, 6-foot-3 and 235-pounds, saw action in 43 career games at Campbell University, where he was honorable mention All-Pioneer League in 2015 and four times selected to the conference’s academic honor roll. Kameron Canaday Top Stories Former Cardinals kicker Phil Dawson retires “These two, specifically, were kids that we identified in the scouting process. Worked them out, went back and worked them out again. Just felt like they fit our criteria of a guy that can snap, protect and has some coverage ability,” Jones said.“We were very fortunate. Other teams probably wanted them, but we were fortunate they realized that there was a heck of an opportunity here.”Long snapper is one of just a handful of starting jobs believed to be open with the Cardinals.“They were extremely accurate,” Arians said of Canaday and Dillon. “Amos has had the pulse of these guys for awhile. They were the two guys we targeted, and they’re just going to fight it out.”Arians couldn’t recall either having a missed snap during Friday’s 80-minute on-field session.The real test, however, comes later.“Once you put the pads on and get under the lights—because they’re both from smaller schools—and all of a sudden there’s 80,000 out there, we got to see (how they perform), that’s what we got to see,” Arians said. – / 28 TEMPE, Ariz. – Typically, the position goes unnoticed.In fact, that’s part of the job description and, really, how success is measured.An exception to the above is being made this weekend.The Arizona Cardinals are putting the spotlight, so to speak, on long snappers.Portland State’s Kameron Canaday and Campbell University’s Daniel Dillon were among 16 rookie free agents signed for minicamp, which began Friday. Grace expects Greinke trade to have emotional impact
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Have you ever wondered what's up with some of your favorite TV, movie or pop stars from the last 20 years? VH1 will give you the exclusive details with "Miss You Much," hosted by actress-comedienne Catherine Reitman. Not all young celebrities end up with a mug shot and an arrest record. Some have moved on to careers outside of entertainment, while many are still active in showbiz. "Miss You Much," the 8-episode, half-hour series will premiere in September of 2012.
Each week, "Miss You Much" will profile three of your favorite celebrities and take a peek inside at what they are doing now with their lives. Catherine spends a day with each celebrity and asks the questions all adoring fans would love to ask - even getting a little too 'personal' at times. Some of the celebs who will share what they have been up to include: Jamie Walters (90210), Jeff Timmons (98 Degrees), Lark Voorhies (Saved By the Bell), Jeremy Miller (Growing Pains), Romeo (rapper) and Jeremy Jackson (Baywatch).
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50 Shades of Play Bloodborne Is One of the Hardest Games Ever. How Fun Is That?
By Joshua Ostroff
I'm dead. Again. Actually, make that many frustrating agains. Even the beginning of Bloodborne, the latest exercise in interactive sadomasochism by From Software's king of pain Hidetaka Miyazaki, pulls zero punches and gives exactly zero fucks.
Bloodborne drops you into a gothic nightmare world where a massive lupine Nether Beast blocks your first exit. So you try and fight it, because that's what you do in games, and you get slaughtered. Eventually, you will stop doing the same thing expecting a different result, but it may take a while to refrain from acting insane, because videogames almost never begin with this hard a challenge.
You will wind up in a dream-like world and find some weapons, but you may still die. So you recalibrate your strategy, bolting past the monster to find some space in the courtyard outside where you have more room and finally slay the rat bastard. It will feel good. That will be fleeting.
Over countless controller-throwing hours, you will progress by what feels like inches though the macabre metropolis of Yharnam, a city of the damned where you will rue the day you discovered the disgusting likes of Mergo's Wet Nurse, Rom the Vacuous Spider and the holy-hell-is-this-really-only-the-second-boss, Father Gascoigne. In other words, this isn't your father's videogame — or maybe it is.
The Wii was griefed by hardcore gamers for bringing in casual fans who had stayed away because the mechanics of modern videogames had grown too complex for them. But games had actually been easing up for years. Old-school gaming may have been simplistic as far as world-building, storytelling and level design, but goddamn they were difficult.
This was built into arcade cabinets as a moneymaking tool — the harder the game, the more quarters it swallowed. And they never had to have an end — just keep increasing the difficulty. That challenge-oriented game design continued into the console era. The third Super Mario was an absolute beast when it came to later levels, especially for its young target demo, and the reason the 99 lives Contra code is so famous is because it's tough to beat without the up-up-down-down-etc. assist.
But as games became more about exploration and narrative, the challenge was dramatically reduced. What was the point if only a small niche of players got to experience the whole thing? So design incorporated handholding like onscreen maps, arrow prompts, difficulty settings and more saves.
Then along came Hidetaka Miyazaki. His first infamous effort was Demon's Souls, a 2009 RPG named game of the year by GameSpot and PC World despite an out-of-nowhere difficulty that kept it from crossing over to the mainstream. That would happen with the game's 2013 spiritual sequel, Dark Souls, and its not-by-Miyazaki actual sequel, which sold over four million copies combined. Both were critically acclaimed, with the former declared by Edge magazine to be the last-gen's greatest game.
Bloodborne is currently the top-rated now-gen game (ironically tied with its polar opposite, Super Mario 3D World) and was dubbed the PS4's killer app. But here's the thing: it's no fun. When I read Facebook threads about it, from gamers who clearly love it, their descriptions of the experience involve torture, screaming, suffering and pain.
It's not the intense combat, though constant failure can crush your soul, or the lack of map or any explanation of where to go or what to do or why. It's the too-rare save points that force you to repeat the same areas over and over until you finally break through.
There are plenty of films and books that are excruciating and/or horrifying to get through, but created with such incredible depth and skill that they're worth it. Bloodborne is such a game. It's a genuine masterpiece by a visionary director boasting a darkness that knows no bounds. Miyazaki's disturbing aesthetics imbue every nook, cranny, NPC, side quest and design decision.
But the hardcore set that claims Bloodborne, and its predecessors, as gaming's purest experiences have been known to slag art and adventure games for the crime of being too easy. So if there's a larger lesson to draw here, it's that we should all be broadening our horizons beyond reductive terms like fun or challenging to appreciate that gaming has finally become a medium that defies definition.
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M, #376441, b. 24 April 1965
Last Edited=18 Apr 2010
Florian Graf von Hartig was born on 24 April 1965 at Vienna, AustriaG.1 He is the son of Friedrich Ludwig Karl Josef Maria Graf von Hartig and Angela Overhoff.1 He married Maria Isabel Francisca Caroline Gräfin von Khevenhüller-Metsch, daughter of Maximilian Prinz von Khevenhüller-Metsch and Wilhelmina Gräfin Henckel von Donnersmarck, on 17 April 2004 at St. Georgen an Längsee, Austria.1,2
He was given the name of Florian Werner Friedrich Edmund Leopold Maria at birth.1
Children of Florian Graf von Hartig and Maria Isabel Francisca Caroline Gräfin von Khevenhüller-Metsch
Marie-Henriette Gräfin von Hartig1 b. 24 May 2005
Marie-Laura Gräfin von Hartig1 b. 11 Apr 2007
Marie Wilhelmine Gräfin von Hartig1 b. 24 Nov 2009
[S3913] Marie-Therese Gudenus, "re: von Hartig Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 14 August 2009. Hereinafter cited as "re: von Hartig Family."
[S1114] Desiree Jebsen, "re: Jebsen Family," e-mail message to Darryl Lundy, 13 June 2004 and 15 December 2005 and 24 October 2008 and 14 April 2010. Hereinafter cited as "re: Jebsen Family."
Johann Lorentz Philipp Maria Graf von Gudenus1
Last Edited=3 Mar 2011
Johann Lorentz Philipp Maria Graf von Gudenus was born on 10 March 1952 at Waidhofen an der Thaya, GermanyG.1 He is the son of Philipp Graf von Gudenus and Louise Annette von Grevenkop-Castenskiold.2 He married, firstly, Claire de Lesseps, daughter of Martin-Robert de Lesseps and Beatrice Duggan, on 21 October 1978 at Paris, FranceG.1 He married, secondly, Marie-Thérèse Gräfin von Hartig, daughter of Friedrich Ludwig Karl Josef Maria Graf von Hartig and Angela Overhoff, on 2 May 1995 at Vienna, AustriaG.1
Children of Johann Lorentz Philipp Maria Graf von Gudenus and Claire de Lesseps
Charlotte Beatrix Louise von Gudenus3 b. 6 Apr 1980
Carl Robert von Gudenus3 b. 6 Apr 1980
Louise Gabrielle Olivia von Gudenus3 b. 17 Dec 1983
Child of Johann Lorentz Philipp Maria Graf von Gudenus and Marie-Thérèse Gräfin von Hartig
Johann-Dorian Graf von Gudenus1 b. 24 Jan 2000
[S288] Genealogy.EU web, online http://www.genealogy.euweb.cz. Hereinafter cited as Genealogy.EU web.
[S471] Irish Genealogy Argentina, online http://www.irishgenealogy.com.ar. Hereinafter cited as Irish Genealogy Argentina.
Jane Vesey1
F, #376443, d. September 1787
Last Edited=8 Sep 2010
Jane Vesey was the daughter of Edward Vesey.1 She married, firstly, John Ward before 1777.1 She married, secondly, William Crosbie, 1st Earl of Glandore, son of Maurice Crosbie, 1st Baron Branden and Lady Elizabeth Anne FitzMaurice, on 1 November 1777.1 She died in September 1787.1
From before 1777, her married name became Ward.1 From 1 November 1777, her married name became Crosbie.
[S47] BIFR1976 page 301. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S47]
John Crosbie1
M, #376444, b. 1724, d. May 1755
John Crosbie was born in 1724.1 He was the son of Maurice Crosbie, 1st Baron Branden and Lady Elizabeth Anne FitzMaurice.2,1 He married Elizabeth Fisher.1 He died in May 1755, without issue.1
[S47] BIFR1976. [S47]
Elizabeth Fisher1
Last Edited=20 Jul 2009
Elizabeth Fisher married John Crosbie, son of Maurice Crosbie, 1st Baron Branden and Lady Elizabeth Anne FitzMaurice.1
Her married name became Crosbie.
Claire de Lesseps1
F, #376446, b. 4 July 1956
Claire de Lesseps was born on 4 July 1956 at Paris, FranceG.1 She is the daughter of Martin-Robert de Lesseps and Beatrice Duggan.1 She married Johann Lorentz Philipp Maria Graf von Gudenus, son of Philipp Graf von Gudenus and Louise Annette von Grevenkop-Castenskiold, on 21 October 1978 at Paris, FranceG.1
From 21 October 1978, her married name became von Gudenus.1
Children of Claire de Lesseps and Johann Lorentz Philipp Maria Graf von Gudenus
Elizabeth Crosbie1
Elizabeth Crosbie is the daughter of Very Rev. Hon. Maurice Crosbie and Elizabeth Gun.2,1 She married Edward Moore in 1780.1
From 1780, her married name became Moore.
Child of Elizabeth Crosbie and Edward Moore
Reverend Matthew Moore+2 b. c 1794
Edward Moore1
Edward Moore married Elizabeth Crosbie, daughter of Very Rev. Hon. Maurice Crosbie and Elizabeth Gun, in 1780.1
He lived at Mooresfort, County Tipperary, IrelandG.1
Child of Edward Moore and Elizabeth Crosbie
Martin-Robert de Lesseps1
Martin-Robert de Lesseps married Beatrice Duggan, daughter of Julian Duggan and Angela Casey, in 1945.1
Child of Martin-Robert de Lesseps and Beatrice Duggan
Claire de Lesseps+1 b. 4 Jul 1956
Beatrice Duggan1
Beatrice Duggan is the daughter of Julian Duggan and Angela Casey.2 She married Martin-Robert de Lesseps in 1945.1
From 1945, her married name became de Lesseps.1
Child of Beatrice Duggan and Martin-Robert de Lesseps
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Archive for June 17th, 2010
Indictment Says Times Square Car Bomb Suspect Funded by Pakistani Taliban; Got $12,000 in Cash
In the months and weeks before allegedly planting a car bomb in Times Square, Faisal Shahzad was sent a total of about $12,000 from someone he understood worked for the Taliban in Pakistan, authorities charged Thursday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
That allegation was contained in a 10-count indictment that accuses Shahzad of driving a car bomb to Times Square in New York on May 1 to try to “kill and maim persons” and destroy property. He faces charges including attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and attempted act of terrorism transcending national boundaries.
“The facts alleged in this indictment show that the Pakistani Taliban facilitated Faisal Shahzad’s attempted attack on American soil,” Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement. “Our nation averted serious loss of life in this attempted bombing, but it is a reminder that we face an evolving threat that we must continue to fight with every tool available to the government.”
Posted: June 17th, 2010 under News Story.
Colombian Drug Trafficker Extradited From Mexico to U.S.
By Matt Castello
A man who represented the interests of a major Colombian drug cartel in Mexico, has been extradited to New York to stand trial, authorities said.
Pedro Antonio Bermudez, known as “El Arquitecto,” was arrested in Mexico City on Oct. 2, 2008 and remained in Mexican custody until his extradition to the U.S. on Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. He was arraigned in federal court in Brooklyn on Wednesday.
Bermudez’s job was to ensure that cocaine sent to Mexico by the Colombian drug cartel Norte del Valle, was safely delivered to the Mexican cartels, authorities said.
Since 1990, the Norte del Valle Cartel allegedly exported more than 1.2 million pounds of cocaine — worth more than $10 billion — to the U.S., most of which came through Mexico, the U.S. Attorney’s office said.
The Colombian shipments were sent by Luis Hernando Gomez Bustamante, one of the leaders of the Norte del Valle Cartel, who pleaded guilty in New York in 2008 to charges including murder and narcotics trafficking. Bustamante, who was extradited to the U.S. in 2007, is awaiting sentencing.
Prosecutors and Defense Paint Very Different Picture of Rod Blagojevich (Washington Post)
Utah Firing Squad Executes Convicted Killer (AOL News)
Military Investigates Shooting at Ga. Army Post (AP)
Embattled Tex. Judge Faces Disciplinary Panel (AP)
Police Say 1-Year-Old Tex. Girl Died in Hot Car (AP)
NY Judge Tosses bin Laden Brothers from Lawsuit (AP)
Witness in Blago Case Says He Got Job After Donating (AP)
Texas Judge Accused of Stealing Traffic Fine Money (AP)
Cases Against Wall Street Lag (Washington Post)
Homeland Security Backing Off Border Fence Plan (Spy Talk)
Justice Dept. Nominee Dawn Johnsen: I Have No Regrets (BLT)
Supreme Court Rules that Officer’s Texting Not Private (WIRED)
Tags: Colombian, extradited, Pedro Antonio Bermudez
Authorities Charge 1,215 People in Nationwide Mortgage Fraud Sweep
Atty. Gen. Holder (left) and FBI Director Mueller announce results/fbi photo
WASHINGTON –The Justice Department today announced the “broadest mortgage fraud sweep” in U.S. history, with criminal charges filed against 1,215 people. Almost 500 have already been arrested in a 3 1/2-month crackdown dubbed “Operation Stolen Dreams.”
Authorities said the operation uncovered $2.3 billion in mortgage fraud losses and recovered $147 million through 191 civil enforcement actions.
Despite the multistate crackdown, FBI Director Robert Mueller said there is still room for concern. He noted that his agency is pursuing more than 3,000 mortgage fraud cases, almost double the number from the last fiscal year.
“Those who prey on the housing market should know that hundreds of FBI agents on task forces and their law enforcement partners are tracking down your schemes, and you will be brought to justice,” Mueller said in a statement.
Attorney General Eric Holder added: “The staggering totals from this sweep highlight the mortgage fraud trends we are seeing around the country. We have seen mortgage fraud take on all shapes and sizes — from schemes that ensnared the elderly to fraudsters who targeted immigrant communities.”
Posted: June 17th, 2010 under FBI, News Story.
Tags: billion, FBI, loans, mortgage fraud, up
Bound to Happen: Fed Prosecutors Ask Judge to Gag Blago and His Attorneys
Who didn’t figure this was coming?
The Chicago U.S. Attorney’s Office is asking U.S. District Judge James Zagel to impose a gag order to shut up ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his lawyers during the ongoing public corruption trial, the Chicago Tribune reported. Prosecutors claim the defense and Blago are trying to sway the jury.
The prosecution filed a 16-page motion Wednesday after Blagojevich and his attorneys made comments to reporters Tuesday at the end of testimony by government witness Alonzo “Lon” Monk, Blagojevich’s former friend and chief of staff, the Tribune reported.
The Tribune said the motion stated that lawyers and Blago made comments “to the press, on camera, giving their takes on Monk’s testimony, and in particular, his credibility, in what essentially amounted to mini-closing arguments on the topic.”
Prosecutors alleged that Blagojevich has conducted endless pre-trial media interviews and hired a public relations firm to sway the jury, the Trib reported.
“Blagojevich used these platforms to try his case in the public realm, often going beyond declaring innocence and instead representing pretrial developments in the court case and making inflammatory comments regarding the prosecutors,” the government wrote in the filing, according to the Tribune.
The prosecution indicated that Blagojevich’s comments after Monk’s testimony were the final straw and that the ex-governor’s alleged efforts to manipulate media coverage and influence the jury “has reached a level that requires court intervention.”
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Tags: Corruption, Judge Zagel, Rod Blagojevich
ATF Says Fatal Shooting of Biker By Agents Under Review
By Allan Lengel and Glynnesha Taylor
The ATF office in Boston said Tuesday’s incident in Maine in which ATF agents shot and killed a biker who was named in a 27-person federal indictment is under review.
“The shooting’s under review,” James McNally, a spokesman for the ATF office in Boston told the Boston Globe, adding that it was the only fatal shooting by New England-based agents of the bureau in his memory. “There will be a thorough review.”
ATF agents rounding up more than two dozen members of the American Outlaw Association motorcycle gang in a seven-state sweep, killed Thomas “Tomcat” Mayne, 59, the regional treasurer of the group, in a shoot out just south of Portland, Me., authorities said.
Michael Campbell, a spokesman for ATF in Washington, told ticklethewire.com on Tuesday that agents went to the home in the beachside community of Sandy Circle around 6 a.m. to arrest gang members Mayne and Kenneth Chretian, when they were met by gunfire.
Agents returned fire and shot and killed Mayne, who was wanted on a federal warrant, Campbell said. Chretian, who was wanted on a state warrant, was taken into custody, Campbell said.
The gang is a rival of the Hells Angels, authorities said.
Tags: American Outlaw Association, ATF, Boston, James McNally, Kenneth Chretian, Maine, Thomas Mayne
ICE Working to Rebrand Its Image
John Morton
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement known as ICE has an image problem.
So ICE Assistant Secretary John Morton plans to “re-brand”, realign its duties and emphasize criminal investigations over immigrant deportations, the Washington Post is reporting.
“By streamlining and renaming several offices, officials hope to highlight the agency’s counterterrorism, money laundering and other complex criminal investigations and in the process “re-brand” ICE, turning the public — and political — spotlight away from its immigration work,” the Post wrote.
Ex-FBI Hostage Negotiator Issues Warning on Mexico (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Feds Accuse Ex-Mortgage Exec. of Multi-Billion Dollar Scam (Washington Post)
LA U.S. Attorney’s Office Shakes Up Criminal Division (Main Justice)
Ala. Prof. Charged in Brother’s 1986 Shooting Death (AP)
4 Found Dead in Mass. Home (AP)
Jury Deliberations Begin Hartford Mayor Trial (AP)
NJ Trooper Kills Self in Cruiser (AP)
2 Nevada Men Plead Guilty in Fed Court to Killing Wild Mustangs (AP)
Man Charged in Calif. With Death By Ectasy (Courthouse News Service)
Judge Releases Some Wire Tapes in Blago Case; Anatomy of a Shakedown (CBS)
Italian Police Arrest Alleged Top Mobster (AP)
American Allegedly Involved in Hezbollah Smuggling Plot Arrested in Paraguay (Newsweek)
Tags: ICE, immigration, John Morton, rebranding
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SEASON: 2014-15
Prev Season: 2013-14
Next Season: 2015-16
npower Championship (Tier 2)
MANAGER(s):
Stuart Pearce (2), Dougie Freedman
FA Cup:
3rd Round (Rochdale (A) 0-1)
League Cup:
3rd Round (Tottenham Hotspur (A) 1-3)
Player Of The Year:
Top Goalscorer:
Britt Assombalonga, Michail Antonio (15 goals)
Competitive Games:
Competitive Goals:
Goals per game:
League Games:
League Points:
59 out of 138 (3 points per win)
Points Percentage:
Goals scored, conceded and win and loss margins
Goal count:
1 goal
5+ goals
Scored 17 times 13 times 5 times 3 times 1 time
Conceded 12 times 12 times 11 times 1 time
Won By 8 times 4 times 4 times 1 time
Lost By 10 times 7 times 2 times
ATTENDANCES (HOME)
Highest League Attendance:
Lowest League Attendance:
Average League Attendance:
Highest Cup Attendance:
Lowest Cup Attendance:
Clean Sheets:
Red cards:
Yellow cards:
Penalties scored:
Penalties conceded:
Penalties missed:
Penalties saved:
END OF SEASON TABLE
1 Bournemouth 46 26 12 8 98 45 13 7 3 48 25 13 5 5 50 20 53 90 Promoted as Champions 2-1 2-1
2 Watford 46 27 8 11 91 50 14 4 5 48 22 13 4 6 43 28 41 89 Promoted 1-3 2-2
3 Norwich City 46 25 11 10 88 48 12 6 5 50 24 13 5 5 38 24 40 86 Promoted after playoffs 2-1 1-3
4 Middlesbrough 46 25 10 11 68 37 15 5 3 42 12 10 5 8 26 25 31 85 2-1 0-3
5 Brentford 46 23 9 14 78 59 12 6 5 46 28 11 3 9 32 31 19 78 1-3 2-2
6 Ipswich Town 46 22 12 12 72 54 15 5 3 40 18 7 7 9 32 36 18 78 2-2 1-2
7 Wolverhampton Wanderers 46 22 12 12 70 56 13 6 4 42 23 9 6 8 28 33 14 78 1-2 3-0
8 Derby County 46 21 14 11 85 56 12 7 4 48 24 9 7 7 37 32 29 77 1-1 2-1
9 Blackburn Rovers 46 17 16 13 66 59 11 6 6 37 28 6 10 7 29 31 7 67 1-3 3-3
10 Birmingham City 46 16 15 15 54 64 10 7 6 29 31 6 8 9 25 33 -10 63 1-3 1-2
11 Cardiff City 46 16 14 16 57 61 10 5 8 31 30 6 9 8 26 31 -4 62 1-2 1-2
12 Charlton Athletic 46 14 18 14 54 60 9 9 5 32 27 5 9 9 22 33 -6 60 1-1 1-2
13 Sheffield Wednesday 46 14 18 14 43 49 5 11 7 16 20 9 7 7 27 29 -6 60 0-2 1-0
14 Nottingham Forest 46 15 14 17 71 69 9 5 9 37 32 6 9 8 34 37 2 59
15 Leeds United 46 15 11 20 50 61 8 6 9 22 24 7 5 11 28 37 -11 56 1-1 0-0
16 Huddersfield Town 46 13 16 17 58 75 8 8 7 34 34 5 8 10 24 41 -17 55 0-1 0-3
17 Fulham 46 14 10 22 62 83 9 5 9 36 38 5 5 13 26 45 -21 52 5-3 2-3
18 Bolton Wanderers 46 13 12 21 54 67 9 8 6 35 27 4 4 15 19 40 -13 51 4-1 2-2
19 Reading 46 13 11 22 48 69 8 5 10 24 25 5 6 12 24 44 -21 50 4-0 3-0
20 Brighton and Hove Albion 46 10 17 19 44 54 6 8 9 26 29 4 9 10 18 25 -10 47 0-0 3-2
21 Rotherham United 46 11 16 19 46 67 8 7 8 31 34 3 9 11 15 33 -21 46 2-0 0-0
22 Millwall 46 9 14 23 42 76 5 7 11 25 40 4 7 12 17 36 -34 41 Relegated 0-1 0-0
23 Wigan Athletic 46 9 12 25 39 64 3 8 12 18 29 6 4 13 21 35 -25 39 Relegated 3-0 0-0
24 Blackpool 46 4 14 28 36 91 4 7 12 18 35 0 7 16 18 56 -55 26 Relegated 2-0 4-4
Click here for all tables for 2014-15...
1 Sat Aug 09, 2014 Blackpool H 2-0 Win 28,028 3 Antonio (25), Burke (30)
2 Sat Aug 16, 2014 Bolton Wanderers A 2-2 Draw 15,753 3 Assombalonga (27, 35 pen)
3 Tue Aug 19, 2014 Bournemouth A 2-1 Win 10,768 1 Assombalonga (67), Fryatt (72)
4 Sat Aug 23, 2014 Reading H 4-0 Win 22,795 1 Antonio (17, 47), Fryatt (54), Assombalonga (64)
5 Sat Aug 30, 2014 Sheffield Wednesday A 1-0 Win 20,656 1 Lansbury (37)
6 Sun Sep 14, 2014 Derby County H 1-1 Draw 30,227 1 Assombalonga (72)
7 Wed Sep 17, 2014 Fulham H 5-3 Win 22,572 1 Assombalonga (9, 21 pen, 79), Antonio (77), Paterson (89)
8 Sat Sep 20, 2014 Millwall A 0-0 Draw 12,038 1
9 Sat Sep 27, 2014 Brighton and Hove Albion H 0-0 Draw 23,811 2
10 Tue Sep 30, 2014 Wigan Athletic A 0-0 Draw 14,078 2
11 Sun Oct 05, 2014 Ipswich Town H 2-2 Draw 24,354 2 Tesche (63), Antonio (90)
12 Sat Oct 18, 2014 Cardiff City A 1-2 Loss 21,263 5 Assombalonga (89)
13 Tue Oct 21, 2014 Watford A 2-2 Draw 16,095 6 Antonio (31, 67)
14 Sat Oct 25, 2014 Blackburn Rovers H 1-3 Loss 27,345 7 Fryatt (37)
15 Sat Nov 01, 2014 Huddersfield Town A 0-3 Loss 15,317 10
16 Wed Nov 05, 2014 Brentford H 1-3 Loss 21,072 11 Antonio (82)
17 Sat Nov 08, 2014 Norwich City H 2-1 Win 24,783 11 Assombalonga (85), Antonio (90)
18 Sat Nov 22, 2014 Wolverhampton Wanderers A 3-0 Win 25,513 8 Assombalonga (65), Fryatt (68), Lansbury (83)
19 Sat Nov 29, 2014 Birmingham City A 1-2 Loss 18,595 9 Assombalonga (84)
20 Sat Dec 06, 2014 Charlton Athletic H 1-1 Draw 22,297 10 Tesche (59)
21 Sat Dec 13, 2014 Rotherham United A 0-0 Draw 11,228 9
22 Sat Dec 20, 2014 Leeds United H 1-1 Draw 22,664 9 Fryatt (45)
23 Fri Dec 26, 2014 Middlesbrough A 0-3 Loss 32,277 10
24 Sun Dec 28, 2014 Birmingham City H 1-3 Loss 26,212 10 Assombalonga (90)
25 Sat Jan 10, 2015 Sheffield Wednesday H 0-2 Loss 22,209 13
26 Sat Jan 17, 2015 Derby County A 2-1 Win 32,705 12 Assombalonga (75), Osborn (90)
27 Sat Jan 24, 2015 Fulham A 2-3 Loss 15,512 12 Lansbury (45, 62)
28 Sat Jan 31, 2015 Millwall H 0-1 Loss 23,018 12
29 Sat Feb 07, 2015 Brighton and Hove Albion A 3-2 Win 26,267 12 Collins (44), Lansbury (63), Osborn (86)
30 Wed Feb 11, 2015 Wigan Athletic H 3-0 Win 19,619 10 Assombalonga (33), Burke (50), Lansbury (61)
31 Sat Feb 14, 2015 Blackpool A 4-4 Draw 11,712 10 Blackstock (68), Gardner (70), Lansbury (77 pen), Burke (90)
32 Sat Feb 21, 2015 Bolton Wanderers H 4-1 Win 22,441 9 Burke (8, 68), Antonio (17), Lansbury (65 pen)
33 Wed Feb 25, 2015 Bournemouth H 2-1 Win 20,637 9 Lascelles (21), Lansbury (44)
34 Sat Feb 28, 2015 Reading A 3-0 Win 18,586 9 Osborn (56), Fryatt (70), Gardner (80)
35 Tue Mar 03, 2015 Charlton Athletic A 1-2 Loss 14,937 9 Antonio (14)
36 Sat Mar 07, 2015 Middlesbrough H 2-1 Win 24,200 9 Gardner (34), Blackstock (65)
37 Sat Mar 14, 2015 Leeds United A 0-0 Draw 30,722 9
38 Wed Mar 18, 2015 Rotherham United H 2-0 Win 20,569 9 Blackstock (43), Antonio (45)
39 Sat Mar 21, 2015 Norwich City A 1-3 Loss 26,976 9 Burke (76)
40 Fri Apr 03, 2015 Wolverhampton Wanderers H 1-2 Loss 27,185 9 Blackstock (90)
41 Mon Apr 06, 2015 Brentford A 2-2 Draw 11,499 9 Walker (61), Kane (77)
42 Sat Apr 11, 2015 Huddersfield Town H 0-1 Loss 21,572 9
43 Wed Apr 15, 2015 Watford H 1-3 Loss 20,723 10 Gardner (72)
44 Sat Apr 18, 2015 Blackburn Rovers A 3-3 Draw 13,876 11 Antonio (7, 88), Lansbury (45)
45 Sat Apr 25, 2015 Ipswich Town A 1-2 Loss 25,199 12 ? (54 OG)
46 Sat May 02, 2015 Cardiff City H 1-2 Loss 21,988 14 Blackstock (90)
Sat Jan 03, 2015 Rochdale 3 A 0-1 Loss 6,791
Tue Aug 12, 2014 Tranmere Rovers 1 A 1-0 Win 4,374 Antonio (12)
Tue Aug 26, 2014 Huddersfield Town 2 A 2-0 Win 6,509 ? (72 OG), Lansbury (82)
Wed Sep 24, 2014 Tottenham Hotspur 3 A 1-3 Loss 31,912 Grant (61)
Pre-Season Friendly
Sat Jul 12, 2014 Ilkeston Town England A 4-0 Win 3,020 Cox (77, 83), Osborn (81, 90)
Wed Jul 16, 2014 Porto B Portugal A 3-2 Win - Lansbury (44), Veldwijk (82), McLaughlin (88)
Sat Jul 19, 2014 Rio Ave Portugal A 0-1 Loss -
Wed Jul 23, 2014 Rotherham United England A 0-1 Loss 3,600
Sun Jul 27, 2014 Milton Keynes Dons England A 0-1 Loss 4,121
Wed Jul 30, 2014 York City England A 2-1 Win 1,714 Mackie (52), Cox (57)
Sat Aug 02, 2014 West Bromwich Albion England H 1-0 Win 6,423 Fryatt (25)
Season Record (Competitive Games only)
Went Off
Came On
Unused Sub
GK 1 Karl Darlow 44 16 14 14 1 6 Sold to Newcastle and then returned on loan (whole of season)
GK 26 Dimitar Evtimov 10 Went on loan to Mansfield (Aug to Jan)
GK 29 Dorus de Vries 6 1 5 33
GK 36 Ross Durrant 1
D Amadou Haidara
D Louis Laing 4
D Mikele Leigertwood
D Roger Riera 1
D 2 Eric Lichaj 45 17 13 15 3 6 5 3
D 5 Danny Collins 8 6 1 1 1 1 6
D 16 Jamaal Lascelles 28 12 5 11 1 4 1 6 15 Sold to Newcastle and then returned on loan (whole of season)
D 17 Jack Hunt 19 8 7 4 2 5 3 7 On loan from Crystal Palace (July to December)
D 17 Todd Kane 8 2 1 5 1 1 4 On loan from Chelsea (Jan to June)
D 38 Ben Osborn 40 16 8 16 3 2 8 10 9
M Ilias Polimos
M Jack Blake
M Josh Rees
M Sancidino Silva
M 3 Dan Harding 9 4 2 3 2 1 7 Went on loan to Millwall (Jan to end of season)
M 4 Michael Mancienne 38 13 12 13 6 1 1 2 2
M 6 Kelvin Wilson 25 4 9 12 4 1 1 1 8
M 10 Henri Lansbury 40 13 12 15 11 11 9 3
M 13 Danny Fox 30 11 9 10 3 5 2 13
M 15 Greg Halford 1 Went on loan to Brighton (Nov to end of season)
M 19 Tom Ince 6 1 2 3 1 2 2 2 On loan from Hull City (Oct to Dec)
M 22 Gary Gardner 18 8 3 7 4 3 2 2 On loan from Aston Villa (Jan to June)
M 24 David Vaughan 15 4 11 2 3 3 17
M 25 Jack Hobbs 19 6 5 8 1 2 2
M 27 Chris Burke 45 15 12 18 6 3 16 9 5
M 30 Stephen McLaughlin 9 4 1 4 1 7 4 Went on loan to Notts County (Sep to Dec) and Southend (Mar to end of season)
M 32 Robert Tesche 25 6 9 10 2 4 7 5 4 Went on loan to Birmingham (March to June)
F Simon Cox
F 7 Matt Fryatt 26 12 7 7 6 1 7 9 3
F 8 Chris Cohen 6 4 2 1 2
F 9 Britt Assombalonga 32 12 9 11 15 3 1 6 3
F 11 Andy Reid 6 4 2 1 2
F 12 Jamie Mackie Went on loan to Reading for whole of season
F 14 Lars Veldwijk 14 3 4 7 2 11 15
F 18 Michail Antonio 49 17 14 18 15 4 19 Player Of The Year
F 19 Modou Barrow 4 1 1 2 2 2 On loan from Swansea (March to April)
F 21 Jamie Paterson 24 9 5 10 1 4 17 22
F 23 Dexter Blackstock 20 7 6 7 5 8 9 6
F 28 Radoslaw Majewski Went on loan to Huddersfield (Whole of season)
F 31 Chuba Akpom 7 2 5 3 2 On loan from Arsenal (March to May)
F 34 Tyler Walker 7 1 1 5 1 1 7 5
F 35 Oliver Burke 2 1 1 2 3 Went on loan to Bradford (Feb to March)
F 37 Jorge Grant 3 1 1 1 1 1 2 4
F 39 Djamel Abdoun Went on loan to Lokeren (Feb to end of season)
A Grant
Competitive goals only
15 Britt Assombalonga 32
15 Michail Antonio 49
11 Henri Lansbury 40
6 Chris Burke 45
6 Matt Fryatt 26
5 Dexter Blackstock 20
4 Gary Gardner 18
3 Ben Osborn 40
2 Robert Tesche 25
1 Danny Collins 8
1 Jamaal Lascelles 28
1 Jamie Paterson 24
1 Jorge Grant 3
1 Todd Kane 8
1 Tyler Walker 7
LEAGUE DOUBLES
Home and away victories for the season
Bournemouth Tue Aug 19, 2014 A 2-1 Wed Feb 25, 2015 H 2-1
Reading Sat Aug 23, 2014 H 4-0 Sat Feb 28, 2015 A 3-0
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Tau Ceti Mission - 18.06.2651 - Final Burn
The aged Venti probe continues to hold together as Seb ignites the final burn to reach the Visitor's ship:
http://www.taucetimission.com/2017/02/18062651-final-burn.html
Tau Ceti Mission - 03.10. 2649 - Last Hope
Seb enacts a desperate plan to try and reach the Visitor's ship:
http://www.taucetimission.com/2017/02/0310-2649-last-hope.html
Tau Ceti Mission - 29.09.2649 - Guided by a Star
Seb finally receives a message from the Visitors as the Venti probe continues its journey through the Epsilon Indi system:
http://www.taucetimission.com/2017/02/29092649-guided-by-star.html
Dragon Skull T-Shirt From The Magic Owl Collection
Dragon Skull t-shirt from the Magic Owl Collection.
Original artwork by Katie Stewart.
Available in sizes Small to XXXL.
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/489742464/dragon-skull-t-shirt
Five to Five Thousand Challenge - Gavin Smith
Author Gavin Smith is the latest to take the Five to Five Thousand Challenge and share his thoughts on what the future holds.
When Michael told me about this blog I thought it sounded like a great idea. I did, however, find it a little daunting. Anyone who's read my work will know that I am much more a writer of adventure stories than I am a futurist, but the challenge appealed to me and I thought I would have a crack at it. So here goes:
5 years from now - The Post Factual Age
Utilising new-media forms, propaganda, and just making-shit-up, old-style capitalist opportunists, often masquerading as white supremacists/nationalists, take control of, or destabilise certain strategic countries. They encourage isolationist and divisive policies to dissuade a united resistance against corporate abuses and the increasing power of oligarchies. They systematically de-regulate certain industries, whilst stripping a way the rights of the average person in the street. This leads to a series of economic disasters and widespread civil disturbances.
Land grabs in Eastern Europe and a series of proxy wars leaves the world constantly on the edge of a global conflict. A resurgent Russia and China become the new superpowers, with India following closely behind, after Western Europe and America effectively self-sabotage. The real power, however, are the multinational megacorporations. Thanks to de-regulation many of them start hiring military contractors, effectively creating their own standing mercenary armies.
50 Years from now - The Post Capitalist Age (the Quiet Revolution)
Short termism and environmental neglect leaves the world on a knife-edge. Oligarchs lock themselves in armed compounds whilst automated factories, that employ nobody, churn out goods that people can't afford. As a result traditional economies begin to collapse. Around the world, however, people start to opt out of a zero-sum game that they have absolutely no stake in.
Initially adopting E-commerce barter systems and then establishing a secure and stable cryptocurrency, small farming, craft and tech cooperatives start to trade amongst themselves. This movement grows and grows, micro and crowd financing allows the tech and craft co-operatives to create mircrofacturing facilities.
Slowly the Quiet Revolution grows. Disparate talents from all over the world come together online, forming think tanks on everything from alternative socioeconomics, to orbital engineering.
