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__label__cc	0.559189	0.440811	Wiki_History Tuesday 1, December 2015 04:21 PM @This Day In History: #01_December #Events First President Day (Kazakhstan) Agriculture in Kyrgyzstan is a significant sector of the economy. According to the CIA World Factbook, it comprises 35.3% of the total GDP and occupies 55% of the total labor force. Only 7.5% of the total land area is used for crop cultivation, but 44% of the land... CIA Kyrgyzstan CIA SEEKS CHAOS IN KYRGYZSTAN? Boy from Kyrgyzstan ( Kyrgyzstan is an important hub for distribution of Afghan heroin to Eurasian markets, "a business that had multiplied in times under the NATO guardianship in Afghanistan." "The town of Osh, the ‘southern capital of Kyrgyzstan’, has long ago become a major cross-point for the Great Heroin Way..." (Kyrgyzstan Destined To Become Another Narco-State? Dissident Voice) From Flickr: Osh from Suleymanka mountain 3 Creating chaos in Kyrgystan seems to suit the drugs trade. It also suits the USA which does not want Kyrgyzstan to become a strong and stable partner of Russia. There seems to be a war going on in Kyrgyzstan, involving the USA, Russia and others. Western spies appear to be behind the unrest in the country. On 12 June 2010, Russia was asked by the government of Kyrgyzstan to intervene to help restore peace in the south of the country. (Krygyzstan calls for Russian help to end ethnic riots) Russia said it had no immediate plans to send troops, describing the riots as an internal conflict. No doubt Russia does not want to increase the chaos. There have been clashes in the city of Osh, where at least 65 people have been killed in three days of ethnic rioting. Kyrgyzstan's leader said outside forces were needed to restore order. The USA has its Manas airbase in Kyrgyzstan, and this is vital for supplying US forces fighting in nearby Afghanistan. Russia also has a military airbase in Kyrgyzstan. The present leader of Kyrgyzstan is Roza Otunbayeva. It is difficult to tell whose side she is on. Her predecessor, Bakiev, was most likely toppled by the CIA. "It was only logical for the US establishment to use the services of narco-barons to overthrow Bakiev, who demanded from the US more and more pay-offs for his loyalty and even dared engage with Chinese and Russians on multimillion investments in Kyrgyz economy." (Kyrgyzstan Destined To Become Another Narco-State? Dissident Voice Source: aangirfan.blogspot.com 24x36 Poster; Cia Map Of Kyrgyzstan. 2005; Antique Reprint Home () 24 x 36 poster Printed on museum-quality photo paper using archival ink rated for 80+ year fade resistance Shipped in mailing tube to prevent bending 21st Century Complete Guide to Kyrgyzstan - Encyclopedic Coverage, Country Profile, History, DOD, State Dept., White House, CIA Factbook (Two CD-ROM Set) Book (Progressive Management) CIA Kazakhstan Calling Kazakhstan Climate Kazakhstan In Kazakhstan	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line13937
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__label__wiki	0.659064	0.659064	Review: Operation 021 05:49 By Lollywood Online Operation021 No comments The biggest problem with Operation 021 is the disconnect between the marketing of the film and the actual product. It was a wonderful movie, but not the one we were prepared for. Ignore all of the Waar comparisons you’re going to hear; this film is on a different spectrum entirely. Sold as an action-thriller, the trailer hinted at a gun toting Shaan defeating evil enemies with the power of one liners. Instead O21 is a surreal meditation on conflicting loyalties. Contemplative, deliberately paced and often disconcerting, it is a far better film than it appeared to be in its promotion, and therefore requires an audience that is willing to be challenged. If you don't know what you are in for it's easy to be overwhelmed. Photo Courtesy - Operation 021 Official Facebook Page Rather than a prologue and exposition we are dropped right into the action which is hard to follow at first as four different points of view are juxtaposed with each other. The separate stories of an Afghani government official Dost (Hameed Sheikh), radical revolutionary Abdullah (Ayub Khoso), CIA operative Nathan (Joe Town) and former asset Kashif Siddique (Shaan) eventually converge. Getting to see what's happening from every angle allows for more context and perspective than if we followed a single protagonist. The daring choice of a fragmented structure as opposed to the usual chronological linear narrative means there is no escalating tension and no real climax. The unfolding of events do not matter as much as the pattern that emerges. Essentially, O21 is about people who find themselves caught between the twin corruptions of corporate agendas and devious politics centered round Afghan mineral deposits that are accessed through Pakistani routes. In lesser hands this movie would have been reduced to its plot: Afghan nationalists seek to expose forces that seek to exploit the country’s resources. A microchip with potentially scandalous information becomes the focus of both groups. But plot is only peripheral here. The filmmakers have their sights set much higher and add subtlety and nuance to the proceedings. An unending cycle of double crosses makes us question the veracity and motivations of the very characters we want to identify with. This is not a story about heroics or defeating villains. It's about the willingness to give up a part of yourself for something bigger. Kash's self sacrifice cannot be reversed. His patriotism, heroism and compassion all require a lack of ego which turns him into more of a spy and less of a person. As much as he wants to connect to his wife Natasha (Aamina Sheikh) he will always be married to his country first. It is a part of the damage heroes take on to save the world. Abdullah understands this better than anyone and stopped being a person long ago to become indestructible. You cannot break someone who has turned himself into his mission. Charming in his wildness, he is as untameable as Afghanistan itself. The CIA operatives are somewhat under written. Nathan's personal motivations seem murky at best. A well rounded story has villains who are as three dimensional as the protagonists. In contrast Dost slowly transforms from just another cog in the machine to one of the most conflicted and interesting characters whose choices may determine the fate of the country. The movie is not perfect, but it is beautiful in its ambition. Grand ideas expressed clumsily will always be better than having nothing to say. There were some obvious flaws. Some characters and plot lines were not set up, and introducing them in the second half of the film felt contrived. Choppy editing and several tonal shifts leave evidence of the change in directors from Summer Nicks to Jami. Dialogue was stilted, awkward and distracted from the movie. The one liners seemed forced and designed to be catch phrases. Luckily the powerful visuals more than compensated for everything else. Rarely can an impressionistic blast of sound and vision so clearly convey an emotional state of being. The production value is the best I’ve seen in a Pakistani movie to date, and yet O21 isn't a mere technical achievement: it's a heartrending, gorgeously realized story of allegiances and loyalty that wrestles with questions of integrity, justice, and patriotism. It does not glorify war but depicts it in a gritty realistic, thought provoking way. It's engaging, unflinching and unique in that it dares to tell the dark and intense stories in the shadows. Overall score: 4/5	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line13944
__label__cc	0.600648	0.399352	Star Trek RPG - Mission #4: "Codex Aelyrr" Page 2 of 52 First 1 2 3 4 5 6 12 ... Last Thread: Star Trek RPG - Mission #4: "Codex Aelyrr" 10 Apr 2015 02:59 PM #51 general_urko Ape must not kill ape! Graham clears his throat again. "Uh..." Graham weighs the fact that bailing out on Collins if indeed she's stood up is probably not the best way to help her overcome her addiction. "Uh, yeah, sure, I need to eat too." He stands and cocks his head toward the replicator. "Say, speaking of OC3...when you and Ens. Kylah were talking...she didn't mention anything, ah...anything that might have upset her...that she may not have put in her AMR, did she?" Dr. Villa says, with a glance at her colleague, "Dr. T'Var has had a full battery of psi tests since returning from OC3, but not a mind meld. We found nothing out of the ordinary... no sign of any residual effects from Mr. Palver's, uh, intrusion on her mind. As I said, Ensign, a mind meld with you might not be necessary. But if it is, and you'd rather not have Dr. T'Var be the one to conduct it, I'm sure we could find a trustworthy Vulcan on Anubis to do so. Anyway, why don't we just cross that bridge when we come to it?" Graham notices Singh and Cheverez get drinks and food, and sit at a table for two. They greet several crewmembers in passing. anyrose I'm the Cute one! =^.^= at my computer Collins stands and heads, with Graham, towards the replicator. While they walk, she says "No, I mean I could see she was agitated about something, but no, she didn't say anything specific. And after that first evening, well, we had a bit of a heated disagreement in the shops, she and I barely spoke." From the replicator, Collins chooses a Cobb Salad with warm bacon dressing, some fruit salad, and a coffee. Tray in hand, she faces Graham, "Why? Did something happen to her?" Last edited by anyrose; 10 Apr 2015 at 03:23 PM. Why yes, Graham thinks, For one, I assualted her, and I suspect something happened at that hotel, which is why I should have disobeyed your damned orders... Graham immediately rules out replying with what first pops into his head, and has to think--perhaps a bit too long--about what to say. "Uhhhh....um, no, I, ah, well I just haven't been great at communicating with her either, is all." He shrugs and turns intently toward the replicator. "I'm sure it's nothing," he says toward the machine. Graham orders steak and potatoes. "I understand your concern, Mr. Rangin," T'Var says. "However, I am an expert in the melding of minds. Of course, a mind meld may not be necessary -- or even possible." T'Var checks the datapad. "And, if at any time during these tests, you feel uncomfortable in any way, we do not have to continue." The doctor gives Rangin a reassuring smile. 11 Apr 2015 09:36 AM #56 Rangin cranes his necks upwards to look at the two doctors from the bed, mentally tut-tutting at Dr. Villa's poor choice of words. "Dr Villa, Dr T'Var has more than earned my trust and if there was to be a mind-meld, I would prefer her above all others whether we find it necessary now or not. But it is good to hear that nothing untoward has been found." Rangin leans back again facing the ceiling. "Dr. T'Var, I'm sure I will be comfortable in your more than capable hands, shall we begin?" As he is fairly certain the two Doctor's have done to him in the name of patient stress, so Rangin has done onto them. He thinks across to a bed not far from here, with Lt Fujishiro lying in it and Dr T'Var refusing to act until she could get to a Sick Bay. Capable hands, just so long as it wasn't anything unusual, perhaps like a psychic Rhaandarite. Despite the outward serene smile on Rangin's face, inside Rangin a little voice of nervousness begins to wonder what will happen next and what they will find. Dr Villa, seemed to think she is going to find something and that possibility worries Rangin all the more. As Collins and Graham walk back to the table, she says "Well, something is bothering her. She seems very closed off, and reluctant to share what it is. I hope she relaxes soon and realizes she has friends, well, supportive people here." Collins knows she and Kylah are not friends, not yet anyway, and wonders if that will ever change. Dr. Villa administers the standard tests for aperception and Duke-Heidelburg quotients. While running a continuous brain scan, she shows him dozens of images - a mountain, a Carcillor lion, a storm-tossed ocean, a flower, among many others - on a display screen and asks for his reaction to them. She holds up a hundred small blue cards, one after another, and asks him to say what symbols are shown on the backs of them. She reads to herself silently from a data pad and asks him, every ten seconds, to say what she is thinking. Dr. T'Var takes notes as the tests proceed. Last edited by Elendil's Heir; 11 Apr 2015 at 12:03 PM. Graham gives Rawlings a wave and a nod as he and Collins walk back to the table. He more-or-less grunts as Collins finishes speaking, still distracted. Then he re-focuses. "Say, speaking of 'supportive people,' do you know where Rangin's been hiding? I've hardly seen him." Except at Kyah's...maybe he knows the real story. I'm sure he'd welcome answering questions from me as much as I look forward to asking him. Rangin patiently works through the tests keeping as calm and as clear headed as possible. "No," replies Collins, "I haven't seen Rangin all day." "You are doing well, Mr. Rangin," T'Var says as she continues to monitor and record everything. "Learning more about your abilities should decrease any concerns or worries you may have." The doctor places her hand on Rangin's shoulder. "Knowledge is always better than ignorance." Graham exhales a deep breath. "Well, I hope the little guy's OK. He and Kylah seemed pretty worked up about some after-effect of that Sakathian mission--" he pauses and looks at Collins apologetically. "Uh, I guess there was some bad shit on that mission...sorry I brought it up, L-T." He pokes at his food. "Speaking of a rough time--seen Delaney, either? I had the impression Vargas was a hard ass, but after the demotions, well...case closed." He shrugs. "We live to fight another day, I guess." It strikes him that after the last mission, whether they would be fighting each other or some other adversary remains an open question... Collins recalls the chaos of the Sakathian mission, and her own ineptitude therein, and stiffens noticeably. "Yeah, really messed up. And Fujishiro is paying the price." She pushes her salad around with her fork distractedly. "I saw Delaney last night, he seemed preoccupied with I don't know what. I guess he's been spending the day dealing with whatever it was." She finally moves a forkful of food to her mouth and chews, staring past Graham, focusing on nothing in particular. "You don't know?" Graham asks, regretting bringing up the Sakathian mission. Not the way to keep Collins in a good headspace. "Delaney blurted out incriminating information about Hardin over the comm while Kylah and I were still with him. Got us stunned but good." He frowns. "Old bastard totally had the drop on us as a result." He sighs. "I shouldn't have answered the hail till we were clear--we had a lot of non-Security people down there who may not have had a lot of tactical training." He says a small prayer to any and all divine beings worshipped anywhere and everywhere in the galaxy that Ben arrives soon. "Look, don't beat yourself up. If Vargas thought you ought to be an ensign, or for that matter, third mate on a garbage scow on the far rim, I have no doubt he would have made it so already." He points at her dish. "And hey, with all you've been through, make sure you get enough protein. You could throw a couple eggs on there, 'sis,'" he says, forcing a smile. "It'd definitely help you out if we ever spar." Finally the tests are done, and Dr. Villa says, "Thank you, Ensign. That should do for now. Dr. Villa and I will look over the results for a few minutes and then come back. Just relax here. Help yourself to something from the replicator, or use the computer if you like." They go into an adjoining office. The CMO says to T'Var, "I'm going to work up a TL adjusted psionic profile. I'd like you to cross-correlate the readings so far with the Rhaandarite and Coridanite psionic-potential databases. See if you can find any points of commonality." Ben Cooper enters the mess hall, sees Collins and Graham, and comes over. "Hi. Sorry I'm late." Rangin nods at the two Doctors and hops down from the bed stretching a few muscles from being still for so long. His brain, however, feels like ti ran a marathon even though, they aren't going to find anything. Then again, it was a slightly more interesting way to spend some time, even though the outcome was going to be futile. The only psychic correlation between the two species was that it just didn't occur. Fellim Palver, himself, was probably closer to a freak of nature than anything and was more likely to have Vulcan or Romulan genetic history, those were the odds indeed. While watching the two Doctors head into the office, Rangin walks to the replicator and gets a large coffee. Sitting at the desk with the computer, he breathes in the heady aroma before logging in and continuing to read some of his correspondence. Relaxing and slowly clearing his thoughts of the tests just done, he decides after a few sips to also get a plate of cake, to accompany the hot, soothing drink. Rangin carefully places it down and takes a forkful, well aware that Dr. Villa would not approve of getting sticky fingers and crumbs across the desktop. choie In the quiet of her quarters, Kylah looks over the finished message on her terminal, now in her SENT ITEMS folder. It is gone, off to its destination back on Elas. She can imagine so very clearly the look on Aldaan's face when he listens and decodes the song. He will be in his study, in her late father's old ebony chair, and his head will nod, leaning slightly to the left. He will run one finger across his lips in that contemplative, habitual way he has. Slowly, slowly, he will begin to smile. Kylah knows that smile well... so tiny, so satisfied. It wrinkles only slightly his otherwise unlined cheeks. And his wide, magnetic gray eyes: they will gleam like burnished silver. It is an expression that has the curious and somewhat sickening power to fill her with relief and pleasure. Even now, even as an adult ostensibly far from his reach, Kylah is compelled to seek approval from this man whom she loves and loathes, admires and fears. With a ragged sigh, exhausted now that she has at last sent this composition off, Kylah leans back in her chair and runs a hand across her tired eyes. Suddenly her thoughts switch from the man who rules her life to the one who is beginning to reign over her heart. How long will Velir's tests take? How will he react? She cannot help remembering the dozens of invasive mental and physical tests she endured as a child, but surely the Starfleet crew will not be as ill-equipped to handle measuring psi powers as her family's private doctor. And just as surely--even if whatever happened to Velir is deemed harmful--Velir will not be forced to undergo the almost medieval methods to eliminate whatever powers they find. At least, Kylah prays this is true. Starfleet medicine must be, must be far more advanced and sensitive. Velir will likely be in little pain. Even the thought of Velir enduring a little pain is too much for Kylah to stomach. She winces and pulls out her communicator. She has already written much today, but one more message is mandatory: VELIR - I am thinking of you. By the time you read this, the tests will probably be through, or perhaps you will have a break. Will you let me know how you are doing, as soon as you feel well enough? Perhaps we may see each other if you are up to it. I know the tests may be tiring, so please rest first. I can wait... although I do not wish to. -- KYLAH Once she sends the message, she goes back to her bed, lies down, and, with closed eyes, absently brushes her fingertips across the zither's strings. Last edited by choie; 13 Apr 2015 at 05:27 AM. Collins smiles, digs out a piece of hard boiled egg and a bit of bacon, and waves it at Graham. "It's in here, already, you dope. That's why I got a Cobb Salad." She eats what's on her fork, then adds, "I did read the report, and I'm glad you and Kylah were not seriously injured by that, or by Palver. I doubt my being there would have made much difference, though. I'm pretty sure I won't be demoted, but I am just as sure I will be stuck at JG for a long time." That's when Cooper arrives. She looks up, smiles warmly, and extends her hand to him. "Hi. You're not late. Graham and I were just talking shop, and we got hungry. Go grab some grub and come back." Last edited by anyrose; 13 Apr 2015 at 07:14 AM. Rangin hears the soft tone while writing yet another missive to his sister finding out how she is doing. Instead of using his communicator he calls up the message on the computer wondering who it might be. As he recognises the sender's name, a warm flush slowly creeps over him as he puts aside one message for this latest one. In some ways he is glad she had not contacted him earlier, before the tests. Otherwise he could have spent the entire time trying to answer questions while thinking of her. Who knows what those results would have shown. As he reads the message, he smiles at the thought of her, but wonders what kind of tests she thinks he is undergoing. Tedious, rather than tiring would be more apt description. Looking at the office door, the two Doctors are still well-ensconced within their domain and are showing no signs of returning any time soon. Now Rangin could wait until they return, get the results, have a rest and then contact Kylah, but if she can't wait, why should he. Leaving the current message aside, he sends her a brief note in response. KYLAH - First set of tests over, just waiting for results to see if anything further is required. Everything is fine here, not expecting anything of note to be found. Will let you know the outcome, when I do. Currently fortified on coffee and cake to keep me going, through would prefer sharing them with good company. Happy to meet up afterwards and promise not to answer everything with Square, Circle, Wavy Lines, Star... - VELIR Rangin sends the message on its way and sits back in the chair, thinking happy thoughts while taking another sup of the coffee. He suddenly blushes at how deeply he is thinking of her, when it occurs to him, that T'Var might want to do a mind-meld depending on the results. Rangin squirms uncomfortably in his chair wondering if she could sense such things. Turning back quickly to his correspondence, Rangin hopes to find something dull and boring to at least allay the effect Kylah was having on him. Because Kylah is anything but. Graham makes a big deal of squinting at the pieces of egg. "More egg." He nods to Ben when he arrives, then when he leaves to get food he leans in a little toward Collins and lowers his voice. "Did you know Kjaerstad? Between you and me, I found his attitude too...casual...about the fuck ups we had on the surface." He frowns slightly. "For what it's worth, I don't know if you've worked with him, but he earned his way onto my list of folks to keep an eye on." Collins shakes her head 'no' because she is chewing. When she finishes, says "No, I don't think so. I probably have met him, but it takes me a while to match names to faces, unless I work directly with the person, Ensign... what was it? Graham Cracker?" She laughs. Cooper says, "OK, will do." He goes to the replicator and shortly returns with a grilled-cheese sandwich, potato chips and a pickle. A small bowl of fruit cocktail and a tall glass of ice water round out his meal. "So... did you both have a good day?" "I gotta say," Collins answers "After the last two missions, I'm glad to have a routine-nothing-much-happens day." She smiles and finishes off her salad, and starts on her fruit. Graham smiles slightly, rolling his eyes at Collins' (lame) joke - which he accepts with equanimity since he's not good at telling jokes either. "Same here," Graham says about his day. "No drama, no hassles..." He pauses and gestures toward Cooper's plate. "But jeez, doesn't anybody eat meat on this ship? I mean, I think the replicated stuff somehow isn't the same as something right off the bone, but still," he ays shaking his head. "Anyway, I should go so you two can make goo-goo eyes and nauseatingly cute small talk." He taps the datapad. "I was intending to write a letter to my daughter this evening." "Have a good one," Collins says to Graham as he leaves, then turns to Ben, tilts her head a bit smiles and bats her eyelashes at him. "Cute cute cutecutecute cutie cute" she says in a sugary voice. Then allows her face to return to normal, still smiling. Kylah, now sitting upright on her bed, exhales in relief as she reads Velir's message. It is like him to make light of the tests, and hopefully he is being truthful that they were not invasive. She even recognizes the reference to shapes at the end of the note--although of course, her own mental tests used different patterns. Her fingers quickly tap out a response offering to eat a proper meal with him once he is through. Then Kylah holds a hand over her growling stomach. It occurs to her that she has eaten very little over the last few days, usually by choice. This is not like her. And yet it feels oddly challenging, in a good way. Being able to withstand the hunger feels like a strength. Unlike her mind that is so often under the barrage of others' emotions, unlike the multiple recent incidents where her body was stunned, grabbed, invaded, or utterly paralyzed by someone else... at least this is under her control. Her thoughts return to Velir, concern for the results tickling her brain. What if he does have mental powers after all? Will he recognize her own? The possibility is alarming, but she calms her anxiety by reminding herself that since the Palver incident, Velir has not shown any inkling that he possesses new information about her--not her thoughts, feelings or empathic abilities. Well... he has displayed insights and sensitivity toward her feelings, but no more than usual. Although these are qualities that appear to be sadly rare in Kylah's experience, fortunately some people do possess enough compassion to care about others' feelings. The memory of having woken up covered in a blanket placed around her by Velir, makes her eyes almost dreamy with affection. I wish I could surprise him, she thinks, swinging her legs over the edge of the bed and letting them dangle. Like a picnic, choosing the foods for him just as he did on the planet. Should I get something from the replicator? It is so impersonal... Kylah's eyes suddenly open wider. She knows someone who might be able to help her. They have not spoken since the first day she boarded the ship--and, in truth, the encounter was not particularly pleasant. But she has changed since that day, not even a full month ago. In retrospect she was terribly... well... uptight. Priggish, even. Kylah knows she is hardly carefree now, but she is not sure she would react to a similar situation in the same way. At least, she hopes not. Given the time, he might be too busy to reach by a hail. She decides to write a note instead, so that he can respond at his leisure. JOHNSON, ANDERW: This is Ensign Kylah, whom you may remember from our brief meeting a few weeks ago. I suppose my contacting you must seem unusual, considering the circumstances, but at the time you did suggest you might be willing to assist me, should I need it. If the offer was sincere, I wonder if you might help me this evening? I would like to surprise a friend currently in Sickbay with a special meal. I hope it is not improper to ask. I can explain further if you have any time available--of course I know the dinner hours are likely busy for you. Kylah hesitates, then with a tiny smile, adds: If it is convenient for you, I can meet you at your quarters. I remember where they are. With gratitude and, I hope, an offer of rapprochement: -- KYLAH (ENS.) Last edited by choie; 13 Apr 2015 at 06:41 PM. Graham finds an empty table - in a corner if he can - and starts writing. Dear Lizzy, We just completed a mission. I burned down a historic building, got stunned, and was in command of the whole team, including a young woman who reminds me of you sometimes--especially when she is really mad at me, as she was after I forcibly picked her up and pushed her against a wall. He sighs and erases what he'd written. What adds insult to injury is that I write like a ten-year old. Graham desperately wants a drink, but notes that slamming down whiskey in view of Collins given her...situation...would probably not be living up to his pseudo-brother status. You may have read about my last mission in the news--search for "Omicron Ceti III arrests," that was us. I'm back on the ship and He pauses. I wanted to let you know that I am all right. And that I miss you. And your mother, he thinks but does not write. I hope your studies are going well. I love you, Daddy, he thinks, but does not write. What the hell is wrong with you, Booker? he thinks. Answer: the last time you felt like you deserved to be her father she was still young enough to call you "daddy." He runs a hand through his hair and sends his message with no conclusion. Cooper grins, leans in, widens his eyes and rubs noses with Collins. He says, "Cutesy wootsie ootsie tootsie you!" Then he pinches her cheek, not hard, laughs and digs into his dinner. "There, that should scare him away for at least a week." T'Var follows Dr. Villa's instructions. She carefully looks over the databases for anything of note. Collins is glad for Cooper's company, as they finish dinner, but finds herself feeling a little nervous. Based on Cooper's admittedly very normal behavior when they woke up that morning, Collins knows the subject of intimacy will come up at some point this evening, and she feels oddly uncomfortable about it. She hopes she doesn't convey her inner turmoil to her companion as they talk about their day and plan activities for their next day off together. The trouble with waking up for night shifts is always the number of messages you got in a day. Ships Cook Johnson scans down the list, ignoring most of them, but surprised by one only recently sent. Ensign Kylah. It rang a bell from somewhere but he was still half asleep. He'd probably remember after a shower...shower oh yeah. Her. Johnson grinned at the thought hoping she was a little less uptight this time around. He shrugs, he has time this morning, err, afternoon, oh whatever. Wondering if T'Var is around following the stopover at OCIII, he drops her a note to see if she would fancy a game of chess later on. Vulcan Pastries on him. He hopes she doesn't take that the wrong way, but with T'Var, you never knew. One brief shower later and having changed into a set of whites, he decides to locate where that Elasian Ensign is and wanders across to see what she wants. Kylah steps out of the bathroom. This last-minute decision to hop into the shower was made earlier when she found herself nodding off to sleep right after sending her various messages. That wouldn't do; she did not want to nap and miss a hail from Velir or, better yet--if he is feeling up to it after the examinations--a visit. So now her hair is spiraling down her back in wet tendrils, and she has wrapped her body in a lavender satin bathrobe. Pulling a fresh towel from the shelf, she takes it along with her to the bed. Kylah takes a few moments to towel-dry her hair, then opens her night table drawer to fetch the vial of creamy-smooth body lotion (a gift from her old nanny and a private family recipe that Reena had promised would 'keep that precious skin of yours as soft as an Aleria flower petal--but only if you use it every night, my girl!'). Kylah smiles at the fond memory of her family's old friend and servant. She has not seen Reena for ages, nor heard from her. And that is why she has not used the skin lotion as often as Reena would have liked. It is one of a kind: Kylah may never have an opportunity to replace it, if the worst happens and she never sees Reena again. So she has been as sparing as possible with the beloved, handmade concoction. It is only the prospect of seeing Velir tonight, and perhaps helping to comfort him if for some reason the examination results prove disturbing, that makes Kylah take extra care to smooth a couple of dollops of the light, fresh-scented lotion across her legs, along her arms, up toward her face, and finally rubbing the remnants into her fingers. It is sensual but soothing, familiar. Reena would do this for her each night when she was a little girl. Her parents rarely touched her once they learned her powers were stronger upon physical contact. Her nanny's hands, though work-hardened, were a blessed luxury Kylah always cherished. Finished, Kylah glances at her communicator. No message from Velir yet. Or from Johnson, either, but Kylah is not concerned about him. With a sigh, she rummages through her drawer again and begins the somewhat arduous process of combing out the tangles from her long, still-damp hair. And tries to imagine what Velir might be experiencing right now. In Sickbay, Dr. Villa is still working on a TL adjusted psionic profile for Rangin. Dr. T'Var does not see any direct links or points of commonality with the Rhaandarite psionic-potential database, but sees at once that Rangin's psi rating has jumped several points from when he joined Starfleet just a few years ago. He has gone from the lower 20% of Coridanites for psi potential to the upper 5%, a remarkable - perhaps unprecedented - change which she can't explain. Cooper is talking about Anubis, which he's visited once before. "I hope we'll have some shore leave together, if you're up to it. It's quite a place, and there are a million things to do." Much as she enjoys his company, Collins of course remembers Dr. Villa's orders as to sexual intimacy just now. Graham sighs. At least, having sent the letter, he feels a sort of relief--what's done is done. He's somewhat at a loss as to what to do: it occurs to him he'd like to relax and hear some music, but that he'd never yet checked out the ship's activities calendar. He decides to go do that. As he stands he notices the Captain and Lt. Cmdr. Edgardo Cheverez. Although he does not want to intrude, he remembers career advice from many, many years ago: you won't get anywhere in Starfleet being invisible. Not that it's really relevant any more, he thinks. But it's still good practice to stay top of mind. On his way out he passes by their table - just close enough to be to offer a cordial greeting without intruding, and still moving to enable the senior officers to acknowledge with a nod and carry on their business. "Captain, Commander," Graham says with a polite, very slight smile and a nod. "Good evening." Last edited by general_urko; 15 Apr 2015 at 04:22 PM. Reason: clarified he's going to go check the calendar "That sounds great, Ben" Jeremi says. "I'd love to go hiking, or climbing, or both." While they talk, Collins realizes it's probably in both their best interests to each sleep in their own beds tonight, but she's not sure how to bring it up. "Good evening, Mr. Graham," the Captain says. "Getting settled back into shipboard life after your adventures on OC3?" The Chief Engineer nods at Graham but says nothing. Graham stops and stands up straighter. "Yes ma'am," he says, briefly returning the Chief Engineer's nod before turning back to the Captain. "Less shooting, less mind control--at least, I think there's less mind control. If I might ask, Captain," he adds after a very brief pause, "are there any clubs or activities that you would personally recommend that a newcomer to Yorktown's crew should explore? T'Var shares her findings with Dr. Villa. "Mr. Rangin's abilities have grown stronger for no apparent reason. This is quite interesting." She checks the datapad once more. "How high can his psi rating go? And how quickly?" The Captain smiles. "The Lyceum has a number of books clubs, arts and social groups; you may wish to have a word with Lt. Thalen or Lt. Bennett about that. There are also several sports teams organized through the gym. I play in the soccer league - we use the Shuttlebay - and am in the Gardening Society. I have a plot in the Arboretum to grow things." Cheverez asks, "Do you have any particular interests outside of work, Ensign?" Dr. Villa looks over the findings. She says to T'Var, "Interesting, hell, it's extraordinary. His adjusted psi rating has gone from 2 to 8. I've never seen anything like it. What's going on inside his head, and why now? There must be a link to what happened to him on the Sakathian research station, and now his contact with Palver." She thinks for a moment. "I want to run this data by Starfleet Medical. Why don't we let him go for tonight, but I want you to consider what approach you'd like to take if we proceed with a mind meld. All right?" "How about we go for a walk in the Arboretum?" Jeremi smiles at Ben and make out a little while we're there. "Or we could see what movie is playing in the theater." "I'm afraid I don't have much of a green thumb myself," Graham replies, "but I'm always game to try a new sport...being in Starfleet can certainly expose you to some interesting ones that are played on different worlds." He adds in reply to Cheverez "I'm partial to history, a bit, sir." He pauses briefly. "And, ah, it's hard to keep up with collecting while on deep space assignment, but I do have a few vintage whiskies from Earth...if either if you were ever of a mind to learn more about my ancestors' greatest contribution to humanity." He smiles slightly. "Well, I didn't mean to interrupt--I'm sure you have important matters to discuss." He takes a half-step back, prepared to be dismissed. "Of course, Doctor," T'Var replies. "I will give this a great deal of thought and meditation." Ben returns Collins's smile. "Sounds good. Let's go." Cheverez says, "There are a couple of book clubs aboard; the nonfiction one often reads history, I think." He grins. "I haven't heard of a whiskey club, but there's a Gourmet Club that dabbles in food and spirits. I've been to a meeting or three myself." Dr. Villa nods. She goes back to Rangin and says, "Thank you for your time, Ensign. We're done with our testing for now. I'm going to share our results with some associates at Starfleet Medical and we'll see if further testing, or a mind meld, is necessary. Any questions? If not, you're free to go." Graham returns Cheverez' grin. "ThatGourmet Club sounds like it's worth investigating. Ah, if I might ask, is there anything--other than indulging in some fine food--we ought to be doing to prepare for the ship's next mission?" he adds, addressing both the engineer and the Captain. As Collins and Cooper walk by Graham, Singh, and Cheverez, she acknowledges her superiors with a "Good evening, Ma'am, good evening, Sir", and whispers "Later, Poogy-woo" for Graham's benefit as she passes. She laughs a bit as she and Ben exit the Mess. Cheverez glances at Singh, who says, "Nothing at the moment, Ensign, but you'll certainly find out when the time is right." They respond in kind to Collins and Cooper as the pair goes by. (They miss her whisper to Graham, of course). The Arboretum is empty but for an older man in civilian clothes working on a flower bed; neither of you recognize him. Collins holds Cooper's hand as they walk. "It's nice to have all this Nature on a star ship, isn't it?" She asks, not really expecting an answer. Jeremi just cherishes this calm time before the next mission, and spending time with Ben. "Definitely," he says, pulling her closer. "I like having a little bit of home right here with us, no matter where we go." 18 Apr 2015 10:23 PM #100 Graham gives Collins a roll of the eyes in response. He nods to the Captain and Chief Engineer. "Thank you ma'am, sir, enjoy your evening." He sighs as he leaves the mess. I could go find Lt. Bennett and tell her the Captain suggested I ask her about social activities...that's lame even for you, Booker. He feels pretty sure Ben's clean...so I don't need to worry about Collins while they're off making goo-goo eyes at each other, he thinks, chuckling slightly. Then he frowns. Which means her roommate Kylah will be on her own unless she has other plans--which might be fine, or which might be bad, given the way she left earlier. Graham has a brief internal debate: it seems like something I did earlier upset her. But will trying to find out what make things better, or worse? He shakes his head slightly as he changes course to swing by Kylah and Collins' quarters. Probably worse, but since when has that ever stopped you from trying? Well, if she's out, then that's that, if not...once more into the breach.... If he arrives without incident he takes a deep breath and rings the chime. Last edited by general_urko; 18 Apr 2015 at 10:34 PM. Reason: edited last lines Quick Navigation Role Playing Games Top	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line13954
__label__wiki	0.75448	0.75448	What makes the Chinese so Dominant? Take 2: The Professionals Speak Here is a list of quotes from my interviews with international players about why the Chinese continue time and time again to win international titles, top the rankings and remain the dominant force in world table tennis. China dominates at the 2008 Beijing Games Image Courtesy of Xinhua News 'Because they start very young and they have very good organisation for this sport. They work a lot for this and the coaches are top.' Gionis Panagiotis - Greek National Mens Team 'Simply, this is the national sport in the biggest country in the World (population).' Jean Michel Saive - 1994 European Champion and Former World Number 1 'They are very athletic, unbelievable power in their strokes and mentally, they are very strong' Patrick Franziska - 2010 European Youth Champion 'Chinese work harder, are more professional, more organised, also they have many more players. Most of the top Europeans live far away from each other, we should practice more together like the Chinese do, this seems to work for them and is something we lack.' Vladimir Samsonov - 3 Time World Cup Winner and Former World Number 1 They have: traditions, good system, good history, knowledge and money. Combine this with a BIG number of players. The status of table tennis is high in China. Parents are dreaming of having future champions. All these things make the competition inside the country very hard. This drives the level of the sport up!!' Peter Karlsson - Swedish National Coach and 2000 European Champion 'Imagine creating the best athlete and then re-producing that athlete over and over again. And only modifying the system based on the next perfect athlete. The Chinese use this system right across as many locations in the country and reproduce the system in different tiers.' Simon Gerada - 2000 Oceania Champion 'Numbers and dedication. If you've got millions of people who are desperate enough to do whatever they can to succeed then you've got a winning recipe. Most other countries rely on a handful of players who are serious enough to do what it takes.' William Henzell - 3 Time Oceania Champion These are things which are being raised time and time again. The sooner the rest of the world can move towards this seemingly flawless system of producing World Class players the better. I think the population issue is a big advantage for China, but imagine if a country like the United States adopted a training programme like the Chinese. Unfortunately with Table Tennis such an overshadowed sport in the States by Football, Golf and Basketball along with many other sports, the Chinese do hold that every lingering advantage of having table tennis as their national sport. As Henzell said though in comparison we seem to have a group of serious players in each country trying to compete to this end. It can work, Sweden were vastly successful with a much smaller number of players than China back in the 70s and 80s but the problem as we are seeing now is that the pool of players diminishes and is sometimes not replenished, where China is overflowing with new players all over the country, and not just players, amazing coaches too. Gionis the Greek God of Ping Pong It was my pleasure to continue interviewing some of the sport's greatest players in Europe this week, one player who had caught my eye at the recent European Championships in Gdansk, Poland was Gionis Panagiotis of Greece. Gionis has a unique style and showed complete class in defeating Bastian Steger, one of Germany's finest players. Gionis was kind enough to do this interview with me, thanks Gionis! Name: Gionis Panagiotis Nation Represented: Greece Highest World Ranking: 36 Gionis on defence Image courtesy of ITTF Equipment Used: Blade: Butterfly OFF Korbel FH Rubber: Tenergy 05 2.1 BH Rubber: Feint Long II 1.1 How long have you been playing table tennis for, when and how did you start? I'm playing since 1989...and I started for fun in a small club near my house. Who has been the biggest influence on your career so far? That I really love it by myself! What does your training schedule for a week period involve? Monday Wednesday Friday 2 times practise 2.30 hours each and Tuesday Thursday one time 2.30 hours and sometimes weekend! What is your next big goal for table tennis? Olympic Games in London What do you think is the most important thing in table tennis for becoming a successful player on the international stage? Many hours of practise first and then physical, cleverness and good psychology! You have an interesting style in that you chop on your backhand and switch between slow return and offensive play on your forehand. What inspired that style for you? When I was young my coach said that I must be a defender because in attack I was not so good...but this style with attack in forehand I first try it 21 years old because I understood that for making a bigger step in my career I must be more aggressive player so I must attack more to compete with the top players...and I did it! Why do you think China currently dominate the sport? Because they start very young and they have very good organisation for this sport. They work a lot for this and the coaches are top. Do you think Greece has a strong future in European table tennis compared to other nations like France and Germany? I think in Greece is not so easy like these countries because table tennis is amateur and the children first look to study and then to find the time for table tennis...but the federation and the coaches are trying a lot. Off the topic Questions Who's your favourite sportsperson of all time? Lionel Messi Favourite food? Chicken What do you do when you aren't playing table tennis? Football on Playstation Dream Car? Ferarri Ideal Holiday Destination? Exotic Island First thing you would do if you won $1million? I buy one very nice house Your Team Mates Who's the funniest player in the training hall? Leuteris Makras Who trains the hardest in the training hall? Kalinikos Kreanga Who has the best nickname? Tasos Riniotis (peroukas) And Lastly Would you like to add one last tip, or an inspirational message for other table tennis players looking to succeed? That if you want to reach a top level player only the talent is not enough...need a lot of work and many hours of practise! Gionis defeats Bastian Steger in the Euro Team Quarterfinals Oceania Champ set to Enter the Fray at Intercontinental Cup Karen Li (NZL) Image from WTTA It will be our sporting hero Karen Li (NZL) who will tangle with 3 others in the Intercontinental Cup Competition in Singapore starting this weekend. Those 3 are Wu Xue (Dominican Rep.), Dina Meshref (EGY) and Ariel Hsing (USA) who also qualified in their respective continents. Although not entering the competition as favourite, that is left with Wu Xue who has a world ranking of 56, Karen is the only competitor to have experienced the Intercontinental Cup before and in last year's competition in Kuala Lumpur she excelled in her match against the eventual winner Yang Feng, who she defeated, but unfortunately slipped into 4th position after losing her other two matches. Although now 176th in the World, Karen is a strong contender for the win if she hits that devastating form we all know her well for here in Oceania. Having won the 2010 Oceania Championships and 2011 Oceania Cup, Karen will be fighting hard for New Zealand to try and win her spot in the main Volkswagon 2011 Women's World Cup. With Wu Xue the top contender, a left handed pengrip player from the Dominican Republic, it will be a tough task for Karen who also represented Oceania in the 2006 Intercontinental Cup. First she will have to beat her other two youthful opponents, 17 year old Dina Meshref from Egypt currently ranked 242, and of course the young United States Champion Ariel Hsing ranked above Karen now at 164th. We will all be sitting and watching eagerly to see if Karen's experience of international table tennis can pull her through. Best of luck to Karen! U.S Comeback Queen Carving Path to Olympic Qualifiers Kim Gilbert was a player I just had to interview after seeing the first picture of her standing on a table at SPiN Milwaukee's Opening. Kim has a fantastic image as a table tennis player, that die hard passion for the sport which is hard to find these days. Kim in many ways is like the great fighter Jean Michel Saive, she's in the sport for life and competes hard and fair and aims for the highest pinnacles. Thanks so much for the interview Kim, she has put a lot of thought into her answers, hope you all enjoy. Please also take the time to visit Kim's site www.kimgilbert.com Full Name: Kim Gilbert Date of Birth: 12/13/64, Los Angeles, CA Nation represented: USA Highest US Ranking: Highest US Ranking #11 – Women’s Singles at USOF Highest US Ranking #1 – Women’s Doubles at USOF Highest US Rating 1964 in TT Topics and 2013 at USOF Equipment Used? Blade: Butterfly Coubertin 7 Ply Double Carbon FH Rubber: Tenergy BH Rubber: Tenergy Your Career: How long have you been playing table tennis for, when and how did you start? In 1979 at the age of 14, my father was having lunch with a business partner who had just returned from Sweden where he had competed at the World Senior Table Tennis Championships. A few months prior, my father had purchased a ping-pong table for my mother and me to play on, so he surprised me one night by taking me with his business partner to the Hollywood Table Tennis Club to play in a tournament, kind of as a joke! A top player at the club (Lim Ming Chui) pulled my father aside and told him he thought that with a little coaching I had potential. I took lessons at this club for 3 years and then won the CA State Junior Title. I then travelled to England and France to train further. I competed in the US and Canada up until my accident in 1992 when I was forced to retire due to a shattered right arm with severed nerves. You were gone from table tennis for quite some time and in 2010 launched a comeback tour, what brought the new motivation and drive back? In 1992 I suffered a horrible slip and fall injury that shattered my playing arm into 15 pieces, requiring years of surgeries and rehabilitation. The first surgery required an external fixator to be implanted to fuse my bones that ended up severing a main nerve causing partial paralysis in the arm. The doctors told me that I would never be able to compete again. I tried to play once 6 years after the accident just to see if I could, but it was so painful that I gave it up for good. Almost two decades went by without giving another thought to table tennis until I was hired as an executive and marketing assistant by Dial800 in 2009. Dial800 specializes in helping advertisers to optimize their direct marketing campaigns. Their management believes in a balance between work and life and even though I am a full-time employee, they understand the unique opportunity that table tennis and the Olympics represent for me. They are totally supportive as my corporate sponsor, for which I am eternally grateful. Shortly after being hired, all Dial800 employees were given lifetime membership cards to 24 Hour Fitness because they had a fitness center in our building. So after being sedentary for so long, I really no excuse not to get some kind of exercise program going! On my first day at their facility I could have passed out from the smell of the place. I tried to endure it but I ended up returning the card (graciously) to our CEO. He suggested (jokingly) that I try ping-pong again, so I figured okay what could I lose? So I went for the first time to the Gilbert TableTennis Center and to my surprise I could play without experiencing too much pain. It really just snowballed from there! I was asked to host weekly events for SPiN Hollywood as a professional table tennis player. Soon after that, several other corporate sponsors wanted in the mix. I am currently the only US table tennis athlete (that I am aware of) that has secured corporate sponsorship (5 times) outside of our sport. I truly believe that this “Out of the Box” approach to marketing and advertising of table tennis is a major key for the growth and future of our sport. As a matter of fact, I recently finished filming a Dial800 commercial with Soo Yeon Lee that is soon to be released featuring table tennis in the mix with their marketing. It’s kind of like chocolate and peanut butter, nice individually - but explosive together! What has been the highlight of your table tennis career so far? I have a fire burning in my gut these days that keeps telling me the best is yet to come with my second table tennis career! Out of the first career highlights listed below, I have one memorable highlight that really stands out: 2011 Hawaii Island Open Women’s Champion 2011 U.S. Open Semi-Finalist Women’s Singles (O-40) 2010 U.S. Closed National Semi-Finalist Women’s Singles (O-40) 1991 Olympic Festival Coach (Women’s Team) 1990 Olympic Festival Gold Medalist (Women's Doubles) 1989 World Corporate Games Women’s Champion 1989 Olympic Festival Bronze Medalist 1988 Olympic Trials Quarter-Finalist, Cedar Rapids, IOWA 1987 Olympic Festival Gold Medalist 1986 KCOP-Los Angeles Sports Star of the Year 1986 Olympic Festival Silver Medalist 1986 ESPN Olympic Record for Fastest Reflexes 1985 U.S. Closed National Champion (U-1800) 1983 Pacific Coast Open Women’s Table Tennis Champion 1983 California State Women’s Table Tennis Champion 1982 National Sports Festival Gold Medalist 1982 California State Junior Champion (Boys and Girls) I made the 1990 US Olympic Festival team as an alternate player (as I was ranked 17th) and slated only to compete in the singles event that year in Minneapolis when there was an injury to a player who was scheduled to play in Women’s Doubles. By filling in for her, I knew this was my big chance and took it! After battling close match after close match, we finally made it to the finals at about 10pm!! It was a very close match that went to a final and deciding game. Our match point was a long one until I finished it off with a powerful smash that won us the title! I remember when I was called over to the media area for an interview after the match; I excused myself for 5 minutes in need of time to cool off. I ran out of the building into a thick wooded area of their campus and uncontrollably let out a yell that I will never forget. At that moment I finally knew what true victory felt like! You regularly appear in SPiN clubs in the US, how successful do you feel they have been in promoting table tennis and what was your involvement with SPiN Hollywood? After the Grand Opening of SPiN Hollywood in the summer of 2010 I was asked by their management to host weekly events at their Mondrian Hotel location, as well as off-site events and parties. There were a lot of private parties, corporate mixers, and celebrity events that I hosted there. SPiN franchises have served as an excellent platform that has successfully generated a social, corporate and entertainment industry buzz for table tennis. Making ping-pong chic and trendy is what our country needed as a catalyst to create awareness of table tennis as an amazing Olympic sport. Holding a corporate event with ping-pong at one of the SPiN locations can benefit an entire company by enjoying an activity together that is not work-related and not just another boring company mixer or dinner. It is also ideal for networking with clients, vendors and new prospects. A lot of new business can be created at these events and they offer an ideal place to fundraise, entertain, mingle, socialize, exercise, unwind, and of course eat and drink! They are also perfect for your next corporate competition or group lessons for beginners and serious players. SPiN clubs are a fun place where anyone can feel at ease socializing with friends, strangers, competitors, business associates, or even a blind date!! It’s a place where you can be yourself, whether that is a novice or professional player, a young person or old person, male or female. I am completely behind all the efforts of SPiN Galactic franchises. As a matter of fact, I have a corporate event to host and perform at coming up at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood for a media company throwing a posh mixer for their entertainment industry clients and prospects. You see the media firm knows the party attendees personally, but the client and prospects do not know each other. My job is to get everyone acquainted and comfortable around the setting of a ping-pong tournament. It works like magic, because all of a sudden people have a lot to talk about and become amalgamated through the love of the game! This event is direct result of business generated from an event at SPiN last year, which I am ever so grateful for AGAIN! You have recently announced you will be participating in the U.S Olympic Trials, how do you feel about your chances there and what are you hoping to achieve? At this point in time, I am focused on surviving the training and staying healthy for the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials! The last time I tried out was 25 years ago, so just making it this far has pretty much surpassed anything that I dreamed of achieving, much less thought was even possible. I have a chance to make it through as a wildcard this February at the Qualifying tournament, but after that it will surely be an uphill battle. Or as I have been teased about lately... an over-the-hill battle!!! Whatever happens I am honoured to be a participant again in what I think is still such an amazingly intricate and exciting sport! What do you think is lacking in women's table tennis around the world in terms of numbers and image? Clearly our greatest lacking is that there are too few women who play table tennis seriously in the United States, much less worldwide.This is not just an image issue; there is a huge difference between earnings between men and women as professionals in the table tennis. Today some top women players can earn good money, but it is mediocre compared to that of men in table tennis and mere peanuts compared to that of women in other popular sports. Another major problem is that young players in many countries aren't exposed to table tennis growing up in schools. However, in countries like China table tennis is part of their culture and everyday well-being for their society as a whole. Now they have exemplified power in numbers for women's table tennis! Early exposure is the only way to increase the numbers, which will then produce a marketable image. You have been strongly involved in promoting table tennis since your return to the sport, what kinds of things have you been doing and what do you think is needed around the world to put table tennis in cement on the map? Since 2010 I’ve had a renewed passion to help table tennis, especially where it is needed most...right here in the USA. I think that my role today is to help show that it doesn’t matter what age, gender, size, or culture you are because table tennis is for everyone. I have exposed thousands of people to the thrill of top notch and fast paced table tennis so they can experience it live, up close, and in person. The more people that we expose to experiencing table tennis this way, the more fans our sport will have for life. The more events and exhibitions we provide with a wide variety of exceptional players, the broader the audience can become. We desperately need a bigger audience and these two types of marketing events can help get us in cement on the map. What is the best thing about table tenis as a sport for you? The best part about table is that it is fulfilling in so many different ways. It not only promotes outstanding health and growth as a person, but in general a life in sports provides an abundance of magical moments for both the athlete and the spectator. Table tennis is very unique from other sports because it also can improve your vision, coordination, and even cognitive thinking. At high level of play all parts of the brain are active, which seldom occurs in other sports. Several years ago a Japanese study conducted by Dr. Teruaki Mori and Tomohiko Sazto demonstrated that "table tennis" uniquely activates as many as 5 separate portions of the brain simultaneously - thus producing an increased awareness, an improved state of cognition, improvement of motor function, attentiveness, concentration and endurance. Other health benefits of ping pong are an increased and effective cardiovascular blood flow and an improved cerebral blood flow to the cerebellum and brain stem. It's a sport that (especially when played at a high level) involves both the body and brain to interact at much higher levels and as a matter of course, players utilize their eyes, develop a heightened reflex function, and improve their balance and coordination skills. Additionally, Oprah's favorite physician, Dr. Oz, dedicated a prime segment of his television show on the benefits of ping pong, describing it as his favorite "brain sport". With all these benefits I think my favorite thing about table tennis is that it is a sport played for life by everyone. You mention you would like to create a full time career out of table tennis, do you think in the near future that will become a more viable option for more players globally? It already is an option for some countries, the rest of us are still catching up! Off the Topic Questions: Who’s your favourite sportsperson of all time? Favourite food? Sushi, hands down!! What do you do when you aren't playing table tennis? Like most table tennis players, I work a full-time job too. I’m lucky that I just happen to work for my one of my corporate sponsors when I’m not playing table tennis. When I’m not working or playing table tennis (or pong as I refer to it), I’m still a California girl at heart and enjoy the beach and water at all other times. Beyond that these days, I am used complaining about how sore I am from training!! Dream Car?1994 Ferrari 348 Spider Convertible Ideal holiday destination? FIJI, FIJI, FIJI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! First thing you would do if you won $1million? Open a SPiN franchise, preferably in Los Angeles to keep the ball rolling so to say! A video in Tribute to Kim Gilbert's Table Tennis Career Would you like to add one last tip, or an inspirational message for other table tennis players looking to succeed? The key to success as a player in table tennis is positioning, precision, power, and poise. You put these qualities together and you will succeed for sure at table tennis and much more. Would you like to add any advice for female players in table tennis? You are not alone! There are other women just like you around the world with a great love for the sport but no way to make a living at it. My advice is to do what I did. Work hard in other areas so that you become valuable to your employer. An employer is more apt to fund an employee as an athlete, than a random athlete asking for a donation to their cause. Also, connect with other female players because even though other women represent the competition, we all are in this sport together as a whole group. World's Fastest Table Tennis Serve? William Henzell brings footage from the Werner Schlager Table Tennis Training Academy of Japan's young speedy server Asuka Sakai. Check this serve out! Thanks to William for providing the video and this slowed down edit so you can see what sneaky tricks Asuka is up to with this serve. You can follow William's journey to the Olympics and his training at the WSA on his youtube channel at: http://www.youtube.com/user/tabletennisedge Thanks William and best of luck with the training! For a link to William's site TTEdge, see the sidebar link to the right. Final Medal Opportunities not Taken Lightly Mark Page rips out his devastating backhand loop Photo by Matt Hetherington The final day of the NZ Senior Table Tennis Championships was an interesting one to say the least. With celebrations from the previous day dragging on into the night there was an absence of a couple of players in the Under 21 Mens Singles draw this morning. Tony Liu the Men's Singles winner made an appearance in the morning but was forced to withdraw with an ankle injury, while Auckland teammates Ollie Scarlett and Zhiyang Cheng withdrew from the event. This left plenty of opportunities for the remaining players in the draw. In the Under 21 Men's Singles the quarterfinals saw Thom Nguyen beat Matt Hetherington 3-0, Phillip Xiao account for James Harter 3-0, Myles Collins take out Aaron Page 3-0 and Mark Page narrowly scrape by a 3-2 win over Mitchell Barker. The semifinals saw Thom Nguyen fight an enduring 5 set battle with Myles Collins with plenty of loop to loop rallying and some very intense points which left both players exhausted by the end of the match and I'm sure Thom relieved to walk away with the victory and a place in the finals. Mark Page put up a hard fight against the second seed, Phillip Xiao, now the event favourite with Tony Liu out. Phillip showed his true class and outplayed Page with a 3-1 win. The final of the event saw Phillip Xiao fully assert himself as the favourite for the event by out-shining opponent Thom Nguyen in a straight sets victory. Congratulations Phillip. Vicky Yang, Winner of the Under 21 Women's Singles In the Under 21 Women's Singles four players emerged from the two round robin groups. Manawatu's homeside champion Natalie Paterson and the previous night's Women's singles finalist Vicky Yang qualified in the first group while the Women's champion Jenny Hung and Auckland's Jennifer Tseng were victorious in coming through the second group. This set the players up for straight semi-finals. The two women's finalists proved to be far too skilled for their opponents with Vicky Yang beating Jennifer Tseng 3-0 and Jenny Hung accounting for Natalie also 3-0. So the two women's finalists returned to a final scenario yet again. With such a close open women's final the 21s match could have gone either way, both were determined to earn the gold medal for the event. Yang proved to be a dominant force in the final and avenged her loss from the previous day to lead a clear 3-1 victory of Canterbury's star to confirm the win. In the Under 21 Doubles events with the top seeds having withdrawn , Waikato were dominant among the semi-finalists for the event with all but one of the players in the pairings hailing from Hamilton. One semifinal saw brothers Mark and Aaron Page with a walkover to the final, while the other semi was the finish of last year's finalists Matt Hetherington and James Harter, also from Waikato. Mitchell Barker (North Harbour) and Myles Collins were the party responsible for this, swiping a 3-0 victory and setting them up for a medal appearance in the final. They proved to be too strong for the Waikato brothers and led a convincing 3-1 victory over to two to take a gold medal in the event. In the Women's Doubles for the Under 21s Vicky Yang and Feng Jie and the pair of Jenny Hung and Natalie Paterson both won their semifinals 3-0 to clash together in the final. The Auckland pair of Feng and Yang were too strong for the World Uni Games pairing and completely dominated them in a straight sets final where Paterson and Hung struggled to find rhythm and control over their opponents. The Under 21 Mixed doubles was a relatively straight forward Gold Medal chance for the dominant top seeds Phillip Xiao and Jenny Hung, they cleared way to the final with a 3-0 win over Matt Hetherington and Jessica Macaskill while their final opponents Thom Nguyen and Jennifer Tseng took out the local pairing of Natalie Paterson and Nathan Watson who had done well to defeat Mark Page and Lisa Yue in the round previous. The Final was a great battle with a 4 set win for the top seeds to add another gold medal to their growing collections. Sabine Westenra NZ Veteran Player of the Year and National O30 Champion Photo Courtesy of Catherine Zhou The Over 30 Singles Events hosted some fantastic matches. Sabine Westenra, awarded the night before the national award for NZ Veteran Player of the Year was the champion of the Over 30 Women's Singles with a very close and entertaining 5th set victory over Manawatu's Tessy Fautsch. The absence of Kadia Keller-Rice removed one huge barrier for Westenra in taking the gold medal for the event. Congratulations Sabine on your award and gold medal, your teammates around the country are overjoyed for your achievements! The Over 30 Men's Singles were won by North Harbour's Craig Dye who overcame Eberhard Kleiser and Depak Patel both 3-1 to make a finals appearance. The other finalist was Wellington's Lyndsay Ward who beat David Kilmister 3-1 in the quarterfinals and Manawatu's Charly Talumepa 3-0 in the semifinals. The final was a great showdown between Dye, who was ranked 10th in the National Men's Rankings in 2009 and Ward, a former top New Zealand player and National Men's Singles Semifinalist in his time. Dye took the match 3-1, with Ward winning his single set 11-5, while Dye won his 3 sets 11-9 in all of them, an indication of how close and intense the match was. Congratulations Craig on showing us all that you're over 30 but can still play with the energy of a youth when the medal chances come around. In the Over 30 Mens Doubles the opportunity arose for Andrew Hubbard to walk away with a medal, and not just any medal, but a gold one. He teamed up with David Kilmister, both players hoping to create a profile for Taupo's table tennis club by claiming the national title. They met a team hoping to do the exact same thing in the final. Heath Murdoch and Stephen Hirst were there flying the banner for the recently revived Belmont Table Tennis Club. It was a well fought out battle between the two pairs who were both determined as ever to claim the victory. The superb control of Kilmister combined with Hubbard's dominant forehand attacking were the victors of the day as the Taupo pair took the gold medal. Heath Murdoch and Sabine Westenra combined to win the Over 30 Mixed Doubles Round Robin and took another gold medal for Wellington in the doubles. The tournament was a huge success for Manawatu with the Manawatu Standard discovering how instrumental Manawatu Table Tennis have been in procuring National Events for the sport of Table Tennis in 2011. It is my final wish here to congratulate Table Tennis Manawatu, not only on this National Championships, but on organising also; the ITTF Level 1 Coaching Course, the North Island Individual Championships, the North Island Team Championships and the National Secondary Schools Championships. They will also host 2012's National Veteran Championships. The workload has been huge. My special thanks to Shona Cudby for her ongoing hard work for the sport and her endless dedication and work ethic when it comes to organising these events, as I always say Shona Cudby is a true legend and deserved all our praises. Also thanks to Joachim Kusche for his tournament refereeing and organising of matches, congratulations to him for his National Award as Official of the Year for 2011. John Stapleton operated as an excellent Tournament Manager, thanks must be extended to him for ensuring the timetable ran smoothly which it most certainly did. Thanks too to Jason Poon for helping in the tournament and taking some great photos to help me in my publicity role. Finally, thanks to all the players who supported the tournament and participated, keep playing hard and fair and most important of all, keep in touch over the season break! Videos of matches during the NZ Champs will become available on here as they are processed and edited by Win Nguyen and myself. New Zealand Champions Made and Dressed in Gold Phillip Xiao prepares his assault on Tony Liu in the Men's Final The end of the Men's and Women's Singles Events at the NZ Senior Table Tennis Championships signalled the making of two brand new national champions. The class act and legend of Tony Liu was too much for the competition in the Men's Singles event, he overcame opponents at every obstacle. At the same time it was the die hard determination of Canterbury's Jenny Hung that kept her on track to saving multiple match points in order to win the national title. Teng Teng (Tony) Liu, having already cleaned up all opposition in New Zealand so far this year to win the North Island Championships and the Counties, Auckland and Waikato Open Competitions. His form was unquestionable as he sailed through the opponents in his group. He hit a tough spot when a determined Josh Alexandre stole 2 sets from him as he attempted to knock Tony out, it was not to be and Tony advanced, beating Josh 4-2. Matthew Ball also had a crack at the top seed after having defeated Simon Wallace in the seventh and final set in the quarter final round. The semi final could have proved to be more substantial in problem causing with the Japanese player Taka Shimokawa and his short pimple rubber appearing on the scene. Tony showed no hesitation in wiping the score board and printing his name all over it, he sent Shimokawa packing with a 4-0 win and made his foundations to appear in the final. The Final had potential to be very interesting, at Auckland Open in the Under 21 Event Phillip had pushed Teng Teng to the 5th set and had even shown signs of having the upper hand. At the North Island Championships it had also been a very close matchup. What could Phillip offer to the table this time? Well Tony Liu was beyond determined to claim the national title and claimed the first set, then the second and then the third and Phillip found himself with a huge deficit to cover if he were to claim the title. Phillip launched an admirable attack and swiped himself a set, but in the end Tony outclassed Phillip on the day and won the 5th set, claiming the victory 4-1 and taking the National Men's Singles Title in the process. Tony Liu, NZ Open Men's Champion In the Women's Event it was also a very hard fought battle and a nervous one for many on the sidelines. Jenny Hung took on the defending champion and top seed Fan (Vicky) Yang and between the two of them they hit winners and rallied, placed awkard balls to attack and generally out-hit each other at high speed. Jenny struggled in the beginnings of each set but she managed to claw her way back to win at the end of the sets and end up 3-1 up. It all looked like things were going in the favour of the Cantabrian and number 2 seed until Vicky Yang sprung back and led a high paced assault against her highly skilled opponent. Before the confident sideliners all knew it the score line was 3-3 and we were all starting to wonder if Jenny Hung could hold on and win the title against odds of the determined defending champion. There were multiple match points to and fro between the two players who wouldn't forfeight their chances of taking home gold. Hung tried time and again to hit through her opponent at match point up but Yang always had an answer for the endless assaults and even claimed some match points of her own. The match was incredible exciting and supporters were ecstatic when Jenny Hung converted her Championship Point finally and took her first ever New Zealand Open Women's Singles Title, one which a large proportion of players, myself included felt she finally deserved after so much experience building and committment to the sport over the years. Congratulations to Jenny Hung and Teng Teng Liu the New Zealand Table Tennis Champions and of course to Vicky Yang and Phillip Xiao for applying the pressure and skilled opposition from which those champions were really born, the silver medalists of the two respective events. Jenny Hung takes Control in the Women's Final A Day of Surprises and the Making of Champions Today brought about the end of the Men's and Women's Events at the NZ Senior Table Tennis Championships and what a spectacular day of competition with some amazing matches. There were of course upsets for those dreaming of reaching the top spot. Before the day started Peter Craven, 4th seed, withdrew with a injury leaving space open for someone to fill. In the group stages Yi-Sien Lin's 2-0 lead against Myles Collins wasn't safe and he clawed back to a fifth set thriller where he came back from 9-7 down to claim the last set and go through the group first. Josh Alexandre was also claimed in the maelstrom, being beaten 3-1 by Simon Hoey-Burns. There were a number of other great group matches to be seen during the morning and certainly as the day moved on. My Player of the Day, Zhiyang Cheng Upsets were the story of the day, a player showing incredible mental focus and determination who cannot go without mention today is Zhiyang Cheng. Playing out of his skin in the Round of 16 he defeated the highly experienced number 2 seed and former New Zealand Champion, Andrew Hubbard by a 4-2 margin. In the quarters he continued his run against successful New Zealand players by beating Malcolm Darroch also 4-2. Both were incredible matches for those lucky enough to be watching them, especially in the pressure situations. Zhiyang continued his form into the semifinals where he met teammate Phillip Xiao and fell victim to him 4-1. Another player who showed great form was the Japanese member of the Auckland contingent, Takaomi Shimokawa who also made a semifinal appearance. Beating Hayden Tapp in the Round of 16, he continued on to take out Thom Nguyen, 4-0, in the quarterfinal and book his place in a semifinal with Tony Liu. His semifinal appearance defied his original 8th position in the seedings. He demonstrated great close to the table play with his short pimple backhand and forehand counterloops which earnt him a bronze medal for the men's singles event. Josh Alexandre sprung back from his group match defeat to take Aaron Page out 4-1 and then play an amazing match against Tony Liu where he found the drive to rob 2 sets off the top seed and leave him worried. Podium for the B Grade Mens Doubles Photo by Jason Poon The Graded Doubles were a side-event to the main Open Singles. The B Grade Men's Doubles saw Aaron Page and James Harter of Waikato defend their 2010 title. Taking out the Wellington pair of Heath Murdoch and Hayden Tapp in the semi final, they cemented their place among the medals and awaited the result of the other semi final. Matt Hetherington and Mark Page emerged from it, battled scarred from an incredibly close tussle with the home side's best doubles pairing, Tim Seaholme and Matthew Ball. That semifinal was won in the last moment of the 5th set, a hard fought match (if I don't say so myself). So it was left for the Waikato pairs to fight each other. It was a tight match played by James and Aaron and they managed to edge the win in just three sets over their teammate opposition. Waikato also managed to steal the B Grade Women's Singles title when Armindeep Singh and Jessica Macaskill beat Lisa Yue and Natalie Paterson by a 3-1 margin and then finished affairs by defeating Sue Shirriffs and Gemma Buzzard in straight sets. The C Grade Mens Doubles Gold Medals were awarded to Bryn Lindsay and Wiremu Thompson who were able to bet Jeffrey Chin and Delano Lam 3-1. Aside from that there was only the D Grade Mens Doubles left to be awarded and Manawatu took the prize with brothers Dean and Zac Lochhead taking the win in the final with a 3-1 win over Jae and Terry Lee. Seeds Overturned for Sweeter Victories Thom Nguyen half of the Gold Medal Combination It was a great day of table tennis today in Palmerston North, especially for Wellington coach Stephen Hirst who was overwhelmed when a gold medal opportunity game Wellington's way. An incredible feat of team work and great skill shown by the combination of Thom Nguyen and Hayden Tapp who defied all odds to win gold in the Open Mens Doubles. Dispatching 3-0 the Waikato pair of James Harter and Matt Hetherington they quickly moved on to immobilise the highly skilled Canterbury team of Yi-Sien Lin and Simon Wallace. While heads turned to Auckland's Aaron Gong and Takaomi Shimokawa putting up a great fight to eliminate the illustrious Tony Liu and doubles partner Zhiyang Cheng also of Auckland, it was Tapp and Nguyen working quietly in the background to defeat the strong pairing of Josh Alexandre and Phillip Xiao, setting themselves up with a guaranteed medal. Tapp and Nguyen were able to battle it out with Gong and Shimokawa in a well fought final where the Wellington pair settled a year of hard work and earned some piece of mind with a National Title and Gold Medal, coach Stephen Hirst and the other Wellington team members were ecstatic, it was a great effort, congratulations to them both and to finalists and silver medalists Aaron Gong and Taka Shimokawa for a great final performance. Gold Medalist Mark Page in the B Grade Mens Runner Up Craig Dye Bronze Medalists Matt Ball, James Harter In the B Grade Mens Singles it was a show of force on the bottom half of the draw from which sprung Mark Page from Waikato. After the group stages the draw was set, although Matt Ball had been upset in his group by Shinji Izuka from North Harbour he still pressed onwards in the draw. Avenging Ball, Matt Hetherington lead a 3-0 victory over Izuka in the round of 16. Team mates, Aaron Page, James Harter, Mark Page and Simon Hoey-Burns joined him on the bottom half of the draw and after the quarter finals where Mark Page pushed aside Hetherington and Harter dealt to Simon Hoey-Burns and Aaron Page, it was guaranteed to be a Waikato player in the final as Mark Page stung Harter with a 3-0 win in the Semi-Final. Meanwhile top seed Craig Dye had left Manawatu for dirt as he defeated both Jerry Zhang in the quarterfinals and Matthew Ball in the semi finals, bringing the 2nd seeds hopes to an end. That left Dye to face the talented and rising force of Mark Page. Page with a solid record at Manawatu in 2011, having won 100% of his matches at the Manawatu hosted North Island Team Championships and also having won the Under 21 and Open Mens Singles Events at the Manawatu Open was looking comfortable with the conditions. Craig Dye took off to a flyer with Page struggling to adjust to the high variation in Dye's game. It was quickly 2-0 to Dye. Page changed the pace and started hitting some big shorts and we saw him claw back a set, and then another set. Driving into the 5th set there was huge pressure and some huge point displays to match with set pieces and massive 3rd and 4th ball attacking plays. Dye looked in control, winning the first 3 points, but Page soared back to switch ends 5-4 up. The final set continued locked, point for point. At the end Dye played an amazing set piece with a fast serve and a devastating 3rd ball forehand attack, Page seemed to have no answer. He found one quickly and sealed the deal, claiming the gold medal for the B Grade Mens Singles. Congratulations Mark on a well played event! In the B Grade Women's Singles the semi final brought Lisa Yue face to face with Natalie Paterson who stole a quick 3-0 victory, while Waikato's two top women battled for a finals place. Armindeep Singh beat teammate Jessica MacAskill 3-1 and progressed to the final to pitch her strength against Paterson. It was not to be and Paterson's local reputation held as she won the B Grade Women's Singles title with a 3-1 win over Singh. Well done Natalie. Gold Medalist Daniel Lowe in the C Grade Mens Runner Up Bryn Lindsay Bronze Medalists Liam Young, John Lea It was a determined Daniel Lowe who staved off competitors and flipped the seeds over to take the C Grade Mens Singles title. The two big seed names Miko Kirschbaum and Ebehard Kleiser were both dismissed early in the round of 16 by John Lea and Rodney Bygrave respectively. Daniel made a great effort in winning an entertaining match with John Lea in the semi final and then proceeding to defeat Bryn Lindsay in the final. Bryn was the silver medalist and Liam Young and John Lea were bronze medalists. The final score was 3-0 to Daniel against Bryn. In the C Grade Womens Singles, Manawatu's Tessy Fautsch came out on top of Gemma Buzzard in the final with Emily Kan and Sue Shirriffs falling on the way in their path. The Men's D Grade saw local junior Dean Lochhead score a gold medal as he combatted a determined Matthew Solt who had some outstanding results over the event to make the final. Overcoming Wellington's Delano Lam and Max Rogers in the semi final, he was brought down in the final by Lochhead who had taken out top seed Hamish Rennie. Congratulations to all medalists in the event. Kelsey Amor and Max Rogers both from Waitemata won bronze medals in the event. The Open Mixed Doubles claimed no surprises with Jenny Hung and Tony Liu, the top seeds, dominating the field all the way to a 3-1 victory over Auckland's Josh Alexandre and Feng Jie. They also eliminated the locals Tim Seaholme and Natalie Paterson and Wellington's Catherine Zhou and Stephen Hirst, while Alexandre and Feng defeated Sabine Westenra and Heath Murdoch and Malcolm Darroch and Sue Shirriffs to make the final. Well Done Tony and Jenny. The Women's Doubles draw was strong with Vicky Yang and Feng Jie steaming the competition. They claimed wins over Armindeep Singh and Jessica Macaskill and Jenny Hung and Natalie Paterson to win the event. Paterson and Hung had beaten Sabine Westenra and Cath Zhou to make the finals. Congratulations to the Auckland girls for winning the Open Women's Doubles. A big congratulations to all of the days medalists, great matches from all and with the Open Singles draw starting tomorrow, the promise of some of the best matches we expect to see so far in the tournament and of course some more videos. Highlights of Mark Page vs. Craig Dye B Grade Mens Final will be available at a later date also. See you all again tomorrow! Auckland Stand Proudly Behind Championship Shields Again The second and final day of the NZ Senior Championship team events drew to a close with three matches to complete for the day, a final group match and then two crossovers for semi final and final placing matches. There were some very exciting games between very skillfull players. We got our much anticipated matchup of Brad Chen vs. Tony Liu which went 3-2 in the latter's favour (full highlights will be available soon), also the nailbiting 5 set matches between Malcolm Darroch with both James Harter and Peter Craven of Waikato, the home sides Matthew Ball unhinging Auckland's Josh Alexandre and then pushing Phillip Xiao to the 5th set and Jessica Macaskill leading out a 2-0 lead on Auckland's Feng Jie before she fell victim to a 3 set catchup. A superb day of matches but of course it was Auckland who retained the men's and women's A Grade team shields, a joyous day for Josh Alexandre who got to hold the shield yet another time. Winners of the Mens A Grade - Auckland - Josh Alexandre, Phillip Xiao, Tony Liu, Zhiyang Cheng, Julian Wootton runners up Canterbury - Malcolm Darroch, Simon Wallace, Yi-Sien Lin Winners of the Womens A Grade - Auckland - Fan (Vicky) Yang, Feng Jie, Jennifer Tseng runners up Wellington - Catherine Zhou, Sabine Westenra, Lisa Yue Winners of the Mens B Grade - Manawatu (2) - Charly Talumepa, Miko Kirschbaum, Stew Hickford, Dean Lochhead runners up Wellington (2) - Bryan McConnochie, Phillip McConnochie, Depak Patel, Paul Solt Winners of the Mens C Grade - Otago - Andrew Marr, Luke Johnstone, Ricky Kim runners up Hawkes Bay - Alan Keighley, Matt Brider, Hayden Wong Congratulations to everyone. Below are some highlights and photos from the 2 days of team competition, video footage was all done by me, photos were done by Jason Poon. Had some issues with video but fixed, still some minor pixelations but hope you enjoy! No Major Surprises on Day One of NZ Open Teams The first day of the NZ Senior Open Table Tennis Championships for 2011 got off to an early start this morning with North Harbour Mens 2 ascending into the Mens A Grade division after beating Wellington's 2nd Mens team with a winning margin of 4 matches to 1. Auckland's Feng Jie (near) vs. Manawatu's Natalie Paterson (far) With the new seven match team format the Auckland women's team took off to a flyer by stinging the home side with a 7-0 victory in their first and only team match of the day. Natalie Paterson put up a good fight against Auckland's Feng Jie but couldn't manage to draw things to a close in the 5th set where Jie kept her cool and claimed the win. Wellington is also on top form with Cath, Sabine and Lisa stealing 6-1 and 7-0 wins against Manawatu and Otago respectively. Waikato started and ended their day slowly with a 4-3 victory over Otago, their first and only match of the day. So with a lot of ground to make up going into day two it's the home side of Manawatu and the visitors from way down south, Otago, while Auckland look to hold their spot at the top and Wellington continue their assault for the crown. Auckland vs. Waikato In the Men's team draw the A grade had some great table tennis matches with Auckland dominating their half of the draw beating both Waikato and North Harbour 2. While Peter Craven accounted for Josh Alexandre and had a great match against Phillip Xiao which he narrowly lost, team mates James Harter and Mark Page couldn't really stand up to the combined skill of the top seeds. Canterbury also skillfully claimed wins over Wellington and North Harbour, Brad Chen's superior form not enough to carry the team to beat the determined Cantabrian's. Waikato 2 suffered two losses 5-2 and 4-3 to North Harbour and Wellington, they are joined on the opposite side by Manawatu who were beaten by the promoted North Harbour 2 Men's team. Jeffrey Chin taking a big swing In the Men's B Grade the two Wellington teams and the Manawatu 2 team are sitting at the top half of their draw posting 2 wins each so far against the bottom three teams Wellington 4, Waitemata and Manwatu 3. Waitemata posted some close results losing both of their two matches so far by 4-3 margins. It looks like it's going to be the clash of Wellington and Manawatu for the B Grade shield so far with tomorrow being the conclusion, that's a very familiar clash for the two associations who compete with each other regularly. In the Men's C Grade it's Otago firmly at the top of the draw with three outright wins against Waitemata 2 and Manawatu 4 and 5. Hawkes Bay and Canterbury 2 posted two wins each and sit equally on the table in 2nd position. With three matches played there are still two matches remaining for tomorrow to change results but presently Otago is looking solid at the top. Quite a safe day for the big seeds today apart from Canterbury's dismantling of North Harbour in the Men's A grade, North Harbour 2 cementing their right to play in the A Grade by defeating the hosts. Tomorrow will bring more great matches and more action and of course everyone will be watching for the crossover to see if Brad Chen will meet Tony Liu, a match everyone is talking about. Video highlights of teams will be posted at the end of tomorrow. Rest well and be ready for tomorrow! Killerspin Krew Interview 1 - Georgina Pota I got a great opportunity from Killerspin to interview an attractive and talented ambassador and player of table tennis. Gina Pota was a gold medalist in the 2007 teams event at the European Championships in Belgrade and made the 3rd round of the 2008 Beijing Games where she lost to China's Nan Wang eventual silver medalist of the event. She is a member of the Killerspin Krew, you can find more info on Killerspin's team here. Full Name: Georgina Pota Nation represented: Hungary Highest World Ranking: 34 (46 at present) Blade: Killerspin Diamond CQ FH Rubber: Tenergy 64 BH Rubber: Joola Express Killerspins' Gina Pota out at the table Image from mytabletennis.net You Career I have been playing table tennis for 21 years. I started when I was 5 years old. My mother also played table tennis when she was young and inspired me. What is your next big goal for table tennis? My next big goal is to get a medal at the European Championship. Who is your favourite international player and why? It is Timo Boll who has chance to win against Chinese. What do you think is the place of fashion in women's table tennis? It is important to look good at the tables as well because of the spectators, sponsors and media. Are you a supporter of skirts and sports dresses for women or shorts? I prefer skirts and dresses. What do you think of the state of women's table tennis around the world? The table tennis is not so popular for people to watch it rather to play for hobby. For example the tennis much more popular than table tennis because my sport is too quick to follow the play on TV. Generally people like watching men's table tennis more than women's. Off the Topic Questions It is Rafa Nadal because he is a very good player and fantastic sportsmen. Fried cheese, pizza. I like going to cinema and playing tennis. Dream Car?Bugatti Veyron. Maldive, Bali Islands. I like the sea. I would visit my boyfriend who has been studying in Tampa (USA). and I would buy my dream car of course. I would travel a lot. Your Team Mates Who’s the funniest player in the training hall? Nobody because everybody focus on training and practice hard ;) Who trains the hardest in the training hall? I don’t deal with the others I am just concentrate on myself. Who’s the funniest team player? Irene Ivancan. Who has the best nickname? Petra Lovas “Moki”. And Lastly Would you like to add one last tip, or an inspirational message for other table tennis players looking to succeed?Believe in yourself, work hard and enjoy the play. A couple of great Killerspin Spinvitational points Gina vs. Zhang Yining What makes the Chinese so Dominant? Take 2: The Pr... Oceania Champ set to Enter the Fray at Intercontin... U.S Comeback Queen Carving Path to Olympic Qualifi... Auckland Stand Proudly Behind Championship Shields...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line13956
__label__wiki	0.505348	0.505348	Minnesota Rising 101 "Our Minnesota" Cascading Conversations Tour Greater Minnesota Rising More to the story: @MinnesotaRising 2011 In May 2009, I began blogging about active citizenship, emerging leadership, and issues of interest to the Millennial generation in Minnesota. During the next year and a half, I would complete nearly 50 one-on-one conversations, sharing my ideas and vision for Minnesota Rising and listening for how it might be applicable to the efforts of local emerging leaders and their organizations. I attended numerous young professionals' events, met with leadership from a range of emerging leader organizations, and was invited to speak about Minnesota Rising at the Minnesota Jaycees 2010 Annual Convention. After some initial conversations and a year of online interaction via Twitter, Facebook, and blogging, I developed enough followers and friends to begin engaging in large group conversations with emerging leaders across the Twin Cities. I convened the first meeting in May 2010, with 20 people in attendance on a Saturday morning, including representatives from many of the key emerging leader organizations. The opportunity to map the myriad existing young professionals groups and the potential to develop some type of generational agenda with other emerging leaders excited those in the room. At the close of the gathering, we agreed that we should continue to meet in this manner and determined that one way to move forward would be to jointly plan a large event that each of our groups could benefit from as well as help to carry out. A planning committee of 10 targeted November 13, working to develop content, logistics, and outreach for the Minnesota Rising Un/Conference, so named for its hybrid of traditional and innovative activities for facilitating conversation and interaction. We enlisted 16 Network Partners to help promote and execute the event, brought on 4 event sponsors, and despite a surprise snowstorm, had 70+ attendees present out of 100+ registered. The Un/Conference, focused on the potential the rising generation has to contribute to Minnesota, energized the attendees, many of whom have since expressed an interest to become more involved in this evolving effort. In January 2011, Minnesota Rising members delineated 5 areas of work for the year. Focus areas include the blog, continued efforts to develop a generational theme or operating principles, mentorship, quarterly emerging leader organization convenings, and a second Un/Conference slated for the end of 2011. The network of emerging leaders in Minnesota, Minnesota Rising's organic process has only begun contributing to the network-building and development of the local emerging leader community. Our common call With massive numbers of Baby Boomers retiring, Minnesota's workforce and demographics will look dramatically different in just a few short years. One oft-noted issue of concern is the leadership gap that will deepen as many seasoned, long-standing executives and leaders retire. While some succession planning has taken place, the sheer numbers of the Baby Boomers means their departure will have a profound impact upon how business and society function in coming years. The challenge of a successful transition of power is heightened by the lack of an emerging or middle talent pool that has been cultivated with skills, institutional knowledge and relationships, and a shared vision for how to proceed. This issue cuts across the entire state, but will have particular ramifications in the Twin Cities metro area, which is home to 19 Fortune 500 companies, 30+ higher education institutions, and the commercial and political centers of the state. Minnesota currently struggles as a result of this lack of leadership and grooming. Companies and sectors are at work to address leadership transitions. Nonprofit boards of directors and new political leadership continually strain to find talented, smart, and committed volunteers and staff. Lacking a method for cultivating emerging leadership and surfacing talent for leadership roles hampers innovative thinking and long-term planning for Minnesota's future. Without a sustained group of leaders and citizens committed to the betterment of Minnesota, policy-making and critical decisions are subject to the vagaries of political cycles and partisan campaign promises. Policy-makers can only think as far as two-, four-, or six-year terms. This myopia encumbers their ability to compromise in the short-term so long as the important goal is realized in the end, and whether or not they receive credit for it. The tough problems we face as a state will not be solved with short-sightedness and polarization. We need to forge a new civic discourse, built on trust and relationships cultivated over time. This culture shift won't take place easily or overnight. It may, in fact, take an entire generation to change the conversation. That's why we need to begin the work now. Emerging leaders are poised to be the next greatest generation. Unlike previous generations' brick and mortar legacies, the very manner in which today's emerging leaders conduct their work may ultimately be the most powerful contribution we make to our society. The quest behind the question What can we emerging leaders do now to build relationships, trust, and a shared vision for Minnesota so that we, today, and in 20 years time, can be more successful in implementing it? This question pushes me to continue pursuing the work of Minnesota Rising and I know it also stirs up a deep hope and calling for others, as well. This work is being co-created, and while we have some general principles and parameters, the end remains to be seen. For the time being, it seems that the work is an attempting to shift society from back room dealings to relationship-based politics and culture of collaboration. The idea is for emerging leaders to learn a new way of being now before arriving in positions of leadership to repopulate the old systems. This new way is of collaborative leadership. Over the coming year and more, we hope to create powerful, idealistic, vivid vision of the future in Minnesota through a tour of the state’s groups of emerging leaders, high schoolers, college students, and more. We'll strive to embed this intention in the upcoming Un/Conference and disseminate through it cascading interviews and un/conversations. These conversations are the change. Through them, we will focus on what we have in common and that which we can strive after with shared purpose. Working collectively, we will be able to identify, nurture, and take with us the best values of our generation as we move up and on in life. Together. Posted by Diane Tran at 7:12 AM Blog Subscription: Minnesota Rising in your inbox! Founded in 2009, Minnesota Rising is a network of emerging leaders in Minnesota. 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__label__wiki	0.560376	0.560376	Akshay Kumar Says He Introduced Asin To Rahul Sharma! Mizo Author 4 years ago Finally,south actress,Asin who is currently making movies in bollywood is going to tie a knot with Micromax co-founder Rahul Sharma. Intrestingly,Akshay kumar confirms that he introduces Asin to Rahul.Asin who will be next seen in the upcoming film ‘All Is Well’ has not made any public comments on her relationship with Rahul. However, her colleagues in the film industry seemed to be quite open about it. The news about the relationship between Asin and Rahul started making rounds on Monday when an entertainment portal reported about the development. It is being said that Asin is in love with Rahul Sharma and also that she has revealed about her marriage plans to her All Is Well co-stars. According to the report, Asin said that is currently wrapping up all my professional commitments so that I can give more time to my personal life. she had anyways stopped signing new projects two years back itself.” Also, her co-star in ‘All Is Well’ and the veteran actor Rishi Kapoor has also been trying to pull her legs. He said, why is Asin SHARMAAING on the sets, which includes the word SHARMA in it. The film All Is Well is directed by Umesh Shukla and produced by Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Shyam Bajaj and Varun Bajaj. It has been co-produced by Ajay Kapoor. The film features Abhishek Bachchan, Rishi Kapoor, SupriyaPathak apart from Asin in lead roles. The film is set to hit the silver screens on 21 August. So,finally Asin is going to enter into marriage life. Is Mahesh Babu To Act As Pratapa Rudrudu In Rudhrama Devi Sequel? Mizo Author August 14, 2015 The Trailer Of Apple’s ‘STEVE JOBS’ Mizo Author July 7, 2015 Bajarangi Bhaijan Facing Problems In Pakistan Mizo Author July 14, 2015 Why online betting is more exciting than offline betting? Terms You Should Know Before You Bet on Cricket Matches Everything Students Must Know about NEET – National Eligibility Entrance Examination Windows 10 Release date, Features, Specs & Pricing: Everything you need to know Life/Style (59) Nation (4) Mizo News Copyright © 2020. Theme by Mizo News.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line13960
__label__cc	0.675897	0.324103	Ideas, strategies, and thoughts from a newspaper ad sales consulting firm Flip the sale: Changing no sale into a huge sale = revenue After: The ad rep presented this large ad twice within 2 days. The first one ended in a definite "no". With some changes, the second presentation yielded a 13x contract for this 5 col x 16. Read what she did differently that made the difference. Are your ad reps increasingly coming back to the office feeling beat up and demoralized, attributing it to the digital age and the economy? It doesn't have to be that way, as this incredible case study from one of my clients illustrates. A simple shift in an ad rep's sales approach can make overcoming objections a breeze and result in a major jump in print and digital revenue, leaving one ad manager to describe their ad sales as ON FIRE!!! This case study begins with an ad rep who gave a classic consultative selling-type presentation, one that would make any ad director proud. But, as happens a lot these days, the business turned her down, in no uncertain terms. They claimed they had no money. That print was dead and it just didn't work. That digital worked even less (unless it was pay-per-click). That the weak economy was making it hard to justify spending anything. Sound familiar? The ad rep was felt like she was banging her head against a brick wall. But two days later, she returned and tried again with a different approach and this time sold a 5 col. x 14" ad on a 13 x contract. The crazy thing is that almost nothing changed between the first presentation and when she reapproached the prospect two days later. In fact: She spoke to the same person. She showed the same spec ad she had presented before (from our ad sales coaching service). It was the same information about her print and digital products and how they fit the prospect's needs. She used the same information she had gathered from the original "fact-finding" call. The ad recommendation was the same size, frequency, and rates she quoted the last time. How is this possible? Both times, all the above elements were perfect (we're sure–we helped her with a lot of it.) But the second time there was a seriously different outcome by just by changing her wording. In fact, this technique works so well, two large newspapers independently told me recently: "If every newspaper was using this sales approach, the industry wouldn't be complaining sales are down." The real problem at the heart of declining local ad sales (and how to fix it). Before: This was the ad the kitchen remodeler had run before with no success. Too often the newspaper industry and economy's troubles are blamed instead of the ad. What exactly changed? The first time she presented the ad, she had a sound strategy (and it looked great, too), but the advertiser didn't believe it would work. Advertising is subjective, after all, and a big ad with lots of copy didn't happen to fit into his own approach (which you can see to the right). Because his previous ad, which he liked, hadn't shown any results, it was difficult for him to conclude anything other than what he's constantly hearing–newspapers are dead. And so was the sale. This exact same phenomenon is now happening in digital, too. And it's worse, because everything is so measurable. That's a big deal, because when we allow an advertiser to fail at digital, too, they may never return to either medium and start running, say, pay-per-click ads through Google instead. Or settle for Facebook. And Twitter. That's how you run a newspaper into the ground. So, what did she do differently? To her credit, she went back and watched my videos where I role-play the entire kitchen presentation. She got the new approach down and went in again with the same materials, but this time she first changed the prospect's underlying, faulty theories about print and digital that were getting in the way of him believing the new strategy would work, teaching him an effective, direct-response system of advertising. We call it the "Response Model". Once he bought into that, she then went on to show the prospect how she applied this Response Model to the information the he had given her and proceeded to help him visualize the new strategy. Only then did she show the ad. I got this email from her manager later that day. "Tanya presented the ad today (again). He loved the ad. Did not object because she did such a nice job on having him imagine the ad as we went along on the response model. I am so PROUD OF HER!!!!!!!! We are looking at a 13 week commitment. We are on FIRE." This isn't a fluke. The ad manager said they've sold every ad they're presented so far. That's why many newspapers–dailies, weeklies, and monthlies alike–who make sure their ad reps take a few minutes to ensure their prospects' theories about advertising are correct before presenting, describe their ad sales as on FIRE. Ad revenue doesn't need to be down. But ad reps who are treating spec ads as little more than a decoration, in effect saying, "trust me" on the ad strategy side are killing your newspapers more than the economy or the new age of digital ever will. Prospective advertisers have to believe every dollar is going to come back to them tenfold. They have to believe in the strategy. What made the difference here is that Tanya went back and spent some time drawing the prospect through a solid, step-by-step approach to creating print and digital strategies that work the first time. The result? An advertiser who could visualize getting a response from a huge ad and understood exactly why the ad needed to be the size it was, needed the frequency, and needed every word of content. No arguments. No objections. Just an extraordinarily happy advertiser. Want to learn more? Sign up for a 30-minute demo and learn how your staff can do exactly this with our inexpensive, all-on-one service that combines live training Webinars with weekly, category-specific coaching videos, complete with stunning spec ads and PowerPoints. Or call me at (631) 477-2505 and I'll fill you in on the details of how your ad reps could be killing it on every sales call. And give your ad reps some ammunition when your prospects tell them they have no money, it's the economy, or print is dead. Posted by Bob McInnis at 4:00 PM Download Our FREE E-book: "The 7 Essential Elements Of Successful Ad Sales Training Initiatives" Visit Our Ad Sales Web Site! Click on the above image to visit our main Web site for more information on our various tools to help drive your newspaper ad revenue fast. Free E-Book On Driving Revenue With Ad Sales Training Newspaper Ad Sales Training Convincing a surgery center to run the right size, content, and frequency to succeed Alternative weekly newspaper takes advertiser from cutting back to running significantly larger than before--and thanking them for it Our new StrongResponseNow newspaper advertising seminars drive $800,000 to $1 million in a week Focus on solving their response problem and they'll spend the money More revenue in 10 weeks than all of last year Thunder Bay ad rep sells by doing her homework A 349% increase in spending during a recession Test: Is your local ad staff killing your newspaper (and your advertisers)? Overcoming the biggest objection of all Swear they have no money? Think again! From $0 to a $29,000 contract literally overnight The key to driving serious local ad sales in this recession is eliminating risk Bob McInnis Since 1993, I've been a newspaper consultant specializing in advertising sales. Response Oriented Selling is in place at over 1,000 newspapers worldwide. Current clients are driving $100,000+ per month, and I can show you how you can do it as well. I'm also the author of the most popular new hires ad sales courses in North America and run an offshore overnight ad production company serving more than 30 newspapers and newspaper associations. I'm a PAGE-approved vendor for production and ad sales. I'm the former training manger and major accounts supervisor at a top 10 daily. I've also been ad director for a group of 8 and 10 weeklies. I've spoken often at API, INMA, the World Association of Newspapers, the Society of Newspaper Design, and for state and regional associations. I also am a North Fork of Long Island landscape photographer. Contact me at (631) 477-2505. More information can be found at my ad sales Web site.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line13964
__label__wiki	0.698606	0.698606	Find this article at: http://www.nfl.com/fantasy/story/0ap3000000870478/article/fantasy-winnerslosers-in-kelvin-benjamin-bills-trade Fantasy winners/losers in Kelvin Benjamin, Bills trade By Alex Gelhar Fantasy writer/editor Published: Oct. 31, 2017 at 05:23 p.m. Updated: Oct. 31, 2017 at 05:33 p.m. The NFL trade deadline could not go quietly into the night, this year, as the Carolina Panthers and Buffalo Bills swung a deal at the 11th hour to send Kelvin Benjamin to Buffalo in exchange for third- and seventh-round draft picks. With that formality, let's quickly look at the fantasy implications. For the Panthers ... First off, this is bad news for Cam Newton's upside. Devin Funchess has been solid this year, but now the Panthers have no true No. 1 receiving option, as Greg Olsen remains sidelined until roughly Week 12. Funchess will likely see a bump in passing volume, but it'll be up to veteran journeyman Russell Shephard and rookie Curtis Samuel to fill in more of the void. Shephard has played far more than Samuel recently but has spent most of his time in the slot (69 percent). He did play predominantly on the outside last year in Tampa Bay, though, which is why it'd stand to reason that he is the more likely candidate as the "next man up" over Samuel, who converted to wideout from running back this past year. All of this combined with Newton's recent struggles (fewer than 13 fantasy points in each of last two games) really sullies his outlook in the coming weeks. He does still get Green Bay and Tampa Bay at home in the fantasy playoffs, though, so keep an eye on him if he ends up on the waiver wire in your league. For the Bills ... The Bills desperately needed help in the pass-catching department. After eight weeks the team's leader in targets and receptions is LeSean McCoy, with the injured Charles Clay holding a slight edge over Shady in yardage (258 to 242). Rookie Zay Jones has been struggling mightily (to put it nicely) hauling in just 10 of 37 targets for 115 yards. Kelvin Benjamin will give the team a big target in the red zone and a semi-reliable chain mover. This is excellent news for Tyrod Taylor, who'd been having to make plays with his legs all too often. For Benjamin, his volume will likely come down (the Bills attempt roughly six fewer passes per game), but he should be the primary target here. I'd consider him a flex option moving forward, though he could be tough to trust this week considering his first game with the Bills is TWO DAYS after he gets traded to the team (at NYJ on Thursday night). We weren't chasing any of the other Bills pass-catchers in fantasy, so there's no reason to discuss any sort of trickle-down effect. If Taylor and Benjamin can get acquainted quickly, they do have some nice matchups on the horizon with the Saints, Chiefs, Patriots (twice), Colts and Dolphins all on the slate. It could be worth exploring buy-low offers for Benjamin if his owner is salty after the trade. -- Follow Alex on Twitter @AlexGelhar or "Like" his page on Facebook for more NFL and fantasy analysis.