At the same time as the Quiet Revolution is happening Pan-African cooperation increases and the continent experiences a period of prolonged stability and growth, finding itself able to (more) sustainably exploit its rich bounty of resources.
Despite the Quiet Revolution, despite the stability in Africa, and despite the significant drop in population, the result of the knock-on effects of various economic disasters, wars and climate catastrophes, Earth's environment is still struggling. Various think tanks around the world realise that for humanity to have a future they need to look beyond their own world. Released of the profit-for-profit's sake/bottom line predatory form of capitalism, and motivated by the potential collapse of the Earth's ecosphere, tech co-operatives and science think tanks are able to make extraordinary breakthroughs. Advances in the fields of warm fusion, carbon nano-fibres and super conductors lead to the largest and most ambitious engineering project in human history. The Beanstalk: a huge cargo elevator that climbs from the plains of Africa high into orbit, providing a cost-effective and safer way for humanity to leave Earth and explore space. Entirely crowd funded, the vast majority of humanity have a stake in the elevator, and profit from it. Slowly, but surely humanity began to bootstrap its way out into the Solar System.
500 Years from now - The Posthuman Age
Humanity has colonised the Solar System and begun its first steps beyond that. Advances in genetics, cybernetics and biotech have allowed humanity to technologically evolve to deal with the rigours of life in space and on other planets/moons. Humanity now comes in a myriad of different shapes and forms. Concepts like nationality have become irrelevant. Approaching a post-scarcity society, humanity is engaged in a species wide cooperative bid to explore space. Science, technology and the universe itself becomes the new metanarrative.
Seeing the mistakes they made with Earth, humans decide to mould themselves to the environment rather than terraform, when they colonise Mars. Extensive automated aerostat gas mining operations take place in Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere. Saturn also provides gas as well as ice from its rings. The Earth itself is renewed, having been allowed time to recover from the depredations of the industrial era. Cities are now wide-open, green areas. Plant life and living space for reintroduced animals are designed into the architecture.
Physicist think tanks 'peopled' by AI, cybernetic and genetically enhanced intellects plumb the mysteries of the universe. Humanity's first interstellar expedition leaves the solar system amongst a wave of species-wide enthusiasm and excitement. The expedition takes the form of a generation ship, effectively a city-sized interstellar habitat, propelled by a pusher plate using repurposed nuclear weapons. It's destination: an 'Earth-like planet' orbiting Proxima Centauri.
5000 Years from now - The Post Science Age
What was once humanity has technologically evolved at an exponential rate. A singularity of consciousness is achieved. Able to observe quantum events, science becomes instinctual and difficult to differentiate from magic.
Advanced understanding of five dimensional physics allows post humanity to travel throughout the universe. The make contact with alien species that they deem they will not negatively impact when they reveal their existence. Many of these species are non-biological in nature.
Finally as all the secrets of the universe are unlocked by post-singularity consciousnesses, what was once humanity is faced with a choice. Some choose to remain locked inside their bodies of designer flesh and technology, which take the form of everything from an entire artificial star system, to a diffuse network of femnites. Others, however, chose to leave behind their flesh and tech bodies and use their consciousness to explore other realms. The species that began existence as little more than a few cells of life in a shallow warm sea, moves on to the next adventure.
"Hippy utopian bullshit?" Well perhaps but if you've read any of my books then you'll know I've done my time at the dystopian coalface. With some of the events unfolding in the world today I thought that I should write something upbeat.
"Not the way that science, economics and human nature work?" Again, perhaps, though I am fiction writer rather than a scientist, economist or sociologist. What I am conscious of is that much that is in the 50 year section is within our grasp. To achieve it comes down to a question of priorities, a question of human decisions. What do we want? Should we exist as a species to simply service oligarchies, a model we seem to be moving towards, or do we want to explore space? "Inner and outer", to quote Bill Hicks. I have no real problem with people being rich but when you look at the amount of capital that is locked up, doing so little, it is almost as if it has become an obscene prison for the oligarchs in question.
Anyway I hope you enjoyed the above flights of fancy, and thanks to Mike for the opportunity (to gain further understanding of my intellectual shortcomings). If you do fancy something a little grittier then please check out my new novel: Hangman's Daughter (Bastard Legion Book 1), available on Kindle in the UK here and the US here and on Audiobook in the UK here and the US here.
Gavin G. Smith is the Dundee-born author of the hard edged, action-packed SF novels Veteran, War in Heaven, The Age of Scorpio and A Quantum Mythology, The Beauty of Destruction, as well as the short story collection Crysis Escalation and his most recent book, The Hangman’s Daughter (Book 1 of the Bastard Legion) is out now. He has collaborated with Stephen Deas as the gestalt entity Gavin Deas on Empires: the First Battle and Elite Dangerous: Wanted. You can find out more about Gavin by visiting his website, following him on Twitter @gavingsmith or Facebook.
Cthulhu Chess Set on Etsy
A 3D printed, hand painted Cthulhu inspired chess set with a board with two inch tiles.
“The Thing cannot be described - there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy, such eldritch contradictions of all matter, force, and cosmic order. A mountain walked or stumbled.
If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings; but it was the general outline of the whole which made it most shockingly frightful.”
All pieces have weighted bases and felt pads to protect the boards.
This is a unique chess set that would make an ideal gift for any Lovecraft fan.
Note that these sets are made to order and may take up to 6 weeks to despatch.
Pieces are hand painted so may vary slightly from the photos.
The board is sourced to order to match the selected piece colours so may vary from the one shown.
Original concept art by Luciana Nedelea and 3D modelling by Sergio Mengual.
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/286454989/cthulhu-chess-set
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Artist Sarah Leigh-Wills #8 on The Gittle List 2017
In Artist, Gittle List Winners, Gittle Winner Interview
Sarah Leigh-Wills illustrated Go To Sleep! by Marion Adams — #8 on The Gittle List 2017. In her exclusive Gittle interview, Sarah shares 3 strange and wonderful things about herself. #3 is a quite a surprise!
How did it feel to win a spot on The Gittle List? I wasn’t even aware that The Gittle List existed, so once I looked into it all I was very pleased that Go To Sleep! had been awarded a spot!
What’s you earliest memory of drawing or writing? (Some ideas: Where were you? I was a very inquisitive child! I have always loved ‘different’ things and absolutely LOVE animals! I remember drawing animal doodles all over my school books and a teacher once telling me off for decorating them all in such a way, I specifically remember him saying: “they will not earn you money when you get older!!!” haha! funny that, as they do now!
Interior illustration from Go To Sleep!
Which artists or writers most influenced or inspired your work? I ADORE the work of Quentin Blake… Always have. I love the loose expressions and the emotion captured in the finest of details! The ink flow and meant mistakes just add so much to his work… I really do adore the hand being able to be loose on a page and not having to conform to what we think is right!
What is your favorite color or color combination? I ADORE colour… infant my family have always branded me the ‘walking rainbow’ The more clashing colours the better for me! Is there such a thing as ‘perfect colour combinations?’ I dont think so… What works is where the colours are applied and how! Colour is such an amazing thing! It can alter a mood but also it can completely transform the mood!
Sarah Leigh-Wills’ workspace
Do you prefer to work digitally, by hand, or both? Both… I like to work on paper of corse… but i also love sketching on my ipad. Im not a massive vector fan… but i do the odd project here and there to keep a hand in 🙂 I think its good for personal development as a creative to explore other mediums etc!
Tell us 3 strange and wonderful things about you. HAHA only 3…. I will try!
I have 4 rescued Guinea Pigs that live in my studio in little open top bachelor houses (they all like their own space, as they tell me!) yes…. I do indeed have conversations with them daily! They even have their own page: https://www.happydesigner.co.uk/the-happydesigner-pigs/
Original drawing by Sarah Leigh-Wills
I LOVE sci-fi! Yep! I like the idea of thinking outside of this world and into the worlds of others and imagining all the weird and wonderful things that could be out there! If I could have a secret power it would defiantly be the Jedi Force! I am a soft touch for the baddies though… always cried when Darth Vader died!
I am in a 80s Synth Tribute band with my husband called ELECTRONIX.
Sarah Leigh-Wills
Sarah Leigh-Wills is an award-winning children’s illustrator and author. An early calling as a vet at the age of 11 turned into a lifelong love of drawing animals. With a talent for knowing what makes children laugh and being able to engage with children on their level, Sarah has enjoyed a huge amount of success from her illustrations. Her project Night Night My Little Tiger is set to be featured on CBeebies Bedtime Stories. Sarah is known for her creativity, innovation and most importantly for the fun she brings to everything she creates.
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Marion Adams – #8 on The Gittle List 2017
In Author, Gittle List Winners, Gittle Winner Interview
Go To Sleep! is #8 on The Gittle List 2017
Like many authors, Marion Adams started writing stories in childhood. So, it’s no surprise that she grew up to be an award-winning author! Marion is #8 on The Gittle List 2017 for Go To Sleep! (Read Aviva’s review.)
How did it feel to win a spot on The Gittle List? What was your first thought after hearing the news? I was absolutely thrilled and delighted! My first thought after hearing the news was ‘I’ve done it!’ When you enter any competition, of course, you hope that you’ll get somewhere, but to avoid disappointment, you try not to think about it too much – at least, that’s what I do. So it was a lovely surprise to win a place!
Interior illustration by Sarah Leigh-Wills
What’s you earliest memory of writing? My earliest memory of writing creatively was at school when I was about eight. The teacher pinned a color picture on the wall and told us to write about it. It was of a family and their dog having a picnic. I remember really losing myself in writing the story, and the teacher reading it out to the class afterwards. After that, I knew that I wanted to be a writer when I grew up.
What is your favorite children’s book? I think it would have to be The Tiger Who Came To Tea by Judith Kerr, one of my children’s favorite ‘read-again’ books. Published 50 years ago, it’s a book that has stood the test of time for good reason. I love it for its gentle humor, and because it appeals to a child’s imagination with a message that something exciting, totally unexpected and even slightly dangerous could disrupt even the most ordinary of days.
Why did you decide to self-publish? What put me off submitting Go To Sleep! to mainstream publishers wasn’t so much the high chance of rejection (few publishers will take on a new children’s book author), but rather that I wanted to keep control of the whole process. It was easier than I thought because I found the amazingly talented illustrator, Sarah-Leigh Wills, and the technical side was taken care of by Nick Jones of independent publisher Full Media Ltd, who was very encouraging and supportive throughout.
Any advice for writers thinking about self-publishing a children’s picture book? I think it’s probably obvious, but it is essential that the book is properly edited. I’m not just talking about typos here. It’s very hard to assess your own writing (even if you’re an editor!), so I’d say make sure that several people check it and give you feedback before you go to print. In a children’s picture book, every word really does count, and writing that isn’t polished will stand out a mile.
Which of your characters is most like you in any of your books? I think Tansy is quite a lot like me. I often forget how to go to sleep, I’m not very good with figures and I’m always letting my imagination run away with me. Hopefully, I don’t cause as much trouble as Tansy did, though!
Marion Adams is a self-employed editor and proofreader. She has been writing since she was little, in a variety of styles and for different audiences, and her published work includes plays, song lyrics, non-fiction books, articles and magazine stories for teens. She is also a prize-winning poet and has had her work published in magazines including Salopeot, Bare Fiction and Poetry Nook. Go To Sleep! is her first children’s picture book, and she is currently working on several more titles. Marion lives in the UK on the south Devon coast with her family and two dogs, both boisterous Jack Russell crosses.
Contact Marion Adams:
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Low-Scoring Game One is No Surprise
Jared Penna
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The Boston Celtics opened their playoff campaign with a scrappy, hard-fought 84-74 win at home against the Indiana Pacers.
Both the Celtics and Pacers struggled offensively throughout the entire game. Highlighted by an eight-point third quarter by the Pacers, neither team found much success scoring the ball. The highest scoring quarter for either team came in the third, when the Celtics scored what is now considered a measly 26 points.
While neither team shot the ball well (Boston: 36.4%, Indiana: 33.3%), poor performance on the offensive end isn’t solely responsible for the low scoring affair. Both teams were near the top of the league when it comes to defense, and both have players who make an impact on the defensive end.
Boston’s Defense
The Celtics maintained a steady defense throughout the season. Boston finished the season with a defensive rating of 107, good for sixth in the NBA only 0.2 behind the Raptors for fifth. Brad Stevens has only coached a team that finished outside of the top-half of the league in defensive rating once, his rookie season in 2013-14, when the Celtics finished seventeenth in defensive rating. Since then, his defenses have finished 12th, fourth, 14th, second, and most recently sixth.
The Celtics also finished the regular season top-nine in steals (8.6, fourth in the league) and blocks (5.3, ninth). While Al Horford might not have the statistics to support it, he’s a valuable defensive asset for Boston. Jayson Tatum (25th) and Kyrie Irving (42nd) both finished top-50 in defensive win shares in the regular season as well, proving themselves to be solid defenders.
The Celtics managed to hold teams to 13.2 fast-break points per game in the regular season as well. That number was good for the 11th best mark in the league. On top of that, they finished fifth in opponent points in the paint per game (45.9) and fourth in opponent points off turnovers per game (14.8). Those numbers held true in the opening playoff game, as they allowed 36 points in the paint and 14 points off turnovers against the Pacers.
Individually, the Celtics played great defense as well. The leading scorer for Indiana on Sunday was Cory Joseph, who came off the bench to drop 14 points. The only other player to reach double figures in scoring was Bojan Bogdanovic who scored 12 points on 36% shooting.
Indiana’s Defense
The Pacers finished the regular season with a defensive efficiency of 105.9, good for third in the league. The team allowed the fourth fewest points in the paint of any team in the league, giving up just 44.8 points per game inside.
That in large part is because of center Myles Turner. Turner finished 32nd in defensive win shares, one of six players on the Pacers to finish in the top 48 for defensive win shares (more than any other team in the NBA). The others include Bogdanovic, Joseph, Thaddeus Young, Domantas Sabonis, and the injured Victor Oladipo.
Turner averaged 2.69 blocks per game in the regular season, tops in the league. His presence down low makes it difficult for slashers such as Jaylen Brown, Irving, and post player Horford to score how they typically do. His presence down low is a large reason why the Celtics were held to just 24 points in the paint Sunday afternoon, less than half the league average of 48.6.
The Pacers also finished the regular season third in steals with 8.7 per game. The team leader in steals was Oladipo (1.7 steals per game), who again unfortunately suffered a season ending injury and won’t play in the postseason. Plenty of other players on this team are capable too, though, such as Young (1.5 SPG), Darren Collison (1.4 SPG) and Joseph (1.1 SPG).
It’s unrealistic to expect another game as low scoring as the first for the remainder of this series. Game one was reminiscent of an early-2000’s Detroit Pistons game. The 2004 Pistons allowed just 84.3 points per game, 20.4 fewer than the league leading Pacers this season. Still, don’t expect both teams to pour in 120 points each game. Both teams in this series excel on the defensive end, and the playoffs are a more physical brand of basketball that make offense more difficult to come by. Expect excitement, but don’t expect loads of scoring from here on out.
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Wade Travel Journals
Randall Wade Travel Journals – Volumes 1-3 (WRHS MS. 3934)
A. Volume One
001. MSS. 3934: Volume I – Front Matter
i. Frontispiece (Volume 1)
ii. Introduction to Volume I
002. The Start (pp. 001-003)
003. At Sea (pp. 004-008)
004. Brest & Le Havre (pp. 009-011)
005. Le Havre to Paris (pp. 012-013)
006. Paris (pp. 014-019)
007. Paris to Cologne (pp. 020-024)
008. Cologne (pp. 025-032)
009. Cologne to Bonn, & Bonn (pp. 033-038)
010. On the Rhine (pp. 039-053)
011. Bingen (pp. 054-060)
012. Bingen to Homburg & Hombourg (pp. 061-079)
013. Frankfurt (pp. 80-85)
014. Back at Hombourg (pp. 086-095)
015. Frankfurt & Frankfurt to Cassel (pp. 096-107)
016. Cassel (pp. 108-110)
017. Cassel to Hanover & Hanover to Hamburg (pp. 111-116)
018. Hamburg (pp. 117- 129)
019. Hamburg to Berlin/Berlin (pp. 130-143)
020. Potsdam (pp. 144-156)
021. Berlin again (pp. 157-162)
022. Dresden (pp. 163-182)
Page 182 [No page 181]
023. Dresden to Prague/Prague (pp. 183-196)
024. Prague to Nuremburg/Nuremburg (pp. 197-202)
025. Nurnberg to Zurich/Zurich (pp. 203-210)
026. Zurich to Lucern/Lucern (pp. 211-222)
027. Lucern to Giessbach/Giessbach/Interlaken (pp. 223-236)
028. Interlaken to Bern/Bern (pp. 237-243)
029. Bern to Fribourg/Fribourg (pp. 244-250)
030. Fribourg to Geneva/Geneva (pp. 251-261)
031. Geneva – Chamonix – Geneva (pp. 262-274)
032. Lake of Geneva-Geneva-Geneva to Lake Maggiore (pp. 275-296)
033. Pallanza-Pallanza to Lugano (pp. 297-307)
Final page-no number
034. Index of Images Volume 1
B. Volume Two
035. MSS. 3934 : Volume II – Front Matter
i. Frontispiece to Volume II
ii. Introduction to Volume II
036. Pallanza to Lugano, pp. 308-310
037. Lugano (pp. 311-315)
038. Lugano to Bellaggio (pp. 316-318)
039. Bellaggio (pp. 319-328)
040. Bellaggio to Milan (pp. 329-331)
041. Milan (pp. 332-342)
042. Milan to Venice (pp. 343-344)
043. Venice (pp. 345-364)
044. From Venice to Triest [sic] (pp. 365-371)
045. Triest to Adelsberg, & Adelsberg (pp. 372-376)
046. Adelsberg to Vienna (pp. 377-379)
047. Vienna (pp. 380-401)
048. Vienna to Salzburg & Salzburg (pp. 402-412)
049. Salzberg to Munich & Munich (pp. 413-440)
050. Munich to Innsbruck to Verona (pp. 441- 448)
051. Verona & Verona to Padua (pp. 449-454)
052. Padua / Padua to Ferrara / Ferrara / Ferrara to Florence (pp. 455-464)
053. Florence (pp. 465-473)
054. Florence to Pisa / Pisa (pp. 474-484)
055. Travels to Nice (pp. 485-495)
056. Nice & Monaco (pp. 496-511)
057. Nice to Genoa/Genoa (pp. 512-525)
058. Genoa to Naples (pp. 526-530)
059. Naples (pp. 531-573)
060. Pompeii & Vesuvius Trips (pp. 574-599)
061. Naples – Final Days of Visit (pp. 600-607)
062. Naples to Rome (pp. 608-612)
C. Volume Three
063. MSS. 3934 : Volume III – Front Matter
Map of Travels
Volume III – Frontispiece
064. Rome – Arrival, Carnival, Early Sightseeing (pp. 614-646)
065. Rome – St. Peters, Forum, Pantheon (pp. 647-673)
066. Rome -Colosseum etc. (pp. 674-728)
067. Rome – Fleas and Alice’s Illness (pp. 729-746)
069. Florence>Verona>Innsbruck>Munich>Frankfort (pp. 754-760)
070. Bad Schwalbach (pp. 761-785)
071. Cologne to Amsterdam (pp. 786-796)
072. Brussels (pp. 797-806)
073. London (pp. 807-835)
074. England – Isle of Wight > Liverpool (pp. 836-854)
075. English Lakes (pp. 855-858)
076. Scotland (pp. 859-871)
077. Scotch Lakes (pp. 872-882)
078. Belfast>Dublin>Lakes of Killarney (pp. 883-900)
079. Killarney to Cork (pp. 901-904)
080. Queenstown > New York Harbor (pp. 905-913)
Holly Witchey
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¶ 2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 19th [December 1870] Breakfast over we get started at 8 1/2 oclock with two, four Horse carriages towards Genoa, and begin at once to ascend the mountains, zig-zag up through olive groves, and fortunately for Alice we are behind the mountain when the war ships all begin their regular firing of a whole round each, saluting the departure of some ship-
¶ 3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 These olive trees are always ill shaped, straggling, gnarled up overgrown bushes. Have seen them four feet in diameter at the stump but they are generally wider than they are high- They still hold their leaves- Everywhere we see peasants picking the berries after being shaken to the ground, about the size of wild cherries, black, a tedious business, and continually we are meeting Mules and Donkeys loaded with immense paniers [sic] filled, and almost always with a woman perched up between the baskets the men following with cudgels. All male peasants wear the red cap with top piece hanging over like an old red stocking stretched onto their heads-
¶ 4 Leave a comment on paragraph 4 0 Its comical to see the variety and amount of stuff that they will pile upon a little Donkey. A load of hay or brush, so large that you can scarcely see the Donkey at all from any point of view, half cord of wood, whole set of household furniture. Every thing movable in fact- I no longer wonder why sweet oil (olive oil) is so cheap in America-
¶ 5 Leave a comment on paragraph 5 0 On we go along the crest of the mountains, which soon become barren and useless supporting a scanty and wretched set of peasants by assistance from below, until sunset when we get a fine view
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Here Randall is referring to the controversial J. Marion Sims (1813-1883) sometimes referred to as the “Father of Modern Gynecology.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Marion_Sims
Just a couple of years later, in 1873, the peripatetic Mr. Peebles was in New Zealand, having visited Melbourne and Dunedin giving papers on spiritualism. An article reviewing his presentation “Spiritualism, What is It? Who Believes in It?” noted that 250 attended. MR PEEBLES ON SPIRITUALISM.,Press, Volume XXI, Issue 2358, 24 February 1873
(http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP18730224.2.22)
Possibly the intent here is “bunkum,” the slang term referring to nonsense.
“Royal Ghosts Stalk Corridors and Kingly Knees Shake,” Chicago Tribune, October 9, 1898
White Lady of the Hohenzollern
The writer does not know the White Lady tradition at Schonnbrunn, nor has he ever been able to ascertain anything definite about her history. But there is plenty of documentary evidence, as well as a wonderful array of records concerning the White Lady of the Hohenzollerns who makes her appearance In the old palace at Berlin whenever death Is about to overtake a member of the reigning house of Prussia. The late Emperor Frederick In particular was greatly interested In the matter and collected all the evidence that he could upon the subject for the purpose of depositing it In the archives of his family; Perhaps the most Important piece of testimony in this connection are the sworn statements signed by Prince Frederick of Prussia and a number of his fellows, to all of whom the White Lady is declared to have appeared as they sat together on the eve of the Prince’s death at the battle of Saalfeld in 1806.
Moreover, Thomas Carlyle went to no little trouble to procure evidence when writing the history of Frederick the Great that the White Lady had appeared to that famous monarch on the eve of his death.
Indeed, It Is asserted that the King was on the road to recovery from his illness, when suddenly one morning he declared he had seen the white-clad specter during the night, that his hour had come, and that it was useless to try to avoid death any longer. So he refused to take any further medicine, turned his face to the wall, and died. It seems that this White Lady of the Hohenzollern was originally the Countess Agnes von Orlamunde, who murdered her First husband, as well as her two children, in order to be enabled to marry the Burgrave of Nuremberg, the ancestor of the Electors of Brandenburg and of the house of Hohenzollern. The triple murder Is asserted to have taken place within the precincts of this palace…
Eduard Ernst Friedrich Hannibal Vogel von Falckenstein (5 January 1797 – 6 April 1885)
John Murray, A Hand-book for Travellers on the Continent: Being a Guide Through Holland, Belgium, Prussia, and Northern Germany (London: John Murray and Son, 1840), p 472
“Baron Rothschild’s Villa, outside the Bockenheim Gate, is fitted up with taste, elegance, and splendour; strangers applying at the Baron’s house in the town, are sometimes admitted to see it; the garden attached to it is richly stored with rare plants, and is very neatly kept.”
Visit to Natural History Museum in Frankfurt
Randall is referring to Tad Lincoln (1853-1871), the youngest son of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln.
Quentin Durward is Sir Walter Scott’s 1823 historical novel about a Scottish archer serving King Louis XI of France (1423-1483)
This question mark is inserted by Wade. He wondered, I bet, as I am, how the stairs got transported from Jerusalem to Rome although they are supposed to have been brought back by Emperor Constantine’s mother St. Helena in the 4th century.
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Ian Chambers wins 2020 Hooke Medal
Congratulations to Professor Ian Chambers, Group Leader and Professor of Pluripotent Stem Cell Biology at the MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, who has won the 2020 Hooke Medal for his contribution to UK Cell Biology.
Castleview Primary School win the Rolls-Royce Science Prize
Congratulations to Castleview Primary School who have been named the overall winner of the 2019 Rolls Royce Science Prize and the Eden Award in a partnership with CRM’s Dr Cathy Southworth.
CRM supports #StopMS campaign
CRM group leader Anna Williams has lent her support to the MS Society’s Stop MS campaign with an interview featured on the BBC News at Six.
Tomas Soto: My summer internship at CRM
Tomas Soto, a pupil at Holy Rood RC High School in Edinburgh, spent his summer on a four week internship at CRM.
Macrophage cell therapy safe, trial suggests
Liver disease patients could one day benefit from a new cell therapy that has just completed its first clinical trial, published in Nature Medicine.
Charles ffrench-Constant presented Chancellor’s Award
Congratulations to Professor Charles ffrench-Constant, Professor of Neurology at MRC-CRM and Dean of Research for the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, who has been awarded the 2019 Chancellor’s Award for Research.
Tilo Kunath wins prestigious award for Parkinson’s research
Congratulations to Dr Tilo Kunath, Group Leader at the MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, who has won the Tom Isaacs Award 2019 for his outstanding work in Parkinson’s research.
Id1 stabilises cell identity during early embryonic development
New research has shown the importance of the Id1 gene in controlling transition between cell states during development of the mouse embryo.
David S Miller Young Scientist Award
Congratulations to Sophie Quick who was won the David S Miller Young Scientist Award at the 13th International Conference on Cerebral Vascular Biology (CVB) 2019.
Rooftop apiary promotes sustainability
The MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine is now home to a colony of honey bees, with a new apiary established on the building’s roof.
IRR Early Career Innovator 2019
Dr Sofia Ferreira-Gonzalez has been named the winner of this year’s IRR Early Career Innovation Competition for her proposal to reduce liver transplant complications.
Public Engagement team win community partnership award
A team of dedicated staff and students based at MRC CRM have been awarded the very first Social Responsibility and Sustainability Community Partnership Award.
10 years of the MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine
The MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine was established in 2008, Directed by Professor Sir Ian Wilmut. CRM has had 10 incredible years with many, many highlights. As part of our 10th anniversary celebrations we wanted to share some of those highlights with you: 10 stories to be precise.
Blood cancer’s “Achilles’ heel”?
CRM scientists have helped make a breakthrough discovery which could open the door for new treatments for leukaemia.
Steve Pollard – keeping brain cancer in check
Professor Steve Pollard was recently interviewed by The Times about his research and how it is helping to develop new treatments to keep brain cancer in check.
Progress towards skin swab test for Parkinson’s
A new study has identified chemicals in the skin responsible for a unique scent in people with Parkinson’s disease.
New Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Congratulations to CRM Associate Director Professor Dónal O'Carroll who has been elected to join the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE).
Engineered macrophages boost blood cell production
Brain cell changes in people with MS revealed
Fresh insights into the types of cells found in the brains of people with multiple sclerosis could help develop improved therapies, new research published in Nature has found.
Parkinson’s Disease resistant dopamine neurones could improve cell therapies
Dr Tilo Kunath and colleagues have developed Parkinson’s Disease resistant dopamine neurones which could improve cell therapies for the disease.
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* [[Sermon for March 26th, 2017]] 199th Sermon: Job's Prayer of Repentance (2360)
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Home → News → INT: GM PEA RESEARCH – NEW FINDINGS
INT: GM PEA RESEARCH – NEW FINDINGS
10 January 2013. Source: Science Daily
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130110075358.htm
Research Revisiting the Safety of GM Weevil-Resistant Peas in Mice Contradicts Previous Risk Assessment Findings
Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna have conducted feeding trials with mice to investigate the allergenicity of genetically modified (GM) weevil-resistant peas. Development of the peas was discontinued in 2005 when a risk assessment conducted by the CSIRO and Australian National University showed negative reactions in mice to the peas (Prescott et al 2005).
Field peas are an important rotation crop, which can be devastated by pea weevil (Bruchus pisorum) infestation. Unlike peas, beans are not attacked by pea weevils as they contain a protein called α-amylase inhibitor (αAI) that causes the weevils feeding on beans to starve before they cause any damage.
The MedUni Vienna-team investigated immune responses in mice fed several varieties of beans, non-transgenic peas and the transgenic peas, expressing the bean or the transgenic versions of the α-amylase inhibitor. The mice showed similar levels of immune response no matter which food they consumed.
Dr. Michelle Epstein, the lead researcher said, “We observed that the immune response in mice was the same no matter whether the inhibitor came from beans, where it naturally occurs, or from peas genetically modified to express the inhibitor and even in non-transgenic peas.” “These results demonstrate that αAI transgenic peas are no more allergenic than beans or non-transgenic peas in mice” Dr. Epstein added.
The Prescott study is regularly cited by those on both sides of the GM debate as an example of either the inherent dangers of genetically modified foods or the effectiveness of pre-market studies in identifying potential risk factors. Rodent studies for genetically modified organism (GMO) safety have recently been in the news. Seralini et al. showed untoward effects in rats fed GM corn but these studies were fraught with problems and add to the controversy of using rodents to study GMO safety (see EFSA report).
“The study is important because it illustrates the significance of repeating experiments in independent laboratories” Dr. Epstein said. “It is also vital that investigators are aware of potential unexpected crossreactive allergic responses upon the consumption of plant products, as we found in the non-transgenic peas.” Dr. Epstein questions the utility of rodents for evaluating biotech crops and points out that the MUV results highlight the importance of a careful case-by-case evaluation of GM crops, and the role science can play in decision-making around the introduction of GMOs into the food system.
This research was conducted at the Medical University of Vienna as part of the European Commission Framework 7-funded GMSAFOOD project.
AUS – ANTI-GM LEGAL THREATS
Threats prompt GM rethink
Source: The Land, by Colin Bettles
http://beta.theland.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/cropping/general-news/threats-prompt-gm-rethink/2638189.aspx?storypage=0
LITIGATION threats are forcing biotechnology campaigner Bill Crabtree to rethink his approach to the controversial topic, and call for greater backing and public advocacy from leading farm lobby groups.
Mr Crabtree is one of several individuals and organisations to have received defamation threats from the Safe Food Foundation (SFF) and scientist Dr Judy Carman in recent months.
The threats are in relation to varying claims, seeking differing levels of financial damages and potential legal costs, however, each case is underpinned by escalating common conflict between the different camps over genetically modified (GM) cropping technology.
In 2005, the West Australian government funded $92,000 to the Institute of Health and Environmental Research (IHER) in Adelaide to conduct animal feeding trials of GM canola, headed by Dr Carman.
Dr Carman has been criticised by Mr Crabtree and other outspoken biotechnology campaigners for failing to publicly report or publish the results of the IHER study in peer reviewed scientific journals, despite repeated requests.
The issue flared up again in September when Dr Carman was linked to claims GM wheat may cause a strain of liver damage that especially endangers the lives of young children.
The claims were contained in a media statement from the SFF which quoted Dr Carman as an expert scientific opinion.
The SFF and its director Scott Kinnear are also central to another high profile anti-GM campaign, over the alleged contamination of Kojonup organic farmer Steve Marsh’s wheat crop from GM canola growing on the farm of his neighbours, Mick and Zanthe Baxter.
Mr Marsh is being represented in his legal challenge by Slater and Gordon Lawyers with backing from Mr Kinnear’s organisation and other anti-GM groups.
Speaking to Fairfax Agricultural Media, Mr Kinnear confirmed having sent letters threatening defamation against various groups and individuals.
But he said, “I do not have any comment as to the precise nature of who and what they contained”.
For the complete article, see: http://beta.theland.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/cropping/general-news/threats-prompt-gm-rethink/2638189.aspx?storypage=0
AUS: SA GM BAN - NO EARLY REVIEW
SA says no to GM until 2019
www.kondiningroup.com.au/StoryView.asp?StoryID=9644040
THE South Australian government has taken a tough stance on genetically modified crops by banning farmers from growing them for the next seven years.
State Agriculture, Food and Fisheries Minister Gail Gago said while SA had always been against growing GM crops, the federal government recently reviewed its Gene Technology Act and asked states with GM moratoria that had not been reviewed in the last three years to commit to reviewing them by the end of 2014.
She said a review would not take place because allowing GM crops to be grown would have a negative impact on the marketing of the state’s food and wine in key export destinations around the world.
SA‘s initial four-year prohibition was extended in 2008 over concerns non-GM production could be altered, with the ban in place until September 1, 2019.
Gago said the GM ban would not be lifted unless there were compelling reasons to do so.
“I have written to the federal government and told them that we will not be doing this [review],” she said.
“South Australia’s clean green food bowl gives us a competitive edge in the market.
“Our non-GM crops attract greater market prices and the exceptional quality of SA’s food bowl is synonymous with the state.
“We will not be doing anything to jeopardise this.”
Gago said community and market consultation would be listened to carefully to guide the future of GM in the state.
“There also continues to be concerns within the community about the long-term impacts of genetically modified foods and we are listening to these concerns,” she said.
“South Australia remains firmly committed to maintaining its GM bans.”
USA – GM SALMON SAFE FOR ENVIRONMENT
www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-12-26/pdf/2012-31118.pdf
The US Food and Drug Administration has released its Draft Environmental Assessment for a GM variety of salmon for a public comment period. The FDA assessment found the GM salmon had “no significant impact” on the environment.
The public comment period closes on 25 February 2013.
Draft Environmental Assessment and Preliminary Finding of No Significant Impact Concerning a Genetically Engineered Atlantic Salmon; Availability
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, the Agency) is announcing the availability for public comment of the Agency’s draft environmental assessment (EA) of the proposed conditions of use specified in materials submitted by AquaBounty Technologies, Inc., in support of a new animal drug application (NADA) concerning a genetically engineered (GE) Atlantic salmon. Also available for comment is the Agency’s preliminary finding of no significant impact (FONSI) for those specific conditions of use.
DATES: Submit either electronic or written comments on the Agency’s draft EA and preliminary FONSI by February 25, 2013.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is given that a draft EA prepared by FDA in support of an NADA associated with AQUADVANTAGE Salmon, a GE Atlantic salmon containing the opAFP– GHc2 recombinant DNA construct is being made available for public comment. FDA is also making available for comment the Agency’s preliminary FONSI for those specific conditions of use. In the event of an approval of the application, the approval would only allow AQUADVANTAGE Salmon to be produced and grown-out in the physically contained freshwater culture facilities specified in the sponsor’s NADA.
To encourage public participation consistent with regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (40 CFR 1501.4(b)), the Agency is placing the draft EA and the preliminary FONSI that are the subject of this notice on public display at the Division of Dockets Management (see DATES and ADDRESSES) for public review and comment for 60 days.
Dated: December 20, 2012.
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Author: Charly
easyMarkets releases brand new trading app
by Charly United Kingdom World easyMarkets
Industry pioneer easyMarkets have launched their brand-new trading app, a unique, free to download mobile app, based on their award-winning web-platform.
“We have come full circle from launching the world’s first web-based trading platform in 2001 to entering today’s fast paced era with the launch of our trading app. This is as always, another investment in our traders’ best interest and it is specifically designed to make their trading experience easier and integrated in their every-day lives.”
Nikos Antoniades, CEO, easyMarkets
The app promises to be fast, simple and easy – a tagline which carries the promise easyMarkets made to traders and kept for nearly two decades. Even prior to an official launch, the app has been very well received by 6000 active users.
“The easyMarkets mobile application was developed natively for both Android and iOS to maximize its responsiveness and provide our users with the best possible look and feel.
“It supports a broad range of functionality beyond trading, pricing and market news. Funding, withdrawing and reporting, enable the user to enjoy the complete easyMarkets experience on their mobile device. The new easyMarkets app is able to fully replace the desktop experience for its users.”
Alexander St Louis, CIO, easyMarkets
What sets this app apart from other trading apps is its ability to visually and contextually organize features in the most straightforward way. Traders are equipped with several market analysis and risk management tools as they make buy and sell decisions. They can also use easyMarkets’ unique trading tool, dealCancellation*, which for a fee, allows them to undo any losing trade within 60 minutes.
In a time of unparalleled demand for access to information through push notifications, the easyMarkets app taps into that need by providing traders with the ability to enable price notifications and receive around-the-clock alerts about the moves, highs and lows of trading assets.
Among many great features, the app provides graphs, live market news, a financial calendar and easyMarkets’ Inside Viewer which shows the direction fellow easyMarkets’ traders are favoring on a chosen asset.
Several upgrades are in the works which will allow further personalization based on trader preference, and continuous enhancement of user experience.
The easyMarkets trading app is available for download on iOS and Android, in English and Chinese and will soon become available in other languages.
For further details, visit www.easymarkets.com, email pr@easymarkets.com or call +44 203 1500 748.
Risk Warning: Forward Rate Agreements, Options and CFDs (OTC Trading) are leveraged products that carry a substantial risk of loss up to your invested capital and may not be suitable for everyone. Please ensure that you fully understand the risks involved and do not invest money you cannot afford to lose. Please refer to our full risk disclaimer. EF Worldwide Ltd
Homes in bloom – RHS Chelsea Flower Show’s influence on this summer’s essential interior design trends
by Charly United Kingdom Alexander James Interior Design
The plant world is the true winner at Chelsea each year (Clifford Stanley Landscape Contractors)
Nature is the big interior design trend this summer (Alexander James Interior Design)
Greenery is 2017’s colour of the year (Pantone)
The most exciting event of the gardening calendar, the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, is set to take place on 23-27 May 2017. This year’s show is seeking to be “the best gardening event in the world,” according to RHS Director of Shows Nick Mattingley.
It’s a lofty goal, but one that is also realistic. The Chelsea Flower Show inspires millions every year and influences everything from bouquet trends to interior design.
“The Chelsea Flower Show is where high street fashion meets ‘haute couture’ in the natural world. Conscientious traditional horticulturalists battle it out with contemporary modernists to see who will bag the glory. Regardless of who takes home Gold, Silver or Bronze, the plant world is always the true winner at Chelsea each year. The clipped box edged borders, evergreen backdrops and roses growing up through aromatic lavender give a delicious and sumptuous effect that can’t help but inspire.”
Clifford Stanley, RHS Chelsea Flower Show Gold Medal Winner, Clifford Stanley Landscape Contractors
The inspirational blooms and scents of the Chelsea Show won’t only appear in people’s homes via their TV screens this year. Interior designer Stacey Sibley has worked alongside Clifford on a number of key projects for Alexander James Interior Design. While Clifford takes care of exterior elements, Stacey has identified the influences of nature as the big interiors trend this summer.
Finishes, colours and textures all hark back to nature, along with dramatic floral prints and, of course, huge vases of stunning blooms.
‘Greenery’ is Pantone’s colour of the year for 2017, resulting in plenty of green in the interior world. Designers are also poised and ready to absorb the most beautiful elements of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show into their creative vision as the spring turns into summer, with interior design reflecting the best that the RHS show has to offer.
“Even a home in the busiest of cities can offer an oasis of peace with the right interior. The reflection of nature in art, colour schemes and decorative touches can instantly change the whole mood of a room. This summer, nature-inspired prints, such as the close-up Dahlia petals featured at the Trowbridge Gallery, are a wonderful way to bring the outdoors indoors for maximum effect. And when it comes to colours and textures, think stone, wood and greenery in abundance.”
Stacey Sibley, Creative Director, Alexander James Interior Design
Those lacking the green fingers to compete at Chelsea – or even to keep a guzmania alive – need not despair. Stacey recommends faux plants and silk flowers for capturing the essence of nature without the risk of browning leaves and wilted blooms. John Lewis has an extremely well-priced collection at present, including some delightful metallic pots, which Alexander James’ Stacey Sibley has flagged as another of this summer’s top trends.
“The natural world brings with it a sense of calm and sanctuary, and the Chelsea Flower Show is a wonderful reminder of that. As our daily lives seem ever busier, bringing nature into the home is a wonderful way to fight the stress of modern life and appreciate the beauty of the world around us.”
For more information, visit Alexander James Interior Design at www.aji.co.uk, email info@aji.co.uk or call 020 7887 7604.
UK versus Europe – where to invest as Brexit unfolds
by Charly United Kingdom Aspen Woolf, easyMarkets, Kyero.com, Properties of the World
Currency fluctuations put volatility at the heart of many sectors (easyMarkets)
UK property investment offers exciting opportunities in new sectors (Properties of the World)
Spanish property investment provides long term lifestyle benefits (Kyero.com)
UK’s fundamental shortage of housing unaffected by Brexit (Aspen Woolf)
The UK will be very publicly facing off against the EU over the coming two years. Whether you voted for or against the split, the political and financial implications of the UK’s decision to leave the EU are huge. Now, Prime Minister Theresa May has called a snap election called for 8 June, in order for the Conservatives to take advantage of their largest lead in the polls over Labour in nine years (according to YouGov). Sterling’s turbulent journey since the Leave vote doesn’t look set to enter calmer waters anytime soon.
“Sterling will be one of the most responsive barometers to the political machinations of the Brexit process. While many sectors will be affected by the UK leaving the EU, few react in real-time in quite the same way that currency markets do. The impact of changes in the pound’s value is felt in myriad ways, putting volatility at the heart of many sectors over the coming years.”
James Trescothick, Chief Global Strategist, easyMarkets
Property investment is certainly one sector that is sensitive to sterling’s shifting value. So should buyers be looking to pick up property in the UK right now, or investing their funds elsewhere? Sector experts’ opinions are divided.
“Those buying in pounds may find their second home overseas is suddenly worth a great deal more – or less – as the pound and the euro dance around each other. The same is true of the pound and the dollar, with the US experiencing its own unique style of political upheaval right now. UK buyers seeking stability from their investment might find it prudent to seek out domestic property investment opportunities over the next couple of years.”
Jean Liggett, CEO of visionary property investment consultancy Properties of the World
Liggett points out that domestic property investment still offers a wide range of opportunities. The UK’s hotel and care home sectors are offering some of the most exciting property investment possibilities at present.
While UK hotel investments often come with the benefit of two or more weeks’ use per year, many investors want a property that comes with the promise of sunshine, and continue to look overseas to make their money work for them.
“The fact that investors can pick up a property in Spain, use it themselves whenever they want, then leave it to their children as an inheritance or sell it a few years down the line, means that many British buyers are looking beyond short term currency fluctuations and pushing their pounds into properties in the Spanish sunshine. UK visitors to Kyero.com surged by over 30% in the year to March 2017, demonstrating that many are looking at investment in Spanish second homes over the longer term. The comparatively low cost of property in Spain also means that UK buyers can get more for their money when they invest abroad.”
Richard Speigal, Head of Research at Spanish property portal Kyero.com
For those seeking a purely financial investment, with no lifestyle benefits attached, the stability offered by buying in pounds is certainly a strong draw at present. The UK’s buy-to-let sector continues to perform well and the nation’s city centres look set to remain short of homes for many years, irrespective of Brexit.
“The UK’s decision to part ways with the EU does nothing to change the fundamentals of this country’s housing shortage. That shortage, along with a shift from ownership to renting, is driving demand for city centre homes like never before – and Brexit has done nothing to change that. Each year the UK falls further behind its target number of homes and until that alters, the logic of domestic buy-to-let investment is clear.”
Oliver Ramsden, Director of Aspen Woolf
Ultimately, then, the decision on where to invest as the Brexit process unfolds will depend on the kind of benefits that individual property investors are seeking to get out of their investments, as well as how short or long term their outlook may be.
On the market:
Gramont House – care home investment from £75,000, based on a sustainable and ethical business model. 8% NET returns for 25 years, with four exit strategies and two purchase options. (Available through Properties of the World.)
Alicante penthouse – three bedroom, two bathroom penthouse apartment with large pool and tennis court on site. 600m from the beach. €185,000. (Available through Kyero.com.)
Eldon Grove – a refurbished, Grade II listed building housing 45 one, two and three bedroom apartments. Designed by experienced and successful architects. Prices from £94,950 with 7% NET yield assured for two years. (Available through Aspen Woolf.)
easyMarkets: +44 203 1500 748 or www.easymarkets.com
Properties of the World: +44 (0)20 7624 5555 or www.propertiesoftheworld.co.uk
Kyero: www.kyero.com
Aspen Woolf: +44 203 176 0060 or www.aspenwoolf.co.uk
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Top of the Props: Overseas interest strengthens in Cyprus
by Charly Cyprus United States World The Move Channel
Cyprus re-enters Top 10 destinations
Enquiries for Cypriot property up 50pc in Q1 2017
USA number one property market for overseas buyers
Overseas interest in Cyprus strengthened in March, reveals TheMoveChannel.com’s latest Top of the Props index. The country re-entered the top 10 most popular countries on the portal for the third time in six months, becoming the sixth most sought-after destination.
Foreign buyers returned to the island’s property market at the end of 2016, with enquiries rising 22 per cent in the second half of the year. After 2016’s strong finish, enquiries faltered at the start of 2017, but buyers are now showing signs of returning in greater numbers. In real terms, enquiries for Cypriot property rose by more than 50 per cent in Q1 2017 compared to Q4 2016. The country accounted for 3.03 per cent of enquiries, its highest share in two years.
Interest also increased in Croatia, which climbed the Top of the Props charts to become the seventh most popular country on TheMoveChannel.com. This is the country’s first time inside the Top 15 since October 2016.
Demand dipped for property in Spain, although the country held on to second place, behind returning number one destination the USA. US real estate accounted for 7.89 per cent of all enquiries, ahead of Spain’s 6.01 per cent. France and Italy also saw their share of enquiries decrease slightly, slipping to eighth and ninth place in the Top of the Props table respectively. Portugal held on to its fourth spot, with 3.96 per cent of enquiries.
The coveted third place was stolen by Indonesia, which accounted for 5.98 per cent of activity. Indonesian interest was driven primarily by a resort on Gili Air, as the development tapped into rising demand for real estate from international investors. The more traditional safe haven of Germany, meanwhile, maintained its position in 10th place.
“The USA and Spain have been battling to be top dog on TheMoveChannel.com for a long time,” commented TheMoveChannel.com Director Dan Johnson. “With prices climbing and sentiment in the USA’s economy staying positive, America remains an attractive market for international buyers. Spain’s appeal is still strong, although with the UK triggering Article 50 in March, British buyers may have postponed any enquiries last month to wait and see how negotiations with the EU begin. With the country making up the three most-searched locations on TheMoveChannel.com in Q1 2017, however, international interest from a diverse range of nationalities evidently remains high.
“Foreign demand for Cypriot real estate is showing signs of strengthening again in 2017. Interest climbed in the final months of 2016, possibly fuelled by buyers racing to beat the deadline for a Capital Gains Tax incentive at the end of the year. Interest softened at the start of 2017, but enquiries have grown once more in March, without the impetus of the tax deadline. With prices bottoming out and climbing across almost all regions, according to multiple indices, conditions in the island’s market are certainly improving, which is beginning to bring back investors. The island’s Golden Visa scheme is also helping to drive recovering demand, with buyers on TheMoveChannel.com particularly interested in citizenship investment opportunities.”
Click here to see the full top 40 property destinations for March 2017.
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Construction Update: Beaumont Square set to welcome Plymouth students this September
by Charly United Kingdom Aspen Woolf
Brand new Beaumont Square residence set for completion in August 2017
Colossal £266 million investment programme set to transform Plymouth, will no doubt enhance its attraction to students (Aspen Woolf)
Investors benefit from an assured 3-year NET return of 8% as early as September, with students to move in for the upcoming academic year (Aspen Woolf)
With the current academic year nearing its exam led conclusion, students will be looking to their accommodation options for September. And with demand vastly outweighing supply, new and existing students will be keen to secure a spot for themselves.
As key university cities continue to attract thousands of students every year, it’s no surprise that many B2L investors are turning to Purpose Built Student Accommodation (PBSA). According to figures from HESA, the coastal set Plymouth University was home to 23,155 students in the 15/16 academic year alone. Highlighting an incredibly buoyant market for those investing in PBSA in the city.
To answer this ongoing demand, Oliver Ramsden Director of Aspen Woolf, leaders in providing wealth building opportunities for investors of all levels through property, is delighted to confirm that their brand new Beaumont Square accommodation will be ready for students to move in this September. He comments,
“Plymouth will be the location for a vast array of investment projects over the forthcoming months and years. The colossal £266 million investment programme set to transform the city centre, will no doubt enhance Plymouth’s attraction as a place for students to complete their studies.
“The greater number of students choosing Plymouth will in turn increase the number of student beds required, with PBSA emerging as the savvy investment option. With work on the internal walls of block B due to be complete by the end of next week, we are confident that our Beaumont Square residence is on track for completion as soon as August. Meaning students will be able to choose the luxury accommodation from September 2017.”
Located in an idyllic location, Beaumont Square is less than a mile away from Plymouth University, the bustling city centre and the beautiful harbour of this coastal city with prices starting from just £78,500 for the exclusive studio apartments.
Oliver continues,
“Those investing in Beaumont Square can benefit from an assured 3-year NET return of 8% as early as September, with completion of the development allowing students to move in for the upcoming academic year.”
Every apartment will be offered fully furnished to prospective student tenants and the building will benefit from high end hotel apartment style finishes. Residents will also be able to enjoy an array of additional facilities including a laundry room, staffed reception area and the security of 24-hour CCTV.
For more information, visit www.aspenwoolf.co.uk or contact Aspen Woolf on +44(0) 203 176 0060.
Q&A: Am I eligible to recover my lost off-plan funds in Spain?
by Charly Spain Costaluz Lawyers
Thousands of Brits are believed to have lost deposits put down on holiday homes in Spain over the last decade.
Dreams of owning a second property in the sunshine to enjoy holidays with family or retire to have turned sour, leaving many out of pocket by tens of thousands of pounds.
But hope is not lost, CostaLuz Lawyers, together with “the Erin Brockovich” of Spanish property, Keith Rule, are righting these wrongs having been the first to identify Spanish Law LEY 57/1968 and use it to successfully win over £10 million (€12 million) in lost deposits for their clients.
CostaLuz Lawyers has won almost 850 claims in total from Spanish property developers & banks, helping more than 1,500 clients from across the UK and Ireland as well as Spanish and European nationals.
Last week Maria Luisa de Castro, Founder & Director of CostaLuz Lawyers, secured £1 million from Caixabank for nine British families whose homes in Malaga were never delivered. Working alongside DeCastro’s legal team, CostaLuz Lawyers also has around 100 cases still pending outcomes in the Appeal Courts and more than 500 cases still in progress in the First Instance Courts.
If you paid a deposit on an off-plan property in Spain but did not receive a refund, read the below Q&A with Maria Luisa de Castro to see if you can claim:
Q: Am I eligible to recover my lost off-plan funds in Spain?
A: You are if:
You have a cancelled purchase contract, either by Court decision or by the Bankruptcy administrators of the developer
Your development was never started or finished on time according to the purchase contract and you have a Bank Guarantee
You do not have an individual bank Guarantee, but you do have a General Guarantee contract signed between developer and the bank
You completed on a property with no First Occupation License—in this case mortgage repayments are also recoverable
You have none of the above but you have copies of all off-plan payments made to the developer’s bank account. Even if you paid your off-plan deposit to a third party i.e. conveyancing Lawyer or Agent, it may be possible to obtain the evidence required on your behalf to enable the Lawsuit to be filed against the developer’s bank.
Q: What am I entitled to claim back?
A: You can claim all amounts paid off plan, plus legal interests normally from the payment dates. Legal costs may also be recoverable in some cases.
Q: Are banks actually paying this money back?
A: Yes, they are. Banks are solvent entities that must comply with the law. All banks with a firm court decision against them are refunding the claimants. Even if the developer’s bank no longer exists, action is still possible against the bank that has taken it over. For example in the Finca Parcs case the developer’s bank was Banco CAM which was taken over by Banco Sabadell so the action is now against Banco Sabadell.
Q: How safe is this action?
A: Supreme Court has already interpreted the full text of law 57/68 in favour of buyers/consumers, so the success rate is very high.
Q: Are banks settling out of court?
A: In a small number of cases Banks do offer settlement out of court, however this is normally only for the principal amount with no interest or costs.
Q: Does this apply if I bought more than one house?
A: It does, as long as you didn’t do so as part of your professional trade. It also applies if the contract mentioned these guarantees explicitly to secure the success of the business.
Q: Does it apply for commercial premises?
A: It does, if the guarantee was offered in the contract
For more information, please contact CostaLuz Lawyers’ UK office on +44 1908 635 111 and speak with Keith Rule. To speak with Maria in the Spanish office, please call +34 956 092 687 or you can visit www.costaluzlawyers.es.
Derelict to desirable: Regeneration breathes new life into Manchester’s Wilburn Basin
by Charly United Kingdom Surrenden Invest
Wilburn Basin offers investors an average price per sq ft 30% lower than similar developments (Surrenden Invest)
When complete Wilburn Basin will comprise four distinct blocks varying in height from 8 to 21 storeys (Surrenden Invest)
Phase one already complete and rented out and the second due this summer (Surrenden Invest)
It was only a short time ago that Manchester’s Wilburn Street Basin was nothing more than a neglected patch of wasteland. However, the area has recently experienced a radical transformation and is now home to a contemporary residential hub.
Surrenden Invest, a property consultancy at the forefront of this movement, believe Manchester’s thriving property market has led to areas outside the city centre undergoing significant redevelopment. Managing Director Jonathan Stephens explains,
“Areas of the city historically seen as outside the core are now providing investors with all the amenities and quality of prime central but at a much lower price point. The Wilburn Basin is the perfect example.
“Falling on the Salford side of the Irwell means that investors are looking at an average price per square foot that is 30% lower than similar developments within a couple of minutes’ walk.”
Wilburn Basin is a brand-new residence situated on the historic River Irwell Basin. It offers an attractive waterside setting to residents in the city centre, within a short walking distance of the central business district and its excellent array of shops and leisure facilities.
When complete Wilburn Basin will be comprised of four distinct blocks varying in height from 8 to 21 storeys which offer fantastic views across the city, setting a new benchmark for combining city centre living with high quality facilities and private amenity space.
Jonathan continues,
“Wilburn Basin is a project investors can go into with complete confidence with the first phase already complete and rented out, and the second phase completing this summer, whilst also benefitting from the experience and build quality of Manchester’s largest developer.
“This is an area earmarked for substantial capital growth and given the location, will be perfectly suited to take advantage of both Media City and the city centre.”
From just £165,000, all apartments are built to a high specification with Porcelanosa kitchens and Villeroy and Boch sanitaryware. Additional facilities include a private gym, cinema room, a ‘boutique’ hotel style reception with 24 hour concierge and a residents’ lounge. As well as architecturally landscaped gardens and courtyard.
For more information, visit www.surrendeninvest.com or contact Surrenden Invest on 0203 3726 499.
Sell your home faster this spring with these expert interior design tips!
Pay particular attention to neutralising colour schemes and brightening spaces
Remove all clutter – including pieces of furniture
Use soft furnishings and scents to stage your home like a show home
Spring is well known to be the best time of year to sell your home. In fact, research by US firm Zillow found that homes listed for sale between 1-15 May sell an average of 18.5 days faster than those listed outside of that time period, as well as achieving a 1% higher sale price.
For those planning to take advantage of the spring sales season, the experts at Alexander James Interior Design have shared their top 10 tips for selling your home faster through creative interior design.
“First impressions count when it comes to selling your home. Everything has to look, feel and even smell perfect in order to impress prospective buyers. It’s essential to give your home the best chance possible of attracting new owners and interior design can play a key part in that.”
Alexander James’ top 10 tips for selling your home this spring
1. Be your own critic
Start by casting a critical eye over your home yourself, picturing it through the eyes of a potential buyer. Try and think about the tastes and requirements of the type of person who might buy your home, whether it be a family of six or a couple without children. If it is a family home, you may gear your changes towards a family-friendly layout.
2. Repaint
A fresh coat of a neutral paint colour can work wonders. Use it where needed to cover up more controversial colours, which could put off potential buyers by restricting their vision for the property.
3. Flooring
If carpets look tired, tatty and threadbare, it’s a good idea to replace them, if your budget permits. At the very least, professional carpet cleaning can make a huge difference when it comes to brightening up a room.
4. Declutter
Make the most of every inch of drawer, cupboard and wardrobe space that you have by removing unnecessary clutter. This will open up the space and leave room for the imagination. If you have somewhere to store it, you can even remove two or three pieces of furniture from each room, to really show your home’s features and create a spacious feel. In the kitchen, clear away toasters and kettles to give a clean finish to the room.
5. De-personalise
You’ve likely spent years personalizing your home to perfection. Now it’s time to undo your hard work! Eliminate personal effects so that your home becomes a place where potential buyers are able to envision themselves living. In particular, replace photographs with more generic artwork.
6. Accessorise
Gently accessorise to make your property feel like a home. Use a soothing colour palette to allow one room to flow into the next, creating a cohesive feel. Adding fresh flowers injects colour and warmth to a room, while green plants can add a contemporary touch, creating a feature within a living space. High end magazines can be displayed on a coffee table for a homely effect.
7. Soft furnishings
Soft furnishings are important and the use of luxury brands can really make a difference. While the brands themselves are unlikely to be noticed by the potential buyer, the overall impact will be to add a quality effect. Any garish colours or worn cushions should be replaced, creating a home that the prospective new owners can feel a sense of pride in.
Homes should have bright lighting to awaken the buyer’s senses. Good lighting can make your home feel more spacious and enhance its features. It may be worth investing in some brighter light bulbs (but not so bright that rooms appear clinical!) for maximum impact.
9. Add fresh scents
Use beautiful scented candles and diffusers throughout the home, but most importantly in the living area, master bedroom and master bathroom. Studies have found that complex scents can distract a buyers thought process, so we recommend simple, fresh scents such as orange, lemon, pine, basil, cedar, vanilla and cinnamon.
10. Stage your home
Cast your eye over your home once more and stage it like a show home for every single viewing. There shouldn’t be a dirty teacup or overflowing basket of washing in sight! Staging your house like a show home will allow potential buyers to feel that it is a property they would be proud to own.
Spanish property interest hits three-year high
by Charly Portugal Spain The Move Channel
Spain takes top three most-searched locations
Malaga, Almeira and Tenerife most popular places in Spain
Portugal occupies eight out of top 50 property hotspots
Interest in Spanish property surged to a three-year high at the start of 2017, reveals TheMoveChannel.com’s latest Hotspots Index. The report, which charts the most searched-for locations on the international property portal, saw Malaga soar to first place in Q1 2017 – the first time Spain has ever ranked in the number one spot.
Malaga accounted for 4.01 per cent of all searches on the international portal in the first three months of 2017, climbing 18 positions from Q4 2016 to knock Italy’s Florence off its perch. This is the first time in 18 months that Italy has not topped TheMoveChannel.com’s Hotspots Index.
Almeria was the second most sought-after location on the site, with 3.56 per cent of searches, followed by Tenerife (3.40 per cent) and, down three places, Florence (2.63 per cent). Benidorm completed the top five with 2.53 per cent of searches. Indeed, Spain was home to eight out of the 10 most popular locations in Q1 2017, the highest percentage of the Top 10 ever held by a single country since Hotspots Index records began in Q4 2014. Spain was also responsible for 13 out of the Top 15.
Portugal was home to 8 of the Top 50, ahead of Italy (5) and France (3). Portugal’s most popular hotspots were Albufeira (14th), Cascais (18th) and Alvor (19th). Interest in Italy was fuelled by Florence (4th), Rome (8th) and Verona (27th). France’s most sought-after hotspot was Paris (15th), highlighting the capital’s importance as a magnet for romantic lifestyle buyers and a safe haven for wealthy investors.
Thailand’s Pattaya climbed two places in the chart, attracting the 16th biggest share of searches. Greece’s Athens was the 45th most popular hotspot, while the USA accounted for one hotspot: Detroit, ranked in 33rd.
Spain, though, dominated buyers’ wishlists at the start of the year. The country was home to 31 of TheMoveChannel.com’s Top 50 hotspots, more than double its share of the index in Q4 2016 and an all-time high for any country.
The figures follow Spain’s similar rise in TheMoveChannel.com’s latest Top of the Props report, which saw the country account for 14.02 per cent of all enquiries on the site in February 2016 – its largest share of activity since 2013. Indeed, new data from Spain’s Land Registry shows that sales of property increased 19 per cent in January year-on-year to reach the highest number of transactions since January four years ago.
“Spain is undoubtedly the flavour of the month,” says Dan Johnson, Director of TheMoveChannel.com. “Searches and enquiries are both at highs not seen for several years, showing that foreign buyers are actively seeking opportunities in Spain and are following through on those searches. Agents have reported a slowdown in enquiries from British buyers since the Brexit vote, but expat favourite Benidorm’s position in Q1’s Top 5 hotspots shows that there is still interest from the UK, despite the pound’s weakness against the euro.
“Foreign buyers are still drawn primarily to tourist hospots, such as the Costa Blanca and Malaga, where they are helping to drive property prices up. With Spain’s economy growing, though, business hubs such as Barcelona are also fuelling overseas demand. Spain’s housing market is still not recovering at the same rate across the whole country, but with property values starting to rebound, the promise of capital growth and the country’s timeless lifestyle appeal mean that Spanish real estate has rarely appeared so attractive.”
Click here to see the full Top 50 Hotspots on TheMoveChannel.com.
The ‘Erin Brockovich’ of Spanish property still fighting a decade later
by Charly Spain United Kingdom Costaluz Lawyers
Keith Rule uncovered Spanish Law LEY 57/1968 that allows banks to be held accountable for off-plan property deposits
In 2012 Finca Parcs Action Group and CostaLuz Lawyers win case against the bank resulting in a pay-out of almost €1.5 million
“With Brexit creating uncertainty, now is the time for investors to begin reclaiming what is rightfully theirs” (Keith Rule, CostaLuz Lawyers)
Back in 2006, Keith Rule, an ordinary man from Milton Keynes, decided to take the plunge and buy his dream holiday home in Spain. Like many other Brits at the time, Keith paid a deposit for the off-plan property to a Spanish developer. A substantial sum of €54,000.
However, his dream was short lived as he did not receive a bank guarantee. And when the developer fell behind on the build schedule and ultimately abandoned the project in 2009, Keith’s investment was at serious risk.
Taking matters into his own hands, Keith’s research led him to Spanish Law LEY 57/1968 in which he found what would become a key phrase in his fight for justice. Just three little words, ‘bajo su responsibilidad’, which means ‘under its responsibility’.
Keith believed that according to this law, the developer’s bank which received the off-plan deposits was responsible for issuing or verifying the existence of the guarantee.
In 2008, needing legal assistance in his quest to hold the bank accountable, Keith was turned away by several Spanish lawyers before contacting Maria de Castro of CostaLuz Lawyers.
Keith gathered a group of 46 other buyers who had invested in the same development, in the Spanish province of Albacete, to act against the developer’s bank. They were known as the Finca Parcs Action Group and in 2012, together with Maria, they won their case against the bank which resulted in a pay-out of almost €1.5 million plus interest & costs.
After this unprecedented success and landmark case, Maria asked Keith to join the CostaLuz Lawyers team in order to help others. Keith now works exclusively with CostaLuz Lawyers, operating the UK office and assisting thousands of other British, Irish and European nationals to recover off-plan deposits.
Dubbed “the Erin Brockovich” of Spanish off-plan property due to his pioneering work, Keith continues to help other buyers who undertake similar legal procedures.
“There are still a significant number of people that are yet to have their deposits returned to them. The Spanish legal system has definitely transformed over the last decade, in relation to allowing owners a high level of success with deposit reclaims, as more and more cases are being won and trust is beginning to grow. However, with the Brexit process creating a sense of uncertainty, now is the time for investors to ask for help and begin reclaiming what is rightfully theirs.”
Keith Rule, CostaLuz Lawyers
CostaLuz Lawyers has successfully won almost 850 claims in total from Spanish property developers & banks, helping more than 1,500 clients from across the UK and Ireland as well as Spanish and European nationals.
In addition, they have around 100 cases still pending outcomes in the Appeal Courts and more than 500 cases still in progress in the First Instance Courts.
For more information, please contact CostaLuz Lawyers’ UK office on +44 1908 635 111 and speak with Keith. To speak with Maria in the Spanish office, please call +34 956 092 687 or you can visit www.costaluzlawyers.es.
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The FA has confirmed that FC United’s FA Cup first round tie at Rochdale will be screened live on ESPN on Friday, November 5, kick off 7.45pm.
The club will receive £67,500 for the privilege of being put on a subscription TV channel on Bonfire Night.
The decision raises a host of issues for a club founded on principles opposed to matches being rearranged to suit the whims of television companies. It won’t sit right for many supporters, but a vote was carried at a general meeting back in 2006, when members (the club’s owners) voted to accept the terms and conditions of entering the FA Cup – namely that games may be moved for television.
The vote was quite unanimous, if I remember rightly, and therefore, although far from ideal and disgraceful that a fixture can be moved in this way, we can’t really complain as we democratically voted for it.
The fact that most of us thought it a remote possibility it would ever become an issue is irrelevant. In five years we have achieved a lot and on Friday, November 5 we have a great chance to hammer home our message.
We are probably the only club in the history of televised FA Cup first round coverage to even have a debate or vote on this issue. I’d bet every other club would bite the company’s hand off at the first sign of a cheque floating their way. And fair play to them, as they are mostly run on different agendas to FC United, with many struggling to survive. Rochdale will welcome the money and should we have kicked up a fuss we would have prevented them getting a much-needed boost too. Not to mention the small matter of FC raking in cash which is nearly the equivalent to our whole year’s budget in one match.
However, these factors don’t mean what is happening is right. We all know, and categorically agree, that football should be played at 3pm on a Saturday. Therefore let’s make the most of this unfortunate situation and leave people in no doubt as to what we stand for. Banners opposing television coverage, particularly Sky TV, Glazer, Thatcher, Tory cuts and other abhorrent menaces should be extremely prevalent alongside our usual celebratory efforts soaked in red, white and black. And of course, let’s promote our community share issue with gusto.
Those who will deride this notion as ‘distracting’ should give themselves a little pep talk. FC United is about more than winning football matches and more than the FA Cup. It’s about promoting a better way for football and helping give the game back to the people who started it and built it, before they were cast off in an act of social cleansing by greedy businessmen who used our loyalty and passion to make themselves a very big butty.
Furthermore, a team playing live on television without a sponsor soiling their shirts will make a huge statement that cannot be underestimated. It sends a most powerful message out to the thousands who will be watching. It will make them think, at the very least. The lack of corporate nonsense across our chests is what sets us apart from everyone else. It is something that should never be compromised, for whatever price or material gain.
Be proud, be loud and let’s continue the mancunian tradition of making something good out of a tricky situation. If we go out, let’s do it with a bang (we couldn’t have a piece on a match taking place on November 5th without at least one Bonfire-themed gag – forgive me, giddiness is setting in…)
midjmo says:
Club statement:
FA Cup v Rochdale. Date and Time Announcement
We would like to advise supporters that our FA Cup 1st Round Proper tie against Rochdale will take place on Friday 5th November, kick off 7.45pm
On the morning after our victory over Barrow (Monday 25th October), the Club was informed by Rochdale AFC that the FA had contacted them to say that ESPN had requested our game be shown live on their channel on the evening of Friday November 5th. Each club will be paid £67 500 for the game to be shown, a sum of money undoubtedly valuable to both clubs. We were asked by Rochdale if we had any opposition to the game being switched. It was reassuring to learn that such a switch is not enforced by broadcasters and that we had a choice, but nonetheless this presented us with an immediate decision to make.
We recognise that playing such a high-profile, important game on a Friday evening is not ideal, not least of all for those supporters who live outside of the Greater Manchester area. It is an unfortunate consequence of our democracy that any decision the Board takes will not always meet with the approval of every FC United supporter as there are a wide range of circumstances and opinions to take into account, not all of which can be represented by the final decision. However, by accepting this offer the Board feels they have acted in the best interests of the Club as a whole, both in the immediate and long term, as it increases awareness of what we’re doing in Newton Heath and removes some of the enormous pressures of running a football club whilst playing at Gigg Lane.
In reaching this decision the Board took into account a number of factors including the financial incentive, the impact on the team, the overriding goal of reaching Ten Acres Lane, and most of all the impact on supporters.
With these considerations in mind the crucial factor which guided the Board towards the final decision was the previously held members vote on FA Cup participation. At this meeting members voted for the Club to enter the FA Cup on the precondition that progression into the 1st round proper and beyond may invite offers to play our games live on television. It was the view of the Board that this ‘yes’ vote constituted a steer to consider this offer from ESPN. Of course we had the power to decline their offer, but in the absence of any overwhelming opposition when the issue was debated, the Board felt we had a mandate to accept.
The Board always strives to avoid making unilateral decisions and always acts in the interests and according to the wishes of its members. We believe we have again done so, but of course the beauty of our democratic structure ensures that if there is opposition to this decision then members can submit resolutions on future participation, votes can be taken and any future decision be influenced accordingly.
That democratic input should be cherished and held dear by all members, because as much as the decisions themselves it was the lack of a voice, a lack of an influence in decision-making that led to the disillusionment of many before our formation. FC United members will always have that voice and can therefore continue to make strategic decisions and dictate the direction of our club.
We would also like to advise supporters that Rochdale, mindful of the affect it may have on both clubs’ revenue, asked us if we had any opposition to prices being lowered from their usual prices of £20 for adults and £14 for concessions to £12 for adults, £8 for concessions and £5 for under 16’s. We had no hesitation in accepting this fantastic gesture, which helps us to meet our constitutional aim of providing affordable football for match going fans.
We hope that as many people as possible can make it to Spotland for what will be the biggest game in the Club’s history. Regardless of the result, the impact of this fantastic run in the FA Cup will be felt long after the final whistle on November 5th and evidenced in our onward march to Ten Acres Lane, Newton Heath.
The Board of FC United of Manchester.
jstand says:
There is a subtle but significant difference to FC Utd fans turning out on a Friday as there would be to, say, Manchester United season ticket holders asked to turn up at 1230 on a Sunday, both at the behest of television. And that difference is the final destination of the money. At United you turned out at daft times to see the team but knowing that the money paid to the club was going straight in the pockets of players and Directors. With this payment we have the satisfaction of knowing that every penny is ours and it will be used to further our Club’s aims. If every football club was run like ours then it would be absolutely fine for TV companies to pay decent money to move games because it’s a straightforward choice on the part of the members to accept the cash and improve the health of their club or don’t take the cash and play at 3pm on a Saturday. And that’s completely different to being told to like it or lump it. In other words Midjmo, your use of the word “disgraceful” is only relevant or fair because the majority of clubs and indeed football in general is run by cunts who are happy to fuck supporters about because it financially suits them.
Fair comment J. I wish it was 1986 again.
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While the other 7 finalist won bronze medals, Wyse Ebbah set another record of being the first to win a silver medal among Nigerian students
Established in 2004, the foundation aims at creating a mathematically enabling environment, which provides opportunities for all learners to develop to their fullest potential.
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X-Files Flashback: ‘The Blessing Way’
By Clarence Moye @chmoye Aug 25, 2015
Director: R.W. Goodwin
Writer: Chris Carter
Well, if ever there were a way to take “Anasazi” (The X-Files’ Season Two “cliffhanger”) and make it worse, then it would be add a dash of a Navajo healing ceremony, a tablespoon of a near-death journey for Mulder, and a heaping amount of mythology conspiracy. Then, underbake for forty-five minutes and call it “The Blessing Way.” Please take me back to the “monster of the week” shows – this mythology is killing me.
In a nutshell, “The Blessing Way” picks up where we left off with the mysterious government agents, allegedly responsible for Mulder’s death, hunting both him and the encrypted data of which he was in possession. Scully arrives to search for Mulder, but he is nowhere to be found. Believing him dead, she returns to headquarters to be stripped of her badge and placed on administrative leave (without pay, even). But, shock and awe, Mulder is not dead. Instead, he’s mysteriously buried under some rocks. Yes, folks, he was in a subterranean railroad car that was full-on napalmed but apparently survived long enough to hide himself under red rocks for safely.
The local Navajo Indians find him and begin to perform a traditional healing ceremony called “a Blessing Way” to bring him back to life. At one point, he was covered with leaves. I have no idea. Mulder’s spirit goes on a journey similar to Scully’s near-death experience where he reconnects with Deep Throat and his own father, one of them spouting some complete horse shit nonsense (the script is credited to Carter who clearly should never write poetry for dialogue) that convinces Mulder to turn away from the light. Where is Zelda Rubinstein when you need her?
Mulder returns to health, but Scully continues to suffer his absence. Her sister convinces Scully to undergo regressive hypnotherapy where she begins to recall her abduction. Later, she discovers a tiny microchip implanted just under the skin. Continuing her party week, she attends Mulder’s father’s funeral where, get this, she meets a man apparently called “the Well-Manicured Man” (a low-rent Sir Ian McKellen but just as dandy) who tells her “Scully, girl, you in danger!”
Ok, that may have been Whoopi Goldberg from Ghost, but you get the idea. She is in danger, but she wrongly assumes it’s from Assistant Director Skinner who actually wants to share the top secret data tape with her. The real danger comes from rouge Alex Krycek who shoots her sister, mistaking her for Scully. Guess sis wasn’t psychic after all? (Cue Nelson Muntz “HA HA.”) The episode ends with an unseen individual opening the door to Mulder’s apartment where Scully and Skinner are holding each other at gunpoint. To be continued… Again…
First the good stuff in “The Blessing Way.” Gillian Anderson proves herself the MVP of the series by allowing us to see the broken Dana Scully retreating to her mother for comfort. She even cries, which is a great moment for Anderson. And… that’s it. Someone close to me once told me that the mythology eventually overtakes the series, becoming so obtuse and annoying that people longed for the “monster of the week” outings. Count me as one of them. The worst news of the day is clearly there is at least one more of these episodes to go before I can cleanse myself of this journey into the banal. The Navajo ceremony was ridiculously staged and unnecessary – no fault to the actors, it’s Chris Carter’s foolhardy way of forcing mysticism into the mix. Then, if you want to take someone on a mystical journey of reflection and self-healing, then it’s clearly not David Duchovny. These mystical scenes of cheesy graphics with beds made of leaves often resemble modern cologne ads starring Brad Pitt (Fox Mulder’s OBSESSION… for truth.).
And the conspiracy theory lingers and doubles back on itself with the Smoking Man’s “consortium” revealing itself further, and the “Well-Manicured Man” helping Scully for no apparent reason. To me, these scenes are symptomatic of a show that badly needs to get out of his own asshole. I sound infuriated because, well, I am. The X-Files is capable of such amazing brilliance that to deliver these flat mythology-based episodes (particularly three in a row) feels like such a massive waste of time and effort.
Take me back to the Fluke Man or the moths that cocoon you – you can have this alien crap.
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Every day is a festival day at Swamithoppu temple. Apart from this, three Car festivals are conducted every year. Ayya’s birthday is also celebreated with great fanfare. The thiruedu vasippu is celebrated from seventeen consecutive days once in a year.
Daily Festival
The daily panividai starts very early in the morning. Everyday, around 3 O’ clock the Gurus and the people staying at the temple go to muthirikinaru and take a holy bath. Then, they return to the temple and start the panividai. The Gurus chant ugapadippu, and the devotees repeatit. Then, they open the door of sanctum sanctorum. It is considered sanctifying to witness this scene adidst the sounding of a dozen temple bells and conch. Then, there is the vahana pavani.
Vahana pavani comes around the temple and along the four car streets. The nithiyapal is prepared daily and offered to Ayya Vaikuntar. It was the only food Ayya ate when in human form at Swamithoppu. This offering is done daily without fail. The descendants of Podukutty, the first Guru of Gurugulam, prepare this daily at the temple. Thavanaipal, a gruel prepared with rice and green gram, is distributed to the devotees.The Noon panividai starts around 11 O’ clock. Daily utchipadippu is chanted. The devotees will repeat it and Thavanipal is distributed to the devotees. One Sundays, large number of people from far and near come over here to participate in the Utchipadippu.