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line13965
__label__cc	0.514086	0.485914	Scariest Part The Scariest Part: Douglas Wynne Talks About CTHULHU BLUES Posted on Sep 19, 2017 by Nick This week on The Scariest Part, my guest is author Douglas Wynne, whose new novel is Cthulhu Blues, the third volume of the SPECTRA Files trilogy. Here is the publisher’s description: The Wade House has been reduced to ash, but the dreams that plagued Becca Philips and Jason Brooks when they slept in that abomination continue to haunt them. After years of facing trans-dimensional monsters in the service of SPECTRA, a few lingering nightmares are to be expected. But when Becca starts singing in her sleep — an ancient song that conjures dreadful things from mirrored surfaces — she fears that the harmonics she was exposed to during the Red Equinox terror event may have mutated not only her perception, but also her voice. It’s a gift — or curse — that she shares with a select group of children born to other witnesses of the incursion. While a shadowy figure known as the “Crimson Minstrel” gathers these children to form an infernal choir, something ancient stirs on the ocean floor. And Becca, hearing its call, once again finds herself running from an agency she can no longer trust into the embrace of cosmic forces she can barely comprehend. And now, let’s hear what the scariest part was for Douglas Wynne: Unless there’s a large measure of luck involved, my son usually kicks my ass at board games. My wife recently had a good laugh when, following one of these whuppins, I exclaimed, “Daddy’s not a strategist! That’s why he doesn’t outline his books!” When I wrote my first Lovecraftian thriller, Red Equinox, I knew the ending set the stage for a potential sequel, but as someone who doesn’t plan ahead much, I’m tempted to say that the scariest part was committing to writing a series without knowing how it would end. After all, when I’m working on a single novel, I get to go back and make changes to the early chapters in light of what I’ve learned along the way. Improvising the first draft frees me up to follow whatever path feels right for the characters, knowing that rewrites will give me the opportunity to fine tune and correct for continuity. There are no rewrites for published books. So it was a leap of faith for me to put plot lines out there that suggested certain story possibilities but for which I couldn’t predict the trajectory. The biggest cliffhanger that I left dangling at the end of Red Equinox had to do with a generation of children born to witnesses of a cosmic terrorism event in Boston in 2019. In that first book Darius Marlowe — an MIT student and radicalized young member of the Starry Wisdom Church — takes the apocalyptic prophecies of his religion to heart and creates a device he calls the Voicebox of the Gods. The infernal machine is inspired by Darius’ occult communion with Nyarlathotep (H.P. Lovecraft’s dark analog of the Egyptian god Thoth) and is a hybrid 3D printed/lab grown larynx capable of producing harmonics that humans lost the ability to chant aeons ago. Darius mounts the larynx in a boom box and sets it off on a subway train in Cambridge, unleashing cosmic mayhem on the passengers. This union of ancient incantations with cutting edge tech alters the perception of the bystanders, allowing them to see and be seen by monstrous gods from another dimension. As you can imagine, all hell breaks loose. By the end of the novel, all of the witnesses — with the exceptions of main characters Becca Philips and Agent Jason Brooks — have taken a drug called Nepenthe to shut their extra perception down. In the second book, Black January, children born of parents exposed to the harmonics exhibit the ability to perceive trans-dimensional entities and eventually develop biological mutations that enable them to sing mantras endowed with the power to align our world with that of the Great Old Ones. In Cthulhu Blues, the third and final book of the SPECTRA Files Trilogy, another avatar of Nyarlathotep known as the Crimson Minstrel arises. Wandering between worlds, this shadowy figure appears to the gifted children in mirrored surfaces and lures them into a twilight realm via seductive music that resonates with the ancient power they have inherited. Becca, our heroine, has no children of her own but becomes invested in finding and saving the child of a friend and even protecting the child of a family of cultists who may want to contribute to the apocalyptic return of their slumbering gods. Unfortunately, having refused the drug that would have shut her abilities down, Becca also has to contend with the mutation of her own voice and the possibility that she is herself becoming something monstrous, or something to be used in the service of monsters. As a parent, I worry about all kinds of influences on my child. Everything, from the ingredients in his food to the contents of a phone in the hands of another kid on the school bus, presents potentially dangerous variables; more of them beyond my control with each passing year. I try to keep these in perspective. But I’m also aware that some otherwise rational members of my generation have succumbed to paranoia about vaccines, putting all of us at risk due to the fear that a trace of mercury (another name for the messenger of the gods) might alter their child’s brain. It’s a powerful fear — the prospect that a child who depends on you for their wellbeing, your precious responsibility to whom you devote so much care and caution, so much nurturing and bonding, could change into something you can’t relate to in the same way. Of course, that’s also what awaits us to some degree as our children grow up. And some of the best parents I count among my friends have navigated Aspergers and Autism with more grace and resourcefulness than most of us bring to lesser challenges. In other cases, we worry that our children will inherit the same mental and physical ailments that plague us, or our parents. The mutations I put the children through in Cthulhu Blues are far more chilling than the ones most of us worry about in the real world. In the end, the trilogy without an outline worked out as if I had planned it (and I believe there’s always more intelligent design going on at the subconscious level than the writer is aware of). But imagining a red-robed minstrel with blue fire flickering in his hair, plucking a guitar and leading glassy-eyed children across a twilight shore to sing hymns to a cold blooded leviathan beneath alien stars… For me, that was the scariest part. Cthulhu Blues: Amazon / Barnes & Noble / IndieBound Douglas Wynne: Website / Facebook / Twitter Douglas Wynne wrote his first dark fantasy novel at the age of fifteen but has never found the courage to take it down from the attic and read it. After a long detour through music school, rock bands, and recording studios, he came full circle back to fiction writing and is recently the author of five novels: The Devil of Echo Lake, Steel Breeze, and the SPECTRA Files trilogy (Red Equinox, Black January, and Cthulhu Blues). He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and son and a houseful of animals. Lives of the Monster Dogs Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis A charming, playful, imaginative novel, LIVES OF THE MONSTER DOGS is one I’ll be recommending to friends for years to come. Bakis is a wonderful writer, and there’s so much amazing creativity on display in these pages. (One chapter is written in the style of an opera libretto!) The monster dogs themselves are an incredible creation. With their top hats, tails, and gowns, mechanical voices and robotic hands, they are indelibly burnt into my memory. One thing I found really interesting is the recurring theme of how complex and fallible our heroes are. Augustus Rank, the creator of the monster dogs who is all but worshipped by canine scholar Ludwig von Sacher, is a violent, selfish man who could easily have become a serial killer had he not become a surgeon instead. Mops Hacker, beloved leader of the monster dog revolution, is churlish, ill-tempered, and petty. Even our protagonist Cleo seems to love the monster dogs more for what they mean to her than for who they truly are. There are no easy answers in the history of the monster dogs, but there is beauty to be found in their lives. My one complaint about the novel, and the only reason I’m giving it four stars instead of five, is that the end is too abrupt for me. I wanted a lengthier denouement, especially with regard to the mysterious illness that plagues the monster dogs, which is wrapped up too quickly — and frankly too opaquely — to be satisfying. But everything else in LIVES OF THE MONSTER DOGS is an achievement. It deserves all the acclaim it has received and then some. Now if only Bakis would write another novel! 01/13/2020 — Doctor Who: “Orphan 55”*SPOILERS AHEAD* After the strong two-part season opener, “Orphan 55” is your typical base-under-siege Doctor Who story — although this time the base is a resort, a setting that, alas, could have easily led to a lot more humorous or insightful moments than it did.…Read more » 01/09/2020 — Doctor Who: “Spyfall, Part 2”*MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD* The second part of “Spyfall,” the two-part season 12 opener, is just as exciting as the first!…Read more » 01/04/2020 — Doctor Who: “Spyfall, Part 1”*MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD* After an interminable wait of more than a year since the end of season 11 (and exactly one year since the New Year’s special “Resolution”), Doctor Who‘s twelfth season is finally here.…Read more » 12/30/2019 — The Naming of the Books 2019Presenting a list of all the books I read in 2019!…Read more » 12/29/2019 — Home for the HolidaysHome for the Holidays by Randee Dawn My rating: 5 of 5 stars This slim volume acts as a highly enjoyable sampler of author and journalist Randee Dawn’s prose and poetry.…Read more » Content © Nicholas Kaufmann unless noted Art & gun detail by Chris McGrath \| Website by Matthew Kressel	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line13966
__label__cc	0.696685	0.303315	Between the Trees: A Review Looking at the world of climbing video, it is clear that the trend is towards the Big Up style of video. We see big names in amazing locales, the latest testpieces filmed using high-tech equipment, and a generally professional polish put on the whole thing. Yet often we are left wondering in the end about what it is exactly that is being captured. Yes there is a big show and we are left amazed but not much else. In the very beginning of Keith Bradbury's latest film, between the trees, we hear the voice of Tyler Landman, one of the most gifted boulderers of his generation, utter these words, "I was a eagle, and I flew down, and I was a fish swimming." These lines indicate right from the start that something very interesting is going on here. This is not going to be your typical climbing movie. The introduction merges parody and comedy set in the evocative ambience of grainfields and forest. Credits roll, so minimal as to pass almost unnoticed, and we are off to Fontainebleau. The first scene is the forest in winter as Keith walks into a dark snowy forest to try a problem called Gecko, a problem that will figure prominently elsewhere in the film. Here as in many other places in the film, atmosphere, mood and ambience play the leading role. The footage is minimally edited and the movement is natural and uncontrived. In other words what is interesting about Between the Trees is what is left out, what is left unsaid. A gorgeous panning shot across the rise of land at Cuisinere Franchard that holds Karma leads seamlessly into Ty leaping onto the starting holds. As he completes the problem, a frozen image of Ty remains at the top while another Ty runs back down to the base. This kind of camera work could go all wrong, seem pretentious and “arty” but here it just works. Ty comments on the problem while the boulder just looms there in the background like a kind of sculpture, framed by three pines. The setting sun shimmers on the horizon across the valley at Cuisiniere Crete as Ty finishes Duel. The light filtering through the trees provides a striking backdrop as he ruminates on the complexity of the problem. The gray-green textures of the magnificent Partage are as fascinating as the problem itself. Keith’s orange shirt is a striking accent point in a maze of crossed tree branches, mossy green walls, and the stubbly texture of fallen leaves. The problem itself is almost an afterthought. You might say that it’s inevitable that Fontainebleau would shape the film and to a certain extent I would agree. However this emphasis on environment emerges time and again, too often to be merely coincidence. It is a trait I noticed also in Keith’s other films, a tendency to seek out subtle, understated visual environments that frame both climber and problem in the realm of the natural world in all its mystery and complexity. By way of contrast, one might refer to the old-school classic, The Real Thing, with Ben Moon and Jerry Moffat, which often literally rides roughshod over the same terrain. I wonder if Ben is performing an act of expiation by sponsoring Keith’s efforts to film Fontainebleau. It would be an appropriate gesture. Keith has truly got the real thing here. The less artistic among you may appreciate other aspects including the sheer diversity and number of problems depicted. An eclectic soundtrack keeps things lively and unpredictable. Ty reflecting on the nature of climbing in the forest brings us back to the dual natures of Font climbing, how it is cerebral and athletic at the same time. Seated in a wheatfield, or a deserted picnic area, he reminds us of the uniquely meditative aspects of climbing. If I have one issue with the film, it’s this: Keith tie your shoelaces already! Perhaps it is the time of year that gives this film a valedictory feel, an elegiac tone. The colors are somber, the skies mostly gray and subdued. The photographer constantly seems to reach beneath the surface to what is buried rather than what apparently meets the eye. This to me is the essence of art and what makes this film special. It is beautifully realized in the sequence featuring Elephunk, where the problem is immaculately captured at close range and then the view is lengthened to reveal piles of stacked piles of logs, dead objects in front of the living forest, the climber caught between these two states of being. This is an extraordinary moment in climbing film, in my view, and one that deserves real recognition. The film closes on an ambivalent note for both climbers. Keith faces down failure on the sit-start to Gecko, a situation any serious climber can recognize. He can clearly do the problem but for whatever reason, cannot actually finish it. An intensity of emotion emerges here, not one rooted in success but in frustration. It feels like a doomed relationship and indeed in some footage not included in the film itself (I wish it had been; it is in the Extras) Keith really goes, as he put it, “close to the bone.” Ty finishes on a high note climbing-wise but followers of this immensely talented climber have seen him retire from the world of high-end bouldering. He decided not long after the filming, that at least for now, climbing full-time is not for him, and went to college instead. So for both, there is a sense of incompleteness, again understated and implied; a redemption postponed for Keith, a quest in different directions for Ty. Keith tried asking for donations with his last film and apparently got 20 of them out of 1000+ downloads of the L’Etranger video. This film deserves much more support and recognition than that. It is quite literally the best climbing film I have seen in years and Keith should be rewarded for taking the genre in new and important directions. So go to his website and find out how you can purchase this work and support authentic climbing films. I will be posting an interview with Keith later this week, including some words from Tyler as well. I couldn't have said it better, kudos to you and Keith. Doug Lipinski said... Great review Peter. Everything I've seen and read makes me really want to see this movie! Great review. I can't wait til my copy comes in the mail! I wish there were more climbing movies made like this. Best climbing movie I've ever seen. You reference some older films which you feel are on par. I only started climbing about 2 years ago and other than this I have really only been exposed to "Big Up" style films. I was wondering if you have any recommendations. I really enjoyed the review. Thanks. And I also wanted to let you know I appreciate your role in the climbing community. I think Deadpoint is being rather insensitive and short sighted. Keep up the good work. It is people like yourself who, through rational dialogue and personal achievement, really help the sport grow. It is mature people who are able to do more than one thing (ie. climbing) that are the pillars of our sport. Claiming that a bouldering movie, shot at ground level, is "the best climbing movie of recent years", is like claiming that a movie about snorkeling, shot from the boat without underwater cameras/footage, is the best scuba movie. It probably is the best bouldering feature - wouldn't doubt it having seen L'etranger - but there's no way this is a climbing movie. Saying that this bouldering movie, consisting of footage shot at ground level of people who are never more than 4 meters off the deck, is "the best climbing film in recent memory" is like saying that a snorkeling movie, shot from the boat and without any underwater footage, is the best scuba movie. It probably is the best bouldering movie of recent years (a backhanded compliment at best considering the competition), but really...why not just call it what it is? You may have your own definitions of what "climbing" and "climbing film" consists of and that's fine. However, from both the tone and substance of your comment, you neither understand nor would care to understand what this film was about. So don't watch it and don't worry about what you're missing. Not sure what you mean by "my own definition"...if this not a bouldering movie than what is? Sure it's a bouldering movie. Does that make it not a climbing movie as well? Or does that start at 5 meters off the deck? Again, why not just call it what it is, a bouldering movie? What's the problem with that? Why is it that every time someone disagrees with you or makes a point you don't approve of you attack them? I am betting this post will be followed by much of the same. Why do I attack people who disagree with what I say? Besides the fact that I can't really attack an anonymous poster anyway, I find that some readers interpret disagreement as attack, especially when they can't find sufficient grounds for defending their stated positions. Anonymity generally speaks for itself in these situations. Feel free to argue your point "in person." To get back to the main premise, I call BTT a climbing film,because, as Ben Moon noted a long time ago, "bouldering is the essence of climbing." I agree with this statement. Characterizing the film I reviewed as comparable to snorkeling versus scuba is a misleading analogy in my view so I will argue the point. What difference does a name make in determining if someone is posting anonymously? How do you know if they're using their real name? And again, why not just call it a bouldering movie? Because you can't find sufficient grounds for defending your stated position? If boudering is the essence of climbing then why not just call it bouldering? Why describe the essence of something in general terms if it really is the essence? Re: posting anonymously. The issue is not whether I know your name; it's whether you feel strongly enough about what you say to have the courage to use your own name. I have yet to see a single anonymous poster come back and attach a name to their post. BTW, I publish all comments positive and negative, anonymous or not, and occasionally edit for length or profanity as I see fit. The exception is the obvious irrelevant personal attack. That you can do on your own blog. Coming back to the issue of terminology. Let's unpack the paragraph slowly. >>And again, why not just call it a bouldering movie? Because you can't find sufficient grounds for defending your stated position? I think I made it clear enough already. Here's a syllogism for you. 1. A film documents an activity of some kind through moving pictures. 2.Bouldering is an activity that is a form of climbing. 3.A film focusing on a form of climbing is by definition a climbing film. QED >>If boudering is the essence of climbing then why not just call it bouldering? Do you mean I should call all forms of climbing bouldering? Are you referring to the film again? The point is that climbing is the act that all the sub-disciplines have in common. Hence this film is not "just" about bouldering. Here's another syllogism. 1. The essence of something is its purest form. 2. Bouldering is a form of climbing rocks that requires nothing beyond a climber and a climb 3. Bouldering is the purest form of climbing rocks and hence its essence. QED >>Why describe the essence of something in general terms if it really is the essence? Well this is verging on the metaphysical but I will have a go. The essence of something is necessarily abstracted from the particular circumstances of its phenomenal existence. To approach the essence is to approach the general. I would defer to Plato on this one with his theory of the Forms. From my viewpoint, the Form or Idea of climbing is best apprehended in terms of bouldering. If you really want to understand climbing (see syllogism 2 above) then go bouldering. Everything else in climbing stems from it and gains in particularity as it drifts away from its essence. "The issue is not whether I know your name; it's whether you feel strongly enough about what you say to have the courage to use your own name." Which you have no way of confirming anyway. Might want to consult with Plato a little more on that logic thing... "If you really want to understand climbing then go bouldering. Everything else in climbing stems from it and gains in particularity as it drifts away from its essence." Yet you flinch at naming a movie of it as such, become defensive towards anyone who does so, and are demonstrably incapable of forming logical rationale for either impulse. Interesting. Must be awful to be so into something, have so many strongly held misconceptions about it, and flail so pretentiously and embarrassingly when asked for a simple explanation. "to approach the essence is to approach the general" oh...I understand perfectly now...glad we sorted that one out... What utter gibberish oldguy said... As our joints creak, certain sounds are but memories, and days gone by are certainly more numerous than days to come, we create a "golden age" that olny we can understand because it never really was. Give us this and we might forgive you for being young and strong and without perspective on being us. _an old guy from Oldguy "As our joints creak, certain sounds are but memories, and days gone by are certainly more numerous than days to come, we create a "golden age" that only we can understand because it never really was. Give us this and we might forgive you for being young and strong and without perspective on being us." Superbly and beautifully put. Thank you. I feel I am somewhere between the two states you describe, no longer young, not quite old. In defining where the "Golden Age" is, perhaps JM Barrie put it best, "Second to the right and straight on till morning." Alan Watts Interview Andre DiFelice on Trice Disciples of Gill: A Film by Pat Ament Between the Trees Part 2: Questions for Keith and ... 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__label__cc	0.593521	0.406479	Unauthorized Raises MTAS was asked whether the Board has to honor unauthorized raises. Uncompensated Public Officials' Personal Information Not Protected Per Tennessee State Law If council members are uncompensated, they cannot be considered "public employees" whose information is protected pursuant to Tenn. Code Ann. Section 10-7-504(f). Hodge, the Tennessee Open Records Counsel at the time of this letter, also offers suggestions for improved processes in filling the request in question. Unconstitutional Requirements of Candidacy MTAS was asked what a city should do when a candidate for public office is in arrears for payment of taxes. Unconstitutional Since 1953 to Incorporate Municipalities by Private Act The General Assembly is required by general law to provide the exclusive methods by which municipalities may be created, merged, consolidated, dissolved, and their boundaries altered. Unemployment Insurance for Volunteer Firefighters MTAS was asked if the city must pay unemployment insurance on its volunteer firefighters. Unemployment on Temporary Workers MTAS was asked about temporary city employees filing and receiving unemployment from a city that is an Unemployment Reimbursing Employer. Unified Communications Agreement Addendum An agreement for emergency communications services exists between Hamilton County Emergency Communications District, Hamilton County, Chattanooga, East Ridge, Collegedale, Red Bank, and Signal Mountain. This addendum is to apply a cost adjustment plan. Uniforms, Safety, and Public Image The City of Athens may provide and require certain uniforms, footwear, and equipment designed to promote safety and to protect employees as well as convey the proper image to the public. University of Tennessee Municipal Technical Advisory Service's Recommended Guidance to the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation's Minimum Monitoring Requirements for NPDES MS4 Program Effectiveness and Compliance This publication provides guidance to TDEC's minimum monitoring requirements for NPDES MS4 program effectiveness and compliance. Unpaid Military Leave and 401K Contributions: an MTAS Survey Twelve cities were asked whether they pay 401K contributions for personnel on unpaid military leave. Updating Personnel Safety and Health Issues in the Municipal Code MTAS was asked whether certain ordinances contained in municipal code that address personnel safety and health issues are required to be in the municipal code. Urban Forester Job description for the position of Urban Forester. Urban Forestry Workshop Course Material A course manual, lesson plan, and PowerPoint presentation on urban forestry. Use of 12 Hour Shifts in Selected Cities A survey regarding the use of 12 hour shifts in selected cities. Use of a Committee System MTAS was asked to review and make recommendations on operating with committees. Use of Adequate Facilities Tax Revenues MTAS was asked whether Adequate FacilitiesTax Revenues can be used to pay indebtedness for past sewer projects. Use of Beer License By a Person Other Than the License Holder MTAS was asked whether the owner of an establishment can sell beer under a beer permit held by the previous owner of the establishment who will continue to be an employee of the establishment. Use of Brass Knuckles Brass knuckles, slap jacks, black jacks, and other weapons weighted with leads are too dangerous to use in a non-deadly force situation. Use of Camcorders/Video Cameras in City Council Meetings Legal Opinion (Created: 07/22/2002; Reviewed: March 22, 2010 ) MTAS was asked whether the City Council may ban, by ordinance, the public from bringing video cameras into and videoing city council meetings. Use of City Funds to Advocate for an Outcome in a Referendum on Metropolitan Government MTAS was asked how city funds can and can't be used for a metro committee and a future metro vote. Use of City Vehicles An example of an amendment to the personnel policies to include the use of city vehicles. Use of County Law Enforcement Services in the Absence of a Municipal Police Force MTAS was asked about using county law enforcement services within the corporate limits of the town in the absence of a municipal police force. Use of Funds from Increased Garbage Collection Fees MTAS was asked whether the city can increase its monthly garbage collection fees and use the increase for purposes other than garbage collection. Use of Inmate Labor and Responsibility for Medical Expenses MTAS was asked about immunity for the municipality with regard to any injuries sustained by a county inmate while on work detail for the city. Use of Profits from Vending Machines in Municipal Buildings Legal Opinion (Created: 06/05/1990; Reviewed: August 17, 2017 ) MTAS was asked whether revenues from vending machines in public facilities in local governmental entities are "public funds." Use of the City Drug Fund MTAS was asked whether the city can use the drug fund to pay the salary of an officer assigned to the judicial task force, and can it use the drug fund to pay the overtime pay of the police officer who cares for the "drug dog." Use of the Semi-Colon under the Rules of Statutory Construction Legal Opinion (Created: 05/16/2005; Reviewed: October 4, 2017 ) MTAS was asked to interpret a provision of the charter that turned on the use of semi-colons. Use of Translators in Selected Tennessee Cities A survey of selected cities regarding the use of translators and the offering of translation services. Use of Vehicles Owned by the Police Department Establishing policy and procedure for the most efficient use of motor vehicles of the police department. Using a Utility Service Applicant's Credit Report to Determine Amount of Utility Deposit MTAS was asked whether the city can use a utility service applicant's credit report as a basis for determining the size of the applicant's utility deposit. Using City Hall to Solicit Charitable Contributions MTAS was asked whether the city could allow the city hall to be used as collection point for solicitations by various private groups. Using County's Bid Prices in City Letter on legality and procedure to use County's bid asphalt unit prices to buy asphalt for small projects in Parsons. Using Inmates and Probationers for Public Service Work Projects Loss control guidelines provided by the Tennessee Municipal League Risk Management Pool Using Sick Leave to Supplement Workers' Compensation Benefits MTAS was asked whether employees may use sick leave to supplement workers' compensation benefits. Using Special Assessments for Sidewalk Construction MTAS was asked whether special assessments can be used for sidewalk construction. Using Tax Increment Financing in Tennessee This study includes the history, background, explanation, advantages and disadvantages used to support economic and industrial development, and alternatives to using TIFs in Tennessee; two case studies are included. Utilities and Public Works, Director Job description for the position of Director of Utilities and Public Works. Utilities Crew Chief A job description for the position of Utilities Crew Chief for the city of Dandridge. Utilities Distribution and Collection Supervisor Job description for the position of Utilities Distribution and Collection Supervisor. Utilities Must Charge Reasonable Rates MTAS was asked for the definition of the term 'reasonable rates' within the meaning of the utility statutes and cases in Tennessee that require utility rates to be reasonable. Utilities Superintendent Job description for the position of Utilities Superintendent. Utility Board Residency Requirement MTAS was asked whether the requirement that a person be a resident of the city as a condition of holding a city office is a continuing requirement. Utility Board Setting Water and Wastewater Rates MTAS was asked whether the utility board has the right to set water and wastewater rates. Utility Board Setting Water Rates MTAS was asked whether the city's utility board can be given the authority to set water rates. Utility Cuts - City Street Repair Policy for the City of Athens The purpose of this procedure is to clearly define the process for receiving utility cut repair requests from the Athens Utilities Board (AUB) and making repairs to such utility cuts on City maintained streets by the City of Athens Public Works Department. Utility Extension Policies: Who Pays? The purpose of this article is to present differing municipal practices of utility extension procedure and funding strictly for undeveloped land within city limits. Utility Extensions MTAS was asked about the relationship between the governing body and the utility board of the city, whether utility extensions are required to be approved by ordinance, and whether the city is required to approve every contract by ordinance. Utility Operating with 3 Member Commission MTAS was asked whether a city may operate a water and sewer utility with a 3 member commission, as opposed to the 5 member commission provided for by Tennessee law. Utility Rate Breaks for the Elderly MTAS was asked whether a city can give utility rate reductions or exemptions to the elderly. Utility Systems and In Lieu of Tax Payments (Created: 02/26/2001; Reviewed: October 26, 2016 ) Report on the authorization of tax equivalency payments for utility systems. Utility Worker Job description for the position of Utility Worker. Utility Worker Helper Job description for the position of Utility Worker Helper.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line13973
__label__wiki	0.847967	0.847967	15 Celebs Who Wish They Weren't Famous "I don't want to be a celebrity...I don't want to be in people's faces. I just want to make music." "Sometimes I wish we weren't filming. I love being a mum and sometimes I just wish no one knew who I was." "Some people like the idea of fame, I don't like the idea of fame. I like being an actress. It's different." "I had a moment where I don't know, I was thinking I'd maybe open a knitting store...live off the land...I had my moment where it all seemed so complicated and all I wanted to do was simplify." "The more money you make, the more free stuff you get. I think that's weird, and I'm not a huge fan of it." "I am not OK with fame...I am just a normal girl and a human being, and I haven't been in this long enough to feel like this is my new normal." "I like doing normal things...The problem is, you're either worried you're going to be recognised or you're thankful you're not. It's always there. I miss that not being in my head." "The craft of acting for film is terribly exclusive and comes with the baggage of celebrity, which robs you of your individuality and separates you." "I'm frustrated by the fact that I have no control over my own life anymore, and it's a side effect of not being made for this whole fame thing." "It's difficult to be a celebrity and to have that many people hating on your pictures..." Has said he "doesn't wish this upon anyone," regarding being famous "There are ways to disappear, like, fairly easily. I just involves effort, and most people can't be bothered to put the effort in." "I don't wanna raise Jack here. I just want Jack to be able to be like, 'See ya buddy.' Go outside. Come back later. And also, I like the country and clean air and things just slowed down." "I know I don't want to be famous forever. There's gonna be a time where I feel comfortable, I'm at a good place in my life, and I just stop." "If anyone besides famous people knew what it was like to be a famous person, they would never want to be famous." More from Kourtney Kardashian WATCH: Kim Kardashian Says Things With Kourtney 'Get Worse Before They Get Better' In Next Season Of KUWTK Check Out The Major 12 Year Transformation Of Our Favourite Kardashians Oop Sofia Richie Feels ‘Left Out’ When She Hangs With Her Boyf Scott Disick & His Ex Kourtney Kardashian Kourtney Kardashian Speaks Out After Kris Jenner's Boyfriend Threatened To 'Hit' Her Daughter Oop It Sounds Like Kourtney Kardashian Is A Teeny Bit Intimiated By Kylie Jenner's Billion Dollar Bank Account Watch Grown Women Kim & Kourtney Kardashian Get Into Huge Argument Over Candy Here's How All Your Fave Celebs Celebrated The 4th Of July WATCH: Blac Chyna Shares Update On Her Relationship With Rob Kardashian's Sisters WATCH: The Moment The Kardashians Find Out Tristan Thompson Cheated Is As Intense As We Imagined Tensions Are High Between Kendall Jenner & Her 'Rude' Sister Kourtney Kardashian Kourtney Kardashian Might Be Plotting Her Exit From KUWTK & Noooooo PICS: See All The Colourful Fashion Moments From The 2020 Critics Choice Awards Red Carpet 14 Celebs Who Have Dug Deep & Donated To The Aussie Bushfire Appeals PICS: Check Out The Glam Hollywood Stars Who Had A V Fancy Time At The 2020 Golden Globes After Parties Take A Look At Which Movies Broke The Box Office Each Year Of This Decade Here Are The Most Streamed Songs On Spotify For Each Year Of This Decade 15 Shows You Need To Binge On Netflix Over The Holidays 18 Of The Biggest Viral Moments & Sensations Of The 2010s All The Wildest Looks From The ARIAs Red Carpet 12 Movies That Made Us Weep Like A Baby In 2019 The 2019 American Music Awards Red Carpet Was A Wild Ride From Start To Finish A Worst-To-Best Ranking Of This Year's Netflix Films According To Rotten Tomatoes	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line13974
__label__wiki	0.934197	0.934197	50 Cent Responds To Rick Ross With 'Officer Ricky' Track New record alludes to Ross' alleged prison-guard past, also calls out Lil Wayne. Shaheem Reid 01/30/2009 [artist id="860639"]50 Cent[/artist], what took you so long? Almost five days have gone since Rick Ross came out with "Mafia Music," which talks about Fif and the mother of his child. "I love to pay ya bills, can't wait to pay ya rent/ Curtis Jackson baby mama, I ain't looking for a cent/ Burn the house down," the husky Miami MC rapped on the record, referring to the last year's "suspicious" fire at a home owned by 50 (in which his son and ex-girlfriend lived). "You gotta buy another/ Don't forget the gas can, jealous, stupid mutha----er." Thursday night, Hot 97 radio personality Miss Info debuted portions of 50's new song "Officer Ricky (Go Ahead and Try Me)" during one of her hourly news segments. Later in the night, he released the entire record to the Net. On the track he goes after Ross and [artist id="1800901"]DJ Khaled[/artist], and he once again calls out [artist id="510062"]Lil Wayne[/artist]. "The cop f--- with Fox," 50 asserts, alluding to Ross' alleged prison-guard past and the rumors of a marriage between him and [artist id="1073"]Foxy Brown[/artist]. 50 later calls Brown a "bimbo." "Must've thought he knocked me out like Kimbo," the G-Unit General adds. "Officer Ricky radio for backup/ See your a-- anyway, you know I'm gonna act up/ You wanna play with me when I don't wanna play?/ Have my n---as whip the skin off your a-- in broad day/ Screaming, 'Boss,' n---a , you ain't a boss/ Pu--- n---a, you're lost/ Listen, Officer Ross." As the record comes to a close, in classic 50 fashion, the Queens-bred icon talks over the beat, saying that if Wayne wants to battle Eminem, he has to come through him first. "This n---a is an appetizer," 50 says of his new beef with Rick Ross. "Where you at, Wayne? You're the full course meal, Wayne. You awfully quiet." 50 Cent's Before I Self Destruct was slated to come out in early February. It has since been pushed back, and no new release date has been announced. Besides "Mafia Music," Rick Ross also released his single "I'm the Magnificent," which features John Legend. Ross' new album Deeper Than Rap should be out sometime this spring.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line13975
__label__wiki	0.901319	0.901319	Jordin Sparks Serenades 'Lover, Gangsta' Jason Derulo Sparks drops brand-new track 'Skipping a Beat' day after posting sweet serenade teaser featuring her BF on IG. archive-Nakiya-Morgan 08/01/2013 As if it wasn't clear already, Jordan Sparks adorably reminded fans just how much she loves boyfriend Jason Derulo with her brand-new single "Skipping a Beat." On the uptempo track, Sparks sings from the heart, opening up about a "exciting" and "crazy" relationship over a sultry beat. "Everything you do, you know you got me tripping/ And everything you do, you got my heart skipping," she belts. Sparks and Derulo have been dating for over a year, and it feels natural to assume that the song is directed at the "Other Side" singer. On Wednesday, she even created an Instagram video that doubled as promotion for her new release and a sweet serenade. In the midst of Sparks' inspiring quotes, kisses and selfies, the clip features her singing the hook to Derulo. His reaction? Priceless. As Sparks croons, he bites his lip while looking right into her eyes. "You make my heart skip like we're playing hop-scotch/ Hope I'm the one that you want to put the rock on," the songbird sings before adding, "Boy, I think I'mma need an ambulance because you been doing my heart some damage." Derulo may have Sparks' heart skipping a beat but when it comes to recording together, he told us earlier this year that he's learned to try to prevent doing much damage. "We kind of butt heads in the studio, a little bit," Derulo told MTV News about collaborating. "We kind of work differently and we're very used to being in the studio, but being in the studio our way. So you know, it could get kind of ugly in there sometimes but we made it happen. It's a beautiful thing. We did a few songs together; one will be on her album, one will be on mine." Sparks has yet to set a release date for her solo project, but with any luck, Derulo will wind up on a remix of "Skipping a Beat."	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line13976
__label__wiki	0.524505	0.524505	Fields Of The Nephilim (Group) Компания звукозаписи : Polydor Ltd., (ru) Музыкальный стиль : Alternative Pop/Rock, Goth Rock CD, стоящие на полке рядом : Rock (Hard) For the first time since Dawnrazor, the Nephilim worked with someone other than Bill Buchanan as producer; whatever Andy Jackson's particular qualifications, happily he knew not to ruin a good thing. The end result was the band's best all-around album, consisting of four lengthy pieces that showcase their now near-peerless abilities to create involved, textured, driving, and loud pieces of rock. It was still goth as all heck, but like the best bands in any genre, the Nephilim transcended such artificial limitations to create their own sound. McCoy still comes up with an occasionally curious lyric, to put it mildly, but such is the power of his performance as well as the band's that, at least for the time it's playing, Elizium really does sound like it's about to call up darkling spirits from the nether planes. The opening song is divided into four parts but mainly known by its second, "For Her Light," which was edited into a single. It moves from initial crashes of noise, feedback, and keyboards to catchier brooding and riff action, a calmer midsection with appropriate samples of Alistair Crowley, and a last slamming run to the song's conclusion. "Submission" stands on its own, switching between minimal bass with guitar stabs and massive crescendos. "Sumerland (What Dreams May Come)" takes the apocalyptic element of the Nephilim to its furthest extent; its relentless pulse supports some of the most powerful guitar out there while McCoy achieves a similar high point with his commanding voice. "Wail of Sumer" concludes Elizium on a striking two-part note, gently floating rather than exploding over its length, while McCoy's lost, regretful voice drifts along with it as a soft, yet still unnerving conclusion. Combine that with another fantastic job on art design, and Elizium, once you accept the Nephilim's basic conceits, simply stuns. - Ned Raggett (All Music Guide) 1 Dead But Dreaming 0:01:29 Fields Of The Nephilim / McCoy 2 For Her Light T 0:03:01 -"- 3 At The Gates Of Silent Memory T 0:08:25 -"- 4 Paradise Regained 0:02:29 -"- 5 Submission T 0:08:31 -"- 6 Sumerland T 0:11:08 What Dreams May Come - Fields Of The Nephilim / McCoy 7 Wail Of Summer T 0:06:23 Fields Of The Nephilim / McCoy 8 And There Will Your Heart Be Also T 0:07:38 -"-	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line13979
__label__wiki	0.914521	0.914521	The Sash Canada Wore - A Review - The Globe 1980 The Orange Order from liquid socializing to business to a major force in politics and neighborhoods Review by J.L.Granatstein These days, as the author’s of the Orange Order’s spread and decline point out, an Orange parade is more likely to be thought of as a citrus festival or as part of a New Year’s Day football game than as a demonstration of militant Protestantism. The Orange Order is but a shadow of its former self, a decaying and aging fragment of the once militant and powerful Protestant and British majority. It was not always so. As recently as the years around the turn of the century, the Orange Order was the power in Toronto and in Ontario, in New Brunswick and in Newfoundland. Its members were major forces in politics, in the social life of communities and neighborhoods, and even in business, although the bulk of Orange members were of the working class. And as Houston and Smyth point out in their interesting study, to be Orange in Canada it was not even necessary to be Irish. All that was required was Protestantism and a devotion to the British tie, requirements that allowed Orangemen to embrace an Italian Protestant lodge ( named after Garibaldi ) in Toronto, and the “No Surrender” lodge in Mahone Bay,N.S., most of whose members were distinctly non-Irish – Zwicker, Zink, Smeltzer, Strum, and Buzgozic. Clearly, Orangism had more appeal to Canadians than we had hitherto been led to believe. Of course it was Irish in its origins and militantly anti-Catholic in its practices and politics, but the Orange Order grew and developed with the country as it carried its mysteries and ritual and a propensity for liquid socializing into areas where there was little else to do after hours of back-breaking toil, in such places to be Orange was to be entertained and to have fun, and the Orange lodges’ membership, the authors suggest, varied more with the economic state of the country ( and members ability to pay their dues ) than it did with political/religious questions that exercised the press of the day and historians ever since. That is an important insight, of one many in this book. The authors, both historical geographers, have filled their book with maps and charts. That frightens some readers off automatically but it needn’t. All are clear, all are readily comprehensible, and all add point to their story, letting us trace how the Orange Order spread with the settlement of the land and now how it has declined. Seventy or 80 years ago the Orange Order controlled Toronto and “ its parade were the expression of the power and control of a self-convinced charter group whose perceived duty it was to preserve and defend the very foundations of the state. The Orange community.” Houston and Smyth demonstrate “was largely indistinguishable from the rest of the Protestant city. “ Even 25 years ago the Orange parade went down Yonge Street past packed sidewalks, and Leslie Saunders, the personification of Orange ideas was a power at City Hall. But today, nothing. The parades are a travesty and membership slips into old age, and no one cares. At its peak Orangism was inflammatory, bigoted, and dangerous, stirring up trouble between Protestants and Catholics, railing against non-British immigrants and denouncing every move toward tolerance. But one early lodge had something. Temperance Loyal Orange Lodge No301 in Toronto ordained that its business had to end by 10 p.m. If the Master exceeded that deadline, he was fined one shilling and three pence for the first 15 minutes and double that sum for each succeeding 15 minutes. Any organization that could have such a by-law in its constitution couldn’t be all bad. Submitted by John Wells – County Secretary – Sept 10th, 2009 From article in the Globe Dec 20th, 1980 A review of the Book “The Sash Canada Wore” A Historical Geography of the Orange Order in Canada, by Cecil J. Houston and William J. Smyth, University of Toronto Press Review by J.L.Granatstein teacher of Canadian history at York University	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line13983
__label__wiki	0.655569	0.655569	Home News Events Contact Bookshop Owl Bookshop 207-209 Kentish Town Road - London - NW5 2JU020 7485 7793 Fabian Watkinson The Golden Age of Camden Housing Monday 17th February at 6:30pm Tickets £5.00, available over the phone on 020 7485 7793 , in person from the shop, or via the link below. Tickets Link Join us for a talk about Camden Housing in the 1960s and ’70s. Fabian Watkinson has lived on the Whittington Estate for over twenty years. He regularly welcomes visitors for London Open House and has led walks on Camden’s housing for architectural students and the Twentieth Century Society. The talk is based on his recently published book The Golden Age of Camden Housing which looks at council housing designed in the 1960s and ’70s by an exceptionally talented group of young architects recruited by Camden’s first Borough Architect, Sydney Cook. Foremost was Neave Brown, but the others included here are Gordon Benson and Alan Forsyth, Bill Forrest, and Peter Tabori. They resisted the enormous pressure to build tower blocks and use industrialised building techniques. Instead, they created modern versions of the traditional street, not estates cut off from the world around. With their light-filled and exciting interiors these belong to a brief golden age when Camden’s architects believed that nothing was too good for council housing. Owl Bookshop 207-209 Kentish Town Road London NW5 2JU owlbookshop@gmail.com © Owl Bookshop 2020	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line13985
__label__wiki	0.675502	0.675502	HomeArticlesWhy Israeli Officials are Chuckling: The ‘Stable’ West Bank Dilemma Why Israeli Officials are Chuckling: The ‘Stable’ West Bank Dilemma April 16, 2014 Articles, Editorials PA police coordinate with Israeli border police to control Palestinian access to Jerusalem at the Bethlehem checkpoint. (Photo: ActiveStills.org, file) By Ramzy Baroud Israel’s deputy foreign minister, Ze’ev Elkin, is a member of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and his predominantly rightwing cabinet. In a recent interview with The Economist, Elkin used the familiar tone of being conceited and oblivious to such notions as international or human rights, and reaffirmed his rejection of a Palestinian state. Instead, Elkin wants Israel to annex a chunk of the West Bank. There is nothing new here, as such language is now official Israeli discourse. But one statement stood out, one that many Palestinians would find bewildering and exasperating. These days, said Elkin with a chuckle, the West Bank is “the most stable part of the Middle East”. The bewilderment would stem from the fact that the West Bank is an occupied Palestinian territory. Its population is held at gunpoint; they have no freedom, and enjoy no rights. Their land is seized by force to make room for more settlements and illegal Jewish settlers, now numbering well passed the half million mark. Needless to say, the West Bank should not be stable. Instead, Palestinians should be leading their own revolution until they achieve their full rights and freedom. This is not a call for violence, but a natural human course. However, Palestinians are not rebelling. Many factors are holding them back, one of which is the very Palestinian Authority in Ramallah. Its troops are in constant ‘security coordinations’ with Israel. Its ‘elite forces’ are trained by US generals and Arab armies. The PA mission is not to liberate Palestine, but to ensure the subservience of the Palestinians while Israel carries on with a colonial project that has extended for decades. Deputy foreign minister Elkin knows this. Netanyahu himself, along with every Israeli official, understands that the PA, despite Mahmoud Abbas’ occasional attempts at appearing defiant and rebellious, is no threat to Israel, nor will it ever be. This will be so even if the US-imposed April 29 deadline for a ‘framework’ agreement between the Israeli government and the PA passes and even if Abbas took the seemingly daring step of signing the applications to join 15 international organizations. Abbas and his men understand that there are red lines which they cannot cross under any circumstances. Abbas may be weak, but he is clever. He knew that Kerry’s peacemaking efforts would not go anywhere and that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would find a way to thwart the process. If Abbas were lucky, Kerry could even blame Israel for derailing the peace process, as he already has. Then, Abbas would do what many would find reasonable; seek further international recognition for the state of Palestine. This might frustrate the Americans a little, anger the Israelis a lot, but it would give his supporters reason to promote the 79-year-old leader as another Yasser Arafat, heroic and defiant to the very end. The Israelis still need Abbas. He is important in maintaining ‘stability’ in the West Bank. This means the continuing of the security coordination that ensures the safety of the armed settlers, providing an extra layer of protection to Israeli soldiers as they kill at will, seize more land, demolish homes and trees, erect walls, dig trenches, and level mountains. So what if some imaginary state existed on papers in the files of some international body in Geneva or Brussels. For Israel, the law is that of its military, and reality is what is taking place in Area C, not in some European capital. This is why Elkin is chuckling. He is at ease, in the same way the Israeli political establishment is. Since the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, a deal was struck between Israel and what became a pervasive, controlling and corrupt Palestinian political class. Israel maintained its military occupation, carried on with its colonial project and continued to disfigure the occupied territories in any way that it found consistent with its ‘security’ needs. Palestinian elites were granted economic privileges and access that is denied to the vast majority of the Palestinians. The PA’s constant challenge is to maintain a level of legitimacy. True, it uses its monopoly on force, which is readily sanctioned by Israel, in order to arrest, torture and kill resisting Palestinians when necessary. It uses the logic of trickledown economics to hold the bulk of Palestinians hostage to winning their daily bread. But that is not enough. It needs a brand to market itself as the exclusive harbinger of freedom for Palestinians. It uses slogans, flags and kuffiyas to promote that brand through its control of the media. Many PA supporters dance to that tune and playact that Abbas and only Abbas is capable of exacting the coveting liberation of Palestine from the obstinate hands of the Israeli prime minister. Palestinian officials are proficiently inflating Abbas’ image to ensure that Palestinians don’t question the wisdom of their aging leader, after the latest and predictable failure of the peace process, which was never truly meant to succeed anyway. A Palestinian official spoke of Abbas’s refusal to heed a call by US Secretary of State John Kerry to halt applications to join international treaties. He claimed that Kerry warned Abbas of a ‘strong (Israeli) response to Palestinian action. Abbas replied: “Israel’s threats scare no one. They can do what they like.” The words were repeated in Palestinian media. The Abbas image is being overstated once more. There is no space for those who question the man’s credibility, legitimacy or failed methods. More posters of the old man are now erected in the occupied Palestinian towns. His latest antics will help perpetuate the myth that the PA is a platform for resistance, not capitulation. As long as the West Bank is ‘stable’, and as long Abbas, and those that follow him continue to sell Palestinians old illusions of revolutions that never took place, and heroes that only exist on colored posters hung around the streets of Ramallah, Elkin will continue to chuckle. And as long as the West Bank is ‘stable’, Palestinians will never achieve their freedom, for submission achieves no rights; only resistance does. – Ramzy Baroud is an internationally-syndicated columnist, a media consultant, an author and the editor of PalestineChronicle.com. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Exeter, UK. His latest book is “My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story” (Pluto Press, London). What Other Torturous Measures Will They Inflict on the Tortured? US Pursues ‘Peace’ on Israel’s Terms George Polley says: Great article, Ramzy. I just got finished publishing one on the same subject, in response to a piece Jeffrey Goldberg had in The Japan Times a few days ago. It’s in my new blog, “Musings, by George Polley”. The link to it is here: http://gwpj.wordpress.com/2014/04/17/israel-palestine-and-denial-a-response-to-when-will-netanyahu-nail-himself-to-the-cross/	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line13986
__label__wiki	0.519118	0.519118	NATIONAL BALL HOCKEY ASSOCIATION OF CANADA AGE GROUPS & LEVELS OF PLAY REFS ROOM Error loading feed data The National Ball Hockey Association of Canada is not-for-profit and is the official national governing body for ball hockey programs and organizations across Canada that are dedicated to the development of the sport from the grass roots level to the elite at its apex of competition. The NBHAC was founded on principles of unwavering integrity, accountability, fairness and the equality of its members, as well as a commitment to the growth of the sport and the individuals who play it, from the very youngest to its oldest, whether indoor or outdoor. The NBHAC guarantees the rights of minors in the sport to be represented by their own administrators, establishing complete control of their finances, development and programs. Equally, adult members shall control the matters that pertain to their domain, both men and women. The NBHAC will host a series of annual and bi-annual events that will provide its members with inter-provincial and international competitions of the highest quality and greatest variety, including: Youth championships: National male, multiple age groups National female, U-17 North American Youth Championships for males, females, both able-bodied and the disabled Maple Leaf Cup international, various male and female age groups Adult indoor championships: National-“A”, male and female Canada Cup international “A”, male and female North American Championships for “B”, “C” and Masters for male and female Adult outdoor championships: National-“A” male and female International tournament series, various male and female categories The NBHAC will ensure the principles remain paramount. Registration and recruitment of leagues from provinces will be provided periodically on the NBHAC’s website. The NBHAC offers services such as an insurance program, Rulebook/Casebooks, Officiating Program, Learn To Play program and modules, Coaching videos and lesson plans, Youth Development, Web Site maintenance, online registration and stats system for all member leagues on the newest version of www.weareballhockey.com The Canada Cup of Ball Hockey, the Nationals (Junior and Senior) and Regionals will see teams participate from the previous years qualification, as well as the North American Championships. The events will be open to both male and female representatives at all levels including Junior Nationals for girls. The following youth divisions and age groups will be offered at Junior Nationals: Males: Peewee (U-15), Bantam (U-17) and Junior (U-19) Females: Bantam (U-17 & younger) Along with these events, the National Ball Hockey Association in partnership with the ITDA will host the North American Youth Ball Hockey Championships and Maple Leaf Cup for all youth players in the following divisions: Tyke (U-9), Novice (U-11) and Atom (U13) Peewee (U-15), Bantam (U-17) and Junior (U-19) Girls U-13, Girls U-15, Girls U-17 Players will be eligible to be scouted for Team Canada with in the NBHAC and World Ball Hockey Federation. WHBF Copyright © National Ball Hockey Association of Canada [NBHAC - 2012] Powered by marCOM	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line13987
__label__wiki	0.772217	0.772217	New Age Music World Defining our World of New Age Music Archive for the ‘Best New Age Music Award’ Category Grammy Award – New Age Music Album January 26th, 2014 \| Author: John P. Olsen Music News: Laura Sullivan, 56th GRAMMY® Award- winning recipient for Best New Age Music Album titled Love’s River. The 56th GRAMMY® Award winners have been announced on January 26th, 2014, and as expected, there were a few surprises on this year’s recipients of the highly prized music award. Best New Age Album Award recipient Laura Sullivan is a solo and concert pianist whose award really didn’t come as a surprise to me at all. Laura’s piano and instrumental new age album Love’s River happened to be the first album review I wrote in 2013, and I just knew the eleven songs on her newest album were something special. Laura Sullivan’s award-winning album Love’s River, on the Sentient Spirit Records Label, is a piano and instrumental album featuring pianist Laura Sullivan and other top music professionals including Will Ackerman, Nancy Rumbel, Eugene Friesen, Jill Haley and Jeff Oster. The ensemble of award-winning music professionals performing their instrumentals on various songs are Nancy Rumbel playing Oboe and English Horn, Eugene Friesen on cello, Jill Haley on English Horn, Jeff Oster on trumpet and flugel horn. Record Producer Will Ackerman produced 4 songs and played acoustic guitar on the song titled Blessed. Laura Sullivan is truly a gifted composer and pianist with many achievements as a soloist and concert pianist throughout her illustrious career, and I am pleased to see her win a GRAMMY® Award in 2014. In the album review I wrote I stated it was exciting to be one of the first to review Laura Sullivan’s newest album Love’s River. I also stated I felt it was destined to be a popular album in 2013. For everyone who knows Laura personally, they may be in agreement that in this case Laura Sullivan’s latest achievement was not one of the few surprises! The 11 songs on Love’s River are Secrets from the Deep, Wishing on a Dandelion, Awakening to Love, Blessed, Holding Heaven, Moonlight Passage, Love’s River, Calligraphy, River to the Sea, Story of the Rain & Snowfall on Water. To sample and purchase Love’s River visit Laura-Sullivan.com. Read my album review on my pages for Laura Sullivan. Photo and album cover art courtesy laura-sullivan.com. Posted in Award Winning Music, Best New Age Music Award, Grammy Awards, Instrumental Music \| Tags: Laura Sullivan \| No Comments » Best New Age Music Albums – 2012 December 1st, 2012 \| Author: John P. Olsen It stands to reason when searching for the best new age music ever on the internet, only the very finest music available is what you are looking for. Thanks to search engines, online music stores, and social media sites, finding the best albums in all popular music genres has become much easier. Even music blogs like this site play an essential role by publishing their yearly award recommendations for best new albums of the year. Hello everyone, my name is John P. Olsen. In my role as interview host and review publicist at New Age Music World, I have sampled many of the very best new age songs and albums artists worldwide produced in 2012. Like previous years, I have had the opportunity to write review publications for a respectable number of new age, instrumental, and world albums released in 2012, of the nearly 200 new albums in all categories sent to me for review consideration this year. While the new age music genre in general covers an extensive range in compositional style with varying elements from one album to the next, there are a number of factors that help me determine which artists I believe have produced a quality album nearly everyone will enjoy listening to in the fascinating new age music category. One characteristic everyone can count on like all other music category are the select number of top shelf music recordings artists created that seem to rise above and stand out from the rest. With so many new releases in 2012 to choose from why wait any longer? Today I am pleased to present my yearly awards recommendation for the 10 best new age albums I have sampled or reviewed in 2012. My selection of the 10 Best New Age Albums is listed in alphabetical order using the artist’s name. If you would like to find new music from many of today’s top new age artists, this publication includes direct links so you may visit each artist to sample or purchase music direct from the artist or select from their online stores. Best New Age Music Albums in 2012: 1. Intuition by Dan Kennedy. The contemporary piano instrumental album Intuition, by Dan Kennedy is a stylish collection of 10 songs total, with several new age solo piano pieces. The extensive list of professionals providing instrumental include David cullen, Jeff haynes, Jill Haley, Steve Holley, Mehuman Jonson, and Premik Russell Tubbs. Together the artists have performed with Whitney Houston, Paul McCartney, Pat Metheny, Santana and Cassandra Wilson. Dan Kennedy, who began his career playing improvisational piano music in coffee shops, delivers a wonderfully diverse atmosphere on his newest release Intuition. Produced by GRAMMY® Award-winning Corin Nelsen, Dan Kennedy’s sensational Intuition conveys his forte with creating an upbeat, rhythmic brand of contemporary music in classic fashion. Find the artist at DanKennedy.us and sample or purchase Intuition. 2. Tomorrow Will Tell The Story by Echo Us. Tomorrow Will Tell The Story is a progressive concept album featuring 12 songs illustrated by an experimental range of musical textures, brought to life by Ethan Matthews, Echo Us guitarist and founder of the progressive rock band Greyhaven. The group’s primary artists are GRAMMY® Nominated singer and songwriter Henta, and harpist Raelyn Olson. The most interesting feature with Tomorrow Will Tell The Story is the futuristic blend of electronic landscapes set to vocal overlays in a neo-classical, ambient fusion. The deep enigmatic atmosphere, unlike anything you have heard before will leave you breathless! Tomorrow Will Tell The Story is the second release in a multi-album concept project, and follow-up to earlier releases The Tide Decides & Echo Us. Find more about the artist at EchoUs.net and to sample or purchase Tomorrow Will Tell The Story. Look for another release by this unique group named Echo Us. 3. Glimmerings by Elika Mahony. International recording artist Elika Mahony has given the world one beautiful piano and instrumental album with her 12 original songs on Glimmerings, whose tonal depth and beauty go far beyond what I first anticipated. Currently over thirty online radio stations worldwide, like UK based One World Radio and Celtic Radio are apparently reaching the same conclusion by their constant online radio airtime. The 12 songs on Glimmerings are mainly solo piano pieces. Beautiful as the solo piano songs are themselves, the piano and instrumental songs Realization & Final Journey are equally beautiful and expertly conveyed by international, award-winning cellist, Bo Peng. Elika Mahony, who was born in the United States and raised in Kenya, now lives in China where she is truly making a grand impression on persons from every corner of the globe. Find more about the artist at ElikaMahony.com and to sample or purchase Glimmerings. 4. Symphonic Arts by Gleisberg. Symphonic Arts by Gleisberg is a 2012 release of 10 orchestrations that are uniquely bold and dynamic while embracing a classical atmosphere on this new age instrumental album. Rudiger Gleisberg is a music teacher from Germany, renowned for creating works of music far from conventional for over 25 years. Clearly the year 2012 is no exception. Symphonic orchestrations are the best way to describe the graceful songs which were recorded with members of the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra of Odessa, Ukraine. The cinematic depth and beauty of rich orchestrations are what make this release special. Rudiger Gleisberg’s extraordinary talents as a composer and instrumentalist are vividly apparent in Symphonic Arts. You may find more about the artist at R-Gleisberg.de or visit BSCmusic.com to sample or purchase Symphonic Arts by Gleisberg. 5. Beyond the Turning by Heidi Breyer. Beyond the Turning features 14 eloquent piano instrumental songs by artist Heidi Breyer. This is her third album, and follow-up to Another Place and Time, an album produced by founder of Windham Hill Records, Will Ackerman. Another Place and Time earned Heidi 2 ZMR Awards in 2010 for Best New Artist & Best Instrumental Piano Album. Beyond the Turning, produced by GRAMMY® Winning producer and engineer Corin Nelsen, is another magnificent testimonial to the talents of composing pianist Heidi Breyer. An elemental variation in moods and influences is what makes Beyond the Turning shine from the rest. Artists include Eugene Friesen, Charlie Bisharat, Samite, Michael Manring, Steve Holley, Jeff Haynes, Jill Haley and David Cullen. You may find more about the artist at HeidiBreyer.com and to sample or purchase Beyond the Turning. 6. These Are the Moments by Michael Dulin. New Age recording artist Michael Dulin has delivered his very best collection of 16 songs from six of his most popular piano albums over the years with These Are the Moments. The 16 songs at over an hour in duration are mainly solo piano pieces, with several songs having instrumental accompaniment and song finale by vocalist Jeania Major. For the modern day composer and concert pianist Michael Dulin, who happens to be a classically trained pianist and Juilliard School graduate, composing emotionally compelling music is purely a natural process. Included are in this wonderful album are two of my favorite songs, Moonlight Sonata & Winter Dreams, featuring Jeania Major, who was a finalist in a Cirque du Soleil national talent search. Listen to Michael Dulin’s best of the best album at MichaelDulin.com and to sample or purchase These Are the Moments. 7. Between The Shores of Our Souls by Mirabai Ceiba. Passionate beauty in the form of heartfelt vocals intertwined with a warm instrumental setting are the divine elements for Between The Shores of Our Souls by Mirabai Ceiba. Peaceful harmony and poetic verses are gently brought to life on the 10 songs that are magnificently serene and light to the touch, yet show inner depth and romantic intensity. Mirabai Ceiba is comprised of guitarist and vocalist Markus Sieber, and harpist, keboardist and vocalist Angelika Baumbach. Top ranked instrumental artist join Markus and Angelika on Between The Shores of Our Souls, like Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer, cellist Noah Hoffeld and Yoed Nir, Megan Gould on violin and viola. Jamshied Sharifi performs keyboards, bass, and strings, and Benjamin Wittman on percussion. Find more about the artist at MirabaiCeiba.com and to sample or purchase Between The Shores of Our Souls. 8. Lovers by Paul Avgerinos. The new electronic instrumental album Lovers is a serene collection of 11 songs by one of today’s best producers of ambient music, Paul Avgerinos. Recognized as a pillar in the new age music industry today as he was yesteryear, GRAMMY® Nominated composer Paul Avgerinos is a constant, award-winning frontrunner in the ambient music scene. Paul Avgerinos is owner of Round Sky Music record label, Studio Unicorn recording producer, and an artist with a long history of winning best album and song awards over the course of his career. In addition Paul has performed with major symphony orchestras and toured with legendary artists Charles Aznavour, Liza Minelli, Buddy Rich, and composed over one hundred music scores for major television networks HBO, PBS, and Lifetime. Find more about the artist at RoundSkyMusic.com and to sample or purchase Lovers. 9. Sounds from the Circle 4 by Suzanne Doucet. Sounds from the Circle 4 is the fourth MP3 compilation by members of Suzanne Doucet’s New Age Music Circle online community forum. Produced by Suzanne Doucet, Sounds from the Circle 4 is one of the best song collections of new age and sub-genres in 2012. Like all Circle Albums the fourth release is a quality driven song compilation sampler. The diverse music styles heard on all Sounds from the Circle albums include acoustic, ambient, chill out, classical, contemporary instrumental, electronic, groove, meditation, neo-classical, piano, progressive, world, and vocal. International artists from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, Germany, Norway, Spain, the United States, and other countries make this release special. Join or visit Music Circle members at NewAgeMusik.Ning.com. Sample or purchase Sounds from the Circle IV at iTunes. 10. Mountains Take Wing by Timothy Wenzel. Instrumental new age recording artist Timothy Wenzel has a decisively elegant music recording for 2012. I was amazed to learn the 12 electronic, acoustic songs on Mountains Take Wing is his first release. For Timothy Wenzel, who lives near the mountains of West Virginia, composing majestic songs inspired by nature is a natural process. Mountains Take Wing reaches a full palette in rhythm and harmony like heard in the title song Mountains Take Wing & Christopher’s Dreams. Timothy Wenzel has already been a finalist in prestigious music awards including Hollywood Music in Media Awards, UK Songwriting Contest, USA Songwriting Contest, and West Coast Songwriters International Competition. Find more about the artist at TimothyWenzel.com and to sample or purchase Mountains Take Wing, and another 2012 album, A Coalescence of Dreams. This concludes my Best New Age Albums in 2012 recommendations. Look for more outstanding new releases this year when I present the Best Instrumental Albums – 2012 on New Year’s Day 2013. Cover art courtesy of each artist. Big Stock Photo by Paul_Lewis. Posted in Award Winning Music, Best New Age Music Award, New Age Music, Posts by John P. Olsen \| No Comments » ZMR Music Awards – Best Album in 2011 March 17th, 2012 \| Author: John P. Olsen Zone Music Reporter (ZMR) selected their best album awards for 2011, in an award publication made available on March 11, 2012. Many of the artists Zone Music Reporter selected for an award also happen to be artists I have written reviews for or interviewed last year. There are a also a number of artists I cover who were selected as album award qualifiers and award nominees, in addition to the artists chosen for the best album in ZMR music award categories. The ZMR best album award categories for 2011 are; Album of the Year, Best New Artist, Best Contemporary Instrumental Album, Best Instrumental Album – Acoustic, Best Instrumental Album – Piano, Best Vocal Album, Best Electronic Album, Best Ambient Album. Zone Music Reporter also has album award categories for Best Neo – Classical Album, Best Relaxation – Meditation Album, Best Chill – Groove Album, Best World Album, Best Native American Album, Best Holiday Album, Best Cover Art. The artists I have featured at New Age Music World that won ZMR Awards for Best Albums in 2011 are shown by the album cover art below. You also have the opportunity to visit each artist’s dedicated page featured at my site by an album review or interview publication. Simply click on the album cover arts shown below to visit their dedicated pages. The artists I didn’t have a chance to write about this year are shown in text below too, along with their best album award for 2011. Some artists Zone Music Reporter chose as award qualifiers, nominees, or selected for best album were recognized in my Best New Age Music Albums in 2011 publication I wrote on January 1, 2012. You can read about these artists on my Best Albums Awards section. In my role as interview host and review publicist, I have the opportunity to get to know many of the artists who are ZMR award candidates. It is always great news when I hear a number of the outstanding artists I know personally receive recognition for an album they produced in 2011. I will again be writing about top artists in 2012 by an album review or interview who will win an album award sponsored by ZMR in 2013. New Age Music World provides full news coverage of today’s popular artists and top music celebrities. You can read my interview with Kitaro from last week, and my interview with Yanni that will soon be published. You can read reviews of their great albums from 2011 too. The Kitaro and Yanni interviews are exclusive publications only at this site. An interview with 3 time GRAMMY® winning, Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart may be announced, so look for the news soon. The new Mickey Hart Band album is titled Mysterium Tremendum. Congratulations to every artist who won a ZMR Award for Best Album in 2011! 1. Best Album Of The Year – Surrender by Jeff Oster. 2. Best Vocal Album – Autumn Sky by Blackmore’s Night. 3. Best Electronic Album – Spectrum: An Anthology of Relaxing Instrumental Music by Hennie Bekker. 4. Best Instrumental Album – Acoustic – Elements (Live and Uncut) by Matthew Schoening. 5. Best Contemporary Instrumental Album – Spectrum: An Anthology of Music by Hennie Bekker. 6. Best Chill – Groove Album – Surrender by Jeff Oster. 7. Best World Album – … and Love Rages On! by AOMusic. 8. Best Holiday Album – A Midnight Clear: Christmas in Mitford by Bill Leslie. Best New Artist – Where I Belong by Sajjad, Best Instrumental Album – Piano – Red Leaf, Grey Sky: Piano Improvisations by Catherine Marie Charlton, Best Ambient Album – Resonance by Takashi Suzuki, Best Neo-Classical Album – The Royal Albert Hall Concert by Ludovico Einaudi, Best Relaxation – Meditation Album – BLISS by Paul Avgerinos, Best Native American Album – Many Paths by Lorrie Sarafin, Best Cover Art – Red Leaf, Grey Sky: Piano Improvisations by Catherine Marie Charlton. Visit ZoneMusicReporter.com and ZMR Awards page for Best Album in 2011. Find more great albums from 2011 produced by top ranked artists in my Best New Age Albums in 2011 publication. Big Stock Photo copyright Pkruger & Stuarthe. Posted in Award Winning Music, Best New Age Music Award, Music News, ZMR Music News \| No Comments » January 1st, 2012 \| Author: John P. Olsen New Year’s Day 2012 symbolizes another brand new beginning for everyone. Knowing this, I can assure you many artists are beginning, or are contemplating their new albums for 2012. As the year progresses, it will be a privilege to keep you informed about the best new age music albums with my review and interview publications. Hello everyone, my name is John P. Olsen. In my role as review publicist and site host for New Age Music World, I have sampled some of the best new age songs and albums music artists worldwide have produced last year. Like previous years, I have had the opportunity to write review publications for a proportionate number of the best new albums released in 2011. Today I am pleased to present my recommendation for the 12 best new age music albums I have sampled or reviewed in 2011. When it comes to new age music, I can tell you many of the popular artists I write about have produced some of the best new age music to date! For me, it takes only a moment to recall the collective number of excellent new releases public relations persons, music promoters, and new age artists sent to me for a review during 2011. While true I couldn’t review every CD or MP3 album from 2011, I have listened to every release sent to me and many more, so I am confident of my assessment in regards to the overall quality artists have produced this past year. In fact I am certain most, if not every new age promoter and review publicist would express a similar, if not identical viewpoint. Every artist has given their best in 2011, and so begins the process of determining who will win the various best album awards by high profile organizations like the GRAMMYS® or Billboard magazine. Finding the best new age albums for your listening experience is even easier in 2012, thanks to the internet and online stores like Amazon and iTunes, where you have easy access to sample or purchase your favorite music in either CD album or MP3 formats. Similarly, online internet radio and television radio stations make finding new music you can call your favorite a relatively easy task. The GRAMMY® Awards, Billboard Charts, Independent Music Awards or Zone Music Reporter is a great source for discovering some of the most popular music available today. Regardless of whether a top album award is determined by voting members, album sales, popular choice, online radio airtime or broadcaster votes, each organization is an excellent source to discover some of the best new music available. Likewise, I am confident you will find some of my January 1, 2012 recommendations made today about the best albums from 2011 will be included in various top album awards ceremonies later this year. My Best New Age Music Albums in 2011 recommendation is listed in alphabetical order of the artist tags at my site, using each artist’s first name. If you are interested in finding popular music from some of today’s top artists, my 12 best albums publication includes direct links so you may sample or purchase my music recommendations at the artist’s website or on their music page at Amazon.com. Best New Age Music Albums 2011; 1. Damayanti by 2002. Damayanti is the newest release from 2002 featuring 10 celestial song melodies in the graceful style only 2002 can produce. You can tell the beautiful songs on this quality orchestration is a 2002 production, but this is a compliment about 2002, who made the list of top new age artists in Billboard Magazine’s Year in Review, December 2003 issue. Damayanti does embrace a magnificent change in tonal atmosphere from earlier albums, and supports the cinematic aspects of their work that have made every one of 2002’s music releases special. Based on a legendary love story, Damayanti features instrumentals of Randy Copus performing piano, electric cello, lead guitar and bass guitar. Pamela Copus performs flutes, harp, keyboards and a WX5 wind instrument. Their young daughter Sarah Copus sang some vocals on Damayanti, and I read Sarah is again going to be a vocalist on the new album from 2002 entitled Believe. The heart and spirit of 2002, Randy and Pamela Copus are nearing a significant milestone in their music careers by a forthcoming 20 year anniversary as the award winning, 2002 music duo. After having charted at Billboard with 9 of their albums, and sharing the limelight at Billboard as equals with artists like Enya, Mannheim Steamroller, Jim Brickman and Yanni, Randy and Pamela Copus of 2002, truly do have many reasons to give pause, reflect, and celebrate their 20th year as esteemed new age artists. Visit 2002music.com to sample or purchase Damayanti by 2002, or find at Amazon.com. Read our interview and full review on my pages for 2002. 2. And Love Rages On! – by AOMusic. And Love Rages On! – by AOMusic is a brilliant world fusion release with 9 colorful songs of instrumentals and vocals. AOMusic shares a genuine message of unity on their 2011 release with an album title proclaiming – and Love Rages On! It is on this very unique release where ethnic harmonies of children and boys choirs from four continents are united with superb world music rhythms and contemporary instrumentals. The principal members of AOMusic are Richard Gannaway, Jay Oliver, and lead singer Miriam Stockly. Founding artist Richard Gannaway sings vocals and plays stringed instruments. Jay Oliver performs keyboards and synthesizers. Miriam Stockly is a beautiful vocalist in – and Love Rages On! During the combined careers of the three artists, they have worked with popular groups like; Sheryl Crow, The Eagles, Queen, George Michael, Jimmy Buffett, Celine Dion, Bonnie Raitt, and Tina Turner. This all-star celebrity lineup is a partial list, but it does give you an idea of the high level of quality Richard, Jay, and Miriam are recognized for. The children and boys choirs featured on And Love Rages On! – are youth choirs from Africa, America, China and the People’s Republic of Georgia. Additional key members are Sandeep Chowta who plays Indian flute tracks, and regular contributing artists Andy Georges (strings), George Bernardo (percussion), and Doug Lunn (bass guitar). Integrating world fusion music with lively world-beat rhythms and select children’s choirs from four continents, the heartfelt singing by children from varying countries have helped unify and transform this exclusive world fusion release into something very special! Visit aomusic.com to sample or purchase – and Love Rages On by AOMusic, or at Amazon.com. Read my full album review on my pages for AOMusic. 3. Autumn Sky by Blackmore’s Night. Autumn Sky is a new album from the legendary renaissance inspired new age and folk Rock touring band Blackmore’s Night. Debuting at #1 on Billboard’s New Age Chart, Autumn Sky has 15 classic songs of Blackmore’s Night best music to date. Traditional instruments of keyboards, violin, woodwinds, acoustic and electric guitars are integrated with hurdy-gurdy, mandolin, vintage instruments, and elegant vocals by Candice Night. Ritchie Blackmore and Candice Night are GRAMMY® nominated artists who are the core essence of Blackmore’s Night. Autumn Sky serves as a platform to accentuate Cadence Night’s talents as a vocalist, along with ancient and modern instrumental fanfare for which this group has become internationally famous. The entire seven member troupe of Blackmore’s Night performs in dramatic fashion by wearing renaissance attire during their popular concerts, fairs, and festival events. The international success for Blackmore’s Night is truly impressive. The elite musical focus they have engraved for themselves has resulted in an enormous following in North America, South America, Europe and Japan. Their melodies have gained crossover prosperity by the enchanting lyrical vocals and fascinating instrumental music that often contain the metrical structure of music dating back to the seventeenth century. Blackmore’s Night is a true champion by their consistent ability to create transcending music that varies with every new album they have produced. This bold renaissance inspired band which transports progressive music into contemporary times is a model for success, past, present and future. Blackmore’s Night fans will be pleased to know Ritchie and Candice are working on a follow-up album to Autumn Sky. Visit blackmoresnight.com to sample or purchase Autumn Sky by Blackmore’s Night, or find at Amazon.com. Read the full review on my pages for Blackmore’s Night. 4. Reflections by Candice Night. The Reflections album is an excellent solo release from Candice Night, lead vocalist of the legendary renaissance inspired new age and folk rock touring band Blackmore’s Night. Candice Night’s worldwide presence as the popular lead singer and songwriter for Blackmore’s Night has proven to be the perfect overture for her exclusive solo release. GRAMMY® nominated Candice Night, who is the recipient of numerous gold records and prestigious awards, along with husband Ritchie Blackmore, find musical inspiration from the beauty of nature. You will find Candice Night’s vocal and lyrical point of view is even more a focus of attention on Reflections. Candice Night’s new solo album, made of her own creation is popular music produced in a more contemporary, crossover theme from the renaissance motif of Blackmore’s Night. One constant characteristic of her solo release is her incomparable vocal and lyrical qualities, which turn out to be an expert expression throughout her first new release. One cannot talk about Candice Night without pointing out her leading role as singer in the forefront on Blackmore’s Night albums. The songs on Reflections are diverse in many ways from the renaissance themed Blackmore’s Night albums as one would expect. Best of all, Reflections reveals another aspect of Candice Night, and her many talents for producing popular crossover music in a contemporary theme you are sure to love. Candice Night’s Reflections is an online radio favorite worldwide, and Reflections made #4 at Zone Music Reporter’s Top 100 Chart during the month of October, 2011. Visit candicenight.com to sample or purchase Reflections by Candice Night, or find at Amazon.com. Read the full review on my pages for Candice Night. 5. Echoes of Creation by David Arkenstone. Echoes of Creation is a masterful 10 song soundtrack from the award winning instrumental composer David Arkenstone. On Echoes of Creation, the three times GRAMMY® nominated musician David Arkenstone teamed up with Emmy Award winning film director Jan Nickman. The inspiring nature film by Jan Nickman, in unison with David Arkenstone’s magnificent instrumental soundtrack is an absolute masterpiece! Diverse in his song writing aptitude, David Arkenstone, and his always popular music collection is an array of ambient, Celtic, contemporary instrumental, world, electronic, and new age fusion. It is this unique characteristic of David Arkenstone’s ingenious songwriting abilities and extensive discography which practically guarantees there is a favorite album for just about everyone, including Echoes of Creation. Many of you may have watched the televised Echoes of Creation film and soundtrack since the film aired nationwide on Public Broadcasting Stations (PBS) in 2011. In this case, the Echoes of Creation soundtrack is a beautifully articulated cinematic music score I am certain nearly everyone will appreciate. David Arkenstone’s popularity as a favorite artist is apparent when you consider he has sold over one million albums, and has been listed in the Top 10 Billboard New Age charts twenty times. It is clear David Arkenstone was the perfect choice for Jan Nickman’s nature inspired film. The collection of songs on Echoes of Creation is a sure winner, and an easy decision to make in my best new age albums recommendation. Visit davidarkenstone.com to sample or purchase Echoes of Creation by David Arkenstone, or you can find at Amazon.com. Read our interview and album review on my pages for David Arkenstone. 6. Groove Tribe by David & Steve Gordon. Groove Tribe is the Gordon Brother’s new groove/chill out album featuring 11 songs in a vibrant blend of electronic music with ethnic percussion rhythms miles apart from many other forms of multicultural world music. Featuring electronic groove and chill out music with world drums and musical instruments, each of the 11 songs on Groove Tribe convey the relaxing yet vibrant trademark quality in which David and Steve Gordon are famous. David and Steve Gordon are two prominent names people identify as one of the most prolific music team in today’s international music scene. After founding their esteemed Sequoia Records label 28 years ago, the award winning Gordon Brothers have earned the reputation of legendary music producers. Groove Tribe has the calming metrical rhythms and vibrant electronic harmonies that keep the Gordon brothers in the forefront of new age and world music styles. It likewise highlights their ability to fashion a wide selection of popular music in a variety of sub-genres. The Gordon brother’s new album is an exotic assortment of smooth song melodies in step with ethnic percussion rhythms so it’s no wonder the songs on Groove Tribe are presently a bestselling choice for many people. David and Steve Gordon’s compilation albums are another significant component of their work together during their role as award winning DJs, which showcase top artists from around the globe. Selecting the best international talents, top quality artists on Sequoia Record’s playlist lineup can be found on many of the Gordon Brother’s compilation releases. Visit sequoiarecords.com to sample or purchase Groove Tribe by artists David and Steve Gordon, or find at Amazon.com. Read album reviews on my pages for David and Steve Gordon. 7. Songs From Before by Fionnuala Sherry. Songs From Before is Fionnuala Sherry’s first solo release, and her personal revision on some of Ireland’s most beloved melodies. Born of Irish heritage, Fionnuala Sherry is an extraordinary violinist extensively known as the fairer side of the internationally acclaimed music duo Secret Garden. Songs From Before is a contemporary instrumental album with 10 songs, including some previously unreleased original compositions that highlight her expertise as a professional violinist and vocalist. Her solo release became an instant success, and was chosen #3 in the Top 25 at Echoes in August 2011. Fionnuala Sherry’s solo release Songs From Before in entirety is a moving experience and inspirational beacon showing her in a new light, yet remains true to character in regards to the remarkable violin melodies for which she is famous. The overall sound quality on Songs From Before is rich and opulent, uplifting at one moment to deeply poignant in another. I felt every song has an elegant tenor of sophistication and depth without being overly classical. Fionnuala’s modern revisions of Irish song melodies capture traditional moments with new-found charm and charisma. Fionnuala Sherry is a longtime RTE Concert Orchestra member, and has performed with top artists including The Chieftains, Sinead O’Connor and Bono of U2 fame. While Fionnuala Sherry’s fame and success as a partner with Norwegian composer and pianist Rolf Løvland of Secret Garden has earned them admiration by millions of people as a music team, Fionnuala Sherry can claim a brilliant success of her own by the release of her first solo album Songs From Before. Rolf and Fionnuala together have a beautiful new Secret Garden album entitled Winter Poem. Visit fionnualasherry.com to sample or purchase Songs From Before by Fionnuala Sherry, or you can fnd at Amazon.com. Read our interview and full review on my pages for Fionnuala Sherry. 8. Spectrum by Hennie Bekker. Spectrum is a wonderful collection of 14 songs pointing to the diverse abilities of a world-class musician. Spectrum is a relaxing album that accents the entire range and variety of award winning Hennie Bekker. The highly prolific Bekker has composed and produced over 60 albums, and over a thousand compositions and collaborations. Hennie Bekker is a multi-platinum artist who has spent his entire music career exploring a wide array of genres, from new age, electronic, world music, and acclaimed nature soundscape albums. His work with Dan Gibson’s Solitudes – Exploring Nature with Music series was so popular the albums achieved gold, platinum, double and triple platinum status. Hennie Bekker is also one of three leading members of the techno/dance group BKS. The group BKS won a prestigious Juno Award from the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS), which is the equivalent to an American GRAMMY® award. You can include film scores, television and radio recordings in his long list of achievements as a musician. Presently, Spectrum is the #1 album in Zone Music Reporter’s Top 100 Chart for November 2011. Spectrum – An Anthology Of Relaxing Instrumental Music is like a “best of Hennie Bekker album” by the wide range of melodic songs on this impressive album. Of the 14 songs total, eleven songs are recordings selected out of his rather extensive music collection. Hennie Bekker from Canada, who was born and raised in Africa and lived in England, brings a world of experience to his music. Take a minute to sample Spectrum, and the world-class music of Hennie Bekker. Visit henniebekker.com to sample or purchase Spectrum by Hennie Bekker, or find at Amazon.com. Read the full album review on my pages for Hennie Bekker. 9. Survival & Other Stories by Jon Anderson. Survival & Other Stories is a concept album from music celebrity Jon Anderson, former front man, and lead vocalist of the group YES. The concept album has a collection of 11 songs of wonderful orchestrations unified with Jon Anderson’s heartfelt vocal energies, beautifully articulated as optimistic, upbeat and positive. Jon Anderson’s influence and starring role in music over five decades is legendary. One can say Jon’s divine voice and lyrical message is an unforgettable story people want to hear. It is estimated over 38 million albums were sold during his years as the dynamic lead vocalist with YES, and his successful solo career to date. Entertaining millions of people during his lengthy career, Jon Anderson without a doubt has a wonderful story to share with the world. Jon Anderson began the concept for Survival & Other Stories after he nearly perished from a serious illness. This unique project began to take shape after his recovery. It was during this time period when Jon published a written message on his website inviting artists to submit their music for his new Survival & Other Stories project. Select musicians from all corners of the world sent their ethnic music over the internet for consideration, and the genesis of something beautiful was born. Jon then mixed, composed, and co-produced with wife Jane Anderson, the first of three concept albums. While Jon Anderson will always be recognized as the legendary lead singer and key lyricist of the progressive rock band YES, Jon Anderson’s prolific music career continues to be as inspiring and significant today as it was yesteryear. Jon has been performing concert tours with former YES member, and acclaimed keyboardist Rick Wakeman, in support of their live album The Living Tree in Concert Part 1. Jon is also on tour with numerous live solo concerts scheduled for 2012. Visit jonanderson.com to sample or purchase Survival & Other Stories by Jon Anderson, or you can find at Amazon.com. Read our interview together and my album review for Survival & Other Stories on my pages for Jon Anderson. 10. Unconditional by Marc Enfroy. Unconditional is a cinematic piano release from pianist Marc Enfroy featuring 10 classic songs. Award winning pianist Marc Enfroy created Unconditional in a partnership with Randy and Pamela Copus of 2002, who are another award winning, Billboard Charting band. Unconditional is a passionate musical portrait by the beautiful union of contemporary instrumentals and piano music. Marc Enfroy’s new release from 2011 is an innovative contemporary instrumental release that was bound to be a success right from its conception. It’s a newly born sound creation you are sure to love. The attributes of Unconditional are best defined by the fine piano performance from Marc, unified with beautiful performances of flute, strings, bell tones and chorales. Produced by Randy Copus of 2002, Pamela Copus sings vocals, and Jack Chen plays flute, in an exclusive fusion of professional talents. Marc Enfroy’s music career first emerged after the death of his sister Suzanne Whiting to cancer, but it was from the profound loss of his sister his progressive music legacy arose. Finding inspiration in memory of Suzanne, Marc proceeded to compose music for the senses, and as it turns out, Marc Enfroy indeed has the natural gift of a true artisan. Empowered by design to take flight, the uplifting composition of inspiring song melodies on Unconditional is the ultimate music experience to celebrate life. Visit marcenfroy.com to sample or purchase Unconditional by Marc Enfroy, or find at Amazon.com. Read the full review on my pages for Marc Enfroy. 11. Winter Poem by Secret Garden. Winter Poem is an exciting new release from Secret Garden. The fabulous lineup of 11 songs on Winter Poem is made up of original arrangements from Rolf Løvland. Featuring professional violinist Fionnual Sherry, the mainly vocal instrumental release includes the award-winning Expo Suite Rolf composed for the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai China. Norwegian composer Rolf Løvland and Irish violinist Fionnuala Sherry of Secret Garden are a successful music team who has sold over four million albums. Along with the 1995 Eurovision Song Contest award, they have performed before thousands of people worldwide at live concerts covering many countries. On Winter Poems, Secret Garden preserves their signature sound that has made them an international success, but they have taken a fresh approach on their newest composition by featuring special guest musicians. The outstanding Irish violinist Fionnuala Sherry is happily the centerpiece artist, plus Secret Garden’s vibrant new release is special by the inclusion of exceptional Norwegian and Irish musicians. One guest is dynamic vocalist Moya Brennan from Celtic group Clannad, who sings on song The Dream. Guest vocalist Fionnuala Gill sings on song Mary’s Lament, while Tracey Campbell and Espen Grjotheim perform on song Powered By Nature. Winter Poem also features instrumentals by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. Popular music given by a popular music duo is a good indication that you will love every verse of Winter Poem. Secret Garden recently completed a live concert tour in Norway. Visit secretgarden.no to sample or purchase Winter Poems by Secret Garden, or find at Amazon.com. Read our interview and album reviews on my pages for Secret Garden. 12. Truth Of Touch by Yanni. Truth Of Touch is a passionate reflection of what Yanni does best, which is to create personal interaction with an audience through his extraordinary music abilities. Famous for his exceptional live concert performances, this time around Yanni’s social interaction is shared with his fans by virtue of his magnificent studio version of 15 songs. The hour long symphony of refined music harmony is an original composition, and fascinating expression from the international superstar Yanni, and his select orchestra. Yanni is conceivably the greatest influential musician of our time, and Yanni’s exceptional abilities as a gifted composer and keyboardist by are by themselves a true testament to his universal appeal. When taking into consideration the extraordinary artists and vocalists by his side, the collective inspiration pay tribute to a universal, heartfelt music experience. On Yanni’s Truth Of Touch album the energy and excitement of their performance is palpable. Yanni – Live at the Acropolis began his historic rise to stardom, and it may have been the first venue where many of you witnessed Yanni’s grand entrance onto the world stage. It is estimated over 500 million people from 65 countries have viewed this top public television fundraising program for the American Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) alone. Yanni – Live at the Acropolis alone to date has sold 7 million copies worldwide. Truth Of Touch is an sensational studio composition of pure refinement. The phenomenal caliber of musicians Yanni enlisted on Truth Of Touch is boldly demonstrated on what I feel is Yanni’s greatest electronic and instrumental music composition to date. Yes, we have heard many exceptional new albums and songs in 2011 from a variety of artists, and what better way to close than by recommending one of the best new 2011 albums produced by one of the world’s most exciting international concert artists we identify simply as Yanni. Visit yanni.com to sample or purchase Truth Of Touch by Yanni, or find at Amazon.com. Read my review and concert information on my pages for Yanni. This concludes my Best New Age Albums in 2011 recommendations. Later in 2012, I plan to write several feature publications about the various best new age album awards presented by high profile music organizations. Thank you for your visit today, and I invite you to visit New Age Music World again soon. To find more of the best new age songs and albums in 2011, visit my album reviews page and music awards section. Cover arts are courtesy of each individual artist. Big Stock Photo copyright – BSoriano – Stuarthe – Edobric – Baloncici. Best Christmas Albums for Holiday Music November 1st, 2011 \| Author: John P. Olsen Christmas is the most important holiday of the year for most people. While this is especially true for marketing retailers, they too, along with the majority of people also recognize the supreme reason for the season, and truly enjoy the building anticipation during the preceding days, weeks and months leading up to Christmas Day. If you are like me, simply listening to Christmas music can help one transition into the holiday frame of mind. And while everyone has their own individual pace for getting into the Christmas mood sooner or later, I can always depend on holiday music to renew my Christmas spirit. Listening to popular Christmas songs prompts an association of my own past holiday experiences with family and friends. Likewise there is a vast selection of music to choose from since many popular artists past and present, have produced outstanding holiday music for our enjoyment over the years. The best Christmas albums in all popular genres including new age are very comparable since many artists compose their own revision of traditional Christmas songs. It seems nearly everyone is familiar with mainstream traditional songs, so for many us there is even less of an apple to oranges comparison in terms of genre. Sometimes they are so much alike the easiest way to classify their melodies is to simply call it holiday music. Along with the Christmas holidays is the yearly task of finding a suitable gift for family and friends. One gift idea I would like to suggest is the gift of music, and it doesn’t matter whether your gift is in the form of an mp3 or CD. Music is a gift idea that is relatively inexpensive, and most people will enjoy receiving any time of the year. The economical gift of music can be the perfect choice for many special occasions including birthdays, and in some cases, weddings and anniversaries. Finding the best Christmas albums for your holiday listening experience is pretty easy too. There is an increasing number of outstanding Christmas albums I would consider my favorites so permit me to tell you about 12 Christmas albums in the New Age genre. Listed in the order of the artist tags at my site, the 12 best Christmas albums are listed by alphabet using the artist’s first name. If you are interested in popular holiday albums for entertaining or gift giving, below is my list of the best Christmas albums with direct links so that you may sample or purchase my holiday music recommendations. 12 Best Christmas Albums for Holiday Music. 1. A Midnight Clear – Christmas in Mitford (Soundtrack) by Bill Leslie. A Midnight Clear is an instrumental album with 16 songs of traditional and original music. Bill Leslie has another sensational new release people of all ages can enjoy listening to with A Midnight Clear. Drawing his inspiration from author Jan Karon and her best-selling Mitford series, nine instrumentalists join Bill Leslie on the newest release in November 2011 of the 12 Best New Age Christmas Albums recommendation. While Bill Leslie is recognized as an award winning musician, Bill Leslie is a 5 time Emmy Award winning journalist and newscaster for WRAL television network, and a recipient of multiple Journalist of the Year awards in North Carolina. He is also the composing director and soloist of his traditional and Celtic fusion music group Lorica. In 2010 Simple Beauty won an award for Best Instrumental Album – Acoustic at Zone Music Reporter. Visit billleslie.com to sample or purchase A Midnight Clear by Bill Leslie, or find at Amazon.com. 2. Holiday High by Cadence Spalding. Holiday High is an inspiring new age Christmas album with 10 songs with a intermingling of traditional and original holiday music from 2009. The angelic vocals by Cadence Spalding are a beautiful performance on Holiday High. The innovative talents of mixing and layering are introduced by another respected new age artist. Together with beautiful vocals by Cadence and the other artist’s special creative touch, Holiday High is a release far apart from many other Christmas albums. Holiday High is a traditional Christmas album displaying the serene musical qualities of two great artists who have earned a respected position in the music world by their individual albums. Save The World by Cadence Spalding is another New Age release worthy of your consideration. While Save The World is not a holiday release, Cadence Spalding’s debut release won a Best New Age Album Award in 2009 at another blog. Her classical new age popular music is a pleasant mix of ballads finely tuned to perfection in the purest sense, and best describes the question of “what is new age music” best. Visit CadenceSongs.com to sample and purchase or find Holiday High at Amazon.com. 3. A Christmas Celebration by Celtic Woman. A Christmas Celebration is a Celtic instrumental vocal album from 2006 with 15 song revisions of traditional holiday music performed with grace and style. This is the second release from Celtic Woman who is made up from a female musical ensemble with Irish origins. Recognized internationally by their charming vocals with instrumental backing, Celtic Woman is a quality group who has earned a worldwide fan base and escalation in popularity over the years. A Christmas Celebration was certified a Gold album by RIAA in 2009 with a volume of sales reaching over 500,000 copies. Along with international concert tours in the United States and overseas, their PBS television series with special orchestra performances on CD and DVD and over 6 million in album sales, they have entertained a multitude of people worldwide. The DVD releases A New Journey–Live at Slane Castle is one of their most popular. The CD/DVD editions of Celtic Woman, A New Journey, The Greatest Journey, & Songs From The Heart are equally popular. The sixth and seventh most current albums from 2011 are Celtic Woman: Lullaby & Celtic Woman: Believe. Visit celticwoman.com to sample or purchase A Christmas Celebration by Celtic Woman, or find at Amazon.com. 4. And Winter Came by Enya. And Winter Came is a 2008 release from superstar Enya with 12 holiday songs with a winter theme. With over 75 million in album sales worldwide, it’s no exaggeration the Irish born Enya is loved by millions by her collection of Celtic, new age, adult alternative repertoire. And Winter Came recalls the enchanting moments of the season with brilliant beauty. Enya is a phenomenal female artist who has won four Grammy Awards for Best New Age Album, in addition to an Academy Award nomination. Easily becoming one of the most popular award winning female artists in history, Enya and her trademark melodies are the hallmark of year round quality music. Whether Enya’s holiday album And Winter Came is your first choice, there are more great albums to choose from. The Very Best Of Enya is a popular chose, like Memory of Trees & A Day Without Rain which sold 15 million copies worldwide is a very popular choice. The album Amarantine from 2005 is another fine song collection, and we certainly can’t forget her early classic releases Shepard Moons & Watermark. Visit enya.com to sample or purchase And Winter Came by Enya, or find at Amazon.com. 5. Christmas Joy by Fiona Joy Hawkins. Christmas Joy is a brand new 2011 release with 11 songs of four original compositions and seven revisions on traditional holiday music. On Christmas Joy, pianist Fiona Joy Hawkins introduces a bold mixture of classical and jazz influences combined with world music rhythms and instruments of Didgeridoo, Gaelic, Paraguayan harp, soprano saxophone and stringed orchestra. Fiona even lends her vocals on this release. Musicians accompanying Fiona Joy Hawkins on piano and vocals are Philip Aaberg, Will Ackerman, Charlie Bisharat, and Eugene Friesen and Heather Rankin. Fiona Joy Hawkins Blue Dream album is a piano and instrumental collaboration with other professional artists that received top music honors and again extended the worldwide admiration for her work. Fiona is a multiple awarding winning pianist who covers new age, classical, contemporary, jazz and world fusion music. Recognized internationally by her award winning piano and instrumentals, you can always depend on Fiona Joy Hawkins to create an exciting mix of songs that are without out exception, produced with quality. Visit fionajoyhawkins.com.au to sample or purchase Christmas Joy by Fiona Joy Hawkins, or find at Amazon.com. 6. Christmas for Two by Lisa Downing. Christmas for Two is a beautiful piano solo album with 12 original revisions of traditional holiday music. Lisa Downing has a special gift herself as a top solo pianist, and this is especially articulated on her holiday music release. Lisa’s collection of original arrangements in traditional Christmas melodies are a mixture of contemplative and energizing pieces which will inspire the holiday spirit in anyone who listens. Lisa Downing has produced another winning album with Christmas for Two. Lisa Downing did in fact win award recognition with Christmas for Two in NewAgeMusic.nu’s Best New Age Album Award in 2009, and an award for Best Holiday Album in 2010 at Zone Music Reporter. A Delicate Balance is her solo piano, new age, neo -classical release from 2009 that carries with it a special Lisa Downing touch. Along with her business endeavor and talent agency Vision Quest Entertainment, Lisa is a touring concert pianist who performs many concert venues each year, including corporate and private events. She is an esteemed concert pianist who has toured or performed with other renowned artists David Lanz, Suzanne Ciani, Liz Story, Joseph Akins and Peter Kater. Lisa Downing is a great artist who certainly belongs in this Best New Age Christmas Albums recommendation. Visit lisadowning.com to sample or purchase Christmas for Two by Lisa Downing, or find at Amazon.com. 7. Keys of Christmas by Louis Colaiannia. Keys of Christmas is a piano, instrumental and vocal new age album with 9 songs in an assortment of original and traditional holiday music. Due to be officially released on December 1, 2011, Louis Colaiannia is a talented songwriter, pianist and concert performer. When you listen to Keys of Christmas, you can tell right away the classically trained pianist who explores contemporary piano, jazz, new age and chill out music, has in fact produced a wonderful holiday arrangement. Enjoy the season in perfect harmony with Keys Of Christmas. Louis Colaiannia’s album A Moment Between Eternities is a classic, instrumental new age contemporary release in 2011. The wonderful range in thought and feel with contemporary variations of classical orchestrations express the passion in which Louis composes every one of his album releases. The 9 songs on A Moment Between Eternities are like modern improvisations on classical music by graceful piano songs emboldened by contemporary instrumentals. Visit louismusic.com to sample or purchase Keys of Christmas by Louis Colaiannia, or his page at Amazon.com. 8. Christmas Symphony by Mannheim Steamroller. Christmas Symphony is a new popular instrument album in 2011 with 16 of your holiday song favorites. This beautiful full symphony sound instrumental release is performed with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, and includes some vocals. Many of you may know this, but Mannheim Steamroller is the most popular Christmas music artist of all time. And that’s a fact. With 28 million in album sales in the United States alone, and their legendary concert tours, it’s easy to see why they have become so popular. The vast selection of Mannheim Steamroller holiday albums include Christmasville, Christmas Sweet Memo, Christmas Song, Celebration, Christmas Extraordinaire, 25 Year Celebration, Christmas Angel, Christmas Live & A Fresh Aire Christmas. With this long list of popular holiday albums like Christmas Symphony, it’s easy to find what you are looking for. Mannheim Steamroller founder Chip Davis, and co-found Jackson Berkey have recently announced their annual holiday celebration “The Christmas Music of Mannheim Steamroller by Chip Davis” will soon begin their Christmas concert tour season, so check their website for concerts in your area. Check out their great selection of gifts too. Visit mannheimsteamroller.com for Christmas Symphony by Mannheim Steamroller, or find at Amazon.com. 9. Christmas 25th Anniversary Collection by Mannheim Steamroller. The Christmas 25th Anniversary Collection from 2009 is a 2 CD collector’s edition of 25 song favorites. The 2 CD song playlist for this excellent edition was selected by Chip Davis himself. If you are like me there are songs you will remember from years past, but it is all about the technical sound enhancements and playlist that makes this release special. After the 25 year anniversary tour last year, Chip Davis continues the tradition of live concerts for audiences around the country. Mannheim Steamroller has also released a 2 CD disc album in their Fresh Aire Music Series that is a “best of the best” from the popular Fresh Aire series. The 25 songs selected by the band founding director Chip Davis are some of the most popular songs in the entire 8 disk Fresh Aire series. Mannheim Steamroller’s awards of 16 gold records, 7 platinum records and 4 multi-platinum records, Christmas albums and holiday concerts have made them the #1 Christmas music artist of all time. Visit mannheimsteamroller.com for the Christmas 25th Anniversary Collection by Mannheim Steamroller, or at Amazon.com. 10. Christmas from Mars by Mars Lasar. Christmas from Mars is a new age instrumental album with electronic designs on 10 traditional Christmas melodies. This “Best Christmas Albums” recommendation simply wouldn’t be complete without including the 2007 holiday release from Mars Lasar. Recognized for his versatility and talents in electronic instrumental music, Christmas from Mars shines by the aptitude and expertize he conveys in every one of his albums. Another new age artist performs angelic vocals on this album, so together their individual albums Holiday High & Christmas From Mars each are distinctive in their own way by their special creative touch and technical aptitude that sets their albums apart from many others in the new age Christmas album category. Both artists have earned a respected position in the music world by their individual albums and additional albums they have produced together. Mars Lasar’s most current is a solo piano album with 18 songs entitled Piano Moods From Mars. Visit MarsLasar.com to sample and purchase or find Christmas from Mars at Amazon.com. 11. Christmas Eve and Other Stories by Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Christmas Eve and Other Stories are a progressive rock adaptation of 17 songs from 1996 in a 1 CD or mp3 format. If you are familiar with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and their theatrical linage of songs, then you know Christmas Eve and Other Stories is unlike any other artist in my top albums recommendations. While I can advise every one of their songs is non-traditional, I can also say every song is special! Trans-Siberian Orchestra has two very popular concept theme albums entitled Beethoven’s Last Night & Night Castle. Given their name, it does imply they are a Russian based act, but Trans-Siberian Orchestra is in fact a group based in the United States. Along with a huge fan following, their concert and album sales reach into the millions. Their just as popular Christmas themed album series are The Christmas Attic & The Lost Christmas Eve. Trans-Siberian Orchestra may leave you wondering if they are new age, progressive rock, symphonic, or classical music, but whatever classification you decide, you will definitely be impressed. Visit trans-siberian.com to sample or purchase Christmas Eve and Other Stories by Trans-Siberian Orchestra, or find at Amazon.com. 12. A Windham Hill Christmas by Various Artists. A Windham Hill Christmas is an excellent release from 2002 featuring 14 song revisions on some of your most familiar holiday songs featuring Windham Hill artists. In this case, by various artists is a good thing! The Grammy Award winning founder of Windham Hill Will Ackerman even performs on the song What Strangers are These. It’s a wonderful instrumental album with a variety of top artists in the music business. On A Windham Hill Christmas album there are so many top artists that space doesn’t permit me to list every professional. Popular artists on this release you are sure to recognize are Jim Brickman, George Winston, Tim Story, Tracy Silverman, Alex De Grassi, Liz Story, Paul Schwartz and many more. The hallmarks of this album are a relaxing, right at home feel you will notice right away. It’s some of the best songs available from the experts at Windham Hill. Visit legacyrecordings.com to sample or purchase A Windham Hill Christmas by Various Artists, or find at Amazon.com. This concludes my 12 Best Christmas holiday album recommendations. On January 1 2012 New Age Music World will present the Best New Age Music Album Awards for 2011. There are many great releases this year, and I will publish my recommendation for Best New Age Albums on New Year’s Day 2012. Cover arts are courtesy of each individual artist. Photo copyright Big Stock Photo by Subbotina Anna & ppart. 