In the evening, panividai starts around 5 O’ clock. The door of the sanctum sanctorum is opened amidst the sound of the temple bells and chankanatham. Then, the Guru would chant ugapaippu. Those who congregate for the evening panividai would repeat this. Then, there will be vahana panividai. The vahana is taken around the temple as well as the four car streets. After this, there will be annadhana. This is the daily routine of Swamithoppu temple. One can have darshan at any time of the day in this temple.
Car festivals are conducted thrice a year during the months of Avani, Thai and Vaikasi. The festival is celebrated for eleven days.
The festivals start on the first Friday of Avani and Thai. In Vaikasi, the festival starts on the second Friday of the month (last week of May and ends on the first week of June). The festival starts with the hoisting of the saffron coloured holy flag, early in the morning. The routine procedures of the festival are followed. In the evening, the Lord is carried around the temple and through the four car streets in a cradle vahana.
Guru Podukutty On the second day of the festival, the Lord is carried around the temple and through the four car streets in an English Chair vahana. On the third day of the festival a swan vahana, decorated with white flowers is used. The vahana for the fourth day of the festival is a chaparam. On the fifth day of the festival, another chaparam decorated in green colour is used. On the sixth day, the Lord is carried on a Naga vahana. On the seventh day, the vahana is Garuda. On this day, the Lord and the Vahana are decorated in red colour.
His followers go to nearby villages from the very first day of the festival up to the seventh day to get alms of paddy. The paddy is used for the annadharmam on the eight day as well as for the other requirements of the temple.
The eighth day of the festival is the most auspicious one for the devotes. On this day, Ayya Vaikuntar is taken around the temple and through the four car streets in the horse vahana; Then, the Lord is taken to muthirikinaru. Here, Ayya Vaikuntar hunts kali, the unseen enemy. A bow and arrow is used for this ceremony. Later, people drink the holy water from this well. Then, the Lord is taken on a procession to a few villages namely Chettivila, Sasthankovilvillai, Chottapanickan Therivillai and Kamarajapuram. The entire route wear a festive look on that day. People offer surul to the lord. On returning to Swamithoppu, the procession stops at Vadakuvasal and then begins the annadhanam.
On the ninth day of the festival, Ayya Vaikuntar is taken around in a Hanuman vahana. On the tenth day of the festival, Ayya Vaikuntar is mounted on Indra vahana. It is the heaviest vahana. Such a heavy Vahana is seen nowhere in the world. It has the look of a small temple car. On this day, the vahana panividai starts around midnight. The tenth day of the festival falls on Sunday, the most auspicious day for the devotees of Ayyavazhi. There will be a rush among the volunteers to carry these vahanas. People from every walk of life, rich or poor, educated or uneducated carry these vahanas.
The eleventh day is the Car festival. The temple car is decorated beautifully. Around 12O’ clock, the pulling of the car starts. The temple car is pulled through the four car streets. The temple car will come to rest around 5 O’ clock in the evening. These festivals attract thousands of people. Many prefer to stay at this holy place at least for a day during the festival times. Cultural programmes are conducted during the festival days.
Thiru Edu Vasippu
Edu vasippu is conducted during the months of Karthigai and Margali for seventeen days. It starts in the month of Karthigai and ends on the first Sunday of Margali. During these seventeen days, the holy book Akilathirattu is read out for a few hours from 4.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m., A learned man, an expert in the holy book Akilathirattu, explains what is read. This is the basic teaching of Ayyavazhi. The last day is called and pattabishekam. There will be large number of devotees to hear this Edu Vasippu.
Vaikuntar’s Birthday
Ayya Vaikuntar’s birthday is celebrated on 20th Masi with great fanfare. Ayya Vaikuntar was released from jail on 19th of Masi. Processions are conducted from Tiruchendur as well as from Thiruvananthapuram to commemorate the birth of Lord Vaikuntar and the day he was released from the jail.
Tiruchendur and Trivananthapuram Processions
On the 19th of Masi, People from Kanyakumari, Nellai Kattabomman and V.O.C. Districts, Theni, Vathalagundu and Madras assemble at Thiruchandur. Around 8 O’ clock, people walk towards the sea under the leadership of a Guru from Swamithoppu. They take a holy dip in the sea. The Guru applies namam on everybody’s forehead. The procession starts around 9 O’ clock chanting “Ayya siva siva arakara arakara”. More than fifty vehicles participate in the procession every year.
The procession goes through Seerkatchi, Nainarpathu, Udankudi, Chettiarpathu, Theiyoor, Santhayadi, Kottankadu, Muthukrishnapuram, Padukapathu, Thattar madam, Thisayanvillai and reaches Erumaikulam at noon. Here, the people participate in annadhanam. The, the procession starts from here and travels through Ayankulam, Karaichuthupudur, Koodankulam, Chettikulam, Chalaipudur, Avaraikulam, Ambalavanapuram, Aralvaimozhi, Thovalai and reaches Athalavilai.
The procession from Thiruvananthapuram also reaches Athalavilai. Large number of people from Kerala participate in the procession. This is also Vehicle procession. The procession passes through the towns of Balaramapura, Parasala, Kaliyakavilai, Marthandam and Thuckalay and finally reaches Athalavilai around 6.30 p.m. Vaikunta jyothi is lighted on the top of a hillock called as Vaikuntamalai at Athalavilai. Then, the procession proceeds to Nagercoil. At Nagercoil, the procession foes around the town which is called as nager valam.
A religious conference is conducted at Nagercoil. Eminent Persons participate in the conference. People from different villages come over and stay here over night.
Masi Procession
On the next day, that is, the 20th of Masi, the procession begins early in the morning. A Guru of the Swamithoppu gurukulam will lead the procession. More than twenty thousand people particpate in the procession chanting ayya siva siva arakara arakara. The participants will hold a saffron flag in their hands and walk towards Swamithoppu. Decorated elephants and horses also participate in the procession.
The procession goes towards Swamithoppu, via Edalakudi, Suchindrum, Vazukamparai, Ethankadu and North Thamaraikulam. People welcome the procession and garland the leader on the way. The procession reaches Swamithoppu around 12 O’ Clock and go to the muthirikinaru first and then through the four car streets.
Later, the procession goes around the temple. Before entering the temple, the people hand over the flags at the temple. In the evening, there will be vahana panividai and annadharamam etc. Elocution competition is held for school children in the night. Then, a grand gala meeting is held. Eminent Personalities of Tamil Nadu and Kerala irrespective of their religion participate in it.
In the earlier years, a Souvenir was brought out to commemorate Ayya Vaikuntar’s birthday. It was done during the period of Ayya Balakrishna Nadar and Krishnamony Nadar. It was later discontinued.
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Gold Ring Featuring an Abbasid Gold Coin - FJ.5912
Origin: Found in Jerusalem
Circa: 700 AD to 800 AD
Collection: Coin Jewelry
Style: Islamic Coin Rings
Medium: Gold
This genuine Ancient Islamic gold coin has been mounted in a modern 18 karat gold ring.
The Abbasid Dynasty was an Arab family legendarily descended from Abbas, the uncle of Muhammad. The Abbasids held the caliphate from 749 to 1258. Under the Umayyad caliphs, the Abbasids lived quietly until they became involved in numerous disputes, beginning early in the 8th Century. The family then joined with the Shiite faction in opposing the Umayyads, and in 747 the gifted Abu Muslim united most of the empire in revolt against the Umayyads. The head of the Abbasid family became caliph as Abu al- Abbas as-Saffah late in 749. Under the second Abbasid caliph, called al-Mansur, the capital was moved from Damascus to Baghdad, and Persian influence grew strong in the empire. The early years of Abbasid rule were a veritable golden age, rising to true splendor under Harun al- Rashid and to intellectual brilliance under his son al-Mamun. After less than a hundred years of rule, however, the slow decline of the Abbasids began. Long periods of disorder were marked by assassinations, depositions, control by Turkish soldiers, and other disturbances. In 836, the capital was transferred to Samarra, remaining there until 892. Under the later Abbasids, the power of the caliphate became chiefly spiritual. Many independent kingdoms sprang up, and the empire split into autonomous units. The Seljuk Turks came to hold the real power at Baghdad. Later their power dwindled even further, and, in 1258, Baghdad was burned by the Tatars. From then until 1517 the Abbasids retained limited power as caliphs of Egypt.
The gold of the ring and the gold of the coin both complement each other. Together, the two hues merge into a lustrous splendor of precious metal. The sides of the ring have been engraved with a decorative stylized palmette pattern that echoes the intricate molding of the ring and the sinuous lines of the cufic text. To wear this ring is to reconnect with the brilliance of the early Abbasid Dynasty in all its glory. - (FJ.5912)
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Single molecule's electric charges seen in first image
Researchers have shown off the first images of the "charge distribution" in a single molecule, showing an intricate dance of electrons at tiny scales.
Charges on single atoms have been measured before, but capturing the dance within a complex molecule is significantly more difficult.
The pioneering measurement could shed light on a range of "charge-transfer" processes that are common in nature.
Details are reported in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
The work comes from a group at IBM Research Zurich that specialises in examining the world at the infinitesimal scale of atoms and molecules.
The same team is responsible for the measurement of charge on single atoms, as well as the first image of a single molecule - in a sense the new work is a combination of those two views.
However, it makes use of a different technique, called Kelvin probe microscopy. It is a variant of the atomic force microscopy that allowed the first molecular image in 2009.
It requires a tiny bar just billionths of a metre across and with a sharp tip that ends in a single small molecule. This bar, or cantilever, is held at a small voltage while it is scanned across the surface of a much larger, X-shaped molecule, naphthalocyanine.
As the charged tip encounters charges within the naphthalocyanine, the cantilever begins wagging in a way that shows up precisely where the electrons are.
The trick of naphthalocyanine, though, is that by applying a voltage to the molecule directly, two hydrogen atoms at its centre swap places, and the electrons reshuffle to opposite arms of the "X".
With the team's technique, they were able to observe this change in charge distribution.
In combination with more established techniques, the approach will shed light on the nanoscale world that is promising not only for fundamental science, but also for future applications in which electric behaviour at such scales will be exploited.
"It will now be possible to investigate at the single-molecule level how charge is redistributed when individual chemical bonds are formed between atoms and molecules on surfaces," said lead author of the research Fabian Mohn.
"This is essential as we seek to build atomic and molecular scale devices."
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D.A. Arrests Another Priest, But Won't Arrest Or Charge Msgr. Lynn
By Ralph Cipriano
for Bigtrial.net
District Attorney Seth Williams announced the arrest this morning of another Roman Catholic priest, charging Father Robert L. Brennan with rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and aggravated indecent assault.
Father Brennan, 75, a known abuser with 20 previous alleged victims, was charged with sexually assaulting an altar boy between 1998 and 2001, when the latest victim was between 11 and 14 years old. The altar boy was allegedly assaulted at Resurrection of Our Lord Parish in Northeast Philadelphia, where Father Brennan served as assistant pastor. The crimes, according to the D.A., supposedly took place in the church sacristy, the priest's bedroom in the church rectory, a storage area on parish property, and in a movie theater.
The victim in this case, now 26, came forward in January 2013, six months after a jury convicted Msgr. William J. Lynn of endangering the welfare of a child. The D.A. said the latest victim was inspired by the Lynn verdict. Lynn was the first Catholic administrator in the country to go to jail for failing to adequately supervise sexually abusive priests. The allegations in the new arrest are eerily similar to the Billy Doe case.
Meanwhile, D.A. Williams used the press conference to again attack Msgr. Lynn for not reigning in abusive priests. But when push came to shove, Williams said his office had declined to indict Lynn on another child endangerment charge, because the crime in this latest case missed the statute of limitations by 3 months.
With that statement, the district attorney abruptly reversed the course of his self-described "historic" prosecution of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. In the original indictment of Msgr. Lynn, the D.A. missed the statute of limitations by 9 years in the case of one alleged 14-year-old victim, Mark Bukwowski, but that didn't stop Williams from prosecuting Lynn for endangering the welfare of a child. So why did the D.A. decline to indict Lynn this time?
If you listen to the lawyers on the other side of the Lynn case, the district attorney chickened out because he fears his conviction of the monsignor is about to be reversed by an appeals court.
"This is an excuse; that's all it is," said Thomas A. Bergstrom, Lynn's lawyer, when told of the district attorney's comments. The district attorney, Bergstrom said, didn't indict Lynn for child endangerment because he knows he can't legally do it.
The D.A.'s decision to prosecute Lynn for endangering the welfare of a child was a prime topic during oral arguments last week in the appeal of Msgr. Lynn in Superior Court. Bergstrom argued that the district attorney could not legally prosecute Lynn under the state's original 1972 child endangerment law because the law requires the perpetrator to knowingly endanger the welfare of a child. Lynn didn't even know Billy Doe.
Also, the 1972 child endangerment law was typically applied in nearly 300 cases to parents, guardians and teachers. The D.A. prosecuted Lynn after the fact under the terms of a 2007 amended child endangerment law changed to specifically include supervisors such as Lynn, Bergstrom argued. Besides Lynn, no other supervisor in Pennsylvania has ever been charged with child endangerment.
"If that's not a bugle call of retreat, I don't know what is," said another defense lawyer in the case who asked to remain anonymous.
In 2010, Msgr. Lynn was charged with endangering the welfare of children [EWOC] because of Father James J. Brennan's alleged attempted rape in 1996 of 14-year-old Mark Bukowski. [Fathers James J. Brennan and Robert L. Brennan are not related.]
The law in effect at the time said that Pennsylvania residents had until two years after their 18th birthday to file EWOC charges. Bukowski turned 18 on Sept. 23, 1999, meaning that the Commonwealth had until September 2001 to file the EWOC charges. By filing the charges in 2010, the Commonwealth missed the statute of limitations by 9 years.
The district attorney, however, argued at the time that Father James J. Brennan had been engaged in a "continuing course of conduct" that began when the priest was "grooming" Bukowski and went on for 10 years, ending in 2006, when Father James J. Brennan was removed from ministry.
The "continuing course of conduct" argument flowed from two conspiracy to endanger the welfare of children charges that supposedly linked Msgr. Lynn to Father James J. Brennan. The allegation of the district attorney at the Lynn trial was that Lynn and Brennan had somehow conspired to keep Brennan in ministry so that Brennan could harm more children. No evidence of the alleged conspiracy, however, was presented at trial. Even pro-prosecution Judge M. Teresa Sarmina figured out there was no "there" there, and so after the prosecution rested its case, she tossed the two conspiracy charges as unproven.
A jury was left to decide two charges against Father James J. Brennan; EWOC and an attempted rape of Bukowski. The jury announced they were deadlocked on both charges on June 22, 2012, after 13 days of deliberation. The case against Father James J. Brennan is scheduled to be retried on Oct. 21.
At his press conference today, D.A. Williams began by warning that some of what he had to say would not be G-rated.
Father Robert L. Brennan "is accused of digitally penetrating the boy's anus, beginning when the victim was in the sixth grade. He [Brennan] later began forcing the boy to perform oral sex on him," Williams said.
Brennan, who now lives in Maryland, was arrested by Perryville, Maryland, police on Sept. 25th. He was expected to go before a judge today for an extradition hearing, the district attorney said.
"A serial abuser is now behind bars thanks to the brave actions of this young man," Williams said of the alleged victim. "It takes tremendous courage for any sexual assault victim to come forward and report the horrors he or she endured."
Williams then turned his attention to Msgr. Lynn.
"The case of Robert Brennan presents another instance of abuse under the watch of Msgr. Lynn, secretary of clergy under Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua," Williams said. "The actions Lynn took to shield predator priests from exposure and prosecution led to the victimization of untold numbers of Philadelphia area children."
Father Robert L. Brennan's duties have been restricted since the 2005 grand jury report that said that "Brennan had sexually or inappropriately touched more than 20 boys," Williams said. "Most of the complaints were based on the observation of archdiocese employees, fellow priests, principals and rectory workers. But the priest's archdiocese supervisors ignored these reports for over a decade."
"Evidence of misconduct by Brennan dates back to at least 1990 and 1991," Williams said, "when the principal of St. Pius X High School and the principal of the parish school at St. Mary's in Schwenksville raised concerns about Brennan's improper behavior with numerous students."
Archdiocese officials removed Father Brennan from St. Mary's in 1992, "only after the mother of a seventh grade altar boy complained that Brennan had touched her son inappropriately and forced him to sit on the priest's lap," the district attorney said.
After the complaint, however, Lynn recommended that Father Brennan be recycled to Resurrection of Our Lord Parish, Williams said. Even though doctors had warned that Brennan had exhibited evidence of pedophilia, and had a recurring behavior pattern that "presents future risk," Williams said.
When he appeared before the grand jury, Bishop Edward Cullen "acknowledged that assigning Brennan to Resurrection without restrictions "endangered the parish's children," Williams said.
"According to the grand jury's findings, Brennan continued to exhibit at Resurrection of Our Lord the same sexually abusive behavior toward adolescent boys that principals at St. Mary's and St. Pius X had previously reported," Williams said.
"Two years before the incidents with which Brennan is now charged, the pastor at Resurrection reported to Secretary for Clergy Lynn that the rectory staff had observed Brennan inappropriately touching and wrestling with several adolescent boys in the sacristy and the rectory," Williams said. "Still, Lynn did nothing. He did not recommend removing the priest from his position, and Brennan continued as assistant pastor ... In that capacity he met, supervised and abused the victim who has now come forward."
"Lynn never reported to law enforcement any, any of the many allegations he heard about Brennan," the district attorney said. "Some of Brennan's victims testified before the grand jury; others have come forward since to describe how he [Brennan] molested and sexually assaulted them."
"Yet these victims were unable to press charges because the crimes fell outside the statute of limitations," Williams said. "Thus, with the assistance of Lynn and others in the archdiocese, Brennan until today escaped prosecution for his decades-long sexual abuse of boys whom he encountered as a priest."
"Despite the applicability of the endangerment statute to Lynn and other archdiocese managers for this current victim, they are not being charged today," Williams said, "because this victim's age puts his allegations three months beyond criminal statute of limitations for endangering the welfare of a child. Only the sexual assault crimes by Brennan himself, which carry a longer statute of limitations, can be prosecuted."
After he gave his prepared remarks, Williams refused to answer any questions from this reporter, saying only, "Have a nice day."
First of all, I question the timing of this arrest - on the heels of the September 17th Superior Court questioning and shortly before the November DA election.
If any Grand Jury actions took place, I wonder if the DA's office is going to publicize them on the internet for perpetuity as they've brazenly done with Sorensen's faulty work.
Question this all you like.
Are you too "confused" as Chaput stated yesterday of catholics.
Maybe if you read the charges, pray over them, and then reread them they maybe different.
No Dennis - I'm not confused. BTW - I noticed in the picture that the 'Cheshire Cat' was not smiling this time.
James September 26, 2013 at 9:13 PM
Do they have all their facts in order or are they grasping at straws in order to put another priest in jail? Or will the case be referred to Sarmina/Ceisler?
neilallen76 September 27, 2013 at 12:19 PM
Grasping at straws?
Brennan is just one of the 63 priests in the Philly grand jury report and the 169 priests that have been accused since 1967.
You keep defending your organized pedophile cult for your god, and prepare for judgment day with the real God, who will not forgive you.
Dennis - no, I'm not confused.
I noticed that the 'Cheshire Cat' was not smiling in this picture.
Ralph, are the above words wishful thinking from you or a quote from someone else ?
... and once again we see another anonymous individual speaking. What' the big secret. Is there not enough anonymous on the blog.
People are really beginning to doubt them all, but I say you would not step that low. Prove me right Ralph !
Wow! To James: "Grasping at straws"? Have you read Fr. Brennan's history? He should have been arrested much earlier, I don't see any thing farfetched about this at all. And I don't care personally if Seth Williams has another agenda or not. A guilty priest accused of molestation 20 or so times being taken off the streets and behind bars...Isn't that the REAL victory here? Where are your priorities? smh...
Catholic cult members will defend their pedophile priests no matter what. They are still trying to get Lynn out of jail, even though Lynn TESTIFIED that he destroyed evidence about 35 known pedophile priests in 1994.
The goal of the Catholic church is to get away with evil.
bigtrial.net September 27, 2013 at 1:20 PM
Totally untrue. The cardinal ordered two underlings to destroy those files, both of whom are now bishops. You are misinformed.
skiadvocat September 27, 2013 at 1:40 PM
Ralph, and where is the outrage regarding those two bishops?
Neil Allen is Patrick O'Malley and 617Patrick-his comments are hateful and over the top ignorant. He ignores any facts and is banned eventually from where he comments. His venom is putrid.
I've written many times about those two archbishops, both on this blog, and the priestabusetrial.com blog, and also in National Catholic Reporter. It is outrageous that they were never dragged into this and made to answer for their actions, but this DA gave them a pass.
I meant bishops, as in Cullen and Cistone; still at large.
I am here to tell you that we are the lucky diocese that gained the culprit Bishop Joseph Cistone, which is the Saginaw Diocese of Michigan. As soon as he got here, he implemented a two-year "Planning Tomorrow's Parishes" agenda, which now has resulted in reducing our number of parishes from 109 down to 56 over the next couple of years. Most if not all of the parishes were solvent, did not want to be closed, and had cash in the bank (some had loads of cash upwards of 250K and up). And believe me, the people here are either ignorant of his involvement in the sex abuse coverups, or totally enraged. But we can't get the concrete links that he's liquidating our parishes to pay for his civil ligitation fees. So many of us here would love to get rid of him, but how???
Yes, if he did what he is accused of, then Brennan should be thrown in jail for life
But what about Lynn, Engelhardt, and Shero - 3 innocent men sitting in jail all because Williams/Ceisler/Sarmina/Hughes want their pound of flesh from the Catholic Church.
I would love to see these 4 show this same vengeance towards those sitting in City Hall, but thats OK because due to their criminal behavior a buliding collapsed and "only a few" people died.
Read Chaput's comments about getting information from the mass media - he said it best
I wonder how many Victims brennan abused ?
Obviously, one is TOO many, but I know you know that. As re: to Lynn, laws aside, is he innocent of not protecting children? Just don't understand how the words innocent and Lynn go together...Can someone explain why it is OK that he did not protect our children, but instead accelerated abuse by switching suspected abusers to other parishes? Please, I really need to know why...
Its first protect the money, second protect the collar. Protect the children while in their care comes on NO list at all.
Maybe some catholics are "CONFUSED. Confused between what is right or wrong.
It has to be spelled out that their priests cannot send an abusive priest near children so he can orally abuse or sodomize children.
Parents who allow their children to be around ANY priest unsupervised is only spinning the wheel hoping that it does not come up on ABUSE.
The church was out to protect an image, now look at it.
The only problem is he is in jail on a charge related to assaults that didnt happen, I don't in any way condone any action or inaction he might have shown in his role as the head of clergy. BUT Billy Doe/aka Danny or "Daniel Gallagher" as his brother referred to him in his so called letter of support (the brother who has never shown his face to support his brother in 4 1/2 years) was never assaulted, never held for 5 hours nor for 5 minutes by those men, the story is a total fabrication. Oh, and the reason for the brother's ignoring the supoena, his reason for not going near that courtroom is he is now a lawyer, he doesn't want to perjure himself to support his con artist brother, Danny at the risk of his license.
Put Lynn in jail for a legitimate case, not an orchestrated set of lies. I have absolutely no problem with that
“…Bevilacqua testified before the grand jury that he considered Brennan’s problems “innocuous-sounding boundary issues….”
Was the late Cardinal’s understanding here based on his Canon Law Degree perspective or his Civil Law Degree perspective?
Will be interesting to see how many stories this individual has. See it if can beat the number Danny Gallagher threw out to the DA's office and courts.
What will the papers refer to this victim as - Billy Doe II, Billy Doe Jr., or will a man in his 20s have the guts to put his name and face out there and broadcasted all over by the the media like everyone else (i.e the accused) when a criminal accusation is made?
I can't believe this. So you are going to bash this victim now? Why? What is the purpose? Have you heard his account already? Do you know or care how hard it is for a victim to come forward. Statements such as yours, Anonymous 2:19 pm, must give you a clue. It must be like being stoned to death. Obviously, this Fr. Brennan was not guilty in your eyes? If you have facts of his innocence before this trial, please share. So many on the blog say that people are out to accuse someone just because he's a Catholic Priest. Your comment indicates that there are people out to accuse ANY victim of priest abuse. Shame on you! I truly hope that you are not denying that it EVER happened in the history of the church.
Whatever his reasoning for coming forward at this time is his own. I am saying that he should not be allowed to hide behind i.e. Billy Doe. If it was a minor alleging the abuse then I have no problem with keeping their identity hidden. Not for an adult who 8 years later has decided to step forward. His name should be included in all articles with Brennan's. This goes to the last two trials where the defendant was able to hide his identity. Daniel Gallagher, the son of James Sr. and Sheila, was able to keep his family's name and reputation hidden. Meanwhile the defendants were splattered all over the media for years. Their names and reputations dragged through the mud. Guess you think it would result in fair trials. Danny and his family were able to keep their secret hidden and out of the media. Have to wonder what would have happened or who may have stepped forward after hearing who the DA's star witness was. How many people did Danny Gallagher steal from over the years? It's guaranteed that he stole from his parents. They seem to have forgiven them as I am sure they have gotten some of the cash that Danny has already received for his faithful service to the DA. Think Seth and ADA's Evangelina Manos and Cipoletti got a little bonus from Danny too?
forgot to list ADA Patrick Blessington
And you hide behind anonymous !!
I'm sorry, I like to go by Bam
Oh, so you are going back to bashing Billy Doe, which I guess that you are saving some energy on the new victim, whom nothing public has been told about him yet. I can't wait to hear what you will say about him. Obviously, your children have never been a victim of sexual abuse, and you have no idea who hard it would be to come forward. Please don't judge him before we his account. That's all I am hoping that you will do...
This from an expert on child abuse who posts as anonymous.
And by the way Billy Doe has a name - Daniel Gallagher.
when the star witness in the most recently concluded trial openly testifies that he was referred to his civil attorney by the DA's office, one might be a bit skeptical about the validity of the accusations when the DA"s office is helping that alleged victim in his quest for monies in the civil case.
Anonymous, 2:34 on 9-28, the billy doe/danny gallagher case was a fraud, unfortunately unlike others that might have been abused at the hands of clergy or others in this community in positions of authority in the past, Daniel Gallagher is no abuse victim and many individuals from that DA's office, current and former know that is the truth.
Maria6789 October 1, 2013 at 12:20 AM
The DA complains that Lynn never reported any allegations to the police, but then admits "Yet these victims were unable to press charges because the crimes fell outside the statute of limitations,"
Are we supposed to believe the DA would have given Lynn a medal for reported allegations the police could do nothing about because of the SOL?
God bless the witness that recently came forward and had Fr. Brennan arrested. I mourn his death and his family's suffering. A very accurate quote from an Editor from Catholics 4 Change: We extend our prayers and sympathy to the victim’s family. Child sex abuse continues to shatter lives long after the crime takes place.
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According to the Migraine Research Foundation, migraines are the 3rd most prevalent illness in the world, with nearly 1 in 4 U.S. households having a person who suffers from migraines.
“Zyclear takes a different approach to relieving migraines,” said Mitch Pelavin, President and Founder of Magnesium Direct, the makers of Zyclear. “Most people don’t realize that hospital emergency rooms often give migraine patients an IV that contains magnesium. But taking magnesium at home rarely works because oral forms of magnesium, such as pills, are poorly absorbed by the body and have little effect on migraines. Zyclear was created to solve this problem. Zyclear is made from a special form of liquid magnesium that is applied to the back of the neck and absorbs through the skin, making it highly effective.”
About Zyclear Migraine Relief
Zyclear Migraine Relief is a new solution for the millions of suffering migraineurs in America. The creators of Zyclear have taken an innovative approach to solving a problem that afflicts nearly 1 in 4 U.S. households. Zyclear is applied to the back of the neck for rapid relief. The pocket-sized applicator bottle enables quick and accurate application. Visit the official website at https://www.zyclear.com for more information.
About The Women's Choice Award
The Women’s Choice Award sets the standard for helping women to make smarter purchasing choices. The company and its awards identify the brands, products and services that are most recommended and trusted by women. Additionally, they recognize those that deliver a recommendation-worthy customer experience. Awards are based on surveys of thousands of women, as well as research conducted in partnership with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. As the trusted referral source for women, WomenCertified Inc., home of the Women’s Choice Award, created the first national award based on the ratings and preferences of women. Visit the official website at http://www.WomensChoiceAward.com to learn more.
Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/08/prweb14606074.htm.
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Nestled in the fringes of the Hunter Valley just 25 minutes from Newcastle, the contemporary master planned community of Cliftleigh Meadows will facilitate a modern family lifestyle.
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Cliftleigh Meadows has a rising economy and property market, having benefited from major new projects in the city and the nearby Hunter region.
The city has delivered solid capital growth over the past three years and in the past 12 months several Newcastle suburbs recorded double-digit median price growth.
Key projects keeping the Newcastle economy strong include the CBD revitalisation, residential construction, upgrades to transport infrastructure and expansion of the Newcastle port.
Newcastle is already the world’s biggest coal export port and major upgrades to export facilities occur regularly. A $1 billion upgrade to the Newcastle Airport and RAAF Base is under way.
The city presents an appealing formula for property investors: affordable prices, an overall solid growth record and major impetus from economic activity in and around the city.
Despite the perception that the mining sector has deteriorated, the coal industry is an essential pillar in the Hunter Valley. In 2015, the mining sector supported 3,400 businesses and spent $3.4 billion on goods and services.
There are upgrades to transport infrastructure impacting on Newcastle and the Hunter region. These include upgrades to the rail system between Gunnedah and Maitland, near Newcastle.
Port of Newcastle
The ongoing expansion of facilities is significant for the region’s economy. It is expected that the port’s coal-loading capacity will triple once the expansions
are completed. Current and future expansions entail investment totalling about $9 billion.
Newcastle Airport
Stage one of the $80 million terminal expansion, including a new arrivals hall with dedicated customs, immigration and quarantine facilities, was opened in February 2015. The new facilities have paved the way for international flights.
Key projections for the university over the coming decade include increasing its students to 40,000, making it one of the top three regional universities in Australia.
Construction has been completed on the $95 million NewSpace campus, with the NSW Government contributing $25 million towards the cost.
RAAF Base
One of the squadrons created by the Federal Government’s $12 billion purchase of F-35A 58 Joint Strike Fighters will be based at Williamtown. Its facilities will undergo a $1 billion upgrade to accommodate the F-35As with maintenance on the planes creating an extra 250 jobs.
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The autobiography of the Three-Times World Speedway Champion
Following in his late father’s footsteps, Tai Woffinden made his name as Britain’s most successful speedway rider ever. Known for his speed on the tracks and his quirky tattoos, he is a popular figure within the sport and beyond it. With a vast array of titles to his name, including youngest ever Grand Prix World Champion, achieved at the age of twenty-three, Tai has come a long way from his Scunthorpe roots. His love affair with speedway began when his family emigrated to Australia while he was a child, where he became a local champion while still at school. He has not been without his share of struggles, however. In 2010, he lost his father, the popular speedway rider Rob Woffinden, to cancer, which, combined with issues within his team, resulted in a difficult season. Then, in 2019, during his defence of his World Championship, he crashed heavily during a race in Poland and was badly injured, breaking his back. Such setbacks do not keep true champions down for long, however – Tai will be back, to dazzle his thousands of fans with his unique combination of flamboyant skill and raw courage.
Told with his trademark honesty and directness, his autobiography provides an eye-opening insight into the life of one of speedway’s greatest talents and most beloved stars.
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Nineteen-year-old Emily is new to pairs skating, but she and her partner Chris have a big dream–to be the first American team to win Olympic gold. Their young coach Sergei, who left Russia after a mysterious end to his skating career, believes they can break through and make history.
Emily and Chris are on track to be top contenders at the 2002 Winter Games. But when forbidden feelings spark between Emily and Sergei, broken trust and an unexpected enemy threaten to derail Emily's dreams of gold.
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When not working or writing, she is an avid follower of the sport of figure skating, travelling to competitions around the country. Those experiences allow her to see another side of the sport and serve as an inspiration for her writing.
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Whitecaps defeat YD For First Victory
BREWSTER, Mass. Whitecaps defeat YD For First Victory
Aaron Soto (Tennessee) fired 6.1 innings of three-run ball for the Whitecaps and the offense exploded behind him to propel the Whitecaps to an 11-6 win over the YD-Red Sox. The Whitecaps move to 1-1 on the year with the victory.
The Whitecaps jumped out to an early 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning. Matt Davis led off the inning with a stand-up double to the gap in right center field. Logan Warmoth (UNC) ripped an RBI single into right field to bring the run around.
The Caps added to their lead in the bottom of the second as they exploded for five rums off opposing pitcher Michael Baumann. Colby Maiola and Brett Langhorne worked walks to open the inning, and then Kekai Rios ripped a grounder up the middle to score Maiola and make it a 2-0 lead. After another walk, Nick Dunn sent an RBI single into left to score Langhorne and tack on another run. The Caps would score another three runs in the inning to jump out to a 6-0 lead after two innings.
The Whitecaps added runs in the third, fourth and fifth in order to jump out to an 11-0 lead. Dunn added an RBI single in the 3rd, Maiola ripped an RBI single to right to score Noda in the fourth and Ryan Noda ripped a two run home-run over the right field fence to give the Caps the 11-0 lead.
YD was not ready to quit after five, as Deon Stafford ripped a three-run homer to right to put YD on the board and cut the Caps lead to 11-3. Nolan Brown ripped an RBI single to right adding another run for YD and making the score 11-4.
The Red Sox showed signs of life in the seventh as well, adding two more runs in the seventh and cutting the lead to 11-6. Hansen Butler (UNC) tossed a scoreless eight for the Caps and Vince Arobio fired a scoreless ninth to secure the victory for the Whitecaps.
The Whitecaps return to action tomorrow, June 13 as they face the Chatham Anglers at 5 p.m. at Stony Brook Field.
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Manuring for pepper vines is to be done in basins taken around the plant, 10-15 cm deep and 30-40 cm radius, depending upon the growth of the plants. Apply cattle manure / compost / green leaves at the rate of 10 kg / plant / annum, just at the onset of southwest monsoon and cover lightly with soil. It is desirable to apply lime at the rate of 500 g/vine in April-May, with the receipt of pre-monsoon showers, in alternate years.
Recommended nutrient dosage for pepper (3 years and above)
N: P2O5: K2O g/vine/year
50:50:150 (general recommendation)
50:50:200 (for Panniyur and similar areas)
140:55:275 (for Kozhikode and similar areas)
Note: Apply 1/3 dose for one-year-old plants and 1/2 dose for two-year-old plants.
The fertilizers may be applied in two split doses, the first in May-June with the receipt of a few soaking rains and the second in August-September. Apply fertilizers in a circle of radius 30 cm around the vine in the case of plants trailed on erythrina (murukku) or teak pole (dead standard) soil application of Zinc @ 6 kg/ha as zinc sulphate or foliar spray of Zn @ 0.5 per cent during flowering and pin head stage of black pepper is recommended in Zinc deficient areas of black pepper cultivation for increasing the yield and quality. Application of Molybdenum @ 1 kg/ha is recommended for areas deficient in soil molybdenum availability.
Apply 10 kg FYM + 500g neem cake + 500 g ash+ 2 kg vermicompost with biofertilizer- Azospirillum and P- solubilizing bacteria (20g)
Apply PGPR Consortia (50g) consisting of 2 spp. of Micrococcus and 1 spp. of Enterobacter per vine which helps in growth promotion and disease suppression.
Bush pepper
By planting lateral branches (plagiotropes) of pepper, the vine can be grown as a bush. One-year-old lateral branches with 2-4 nodes are to be planted in nursery during May-June for pre-rooting after treating the cut ends with 1000 ppm solution of IBA for 45 seconds. Rooting percentage of laterals is less than 20%. Only well-rooted and established plants are to be used for transplanting. The rooted cuttings are to be planted at 3-5 per pit or per pot.
Fertilizers can be applied @ 1.0, 0.5 and 2.0 g/pot of N, P2O5 and K2O respectively at bimonthly interval. Alternatively, application of 15 g groundnut cake (or) 33 g of neem cake can also meet the N requirement of the crop. The bushy nature of the plant will have to be ensured by proper pruning of the hanging shoots. The potted plants are to be kept preferably under partial shade. It is necessary that re-potting is carried out after every two years.
Irrigating black pepper vines with 8 litres of water through drip per day during Oct - May enhances yield and quality in bush pepper with high BC ratio. Recommended for bush pepper grown as intercrop in coconut gardens.
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Luis von Ahn
Tech entrepreneur and crowdsourcing pioneer Luis von Ahn is best known for creating CAPTCHAs and the language-learning platform Duolingo.
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Luis von Ahn is an entrepreneur and computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University who is considered one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing. He is known for co-inventing CAPTCHAs, being a MacArthur Fellow and selling two companies to Google in his 20s.
He has been named one of the 10 Most Brilliant Scientists by Popular Science Magazine, one of the 50 Best Brains in Science by Discover, one of the Top Young Innovators Under 35 by MIT Technology Review, and one of the 100 Most Innovative People in Business by Fast Company Magazine.
Von Ahn is currently the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo, a language-learning platform created to bring free language education to the world. With over 150 million users, it is now the most popular language learning platform and the most downloaded app in the Education category worldwide on both iTunes and Google Play.
Videos, Talks and interviews
Free language education for the world
Interviews • 12 Apr 17
Tech entrepreneur Luis von Ahn created an app that enables anyone, anywhere to learn a language for free.More
Founder of Duolingo at the Design Indaba Conference 2017
Conference Talks • 13 Nov 17
Luis von Ahn launched the first African language course on Duolingo as part of his Design Talk. More
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How do you tackle piracy, the refugee crisis and learning new language using design?
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Swahili launches on Duolingo
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The world needs more design-centric companies, run by design-minded people, to create products and processes with human wants, needs and behaviours in mind. More
Future technologies: Ideas that are changing our world
At Design Indaba Conference 2017, we've gathered the greatest minds in the tech industries. From the founder of Airbnb to MIT fellows, the best grads and more.More
Man vs machine: The power of human computation
Creative Work • 16 Jan 17
Despite rumours that AI will take over the world, there's still a lot machines can’t do without man. At Design Indaba 2017, tech genius Luis von Ahn shows why.More
How to harness the brainpower of millions of minds
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Tech entrepreneur Luis von Ahn has found two ingenious ways to help computers and humans collaborate where neither could succeed alone.More
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RIDE: Part One: AWAKENING Blog Tour & Giveaway
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Long Lost Family by Lore Ree
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
About Long Lost Family:
Lisa Hughston’s life is perfect. With a doting husband, two handsome little boys, and a job she loves as a nurse, she’s done the one thing she always vowed to do: rise above everyone who told her she would amount to nothing more than a high school dropout and drug addict. Just like her mother.
There’s only one problem in her seemingly flawless life … she doesn't know anything about her husband’s past.
Christopher knows the truth about who he is and where he came from wouldn’t just hurt his wife. It would destroy her. He’s done—and vows to continue doing—everything in his power to keep that side of him buried forever. But when Lisa unknowingly befriends his estranged family, she sends their once perfect life into a tailspin.
Will they survive the fallout when she discovers who he really is and the secrets he’s been hiding?
Source: Info in the About Long Lost Family was from the press kit from the publicity team.
An Unedited Excerpt
The shuffling near the front door caught her attention, but Lisa didn't turn around. Tensing, she clung to the couch in an almost futile attempt to gather strength for the fight she knew was coming.
"So you're really not letting me see the boys today?"
"You lied," she whispered, her voice thick and hoarse from tears. "Is Christopher even your real name?”
Behind her, her husband cleared his throat but didn't answer. Nothing would dig him out of the hole he'd created, and frankly he was tired of all the fighting.
"It's funny." Lisa shook her head, forcing out a humorless laugh. "After all this time and after everything I've tried ... I still ended up just like my mother. I watched her—year after year, guy after guy losing herself. Changing herself for these losers that weren't worth her spit. I swore I'd never be like that." She snapped her head around to face him. Guarded eyes stared back at her. A hard set jaw unflinching and unwelcoming. She’s caved to that look dozens of times over the years, but today, she refused to back down. "Then you came along. You are the one who wanted a wife, and a family, and a home. You're the one who asked me you marry you. Everything you've ever wanted I've given you. Everything I do, every breath I take revolves around you and the boys. All you’ve ever had to do was tell me the truth. That's all. I've done everything for you and you couldn't do this one thing for me."
"Would you have said yes?" Christopher’s deep voice cut through the moment. "If I'd told you—if you had known What I'd done. Where I'd come from, and who I was. Would we have had all of this?" He gestured around the room. A broken picture frame still lied on the ground. "Would you have married me then? Would you have had my children knowing the blood that would run through their veins? Would you have fought to make a life with me? Tell me now that my past wouldn't have made a difference, and I'll get on my hands and knees and beg for your forgiveness."
"No," Lisa admitted after a long, reflective stretch of silence.
"Then stop demanding an apology we both know you don't deserve."
"An apology I don't deserve?" she repeated in shock. The words echoed in her ears, rattling her brain and shattering every shred of desire she had left to deal with this version of her husband—this stranger that had infiltrated their lives. Six months ago, he would have moved heaven and earth to make up for something asinine like forgetting the milk on his way home from work. Now, after being faced with their very existence being a lie, she wasn't worthy of getting a simple 'I'm sorry.'
"I would say I don't even know who you are anymore, but the truth is I never did, did I?”
About Lore Ree:
Lore Ree is a daydreaming, contemporary fiction writer.
When she isn't writing you can find her reading sweet romances and binge watching Crime shows.
Born in New York, raised in Florida, and matured in Massachusetts, she considers herself an East Coast baby. At the moment, she resides in Florida with her family.
Her debut novel, RICOCHET, was released in July 2014.
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Top 5 Xbox games coming soon
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Yes, I’ll admit I’m a bit of a game addict and in particular I’m an Xbox 360 man through and through. Not to say the PS3 isn’t impressive I just prefer the 360 games. In fact I literally cannot wait to get my hands on the new xbox 360, but that’s for another blog post!
In the meantime I want to talk about some of the hottest games coming to the market in the next few months (on xbox and PS3 for some) that will be worth saving up the pennies for. It’s pretty difficult to fully review a game that I haven’t played nor seen in person but looking at the videos below I think we can all expect big things to come!!
The reason for this post is because I have just completed the ever impressive Red Dead Redemption and am now looking for my next fix.I’ve also recently got back into Call of Duty MW2 and in need of some more first person online play.
1) So to start off with let me introduce Call of Duty: Black Op’s.
Set during the Cold War, CoD: Black Ops follows several covert operations groups, the secret units set up by the CIA to engage in deniable actions all over the world. Steeped in conspiracy theory and no doubt paying close heed to declassified government files, the game takes in the agency’s anticommunist activities in Eastern Europe, in Vietnam and in Cuba.
2) Next up: Fallout: New Vegas Fallout:
New Vegas takes place during the year 2280, three years after Fallout 3 and 203 years after the Great War of 2077, making this installment the chronologically latest in the series thus far. The game is set in post-apocalyptic Las Vegas, Nevada and the Mojave Desert. Unlike other cities in the Fallout series, Vegas was not struck directly by a nuclear attack.
Its buildings remain intact, and mutation of its inhabitants is minimal. However that doesn’t mean life is going to be easy as the character defines his place throughout the game. The starts as an unconscious courier wandering on a mission to deliver an unknown package…who knows what will happen!
3) Assassins Creed: Brotherhood
Live and breathe as Ezio, a legendary Master Assassin, in his enduring struggle against the powerful Templar Order. He must journey into Italy’s greatest city, Rome, center of power, greed and corruption to strike at the heart of the enemy.
Defeating the corrupt tyrants entrenched there will require not only strength, but leadership, as Ezio commands an entire Brotherhood who will rally to his side. Only by working together can the Assassins defeat their mortal enemies.
And for the first time, introducing a never-before-seen multiplayer layer that allows you to choose from a wide range of unique characters, each with their own signature weapons and assassination techniques, and match your skills against other players from around the world.
4) Medal of Honour
Operating directly under the National Command Authority, a relatively unknown entity of handpicked warriors are called on when the mission must not fail. They are the Tier 1 Operators. Ooohhh sooo illusive and yet the video just looks epic with great graphics and character involvement with all the live scenery around getting blown to bits. Can’t wait for this game!!
5) Halo Reach And finally saved the best until last.
We have all been awaiting this game for a very long time now. In fact it’s the Halo series that got me into xbox in the first instance and after a somewhat lacking ODST I believe I am right in saying we are all anticipating this to be a big hit!!
Halo Reach is a prequel to the legendary Halo trilogy in which enables players to experience the fateful moments that forged the Halo legend. This is the story of Noble Team, a squad of heroic Spartan soldiers, and their final stand on planet Reach, humanity’s last line of defense between the terrifying Covenant and Earth.
This darker story is echoed by grittier visuals amid a backdrop of massive, awe-inspiring environments. Characters, enemies, and environments are rendered in amazing detail by an all-new engine designed to deliver epic-scale encounters against the cunning and ruthless Covenant. Once the campaign is over, the battle continues online with an unparalleled multiplayer experience expanding on the award-winning suite of features that helped define the Xbox LIVE experience.
Thanks for reading, stay tuned for further updates and reviews as these games become avaialble!
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Khronos, Cronos, and the Cronion Hill: The Spatialization of Time in Pindar’s Olympian 10
August 22, 2014 Posted by Maria Pavlou under E-journal, Language/Literature, Research Symposium Papers
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Pavlou, Maria. “Khronos, Cronos, and the Cronion Hill: The Spatialization of Time in Pindar’s Olympian 10.” CHS Research Bulletin 2, no. 2 (2014). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:PavlouM.Chronos_Kronos_and_the_Kronion_Hill.2014
The mountain sat upon the plain
In his eternal chair,
His observation omnifold,
His inquest everywhere.
The seasons prayed around his knees,
Like children round a sire:
Grandfather of the days is he,
Of dawn the ancestor.
E. Dickinson, ‘The Mountain’
§1 Olympian 10 celebrates Hagesidamus, a boy wrestler from Western Locri who won his victory in 476 BCE.[1] From Pindar’s apologetic style at the opening of the poem, and his promise to pay back his overdue debt with interest (τόκος), it becomes clear that there must have been some delay in composing the ode. The “tardiness” of the poem, the historicity of which should be taken at face-value and not merely as a topos—notwithstanding its touch of poetic exaggeration—is explicable if we take into account that the Olympiad of 476 BCE proved victorious also for Hieron of Syracuse and Theron of Acragas for whom Pindar composed three elaborate and quite extensive epinicians: Olympian 1, and Olympians 2, and 3 respectively.[2] The chronological proximity of these odes is significant, for it accounts for a number of similarities they share, not only in terms of the mythical centrepiece, but also in their reverberations vis-à-vis the notion of time.
§2 Khronos holds a central and pivotal place in Olympian 10, an ode that Hubbard aptly characterized as “an orchestrated reflection upon the nature of time.”[3] My intention, though, is not to provide a detailed and extensive overall analysis of Pindar’s treatment of time in this poem, but rather, to focus my attention on a specific excerpt which, as I will attempt to demonstrate, promotes an association between Khronos and the primeval God Cronos. This association is noteworthy not only with reference to Pindar’s handling of time per se, but also because it could shed light upon other contemporary or roughly contemporary representations of time, such as the ones found in Pherecydes of Syros and the Derveni Papyrus. In fact, it is not irrelevant that Olympian 10, along with Olympian 2, have often been cited as evidence by a number of scholars in order to either bolster or refute the role played by time in the above mentioned texts. Heretofore there has been no systematic attempt to approach the Cronos/Khronos issue in Olympian 10 in more depth, taking into account both the wider context of the ode and Pindar’s overall attitude towards time. The current article is offered as a contribution towards this direction.
§3 The song’s mythical section dwells upon a foundation story: the institution of the quadrennial Olympic festival by Heracles.[4] Heracles arrives at Elis in order to perform the most disgraceful and humiliating of his Labors; to clean the dung from the byres of Augeas, the king of Elis.[5] Unwilling to compensate him for his menial services, Augeas assigns Cteatus and Eurytus, the sons of his brother Actor also referred to in the poem with the eponym “Moliones,” to prevent the hero from acquiring his wager.[6] Heracles, however, ambushes the Moliones near Cleonae and, after killing them, destroys Elis with his army and gathers together all the booty at Pisa. There he wholeheartedly engages in a series of activities that radically transform the landscape of Olympia: he plots out a precinct for Zeus, makes a resting place for banqueting, builds six double altars for the ruling gods, and honors the river Alpheus by dedicating an altar to him.[7] Finally, he names the hill of Cronos:
ὁ δ’ ἄρ’ ἐν Πίσᾳ ἔλσαις ὅλον τε στρατόν
λᾴαν τε πᾶσαν Διὸς ἄλκιμος
υἱὸς σταθμᾶτο ζάθεον ἄλσος πατρὶ μεγίστῳ·
περὶ δὲ πάξαις Ἄλτιν μὲν ὅγ’ ἐν καθαρῷ
διέκρινε, τὸ δὲ κύκλῳ πέδον
ἔθηκε δόρπου λύσιν,
τιμάσαις πόρον Ἀλφεοῦ
μετὰ δώδεκ’ ἀνάκτων θεῶν· καὶ πάγον
Κρόνου προσεφθέγξατο· πρόσθε γάρ
νώνυμνος, ἇς Οἰνόμαος ἆρχε, βρέχετο πολλᾷ
νιφάδι. ταύτᾳ δ’ ἐν πρωτογόνῳ τελετᾷ
παρέσταν μὲν ἄρα Μοῖραι σχεδόν
ὅ τ’ἐξελέγχων μόνος
ἀλάθειαν ἐτήτυμον
Χρόνος. (43−55)
Thereupon, Zeus’ valiant son gathered the entire army
and all the booty at Pisa,
and measured out a sacred precinct for his father
mostly mighty. He fenced in the Altis and set it apart
in the open, and he made the surrounding plain
a resting place for banqueting,
and honored the stream of Alpheos
along with the twelve ruling gods. And he gave the hill
of Cronos its name, because before that it had none,
when during Oinomaos’ reign, it was drenched
with much snow. And at that founding ceremony
the Fates stood near at hand,
as did the sole assayer of genuine truth,
Time.[8]
§4 This is a dense and complex passage and it is no wonder that Pindar saves for it a place exactly in the middle of the ode. Through his actions Heracles transforms the undesignated space of Olympia into a place, namely into space loaded with cultural and social meaning. The way in which Heracles’ activities are flagged, which is both clipped and freewheeling, speeds the narrative up thus evoking a feeling of urgency which tallies with the time of the “story,” considering that all these activities were completed within a single day.[9] Pindar rounds off this vignette in a grandiloquent way, declaring that present during the founding ceremony were the Moirai and Khronos. What merits particular attention is that these figures are not depicted as mere onlookers leisurely observing the ceremony from afar, but as overseers of the ongoing mystery. Their presiding over the πρωτόγονος τελετά is heightened through the use of the verb παρίσταμαι and the adverb σχεδόν, both of which indicate their spatial proximity and serve to gloss them as concrete entities, thus probing a feeling of ‘marvelous sublimity’ (mira sublimitas).[10] The reference to Khronos and the Moirai is overlaid with a number of adjectives that slow down the narrative in a way that chimes well with the ‘stillness’ of the image evoked.
§5 As far as the Moirai are concerned, their presence is not difficult to explain, considering that Heracles’ ritual embraces a number of “births:” the “birth” of Olympia as a sanctuary dedicated to Zeus, the “birth” of the Olympic games, even the “birth” of the Cronion Hill, insofar as “naming” could be seen as a kind of “coming into being.”[11] The presence of Khronos, on the other hand, defies easy interpretation not least because Khronos was not a birth deity. Moreover, whenever personified, Khronos in Pindar is typically portrayed in action—either moving or performing some other kind of activity.[12] This is the only instance where Khronos is emphatically depicted “standing still,” a particularity that gains in significance if we take into account that in Olympian 10 Khronos is twice portrayed in movement. The first such instance occurs at the proemium, where Pindar explains how Khronos, approaching from afar, has shamed his indebtedness:
ἕκαθεν γὰρ ἐπελθὼν ὁ μέλλων χρόνος
ἐμὸν καταίσχυνε βαθὺ χρέος (7−8)
For what was then the future has approached from afar
and shamed my deep indebtedness.
The second instance is to be found in the line immediately following the passage under discussion, where Pindar declares that moving forwards Khronos revealed the truth about the foundation of the Olympic games:
Xρόνος. τὸ δὲ σαφανὲς ἰὼν πόρσω κατέφρασεν,
ὁπᾷ τὰν πολέμοιο δόσιν
ἀκρόθινα διελὼν ἔθυε καὶ
πενταετηρίδ’ ὅπως ἄρα
ἔστασεν ἑορτὰν σὺν Ὀλυμπιάδι πρώτᾳ
νικαφορίαισί τε (55−59)[13]
Τime. Moving forwards it clearly revealed
how Herakles divided up that gift of war
and offered up its best portion,
and how he then founded
the quadrennial festival with the first Olympiad
and its victories.
Finally, the accumulation of the adjectives πρωτόγονος,[14] μόνος, ἐτήτυμος, and the evocation of the notions of “firstness,” “uniqueness,” and “genuineness,” as well as the particle ἄρα, which here expresses a lively feeling of interest in what follows,[15] are vociferous indications that Pindar wanted to throw into relief Khronos’ attendance at the ceremony; the crucial question is why?
§6 Modern scholars tend to see in this reference Pindar’s attempt to emphasize that the founding ceremony took place in time. According to Brisson, Khronos is present at the ceremony because “time allows the act to survive in memory once it has been performed;” a somewhat similar stance is adopted by Barrett: “It is in the process of time that this version of the legend becomes established as true, and others as false; hence it is Time who proves its Truth, and if he is to prove it he must know it, and he knows it because he was there in person.”[16] Even though this is one possible interpretation, in my view what Pindar seeks to achieve here is much more poetic, sublime, and grandiose. In order to fully appreciate the dexterous and subtle way in which this is engineered and achieved, it would be instructive to cast a look first at Pindar’s description of Mount Cronion, which Heracles “baptizes” during the πρωτόγονος rite.
§7 The Cronion is a conical hill about 500 feet in altitude. It towers over Olympia right on the north edge of the Altis and constitutes a significant and distinctive topographical marker in Olympia’s physical landscape. This is the reason why Pindar often uses it metonymically in order to refer to Olympia as a whole.[17] In the passage under discussion Pindar notes that the hill was anonymous (νώνυμνος) during the reign of the king Oenomaus, and he even figuratively elaborates on its anonymity detailing that it was continuously covered with snow: βρέχετο πολλᾷ νιφάδι.[18] This piece of information is noteworthy, for Olympia seems to have been associated with cultic activity even before Heracles’ arrival. Pausanias reports that the Cronion was esteemed as sacred to Cronos prior to the establishment of the Olympic games, an association that crops up three times in his narrative. In 5.7.6 we learn that during the Golden Age Cronos had a temple at Olympia, a detail that Pausanias claims to have retrieved “from the most learned antiquaries of Elis,” while in 5.7.10 he refers to a struggle that allegedly took place at that very spot between Zeus and Cronos.[19] Of particular importance is 6.20.1, where the so-called Bασίλαι are said to have done homage and sacrificed to Cronos on the summit of the hill during the month of Elaphion:
Τὸ δὲ ὄρος τὸ Κρόνιον κατὰ τὰ ἤδε λελεγμένα μοι παρὰ τὴν κρηπῖδα καὶ τοὺς ἐπ’ αὐτῇ παρήκει θησαυρούς. ἐπὶ δὲ τοῦ ὄρους τῇ κορυφῇ θύουσιν οἱ Βασίλαι καλούμενοι τῷ Κρόνῳ κατὰ ἰσημερίαν τὴν ἐν τῷ ἦρι, Ἐλαφίῳ μηνὶ παρὰ Ἠλείοις. [20]
Mount Cronius, as I have already said, extends parallel to the terrace with the treasuries on it. On the summit of the mountain the Basilae, as they are called, sacrifice to Cronus at the spring equinox, in the month called Elaphius among the Eleans.
Even though Pindar refers several times to the Cronion,[21] he never explicitly associates it with any kind of pre-Olympian religion. Most scholars seem to concede, though, that his insistence on the anonymity of the hill in Olympian 10 should be interpreted as a veiled attempt to challenge an established competing variant. In support of this view I would propose that Pindar’s awareness of the tradition reported by Pausanias could, in fact, be reflected in the impressive locution that features near the coda of Olympian 1 for Hieron of Syracuse: τὸ δ’ ἔσχατον κορυφοῦται βασιλεῦσι (113). Literally this phrase means that “the farthest limit has a peak placed on it for kings” and is typically taken to highlight the supremacy of kingship, hailing it as one of the ultimate goals that can be reached.[22] Yet, considering that the mythical account of Olympian 1 dwells upon the story of Pelops and his involvement with the Olympic games, it would not be forced to argue that this phrase could, in fact, serve as an indirect allusion to the ancient ritual supposed to have taken place on the summit of the Cronion by the priestly caste of the Βασίλαι, whose name clearly resonates with the word βασιλεύς.[23]
§8 Νow, assuming that Pindar knew of an alternative tradition attesting to a pre-Olympian cult of Cronos, why does he refute it? Some contend that in doing so he manages to aggrandize Heracles’ achievement by ascribing to him not only the institution of the games but also the sacralization of the Olympic landscape.[24] Still, this explanation does not account for the hero’s decision to name the hill Cronion; why not name it after Zeus, to whom the sanctuary was dedicated (45), or even after Pelops, whose tomb—the only man-made structure in existence at Olympia upon his arrival—is emphatically mentioned in line 24? I would propose that Pindar’s conspicuous silence is evocative, aiming to incite his audience to draw an association between the appellation Cronion assigned to the hill by Heracles and Khronos who, just like the hill, witnessed the founding ceremony “standing still” nearby.[25]
§9 This suggestion naturally begs the question: would the audience be able to grasp and comprehend the association and its ramifications? What should be stressed is that Cronos’ identification with Khronos was not a fancy of Pindar’s own invention. In fact, according to Plutarch this association had been widespread among the Greeks.[26] Even though it is difficult to trace its origin, the notional proximity of Khronos and Cronos in Olympians 2 and 10, and their syntactical proximity throughout Pindar’s oeuvre,[27] leave it to be inferred that the numinous identification Cronos/Khronos was already current in philosophical discussions during Pindar’s time and that his audience—at least part thereof—could recognize the etymological connection put forward here. The thrust of this suggestion is reinforced by the fact that this very association is also evident in the treatise of Pindar’s older contemporary Pherecydes of Syros.[28]
§10 The proposal put forward here is further supported by the following internal evidence:
1. First, the emphatic way in which Khronos is associated with ἀλάθεια; to be sure, the depiction of Khronos as an unveiler of truth was widespread in antiquity with Solon of Athens being its first fervent exponent. In Pindar the idea also crops up several times.[29] Nοnetheless, the tantalizingly reverent title of “sole assayer of the genuine truth” ascribed to Khronos elevates him to something more than a mere revealer of truth. Here Khronos assumes an ordering capacity and is promoted to the wisest power of the universe. The wisdom attributed to Khronos bolsters its association with Cronos who, despite being notorious for his “craftiness,” also had a mysterious relationship to wisdom.[30]
2. It is Pindar’s common practice, whenever referring to a birth, to stress the close relationship between the name given (signifier) and its significance (signified), and there is no reason whatsoever why Heracles’ naming of the Cronion would have formed an exception.[31] On the contrary, the very presence of the adjective ἐτήτυμος in line 54—the reduplicated form of ἔτυμος—rather prompts us to search for the etymology of the hill’s nomenclature.[32] What is more, etymology in general seems to play an important role throughout Olympian 10. In his opening gambit, for instance, Pindar skillfully juxtaposes Ἀλάθεια with its etymological cognate ἐπιλανθάνομαι, thus bringing to the fore Ἀλάθεια’s association with non-forgetfulness.[33] Notable also is Pindar’s predilection for the term πάγος in lieu of other nouns which he typically employs with reference to the Cronion.[34] Scholars have drawn attention to the etymological connection between πάγον and the compound verb περιπήγνυμι (περὶ…πάξαις) used at 45 in relation to Heracles’ fencing of the Altis.[35] In my view there is another suggested etymological overtone here which has passed mostly unnoticed: the relationship between the snow-covered Cronion and the term πάγος, which after Homer is also used to indicate “frost.”[36] This etymological play would have served as yet another cue for the audience to search for a similar etymological reasoning in Heracles’ appellation of the Cronion.
3. The bold and powerful enjambment in line 54 created by having Khronos “carried” over into the first line of the following epode would also be conducive to the identification envisioned here, since the delay of the identifying name Khronos would definitely have evoked the expectation that the second entity presiding over the ceremony would have been Cronos after whom the hill was named.
4. Last but not least, Olympian 10 was composed soon after Olympian 2, an ode replete with Orphic and Pythagorean connotations, where an association between Khronos and Cronos is also claimed. Not only this but Khronos is once again spatialized in Olympian 2; this time, however, it is located on the Isle of the Blessed, where Cronos is presented living in a tower.[37]
§11 One possible objection to the suggestion advanced here could be that the representation of Khronos moving forwards in the line immediately following the description of the foundation rite runs counter to the idea of its “spatialization.”[38] What we should bear in mind, though, is that in Pindar the term Khronos is particularly nuanced and can take on a wide range of meanings; on some occasions Khronos is personified and is depicted as an actor and agent in human affairs; on others it is presented merely as a framework within which things happen. One could also make a distinction between the Khronos of the gods, which is cyclical and complete, and human time, which is incomplete and linear.[39] What is more, Pindar typically shifts from one meaning to the other effortlessly and with great ease.[40] In light of this, I would suggest that in the passage under discussion Khronos should be understood in two different ways: the Khronos that presided over the ceremony and that we identified with Cronos stands for “all time,” while the Khronos that moved forwards revealing the aetion of the Olympian festival represents linear, fragmented time. Only if we accept this distinction can we explain the fact that while in lines 53−55 Khronos is hailed as the only arbiter of the genuine truth, at the opening salvo of Olympian 10 it is linked with falsehood and forgetting in the sense that mortals forget in the course of time and, therefore, the truth is in thus “concealed.”[41] This twofold aspect of Khronos is also ingeniously alluded to through the spatial proximity between the Cronion and the altars of the twelve gods, whom Heracles honors in the hill’s immediate vicinity; whereas the succession from the age of Cronos to the age of Zeus involves change and the passage of time, the Olympian order itself repudiates, so to speak, time because it never falls or changes.[42]
§12 Through the conflation of Khronos with Cronos and, accordingly, the advance of the Cronion hill as the abode of Khronos/Cronos, Olympia is elevated to a single place permeated by different temporalities. Consequently, Pindar’s audience is encouraged to visualize Olympia as a place where human and divine time meet. The power of naming to determine our perception of space is nicely put by Tuan:
words alone, used in an appropriate situation, can have the power to render objects, formerly invisible because unattended, visible, and impart to them a certain character: thus a mere rise on a flat surface becomes something far more—a place that promises to open up to other places—when it is named “Mount Prospect.”[43]
Seen from this perspective, Hagesidamus’ victory is emphatically presented not merely as a victory in wrestling, but also as a victory over time. This last point is eloquently articulated in the ode’s last simile, where the young athlete is likened to Ganymede:[44]
παῖδ’ ἐρατὸν <δ’> Ἀρχεστράτου
αἴνησα, τὸν εἶδον κρατέοντα χερὸς ἀλκᾷ
βωμὸν παρ᾽ Ὀλύμπιον
κεῖνον κατὰ χρόνον
ἰδέᾳ τε καλόν
ὥρᾳ κεκραμένον, ἅ ποτε
ἀναιδέα Γανυμήδει θάνατον
ἆλκε σὺν Κυπρογενεῖ. (99−105)
I have praised the lovely son of Archestratos,
whom I saw winning with the strenght of his hand
by the Olympic altar
at that time,
beautiful in form
and imbued with the youthfulness that once averted
ruthless death from Ganymede,
with the aid of the Cyprus-born goddess.
At the exact moment of the victory (κεῖνον κατὰ χρόνον), Pindar declares, Hagesidamus was as beautiful as Ganymede who, although mortal, gained immortality.[45] The ode ends thus, in a remote and unspecified moment in the past (ποτε). As in Nemean 1, Nemean 10, Olympian 4, and Pythian 9, also ending in myth, Pindar does not have to return to the present, for once again the distance that separates past and present collapses. What happened to Ganymede ποτε has just happened to Hagesidamus now. Like Heracles, who through his appelation of the Cronion puts “deep time” into the very landscape of Olympia thus joining its linear and fragmented time with the cyclical time of the gods, so Pindar has averted death from his laudandus by inscribing his name on the complete divine time.[46] Hagesidamus might not be ageless and immortal like the gods; he can, however, receive eternal youth and immortality through song; for all time to come he will be remembered as winning at Olympia “beautiful of form and imbued with youthfulness.”[47]
§13 The power of song to “freeze” time by turning it from direction to duration is, in fact, articulated in a performative way throughout the poem. As noted above, at the opening of the epinician, Pindar laments that the future approaching from afar (note the “coming view” of the future here, which heightens the feeling of threat)[48] has shamed his βαθὺ χρέος, that is his indebtedness to write a tribute of praise for the victorious Hagesidamus. Nonetheless, Pindar promises to pay back his due with interest. His promise is cast in the form of simile:
ἕκαθεν γὰρ ἐπελθὼν ὁ μέλλων χρόνος
ἐμὸν καταίσχυνε βαθὺ χρέος.
ὅμως δὲ λῦσαι δυνατὸς ὀξεῖαν ἐπιμομφὰν
τόκος. ὁράτω[49] νῦν ψᾶφον ἑλισσομέναν
ὁπᾷ κῦμα κατακλύσσει ῥέον,
ὁπᾷ τε κοινὸν λόγον
φίλαν τείσομεν ἐς χάριν. (7−12)
and shamed my deep indebtness.
Nevertheless, interest on a debt can absolve one from
a bitter reproach. Let him see now:
just as a flowing wave washes over a rolling pebble,
so shall we pay back a theme of general concern
as a friendly favor.
Even though scholars do not agree on the origin of this image,[50] they unanimously take the flowing wave to refer to the torrent/rush of Pindar’s verse, and the rolling pebble to his shame. The meaning, accordingly, is that the torrent of Pindar’s verse will wash his shame off like a flowing wave washes over a rolling pebble.[51]
§14 Bearing in mind the poem’s overall orientation towards time, I would rather take a different path and propose a more “daring” reading. Even though I agree that the flowing wave of the simile stands for Pindar’s verse (χρέος), personally I would associate the rolling pebble not with the poet’s shame, but rather with the cause of this shame, that is the Khronos of line 7. The juxtaposition between χρόνος and χρέος is, I believe, supported by the placement of the two terms at the end of lines 7 and 8 respectively, as well as by the strong acoustic effect generated by the complex χρ. The participle ἑλισσομέναν attached to the pebble also enhances such an interpretation not only because ἑλίσσομαι would be quite apposite for describing the movement of Khronos, but also because Pindar employs it in close association with time in Olympian 4.[52] In light of the above, what the poet seems to say here is not “let him see now how the torrent of my verse will wash over shame,” but rather “let him now see how the torrent of my song will wash over time.” While in lines 7–8 time (χρόνος) is said to have shamed the poet’s debt (χρέος), Pindar is now promising to do the exact opposite: his song (χρέος) will wash over the rolling time (χρόνος) thus rendering Hagesidamus’ name immortal.[53]
§15 The performance is, therefore, transformed into an arena—so to speak—where the poet must freeze and outweigh Khronos. Nevertheless, assisted by his Muse and Truth, Pindar manages by the end of the poem not only to ward his shame off but also to cancel out Khronos’ passage that brings to mortals shameless death. What is even more remarkable, however, is that this gradual harnessing of linear, human time is mirrored on the level of language. So, whereas in lines 5−6 Khronos is put in the nominative and is presented as a threat and a source of forgetting, in line 55 it is void of negative connotations and is positively valorized as a revealer of truth. In line 85 Khronos comes to the fore again; this time, however, it is not personified but is used in the dative and stands for the texture within which events occur: χλιδῶσα δὲ μολπὰ πρὸς κάλαμον ἀντιάξει μελέων / τὰ παρ’ εὐκλέϊ Δίρκᾳ χρόνῳ μὲν φάνεν (84−85). Notably, Pindar’s “lavish tribute” appears (note that it is not Khronos that “reveals” it) by Dirke in the course of time.[54] Finally, at 102 Khronos only denotes a point in time (κεῖνον κατὰ χρόνον),[55] a moment which Pindar’s poetry, though, immortalizes thus rendering it “at once a finite point and an infinite duration.”[56]
§16 To sum up: My main objective in this paper was to further support the hypothesis tentatively/superficially put forward by some scholars that in lines 50−55 of Olympian 10 Pindar may seek to promote an etymological connection between Khronos and Cronos. As I have tried to demonstrate, this conflation is, in fact, vouched for by both internal and external evidence. By encouraging his audience to visualize Mount Cronion as the abode of Cronos/Khronos, Pindar manages to promote Khronos to a dominant and ordering power of the Universe. At the same time, by spatializing Time at Olympia, he both turns the Cronion Hill into a sublime object and Olympic victories into victories over time. Even though Pindar tailors his representation of Khronos so as to befit his encomiastic purposes and his attempt to portray himself as a “master of time,” we should not forget that although a poet of the sublime, Pindar did not live in vacuo. Accordingly, it would be legitimate to suppose that his songs are laden with contemporary philosophical ideas and that they capture the zeitgeist of his time. Following from this, the masterful way in which he treats time in Olympian 10, and more specifically the association he advances between Khronos and Cronos, could shed light upon other contested instances where Khronos is identified with Cronos, such as the work of Pherecydes of Syros, and perhaps also the Orphic poems and the role that Khronos could play in the Theogony commented upon in the Derveni Papyrus.
The initial idea for this article was conceived during my stay as a Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies (Spring Term 2014). I would like to express my gratitude to the CHS Director, Prof. Gregory Nagy, the Senior Fellows, and all the members of the staff for providing excellent conditions for research. Thanks should also go to the audience at the CHS Research Symposium for their comments and suggestions and, more specifically, to Ioanna Papadopoulou for sharing with me her expertise on various issues related to the Derveni Papyrus. Last but not least, many thanks should go to all my co-Fellows for encouragement; I am most grateful to Elena Martin González, who read and commented upon the final version of the article.
[1] The ancient Scholia give both the seventy-fourth and seventy-sixth Olympiads as possible dates for Hagesidamus’ victory. Based on the fragmentary list of Olympic victors in P. Oxy. 222.1.16, the victory must have taken place during the latter Olympiad, that is in 476 BCE. On the ode see, among others, Erbse 1970; Nassen 1975; Kromer 1976; Burgess 1990; Hubbard 1985:60−70; Barrett 2007; Eckerman 2008; Patten 2009:217−233.
[2] Most seem to agree on the historicity of the delay; see e.g., Nassen 1975:223−224; Catenacci et al. 2013:248; Hubbard 1985:61. Contrast Erbse 1970:23−24, 28 who argues that Pindar’s “apology” should rather be construed as a pretence.
[3] Hubbard 1985:69.
[4] Olympians 1 and 3, composed immediately before Olympian 10, also dwell upon the Olympic games, but mainly deal with peripheral issues, such as Pelops’ association with the games (see Nagy [1990] http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/nagy/PHTL/chapter4.html) and Heracles’ fetching of the olive tree from the Hyperborean Land. On the foundation of the Olympic festival see Pausanias 5.7.9, 5.8.1; Diodorus Siculus 4.14.1, 5.64.6.
[5] The specific task was not a flattering one for Heracles (see Diodorus Siculus 4.13.3 who remarks that Eurystheus entrusted this Labor to Heracles ὕβρεως ἕνεκεν) and it can hardly be a coincidence that Olympian 10 provides the first extant literary reference to the story. This Labor was also the least favored in Greek art. In fact, its only monumental representation is to be found on the east porch of the Olympian temple of Zeus built around 470−456 BCE. There is also a testimony for a statue by Lysippus, which has not survived; see Brommer 1986. According to the myth, Heracles managed to wash the filth out by rerouting the nearby rivers and turning their course through the stables. Even though Pindar does not dilate on the actual cleaning, this detail is echoed in the term ὀχετός in line 37. This mythical story serves as an illustration of the maxim in lines 22−23 that glory requires effort and toil and it is also used as a springboard for the introduction of the poem’s main mythical centrepiece.
[6] On Heracles’ encounter with the Moliones see Bernardini 1982:55−68. The story is also attested by Pherecydes of Athens (FGrHist 3F 79a), even though in his version during his first encounter with the Moliones Heracles is outweighed by them and is forced to retreat; he kills the two brothers at a later stage, on their way to Corinth. On the Moliones see also Homer (Iliad 2.620−621, 11.750−752, and 23.638−642) and Hesiod (fr. 17 M-W); cf. Scholia ad Iliad 11.709 and 23.638, 639. Of particular interest is the tradition attested by Ibycus (285 PMG), according to whom the Moliones were born from a silver egg: τοὺς τε λευκίππους κόρους / τέκνα Μολιόνας κτάνον, / ἅλικας ἰσοκεφάλους ἑνιγυίους / ἀμφοτέρους γεγαῶτας ἐν ὠέωι / ἀργυρέωι; cf. Athenaeus 2.58. The allusive and elliptical narrative style leaves it to be inferred that this story must have been known to Pindar’s Locrian audience.
[7] See Olympian 5.5 where Pindar makes explicit reference to the six double altars at the Olympic sanctuary: βωμοὺς ἕξ διδύμους ἐγέραρεν ἑορταῖς θεῶν μεγίσταις. By means of Herodorus (FGrHist 31F 34a), whom the Scholia ad Olympian 5.10a (Drachmann I, 141) quote, we know that Heracles dedicated the six altars to Zeus-Poseidon, Hera-Athena, Hermes-Apollo, Charites-Dionysus, Artemis-Alpheus, and Cronos-Rhea. Contrast Verdenius 1988 ad 49, who disputes the deification of Alpheus and prefers to read the preposition μετά as an equivalent of καί.
[8] Quotations from Pindar are from the Snell-Maehler 1984 Teubner edition. Translations are taken from Race’s 1997 Loeb translation with slight modifications.
[9] This can be implied from Pindar’s reference to the moon in 73−75.
[10] Quintilian 8.6.11 on personification.
[11] On the power of “naming” see, among others, Segal 1986a:67 and passim. See also Tuan 1991:688: “Naming is power—the creative power to call something into being, to render the invisible visible, to impart a certain character to things.”
[12] See, e.g. Olympian 6.97; Pythian 1.46; Nemean 1.46−47, 7.68.
[13] In his translation Race does not keep the punctuation after Xρόνος and translates as “Time, which in its onward march revealed…” Yet, as it will become clear in what follows, the punctuation is crucial for the interpretation of the passage.
[14] On the adjective πρωτόγονος and similar comparanda see Segal 1986a:77. Άlvarez 2008:1163n8 draws attention to the fact that the term is imbued with orphic connotations; in the Orphic cosmogonies of the Rhapsodies Protogonos (or Phanes) is the hermaphrodite being generated from the egg fashioned by Khronos. In addition to πρωτόγονος a number of other words in the passage could also function as “buzzwords” for Orphism: καθαρός, λύσις, ἀλάθεια, τελετή. Ι οwe this remark to Prof. A. Chaniotis.
[15] Denniston 19592: 33−34; see also Verdenius 1988 ad 52.