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__label__cc	0.703578	0.296422	Gameplay Glimpse Review: Blood Bowl 2 Posted by Eric G on December 7th, 2015 \| 0 Comments \| Tags: Blood Bowl 2 Blood Bowl 2 poses a question that initially piqued my interest: What if a football game took place on a grid-based tactics board? It’s the type of mashup that I approach with open arms, eager to see what weird concoction comes from blending two disparate ideas. I hadn’t played the original Blood Bowl, so I was coming at the sequel without much context, another method with which I love to approach media. My first impressions were a bit mixed, but mostly positive. Aside from the tiny text that’s nearly unreadable from my couch and the lengthy loading times, the production values are fantastic. The game looks and sounds polished as hell. Right from the start, I could tell that this is a game with some serious depth. Unfortunately, it only took a few matches for me to find myself shying away from booting up Blood Bowl 2 anymore. The entire game takes place on an other-worldly SportsCenter show headed by two dry, somewhat humorous color commentators, Bob and Jim. The first is a former Blood Bowl player; a hulking ogre with a hankering for action and a first-hand knowledge of the sport. The other is a witty vampire who tends to focus on the more strategic side of things, such as business partners, owners, etc. The show airs on Cabal Vision HD. The game hits its satirical mark for sure. The pre- and post-game analyses, the in-game commentating, and more are all accurate representations of real sports commentating. This accuracy leads to a decent amount of immersion – the player certainly feels like they’re playing a full-fledged sport. After a few games, it’s the playing that really got to me. I love board games. I play a wide variety of them on a regular basis, and the myriad mechanics, experiences, etc. offered as of late are enlightening, to say the least. One mechanic I tend to find lazy and lacking is dice rolling. I understand the nearly integral roll that probability plays in most games, digital and analogue, but there’s something about rolling dice that doesn’t feel game-y to me. When I make a meaningful choice in a game, I don’t want the risk/reward of the choice to be left up to chance. Attacking an enemy with a 90% hit chance and missing in a tactics RPG always felt cheap to me. In Blood Bowl 2, there is a ton of dice rolling and probability checks. When I was first learning the game, I was okay with rolling dice to tackle opposing players. I was fine with there being a probability check for passing the ball. I was shocked, however, to see that even picking up the ball has a success rate attached to it (around 60-70%). Not only does throwing the ball have a chance of failure, but catching it does to boot. Anytime your player moves from, to, or through a square adjacent to an opposing player, there’s a chance that your player will get tripped and fall on the ground. The next turn, you have to spend that player’s action getting up. There is an agility stat and a strength stat for each player that determines whether or not he’ll succeed, but I also felt like it would be fine if one or two things didn’t rely on rolling. There are 11 players on a team, and each player gets an action each turn. To make a long story short, a match of Blood Bowl takes about an hour. With all of the failures, turnovers, bobbles, trips, tackles, etc, it was frustrating trying to find some flow during play. You can purchase rerolls and other perks with your earnings from matches, but that still didn’t speed up the game or lead to a more enjoyable experience overall. Off the field, there are a ton of management options that sports simulations fans will really enjoy. There are custom online leagues, stadium enhancements, and team staff/player tools that make you feel like a legitimate coach. The game also supports local multiplayer, which I’m always a fan of. While that’s all good and fine, it’s the core experience of playing Blood Bowl that wore thin in no time. If you’re a hardcore D&D or Risk fan, you may not trip over the dice rolling and the success checks. If not, you may find yourself bobbling and dropping Blood Bowl 2 before too long. A copy of this game was provided by the publisher for review purposes. For more info on our review policy click here. Developer: Cyanide Platforms: PS4 Price: $49.99, £44.99/€44.99/AU$77.95 Genre: Dice Rolling, Football, Tactics Players: 1-2 (Local & Online) Ratings: PEGI: 16+, Teen Overall production value What I Dislike: Slow gameplay Every action having a probability Load times Review: Dear Esther: Landmark Edition Review: Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap Review: Cosmic Star Heroine Review: What Remains of Edith Finch Copyright PSNStores.com. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by Sony Computer Entertainment America, its partners, subsidiaries or parent companies. This site is designed by: @PSPenguin	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line13998
__label__cc	0.727064	0.272936	Products to help the elderly Central America Help For The Elderly / July 19, 2017 Qiuping Gu, M.D., Ph.D.; Charles F. Dillon, M.D., Ph.D.; and Vicki L. Burt, Sc.M., R.N. Over the past 10 years, the percentage of People in the us which took a minumum of one prescription medicine previously month increased from 44% to 48per cent. The utilization of several drugs increased from 25percent to 31%. The employment of five or higher medications increased from 6per cent to 11per cent. In 2007-2008, 1 from every 5 kids and 9 from 10 older Us citizens reported making use of a minumum of one prescription medication in the past thirty days. Those who were without a frequent location for health care, medical insurance, or prescription medication advantage had less prescription drug use weighed against those who had these benefits. Probably the most widely used types of medicines included: asthma medications for the kids, central nervous system stimulants for adolescents, antidepressants for old adults, and cholesterol levels reducing medicines for older Us citizens. In america, investing for prescribed drugs was $234.1 billion in 2008, that was significantly more than dual that which was spent in 1999 (1). As brand new drugs tend to be introduced and new uses for old drugs are found, more clients may have improved health and total well being with all the appropriate using prescription drugs. Current prescription drug usage habits need to be better recognized. This report provides an overview of existing prescription medicine used in america, how many and what kinds of drugs are becoming prescribed, and just who gets them. Keywords: National Health and diet Examination research (NHANES), medication, prevalence, styles The portion of People in america which utilized one or more prescription medicine before thirty days increased from 44percent in 1999-2000 to 48per cent in 2007-2008. The portion of people whom used two or more prescription drugs increased from 25percent in 1999-2000 to 31per cent in 2007-2008. The portion of individuals who utilized five or more prescription medications increased from 6percent in 1999-2000 to 11percent in 2007-2008. Among kids (under age 12), significantly less than 10percent made use of several prescribed drugs previously month and only 1per cent made use of five or higher. Among older Us citizens (elderly 60 and over), over 76percent made use of several prescription drugs and 37% utilized five or even more. Prescription drug use increased with age. Ladies had been very likely to utilize prescription medications than men. The non-Hispanic white population had the greatest prescription medicine usage in addition to Mexican-American population had the lowest. Having a regular way to obtain medical care, medical insurance, and medical health insurance with prescription drug advantages were all involving increased usage of recommended medicines (Figure 4). Source: www.cdc.gov - How to help the elderly Central America? - Self help for the elderly Central America - Programs to help the elderly Costa Rica - Products to help the elderly Costa Rica JayD.Katze FrostWonk @glazebrookgirl cuz Florida has a lot of elderly people and I think it could help them so vey much if we had one system. Saturday 18, February 2017 09:09 PM @9NewsAUS we can't even help our elderly or homeless, or people who loose there jobs out of there control! ocean eyes 🌸 RT @yoopermomma: Elderly people do not like to ask for help. Reach out anyway.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14002
__label__wiki	0.914221	0.914221	While Helen of Troy may have been the face that launched a thousand ships, it is said that Richard III is the face that launched a thousand novels. In addition to the many historical books written about him, his life and mystery have produced countless fictional works of which many are listed here. You will note we consider Shakespeare’s Richard III a work of fiction–brilliant, but fiction nonetheless. Also, some books are about other people, and either predate Richard III or are about the Tudors who follow Richard III. (If known, the authors name links to his or her web site.) Please note: The Richard III Society, American Branch does not endorse or recommend any fiction listed. Author Name Title Year Pub Description–unless stated otherwise, the description is from jacket blurbs or other promotional material. (anonymous) Richard III DVD, Olivier, 1956 1956 DVD version of the Olivier film, 1956. (anonymous) Richard III DVD, McKellen, 1995 1995 DVD of the McKellen film, 1995. (anonymous) Richard III DVD, 1912 Version 1912 1912 film version on DVD. Yes, 1912! One of the first motion pictures ever made. Margaret Abbey The Warwick Heiress 1973 Romance Valerie Anand Crown of Roses 1989 From Publishers Weekly: The tumultuous years leading to the reign of Richard III and, on his death, the ascension to the English throne of the first Tudor Henry are conveyed with authoritative detail in this engrossing historical novel by the author of King of the Wood. Valerie Anand The Faithful Lovers 1994 From Kirkus Reviews: The English civil war and its aftermath form the backdrop for Anand’s tale of doomed, sad, and betrayed lovers, brave souls scurrying or galloping ahead of murdering pursuers, and survivors of plague, fire, and mindless persecutions. Maxwell Anderson Richard and Anne: A Play in Two Acts 1995 Includes two letters from Robert Sherwood. Introduction by Roxane C. Murph. 162 pp Mike Ashley Royal Whodunits 1999 From Publishers Weekly: Royal blood runs very red, as witnessed by this solid collection of 25 original short stories concerning royal beheadings, disappearances and murders. Rowan Atkinson The Black Adder (DVD) 2001 From Amazon: Set in England at the end of the War of the Roses, we soon find out that the history we know is a Tudor fiction. Ann Baer Down the Common — A Year in the Life of A Medieval Peasant From Kirkus Reviews: More a feat of historical imagination than a conventional novel, this 82-year-old author’s first fiction presents a year in the life of a rural peasant in medieval England. Lucy Beckett The Time Before You Die 1999 A novel intertwining a fictitious monk, Robert Fletcher, the real Reginald de la Pole, the Dissolution, and attempts to restore England to Catholicism. Varona Bennett Portrait of an Unknown Woman 2008 British journalist Bennett (Crying Wolf: The Return of War to Chechnya) makes her fiction debut with a sweeping reinterpretation of Sir Thomas More’s family as it coped with the vicissitudes of Henry VIII’s reign. …Bennett constructs lush backdrops and costumes, and has impeccable historical sense. She luminously shades in an ambiguous period with lavish strokes of humanity, unbridled passion and mystery. Ann Benson The Burning Road 1999 From Amazon: Readers of Ann Benson’s bestselling The Plague Tales will bond immediately with this sequel and its unusual blend of historical romance and futuristic medical thriller. Ann Benson The Plague Tales 1997 “Intriguing novel” with parallel tales of the Black Death in 14 c. Europe and 21 c. Britain. Hazel Bird The Last Plantagenet 1994 From Alibris: Margeret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, spent her entire life close to the pageantry and intrigues of the english crown, a fascinating historical novel. Rhys Bowen Evan and Elle 2000 A mystery in the “very enjoyable” series featuring Constable Evans. Contains an Unexpected Defense of Richard III. Rhys Bowen Evan Help Us 1998 In the Constable Evans series. Rhys Bowen Evanly Choirs 1999 In the Constable Evans series. Rhys Bowen Evans Above 1997 In the Constable Evans series. Gwendolyn Bowers The Lost Dragon of Wessex 1962 “Historical fiction set in Saxon England …: Shelley Bradley His Lady Bride 2000 Historical romance set in 15th c. England, but “rife with historical errors” as it takes its “facts” from Alison Weir. Fiona Buckley The Doublet Affair 1998 “Ursula Blanchard, Lady … at the court of Elizabeth I, returns in her third adventure…” Fiona Buckley Queen’s Ransom 2000 “Ursula Blanchard’s fourth adventure.” Set in Elizabethan England. Fiona Buckley To Ruin a Queen 2000 “Ursula Blanchard’s fourth adventure.” Set in Elizabethan England. Fiona Buckley To Shield The Queen 1997 From Library Journal: In order to quell widespread rumors about their supposed murderous intentions, Elizabeth I and Sir Robert Dudley dispatch one of her ladies-in-waiting, young widowed mother Ursula Blanchard, to help tend Lord Dudley’s sickly wife, Amy. A. S. Byatt Possession 1990 Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize. From Shari Gerhart on the Society’s listserv, circa 29-APR-2001: Although it is not about R3 it is about individuals who discover letters about a secret of a famous writer. Patrick Carleton Under the Hog 1995 This classic Ricardian novel covers Richard’s adult life from the Battle of Barnet to his death in 1485. Carleton’s Richard is a sympathetic and complex character possessing a strict moral code and a dedicated loyalty to Edward IV. The author writes in a unique style. This edition is a reprint of the 1938 original. Elizabeth Chadwick Lords of the White Castle 2001 Set in late 12th and early 13th c. England. Michael Clynes (P. C. Doherty et. al.) A Brood of Vipers 1996 See review — “If you loathe two Henry Tudors and would like to think that Richard was avenged in a very symbolic way, this book is for you.” Karen Cushman Catherine, Called Birdy 1994 Young adult book about a medieval heroine. Susan Dexter The Wizard’s Shadow 1995 The reviewer in the Summer, 2000, Ricardian Register found a roman a clef based on Richard’s story in this tale of Croken the peddler and the shadow of a dead wizard. P. C. Doherty A Tapestry of Murders 1996 From Publishers Weekly: Swift, intriguing and sometimes bleakly comic, this “dark tale of blood and passion” is told by one of Chaucer’s pilgrims, the Man of Law. Terry Dreary The Terrible Tudors Part of the Horrible Histories series from Scholastic Children’s Books Ann Dukthas (P. C. Doherty, et. al.) In The Time Of The Poisoned Queen 1998 From Kirkus reviews: … The scene this time is mid-16th-century England, where a sickly Mary Tudor reigns after marriage to Prince Philip of Spain and the bloody reestablishment of the Catholic religion. Kathy Lynn Emerson Face Down Among the Winchester Geese 1999 Another Susanna Appleton mystery. “Winchester Geese” is an old term for prostitutes. Kathy Lynn Emerson Face Down Beneath the Eleanor Cross 2000 In this Susanna Appleton mystery, she is accused of poisoning her husband and must find the true villain to save herself from being burnt at the stake. Kathy Lynn Emerson Face Down Upon An Herbal 1998 “Going a little past our period” we solve a murder with “Susanna, Lady Appleton, a country gentlewoman in the reign of Elizabeth I.” Kathy Lynn Emerson Face Down in the Marrow-Bone Pie “Will do fine as an introduction to Susanna, Lady Appleton, herbalist and loyal subject of Elizabeth I.” Jane Feather The Widow’s Kiss 2000 “A fictional journey into the world so aptly described [in the non-fiction The Tudor Housewife} … Patricia Finney The Firedrake’s Eye 1992 From Publishers Weekly: … Set in Elizabethan England, it sensuously reconstructs the era’s visual pomp and splendor as well as the fetid odors and… John M. Ford The Dragon Waiting 2002 From Kim Malo’s review: It’s at the heart of why we still talk and debate about Richard III and his world. John M. Ford’s epic fantasy/alternate history takes that world and turns it upside down to provide some new what ifs, along with interesting answers to old questions…more Margaret Frazer (pseud.) The Maiden’s Tale 1998 From a reader revoew : …This historical series is set in fifteenth century England and features Sister Frevisse. Margaret Frazer (pseud.) The Murderer’s Tale 1996 Dame Frevisse Medieval Mystery Margaret Frazer (pseud.) The Reeve’s Tale 1999 Dame Frevisse solves a murder, while acting as her convent’s reeve. Margaret Frazer (pseud.) The Squire’s Tale 2000 “… brings Sister Frevisse and Dame Claire out into the world again, …” Robert Fripp Dark Sovereign – The True Tragedy of King Richard 1991 Description provided by the author: Written in the idiomatic Shakespearean English, Dark Sovereign challenges Shakespeare’s play by casting Richard III favorably. Roberta Gellis The Dragon and the Rose 1977 This book is about Henry VII (Dragon) and Elizabeth of York (Rose) and Henry’s struggle to defend the crown after defeating Richard III. Reader reviews on Amazon give it four and a half stars. C. L. Grace (P. C. Doherty, et. al.) The Book of Shadows 1996 “the fourth book of the cases of Kathryn Swinbrook … and her Chacer-quoting right-hand man, Colum …” Paul Harding (P. C. Doherty, et al) By Murder’s Bright Light 1994 “Another of Brother Athelstan’s Sorrowful mysteries …” Paul Harding (P. C. Doherty, et al) The Nightingale Gallery, Being The First of The So 1991 From Publishers Weekly: The stage of this atmosphere-drenched series opener is dominated by the city of London: a fetid, 14th-century melting pot brimming with all manner of life, high and low. Susan Higginbotham The Traitor’s Wife 2005 Subtitled: “A Novel of the Reign of Edward II”. Susan Higginbotham Hugh and Bess: A Love Story 2007 As the eldest daughter of the new Earl of Salisbury, young Bess de Montacute is anticipating a suitable match. When King Edward III and her father choose Hugh le Despenser, the son and grandson of disgraced traitors, as her husband, she is aghast. …Set against the chivalry and pageantry of the fourteenth-century court of Edward III, Hugh and Bess is a story of love and loss, of letting go of the past-and of embracing the future. Susan Higginbotham The Stolen Crown: The Secret Marriage that Forever Changed the Fate of England 2010 On May Day, 1464, six-year-old Katherine Woodville, daughter of a duchess who has married a knight of modest means, awakes to find her gorgeous older sister, Elizabeth, in the midst of a secret marriage to King Edward IV. It changes everything-for Kate and for England. Then King Edward dies unexpectedly. Richard III, Duke of Gloucester, is named protector of Edward and Elizabeth’s two young princes, but Richard’s own ambitions for the crown interfere with his duties… Susan Higginbotham Queen of Last Hopes: The Story of Margaret of Anjou 2011 Margaret of Anjou, queen of England, cannot give up on her husband-even when he slips into insanity. And as mother to the House of Lancaster’s last hope, she cannot give up on her son-even when England turns against them. This gripping tale of a queen forced to stand strong in the face of overwhelming odds is at its heart a tender tale of love. Susan Higginbotham Her Highness, the Traitor 2012 Frances Grey harbored no dream of her children taking the throne. Cousin of the king, she knew the pitfalls of royalty and privilege. Better to marry them off, marry them well, perhaps to a clan like the Dudleys. Jane Dudley knew her husband was creeping closer to the throne, but someone had to take charge, for the good of the country. She couldn’t see the twisted path they all would follow. The never–before–told story of the women behind the crowning of Jane Grey, this novel is a captivating peek at ambition gone awry, and the damage left in its wake. Sidney Hill Don’t Call Him Mortimer From Amazon: The hero a natural son of Edward IV trains at Middleham goes on to discover the plot against the princes in the tower after Bosworth becomes an aid to Henry Tudor. Sheri Holman A Stolen Tongue 1997 From Publishers Weekly: Widely varied notions of faith and mission, from the conventional to the bizarre, color this intriguing historical thriller about a 15th-century pilgrimage from Germany to Mt. Sinai. The narrative takes the form of a journal kept by Dominican Father Felix Fabri, beginning at sea in 1483. Rosemary Hawley Jarman We Speak No Treason 1971 Once described as a “startlingly gushy novel,” this bestseller views Richard through the eyes of four of his contemporaries. Ellen Jones The Fatal Crown 1991 Fictional treatment of life of Empress Maud (Mathilda), ca. 1100-1154. Janet Kilbourne Garland of the Realm 1972 (no description available) Pamela Kaufman The Shield of Three Lions 2002 A lively romance . . . a rich picture of a romantic time . . . [Kaufman?s] detailed descriptions of a bawdy land and its people are matched well by her touching and humorous portrait of an adolescent coming to terms with her own womanhood. Pamela Kaufman Banners of Gold 2002 Home in England from the crusades (Shield of Three Lions, Lady Alix now is stranded and vulnerable at her Wanthwaite domain with husband Enoch off at war. … All told, this is another frothy, zany and irreverent medieval escapade that will delight readers who enjoyed Lady Alix’s earlier misadventures. Pamela Kaufman The Prince of Poison 2006 This brisk if jumbled historical romance concludes the author’s trilogy about Lady Alix of Wanthwaite, a 13th-century English noblewoman whom trouble seems to follow. … Kaufman, who lives in L.A., mixes sound historiography and vivid dialogue with implausible events; this follow-up to Banners of Gold gets good mileage out of genre conventions. Mary Lide Command of the King 1990 From Publishers Weekly: Philippa de Verne is the spirited heroine of Lide’s turbulent new novel set in England during the early part of Henry VIII’s rule. Joanna Makepeace (aka Margaret Abbey) Dragon’s Court 1998 Historical Romance–no description available Joanna Makepeace (aka Margaret Abbey) Stolen Heiress 1996 Historical Romance–no description available Mammoth Book Series The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunits 1993 1993 (no description available) Mammoth Book Series The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives 1995 1995 (no description available) Edward Marston The Ravens of Blackwater 1994 From Publishers Weekly: The murder of a Norman lord in late-11th century England brings together Chancery clerk Gervase Bret and highborn soldier Ralph Delchard in a second case, after The Wolves of Savernake. Edward Marston The Serpents of Harbledown 1998 From Library Journal: Series sleuths Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret (Lions of the North, LJ 9/1/96) suspect foul play in the supposed snake-bite death of a much-loved and -respected girl. Another realistic look at 11th-century Britain for historical mystery fans. Edward Marston The Silent Woman 1994 From Publishers Weekly: Sparkling with humor, dramatic twists and deft turns of phrase, the sixth adventure of Marston’s Elizabethan acting troupe exhibits all the aplomb and panache that mark its lead player, Lawrence Firethorn. Edward Marston The Stallions of Woodstock 1997 From Publishers Weekly: The sixth installment of Marston’s solidly written Domesday series (The Serpents of Harbledown, etc.) is every bit as entertaining as its forerunners. Edward Marston The Wolves of Savernake 1993 From Publishers Weekly: Marston, whose previous mystery series features an Elizabethan theatrical troop, launches a medieval series with a servicably plotted tale set in 11th-century England after the Norman Conquest. Isolde Martyn The Maiden and the Unicorn 1998 Set in the Earl of Warwick’s court-in-exile, 1470-1471. Nominated by Romance Writers of America for Best First Novel 2000 and by Romantic Times as Best Historical Novel 2000. Robin Maxwell The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn 1997 From Library Journal: This first novel supposes that Anne Boleyn, second wife to King Henry VIII of England, kept a secret diary that was delivered to her daughter, Elizabeth, upon her succession to the throne. Robin Maxwell To the Tower Born 2006 From Harper Collins: A new and controversial response to the question of the fate of the princes in the tower and Richard III’s involvement. Ian Morson Falconer and the Face of God 1996 From Library Journal: When Oxford teacher (and amateur sleuth) William Falconer witnesses the murder of an on-stage actor, he becomes involved in the second murder affecting a traveling troupe of jongleurs. Ian Morson Falconer and the Great Beast 1998 Friar Roger Bacon helps Oxford Professor Falconer solve a murder involving Tartars, elephants. “Morson can … make you see, and almost smell, 13th century Oxford.” Sharan Newman Cursed in the Blood 1998 This is the 5th item in the Catherine LeVendeur series. Sharan Newman Death Comes As Epiphany 1991 This is the 1st item in the Catherine LeVendeur series. Sharan Newman The Devil’s Door 1994 From Publishers Weekly: Countess Alys of Tonnerre, victim of a brutal beating, is barely alive when her husband Raynald brings her to the Abbess Heloise at the convent of the Paraclete in medieval France. Sharan Newman The Difficult Saint 1999 From Publishers Weekly: This sixth entry in the Catherine LeVendeur series of medieval mysteries (Cursed in the Blood, etc.) leans more heavily on history than mystery as Newman makes 12th-century Paris, a period of religious and political strife and much intolerance, a rich stage for her cast. Sharan Newman To Wear the White Cloak 2000 From Publishers Weekly: With its attention to detail, depth of research and well-developed characters, this seventh book in Newman’s Catherine LeVendeur series should delight fans of her medieval mysteries. Sharan Newman The Wandering Arm 1995 From Publishers Weekly: In 12th-century France, religion suffuses society. Relics, attributed with great power, are (almost) universally venerated and trade in religious objects is a lucrative, often dangerous business. Pamela Norris Through The Glass Window Shines The Sun 1995 Subtitled: An Anthology of Medieval Poetry and Prose Iain Pears An Instance of The Fingerpost 1999 Amazon.com: {Set in 1663) An Instance of the Fingerpost is that rarest of all possible literary beasts–a mystery powered as much by ideas as by suspects, autopsies, and smoking guns. Hefty, intricately plotted, and intellectually ambitious, Fingerpost has drawn the inevitable comparisons to Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose and, for once, the comparison is apt. Sharon Kay Penman Cruel as the Grave 1998 Amazon.com: Readers of The Queen’s Man, Sharon Kay Penman’s first book about young Justin de Quincy, will feel right at home as Justin–the bastard son of a bishop–continues to help England’s aged Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine find out if her son Richard Lionheart is still alive in a German prison while trying to… Sharon Kay Penman The Sunne in Splendour 1982 A best-seller. Historically-accurate romance with sympathetic treatment of Richard. Ruth S. Perot The Red Queen 2000 Subtitled “Margaret of Anjou and the Wars of the Roses”. Tori Phillips Lady of The Knight 1999 16th-century romance set in France Tori Phillips Midsummer’s Knight 1998 16th-century romance set in England–involves Henry VIII Tori Phillips One Knight in Venice 2001 Part of the Cavendish Saga set in 16yh-century England Tori Phillips Silent Knight 1996 16th-century romance set in England. Features Sir Guy in monkish disguise. Tori Phillips Three Dog Knight 1998 16th-century romance–part of the Cavendish Chronicles Jeremy Potter A Trail of Blood 1970 A novel, set during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. By a former Chair of the Society. Ann Rabinowitz Knight on Horseback 1987 Targeted for younger readers, this much-beloved novel about Richard III features a ten year old 20th-century boy who becomes involved with the ghost of Richard III while in England with his family. Robert T. Reilly Red Hugh, Prince of Donegal 1997 Children’s novel based on the true story of Red Hugh O’Donnell who live in Ireland in the later 16th century. Ginny Reyes Addie’s Knight 1999 Victorian schoolteacher magically transported back to 1485, finds love in the Wars of the Roses. Judith Merkle Riley In Pursuit of the Green Lion 1990 From Publishers Weekly: Picking up threads from her first novel, A Vision of Light , Riley deftly crafts another historical romp, following Margaret of Ashbury through a tumultuous remarriage and a hazardous quest across 14th-century Europe. Judith Merkle Riley A Vision of Light 1989 From Publishers Weekly: In this bouncy first novel, 14th-century Englishwoman Margaret of Ashbury heeds a “voice” commanding her to compose her colorful life story. Candace Robb A Spy for the Redeemer 1999 Another Owen Archer adventure, a sequel to A Gift of Sanctuary. Candace Robb The King’s Bishop 1996 “Robb continues to adeptly blend politics with period detail and three-dimensioned characterization in the Owen Archer tales.”–Publishers Weekly Candace Robb The Nun’s Tale 1995 Owen Archer solves his third mystery, together with his wife and fellow-apothecary Lucie. Candace Robb A Trust Betrayed 2000 From Publishers Weekly: Author of the acclaimed Owen Archer mystery series (The Nun’s Tale; etc.) set in late 14th-century England, Robb introduces Dame Margaret Kerr in the alluring first of a new series placed in 13th-century Scotland. Evelyn Rosenthal Presumed Guilty 1982 “Rosenthal uses the device of multiple narrators, among them Buckingham, Francis Lovell, … but it is John Morton who ties it all together” giving an answer to The Mystery of what happened to the Princes in the Tower. Diana Rubino Crown of Destiny 1999 From Amazon: In this sequel to “The Jewels of Warwick”, Topaz’s rebellion against Henry VIII gets under way, throwing England into civil war and chaos. Diana Rubino Destiny Lies Waiting 1999 From Amazon: Beautiful, orphaned Denys has been brought up a member of the Woodville family, now in power thanks to her aunt Elizabeth, wife of the new Yorkist king Edward IV. Diana Rubino The Jewels of Warwick 1999 From Amazon: In this sequel to “Thy Name is Love”, the saga of the Yorkist royal family continues. The “Jewels” are two sisters, Topaz and Amethyst Plantagenet. They are descendants of Richard III, who lost his life and kingdom to Henry Tudor, future father of Henry VIII. Diana Rubino One Too Many Times 2000 From the author: “In this paranormal time travel novel, the fifteenth-century English King Edward IV and his younger brothers George and Richard travel to the twenty-first century in order to try to rewrite history by making a film portraying Richard as he really was, a kind soul and benevolent king …” Diana Rubino Thy Name is Love 1999 From Amazon: The story begun in “Destiny Lies Waiting” continues as Denys Starbury and her husband Valentine are thrust into the world of power politics. Only one man can contend for the throne–Richard, Duke of Gloucester… Mary Schaller The Final Trial Of Richard III 1984 (Description not available) Kate Sedley The Brothers of Glastonbury 1997 From Publishers Weekly: Those who have enjoyed the sleuthing of Sedley’s 15th-century peddler Roger the Chapman know what a feast of storytelling, historical detail and clever crime solving awaits. Kate Sedley Death and the Chapman 1991 Subtitled: “A Medieval Mystery”. The narrator is Roger the Chapman, whose mother told him that he was born on the same day as King Edward IV’s youngest brother. Kate Sedley The Eve of St. Hyacinth 1996 Another adventure of Roger the Chapman. Desmond Seward The Wars of the Roses 1996 Subtitled: Through the Lives of Five Men and Women of the Fifteenth Century William Shakespeare King Richard III 2000 Antony Hammond, ed. A volume from The Arden Edition of the Works of William Shakespeare. Arthur R. G. Solmssen The Wife of Shore: A Search 2000 From Amazon: Still another story about Richard III? Yes, but from a fresh point of view. The wife of Shore, as she was called by all the writers of her time, was the mistress of Richard’s older brother, King Edward IV. Anne Easter Smith A Rose for the Crown 2006 From Publishers Weekly: Inspired by the historical record of Richard III’s bastard children, Smith invents a spirited, “tawny-eyed” mistress for the 15th-century king in her sweeping debut…. Anne Easter Smith The King’s Grace 2009 “Never again will history overlook Grace Plantagenet….Beautifully wrought and compelling, with vivid historical detail, this is a fascinating account of one woman’s determination to discover the truth about her family.”– Michelle Moran, bestselling author of The Heretic Queen Anne Easter Smith Daughter of York 2008 “Here is the richly imagined life of Margaret of York — a woman who dares to dream of love in a world where she is allowed only the role of political pawn.” — Judith Mererkle Rileyey, author of The Water Devil Anne Easter Smith Royal Mistress: A Novel 2013 Jane Lambert, the quick-witted and alluring daughter of a silk merchant, is twenty-two and still unmarried. When Jane’s father finally finds her a match, she’s married off to the dull, older silk merchant William Shore. Marriage doesn’t stop Jane from flirtation, however, and when the king’s chamberlain, Will Hastings, comes to her husband’s shop, Will knows King Edward will find her irresistible. Edward IV has everything: power, majestic bearing, superior military leadership, a sensual nature, and charisma. And with Jane as his mistress, he also finds true happiness. But when his hedonistic tendencies get in the way of being the strong leader England needs, his life, as well as those of Jane and Will Hastings, hangs in the balance. Jane must rely on her talents to survive as the new monarch, Richard III, bent on reforming his brother’s licentious court, ascends the throne. Anne Easter Smith Queen by Right 2011 This dramatic tale has been an inspiration to poets and playwrights for 500 years, and, as told through the unique perspective of a woman plucked from obscurity and thrust into a life of notoriety, Royal Mistress is sure to enthrall today’s historical fiction lovers as well. Robert Lewis Stevenson The Black Arrow reprinted 2010 From School Library Journal: Grade 7 Up–Students of the classics will appreciate Ron Keith’s excellent rendition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s adventure novel, set against the background of the War of the Roses. The time is 15th century England, and Richard Shelton, the young hero, overcomes one obstacle after another in his quest to rescue Joanna, his love. (Reprint) Joan Szechtman This Time 2009 Brian Wainwright: In This Time Richard is transported to the 21st century and has to fight to reconcile himself with his new surroundings – and with the 15th century events he has left behind. Suffice it to say that he has not escaped from intrigue – nor danger. Beautifully written, this novel will be enjoyed not only by Ricardians, but by anyone who wants a change from routine historical fiction, and indeed those who prefer modern settings for their entertainment. Joan Szechtman Loyalty Binds Me 2011 … Loyalty Binds Me is a unique novel that spins into a Richard the III alive in the twenty-first century. … With a five hundred year old murder mystery turning hot again, Loyalty Binds Me is a highly unique twist on historical fiction and mystery, recommended.–Midwest Small Press Book Reviews, September, 2011 Reay Tannahill The Seventh Son 2002 From AudioFile: History buffs beware. Though Reay Tannahill’s narrative is entertaining, it offers little insight into the complex personality demonized by Shakespeare in RICHARD III. About two-thirds of the book focuses on the life of Richard before his brother King Edward dies, and little time is devoted to the mystery surrounding who killed the heir, Edward, age 12, and his younger brother, Richard….His Anne Neville is graceful, sympathetic, and charming. Richard is commanding and brilliant. Josephine Tey The Daughter of Time 1951 Reprinted as a Macmillan mystery classic. Richard’s character and the mystery of the Princes are deciphered by a modern-day detective. Read Pam Butler’s review/essay. Sheri Vaughn-Radcliffe Heir Apparent 2005 An epic adventure starring British monarchs both long dead and yet to be born. First-time novelist Vangen-Ratcliffe warmly embraces just about every narrative genre in this dashing tale of time travel and historical intrigue. Tudor fans will love the extended romp through 1534 London… Carol Wensby-Scott Lion Invincible 1985 “Part of a trilogy tracing the Percy Dukes of Northumberland.” Brian Wainwright The Adventures of Alianore Audley 2002 & 2005 “A wonderful romp set in 15th-century England…” Brian Wainwright Within The Fetterlock 2003 The year is 1396, King Richard II is childless–the succession to the English throne is in doubt. Meredith Whitford Treason 2004 From an online review: This historical is about the War of the Roses as seen through fictional character Martin Robsart. His family is killed and he flees to his “cousins” Edward, Duke of York and his brother who eventually becomes King Richard III. Hugh Ross Williamson The Butt of Malmsey 1967 From the publisher: The life of the oft maligned George, Duke of Clarence brother to Edward IV is given a little more substance in this historical novel Connie Willis The Doomsday Book 1993 “Highly recommended” in the review of The Plague Tales that appeared in the Spring, 2001, Ricardian Register. From Amazon: Connie Willis labored five years on this story of a history student in 2048 who is transported to an English village in the 14th century. Joan Wolf No Dark Place 1999 From Amazon: How much do you know about 12th-century Norman England? … This historical mystery allows us to slip under the skin of a period and its people. Eunice Wormald Lady in Waiting 2003 This is a story about Lady Anne Neville as well as her husband, Richard Duke of Gloucester later Richard III. It controversially portrays Anne as a strong woman, on the basis that in the medieval period the upper class women were expected to run all their husband’s households, whether great castles or a manor house. Sandra Worth The Rose of York: Love and War 2003 Special features: foreward by Roxane Murph, M.A. Book is the winner of four awards and was nominated for the 2003 Dorothy Parker Award. THis is the first of a planned trilogy. Sandra Worth The Rose of York: Crown of Destiny 2006 The second book in The Rose of York Trilogy–From Editorial Reviews: Richard III is said to have murdered his nephews for their throne, but this second historical novel in the ROSE OF YORK series–winners of a remarkable ten awards–tells a different, well-documented, and dramatic story: A man of conscience, Richard is a reluctant king, forced into power and chosen by destiny to save a nation from bloody civil war. Sandra Worth The Rose of York: Fall from Grace 2006 The third book in The Rose of York Trilogy–From Editorial Reviews: Defying Shakespeare’ss portrayal of Richard III, this prize-winning, well-researched novel concludes the ROSE OF YORK series — winners of a notable ten awards. Set in Malory’s England, it traces Richard’s remarkable reign, his passion for justice, and his undying devotion to Anne, and delves into the still-unresolved mystery of his nephews’ disappearance. A stirring saga of courage, sacrifice, and love. Sandra Worth The King’s Daughter: A Novel of the First Tudor Queen Brian Wainwright: Worth vividly brings one of England’s lesser-known queens to life in this luminous portrait of “Elizabeth the Good,” wife of Henry VII and mother of the notorious Henry VIII. …Woven into Elizabeth’s story are the shrewish machinations of her mother and Margaret Beaufort, Henry’s mother, as well as the mysterious fates of her brothers, Edward V and Richard of York, the princes who disappeared in the Tower of London. Sandra Worth Lady of the Roses 2008 During her short time as a ward in Queen Marguerite’s Lancastrian court, fifteen-year-old Isobel has had many suitors ask for her hand, but the spirited beauty is blind to all but Yorkist Sir John Neville. It is nothing short of a miracle when the Queen allows Isobel’s marriage to the enemy, albeit at a hefty price.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14004
__label__cc	0.710441	0.289559	Riders vs. Lions: Road Test Saturday will be a first for one team. Either the Riders will get their first road win of the season or the Lions will get their first home win of the season. It’s a big game for both teams. Many are tossing around the term “must win” for the Riders but I don’t buy it. Obviously this is a game we should win and need to if we plan on being competitive in the West but we could survive a loss and still sneak into the playoffs. BC on the other hand… this is damn near must win for them. A loss puts them at 1-6 having lost the season series to Edmonton and then us. That is a big hole. They will be desperate and a road trip to BC will be a different environment than a home game. This will be a game of adjustments. Teams won’t radically change what they did from last week but will look to add wrinkles to either shore up areas of weakness or take advantage of something they saw on film. BC has a lot to shore up (which is putting it mildly) but the Riders have a lot that can be cleaned up as well. Let’s start with the offense. I can’t help but open with praise for our O-line. This will be the 5th different grouping of starters in 6 games with Dan Clark as the only guy to start every game (hands up if you predicted the guy recently in a car accident would be the most durable one). I won’t say they have been playing at an elite level but our QB isn’t getting killed (well I guess technically I need to say that the only time our QB is getting killed is when he’s illegally headhunted while sliding on a run play, but that’s not on the OL). Many people fretted about our depth coming into the season. I personally didn’t get that criticism as our depth is as good as its been in years. But guys like Shepley and Vaughn have stepped up. Even Schram has been serviceable when needed. Getting Bladek back should be a boost. The good news is that BC’s D-line is not very good. Most people focus on how bad the O-line is (and rightly so as their protection is about as rigid as a wet Kleenex) but the D-line has also been pretty bad. They have just 7 sacks in 6 games (Charleston has 8 in 5 by himself). We need to take advantage of that. For all their faults BC does have decent run D but we need to stay committed to the run and stay balanced. That will allow us to really attack when we choose to pass as Fajardo should have the time he needs. The other thing we need to take advantage is the massive mismatch on the corners. Our WRs (Evans and Manny) are big and talented. Their corners are of average height and make Solomon Means look ok by comparison in terms of their talent. Let’s not wait until late in the game to attack that. If they roll coverage to Evans to compensate for last week then send Moore on a seem or feed Manny on the other side. We have the most pass plays of 30+ yards and BC offers us the chance to pad that lead. I really don’t think we need to change much offensively from last week other than to not take a second quarter nap. Defensively we got some things to fix. There were too many long runs, too many easy completions and too many missed tackles last week. Our offense managed to pick up the slack and the D did hold them to FGs but a QB like Reilly will eventually make you pay for giving up freebie yards consistently (assuming he is able to peel himself off the turf). We need more disruption from our front 4. Hughes had a monster game but it would be nice to see someone else step up. Front 7 needs to make sure tackles the first opportunity. Had we done that last game BC’s yardage would have been cut in half. BC averages just 14.5 points per game at home. Let’s keep it that way. Hammer Reilly, make sure tackles and avoid giving up the big play. That’s the recipe for success. Adding to our woeful league low 4 takeaways would also help. Word is Solomon Means is being benched in favour of LJ McCray. I know next to nothing about McCray but already like him better. Special teams has been slowly improving after a dreadful start to the season. Big returns were a factor last game and can be again. We need our kick coverage to be sound. It would help is Jon Ryan could not boom massive rouges… even though I’m sure there is a large crowd of Rider fans at BC Place waiting to give him a standing O if he does. This shouldn’t be as easy as it was at home but man... we should win this. We have a clear advantage on both sides of the trenches and should be able to take advantage of that on both sides of the ball. Only thing I see hurting us would be turnovers or a big kick return but Fajardo is actually pretty good at protecting the ball (provided you ignore what happened against Calgary) and BC is not great on special teams. God I hope I don’t end up regretting typing that. It will be closer and require more fight but in the end… Riders by 10 Let’s just all hope that we escape this weekend’s action without a fabricated and ridiculous mascot controversy Desperate doesn't begin to describe the Lion situation. Lose & not only do they lose both season series with the Riders & Eskimos but go 0-6 vs the West & down 1 game already to Stamps & Bombers. The good news is the schedule the rest of the way is heavy with East opponents. The bad news is they pretty much have to sweep the East AND win some games left in the West. Lose & they're all but done. GardenGnome said... I have to agree. Riders should win this one. How long before Lemon joins the Lions but won't help this week. The DT's have been a disappointment IMO. We also have our own issues @ CB. Why did it take so long on Means? Probably considered the best we had so McCray????? Marshall has been susceptible to the long pass & Gainey has had his moments as well. I think Purifoy has been our best guy there this year. Take away the Argo game & we've given up 32 pts/game on defence & ST's. That's hardly elite. I still like the RIders but this is a very desperate team they're up against. Win today & could go on a roll with Hamilton (sans Masoli), Als & RB's up next. Bryce Taylor said... Here's my parting thought regarding our 'special' teams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlG0L28NNXQ Scored TD, FG, Rouge, 1 & 2 point converts, Safety & TD Return. Lions are awful, even worse than Argos. They're right - nothing rhymes with Orange. Rider Prophet said... Bryce - That is perfect Monday Morning Sentimonies: Almost Domination Monday Morning Sentimonies: Home Win Riders vs. Lions: Need This One Monday Morning Sentimonies: Where we at? Riders vs. Stampeders: Western Test Tuesday Morning Rain Delayed Sentimonies	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14005
__label__cc	0.510889	0.489111	Home action Alec Baldwin Angela Bassett Henry Cavill Michelle Monaghan Mission Impossible Fallout movie news movie poster Rebecca Ferguson Simon Pegg thriller Tom Cruise Vanessa Kirby Ving Rhames LOOK: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT Releases New "Payoff" Poster LOOK: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT Releases New "Payoff" Poster Jed Chua 5/17/2018 09:57:00 PM ,action ,Alec Baldwin ,Angela Bassett ,Henry Cavill ,Michelle Monaghan ,Mission Impossible Fallout ,movie news ,movie poster ,Rebecca Ferguson ,Simon Pegg ,thriller ,Tom Cruise ,Vanessa Kirby ,Ving Rhames “Some missions are not a choice,” warns the new poster of Paramount Pictures' highly anticipated action-thriller "Mission: Impossible - Fallout" starring Tom Cruise once again as superspy Ethan Hunt. The best intentions often come back to haunt you. In the film,Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and his IMF team (Alec Baldwin, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames) along with some familiar allies (Rebecca Ferguson, Michelle Monaghan) find themselves in a race against time after a mission gone wrong. Henry Cavill, Angela Bassett, and Vanessa Kirby also join the dynamic cast. Check out the latest movie poster for the film below: "Mission: Impossible - Fallout" is distributed in the Philippines by United International Pictures through Columbia Pictures and watch "Mission: Impossible - Fallout" in Philippine cinemas July 25. Tags action# Alec Baldwin# Angela Bassett# Henry Cavill# Michelle Monaghan# Mission Impossible Fallout# movie news# movie poster# Rebecca Ferguson# Simon Pegg# thriller# Tom Cruise# Vanessa Kirby# Ving Rhames# About Jed Chua Ving Rhames Posted by Jed Chua at 5/17/2018 09:57:00 PM Labels: action, Alec Baldwin, Angela Bassett, Henry Cavill, Michelle Monaghan, Mission Impossible Fallout, movie news, movie poster, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg, thriller, Tom Cruise, Vanessa Kirby, Ving Rhames Jed Chua has been writing about movies for more than a decade. During the day, he works as an Operations Director for a small company and runs a small business of his own on the side. He spends his nights watching or writing about movies. Reel Advice Movie Reviews WATCH: Cinemalaya 2019 Entry BELLE DOULEUR (Beautiful Pain) Trailer And Poster Elizabeth is a self-made woman in her late 40s. After her mother passes from an illness, she meets Jon who is 20 years younger who convinces... WATCH: Cinemalaya 2019 Entry MALAMAYA (The Color of Ash) Trailer And Poster Nora Simeron is 50 and finally beginning to feel out of date. She not only has unsatisfactory sex, wrinkles but opposing views on art and cr... WATCH: Cinema One Originals MAMU; AND A MOTHER TOO Full Trailer A transwoman is suddenly thrusted to take care of her niece who also turns out to be a transwoman. Struggling to make ends meet, taking care... WATCH: Viva Films' ADAN Trailer Out Now, Film Opens November 20, 2019 Nationwide Courtesy of Adan YouTube Trailer The trailer for the psychological erotic thriller film "Adan" has been released by Viva Films.... Hintayin ng Langit (Heaven's Waiting): Movie Review Photo courtesy of Hintayin ng Langit Trailer via Globeph Youtube Account "Hintayin ng Langit" is a thought-provoking, moving,... Archive January (30) December (45) November (47) October (54) September (25) August (23) July (34) June (24) May (21) April (25) March (12) February (13) January (22) December (20) November (22) October (30) September (25) August (22) July (24) June (17) May (25) April (17) March (21) February (18) January (18) December (18) November (27) October (30) September (35) August (19) July (27) June (24) May (32) April (26) March (42) February (38) January (44) December (22) November (18) October (14) September (12) August (15) July (13) June (14) May (16) April (15) March (16) February (25) January (13) December (15) November (14) October (11) September (11) August (13) July (17) June (11) May (16) April (13) March (7) February (8) January (13) December (6) November (5) October (15) September (15) August (16) July (12) June (14) May (16) April (16) March (18) February (14) January (16) December (24) November (15) October (18) September (30) August (14) July (14) June (12) May (20) April (17) March (17) February (16) January (14) December (18) November (10) October (19) September (15) August (19) July (8) June (14) May (24) April (12) March (27) February (16) January (25) December (10) November (15) October (14) September (19) August (10) July (29) June (19) May (19) April (17) March (17) February (25) January (21) December (14) November (12) October (21) September (24) August (21) July (8) June (11) May (7) April (9) March (8) February (9) January (11) December (10) November (14) October (18) September (24) August (15) July (11) June (8) May (11) April (9) March (12) February (14) January (6) December (8) November (7) October (10) September (6) August (17) July (14) June (13) May (13) April (13) Copyright © Reel Advice Movie Reviews	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14020
__label__wiki	0.61513	0.61513	Local 284 Staff Worksite Contracts List of Rights Events & Trainings Unions for All Augsburg University Minneapolis College of Art and Design Buy Union! Adjunct Faculty at Augsburg College Vote to Join SEIU Local 284 in Push to Raise Standards Posted by davidzaffrann on November 23, 2016 Second faculty union win in as many months marks growing movement as Augsburg College adjuncts join Hamline, MCAD, U of M in fight to improve higher education MINNEAPOLIS – Over 200 adjunct faculty at Augsburg College formed a faculty union with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 284 in balloting that ended Monday. Instructors formed a union for a stronger voice to improve teaching conditions and advocate on behalf of students. “I voted yes to form an adjunct faculty union at Augsburg because I love teaching here, but I pay more in child care than I make from teaching and it is unsustainable,” said Jessica Ennis, an Adjunct Instructor in Physics at Augsburg College. “We need to work together as adjunct faculty, tenure-line faculty, and administrators to improve our teaching conditions and student’s learning conditions.” Ballots were mailed out to Augsburg adjunct faculty by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on Tuesday, November 8 and were counted Tuesday afternoon. With a vote count of 76 to 63, 54% percent voted in favor of forming a union. “I deeply value my relationship with Augsburg College and I am honored to serve my students and our community,” said Cory Knudtson, an Adjunct Instructor in Education. “I believe many adjuncts wanted to have a collective voice within the school to create an environment where we can best meet our students’ needs.” Augsburg faculty join over 13,000 higher education instructors across the country who have formed unions with SEIU in the last three years to address the growing crisis in the higher education faculty profession, including adjunct faculty at Hamline University in Saint Paul and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) in Minneapolis. Steve Boland, an Adjunct Faculty member at Hamline University, expressed the support of SEIU Local 284 members: “We are excited to hear that adjunct faculty at Augsburg have voted to join our union. We made major improvements at Hamline in our first union contract, so I am excited to think about what we can accomplish together with faculty at other colleges across the Twin Cities.” Adjunct faculty at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) voted to join SEIU Local 284 last month, and Hamline University won their first union contract earlier this year. Tenure-track and contingent faculty at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities campus filed for a union election in January and await their election to be ordered by the Minnesota Bureau of Mediation Services in September. MN Academics United is an affiliate of SEIU Local 284. Faculty at Twin Cities colleges and universities are coming together to form unions for a stronger voice in shaping our institutions’ direction and priorities, our working conditions, and the future of higher education in Minnesota. Office Closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Leadership Assembly Meeting Office Closed for Presidents Day 450 Southview Blvd. South St. Paul MN 55075 Email: local284@local284.com SEIU Healthcare MN SEIU MN State Council	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14029
__label__wiki	0.797329	0.797329	Print subscribers who register will receive FREE online access all the time. Take advantage of an affordable Online Subscription for complete online and e-Edition access today! $1.00 for 1 day 1 Day $1.00 for 1 day 3 Months $25.00 for 90 days 6 Months $50.00 for 180 days 1 Year $100.00 for 365 days Some clouds this morning will give way to generally sunny skies for the afternoon. High 28F. Winds NNW at 10 to 15 mph.. Lewisburg Area School District board President Kathy Swope and Superintendent Dr. Mark DiRocco say goodbye to Cathy Moser, supervisor of curriculum and instruction, after 10 years of service with the district. Moser is resigning from the district to take a position in Mifflinburg. Photo by Amanda Alexander/Standard Journal. Lewisburg approves budget with increase Tax hike will be more than 5 percent By Amanda Alexander LEWISBURG — The Lewisburg Area School District school board voted unanimously in favor of a $27 million budget that will amount to a tax increase of 5.2-5.7 percent, depending on state subsidy figures. “We believe at this point in time it’s the best we can do,” said Superintendent Dr. Mark DiRocco. “They (the state) really leave us up in the air,” said board President Kathy Swope. “We’re guessing.” If the district receives the expected subsidy from the state, taxes will increase for district residents by .74 mills, up 5.2 percent from last year. If the district receives no subsidy, taxes will increase by .81 mills, or 5.7 percent. In addition, the district would cut an additional elementary-level teaching position that has been included in the budget. DiRocco said class sizes would still remain below 20 students if this happens. Half of the revenue the district receives from the tax increase will be put aside in reserve to cover facilities improvements, as well as the expected increase in the employer contribution to the Public School Employees’ Retirement System (PSERS). DiRocco said this amount is expected to continue increasing each year, and the district needs a “cushion” for next year. In other news, the district recognized Cathy Moser, supervisor of curriculum and instruction, for her 10 years of service. Moser has announced her resignation and will take a position of director of curriculum and instruction at Mifflinburg Area School, District, beginning July 6. “It’s their gain, and our loss,” DiRocco said. Moser has served in several capacities in the district over the years, as assistant high school principal, Linntown principal, district special education coordinator and curriculum instructor. DiRocco said that Moser was instrumental in the securing of the Classrooms for the Future grant that allowed the district to purchase laptops for students. She also initiated the district’s pre-K program, updated the Kelly reading series and put the Learning Focused Framework in place. “I always had faith and confidence that… when she was there, everything would be handled, and everything would be taken care of,” DiRocco said. Moser said, “This is very bittersweet.” She thanked DiRocco for being a mentor and having faith in her as both an employee and a person. “I thank you for making me feel very valued,” she said to the board. The board also heard from high school Principal David Himes about a few courses that will be removed from the course selections this year due to low enrollment. Courses cut this year include careers in art, fiber arts, reading improvement and music theory. Music theory will still be offered as an independent study option. Himes said this is the first year the high school will offer AP chemistry as a “brick and mortar class,” and the school will also offer accounting II despite low enrollment, because Himes feels it is essential for students who may want to study business after high school. Himes said he would like to see these courses with low enrollment offered every other year, so that they are still an option for students. Board President Kathy Swope said she’d like to see this happen and the board informally agreed that they would support any policy changes to make this happen. Absent from the meeting were board members Lori Paulus, Myrna Perkins and Ed Zych. Staff Writer Amanda Alexander can be reached at 570-742-9671 or e-mail amanda@standard-journal.com. Watsontown Flea Market & Auction House 441 N. 10th St. Lewisburg, PA (Behind Diamond Engagement Rings Wedding and WRBA 1-15-20 Jacob Young Mara Shuck MIFFLINBURG BOYS The following list of parts are on sale ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS BUFFALO TOWNSHIP	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14037
__label__wiki	0.912447	0.912447	Home About Us Our Music Galleria Concerts Overheard Contact Management Founding Members Music Director Horns Rhythms Vocalists The Summertimes Big Band is Singapore's only all-professional and independent big band which rehearses and performs on a very regular schedule. Formed in 2009 by a bunch of 18 long time musician-friends who have been colleagues at other music ensembles and performance stages, the dynamism and synergy of this big band is often always felt beyond its hard-swinging music - to places where only sincerity, friendships and camaraderie can bring. Passion of the bandsmen are best heard at their live performances where collective dedication raises their already professional levels of performance up a couple of notches. THE SUMMERTIMES BANDS Summertimes had also seen the further formation of two smaller authentic jazz ensembles - The Summertimes Hotshots and The Summertimes Dixieland Swingers, playing smaller jazz ensemble and dixieland music respectively; and The Summertimes Jazz Orchestra - which augments the big band with a string section. TWO YEARS WORTH Twenty months after its inception, the Summertimes bands have played for over fifty performances, much to the delight to its ever-growing base of jazz enthusiast audience - including the local and regional lindy hop swing dance communities. It's first all-swing concert - "1938 - An Evening of Big Band Music and Dance" - was a sold-out success when the band enjoyed minutes of standing-ovations together with world-renowned lindy hop dancers from Sweden & USA - including the indomitable Dawn Hampton of the famous Hampton family of musicians. Most recently, the band has also been invited to play with Charlie Haden for Mosaic Music Festival 2011's opening evening at The Esplanade. Clients, events and productions which the band has been involved in over the past year include MediaCorp's biggest and most extravagant annual event - MediaCorp Festival 2010, Elle Awards 2010, Channel News Asia Luminary Awards 2011 and Viewers' Choice Awards 2011, The Esplanade, Singapore Press Holdings, Rotary Club of Singapore, Citi Commercial Bank, UOB Privilege Banking and ITB Awards Asia 2010. T h e S u m m e r t i m e s B i g B a n d Always livin' the happy times. Swinging Since 2009	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14043
__label__cc	0.50565	0.49435	The Theory of Difference Readings in Contemporary Continental Thought Douglas L. Donkel - Editor SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy Key readings by Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze, Derrida and Irigaray. Unlike other anthologies in continental thought, this book focuses on a specific issue—the theory of difference—as the most effective way to generate interest and understanding not only of the specific issue in question, but also of the deeper philosophical connections which constitute the historical fabric of a tradition. Presented here are key texts—some of which were previously out of print—from Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, and Luce Irigaray, that have been selected to highlight each thinker's understanding of difference, as well as suggesting its implications for a range of issues as ostensibly diverse as the question of Being, the meaning of justice, the problem of translation, the status of theological language, sexual difference, and the nature of the postmodern. “This book could change the way we think about this period of philosophy. For the first time we can read all of these texts as if they were telling one big story about difference.” — Leonard Lawlor, coeditor of Chiasms: Merleau-Ponty's Notion of Flesh “The editor has chosen texts that are not only about difference, but also are clearly among the most important texts of each author presented. It is very helpful for a teacher of continental philosophy to have a book that exposes the student to central texts of some of the most important authors and texts which are not otherwise readily available or often anthologized. The book offers selections that allow the student to develop an in-depth understanding of the problem of difference and at the same time allows the student to see the interconnection of the philosophers being studied.” — Walter Brogan, Villanova University Douglas L. Donkel teaches philosophy at The University of Portland. He is the author of The Understanding of Difference in Heidegger and Derrida. Part One: Martin Heidegger The Principle of Identity (From Identity and Difference) The Onto-theo-logical Constitution of Metaphysics (From Poetry, Language, Thought) Time and Being (From On Time and Being) Part Two: Maurice Merleau-Ponty The 'Sensation' as a Unit of Experience (From Phenomenology of Perception) Eye and Mind (From The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader) The Intertwining-The Chiasm (From The Visible and the Invisible) Working Notes (Selections from The Visible and the Invisible) Part Three: Gilles Deleuze Elan Vital as Movement of Differentiation (From Bergsonism) Numerical and Real Distinction (From Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza) Difference in Itself (From Difference and Repetition) Part Four: Jacques Derrida Signs and the Blink of an Eye (From Speech and Phenomena: And Other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signs) The Outside is the Inside (From Of Grammatology) The Hinge [La Brisure] Differance (From Margins of Philosophy) Part Five: Luce Irigaray When Our Lips Speak Together (From This Sex Which Is Not One) (From The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger) Sexual Difference (From An Ethics of Sexual Difference) 39311/39310(JFB/MH/FK) Returning to Irigaray Corporeal Generosity Moments of Disruption Flower of the Desert Neoplatonism and Contemporary Thought A Discourse on Novelty and Creation The Title of the Letter The Concept of First Philosophy and the Unity of the Metaphysics of Aristotle History and System	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14044
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__label__wiki	0.726736	0.726736	- Alle -NoYes "I prefer to over-clarify" Interview with Terre Thaemlitz by Robert Schulte We are sitting in a hotel room, the very symbol of alienation, shortly before midnight and Therre Thaemlitz's gig as DJ Sprinkles at the LAWBF series. The right time and place for the serious subjects we discuss, as today's pathologies are both global and urgent for Terre Thaemlitz. The multimedia producer (musician, essayist, label owner) has been one of the most critical and sophisticated voices of the cultural scene for the last two decades. Here is why. Let’s first talk about your performances. In an interview you stated that you look at all kinds of appearances you’re booked for – be it DJ-ing, performing, lecturing – as work, as labour. And that your main concern is "delivering on your end of agreements" with the organisers. Well, that’s not my "main concern", but it’s part of being an employee that you have to deliver in order to get paid. The main reason I perform is because you can’t economically survive off record sales. For me that is a really unfortunate thing because I’m interested in what I consider to be "non-performative" electronic music. For me it’s really about a lineage of audio production that’s engaging a critique of the performative stage, and a rejection of the rock’n’roll paradigm. So it’s ironic that we are economically forced to perform non-performative media. That is why in this other interview I said that line about holding up my end of the contract: because all the other typical rhetoric about performing out of free will, self-expression and so on, isn’t of interest to me. Or perhaps it's better to say it's only of interest from a critical perspective, as notions that I am attempting to complicate and to reject. That’s why all that is left is the contract. Are you being cynical when you are performing because you actually do not want to? I’m just like anybody else. I’m doing my job. I do it because I have to, not because I love it. The fact is that people in creative fields are constantly barraged with this insistence that, ‘Well, at least you're doing what you love and you have to be thankful," blah-blah-blah. It really makes it so impossible to engage in any sort of labour analysis and solidarity. The only solidarity we are allowed to express within "creative fields" is the solidarity that manifests itself in free labour: ‘Yeah, I'll help you out with that event/exhibition/compilation/publication for free.‘ Where is the solidarity that helps us survive? _______INSERT_______ What is on your mind these days? T: I'm working on a new project in the trajectory of "Terre Thaemlitz" projects like Lovebomb and Soulnessless that has to do with a critique of family and clan, as well as a defense of people who don’t have children. I think we live in a post-democratic era now. We culturally swim in the language of neo-liberalism, in which the rhetoric of democracy and state care are floating about, but socially it’s really become all about private ownership and a return to private wealth, feudal financial relations and power relations. So I've been thinking about the ways in which family and clan are involved in contemporary politics and society. This includes the ways that global notions of "the enemy" are no longer "enemies of state," such as in the Cold War (although ISIS calls itself a state), but clannistic enemies. Today's "age of terrorism" is much more about social organizing around clan antagonisms, which is a return to a pre-democratic model of political antagonism. Of course, at the center of the clan is the family. So I’m thinking about that stuff and how fucked up families are, how fucked up the pressure to have children is, and the ways people who don’t have children find ourselves culturally ostracized and harassed in so many cultures around the world. Are you interested in visual arts? Only as a site of critique. The industry as something to be critiqued. Art industry you mean? Art industry, music industry, academia.... I don't participate in those fields because I feel they enable me to express my views. Rather, it's the opposite – the social and cultural workings and ideological productions that emerge from these sites are symptomatic of the larger social issues and dynamics that I struggle to critique. So it’s just choosing sites where the problems of the industries display the larger cultural problems that I’m interested in discussing. I don’t find much cultural value at all in the arts or music... Because they’re intoxicated by industrial dynamics? Because media industries are clearly inseparable from the functions of propaganda for dominant cultures. They just rely so heavily on particular ideologies of authorship, ownership, creativity and expression which conceal the politics and finances behind them. There is a difference between my approach towards the arts versus music. Within the arts you have more than a century of very precise, political, situated critiques of the problems of artistic production and creativity – galleries and museum spaces and how they’re constructed, not only socially but ideologically. People working in the arts are aware of these critiques and yet it’s business as usual. So cultural critique is pointless in the arts. Meanwhile, music industries are even worse because those century old critiques in the arts haven’t even penetrated the audio market, or barely have. Even people in the art world who would be very familiar with the social critiques of creativity and authenticity would – when it comes to listening to music – still believe in the myth of the authenticity of the blues musician. That makes music – in its relationship to pop culture – naive, and an even deeper, stronger tool for the production of these creative mythologies that I find very problematic and essentialist. That’s why many of your records come with text – as an instruction for the music? Yeah, I mean music is a very – we could say – poetic kind of medium. And as we know most poetry is bad poetry that instantly goes into weird vagaries that amount to nothing. I think that’s how most music functions as well. So I prefer to over clarify, as a necessary critical gesture, because audio industries are so hellbent against producers being able to speak. In the arts it’s the same. The artist is the first one to say ’Oh the work should speak for itself, I don’t want to ruin it by talking too much about it’. It’s the same with musicians. That’s because we’re culturally conditioned to basically be idiots who can’t speak about the very things that we are doing, and leave content up to the record labels, up to the press, up to the critics - who are basically in the business of sales. We internalize this antagonism and feel like it will be wrong for us to talk about what we do. Wrong to actually be able to have communicative tools to be more specific about how our activities are grounded in social contexts and socio-political frameworks. You said that “any social space that declares itself ‘open’ and ’all accepting’ is instantly suspect, and engaging in ideological production.“ You are playing at Kantine am Berghain tonight. I guess the people running Berghain would say the site is open and all accepting – do you think that it is a political place? People know that the Berghain has a horribly restrictive door policy. That’s also part of their attempt to preserve and protect certain queer activities that go on inside, right? I'm not from Berlin, and I've never been booked for a Saturday night there - which is when everything gets most decadent, right? - but I get the feeling that Berghain is more notoriously self-enclosed than all-open. And there is a politic behind that. The club has always percepted as a space for escapism, where one is able to leave behind all concerns, where societal segregations also seem to be less effective. Do clubs offer a possibility to experience something right in a fucked up world? I think when it comes to the events and performances themselves they tend to function similar to concerts and other things like that, where you have the introduction of a heterotopic space in which "escapism" revolves around and relies upon a faith in transcendental potential. That is a faith which I just utterly do not have, and do not want. I feel that is very problematic. The sensation of "transcendence" or "escape" is a product of ideological production within a larger context of cultural domination - only a kind of sanctioned performance of social transgression through which we exorcise the need for actual transgression and social restructuring. I guess the short answer to your question is: No. So no escapism or escapist behaviour, I understand you are rather interested in techniques of disobedience and non-cooperation as a general means of resistance. Could you elaborate on that? In all of our lives, including mine, we are constantly engaging in different forms of escapism - the comfort zones in which we allow ourselves to become numb or naive or ambivalent about the oppressions and exploitations that those spaces in which we feel comfort rely upon in other social arenas. For example people from the First World enjoying the "high life" in Third World resorts. To presume that social transformation occurs in a moment of escapism is an ideological trap. Because you’re relying on the moment of separation/escape/transcendence to bring resolution to the crisis at hand, as opposed to exploding into irresolvable differences. For me it’s just more important to try to find ways in daily existence – in relation to interpersonal relationships to friends, family, co-workers, your employment, your housing etc. – to minimize the violence that we enact on others by being complicit and ambivalent about the corruptions behind the spaces in which we feel safe. How exactly? For example, my non-essentialist approaches towards queer pan-sexuality and transgenderism do not set me free sexually or genderwise. It's the opposite of that. If you are refusing to take sides, if you are refusing to align yourself easily with one side of a dominant binary – whether it is hetero/homo, male/female – then that makes it incredibly troubling for many people to interact with you. Because most peoples' sense of their own identity and sexuality and behaviour and desire relies upon a gauging of where the people they are with lay on the map sexually and socially. This means that every kind of interaction becomes a negotiation, which could be as much about open alliance as it could be about closeting. When we are comfortable, that means we are accepting our role in the production of violence. Of course, we all have to find spaces for comfort, but what does that mean socially in terms of responsibility? How can we be more responsible than becoming neoliberal assholes? That for me has to do with non-cooperation, and that means not only being uncooperative with others, it means refusing to cooperate with your own desires for assimilation. It means keeping yourself in a state of flux and vulnerability. A lot of people state that technology is progressing in such a large scale that we can’t even grasp what is going on. Do you think the technological future is our doom or the promise of a better future? I really am a nihilist. I don’t find hope in anything. The ways in which people speak about the high pace of technological and cultural developments now... in a way all of that motion is not taking us to places quicker. It’s just generating a white noise that is socially quite stagnant and slow as ever. People talk about the global spread of democracy, and yet we are still dealing with no end to basic injustices such as women earning significantly less than men for the same job. I think that people are maybe mistaking the granular dynamic of all this static around them for actual social transformation and change, simply because it sounds sparkling and moving to them. But it’s coming out of, and feeding back into, quite conservative industrial loops. For example, in relation to transgenderism, the rampant escalation of available hormone therapies and physical "remedies" for gender crisis, etc. may seem revolutionary to some people. But for me, I cannot help but notice that the acceleration of the medical industry’s interest in these issues (ie. "curing" gender crises) is escalating on a curve that coincides with the ways "curing homosexuality" has medically fallen out of fashion. So I see these "revolutions" in trans-care as a re-direction of a pre-existing homophobic undercurrent within medical industries, and how that homophobia feeds into certain gender constructions. That, of course, affects how liberating these technologies and changes can be. I think for all of this noise and all of the motion and chaos that seems to be so accelerated, in the end we find that it’s doing very little new – in terms of really new radical ideas that succeed in dismantling things like the mechanisms of patriarchy. Like, the cyber-feminist fantasy of people not knowing your gender online did not become a dismantling of patriarchy in any way. Being a nihilist and never being optimistic about things what are you most concerned about these days? ...Patriarchy. Just, all the brutal manifestations, the construction of gender difference, deployed in so many cultures and contexts around the world in so many differently horrible and grotesque ways. Seeing people finding moments of celebration within these – including matrimony... including LGBT matrimony... the impossibility of eliminating all forms of matrimony and discrimination... Instead, people seem preoccupied with demanding their "right" to share in those abusive privileges that have haunted us for centuries. We never find ways to dismantle patriarchy. We only get sucked into it deeper and deeper. Living in Japan, the women there - transgender communities as well – face really extreme misogyny. It’s really crushing, it’s really upsetting. I know a lot of people personally suffering with things. It’s older than capitalism, patriarchy is even deeper in our cultural roots. It just destroys me. Terre Thaemlitz was born in 1968 in Minnesota, USA, and currently lives in Kawasaki, Japan. Website of Comatonse Recordings and Terre Thaemlitz. "Like a Wild Beast’s Fur" (abbreviated LAWBF) is a Berlin based showcase that presents a hybrid art form and functions as a collective. Every show is a unique combination of theatre and performances by internationally acclaimed artists. 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__label__wiki	0.650607	0.650607	You are here: Home › Health › Genetics › News › Genes a good predictor of social status Genes a good predictor of social status By Will Parker on April 10, 2012 in Genetics, News Scientists using an experimental approach to observe how gene expression patterns correlate with social dominance claim that gene expression can predict the social status of an individual with 80 percent accuracy. The research, detailed in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to demonstrate a link between social status and genetic regulation in primates on a genome-wide scale. It reveals a strong, plastic link between social environment and biology. The new findings build on previous research that showed how social interactions can alter gene expression in songbirds. In the new work, researchers from the University of Chicago, Yerkes Primate Research Center and Duke University, discovered significant differences in the expression of genes involved in the immune response in high-ranking rhesus macaque females and their low-ranking companions. The study notes that when a female’s rank improved, her gene expression also changed within a few weeks, suggesting that social forces can rapidly influence genetic regulation. “We were able to use gene expression to classify individuals based on their rank,” said Yoav Gilad, from the University of Chicago. “Demonstrating these very plastic and temporal changes was novel and quite interesting.” “Our study supports the idea that low social status can be bad for the body. But it hints at the idea that if you improve your social situation, your health improves, too,” added co-researcher Jenny Tung, from Duke University. The researchers looked at gene regulation in 49 female rhesus macaques kept at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. The monkeys have a hierarchical rank based on the group in which they live. Males enter new social groups at adolescence to establish their rank order, while females never leave their birth group and take on a rank similar to their mothers’ status. To examine how gene expression would differ when a monkey’s rank changed, the scientists took the female macaques from their native groups and constructed 10 new social units, where rank was determined based on how early a female was added to her unit. They then took blood samples from the monkeys and isolated the white blood cells. The results show that lower-ranking monkeys had lower levels of a certain kind of T cell and showed signs of exposure to chronic stress. The researchers also looked for changes in the monkeys’ DNA and found an animal’s rank in dominance correlated with the presence or absence of methyl groups, which help control the switching on and off of genes. The overall genetic “signature” of expression changes was robust enough that the researchers could predict an individual monkey’s social rank with high accuracy from their gene expression profile alone. That predictive power also enabled an unanticipated second test of whether gene expression would reflect unplanned changes in dominance rank. “It was a fortunate event in the experiment,” University of Chicago team member Yoav Gilad explained. “When a couple of animals were removed from cages for various reasons and new ones were introduced to the groups, it turned out to improve the rank of a few monkeys. We could take advantage of this switch and see if our classifier still works.” The researchers found that the females’ immune systems responded rapidly when they moved from a lower social rank to a higher one, to the point where formerly low-ranking animals looked genetically like high-ranking ones. “There’s a spooky side to this kind of research, in that an individual’s social rank is partially determining health status. We’re seeing that there are a lot of effects of social status on genes, including our own, but we are also seeing that many of the changes aren’t permanent and that leads to more questions,” Tung mused. “This study is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to understanding the relationship between genomics and social environments.” Courtship affects gene expression Epigenetic Changes Discovered In Abuse Victims’ Brains Scale of epigenetic changes observed in stimulated brain is “mind boggling” Gender behaviors directly manipulated Source: Duke University, University of Chicago Medical Center Semen protein acts as “master regulator” in females DNA of bacteria that live in the body passed from mother to child Short men living longer Novel epigenetic messaging system found in sperm Can nicotine transmit disease through multiple generations? 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__label__cc	0.564406	0.435594	Archive for the synthpunk Category Tone Set- Calibrate Mini-LP Posted in 1980s, 1983, arizona, minimal synth, synth, synthpop, synthpunk, tone set, US on August 22, 2015 by Frankie Teardrop Been slacking for a bit here, my apologies. Skipping to the top of my imaginary queue is a fresh rip of Tone Set’s classic Calibrate mini-LP/12”, released on Valentine’s Day in 1983. I originally covered this band in 2007, back when I was posting only a handful of tracks and maybe a video or two, and it took eight years to track a semi-affordable copy of this gem down. Man, time flies! Click here for a refresher on this Arizona-based synthpunk band, who invoke the same spirit as Devo, The Units, Voice Farm, Oppenheimer Analysis, etc. It’s also worth noting here that the A-side features upbeat pop songs while the B-side features re-recorded versions of their earlier tape experiments. Tone Set- Calibrate LP 1. Life Is Busy 2. Living In Another Land 3. Slim 4. Out Out! 5. What Good’s A Hit Song? 6. Wigglin Around In Middletown More soon, I promise! Krisma- Cathode Mamma/Nothing to Do With the Dog LPs Posted in 1970s, 1980s, Chrisma, italian, Krisma, minimal synth, synth, synthpop, synthpunk on October 12, 2010 by Frankie Teardrop I have a pretty huge backlog of things I’ve been meaning to post, so I’m going to chip away at them over the next few days, so bear with me, folks! To kick things off, I’ve had several requests to post some more tracks by Chrisma/Krisma, so here’s my two favorite LPs from this Italian synthpop outfit. Contained within this zip file are 1980’s Cathode Mamma (the band’s debut after switching from a ‘Ch’ to a ‘K’) and 1983’s Nothing to Do With the Dog (aka Fido on some releases), their third LP. There are still three more out there, but these two should keep you satiated for now! Here’s the info: Krisma- Cathode Mamma LP (1980) 1. Cathode Mamma (Neue Version) 2. Many Kisses 3. Peggy Guggenheim 4. Rrock 5. Rien Ne Va Plus 6. Cathode Mamma 7. Telegram 8. White Knife 9. Last Chance to See Man Krisma- Nothing To Do With the Dog LP (1983) 1. Nothing To Do With the Dog 2. I’m Not In Love (10cc cover) 3. I Must Know Your Name 4. Girls Drumming 5. Eye to Eye 6. Boys Drumming 7. Carefully 8. Find a Friend 9. Heroes of the Sea 10. Everybody Drumming download both LPs here For your viewing pleasure, here’s the official video for “Nothing To Do With the Dog,” one of the band’s biggest singles and an international breakthrough at the time. Chrisma- Discography Posted in 1970s, 1980s, Chrisma, italian, Krisma, minimal synth, synth, synthpop, synthpunk, vangelis on August 27, 2010 by Frankie Teardrop Here’s one of two posts lined up to get you through the weekend. First, we have what I believe to be the complete discography of Italian band Chrisma, a synthpunk outfit active in the late 1970s. The band combined a Marlene Dietrich kind of vibe with krautrock, Chrome-esque guitar lines, disco rhythms, and primitive synthesizers for a futuristic and incredibly eclectic sound. Very ahead of their time, as far as I’m concerned, especially when you hear the drastic jump in styles between the first 7” and the debut LP. The band takes its name from combining the first names of members Christina Moser and Maurizio Arcieri. Their earliest recordings were made in Vangelis’ home studio, which more than likely explains their futuristic sound. There’s even a rumor kicking around that Vangelis himself performed on Chinese Restaurant, but he is not listed in the album credits. While the band was formed in Italy, they sang the majority of their songs in English, which helped earn the band a few fans stateside. You can still hear “Black Silk Stockings” (IMO, the band’s best track) in various clubs to date. In 1980, the band changed their name to Krisma and took a more synthpop turn, releasing five LPs and a slew of singles. Perhaps I’ll cover them someday in the future, but otherwise, here’s the full Chrisma output- two LPs and two 7” records. I didn’t include a few of the other 7”s, as the band would double up on album cuts for b-sides. Here’s the rundown: Chrisma- Amore 7” (1976) 1. Amore 2. Sweet Baby Sue Chrisma- Chinese Restaurant LP (1977) 2. Black Silk Stocking 3. Lola 4. C-Rock 5. What For 6. Wanderlust 7. Lycee 8. Mandoia Chrisma- U 12” (1977) 1. U Part I 2. U Part II Chrisma- Hibernation LP (1979) 1. Calling 2. Aurora B. 3. Rush ’79 4. Hibernated Nazi 5. Gott Gott Electron 6. We R. 7. So You Don’t 8. Lover 9. Vera Platz download all four here In case you’re not sold on downloading this discography, peep a performance of “Black Silk Stocking/Lola” here, complete with a latter day interview with the band, for those fluent in Italian. Awesome. If you dig on these records, feel free to purchase the excellent reissues from Medical Records! Voice Farm- The World We Live In LP Posted in 1980s, 1982, 1990s, minimal synth, san francisco, synthpunk, US, voice farm on March 14, 2009 by Frankie Teardrop Fulfilling a quick Saturday morning request for Voice Farm’s The World We Live In LP, as the band was previously featured on the Oh Harry, You’re Such a Drag! compilation. As a quick aside, I’ve also posted a Radio Free Europe LP a ways back, for whomever asked. Anyway, Voice Farm were primarily a two piece (but occasionally three or four piece) synthpunk band from San Francisco. Formed in 1981, the band earned a decent cult following over the years, eventually landing a spot opening up for Depeche Mode on their World Violation tour in 1990. They eventually split in 1995, but released four records before their demise. This first one, 1982’s The World We Live In, is significantly different than their last few, as the band persued a more pop-oriented sound in their latter-days, where as this debut is closer to the manic energy of synthpunk and the rampant electronic pulse of minimal synth. Curiously, the band would not release a follow up for another five years. Here’s the info for their debut record. 1. A.M. City 2. Lost Adults 3. Beatnik 4. Davy’s Big Battle 5. Mama Made Me Do It 6. Sally Go Round The Roses 7. Double Garage 8. Follow Me Home 9. Voyeur 10. Cheeno 11. Over And Over Oh Harry, You’re Such a Drag!- compilation Posted in 1970s, 1980s, kitchen and the plastic spoons, new wave, our daughter's wedding, p1/e, screamers, synthpunk, Units on February 17, 2009 by Frankie Teardrop A bit of a request for today, ladies and gentlemen, as I’ve uploaded a rather stellar mix of early synthpunk/new/minimal wave tunes. I can’t take credit for creating it, as this mix was originally constructed by Miss Amy Sammartino, a friend of mine from California. It’s both a great introduction to the wonderful synth-based rock world, offering a few choice cuts spanning the late seventies/early eighties. The name derives from the 1966 satircal comedy Lord Love a Duck, the dialogue which is sampled on one of this mixes’ best tracks. Some of these artists have been featured on these back pages (mostly in earlier days), while others are both favorites old and new, so be sure to give this mix a spin and let me know what you dig. I have full records by most bands on the mix, so I’d be happy to upload a few for curious parties. Here’s the tracklisting, without any further ado: 1. People Like You- Nervous Gender 2. Uncircumsized Twin- Plastic Idols 3. Appeal to Them- Tone Set 4. Elevate (7” Version)- Voice Farm 5. Alien Day- Radio Free Europe 6. Hold That Coed- Dow Jones and the Industrials 7. The Beat Goes On- The Screamers 8. Integrating Circuits- Standing Waves 9. The Politics of Ecstasy- Body Falling Downstairs 10. The Things That You Do- Bob 11. Breakout- Drinking Electricity 12. Microbes- Mekanik Commando 13. Out of Order- The Skinnies 14. Happy Funeral- Kitchen and the Plastic Spoons 15. G-Stalt- Scientific Americans 16. Lawnchairs (Remix)- Our Daughter’s Wedding 17. Be A Zombie- Los Reactors 18. Shopping- Pink Section 19. 49 Second Romance (Disco Mix)- P1/E 20. Forever- Los Microwaves 21. We Need More Power- Geza X 22. Avorton- Edith Nylon 23. Nuclear Tofu- Amoebas in Chaos 24. Digital Stimulation- Units 25. Cardboard Lamb- Crash Course In Science 26. Chango- Devo Units- Digital Stimulation LP Posted in 1980, 1980s, minimal, synth, synthpunk, Units, wave on January 5, 2009 by Frankie Teardrop I originally touched on San Francisco synthpunk legends Units back in July 2006, so let’s flesh that post out a little bit with their lone full length release, 1980’s Digital Stimulation, which features a rerecorded version of ‘Warm Moving Bodies.’ The original version can be nabbed from the 2006 overview post, alongside a more detailed profile of the band. Otherwise, here’s the info proper: 1. High Pressure Days 2. Digital Stimulation 3. Warm Moving Bodies 4. Go 5. Mission 6. Cannibals 7. Bugboy 8. Tight Fit 9. Passion Or Patterns 10. Town By The River 11. Cowboy DOWNLOAD LINK REMOVED – reissued via Furturismo! Family Fodder- Monkey Banana Kitchen LP Posted in 1980, 1980s, art-punk, british, family fodder, synthpunk, uk on August 14, 2008 by Frankie Teardrop Here’s a fun little gem for you folks today… Below lies the first album by Family Fodder, an idiosyncratic London-based synth band active from 1979-1983 (though they officially formed in 1975). The four piece act consisted of Media Fodder and her three brothers Tod, Rod, and God, obviously a clever lot of pseudonyms, as their discogs.com page reveals a sizeable lot of collaborative members, far more than four, with Alig Pearce being the only consistant member. Family Fodder released two full lengths and several quirky 7” singles to a sizable cult following. Their fellowship with experimental post-punk act This Heat also helped bring the band to a bit of underground prominence. Their music was generally playful, a hint of dub and reggae mixed with absurd, blissful pop, with synthpunk and sometimes experimental instrumentation. Most of the lyrics were also sung in French, courtesy of original vocalist Dominique Levillain, a combination rumored to be of some significant influence over Stereolab. Over the years, the band reformed several times over, recording and releasing sporadically since their initial demise in 1983. A handful of greatest hits collections have also appeared over the years, attempting to collect the band’s initial singles and best moments. I’ve uploaded their first proper LP, 1980’s Monkey Banana Kitchen, which features ‘Savior Faire,’ an infectious little tune I can’t get enough of these days. Here’s the details and download information for the LP: 1. Darling 2. Symbols 3. Savoir Faire 4. Cold Wars 5. Monkey 6. Wrong 7. Organ Grinder 9. Bass Adds Bass 10. Philosophy 11. Cerf Volant 12. Banana DOWNLOAD LINK REMOVED – reissued in 2014 on LP and CD! The only in-print Family Fodder disc seems to be one of the more recent compilations, a 42 track anthology that seems to include several of the band’s hits, including alternate versions and more recent recordings. A definite must-have for fans of the band! Here’s a link to purchase the collection, entitled More Great Hits! purchase More Great Hits! via amazon.com: Seems to be a myspace page available as well…Is it official? I can’t tell you at the moment due to work-related securities, but take a peek and decide for yourselves: Family Fodder on myspace.com 7” grab bag no. 2 Posted in 1970s, 1977, 1979, 1980s, 1981, 1985, 7'', british, coldwave, french, grab bag, industrial, lars falk, metal urbain, post-punk, spk, synthpunk, twice a man on June 30, 2008 by Frankie Teardrop Sorry for the delay here, folks…but to make up for it, here’s another one of those 7” grab bag posts, in which i’ve zipped up four singles for your listening pleasure, including one request from an Australian chum. Here’s the information and a quick blurb about each 7”. SPK- No More 7” (1979) 3. Germanik This is the very first release by Australian industrial collective SPK, and certainly one of their most primitive and direct. This one was a limited run of 200 copies, and the a-side has yet to appear on a proper CD release, though both ‘Contact’ and ‘Germanik’ are featured on their Auto-Da-Fé LP. Metal Urbain- Panik 7” (1977) 1. Panik 2. Lady Coca Cola One of the very first synthpunk bands…French origins. This is their first 7” single, but most of their earlier work has since been collected on the Anarchy In Paris compilation. Lars Falk- TV Eye 7” (1985) 1. TV Eye 2. Doors Lars Falk is one of the ex-contributing members of Swedish coldwave act Twice a Man, who’s previously featured here. Though it shares the name with the Stooges classic, the a-side is an original number. Where’s Lisse?- Talk Takes Too Long 7” (1981) 1. Talk Takes Too Long 2. You Stole My Gun There’s something charming about this otherwise rickety and rough record from this British four piece. This is one of two releases (they followed this with an equally scarce 12” single), and is chock full of early post-punk energy. EDIT: cover scan provied by Rudeboy Noah! Thanks a ton! Radio Free Europe- Laughoncue LP Posted in 1980, 1980s, experimental, minimal, synthpunk, US on January 9, 2008 by Frankie Teardrop Ladies and gentlemen, I present you today with Radio Free Europe’s lone LP, Laughoncue. Though a synthpunk/minimal wave band in theory, this US-based act has more in common with the strange art-experimentations of Bene Gesserit or Throbbing Gristle than say, The Screamers or Units, but all the same, this record is an interesting and captivating release. Little is known about the band, as their discography begins with a few 7” singles in 1979, and ends with this record, released in 1980. If anyone has any further information about the band, feel free to pass it on! 1. Shock Corridor 2. It Likes You 3. Suggested Re-entry 4. Occupation of France 5. Fulda Gap 6. Adada 7. Falling Million Years 8. Whore of Babylon 9. A Couple Screams 10. Time between Seconds 11. Heart of the Matter Screamers- Demos ’77-’78 LP Posted in 1970s, 1977, 1978, LA, los angeles, punk, screamers, synthpunk on January 4, 2008 by Frankie Teardrop Today’s band may not need much introduction, for even having not released a single full length record, their impact is immeasurable. Arguably the first synthpunk band (though perhaps Suicide and Devo may deserve further pioneering credit), Screamers hailed from the inner recesses of LA, and were among the first wave of the initial punk explosion. Unusually (especially at the time), the band incorporated tape loops, electric pianos, and synthesizers into their sound, mixing with the usual manic antics of the punk movement. Screamers initially formed in 1975 as The Tupperwares, but were forced to change their name in lieu of legal action. From 1977 until their demise in 1979, the band became a LA sensation, selling out various clubs in California. Their trademark spiked hair and manic demon faces (both as their logo and part of the band’s image) became highly recognized symbols of the era. The band split before recording a proper full length (though they attempted to record a video record release, as their sound was arguably aided more by their visual presence), with Paul Roessler joining LA’s second synthpunk act, Nervous Gender soon after. Not much is known about the other member’s whereabouts, though singer Tomata du Plenty passed away in 2000. Several bootleg releases comprised of live tapes or rehearsal demos were released in the band’s aftermath, as interest in Screamers rose as their followers (such as the Dead Kennedys, whose vocalist Jello Biafra sung their praises) gained more notoriety. I’ve uploaded one of these releases, the Demos 77-78 LP. 1. The Beat Goes On 2. Thru the Flames 3. Sex Boy 4. If I Can’t Have What I Want (I Don’t Want Anything) 5. She’s the Girl 6. I Wanna Hurt 7. 122 Hours of Fear (Part 1) 9. Punish Or Be Damned 10. Government Love Affair 11. Peer Pressure 12. In a Better World 14. Magazine Love 15. It’s a Violent World …and for your viewing pleasure, here’s live footage of the band performing ‘I’m Going Steady With Twiggy’ in 1977:	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14073
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__label__wiki	0.90887	0.90887	Tar-Elendil Revision as of 21:43, 6 July 2010 (edit) Mithbot (Talk \| contribs) m (Bot Message: changing link to Tar-Aldarion) m (Bot Message: changing link to Aragorn) During Tar-Elendil's reign, [[Vëantur]], the [[Captain of the King's Ships]], became the first [[Númenóreans\|Númenórean]] to return to [[Middle-earth]]. In the year 600 of the [[Second Age]], he arrived at the [[Grey Havens]] with his ship [[Entulessë]], and met [[Ereinion Gil-galad]], [[High King of the Noldor]]. Vëantur's daughter, [[Almarian]], wedded Tar-Meneldur, and their child [[Tar-Aldarion\|Aldarion]] inherited his grandfather's love of the sea. Tar-Elendil had three children: two daughters, [[Silmariën]] and [[Isilmë]]; and one son, [[Írimon]]. Silmariën was the eldest child, but because of the law of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnatic_primogeniture agnatic primogeniture] that existed in Númenor at that time, Írimon inherited the Sceptre and ruled as [[Tar-Meneldur]]. Silmariën became important in her own right as the link of the [[Lords of Andúnië\|Lords of Andúnië]] to the royal house; her son was [[Valandil (Lord of Andúnië)\|Valandil]], the first Lord. For an unknown reason, Tar-Elendil also passed the [[Ring of Barahir]] down to Silmariën instead of his son. This choice, over ''many'' generations, allowed [[Aragorn II\|Aragorn]] to bear this heirloom during his coronation at the end of the [[War of the Ring]]. Tar-Elendil had three children: two daughters, [[Silmariën]] and [[Isilmë]]; and one son, [[Írimon]]. Silmariën was the eldest child, but because of the law of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnatic_primogeniture agnatic primogeniture] that existed in Númenor at that time, Írimon inherited the Sceptre and ruled as [[Tar-Meneldur]]. Silmariën became important in her own right as the link of the [[Lords of Andúnië\|Lords of Andúnië]] to the royal house; her son was [[Valandil (Lord of Andúnië)\|Valandil]], the first Lord. For an unknown reason, Tar-Elendil also passed the [[Ring of Barahir]] down to Silmariën instead of his son. This choice, over ''many'' generations, allowed [[Aragorn]] to bear this heirloom during his coronation at the end of the [[War of the Ring]]. == Etymology == Númenórean Other names Parmaitë Birth S.A. 350 Rule S.A. 590-740 (150 years) Death S.A. 751 (aged 401 years) Parentage Tar-Amandil Siblings Eärendur, Mairen Children Silmariën, Isilmë, Írimon Gallery Images of Tar-Elendil Tar-Elendil was the fourth King of Númenor. He was the eldest son of Tar-Amandil. Tar-Elendil recieved the nickname Parmaitë ("Book Handed" in Quenya) because of his love of making books from the legends and lore gathered by his grandfather Vardamir Nolimon. 3 Genealogy During Tar-Elendil's reign, Vëantur, the Captain of the King's Ships, became the first Númenórean to return to Middle-earth. In the year 600 of the Second Age, he arrived at the Grey Havens with his ship Entulessë, and met Ereinion Gil-galad, High King of the Noldor. Vëantur's daughter, Almarian, wedded Tar-Meneldur, and their child Aldarion inherited his grandfather's love of the sea. Tar-Elendil had three children: two daughters, Silmariën and Isilmë; and one son, Írimon. Silmariën was the eldest child, but because of the law of agnatic primogeniture that existed in Númenor at that time, Írimon inherited the Sceptre and ruled as Tar-Meneldur. Silmariën became important in her own right as the link of the Lords of Andúnië to the royal house; her son was Valandil, the first Lord. For an unknown reason, Tar-Elendil also passed the Ring of Barahir down to Silmariën instead of his son. This choice, over many generations, allowed Aragorn to bear this heirloom during his coronation at the end of the War of the Ring. Elendil means "Friend of the Elves" in Quenya (from elen "star, Elf" and -ndil "friend, lover, devoted to"). Like all the rulers of Númenor who took their royal names in Quenya, Elendil added the prefix tar- ("high") to his name when he received the Scepter. Obviously his Adûnaic name was "Ar-Nimruzîr" although it is not mentioned by Tolkien. Tar-Amandil ____________\|_________ \| \| \| TAR-ELENDIL Eärendur Mairen Vëantur \| \| ____\|_________________________ \| \| \| \| \| Silmariën = Elatan Isilmë Tar-Meneldur = Almarian \| \| Valandil Tar-Aldarion Tar-Amandil 4th King of Númenor II 590 – 740 Followed by: Tar-Meneldur J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "The Line of Elros: Kings of Númenor" Retrieved from "http://www.tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Tar-Elendil" Categories: House of Elros \| Rulers of Númenor	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14079
__label__cc	0.655045	0.344955	SHUT THE F@#% UP, YOU MOTHERF@#%ERS! So last Saturday I was in another free show at the pub. It didn't go all that great, mainly for two reasons. First, it was game-day night here in University Town, so the place was full -- full of drunks who were interested in celebrating the game by getting drunker, and weren't interested in comedy. So they just talked among themselves. Loudly. Second, it turns out that one of my fellow comics is a complete psycho. And a drunk. Her "act" consisted mainly of cursing and screaming at the audience to shut up. Now, there's a lot of comedy potential in screaming and cursing -- Sam Kinison, RIP, could even solve world hunger while doing it -- but Standup Comedy Rule Number 1 is "Don't scream and curse at your audience." Because, you know, um, they're the ones you want to laugh, instead of hating you? Doesn't seem all that subtle, does it? And Rule Number 2 is "Don't get so drunk that in between screaming and cursing at the audience, you forget which jokes you told (badly) and tell them again (badly)." Standup is pretty simple, after all. Anyway, finally the bartender came over and told her to stop cursing at the customers. When she got off the stage, management escorted her out of the building (after which she called them up about 26 times and cursed at whoever answered the phone). As Kevin -- Kevin is my comedy hero; I want to be him when I grow up -- as Kevin said, we've all heard of people getting thrown out of comedy shows, but that was the first time anyone'd seen a comic get thrown out. Labels: drunks, humor, psychos, standup mist1 9/19/2006 6:09 AM "Standup is pretty simple, after all." Thanks, thanks a lot. I mean, I guess it's not brain surgery. You can just start on anyone, but still... Why George W. Bush isn't the devil Last Saturday's set How to crack up an 11-year-old "Woof-woof!" "AUSTIN! AUSTIN!" More YouTube favorites	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14080
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__label__wiki	0.821982	0.821982	http://tinyurl.com/y3ex9qzb This article was written By John Berra on 22 Mar 2019, and is filed under Reviews. Bai Xue, Elena Kong, Huang Yao, reviews, Sunny Sun, The Crossing About John Berra John Berra is lecturer in Film and Language Studies at Renmin University of China. He is the editor of the Directory of World Cinema: Japan (Intellect, 2010/12/15), co-editor of World Film Locations: Beijing (Intellect, 2012) and World Film Locations: Shanghai (Intellect, 2014). He has also contributed to Electric Shadows: A Century of Chinese Cinema (BFI, 2014), Ozu International: Essays on the Global Influences of a Japanese Auteur (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Killers, Clients and Kindred Spirits: The Taboo Cinema of Shohei Imamura (EUP, 2019). The Crossing (China, 2018) Debut features rarely come more confident than The Crossing, which sees director Bai Xue telling the story of a rookie smuggler without breaking a sweat. Focusing on a shy teenager who is lured into using her daily border crossing between Hong Kong and Shenzhen to illegally transport iPhones in order to make some quick cash, it fuses the concerns of China’s independent sector with the vivid aesthetic of global youth cinema to tantalizing effect. 16-year old Pei (Huang Yao) is a danfei (children born out of a Hong Kong-Chinese marriage) who lives with her hard-partying mother (Ni Hongjie) in the southeastern port city of Shenzhen but travels by express train to attend high school in Hong Kong where her father (Kai Chi Liu) scrapes a living as a security guard. Despite not having the generous allowances of her frivolous classmates, Pei has access to the Hong Kong high life through her friendship with Jo (Carmen Soup) who wants them to spend the upcoming holiday period at an exclusive spa resort in Japan. Pei tries to raise the money for the trip through a part-time waitressing job but a more lucrative opportunity comes through Jo’s boyfriend Hao (Sunny Sun) who is part of a black market organization that smuggles the latest iPhones into the Mainland. Being a member of the gang, which is presided over with matriarchal authority by Sister Hua (Elena Kong), bolsters Pei’s confidence. It also constitutes one of the film’s many ‘crossings’. She morphs from quiet schoolgirl to sly criminal, able to deal with tricky situations on the fly and willing to take her assignments to the next level. Pei goes from carrying a few iPhones in her bag to having a dozen or so taped to her body by Hao whose protective – and romantic – instincts are rebuffed by the new recruit as her sense of independence grows. In terms of style and pacing, The Crossing owes much to Sofia Coppola. Bai captures the teenage perspective through handheld camerawork and a relatively casual, low-stakes approach to criminality while editor Matthieu Laclau provides elliptical montages that dynamically mix smuggling runs with youthful pursuits. She’s also similarly keen on music cues and employs them here – along with a freeze frame – whenever Pei makes a significant choice (or crossing). It’s a motif that could take one out of the film but instead pointedly evokes the teenage mindset that gives the energetic proceedings their distinctive tempo. However, the film can also be taken as a cousin of Nattawut Poonpiriya’s slick youth caper Bad Genius (2017) in which a prodigiously gifted female high school student helps her more affluent classmates cheat their way through exams. Both focus on smart, level-headed female protagonists who get drawn into risk-tasking for financial reasons only to double down after initial success out of frustration with a system that limits their options based on class or gender grounds. As with Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying’s star-making performance in Bad Genius, lead actress Huang is utterly terrific here, transforming more through manner than appearance (she spends most of the film in the school uniform that makes Pei such an effective mule) and indicates a series of internal decision-making processes that relate as much to issues of identity as practical matters. After her first smuggling experience, Pei sets out the batch of iPhones and turns them on, transfixed by the blue-white light emitting from the screens. Unperturbed by society’s commoditization, she is willingly sucked in for the ride and Huang’s nuanced performance ensures the audience tags along without passing judgment. Huang subsequently conveys Pei’s contradictions and realizations. The fledgling smuggler enjoys the camaraderie of the gang and finds a mother figure in Sister Hua, sitting by her side during gambling sessions despite chiding her actual mother for the same pastime. However, Sister Hua demonstrates an independence that her mother, who relies on a string of suitors, lacks. With the seemingly impossible task of accumulating the holiday funds taken care of and therefore rendered trivial, Pei starts to see a bigger picture. She actively challenges patriarchal expectations while Jo complains that her father won’t send her overseas for further study as he only expects her to become a Hong Kong housewife but remains fiercely possessive of Hao who she suspects is seeing someone else. In a film that flits quickly between dialects and places, Bai clearly defines Hong Kong and Shenzhen. While the former is often seen in lively, abundantly colorful exteriors, the latter is mostly represented by the static interiors of Pei’s high-rise apartment, which looks out to a smoggy skyline. Even with Hong Kong in Beijing’s political grip, its appeal to Mainland teenagers seeking escapism is undiminished. With her perceptive take on a protagonist who exists somewhere in-between, Bai has established herself as an exciting talent. Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (France/Indonesia/Malaysia/Thailand, 2017) [AFI Fest & SDAFF 2017] Fish Story (Japan, 2009) Syndromes and a Century (Thailand, 2006)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14090