[16] Brisson 1997:163; Barrett 2007:67.
[17] See, e.g. Olympian 1.111, 9.3.
[18] Αccording to the Scholia ad Olympian 10.62a (Drachmann I, 326) this locution is a rhetorical trope and should be taken as an equivalent of the verb κατασιωποῦμαι; either because of its lack of name or because king Oenomaus was not well-known, before Heracles’ arrival at Pisa the hill was doomed to obscurity. Modern scholars adopt a rather different stance and tend to take the phrase literally, either as providing information about the climatic conditions of Pisa or as Pindar’s attempt to draw a distinction between the snowfall during Oenomaus’ time, and the sunshine that replaced it in the wake of the foundation of the games; see, e.g., Gildersleeve 1885:217. Based on the description of Olympus in the Odyssey (5.43−45) as a place free from rain and snow Verdenius 1988 ad 51 even put forward the tentative suggestion that perhaps Pindar is here trying to connect Olympia and Olympus etymologically. See also Norwood 1945:235n35, who argues that Pindar probably took this piece of information from an account of the district of Elis which he might have found in a chronicle and in which “the snowfall was somehow genuinely relevant.” Based on the fact that Olympian 10 lays much emphasis upon the polarities concealment/revelation, light/darkness I believe that this paradoxical climatic detail should be taken metaphorically. However, it seems that the emphasis on the snow could serve other purposes as well; see the discussion below.
[19] See also Pausanias 8.2.2. On the traditions attested by Pausanias see Hubbard 2007.
[20] The cult is also attested by Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Antiquitates Romanae 1.34). See Frazer 1913 ad 6.20.1; Weniger 1906:20−22. Peak sanctuaries and rituals on mountaintops akin to the cult of Cronos mentioned by Pausanias seem to have been quite widespread in the Bronze Age; see e.g. Kyriakidis 2005.
[21] Olympian 1.111, 3.21−23, 5.17−19, 8.15−18, 9.1−4.
[22] Gerber 1982 ad 113−114; see also Verdenius 1988 ad 113.
[23] It has been proposed that the priesthood probably dated from the old regal days and may have been held by the kings themselves; see Frazer 1913 ad 6.20.1. Frazer also draws attention to the association between the title Bασίλαι and the noun βασιλεύς. I was glad to see that in his recent article on Olympia Eckerman 2013:9 makes a similar point.
[24] See, e.g, Catenacci et al. 2013 ad 50−51: “Con la descrizione di una collina anonima e desolata, Pindaro evidemente intende insistere sul ruolo di Eracle nella fondazione dei giochi di Olympia.”
[25] Contrast Huxley 1975:17 who maintains that Pindar’s silence is due to his inability to explain “why Heracles called the hill after Cronos, whom Zeus has displaced in Olympus rather than after Zeus himself, the hero’s father.” The Cronos/Khronos conflation has been proposed by some scholars, but rather in a superficial manner; Quincey 1963:146, for instance, emphatically declares that in this passage “Κρόνου is outrageously connected with Χρόνος,” but without pursuing the issue further. This Pindaric passage along with Olympian 2.17−19 and frr. 33 and 159 have often been cited by scholars in order to support the association between Khronos and Cronos in Pherecydes of Syros and the Derveni Papyrus; see e.g. Schibli 1990; Piano 2013.
[26] Plutarch De Iside et Osiride 363d: ὥσπερ Ἕλληνες Κρόνον ἀλληγοροῦσι τὸν Χρόνον; see Griffiths 1970 ad loc. On this identification and more examples see McCartney 1928; López-Ruiz 2009 and 2010:151−167; Panofsky 1939, who places, however, this conflation much later, during the first century CE. For an anthropological explanation of the conflation between Khronos and Cronos see Leach 1961:124−132.
[27] Νotably, no less than ten times Cronos and the patronymics Cronios/Cronidas/Cronion are placed in close proximity to the word Khronos and its derivatives: see, e.g., Olympian 1.108−115, 2.12−17, 4.6−10.
[28] Schibli 1990:135−139; of course, the presence of Khronos in Pherecydes is not accepted by all scholars. Ιn his article on Cronos/Khronos in Egypt Pettazzoni 1954:173n8 refers to a fourth century inscription from Elateia published by Paris in 1886 (see also Hoffmann [1893] n339), where Poseidon is presented as son of Khronos: Ποντίωι ἱππομέδοντι Ποσειδῶνι Χρόνο(υ) υἱεῖ / ἡ πόλις εὐξαμένη τούσδ’ ἀνέθηκε θεῶι / ἡμιθέους σωτῆρας ὑπὲρ προγόνων τε καὶ αὐτῶν / καὶ γῆς καὶ τεκέων καὶ σφετέρων ἀλόχων. However, Dittenberger, who republished the inscription in IG IX. 1.130 contends that the first letter of Paris’ Xρόνο(υ) is, in fact, a clear K; accordingly he writes Kρόνο(υ) instead. In the more recent publication by Hansen in CEG 2 (1989) n807 the inscription is also published with a K.
[29] Solon 3, 14, 30 G-P2; see the recent commentary by Noussia-Fantuzzi (2010) 240−242, 323−326, 466−467. As far as Pindar is concerned see Olympian 1.33−34: ἁμέραι δ’ ἐπίλοιποι μάρτυρες σοφώτατοι; cf. Pythian 8.13.
[30] For Khronos as the wisest see, Diogenes Laertius 1.35, who ascribes to Thales of Miletus the maxim Σοφώτατον χρόνος∙ ἀνευρίσκει γὰρ πάντα; a similar remark is made by Plutarch Quαestiones Romanae 266e-f: Διὰ τί δὲ τὸν Κρόνον πατέρα τῆς ἀληθείας νομίζουσι; Πότερον, ὥσπερ ἕνιοι τῶν φιλοσόφων χρόνον οἴονται τὸν Κρόνον εἶναι, τὸ δ’ ἀληθὲς εὑρίσκει χρόνος∙ ἢ τὸν μυθολογούμενον ἐπὶ Κρόνου βίον, εἰ δικαιότατος ἦν, εἰκός ἐστι μάλιστα μετέχειν ἀληθείας. Cronos is tagged with the adjective ἀγκυλομήτης in Ηomer (Iliad 2.205, 319, 4.59, 75, 9.37, 12.450, 16.431, 18.293; Odyssey 21.415) and Hesiod (Theogony 18, 137, 168, 473, 495). The same adjective is used in the Orphic Hymn to Cronos (13.9), where Cronos is also called “begetter of time infinite” (αἰῶνος Κρόνε παγγενέτωρ 5); on this see Ricciardelli 2000:292−294 and Alderink 1997:190−194. On Cronos’ wisdom see also Plato Cratylus 396b where Cronos’ name is etymologized as meaning “pure intellect” (κόρος νοῦς); the issue is discussed by Robinson 1995. Cronos’ name is also etymologized as the κρούων νοῦς in the Derveni Papyrus, Col. X-XI; see Bernabé 2013:10. Plotinus also comments on Cronos’ wisdom in the Enneades 5.1.7: ὡς τὰ μυστήρια καὶ οἱ μῦθοι οἱ περὶ θεῶν αἰνίττονται Κρόνον μὲν θεὸν σοφώτατον πρὸ τοῦ Δία γενέσθαι. For more examples see Brendel 1977: 33−35.
[31] Salient examples are the association of Iamos’ name with the ἴα (Olympian 6.55), and Ajax’ name with the eagle (αἰετός) that appears while Heracles prophesizes his birth (Isthmian 6.49−54); see also Olympian 9.41−46 and fr. 105.1, as well as the Scholia ad Nemean 7 1a (Drahmann III, 116−117) where etymology is defined as a typical Pindaric practice. See also Dickson 1990:116−119; Patten 2009:226−233; Gini 1989.
[32] On the significance and function of ἔτυμος, ἐτήτυμος, and ἐτός in Pindar see Bury 1965 ad Nemean 7.24 and 63.
[33] See Catenacci et al. 2013:251. See also Hesych. s.v. ἀληθεῖς: oἱ μηδὲν ἐπιλανθανόμενοι ὡς Πίνδαρος. On the notion of alatheia in the archaic period see, among others, Cole 1983; Detienne 1996.
[34] Pindar typically uses only the adjective Cronion when referring to the hill. When supplying a noun he uses either ὄχθος (Olympian 9. 3, Nemean 11.25) or λόφος (Olympian 5.17, 8.17).
[35] Quincey 1963:146; Patten 2009:229.
[36] See, e.g., Sophocles Philoctetes 293; Plato Symposium 220b.
[37] Khronos’ association with space is not peculiar to Pindar; see, e.g. Aristotle Physics 4.10.218a-b on the Pythagoreans; Aëtius 1.21.1: Πυθαγόραν τὸν χρόνον τὴν σφαῖραν τοῦ περιέχοντος εἶναι. Interestingly, in Column XII of the Derveni Papyrus Khronos is identified with Olympus; on this vexed reference see, among others, Tortorelli Ghidini 1989, 1991; Brisson 1997; Betegh 2004; Piano 2013.
[38] In fact this is one of Brisson’s 1997 objections to Khronos’ representation as a dominant power in Olympian 10: “In this passage, personified time presents the characteristics described by Hermann Fränkel: an orientation towards the future and a strikingly active role. Consequently, nothing forces us to identify it with the primordial divinity which intervenes at the beginning of the Rhapsodies and in the Theogony known as that of ‘Hieronymus’ and ‘Hellanicus’.” (162)
[39] For a perceptive discussion on the issue see Segal 1986b:180−193; id. 1974.
[40] See Hurst 1984:171, who makes a similar observation for Olympian 2.
[41] At the same time, though, the image of the Khronos who after the birth-rite moved forwards could also stand as the figurative representation of the beginning of the “history” of the Olympic games, an idea implied in the adjective πρωτόγονος which, apart from “taking place for the first time” also bears the overtone “creating the beginning;” see Verdenius 1988 ad 51.
[42] I owe this observation to Prof. R. Martin.
[43] Tuan 1994:684.
[44] The myth of Ganymede is also employed in Olympian 1.44−45.
[45]According to tradition Ganymede was transferred to Olympus by Zeus, who was aroused by the lad’s beauty. See also Kromer 1976:435 who traces further implications in Pindar’s use of the Ganymede story.
[46] By doing so, Heracles mythologizes Olympia in the same way as Pindar mythologizes Hagesidamus’ victory.
[47] Burgess 1990:281 emphasizes the erotic overtones of the last strophe.
[48] On this issue see Fleischman 1982.
[49] Ι adopt Fennell’s reading ὁράτω instead of the manuscripts’ unmetrical θνατῶν, which is adopted by Snell-Maehler. On this issue see the discussion in Barrett 2007:61.
[50] Scholia ad Olympian 10.13a-m (Drachmann I, 311−312) assume that the image comes from the sea and, therefore, that the floating wave stands for the torrent of Pindar’s verse. Modern scholars, on the other hand, typically take the image to refer to a river in the mountains rather than to a wave. See Farnell 1932 ad 9−12 and Bowra 1964:19; Norwood 1945:11−12 offers a somewhat different interpretation, arguing that the image alludes to “the work of the gardener who irrigates his land, making a channel for the bubbling water that thrusts along all the little pebbles in its course;” Cf. Homer Iliad 21.257−264.
[51] See Scholia ad Olympian 10.13a-m (Drachmann I, 311−312). Even though the majority of scholars endorse this interpretation, it has been suggested that the pebble might also refer to the idea of indebtedness (abacus-pebble); see, e.g. Finley 1955:120.
[52] Olympian 4.1−2: τεαὶ γὰρ Ὧραι / ὑπὸ ποικιλοφόρμιγγος ἀοιδᾶς ἑλισσόμεναί μ᾽ ἔπεμψαν. See also Isthmian 8.14−15 where αἰών (here indicating a kind of daemon, rather than “lifetime”) is depicted unrolling the course of life: δόλιος γὰρ αἰὼν ἐπ’ ἀνδράσι κρέμαται, / ἑλίσσων βίου πόρον; cf. Isthmian 3/4.18: κυλινδομέναις ἁμέραις.
[53] See also lines 97−99 where Pindar asserts that through his song he has drenched with honey the city of the Locrians, also an indication of immortality; this image clearly harks back to the image of the snow-covered Cronion at 50−51.
[54] For this meaning of the dative χρόνῳ see Aeschylus Agamemnon 126, 463; Libation Bearers 650. The notion of “delay” is also implied; cf. Sophocles Philoctetes 1041; Euripides Hercules Furens 740.
[55] Contrast Fränkel 1955 who maintains that Khronos in Pindar is always associated with the future, a remark that he credits to Pindar’s primitive notion of time; likewise Vivante 1971, 1972. A more balanced discussion is offered by Accame 1961.
[56] Hubbard 1985:69. Ηubbard makes a somewhat similar observation ad 68−69, even though from a different point of view. Nemean 1 offers an apposite comparandum. At the beginning of the poem (46−47) Khronos is depicted as a force that rushes forwards bringing things to a telos. By the end of the ode this moving Khronos is turned into the immovable Khronos of the gods; see Segal 1974. On Pindar’s attempt to portray himself as a ‘master of time’ see Pavlou 2011.
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Decarbonising heat is one of the major energy challenges we face, and there is a growing consensus that the injection of green gas into the networks will play an important role in the future of a whole energy system.”
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CRM Gets More Vertical
Posted May 2, 2014 By Tim Wilson Feedback
With cloud emerging as the dominant deployment model and vendors promoting vertical expertise, CRM is supplanting ERP as an enterprise's most valuable application.
ERP vendors with industry-specific solutions continue to push out unique CRM capabilities, but the market is also well represented by niche CRM vendors addressing vertical markets, particularly in financial services and life sciences. The emphasis on CRM is so pronounced that CRM may be replacing ERP as an organization's most valuable application.
"CRM is not just for sales and marketing anymore," said Rebecca Wettemann, VP research at Nucleus Research. "The data is more actionable and current than on aging ERP apps."
The pressure is on for big players like Oracle, IBM and Microsoft Dynamics to build out - or acquire - more industry-specific CRM capabilities. Aside from takeovers, however, it appears they will have limited impact on niche vendors -- despite their deep pockets.
"Microsoft has been doing a lot of work on the CRM front, but the use-cases are more horizontal and involve things like setting up industry best-practice templates so that customers can focus on what's best for their business," Wettemann said. "To gain share we will continue to see acquisitions, as with IBM's purchase of Silverpop, though that was more around marketing services."
CRM Gets Its Niche On
Niche players like Veeva Systems and Cegedim, both of which specialize in CRM for life sciences, are expected to do well in the years to come. In fact, every industry outside of some core resource-based sectors like agriculture and mining will see enhanced CRM activity by niche vendors.
"Salesforce.com and Microsoft have many hundreds of industry variants built on top of their applications by partners - Veeva being a well-known example," said Gartner analyst Ed Thompson. "Gartner covers perhaps 450 CRM vendors, but we think there are more than 900 - many of which are industry specialists."
What's Beyond CRM? Altify Says It's Customer Revenue Optimization
Thompson offered the example of Blackbaud, a CRM vendor specific to the not-for-profit sector, and provider of CRM modules that work within applications in utilities, telecom billing and core banking. For CRM, there is a niche opportunity in any industry that has a specific regulatory environment, or that is facing technological or market disruption.
"It is important to remember that there is no one leader in CRM; instead, there is the best solution for every customer," said Wettemann. "Salesforce.com is a leader in functionality, as is Oracle, but there are compelling reasons also to select other core providers."
These include finding CRM applications that address the needs of experts in a given field, and that can facilitate advanced industry-specific engagements. When looking at how functionality dovetails with priorities, it is clear that a one-size-fits-all approach is not the way to derive maximum value, especially in today's ever-changing marketplace.
"All industries are constantly being disrupted by regulations, globalization, changes in the market players and commoditization," said Thompson. "Each of them elicits a tech response with either new startups or the existing players adjusting."
For its part, Gartner expects CRM growth to be moderate into 2014, with CRM software hitting $23.9 billion - and 49 percent of that coming from cloud-based offerings. Next year the firm expects the cloud to pass 50 percent of deployments, a significant development given the level of regulatory sensitivity in financial services and healthcare.
Overlapping Verticals
One interesting development in CRM is the value that can be generated when combining verticals. This hybrid approach can unlock unique and unseen opportunities that might be missed in a horizontal approach, or in one that drives deeply into a single industry.
"An exciting opportunity we are looking to move into involves an overlap between our financial services and healthcare offerings," said Paul DeVriendt, senior VP of products at NexJ Systems, a Toronto-headquartered provider of cloud-based CRM solutions. "We are looking to enable wealth client firms to leverage NexJ Connected Wellness to differentiate on service and deepen relationships."
Connected Wellness is NexJ's software for managing chronic conditions. In effect, the company is looking to tie-in its healthcare solution with its high-value financial services clients. Experts expect to see more cross-industry CRM linkages like these as market capabilities expand, and as the cloud emerges as the dominant platform.
"The great news with CRM, particularly with the cloud, is that we will continue to see customer movement," Wettemann said. "It's anyone's game, with companies like NexJ challenged to articulate a clear value proposition, particularly when up against larger vendors with more resources."
Which is to say, a company like NexJ will succeed to the extent it tailors its CRM solutions to specific and often complex customer requirements.
"The ideal market for our software solutions consists of the large financial services, insurance and healthcare enterprises," NexJ's DeVriendt said. "These markets have a strong demand for people-centered information that is best enabled by CRM software. They tend to have complex technology infrastructures that require solutions with flexible integration capabilities."
CRM's Cloud Tipping Point
For CRM vendors, the challenge is to support a large number of users who benefit from scalable solutions, increasingly deployed either in a public or private cloud. Visibility should be across the enterprise, even as it changes, and include such core functionality as the ability to attract and retain employees while driving customer loyalty.
"It will be very interesting to see what happens in the next few quarters," Wettemann said. "Big CRM vendors like Salesforce.com will be investing organically and with partners to increase vertical market expertise, particularly in financial services, which has many overlapping subsectors."
And the cloud will win the day for vertical market CRM - even if that day goes on for some years.
"Those vendors with strong on-premise solutions say that on-premise will be here for years to come, but ultimately those companies are on an old model," Wettemann said. "They will be challenged to compete when it comes to upgrades and industry changes."
In the near term, the biggest spenders in CRM are expected to be financial services, telecommunications, life sciences, consumer goods and IT services.
"Some industries are investing very little, and others enormous amounts," Thompson said. "Usually it's the result of competitive pressures and the opportunity to out-grow the competition, with spending correlating with GDP growth."
There are some exceptions, Thompson added, noting that for now education and some forms of government invest very little in any type of CRM. That could change, however, as line-of-business buyers look to enhance customer self-service while also building cross-channel capabilities.
Short List of Vertical CRM Providers
Companies mentioned in this story that provide CRM solutions for specific verticals:
Veeva Systems and Cegedim, both of which specialize in CRM solutions for the healthcare sector.
Blackbaud, which sells CRM solutions for not-for-profit organizations.
NexJ Systems, which offers CRM solutions for the insurance and financial services sectors.
A graduate of McGill University, Timothy Wilson joined IDC Canada in Toronto as a research analyst in 1997. In 2000, he began T Wilson Associates and continued to consult for research companies, as well as working directly with large vendors such as Microsoft and SAP. Throughout his career he has contributed to the IT, trade and mainstream press. He received a first place CBC Literary Award and a Gold National Magazine Award for his non-fiction writing.
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fogey?
My ex-husband and I read somewhere ("The New Yorker"? "Atlantic Monthly"?) about research on how a music lover becomes an old fogey. It would seem that in a person's mid-thirties, usually they gradually become unable to appreciate new music. They may be able to find a new artist to love, but only if that person's music is very derivative of something the fogey already learned to love. There was a lot of blather about the aging of the brain and so on which I have forgotten, but the basic point was during the thirties, your taste crystallizes and then after forty, forget it. You have to listen to the oldies channel on the radio station, because each and every generation hates the music that those darn young people make.
I felt I needed to get exposed to as much new music as I could, storing up nuts for the long winter of my brain's old fogeydom. I had a few successes, like Ali Farka Toure, Ry Cooder, and the Mermen. But it seemed the process was already happening: I hated almost everything new I heard. This genuinely upset me (this was before I had children, so I had a lot more time to pay attention to myself. Once I had the children, I didn't have much energy for examining myself any more in depth than that classic query of the parent, "Have I left the house in filthy clothing?").
I felt out of touch with pop culture, adrift without being able to enjoy music. Like everyone, I loved Nirvana (RIP, Kurt Cobain), but all that crap that followed... shudder. Flannel shirts (I wore enough of those growing up in Maine to last me a lifetime). Droning music. And the ridiculous shunning of smiling or ever appearing unsuicidal... I used to look at images from the sixties and wonder, "How did we get from a place where flowers and smiling and being happy were what we all wanted to HERE?" It was the fashion to look miserable on stage, no matter how many millions one was raking in. (Not just rock stars, but the heroin chic phase meant the fashion ads in my magazines were all depressed skeletons splayed about in Prada or Jilsander). It all seemed driven by the dreadful music, the horrible stuff that followed Nirvana.
And then there was the techno, ridiculously popular in the Bayeria. It had such a brainlessly repetitive beat that it could make one want to whack one's brains out against a cinderblock wall. Sillily enough one wasn't supposed to listen to this drek on drugs, which would have possibly redeemed the experience, but just on water and smart drugs at the ideal rave. Back in the 80's, the music I loved had complex and changing rhythmns, and I couldn't tolerate these banal, simplistic programmed drum beats which seemed to go on and on forever. Not to mention emocore (so much whining!). Shudder.
I couldn't bear to listen to the radio very much; everything sounded so terrible to my old-fashioned ears. Alas, there were no radio channels devoted to the 80's New Wave music of my youth, so I couldn't settle happily into old fogeydom. (This was before satellite radio and internet radio. Since those technological revolutions, musical fogies have rich ruts to live in). This was genuinely a source of sorrow to me. I did have one coping mechanism: I started exploring ancient blues, which I did love, preferable from the 1910's and 1920's and preferably from Texas and Arkansas. It seemed fitting for a fogey.
But, as it turns out, I hadn't become a fogey. It's just that the music of the nineties sucked. (I have heard so many people opine that the 80's were the worst decade of all history for music and fashion, but no. We were just fine back then, thank you very much, dancing to the Talking Heads with our gravity-defying spiky hair). Somewhere after the turn of the century, the god-awful music of the 90's gave way to new things, things which are actually fun to hear.
I listen to the radio a lot in the car nowadays, as I drive my child overlords hither and yon, and I'm constantly hearing new songs to love. I heard a rap song about "I'm living in liquor land" which I've never been able to track down since, but it made my whole day the time I caught it on the radio. The latest British invasion is composed of hard-drinking neurotic girls, and I love them. Amy Winehouse! Lily Allen! Over in the East Bay, there's a newish form of rap called hyphy. I don't know how to explain what it is, and the articles I've read about it couldn't articulate a definition, either. All that I know is that when they're doing a hyphy show on a local radio station, it's fun to hear. My favorite hyphy song has the most charming line: at one point, in an encouraging voice, the singer calls, "Go, stoopid! Go, stoopid!" This never fails to make me smile.
Even the top forties music of this decade is relatively palatable. There have been some huge hit songs I adore, like "Hey Ya" by Outkast, which has beautiful rhythmns, a wonderful lead singer, and great words. "Lend me some sugar, I AM your neighbor!" is another line which always makes me grin. All the first graders and I loved Justin Timberlake's "Bringing Sexy Back." That song is truly sexy, with its sinuous beat and that line, "You see these shackles/Baby I'm your slave/I'll let you whip me if I misbehave." (I'm not "in the scene" any more, as we used to say in the old days, but I'm confident that song is becoming a dungeon classic, with its steady beat for whipping to. Perhaps it will become enshrined next to that odd kink classic, the disco version of the Hallelujah chorus, which I suffered through so many times in dungeons. And no, I did not share these insights with the first graders).
I could go on and on. Turn on your radios, people; it's a musical wonderland out there. Even one poised on the brink of musical fogeydom can listen happily and rejoice.
http://www.youtube.com/v/Z4Ikay3a1Zc
You know the fogeydom after 35, makes total sense. Well not totally, but I can see why its been said. I've noticed my musical taste changed or maybe it just "firmed up". I still love hearing new music, but I'm just not as open to other genres as I used to be.
There is still amazing music coming out all the time. And I for one thank all powerful deities for Pandora.com. I come from a city with a fabulous string of radio stations, totally in sync with what the masses crave in new music (ever in Madison Wisconsin, check out Triple M!) But now that I live in Syracuse NY, a hole, where all good things must be literally dug for, well, lets just say, Pandora is a godsend :) Good radio does not exist in Syracuse NY.
Great post DHW :)
the Drunken Housewife said...
OMG, a., I love that! completely coincidentally I'm working on an art idea about the sea, and so that imagery was very welcome. God, that was great.
and thank you, Carla! I would have guessed there would be good radio in that neck of the woods with all those colleges up there, but nooo.
oh girl -
don't even get me started on this music thing. as someone who was also into "new wave" when it was actually new, i hear a lot of today's music and think been there/done that. being older than you, i was into new wave in the late 70s (i first saw blondie perform in 1977 when i was in high school). patti smith was my goddess. the cars, b-52s, the go-gos, elvis costello, joe jackson. now that's all "classic rock". ahhh!!! oh, i also adored Rufus with chaka khan.
now, however, i don't listen to the radio at all (i never really did to be honest). i still find some new artists i like (amy winehouse!) but it's usually by happenstance.
i found some great music in the 90s that i still love. the sundays, the cranberries, the breeders, erykah badu, massive attack. i still listen to them. i was also into jazz vocalists like shirley horn and abbey lincoln.
but i am definately fogey status. not much music inspires me and takes over my life like it did when i was younger. i could have listened to "Horses" 24/7.
Taste is so subjective, I know. The 90's just sucked for me. Out of your 90's list, Hughman, I only liked the Breeders, and didn't they only do one album? (One of the sisters had a big drug problem). "Last Splash" has truly one of the best bass lines ever. I gotta dig that CD out today. I did like the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Joy Division, to be honest, but the current stuff the RHCPs do leaves me cold (like "Dani California." My reaction: Meh. But "Suck My Kiss"? Brilliant).
For me it's just fabulous that after all that time of hating 99% of what I heard that was new, I can now enjoy new music. I'm not fossilized yet!
Imagine, if you will, a bunch of relative youngsters calling themselves "Fogeys". How the hell do you think that makes ME feel? Sigh
The only comfort is that your turn is coming.
I'm with you on the blues though. Can you hear the heavy blues influence with Cream, Hendrix and of course our toppled God, Clapton?
And all that was preceded by jazz greats Brubeck, Coltrane Basie,etc.
I heard "Purple Haze" on the radio yesterday driving Iris Uber Alles to her swimming lesson. Fabulous as always.
"cannonball" by the breeders was on repeat for me.
Freewheel said...
Amy Winehouse is good. I liked the Raconteurs/White Stripes and the new stuff by RHCP. But I'd say about 90-95% of what I hear on the radio really sucks.
the RHCP suck. i've met two of them there here in LA and have been unimpressed. it's a personal thing.
2amsomewhere said...
Satellite radio has enough variety to keep your mind ever expanding.
Just change the channels frequently.
Some of the things I realized that I loved once I started listening to XM...
lounge/space age pop, progressive country, African pop, chill out music, folk music
Not all of them may have been necessarily new in the universal sense, but much of it was new to me.
I wouldn't be too hard on yourself for not being able to assimilate pop music from the early 90s onward. I believe that there was a fundamental shift in the way pop music was produced and marketed.
I draw the line when Mtv stopped being about music and more about young urban pop culture. Music became less about talent and substance and more about flash and fashion.
2amsomewhere
who told you not to do drugs while listening to techno? lol!
let us not forget the important (but sad) reality that 50% of EVERYTHING is below average. lots of music from every decade sucks. you have to find the good stuff.
I'm getting tyord of Amy Winehouse. overexposed! but I love the flanger on the guitar in the RHCP's Dani California.
I think most folks have much more diverse musical tastes than anyone realizes. I was looking at Mermen CDs online someplace, and got an auto-generated link that said "people who purchased this CD also purchased music by Frank Sinatra" I'm sure it was true, but what do they have in common?!
also, if you love the internet radio, please please go to http://savenetradio.org and call your elected representatives! because it all may go away except for the richest commercial stations, and *soon* if the save net radio legislation fails.
the Decembrists!!!!! (I probably spelled that wrong.)
The Stute Fish said...
It was Robert Sapolsky in the 2005 New Yorker - I blogged about it here:
http://www.last.fm/user/nicebutnubbly/journal/2007/06/16/452095/
Allow me, by the way, to recommend last.fm as an excellent way to explore new music. you can listen to 'similar artists' or 'tag' radio stations, or other users' radio stations, to find new stuff - it's much more accurate, IMHO, than Pandora, and I'm really loving the musical renaissance it's facilitated for me.
Man, I'm 25 and already a musical fogey. I'm a rocker through and through, but the garbage people are calling rock these days is awful. I haven't heard a good new rock album in about 5 years. I feel much older than I actually am.
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I'm on the mailing list for the XM Village channel (folk music) newsletter. Today, I got an edition with a reprint and link to a column that talks about fogeyism in reverse -- that of younger folks discovering and learning to love older music.
Mighty Casey, Liquorland, I think
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posted Jul 23, 2014, 2:58 AM by Siamak Ebarhimi
Late last year seasoned travellers Doug Barber and Jimmy Hayes, the entrepreneurs behind startup company Minaal, launched a campaign on crowdfunding site Kickstarter. The aim of the 30-day campaign was to raise US$30,000 in 30 days to help them bring a carry-on travel bag they'd designed to market; it ended up capturing the imaginations of 1,634 backers to the total tune of more than US$340,000.CrowdFunding advertizing
It's the stuff of dreams for startups, and such success stories are undoubtedly fuelling the popularity of crowdfunding - where capital is
raised for ventures or projects via pledges made online - as a means to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.
Barber, who shares his story in Small Business this week, says Minaal took the crowdfunding route for a number of reasons.
"In addition to raising crucial funds, we saw crowdfunding as a great tool for both market validation and the marketing of our new product and brand," he says. "Although we consulted countless road warriors during our many rounds of development and product sampling, it's not until people throw money down that you know you've created something they really want."
Barber says they chose to run their campaign on Kickstarter because it was the platform that had the greatest international reach and profile at the time, but there are loads of different options out there.
Belinda Tuki of The Honest Food Company, who also shares her story in Small Business this week, ran a campaign on local site PledgeMe, for example, successfully reaching her target of $35,000 to set up her own gluten-free, raw food kitchen. Also sharing their story is Snowball Effect, a local equity crowdfunding platform, which enables investors to take a stake in startup ventures.CrowdFunding marketing
But crowdfunding campaigns that are a runaway success, like Minaal's, are the minority and many don't reach their funding goals at all. At the time of writing, for example, Kickstarter's statistics showed 43% of campaigns on that platform successfully reached their funding target.
Sean Gilbert launched a Kickstarter campaign earlier this year to help fund his startup business, Re-Fuel Packs by Activate Nutrition, producing healthy, shelf-stable, high-protein ready meals. While the project didn't meet its funding goal, Gilbert still says he learned a lot from the experience and is moving forward with his business.
"The Kickstarter campaign taught me lots about what still needs to be done on the product, the amount of interest that's out there, and that I was on the right track," he says.
Gilbert says he spent lots of time researching successful campaigns prior to his launch, and others echo that preparation is key.
Sam Lee used Kickstarter earlier this year to successfully raise funds to launch meMINI - a small, wearable video camera that allows users to capture their favourite moments retrospectively.Kickstarter Marketing
Lee says preparation for the meMINI crowdfunding campaign started months before launch, and included launching their company website, getting word out with the help of a PR company, and a trip to the US to gain media coverage and other exposure. Drumming up support from friends and family was also crucial.
"One thing people say about crowdfunding is you have to bring your own crowd, and then others will follow on from that," says Lee. "So it was a case of talking to our friends and family and getting that support, because the number of people that back you shows you're legitimate, even if they just give a little."
Doug Barber, Minaal
Can you tell me about your crowdfunding project?
My co-founder and I started Minaal when we couldn't find travel gear built for the rigours of life on the road, but professional enough to take into the office. To bring our Minaal Carry-on bag to market, we set a US$30,000 goal on Kickstarter and ended up raising over US$340,000 in 30 days.
Why did you choose to crowdfund the project, rather than raise the funds you needed some other way?
In addition to raising crucial funds, we saw crowdfunding as a great tool for both market validation and the marketing of our new product and brand. Although we consulted countless road warriors during our many rounds of development and product sampling, it's not until people throw money down that you know you've created something they really want. And as for marketing, launching on Kickstarter provides an incredible amount of exposure, particularly to early adopters.
We chose Kickstarter because it had the greatest worldwide profile and reach of crowdfunding options at the time. There are great New Zealand-based crowdfunding platforms too, but we were keen for Minaal to have a strong international focus from day one, so it made sense to find a platform that enabled that.Indiegogo Marketing
What kind of preparation did you need to do before the project went live?
As part of the development of the bag, we'd been reaching out to people in our target market for feedback many months prior to the Kickstarter campaign. We then took our close-to-final prototype on further travels and met with many like-minded 'pro-travellers' in the process, many of whom kindly helped us spread the word once the campaign launched. Finally, a solid few months were spent filming, editing, writing and rewriting the video and project page.
What strategies did you find were effective for getting support while the campaign was running? Were there any strategies that you tried that weren't so effective?
It's important to do the vast majority of your outreach before the campaign launches, as early momentum is key, and there'll be plenty else to keep you busy once your campaign is out in the wild. An effective marketing tool for us was cross-promotion with similar projects that were live on Kickstarter at the same time.
Not so effective was a limited experiment we ran using a 'crowdfunding PR company' who pitched us on spreading the word to mainstream media - this gained few, if any, results. Community is the clear winner in this environment.crowdfunding marketing
What stage is the company at now, and what are some of the immediate plans ahead?
The most pressing challenge right now is keeping up with demand, which is one challenge we're fairly happy to have! Our flagship carry-on bag model is sold out at the time of writing, but new stock is rolling in soon. We're also working on some exciting new complementary products to flesh out the range.
What are three key pieces of advice you'd have for other small business owners wanting to run a successful crowdfunding project?
1. Involve your target users in development of the product - you'll likely end up with a much better product and some product evangelists to help spread the word for your campaign.
2. Don't assume you'll be able reach out for publicity once your campaign has already launched. Make sure you contact anyone you want to before launch, even if it means pushing back launch a little.
3. The video and text accompanying the product are both extremely important, especially the video, as that can easily be shared via social media. Give yourself a few weeks or even months to get this right and take feedback from a range of people. And make sure they're people who give brutally honest opinions!crowdfunding websites
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Alia Sharrief – Downpressor Man
Peace and love my peoples! Here is my brand NEW music video “Downpressor Man” from my latest EP “Don’t Forget Me.” This song was inspired by the legendary Peter Tosh. As always this tune is for all of you, as we continue to stay woke and motivated in these times.
Directed by @AliaSharrief
Filmed by @RasCeylon
Beat: One Drop Scott Productions
Mix and Master: IAMEOD
Location: Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) in SF http://clarionalleymuralproject.org
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Highlands Football Grads Continue to Win at Next Level
Dougherty, Bunning Contribute to Lindsey Wilson Success
Contributed Photo from Lindsey Wilson Athletic Department. Highlands graduate Jared Dougherty (10) boots an extra point during the season.
Contributed Photo from Lindsey Wilson Athletic Department. Highlands graduate Lou Bunning (50) holds his ground during a game this year. Bunning started all 12 games at center for the Blue Raiders this year.
Highlands Bluebirds Head Coach Brian Weinrich has said Lindsey Wilson College Head Football Coach Chris Oliver and the Lindsey Wilson College Blue Raiders coaching staff have done a great job recruiting the Bluebirds in the past.
The winning tradition at Highlands is a major reason like it is other places. Highlands graduates Lou Bunning (Highlands Class of 2015) and Jared Dougherty (2016) helped the Bluebirds to their 23rd and most recent state championship in 2014. Dougherty helped the Bluebirds go back to the Class 5A semifinals his senior year in 2015.
The duo has continued to experience success at the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics level. The Blue Raiders just completed a season that saw them go 11-1 going 10-0 during the regular season and capturing the Mid-South Conference's Bluegrass Division. Lindsey Wilson proceeded to beat Southeastern University (Florida), 63-49 at home in the first round of the NAIA playoffs before losing a tight battle, 34-29 to Southern Oregon University in the NAIA Football Championship Series Quarterfinals.
"It's a great thing to be able to go down there and really continue to win," Dougherty said. "It's a whole new set of coaches, a whole new set of guys you have to play with. It kind of makes things easy moving forward."
Lindsey Wilson made it to the same round in 2016. The Blue Raiders went 11-2 with a 10-1 regular season that saw its lone loss to Reinhardt University (Georgia) for a 4-1 record in Mid-South West Division play good for second. They beat Grand View University (Iowa), 34-27 in overtime before losing at Baker University (Kansas), 42-27 in the NAIA Football Championship Series Quarterfinals.
"That preparation at Highlands has allowed them to transition well to our football program here at LWC," Oliver said. "The amount of time and work that we put into our process probably wasn't as big of a shock for them as it sometimes can be for many freshmen. In addition, both of these young men come from great families, and that is a big positive for any college coach during the development process. Over the last two seasons, both Lou and Jared have started and logged a lot of snaps at their respective positions. We are excited that both of them still have two more seasons to continue to develop and contribute to our program's quest for a MSC and National Championship."
There are close to 120 players listed on the roster so players can get lost in the shuffle. But Bunning and Dougherty made sure that didn't happen.
Bunning started at center for all 12 games for the Blue Raiders this year. He redshirted as a true freshman in 2015 before cracking the starting lineup as a redshirt freshman in 2016. He started 10-of-13 games that year at right tackle and left tackle. Bunning said learning all five positions on the offensive line increases the chances of starting.