__label__wiki	0.651604	0.651604	Blu-ray Lists DVD Lists Top to Bottom Series Home / 70s / Shaft Triple Feature (Shaft, Shaft's Big Score, and Shaft in Africa) (Warner Archive) Blu-ray Review Shaft Triple Feature (Shaft, Shaft's Big Score, and Shaft in Africa) (Warner Archive) Blu-ray Review Jimmy P June 09, 2019 0 Studio: Warner Archive Release Date: July 2nd, 1971 (Shaft) / June 8th, 1972 (Shaft's Big Score) / June 14th, 1973 (Shaft in Africa) Run Time: 100 mins (Shaft) / 105 mins (Shaft's Big Score) / 112 mins (Shaft in Africa) Region Code: FREE Picture: 1080p (1.78:1 aspect ratio) (Shaft) / (2.40:1 aspect ratio) (Shaft's Big Score and Shaft in Africa) Sound: English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 (All films) Subtitles: English SDH (All films) Slipcover: No Digital Copy: No Starring: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi (Shaft) / Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Drew Bundini Brown (Shaft's Big Score) / Richard Roundtree, Frank Finlay, Vonetta McGee (Shaft in Africa) Written by Ernest Tidyman (Shaft and Shaft's Big Score) / Stirling Silliphant (Shaft in Africa) Directed by Gordon Parks (Shaft and Shaft's Big Score) / John Guillermin (Shaft in Africa) Rating: R (strong bloody violence, language, and nudity) (All films) The Film(s) Shaft (1971) ⭐⭐⭐1/2 Private detective John Shaft is hired by Harlem mobster Bumpy Jonas to find his kidnapped daughter. Bumpy has no idea who might have taken her but isn't as forthcoming as he could be about his situation. When his first lead peters out - he thought it might be Black power advocates who took the girl - he acts on information from NYPD Lt. Vic Androzzi that outside mobsters are in town and might be trying to take over various illegal businesses in Harlem. Over the years I have been discovering films and even genres that I either didn't have an interest in or not enough of an interest in. Some of the films and genres I have discovered were the works of Brian Trenchard Smith, giallo, and even Blaxploitation, our subject for today. Over the years I have seen a ton of Blaxploitation with Coffy, Foxy Brown and Dolemite being among the ones I have liked the most. There was always one character and film series that I have never seen, Shaft. Ok, I saw the Samuel L. Jackson film that came out in 2000, but that was once and I don't remember anything from it. Right now I am talking the original trilogy. Shaft, released in 1971, is considered to be one of the founding fathers of Blaxploitation. After Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, Shaft is the most widely known of the genre. The thing that I noticed about Shaft is that it isn't a message film. Sweet Sweetback was a statement about how white people in power are keeping the black man down. It is a powerful statement told in a very powerful way. Shaft, on the other hand, could be confused for a "normal" film. Shaft is a film that could have been released in any decade and still play well and you would never know that it is a Blaxploitation film. While other Blaxploitation films make a point of showing that black people can overcome, Shaft just goes about his day as if it were just another day. He doesn't make any grand speeches about race and the neither does anyone else. There are only a few times when race comes into the film. One of the times is when a white man comes into Shaft's bar and says he is looking for "an n-word named Shaft". That word was still quite popular in the 70's (I saw it used in the original The Taking of Pelham One Two Three which was released a few after Shaft) so you can count that one up as something of its time. There is also the time when one of the cops interrogating Shaft after he threw someone out the window of his New York City office "Is this how you kind act?" Again, this is another "of its time" comment. The fact that Shaft isn't degraded by whites in the film speaks volumes about the character and the film. Director Gordon Parks, who does a masterful job with this film, presents Shaft as a private detective who works any case that comes his way and will do anything to get the job done. Shaft bribes people, gets into fights, and breaks many more laws in order to get the job done. Speaking of Parks, he does a wonderful job here. This is the first of his films that I have seen but I am going to track down his other films based on what I have seen here. He treats the film with the style and grace you would expect from an arthouse director, with him giving some decent screen time to even the smallest character. He shows that he has a sure hand and understands the language of cinema, something that even some of the biggest directors today don’t have a handle on. His action scenes actually make sense and the stakes are always on the table. I honestly had no idea where this film was going, but that is a good thing as I was wrapped up in the story. I can not close out this review without talking about Isaac Hayes’ brilliant score with the theme song winning him an Academy Award. The music fits the film in ways that many films can’t. You always know when Shaft is around based on the music and this is one score that you can listen to on its own and it is still brilliant. Shaft is a really great film. I don’t really like calling it a Blaxploitation film because it transcends the markings of the genre and becomes something truly special. Richard Roundtree is brilliant as Shaft and the score and direction are pitch perfect. This is a film that I wished I had seen earlier in life because I feel like I have missed out until now. If you are into action films, detective stories, and/or 70s films then I would say this is required viewing. Shaft’s Big Score (1972) ⭐⭐⭐ When Shaft finds out that a dead friend ran a numbers racket out of his legitimate business and left $200,000 unaccounted for, he knows why he has suddenly found himself in the middle of a war between rival thugs. These goons are all trying to take over the territory of the dead man as well as get their hands on the missing 200 grand. Shaft has all he can handle trying to track down the money and, at the same time, keep his friend's sister from the clutches of the hoods. Shaft’s Big Score sees Richard Roundtree return as the iconic John Shaft as well as Gordon Parks return as the film’s director (he also scores the film as he and Isaac Hayes, who scored the first film, had a falling out), but the film doesn’t have the same feel as the first film. Shaft is the same private dick who is a sex machine to all the ladies and Parks shows that he can still give us great character moments, but the magic that made the first film so great has lost its luster a bit. The film is bigger in so many ways. The story is bigger with Shaft following around the bad guys all over New York. The film opens with a pretty big explosion and ends with one as well. The direction is grander as well, with Parks shooting in the “scope” aspect ratio usually reserved for the big summer films. There is even a helicopter chase that spans many a vehicle. This is where the problem of the film lies. I am sure the producers pushed Parks to make a bigger film because bigger means more people which means more money. The problem with that is Shaft doesn’t feel right getting into a gun battle with a helicopter. Some stories and characters feel better when they are left to what they do best. When we see Shaft driving a speed boat away from a helicopter who is firing on him, it just feels weird. Shaft should be solving his friend’s murder in a smaller way. In fact, if you cut out the stuff at the end, you have a slightly better film than you do with the car/boat/helicopter chase. By going bigger the producers have made the character into something he wasn’t originally: an action star. Richard Roundtree is still the Shaft we loved from the first film. He is still detecting and banging all the chicks, so nothing has changed with the character. Parks also brings the same style of direction he brought to the first film, so it still has the feel of the first film. Gone is the Hayes score, but Parks does a relly good job with the score as well. I do wish that they had used the theme song, but that is a small complaint overall. Shaft’s Big Score! is a good film that gets lost towards the end with all of the action that feels out of place. The stuff that proceeds that is pretty good, though. This is a good sequel to the classic original, but I do wish that they had spent more time on the script as this film is very predictable. Still, the film is fun and that is really what is important. SHAFT IN AFRICA (1973) ⭐ John Shaft is persuaded by threats of physical force, the promise of money, and the lure of a pretty tutor, to assume the identity of a native-speaking itinerant worker in Africa. His job is to help break a racket that is smuggling immigrants into Europe then exploiting them. But the villains have heard that he is on his way. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Shaft in Africa should be ashamed to be the third film in the Shaft trilogy. The first film was a tight little detective story that had a ton of soul and some great characters and music, the second one lost some of that soul as it became more of an action movie while still retaining what it could. This third film is one loses all of that, except for Shaft, while trying to make Shaft out to be a black James Bond. I honestly don’t know what the filmmakers were thinking when they came up with this idea. Why would some foreigners want Shaft, who isn’t a big star in the world of dectectiving, to go into Africa to stop a ring of smugglers who are stealing away African men to work as slaves in Paris? Shaft is not known outside of New York. In fact, in Shaft’s Big Score!, there is a scene where the lead villain, after being told that he has to deal with Shaft, asks who Shaft is and then asks his henchmen who Shaft and they don’t even know. So no one really knows who Shaft is, outside of the black community I am sure, but these foreigners want Shaft to do something they could have asked a hundred other more well-known people to do. I understand that the film would not exist if it were not for this plot, but come on, this is a really stupid plot. Also, the filmmakers seem to be wanting to make a statement with the plot to this film. When this film was released, we were in the heart of the Blaxploitation era, so there is something to this film. But then the filmmakers go and ask the one person who does things purely for the money to do something noble. Shaft even says that he is only doing this for the money. So where is the statement? Is it that slavery is bad? We know this because, well, slavery IS bad. Wow. What a statement this film is trying to make. I know that I am talking about the film’s plot a lot, but this is one really stupid plot. I guess I could list off some of the other things about this film that I hated. -The fact that Shaft can learn the African dialect used in the film enough to get by. Shaft is really good at what he does, but he ain’t that good. -He bangs a few chicks in the film, but those scenes are off-screen. -The plot, while pretty simple, is kind of hard to follow because of the way the film just goes from scene to scene without too much motivation outside of basic screenwriting which isn’t even followed all that much. -The film spends way too much time in Africa. I know that the film is called Shaft IN Africa, but while the film is there it really meanders along. The first 20 minutes of the film and the last twenty minutes are pretty good, but the film really wants to live up to its name. There are a few scenes here and there that are pretty decent, but for the majority of the film, I was just not caring about what was going on. -Shaft’s bodyguard, while in Africa, is taken out so easily that I wondered what the point of having a bodyguard for Shaft was. This man literally steps into a nasty bop to his head and he is out for the entire action scene. -The filmmakers decided that killing a dog was right for the film. Shaft, while in Africa, finds a stray dog and they become friends. They go about Shaft’s journey and in the same scene where the bodyguard is taken out, the dog is shot and killed. The way it is edited, and the corpse of what looks like a real dead dog, make this the worst dog killing I have seen since John Wick lost his dog. I hated this scene and wish that the filmmakers hadn’t stooped down to shock value for “thrills”. -The fact that Shaft could have gone to Paris, without going to Africa, and done just as well, if not better, then he did by actually going to Africa. Now, I know I am shitting on the film, but is there anything that I LIKED about the film? Sure there is. I liked the violence. In the previous two films, the violence added to the story. Here it just wakes the audience up. Honestly, the action is the best part of the film even if you have to sit through the other parts of the film to get to it. I also liked the way the villain is taken out. I thought it was brutal without being graphic. Shaft in Africa is a terrible film that offers almost nothing in terms of entertainment. Richard Roundtree is still excellent in the role, but I think that he could do this role in his sleep and it would be just as exciting. The filmmakers give Roundtree things to do in the film, but they are things that Shaft would not do. I hated that they would take a kick-ass character like Shaft and try to make him into something he isn’t. Another New York story would have been nice. Instead, we get a film that strips a once vibrant character of almost everything is his known for and send him globe trotting. They actually should have asked James Bond to handle this case while Shaft sexes up even more chicks in New York. THE PICTURE AND THE SOUND SHAFT ⭐⭐⭐1/2 / ⭐⭐⭐ Shaft looks outstanding here. The film is very dark and has a color palette that doesn't include too many colors outside of earth colors (blacks, browns, dark reds, etc) which many a transfer can't handle with edge enhancement being added or compression artifacts being found everywhere. None of this is the case with Shaft as everything looks how it should. There a bit of grain to make everything feel more natural and detail is impressive. I was really expecting a flat looking picture but Warner Brothers really gave Shaft a nice presentation. SHAFT’S BIG SCORE ⭐⭐⭐1/2 / ⭐⭐⭐ This sequel to Shaft doesn't really on the darkness as much the original did so it must have been easier on those working on the transfer as this looks really good. There are nighttime scenes which are handled very well, leaving much of the grain intact. Detail is high especially when you look at the scene in the bar. You can see where the paint on dancer's bodies bends with the body. Really great stuff here. SHAFT IN AFRICA (1973) ⭐⭐⭐1/2 / ⭐⭐⭐ This second sequel to Shaft is the best looking out of the bunch. Of course, this is probably because the film takes place outside, mostly, so there is no darkness to have to light. That being said, this is a wonderful transfer that stays true to the look of the film. Detail is really high here and colors look great. A thin layer of film grain seals the deal here. All three films feature DTS-HD Master Audio tracks and they all sound great. The first film has that kick ass soundtrack that sounds so great. All of the films have no problems I could hear and everything is nicely balanced. THE PACKAGING ⭐⭐⭐ All three films come packaged in one three-disc amray and come on their own disc. The front features all three front covers with one on top of the other. The Shaft disc is the same Warner Brothers release disc from a 2012 and features the tried and true Warner Brothers disc art of being all black with the title and studio logos being silver. The other two films get better treatment as their disc art is the same as the front cover artwork. All three discs are REGION FREE All three films can be purchased individually as well. THE FEATURES SHAFT ⭐⭐⭐ Soul in Cinema: Filming Shaft On Location (10m 50s, SD, 1.33:1) Filmed during the filming of Shaft, this all too short fly on the wall look at how a few scene were filmed as well as the score being produced and the film edited, is a wonder to behold. So many times we here about how films were made back then, but rarely do we see footage like this pop up. I love the way Gordon Parks directs. He is a soft spoken man who knows exactly what he wants and how to get it. He also wants to make sure that everyone is safe and seems to care about everyone around him. We see him briefly talking to Isaac Hayes about a scene that Hayes has written music too and we see that they have a good report. Lastly, we see Parks working with this editor on a scene they shot earlier in this doc. This seemed like it was a cool set to working on and I would have loved to be able to just sit with Parks for a few minutes and witness him to his thing. Shaft: The Killing (1973 Episode) (1h 13m, SD, 1.33:1) After Shaft finished off a trilogy of films, he came to the small screen and got back to doing what he does best: solving crimes and sexing up chicks. This is the second episode of the series and is pretty good. Of course, they had to tone Shaft down for this run, but he still is a bad ass. There were only seven episodes to the series because the network alternated weeks of this show with another show. Why they didn’t run the series as a weekly thing is beyond me, but it failed because of this. Shaft (3m 13s, SD) Shaft’s Big Score! (3m 7s, SD, 1.78:1) Shaft in Africa (3m 1s, SD, 1.78:1) SHAFT’S BIG SCORE ⭐ Trailer (3m 9s, HD, 1.78:1) SHAFT IN AFRICA ⭐ OVERALL ⭐⭐⭐ Shaft is a series of diminishing returns. The first film is flat out fantastic, the second film tries to add big action scenes to what was a smaller film, and the third one is the literal interpretation of “what the fuck?”. The character of Shaft remains the same and that is thanks to Richard Roundtree giving the character exactly what he needed to be awesome. This three-disc package, from Warner Archive, brings all three films together for a low price and gives us some truly great picture and sound. The special features are a bit lacking but what we do get, on the first film at least, are really good. I would recommend picking this set up as it is cheaper than buying them separately. Watch the first two, but skip the third one. MORE SCREENSHOTS: SHAFT'S BIG SCORE! SHAFT IN AFRICA Shaft Triple Feature (Shaft, Shaft's Big Score, and Shaft in Africa) (Warner Archive) Blu-ray Review Jimmy P June 09, 2019 70sBlu-rayDiscoveries of 2019Gordon ParksIsaac HayesReviewRichard RoundtreeTrilogyWarner Archive Jimmy P Jimmy P has been a collector since he was a wee lad. He got his first VCR when he was 11 and bought his first VHS tape (Predator) with money he received for Christmas. 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__label__wiki	0.940371	0.940371	Report: Kanye West And Kid Cudi Are Working On A “Surprise Project” In Japan According to Page Six, Kanye and Cudi have rekindled their friendship and working relationship. Kanye West and Kid Cudi at Yeezy Season 3 at Madison Square Garden, February 11, 2016. Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images According to a report from Page Six, Kanye West and Kid Cudi have rekindled their friendship and working on a "surprise project" in Japan. "They’re going to drop some crazy collaboration out of the blue,” an anonymous source close to the situation told Page Six. "They’re going to drop some surprise project on everybody. They’re recording it now.” Read Next: Kanye West talks overcoming problems with alcohol: “Every day I don’t pick up that drink, I beat the devil.” In 2016, Kid Cudi took to Twitter to express his frustrations with West, his longtime mentor and collaborator. On stage on his Saint Pablo Tour, Kanye responded: "Don’t never mention ’Ye name...I birthed you.” Shortly after the exchange, Kanye checked into the hospital "for his own health and safety," and Cudi announced that he had checked himself into rehab "for depression and suicidal urges." Last week, the two were spotted at artist Takashi Murakami's studio in Japan. In May, Kanye West was reportedly in Wyoming working on new music. Representatives for Kanye West and Kid Cudi were not immediately available for comment. Long time no see @kidcudi and #kanyewest. Thank you for coming to my studio. It was fire 🔥🔥🔥 A post shared by Takashi Murakami (@takashipom) on Aug 11, 2017 at 3:41am PDT Hip-Hop, Kanye West, Kid Cudi	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14098
__label__cc	0.594494	0.405506	Rodriguez hits an all time low as he faces suspension Alex Rodriguez isn't the most popular choice for a Yankees fan. Heck, who could blame them? A-Rod's career isn't as glorious as half the women that he publicly has dated over the years. When the Yankees signed A-Rod, they knew what they were bargaining for. Rodriguez publicly revealed that he used steroids during his years with the Texas Rangers, causing Yankees fans to become uncertain with their newest 3B addition. Rodriguez has done some good for the Yankees; he helped win the World Series for the Yankees in 2009 (though most of the World Series heroics came from Hideki Matsui) but some good came with a price for the Yankees. A-Rod has struggled in the postseason every year aside from 2009, he's been riddled with injuries and his antics on the field have caused uproars (going back to last postseason when A-Rod asked for a female fans phone number on a baseball). However, what could possibly come next for A-Rod overshadows the good and the upsetting things that he's done in the past. In Spring Training, there were reports that Alex Rodriguez was tied to the Biogensis reports, reports that said high profile ball players received illegal substances from a Miami clinic. Other names were mentioned such as Robinson Cano (who I've been told is not going to be suspended since his spokeswoman was the one tied, not him), Francisco Cervelli (who is in danger of being suspended 50-games), Ryan Braun (who on a technicality had his ruling overturned after he was suspected of using steroids during the offseason), Melky Cabrera (who already faced a suspension last season), Nelson Cruz and so many others. MLB agreed to look into the reports, leaving fans to wonder what could happen to some of these players. Yesterday, MLB announced that they were planning on suspending players such as A-Rod, Ryan Braun and about 20 other players that were tied to the Biogensis reports. Rodriguez and Braun would face 100-game suspensions since they had used illegal substances in the past. With 20+ names on the Biogensis reports, why does A-Rod's stick out like a sore thumb? Because of his 10-year contract with the New York Yankees that makes him one of the highest paid players in baseball. If Rodriguez is proven guilty and MLB suspends him, this would be the ultimate all-time-low for A-R0d, tainting his career to the point of no return, and making him a disgrace to baseball. It's easy for us to automatically assume that A-Rod is guilty given his past, but A-Rod's fate could lie in the hands of the Biogensis reports and Major League Baseball. I took to Twitter yesterday during the Yankees game, asking fans that if A-Rod was suspended if it would be the end to his career in Yankees pinstripes. Here's what some tweeters had to say: @dfiregirl4 No. They owe him 130+ mil for the next 4 seasons. He isn't retiring. They are stuck with him. — Drew (@getcarter_) June 5, 2013 @dfiregirl4 Nope, he is going to serve his 100 suspension and come back. — Mr. Antisocial (@BibiDaBoss) June 5, 2013 @dfiregirl4 I say yes.Right now, I wish ARod would just go away. He's way too much baggage.#Yankees — Felix, Zachary's Dad (@FelixZacharyDad) June 5, 2013 @dfiregirl4 I could only hope, but he is under contract...They wouldnt be able to dump him. — dan (@highspeeddg) June 5, 2013 @dfiregirl4#Yankees I hope so .. this is embarrassing and I don't care if we eat his contract, he's always more bad news — monica bhattacharjee (@monahawk217) June 5, 2013 A-Rod is a player that has too much baggage, but the Yankees can't easily get rid of him if he is guilty of using illegal substances once again. As some of the tweets mentioned, A-Rod is under contract and his contract is pretty ironclad to prevent him from losing everything if he decided on cheating again. The Yankees may be stuck with A-Rod's contract for the next four years, but Major League Baseball can decide if A-Rod's contract should be null and void. A-Rod's fate is no longer in the hands of the Yankees, but in the hands of Major League Baseball, meaning that his future and possibly his career is on the line. Major League Baseball will release more information in the coming days, elaborating on which players will be suspended and which players are off the hook. Looking from the business standpoint and the fan standpoint, both teams are feeling the exact same way when they look at A-Rod; disappointment. They can only hope that A-Rod doesn't fall into a deeper hole. Posted by Daniel Burch at 2:00 PM 15 comments: Labels: Alex Rodriguez, Biogenesis Reports, MLB, New York Yankees, Notes amp; Links, Personal Opinion, Player Analysis, Rants Yankees MLB Draft 1st Round Picks Since 2000 The MLB First Year Players Draft starts on June 6th on MLB Network with the New York Yankees owning three first round picks in the draft. I wanted to take a look at these picks since the year 2000 and see if it tells us anything on whether we should be optimistic about the picks or should we still be cautious in the biggest crap shoot of a draft in all of sports. David Parrish - C John Ford Griffin - RF Bronson Sardinha - SS Jon Skaggs - RHP - No 1st Round Pick- Eric Duncan - 3B Phil Hughes - RHP Jeff Marquez - RHP Jonathan Poterson - C CJ Henry - SS Joba Chamberlain - RHP Ian Kennedy - RHP Andrew Brackman - RHP Gerrit Cole - RHP Jeremy Bleich - LHP Slade Heathcott - CF Cito Culver - SS Dante Bichette Jr. - SS Ty Hensley - RHP Let's get the obvious out of the way by saying that the 2009-2012 drafts are obviously still works in progress as every one of the players drafted is still in the lower to mid levels of the Yankees system. Slade Heathcott is in AA with the Trenton Thunder, Cito Culver is in Low A with the Charleston Riverdogs with fellow first rounder Dante Bichette Jr. Ty Hensley is set to miss the entire 2012 season but was playing in Gulf Coast League with the Yankees team there. Gerrit Cole did not sign in 2008 with the Yankees so we cannot really grade him here but Jeremy Bleich was a complete bust. Jeremy spent six seasons in the Yankees system including missing all of the 2011 season and never made it above AA before flaming out. Andrew Brackman was always considered to be a project with his big tall right handed frame but the project never seemed to be completed as he was traded to the Cincinnati Reds where he was later released. Joba Chamberlain and Ian Kennedy may be the most attractive parts of this series as Joba has turned into a huge part of the Yankees bullpen and Ian Kennedy, although he did it in Arizona after being traded, is a former 20 game winner. CJ Henry was one of those cant miss prospects that was traded in the Bobby Abreu trade that later got released by the Phillies, resigned with the Yankees, only to bust and flame out again for the Yanks. We all know Phil Hughes contributions as a Yankees pitcher, mainly in the middle or back end of the rotation, so I wont spend much time here but let's just say he has been the best starting pitcher we have developed in many years and that may be sad if you think about it. Jeff Marquez bounced around a lot after being released from the Yankees before getting to the majors with the Chicago Whitesox before flaming out again. The rest of the first rounders were complete busts being highlighted by Eric Duncan who was thought to be the next big thing at the hot corner for the Yankees only to fizzle out early. The MLB draft is, again, the biggest crap shoot in all of sports when it comes to the draft and I think this list only exposes that fact more. The Yankees have had more luck in the later rounds than they have the early rounds in recent memory surprisingly. The Yankees may have three first round picks this season but unless they spend them on very polished four year college pitchers or hitters they expect to fly through the system I would not bank on selling these guys rookie cards as a retirement plan just yet. Labels: 2013 Draft, Andrew Brackman, Cito Culver, Dante Bichette Jr, Ian Kennedy, Joba Chamberlain, MLB draft, Slade Heathcott, Ty Hensley Cleveland Indians @ New York Yankees 6/5 The New York Yankees and the Cleveland Indians will finish their three game set this afternoon at Yankees Stadium. The Yankees will send their newly re-found ace in CC Sabathia to the mound to face off with Corey Kluber. The game will be televised at 1:05 pm ET on YES and on MLB TV. Labels: CC Sabathia, Cleveland Indians Yankees Release Clay Rapada The Yankees have granted lefty Clay Rapada his unconditional release and have made him an unrestricted free agent. The 32 year old lefty specialist has fallen too far behind in the depth chart with Cesar Cabral set to finish his 30 day rehab window any day now. Clay posted a 4.66 ERA in just under 10 IP this year for Scranton before his release. Good luck Clay! Labels: Clay Rapada, Free Agency Game 59 Lineup: Indians vs. Yankees It's getaway day in the Bronx today as the Yankees attempt to go for the series sweep! Here is your starting lineup! Brett Gardner CF Robinson Cano 2B Mark Teixeira 1B Travis Hafner DH Vernon Wells LF Lyle Overbay RF Kevin Youkilis 3B Jayson Nix SS Chris Stewart C CC Sabathia LHP Posted by Daniel Burch at 7:28 AM 1 comment: Labels: Game Threads, Lineup, New York Yankees Morning Bits Good morning everyone! The morning always seems a lot brighter and energized if the Yankees have won the night before doesn't it? Mark Teixeira blasted his second home run in two nights and lead the Yankee offense in a 4-3 win over the Indians last night. David Phelps bounced back from a nightmare outing with a strong six innings, allowing no runs on only one hit. Mariano Rivera notched his 21st save out of 22 attempts on the year to finish things off. The Yankees will attempt the sweep of the Tribe today at 1:05 PM at Yankee Stadium with CC Sabathia(5-4 3. 71 ERA) taking on Corey Kluber(3-3 4.36 ERA) The game will be televised by YES. Now on to today's news: Peter Botte of the New York Daily News writes about the possible distraction that Alex Rodriguez' possible suspension could cause the Yankee clubhouse. Matt Ehalt of ESPN NY writes about Eduardo Nunez suffering a setback in his attempt to get back on the field and needing to go for an MRI. Joel Sherman of the NY Post writes about the Yankees missing out on recent superstar draft picks due to their consistent winning ways. Enjoy the game and everyone have a great day! Labels: No Category This Day In Yankees History 6/5 On this day in 1939 the Yankees were shut out for the first and only time of the season when Tommy Bridges of the Tigers shut down the Yankees offense. Labels: This Day In Yankees History Rodriguez hits an all time low as he faces suspens...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14100
__label__wiki	0.798285	0.798285	Home Shipping Rates Order Info Contact Us Links Change Style [log in] [new customer?] [join mailing list] Rare, Out of Print or Used CD Releases Anime Music Company Labels Film Music Genre Varese CD Sale Original Cast Order Problems?? Name: TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES Number: TCM025192140204 WOMEN IN DANGER: 1950'S THRILLERS (1950-1956 / 4 DISCS) (DVD) THIS PRODUCT IS MANUFACTURED ON DEMAND USING REGION-FREE DVD-R RECORDABLE MEDIA. Turner Classic Movies and Universal Studios Home Entertainment present Women in Danger: 1950s Thrillers. Four glamorous leading ladies of the studio era are featured in a quartet of suspenseful melodramas that showcase them as endangered heroines. Presented for the first time on DVD, these four films have been re-mastered and present these iconic actresses in dramatic star vehicles that confirm Universal as a specialist in the thriller genre. WOMAN IN HIDING (1950) Newlywed DeborahChandler (Ida Lupino) discovers on her honeymoon that her husband (Stephen McNally) may have murdered her father for business reasons and now wants to kill her. Photographed by Academy Award-winning cameraman William H. Daniels (The Naked City, 1948) for veteran director Michael Gordon (Portrait in Black, 1960), Woman in Hiding marks the first pairing of Lupino and co-star Howard Duff, who would marry in 1951 and appear in four more features together including While the City Sleeps (1956). FEMALE ON THE BEACH (1955) Lynn Markham (Joan Crawford), a recent widow, moves into a beach house where the former owner fell to her death from the balcony. What seemed like an accident turns to suspicion of murder as Lynn findsherself drawn into a torrid affair with a handsome beachcomber (Jeff Chandler) who may be harboring a sinister secret. Directed by Joseph Pevney, FEMALE ON THE BEACH is a stylish showcase for Crawfords intense performance and features Jan Sterling, Cecil Kellaway and Natalie Schafer in key supporting roles. THE UNGUARDED MOMENT (1956) In a rare dramatic role, Esther Williams stars as a high school teacher stalked by a peeping tom who might be the same homicidal sex fiend wanted by wanted by the police. Based on a story by Rosalind Russell and Larry Marcus, The Unguarded Moment is a moody melodrama that co-stars John Saxon in one of his first major roles and Georg&e Nader as the investigating detective. THE PRICE OF FEAR (1956) Elegant, exotic beauty Merle Oberon plays against type in the unpredictable mystery thriller The Price of Fear. A woman guilty of a hit and run accident frames another man for the crime but is soon implicated in a far worse situation with a gangster who uses blackmail to lure her into a murder plot. Featuring a supporting cast that includes Lex Barker, Gia Scala and Warren Stevens, this classic thriller will leave you guessing until the end. Disc Quantity: 4 Run Time: 365:00 Actors: Ida Lupino, Joan Crawford, Esther Williams, Merle Oberon Director: Michael Gordon, Joseph Pevney, Harry Keller, Abner Biberman Final Format: DVD-NTSC Screen Display: Full Frame, Letterbox, Widescreen Aspect Ratio: 1:33:1, 2:00:1 Audio: DOLBY DIGITAL-English Color & BW Last Items Viewed: Reviews and Comments: (0) All times US Eastern \| login to post your own review or comments. There are no reviews or comments yet. Log in or register to post your own reviews or comments. TOP WEEKLY CDS 1 ALIVE (2CD) 2 THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY 3 CRAZY PEOPLE (1000 EDITION) 4 DOLORES CLAIBORNE: THE DELUXE EDITION (2 CD / 2500 EDITION) 5 LA PIEL QUE HABITO (THE SKIN I LIVE IN) (IMPORT) 6 MA MA (MAMA) 7 RELATOS SALVAJES (WILD TALES) 8 I'M SO EXCITED! (LOS AMANTES PASAJEROS) 9 SIN NOTICIAS DE DIOS / NADIE HABLARA DE NOSOTRAS CUANDO HAYAMOS MUERTO (500 EDITION) 10 TORDENSKJOLD & KOLD (TORDENSKJOLD AND KOLD) TOP WEEKLY DVD/BLU-RAY TITLES 1 WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS (1950) (SPECIAL PROMOTION) 2 THE DETECTIVE (1968) (SPECIAL PROMOTION) 3 FROM THE TERRACE (1960) (SPECIAL PROMOTION) 4 BROKEN LANCE (1954) (SPECIAL PROMOTION) 5 STRANGE INVADERS (1983) (SPECIAL PROMOTION) 6 SHADOWS AND FOG (1991) (SPECIAL PROMOTION) 7 TO SIR, WITH LOVE (1967) (SPECIAL PROMOTION) 8 COWBOY (1958) (SPECIAL PROMOTION) 9 COUNT YORGA, VAMPIRE (1970) (SPECIAL PROMOTION) 10 LA BAMBOLA DI SATANA (THE DOLL OF SATAN / 1969) (SPECIAL PROMOTION) © 2020 Screen Archives Entertainment ...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14115
__label__wiki	0.583032	0.583032	Bengo the Boxer Art & Bengo the Boxer Collectables May 25, 2013 9:01 pm·0 commentsViews: 5243 Bengo the Boxer Art & Collectables by Susan Brewer (follow Sue on Twitter @bunnypussflunge) I love Bengo the boxer puppy! I’ve adored him since I was a small child and first saw him being drawn by his creator while I was watching the fuzzy screen of a black and white television in the 1950s. An early star of children’s television, Bengo isn’t as well known as his contemporaries such as Muffin the Mule, Bill and Ben and Andy Pandy, yet Bengo collectables have become increasingly sought after by those of us who, as children, followed his simple, hand-drawn adventures. Younger collectors, too, are falling for Bengo’s endearing charm, seeking out models of the friendly puppy and his friends, with some of the more desirable pieces now reaching three figures. Pictured right: Wade Bengo Money Box – Bengo Sitting on a Basket – can now sell up to £80 ($120) An artist known as ‘Tim’ created Bengo the boxer puppy. Tim’s real name was William Timym and he was born in Vienna in 1902, where he later became a political cartoonist. He fled from the Nazis in the 1930s, ending up safely in Britain, and continued his artistic career drawing cartoons for several magazines. Bengo made his first television appearance in June 1953. In those days, children’s television programmes weren’t as sophisticated as they are today, which was just as well, because children were happy to watch an artist draw pictures while telling a short story – a perfect task for Tim. A feeling of movement was created as the camera panned across the drawings, while strings mounted to a few of the drawings caused mouths to open or paws to wave. After a while, announcer Sylvia Peters took over the speaking role. Bengo had a series of doggy friends, as well as a few kittens, all skilfully drawn by Tim’s thick black pen. Bengo was so adored that Wade decided to model him with a few of his friends as small porcelain figurines. Today, these ‘’TV Pets’, launched in 1959, are popular with collectors; rarer models exchanging hands for £75 or more, especially if still boxed. They are amongst the most delightful figures ever produced by Wade, slightly bigger than Whimsies, with Bengo being 2 inches high. Bengo is probably the easiest to find, a standing puppy with a friendly face. Fifi the poodle and Simon the dalmation puppy were also popular at the time, and so can usually be bought for around £15. Fifi especially is very common – not only were poodles a 1950s’ icon, but Fifi is modelled in such a way that her limbs and tail are safely tucked in, so she is more robust than some of the others in the set. At the other end of the range, Bruno Junior (Saint Bernard), Droopy (basset hound), Percy (afghan) and Whisky (corgi) are harder to find, certainly boxed. Also in the series were Chee-Chee (pekinese) and Pepi (chihuahua). Clever packaging was used to complement the dogs, with each being sold in a television-shaped box in shades of yellow, green or orange. The box bore the character’s name, as well as a sketch on the ‘screen’ by Tim. All these doggy figures – as well as Mitzi, the lone kitten in the series – are delightful, and if you can find them still in the original boxes, that’s a bonus, though be prepared to pay at least treble the usual price. My favourite, though, of all the Wade Bengo pieces, is the large Bengo moneybox, a model of the pup seated on a cushion in his basket, and standing 6 inches tall. Excellently modelled, these large moneyboxes cost around £80 or so today. Usually the cushion is pale blue, but a yellow variety is sometimes found, which sells for more. Other companies took up the Bengo theme, notably Melba, whose 5 inch tall chestnut-brown and white Bengo bore a back-stamp reading ‘Bengo by Tim. Copyright Cooper Features, London by H.A.Wain and Sons Ltd., Melba Ware, Stoke-On-Trent.’ Bengo look-a-likes were also issued by Zalpark and Universal, which bore a great similarity to products made by the Szeiler company, and it’s possible that they were created as a joint venture. Pelham Puppets introduced a model of Bengo into their range of string puppets and he continued to be made for many years. This puppet Bengo is easily found today in both the early solid body version and a later hollow body type. The company also produced Bengo glove puppets and a 24 inch high display model as a ‘point of sale’ eye-catcher for use in shops. Additionally, Pelham made other dog puppets designed by William Timyn; Caesar, Ruff, Tuff and Snuff, who weren’t part of the Bengo range but which starred in various cartoons. Pictured left: Pelham Puppet Bengo A company called Sunshine Vinyl Toys brought out a set of squeaky toys based on Bengo and his friends. Presumably intended for infants, these all-in-one moulded rubber toys were about 5 inches high, with a very loud squeak and were packed in polybags. The header cards read ‘Bengo and His Friends by Tim. Seen by Millions on TV’. These toys were copyrighted ‘Cooper Features 1958’, and were ‘made in Great Britain’. Extremely difficult to find nowadays, these are something for Bengo collectors to keep an eye out for, but no doubt the majority soon perished after being chewed by infants! Recently I came across a charming badge featuring the head of Bengo, made from gold-coloured plastic. It was labelled, ‘Bengo Club Woman’s Illustrated’, and I would guess that it dates from the late 1950s/early 1960s. If any one can throw light on this badge – I assume there was a club for children formed within the magazine – I’d be intrigued to hear. Bengo was popular in book form, too, including a colourful series of Rag books made by Dean’s Rag Book Company. These ‘Baby Safe Books’, dating from the 1950s/60s, were advertised as ‘hygienic and washable’ and the brief text was in a hand-written format. He also appeared in one of Purnell’s ‘Twirly Books’ series, which featured books based on favourite television characters of the time. The Bengo story was ‘Bengo Visits the Circus’, a simple adventure which featured a turning dial giving the effect of movement. Other Purnell books included ‘Bengo’s Story and Play Book’ from 1963. Bengo books add another dimension to a collection of items featuring the charming Boxer puppy. Blue Peter later incorporated Bengo’s adventures into their programme, and he appeared as a strip cartoon in their annuals. Tim was also responsible for ‘Bleep and Booster’, a surrealist-style series of adventures featuring a space-boy and an earthling, and which is still affectionately remembered by legions of fans. Many people didn’t realise that Tim was also an accomplished sculptor, and were pleasantly surprised when he created a memorial bronze head of the Blue Peter dog, Petra, which was placed in the famed Blue Peter gardens. His most famous sculpture is the massive bronze of Guy the gorilla, erected in 1983 at London Zoo, which is invariably being hugged by small children whenever I visit! Tim’s other works include a bust of Sir Francis Chichester which is displayed on the ‘Gypsy Moth’, a sculpture of Sir Malcolm Sergeant which can be seen by the entrance to the Albert Hall; and a bust of Sir Bernard Russell. He also produced delightful paintings, and worked on cartoons for several publications. Bengo seems to be finding more and more fans, even amongst those who are too young to remember his television appearances, and there have been rumours of an animated series being made. William Timyn died in 1990, but through china figurines, puppets, toys and books, his delightful creation of a sweet-faced boxer puppy lives on. Request from Susan Brewer If you have any Bengo collectables which I haven’t mentioned, please could you let me know? I am trying to compile a Bengo list. Many thanks. Susan Brewer. You can contact Sue through Twitter @bunnypussflunge Star Wars Revenge of the Sith Collectables Star Wars Revenge of the Sith Collectables With the sixth Star Wars Two for the Price of One! Changeable Dolls We all love a bargain, so it`s a bonus when one doll suddenly becomes two! It`s Handkerchief Vases I ought to say ‘bless you’. Not only for belated New Year felicitations, We are not the only ones who celebrate Christmas – dolls do, too! 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__label__wiki	0.759779	0.759779	USS Yorktown (CV-5) Makes Repairs USS Yorktown (CV-5) stopped and making repairs after three bomb hits from Aichi D3A Type 99 (Allied code name "Val") dive bombers scored three hits on June 4, 1942. At 1420 Hours, three bombs hit the ship. One D3A exploded just as her bomb dropped, the bomb tumbling into the flight deck, causing casualties to the crews of the 1.1-inch (28-millimeter) antiaircraft guns and sending hot fragments into the fueled and armed Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers on the hangar deck. The sprinklers were tripped and prevented the planes from exploding. The second bomb hit the smokestack, extinguishing all but number one boiler and damaging five of them; her men stayed at their posts, despite the toxic fumes building up in the heat. The third bomb pierced the starboard flight deck at number one elevator and exploded in the rag storage space, near the forward gasoline storage. The system was flooded with carbon dioxide, which prevented a catastrophic explosion. By 1440, Yorktown was dead in the water. It took an hour to fix the boilers and by 1550 she could make twenty knots (37 kilometers/hour). The fires were under control, repairs were effected to the flight deck and she began to fuel planes for takeoff. At 1600 the Nakajima B5N2 (Allied code name Kate) torpedo planes began to attack. Yorktown launched ten fighters, most with only 23 gallons (87 liters) of gasoline. The Combat Air Patrol downed three; despite a heavy antiaircraft barrage, two torpedoes struck Yorktown, stopping her once more. The returning Kates reported that they had attacked a different carrier; Rear Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi believed the odds were now one carrier for each side. Actually, USS Enterprise (CV-6) and USS Hornet (CV-8) were preparing an attack on IJN Hiryu, the last Japanese carrier. United States Naval Historical C USS Yorktown (CV-5) USS Yorktown IJN Kaga USS Yorktown (CV-5) During Builder's Trials IJN Soryu IJN Hiryu IJN Akagi Chance-Vought SB2U-3 Vindicator Imperial Japanese Navy Lieutenant Michio Kobayashi Imperial Japanese Navy Lieutenant Joichi Tomonaga Wounded Yorktown Crewman Transferred Via Breeches Buoy B-17E Flying Fortress Attacks IJN Hiryu	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14127
__label__cc	0.651973	0.348027	Home / culture / Named best Directors for the past 25 years Named best Directors for the past 25 years 07.02.2017 culture 173 Views A recognized leader Richard Linklater, known for the films “Boyhood” and “Before the dawn”. The published rating of top 100 Directors in the last 25 years. The list was headed by Richard Linklater, known for the films “Boyhood” and “Before the dawn”. The second position was taken by Mike Lee, who directed the film “William Turner”, “Secrets and lies”. And locked the three leaders of Jafar Panahi, known for his works Taxi (2015), “Offside” and “Crimson gold.” See also: Named vegetable that helps protect the body from aging Also in the top ten were included Jean-Pierre Dardenne, brothers Ethan and Joel Coen, Hirokazu Koreeda, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Pedro almodóvar and Werner Herzog. According to the publication, the rankings are based on reviews by the American critics, and mostly about American movies. Women Directors in the top 10 were not included. See also: Iryna Bilyk surprised fans with a rejuvenated face Tags directors named years Самый прочный ламинат для пола на основе камня Где найти новые знакомства Gogetlinks – День Рождения https://blog.gogetlinks.net/news_ggl/10-let-gogetlinks-konkurs-prizy-pozdravlenija/ Я люблю Gogetlinks, потому что это очень крутая биржа для покупки ссылочной массы за …	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14130
__label__wiki	0.876287	0.876287	Gordon in the morning: Thank you for the Roses I think it's fair to say that - unlike most of the things he writes - Gordon Smart's excitement at the Stone Roses reunion seems to be genuine. He has had to be a little, uh, creative with his own part in events though: In April, Bizarre revealed how Ian and John had buried the hatchet at Mani's mum's funeral. A barman at the pub where the wake was held asked for a picture of the boys when they were all back together. Word then spread like wildfire around Manchester that peace had broken out. It was a sensitive time for Primal Scream bassist Mani, who was grieving for his mum, and he kicked off about any suggestions of a reunion being premature. You'll note that Gordon plays down what Mani actually said: "I'm disgusted that my personal grief has been invaded and hijacked by these nonsensical stories," he told the NME, referring to the meeting of Brown and Squire at his mother's funeral. "Two old friends meeting up after 15 years to pay their respects to my mother does not constitute the reformation of the Stone Roses. Please fuck off and leave it alone. It isn't true and isn't happening." It's also interesting that Gordon is so desperate to be in some way 'first' with the story that he risks reminding us all of his oafish intrusion into someone's grief. Even something that he clearly loves dearly he treated like shit. More from No Rock on gordon smart, mani, reunions, stone roses, the sun Moore and Gordon split Never nice to hear of the end of a marriage, especially one that's lasted 27 years, but Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore have announced their separation. Besides the personal sadness, there's also a bit of a cloud over the long-term future of Sonic Youth between the lines of the statement from Matador: "Musicians Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, married in 1984, are announcing they have separated. Sonic Youth, with both Kim and Thurston involved, will proceed with its South American tour dates in November. Plans beyond that tour are uncertain. The couple has requested respect for their personal privacy and does not wish to issue further comment." I suspect those South American dates will give an indication of if this is a 'still friends, still working together' split, or 'contractually obligations can't stop us throwing guitars at each others' heads' one. More from No Rock on kim gordon, marriage, sonic youth, splits, thurston moore The Stone Roses reform, says Clash Clash magazine claims the Stone Roses are reuniting next year: Clash has learned that there is to be a major announcement next week regarding the four original members of Manchester’s indie legends The Stone Roses. Though they said it would never happen, Clash sources reveal a renowned promoter has finally persuaded the tenacious individuals to put their differences aside and reunite for 2012. Of course, if we can raise enough money to put on a Sea Horses reunion, we might still be able to stop this bloody awful idea from happening. Otherwise, get ready to have your memories crapped all over. More from No Rock on clash [magazine], reunions, stone roses Fred Durst: The Bill Cosby of our days The sudden resurgence of comedy on US Network television has created a crisis, as there aren't enough funny people to go round. Things are so bad CBS is even toying with giving Fred Durst a sitcom. Yes, Fred Durst. How do you take a man who is only ever unintentionally hilarious and make a sitcom from him? In the half-hour project, currently known as "Douchebag", Durst will star as a "rock legend" trying to juggle his family and his famous-person lifestyle. I suppose at least he's not doing the usual thing and just playing himself then, although in this case that might be more appealing. A half hour about an elderly bloke who dresses like he's 13 and hasn't noticed that he's not even a famous name in his own genre any more could have legs. Otherwise, isn't this just the ill-fated Harry Enfield adaptation of Private Eye's Celeb strip, but without even the saving grace of Harry Enfield? More from No Rock on cbs, fred durst, sitcom Never mind the new iPhone... The Enter Shikari tour tickets are going on sale this morning. Edinburgh Corn Exchange (March 17) Hull University (18) O2 Apollo Manchester (19) Wolverhampton Civic Hall (20) Plymouth Pavilions (22) HMV Hammersmith Apollo (23) More from No Rock on enter shikari, tour dates Noel Gallagher: The showman speaks Given that you're going to hear the Southern Fried Birds, I suppose nobody going to see Noel Gallagher's solo shows would be expecting to be entertained, but Noel is keen to stress just how dull the events will be: He told BBC Radio 2: "I've got nothing to say to these people who are coming to see me apart from this song is called... I'm not really into audience participation. I wouldn't come down and look down at your computer while you're at work. "They're here to listen to the music. You clap, I sing, good night, the end." I guess the discovery that Noel Gallagher has nothing to say beyond the name of the songs shouldn't come as a surprise - his interviews are mostly acres of space dedicated to a man with nothing to say. But how curious that he equates playing the songs he supposedly loves as being like doing a simple data-entry task. Perhaps if he really feels that way, he could just boil it down a little further: you buy a ticket to a Noel Gallagher gig, and instead of having to go and look at him - for who watches a person at work in other circumstances? - you just get a report of how well the songs were played sent to you by email the following day. More from No Rock on noel gallagher, oasis, solo careers Gordon in the morning: Pushing Pixie I don't suppose anyone would object much to a marketing message for Pixie Lott's range of clothes being disguised as a news story on Gordon's pages, had it been disguised as a news story: That’s a Lott of clothes now, Pixie PIXIE Lott has released so many Lipsy clothing ranges, it's easy to forget she's a singer. Here she is modelling two new designs for the store. It's a wonder she had time for upcoming second album Young Foolish Happy. Hope she turns her hand to designing lingerie... Now, obviously, it would be wonderful if she got a job stocking shelves of a branch of Peacocks and couldn't get time off to make any more records, but why didn't Gordon just go the full distance and merely list available sizes, prices and colours? Elsewhere in The Sun, there's a straight-faced article which tries to float the idea that Gary Barlow is some sort of sex symbol, apparently not even noticing that his "beard" appears to be printed onto a sheet of plastic and attached to his chops. More from No Rock on fashion, gary barlow, gordon smart, pixie lott, the sun, x factor Embed and breakfast man: Fanfarlo This has been pushed onto the YouTube: a taste of Fanfarlo's soon-coming album: More from No Rock on fanfarlo, new releases, video Big Boi stays out of jail To the disappointment of many, Florida prison inmates aren't going to get to use the "so why do they call you Big Boi" line, at least not now: He's cut a deal to keep himself out of jail. Mr. Boi had been arrested in August after getting off a cruise ship with various bits of drugs about his person. Frankly, we're bemused why anyone who had a bunch of drugs would have any left by the time they reached the end of a cruise. More from No Rock on big boi, drugs, florida, sentencing GaGa GooGoo No-No Lady GaGa has moved a step closer to crushing all the joy and wonder out of the world by running to the courts to have Lady Goo-Goo injuncted. Goo-Goo is a parody of GaGa produced as part of the Moshi Monsters world; there's a video and were plans for a parody single, Peppy-razi. But that's all stopped now: Lady Gaga's injunction bans the company from "promoting, advertising, selling, distributing or otherwise making available to the public The Moshi Dance or any musical work or video that purports to be performed by a character by the name of Lady Goo Goo, or that otherwise uses the name Lady Goo Goo or any variant thereon". GaGa already has form for this po-faced attempt to shut down parody: Weird Al Jankovich had to shame her in public in order to get Perform This Way out. There's a slim argument that the person who put all the work coming up with the ideas that go into making Lady GaGa should have a say over what is done with those ideas, of course. But up until now Madonna has remained pretty relaxed about what GaGa is doing with them. More from No Rock on lady gaga, lady googoo, lawsuits, moshi monsters, po-faced fun-crushing Gordon in the morning: Simon Cowell goes to the movies The story Simon Cowell tells about why he doesn't go to the pictures tells us a lot about Cowell's self-image: The last straw came while watching Hugh play a washed-up Eighties singer in the 2007 romantic comedy Music And Lyrics. He said: "The last time I went to the cinema publicly was for a movie where Hugh Grant was a failing singer songwriter." To be fair, I think a lot of people saw Music And Lyrics and emerged grimly pledging that they would never, ever go to a cinema again. I think a few people in County Durham even put their own eyes out to make sure they never saw another film, even by accident. But Cowell has different reasons for not going: "Some people recognised me and every time his character sang a song in the movie, everyone turned around to look at me. "I've never been so embarrassed in all my life. "It was terrible, they looked at me as if I was going to say 'That was crap.' I was so embarrassed I had to get out of there." Maybe this really did happen, but I can't help noticing it sounds more like a paranoiac talking - "I just felt everyone was turning at me." Maybe Cowell was muttering "oh, no, another song! I really hope people don't expect me to give an OPINION! Like I do on television" loudly through the film, which would explain why people kept turning to stare at him and certainly fit with someone telling this story four years later. But even if it is true, why would that stop you from going to the cinema? Couldn't you just choose movies that don't feature crappy songwriting? Is he afraid that the crowd at Dolphin Tale would be constantly nudging him and asking for an opinion on the feasibility of a prosthetic tail. More from the X Factor-Movies axis as Gordon types up the minutes from Noel Gallagher's appearance on Christian O'Connell's Absolute breakfast show: Noel Gallagher has spotted some similarities between Gary Barlow's judging style and Ernst Stavro Blofeld — one of 007's most famous adversaries. He said: "Gary's sitting sideways a lot. Just like some James Bond baddie, isn't he? Where he kind of swivels round, 'Ah, yes, you're just not good enough'. "Gary's all right, I've met him a few times, he's a good lad." Yes, Noel Gallagher now has so little to say he's reduced to chatting about the X Factor. It's lucky for Christian; if he'd booked Noel a couple of weeks ago he'd have had three hours about how it unseasonably warm it is and what Noel's gardener had reported about effects on the fruit bushes. More from No Rock on absolute radio, christian o'connell, gordon smart, hugh grant, james bond, movies, noel gallagher, simon cowell, the sun, x factor Dan Treacy seriously ill Horrible news this evening, as Dan Treacy of the Television Personalities is in a medically induced coma following surgery to remove a blood clot on his brain. NME reports: A statement released by Television Personalities members TexasBob Juarez, Mike Stone and Arnau Obiols said: The band is very much concerned for our dear friend and Brother Daniel at this time, and we are all praying for a recovery. Police are apparently investigating how Treacy got his injury. The world at large; well, we just have to cross our fingers and think good thoughts. More from No Rock on dan treacy, rock sick list, television personalities Bananarama: Where did you get your crazy name? Talking of CB-TV, here's a small treat for a Wednesday morning - Bananarama getting a grilling (of the light, flash variety) from "young journalists" shepherded by Anneka Rice: More from No Rock on anneka rice, bananarama, cb tv channel 14, childrens television, interviews, video Unhealthy Qriocity Sony has had yet another security breach of its Playstation and Qriocity network. Who's looking after security at Sony? Did they hire the guy who used to try and keep Jim Sweeney and Steve Steen out the studios at the start of CB TV? More from No Rock on hacked, qriocity, sony Wishing On A Star. Wishing it wouldn't happen. This year, rather than just donating, say, the advert take from one of the weekends, the X Factor charity effort will destroy this song: More from No Rock on charity, cover versions, rose royce, x factor Gordon in the morning: GaGa shock tank running on empty Oh, Gordon tries his hardest with the latest Lady GaGa photos, but like the rest of us, he's trying to stifle a yawn: GRUESOME Lady Gaga sports S&M headwear in her latest kinky video. Oh, S&M again? That's nice dear. The provocative chart-topper is seen wearing a number of different gags in the arty black and white footage How terribly shocking. You've certainly shifted our perceptions of... well, whatever it was you were trying to shift. Well done, Lady. Her striking features are also concealed entirely under a series of masks. Masks? That must have been so much fun. Do pass the ketchup, dear. One is made of latex with just small holes perforated in it to allow breathing. Is there much more of this? Another has nails protruding from it. Sorry, I was just checking emails... did you say nails? Fancy. She's also seen clutching a cigarette while wearing a gas mask. That reminds me - did anyone else know that there's a fanpage for one-note Grumbleweeds character Wilf 'Gasmask' Grimshaw on Facebook? Apparently all this is to celebrate her fans, and not a desperate attempt to try and wring a little more ho-hum surprise out of an act which relies more and more on rummaging in the bargain bin of a backstreet sex shop in the hope that nobody else has ever worn fetish clothing. How do you feel about the fans, GaGa? "They write the history of this kingdom and I am their devoted jester." Jesters? Those were the ones who tried to disguise the thinness of their act by wearing stupid clothes and waving meat products on sticks, weren't they? Bookmarks - Internet stuff: Rolling Stone If you've looked at Rolling Stone recently - and it would probably have had a woman in her pants on the cover - you might have wondered just when it started to be so hypersexualised. So did Mary Nell Trautner and Erin Hatton; so they've produced a graph which shows that - perhaps unsurprisingly - women started to appear mostly in their bras during the 1990s. Sociological Images has the graph and commentary. More from No Rock on rolling stone, sex Mikey Welsh: curious This tweet from Mikey Welsh is pretty odd: dreamt i died in chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). need to write my will today. followed by this one: @JVittitow correction - the weekend after next Obviously, that's more-or-less what happened. So either it's a Tweet of a death foretold, or else someone is gaming Twitter in a strange and unpleasant way. More from No Rock on mikey welsh, twitter Gordon in the morning: Precocious child You know the only thing worse than a precocious child? An adult who, despite their successes as an adult, feels the need to claim they were a precocious child. What's that, Jessie J: She said: "I've been told that my first words were 'Jam hot... you're listening to the girl from the big bad city.' My sisters used to sing it to me constantly when I was little." Really, Miss J? Your first words weren't a cautious 'mama' or 'horsey', but instead a fully-formed sentence. Jessie went on to reveal that mother says she was a dancer before she could walk. Mm-hmm, she says she could sing long before she could walk. More from No Rock on gordon smart, jessie j, the sun One: Whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not There's been a bit of squawking over the refusal of Clearcast to clear Bono and co's One advert to be shown on the television. Clearcast have explained they had no choice: We have been unable to clear this ad to date as we believe it is currently in breach of Rule 7 of the BCAP Code, which is itself based on the provisions of Section 321 of the Communications Act 2003. This imposes a blanket prohibition on “political” advertising on television and it is OFCOM who have retained responsibility for applying these rules. If an advertiser or an ad appears to be in breach of these provisions, neither Clearcast nor BCAP have any discretion in the matter of approval. These rules ensure that ads aren’t being broadcast by bodies whose objects are wholly or mainly political. ONE appears to be caught by this rule as they state that part of their raison d’être is to pressure political leaders. It also appears that a number of the claims are made in the version of the ad that we have seen are directed towards a political end, which is again against the rules. This ad is not “banned”; we are in discussions with ONE to see if there is any way that the apparent legal hurdles can be overcome and the ad cleared. One are fuming at this, insisting that it isn't fair: He said: "ONE is not a political party and we have no political affiliation." You know, that's funny, because last year when people got upset that One raised sums of money, very little of which went directly to the people it was supposed to be helping, the One campaign spoke to everyone like we were stupid children saying 'of course we don't help people directly, because we're a political organisation: The whole point of ONE is to combat extreme poverty by raising awareness and changing government policy - it has never been to directly fund charity projects in developing countries, work which is done well by other NGOs. ONE was created by philanthropists to tackle the structural policy issues such as debt, trade, and access to health care and other resources which make it hard to break out of extreme poverty. As other examples of our work, ONE helped successfully press for debt relief for Haiti after the devastating earthquake there and we recently played an important role in the passage of a law in the US requiring oil companies to report any payments to government officials - an effort to end backhanded deals between energy companies and corrupt politicians that hurt people in poor countries. When it's accused of spending cash on lobbying, One bristles and snaps "of course, we're a political organisation"; when told they can't have an advert because they're political, they then try and deny that they're political. Although not very well, as Adrian Lovett, the European director, says shortly after denying they're political: [O]ur ad highlights the desperate plight of 750,000 people in east Africa who the UN warns could die before the end of the year. Unless we keep the spotlight on this crisis and the need for urgent action, those people will be forgotten. Who can object to that message? Which is refreshingly simple minded: we're not political, we just have a political message, but it's a good one so can't we just have an advert. I'm sure the BNP think that no right-thinking person could object to their aims and objectionable objectives, so on the same basis, would One want their ads to be aired? How about a counterpoint to the One campaign - let's say a None campaign - which wanted airtime to argue that "it's Africa's problem, why should European money solve it?" Providing they weren't an actual party and just really believed in their message, would One support their ads popping up during Phil Spencer's new property show? There's a sense here that the One campaign is more about the rich and the powerful wanting to be seen to be doing good, and the problem is that Clearcast is stopping Nescafe shill George Clooney and suitcase salesman from Bono from bolstering their credentials by showing their caring side. Still, the upside is that One can spend the money they're saving in TV time by buying some more leather covered Moleskin notebooks to give to journalists. More from No Rock on advertising, bono, one campaign Janice Long mugged for her access Horrible news tucked into the Mail today about Janice Long being mugged for her Echo And The Bunnymen backstage pass outside the BBC. It happened at the end of September; a 51 year-old woman is due to appear in court in December. More from No Rock on crime, echo and the bunnymen, janice long, mugging DRM doesn't work, says study It's folk wisdom that DRM is counterproductive - if you make a product that you charge for, and is less useful than a free version, you're going to harm your sales. Now, some research appears to back it up. TorrentFreak reports: Researchers from Rice and Duke University looked into the effect of digital restrictions on music piracy. In their paper “Music Downloads and the Flip Side of Digital Rights Management Protection” they conclude that DRM doesn’t prevent piracy at all. Quite the opposite. “Only the legal users pay the price and suffer from the restrictions. Illegal users are not affected because the pirated product does not have DRM restrictions,” the researchers write in their report. Ditching DRM and other restrictions would actually reduce piracy according to the analytical model developed by the researchers. “In many cases, DRM restrictions prevent legal users from doing something as normal as making backup copies of their music. Because of these inconveniences, some consumers choose to pirate,” DinahVernik, assistant professor of marketing at Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business says. It's worth remembering that the research hasn't yet been published, so it's not clear how wide-ranging the investigation was. More from No Rock on drm, duke university, research Dappy arrested The law will churn through the allegations that Dappy assaulted his girlfriend, possibly getting to the truth. For the time being, though, let's just look at the opening to the Daily Mail story: N Dubz singer Dappy was yesterday arrested on suspicion of assaulting his girlfriend. The cousin of X Factor judge Tulisa Contostlavos was reportedly held for questioning after police were called out to the home of his girlfriend's mother. He had a solo number one a couple of weeks ago, but he's really famous for being related to a judge on the X Factor. That might tell you something about the state of the music industry. More from No Rock on crime, dappy, domestic violence, n-dubz, tulisa contostavlos, x factor Indieobit: Mikey Welsh Mikey Welsh, former Weezer bassist, has died, according to a post on his Facebook wall: We are deeply saddened to announce that Mikey Welsh passed away unexpectedly today. He will forever be remembered as an amazing father, artist, and friend. May he rest in peace. Born in New York in 1971, it was in Boston that Welsh thrived as a musician. He was a spine to a number of Boston scene acts, gaining the experience which would see him join first Juliana Hatfield's touring band, and then The Rivers Cuomo Band. When Matt Sharp quit Weezer in 1998, Welsh made the move from Cuomo's side-project to main band. He was with Weezer for four years - although the band spent some of that time on hiatus - and appeared on the album The Green Album. He left in mysterious circumstances in 2001, a mystery finally cleared up in an interview with now-defunct music website Rock Salt Plum: Basically, a lifetime of doing drugs and being undiagnosed as having Bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and borderline personality disorder finally caught up with me when I was 30 years old. At the beginning of a 3-month European tour with Weezer, I started slowly falling apart. Without getting too graphic, by the time the tour was winding up, my weight had gone down to about 140lbs (I'm 6'2") and mentally completely wiped out. When I returned to the states, my family had made plans for me to see a psychiatrist in Boston. First though, we had to play a few dates around the U.S., and perform on The Tonite Show (which ended up being my last performance with Weezer). By the time I got to Boston, I was having a complete nervous breakdown. It ended with a severe suicide attempt (an overdose). I was found and rushed to the hospital where I had come to within minutes of my heart completely stopping. I was in a coma for a few days, and woke up in a lockdown psychiatric ward. There was a happy ending, though - Welsh left music behind to start a second career as a visual artist, in which he enjoyed some success. He would even return to play bass with Weezer a couple of times, guesting on a couple of tracks during gigs in Vermont and New York. Mikey Welsh died in Vermont. He was 40. More from No Rock on art, juliana hatfield, mikey welsh, obit, obituary, rivers cuomo, weezer We7 nearly makes a million It's difficult to know exactly what the We7 financial results are telling us. There's some good news: turnover trebled, to £965,374. There's some bad news: losses were £2.97million. There's some good news, in that the gap between spending and income has never been so small. There's some disconcerting news, in that We7 must have known where they were before launching the not-universally-loved refocusing. Although they're still running at a loss, there is some cash behind them: We7 secured £3.6m in funding in May this year from investors, including Qualcomm Ventures and Pentech Ventures, with a further £2.1m to be paid in the final quarter of this year. It also won a government grant worth £1.8m for this year and 2012. There's a lot of goodwill there, but it's now become a crazy game-show, trying to plug the losses before the cash runs out. Let's hope they make it. More from No Rock on financial results, we7 The most-read stories from across the archive this week: 1. Kylie Minogue proud of her knickers 2. Tatu can't understand why everyone thinks they're gay 3. Take That split again 4. R Kelly's unpleasant video alright for a court outing 5. MOBOs 2011 6. One Direction fans distraught as tickets go on sale 120 seconds early 7. Wayne Rooney likes Grease, makes him a girl, claims The Sun 8. Ronan Keating upset by Thom Yorke 9. AC/DC - iTunes holdouts 10. RIP: Bert Jansch (The Bert Jansch post was supposed to have been expanded into a full obituary, but our cat ran away and it didn't happen.) These were this week's interesting new releases: Deus - Keep You Close Download Keep You Close Feist - Metals Download Metals Hank Williams - The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams Download Lost Notebooks "Bonnie" "Prince" "Billy" - Wolfroy Goes To Town Download Wolfroy Goes To Town Pop Will Eat Itself - New Noise Designed By A Sadist Download New Noise Designed By A Sadist Lights - Siberia Download Siberia	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14132
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Game content and materials are trademarks and copyrights of their respective publisher and its licensors. The necessary rules to be observed in considering the state of man before the fall being laid down, the point first considered is the creation of the body, and the lesson taught by its being formed out of the earth, and made. This banner text can have markup. A man entangled in the world is so taken up with secular concerns, that he can no more mind the things above—than an elephant can fly in the air! And even such as have grace in them—when their affections are beslimed with earth, they find themselves much indisposed to meditation and prayer; it is like swimming. Just a tip: DO NOT wear a certain armor set if you go with the blindfold challenge, since the blindfold is considered a helmet. Winner of GameSpot’s “ PC Game of The Year 2014 ”. The problem is, you don't have an icon to know who has side quests and who doesn't. 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No Cross No Crown is a major work of Penn, written while imprisoned in the Tower of London for writing a pamphlet which challenged the prevailing established Anglican Church views; they claimed he denied the divinity of Christ and imprisoned him for heresy. This Doctrine of Sin Nature or Original Sin has become an indispensable article of faith to the modern Church, but it has been, and still is, a refuge and excuse for sin and sinning, an unbearable "yoke of bondage" (Galatians 5:1), and an impediment to any attempt to live apart from sin. The level of customization possible in Divinity: Original Sin 2 is staggering, whether you want to focus on a smooth-talking teleporter with a ton of skills, an undead soldier who knocks down all enemies, an archer who summons corpses, or nearly anything else you can imagine. Worm Tremor: big aoe that apply Entangled for 2 turns but deal small damage, very useful to stop enemy from advancing on you or prevent them from escaping the chokepoint. Check out how to douse the hellfire on The Historian in Divinity: The Original Sin 2. Combining. has robbed us of ‘Free will’ in this sense, of ‘the ability to choose. The Christian separation of matter and spirit, of the dynamism of life and the realm of the spirit, of natural grace and supernatural grace, has really castrated nature…The true spirituality, which would have come from the union of matter and spirit, has been killed. Furthermore, there are several hybrid classes that cross over between two of these groups. Divinity: Original Sin 2 [official site] has just landed on Kickstarter but we’ve already played an early build. Divinity Original Sin 2 Definitive Edition arrived a little over a 2 weeks ago, and with it came some interesting changes to the game. To start this quest you should find a salamander named Xiuh. The Bible is our textbook, and it places a high value on doctrine. So that suggests at least what his cousins and extended family may have believed. 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Fights can be grueling, quests confusing and item management is a beast all of it's own. home Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Similar poison abilities with the Mole but more focused on entangled abilities instead of earth/oil • MUST REMOVE. Worm Tremor Requirements. Free Agency Section 6. One of the hardest parts about making a Build in Divinity: Original Sin 2 is getting your Abilities distribution correct. In Divinity: Original Sin 2, there are several Companion characters that players can meet who can be recruited as Party Members. In Divinity: Original Sin 2, players can find a set of powerful armor set called Tyrant’s armor during a quest titled Artefacts of the Tyrant. since original sin. Remove poison surfaces and clouds. Divinity: Original Sin 2, is now available in its full glory, DRM-free on GOG. Divinity: Original Sin is one of my favourite games of recent years. Incarnate's Epidemic of Fire that is granted by Necrofire Infusion now correctly costs 2. Basic Christian Doctrine 1 1. , that which is divine" (Vincent p. Peyton, together with a diverse group of companions, was charged with answering a perplexing question in a five-day seminar held in Iceland. Divinity: Original Sin II Soundtrack - Duration: 1:53:17. If you want to learn how to remove the Collar, you should check out the walkthrough for "The Collar" quest. The Collar quest involves competing in an underground combat trial. Thievery is perhaps the best way to quickly develop your team in Divinity. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews Entangled What cures Entangled status? < >. One of the easiest things to overlook in Divinity Original Sin 2 is the value of items. Online shopping from a great selection at Movies & TV Store. Status Effects. choke the seed of the Word. Master deep, tactical combat. This page is dedicated to giving you all the information you'll need to beat Divinity: Original Sin 2. Oct 20, 2013 · “For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified” (Rom. At the moment I only have time to read stuff like this and go ‘I have no time to try any of this’, but like your other guild dogs stuff it is noted so I can come back to it later. His redeeming sacrifice dissolved the connection between our sin and our liability to punishment on account of it. Sep 26, 2017 · How To Earn Cash Fast \| Easy Gold Guide. Divinity Original Sin 2 Wiki has all information on weapons, armor, quests, skills, abilities, maps, crafting, guides and walkthroughs. Sep 18, 2017 · Talk to her, and you can have her remove all Source collars in the party. The first two can be found in the first Act: On the Lady Vengeance at the end of act 1 during the Lady O' War quest in the room with the necromancer NPC named Tarquin on a table. This is the first of 50 studies on Basic Christian Doctrine. The Cursed Revenants. Come, ye disconsolate, where’er ye languish, Come to the mercy seat, fervently kneel. His redeeming sacrifice dissolved the connection between our sin and our liability to punishment on account of it. choke the seed of the Word. 0 unless otherwise noted. To do so, in the Steam library, right click on Divinity: Original Sin 2 and select Properties, then switch to the Betas tab and select 'ea_version_X' from the dropdown list (the highest value of X will be the most recent previous version. Divinity: Original Sin 2 includes some big changes to the series in terms of races, classes, spells, and stats. 6:7), becoming a Christian is coming to a knowledge of truth (1 Tim. Divinity: Original Sin is a fantasy role-playing video game developed by Larian Studios. Game content and materials are trademarks and copyrights of their respective publisher and its licensors. Speaking in Forked Tongues, quest walkthrough and hints. Crab Helmet; Where to find / Location. 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__label__wiki	0.551915	0.551915	Malaria, helminths and malnutrition: a cross-sectional survey of school children in the South-Tongu district of Ghana Patrick Ferdinand Ayeh-Kumi1, Kantanka Addo-Osafo2, Simon Kwaku Attah2, Patience Borkor Tetteh-Quarcoo2, Noah Obeng-Nkrumah3, Georgina Awuah-Mensah3, Harriet Naa Afia Abbey3, Akua Forson3, Momodou Cham4, Listowell Asare4, Kwabena Obeng Duedu5 & Richard Harry Asmah1 As part of malaria characterization study in the South-Tongu district of Ghana, the current study was conducted to explore relationships between malaria, schistosomiasis, soil transmitted helminths and malnutrition in riparian community settings that had hitherto encountered episodes of mass deworming exercises. School-age children were enrolled in a cross-sectional study from April through July 2012. Stool and urine samples were examined respectively for helminths and Schistosoma haematobium. Blood samples were analyzed for malaria parasites and haemoglobin (Hb) concentrations, respectively. Anthropometric indices were measured. Relationships were determined using generalized linear models. The results show low numbers of asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum (9.2 %, n = 37/404) and S. haematobium (2.5 %, n = 10/404) infections. The associations between significance terms in the multivariate analysis for P. falciparum infections were further assessed to test the significance of the product terms directly i.e., age in years [adjusted odds ratio (AOR), 3.1; 95 % confidence interval (CI) 1.1–5.6], Hb concentration (AOR = 0.71; 95 % CI 0.42–2.3), and stunted malnutrition (AOR, 8.72; 95 % CI 4.8–25.1). The P. falciparum-associated decrease in mean Hb concentration was 2.82 g/dl (95 % CI 1.63–4.1 g/dl; P = 0.001) in stunted children, and 0.75 g/dl (95 % CI 1.59–0.085 g/dl; P = 0.076) in the non-stunted cohort. The anaemia-associated decrease in mean parasitaemia in stunted children was 3500 parasites/µl of blood (95 % CI 262.46–6737.54 parasites/µl of blood; P = 0.036), and in non-stunted children 2127 parasites/µl of blood (95 % CI −0.27 to 4.53; P = 0.085). Stunted malnutrition was the strongest predictor of S. haematobium infection (AOR = 11; 95 % CI 3.1–33.6) but significant associations as described for P. falciparum infections were absent. The population attributable risk of anaemia due to P. falciparum was 6.3 % (95 % CI 2.5–9.3), 0.9 % (95 % CI 0.4–2.3) for S. haematobium, and 12.5 % (95 % CI 9.11–19.52) for stunted malnutrition. Plasmodium falciparum, S. haematobium, intestinal helminths and their co-infections were uncommon in our school-age children. Stunting exacerbated the extent to which malaria was associated with loss in Hb concentration. The South Tongu District is one of the 25 districts of the Volta region of Ghana drained by the Volta river and its tributaries [1]. In recent times, comprehensive initiatives with health education, personal hygiene instructions, and mass chemotherapy treatment in school-age children and high-risk adults have been emphasized in the Volta river basin [2–4]. There is the schistosomiasis control initiative Ghana (SCIG) which aims to implement an integrated national plan for sustainable control of schistosomiasis in Ghana [5]. There is also the West African international parasite control (WACIPAC) whose initiatives have included the institution of preventive measures on schistosomiasis and soil transmitted helminths [6]. Malaria is endemic in Ghana and represents a major cause of morbidity and mortality in children of school-going age. An accurate information on burden of malaria at the district level is requisite both to plan local parasitic control efforts and to measure the impact of such efforts especially in riparian communities [7–9]. But targeting the correct set of interventions to these major parasitic groups may not be done effectively without regard for nutritional status [2, 10]. Nutrition plays a major role in maintaining health; and malnutrition appears to generate vulnerability to a wide variety of diseases and general ill health. Whereas animal studies suggest that improved nutritional status is protective against malaria, consensus has yet to be reached regarding its effects in human populations [11]. More recent studies indicate either no evidence of benefit or some benefits resulting from nutritional adequacy [2, 10]. In this paper, we describe as our primary outcome, data from a district survey on school-age children (SAC) (6–13 years) regarding the prevalence of malaria, schistosomiasis, and intestinal helminths in riparian community settings that had hitherto encountered several episodes of preventive chemotherapy including mass deworming exercises; and explore relationships between such infections and nutritional inadequacies. Study area and population The study was conducted during the first annual rainy season (April through July) of 2012 in the South-Tongu district, an area with seasonal malaria in Volta region, Ghana [4, 12]. The study area comprises 594.75 km2 located on Latitude 5°58′37.2′′ and Longitude 0°38′49.2′′. Rainfall is bimodal with latter rains in September to November [13]. The main river draining the district is the Volta, which runs along its western border, but it is also drained by lakes, streams and lagoons in the southern sector of the district. Preliminary surveillance along the river bodies revealed lacustrine conditions favourable to mosquito breeding, growth of aquatic weeds and breeding of snails. Malaria, schistosomiasis, soil-transmitted helminths and onchocerciasis control programmes are active in this area [14, 15]. The district has the Comboni hospital which offers primary health care and diagnostic services. According to hospital records, malaria remains the number one cause of hospital admissions and child morbidity and mortality in the district, with the predominant parasite being Plasmodium falciparum. Malaria transmission occurs throughout the year with peaks during the two rainy seasons. The target population comprised school-age children (ages 6–13 years) without manifestations compatible with malaria in the past 14 days. Children on nutritional supplements were excluded. Four primary schools across the district namely Dabala Evangelical, Tefle Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Sogakope Cuniberto, and the Tsavanya district assembly basic in Agbakope were selected (Fig. 1). Children were selected using a 2-stage cluster sampling procedure. At the first sampling stage, four of seven district circuits in the study area were sampled systematically, with a sampling probability proportional to size, based on Ghana statistical service census data of 2009, as measured by the number of primary schools. At the second sampling stage, one primary school was randomly selected within each circuit. Since malaria and helminth infections detected by blood, urine and stool analysis were our focus of interest, this study was confined to children who could provide all study samples. Map of Ghana showing South-Tongu district (Study sites indicated with arrows). Tefle and Sogokope are to the eastern border of the district. Dabala and Agbakope occupy the western border of South-Tongu. All study regions are riparian communities Fieldwork took place from April to June of 2012. Parents and guardians were requested for assistance in provision of information. Interviews were conducted in the local dialect, Ewe, spoken by study participants. Data were abstracted through interviews using standardized questionnaires with the help of trained field workers (Additional file 1). Data was collected regarding the following: demographics (gender and age), malnutrition status (stunted, underweight, wasted), child’s knowledge of causes of malaria, helminth infections and schistosomiasis, deworming, availability of toileting facilities in household, sources of household water, child’s activity in any river and parent/guardian educational level. We also determined the household socio-economic status using proxy measures based on the World Bank asset scores for Ghana [16]. For each enrolee, anthropometric measurements including height and weight were determined. The anthropometric indices height-for-age (HA), weight-for-age (WA), weight-for-height (WH) were expressed as Z-scores using the WHO child growth standards [17, 18]. For all children, axillary temperature was measured, and inquiry was made if they had experienced fever in the previous 14 days. Sample collection and examinations Children were provided with plastic containers and requested to bring about 3 g of stool and 20 ml of urine at 10:00 a.m. in the morning. Stool samples were processed within 6 h of collection and examined microscopically within 1 h of preparation. They were examined for Schistosoma mansoni and intestinal helminths by wet mount for ova and larvae. The formol-ether concentration technique was used to confirm the presence of parasites in stool. Intensity of infection was assessed by egg count and expressed as mean eggs per gram of faeces (EPG). Ten millilitres of urine samples were examined for S. haematobium eggs using the nucleopore filtration method. The intensity of S. haematobium infections was calculated as the number of ova per 10 ml of urine. For haemoglobin (Hb) measurements and malaria testing, approximately 3 ml of blood samples were collected from each pupil. Thick blood smears were prepared, stained with Giemsa and examined microscopically for detection, identification and quantification of malaria parasites. Parasite densities were determined with absolute white blood cells (WBC) counts as a ratio of P. falciparum counts relative to 200 WBC in thick films. Hb concentrations were determined using the cyanmethaemoglobin method. Briefly, blood aliquots of 0.02mls were put into five milliliters of Drabkin’s solution to make a 1 in 250 dilution. The solutions were well mixed and incubated in the dark for 10 min before Hb estimations (g/dl) in a colorimeter at 540 nm wavelength. Quality control was performed by randomly selecting and microscopically re-examining 10 % of blood, urine and stool preparations by an experienced independent technician blinded to all previous results. Data from interviews and parasitological investigations were captured into Microsoft Excel database, and exported into Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS, version 16) for editing and statistical analyses. Missing data were excluded from analysis. Any anaemia was defined as Hb <12 g/dl; severe anaemia, Hb <7 g/dl; moderate anaemia, Hb 7 to <10 g/dl; and mild anaemia, Hb 10–11 g/dl. Based on positive samples only, infection intensities were calculated as parasites per microlitre of blood for P. falciparum, EPG of faeces for intestinal helminths, and eggs per 10 ml of urine for S. haematobium. Children were classified as stunted, underweight or wasted when their HA, WA or WH Z-scores were <−2 below the reference mean, respectively. A child was identified as being malnourished with a score of <−2 in 1 of the HA, WA, or WH assessment [17, 18]. Point estimates of statistical significance are indicated with two tailed P < 0.05. The proportion of anaemia cases attributable to malnutrition or to specific parasitic infections was estimated as population attributable risk percentages (PAR%) [19, 20]. Descriptive statistics (frequencies and cross-tabulations) were used to determine the prevalence of parasitic infections. For continuous variables, standard weighted-mean statistics using Student’s t test or one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to respectively estimate differences in two or more population means. Categorical data were compared across study parameters using Chi square or the Fisher’s exact test where appropriate. The Mantel–Haenszel Chi square was used to test for trends in linearity. Correlations were assessed, where appropriate, with Pearson coefficient (r) or Spearman’s rho (rs) and their coefficient of determination (r2 or r s 2 ). Univariate comparisons between study outcomes and covariates were computed with Chi square tests and unadjusted odds ratios (OR) at 95 % confidence interval (CI). From univariate analyses, variable with a P < 0.05 were analyzed in multivariate logistic regression models to identify independent risk factors. Predictive accuracy of the models was assessed by Hosmer and Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test with P > 0.05 indicating that the model predicts accurately on average. The area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve >0.7 was used to evaluate the discriminatory capability of models. Multiple linear regression was used to compare stunted and non-stunted children regarding their associations between malaria, hemoglobin concentration, anaemia, P. falciparum parasitaemia, and S. haematobium egg count. Effect size determination and possible interaction of the variables were computed with analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). Overall 591 SAC were available for sampling based on parents/guardians informed consent. One-hundred and eighty seven of these were excluded from the study. Reasons for exclusion included absence from school (n = 51), unwillingness to provide blood, urine and stool samples (n = 46) and the refusal of children to assent (n = 74). A total of 404 children including 198 girls and 206 boys in the south-Tongu district of Ghana were enrolled. The mean age of SAC was 8.2 years (range 6–13 years); and about 94 % had received antihelminthic drugs in the previous 3 months. Prevalence of infection, malnutrition and anaemia Table 1 summarizes the baseline characteristics of our study population. Of the total 404 children, the prevalence of asymptomatic malaria was 9.2 % (n = 37/404; 95 % CI 6.6–12.5)—P. falciparum accounted for all infections. Ten children (2.5 %; 95 % CI 1.2–5.4) harboured S. haematobium ova. None of the children was identified with intestinal helminths nor suffered from co-infections with multiple species or different parasites. About 22 % of the children were stunted with a mean HA Z score of −1.90 ± 1.23; whilst 21.5 % were underweight with a mean WH Z score of −0.88 ± 0.57. The prevalence of wasted children was 8.4 % with a mean WA Z score of −2.04 ± 0.9. About 295 (73.0 %) of the children suffered from anaemia—5.7 % (n = 17) of which were severe. Table 1 Baseline study outcomes Intensity of infections Among P. falciparum infected children, the mean parasitaemia was 4641 parasites/µl (95 % CI 1812–8973) of blood. About 24.3 % (n = 9) of the children had low P. falciparum parasitaemia <500 parasites/µl of blood and more than half (n = 22; 62 %) had moderate parasitaemia ranging between 500 and 10,000 parasites/µl of blood. A few participants (n = 5/37, 13.5 %) had high parasite count >10,000 parasites/µl of blood. Of the ten infected by S. haematobium, six had light infections (<50 ova per 10 ml urine) with a mean of 37 ± 12. Four children suffered heavy S. haematobium infections (>50 ova per 10 ml urine) with egg intensity of 103 ± 21. The mean ova count for S. haematobium infections was 63 ± 24. Univariate and multivariate analysis From Table 2, five factors were identified to be associated with P. falciparum infection: older age (11–13 years), being malnourished and stunted, use of repellents as protection against malaria, use of river as source of household water, child’s activity in river, travel in past 4 weeks, and high parent/guardian education. The same variables were significantly associated with S. haematobium infection, with the exception of recent travel. However, no anti-helminthic drug use in past 3 months was also significantly associated with S. haemtobium infection. Table 2 Characteristics of children in the South Tongu district and bivariate associations with P. falciparum and Schistosoma haematobium infections In adjusted models (Table 3), older age 11–13 years [adjusted odds ratio (AOR), 3.1; 95 % CI 1.1–5.6] and stunted malnutrition (AOR, 8.72; 95 % CI 4.8–25.1) were identified as independent risk factors P. falciparum infection. Also, a unit increase in Hb concentration was determined to be putatively protective against P. falciparum infection (AOR = 0.71; 95 % CI 0.42–2.3). Stunted malnutrition was the strongest predictor of S. haematobium infection (AOR = 11; 95 % CI 3.1–33.6). The frequency of a child’s activities per week in river was identified as an independent risk factor (AOR = 1.68 per one activity increase) for S. haematobium infection—with infected children engaging in river activities almost twice as frequent as those uninfected. Reported use of anti-helminthic drug in the past 3 months was found to be 87 % protective against S. haematobium infection. Table 3 Multivariate adjusted associations for predictors of P. falciparum and Schistosoma haematobium infections Trends in P. falciparum infections The associations between significant terms in the multivariate regression analysis for P. falciparum infections were further assessed to test the significance of the product terms directly i.e., age, Hb concentration and stunted malnutrition. Figure 2 shows the age-specific distribution of P. falciparum infections among all study children—the trend of infections declined with increasing age (X2 for trend, P = 0.036). When data was adjusted for stunting, the frequency of infections showed no tendency to increase or decrease with age (X2 for trend, P = 0.196). Meanwhile, a significant drift towards lower parasitaemia with increasing age was observed in non-stunted children (r = −0.816, r2 = 0.666, P = 0.014) (Fig. 2). The mean parasite density of P. falciparum also remained relatively unchanged with increasing age (r = −0.870, P = 0.837). Among the infected children, the stunted group showed higher (P < 0.001) mean parasitaemia level (3218 ± 1184 parasites/µl) than their non-stunted counterparts (2064 ± 1287 parasites/µl). We observed within the stunted cohort a significant correlation between Hb concentration and parasite density (r = −0.527; r2 = 0.278; P = 0.013); such association was also present in the non-stunted cohort albeit at a slower rate (r = −0.375; r2 = 0.128; P = 0.035) (Fig. 3). Age-specific distribution of P. falciparum infections in children with stunted and non-stunted malnutrition compared to mean parasitaemia. Pf, Plasmodium falciparum. For P. falciparum infections among all children, the trend of infections declines with increasing age (X2 for trend, P = 0.036); among non-stunted children, the trend of infections declines with increasing age (X2 for trend, P = 0.04); among stunted children, a zero linear trend observed with increasing age (X2 for trend, P = 0.196). For mean parasitaemia among all children, non-significant negative correlation with age (r = −0.650, r2 = 0.423, P = 0.081); among non-stunted children, significant drift towards lower parasitaemia of P. falciparum with increasing age (r = −0.816, r2 = 0.666, P = 0.014); among stunted children, P. falciparum parasitaemia relatively remained similar with increasing age (r = −0.087, P = 0.837) Haemoglobin versus P. falciparum parasitaemia in stunted and non-stunted children. Within the stunted cohort a significant correlation between haemoglobin concentration and parasite density (r = −0.527; r2 = 0.278; P = 0.013) was observed. A similar association was present in the non-stunted group albeit at a slower rate (r = −0.375; r2 = 0.128; P = 0.035) Associated effects of P. falciparum, Hb concentration and stunting Figure 4a compares stunted and non-stunted children regarding their association between malaria and Hb. The P. falciparum-associated decrease in mean Hb concentration was 2.82 g/dl (95 % CI 1.63–4.1 g/dl; P = 0.001) in stunted children, and 0.75 g/dl (95 % CI 1.59–0.085 g/dl; P = 0.076) in the non-stunted cohort. Of the P. falciparum infected children, 93.7 % (n = 15/16) of those stunted were anaemic whiles 90.4 % (n = 19/21) of the group without stunting suffered from anaemia. Among the stunted and non-stunted children, the anaemia-associated decrease in mean parasitaemia were 3500 parasites/µl of blood (95 % CI 262.46–6737.54 parasites/µl of blood; P = 0.0358) and 2127 parasites/µl of blood (95 % CI −0.27 to 4.53; P = 0.085) respectively (Fig. 4b). The PAR % of anaemia attributable to P. falciparum infection was 6.3 % (95 % CI 2.5–9.3), and 12.5 % (95 % CI 9.11–19.52) for stunted malnutrition. Comparisons of stunted and non-stunted children regarding the associated effect of a Plasmodium falciparum (P.f) on mean haemoglobin concentration. The P. falciparum-associated decrease in mean haemoglobin concentration was significant in stunted children; b anaemia on mean P. falciparum parasitaemia. Among stunted and non-stunted children, the anaemia-associated decrease in mean parasitaemia were respectively non-significant; c Schistosoma haematobium (S.h) on mean haemoglobin concentration. The S. haematobium-associated decrease in mean haemoglobin concentration was not significant in stunted and non-stunted children; d anaemia on mean S. haematobium infection intensity. There were no significant anaemia-associated increases in S. haematobium egg intensity in stunted or non-stunted children S. haematobium infections and associated effects The PAR % of anaemia attributable to S. haematobium infection was 0.9 % (95 % CI 0.4–2.3). When we compared the associated effect of S. haematobium infection and Hb concentration between the two cohorts, S. haematobium-associated decrease in mean Hb concentration was 0.6 g/l (95 % CI −158–1.358 g/l; P = 0.111) in stunted children; and 1.2 g/l (95 % CI −0.519–2.92 g/l; P = 0.170) in those without stunting (Fig. 4c). Similarly, there was no significant anaemia-associated increases in S. haematobium egg intensity in stunted or non-stunted children (Fig. 4d). Also no correlation was observed between S. haematobium egg intensity and Hb concentration (r = 0.2784; P = 0.117). The study showed low numbers of asymptomatic P. falciparum infections with largely low to moderate level parasitaemia. About half of the affected suffered from stunted malnutrition with a high proportion of moderate to severe anaemia. The prevalence of urinary schistosomiasis was 2.5 %, with low to high ova counts for S. haematobium—the principal manifestations were stunted malnutrition and moderate anaemia. For two reasons, our findings of low malaria levels deserve particular attention. First, P. falciparum accounted for all malaria cases reported here, and the level of infection using comparative methodology was lower than that reported for other malaria-affected children in Ghana [12, 21, 22], Tanzania [23] and in many other reviews spanning several endemic regions in Africa [24, 25]. Second, the parasite rates from our study was obtained through primary school survey and represent aggregated rates for communities in each school’s catchment area. Also, similar low levels of P. falciparum infections were observed between the various community schools. Taken together, the findings should not be considered as an artefact of a single study period but as results which perhaps points to a temporally stable infection rate among SAC in the South-Tongu district. The results is also in keeping with previous mass deworming, malarial prevention and schistosomiasis control exercises in this region [2–5]. Our data however suggest that despite the improved control efforts, there remain many inhabitants of riparian communities that suffer from urinary schistosomiasis [26]. Although we are not privy to the full repertoire of drugs admitted during these sessions, children had mostly been on praziquantel in various combinations with other drugs including antimalarial. In multivariate analysis, the reported usage of antihelminthic by study respondents was determined to be protective against urinary schistosomiasis. The study also showed that stunted malnutrition was independently associated with increased odds of P. falciparum infections. Stunted malnutrition was also present after assessing data separately for S. haematobium infections. Stunting is a manifestation of recent and acute under nutrition. Children who are stunted are thought to have increased predisposition to malaria and other parasitic infection for a variety of reasons, most notably through a reduction in the function of T-lymphocytes, deficiencies in antibody formation, diminished complement formation, and degeneration of thymus and other lymphoid tissues [2, 10, 22, 27]. From our study, an increase of one unit of Hb was protective against P. falciparum infection and corresponded to an AOR of 0.71 (95 % CI, 0.42–2.3, P = 0.002). Meanwhile, children with stunted malnutrition showed higher parasitaemia levels that negatively correlated with lower Hb concentration. The PAR % of anaemia attributable to P. falciparum remained about twofold lower than that of stunted children who accounted for approximately one-eighth of anaemia cases. The data corroborates with our other results regarding stunted-malnutrition-associated decrease in Hb concentration among malaria affected children (Fig. 4). In the low malaria settings of South-Tongu, stunted malnutrition could be contributing to lower Hb concentrations in P. falciparum affected children. It is noteworthy that although these observations with stunting were not apparent in schistosomiasis affected children, a clear evidence that stunting is associated with increased prevalence in malarial infection is beyond the scope of this study. It is conceivable that malaria may cause stunting. Yet given that stunting becomes manifest only after a prolonged period of nutritional insufficiencies, and that malaria infection is a transitory state, we consider it more likely that host immunity impairment which results from conditions such as Hb deficiency exacerbate host vulnerability to malaria [2, 22, 27]. A diagram describing the relationship between infections with P. falciparum, S. haematobium, Hb concentration and stunted malnutrition is considered in Fig. 5. Factors associated with P. falciparum and S. haematobium infections. Arrows indicate risk factor associations; Dotted arrows indicate less-definitive relationships; upward arrow denotes increase; downward arrow denotes decrease; N/C refers to no correlation There are some potential limitations of this study that must be discussed briefly, and for which our data must be interpreted carefully. First, the studies for helminths used only one stool and urine sample from each child; hence, the proportion of children with low-intensity infections could have been misclassified as uninfected [23, 28]. The prevalence of helminth infections is therefore likely to be underestimated in this study. 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Pediatrics. 2002;110:e48. Trabelsi S, Aouinet A, Khaled S. Procedure and indications of stool examination in parasitology. Tunis Med. 2012;90:431–4. PFAK, SKA, PBTQ conceived the study; participated in its design, coordination, and collation of laboratory data. KAO participated in the study design, co-ordination and collation of laboratory data, and helped to draft the manuscript. NON, GAM, HNAA, KOD helped in collation of data, performed the statistical analysis and helped to draft the manuscript. AF, participated in the study design and coordination and helped to draft the manuscript. RHA, MC, LA participated in the study design and coordination and helped to draft the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. We are grateful to the following for their support: Sogakope district assembly office, staff of the Comboni hospital and microbiology laboratory, staff of iDEC and Plan Ghana. This study was supported with Grant from the postgraduate research fund at the University of Ghana college of Health Sciences. The authors do not have the permission/consent of parents/guardians to share data in publicly available repositories. We may however consider sharing our findings per individual requests. Consent to publish Ethics, consent and permissions Approval for research was sought from the ethical review and Protocol Committee of the University of Ghana Medical School, Korle-bu. At the study area, approval was sort from both the district assembly office, district education office, and the Heads that oversee the selected schools. Prior to the commencement of work, the research team conducted meetings with Heads of Schools, leaders, teachers and community members of the selected study area to explain the objectives of our study including benefits, potential risks and discomforts. Subsequently, informed written consent for children who participated in the study was sought from parents or legal guardians. In addition, children were requested to give assent to their involvement; with the right to refuse participation or withdraw at any time during the study. Samples and accompanying data were de-identified and allotted arbitrary numbers to ensure anonymity. Children found infected with parasites as well as those found with ailments not targeted by the project were referred to hospital for treatment. This study was supported with Grant from the postgraduate research fund at the University of Ghana college of Health Sciences. Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, School of Biomedical and Allied Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Korle-bu, Accra, Ghana Patrick Ferdinand Ayeh-Kumi & Richard Harry Asmah Department of Microbiology, University of Ghana School of Biomedical and Allied Health Sciences, Accra, Ghana Kantanka Addo-Osafo , Simon Kwaku Attah & Patience Borkor Tetteh-Quarcoo Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, University of Ghana School of Biomedical and Allied Health Sciences, Accra, Ghana Noah Obeng-Nkrumah , Georgina Awuah-Mensah , Harriet Naa Afia Abbey & Akua Forson Comboni Catholic Hospital, Sogakope, Ghana Momodou Cham & Listowell Asare Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Basic and Biomedical Sciences, University of Health & Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana Kwabena Obeng Duedu Search for Patrick Ferdinand Ayeh-Kumi in: Search for Kantanka Addo-Osafo in: Search for Simon Kwaku Attah in: Search for Patience Borkor Tetteh-Quarcoo in: Search for Noah Obeng-Nkrumah in: Search for Georgina Awuah-Mensah in: Search for Harriet Naa Afia Abbey in: Search for Akua Forson in: Search for Momodou Cham in: Search for Listowell Asare in: Search for Kwabena Obeng Duedu in: Search for Richard Harry Asmah in: Correspondence to Simon Kwaku Attah. 13104_2016_2025_MOESM1_ESM.pdf Additional file 1. Questionnaire for data collection. Data on participants characteristics were collected via interviews using standardized questionnaires. The questionnaire abstracted information regarding the following demographics (gender and age), child’s knowledge of causes of malaria, helminth infections and schistosomiasis, deworming, availability of toileting facilities in household, sources of household water, child’s activity in any river and parent/guardian educational level. We also determined the household socio-economic status using proxy measures based on the World Bank asset scores for Ghana. For each enrolee, anthropometric measurements including height and weight were determined. Ayeh-Kumi, P.F., Addo-Osafo, K., Attah, S.K. et al. Malaria, helminths and malnutrition: a cross-sectional survey of school children in the South-Tongu district of Ghana. BMC Res Notes 9, 242 (2016) doi:10.1186/s13104-016-2025-3	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14137
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Coyote, the Tasmanian Devil and many of the other characters from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical short films, during the “Golden age of American animation“. George Wisdom…. I mean Washington. His statement is timeless, as true today as when GW said it…. RECEIVED FROM A FRIEND: A true story about 19 marines killed on Makin Island (defending against the Japanese). They had to retreat, so asked the islanders to please bury them for us. Years later, they checked and found a man who had been a teenager then and remembered where they were buried. They sent a C130 and an honor guard over there and found all 19 had been buried with their helmets on, their rifles in their hands, in perfect condition. The islanders had really done a wonderful job. As they were loading the bodies, a voice from out of nowhere started singing “The Marine Hymn”……….gave everyone goose bumps. Turns out, the voice was from a man who spoke no English but remembered a song the Marines taught him when they landed. Very touching. They got all 19 and their photos are at the end. This of course was WW2! IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THIS – BE SURE YOU’RE SITTING DOWN. THIS ONE OF THOSE GESTURES FOR WHICH THERE ARE NO WORDS. 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__label__cc	0.729551	0.270449	Is First-Party Data Collateral Damage For Stricter Third-Party Privacy Policies? by AdExchanger // Tuesday, May 28th, 2019 – 12:06 am "Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer's point of view. Today's column is written by Sachin Puri, senior director and global head of performance marketing at StubHub. The cookie, the technology that powers the internet and digital advertising, has never faced such serious risk. The burgeoning concerns about user privacy and online fraud, such as cookie hacking, have led to stringent laws, strict platform policies and a rise in users preventing cookie tracking. The loss of ability to retarget and measure the impact is one of the biggest challenges for performance marketers. And with these fast-changing developments, much of the real impact still remains unclear. As we understand the impact and adjust the operation, it’s vital to recognize that recent policy changes could seriously slow down cross-domain tracking, including site remarketing. In my opinion, this balancing of user retargeting and privacy is one of our most important responsibilities in the marketing ecosystem. Recent tweets by Apple indicate that first-party tracking would likely be collateral damage to the emerging closed-tracking system, and other developments will likely jeopardize the measurement and ROI tracking on first-party domains. The marketing community should recognize this as a wake-up call and opportunity for key players to collaborate on the solution. This is not just about one platform or browser, but about the whole marketing ecosystem built around delivering a delightful user experience. Cookies and browser tracking or prevention While many first- and third-party vendors were working on prospective solutions for Intelligent Tracking Protection (ITP) 2.1, Apple released ITP 2.2, another strict update that limits first-party persistent cookie tracking to one day (vs. seven days two months ago) for domains classified with cross-site tracking capabilities, such as Google and Facebook. For marketers with purchase cycles longer than one day, this means channel attribution will likely not be accurate beyond one day, limiting their ability to truly measure the impact of marketing campaigns. It’s evident that the solutions to stop cross-domain tracking to protect user privacy are moving digital toward a closed ecosystem for legitimate first-party tracking, which is an undesirable outcome for the marketing community. Intermediate impacts: measurement and analytics Web analytics or attribution tools, such as Adobe Omniture and Google Analytics rely heavily on first-party cookies to measure and analyze the full funnel once the user visits the domain. The full funnel analysis starts from visits but continues beyond the checkout to product usage, customer support or repurchase. To effectively grow active users, analyzing the full funnel by user cohorts, such as new vs. repeat visitors, is critical. Whether you are a startup or a big enterprise, it’s key to know if marketing campaigns are attracting enough new users to grow a brand, or if they are just driving revisits by existing users. Are those visits incremental reach or just increased frequency of the same users? Not only is this reach-frequency tradeoff core to any media plan, but to develop a data-informed marketing investment strategy, knowing the average number of visits, the order value in dollars and attributed marketing channel by user is necessary. This information is key to forecast, measure and deliver optimal customer acquisition costs and ROI. Under ITP 2.2, if a user visits a site via display ad on day one and later revisits by clicking on a social post on day nine, he or she will be counted as a new visitor in both visits. Thus, the number of visits and average order value per visitor will be incorrect, and the order will be attributed via last-click attribution to social, even if the first visit originated from a display ad. The data would then indicate display ads are not performing well, leading to incorrect spend allocation to display and social, which may or may not be the case. Merchandising and personalization Many advanced marketers, especially in ecommerce, have developed machine-learning based algorithms to merchandise products and personalize customer journeys based on browsing history stored in first-party cookies. For example, a brand may offer a product promotion or pricing incentive via an onsite banner ad to improve conversions or lifetime value. In my opinion, as the number of SKUs and visitors increase, algorithmic user journey management is not just good-to-have but a necessity to grow the business at scale. Under ITP 2.2, in the same scenario outlined when a user visits a site twice, seven days apart, the merchandising algorithms would not be able to run personalization effectively because cookie-based day-one visit history would be lost on Safari. Any A/B test on this pricing promotion would have a high degree of noise as the same user can fall under different control and exposed cookie pools in his or her two visits. Thus, not only will the test results be contaminated, it will also be a suboptimal experience for the user. What can we do now? The goal to safeguard user privacy can’t be solved in silos and with unilateral view; it requires a thoughtful discussion and collaboration across government agencies, industry bodies, such as IAB, platforms, browsers, advertisers, agencies and ad tech companies. The cost of unilaterally cannibalizing legitimate first-party cookies will deliver a bad user experience, which is neither the goal nor a desired outcome. Let’s collaborate as we protect user privacy and solve for solutions that serve both marketers and the user. For now, we can get to work by paying close attention to measurement reports and inquire with analytics teams about how GDPR and ITP are impacting metrics, such as channel attribution or unique visitors. Follow Sachin Puri (@spuri79), StubHub (@StubHub) and AdExchanger (@adexchanger) on Twitter.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14155
__label__wiki	0.770038	0.770038	GasTerra Flames 80 Bennet Cantu 74 November 30, 2010 CET: 19:30 Local time: 19:30 MARTINI PLAZA GasTerra Flames registered its first win in Group E by downing Bennet Cantu 80-74 in Groningen, the Netherlands on Tuesday. Both teams join a three-way tie with Panellinios for second place in this group, each with a 1-2 record, two wins behind undefeated leader Galatasaray Cafe Crown. It was also GasTerra's first Eurocup win since the 2007-08 season, when the club last played the competition. Robby Bostain paced the winners with 22 points. John Turek added 14, Jason Ellis and Jason Dorisseau each added 12 while Matt Haryasz got 11 for GasTerra. Maarten Leunen led Cantu with 18 points. Nicolas Mazzarino added 13, Mike Green had 11 while Vladimir Micov got 10 for the guests, that led 40-42 at halftime. A dunk by Leunen allowed Cantu to get a 41-46 edge after the break but a 16-2 run allowed GasTerra to get the lead for good, 57-48. An outstanding Bostain allowed GasTerra to boost its margin to 68-53 and even when Cantu kept trying, the hosts held off a wild rally to get an important win. Turek got GasTerra going with a bomb from downtown and Matthew Otten copied him soon after that for a 6-2 lead. Leunen scored around the basket and Denis Marconato added a dunk but Turek followed free throws with his second three-pointer to keep GasTerra ahead, 11-6. Otten sank a jumper and Jason Ellis added a layup but Marconato singlehandedly kept Cantu within 15-10. Leunen and Green fueled a 0-6 run that helped Cantu to get its first lead, 15-16. GasTerra did not panic, however, as the hosts used a 9-2 run that Turek capped with a three-pointer for a 24-18 edge. Michele Mian hit free throws but Bostain joined the three-point shootout and Ellis added a put-back layup for a 28-20 GasTerra lead after 10 minutes. Mazzarino struck twice from downtown early in the second quarter and Jonathan Tabu added a layup for a 30-28 Cantu deficit. Dorisseau found his first points but Mazzarino had 5 points in a 0-9 run that completed the guests' comeback, 32-37. Dourisseau stepped up with back-to-back triples and Haryasz added a jumper but Green sank 5-of-6 free throws late in this half to put Cantu back ahead, 40-42, at the break. Marconato shined with a dunk immediately after the break and Leunen also slammed it for a five-point Cantu lead, 41-46. Matt Bauscher scored off a steal and fed Dourisseau for a three-point play, igniting a 9-0 run that Ellis capped with a layup to give GasTerra a 50-46 margin. Manu Markoishvili tried to change things with free throws but Bostain had 4 points in a 7-0 run that Turek capped with a big triple that sent the crowd to their feet at 57-48. Leunen hit foul shots but Cantu needed answers in defense. Bostain scored again and matched Leunen's triple with a bomb from downtown for a 62-53 GasTerra lead after 30 minutes. A jumper by Haryasz gave the hosts their first double-digit lead, 64-53, early in the fourth quarter. Cantu kept struggling to score and back-to-back baskets by Bostain and Haryasz sealed the outcome, 68-53, with 7 minutes left. Markoishvili scored down low but GasTerra had started to use long possessions to run the game clock down. Markoishvili and Micov managed to get Cantu within 74-67 with under 3 minutes left but free throws by Haryasz and a layup by Bostain sealed the outcome, 78-72. A put-back dunk by Ellis allowed all GasTerra fans to celebrate a historical home win! Referees: GARCIA, JUAN CARLOS; LOVSIN, ANDREJ; CARDUS, ANNA Attendance: 3060 (Tentative) GasTerra Flames 28 12 22 18 Bennet Cantu 20 22 11 21 GasTerra Flames 4 BOSTAIN, ROBBY 28:07 22 7/11 2/4 2/2 1 3 4 2 2 2 3 25 5 BEKKERING, HENRY 1:11 0/2 1 1 1 6 ROIJE, ARON 22:06 0/1 0/2 1 1 4 3 -9 7 ELLIS, JASON 23:32 12 5/10 2/2 3 5 8 2 1 4 1 15 8 DOURISSEAU, JASON 34:40 12 2/5 2/3 2/3 2 3 5 3 3 1 4 3 16 9 WIERSUM, DAAN DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 10 OTTEN, MATTHEW 11:49 5 1/1 1/1 1 2 3 1 1 4 1 7 11 ROSS, STEPHEN 4:50 0/1 1 1 1 -1 12 TUREK, JOHN 24:11 14 1/5 3/3 3/4 3 1 4 3 1 1 3 3 16 13 HOF, MARK PETER DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 14 HARYASZ, MATT 26:16 11 4/10 3/4 2 2 4 1 1 6 1 3 2 2 15 BAUSCHER, MATT 23:18 4 2/3 0/3 0/1 3 3 5 1 1 2 5 10 Head coach: VAN DEN BERG, MARCO Bennet Cantu 5 MICOV, VLADIMIR 27:37 10 2/4 1/2 3/4 1 8 9 3 3 3 2 4 20 9 MARKOISHVILI, MANUCHAR 16:17 8 3/5 0/2 2/4 1 1 1 4 4 4 10 LEUNEN, MAARTEN 34:15 18 4/5 2/6 4/4 4 4 1 2 2 4 4 18 11 MARCONATO, DENIS 24:57 8 4/5 1 1 1 2 1 1 3 1 5 12 MAZZARINO, NICOLAS 34:34 13 0/1 3/6 4/4 1 1 5 3 2 4 14 13 MIAN, MICHELE 12:36 4 1/1 0/1 2/2 1 4 15 URBUTIS, ARMINAS 9:26 0/1 1 1 2 1 17 DIVIACH, MARCO 0:18 18 TABU, JONATHAN 11:06 2 1/2 0/1 1 1 1 1 1 21 GREEN, MIKE 28:54 11 1/2 0/2 9/10 6 6 5 1 3 3 7 20 Head coach: TRINCHIERI, ANDREA VAN DEN BERG, MARCO "We want to qualify for the next round, so we needed this win. We made a decisive run in the 3rd quarter, that¹s where we won the game. I really believe we can make it to the next round, the next game in Cantu will be very important. Both the fans of Cantu as the Dutch fans who will go to that game can look forward to a very interesting match." TRINCHIERI, ANDREA "First I want to congratulate GasTerra Flames and all the people who came to watch the game because the atmosphere at Martini Arena was really beautiful. I think it was a great night for GasTerra and its fans. We tried to do our best, but we are not a good moment due to our injury problems. We tried to rally and could not win the game, but a six-point loss gives us a chance to recover next Tuesday. It has been a very physical game and the hosts put a lot of pressure. We were not fluent in offense in the third quarter, made some turnovers and allowed GasTerra to regain the lead. We did not give up and made a comeback, but picked up a turnover at a very important moment. Perhaps we did not play the right way, but we worked hard and this has allowed us to reduce the deficit." ELLIS, JASON "It's good to get a win against a very tough oppnent such as Cantu. We played a sloid game and we¹ll see what will happen next week in Italy." REGULAR SEASON LAST 16 QUARTERFINALS FINALS November 30 17:00 CET LIVE FINAL EWE Baskets 96 Banvit Bandirma 73 Goettingen 68 Besiktas Istanbul 85 Budivelnik 70 Buducnost m:tel 56 Gran Canaria 2014 92 Siauliai 72 Hapoel Gilboa Galil 86 Galatasaray Istanbul 79 Asefa Estudiantes 71 Benetton Treviso 80 Hapoel Jerusalem 67 Cajasol Sevilla 95 VEF Riga 83 Krasnye Krylia 103 Anwil Wloclawek 80 Pepsi Caserta 73	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14156
__label__wiki	0.514778	0.514778	The book-drop at Oval underground station Deserves nothing less than a standing ovation. My last three books have come from there A Harris, a Wodehouse and a JM Coetzee. Crime, romance or the latest thriller Or maybe the Hungry Caterpillar. Leave what you’ve read and take what you need You’re moments away from another free read. With your nose in a book; in no time You’ll forget you’re riding the Northern Line. Fed up with Brexit Britain? Had enough of Little England? Well here’s an idea, go buy a cookbook, more specifically The Oval Cook Book. As the author, Veronica Parker, says in her introduction: ‘In 2016 when we voted very narrowly to leave the EU, it felt as if all sorts of divisions had been opened up in our society.’ She wanted to heal those divisions where she could and set about creating a diversity cookbook which celebrates the lives and recipes of Kennington residents who have come from the four corners of the world. Meet Akin Mustafa, originally from Cyprus, who runs the electrical shop on Clapham Road. He studied electrical engineering but fled the island after partition. Akin can fix anything from a toaster to an old VHS video machine and he can also fix a ‘Turkish Bean Salad’. There’s a fine picture of Jasvir Singh receiving an OBE from Prince William for his services to social cohesion. His parents are both Punjabi Sikhs and the recipe he contributes to the book is ‘Turka Dhal’, that wonderful Indian dish with red lentils at its heart. Walk down Coney Lane and you’ll come to Ashmole Stores run by the Patel brothers Bav and Prash. They came to the UK when Idi Amin ordered the expulsion of Ugandan Asians. The brother’s parents, together with their two sisters, moved to Leicester, then came to London and set up their shop in 1984. Bav is a Millwall supporter but don’t hold that against him. Their recipe is for ‘Curried Meatballs’. Now you’re already getting hungry and wondering where this nourishing book can be found, which leads me to Jeanne Joyce who runs the gift shop Max & Melia. Jeanne was brought up in Normandy, came to England as an au pair and made London her home. Her recipe is for ‘Tomato, Onion and Hearts of Palm Salad’. In 2018 Max & Melia was named London Gift Retailer of the Year. The book is on sale at their store and costs eight pounds. Five pounds of every copy sold is donated to the Triangle Adventure Playground just off Claylands Road. So far £1400 has been raised to support this excellent cause. There are fascinating life stories in this book, which go into far more detail than is contained here. Find out more about the lives of immigrants who have made Lambeth their home. We are lucky to have them, and now we are lucky to have their recipes. Atheist meets God in novel conundrum Last night Mrs Preen attended two book launches, one at the Reform Club in Pall Mall, the other at Waterstones in Islington. I know it seems unlikely, but women are allowed into The Reform and have been since 1981. So early days, but some of the members are still visibly shaken. Not that they didn’t try to exclude the wife. She was almost slung out on account of bare shoulders and shockingly primitive shoes – sandals. As there were government ministers present they served scallops, steak tartare and a daikon radish dip guzzled down with fine Club claret. I was not invited, but the second event proved more down-to-earth – they served peanuts. I know that, because I ate most of them. As to what book was launched at The Reform I forgot to ask (call yourself a journalist?) but I can tell you at Waterstones Simon Edge unleashed his latest novel ‘The Hurtle of Hell’. It’s the story of an atheist who meets God. Full disclosure: he’s an old friend. Simon that is, not God. The author read the opening chapter where the hero, Stefano Cartwright, almost drowns, has a near death experience, and travels along a bright white tube of light where he reveals: ‘I think I just saw the eye of God.’ This is Edge’s second novel. The First was the Hopkins Conundrum which as improbable as it may seem involved a Welsh pub landlord, his faltering love life, the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins and a covey of shipwrecked nuns. Simon likes to paint on a broad canvas. Talking of painting, the latest novel’s cover was created by cartoonist David Shenton, which as you can see from the picture is fortunate, as he looks like God. ‘The Hurtle of Hell’ is packed in my suitcase and will be coming with me on holiday to Italy next week. I’m sure Stefano will make a great travelling companion. Click here to bag yourself a copy.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14165
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__label__cc	0.680299	0.319701	Things change and stay the same. So I haven’t blogged in a while… There are a few reasons for that, a lot of it is that I felt I was repeating myself, and rather than adding to the conversation I was just shouting to myself. There’s more that I wanted to say, but wasn’t sure of the platform, well I’m ready to move on and say it over at my own domain www.adamstrasberg.com. Come on over, I already have a post up over at the bookshelf on the books that have changed the way I see the world, my permanent collection . I plan to post on books, gadgets, ads, strategy and all sorts of over things. Thanks for sticking with me as I make this transition. Michael Sams Visa Ad Good copy. Simple visuals. But that end line “everywhere”? Does the message connect to what we already think of Visa? Tags: copy, visa A good crossover Usually I find cross promotions annoying at best, awkward and forced at worse. This is the rare cross promotion that I think works for both products. It shows off some neat Godzilla special effect and shares something about the Fiat (surprisingly big). It fits the tone of other Fiat commercials, gives us some humor (craving Italian) and is on-message. Tags: Cross Promotion When Punchlines fall short I found this video interesting but ultimately unsuccessful. Watching the girl go through her life was heartbreaking, made more so, by her narration. The repetition of the line “I didn’t cry” is really effective at punctuating her pain but also reminding us of her pride and resilience in the face of the horrors she faces. I felt the punchline which is really the call to action just falls flat. After all she’s gone through, is her biggest problem really she doesn’t have water? I guess maybe…, I don’t know, but it moves the video from an emotional appeal to a rational one, suddenly I’m thrust into the position of having to judge whether water is at the level of child marriage or your mother is a prostitute, that’s not really the level Water is Life wants to be operating. Frankly I’m not sure if this ad is motivating at all. There’s so much wrong with the poor girl’s life, how is fixing one thing going to make it right, it feels so daunting, that you just want to give up. This video from Save the Children takes another tact. It tried to use humor and surprise to get your attention (as opposed to Water is Life which just uses shock value). The punchline here is more effective, but I found myself distracted because I was feeling sorry for the models. It felt like they were being punked, and I shared their discomfort rather than engaging with their message. That’s where this video falls short, I can’t transfer my discomfort with the execution to being upset about the facts they’re presenting. The message is clear, but the emotions are muddied. I think something both these videos show is the importance of the punchline. Both these videos depend on their punchline to deliver their message and their emotion, but they both fall short because the punchline doesn’t connect with what came before either emotionally or in terms of message. Tags: comedy, copy, on-emotion, punchline, repetition, Save the Children, shock value, water is life How to create a brand identity… Funny thing about this ad is that it wasn’t made by Tesla. You should read the story here, but basically it was a bunch of college grads looking to break into advertising. They spend a grand total of $1500. What I love about this ad, is that it totally gets the emotion right. It tells a story of wonder, of excitement, of innocence. There are a lot of reasons to buy a Tesla, but basically, they’re saying you buy it because its just plain cool. (Not because you want to be cool, but because its coolness excites you.) They tell you that in a story, no, that’s not right, they don’t tell you, they show it. What’s more, I think they capture the truth about what makes Tesla cool. I’ve reviewed a bunch of ads recently that tell great brand stories, but when the company is revealed, it feels like a let down because what they’re saying doesn’t match the identity that brand holds in my mind. Maybe because these guys are outsider or beginners (there’s a whole zen concept of beginner’s mind) or really smart and talented or just really in tune with Tesla (probably some combination of all those things), they seem to hit the nail on the head. I love the moment with the dad where he dons the cardboard helmet. This spot is what it means to be on-emotion & on-message. They could have chosen to sell a product, all electric, zero to sixty, cutting edge, blah, blah, blah, instead they created a brand identity. That’s a much harder lift, but it works here because its authentic to the product, and these days, that might be more important than creativity. Tags: Authentic, beginner's mind, cue, Luke Sullivan, show don't tell, Story, Storytelling, Tesla Getting the right tone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4wNMOapzyw So this one missed the mark. I like the delivery and Neal McDonough, but man is that ad off base. What is it selling exactly? Ok I know its selling a luxury car, but what is the message of the ad? A mindless devotion to stuff? Working obsessively? It’s almost like a warped parody of the Chrysler “Made in Detroit” commercials. Jingoistically proclaiming American greatness, but without the original’s grit or underdog spirit. There’s an arrogance to this ad, an almost mean spirited tone that totally ruins whatever the creators were going for. When you get the tone wrong, its really hard to recover. Tags: arrogance, Cadillac, Emotionally tone deaf, tone Big disclaimer… this ad has some disturbing images. I really don’t like this ad from Save the Children UK. I don’t like shock value, and I think this ad depends on the easier to access shock value rather than the harder to achieve hope. Its shocking because they think that will get attention, and they’re right, it will get attention. But when they have my attention where do they take me? Can they get me to connect to the message and give me money to their cause, which the ultimate goal of this ad. I think they missed the boat. They could have shown a mother giving birth, we could have heard the baby crying, but what about seeing the happy family members? What about seeing the mother holding her new born baby? They could have told a moving story, a story every parent could connect with, instead they decided to shock us into paying attention. Instead of relief or happy or hope, they leave me feeling grossed out and kinda spent emotionally, that’s not what’s going to motivate me to give. The image in my mind is the mother turned on her side crying, is that really the emotion & message they’re trying to convey? Beyond being off-emotion, I think the ad is off-message. The CG’s feel misordered, they should have put the midwife information into the middle of the ad, and ended with “Make sure a baby’s first day isn’t its last…” which has a nice ring to it and hits the message they’re trying to deliver. Attention is easy, real emotion is hard, this ad takes the easy route and is less effective for it. Tags: form follows emotion, on-emotion, shock value, spitting on the table What’s the function? Is this the first political ad filmed on an iPhone? I’m all for doing something to get some attention, but what the point of filming it on an iPhone (other than to save money or get attention)? There might be legitimate reasons to film on the iPhone, “My campaign doesn’t have as much money as my opponents…” or maybe its just a gimmick to make the ad feel more “homey” or to make her likable (see I’m like you, I film things on my iPhone). In that case you have to go with the concept and trust it. Having her holding the iPhone then cutting to images that were created in a studio seems like a cop out at that point. I don’t find the ad cutting edge or really interesting, though the copy has some potential. To me the iPhone thing is more distracting rather than a plus or interesting, it takes away from what could be an interesting message. What if she used the iPhone to tell her story, then encouraged her supporters to send in their iPhone videos of their families? What if she used the iPhone like we all do, taking selifies and quick pictures from her day of filming, then continued to push out iPhone videos of her day? Then the idea is about more than just the ad, its a concept to engage your audience rather than a lame gimmick that doesn’t really tell me anything about the candidate. Tags: form and function, iPhone, Katie McGinty, trust your concept Reality Speaks for Itself So you might expect that I’d deem this Dell ad a failure based on my last post. Yes, I know Dell was started in a dorm room and part of what attracted me to Dell (back when I was in the PC world) was that sense of excitement around something new. Dell was an innovator, selling directly to consumers, building PCs to order. But I’m said to say for me and Dell, that was almost 20 years ago now. The Dell of today,from where I stand, has become another commodity, whether they fell pray to the innovator’s dilemma, just didn’t have a second act, or just lost touch with their roots and values as they grew, I don’t know. That’s why this ad is so compelling. It touches on the Dell that I remember, it touches on that excitement and the feelings associated with boot-straping and startups. I think this ad is well done, in case you haven’t gotten that point yet. But I think the real test of whether this ad is a success or failure is what Dell does next. Is this just another ad designed to bolster Dell’s position in the market place or is this ad a real attempt by Dell to reconnect with their roots? Is this ad a signal that Dell is going to take ownership of that startup story? If Dell thinks that they can run an ad like this one and continue with business as usual, and things will change, then I think they’re in for a surprise. But if Dell is really committed to having that start-up spirit again, if we (meaning consumers) see those changes in their choices as a company, well then that’s an exciting proposition. What if Dell said, “We’re the computer company of entrepreneurs everywhere because we were started in a dorm room, so we get it” (ok that’s more of the meta-message, they should say that, but much less on the nose). What if they had special services that catered to the entrepreneur in all of us. Like what? I don’t know, Dell would need to figure that out, it could be a special tech support system or having a business consultant who could help you use Dell technology to start your venture, the details (so long as they’re actually useful to entrepreneurs) aren’t so important, what is important is that they match their message, the story they’re telling in this ad, with what consumers see them doing. People have good bullshit detectors, if a company spins a story that doesn’t match the reality, folks usually pick it up. This is a compelling ad, an ad that tells a story, the real question is this: Is that story fiction or nonfiction? Tags: bullshit, Hannibal and Me, What's your story What is a successful ad? I read a great book last year called “Hannibal and Me.” In a nutshell, the book talked about the writer’s obsession with the great Carthaginian General Hannibal. In examining his life, he makes a larger point about success and failure. Rome never defeated Hannibal in battle. At one point he killed something like 1/5 of all Romans who were eligible to serve in the army. Was Hannibal a success or failure? Sixteen years always fighting the much larger Roman army on their home turf never defeated, and ultimately never victorious… Hannibal never took Rome, never brought Rome to its knees. He was defeated by a Roman General named Fabius. Fabius’ strategy, constant retreat, he never won a battle. How we define success and failure is often overlooked, but it is critical to remember what your ultimate goals are. Which brings us to these ads: I think these are both terrific ads, great copy, well filmed with compelling visuals (wait for it, here it comes….). But I have to wonder if the build up matches the payoff. After all that does an apron really equal progressive? Is that what Progressive is about? Is it about hard work, about the people who show up everyday without a hint of glory? That’s not what I think of as Progressive Insurance, they’re the ones with Flo and low rates, maybe. And the second ad, is beautiful. Its how anyone in love feels when they look at the person they love, it captures a truth, and in doing so it says we get it, we understand you. I was with the ad, in with the payoff (how long did it take for those flowers to sprout) that was a little sappy. But its selling what? Hair care products, what? How are they involved in love? I mean the woman had great hair, but what? Now maybe that brand has some affiliation with that message, but still I felt cheated at the end. So are these good ads? Yes. Are they successful ads? I don’t think so…. Which brings me back to my first question: Are these good ads? Can an ad that doesn’t succeed in pushing its message, that doesn’t change the image of a brand or build upon its existing image be a good ad? I don’t know for sure, but I don’t think it can. Tags: book recommendation, copy, Hannibal and Me, visuals	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14173
__label__wiki	0.56857	0.56857	Amazon is Giving This Town Free Prime Subscriptions If you happen to live in Manchester-by-the-Sea in Massachusetts, congratulations because you’re getting a FREE Amazon Prime Membership! In celebration of the success and the release of the Oscar-winning film, Manchester by the Sea on Amazon Prime, the e-commerce giant wants to treat all the residents of the town with a gift box that has a code to claim their free one-year Prime membership and three packs of the Wickedly Prime Popcorn. Talk about an epic movie night. “We wanted customers in the town to enjoy popcorn and a movie on us. Although, if you’ve already seen Manchester By The Sea, you know that “enjoy” may not quite exemplify what it’s like to watch the heart-wrenching film,” said Greg Hart, Vice President of Amazon Video, worldwide, in a statement about the release. Aside from unlimited access to award-winning movies and TV episodes (such as the namesake movie), Prime Music, Audible Channels, Prime Reading and Twitch Prime, your Prime Membership will also give you Free Two-Day Shipping, one free pre-released Kindle e-book every month and early access to select Lighting Deals, and more. For $99/year, the Prime Subscription is jam-packed with a lot of perks that you’ll surely enjoy! Click HERE to upgrade your membership. Previous PostTech Gifts for Mom!Next PostThe First Ever Smart Thermostat with Built-in Alexa Voice Service is Now Available for Pre-Order	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14183
__label__wiki	0.626143	0.626143	Hillary Clinton failed to turn over email related to security concerns about her private email server tags: corruption, email scandal, emails, Hillary Clinton, Politics, scandal, State Department Yesterday we learned that there was a security issue for a brief period of time in relation to Hillary Clinton’s decision to conduct all State Department business on her personal email server. This concern led the State Department to disable security features on the government’s server while the problem was worked out. You can read more about that story here. Now we are learning, according to this story, that Hillary Clinton failed to turn over an email related to this issue, here is more: Former Secretary Hillary Clinton failed to turn over a copy of a key message involving problems caused by her use of a private homebrew email server, the State Department confirmed Thursday. The disclosure makes it unclear what other work-related emails may have been deleted by the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. The email was included within messages exchanged Nov. 13, 2010, between Clinton and one of her closest aides, Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin. At the time, emails sent from Clinton’s BlackBerry device and routed through her private clintonemail.com server in the basement of her New York home were being blocked by the State Department’s spam filter. A suggested remedy was for Clinton to obtain a state.gov email account. It was suggested that she obtain an official email account (which throws cold water on the notion that nobody knew she was not using an official government email account) to solve this problem but the former Secretary of State was hesitant to do so because she feared her personal emails would become public. Instead the State Department was forced to disable some security features on its email server while this problem was rectified because Hillary Clinton refused to use an official government account. Hillary Clinton’s supporters and defenders like to claim that her personal email server was just as secure, if not more so, than the government’s own servers and that it did not constitute a security risk but now we have learned otherwise. And what a remarkable coincidence it is that Hillary Clinton did not release an email that just happened to show there was a security concern! Apparently she thought this was a personal email and deleted it… The only reason we know about this email is because her top aide, Huma Abedin, released her copy of it. Hillary Clinton’s defense seems to be what difference does it make because Huma Abedin released it: “Secretary Clinton had some emails with Huma that Huma did not have, and Huma had some emails with Secretary Clinton that Secretary Clinton did not have,” Fallon said. But that is not the point! The point is that these emails were official government documents and both parties should have had all the emails and should have preserved and released them, but that obviously did not happen and in my opinion this is a clear violation of Federal record keeping law. The next logical questions are simple: how many other emails did Hillary Clinton decide were private emails which were not? And out of those emails how many of them did Huma Abedin also delete? And who was in charge of determining which emails were personal and which emails were official? Somehow I have the feeling Mrs. Clinton had the final say when it came to which emails to release and which ones to delete. ← Bryan Pagliano pleads the Fifth over 125 times during Judicial Watch’s probe into Hillary Clinton’s email scandal Hillary Clinton’s State Department calendar is missing 75 entries → You got it. I can’t believe they reported on Fox News that it was Hillary’s protection on her computer they had to turn off. Someone wrote about it somewhere as well the same thing. Nobody cares at all. The initial report was that it was Hillary’s server which had to disable security but now we know it was the State Department. In my opinion it does not matter because security was still shut off and it is sad that nobody seems to care! There also turned up Emails with Chelsea. I do think it is a big deal if she put the whole government system at risk So do I but I am afraid too many people just think this is politics, they are ignoring the fact the FBI is looking into this as well. As Trump has said some foreign government maybe able to blackmail her if she was elected president. Again nobody cares. I think it is a legitimate concern and of course none of these governments are going to say anything before the election because if they have something on her they won’t do anything to jeopardize her getting into the White House. Only the shadow nsa knows Steve. They’ll juggle this until it disappears. It just shows the reality of what goes on within the ‘inner circle’ of the special ones. It is a shadowy game and the Clinton’s are masters of it! ‘DOSSIER ON HILLARY CLINTON FROM DNC’ https://guccifer2.wordpress.com/2016/06/21/hillary-clinton/ They have evolved haven’t they! Those are the sort who want to live forever, do what they do! Which means taking away the lives and life of others to do it. Interesting w/ the Brits win – won’t go into effect for 2 years, what’s that about (more of the very thing they’re trying to come out from under – gives us a heads up)! There is nothing they will not do and nobody they will not hurt to get what they want in my opinion. Thanks for sharing the link. I am shocked Brexit was successful, it is going to be interesting to see what happens next, perhaps this chaos is what they want. petermc3Bill1948$ permalink Bubba must be proud as rain of his main squeeze. Compared to her corruption his philandering, wagging the dog, knocking off Ron Brown, and the 43 Whitewater related deaths seem like child splay. But then he didn’t have Obama, ValJar and Huma on his team. It seems like Obama and Hill learned from the best and took it to the next level! WordPress is at it again. It gave me a new name,,,WTF? That’s strange Peter! I see you got it back to normal now. Hillary Clinton failed to turn over email related to security concerns about her private email server — America’s Watchtower \| Arlin Report IT official claims the State Department disabling security over Hillary Clinton’s email server laid out a ‘welcome mat’ to hackers \| America's Watchtower	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14186
__label__wiki	0.554964	0.554964	HomeNews Professional Pensions has recently launched the inaugural Women in Pensions Awards 2018 – which celebrate the achievements of women working in pensions or acting as a trustee. Professional Pensions has recently launched the inaugural Women in Pensions Awards 2018 – which celebrate the achievements of women working in pensions or acting as a trustee. February 14, 2018 By AMNT No comments yet Professional Pensions has recently launched the inaugural Women in Pensions Awards 2018 - which celebrate the achievements of women working in pensions or acting as a trustee. The Women in Pensions Awards firmly believes that initiatives that aim to inspire and campaign for greater representation of women both in pensions and on trustee boards have a key role to play in supporting gender diversity. We believe the Women in Pensions Awards can complement these initiatives by shining a spotlight on the work of inspirational and groundbreaking women in the pensions sector. How you can play your part By nominating someone for the awards or entering yourself you will not only help to acknowledge the current achievements of women, you will be helping to inspire and encourage the next generation of women in the pensions sector. Nomination is quick and easy: You simply complete some basic details about the person, company or scheme you are nominating. You can also nominate yourself. Nominations can be supported with an optional 250-word statement. Once nominations have been received, the nominee will be contacted and forwarded a list of questions that they will be required to complete in order to progress to the first round of judging. A shortlist will then be created from which an expert panel of judges will decide the winners in each category. The deadline for nominations is 27 February 2018 >>Click here to start your nomination. Visit the Women in Pensions Awards website to find out more information about the awards. Categories & Criteria The awards are open to those working for firms operating in the UK's pensions industry as well as those either working for or governing individual occupational pension schemes. Nominees can be involved in roles including, but not limited to, pensions management, trusteeship, actuarial, pensions and investment consulting; legal advice; investment management; fiduciary management; scheme administration; member communications. Nominations can also be made for those involved other roles, such as sales and marketing, at organisations whose primary business or role is related to occupational pensions. There is no limit on the number of nominations or categories. Women currently on maternity leave can also be nominated. The categories and criteria are: Pensions Woman of the Year Pensions Manager of the Year Trustee of the Year Investment Manager of the Year Role Model of the Year Team Leader of the Year Most Inspiring Returner *Organisational Award* Award for Supporting Diversity Social Media Influencer of the Year To view the full category criteria, please visit: http://events.professionalpensions.com/womeninpensionsawards/static/categories Should you have any queries about the awards, please do not hesitate to contact my colleague Joshua Wrazen via [email protected]com We very much look forward to receiving your entries. Stephanie Baxter Deputy Editor,	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14187
__label__wiki	0.602169	0.602169	Let's Talk Bitcoin! By Adam B. Levine Featuring analysis and discourse by hosts Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Dr. Stephanie Murphy, Adam B. Levine, and Jonathan Mohan, episodes feature friendly, in-depth discussions and even-handed interviews. Let’s Talk Bitcoin!' is the longest-running English language talk show on the ideas, people and projects surrounding the Bitcoin movement and Cryptocurrency phenomenon. LTB 2020 Update (Looking for Jr. Producers!) Let's Talk Bitcoin! • By Adam B. Levine • Jan 5 LTB #423 Decentralization Philosophy Part 1 – From Buddha to the Conquistadors The best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Earlier this week, the Let's Talk Bitcoin! Show gathered to discuss decentralization in blockchain projects, the historical context of decentralized organizations, the robustness it conveys but also the difficulties it engenders. On today's podcast we apply concepts and stories from "The Spider and the Starfish: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations", a formational book on pre-blockchain decentralization written in the early 2000's, as the centralized US military struggled to effectively dispatch a much smaller decentralized force in Afghanistan. While the battlefield is different, the insight is perhaps even more relevant to the world of blockchain projects, their decentralized origins and ambitions. Later, we discuss the similarities between decentralized organizations and the Buddha's concept of self. Want more? Catch up on 7 years of Let's Talk Bitcoin! Credits for LTB#423 This episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin! is sponsored by Brave.com and eToro.com. Original Photo by Ubaidhulla Adam on Unsplash This episode featured Adam B. Levine, Stephanie Murphy, and Jonathan Mohan Music for today's episode was provided by Jared Rubens, and general fuzz, with editing by Jonas. Would you like to Sponsor a future episode of the Let's Talk Bitcoin! show? Do you have any questions or comments? Email adam@ltbshow.com LTB #422 ‘The Internet Was Illegal’ and Other Early Stories With Zooko Wilcox Earlier this week, the Let's Talk Bitcoin! show enlisted CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen and early cypherpunk Zooko Wilcox for a conversation on the history, challenges and long term development path of early, formative technologies. which we often hear modern blockchain movements compared against. From the pre-internet days, through the free/open-source movement, Linux successes, and challenges on the desktop, the peer-to-peer movement, cypherpunks, Linux maximalism, fundamentalism as a concept as well as some brief excursions through some history and politics of the time... Later, we'll discuss how AI and lawyers have more in common than you'd think, and what kind of protections we may need as autonomous agents become ubiquitous. This episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin! is sponsored by Brave.com, eToro.com, and Purse.io Original Photo by Museums Victoria on Unsplash. This episode featured CoinDesk Reporter Leigh Cuen and Zooko Wilcox. Music for today's episode was provided by Jared Rubens, and general fuzz, with editing by Jonas. Have any questions or comments? Email adam@ltbshow.com Hey folks, Adam B. Levine here with a brief update on LTB!. With 2020 dawning, we're coming up on year 8 of the Let's Talk Bitcoin! show, and, frankly, we've done a lot of talking in that time. In the early days we did a lot of interviews, but with the commercialization of the space, then ICOs, and now a world where there are literally thousands of blockchain projects hoping to strike it rich, we quickly became uncomfortable as the original nerd-money with its idealists became the world of pitches and marketers. Without many interviews, as the years passed the show has become more inward-looking, as we explored our personal passions and perspectives. Perspective and personal context are arguably the thing I think is most important about what the show is, and what it's good at doing, and we'd like to build on that this year. So in 2020, we want to do something a little different, and add more perspectives to the show without adding more permanent hosts. We're looking for up to four listeners to join the Let's Talk Bitcoin! team as junior producers, you don't have to be a long-time listener to participate, all that's required of a good candidate is that you are knowledgable about the space, paying attention to events as they happen, and have an opinion, a perspective, on what it all means or might mean. Junior producers will be asked to write up and send in a monthly report of the most important, most under-appreciated, most misunderstood, or other such personal judgments about the world of crypto. You'll also be asked to join me on a monthly call to discuss your report, and make sure I understand your perspectives correctly. All told, for the right candidate, this work and follow-up meeting should take no longer than five hours per month. And this is a paid role. To apply, send an email to Adam@ltbshow.com Let's Talk Bitcoin! is back with new episodes next week, thanks for listening. LTB #421 Stone Money and Echoes of the Past On Today's episode of let's talk bitcoin, we're listening to echoes of the past. In the midst of the biggest bubble yet, finding ourselves in the "then they laugh at you" phase, and with the china narrative rising for the first time as trade volumes overtook the rest of the world, I was joined by Stephanie Murphy and Andreas M. Antonopoulos in early 2014 for a conversation that is very different, yet somehow the same as we reacted in real-time to all-time high prices of $220, But first, In the nearly seven years since we started talking Bitcoin, my favorite segment from my favorite writer is without question, the island of stone bitcoins by then-LTB managing editor George Ettinger. Bitingly funny and still one of the easiest ways to accurately explain how blockchains and tokens work without the need for technology at all, even if you know this story you'll learn a thing or two, at least I did. This episode is sponsored by Brave.com and eToro.com, and is distributed in partnership with CoinDesk.com How can public blockchains have privacy? \| LTB #420 Dec 8, 2019 On today's show, we discuss the idea of true privacy on public, transparent blockchains and some of the ways it's working (or not) in Bitcoin or related projects right now. Select Shownotes: How can public blockchains have privacy? The decreasing cost of passive surveillance MimbleWimble research Attack, Developer Response, and Alternative Implementation Response Gossip Protocols and The Stasi Model Skin in the game with Proof of Work The moving target and the arms race Obscuring origins and game theory security Breaking links with lightning and other layer-2s Adversarial relationships are economic in nature Attacks in theory vs. practice Security through obscurity? Researchers, cryptographers and state level actors and more... Let’s Talk Bitcoin! is a long-running independent podcast on the ideas, people and projects powering the cryptocurrency narrative. On this show, we basically talk about everything other than the price. Since we started this conversation in early 2013, a whole world of blockchains and tokens has sprung up alongside bitcoin, and we talk about those too as real-world events help us see what’s real and what’s just clever marketing. Visit LTBShow.com for all 419 of our past episodes or to subscribe directly to the Let's Talk Bitcoin! show. Episode 420 (How can public blockchains have privacy) Credits: Sponsors - Brave.com & eToro.com Hosts: Adam B. Levine (http://ltbshow.com) Andreas M. Antonopoulos (https://aantonop.com/) Stephanie Murphy (https://www.stephaniemurphyvoice.com/) Jonathan Mohan ( https://twitter.com/JonathanMohan) Other Staff Producer - Adam B. Levine Editor - Jonas Music (Theme) - Jared Rubens Music (Other) - General Fuzz LTB #419 Altcoins and Ancient History with Charlie Lee On this week's episode…. The hosts are talking “Altcoins and Ancient History" with Early Bitcoin Developer and Litecoin Creator Charlie Lee Selected Topics: Token Age and Network Effect Testnet game theory Founder Anonymity, then and now Ad-hoc audits in the wake of MtGox's Collapse Schnorr signatures, Tapscript and Taproot intentions at Litecoin A "Coinbase mafia?" and more... Let’s Talk Bitcoin! is a long-running independent podcast on the ideas, people and projects powering the cryptocurrency narrative. On this show, we basically talk about everything other than the price. Since we started this conversation in early 2013, a whole world of blockchains and tokens has sprung up alongside bitcoin, and we talk about those too as real-world events help us see what’s real and what’s just clever marketing. Episode 419 Credits: Sponsors - Edge.app, Brave.com & eToro.com Guest - Charlie Lee (@SatoshiLite) Hosts - Adam B. Levine (http://ltbshow.com) - Andreas M. Antonopoulos (https://aantonop.com/) - Stephanie Murphy (https://www.stephaniemurphyvoice.com/) - Jonathan Mohan ( https://twitter.com/JonathanMohan) Producer - Adam B. Levine Editors - Jonas Music - Jared Rubens (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jared-a-rubens-099349135) - General Fuzz (https://www.generalfuzz.net/) LTB#418 Statechains, and Trading the Panopticon for Magical Internet Money On this week's episode…. Segment 1 “Long Bitcoin, Short the World? Trading the Panopticon for Magical Internet Money” CoinDesks’ Nolan hosts a fascinating Discussion with Eric Weinstein at Invest2019(https://www.coindesk.com/events/invest-2019) They talk about embedded growth obligations and the sociopathic companies they engender… ...and Tuur Demeester’s (https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester) Reformation of Bitcoin (https://docsend.com/view/ijd8qrs) Is everything fine, or are we already experiencing a low grade revolution? The big value of blockchains is that they replicate real world “It just works”, if imperfectly. Much more in this wide-ranging “fireside chat” Segment 2 “New Tools, Layers, and Tradeoffs for scaling Blockchains” In Segment 2, the hosts of Let’s Talk Bitcoin are joined by Ruben Somsen to dig into his proposal for blockchain agnostic “Statechains” A low-trust, low knowledge, high accessibility approach to side chains Pairing Statechains with Lightning Networks Ruben’s journey from podcasting enthusiast (https://www.unhashedpodcast.com/) to scaling innovator https://twitter.com/SomsenRuben/status/1145738783192600576 Let’s Talk Bitcoin! is a long-running independent podcast on the ideas, people and projects powering the cryptocurrency narrative. On this show, we basically talk about everything other than the price. Since we started this conversation in early 2013, a whole world of blockchains and tokens has sprung up alongside bitcoin, and we talk about those too as real-world events help us see what’s real and what’s just clever marketing. Episode 418 Credits: Sponsors - Edge.app, Brave.com & eToro.com Hosts - Adam B. Levine (http://ltbshow.com) - Andreas M. Antonopoulos (https://aantonop.com/) - Stephanie Murphy (https://www.stephaniemurphyvoice.com/) - Ruben Somsen ( https://twitter.com/somsenruben?lang=en) https://twitter.com/SomsenRuben/status/1145738783192600576) Special thanks to Invest2019, Nolan and Eric Weinstein Producer - Adam B. Levine Editors - Jonas - Adam B. Levine Music - Jared Rubens (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jared-a-rubens-099349135) - General Fuzz (https://www.generalfuzz.net/) LTB #417 Adoption and Mimicry on the Blockchain In today's episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin!, we’re jumping back into the deep end with a wide-ranging conversation about Mass Adoption, Cargo Cults, Synthetic Shorts and more. LTB! Update (Season 2 Coming Soon!) LTB! editor-in-chief Adam B. Levine provides a brief update. LTB#416 Why? “It just keeps getting kicked up to the next level and at some point it'll be the dollar. That's the last thing that got us out of the last emergency and then people will finally realize they got nothing left.” Dr. Robert Murphy, LTB#416 On Today's Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin! Adam B. Levine, Stephanie Murphy & Jonathan Mohan are joined by Dr. Robert Murphy for an in-depth conversation about reserve currency transitions, statistics, economics, and why things are the way they are. Credits Image Credits: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Earth_Western_Hemisphere_transparent_background.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Question_mark_grey.svg/585px-Question_mark_grey.svg.png Thanks for listening to this episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin! Today's episode featured Robert Murphy, Stephanie Murphy, Jonathan Mohan and Adam B. Levine, with music by Jared Rubens and General Fuzz. This episode was sponsored by Edge.app Any questions or comments? Email adam@ltbshow.com LTB #415 A Domino Effect On Today's Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin! Adam B. Levine sits down with William K. Santiago to discuss Blockchains, Reserve Assets, Regional Central Banks and more. Credits Thanks for listening to this episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin! Today's episode featured William K. Santiago and Adam B. Levine, with music by Jared Rubens. This episode was too short for me to want to add sponsor time, but a big thanks to Purse.io and Edge.app for generally sponsoring the show. Any questions or comments? Email adam@ltbshow.com Tune in next week for our conversation about reserve currency transitions with a special guest. LTB #414 Let's Talk Bitcoin! Live Q&A On Today's Episode, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Stephanie Murphy, Jonathan Mohan and Adam B. Levine are back with part two of our recent live show recorded at BTC2019 in front of a live studio audience. This time, we've got nearly an hour of audience Q&A. Enjoy the show! This episode was sponsored by https://edge.app Curated Excerpts by ProfessorMeo_w Stephanie Murphy: “Do you think Bitcoin will be able to shift from block rewards to transaction fees to maintain security as the block reward approaches zero?” Andreas M. Antonopoulos: “This is one of the fundamental misunderstandings and dynamics of mining for most people, which is the idea that something suddenly happens sometime at an undescribed future, either at the next halving or in 2141. The truth is on a daily basis, every single miner in the industry looks at six or seven different factors: the efficiency of their mining equipment, the price of electricity in their local fiat, the cost of their operation system, the current price of Bitcoin in fiat, the reward that's available as a block subsidy, the average amount of fees they can get, and the relative proportion of hashing power. They decide based on all of these factors. Do I leave this specific machine on at its current efficiency, or do I turn it off, or do I point it to another coin? That happens every single day. Every single day that decision continues, it’s rebalancing all of these dynamic factors. So the shift between block subsidy and fees happened every single day since January 3rd 2009 and it continues to happen today. Sometimes, the capacity of the blockchain, the number of transactions that are in there, the value of the fees mean that it really attracts miners because there's a lot of fees to take. Other times, the fees decrease, the number of transactions decreases, so they're now more reliant on block subsidy and then it swings back and forth and back and forth. It's gonna oscillate in that way all the way to 2141. Stephanie Murphy: “What does everybody's view on Rootstock (RSK)?” Andreas M. Antonopoulos: I don't think Rootstock is putting smart contracts on Bitcoin. Rootstock is allowing you to use Bitcoin to pay for smart contracts on the Rootstock Drivechain, which you could theoretically do by shifting money into Ethereum. In fact, recently I saw someone who had built a gateway that allowed you to make a Lightning payment that terminated in an Ethereum contract. So there's many ways to bridge different blockchains together. Quite honestly, I don't think we should be doing smart contracts on Bitcoin. Bitcoin doesn't do smart contracts, and it doesn't do smart contracts because it does security. That's not a trade-off I think is worth doing. It's much better to leave that to a chain that has a much more experimental culture and can take bigger risks. As to whether we can do smart contracts, that's not a binary question; it's a question of value. So can we do smart contracts that can keep $1,000,000 secure? Yes. $10,000,000? Maybe. $100,000,000? No, the DAO proved that. How about now? DAI is doing more, so maybe yes. So it's basically a moving front. As the maturity of the smart contract ecosystem expands, we can do bigger and bigger stakes (no pun intended) within the smart contract ecosystem. Every now and then there's gonna be a fairly catastrophic failure that's gonna cause a regression in the amounts of money that's put in them. But essentially it's growing. We're proving this every day, and it's the same thing with Bitcoin. The way you measure security in a smart contract or you measure security in a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin is how secure is Bitcoin? X billion dollars. That's the stake that is sitting on it right now, unhacked so far. LTB #413 Origin Stories and Earned Experience ###On Today's Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin! We'll meet Jason, Chris, and Nicholas, all relatively new bitcoin users for a look at the value proposition and paths in for more recent converts. After the break, Edge.app's Paul Puey and I sit down to discuss what's changed with time in Cryptocurrency, what we've learned or at least think we have... --- This episode is sponsored by [www.purse.io](https://purse.io) ##Credits Original Album Art: https://pixabay.com/photos/iceberg-ice-cold-sea-winter-sky-4089866/ Thanks for listening to this episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin! This episode was sponsored by Purse.io, and featured Nicholas, Jason, Chris, Paul and Adam. Special thanks to the Blockchain Training Conference for putting on such a great event. This episode featured music by Jared Rubens, General Fuzz and Gurty Beats. Today's show was produced by Krystal and edited by Adam. Incidentally, are you a reliable, capable audio editor? I'm looking to expand the team I work with on Let's Talk Bitcoin! and would love to hear from you at adam@ltbshow.com LTB #412 Let's Talk Bitcoin Live! On today's episode we're jumping into a mostly un-edited live show, which we recorded live, on-stage in Aurora Colorado during the Blockchain Training Conference a few weeks ago... Big thanks for Purse.io for sponsoring today's episode of the show. After the break, we go boldly towards a conversation about the intersection, if there is one, of cryptocurrency and star trek money with an on-stage conversation between Jonathan Mohan and Davi Barker, moderated by Stephanie Murphy. LTB #411c Growing to Fit We recently returned from the Blockchain Training Conference, where aside from teaching classes and doing a couple of live shows, we set up a Let's Talk Bitcoin! Recording Booth! Over three days, we interviewed about a dozen people, some new to Cryptocurrency and some who have been around longer in a hunt for "What's Interesting" to those newer users and "What's Changed" for those who have been around for multiple cycles. This episode is sponsored by www.edge.app Segment 1: Trixie - Newer User (http://www.trishatrixie.com/) Segment 2: Jameson Lopp - Long Time Bitcoin Developer - Casa CTO (https://keys.casa/) Segment 3: Darrin - Long Time Bitcoin Miner Segment 4: Davi Barker - Long Time Bitcoin User - Bitcoins Not Bombs & Pirates Without Borders (https://pirateswithoutborders.com/) Original Album Art: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Krzywy_Las_-_Nowe_Czarnowo_2.JPG Thanks for listening to this episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin! This episode was sponsored by Edge.app, and featured Adam, Trixie, Jameson Lopp, Darrin, and Davi Barker. This episode featured music by Jared Rubens and General Fuzz. Today's show was produced by Krystal and edited by Steven. Incidentally, are you a reliable, capable audio editor? I'm looking to expand the team I work with on Let's Talk Bitcoin! and would love to hear from you. LTB #410 Before the Flood Hey folks, Adam B. Levine here, just returned from the Blockchain Training Conference in Aurora Colorado. For the first time since spring of last year, the other hosts and I found ourselves face to face for three days of classes, shows and interviews which we'll be sharing with you over the month of September as segments on the LTB show or as bonus content on the new, free subscriber feed at LTBshow.com You can expect the flood to start with the release of next weeks episode, But today, I've just got a taste for you as I sit down live, and in-person with Jonathan Mohan to discuss our time. LTB #409 Another Perspective on India This week Adam B. Levine, Stephanie Murphy & Jonathan Mohan are joined by Vignesh for a more local perspective on the realities in India and the recently proposed Indian Cryptocurrency Ban. This is a follow-up episode to our India's Catch-22 segment from LTB#407 --- LTB #409 was sponsored by Purse.io and featured Stephanie Murphy, Jonathan Mohan, Vignesh and Adam B. Levine. Music for this episode was provided by Jared Rubens, and general fuzz. This episode was edited by Steven Aram. Any questions or comments? email adam@ltbshow.com LTB #408 Bitcoin Game Theory for Countries On Today's Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin! Join Adam B. Levine, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Stephanie Murphy & Jonathan Mohan for a discussion on China, and recent signs of official sentiments thawing towards Bitcoin. We talk incentives, possible end-games and coffee. This episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin! is sponsored by Edge.app Content for LTB#408 was provided by Stephanie Murphy, Jonathan Mohan, Andreas M. Antonopoulos and Adam B. Levine. This episode was edited by Steven and featured music by Jared Rubens and General Fuzz Any questions or comments? email adam@ltbshow.com LTB #407 India's Catch-22 & How to Work With Money when Money Doesn't Work On Today's Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin... Join Adam B. Levine, Andreas Antonopoulos, Stephanie Murphy and Jonathan Mohan for a first-look at a particularly draconian law that's been proposed in India. Later, HRF.org director Alex Gladstein joins Adam B. Levine for the latest in the Global Voices series. This week we're talking practical applications in Venezuela with returning guest Alejandro Machado. Thanks to Purse.io for sponsoring this episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin! Join the Let's Talk Bitcoin! team for a live recording at the Blockchain Training conference (https://blockchaintraining.org) --- This episode was sponsored by Purse.io and BlockchainTraining.org Music for this episode was provided by Jared Rubens and general Fuzz, with editing by Steven. Any questions or comments? Email adam@ltbshow.com. Image Credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/alyssablack/12185839253/ Thailand, FATF and the US Treasury's Concerns - Token Rumors Pilot Episode This is the pilot episode of Token Rumors, a daily, 5-minute-show concept from the creator of Let's Talk Bitcoin! focused on demystifying and connecting the dots between the best and most interesting journalism in cryptocurrency. This is NOT a daily show yet, if you'd like it to be please let us know via email adam@letstalkbitcoin.com Episode Links: https://www.coindesk.com/thailand-to-bring-cryptocurrency-under-anti-money-laundering-rules https://www.coindesk.com/fatf-crypto-travel-rule https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDmhT9UZPIk https://static.coindesk.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Embargo-Virtual-Asset-Guidance.pdf LTB#406 Hyperinflation, Official, and HODL Currencies (or, "Incentives are Destiny") "If ever those two facts diverge, where the agreement is still that it's a reserve currency but the market truth is that it's no longer a good HODL currency... If those diverge... it doesn't matter if you keep calling it a reserve currency, people aren't willing to HODL it. " - Andreas Antonopoulos - LTB E406 On Today's Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin!... One of the early stories we discussed, at great length, was the sort of long-term play that Bitcoin and related technologies are making as unstoppable competition for global, regional and national currencies. On today's episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin!, we'll join Adam B. Levine, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Stephanie Murphy, and Jonathan Mohan for an in-depth discussion on Hyperinflation, Reserve Currencies, Incentives, Bitcoin, and more... --- Thanks for listening to this episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin! This episode was sponsored by Edge.app and Blockchaintraining.org. This episode featured content by Jonathan Mohan, Stephanie Murphy, Andreas Antonopoulos, and Adam B. Levine. This episode was edited by Steven, with music by Jared Rubens and General Fuzz. Any questions or comments? Email adam@letstalkbitcoin.com See you next time. LTB #405 It's All Bitcoin On Today's Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin!... Adam B. Levine and LTB Global Voices segment host Alex Gladstein are talking Bitcoin in the Philippines with Luis Buenaventura. Later, having now heard perspectives from bitcoin users in Iran, India, Shanghai, Nigeria, the Philippines and with Venezuela still to air Adam and Alex take a measured look back at the interview series so far. This episode is sponsored by Purse.io and BlockchainTraining.org Today's show featured content by Alex Gladstein, Luis Buenaventura, and Adam B. Levine. This episode was edited by Steven Aram and featured music by Jared Rubens and General Fuzz. Have any questions or comments? Email adam@letstalkbitcoin.com. Have a good week! LTB #404 Crypto Plastic & Bitcoin's 90/10 in India On Today's Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin... In our first segment, we'll join Andreas Antonopoulos, Stephanie Murphy, Jonathan Mohan, and Adam B. Levine for a look at the varied approaches being used to connect your Bitcoin to credit card style ease-of-use. After the break, guest host Alex Gladstein and Adam B. Levine sit down once again for another installment of LTB Global Voices. This time we talk with Aparna Krishnan about the unique situation brewing in India today. Today's episode was sponsored by Edge.app and BlockchainTraining.org --- Highlights: “It's almost as if the entire mechanism is designed to put you into debt, hopefully to get you to a point where you end up racking up fees to enrich some group of bankers..as if the entire system is designed to not only make you a debt slave, but make sure that you work for a wage salaried position to a giant corporation.” - Andreas Antonopoulos “..if anyone represents themselves as insured, you have to really look into what they mean. I feel like a lot of people are conflating one type of insurance with the other when they're making financial decisions about where they put their money. So when it comes to collateralized lending and engaging in margin, that's the whole point that crypto was trying to escape is that type of understanding of finance” - Jonathan Mohan “..when you say something like “banking the unbanked,” it's important to understand why people are unbanked in the first place. One thing that I found really interesting in India was that a large number of these people who are unbanked don't know how to use the existing financial system. It's not that they don't have access to financial systems.” - Aparna Krishnan --- Episode 404 featured content from Andreas Antonopoulos, Stephanie Murphy, Jonathan Mohan, Adam B. Levine, Alex Gladstein, and Aparna Krishnan. This episode featured music by Jared Rubens and General Fuzz, with editing by Steven and Adam. Any questions or comments? You can either email adam@letstalkbitcoin.com, or now leave a voice message directly through your anchor.fm app, or on the new show page at ltbshow.com Image credit: CC-SA http://www.picpedia.org/credit-cards/credit-cards09.html LTB #403 Efficiency and Timing On Todays Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin... Join Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Adam B. Levine, Stephanie Murphy & Jonathan Mohan for an early look at the newly proposed "Erlay" and "Dandelion" transaction relay protocols. Later, Adam and HRF.org's Alex Gladstein sit down with Hong Kong Bitcoin Users Christina and Leo, in the third of our interview series focused on international perspectives. --- Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #49 Bitcoin Hong Kong Meetup Group --- Support the Show! Sponsored by: www.edge.app Tip LTB: 1FZGD64BA7B9GdwDhGGGF92amt9X6VH38K or Via the Lightning Network at https://tipltb.tokenly.com/ --- Image Credit: Wikipedia's Hong Kong entry Thanks for listening to this episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin, content for today's show was provided by Stephanie, Adam, Jonathan, Andreas, Alex, Christina, and Leo. This episode was edited by Steven and Adam. This episode featured music by Jared Rubens and General Fuzz. Send questions or comments to adam@letstalkbitcoin.com LTB #402 The Whole Crypto Game Just Changed On Todays Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin... Join Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Stephanie Murphy, Jonathan Mohan and Adam B. Levine for an in-depth discussion on the realities, implications and possible speculative motive behind Facebook's recently revealed Libra Protocol. Bonus Episode: Stephanie and Adam read "How Will Facebook's Libra Blockchain Really Work? An Expert Guide to the Social Media Company's Foray into Cryptocurrency" by Jameson Lopp Shownotes: High Level (Lightpaper) : https://libra.org/en-US/white-paper/#introduction Stablecoin Reserve Whitepaper: https://libra.org/en-US/about-currency-reserve/#the_reserve Libra Association Whitepaper:https://libra.org/en-US/association-council-principles/#overview Libra Blockchain Whitepaper:https://libra.org/en-US/association-council-principles/#overview Move Language Whitepaper: https://developers.libra.org/docs/move-paper --- Support the Show! Sponsored by: [www.Purse.io](https://purse.io) Tip LTB:1FZGD64BA7B9GdwDhGGGF92amt9X6VH38K or Via the Lightning Network at https://tipltb.tokenly.com/ Thanks to everyone who participated in the LTB Shirts project, we've put it on hold for the time being but may revisit it in the future. If you are interested in purchasing a LTB shirt, email adam@letstalkbitcoin.com --- Image Credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/59937401@N07/5857197577 Thanks for listening to this episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin, content for today's show was provided by Stephanie Murphy, Jonathan Mohan, Andreas Antonopoulos and Adam B. Levine This episode was edited by Steven and Adam. This episode featured music by Jared Rubens and General Fuzz Send questions or comments to adam@letstalkbitcoin.com How Will Facebook's Libra Blockchain Really Work? An Expert Guide to the Social Media Company's Foray Into Cryptocurrency by Jameson Lopp, Read by Stephanie Murphy & Adam B. Levine As part of our prep for discussing the new Libra project from Facebook, we read and really enjoyed a line-by-line call early analysis of the Libra Protocol Technical Paper by Jameson Lopp and with his permission are pleased to provide it to you today in audio format. 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__label__cc	0.672651	0.327349	The sales leadership world is full of knowledgeable pros, but few are as experienced as John Barrows, owner of JBarrows LLC. He’s held every position in sales, including inside, field, channel, executive management, and ownership. John continues to sell every day using the techniques he teaches to some of the world’s leading tech companies—he counts Google, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Zendesk, and Box among his clients. And in every role, he’s established a framework for sales calls to ensure a successful buyer-seller relationship. In this conversation with John, we focused on the value of sales call frameworks. He defines a sales framework, explains the differences between a framework and a script, and guides sales leaders on how they can help their teams develop frameworks of their own. John also offers advice on how to stay both flexible and consistent on sales calls. Structure vs. Scripts In defining a sales framework, John begins by pointing out the difference between a structure and script. “Too many people are trying to script out the perfect sales call,” he said. He added that when most organizations onboard sales professionals, they train them to memorize word-for-word an introduction, questions, and a presentation. What’s missing in the training conversation, John believes, is context. Too often, salespeople armed with scripts aren’t taught to value flexibility. A low-performing rep might say that they were trained on memorization and repetition. Sales and marketing expert Gary Vaynerchuck is credited with saying, “If content is king, then context is God.” For John, that means sales provides context for marketing’s content. The right framework helps sales professionals provide the right context for their content. John suggests starting simple, setting structure for calls at the various stages of the sales process. For example, a cold call should be broken down into the 3 main sections Introduction: How a rep introduces themselves matters. Intention: What’s the reason for the call? Next steps: What’s the call to action? Within that structure, a sales professional can build her own powerful introduction from provided examples, and make the framework her own. The pitfalls of a script aren’t limited to stifling a salesperson’s flexibility. Because customers rarely go through a linear buying process, a sales rep using a script could end up trying to force the customer through an unnatural process, “The customer has the gas and the brakes, the rep has the steering wheel,” John said, quoting his old boss Jeff Hoffman. It’s the salesperson’s job to guide the conversation. Balance consistency and flexibility John’s philosophy toward a flexible framework shows through in the way that he trains. When he hired Morgan Ingram, Director of Sales Execution and Evolution, John listened to a lot of his calls. Morgan’s calls felt robotic at first, with Morgan intent on getting through all the questions on his list. He eventually learned, however, that when the client gives an answer to a certain question (read: a clue), he should stop asking any other question and dive into that answer to get more—you guessed it—context. “That’s the reason the client’s going to buy,” John said. “Listening to the customer is how you get the sale”. John advises starting with a simple questioning framework: Ask the question. Be direct and allow the customer to ask their own questions in return. Genuinely listen to the answer. A customer’s answer will help guide you where you need to go with the conversation. Ask a layering question. Dig into a customer’s reason for talking to you by learning more about what they want. They want you to help them solve a problem. A framework like this allows flexibility and creativity—but it’s also important for sales leaders to teach consistency as well. A company with a personalized product and a small sales team might not need so much structure, but a brand looking to scale has to depend on consistency to achieve success. “If everybody’s doing their own thing, there is no way to scale an organization, period,” John said. “But if you can make an objective process and put some framework around it, you can pinpoint areas for improvements.” To keep track of forecast consistency, John’s team uses a scorecard. It outlines the different things that their clients ask from them throughout the sales process (Gives) with the different things his team needs from the client (Gets). It’s about keeping the deals equal throughout the process. If expectations aren’t being met, John and the sales rep can easily look at the scorecard to objectively assess the deal and find out what is needed to ensure the deal is still moving in the right direction. If the sales rep is having challenges closing deals, then the scorecard is a great way to objectively look at the opportunities and find a common denominator that can be coached and improved upon. For instance, if “meeting with power” is missing on most of the deals on the list, John can spend time with his reps to determine how to get to power earlier in the sales process. “The beauty of that is now the information is objective. If the employee doesn’t meet with power, I don’t want that deal on my forecast,” John said. “The data shows that is a leading indicator as to whether a deal will work or not. Without a framework, I would be individually analyzing every deal and trying to pull it apart, which is extremely difficult.” Any process is better than no process. Thinking strategically about a sales process framework can help a team win more deals by: Outlining a process Analyzing the steps of that process Identifying the weakest link Brainstorming a solution Observing how the process improves Finding the next weakest link Sales Framework Resources Although John believes sales professionals (with guidance from management) should learn to balance structure and flexibility in each prospective customer conversation, he also believes sales leaders must provide their teams with as many high-quality resources as possible. The best way to find those resources is for leaders and company founders to create their own. “I wrote a post a long time ago called The Founder’s Dilemma with Sales,” John said. Founders of companies, who are often engineers, create a product or service. If a founder is passionate about what they’ve developed and they go out and talk to friends and family, that enthusiasm transfers and they get some sales. They hire some reps and think that’s it.” But those founders often fail to provide their teams with a process to help convey that original enthusiasm and value. And too often, a founder assumes it’s the sales team’s fault and goes all in on marketing. “My recommendation for a founder or a sales leader is this: you better go out and sell,” John said. “Before you can manage, you need to know how to sell this product, you need to know every nuance, and you need to document every single thing that happens so you can find out where your inconsistencies and real challenges lie.” How to A/B Test the Sales Process and Improve Results Maintaining motivation can be a challenge in sales. But learning from a lost deal offers a silver lining. A successful framework is one that’s gone through several iterations. John advises sales professionals to test two messages: call 25 people who have a similar persona with one message and then 25 other people who have the same persona with a different message and then measure which one yields the higher response. “Same with emails: send 25 with one approach, send 25 with another,” he said. “Change the subject line. See which approach gets a higher open rate.” Split testing across the sales process—asking one set of questions one week, and a second set another week—will help identify what works and what doesn’t. And that leads to continuous learning and improvement. Sales leaders are responsible for training, but the other central part of their job is coaching. But many sales leaders don’t coach; instead, they deal chase. John’s advice is to leave the deal-chasing to the team and focus instead on making each sales professional as successful as possible. And that, as well as every other lesson John has learned in his career, goes back to process and framework. “I don’t want the A+ rep to be a manager, I want them to be an A+ rep,” he said. “For my managers, I want the B+ rep. I want the consciously competent rep to be the manager because they know exactly why they are as good or not as good as they need to be. They have a process that they can replicate.” John’s first major in college was art and, despite not sticking with it, he still learned a valuable sales lesson. “I got out quickly, realizing I wouldn’t make any money, but Picasso’s my favorite artist. I’ll never be Picasso. But if you give me a paint by numbers and tell me where to put the colors and let me mix them, I can come pretty close.” An Interview With Morgan Ingram: Tips to Effectively Open a Cold Call	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14189
__label__cc	0.569736	0.430264	Tarantula, Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, Level 16 [Review] Tarantula is about the time Leo G. Caroll had to find giant spiders that took to the hills. It gave people an awful fright and inspired one of the big songs about movies ever. The film itself was typical for a Jack Arnold production. Nature gone amuck, something from space gone amuck and targeting small towns. Clint Eastwood cameos as a Jet Squadron leader, but this movie belongs to the killer spiders. Releases like this are why I’m loving Scream Factory’s deal with Universal. The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires is one of those Hammer films that took forever to get a decent release. Released in America as The 7 Brothers Meet Dracula, the film was an oddity that didn’t quite gel with the Horror or Kung-Fu community. Still, it was a pleasant departure for Shaw Brothers and Hammer Films. The new 2K scan is the selling point of the film, but the commentary is pretty solid too. Level 16 is a fascinating look at an alternate dystopia to the one we’re currently experiencing. This time, it’s about a future where young girls are forced to conform to the families that adopt them. Naturally, it becomes an escape story through a fascinating found setting. The special features are pretty packed for an indie feature. Still, it suffers from Post Fantastic Fest trappings. There is a great idea at play, but the execution is hit or miss. Tarantula arrives April 30th The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires arrives April 9th Level 16 arrives April 30th The Craft ruined Goth Girls [Review] Kiss Kiss (2019) destroyed my expectations [DVD Review] Terminator: Dark Fate [4K UHD review] Gemini Man [4K Ultra HD review] The Grudge (2020) review AndersonVision’s Almost Best of 2019 List Magnolia Digital January 7th Feature: Mister America & Wrinkles the Clown January Stack of Movies [Blu-ray Reviews]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14190
__label__cc	0.537022	0.462978	An information resource for orthodox Anglicans Home » Sex education » Parents need to exercise their rights to challenge RSE lessons Parents need to exercise their rights to challenge RSE lessons Oct 12, 2019 by Jill by Will Jones, Christian Today: The government has issued guidance to local authorities advising how to handle school protests by parents against the teaching of LGBT and other controversial subjects in Relationships and Sex Education (RSE). The advice includes liaising with police and imposing fines for non-attendance, which suggests the Department for Education (DfE) is in combative mode. However, the guidance also stresses that schools should consult with parents about the content of teaching and that it is ‘right’ that schools should reflect parents’ views. In saying this, it is in line with the law and with fundamental human rights. Article 26(3) of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: ‘Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.’ Protocol 1, Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights (read into UK law by the Human Rights Act 1998) states: ‘In the exercise of any functions which it assumes in relation to education and to teaching, the State shall respect the right of parents to ensure such education and teaching is in conformity with their own religious and philosophical convictions.’ It is important for parents and schools to be aware that there is nothing compulsory about teaching controversial LGBT lesson content. It is perfectly possible to comply with the law and teach RSE in ways which respect parent’s views and concerns. The new law, which mandates RSE in all schools from September 2020, is very flexible in what the lessons may look like, including making allowance for faith-based schools to teach a curriculum that is consistent with their faith convictions. Schools which opt to teach a controversial programme like No Outsiders or All About Me (many of them originating in Queer Theory or the United Nations’ Comprehensive Sexuality Education agenda) are doing so by choice. They can be challenged on this, and on what provision they are making for those who object to the content. Read also: Something rotten in the state of England, Voice for Justice UK: [clip] The Department for Education has issued new advice to schools, specifically aimed at handling parental protests over LGBT teaching outside Primary schools. Entitled Primary school disruption over LGBT teaching / Relationships Education: Advice for Local Authorities on steps to manage issues, it has reportedly been sent to all head teachers. VfJUK is in possession of a copy but, as far as we can ascertain, you will not find any reference to this document on the DfE website, which is why a link cannot be provided. We are profoundly disturbed. Ed: Voice for Justice UK have now announced ‘Thank you to all our loyal supporters who have bombarded the DfE over the last few days, requesting copies of their advice, Primary school disruption over LGBT teaching / Relationships Education: Advice for Local Authorities on steps to manage issues. The DfE have at last come clean and published the advice on their website. But would they have done it, VfJUK asks, had it not been for all of you? Read the advice in full here. 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__label__cc	0.598395	0.401605	AsSIST-UK UK Association for Studies in Innovation, Science and Technology AsSIST-UK PhD Prize Commentary in Nature on the launch of the Association andrewwebsteryork April 7, 2016 May 20, 2016 News The Association launch on April 6th at the BSA coincided with a commentary in Nature that explains the origins and aims of AsSIST-uk. It comes under Nature’s banner of a ‘World View’, and their pre-given format for this on the strap line at the top suggests it is a ‘personal view’, with me as the sole author. This piece is very much the result of discussion with members of the Executive Committee, and especially Robin Williams and Fred Steward. We see it as reflecting the views of the membership as a whole. A longer version of this will be uploaded shortly. The link to the paper in Nature can be found at: Nature World View There is also a piece on the launch on Research Professional at: News of Launch carried in Research Professional The journalist, regrettably and incorrectly, says that the Association results from the efforts of three members – myself, Robin Williams and Fred Steward – when it is very much more a collective effort across the membership as a whole. Andrew Webster Co-Chair Previous AsSIST-uk Public Launch Next The Nature article: longer discussion paper now uploaded Mithu Lucraft says: Congratulations on the launch of this exciting new venture!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14215
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EC adds Iran Aseman Airlines in the black-list; 193 carriers banned from EU skies -SPECIALS by AVIONEWS Brussels, Belgium - The Commission removes all Kazakh airlines from EU Air Safety List The European Commission updated the EU Air Safety List, the list of airlines that do not meet international safety standards, and are therefore subject to an operating ban or operational restrictions within... more SecurityDOT proposes rule to protect airline passengers from being unwillingly exposed to voice calls on aircraft Washington, Usa - Currently, the Federal Communications Commission’s rules prohibit the use of mobile devices on certain radio frequencies onboard airplanes, voice calls included The US Department of Transportation (DOT) announced its proposal to require airlines and ticket agents to disclose in advance to consumers if the carrier operating their flight allows passengers to make... more SecurityThe 45th ECAC meeting of the Group of experts on investigations of aircraft accidents and incidents held in Italy Varese, Italy - Ansv, in cooperation with ECAC and with Leonardo (Helicopter division) The Italian Safety Investigation Authority (ANSV), in cooperation with the ECAC (European Civil Aviation Conference) and with the Leonardo Helicopter Division, hosted the 45th meeting of the Group of experts... more SecurityWashington-Dulles International to conduct overnight emergency exercise Saturday, October 29 Washington, Usa - Part of baggage claim area will be temporarily closed to the Public The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority will conduct an emergency response and recovery exercise at Washington Dulles International Airport during the overnight hours of Saturday, October 29, into... more SecurityAlitalia: ban Samsung Galaxy Note 7 mobiles from all its airplanes Rome, Italy - Following US Government order Alitalia from last Saturday has banned Samsung Galaxy Note 7 mobile devices from all its airplanes.The Italian airline took the decision following an order issued by the US Government’s Department of T... more SecurityAircraft. Iata: collaboration needed to stem unruly passenger incidents Geneva, Switzerland - Some 10,854 unruly passenger incidents were reported to IATA by airlines worldwide last year The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released figures showing that reports of unruly passenger incidents onboard aircraft increased in 2015. Some 10,854 unruly passenger incidents were reported... more SecurityItalian ANSV publishes preliminary inquiry report on airplane accident happened more than a month ago in Bergamo (Italy) -Specials Rome, Italy - B-737/400 registration marks HA-FAX at Orio al Serio last August 5 ANSV, the Italian Air Safety Board, communicates to have completed a preliminary inquiry report. This document is about: - Accident happened to a B-737/400 airplane, registration HA-FAX, at Bergamo-Orio... more SecurityAirplanes and safety. FAA about ban boarding Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smarthphone Washington, Usa - Recent incidents create worries of the Authority that forbids to bring on board or to put it in the checked baggage "In light of recent incidents and concerns raised by Samsung about its Galaxy Note 7 devices, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) strongly advises passengers not to turn on or charge these devices... more SecurityIndra will provide air traffic control radars to Danish Royal Air Force Rome, Italy - The three bases will be equipped with primary and secondary ones In an international public tender run by the Danish Ministry of Defense, via the Danish Defense Acquisition and Logistics Organization (DALO), Indra has been awarded the contract to provide radars to support... more SecurityEASA strengthens medical requirements for aircraft pilots Cologne, Germany - As part of its Action Plan following the Germanwings Flight 9525 accident EASA (European Aviation Safety Agency) published a set of proposals to the European Commission for an update of the rules concerning pilots’ medical fitness, as part of its Action Plan following the G... more SecurityAirplanes and safety. Iata: Governments must clamp down on rogue lithium battery shippers Geneva, Switzerland - Airline and manufacturers call for stricter enforcement and stiffer penalties The International Air Transport Association (IATA) partnered with leaders of the lithium battery supply chain to demand stricter enforcement of international regulations regarding the transport of lithium... more SecurityAiprlanes and security. United Airlines: TSA to modernize airport screening experience for customers at hub cities Chicago, Usa - Automated lanes, redesigned checkpoints and Precheck enrollment centers United Airlines (UA) and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced plans to further modernize the airport security experience at several of the airline's largest hubs, marking the latest... more SecurityCargo airplane accident at the airport of Bergamo, Italy (2). Italian ANSV's update: "Black boxes" and aircraft data Rome, Italy - Besides bullettins regarding weather situation in that moment. The Hungarian investigative authority admitted to the inquiry ANSV (the Italian Air Safety Board), regarding the accident occurred today (on August 5) at the B-737/400 cargo airplane registration HA-FAX at Bergamo airport, informs that in coordination with the judicial... more SecurityAirplanes. American security system in European airports Brussels, Belgium - In a world full of fear and instability, here is what the US suggest The United States want to spread their security system also in other European airports in order to be more secure and to control the more they can in this world full of tension caused by the terroristic... more SecurityAirplanes and safety. FAA bans US airlines from using Turkish airspace following failed coup. Notam is valid up the end of August Washington, Usa - But it will be re-evaluated at the half of next month The US FAA decided to ban all of US airlines and pilots from using Turkish airpace following the failed coup in the country. The Notam issued by the FAA is valid up to and including August 31, but... more SecurityLeonardo-Finmeccanica at Warsaw NATO Summit with NATO AGS system Warsaw, Poland - The industry is responsible for the ground control centres which gather and distribute the information coming from the surveillance remotely piloted aircraft Leonardo-Finmeccanica is at the frontline in the realisation of the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) system which, for the first time ever will be presented to heads of state and Senior officials... more SecurityUN: Italy to sit on the Security Council in 2017 -VIDEO Rome, Italy - With the Netherlands agreed on holding one year each Italy to sit on the Security Council in 2017. Italy and the Netherlands agree on holding one year each the seat as non-Permanent Member of the UN Security Council. Below, the video: more SecurityItalian ANSV publishes interim statement on AW-609 tiltrotor (airplane-helicopter) accident of 30th October 2015 -Specials AVIONEWS Rome, Italy - Registration marks N609AG, happened near Vercelli ANSV, the Italian Air Safety Board, communicates to have published a new interim statement. This is about in particular: - Accident occurred to AW-609 tilt-rotor (airplane and helicopter), registration... more SecurityUEFA European championship in France: travel advice from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs -VIDEO Rome, Italy - A section dedicated to the event where the Italians can receive information and assistance The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has set up a dedicated section of its www.viaggiaresicuri.it website for the "Euro 2016" championship, to provide Italians with information about their stay in France during... more SecurityShanghai Airport. "Molotov" bottle thrown against check-in desks Shanghai, China - Five injuried. The bomber attempted to commit suicide after the attack An unknown thirty years old man has caused panic at the international Airport of Shanghai-Pudong in China, throwing a bottle of beer filled with the explosive charge against the check-in desks of Thai... more SecurityFAA encourages aircraft pilots suffering from mental diseases Washington, USA - Yesterday the plea call of the institution: intensify the training of aeronautical doctors What to do to erase the stigma that hovers around mental illness and psychopathy in the transport sector? Many aircraft pilots are afraid of being branded for life, for this by FAA leaders arrived yesterday... more SecurityTecnam P-2002JF aircraft crashes: technical meeting promoted by the Italian ANSV Rome, Italy - Finalized to sharing operating evidences emerged in crashes that have involved this model ANSV, the Italian Air Safety Board, informed that a meeting took place last June 7 at its own offices. The gathering was among the investigative authorities for the civil aviation safety, finalized to... more Security"AGM" IATA: closer collaboration with Governments to tackle threat of terrorism Dublin, Ireland - The recent attack on Brussels Airport highlighted the importance of security in airport public areas landside The International Air Transport Association (IATA) "72nd Annual General Meeting" ("AGM") unanimously adopted a resolution that denounces terrorism and calls for intensified cooperation among governments... more SecurityAircraft and security. "JFK" of New York, workers entering restricted airport area with no security checks or pass required - VIDEO Washington, Usa - An amateur footage show staff entering closed-off zones without being controlled Some amateur footage shot with a mobile phone show employees of "John F. Kennedy" Airport in New York entering a restricted area without being subjected to any security checks, and in lack of security... more Monitora questa pagina From date: To date: About us Accidents Aerospace Airlines Airports Cargo Civil aviation Civil defense Conferences Curiosities Defense Discussions Fair and shows Finance and economy Government acts Helicopters Industry Latest news Military aviation Miscellaneous Museums Occurrences People Press release Report Science and technology Security Sport aviation Tilt-rotors UAS-Drones Video Weather forecasts	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14218
__label__wiki	0.861682	0.861682	Zion Williamson Is Showing Some Great Signs In His Injury Recovery Zion Williamson has progressed to “full weight bearing” exercises, and when you’re as heavy as Zion, that’s no mean feat. “We’re really excited with where he’s at,” Pelicans executive vice president of basketball operations David Griffin said on the Pelicans’ TV broadcast on Tuesday. “He’s made really good progress. I know we’ve reached the eight-week point, and everyone is ready to see him. I think we’re a little ways away yet, but today was a really big first step.” Despite Williamson’s progress, there is still no set date for his return. The Pelicans were initially hoping to have their prized number one pick back on the court six to eight weeks after he had meniscus surgery on October 21. But the team has taken an extremely cautious approach with the 19-year-old and remains tight-lipped on his projected timeline. Read More: The Case For And Against Letting James Harden Go For Scoring Records In A Blowout Related ItemsfeaturedNBANew Orleans PelicansZion Williamson	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14223
__label__cc	0.715057	0.284943	Kyoto/Osaka Japanese Food Guide Living/Teaching in Japan Kumamoto Castle And The Satsuma Rebellion (The Samurai’s Last Stand) If you love samurai movies then any visit to Japan will obviously be epic (it’s epic anyway), but a trip to Kyushu island in South-West Japan will be a must to visit where the last stand of the samurai took place. When it comes to watching Japanese samurai movies, the best are from Akira Kurosawa (in my opinion), with old classics from the 50,s and 60,s such as the Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, and Throne of Blood. These will put you in a great mood to visit some of these samurai places. There are many castles all over Japan and Kumamoto Castle is one of the best. This is where the samurai held out for 50 days against the imperial forces. Kumamoto / Kagoshima travel tip: Get a 3/5 Day JR All/North/South Kyushu Rail Pass (Japan Pick Up) for train travel all over Kyushu exclusive just for tourists! The Satsuma Rebellion In 1877 nine years into the new imperial government the samurai on Kyushu island (in the south-west of Japan) rebelled. This was known as the Satsuma Rebellion due to it being started in the Satsuma region of Kyushu, in Kagoshima city. It was lead by the last great samurai warrior, Saigo. They rebelled due to unhappiness at the new imperial governments ways of embracing the outside world, and abandoning some of their traditions. The samurai were facing 30,000 Imperial Army troops with modern weapons, while they only 500 samurai armed with swords and old muskets. It was a desperate rebellion but was in keeping with the samurai tradition of bushido (honour and courage). Kumamoto castle was one of the last great sieges of the samurai. Heavily outnumbered by Imperial forces of the Meiji government they put up a good fight before retreating into the mountains. The castle was mostly burned to the ground, but a replica has been built, and is a good one at that. Kumamoto Castle Update. Kumamoto Castle suffered extensive damage in an earthquake in 2016 and could remain closed for a long time for repairs. Entering into the grounds of Kumamoto castle it has massive wall defences and turret towers, with moats out front. You can spend at least two hours wandering around the grounds. There is one original turret left that was not burned down in the siege. Going inside you can just imagine all the samurai battling with the enemy out front. At the top of the turret you get a great view onto the main castle itself. Getting into the castle you will see it’s full of old weapons and clothes from the samurai, as well as details on the restoration works. Going to Kumamoto Castle is really a great experience to see where the samurai made one of their last great stands. After heading into the mountains to Mount Enodake when Kumamoto Castle fell, Saigo eventually lead the samurai to the east but became surrounded by a vastly superior force, and most of the remaining samurai either surrendered or committed seppuku (ritual suicide). But Saigo as well as 500 hundred of his men escaped to Kagoshima and took refuge at Mount Shiroyama. It was here that the final battle took place. Modern day Kagoshima. With Saigo and his men surrounded they were bombarded by artillery and could only afflict minimal casualties on the imperial troops with their muskets. Eventually with limited options Saigo and his samurai charged into the imperial lines and managed to reach them and with their famous samurai swords started cutting apart the unskilled in close combat imperial troops. The samurai were doing well as this was the combat they were used to, but Saigo was injured by a bullet and taken away, eventually dying from the wound or by seppuku (no-one really knows). The rest of the samurai fought until the last man. All were dead by the end of the day. They had no real chance as they were outnumbered 60 to 1 ! The last great samurai faded into history. Kagoshima is worth a visit for the samurai history, but is also great to see for Sakurajima volcano, where you can bathe in soothing onsen’s (hot springs). Japan is such a great country to travel around and the history of the samurai and castles which they have left behind are one of the best things about the place. So grab a bowl of ramen and watch a good samurai movie and get inspired to visit Japan and its castles. Samurai Movies As were on the subject these are some samurai movies you should watch. I love Japan and samurai movies (if you couldn’t tell) and have seen them all. I mentioned in the beginning Akira Kurosawa’s movies are my favourite and if you were to see just one samurai movie then make it the Seven Samurai. It’s such a masterful piece of cinema. Visit Kumamoto Kumamoto and Kyushu Island are a highlight of traveling in Japan. Go and visit yourself for the samurai history. Visiting Kagoshima? Here are some things to do in Kagoshima. FIND ACCOMMODATION IN KUMAMOTO HERE RELATED POSTS >>> The 10 Best Japanese Samurai Movies To Watch (Of All Time) Our Victorian Steampunk Wedding (In a Castle!) Edinburgh To Stirling Castle Day Trip (+ Church Of… GET NOTIFIED OF NEW JAPAN POSTS BY EMAIL Scenic Train Journeys Japan (Kyushu Scenic Train Route) - […] When in Kumamoto be sure to take a look at the cities famous samurai history. […] Things To Do In Kagoshima In One Day (Kyushu Travel) - […] Visit Kumamoto and learn about the last stand of the samurai. […] The Best Of Japan (With a 2 Weeks Japan Itinerary) - […] is famous for its samurai castle but this castle was damaged in a 2016 earthquake and is undergoing […] Hi! 🙂 I’m Jonny and this is my wife Sidra. I started ‘Backpackingman’ several years ago to give advice for other travellers about the countries I have visited and especially about Japan where I spent a long time. Now we travel together to bring you more guides and stories from where we go. Find out more here… As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Backpackingman is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program and other affiliate advertising programs designed to provide a means for Backpackingman to earn fees by linking to Amazon and other affiliated sites. Get a Japan Rail Pass here: Buy Me A Coffee Here (Thanks!) © Backpackingman Travel Blog 2020	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14229
__label__cc	0.557589	0.442411	Baha'i Discussions Baha'i Beliefs Baha'i Scriptures Baha'i Teachings Baha'i Social Practices Baha'i History Baha'i Mysticism Baha'i Culture & Arts Baha'i Quotes / Baha'i Prayers Baha'i Meetups uhj Women on the UHJ Does anyone have any ideas what I can say to a nonbeliever who thinks that the Baha'i Faith is harmful and anti-human because it excludes women from the UHJ? He says we exclude half the human population from leadership roles but of course he does not understand that women are only excluded from... Forum: Baha'i Discussions Help needed with finding a text of UHJ Recently a compilation Teaching Prominent People has been translated into Russian. It was compiled by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice in September 1990. For translation was used electronic version of the text. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have foreword of the Universal... UHJ not following Bahaullah and Abdul bahais adultery law UHJ and adultery law Im sure Bahaullah and abdul baha have stated that adultery will nullify the year of patience and the financial support so wondering why the UHJ don't follow what they wrote Yousefy2 Is the UHJ salaried? I was asked by a nonbeliever whether the UHJ gets a salary... Does anyone know? What about the NSAs, do they get paid? Quote From the 1 March Message of the UHJ Every choice a Baha'i makes--as employee or employer, producer or consumer, borrower or lender, benefactor or beneficiary--leaves a trace, and the moral duty to lead a coherent life demands that one's economic decisions be in accordance with lofty ideals, that the purity of one's aims be matched... Comparison of Station of Abdulbaha, Shoghi Effendi and UHJ As you are well aware, an essential element of the Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh is the acceptance of the infallibility of the Guardian. In response to questions about this matter, a letter written on his behalf in 1944 stated: The infallibility of the Guardian is confined to matters which are... InvestigateTruth Forum: Baha'i Beliefs UHJ makes 3 decisions affect the Bahai calendar The Universal House of Justice has released a letter detailing three decisions that will allow for the uniform implementation of the Bahai calendar (aka the Badi` calendar) with effect from March 21, 2015. The first decision is that Tehran "will be the spot on the earth that will serve as the... Sen McGlinn Forum: Baha'i News Naw Ruz greetings from the Universal House of Justice The Universal House of Justice has sent Naw Ruz greetings to the Bahais living in Iran, and to “all the pure spirits among the people of Iran.” The message compares the spring season to the spiritual spring, brought by the Bab and Baha’u'llah, which promises the collective maturity of the human... UHJ letter on political engagement The Universal House of Justice has addressed a letter to the Baha’is of Iran, which has been released in both Persian and English versions. It sets out “the posture held by Baha’is everywhere towards political activity,” within the framework of a vision statement on... Liberal/Reformist vs Conservative Baha'i? Are there variations in the Baha'i faith that tend to be more liberal or conservative? If so, what do they believe differently from the other? Also, I've read a little about the Universal House of Justice. Is it true that if a Baha'i doesn't believe in their decisions and such that they can... ConureDelSol should women sit on UHJ As our beloved faith extols the breaking down of barriers will the tradition of a male UHJ ever change? Should it chamge? Forum: Baha'i Administrative Order Two new UHJ messages At the beginning and end of the meeting of Continental Counsellors in the Holy land, the Universal House of Justice released two letters: the first a long and detailed evaluation addressed to the Counsellors, the second a short letter addressed to the Bahai World. I have them on my blog at UHJ... Chaste and holy life - UHJ Dec. 28, 2010 message "No less pertinent to the success of the Baha'i enterprise today are the Guardian's forthright comments on the importance of a chaste and holy life, "with its implications of modesty, purity, temperance, decency, and clean- mindedness". He was unequivocal in his language, summoning the... Rectitude of conduct - UHJ Dec. 28, 2010 message "Referring to rectitude of conduct, Shoghi Effendi spoke of the "justice, equity, truthfulness, honesty, fair-mindedness, reliability, and trustworthiness" that must "distinguish every phase of the life of the Baha'i community." Though applicable to all its members, this requisite was... Freedom from prejudice - UHJ Dec. 28, 2010 message "The Guardian next addressed the subject of prejudice, stating patently that "any division or cleavage" in the ranks of the Faith "is alien to its very purpose, principles, and ideals." He made clear that the friends should manifest "complete freedom from prejudice in their dealings with... UHJ: Gaza situation ... Any statements? Hello, Just a quick question to everyone out there. I have been looking for a very long time for a statement from the Universal House of Justice that specifically relates to the current situation regarding the occupation of Gaza and the related human rights issues. I have read Shoghi... Greg Newing Baha'i Faith The Bahá'í Faith is a religion founded by Bahá'u'lláh in 19th-century Persia, emphasizing the spiritual unity of all humankind. There are about six million Bahá'ís in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. 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__label__cc	0.522466	0.477534	Rock Bottom Intro (live at CBGB) 01:17 Hey 02:22 Rocky 03:40 Shadowplay 05:35 Losing Touch With My Mind 06:44 A-Men 05:02 Why Couldn't I See 06:50 Billy Whizz 05:29 No Good Trying 03:12 Corporal Clegg 04:17 See Emily Play 02:42 I Am A Lonesome Hobo 03:30 Needle N' The Spoon 04:11 Revolution 06:02 Shock Me 03:48 Monkey Island 03:51 Tomorrow Never Knows 03:10 The Farm Tapes Series features demos, finished recordings and sonic experiments recorded between 1985 and 2001 by Todd Parker (and whoever else was participating) with the only requirement being that the recordings were produced on a cassette 4-track machine. A Fostex X-15 was used until 1989 and from then on a Yamaha MT3X was the primary recorder. Volume 10 - The Covers The final volume of this Farm Tape series is a collection of Cover Tunes recorded under the name Tadpoles from the late 1980's through the end of the group in 2000. Tadpoles, in every incarnation, would regularly cycle a cover or two in and out of the live setlists, usually by one of our influences - Here there are covers ranging from Bob Dylan to Butthole Surfers to Spacemen 3 to Kiss. There are a few of them recorded just for fun, messing about with the 4-track , such as See Emily Play, Corporal Clegg (featuring Tony Mentzer of vocals), Needle N' The Spoon, Why Couldn't I See and Billy Whizz which never saw the light of day on stage outside of these home recordings. All songs are copyrighted by their respective writers. This album remains free to download only on this Bandcamp, not for sale.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14232
__label__wiki	0.578559	0.578559	War on Mumbai Day 3: Sequence of events so far WARZONE MUMBAI: At 21:30 hrs IST on Nov 26, 2008 night, terrorists entered the 22-storey Taj hotel and took hostages. More than 36 hours on, the war on Mumbai is still in full flow. The situation has been developing minute by minute. Here’s making sense of what’s happened so far. At 21:30 hrs IST on Nov 26, 2008 night, terrorists entered the 22-storey Taj hotel and took hostages. Mumbai’s Anti-Terrorist Squad reached the area and soon a gunbattle began, punctuated with explosions. Within minutes of the first gun being fired, there was panic across Southern Bombay. Young, heavily armed terrorists were at various locations – from the CST Station to five star hotels to the very popular Leopold Cafe in Colaba. Eyewitness accounts being collated by intelligence agencies suggest that these terrorists made their way into the heart of city in boats. At 02:00 hrs IST on Nov 27, 2008, a fire broke out in Taj hotel’s central dome. In the continuing gunbattle, three terrorists were killed by 05:00 hrs IST on Thursday. Some guests were evacuated, but the war was far from over. Apparently having landed by boat at the nearby Gateway of India, the terrorists split up. They first opened fire at the popular Cafe Leopold before moving to the Taj and Oberoi hotels. A group of terrorists entered the CST Station, fired and lobbed grenades into the crowded. Ten people died in the ensuing mayhem. The terrorists then moved to the adjacent municipal headquarters and then to Cama hospital, where again they opened fire and lobbed grenades. The terrorists managed to kill ATS Chief Hemant Karkare, who was supervising operations personally. Along with him were Additional Commissioner of Police, Ashok Kamte and senior police inspector Vijay Salaskar, a crack encounter specialist of the Mumbai Police, both of whom too died in the attack on Cama hospital. The terrorists then hijacked a police vehicle and drove towards Metro junction, where again they fire into the crowds present there. This group of terrorists were later gunned down by a police team. While police hunted for the terrorists, the Army, National Security Guard and Naval commandos tried to defuse the hostage situation in the Taj and Oberoi hotels – where some foreigners were being held – and Nariman House through the night. The Armed Forces have had partial success at the Taj, but the stand off at the Oberoi hotel and Nariman House continues. November 29, 2008 Posted by Bala \| Attacks, General, India Related, World News \| 22, Adjacent, Agency, Anti, Anti-Terrorist Squad, Armed, Armed Forces, Army, ATS, Attack, Attacks, Battle, Boat, Boats, Bombay, Cafe, Cama, Cama Hospital, Central, Central Dome, Chatrapathi Shivaji Terminus, City, Colaba, Commandos, Crowd, Crowded, Crowds, CST, CST Station, Death, Die, Died, Dome, Event, Events, Explosion, Explosions, Far, Fire, Fired, Five, Five Star Hotels, Force, Forces, Foreigner, Foreigners, Gateway, Gateway of India, Grenade, Grenades, Group, Guard, Gun, Gun Battle, Gunbattle, Headquarters, Hijack, Hijacked, Hostage, Hostages, Hotel, Hotels, House, India, Indian, Indian Standard Time, Intelligence, Intelligence Agencies, Intelligence Agency, IST, Junction, Kill, Killed, Killing, Leopold, Leopold Cafe, Location, Locations, Maharashtra, Metro, Mumbai, Mumbai Terror Attack, Municipal, Nariman, Nariman House, National, National Security Guard, Naval, Naval Commandos, Navy, Night, Nov, November, Oberoi, Oberoi Hotel, Police, Popular, Reached, Security, Sequence, South, Southern, Southern Bombay, Southern Coast, Squad, Standard, Star, Station, Storey, Taj, Taj Hotel, Terror, Terrorism, Terrorist, Terrorists, Time, Various, Vehicle, Very, War, War Zone, Warzone, Young, Zone \| Leave a comment	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14233
__label__cc	0.604669	0.395331	Join MLM Leader Erik Christian Johnson Automated Network Marketing Opportunity Best Solo Ads MLM Traffic Right Now Buy 100 Real USA Leads MLM Videos Best Network Marketing Business Online Authority Best Coffee MLM Best Network Marketing Best Network Marketing Companies of 2020 Network Marketing Automated Recruiting System Top 10 MLM 10 Best Network Marketing Companies in Norway for 2020 BestMLM2019 August 27, 2019 Best Network Marketing, Best Network Marketing Companies of 2020, Top 10 MLM No Comments Norway is a country that has seen a great amount of network marketing companies come and go. With the start of a company comes great risk in whether or not the company will see enough success early on to hold its own over the early years to continue to become one of the best. Here are the top ten companies in Norway that have proven to be very successful using network marketing to launch them into a great trajectory of continuous success. 10. 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Herbalife – Despite being a young company compared to some of the network marketing wellness companies, Herbalife has skyrocketed into success at an incredible rate. Offering a new way of life that is intended to change how people live long term, Herbalife has stood out and grown to be a worldwide entity. You can go anywhere in the world and find an Herbalife representative. It’s no wonder with such a great popularity that network marketing took this company to absolute direct sales stardom. 6. Mary Kay – In 1963, Mary Kay Ash aimed to build a company that empowered women and helped them break into the business world as leaders. As a company in the beauty industry founded by and for women, the company grew very popular very quickly and become and international phenomenon in only a decade, with trends spreading over the world. Mary Kay wanted to leave a lasting legacy and that she did. Network marketing only further helped to spread the success of this legacy all over the world bringing success and happiness to women everywhere. 