Bunning said the Blue Raiders run a man blocking schemes. Their bread and butter play is the inside zone read and a lot of run-pass options to keep defenses honest. The run-pass option plays involve wide receivers running short routes and the quarterback has to get the ball out quickly before the offensive linemen get four yards downfield.
"Just as a freshman, you have to come in and set realistic goals," Bunning said. "My goal coming in was just to get on the bus and be able to go to away games. I was able to do that. That was a great learning experience. Being with all those guys that were actually playing helped me learn so much."
Dougherty has mostly kicked extra points, field goals and handled kick-offs. He's scored 171 points in his two seasons there making 129 extra-point tries and 14 field goals. The 66 extra-point makes in 2016 are the most in school history in one season. Dougherty credited his teammates for helping him relax in order to perform well on this level.
Dougherty's career-long field-goal try came from 48 yards in the fourth quarter against Southern Oregon on a 4th-and-15. He made a big play booting the ensuing kick-off near the sidelines with the opposing returner stepped out at the half-yard line. Lindsey Wilson then recorded a safety to pull to within 28-22. The Blue Raiders took the lead before giving up the game-winning touchdown with 47 seconds left.
Dougherty did not punt this past season. But he punted four times for 115 yards including a long of 45 yards and pinned opponents inside the 20 three times.
"The biggest thing with punts compared to field goals and kickoffs coming into situations like that is you have to have really good technique," Dougherty said. "It's difficult to be able to pin someone in their own area of you're at the 50, closer or a little further back. You have to play in all the factors with the wind, if you have a dangerous returner, how you're personally feeling that day and what you know you can do. You have to go out there, trust yourself and what you're doing. If you need to place it somewhere, you have to be able to do it. If you're not believing in it, it makes it a little harder."
Dougherty has not been able to hit people consistently like he did in high school as a linebacker. But he's still made four solo and one assisted tackle in his two years on special teams.
"It was rough. I really have kind of adapted to not being able to hit somebody anymore kind of looking at some of my friends getting injured down there," Dougherty said. "It takes some pressure off my shoulders knowing I don't have to worry about taking a big blow. But it'll be something I'll miss going forward no matter what."
Bunning and Dougherty agreed it can be tough adjusting from a town like Fort Thomas located near a big city to the small-town life. Columbia, Kentucky is located in the south central part of the state just 45 minutes west of Somerset on the Cumberland Parkway. It's population is 4,885 residents.
"It's hard at first. You just have to surround yourself with people that make the experience worth it," Bunning said. "I think that's what I've done. I've got three great roommates. They'll all be in my wedding someday. I just love hanging out with these guys and living with them. Even though there's not a whole lot to do here, just dealing with those guys makes up for all the things you're missing out on here."
Bunning credited Highlands for helping him prepare for college life. He's a Criminal Justice major. Bunning was also named to a watch list of college players as part of an academic/athletic team along with Cornell Defensive Lineman and 2014 graduate Seth Hope.
"It's a long day throughout the week. Some days, you have to wake up," Bunning said. "You have to go lift then you have to go to class for three to four hours, then you go to practice, then you have homework late at night. It's tough. But if you manage your time right, you'll be okay. It's not too bad."
Dougherty is undecided on a major. He said a typical day from Tuesday to Friday is class between 8 a.m. and Noon, Practice from 3-6 p.m. before doing homework.
The Blue Raiders practiced on Thanksgiving these last two years. Bunning said it would be nice to be practicing later than that.
"I think we just need to be more consistent," Bunning said. "I think when we're playing our best football, we're right there and we can beat just about any team at our level. I think in the game against Southern Oregon, we missed some great opportunities. We ended up coming up short. We couldn't close the door late in the game."
Lindsey Wilson has been the NAIA playoffs four straight years. The Blue Raiders also lost in the NAIA Football Championship Series Quarterfinals in 2014 before losing in the first round in 2015 when Bunning redshirted.
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21st of September 2012
It is one challenge to remove the visible soiling from carpets – but how do carpet cleaning systems remove other assaults on the senses such as unpleasant smells and stickiness underfoot? Ann Laffeaty finds out.
A stained carpet can give a commercial or institutional facility a grubby look, so the carpet cleaner’s top priority will always be to remove any visible soiling. But an unpleasant odour can also have a detrimental effect on a company’s image. And a carpet that is sticky underfoot will feel unpleasant and create the impression that the facility is not entirely clean.
So it is at least as important to remove bad smells and stickiness as it is to remove stains. It is also more difficult according to Bio-Productions’ managing director Mike James.
“Cleaning the visible soiling from a carpet is a relatively easy process compared with eliminating odours since you simply clean what you see,” he said. “It is when the soiling penetrates deep down between the fibres and into the backing that you have a problem.”
According to James substances such as milk, urine, vomit and wine will all leave behind an unpleasant odour. “You may have made an excellent job of removing the stain but if there is any organic matter left deep within the fibres it will be colonised by bacteria,” he said. “This will cause a recurring smell which you can only eradicate by removing the substance feeding the bacteria.”
Organic soiling
He claims biological products are the best solution for eliminating carpet odours. The company’s Micro Clean contains a 'cocktail' of around 20 bacteria that produce enzymes to degrade the organic soiling.
“If you use a chemical on an organic stain it will simply mask the smell - and you will have to keep re-treating the carpet when the smell returns,” he said. “Also, if you use the wrong chemical on a soiled carpet it will change the chemical make-up of the stain and may even set it permanently.”
He says odours caused by organic soiling can be a particular problem in environments such as care homes, nurseries and bars. “We have also been asked to help out in murder scenes where large amounts of blood have been spilt,” said James.
He claims a chemical product may alter the 'feel' of a carpet since surfactants are used in their make-up. “It is difficult to remove all traces of the chemical after cleaning and the surfactant residue can cause a stickiness underfoot,” said James. “This residue will attract and hold the dirt from your shoes – as a result of which your carpets may need cleaning again.”
Extraction machines will avoid this problem to some extent, he says. “These will completely remove the chemical residue and leave the carpets dry.”
Smell important factor
According to James any carpet 'stickiness' caused by sugary substances such as jam, honey and beer can be eradicated by biological products. However he adds that enzymes are not a complete panacea in terms of carpet cleaning.
“Biological products cannot remove non-organic substances such as ink, paint or adhesives for example. But most substances spilt on a carpet are either foods – or in the case of urine, vomit etc were originally foods - which means that the bacteria in a biological product will be able to colonise and eat it.”
CEBE Reinigungschemie manager Dr Jan Reimers says smell is an important factor in the customer's perception of whether or not a carpet is actually clean. “In fact it is often more the smell than the actual level of cleanliness that determines whether or not the customer is satisfied,” he said.
Removing odours from carpets is not necessarily difficult to achieve according to Dr Reimers. However he says problems arise when the smell permeates deep down.
“It is not always the carpet that influences the difficulty of the removal, but what lies underneath it such as absorbent parquet flooring,” he said. “Urine stains can also cause a problem on wool carpets since urine changes its pH with time and may have a permanent discolouring effect.”
According to Reimers the most important process in any odour removal regime is to identify and locate the source. “If this can be done successfully, then removal is possible,” he says. “After that it is simply a matter of applying the right product.”
Altered texture
The company’s BioFresh uses enzymes and bacteria to remove organic odours. “In the case of urine, the bacteria digests the urea residues and converts them to water, carbon dioxide and ammonia,” said Reimers. “The key to success here is allowing for sufficient dwell time.” CEBE Reinigungschemie also offers Ultra Fresh, a tea tree oil-based odour-neutralising product said to be particularly effective after water damage; and OdourEx, a modifier that changes the structure of odour-causing molecules.
He says the texture of the carpet can be altered via the cleaning process. “Synthetics will stiffen if there is too much residual cleaning product, and wool and silk will harden after cleaning or washing,” he said. “Here it is important to groom the pile with an appropriate brush before and after drying.”
He adds that carpet stickiness is usually a result of cleaning products left behind by the previous cleaner or from using the wrong product. “In these cases the carpet needs to be thoroughly rinsed to remove the residue,” he claims.
Rug Doctor’s commercial sales supervisor Helen Sacre agrees that stickiness can often result from using the wrong product. She says her company’s own carpet detergents are designed to avoid leaving any sticky residue.
“We understand that as well as smelling clean the carpet also needs to feel clean,” she said. “Also the stickiness left by some products will attract and hold the dirt which means the carpet will require cleaning more often.”
Odour control is particularly important in the care sector, says Sacre. “It is essential for providing a fresh, clean environment for nursing home staff, residents and guests,” she said. “Shag pile carpets can be a particular problem because of the length and density of the pile.”
Attack odours
Rug Doctor’s Odour Remover can be sprayed directly on to the carpet and uses an enzymatic action to attack odours such as mildew, smoke and vomit. “We also offer a product called Urine Eliminator which breaks down the hard urine crystals and eliminates the underlying odour,” says Sacre.
Chemspec managing director Richard Suddall agrees that identifying the cause of the problem should be the first step when treating carpet odours or sticky stains. “Only then can you come up with a plan - whether it is an enzyme product or a disinfectant,” he said.
Chemspec offers various chemical and enzyme based products for removing odours and sticky residues from carpets. “The difficulty is that the more absorbent the carpet surface, the more readily it will soak up the odour,” said Suddall. “Natural fibres such as cotton, wool, jute and sisal are particularly susceptible to odours.”
Chemspec manufactures various products designed to deodorise the carpet either before or after cleaning. The company’s Air Neutraliser can be applied to the carpet as a pre-treatment and is said to work particularly well on cigarette smoke odours in hotels.
“Smoking is not outlawed in all countries – and some people ignore the bans anyway - so it can be a challenge to remove the smell of smoke from hotel rooms,” said Suddall. “Air Neutraliser will neutralise stubborn odours, but since it is not biological it would probably not work on yoghurt or milk based products. Here you would need something to kill off the bacteria that causes the smell.”
Chemspec offers a strong disinfectant - Formula 429 - for use in flooded areas and trauma scenes. This is said to kill bacteria physically rather than chemically. “If someone commits suicide in a hotel room, for example, you will need to disinfect the whole room,” said Suddall. “Formula 429 is very powerful but not hazardous which means that you can use it without gloves.”
Sticky spills
When it comes to sticky spills, these have to be identified before a cleaning plan is devised says Suddall. “If it is a sugary substance from fizzy drinks - such as that which often collects in the front of a cinema after a screening - you will need a thorough wet clean,” he said. “A dry compound or foam would not work here: you would need to inject, extract and flush.
“Among the stickiest of substances we have to cope with is the energy drink Red Bull which can be a big problem in nightclubs. Here it is best to use an enzyme product such as our Enz-All which attacks sugars and proteins. You should pre-treat the carpet with the enzyme product and then flush out the stickiness with an extraction system.”
However he says there are always cases where a carpet is beyond cleaning. “In some situations – such as if the underlay is soaked and the smell is getting worse - you may have to work quite hard to identify the problem and tackle it. You may need to carry out an assessment, lift the carpet, throw away the underlay, seal the tongue and groove floorboards and then treat the carpet itself.
“But in some cases - such as if the soiling has soaked into the woven backing - you might decide that the best solution is simply to throw the carpet in the skip.”
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Turning toys and board games into movies is nothing new –Transformers, Clue and Dungeons and Dragons have all been transformed into narratives – but making a movie based on the View-Master, of all things? I guess if there were top secret information encoded on the picture reels you slide into the viewer…or if magic reels let you see through walls or into other dimensions or something…but still.
I suppose Monopoly isn’t that big a stretch; the board’s streets are based on those found in Atlantic City, so you could turn the board game’s “story,” such as it is, into a Rat Race/Cannonball Run style madcap chase for loot and property. Of course, someone will inevitably quip “Do not pass go, do not collect $200” after some slow-motion action sequence that ends with several people outrunning a fireball. I’m sure Mr. Moneybags will lose his cap and monocle at some point. In fact, I’m sure the movie will be about some plucky small business people who use their wits to break up a Monopoly, defeating the entire point of the game.
Asteroids…I have no idea. A spaceship blowing up space rocks might be interesting for a minute or two, and the game did feature a UFO, which could provide additional dramatic tension. But can a plot this thin really hold up for two hours?
If I were a big shot movie producer, my toy-based pitches might look something like this:
Lite-Brite: The Motion Picture
In this action thriller, a hip fourteen year old boy – let’s call him Billy – is disappointed that his uncool dad gave him a Lite-Brite for his birthday. What he doesn’t know is that his dad is actually a secret agent and hid a miniature nanotech factory inside the Lite-Brite before mysteriously disappearing. With his dad gone, Billy embraces the toy he shunned out of nostalgia, and starts playing with it, starting with the one of the classic patterns included in the box: the clown. When Billy finishes creating the pegboard clown and turns on the Lite-Brite, not only does the clown pattern light up on the toy – it projects a holographic beam into the air and the nanofactory inside the toy creates a real clown! Terrified, Billy yanks the plug and the clown disappears. Soon, however, Billy realizes that he can use the Lite-Brite and his own artistic talent to create anything he wants. He makes a bike, balloons, a giant chocolate bar, a car – anything he wants to satisfy his adolescent urges. But it’s not long before sinister men in black stop by Billy’s home, and they seem to be looking for something…can Billy use his Lite-Brite powers to stop the bad guys and find his missing father?
Barbie Cue
In this lighthearted romantic comedy, a bubbly blonde teen named Barbara Millicent Roberts – or “Barbie,” for short – can’t decide on a career. Her boring but dependable platonic boyfriend Ken Carson struggles to keep up as Barbie switches from job to job: beautician, equestrian, superheroine, astronaut, pro tennis player, surgeon, NASCAR driver and so on. Romantic tension simmers when macho adventurer Big Jim catches Barbie’s attention. When Wedding Barbie takes her cue to walk up the aisle, who will meet her at the altar?
It walks down stairs, alone or in pairs! A meteor crashes to Earth and splits open, spilling out Slinky, a loveable but silent alien who slithers and slinks his way into the hearts of a wholesome small town. But then the government shows up to take custody of Slinky, thinking the strange creature is some kind of alien invader! Can the simple folk of this charming American Anytown defend their new friend from the army? Can Slinky slink his way out of this one? And who’s that cute pink plastic Slinky? One thing’s for sure – this film, like this toy, is fun for a girl or a boy!
Meet the Weebles
The Weebles aren’t your average, ordinary family – they’re shaped like eggs and have hard shells! Life hasn’t been easy for the Weebles, who face prejudice at every turn. Now they’re piling into their special yellow microbus and heading for the Big City for a day at the waterslides! Even jaded New Yorkers haven’t seen anything like this, and when a hostage situation breaks out at the water park, the Weebles may get their one big chance to prove that Weebles may wobble, but they don’t fall down!
Game of Bruce Lee Game
Neophyte martial artists struggle to advance in their chosen artforms while battling street thugs, fending off attacks on their dojos, participating in tournatments and eventually fighting their way into the Labyrinth to face the evil Grand Master. It’s a grueling kung-fu katastrophe, with each star sent to the hospital multiple times throughout the course of the film. In fact, in the very first scene our star, the very green Green Fighter, gets sent to the hospital when he accidentally picks a street fight with Bruce Lee himself.
The studio’s Oscar-bait movie for the year features a bookish but handsome graduate student who becomes obsessed with the underlying existential angst revealed by the paddle ball toy he played with as a kid. Our hero’s relationship with his demanding, ambitious girlfriend is put under strain when the paddle ball’s bouncing, rhythmic beat consumes the unnamed protagonist, who also narrates the film. Ian McKellen plays the narrator’s grad school advisor, the only man who realizes that the hero is on the verge of making a philosophical breakthrough that could change man’s destiny forever.
Alcoholic hypochondriac Cavity Sam (Jack Black) is in big trouble. He’s been kidnapped by a rogue band of mad scientists, each of whom has a different surgical specialty, each of whom believes that they can perfect the human form through extraordinary surgical intervention. Now, strapped to an operating table with a half-dozen scalpel-wielding lunatics, Cavity Sam has to hold as still as possible as his bones and organs are replaced by bizarre objects like a rubber band, a pencil, a wrench, a bread basket and more. One slip and Cavity Sam’s big red nose will go dim…forever!
There, some ready-made tentpole franchises for the big studios. Next time, I’ll come up with some TV series based on professions other than fireman, police officer, lawyer or doctor.
Labels: Film, Games, popular culture, Silly Nonsense
Hi Earl,
I would totally want to see the Lite-Brite movie and the Weebles movie!!! : )
I think your pitches are WAY better than most of what's playing in theatres right now. In fact, there's probably some Hollywood producer jealously reading your blog right now. Just remember, intellectual property is not nine-tenths of the law.
Earl J. Woods said...
Thanks, Leslie! Maybe I should get an agent. And the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay goes to...
"Dark Star" was a movie about a space ship that went around blowing up rocks in space. I think there was a UFO or alien in it.
Well, actually, the rocks were planets, and I think they only blew up one... only. But Earl knew that already, probably has the DVD.
Not bad! If Transformers can become a movie sequel - anything can happen.
Saturday, July 11, 2009 10:49:00 pm
Strangely enough, I do not own a copy of Dark Star.
Monday, July 13, 2009 11:14:00 pm
AllanX said...
You just know Michael Bay would end up with the Lite-Bright property. Later the Criterion Collection would release a special two-disc DVD as part of their ongoing "important movies" releases.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 5:09:00 pm
Unfortunately, the Weebles movie won't get the Criterion treatment, even though Bruce Willis and Danny Aiello are re-united with Andie MacDowell in the cast. Instead, Weebles ends up cello-wrapped in a 2-for-1 with "Hudson Hawk" and dumped to the bottom of the seventh hell of Wal-Mart DVD bargain bins.
That would be a total shame, since I already have a Hudson Hawk, and I don't need another copy. Or waitaminnit, maybe I do...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 12:49:00 pm
We talked about Hudson Hawk at work today. Another great (?) film I don't have on DVD.
Fracture said...
Snakes and Ladders on a Plane?
How about some product tie-ins?
Widescreen iMax Etch-a-sketch, anyone?
Friday, February 05, 2010 12:31:00 pm
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General Atomics Awarded Army Contract to Advance Railgun Weapon System Technology
SAN DIEGO, CA, 01 MAR 2018 - General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced that it has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Army through the Defense Ordnance Technology Consortium (DOTC) to evaluate and mature electromagnetic railgun weapon system capabilities to support the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Command (ARDEC). The three year period of performance contract will team GA-EMS with ARDEC to advance railgun technologies, deliver a series of prototypes, and perform system integration and testing for mission effectiveness and possible integration with existing and future Army vehicles.
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“Using hypersonic projectiles, railgun provides the soldier with shorter time to target, achieves effectiveness at longer range, and provides a lower cost per engagement than conventional interceptors,” added Mike Rucker, director of Programs for Missile Defense Systems.
GA-EMS has successfully designed and built multi-mission railgun systems ranging from an integrated 3 Mega Joule (MJ) test asset and a larger 32MJ system, to a new mobile 10MJ railgun system. GA-EMS’ unique approach to packaging and distribution of pulsed power reduces the system footprint required to launch guided hypersonic projectiles. This contract award will leverage over four years of engineering, development and testing of railgun launched hypersonic projectiles to advance and mature the railgun system to meet future Army mission requirements.
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GLASKIN'S LIFE
GLASKIN'S WORK
HIS BIOGRAPHY
HIS LEGACY
How others saw him
Conscientious host who could not do enough for a guest.
Ever willing to go forth and slay a dragon for someone if required.
Prepared to jump in where angels feared to tread.
So much life crammed into one body.
He was what made the sun shine and wine taste nice.
Didn’t try to please anyone; what you saw was what you got.
Had an acerbic, often confrontational manner, but was pretty vulnerable underneath.
Inclined to pursue grievances and conspiracies, real or imaginary, to the detriment of his ordinary enjoyment of life.
Rather intolerant towards his fellow Australians.
Would target individuals who had offered him real or imaginary slight.
A tall, well spoken, articulate and rather haughty man of patrician personality.
At his core, he was a bit of a prude.
Like an older brother, which he was — the managing elder brother.
Spoke with a good accent, not English, but cultured and a slight drawl.
The above comments were made to me, in writing or in person, by people who assisted me with my research.
Click on:
About Glaskin
By Glaskin
To view a slideshow of images from Glaskin's life and work, click here:
How Glaskin saw himself
What a misfit I am! Too late to have been of [his grandmother’s] generation, born 30 years too early to be one of this first generation of interest in this sad little century.
Dominating characteristic: Hope, to the extent of pigheadedness.
I always have the dread that I will wake up one day and not be able to write a word.
I am terribly homesick for Holland all the time. I just can’t get it out of my mind.
I had only wanted to be a writer from as early as I can remember.
I have a fearsome fit of temper which I don’t in any way ‘lose’ — if only I could — and let it explode.
I have always tried to safeguard myself and others against the insupportable agony of loneliness.
I have been taught by three women — my mother, my grandmother, my godmother — to love [life] to one’s utmost ability.
I would rather have been a composer or performer of music than a writer.
I’m not a literary writer but I’m not purely a commercial writer either.
I’m trisexual — I try everything at least twice in case I don’t like it the first time.
When I am surfing, I can forget even the long love-hate relationship I have always borne this native country of mine.
The above quoatations are from Glaskin's letters, interviews and articles.
A life lived to the inch
However much one might find fault with Glaskin’s writing or displeasure with aspects of his personality, it is impossible not to acknowledge a life-seeking exuberance in this man who defied the odds and was at times extraordinary. From the nine-year old boy who crouched under a railway line as a train screeched overhead to his last days when he engaged in ferocious verbal battles with hospital staff, he refused to live life on the periphery. Only the centre was good enough for him, and often a painful, explosive centre at that.
Glaskin was primarily an experiential person, not an intellectual one. He approached life by jumping in feet first and recording the experience afterwards. His opinions on a variety of subjects were quickly formed and boldly stated. Although he had dexterity with words, both spoken and written, they were basically tools to project, transfer and extrapolate experiences from his own life to others. He relied heavily on people, places and events he knew first hand as grist for his books and used them to tell a good tale. As his agent, David Bolt, accurately perceived, Glaskin was primarily a first-rate storyteller.
Maybe that is the way Glaskin deserves to be remembered. But he was not just a good storyteller.
He was one who dared to push the boundaries of acceptability in his choice of subject matter and who experimented with diverse forms and styles of writing to communicate with his readers. To many Australians, he opened windows on their shuttered lives and provoked them to think about issues they had ignored or simply never dealt with. To many readers outside Australia, he offered a glimpse of people and places they had not encountered firsthand. His books, like his life, formed a bridge between vastly different worlds.
When Glaskin died in 2000, he left a legacy worthy of scrutiny and respect. The time has come to give him his due.
John Burbidge
...with thanks to David Buchanan for the title quote
Gerald Marcus Glaskin
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Surprise donation for “help for self-help” project in Burkina Faso
60 years of Hevert-Arzneimittel and 10 years of commitment to Schulbausteine für Gando e. V. – the double anniversary is celebrated with a surprise donation of 60,000 euros. Hevert shows its support for the association via the campaign “Together for Children”: For every package of medicine sold, Hevert donates a percentage to Schulbausteine für Gando e. V. This way, a primary school, a library and a secondary school were able to be built over the years.
Presentation of the donation cheque in Nussbaum (from the left): Mathias Hevert, Managing Director Hevert-Arzneimittel, Sarah Hevert, Chairperson of the Hevert-Foundation, architect Francis Kéré, and Marcus Hevert, Managing Director Hevert-Arzneimittel.
On the occasion of the Anniversary Specialist Conference in September, Francis Kéré, Harvard professor and founder of the association, personally visited the pharmaceutical manufacturer in Nussbaum. It was a great pleasure for the two Managing Directors Marcus and Mathias Hevert and their sister Sarah Hevert, Chairperson of the Hevert-Foundation, to present the donation check of 60,000 euros to their long-time partner and friend Kéré on the occasion of the company’s anniversary. Kéré could hardly believe the amount of the donation and was visibly touched and happy when he thanked everyone that made a contribution to this generous donation.
Campaign “Together for children” now via Hevert-Foundation
Kéré, the award winning architect, – who received the worldwide most important architecture prize “Aga Khan Award for Architecture” – stated that he wanted to increase his commitment in Burkina Faso. With the generous donation by Hevert, Kéré plans to build sanitary facilities in all parts of his scattered home village Gando to further improve the hygiene and health situation. He also has the idea to build a standard home with a modular structure that can be adapted to individual needs.
From now on, the Hevert Foundation – which was founded by Sarah, Marcus and Mathias Hevert in October 2015 – will support Kéré in his endeavors. In addition to the business activity of the Hevert family, the Hevert-Foundation now aims to improve the Hevert projects in the area of Corporate Social Responsibility and to support less fortunate regions and people according to the purpose of the foundation: the promotion of health in humans and nature.
10 years of commitment to Schulbausteine für Gando e. V.
The family business Hevert-Arzneimittel celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2016. This means six decades of commitment to naturopathy, environmental protection, sustainable business practices, and acting responsibly with respect to its employees and community.
Hevert has been supporting the association Schulbausteine für Gando with donations for ten years. Managing Director Mathias Hevert fondly remembers how the project came about in 2006: “We wanted to do more than just donate to various aid organizations and receive a donation receipt as we had done in previous years. This is why we had been looking for a charity project where we can actively participate. When I saw Francis Kéré first on TV and then met him by chance on a train, it was clear that we had found the right project. We were immediately able to identify with the sustainable development projects of Francis Kéré where the rural population in Burkina Faso is actively involved and natural materials such as clay are used. This way we can support help for self-help. My family and I plan to travel to Burkina Faso again soon so that we can see the progress made in the village.”
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Throwback Thursday: Indonesia Part 1
This second installment of Thursday throwbacks is from my first Familiarization Tour in October of 2009. Also know as a "Media Tour," our small group of writers spent five days, four nights in the world's largest archipelago on Philippine Airlines' and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Indonesia's tab.
I had only been on the job for about two months when I got the assignment. This was at the absolute infancy of my photography career where all I had was the basic, entry level DSLR, the Nikon D40. Looking at the EXIF data now on some of the over 1,500 shots taken, it's almost sadly hilarious that I was able to deliver anything at all worth printing.
Anyhoo, (awesome segue) here's the text:
Indonesia: The Foreign and Familiar
The saying goes, “A neighbor is a person who can get to your house in less than a minute and takes two hours to get home.” This neighbor is less than five hours away by plane and kept us captivated, satiated, and culturally enriched for an entire week. Indonesia is known the world over as a vacation destination for surfers, spa lovers, and those who seek the familiar comforts of home in a tropical paradise whose backdrop of old temples and relics are unlike anything they’ve ever seen.
Just less than 2,000 miles to the south of Manila, the world’s 4th largest population calls the 17,500 island archipelago their home. Though they drive on the left side of the road, and though ninety percent of the country is Muslim, we share more in common than you may think.
We arrived at Soekarno Hatta International Airport just before midnight that Sunday. After a brief trip through customs and the baggage carousel, we stepped into the cool, humid Jakarta air. It struck me, as I took in my moonlit surroundings, that the airport and its immediate vicinity bore a semblance to the look and feel of the airports back in Manila. Looking into the faces of family members awaiting their loved one’s return, I observed then, too, that we share with this island nation much more than just boundaries.
The representative from Philippine Airlines who organized our small “Familiarization Tour” group on behalf of Garuda Indonesia, soon spotted the local guides from the Ministry of Culture & Tourism of Indonesia. A round of warm smiles and friendly introductions followed as we threw our suitcases into the back of the van and settled in for the half-hour ride to the hotel. One of the guides commented on the landmarks and various buildings as we passed them but my tired eyes did the listening. Nightshift workers making the sullen commute home, street-side vendors lit by the sole fluorescent lamp of their stand, taxis buzzing here and there—all gave the feeling like I was returning, rather than having just left, home.
Hotel Borobudur’s glowing façade loomed overhead as we drove up the cobbled driveway, and my body heaved a sigh of thanks for the rest that was soon to come. (My day had an early start as our family made the mecca, along with the millions of other Filipinos that Sunday, to a theater to watch Manny Pacquiao carve his name into boxing history. The epic win over Miguel Cotto gave “Pacman” an unprecedented seventh world title in as many weight classes.) The hotel, which sits on 23 sprawling acres, features tropical gardens, four restaurants, several conference and board rooms, and is proximal to Jakarta’s business districts and shopping areas. Nearby attractions include the Presidential Palace while its onsite spa provides luxurious treatments to those who prefer to stay indoors.
Not Just Jakarta
A few hours of sleep later, we enjoyed the complimentary continental breakfast buffet then checked out of the hotel and loaded up once again into the tour van. As we started out through the city streets of downtown Jakarta, “Titi,” our tour guide, pointed out that in order to keep congestion at a minimum, a mandatory ordinance that each vehicle have at least three occupants was enforced. Moreover, the number of scooters and motorcycles was overwhelming! Mopeds weaved in and out of car lanes, speeding this way and that in a chaotic yet organized manner.
With the van’s diesel engine humming in the background, we began the two-and-a-half-hour drive to Bandung while Titi acquainted us with interesting facts about Jakarta. For instance, in its population of 12 million people, only ten percent are Chinese although they manage the majority of the city’s businesses. And with such a booming populace, a two-child-per-family directive is stressed. Another fact Titi was quick to point out was that the ninety-something percent of Indonesians were, in fact, Muslim but only in ceremony and often disassociated themselves with Middle Eastern extremists. Given this, we were surprised to find that Christmas is indeed celebrated and treated like a national holiday as well.
Your Cup of Tea
Winding up the narrow mountain road, we ascended into the clouds over 1,000 meters above sea level. At this elevation, the cool and refreshing air makes its rolling hillsides suitable for West Java’s largest tea plantation—34 hectares of lush green tea bushes. Puncak, which means “summit,” is a small resort town known internationally for its tea exports primarily to Eastern Europe and locally as an escape from the heat and crowds. We sipped on cups of freshly brewed tea while admiring the three mountain passes named Gede, Salak, Panjarajo, popular hiking trails for backpackers who visit year round.
Atop Gunung Mas (golden mountain), we stopped for lunch at Rindu Alam Restaurant for some delectable local cuisine. The restaurant’s dining area overlooked the misty vista as the afternoon fog began creeping in, reminiscent of a Baguio visit. The filling meal rejuvinated our bodies for the next leg of our trip.
More Bandung for Your Buck
Before reaching the main shopping district of Bandung, we stopped at Mang Udjo Angklung, the premier music school in Indonesia with its specialty and focus on the angklung. The show put on by the gifted students, the youngest of which was an adorable 4-yr-old girl, displayed Indonesian cultural themes, other local instruments, and a traditional puppet show unique to the Indonesian theater arts known as wayang kulit. The showcase was particularly engaging, not just because of the inspiring talent, but through the interaction where each audience member was given an anklung. Our impromptu choir shook and rattled out familiar tunes—easily one of the highlights of the trip.
We left the village of Padasuka with the setting sun behind us and with bags full of souvenirs. Bandung is a shopping haven that is just coming into its own. Titi had advised us to do the bulk of our shopping here where the wares were of the same quality but much cheaper than those found in popular Bali markets. Jalan Riau is the Fifth Avenue of factory outlets, shops here sell at a discount either from factory overruns or because they stock directly from manufacturers. Either way, expect to find unbelievable deals on branded clothes and accessories, shoes, bags, and, of course, Batik dresses and shirts (the national garb).
Before we knew it, our first day in Indonesia was drawing to a close. With our bags of loot in tow, we clambered back into the van. Although our bags were full, our stomachs weren’t—luckily for us, our next stop was for dinner at The Valley Restaurant. There, we enjoyed succulent seafood, soups, and much more. That night, we stayed at the beautiful Sheraton Bandung hotel to recharge our batteries for the return trip to Jakarta the following morning.
Day “Duwa”
The early morning sun greeted us as we quickly enjoyed the hotel’s breakfast buffet before hitting the road once again. The return trip would take about half the time it took to get to Bandung because we would be taking the direct highway to the city, a testament to the country’s investment in its infrastructure. Textile factories and warehouses dotted the landscape this time as we sped northwest to the capital city. We arrived in time for lunch at Radja Kuring Restaurant in a renovated old-town building.
The greying sky above reminded us that October through February are the rainy season months in Indonesia. By the time we reached Kota Tua Jakarta (Old Town Jakarta), we began to see the first drops transform the bustling cityscape into a calmer, sleepy one. The country’s oldest city square, Oud Batavia is home to several important historical sites including the Church of Batavia, now the Wayang Museum; the Court of Justice, now the Fine Arts and Ceramics Museum; and Glodok and Pinangsia Area, known better as Chinatown. Had the weather been more agreeable, we could have toured the Dutch named and influenced town on bicycles available for rent at about USD2.00 or PHP94.00 per hour.
The weather further dampened our plans when the slower-moving traffic caused us to just miss the closing time for the elevator to the top of the National Monument. We drove by The Port of Sunda Kelapa on the way to Tugu Monas, the 450 ft tall tower symbolizing Indonesia’s fight for independence. The base houses 48 dioramas depicting scenes from the discovery of Indonesia, its war against Dutch colonialists, all the way through the New Order (Indonesia as we know it). Its gold foil covered flame has illuminated the night sky since July 1975.
The time we had left over before our next engagement gave us more time to shop at a nearby mall. As I stood in line at a nearby Starbucks with my hundreds of thousands of Rupiah in hand, I overheard an exchange of words from nearby seated patrons that, above the Bahasan conversations, I could cipher. Tagalog. I smiled to myself, knowing that in this melting pot of Indian, Arabic, Chinese, Malay, and European foreign ethnic groups, there is something familiar for everyone in Indonesia.
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Nyallah Noah Finds Strength
Kassandra Winchester, GRAMMY Camp LA
Everyone has their strengths. Nyallah Noah of Valley Village, California found her strength in the art of R&B vocals. Her acceptance into the 2014 GRAMMY Camp came with an opportunity to take her strength and finish constructing it, furnishing it and polishing it. However, prior to GRAMMY Camp Noah knew from an early age that music would be her outlet.
“I have been singing since before I could even talk. Music is a starting place for me. It is a way I can express myself in more ways than just one. Music makes you feel something that words and actions can’t express,” said Noah.
Noah agrees that her parents have helped fuel her drive to achieve the dream of being a big name recording artist. Her father being a professional soccer player and mother being an accredited seamstress, Noah is fully determined to take a hobby much like her parents have and make it a lifestyle. Though her passion lies in music, she realizes the music industry is a tricky business to crack.
“I want to be a performer. I want to be an artist, make music and I want to make albums but, more than anything, I want to be involved with the industry because it is such a family type of industry,” said Noah. “I would prefer being a recording artist but I will do whatever I can to be surrounded by music for the rest of my life.”
As her journey though GRAMMY Camp progresses, Noah has every intention to push herself to try new things and stretch her stylistic abilities through meeting new people and collaborations.
“I don’t like putting myself into this box saying this is what I do and I only do this. It may be what I prefer to do, but it’s not like I can’t do something else. Being diverse in the music industry is a huge advantage,” said Noah.
She expresses herself through her artistic gene while allowing her “box” to be open to new suggestions and constructive criticism. Though it is only day two here at GRAMMY Camp, Noah has her mind is set and she is ready to work to fulfill her dream of becoming a big name recording artist.
Maxwell Yi
GRAMMY Camp (LA 2013, LA 2014), GRAMMY Signature Schools
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Physics:
Helmholtz formulated the first law of this, a statement on the conservation of energy
Physics: Helmholtz formulated the first law of this, a statement on the conservation of energy
Janet Michael Molley
Show #3562 - Tuesday, February 15, 2000
2000-A College Championship semifinal game 2.
Molley Jesse, a senior at the University of Virginia from Columbia, South Carolina
Michael LaMasse, a sophomore at Eastern Michigan from Canton, Michigan
Janet Wong, a senior at Drew University from Eatontown, New Jersey
CASPIAN, THE FRIENDLY SEA
COLLEGE TEAM NICKNAMES
"MED" SCHOOL
Nagle Jackson's 1999 comedy "A Hotel on Marvin Gardens" centers on this classic board game
Title of the person who handles mail to a website; the U.S. has a "General" one
The number of 4-cent stamps in a dozen
The USGS estimates the reserves of this in the Caspian are equal to those of the North Sea
UCLA features these creatures
It's the playing of a series of songs, one right after the other
Edward Albee's adaptation of this Nabokov novel starred Donald Sutherland as Humbert Humbert
SYSADMIN, one who maintains a computer network, is short for this
Total cubic feet of earth in a hole 1 yard wide, 1 yard long & 1 yard deep
Botanists believe this fruit, Vitis vinifera, originated in the area of the Caspian Sea
The Longhorns play for the main campus of the university of this state
Some "transcend" with this type of deep thinking & concentration
David Henry Hwang wrote his first play, "F.O.B.", while studying at this school near Palo Alto, California
This 4-letter word from Sanskrit means someone who is a computer knowledge resource
If the vice president & the speaker of the House were to die, the person in this post would be president
In addition to carp & herring, the sea is a major source of this caviar fish
Penn's peaceable players
This monstrous mythological maiden's equally monstrous sisters were Stheno & Euryale
NYC's Alvin Theatre was renamed in his honor while his hit "Brighton Beach Memoirs" was playing there
A stupid or inept internet user can be called this 3-digit number that means "File Not Found"
The number of eggs left in a carton if a boy eats all but 5
This longest river in Europe enters the Caspian by way of Astrakhan
The University of Maryland's reptilian representatives
The prophet Muhammad's escape to this city in 622 A.D. marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar
He worked as a stagehand in Prague before writing plays such as "Temptation" & before becoming a president
Like a villain in darkness, one who reads others' words in a newsgroup but won't contribute is doing this
The brother-in-law of your mother's unmarried only sister is this relative to you
In the 1980s the zebra species of these "strong" bivalves native to the Caspian invaded the Great Lakes
(Hi, I'm wide receiver Antonio Freeman) In 1999 the Hokies of this school, my alma mater, had one of their greatest seasons, going undefeated
In vertebrates, it's the lowermost part of the brain
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THOSE AMAZING MAMMALS
OOH, A WISE GUY
(Alex: All about courses you might take if you were in pre-med.)
He was elected to Parliament in 1386 & began writing "The Canterbury Tales" about a year later
In 1999 this show spun off a "Special Victims Unit"
This title character's sister Gretel wins the silver skates (so why isn't the book named for her?)
Guinness reports a specimen of this land mammal at over 13 feet in height & over 13 tons in weight
This Greek taught the theorem of hypotenuses of right triangles & said that all things are numbers
Comparative Anatomy:
The male fiddler crab's small one is used for feeding; the large for signaling
In 1208 in Assisi he gathered 12 disciples who became the original brothers of his religious order
In 1999 Fox tried a 1/2-hour version of this hour show about the law firm of Richard Fish
In stories by J.D. Salinger, Franny Glass' brother Zachary is better known by this nickname
Pandas have an enlarged wristbone that functions like this digit in humans
Plato compared the unenlightened to people chained up in one of these looking at shadows
If your Latin class seems to go on ad infinitum, it goes on this way
In 1232 A.D. the Mongols were repulsed by "arrows of flying fire", or rockets, at Kaifeng-Fu in this country
It features Ms. Brenneman on the bench
4-letter name shared by a character in Dickens' "Bleak House" & a Jules Verne captain
Discovered in 1901, a single colony of these "canines" of the Western U.S. contained about 400 million individuals
He wrote that "Knowledge is power" -- & rumor has it he also wrote Shakespeare's plays
General Chemistry:
It's the main branch of chemistry that deals with carbon compounds
In 814 Louis the Pious succeeded this "Magne" man, his father, as Holy Roman Emperor
Series seen here:
(starring Dixie Carter)
In a Dostoyevsky novel, it's the "silly" title nickname of Prince Myshkin, whose love for 2 women leads to tragedy
Newly born calves of this "colorful" mammal can measure 28 feet in length & weigh up to 3 tons
This Danish thinker known for his "Leap of Faith" was a precursor of existentialism
Basket Weaving:
Materials used include reed & rush, which is used to make these Japanese mats
"Dark" nickname of Edward, the hero of the Battle of Crecy
Ed Koch made him a criminal court judge; now he's replaced Koch on "The People's Court"
In "Absalom! Absalom!", it's the "mythological" name of Thomas Stupen's daughter, known as Clytie for short
Known for its mass migrations, this rodent of Scandinavia can become pregnant at the age of 14 days
His "Two Treatises of Government" influenced the Declaration of Independence with all its talk of rights
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The 2 U.S. presidents who served as governors of states west of the Mississippi River
Finalist 2nd place: $5,000 3rd place: $5,000
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BRIEF COMMUNICATION
Choroidal neovascularization secondary to choroidal nevus simulating an inflammatory lesion
Samuray Tuncer, Ilknur Tugal-Tutkun
Department of Ophthalmology, Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Capa 34390, Istanbul, Turkey
Date of Acceptance 01-Mar-2012
Samuray Tuncer
Department of Ophthalmology, Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Ocular Oncology Service, Capa 34390, Istanbul
Choroidal nevi are the most common benign pigmented lesions of the fundus. Choroidal neovascularization is a rare complication of choroidal nevi. We report herein a young patient managed successfully with intravitreal bevacizumab injections for juxtapapillary choroidal neovascularization secondary to choroidal nevus simulating an inflammatory lesion.
Keywords: Bevacizumab, choroid, choroidal neovascularization, choroidal nevus, nevus
Tuncer S, Tugal-Tutkun I. Choroidal neovascularization secondary to choroidal nevus simulating an inflammatory lesion. Indian J Ophthalmol 2013;61:305-6
Tuncer S, Tugal-Tutkun I. Choroidal neovascularization secondary to choroidal nevus simulating an inflammatory lesion. Indian J Ophthalmol [serial online] 2013 [cited 2020 Jan 20];61:305-6. Available from: http://www.ijo.in/text.asp?2013/61/6/305/99860
Choroidal nevi are the most common benign pigmented lesions of the fundus. Prevelance estimates range from 4% to 8% of the population. [1] Secondary retinal and retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) changes include drusen, atrophy and/or hyperplasia of RPE, fibrous metaplasia, orange pigment, RPE detachment, and subretinal fluid. Choroidal neovascularization (CNV) is a rare complication of choroidal nevi. Li and coauthors reported CNV in less than 1% of eyes with giant choroidal nevi. [2] We report herein a young patient managed successfully with intravitreal bevacizumab injection for juxtapapillary CNV secondary to choroidal nevus simulating an inflammatory lesion.
A 16-year-old girl was referred to our clinic with a diagnosis of neuroretinitis or juxtapapillary chorioretinitis. The patient had a 3-week history of decreased vision and metamorphopsia in her left eye. Her medical and family history were unremarkable. There was no history of trauma or high myopia. Before referral, systemic work-up for tuberculosis, sarcoidosis, syphilis, Lyme disease, Brucellosis More Details, and toxoplasmosis was negative. At our initial visit, best-corrected visual acuity was 20/20 in the right eye and counting fingers in the left eye. There was a mild relative afferent pupillary defect in the left eye. Biomicroscopic examination was within normal limits. There was no cellular reaction in the anterior chamber or vitreous cavity. The intraocular pressure was 16 mmHg in both eyes. Fundus examination of the left eye revealed a juxtapapillary, elevated, white chorioretinal lesion consistent with CNV that was associated with exudation and retinal edema [Figure 1]a. The juxtapapillary choroidal nevus underlying CNV was not visible with color fundus photography [Figure 1]a, but we were able to detect it with the brightest illumination of the indirect ophthalmoscope. Fundus fluorescein angiography (FFA) demonstrated extrafoveal, juxtapapillary CNV, and late diffuse hyperfluorescence superior to this lesion. Optic disc was normal in all phases of the angiography [Figure 1]b-c. Optic coherence tomography (OCT) confirmed CNV with overlying intraretinal cysts and minimal subretinal fluid. A diagnosis of juxtapapillary CNV associated with a choroidal nevus was made. After a written informed consent was obtained, three consecutive monthly intravitreal bevacizumab (1.25 mg/0.05 ml) injections were performed. After treatment, best-corrected visual acuity improved to 20/50. CNV appeared inactive and smaller in size with complete resolution of exudation exposing an underlying choroidal nevus with 6 × 6 × 2.6 mm in dimensions [Figure 1]d. OCT demonstrated gradual resolution of subretinal fluid and intraretinal cysts [Figure 2]. FFA revealed burnt-out fibrotic CNV with late staining and juxtapapillary hypofluorescence due to underlying choroidal nevus [Figure 1]e. The lesion was still inactive and final visual acuity was stable throughout 2 years of follow-up.
Figure 1: Before treatment: (a) juxtapapillary, elevated, white chorioretinal lesion with exudation, (b) FFA (early) reveals faint juxtapapillary hyperfluorescence of CNV and pin-point hyperfluorescent points superior to this lesion, (c) FFA (late) shows juxtapapillary CNV and diffuse leakage. After treatment: (d) complete resolution of exudation exposing the underlying choroidal nevus (arrows), CNV appears inactive and smaller in size, (e) FFA reveals burnt-out fibrotic CNV with late staining and ill-defined juxtapapillary hypofluorescence due to underlying choroidal nevus (arrows)
Figure 2: OCT shows gradual regression of CNV and complete resolution of intraretinal edema and subretinal fluid with restoration of the retinal architecture, (a) CNV associated with minimal subretinal fluid and intraretinal cystic edema (initial visit), (b) after first injection, (c) after second injection, and (d) after third injection
The case presented herein shows the rare association of CNV with a choroidal nevus in a 16-year-old girl. In a young patient with CNV, inherited and acquired conditions such as angioid streaks, high myopia, trauma, choroidal tumors, familial macular dystrophies, and inflammatory retinochoroidopathies should be considered in the differential diagnosis.
Juxtapapillary CNV may be mistaken for neuroretinitis or chorioretinitis. The absence of optic disc edema, vitritis, macular star, or optic disc hyperfluorescence on FFA helped us rule out an inflammatory lesion. Our case shows that an underlying choroidal nevus may not be readily perceivable as a cause of CNV when there is prominent exudation from the CNV. Most of the ophthalmologists would prefer to perform an indocyanine green angiography to detect the underlying pathology in the presence of a CNV in a young patient. However, we were able to detect the underlying choroidal nevus with indirect ophthalmoscopy and managed successfully with intravitreal bevacizumab injections.
Choroidal nevus-related CNV is a rare entity and may be either extrafoveal or subfoveal. Treatment options include laser photocoagulation, transpupillary thermotherapy, and photodynamic therapy. [1],[3],[4] Laser photocoagulation can be used in extrafoveal CNV, but it destroys the overlying retina and the pigment epithelium. [3] Visually significant scotomas may develop when laser is applied for subfoveal CNV and lesions located in the papillomacular bundle due to irreversible damage to nerve fiber layer. Transpupillary thermotherapy may also be an option for juxtafoveal and extrafoveal CNV. Possible thermal injury to underlying retinal and retinal pigment epithelial structures may lead to atrophic changes in larger areas that may threaten the visual acuity. [4] Photodynamic therapy is preferred in the management of subfoveal CNV. Vascular complications including optic nerve ischemia and retinal vessel occlusions were reported in juxtapapillary choroidal hemangiomas managed with photodynamic therapy. [5] Considering these potential complications, we preferred intravitreal bevacizumab injection for the management of juxtafoveal CNV which was found to be secondary to a choroidal nevus. We did not observe any adverse event and we achieved both anatomical and functional improvement with this treatment modality.
In conclusion, an underlying choroidal nevus should be considered in the differential diagnosis of CNV in young patients. To our knowledge, our patient represents the first case of choroidal nevus-related CNV successfully treated with intravitreal bevacizumab injections.
Callanan DG, Lewis ML, Byrne SF, Gass JD. Choroidal neovascularization associated with choroidal nevi. Arch Ophthalmol 1993;111:789-94.
Li HK, Shields CL, Mashayekhi A, Randolph JD, Bailey T, Burnbaum J, et al. Giant choroidal nevus: Clinical features and natural course in 322 cases. Ophthalmology 2010;117:324-33.
Stanescu D, Wattemberg S, Cohen SY. Photodynamic therapy for choroidal neovascularization secondary to choroidal nevus. Am J Ophthalmol 2003;136:575-6.
Parodi MB. Transpupillary thermotherapy for subfoveal choroidal neovascularization associated with choroidal nevus. Am J Ophthalmol 2004;138:1074-5.
Schmidt-Erfurth U, Kusserow C, Barbazetto IA, Laqua H. Benefits and complications of photodynamic therapy of papillary capillary hemangiomas. Ophthalmology 2002;109:1256-66.
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* C Nick Studer (Toronto, Ont.), right, a former Toronto Met and LHP Brandon Stennis of the Doane College Tigers have signed to play for manager Brett Thomas with the Okotoks Dawgs this summer. Photos: Doane College Athletics. ….
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By Jonathan Hodgson
The Okotoks Dawgs have signed impact players in left-handed pitcher Brandon Stennis and catcher Nick Studer from NAIA power, the Doane College Tigers.
Studer is a 6-foot-3 220 lb catcher from Toronto, Ontario, who like Stennis, is also entering his senior year at Doane.
The 2014 spring season saw Studer bat .399 and drive in 53 runs with 15 doubles, leading the team in all categories, while guiding their strong pitching staff in 48 games behind the plate. His average and RBIs were both among the leaders in NAIA baseball.
Studer also enjoyed success in the Northwoods League this past summer hitting .265 with 36 RBIs in 66 games as the starting catcher for the Thunder Bay Border Cats.
Stennis is a 6-foot-2 205 lb left-handed pitcher from Omaha, Nebraska, who is entering his senior year at Doane College.
Stennis emerged as a leader on the Tigers pitching staff in 2014, posting an 8-2 record with a 1.92 ERA in 11 starts as a junior. In 70 innings the lefty allowed 47 hits while recording 72 strikeouts. He was among team leaders in all major categories on a staff that worked to a stingy 2.31 ERA collectively.
Stennis has posted similar numbers as a workhorse in the ultra competitive Northwoods League over the past two summers. He led the Rochester Honkers with 22 appearances in 2014, with a 4-3 record and a 3.85 ERA while tallying 48 strikeouts over 51 innings. That followed a 2013 season where he made 15 appearances including 7 starts, recording 37 punch-outs in 48 innings.
Stennis brings another quality left-handed arm to a 2015 Dawgs pitching staff that already includes veteran southpaws Tyrell King and Conor Lillis-White.
These two players will be the first to come to Okotoks from Doane College in Crete, Nebraska. The Tigers are coming off of an outstanding 2014 season where they compiled a 42-7 regular season record, and a perfect 20-0 conference record in the Great Plains Athletic Conference of the NAIA under head coach Jeremy Jorgensen.
Brett Thomas, head coach of the Okotoks Dawgs sees Stennis and Studer being core members of his roster.
“We are excited about the signing of Nick Studer and Brandon Stennis from Doane College,” Thomas said. “Nick is a top of the line catcher who has put up monster numbers at Doane. We not only look for Nick to be a rock behind the plate, but hit in the middle of the lineup as well.
“Brandon is the definition of an ace. He gives us another quality left-handed arm, and is a tough, competitive pitcher who we expect to throw in a ton of big games this summer.”
The additions of Stennis and Studer figure to further solidify the core of the 2015 roster as head coach Thomas continues to assemble his team for the 2015 season.
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Something ancient is stirring on the island…and it’s out for blood.
Good and bad live side by side on this mystical island. But the peace is threatened when the powerful Elder wages a battle to return the island to his kind. Faced with the loss of their home, an angel, vampire, demon, and merperson must set aside ancient rivalries and fight the evil that threatens their very existence.
When Angelica gains a new partner—her pegasus, Swift—she learns that the angels have been keeping a secret.
Grant must learn to protect his family when the blood well runs dry and to rekindle his vampiric instincts, suppressed for years.
When Monica escapes her family’s cave, she’s tested and prevails in a way that only demons can—with fire and an iron will.
Adam, cursed and separated from other merpeople for years, must transform his curse into a gift and find his bravery.
The magic of the island pits friends against friends and makes lovers out of enemies in this mystical tale of family, friendship, and love. In the center of it all, an ancient tablet holds the key to peace—or war—among the island’s strange inhabitants.
Megan Wong was always a writer. Beginning in elementary school, she wrote stories and loved reading. As a freshman in high school, she began writing what would become her debut novel, Island Whispers. She loves creating worlds filled with magic and sharing stories that need to be told. She is currently an undergraduate student majoring in psychology with a minor in creative writing at North Carolina State University.
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We Will Remember Them: Raising Public Awareness of Commonwealth Troops in World War One- November 22nd 2017
On Wednesday 22nd November 2017 6:30pm- 8:30pm there is an event to be held at the Ogden Lewis Seminar Suite, Fielding Johnson Building, University of Leicester, LE1 7RH
Tickets can be obtained here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/we-will-remember-them-leicester-tickets-39831951439
NOTTINGHAM BLACK ARCHIVES, PROFESSOR SHARON MONTEITH & RENAISSANCE ONE PRESENT
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM: Raising Public Awareness of Commonwealth Troops in World War One
2018 marks a century of WW1. Empire troops fought in the most infamous battles of the war, including Ypres and Passchendaele.
This archive exhibition and spoken word project commemorates the hidden histories of the commonwealth troops from Africa the Caribbean and South Asia. Between September to December it tours extensively to arts centres, libraries and community venues in Nottingham, Leicester, Derby and London.
Featuring original artwork from Barbara Walker and Keith Piper and contributions from Dr Irfan Malik, Panya Banjoko, Dr Corinne Fowler and a newly commissioned poem on WWI performed by Michael Brome.
Photograph of British West Indian Regiment in Egypt WWI courtesy the Imperial War Museum
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Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society (천문학회지)
The Korean Astronomical Society (한국천문학회)
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Earth Science(Earth/Atmosphere/Marine/Astronomy) ＞ Astronomy
The Journal of the Korean Astronomical Society, JKAS, is an international scientific journal publishing papers in all the fields of astronomy and astrophysics (theoretical, observational, and instrumental) with a view to the advancement of the frontier knowledge. Manuscripts are classified into original contributions, proceedings, and reviews.
http://www.kas.org/view/submitpaper.jsp?lang=kor KSCI KCI SCOPUS SCIE
Volume 36 Issue spc1
THEOREMS ON NULL-PATHS AND REDSHIFT
Wanas, M.I.;Morcos, A.B. 97
https://doi.org/10.5303/JKAS.2013.46.3.97 PDF KSCI
In the present work, we prove the validity of two theorems on null-paths in a version of absolute parallelismgeometry. A version of these theorems has been originally established and proved by Kermak, McCrea and Whittaker (KMW) in the context of Riemannian geometry. The importance of such theorems lies in their applications to derive a general formula for the redshift of spectral lines coming from distant objects. The formula derived in the present work can be applied to both cosmological and astrophysical redshifts. It takes into account the shifts resulting from gravitation, different motions of the source of photons, spin of the moving particle (photons) and the direction of the line of sight. It is shown that this formula cannot be derived in the context of Riemannian geometry, but it can be reduced to a formula given by KMW under certain conditions.
SEJONG OPEN CLUSTER SURVEY (SOS). 0. TARGET SELECTION AND DATA ANALYSIS
Sung, Hwankyung;Lim, Beomdu;Bessell, Michael S.;Kim, Jinyoung S.;Hur, Hyeonoh;Chun, Moo-Young;Park, Byeong-Gon 103
https://doi.org/10.5303/JKAS.2013.46.3.103 PDF KSCI
Star clusters are superb astrophysical laboratories containing cospatial and coeval samples of stars with similar chemical composition. We initiate the Sejong Open cluster Survey (SOS) - a project dedicated to providing homogeneous photometry of a large number of open clusters in the SAAO Johnson-Cousins' UBV I system. To achieve our main goal, we pay much attention to the observation of standard stars in order to reproduce the SAAO standard system. Many of our targets are relatively small sparse clusters that escaped previous observations. As clusters are considered building blocks of the Galactic disk, their physical properties such as the initial mass function, the pattern of mass segregation, etc. give valuable information on the formation and evolution of the Galactic disk. The spatial distribution of young open clusters will be used to revise the local spiral arm structure of the Galaxy. In addition, the homogeneous data can also be used to test stellar evolutionary theory, especially concerning rare massive stars. In this paper we present the target selection criteria, the observational strategy for accurate photometry, and the adopted calibrations for data analysis such as color-color relations, zero-age main sequence relations, Sp - MV relations, Sp - $T_{eff}$ relations, Sp - color relations, and $T_{eff}$ - BC relations. Finally we provide some data analysis such as the determination of the reddening law, the membership selection criteria, and distance determination.
BETTI NUMBERS OF GAUSSIAN FIELDS
Park, Changbom;Pranav, Pratyush;Chingangbam, Pravabati;Van De Weygaert, Rien;Jones, Bernard;Vegter, Gert;Kim, Inkang;Hidding, Johan;Hellwing, Wojciech A. 125
We present the relation between the genus in cosmology and the Betti numbers for excursion sets of three- and two-dimensional smooth Gaussian random fields, and numerically investigate the Betti numbers as a function of threshold level. Betti numbers are topological invariants of figures that can be used to distinguish topological spaces. In the case of the excursion sets of a three-dimensional field there are three possibly non-zero Betti numbers; ${\beta}_0$ is the number of connected regions, ${\beta}_1$ is the number of circular holes (i.e., complement of solid tori), and ${\beta}_2$ is the number of three-dimensional voids (i.e., complement of three-dimensional excursion regions). Their sum with alternating signs is the genus of the surface of excursion regions. It is found that each Betti number has a dominant contribution to the genus in a specific threshold range. ${\beta}_0$ dominates the high-threshold part of the genus curve measuring the abundance of high density regions (clusters). ${\beta}_1$ dominates the genus near the median thresholds which measures the topology of negatively curved iso-density surfaces, and ${\beta}_2$ corresponds to the low-threshold part measuring the void abundance. We average the Betti number curves (the Betti numbers as a function of the threshold level) over many realizations of Gaussian fields and find that both the amplitude and shape of the Betti number curves depend on the slope of the power spectrum n in such a way that their shape becomes broader and their amplitude drops less steeply than the genus as n decreases. This behaviour contrasts with the fact that the shape of the genus curve is fixed for all Gaussian fields regardless of the power spectrum. Even though the Gaussian Betti number curves should be calculated for each given power spectrum, we propose to use the Betti numbers for better specification of the topology of large scale structures in the universe.
CAN MASSIVE GRAVITY EXPLAIN THE MASS DISCREPANCY-ACCELERATION RELATION OF DISK GALAXIES?
Trippe, Sascha 133
The empirical mass discrepancy-acceleration (MDA) relation of disk galaxies provides a key test for models of galactic dynamics. In terms of modified laws of gravity and/or inertia, the MDA relation quantifies the transition from Newtonian to modified dynamics at low centripetal accelerations $a_c{\lesssim}10^{-10}ms^{-2}$. As yet, neither dynamical models based on dark matter nor proposed modifications of the laws of gravity/inertia have predicted the functional form of the MDA relation. In this work, I revisit the MDA data and compare them to four different theoretical scaling laws. Three of these scaling laws are entirely empirical; the fourth one - the "simple ${\mu}$" function of Modified Newtonian Dynamics - derives from a toy model of gravity based on massive gravitons (the "graviton picture"). All theoretical MDA relations comprise one free parameter of the dimension of an acceleration, Milgrom's constant aM. I find that the "simple ${\mu}$" function provides a good fit to the data free of notable systematic residuals and provides the best fit among the four scaling laws tested. The best-fit value of Milgrom's constant is $a_M=(1.06{\pm}0.05){\times}10^{-10}ms^{-2}$. Given the successful prediction of the functional form of the MDA relation, plus an overall agreement with the observed kinematics of stellar systems spanning eight orders of magnitude in size and 14 orders of magnitude in mass, I conclude that the "graviton picture" is sufficient (albeit probably not a necessary nor unique approach) to describe galactic dynamics on all scales well beyond the scale of the solar system. This suggests that, at least on galactic scales, gravity behaves as if it was mediated by massive particles.
SPIRAL ARM MORPHOLOGY OF NEARBY GALAXIES
Ann, Hong Bae;Lee, Hyun-Rok 141
We analyze the spiral structure of 1725 nearby spiral galaxies with redshift less than 0.02. We use the color images provided by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We determine the arm classes (grand design, multiple-arm, flocculent) and the broad Hubble types (early, intermediate, late) as well as the bar types (SA, SAB, SB) by visual inspection. We find that flocculent galaxies are mostly of late Hubble type while multiple-arm galaxies are likely to be of early Hubble type. The fractional distribution of grand design galaxies is nearly constant along the Hubble type. The dependence of arm class on bar type is not as strong as that of the Hubble type. However, there is about a three times larger fraction of grand design spirals in SB galaxies than in SA galaxies, with nearly constant fractions of multiple-arm galaxies. However, if we consider the Hubble type and bar type together, grand design spirals are more frequent in early types than in late types for SA and SAB galaxies, while they are almost constant along the Hubble type for SB galaxies. There are clear correlations between spiral structures and the local background density: strongly barred, early-type, grand design spirals favor high-density regions, while non-barred, late-type, flocculent galaxies are likely to be found in low-density regions.
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Home > News > Korea > Author’s wages to be garnished to compensate ‘comfort women’
Author’s wages to be garnished to compensate ‘comfort women’
Professor Park Yu-ha
By Lee Kyung-min
Professor Park Yu-ha’s wages will be partly seized starting this month after a district court accepted a request from former sex slaves for compensation for defamation.
On Tuesday, the Seoul Western District Court ordered Sejong University to partly seize her wages until she paid 90 million won ($74,000) to the victims in compensation for causing them emotional distress due to her controversial book “Comfort Women of the Empire.”
At the first trial, the court found Park guilty of defaming the sex slavery victims.
The university said it sent an e-mail notifying Park that more than half of her wages will be deducted by the court order.
Nine former sex slavery victims have sought compensation after the court ordered the 59-year-old author to pay the amount in compensation for incurring emotional distress last month.
Earlier, the nine filed the defamation suit against Park over the degrading depiction of them as “voluntary prostitutes,” as well as characterizing the relationship between some of the former sex slaves and Japanese soldiers as “comrade-like.”
The district court earlier ordered the publisher to revise 38 such sections which it recognized as defamatory against the women. The newer version of the book was published with such revisions in place.
In response, Park expressed anger, saying that she will change her attitude toward the issue.
“Members of House of Sharing are increasing their efforts to hurt my reputation far more than what I have been expecting,” she wrote on social media.
House of Sharing is a non-governmental organization representing former sexual slavery victims. All nine plaintiffs are its members.
“On this occasion, I cannot but admit that I have been too naive,” she added.
“I will definitely change my attitude toward the court disputes from now on. At this point, it is for me, but in the long term, it would be to prevent the elderly victims from hurting others.”
The first pre-trial proceeding for her trial for the criminal defamation charge was held on Jan. 20, during which she requested her case be a Citizens’ Participation for a Criminal Trial, similar to a jury trial.
Since Feb. 1, Park has been distributing the revised version of the book online free of charge at http://parkyuha.org.
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Home > More > Hot Links > Court denies arrest warrant for ex-BIGBANG member Seungri
Court denies arrest warrant for ex-BIGBANG member Seungri
A Seoul court on Monday again denied an arrest warrant for Seungri, the disgraced former BIGBANG member accused of overseas gambling and procuring prostitutes for investors.
Following a two-and-a-half hour hearing, the Seoul Central District Court dismissed the prosecution’s request to detain Seungri, who was at the center of a major sex and drug scandal that roiled the K-pop industry last year.
The court said it didn’t deem detention of Seungri to be necessary or justified after looking into his role and involvement in wrongdoings, and also considered his attitude toward the prosecution’s investigation.
It is the second time the court has turned down law enforcement authorities’ bid to detain the 29-year-old. A similar attempt by police in May fell through, with the court citing “room for dispute” and little concern that Seungri could destroy evidence.
Upon arrival at the court hearing at around 10:30 a.m., Seungri briefly bowed his head to reporters asking him questions but did not comment.
Seungri arrives at an arrest warrant hearing at the Seoul Central District Court on Jan. 13, 2020. (Yonhap)
Seungri is suspected of regularly gambling at hotel casinos in Las Vegas for over three years beginning in December 2013 with Yang Hyun-suk, the founder and former chief of YG Entertainment. The two allegedly breached the foreign exchange transaction act in the process.
The prosecution also suspects Seungri to have arranged sex services for Japanese investors between September 2015 and January 2016 together with his business partner Yoo In-suk, former chief of Yuri Holdings Co.
Also among the seven counts prosecutors brought against Seungri are his alleged distribution of naked photos of women in a Kakao Talk chat room.
Seungri is one of the entertainers who allegedly shared sex videos of about 10 women secretly filmed by now-jailed singer Jung Joon-young in a mobile chat room.
The scandal-ridden K-pop star, whose legal name is Lee Seung-hyun, ceased all entertainment activities in March last year after Burning Sun, a nightclub he was affiliated with, was probed over drugs and sexual abuse.
The nightclub drew an outpouring of suspicions as a hotbed of collusion with police officials, drug trafficking, tax evasion and other illegalities, prompting President Moon Jae-in to order a thorough investigation into the case.
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Home > Koreatown > Korean American Federation of LA to have contested election to select a new president
Korean American Federation of LA to have contested election to select a new president
The current president of Korean American Federation of Los Angeles (KAFLA), James Ahn made it official that he will be running for the re-election.
Besides the President Ahn, Mr. Hyung-man Park, the chairman of the Korean Senior & Community Center, Mr. Hyung-Ho Kim, the chairman of the LA Senior Citizens Society, and Ms. Laura Jeon, the former vice president of KAFLA also showed their intention to run for the election by picking up the candidacy registration form.
According to the KAFLA election committee, Park, Kim, and Jeon all received the documents that are needed in order to register for candidacy on the last day of distribution of the form.
In the last ten years, KAFLA never had contested election due to repeated abstention due to a candidate, Nam Moonkey deciding not to run for the election in 2006. Also due to violations of election regulations, there has not been contested election in 2010, 2012, and 2014.
Hyung-Man Park who picked up the candidate documents first, said he would reconstruct the KAFLA and heighten its status and put a knot in the lawsuit with the Overseas Koreans Foundation. Park also showed his willingness to serve the Korean community.
Hyung-Ho Kim showed his aspiration with the platform of reconstructing parks and increasing green spaces for the benefit of the community. Kim also said he would serve the Korean community from the perspective of daily working class Korean-americans.
Laura Jeon who picked up the candidacy registration form the last, said that she learned how to contribute to the Korean community by serving as the vice president for the past two years.
Jeon also said it was a difficult decision to run against the current president Ahn but with the thirteen years of serving Korean Health Education Information & Research Center (KHEIR) as chairman, she wants to use her experience and expertise to improve the Korean community.
The candidates that picked up the registration form have to pay electoral deposit of $100,000 of which $50,000 is for the registration and the other half is for the election related expenses.
<Cheol-Soo Kim – The Korea Times Staff Reporter>
Please elect Mr Hyoung Man Pak for the Korean American Federation of Los Angeles Presidency! He like us are not perfect but he
on the outside is helping those people who have struggled in life and he is very passionate about that! So we struggle we need someone who understands our needs and that is Mr Hyoung Man Pak!
Please elect someone who will show real concern and I believe Mr Hyoung Man Pak
will help! Let us all follow in his footsteps in his daily success! Thank you!
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A Delicate Balance: Quality Education & School Taxes
Heidi Sickles, posted on March 18, 2010
Public schools are at the epicenter of the economic crisis, leadership from the Rye Neck and Mamaroneck school districts told the Local Summit when it met at the Nautilus Diner in Mamaroneck on March 16th.
Westchester County has long been known for having among the highest achieving school districts in New York State, and even in the country. But, as the economy sputters and the burden of property taxes weighs heavier, maintaining this level of quality has become much more challenging, said the superintendents of both districts, as they described this year’s fiscal hurdles and led a discussion of the future of public education in our area.
Listening to Their Communities
Mamaroneck Schools Superintendent Dr. Paul Fried. Photos by John Gitlitz
Dr. Paul Fried, Superintendent of Mamaroneck Schools (www.mamkschools.org), and Dr. Peter Mustich, Superintendent of Rye Neck Schools (www.ryeneck.k12.ny.us), opened by talking about the months of planning involved in developing next year’s budgets, beginning with listening sessions to help the districts and school boards better understand what is valued by the community, and subsequently extrapolating goals and objectives from that. Dr. Fried mentioned that one thing that came out of Mamaroneck’s early meetings was a list of 200 questions that now appear in FAQ form on the school district’s website, and serve as an encyclopedia of budget information relevant to any school district.
Both districts welcome community involvement and want people to become informed about their school budget. As Dr. Fried stated, “we see this as a united effort … we are all in this together.” The two districts presented their Superintendent’s Recommended Budgets to the community this week in the first of several budget hearings. Information regarding the time and place of the hearings, as well as details of the budgets themselves, can be found on the district websites.
State Cuts and Mandates
Taxpayers foot most of the bill for schools, since by the state’s standards both Mamaroneck and Rye Neck are considered to be wealthy districts, thereby qualifying for minimal aid: approximately 5% of Mamaroneck’s revenues come from state aid, and in Rye Neck the comparable figure is 4%. Both districts appear near the very bottom of the list of over 700 New York school districts in terms of current state aid received, and the dollar amount of state aid is likely to decrease for the coming year.
On the flip side of state aid revenue are state mandates, which represent significant costs to school districts. Applause broke out from the audience after Dr. Mustich declared, “Keep your state aid. Get rid of the mandates.” As an example, he asserted that Rye Neck’s students do not need to be tested year after year on state assessments and believes the state should test high-performing schools less frequently.
Rye Neck Schools Superintendent Dr. Peter Mustich.
Shrinking Assessables
Another challenge faced by the school districts this year is a decrease in property assessments. As assessed values in the community drop, each household pays a larger share in making up the whole. This raises the tax rate independent of any budgetary increase in the school district.
Slowing the Rate of Property Tax Growth
To minimize the property tax increase, Mamaroneck and Rye Neck are proposing several budget-reduction initiatives. As Dr. Fried expressed it, the districts could not simply “roll over” this year’s budget into next year, because the cost to taxpayers would have been too great. Both districts considered many options for cuts, and challenged building principals and other administrators to produce budgets with various levels of reduction. Although state law limits schools so they don’t have the same tools that a business might have to increase revenues and decrease expenditures, Dr. Mustich assured the audience that “we’ve been careful to look at every single thing.” He added that Rye Neck has also frozen spending in the current year’s budget.
Proposed Budget Increases May Be Lowest in History
The Superintendent’s Recommended Budget in Mamaroneck proposes a budget-to-budget growth of 1.47%, which is perhaps the lowest in district history, according to Dr. Fried. This is being accomplished by significant cuts in several areas, including a reduction in staff of 56.3 positions, 11 of which are teaching staff. The resulting tax rate increase would be 2.81%.
In Rye Neck, the budget-to-budget increase is 1.08%, which carries an estimated tax rate increase of 2.04% for Rye Town residents and 3.88% for Rye City residents. This anticipates a reduction in 2.7 staff positions. Dr. Mustich stressed that superintendents and school boards are working hard to bring reasonable tax increases to the voters, but they must make tough, unpopular decisions in order to accomplish this. Two examples he offered from Rye Neck were charging municipal leagues fees to use district fields and facilities and converting some private and parochial school transportation routes from private to public carriers where permitted by New York state law.
Contingent Budget
Unlike municipal budgets, school budgets can be approved only with a community vote. This year, the school budget vote is scheduled for Tuesday, May 18th. If a school budget is not approved, districts have the option of putting a revised budget out for a second vote, or adopting a contingency budget. If the second vote also fails, the contingency budget must be adopted. Under the formula specified by current state education law, this year a contingency budget must have a decrease under the current year’s budget of -0.4%. The Governor’s proposed state budget includes a proposal to limit the contingent budget reduction to 0% of the current year.
Dr. Fried pointed out that because of rising fixed costs like utilities, benefits, transportation and contractual increases, a 0% contingent budget would force deep cuts. This could mean a potential reduction of 24 additional staff members in the Mamaroneck district, on top of the personnel cuts already included in the budget plan. Dr. Fried asserted that it would be “devastating” to the community to have to go that far.
The Future Sustainability of Our Public Schools
Panelists and audience members expressed concern over the ability of the community to continue to pay for educational excellence. Dr. Mustich expressed the fear that without a new funding mechanism schools will continue to have to make cuts, and people who can, will walk away from public schools. Jeremy Ingpen, Summit board member and Executive Director of the Washingtonville Housing Alliance, stated that an important characteristic of Mamaroneck and Rye Neck schools is that the very rich and very poor all get the same high quality education; he believes the moment we lose the wealthiest 20%, we break something magical and marginalize our schools.
Dr. Fried emphasized the growing importance of public/private partnerships, and cited the Mamaroneck Schools Foundation and fundraising initiatives for a new all-weather field and reinstitution of the co-op summer camp last year as sterling examples. He also said that this is the final year of the Mamaroneck teachers’ contract, which was negotiated in better economic times. Newer contracts, like that in Rye Neck, are reflective of the changed economic conditions. He anticipates the terms of Mamaroneck’s next contract will help curtail budget increases.
Other potential cost-saving ideas included increasing student-to-teacher ratios through a lecture center or virtual courses. Councilman Ernie Odierna of the Town of Mamaroneck echoed Dr. Mustich’s call for more school/municipal cooperation, saying that there may be opportunities for shared services. He offered up the possibility of using senior busses to make early runs with school children.
Bruce Shearer, a Summit board member, urged the school districts to adapt to the new reality, saying that school boards need to come forward with a new vision and model for education and school management in an era of cuts.
The Local Summit, which hosted the meeting, is a nonpartisan, informal community council that seeks to make Larchmont/Mamaroneck a better place to live for everyone. Its meetings are intended to inform and encourage an exchange of ideas and possible solutions. All are invited to the Local Summit’s regular meetings which take place at 7:45 a.m., typically on the third Tuesday of the month at the Nautilus Diner in Mamaroneck.
Heidi Sickles is president of the Rye Neck School Board.
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2 comments to A Delicate Balance: Quality Education & School Taxes
Anon E Mous
Yes but. Didn’t we read he’s leaving for greener pastures?
… Dr. Fried stated, “we see this as a united effort … we are all in this together.”
One Classroom, From Sea to Shining Sea
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/opinion/19jacoby.html?pagewanted=1&th&emc=th
Yes, Mr. Shearer! Or perhaps we need a new vision for school districts, school boards, school management and education. And for new municipal government organization and leadership too.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The Larchmont Gazette Suspends Publication, Seeks New Team
Without Your Help, There Would Have Been No Gazette
Roaring ’20s Firemen’s Ball Will Raise Funds & Fire Awareness
Kenise Barnes Art Award Debuts at Larchmont Arts Festival: Oct 2
Prize-Winning NY Times Reporter Kicks Off Fall Programs at Larchmont Library
Race to Register Opens for Limited Slots in Sept 25 Junior Triathlon
School Improvements Finished in Time for Opening Day
Larry Keane Returns to Hommocks as Interim Assistant Principal
William Dentzer Jr., David Hachey and Kathryn Parter Join At Home on the Sound Board
Career Doctor: Loss of Job/Loss of Identity, Part 2
Mamaroneck Gets an Interim Principal for MHS & An AP for Chatsworth
Student Pass Rates Plummet as State Raises Test Bar
Larchmont Hikes Water Rates By 35%
Mamaroneck Schools Break Ground on Artificial Turf Field
3 Indicted in Carbon-Monoxide Death of Larchmont Native & Her Family
Mamaroneck FBLA Again Earns National Prize
Harbor Island Hosts Free Entertainment Every Sunday in August
Lauren Groveman’s Deliciously Simple White Rice
PR: Larchmont Realtors Host Japanese Counterparts
Lauren Groveman’s Purée of Asparagus Soup
Bastille Day Takes Over Larchmont Avenue
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