5. Tupperware – Founded in 1946, Tupperware was first introduced as a method to keeping food fresh longer. First introduced in supermarkets, Tupperware didn’t do that well in sales. The brand needed to be demonstrated for people to fully see the benefits of the products. This is where the company took the turn towards direct sales, allowing the success of the products to take off. Today, Tupperware has reached all corners of the globe. Offering up all sorts of products for your kitchen and home, Tupperware has something for anyone and has truly been a remarkable success since turning to network marketing as a means for better business. 4. Oriflame – This Dutch company now reaches over 60 countries and is one of the leading beauty and skincare companies in the network marketing industry. 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__label__wiki	0.652288	0.652288	Everyone Loves A Win-Win That Keeps Giving By Myles Thomas Permit me to quote some figures at you… -68% of New Zealanders think political news on television focuses too much on politicians’ personalities and not enough on real issues. This is the key result of a recent UMR survey commissioned by the CBB. -Two-thirds of us Kiwis are sick of the shallow, meaningless, personality-based politics we see on TVOne and TV3. -Television is the most powerful news media, our democracy is dependant on it, it’s failing, and most of us are smart enough to see that. But will we do anything about it? Another stat… -21% of us are more likely to vote for a party that promises to create a new television channel without adverts. That’s a lot of people for whom broadcasting is so important they’d consider changing their vote. But this gets more interesting when we dig down into the demographics. -11% of National Party voters are more likely to vote for a party that promises to create a new television channel without adverts. So a tenth of National’s base would consider changing their vote for an advert-free television channel. Given how close this election is, shutting down TVNZ 7 might not have been such a good idea for National. -NZ First and the Conservatives should note the next one… A huge 29% of people aged 60 and older are more likely to vote for a party that promises to create a new television channel without adverts. With these figures in mind, potential kingmakers negotiating coalitions should consider pushing for a non-commercial television channel. Like the Gold Card, it has the potential to be a lasting legacy for whoever claims it. Best of all, it would cost less than the Gold Card, or Maori Television, or Team NZ, or running the GCSB. $15m each year is all it would cost to feed the minds of a million plus New Zealanders, and they will be forever grateful. Non-commercial telly could be ‘the win-win that keeps giving’ every time Kiwis sit down to watch quality current affairs, documentaries, science and arts programmes, alternative humour, advert-free kids television… But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. We still have to vote. If you’re one of the 21% who would consider voting for advert-free television, or part of the huge majority of New Zealanders who simply want better television news, the solution is advert-free television. Take a look at the CBB Broadcasting Policy Guide to help make it happen. Myles Thomas is Chief Executive of the Coalition for Better Broadcasting. It's Time to 'Activate the Reset Button' If We Want To Understand The World Around Us, We Might Be Better Off Without News And Current Affairs TVNZ Reveals Insane Deadlines For Māori and Pacific Island Programmes Paora Maxwell, a liability Does ‘No-Surprises’ Also Apply To TVNZ News? Survey shows television without adverts could be a vote winner CBB Broadcasting Policy Guide Quality of Journalism When Ethics Departs, Democracy Soon Follows Mike Hosking and the Leader's Debate Dirty Politics and Dirty Media Yet more RadioNZ Changes Looking for the Lost Soul of TV A Bouquet for National Mike Hosking for PM Traditional TV is Where the Kids Are Charter Schools are Working, Why Not Charter Broadcasting? Whose Spectrum Is It Anyway? Nothing Left to the Imagination CBB Calls for Transmission Status Quo to be Resumed CBB Budget analysis and blog responses The media wot won it! What Has Political Journalism Become? Amy Adams: Minister of Broadcasting A World Without Advertising Marae Investigates No More Please sign our petition to Save RNZ funding.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14251
__label__wiki	0.643227	0.643227	Middlesbrough 1 Watford 1 (25/10/2014) 26/10/2014 1- “Uncle Will, is this really the best trip you’ve ever been on?” It’s been a tough week, all told. Tuesday night’s draw with Forest was sacrificed in favour of an open evening at one of daughter 1’s possible schools next year… by Thursday I needed something to get me through the challenges that Thursday and Friday were going to vomit into my path, and this was it. Not just a trip to Boro, but a trip to Boro with daughters 1 and 2 (aged 8, 5), an epic and reckless gamble with their fledgling enthusiasm built up as an adventure, a road trip. Two days and minimal coercion later we’re at the Riverside, whose empty stretches of seating tend to lend it an air of moribund discontent – even when, as today, the home fans make a fair amount of noise in response to a positive home performance. Daughter 2 in particular is disconcerted by the unfamiliar imbalance in the stands, accustomed as she is to Watford’s support being dominant. This is her first away trip, and daughter 1 has only ventured away from the Vic for the play-off final so there’s much at stake here, much that can go wrong. On the pitch, too… an away trip against strong opposition should really come under the heading of “grab what you can get” at this stage of the season, relatively low pressure and no hair to be torn out if the worst happens (see also Norwich), but that’s without the context of Nottingham Forest. No, I didn’t see the game… but dispatches suggested that disappointment at a home draw was alleviated by the quality of the attacking play, the promise of what’s to come. That’s fine and dandy, as long as it leads somewhere. Today’s match might determine whether there’s momentum building or whether we stay in third gear, chugging along at a reasonable pace without really realising what we can do. 2- It’s a bright but cautious start. Two opponents sparring, getting the measure of each other without leaving themselves exposed. Significant in the Hornets line-up are the two changes, one of which late and both enforced; Bond in goal for Gomes, injured in the warm-up, and Anya a slightly surprising choice in the midfield three for Abdi. Surprising, only in the sense that in playing a three in midfield, particularly away from home, you kinda want physical presence… I love Ikechi to bits, but it always felt like a big ask this, much as injuries to Abdi and McGugan and the not-quite-fit-to-startness of Andrews limited our options. Murray, for all that he has struggled in this formation, would have brought a bit more grit; my brother was all for swapping Fernando and Ikechi around. Either way, Boro soon take control of the game and swamp us in the middle of the park. Our attacking play is bright enough; Vydra, a skulking ninja, springing out from nowhere to fling a near-lethal shot low towards the bottom corner, Konstantopoulos diving to his left to push wide. Increasingly however it’s Boro with the possession and the pressure, exposing the lack of width in our formation to isolate Paredes against the constant overlapping threat of George Friend. The home side dominate the final half hour of the half; for all that, Bond only has a couple of saves to make – one a fabulous reflex stop when Bamford should perhaps not have given him any chance at all – but we owe our clean sheet at the break to the foreheads of the excellent duo of Bassong and Ekstrand,, and the diving blocks of the likes of Munari and Tözsér. It’s a successful rearguard action and owes a little to luck, but more to guts and determination in contrast to the slightly sullen atmosphere amongst the team… backs to free kicks, heads down, little communication for all of deputy deputy skipper Tözsér’s encouragement and cajoling. Nil nil at the break, and we’re grateful for it. 3- We look for a change at the start of the second period, frankly. Something to tip the balance back in our direction… a change in formation perhaps if not personnel. There’s no evidence of anything changing in our approach however, and Boro are keen to finish what they’d started by howling out of the blocks. The goal when it comes isn’t particularly elegant, Kike seizing on a loose ball in the box to finish well but it’s been coming long since. It is difficult to see any other outcome from this point than a Boro win, it’s so evident that what they’re doing is working and that our occasional rapier counter-attacks are a weapon, but aren’t adequate. I begin to turn my mind to how to support my daughters through the realisation that a cross-country trek for a defeat, perhaps a heavy defeat, is a joyless pursuit but a rite of passage. I’m wondering how much credence “days like this is what makes the wins good” will get from a five year-old, albeit a five year-old who has spent both pre-match and half-time engrossed in the Boro match programme. 4- Much credit has been given to Troy Deeney’s introduction in changing the game. Certainly Daughter 2 is delighted… players being injured in general is a source of concern, having been at Bournemouth Gabriel Tamas’ knee is a frequent topic of discussion and she’s fully appraised of Deeney’s hamstring injury. There’s no doubt that he gives the team a lift; accounts from Forest suggested that he looked unfit and immobile but here, whilst he certainly looks heavy, he brings a bullishness and a physical presence and buckets of personality to our attack. Odion Ighalo had done a very decent job as a target man in the first half before fading in the second, the ball had stuck to him and he provided an outlet… but he’s still not intimidating in the way that Troy is. And much as Troy gets the goal and makes us more potent, the real accountability for the change in the game rests with the home side. Whether intimidated by Deeney’s arrival, exhausted by their high-pressing game or simply the victims of a catastrophically bad tactical decision Boro, having had so much success (and been deserving of more) on the front foot suddenly step off and give us space. The most immediate beneficiary of this is not Deeney, but Ikechi Anya… once, at the end of the first half, he found enough space to do his thing and wriggle off with the ball like a hyperactive eel. More generally he has been forced backwards by Boro’s midfield into an unnaturally contained role. Now, suddenly, he’s unleashed and we’re very much in the ascendancy before the irrepressible Scottish international skips down the left and lays back for Deeney to knock in. Both daughters go completely ballistic as the players head towards the away corner. On the pitch its a remarkable turnaround, and we’re forcing our advantage home. Andrews comes on and stiffens up that midfield, Anya is permanently unleashed. Tözsér’s free kick finds Ekstrand, his brilliant reverse header back across the face of goal crashes off the post. Boro are in danger of losing everything here. It’s not the reverse of the first half… we’re never that dominant and Boro have chances themselves but it’s them on the break now, on the back foot and Deeney, every inch the leader, is leading the charge. Paredes, too, reminds us why he’s such an asset, having had a tough first half he is now a powerful, rampaging pain in the arse on Boro’s left flank. Tözsér comes close with a low, ripping free kick that’s again pushed round… we’re unable to judge from side on along the goal-line quite how close that was, but we’re on our feet and finishing the game with positive energy. The game ends with Boro fluffing a chance themselves, as if to remind us that we really shouldn’t lose perspective on what is a very good point. 5- We’re drawing a lot of games, you’ll have noticed. Five of our last seven having not drawn in our opening nine fixtures. Needs to be borne in mind of course that there are all manner of mitigating circumstances… rule number one of Statistical Process Control, as you’ll no doubt be aware, is that you don’t try to draw any conclusions about a system that isn’t stable and we’ve been far from stable in the context of which two league defeats so far isn’t such a bad thing. One of those defeats was at Charlton, whose supporters harboured concerns as to whether their glut of draws would evolve into wins or defeats, concerns now looking well-founded, but in our case we continue to pick up results from difficult situations and difficult positions. Middlesbrough were terrific, our own limitations exposed by this rather than the cause of it, and we still came away with a deserved point and looking forwards. We got away with that first half, but played some part in that outcome too. I’m more optimistic than those Charlton fans were. As for the girls, the journey home was interrupted by a prolonged stop at Wetherby services – you can’t hurry two young girls with fish fingers and chips. We pulled in at home in Bedfordshire at 10pm to a tutting from the girls’ mother. Daughter 1 had just about lasted the distance, Daughter 2 was roused from sleep to be carried inside. Despite which, blinking and half-asleep, she responded to enquiry as to the best bit of her big adventure with a grin and a twinkle in her eye. “Troy Deeney’s goal”, was the response. A very decent result all round. Watford 1 Brighton and Hove Albion 1 (04/10/2014) 04/10/2014 1- There’s something to be said for mundaneness every now and again. You appreciate the good days more being one argument, a more rounded supporting experience to have sat through the full range of emotions that football can instil. We get to claim that WE were there when we were shit, a badge of honour. If every game is a belter then life takes on a more hysterical edge… that’s the picture that Sky Sports would have you believe in, “this year is the best ever, it’s all terribly terribly gripping and exciting and important”. No it isn’t. Sometimes it’s not painted in primary colours, and today was one of those days. The lunchtime rainstorm that paralysed the roads into Watford as we woke up to official End Of Summer washed them all away, leaving a grey-brown sludge. 2- Brighton started like a side who had just let in two goals in a bigger game against a more daunting opponent than this. Just passing the ball around, keeping possession, trying to get a foothold for their fragile confidence that manifested itself most obviously when they got close enough to the goal to clout a ridiculously optimistic shot in vaguely the right direction, one in a million efforts that didn’t come off. Decisions that screamed of a side that can’t score goals… less risk in taking on a long shot even if it doesn’t get you anywhere, less chance of looking stupid. What they did have was defensive discipline, flooding the midfield and getting bodies behind the ball, and this bought them time against a Watford side that never quite got going, partly in consequence. Had we made the breakthrough earlier on, perversely, we might have stood a better chance of taking the three points; instead, Brighton’s confidence grew as the game progressed and we struggled to create much throughout a stodgy first half. 3- Another issue, as on Tuesday, was Heurelho Gomes’ reluctance to kick the ball out. Brentford did a better job of haring down our possession at that end of the pitch to put Gomes under pressure to kick, but our need to break quickly when the keeper picked up possession to give ourselves half a chance of getting in behind before Albion got set up put extra emphasis on the need to find a quick throw. Early on there was evidence of Lloyd – the original Lloyd, back in the side as we work through our stockpile of centre backs to general approval in our corner of the Rookery – and the splendidly functional Gianni Munari doing Gomes’ scanning, looking for a throw for him as he collected a low ball and directing him to save precious seconds. A sound enough ruse on the odd occasion, but this limitation remained an issue and will do so until we can work opponents hard enough to get them running too far and for too long to persist in closing down space high up the pitch for the duration. 4- A word for the new Community Stand, part-opened for the first time. Thank goodness. Thank the Pozzos. At long last after so many missed opportunities. ig might miss the Main Stand, but once you’ve said goodbye to something, you know, you want it to go, you want it to be replaced. I miss Luther and Richard Johnson and the green bucket I used to stand on on the North West terrace in 1981 but I wouldn’t want any of them back. Not now. Fantastic to see supporters in it, even if only part full. Remember now why my Family Enclosure years featured a baseball cap tho… 5- We almost got away with it. And had we done so there really would have been cause for optimism, to build upon Tuesday’s last thunk. At the end of a chaotic few weeks we could look back on five games from which we had, in each case, harvested perhaps more than we deserved, or more than we easily could have done. Much as you’d rather be wiping the floor with teams, taking points when you’re not playing well in the absence of key players would have been a hell of a good marker. Albion started the second half well; it had been evident from the first half that their one attacking threat came from right-back Bruno against the uncomfortable looking Tommie Hoban out of position down the left, they hit the former with a screaming cross-field ball early on that came to nothing. From there we got a foothold and enjoyed our best spell of the game, culminating in that free kick, a clinical exploitation of a flaw in Albion’s defensive wall. At which point, I thought we had the match won… but Lualua had given them an attacking edge and they were well worth that equaliser in the end. Our last, fine chance came when McGugan’s effervescent cameo saw him release Vydra on the left; the Czech beat the offside and crashed a violent shot goalwards that Stockdale reacted brilliantly to parry. That was, from memory, the only non-trivial save made by either keeper all afternoon. Which is an adequate footnote for the game really. For the sake of our injury list, our head coach, our team’s shape, we really need this two week break. Watford 2 Brentford 1 (30/09/2014) 01/10/2014 1- Sometimes games fall in a helpful way, sometimes not. Sometimes you get the opponent at a low ebb, sometimes just after the new guy has come in and they’re on the bounce and you’re left thinking “why couldn’t we have played you a couple of weeks ago when you were rubbish?”. This one fell for us, for reasons that were nothing to do with our visitors. True, we could all perhaps have done with a day or two to get our collective heads around the events of the last week or so – Billy McKinlay not least. Given that there WAS a game though, what better than a rattling, high-speed local derby, just the thing to focus the attention and demand that most essential of qualities, simply getting on with it. Under the floodlights this was a non-stop adrenaline rush of a football match, one where it was essential – and not terribly difficult – to overlook shortcomings, hold on and enjoy the ride. Watford’s formation made a clear statement – Vydra playing slightly behind Ighalo, Fabbrini and Dyer hugging the touchlines, it wasn’t a formation that suggested containment. Brentford for their part were no less ambitious, the tone set when Watford’s first attack ended in the arms of David Button, who then sprang up to deliver a long throw to a posse of scampering, escaping forwards. I could almost hear my old PE/basketball teacher at school, Leon Green, bellowing “FAST BREEEEEEEAAAAK…..”. It was 15 minutes before anyone made what could have been construed as a conservative pass as both defences manned their last ditches from the off. 2- In the continued absence of Troy Deeney – who would have made hay amidst yesterday’s chaos one suspects – another chance for Odion Ighalo to show us what he could do. Word from Granada was that he was hugely popular despite not having the best goalscoring ratio, and it’s easy to see why on both counts. For all that he appeared reluctant to throw himself into aerial duels in the manner that’s a prerequisite in England, Ighalo is a trier, a scrapper… but not the most confident finisher. Nothing reluctant about the way he threw himself at Lloyd Dyer’s left wing cross midway through the first half, mind, as our attacks focused through the winger… I thought at the time that the fierce, angled header was blocked by the keeper who was certainly right behind (or underneath) it… consensus from reports is that it came back off the woodwork. Brentford’s rapid counterattacking was always a threat but Watford had the better of the first half and took the lead following a break from Vydra who released Ighalo on the left of the box. James Tarkowski offered a challenge, Ighalo went down, penalty. It was certainly soft, but whilst my co-editor would probably wish to remonstrate about contact not equalling a foul I’ve got no sympathy with Brentford’s protests on this one, much less with Warburton’s one-eyed assessment of the incident. Contrary to his assertion that the players were running side by side and no contact was made, Tarkowski approached from the side and stuck his leg half across Ighalo to disrupt the striker’s movement. No trip, no hack, but an attempt to obstruct the attack whilst making it difficult for the referee to call a penalty. Such was Brentford’s approach all night in fairness and I’m not knocking it… indeed, a gutsy and committed team that stays just the right side of the line is surely an easy thing to love. But you live by the sword, you die by the sword and sometimes those borderline calls are going to go against you. Imbalanced to whinge about it, it comes with the territory – much as Brendan Rodgers memorably refused to condemn Angel Rangel for giving a goal away by trying to play out when Swansea were first promoted. Ighalo summed up his Watford career to date succinctly with a thoroughly unconvincing penalty that Button should perhaps have not permitted to rebound to where, with instinct and desire now foremost above technique and confidence, the Nigerian bundled home. Tarkowski’s cheap claw in his face from the restart did little to endear Brentford further and reinforced the suggestion of brittle discipline in the visiting ranks. 3- Despite which the Bees look a thoroughly sprightly side with pace to burn and in Andre Gray a striker from the Mark Hughes school of using your arse as a potent weapon; more than enough about them to stay up comfortably in short. The second half started with the Hornets looking sluggish and the visitors as dominant as either team would be at any point in the contest. Juan Carlos Paredes continues to settle and looks an absolute beast going forward but does push up an awful long way; having the utterly forlorn and not-terribly-defensively-diligent-at-the-best-of-times Diego Fabbrini as his partner down the right left an awfully large hole in behind. As at the start of the first half much of the play was concentrated in the corner between the Rookery and the ever blossoming Community Stand as first Jota and then the excellent Bidwell threaded efforts precisely between onrushing forwards and the far post. Eventually they did get the goal, and it was a fine thing… I’ve read complaints that they cut us open as if that implies some failing on the part of our defenders but sometimes you just have to hold your hands up; the Bees speed and movement finally coincided in a move that saw Jonathan Douglas through on goal; Gomes got a good hand to the shot that was well aimed to be difficult to get down to, but could only palm it inside the far post. Things looked decidedly iffy at this point. 4- So all credit to the Hornets for first edging their way back into the game, and then finding a goal, and then asserting ourselves again comprehensively… even if the points weren’t secure until the whistle went. Indeed, there were some looking over their shoulders for a last Brentford counter-attack as we made our way up Occupation Road. Of a number of decent individual performances, including those of Ekstrand – again looking far more reliable in a back four – and the majestic Kaiser Tözsér, the stand out was Matej Vydra even before the game’s decisive moment. He’s looked nervous and pallid since his return, but recent games have seen his flame start to burn again and this evening’s performance was pure devilment… movement, confidence, aggression, technique and then an absolute rip-snorter of a finish, dug out of nowhere on the half volley and worthy of the last Hornet to score a winning goal against the Bees. The overdue introduction of Anya for Fabbrini had already renewed our threat, but the appearance of Abdi for Ighalo poured oil over what had been a scratchy second half performance and our attacks purred from that point onwards. Brentford’s slightly hysterical threat wasn’t quelled, and Odubajo got the wrong side of Pudil to force the Czech to take a second yellow card. A professional foul in the truest sense but not denying a goalscoring opportunity and so a clear (second) booking. Relief and exhilaration greeted the final whistle. 5- All told, then, we’re not in too bad a place. The performances still leave something to be desired… but we’re as close to top as dammit despite having had four different senior coaches since the start of the season. We won this one despite the absence of key senior players – our best centre-back and what has been up to now our first choice forward pairing for starters – and displayed no little resilience in the process (even if, as McKinlay acknowledged, you’d prefer that we’d managed the closing minutes rather more effectively). Warburton complained that his side were worth a point, and certainly we couldn’t have complained at they come away with one. As at Blackpool, however, it’s about having that little bit of quality to win these games, that thing that separates you – even if, in this one, enough goals could and perhaps should have gone in at either end to make that piledriver obsolete. Brentford could have deprived us of the win. But they didn’t, we got the three points. Again. Going to be fun when things settle down and we start to fully exploit our potential, isn’t it?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14253
__label__wiki	0.640035	0.640035	news No Comments Stephin Merritt of Magnetic Fields Did Songs From A-Z: His Setlist and Comments May 4, 2015 By Daniel Maurer (Photo: Daniel Maurer) Stephin Merritt, last seen getting the Katie Lazarus treatment at Joe’s Pub, kicked off a rare solo tour in Philadelphia on Saturday. Since the Magnetic Fields frontman and onetime Luckiest Boy on the Lower East Side doesn’t yet have an NYC show slated, we traipsed down to Union Transfer, the Bowery Presents venue inside of a former train depot in Philly, to see what he had up his sleeve. Or, under his pageboy cap. In the vein of his book of two-letter words illustrated by New Yorker doodler Roz Chast, the laconic baritone ran through 26 songs, one for each letter of the alphabet. As he strummed a ukulele with Magnetic Fields cellist Sam Davol at his side, the crowd sat in such rapt silence that, for once, hardly a single camera phone went up throughout the hour-long show. Here’s what he played, with spiel. “Good evening, ho ho… I will do my best this evening to avoid doing Tim Curry impersonations. I can’t promise anything.” 1. Andrew in Drag 2. The Book of Love 3. Chicken With Its Head Cut Of “This is a spiritual song about what happens to us all when we die, i.e. nothing.” 4. The Dead Only Quickly Decay “So, I read that Throwing Muses had two songs with the same title, ‘Hate My Way’ and ‘Hate My Way,’ and they just played them back to back in order and that was the song, so I did the same thing with this song.” 5. Epitaph for My Heart “So this song is from a science fiction musical that has yet to be produced that Daniel Handler and I have been writing since 1999.” 7. Forever and a Day “So how about that swinging London and its intense misogyny. ‘Mary Quant practices what she preaches.'”* 8. Give Me Back My Dreams “These songs are in alphabetical order, for those of you who are insufficiently autistic to have realized that. And this is therefore the only song from the album ‘I.’ It’s a true song.” 9. I Wish I Had an Evil Twin “This song is not at all true.” 10. Josephine “Here’s another spiritual.” 11. Kiss Me Like You Mean It “We’re Stephin Merritt and he’s Sam Davol.” 12. Love Is Like a Bottle of Gin “I don’t have a television so when I am exposed to television I have no immunity. So one afternoon I was sitting in a gay bar trying not to watch the television, which had captions. We weren’t hearing the sounds but we were seeing the captions, and if you put something in front of me I’ll read it so I can’t not look at captions. And that is how I learned about the woman whose husband died and turned out to have another apartment in the city, which prompted this song.” 13. My Husband’s Pied-a-Terre “I added the murder part. It needed an ending.” 14. The Nun’s Litany “So, I wrote an off-Broadway musical of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline, and it ends (um, spoiler alert) with the mice singing. And mice, as you know, tend to lisp.” 15. One Long Fairy Tail “This is a parody of an Irving Berlin song that only I seem to know anyway.” 16. A Pretty Girl Is Like… 17. Quick! 18. Reno Dakota “This song is called ‘Shipwrecked’ but I think of it as ‘Trainwreck’ for reasons you are probably about to understand.” 19. Shipwrecked 20. This Little Ukulele “This is from my Hans Christian Anderson musical, everyone writes one. If not, you just haven’t written one yet.” 21. The Ugly Little Duck “It occurs to me to mention that I wrote a book and it’s for sale in the lobby. And it’s 101 two-letter words.” 22. Very Funny “And now for something completely different, an uplifting number from ‘Future Bible Heroes’ — uplifting if you believe the lyrics. But I guess ‘Very Funny’ is only depressing if you believe the lyrics.” 23. The World Is a Disco Ball “I heard today that Joni Mitchell is not in a coma but BB King is in hospice.” 24. Xylophone Track “Well, we’ve come to the letter Y, which being the last letter of the alphabet means we’ll play our last song.” 25. Your Girlfriend’s Face 26. Zombie Boy Again, as of now, Merritt doesn’t have any local shows planned — hopefully that’ll change, but in the meantime you can catch him in Annandale-on-Hudson, near his current home in Hudson, NY, on June 24. As part of the opening act, the Secret Cinema screened Tim Curry’s “Paradise Garage” video. *They also played a short, “Girls in Short, Short Dresses,” featuring miniskirt pioneer Mary Quant. Tags: Beyond, bowery presents, hudson, philadelphia, stephin merritt, the magnetic fields, tour, union transfer « Watch: John Lydon Hits Strand in Chef’s Whites, Announces New PiL Album and Tour » Jim Gaffigan Hits Katz’s With Adam Goldberg, Offers a Taste of Gaffigan Show	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14256
__label__cc	0.544035	0.455965	Architecture competition Rome Collective Living Challenge Honorable mention - Jacob Comerci and Eli Braff Back We’d like to take the opportunity to introduce you to the winners of the Honorable mention of our “Rome Collective Living Challenge ” competition - Jacob Comerci and Eli Braff Back from the United States! Jacob Comerci and Eli Braff Back from United States Office Provisional is Jacob Comerci and Eli Braff Back. Jacob lives in Michigan and Eli in New York, and as such, the office exists predominantly over WiFi. Jacob Comerci is a designer and educator. He is the 2019-2020 William Muschenheim Fellow at the University of Michigan. He received a Masters of Architecture from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Illinois at Chicago. While at Princeton, he was awarded the Howard Crosby Butler traveling fellowship where he studied collective building groups (baugruppe) in Berlin as well as the Suzane Kolarik Underwood thesis prize for excellence in design. He has previously worked with Bureau Spectacular in Chicago and Los Angeles and with MOS Architects and LTL Architects in New York. His research and design work reconsiders models for collective life and work by way of the interior fit-out of existing real estate with furniture-scaled domestic equipment. Eli Braff Back is a designer and builder. His work investigates the use of conventional building materials in unconventional ways through the development of novel construction tectonics. He has worked across the fields of design and fabrication, building single family homes, interiors, furniture, and tools. He studied architecture, digital fabrication and ceramic sculpture at Bennington College. He currently does freelance design/build work for various clients in New York. Our office is very young. We have an interest in the nature of the collective in the age of the internet and prefer to spend our time producing work and scholarship in this area. Jacob’s upcoming fellowship project will allow for the opportunity to pursue some of this work. What does architecture mean to you and what is the role of an architect in your society? Eli believes that architects are not simply the instigators of physical form, but that they are also responsible for the ephemeral aspects of building — political place-making, material and tectonic considerations, etc. — that are uniquely suited to their expertise. Architects can set the bar of craftsmanship high or low, they can be mindful of toxicity and waste embodied in new materials, and they can choose to be as invested in the ethics or politics of their work as they choose. In other words, the role of the architect is excitedly wide-ranging and diverse. Jacob believes that architects are most productive when spinning many plates, directing their (often) pathological energy managing complex design processes and technical expertise. He thinks that their aesthetic neuroses push the production of expertly crafted stuff which (ideally) benefits those who engage with it. Why do you participate in architecture vision competitions? Office Provisional participates in vision competitions because they provide artificial deadlines for work that we might otherwise not produce. We believe that vision competitions offer a space free from too many constraints where some of the most excitingly fantastical ideas can emerge. What advice would you give to individuals who struggle to decide whether it would be beneficial for them to participate in architecture vision competitions? If you have the time and money, participating in vision competitions offers a productive space to put your work into the world in dialogue with others’. Competitions like those of Bee Breeders’ can open doors to more concrete opportunities through their extensive media outreach. Office Provisional sincerely hopes that the world of architecture competitions, and the culture of architecture more broadly becomes more accessible to those who are less able to participate.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14257
__label__cc	0.606715	0.393285	Somali Poetry Takes Minneapolis In Minnesota, Somali youth poets are changing the game. Frank Bures2020-01-13T12:20:13+00:00January 13th, 2020\| DuPont’s Lasting Legacy in Parkersburg The West Virginia community is left to grapple with the consequences of C8 contamination. Taylor Sisk2020-01-13T12:18:29+00:00January 8th, 2020\| Top Stories of 2019 Ten stories our readers kept coming back to. Belt Magazine2020-01-13T12:18:42+00:00December 27th, 2019\| Robert Smith’s Last Ride The first person in West Virginia to die from the Spanish Flu pandemic was an incarcerated Black man. Justin McHenry2019-12-20T11:05:21+00:00December 13th, 2019\| Wheeling Island’s Keeper of the Bees On the most populated Ohio River island, this beekeeper found a way to better himself and his community. Rebecca Kiger2019-12-18T10:38:16+00:00December 12th, 2019\| Rediscovering the Neighborhood of Saturdays The legacy of a multiracial community on Indianapolis’s south side. Susan B. Hyatt2020-01-13T15:15:50+00:00December 11th, 2019\| Smoke in the Valley What the petrochemical buildout along the Ohio River means for communities in the region and beyond. Sharon Kelly2020-01-08T11:03:12+00:00December 4th, 2019\| Rust Belt Independents How one Indiana community rejected Trumpism. Ryan Schnurr2019-12-16T11:07:12+00:00December 3rd, 2019\| The Fate of the Scrappers The Mahoning Valley Scrappers have been a symbol of the region's comeback narrative. Now, Minor League Baseball may phase them out. Vince Guerrieri2019-12-12T11:38:50+00:00November 26th, 2019\| Development in Black and White An interview with Jason Hackworth, author of "Manufacturing Decline: How Racism and the Conservative Movement Crush the American Rust Belt." Tanner Howard2019-12-13T11:17:31+00:00November 22nd, 2019\| Black Lives and a River Road Tracing water, memory and change through Black experiences along and near Route 65. Njaimeh Njie2019-12-13T11:17:39+00:00November 21st, 2019\| The Legend of Big Ole How one monument came to be at the center of Minnesota’s imagined white past. Rachel Boyle2019-12-04T12:32:34+00:00November 14th, 2019\|	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14261
__label__wiki	0.545278	0.545278	Linn Co sees drop in overdose deaths posted by WMT News/KCRG-TV9 - Nov 9, 2018 Last week, the Iowa Department of Public Health released new numbers on opioid-related deaths in Iowa. A box of Narcan, a medication used to revive someone who has overdosed on an opioid drug. Participants in an ASAC training session Friday got free boxes of the drug to use at home in an emergency. Since August of this year, Iowa saw 89 opioid-related deaths, which included everything from prescription painkillers, fentanyl, and heroin That's compared to 137 deaths in 2017 and 112 deaths in 2016. The trends in Linn County are very similar and although they haven't received numbers for 2018 yet, county health officials say the number of opioid-related deaths in Linn County is also decreasing. They say one of the reasons they are seeing this decline is because Iowa received legislative support to make Narcan more widely available. Narcan is the medication used to reverse an opioid overdose. First-responders like police officers and EMS crews are now able to carry it and administer the medication when needed. Just last year Iowa pharmacies started selling Narcan without a prescription. Iowa emergency departments are also now required to report opioid-related cases. Tricia Kitzmann, the Community Health Division Manager with the Linn County Public Health Department says that means hospitals are now seeing more beds filled with patients who survived an overdose. "A lot of folks are like that's not good we don't want to see an increase in hospitalizations, but we do because what that means is as we see the death rates go down, the Narcan is working and we're getting people revived and to the hospital and getting into treatment," says Kitzmann. She also says while that's a step in the right direction, Iowa is still struggling to help people get access to treatment facilities. "We don't have enough treatment beds, there's always a wait, there's a lot of physicians that aren't willing to do the drug monitoring to help with that if needed for some of these folks that are coming off of the opioid or heroin," says Kitzmann. . Health officials say the recently released report is just preliminary for 2018 and these trends could change by the end of the year.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14263
__label__wiki	0.605803	0.605803	Sword-swinging hotel guest slashes bride, authorities say HARDYSTON, N.J. -- Authorities say a dispute involving a New Jersey bridal party and a hotel guest ended when the guest used a sword to threaten the women and slash the bride on the arm. Carlos Mejia, of New York City, faces charges including aggravated assault following Saturday's altercation in Hardyston. Authorities say the 43-year-old Mejia approached the bridal party in a hotel hallway before the wedding and asked for a cigarette. A verbal argument ensued, and Mejia returned to his room. The bride and her party soon knocked on Mejia's door and yelled at him. Authorities say he emerged with the sword and began swinging it at the women but was disarmed by hotel guests. Mejia had no ties to the wedding. The bride wasn't seriously injured. It wasn't known Thursday whether Mejia has an attorney to speak for him. Send a News Tip to Action News Learn More About 6abc Apps woman injuredu.s. & worldslashing Copyright © 2020 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14264
__label__cc	0.590833	0.409167	What’s 746 books all about then? The Countdown 599 – The Countdown: 699 – 600 100 Irish Novels Northern Exposure: Belfast Stories edited by Lisa Frank & Paul McVeigh Previous post: No 522 Truth or Fiction by Jennifer Johnston (Book 6 of #20booksofsummer) Next post: NO 521 Blackeyes by Dennis Potter (Book 7 of #20booksofsummer) Posted July 17, 2019 15 Comments by Cathy746books In his foreword to the brilliant new short story collection Belfast Stories, Malachi O’Doherty notes that ‘it is through individuals telling their own stories that the simple model of a society preoccupied with its own division breaks down’. Here is collection of work that is not looking back over our troubled past, nor is it imagining some kind of better future (although hope for the future features heavily in some of these stories). This feels like a collection for now, for ordinary people with their own voices and their own stories that exist beyond any political agenda. Edited by Lisa Frank and Paul McVeigh, Belfast Stories is an immersive literary experience within a city in which there is much to explore. The strength of the collection comes from the writers whose work has been included. Established writers such as Glenn Patterson, Lucy Caldwell, David Park and Ian Sansom are here, as you would expect, but Paul McVeigh also includes what he calls the ‘new tribes’ of young writers such as Shannon Yee, Dawn Watson and Winnie M Lee – who all bring a different perspective on what it means to live in Belfast. Strong short story writers such as Jan Carson, Bernie McGill and Rosemary Jenkinson also feature alongside exciting new voices Caoilinn Hughes and Jamie Guiney, whose debut novels have met with great critical acclaim and Wendy Erskine, whose debut collection Sweet Home is taking the short story world by storm. The collection is structured around the different areas of the City – from North to South, East to West and featuring Belfast City Centre and The Cathedral Quarter. It opens, wittily, with a story by Peter Holywood The Welcome Centre set in Belfast City Centre’s tourist information hub. Lisa, a tour guide, fields queries from all sorts of visitors but the lone man demanding information on parades has now been drowned out by Game of Thrones tour buses. Progress, Lisa says, progress. It is a subtle introduction to a changing city, no longer defined solely by the political turmoil and sectarian violence of the Troubles. The gentrification of East Belfast is explored in Wendy Erskine’s Last Supper a story set in ‘Jesters’ – a café that is battered around the edges and losing out to the new coffee shops appearing in the area. Also set in East Belfast, Jan Carson’s bittersweet Filters, features a mother trying to cajole her children to visit the Narnia sculptures to take a family photograph for Christmas. Her attempt to create new traditions in this corner of the city is not going well. This is a Belfast promoting new symbols – from Game of Thrones to CS Lewis – and Glenn Patterson’s A Small Problem subtly lampoons Northern Ireland’s ongoing obsession with the Titanic. I explained that I was duty-bound as a Belfast person to applaud all references to the Titanic, no matter how half hearted. I told him my apartment overlooked the dock where it was built…My falt, to be strictly accurate, overlooked the clock, which overlooked the Custom House, which looked across the Lough to the dock around the corner from the dock where the Titanic was built. This bending of facts to suit an agenda comes back to haunt his protagonist when his family history turns out to have been based on a lie. Shannon Yee’s The Brightening Up Side provides a different perspective on the city, as a new mother of Asian heritage struggles with sleepless nights and casual racism in a City that doesn’t feel quite hers just yet. Progress is evidenced by the artisan coffee served tepid and trendy on pressed ply in concrete-floored Cathedral Quartered coffee shops run by nouveau-Christians who tolerate gays. There’s change. Hope. It appears in the margins when no one is looking. Love also appears when no one is looking in Lucy Caldwell’s affecting Here We Are where a woman looks back on a defining love affair in her teenage years with a girl from school. The shadow of the Troubles falls over some of the stories here, of course, it would be strange if it did not. Linda Anderson’s Stone features Frieda, a carver of grave stones who is trying to come to terms with her estranged relationships with her brother, whose past involvement in paramilitary activity means that he can’t return to Belfast. I could start to feel like a ghost myself, lost amid so many lates and dearly departed The protagonist of Bernie McGill’s beautiful There Is More Than One Word has come home to the City in the hope of finally getting answers to her brother’s disappearance thirty years ago, when he was just seventeen. This emotive and heartrending story is testament to the pain that many in Northern Ireland are still living with, a pain that no amount of gentrification can erase. Seventeen deserves a chance to wisen up, to fill out, to brother some more; seventeen should mean being a son for longer, should mean laying the bones of your weary parents in the ground when their time comes, and not to have them praying every night, wearing their rosary beads thin, that they will be able to do that for you. In her Preface to Belfast Stories, Lisa Frank notes that the collection became ‘more than the sum of its parts; a celebration not only of Belfast and the people who live there, but of its writers, both seasoned and emerging.’ It is to her and Paul McVeigh’s credit that they have included such an interesting and varied collection of writers here, which adds a depth and breadth to the stories and viewpoints and paints a picture of a vibrant changing city where, as Malachi O’Doherty points out ‘we love a good yarn’. Belfast Stories also features photographs of the city by Malachi O’Doherty and background information on the different areas of the Belfast featured in the stories, making it a valuable literary exploration of the voices of this ever-changing city. Belfast Stories is published by Doire Press and is available from www.doirepress.com Doire Press was founded in the autumn of 2007 in Connemara by Lisa Frank, with skills and experience in editing and publishing, and by John Walsh, who had just received a publication award from the Galway County Council Arts Office to publish his second poetry collection, Love’s Enterprise Zone. Since then Doire Press continued to blossom, finding its niche in publishing new and emerging writers who give voice to what it means to be Irish in a changing Ireland. These writers include fiction writer Madeleine D’Arcy, whose collection Waiting for the Bullet won the 2015 Edge Hill Readers’ prize; and poets Adam White, whose book, Accurate Measurements was the only Irish publication to be shortlisted for the prestigious Forward Prize in 2013; and Breda Wall Ryan, whose collection In a Hare’s Eye won the 2016 Shine/Strong Award. Other publications include 30 under 30, chosen as a Top Ten Title of 2012 by Joseph O’Connor in The Irish Times; Galway Stories, a collection of short stories set in neighbourhoods throughout the city and county of Galway by many of Ireland’s top writers, including Kevin Barry, Mary Costello, Mike McCormack, Nuala Ní Chonchuír, Olaf Tyaransen and Julian Gough; Deirdre Unforgiven: A Journal of Sorrows, a play by Eamon Carr; and debut poetry collections, The Woman on the Other Side by Stephanie Conn and Jewtown by Simon Lewis, both shortlisted for the 2017 Shine/Strong Award, as well as Amanda Bell’s First the Feathers and Annemarie Ní Churreáin’s Bloodroot, both shortlisted for the 2018 Shine/Strong Award; and Rosemary Jenkinson’s Catholic Boy, shortlisted for the Irish Winner of the EU Prize for Literature. Irish Literature Northern Exposure doire press irish literature Northern Exposure short story collection Cathy746books View All → I am a 40 something book buying addict trying to reduce the backlog one book at a time! 15 Comments Leave a comment › michael9murray Great! This is definitely top of the list! Good review – got me hooked. Cathy746books This sounds wonderful! You know I love a good NI rec and how can I say no to that cat on the cover. Plus, Jan Carson, hooray! You’d love this Rachel – lots of great stories here. Callum McLaughlin This sounds great, and a cat on the cover is always an additional draw! Cats are good for book sales 😉 This sounds great. I like the idea of mixing well known writers with unknown or lesser known ones. That cat caught my eye, too! Oh, this sounds excellent and might even tempt me, esp as I don’t think I’ve read a book set in Belfast for a long, long time (I’m thinking of Joan Lingard’s books and that’s a LONG time ago). I will add this to my wishlist. It’s great Liz – it’s a smart way to give the reader a sense of the place.v I could be entirely wrong here but is it refreshing to read authors who DON’T focus on the country’s ‘troubled past”??? So much. Even back in the midst of it all I loved seeing a play or reading abook about NI that didn’t reference the Troubles. Because most of us were just trying to get on with life. I know it’s not on the same scale but I get frustrated every time some organisation in wales redesigns their logo and they end up with a dragon…. I have grown to really love anthologies that feature authors from a particular region. It’s a good way to “see” the place, as well as to get to know some new writers. Yes, it gives a real sense of place through the literature.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14265
__label__cc	0.742799	0.257201	« Jesus Christ Kuhn » Wed Oct 25th 2006 by abagond Science is our body of knowledge of the natural world. It is more than just a long list of facts: it includes the theories that fit the facts together and explain them. Facts tell us what is so, theories tell us why it is so. Science used to be called natural philosophy because it was the branch of philosophy that explained the natural world. But no one calls it that now because science no longer works the way philosophy does. It has become something halfway between philosophy and geometry. These days science almost always means Western science. There were other sciences: Greek science, Arab science, Chinese science and so on. Western science is built on Greek science but it takes it much further. What distinguishes the two are the rules that they follow. Science is not just theories and facts: it is also a set of rules about how to do science. Greek science had three rules: Observation: gather the facts. Theory: apply reason to the facts to come up with a theory that explains them. You may use no gods in your theory. Before the Greeks everyone explained nature by gods and spirits. The Greeks, however, starting with Thales, attempted to explain nature as a system that kept on going without help from the gods. Gods may have created nature and may act within it, but they do not keep it in operation. It goes on by itself. Because gods can explain everything, they explain nothing. Also, god theory gives man no means to control nature by himself. It does not lead to invention, but to prayer and sacrifice. As good as it was, Greek science had a weakness: There was no way to prove a theory right or wrong so long as it kept within the bounds of fact and reason, which any serious theory did. The choice between theories became a matter of taste. Science was divided into schools of thought just like the philosophy from which it sprang. To mend this Western science added two new rules: Occam’s razor: the simplest theory that explains the most facts is the best. Experiment: A theory must have a test, often called an experiment, by which it can be proved false. A good theory will not only explain the known facts but also predict something surprising, a previously unknown fact. If it turns out to be false, the theory is rejected. If it turns out to be true, it will gain followers, win awards and in time be written up in school books as the truth. The great age of Greek science ran from the time of Thales, about –600, till 200. By 200 most of what could be done in Greek science had already been done. The Arabs were able to take it a bit further, but that was all. It was not till the time of Galileo, about 1600, with the rise of Western science that another great age of science came. We live in that age. Greek philosophy The Arab world Posted in science \| 169 Comments on Fri Oct 11th 2013 at 18:56:40 Legion Is mathematics a science or is it analysis? (Am I presenting a false dichotomy?) The gods did not reveal all things to men at the start; but as time goes on, by searching, they discover more and more.–xenophanes More laws are vain where less will serve. – Robert Hooke Great men! elevated above the common standard of human nature, by discovering the laws which celestial occurrences obey, and by freeing the wretched mind of man from the fears which the eclipses inspired. – pliny on Fri Oct 11th 2013 at 20:09:37 Bulanik @ Legion, it could be a false dichotomy. Not if you see it from the “Western” standpoint, though. But the Western standpoint is not the only one, nor is it the only one that matters of course. To the ancient Indians (India), maths was seen as a gift from the gods, embracing both what is rational and irrational. It was a natural feature in memorizing scripture, a way understanding the nature of the astral and divine, and — yes — necessary for the physical construction of alters! Numbers themselves were imbued with mystic power and that’s why they had part of the religious writings. Different shapes too, symbolized different religious ideas, and so on. This way of looking at science has been written out of the European tradition, and appropriated, under other names, by Europeans as THEIRS. Much has been over-attributed to the Greeks. And that is not the intention of the fault of the Greeks. The how and why have intrigued for some while, and I have discussed this here (comments made over a few weeks): This way of thinking is just part of the way we are conditioned to think. Thinking about the way people and things are labeled “ethnic”, I said this: The label ETHNIC is embedded so deeply, it contaminates everything it touches, and it’s so pervasive we aren’t even meant to notice that it is not innocent. It labels practically everything which is seen as Western and Civilization. That includes even the measurement of time: Stone Age, Bronze Age and so on, are all calculated by archaeologists, but all those periods are organized around the beginning of Christianity, thus BC, AD — and this means ETHNIC inserts the dominance of Western, over Eastern Civilization, just as slyly as that. Yet, what that organizes is the sequence of human development — us and them, light and dark, mainstream and ethnic. It’s the same outlook that makes, say, Acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine or the Ayurvedic Tradition “alternative” medicine. Are they trustworthy..? Anlother example, Ethnobotany — the study of people and plants, becomes the way “backward” people work with their environment, it does not refer to the way sophisticated Western SCIENCE approaches the uses and effects of plants. Nothing accidental or tribal or witch-crafty about Western Medicine… When someone or thing is classified as ethnic, they and it do not inherit the full force of authority which is the entitlement passed down by the Ancient Greeks’ objective methodology. Because there is no Cartesian model or Newtonian framework to give those “ethnic” research-results credibility and gravity. I suppose this why we the Polish scientist Copernicus is credited for discovering the sun is placed at the centre of the universe, instead of al-Biruni, the Persian. And if we only one more example, the invention of Calculus, it is a toss up between Leibniz or Newton, instead of the Indian Madhava of Sangama centuries before. Why? Because only a man educated and schooled in the Western Scientific Tradition could think like a real mathematician/physicist and be correct, by Western standards, in his conclusions. The ETHNIC label is dichotomous thinking in action. Those that are “ethnic” have too much interconnected-ness and religion and spirituality and have too much “complementarity” in their thinking to be taken seriously. The ETHNIC label makes anyone, plus their results and solutions, second rate. (https://abagond.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/ethnic/#comment-195508) You’ve said a lot here B and I will try to digest it all. To be explicit on one point though, the “invention of Calculus” thing has bothered me for years. I always wondered if there were some story I did not know, some historical development somewhere other than Europe. So, this Madhava of Sangama discovered/invented Calculus? Can you elaborate? I first heard about this through a close friend/colleague that was a relative of physicist who knew a lot about the subject, and visited the KSOM (the Kerala School of Mathematics) during his career. As much as he admired the Western canon of science, he believed it was artificially dominant and had done much harm. Let me quote from Madhava of Sangama’s FB page: Madhava of Sangamagrama (c. 1340 – c. 1425), was an Indian mathematician-astronomer from the town of Sangamagrama (present day Irinjalakuda) near Cochin, Kerala, India. He is considered the founder of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. He was the first in the world to use infinite series approximations for a range of trigonometric functions, which has been called the “decisive step onward from the finite procedures of ancient mathematics to treat their limit-passage to infinity”. His discoveries opened the doors to what has today come to be known as Mathematical Analysis. One of the greatest mathematician-astronomers of the Middle Ages, Madhava made pioneering contributions to the study of infinite series, calculus, trigonometry, geometry, and algebra. Some scholars have also suggested that Madhava’s work, through the writings of the Kerala school, may have been transmitted to Europe via Jesuit missionaries and traders who were active around the ancient port of Muziris at the time. As a result, it may have had an influence on later European developments in analysis and calculus. Here is an article that explains Madhava’s contribution to Calculus: KSOM has its own website. Here’s an article about the school: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/08/indian-kerala-s.html Apologies, Legion, if my comments sound a bit “scatty”. There are so many strands in my growing perspective on the subject, and I have not researched enough to have arrived at a satisfying conclusion. Also, I hope my typo errors don’t completely spoil what I wanted to say to you. on Sat Oct 12th 2013 at 03:35:29 Mbeti aH Another abagond classic from back when he first started blogging I guess, just love the simplicity of explanation – the history of science as well as what is science ,and in only 500 words! Reminds me of my new favorite catch phrase “explain it to me like I was Five!” And it seems only legion,bulanik and me are interested hmmmm………….. on Sat Oct 12th 2013 at 15:09:00 Legion Not “scatty” at all my dear. Thank you for extra info. It makes sense to me that if the Indians developed the concept of zero, a small quantity, (oversimplifying a little), they would also do work that that fits under Calculus (the study of small changes between interconnected things). on Sat Oct 12th 2013 at 15:13:31 Bulanik Science gave us computers, lasers, transistors, electricity, magnetism, cars, planes, refrigeration, medicine, steam power, the Internet… and so much more. Science has enhanced our standard of living to phenomenal heights never before seen in the thousands of years of human history. Finance is mistaken as the origin of wealth but it is merely speculation that feeds off of scientific advancement, which is the true source of economic prosperity… In fact, the main reason that the world is dominated by the West today is because of Western science, which gave Europe the weapons and technology to conquer the Earth. You certainly have a point there. Money and economics are huge in any discussion about science. I don’t think you can separate techno-science from global capitalism…or religion and ethics for that matter. From what you say, though, it seems you believe our development is linear, singular and happens at definite stages, following the great model of West: Western science’s impact on industrialization. If you do believe that, then Abagond’s post on science should not only talk about money, but political agendas too. Science was always consisted of more than one subject, like race and gender came to be understood as intersectional now. Science used to be called Philosophy, the words were interchangeable at one time. Modern Science, on the other hand is different, because after all the Revolutions in science, science became another way of saying “the application of scientific method”, becoming an institution and a profession, even a corporation. Abagond once asked this question: What if history were reversed and blacks had guns and ocean-going ships before whites did? Is that what-if question so different from this real-life scene here: Israel can get whatever it wants from the US, like seventy billion dollars a year, plus weapons and such, whilst it’s been a no-no for Iran to have a nuclear programme because that would be a threat? I believe the Israelis possess in excess of 400 nuclear bombs at their disposal, yet we’re all safer for that. (I once saw a listing of the various Jewish terrorist groups held by the US government, but never, I mean nowhere, ever, have I seen any Western government point the finger at any of those groups in relation to 9/11.) The Israelis can steal land, and murder the people on it, but it has been the Palestinians who will portrayed, via technology, as the perpetrators of destruction…so, yes, 100% agreed — science has lead to some very wonderful outcomes — but, if you are going to lay a theory about economic progress over it, you are going to stumble over notions of BACKWARDNESS in the process. Some nations and some peoples don’t fit the Western model of progress that well. When everyone, everywhere is expected to “get with the programme” of Progress and Advancement, then, it’s more than science and money at play. You will see the sciences of statistics and planning come forward, as agrarian communities break up and breakdown and urbanization is pushed, you will see a reliance on borrowed technologies rather than indigenous ones, you will see privatization, the selling off of state assets, common agricultural policies, and the “intervention” of institutions — foreign institutions — to “channel” human capital and physical capital to industries. But few might ask who has determined who, and what, is “backward”! Those voices might be silenced as being irrelevant or out of touch with the times because if family clan structure disappears, or the young people who have migrated struggle to find work or education and live on their own, or that birth rates become negative, as do marriage rates, or that women in violent relationships are forced to stay because of isolation and economic dependence, or see higher rates of hiv, prostitution, etc. — all begin to be a feature of that society, then, those factors just the casualities, the collateral damage of advancement, progress. And there’s nothing you can do to stop it. True, the world has changed massively in the last 100 years. Look at human population growth and consumption patterns. Look at the impact on every region’s ecosystem, the atmospheric chemistry of planet. Who thought science would become so powerful. https://abagond.wordpress.com/2012/06/04/what-if-it-was-reversed-and-blacks-had-guns-and-ocean-going-ships-before-whites-did/ Do you see biological evolution as an economic metaphor? …and when you say this: Finance is mistaken as the origin of wealth. how do you define wealth? on Sat Oct 12th 2013 at 15:42:36 mary burrell People tend to forget that African Americans have made significant contributions to science as well. Otis Boykins invented 28 electronic devices including the control unit for the pacemaker. Dr. Ben Carsons the neurosurgeon and professor lead a medical team that became the first to separate Siamese twins successfully. Dr. Neil Degrasse Tyson astrophysicist and science communicator. He is the director of the Hayden Planetarium. I learned about Dr. Tyson while channel surfing on the television. I thought hee was a handsome brother, and watched the PBS show NOVA. Dr. Neil Degrasse Tyson is someone young black people can look up to. He is accomplished in his field. Black people have brilliant minds and are not just stereotypes of athletes and rappers. @ mary, not just handsome, but magnetic too. And what a speaking voice… He’s here telling us how he became a scientist. Mary, comment to you about Dr Tyson in moderation. Not sure why… This is a good thread post. This in addition to why there is talk in the media about what to teach school children about in textbooks, there are words being bandied about like creationism, intelligent design and throw in the religious beliefs and it is a controversial mix. It’s interesting to me to learn what both sides the belivers vs unbelievers subscribe to when discussing science. I am not ashamed to say when discussing this subject you have to explain it to me like I am five. I don’t think that’s a bad thing necessarily. You appear to subscribe, wholesale, to the standard, Euro-centric narrative. @ Kiwi, I wonder if we are understanding one another. I realize what the laws of the universe are — wait for it — universal. LOL. Neither, am I talking “mystically” or morality. I am (or was) vaguely familiar with Kuhn’s “Structure of Scientific Revolutions”, and I even went to school in England, and was taught how great Newton, and England, were by my English teachers. I am not that familiar with George Washington’s wealth, though I get what you mean. Further on the subject of Newton, the teachers we had taught us kids about the character of Newton thus: When Newton said: “If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants”, it was not because he was being modest. Not at all! Instead Newton was referring to the unfortunate and short-in-stature rival of his, Robert Hooke, whose ideas he had swiped and was subsequently credited for. That said, I had recently that science historians are now saying it is the Iraqi scientist, Ibn al-Haytham (born in Basra in 965) who is the founder of the scientific method, and he lived 600 years before Galileo… What you have given me is a summary of the Great Divergence, The European Miracle, and something of the theory of Eric Beinhocker’s “The Origin of Wealth” — which is all well and good in my opinion. However, I am not sure what this says other than the standard fayre we have been feed over and over about the greatness of Europeans, or indeed, how it furthers what we already know? Space travel is also fine, too, but I was talking about rural communities and urbanization. We can use GDP per capita, like in the chart I showed, I don’t believe I saw this chart. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Divergence I realize that the laws of the universe are — wait for it — universal. LOL. Neither, am I talking “mysticism” or morality. Further on the subject of Newton, my teachers taught us kids about the character of Newton thus: When Newton said: “If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants” — it was not because he was being modest. Not at all! Instead Newton was referring to the unfortunate, short-in-stature rival of his, Robert Hooke, whose ideas he had swiped and was subsequently credited for. That said, I heard that science historians are now saying it is the Iraqi scientist, Ibn al-Haytham (born in Basra in 965) who is the founder of the scientific method, and he lived 600 years before Galileo… However, I am not sure what this offers other than the standard fayre we have been feed over and over about the greatness of Europeans, or indeed, how it answers my questions? Space travel is also fine, too, but I was talking about rural communities and urbanization. When you say: @ Abagond, please my comment:https://abagond.wordpress.com/2006/10/25/science/#comment-196496 * please delete that comment. A more colloquial way of defining materialistic wealth would be to just ask oneself “Would I trade what I own for what he owns?” If the answer is yes, that person has greater wealth. Of course, I am ignoring spiritual wealth. That’s another story. Yes, in part, but I wasn’t referring to the Spiritual. Being merely rich is vastly different from those that are abundant in pocket but also have great impact on the lives and/or minds of others. The merely rich often behave differently to the wealthy, the latter are usually more low-key, purposeful and passionate. Ownership doesn’t really come into it. lost a long comment. … i was siding with Bulanik and questioning Kiwi. I laid out a number of points. It’s too bad I lost the comment. Time and motivation may not reappear to permit me to recreate the comment. Damn! on Sun Oct 13th 2013 at 01:12:11 Legion some of the points were analogies, which can’t be too compressed without losing the original weight of the analogy. Maybe, I’ll repost when I get over losing the post. Funnily enough, it’s actually my second response to your original comment. The first one I deleted on purpose after thinking you would get pissed/not appreciate what I said and then the second one just got lost. on Sun Oct 13th 2013 at 12:16:22 Bulanik No shame at all. Although once or twice others have tried to shame me for my writing and learning disabilities, I have never been ashamed of learning, or saying I don’t know. What Kiwi says is 100% correct about making knowledge accessible, simple. I recall once Bob Marley said he wrote his songs so that even a baby could understand them, and what he wrote was profound. Personally, as a person who reads and writes with difficulty, I don’t think it matters if something is explained short or long, in words or pictures — it only matters that you GET IT. I don’t have a scientific background myself — the way science was presented to me it was as if it was “complete” and so authoritative you could not question where it came from, and that to be good at it, and to understand it, was not for me. Why? Because, I also got this feeling: anyone who understood science was somehow smarter and tough-minded — the very opposite of those who understood literature or Art or such. The image of Science is full of intimidation. But it should not be! It’s a discipline that needs to managed responsibly, rather than anyone pretending that it just exists on its own, like it’s a “neutral” entity. This is what Martin Luther King Jr said: Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge that is power; religion gives man wisdom that is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary. Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism. (From “Tough Mind and a Tender Heart”, found in the compilation of writings in “Strength to Love”, 1963) @ mary, contd. The image that I should have been intimidated by Science when I was a school child was not an accident or something personal to me. After all, hadn’t it been science that had said that as a female human, my brain was inferior to that of male human? Wasn’t it science that had said that white people were better and smarter than brown and black people? Maths was a “male” subject, wasn’t it? You had to be smart to be an engineer! A girl interested in science should set her sights on becoming a nurse instead. Those were the nonsense stereotypes I used to hear, and see. (In fact, nearly all of the brilliant black girls I knew that had a flair for science became nurses, instead of scientists, engineers or doctors…) Then add in the dearth of of education about people of colour who have contributed to science research and scientific advances that we all enjoy. And yet, all this ^^ was objective and unbiased and untainted, right? What is the image of The Scientist? The rugged individualist, spearheading breakthroughs courageously, someone who works tirelessly and achieves through his work and merits alone. The Science World has not been exactly over-run with Women of Colour over the centuries… An article on black women astronauts: http://www.laprogressive.com/racism-sexism-in-space/ There are many non-Western and non-European contributors to what we now see as Western Thought and Western Scientific Achievement. A couple of years ago I watched the BBC series on science, hosted by Jim Al-Khalili, an Iraqi-born theoretical physicist. His documentaries took a view that is rarely seen in mainstream science education. For instance, he explains why Arabic words like algebra, algorithm and alkali are at the very heart of modern science. After all, there would be no modern mathematics or physics without algebra, no computers without algorithms and no chemistry without alkalis. Later, Prof Al-Khalili argues that the scholars he investigates, are among the first people to insist that all scientific theories were backed up by careful experimental observation, bringing a rigour to science that didn’t properly exist before. Towards the end of of his journey, he visits Italy to see how these non-European ideas penetrated the West and ultimately helped shape the works of the great European scientists.. Abagond: please delete the above comment in moderation and replace with this one: @ mary, the description I gave above about the documentary was taken from the general BBC commentary the accompanies the series. Professor Al-Khalili’s investigation into the origins and nature of Western Science is deeply personal: he is a scientist, but also a mixed-race person trained in the Western tradition. He seems to want to find tangible roots in his Iraqi heritage and put the Eastern tradition at the centre of what we now know as “Western”. I am sure there are many more pieces to the whole that we do not yet know. If you are interested, here are the other 2 programmes that follow the one above: Episode 2: Here he shows how Arabic “alchemy” became Western chemistry, and looks at the discovery that light travels in straight lines… (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9geEVKcEImU) Episode 3: This time he looks at astronomy and the efforts to find precise measurements, and how Greek ideas about our world were contradicted by men from the East. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9rli3jpqw8) on Sun Oct 13th 2013 at 16:16:35 mary burrell @ Bulanik: Many thanks. Thank you for the information. Much appreciated. @kiwi: Thank you for that, that was very kind of you. The best that can be done is to adapt to the changing landscape and prepare for the exciting century ahead. I recommended a couple of books to abagond on the open thread, along with a couple videos. You should look into them. They go deeper into what I’m talking about when I describe exponential progress. You are quite the optimist. The least we can be is curious. Could you re-mention the books on the OT, please? I don’t read everything here, and I don’t follow OT convos there anymore. @ Mary, welcome. One of the earliest mathematical artefacts: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-iGv9a7tDs) Ron Eglash has made various studies connecting our understanding of mathematics with culture, such as: – geometry in cornrow braiding, – spiral arcs in graffiti, – least common multiples in percussion rhythms, and – analytic geometry in Native American beadwork. A quote from him: We used to think of mathematics as a kind of ladder that you climb, and we would think of counting systems – one plus one equals two – as the first step and simple shapes as the second step. Recent mathematical developments like fractal geometry represented the top of the ladder in most Western thinking. But it’s much more useful to think about the development of mathematics as a kind of branching structure and that what blossomed very late on European branches might have bloomed much earlier on the limbs of others. When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn’t even discovered yet. A talk from Prof. Eglash covering design structures, architecture, to games, trade, and divination systems found throughout the African continent: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n36qV4Lk94) Abagond, why are my comments on Africa’s science going into moderation? You are quite the optimist. He certainly is. I’m reminded of the paraphrase: Science is far too important a job to be left solely to the scientists. Callow and naive Kiwi is ever so excited with what scientists are working on, because of course, their little projects will just naturally raise the general welfare of all people. Kiwi needs to have a look at the charming little monsters King introduced us too in the The Incomplete List of Children Obama has Killed with Drones thread. @ Legion. Yes, that would be the thread and the place to look at… The African continent has a long maritime history, and there is evidence of both ocean-going and river-borne vessels for trade, transportation, and war that goes back 1,000s of years. A little about (west) Africa’s Maritime science, an 8,000 year old boat: http://wysinger.homestead.com/canoe.html A brief mention about the Horn of Africa’s past: Northern Ethiopia has a history of trade with India and the Romans. The were highly competent ship-builders. This part of Africa was well known by the Ancient Greeks for its seaports. The Somalis, too, were also trading with the Romans AND the Arabs in the Arabian Peninsula centuries, long before the arrival of Islam. Perhaps the Somali and Ethiopian ship builders shared some features of ship building technology? Such as, say, mortise and tenon joints, a way to join pieces of wood without nails. This was the technology used in the building of Egypt’s ships. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JUMz_B0da0) Why are the majority of my comments in moderation? I’ve only mentioned bones, African geometry and joints used for ship-building… It’s Sunday B, he may not see your comments for a few hours. Tis true. I think I don’t understand the criteria for moderation. I am not saying anything “uncivil” or personal…used in rude words, which I have seen used today.. This moderation thing has been going on on this thread, my very mild comments on porn (Adventures in Porn thread), tribal nudity yesterday… Moderation is due to the video links? Aha. I fear you may have misunderstood me all together. Nowhere have I said – let us not have science – let us throw away technology. I did not say that. We all know what a benefit is. I like my washing machine! I rely on my phone. Photography is necessary for my work, and so on. Nor did I say anywhere that you had idealism that was blind. Perhaps Legion said you were “callow” and “naive”. I did not. What I was pointing to was the way Western science has imaged itself, made brief references to other cultures, and touched on the need for RESPONSIBILITY. I would ask you kindly to take a little care in reading my comments, as I’d rather if you didn’t put words in my mouth. on Sun Oct 13th 2013 at 21:41:47 qwerty To answer the first comment’s question, whether or not math is a science is a bit of a controversy. It is often classed as a formal science, and I support this. My physics lab partner was a girl majoring in mathematics, and the two of us were the only ones to get A+ out of a class of mainly 60 males. Kiwi, did you discuss some of these gender issues with your lab partner? If so what were her thoughts? on Mon Oct 14th 2013 at 00:23:25 Legion I remember many years ago Sylvester Stallone said something, I thought, was bang on. He said when in high school or junior high that is when the male/female relating is at it’s purest and sweetest. Neither is trying to compete or con the other. I think he was on to something. Without prying too much, may I ask, were these men not as accomplished as your cousin in terms of their occupations or the amount of ‘blue sky’ left for future advancement in their jobs? Thank you for your reply. Partner selection can be tough. Peanut is having difficulty from what I can see. I know from childhood experience that one nasty trick that men (or a certain type of man) like to use is to make the woman think she is broken when in many cases the man is the one lacking (this was a large take away with me with the BWE thread as an example). And look at the defensiveness of some men on this blog when the women vent or make an honest (not intended as an attack) criticism. I hope things work out for your cousin. Thirties and well educated sounds pretty foxy already, she should persevere and be discriminating. When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. Someone left an interesting comment on an Open Thread. I think it is the Nov 2012-Sep2013 or Jun-Nov 2012 one. The comment had something to do with fractals and African (don’t know which country) architecture. Some relationship that went back centuries(?) was “overlooked” by Europeans and recently seen with fresh new eyes. I would link the comment but the O.T.s are unwieldy now for me to load. on Mon Oct 14th 2013 at 18:06:15 Bulanik @ Legion, Kiwi — very interesting discussion… I am up to my eyes with work right now, but I shall return to answer you both properly when time allows. There is a great deal that could be said. Btw, Legion, if you have a moment to look one of my earlier comments, I attach 17 minute long video to it that it is actually about fractals in African architecture, etc… https://abagond.wordpress.com/2006/10/25/science/#comment-196634 The video is called “Fractals at the heart of African Design”… (Don’t get me started talking about architecture… :-D) Sure beautiful, I’ll let you know when I’ve watched it. I’ve been playing hooky from my own work, so I’m gonna do some catch up there first, but I will let you know. on Tue Oct 15th 2013 at 21:59:42 Bulanik @ Kiwi, those science books you suggested look quite tempting. Could you give me a brief review of each one if you have a moment, and which one should I read first? on Wed Oct 16th 2013 at 19:17:46 Bulanik @ Kiwi, thank you! I used to read science books, after I gave up on fiction, because at one time, it was the most exciting genre there was. Books like “The Blind Watchmaker”, “Silent Spring”, “Chaos”, “Longitude”, “Steps to an Ecology of Mind”, etc. Michio Kaku’s book is the place to begin, you’re right, I think. But Ray Kurzweil is a bold and reaching thinker, isn’t he? I’d love to know more about futurology, but I don’t think my mind has yet grasped the singularity he speaks of. Or trans-humanism — is Dr Kurzweil a transhumanist? Anyway, I’ll know one of these days. One book that I enjoyed immensely was Elaine Morgan’s study of human evolution: “The Descent of Woman”. Here she is talking about the Aquatic Ape theory: (http://www.ted.com/talks/elaine_morgan_says_we_evolved_from_aquatic_apes.html) There’s a book I would like to read: “Unnatural Selection”, which is about the trend of selecting male children over female children, and the havoc this will cause, not just in East and South Asia, but beyond that: (http://www.amazon.com/Unnatural-Selection-Choosing-Girls-Consequences/dp/B006J3VIA8/?tag=io9amzn-20&ascsubtag=%5Btype\|link[postId\|5983100[asin\|B006J3VIA8[authorId\|5717795175536518860) on Wed Oct 16th 2013 at 19:46:24 Legion you’ve got me interested too now. I think I’ll give Physics of the Future a go, around Christmas maybe. I’m interested in how deeply Kaku discusses his view on the limits of Moore’s law, does he spend at least a chapter discussing it? on Thu Oct 17th 2013 at 07:16:43 Bulanik Which other researchers and writers that have influenced you? I am certainly interested in the 2 that you recommend, and will probably invest in those titles, but I did share several titles with you in my previous post — so, I’d be interested in your views on them. I understand that your present interest and work will foreground your focus, but I am rather curious other science books/ideas/research that you’ve read. Yes, just about everything we do is a projection. I was certainly needling you with that “callow and naive” comment; I could have put things differently, we can even say should have put it differently. It’s to your credit that you didn’t make a big deal about it. Your enthusiasm and excitement for the future of science and it’s role in society metaphorically jump out at the reader. Unbridled faith/excitement in any of the ways of the world is a dangerous thing, I think. (Indeed isn’t this an axiom that every wise person carries in their heart of hearts?) It’s an old story to promise the public a beautiful new future because of advances that will be made in science. The story is used to get the public to support whatever work scientists might be up to. But that promised future is just a carrot that may or may not materialize. The undeniable social and political and financial currents that intersect around technology and science should inform to some extent, one’s enthusiasm and excitement. “Science” isn’t going to just hand “us” (whoever us happens to be) some beautiful future. Does society even know, can society even agree on what a beautiful future would be? Unintended consequences and misuse and profit seeking are also risks to the manner in which a technology is utilized in society. Dating back to, I think, the 70’s, society has has been impacted with the problem of ‘superbugs’: highly resistant viruses. Superbugs came into being from over prescription. We can interpret over prescription as unbridled excess in the technology advance of antibiotics. Superbugs have continued to be a severe problem decade after decade, I would be naive (callow and naive 🙂 ) not to believe that the kickbacks (example of a financial current) that doctors (medical scientists) get for prescribing various antibiotics haven’t also contributed to the superbug problem. “Science” also gave us BPA plastic, pesticides that are killing us and killing bees, cell cell phone towers (radiation) that are correlating with increased cancer rates, cell phone use (radiation) that is documented as causing health problems, birth control pills that have unintended consequences on a number of women. I’ve heard women say, and it’s been written about lately, that when they come off the pill, they realize that they were attracted to men that they would never give the time of day to when their hormones are in their natural state when off the pill. The point is made, no? A little more on projection: Kiwi, you are in school taking a science degree. It’s unsurprising that you’d be enthusiastic about science. It’s also a good thing; being enthusiastic about science strengthens your commitment to excel in your studies. Being enthusiastic about science can lead to an over exuberant appraisal about how the future will turn out, because the enthusiasm blocks out other impacting factors, on how society functions, from our view. What I’m describing is no different than the many experiences we’ve all had of being super excited about something and missing the negatives. We need to be aware that mindsets that help is in one area of life don’t necessarily help us in other areas of life. This fact is not something to lament, just something to recognize and use in the best way. So, even though the other guy is often projecting (usually easy to see) we are often projecting too (not always easy to see). Yeah, it’s a little M.C. Escherish, huh? I don’t want to make the thread, in toto, be about a social critique of “science” but I do think the critique element is important to mention at least once. The social critique of science thing is also part of the subtext of this entire blog site Kiwi. Surely you know this from being a regular reader/commenter here. If I’m wrong in that characterization I just made, I invite Abagond to say so. Science practiced and/or promoted with vested interests is also a huge problem. Of course when a scientist is practicing science with vested interests, they won’t call it that, they’ll just call it “science”. This article further speaks of the points I made above. It is a nice quick summary of the nasty cultural habit of passing off empty/dubious promises as science. • “The point I really want you to remember is science doesn’t promise you a future, science is about finding out how the world works,” he told the audience. “When you start predicting the future, you are talking about imagination.” • Active imagination, scientists’ own pride and funding structures that favor research oriented toward a specific purpose all contribute to the creation of false promises. http://www.livescience.com/25146-flying-cars-broken-science-promises.html We had a brief discussion about the empty promises practice on The Future that kind of never was thread, which may interest you. I was going by my prior moniker at the time. https://abagond.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/the-future-that-kind-of-never-was/#comment-137549 on Mon Oct 21st 2013 at 23:53:12 Mbeti In response to the all the commentators on this topic thus far in response to comments made about losing your comment and errors I created a text file on my desktop just to comment to this post and regularly clicked save. In response to my phrase “explain it to me like I was Five!” I got this from here “http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive” while looking up an explanation for the big thing on the electrical power cord the comes with most laptop computers. And now a little more on topic first but not least the great Bulanik,I say great because of the numerous comments just here on this post where you eloquently expressed not just viewpoints I resoundingly agree with ,but new unknown to me (and others who have said as much) information about which I had not known before and am richer because of it. People like you are a true treasure of our species and one of the main reasons I return to this blog site,its the wonderful and intelligent commentators that make the topics discussed such a rich and rewarding experience. your dissertation on ethnicity science%20_%20Abagond.htm#comment-196314 was excellent I would add that I have always deconstructed the term “western” to mean “white european” or more specifically “white northern european males” and their culture imposed on the rest of the world though what may be due to their profound inferiority complex on the one hand and the temporal position of their culture in relation to the accumulated cultural evolution of our species on the other. I mean the most obvious point is how are you going to claim an entire hemisphere as a culture domain ? (after all is not the entire continent of Africa in the western hemisphere?) and insist that only white males are worthy and contributors to the whole of science reason and truth, this is a legacy that they and their descendant will inevitable bear. science%20_%20Abagond.htm#comment-196331 Madhava of Sangamagrama didn’t know now I know and it figures.. tell me/us about it. “This is what Martin Luther King Jr said:” For a Indian non american lady you seem to know Martin Luther King Jr’s writings better than most african americans I’ve read or spoken to. I used to dismiss MLK’s views because I choose the atheist path and he was famously known as a christian preacher ,however more and more I begin to question the wisdom of not reading his writing – and this written in the year of my birth no less 😉 and the sad and sorry legacy of sexism as well , (In fact, nearly all of the brilliant black girls I knew that had a flair for science became nurses, instead of scientists, engineers or doctors…) I grieve at what we have lost and what could have been, and when I say we I mean all of our species. “At my university, all my engineering classes are taught by old white men…..” supporting factual evidence – form the redoubtable Kiwi no less “She mentioned how society is constructed to favor “the straight, white, male” and I added my personal belief that the lack of female representation was mostly due to discrimination. She seemed incredulous, so I decided not to push the topic.” What is about about otherwise intelligent non-white people that acknowledging the obvious discrimination by white people in general and white males in particular is some how unthinkable? Maybe its the thoroughness as well as the viciousness of their (white peoples) hegemony that gives many pause… “explains why Arabic words like algebra, algorithm and alkali are at the very heart of modern science. After all, there would be no modern mathematics or physics without algebra, no computers without algorithms and no chemistry without alkalis.” some more didn’t know but now I know… The Israelis can steal land, and murder the people on it, but it has been the Palestinians who will portrayed, via technology, as the perpetrators of destruction…” Forget about cosigning – every time I hear yet another news report on how Iran needs to not have nuclear weapons I’m gonna remember this… Physics of the Future” by Michio Kaku The Singularity is Near” by Ray Kurzweil might need reading ,though I’m aware of both authors the thing about the Singularity and transhumanism while it has always been obvious to me this is where we are inevitably headed ,and definitely not without good reason ,but there certain phenomena for which I desire little improvement or advancement – specifically beautiful ,intelligent compassionate people, perhaps this coming Singularity will remove the barriers to my hearts desire and allow us all to equally and freely enjoy a full life of family ,friends wealth peace and serenity; if not is it really worth it? In closing I will say that while I focused upon mainly two of the commentors here I deeply appreciated all of you,and one final note, a brief spat apparently occurred between two of the commenters here,and it sadden me, I have myself said and expressed myself unkindly to at least two of you,and for that I am sorry and hereby convey my deepest apologies – in the course of reading and commenting on this blog and others I’ve learned that harsh words said in the moment recur in my memory to my continual discomfort and regret. Thus I now strive to be as respectful and considerate as possible even with those I strongly disagree or who appear to be an apparent foe. So thank you all for your comments and contributions and I look forward to more interesting reading…. on Tue Oct 22nd 2013 at 00:28:23 Mbeti Reblogged this on Mbeti's Blog and commented: To me science is the best way to the truth,but if you disagree your comments are welcome. @ Mbeti Learning keeps me going! I second Kiwi’s comment about the pursuit of knowledge, and admire his, and your, passion for it. I also thank you for taking the time to read my dyslexic bursts of enthusiasm about stuff I wish I knew more about 😀 on Wed Nov 6th 2013 at 02:13:25 mary burrell The Goldilocks zone is the orbital distance from a star in which a planet’s atmosphere allows water to exist in liquid form at the planet’s surface. So far, that is the only known habitat supporting life. Astronomers speculate universe has habitable Earth size planets in the galaxy. This is like the Jetsons or Star Wars, it’s like science fiction. One of every five sunlike stars in the galaxy has a planet the size of Earth circling it in the Goldilocks Zone. Not too hot, not too cold where surface temperatures should be compatible with liquid water,this based on data from the Kepler spacecraft. I think it’s cute that it’s named the Goldilocks zone, I saw this in the Science and Medicine section of the newspaper today. the word science has it’s origins in the Latin word scientia, which means knowledge. And I learned this from my complete Idiot’s Guide to Critical Reading. I admit something like science is intimidating, so I challenge myself to learning about small things related to subjects that intimidate or something that was boring to me in the past. I am on a quest for knowledge. OOPs I see why comments are in moderation because of a certain word. Forgot about that. The word science has it’s origins in the latin word scientia, which means knowledge. Shakuntala Devi is nicknamed the human calculator, she is mentioned in the 1982 Guiness Book of World Records for multiply two 13 digit numbers in just 28 seconds at a time that includes how long it took her to say the 26 digit answer. she took the number 61,629,875 she calculated it’s cubed root. That is one of her amazing feats and earned her the nickname the human calculator. Yesterday was this amazing woman’s 84th birthday. on Mon Nov 25th 2013 at 04:35:06 Legion Who invented the = sign? By “who,” I mean, which culture? Well the name of the individual would be cool too. on Thu Dec 5th 2013 at 01:14:05 Legion Guys, seriously, doesn’t anyone know? on Thu Dec 5th 2013 at 05:10:37 King ^ The mathematician Robert Recorde To avoide the tediouse repetition of these woordes: is equalle to: I will sette as I doe often in woorke use, a paire of paralleles, or gemowe lines of one lengthe: =====, bicause noe .2. thynges, can be moare equalle. Robert Recorde, The Whetstone of Witte, 1557 Thanks King. I didn’t quite trust my source. What symbol was used before equals signs? The Arabs invented Algebra … ; time to go on wiki… Who was your source? Legion, I remembered that there was a Latin equivalent. I just looked it up and evidently “aequalis” was designated by “ae” or sometimes “oe.” A mathematician and writer named Ian Stewart. He has that quote (Recorde’s) at the front of his 17 Equations That Changed the World. It’s difficult to believe that some other symbolic shorthand didn’t exist way before Recorde’s innovation. I should have been clearer in my original query as to what I was really curious about: the earliest known notation of the concept, “is equal to”. … and thanks for the Latin look out King. on Sat Dec 7th 2013 at 19:14:33 Legion I never hear any talk about Fukushima anymore. I used to drink a lot of something called Matcha. As soon as Fukushima happened, I ceased drinking Matcha, just out of common sense reflex. I hadn’t thought about Fukushima in awhile but a little while ago I did recall it. I found the following videos and thought they were worth linking. I opened up my cupboard an hour ago and checked the origin of a couple cans of Tuna. They are product of Thailand. If you’re sharper than me you know where Thailand is in relation to Japan. If you don’t know, do what I did and pull up a map. I was actually concerned about a possible BPA lining to the cans of Tuna before I remembered fucking Fukushima as a risk factor too. Testing food at the household level for radiation: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIKro3s6eU4&feature=share&list=UUIO5WfcTgl3xmpYJFA_RUdQ&index=2) Radioactive Green tea: (http://youtu.be/WKTJ47R-hNw) on Wed Dec 25th 2013 at 01:56:37 Legion http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24784-turning-back-time-ageing-reversed-in-mice.html#.Uro6SfYZy7w Science is neither objective nor bland, many a scientist put a knife in their contemporary plan to further their own funding or project. In terms of the modern world and what we have it would see our ancestors weren’t sitting on their duffs either. Yet with the advancement of communication we can now spread achievements through out many different societies. @ Legion, scientist lie in Japan all the time trying to tell the people that everything is ok. When we know it isn’t. The fish in the sea that go on vacation to other parts of the world. We also know that Cesium spreads after such incident enough that at least from the 1940’s- 1980’s maybe still now but I know you could test the vintage of the wine by the Cesium in it. It has been said that Tesla saw flaws with Einstein’s conception of space-time. Imagine it: something fundamentally flawed with the theory of relativity. I know so little about Tesla but it seems he was perhaps a far greater genius than even Einstein: the one we have been socialized to view as monumental giant. Silicon Valley fans of Nicola Tesla Assemble to Unveil a Statue I disagree that because he did not pursue wealth, ergo he was humble; one does not follow from the other. http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/at-work/tech-careers/silicon-valley-fans-of-nikola-tesla-assemble-to-unveil-a-statue Nikola on Wed Dec 25th 2013 at 04:36:22 King …scientist lie in Japan all the time trying to tell the people that everything is ok. When we know it isn’t….” Gentlemen, the question should never be wether one believes in “conspiracy theories,” but only which ones do you believe in? -Guy Fawks Gunpowder Plot? -Operation Mockingbird? -The Tuskegee Syphilis Study? -COINTELPRO? -Fukushima Coverup? -PRISM? Conspiracies are happening all the time… But they have long been well hidden behind a web of nonsense, enough to discourage most from looking at any conspiracy too seriously. All time: past, present, future is experienced separately. Because they are separate? Or because we perceive them as separate? Our senses have been our best friends from our earliest years on the planet in order to survive and build. Our senses may not be our best friends in determining our place, in a cosmic sense. (http://youtu.be/j-u1aaltiq4) ^A possible companion piece to the video above: (http://youtu.be/cv5atl5USSg) I noticed the day was longer today, a relief and a metaphor. http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/12/21/5-things-to-know-about-the-winter-solstice/ on Thu Dec 26th 2013 at 19:52:34 Legion Beautiful locations to take in the Winter Solstice: http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2013/dec/20/winter-solstice-ireland-newgrange-tomb Some history, explanation and more sites of the Winter Solstice: http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stories/6-ancient-sites-that-are-tributes-to-the-winter-solstice http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/12/20/winter-solstice-2013-shortest-day-of-the-year-but-sunset-already-creeping-later/ on Thu Dec 26th 2013 at 20:08:17 King of Trouble If they could cover-up Fukushima they would. Unfortunately kids are testing with higher doses of radiation then the scientist had said they would. One would only have to listen to what the American bases are telling their people to watch out. No amount of Gomenasai is going to wish away that damage. Yet for conspiracy theories my absolute favorite comes down to the alternative energy engine. What is always brought up is that the people who make them die mysteriously. Science is a tool and as such can be abused in all sorts of manners. The Astronomical Hijinks of the Shortest Day of the Year The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/the-astronomical-hijinks-of-the-shortest-day-of-the-year/282109/ http://earthsky.org/earth/everything-you-need-to-know-december-solstice I am reminded of Bulanik’s comment here: on Fri Dec 27th 2013 at 01:13:36 King of Trouble I love that people say science is objective. Science is cut-throat and I will get my funding over the other guy even if I have to bury him in the grave, ruin his reputation, and make sure everyone thinks she is a quake. Science is art and war mixed with a bit of what we think are facts for this moment. on Fri Dec 27th 2013 at 01:42:50 Legion ^ When we talk like that, we mean the politics practiced by scientists rather than actual science. We mean that scientists are not puritans or angels. And in fact may be corrupt or otherwise misled. There is politics to science but something that was law today in less then a blink of an eye something that seemed right is proven wrong. Cold Fusion being one that reminds me of a tennis match with it being possible then impossible to a possibility again. I also get excited about neutrinos and the speed of light but interest and scientific thought here is also bipolar. These men and women in science are too unwilling to simply declare when they don’t know something, they hate to admit that they are just making a guess or operating from an assumption. It is more powerful to speak from fact so the tendency is to act as though the things they discuss are rock solid. Hard to maintain a career, grants, and ego and societal influence when you admit you’re just guessing. To wit: there is some concept in biology with the awe inspiring name of The Central Dogma. {oooh, ahhh!} The Central Dogma was taught as a fact for decades, I believe it is still in text books that are being used. It may still be formerly taught, perhaps the younger blog members can let us know. Anyhow it was never a fact, just a hypothesis about the primacy of DNA to influence a biological system. The short story of this hypothesis is that information flows from DNA out to the system. The end. So, this means (if it had been true) that your genes rule you, and you can’t do anything about it. Fast forward to now. The Central Dogma never deserved to be taught as fact because it had never been tested. Even not testing it, it seems a problematic hypothesis. Biological systems, particularly humans need to adapt. Adapting to the environment would most likely involve being able to send signals back to your DNA from the environment and vice versa. Well, it turns out we do send information from the environment back to the DNA; a contradiction of a famous hypothesis that came to be relied on as truth. on Sun Jan 5th 2014 at 06:49:19 Legion Kiwi! What a pleasure to see that you took some time out from the race politics/race identity threads to comment again in this one. The “book club” discussion can take place over an infinite span of time. Technically speaking, this is certainly true. On a practical level, I’d want to get something useful or satisfying out of such discussions. Anyhow, we can see how it will go, depending on what each of us choose to read, your recommendations and/or other stuff. The hairs on a polar bear is not white it is transparent. This from one of my favorite scientist Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson a man of quick wit and fierce intelligence, “Just an FYI: Roman numerals have nozero because it was not yet invented,allowing year 2000 to be written efficiently as MM. “The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe it. Neil deGrasse Tyson. on Fri Feb 7th 2014 at 07:03:00 Legion Not really. It’s promoted as true until some experiment shows that the the last “true” fact was slightly wrong or altogether wrong. Also some phenomena are “true” only in specific contexts and breakdown in other contexts, thus becoming “untrue”. Two examples of context dependent truth would be the current one that everyone knows about: 1.) The behavior of the macro world (Newtonian) contrasted against the behavior of the world of tiny particles (quantum mech.). Is one untrue and the other true? It’s not an appropriate way of setting the frame when discussing them. 2.) Euclidean geometry is the geometry of our senses. You know, a straight line is a straight line. It was (and is) used in the study of light. It is also the same geometry of the billiard/snooker/pool table. Euclidean geometry is so embedded in our culture, we take it for granted, like electricity. But is it “true”? It’s upsetting to have a paradigm shift once some observed phenomena is seen to be obviously “true” and universally pervasive. Guess what? Enter, non Euclidean geometry! (I wanted to be finished typing by now, so I’m gonna shorten up the history, but do read the history if you’re interested!) Euclid’s Elements is the book that lays out Euclidean geometry, again the geometry of our common sense. Euclid’s Fith Postulate is equivalent to the Equidistant Postulate. The Equidisdant Postulate states: Parallel lines are equidistant from each other. Now, the equidisdant postulate seems like an “obvious truth”. Euclid writes The Elements, two thousand years pass and the fifth postulate is still not proven! In the efforts to prove the fifth postulate a new geometry was discovered, one that defies common sense. This new geometry was every bit as valid as Euclidean geometry. But when using non euclidean geometry the old geometry was false and when using euclidean geometry non euclidean geometry was false. Well, again, one is not false or the other true, it just depends what system you want to use, again context dependent. The discovery of non euclidean geometry forever dispelled the idea that you could have “truth” in Mathematics. Well if you can’t have truth in mathematics, you can’t have it in science either. What you can have are particular systems yielding predictable results. All of this ushered in the new idea of relative truths, which has been abused by some and put to wonderful use by others. Tyson knows about all this history in Science, so, he is being abusive by talking about truth in the way he’s doing in that quote. Some might complain that I left some important things out but I really want to stop typing. 😛 on Fri Feb 7th 2014 at 09:41:40 eco I think you will find this interesting: http://www.livescience.com/23074-future-computers.html “It’s promoted as true until some experiment shows that the the last ‘true’ fact was slightly wrong or altogether wrong. (…) IMO you are merging the terms ‘fact’ (or ‘truth’) with ‘theory’ and he isn’t. Theories do change, sometimes very drastically, but the stuff that is predictable thanks to current theories will still be predictable even when the theories change. For example: people are pretty good at figuring out how quickly things ‘fall down’ near the surface of our planet and a new more advanced theory of gravity wouldn’t make the current calculations untrue. on Fri Feb 7th 2014 at 11:47:48 abagond I disagree with that too. Science is a set of best guesses, not all of them right. The great thing about science is that it is self-correcting: it can weed out its own errors. A good counterexample to what Tyson is saying is scientific racism. It is discredited and out of the mainstream in our time, but it was mainstream a hundred years ago. Scientists said all kinds of racist things. The beauty of science is that their ideas could be disproved. But, as our knowledge of genetics imperfectly advances, there could be windows of time when scientific racism makes a comeback. Like those Neanderthal genes that non-Africans have. What if one of them can be linked to intelligence? Then what? You know we would never hear the end of it. It’s almost certain that science will uncover uncomfortable realities of one type or another that are unpalatable to contemporary worldviews. I think that the true test of a rational person is their willingness to at least conditionally accept these new truths. IMO you are merging the terms ‘fact’ (or ‘truth’) with ‘theory’ No actually, I’m not. That’s what an axiom is, a statement of an “obvious truth”. Euclid’s axioms were not theories, they were regarded as obvious truths. (The fifth axiom, actually was eyed suspiciously. Apparently, a significant number of thinkers thought it should be thought of more as a theorem and that is why people were trying to prove it for so long. No one was trying to prove the other axioms because they really were regarded as boringly true, again that is what an axiom is.) My statement in parenthesis does not help your case Eco. The work done on the fifth postulate “undid” (in a manner of speaking) all of Euclid’s axioms. So, all those “obvious truths” were seen not to be “true”. Again, I’ve stated the story above and if I continue here, I’m just repeating it, so, time to stop. and he isn’t. He (based in that quote) is saying Science delivers truth. It does nothing of the sort, for reasons given above, in the first response to Mary. The Equidistant Postulate states: Parallel lines are equidistant from each other. I ought to have said: The Equidistant Postulate states: Parallel lines are everywhere equidistant from each other. That’s not what I meant. I think you are merging ‘fact’ with ‘theory’ in the general context of science. IMO Tyson wasn’t trying to say that current theories should be accepted as the truth. They obviously shouldn’t be. The way I see it, he meant the conclusions, scientific achievement. There are as many positive numbers as there are positive and negative numbers combined. Light can behave like a wave. DNA tests work and modern humans are related to ‘less complex’ life forms. That sort of stuff. I assume that the fact that theories shouldn’t be accepted as the truth is so obvious to Tyson it didn’t occur to him to point that out. “That’s what an axiom is, a statement of an ‘obvious truth’.” Not really, it’s more like a ‘basic premise’. The way you are using the term ‘truth’ when you are talking about Euclid’s geometry seems very strange to me. I think people became aware of the theory’s limitations, but I wouldn’t say that it became ‘untrue’. That’s not what I meant. I think you are merging ‘fact’ with ‘theory’ in the general context of science.” Ha! That is what most of modern science is. At least that which is disclosed to the public. Eco, you’re trying too hard. I wouldn’t say it became “untrue” either. I’m not going to repeat myself. Everything is there in the first response to Mary. on Fri Feb 7th 2014 at 19:19:26 buddhuu […]Like those Neanderthal genes that non-Africans have. What if one of them can be linked to intelligence? Then what? You know we would never hear the end of it. This thread appears to constitute evidence that intelligence is not reliant upon Neanderthal DNA. I’ve read it a few times now and I can’t agree with it. In the first paragraph you said that sometimes experiments show that facts are not true. IMO that applies to theories, but not facts. I can’t think of any examples when that happened to a fact. That’s one of the reasons why I think you are mixing up the terms – theories with facts. The way you (mis)use the word ‘axiom’ is another one. Later you wrote that some things are true only in specific contexts, but break down in other ones, that they are only relatively true. I do not see how that is a problem, a flaw. @ Legion and Abagond: Thanks for the responses I will study them and give them thought. I am new this. Science has always intimidated me, But Neil degrasse has me interested in learning. I am not on the same level as you guys. I just started reading magazines like “Popular Science and Wired. I try digest small bits. But thank you gentlemen for your responses. I will start by learning who all the classical scientist are like Copernicus, Galileo and Newton, Einstein. Baby steps for me. “The most important product of knowledge is ignorance” David J. Gross, Physicist and Nobel winner. on Sat Feb 8th 2014 at 08:09:02 eco You should try “A Short History of Nearly Everything” by Bill Bryson. IMO it’s the best entry-level science book. It’s very accessible and informative at the same time. It focuses on modern science, stuff like: relativity, radioactivity, the shape, age and size of the universe, properties of chemical elements, evolution, plate tectonics, string theory, the big bang and many more. Bryson focuses on a topic, like the size of the Earth, and describes how people’s ideas about it changed throughout time and why they changed, then jumps to another related subject and describes its origin. He mainly talks about implications, what a particular discovery meant to humanity. He doesn’t introduce equations or some more advanced abstract ideas. He throws in funny anecdotes and short biographies every now and then, so the book doesn’t get too boring or overwhelming for casual readers. @ Kiwi: It seemed that artificial intelligence fell out of fashion for a while, but recently interest has revived. Google has acquired a UK AI company, Deepmind. This isn’t academic AI research aimed at creating a thinking machine, it is commercially and practically focused development for real world applications. That said, I heard an interview with Demis Hassabis on BBC Radio4 a few days ago and he definitely has a vision of genuine synthetic intelligence not too far in the future. Here’s a Guardian piece on the Google buy-up of Deepmind. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/27/google-acquires-uk-artificial-intelligence-startup-deepmind As for personal computing, I think a lot of future development will have the goal of further integrating full blown computer capabilities and the functionality of mobile devices (Android, iOS etc), but into wearable formats – perhaps things that evolve from the slightly clunky, much-hyped and so far unobtainable Google Glass. One of the shortcomings of mobile devices has always been the unsuitability of those formats for applications that require extensive use of input devices such as keyboard/mouse etc – graphic design, word processing of large documents etc. I could not write a book, record and master a music track or design a t-shirt on my wife’s Android tablet, so I have largely shunned those devices and remain faithful to my laptop. I think developing new input technologies to enhance the range of applications for mobile devices could finally see larger computer formats begin to vanish. @eco: Thank You. on Sun Feb 9th 2014 at 21:54:15 Legion I’ve read it a few times now and I can’t agree with it. In the first paragraph you said that sometimes experiments show that facts are not true. IMO that applies to theories, but not facts. I can’t think of any examples when that happened to a fact. That’s one of the reasons why I think you are mixing up the terms – theories with facts. It’s okay that you don’t agree with it, it won’t alter history. The account that I gave above, is not made up. It is a retelling of the major paradigm shift that occurred in Western intellectual thought, regarding facts as eternal things, prior to the discovery of non euclidean geometry. The discovery of non euclidean geometry was also a realization that facts were not eternal things. I did not mean to use the word “theories”; I meant what I said and I said what I meant. The way you (mis)use the word ‘axiom’ is another one. I’m confident and comfortable in my use of the word ‘axiom’. There was a time when it was a new word for me. Being reasonable, I acquainted myself with it. Later you wrote that some things are true only in specific contexts, but break down in other ones, that they are only relatively true. I do not see how that is a problem, a flaw. It’s not a flaw. It is the paradigm shift in thought that I explained above and it was a major advance in the approach to examining nature. My initial response to Mary is very clear. You’re still trying to hard Eco. too Science has always intimidated me… Sister mary, don’t be intimidated, be curious and then seek your answers. … and Mary my level of scientific understanding needs a lot more improvement, I’m learning too. on Tue Feb 11th 2014 at 00:11:20 mary burrell “Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain” Edward de Bono on Wed Feb 19th 2014 at 20:34:27 eco Sorry for the late reply. I forgot to check this thread… Non-Euclidean geometry was not discovered. It was constructed. Just like Euclid’s geometry. These are abstract theoretical systems and you are inaccurately calling them facts. They often are presented to the general public as fact, but scientists know reality is more subtle. Scientists knew Euclid’s geometry was not a fact, that’s why they felt the need to analyze its axioms, thats why they tried to improve it, looked for a system that resembles reality more closely. I’m not trying to alter history. You are misrepresenting it. Theories are not facts. Facts are objectively true things and theories are ideas, systems explaining known facts and helping scientists discover new facts. Theories are not discovered, facts are. Theories are intentionally built. Axioms are basic premises that are considered to be true, but only within the boundaries of the theory that uses them. For example, a lot of basic, fundamental theories in math assume the existence of infinities. The successor axiom of natural numbers effectively does that. Does that mean that according to the theory of natural numbers (or even better – cardinal numbers) the world/universe should be assumed to be infinite? Of course not. Axioms are not statements that are supposed to be considered generally true, true outside of their theory. When you are saying stuff like: “Euclid’s axioms were not theories, they were regarded as obvious truths” it shows that either you are skewing reality or do not understand the terms you are using. Again, these axioms were not facts, they were elements of a theory. People were aware of this and that’s why they questioned them and looked for a system that left less room for doubt, that matched reality better. It didn’t happen the way you described it. Your ideas about what was considered a fact are wrong. You clearly have a problem, I don’t care what it is and it can stay with you. I wasn’t expecting a response from you. A response from you on the matter had to be worthless, because I had properly covered matter, so I never checked until now. Your post just restates what I said about context dependent truth, but you do so without saying the words: “context dependent truth”. Also, it is a triviality not worth mentioning as to Euclidean geometry being constructed rather than discovered. You would know that if it is correct that you read general science (provided those readings also covered some general math discussion). It happens to be a standard part of math philosophy, if you will, as to whether mathematics is created or discovered. Again, it is a point of philosophy, you really should know that from your generalist reading, a kid would know that from his/her generalist reading and then behave as an adult when discussing the matter. It is simply an illusion to behave as though you are delivering an important truth by saying Euclidean Geometry was constructed, it is a semantical point. How ridiculous and wasteful you are being. I am not inaccurately calling anything a fact. My response to Mary’s quote of Tyson was to demonstrate the realization of context dependent truth that swept through the practice of mathematics and science and many other fields when non euclidean geometry was discovered. Further, is it really possible that the use of ironic quotes in my post is lost on you? No, your English is too good, you are just talking loud and saying nothing and still trying to hard. That will be all. Again, I do invite others to read the history on this matter about relative truths and the discovery of non euclidean geometry. I had properly covered the matter… on Fri Apr 18th 2014 at 09:20:09 eco And I hope they’ll read the definitions of ‘fact’ and ‘theory’ and understand that they are not similar things, that the term ‘true’ means very different things when it’s used to describe them. Learning why mathematicians prove theorems, but not theories, may be useful too. That should explain why theories can’t be true, at least not like facts can. Also, I invite the reader of this scroll to go back up. Lastly (provided I can discipline myself), it’s simply another triviality that mathematicians prove theorems. Theorems, once proven, allow us and the scientist to see more deeply into a subject and come up with [wait for it, wait for it people…] theories about some phenomena under examination/discussion. Now, I really must disembark from this pedantic merry-go-round of the trivial, leading to nowhere. Eco, you may continue without me and I trust that you will. on Fri Apr 18th 2014 at 19:16:03 Kwamla Its not often I’ve found something of Legion’s offerings to agree with but since I’m interested in this science debate. (as both Legion and eco will know I have my own views in area!) I’ve scrolled back up to read the discussions and there are some clear statements by Legion which, for me, do stand out: This is exactly the point about Science which those who have been educated dogmatically through a process of indoctrination about the infallibility of science, maths and technology have the most difficult time grasping. (eco please take note, yet again!) Science is not immune to politics, greed, untruths and downright falsifications. In fact I would go further and say much of what we know and generally learn about science is tenuous at the least and certainly should not be regarded as “true” or “truths” at all. This is because most of it can be shown as “relative” or “context dependent” as Legion correctly states. In my view any discussion about the role and future of scientific/technological progress which fails to explicitly incorporate or specify (and abide by) its own moral or ethical value system is devolved, backward or doomed in terms of eventual progress. What is the point in developing Artificially Intelligence systems and placing these into computers or robots if such machines end up replicating the failed un-expunged traits (white supremacy) of its designers? Essentially, we are not programmed to die. We age simply because it just happens. That is, nobody designs a car to break down, but we all know that they do eventually. That’s just the result of the second law of thermodynamics This is a classic example of the intoxicated, indoctrinated and delusional thinking that comes with thinking of science in a vacuum separated from the interconnectedness of life and death on this planet. The “second law of thermodynamics” may be applicable in a dis-connected vacuum but you would really need to prove one exists…. ^ Egads! Of all the people to give me an ‘Amen’ on this! I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that I believe Kwamla is the sort of person to fall into one of two categories with regard to relative truth. Two categories which I made brief mention of earlier when I said: All of this ushered in the new idea of relative truths, which has been abused by some and put to wonderful use by others. Kwamla belongs to the abusive camp. The reader who thinks I’m being merely unpleasant can simply have a look at Kwamla’s respect for science by reading his various espousals on another thread: https://abagond.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/melanin/ Legion, Lets remember you are not the best or most informed and knowledgeable person in the area of Melanin. You have too (like many others) unresolved prejudices about the subject to be considered objective. Therefore your views or opinions on the science really don’t hold for much. Could it be? Is it possible you may be falling foul of your own charges of abuse? on Sat Apr 19th 2014 at 13:02:47 eco “Theorems, once proven, allow us and the scientist to see more deeply into a subject and come up with (…) theories about some phenomena under examination/discussion. ” It’s the other way around. First you have a theory, a system that can’t be proven, can’t be true nor false, not generally, not in a particular context. It can match reality better than some other system, but that does not make it more true. When you have a theory you can use its axioms to deduce theorems and then use that do deduce more complicates theorems. They are facts and they can be true in the context of the theory. You are disagreeing with Neil deGrasse Tyson, because you are applying the term “true” to things he wouldn’t perceive that way. Theories have not become context dependent or relative truths. There is nothing to deduce that from, no fact that could have been used to prove they are true within a context. Can you show me a mathematical proof of the claim that non euclidean geometry is true within some context? You can’t. Not only such a thing doesn’t exist it also can’t be constructed. Facts can be context dependent truths, but even the ancients knew that. They understood that different philosophical systems lead to different conclusions, but that the systems themselves can’t be established as true beyond any doubt. deGrasse Tyson is absolutely right. The things that are true will remain to be true. Facts will still be facts even if their theories will become discarded and forgotten. on Thu Jul 3rd 2014 at 22:07:48 Legion I’m so lazy sometimes. I still have a Scientific American from last winter that I haven’t read. There was a to-do on the cover about quantum computing. on Sat Jul 26th 2014 at 04:59:40 Legion Before I give you the bad news, a question: have you heard of 3d printing? on Sat 26 Jul 2014 at 04:38:38 Legion The technology to do the following is not there yet, but perhaps one day: imagine those nasty robots you drew our attention to, imagine that they can repair themselves after taking combat damage. Not a pleasant thought. on Sat 26 Jul 2014 at 04:43:22 King Yes, but I know the technology as Additive Process Manufacturing. I’ve even used it a few times. Hmm… That would be VERY bad indeed! Where can I read about it?? I’ve just been reading general articles on it. The military application popped into my head, it wasn’t something I read. The articles I’ve read were mostly American and I think one was British. Naturally, the message was all about consumer benefits and revolution in manufacturing. You’re pulling my leg about asking for recommended reading on the subject; you’ve used it. But here’s one that toned down the hype a bit: http://gizmodo.com/why-3d-printing-is-overhyped-i-should-know-i-do-it-fo-508176750 Kiwi is probably interested in it too. imported from the comment policy thread. Well, I was wondering whether there was anything about the obvious military application! My uses of it were purely artistic, I assure you! Wow, were you guessing or did you know?! http://www.engineering.com/3DPrinting/3DPrintingArticles/ArticleID/7074/3D-Printing-Central-to-Future-Military-Strategy.aspx http://www.dezeen.com/2012/11/12/us-military-invests-in-3d-printing-on-the-frontline/ An old adage: If there is a civilian application on the market, then somewhere, the military application already exists… http://www.cbsnews.com/news/intel-hopes-to-bring-robotic-kits-to-market-this-year/ Gee! Thanks for the horror themed articles! 🙂 Re: Guessing or knew? No, seriously I hadn’t read a single thing about the Pentagon’s plans to use the technology. Like you said the military applications are simply obvious. One would have to have a preexisting mental block not to think of it on their own. A mental block like naive patriotism toward America. I love America but I’m not blind or daft. Also, the “3d printing” is simply a logical extension of using robots. Also, the Pentagon has, perhaps since Vietnam, been wanting to magically wage war without losing American lives, or losing as few as possible. I guess if you wait long enough technology can sometimes deliver that magic. Yeah, regarding that old adage of yours: What that adage points out is the plain old industrial policy of the US. New technologies that change the world are as expensive as f&k. The internet was a military project; or, you know, precursors to what we now call “the internet”. Military size budgets are needed to develop things like tiny transistors that will revolutionize electronics. Making the connection is more perceptive than you are making out. But, of course, it does make sense if you know about the other things going on. What do you know about nanotechnology? I would like you to go to this conference and then write a position paper on the true projected applications of the technology as applies to military use, please. http://usasymposium.com/nano/ It’s been a very bad trait of mine to discount observations or ideas that I have about things. But, I’ll thank you for the compliment! The symposium!? Sure thing hotshot! Hey between the two of us, you’re the one whose actually used the technology. 😛 Nanotech? Not much really. I find it fascinating of course. I got excited about it a few years ago but then set it aside as something to keep up with; probably not a good idea in this fast changing world of ours. but then set it aside and didn’t keep up with it…. ^ is probably a clearer sentence. The reason I ask about nanotechnology is because it is often touted as a means of robotic self repair—almost as a mechanical immune system, where the nanobots are functionally equivalent to white corpuscles. I just wondered how additive manufacturing and nanotechnology might be used together to achieve robotic self repair? Ah, thank you my good Kiwi! Hm, 3d printing’s effect (one of them) should be a redefining of Haute Couture. The artisans of the atelier would not be needed (for physical crafting of the garment, that is). The design of the designer would go straight into a CAD program and then, voila! It’s a little difficult not to become heady over this technology. It will far, far surpass the impact of the internet. This really ought to bring about the “new economy”, drunkenly and hucksterishly spoken of in the 90’s. Re: Nanotech and 3d printing. They do seem made for each other, King. ^ The problem of structural weakness in the z plain, mentioned in the article, is a HUGE problem, though. If that can’t be overcome, we can say good bye to a revolution in construction and manufacturing. I wonder if a nanotech solution could be found? Like nano particles that bond the weakness in the z plain during the printing or after the fact… I agree. The additive process is par more efficient than the current ways of doing almost anything in smaller numbers. And when the speed is increased ( which it certainly will as the technology develops) it will be more efficient, adaptive, and far cheaper than all the methods currently in use. One can easily imagine the Star Trek “Replicator” being very close to what might be achieved once the process can be accomplished at higher speed. In fact, it is already beginning to be used in food services as well. http://3dprintingindustry.com/2014/07/08/two-3d-printed-meals-served-either-side-world/ Thank you for the link. I fear you will only make me more wild eyed and giddy, though! A thought occurred to me while reading the food article. The need for computer encryption will grow and grow and grow; we will always need it, and more and more sophisticated applications of it. Encryption itself, of course, is as old as the hills, indeed, as old as man’s first secret. Imagine eating something that isn’t quite food, because someone had tampered with the printer. More thoughts: • Imagine being able to take your accommodations with you when vacationing. You reach your destination and manufacture temporary digs upon arrival, you would need permission or a preexisting arrangement from whomever owns the land. If you’re rich maybe it’s your own land! I’m thinking more someone who is traveling around in their own sea faring vessel, Not an airline passenger. The raw materials for the printing need to be carried along on vacation for the scenario above. I guess you’d have to be rich to do any of that scenario, still amazing though. I feel like reviewing Michio Kaku’s gradiated levels of civilization and see where additive manufacturing fits. • This impact the insurance industry in ways I can’t wholly see, but a massive impact, for sure. Do you need to insure what can easily be replaced? What one would insure is one’s raw materials, the seed from whence everything is springing. I am clearly excited; I never use the word ‘whence’. 😀 The impact on * What one would insure are/ Plain old Type I. We have a ways to go on our blue marble. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale#Current_status_of_human_civilization ^ less than Type l actually. on Tue Aug 12th 2014 at 17:27:38 Mary Burrell Perseid meteor shower tonight that should be a beautiful and awesome sight. Wordynerdygirl terrifies foolish mortals with the prospect of massive job loss: @ Legion & King They’re already using 3d printing for crime reconstructions in law enforcement. On a related note, I read an article the other day that predicted worldwide employment will drop by about 40% over the next 50 or so years because of inventions like this (http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2012/02/2-billion-jobs-to-disappear-by-2030/) It makes me sad to think that one day human beings might not actually make or craft anything. Okay, she is a little sad about it, just for the record. 🙂 Today is PI day 3/14/15 i am not mathematics genius but it’s a fun fact ^Ha! 3.1415 day! @King: I thought it was a fun fact on Sun Apr 26th 2015 at 22:01:33 Speak Out “Decolonising Science Reading List” “There are two different angles at play in the discussion about colonialism and science. First is what constitutes scientific epistemology and what its origins are… [2nd] Europeans have engaged what is called “internalist” science very seriously over the last 500 years and often in service and tandem with colonialism and white supremacy. For example, Huygens and Cassini facilitated and directed astronomical observation missions in order to help the French better determine the location of St. Domingue, the island that houses the modern nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Why? Because this would help make the delivery of slaves and export of the products of their labor more efficient.” on Tue May 5th 2015 at 22:48:02 Mbeti @Speak Out you comment a reading list while quit lengthy is appreciated. Basically and fundamentally there is one science and one math and it simply another task of a branch of science to describe how humans of particular groups may or may not try to approiate this type of knowledge and exclude all others. The Google doodle is celebrating NASA found signs of water on Mars. The celestial sight of the blood moon on yesterday was cool. As a Tharkess from Mars I could have told you there is life there! on Wed Mar 14th 2018 at 18:48:47 Mary Burrell Stephen Hawking died today on PI Day a day to The mathematically gifted is probably seen as a holy holiday. Hawking liked to say he was born 300 years to the day after Galileo died on Wednesday, 139 years after Albert Einstein was born, on PI Day. I read this little tidbit on my newsfeed from the New York Times. The Theory of Everything starring Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking is a good film. All those geniuses births and deaths intertwined, is a mystery and fascinating. I was always fascinated how that he lived this long with the debilitating motor neuron disease that left him in a wheelchair and unable to speak except through a device that synthesiser. “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” Stephen Hawking voice synthesizer ^^	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14269
__label__cc	0.701354	0.298646	« What if Christians were seen like Muslims? Stupid Things White People Say » Thu Dec 10th 2015 by abagond Donald Trump (1946- ), also called The Donald, is a billionaire blowhard and American television actor. He is running for US president in 2016, making naked appeals to White racism. He has been leading in opinion polls among Republican voters for the past five months, since July 2015. His supporters are mostly Whites without university degrees. They say they like him because he tells it like it is – meaning that, instead of racist dog whistles, he makes naked appeals to their racism: Mexican Americans: He sees Mexicans as bringing in crime when, in fact, the first generation is less criminal than the US as a whole. He will build a wall between the US and Mexico and kick out 11 million undocumented immigrants – along with their US-born children. He will overturn the Fourteenth Amendment’s constitutional right to birthright citizenship. Muslims and Muslim Americans: He said he saw thousands and thousands of Muslim Americans in Jersey City, New Jersey cheer the fall of the Twin Towers on 9/11. Not true – but most of his supporters believe him. Muslim Americans will be put on a government list. He will keep an eye on certain mosques and might shut down some of them. He will not allow any Muslims into the US, except for citizens, until, presumably, he can tell who is a terrorist and who is not. Black Americans: As a Birther, he demanded that President Obama produce his long-form birth certificate to prove he was born in the US. Trump has refused to provide his own long-form birth certificate. He said 81% of Whites murdered are killed by Blacks. In fact, the FBI says it is only 14%. When his supporters beat up Mercutio Southall, who had been shouting “Black lives matter!” at his rally in Birmingham, Alabama, Trump said: “Maybe he should have been roughed up because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.” No doubt worse is to come: just when you think he cannot get any worse, he gets worse. The mainstream US press is now openly comparing him to Hitler. But they have also been giving him centre stage for months on end. It is sickening. MSNBC is almost becoming a Trump infomercial. From the way they cover him, you would never know that Trump represents less than 10% of US voters. His numbers, on average in national opinion polls, have been bumping between 20% and 30% of Republican voters since August. In 2014, only 26% of voters were Republican. That means Trump supporters make up 5% to 8% of all US voters. He has pulled into first place by being the most extreme of a fractured field of 14 candidates. In absolute terms, he is doing no better than Bernie Sanders on the Democratic side. The press sees Sanders as a long shot. Trump’s views have always been present among Whites. The last person who ran for president who made such a naked appeal to their racism was George Wallace in 1968. He got only 13.5% of the vote. That is why the other candidates do not tell it like it is. Hillary Clinton for president – my reasons for voting against Trump More on Trump: How Donald Trump is worse than Hillary Clinton Trump’s sex scandal Should Donald Trump go back to Europe? US cable news – co-opted by Trump Trump’s media blacklist Trump’s Black outreach Donald Trump quotes about Black people Mercutio Southall Black endorsements in the 2016 election for US president Poll: Is Donald Trump racist? The Trump Effect on children Can Trump win? – as of August 18th Trump voters – as of August 2016 White Evangelical Protestants Russian trolls – who pose as US voters on the Internet The incomplete list of presumed racists Mike Pence – his pick for vice president Republican bubble Birther What if Christians were seen like Muslims? The future of race in the US on Thu Dec 10th 2015 at 06:45:10 Benjamin Do you think that Trump will win the Republican nomination? on Thu Dec 10th 2015 at 07:07:18 abagond No. I do not see him consistently getting above 50% in the state primaries. Unless he can do that, the party establishment will be able unite behind one of their own. on Thu Dec 10th 2015 at 08:54:23 darqbeauty If he wins, the Republican nomination, I’m packing my bags. If he wins the presidency, I’m jumping on a plane with said bags. This miserable florid toupeed mangy blow harding cur makes me queasy. on Thu Dec 10th 2015 at 09:19:45 Kartoffel I don’t think the numbers add up for him. He consistently ranks low in second-choice polls, which make sense. He is such a polarizing figure, that whoever would consider voting for him is already on his side. There is nobody left for him to win over. My money is on Ted Cruz. on Thu Dec 10th 2015 at 09:35:59 lkeke35 I agree. Everyone who is going to vote for him is already there. He’s not winning over new voters with this rhetoric. As far as I’m concerned he’s a perfect example of the Republican Party. He’s the grand culmination of all the racist rhetoric they’ve been dog-whistling for the past thirty years. He just has no filter on what he says and is in it for the ratings. on Thu Dec 10th 2015 at 12:32:09 leigh204 Hate this turd with a passion. on Thu Dec 10th 2015 at 13:59:38 Open Minded Observer Trump is a narcissist. He wants to be president to feed his ego. He doesn’t care about the United State, you, me, or anyone else in the world… not even a little bit. He says he’s not racist. You know what? I believe him. A racist would see something inherently different in various humans based on their race. I believe he sees all of humanity as equally irrelevant “things” that at best are “necessary evils” with something to offer him and at worst are impediments to his success. I believe he is playing the character of a polarizing candidate because that’s where the vacuum was. Nobody else was appealing strongly to the racist and nationalist views of what is now his “base”. These are people that are afraid, ignorant, tired and desperately in need of someone to blame. I feel he has deliberately chosen and is carefully crafting his character because he believes that, at our core, humans are irrational enough to believe his rhetoric and elect him. Why wouldn’t he think that. How many stories have been done on “the media” and how people blindly believe and react to what they’re told. (There’s irony there somewhere.) I truly hope that he is not elected. I have mixed feelings about fleeing the country if he is. On the one hand, I wouldn’t want to be associated with a country that would elect him. On the other hand, if we all flee, there’d be nobody left to provide checks & balances. He could toss out the constitution and declare himself “king of the world” (or whatever). The only silver lining I can see coming from his candidacy is that closet racists will self-identify with “Trump 2016” bumper stickers and yard signage. If he loses, maybe we can round them all up and send them to… I’m kidding… that would be too ironic… even for me. on Thu Dec 10th 2015 at 14:12:30 lifelearner Nice mirror it is showing to the Republican party. One bad apple spoils the bunch. You are as strong as your weakest link…and on and on…with the clichés! on Thu Dec 10th 2015 at 14:25:11 Blanc2 Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” reaching fruition on Thu Dec 10th 2015 at 14:26:44 squawk Honestly, Trump is and has always been a narcicisstic bastard who only gives a damn about himself,period. All the fame he’s had all these years has gone to his head, and he’s actually delusional enough to think he can get anywhere near the White house talking all the BS he’s talking. He’s always been a loudmouth racist blowhard that’s full of s*. Most of the garbage that comes out of his mouth is just plain disgusting—especially when he claimed that brother should have gotten beat up just for opposing him at a rally. What the hell kind of candidate endorses that BS? I can’t wait for people to get sick of him so he can drop the hell on out of the race—he’s isn’t anywhere near qualified to be President of anything, besides his own company. The fact that there are some people who are taking him at all seriously is just plain darn sad and pathetic, and so is Trump himself. on Thu Dec 10th 2015 at 14:30:05 TeddyBearDaddy Let’s say Trump wouldn’t let any of his “average” supporters walk on the front carpet of the entrance to one of his many residencies if you catch my drift. “He will overturn the Fourteenth Amendment’s constitutional right to birthright citizenship” Did he say that? If so, it shows a lack of understanding about presidential powers since the US President cannot overturn any part of the Constitution. @squawk “he’s actually delusional enough to think he can get anywhere near the White house talking all the BS he’s talking” But it is getting him closer to the Republican nomination. I wouldn’t rule him out yet. All it takes is a more crises involving immigrants like the San Bernadino shooting for him to say “I told you so” (just like the phony terrorist attack in Paris propelled the Front National to the top of the polls). Fear mongering does work… @ resw77 When I say, “He will do x”, I do not mean he will rule by personal edict. It is just a way of stating his intentions, the policies he favours. In practice, not all of them are workable. He shoots from the hip and does not carefully think through what he says. on Thu Dec 10th 2015 at 15:27:15 Uglyblackjohn I know he’s getting a bit too full of himself when even O’Reilly has to advise him to reign it in. But in all honesty, I like that he’s running and even the way he is running. Not that I agree with him only that it makes it easier to see who and what we are fighting against. on Thu Dec 10th 2015 at 16:01:11 dorisjean23 I believe Trump was planted by the Dems to screw up the Republicans. @ raimanet Comment deleted for using untranslated French. Good point: he could win if there is a bad terrorist attack on US soil by ISIS or al-Qaeda. In a best case scenario Trump does not get the Repub nomination and then decides to go Ross Perot and splits the Repub vote in the next election. Keep in mind that behind Trump we have the likes of Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, Carly, and even Ted Cruz. Cognitive dissonance of the day: I heard a radio interview with Ted Cruz in which Ted used Trump to make himself (Cruz) sound moderate. …also called The Donald Seriously? on Thu Dec 10th 2015 at 18:16:15 somaliprince Le français est bel et bien en vie. Peut être moins au Canada qu’autre part, mais en Afrique et en Europe, le français est toujours aussi important. (French is still alive. Maybe less so in Canada, but in Africa and Europe, it is still as important.) OFF TOPIC: French. This is not French Club. I already have a post on French. https://abagond.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/french/ on Fri Dec 11th 2015 at 00:26:32 blakksage Donald Trump is simply more proof that Amerika still have an affinity for loud mouthed, vile, un-refined, actively ignorant, totalitarian leaning men like Trump. My personal proposal for him is to read Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave.” Perhaps this reading will assist him with the necessary and proper exposure to the benefits of change, where thinking or cognition is limited and idiocy is the direct result thereof. on Fri Dec 11th 2015 at 00:50:25 somaliprince Trump has taken a leaf out of Hitler’s book. Rule 1: find a minority to scapegoat and use that to rally support Rule 2: Always attack. Attack, attack and attack. Never back down, never show a weakness. Never apologise. A lot people think apologising is the right way to go. But in politics, according to Machiavelli, it is a sign of weakness. Trump never backs down from any of his claims and instead just moves on to make another outrageous claim. People have short memories and eventually forget his previous claims. He, on the other hand, keeps grabbing the headlines in order to stay on top of the polls. As soon as his poll numbers start dipping, he makes another outrageous claim, He is a demagogue, par excellence. Demogagues are one of the major flaws of democratic systems. Regardless, I don’t think he’ll win. Simply because America’s economy is not as bad as Nazi Germany’s was. According to betfair, Hillary Clinton has odds of 1.84 to become the next president. Marco Rubio is at 5.5 and Donald Trump is at 10.5. (decimal odds). In other words, Hillary Clinton has a 54.35% change of winning. Marco Rubio has a 18.18% chance. Donald Trump has a 9.52%.chance of winning. Unless something drastic happens between now and election day, Hillary Clinton will be America’s next president. And Trump will probably just go back to making reality TV shows. on Fri Dec 11th 2015 at 01:46:27 Linda I hope Trump wins this will severely crack the Republican party and I will enjoy watching Trump get waxed by Hilary Clinton because the Latino community is waiting for him and sorry folks, as much as most people dislike Hilary, Bernie Sanders cannot beat a Republican candidate such as Chris “Krispy Cream” Christie. Bernie doesn’t have enough “it” power to persuade Independent voters We need to come up with another candidate. Abagond, Trump is not the only loud mouth a’hole with the potential to damage the USA. have you heard what Supreme Court Judge Scalia said about black students: “The Supreme Court was hearing arguments in Fisher v. the University of Texas at Austin. Abigail Fisher, a white woman, sued the university after she was denied admissions, suggesting that the school’s consideration of race during the admissions process violates the 14th Amendment. Scalia: “There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a less — a slower-track school where they do well,” Scalia said, according to the court transcript. “One of the briefs pointed out that most of the black scientists in this country don’t come from schools like the University of Texas.” The brief Scalia referred to said, “Students with an interest in science who are admitted to a very competitive school via a large preference tend to drop out of the sciences at a much higher rate than do otherwise similar students who attend somewhat less competitive programs.” Now, this b’ch Abigail Fisher, go upset because she got rejected by UT and because 47 other students with lower grades than her got in. here is the breakdown of those 47 other students: 42 white people 4 Hispanic people 1 black person but: 168 black and Hispanic students with higher grades than Abby were not admitted So, 42 white kids with grades lower than hers gets into Univ. of Texas but somehow, this pasty chick manages to blame 1 black and 4 Hispanic kids for her being Rejected by a top-tier University because she couldn’t cut it academically. Abagond, this sh’t has got to stop – white Americans are officially Off the rails with their blame game! I think it’s time black people in America took off the gloves and started hitting back hard White America needs to be reminded why their APARTHEID laws were made illegal in the first place. According to the latest market data, Marco Rubio has a 40% chance of being the next Republican nominee. Trump is second, slightly edging out Ted Cruz, with 20%. This is interesting because the polls show Donald Trump as being the clear front runner. The Huffington Post poll for instance, last conducted on the 10th of December, shows Donald Trump as having 35.8% support among Republican voters. Marco Rubio is on 12.3%. In other words, the markets believe that Marco Rubio will win whilst Opinion Polls place Donald Trump first. I presume this is because people expect that ‘Trump Mania’ will eventually die down before the Iowa caucus in February and that Marco Rubio will return to the lead. Trump basically has to make sure he keeps grabbing the headlines until February if he is to have any chance of dislodging Marco Rubio. On the other hand, Marco Rubio, I suspect, is patiently waiting it out and will come out strong sometime next month. Until then, we can expect to hear a lot more from Trump. I think it’s time that affirmative action was made about income and economic inequality. Affirmative action is precisely about that. Parents who have gone to university tend to raise children who will themselves go to university. A university education is one of the strongest indicators of lifetime income. Getting a historically disadvantaged group, like African Americans, into universities raises the probability that they will themselves have children who will go to university. This directly reduces economic inequality. A lot of white kids end up at university simply because they had a rich parents and a private school education that a lot of African American parents can not afford. Affirmative action is meant to correct an imbalance, not create one. on Fri Dec 11th 2015 at 16:37:08 Mary Burrell He is crying really? He is not sorry for what he did, he’s sorry he got caught. ^ Mary I think you might have meant to post this to the Holtzclaw thread? on Fri Dec 11th 2015 at 22:52:43 Jacque If Trump is nominated I will be tickled pink. I will watch Democratic st all over his orange face during the debates. he will be eating crow and everything else. If he is elected , I plan to stay in the country MY ancestors built with their souls, lives and backs. …..AND I WILL OPPOSE THAT CREEP AT EVERY TURN. Democracy…yeah. Trump is seen as an embarrassing joke by many, which is one of his greatest strengths. People keep laughing at him and giving him exposure. I admit I am guilty of it myself sometimes. But it’s dangerous because it gives him exposure and treats him as a joke while he keeps earning points and spreading his venom left and right. On Trump’s idea of registering all Muslims: Something very much like this has already been tried. From 2002 to 2011 the US government required people coming from 24 Muslim-majority countries to register their whereabouts with the government. It did not uncover a single terrorist. on Mon Dec 14th 2015 at 23:39:35 Mary Burrell In reference to Affirmative Action and Abigail Fischer I love what the black students at University of Texas in Austin did when they created the hashtag #StayMadAbby. I screamed like a banshee it was too funny. Trump is thriving off the fear that’s been in the climate and he is using this to his advantage. “ABC World News Tonight” has spent 81 minutes so far this year covering Trump and only 1 minute covering Sanders – even though their poll numbers, and crowd sizes are roughly the same. http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/12/11/abc-world-news-tonight-has-devoted-less-than-on/207428 on Wed Dec 16th 2015 at 10:19:39 jefe So, somehow ABC finds Sanders that boring? Still, he should have figured somewhere into the Black Lives Matter issue, at least as much as Trump did. At least Abagond has one on each. on Wed Jan 6th 2016 at 12:49:35 JDLC Hate attacks against Muslims in the US have tripled recently. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nBViG6b4xg&spfreload=10) on Thu Jan 7th 2016 at 11:03:10 Kartoffel I think Trumpism has to be seen in the context of similar developments in some parts of Europe. Of course there are national differences, but overall the conservative establishment in the West seems to be in crisis. on Thu Feb 18th 2016 at 14:33:16 Herneith http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/17/central-park-five-donald-trump-jogger-rape-case-new-york?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H&utm_term=157322&subid=17864057&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2 A country that can kill Dr Martin Luther King, Jr is a country that can elect Donald Trump president. on Fri Feb 26th 2016 at 00:23:32 Jabari Jones They keep saying he won the Latino vote in Nevada, but statistically, he only got about 7% of it. Funny huh? on Sun Feb 28th 2016 at 07:30:27 Why YOU Shouldn’t Vote For #Hillary2016. No Matter YOUR Skin Color. – The Militant Negro™ […] Donald Trump […] on Sun Feb 28th 2016 at 23:18:11 J. Jones http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-david-duke_us_56d31097e4b0871f60ebbd35?m4bcsor on Wed Mar 2nd 2016 at 03:50:02 King Say Whaaaaaat? Farrakhan liking Donald Trump??? http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-03-01/louis-farrakhan-on-donald-trump-i-like-what-im-looking-at on Wed Mar 2nd 2016 at 04:33:23 Mary Burrell @King: I am convinced more than ever that Farrakhan may have dementia. I’m … well, I’m shocked! It’s like a bad joke that somebody made up. on Wed Mar 2nd 2016 at 11:07:50 JDLC Don Trump Jr. said he would happily pay for some of his father’s black critics to leave the United States. The Republican presidential candidate’s son appeared Monday morning with his brother, Eric Trump, on “Fox and Friends” to discuss the “Super Tuesday” primary elections and the concerted attacks on their father by his GOP rivals. “You know, it’s sad to see,” Eric Trump said of the attacks. “We love our father. He’s an amazing guy — he would do such an unbelievable job for this country. He’s an amazing businessman, he’s an amazing negotiator. He’s funding himself, right?” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KWgnzq2-Q8) on Thu Mar 3rd 2016 at 17:01:28 taotesan Orange is the new black. Trevor Noah on Donald Trump. This might be a tad old. on Sat Mar 5th 2016 at 02:25:00 Mary Burrell I have noticed that it’s mostly poor uneducated white people who support him. Lots of them are white supremacist like David Duke who Trump said he knew nothing about and everyone knows Trump lies when he says he knows nothing about David Duke. I was watching the news and Trump was talking about the size of his hands and his sex organ, that’s so disgusting. He is just deplorable. And his toupee is ridiculos and he’s orange. Why does he always look jaundiced? on Sat Mar 5th 2016 at 03:41:13 jabari jones Trump is also on record saying he’ll take those votes(ie the votes of white supremacists) on Sat Mar 5th 2016 at 10:59:43 taotesan It is the stupid fools such as myself when thinking about the USA, that at least in this day and age, that some of most important imperatives in the world today would be addressed and righted: restoration of ALL rights and amends to the Original People of America and reparations for African Americans. But, no. America could possibly have this monstrosity as President. Very,very frightening – for the people of America and for the rest of the world. I can’t bear to look at his hideous face, that face reflecting the ugliness of the racial attitudes of white America. Not that much different from his female opposition, though. Devil in drag with a better hairdo and filter. on Sat Mar 5th 2016 at 16:30:17 michaeljonbarker This Salon article takes a look at the economics behind race in America and the rise of Trump. http://www.salon.com/2016/03/05/some_of_trumps_strongest_supporters_are_registered_democrats_heres_why/ My sense is that Trump is going to get the Republican nomination. He has openly embraced the bigotry that lay mostly hidden within the white pooulation. Even the “Christian right” have chosen Trump over Cruz who is one of their own. It’s like the Christian right has become the Christian white. The Republican establishment would normally not have a problem with this but I think they are worried about Trump’s economic populism which is aimed at going after the “free traiders” and Wall Street. While Bernie wants to tax them more Trump wants to renegotiate free trade agreements which will cause some economic calamity within the stock market. I think at this point the Republican establishment would rather have Hillary as president over Trump because it’s about preserving the economic power base that both the Democrats and Republicans rely on. Well Trump’s stop and go in Chicago let those miscreants know what time it was. Those folks wasn’t having none of b.s. I personally couldn’t put myself in harms way trying to protest that vermin Trump but to each his own. Trump is a cancer that needs to be eradicated he is poison and will drag this country to hell. on Sun Mar 13th 2016 at 01:58:39 Mary Burrell The supporters of this vermin called Donald Trump is an indication that a good part of this nation is insane. Donald trump got run out of Chicago so glad those black folks stood up to those vermin and miscreants. jeb was the only ‘name brand’ between trump and the primary, rubio? cruz? yeah right. on Wed Mar 16th 2016 at 13:22:08 Herneith http://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2016/03/04/mad-exclusive-trump-universitys-diploma-revealed http://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2016/03/03/tale-of-the-tape-donald-trump-vs-mitt-romney http://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2016/02/29/hats-off-to-trump-for-denouncing-the-kkk http://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2016/01/27/9-things-donald-trump-will-be-doing-during-tomorrows-debate on Thu Mar 17th 2016 at 03:26:12 Origin I wrote a post here long ago, I don’t remember which thread, talking about the cyclic nature of the manifestations of American racism and how apparent gains by marginalized groups are usually followed by the intensification of overt racism. For example, political and economic gains by blacks during Reconstruction, was followed by a resurgence of the KKK. With that in mind, I am not at all surprised by the visibility of Trump in this election cycle. We saw the narrative becoming more overtly racist during Obama’s presidency. Trump is just the Tea Party with all pretense dropped. He is explicitly saying things that others thought but would only utter in coded language, if at all. He has eschewed “political correctness” and became a hero for many who bristled at the notion that certain statements had become taboo. Despite how extreme he seems, he has merely exposed the racist pandering of the Republican Party by stripping it of all dainty clothing and, by doing so, he threatens to win the nomination. The delegates prefer bare flesh over the excessively clad strumpet though some hypocrites protest her public immodesty even as they disrobe her in private. President Trump would certainly be wake-up-call for those who might have read more into Obama’s Presidency than they should have. on Thu Mar 17th 2016 at 05:45:53 Afrofem “…he has merely exposed the racist pandering of the Republican Party by stripping it of all dainty clothing…The delegates [and the Republican base] prefer bare flesh over the excessively clad strumpet though some hypocrites protest her public immodesty even as they disrobe her in private.” I’m sure that explains the orgiastic displays at Trump rallies. The breaking of taboo. The adreneline jolt of naked White Supremacy. The intoxicating belief that they shall reign supreme über alles. Yet, the base is too deep in their drugged stupor to notice that the people who point and yell, negro, negro or immigrant, immigrant are the same people who shipped their jobs overseas, destroyed local small town economies and saddled their children with crushing student loan debt. Wealthy Whites have been looting their poor relations (and everyone else) for decades and laughing all the way to the bank. That won’t change no matter what the rightwing base does to the hated “others”. I half-jokingly say he is a Democratic plant infiltrating the Republican party in order to destroy it. A Trojan Horse if you will. on Thu Mar 17th 2016 at 16:25:02 resw Those were eloquent words, and certainly Trump has racist supporters just like everyone else, but I fail to see how he’s any more racist than any other candidate in the race. The media and the Democrat establishment are up to their same old tricks of trying to label him as racist to scare away black and Latino voters. It has worked well since his support among these groups has dropped since last year. But I believe the real reason Trump remains popular is because he is anti-establishment and unlike all the other career politicians who are running, not because he’s racist. And when he exposes Hillary for the phony progressive she is currently pretending to be and reminds voters how she and Slick Willy actually implemented a lot of racist policies that are responsible for the high incarceration rate of blacks today, I am confident people will see that the Clintons are the real racists and Trump has been unfairly demonized by the media. What about the actual infiltration of Democrats at Trump rallies? Moveon.org/George Soros and Media Matters for America are huge supporters of Democrats and have paid people to disrupt Trump events. The result is the media frames it to appear that Trump people are violently attacking minorities for no reason. How much do they report the attempted attacks on Trump and others by these disruptors at these rallies? Even though Hilary is no angel he makes her look good in comparison. It’s easy to attack others’ record esp. when you’re relatively immune. Trump has a rather limited political record for others to criticize while Clinton has been in politics for a while so he clearly has an advantage in that department. Being anti-establishment is of little merit in itself unless what you’re promising to establish is both practical and best for the country. I consider Trump to be a demagogue. I dont’ consider him to be the only racist; I even metaphorically suggested that the others are too. However, their appeals to the racism of the base isn’t as naked as Trump’s. This “birther” can’t really be sanitized IMO. He’s such a loose canon that he mouthed off against Latin Americans while having a pageant that is popular in those countries. He might seem “cool” for his lack of a filter, but I doubt he’d make a good president. Trump may not have a record in politics, but the media has taken him to task for just about every questionable remark he’s ever made. If anyone is immune, it’s Hillary Clinton. The media refuses to pick apart her questionable comments of the past or check on her blatant lies. “Being anti-establishment is of little merit in itself unless what you’re promising to establish is both practical and best for the country” Sure it is when the establishment has done nothing but 1) rack up deficit, 2) add to the national debt, 3) enter unfair trade agreements and 4) have not controlled illegal immigration and the drug trafficking. What Trump is promising is to address those things, and his supporters believe that would be both “practical and best for the country.” “He’s such a loose canon that he mouthed off against Latin Americans ” That kind of statement lets me know how just powerful the media is. I’ve never heard him say anything disparaging about Latin Americans, but I have heard the media and liberals tell me that Trump is racist against Mexicans and Latinos. I’m still waiting to see the quote. “He might seem “cool” for his lack of a filter, but I doubt he’d make a good president” So Americans should keep electing the same career politicians who have reduced America’s middle class, given them all a huge debt burden that can never be repaid, shipped jobs overseas, made it hard to do business, avoided investment in infrastructure and continuously entered costly wars that have destabilized the world. on Fri Mar 18th 2016 at 16:51:34 Afrofem Earlier this week, Chauncy DeVega posted a detailed account of the scene of Donald Trump’s rally in Chicago. What stood out to me is his description of Trump’s African American supporters and their possible motivations: “In every crowd of Republicans there is almost always a black person who is auditioning for a role as “best black friend” and human chaff for the GOP. These professional contrarians are desperate for their five minutes of fame on Fox News; they yearn to be a 21st century version of Stephen in the movie “Django Unchained,” for it is very lucrative work if one can get it. I saw several black conservatives at Trump’s event. One sat near me and cheered wildly at any mention of Il Duce Trump’s name. He seemed very pleased when the Black Lives Matter and other protesters were escorted out by the police. There was a young professional black conservative in training who led one of the most spirited moments of near fisticuffs inside the UIC Pavilion. He was the black chieftain for a group of white college-age Trumpeteers who tried to pick a fight with a group of anti-Trump protesters. The third black conservative was the most enthusiastic and dangerous one. He was outside of the UIC Pavilion. A former Marine, he chased away two high-school-age Black Lives Matter protesters and threatened to teach them a lesson via the thrashing he promised they would receive for being “disrespectful.” I asked him about what had just transpired. I was also curious as to why he supported Donald Trump. This well-trained black conservative responded with disinformation talking points from Fox News about a military that is weaker than it was before World War II, how Democrat-controlled cities are horrible and full of death, that Black Lives Matter does not care about “black on black crime,” young people are out of control, and no one respects the police anymore”. http://www.chaunceydevega.com/2016/03/my-detailed-first-person-account-of.html “…no one respects the police anymore.” That was a real kicker in the same city (Chicago) where the police and their allies in city government have sanctioned and covered up numerous cases of police torture and murder. It seem those Black “conservatives” are little more that White Supremacists with a deep genetic suntan. on Fri Mar 18th 2016 at 18:47:28 Origin Trump has the ability to APPEAR antiestablishment because he is not been as involved in politics (except possibly as a lobbyist/briber) compared to Clinton, who was even First Lady. However Trump is quite a wealthy man, (and Clinton is a wealthy woman). I doubt he’s going to push policies that limit Wall Steet or his own wealth. The idea that he has a a lot in common with ordinary Americans compared to other candidates tickles me. He’s just a skilled demagogue. Businesses associated with him have also been accused of hiring undoccumented immigrants for cheap labor while he adopts the stance of being tough on immigration on the campaign trail. He has shown an inability to be diplomatic by alienating people who support one of his products (the pageant). I don’t think he has the proper temperament to be President. I don’t like Trump (as a potential president…though his willingness to curse/fire back can be entertaining). I think he presents as divisive and irascible. I’ll own that opinion even if it happens to coincide with that of the so-called mainstream or establishment. I really don’t care about the latter point. I don’t watch much TV or consume much mainstream media. on Sat Mar 19th 2016 at 03:00:59 Paige Fox News has released a statement condemning Trump for his “crude and sexist verbal assaults” against Megyn Kelly. What an election season this is turning out to be! on Sat Mar 19th 2016 at 14:01:29 resw White disrupters get ejected from Trump rallies too. The media is so good because most anti-Trump folks I talk to only know about the black Black Lives Matter people and a couple of Muslims (who also were disrupting). Well many white Bernie Sanders infiltraters have been thrown out. Probably more than black BLM protesters. “Trump has the ability to APPEAR antiestablishment because he is not been as involved in politics…However Trump is quite a wealthy man” That is completely irrelevant. He is not running on his political experience like every other candidate, he is clearly running on his business acumen and telling supporters that career politicians are bad for America. That is the epitome of anti-establishment. “The idea that he has a a lot in common with ordinary Americans compared to other candidates tickles me” Please tell me when Trump said he has a lot in common with “ordinary Americans,” whatever that’s supposed to mean. Maybe he did, but my guess is he never said that. And what poll shows his supporters think he has a lot in common with ordinary Americans? Most of his supporters are probably well aware that he’s a billionaire and his father was a millionaire. “He has shown an inability to be diplomatic by alienating people who support one of his products” Not sure what you mean exactly, but before he decided to run, let’s not forget politicians on both sides of the aisle liked Trump. But if you think Trump’s bad, Hillary Clinton called Republicans her enemies. How’s that for diplomacy? on Sat Mar 19th 2016 at 16:37:40 Fan ... “What an election season this is turning out to be!” I doubt this (s)election season will entertain as much as the SCOTUS did when they met (12 years ago?) over the inconclusive popular vote count regarding: hanging chads, dimpled chads, pregnant chads, unemployed chads, unregistered chads, pickled chads, shot chads, welfare chads, poked chads, tired chads, salty chads and chads with college degrees! Not to mention all those quirky voting booth machines with irregular counts. Talk about stealing an election (for W Bush) in plain view. Big Brother’s productions are nothing if not entertaining. Gonna go watch some MARCH college tournament basketball madness, now… like a good little cog. (and enjoy some pot popped popped-corn!) on Sat Mar 19th 2016 at 21:53:00 Afrofem I’m sure anyone who dissents from Trump and his base are subject to removal from his rallies. That in itself is extremely disturbing. When America was a democratic society, simple dissent was expected. Politicians knew they had to face public criticism and dealt with it—-not any more. Now the political class believe they are above criticism and the law. All politicians tend to surround themselves with yes people and expect rigid obedience from the general public. My primary focus in this comment: https://abagond.wordpress.com/2015/12/10/donald-trump/#comment-311671 was the types of African Americans who support Trump, based on DeVega’s observations at the Chicago Trump rally. http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/open-letter-trump-voters-his-top-strategist-turned-defector?akid=14118.1929437.2arXyw&rd=1&src=newsletter1053515&t=8 on Fri Apr 1st 2016 at 15:21:37 Herneith http://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2016/03/30/the-startling-similarities-and-differences-between-donald-trump-and-burger-kings on Tue Apr 5th 2016 at 12:51:12 Herneith “I’m sure anyone who dissents from Trump and his base are subject to removal from his rallies. That in itself is extremely disturbing” Same thing happens at Clinton rallies: http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2015/11/17/man-holding-protest-sign-removed-from-clinton-event-in-dallas/ http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/258704-black-lives-matter-protesters-interrupt-hillary-rally Are you equally disturbed? “My primary focus in this comment…was the types of African Americans who support Trump, based on DeVega’s observations at the Chicago Trump rally” Well that’s one opinion based on a stereotype. There are other blacks who vote for Trump for different reasons: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPC4DDW_LSw) on Tue Apr 5th 2016 at 21:56:51 Afrofem Clinton and Trump are equally disturbing and disturbed. DeVega’s depiction of Black Trump supporters was based on his witnessing the words and actions of people he describes as: “…black conservatives… the human mascots and pets for a racist political organization called the Republican Party… professional “best black friends” and human racism deflecting chaff.” http://www.chaunceydevega.com/2016/04/fun-with-right-wing-hate-emails.html#disqus_thread Medgar Evers rightwing brother certainly fits the description. The video showed a person who seemed coerced. The closed body language, a hat obscuring his face and the mindless recitation of rightwing talking points was not a very convincing performance. As DeVega said in the article: “Priceless. Comedy. Gold.” I forgot to add: LOL!!! “DeVega’s depiction of Black Trump supporters…” We all have opinions. I’m sure the same can be said about black Clinton supporters and black Democrats in general. “Medgar Evers rightwing brother certainly fits the description. ” Right, he’s so right wing he supported Obama. Here’s what he once said about his party affiliation: “I’m a Republican, because we don’t all need to be in the Democratic party. Thirty years ago, there was not a black person in the Democratic party. The Republicans ignore us, and the Democrats take us for granted…Most blacks are conservative whether you know it or not. We believe in prayer in school and we’re against abortion. We should be in both parties and make them what we want them to be. We can’t get anywhere pointing fingers, we have to get inside the organization and make it what we want it to be.” LOL@ “The video showed a person who seemed coerced” Should I assume you are a psychiatrist and it’s proper to diagnose people online? “the mindless recitation of rightwing talking points” You do realise that the “rightwing talking points” are decidedly anti-Trump. “we have to get inside the organization and make it what we want it to be.” Something I would expect a professional “best black friend” to say. Limited thinking = Limited results Neither Dems nor Repubs are worth the effort. Black people need their own party with an independent agenda and no allegiance to any outside group. Trump is a rightwing zombie. The Repubs keep shooting him down and he keeps popping back up, bloody mouth and all. It would be high comedy if his supporters were not so dangerous. on Wed Apr 6th 2016 at 12:53:00 resw So I guess 90% of black voters who vote Democrat are “professional best black friends” too. Otherwise they wouldn’t be members of the Democrat party which is and has always been dominated by whites (and has historically been pro racist policies). “Black people need their own party with an independent agenda and no allegiance to any outside group.” We finally agree on something. However, unlike you, I don’t think black Republicans (or black Trump supporters) are any worse than black Democrats (or black Clinton/Sanders supporters). “Trump is a rightwing zombie. The Repubs keep shooting him down and he keeps popping back up, bloody mouth and all. ” If he were so “rightwing” the “Repubs” wouldn’t need to “keep shooting him down.” My prediction back in December was spot on. “It would be high comedy if his supporters were not so dangerous.” They are no more dangerous than violent anti-Trump protesters. on Sun May 1st 2016 at 16:23:16 Herneith http://townhall.com/columnists/stevechapman/2016/05/01/trumps-feast-of-incoherence-n2155520 Even conservatives don’t like him! Not that means anything! on Sun May 1st 2016 at 17:19:14 michaeljonbarker Trump’s foreign policy is a bundle of contradictions. He is against the neocon/neolibetal idea of nation building. So it is more like a scorched earth policy where we secure oil resources and the rest of the affected area be dammed. Neocon’s both on the left (Hillary) and right belive in pre-emptive strikes which is why we are stuck in low intensity conflicts and perpetual war. It keeps the oil and other resources flowing while justifying spending trillions in the military budget. His idea that we need to build a “stronger defense” and that Obama has done nothing to strengthen the military aren’t factual. Apparently the Philippines has agreed to allow the U.S. to set up five new military bases their. Obama has expanded military bases in both Africa and Asia so he has been shoring up American Imperialism. I also think Trump will do well in the general election. Hillaries disapproval ratings are higher the 50% and Americans themselves are for more bigoted then the polls show. Trump is also bringing out a whole new group of voters, some Republican, some Democrat and 100,000’s of new voters that have never voted before. In Costa Mesa he filled a 7000 seat auditorium and their were 2000 people outside that couldn’t get in. This is in liberal California. He has found a market and knows how to sell it. I also think this is the year the Green Party will become somewhat relevant. That is where the Bernie supporters are going to end up. The young people in this country have rejected the historical attachments their parents have always clung on too. This year they will our preform the Libertarians. *out perform on Sun May 1st 2016 at 20:00:15 Afrofem “This is in liberal California” To me, California is not liberal. It is rumored to be “liberal” by foaming at the mouth White Supremacists in the South and Midwest, but California does not make the “liberal” cut. First and foremost is California’s expansion and maintenance of a massive prison system. Ruth Wilson Gilmore, in her book, Golden Gulag describes the origins and maintenance of this destructive system. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111975.Golden_Gulag According to the Prison Policy Initiative, only Louisiana and Alabama imprison more of their population (per hundred thousand residents) than California. http://static.prisonpolicy.org/images/50_state_rates_and_select_states.jpg? v=1 State prisons and local jails are a big part of the expansion: http://static.prisonpolicy.org/images/state_driver_rates_1925-2012.jpg?v=1 Another clue is the concentration of White hate groups in California. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hate Map, California has a large number of hate groups for a western state: https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map Surprise, surprise! Most of the hate groups are clustered in the same areas of California that have large communities of non-European descent people: the Bay Area, the Central Valley and the Los Angeles to San Diego Corridor. California is a state where the Whitopia Fortress mentality is particularly strong. Large numbers of White residents in California have developed a modern version of the “sundown town” —with or without gates—to escape areas that have burgeoning populations of: ❍ Latinos of any ethnicity ❍ Asian Americans (including West Asians from Afghanistan, South Asians from India and Pakistan and South East Asians from Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand) ❍ Any Black people including groups such as the Garifuna. http://www.npr.org/2015/11/20/455909004/what-is-a-whitopia-and-what-might-it-mean-to-live-there/ Whitopia author, Richard Benjamin recounts that at one of the Whitopias he lived in, he attended a White Supremacist retreat which prompted this reaction from another attendee: “…Abe, an Aryan, sidled up next to me,”… ‘He said, ‘Hey, Rich, I just want you to know one thing. We are not white supremacists. We are white separatists. We don’t think we’re better than you, we just want to be away from you.’ The prison system, the hate groups and the Whitopia fortress towns are all linked together in a system of oppression, control, violence, privilege and profit-making at the expense of California’s non-White population. Nothing “liberal” about that. on Tue May 10th 2016 at 04:04:39 michaeljonbarker I’ve decided that no politicale ideology guided Trump beyond his own narcissism. Whatever pops into his head is his political position for the day. on Tue May 10th 2016 at 05:45:09 Fan ... Props to Brother Benjamin for taking residence (via the phone!) in modern Sundown Towns (Whitetopias). I’m glad he didn’t get the idea of bringing 6 – 12 other Black men with him to conduct his research. Especially while he was in Idaho. (( I think Mr. Benjamin said: one Black man is a dinner guest. Fifty Black men are [perceived as] a ghetto.)) This is the Neo-liberal! Maybe I should have put “liberal” in quotes when I wrote “liberal California”. Most of the country views California as liberal. It is more statist then anything else. It does a great job driving business out of the State. The California prison guard and police unions wield a lot political power and influence here. Do you have a link for California sundown towns that function today? I was born in one (Glendale, ca) but eventually all the whites moved out. on Tue May 10th 2016 at 14:42:35 Afrofem I don’t have a link, but Simi Valley comes to mind. @ Fan “I’m glad he didn’t get the idea of bringing 6 – 12 other Black men with him to conduct his research.” Or a Black wife and four teenaged sons. That would be enough to freak out a gaggle of White Supremacists in a Whitopia town. on Fri Jun 3rd 2016 at 06:01:01 jefe Is it possible that Trump’s attitudes towards China stem from a deal with 2 businessmen from HK during the British Colonial period? The Hong Kong deal that turned Donald Trump into a China basher (http://www.ejinsight.com/20160602-the-hong-kong-deal-that-turned-donald-trump-into-a-china-basher/) on Thu Jun 16th 2016 at 15:19:32 Herneith Folks, you can’t make this stuff up. It reads like something out of a comedy show: Donald Trump on Wednesday said he’d invite North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to the U.S. for a meeting. He dismissed criticism over his willingness to negotiate with the North Korean dictator, who is known for lashing out against the West, threatening to use nuclear weapons, and repressing his own citizens. According to Trump, there is nothing wrong with having a conversation with the tyrant—though he shouldn’t be expecting dinner. “If he came here, I’d accept him. But I wouldn’t give him a state dinner like we do for China and all these other people that rip us off,” Trump said at a campaign event in Atlanta. He also took the opportunity to praise Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying the Russian military is “much stronger” than its U.S. counterpart. “Our nuclear is old and tired and his nuclear is tippy-top from what I hear. Better be careful, folks, OK? You better be careful,” he said. http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/06/16/trump-says-would-invite-kim-jong-un-to-u-s.html?via=newsletter&source=CSAMedition Breathtaking in it’s stupidity. on Thu Jun 16th 2016 at 15:53:17 gro jo What’s so stupid about trying to end the war of aggression the USA launched against North Korea in the 1950’s? Where’s the wisdom in trying to start a war with Russia? This, to me, is the one proposal Trump makes that I approve of. on Fri Jun 17th 2016 at 02:26:19 Herneith Oh, I agree there’s nothing stupid about ending this longstanding war of aggression against North Korea or starting one with another country such as Russia or China. The comedy derives from the promulgator of these ideas. He’d try to sell you swamp land if he could. I don’t believe him or other politicians. Once they attain office, it’s a different story. They spout off what they think their potential constituents want to hear in order to get elected. Trump is particularly goofy though. on Fri Jun 17th 2016 at 03:32:23 Afrofem “He’d try to sell you swamp land if he could.” LOL! Swamp land is exactly what he selling his angry, addled supporters. They don’t notice those hungry ‘gators gliding toward them…. (I think Obama is a much smoother and more effective swamp salesman.) on Thu Jul 21st 2016 at 03:11:08 Michael Jon Barker Trump is a Fascist. Their is no other way to describe it. He has tapped into this ugly Nativist undertow that’s xenophobic, racist and Islamophobic. Large swaths of the American public crave for an Authoritarian leader who will rule by executive order. This is a partial list but highlights actions that point to Fascism. 1. Trump wants to deport 11 million humans and create a special deportation force to knock down doors and check papers. He will bypass courts and Congress through executive order. 2. Trump want to force American businesses like Apple to make their products here. He wants to add special taxes and regulate companies like Amazon to break them up. He wants to punish entrepreneurship to “create jobs”. 3. Trump will crack down on the Free Press. He already banned the Washington Post by revoking their press credentials. He will use the FCC to fine his critic, Rich Lowry. He will open up libel laws to silence his critics. 4. Trump’s xenophobic descriptions of Mexican immigrants as rapists and murders collectives all Hispanics. 5. Trump has no idea what Black Lives Matters stands for nor is he interested. 6. Trump says the police are just “misunderstood” and has no empathy for the victims of police violence. 7. Trump says he opposes Hillary’s foreign policy yet he will expand it in the “war on terror” and use the military no differently then neo liberals or neo cons. Wants to send more troops to the Middle East. Somehow its O.K. if he does it. 8. Trump will bring back water boarding and torture as well as kill the family members of suspected terrorists. 9. Trump wants all Muslims to register in a national registry and will put all Mosques under surveillance. 10. Trump wants to restart warrentless searches and allow drones to spy on American citizens. 11. Trump encourages violence against protesters and has a personal business history of discriminating against Blacks. on Fri Jul 22nd 2016 at 17:38:45 abagond Politifact has Trump’s acceptance speech fact-checked and annotated: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/jul/21/donald-trumps-gop-acceptance-speech-annotated/ Some of his wilder-sounding statements are true, yet some of his more plausible-sounding ones are false or the truth is stretched and misleading. In general, he seems to strip context, cherry pick and, worst of all, make dangerous trends out of one year’s or one city’s data. A good example of that is the Ferguson Effect, which he seems to believe in: https://abagond.wordpress.com/2015/10/29/the-ferguson-effect/ Like many a racist troll on this blog, Trump twists and cherry picks facts to fit his racist paranoia. on Tue Jul 26th 2016 at 19:27:38 michaeljonbarker “We’re going to put an end to that,” Trump said during a post-convention interview with The New York Times. “We’re going to federalize every police department in this country. We’re going to eliminate the red tape and it’s going to give police the ability to do their jobs effectively and, believe me, this is something that’s going to happen within my first one hundred days in office.” -Donald Trump neo facist Many of Donald Trump’s views have changed, but even in 1989 during the Central Park Jogger case he was very pro-cop and pro death penalty. on Wed Jul 27th 2016 at 23:06:54 Afrofem Read this article for another perspective on the Trump “Russian Connection”: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/07/nsa-whistleblower-not-so-fast-on-claims-russia-behind-dnc-email-hack.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+NakedCapitalism+(naked+capitalism) on Thu Jul 28th 2016 at 03:58:15 Afrofem The situation in Russia and the Ukraine is extremely complex and murky. There are a lot of international players meddling in that region. Ukraine has a strategic geopolitical position and assets that certain wolves are eager to strip from the people. The article about ties between Putin and the European Far Right shows that there are many ways to destabilize enemies. Thanks for the link. Another Trump gem: http://www.burrardstreetjournal.com/trump-canada-independence-was-mistake/ http://www.burrardstreetjournal.com/donald-trump-claims-he-will-buy-canada/ http://www.burrardstreetjournal.com/donald-trump-on-us-womens-national-team-its-great-revenge-for-pearl-harbour/ on Sun Aug 7th 2016 at 16:03:20 jefe Trump has just announced that he now wants to ban Filipinos from entering the USA. (https://www.facebook.com/regieparulan/videos/10154320036206501/) on Thu Aug 18th 2016 at 03:09:09 Afrofem Just read this Guardian article about Trump supporters. It talks about how his supporters want respect and feels Trump understands their pain. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/30/what-do-donald-trump-voters-want-respect This passage shows the delusional aspects of being a Trump supporter: “Country is falling apart, from the bottom up. We got these lazy people freeloading off the government. Meanwhile the rich just keep getting richer, and working guys are getting screwed. We just got to break the system.” When it came to race, he jumps to explain: “My ex-wife is black. I have hired plenty of blacks to work for me. I am not a racist. Trump is not the racist. Hillary is the racist, only standing up for women and blacks.” So, the wealthy are sucking their lifeblood, growing obese on government subsidies and tax breaks… and they blame people three times poorer and less powerful than them for making the “country fall apart, from the bottom up”. They are so mired in their “kiss up, kick down” politics that they can’t see that HRClinton doesn’t care any more for women or Black people than she does them. Being ignored and disrespected is such a new feeling for the White working class that it is driving them bonkers. They need to take a ticket and get in line. They still have further to fall and Trump will only grease the skids on the way down. But they will probably enjoy the fall more if “… the N-word is thrown around with ease, and racial jokes are par for the course”. on Thu Aug 18th 2016 at 06:34:33 Fan ... “Country is falling apart, from the bottom up. We got these lazy people freeloading off the government. Meanwhile the rich just keep getting richer, and working guys are getting screwed.” These so-called lazy people (code for negroes) feeding off the government didn’t sign off on political trade agreements and policies that sent American manufacturing jobs overseas to increase corporate profits. That’s called aligning yourselves against your own interests, white folks. Could the rich get richer if they weren’t sucking the life-blood out of the common people? The country isn’t in this predicament because of lazy people. It’s because of the insatiable greed of those in power. Idiots like this person quoted above somehow cannot see the divide and conquer tactic at work, yet they believe that they’re supposedly endowed with higher brain function and more intelligence than those they call “lazy.” Unbelievable! The illogical statement, “the country is falling apart from the bottom up” shows just how Orwellian their thought processes are. Countries fall apart from the top down, not the bottom up. When you are too cowardly to deal with the people at the top, kicking the people at the bottom seems mighty empowering. When you are too cowardly to deal with the people at the top, kicking the people at the bottom seems mighty empowering. It’s safer too. on Thu Aug 18th 2016 at 19:53:09 Origin Trump appeals to white resentment. Hillary appeals to liberal sanctimony. Both only care about themselves. “Liberal sanctimony” or naked fear? on Mon Aug 29th 2016 at 03:27:51 Afrofem The election is still Trump’s to lose. It’s not like he is running against an honorable opponent. Clinton is a crook. on Wed Aug 31st 2016 at 19:39:20 resw Lord of Mirkwood “He argues that the Republicans of 1860 and those of 2016 are basically the same thing, and ditto for the Democrats.” That the Democrat platform is different does not change the fact that it is the same party that supported slavery and Jim Crow. And yes, the party and the Democratic National Committee that governs it, are the same legal entities. As you may know, there is no statute of limitations on crimes against humanity. Both the Democrat party and DNC have never been punished for supporting crimes against humanity. They have never recompensed their victims. They have never even brought themselves to apologise to minorities because they’ve conned the public into believing that because they’re “progressive” the their past crimes against humanity are somehow absolved. Of course you’re all sadly mistaken. on Thu Sep 1st 2016 at 07:21:34 michaeljonbarker Tweet by David Duke after Trump’s speech on immigration. “Excellent speech by Donald Trump tonight. Deport criminal aliens, end catch and release, enforce immagration laws & America first.” I heard parts of Trump’s speech today. Nothing changed, it’s still fascism. on Thu Sep 1st 2016 at 12:36:36 abagond @ michaeljonbarker What a horrifying speech! Not just that he gave it, but that so many people seemed to LIKE it. But part of me is glad because, barring the unforseen, he pretty much sank his campaign for good. on Thu Sep 1st 2016 at 17:04:08 resw What is fascist about deporting people who go to the US illegally? It may be very nationalist or populist but I don’t see what’s fascist about it. “But part of me is glad because, barring the unforseen, he pretty much sank his campaign for good.” I wouldn’t count him out. This is far from over. All we need now is another major atrocity committed by an “illegal alien” or Muslim, and Trump will benefit “bigly” in the polls. You saw what happened last year. Trump’s poll numbers increased a lot after the Paris and San Bernadino attacks. “What is fascist about deporting people who go to the US illegally? ” Because it requires an expansion of State power. Trump himself says he will federalize all police departments across the U.S. within his first 100 days in office. That means locale police and sheriffs will have the jurisdiction to profile people who look “illegal”. It will require Hispanics and all immigrants to carry papers to “prove” they have a right to be here. Due process will not be adhered too which violates civil liberties laid out in the Constitution. The “red tape” that Trump wants to eliminate to “free the police to do there jobs” are in fact constitutional stops to illegal search and seizure and false arrest. The Constitution is meant to protect individuals from harassment both from groups and State agents. My friend Anthony Gregory writes that “The Constitution empowers Congress to regulate naturalization; the process by which the government determines who is a citizen. It emphatically does not empower Congress to regulate immigration; the process by which individuals freely choose to move from one country to another. There is nothing in the Constitution that allows for border checkpoints and an INS and a cumbersome process to determine whether someone can merely reside here legally. Legal residency is a natural right, not a civil privilege like citizenship and voting rights. Many people live legally within the US without being citizens. Under the Constitution—and more important, under libertarianism as well as under natural law morality—anyone who can physically get to the territory currently ruled by the US government has the right to be here without being harassed by the state. That doesn’t mean the right to vote or receive welfare. But it does mean the right to live here, get a job, and pursue happiness. Under the Constitution and moral law, someone born in Mexico or Norway has just as much right to move to California and peacefully acquire a job and place to rent as does someone who was born in Nebraska.” “Trump himself says he will federalize all police departments across the U.S. within his first 100 days in office.” Centralizing government functions like policing is not fascist per se. Many liberal countries have nationalized police forces. But the US President doesn’t really have the power to do that unilaterally. “That means locale police and sheriffs will have the jurisdiction to profile people who look “illegal”” That’s a different issue than centralizing police. But as a matter of fact police already profile. They do it everyday. They’re trained to do it. I’m not convinced local police departments are going to change their existing practices as a result of a Trump presidency. “The “red tape” that Trump wants to eliminate to “free the police to do there jobs” are in fact constitutional stops to illegal search and seizure and false arrest” He may think there’s red tape, but police already perform illegal searches, seizures and false arrests. And even murder. They get away with it every day. Even in the bastion of liberals, New York (city), where they overwhelmingly supported the unconstitutional racial profiling and illegal searches of blacks and browns, and where cops who murder unarmed blacks go unpunished. And let’s not forget “progressive” President Obama’s National Defense Authorization Act which permits the indefinite detention of any suspected terrorist. “It emphatically does not empower Congress to regulate immigration” I tend to agree in theory, except some would say this power is derived under Article 1, Section 8, Clause 10. on Sun Sep 4th 2016 at 02:41:46 michaeljonbarker Donald Trump stars in Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” lol (https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=UiPKV4sGK64&feature=share) on Mon Sep 5th 2016 at 04:14:24 Michael Jon Barker “But Donald Trump is for the little guy” Clueless Trump supporter. “The War on Street Food been going on for more than 100 years.” “When Marco Gutierrez, a founder and spokesman for the little-known and sparsely populated advocacy group “Latinos for Trump” recently tried to warn America of the grave dangers of open borders and free migration with the image of “taco trucks on every corner,” most views, Latino and Anglo alike, seem to have experienced a vision of a possible new utopia. The tag immediately trended on Twitter, not in panic but in near-universal celebration of the possibility.” This article exposes more then that. One of the obstacles that keep immigrants and those who are not white from starting small businesses and upward mobility are city and state license fees that often times are their to favor white populations and developers. https://fee.org/articles/why-are-there-not-taco-trucks-on-every-corner/ Trumps intent on deporting over 11 million “illegal aliens”. There is a president for this that was started under the Hoover administration and carried into FDR term over a seven year period. It is estimated that upwards of 2 million people were detained and deported without due process and about half of them American born U.S. citizens. Funny the things that get left out of history books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Repatriation on Wed Sep 14th 2016 at 19:37:45 Mary Burrell Colin Kaepernick draws ire from white Americans because he calls attention to America’s denial of white privilege, police brutality against black people and people of color, and the lack of opportunity for those same people and get demonized for protesting injustice. Meanwhile Trump can tell his crowds that America is in decline, Mexicans are sexual predators and all black people are disadvantaged living in ghettos and he gets applauded, what’s wrong with this picture? America was built on the double standard. http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_630_noupscale/57c7589a1700001a1fc76d55.gif?cache=ohgbobx3ej ” Meanwhile Trump can tell his crowds that America is in decline, Mexicans are sexual predators and all black people are disadvantaged living in ghettos and he gets applauded, what’s wrong with this picture?” I’ll take a stab at this: Never underestimate the power of stupidity of certain people in large groups! Trump’s chances of being elected are looking more and more possible every day. I heard a rumor that the DNC is thinking about substituting Michelle Obama for Clinton if Clinton’s health disqualifies her from continuing. @resw: Precisely, that cartoon is circulating the Internet and there is much truth in it. @Fan: I agree with that statement about the stupidity of certain people in large groups. Trump rallies are definitely where the “stupid ” happens. on Sat Oct 1st 2016 at 02:18:21 Michael Jon Barker Donald Trump has yet to pick up any Newspaper endorsements for president. Gary Johnson has six, four from papers that endorsed Romney and two from papers that endorsed Obama. Hillary has thirteen endorsements, Six from papers that endorsed Romney and seven from papers that endorsed Obama. on Sat Oct 1st 2016 at 03:15:30 Afrofem “It is estimated that upwards of 2 million people were detained and deported without due process and about half of them American born U.S. citizens. “ True. I never knew about those mass deportations until I saw a movie called Mi Familia. It starred Edward James Olmos and Jimmy Smits. Armed soldiers basically rampaged through Mexican American neighborhoods, grabbed people on the streets and stuffed them on buses and trains bound for Mexico. A movie trailer can be found here: http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2930573593 ⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙⚙ The movie also depicts the “Zoot Suit Riots” in Los Angeles in 1943. White soldiers and sailors attacked Chicano men who dressed in distinctive “Zoot Suits”. According to History.com: “..the jazz-inspired outfits were particularly popular among the city’s Mexican American population. Latino youths known as “Pachucos” caused a sensation by donning zoot suits, pork pie hats and dangling watch chains, and it wasn’t long before their eye-catching garb earned them an overblown reputation as street thugs and juvenile delinquents. Tensions grew especially high between zoot-suiters and the large contingent of white sailors and Marines stationed in Los Angeles. Mexican Americans were serving in the military in high numbers, but many servicemen viewed the zoot-suit wearers as World War II draft dodgers. Since wool and other textiles were subject to wartime rationing, they also considered the oversized suits an unpatriotic waste of resources. The racially charged atmosphere finally led to full-scale riots in early June 1943. Following a series of bloody street brawls between zoot-suiters and white soldiers, a mob of U.S. servicemen took to the streets in taxicabs and began attacking Latinos and stripping them of their suits. Thousands more servicemen and civilians joined the fray over the next several days, often marching into cafes and movie theaters and beating anyone wearing Pachuco clothing or hairstyles. Blacks and Filipinos—even those not clad in zoot suits—were also targeted. Local papers framed the racial attacks as a vigilante response to an immigrant crime wave, and police generally restricted their arrests to the Latinos who fought back. The mayhem didn’t die down until June 8, when U.S. military personnel were finally barred from leaving their barracks. The Los Angeles City Council issued a ban on zoot suits the following day. Amazingly, no one was killed during the weeklong riot, but it wasn’t the last outburst of zoot suit-related racial violence. Similar incidents took place that same year in cities such as Philadelphia, Chicago and Detroit. “ http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/what-were-the-zoot-suit-riots on Mon Oct 3rd 2016 at 13:39:14 Herneith https://www.icij.org/blog/2016/09/trumps-organization-did-business-iranian-bank-later-linked-terrorism?utm_content=buffer8f75a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer on Thu Oct 13th 2016 at 05:01:07 michaeljonbarker Some Republican women have had enough of Trump and his supporters. “So let me get this straight: I, a conservative female, have spent years defending the Republican Party against claims of sexism. When I saw Republican men getting attacked I stood up for them. I came to their defense. I fought on their behalf. I fought on behalf of a movement I believed in. I fought on behalf of my principles while other women told me I hated my own sex. Not only charges of sexism, but I defended @marcorubio during Go8, I fought in my state to stop the @ScottWalker recall, etc… Now some Trojan horse nationalist sexual predator invades the @GOP, eating it alive, and you cowards sit this one out? He treats women like dogs, and you go against everything I – and other female conservatives – said you were & back down like cowards. Get this straight: We don’t need you to stand up for us, YOU needed to stand up for us for YOU. For YOUR dignity. For YOUR reputation. Jeff Sessions says that he wouldn’t “characterize” Trump’s unauthorized groping of women as “assault.” Are you kidding me?! Others try to rebuke his comments, yet STILL choose to vote for a sexual predator – because let’s be honest, that’s what he is. “What he said is wrong, and the way he treats women is wrong, but it’s not wrong enough for me to not vote for him.” Thanks, cowards. Various men in the movement are writing it off as normal, confirming every stereotype the left has thrown at them. So I’m done. I’m sooo done. If you can’t stand up for women & unendorse this piece of human garbage, you deserve every charge of sexism thrown at you. I’m just one woman, you won’t even notice my lack of presence at rallies, fair booths, etc. You won’t really care that I’m offended by your silence, and your inability to take a stand. But one by one you’ll watch more women like me go, & you’ll watch men of ACTUAL character follow us out the door. And what you’ll be left with are the corrupt masses that foam at the mouth every time you step outside the lines. Men who truly see women as lesser beings, & women without self-respect. And your “guiding faith” & “principles” will be attached to them as well. And when it’s all said and done, all you’ll have left is the party The Left always accused you of being. Scum.” http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/the-tweet-storm-that-should-terrify-the-republican-party/503771/ on Thu Oct 13th 2016 at 07:17:08 Fan ... Oh please … cry me a river!!! Too few tears, and way too late! The Amerikan political system had an opportunity to redeem itself during Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial. The senate decided to look the other way despite all of the evidence pointing to Clinton’s guilt. The Amerikan people also agreed with the senate’s decision. Any (systemic) rot/cancer left remaining (untreated) within a body will eventually infect/overtake/spread into the rest of the body. The untreated diseased body then cannot recover from its overwhelming multiple cancers. Rot can’t be permitted to remain and fester, whether it starts in the foot – or the head. on Mon Oct 17th 2016 at 15:47:43 Herneith https://scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p417x417/14695412_1246415125378927_2142578183932071144_n.jpg?oh=325d5a75295a823f225ff6e0560385e9&oe=58A0ABBF on Sat Oct 22nd 2016 at 00:50:48 michaeljonbarker Here is more about Donald Trump’s “Morman Problem”. http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-clinton-mormons-20161019-snap-story.html on Wed Oct 26th 2016 at 16:03:41 Herneith Qu qu’est fcuk? on Sat Oct 29th 2016 at 15:40:46 Herneith http://www.burrardstreetjournal.com/trump-v-mcgregor-confirmed-for-wwe-battleground/ http://www.burrardstreetjournal.com/trump-obama-founded-better-terrorist-group/ on Tue Nov 1st 2016 at 14:41:08 Herneith http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/donald-trump-tax.html?emc=edit_na_20161031&nlid=59850509&ref=cta on Tue Nov 1st 2016 at 16:37:42 Afrofem That Trump v. McGregor story is hilarious! Thanks for sharing. on Wed Nov 16th 2016 at 05:49:11 Herneith Ever wonder how Donald Trump has his hair coiffed?: https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/trump_0425.jpg?quality=85&w=950 Separated at birth?: on Wed Nov 16th 2016 at 06:43:49 Fan ... ^^^^^^^ lol These lesser hairstyles (or snafus) reminds of boxing promoter Don King’s original classic look! The trolls sexier and better looking in a manly, rugged way! on Wed Nov 16th 2016 at 13:55:27 v8driver lordie lordie lordie Is that pic on the right an image of “Oh nooooooooooooooooooooooo…” the always accident prone, Mr. Bill of Saturday Night Live?? No, it’s a Troll doll: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_doll I used to take them to BINGO. I couldn’t help noticing the resemblance between the two. Here’s Donald with a new hairdo: fat bastid from austin powers! https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS5kt-visduX-Gl_O3MSGejzsP8ho2FoVUjSPKkGcXbuCyTwrKFhw There is a little resemblance between the troll and Mr Bill. At least Mr Bill believes in personal grooming. The Donald looks as if his melanin deficiency might make him a candidate for some serious skin issues…and be aware of the Sun’s effect … on Thu Nov 17th 2016 at 00:59:18 Herneith Mr. Bill is a hundred times better looking. A profound question, can Donald Trump keep his hair in place on inauguration day? http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/17/can-trump-s-hair-survive-inauguration-day.html?via=newsletter&source=DDAfternoon on Thu Nov 17th 2016 at 17:31:42 Fan ... ” can Donald Trump keep his hair in place on inauguration day?” Highly doubtful. That’s like asking Mr Potato Head if he can make any sense, or answer a simple question! Maybe.. if he uses the most super-fortified can of hair spray known to mankind (Aquanet) and the wind is nowhere to be found! He should probably buy a blond hair WEAVE and just be done with it! Or sport a new look… an Issac Hayes, Steve Harvey, Mike Tyson hair (less) do. I do think he needs a tan (some coloring to offset that ghastly Eddie Muster pale …) a lot more than he needs to keep his hair in place. on Wed Dec 21st 2016 at 01:42:14 Herneith (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbLZZ5zLwnA) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjUDK4GqiXo) on Wed Feb 1st 2017 at 08:41:01 Trump's Muslim ban - Bible Prophecy In The Daily Headlines on Sun May 21st 2017 at 00:41:57 Herneith http://herneith.d.pr/l8NdK on Fri Jul 7th 2017 at 02:31:23 michaeljonbarker “The Racial and Religious Paranoia of Trump’s Warsaw Speech.” It seems Trump is taking his white speak to Europe. It got him elelcted in the U.S. so why not reach out to whites in Europe. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/07/trump-speech-poland/532866/?utm_source=fbia on Mon Jul 24th 2017 at 00:32:13 michaeljonbarker So Trump wanys to bring the hammer down on pot smokers. Supposedly there is a “report” that links marijuana users to violent crime. Any report that makes such a claim is schewd towards law enforcement. Expect everybody but whites to experience the blunt of this. (No pun intended) Edit: I forgot the link http://thehill.com/regulation/administration/343218-trumps-doj-gears-up-for-crackdown-on-marijuana on Wed Aug 9th 2017 at 03:46:27 michaeljonbarker Trump gets updates twice a day about how great he is. lol https://news.vice.com/story/trump-folder-positive-news-white-house?utm_source=vicetwitterus on Sat Aug 19th 2017 at 04:39:45 michaeljonbarker Impeach tbe President. https://cohen.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/ranking-member-cohen-introduce-articles-impeachment-against-president on Tue Sep 5th 2017 at 04:24:34 michaeljonbarker This is a good. How Trump is producing a propaganda state. https://newrepublic.com/article/144592/trump-creating-propaganda-state on Sat Sep 23rd 2017 at 02:44:14 Mary Burrell Kim Jong Un calls Trump a “dotard.” Dotard: An old senile man. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. on Mon Oct 23rd 2017 at 02:13:15 michaeljonbarker “According to research from the nonprofit monitoring group Airwars, the first seven months of the Trump administration have already resulted in more civilian deaths than under the entirety of the Obama administration. Airwars reports that under Obama’s leadership, the fight against IS led to approximately 2,300 to 3,400 civilian deaths. Through the first seven months of the Trump administration, they estimate that coalition air strikes have killed between 2,800 and 4,500 civilians.” “Researchers also point to another stunning trend – the “frequent killing of entire families in likely coalition airstrikes.” In May, for example, such actions led to the deaths of at least 57 women and 52 children in Iraq and Syria.” http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stories/in-9-months-trump-has-bombed-to-death-more-civilians-than-obama-did-in-8-years-171017?news=860336 on Wed Jun 26th 2019 at 23:25:51 Mary Burrell Watching the CBS Evening News and they showed a horrific photo of a Salvadoran and his young child face down in the Rio Grande. These are “human beings “ seeking asylum trying to escape horrendous conditions found in their country, whose problems have been exacerbated by Western polices. This is a humanitarian crisis that one person in the White House has grown with his xenophobic rhetoric plus his lack of empathy. No President has lost as many cabinet members as Trump. on Wed Sep 11th 2019 at 15:45:23 Open Minded Observer That may be true, and you know I’m no Trump apologist, but that’s just one of many side effects of him being the most unqualified president ever. People opposed to him like to point to stuff like that because they think being unqualified is something that should get him replaced whereas being unqualified is part of what got him elected in the first place. Certainly not the only thing, but it’s also not seen as detrimental to his supporters. They see him rapidly replacing staff as a form of learning and adapting. In fact, not being bogged down with the optics of replacing staff is seen as taking the kinds of quick and decisive actions that they assume business leaders take. That’s what they elected… a businessman instead of a politician. He’s free to make mistakes as long as he doesn’t allow them to linger. In marketing terms, his administration is “nimble” because it can react and change rapidly. They love that. Today Speaker of The House Nancy Pelosi delivers Statement of Impeachment. We shall see what the outcome will be. And Trump’s little orange hands are tweeting away. on Wed Sep 25th 2019 at 10:52:40 Alberto Monteiro We are all a bunch of idiots, they point it to us all the time, and we don’t believe. Trump is orange. The Simpsons are orange. Isn’t it obvious that we live in a simulation? Even with the threat of impeachment it probably won’t make a difference with Trump’s sycophantic cult following. And I am thinking the Republicans in the Senate are not going to support an impeachment. Just like the Mueller Report it probably won’t have an effect on the election in 2020. I hope I am wrong about all of this. I would like nothing more than to see him in an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs. I’d say there’s a zero percent chance the Senate has any plans to vote in favor of impeachment unless and until we start seeing the Republican establishment promoting an alternative… i.e. Fox News suddenly running all kinds of “Hey, this guy might give Trump a run for his money” stories. They will most likely will do everything they can to delay the vote until after the 2020 elections. After 2020, whether they retain control of the Senate or not, the outcome of the election will have been determined and if Trump wins, the Republicans keep the presidency. In other words, they’ll stick with him until he’s so toxic that many republicans start indicating that they’ll switch sides or abstain. Until then, they’ve got nothing to lose, they want a republican in the White house and they probably don’t care if it’s Pence after the election. He just doesn’t have the draw to run on his own, so they’ll stick with Trump and hope for the win. I’ve said it before though, I think once Trump is out, the establishment, most of his base and the country in general will pile on him. His rise to power was such a media spectacle that his fall will be equally spectacular. His base will blame him for ruining their party, making a mockery of their agenda, bankrupting the economy, costing them all 3 branches of government and pretty much every other thing that goes wrong in the wake of his presidency. They will feel like they took a chance on him and he squandered it. They will have lost friendships, permanently damaged family relationships and will only have a MAGA hat to show for it. They will want revenge. I could be wrong on that, but if I know one thing, it’s that Americans love drama and watching bad things happen to entitled rich people. I envision the finale of his reality TV presidency to be epic. “It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” —James Baldwin “The tot of the fish starts at the head down.” This ancient proverb is so apropos to this corrupt administration. We have a lawless president that commits crimes with impunity. rot ^^^^ on Thu Oct 10th 2019 at 11:28:32 Mary Burrell Today i learned Trump betrayed the Kurds. This beast needs to be impeached and removed from office. The U.S. has betrayed the Kurds at least three times since the Gulf War in 1990. They shouldn’t trust us at all. on Thu Oct 10th 2019 at 12:12:16 abagond “Betrayed” is a strong word. It implies he understands what loyalty is. I suppose you have a point about the word betrayal implying that he understands what loyalty means. Although he demands “loyalty “ from his subordinates. He has no moral compass and I suppose that is one of the symptoms of his narcissistic personality. on Thu Oct 10th 2019 at 13:39:30 Open Minded Observer Wasn’t betraying the Kurds inevitable? I’ll admit ignorance here, but was there ever a time that we didn’t abandon locals we’ve enlisted to assist us in whatever proxy war or destabilization effort or regime change agenda we’ve embarked upon? 2nd thought: Trump may not really have the stomach for fighting someone else’s war, but it seems to me that his actions have set the stage for us to wind up fighting a battle of his own making (one of his hallmarks is creating problems and then claiming victory when he solves them). What’s the history on re-electing presidents when actively engaged in a war? (Hint: http://www.theprogressiveprofessor.com/?p=19187) on Thu Oct 10th 2019 at 23:38:01 v8driver Well he’s gone up against NATO leadership with his sanctioningyenabling the Turkish push into Syria now, imnsho. on Fri Oct 11th 2019 at 03:47:29 iamvistinginstructoreric Tonight at 7:00 pm Trump and the MAGA maggots are infesting the city.🤢🤬😡 on Wed Oct 23rd 2019 at 01:57:19 Mary Burrell Trump used the word “lynching” I wonder if this was some type of dog whistle to get his zombie sycophant supporters to act out. Like much of his rhetoric he’s very irresponsible and evil. With these impeachment hearings pending, perhaps this is way to distract. I suppose this is no different from all the other irresponsible, dangerous rhetoric with.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14270
__label__wiki	0.872874	0.872874	Teen dies in house fire, severe storms cause power outages in New York area NEW YORK (WABC) -- More severe storms tore through the New York area Monday night into Tuesday, downing trees and power lines and contributing to at least one death. A 17-year-old boy died in New Jersey after a fast-moving fire raced through his family's home. Monmouth County prosecutors say the fire in Neptune broke out late Tuesday at a time when the home had no electricity, and it is believed candles were being used. Firefighters quickly arrived on scene and tried to rescue the teen, but heavy flames prevented the rescue. His body was found after the blaze had been extinguished. Two other people in the home were able to safely escape, and a firefighter was treated for an undisclosed minor injury. In Howell, a huge tree fell and split a home in two on Georgia Tavern Road. Luckily, everyone got out safely. CeFaan Kim has the latest on the storm damage in New Jersey. Such incidents led to more than 200,000 people being left without power across the state, and tens of thousands more without electricity across the Tri-State. In Lakewood, a downed tree trapped two people inside of a vehicle on 13th Street. Fortunately, they were not hurt. Some area streets were reported to be impassable due to downed trees, and many vehicles became stuck in flooded roadways. Flooding caused a lot of problems in Hackensack, where firefighters had to rescue 14 people who became stranded. Darla Miles reports on the severe flooding in New Jersey. The storms brought torrential downpours, with rain falling at the rate of 1 to 2 inches per hour Monday night, prompting flash flood warnings for much of the region. There were also damaging winds, with gusts of at least 60 miles an hour reported in some spots. One person was hit by a falling tree at Monmouth University's campus in West Long Branch. The person was taken alert and conscious to a local hospital. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said the restoration of power may take up to several days for some customers. Murphy toured the damaged areas Tuesday, saying PSEG and JCP&L are sending reinforcements from as far away as Canada. "They are bringing in I think they said 800 out of state line men and women," said Murphy. "PSEG is bringing in 500 more." WATCH: Gov. Murphy tours storm damage in Howell, NJ In New York City, there was significant flooding on highways and local streets. Some of the hardest-hit areas were in Brooklyn and Queens and on Long Island, including parts of the Long Island Expressway and Francis Lewis Boulevard. Flash flooding in Valley Stream caught people off guard, and several drivers were stranded and had to walk to higher ground. Candace McCowan reports on the flashing flooding that affected drivers in Long Island. More than a dozen cars were flooded in one part of Brooklyn when rain left streets submerged. Crews from the DEP were sent to clear catch basins to help alleviate some of the flooding. #BREAKING: #FlashFlooding inundates block in #Gowanus section of #Brooklyn, flooding more than a dozen cars. @nycemergencymgt on scene. #abc7ny pic.twitter.com/u1K0aE0iFM — Josh Einiger (@JoshEiniger7) July 23, 2019 The heavy rain also resulted in water pouring onto subway platforms in Brooklyn. One year later, same issue still happening pic.twitter.com/KHSYqApZhG — Alexis Smith (@AlexisC_Smith) July 22, 2019 * Get the AccuWeather App * More AccuWeather * Follow us on YouTube * More local news * Send us a news tip * Download the abc7NY app for breaking news alerts weathernew york citystorm damagesevere weather Man forced baby, woman into vehicle at gunpoint: Fayetteville Police	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14273
__label__wiki	0.885863	0.885863	VISCERAL DISGORGE "Slithering Evisceration" (Agonia) 01. Slithering Evisceration 02. Fucked into Oblivion 03. Architects of Warping Flesh 04. Saprogenic Deformation 05. Absorbed by the Swarm 06. Siphoning Cosmic Sentience 07. Necrotic Biogenesis 08. Spawn of Putridity 09. Transfixed in Torture It's not always obvious why particular bands end up becoming vastly more popular and acclaimed than their peers, particularly within subgenres that seem to abide by relatively strict rules. Brutal death metal has no shortage of heroes at this point, of course, and you only need to check out new albums from the likes of DISENTOMB and VITRIOL to be reassured that the extreme end of the scene is in the safest of bloodied hands. But even amidst such a tsunami of high-grade brutality, the arrival of a new VISCERAL DISGORGE album feels like a particularly big deal. Despite only having released one album thus far, the Maryland crew are firmly established as a benchmark band for the entire scene: one listen to that album, 2013's "Ingesting Putridity", should explain why. At the first time of trying, VISCERAL DISGORGE sounded bigger, better and nastier than pretty much everyone else, with shrewdly smart production values and a level of insistent groove that decimated the competition. The only major problem facing the band right now is that the brutal DM world has been undergoing a huge surge in quality and quantity recently, which means that "Slithering Evisceration" really, really needs to be one of the death metal albums of the year. Which, perhaps inevitably, it is. After an obligatory nausea-inducing intro, "Fucked into Oblivion" could hardly be a more effusive opening statement. Frontman Travis Werner's recent hints that the new VISCERAL DISGORGE material would be harder, faster and more brutal are instantly confirmed: this is insanity, albeit immaculately produced and seemingly orchestrated insanity. While many young bands in the scene mischievously (and understandably) edge towards deathcore tropes, these guys are old school to the bone, and a song as untamed and breathlessly extreme as this says it all about their commitment to underground ethics. That said, when VD do drop into one of their trademark grooves, it's hard to think of another band that do it with such swing and swagger. Breakdowns in songs like "Saprogenic Deformation" and "Necrotic Biogenesis" definitely tap into and exploit that near-comical pre-pit spider-sense of 'Oh fuck, here we go!' but there is always a brain-spinning blizzard of blastbeats and churning dissonance just around the corner, as tempos are juggled like fiery chainsaws and every kick drum detonates like a dropkick to the chest. Fans of "Ingesting Putridity" and its acrid world of obnoxious gore may feel slightly discombobulated when faced with the new conceptual slant of VISCERAL DISGORGE's lyrics, but it's hard to deny that these songs — which focus on themes of cosmic horror, with all the offal-drenched surrealism that they generally entail — feel even more brutish and unapologetic than their predecessors. Masters of jaw-shattering impact and brevity, only one of these songs exceeds four minutes in length (gruesome closing epic "Transfixed in Torture") and with a total duration of 32 minutes, "Slithering Evisceration" amounts to an imperious display of fat-free creativity. It's also one of the most ridiculously exhilarating half-hours of music that 2019 will provide: just listen to "Absorbed by the Swarm", a decent contender for this record's adrenalized apex, and try not to pull a death metal face. I fucking dare you. Author: Dom Lawson Posted in: CD Reviews MIKE LEVINE Says 'Physical Issues' Will Likely Prevent TRIUMPH From Touring Again BRUCE KULICK: 'Joining KISS Changed My Entire Life' HALESTORM Has Two New EPs Coming Out, Says LZZY HALE MACHINE HEAD Fan Proposes To Girlfriend In Circle Pit During Phoenix Concert (Video) EICCA TOPPINEN Says APOCALYPTICA Wanted 'No Compromises’ On 'Cell-0' Album	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14276
__label__cc	0.559431	0.440569	Small businesses look to repeat last year's success this Prime Day Ahead of the big shopping days, our sellers and service partners tell us they are excited for the big days. By Day One Staff on 10 July 2019 Come July, the two-day annual shopping festival exclusively for Amazon Prime subscribers across the globe is awaited with great anticipation by shoppers and sellers alike. This year is no different either, and the excitement around the mega shopping event is palpable, with small businesses on Amazon looking to repeat last year’s success on Prime Day 2019. Adding to the celebration this year, thousands of small and medium businesses, women entrepreneurs, weavers, and start-ups under Amazon’s various initiatives- Kala Haat, Amazon Saheli, Amazon Launchpad and Amazon Business from across the country will showcase over 500 new products first for Prime members. Commenting on the inclusion and participation of Amazon’s small and medium business partners in Prime Day 2019, Gopal Pillai, Vice President, Seller Services, Amazon India, said: “Our longest ever Prime day gets even bigger this year with over 500 new launches by small and medium businesses exclusively for Prime members, a growth of 7X from last year! The two-day celebration this year will have some never seen before products from artisans, weavers, women entrepreneurs, emerging brands and start-ups. Prime Day helps SMBs reach millions of Prime members around the country, and provides an opportunity for the smallest of businesses to participate and grow” Empowering small sellers Amazon India has been supporting many such growing brands and small businesses in a host of ways, including events like Prime Day. Ankit Garg, of Wakefit Mattresses says, "We started selling on Amazon in 2014. And Prime Day 2018 was when we got a taste of the event! We never expected a one day sale can bring you 15 times the sale you are doing on a normal basis. Your brand is visible to so many people in India, it is very, very beneficial to participate in the sale because you get at least 3 or 4 times the sale of what you do on a daily basis. We were surprised that something like this can happen and looking forward to this year's Prime Day." We never expected a one day sale can bring you 15 times the sale you are doing on a normal basis. Ankit Garg, Wakefit Mattresses Endorsing this view is Ashok Mittal of Teamonk Global Foods, which specialises in speciality teas. He says that "Prime Day is one of the best opportunities for us to maximise the number of customers who shop for their products." He believes that to make this day truly exciting is to give great offers to customers. Saying that sellers should cash in on this golden opportunity is Himmat Jain from AS-IT-IS Nutrition, the health food seller. He explains, "We were a part of Prime Day last year and we did 2.5x of business in just those two days. We added a lot of new customers. I would absolutely recommend sellers to participate in the upcoming Amazon Prime Day and make use of this golden opportunity." Prime Day 2018 was a success for small and medium-sized businesses who put their passion and unique skill sets on display. Prime members around India purchased thousands of products from entrepreneurs, start-ups, artisans and mom-and-pop shops. Over 50,000 participating small and medium-sized businesses saw an average growth of 240% during Prime Day 2018 over an average day. Moreover, small and medium-sized businesses exceeded $1.5 billion in sales last Prime Day globally. Enabling delivery service partners If you thought that only sellers are benefitting from Prime Day, think again. Service partners of Amazon, who help in last mile delivery are looking forward to Prime Day with great expectations. Sanjukta who services over 30 pin codes in the North East from her delivery station, says that business is always great during Prime and she is looking to hire more delivery associates for Prime Day. The event gives us the opportunity to build our on-demand logistics network while allowing us to stress-test our fixed capacity network. Ankit Mandhania, Delivery Service Partner Sunil, Amazon's service delivery partner from Vadodara Sunil, who runs his logistics firm Vcare from Vadodara, Gujarat, who saw their business almost doubling on Prime Day 2018, are also Amazon’s service partners, enabling last mile logistics. Partnering with Amazon has helped them grow their business, while generating employment in their local community and often empowering the local youth as well. "Last year our business grew two-fold during Prime," he says, adding, "This year we are looking to do top that!" Ramakrishnan, Amazon’s delivery service partner, from Nagercoil Speaking about last year’s Prime Day experience, Ramakrishnan, Amazon’s service partner from Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, says, "Prime Day 2018 was outstanding. Many new customers had ordered on that day, and they soon became regular customers. Since we were doing on-time deliveries, our delivery services were being apprecaited too. As a result, our customer base increased even in small towns." In anticipation of Prime Day 2019, Ramakrishnan says that they have increased their man power. He goes on to say, "‘We have also planned extra vehicles, and are preparing our station for the huge delivery volume that we anticipate." Ankit Mandhania, ZipZap Logistics from Hyderabad, says, "Prime Days are highly charged events for logistics partners like us. The event gives us the opportunity to build our on-demand logistics network while allowing us to stress-test our fixed capacity network. It keeps us on our toes and ensures that we are always aiming to deliver the experience that Amazon customers have come to expect." "We are looking forward to a season of enhanced earnings for our delivery associates and drivers. Sale events like these go a long way in helping them realise their financial goals, be it their children’s education or down payment on a vehicle. And we are especially looking forward to increasing our business from small towns on this Prime Day." Service Partner Supporting small businessOperationsDeliver Smiles	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14278
__label__cc	0.542111	0.457889	Twitter Finally Adds Support for iOS Live Photos After four short years, Twitter have added support for Live Photos. A feature that was announced alongside the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, in 2015. Give the gift of GIFs. You can now upload your iOS Live Photos as GIFs anywhere you upload photos on Twitter. pic.twitter.com/D8TIfsBwyd — Twitter (@Twitter) 11 December 2019 If you ignore the strangely huge delay, I do think that it’s a very welcome addition. A lot of people including myself take Live Photos all the time. So I can see this being quite popular. It doesn’t literally keep them as Live Photos though, they are converted to GIF format. That’s not exactly a bad thing though, as I’m sure there’s quite a few benefits of storing them as a GIF rather than the raw video from the Live Photo. One thing I didn’t like about the video alongside their very brief announcement, was the attitude towards the newly added support. They talk about how millions of Live Photos are taken every day, but how they go unshared and forgotten about. But “Today is a new day”. Sure, today is a new day and it’s a pretty cool feature, but I think it easily could have been done a number of years ago. The only blocker for adding this support earlier was Twitter themselves. Tags: iOS, Live Photo, Twitter Twitter Announces New Gesture To Open Camera Twitter have announced (on Twitter) that an updated camera interaction is on its way. So you’ll be able to access the camera with just one swipe: This is a really good improvement. I’ve even downloaded the official Twitter app again, so I’m ready to try it out. Tags: App, Twitter Twitter Plans to Break Parts of All Third-party Apps And some of the developers have responded: After June 19th, 2018, “streaming services” at Twitter will be removed. This means two things for third-party apps: Push notifications will no longer arrive Timelines won’t refresh automatically – apps-of-a-feather.com Twitter has always had a strange relationship with developers of third-party clients, with certain features never even making it into their hands. A quick example would be Polls. They don’t show up on apps like Tweetbot, because they don’t know they exist. I’m not so sure how much of a loss timeline streaming would be, but push notifications?! Maybe this is time for more people to check out Micro.blog. Better Support for Tweetstorms, Exactly What Twitter Needed! From the Twitter Blog: We’ve made it easy to create a thread by adding a plus button in the composer, so you can connect your thoughts and publish your threaded Tweets all at the same time. You can continue adding more Tweets to your published thread at any time with the new “Add another Tweet” button. Additionally, it’s now simpler to spot a thread – we’ve added an obvious “Show this thread” label. – Full announcement. As much as I think this is a good addition to the Twitter app, even though my thoughts on tweetstorms are mixed, I can’t help but thinking that they’re still not working on the important things. Tags: Rant, Twitter Use Regular Expressions to Return to 140 Character Tweets As we all know, Twitter is now changing the character limit of a tweet to 280 characters, from the original 140. I’m sure they have reasons, and I’m not here to argue against any of them. However, if you find yourself wanting to go back to the “old Twitter”, where tweets were short, and we had to abbreviate things when we couldn’t fit all of it in. There is a way to achieve this. The method is by simply hiding any tweets that do not meet your length preference. The most popular twitter clients for iOS and macOS (Tweetbot, and Twitterrific), have some form of muting feature, which also allow advanced muting with regular expressions. Some people make use of this to mute certain hashtags, overuse of hashtags or @mentions, and some really advanced things. But for the purpose of checking a tweet length, you just need to see how many characters there are. And that’s simply: [sS]{MIN_LENGTH, MAX_LENGTH} You use [sS] to match any character, and then use the lengths afterwards to specify a minimum and/or maximum length. Just to explain it in a bit more detail, the square brackets are a way to define a collection of character matching rules. And the curly braces are sequence quantifiers, that can match minimum, exact, or maximum length of a match. And then there’s the s and S. The s is used to match a whitespace character, so spaces, tabs, new lines, etc. And the S is used to match the opposite, all non-whitespace characters, So if you put them together, then you’re going to match every possible character. Which in a scenario like this, is all you need. The Patterns So now I’ve explained the scenario, and solution in a bit of detail, I’ll get to the actual regular expression patterns. In this case, we simply want to hide all tweets that do not fit the old standard of 140 characters in a tweet. However, we aren’t setting rules, but instead writing patterns to match tweets that will be hidden, we will need to inverse the logic. Seeing as we only have one parameter – the maximum length we want to see, it will be very easy. Because now we need to say, if a tweet matches these conditions, hide it. The conditions will be of course, that it is over the limit we set. In this example I will use the old 140 character limit, but you could set your own custom preference using this same method. If we take that logic and apply it to the simple pattern I mentioned earlier, we can simplify it even further. As we’re not checking a maximum length, that’s irrelevant. We just want to hide anything over a certain amount. Which leaves us with: [sS]{MIN_LENGTH,} You still need the comma in there though, as otherwise it will only match if it is the exact same length as the number entered. Now the last part, the actual number. Remember, this is not the length that we want to see, but instead the opposite. So if you want to see all tweets that are 140 characters or less, you need to check for anything 141 characters or over. (The same logic also applies to other limits). So that makes it: [sS]{141,} Simple! Using The Patterns in Tweetbot/Twitterrific So we have the regular expression created, now we just need to make use of it in a twitter client. Tweetbot is the slightly easier option, as you just need to navigate to Mute filters, and then add a keyword filter. Where you’ll have to type your pattern in, which will enable a regular expression switch, which you will have to tap. In Twitterrific, it’s somewhat more confusing, but only initially. In this app, the mute feature is called Muffles. And you add a new muffle, to mute tweets just like Tweetbot. However when you navigate to the Muffles section, it doesn’t mention regular expressions, which lead me to initially thought they weren’t supported. However, you can use them in Twitterrific, it just takes one extra parameter, a pattern title. You specify a RegEx Muffle in the following format: Title :: Pattern P.S. I know there is more formatting available, but it’s not relevant here. So for Twitterrific, you might want to use something like this: Classic Twitter :: [sS]{141,} And that is it. Now you can hide away from the future, and pretend these long tweets just don’t exist. Apps Mentioned: Tweetbot (iOS/macOS) Twitterrific (iOS/macOS) Tags: RegEx, Twitter The Origin of Tweet → Craig Hockenberry writing at Furbo.org (Back in 2013): I started started using Twitter at the beginning of December. Like John Gruber and my colleagues at the Iconfactory, I loved our new “water cooler for the Internet.” I was, however, unhappy with using Twitter via the website or Dashboard widgets. While taking a shower in the middle of December, an idea struck me: it wouldn’t be hard to hook up Twitter’s new API to the Cocoa networking classes and display a table with tweets. So I dried off and started prototyping: the next day I had the world’s first Twitter client running on my Mac. A few days later, I checked all my code into our repository and Twitterrific was born: r174 \| craig \| 2006-12-20 17:54:11 -0800 (Wed, 20 Dec 2006) \| 1 line` Read the full post. It’s a great story about the beginning of Twitter, and how Twitterrific came about. It certainly seems that everyone involved at the early stages, were super influential on the end product that all of us use today. Twitter launched on the 15th July 2006, and the initial release of Twitterrific was on the 15h January 2007. So it didn’t take long! I joined Twitter in July 2009, so even though I feel like I was relatively early to the service, I can’t imagine how cool it would of been to use it in it’s earlier days. I would imagine, something similar to App.net, as that was very enjoyable to use. But sadly didn’t make it. In related news, Iconfactory have been working on Twitterrific 5 for Mac for a while, becuase of a hufgely successful Kickstarter campaign. And it will go live on the Mac App Store on the 10th October! Tags: Twitter, Twitterrific How I’m Keeping up to Date with Twitter It’s now almost midway through my holiday in Tenerife, and I’ve been noticing a few ways I’ve been using Twitter differently, seeing as I’m not constantly being updated. As most people would expect, I haven’t been constantly stuck to my phone (with the exception of music and podcasts), so I haven’t been able to be 100% caught up with my timeline. Whereas I’m usually a maximum of 1 hour behind, given that I’m awake. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or not, or whether it’s good for productivity, but that’s what happens. But instead of my usual Twitter activity, I’m hardly posting anything, but I still want to keep an eye on anything significant that’s going on. I actually have three Twitter clients installed on my phone at the minute, and they’ve each gained a temporary place in my daily usage. My client of choice was previously Tweetbot, but I was getting bored recently, and was checking out the current state of Twitterrific, so that’s the reasons for the first two. The last one is the official Twitter app, and that’s purely for keeping up with what updates are being added, and also so I can see a poll if I need to. So seeing as I just want to see the most essential/interesting content from the day, my Twitter usage normally consists of: Checking the official Twitter app for the “What you’ve missed” section (I’ve 99% got the actual name wrong, but you get the idea). I may read some related tweets, but I feel this gets me updated. I use Tweetbot every now and then for push notifications, and also to check out the Activity section. Which shows follows, likes, and mentions, all in the same list, so that’s how I make sure I’m up to date on anyone interacting with me. Any “normal” use of Twitter where I want to search for someone, specifically see a users timeline, or just checkout the most recent tweets (not particularly often, but when I’m bored), I do all of this in Twitterrific. Looking back on my usage, it seems pretty standard. Apart from the use of three different apps of course. I’m going to try and force myself to use Twitterrific a bit more, and then make a decision on that, so then it’s only the two. The biggest plus for me for the last few days has been the official Twitter app, because it’s pretty quick to read the curated list of tweets that apparently I’ve missed out on. I’ve found to be a pretty well curated list, and unless there’s some big thing that I just haven’t seen, I feel as up to date as usual. Maybe this will prompt a change in how I use Twitter when I get home, but I’m not putting any importance into that idea. Tags: Personal, Twitter	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14280
__label__cc	0.733442	0.266558	Kent School of Architecture and Planning February 29, 2016 April 1, 2016 Architecture & Movement Workshop: Materials, Dynamics, Atmospheres. Students from Unit 1 of the MArch course at Kent School of Architecture and MA Physical Acting from the School of Arts worked together to explore materials, dynamics and atmospheres. Welcoming each other into their respective studio spaces, the students examined intersections between their fields, and gathered inspiration for their upcoming performance- and design assessments. This pilot workshop is the first of a series of cross-disciplinary exchanges between two crafts concerned with how the social human being inhabits space. The day’s schedule played out as follows: Implications of materials: discovering the characteristics of certain materials, their ‘poetic essence’ – what the material itself has to offer. Atmosphere and power dynamics: Implications of space on personal space and social relations Move over to KSA’s Marlowe building: Examining the models: An opportunity for MArch students to discuss their Guild designs with MA Physical Acting students Categories: All Articles, KSAP News and Events Tags: Architecture, ksa, MA Physical Acting, MArch Author: sm950 Diary of an Architecture Student Volunteer in Lesvos When the opportunity of going to Lesvos to work as a volunteer came up I did not hesitate to take part. I got involved with the Lesvos Falafel Project (http://www.lesbosfalafel.com/ ) through Leopold from BUREAU A (http://www.a-bureau.com/), an Architecture firm I had been working with during September in Lisbon. Their approach is very refreshing and different from the excessive formality we experience here in England, thus I knew the Lesvos Falafel Project would be something thrilling and interesting to be part of. The lessons I learnt throughout the week I spent with the Falafel Crew and the NBK (No Border Kitchen) people – our allies – were life changing and covered a range of aspects from politics to architecture to cultural differences. This was a very humanizing and extraordinarily enriching experience. Architecture had a big role to play in this situation. An experience like this helps you open your eyes to the power we have in our hands to change things and to help us define aims for our generation. We cannot sit in the studio all day keeping our eyes shut to the rest of the world, we need to put ourselves out there to have new experiences otherwise architecture is really pointless and rather repetitive. Existentialism is perfectly adapted to Architecture, and, in my opinion, Architecture turns out to be a catalyst for Existentialism. I had been wondering about the irrationality and amorality of this Universe as well as the significance of being human ever since I have read ‘The Stranger’ by Albert Camus, 4 years ago. Now it seems clear that although we live in it at least we, as individuals, made up realities that allow us to walk through life. Architecture plays a big role in this, it helps us advancing and not only teaches us about life itself it also teaches us about ourselves as individuals in a broader context. Our group consisted of young empathetic energetic people with ages ranging from 20 to 70 years old from different areas of interest: Chiara Banchini, the sassiest violinist I have ever met, Leo Banchini, my good friend and visionary with a great love for picking on Portuguese dishes, Silvia Converso, the mother and centre of the group, Jeremy Schuh, our Chef and self-employed organic farmer, Jacopo Corsini, the meat lover with the coolest sense of humour, Louis Mejean and Pierre Cauderay (http://www.aazar.ch/accueil.html), our ‘shower and bath architects’ with a lot of energy and a very decent pair of muscles. We have extra team members that stayed in Lesvos for a month: Julie Melichar and Justine Boillat working in Partnership with other camps amongst which were Moria (UN Camp) and Skala (Lighthouse Camp). Rik, Lulu and our kind workshop Greek Man have done great contributions toward the project. In order to incorporate all the experiences and important topics that connect to architecture I will be composing a series of ‘entries’ that can be published weekly. So keep an eye on the KSA Blog First Entry will come soon! By Luisa Pereira Pires, Stage 3 Categories: All Articles, From our contributors Tags: Architecture, diary, lesvos, refugee crisis, student, volunteer Author: sm950 Upcoming CREAte Open Lecture: Renzo Piano before Renzo Piano The next CREAte Open Lecture will be given by Dr Lorenzo Ciccarelli on Tuesday 1st March at 6PM in MLT1. The competition for the Centre Pompidou in Paris (1971) seems to mark the miraculous beginning of the career of Renzo Piano. On the contrary the Parisian museum is the final act of the long and dense period of formation of the Italian architect. Piano graduated at the Politecnico di Milano in 1964, after working for two years in the office of Franco Albini and Franca Helg. In 1965 Piano established his office in Genoa and started to travel, looking for his personal maestri: Jean Prouvé, Zygmunt Makowski, Frei Otto, Robert Le Ricolais, Louis Kahn. At the same time he began to build a series of experimental structures in prefabricated plastic elements. The lecture will focus on these unknown years of the career of Renzo Piano, especially on the methodological aspects and the structural research developed by the young architect. Aspects and research that are the design foundations of the Centre Pompidou. Lorenzo Ciccarelli graduated in Building Engineering-Architecture in 2011 at the Università Politecnica delle Marche and at the Ecole d’Architecture de Paris-La Villette. In January 2016 he has been awarded with his Ph.D. in Architecture and Construction at the Università di Roma Tor Vergata with a thesis entitled Renzo Piano before Renzo Piano. The formative years 1958-1971. He is a specialist of Italian architecture of the twentieth century and its links with Europe and North America. Since 2013 he collaborates with the Renzo Piano Foundation in Genoa where he contributed to conceive and organize the recent Renzo Piano exhibitions in Padova, Genova and Paris. Categories: KSAP News and Events Tags: Architecture, CREAte, ksa, open lecture, Renzo Piano Author: sm950 Creating an Animation Film Dissertation is considered an important part of Stage 3; students have to choose a topic and explore it, either as an 8000 word essay, or as an Artefact, accompanied by a 4000 word essay. As I have loved films since a young age, it was obvious to me to choose something related to film-making. This gave me the possibility to study in depth the analogies between architecture and films and produce my own film. The fascination for Science-Fiction and my personal love for London, the biggest, and greatest, town on earth, gave me the idea for a short adventure taking place in London, in 2050. Mega-London is a Sci-Fi short-film, about a young boy, Mark, visiting London for the first time in 2050. The city, despite maintaining its British look, has changed its face. New, and gigantic skyscrapers decorate the skyline. Trees are planted wherever possible. The city’s new buses and trains look slick and futuristic. On his first day in the British capital, Mark will discover new places and the meeting with a femme fatale will change him. Bringing Mega-London to life was initially not an easy task. A film about London in the future was a pretentious project. My first intention was to film myself in London. Then, I would have incorporated the sequences with other scenes, where small sets and models would have simulated the new skyscrapers. However, I would have needed too many models and the budget became too high. The second idea was CGI; programmes like 3DS Max and Photoshop make it possible to create some spectacular cityscapes. It was a shame to discover that the time needed to render is excessively long for even a single frame. After a screening, in the school, of the film Akira (my personal 6th vision of the film), as part of ‘Movie Mondays’ hosted by MA Architectural Visualisation students, it became clear to me that traditional animation could have been the key. Drawing is a skill every architect should be familiar with. With hand-drawing, you can create whatever you want; the only limit is your imagination. After a little research, I found Adobe After Effects to be the perfect programme to produce an animation. The decision was taken: Mega-London would have to be an animation film. Learning how to use the programme took roughly less than a week, thanks to the Adobe library and the YouTube tutorials. The drawings were made by tracing over my personal pictures of London. Then, I added new architecture, scanned the drawings, photoshopped them and placedthem on my sequence. Making the entire film took almost four weeks. A very fun part was composing the music and recording my voice. As I wanted everything to be done by myself, music was no exception. After asking the Music Department for permission to use a music room, a synthesizer and some drums, I composed my own soundtrack, taking inspiration from great artists such as Vangelis, Giorgio Moroder, Tangerine Dream and Daft Punk. A friend of mine, Laurent, recorded everything with his laptop and microphone. Joseph Kosinski, director of TRON: Legacy and Oblivion, is an architect who became a film director and a great inspiration for my work. In an interview, he describes the analogy between a director and an architect to be the ability of communication. The architect can have a great vision for a building, but he will never be able to build it, unless he convinces other people that his idea is brilliant and worth the money. At the same time, a director must have a perfect vision too. His film must be engaging. This experience has definitely helped me enhancing both my computer skills and my communication skills. It was a tough and exciting challenge and I would do it again. By Marcello Seminara, Stage 3 To watch the full version of Marcello’s animation, click here. Categories: All Articles, Student Profiles Tags: animation, Architecture, artefact, film, Kent School of Architecture, science fiction, stage3 Author: sm950 CREAte Open Lecture: Dr Lorenzo Ciccarelli Categories: KSAP News and Events Tags: CREAte, Dr Lorenzo Ciccarelli, open lecture Author: sm950 MA Architectural Visualisation students’ exhibition at The Gulbenkian Photography is often considered a complementary field to architecture; the two areas inextricably linked through philosophy, theory and practice. The developments of both forms of art have grown and developed alongside each other. It is a poetic relationship that goes to the roots of photography. It is not coincidental that the first recorded photograph included a view of the form and space of and around architecture. An understanding of the processes of composition, framing and most essentially the control of light are inherent aspects of both disciplines. Through the module AR846: Architectural Photography, the MA Architectural Visualisation programme at the Kent School of Architecture develops students’ critical awareness of the architectural image, allowing them to apply this understanding to their digitally created imagery and visualisations. Studied during the autumn term, the architectural photography module provides students the opportunity to learn both traditional film and digital photographic techniques. The collection of images displayed here is the conclusion of this work. The MA Architectural Visualisation students’ work will be exhibited at The Gulbenkian from 08 February until 31 March 2016. @kent_Sch_Arch #MAArchVis Categories: KSAP News and Events Tags: exhibition, Film Space and Order, Gulbenkian, MA Architectural Visualisation Author: sm950 New book on Urban Climate Challenges in the Tropics Dr. Giridharan Renganathan has written a chapter on ‘Urban Climate Modelling: Challenges in the Tropics’ in the new book on Urban Climate Challenges in the Tropics, an area which has received little attention in the past. This chapter while highlighting the importance of climate modelling in the context of urban planning and design, presents both the energetics of urban tropics and its modelling. It also presents the readily available modelling options for tropics while discussing a fast changing area of research. In summary, the chapter deals with energy and mass exchange in urban areas, tropical climate and characteristics of urban morphology, modelling in the context of urban design, urban canopy layer modelling options, and parameterisation of critical urban variables for modelling. For further information, please click here. Categories: KSAP News and Events Tags: CASE, Dr Giridharan Renganathan Author: sm950	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14288
__label__cc	0.583861	0.416139	Coachella Worker Dies in Fall at Festival Site – Rolling Stone One week before Coachella 2019 begins, a worker constructing a stage at the Indio, California festival site fell to their death. Coachella organizers Goldenvoice said in a statement Saturday, “Today, Goldenvoice lost a colleague, a friend, a family member. Our friend fell while working on a festival stage. It is with heavy hearts and tremendous difficulty that we confirm his passing. He has been with our team for twenty years in the desert and was doing what he loved. He was a hard-working and loving person that cared deeply about his team. As our lead rigger, he was responsible for the countless incredible shows that have been put on at the festival. We will miss him dearly.” The Indio Police Department confirmed the accident to the Desert Sun, adding that the still-unnamed worker in the staging area of the festival grounds fell and died at the scene. Indio police are investigating the incident. The Riverside County Fire Department tweeted soon after the accident that someone suffered a “traumatic injury” after they “fell from a roof and perished at the scene.” TMZ reported that eyewitnesses saw the worker, a man who was climbing the stage scaffolding, fall approximately 60 feet, and that a safety harness was not attached at the time of the accident; it’s unclear whether the worker was wearing a safety harness when the incident occurred. [Daniel Kreps/Rolling Stone – original article] [Picture – Rolling Stone/Zach Cordner/Invision/AP/REX/Shutterstock] Vanessa Delaney2019-04-11T12:27:19+00:00April 16th, 2019\|News\| R & S Conference – Cristiano Giavedoni confirmed speaker Shocking moment tsunami rips through stage as band Seventeen performs at Indonesian beach resort They brought the house down… and the stage! Dancers crash through the floor as they enthusiastically celebrate the end of their performance in Brazil Drones: An accident from the past – Enrique Iglesias injured during mid-performance drone accident How has the design of theatre buildings changed over time? Drone registration made compulsory as UK scheme launches	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14291
__label__cc	0.710284	0.289716	IDFA is an acronym that stands for “ID (or identifier) for advertisers.” IDFA is the standard which Apple adopted that allows mobile advertising networks to track users and serve them targeted ads. Although the IDFA is unique to each iOS device, iOS users have the ability to reset their IDFA as well as control settings which grant more or less access to advertisers. IDFA vs UDID Prior to the release of iOS 6, Apple allowed developers access to a Unique Device Identifier, UDID, which allowed developers to track a user across multiple apps. Although the UDID provided immense value in properly tracking advertisements and authenticating across multiple apps, third-party app softwares started harvesting these UDIDs into databases and, in some cases, selling them. The U.S. Congress ultimately decided that this violated a person’s right to privacy, and Apple ultimately had to restrict app access to the device’s UDID. With the death of the UDID came the creation of the IDFA. IDFA is similar to the UDID with a few small exceptions: A user has the right to reset their IDFA at any time A user can opt out of ad tracking, which disables the use of an IDFA from that device This allows device users to have more control over how app activity is being tracked, and gives them the option to opt out if they so please. Even with these precautions, Apple still audits app submissions to check for legal IDFA usage. It is important that you adhere to the guidelines for submitting a mobile app that uses IDFAs to the App Store. Serve Advertisements within the App If your app ever displays an ad to a customer, you should check this box. In this case, the IDFA is necessary to track which users interact with those ads in order to track how well they convert in the app that is funding the ads. Attribute this App Installation to a Previously Served Advertisement This situation is a bit trickier. When your app uses an IDFA to identify an install to its original source, this option pertains to you. If your mobile app uses a third party service like Branch that uses the IDFA to attribute app installs, you should select this box. Attribute an Action Taken within this App to a Previously Served Advertisement If you selected the box above, there is a good chance you should select this option. The only difference is if you track in-app conversions beyond just installs. If you use Branch, you must select this option. iOS Limited Ad Tracking This last box ensures that you adhere to Limited Ad Tracking. This means that when you determine that a user has opted out of tracking, you turn off all ad tracking for that user. If a user opts out in iOS 10 and above, they will show as having an IDFA with all zeros, so this should never be an issue. Branch and most other attribution providers should adhere to this rule. Hopefully by now, you have a better understanding of what each of these options mean and why they exist.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14297
__label__wiki	0.669295	0.669295	News & Views‌ UNIBusiness finishes 3rd in Private Business Valuation Challenge UNIBusiness Editor Every Monday night for five weeks in the fall, a team of UNIBusiness students gathered with Brett Olsen, assistant professor of finance, for up two hours. The time was spent preparing and crafting a presentation for the upcoming Private Business Valuation Challenge, an international competition that offers a unique opportunity for students to assess the value of public and private companies. It was a tough task, considering the students were putting in work on top of their daily academic requirements, but it soon paid off. At the Private Business Valuation Challenge, held by Georgia State University and Business Valuation Resources in Atlanta on Nov. 22-23, the UNIBusiness team of Adam Schmidt, Alex Smith, Blake Smith and Levi Werkman finished in third place against some of the nation’s most esteemed schools. “Finance students from UNI can stand toe to toe with any university out there, large and small,” Olsen said. “It is a rigorous competition, testing students' ability in the areas of finance but also communication.” The case used in the competition was from 2012, so students were tasked with finding data before that date. They evaluated a variety of factors when assessing the company, including management exit strategies, mergers and acquisitions and valuation industry best practices. Schmidt (Finance and Business Management, ’20), originally from DeWitt, Iowa, said much of the preparation time was spent finding data from 2012 or before. From there, the team put together a 30-minute presentation to support their valuation decision in front of a panel of expert judges. For Schmidt, the competition was similar to the Advanced Financial Management Class he took as a finance major. But this case took things a little bit further. “[In the class], we are given a case and have to use specific methods, then present our findings to the class,” Schmidt said. “During the competition, we had a mentor that helped us answer any questions that we had and guided us toward how people in the industry do things. We had a lot more in-depth conversations about things we learned previously in class, and applying it to a real world case was extremely beneficial.” The team also learned how big of a need there is in the business valuation space. Schmidt said firms, particularly smaller companies, need graduates in the business valuation space. Turnover is high, especially in places like Atlanta, because after a few years, people are recruited by bigger firms. “Participating in competitions like this one is a great way to get your foot in the door, if this is an area you want to pursue after graduation,” Schmidt said. UNIBusiness thanks the those who donate to the Dean's Fund for Excellence. Funds raised help pay for student organization competitions, global experiences and professional credential education. UNIBusiness News UNIBusiness uses a team of writers to conceptualize, develop and share stories and updates with the public. If you have a story idea, an update on an alum or just want to say 'Hi', please email unibusiness.editor@uni.edu. Ethical View Faculty View	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14311
__label__cc	0.543545	0.456455	← Games People Play On Cowtan and Way (2013) “Coverage bias in the HadCRUT4 temperature series and its impact on recent temperature trends” → Reality is Absent from Michael Mann’s Activist Article on Typhoon Haiyan Posted on November 18, 2013 by Bob Tisdale UPDATE: I’ve corrected a few typos that carried over into two of the graphs and, at the end, I’ve added a model-data comparison of the sea surface temperature anomalies for the Indian and Pacific Ocean subset. A week after typhoon Haiyan stormed through the Philippines, the website EcoWatch ran an article by Michael Mann. The blog post was titled Super Typhoon Haiyan: Realities of a Warmed World and Need for Immediate Climate Action. Michael Mann began with a commendable request for Philippine Red Cross Donations. But after that, once again, we have an activist celebrity—one who masquerades as a climate scientist—using the misfortunes of others in efforts to advance a political agenda. And to make the effort even more futile on Mann’s part, much of the evidence he presented has no basis in reality. Mann writes: For now, super storms are still rare. However, models suggest more frequent and intense storms in a warmed world. A number of scientists suspect that certain recent storms like Sandy and Haiyan exhibited characteristics outside the range of natural variation. Unfortunately, deadly tropical cyclones (typhoons and hurricanes) have existed in the past and they will exist in the future. Steve Goddard has had numerous blog posts recently at RealScience about tropical cyclones, including a few with a link to the WeatherUnderground webpage that lists the 35 Deadliest Tropical Cyclones in History. Also, Paul Homewood of NotALotOf PeopleKnowThat plotted the number of tropical cyclones listed on the Wikipedia webpage here, with the same intensity as typhoon Haiyan (based on barometric pressure). See my Figure 1, which is from Paul’s post Most Intense Typhoons On The Decline. The peer-reviewed paper linked by Mann was Emanuel (2013) Downscaling CMIP5 climate models shows increased tropical cyclone activity over the 21st century. It’s obviously a climate model-based study. Sea surface temperatures are one of the primary ingredients of the tropical cyclone recipe, and we’ve illustrated and discussed in numerous posts that climate models show no skill at being able to simulate sea surface temperatures, so there’s no reason to believe their prognostications. Additionally, using a table prepared by Australia’s BOM (Bureau of Meteorology), NOAA indicates on their Weather Impacts of ENSO webpage that the number of tropical cyclones in the northwest tropical Pacific is influenced by El Niño and La Niña events. But climate models cannot simulate the basic processes of El Niño or La Niña events (see Guilyardi et al (2009) and Bellenger et al (2013)), so the study by Kerry Emanuel has little to no merit. For those new to this discussion, let me once again quote a key sentence from Guilyardi et al (2009). Note: ENSO (El Niño-Southern Oscillation) in the following is a commonly used acronym for El Niño and La Niña: Because ENSO is the dominant mode of climate variability at interannual time scales, the lack of consistency in the model predictions of the response of ENSO to global warming currently limits our confidence in using these predictions to address adaptive societal concerns, such as regional impacts or extremes (Joseph and Nigam 2006; Power et al. 2006). Michael Mann may believe that “A number of scientists suspect that certain recent storms like Sandy and Haiyan exhibited characteristics outside the range of natural variation”, but the IPCC (the political body that helped make him an eco-celebrity) contradicts the “number of scientists”. The IPCC states very clearly on page 7 of 165 of Chapter 2 of their 5th Assessment Report (their boldface): Confidence remains low for long-term (centennial) changes in tropical cyclone activity, after accounting for past changes in observing capabilities. Additionally, the IPCC continues on page 62: Current datasets indicate no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency over the past century and it remains uncertain whether any reported long-term increases in tropical cyclone frequency are robust, after accounting for past changes in observing capabilities (Knutson et al., 2010). Moving on, Michael Mann writes: Although exact measurements are hard to come by (there were no flights in the Western Pacific to provide direct measurements) satellite images along with readings of ocean heat seem to suggest that Haiyan was an unnaturally powerful storm. The science is hinting that this storm may not have been so catastrophic in a world without warming. Unnaturally? Oy vey. Mann’s link in that paragraph is to a blog post by Greg Laden Why Was Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda So Powerful, and is this a trend? In the following blog posts, we’ve addressed many of the points Greg Laden attempted to make: Typhoon Haiyan Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies for Early Storm Track Games People Play(WattsUpWithThat Cross Post) Are Greg Laden’s Reading Comprehension Skills at an All-Time Low? Tropical Cyclone Heat Potential – It’s All in the Presentation(WattsUpWithThat Cross Post) Greg Laden included a graph here reported to be from Kerry Emanuel’s 2005 paper Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years. I found that graph quite curious. If we look at sea surface temperature trend map of the Indian and Pacific Oceans from 1994 to 2012, Figure 2, we can see little warming in the northwest equatorial Pacific. Two decades is a reasonable amount of time. The sea surface temperature dataset, HADISST, is the same date presented in that paper. Emanuel’s graph included the much-smoothed sea surface temperature anomalies for the region bordered by the coordinates of 5N-15N, 130E-180. I’ve highlighted that region on the map. An ENSO-related spatial pattern (what some would call a Pacific Decadal Oscillation-related pattern) is visible in the map. As shown, there is no warming illustrated in the region used by Kerry Emanuel in his 2005 paper for the period of 1994 to 2012, the last 19 years. Why start the data in 1994? If we extend the trend map into years earlier than 1994, then the trends are being influenced by the residual cooling effects of the aerosols spewed into the stratosphere by the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo. Figure 3 illustrates the sea surface temperature anomalies for that region in the northwest tropical Pacific for the period of January 1994 to August 2013. As shown, the warming rate is a minuscule 13 one-thousandths of a deg C per decade. Or better said, the sea surface temperatures show little to no warming in that region for the past 20 years. Let’s extend the HADISST-based sea surface temperature data out to the entire region shown in Figure 2. That is, we’ll look at the sea surface temperature anomalies for the Indian and Pacific Oceans, from pole to pole, for the period of January 1994 to August 2013. The warming rate is even lower, at 6 one-thousandths of a deg C per decade. It’s tough to claim, as Michael Mann did, that “The science is hinting that this storm may not have been so catastrophic in a world without warming,” when the data indicate the sea surface temperatures for the Indian or Pacific Oceans have not warmed in 2 decades. Maybe Michael Mann should check data before he makes claims that aren’t supported by data. That way he wouldn’t look so foolish when someone, like me, calls his bluff. Note: Figure 4 uses the same coordinates and sea surface temperature dataset as the model-data comparison here, which was included in the post A Blog Memo to Kevin Trenberth – NCAR. According to the climate models used by the IPCC for their 4th Assessment Report, the sea surface temperatures of the Indian and Pacific Oceans should have warmed 0.31 deg C over that time period…if they were warmed by manmade greenhouse gases. I would have liked to update that model-data comparison for this post, using the models prepared for the IPCC’s 5th Assessment Report. Unfortunately, there is a temporary glitch at the KNMI Climate Explorer, and the multi-model mean of the CMIP5 simulations of sea surface temperatures are presently not available. Rest assured, though, that there would not have been an improvement with the CMIP5 models. See the update at the end of the post. Michael Mann continues on that tack with: The unusually deep, unusually warm pool of water that provided the initial fuel is unlikely to have existed in a world without warming. The not “unusually deep,” not “unusually warm pool of water” is a product of the trade winds that blow across the tropical Pacific. The warm water “piles up” against the land masses in the western tropical Pacific. As a result, warm water accumulates there to depths of about 300 meters. The region is known by a number of names, including the West Pacific Warm Pool and the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool. See Mehta and Mehta Natural decadal-multidecadal variability of the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool and its impacts on global climate. That warm water, created by sunlight, is occasionally released from below the surface of the western tropical Pacific by El Niño events. There is nothing unusual about the processes that drive El Niño and La Niña events. Additionally, to counter Michael Mann’s claims of “unusually deep, unusually warm pool of water” we have the recent 2013 paleoclimatological paper Pacific Ocean Heat Content During the Past 10,000 Years by Rosenthal et al. It indicates that ocean heat in the Pacific was warmer in centuries past than it is today. That paper made the rounds through the blogosphere. Michael Mann even commented on it in his post at EcoWatch titled Pacific Ocean Warming at Fastest Rate in 10,000 Years so he understands that there are reconstructions that counter his claims. Refer also to Steve McIntyre’s post here. To put things in perspective, Steve spliced NODC data onto the end of one of the graphs by Rosenthal et al (2013). See my Figure 5. Steve’s caption reads: Figure 1. Annotation of Rosenthal Figure 3B. Original caption: “Compiled IWT anomalies based on Indonesian records spanning the ~500- to 900-m water depth (for individual records, see fig. S7). The shaded band represents +-1 SD. Red- OHC Pacific 0-700m heat content converted to temperature using the 0-700m Pacific mass shown in the Rosenthal SI. The values are consistent with 0-700m temperature anomaly values at NOAA http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/3M_HEAT_CONTENT/index3.html. In my annotation of their Figure 3B shown above, I’ve shown two trend lines, each of which more or less corresponds to the trends reported on lines 2 and 3 of Table S3: a trend of -0.15 deg C/century from 1100-1700 and a trend of 0.09 deg C/century from 1600-1950. Steve also writes about that illustration: On the far right, I’ve plotted Pacific ocean heat content, converted to deg C anomaly (red), together with its trend line. The two solid yellow lines show trend lines for 1100-1700 AD and 1600-1950 AD, two of the three periods considered in Rosenthal Table S4. It is true that the rate of change over the past 55 years is somewhat higher than the trend over 1600-1950, but it is not “15 times higher”. While I don’t think that one can safely reify the fluctuations in Rosenthal’s IWT reconstructions, on the other hand, these fluctuations appear to me to preclude any strong conclusions that the relatively modest increase is unprecedented. But the best counter to the claims that the recent warming is the “fastest in 10,000 years” comes from one of the authors interviewed by Andy Revkin. See the NewYorkTimes blog here and the YouTube video here. Andy Revkin asks the authors if they could rule out whether there were rapid changes in the past. Co-author Brad Linsley replies in part at about the 4-minute mark. You could say that we probably have century-scale resolution at best. It’s possible that the sediments just didn’t record similar warmings in the past. Let’s put that in perspective. The NODC’s ocean heat content data for the depths of 0-700 meters and 0-2000 meters only extends back in time to 1955, or a little less than 60 years, but the resolution of the Rosenthal et al is “century scale”. Thus Brad Linsley’s statement, “It’s possible that the sediments just didn’t record similar warmings in the past.” There’s little chance they’d even notice a warming rate that was similar to the one presented by the NODC data for 60 years. In his post Super Typhoon Haiyan: Realities of a Warmed World and Need for Immediate Climate Action, Mann gives a short spiel about global warming: But herein lies the crux—we no longer live in a world without warming. Given that 1985 was the last year with temperatures below the 20th century average, and 2000-2010 was the hottest decade on record, it has become impossible to say for certain that any given storm is free from the influence of our warmed world. We’ve illustrated and discussed in numerous blog posts for almost 5 years that ocean heat content data and satellite-era sea surface temperature records indicate the warming of the global oceans occurred via natural processes, not from increased emissions of manmade greenhouse gases. There’s no reason to repeat that discussion again here. If this subject is new to you, see the illustrated essay “The Manmade Global Warming Challenge” (42MB). Mann goes on to talk about sea level rise: While contrarians may dislike it when activists or actors like George Clooney point out the linkage between climate change and extreme weather, the bottom line is this: climate change makes tropical storms more damaging. Not only through increased wind speed and rainfall, but most notably through rising sea levels. This means greater damage and loss of property and life. As I noted in my recent book Climate Models Fail: Sea levels have climbed 100 to 120 meters (about 330 to 390 feet) since the end of the last ice age, and they were also 4 to 8 meters (13 to 26 feet) higher during the Eemian (the last interglacial period) than they are today. (Refer to the press release for the 2013 paper by Dahl-Jensen, et al. “Eemian Interglacial Reconstructed From a Greenland Folded Ice Core”.) Whether or not we curtail greenhouse gas emissions (assuming they significantly affect climate at all), if surface temperatures remain where they are (or even if they resume warming, or if surface temperatures were to cool a little in upcoming decades), sea levels will likely continue to rise. Refer to Roger Pielke, Jr.’s post “How Much Sea Level Rise Would be Avoided by Aggressive CO2 Reductions?” It’s very possible, before the end of the Holocene (the current interglacial), that sea levels could reach the heights seen during the Eemian. Some readers might believe it’s not a matter of if sea levels will reach that height; it’s a matter of when. After quoting the delegate from the Philippines at this year’s United Nations Climate Talks in Poland, Michael Mann then calls for action: Let that call echo, and be heard in response to those who would insist on waiting for the next storm to take action. But, of course, Michael Man offers no course of action. If Michael Mann is suggesting that reductions in emissions of manmade greenhouse gases will stop cyclones like Haiyan from reoccurring and also end the rise in global sea levels, then–how can I put this nicely?–he’s delusional. If Michael Mann is suggesting the people of the Philippines create a typhoon warning system and an enforced plan that relocates residents from low-lying areas and that provides adequate shelter from the impacts of the storm, then, I believe, all would agree. Unfortunately, I believe Michael Mann has greenhouse gases in mind. UPDATE: KNMI has fixed the bug in the Climate Explorer. (Thanks, Camiel.) Figure 6 is a model-data comparison of the sea surface temperature anomalies for the Indian and Pacific Ocean since 1994. The coordinates used are 90S-90N, 20E-80W. That region represents about 70% of the surface of the global oceans. The graph includes the multi-model ensemble mean of the CMIP5-archived models, which were used by the IPCC for their 5th Assessment Report. They simulated a virtual warming rate for that colossal region of 0.186 deg C/decade, or a total warming of more than 0.35 deg C since 1994. But the satellite-enhanced, HADISST-based sea surface temperatures of the real Indian and Pacific Oceans have shown little to no warming for almost 2 decades. Maybe the climate scientists who believe manmade greenhouse gas-induced warming contribute to typhoons are looking at model outputs and not observations-based data. This entry was posted in CAGW Proponent Arguments, Typhoons. Bookmark the permalink. 11 Responses to Reality is Absent from Michael Mann’s Activist Article on Typhoon Haiyan John in Oz says: What makes Mann, a paleo-hobgoblinist, an authority on typhoons? Minor typo ‘ a typhoon warming system’ should, I think, be ‘a typhoon warning system’ in the last para. tomwys says: Words like “…the science is hinting…” and “…seem to suggest…” and “A number of scientists…” – all without quantification, are indicative of bovine fecal material. Well done, Bob! Bob Tisdale says: John in Oz, thanks for the typo alert. Corrected. I cannot see anywhere to post hints to you but this article appears to meet the ‘Reality is missing’ meme of this post. http://www.watoday.com.au/environment/weather/fiercer-el-nino-weather-ahead-20131118-2xrg5.html The paper could be this one (abstract only): (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v488/n7411/full/nature11358.html). They seem to be arguing that they know what triggers la Ninas and el Ninos which, from my reading of your books, is still an unknown. They also seem to be describing mechanisms which you have explained over the years but this is new ‘research’. Would love for you to comment if you can get a copy of it. John in Oz: I believe the paper is Santoso et al (2013) “Late-twentieth-century emergence of the El Niño propagation asymmetry and future projections” http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature12683.html If the study had been based only on data, it might have been relevant. But they chose to include models, which means we can discard the study outright as speculation. Climate models can’t simulate basic ENSO processes. Yup, you’re right. In the article you linked, they claim to have discovered something new, when, in fact, the strengthening of the equatorial counter current (flows west to east) during an El Nino is a response to the weakening of the trade winds, which are initiated by westerly wind bursts (and there are multiple weather events that cause westerly wind bursts). Basically, it’s old news, packaged differently, with computer models thrown in to add “credibility”, when, in reality, adding the models destroys the paper. Bob – thanks for pointing out the correct paper re ENSO. While I am only an interested observer in these matters, the language of the abstract sounds very much like they are pushing the CAGW wheelbarrow. While ENSO is a natural occurrence, they refer to the effects found during La Nina and El Nino as ‘anomalous’ whereas this word (generally) means: a·nom·a·lous ( -n m -l s). adj. 1. Deviating from the normal or common order, form, or rule. They also state: “In contrast, SST anomalies propagate eastwards during extreme El Niño events, prominently in the post-1976 period, spurring unusual weather events worldwide with costly consequences as if strong El Ninos had never occurred prior to 1976, the time after which Man is responsible for all things bad weather-wise. This (from their models): we find a doubling in the occurrences of El Niño events that feature prominent eastward propagation characteristics in a warmer world. Our analysis thus suggests that more frequent emergence of propagation asymmetry will be an indication of the Earth’s warming climate. sounds like the usual “we assumed El Ninos would get worse in a warming world so programmed that into the models and, lo and behold, the models proved us right. Send more money for further research and all of you lot stop your wicked, evil, world-destroying ways.” Thanks for your sterling work. Pingback: Open Letter to Lewis Black and George Clooney \| Bob Tisdale – Climate Observations Pingback: Open Letter to Lewis Black and George Clooney \| Watts Up With That? nevket240 says: A bit on topic. I cannot believe this ‘mob’ at the ABC allowed this to be published. http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2013/12/13/3911244.htm?site=northqld Pingback: Open Letter to the Executive Producers of YEARS of LIVING DANGEROUSLY \| Bob Tisdale – Climate Observations Pingback: Open Letter to the Executive Producers of YEARS of LIVING DANGEROUSLY \| Watts Up With That?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14312
__label__wiki	0.532471	0.532471	Category: Literary Prizes Young Writer of the Year Award Ceremony It was great to be back at the London Library for last night’s Young Writer of the Year Award prize-giving ceremony. I got to meet Anne Cater (Random Things through my Letterbox) from the shadow panel, who’s coordinated a few blog tours I’ve participated in, as well as Ova Ceren (Excuse My Reading). It was also good to see shadow panelist Linda (Linda’s Book Bag) again and hang out with Clare (A Little Blog of Books), also on the shadow panel in my year, and Eric (Lonesome Reader), who seems to get around to every London literary event. In case you haven’t heard, the shadow panel chose Salt Slow by Julia Armfield as their very deserving winner, but the official winner was Raymond Antrobus for his poetry collection The Perseverance. In all honesty, I’d given no thought to the possibility of it winning, mostly because Antrobus has already won several major prizes for the book, including this year’s £30,000 Rathbones Folio Prize (I reviewed it for the Prize’s blog tour). Now, there’s no rule saying you can’t win multiple prizes for the same book, but what struck me strangely about this case is that Kate Clanchy was a judge for both the Folio Prize and the Young Writer Award. Antrobus seemed genuinely taken aback by his win and gave a very gracious speech in which he said that he looked forward to all the shortlistees contributing to the canon of English literature. He was quickly whisked away for a photo shoot, so I didn’t get a chance to congratulate him or have my book signed, but I did get to meet Julia Armfield and Yara Rodrigues Fowler and get their autographs. Some interesting statistics for you: in three of the past four years the shadow panel has chosen a short story collection as its winner (and they say no one likes short stories these days!). In none of those four years did the shadow panel correctly predict the official winner – so, gosh, is it the kiss of death to be the shadow panel winner?! In the official press release, chair of judges and Sunday Times literary editor Andrew Holgate writes that The Perseverance is “both very personal and immensely resonant. The result is a memoir in verse very, very affecting and fresh.” Poet Kate Clanchy adds, “we wanted to find a writer who both speaks for now and who we were confident would continue to produce valuable, central work. … it was the humanity of the book, its tempered kindness, and the commitment not just to recognising difference but to the difficult act of forgiveness that made us confident we had found a winner for this extraordinary year.” Also present at the ceremony were Sarah Moss (who teaches at the University of Warwick, the Award’s new co-sponsor) and Katya Taylor. I could have sworn I spotted Deborah Levy, too, but after conferring with other book bloggers we decided it was just someone who looked a lot like her. In any event, it was lovely to see London all lit up with Christmas lights and to spend a couple of hours celebrating up-and-coming writing talent. (And I just managed to catch the last train home and avoid a rail replacement bus nightmare.) Looking forward to next year already! Andrew Holgate Julia Armfield Kate Clanchy London Library Rathbones Folio Prize Raymond Antrobus Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award Yara Rodrigues Fowler Young Writer of the Year Award: Shortlist Reviews and Predictions Being on the shadow panel for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award was a bookish highlight of 2017 for me. I’m pleased for this year’s shadow panelists, a couple of whom are blogging friends (one I’ve met IRL), to have had the same opportunity, and I look forward to attending the prize ceremony at the London Library on December 5th. I happened to have already read two of the shortlisted titles, the poetry collection The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus and the debut novel Stubborn Archivist by Yara Rodrigues Fowler, which was one of my specific wishes/predictions. The kind folk of FMcM Associates sent me the other two shortlisted books, a short story collection and another debut novel, for blog reviews so that I could follow along with the shadow panel’s deliberations. Salt Slow by Julia Armfield (2019) These nine short stories are steeped in myth and magic, but often have a realistic shell. Only gradually do the fantastical or dystopian elements emerge, with the final paragraph delivering a delicious surprise. For instance, the narrator of “Mantis” attends a Catholic girls’ school and is caught up in a typical cycle of self-loathing and obsessing over boys. It’s only at the very end that we realize her extreme skin condition is actually a metamorphosis that enables her to protect herself. The settings are split between the city and the seaside; the perspective is divided almost perfectly down the middle between the first and third person. The body is a site of transformation, or a source of grotesque relics, as in “The Collectables,” in which a PhD student starts amassing body parts she could only have acquired via grave-robbing. Two favorites for me were “Formerly Feral,” in which a 13-year-old girl acquires a wolf as a stepsister and increasingly starts to resemble her; and the final, title story, a post-apocalyptic one in which a man and a pregnant woman are alone in a fishing boat, floating above a drowned world and living as if outside of time. This one is really rather terrifying. I also liked “Cassandra After,” in which a dead girlfriend comes back – it reminded me of Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride, which I’m currently reading for #MARM. “Stop Your Women’s Ears with Wax,” about a girl group experiencing Beatles-level fandom on a tour of the UK, felt like the odd one out to me in this collection. Armfield’s prose is punchy, with invented verbs and condensed descriptions that just plain work: “Jenny had taken to poltergeisting round the house”; “skin like fork-clawed cottage cheese,” “the lobster shells gleam a slick vermilion” and “The sky is gory with stars.” There’s no shortage of feminist fantasy stories out there nowadays – Aimee Bender, Kelly Link, Carmen Maria Machado and Karen Russell are just a few others working in this vein – but the writing in Salt Slow really grabbed me even when the plots didn’t. I’ll be following Armfield’s career with interest. Testament by Kim Sherwood (2018) Eva Butler is a 24-year-old MA student specializing in documentary filmmaking. She is a live-in carer for her grandfather, the painter Joseph Silk (real name: József Zyyad), in his Fitzroy Park home. When Silk dies early on in the book, she realizes that she knows next to nothing about his past in Hungary. Learning that he wrote a testament about his Second World War experiences for the Jewish Museum in Berlin, she goes at once to read it and is distressed at what she finds. With the help of Felix, the museum’s curator, who did his PhD on Silk’s work, she travels to Budapest to track down the truth about her family. Sherwood alternates between Eva’s quest and a recreation of József’s time in wartorn Europe. Cleverly, she renders the past sections more immediate by writing them in the present tense, whereas Eva’s first-person narrative is in the past tense. Although József escaped the worst of the Holocaust by being sentenced to forced labor instead of going to a concentration camp, his brother László and their friend Zuzka were in Theresienstadt, so readers get a more complete picture of the Jewish experience at the time. All three wind up in the Lake District after the war, rebuilding their lives and making decisions that will affect future generations. It’s almost impossible to write anything new about the Holocaust these days, and overfamiliarity was certainly a roadblock for me here. I was especially reminded of Julie Orringer’s The Invisible Bridge, what with its focus on the Hungarian Jewish experience. However, I did appreciate the way Sherwood draws on her family history – her grandmother is a Hungarian Holocaust survivor – to consider how trauma still affects the second and third generation. This certainly doesn’t feel like a debut novel. It’s highly readable, and the emotional power of the story cannot be denied. The Young Writer of the Year Award is great for highlighting books that risk being overlooked: in a year dominated by The Testaments, poor Testament was otherwise likely to sink without notice. Note: “Testament” is also the title of the poem written by Sherwood’s great-grandfather that she recited at her grandfather’s funeral – just as Eva does in the novel. It opens this Telegraph essay (paywalled, but reprinted in the paperback of Testament) that Sherwood wrote about her family history. General thoughts and predictions: Any of these books would be a worthy winner. However, as Raymond Antrobus has already won this year’s £30,000 Rathbones Folio Prize as well as the 2018 Geoffrey Dearmer Award from the Poetry Society, The Perseverance has had sufficient recognition – plus it’s a woman’s turn. Testament is accomplished, and likely to hold the widest appeal, but it strikes me as the safe choice. Salt Slow would be an edgier selection, and feels quite timely and fresh. But Stubborn Archivist has stuck with me since I reviewed it in March. I called it “Knausgaard for the Sally Rooney generation” and wrote that “the last book to have struck me as truly ‘novel’ in the same way was Lincoln in the Bardo.” From a glance at the shadow panel’s reviews thus far, I fear it may prove too divisive for them, though. Based on my gut instincts and a bit of canny thinking about the shadow panelists and judges, here are my predictions: Shadow Panel: What they will pick: Testament [but they might surprise me and go with Salt Slow or Stubborn Archivist] What they should pick: Salt Slow Official Judging Panel: What they will pick: Stubborn Archivist [but they might surprise me and go with Salt Slow] What they should pick: Stubborn Archivist I understand that the shadow panel is meeting today for their in-person deliberations. I wish them luck! Their pick will be announced on the 28th. I’ll be intrigued to see which book they select, and how it compares with the official winner on December 5th. Have you read anything from this year’s shortlist? Aimee Bender FMcM Associates Kim Sherwood Theresienstadt Booker Prize and Birthday Goings-On The Booker Prize was announced last night in a live feed I watched over a glass of wine between my yoga class and birthday dessert. As chair of judges Peter Florence recapped each book, he said the most, and most effusively, about Ducks, Newburyport, so I thought Ellmann had it in the bag. Then, when it became clear there would be joint winners, I thought maybe Ellmann and Evaristo would share the Prize. But that’s not how things panned out… I don’t have much to add to the conversation after yesterday’s Twitter storm; I remain entirely uninterested in reading The Testaments, an unnecessary sequel and, by all accounts, subpar Atwood work that didn’t need more buzz than it’s already attracted. Atwood won the Booker in 2000 for a brilliant novel, The Blind Assassin, one of my absolute favorites, and while she’s enough of a legend to be among the few authors to have won the Prize twice (along with Peter Carey, J.M. Coetzee and Hilary Mantel), maybe not for this book? I am, however, delighted for Evaristo. If you haven’t yet picked up Girl, Woman, Other, I’d urge you to give it a try. I’m 1/3 into it now. Through a giveaway on Eric’s blog I won a copy plus two tickets to see Evaristo in conversation with Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (author of Manchester Happened, which I’ll be covering for the Ake Book Festival blog tour later this month) at the London Literature Festival on the 20th, but I couldn’t wait until I pick up my copy from the Southbank Centre so have been reading a library copy in the meantime. You probably know that Girl, Woman, Other is a linked short story collection about 12 characters (mostly Black women) navigating twentieth-century and contemporary Britain, balancing external and internal expectations and different interpretations of feminism to build lives of their own. I’ve been surprised by the structure and style, however. It’s in four long chapters, each divided between three characters. These are almost like musical suites, with the three stories interlocking (I’m not in far enough to know if there is overlap between the suites). The prose is mostly uncapitalized and unpunctuated, with only a handful of full stops closing sections. This makes it more like poetry: a wry, radical stream of consciousness. I’d compare it, content-wise, to Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi and The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer. This is the third tie in Booker history – though after a 1992 tie the rules were changed so that it shouldn’t have happened again. As Gaby Wood, literary director of the Booker Prize Foundation, puts it, “The thinking was it just doesn’t work—it sort of detracts attention from both, rather than drawing attention to either.” So while it’s wonderful that Evaristo is the first Black woman to win the Booker, there is something almost sinister about the fact that, due to the tie, she gets just £25,000 in prize money rather than the full £50,000. However, both she and Atwood were extremely graceful in their acceptance speeches (Atwood sheepish and apologetic at the same time), so I will try to be as well. It’s a turn-up for the books, anyway! Yesterday was also my 36th birthday. A dismally wet Monday may not be ideal for a birthday, but I’d had the whole previous weekend for celebrating so can’t really complain. Saturday was a very Newbury day of volunteer gardening in the drizzle; an excellent lunch at Henry & Joe’s, a reasonably new restaurant with small plates of seasonal food, exquisitely presented – on the way to Michelin star quality; an early evening showing of Downton Abbey in the intimate upstairs theatre at the Corn Exchange; and a wander around the Fire Garden art installation, which features giant candles and automata. On Sunday I helped out at a fun and chaotic pet blessing service at church, followed by cake, presents and a homemade feast. Weimaraner eyes parrot ‘The dog ate my service sheet…’ One of the best parts of preparing for my birthday is finding recipes for my husband to make for me. This year I picked a Chocolate Orange Truffle Cake from Perfect Chocolate Desserts (which includes photographs of every step), a veganized Chicken Jackfruit Mole with Red Cabbage Slaw and flatbreads from Pip & Nut: The Nut Butter Cookbook, and A Rum of One’s Own (aka hot buttered rum) from the Tequila Mockingbird literary cocktails book. All amazingly rich and delicious; by nightcap time, I could only manage a sip or two of the rum. I gave myself the Monday off work (the nice thing about being a freelancer, even if I don’t get paid) and spent much of it reading in comfy spots around the house and looking out at the rain. I also picked out a pile of books I’ve been meaning to reread, but only got around to starting the Thomas. I hadn’t read it since it came out in 2006 yet I remember it so well, even particular phrasing. It was one of the first memoirs to make a really big impression on me. Birthday reading stack Imminent rereading stack It won’t surprise you that my wish list contained only books this year, so with the exception of a mug mat, puffin socks and notecards, a couple of CDs, some chocolate and the perfect pin badge (“Bookish”), I received 14 books as presents: two novels and the rest nonfiction, mostly memoirs. I get much of my fiction from the library or from NetGalley/Edelweiss (particularly the American releases I can’t find elsewhere), but there are lots of nonfiction authors whose work I can’t find other than secondhand. I know where I’ll start with this pile: the Houston and McCracken are 2019 releases, so I want to read them before the end of the year in case they make a Best Of list. After that, I’ll let whimsy be my guide. A great haul! Any additional Booker thoughts? What caught your eye from my birthday stacks? Abigail Thomas Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi linked short stories Lucy Ellmann Meg Wolitzer Peter Florence Yaa Gyasi My (Not the) Booker Prize Reading A week from today, on the 14th (my birthday, as well as Susan’s – be sure to wish her a happy one!), this year’s Booker Prize will be announced. The Prize’s longlist didn’t contain much that piqued my interest this time around; I read one book from it and didn’t get on with it well at all, and I also DNFed another three. Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson Winterson does her darndest to write like Ali Smith here (no speech marks, short chapters and sections, random pop culture references). Cross Smith’s Seasons quartet with the vague aims of the Hogarth Shakespeare project and Margaret Atwood’s The Heart Goes Last and you get this odd jumble of a novel that tries to combine the themes and composition of Frankenstein with the modern possibilities of transcending bodily limitations. Her contemporary narrator is Ry Shelley, a transgender doctor sponsored by the Wellcome Trust who supplies researcher Victor Stein with body parts for his experiments in Manchester. In Memphis for a tech expo, Ry meets Ron Lord, a tactless purveyor of sexbots. Their interactions alternate with chapters narrated by Mary Shelley in the 1810s; I found this strand much more engaging and original, perhaps because I haven’t read that much about Shelley and her milieu, whereas it feels like I’ve read a lot about machine intelligence and transhumanism recently (To Be a Machine, Murmur, Machines Like Me). I think Winterson’s aim was to link the two time periods through notions of hybridness and resistance to death. It never really came together for me. DNFed Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry – I read the first 76 pages. The other week two grizzled Welsh guys came to deliver my new fridge. Their barely comprehensible banter reminded me of that between Maurice and Charlie, two ageing Irish gangsters. The long first chapter is terrific. At first these fellas seem like harmless drunks, but gradually you come to realize just how dangerous they are. Maurice’s daughter Dilly is missing, and they’ll do whatever is necessary to find her. Threatening to decapitate someone’s dog is just the beginning – and you know they could do it. “I don’t know if you’re getting the sense of this yet, Ben. But you’re dealing with truly dreadful fucken men here,” Charlie warns at one point. I loved the voices; if this was just a short story it would have gotten a top rating, but I found I had no interest in the backstory of how these men got involved in heroin smuggling. The Wall by John Lanchester – I lost interest in it and wasn’t drawn in by the first pages. The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy – I read the first 35 pages. There’s a lot of repetition; random details seem deliberately placed as clues. I’m sure there’s a clever story in here somewhere, but apart from a few intriguing anachronisms (in 1988 a smartphone is just “A small, flat, rectangular object … lying in the road. … The object was speaking. There was definitely a voice inside it”) there is not much plot or character to latch onto. I suspect there will be many readers who, like me, can’t be bothered to follow Saul Adler from London’s Abbey Road, where he’s hit by a car in the first paragraph, to East Berlin. There’s only one title from the Booker shortlist that I’m interested in reading: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo. I’ll be reviewing it later this month as part of a blog tour celebrating the Aké Book Festival, but as a copy hasn’t yet arrived from either the publisher or the library I won’t have gotten far into it before the Prize announcement. As for the other five on the shortlist… I’m a conscientious objector to Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments. I haven’t appreciated her previous dystopian sequels, and I’ve never really understood all the hype around The Handmaid’s Tale. I don’t plan on reading Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport – unless some enterprising soul produces an abridged version of no more than 250 pages.* Ducks, Newbury I didn’t rate The Fishermen highly enough to give Chigozie Obioma’s An Orchestra of Minorities a try. I forced myself through Midnight’s Children some years back. What a pointless slog! Lukewarm reviews of his recent work mean I’m now doubly determined to avoid Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte. Although the setup appeals to me (a prostitute’s whole life spooling out in front of her in the moments before her death) and I enjoyed her previous novel well enough, I’ve not heard enough good things to pick up Elif Shafak’s 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World. *However, I was delighted to find a copy of her 1991 novel, Varying Degrees of Hopelessness (just 182 pages, with short chapters often no longer than a paragraph and pithy sentences) in a 3-for-£1 sale at our local charity warehouse. Isabel, a 31-year-old virgin whose ideas of love come straight from the romance novels of ‘Babs Cartwheel’, hopes to find Mr. Right while studying art history at the Catafalque Institute in London (a thinly veiled Courtauld, where Ellmann studied). She’s immediately taken with one of her professors, Lionel Syms, whom she dubs “The Splendid Young Man.” Isabel’s desperately unsexy description of him had me snorting into my tea: He had a masculinity. His broad shoulders and narrow hips gave him a distinctive physique. He held seminars and wore red socks. To hold seminars seemed to indicate a wish to develop a rapport with his students. The red socks seemed to indicate testosterone. I swooned in admiration of him. Unfortunately, the Splendid Young Man is more interested in Isabel’s portly flatmate, Pol. There’s a screwball charm to this campus novel full of love triangles and preposterous minor characters. I laughed at many of Ellmann’s deadpan lines, and would recommend this to fans of David Lodge’s academic comedies. But if you wish to, you could read this as a cautionary tale about the dangers of romantic fantasies. Ellmann even offers two alternate endings, one melodramatic and one more prosaic but believable. I’ll seek out the rest of her back catalogue – so thanks to the Booker for putting her on my radar. In the meantime, I did a bit better with the “Not the Booker Prize” (administered by the Guardian) shortlist, reading three out of their six: Flames by Robbie Arnott This strange and somewhat entrancing debut novel is set in Arnott’s native Tasmania. The women of the McAllister family are known to return to life – even after a cremation, as happened briefly with Charlotte and Levi’s mother. Levi is determined to stop this from happening again, and decides to have a coffin built to ensure his 23-year-old sister can’t ever come back from the flames once she’s dead. The letters that pass between him and the ill-tempered woodworker he hires to do the job were my favorite part of the book. In other strands, we see Charlotte traveling down to work at a wombat farm in Melaleuca, a female investigator lighting out after her, and Karl forming a close relationship with a seal. This reminded me somewhat of The Bus on Thursday by Shirley Barrett and Orkney by Amy Sackville. At times I had trouble following the POV and setting shifts involved in this work of magic realism, though Arnott’s writing is certainly striking. A favorite passage: “The Midlands droned on, denuded hill after denuded hill, until I rolled into sprawling suburbs around noon. Here’s a list of the places I’d choose to visit before the capital: hell, anywhere tropical, the Mariana Trench, a deeper pit of hell, my mother’s house.” My thanks to Atlantic Books for the free paperback copy for review. See Susan’s review for a more enthusiastic response. The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas by Daniel James: A twisty, clever meta novel about “Daniel James” trying to write a biography of Ezra Maas, an enigmatic artist who grew up a child prodigy in Oxford and attracted a cult following in 1960s New York City, where he was a friend of Warhol et al. (See my full review.) Supper Club by Lara Williams: A great debut novel with strong themes of female friendship and food. The Supper Club Roberta and Stevie create is performance art, but it’s also about creating personal meaning when family and romance have failed you. (See my full review.) The other three books on the shortlist are: Skin by Liam Brown: A dystopian novel in which people become allergic to human contact. I think I’ll pass on this one. Please Read This Leaflet Carefully by Karen Havelin: A debut novel by a Norwegian author that proceeds backwards to examine the life of a woman struggling with endometriosis and raising a young daughter. I’m very keen to read this one. Spring by Ali Smith: I’ve basically given up on Ali Smith – and certainly on the Seasons quartet, after DNFing Winter. (The Not the Booker Prize will be announced on the Guardian website this Friday the 11th.) Have you read something from the (Not the) Booker shortlist(s)? Any predictions for next week? Aké Book Festival Amy Sackville campus novels Daniel James Karen Havelin Lara Williams Liam Brown Not the Booker Prize Robbie Arnott Shirley Barrett Wellcome Trust Will Eaves The Wellcome Book Prize 2019 Awards Ceremony The winner of the 10th anniversary Wellcome Book Prize is Murmur, Will Eaves’s experimental novel about Alan Turing’s state of mind and body after being subjected to chemical castration for homosexuality. It is the third novel to win the Prize. Although it fell in the middle of the pack in our shadow panel voting because of drastically differing opinions, it was a personal favorite for Annabel and myself – though we won’t gloat (much) for predicting it as the winner! Clare, Laura and I were there for the announcement at the Wellcome Collection in London. It was also lovely to meet Chloe Metzger, another book blogger who was on the blog tour, and to see UK book v/blogging legends Eric Karl Anderson and Simon Savidge again. The judges’ chair, novelist Elif Shafak, said, “This prize is very special. It opens up new and vital conversations and creates bridges across disciplines.” At a time when we “are pushed into monolithic tribes and artificial categories, these interdisciplinary conversations can take us out of our comfort zones, encouraging cognitive flexibility.” She praised the six shortlisted books for their energy and the wide range of styles and subjects. “Each book, each author, from the beginning, has been treated with the utmost respect,” she reassured the audience, and the judges approached their task with “an open mind and an open heart,” arriving at an “inspiring, thought-provoking, but we believe also accessible, shortlist.” The judges brought each of the five authors present (all but Thomas Page McBee) onto the stage one at a time for recognition. Shafak admired how Sandeep Jauhar weaves together his professional expertise with stories in Heart, and called Sarah Krasnostein’s The Trauma Cleaner a “strangely life-affirming and uplifting book about a remarkable woman. … It’s about transitions.” Doctor and writer Kevin Fong championed Amateur, his answer to the question “which of these books, if I gave it to someone, would make them better.” McBee’s Canongate editor received the recognition/flowers on the author’s behalf. Writer and broadcaster Rick Edwards chose Arnold Thomas Fanning’s Mind on Fire for its “pressability factor” – the book about which he kept saying to friends and family, “you must read this.” It’s an “uncomfortably honest” memoir, he remarked, “a vivid and unflinching window, and for me it was revelatory.” Writer, critic and academic Jon Day spoke up for Murmur, “a novel of great power and astonishing achievement,” about “what it means to know another person.” Lastly, writer, comedian and presenter Viv Groskop spoke about Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation, which she described as “Jane Eyre meets Prozac Nation.” The judges “had a lot of fun” with this novel, she noted; it’s “caustic, feminist … original, playful, [and] strangely profound.” But only one book could win the £30,000 10th anniversary prize, and it was one that Shafak predicted will be “a future classic,” Murmur. Will Eaves thanked Charles Boyle of CB Editions for taking a chance on his work. He also acknowledged Alan Turing, who, like him, attended King’s College, Cambridge. As he read Turing’s papers, Eaves reported, he was gripped by the quality of the writing – “there’s a voice there.” Finally, in a clearly emotional moment, he thanked his mother, who died several years ago and grew up in relative poverty. She was a passionate believer in education, and Eaves encouraged the audience to bear in mind the value of a state education when going to the polls. Photo by Eric Karl Anderson. After the announcement we found Sarah Krasnostein, our shadow panel winner, and got a photo and a signature. She gave us the scoop on her work-in-progress, which examines six case studies, three from Australia and three from the USA, of people with extreme religious or superstitious beliefs, such as a widow who believes her husband was abducted by aliens. She’s exploring the “cognitive dissonance” that goes on in these situations, she said. Can’t wait for the new book! Laura, Sarah Krasnostein, me pulling weird face, Clare. I also congratulated Will Eaves, whose book I’d covered for the blog tour, and got a signature. Other ‘celebrities’ spotted: Suzanne O’Sullivan, Ruth Padel and Robin Robertson. (Also a couple of familiar faces from Twitter that I couldn’t place, one of whom I later identified as Katya Taylor.) I again acquired a Wellcome goody bag: this year’s limited-edition David Shrigley tote (I now have two so will pass one on to Annabel, who couldn’t be there) with an extra copy of The Trauma Cleaner to give to my sister. Another great year of Wellcome festivities! Thanks to Midas PR, the Wellcome Book Prize and my shadow panel. Looking forward to next year already – I have a growing list of 2020 hopefuls I’ve read or intend to read. See also: Laura’s post on the ceremony and the 5×15 event that took place the night before. Arnold Thomas Fanning CB Editions Jon Day Kevin Fong Midas PR Ottessa Moshfegh Rick Edwards Robin Robertson Ruth Padel Sandeep Jauhar Sarah Krasnostein Suzanne O'Sullivan Thomas Page McBee Viv Groskop Wellcome Book Prize Wellcome Book Prize 2019: Our Shadow Panel Winner Is… The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein This year there was no clear favourite among the shadow panel. Two of us picked one book as our favourite, two picked another, and a third picked yet another book! However, by each person assigning each book a point value from 1 to 6, we were able to decide based on the one that got the most points in total. (Though there was only 1 point separating our first place from our runner-up!) Here’s what the shadow panel have to say about our pick: Annabel: “I was glad to have read this book. It was an easy read despite its oft grim subject matter, fascinating and very sympathetic too.” Clare: “The structure of the book reveals the many layers and contradictions of Sandra gradually … even though it’s one of the least objective biographies I’ve read in a very long time, it is also one of the most memorable and fascinating.” Laura: “The Trauma Cleaner is a book it will be difficult to forget in a hurry. … Krasnostein is rightly impressed by Sandra’s resilience, and, in telling her story, she makes the right choice, I think, to remain as a largely invisible presence.” Paul: “Pankhurst is one remarkable lady, even after a horrendous childhood and working in the prostitution trade, she has an amazing amount of empathy for all of her clients. … if you want to have a no-holds-barred look at a part of society that almost everyone will be unaware of then this is one to read.” Rebecca: “I guarantee you’ve never read a biography quite like this one. … It’s part journalistic exposé and part ‘love letter’; it’s part true crime and part ordinary life story. It considers gender, mental health, addiction, trauma and death. It’s also simply a terrific read that should draw in lots of people who wouldn’t normally pick up nonfiction.” Photo by Annabel Gaskell. On Wednesday, at an evening ceremony at the Wellcome Collection, we will find out which book the official judges have chosen as the winner of the 10th anniversary prize. I have no idea who it will be! Who are you rooting for? Sandra Pankhurst shadow panel Women’s Prize 2019: Longlist Review Excerpts and Shortlist Thoughts There’s a reason I could never wholeheartedly shadow the Women’s Prize: although each year the prize introduces me one or two great novels I might never have heard of otherwise, inevitably there are also some I don’t care for, or have zero interest in reading. Here’s how I fared this year, in categories from best to worst, with excerpts and links to any I’ve reviewed in full: Loved! (5) The Pisces by Melissa Broder: This starts off as a funny but somewhat insubstantial novel about a thirtysomething stuck with a life she isn’t sure she wants, morphs into a crass sex comedy (featuring a merman), but ultimately becomes a profound exploration of possession, vulnerability and the fluidity of gender roles. It’s about the prison of the body, and choosing which of the many different siren voices calling us we’ll decide to listen to. It’s a Marmite book, but perfect Women’s Prize material. Ordinary People by Diana Evans: Reminds me of On Beauty by Zadie Smith, one of my favorite novels of this millennium. It focuses on two Black couples in South London and the suburbs who, in the wake of Obama’s election, are reassessing their relationships. Their problems are familiar middle-class ones, but Evans captures them so candidly that many passages made me wince. The chapter in which two characters experience mental instability is a standout, and the Black slang and pop music references a nice touch. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones: Roy and Celestial only get a year of happy marriage before he’s falsely accused of rape and sentenced to 12 years in prison in Louisiana. I ached for all three main characters: It’s an impossible situation. There’s a lot to probe about the characters’ personalities and motivations, and about how they reveal or disguise themselves through their narration. I found it remarkable how the letters, which together make up not even one-fifth of the text, enhance the raw honesty of the book. Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss: It’s the late 1980s and teenager Silvie Hampton and her parents have joined a university-run residential archaeology course in the North of England, near the bogs where human sacrifice once took place. Nationalism, racism, casual misogyny – there are lots of issues brewing under the surface here. Women’s bodies and what can be done to them is central; as the climax approaches, the tricksy matter of consent arises. I ended up impressed by how much Moss conveys in so few pages. Another one custom-made for the Women’s Prize. Bottled Goods by Sophie van Llewyn: I just finished this the other day. It’s a terrific hybrid work that manages to combine several of my favorite forms: a novella, flash fiction and linked short stories. The content is also an intriguing blend, of the horrific and the magical. After her brother-in-law’s defection, Alina and her husband Liviu come under extra scrutiny in Communist Romania. Bursts of magic realism and a delightful mixture of narrative styles (lists and letters; alternating between the first and third person) make all this material bearable. Did not particularly enjoy (2) Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi: Magic realism and mental illness fuel a swirl of disorienting but lyrical prose. Much of the story is told by the ọgbanje (an Igbo term for evil spirits) inhabiting Ada’s head. The conflation of the abstract and the concrete didn’t quite work for me, and the whole is pretty melodramatic. Although I didn’t enjoy this as much as some other inside-madness tales I’ve read, I can admire the attempt to convey the reality of mental illness in a creative way. Normal People by Sally Rooney: This book’s runaway success continues to baffle me. I kept waiting for more to happen, skimming ahead to see if there would be anything more to it than drunken college parties and frank sex scenes. It is appealing to see into these characters’ heads and compare what they think of themselves and each other with their awareness of what others think. But page to page it is pretty tedious, and fairly unsubtle. Attempted but couldn’t get through (3) Remembered by Yvonne Battle-Felton: A historical novel marked by the presence of ghosts, this is reminiscent of the work of Cynthia Bond, Toni Morrison and Jesmyn Ward. It’s the closest thing to last year’s Sing, Unburied, Sing. I only read the first 36 pages as neither the characters nor the prose struck me as anything special. Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott: Full of glitzy atmosphere contrasted with washed-up torpor. I have no doubt the author’s picture of Truman Capote is accurate, and there are great glimpses into the private lives of his catty circle. I always enjoy first person plural narration, too. However, I quickly realized I don’t have sufficient interest in the figures or time period to sustain me through nearly 500 pages. I read the first 18 pages and skimmed to p. 35. Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lilian Li: Vague The Nest vibes, but the prose felt flat and the characters little more than clichés (especially scheming ‘Uncle’ Pang). I grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland so was expecting there to be more local interest for me, but this could be taking place anywhere. Reviews from trusted Goodreads friends suggested that the plot and characterization don’t significantly improve as the book goes on, so I gave up after the first two chapters. Not interested (6) (Don’t you go trying to change my mind!) The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker: Updated Greek classics are so not my bag. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite: Meh. Milkman by Anna Burns: Nah. Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli: I’ll try something else by Luiselli. Praise Song for the Butterflies by Bernice L. McFadden: The setting of a fictional African country and that title already have me groaning. Circe by Madeline Miller: See the note on Barker above. The shortlist will be announced on Monday the 29th. Broder and Moss will most likely make the cut. I’d love to see the van Llewyn make it through, as it’s my favorite of what I’ve read from the longlist, but I think it will probably be edged out by more high-profile releases. Either Evans or Jones will advance; Jones probably has the edge with more of an issues book. One of the Greek myth updates is likely to succeed. Luiselli is awfully fashionable right now. Emezi’s is an interesting book and the Prize is making a statement by supporting a non-binary author. Rooney has already won or been nominated for every prize going, so I don’t think she needs the recognition. Same for Burns, having won the Booker. So, quickly pulling a combination of wanted and expected titles out of the air would give this predicted shortlist: The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker The Pisces by Melissa Broder Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss Eleanor, Eric, Laura and Rachel have been posting lots of reviews and thoughts related to the Women’s Prize. Have a look at their blogs! Akwaeke Emezi Anna Burns Bernice L. McFadden Cynthia Bond Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott Lilian Li Melissa Broder Oyinkan Braithwaite Pat Barker Sally Rooney Sophie van Llewyn Women’s Prize Yvonne Battle-Felton	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14316
__label__wiki	0.706729	0.706729	“This haunting debut novel imagines the events that lead up to and follow the Second American Civil War at the turn of the 22nd century.”–NYT 100 Most Notable Books 2017 Category: NYT Most Notable Books 2017 - Fiction Tag: dystopian “Stunning.” —Michele Filgate, O, the Oprah Magazine “Powerful . . . As haunting a postapocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy [created] in The Road , and as devastating a look as the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against America . . . . Omar El Akkad’s debut novel, American War , is an unlikely mash-up of unsparing war reporting and plot elements familiar to readers of the recent young-adult dystopian series The Hunger Games and Divergent .”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Amazon.com Review An Amazon Best Book of April 2017: American War will give you chills. Set in in 2075, Omar El Akkad’s debut presents a fractured and frightening America, where the sun burns hot and the country has turned into war zones and refugee camps. Over the course of two decades, Akkad traces the fate of the Chestnut family, who flee their home in the south and spend the better part of their lives in a sprawling, impoverished encampment. This is where Sarat, a young, brave, tomboy, comes of age: “Perhaps the longing for safety was itself just another kind of violence—a violence of cowardice, silence, submission. What was safety, anyway, but the sound of a bomb falling on someone else’s home?” Albert Gaines, a radicalized Southerner, takes Sarat under his wing, equipping her with the fervor and tactics needed to win the war. Akkad piercingly describes the ravaged towns, the gel packets of fruit rations, the torturous effects of growing up in war. Written with precise care for the fictional truth—news articles, press releases, and oral histories emerge throughout – the book sounds a warning blast. American War is a disquieting novel of immense depth, and possibly a classic of our time. –Al Woodworth, The Amazon Book Review “Follow the tributaries of today’s political combat a few decades into the future and you might arrive at something as terrifying as Omar El Akkad’s debut novel, American War. Across these scarred pages rages the clash that many of us are anxiously speculating about in the Trump era: a nation riven by irreconcilable ideologies, alienated by entrenched suspicions. . . . both poignant and horrifying.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post “Whether read as a cautionary tale of partisanship run amok, an allegory of past conflicts or a study of the psychology of war, American War is a deeply unsettling novel. The only comfort the story offers is that it’s a work of fiction. For the time being, anyway.”—Justin Cronin, The New York Times Book Review “El Akkad . . . has an innate (and depressingly timely) feel for the textural details of dystopia; if only his grim near-future fantasy didn’t feel so much like a crystal ball.” —Leah Greenblat, Entertainment Weekly “Powerful . . . If violence and conflict feel distant, journalist Omar El Akkad’s debut novel brings them home. . . . Despite its future setting, it’d feel wrong to call American War a work of science fiction. Hell, it’d even feel off to call it dystopian, given that it’s so few steps removed from our reality.”—Kevin Nguyen, GQ “American War is an extraordinary novel. El Akkad’s story of a family caught up in the collapse of an empire is as harrowing as it is brilliant, and has an air of terrible relevance in these partisan times.”—Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days Who Is Rich?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14319
__label__cc	0.695667	0.304333	Jeremy Lin: The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Greatest Underdog Stories (Unabridged) Clayton Geoffreys In Jeremy Lin: The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Greatest Underdog Stories, you will hear the inspirational story of one of basketball's grittiest point guards, Jeremy Lin. Once left with few options other than sleeping on a teammate's couch, Jeremy Lin had an incredible journey to get to where he is today as a highly-capable starting point guard. Most known for his impressive performance in February through March of 2012, Jeremy Lin has since solidified himself as a top point guard in the league. Despite his successes, Jeremy Lin remains incredibly humble and a role model for aspiring basketball players around the world. He has become a global icon, especially within the Asian American community. In this unauthorized biography, you'll hear the story of what makes Jeremy so great and why it should be no surprise why he is so successful today. Here is a preview of what you'll hear in this audiobook: Childhood and early life High school and college career Getting drafted, detour to the NBA, rookie season, the birth of "Linsanity", and skyrocketing with the Rockets The short stop in Los Angeles, "Linsanity" to Charlotte, and the injury years in Brooklyn Impact on basketball Legacy and future RJ Malyk Calvintir Books, LLC	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14320
__label__cc	0.522486	0.477514	Bøker Bok 51–60 av 81 på Disobedience to a subpoena, or a refusal to be sworn, or to answer as a witness,... Disobedience to a subpoena, or a refusal to be sworn, or to answer as a witness, or to subscribe an affidavit or deposition when required, may be punished as a contempt by the court or officer issuing the subpoena or requiring the witness to be sworn;... The Municipal Code of Ohio: Including All Sections of the General Code of ... - Side 1084 redigert av - 1922 - 1432 sider Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken Code of Law, Practice and Forms: For Justices' and Other Inferior Courts in ... Curtis Hillyer - 1912 - 1932 sider ...Ann. Codes and Stats., sec.' 1901. § 1534. Disobedience a Contempt. Disobedience to a subpoena, or a refusal to be sworn, or to answer as a witness, or to subscribe an affidavit or deposition when required, may be punished as a contempt by the court issuing... South Dakota - 1913 ...attendance of witnesses and the production of books and papers, to administer oaths, and to punish disobedience of subpoena, refusal to be sworn, or...conferred upon officers authorized to take depositions, but no such witness shall be entitled to demand or receive his traveling fees or per diem in advance.... United States Circuit Courts of Appeals Reports: With Key-number Annotations ... ...before a justice of the peace, but sections 356, etc., providing that disobedience of a subpoena, or a refusal to be sworn or to answer as a witness, or to subscribe a deposition, may be punished as a contempt, control, and the power of a justice of the peace... The Codes of California as Amended and in Force at the Close of the Forty ... California - 1915 ...re-enactment of § 406 Practice Act. § 1991. DISOBEDIENCE, HOW PUNISHED. Disobedience to a subpoena, or a refusal to be sworn, or to answer as a witness, or to subscribe an affidavit or deposition when required, may be punished as a contempt by the court issuing... Carroll's Civil and Criminal Codes of Practice of Kentucky: With Notes of ... Kentucky - 1919 - 1152 sider ...subpoena upon him, or preventing his attendance as a witness, by a person having control of him ; or a refusal to be sworn or to answer as a witness, or to subscribe an affidavit or deposition when lawfully ordered, may be punished as a contempt of the court... A Treatise on Pleading and Practice in Courts of Record in Civil ..., Volum 1 Arthur B. Honnold - 1922 ...for the serving of jurors." f § 830. Disobedience of — Contempt "Disobedience of a subpoena, or refusal to be sworn or to answer as a witness, or to subscribe a deposition, when lawfully ordered, may be punished as a contempt of the court or officer... The Code of Civil Procedure of the State of California in Four Parts California - 1923 - 574 sider ...re-enactment of I 406 Practice Act. § 1991. DISOBEDIENCE, HOW PUNISHED. Disobedience to a subpoena, or a 24, 1874, Code Amdts. 1873-4, p. 381; April 16, 1880, subscribe an affidavit or deposition when required, may be punished as a contempt by the court issuing... Reports of Cases Determined in the Courts of Appeal of the State ..., Volum 33 ...section 1991 of the Code of Civil Procedure. That section reads: "Disobedience to a subpoena, or a refusal to be sworn, or to answer as a witness, or to subscribe an affidavit or deposition when required, may be punished as a contempt by the court issuing... Reports of Cases Determined in the District Courts of Appeal of ..., Volum 33 The Code of Civil Procedure and the Probate Code of the Territory ..., Volum 2 Guam, John A. Bohn - 1970 ...officer. [Enacted 1953.] § 1991. Disobedience to subpoena, how punished. Disobedience to a subpoena, or a refusal to be sworn, or to answer as a witness, or to subscribe an affidavit or deposition when required, may be punished as a contempt by the court issuing...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14322
__label__wiki	0.659496	0.659496	Martha Stewart says a meatless ball is a good thing Rita DeMontis Famed lifestyle expert Martha Stewart recently partnered with Subway Canada to launch the company's meatless meatball sub. Handout photo Famed lifestyle expert Martha Stewart likes her balls meatless. With a little marinara sauce on the side. Stewart recently partnered with Subway Canada and Beyond Meat to launch the new plant-based Beyond Meatball subs — a special sandwich smothered in marinara sauce, covered in several types of cheeses and packed with 22 grams of protein per six-inch sub. She loved the balls so much “I served them at my Christmas party!” They were really tasty, too, added Stewart during a recent phone interview from her home in New York state. She admits she’s cooked them in a variety of ways, including pan-frying them “and with a little sauce on the side.” Plant-based eating has become one of the biggest food trends in recent history, and Stewart applauds this change in our eating habits, admitting she has modified her own eating habits in recent years, too, with the inclusion of more vegetables to her recipes, and cutting back on animal protein save for the occasional pork chop or chicken. Did she make changes for her health? “Well, for health reasons — personally, I’m a very healthy person!” she laughed, adding, “I just like to think of alternatives ways of eating … a meatless hamburger makes a very good sandwich.” On a personal level, she has family members who eschew meat — her daughter’s a vegetarian, and her grandchildren are pescetarians, so plant-based recipes are her go-to now. And she admits she’s pleased to see this “new way of thinking about eating … I applaud Subway Canada for taking this bold move, and doing what they’ve done. There are a lot more vegans and vegetarians today, looking for alternatives, and there’s more awareness of eating too much meat.” Years ago, the former model was a force to be reckoned with as a tough, no-nonsense powerful businesswoman, writer and media personality. Her veneer was mighty resilient, and she’s weathered a variety of storms. The Martha Stewart of today is friendly, charming with an easy laugh, yet quick to point out inaccuracies about such issues as, say, cannabis use. “I am CBD-oriented but I don’t partake of marijuana,” she said firmly when asked if she’s enjoyed weed. Rather, she sees the role medicinal cannabis plays in our aging population. Stewart is the founder of the Martha Stewart Center for Living at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, with two locations, both providing primary care for older adults. “The treatment we offer is specific to the older demographic — geriatric medicine interests me tremendously — and at the two centres we promote meatless products to our patients, as well as the use of CBD.” How did Stewart get involved with meatless eating in the first place? Good friend and celebrated weed aficionado Snoop Dogg made the formal introductions: “He’s actually an advisor with Beyond Meat, has been involved for a while and introduced me to the founders.” Speaking of the unlikely friendship between what many perceive as polar opposites — how goes the famous Potluck Dinner Party series? “We just wrapped up our Christmas special,” and planning on the new season, said Stewart, who can be seen promoting the meatless meatball sandwiches on a funny, new commercial that shows a smiling Stewart planting a meatball in some tomato sauce and revealing a harvest of meatballs on a small tree. It’s a playful, whimsical scene and one can see Martha is thoroughly enjoying herself. “Martha is the perfect partner to announce the nationwide launch of the Beyond Meatball Marinara Sub in Canada,” says Cristina Wells, Subway Canada senior marketing director. “Martha’s green thumb and culinary prowess made her a natural fit to speak to the unbelievable cultivation and care that goes into creating the Beyond Meatball.” “The writing was really cute yet at its core, extremely serious about the goodness found in meatless products,” added Stewart. Subway Canada Subway to test Beyond Meat meatball	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14326
__label__wiki	0.51946	0.51946	Random thoughts on politics, fiction and software; occasionally interesting. Those tyres: 650b x 42 A couple of weeks ago I posted my review of my Cannondale Slate. And, like more or less everyone who's reviewed the Slate, I said nasty things about the slick tyres. What's wrong with the tyres? Well, on tarmac, they're excellent. They're fast rolling and supple, which, on tarmac, adds up to excellent grip. The problem is that the Slate isn't designed just for tarmac, and I don't use mine just for tarmac. It's a bike for roads, paths, tracks and trails. On damp grass, damp rocks, mud, or more or less any other off road surface in the wet west of Scotland, the degree of grip available is sketchy at best. To be fair, dropping the pressure does help a little bit. Stopping at each junction between tarmac and non-tarmac to deflate or inflate the tyres would be stupid and impractical and I've no plans to do it, but they'll run at 3.1bar/45psi on tarmac without and significant deterioration of performance, and this is a compromise which more or less works. For now. But I've been looking for a replacement 650b x 42 tyre with a bit of tread, particularly on the shoulders, because sooner or later those tyres are going to let go unexpectedly and I'm going to go down hard. I'm a little old to enjoy that, now. And the truth is there really isn't much available. Schwalbe have two options, the Marathon Supreme which is semi-slick and, as Schwalbe themselves say, has poor offroad grip; and the G1 (actually in 40mm width, but that will fit), which has a fine overall tread which would probably roll well on road but I imagine would clog rapidly in mud. Their Hurricane, which might be the sort of profile I'm looking for, isn't available in 650b at less than 50mm wide. Panaracer offer their Gravelking tyre in 650b x 1.5", which is more or less the same fit. It has a very slight tread - very slight indeed. They also do a Col de la Vie touring tyre, which has a diamond tread pattern which might work. There are some minor American brands offering 650b x 42. There's a thing called a Grand Bois Hetre, which has barely perceptible tread; I don't think it would work in Scottish conditions. There's a thing called a Babyshoe Pass, which has just a tiny bit more. Mind you, it claims to be designed for mountain conditions in Washington State, which I don't imagine are very dry. And finally in this group there's the Soma Cazadero, which has decidedly more bite and would definitely be better off road - but probably less good on road. All these boutique American tyres are very expensive - the Cazadero comes in at US$73.99 per tyre, before you've paid shipping. The thing which most closely resembles what I think I want is the Continental Tour Ride, which Continental describe as an 'urban tyre'; it has a smooth central tread and chunky shoulder blocks. However, it's discontinued and I cannot find that its replacement, the Ride Tour, is available in 650b. Also, although Continental are a German company, I cannot find any European retailer offering the 650b version of this tyre. And that's all I can come up with. It's not a big range. There are good technical reasons for choosing the 650b x 42 tyre size: it produces a higher volume tyre, able to cope with rougher surfaces, with the same outside diameter as a 700c x 23, and consequently with race bike geometry. But if companies like Cannondale want to sell bikes with 650b wheels, they're going to have to persuade more tyre manufacturers to support them. Posted by Simon Brooke at 14:06 Archery (1) Brexit (1) Catalunya (1) Cats (2) Clojure (14) Crofting (13) Cycling (20) Database (1) Ecocide (1) Fiction (5) Food (3) Foreign Policy (5) Galloway (5) Game Worlds (21) Germany (1) Hardware (2) Harem (2) Helmets (4) Inference (2) Java (1) Journal (7) Levelling (33) Lisp (4) Living spaces (44) Madness (17) Maps (8) Memory management (5) Merchant (3) News (6) Peace (4) Politics (98) Post scarcity (5) Repression (5) Reviews (12) Rewilding (1) Rural policy (40) Safety (3) Scotland (85) Singlespace (9) Social media (7) Software (52) Sousterrain (2) Stories (11) Structure (22) Summer Palace (5) UK Constitution (4) Verse (1) Web (9) Wildlife (1) Winter Palace (14) How not to build your own Lisp Search, and you shall find Simon Brooke The fool on the hill by Simon Brooke is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line14330

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